skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking about a time scale much longer than silicon valley is accustomed to. Moderate use highways are repaved about every 10 years. The highest use roadways are repaved every 2-3 years. Cars will need to be able to fall back to current-ish mechanisms for the foreseeable future, but we could get the locations where most human miles are driven repaved with some new tech within a decade.

There's more than one moving target here. One is when regulators allow the vehicles on the roads en masse. I think that should be at the point they're "better than the median driver." As far as user acceptance, I think once the price-point of automated driving as a service is cheaper than private ownership it will take care of itself. It will likely take a human generation or two to get the majority of people in autonomous cars.

My parents are quickly nearing the age that they will lose their independence/ability to drive. I would love the ability to put them in an autonomous car that is even a little bit worse than the median driver.
Sony rumored to cut smartphone workforce by 50%
IIRC you use the right mouse button to drag, so that makes sense.
I'd also like to add that the DDoS functionality isn't what really jumped out at me. It was the ability to reset your site's admin password remotely using a hard-coded password that anyone can read. And then there is also the ability to drop all your tables.

When we contacted them before publishing via email, they explained that someone had been pirating their software so this was a countermeasure. (quote is in the Wordfence post above) I guess the idea was that they would destroy sites using pirated licenses. Then they backpedalled that later on after this went viral.
What if you went to your manager, or whoever you feel is the right person, asked if you could speak one on one, and said...

"I really love working at this company. The work is interesting, I love the people, the culture, <one more legitimate pro goes here>. But I also know I could be making X if I went elsewhere. I love the work I'm doing, and I want to keep doing it here, but I also don't want to be leaving money on the table. What can we do?"

This phrasing, pretty much verbatim, has worked really well for me in the past.
What surprises me is that his writing seems to imply that the computer freezes but then manages to recover and continue as if nothing happened. I’d have expected it to lock up forever and/or crash & reboot.

Would be interesting to see system logs (if any) after such an incident - they could contain some clues as to which parts go offline (he mentioned USB devices going off) during the problem.
"If I asked everyone on HN what steers the rear of a motor vehicle; I'd guess only 10% would guess correctly, and we're talking about some of the smartest most well read people on the Planet here."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissach_axle
Using "bootleg" in the headline is misleading IMO. It implies there's something illegal or at least shady going on, which is what I assumed when I clicked the article. "Roku Clone" would be more accurate.
I used to be a little pissy when first SF and then CA banned single use plastic, but now cannot imagine life with plastic bags for groceries. I have a few reusable bags and use them for 90% of my grocery shopping. I keep them in my car. In the rare situations I don’t have my bag, I can always pay 10cents and get the paper bag. Such a no brainer.
Why don't you just ask for a raise if new people are making more than you?
Saying things like "I could make 50k more at blah" seems to be taken so lightly these days. I would party/panic/freak out like I won the lotto if you told me I could make 50k more somewhere else. 50k... do you have any idea what that does to your future earnings? Your 401k/retirement? Hell, even if you live the same as now, sticking 25K in the bank every year is worth a whole heaping spoonful of whatever hell they could possibly throw at you in the new position... but it seems almost daily I read about someone or hear about someone who says "eh, Ill pass on that 20/50/75/100k increase in salary, I'm not into "money"..."

I suppose all of those people already have their million in the bank for retirement... or are independently wealthy. Where do all of those people come from?
My knee-jerk reaction is to rephrase this as "Facebook calls for regulatory moat." A lot of these ideas seem reasonable, but I suspect they'd build Facebook's advantage. See [Ben Thompson](https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/) for instance on how data portability isn't as beneficial as it might seem.
I reduce information inputs and cognitive load because it helps me focus on things I find to be important.

Current things I do to relieve the stress of information overload: I do not use Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Twitter and I only look at my ~10 subscribed subreddits, all of which are meme-free. I only have a Netflix subscription, which I use infrequently. I use a decoy email for all non-important things like receipts, mailing lists, etc., about which I receive no notifications. I pre-cook my meals whenever possible. I live in an apartment even though I can afford not to. I have one debit and one credit card through the same bank, and my wallet has only these cards, an ID and a transit pass. I exercise at a circuit training gym so I don't have to plan my workouts.

To some people this seems like ridiculous/overboard, but to me the opposite is true. I estimate that I have re-gained 3+ hours per day of high quality personal time by reducing my consumption and getting a job closer to my home. This has allowed me to do work I consider important such as volunteering and creating less superficial relationships. This doesn't even account for the stress relief that comes with not having constant FOMO and political malaise from social media or having to worry about house maintainence.

I still try to evaluate my life to see if I can further streamline unimportant nonsense, but I think I'm hitting a point of diminishing returns--if I removed more information inputs and responsibilities it would reduce the quality of my social life, enjoyment of hobbies, and/or personal growth. For instance, I would get rid of my car as I use it infrequently, but I feel that if I got rid of it I would become more of a burden on family and friends in my life, many of whom would need to be drive to me if we wanted to meet. Eventually I would like to start my own business, which will cause me to have to deal with a lot more of the types of things I avoid in my life, but I will be able to do it because of the singular focus I am afforded by not filling my brain with saccharine garbage.

People, myself included, get caught up wanting the best things, but we can get caught in thinking that having more good things is more good in itself, when probably the opposite is true. It is very similar to how the FDA, due to political reasons, will say things like "people should eat more vegetables", when in reality the advice should be "people should eat less overall".
and charitable/purpose driven foundations which own companies are older than B corps

> capitalism can have a heart

yet people are still trying to prove this instead of using established solutions. I would say this is mostly ignorance along side a sales pitch instead of merely being discontent with what is available
Yes, it’s an oddly specific focus given how few sites have been optimized to the degree that a single cache-friendly resource matters. Given how many sites I run into where a single failure means that functionality breaks entirely, I really think it should be down the list.
Most, but not all boards with UEFI offer a compatibility support module to present a faux BIOS to the bootloader and OS. The presentation of both options is misleading, in particular the ones that refer to it as "UEFI enable/disable". Anyway if you boot with the faux BIOS, trustgrub2 will work, but no idea whether the TPM is supported via that CSM interface.
Maybe don't autofire your 0.1Xers?
> Is one of your premises that morality is something that has an objective scale

Uh, yes. I'm not a moral relativist. If you are, I'm sure you're aware of the tricky outcomes of that approach. For example, if you're a moral relativist, then you can't remain consistent with your beliefs and still criticize US executions (I find that most moral relativists reasonably disagree with the US death penalty).
I once wrote a post comparing PHP to the Zerg in StarCraft. It's ugly as hell yet manages to spread everywhere. Purity of Essence trumps Purity of Form. PHP let you defeat competitors wielding superior technology through rapid time to market. A zergling rush, if you will.
Probably, but it's not obvious how to write software that gets that right, i.e. finds the interesting links that a human would find via searching, while omitting the uninteresting or unrelated ones.

This case is a good example. I found it by searching on the domain and the word 'salary'. But could software have picked it out of https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=iwantmyname.com?
Thanks for the number!

Case studies are not irrelevant, but it's generally a bad idea to generalize from them without strong reasons. It's more like "Here's an effect I notices in my one-off example. Keep an eye for that to see if you notice it elsewhere."
My experience with bootcamp graduates has been that they struggle with any non rudimentary problems and lack knowledge of any of the fundamentals required to do non CRUD applications.
This article was a fun read as it playfully poked holes in some conventional wisdom but I'm not sure I'm left with coherent advice. Deep work doesn't matter? Working in 15 minute bursts is ok? Save rewarding work for after routine? Or maybe match it to my circadian rhythms? Work on what I love? Have a maker schedule?

Maybe the best takeaway is that there isn't really a single coherent ruleset for productivity...
Ah thanks, context helps. Maybe the G+ servers just have security measures to limit bandwidth usage? Do you think it's malice?
Tangential curiosity: what was different about them that made them incompatible?
Why should we do something about possible violence that could kill people?

Because we can. We've got the tools and people to prevent this stuff, and they can't really do anything about it. So we should, if it saves lives.

Hypotheticals about "countries" and "laws" are pretty irrelevant. Laws are enforced by people with the ability to enforce them. And right now, that's us. So let's use that power to save lives.
Today it is dark matter, but tomorrow it is...
https://i.imgur.com/YcsVKGX.png
You also need to convince an army to agree with you.
Never heard of that before.

What occurred to me was "Test to Destruction".
I wish I worked at your firm. I once worked at a place and saved them millions in one year. At the yearly review, they said "well, that was some good work". That was the entire review. When I said "how about giving me an extra 1k a year (a bit less than others who had been there for a while were getting) I was told we had no extra cash. Well... wow, I just saved you like 1.5 million dollars. I am not asking for that, even spread out over 20 years I am asking for 20k.

I have been reading HN for years. I have no idea how you people have such nice jobs...
"The number one quality that determined their success in my opinion was grit and passion for programming."

I have always said this as well. The best programmers are the ones who are truly have the passion. For example, maybe they started programming in middle school, they read up and learn new things constantly, maybe they had their own business in college doing web programming jobs, etc. They just can't stand not constantly learning and expanding their skillset.
When people say things like this, in front of me, in real life, I spend a lot of effort avoiding any interactions with them, almost entirely.
This is very true. I really liked my manager at the last job I left, but disagreed strongly with the direction my grandboss and up were taking. If senior leadership is determined to shoot the company in the foot there’s not much that one good manager can do.
I'm pretty tech savvy, but if any company sends me umwanted emails that don't have an unsubscribe link at the bottom which I can access without logging in, I mark it as spam, because that's what it is. If enough people do this, Gmail learns and applies the filter accordingly soon enough.
Or straight from curl:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taylorconor/tinytetris/master/tinytetris.cpp | gcc -x c++ - -lcurses -o tinytetris
I have a Galago Pro from system76 and love both the hardware and System76 tech support for Ubuntu, on a few occasions where I have run into trouble where I needed help.
I don't know. he just said to me" I make 300 a day" assume $90 net take home for 12-14 hours or less. Uber basically KILLED The yellow cab industry in NYC. He was driving a yellow cab and considering buying a medallion ( the American dream) for $800k but that yellow cab medallion is worth shit now since uber came on the scene and yellow cab drivers who got a mortgage to buy a medallion are committing suicide now that the medallion is worth shit. So the whole situation is toxic they are FORCED to drive with uber / lyft and its a race to the bottom AI is paying them less and less. Uber is bleeding them dry. They can't drive yellow cabs and now uber is squeezing the shit out of what they are already making, they are under so much stress in order to get some type of relief from working 12-14 hour days for shit pay ,sometimes 7 days a week they smoke / drink to forget the pain of it all to escape for just a moment from earning less and less and getting used to surviving on less. Its brutal in NYC.
That some individuals are better at concentrating on mundane tasks.
Ask HN: How do you deploy side projects?
What is your preferred way to deploy software for your side project? What tooling do you lose from the office that you wish you still had?
Great point, though I'd point out backups don't have to be distributed or cloud-based.

I was thinking it would be interesting to have a protocol (probably built on bittorrent) that encrypts your data and backs it up onto other's servers in return for storing some of their encrypted backups on yours.
My natural inclination in the first problem (A->A) was to drag the output A onto the input A (or vice versa), and when nothing then happened I couldn't see how to fix things. Reading the info link didn't clear that up; I had to read the journal paper and skim for a completed example there.

(Just trying to help; I like the idea.)
When I was at Microsoft I didn't apply CS principles beyond occasionally thinking "This function is going to be O(n^2), maybe I should change it. Oh, we'll never have more than 100 or so items, so it's probably not worth fixing that."
> Nation: A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory. [1]

They are their own nation(s). 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.

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/nation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
sounds like an unfulfilled niche to me.

existing 6 month boot camps "can't" do it since they are just recruiters that create the pipeline instead of making excuses about it, 4 year university still probably not the most optimal either.
You might be correct, but in my experience, the vast majority of people don't think about universities this way.

They value what the degree unlocks for their career.

I think what you're saying is true, but the problem is that people hear success stories of silicon valley technology startups being founded in a dorm room at MIT and decide they want to have the same opportunity.

Can't blame them.
Elon Musk, A.I and Nuclear Weapons
This stuff matters. I was fortunate enough to join a [trial](https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00636168) for Yervoy the summer before it was approved by the FDA. Based on my reading of the outcomes, there's a 1-in-4 chance that I'd be dead if I hadn't gotten the drug through that trial. (It was initially double-blind but has since been unblinded, so I know I was dosed with it.)
You mean persuasion? Ethos, logos, pathos.
I have a non-rebranded Viper and before that the Sparcle. I loved the thing but the 4mb of video memory made it unusable for daily driving.
> Google servers crapping out.

This seems....highly unlikely for Google.
I think it's standard in this industry that you only advance by moving to another company. You can even move back after awhile and they'll suddenly be able to afford you at a much higher rate.
Did they bother talking to anyone at Google before they started doing this? It sounds like they’re making a massive number of requests in a short period of time which is probably indistinguishable from abuse to Google’s automated systems.
A viable alternative is Rust + OpenGL, using gfx[1]. I've had success cross-compiling one Rust codebase to Windows, Mac, and Linux native applications that can render OpenGL graphics. I even got the compilation for all three targets working from within a single docker image, meaning the build can easily be set up in any modern CI system.

[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx
> I also feel like my problems are legitimate

Listen, refusing to carry a book bag when you know you are a compulsive shopper is not a legitimate problem.
Please stop spamming your ads in every half-related HN thread. You are really annoying lots of people.
I really wish they would open source some code and instructions to replicate this. It would benefit many people that will never have the chance to visit Oakland. The closest things I have found are La Tabla (http://tablaviva.org/) and Paper Programs (https://paperprograms.org/).
whether that's original of yours or not, it's salient and relevant and on point. good job and thanks for a pithy memorable quote.
Your analogy seems more like an argument against moral relativism that for it. Specifically, if murder is always wrong, then your hypothetical aliens are committing a moral transgression. If moral relativism is all we have, then it should be fine to destroy us and our planet by their own standards.
It's an existence with no meaning like any other.

I'm upset by the whole thing for the reason of how some people think isolation is appropriate in allowing this situation to even occur. It's maddening to think a more advanced civilization in space could be observing us in similar fashion as these people with their kids and who have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world. Ugh.. seems so cruel.
interesting.
https://coincircle.com/l/50VVxbObg3
Opposition research is real and frankly in the realm of boring. An illuminati-esk shadow campaign is far more conspiratorial.
New York City Getting Self Driving Shuttles
You’re not living the same lifestyle. Take a few international trips every year or live in or near a tier 1 city, or pay for a nice private school for the kids. Dinner and drinks out at non-fancy places is easy $100/person in a big city, vacations are $2k+ per person, private schools are $20k+ easy.
There's an answer here:

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/23231/is-ther...
I have switched companies four times in my career. Every time so far pay has been one of the top two drivers.
What's far more egregious than people buying their way in is the legacy and sport admissions system. I would go after those long before those that make large donations to schools, which at least benefit other students attending in the process.

Counting legacy in admissions not only advantages the already privileged but also reinforces the idea of this selective network of graduates. Schools love to tout their alumni networks, but if a graduate is giving preferences in hiring to people from their school simply because it is their school I wouldn't consider them a smart person, or at least not a moral one. There are tons of great schools out there and any educated person should know that being preferential to one school arbitrarily only means you will miss better candidates. It's not only unfair, it's not good hiring from a capitalist perspective.

As far as athletics, I see a bit more sense there from a school perspective if the athletics drive name recognition and sometimes money, but it seems particularly silly that a college, academically motivated first, would more or less forget their admissions standards for sometimes as much as 10% of the incoming class.
That would be really cool! The question I see is how to handle resolutions where two people both claim to be example.com. Maybe you could use some cryptography to make sure it's always whoever first claims a domain.
You actually claimed:

>> The PRC exerts indirect control over Taiwan's economy by pressuring its trading partners, so the distinction is academic.

That's not what happens. What does happen is China pressures international bodies like the UN and the Olympic committee to pretend if they want to talk to Taiwan, they must talk to only China.

But it has mainly cosmetic effect... eg, despite all that effort, Taiwanese passports (not issued by China) are recognized almost everywhere except China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_passport#Limitations_in...

Of course the nuclear-armed mainland is bigger and scarier than a small island of 20-something million with only conventional forces. But China has not been suppressing Taiwan's trade as you wrongly said, it has been encouraging and benefitting from it to the point it's the #1 partner with double the value of the US.
The money isn't that great if you are miserable and your kids spend it after your funeral
Nope! As of last year, HHVM no longer targets PHP [1]; instead, it targets a Facebook-specific variant of PHP called "Hack". It will still run some PHP code, but that's on its way out.

Even better/worse, PHP 7.2 with an opcode cache can actually outperform HHVM on many practical benchmarks [2], and 7.3 is faster still.

[1]: https://hhvm.com/blog/2018/09/12/end-of-php-support-future-o...

[2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20180305000053/https://kinsta.com...
I think community colleges are the dark horse of all this. Same (or better) education as at a four year for the first two years at a fraction of the cost. No need to go to a boot camp.
Tech IPOs could be windfall for California budget
Given how long Archive Team has been working on this (two weeks), my guess is the automated systems did not catch it, but that someone there decided to put a stop to it.
For most of technical works i do, concentration only happens AFTER i figure out what i need to do to solve the problem.

Else most of the time, the "researching phase" is the most daunting task.
I'm not a scientist, medical researcher, nor even very knowledgeable about biology. However, as part of my work, we deal with some prominent medical research institutions.

Over visits and dinners I've got to talk with a few of their leading anti-cancer researchers. One thing that was explained to me was a researcher saying that current findings are pointing out that cancer would be better thought of as a "immune deficiency" disease, rather than anything else.

For something to be "cancerous", must meet two basic conditions: (a) It short circuits the genes in the cell which limit reproduction, cancers instead reprogram to reproduce continuously. (b) Are in stealth-mode to the bodies immune system.

Evidently, your body can detect "A" and self-contain those micro-tumors basically in cysts as it was explained. However when "A" and "B" combine, your body can't deal with it because it can't even see it.

This particular professors research involved genetically altering cancer cells so that they could again be visible to the bodies immune system and marked as "defective". Thus, the body could rid itself of the cancer naturally.