skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about all the existing cars on the road? What about manual cars that can be push started? Who installs and certifies these, they need calibrated frequently, they are extremely simple to bypass for anyone with even basic vehicle knowledge.
It doesn't matter. It will look the same.
I have to agree with grandparent. You can't scale down international infrastructure like this. The cost per sale for someone managing a store for you has a certain minimum cost per month plus an amount per sale and per return.

Of course they're going to hype the big games. It's opportunity cost. Advertisement leads to sales, but feeding a hype train gets you more. If they stop advertising the hot new game to showcase yours then that person is not getting promoted. The guy who had no problems ignoring your game gets promoted and now everybody answers to them.

Is it awesome? No. Do I like it? Not really. But it's rational, and getting large companies to be rational is often better than you can expect.
Well, Chinese characters can be used to represent foreign sounds.

Would you call asking English speakers to write exclusively using Chinese characters to be an adequate form of writing? It would hardly be useful except to specialists.

Romanization is taught to all students in China and HK during primary school but they move on to using characters within 1 year. I have never seen a fully romanized text in Chinese outside of educational materials.
Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why
That's an asinine statement.

We aren't bacteria. We don't have to behave like bacteria, irregardless of one's relationship to authoritarianism or social conformity.

And we should not forgive, let alone celebrate, people who do behave like bacteria.
How do you account for the fact that when accounting for inflation, a lot of the country hadn't seen a wage increase since the 70's[1]? The cost of essential goods has gone up. A lot of people are seriously on the edge and aren't spending on useless consumption.

I think what you have are people trying to survive, and another subset of people who are surviving perfectly fine and are comfortable but have become rampant consumers due to advertising. I know engineers in the latter circumstance.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...
I don't know why you're being voted down -- perhaps people think you're trolling.

Assuming you're naive, here's an example from today's paper: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/childbirth-injury...

More generally: why have more than one representative at all? Because every person has a slightly different perspective based on where they're from. The wider the variety of opinions (at least to the degree they reflect the diversity of opinions -- urban/agricultural/wilderness; male, female; different levels of education and background; etc) -- the more useful the result.
Any tips for people from SEA to work as software engineer in SV/SF? I just graduated from private university in my country always dreaming about founding my own startups but I also want to try to working in startup in SV/SF even if just as an intern
Why would you ever need to use a VPN while in china accessing their owned services? That's great for china from an infosec perspective though.

Now they know your VPN exit IPs, and if you re-use the pattern/pin of the phone to lock the wallet, they will know that too.
Vanishingly rare... 12.3%?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

If 12% of your people are living in poverty as defined by your government then there may be something systematically wrong.
My thoughts as well. How could Apple's search so bad? If it indeed brings billions a year, why wouldn't they spend that money to improve the functionality of this revenue powerhouse?

Apple tax should be stopped, people are paying penalty to use their sub par software, this is as ridiculous as it gets.
This is a whole professional discipline and should be left as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_counseling
Stripe is only business-side.

As a customer, I don't want to punch my CC info into every website. Netflix can get away with it because they're a ubiquitous household staple.

But for almost every other service, being able to manage recurring payments from the app store interface is a big deal to me. Recurring charges are a nightmare otherwise. Being able to integrate with the app store is why I was willing to subscribe to most other apps at all.
Netflix subscriptions are cheaper by 20% when retailers discount Apple iTunes gift cards 20%.
The words engineer and engineering connote high intellect, professionalism and most importantly "gravitas". So, it's not a surprise that software developers/coders/programmers (usually a snubbed crowd) love being called engineers.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted.

>Bankruptcies resulting from unpaid medical bills will affect nearly 2 million people this year—making health care the No. 1 cause of such filings, and outpacing bankruptcies due to credit-card bills or unpaid mortgages, according to new data.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148
Most of us didn't wind up in IT by random accident though: the prudent behavior of our parents fostered an appreciation of a value system that ultimately leads to life comfort, including the discipline to forego short-term pleasure in order to obtain it. These are educable elements that COULD be instilled in schools if teachers weren't hamstrung by administrators, politicians, and parents allowed to second guess their every move.
Google curates the web via search and via chrome with malicious page warnings.

Not 100% reliable, but they do effectively curate.
The average person might not be an expert, but they should know what their monthly payment is versus their take home pay.

Even knowing this plenty of people put themselves in precarious financial situations when buying a home.
You don't have to get your credit card out and hop to another website. Just download app, pick plan, and touch ID. Done.
Gobble (YC W14) Is Hiring Engineers in Toronto and Multiple Roles in SF
Happy (almost) New Year World!

Gobble (http://gobble.com) is on a tear and we need more exceptional talent to help smash our goals for 2019. We're a full stack food company with over $30M+ in funding from A16Z, Khosla Ventures, Initialized Capital, YC, and others.

Gobble is a meal prep company that makes cooking easy for busy people. Gobble's breakout product is the 15-minute one pan dinner kit. Internally, Gobble rapidly invents, sources, manufactures and delivers custom prepped meals via a fully integrated and agile national supply chain.

Here are our current openings:

- Senior Full Stack Engineers (RoR, Toronto Office)

- Senior Product Manager

- Lead Graphic Designer

- FP&A Data Analyst (2)

- Digital Paid Marketing Manager

- Social Media Manager

- Head of Email Lifecycle Marketing (Manager to Director level)

- Head of Business Analytics (Manager to Director level)

- Head of Procurement (Heavy experience working with co-packers and food sourcing)

- VP Customer Success

Recent Press:

- CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/08/09/walmart-gobble-meal-kit-food-ecommerce-alexis-ohanian-ooshma-garg.html

- Fortune: http://fortune.com/2018/08/06/walmart-meal-kit-gobble/

- Now This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N525t3kID_A

- YC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A21qyXsAfME

If you have the chops, please send your resume (and/or links to LI or github) with a brief intro about yourself to hiring@gobble.com.
I've experimented with those ESP32 chips from a few sources on a handful of boards (lots of cheapo knockoffs floating around) and haven't been happy with the performance or reliability of any of them for BLE.
So far Nordic nRF52 holds the lead in my experience (they do cost a bit more though).
I'm the first author of the relevant study [1] (open-access) so I'm biased to think this is cool. The unconformity certainly isn't everywhere (in some places there is no missing crust or time at all), but it can be found on just about every continent, and there has been surprisingly little previous quantification of this. Happy to answer any questions if anyone's interested.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/12/26/1804350116
LE cannot die, much like Wikipedia. Google et al would buy them before that happens.
Animals in the wild are generally unable to plan ahead and let fruit ripen optimally since if demand is high enough, the only result will be another animal coming along to eat it first.

Also, it's well known that predators prey not just on old and sick individuals but also the young. Predators don't plan ahead, they eat whatever is available and accessible.
The Chinese scientist who allegedly created CRISPR babies is being detained
But you could GET to upper middle class though, and then your children or their children might have a shot at wealth from that higher starting point. Seeing the next generation do better is an amazing incentive.
Looking at the opinion there's more than the university could have done in order to remedy the situation aside from block YikYak. That's where their failure lies. It doesn't seem like blocking YikYak would have been a must or required. I hope schools don't use this as a reason to make that kind of thing the first response taken.
Well the legal definition of harassment requires systemic or persistence to qualify outside of separate circumstances. If If someone were to heckle or catcall you outside of a bar or in a movie theater once that isn't harassment. Following you down the street persistently and heckling or cat calling after you told them get lost or organizing a different person to heckle you every day would qualify as harassment.

A coworker, boss, or anyone in a privileged position like a doctor or police officer sexually harassing you once is unacceptable legally.
The wording plainly states the lashing out itself is justifiable. That's very different from saying that being upset is justifiable.
You're absolutely right.

And I forgot to thank you for the insight you gave me with your previous post:

> What management thinks is irrelevant to morale.
> What the engineers believe management thinks is relevant.

Maybe we should focus on listening more to the engineers, instead of focusing on sending the right messages.

Might seem obvious to anyone outside, but sometimes we need to be reminded of those things. Thanks.
Project Cybersyn (1971-1973)
do you have by any chance, some numbers of the website size (js + images) that make it slow on Kobo?
> Having more than a single valid form of an address again only serves to confuse.

That's not fair. Features like this obviously have a purpose. (It makes a whole lot of IPv6 addresses a whole lot shorter to type!). You may not like it or use it or think that the complexity tradeoff was worth it, and that's a reasonable position to take, but it's not fair to say that the other perspective serves no purpose.
> The [BGP hijacking] solution we intend to deploy in 2019 is multi-perspective validation, in which we will check from multiple network perspectives (distinct Autonomous Systems).

This is really exciting. The CloudFlare BGP hijack and subsequent attack of myetherwallet.com could have been much more successful if they had also been able to get a valid certificate. Having this multi perspective feature would make it even harder to get a valid cert during a BGP hack. Of course those falsely attained certs would still be logged publicly in a certificate transparency log- but better the cert never gets created to start with.

> We had planned to add ECDSA root and intermediate certificates in 2018 but other priorities ultimately took precedence.

I was particularly looking forward to ECDSA. Not for any real reasons other then I want to try it out. I currently have their 4096 bit RSA cert on a raspberry pi and the SSL negotiation is particularly slow according to Newrelic. Im curious to see how EDSA performs on a raspberry pi.
If you’ve recently become homeless, it’s very likely you still have an iPhone (and you better hold onto it).
> Apple offers discovery, billing, and distribution

In the context of Netflix, I'm not sure that they're actually getting any value from any of those things from Apple, since they already have well-established pretty much everything in that area.

I mean, sure, maybe someone had never heard of Netflix until they saw it in the app store, but I'm going to guess that number of people is well below even a blip in Netflix's revenue (especially given the universal 30% cut). Likewise, Netflix is pumping more bits around the internet than most other companies; distributing apps is only a benefit for them because they literally don't have an alternative option for iOS.

For other, smaller companies, I would agree that it is non-zero, and I would also argue that 30% is way too much.
Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center
I bought a set of Lowa Renegade boots 1.5y ago: https://www.lowaboots.com/mens/hiking/renegade-gtx-mid-sepia...

Originally for hiking, but they have also seen daily service as winter boots. Been very pleased with them for both purposes, and they're still as good as new. (As a student, this was a pretty big investment for me, but I'd definitely do it again!)
I think mass production really screws with it. Vimes was writing from the perspective of a pre-industrial society. Everything is handmade, and something cheap has to have less effort put into it.

With mass production in factories, so much of the effort is front-loaded in R&D and production equipment which gets shared among all the output. Those cheap Walmart boots have far more effort put into them than your custom ones. The only reason they’re worse is because a lot of that effort was put into making them cheap rather than making them good. But it’s a conscious tradeoff and nothing forces it to be anything like proportional. Quality largely depends on those front-loaded costs which require a lot of customers to justify. The best products will necessarily be ones that are fairly popular, although not necessarily the most populr.

This is most visible in electronics. You can pay for quality up to a point, but there’s a low ceiling. Pick the best cell phone you can buy for under, say, $2,000. How much would it cost to buy something even better? You might be able to do it for less than a billion dollars, but I kind of doubt it.

The idea still applies, but a lot of it comes down to buying in bulk. A person who can afford to buy a year’s supply of toilet paper will save money. And yes, the ceiling on that is still not particularly high.
> The phenomenon of professionalization has probably made computing less of an intellectual activity, and more of a routine business. Is that what your perception is?

Not just computing. Compared to my childhood in the 60s/70s (I'm gen X, though my early childhood was not in the US), life is highly professionalized. Sport used to be played by everyone, now even school kids specialize and have fancy training. Music is less ad hoc though admittedly that had become a factory product by the 60s.

And it was easier to tinker. Nowadays people talk of "building" a PC when they are just gluing together lego blocks. That is great in that it opens up the opportunity for many more people to program, but at a cost of hardware tinkering. It used to be obvious by looking at a car motor what was going on. Now they are boring.

When video games were starting they were a gateway to programming for lots of kids. Now they are part of an ecosystem of toys that play with the kids (rather than the kids playing with them) and are generally part of an integrated marketing ecosystem ("franchise") that has characters and storylines that integrate film, video, toys...where is open ended imagination? Fandom is more consumption of someone else's thinking now than it used to be.

I know, sounds like a curmudgeon's lament.

> It doesn't help that the signal-to-noise ratio is now much lower.

I am not sure that's true. There's a survivorship bias in that we still read the work of the greats, while most of the crud is lost. I recently tossed out several shelves worth of old CS papers from the 60s-80s that I knew I'd never look at again. Dead end CPU designs, absurd (in retrospect) claims, all sorts of crud.

There is lots of fabulous thinking from the ancient Greeks, but what's survived is an infinitesimal portion of what was produced...I assume none or hardly any of what perished was worth re-reading.
If I had to guess, it's probably related to Chrome marking HTTP sites as "Not Secure" in July 2018. A lot of sites were probably scrambling to get certificates before Chrome 68 was released.

https://www.neowin.net/news/chrome-68-will-mark-http-website...
A few others that are similar:

- fibonacci sequence to n (ooh, look, isn't recursion pretty)
- parallel map (simple demonstration of parallelism in languages that allow it)

[slightly more involved, webapp hello worlds]
- basic blog (various MVC web frameworks, normally along lines of if I run commands x, y and z I get models, views and controllers and it all works)
- basic todo application (various frontend frameworks)
- basic chat application (as a realtime demonstration, generally for websockets)
Dr. Oz is very much a medical doctor.

Oz has been a professor at the Department of Surgery at Columbia University since 2001. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. His research interests include heart valve replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and health care policy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz
Netflix only needs apple for distribution because apple has locked down the system so much that you are forced to go through them. Apple has added very little value and we had better systems before where you could just visit a URL and view content without needing Microsoft for distribution.
At the end of next year I want my average daily number of steps to be no less than 8 thousand.
I see. So HN's subculture is really about universal salvation. I guess I'll just continue working on my paperclip optimizing AI.
And anyone who meets the requirements to get into GT and is a resident of GA, would also meet the requirements of the GA HOPE scholarship and wouldn’t pay tuition at all.
Even brake pads will last longer due to regen braking. A mechanic told me just today he's seeing Priuses in his shop at 80-100k with original pads.
Cards Against Humanity APP
Its a pwa game for cards against humanity , when you are bored or even offline you can play the game by yourself :)
https://github.com/Ketcap/Cards-vs-Humans
https://cards-vs-humans.netlify.com/
This might just be the most ridiculous article title ever published on AI.

Happy new year!
I haven't solved this for video games, youtube, etc. I'd be interested in a solution!

For disposable income purchases, we budgeted out income, necessary expenses, savings, travel, etc., everything that requires long-term planning. The surplus (a fairly small portion) we then divided out into a per-person, per-day allowance.

I use a simple Google Form to record discretionary purchases, tracking the results in a Sheet, to account for whether this discretionary budget has a positive balance.

This has the nice effect of translating dollar values into time values, and giving a reference point for trading off the relative hedonic value of small frequent purchases vs. large infrequent purchases.
Something has been seriously wrong with the U.S. savings rate over the last 3-4 decades: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

You would see by the graph that maybe we started to learn something after the 2008 meltdown, but nope - trend reverses again in 2012 or so.
Yeah, the model isn't "hiding data from its overlords", it's just a classic overfit.
Because they don't have to. It may not meet the legal definition of a monopoly but a monopoly it is.
> It could help develop accountability and best engineering practices.

Have you ever read books about that? There are multiple layers of awful ideas about software engineering, touted as best practice. It's a cesspit of idiocy. Too many morons are going around trying to say things about engineering practices for it to be possible to make a useful accreditation.

It would also end up being a negative hiring signal, like existing certifications and Master's degrees.
But who would read an article with the title "We wrote a bug"? No clickbait.
You seem painfully unaware that separating "just so stories" from worthy, testable hypotheses is actually a significant part of the process of coming up with a theory in evolutionary biology.
Yes, a lot of innovation had to occur to make the GraphBLAS linear algebra model practical, which has been in the works for more than 10 years. It began with Jeremy Kepner and John Gilbert's work formalizing the linear algebra model over semi-rings [1]. And then working with Intel, IBM, Nvidia and the other hardware vendors to define and implement a standard set of hardware primitives. But you could really see the stars align a few years ago then when the deep-learning ML wave hit because it paved the way with a surge in demand for GPU/TPU accelerators in the data center. A lot of things had to happen in to make this all come together. It's been an industry-wide effort.

[1] Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra, by Jeremy Kepner and John Gilbert
https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9780898719918
It doesn't have to suck nearly as badly as it does today with LLVM-based toolchains, including Rust's. With C and C++, GCC does a much better job of maintaining accurate DWARF information with performance at least as good as Clang. (And optimized code certainly shouldn't be "jumping around erratically," simply because that results in poor performance on modern CPUs with multi-cycle instruction pipelines and imperfect branch predictors.)

A variable doesn't have to be in a single register throughout an entire function, or even present in registers / memory at all! DWARF is capable of representing storage locations that change over the course of a subroutine, as well as synthesizing values from other registers/memory, simple operations, and constants. Compilers can do a lot better (although certainly not 100%) than they do today without sacrificing any of the optimizations they make, and especially Clang/LLVM have a lot of room for improvement.

I highly recommend this blog post on the subject: https://backtrace.io/blog/engineering/compile-once-debug-twi...
I've been wondering for a while if vertical solar panels on the sides of buildings might make sense. Today (for no reason that I know of) I started wondering if might even make sense to put panels on parts of a building that don't directly face the sun at all.

That's what lead me to this particular article, which examines the efficiency of putting panels on north facing roofs.

I explored the vertical panel idea in a blog post last year: http://curtisb.posthaven.com/the-solar-garage-door. I don't know if that idea would work, but I was trying to imagine an application of the idea so absurdly simple that a startup could easily use it to bootstrap into a more lucrative market.
Getting a free wildcard from them has made my whole setup so much nicer and more dynamic. I absolutely love it.
"Overfitting" would be a little more specific. Basically the task was easier to accomplish by memorizing the data than by generalizing.

This was pretty clear from the original CycleGAN paper[0] (figure 4; bottom row) since it was generating trees in the exact positions of the source image where the map had no indication of tree placement.

0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593v1.pdf
We're basically out of acronyms. I clicked on this thinking looking for details on high bandwidth router configuration protocols.
What about Antirez? I guess no one knew him back in 2000...
I once hired a lawyer who turned out to be a right cowboy!
Yes - it's a error in the set up of the experiment.
The AI worked within given constraints and came up with the closest solution.
It never should've had the opportunity to do what it did.