skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parts of this article resonated strongly with me. At http://infinite-food.com we are attempting to redefine urban food distribution through shared storage and 'just in time' (JIT) production of a wide range of hot or cold meals within a wholly owned and operated network of kiosk-sized self-contained robotic service locations, combined with a managed logistics system. Big wins from less real estate, less waste, less transportation, meaning less costs and less environmental impact, plus of course reduced cognitive and temporal load for the consumer (and optionally kitchenless or applianceless apartments - part of a trend which I call SKINK - Shared KItchen / No Kitchen). Big losses for the ritual of the grocery trip. It's looking at food on demand as an urban utility instead of a scarce personally owned resource, and choice and personalization as ever-present instead of having to battle restrictive commercial menus or plan ahead and self cater. I see our company as an early investment in a larger trend of moving industrial processes out of the industrial revolution (central industrial hub plus multi-party distribution to consumers) toward a more distributed model supporting aspects such as personalization. Interesting that the author identifies as an architect. Plus one for cross-domain abstractions! NB. We use a pickup model and target 3 minutes to itch-scratching, but could integrate with delivery (~30-60) if desired: we try to get closer to the consumer with a vastly reduced retail form factor, to enhance the chance for repeated and spontaneous use. Currently taking investment and beginning manufacturing targeting China, HK and Macau!
> There is no way to turn this part of the feed off.

Unfollow everyone, and you don't get sucked into interacting with the facebook feed. Use it for Messenger, groups, and events. I've been doing that, and facebook is a perfectly good communication utility without any of the grief.

Honestly, we as users should demand a simple switch that entirely disables the feed. It turns facebook from a socially messy skinner box into something benign and generally quite useful.
Those are pretty extreme. For me and probably 90% of other devs who don't want to get a security clearance, it's because of prior drug use. I don't even do anything like that other than smoke weed these days (which I would easily quit if I needed to for a job, though I still think that's very outdated BS) but the government seems really scared about people who've even previously used drugs.

No, I'm not going to spill fentanyl, weed, or any other drug on your desk and I'm also not going to lie during the clearance process to say that I've smoked weed less than 50 times in my life - but apparently that means I can't get a clearance.
> They're clearly reaping what they sowed.

They don't want huge traffic that they can't monetize. Unless they release revenue numbers that have also fallen by a lot, then it's hard to say what they've reaped.
This is exciting I wonder if Westinghouse will ever use some of the technology that Transatomic developed.
By flight level I meant from above ground level (AGL).

The previous commenter was thinking we were talking about height relative to ground level.

Altitude/elevation is height from sea level as specified.

I used flight level more as above ground level (AGL) but it also means not all the way to sea level and takes into account ground terrain.

The point being that all these planes (both 737s and the 767 Amazon cargo plane) all had similar issues between 6000-8500 feet in altitude (from seal level) but the ones that crashed on ascent took off from higher ground.

Moot point as it was sea level/altitude where all these plans had the same repeating/turbulent nose up 4 degree turbulence, then a direct 49 degree nose down state that led to the crashes, regardless of AGL.

Whether related or not the planes all experienced a nose dive in that range that was catastrophic.

It makes more sense with the 737 Max planes as they have center of gravity further back and software has to keep the nose down/straight, it makes zero sense for the 767 do similar movements unless it is common across software in that altitude range for some reason, possibly being more reactive at that range because of common elevations and it is harder to recover at that point.
Smartest people? Their tech stack is a dated cargo-culting of Google, hell, their newest thing is just using kubernetes with a thin wrapper.

Their AI platform is a also ran in pretty much every aspect.

Where exactly are the smart people?
If anything your comment speaks to the weird paradox of who is responsible for a corporation's actions. Is it the shareholders? Is it the CEO? Is it the employees? Is it the board? Is it the customers?

It almost ends up that there are so many people with a thread of responsibility that everyone involved has someone else to blame. Resulting in there being no one to blame.

Fascinating to think about.
Well, as I far as I can tell, a significant portion of negative qualities attributed to Facebook also can be, have been, attributed to email.

It seems like the situation of Facebook-anger today involves some people looking at particular interface of details that allegedly make Facebook in particular "more addictive" than email (or whatever unspecified social activity) but with this group with this narrow critique being joined by those with a broader critique of social media that essentially calls for nothing but face-to-face contact.

We face a difficult question of "at what point is a communication medium a tool of its users and at what point does a communication medium merely act on the users without them being truly conscious agents". I don't think we can really address this question by demonizing Facebook (the problem has existed since the dawn of mass media, with nearly all these media forms accused of doing terrible things and with the accusations at least have some support). Just for example, Zuckerberg may indeed have made some terrible choices but Facebook seems to signal a desire to take on this difficult question.
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Car2Go? GetAround?
Full disclosure: Im in college right now.

2015: $1.43 per hour (camp counselor)
2016: $12 per hour (Data strategy Intern, NY)
2017: $23.25 per hour (SWE Intern, OR)
2018: $48.75 per hour (SWE Intern, SF)
2019: ~$160K per year (SWE NY)
I’d rather use the tooling of VSCode than ssh into some shoddy configuration of vim
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I like the idea.

Unfortunately, even though snail mail has associated costs I still get a ton of junk.
Thousands of ICE employees can access license plate reader data, emails show
ET409 Crashes into the Mediterranean Sea (2010)
Boeing 737 Max Hit Trouble Right Away, Pilot’s Tense Radio Messages Show
BMW, MB, and Lime already do this in Seattle.
Google owes them nothing. These people are so entitled. They need to be sent off for war.
About three years after graduating I stumbled into some extra freelance work a school friend passed on to me. Then got lucky again by finding myself in a well-paid (for UK) devops niche.

- 2009: £1,000/yr Mostly depressed, unemployed and unmotivated. Some income from teaching English and arbitraging signup bonuses on gambling websites. Lived close to rent-free by subletting rooms in the apartment I was living in. (Spain)

- 2010-12: £8,000/yr English Teacher (China, full-time)

- 2012: £20/hour PHP dev (China, freelance)

- 2012-13: £16,000/yr Rails dev (China, full-time)

- 2014: £72,000/yr Rails dev (London, contracting)

- 2014: £102,000/yr Devops (London, contracting)

- 2015-16: £60/hr Rails+Go dev (SE Asia, some remote freelancing but mostly not working)

- 2017: £120,000/yr Devops (London, contracting)

- 2018: £158,400/yr Devops (London, contracting)

- 2019: £192,000/yr Devops (London, remote contracting)
Thanks :)

Yeah, I already have another ongoing project based on a cheap FPGA board with a Cyclone II (quite old but it does the job), the idea is to keep it cheaper and much less complex.

The FPGA has a Z80 implementation, video, sound and handle the game controllers. An external Atmega328 is used to handle the SD Card and then just RAM, an ICs for composite video and an op-amp.

I also have some ideas for a better console, maybe a generation forward and an 8-bit computer, but...these are just ideas, I doubt I'll actually get around to do them.
It looks like they are losing money per scooter [0]. I doubt the strong markets make enough to offset the losing ones.

[0] https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last...
How did I? or how does one? ;-)

I feel I got lucky in a way. Along the way I met one small company owner that I worked with on project to bring in some of their developers onto my team. A few years later they were looking for a contractor. Right at that time another coworker bluntly told me that I was way undervalued and literally gave me an hourly rate that they felt I could easily ask for. I asked for even a little more ;-) And got it!

The work is _exactly_ the same. Again, lucky. The logistics of starting the company can be facilitated with a good tax professional/accountant. The majority of that is paperwork.

The technical skills are a combination of deep expertise in both front end and back end, which is kind of rare in government contracting, plus the big 5 consulting background, which gives you credibility, plus being honest about what you know and dont know. Believe it or not, honesty goes a long way. It's your personal brand, after all.
> I hate being outright dismissive but it sounds like an expensive html/pdf form with a printer attached.

I don't think you're being dismissive enough, it's an expensive pencil and paper.
Didn’t read the article, I did read the thread.

How do I get into the USA?

The difference is too big, even when I give 20% to charity.

Or any ideas how to become well off in Europe?

Tech feels so much more difficult than manager or other business roles (cognitively). I feel like I should switch if I can’t get into the USA.
Haha buttmad nocoiner detected! :^)
States are required to meet a certain annual quota of biofuels sales. There's no federal requirement that ethanol be added to a particular gallon of fuel.

later: note that current US ethanol production exceeds those requirements by several billion gallons.
True, but in any given market you'll be lucky to have even two of the above as competitors, let alone 3 or more.
I tried that in the past and it's unusable over typical internet latency.
This is cool but I was left at the end wanting to know, did it work?
$500 is the retail price (that's how much i paid for the xiaomi m365 they used to use). someone estimated that it's ~$300 per scooter, which i find more believable.

they are probably (unit) profitable (or operationally cabable of being so), otherwise, they wouldn't have raised a $300MM series C last year.
> Yet you seem to make it sound like it's FB's fault.

I judge Facebook by its actions and the intent of the Free Basics program is clearly shady, I was responding to a parent who was presenting it as a god thing full stop, so am simply pointing out that there is more to FB's motivation here.

> Social network has enormous benefit because we human being are social animal. Simple as that.

I was talking more about the various free data deals Facebook has set up in developing countries, which effectively make it so that a lot of people see only Facebook when they first get online. I was not talking about "social networks" as a concept being bad.

> I'm surprised that you only "understand somewhat why it's working". Just because there are bad sides of it doesn't make it a mistake.

I understand it has short-term benefits, however over the long term, do you really want billions of people to assume that Facebook is the internet, to have everything they ever said, every picture ever taken stored there? Maybe even more, considering a lot of them are unlikely to have access to timely information on internet privacy, given they're pretty much limited to FB, a party not known for its strong stance on such matters?

And how about startups from the very countries affected? You're hardly going to compete against FB in such a situation.

> Condemn FB for their shady tactics, but don't forget the positive effect.

I am doing precisely that; condemning shady tactics. The benefits of FB are achievable without these tactics, or even without FB itself for that matter.
Not who you were replying to, but I agree with him.

Notifications - whether they were intended to or not, are way more intrusive in my usual workflow, and I would posit the majority of people find it the same.

This is down to the fact that the steam popups advertising games are in the same icon and styling as
the rest of steam -> i.e. You alt+tab or click on your steam icon and close or view it as clearly a steam thing. It also pops up during first start only.

A windows notification I find to be much more attention grabbing and not clearly defined as a particular program, and if I find it to be an ad, I'm immediately put out by this as I'm being advertised to by a program in my system tray, where I'm used to that being configuration info and/or notification of something minimising/complete etc.

Any information they give me through the notification tab is now in jeopardy of being ignored because I've been taught that they are ads now.

This isn't unique to steam for me, I'm totally used to programs opening up additional windows upon opening, but any programs that advertise through system notifications have long since bothered me.
congrats! you are on a great track. after doing this so many years, the higher you start out, the higher it goes later
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> You're claiming that everyone is legally being forced into ceasing distribution of pornography. Clearly this isn't happening. It's only Tumblr that is doing this, suspiciously soon after being acquired

Tumblr was acquired over five years ago.

But moreover, it's not only Tumblr that has banned pornography or nudity, drastically altered their content policies, or even shut down altogether in the last twelve months since SESTA passed. They happen to be one of the biggest, but I have literally lost track of how many other sites have responded in a similarly drastic way.

SESTA includes incredibly onerous penalties, including jail time, for even accidental noncompliance. On the other hand, there is no legal penalty for being overly cautious. So unsurprisingly, most websites choose the less risky and scary option.
Those gradual rollouts exist, but sometimes you have changes that aren't so easy to deploy a fraction of a percent at a time.
I'm a big fan 8601

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Indeed, and the lack of upload is a design choice, not a physical limitation of the medium, as far as I know. Coax is fairly durable, is less challenging to install and much easier to repair, and as long as they can push the speed over it, I really see no reason to run fiber into the home.
We've seen plenty of wildly unprofitable companies make it far past Series C. Lyft is on its 19th round and lost a billion on two billion dollars revenue in 2018.
"Perhaps, but that person is responding to another about the impact Facebook has on society, good or bad, and that person only highlights the good essentially."

But that's the structure of any logical argument. If someone says X is only A, I will describe how I see plenty of B in X, which by itself doesn't say there is not plenty of A in X too. IE, One person makes a generalization, another points to an exception or several exceptions.

I do think it's important to remember that Facebook is really doing nothing technologically amazing to allow that communication -- voice or text -- across geographical borders.

Indeed, Facebook pretty much only amalgamates blogs, chat, forums and such. But given it's only making technological steps of some small-to-medium degrees, if the love isn't justified, then neither should the hate be justified? Currently, Facebook gets both.
> The affected Tumblr communities weren’t enabling sex trafficking

Of course they weren't, but SESTA outlawed a whole lot more than that. "Sex trafficking" was just the excuse SESTA's authors gave.
People like smoking. People like drinking. Humans will be humans.
Huh?

Linux has had perfectly fine U2F 1 support for ages. All you need on a normal desktop box is u2f-hidraw-policy [0] and, optionally, the u2f CLI tools.

[0] https://github.com/amluto/u2f-hidraw-policy
It is difficult to compare, but the reality is that especially at FAANG companies the company has good services. They provide transport to/from the office, healthcare, retirement stuff, etc. However, the taxes in Europe are higher.
Someone discovered shared scooters don't last long, and thus don't make anything even remotely approaching a profit.

https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last...
> However, the memory in question here is, for the most part, not freshly allocated, but was in use once.

Because the author does not differentiate between virtual and physical memory, I can’t agree with that. It’s quite possible most of the memory “freed” was never in use. In which case, there’s not much benefit. And there is the probable downside that allocation heavy applications will pay a lot more.
I love the scooters in Washington DC, and I don’t really mind that there are all these different companies. Eventually they will consolidate and will get two or three really good ones, and all will be great. Parking is miserable here, but it makes it more tolerable when I park six blocks from where I need to be, and scooter over.
But the choice here is not "fly or drive", the choice here is "fly 737 MAX or fly another plane". I expect very few fliers have the budget and time to change flights, and those who can, will.
You need to separate the communications medium from the corporation providing it. Facebook is not the only social network. There are hundreds of them and when one falls, another takes its place. Technological progress is unending.

There's no use in trying to argue why something shouldn't be done when it inevitably will be and already has, what we need is to think of ways we can adapt as a species and society to handle it with the proper care and concern.
I just discovered that I am effected by this. I might have been interested in checking out epic games store. I am utterly disinterested in uploading a passport/id or other personal data to prove I'm not from Thailand.

Seeing as the accounts seem to share the same fake name. Ican Icanaw I suggest purging all such accounts and making people actually confirm email addresses before using them as identifiers like adults.

This is a junior high level mistake. So basic and so bad I no longer think anyone should trust Epic to have access to credit card info.
The problem I have with this kind of thing is that if you can get away with the idiosyncratic recommendations (XChaCha, GCM-SIV), you're not interoperating, and so you can almost by definition just use libsodium box and secret-box. Who is a laddered recommendation of different signing algorithms really helping?
The actual reason you hear a lot of broad support for nuclear is that the energy source is simply quite exciting from a physics point of view. There are roughly 2 million times more Joules in a kg of uranium nuclear bonds than in a kg of anything with chemical bonds (like oil, coal, gas) [1]. A nuclear reactor can operate for decades, powering a city on a few dump-trucks of fuel with no air pollution and no carbon emissions. The imaginations of tech-friendly people run wild with this pure-physics advantage, and one can't help but wonder if it's possible to harness this energy source successfully for the benefit of an enterprising mankind.

I am one such person who let my imagination run wild. I then spent a decade getting a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, and then spent another decade trying to develop advanced nuclear reactors. I have dozens upon dozens of friends and colleagues who feel the same way, mostly to help solve the climate change and energy poverty issues. This is not some cynical PR campaign. This is young, smart, energetic, and excited people trying to make the best of the world's natural resources through advanced technology.

The nuclear industry is famously pathetic with PR (the old guard think it's best to hide and hope anti-nuclear forces will go away). Can you even think of one pro-nuclear advertisement you've ever seen? Or a positive portrayal in a movie? Or in the news? I cannot. All I can see is Captain Planet and MacGyver and The Simpsons and all the monster movies that show nuclear as some dark scary force with a bunch of environment-hating goons dumping ooze into the river.

Mix this with magnitudes of pure ignorance in the difference between nuclear weapons waste (ooze, river, Hanford, Mayak) and commercial nuclear waste (solid, ceramic, like a teacup, dry casks, never hurt a soul), and you've got yourself a nuclear PR issue that needs some grassroots help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...
HIPAA - I want to be able to build data pipelines against patient data without the data itself leaving the server. Having my dev loop live on the same server as sample data is better than working against fake or synthetic data locally
The computer in the cockpit: Humans struggle to cope when automation fails
Honest question has anyone else seen salary decreases. I peaked at ~190k w2 contractor so no benefits. But after death march after death march and canceled projects. I got down to ~105. One of my biggest stress right now is due to money. Contributed to by a foreclosure that has a monthly payment. I've been east and west coast and tried FAANG, but unless I waited the vesting it was a drastic pay cut, and the midst of the foreclosure I needed hard cash. I keep on looking at my career and wondering what I did wrong.
> I believe they're using some automated filtering (see e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/tumblr-porn-ai-adult-content/). I assume it's easier to train an AI to recognise pornography generally, rather than a specific kind -- and now that I think about it, the process of training an AI to recognise child porn sounds extremely unpleasant and legally dubious.

Quite the opposite - it's much easier to allow pornography and ban only child pornography than it is to create an automated system to detect pornography.

PhotoDNA makes it easy to find matches, which can then be used to uncover the networks of people posting child pornography, which are then added back to the database. It doesn't require any computer vision at all.

By contrast, banning all pornography does require computer vision of some sort, and that's much more difficult, as evidenced by how terrible the new Tumblr NSFW content detector is.
keep your resume up-to-date every month (seriously, was great advice I got early on, even though I sometimes lapse myself).

and I know most people advising on salary negotiations say never give your number first... but if you are happy where you are, then it's going to take 30-50% over what you're making to make you move. So give that number. It weeds most recruiters out.

The ones that bite, you know they're serious. Then it's up to the role, company, commute, etc, the things that make a difference for you.

Golden handcuffs are a good problem to have. Wherever you go, just make sure you can make a difference and have some autonomy to make the work interesting.
And operation costs. Construction and operation costs are both hampered by regulatory burden that is not currently commensurate with the statistical risk.
I agree with you personally, but the cynic in me believes the vast majority of people fall under the category of my original post.
The Eclipse Che project (which I believe Theia is part of) is also very exciting in this domain.
Reddit lost me with the redesign to track and monetize. maybe 2-3 years ago? I had 250k karma all from mindful comments.
If you’re on Linux, you’ll want u2f-hideaway-policy installed to avoid permission issues.

https://github.com/amluto/u2f-hidraw-policy