skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me say it a different way then.

You can't both say that "he" is a gender neutral pronoun for a generic person, and that I'm affirming a specific gender for said person with "he". Those are directly contradictory.
I didn't mean run a switch to the motors but either to the MCAS itself or whatever does the mixing between the MCAS and the other trim adjustment sources. Is the MCAS system even a separate box or just a software routine running on the main flight computers taking the AoA data?
If anybody's interested in the previous discussion, which (imho) was pretty darned good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13952007
For making something absolutely HUGE like Blender or a DAW (which he uses as examples) I can't see why size makes a difference at all. It doesn't matter whether blender takes half a gig or five, or whether it starts in one second or five .

On the other hand if you make a VST plugin or a chat application THEN startup time of 0.1s instead of 1s makes a huge difference.

So I think size/startup time really is important, but I fail to see why he chooses these huge applications as examples (because for them it doesn't matter). I suppose he chose them as they were "state of the art" in terms of complexity etc - but perhaps he should look for smaller aps (such as JUCE plugins) to see the state of the art in terms of size/load time.
But is your threat model someone reading your old email?

For most people the big risk is that their email can be leveraged to gain access to banks, social media etc through password resets.
Look into Avery Dennison. Some great innovation coming out of that company and have been on a nice climb the past few years.
I think this varies a bit from place to place and is misleading in some ways.

I was a tenured professor who left academics for two reasons, the administrative nightmares of the university and department (to put it one way), and unrelated family reasons.

The year before I left they did a survey of faculty satisfaction at the university I was at, and found that, although about 2/3-3/4 of faculty reported that they were generally satisfied with their jobs, about 1/2-2/3 seriously wanted to leave (following an actual trend of faculty leaving in exodus). So these satisfaction surveys can be misleading and paradoxical, because the stresses are like that: you're acutely aware of the freedom and security you have, but also have very little recourse if things go awry.

As jobs go there is a lot of flexibility in some ways as a tenured professor (time, schedule), but absolutely none in other ways. It's difficult to move (although not impossible) and if you do you have very little choice in terms of geography or location. If you have family, you might be asking them to make huge sacrifices for you if they have better opportunities elsewhere, or can't move to be near you. Increasingly you're at the whims of fads in the field and among students: if you step back from doing what everyone else is doing for a bit, you get labeled as decreasing in productivity (note that I'm not talking about doing nothing, just referring to the fact that it's easy to churn out more papers or grants on things that are currently part of a trend, and where you can share work and credit; as a result, if papers or grant counts are your products, you will necessarily be less productive if you try something off the beaten path); if you challenge students (as did the author of the piece did) you get pushback from them. Increasingly I felt like academics was/is becoming full of bullshit in a way that no one wants to admit. It's fine to work in a field full of bullshit; the problems are when people lie to themselves and the public about it. The incentives are not to produce good, solid, insightful, replicable work, it seems to be to attract attention and entertain the maximal number of students.

My sense as a senior professor was that people in the same field in the non-academic sector were making significantly more money, and had more flexibility. So although they had to worry more about losing their job, if a department starting falling apart, or other conflicts arose, it was much easier to leave and move on to somewhere else where they wanted to be. Tenure is great if you're at a good institution, or if it works out for your family. If you're at a bad institution, or things go sour, and it's not good for your family, it is horrible.
Synthetic Data: A bridge over the data moat
Related, how do you define even the type of job and compare the person hired to the job?

A noob could be successful hire and not ultra productive compared to say a more experienced hire.

And that doesn't account for all the places hiring / think they need / hired "rockstar" developers .... to maintain their crud app.
It's certainly not a way to stay stealthy, yeah. And frankly it's probably worse at defeating face recognition than wearing a bulky hoody and staring at your shoes while you walk. I don't think this will be identity-concealing except maybe at some cybergoth raves...

It's an awfully cool project, though; both artistic and a transformation-resilient adversarial input.
Yeah, I found the article to be more about the deficiencies of Git for things version control isn't meant to solve and less about the problems with mono-repos themselves.
Ubers business model is structured in mistreating their workers. Their workers are demanding better treatment. Uber has no right to continuing operating as they have been.

This is not about making the math work for Uber, it's about treating humans with the slightest bit of humanity.

If the math doesn't work, they shouldn't be in business.
I just priced out a BMW 330i (all wheel drive), which starts at $42,250. The Tesla M3 Long Range (dual motor) starts at $49,500. However, the BMW base price does not include "luxury trim" (i.e., chrome highlights), "convenience package" (basically lumbar support and keyless entry plus app access), "driver assistance", or "parking assistance". All of these seem to be standard in the M3 LR. Once you add those packages, the 330i pops over $51k. If anything, it looks like Tesla has set their prices to compete directly against the 3 series line. (These prices don't include tax subsidies or destination charges, etc.)
> Theseus' ship is a problem for a purely materialistic explanation of consciousness,

Theseus's ship is not a problem for materialistic views at all. A function of matter configuration is not the same as a function of matter. In the same way, a wave on water is constantly changing its material makeup, and yet you can still call it "the same wave".

> As for RICH I don't know what that means.

Rich, i.e. non-trivial. That is, no tautologies or something slightly above tautology in the depth of information.
It does seem there is decent demand for Kona EV.

Perhaps you were not aware of Tesla's Model 3 which is the same price as a Kona EV and much, much nicer. And not battery constrained.
It doesn't seem odd given the context of the full paragraph, which starts:

> Still, the numbers/letters divide is emblematic of the Internet’s built-in bias: Even more than two decades after its birth, it’s still a fundamentally American system.

It describes how URLs are frustrating and difficult to use for non-English speakers. Given that, it makes a joke about that frustration using the URL-hacks that are often used in China, which is what the whole prior article covers.
I've always thought that surveys of team members and managers could be a pretty cheap and effective way to do this (in a research setting, where you aren't basing pay or contract renewal on it). It may not give you much in an absolute sense, but should give you a good idea of the relative ranking of programmers.

Of course software engineering research in general has always been a little unimpressive because what you really need is several teams completing projects, some using method A and others using method B. This could cost millions, and would only settle the bet between methods A and B.

Lacking this, we're left with the publically available research that relies on unconvincing proxies for success and very small samples. It's better than nothing but far short of what we ought to have given how important software is.
I still don’t understand why Pinterest makes any sense for the investor but I guess I dont understand pinterest and their target audience. I have never once thought about browsing or even encountered Pinterest links through google searches.
It's _very_ early, though, as well.

There's not much of an ecosystem for multiplatform yet for desktop projects at all. For macOS you have a way of "making a framework you can use" and that's about it.

There is a lot of promise, though, in the mobile space: https://touchlab.co/touchlab-square-kotlin-multiplatform-col...

My sense is that as the mobile multiplatform space gets ironed out, the desktop space will benefit.

Though generally speaking, Kotlin/Native has a _much_ lower level of "institutional" risk, since the Kotlin approach doesn't subvert the control Apple or Microsoft have over their platforms. Flutter, on the other hand, seems to abstract it away.
So?

A more useful question is whether he makes enough.

Growth-at-all-costs is toxic.
No, you store offset + length.
What's your take on Fastmail? I guess Australian privacy laws might be a concern.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. There are SOOOO many options and all of them fall short. This one falls short in the extreme. I.e, no Windows support & it seems mobile-focused not desktop-focused.

Not trying to be harsh and I bet this project has cool plans.

But what worries me is that there are 100s of options in this space and _all_ of them are short.

Why can't the passionate community rally behind one effort, and fully solve this problem?

A solution doesn't seem to need to be programming language-specific, either, so that doesn't seem to be a good reason to keep 'forking' this problem.
Yeah, or just host it yourself once reviewed. That's what I do usually (not with this haven't heard of this before), but with scripts I find now and then).
> case for as long as I'm on IT (so, as long as mid-nineties or so)

Late 80s for me. What you saw depends very much on which part of "IT" you were in.

When doing forms automation, maybe you only ever saw the widgets. And that's OK. However, forms/widgets are not all of IT and all of UI work. So when doing graphics, DTP, CAD/CAM, document processing etc.: not so much.

>if 99% of the car has been designed for one use

But it hasn't. Not 99% and not one use. These frameworks are flexible and were explicitly designed to be flexible. drawRect:: and handling mouse events is a fundamental feature of the view, and widely used. The fact that you have convenience widget libraries that encapsulate its use (they ALL use it), doesn't mean it's not there.

Just because you use your truck like a car doesn't mean it's not still a truck.
I hate using services and having my data all on some remote service w/ little options for privacy and safety/backup, etc.

How would non-tech users handle backups?
We'll be releasing our new tutorial-based book Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization in a couple of weeks: https://www.fullstack.io/fullstack-d3
I know it's besides the point and this is probably a cool project but can we stop equating $5 with coffee? That's like saying popcorn costs $8.

Most of the time, my coffee is either free or costs like 30 cents maybe? (wild guess, probably less depending on beans) relatively rarely I will I pay $5 for it, but I associate it with the price of not otherwise having access to coffee (because I'm in a hurry, didn't bring a thermos, etc)
All prey populations will crash every now and then, humans or none.
I was really impressed by this 4d toys video: https://youtu.be/0t4aKJuKP0Q

Now what if time is an illusion and similar to the video objects in life simply appear to be bouncing in and out of our 3d realm? That would look a lot like time.

But if we could see in 4d, we'd see that they're not really coming or going and could see all of their possible states at once.

It might be like being able to see an entire movie all at once rather than frame by frame.
CultureTech: The Duolingo of Culture
Did you know that there is a specific way to accept a business card in China? Or that in India, small talk is an important part of the business meeting and should not be rushed? Or in Russia, personal distance is much smaller than in the West, so don't be too insulted if they get up in your space! We created a prototype here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mvp.culturamvp
This is madness ... awesome madness
> I can show you an actual, physical chair, or a picture of a chair. The first is not an illusion, while the second is.

If the picture of the chair is so good that one mistakes it for a real chair, yes, otherwise I wouldn’t classify it as an illusion.

On a tangential note, people enjoying this discussion might enjoy the beginning of chapter two[1] (or even the whole book) of Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics”[2].

[1]: https://rhetoricsuperhero.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/mcclou...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]
> The US, UK, Russia, 5 Eyes countries, China, the EU; everyone has a stance on whether they're safe or not.

It might just be me, but I think it's reasonably clear that some of these places have mature legal frameworks where the rule of law exists (US, UK, EU) and some generally do not (Russia, China, Venezuela). But perhaps I'm mistaken and simply do not understand what a mature legal system is.
I read it. Did you?

"it is plausible that image-based 3D object detection for autonomous vehicle will become a reality in the near future."
How to Build a Serverless Chatbot
On the contrary, its grown even more important, but encryption has also grown immensely in popularity.
ASCII Art in .Net Code
On top of what's been already mentioned, a lot of people are starting to not trust NPM because it is a for profit business, dependant on investor's money. It might not be here forever, it might be bought by some other actor etc.
It's also a giant attack vector. Create a popular package or buy or get ownership from a developer of a package, and you can easily hide code in the mified deployed build while not having in the source code. Using complexe hiding methods, you can hide code in a subsubsub dependency of something that will, say, copy input fields and send them via XHR, every 100 times and not when debugger tools are open, or only when you detect you are in a country where the targeted developer is not located etc. Even worse for nodejs libraries.
"Cheaper" probably yeah, because they could presumably subsidize the thing with profits from their other services. Not sure about "earlier" though. I mean, if you're the one building it, by definition you have at least the opportunity to move first. Considering how slow big companies usually are, due to all the various committees, bureaucracy, hand-offs, approvals, etc., I think you'd have a very good chance to be earlier than those guys.

And, perhaps ironically, you could build a business around your "thing" by using a public cloud provider.

Look at the Netflix / Amazon relationship, for example. They are direct competitors in terms of streaming video, but yet Netflix builds on AWS. Yes, that's a different kind of thing, but my point is that, in real life, things aren't always so "black and white" as "Oh, big cloud provider came along, commercialized my thing, GAME OVER."

Consider too that many (most? all?) markets can be segmented in ways that support multiple vendors. For all the talk about monopolies that is the rage today, ask yourself how many products you can think of that literally have ONE and ONLY ONE provider. I doubt it's very many. There might be one dominant vendor and a constellation of smaller ones, but maybe it's OK to be one of those smaller firms that fills a specific niche. Heck, find enough of those niches and maybe you can use the old Komatsu "encircle Caterpillar"[1][2] strategy.

[1]: https://dilipnaidu.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/strategic-intent...

[2]: https://hbr.org/2005/07/strategic-intent
> if ... the entire universe is essentially one uniform mass, wouldn't that mass then collapse upon itself, in a kind of big bounce?

de Sitter space is a vacuum solution for Einstein's field equations.

What this means is that the stress-energy tensor is basically "canceled out" everywhere by the uniform energy distribution. That means no point in spacetime experiences any field influence. That means no gravity, that means no collapse, just stasis.
Here's a better question:

Will the book, "How To Make AI-proof Clothing" stop working the minute it is published, or will it teach generalizable skills.

It would seem unfair to pit a static object (prefab clothes) against a dynamic opponent (person detection AI). Better to compare two intelligent opponents.
That's where the shutdown part comes in play. Uber can't just say "I don't care" because with the more drivers taking part they are the ones to lose the most, in reputation and money.
Are you sure it's that and not because you've been trying to sell your house during the off-season? Most of my real-estate friends barely make any, if any, sales during fall-winter and make most sales in late spring or when kids are out of school for the summer.
The first e-tron model to go into production is a 5-door SUV equivalent to the Model X. Why are you comparing it to the Model 3?
Intelligible speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences – bioRxiv
Weird. Till other day the Web was the platform to rule them all. Who would do desktop apps in 2019? If you need a web page, and hybrid app is still best option.
I know of at least one big tech company that has and it informs the ratio of different types of interviews for each level.

I imagine it'd be really hard for an academic research institute to do so. Firstly, they'd have to focus on technical interviewing in specific. Secondly, they'd have to get some big tech companies to share information about trajectory and whatnot for employees once they've been hired -- I imagine the extra work of building those pipelines/anonymizing the data/etc probably wouldn't be worth it for a lot of companies.
The only time I've ever even mentioned it was when I was at a friend's house, saw he had a slick new Samsung smart TV, and relayed a news story about the microphone on the TV being 'always on' and phoning home.

It felt overly preachy to bring up this stuff if it's not related to the topic of conversation. I mean, he already spent $500 on it, an always-on mic isn't enough for him to send it back.

Me, I'm going to hold on to my "dumb" TV as long as possible. I have no reason to upgrade except for 4K, which, outside of live sports, really isn't of any interest to me. 1080p is good enough for me.
I hate doing laundry. Switching to using a wash and fold service was one of the best decisions for improving the quality of my life. I pay $40 every couple weeks to get all my clothes washed and folded. I love robots, but they're not going to beat inexpensive skilled human labor anytime soon.
Yes, netronome runs the eBPF on the NIC, where they have a bazillion cores. That is better than running it in the kernel, for some uses.
On many (American) phone keypads, 1 is blank, 2 is A, or B, or C, 3 is DEF, 4 is GHI, 5 is JKL, 6 is MNO, 7 is PQRS, 8 is TUV, and 9 is WXYZ.

So for FLOWERS you'd see that the F is on 3, L is on 5, O is on 6, etc. to get 356-9377. Note that both R and S are on 7, they map to the same number, so different words are likely to all map to the same number, like "Roses" and "Ropes".

Companies sometimes use longer or shorter numbers: you might see a number written with left-padded numbers, like "1-800-1FLOWER", for which you'd dial 1-800-135-6937. You might also see longer words, like 1-800-ARRANGEMENTS..you could type in 1-800-277-2643 63687, but the extra letters would just go into the recipient's PBX (like dialing an extension) and get discarded.
matplotlib will render to svg.
I know I’ll probably take heat for this, but I really don’t understand this idea of Uber “exploiting” drivers.

Being an Uber driver isn’t like other jobs where you have set hours to work, bad working conditions, manipulative managers, etc... No one is keeping you from getting another job and doing Uber on weekends, or doing Uber never. I can’t think of another job where you are more free to do what you want and make your situation better.

Seems pretty straight forward to me, but I know many people disagree. What exactly is Uber doing to exploit drivers?
Out of curiosity, what did you switch to?
I'd like to leave Gmail and Proton Mail seems to be pretty well recommended. Is Fast Mail a better option?
Folder in folders are not supported, except via strange glitches.
eh some adversarial inputs are very robust to perturbations/orientation. see the famous turtle video.
Gnome of Thrones – The Roundup #12
I don't blame you for being underwhelmed. The original goal was an easy to learn language. But since Dart 2.0 was completed, they are working on adding many other language features, including NNBD (Non-null by default).

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues
> characteristic of the environment

Setting "the compiler" = "the environment" and therefore anything the compiler does is part of the environment and thus legit seems at best the type of sleight of hand the compiler writers use to justify their actions.

When defining the behaviour of the compiler, "the environment" obviously cannot be "the compiler".
From what I understand, all of these methods to fool image recognition systems have to be very specifically tailored to a very specific image recognition system, which makes them completely useless for any kind of practical use.

To really avoid image recognition, you need to create patterns that disrupt the actual patterns that these systems look for. For facial recognition, make your eyes and jawline hard to find, like Dazzle makeup does. To defeat full-body recognition systems, wear clothes with heavy patterns that make it hard to distinguish where your arms, legs and head are.

Even then, it's unlikely to work from all angles and against all backgrounds. You'd need something that adapts to the background you're likely to be seen against.
You're answering the question, "what is the legal case for drivers being employees rather than contractors?"

The parent was specifically challenging your claim that drivers don't control the where or the when, which that doesn't address.

I agree that there are good points in favor of the case that they're employees, but you're overstating it when you say drivers "don't control the where or when".
Usually they look at future reviews or just ask managers how well that individual is performing.
Not sure why someone downvoted you - I assume you haven't seen Tesla's most recent self-driving vehicle video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSCb_O4AGwc ? If you don't think that's self-driving, what would you consider what's in that video?
> The whole point of an actual sperm or ova donation arrangement is to separate the genetics from the social in having children.

The issue here is that I fundamentally do not believe it is at all ethical to do this.
> ML adaptive battery

That sounds like a gimmick.

> App actions (ML predictive app shortcuts)

More stuff I don't want. I don't want "predictive" app shortcuts. I want shorts that I specify. I want to control which shortcuts are shown and in what order. I don't want anyone (developer, carrier, whoever) to see what shortcuts I've selected, used, or how often.

> Digital well-being dashboard and limits

This sounds like stuff that should have been in the first release.

> A lot more

I don't see any improvements here whatsoever. All of this is the wheel which should have been shipped with my phone is being reinvented.

> interface improvements

"Improvements" is a buzzword for "let's change everything and give it a facelift and make all of our users waste time relearning how to use their device". No thanks. Actually, not even thanks. Just no.

Edit: Dear Me: less swearing plzkthx