skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It already has the new motor technology. The S and X used to have induction motors front and back, while they now have a switched reluctance motor in the front.
How does this compare to Argo?
Seems like part of it - especially things like classified ads - but... on the other hand, it seems they did ok for a while even with local TV and radio competing for local ad dollars.
I'd love a folding phone. I often find myself doing several things at once which requires a lot of switching back and forth between apps (say I'm chatting with a friend while browsing the internet, or I remember something while chatting and I want to send him a link, but I need to find the right page first - or I want to take notes and would like to have whatever reference I'm using open without having to switch back and forth).

I love the multitasking on my iPad, so a smartphone that can turn into a mini-tablet that might support similar forms of multitasking sounds awesome to me. I'm just gonna wait until somebody releases a model that doesn't cost me an arm and doesn't break within a week.
You're missing one simple fact: people in the House, Senate, and Oval Office (irrespective of administration) need FB to get elected nowadays. They also need docile/agreeable Zuck. FB isn't going anywhere.
...or even understand why the interesting nuggets are interesting? One thing I appreciate about (good) journalism is highlighting implications that I would not have thought of myself, because I lack sufficient background knowledge.
Hi,
To test it out just pick a random article from CNN, BBC etc and select the main sentence. This is an actual useful headline generator so it needs something substantial and real-ish else it doesnt generate anything.
Hurricane Aftermath Leaves Florida with Years of Major Wildfire Threat
Damn that was a good episode. Thanks for the nostalgia.

Anecdotally, my father was a criminal defense attorney. There clients he didn't want to represent for personal reasons but did due to financial obligations, part of the profession. Lucky for him later in his career he was able to pick and choose more freely.

But I agree, the "lawyer X lawyered for Y" argument is a farce in most cases.
Multiple seconds.
And here I was blissfully unaware that I'm experiencing reality 30 seconds delayed. Had no idea, other than obviously there's some # frames delay needed to do motion compression, and some transit latency.
jedberg is one of the original reddit peeps, he started in early 2007 I think! He is also one cool frood. Hi Jeremy!
It's a permanent magnet motor. It's an IPM design so some amount of the torque comes from reluctance, but the majority of the efficiency is from the permanent magnets providing the field rather than having to burn energy through the induction motor's copper bars to provide it.
It feels like they didn't do any real-world testing at all, but I'm not sure that's even possible.
As a Georgian transplanted into California, I miss these onions so much. Great read as well.
Have you tried tramp? I routinely use it to edit files on systems without emacs installed. Also you can edit files belonging to root, etc.
The money is not quite life changing in the Bay Area but it's a significant acceleration towards retirement. I would not mind retiring in a few years, in my early 40s instead of working to 60+.
You can bypass the whole charade by knowing 2-3 people within Google that can provide "assurance" you are good enough. Whiteboard testing is for grunts/unknowns without network. Another way is to be a significant contributor to some popular open source project.
I don't see "asking everyone with a sense of ethics to quit" software development, though. I'm seeing a call to refuse working on things that are unethical. Most software engineering does not involve working on projects that have immediate side effects that significantly impact human rights and freedoms. To build on your police analogy, this is about asking police officers to refuse to enforce policies such as "stop and frisk".
I haven't looked closely enough to see if there's evidence, but we can finesse the matter by just taking the law student part out of the title above.
It's certainly acceptable to start workflows explicitly! However it wouldn't be a good fit for the user signup process.

In the above example, the user just wants to signup. They don't care about receiving a welcome email or being subscribed to a mailing list or anything else, they just want to register an account. That's a pretty good use case for just `POST /signup`, that hits the user service and spits out an event that the user has signed up.

Starting a new workflow when that event is published makes sense in this case.

An example when a workflow is started explicitly could be something like doing a fire system test. You could:

1. shoot off a command that starts the FireSystemTestWorkflow

2. the workflow sends a bunch of commands to test sensors and sirens

3. those things publish events that they're functioning correctly

4. the workflow waits for all of these events to come back

5. the workflow publishes a FireSystemTestedSuccessfully event

The nice side of this is that the workflow can respond if a sensor or siren fails and does what's called a "compensating action", ie: compensates for the deviation of the successful path by performing a corrective action like sending a command to start the device or notify a technician.
Journalist Andrew Gumbel called this "America's recurring amnesia."

Steal This Vote [2005]

https://www.amazon.com/Steal-This-Vote-Elections-Democracy/d...

As an (burnt out) election integrity activist, I'd say not much has changed.
I like to use the OneNote Screen Clipping tool for this:

Win+S, select region, paste into page (or where-ever), add arrows and boxes etc.

This works by changing the default Screen Clipping action from adding to a page to just copying to the clipboard, so I can as easily paste into an email or IrfanView or other things. Even good old Paint!
Oh wow, that's wild.
I no longer use X, but when I did, I had to use ssh -XY
The equivalent of Ranges is already in Rust’s standard library, and has been forever. We call it Iterator. It also provides extra static guarantees against invalidation.
Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits: make decisions over time under uncertainty
Wow. I'd like that.
Feels like that's just his way of brainstorming ideas for side gig. Some of us get inspiration from problems we run int ourselves, some actively read blogs, blogs, trends, etc and try to find opportunities, while this man gets his from finding descriptive domain names.
Is empathy, not reputation, the key to better cooperation online?
Personally I've never had a use for a tablet- I literally bought an iPad once and returned it the next day because it didn't serve a purpose for me. Of course that's not true for some people.

But I do sometimes have a use for the large screen on my phone, and I would definitely have a use for a smaller (one-hand-sized) phone screen, so having both of those available in one device appeals to me.
I'm reading this from the bus as the sun sets on 280, looking over south San Francisco. You're so right. I just quit my job so I can make furniture full time. Got accepted to a really good, niche school in a beautiful coastal town in the middle of no where I'm moving with my partner. I'm not going to miss this scene at all.
What about from a Chinese Law perspective?
Any example of some practical use that would make it easier to understand?
I’m having a hard time believing this is true....

If nothing else, Logo? In 2019?
> definitely not to the consumers

Amazon always ships packages ahead of time, at my leisure, and often cheaper than retail. They always process returns and complaints in my favour, without contest. They reach out to local logistics companies in order to improve delivery, and I can tell by the fact that those companies now have branded vehicles (and much happier and more attentive personnel than UPS!), and better verification processes (they found a logistics provider that actually emails the signature given at the door to you when the delivery is processed) that they've done well out of that.

I feel they're serving me very well as a customer, and every ordinary person in my life who isn't competing with Amazon is richer and happier because of Amazon's services.

> definitely not ... the businesses on the platform

The businesses fulfilling through Amazon would absolutely not have received my business were it not for Amazon; in many cases they do not have the expertise to handle the orders correctly, and I do not trust all of them to process the payments securely to the degree that I trust Amazon to.

They have every opportunity to improve their ordering and fulfillment systems, but they choose Amazon because it's where the customers are comfortable already.

I dreamt of a logistics integration system much like Amazon Marketplace when I was 16, and every year they make it closer to that dream, I think it's great. I'm willing to accept an argument from concrete evidence that they have somehow deliberately and systematically broken the law in so doing, but I've yet to see it.
They are likely as wrong / right as simple games with which they are replaced.

Can be a good thing to help you wind down, if applied in moderation. Can waste your time otherwise. All non-trivial activities take some learning to do efficiently; thinking is no exception.
Predatory pricing is still predatory if a human does it or if a giant Rube Goldberg machine does it.
Not even. Tried to start a small (friends and extended family) coffee roasting business. Most of the margin shipping a 12oz bag of coffee after all other costs is eaten by flat rate USPS shipping. Only made economic sense at a much greater scale, or for orders > 5lb.
"I can spell banana but sometimes I forget when to stop"
All power usage adds up. More important, the unit sits behind the glove box in front of the firewall. You'd need to redesign the car to fit a cooler worthy of 500w in there, thus making retrofitting a much harder task. My 280mm Corsair AIO water cooler struggles with a 140W TDP Intel CPU at full load.

All typical car manufacturers' message when rolling out something new: Buy the new car. Here, existing owners get access to a paradigm shifting feature, by just swapping out what will be an inexpensive module.

Tesla has nailed this upgrade, in my eyes. I don't own any of their cars (although I wish I did), nor do I have any shares.
I don't see any problem because I agree with what you said. Work shouldn't be so stressful that you cry in private. Google should do more "good" for the world.

I still think Google stands as an attractive workplace for reasons that are not just compensation and resume boost, though.
Sorry JIDF. Nothing you link disproves what is happening, or the source of the outbreak.
Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware into Videogames
Tackling a solution from multiple angles isn't a con.

If I had the choice of a garage in SF or a 2h commute to my barrista job for a something more in my price range it would be a no brainer. You're dismissing a good idea because it doesn't help you personally... I expert more from HN commenters than "no because this doesn't benefit me or conform to my world view".
I'm still floored by how many candidates I've talked to that assert with great confidence that the local variables they declare will still be there with the same values when they call the function recursively.

And most recently, when iterating over a string's characters the underlying string methods KNOW that the string is being iterated and will pick up at the current iteration point. For example, you've got the string "5432112345". And via iteration, you're currently pointing at the first "2" at index 3. The candidate asserted that if you call "indexOf('2')", it would return 6 because "indexOf" knows that it is iterating and should start 1 beyond where it is pointing at.

And my favorite - once had a candidate that misspelled a function name while coding in Ruby. I didn't ding them for it. But I pointed it out because it just bugged me. And the candidate then swore to me that Ruby will automatically call the correct method if there was only 1 candidate based on the misspelling. You know when you do things like "git inti" and it says "did you mean init?". The candidate swore that Ruby would just call "init" for you because it knew what you wanted.
They lost me when they got into showing how to make the 'dups' function faster. The author definitely either doesn't understand big-O notation or doesn't understand the complexity. Their O(1) implementation is anything but. Likely O(n×log(n)) at best. Also, their brute force implementation is unnecessarily verbose. Want dups?

from collections import defaultdict
def dups(seq):
d = defaultdict(int)
for x in seq:
d[x] += 1
return [k for k, v in d.items() if v > 1]

Assuming Python's defaultdict has O(1) lookup/insertion (which I think it does), this algorithm is a proper O(n) complexity.
This is a nice upgrade for the Model S, however, I'm really curious what Tesla's design refresh roadmap looks like for their older models. The Model S has remained mostly the same since 2012, and while the design is pretty good, very few companies can get away without a major design refresh for 7+ years.
Then you would have the people at stadium tweeting about the results and ruining the experience for the rest. We can and we should strive to get the best possible result if it is feasible.
SpaceX Backtracking on Satellite Internet Puts Future Profits in Doubt
> The leases don’t show up as expenses in Amazon’s free cash flow calculations, even though the equipment is listed as an asset.

Article aside, how does this work?
Question for hiring managers and employers:

In Silicon Valley, tech interviewing has become an arms race between applicants cramming to pass tech screens and interviews, and employers coming up with new routines. Sites like Glassdoor and CareerCup are loaded with interview questions that have appeared in those routines, giving savvy interviewees the opportunity to see the questions on the exam and prepare accordingly.

How do you feel about the existence of these sites, and do they affect how interviews are conducted?
Sounds possible. He can also find other ways to make money - bake other stuff overnight and sell it to other cafe's wholesale, etc etc. I've known people who've done exactly this kind of thing. It's doable.
Tech salaries in Toronto and Vancouver are almost half of what I get paid in the US. It's no wonder companies are flocking there.

I don't know how people can live in either of these cities with salaries that are so low and the cost of living still comparable to a big city.
But people can always take a photo, it's illegal, but so is buying votes.
I don't think it does. Just sounds like a retelling where some readers focus on specifics rather than the essence.
I orbit someone on the nouveau team, so I might be a bit biased with regard to Nvidia

As far as I can tell, Nvidia has two modes of operation with the Linux community, "hostile" and "inept"

Hostile is when they do things like require signed firmware for their GPU's or try to force their will on things like EGLstreams, while everyone else is using GBM

Inept is their situation with things like the Tegra mobile platforms. They simply use nouveau instead I'm told. Even though the two GPU lines of course, share a ton of engineering. For some reason they just decided it's easier to use nouveau on that side, and only that side
Layers of Investing, Part 1: Inflation and Money
let me try to explain this Scrappy college kids VC dynamic to you.

it's popularized on myths like Facebook where the founder
actually retained control and got a good deal but that's not the reality and it's not what VC are trying to create.

the reason it's all Scrappy college kids because you need slaves going to work crazy hours and do what they're told but also be crazy and naive enough to believe in it, and low maintenance and confident enough that they can take some direction on their own. and you just need a lot of these people.

because not all of them are going to work well and not all of the ideas are going to pan out but you don't know that and you can afford to fund some of these. you are basically funding an array of experiments and you don't need people who are grown up, in as in mature people who kind of go well I don't think I'm getting a good deal here you need as many bodies as you can. just like the military in war time. and for VCs in their hunger for money for their partners this is like a kind of wartime for them so they're just trying to throw as many bodies as they can at the problem.

all that talk about changing world and saving the world all mythologizing about Facebook etc is to get all those young slaves motivated.

is YC any different? a lot of early writings of Paul Graham on what founders need to know and what makes good startups can be easily read as just propaganda for this sort of program. the bottom line is it's not about what works for founders it's about what works for VCs. and I guess everyone justifies by saying well if vcs get a good outcome then founders do too, but those two Venn diagrams don't necessarily always intersect.
Wow. Thanks for the extra explanation about when the different approach can benefit.

I love you. Will definitely give bus-workflow a thorough shot.

And a very last question if you could spare a bit more time..

Again the user signup & event flow,

When Workflow calls EmailService.sendEmail (given that the communication is via RPC and EmailService.sendEmail is an async operation that will resolve if the email was sent successfully), should Workflow wait for the sendEmail operation to resolve and complete the flow?
Or should EmailService dispatches an event EmailSent so that Workflow can complete the flow?

This is a bit off the topic but I've been sticking with RPC style call rather than Events but still don't know yet what the best practice is.

Many Thanks
You might be onto something here. Paul Erdos used to consume amphetamines and he was a prolific mathematician.
Really entertaining! For whatever reason the writing style made me think of this classic:

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html
TurboTax Tricks Americans to Pay for Filing Taxes
Author of Start Small, Stay Small here.

>> if a little dated

Argh! I know. I literally opened the Doc this week to start to parse out sections to update. It’s overdue ;-)
I get free shipping from Walmart.com and AliExpress, the latter of which 90% of electronics on Amazon are sourced from. Walmart offers free 2 day shipping and in-store pickup. AliExpress offers the same items on Amazon without having to give middleman their expensive cut.

I don't trust Amazon not to send me fake items or cheap Chinese knockoffs. There is absolutely no quality control on Amazon's end. Amazon has the resources to fight fake reviews, yet fake reviews are still rampant. As a result, I cannot trust Amazon's rating system at all.
> De-centralized hosting of the packages (news to come soon!)

Is the index also going to be changeable? Will I be able to completely avoid your servers if I wanted to?
>
So easy.
Instead, a politically connected services firm will capture local mayors / council members (very, very cheaply - shockingly cheaply) and build it into their unnecessary speed/redlight camera systems.

I agree that there’s a history of questionable business practices in that industry but those systems are far from unnecessary. Motor vehicles being driven irresponsibly kill something like 40k Americans per year and cause all sorts of injuries and quality of life reductions. Cameras are a good way to discourage that without using tons of police time or dragging in questions of fairness — the call should be punishing corruption, not giving up a valuable tool.
I wonder if this still applies in the same way, considering how few Model S units there are from 2012-2014, relative to mass market cars like the Camry.

For a lot of people outside the Bay Area, a Model S still feels like a design revelation, not old hat.
In The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow, it only need Unix-style pipes and functions. It does not need OO, FP, design patterns, category theory, etc.

[The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
I didn’t watch the whole livestream, but it could be one talking about just the specific chips versus the other the whole system?
Interesting idea. Is there a description of the tech behind it somewhere? Also, seemed to take a while to generate, not sure if it's getting stressed with visitors.
Fixing Random, Part 24
You'll feel right at home then.
Not sure how long .. but the chain can be quite long!!

$x = 'y';
$y = 'x';
echo $$$$$$$$$$$$$y;

I've tested with 1500 `$` and it still works :)
Yup. Brutally stressed. 32 people on it now. Running on a single k80. sorry about the delay guys!
Not true. Television stations have reporters. Radio stations have reporters. Some are for-profit, some are public. They report on local meetings. Websites are cropping up that have reporters that cover local matters:

https://www.marylandmatters.org/

https://marylandreporter.com/

Maryland Public Television sends three reporters, plus an anchor and all the associated production staff, to cover the Maryland General Assembly each year. They sit through the hours of debates. They interview lawmakers.

The newspaper never was the only source of local news, and now more than ever there are places to get local news if people bother to look.
Finding Practical Applications for Origami
Less newspapers is a concern.

A bigger concern is the shameles willingness of video-based news media to publish anything in order to tickle more eyeballs.

Less sources of information is bad. Misinformation is worse.
Broadcast TV latency is usually in the 4-10 second range, with typical latency being around 6s. Not sure how it breaks down between cable vs satellite vs over-the-air.
I find LEO satellite constellations hard to believe.

If you think there is an urban/rural problem with optic fiber or terrestrial wireless, consider building a system which has to cover oceans and the vast uninhabited and uninhabitable wastes on land.
Top level software engineers(5%-10%) in top level China Internet companies (BAT and TMD).
Sundown on Deadwood: David Milch, Battling Alzheimer’s, Finishes His TV Western
Well, there’s also the facelift and all wheel drive.
This "continuous deployment" for cars must be a logistical nightmare. To do repairs for a given vehicle, keeping track of what parts are backward compatible would be challenging. What if it's a compatibility breaking change? Then keeping inventory for older cars would become problematic.

Unless they do design with maximum compatibility. Then it gets interesting as upgrades are possible.

While B.EV cars maintenance is low, my car 7 months into ownership revealed bad battery cells that needed replacing. If the car was say five years old, would this replacement have been possible?
didn't realize that wasn't a rhetoric..

have you actually added gray-area features ? any anecdotes without giving away your trench position ?
Interesting piece from the article: "Sussman points to evidence that Amazon has already flipped the switch, moving from dominating the market by undercutting rivals to reaping the profits from that dominance."

So according to Sussman, Amazon is already making money. I wonder what point in time the author thinks Amazon started making money.

If the author claims that happened e.g. in 2016, them Amazon was actually losing money for the first 20 years of its operation. That would require Amazon to have been raising capital for a long, long time. Can that be verified? Are there stock market metrics on total amount of capital raised/net borrowed in a given year?

Has anyone been able to access the actual article to check the details of authors claims?
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