skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No shit. What about when you erase all the lines on the road? What about when you remove the road? What's next, "Luxury Tesla defeated by a cheap piece of duct tape over the main sensors"? "We removed a wheel from a Tesla and it crashed into a wall!". These tests are so contrived, honestly.
i said society, not economy
A double blind test would be interesting
What this article misses out is that the metrics will be present and used whether they are articulated or not. By making them explicit they can be improved, validated, debated, and removed. Standards are consistent. When they're implicit, you get none of those benefits and instead promote an insider culture of unspoken biases that get no scrutiny at all.

The choice isn't between metrics and human intuition, it's between explicit and implicit metrics.

Of course there are bad metrics; to use an example from the article - measuring the output of analysts finding OBL on a binary metric is simply a bad metric. But if we start from there, we can improve it. How many leads do they have at the current time? What stage is each lead at? What intelligence has it generated to this point?
I've been having tons of issues with 1.1.1.1 on my iPhone especially when jumping on and off wifi to 4G. I realise they would need to reconnect and so on, but it seems absurdly slow, so I stopped using it. I'll give warp a try though
I am not sure about these numbers.

These base estimates are much higher than what sites like Levels.fyi and anecdotal numbers I've collected from my new grad peers.

At the new grad level, Base salary numbers are $125-135k:Google, $105-115k:MSFT,Amazon,FB.
The base salary numbers at other unicorns don't sound much different either.

I am not saying that TB's numbers are wrong. But, there has to be some reason for the huge difference in the numbers I've heard vs the ones TB reports.
Most of the innovation is happening in the FHIR space. And this is a very international space. As far as "interoperability" is concerned, we are all figuring this out together.

edit: I should add that US budgeting funds for adding interoperability requirements sure does help.
I used to work in .net, and found that it moved really fast also few years ago. But I think the js world is indeed the craziest.

I've went from jquery, to angularjs, to angular2, to polymer and now for my latest project I'm going no-frameworks JS. I've had enough.

Using Custom Elements (HTMLElements) is good enought for me, the latest ECMA makes it easy to do string formatting in the render function. It's not perfect, but I dont have to deal with all the pains of npm or webpack or any other distraction.
>1. Buy an electric car. Live in a smaller home. Consume fewer material goods. Set your heat cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Do what you can and actually put your money and lifestyle where your mouth is.

Literally none of that will stop the immediate threat of fracking injecting chemicals into our drinking water. Which is the discussion.

In fact, fracking will have done all of its damage long before ANY of those things will cause a change in behavior by the companies doing it.
Arnol’d has a good book from MSRI on this too.
Agreed. At least not with the sensors that come equipped on Tesla vehicles. Companies like Waymo are much closer, however.

Though I would also argue the presence of adversarial attacks doesn't necessarily mean self-driving cars are not close to being solved. There will always be some actions that bad actors can take to cause harm to others - that doesn't mean something is broken for regular use. You might as well put a bunch of nails in the road on the highway, for example. Luckily, most people aren't bad actors, and we have laws to prevent these things.
It is uncommon. That’s literally what this is showing. Even with a decade of experience in the hottest markets it’s still in the 80%+ percentile.
The bias inherent in our psychology is very intriguing. We are still jailing blacks/men disproportionately, marriage between men was not allowed (and is not many places) until recently, we are still locking up non-violent drug offenders while murderers and rapists get paroled. And yet, there is only a token amount of outrage about these topics. Surely, we tell ourselves, we are notmaking the same ethical mistakes as "moderates" in totalitarian states or slave-holding economies; specifically, how are we much better, we who do not stand up and criticize, but rather tacitly condone these evil practices by our inaction?

In the marketplace of ideas, the criticisms of these obviously abhorrent practices simply do not get much currency. Where does the failed war on drugs rank in terms of politically important issues? How about wage slavery, student-loan-indentured servitude, or industrial meat farming?

I don't know much, but I do know that people form habits and tend to set their beliefs/wants in stone, such that they will simply overlook suffering caused by their meat eating, tough on crime stances, etc. If it stands in the way of their bacon cheeseburger, most people simply don't spare a thought for others' suffering.
They're not contrived tests. They're attacks that work on specific NN-powered self-driving cars but don't work on humans.

No human would be tricked into driving into oncoming traffic by the three small stickers in the road used in this attack.
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Bobby Flay nails the texture on the veggie burger he serves at his restaurant chain (Bobby's Burger Palace). Here's the recipe: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/bobby-flays-v...

It's very, very delicious, but its not trying to taste like meat.
Interesting. Speaking as a carnivore, I find eating human flesh morally wrong, and would be quite insulted if someone cooked my burger next to some 'man' burger.

So I can understand their point of view.
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Improvements to what?

Serious question.
How do you think that green cards are wasted?
You've never seen a car that's accidentally driven into wet concrete/pavement? If a construction worker places the pylons a little too far apart, it looks like you might be able to use the lane!
>its in the nature of people to try and make a quick buck.

Just say it's yours (or bank's, startups'...), cause it sure ain't mine.

You should meet some people who try and do things differently. For instance, entrepreneurs who start cooperative, owned and controlled by employees and with no capital gains (we aren't hiding but the media sure don't like to speak about us).
Java is faster than C on this use-case
April fool's day :)
> Some people seem to go vegan because they're emotionally off-kilter.

And a lot of people have religious reasons for not eating meat.
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It's similar to saying, "if you care about your health, why are you going to Burger King". We all make compromises (not saying vegans eat meat though) so I think this is a fair analogy... as an omnivore, I like that if I do decide to compromise and get food from a fast food restaurant, I at least have this as another option that seems healthier for me and the environment than other options on their menu. FWIW I've tried the Beyond Burger at Carl's Jr. and liked it for the same reasons. I enjoyed it and would consider getting it again if I went there in the future.
True, apologizes for the rudeness on my part.
They've glossed over a few details that I'm curious about:

1. What will the exit IPs be? Will I get to stay with-in my region and access region specific content, or can I bypass censors, both government (porn, "glory of Islam", etc), and private (Netflix region-specific content, GDPR non-compliant websites that accidentally block my region).

2. Can I select my own exit region?

3. How do they handle abuse? Can I spam and get their IP blacklisted? (I'm curious, not actually nefarious)
I agree that this new feature is problematic but it can be due to oversight by Apple and not an intentional policy of marginalisation of the visually impaired people. Hence perhaps the headline should not use the term apartheid.
Is this an April fools joke or another terrible investment by google?
Burning man is demonic

On September 3, 2017[35] a 41-year-old man, Aaron Joel Mitchell, fought his way past a safety cordon of volunteers and firefighters and threw himself into the flames of the primary Burning Man effigy. Mitchell died the next day due to cardiac arrest, bodily shock and third-degree burns to 98% of his body. While a reputable member of the DPW claims this was the result of a dare to run through the flames, his death was ruled a suicide.[36][37][38][39]
This appears to be an April Fool's "joke"
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Three white spots that look maybe a few inches square each are hardly 'contrived'. Even outside of adversarial attacks, the same situation could happen from children playing with chalk or someone crossing the road with a leaky paint can.
> What about when you erase all the lines on the road? What about when you remove the road?

Both of those conditions can be handled by human drivers...a "self-driving" car had better at least handle them safely (e.g., alert the driver and then disengage autopilot), even if it can't actually navigate under the circumstances.

> What's next, "Luxury Tesla defeated by a cheap piece of duct tape over the main sensors"?

Someone will do that. I'd hope that the car would alert the driver as soon as it started that there was no usable sensor data.

> These tests are so contrived, honestly.

Of course, so we should just assume that these things work perfectly and that bad actors don't exist. Sounds safe to me.
Absolutely true. However, everyone knows who the kids are that got an F on the test anyway. In this structure, they get more help and may be more able to get a C- instead. It is even more so with math since everything builds on previous knowledge unlike something like history.
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The article mentions the 'blurred line' test - but the more interesting one was the smaller interference dots - which is a more practical attack. You can see them in the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSsKy0I9LE&feature=youtu.be
Sure they would. People ignore signs that say "Wet Cement" or blindly follow their GPS into a lake.
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I'd disagree with that too. Lots of recent psychological research has shown that blaming & shaming does not work - it makes people (including yourself) shrink away from the problem, because the experience of being blamed is uncomfortable and as much as our conscious mind may tell ourselves to "embrace discomfort because we deserve it", the unconscious mind recoils.

A better perspective is to accept that this is how things are and that we have the ability to change it into something better, and then take that as a call to action to search for what that "something better" might be.
> Medication cannot make people happy. (Well at least not the legal drugs, and the illegal ones won't work long term!) They can only create the possibility for happiness for those who need some extra help.

There are phase 3 randomized controlled trials that prove differently.
That's wildly different from having, as mentioned in the article, three white spots on the ground that are each a few inches across.
Not necessarily. All the fobs can share the same serial and/or the data content in them can be an exact copy.
What's the chance that there are a lot of unknown unknowns that you are not counting on?

I'd say that even the known unknown that ips and networks change routinely should make it a headache to maintain.
Fellow back end engineer, these are exactly my thoughts. In short, it's where most new people with no experience enter, and as a result a ton of questionable code.

A great frontend engineer is worth their weight in gold... it's just that so many bad ones exist, the default thought when hearing 'front end engineer' is not a good one.
I should have chosen my words more carefully. It's about the big picture. You can keep it easy by choosing a diet with fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, nuts, and unsaturated fats.

Apologize for the late edit (home now) but you might want to scrutinize closer your sources on saturated fat:

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-saturated-fat-studies-s...
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I hear what you are saying, but how many of these people were able to start as a barber, carpenter, or plumber, and build up there business from there? If a barber starts their shop, and off the back of their effort, are able to bring others in to work for them, isn't this effectively the barber earning that?

The barber, using their skills, were able to start a small business that hired others. It's not merely a case of some non-barber just buying a small business that happened to be cutting people's hair. So while they didn't start at 180k, they ended up there because of barbering.
Ah, the good ole "You can't make X perfectly safe, so therefore we shouldn't try to make it any safer than it is right now!" argument.

A favorite of gun enthusiasts and gun lobbyists.
It really depends on where you live. I live in a rural area on a gravel road with only one way in and out.

I have two dogs that sleep on the front porch. Both of my nearest neighbors have a dog too. We all listen for them barking and it's easy to tell the difference between them barking at a stranger and howling out to neighbor dogs and coyotes.

If I lived in an urban area where stuff getting stolen was a problem I would get good deadbolt locks for the doors and keep the windows locked. I'd also get a camera for the front door and maybe a couple others if needed to surveil and record points of access, and that's about it.

I'd probably make them myself out of Raspberry Pi computers and their camera and have fun twiddling with them.

I'm not a big fan of loud alarms. There were a few times when I lived in LA that I wanted to smack the snot of owners of cars with those installed when they went off.

I haven't heard one of those since I left there.
This is so important. I do eat meat (actually quit a lot right now due to health experiments) and I don't think the vegetarian movement will significantly reduce our meat consumption.

While I can't argue that animals should have the same rights as humans, I believe our psychology is wired for empathy even of animals and that may be the only "collectively objective' moral compass we have as humans.

The better we treat animals, the more resources we consume to produce meat. Lab-grown meat startups IMO have incredible potential to not only solve this problem but also make high quality meat incredible cheap. Great space to follow.

Note: of coarse the impossible burger isn't lab-grown, but they're working on that.
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Very nice article, but I'd say that this horse has left the barn a long time ago. "Responsive" web technologies in general make it so that the website owner can discover things about the client that they arguably shouldn't be able to. This new Apple feature is merely extending that well-established pattern and including accessibility technology as part of it.
Mass surveillance was strongly supported? Not what i would expect
Yes I read it, I am just not convinced it is financially feasible, or sustainable.
I am curious if you are in CA and if your child was picked because english wasn’t ‘spoken at home’.

CA has a funding formula that takes money from all districts and put it in a common pot. Better well funded schools are no longer assigned according to affluence of neighbourhood.

Funding for schools is then redistributed act to principles of no child left behind..which means that if there are more kids in a school that avail free lunch/meals or if they don’t speak English at home(English not native language), then the school can ask for more $$ from Sacramento.

In my school district, kids fluent in English are often tracked to non English speaking/English as second language streams to tap into these funds.

It’s a bit of a mess because affluent areas don’t get enough funding but teachers need salaries for standard of living costs in said affluent areas...so most of the funding goes to salaries and then to cover unfunded pension liabilities of staff.

Eventually students perform due to parent involvement and extra tutoring classes after school hours. They do end up over worked and stressed out.
>>> Instead of looking at this story as a warning, most of the finance people hear this story and laugh at how stupid everyone else is and that this would never happen to them personally because they're so much smarter than everyone else.

What if we're smarter than everyone else? When I was in big bank, we had mandatory source control, lint, unit tests, code coverage, code review, automated deployment, etc... pretty good tools actually. Not everybody is stuck in the stone age.

Even in a small trading company before that, we had most of the tooling although not as polished. Very small company with a billion dollars a month in executed trade. One could say amateur scale.
In recent years, across Europe I have seen large bookshops, even the flagship stores of once-serious chains, become largely empty. Where once densely packed shelves lined the walls and formed aisles, now there are half-empty shelves along the walls with just a handful of books scattered on them. The space in between is dedicated almost entirely to what I would call hipster accoutrements: vinyl records, Moleskine notebooks, fancy teapots, Kikkerland products, etc. Personally, I don’t get how these shops stay profitable. They seem to be renting a huge amount of space, presumably expensive, and not actually using most of it.

In any event, going back to the topic here, those bookshops have often done away with magazines entirely. Thus, Linux Journal couldn’t have sold their mag in bookstores even when some bookstores are still around.
>I consider myself fairly competent, and I couldn’t understand the wireguard documentation enough to setup my own install without resorting to algo [0]

a) wg is already quite straightforward and will likely get even simpler with broader adoption. Can't comment on what you did not understand about it. A statement starting with "I consider myself competent" is really not helping your case b) You are somehow confusing the simplicity of a client set up with the actual simplicity of the overall server and client setup. Client setups have generally been simple with a number of vpn solutions even before wireguard. c) There is no democratization of technology going on here. vpn service providers have existed since the dawn of time, and you could always pay and get a client config file.
...joke or not, that name is pretty bad. C'mon.
> Candidates with stronger resumes are not going to be using third party recruiters

This is an interest statement.

It is interesting, because the data I am seeing is that apparently Triple Byte is able to give people quite successful results. (Yes, 150k base salary is pretty good).

But your statement seems to imply that candidates that use them are apparently below average or something. And yet even though they arent as good candidates, they are apparently able to give people really good results, despite that.

Is my barometer for tech salaries so off, that apparently people believe that 150k base isn't something that a "stronger" candidate might receive? Yes, I've heard of some high salaries, but I still wouldn't call this something to scoff at
Agreed. I see a lot of it mirroring that industry.
and since when is that considered okay?
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