skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make a sudden turn? It's just lane following, so I really doubt that. And if your hands are on the wheel (as they should be) you'll very quickly become aware that the car is not staying in the lane as it's supposed to, and be in the best position to deliver the right input. Even looking at this video, the car didn't seem to "turn" suddenly and unexpectedly; if anything, it failed to physically take a turn even though it should have. Which is quite bad, but it's not startling to the point where a driver would be in trouble.
Why CF?
Does Google being "such a force for positive change globally" requires it to abuse its dominant position in the market to promote its unrelated products?
I like to think about it from your(current)employers point of view.

On a scale of 1 - 10, how likely is it that the company you currently work for would give you the benefit of the doubt in a dispute? Are they a company that will be angry if you are 5 minutes late to work, but expect you to stay late after work? Etc.

What if you made a fairly big mistake? Will the company take the time to do a moral audit, as you are doing now? I somehow doubt it.

Also, personally, I think it is unhealthy to attach additional obligations to your job. Your current obligations are to do your job and your duties as assigned - you are not paid to worry about how the company is going to fare if you were to be fired/laid-off/quit/injured. That is for management to worry about.

If these are critical projects, and you are the only person able to complete them - again this isn't your problem and should not be your concern. This would be a management issue with a lack of planning.

You gotta do you, buddy. Especially with a little one at home. Don't get caught up in "doing right by your company". Do right by your child.

But maybe this is why I'm not some C-level exec, because I'm generally not going to put into the company more than I can take out. I don't owe my company more then what they compensate me for - and I sure as hell know they wont be doing a moral audit if they decide to lay me off. Why should I do a moral audit if I want to move on?
As a layman who probabbly didn't understand that whole article I ask:

If "statistical significance" is just sort of an empty phrase used to dismiss or prove something somewhat arbitrarily. Then isn't the same person writing the same study likely to be just as arbitrary declaring what is or isn't significant .... anyway?
Right. And that means getting a cheap Chinese splitter that may or may not strip HDCP, buying one on the grey market, or making one yourself.
CVE-2019-5786: Analysis and Exploitation of the recently patched Chrome vuln
I have the PSVR headset. I used it for a few weeks and haven't picked it up since. It made my eyes hurt for one, and I was pretty disappointed in the graphics. The headset felt cumbersome to use. There are other setups with better graphics, maybe it's different on PC, but I found I'm actually happier just playing the old fashioned way.
/s/black/poor
The Apache project managers removed the new parser from the Groovy 2.6 betas over 6 months ago after officially canceling it and saying Groovy 3 would be the next release. But no real work has been done on Groovy 3 since then. I'm guessing they really intend releasing version 2.6 some time in the future. Perhaps they'll say "Groovy 3 is still far off and Groovy needs another release, so let's resurrect Groovy 2.6". Don't expect to see Groovy 3 move beyond alpha version anytime soon.
Personally, I avoid using the words "American" or "America", as they can be ambiguous: are you talking about the country, or the continent?
I hooked a ukulele up to my friend’s Tesla cool the other day using my laptop as a buffer by just piping arecord into aplay (hooking it up directly didn’t work) and the half second latency made it totally impossible to focus even though I could still hear the notes immediately after playing them.
I've definitely had great connectivity and range with my AirPods too (although I admittedly haven't tried many other Bluetooth headphones in several years, during which time I suspect they've all improved somewhat). The only time mine cut out is very briefly but consistently when I'm on pedestrian crossings. My theory is that it's induction loop vehicle detectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop
I would argue with the silent conceit that CS/STEM funding must come from humanities funding.

The problem is a lack of funding for useful education. This has led to a hollowing out of useful humanities classes and STEM classes no longer up-to-date with current needs.

Aside, I hope we reinvest in humanities instead of the toothless versions available now. Introducing civics, philosophy, and logic classes back into the curriculum is hugely necessary.
OK, he's obviously a brilliant guy, but I find his argument about atheism pretty weak... or rather, I should say that it only makes sense at a pretty abstract level. And that, IMO, is basically the same level of abstraction where one can make a compelling argument that science rests on (a form of) faith just like religion does (but possibly not the same form).

Anyway, "belief" in the supernatural makes, as far as I can tell, no testable predictions, or where it does, those predictions have either been falsified or contradict generally accepted scientific principles. I would say that non-belief, rather than being some "affirmative assertion" like he posits, is just the null hypothesis, and that all of the onus is on believer to show a way to invalidate that null hypothesis.

He is also ignoring the distinction between "weak atheist" and "strong atheist" where the former very specifically do not make an affirmative declaration that "there is no god." Admittedly one can argue about the (apparently subtle) distinction between "weak atheist" and "agnostic" but whatever.

Me personally? I go with this point of view: I don't need a special word to signify my non-belief in Santa Claus, and likewise I don't need a special word to signify my non-belief in "god". To me, those things occupy the same conceptual category. shrug
alongside the potential distractions when different preoccupations are available
> which requires a license

From which country? The US has no restrictions on lawful transport of weapons in and out of country.
You've just described my situation :)
The world’s most expensive cities
Underground parking will always be expensive. It is expensive to build and engineers need to check on it once in a while. (walls aren't collapsing, water isn't filling it up, there is enough ventilation). While it can work, it isn't cheap. A parking lot is as cheap as you can get parking (just parking cost, ignoring externals)

The trick is to avoid the need for parking in the first place. A small town can get by with on street parking. As the town grows it can get by with one parking lot on the edge of town if the growth goes up as well as out. Allow tearing down old historic buildings for something more modern. Allow houses to turn into duplex to turn into 5 floor apartments. (I stopped at 5 floors for a reason: for engineering reasons more than 5 tends to not be cost effective though in some locations the rich may be say who cares about cost and build higher anyway) More radically allow someone to turn their first floor into a shop and live upstairs.

All of this allows people to live, work, and shop withing walking distance. Once you actually walk most places not having a car is something to think about. When you have to drive to work like most people do (because there are zero houses/apartments within walking distance of the office park their job is in) buying a car is the most cost effective way to have a car and then the incremental cost of using the car for other things is nearly zero.
You can't put 256GB of ram in your desktop and expect it to run faster.

You can't replace one house with 16 apartments and expect it to work as well.

Parking, noise, litter, etc. It's not fair for a developer to push their direct costs onto the neighborhood instead of eating it themselves.
You're probably getting flack for saying "low standards of perfection" instead of just "low standards"... To me having higher standards and wanting to do (and actually doing) a good job, not just a good enough job, is primarily an attitude problem, not a wage/job pressure problem. Indeed there's a whole cottage industry of grumpy programmers to complain about other highly paid programmers not even suffering under crunch mode who aren't doing good work. Yes, you get what you incentivize on the large scale, but at the individual level you still have choices and opportunities to leave things better than you found them. Activity in scouting or similar when young probably correlates with the attitude.
The Russian "Blackwater" is called Wagner Group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group
Yup, the chains can be interleaved. Often it's best to save the hash of each key as well as the key itself. Comparing the full hash (rather than the modulus of the hash) will eliminate many keys faster than doing a full key comparison, and having the full hash available means recreation on expansion is cheap, as all the keys don't need rehashing. The full hashes can then be used to distinguish between different chains if you decide to do backfilling, again cheaper than recalculating key hashes.

Of course, having the hashes available also speeds up recreation, should the tombstone approach be used.

Basically, keep the full hashes around :)
Collective rational thought and research to establish a scientific consensus that sugary drinks make you fat and ill knows best.
there is a difference -- platforms which show case human misery, violence, gore and carnage for sake of entertainment and/or profit making should be banned.

Overall, even web search engines and ISPs need to be vigilant during indexing/hosting of websites and come up with some method of periodic review of websites being visited/hosted and tag them as appropriate or non appropriate.

Somebody profiting from somebody's death or misery or injury is not cool and goes against the very grain of civility.
>That being said, your obligation is to yourself, not your company. If your current company isn't meeting your needs, you are not really wrong to leave. If the roles were reversed and you were not meeting your employer's needs, they would likely have few qualms about letting you go and finding someone else.

This. One hundred times over.
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Thanks, I just use it on a timer to listen to something for 15 min as I fall asleep.
Non-techies usually don't care about anything but convenience, informed or not.
Unsolicited recommendation from one person on the other end: don't charge for toilet paper. If your concern is environmental, I don't think it'll make an impact as people will just pay the $1 or $2 and use the same amount. If your concern is money, just raise your rate. Hosts who nickel and dime for that kind of stuff come off like major cheapskates and tend to have reviews that reflect that. I've stayed at places that charged per Keurig cup and it just seems so petty. Any hotel you stay at isn't going to bat an eye at giving you extra TP if you need it. I'd also note that someone traveling may be eating a more varied diet than their bodies may be used to being exposed to at home, the end result of which may factor into increased TP usage versus a native of the area.
IMO LINQ is still better because of how integrated into the language it is. JOOQ and QueryDSL were basically designed to replicate it as much as possible but not nearly to convenience levels of LINQ + Entity Framework
Banks can be good at assessing risk in general, and still be bad at assessing risk of startups. Nobody is good at assessing risk of startups.
What would be the reason that one model of wireless earphones would have worse battery wear-out than another? Wouldn't it depend almost entirely on how many recharge cycles the battery gets? If so, then I suppose it would only depend on the battery life of the earphones (if we hold the usage rate constant).
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I'm not sure if 99% is accurate - unless you intentionally include internal tooling ("standard UNIX commands" implies not).

Now, if you mean "actual UNIX", I'm not sure - but at least gnu is pretty widely translated. Not sure where the bsds stand on this.
Replace Walmart in my example with Yellow Pages. Same argument still stands.
I am not friends with my family on Facebook. I will not be that until Zuck gets it through his scull that people need more than one identity, and Facebook implements it so that I can keep things 100% separated.

As such I don't think I have seen either of my family members Facebooks, except if I accidentally glance in the direction of their phones.
I really like the line art logo on the site, but it's 2.4 MB (avatar.png).

Might want to size it down and run it through TinyPNG. :)
No it isn't. There's no need for a blockchain here, and you either know it and just want to make some $$$ selling your pointless tokens, or you're clueless about the tradeoffs associated with a blockchain.

You obviously won't talk about anything technical to do with the blockchain: how the consensus algorithm works and why you chose it, who sells the coins and why, why you need coins, what security guarantees it has, why having all nodes of a network sharing a copy of the same ledger and constantly engaging in a protocol to agree on the state of the ledger is at all a good idea, and so on and so on... You just want to argue with me a bit to muddle the waters so people side it's one side against another and the truth lies somewhere inbetween. Fact is, this project makes no sense.
These two comments of mine cover some of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445027
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19442868

Most of the "overwhelming evidence of the contrary" is the prof trying to pacify overly-angry and overly-emotional students in a YouTube video, without any commentary on the majority of the events and conversations surrounding the debacle. The fact is that the prof did little to fight the casual racism on campus (and their position as "head of college" expects them to deal with problems surrounding bullying/racism/sexism/etc). They simply tried to switch the topic (not maliciously, rather because of obliviousness) to talking about freedom of speech. Most people already agree with them about the freedom of speech topic, so let's try to do something about the casual even oblivious racism on campus.
>They clearly want to push their more casual all-in-one headsets and don't care much about the enthusiasts and gamers that helped get Oculus off the ground in the first place.

So basically every company in the world that prefers marketshare to niche. Theres some nice exceptions like pinboard.in, but for the most part, everyone is willing to sell out to Walmart hoping for dominance.
That’s a good point. Without expertise, it’s much harder to filter good independent sources versus crap.
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I suspect it would be the exact opposite. E-coli insulin is safer than butchery pancreas byproduct insulin - far lesser risk of contamination.

The biggest possible weakness I could see would maybe be nutritional/absorption inadequacy and that should be evident pretty quickly.
People keep knocking xterm but honestly it still is probably the best and most complete terminal emulator.
The need to see a video is proven wrong by your very example: Passengers on 9/11 already started putting up a flight before they’d seen the video, after they heard on their cell phones from loved ones what had happened to the other flights the passengers knew they had to fight back leading to the Pennsylvania crash.

Prior to this established hijacking procedure and expectation was cooperate, you’ll be flowen to some foreign country. There’ll be a demand for such and such prisoners to be released. A negotiation. Eventually the passengers will be released. As soon as people knew the planes were being used as weapons and this wasn’t the hijackings of past the fought back.

It didn’t require video.
You're confusing "let's build more residential housing for residents" with "let's open up homes meant for full-time residents to transient visitors."
Haha yeah it might be a PITA. Unless your app is huge it shouldn't take more than a couple days though.

Basically a compile run fix reflection loop until you stop getting errors :'(
That's just not true, the thing to note is that no software engineers have been displaced to date in any clear way as a result of new tools.

In the same exact way that software engineers are able to do far more complex work through the use of third party APIs, business users use increasingly more complex technology to augment their work. This ranges from sales and marketing tools, to legal research tools, to medical analysis tools.

These tools generally speak in some amount of programatic language as well, which is why my point remains accurate.
AFAIU it depends on the object and its traits. I'm curious how Rust's hash tables are used in practice, i.e. whether the common use case is copying vs taking ownership of the object itself. Though either way what really matters is whether indirection is required to verify the key (e.g. String).

In C I prefer red-black trees over hash tables because memory management is easier, you get smooth performance characteristics (no resize hiccups), and you're immune from computational complexity attacks without sweating over hashing algorithms. But I use intrusive node fields for my trees, and also tend to keep keys (even string keys) internal to the object as well, which substantially closes the cache performance gap.
I disagree. This isn't a contrived category, which is common in tournaments, to make them interesting. On chess.com and Lichess there are chess tournaments that are restricted to people with lower than, say, a 1500 rating. If a 1700 chess player plays worse on purpose to get the score down, that's called sandbagging. There is little room for sandbagging here. People can't just change their ages, or up and move to the US. There are age ratings and regional divisions in different sports, and it both makes things more fair and opens up more opportunity to compete.

This is a significant achievement and the boy is undeniably an elite chess player.

Edit: s/soundbagging/sandbagging/g
These are always so unreliable because they never adequately account for the wide range of housing costs you can get in different cities when you take into account public transit as well as family size and whether you'll be willing to have roommates.

You basically need to sub-divide and rank these across commute times + family/roommates preferences. So Top 10 most expensive within 10 minute commute, within 20 minute commute, within 30 min commute, etc., further broken by family/room requirements.

For example, if you want to live in Manhattan then sure you can pay 1500 for a bedroom.

But a better bedroom that's still within 30 minutes commute of a Manhattan job for a $3 subway ride is $900. Just have to choose based off what part of the city your job will be in and live with 2-3 of your friends.
The magnitude of risk depends to a large degree on the employer.

> someone with essentially no way to show they can actually do the work and manage themselves.

Two quick follow up points on that (the second point is more important)...

1. Junior devs graduating from places like this and Lambda School will have spent months learning, collaborating and working remotely as part of their course. I wouldn't say that counts as proof that they can do the work per se, but it's definitely proof that - if they can do they work - they can do it remotely.

2. You have the same challenges with non-remote hires as well... What part of your hiring/onboarding/management process requires you to be able to physically touch the junior dev in question?

BTW I absolutely don't think all companies should hire remote.

And I don't think all junior devs would be good remote hires. Far from it.

But there are enough successful companies out there hiring remote junior devs to prove that it is possible.

So when someone says they would never hire a remote junior dev, it just seems silly to me to pretend that's anything more than a company masking serious hiring, training or culture problems which remote work would expose...
@gamblor956 explained it way better than I could ever hope to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19444072 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445447
We are post peak-chess. The interest fell sharply after Kasparov's loss to DeepBlue. I was a member of a chess club, that went from 30 tables to 5 in a span of couple of years.
Kotlin: Write Once, Run () Everywhere
If people bought the same number of chickens from separate smaller farms instead of one big farm, would that actually make any difference?
Parent to my comment was responding to somebody suggesting that consultancies provide "really good pay and benefits" and I was suggesting that this isn't true, currently, in the tech industry.
What the hell is this supposed to be?
Politicians and the political class are cancer.
My personal experience with GPU accelerated GUIs is that latency is always worse.

Drawing text is something that the cpu is pretty good at and the GPU just means more back and forth over the buss, more driver coupling, more weird libraries.
weren't fluorescent lights 40Hz?
Yes, some people like to walk.
I guess it depends how important the 40hz is. Because PAL was 50hz and NTSC was 60hz (if my addled memory is still working ok).

But it did occur to me that my years of going to raves, hearing (and feeling) sub-bass (in the 30-60hz range) could have a similar effect (especially when you throw in the strobe lights).
This may fall under ITAR if the weapons were select fire and/or restricted to LE/MIL. Not all weapons can be freely transported, especially if it's considered military tech.
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Plus, this clears out all of the "their new streaming service is fine, but I was really hoping for an update of X" reactions.
A normal fine simply becomes "the cost of doing business". The point is to deter Google, not to simply add a cost to its activities.

Related links:

https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine...

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/chapters/freakonomi...

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2008/03/31/89233955/dan-ariely-takes-on-...
How can we, as a society, support our future during its most vulnerable time (childhood)? How is it possible that we still have homeless children in a country with so much wealth?

(I'm seriously asking. I want to know how many other similarly bright minds aren't being supported to their full potential due to circumstances not their fault, and what public administrative techniques have been proven to work or not work and why.)
My old CRT monitor, an IBM 5154 clone, gave me a mild sunburn on the day I got it...
Yes. UE4 also extends C++ with its own reflection system as well which is used all over the place, and critical to the garbage collector.

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Garbage_Collection_Overview
This is _big_ news in the US, the place I feel confident claiming is the last bastion of free speech. (if there is such a thing)

Viewing this as a NZ only issue is thinking small. There's discussions about free speech in the US and all over the world about this issue.
Another component to this is that the marketing materials in CLO products always highlight zero default history, even through 2008, but what if the government didn’t backstop AIG, the banks, GE, etc? Safer tranches were saved from default as a product of action by Paulson and the fed before there were more defaults rather than the perceived risk control imo.