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it might be now (?) but I seem to recall a very similar story playing out at BHS only last year..
Would you like to write an auto router for PCB design using ML? A smart one that can indentify components, their properties and choose right connections between them? Have a fast signal going directly and some shitty LED with 10 vias. Or placing power parts with wide tracks and using thin ones for digital signals.
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Oh I was thinking of Visual Basic Excel macros, since VB is imperative.

I'd like to see a spreadsheet that uses something like Elixer or Clojure though because then any cells that don't have monads could be fully statically analyzed and form a purely declarative solution.

In other words, the cells could be decomposed further into cells containing individual functions instead of composed statements. That way the spreadsheet could be transpiled into lisp or a syntax tree. I'm using all these terms loosely, but they are equivalent.
Employee of mine did this to my Jeep Grand Cherokee while I lived in Canada. Of course not only did he not get the majestic slow-motion explosion of beautiful snow, he got the concrete barrier buried in snowbank for free. That was an expensive joy ride in the parking lot, years later I would still find damage related to that accident (Dana 44 cracked right down the middle...). Fortunately him and his gf were ok.
Meanwhile using ffmpeg's default settings it's 63k as h.264 and 45k as h.265.
Is the problem then the search for a solution that works 100% of the time? I don't see any solution not having a downside, except maybe a UBI, and that's, lets be honest, just way too expensive.

I think superannuation (or 401K in US parlance) with a means tested pension backstop is the most likely to be successful, simply because it removes this sort of shenanigans, and at scale becomes a really boring industry where shonksters are less likely to exist (NOTE: LESS not ZERO) but still has a social backstop for people that just don't ever get it.
Yes.

I'm very eager to get to the point where we have self driving cars, even though I'd be categorized as an enthusiastic driver (daily driver is a h-pattern 5-speed, racing experience including championship wins, etc.).

That said, if they were beta-testing in my neighborhood and actually hurt my kid or likely even a neighbors, they'd have a hard time keeping their cars running in the area.

"Move fast and break things" is only valid in a few limited contexts, and is particularly invalid in any potentially fatal context. I understand the need for realistic data, but, their industry has already killed someone beta testing (yes Uber. not Google, but...)
Obligatory: Don't take non-medical DNA tests.
> And so far there is zero HW accelerated HEIF implementations for the web.

You sure of that? Apple[1] and Qualcomm[2] might argue otherwise.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/513/

[2] https://techreport.com/news/34306/qualcomm-snapdragon-855-sp...
Taken further we find the problem of bottlenecked economic throughput or market participation due to the poor's access to capital. Markets thrive on distributed inputs to arrive at a consensus on value - the more participants participating, the more throughput of information being supplied to our markets. More participants is more information which allows healthier markets which provides more opportunities for growth.

So what's the cost of a loan or other financial products? Of course there's utility in providing upfront capital in exchange for time-spread payments and interest (buy the $200 boots today), but what of the macro-cost of decreased market participation for the duration of the payments? The loan payments with interest is money that could've been used by an individual participating in the market that is instead piped to the financing provider who, by definition, is already richer.

Given the rich, or a rich organization, has different buying habits and participation in the markets (different perspective = different information), how much economic flow, throughput, and growth are we losing from financial mechanisms which go from poor -> rich? In this sense wealth concentration is a problem of bottle-necking economic potential by depriving our markets of participants and diverse perspectives.
Andrew Ng's courses on Coursera (Machine Learning) are the best ones IMO. Gives you the introductions to the math behind and some practice.
yeah that little pointed stick incident on that island off the coast of india was a thing wasnt it ?
Yes, but don't go and write your business CRM web app in assembly, or in ones and zeros, or only in zeros.
we call this "gigil" in the philippines http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170714-an-untranslatable-...
Yeah that's what I noticed, used in marketing a lot. I was thinking we had some feeling we were being manipulated but I guess not.
Perhaps more importantly, data from the car becomes evidence, leading to public scrutiny of how the cars operate. And a court case could raise the question: "Are these cars being operated legally?"
To me, what your describing is a management deficiency. My first guess would be you lack highly skilled engineers at all levels of management in your company. This is a common oversight in tech companies to not consider that people at all levels of the company should be skilled in engineering. If this guess is wrong then the rest of the post doesn't apply.

If you were starting a chain of restaurants you wouldn't hire a manager that only knew of this vague idea of a thing called food and that people were willing to pay for it, but they do have excellent leadership skills. It would be totally silly to do so as there's a giant disconnect between the leadership and those producing the work. Also consider that in our restaurant even the HR team could identify 90% of the tools used by the chefs and understand how to use most of them.

It's important to take this same attitude with a tech company. If you're doing software engineering, can every other person in the company write a program? They don't have to be a programmer by trade, but can they do it if required? If that's not an expectation, why isn't it? You'd expect the software engineers to be able to fill out reports, spreadsheets, provide data metrics, understand the work place harassment polices, health care benefits, present in team meetings, etc... Many times engineers can even be expected to interact with end users/customers from time to time to assist in support or sales. So, they are expected to maintain a basic skills set to do jobs that have dedicated teams. Why not apply this in reverse to those teams and the leadership to require they have a basic knowledge of doing the work of the software engineer?

In general, engineers aren't going to integrate in to a culture or want to work for people who have zero relatable skills to them.
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One approach to try is to physically integrate engineering with the rest of the company. If there's engineers that work on sales tools, have them work next to the sales group.
Secondly get engineers more involved in other parts of the company. If marketing is having a team offsite, send an engineer that works on that tech with the team. Get engineers involved in business-related meetings where they can learn both the culture and customers.
If engineering is acting like a disorganized, isolated group in the company, it's often (in my experience) because management has created structures that keep them feeling isolated and without a sense of ownership/belonging. The later is important for feeling organized... if some engineers feel like things are too slow or too fast, it's probably because expectations are not well defined or understood. Signals are getting crossed somewhere before they get digested by engineers. Perhaps you need more experienced engineering managers who know how to best organize teams and can act to encourage the company's culture.
>Then the wealth can be distributed to everyone fairly.

Who determines what is fair?
Although I doubt it makes up for the harm from salt damage, heat can cause damage too.

Without UV constantly hitting your tires and interior, they last longer. Your electric water pump runs less/lasts longer. But that's all I can think of, but it's harder to measure the general impacts of ambient being, on average, 20C less.

I think we should just send every car from the NE down South once it's 6-8 years old to balance the wear. The rust process will largely stop.
As others have pointed out, that's escalating. It forces the other party to back down or escalate. It forces the conflict into the public eye and undoubtedly costs more in bad publicity than damage to cars.
Torvalds is a Swedish name (Linus Torvalds is from a Swedish Finn family) and it seems to originate as the genitive (possessive) of the name Torvald

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Torvald

I think this use of the genitive is a form of patronymic, like if someone named Torvald had a son named Einar, maybe that person could be called "Einar Torvalds" (that is, Torvald's Einar).

So it should probably have a Swedish plural

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_grammar#Plural_forms

I'm not sure which declension it should belong to as a name (and I'll ask a friend to speculate), but the possibilities there seem to be Torvaldsor, Torvaldser, and Torvaldsar.

There are no Latin plurals in -i when the nominative form doesn't end in -us or -um. If you make a Latin plural of Torvalds, it would probably be third declension and something like Torvaldes (compare urbs 'city', urbes 'cities'), unless the consonants change in the oblique cases.
LOL! WTH is GQ/JP btw?
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So luckily I've made great connections throughout the years and have basically moved from job to job without having a real interview.

I recently did a few real interviews just for the fun of it and realized how far I was behind in my CS fundamentals. I excel at my specific domains/languages I use but don't necessarily practice CS fundamentals at all in my day to day.

I picked up Cracking the Coding interview to try and brush up on my skills but have realized that I am way behind in the math department. The first few pages threw me for a loop so bad that I haven't picked it back up.

All the online courses all seem to assume you have the math skills already down and do not go into what/how/why.

I beg of you HN, where should I go to learn the prerequisite math for pursuing a more CS fundamental skill? (For clarity the type of questions I failed in my interviews were around datastructures/design (ie: LRU Cache), Graph Problems, Memory/Time complexity).

Thanks! <3
There is a late chapter where the author has a full throated call for what sounds like community socialism as practiced by Jesus and in my opinion the book is worse for it but the excerpts from the interviews he did in the latest editions and separate book make up for it, also I appreciated the alternative sides that were fighting on all sorts of political issues that lost even if they are seen as biased because the it's natural for either side in a conflict - it's interesting because I'm old enough to have been taught the Columbus and Pilgrams as beneficient travelers tale even up to high school, and the native American experience/side is pretty inadequately covered by most all media.
OP's hypothesis isn't even falsifiable. It's just an idea.
Some more macOS window managers, all free and opensource:

Spectacle, Slate, Phoenix (similar to Slate)

And by far my personal favorite:

Mjolnir which is extensible in Lua! Also, Hammerspoon its
continuation.

[1] https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

[2] https://github.com/jigish/slate

[3] https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix

[4] https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir/

[5] https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
How did you find that SMU program? I was debating that and a similar program at UC Berkeley.
Some of the social issues are difficult to address without extensive insider knowledge of your particular company and culture. Some easy outsider advice though is the 'Joel test'. Written in 2000, its a bit out of date, but there are more modern versions of it floating around the internet (such as the one that follows). Basically it is a checklist for a good development environment. In my experience it is fine to miss one or two of these, and some are n/a based on what you are building. But if you find you are missing of half-assing a lot of these, seemingly unrelated employee satisfaction issues will start to pop up.

1. Are all builds handled automatically by a Continuous Integration server?

2. Do you make and use daily builds?

3. Do you use an issue tracker?

4. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?

5. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?

6. Do you have up to date information on your products performance and usage?

7. Do you use the best tools money can buy?

8. Do you have a comprehensive test plan?

9. Do you have dedicated UI and UX designers?

10. Does all code go through code review?

11. Do you have coding standards?

12. Are new employees given training?

13. Can you download the code base and run it in one step?

14. Do engineers have the strongest say in their time estimates?

15. Do engineers choose the tools and architecture for what they are building?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying to do a bit better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
yup there is its a good side gig, im a softie tho, so i take it easy on markup and billing...im barter friendly , as out here things and materials are nearly good as cash.
not every comment is meant to persuade or attack. sometimes it's just discussion. mine was a lament and a commiseration.

i grew up in both the evangelical and catholic traditions. there were some great people, but the hypocrisy of the many was unbearable.
Breed the two of them to bite you whenever you move.
As a non-engineering manager, the only way you probably have of affecting the engineering group is to voice your concerns to your own management chain (including the CEO, if you're close enough to them), emphasizing how these problems limit the company's revenue and growth potential.
Look, if you're in that sort of climate, just build a rig and start mining coin, and you'll get paid for heating your place! Can't beat that.
If you can run tb workloads across a gpu cluster at 90% saturation you can work in ML.
Or they just bite all the time.
I would say yes, because the developers would find something equally inane to spend money on.

Perhaps a more relevant example: Look at the bottled water industry. Even if all our creature comforts are provided for free, someone will pay for a "premium" version.
Well no, because if you regularly snack on immature prey you risk a future shortage of adult prey that can feed you for longer when the seasons change. In agriculture harvesting of livestock aims to balance supply and demand as consistently as possible, while in nature population sizes tend to demonstrate chaotic/hysterical behavior as a function of species' maturity cycles.
Anecdotally, my Tesla 3 costs the same to insure as my 2006 G35.

Just looked it up it’s $899 for the G35 and $913 per year for the Tesla.

It helps to not have had an accident or a ticket in over 10 years.
This isn’t unlike..”these are tears of joy. I am SO happy that I am shedding tears”. Same phenomenon.

The one about ‘tears of joy’ is something I chased down the rabbit hole. It has to do with lachrimal glands which are basically our tear ducts. Turns out each ‘type’ of tears has an unique signature. And it’s prettt distinct and recognizable under a microscope.

They are connected to fight/flight impulse ..our adrenals..cortisol levels or stress situation. One can cry from relief post-stress or from sadness or from joy. Or from pain after stubbing a toe or cutting oneself. And they are all different.

More here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-microscopi...

So..I want to say that this expression of seeming violence after seeing something cute can be traced back to the same pathways.
Yes. Editorializing like that breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That led a bunch of users to correctly flag this post, which meant that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794382 made the front page even if it was posted later.

We've moved most of the comments from this thread into that one.
It's silly to say that idea for React comes from Feed.

React/CSS in JS comes from the desire to code UI from one level above.

And the primary motivation for doing so is to be able to rapidly change UI but why do we need such rapid/sweeping/cascading changes we need in first place?

Think twice. No it's not move fast and break thing. It's for move fast and break adblockers.

Yes, my friends fb's primary motivation for creating React was to defy adblockers.
Auto routers already exist and I always route my own PCBs. I am pretty sure the tool vendors are considering or already building up AI expertise to level up their Auto routers. I keep hearing at least in Altium they have come a long way. Gotto try it one of these days.
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For something on the scale of the USPS fleet, economies of scale would come into play. If such vehicles were very highly modular, all of the modules could be removed and placed into another frame and the old one recycled. (Come to think of it, this is also somewhat done with Abrams M1 tanks.)
A local village for local cars :-)
We used Neo4j in a prototype rebuild of our primary application for about a month before switching back to MySQL. In that time it crashed and lost all of our data several times. We found it untenable.

My faith in it was soured at that point. That said, this was probably 5ish years ago now, so I cannot speak to how much it's stabilized since then.
Yes! We had the luxury of being able to visit it several times, since it was an in-state move.

But none of our visits happened midnight or early morning where the issue is most apparent.
Nothing terrible about the website, in my opinion. It gets the job done without getting in your way. And you can always improve based on experience and feedback.

Things I noticed right a way:

- The logo and the title font. There's nothing wrong about them, but they don't reflect much about the application
- Scrolling, there are a few elements that appear over the header bar
> Disclaimer: Amazon doesn't have a bug bounty program and didn't offer anything other than thanks and gratefulness for bringing the vulnerability to their attention. Blizzard Entertainment (as the copyright holder for the book I was testing with) has also been notified of this vulnerability and has offered a small gift but never fulfilled that promise.

I'm not surprised Amazon would pay with nothing more than a nice email. What's more surprising is that Blizzard would give the author the shaft like that. They're usually pretty good about this sort of thing.
I wish I could answer. That's a better question for someone from Tesla.
SVMs have convex objective functions, but when people use SVMs, they are using some kind of features + SVMs on top. The success of the approach is both good features, and waiting long enough for the optimizer to converge.

With DNNs, people learn everything (features + decision boundary), and this problem is not convex. Surprisingly DNNs work quite well in practice even though we were taught to be afraid of non-convex problems in grad school around 2005.

If back in early 2000s, we stopped worrying about theoretical issues and explored more approaches like ConvNets, we might have had the deep learning revolution 10 years earlier.
Yup. Things are increasingly connected to network. Including legacy codebases.

Also when you have larger teams and more people touching the code, C can really shoot at your feet and elsewhere. From new and surprising angles.
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I don't think Uber means what you mean by the word employee, just like the case recently all over reddit where TomTom stopped "lifetime" updates to a two year old GPS unit.
Can’t forget Oracle either!
Here you go: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
Because they were against technology.
An aluminum car is kinda like a gold car: Higher up-front cost, but higher resale value when it goes to the crusher.

We're short-sighted to require cars to show MPG before purchase. They should all require a spreadsheet showing Total Cost of Ownership dependent on expected annual highway/city mileage as input.

What's gas cost? How much extra is the hybrid? What's the scrap value?

Though I guess you can lookup insurance rates to figure out the scrap value (some cars are worth more parted-out than running).
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Exotic file formats, like exotic JavaScript language constructs, tend to perform poorly because they are not optimisation targets. And they are not optimisation targets because - obviously - no-one uses them. To my knowledge there is no particular intrinsic reason that JPEG-XR decoding cannot be moved off-thread.

The solution to this problem is to start using these new technologies, so the browser vendors can prioritise work to make them performant. It is not to write articles that entrench that neglect and tie us to flawed, ancient technologies from the 1990s.

It gets worse. If there's one kind of meme that survives a long time in the development world, it's performance memes. Rumours about poor perf invariably end up haunting technologies with FUD long after any issues have ceased to be relevant.
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I see that your point is more focused on the financial side, which I don't have a lot of experience to evaluate.

> Whatever the "primary purpose" of that Wealth might be, the fact remains that (at MIT) that Wealth has grown 1,500% over the last 25 years, while the operating budget has grown ~250%. I believe that is somewhat noteworthy, and I could not avoid noticing how critical the Education-Charity tax-shield was to this compound growth.

This is noteworthy, but is it really out of line? You're comparing apples (Wealth) to Oragnes (Operational Expenses). From a strict financial perspective, the standard advice to ensure an endowment or lump sum lasts is a 4% withdrawal rate. At a 4% rate, a 1500% increase in wealth would result in a 60% increase monies available to spend operationally. 250% is much higher than that, although not all of the operational increase comes from the endowment.

Is there an accepted rate of expenditure that endowments should target? Is MIT meeting or exceeding that?
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IT's the 'misuse'of tech. Sure, we can optimize for efficiency if efficiency is defined by minimizing cost or maximizing safety. But in a world of humans, efficiency should be defined by 'maximizing human utility'. In other words, use tech to make people better, more employable, happier. And no I do not mean borg. If we continue down this path, ultimately we will marginalize humanity because our systems are far more efficient than the evolutionary process that spawned and selected us. in the specific example of 'self driving vehicles' an analogy might be to have an AI supervisor issuing directives. Much as our GPS issues turn directions, an advanced AI could be pointing out traffic hazards hundreds of feet away that many people who are distracted, texting, talking or just have poor vision would miss. OTOH, we have the resilience of millenia on our resume, whereas machines are scarcely 200 years old. If a cataclysm hits the planet, much of the static infrastructure will fail.
Ya, I think early-mid 2000s are the sweet spot for cars:

The OBD port will tell you everything that went wrong, no SatNav and knobs/buttons everywhere.