skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be annoyed by red light cameras because they triggered on "safe" infractions, like right turns on red. Over the past few years I've changed my mind, because I've almost been hit as a pedestrian and on my bike by people sliding through intersections, to the point where I've physically prevented myself from being hit by pushing off the car a couple times.

Right on red is awesome as a driver, but it makes roads really dangerous for other road users. I think bad intersection design is partly to blame for perceived "frivolous" red light tickets, but at the same time I think that drivers really should come to a complete stop before the line (and before the crosswalk if there is one) before deciding if a right turn on red is safe or practicable. If people can't even be bothered to stop for a right turn on red then it's probably better to ban them outright.

Also, I've seen enough people run red lights 2-3 seconds after the light changes that I want red light cameras at every intersection anyways. It might be 1 in every 250 people who gets dinged for the right turn on red ticket, but that's stupidly dangerous.

If a fix is needed, increase the fine for blowing the light, scale it based on the time the light had been red (so you don't excessively punish people who got caught in the zone of indecision), and reduce the fine for rolling through a right on red.
Calculating Big-O time and space complexity for functional languages
Advertising and classifieds are typically separate departments in most newspapers.

Advertising has competed with radio, TV, direct mail -- you name it -- for decades on decades.

What matters is that classifieds got gutted. That was the true river of gold.

Newspapers got a cut of thousands upon thousands of transactions every single week, whether or not those transactions even occurred. Every potential hiring, every name change, every car for sale, every house on the market, pretty much all of commerce from petty to grand: the newspaper gets its cut.

The income:cost ratio is fantastically high, especially since the cost of printing is subsidised (though not typically fully covered) by the cover price.
How much does that fill up cost? That, and the relative scarcity of filling stations, seem to make hydrogen vehicles supremely unattractive.
What makes it possible to force Mariott to do that is China's ability to retaliate against LDS members in China. The LDS church itself voluntarily blocks access to their websites from China as well. It would take more than not "staying silent, or defending their tantrums" to change the status quo.
An employee’s market value has nothing to do with the job openings I have available. You’re equating the two. When I do salary research I do it based on similar roles that are open. Let me give you a concrete example: A CS Phd applies to be our front desk receptionist. I’m offering them the value of the position they applied for, which has nothing to do with the fact that they could be making $300K+ doing CS research.
revolutionizing the supply chain and auto industry
You can't have the government report on the government and expect full independence - even if it is independent of the executive, you still need to fund it somehow, which is going to make it beholden to someone.

Both the BBC and CBC have a history of government influence in their reporting - this is not a civil society function I can trust to government.
>Why does an experience so inherently intimate feel so alienating to me?

Because you're an obsessive extravert who's unable to enjoy a conversation you're not part of.

>so instead of treating podcasts as a convenient way to feel smarter

Author says that and then proceeds to do that the whole article. Every single podcast he tried was some hoity-toity artsy interview cast. I listen to podcasts to be entertained. I listen to people play Dungeons and Dragons, or narrate short stories, or improv comedy, or publish their own audio book.

>I’m anxious about music ceding all of that time and turf to the rise of “big podcast,

Good god, what a fucking douchecanoe this guy is.
As a fiddler, I understand this perfectly. If I can just play and listen to the music, it's almost easy. There's a bowing pattern which is particularly vexatious... if I so much as see my wrist in the mirror, I notice the curious alternation, and I completely lose it. Neurologically, this makes sense to me too -- muscle memory goes all the way down to our extremities; it seems like the attention snaps my arm out of autopilot.
I too have a commute, and find podcasts a nice way to stay current with news, learn something new, or hear about new stuff in areas that are interesting to you.

I can't really listen to podcasts while working since I can't really focus on the the talking while thinking about what I'm doing, so music is perfect. It can help keep me focused and gives me plenty of time for exploring new music.

The author's stance on Podcasts is just so odd. That you somehow can't enjoy both? Seems like he has an axe to grind or something.
Every single car should be constantly tracked, they are killing machines. 2 million die a year due to the cars.
I think you're overthinking it. Hybrid cars are not bad, they are pretty cool. It's a matter of semantics. A hydrogen fuel cell car could be considered a hybrid because the primary source of energy, hydrogen, is converted into energy and stored into an electric battery, which powers the drivetrain. Zero emissions, no internal combustion engine, hydrogen-electric hybrid.

Tesla is pure electric. You charge the battery itself, directly.
I love listening to goofy podcasts that are just a few friends shooting the shit. Middling-to-low production value is part of the charm. One of my recent favorites is The Greatest Generation [0], which is about Star Trek, mostly.

https://art19.com/shows/the-greatest-generation
It might be that local papers are a bad fit for online, but I've never seen them as directly competing with national news anyway. The paper versions of my local certainly seem okay, and there's a lack of clickbait junk in them. The online version on the other hand is a real crapshoot.
Is it fair to assume "professional google interviewee" is a thing nowadays?
Yup pretty much this. Any benefit to the car owners was purely a happy coincidence. I'd say the homeless guy mentioned above (and know for a fact others who did it in the same area/era) were doing it for the same reason.
tl;dr: shitty graphics hardware vendors who don't care about Linux support.
I wonder how he feels about NPR or BBC?
I listen to a lot of podcasts but they are almost all round-table style shows. I very occasionally catch This American Life on NPR but I have very little interest in listening to all the scripted shows that seem to be imitating it and I have zero interest in true crime.
That's some work! How can it get used? Verifying compilers? OSs?
> Both the BBC and CBC have a history of government influence in their reporting

Citation absolutely required. The BBC have always sought to be impartial - which brings its own, occasionally absurd, biases. Their charter has always required they separate from government and impartial.

They've managed to piss off almost every government, of every colour, in almost equal measure.
My favourite two ideas for the future.

Currently, most places, the news is funded by ads, subscriptions or gov funded agency. So this idea would replace above with voters. Done via a change to the government system to have two people in same seat; politician and shadow politician (SP). Both paid positions but SP wouldn't have any power.

Pros:

- SP doesn't need to go back to full time job and wait for next election cycle.

- SP will continue to represent the leftover voters and question the politician. (Its beyond me why election systems do not allow representation for miniority voters. Ie win with 51% of vote, 49% voters are NOT represented by anyone??)

- Not biased towards companies, ad revenue, subscriptions.

Cons:

- Need to pay SP.

- Biased to getting elected.

Second idea: government site where anyone with ID can post news.

Pros:

- Free for citizens.

- Ideally, government won't take dowm articles. Just because anyone can post, doesn't mean no consequences.

- Historical archive.

- Local news in one place.

Cons:

- Government need to pay for hosting and support.

- News Corp.
Yes why jeopardize the bags of money everyone makes for democracy, etc.
My question is about walking around a data structure. Most candidates choose to represent it with arrays.

I agree with stepping through code being lame. If a candidate has tried to do some sort of boundary condition check and mentions a test that'd catch it, then I'll give them a pass. If a candidate just blows past the code without any attempt whatsoever to check that they're in bounds on an array, then I'll ding them for that. You have no idea how often I see code like...

Node neighbor = data[x+1][y];

... without any check at all to see if x+1 is in bounds for data.

The infinite loop in my question is fairly obvious (because it involves walking around a data structure iteratively). Candidates either see it right away and handle it as they solve, notice it halfway through and crowbar it awkwardly in, or don't notice it until asked to walk through a specific test case, or don't even notice it while walking through the test case.

Ultimately, if the code looks correct to me, or even close (I mess up occasionally) then I'll just ask what cases they would test.
Dmesg Intro
We may be from the same place.
He's outraged because he can be. Personally, I think it would be better to be against pointless written opinion pieces.
Like Uber, but for Walking
A new (and easy) way to hide content accessibly
> Has there been any conscientious objector in that company?

No it's a cult. They wouldn't hire you unless you drank the koolaid.
That sounds like a series hybrid; when people say electric they mean battery electric. The point is moot since hydrogen is pointless.
As an interviewer, I can confirm that I don't care about syntax or whether the program compiles if I'm convinced their solution and approach would work. I'm also OK with candidates using placeholder helper functions or shorthand for trivial things (e.g. null/undefined check in JS) if they explain to me verbally what that part is supposed to do.
I feel like most "X technique led us down a bad path" are actually "we had shit tier management and nobody could fix it" stories in disguise.
I see that you did not understand my question.

I see, too, that there are plans for some support for generics in the near future. So the answer might become yes, in time.
That's according to the NEDC test cycle which is the most optimistic (and therefore the least useful) range estimate. The three test cycles that are typically used are:

NEDC (too optimistic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_European_Driving_Cycle

WLTP (better than NEDC, still a little optimistic): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_harmonized_light_veh...

EPA (the most conservative): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP-75

The WLTP figures are okay, but I think EPA test cycle is the most useful because it's the most consecutive and most representative of real world driving.
You put it on one of these sites and you tip off the creator.
> Plus, the next Facebook is not going to look like Facebook or whatever that maxim was.

Everyone fights the last war.
Rust macros understand types now? Woohoo!
tldr: elevated inflammation in the body has many negative effects. As we age, inflammation seems to increase but this can be reduced by continuing to be active.
Don't see them in Canada, but there are Tesla cars here.
Tell me about it, I had a 2007 1 series BMW and its transmission computer became dead. Now, I was quoted 4000USD at the dealership (the car was worth about 5000 at that point). I went to a third party specializing in automatic transmission and they almost could do it by swapping the computer from a crashed car.

Turns out it needs an encryption key (who only the dealership has) to get the car to recognize the computer, otherwise it won't even start. I sold it for parts and will never have an automatic BMW again.

According to the transmission guy things have only gotten worse with newer models, particularly Audi/Volkswagen and BMW.
> Its beyond me why election systems do not allow representation for miniority voters

Many election systems do. The systems used in the US and certain other poorly-representative democracies don't, and those states score poorly in terms of popular satisfaction with government compared to democracies with systems where minorities within constituencies aren't systematically excluded from representation by the structure of the electoral system.
lol..wtf
Are you joining a carpentry school somewhere down south ?
Now instead of 2 newspapers having a monopoly over one city we now have 2 companies who have a monopoly over most of the planet.
> How would one know if the Chinese government was supported by the population or not

Or given the fact that any attempt to gather opinion about the communist party on the ground would instantly land you in jail, this is an impossible statement if anything.
My Dad makes more than that in Australia. He is a software scientist though, he makes prototype physics simulation software. I think he's underpaid when considering the amount of value he creates (in 5 months made a better version of one simulation technology than a team of about a dozen working in it for 3-4 yesterday) but then again my dad doesn't care much for money. He likes working on interesting problems.
Micropayments (with one-off tips or payments along with the usual subscriptions) solves this, because on top of that idea can be built ways for citizens to pick up and report on things that interest them, and if they do a good job, they can make a living at it.
When reasoning about performance, an institution's mission should treated like a student's name. The information is irrelevant, but even for an honest and conscientious reader, the cognitive traps laid by its availability are too dangerous.

Incentives are a decent guide.
I have been keen to read the book this is excerpted from - Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country.

So it's nice to read this good-sized excerpt.
They were replaced with batteries that need to be recharged everyday and get thrown out after a few years though.
Good money is hard to turn down, for any reason.
Colorful printed patch makes you pretty much invisible to AI
Here's further support for planting trees. Published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies:

"Planting 1.2 Trillion Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions, Scientists Find"

I'll expand on what I said before: Make front lawns illegal throughout the US. Require two or more trees to be planted (use some kind of a formula for the exact amount). We can probably get to half a billion trees just with this approach. However, this has the added effect of eliminating emissions from gas powered mowers, blowers, trimmers, etc. We would consumer less water to grow lawns, capture CO2 effectively to grow trees and reduce emissions from the aforementioned demonic devices in the process. I call that a good start until we figure out other methods that might operate at scale without destroying the planet in the process. Actually, there are at least a couple more things at scale we could do that would be net positive on many fronts. More on that later.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-cou...
These guides are just people trying to make a quick buck. There's no shortcut to getting good and perhaps that's why these type of interviews are here to stay.
Do you feel defense contractors should go out of business and that the work they do is immoral? Or is it just not for you?

I don’t know what country you’re from but would you prefer you had no military or weapons or defense? Like it or not there will always be other countries with weapons and they may not always be friendly towards you or your interests.

I wouldn’t want my work to have anything to do with killing people either, but I also think the defense industry (while unfortunate) is probably here to stay, for good reasons too.
As an interviewer I don't really care. A good candidate doesn't need them, and a poor candidate isn't helped by them. The only thing that's irritating to me is that they actually burn interview questions. Once a question is seen on an external job board it gets banned as an interview question.
You're also working twice the hours, no thanks. 996? No one is actually productive when you're working for that long.
Experts are a nice resource to have, but they're not a cure-all.

Not all of our legislature's representatives have systemically good incentives. Regardless of their ability to understand complexity, complexity offers them the ability to obfuscate. Ignoring any bad faith or corruption, though, our legislatures are also a limited compute resource.

If the complexity of modern society rises by orders of magnitude, the tools legislatures previously used to tackle complexity may not scale to the new challenges, or may simply be too slow to address the issues while they are relevant.

One of my first areas of research was mapping legislature throughput to variations in rates of technological change. It appears most western governments addressed social issues arising out of the industrial revolution, for instance, exceptionally slowly. To summarize a few years of reading in the library stacks: the relationship between social complexity and quality of governance is not well understood.
As an American without any foreign language skills... How do I find a job there?
Honestly this sounds like /r/VXJunkies is leaking...
Well, the (in house) recruiters recommend them. The engineering staff that does the interviewing generally don't get involved in this recommendations.
The Podcast v. Music angle is particularly weird given how many podcasts are about music. As someone whose not particularly plugged in to any music scene and mostly unaware of what's popular, podcasts are one of the top ways I discover any new music to begin with. If I was purely listening to music, it would just be all of the music I already know and have.
I don't think they were hoping to buy, I think they were hoping they wouldn't have to compete.
At this point I'm really unsure whether this is trolling or not.
Theyre quoting 3 sec on the website
They do... they're just not warm :)
Inconel is just a group of nickel alloys, been around for years. No indication the specific alloys spaceX has developed are being used in the fuse, although they could be, however, wikipedia indicates they are used in rockets.
I’ve had a couple of American cars and apparently year-by-year or even in the same model year the manufacturer changes the location of certain parts, which I didn’t expect. Mechanics and I have had trouble finding various parts like fan relays and cabin air filters.
Leiningen on Windows seemed like an after thought.

Even on Linux I have run into package management issues with lein1/lein2. I should say a build tool should largely be stable, not changing it behavior. On many functions like how you use local jars the features and methods have changed drastically at various points of time in Clojure/lein. This kind of churn has even effects like invalidating much documentation already written, and many stack overflow answers too. Why should an application developer be distracted by issues like these?

Most importantly if Clojure development is essentially depending upon lein, then I feel it should be distributed with Clojure itself.
And emacs, cider, nrepl and lein chain has so many parts which are getting version upgrades independently, it breaks frequently for the user, functionality that was working suddenly stop working after an upgrade and you have to debug why it stopped working. Also I wonder how complicated it might be to set up the whole chain on a Windows machine.
More than once I've been made fun of while ordering Vanilla ice cream. People think it's boring but I love it:)
1978 California Proposition 13: Section 1. (a) The maximum amount of any ad valorem tax (a tax whose amount is based on the value of a property) on real property shall not exceed one percent (1%) of the full cash value of such property.
This appears to cover salary, but what has happened to the "Open Equity" information?
The difference between an edited and an un-edited conversation is night and day. Editing takes out all the stumbles, half-sentences, unfinished ideas etc.

The reason it's not more common? Recording a 2 hour podcast takes 2 hours. Recording and editing a 2 hour podcast takes closer to 10.
It's such a disgusting attitude that far too many people have. Not everything is about money.
Okay, how about as a first step we eliminate prop 13 only for 'new' houses, say bought after 2015 and also eliminate it for houses that change hands via estate transfer?
Sweet. So there will be a bunch of used model S’s coming soon!
> Nine times out of ten a candidate scores low because they overlooked an infinite loop or code would crash on boundary conditions

Why does this even matter? They're writing the code on a whiteboard, without being able to compile or debug, in 20 minutes. Does Google really expect code to be correct and production ready in 20 minutes?
"closed system...external actor"

Hmm...a _closed_ system sort of implies there are no external actors doesn't it?

Your statement appears superficially dispassionate and hypothetical, but I don't think it makes any sense unless it is unpacked as a lot of normative statements that would be very controversial if explicitly stated.
Hell, I can deal with shitty microphones, I just wish people would figure out that you need to record all speakers' audio independently and not rely on Skype or Discord or whatever relaying it to a single location. Robovoice is the worst.
The older models with the older drivetrain no. But this is the Model 3 drivetrain. If you look at the data you posted you will find the Model 3 is basically ball park for "as good as you will get for now".

The major difference being those other efficient drive trains aren't capable of anywhere near the torque that the M3 drivetrain is so it's not exactly an apples to apples comparison but I digress.
I can't wait to sit in my car one morning in Los Angeles, punch in Seattle, then wake up the next morning arrived.
packet size of webrtc(rtp) is VERY VERY VERY small, and since they are UDP, each individual packet must be encrypted. ( i can't just encode a big chunk of data and send to the network like tls ).

in fact, for scaling a solution that uses "near realtime broadcast", you probably don't want encryption at all. ( afaik you can't disable webrtc encryption. )

in my tests i can get 3x more performance just using rtmp/rtsp. ( ~8000 video streaming connections on a aws c5.xlarge at 800kbit/s ).
This is about potential for abuse not whether the abuser is a public or private entity.
DIY Bare Bones Linux (2012)
That's a student taught class. Not really policy-defining.
IIRC, there was a science fiction story where a supercomputer that humanity used for efficient logistics took over the world simply by changing the orders and sending things to the appropriate places. Can't remember the book, but might have been by Heinlein or Clarke... Seems like the Amazon AWS servers could do that quite nicely if they were sentient... or just had enough data.
This article has me wondering, would a tied and dyed T-shirt or hoodie be effective at fooling a similar AI system? maybe you could add some mirrors on it as well ;D
This can become a great source of satire I’m sure of it.
All tourism raises rents. The less tourism, the lower the rents.
Has anybody tried porting that system over to Linux?