skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think, but anyone who walked into that dealership with cash would have gotten a better deal on exactly the same car, and so would someone who goes for non-zero-% financing. There is no free lunch; you're not going to get a better financed deal than someone who pays and waves goodbye. There is no 0% financing without a catch.
I only append that to philosophical claims and string theory.
> Indeed I do, it is logistically absurd. I'm talking about replacing one piece of cardboard with a different, more secure, piece of cardboard that resolves actual problems we have today. You're talking about smartphones, tokens, calling in, and a million other complex workarounds all in the name of hypothetical security.

And you're talking about zero improvement in security stance. You could literally implement your idea by just making it illegal to store SSNs, because that's the only salient point where you've improved over current state.

> I'd love to see you try to explain your system to an elderly or disabled person. I can explain mine: "Instead of giving them your SSN card, give them this card instead." Done. One sentence. That's literally all they have to know.

Print card with secret. Give them card. Card has phone number on it. Call the number. It asks for what's on the card. You enter it. You get another number. Give that to the person asking.

Also print on the card to not give the card or the number on it to anyone.

> Plus your scheme has a huge hole. The second you moved away from physical tokens (which you now seem to acknowledge is unaffordable) to smartphones and now regular phones, you need a way to authenticate who you are. Which means you'll be giving people credentials, which can then be lost, stolen, or requested from vendors creating exactly the same issues we started with.

Physical tokens are a "something you have". So is a piece of cardboard. If there's no need to authenticate a hardware token, there's also no need to authenticate a number on a piece of cardboard. And there's no reduction in security stance by doing so.

Also, I make no acknowledgement of the in-/affordability of tokens. Rather, I assert that you can simultaneously support multi-modal methods of exchanging a secret for a token.

> In other words you've managed to create an expensive logistical nightmare that the general public will hate all in the name of hypothetical security benefits that won't even work in practice. Neat.

Really? My proposal is literally the same mechanism by which OpenID and web tokens work... And I'm done because I don't know how to work with someone who's idea of a good security posture is give away secrets to people who ask for them.
If at 37 you consider yourself "older programmer", the industry is fucked. The minimum social security retirement age in US is 62. That is older programmer. Full retirement age is 66.
Why Naval Ravikant Hires Artists
I won't trust the evidence provided by the IT department of Tufts. At least, that should be backed up by some third party.

The other issue is about the student. Why she needs to increase her grades for DVM? Is there a benefit to it? (CGPA from JD matters if you are trying to get a clerkship with top judges/justices.) What is in it for her?
I just watched long shot to understand your comment :) in the Netherlands
It's cool until a religious politician takes power and slowly starts stacking things against people from other religions and atheists. Your data reveals that you attend the wrong religious building or no building at all. A few years later you get a free train trip to a fun re-education camp.
Panfrost update: A new kernel driver
MH370: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Sometimes I think the end-game for transportation is personal transportation pods that get docked into a self-driving-car/subway/train/ferry/airplane system. You'd load up your family pods with your favorite bedding/pillows/devices/books/toys before your trip, wheel them out to the curb, hop inside, and hail a Waymo. The car would arrive, dock with the pods, ferry you to the airport, scan you & your luggage for dangerous items on the way, and then drive straight out to the tarmac to load you into a plane. Plane takes off, gets to its destination, and then a small shuttle-tug drags your pods to the subway. They eventually offramp (without stopping) to another self-driving car, which pops the pods into an elevator and take you straight up to your hotel room. If you're asleep in the pod you could keep sleeping the whole way, otherwise you can unpack and have a real bed there, then hop into a seated family pod for sightseeing the next day.

It's like intermodal containers for people. For short-haul flights it could cut door-to-door travel time by 2/3, since so much of it is taken up by ground transportation, waiting, ticketing, waiting, security, waiting, rental car counters, and more waiting.
Food available at the office or paid enough to be able to do so. Very common in the major SV companies.
We Can Break Up Big Tech (Elizabeth Warren)
Ask HN: In simple terms, how could AI destroy mankind?
Not really when people feel entitled to live in the downtown area at an extremely low rent. For example, someone new moves in for $2400 for a 2 bedroom whereas a person who has been there 20 years is paying $1300. The new person ends up having to subsidize the tenured renter and the landlord also is not able to maximize their profit. Then a big corporation can come in and buy the property because a landlord cannot maintain it well enough. The big companies have their own renovation teams who they own so it's profit to maintain it whereas the smaller landlords end up having to pay a 3rd party and they lose money. It's a delicate balance. 1.9% yearly increases and up to 4.9% on capital expenditures makes it a challenge.
I always wear a face mask on public transit for this reason.
I get an shall I say tasteless ad. I’d never put Adsense on a site. It can wreck your brand and reduce trust.
bonzini's hypothetical scenario was one where the compiler emitted a warning every single time it encountered undefined behavior. Assuming that a loop counter cannot overflow because signed integer overflow is undefined is one such instance and would fall under the "99% false positives" that they mention.
I work at a small matrix organization. Deployments and time allocation are fairly chaotic due to lack of communication, but on the other hand we do have relatively many older people doing technical work and projects are managed by a mix of older and younger people.
> In 2007, Mark Zuckerberg, then 22, said out loud what many in the software industry think: “Young people are just smarter.”

How dumb or gullible does one have to be to actually think this? I'm betting it's mostly the 20 something year olds that would ascribe to such stupidity.

Let's just accept that there is no track for programmers period. There are no promotions beyond senior at most companies. You peak in your early 30's and then you continue to work at about the same compensation and level for the rest of your career. A few people can find more interesting work, but it will require jumping to different companies and a lot of self-training. Unless it's at FAANG, all that work will be for an extra ten, twenty, or thirty thousand dollars. And raises? I've never hear of such a thing in any industry these days.

The best option is to keep on top of your skills, find a job working 25-40 hours a week, possibly remote, and find some meaning in other parts of your life. Work isn't everything. It's not even the most important thing.

There are and will be plenty of jobs for older coders. It's a new profession, but older coders who stay on top of the tech are still plentiful. You just need to know where to look. Also, many people don't make it as coders period. If there is a shortage of old coders, it's because people drop out because they can't make it. Even better for the rest of us. As if being in your late thirties is old. What bullshit.
just create a movable water pool for the ocean.

http://news.mit.edu/2015/shockwave-process-desalination-wate...
They simply say the company was "ageist" and blame it on age discrimination.

Except they don't "simply say that".

It's a fact of the industry that is backed up by (a heck of a lot of) experience and observation, unfortunately.

In that sense, it's kind of condescending to deny the reality of the (sometimes painful and frustrating) experiences many people are having in this regard.
And still... there are many reasons why you'd chose this language over others. They're probably doing _something_ right.
Into the ocean just like the test. This is how it is always done with the exception of the space shuttle program I believe.
Maybe but say YC put $20k into Airbnb for a stake now worth $1bn and $80k into 4 other statups that went bust. GAAP would show a net loss of $80k which would not reflect very accurately how they were doing. GAAP has been designed more to provide a consistent way of calculating corporate income tax than to accurately show how a company is doing.
I’d be happier if browsers didn’t ask. Instead it’s a default no, and you have to go into settings to enable it.
As a rule, do not expect feedback from companies. On the company's end, it's just not worth the risk of opening themselves up to potential legal liability to provide detailed feedback to any candidate. The new standard for responding to a rejected candidate is ghosting. The company has extended you a profound courtesy by bothering to respond at all.
There are multiple people here saying the same thing. Paternalistic silencing of minority people’s actual opinions is definitely a form of racism. You should probably take that into consideration before speaking for others.
I never understood the deal with signatures. Most signatures can be faked if analyzed by an amateur (every business). Sure there are experts who will spot fakes but how many of them are employed where signatures are verified?

I can tell you that I’ve faked a signature in harmless situations a number of times and nobody was the wiser.
Outages are definitely a risk every company encounters. Whether it's a third-party hosted solution or an internal solution, unfortunately, servers do go down. We run all our services on AWS which provides an uptime SLA of at least 99.99%, so uptime shouldn't be a problem, but we do recognize the concern.
Local markets aren’t different products, to start.
Rebuttal to “How not to design a wire protocol” by designer of said protocol
This bias is pretty easy to overcome. Let’s denote E with even length words and O with odd length. If two words come up with EE or OO, discard, if it is EO use 0 and if OE then use 1. Same probability for both. This trades the bias for need more words.
What was your previous career. You could get in as a tester or business analyst. In smaller companies these jobs can end up requiring some coding.
Quantum mechanics theoretically is just another deterministic universe or hidden variables and effecting our deterministic universe to appear random but in reality is deterministic.
Not to downplay their intelligence or hunting abilities, but orca weigh more than five times as much as great white sharks. You wouldn’t really say “that’s right: domestic cats are seemingly afraid of wolves.”
Just make sure they'll break up to at least two companies for any given region because otherwise you'll end up with a local monopoly which is probably even worse.
More timely than ever.
Swift Ownership Manifesto
Citrix says its network was breached by international criminals
Highly variable. As a 5"4" woman I would gain a pound a week on that diet (until it leveled out and ~1700 calories was my new maintenance).
I refuse to read or react to articles hanging out troll-bait, so that the social trench war may creep to there page and bring in those sweet addmoneys.
There are meditation practices that focus on gratitude. "Loving kindness" is one such practice that is very accessible to a beginner. When in the right state of mind, this can be a powerful and moving experience.
I find people that think they have real choice over their actions as strange. Free will is an illusion when you understand determinism.
Why would they do day trips when they plan to do suborbital passenger trips. Not make going into space a bucket list item for the upper middle class, but a routine A-to-B for business class flyers.

The bucket list item would be Mars.
Because even though a single person in an anecdote, multiple people chiming in the same thing moves closer to actual data. Have to start somewhere.
Here’s an alternative source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-case-against...

“Anyone who said that the 1990s prosecution of Microsoft didn’t accomplish anything — that it was companies like Google, rather than government lawyers, that humbled Microsoft — didn’t know what they were talking about, Reback said. In fact, he argued, the opposite was true: The antitrust attacks on Microsoft made all the difference. Condemning Microsoft as a monopoly is why Google exists today, he said.”
The solution is not to make backups _of_ a key, but to make backup keys and enroll more than one in authorization lists.

This also helps immensely when you want to retire a key, whether due to loss of control or concerns about its strength in the future. Being in the practice of having a set of authorized keys, you can safely remove older ones from authorization lists without locking yourself out.
aside from looking ridiculous, you’re probably weakening your immune system too
I would presume he built his own as a learning exercise/for fun.
Issue is Autopilot is more of a feature that is geared towards convenience.

You are doing all of the driver attention work, but someone who activates Autopilot isn't required to. I think a lot of the argument against Tesla is that Autopilot isn't doing enough in that arena.

GM's Super Cruise is a lot more feature-full with regards to driver attentiveness. It might not be as useful in terms of being able to be used everywhere, but its definitely more well-rounded in terms of forcing driver attentiveness.
AI would more likely destroy mankind by screwing up rather than by becoming conscious. Perhaps something to do with power and energy supply. Like a stuxnet kind of thing.
I give a particular programming interview that reduces to sorting a list by a simple criterion and then returning the first item in the list. Unfortunately people can tie themselves into some serious knots trying to solve this pretty simple problem.

I agree with the article that performing well in this style of interview is a separate skill from being a productive programmer. I also think there is value in being able to write some code pretty quickly, while making it correct and readable. The enthusiasm and interaction stuff is another matter, that's definitely hard to muster while you're a) nervous and b) simultaneously trying to solve a problem.
Ask HN: How do I find early startups in LA to get a job?
A long shot, but won't hurt to ask I guess.

I am moving to Los Angeles in a couple of months; my SO will start a Masters program there.

I want to find a startup in a very early stage to work as a junior frontend developer.

I am a frontend developer for 2 years now, after a late career change at 37 years old. I quit my last job in digital marketing to study software development full-time. After 8 months studying, on my own, I got a job at a fintech startup.

> Here is my blog with more details about my decision to become a software developer and how I learned to code: https://rodrigohgpontes.github.io/

The stack I use professionally is mostly EmberJS. I am sure I can learn e.g. React very quickly to be productive even before I start the job.

I am not currently capable of performing well on a new complex application from scratch without the guidance from a more experienced developer. But I assure that if I can join forces with a senior front-end developer, I can highly increase the throughput of the team and alleviate the senior developer from less complex tasks, saving her/his time for the tougher challenges.

> Here is my LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigohgpontes/

I receive consistently positive feedback about my communication skills, which I believe I can maintain in English, even it being my second language.

> Here is a newsletter I started with written communication tips in English that can serve as evidence of this statement: https://writingfordevelopers.substack.com/

I always had an entrepreneurial spirit that I believe suits well with early startups.
I have a side-project that can serve as some evidence of getting things done, UX/UI and product skills. It is a SaaS web app for 1:1 meeting management, built in Rails API + Ember.

> One on One Meeting: https://www.oneononemeeting.com

I would love it if anyone could point me in the right direction, as I know no one in LA.

Thanks!
You get feedback - either they liked you or not. If you need any more than that then it means you need to learn more.
Apple AR headset reportedly starting production late 2019
Yes if your MB broke the key is lost but you can always add multiple keys to the remote machine in case that happens.
I come frome a industry that sees software written under management that largely has no clue what software is, how to evaluate its qualitys and tech debt - and thus creates exponential tech debt time bombs.
That's a good point. Unfortunately I don't have much information on how the current valuation was calculated (and I wouldn't be allowed to talk about it even if I did)

Where I think Uber has a competitive advantage is the multitude of spin-off services it provides. Cab companies only compete on a fraction of the transportation market. Uber has its hands on a lot of different segments and it's a household brand at this point. We'll see what the market thinks when the IPO happens, I guess.
You can have a deterministic universe effecting our deterministic universe and where we would perceive the effects as random but isn't. It could also be impossible to measure the effects as deterministic based on our lifespan not being able to analysis the data.
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Fruits are all sugar, they're nature's candy. They've also been genetically modified to be bigger and sweeter than they ever were before industrial farming.
Any news on this? I was super, super disappointed this mission did have a propulsive landing. I'm just now finding out it was nixed entirely.

But that's fine for NASA if they want to pay for a splash down? If somebody else wants to pay for propulsive landing, it's on the table?

EDIT: Sounds like a SpaceX driven decision.
CRDTs are great, and I've seen a lot of quality in Christopher's work.

A few other resources for those interested in CRDT subject:

- Our cartoon explainer https://gun.eco/distributed/matters.html

- An excellent talk by Martin Kleppmann https://youtu.be/yCcWpzY8dIA

- Marc Shapiro's in depth talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyUHd894w18
> What you're admitting here basically is that you think Comcast should be broken up because they lobby for things you don't like, but FAANG is fine because they lobby for things you do.

Far from being a shocking "admission," it's the least surprising thing in the world that people support policy they like and oppose policy they don't. And ignore policy they're indifferent to.

(People may also at times support policy they don't like and oppose policy they do for various practical political reasons, but that's a different discussion.)

This might be more of an issue in areas where things people do/don't like are arbitrary matters of taste. I'm certainly not saddling up to lead a state-backed charge against the company that produces Peeps despite the fact that I think they're a terrible excuse for candy.

But net neutrality is not an arbitrary matter of taste.

Nor, really, are immigration, tax reform and antitrust issues.
Simply, by it doing what you tell it but not the way you expect.

It's a little contrived but you tell it 'solve world hunger', so it 'does a Thanos' and wipes out half the human population by releasing a pathogen or something, so it's fulfilled it's primary function but (hopefully) not in the way you expected.
I agree that most of the problems can be solved. People in Manhattan have kids and manage without cars after all. I'm just saying is so much more convenient to not have to worry about it. :)

One place where I think we'll have to agree to disagree is on the attraction of ownership of a self driving car. I like having my own car that is my space. It's got my dirt and germs and the seats are the way I like and I understand all its quirks. I don't see how self driving changes that.

My car already has adaptive cruise and lane keeping. It only makes me enjoy the car more. The more it "self drives" the more I enjoy it.

In fact, when it is self driving, that just means even more stuff in the car that I will want to be customized to me, because I'll be spending more time using the amenities in the car instead of driving it. I'll want my own blankets for sleeping, my own books for reading, my own movies for watching, my own keyboard for typing that isn't covered in other people's grime, and so on.

Sure, once we get to a point where self driving is ubiquitous I suspect owning a car will only be for the ultra wealthy as it just won't make sense otherwise, but none the less I will still want to own one.

It's like with planes now. I'd love to own a plane that someone else flies where I want it to go with my stuff inside. But it's just not cost effective.

I think the best argument you can make against ownership is that it will be far more cost effective to rent instead of own. But the desire to own will always be there.
I think the real threat is going to be more of a side-effect of AI. The fact that the current models may produce results that we can't foresee; therefore, a sufficiently advanced AI is powerful AND unpredictable, hence uncontrollable.
Depends what it’s for? Backup? Editing files online? I use Dropbox and am quite happy with it.
Everything about this response is a poisonous and stupid lie. Detailed feedback is fine. There is no legal liability if you’re not discriminating against a protected class. Companies and individuals that behave this way are poisonous and stupid and best avoided.
"Why is that old guy still working? Must not have worked hard enough like I do! I'll be retired at 45 from my stock options and 401k" e.g. extrapolating from last 5-10 years of stock returns, which is all they've known...
Great paper with an incredibly important result. It will take years to shake out in industry and implementations, but should dramatically improve situations where strong consistency is important.
> I'm mostly focusing on Google here, and yes, they at least occasionally lobby for things I like because sometimes their interests and the interests of the public in general happen to align.

There’s definitely an argument to be made here that their interests don’t align with the public, and that they should therefore be targeted first — public interests is a subjective phrase.
if client side javascript is blocked, then just don't pay for that impression
For slowness when single-stepping, turning off Intellitrace (if not required) and playing with the function/expression evaluation and symbol loading settings in Tools->Options can help with that, if you haven’t already.
it helps the economy to let the old people die
That's great! More companies need a solution like the one you've created, unfortunately, not everyone knows how to build one. There needs to be an easy way to access important links. Some companies will even save a Google Doc with a list of all the important links, which isn't scalable long term. We're hoping we can make that process even easier so that even non-technical employees can create links.
Would you do it for 10 bucks a year?

The companies make money because they have data for a lot of people, your individual location is not worth a lot as a result.
they try to do that sometimes, but it's rather harder to claim innocence for that than other methods
Boeing's GoFly Prize