skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But how do you evaluate a coder on their ability to solve problems? Much harder.

With an IQ test, the same way you evaluate anyone else on their ability to solve problems.
I love the usability of go links when I’m at work, but it sucks that they don’t work on mobile.
There is a wise phrase, "more with less", that people may be familiar with. I think this article fits into that paradigm nicely. Imagine the difference in global outcome if person A ate out each day of the week for lunch, while another followed the pattern of eating the same thing for lunch and took the money saved, putting it towards something like clean water in developing nations. Even a single human being doing this would make a big difference.
Exactly. I mean, I don't know the exact history of when the name "a.out" got transferred to the format, but I have to assume that it wasn't until there was something to contrast it with.
>>"Devastated. I was going to lose my grandfather. We knew that this was coming and that he was very sick. But I don't think somebody should get the news delivered that way. It should have been a human being come in," Wilharm said.

Well, when you are ready to clock out at a certain age, people should celebrate the life you lived and make peace with the fact that this is part of life. Now a 15 year old boy /girl is very different for obvious reasons.

If his life was measured in minutes ("might not make it home") maybe they had no other choice by Skype? Maybe another doctor at the hospital but he isn't his doctor
> And honestly, I would be more concerned about hiring someone who built their own bespoke framework from scratch than someone who used an existing one

It's almost like you're pretending the years between 2008-2012 never happened, but I'm sure that's not the case.
Yeah, researchers are known to do this kind of thing to get more publicity for their research, they have career goals too after all.

It's research clickbait basically.
I wish Tesla called something like driver assist. I use it for 90% of my commute and it is super helpful, but I would never pick a name for it of auto-pilot.
Not really. I would file this under misleading-but-true (although when I checked your numbers I came up with 630, not 588, still a bit shy of 2000cal/day so a little low for most people.

However, it really relies on two things (three, if you count "no snacks at all or other drinks")

1 - diet drinks only. If you change your diet code to a medium coke you are now at 2500cal/day. So instead of a deficit, you have a surplus for most people.

2 - you picked the basic smallest burger. Even if you only change that to a 1/4 pounder, you're up at 2300cal. And it mostly goes (way) up from there (with some exceptions, but even the fillet-of-fish or mcchicken are >100cal more than the basic burger.

So if you change it to "if you only eat from a severely limited subset of the McDonalds menu 3x a day and nothing else, you might be underweight". Sure, that's true. I'd hate to be your GI tract with that severe lack of fiber and vegetables, but you could do it for a while.

If you eat anything like a "typical" order for breakfast/lunch/dinner there, you are likely to have a pretty severe surplus. Hardly surprising, really. Hell some of the breakfast offerings are > 1000cal by themselves.
I love monotony in the right places. I'm particular about food, but I never bothered to research whether eating the same thing is OK. Glad I can just plan a healthy meal, and eat it over and over again.

It's only when I'm with others when I end up doing something different. And that different meal option almost always ends up being something I don't really want to put into my body.

Monotony is a great way to save money too. If you're cooking the same meals there is a lot of efficiencies you discover every day. The only difficulty comes when/if you want to eat seasonally.

Sometimes the desire for variety is just that. A desire.
Anecdata I know. I have gotten a flu vaccine for the past 5 years, and always got some sort of really bad cold/possible flu. This year, I skipped the flu shot. Guess what, I had a house full of people with confirmed flu(and all of them got flu shots except for me) and I was the only one who did not get the flu. Dont confuse this with my taking an anti-vax stance. My opinion is that either the vaccines we are getting for flu are saline, for the wrong flu strain, or are improperly prepared at scale and dont seem to work.
Every single area with a population density over 50/sq mi in the US has "the worst traffic" because nowhere is the public transit and alternative travel (buses, bikes, walking, etc) viable to displace cars. So everyone, everywhere, is driving cars and consume so much space to do so (between the roads, parking, gas stations, mechanic shops, dealerships, etc) that you cannot build an effective transit system in any major metro area. No city is interested in investing the amount of, well, political capital to make trains ubiquitous and all of them get to suffer endless congestion for it.

Its a chicken and egg problem, but modern America was built for the car. To retrofit cities away from the car is resisted on both ends, from the monetary expenditure to do so and how deeply ingrained in the design of everywhere the personal car is. But cars are worse the more you push people into the same urban cores but even if you were able to build for density you can't ever allocate the space for all those damn cars to make it actually beneficial but you also can't get funding for good infrastructure because so few can take advantage of it when they are so low density.
I rarely put anything on my Desktop, but I'm curious to see if I can somehow apply them globally to all of my folders.
It's really good for the economy to go out for lunch. You create a lot of jobs by doing that. If you're mindful of where you eat you can also support immigrant and minority owned businesses.
Imagine you are talking about an Amazon SDE (software development engineer) or similar role, and not just the warehouse workers, the latter of which I would seriously hope could care less about your advanced education.

My experience with Amazon's SDE hiring process has been pretty disappointing. It's a lot like Google's, where they bring in a bunch of devs and managers to tech-screen you, with nothing more than a "raising the bar" afternoon course in interviewing experience under their belt.

If they can see themselves in you, maybe a younger version, then it's a pretty good bet you'll get an offer. If not, they're perfectly happy to waste your afternoon, and maybe get back to you with a no. Ask yourself: "How you could tell if someone, who's a more experienced developer than you are, is more qualified than you are?" If you don't have a good answer, that's ok, but realize the ones making that decision are in exactly the same boat.

The problem with Amazon's "bar raiser" approach is that it ignores that your average rank-and-file employee does not know how to value a candidate. When you hire only the best, and you have no idea what that actually means (the best are who work here already?), then it becomes a self-fulfilling tautology. Lots of false negatives, and probably some false positives as well. If you follow history, Sears was probably like this at some point in time.

TLDR: No.
I buy bags of frozen fruit pieces. One advantage is that you get just the fruit with no juice or syrup, and I think frozen fruits and vegetables taste better than their canned counterparts anyway.
You are able to use go.golinks.io/KEYWORD with ours or if you are setup on the enterprise tier with us, we can setup full TLS go.youcompany.com/KEYWORD
A system with lane keeping and traffic-aware cruise control corresponds pretty well to a simple two or three-axis airplane autopilot that just holds heading and altitude.
So a few weeks ago this article circulated here: https://digiday.com/marketing/confessions-location-data-exec...

How does that reconcile with usefulness of the data Foursquare collects? Wouldn't that mean that Foursquare location data comes from a very limited subset of mobile users? I feel like I am missing something.
I absolutely love your sentiments. hug
Yes, they went wrong at R. One R has an infinite amount of information. Any finite theory must be combinatorial and cannot use a real R, so to speak.
Curious if people have company-wide productivity tools which simplify repetitive daily tasks - regardless of whether it's a vendor product or built in-house.
I thought their hamburger as signature item would be what most people would get, but maybe not. I don't actually go to McDonalds myself so I was just going off their website.
The inaudible range is far more likely to used as an attack vector for nefarious purposes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.09537.pdf

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/there...
> OK so Waymo is going to buy and retrofit and provide 500k cars?

If they bought Lyft, they wouldn't have to do that all at once; they could just insert self-driving cars as they were available into the pool.
I have been trying to, it's pretty neat!
On the other hand, while our brains did not evolve to control cars, our cars were designed to be controlled by our brains. A system designed from scratch for autonomous vehicles would look radically different.
I thought YouTube is still not profitable? Like it provides a lot of value for their larger, long scale strategy but is bleeding money short term?

I'm no expert, I just see this narrative parroted all the time.
> The biggest takeaway is that this is a lot easier if you're an autocrat with an army.

I'd believe it. I've often heard that a lot of the most recognizable features of Paris came from Napoleon's renovations.
> Foursquare knows where they are in real time, because it powers many widely used apps, from Twitter, to Uber, to TripAdvisor, to AccuWeather.

Holy crap, does Foursquare get your Uber location data and associate it with other services like Twitter?

This is starting to sound like a mini-Facebook. Call me cynical but I bet the only reason Crowley is even talking about this now is because they're trying to get ahead of the reckoning that's coming to Facebook for these kinds of data practices. He's positioning 4square as all innocent "hey we dunno if this is cool or creepy, let's ask people.." But is he really? Or is it an effort to appear like they are being transparent? If they really cared they would make it clear what they know about you. But you can bet they won't because nobody wants Foursquare tracking your Uber destinations and associating it with your Twitter profile or anything else.
Big Tech’s Competitor? Government
Tuna shake, baby!

Tuna shakes were a meme from the old misc.fitness.weights days. I was never sure whether anyone actually drank them regularly, or just said they did because it sounded hardcore.
Minicab firms are profitable.

Using VC money to subsidise minicab rides (which for some reason is called ridesharing) isn't.
A better comparison might be Java WebStart vs Electron.
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It unreasonable to assume anyone could ensure his email is kept private the moment she shares it with at least one other entity.

Rather than trying to fight windmills, it's better to use unique emails for sensitive/high-risk purposes. That way they cannot be used as primary key.

Company policy here is to never register any company account under a generic <admin@company.tld> email but use a partly randomized email for each provider <provider-xyz-123@company.tld>. That way no one can use one leaked email to even identify other services we use (think reset password/login dialogs leaking information about an email being registered or not).
"Three more doublings, and that number will be bigger than average miles between accidents for human drivers. Then they can ship a product."

I am skeptical of that, because I expect that even if disconnects are ultra-rare overall, and the testing is representative of normal usage, there will be enough people that frequently use the technology in ways far off on the tail of the distribution that for them, disconnects will be much less rare. And that might create a PR blowup or worse.

I think what is worrying me may be something called "heteroscedasticity".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroscedasticity
One trend I've noticed working with Foursquare data is that since anyone can add POI, there are a lot of garbage POIs. A simple filter on the number of check-ins alleviated that issue, but the new API no longer exposes that to anyone besides Enterprise users.
Not on international routes.
> I thought the hamburger would be their signature item

In the general “hamburger” class (and overall, because hamburgers are their signature category) the Big Mac and Quarterpounder are their signature items.
> Shkreli is an excellent man who's suffered a great deal

Unsure if trolling.
I had assumed you were framing things as them being out of context with 'real life' when you characterized them as "1% types." As for recruiting - that's what I was getting at. Different life experiences lead us to radically different views here. Your experience of finding your degree absolutely necessary is not necessarily indicative of people at large (depending on your field), though I'd fully grant neither is mine. It's just anecdata.

In either case, I'd fully agree with you though that a degree makes things much easier for most people. However, I think that is rapidly changing. Most of the big tech employers are now dropping college degree requirements and I expect we'll gradually see the same in ever more fields. A degree used to say a good deal about a person, and all positive. Now that's changing, and so the market is adjusting in response.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you disagree with me on something?
It seems unlikely that an aquatic species could ever develop ceramics, metalworking, or any other technology requiring the use of fire. Any ocean covering an entire planet is likely very deep, making construction difficult or impossible. Early power sources such as coal would also be unavailable.
In the article they mention a Python conference. I think Python is a good counter-example. It's an old language and still as strong as ever. On Stack Overflow, it recently passed JavaScript [1]. Unlike JavaScript, new Python code isn't all that different from old Python code.

A lot of older Python candidates are being passed over for younger ones. Sure they might not be learning Rust, but there are younger python developers that are having an easier time getting a job, and they aren't necessarily learning Rust either.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-pyth... https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cjava...
The simple fact that Humans only have eyes and don't need lidar or radar to drive, however we cause accidents when our eyes misinterpret a situation, there are bad road markings or our vision is impaired due to bad conditions a camera only car will have the same faults.

So Personally I would feel safe in a camera only car driving during the day in good conditions and with good road markings or on a controlled road where humans are excluded. I would not feel safe in any other situation..

I still want a model3 it is so good in every other way but I wont be trusting the self driving.
It's less of a link shortener and more of a link manager for companies. The concern that companies have with URL shorteners is they can't manage who is creating these links, and who owns these links. With GoLinks, the company will own the links, they can manage, edit, update, delete any links within the organization, so they will be centralized. The added benefit is that with a memorable link, you can access go/benefits much easier than bit.ly/fE7r232r. URL shorteners aim to shorten links, Golinks aims to make links memorable.
From another Bloomberg column this week:

> I lived in Austin, Texas, in the mid-1980s when it was a comfortable town with a population under 300,000. During that same time, however, a college student named Michael Dell was building computers in his dorm room at the University of Texas. The success of Dell Computers — which now has its headquarters in nearby Round Rock, Texas — utterly changed the character of Austin. Austin’s population today is around 1 million, big tech companies are everywhere, traffic is unbearable, and entire neighborhoods have been razed to make way for high-rise office buildings. People who live in Austin bemoan what’s happened to their city.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-06/jaffra...
I think there are very many things about Earth that are underappreciated as possible limiting factors.

I think that plate tectonics is absolute prerequisite for life to evolve. Not only that, you need to have plate tectonics for a very long time for life to evolve. You need sharp temperature gradients stable for very long time on geologic scales and you only get that with plate tectonics. Without plate tectonics and with presence of atmosphere and voluminous bodies of water (other requirements) everything just gets obliterated quickly and the entire planet becomes flat without much features or temperature gradients. At later stages of evolution I think geographic features are important as they create niches which promote specialization and differentiation.

I am currently reading on origins of political order (https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Origins-of-Political-Order-...). I think it might be possible large brain and high intelligence are not inevitable evolutionary results. The author speculates, and very convincingly, that the intelligence is result of human and chimpanzee males and females having different goals that cause them to deceive each other. The one who could better deceive would have evolutionary advantage and this caused humans to grow in intelligence as a result. But this level of intelligence is not inevitable as we see other species dealing with the problem in different ways. Large brain is a huge liability to an animal as it consumes a lot of energy and causes lots of other issues. It is true that animals use large brains to avoid predators or, being predators, to be more effective at the task. But it also seems that most animals don't seem to be growing their brains more with relation to their body size as it seems there are diminishing returns at some point and bigger brain costs exponentially more than it is worth.
Prohibited was the wrong word, you're right. Institutional investors that run ETFs have become averse to dual class stocks ($SNAP, $LYFT) because they don't have the same voting power per share that they do with other share class setups. Indexes like S&P 500 have also stopped including listings that are dual-class -- this is changing though, see the articles I've linked below.

- https://www.cii.org/dualclass_stock
- https://citywireusa.com/professional-buyer/news/crown-duals-...
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/dual-class-shares/20...
We figured out the first principles of fusion power in 1930s, but are still nowhere close to practical fusion power generation. The engineering difficulties are just too great, and simpler alternatives exist which get much more attention, funding and optimisation.

Similar might happen to vision-only self-driving. It might take a decade or two longer to develop compared to LIDAR-based approaches, and meanwhile LIDAR is only going to get cheaper.
We use self-hosted SugarCRM.
Submitting this because their new feature is interesting in the view of programmers.

They abstracted away part of the software to create a visual dependency graph tool. To over-summarize think visual make. With partitioned multi threading and more.

I think it can inspire other guys outside of the CGI world or maybe attracts criticism or simply discussion.
> Static KBA, also referred to as "shared secrets" or "shared secret questions", is commonly used by banks, financial services companies and e-mail providers to prove the identity of the customer before allowing account access or, as a fall-back, if the user forgets their password.

Wikipedia refers to "security questions" as "Static KBA".
In a golden age of SXSW brand activations, at least Game of Thrones draws blood
Yeah, that's the problem we solved. there are a few caveats, but it's precisely why we don't consider UUIDs anonymous
"I found the peacefulness and simplicity of not having to stress out about where to go for lunch"

very often in life, we mistaken boredom for peacefulness. a simple and stress-free life can be just as, if not more, rewarding then the hectic one we leave behind.
Here's the logic:

Tapping out a new SoC design costs Apple hundreds of millions of dollars and years of engineering time. Reusing those pieces of A10 silicon that had defects effecting only part of the chip is essentially free.

Every other SoC/CPU manufacture does this, sells the same piece of silicon at different clock-speeds or with half the cores disabled.
The fact that apple typically doesn't do this binning actually puts Apple at a disadvantage cost wise.

> but the T2 serves such a novel purpose in the Mac, and has some unique performance requirements

Sure, but the performance requirements are all a subset of what the A10 can already do. There is no need for a large GPU like the A10 has, the T2 only drives a tiny, low animation display. Yet the GPU takes up ~35% of the A10 die. There is also no need for such powerful CPU cores.

If apple were designing a custom SoC for inclusion in Macs to meet those requirements, it should logically be much smaller than the A10.

Yet we have this T2 chip which is basically the same size as the A10.
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Bear in mind that the cost of operating a car is about $0.61/mile.[1]

[1] https://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/cost-of-operating-a-vehicle/
==I've been under the impression that Texas's k-12 education is much better than California's and on par with New York and Illinois.==

Your own source disagrees:

9. New York

16. Illinois

35. California

40. Texas

==Texas has something crazy like 1/5th of all k-12 students in the country.==

It's more like 1/10th. Texas has 5.4 million in public k-12 [1] and there are 50.7 million in the US public k-12 [2].

==That number has shot up faster than any other state, so I think it's reasonable if they're having some "growing pains" so to speak.==

A good way to get past those growing pains would be to invest in education. Again, from your source on Texas "Public school spending: $8,485 per pupil (4th lowest)".

[1] https://tea.texas.gov/Reports_and_Data/School_Performance/Ac...

[2] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
Didn't SAG's contract renegotiation a few years back end that? I thought now it was business class only. That was the impetus for United killing first class on their LAX-NYC service.
I've been lucky enough never to be in a situation like yours (not having the money for food that isn't in the vicinity of the cheapest), but since the first time my college dorm had a kitchen I've been making an effort to keep food costs low (with a more recent additional shift away from meat), and I've come to a similar realization.
Even when the option for something more is always there, keeping my standard meals simple (currently, miscellaneous-root-vegetable stew, or rice-and-beans, or half an acorn squash with raisins) means that on when I occasionally have reason to go for something fancier (once a month or so), the thing that would have gotten boring ages ago for some people (a turkey Reuben from a deli) is really good (and still much cheaper than a comparable step-up would be from a higher baseline).
No worse than what a cookie-cutter shark can do.