skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make this joke myself all the time and yet it does sting to see someone else write it.

I do generally agree with the point though, and sometimes I feel that I and people I work with become hung up on things like code elegance and testability rather than actually addressing the task at hand.
There's a really nice restaurant in our neighbourhood, with amazing food, and you need to reserve a couple days in advance. But whenever we go there, it's ridiculously noisy. They went for a bare stone industrial look, and that clearly doesn't dampen any sound, so you end up hearing everybody in the restaurant all at once.

But we are also to blame; when we bought our house, we removed some walls to let more light in, and everything is really tight and smooth, and therefore reflects all sound. We got bad acoustics in our home.

We've got a neighbour who works in a sound studio and advised us on some sound absorbing panels, but they don't really fit in our interior anywhere.

Please the eye and punish the ear, seems to be the interior design rule of today.
China and Japan have solutions to mass transit. They really don’t need disruption because they’re directly in competition with The Boring Company in terms of exporting their high speed train tech.
Two important points in that essay:

You will need friends

You will need mentors

This is 100% true, so I have a question. How do you find those when you're already spending all of your time on your startup and new to town without a support network in place?
The really useful blanket would know exactly when you going to go to the bed every time (analyzing the data from your smartwatch and other gadgets) and prepare accordingly. That's what 'smart things' are about, but that requires slightly more work than coupling the off-the-shelf voice recognition engine with thermostat.
Thanks for the mention! I just want to expand on some things you said:

- Rust's regex library was greatly inspired by RE2, which is a C++ library that also executes regexes in linear time.

- Go's regex library also runs in linear time, however, it is still missing some optimizations that can make it run more slowly on non-pathological regexes when compared to RE2 and Rust's regex crate.

- You don't need to use fancy features with a backtracking regex engine in order to shoot yourself in the foot. e.g.,

>>> import re
>>> re.search('(a*)*c', 'a' * 30)

- Even with linear time regex engines, you can get big slow downs. You'll never get exponential (in the size of the text) slow downs of course, but regexes like `[01]*1[01]{20}$`[1] can generate large finite state machines, which can be problematic in either memory or match speed, depending on the implementation.

[1] - https://cyberzhg.github.io/toolbox/min_dfa?regex=KDB8MSkqMSg...
My brother and me launched our latest side project yesterday: sparenames.com

It is marketplace where makers sell or give away domains bought for a project that has never been launched or has been discontinued. With mindset of “from makers to makers” we’ve decided to put a limit on the domain price to a maximum of $ 199.

What is your feedback on the idea and website?

P.S. We were featured yesterday on PH and did fine (currently 242 upvotes).
We also made a domain sell happen on our first day - a fact we’re very happy about!
It is oneoffer.co, sold for $99.
That would be really awful. The winner of the tiebreak would have a huge incentive to go for a draw. In chess, it's a lot easier to go for a win or draw than try for a win at the Grandmaster level. This would only increase the likelihood of there being more draw matches. I mean, just look at the 12 games in the WCC. Magnus was clearly playing super safe in order to draw the match and go to the tiebreaker, where he has a huge advantage. He did the same thing in 2016.
Your cities are very sparsely populated to be cost effective with rail.
You are not describing what he wanted to build there..
Which is the point of an environmental assessment: to look at the benefits and cost to the environment and document the net result.

This isn’t about declaring the project a hazard to the environment, this is skipping the process to determine if it is or isn’t a net good.
The tunnels are smaller, so they're allegedly significantly cheaper, and the narrow diameter is compensated for with automation.
I think a lot of the frustration is that all this tunneling stuff seems like a huge distraction from what we KNOW works.

Mixed use development near transit supplemented by a network of bike lanes an 8 or 80 year old would feel safe cycling on.

Tunnels aren't magic. Does anyone here think they won't succumb to induced demand just like any other road? Even if they reduce congestion (and they won't - the 405 carpool lane made commutes a minute longer, not shorter) all that means is people who want more space move farther from the city, enabling more urban sprawl, and thereby trashing the planet even more.

Quick, cheap tunneling would be GREAT for building subways, though. Shame Elon hates public transport https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-t...

The other thing about Elon is that one wonders how many clever people are toiling away on solving the world's problems but can't get attention/funding/support because Elon sucks it all up, AND he's dangerously close to going full Kanye on Twitter (cave rescuers are pedophiles? wtf?), which doesn't help anything.
While I agree that cheap speakers used are often an issue when you actually hear the music, more often the places would be super loud even if there would be no music at all.

Some people are just obnoxiously loud, and if you have more of them in 1 group nearby, any experience from that place is ruined for me.
There are plenty of hires. I think it was one very picky department head.
Trump might have renominated Yellen for Fed if she wasn't so short
HR has one other job that you might not realize: make sure that your hiring/interview process is legally fair. You better not interview in such a way to make it impossible for some types of otherwise qualified people to pass (female, black...) while others find it easy (males, white...).
What If GitHub Projects Were as Beautiful as Medium Articles?
Fortnite Gifting Feature Now Available: See Eligible Devices
The Next Great Digital Extinction
A history of Unix man pages
So it is indeed because of gender discrimination/diversity?
For those not familiar with LA's private property rights, they are some of the strictest in the nation. The 710 freeway, originally designed and intended to go all the way from long beach to pasadena, has successfully been litigated for fifty years to prevent it from ever doing so. heavy truck traffic has to exit to surface streets to continue to the city or route around it using the 101. trucks are prohibited on the 110.

And the residents standing in the way of this project? not even very powerful residents. Just backed by a handful of attorneys well versed on property rights.
This is one of the stupider things I have ever read. It's an amazingly bad analogy, written poorly. Where does HN find this garbage? Who is promoting it?
Ask HN: Advice to switch careers from aero eng to software programming remotely?
I have an aerospace engineering degree and I work as a structural engineer in the aviation industry, but I want to switch careers into software programming remotely. I have some programming experience (mainly C++ for computational fluid dynamics analysis) and I'm fairly knowledgeable with computers. Other languages I've dabbled briefly in are JavaScript and Python.

The biggest thing that attracts me to working remotely is the flexibility to live anywhere, and set my own working hours. I also very much enjoy working with software. I'm just at a total loss on how to even begin to switch careers at this point, and I'm not particularly fond of spending more money on schooling. Any advice would be very appreciated!
Yes, yes it is.

Source: started a company and learned many things the hard way.
Meetups are a good place to start imo. Signal vs. noise is sometimes bad, but good groups of people who are building cool things exist almost everywhere.
Modern Warfare 3 reviews: why is this the most hated game on the web? (2011)
Yes it could be said for any infrastructure project, which is why nearly all of those projects are subject to environmental assessments.
I found the original rational, useful and straight-forward. It's not an "indiscretion".

So, yeah, your comments are approaching "nauseating PC culture" because you can't read something like the original without being offended some how.
This story sits side-by-side with the recent reporting by the NY Times that we're facing potential biosphere-level effects from an unprecedented die-off of insect life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalyps...
A co-working space helps in my experience. Although it's still really hard (at least for me, as an introvert) to build such network. It's scary, but it's the only way.
Instead of the sarcasm, please elaborate on the harmful effects of complete mosquito removal (those that carry diseases) from the ecosystem. These bugs cause an immense number of death and suffering every year, and eliminating them seems a good solution in that it removes the carrier of the diseases, eliminating the disease without having to worry about finding cures and expanding health care access in a lot of the impoverished places where these diseases strike the hardest.
All states have some form of this, but CA takes it to another level.
It may be different in other countries, but in the US font design cannot be copyrighted. The TTF/OTF files can, and so can the hinting algorithms, but the actual design of the font is legally guaranteed to be copyrightable by anyone.

Why? Because a long time ago, the US government was worried that somebody would exploit a loophole and try to copyright the alphabet. So they set up protections to absolutely make sure nobody can do this.

Interestingly, this means that text-only logos like the Coca-Cola logo can't be copyrighted; they're only protected by trademark.
He's building us an express loop in Chicago: https://www.boringcompany.com/chicago/

They're even paying for the whole thing, I think most residents here are excited about it.
Also, surprisingly durable. Around April I accidentally left them out of their charger and outside in the pocket of a foldable chair when I went out of town for 1 month. It rained on them multiple times. When I found them I was sure they would be broken.. I charged them up and I still use them daily. No issues.
Lots of security flaws in code recently. FB and Google+ both leaked, Instagram had a minor leak a week or so ago. It's hard to put blame, I've coded just a bit in my life but I get it how hard it is to write a truly secure and efficient code. Well, on the bright side users can protect themselves against MITM attacks by using a VPN. I'm using Surfshark right now, have tried Zenmate, PIA before, but had some minor issues and wanted to change provider. Surfshark looks pretty secure, they have been audited recently by Cure53 and the outcome was positive. Decided to buy it after that, they offered "BLACKSHARK" coupon which gave a nice discount, maybe it still works. Some providers tend to keep Black Friday discounts a bit longer.
Have humans ever had a positive effect on the environment? I feel like it's just a negative outlook that believes humans can only do wrong.
Some of the best advice I’ve ever received was to only enact one big change at a time.

Moving to a new city and leaving your support networks behind is a big change.

Quitting your job and starting a company is a big change.

Doing them together is perhaps not the wisest course of action.
start a lightshow using Alexa
Seems to me that this was a job put together with a specific person in mind and somehow that didn't work out and they just didn't know what to do after that. Seen this same scenario play out before at multiple companies.
Why Our Company's Trucks Won't Carry Lidar
well, im not sure where this tunnel would be located BUT if he was digging under my $500,000-1,000,000 residential house (or whatever the prices there are) or my commercial property i sure as hell would sue the billionaire all the way to the bank as well. For him its just "playing games" oh let me dig a tunnel so i can skip the traffic on MY way to work. For me - its my livelihood - house is a single biggest purchase in most people's lives (or my business - if he is digging under my commercial property). If this tunnel affects my building - what do i do when things go wrong (foundation cracks)?

I have to go around and ask 10 people in my neighborhood if its ok if i want to move a freaking wall inside my house and this guy can just go and dig up tunnels without asking us ... just because he feels like it and he is a billionaire.
I think the negativity is an inevitable reaction to the Elon Musk hype machine, which he himself plays into. Recall the Thai diving incident, when he proposed a submarine solution that was neither realistic not workable.

In this instance, it would have been obvious from the get-go that a project like this would run into environmental concerns. The whole thing has been a waste of time and sucked attention away from more realistic possibilities. This broadly applies to Hyperloop as well, which is cool tech that solves none of the problems holding back transportation in the US, which are almost all political.
Your point about Stanislav Petrov being sheer luck is questionable.

I maintained USAF radar mainframe computers during my time in the service, and we knew our equipment inside and out, and had a pretty good idea when things didn't look right. I'm sure the Soviets did the same with their systems.
Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on the engineering sector
bing.com redirects to a Chinese version of Bing, which prioritises Chinese sites.

I have no basis for saying this beyond not knowing how they could do this otherwise, but I would assume that they must censor results to exist there. I don't know if they go further, such as you describe Dragonfly plans to do.
"It seems sort of shortsighted to block a tunneling company on environmental grounds."

It would seem equally short-sighted to make such a statement without thinking about what lies underneath most of Southern California. Oil fields galore, gas deposits, aquifers, and many superfund cleanup sites.

Digging around SoCal is already a half-impossibility. You never know when you're going to run across a deposit of natural gas and BOOM.
>Technologically speaking are they really ahead of the competition?

Yes and have been since 2012 when they started producing the Model S. It's been 6 years and major manufacturers have still not caught up.
Stupid question.

Who should have the ability to install root CA certs?

I like using HTTPS instead of HTTP, so I need some installed. Who should be responsible for managing them?

And before you say the CABF, they're ultimatately not the ones who decide what gets installed on your computer. The answer to that question is much more complicated.
What was your experience with Racket?
You actually sound like you've put much less thought into it than they have.
Here's a transcript of Jiankui He's talk in Hong Kong on his human embryo editing project: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/human-genome-editing-summi...
Test your hearing on higher frequencies, those are usually the first lost when hearing degrades. Normal headphones/loudspeakers can go way higher than people can hear, so you can do basic test yourself.

I have something similar - normal conversations are OK, but in loud environment it becomes very hard. Its not great to be the only one in group who doesn't understand what others are saying. I blew my hearing probably in front rows on metal concerts.
> Interesting view. Is this better than a "let it break" approach?

Or perhaps a branch and let the old stagnate approach?

Strip the deprecated features to create RegEx2/RegExNG/whatever[1] and build the new features on that. Old code can keep using the old version as they always have, new code can use all the nice new shinys, and the new version doesn't have to worry about backwards compatibility with the broken parts of dark age UAs. Also make sure everything in the new spec can be polyfilled for cases when new code needs to work on those older UAs.

[1] or while we are branching off, why not answer the complaint of regexs usually not actually being regular (as per the mathematical concept of regular languages) and rename them completely? Maybe SearchExpressions? Or SearchExp if you want something smaller. Or SExp if you want even shorter and don't mind attracting bad puns.
I disagree, unless you and I have radically different definitions of what "comfortable" means. If I'm hiring an engineer with the seniority I'd expect them to have at 20, 30 or 40 years in industry then I want them to ramp up inside of a year.

I'm not going to expect them to be completely self-sufficient within a month. But they should be capable of implementing performant solutions to nontrivial problems with autonomy and collaboratively reviewing code with their peers.

Stated another way - what are they doing for 2 - 3 years before they're comfortable that isn't worth it to hire them?
Always blame laziness and bureaucracy.

People need legal reasons to say no. In a bureaucracy, that means that administrative types come up with objective measures to identify the perfect candidate, or to defend against less than honorable or completely fake people who simply lie about their skills. I have seen every level of bullshit, from a guy who told me he dealt with conflict at his last job by taking a swing at his boss to situation where three different people impersonated a candidate. Sometimes institutions come up with unique ways to handle that.

In reality, the meaning varies depending on the bureaucracy and how stringent oversight is. If someone is going to get an audit finding for hiring someone with 4 years, 11 months of experience, they care. Usually people choose to see what they see. Another reason for the laundry list is that editing is impossible. In a big company, the recruiter in Timbuktu has a phalanx of bureaucrats between the job req and the hiring manager. It's easier to have a mandatory requirement for 15 years of Windows 95 experience and add Python as an optional skill than to re-write.
> The idea of the registry is then to represent social validation by a community incentivised by their own selfish best interests

This just leads to censorship by the most powerful users in the system.
Toward Reproducibility: Balancing Privacy and Publication
This tunnel is just a smaller, lower-capacity metro system. There is exactly zero groundbreaking technology here. They've even bought off-the-shelf commercial tunnel-boring machines.
would you be ok with tunnel being built under YOUR house (that you own and worked/will be working for for the rest of your life) without consulting with you FIRST?
Their current long-haul optical portfolio exist because they stole the IP from Nortel (as in bugged the building and stole the source code).
"California has empowered them in peculiar and powerful ways"

Fun example of this is John Wayne airport in Orange County pilots do a special takooff involving cutting power to engines to reduce noise for Newport Beach neighborhood below dating back to a lawsuit from the 80s.
It's our profound nature as humans to reflexively unite against any outside change we don't feel part of. It's true at every scale and level of society. From "they don't make good music these days" to racism to opposition to political reforms. It's frankly a huge problem for humanity as a whole. We don't like change, especially if it's forced upon us. With climate change looming in the distance it's an almost suicidal trait.

On the other hand not letting anybody do what they want when they feel like it is important if you want to maintain a working society so it's a very tricky balance to maintain. It's probably reasonable for Californian residents not to let anybody dig holes willy-nilly underneath their cities.

That being said the article is pretty thin on details. They mention "a review of its potential environment impact" but don't explain what the problem was exactly, so it's hard for me to form an educated opinion on this particular case.
There's an old adage that successful people surround themselves with success. It's all about cohort - if you don't have other friends who are pushing themselves the way you are, it will be very, very, hard. It doesn't matter if you're in tech and your friend is in gardening, what matters is the shared struggle, and dreams. It helps knowing you're in a boat others have been in before.

Spouses/partners can understand and support - but (most) haven't been through it, and there's just a different conversation that can be had with others who have. That's not a negative, it's a reminder that it really does take all types.
The end goal is wider distribution of content. Here, for example, are summaries (json) of all 1008 academic papers accepted to NeurIPS 2018:

https://github.com/contentinnovation/NeurIPS-2018-papers

It would be really cool to be able to translate via ML high level AI progress into standard American journalistic english. To some extent Bloomberg TicToc, Jinri Toutiao are already generating short form video for breaking news stories.
Be Warned: Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time
‘matchAll’ looks great but why make it an iterator vs a ‘map’ style callback? Just seems so arcane.
Call me crazy, but as an outsider looking in with attachment to California (many friends moved from there, brother's wife from there, I visit often), isn't part of their empowerment of NIMBY's out of fear that if they don't empower them they will straight up leave? Owning a home in California close to any of the economic centers sounds like one of the hardest endeavors one could embark upon, I imagine if you don't give any sort of concessions then more people would straight up leave.
The tunnels will not impact the people above them, you won't even notice them being dug if they were directly beneath you.
Half-life of software as a service, services
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I agree, although in my experience the Wetherspoons volume varies over the full range.

I have a local Wetherspoons and go occasionally. If it's quiet I'll stay. But sometimes it's unbearably loud just because it's packed with raucous people in a large, acoustically non-absorbent room, to the point that I hear "crackling" in my ears.

It's still much better than the pub next to it, which serves food I like, but is painfully loud all the time inside - even when it's completely empty. That's not acoustics. They play music at a hideous volume, and won't turn it down even when the place is empty - "company policy". I listen to music on headphones much of the day, sometimes quite loud. So it's not like I dislike music. Being the only two customers in a huge pub and unable to hear each other talk seems ridiculous to me.

We used to go regularly, for the food. Don't go any more - because of the music volume.

Another publike food place locally was really nice when we first went, shortly after it opened. It's become louder and louder each time we've visited - and now sadly that place is vetoed because of the volume too.

Again, it's because they play music ridiculously loud. It's lost the charm which I think was its selling point when they opened, and we won't go back.

Well, we joked we might go back wearing industrial ear defenders to make a point :)

At a fourth pub I went to an informal business meeting recently. It was afternoon, and not many customers yet. We had to ask them to turn down the music repeatedly just to hear each other.

Seems to be a theme. I'm not sure why they do it, because I doubt their staff or the other customers enjoy it much either.