skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an absolutely genius sarcastic comment in this thread that was posted by a throw-away and then deleted. I was going to reply to it, but saw it was deleted when I clicked to reply but was luckily able to copy it out of my cached version of the page. I'm going to reproduce it below, because it was hilarious:

The deal was 800 millions. Unfortunately, Alice, a local purchaser, made a mistake in the Purchase Requisition in ME51N.

After clicking on the "diskette" icon (or was it the "mountain"?), she noticed that she had written one zero too much (so 8 Billions). She immediately wanted to correct the error in ME52N (by clicking on the "pencil"). Unfortunately, her access to ME52N was revoked by the SAP Basis Authorization Team because the internal audit team wanted to improved "security" to respect the GDPR.

She tried to contact Bob from the SAP Basis Authorization Team, but he was on holiday. Charlie answered for him but told Alice that she had to introduce a ticket in Solution Manager to ask for an access to ME52N. She had no access to SolMan, so she had to ask her Super Key User to make a ticket for her. The list of Super Key Users was available on a SharePoint list on the company's intranet, but had not been updated for a long time. Eventually she found out that her SKU, David, was retired.

Fortunately her colleague Erika (a former SKU that moved from another division), had kept her access to SolMan and wrote the ticket for Alice.

In the meantime, the Purchase Requisition had been approved by Fernand (from Finance) in the Workflow. Gerard, a (bored) new recruit, immediately converted it to a Purchase Order with ME21N.

After a few weeks, Alice, who got access to ME52N, noticed that the PO had already been made by Gerard. She contacted him with Lync to inform him of the mistake. But the "Cancel" button for a PO was not working. During the User Acceptance Test, Gerard had noticed that Cancel did not work, but the consultants told him that he had to follow the scenario, otherwise they would tell his boss that he was "resistant to change" and that he had to sign off the UATs. (The bonus of the consultants was based on the number of successful UATs).

It escalated quickly. The Director wanted to stop the transaction! But it was needed an unexpected Change Request to make the Cancel button work. The CRs, like authorizations, must be asked via SolMan, but the Director was unable to use it because it did not work on his iPad Pro (but it will soon because Fiori will solve all the problems).

Eventually, as the CR was too complicated to implement, the purchase went through and SAP bought Qualtrix for $8B (but they still are unable to find the scanned invoice in VIM).
It's worth noting that in Europe things like this are illegal: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/overview/index_en.....

So the idea that it would just be too hard to make this illegal (which I see in at least a few comments) is wrong. We could have laws at the federal level that prevent it. (I'm sure there would be constitutional challenges but that's a separate--and in my view surmountable--issue.)
chef is nothing. My company is completely locked down with Forcepoint and Crowdstrike. Every PC has it installed or it doesn't get to stay plugged in.

Unless you own the company, you're not really going to change policy. Get a personal VPN in place (hint: they're watching your DNS queries too), tether to your LTE phone, or just stick to company business on their machines.
That's sort of the norm in an area like this I think. When the Seaport in Boston started to be redeveloped amenities were pretty sparse for a while. (To be sure a lot of development was initially around the convention center and adjoining hotels.) These days the restaurant situation is decent but it probably took a good 10 years.
Ask HN: How do you scale your stack while keeping team members up-to-date?
A little background: I'm handle web architecture on a team of 10 people, and focus mainly on JS and React these days.

Two years ago I built our first React app. It was a huge success, and the business saw the speed advantage of SPA architectures help boost sales. Slowly everyone was introduced to the basics of React components, lifecycles, etc. and things were going pretty good. We got more requests for the same functionality, so our app has been ported over to use React for many apps, and I introduced React Router. This year, we got to the point where Redux really started to make sense in order to maintain sanity between the different mini-apps that live in our main application.

I educated myself during work time on these tools and picked them after careful consideration of their complicated nature. It wasn't an easy choice, and I accepted almost all tickets pertaining to Redux when they arose. During every step of the process I did dev kickoffs and focus meetings about new features and functionality. I have spent countless hours hovering over shoulders, doing 1-on-1 lessons for individual team members. My superiors on the team at some point delegated all this responsibility on me.

I sympathize with he older members on the team, as I can tell they are tilted, questioning their obsoleteness and each production bug causing them stress. The organization is noticing all the errors though, and it's usually simple stuff that anyone who develops in React or JS would catch. The problem is though these folks are in the codebase, guessing and making assumptions, hacking to try and get things done. Our QA is very bad because of this, and often times I simply read commit messages and shake my head.

I have read a few stories recently about being the old developer and dealing with this change. What about when you're the one creating the change? How can you reduce the amount of anxiety felt by others when you introduce new technologies?
If it was actually their plan which it very well seems like from the way everyone is talking about, wouldn't this actually be fraud rather than just unfair?
> Well, what I'm seeing are an awful lot of customers saying they don't want MS's Windows 10 feature updates, or they want them less frequently.

This is similarity bias affecting your judgment.

I believe the way windows 10 currently runs update is wrong for me, and for most tech users, by far. I'm glad it takes 10 second to fix it to allow delayed updates again, but still I would like it to come out of the box easier to manage.

On the other hand, for the very very vast majority of windows users, this is superior to the end result they experienced before (updates never installed, and not by choice).

What's wrong here is a clear case of "one size fits all", they apply the same system they made for the majority to everyone, and it end up not work for some users for a variety of reason, but it's (imho) wrong of you to think this is not exactly what most users want: "do it like my phone/tablet, I don't care about updates"
That combined with the aforementioned thousands-to-one odds that a life form that hasn't yet developed into a relativistically expanding sphere also hasn't developed sapience. (I'm not using the mathematical definition of "almost all" of course.)

There would (probably) also be a significant number of cases where two spheres run into each other, but it's debatable whether most of those count as first contact events (light speed lag versus "it's all the same civilization"). The main point was the enormous unlikelyhood of a nearby alien civilization being within a thousand years or so (out of multiple billion) of our developmental level.

The Fermi paradox is more a question of "Why hasn't anything eaten every star in the sky yet?".
Laser safety is a well known issue, IEC60825 offers mathematical models to calculate the safety category (e.g class 1/2) of a laser device, which are based on physics models of the eye from first principles and empirical data. There is nothing particularly special about LIDAR lasers that makes these models not valid as far as I know. Generally, there is a tradeoff between exposure time and intensity, so LIDAR systems have redundant hardware methods to ensure the pulse time is not exceeded.

Any laser product generally has to be tested to IEC60825 to check which category it fits within, under the safety rules of the jurisdiction (e.g. CE for EU, FDA for USA). This LIDAR system would have to pass that too, and it should be reasonably easy for them to check if it would when developing it.
When there's no candidate, it's still money that wins initiatives in the western USA. I don't care what that particular study concluded over 40 races of self-financed Gov candidates because it's not compelling. Existing studies of interest that acknowledge definitive correlation only differ in how to measure the degree and where diminishing returns occur.

> There's a large empirical literature on the issue and the conclusion is that money is more or less irrelevant in politics.

That's simply nonsense.
They made $10.5M in revenue _total_, not per employee. It's quite possible they are still not profitable, in which case $20k per employee would be a lot.
It's pretty frigging amazing though with software that people will absolutely not spend a half hour reading documentation before they just start trying to poke and prod at things. In other industries, you have to go through mandatory trainings on a regular basis on your equipment.
It's pretty illegal to point lasers at vehicles. Many states and countries have laws against that. For example, in California,

California Penal Code Section 417.27

(c) No person shall direct the beam from a laser pointer directly or indirectly into the eye or eyes of another person or into a moving vehicle with the intent to harass or annoy the other person or the occupants of the moving vehicle.
No, char was 8 bits on the PDP-11, which was a 16-bit little-endian machine. (not middle-endian unless you count the typical compiler being weird with 32-bit values on the 16-bit little-endian hardware)

C didn't run on the PDP-7.

Being either 7-bit or 9-bit would be a choice for 36-bit hardware. Wikipedia's list of 36-bit hardware is: MIT Lincoln Laboratory TX-2, the IBM 701/704/709/7090/7094, the UNIVAC 1103/1103A/1105 and 1100/2200 series, the General Electric GE-600/Honeywell 6000, the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-6/PDP-10 (as used in the DECsystem-10/DECSYSTEM-20), and the Symbolics 3600 series.
It would be really great if the general intonation can be improved to be nearer to Wavenet level. Also a lot of continental Germanic words e.g. Swedish, Dutch, Deutsch etc. and Français-derived words embedded in an English text won't be pronounced properly regardless of context.

Source: I run an ebook to audiobook converter https://auditus.cc
When Will Stack Overflow Reply: How to Predict with BigQuery
The list would be too long but out of order :

- Using a JVM to compile mainly C++ and python, implying to deploy a JDK/JRE just for that.

- Awful RAM consumption, compiling tensorflow takes 16GB of RAM to create a python wheel

- Try to download the world and compile everything without allowing to specify external dependencies.

- Compile time that are crazy long due to previous reason.

- Invasive. Make very hard to integrate with anything else that does not build with Bazel

- Make very hard, or sometimes, impossible to tune compiler flags

- Just not reproducible.

- Unstable, try to build a recent Google package with a 6 month old Bazel and good luck.

I strongly advise you to watch this video of the last FOSDEM : https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/how_to_make_p...
480~ odd requests to load a non interactive, static text page is just embarrassing & shameful.
> the south is no more homophobic than any other region.

You can't possibly believe this is actually true. You think the South isn't any more homophobic than, say, the west coast? Really?

Here's some data, the first % is "Homosexuality should be accepted", the second is "Homosexuality should be discouraged": http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/compare/vi...

First, a few states from the deep South:

Alabama - 41% :: 52%

Arkansas - 45% :: 47%

Georgia - 55% :: 38%

Mississippi - 40% :: 54%

South Carolina - 51% :: 42%

Now the west coast:

California - 69% :: 24%

Oregon - 66% :: 25%

Washington - 69% :: 27%

I lived in Alabama for a couple years. People are definitely more socially conservative there, and that does lend itself to homophobia. Not everyone who's a social conservative, of course, but it's definitely much more common than with social liberals.
Those patterns and various frequency shifts are often used to prevent secondary reflections and to be able to operate in a saturated environment.

A powerful commercial laser can easily damage the CCD but again it’s not an issue drivers can be blinded by lasers already and are constantly blinded by other things like high beams and highway camera flashes the closest I came to being night blinded twice is when a red light camera was triggered on an intersection in both cases I got honked for not seeing the light turn green because I couldn’t see shit for like 5 seconds.

Not every system needs to be resilient to adversaries we don’t drive in armored cars or have active protection systems against ATGMs put on our SUVs.

If an asshole wants to jam cars they’ll be able to they’ll get caught and go to jail that’s more than enough for these systems to be reliable.

If you think about it we already have systems which we rely on everyday that can be jammed with $50 worth of gear like cell phones and GPS these aren’t adversary resistant but we don’t cry about it because it’s not an issue.
Yes, not sure why nobody is talking about that? I guess the plan is to be acquired soon.
I've never had a problem with a bunch of robots in the same room all using horizontal planar lidars. Mostly due to low duty cycles, I suppose, but no sensor is perfect and you've got to have some sort of noise rejection in any event.

When they talk about rejecting solar interference I'd presume, but can't be sure, that whatever they do would also help a lot with lidar on lidar interference.
That is very interesting to know. What was the interview like? What is a 'front line' developer? Loving the faux military designation as well. Wankers.
> The small spikes at 5 yard increments is interesting and I don't really have a good explanation other than to think that whoever recorded the yardage data liked rounding to the nearest 5 if it was close. Anyone else have any other ideas?

I'll go with the idea that the refs are biased with their ball placement and tend to put the ball on lines [0]. Also, players/teams practice, speak, think in 5 yard increments, so that's got to bias things a bit. "We've got to get to the 35 yard line for Morten to have a chance."

[0] https://gutterstats.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/are-nfl-officia...
Ok, I understand a little bit more from reading this page: https://www.grendel-games.com/procedural-generation/?lang=en
I’m not the OP (but I share their annoyance), I use a dozen of build systems but TensorFlow is the only project I use that uses Bazel.
I moved on to https://dev.to/sergio

1000 times better writing experience, and non of the political fluff that pesters you on Medium.

If you write technical articles, go to Dev.to
The groundwork for the redevelopment of LIC was laid in the City's failed bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. While the bid failed, Bloomberg continued to push for redevelopment and IIRC lead some rezoning. Would not surprise me if developers started buying up land or ground leases around 2004–2005 and held onto them for a few years.

The Olympic Village was to be on Hunter's Point.
Thing about dragons in Chinese mythologies (and to a certain point the East Asian Dragon mythos) is that dragons are neutral to good creatures that are typically a sign of awe, justice, fortune and wisdom (think Shenron in Dragon Ball anime) but can also be evil like in the famous Chinese story of Nezha conquers the dragon king which is a dragon-slaying story.

Dragon is also used as a symbol of respect. Someone you rever to is usually referred to as a dragon (if you're male) which is known in Chinese as 人中龙凤. The emperors of China saw themselves as living dragons or dragon emperors and were referred to as such. Dragons were part of the divine beasts of China and are considered lucky and are involved in other Chinese aspects like the Chinese horoscope.

Also the article didn't discuss the feathered serpent or dragon of Aztec mythologies or the Nagas of Indian mythologies which are lost opportunities of discussion.
Did you try rolling your own or did you use https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/ ?
Actually, I think that makes it even worse. That is, Summers was unpopular with particular groups for a bunch of different reasons, so he was eventually fired for the pretense of having the audacity to say that the possibility that innate gender differences could account for an imbalance in the sciences should be studied.

Regardless of what you think of Summers, read the exact transcript of what he actually said at that conference. The fact that he was fired for what he said should be incredibly shameful for Harvard.
Like the other reply says, nobody wants this job.

It’s difficult to remain neutral, but… there’s realistically no feasible way to deliver Brexit without medium-term economic damage, or alternatively accepting essentially all EU rules while having minimal influence on them. Few serious politicians wanted it, and they don’t want to step into a role where they have to deliver it. The idea seems to be to let her take the blame for the inevitable failure first.
Except I want to spend 0 seconds setting up some kind of blog system. I don't care about it whatsoever. So I use a hosted platform.
As the other person above, this is similarity bias affecting your judgement. Which is fine, it happens, but it puts you in the wrong once you let it cloud your opinion on what happens (quote) "for most people". Most people have a legal windows 7/8/8.1/10 key that came with their computer and let them run win10.
Not trying to start a language war, but I would like the old or the new api better if it had static types. Right now it's thousands of functions that can take thousands of different objects, and I would never know what to use except the few I randomly learned in a tutorial.
People aren't eternal.

Imagine if scientific discovery had been protected by copyright terms, we'd be a lot further behind.
I think "someone sitting in the pilot's seat will always be able to crash the plane" is a pretty reasonable assumption. (How do you prevent an intentional cartwheel on takeoff or landing? There are regions of the flight envelope where 2-3 seconds of pessimal input are unrecoverable. ATC override won't help you there) So given that, we aren't trying to prevent the pilot/copilot from intentionally crashing the plane, we're trying to prevent two things:

1. Prevent any passenger on the flight from crashing the plane

2. Prevent anyone from crashing the plane into a location of their choice

Locking cockpit doors prevent the first one. Locking cockpit doors plus 2-in-cockpit rules (as mandated by the FAA, and not implemented by GermanWings) do a good job of preventing the second.
It's almost like nuclear energy is cleaner for the environment and more long-term sustainable than burning any sort of carbon based fuel, including biofuels. Who would have thought it would be so? Certainly not Greenpeace.
Dioxins Influence Male Reproductive System (Study of Vietnam Vets) (2006)
Has a Piece of the World's Oldest Computer Been Found?
The citizens of that city enjoy the wealth that Amazon brings to the area. Cities, rightly, salavate over businesses that bring in outside money because that's how an area gets wealthier.
> yes, it's technically not a new design, but it sure ain't Unix.

Except we are? We are pretty POSIX compliant all the way into the kernel, we have "/dev", filemodes, etc. We don't have X11 or other UNIX staples, sure, but we are pretty UNIXy.
This podcast helps foreign founders succeed in the US
905 nm can also go through the water in your eye (the eye safety limit for 905 nm is maybe 2 times higher than for 850 nm), but Velodyne and many other lidar companies have been using 905 nm for years with no problems. The 2x higher sensitivity of silicon CMOS detectors to 850 nm in comparison to 905 nm makes up for the lower power.
It seems like Thousandeyes must have figured out the breach and what happened. The links on google do not work, because the domain does not exist. However, the old IP for one of them was 23.92.28.179 and that still works, and says is a PDF mirroring site.

Here is what ipaddress.com has as what those domains pointed to:
http://vps-atl6.agents.thousandeyes.com.ipaddress.com/
http://vps4-atl1.ag0.thousandeyes.com.ipaddress.com/
Working class candidates may need to deplete their savings to become congressmen
I am/was pretty technical--wrote a programming book, was building and maintaining high traffic websites back in '03--and I still managed to screw up hosting a Wordpress site to the point of my blog going down on it's own, going down under load, going down because I missed a message about my credit card expiring. The difference between my technical ability when that's my job and when it's my hobby is huge. And so I'm a huge fan of not having to worry about any of the hosting, i.e. Medium looked great to me from day one.
>there are many more software companies that pay roughly the same wages all of the world

I question whether there are many companies that, aside from executives or other high value employees, pay similar salaries around the world. I imagine at least some pay comparable salaries across the US--or at least salaries that don't completely follow CoL--but pay Indian or Chinese developers what they pay Bay Area ones? That seems unlikely at any scale.
You are correct it isn't trivial but I'd argue some stuff is even easier than in the past. Like the whole responsive design (or a design at all) is already accomplished by using any one of many themes offered for Hugo. Then you don't even have to know HTML, you can have a one page Markdown reference to do almost everything. I might want to work on something like this to make it more accessible to others, but my main argument is that for tech people this is trivial and here they are still using Medium.

https://habd.as/zero-to-http-2-aws-hugo/ Is an example of how to do this. It has some steps but is not that hard. I think it can be even easier by scripting most of this out for less technical people.
> Support for more platforms and languages, and improved compatibility and parity between these components via standardization on exchange formats and alignment of APIs.

Does this mean we can get a pure C API for training and running? Right now, IIRC you can only train in Python and C++ which ignores a large part of the programming community. If not a pure C FFI API, what is the approach being taken?
Lets forget about the specifics about what it truly does to the state/town in the long term. Given the jobs it's fairly clear Amazon would have built this some place in US regardless of the tax break and would have created the jobs and tax revenue associated with that. By competing like this even if a particular city/state gains more benefit than before the country as a whole looses that tax break from it's total potential revenue right?
That's why I said "tend to move", yes.

> there are many more software companies that pay roughly the same wages all of the world

The jobs with the really high salaries (and arguably the most exciting coding jobs) are disproportionately located in a handful of major tech hubs.
Entirely async api and GPU first OS were fulfilled by Windows Phone, sadly did not work out well.
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ETLS for passive snooping of TLS 1.3 data in enterprise environments