skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real breakthrough on some of these probes to other planets isn't so much how they move around, but the growing possibility of self-directed action. Mars is between 3 light minutes and 22 light minutes away. Every command takes at least that long to reach a probe on Mars, then the same amount of time for NASA to be told "Yes, I heard you and did that".

The Curiosity rover has been on Mars for 6 years. It can travel 90m/hour. Theoretically, it could have moved 3,400km by now- that's more than once around the equator of Mars. It's managed almost 20km. While I'm sure there was much to pause and study, I cannot fathom that it could not have done more in it's time were it not constantly waiting for commands.

Saturn is, at closest approach, more than 1 light hour away.

I feel as though there's a real need to put a generic computer system that can be reprogrammed after launch into orbit around whatever planet we're studying. Give it higher-level commands of what we want to see happen, and send us back the highlight reel.
I replied mentioning their correct pronouns and my post got flagged. Hacker News retains its reputation as one of the more bigoted communities on the internet.
So if there was some article about Donald Trump it would strip all or most of the sentences?
I do both, and I’m not actually super awesome at either. It turns out to be less important than many think. My design work is professional, but isn’t going to win any awards. My dev skills are pretty good within the context of WordPress - there isn’t much I haven’t done on that platform. But I’m pretty sure I’d be laughed out of the room at a Google or FB. I was a senior engineer at a BigCo but my role there was more leadership and PM than coding.
There's really no need to screen for liars. Generally speaking, I'll try to ascertain how the candidate represents the skills on their resume. Some represent their skills well and can describe in detail their approach to solving a problem or some such. From there, it's not hard to assess things like passion, determination, etc.

Usually, I'm just looking for one thing the candidate does well. There's really not much room for lying and if they claim to have some crucial skill and then I discover after the fact that they don't, that's grounds for dismissal.
Interesting -- I wonder how this would work for sharing on social networks, given that they often recompress images. You could also hide the data in a proprietary PNG metadata chunk, but this also might not survive recompression.
I’m guessing they mean they’re oftentimes from seeds.
How hard would it be to implement varying resolution across the monitor with this approach, e.g. to combine with an eye-tracker to ensure that only the parts that the user looks at, are rendered in full resolution?
I see your point. From my perspective however it is akin to insisting that foot == human.
Linux CLI Launcher Transforms Your Home Screen into a Terminal
Sorry I only worked in Austin (and not at IBM) -- I have no idea :(. I ran into some IBMers that were young and excited at a JS conference over 3 years ago.
"Which is stupid of course, but I assume that the cost-cutting guys are not aware / willfully ignorant of the pitfalls"

Or maybe they know something you don't?

A sensor(s) that is too expensive to deploy saves no one. A cheap sensor(s)/model that is not as reliable as an expensive one, but is cheap enough to deploy might save a lot of people, even if it occasionally kills a few.

A 100,000$ sensor will save 10 person / year and kill 1 person (hint, only the wealthy will have this one).
A 10,000 sensor will save 100 people / year and kill 100 people (hint, only the 3% will have this one).
A 1,000 dollar will save 25,000 / year and kill 10000 people (hint, everyone will have this one).

The cheap sensor wins in aggregate even if it's not perfect.
'Buzzfeed News' are completely unreliable, why are they being posted here?
I’ve only been to Ohio once and had a pretty bad time. Took a road trip to OSU. Got pulled over DWB. At the time I chalked it up to racist LEOs and kept it moving; a one time incident. But everything I see about Ohio since then informs my opinion that it’s not just the LEOs, it’s systemic. And as a POC it’s a state I actively avoid, just like Missouri and Mississippi.
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Cheers
After reading "I Am A Strange Loop" several years ago, I got on an ouroboros joke kick. I wrote one about John Searle. I'm posting it it here because so far, underneath this pdf is the only place it has ever seemed apropos.

What did the ouroboros say to John Searle?

"Let me out of here, you know I can't speak chinese!"
Ever heard of the combine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine
In Singapore, at least while I was living there, Grab taxi was used to hail actual taxis. Think traditional taxi company, but happens to have a mobile app that (mostly) works well. I guess now that they bought up Uber’s operations it’s a mixture of traditional and Uber style freelancers.
I disagree that ESR's HTAQTSW is condescending. The fact that people, over years of time, have written and updated that guide for the benefit of others is the opposite of condescending. IMO calling it condescending is tantamount to violating rule #7 from this guide.

And I disagree that "RTFM" is a useless answer. When it's correct, it's the most useful answer one can get. To put it another way, it's only useless if one refuses to accept it--which is, again, like violating rule #7.

There might be a place for an abridged version of HTAQTSW, but I don't think this is it, because it doesn't improve upon it, and it denigrates it.
I agree with the back of the napkin math -- but remember, it isn't 1.3% added to the city's population, it's 1.3% added to the part of the city's population that is looking to move, mostly in the past decade, with a focus (in Amazon's case) on living near downtown. It's proportionally much larger, and they're coming in at the higher end of the income strata.

Add that again, but for Microsoft, and then the ecosystem of SIs / ISVs / startups around it, and suddenly you have Seattle's housing crisis.
The last sentence seems to sum up nicely my viewpoint on Searle's Chinese Room:

> For all I know, Searle may only be behaving as if he were thinking deeply about these matters. But, even though I disagree with him, his simulation is pretty good, so I’m willing to credit him with real thought.
You edited said comment in a way that breaks the rules in multiple ways, and then are surprised it got flagged?

The original comment was fine.
Ah I didn't mean to imply that Strongloop was in Austin -- didn't know that Strongloop was in SV though, but I guess that makes sense.

I would think IBM has excellent golden handcuffs, not to speak of prestige and interesting problems. Like other big companies, it just depends on your distance from the C-levels and which team you get to be on -- do you get to do the interesting work or the boring work.
I wonder if this could be retargeted to retro CPUs like the 6502 and Z80? Seems the assumption of 32-bit integers might make things less efficient though. (EDIT: never mind, it does support smaller int types!)
You know how people keep patching things up for years without ever taking the plunge and resolving the problems?..
Usually larger tech companies that are flooded with applicants tend to ask these more.
How are hard braking incidents used in the other industries? Too many and the driver is canned?
Just when you thought the nightmare of viral conspiracy click bait couldn’t get worse...
That's stuff I can hack together in 20 minutes using JS or PHP... Why on earth would you need a remote API for that?
To you or me but for others its an education on how they can be compromised or how they can compromise others.
Disrupted by Dan Lyons is a recent book that goes into the flim-flam nature of many startups.
Arizona Four women convicted after leaving food and water in desert for migrants
Wi-fi adapters are some of the most processing-heavy peripherals people have.

After the memory controller, bus bridges, GPUs, and DMA controller, it's probably the largest one.
There’s one that I think is local to the Bay Area, but you might be able to find something similar: Pavel’s Russian Style (full fat). It is excellent.
It’s not one data point. It’s an additional data point on top of millions of other data points.
Aye. There may be some special definition of the word “crisis” known only to copy editors.
The thing with being over 40 is that it happens to everyone if you live long enough. If its proven that IBM did engage in this behavior, may they burn to the ground and be made an example.
Imperative vs. Declarative (2013)
http://blog.umvirate.com/#/splash
When security is only an afterthought, the product (and in this case, the entire discipline) will remain insecure for decades.

Just like security was an afterthought in the software world up to the late 90's. Software today is still written in C...
Doesn’t that provide a rationale to promote many different social media networks instead of one big one that could be used for such nefarious purposes?
Building Qt Apps with Travis CI and Docker
The conversation around this in the US has been almost entirely around fat, until relatively recently.
As successful as MIDI is, I can't help but think that it has something to do with a disengagement from music from the public.

If you listen to musicians who were big in the 1970s (say David Bowie or Billy Joel or CSNY) it seemed liked they banned guitars and drums and other real instruments and that everything was made with some kind of "music word processor" and pop music became glib and lifeless.
Proclaiming yourself to be a member of the "other" side to try to undermine their arguments by association is becoming a favorite tactic of trolls.
And a sensor/AI package that is cheap enough to deploy to everyone can kill everyone in a car if it is hacked properly, and monoculture means everyone gets hit.

You are not considering the black swan events, though, honestly, "someone with malignant intent hacks the entire car network" isn't even a black swan, it's perfectly predictable. What major hacking power involved in a war with some other country full of self-driving cars would pass up the ability to hack all the self-driving cars to crash themselves, with something as simple as "stop self-navigating and set throttle to 100%"? The resulting carnage would certainly serve as a solid distraction to the military.

Personally, I'm increasingly coming around to the position that self-driving cars ought to just be banned, or at least, held to exceedingly high security criteria, among which I'd probably start with "the self-driving car is not permitted to be hooked to any network, ever, and all radio communication must be provably unable to result in code execution at the electronic level, before it even gets into the computer layer". If nobody is going to give a shit about security and these things are all going to be hooked up to a network full time, the perfectly obvious resulting disaster outweighs all the potential benefits by multiple orders of magnitude.
God donut?
Autonomous Vehicles Thought Leader: Mcity
What are your thoughts on a public university vs federal government taking the lead in the AV space?

https://news.umich.edu/mcity-test-concept-would-assess-driverless-vehicle-safety-before-they-take-on-public-roads/
A Kuwaiti professor fled to the US after being put on trial for a 'joke' Tweetes
100+ Lessons Learned for NASA Project Managers
In Home of Original Sriracha, Thais Say Rooster Brand Is Nothing to Crow About
Dragonfly is such an amazing concept. A nuclear powered quadcopter!

http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/

>Unable to use solar power under Titan's hazy atmosphere, Dragonfly would use a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG), like the durable Curiosity rover on Mars. Flight, data transmission, and most science operations would be planned during Titan's daytime hours (eight Earth days), giving the rotorcraft plenty of time during the Titan night to recharge.
Avoid the Dirty Dozen: 12 Common Causes of Human Factors Errors [pdf]
Is there a dictum in journalism to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"? That seems to be antithetical to what journalism's original mission of reporting facts and letting the public decide (yes, I know this bares little resemblance to most modern journalistic styles). That style of reporting seems motivated towards a specific narrative, which is less than impartial. I might be wrong on what journalism's mission is and would like to hear opinions.
Yes, and "don't hurt people". Worse, I don't even think those are sufficient as guiding principles. In the real world many ethical situations are not best solved by being nice or refusing to hurt someone.

How about not hurting people unnecessarily? One might say, "well, bots are not necessary, so they shouldn't ever hurt someone." If they aren't necessary, then why make them to begin with? Besides, there is no end to what someone else may determine to be hurtful. I won't play the game of trying to avoid all that is hurtful to everyone else.

The article mentions a bot using racial slurs as something to avoid. Depending on the execution, this could be distasteful at best--assuming the intention of the creator was to have the bot use these slurs. But the use of slurs by bots has largely been unintended by my reckoning. So, you are telling me someone is genuinely hurt by a malfunctioning bot using a racial slur? That says a lot more about the user than it does the creator.
Carnegie Mellon launches free high school CS curriculum
That doesn’t seem too far off from what I would expect, if your site actually cares about the data your users store there.

I wouldn’t recommend it, but you could try a slightly scarier explanation. (“Sorry, hackers have cracked this password on other sites. If you use this password elsewhere, you should consider immediately changing it.”)
One benchmark IBM recently passed is that it's now become a primarily Indian company in terms of overall workforce [1]. What this makes me wonder is how the distribution of roles works out. In other words when they fire older e.g. American workers are they then replacing these with younger American workers, or are the jobs just all gradually drifting to developing markets where they generally would be able to hire a dozen workers for the cost a single fresh graduate from America.

Seriously on that last statement. Here [2] are the glass doors for IBM India. An "Applications Developer" at IBM India averages 404,000 rupees per year. That's $5,672 per year. "Software Engineers" hit $8,432 a year.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html

[2] - https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/IBM-India-Salaries-EI_IE354...
"Just a reminder, fruiting plants make the fruit for animals to eat to spread their seeds. It doesn't kill the plant"

But the fact is we do kill those plants. Those tomatoes are filled with seed intended, by nature, to propagate the species, but the chance of that dies when you eat them, and then the entire plant dies. There are no birds eating their fruit and spreading their seed. It that were the case we'd see tomatoes growing wild all over the US, but we don't.

Carrots, lettuce, broccoli, radishes, etc, etc, are all harvested (murdered if you will) before they even get a chance to go to seed. Your reminder doesn't account for that.

So, yes, in fact, billions of plants are murdered each year because we humans eat them.

I'm more curious about why this so difficult for some people to accept. It's obviously driven by empathy and compassion, and I admire that, but it ignores the facts that plainly exist all around us all the time.

The latest figure I could find easily says "In 2008, 9.08 billion chickens were slaughtered in the United States".

And tomatoes? "According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization statistics, around 340 billion pounds (170 million tons) of fresh and processing tomatoes were produced globally in 2014. The harvested area covered 12.4 million acres (5 million hectares) of farm land."

That's a lot of food for a lot of people. All of it brought to life that's taken for one purpose, to sustain us.

This does not make us murderous beasts, and no one, not even those who've claimed to be "Breatharians", has proved they could exist without taking life. There's just no getting around that necessity.

As far as I can make out, this notion that one is existing without taking life is almost exclusively found in cities, generally far from where food is grown and harvested. I'm pretty much convinced it is a willful denial of the truth created by and to convince oneself they are superior to the crude masses who haven't achieved their advanced level of conscientious. And it's a growing trend.

The fact is, it's an example of denial. We all take life to sustain our own. The best we can do is provide the means for it to flourish and take it in as painless a way as possible, rather it's a chicken or a radish.
Could facebook not easily destroy these companies? I mean facebook could sign up for literally thousands of these accounts and the article even lists many of the sites that will buy accounts. Then after receiving payment let the guys run the ads so you can get a sense of their campaign and just shadow ban anything they do. The companies would be paying for useless accounts and eventually lose all their money. Is there a reason facebook would not do this?
Interesting, but maybe lobbyists aren't 100% in it to get their putative goals. Maybe, just like managers, they get a lot of enjoyment out of manipulation and exercise of power.

That would certainly explain a lot.
All the comments here make me sad for my young children. I am now a lead dev at a medium-sized company, but I had a side business doing web design/development from age 14 to about 26. I never made big money, but when you're 15, a $2k payday for a month's worth of learning experience is pretty incredible. And a $15k project for a couple months of work in college buys a lot of beer.

Based on the comments here, it sounds like that time is over for good :(
Are you referring to the Apple web client or this one in being much better?
"the rules" are what cowards hide behind to justify their bigotry.

And given that the comment got downvoted to -1 before I edited it, it clearly was not fine according to the Hacker News community.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills as I read down these thread chains. Exactly what kind of jobs are you all doing? Is everyone on here a professional gamer? Nothing about my job requires me to have heightened reflexes or high APM.
It’s more like complaining that you were in an accident that was the fault of a Toyota employee, but Toyota didn’t lose anything.

Should a company be liable for losses caused by their workers while they’re on the job? Seems to me like the answer is yes, at least most of the time.
Ask HN: Who is still using Oracle?
I am always astonished to see that Oracle is the third largest software maker by revenue after Microsoft and Google. The thing is, I don't recall ever seeing Oracle databases mentioned in a job post. I only ever see MySQL, Postgres, couple others, or a NoSQL database like Mongo. Never, ever Oracle.

But evidently they're still here in force. Who is still using Oracle?
Correlation does not always imply causation. We live in a world with imperfect information and each of us has to decide the best course of action based on the evidence available. The phrase “global warming” is just a shorthand way of saying that we are adding massive amounts of the energy to the system controlling weather. When we see weather changing whilst knowing that we’ve added a massive amount of energy to the system then a reasonable person concludes causation. It’s the most likely explanation.
I guess it's an interesting debate, although I should point out for the benefit of anyone unaware that SwiftOnSecurity is somewhat of a parody / joke / tongue-in-cheek account so perhaps this should be taken accordingly.
“we’ve made in giving tech companies, even those with well-intentioned CEOs, so much power over our daily lives. ”

This line also stuck out to me when reading the article.

It seems as if the author thinks we had a choice to make Uber/Grab/etc so wildly successful and popular. I would argue instead that the current state of the ride-sharing industry is merely a natural progression due to technological advancement (smartphones, Internet, etc.) and strong economies - it’s not 1940 and we aren’t all building military planes and making bullets in factories, after all. People (human capital) are free to pursue rather wild and crazy ideas like auto-lacing shoes and blockchain WiFi-enables dog feeders, as well as quite useful things like transportation and self-driving cars.

People say my grandfather was a dreamer. They told me he would say things like “one day, we’ll have TVs that you hang on your wall, like a picture!”. Well, we’ve done that, and even some of the stuff from cartoons seems to be coming true.

Whoops, off-track a bit! So, back to my argument. Taxi cabs could have been the ones to develop apps and put them in the hands of millions of people. Not at the scale of Uber/et al. But they of course, did not, because the smartest people in tech aren’t going to work for Yellow Cab Company of (NY/Chicago/major city), and they wouldn’t have been able to change the habits and buying patterns of millions of people around the world. Ride-sharing works because you have people who need income providing you with their driving skill and their car, anywhere in the world, just to use your app. And it’s a losing $ situation for the drivers, but many of them are too desperate to see that.

We didn’t choose to give the big Tech players power over our lives. It just happened. Technology changed the way the world operates, and thus, it changed the way we experience life and interact with each other. If it weren’t Uber, it would be another startup with a silly name. Maybe Goober. Güber.
This is dissembling. How can you be "more conscientious" about using a word like family other than not using it? There isn't any other word to refer to a man, a woman and their children as a group, as far as I'm aware.

So if a VP says "be more careful using word X due to outraged employees" and the word for X is ordinary, every day and refers to an important thing, that is absolutely material that should surface in a newspaper.

Especially given the ludicrous employee quotes that accompany it, like:

'It smacks of the 'family values' agenda by the right wing which is absolutely homophobic by its very definition.'

What the heck? Families, those things required for the human race to continue existing, are now considered homophobic? This has got to be a new low in the identity politics endurance race to the bottom. As phrased I can't even tell if they think families are homophobic or just everyone who isn't left wing - both concepts are derisory.

Oh, and:

The person commented: 'My family consists of me and several other trans feminine folks, some of whom I'm dating. We're all supportive of each other and eventually aspire to live together.'

Whatever that living arrangement is, it is definitely not a family according to any dictionary I've ever seen.

But I honestly can't say I'm surprised by this. I used to work for Google and knew Pavni Diwanji quite well. She probably knows this is bizarre but is far, far too weak to do anything other than go along with the loudest crowd in the moment.