skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Umm, no, I think it is the other way around (it's not like it were a lifetime supply of underwear, although even that would have been pretty weird). There is definitely something wrong with a picture where several pairs of underwear are listed together with a car, house, etc., as a reward (yes, reward) for extraordinary achievement.

The other problem being, of course, that whether you were given $100K, or a million, you couldn't really go buy a car or a house anyway. And, apparently, underwear or a decent coat either.
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The trolley problem as it applies to self driving cars was from one engineer's offhand silly remark that the media loved. The same thing applies to automated airport train systems. It's not something that will actually happen often enough for anybody to care; and in the few cases it applies, it will be handled by the law, just as with any other system that causes a death.
I reuse a lot of the plastic bags. But I imagine I'd run out of use for ice packs after a while. Given the amount of cardboard I have to take to recycling from Amazon and elsewhere, I'm not sure a bit more makes much of a difference.

But the menus mostly don't excite me that much. And if I'm going to spend that much effort I have tons of cookbooks and online recipes. Your experience sounds like the one week I tried it. There was a pretty good recipe. An OK recipe. And then some obnoxiously complex hamburger recipe that wasn't even all that great.
> They go down often

Isn’t that one of the two main features of the product?
Just get a random recipe subscription?
I think it's not the best idea to keeping the shapes of objects in your head and manually cloning/merging them.

This will lead to bugs, as inadvertently as a human you'll miss a merge or a clone and retain references that you don't want.

Inability of a language or runtime to correctly and quickly clone a structure is an upsetting fact of JavaScript.
>So expensive that I doubt it's possible to make real money that way right now.

I don't think anyone is interested in "mak[ing] real money that way right now", they want to get a foothold in, or capture a swath of, a market which definitely will make them money in the future. A tremendous amount if they play it right, even if it means operating at a loss for the next few years.
There is a whole world of professional "noses" used by perfume companies. They have a system for describing "notes" but I know far too little (and honestly, don't want to know more) to say more than that.
Something like this I think would be better suited to something like an infinite roguelike or even an idle game perhaps.
(I'm clearly very liberal)

I think it's less binary than assimilating vs. not. Cultures are complex, and depending on your preference, you might like American culture (whatever that really even is) if it acquired some traits from others.

For example, Japan has a super low crime rate. Let's stipulate that this is a cultural thing. If you think the cultural traits that lead to this super low crime rate are good, then presumably you'd welcome lots of Japanese immigrants bringing that culture here to the US. On the other hand, if you're a freewheeling quasi-anarchist, you might not favor this kind of thing.

What I've personally always considered America's strength was its ability to ingest other cultures rather than force everyone to conform to some idea of "American" culture. That's how you can get America's rich musical tradition, for example. If we forced everyone to play saxophone instead of the accordion we'd never have Zydeco.

I do think we need to be careful of clearly destructive cultural tendencies. Religious fundamentalism. Nationalism. Homophobia. Misogyny. Racism. But it's obvious that even our own culture has problems with this stuff.

So I sort of worry when we start talking about "assimilation". To me, that feels like forcing people to live and think a certain way, when I think it's more beneficial for us to learn to live and think in a new way together.
I've been using a setup like this for the past year.
I use a 4" think filter to reduce strain on the motor though (it's pleated, so a lot more surface area to pull air through than the thinner ones), the idea being reduced strain on the motor.
I also stick a carbon pre-filter in front of it.

I get smoke wafting in from outside via window air conditioner - and I think my neighbor occasionally smokes in his room.

I'm planning to setup another to better cover my open floorplan.
I have the ~$800 pro version early in the video. It's an IQAir. I bought it when I bought my house. We were refinishing the hardwood floors and have a small child. My goal was to knock down the VOCs to make the room safe for him prior to move in.

It runs 24/7 in my bedroom now. Huge improvement in sleep quality. I've only had to change one of the filters once for about $100 after 1.5 years of run time.
One issue with that idea is that the source code for implementing a system call is necessarily compiler-specific, it is not standard C. So, the issue would become which compiler (version) should the source code of the include/ and src/ be for? GCC? Clang?
> Yet, that isn't where taxis are primarily used today.

Huh? Taxis are for sure used way more in NYC than out in the suburbs. They benefit significantly from density. Out in the suburbs you can't even catch a taxi unless you call one to you.

The popular way of getting around in the suburbs is driving your own car. In cities mass transit and taxis are much more common, especially because parking is so expensive that it makes more financial sense to hail a taxi for the occasional trip.
You should email me. It's in my profile. I have... questions. :)
It seems a bit silly to me from the other angle, in that the author has chosen to write it in a particular way because that's the way they felt it best to convey their story.

I'm about a million miles from being an author, but I'm old enough that I have, what I would think, is a recognisable style that I'm comfortable with, and changing my approach would end up negatively affecting the quality of the writing because it comes less natural to me.

Authors will find their own level as much as readers will.
They've actually been pretty transparent about the system's limitations. Check out Waymo's application to conduct driverless testing in California: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oZ9zwmpfzZvuGVX7MeUGvUSW6Vq... Specifically the section on the vehicles' intended operational design domain.

The cars will operate 24/7, in a small, well-defined section of metro California. They can handle light rain, but won't work in heavy rain, snow, flooded roads, or one-way mountain roadways.

Though that document also says that they won't be charging passengers, so I guess it's a little out of date.
I just bought a 4 pack from Amazon Prime Now in SF, YMMV.
Any tips/sites for biking in certain areas/cities? I just bought a bike to commute in Boston, but part of me is terrified (I got hit by a car in the suburbs a good 10 years ago). For example, my route is from South Boston to Charlestown and there are definitely some hefty roads to cross to get from point A to point B...and it would be great to know if other people ride a route like that and what roads they take/recommend.
Thank you for your efforts! Can you just cc them both on an email and get them to agree together?
If anyone got RSUs they would be taxed at the IPO price. I just hope their witholdings was enough to cover the tax bill because 6 months down the road the shares were worthless.
Once you grow past Dunbar's number you can no longer rely on individual intuition and good judgement alone, you need higher level communication and alignment around strategy because there is simply not enough interpersonal bandwidth to communicate otherwise. Of course you want everyone to continue using judgement, but the leadership needs to go the extra mile to project a vision and strategy across the org.

You can argue over whether the CEO was right or wrong in this case, but at the end of the day it's the CEO's job to make these calls.
I wonder how it breaks down for motorcycles. Some part of the danger is because you're vulnerable and you're riding among big metal objects (cars). Another part of the stats would be explained by dangerous riding (speeding and such). The other part would be that motorcycles are just quite dangerous by themselves given that there's no crumple zones or shielding when you're on a bike. Autonomous vehicles should eventually result in cyclists and motorcyclists being safer, but perhaps not completely.
I'm curious what led to Linux (and it seems the other Unices) adopting the "double indirection" strategy of having a separate wrapper/stub function for system calls vs. the approach common in the MS-DOS world where the compiler would directly embed e.g. INT 21H instructions and generate the code to put parameters into registers itself. It's a small inefficiency, but still seems a bit wasteful nonetheless.
Good job on the comp haul. You made exactly the right call staying considering the options were only 40%! Feel free to ignore my points about making yourself useful if that will disturb the status ka'ching quo.

Thanks for the civil convo. Clearly you have put a lot of thought into this and I wish you all the best! FWIW, money is never a waste on smart people :). Money is freedom and an amplifier. I hope you find good uses for the same!
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Are you sure that’s what I’m saying?
Please. Renters and lower income earners are the _workforce_. The people doing, you know, real work.
These work excellent. I put a finer filter on the output. Clear difference in the pollen seasons, but I just let it run all year and swap the (visually clogged) input filter every few months. The FPR10 output filter lasts longer, but you gotta take a look at the side facing the fan to inspect it.

Also, consider adding output filters on any AC units (ducting etc). Even a "new" AC system can quickly become a source of particulates, or (way) worse.
Unfortunately, these are fizz-buzz tier.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18446313
"The Imposter's Handbook" might be something worth checking out...

https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/
Don’t ask me why I remember that the lazy non performant way to put a character on the screen in assembly was to store the ASCII number in the A register and

JSR $FDED

The fast way was to copy the bytes directly to the $400-$7FF address space and figure out the non contiguous memory map -> screen yourself.
git ls-files | xargs wc -l

<puts face in palms, starts weeping gently>
https://dzone.com/articles/jdk-11-beginning-of-the-end-for-j...
It's just as much the result of the lack of a meaningful minimum wage and reasonable labor standards. Another perfectly acceptable way to have fixed this would have been for Republicans to accept living wage and labor standards laws, and not have spent the last 40 some years waging war on unions.

I'll say it again. Study after study shows that immigration -- illegal or otherwise -- has very little effect on wages. Mechanization and "pro-business" policy is basically all of it.
In post-Soviet memoirs, indeed. Of course Chertok would know who worked there. The general populace only heard rumours that possibly Guderian was teaching in a military academy and was convinced that of course Tu-4, Elbrus, the Bomb, rockets, AK-47 and all that were purely homegrown inventions.

At least after Stalin's death they stopped claiming that pretty much everything has been invented or discovered by Russians (with an occasional Ukrainian or Uzbek thrown in for good measure).
I suspected blue apron would fail.

i did try it - and i had two major annoyances:

1. Wasteful Packaging - seemed like a waste of materials / cooler / all the plastic containers. (imagine 10,000s of these shipped everywhere and ending up in dumpsters)

2. I still have to cook! Im paying these guys more than i have to for basic ingredients and i STILL HAVE TO WASTE TIME and COOK! Where is the convenience?

Most of the people in our circles tried it for fun and recipes, 1-2-3 months then bam most quit.

This business model is a total failure. Local grocery stores did start carrying meal kits. But what i REALLY MISS is the guacamole kit from TJ! I wonder why TJ REALLY stopped carrying it...

That said thanks VCs for "free" food!
Sure, not all jobs are created equal. But there are a million variables here: when the job is created, the salary, whether it's filled by a current resident or a newcomer, how much public infrastructure the worker uses, etc.

More to the point, though, the goal of the city isn't to maximize its revenue — it's to make its citizens lives better. A minimum wage job for a poor current resident might be better the community than high-paying job for an imported knowledge worker, even if the latter means more money for the city.
Totally, I don't know why anyone these days would accept a pitiful $140,000 total compensation pay as a new grad software development engineer these days. That's practically slave labor... \s
I've been working on fixing some old C++ code at my company so that it compiles with the most recent version of the compiler. To my surprise, the errors that the new compiler gives me are very reasonable. But I always ask myself, "how on earth did this ever compile in the first place?"

The crazy part is going into the commit logs and seeing that a lot of the people who wrote this have been very successful. They've become vice presidents, retired rich, and written influential papers.
Bull. People developed software for multiple completely different computer architectures throughout the 80s and 90s. People do it today between different game console platforms in addition to operating systems. Even if you try and target something like SDL or a web browser your abstraction won't save you from a platform's quirks once you reach a certain level of complexity and then you'll have to work around it anyway.

Hell, even between supposedly POSIX systems there's a lot of #ifdef going on to make things work.
Perhaps, but as of yet there is no real evidence that self-driving cars will decrease the total number of deaths. In the short term, the latest advanced driver assistance systems which do things like automatic braking are proven to work. We should be putting a greater focus on deploying those more widely by making them mandatory on new passenger vehicles, just like air bags and stability control.

Research into autonomous vehicles is great and might eventually pay off, but let's not get distracted from real incremental improvements that are possible today.
"Not sure why you decided to respond to that comment with your own variation of the trolley problem but you're being downvoted because the comment wasn't relevant."

Because it's the only aspect of autonomous cars that worries me and parent was talking about how much safer it will be. I know it's not rational from a statistical perspective and actually safer than human drivers, however on an intuitive human level it's hard to stomach that I may be algorithmically placed in harm's way.
If i didn’t listen to podcasts I’d have no idea the electric toothbrush market is so big

The target market for this stuff feels so slim. Either you’re in this “too time constrained to shop, not too time constrained to make food at home” sliver, or in the “don’t want to menu plan” market. In the latter, you pay for this menu planning value add with, what, 30% surplus on the ingredients? Only to be replaceable by a recipe app, basically
> So long as the net gain to the NY economy is more than that, it can be seen as a valid tax expenditure

Yup. New Yorkers are pragmatic. A win is a win.

There is a problem in that this biases large companies over small ones. But unless our zoning processes lighten up, the best way to fight that might be throwing the taxes Amazon brings New York at the problem.
That's some nice whataboutism concerning Dodd-Frank.

With regards to uneven enforcement, you would have to be delusional to think that these same tax incentives aren't being extended to every other large development, be it Google NYC, Goldman's 200 West, or Jared Kushner's DUMBO mall.

You can even download a list of NYC property tax refunds here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/property-refunds-201...

The only reason you're hearing about this one is because of Amazon's unconventional bidding stunt and its publicity.

The process is outrageous and benefits large developers the most. But it's naive to think these companies won't always lobby for lower taxes, and cynical to think that the same benefits can't be extended to smaller firms.
There is a risk if you were relying on sync to be a backup solution (which in the absence of discussing the risk of remote data loss, someone might be tempted to do).
I doubt it. Among people I know, I've known 3 people injured as pedestrians, one person who was killed as a pedestrian, and a couple of months ago I was injured as a pedestrian.

Cars are ridiculously dangerous. Something needs to be done about it. Good thing there's Waymo and other companies like them.
I don’t really have good restaurant options around where I live though. I’d prefer to cook at home a lot of the time. But I sometimes prefer it to be a minimum of planning and prep.

But this is the conundrum. If I can pick up a few ingredients, even if there’s some waste, and throw together a meal quickly the meal kits may not add much.
> an elevator is a precisely defined problem

Ha! As a mechanical engineer, no, nothing in reality is ever precisely defined. Consider that every single part in the elevator has a tolerance: none of the parts are exactly the same in every elevator. Did you account for thermal expansion? What about wear? Fatigue?

> Software is never like that — it’s dynamic and constantly changing throughout the life cycle of the software.

But elevators need to be shipped right the first time and can't make mistakes; with software, it almost never works perfectly no matter how much time passes.
It’s not a slur.
Stability is another huge concern for motorcycles. If you lose traction on just one of your wheels, you could crash. While losing traction on 2 or maybe even 3 wheels in a car is much easier to recover.
> stealing, lying, and poisoning Americans is part of Chinese culture.

National/racial smears are unacceptable here. If you use HN for nationalistic flamewar again we will ban you.
There is very good advice and suggestions here, but IMO this thread is also distinctly "noisy" - lots of discussion and sharing, but very little in the way of a coherent go in this direction!.

So, I'd like to offer a couple of things that may be of immediately actionable, relevant assistance: SICP and NAND2Tetris.

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SICP - the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - was designed as an entry-level theory-first approach to programming. If you want to drown your brain in abstraction and get oriented quick, this will help you do that. It's very dense; expect to read it slowly, and also don't force yourself to block on one specific spot until you've understood it. If you can reach some sense of logic and order that lets you get through CS questions without breaking a sweat, who cares if you had to read the textbooks backwards or out of order.

I explicitly recommend SICP because you can find PDFs and EPUBs of it online (it's quite an old/classic book). I see a lot of book recommendations on here that I can't follow up on due to insufficient throwaway budget.

Plus, studying SICP with your fianceè will put her in a significantly better position to ace her CS courses.

I found this HTML rendering: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ (google will very readily find PDF and EPUB copies, but this version seems nice)

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NAND2Tetris explains every step of a CPU from the electrons up (as opposed to the top-down orientation taken by eg JS, VB, etc), and has you build a toy CPU.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Unfortunately I've just discovered that this course, which used to be a little more open, seems to have closed down somewhat. Either that or I misunderstood and it was never an open course.

This being said, searching for "The Elements of Computing Systems" - the reference textbook for this series - is finding a PDF pretty quickly. The book itself is apparently listed on Amazon, so perhaps the PDF version could provide an idea of whether it would provide any value.

This course is taught in many CS classes IIUC, so studying this with your fianceè will also leave you both in a better position.

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Also - I've been wanting to see how well I can explain pointers and so forth for a while now. Ping me if you like.

(I seem to be atrocious at email/IM-style communication, FWIW, so this may go horribly wrong)
We had to give up on the Kroger kits because the quality control on the fresh ingredients was terrible. Even with the refund, it was still a time sink.
Funny thing is that whenever we learned about entrepreneurship, the three phrase was always SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. When I look at meal ingredient delivery services (or Groupon type businesses) almost none of them seemed to have actual sustainable competitive advantages. Some had advantages (early traction, etc) but nothing seemed sustainable. What is the thinking behind backing these businesses for VCs?
I have a hard time taking them seriously. Some of their "independent" lab results are from some USF lab. The same lab one of the co-founders was a director for... Go figure. Some please correct me if I'm wrong. Read the results in technology, and then read the bios of the people.
The project around 10 million lines of code. Some of it was written in a very specific version of Fortran that was a PITA to compile. One fun experience was opening a file and seeing it was created on my birthday. Not in the sense just matching the day and month of my birtdhay. The code was literally written on the day I was born.
There's nothing stopping the wrapper function from being inlined (as it commonly is for some compiler + libc combinations), with all the usual tradeoffs for code size and ease of debugging.
I often have interviewees ask this question with a tone that sounds like they think they're daring and smart for asking it... but it's really a minor question in a lot of ways. Most startups are unprofitablw: it's more important to understand how and why and what the path to profitability is. And, frankly, the most meaningful answers there are going to happen in the sell phase, not from random engineers interviewing you.

If I'm perfectly honest, when asked that question it tends to make me think the interviewee just isn't well versed with startups.
Good to know, thanks for shedding light on the topic. Airport automation/Airplane autopilot is a great example and you've changed my mind completely so I'm 100% for self driving cars.