skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One alternative is 'Process Physics' which is not widely accepted but has a fundamentally different explanation for dark matter: Turbulence in the in-flow of space into matter. This flow is PP's model for gravity itself, as if matter continuously 'consumes' space to continue its existence. It's an interesting, quite different and generally totally rejected point of view.
it doesn’t mean that the same person has a one in three chance of not being recognized.

it means one in three people won’t be recognized. but the two of three that are recognized will be recognized pretty much every time. and you can always try again if it misses for some reason.
The article says that the top 10 % for software developers in SF is $136,000 (and they state that this is low). I thought that the top 10% is around $200k of compensation? Am I wrong?
Do you know long time CEO’s/entrepreneurs?
Can you name good CEO’s that started a company around their 20’s and where there long time without having issues or being removed?
Here's the math: If OP can speed up the rate of hitting acquisition and/or increase valuation by >= 5 times, it's a good deal. Say if it would take you 20 years to do something, and this cuts it down to 4 years, it's a good deal.
If you are interacting with the database using the standard Postgres drivers using the standard Postgres syntax why does it matter what’s going on under the hood?
looks like you can only specify the names of the constructors and not their contents, as in `(data Maybe (Nothing Just))`, so there's nothing stopping a user from doing `(Nothing 1 2 3)` or `(Just)`. interesting choice!

also since people reading this might be interested, i made something similar for Python a while ago: https://github.com/lubieowoce/sumtype
Does everyone else plan their grocery shopping in advance?!?!

I don't have a family. I work non-regular hours and in non-regular locations. I live in New York City.

I can't plan when I go grocery shopping. It's always when I'm coming home from... somewhere... and I have a free half-hour, and I'm lucky enough for it to be before all the grocery stores have closed... but I simply don't have a way to carry reusable bags with me all the time. And when I get a chance to shop it's usually ~3 bags' worth.

What exactly are people like me with non-predictable schedules and no car to keep reusable bags in supposed to do? This is a genuinely serious question.

Reusable bags are great for people with cars. I don't get how it fits NYC though.

Plus, I re-use every single bag for trash anyways. So now I'll have to buy trash bags, which are always much thicker than grocery bags, i.e. far more plastic. :( This will be inconvenient AND much worse for the environment in terms of plastic used. Literally lose-lose.

For most of the country with cars, I get it. But here in NYC, I'm not getting it. Especially since pollution/littering from plastic bags doesn't seem to be a problem here locally.

I'm really not trying to be difficult here. And I already do my best to live environmentally responsibly -- public transport and shared bicycles (Citibike), small apartment, responsible consumption, I recycle everything I can. But this just isn't thought-out.
The combination of C++ and OpenGL is really the ultimate in portability. A language supported on almost every platform by one if not more implementations (sometimes 3), coupled with probably the most widely supported graphics API. Of course you lose accessibility, and many platform API conveniences, but you get a more stable and performant platform to work with. In fact it's the platform that most web browser themselves are heavily based on. For another example just look at what Epic was able to do with Fortnite, one code base that literally runs everywhere.

Magnum [0] is a favorite of mine for creating portable OpenGL C++ applications. It also has support for compiling to WebAssembly [1] and using WebGL2.

0 - https://magnum.graphics

1 - https://magnum.graphics/showcase/picking/
True, true. I did not realize BIND had prefetch now. My internal nameserver was running an older bind (from Debian jessie?) I just upgraded to 9.10...
You use the word 'legally'. Which laws are you referring to?
Maybe it's not a bad thing to avoid hiring narcissistic overconfident wannabe rockstar developers :)

I'm not saying there aren't awesome developers who are worth their weight in gold. But maybe some shops don't need them.

That said, allowing for a single salary per level for junior/senior/.. might be fine too.
that crash wasn’t because of the markings. saying so, although maybe accurate, softens the issue. it was because tesla has a poor autonomous system that couldn’t plainly see a road splitting and instead hit a barrier at full speed wit no braking. the markers were a contributor since all teslas seem to mainly do is stay between the lines they see.
> Good time as ever to mention that Foursquare is still great in every big city I try it in.

Isn't their new business model basically track your location and sell the data to anyone with money? The title to their website it literally "Foursquare - The Trusted Location Data & Intelligence Company" (https://foursquare.com/).
The word "entrepreneur" has lost all meaning, and I say "good riddance". When someone asks you "what do you do" do you answer "I'm an entrepreneur"? If so, ask yourself why? Because you haven't answered the persons question, you've only stroked your own ego because you believe saying "entrepreneur" has a certain cache, which has been destroyed by everyone with an idea calling themselves an entrepreneur.

Drop the pomp and just be what you are. I'm not an entrepreneur, I'm a software engineer that runs a tech startup that is creating a new type of media. That actually tells the person what you are doing. Other professions describe what they do. A lawyer, they practice law. A doctor, they keep people healthy. A chef, he cooks food. An entrepreneur... a well, I run a business. Why? what does the business do? what do you do? Running a business can mean so many different things (ok, sure there are all types of lawyers and doctors too, so I can play devils advocate to my own BS).

But seriously, why do we need this word? I cringe when anybody calls me an entrepreneur, and I recently agreed to be on the panel of a tv show about new media. I got there to find out the show was called "The Entrepreneurs". I cried...
I do wonder —with so many examples— how they avoid being charged with racketeering or extortion.
Could also be a cracked trace of some sort. Either way a good smack can really help. All those movies where they hit the console and it comes back to life aren't too far off.
Do you really care if you get paid $190K + $10K because you didn't take the medical plan vs just getting paid $200K whether or not you take the plan?
Every decision my kids made me make in one day
Do you think it'd be worth adding a feature to link those automatically?
>If a passenger aircraft has an autopilot problem that causes a crash, do you blame the manufacturer or the pilots? The pilots are always supervising the plane, and it's not autonomous, right?

I actually agree with you, but this is not a good point.

In many cases (not all, but many) pilots are definitely partly to blame for an auto-pilot failure causing a crash, as they operate on the assumption that there are many fail-safes, and the pilot is definitely one of them.

A Tesla having a failure and a driver reacting to it is very similar to the pilot acting as a fail safe to a malfunctioning auto-pilot which definitely happens.

Where it falls down, is that drivers are not a trained, responsible part of the fail-safes (in my view), you can't rely on them paying attention and reacting in time, partly as they aren't paid professionals with simulator training, and partly because they don't have the 30,000ft of airspace buffer to recover from and clear airspace.
Productivity Is About Attention Management
Luckily, there’s a technology called a key, which opens a lock, and has no minimum lighting or software requirement for working. If physics is an issue, then doesn’t that mean the technique is fundamentally broken?
I knowingly chose not to opt out, despite being terrified at the coming leaks. Everyone non-technical I know didn't know or care it was happening.
I think the issue is they got that figure from a site that only counts base salary, when a lot of high end dev compensation comes as bonus or stock.
At the same time it's also a cultural clash, the questioner says he lives in Dubai, so he probably just learned about this Western tradition.
Bait, Bait, Bait......SUUUUUCCKKKKKK...
Imagine boing able to do something like this at scale: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/autonomous-vehicles-scaling-...
Shake hands. Kill tribe with common cold.
Is It Possible to Be Civil on Social Media?
Multiplayer functionality doesn't seem to be working for me. Is this just me, or an artifact of the compilation?
> Do Americans not get extra keys for their rental apartments?

Mine didn't though I'm sure I could have gotten extra ones if I just asked.

I've been tempted on many, many occasions to give the neighbors a dollar to get a duplicate key made so they aren't knocking on the door/window at all hours because they obviously don't have enough keys for the amount of people living there.
I think the poster you replied to was saying the opposite: that (a) he grew up around rich kids, and, separately, (b) knows people who went to top research universities.

Both groups think the system "works quite well".
Paypal has ridiculously low standards for their official emails.

https://twitter.com/Adys/status/943346017608585216

https://twitter.com/Adys/status/943513254655156224
Also see https://www.raptorcs.com/BB/ for their latest, more affordable board called Blackbird.
convert 1554080659 from nix time, lads.
Yeah. I do feel a bit like I'm making excuses to everyone's (much appreciated) suggestions, but I also feel like my problems are legitimate when, as far as I can tell, this won't actually reduce my carbon emissions.

That's the core issue. Global warming is an urgent problem, and I'm more than okay being inconvenienced to help with that. I don't think this helps, at least not relative to a surcharge.

As an aside, all of this stuff is effectively scribbling in the margins. Same with plastic straws and biodegradable utensils. That doesn't make these moves bad or even unnecessary, but I worry they're distracting from what is most urgently needed: major taxes on carbon emissions.
The core insight, in my eyes at least, of the Dynamicland project is that a projector + a camera is more interesting for deploying computation in a manner that permeates the physical world than screens. Weiser’s vision [0] could not see beyond the boundaries of the display and unnecessarily constrained itself as a result. But we have cheap megapixel CCDs and projectors now (and the GPU power to get something useful out of “neural network” systems, although I’m not sure whether Dynamicland makes much use of that) and it enables interactions that were unthinkable with a regular two-dimensional display.

And then it turns out that such a system works really well with more constructivist approaches to computer supported learning and collaboration, and the Dynamicland team is doing a very solid job at developing that too.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180104/http://www.ubiq.c...
The temp threshold reported (60F) seems too high for this to be a mechanical issue. I'd put my money on some marginal circuitry, probably in the PSU or on-board DC/DC converters, or perhaps a crystal -- they're wily things. I suppose it could also be "bad silicon".

Anyhow, time to break out a can of freezer spray. For those without a Fry's handy you can substitute compressed air cans (available at Staples and Costco), if inverted so as to spray the propellant. Except I didn't tell you to do that if you end up giving yourself a frostbite.
> lifestyle changes to free up $10k.

Seriously? Do you have a family? Raising kids is really expensive, even without sending them off to public school. After rent, food, clothing, medical care, and transportation, there is not much left.

As for your comments about religious school, I am basing my comments on real the real world experience of having gone to a religious school for 7-years. All of these schools require some type of education about the school’s founding religion. At a minimum, we are talking about a regular class. Many schools require their students to adhere to the standards of the religion during the course of the school day. Please explain to me how this is not indoctrination?
If the question is, are there services that target individuals (or individual employees in a corporation) to help protect them from attacks, yes, that exists. Tall Poppy is one of them (tallpoppy.io).
Write code like you’ll have to debug it at 2 am. Some day you will.
People forget just how much of a usability revolution the iPhone was compared to the not-so-smartphones that preceded it.
> What exactly are people like me with non-predictable schedules and no car to keep reusable bags in supposed to do?

There are full-size reusable bags that fold into the approximate size of a pocket square; three of them can probably be carried easily in a typical pants pocket.

> So now I'll have to buy trash bags, which are always much thicker than grocery bags, i.e. far more plastic.

The trash bags that are roughly the same capacity as grocery bags are much thinner, and less plastic; large kitchen bags are thicker, but also hold several times the volume and mass that a grocery bag would handle.
> I 1) don't attract many mosquitoes but 2) when one of them does find its way to me, I'm non-reactive (no itchy bump)

There's potential for bias here: (2) might be over-inflating your impression of (1). An alternative hypothesis (not trying to contradict your own experience!): you attract mosquitoes as much as the next person, but since you're nonreactive, you simply don't notice that mosquitoes are bothering you unless you happen to catch them in the act of biting you (which they're good at avoiding), or if you see or hear one flying around you (which could be chalked up to random flight, or them having trouble locating you).

> I'm both a sweaty and oily person, but I don't really produce BO

Another comment on this story (https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=19535422&goto=item%3Fi...) points out that mosquitoes home in on lactic acid, which is produced by non-odour-causing eccrine sweat glands, which explains why there is actually no correlation between human-perceptible body odour and mosquito attractiveness.
The worst part is that it's not just OpenAI, the politicians figured out this is a good way to draw votes. The right does it to draw the rust belt, and the left to draw the urban poor.
The article seems to say

maybe the rate dropped 40% or 13% but

>Now NHTSA says that’s not exactly right—and there’s no clear evidence for how safe the pseudo-self-driving feature actually is.

Which doesn't seem so terrible. Personally I'm optimistic that as the systems get better they can roll them out to other cars and make a dent in the 1.3m/year global deaths.
The browser doesn't provide the usual POSIX api for opening TCP connections. With some work you can write a shim library that implements it in terms of websockets, but it still can't connect to arbitrary hosts. Instead you have to run a proxy server for it to connect to.
Tagged "april-fools" by the author on github.
What equipment and how much energy?
If your team only knows PHP, it's just a small project or you only have the resource to find PHP dev replacement, just use it. Easy to use, online resource is plenty, you won't get stuck unless you want to do a lot of parallel task. Just scraping web efficiently in parallel is kind of a work to get it done in PHP.

Right now I just love having type definitions through TypeScript that you can never have in PHP. (Every variable and hash members starts to have a meaning, which means no mistyping of names, never specify non existing member or method and never use wrong method, as in you can't use numeric methods on string members which happens far too often in other languages and the return value is completely consistent. Say, you have a switch statement, and all of them returns a number but you forgot to add 'default' and TS complains that the method is not always returning a number.)

Ruby as a language is beautiful although it doesn't have the power of TypeScript, the code looks far more beautiful than PHP and if you like how rails works which pushes their rules down to your throat but if you feel it tasty, you might like it too.
You are correct, $136k is barely above entry salary, $200k I would say is the higher end of average for senior+ devs, salary only, not including bonus or equity.
$136k base, other incentives are usually at least $25k. After a few years experience $180k - $200k base is more common. I’ve been offered that a few times and everyone I know makes more than $136k base after some experience
April+2019+Horoscope+-+by+Alex
> Dark faces reflect less light

Or at least less visible light. I wonder how skin pigmentation affects imaging with infrared light?
I ran it for a few minutes and then it said:

Uncaught RuntimeError: float unrepresentable in integer range
at wasm-function[3502]:49
at wasm-function[6940]:395
at wasm-function[6939]:347
at wasm-function[3103]:334
at wasm-function[3284]:30
at wasm-function[4902]:3105
at wasm-function[4903]:654
at wasm-function[8083]:442
at wasm-function[8082]:3
at wasm-function[9782]:13
It appears to be extremely bare bone. For example the TCP socket is like UDP with hard coded IP addresses. It won't handle any packet reordering or lost packets.

I haven't checked other parts, but if they are like that it would be more a very elaborate demo than something actually usable.

Still impressive even for a demo.
OP - tread carefully, this "advice" is from an individual afflicted with a case of Dunning-Kruger.
It's a Google product. Of course it limits your communication with Google competitors. If you used Google Pay, like you're supposed to, it would work fine. It's a free email system.
They have to make money off you somehow. What did you expect?
Thostein Veblen: The engineers and the price system, 1921.

“Sabotage” is a derivative of “sabot,” which is French for a wooden shoe. It means going slow, with a dragging, clumsy movement, such as that manner of footgear may be expected to bring on. So it has come to describe any manoeuvre of slowing-down, inefficiency, bungling, obstruction....

https://archive.org/details/engineersandpri01veblgoog/page/n...

See also:

https://macro.economicblogs.org/mason-slack-wire/2017/11/mas...
My jeans pockets are already full with my wallet, keys, and cell phone. The idea that I have room to keep three folded up bags as well in my pockets at all times is ludicrous.

I mean, seriously, I couldn't even wad a single existing super-thin grocery bag into my pocket without it bulging uncomfortably and no room for anything else, let alone three.

And I have never in my life seen trash bags sold that are thinner that grocery bags. Grocery bags are the thinnest plastic I've ever seen, which makes sense for economic reasons. (I'm not talking about some gourmet thick grocery bags, I'm talking about your cheap-supermarket ones, which is where I shop.)
>> Graduates do not get paid 250k p/year. Not even in finance positions.

You’re right. They make more when you factor in bonuses — in some cases double that.

I’m guessing you aren’t in the industry or have an outdated perspective. In recent years, the competition for ML talent at hedge funds has become fierce and compensation has skyrocketed.
What’s the difference between motivation to stay and reluctance to leave?
Looks like there's a bug in wasm-function.
Hell, not just as garbage bags.

I reuse my grocery-store plastic bags whenever I need to transport a bunch of small objects somewhere.

Let's say I have some snacks at home, and I want to bring them to the office. What to do? Grab a Kroger bag and put my snacks in there!

(edit: also, since I check my mail infrequently, they come in really handy when I go to the mailbox, especially if I'm doing so on the way to work)
You could apply that kind of thinking to all labour laws. Should the minimum wage be abolished? Vacation time? Overtime?
Google has the annoying tendency to ask people to rate and review places they've been near. When they get it wrong you get reviews like "never been to this place 1/5 stars".

I wish Google would incentivise helpful reviews and better verify that a user has actually been to a place before prompting them to review it. Something as simple as creating a guide on how to write a meaningful review could probably go a long way.
I agree, an unsubstantiated self post shouldn't be spread on HN.
Fwiw, I shouldn't be assuming everyone has read every parallel comment thread, so apologies for that.

Edit:

> Single use plastic bags never achieve carbon offset in practice, as opposed to cotton bags which sometimes do.

But producing a reusable bag requires much more carbon, so unless that bag actually gets reused at least 131 times (compared to plastic bags which are immediately thrown away), you're not saving carbon, you're actually producing more.

It's worth actually looking at the numbers on this stuff. Similar to how buying a more efficient car isn't necessarily better for the environment if you're retiring the old car earlier than necessary.

I'm not as confident as you that lawmakers actually ran the numbers on this stuff. It feels somewhat haphazard.
AFAIK, it's more than just yelp employees that don't admit knowing about such practices, ex-yelp employees also don't admit knowing either. So far evidence points to yelp extortion being the work of independent scammers.

However, hasn't Google reviews pretty well made Yelp irrelevant at this point? And while there's lots to be concerned about Google's business model, I'm not aware of any potential for conflict-of-interest in Google reviews as with Yelp.
I think that should have been “motivation to work.”
I agree. PHP needs 1st party support for proper threading and asynchronous programming.

This would speed up applications more than a JIT would for most.

Though I’m very pleased that this made it to PHP 8
If I had to guess, differing incentives. Both are synonymous for "why they stay" but with different base reasons.
Of course, self-driving cars don't have to be perfect, they only have to be better than human drivers.

Then they'll go mainstream, and they'll keep getting better and better, while human drivers don't.
The author has discussed his system for months in 4chan.
The first bullet point of the top comment from 5 years ago begins "As the company grows,...". The company has N=20 employees now. How many did they have 5 years ago? N is extremely low for making any generalizations, and it certainly isn't growing like a startup (in the sense Paul Graham uses the term).
When I previously mentioned Google will put these systems into their housing project in Toronto, I got downvoted, but it's clear this tech will be ubiquitous in major North America just like it already is in large cities in China.
In 10 years, really the only negative experience that in any way affected my well-being was the incident I wrote about in the linked blog post. That covers probably a couple thousand GitHub issues. So really overwhelmingly positive stuff. Amazing how much I let one guy fuck up my day, in retrospect.
My first Data Processing job (pre-IT) was an operator on DEC PDP-11/45. Later we upgraded to a DEC PDP-11/70.

In Australia, we had 10% of the world's Pick systems. I have use Wang OIS, Data General RDOS, IBM System AS400 and a few others as well.

I threw away an original DEC Flea Circus (Field Service) leather toolkit as the Australian Computer Museum does not have any more room.
I had a webcam that becomes faulty when it gets cold. We suspected that the rubber connector gets tightened when it's cold, but couldn't quite figure out why.
Everyone should have access to all my personal cameras?