skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely expensive, but it is likely still much less expensive than putting all of the satellites in to the higher orbit. It takes a lot more fuel to get the satellites in to the higher orbit, as well as still having enough fuel to get it back down to de-orbit the satellite.

Plus, in the ~1100 km orbit you are getting in to the lower Van Allen belt where the radiation will degrade electronics much more quickly. This can be mitigated with radiation-resistant parts and more shielding, but it adds a lot more cost.
Nested functions are done in one pass. As you might infer, they cannot be forward referenced within the function.
You can die from this (apnea) if you are not careful. Getting a cpap properly set and a mask that works for you will be a life changing event in terms of quality of sleep and your general well being. How much is that worth to you?
Coda and notion both seem to be in the space of dropbox paper crossed with confluence crossed with airtable. I feel like these have more promise than airtable in the long run, or perhaps if dropbox paper starts adding more functionality with their own tables, having different views, apis, workflows.
What do you do with 8MB when the OS is 512MB+? Adding NOR Flash is normally pretty simple -- No bad blocks and a standard SPI interfaces most embedded devices have controllers for. The high end controllers can typically map NOR flash directly into the system address space.
I don’t know exactly how big an arc is needed to start a fire

Not very big, sparks coming off a tow chain dragging behind a vehicle can start a fire.

http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/officer-shows-how-s...
I doubt it, it's probably just a factor of the West coast talent wars. FB understands that talent is the life blood of any tech companies and is willing to go above and beyond to secure it. No company wants to pay a cent more than it feels it has to.
This sounds a lot like Walmart's codebase for their POS registers. Except, the kicker is that there are zero unit tests, zero test frameworks, etc. You just have to run it through the shitty IBM debugger and hope that you don't step on anyone else's work. Up until 2016, they didn't even have a place to store documentation. Each register has ~1000 flags, some of which can be bit switched further into testing hell.
Underrated comment. Casein protein has also been linked to cancer[1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166373/
The same code would be an ordinary compiler correctness bug on a conventional architecture, because the second load could trap when reading from an invalid address. Itanium and Mill offer instructions that don’t trap, return an invalid value instead, and allow the trap to be forced later (if desired). This is fundamentally new functionality that exposes new vulnerabilities if it is used in certain ways.
Farm workers are classified as agricultural workers. farm managers / owners are classified separately.

There was a whole redacted study because of managers being accidentally lumped in with workers.

https://newfoodeconomy.org/farmer-suicide-crisis-cdc-study/
C isn't powerful enough to have the library type behave as desired (with implicit conversions, etc.).
They're probably not smart enough to get in, anyway. If they were, they'd go to FB, milk that huge salary, unload their RSU's on a regular basis, save and invest, and FIRE by age 35.

Signed, a CS graduate and FB stock holder with 500% return.
It's simple code reuse... you know that compilers are made of many modules and have stages right? Why reinvent writing a code -> lexer-> ast parser for your indexer when you already have a well tested and fast one in llvm?

Did you know for example, that when you build your app in xcode that it uses that partial build product to also feed the indexer, so you don't have to scan the same code twice?

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/compiler_design/compiler_desi...
I believe it was The Indicator (by Planet Money)
I mean, I don't see the Manhattan Project guys as monsters, but weapon designers absolutely bear some responsibility for the weapons they design.
Economics makes no axiomatic assumptions favoring market-based economies. The conclusion that free markets work better is empirically supported.

It also counter the interests of powerful special interest groups, which has placed economists outside of the political consensus on numerous issues.

We're not living in some free market paradise. Our economy is highly controlled from the top down, with major government interventions limiting contracting and private property rights. Just to give one especially stark example, if you offer stock in your small business to the public, without going through an arduous registration process and getting approval from the securities regulator, you will be fined and potentially imprisoned.
I completely agree with you. When I was 19, I had far too many opinions and far too little wisdom.

The same is probably true of me today, now in my 30s, but I think at least the trend is positive.
As a foreigner living in Germany, this was one of the first things that I noticed and was a bit of a culture shock.

Germans love to complain and seem to think that this is how you improve things. I believe there's some truth to that, and it seems to work for them, but it can cause chronic dissatisfaction and can cause intercultural issues when living or traveling abroad (where people aren't used to fielding so many complaints about poor service).
I was getting heavily recruited, by Facebook earlier this year (they checked in with me every two months), and I finally decided to send them more than the canned LinkedIn, “I’m not interested”, response. I told them that I didn’t think I was a good fit, because I didn’t use the product and would probably have a hard time understanding it (if you’re going to help build a consumer app you really ought to use it in my opinion). I thought the recruiter would be surprised by my response, but I actually got the vibe from her that she had heard that before, promptly removing me from their recruitment tool (and to their credit they haven’t contacted me since).

It makes me think that Facebook will probably end up being one of the better places to work as they know they will have to offer benefits to make up for the stigma and/or lack of interest in working there.
I think it's short cited to come out in a public forum against any employer. I imagine hiring managers are Googling candidates, news sites tend to show up pretty high in search results.

I can't imagine that would come off well.
This article is what made me decide to major in CS. I very much remember reading it in my high school library during the final few days before graduation. Every time I see it mentioned somewhere I get that feeling . . . not quite nostalgia, but a reminder of why I love what I do.
First one I heard about was using sound amplifiers for hunting instead of hearing aids from an audiologist.
Try to use some critical thinking before calling people names. Most of the world uses Android, so employees (including execs) are encouraged to use Android to dogfood their own product. This has been happening since 2012: https://www.digitaltrends.com/android/facebook-employees-for...
Skipper: "Professor, why did our rescue radio fail?"

Professor: "Hmmm, it looks like somebody straightened out the antenna. It had an unusual shape for a reason."

Skipper: "Giillligan?! Do you know anything about this antenna?"

Gilligan: "Uh, I'm sorry guys, the antenna looked all bent up, so I straightened it. See how nice it looks now?"

(They both bop Gilligan on the noggin.)
Sounds like ASML, except that Oracle has automated tests.

(ASML makes machines that make chips. They got something like 90% of the market. Intel, Samsung, TSMC etc are their customers)

ASML has 1 machine available for testing, maybe 2. These are machines that are about to be shipped, but not totally done being assembled yet, but done enough to run software tests on. This is where changes to their 20 million lines of C code can be tested on. Maybe tonight, you get 15 minutes for your team's work. Then again tomorrow, if you're lucky. Oh but not before the build is done, which takes 8 hours.

Otherwise pretty much the same story as Oracle.

Ah no wait. At ASML, when you want to fix a bug, you first describe the bugfix in a Word document. This goes to various risk assessment managers. They assess whether fixing the bug might generate a regression elsewhere. There's no tests, remember, so they do educated guesses whether the bugfix is too risky or not. If they think not, then you get a go to manually apply the fix in 6+ product families. Without automated tests.

(this is a market leader through sheer technological competence, not through good salespeople like oracle. nobody in the world can make machines that can do what ASML's machines can do. they're also among the hottest tech companies on the dutch stock market. and their software engineering situation is a 1980's horror story times 10. it's quite depressing, really)
Sure, I can accept that CS students say and believe that; ask them again when they're CS graduates. Also, stated & revealed preferences are often dissimilar, plus virtue signaling costs nothing.

Bottom line, until the FANNG initialism changes, I wouldn't take the report seriously.
Then they will have to adapt.

Here in Denmark we don't have greeters, we bag our own stuff and most of the time we have to put a coin in to get the shopping cart out, which will be returned when we return it.

Of course there will be businesses that can't adapt. These will die out and those employees will then, slightly, decrease salaries.
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It would be good if everyone read any 70 books, but 70 philosophy books look excessive
OTOH for me (another freakish web user who does unusual things with the web), web components may make it easier to scrape the website. Developers will be passing data into a component in some way, JSON atrtribute, or a nicely defined data in a property, so it will be easier to scrape and understand via devtools DOM insepctor.

Insteaed of a soup of deeply nested divs, there will be nicer and more meaningful structure of web components.
I'm a similar age group / community and this sort of perspective is not at all uncommon, and it's legit. There is no "performative wokeness" going on in my experience.
I'm at university right now and have a ton of friends in CS (I was previously as well), and I can tell you the overwhelming majority are more than ok with working for FB.
I studied mechanical engineering and we had to spend more than 3 months in the shop building stuff. This made a huge difference in my understanding of issues when I worked in production management for a while.

So I think if you run a car company you should at least like cars, know how they work to some degree and have worked at a car company for a while. When I came to the US in the 90s and rented a Buick I wondered if the CEO of that company even had tried that car once. It was so bad that I couldn't imagine that anybody who knows a little about cars would have allowed this car to ship.
It’s obviously not black and white, but I do feel that joining a company as an employee endorses the activities of the company, to some extent. That’s definitely more true for sought-after tech workers, who at least have the luxury of choice in many cases. We all ultimately compromise some beliefs or desires when we take employment - but is this something more tech workers will take into account when choosing who to work for?
Is that actually true? It seems like the New York Times stock is doing pretty well in the last few years.
I actively try to avoid content that's "gone viral".

I've come to the conclusion that (to a first approximation) anything that the masses want to share, I don't want to see.
You may have worded that incorrectly. A majority of the 1% are most certainly not jews.
Is your updater self rolled or based on something existing like mender.io?
>>Everyone cares about ethics in tech before they get a contract

Another way of saying, everyone has a price.
> Now, she said, job candidates “want to meet the team. They’re not just going to blindly take a company because of the name anymore.”

This seems to not be only Facebook, but Google and other big names where the people interviewing you aren't going to be working with you.

I don't think most people realize how this actively tilts the interview against being useful for the interviewee - a large part of it is knowing who you will be working with, and if you like them and can make a good team together. Not knowing the team you will work for (by design) can really make it hard for a candidate to make a choice, given they don't have all the information. I think this is especially true for minority candidates, since you don't know if someone on the team you will be working with might have a problem with you.
Very excited to see this. We will use this project to add Swift support to Sourcegraph soon so you can get hovers, go-to-definition, find-references, etc., when browsing code on GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Phabricator/Sourcegraph/etc.

https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/979
I did not care for that course. The production value was horrendous 2 years ago when I tried to take it. But this answer is 100% accurate
The "quantum computers" we have are classical computers with very weird hardware. The thing everybody is trying to achieve is quantum supremacy - this hasn't been achieved or demonstrated yet, and might never will be.
Playing high school football changes the teenage brain
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Well all I want to do is ingest some Google analytics and combine it with the data from SEmRush
That is specific: create firebreaks and remove brush. That alone would drastically limit fire spread and damage. Controlled burns are hard but certainly not impossible, and can be done in colder seasons as weather and wind are predictable.

Taxpayers are already paying for it, and the state has plenty of labor. The prison system alone runs many firecrews that can engage in this work. Compared to fighting fires and rebuilding damage, the maintenance cost is trivial.
Money seems irrelevant in this scenario, but there are plenty of free services that will assist you. I also doubt friends and family will charge you to talk to them.
Am I the only one who can trigger this almost at-will? Music helps, and if I do it too often it gets weaker, but I can do this more or less voluntarily.
I was thinking it sounded a bit like "Lenguaje". It turned into Spanglish :)

De nada ;)
> The toxic smoke is a bleak backdrop and an apt metaphor for where Silicon Valley finds itself.

Oh for fuck's sake.

We get it, facebook is bad, they fucked up royally, they tried to cover it up, Zuckerberg is a clueless robot, and everybody should be mad at them. I certainly have no sympathy for them.

But the attempt to use the California fires as some sort of ominous metaphor is utterly pathetic. The state is on fire, people have lost their homes, and towns have been physically razed. And you're trying to use this to generate clicks and drum up righteous indignation about facebook, as if they're also to blame for this natural disaster? You should be ashamed.

How did this get past the editor?
It does. But here is the hint: If you have a token you stamp out and work continues.
Freeways Are Always Soul Crushing. Now They’re on Fire
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A JIT Compiler Skirmish with SELinux
This.

America is not a society where anything happens without money.

In eastern countries, there are easy to go community centers like temples, churches, local social organizations, festivals etc., all for free. Just go in. There is always someone to reach out to. There are always welcoming people.
Sounds like there's some manual steps to create the simulation. I'm wondering how these genetic algorithms can automatically feed into the simulation and get back a single number to drive the GA fitness function.
Magic Leap launches Independent Creator Program
You might say that's the case with Fusion as well :)
I believe the reason for bringing in the idea of there being no typos in the entire book is to show how you aren't able to reason well without some change in your approach.

Of course, the comments here suggest that it just makes the whole concept confusing to an audience who should either already know about confidence intervals or be well prepared to learn about them.
If they were being negligent, they should absolutely have to pay a large percentage of the damages, maybe even 100%. Getting companies to be responsible for externalities is a no-brainer, even though it’s so often not enforced.
Another Meltdown, Spectre Scare: Data-Leaking Holes Riddle Intel, AMD, Arm Chips
Sure, the problem is those optimizations are critical to make in order machines competitive. The idea of Itanium and friends was about moving the complrxity to the compiler. Speculation and dependency breaking is critical for performance, whether it is done by the compiler, cpu or programmer.
I feel the issue is that the hierarchical nature of Japanese society/business/government means few people will challenge a superior. If he declares that in the interests of Cyber Security all passwords should be the same so they are easy to remember will someone challenge him? Will the minister listen to the sage council of a 22 year old hacker fresh out of uni who has been hacking systems since she was 8?
My brother is a perfectionist who works in tech (as do I). I tell him that everyone needs at least 2 working speeds, and one of those speeds needs to be "quick" (aka "emergency").

I don't see it as a binary thing. You can be meticulous in the things that matter that they are done right, and quick for the things that need to be done. The metric for success in those things are different. Quickness is perfection in an emergency.
The first video mentions at 6m55s[1] that as part of the third phase they're deploying satellites in high inclination orbits, among other reasons to provide coverage for Alaska, since this is an FCC requirement.

I wonder if it's exclusively because of that reason, and if so that the reason international customers will enjoy coverage at high northern and southern latitudes is because of the accident of history that the US ended up acquiring Alaska, and that there's some FCC regulation that says you need to provide coverage for all 50 states.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKNCBrkZQ4#t=6m55s
Aaaaaaand gone is the moral.

Great.
Is it possible that someone smarter than you doesn’t want to work at Facebook?

There are plenty of reasons, beyond ideological ones, not to want to work there. I don’t think I have any ideological objections to Facebook, but the product itself doesn’t interest me and I’m not a user.
Agreed. That said, I'm wondering if we can justifiably punish people for success. Punishing anticompetitive practice is good, but success itself shouldn't be wrong.
>> Are you seriously arguing a fingerprint is an aesthetic symbolic pointer in the way a name is?
> Absolutely

My point is a user name is something everyone knows i.e. not a secret.

Biometrics are not a secret as they are, in the case of fingerprints - easily picked from your Starbucks coffee cup, the door you just opened etc.

Your face is permanently on display.

Etc.

Your assertion that biometrics are not user-name equivalent is embarrassingly ignorant and you've already shown your inability to read or show much comprehension.

I shall therefore assume that you're unused to rational discussion and leave it there.
Munich is generally nicer then Berlin. Probably a bavarian trait.
Personal anecdote:

I was contacted by a facebook recruiter a few years ago. I started the process and also started thinking about if I would like working there. I realized that I disagree strongly with the product, its effects on society, culture and politics. But more importantly I realized I hadn't used the product in like 3 years. I just said no thanks before even finishing the "take home" exercise.

At the time I was not a college grad, I was a team lead at a startup. This was before all of the recent news (2016?). It turns out I was right to make that decision.

I think there is strong incentive for engineers who commit to working on projects which they would actually use themselves. I am not overly ethical as a person (although I do have opinions I try to stick to), but I am very happy to have the opportunity to work at companies with products I actually use.
> This means that there is an additional degree of freedom that you can adjust in a quantum state that doesn't change its probability of occurring.

This gave me a real 'aha' moment - I've been trying to get an intuition for complex numbers for years, thanks.
Spammers do tend to use botnets these days but ISPs would love it if you sent reports to their abuse teams. Each ISP can help clean up bots on their network and while it is basically an endless game of whac-a-mole it does have an impact on the spam volumes leaving respectable networks. If you can automate the process of sending off a notice to the abuse team in addition to any other filter/drops it would be a win/win for everyone.

ARF is great, but as long the message includes the full message headers it should be possible for the ISP to track down the infected user responsible.
Meanwhile in Japan: "The elected Brazilian president never drove a boteco" :joy:
I don't really think about it in terms of an age limit. To spell it out, my quibble is that the reporter quoted these kids by name and got them to agree to have their picture taken for publication, for a story that will likely give at least some prospective employers pause at some point.
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Ace hardware. It was not cheap.
If the author is reading this: When someone provides you a pro-bono translation, by all means credit them, but do not let them host it on their own site.

Frequently, they are siphoning your PageRank. They will eventually replace the translation with monetized content of their choice. A good translation takes work! If you got a translation for free, why should you believe it's good, or that it has no ulterior motive?

A firm called "WebHostingGeeks" used to do this all the time. They would offer free translations of blog posts, into languages the author probably didn't speak (and they didn't either, they were just using machine translation). They'd ask authors to link to the translation on their site, and over time they would add their SEO links to the translation.

I first noticed this when WebHostingGeeks offered me a Romanian translation of ConceptNet documentation, my roommate spoke Romanian, and he said "maybe I'm not used to reading technical documentation in Romanian but I think this is nonsense".
Frequencies aren’t free, spacex will need to buy the rights for each country separately and that costs serious money. Unless they somehow don’t have to do that for whatever reason...
Is it weird that when reading this I just think how nice it must be to be able to turn down such a high paying job when many people are just trying to make ends meet?

Don't get me wrong I am happy now working at Google but I am sure I would have been elated to get a job at FB earlier in my career.
Great write up. Can a web component author create one in such a way that the inner shadow dom styles ARE editable/styleable by the outer or person implementing the custom component?
There are many free hotlines available for people in this situation.

UK: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/suicide/

Other countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines