skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DOOM was one of the first 3D games I played and the first I played with a Soundblaster (a GPU like card you'd buy to hear sounds other than beeps and boops). I've never been so amazed at a game since. I literally had my jaw open for minutes. After fiddling with a set of drivers that allow me to have enough RAM to boot it of course.
I was just learning how to draw pixels on screen with BASIC and could somehow extrapolate that if I get good enough I could maybe do a game that resembles a 2D game but when I saw DOOM I realized how little I know. There's no way I could to this day write a 3D engine which makes me a bit sad but at least I understand most of the math behind it after working in games.
> Serious question - how can you hold such companies accountable when fines would be passed directly to consumers?

PG&E rates have to be justified to and approved by regulators; liability costs for wrongfully causing widespread devastation maybe shouldn't be considered a valid basis for rate increases.
OpenAI has "Requests for Research" from easy to very difficult:

https://openai.com/requests-for-research/

https://blog.openai.com/requests-for-research-2/
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> but rather in this specific case we need it to be executed after doB() is done.

Why is that? If it needs any result from doB() then it is a dependencies that must be specified. If it needs to be done only after doB is successful then it is a dependency, just an implicit one we rely on the procedural execution to handle. In either case some sort of surrogate dependency (or better syntax) would have to be introduced.

But the point is that either would necessitate or be aided by graphical programming.
I agree with my sibling comment and would add:

Max is correct to point out the irony in his anti-thoughtpiece thoughpiece as he falls into the same trap of vagueness as those other articles. Specifically, he rails against general “black box” approaches to modeling, then takes a general “black box” approach to the work of operationalizing a model (much harder than building the prototype to begin with!).

The discussion of “pulling data” does not match the practical reality, since pulling via BI tools is not scalable and rarely automatable. SQL may cover this insofar as you dump data from SQL to...what, though? A Python session on your laptop? Automating this process allows a data scientist to scale their impact.

For more specificity on engineering practices required for data science, I recommend Robert Chang’s series of posts: https://link.medium.com/CG7c7mQdyS

For details on how a data scientist can impact an organization, I recommend this from the FirstMark blog by Jeremy Stanley and Daniel Tunkelang: https://firstround.com/review/doing-data-science-right-your-...
Dunno if its actually good as a roguelike, but thats gotta be by far the neatest UI I’ve ever seen. Guy has a good blog as well about cogmind’s development
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Just curious, do you have a ~2007 Ford Fusion? Those cars are notorious for this particular issue.

I tried hacking my evap sensor with a resistor as you described, but for some reason I couldn't get it to work. Ended up spending $700 to fix it...
Maybe you should have a legally protected right to lie to businesses that ask for your personal information.

This is interesting. I almost always fudge my birthday a bit when asked for it. If I'm applying for a loan or opening a bank account or dealing with the government, of course I provide the correct information. But it feels like a really bad idea to provide my actual birthday to strangers whether on the Internet or not.
I was in Shenzhen last week, there are stores where you can go up, pick some battery pack or other widget, buy 1k units, and then have them slap your logo on it. That’s one end of the spectrum. The other is you find a Contract Manufacturer and give them your exact specs. But then of course what tends to happen is that other factories conveniently get your specs after awhile.
The funny thing is that while most of the IBM 1401 stuff (such as punch cards) is long obsolete, green-bar paper is still a thing - we simply buy boxes at Office Depot.
> If you have a tower of sand that collapses, do you find the grain that started moving first and put the entire blame of collapse on it?

No, put finding where that first movement happened is perhaps key to finding the hand that flicked that first grain, and does bear the whole blame.

> Your example is of relatively stable system (presumably healthy human life)

We don't consider the healthiness relevant for most legal purposes; are you familiar with the eggshell rule?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
Whatever's practical for your giant pea-shooter and reaction chamber. But lithium is a soft metal at room temperature, so this part doesn't seem too constraining.
I'm going by memory here, but IIRC the fastest level of CPU cache (L1) can be accessed in about 2 nanoseconds. Even the slowest level (L3) operates on the order of a few hundred nanoseconds. RAM is slow by comparison, and network latency is so much slower it's basically glacial.
Here are the things i learn't the hard way:

Say no to Hammer and find your Nail(s): When you think like a hammer everything is a nail, startups are rarely that (especially early on). Nails are the actual problems you want to solve and Hammers are the one trick pony's that might help you solve them. To put this into context: You can do a AI startup that can solve Cancer, Credit Card Frauds and more but you need to find a problem you want to solve and not the solution first.

Talk to your customers: You will always see that your product, service is being used in ways you never thought about before. Stay grounded and you will soon have better ways of growing your startup (and or increasing retention).

Decide a north Star: This should help you measure if your product/startup is going in the right direction. A north star is often a proxy for the health of your product/startup so don't go for MAU's and DAU's but rather something that is actionable + contextually related to your offerings.

Not everyone makes it (quickly): Most startups fail due to small but significant things. Trying to do things too quickly is one of the most surest way to die. Media paints a rosy picture of how founders did a lot of superhuman tasks and that is the exception and not the rule. What makes any superhuman founder super are: Patience, Hustle and persistence.

Enjoy the process: Don't just do 120 hours a week and expect to get rewarded with a couple of million dollars in the next 6,12,18 yada yada months. Start a startup, it is like raising a baby, you need to go through the motions of raising a child, also not every child is the same, also don't have orphan child's (Products that are neglected and or have no parents/product owners).
Good luck!
"solved" is an overstatement, especially given recent discoveries of increasing CFC manufacture in China.
Delivering almost any package to my house in two days at scale seems a lot harder than making chips at scale and they did that already.
Ask HN: Is Google's search quality declining?
A few minutes ago I wanted to find the table of contents for a book from high school—a collection of short stories called Characters in Conflict. I knew a few of the story titles, so I did a multiple-phrase search, like so:

"to build a fire" "harrison bergeron" "characters in conflict"

The results from a Google search are near useless. Curious, I tried DuckDuckGo (which I've heard of but don't regularly use). The fifth result was this page, https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA09833406?l=en, which had a nice text table of contents.

How is it possible that Google, with its vast resources, isn't showing me this page for my search? Is it possible that it was missed in the crawl?

The only reason I tried DuckDuckGo in the first place was a hunch that for research, Google has actually gotten worse. It seems almost too clever for its own good. It can interpret natural language queries and I can use it to zero in on a celebrity's name I don't know just by typing a few related words—and yet when I want to use it to find a needle in a haystack, it's hit or miss.

Anyone else experience the same thing, or is this an n=1 situation?
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> In C++ the whole thing is that built-in types aren't special, including ints and operators. This is a deep concept in the design of the language.

Except it needs to interact with C, which significantly limits the extent of this unification.
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an amazon chip would be the last thing I would want to buy seeing how awful their tablets are....
Stories about Mims always attract comments that make it clear that his writing inspired many to learn electronics. But to give some balance to the starry eyed impression left by the article and many such comments I suggest looking into his Wikipedia page [1] or any other source that talks about his creationist and climate change denialist views and how they have lead to controversy in his life.

I would also strongly recommend against his books for beginners now because even simple projects should at least consider alternatives based on microcontrollers and there are now much better and more comprehensive books that cover the basics that Mims covered and more modern alternatives. I would recommend The Art of Electronics [2] (older editions can be bought affordably) which incorporates learn- from- real- world- bad- design wisdom, and which has a sense of humor utterly lacking in Mims' writing.

1 (with controversy section) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims

2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics
> no other explanation except that government and business are colluding against the people whose data is being leaked in order to normalize a lack of privacy

A bunch of different parties failed at a really hard thing, lots of times over many years, and some laws that are tough to write well haven't gotten written yet. Collusion most foul.

We need better laws with stricter fines, and the pressure has to come from the voters and from the subject-matter-experts, because you're absolutely right that it won't come from the corporations anytime soon.
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The founding fathers tarred and feathered '''officials''' for less than this! WTF happened? Jefferson was right!
My bad, it was Mosul, Iraq:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Fa_dd5yIA&t=4m15s
Main issue with immer is a lack of custom types support (like Record in immutable.js)
Lower probability of conviction can be addressed by increased severity of punishment upon conviction.
I think this is probably where this needs to go (prison time is interesting, but if we can't get it for financiers who profit off of crashing the economy, we'll never get it for ostensible negligence).

Establish standards for the value of stolen data. Something like the worst possible case. So for Equifax, which is potentially a gold mine for identity theft, fine them the average stolen identity cost (~$1300), for each of the 143 million records. 200 billion dollars (probably even 20 billion) seems it would be sufficient enough incentive to properly secure our data.

I also suspect we would need some kind of regular auditing, to ensure companies could afford a breach. Something like this would be a substantial drain on startups, as it would add another significant risk factor.

In the long run, what probably needs to happen is some kind of "data insurance", and we just expect that all companies working with our personal data carry it (or possibly even legislate that they carry it, similar to automobiles). It would make things easier for startups, who would pay much cheaper rates while their adoption was low, while also incentivizing them to limit their data collection to only what they needed.

Disclaimer: I work in the insurance industry, focused particularly on property insurance for disaster prone areas. Lately it feels like there are a lot of parallels between how personal data is stored these days, and Florida in the 90s.
The Boston's Children's hospital was attached once by anonymous. This podcast covers the story very well. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/14
weev wasn't put in jail because he accessed a public url structure in an unintended manner.

weev was put in jail because he wittingly conspired with others to steal AT&T customer data via a vulnerability on their website. In his correspondence with journalists and IRC logs surrounding the event he went out of his way to make abundantly clear that he was fully aware that this access was unauthorized.

At the time, weev himself described his actions as "theft".

You could sum a SQL injection attack down to "accessed a public url structure in an unintended manner", but that'd just be terribly dishonest.
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Seems odd that MS and G are the ones using special hardware, but only reach to 24 and 16 gbps respectively, while AWS hits 100 gbps networking. Is AWS already using specialized HW as well?
Nah, I think I just misread it, sorry.
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Amazon sell compute to the world. This is vertical integration and makes sense at a certain scale. That scale has to be massive, but they appear to have reached it. They may have chosen to execute sooner if they also plan to sell the chips to hardware vendors like Dell and the financials check out.
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I loved reading his Diaries.
It would not be incorporating ML into your app's code base directly but one way that I incorporate ML is to use it to analyze application performance data in hopes of learning how to improve it.

http://glennengstrand.info/software/architecture/msa/ml
>Mike Tyson said: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."

Mike Tyson actually said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
It's just lazy sexism. Some startups have a party culture and some folks conflate that with the "male problem". For my part I like to share the anecdotal evidence of a past company where our star beer-pong player was a female engineer.
As with all disinformation, eventually the truth is meaningless. In your example, eventually the wrong answers may gain credence as correct, and you’ll find yourself unable to “verify” your own birthday when you really need to! Still, I find the option of sowing disinformation a pragmatic and sensible decision in the face of relentless and dangerous incompetence without any accountability or consequence.
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> Unions can't force employers to not hire you if you're not a member

This is not the case. At least, it is allowed in States that have not passed legislation to that effect. Many (usually liberal) States have not done so, as it would weaken the power of unions.
Raw and revealing.

As I was reading the article, I started to wonder: is this the Holy Grail of everyone who wants to be disruptive, creative, productive, etc., when it comes to work with tech products?

IMHO, independently of "the hat that one might be wearing", this "Zen of Star-ups" is too much (unnecessary). Dozens of companies forcing this way of life (snacks, beer, parties, video-games, etc.), creating a "cool world", when in fact, it is not. There are investments and decisions affecting the direction of a product (which must be successful for the sake of everyone). There is no paradise in this scenario. This is too serious. Instead of all this "blablabla", why not just keep a serious and cooperative environment? The "Zen of Startup" is a trap (most of the time). Sounds like a lack of reality, which could be addressed by a simple set of values between employer and employees:

- honesty, cooperation, productivity, good compensations and missions

Throw away beers, snacks, spas, video-games, etc. These five things above, are solid enough for a sustainable work environment, and things doing great or not, there's no "Never Land" feeling (no illusion).

Someone has the money, and you might the have the skills that she/he wants. Period. K.I.S.S.
maybe instead of saying that you are 'raising money' say that you have sold part of your company to another company because they expect to get more money from you later
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This reads like an ad for a closed source messenger only available in a few countries. Have no idea how its related to bitcoin. Clicks perhaps?

I have plenty of criticisms for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general but some of the claims here are amazingly absurd.

Note to author: I have used a bitcoin wallet with no troubles in China, it has better uptime in the last decade than Amazon where you worked with "distributed computing systems", can your messenger app do the same?

> just imagine that the Great Firewall blocks Bitcoin packets for a week, creating a Chinese fork and non-Chinese fork. Then it unblocks. All of a sudden, the non-Chinese fork would disappear. The Bitcoins that went into your wallet six days ago would vanish

The fact that the author doesn't understand how wrong this is despite apparently studying Bitcoin as an AWS employee back in 2010 is scary.
As of 2016, there were 3 contractors for every 1 military personnel in Afghanistan, which is a titanic inversion from a few decades ago. Removing contractors would limit the availability of our military to fight in other engagements. We also get less recruits these days, in poorer condition. The states where we normally recruit the most soldiers has also had the highest incidents of accidents incurred during basic training, due in part to steadily dropping physical fitness rates in trainees.

We rely on contractors to buffer our ranks not just logistically but also politically. Due to a lack of reporting on contractors and their budgets, we don't know exactly how much we spend on our wars, nor how many people get killed (more contractors have died than U.S. personnel in past 2 wars). Our military may not be able to wage wars of tacit public approval without the use of contractors to hide the true cost.

Of course we will always contract for things the military isn't specialized in, such as manufacturing. But this isn't about manufacturing, it's about a logistical supply chain and service industry, in addition to [what appears to be] an approaching mercenary army. Without these services, the military would probably take years to build up the same specialization, and would have to use less money than the contractors use, with more volunteers.
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No, not like that. You have a delivery service for your credit reports, which can make outgoing connections as it pleases, that ensures every credit report it delivers is paid for. You invoke it from inside your network, sending it the credit report along with the transaction number. It looks up that transaction to figure out where it needs to deliver the credit report. It doesn't have access to read any of the raw data.

Won't be perfectly secure, but it diminishes a major area of risk.

(There are other architectures that will accomplish the same thing, the key is that if a machine can access the user databases, you should be drastically limiting what kind of outgoing connections it can make.)
Interesting. I found it discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18516584
Zoom doesn't use WebRTC (which the article is about). They use websockets to send media through the pipes and decode using a webgl shader or similar.

I don't work for Zoom, but do work in the WebRTC space and read an article about it recently.
As someone who has spent a lot of time both on learning electronics and understanding how to teach it, I would argue against this as bad advice.

The Art of Electronics is like a recipe book — it's a (whimsical, yes) set of reference designs to be referred to like templates for a design engineer. The Art of Electronics is not a well-suited recommendation for a beginner or novice.

Furthermore: I have spoken to Forrest Mims (disclosure: the discussions I have had with him were in the process of creating circuitclassics.com. That said, I have not met him personally.) The conclusion I came to was that his personal beliefs do not affect and have no bearing on his technical work.

(Broadly, I do not understand why this man is so hounded for his particular personal beliefs.)

It is true that hundreds of thousands of engineers launched their careers after being exposed to his books, that they are quite good at this, still relevant — and probably the only book on electronics to sell over 1M genuine (and many more untrackably via unauthorized reproduction etc.) copies.
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A union lobbies better for me than my employer.

No, a union typically lobbies for the interests of the union leaders.

Those interests may or may not coincide with yours.
One litmus test I use is too look around physically and/or on the org. chart and see where the majority of people are. That highlights the focus of the company. If there are 15 senior sales people and an entourage of sales support staff to each engineer, then it's clear that engineers are not particularly valued not will they be.
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At ThoughtWorks, TDD is the default way of starting things. Only if there are good reasons do devs deviate from it.
How do cookie laws remove user freedom?
because scabs

You just confirmed the comment to which you replied.
So a regulatory agency gets to decide which price increases are "valid" or not based on the fact the price increase followed a court ruling in favour of another regulatory agency which showed negligence by the company? Or does that also include civil tort cases showing negligence? What exactly is the deciding factor which proves a price increase is not "valid"?
I am incredibly skeptical about these kinds of claims.
A charged vacuum emboitment? Intriguing ... http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Charged_Vacuum_Emboitment
How does GDPR remove user freedom?
> Facebook, WhatsApp, FaceTime and Signal are just a few of the many ways that users can make audio and video calls across networks.

I find it interesting that they don't mention Hangouts, given that they're, well, Google Project Zero…
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In other words, the union went years without negotiating compensation for being on call. My nonunion companies over the years all did compensate.
I never knew that. A while back I was surprised to find out that Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist and pop-intellectual who was big in the late 60s and 70s was also a devout Catholic. McLuhan's ruminations into how the internet or what he called "peer to peer electronic media" would affect us socially are more insightful than anything anyone is saying today, though at the time it was largely a bunch of cryptic gobbledeygook, because at the time only naive techno-utopians had any real concept of the internet, and we're only able to predict the upsides.
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Sure, that sucks. This is why Madoff is in prison. There's no particular reason you shouldn't get just as fucked as everyone else who was invested, just because you took profits at a certain time though.