skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's just stupidity if they weren't stupid this entire effort would be unnecessary as they would be sending over the content to the Internet Archive themselves, probably along with a cheque that looks big to the IA (10 mil/yr budget) and is not even a rounding error to G (109B cash at hand).
Doesn't everyone else think that the sous-vide method of cooking is disgusting?
I didn't see the WLB acronym in the article. Something like "whole-life benefits?"

ETA: Just remembered "work-life balance." Gotcha!
Somehow your comment reminds me of Mozart. There have been years where he didn’t compose much.
Really depends, getting into programming from bootcamps isn't super easy and can be a bit of a crapshoot. One of the biggest pluses is if you have authored projects that you can show publicly - ideally open source. Try putting together projects on your side time. Even relatively simple ones can be impressive. For example, I whipped up a program that used selenium and ChromeDriver to automate exploration of YouTube recommendations [1]. Things like that can make your application stand out.

1. This is what inspired me to build this project. Hopefully I can build up some data and present my finding on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19524645
They are their own nation(s).

That's what I said.

The question is if they have (or should have) a monopoly on violence [2] in their own territory and/or are self-governing in other aspects of life.

That's up to their nation to decide.
Throughout the years I’ve seen most if not all Google services have glitches or go down completely.
Hi Jedi72, I sincerely don’t see how this half is related: this is very much related. Isn’t it relevant that no platform exists that gives you space and time to have attention-full communication? Isn’t that the whole problem? This article and Pony, a solution to the problems described in this article, wouldn’t exist otherwise.
Thanks, that's a perspective I never got. Shows how lucky I've been at the places I've worked. (Or perhaps, how underpaid I was at the time!)

I should also mention that before these conversations, I had also been interviewing with a few different companies and gotten offers, so I knew those numbers were real and I really, truly, was ready to leave if they said no. But I genuinely wanted to keep working there and be making the salary I knew I could get elsewhere, and it worked out.
>I can't say for certain that I would be able to pass calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, and differential equations, but I think that I would. To throw some elitism back at you; I wound not consider any of those subjects to be anything except pretty basic in the realm of mathematics.

It's not elitism. I'm saying this as someone who tried (and failed) to get a CS degree after working in the industry for 4 years as a self taught developer. Math classes have a way of exposing deficiencies you never even knew you had. It takes years of study to gain the mathematical maturity needed to pass these classes for anyone with just a basic American high school level of education. And yes, they are quite basic in the realm of mathematics as a whole, which makes it all the more disheartening. It made me gain a whole new level of respect and understanding for the necessity of these skills, and how they simply cannot be picked up along the way in the same manner as coding.
I’m offering name suggestions:

DeepEye
AEye
Probably not. If there is you’re going to need a lot more quota.
> What does this even mean? I'm guessing you're going for 'the throttle' but it's a pretty ambiguous question.

I am going for the throttle (you know, to stop the car from rotating too much after I threw into that corner), and yes you are correct it (the throttle) does "steer" the rear of the car. Plus 1 btw.

Ambiguous... maybe. Anyway; see you on the wet skidpad ;) .
Isn't G+ due to be shutdown in two days?
It's all about decreasing the odds. US -> China -> CPU is longer than just US -> CPU.
This is the internet archive. Plenty of people there know plenty of people at google!
You're right, but my hope is that forcing spammers to switch domains will increase their costs to the point that spamming is no longer financially viable.

If the cost of domains is already such a significant expenditure that they need to look for sub-one dollar registrations, then requiring, say, a $10 bond on all domains with an MX record might erase their profit margins completely.

(There is a question of what constitutes "good behaviour" and whether that can be gamed by having spam domains reporting each other as sending legitimate email, but if these ratings are public then people can choose which ratings to trust. Domain age would probably be a good heuristic there too.)
You don't get it guys, when Google scrapes the web and downloads everyones data then serves up parts of it with sponsored ads next to it in searches its OK because they are Google. But if you scrape their data it's not OK because you're not Google. Once you understand this it makes perfect sense.
If you want HN to look at your stuff, post a Show HN ️
I think what's most telling is what you did after that meeting. Did you quit and go work elsewhere?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think companies should be so short sighted as to nickel and dime employees. But your one true source of leverage is to actually get up and leave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory
For your A1278, have you swapped the SATA cable? It’s such a common point of failure that we keep them in stock at our repair shops. A new cable is pretty cheap (~$20, proprietary, of course.) I find that many of these “intermittent boot failure” scenarios can be fixed just by replacing the cable.

Of course, I would also take this time to upgrade to a SSD if you haven’t already. :)
The pilots of Lion Air 610 had in excess of 5000 hours. Flight experience doesn't answer the question I asked either. The assertion was made that U.S. pilots received difference training (NG vs MAX). What difference training?

You assume without evidence the problem manifests like runaway trim. And then proceed to assume without evidence the incompetency of two pilots. And yet you refuse to assume the incompetency of the automation, which didn't mere fail, it countermanded with lethal force the 100% correct control inputs of the pilots. The idea they have to assert their sanity by flipping two switches, is about as ridiculous as automation not having to assert its sanity when it, by design, trusts a single point of failure one upping that by trusting it while it's failing and one upping that to extreme by taking action on it without any regard to other input sources including the pilots themselves. It's beyond obscene to me.

I have personally trained private pilots with competency at identifying failed gauges, knowing which one to disregard, and estimating the missing values by inference from the remaining gauges. And this is in sub-200 hour pilots. The skill required for the instrument rating exceeds this particular automation in the AOA failure case by quite a lot. And the skill required for commercial and ATP ratings is even greater than that by quite a lot. Meanwhile MCAS upset from judgement of a single sensor induced such an unusual attitude it became unrecoverable.

So the assumption of incompetency by pilots, while cutting automation all kinds of slack is to me 180 degrees backwards.
Out of curiosity...

Paris: 27€/m^2 ($30/m^2)

SF: $4.95/ft^2 ($53/m^2)
Phlogiston Theory
I mean enforcing traffic control restriction is everyday operations for big companies, why would they assume that Google will treat them differently?
Wow. From my armchair it seemed to me much more likely that physics just works a different way at that scale than that there was an invisible substance magically sprinkled evenly throughout most of the universe.
That actually what I did first too (well, drag output to input), and was really irritated that they didn't line up. But next step was to click. Took a few tries to realize I could drag.
Interesting take on it, I certainly resonate with the "Michigan weather making work the only thing to do" anecdote.

I struggle with productivity, and feeling productive. and when I look back on times when I felt productive the attention thing does stand out.

It occurred to me when I thought of myself as a younger programmer that I used to love the time between midnight and 3AM, there was literally nothing on TV to distract me, the house was quiet, the kids and wife were in bed and asleep. I could spend the time thinking through the problem and then mindfully developing an approach to solve it. These days, not so much.

There is always something distracting in a web browser. Too many times I find I go to check something and poof an hour has vanished as I've followed a bunch of paths that I wasn't intending to follow. As a result my current efforts focus on not leaving a bunch of tabs open on my browser and being mindful about getting done what I came to do for the task at hand and going back to the task. No extra checking of mail or twitter or HN or what ever ...
And groups like the Amish show that it's possible to uphold traditional ways of life even when exposed to modernity. The Amish let their teenagers live in the outside world for a few years and decide for themselves whether they want to return to the community or become generic Americans. The strategy seems to work: the Amish are growing tremendously.
I considered that but at the same time I would like incremental feedback at this point. But maybe I should do a Show HN. I don’t want to bother people. Should we do a Show HN?
In all my software development interviews in the past many years I've been asked to state or demonstrate my skills and talents.
Fun fact: if you can only handle 99.99999% of cases (say on a per mile basis), your system will blow up 32 million times per year in the US alone.

You need to handle the “long tail” of exceptional cases. While most driving is not exceptional cases (on a per mile basis), they arise quite often for any given driver, and more importantly, for drivers in the aggregate. A vehicle stopped in the middle of the road is an edge case. It’s also something that just happened to me today, and in the DC metro area happens hundreds of times per day. Encountering a traffic cop in the middle of the street directing traffic happens to thousands of cars per day in DC. Traffic detours happen thousands of times per day. Road construction, unplanned rerouting, screwed up lane markings, misleading signs, etc.

The basic problem you’re having is that you’re assuming that failure modes for self driving vehicles are basically random. That’s not the case. A particular human might plow into a stopped vehicle because she is not paying attention, but the vast majority of people will not. But a particular Tesla will plow into a stopped vehicle because it doesn’t know how to handle that edge case, and so will every other Tesla on the road. A human driver might blow through a construction worker signaling traffic by hand because they’re texting. But the vast vast majority will not. But all the Teslas on that stretch of highway will blow through that guy signaling traffic, because they don’t know how to handle that edge case. A human driver might hit a panhandler who jumps into the street because she isn’t paying attention to body language. Every Tesla will do it, every time. Humans can handle all the edge cases most of the time. That means self driving cars must be able to handle all the edge cases, because any edge case they can’t handle, they can’t handle it any of the time.
Aside from pay, I find the anti-hierarchical aspects interesting.

How people interact in a small business is surely different than in a larger business, so I'd guess small business is more inclined to need a culture of "we're all in this together".

I think that "everyone is as important as everyone else" is in tension with "the market rate for developer and support roles are different than our flat salary".

I think they're right about some of the negatives about "traditional performance reviews and salary negotiation". But I'd be cautious about whether "everyone is as valuable as everyone else" brings more problems than it solves.
If the physiology of pain differs between the sexes, does the subjective experience of pain differ too? Even at the same reported severity? For all we know, if a female and a male both identify a color as blue, the two sexes may be experiencing different colors and attaching it the same label. Same goes for pain.

Imagine what a boon a technological fix for this could be. If we could record the quality and quantity of pain felt by one organism and play it back at high fidelity for another organism, it could be an effective torture device ... but also a way to promote empathy across sexes, races, and species.

But it's probably a fix that will remain a fantasy permanently, because if physiology underlies the difference, one organism would have to physiologically become something else in order to experience the same pain as an other. Probably we're stuck with the same old limited channel for communicating subjective experience: art.
I used to have a math class in the building housing this, used to walk past it a few times a week :D
OK, so imagine someone paints these robotcar-fooling dots on the road, and a caravan of a hundred robot cars is cruising down the street. All 100 of them veer into oncoming traffic. That will destroy your safety statistics quite handily.
I think you run into problems when your current vehicle registration expires and you need to update it.
> If my employer specifies a uniform, it's their obligation to provide one to 100% of their employees, not the 90% covered by the cheap "one size fits all" company they prefer to use.

Only if such clothes are reasonably commercially available — otherwise, they have a bonda fine business reason to discriminate in hiring, and may do so.

I think you’d find you also had a really hard time for suing if they just didn’t hire you on the basis of the uniforms they had not fitting.

So you seem factually incorrect about the height case.

> if you can't wear a "one size fits all" product, there's plenty of other options out there, and you're not potentially creating segregated neighborhoods, locking black people out of living near good jobs, etc..

This is again mistaken.

If you’re at the ends of the bell curve for height, you can’t reliably find work clothes through normal channels, and are thus unable to reliably signal your qualification for a white collar job.

The lack of height appropriate clothing impacts the ability of very tall or very short people to “dress for success”, and hence harms their chances of attaining the best jobs.

Your comments merely reflect your cis-height privilege and implicit heightism.

Further, it speaks to your implicit racism, because you view melanin as somehow biologically more meaningful than height.
This was (is) a lack of clarity in my entry. When the system locks up, it only recovers by rebooting through the BIOS; it doesn't resume operation from some suspension. System logs cut off abruptly at the time of the hang, with nothing abnormal even a few seconds before the time and no kernel messages sent out through netconsole (I don't have a serial console available).

(I'm the author of the linked-to entry.)
$70k in Seattle of all places is like minimum wage in the Midwest. ;-).

Good luck trying to raise a family out there, insurance, daycare, shelter & transportation. You might just have to eat a family member to survive.
Yeah, it’s one of three, but not the most popular of the bunch. Lakota is much better known. If you are grouping them then you probably want to change the label.

Nice site.
The way I think about it is motivation relates to the things you actively enjoy about your job. These are the "here are the neat things I do at my work" type of items.

Reluctance to leave is the sum of things that make you want to stay where you currently when someone else tells you about all the exciting things they do at their work. It's more like friction keeping you where you are.
A 30 watt power Nvidia GPU from 2016 is not "the best in the industry".

Edit: To expand, the GPU in current Teslas is a GP106. It has no neural net-specific compute abilities. For NN inference it's slower than last year's iPhone. A vastly faster chip wouldn't be hard to get. Even if their in-house silicon efforts fail, they could just buy a modern Nvidia chip and the inference speed would go up 100x. Those chips go for $1000, easily covered by Tesla's "full self driving" upgrade package price tag
of $5000.

If they run into a problem with FSD, it's not going to be finding a way to run 10x faster compute than the current shipping hardware. They may have other problems, but not that.
Try ever talking to Google about anything and you'll understand the problem with this suggestion.

I mean, it's a reasonable suggestion, but it doesn't work
What do they mean by this? I did notice that looking for archives of a few domains, including my own returned no results.
Also keep in mind that most Googlers can't change anything anyway
Serious question: what happens when everyone invests in index funds?

Would appreciate if one can point to research related to this scenario
PHP is faster than both Ruby [1] and Python [2] and unlike TypeScript the executed code is the same as the written code, no transpiling.

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[2] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I'm not sure Fortnite is a very good example, it uses OpenGL on very few of it's platforms.
If they don't view G+ as an important product and it's about to be shut down, it wouldn't surprise me if they set an aggressively low quota on its compute and storage resources. Google internally bills teams and product groups for services they use, AFAIK.
I once used a CRT monitor at school where the picture would spontaneously lose color. A good smack always fixed it... for about 30 seconds. It became a reflex - work work work work SMACK work work work work SMACK work work work...
Harbour Air and MagniX Partner to Build World’s First All-Electric Airline
They’re often not exactly equivalent, but I don’t think that all of your points are reasonable.

• Camel-casing the property name: I can do that myself readily enough; remember this lets you deal in direct property access, so we’re talking things like `styles.backgroundColor` rather than what would otherwise be `.css('backgroundColor')`, where using the kebab-case is nicer. (I would issue one caution: the kebab-case `float` becomes the camel-case `cssFloat` because `float` was a reserved word; this is a little like how for becomes htmlFor and class className.)

• Vendor-prefixing properties: in the library we use for FastMail, we used to have vendor prefixing; but when we dropped support for IE<11 and other ancient browsers recently I steadily whittled that down until there was only one item left, and so I decided to just special-case that one item. Vendor-prefixing is basically a thing of the past; the only one that I found to still be relevant is `user-select`.

• CSS variables: fair, but using `.setProperty('--foo', value)` and `.getPropertyValue('--foo')` is not onerous in those situations where you need to refer to a custom property.

• Adding `px` suffix to numeric values when appropriate: I don’t actually want that. I’d much prefer it to throw an error if I tried to assign a number to something that wants a dimension, but that is unfortunately not possible; yet it’s likely that any incorrect code that I write will not work, and so I’ll notice. If I really am working in pixels, I prefer to do so deliberately.

• Non-element nodes: why on earth would I want it to fail gracefully? I want it to throw an exception, because I evidently did the wrong thing. Also, if using a more strongly typed language such as TypeScript, this pretty much becomes a non-issue.

Things like $.fn.css are completely generic, taking a single object and needing to act on it—and so most of these features make sense there. But in the concrete situations where you use such functions, you can reasonably do things like call different functions, instead of just passing one object; and I think that there, most of them are instead either misfeatures or not of value any more due to better browsers and possibly TypeScript.

I like efficiency, and I like correctness; for that reason, I like the fact that the native methods don’t do most fo these things automatically. I don’t want to inefficiently do most of those things.
Your domain needs to:

include:_spf.google.com

... in order to send outbound mail from Gmail effectively. Many people don’t realize that Gmail sends mail to itself over SMTP, not some special magic protocol, and it doesn’t exempt itself from SPF checks and whatnot.
I don’t know of a single non-trivial situation where you can ASSUME that 2 implementations of the same spec will behave exactly the same in all possible scenarios.

It’s possible your error budget accounts for this potential difference, the parents error budget seems to have no room for the possibility of edge case bugs/divergence in the implementation of their database of choice.
Probably going to be controversial but I'll say it anyway -

About 10 years ago I had a period of 6 months filled almost entirely with mundane work that required concentration. My gf at the time had a pretty hefty prescription for Vyvanse and well...

I was shocked at the difference. I could get done in one morning what would normally take an entire week. And I did it about that often, usually a Monday or Tues depending on meeting load and would use my free time to get to other side projects that were important but not my main priority.

I'm too old to have seen the ritalin craze in higher education (I used it a handful of times during all-nighters but it was fairly rare/hard to get), and I don't believe I've touched these types of drugs since, but I do understand their pull when one needs to grind.
Ironic to see this post on HN, the place where I go to procrastinate
More context: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/b69d1b/google_...
I can confirm that there are some big problems with Google spam filter. Even emails from Google G Suite support ended up marked as spam. That started happening like 4 months ago.

We had a problem with following emails:

- all emails from sns.amazonaws.com are in spam

- all Stripe emails about "Suspected fraudulent payment on your Stripe account" are in spam

They all say "Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information." Anyway, if you depend on G Suite email to receive important notifications from PayPal, Stripe, or Amazon you will need to monitor your spam folder. It seems like there are some keywords (invoice, payment - I really do not know.) which will trigger spam filter.
I'm not sure which are funnier. The satires of films, or the satires of reality.
Why Garfield phones have littered French beaches for 35 years
Tencent Keen Security Lab Demonstrates Three Flaws in Tesla Autopilot
They made it to the front page of hn. Now they have great chances of being heard.
I hate to sound frivolous about someone's death but I have a gripe with the title: This was not technically a selfie attempt.
I understand your sentiment, but as Alan Kay likes to say, "The music isn't in the piano."
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Truly a very French bunch of elitist old farts, l’academie.