skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not actually convinced that Fred Tecce, "Commercial pilot and aviation expert" has actually flown the Max himself.

The quote you've used also is interestingly phrased: "If you talk to the pilots who fly them", because it seems he might not be one of them. Instead, he's described as a "commercial aviation expert" who is defending the FAA.

Possibly (un)related, he used to be a federal prosecutor.
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We reimplemented paging system with Slack plus Twilio fallback, it made sense for us, but yes I think that's rare.

Yes, Slack only was completely unacceptable and we already had Twilio account used for other things.
What's the size of that difference? 30 points?
I'm sure the hivemind will downvote this to oblivion but when I see this sort of thing, my gut reaction is that the communication is so dramatic and such an attention grab... As an aside, given the actual events that led up to FB getting the negative limelight, it seems like the ire IMO be directed at the transmission of propaganda/lies via ads, not privacy.
...and? From a job market standpoint, does it help him? Does he "sell" it on his resume, in interviews? Is it valued? Did it help him competence/knowledge-wise?

From a personal standpoint, did it help/enrich him?
http://cryptome.org/2013/11/snowden-tally.htm
Have you actually tried this? I did, and Slack's availability is abysmal. I implemented fallback just in case and got surprised how often it triggers.
I feel like Spotify has 3 arguments:

1. Apple music too cheap

2. Apple tanks Spotify app

3. Apple's 30% is too much

For them Apple responded:

1. Spotify has much more freeloaders than paying users, so it has to be more expensive than Apple Music

2. Responded in length, that Spotify is not special, and got same treatment as anyone else

3. Responded that same as Spotify, far from all apps are payed, and infrastructure is shared by everyone. So 30% cut is not to support only paying apps, but all the App Store.

I am pretty satisfied with Apple's answers.
A bad sort algorithm makes you look like a hero when you do some “performance improvements” later on.
graphical software (even Powerpoint) still works best IMHO
I remember his words from an interview "I sold the privacy of my users for a huge profit. I made a decision that compromised my principles, and I must live with that every day."

This guy should have his own character in the next season of Silicon Valley series.

Give your billions to the poor and move on you poor guy
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Problem is we can define a function mix(a, b) which intermingles two arguments and produces a new value dependent on both- for example, sha256(a.concat(b)).

Then we can take any randomized algorithm and, for its random values, use mix(real_rng.random(), Ackermann(5, 5)).
Dwarf Fortress seems to be way beyond me. It takes ages reacting to any keyboard input I make and once I get to the actual game screen, I can't even find my character. Maybe the Steam edition will finally be usable for me.
Not a US citizen, but AFAIK, a course includes lectures, office hours, assignments etc. How did he manage to fully understand the materials without all the resources that are provided only for registered students?
Thanks. Glad you like it.

Volt uses native UI, but the text content is drawn for performance. It will be made accessible soon.
All the ways? Ha. Sure.
Interesting to watch qualifying. The Mercedes was definitely more of a handful so it looks like it has more corner entry over steer which will make the car pivot around the Apex and allow for sooner throttle application.

The Ferrari was more composed but on turn 14 Vettel struggled to get the car to the Apex perhaps showing signs of under steer. Less rotation, harder to get the power down, and more likely to destroy the front tires if you keep pushing too hard.

The Mercedes also looked to not enjoy bumps or curbs as much but as bouncy as it was it was still planted. And though Hamilton had to do more counter steering inputs than we are used to in formula 1 he was still quickest in qualifying and the oversteer looked like it was completely manageable and just the right amount. Probably around 15%-20% which is easy to control and quite fun to drive.

Reading the article it seems like the analysis is spot on. Not enough front grip because of the front wrong on the Ferrari which led to a tendency to perhaps under steer. What looked promising in testing was obviously Mercedes just not showing their full hand.

Still different tracks will suit different cars so will see how the first 3-4 races play out before giving the championship to Mercedes. Last year Ferrari was leading just about till the summer break and there were a couple of costly unforced errors from vettel that really cost him dearly.
Matthew D. Green's 's wonderful Crypto analogies
My bays tend to have 2x 32A provision, but we run grown up voltages in Europe.
It is like this in my country, although the form is electronic and 5 pages of A4 paper (if it was printed) but rest is true. I log in to tax office web site, confirm my identity via bank or e-signature, review the form and submit for approval, correct if necessary. Usually takes 10 minutes.
The benefits or the critique? (I could guess, but prefer not to ...)
A Day in the Life of a YC company Intern (During YC)
Sounds like you really got to know each other and made an eyes wide open decision to stay together. To me this sounds a wise way to make that decision.
Awesome AI Fairness – GitHub Repo
Maybe we can just say "true randomness" instead of "freedom of choice"?
I guess the people who they want to know will have all the information already. Nowdays S-1 filings can be confidential until three weeks before the IPO, many rules of the market do not make it a even playing ground for retail investors.
I never understand why ads and subscription fee needs to be an exclusive or for how the big players monetize.

I'd happily give Google $5/month for Gmail, $10/month for YouTube (I already do), $10/month for google search etc or $40/month for their complete package if they remove ads and respect privacy then. It's less than other "semi-essential" services I have to use like my ISP or car and if they make more than that of me from advertisements the advertising/marketing market must be bonkers.
How 2D semiconductors could extend Moore's law
I'm not sure what you mean, the second paragraph of the article is: "Images sourced from The Seattle Times, the NTSB, Boeing, Tails Through Time, the Colorado Springs Gazette, The Times of India, Wikipedia, TribLIVE, The Flight 427 Air Disaster Support League, and Forbes. Video clips courtesy of Cineflix and the Weather Channel. Special thanks to the Seattle Times for its series of articles on the subject in 1996, which brought to light many of the details referenced here."
> I'd still want the option to do it myself

"Taxpayers would have three options when they receive a pre-filled return: accept it as is; make adjustments, say to filing status or income; or reject it and file a return by other means."
Please God yes.
Check the demos here (look at the snake game regarding latency concerns):
https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...

Or look at the ElixirConf keynote:
https://youtu.be/Z2DU0qLfPIY?t=2503 (the video starts at 41:43 showcasing a cool demo where you would expect the latency to be a bottleneck, yet it's not)
The critique. There's more rambling by (I think) the same author here: https://github.com/google/highwayhash/issues/28

His arguments are a little inconsistent and ambiguous, which suggests either a misunderstanding, perhaps a touch of mania, or both. But they're all wrong--whether at face value or when assuming the best possible version--at least regarding the security and the ease of generating collisions.

As for the argument that SipHash is too slow, that's a qualitative judgment that many people have made. But they don't usually need to first convince themselves, erroneously, that SipHash is insecure.
> a service that inherently resists the kind of centralized analytical approaches Facebook uses to make money

Unless they, you know... change it.
Perhaps for you; not for my experience.

Also, you get as much as you put in. I’ve had plenty of awful professors but found ways to study in my own time, do my own projects and read papers on top of the curriculum I was learning. You can’t expect to passively receive the best possible education by top notch teachers, especially in research institutions.

Lastly, your first sentence neatly proves my point that elite/“top 2” programs are more about signaling and working for a FAANG. Not everyone judges the worth of their career by salary or proximity to a FAANG, and I would consider it extremely wasteful and sad if someone considered the biggest benefit of a top tier CS education to be landing a FAANG job.
That's so cool! Here is my try in 120 lines of PHP: https://gist.github.com/sanxiyn/3159161
Minic: C compiler and VM that in the browser, written in purely functional C#
When discussing this exact topic with classmates this semester (philsophy undergrad in a medieval philosophy class that is doing a lot with the interplay with theology) I've used the following metaphor to explain how I've come to understand the idea of the supposed symbiosis between God's omniscience and our free will:

Think of God as an observer at the top of the Grand Canyon, looking down into the winding path of the river below. Humans are afloat on the river down in the canyon, unable to see what lies ahead. They can choose how to react to obstacles, for example, yet do no see them coming. God, however, sees our entire path on this metaphorical river laid out for us since birth; each of our individual choices are "perceived"[0] by him simultaneously.

[0]: Note, however, that many theologians would protest anthropomorphizing God in this way. Maimonides, as an example, says that we can speak of God as exhibiting mercy but not being merciful. He simply acts in a way that is analogous to human mercy.
So it turns out Mercedes were sand bagging in testing, as usual. Beat Ferrari by 7 tenths of a second! Anyways, that's the same gap as last year's race, interestingly it turned out Ferrari had a car cappable to win the championship.

https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/979/aust... - 2018 Aus GP Quali result

https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1000/aus... - 2019 Aus GP Quali result
The MID can be thought of as a tax subsidy that renters (who tend to be poorer) pay to land holders (who tend to be wealthier). Either the tax code needs to change to subsidize renters, or just leave everyone on their own...
Congrats on PagerDuty!
I miss websites like this. Reminds me of the early w3b
> Now a new generation of writers are confronting ever lower and less reliable payment for articles, stingier advances for books, fewer jobs, and smaller royalty checks. A host of new threats to writers’ livelihoods, from internet piracy to the slow-motion collapse of the academic job market, means ever fewer writers are making a middle-class wage.

I'm not sure I buy the premise. I think there are a lot more wannabe writers now, because anyone can publish online for free. There are far, far more writers getting paid today than there were decades ago, when there simply wasn't as much media in general.

I'm sure the average payment per work product has gone down, if you're including all the new media. But do writers really get paid less for high-quality content now? Does a bestselling book author today make less (inflation-adjusted) than a bestselling book author did decades ago? Does a weekly New York Times columnist make less?

The starving artist cliche is older than dirt. If an artist isn't successful, it's usually because they're simply not good enough to attract a paying audience. There's nothing wrong with this, and I think the only thing that's changed is that the ease of publishing online means that everyone fancies themselves a writer now.
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its slogan is"You shop. Amazon gives."
Even if they don't know that in the US they can calculate your regular taxes without those and you would just adjust that in the tax confirmation that they send to you with their calculations.

As someone who has never filled in tax in my life: it's mind-boggling that the people in the US have to do it.
The use of "foldr insert []" makes this redundant nonsense.
If you track issues in a text file, sqlite DB etc -- they already are in git. (But I've never seem anyone do this)
Flattr? Patreon? Google contributor?
Why anyone would use an Apple product is beyond me.

https://stallman.org/apple.html

They need to disappear along with all the other silicon valley companies that has made this industry a disgrace the last 10 years!

If you work for apple or any of those spy factories you should be ashamed of yourself.
I'd be quite surprised if it bested zstd.
> Software Engineering is a notable exception, most other fields don't quiz as part of the job interview process: soft skills and credentials or state licenses or bar exams are relied upon more heavily. Maybe signaling matters more in these fields?

License and bar exams are more serious than people in technology are willing and ready to admit. They serve the role of quizzes because the "passing score" requires a baseline of knowledge that the quizzes attempt to establish. This isn't a matter of signaling so much as the effectiveness of the testing process. The fact that software companies cannot rely on these factors is a poor reflection of the industry.

Practically speaking, there's nothing stopping the JS foundation from developing a curriculum, standard test and credential.
Neither of them pay artists. They pay labels. And then labels pay artists.
Demagnetised by heat.. but can be demagnetised?
Ten Trends in Deep Learning NLP
One key thing this paragraph misses is the characterization of this sort of person. Imagine we have a person that would independently, without extrinsic reward or 'push', show up to classes completely of their own accord. And we must further assume that they would engage in all assignments and somehow try to regularly test their understanding - the feedback exams offer is crucial to demonstrating understanding. And we assume they're doing well on Princeton quality and standard of work, all completely independently.

How did this person do in high school? Given high school is orders of magnitude more trivial, we can assume they were likely at or near the top of their classes, and probably would have shown remarkable results in skill assessment exams. And with that sort of motivation he also probably would have been involved in immense extracurricular and other such events. This person would likely have been able to get into any university he ever wanted.

Top universities do provide a certainly better than average education, but their main strength has nothing to do with their quality of education. It's the quality of their student body - which turns success stories into a self fulfilling prophecy. Imagine you start an 'basketball school' and only accept people that are at least 6'6", highly athletic, can dunk from x feet, run 100 meters in y seconds, etc. Go figure -- you're going to 'produce' a disproportionately huge number of NBA quality players simply because your admittance is already heavily biased to individuals who are already headed in that direction.

The point of this is that none of this has anything to do with signaling, but it also has very little to do with the quality of education received. The value of an e.g. Princeton degree is that you're the sort of person that could get accepted into Princeton which would be comparable to the sort of person that could get admitted to 'Basketball U'. Regardless of what happens during those 4 years, you're already almost certainly going to be ahead of 99% of the rest of the population. The degree just works as 'proof of filtering'. E.g. even if our basketball university had a pretty bad education system, you'd still see NBA quality players emerging from it at a way way higher rate than the population of non-admitted individuals.
Can You Afford Not to Own Bitcoin?
If people are under-filing their taxes and government calculated ones would basically equal to auditing everyone, those who will have to pay more obviously will start to object to new system whether it is correct or not. It will be labelled exploitative etc.
How about diagrams that you can embed in your markdown documentation? Proper ascii drawings: http://asciiflow.com
Exactly why we are building https://amixr.io

Schedules, lifecycle, routing in Slack.
There's no point continuing this.
That's not Inuit's fault, it's the people's fault who don't elect people who legislate against that. Inuit's operating normally within the legal framework that they're subject to.

If you make <doing something> legal, you can't blame an entity for exercising their right to <do something>.
Surely worstsort would be

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>> The only thing I know is that I'd probably have done the same, as I reckon most would have.

Nothing wrong with that. But then he shouldn't have written blog posts about how WhatsApp cares about privacy, and that there will never be ads on WhatsApp etc.

The real issue is all the lies. And the whiners are correct in whining because they are not (usually) saying they are somehow better people who would have taken a better decision, they are whining that they once supported this company on the basis of the lies it said, and feel like they have been backstabbed.

There is also another problem - Facebook's scummy behavior seems to actually have no end in sight, with employees now hilariously patting themselves in the back and giving themselves good grades with "Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes." [1]. By that measure, should we start throwing the CEO of big tech companies into prison for "massive and systematic privacy invasion". So what if it hasn't been "done before"? Maybe its a mistake to jail them, but that's just a small price for trying new ideas that haven't been "done before".

I think the whiners are not whining loudly enough.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321420
What you should know before your team starts building a new product
64 bits is plenty for avoiding hashdos attacks, though. Pretty much anything keyed is enough for that. What attacks are you talking about for a non-cryptographic hash function?
We’re in the minority. Most professions aren’t engineering. Or medicine.

Think of the average student graduating with a generic business degree. What actual skills does this person possess after 4 years of schooling?

This is why so many Fortune 500 companies have new grad trainee programs that they funnel people through. The fact is, most of these generic “business” jobs can be done by anyone with a few months of on the job learning.

How many project managers, marketing managers, account executives, sales people, HR professionals, tech support, etc. could’ve stepped into those same roles without spending 4 years at an extremely expensive party (as they would have 50 years ago)?
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Japan to Hold First Ever Trial over Crypto Hacking Losses
Norway has electric sockets next to parking spots. It predates EVs, something about 12V batteries and extreme cold around there.
Tech's Moral Void [audio]
Titan V Deep Learning Benchmarks with TensorFlow
> Modi named PUBG as a problem in a recent public meeting.

Any source to back this up? If you're referring to "Yeh PUBG wala hai kya", then it was a reply to a mother who was concerned about her son's addiction to online games. Any person who knows about online games would've pointed towards PUBG. This is also the reason why the locals petitioned the local police about rising PUBG addiction. Banning is not the solution but the concerns of parents about addiction(in exam season) are absolutely legit.

> The arrests are absolutely a part of the rise of fascism in the country under the current regime.

Either you don't know what fascism is or you're clearly making a joke out of it.
Stream Theory
>What about the underside of the vehicle?

A very astute question. Yes, as much effort goes into the design of the underside as does the shiny side.

The most recent article I found via a quick G search is from 2013. For sure the rules have changed since then, but it's still a fair benchmark to illustrate the complexity of overall design with regards to the aero.

"https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/news/a18417/the-sec...
I used to use this site: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes but I see it's become a bit bloated. It used to look more like colorhunt
This statement can't be further from the truth. For example most things don't even deliver to Switzerland. Freakin' Switzerland. You want cheap gadgets for next to nothing, you go on ebay. You want quality, you shop in usual eshops.
Didn't think it was fair for this comment to disappear. A forgotten history can be dangerous.

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Watch it. Look at it. Many of us have to deal with this s$$t everyday. When it gets so out of control that it creeps up into your privileged world you want to look away. Don't forget that today's global structure is based on widespread massacres and genocide. This extreme comes from overlooking a racist status quo much like an infestation comes from overlooking the first signs of insects. You look away from your history too. Looking away is not going to change things. I don't care if it makes you feel bad. Its the truth. Deal with it because others have to.
Under MMT there is no financial reason for income taxes, so there must be a non-financial reason for them. My guess is that income taxes cause an additional need to require the currency, giving it the appearance of having value.
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See kccqzy's comment.
That's Bogosort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
More like for being an ass about it.

Volkswagen is promising (to use your terms) to produce millions of cheap EVs in 2019... err, 2020... er, by 2025. They’re doing that for years, without producing barely anything. Meanwhile Tesla is overly optimistic, sets high goals, fails on some of them, is late, but still actually delivers a shitload of great stuff.

Yes, I’m still waiting on some things them dreamt about when I bought the car. OTOH, I’m happy with the purchase and the car got dramatically improved software-wise since I bought it, well beyond any other manufacturer’s abilities.
I like that you can use latex in the comments section..
It’s tasty. The honesty isn’t in the food. It’s in the eater.
You are a Genius and Honest, Thank you man :)
Classic Mechanism of Epigenetic Inheritance Is Rare, Not the Rule
One really big advantage of Send over attachments is that you don't have seemingly immortal copies of the files hanging around in people's mail clients and/or IMAP servers.
If I were to review this paper, my critique would focus on this little paragraph:

> We note that, although Bell’s mathematical machinery [9] is used to show the result, the set of assumptions considered here — and therefore the conclusions that can be drawn from a violation of inequality (2) — are different from those in standard Bell tests.

That statement contains a lot of handwavium and in fact the interpretation of the results depends a lot on, if this experiment may be interpreted as another test on locality. Which I strongly presume, it does.
There’s mostly anecdotal, like this: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-400k-km-250k-mi-7-pe...

400k km, supercharging a lot, 7% degradation, that’s better than anybody expected.