skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely it doesn't cost $10m to build a secure ballot form. Existing solutions have had so many obvious flaws that it seemed like e-voting companies weren't actually interested in accurately counting votes. They really need 50+ people to make a checkbox form and print the result?
“Full self-driving capabilities”

One of the items listed is your car finding you in a parking lot. I gotta day... I really don’t want to get hit by a self-driving Tesla in a parking lot.

Having experienced some of the auto-pilot issues first hand... I have serious doubts about this one.
You realize the Tesla does not have a heavy engine in the front? The term FWD is meaningless here.
> [...] I don't know why it is called Dynamic programming.

In this context "programming" means "optimization"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization
I've only changed jobs three times. I should have changed a lot more. I do iOS dev these days.
To get in all you need is to clear the technical and behavioral interview. I participated in over 300 interviews, and not once was education ever brought up as a factor. Amazon in Seattle hires hundreds of people a week, and there's plenty of openings in other places. Just find a position you think is a good fit and apply. If you know someone working there it'd be good to get a referral, but it's not required. I just applied from their website in 2010, and I started 3 weeks later.
I'm going to try baking all my dependencies for my language plugins and editor tools. Could be interesting with the built in terminal.

FROM codercom/code-server
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install curl gnupg
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | bash -
RUN apt-get -y install nodejs
Labor dropped their policy back in '07 because it was a stupid policy, you know.

> non-proliferation, disarmament, testing

You don't need to do any of that jazz to have nuclear power. The existence of cheap and clean nuclear power would in fact be a powerful stabilising force and likely to promote world peace.

> nuclear waste management

Are there worries here that cannot be fairly summed up as concerns about radiation risk? The volumes are tiny and trivially manageable apart from that.

> aboriginal land rights, mining degradation

Those are simply anti-mining concerns. There is nowhere in Australia that mining doesn't interact with somebody's land rights. There is also no organised political force in Australia that wants to ban mining - even the Greens are not opposed to mining in principle.

> The installed cost of nuclear power does not make it an attractive option ...

Maybe. I'm not up to date with the current costs for wind and solar but I've been consistently told they were the cheapest option and it has been consistently proven they are not. Happily the evidence is a lot more compelling this round but I'm waiting to see the whole-of-grid picture.

That doesn't change the fact that there was a long stretch of Australia's history where the most economic cheap & clean source of energy was basically blanket banned due to a major parties policy. You'd have to be stupid to try and run the gauntlet with nuclear power in the current political environment, so I doubt it is going to get a fair go.
> When you're really screwed is if the thing breaks down on you, and you have to pay the rental fees out of pocket,

Rental coverage is quickly exhausted waiting for Tesla to provide replacement parts.
While it's probably not relevant anymore since you don't want deal with them, if you are in Europe, you should be able to require that they fix the information due to GDPR. Refusal to fix information must be based on law and I while IANAL, I don't think there's a law that would require them to request passport copy to fix the country. https://tietosuoja.fi/en/if-you-want-to-have-your-data-recti...
I don't know anything about dynamic programming in the manner that it is taught. I also don't get why it's even a thing (which is to say I haven't studied the topic, and haven't yet seen a need to do so).

Someone recently gave me the egg dropping problem in an interview. I had never seen it before, but the answer eas obvious, and I verbally stated the solution in under a minute. I asked the interviewer if I could out the Log N solution, which I believe was essentially a binary search on a logical list of length N using a bit of looping or recursion. He asked me to go through the process of explaining it, and I really didn't see the point. He knew the answer, and he knew the answer, and he asked me to implement the simplest solution first. To me, that was the solution I started, but that wasn't good enough. The interview went downhill from there.

I later googled the answer, saw people explaining some overly complex matrix-y shenanigans, and I tuned out.

Maybe I'm missing something?
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I've wondered about this as well. Studies are difficult to find. The ostensibly answer is morals/ethics of advertisers which if not already bordering on an oxymoron, also makes no sense given that these same advertisers still happily run all the ads they can in e.g. Saudi Arabia. And they're certainly well aware that if 62% of men acknowledge watching porn that that simply means 38% of men lie about watching porn. So it's not even cultural concerns, as might explain e.g. Saudi Arabia.

But I think there's probably a very simple answer. People in the mood for porn are going to be substantially focused on the content they're after, rather than getting distracted by your ad. Contrast this against something like a cat pic. Ah that's cute -- then 2 seconds later your mind and attention is wondering, ideally right on over to their ad. The porn ends up being a much worse value proposition than the cat pic, or more generally than any rapidly consumed low-effort low-intensity content.

I think the exact same can also explain why advertisers prefer to avoid 'controversial' content. I expect the advertisers ostensibly kowtowing to social media outrage mobs are mostly just using them as useful idiots. They point out controversial and likely highly immersive content. Pulling out not only gets them a few social media white knight points, but also generally results in some degree of controversy which also helps spread their brand name effectively working as free advertising. You might even get things such as people deciding to follow you on social media as a means of virtue signaling. This also points to another ironic point that I think supports the above hypothesis. Advertisers are more than fine with controversy when they themselves are the controversy. See: e.g. Gillette that intentionally planned an advertising campaign exclusively around fanning the flames of a culture war.
In the USA, it is common to get more paid leave as you stay with a company. People who switch jobs often will only get a tiny amount, while those who stay in one place get plenty.

The first year might be 5 or 10 days. After 10 or 15 years, you might get 20 to 40 days.
glad I'm not the only one
note also that the steam tax is mainly fud

steam doesn't take a cut from keys you sell on your homepage or third party stores
It's not a cynical measure of what makes more money. The risk tolerance is set a lot smaller than that level. Which is a reasonable acknowledgement that you can't prevent all risk. At some point the overhead of your anti-risk measures starts causing more harm than good.
The butcher owns the cattle farm? Android has googly eyes.
Addressing Spotify’s Claims
White collar talent doesn’t follow fiber installs. You can’t even get fiber in many places in Mountain View of all places.
1. A letter went from CA politician Adam Schiff to Jeff Bezos ‘chiding’ him. It’s state interference.

The question is..would amazon have pulled those books if Adam Schiff didn’t chide Jeff Bezos?

2. It’s not about Autism. It’s about protecting Vaccines.

Every pharmaceutical drug comes with warnings and side effects. But it makes tons of dollars. Placebos don’t.

3. We live in a world where ..thanks to Monsanto..you can find Glyohosate in mother’s breast milk. And that’s ok. Because. Science.

I am a woman. The tampons we use contains dioxin. So. Really. Colour me a cynic. The govt doesn’t care.

This from CA where homeless people are allowed to live and freeze and shit and shoot up on the streets. And given clean needles to shoot up safely. $600 million dollars and no solution for the problem.

Sometimes ‘problems’ are profitable. I see this drama and outrage as protection of Big Pharma. There is a tiny fringe population that accepts these books as gospel. There is nothing you can do to change them. This is merely a dry run for censorship and more of a prep for nanny state installation.

I hope this isn’t encouraged.
That’s not a fair representation of what the OP just posted or the person he quoted said.
It means the power is applied to the front wheels, not the back. Youre thinking of front/mid/rear engine.
In Minneapolis, we say: Winter, and Construction.
Anybody else notice the symmetry of how Google's competition is described as "entrenched" and how Google's fiber lines were literally, insufficiently entrenched?
What's wrong with paper as a technology? Nothing. What's wrong with paper as a proposed solution? Education and public perception.

People who work with computers understand their limitations. But the average person on the street doesn't seem to see them the same way. They think computers equal modernization equal reliability. True or not, if you want to voting system to be a political reality, you'd have to change public opinion, and we've spent more than a decade trying to but haven't gotten that done.
Anne Carson: Lecture on the History of Skywriting [video]
honestly, 30% isn't terrible for a major shift. I imagine they will save a considerable amount of money on moderation and dealing with legal issues.
Thank you so much! I just started this blog this week and your comment made my day :)
Don't they sell a ton of Teslas in Norway?
> The top comment on this thread (re: "acceptable loss"), is infuriating.

Do you ever drive a car? Do you think the risk is "acceptable"?

And don't get hung up on semantics, "acceptable" doesn't mean it's not terrible, it means that it's not feasible to prevent every risk with that danger:cost ratio. Especially because anything that causes a drastic reduction in flight will increase car trips and probably cause more deaths.

This is of course different from someone lying about the level of risk. But some risks really are "acceptable".
You must be a drunk engineer.

It's about pulling or pushing the car.

When it snows all BMWs get stuck here.
> Here's an entirely novel concept for evaluating if somebody can write code that solves actual problems. We could ask people to, IDK, write code that solves actual problems. They're there for a day. A good coder can solve some pretty interesting problems in a day.

You mean solve an actual business problem that the interviewing company has? The ramp-up time to be productive in any real business that I've been associated with is significantly greater than the time available in a single interview (usually an hour or so). This is why toy problems are used.

Another issue is that it's not really fair to ask an interviewee to solve your company's problems for free. In fact, without some sort of contract, the interviewee technically owns her own work, so even if she manages to solve a real problem, the company really shouldn't use it.

(BTW, 5K interviews at one hour per interview is 625 eight-hour workdays. Assuming 50 work weeks of five days each in a year, that's 2.5 work years devoted to nothing but interviewing in your career. Yes?)
This puts me off buying a new car.

I’d like to see vehicle manufacturers, for the purpose of regular retail owners, extend the warranty of a vehicle if it spends more time in the workshop than the allotted time set out in the repair manual.

If remove and replace engine is, for example, 10hrs, then the car should be in the shop for no more than, say, two to three days. If it sits there for days > weeks > months waiting for parts the new car warranty should be extended by the same amount of time.

My guess is that’d go a long way to fixing the spare parts waiting times.

What are the possible reasons for such long waiting times on spares? It can’t be freight delays; it can’t be that the part isn’t available.
Actually this was possible already, and most of Facebook's primary features existed before Facebook. Facebook can really be described as the time wasting, addiction-inducing, feature-sets on top of standard social communication features, driven by their main goal of delivering and monetizing ads. Helping you communicate with your friends and family? That's just an ad vector.

Recently my friend group switched over to a non-facebook-owned messaging service, and the hardest part was breaking old habits. The facebook specific features? Messenger actually had fewer features to help us communicate and more features designed to distract us and make us mindlessly consume.
Allowing everyone to verify that their vote was counted as they intend is a start, but....I'm not saying it has to use block chain, but for its veracity to actually be openly verifiable, the voting ledger has to be publicly visible.
Literally every time self driving cars are brought snow and rain are mentioned as a necessary step for wide deployment.

They were aware of this problem even in the 1990s.
Maybe unrestricted government handouts aren’t the best way to stimulate a market...
Also consent can now be retro actively withdrawn, so if you don't keep your books, your hooks will bleed you.
Running this on a VPS and works great.

Exactly what I was looking for to code at my public library, which provides macs but no permissions to install software.

I haven't run into any issues so far, except for the obvious permissions issues which were easy to fix. Extensions all install. I'm sure I'll have more to say about it as I use it more heavily.
this is all greet but I shouldn't have to trust app makers. the os shouldn't allow an app to read another app's data without permission. the os also shouldn't allow an app to view what other apps are running

Epic might be doing the right thing today. Will they tomorrow? Is every library they use trustworth forever?
Wow, from IT Admin to VP of Software in 8 years is very impressive.
Youtube has a YT-Kids app which doesn't have ads.

It's handicapped in a lot of other ways. To name a few, you can't disable auto-play, if you want to disable recommendations the only way to do so is by selecting some channels that you would like your kid to have access to, and that will disable search AND casting. There's an un-skippable startup animation, and a whole lot of other animations that make the app feel slow. And the android tv version of it won't allow you to type in search queries with a keyboard (which the other youtube does allow).

In other words, it's better than the standard YT app in a lot of ways but it's an extremely frustrating UI for both the kids and adults.
If one isn't rich one shouldn't be considered free..
I have fiber that’s not from google at 1 gig/sec for $85/mo in Austin and had it in Phoenix as well. Is it possible google is just an incompetent ISP?
> [...] I don't know why it is called Dynamic programming.

According to Richard Bellman, who came up with the name:

An interesting question is, Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?

The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington
named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the
word research. [...] What title, what name, could I choose?

In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a
good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word "programming"

[...] it's impossible to use the word "dynamic" in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination
that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible.

Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to.
Clients that are actually open source, updated on time, and have source code that actually builds?
That's a very nice video of a production plant, but I don't think it's the one in question.
"pending regulatory approval"

They won't get that for a long time. Autopilot is a driver assist feature. The step to "the driver doesn't have to pay attention/be present" is gigantic, and I'm not holding my breath until Tesla will get that right.
Correct. The incentives and pressures on centralized payment processors are never going to change.
Again, they are native only in that they run native code and use the bare minimum Cocoa (Touch) controls that they are required to do by the system. Everything else is reimplemented, rather poorly IMO.
"As the compiler will stop you from borrow checking or something unsafe again and again, you are being distracted constantly by focusing on the language itself instead of the problem you are solving. I know the friction is greater because I am still a Rust learner, not a veteran, but I think this experience stops a lot of new comers, speaking as someone who already conquered the uncomfortable syntax of Rust, coming from a C/C++ background."

To be honest, this article seems somewhat ingenuous. The author wasn't comfortable with Rust, and it seems like he missed the point of the borrow checker. This article will now be circulated whenever Rust is discussed.

Here is a good article that arrives at the opposite conclusion:
https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html

I've been writing Rust full time for the last month and a half or so and the language is a joy to use. The main difference is that the code I write feels very sturdy and permanent. I've heard other people say the same thing.
Plus, India has a no first use policy. So it's not like India will threaten other countries with nuclear consequences in case of war like situations. This makes India's approach to nuclear weapons safer, IMO.

Of course, such policies can be changed whenever India would want to.
What are the possible reasons for such long waiting times on spares?

The manufacturer makes money putting those parts in new cars, it makes no money sending it out to repair yours...
To summarize the other comments:

Yes.

-Very few games provide demos.

-Steam allows refunds under certain conditions, but also reserves the right to ban accounts that abuse that system, and declines to define abuse. Therefore it's generally advisable to avoid using refunds to try games, and save them for when there is a issue.

So there is definitely a gap where demos would serve well.
Votes can't be public. Leads to coercion.
As someone working in Japan paid around or below most of your junior salaries.. oof.
I think the bigger problem is in sensor precision, particularly those sensors responsible for reporting what state the arm in (i.e. so the computers onboard can calculate the position of the arm relative to the object it needs to pick up). Sensors with low tolerances are extremely expensive and those particular robot manufacturers may have opted for less accurate sensors to save on costs. They may work perfectly fine for moving things like doors and frames; but the differences make themselves known as soon as you try to interact with bolts and etc.

When I did robotics we had a perfectly capable Linux box running PID loops several hundred times a second; but our robot still sucked b/c our on board motion sensors were simply not precise enough to give us accurate data to feed the algorithms. As usual, it's all about the data.
> I'm just so disappointed that I'm carrying around a far more powerful device than even a PC from my childhood, and some of the best gaming experiences are old console games.

My theory of the awfulness of phone games is that it's more about the fact that phones don't have any input devices. So you see things like endless runners where the only possible command is "jump", which works well with the hardware where the only input you can provide is "I touched the screen". If the game had two commands, it wouldn't work on a phone.

I put ScummVM on my phones. It works fine; the only input an adventure game needs is mouse clicks with no time pressure. Interestingly, the current version is a huge step backwards in usability from the much older version available through f-droid -- the older version takes a screen tap to mean "click in the location of the cursor", and you move the cursor by dragging your finger around the screen. But the current version takes a screen tap to mean "click under where I tapped the screen", making clicking almost impossible.
It is hard to describe exactly the niches they are trying to fill with the designs. I don't see the Y suddenly appealing to someone who didn't already want an X or Y or 3. The differences between models borders on what other companies would consider trim levels.

They are only cannibalizing the same market, as opposed to producing a pickup or a hatchback or a van on the same chassis. Are they limited by tech or capital? Or are they really attached to an idea of what a perfect car is and have trouble extending the vision?
A Classic Formula for Pi Is Hidden in Hydrogen Atoms
I'm still out plenty of money thanks to Karpeles that I'll never see again. Not a happy result for me, sorry, no.
The base Model Y (RWD long range) is comparable in features and performance to the RWD long range Model 3. When you compare those two, it's only a 4K price differential (47K vs 43K). It's a bit misleading to say the Model Y has a 13K premium over the 3; that's only true if you compare two cars with drastically different feature packages.
As far as I can tell they only talk about the Takaoka #1 Line, which has a rate about 1 car every 57 seconds. This is just about normal for a regular car plant.

For comparison Honda has a flexible plant in Marysville, OH, which I've heard has a run rate of one vehicle every 4 minutes (but take that with a very large grain of salt).
The Quantum Computers in Our Future
"Cloud" can mean a lot of things, so what does it mean to you in this context?

Edit: Put another way - day to day, what are people in such roles working on exactly?
The difference is that a traditional RWD car has a heavy engine in the front, but is being pushed from the back where none of the weight is. So lack of traction and fish tailing is the obvious result.

However, I think a RWD electric car would have less problems with traction (and thus, fish tailing), since the weight is distributed over the length of the car more evenly.

I think push vs pull is legit, but I don't think it would be as much of a problem when all the weight isn't in the front. I'd be interested to hear from some Tesla owners who drive RWD in the snow.
How does that help? The paper ballots still need to be counted as they are the authoritative source of the final tally. An electronic tally does nothing useful and adds complexity.
> But then the cost benefit evaporates. You need a tower on every street corner which has to be wired with fiber.

That’s simply not true, and it becomes obvious why when you account for fan-out. There is a reason why independent ISPs often do MDU installs. Running fiber to one point where you can service 100 customers is vastly cheaper than running fiber to 100 houses.
What did your day to day look like?
This is a surprisingly open response to what is likely to be a legal matter, particularly given Apple's usual silence on... most everything.

I definitely take issue with it's avoidance of the core issues though: That the services they provide aren't optional on the iPhone. They make it sound like connecting Spotify to users, and allowing them to use their in-app purchase mechanism is a service they offer that they should be paid for. But the reality is, that Spotify has no choice but to use that service, which is the definition of a monopoly.

In that, I feel they didn't meaningful counter Spotify's primary anticompetition claim, and I look forward to seeing what the EU makes of it.