skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that a Lexus is a fancy Toyota, this doesn't surprise.

I had it explained to me once by a MOT tester (a safety and emissions test in the UK that cars more than four years old must undergo annually) while my old Corolla was on the ramp that Toyota's process basically involves hardening parts from the last model for the most popular defects, with as little re-design work of the internal components between generations as possible. I have no idea if the chap knew what he was talking about or not but it would certainly seem to stand up to my own anecdotal scrutiny - the car is 18 years old and still drives like new (it stayed in the extended family), which is more than can be said for the Renault that replaced it >:-(
So Facebook will swat you if its algorithms don't like what you say or you violate its terms of service or for whatever reason it wants to fuck you over. Now there's a good reason never to use that garbage. This is insane. I wonder if people have already died from this and how many...
You have a point, but Overwatch is still a new franchise, and for me it resurrected online FPS gameplay which hadn't changed much since I played TFC and Counterstrike nearly 20 years ago. I'd expect them to dedicate a substantial portion of their efforts towards maintaining and growing that franchise, and would for at least the next few years would consider that investment towards the "new".
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But, you gotta understand that's for the first 3 years only and the consumer reports is only for the first 10 years.

Once you get beyond 10 years, any mechanic will tell you the European cars are absolute garbage. Especially BMW, Audi and Mercedes will self destruct at some point after 10 years. And those parts cost a heck of a lot more than non-luxury brands. Sometimes, they won't even sell you a part by its own piece so you have to buy the whole assembly for 1000$ even if all you need is a tiny part that's supposed to cost no more than 50$.
The way he evasively responds to these important questions (not just with Rogan, but Sam Harris too) makes a lot more sense paired with the supposition that Twitter is not "failing" as Jack says here, but executing according to plan.

Look at recent bans, across the technology sphere (and more recently the financial sphere with Chase), and a clear pattern emerges. Nobody denies what the pattern is. The only argument is whether or not you support banning certain ideas.

From where I'm sitting we're seeing the formation of a new form of exile (I write that without hyperbole). Why bother setting up prison camps or penal colonies when you can completely remove someone's ability to publicly communicate, find gainful employment, or even open a bank account? We are inching closer to a world where, if someone engages in public wrongthink, they can immediately be shamed into poverty and banned from the public square.
RE: and suggested ways their current workflow could be optimized, irrespective of any one technological solution. A crappy process, then automated, is still crappy.

One has to be careful with this; often a process has "invisible benefits" such that outright removing it creates unintended consequences. For example, one industrial analyst found a way to speed up the assembly process. However, it was so efficient that the glue didn't have time to dry before the subsequent steps, damaging the product. Work-arounds were found, but it took time to iron out all the changes.
This is only viable for small engines, like expander cycle is only viable for small engines. The specific energy of electric batteries cannot compare to that of kerolox or methalox.

Closed cycle is not a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_combustion_cycle#Histor...
>like making better games with more NPCs who can really talk

Are no Animation companies or Game Devs trying that out? Seems like a fairly obvious use case but maybe they don't have the "expertise".
Male and female representation is also a function of domain interest. Last time I checked there were not that many women applications in brick layering.
Congress used to do its own research via the Office of Technology Assessment but because the results often contradicted the positions of lobbyists it was eliminated under Gingrich in the mid 1990s.

The drug side of the FDA used to have its own research labs but they were eliminated by the same congress because their results constrained and informed the scientific demands they placed on drug development trials.

It's not solely the current government that has its (or maybe somebody else's) fingers in its ears.
I completely despise the new consumer facing electronics in cars. Not because I find anything inherently wrong with electronics, but because I find the software/electronics in every car, in literally every car made today, cheap or expensive, to be an epic disaster both from an industrial design, and security standpoint.

Sadly, I think "normal" cars will go extinct the way non-smartphones and non-smart TVs went extinct. It's impossible to buy a TV these days that is not infected with Internet of Shit.

Where's the 70 Series Toyota Land Cruiser of today? The 70 series is still being made, it's just not sold in developed countries. Why can't they just make it emission compliant and sell that car in the EU and US? That's the car I want!
Well I think you answered your own question. Twitter is successful despite it's dumpster-fire UX because the conversation quality on twitter is also a dumpster-fire and people love to watch that kind of shit. It's like NASCAR fans rooting for crashes.
> We agree on a Return Cap which is a multiple of the initial investment (typically 3-5x)

Why is this better than just taking out like a 20-30% APR business loan?
Some of these have really odd and interesting errors https://imgur.com/a/oFBqRws
> it is still one of my proudest projects even though it was one of the least “sexy” I’ve ever done.

I think one of the most valuable thing software engineers can do for themselves in some circumstances is attempt to shift perspective towards assessing projects by how many people they help and how. The most rewarding projects I can think of are the ones where a day or two after rolling them out, I'm contacted by a few employees that they affected the most and told they love it and it saves them 30-90 minutes every day, consistently.

I think it's a feeling most developers can empathize with, since we often automate boring drudge work in our own jobs and lives. Making multiple people's lives and jobs a little less monotonous and dreary, or a little more effective at their job in a way they feel and appreciate is a good feeling.
maybe I am clueless but how can anonymous data turned into the government be trade secret protectable?
Good primary and secondary education systems and affordable colleges.
Toyotas are extremely reliably, especially in the long term. In the long term, toyotas beat anything out there even hondas.
> So the old adage still holds true for mechanical reliability, Japanese > German/European > American/British

Or not.

Buick/Chevy/Lincoln > Audi/VW > Mitsubishi/Acura
I thought airlines had to figure this out because the major airports are saturated. Planes taking off as frequently as FAA safety windows allow.

It doesn’t hurt that Boeing boosted distance by 500ish miles on all of their redesigned models, opening up a lot more potential routes.
And today's tribute: https://xkcd.com/2111/
The street view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/SpaceX/@33.9206589,-118.32...
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Step one (and really the only step) is that people have to want to become developers/scientists, sit in front of a computer all day, read and learn, all the time.

There are a million different reasons someone may not want to do that or may be encouraged against it, but you'd have to look at every individual and culture to find out why. It may not even turn out to be a bad thing. What if someone wants to become a chef or athlete instead, is that a problem?
>If you want to use anything new it's a minefield.

That’s true with any platform. But if you stick with tried and true stuff, it’s hassle free.

I don’t remember the last time I had a layout rendering issue and I write this stuff everyday all day.
Semi-serious answer: The anti-carbon circlejerk has reach ridiculous proportions when the language used in the article make it look like land management is a problem.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138112

The title is also misleading. The "VPN threat" they're concerned about is not the about VPN's per se, but VPN's that spy on their users. Such things are real, as was recently made clear when Apple revoked Facebook's enterprise certificate over one.
Yeah you can't have a conversation about unions without also mentioning the state of labor laws in the US, which are far behind those in of the EU.

The things that I believe in: minimum wage, overtime pay for anyone below a director-level salary, healthcare benefits if working more than X hours per week, are all accomplishable legislatively, as have been done in Europe. Doing so has the added benefit helping every industry at once, not just the ones organized enough to unionize.

There are also things I DON'T want: Unions fighting for job security of the lowest performers, making it nearly impossible to fire for incompetence or conduct layoff when the business struggling. I believe employment should compensate fairly...but fundamentally at-will. I'm also not a fan of the element of coercion in American unions--that if sufficient people unionize in your company, your employer will become union exclusive and you MUST join the union or leave your job.
The article cites data from the government on percentages of black, hispanic, and women in tech in Silicon Valley vs those same populations in tech nationwide. You would expect the percentages to be statistically equal.
> I saw it again and again: Users memorize hard-coded paths to certain functions - simply changing the name, appearance or position of certain elements along that path was enough to throw them completely off the track.

It seems like that argues against changing it to me, at least in productivity-sensitive applications.

There could be a justification in revamping the interface if there is an expected amount of turnover or the costs of training are significantly higher, of course. Often, though, these are situations where form should follow precedent, not just function.
>God damn am I glad I got the fuck out of those places. I wish I could be more patriotic but as an ex rural-american, I confidently say rural America is fucked and hopeless. Feel free to argue otherwise because I'd love to be able to cling to hope again.

If it makes you feel any better, most of the cities are fucked as well if you aren't rich enough to get into good school districts. Rural areas just throw it in your face because there is no bypass for rich/upper middle-class people.
And they will hate it with a heat of a thousand suns...it's slow enough without bloat. Not a desktop computer except for the truly patient or desperate. (Excellent for many tasks, but local interactive desktop not one of them - a netbook by any other name)
I was under the impression Layoff was technically different from firing only in: We are ending our relationship with this employee, and _not_ looking for someone to replace their existing responsibilities. I'm honestly confused by all the uproar -- it seems like relatively predictable and expected behavior.
The business loan is slowing down your business no matter what.

Earnest only takes their return once you're in the position to pay yourself a salary. If you reinvest everything in the business, they don't get anything.
Or dare I say anything made by PSA.

Very tempting cars with some of the nicest tech you'll find anywhere for as long as it stays working..
Asking is good but you often get a lot of wrong information that way. As well as very selective information.

When I was working on a reimplementation of an existing web app I had several team members watch how users were using the application. A mixture of sitting next to them and quietly watching (not interrupting their workflow) and remote watching via shared desktop (which we also recorded to refer to later).

Watching (in person and remotely) was without question more valuable. We could go back and replay what they were doing and why (we had copies of the worksheet they were working from for each use). Without it we wouldn't have delivered about 30% of what they were looking for and would have had to redo a load of work compared to if we had just gone by how they said they were using the system.

The new system rolled out and we had a total of two post-launch changes to make. Both of which were very simple changes. So don't just ask but watch how the users who use the system actually use it.
My 19 year old Toyota agrees. It runs just about as well now as it did 10 years ago.
Is it a crazy idea the reason is that the figures themselves are irrelevant?
right off the bat the two photos [in each post] have some sort of artefact on the right temple, gave it away as a manipulated image on first glance. and there are halos and blur.
im also wondering just how far these fakes could go? there is such high resolution with very common cameras now that the reflection of what a person is looking at is visible in the lens of thier eye. [its even a zero day] the AI is going to need someway of creating a fake setting to go with the face, and fake EXIF data that matches the fake camera model that would have taken the picture.
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Has there been a trend to bring controls back in house? I used to work in another mature industry, HVAC. It also went through a period of outsourcing all electronics/software, and then they realized that all the IP/secret sauce going forward will be in the controls and related software.

My former employer had plenty of unpleasant experiences outsourcing firmware, which contributed to bringing it all back in house.
I wonder why so many teachers are women? How about nurses? Where's the equality?
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I have been using OpenLDAP to manage users for like 10 years but what GUI/web based tool do you suggest for managing its data?

The only non complicated solution looks to be PHPLdapAdmin which I use but it is pretty much abandoned and a fork is keeping it alive.
> I don't think Twitter is a conversational medium, essentially.

As a very early Twitter adopter, I keep thinking this may be a fundamental breakdown in any consideration of what Twitter actually is as a product. Early Twitter was a conversation facilitator for pushing people to bump up in person (at for instance conferences, tracking a general zeitgeist of where interesting people were), or into more conversive media such as blogs / forums / IM / IRC. Early Twitter staff even knew this as this is partly the very motivating use cases the platform was built to enable. (The old 140 character limit to make sure that SMS notifications, and sending/responding to Tweets via SMS, were always an option, partly because of that push to in-person meetups in the era of dumb phones. Having mostly dropped out of Twitter in 2018, it's not a surprise to me that most of my remaining interactions with it are old SMS notifications I intentionally left on over the years, as that was the product I originally signed on for.)

A lot of the "we need to be our own conversational medium" standpoint from "modern" Twitter stems almost directly from "we need to monetize as many ads as possible". It's a bad fit for what Twitter was as a product originally, and it's creating so many of these gulfs where people forget that "let's take this conversation off Twitter" is a valid option, much less the best way to handle things more complex than bite-size soundbites. (It's working out for now for Twitter's investors, but how long until they burn out their reputation by being a toxic "conversation medium", because they are bad at being a "conversation medium" yet they need to be a "conversation medium" to sell ads?)
Asking as an ML layman, isn't it mixing something like 6 maybe 10 features of different people?
This is how I feel about computing in general. GUIs in general were a mistake. Vim is fucking awesome, and there's no replacing a shell and the myriad CLI utilities you have at your disposal. The computer is there to automate repetitive tasks, not create virtual busywork.

GUIs generally represent the sacrifice of power and automation for approachability by the lowest common denominator.
"I've made a robot that screams!"

http://gunshowcomic.com/513
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Yeah, sure. Just seems like paying a bank 20-30% per year is a way better deal than slowly bleeding 200-400% back to Earnest. You're paying WAY more money (read: 10x) for a more flexible payment schedule.
> It's impossible to buy a TV these days that is not infected with Internet of Shit.

It's possible, they are just called monitors or commercial displays; there's a significant premium for them at typical living room TV sizes compared to things marketed as “TVs”, though.
For choosing a major and career I think step makes sense but I think that is near the end of the pipeline.

What about exposure to the field and introducing computational thinking into earlier pars of the education system? Not necessary making kids program as their first exposure, but exposing them to computational concepts (maybe start with power of twos when learning multiplication, or control-flow-logic for writing a story....).
You can also make any lie you want with statistics.
He knows that they do -- it's on the Keys4Coins front page.

In case this is genuine confusion, this is a rhetorical device. i.e.

A: "Do you want to go get ice cream?"

B: "Is the Pope Catholic?!"

The (obvious) "yes" to the second question is an indirect answer to the first.
The whole thing is a bullshit joke to begin with; it's always a complaint about diversity in jobs perceived to have status, but never jobs that are not.

No complaints about diversity in fast food. No complaints about diversity in landscaping or construction.
From a quick read of their agreement, it seems like the payments are only made when you are actually making a net profit, whereas a traditional loan would require mandatory payments or interest would accrue.

This seems like a middle-ground that is better suited to starting up companies that most likely won't be unicorns. They only get paid once you get to a "comfortable" spot, financially.

Another consideration may be that in the event of business failure, you'd still owe money on the loan but the Shared Earnings agreement would essentially go away since the business is no longer viable. Not sure about this, but this is what I'd imagine would be the case.
Indeed. I sure the hell miss WYSIWYG ui design. The auto-flow "constraint management" of web UI's and CSS turned bicycle science into rocket science. (There was a HN story about this a few weeks ago.) I had Jetsons technology, it felt great, but then it was ripped from my warm productive fingers. Will they do the same with my flying car?
I'd say that there are reasons that both higher and lower price vehicles should have fewer defects, but it's not clear which reasons would dominate. (And probably different factors dominate in different periods of car production).

High cost: more attention to detail, higher quality parts, more care with fit and finish, should yield fewer defects.

Low cost: simpler vehicle systems, fewer moving parts, fewer unproven features, mass production with consistent processes, should yield fewer defects.
fun fact: many trees at around 30 years of age, become carbon positive, releasing more carbon than they absorb.
> Are they interested in finding justification for limiting VPNs?

What kind of VPNs are you talking about? The VPNs that protect their users' traffic from spying, or the VPNs that spy on their users themselves?
I think it's called getting "Zucked"
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depends on what those logs are for. if they are for building houses, then probably yeah
it means that probably they know that they might have to update privacy policies and app policies and thus putting it out there that yes it's being investigated and yes there will be changes forthcoming
In my experience the theme of what someone wants to do as a career often forms in high school. Programming/software is equated to the more introverted gamer/robotics types which often confers lower popularity and social status then other extra-curricular activities. Men and women alike choose to opt out of programming for this reason, although the absence of women is much more heavily felt.
Countering American anti-intellectualism is needed as well.
A staged combustion engine is intrinsically a lot more efficient than an engine where you dump some of your fuel to power the pumps, like in a tapoff or gas-generator engine.

Compared to a oxygen-rich full flow you can reach a higher pressure while having better safety margins which will allow you to re-use the engine. The higher your chamber pressure the closer the rocket's thrust at sea level is to its maximum thrust in vacuum. Also higher pressure tends to correlate with higher thrust to weight ratios.

Also, having both inputs already be gasses mean they mix better. This will have a tiny benefit in them burning more completely. But more importantly they'll burn better across a wider range of thrusts, which could be important for throttling down the engine for landing.
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Exactly. They are using the BBC News style guide here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/collections/news-style-guid...

And here are articles that address NASA vs Nasa:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8f7cf...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art201307021121335...

"our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms, where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Aids, Farc, Eta, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec)."
I developed the Exacycle idle computing system at Google and we ran extensive docking, with very good models of synthesizable drugs. Based on my in-depth knowledge of this field, along with extensive experience running a system that produced 1M CPU hours per hour 24/7 and made significant improvements in protein design and structure modelling.

Using more CPU time in this would have helped a lot.
It's likely not. Even the premise that employment demographics are trade secret at all is malarkey.
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As a fellow user of that project, FYI it has been migrated to https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
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I read more books on paper now than I ever did pre-internet.
Because of the far greater ease of requesting a library book now.

Now anytime I hear of a good book, I look it up on the online catalog and, because all the libraries in the county are linked, the choice is bigger than ever. I just request a few books and have them delivered to my local library.
You've italicised "pipeline" as if you believe this is a novel insight, but actually it's very common to dismiss diversity and inclusion efforts by redirecting attention to "the pipeline problem". Unfortunately there is evidence that the pipeline is far from the only problem, and even after successful interventions to swell the pool of qualified diverse candidates, companies' representation is still extremely skewed, and those candidates still encounter hiring barriers that other demographics do not.

Here's one thread from an organisation that spent 10 years working on the pipeline and found many companies wouldn't hire their candidates: https://twitter.com/Code2040/status/1092853501766467585?s=19

(Edit: gah, pasted the same link twice instead of the Twitter thread I meant to post)

And some more links on the "pipeline problem": http://isitapipelineproblem.com
This is amazing. Good luck!