skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OMG this is huge, I can't fathom how a company with such level of engineering and talents can't/choose not to do it. At one point it's bigger than the bottom line or any other considerations, it's for the moral of the whole company.
https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/mydatausage

T-Mobile is “unlimited data” until 50GB, then they limit your speed.
Group open
They need to reopen the api. There's a all sorts of weirdness that's possible with the platform but Twitter doesn't have the time or the imagination to explore it.
Not sure how they can claim with seriousness to have written the first editor for web development.
I wonder if all Intel's acquisitions have failed while homegrown efforts succeeded.
I don't get anxiety, but these margins gave me anxiety.
I specifically called out Intel's software team as competent/good. They are obviously able to take buggy silicon and make it do impressive things, but when it comes to shaping and interpreting analog RF waves it seems this is outside their capability to tune much beyond what they've done.

Broadcom comparatively has crap drivers and decent silicon, meaning your cable modem works fine (with no bufferbloat or jitter issues), but good luck with that random WiFi chipset on Linux :P
I've seen it done in a much more brutal (if less discriminatory) fashion - everyone who doesn't get a full fluids screening in done 2 months sees their premium jump.

Employees are responsible for booking their lab appointment, receiving the lab sample, and then submitting it manually. So that's 2-3 weeks to schedule and make an appointment, followed by at least 4 weeks for the lab's turnaround, followed by time to submit the paperwork from the lab.

Great way to raise some rates.
Have you seen the average spec for a website?
Ask HN: Backdoor References for Employers?
VCs love backdoor references as a method of vetting founders. This has always rubbed me the wrong way, maybe because of the VC/founder power imbalance. However, I wonder if and when backdoor reference checks can be appropriate when vetting a prospective employer. Say you are considering joining the startup of a well known (but not to you personally) founder. Is it appropriate to try some backdoor reference checks in this case? Any pitfalls or protocol one should be aware of?
Intel's x86 business is not far behind
So the previous discussion link is from 2016. Why does this smell like a desperate attempt to get mathematical fame? Why does this post smell like a "For your consideration" promotion? The previous discussion also talked about what a quirky guy the prof is, as if trying to make it about personality.
Please have a look at sagemath. https://www.sagemath.org/
Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes
Thanks for the QRNN.
What’s it like working for Socher?
The point is that with ray tracing the indie game and the AAA game might not look all that different in terms of graphics. Right now AAA games use crazy 40-50 pass shaders and mountains of custom tweaked texture maps to get stuff looking like it does. With ray tracing you can accomplish a lot of that with almost zero effort.
It seems to me that it's more expensive to go to an Ivy League school than to simply hire faculty as personal tutors.

Looking back, I can see where working with your hands would have been a lot of fun. No doubt you hit the ennui inherent in any profession. Maybe the right answer is to start over every ten years.
Half day items were strictly bound, well know problem, like a label change, or a piece of functionality I knew by heart to be that size. I found that those items usually helps balance out the larger item misses.
That was old data that was apparently severely understated.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/articl...
I think the problem is that they believe they "squandered" supplying the iPhone CPU. They stated that mobile CPUs would never sell in quantity, so they weren't interested. Missing that boat, they've believed the need to be in front of mobile at any cost.

I think Intel failed to realize that they had made the right call with iPhone: their very culture isn't about being innovative, but providing microcode flexibility at high instructions/watt. They had a chance to define servers, and still do. They should have been all over the whole spectre/meltdown/timing security issues and owned creating a secure server chip. Instead, they've fretted away so many options that they never had a chance to win.

My two cents.
It's this part where the estimate becomes a deadline:

> PM: "That is perfect! The customer wanted to put in production on Monday, so we can now confirm. Thanks!"

> pointing out dependencies the Dev appears to not have considered.

I'm not sure if they're dependencies or other priorities in this case. I've had managers before ask for an estimate and and I've given them one (2 days), then they've assumed that I'm dropping everything I'm in the middle of and told clients it would be done in 2 days.

The problem with estimates is that the people asking for them really want promises.
Slurring epithets will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and do not post anything like this to HN again.
Removing counts is the only viable cure for social media that’s left.

Not removing the problems, but removing the addictiveness. Once we reduce the problem space of inputs to people who aren’t addicted, the results should be a lot less difficult to parse.

Visibility into why a post is top of page should not be granted through an integer mapped on a scale of 0 to infinity at any level of precision.

Not for upvotes, downvotes, replies, reposts. Not for unsolicited messages, or “X hours ago” (yes, time durations are 0..+/-inf integers, loophole denied).

High score chasing will be the madness of us all. If I could write a web extension to filter every page’s counts away I would, but I cannot figure it out in my spare time.

Map onto decaying average percentiles of traffic over X days, so that high-traffic posts are super bold and low traffic ones aren’t, or use 2-D colormaps (not Jet) and up/down arrows centered around 50th percentile. Relative comparison is absolutely invaluable and is a perk print newspapers don’t have.

I hope HN tests this someday.
What we’ve learned from seven years of working to make RC 50% women
I started using lists for this. I have a list of people I follow (I could just unfollow, I guess) and I get only their posts, in order, with no ads.
Intel could not resist bufferbloat.

I have a book about UPnP written by some Intel engineers and it describes a bastardization of http that is so insane that there is no way I would trust the company to embed an http server inside its management engine. It just wouldn't be possible with an attitude like that to get security right.

Maybe INTC went up tonight because investors know now that Intel will stop wasting money on ads proclaiming themselves to be the leader in the 5G "race". (How come nobody cares about the finish line?)
I only clicked on TFA due to your comment and now I'm quite unhappy.
How to Hire the Best Developers
I thought it is to help to learn list manipulation. String is great but is a super coat. But I do agree this should not be the only book. In fact Piap is better.

The whole Common Lisp learning is hindered by suddenly you have a function that do magic. And nil does not help.

Really wish there is a lisp book learning using the kernel (lisp 1.5 which can be easily implemented using itself).
Yes, because Apple was expected to prevail, and QCOM by folding, curtailed risk that was built into its price.
The OP did not mention foreign workers in the question. Just remote. Not trying to contradict your experience. Just clarifying the context of my answer.
Can you still do VLBI if you downconvert the signal or do you do direct sampling (or something else lol)
Maybe, but unlike hacking voting machines (which remove voters) this scheme relies on rallying real people to go and vote. It would have been achievable with traditional campaigning methods, just more expensively.

But why aren't we addressing the underlying issue of why these several thousand people in swing states thought to vote in this way? How come the mainstream response is to say "gee I wish those people hadn't voted"?

I think addressing the underlying concerns would be more effective. I get that politics can be zero-sum at times but campaigning in swing states and targeting issues that those voters find important should be part of every campaign.
> Groovy, with its tacky syntax hacks like long strings for function names

Actually, Kotlin does that too. I think it is even encouraged for writing tests.
You know that Jack Dorsey also founded another successful company in Square, right? Pretty hard to argue that he lucked into both of those things.
Flying that won't bore you to tears:

1. service to antarctic bases

2. water bombing forest fires

3. test pilot for a Navy contractor

4. dirt airstrips in Alaska, with animals on the runway and weather

5. dirt airstrips in Lesoto, short and high altitude

6. Zero Gravity Corporation (commercial "vomit comet")
Weird. No idea. I work for a large software company, ERP software, but in a niche market. Offices in Reston, Bangalore, and a few other places.
Socialism, communism and capitalism are all "amoral". I think you are confusing "amoral" with "immoral". I'm not saying capitalism is immoral. I'm saying it's amoral : "Neither inherently good or bad."

As you noted, capitalist and communist societies committed horrendous genocides. And capitalist and communist societies did a lot of good.

But nothing inherent within capitalism or communism says you have to commit genocide or do good. It's up to societies and human being themselves. Did capitalism wipe out the native americans and aborigines? Or was it selfish and flawed people and society? Did communism starve millions in ukraine and china or was it self and flawed people and society?
More likely, the expected risk to QCOM was priced in, but nobody expected Apple to be harmed either way.
> They have a product their buyers like, but the car doesnt have buttons or a center console.

You're not the target market. Really it's for people who don't have money for a model s/x who don't care about touchscreens and want to control the car from an app.

(fwiw: I'm not the market either, I want a dashboard)

What's kind of interesting is looking at older model S cars and searching back for what the UI looked like in the early years vs what it looks like now. Looks loads more modern now. These folks have upgraded their cars like their iphones throughout the years. The "niceties" are software and have just appeared over time.
Every other time the issue has come up, it's turned out that "access to user data" meant that the third party was allowed to ask the user for access to their data.

Allowed to ask the user? Can you unwrap that for us?
My experience is that Intel software is crap.

For instance my biz dev guy thought that Intel's graph processing toolkit based on Hadoop would be the bee's knees and I didn't have to look at it to know that it was going to be something a junior dev knocked out in two weeks that moves about 20x more data to get the same result as what I knocked out in two days.

NVIDIA, on the other hand, impresses me with drivers and release engineering. Once I learned how to bypass their GUI installer I came to appreciate what a good job they do.

(They gotta have that GUI installer otherwise some dummy with a Radeon card or Intel Integrated 'Graphics' will post on their forum about how the drivers don't work.)
When Intel repeatedly says they're going to continue making the modems for the iPhone up to 2020 but now have shown themselves to have been blatantly lying, clearly this has to be illegal or at least warrant an investor lawsuit right?
I thought it was the Qualcomm Apple settlement? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19676499

Surely it can't be a coincidence. Though the weather thing might not be either, but if so this was a very well coordinated response.
> Twitter is a prime example of A/B testing gone wrong.

Sorry? Twitter is worth $25 billion.

How did it go wrong?

Even if you want to talk about morals on a philosophical level, that's not what A/B testing is.
Maybe paying more is something that should be explored...

I think for $500-$1,000 a month per person you would have widespread behavior change in most companies, and it wouldn't really even be that expensive in the context of total healthcare+wellness program spending.
> Why does it need to exaggerate the bad and gloss over the good?

Car enthusiasts & journalists have a storied history of being biased against electric and/or self-driving vehicles.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/24/jeremy-clarkso...

https://www.tesla.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive
Ask HN: Does anyone know what time YC sends out decision for s19?
Thanks in advance.
If you reduce the font size a bit, it becomes more tolerable.
Doubtful, T-Mobile has shown it is quite profitable without Sprint, taking on Sprint's debt and assets will force T-Mobile to act like a classic telecom company much moreso than they already do.

T-Mobile is only interested in buying Sprint for their 120Mhz of 2.5ghz spectrum, as they would be able to use that to build a 5G network with much wider spacing (similar to Clearwire's spacing every 16 blocks) versus Verizon and AT&T who will need to place radios every 2 to 3 blocks using mmWave spectrum (and mmWave won't work indoors either).

Sprint and T-Mobile could easily come to a network sharing agreement where T-Mobile builds out 2.5Ghz and Sprint can use the network, similar to Telus/Bell in Canada. This would be a much more reasonable option than merging and losing the only carrier (Sprint) that has consistently provided downward pressure on cell plan prices.
RF is difficult.
A shrink-wrapped version of the instant API that could be installed on a server would be a good product.
A baker survived the Titanic sinking by getting drunk
What is bufferbloat
Browser vs server-side is always going to be a tradeoff, yeah. In some cases you're ok with paying for server time, and then don't need to depend on clients running your code. But in other cases it's much more cost-effective to run code on the client.

Note that the browser has gotten a lot better in the years since repl.it moved away from running code there. In particular wasm parses and executes a lot faster and takes a lot less memory than JS.
Intel owned a big slice of the embedded ecosystem well into the 90's. They threw that all away to focus on high margin Pentiums.
All of those things are what a developer worth anything to a company should be doing.

Similarly, BAs without business domain knowledge are even more worthless because of this.

I.e. consultant BAs are, as most of us know, a waste of money.

BAs are struggling to find a language to describe their business requirements in a way the programmer or computer can understand.

It's code. It's what programmers have been writing all along. That is the god damn language they need.

Given when then? If then else.

Surprise!
Name a single car maker that doesn't use paid marketing, which always oversells itself.

...and which claims can't be backed up? If you look at average existing ICE vehicle mpg (not counting hybrids and electrics), Tesla used the correct numbers.
3 applications ago, I got the email at 1am EST.
The last two applications I received the email after 3:30am EST.
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If you like this sort of thing, here are some others in a similar humorous style for other languages.

1. Kaufman, Roger. A FORTRAN Coloring Book (probably the first funny programming book -- from 1978).

2. Lipovača, Miran. Learn You A Haskell for Great Good.

3. Hebert, Fred. Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (inspired by the Haskell book).

4. Felleisen, Matthias. Realm of Racket (basically Land of Lisp for Racket. Oddly, nobody's done a "Commonwealth of Clojure" or "Society of Scheme" yet.)
The most interesting thing about this is not that wellness programs don't work (this is the null hypothesis for all interventions, behavioral interventions particularly, and diet/exercise interventions especially) but that it offers a direct examination of 'correlation!=causation': they did the cluster randomized trial, but they also did the naive correlational analysis ignoring the randomization to see how misleading the estimates would be.

They compare the estimates side by side in the supplement https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/causality/2019-song-su... You can see that the estimates are... different. Frequently, the point estimates aren't even the same sign. Self-selection and 'healthy user bias' are very much things.

---

This parallels an earlier workplace wellness randomized experiment: https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/causality/2018-jones.p... which comes with nice graphs/tables comparing & contrasting the correlational vs actual causal effects:

https://www.gwern.net/images/causality/2018-jones-table5-nyt...

https://www.gwern.net/images/causality/2018-jones-figure8-ra...

https://www.gwern.net/images/causality/2018-jones-supplement...

https://www.gwern.net/images/causality/2018-jones-supplement...

https://www.gwern.net/images/causality/2018-jones-supplement...

https://www.gwern.net/images/causality/2018-jones-table5-cor...

(I collate a bunch more of these kinds of correlation!=causation results in https://www.gwern.net/Correlation as a way of making the point that, empirically and especially when it comes to humans, correlation frequently is not causation, and this is not merely some carping pedantic statistician's complaint, but normal.)
You haven't gone deep enough: the interactivity is vastly better, and the package ecosystem for statistics and data science is generally much more complete and actively developed. scikit learn is very good, but if you're not using that or doing dweeb learning, you're up the creek without a paddle.

Python doesn't even give you matrices as first class citizens; while I used a lot of Python before I used R, it still feels like they bolted lapack onto an unrelated scripting language and built things with it. More or less because that's what it is.

Personally I don't think the R language is anything special, good or bad: it's a typical sloppy interpreted language (though many of the difficulties described in the above 2010 document no longer exist). It's the package management system that makes it useful. It's not even a great package management system, especially when dumb kids use it like it's nodejs. But it's good enough to allow potentially crummy programmers (aka statisticians) to contribute meaningful and useful code to the ecosystem.
What makes you think they still have top talent? Anyone with any ambition for the past decade would be drawn to ARM or one of the many fabless design teams built on ARM.
The BBC today published some experts' thoughts on what rebuilding will require. In short, much depends on how much the heat and debris affected the still-standing, critical structure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47952055
Law of headlines: if it bleeds it leads...

To get crisp, selling data is selling the keys to the kingdom, it would remove FB's need to exist. There are strong economic motivations to not go out of business.
> That's why radio VLBI is a thing, but not optical VLBI.

Hi, long baseline optical interferometrist here who specializes in modeling and image reconstruction.

To set the record straight, long baseline optical interferometry really is a thing. At present there are two optical interferometers operating in the USA and one under construction: Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), and the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI), and New Mexico Tech's Magdalena Ridge Optical Interferometer (MROI, under construction). Europe operates the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile. Australia has the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI). Optical interferometers have been around for a really long time. Michelson famously measured the diameter of Betelgeuse in December 1920. The first image from an optical interferometer was of Capella produced by the University of Cambridge's COAST telescope in September 1995.

The key difference between VLBI and optical interferometry is that we must combine the light from each telescope in real time, rather than recording the RF data to disk and forming the interference patterns later using correlation. Our interference patterns are recorded on high speed cameras, extracted, calibrated, and then stored as OIFITS files. These files are then later reconstructed using a variety of methods, including Markov chain processes and regularized maximum entropy.

Except for the CLEAN deconvolution process, the methods used to reconstruct images from the EHT data are identical to what optical interferometry has been doing for decades (see https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0e85, Section 2.2.2 for references to literature). The maximum entropy process used for optical interferometric image reconstruction was, in turn, developed for MRI image reconstruction.

Don't get me wrong, I am not attempting to trivialize the result of the EHT team. The effort involved is monumental and the result is astonishing. In fact, I suspect my facial expression was very similar to Katie Bouman's now famous photo when I first saw the image. Then my jaw hit the floor when I found that some of my work (Baron, Monnier, Kloppenborg 2010) was cited in their imaging paper! However, my first inspection of the "eht-imaging" and "SMILI" repositories has yet to reveal anything new or novel that is not regularly employed by optical interferometrists.
I find this a fascinating point. In my understanding it's in complete contrast to the modernist architectural movement with its ideals of urban renewal.

Anyone have any other thoughts on this current Zeitgeist?
When your buffers are too big for the connection, it induces latency as your computer sends 100Mbps of traffic, yet the modem is capped to say 5Mbps. Its better to drop this traffic as TCP/IP and UDP will throttle itself, rather than letting 500ms to 1 second of latency be induced by holding that data in a buffer, resulting in a jerky user experience.

Edit: Most Comcast/Xfinity modems and converged gateways are Intel based and have this and other issues, pure garbage devices.
>PyTorch is almost (or even literally?) a fork of chainer
That's funny, I would have assumed PyTorch to be, like, the python version of Torch?
The major limit on that is it assumes you’re working billable hours. The trades are much less stable than an office job.
Heck, maybe it's sort of perverse that employers need to concern themselves with the "wellness" of their employees.
Best Single Board Computers 2019 (Raspberry Pi Alternatives)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat
Or, how to make people impressed by the fact that you’re always 10 times faster than your estimates.
> 83 year old French teacher being underpaid as an adjunct...

Strange
Technical PhDs are funded positions via grants, you most likely cannot just search for available scholarships. Very few technical PhDs are on scholarships, as they're usually more complex than just being funded by your advisor. The typical large research school stipend is 28-35k a year post tax paid as salary (ie tuition is already covered, etc.).
The Pete Principle
I suspect it's only those who are explicitly foreign. Many real estate deals are made through Canada-registered corporations behind which there can be anybody - Canada doesn't track real beneficiaries. The situation has become so dire, that the federal government will spend C$200mln in the next 5 years to fight money laundering in the country, and first of all - in real estate.