skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The salary data is way outdated. All of my developer friends who returned to first-tier cities in China earn >4k USD per month.
Even nannies generally earn more than 2k USD per month, it's hard to survive in tier-1 cities with 1k USD per month.
If robotics matures to a point where food delivery could be fully automated, could we see similar price inversion in the US?
> I've noticed that almost all of the robocalls i receive come from a number beginning with the same three numbers as my number. I would love for the ability to block all calls beginning with these three numbers, UNLESS they are already on my contacts list.

This will become unhelpful as soon as it becomes sufficiently popular (perhaps even before: as the trick gets more widely recognized for what it is, the mental spam filters it hacks around will get updated whether or not they are augmented with technological tools, and the practice will lose its value and be abandoned, making automated filtering that assumes it is widely used more likely to screen out good calls than spam.)
Well, more W3C members with values like WikiMedia is not a bad thing :)

Not that W3C makes many controversial specs :)
My understanding, from knowing some Air Force officers and what I read:

Air Force officers manage people. They don't do things. Specifically, they don't risk their own lives. The Air Force is built around NORAD and SAC and ICBMs. Being the organization owning nuclear missiles is their dream state. They recently added space and cyber to that, both of which also don't involve getting shot at. The A-10 is the ultimate in "not our job" to the USAF. UAVs could not get here fast enough.

Unfortunately, they also don't want anyone else to have the whole aircraft thing. So the Army doesn't get to fly fixed wings and the Navy only has that "aircraft carrier" excuse.
How does Lucet's WebAssembly performance compare to LuaJIT (one of the fastest JITs in existence) right now including VM warm-up time? Also, what's the GUI story like outside of browsers?
Well not any more, they go and recover the container and its remaining contents, the ones between the container and the beach will arrive and then no more phones.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-2....
Came to the comments to write a similar comment. I've used Stellarium ~10 years ago, and it's been awesome even then.

Seeing v0.19 version feels misleading and discouraging new users to try it out of curiosity.
8. Indicted for fraud
The CS department at my university does the same with code submissions using a tool called Moss[0].

Is this the norm?

[0] https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
If we do not start it first, who will? Look for example at Eastern Europe where no sorting was just few years ago and today it works, and it's much cleaner. Same will happen in other societies.
NGram Datasets to Explore Television News' Coverage of Trump and Mueller
Here is the paper the statistic is based on.

https://twin.sci-hub.tw/7148/507066f35e75c25d1b1e160ada5693c...

ABSTRACT: A substantial fraction of marine plastic debris originates from
land-based sources and rivers potentially act as a major transport pathway for
all sizes of plastic debris. We analyzed a global compilation of data on plastic
debris in the water column across a wide range of river sizes. Plastic debris
loads, both microplastic (particles <5 mm) and macroplastic (particles >5
mm) are positively related to the mismanaged plastic waste (MMPW)
generated in the river catchments. This relationship is nonlinear where large
rivers with population-rich catchments delivering a disproportionately
higher fraction of MMPW into the sea. The 10 top-ranked rivers transport
88−95% of the global load into the sea. Using MMPW as a predictor we
calculate the global plastic debris inputs form rivers into the sea to range
between 0.41 and 4 × 106 t/y. Due to the limited amount of data high
uncertainties were expected and ultimately confirmed. The empirical analysis
to quantify plastic loads in rivers can be extended easily by additional potential predictors other than MMPW, for example, hydrological conditions.

It’s worth pointing out that this is a single study, and I’m unsure of the accuracy of their methods of inference and sampling. The link to a previous comment in this thread implies that it’s incorrect, so keep that in mind as well.
I remember starting this game at mid-day and having no idea that I would end up building paperclips well into the night.

What impressed me the most was how the "secret" gradually unfolded, so that you were already hooked and felt a compulsion to continue game play, even after it became clear that this wasn't the innocuous game you thought it was at first.

It led me to build a clicker game that also has more to it than meets the eye. (Shameless self-promotion starts here.)
Whereas Universal Paperclips explores the dangers of letting A.I. take over, my game (Unaware, https://unaware.pressbin.com) explores the moral status of people who exist in a simulation.
OK thanks - always interesting to get acquainted with a new genre. I counted to 80 Spotify playlists when searching on the term (with a few hundred followers as median), so it is at least represented to some degree.
Coke and Pepsi would sooner nuke the EU then allow for plastic bottles to be eliminated.

I'm sure between the two of them they produce most of the plastic waste in the world but I'm glad governments are attacking low hanging fruit instead.
BigBasket, India’s Largest Online Grocer, Is Now a Unicorn
Well, to be blunt is say you've been a consumer of SO. There's nothing wrong with this but I'd argue that if you don't have 15 rep after 4 years you've been paid back with the knowledge you've gained.

If you can't find a way to get 50 rep on SO get 200 on any other exchange site and that will credit you 100
It is the case in India too with a bunch of food-delivery startups that have mushroomed in the last few years. Lot of discounts, cash-backs and what not. This will not last long but a great time for consumers, for now.
Russia’s Roskomnadzor orders VPNs to censor “banned” sites
Machine Learning and AI Startups Hiring the Most
Maybe it’s because english is not my native language but, how does it do with spelling?

Are now-sphere-dew and now-sphere-due two distinct locations? Are they at least close enough?
It's been my experience that a lot of seeming mysteries are solved only by the person with the mystery talking to the right person. And the right person could be anyone with an observation.

It happens in Engineering all the time too, where you talk to the one user in ten-thousand who happens to have a keen eye for the exact sequence of events on the display, and their careful recitation of the sequence of frames on the display is enough for you to piece together the system state at the time of a failure.

It's rare that engineers talk to users, and it's probably equally rare for environmentalists to talk to individual farmers looking for information.
If you have restaurant or takeout place you need to pay for pest control, cleaning. You have to be in accessible part of the town. With delivery you don't need those.
'a problem' and 'censorship' are two different things.
Coders live in a bit of a utopia. Imagine your code quality being scored by a proprietary black box. That would be intolerable and contrary to the spirit of producing a quality product and developing better coders.

Keeping the algorithms secret for plagiarism detectors is about as dubious. If they are not good enough to reject gaming they are not robust enough to deliver reliable scores. If you don't trust students to see that gaming a plagiarism detector is more effort than honest work, you've admitted the wrong student, and/or you are using a duff plagiarism detector.
Right, but the queen doesn't have to decide how credulously or sceptically to treat claims painted on election campaign busses, dossiers of evidence of Iraqi WMDs, claims of historic sexual abuse, and so on.

The BBC does. Thus giving them plenty of opportunities to upset just about everyone.
Nice to see the beeb telling Google to "get in the sea". On a tangential, but not unrelated note, I'm kinda frustrated with the way podcasts are increasingly being distributed these days. So many sites push their content out to the likes of Stitcher or iTunes or some other third party service that try and force you to use an app or their crappy website. In many cases the option to download just the raw MP3 has quietly disappeared.

Just let me download the fricken MP3, I don't need some stupid ad plagued spyware to listen to a podcast. I realise sometimes this can be about monetising your content to help pay for production costs. But you know what? I'm happy to pay, and already do to some folks via Patreon/Paypal etc. Just don't force me to jump through hoops to eventually locate the raw MP3 that I can listen to on my own terms.
I was at first too, but it's an odd story to brag about and it actually was a complaint :)
But why should Apple be special? As an example for cars most countries have laws that force them to provide you parts years after the car is no longer sold, don't you think that having companies not selling you parts make them have to much control over you?

1 So let me know why should some companies not sell parts?

2 why not share the pdf with schematics and diagnostic software or punish people that share them(is not cost)
When teachers rely on the output of these detectors without checking the source material, they are effectively doing what they are accusing their students of doing with Wikipedia, etc.

The end result may be totally convincing, but nobody really knows until they actually look at what they think they are citing. The teachers should operate at least at the lowest level they impose on their students -- Check your work. Don't blindly copy someone else's results.
> With Lucet, Fastly’s edge cloud can execute tens of thousands of WebAssembly programs simultaneously, in the same process, without compromising security. [emphasis mine]

How does it handle Spectre, etc.?
So probably volume of downloads is an excellent, but somewhat ambiguous indicator of audience. Unless you continue to download podcasts that you listen to for a few minutes then abandon - but that would probably make you as much of an outlier as someone who downloads once, but copies the episode for someone else.
At the moment, a lot of WASM tooling assumes instances interact with a JS engine. So, we aren't compatible with a bunch of existing tooling, like Rust's wasm-bindgen. We're working on our own tool to fill that hole in the ecosystem.

We also aren't 100% of the way to spec compliance yet. We have a plan to get there, but spent the last year or so putting the bulk of our effort into performance and integration with our edge cloud systems.
I just thought it was an interesting take; I don't think I'd call Barclays a Fintech myself, despite the fact they probably have a massive engineering effort and clearly being financial.
> someone earning $120k here would have to earn at least $200k out there to get the same standard of living.

So are people flocking to the DC area to work as software engineers, then? If so, good job. If not, you know what you have to do.

> to get the same standard of living.

That highly, highly depends on what you spend your money on.
Why not swap jobs? Your pitch to the aerospace company is "I've got extensive experience in software development, but I'd like to work in a more rigorous environment with people who have extensive experience in solid engineering practices, and apply my skills to safety-critical problems that will affect millions of people."

I did an internship in college at a company that wrote avionics software, and it taught me that I didn't really want to do that. My job is actually a step beyond "agile enterprise software development" in ambiguity - I'm a founder, which means that not only are my specs non-existent, but my product, customers, and business model are too, and my job description also includes customer development, sales, marketing, interaction & visual design, and enough legal to avoid completely fucking things up. But I've found that I like the highly ambiguous environment where nothing's nailed down and everything's a problem that needs to be solved in a hacky way yesterday.

Luckily the economy is broad enough that people can move around to the work that suits them best. Take advantage of that - if you find you really don't like a sort of work, do something else!
I meant that many Googlers, even ones with such high compensation, aren't true believers.
How the UK Lost Brexit Battle
The answer is FAR 25.672 (c)(2). "It must be shown that after any single failure of the stability augmentation system or any other automatic or power-operated system - ... The controllability and maneuverability requirements of this part are met within a practical operational flight envelope (for example, speed, altitude, normal acceleration, and airplane configurations) which is described in the Airplane Flight Manual"

MCAS is only required in high AoA, flaps up, manual flight. To get high AoA, you generally need some combination of slow speed, a steeply banked turn, and abrupt maneuvering. If you tell the pilots to keep the speed up, keep the bank angles down, and fly gently in the event of an MCAS failure, it meets the requirements.

From a practical standpoint, the aircraft should never see an AoA that would trip MCAS in normal flight. The only time a jetliner would typically see an AoA over ten degrees is on takeoff and landing, when the flaps are down (and MCAS is inhibited), or momentarily in turbulence.

From a risk control standpoint, you're multiplying probabilities together (of course assuming uncorrelated failures). Spitballing the failure probability chain, flights that would trigger MCAS are probably about 10^-4 to 10^-5 probability, and the lack of MCAS might cause an unrecoverable stall in perhaps 10^-1 to 10^-2 flights, so figure 10^-6 probability per flight of the airframe's poor stability leading to an accident. This is too high to be certified. If you have MCAS, but it's disabled when an AoA vane fails, figure the probability of an AoA vane failure is 10^-4, you get an accident probability of 10^-10, which is acceptable.
If they fool people, it has a negative impact on the business. If they don't fool people, it was a waste of time and resources... which has a negative impact on the business.

We live in a world with timezones, so that people end up hitting the pranks early or late.

If you want to boost morale, engineer pranks for employees. You get 100% of the "benefits," and 0% of the customer being either fooled or not.
Chinese or most East Asian food restaurants have wooden single-use chopsticks
Actually you might be onto a new market, creating forks that you bring with you everywhere like a pocket knife.
> I think applying methods that for manufacturing to healthcare is not a good idea. Manufacturing is generally very predictable whereas health care often isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodorov_Eye_Microsurgery_Comp...
To add, it's strange to me foreigners are anywhere close to work which requires a security clearance. Or for that matter at places where privacy (take: selling out rights and data of Americans) has recently become an issue.
I mean, as long as so many of us are driving our own cars everywhere anyways, it's not like we don't have a place to put it...
To be fair, I haven’t heard about W3W until this post.
Re From, there's From: and there's also From_ (From space) that's created by the terminal mail server from the (E)SMTP handshake. All but the most recent (topmost) Received: header(s), supplied by the terminal mail server, are easily spoofed...
Ask HN: What are some companies to work for that are making the world better?
For example companies that are saving wild life, fighting global warming, making education more accessible etc. Preferably it should have software engineering or related roles that one can apply.
Greg - Serious question - How is that air frame on the Max8 faulty due to engine placement when the A320NEO has almost the same design?
> Doesn't this assume that the interviews get to the salary negotiation stage? If you don't have the name recognition of the FAANG you're probably getting subpar applicants regardless.

People talk about salaries, they know who the top hitters are. Here in London there are many hedge funds you never heard of that have 20 engineers fighting for one spot, because they pay 100k GBP, whereas most startups complaining about lack of people pay 40k.
Largest Early World Map – Monte's 10 Ft. Planisphere of 1587 (2017)
Thanks!

The Internet and the Web are miracles on the order of loaves and fish, and demonstrations of how progress is the process by which the miraculous becomes mundane. This is why it's so easy to be mindful of how awful the Net and the Web have become while forgetting how miraculous both remain as well.

It's also easy to forget that the Internet as we know it is still new, dating roughly from the explosion of commercial activity that began after the NSFNet, whose "acceptable use policy" prevented commercial data from flowing through its backbone, stood down on 30 April 1995.

With tech, what can be done will be done, and that includes the bad as well as the good. Both Cluetrain and The Intention Economy directed attention to the miraculous good that was both already there (in the Cluetrain case) and on the way (in the Intention Economy case). This was not to ignore the bad, but rather to energize hackers toward working on what we need, rather than lamenting what at any moment we seem stuck with.

Today I think Cluetrain (1999) was at least thirty years ahead of its time, and The Intention Economy (2012) was around a decade ahead. Both were about what can be done with simple human agency, and about energizing hackers to work on that. If doing that was utopian, naive or simplistic, I plead guilty. I also believe the Web, the Net, email and other graces of open and widely used protocols are utopias we already have, and that should at least be encouraging.
> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

This is what's going on. The previous submission didn't get any attention (votes, discussion) so the repost was allowed after a certain time threshold (about 8 hours).
I was recently upgrading a 2008 MacBook. Upgraded the hard drive and the memory. It was so easy. It is an absolute joy to service this machine. It also has many useful ports and an awesome battery indicator on the side.
> the same kinds of people who control Facebook also control the mainstream media

There's that conspiracy language again!

And then you go on to link a piece of "mainstream media" that writes extensively about it! Did you mean to prove yourself wrong?
Geohash does not provide a one-to-one mapping. Geohashes "u150gxv4" and "u150gxv5" and others, decode to (50.8,4.38).

Also, geohashes of many proximal points are very different (see http://geohash.org/f840p2n2p3 and http://geohash.org/dxfpzryrzq although these locations are 1 meter apart)

Also, while geohashes are great for computer storage, they are not so much for human memory.
> For example, a liver cannot optimize itself in novel ways during its lifetime.

That is very brainist of you.
It's fairly easy to write a tool to collect the core file once it's dumped, and also fairly easy to write a tool which wraps gdb and prints out the buffer.
Fair. Are you offering competitive wages that appeal to local workers?
But users have fingers, which can be used to disable or subvert said "features". Thus, those fingers are just gonna have to go. They're a security risk, and security risks are against the regulations.
Doesn't seem to work with Firefox, or is it just me?
That's like asking whether the USA considers itself capitalist, when it has all sorts of socialized things, like police, fire dept, sewage, roads, etc.
If one beach had a million sea snails leaving shells behind, and the beach were cluttered with them, and it was choking out any other life on the beach, then yeah we would consider that litter.

It's the same as when sea urchins devour whole kelp forests, rendering parts of the sea floor totally barren. One or two urchins aren't a big deal but when they breed without limits they can completely destroy an ocean ecosystem. And so we kill them off when we need to to try to be good stewards of our planet.
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/managing-organizational-...

I posted that a day or two ago because of that exact issue. Organizations that don't try to retain knowledge (and we're in a knowledge-based industry!) will lose it over time, and they won't even know what they've lost. Until it's too late.

We had a project where our partner had let go of a bunch of senior engineers. They later (as part of the new project) had to re-design a lot of hardware components and incurred a significant delay because no one knew how the system worked anymore, and the new people were too junior to do a proper job of it anyways.
Why is this: “once this thing pitches up, it wants to keep pitching up”? And why is it more of an issue with the engines in their new position? Thanks.
People especially on the poor end of the spectrum can't not have a phone. A solution that only works if you have $100-$300+$600 per year per person is probably not a solution.

Any totally new solution is liable to be useful only to an increasing minority of the population over at least the next few decades.

It would probably be easier to graft authentication onto the current system and force individuals to post a tiny bond per assigned phone number.

Let people report robo calls and cause robo call originators to forfeit their numbers and bonds and don't allow them to buy new numbers under the same identity or credit card.

Even paying $10 per per 10 robo calls placed would boost the cost to $1 per call.

If you need 1000 bullshit calls to scam $500 out of someone then your net is negative.
This happens in the US, too. (my daughter just had open heart surgery at a top tier research hospital.) It's very common for a resident surgeon to open the patient and prep the detailed surgical site as part of their practical work (residency, fellowship). This usually happens under direct supervision of the attending, but not always. But, in the case of cardiac surgery, "getting to the heart" is a very quick process -- a couple of incisions, some clamps & drainage, and there's a heart right in front of you. The time-consuming early part is getting the anesthesia work done (not just sedation, but installing all the necessary ports, tubes and catheters) and hooking them up on a heart/lung bypass.

I can't comment on your second point.
> What usage lifetime justifies the total lifetime of a plastic object?

Probably depends on if you're having to justify it to someone who wants to 100% ban all plastic or someone who wants a silly phone simply because they like Garfield.
Someone built one a couple years ago: https://gizmodo.com/todays-hero-made-an-ai-that-annoys-telem...
What about it is fraud?
The founders have explained several times that the goal of StackOverflow is to be a wiki, not a forum.

When viewed in that context, it makes no sense to have multiple answers to the same question.
IIRC Twilio "rents" you a number for a month at a time, so this is fairly non-binding.
H1-B covers both folks who are based outside the US when they were recruited and students who graduated from US schools and transitioned from F1 (student visa) to H1-B. If you go to computer science/STEM departments (at least for the top schools), you will notice that a significant portion of them are foreign students. It is thus not surprising to see a lot of being hired.

Also, foreign students being hired after graduating from US schools are very much less likely to be cheated upon when it comes to pay.