skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the timing method relies on a challenge response. In short, one side sends something and the other side expects a reply within some amount of time.

If you just simply add distance to the system with no additional overhead. The time it takes for the ack should go up in a measurable amount of time.

And if you did anything more -- like some of the system do today -- where they make a generic pipe that pipes it over the internet via LTE and back -- then for sure we would have a ack way out of the time tolerance.

Method 1

(car){signal amplifier}<-------->{signal amplifier}(keyfob)

Method 2

(car){transceiver}[LTE]<-------->[LTE]{transceiver}(keyfob)

To my knowledge most of these systems work but using some sort of out of band transmission over other wireless means such as WIFI/LTE/or simply another band.

The second method they use has to do with rolling codes. Where they jam the signal and intercept your keyfob code, preventing it from reaching the car. They store this and when the target realizes they did not actually lock/unlock they car they attempt to unlock it again. This time they jam the signal from the keyfob to the car, but replay the code they intercepted the first time, and saving the last code sent from the keyfob for later when the target is not around. This method works for more than just cars, it can be used for most rolling code systems.
Capital. Assuming the article is right and there's no fundamental efficiency saving of any particular taxi company then to challenge Uber's monopoly in a market you need to sink money into subsidizing fares until you drive Uber out of the market to establish your own monopoly. Why would someone do that? It's far more effective for Lyft to put it's capital into where it can establish itself rather than just having a cash burn contest.

This is why Uber left South-East Asia to Grab in exchange for a stake.
'Unreal Tournament' Isn’t Being Actively Developed, Epic Confirms
Because civilizations are built and ruled by Type A people, who usually sleep less and get up super early, they are known to die younger though.

And %3.3 people have DSPS, who are just simply labelled as sleazy.
React Native Accessibility Is Pretty Bad
This attitude is very problematic. If you're putting food on the table by actively harming society, there is something wrong with that.
These are all great points and there are some good nuggets in this article but I feel like it misses the main issue with recruiting. The shortcoming in my experience, is hardly ever in the process, it's in the people who work in recruiting. When setting up pipelines, most of the people I worked with knew what we had to do - the points in this article are pretty obvious.

What isn't obvious is how to find the right people to help us do that, or how to avoid the wrong people. Because the wrong people on the recruiting side of things can easily drag down the entire organization very quickly. I've only worked with a handful of recruiters that were actually worth anything - I'd like to see more about how to find them, what qualities to look for, and how to vet them.

Building a process that doesn't suck is like bread and butter for day-to-day for a lot of engineers. A lot of us have been part of working recruiting pipelines and we've seen how it's supposed to work. It's usually pretty straightforward - what wee don't know is how to kickstart it with the right people. I'd love more information on the softer part of it, and the part that is often invisible to people iterating on the process - the specific contributions of individuals to get it up and running.
If a computer is able to hold a conversation about any topic, was able to understand and learn from its choices and explain its thought process leading up to a choice, then yes, it has free will.

I have no doubt whatsoever that computer programs could have free will, even deterministic ones. The qualities that are relevant for free will simply have nothing to do with determinism.
Haha, so many salty downvotes in this thread. Relax.
The "why did it get slow" complaints happen when the animations aren't fast enough. The brain doesn't need a lot of time to register motion, but many times designers will use a slow and laborious animation to really emphasize something appearing. See Google's material design: it is based on the philosophy that interfaces should behave physically, and you'll see that it feels incredibly snappy.

Check out these demos:
https://material.io/design/motion/speed.html

Example: you can't effectively convey a menu becoming a button without an animation. Without an animation, the menu disappears and a button appears, but there's no reason to believe that they're related. A 100ms tween from one to the other is all you need. Our brains are very good at relating motion, not objects blinking in and out of existence.
Can someone explain to me how keeping your keyfob in a faraday bag is supposed to increase security?
I'm currently in my 4th year of medical school, and I have to clarify your comment on the hours worked. We're held to the same hours limits as residents, which is 80 hrs/week averaged over 4 weeks and an average of 1 day off per 7 days. We most often come near these hours on surgical specialty rotations (like the ones you noted). However, these are completely voluntary rotations. I'm not interested in surgery, and I have no surgery rotations scheduled at all during this year. Most of this year is actually spent on residency interviews. I've been traveling to different cities in the US about twice per week since October, and will continue through the end of January with breaks for the holidays. I have no hospital duties from September–January.

The 3rd year of medical school is much tougher since we spend about 10 months of that year on rotations in the hospital. While some rotations are much lighter, others like surgery again get close to the hours limits. This is complicated by the shelf exams we take every 8–12 weeks. These require an additional ~2–3 hours/day of studying and most of a weekend day as well. Obviously, this study time is not counted towards the hours limits, but it definitely factors into fatigue and burn out.
I’m using React Native for a lot of projects these days so this is pretty worrying. Seems like there’s a lot that react-navigation could be doing.
I totally get this POV.

But honestly, if you work at FB, you definitely have options. So no, this POV does not really apply to people at FB.
I'll second this, all of the FIRE subreddits are not a great place to discuss your situation. Those subs are full of people saving about 40-50-60%+ of their take home and slowing building wealth overtime.

Edit: FIRE = Financial Independence, Retire Early
My view on "free will" is that it's a non-falsifiable notion.

The universe isn't deterministic due to randomness. In absence of determinism in the universe's laws, free will is at least possible. However talking about it is like talking about the existence of God.

The question is this: what observations can you make that, if they were true, would lead to the conclusion that "free will" doesn't exist? And the answer is, in the presence of randomness, there are no such observations.

Think about it like this: if you could observe and analyze two universes in parallel, almost identical except that in one people have free will and in the other people don't, what differences would you be able to see? And the answer is obvious.

N.B. I'm not talking about compatibilism, which is irrelevant.
Let it fail?
You split and one part dies. If the commission involved put up rules on the merger and FB broke the rules, this is what happens.
Inside the failure of a startup
Your link only goes back to the beginning of 2018. Pao left in 2015.and your link is comparing overall rankings of websites. That in no way tells you anything about redditt's traffic growth.

https://www.statista.com/chart/11882/number-of-subreddits-on...
Of course it's boiling, especially with the docs leaked today: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...
Authors nowadays have the tendency to (ab)use their own articles as vehicle to talk about themselves -- and it's ever too often either completely unrelated to the content or some superficial, forced connection. It's quite annoying.
I agree in principle, but if you can work at Facebook, you can probably work at any other(more ethical) tech company.
List was off the cuff -- I've been to or know people who've lived in those places. Bloomington sounds quite nice, but it didn't come to mind.
In my experience, I don't spend more than a few days in the hospital, and when I do spend my time there, my whole life is turned upside down regardless of how much sleep I'm getting.
I'm sorry, but your arguments no longer make sense.

You keep making claims, then reliable data is presented to refute these claims, which you ignore, and pile up more unsubstantiated claims.

Most recently in this thread, you claimed:

> Their are around 1.17 million programmers in the US, that’s far from an elite field.

I showed by official BLS data that this means only 0.7% of US workers are programmers, and it can thus certainly be considered an "elite field", and employers can certainly limit job offers to high-IQ candidates. You just ignored that and proceeded to make absurd more absurd, patently false claims:

> Any profession that wants to attract 1+ million people simply can’t be that selective.

An absurd claim, demonstrating complete ignorance of statistics.

If I have to choose 1m out of 1.5m, I can't be very selective.

If I have to choose 1m out of a work force of 162m, then I can certainly be very selective.

It no longer makes sense to resume this discussion.
I really enjoy reading Stripe's posts. I remember they posted one about APIs and it was super fun to read [1]. Though to be honest, I think a title of "Guide to scaling software engineering organizations" seems more appropriate. I dread of a day where it's the norm for foundational engineers to have a similar interview structure as software engineers now.

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning
Hear here! My personal friend does accounting and wealth management (mainly accounting) for high net worths. I generally disagree that people need wealth managers, but if given the description it might make sense. He doesn't usually do anything more complicated than helping you decide your asset mix and throws it in Vanguard indexes, and makes sure you don't spend it on private investments.
Do you know if Firefox's Network Throttling feature works the same as Chrome's?
Well, those chips are designed for this one purpose and nothing else - it should be possible to design them in such a way that the encryption/decryption process always ends in constant time.
Nope - works perfectly. With React/Redux you can inject the initial state into the rendered page. Subsequent calls are then just api.

See
https://redux.js.org/recipes/serverrendering#inject-initial-...

for ideas.
A world in which companies are not allowed to selectively withhold proprietary data from some competitors, and form partnerships with others, is a world that suboptimally promotes innovation and economic growth.
I guess it's a bit of a stretch to say that if you can get a job at Facebook, you can't get a job anywhere else...

(as if what you describe would even be a valid excuse)
> A fine (no matter how big)

$200 billion, and a review in 12 months time?

That's 5 years revenue. $100 per user, sounds reasonable. Facebook can put in an easy "claim your $100" button on their site. Would that just be a "cost of doing business"?
I have sympathy for those cleaning floors at Facebook HQ, but it's disingenuous to suggest that the engineers (with compensation packages many multiples the local median, getting daily LinkedIn recruiter spam) "have no choice" about where to work.
I expect the funding model for self driving taxis will be like validated parking. You ride free (or reduced) if you spend $x at whatever business, shopping mall, etc.
H1B visa holders for example. To change job you need an entire new visa application which is not guaranteed to win the lottery. Even Facebook employees can have limited options.

And it’s not just engineers. Cleaners, cooks, maintenance people.
I'll happily chip in a dollar a year or so.
Thx for link. Everytime i read the word ‘whitelist’, i think, havn’t they caught up with the times, thats racist, whitelist. Why does white suggest good?
Seems like it would be easier to just go back to traditional cut metal keys.
Creationism is not talked about in public schools. Biology and evolution are.

I'm not sure you're proving the point you think you are. At least I don't understand how you think the dominant ideology which has displaced all others and allows no dissent is the one that is the underdog, and anyone criticizing the dominant ideology is politicizing the issue.

It is a self serving argument that was used to deny most science ever. From gallileo to the ideolization of Newton which stalled physics for generations.

Orthodoxy is anathema to science. Either reality agrees with your argument or it doesn't. No one should have the power or authority to deny access to people based on differing opinions. Otherwise the only solution to the contention is violence.

Instead one should focus on respectful dialogue where you treat the other person with respect. You don't have to agree. You don't have to defend the position. But you have to treat everyone with respect. Otherwise we don't have science, we have a religion.
Ok, I will concede you are technically correct! However, I never seen a developer use "is unknown", even with Postgres. (I have been working with Postgres for over 15 years.) They always use "is null", which is, for all intents and purposes, the same thing from a developer perspective.
I have no particular love for FB or what they've done with data, but these I don't understand why either of those points is particularly controversial or even unusual.

> Facebook used data provided by the Israeli analytics firm Onavo to determine which other mobile apps were being downloaded and used by the public. It then used this knowledge to decide which apps to acquire or otherwise treat as a threat

Checking out your competition is pretty standard among all businesses, as is buying out the ones you can't beat.

> there was evidence that Facebook's refusal to share data with some apps caused them to fail

Sharing or not sharing data with another app is likewise not an unusual decision. FB is not a public utility - they can not work with other apps for any reason, or no reason at all. And this is a particularly ironic thing to point out, considering that the main thrust is complaining that they _did_ share data with other apps. So it's bad if they do share data, but also bad if they don't?
Do you have no hobbies because you didn't have time or energy for them?

There's a whole lot of interesting things to do...
If you've ever worked at FB, you can get a job at basically any other tech company very easily. So, no. There is shame in that for FB employees.
Do these services actually provide a (virtual) private network. For example: can I see my home machine and my phone on the same private network? And then connect them using ssh/scp?
> Stripe would rather have false negatives than false positives in hiring

That's the case with Amazon and Google also.
Google employees sign petition to end Project Dragonfly
> Back in 2012 we ran a study showing Google's filter bubble may have significantly influenced the 2012 U.S. Presidential election by inserting tens of millions of more links for Obama than for Romney in the run-up to that election

Thank god someone is discussing this. I think it's a real shame that the "media" is focusing only on the 2016 election is discussing how Trump manipulated voters. Sure, they ran advertisements (and Russia did), but the reality is this is no different than any of the recent elections.

Obama was right at the forefront of this tactic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.htm...

Yet, when Trump does it (perhaps better executed, or the platforms are better) it's "manipulating an election!"

Please, continue this research and keep it unbiased.
also qutebrowser is vim-like keybinding, and nextbrowser is emacs-like keybinding
The milestone to mark is the day when you or I can, at least theoretically, download the the fricken app and request a ride in an autonomous vehicle that has no safety driver.
Aha! You're right. I misremembered this excellent blog series from Eric Lippert (a member of the c# design team): https://ericlippert.com/2013/02/25/monads-part-two/
$4M is enough to retire almost anywhere in the world. A conservative withdrawal rate of 3.5% gives you annual investment income of $140,000. Keep in mind that this income is not tied to a specific location, and you don't have to work for it. It's a huge amount of money anywhere outside NYC and SF.

$8M would give you $280k / yr. That's a huge amount of money, and quality of life doesn't increase very much after that.

Also you can be your own boss and work on your projects or hobbies. I think the "financial independence" part is more important than "retirement". Maybe you have a very different idea of "retirement" than me.
Secret Service Announces Test of Face Recognition System Around White House
Somehow I doubt those poor Facebook engineers really have their hands tied and are unable to find work anywhere else to feed their families.
Let's not shame workers at facebook. If you do you have to shame anyone who works at any big tech form for the decisions of the leaders. Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle included.
Nothing says evil more than preparing reactive PR to bury your competitors. And the nonchalant way his response sends chills down my spine. These people will suffocate innovation just to win.
You can already opt into Proton VPN. See, it's right here: https://protonvpn.com/

So that's the point; don't bake features into my browser that point me to one company when the whole purpose of a browser in the first place is to be able to visit web pages... like https://protonvpn.com/.

This is about only one thing: money (affiliate sales).
Awesome AI Infrastructures
>If the thief stole your car only because someone was holding his wife hostage, now where does the responsibility lie?

Still with the thief. He still has all of the other inputs into his system beyond just the fact that someone kidnapped his wife. Believing that causality ultimately determines every decision we make doesn't mean that I believe that it's a simple one to one mapping. He knows he can call the police - this isn't an action movie, and he's not the characters Jason Statham plays. If he is the characters Jason Statham plays, well, it doesn't really matter because he's not going to be caught anyway, and I'm left railing against the hypothetical thief that more often matches reality than your car getting stolen by the living embodiment of an action movie hero/anti-hero.

>The circumstances immediately surrounding the car theft are precisely the same, but now an influence further back in the causal chain is presumably responsible. How would you differentiate these two scenarios without free will?

By not believing that one changed input unrelated to all of the others somehow invalidates all of them.

>Free will is necessary to explain why you are morally blameworthy or praiseworthy for your choice of whether to go with your inclinations.

Free will is unnecessary to explain why I am morally blameworthy or praiseworthy for my choice of whether or not to go with my inclinations.

Both are assertions that do not stand alone.
> I do not think I have any real hobbies.

Serious question - why not? If because of a lack of time or money, that problem is now solved. You have enough money to retire. You have the resources to sit down and get good at whatever you want. Which means that 43 is not to late to start a hobby.

Just as an example, since moving to Utah a few years ago, I switched my hobbies around, and they built into a whole new way that I spend my non-working time. I take my kids out on 'adventures', going out into the mountains and the desert, taking photos, coming back and painting landscapes based on my photos. I also collect rocks and gems from my trips, make jewelry out of them, and just picked up woodworking and am building furniture with inlays using those same stones.

It is possible that by trying a few new things, you'll also come up with a whole collection of things to do. So I recommend spending time exploring all your options. Get out, do things, explore, and talk to a variety of people. While the feedback you'll get from HN certainly will have merit, this is a very small slice of the world. Ask these questions to a broader audience as well.
If there's anything you've ever wanted to do, but felt too stressed out about work to do, this is your chance to think about it more seriously (e.g. living in Europe for a year).

Beyond that, divide it up into a low-risk portfolio and investments that can make passive income. Don't let anyone know you have this newfound wealth.
> Dark energy and dark matter are known to exist due to their gravitational effects

Knowing and theorizing something exists are very different things.
> I've only worked with a handful of recruiters that were actually worth anything

I learned how to hire & train recruiters to work for me pretty effectively for certain pieces of recruiting. To you, what makes a recruiter good and/or not good? Maybe I can share some thoughts on how to improve the not good parts!
I am in a similar position, and the ... outright condescension is unbelievable.

The worst doctor is unbelievably educated in the US. They have had to go through a very difficult pre-med undergrad, a competitive process to get accepted to medical school (which is really tough), survive a residency, and then have continuing education requirements.

And then a bunch of assholes here are like, "don't they know that patients have to sleep???"

Of course the f--king know that. I bet that same worst doctor knows more about sleep than 90% of the internet experts on this thread.

I mean, do people heard even realize that you're not supposed to be in the hospital? It's the hospital. It's for emergent medical care, and you should leave as soon as possible. Sleep is the least of your problems, vs say, MRSA.
Seize it and then sell it in an auction. WhatsApp is so insanely popular that it will for sure find a buyer.
Traffic? Traffic at that time of day can be crushing. Arounds here, anyway.
Hi HN,

after not finding another database/list of remote companies that had the information I wanted, I decided to start building my own. What I came up with is a database of companies and careers that you can filter by the things you care about like paid co-working, average salary, etc.

The idea is that no matter if you are just starting to get interested in remote work, or a seasoned nomad you should be able to find value from the site.

If you are early/curious about remote work check out our database of careers to see what options you might have with your skill set, otherwise find a company that has the perks you want.

It's still very early (I have a lot more content to add), but try it out and let me know what you think!
> Facebook's refusal to share data with some apps caused them to fail

It's not clear what this means. Is it an API that returns '403 forbideen' or more of a case of lack of competitive information
Thanks... tbh, it was the technology that interested me more.

I remember pretty amazed at GEOS on the C64, but have never fully understood if there was a connection to the other GEOS implementations (or the nature of that connection if it existed).
I have a personal friend who is a wealth manager who basically gets his clients to put their money in index funds.

I wouldn't paint the whole industry this way. Some people are simply not good at handling money and paying someone to keep your hands off of it is wise.

For the record, my buddy works with sports/entertainment stars (and including tech founders who exit) that categorically have the worst discipline when it comes to money.