skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just had a law class (in Europe) and our professor told us that this is one of the main reasons that arbitration exists (and is so prevalent) in the US: to prevent class-action lawsuits.
Progress and hype in AI research
I never experienced this with several in production Riak clusters running for years. Can you explain how to reproduce or give a link to any public forum where this was discussed?
One of my favorite things about typescript was being able to ditch Babel and eslint and their myriad of requirements to get things that are considered standard. I get why they do it, it's just something I prefer.

Take create-react-app and the now deprecated create-react-app-typescript. The node_modules folder of the CRA app is over a hundred megs bigger than that of CRA-ts, and it doesn't even have feature parity.
> Practically speaking, FAANG companies do hire such individuals, they just do it through acqui-hires.

there's a huge pool of employees that are in companies which aren't potential acquisition targets.

> Well... how do we find these people? By looking at their resumes where they claim this? By contacting references who will attest to it?

internal references? if you've got a couple of internal folks who are doing good work, and they all worked with and vouch for old bob, maybe that's better than anything you're going to find out from <8 hours of whiteboard scribblings?

> By trusting the intuition of subjective evaluators of the candidates?

even the faintest whiff of implication that FAANG interviews might not be subjective is hilarious.
Ah very good points, thanks for the heads up! I’ll think about this a bit more
> If WeChat is taking over the world.. it's a world without foreigners.

From the point of view of the Chinese government authorities, this is a feature, not a bug.

China has effectively segmented the "Internet" into two categories, those things with servers/centralized authority hosted domestically in China, subject to the Ministry of State Security, and things outside the Great Firewall on the "foreign" Internet.

I would be entirely unsurprised if at some point in the future the government requires their domestic ISPs to use a Chinese-hosted set of root nameservers other than the ICANN lettered roots.
I'm guessing you have never struggled with nicotine addiction, or perhaps you're one of those people who experiences a more mild addiction than average.

But if most people were to develop nicotine addiction for several years and then stop for a week, they would experience mental anguish far beyond what anyone could consider "healthy". For long time smokers, that anguish can go on for months.

Healthy people do not experience intense mental suffering simply because they don't have nicotine. It's a disease - an illness - even if it does not cause cancer.
These company simply want the best of the best. They want people who can whiteboard BFS tree AND also have proven business track records, yada yada. Not just either one of this.
> I've seen zero evidence the US Government can be responsible with spending and allocate it to proper use as things are now.

It's hard to argue one can get the same performance - on the same scale - as US government in projects it does.

How, for example, you measure overall lack of wars and general growth in prosperity, health etc.? What's the US part in that? Even if, say, Sweden manages lots of projects more efficiently per capita, how would you argue scaling that won't be worse than what US is doing?

It's a rather common opinion that governments are less efficient than private organizations. Still for some things we keep governments and keep trying to make them efficient, having headwinds which aren't typical in private world. Not sure if starting with "first reach efficiency..." won't get us to the same situation as US government is in right now - i.e. a prolonged shutdown.
Many acqui hires get interviewed again. Most acqui hires are a business deal for the company's business.
It's easier to land offers for entry level positions. "Landed every offer" probably means entry level. Companies are hungry for decent devs who don't yet know their real market value.
Because all persuasive essays are "unbalanced" and it cites a number of reputable sources? Because its argument is compelling, clearly stated, and its author clearly has no vested interest in the argument apart from his professional focus on public policy? Because limiting one's reading diet to "balanced views" will almost certainly foreclose most interesting writing on subjects of controversy?
I found a Windows 2003 server (back in the day) with RDP open directly to it. It wasn't behind much (if any) external firewall. It also wasn't patched, and I got in using some exploit I found within a few mins of googlin.

Here it was a citys (pop 2mil+) water system. I didn't need a name or password to it once I got into the server itself.

I screenshotted the login, the exploit, their water system (it reminded me of MS Paint, which a lot of those system seem to look like), then created a fresh e-mail using Tor, sent a few e-mails to several e-mail addresses I could find for contacting them, and within a few days it was no longer accessible.

For a longer time than I should have, I felt bad for doing it, but at the same time, I doubt they would have done much if I just e-mailed them without showing proof.

I never received anything, threats or thanks, in that e-mail account. So hopefully someone appreciated it.
Excellent examples. There is no library for this.
Isn't the author doing the rational thing though? If I knew ahead of time that BigTechCo's final interview would be a test of my juggling skills, I would definitely spend hours honing my juggling. Whether or not it's an appropriate measure of my skill as an engineer is irrelevant to my goal of "getting a job at BigTechCo"
An entertaining polemic against the tech industry
People who are addicted to nicotine care very, very much if they have or do not have nicotine.

You seem to be talking about yourself. I'm talking about people suffering from the addiction.
S3 + ORC|Parquet + PrestoDB works very well
EU copyright negotiations (Article 11 and 13) hit a brick wall in Council
I signed up a few weeks ago. It worked for about a week, until I tried to sign in on a desktop.

I think some number of non-China mobile numbers need verification out of the box. And they've banned most VOIP/Virtual numbers from signing up; you can't use a Google Voice number, for instance.

Then, if you do sign up, there are hair-triggers on "suspicious use." But "suspicious use" means having multiple devices, asking for a password reset, not uploading a profile photo fast enough, or more than a few weeks of non-use.

All of those things are typical for foreign visitors, who don't have Chinese friends to verify them.
Lots of data out there. Myopia is pretty rare in hunter-gatherer populations, but rates ncrease rapidly as the same population modernizes. Example:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1956268/?page=1
From experience, this is simply not true. My version of wechat is registered with a US phone number, installed from the google play store on a google phone, not sponsored, and while I can't put money into wechat pay my friend can still transfer it

You can also still use all the social features everyone is used to in China.
Whenever I read job search war stories such as this article, I keep wondering if these are sent from a parallel universe of some kind. Six job offers? That's incredible! I mean that literally: I have a very difficult time believing such stories because they never jive with my own experience.

The below is taken directly from my "Job search - 2017" Trello board. (I always use Trello to organize a job search because without it there's no way I could keep track of every company I've applied to.)

Companies I've decided not to pursue due to obvious red flags: 15

Companies that have rejected me explicitly (without regard for stage of process): 15

Companies that have ignored my application entirely: 25 (including all of the so-called "top companies")

Companies that have invited me for an onsite interview: 8 (of which one was a remote-mostly team that did a video conference interview in lieu of onsite)

Offers received: 4

Of the 4 offers, one was laughably low; another was for a management position that would have precluded any programming (bad for my career); and the remaining two were both attractive and presented a difficult choice. This was the first time in my career of 15+ years when I had more than one offer to choose from.

This job search took place after I got laid off unexpectedly, and took two months of job searching on a full time basis. The various phone calls, meetings, interviews, etc. took place in a solid chunk of time from 9am to 5pm, sometimes seeping into the 7-9pm time frame whenever I was doing a call with a busy person on the West Coast. Somehow I also managed to do half a dozen of take-home projects, the longest of which took me two weeks of all-nighters to complete.

To summarize: I wish someone would show me which bus to take to the parallel universe where folks get to choose from six different offers. Here and now, I feel incredibly lucky to have my current job, and dread the day when I might be forced to seek another.
I also don't think this is true. I've been using a US based version of WeChat for a couple years now, and I have had no problems adding and chatting with people in and outside of China. I do want to add that while I didn't have to jump through any hoops to activate my account, I've had westener friends get stuck on having to be verified. I can't remember if I was able to vouch for them or not.
That is still an impressive response rate given it sounds like the author cold applied w/o a referral. Generally it is much easier to at least get to the phone screen with a referral from someone within the company.
That attitude is a big problem. The cerebellum is where all the important stuff happens. In the lower mammals, the cerebellum is most of the brain. The cortex is just the back-seat driver sending goals to the cerebellum.

Bio researchers have done work on decorticated cats. "The cats ate, drank and groomed themselves adequately. Adequate maternal and female sexual behaviour was observed. They utilized the visual and haptic senses with respect to external space."[1] The cortex is optional for basic survival.

The cerebellum had been far too neglected in AI research. I used to refer to this as the "hole in the middle" of AI. We had the expert systems guys working on logical abstractions, and the behavior-based people working on near-stateless stimulus-response systems. Not much in the middle. That's what got me interested in legged running for robots. But it turns out that's better approached as a dynamics problem than as an AI problem, so that didn't lead to a cerebellum. Just a lot of banging on differential equations. On most practical problems, it's easier to engineer a special case solution than to develop something cerebellum like. So there's been low pressure to fix this hole.

The really important stuff in life is getting through the next 10 seconds without a major screwup. If that doesn't work well, and consistently well, survival is unlikely.
AI remains bad at this. Robots have this problem big-time. For self-driving cars, vast efforts have been required to make it work at all.

The cerebellum evolved first. The cortex is a relatively modern development. If we really knew how it worked and could make a good functional one for a robot, we'd probably have most of the parts needed for a cortex. But we don't.

When you see a paper like this, [2] you realize the extent of our ignorance. This is like cutting an IC into little chunks and doing a chemical analysis on each chunk to figure out what it does.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00234897
[2] https://www.mpg.de/12027342/molecular-atlas-reptile-brain
Empowering Data Science with Engineering Education
His family suffered badly after he died. His wife and mother of his children died on the street begging for money. Really sullied my connection to his music.
As far as I'm aware, none of the embedded DBs can help with fast recovery after corruption or any partial recovery. Sucks, but tolerable on local networks and small nodes. For spinning disks or far away non local nodes this of course doesn't work well and you have to implement your own data store.
A car shouldn’t be within leash distance of a pedestrian. As long as the walker is behaving appropriately as a pedestrian and the dog is on leash the driver is going to be found at fault. The same is true even in cases where that is not the case.

Obviously we don’t know in this instance but in most cases fault goes to the driver if the dog is on leash, and given that this dog did not belong to the owner I’d be surprised if it was off leash. It might have been a flexilead in which case the outcome might be different depending on jurisdiction and circumstance but in any case the owners are going to have a better time going after drivers.

Neither party in this case involved the authorities or contacted any of the affected parties. The walker was already doing something they might not want Wag knowing about (having a third party walk the dog). I don’t think you can make any conclusions there so I’ll stick with my “probably”.
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Tesla layoffs loom and stock plunges as focus shifts from growth to survival
>Not once did we actually talk about my past experience or rather anything software engineering related.

I had 5 rounds instead of 4 because I skipped phone screen, but I was pretty sure at least 3 of my interviewers didn't even look at my resume before the interviews haha.

I also did a lot of interviews for Google when I was there, and I can totally see why that's the way it is, but at least I tried to see each interviewee as a person with their own unique experience and I made sure to at least read the highlights of their resume beforehand.
>The technical interviewing scheme is not great, but I haven't seen another system that works.

I would argue that pair programming or take home projects do a far better job than the standard Whiteboard Algo interviews. In fact I don't think it's even close but SV engineers have been captured by this Whiteboard Interview Stockholm Syndrome/Hazing and continue to perpetuate the insane idea that there is no better way.
If you stated reasons for your opinion instead of saying, there's a robust debate, and plenty of reason for there to be a debate, and let's be charitable, there's a debate, and did you see this correlation, and why don't you suffer the experience of reading this essay, written by a journalist hack to persuade Vox-reading plebes with a shoestring of an argument, then you'll understand, maybe you'd be a bit more persuasive.

Edit: Here are some citations to support my argument. Read all these and come back when you're done:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist

[3] https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/sv8c/
My point being that it has little to do with the stated need of bringing capital into areas suffering from a shortage of it.
LD50 is entirely irrelevant to this discussion. No one goes to the store and orders 1mg/kg of a substance. When considering acute harm, the relevant metric is the ratio between a typical recreational dose and an overdose. For example, there are very few tobacco servings that contain more than 20mg nicotine. A person is very unlikely to come anywhere near the, say, 360mg lethal dose.
Energy Department Announces Battery Recycling Prize
I would certainly probe deeper if given that as evidence for a strong grasp on the utility of BFS.
Except you only get the version that was released at the beginning of the cycle. In other words, when your subscription is over, you have to downgrade to a version that's a year old. Bugs and all.

With most software, this would not really be a huge deal. Photoshop? Who cares. Excel? Meh.

But with Jetbrains products you've got to consider whether the old version is going to be 100% compatible with your existing project files, plugins, keybindings, settings and configurations.

It's quite a gamble IMHO.
What death were you hoping for?
I mean given a choice a first and fatal coronary blow-out as I sleep, seems pretty good.
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The parent didn't claim 50ppm clock inaccuracy but I think their claim is very credible.

For example, the uC I am working on right now has built-in DACs which are good enough for audio and a 5% accurate internal clock (uncalibrated). If a vendor cheaped out and didn't use a proper external oscillator and/or didn't calibrate the clock (which is presumably the code the parent wrote) then the frequency would be basically one half step off on an equal tempered scale which is definitely audible for most people.

http://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/NoteFreqCalcs.html
> Destroying journalism’s business model is bad

At least this article is upfront that it has a vested interest in demonizing FB
I mean, I've built and released multiple mobile apps (commercial and enterprise) on both platforms for multiple companies. They've all been mostly successful at doing what the company needed them to do. They look fairly nice as well.

And I don't have this kind of fundamental, "what do you mean 'google it' are you a complete and total fucking moron!?" attitude about anything in software. I routinely browse through google results (mostly SO/Medium) about very basic concepts just to read the words again and re-warm those caches in my brain.
Except it's well known that Facebook asks you 2 coding questions in 45 mins and if you don't solve them it's an automatic fail.
More that it isnt possible with Go because of its statically linked binaries. You could prob do it swizzling/intercepting ObjC methods I would assume.
The sentiment regarding unions and labour rights in the U.S. isn't really moving in the right direction.

This type of clause is especially scummy, however... see the following article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-uber-appeal-1...

EDIT: Especially read the bottom of the article. The arbitration clause required over $10k USD to even begin, and takes place in the Netherlands... What. the. actual. fuck.
Simone Giertz brain tumor is back
Hey man I feel your pain. Wife, two kids and not a ton of time.

I don't know your specifics, I only know mine.

I've recently started volunteering / D&D 2 nights a week. It's been good for me and the family. This spurred some interest from me in doing work when I'm sitting in the kids room waiting for them to fall asleep.

This came after I switched jobs and started working on the bus, which cut down on my total amount of time away from home.

He also did this for a month, you might have to do 30 min to 1 hr for 3 months. Set a goal and go for it. The important distinction for me was that my goal board now includes being a good dad. Part of that was realizing I wanted my kids to see someone reaching for goals and doing it.

Anyway, good luck and don't hold yourself to others ideals, shoot for your own goals. I had a short term goal to re-center myself and let some mental baggage go. It meant a lot of video-games. But now I'm onto the next goal.
I cannot help but think that these big tech companies (FAANG, et. al) are missing out on diversifying and increasing their engineering expertise by passing over developers like you.

There is still so much stupid money out there that it doesn't pay to do this. Literally immaterial, and it's more cost-effective to hire for a narrow-but-consistent set of requirements.
Yeah, you'd still definitely want to look at the toolpaths. As far as recalculating everything, it could still calculate most of it ahead of time.

What I'm thinking of is something like a CAM workspace in FreeCAD. That is, something like would let you take your model, generate and inspect a toolpath (or flip through possible toolpaths), and produce a part. The CAM software would get feedback from the controller, so it could follow what was going on.

It might also be possible to make adjustments, or pause the run, based on sensors. For instance, if you could detect chatter, you could slow down the feed rate; if you could detect a broken tool, you could pause the run and ping the operator.
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Ask HN: My phone has stopped receiving updates. Should I be worried?
Should I be worried about my phone isn't receiving any kind of updates from the manufacturer anymore?

I have myself an Google Nexus 6P that recently was declared end-of-life. I know that I will miss out new features that future Android versions will provide, but for me that's okay, but why should my device be excluded from security or nasty bug fixes. I still have weird bug that randomly make my phones completely silent. No alarms, no notification sound, no ringtone; I have been late for work a few times (and yes, I have tried to factory reset my phone couples of times).

Nowadays it seems that average lifespan for a phone is about 2-3 years, which have negative effects on environment, as people are forced to change phones.

Why not let people use their phones longer, let say 5 years (or even longer)? The manufacturer can still sell new models, but should provide and updated operating system much like what's is done on a computer. And if I'm not wrong, doesn't Apple provide longer lifetime for their iOS devices?

Why are we forced to this commercial behavior and what can the average user do to minimize environmental impact?
rust-crypto probably has a lot of google juice because it used to be the premier project. Then its team disbanded. While you're right that 2016 isn't super long ago, it was originally created before Rust 1.0.

Const generics will also help these sorts of interfaces significantly.
Maybe, but the 10th dog walking app startup in SV isn't actively damaging Democracy across the world and that's not even mentioning the insane levels of social media addiction that is actively perpetuated by FB.
What's up with all the negativity?

Tesla grew by 10,000 employees in 2018 despite laying off 9% of the workforce in June.

This is probably more of the same.
Actually, it's the first version that your subscription covered.
So what should tourists do now?
About that...

https://www.scylladb.com/2018/12/13/scylla-vs-amazon-dynamod...
I'd be surprised if it's nothing more than sending a local money with Venmo and having them send you a red packet in exchange.
I thought it was the other way around, that higher inflation caused women to enter the workforce in order to keep up their standard of living.
The payout for this bug was $2940 on HackerOne [1]. I find that amount a bit on the low side.

[1] https://hackerone.com/reports/472013
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> DNA tests are used in murder trials, I would expect them to be damn near perfectly repeatable.,

So were the results of FBI hair and fiber analysis, and look how that turned out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...