skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP/author here. This is exactly what interviewing.io does. If you'd like to interview people on our platform, please ping me: aline@interviewing.io.
The title of the article is that sales are lagging but sales are provably not lagging
I rewrote the Go benchmark to be a mechanical translation of C and it performs much better.

C (gcc -O3): 23.8s
Julia (julia 1.1.0): 32.8s
Go (alt) (go 1.12): 39.3s
Java (java 1.8.0_60): 44.2s
Go (org) (go 1.12): 64.8s
OCaml (ocaml 4.07.1): 79.1s
JS (node 11.14.0): 137.0s
Pypy (pypy 6.0.0): 139.4s
C# (mono 4.2.1): 187.3s

Rust: DOES NOT COMPILE

So Go is only twice as slow as C, not thrice as slow. This puts it just ahead of Java and just behind Julia.
Google also contributes to Linux. Am I allowed to criticize Google if I use Linux? At what point am I not allowed to criticize a company based upon their contributions to open source projects I make use of?
Really sad seeing people bashing people who still run websites and blogs. No wonder everyone's using the spyware funded centralizes sites.

Editor for personal blog? Are you serious? It was a great read, we need it instead of tweeting 90 char snarky tweets.
Maybe it's useful for brainstorming though? Sure a human still needs to curate but the AI might think of things you otherwise wouldn't?
you might want to look at the youtube videos "what autopilot sees". They have videos for a lot of different cities.
> Vegan dishes enjoy nowhere near the popularity of low-fat foods in the anti-fat wave of the 80s and 90s. Not even close. It's still a minority of restaurants that offer any vegan options.

Mr. Paul Graham is predicing otherwise: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1099648817601921024?lang=en

I sincerely hope there will not be a grand "social pressure against eating meat" as I do much better on the carnivore diet.

> to buying all of my animal products from farms that are certified for specific animal welfare conditions.

That's what I do as well. And the meat tastes much better too.
Why Kubernetes? Google Cloud Event
7 billion, not trillion
It isn't. If it were instead, "vegans talk about Hitler all the time, so..." then it would be an apt analogy.
This reads like 850M just went straight to some entity in Panama.

"Missing". Please.

Conveniently, in Panama too.
Bioplastics “as bad if not worse” than fossil-fuel plastics?
It would provide an auditable, tamper-proof database with an immutable history, accessible by all health companies and not controlled by any one health company.
> Have you checked how Springs DI works? Clean is far from how I would describe it.

Yes. Have you ever looked under the covers of an RDBMS, or your local libc? Platform code is never "clean", but application code should be.

> That you usually generate a project that is full of auto generated files says something about Spring.

The fresh projects I've been making are typically just a pom.xml. What are you talking about here?
A lot of that expensive, longer term research happens at public institutions via public funds. Which then gets commercialized by the university or by a spinoff company from the researchers.

Giving the benefit of expensive, longer term research but in a convenient form where the actual R&D was publicly funded, rather than internal.
In the last year, I had two jobs,one at the office, and one at a startup I was working with.

I managed to make more than 75h a weeks only 3 weeks of the year.

During these weeks, my life was, sleep, go to the gym, go to work, go to second work sleep, every weekday, and on week-ends gym + work.

75h per week is 11h per day EVERY day. when you do that, your body is tired, and if you want to be productive your have to sleep a lot, and you have no social life.

(I track my time with an app, so it is not fake numbers, my max is 78 hours)
Mother Gifts Daughter with Business Instead of a Car for Sweet 16
This is pretty big news; the entire cryptocurrency economy relies on tethers being valued at par, given that they're how billions of dollars of liquidity are denominated. While rumors and suppositions about Tether have swirled for quite some time, that was also true of Mt. Gox before the fall, and those of us who have been saying loudly that they're insolvent have not been widely believed.
Nexus 5 is not supported anymore only the nexus 5x.
:P Thanks.

Fun Fact I learned from that link: Supposedly, we'll be reaching our first trillion sometime between 2050 and 2060. That's actually pretty close.
Exactly, But i think they dont realise how good people can get at kicking a ball. Imagine how different this game would be played in australia...
It will hold it's peg until it doesn't, and when it doesn't you will take a 50-70% haircut. Just watch.
You might enjoy this court order: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2019.04.24_signed_orde...
That may have been true for a time, but i could compare a G450 with one of the later cards from 3DFX, a Voodoo Banshee. Made no difference on a high end Hitachi 21 inch crt(something non Trinitron, don't remember what exactly). Two pages of DIN A4 next to each other in original size, without any eyestrain whatsover. Nice times :)
> And the current price suggests that iFinex has got its shit together.

Or, it could mean that they keep buying up coins on the market at face value to keep prices stable to avoid a run on the bank (which they can only do as long as their reserves remain).
for those who dont know what afl is -- https://youtu.be/CCSMruUC4-o?t=12
Hours spent at the office do not equate to hours worked.
Handwriting: An Elegy (2011)
Show HN: Functional Objects
I have to disagree here. Regarding:

1) Data is collected by others too (Waymo, Uber, etc...)

2) See above, software is simply being purchased by OEMs, the increasing importance of software will be shifting power so

3) Hardware, again Tesla is not the only one

4) Actually easier than ICEs as it is less complex, also in the automotive sector mass production and cost are king, Bosch for example is good at automotive and electric motors, the just need to mate theses two

5) Actually, that is Panasonic

6) Only the chargers, power grids are totally different story, and chargers are being built by others as well. Tesla has a head start so

One final point, I know of a company in Munich that is testing inductive loading with BMW i3s. If I remember well they achieve 80% loading in 15-20 minutes or so.

Robotaxis are a commodity, well the cars at least. For companies running these services based on large fleets the costs and availability are king. That means procurement cost but even more important operating costs and maintenance. The supplier of these fleets needs to offer fleet services, short maintenance periods and quick reaction times. Not sure if Tesla is up to it already.

Also, where are you taking your numbers from? $25k and 1k miles? Really?
Here's the filing:

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
Personally if I was running my own business, single, and childless I think I would do that. But I would never do that just to make someone else rich, or to the detriment of important relationships
Is this a new phenomina or has it occured before?
Tesla's AIs trying to create a hive :P
The Dream: podcast about the world of pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing
I'm curious how Gardner is escaping coverage through this so far.
Well, what a complete and total surprise that adding this kind of functionality to an automobile would result in it being so insecure that it can be hacked into.
What does this do that a Raspberry Pi or NAS does not?

It just seems like an always-on computer, nothing revolutionary or new.
Yet another "look what we did with AI" hype piece where all they did was hand pick some output and mash it together to make something intelligible. Silly nonsense.
Looks like that should be Nexus 5X[1] (I have an old N5 in a drawer and was momentarily intrigued...)

1: https://docs.plasma-mobile.org/Installation.html
I have to admit I was wondering after the first couple pages if I was being bullshitted by reading it. Really good though.
> People complain about Facebook constantly and how they're selling their data yet these users wouldn't sign up to pay $2-3 per month for Facebook directly.

Facebook tracks you regardless of whether you have a Facebook account.
Amazon has its most profitable quarter ever, but growth is slowing
Yes, but it's a very broad range, which gets narrower for UberSelect, Uber XL, Uber assist, Uber Comfort (my favorite Uber product), and others. If your car doesn't qualify for the given Uber offering, it's unlikely you can provide the quality/type of service that Uber guarantees its customers. So it's not really a dress code because it materially affects the customers themselves.
To start, we are at 7.53 /billion/, not trillion.

Second, ever single time someone has said that overpopulation was going to be the end of us, they've been wrong. To quote Wikipedia, which go so far back as Ancient Carthage and Greece:

Concern about overpopulation is an ancient topic. Tertullian was a resident of the city of Carthage in the second century CE, when the population of the world was about 190 million (only 3–4% of what it is today). He notably said: "What most frequently meets our view (and occasions complaint) is our teeming population. Our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us.... In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race." Before that, Plato, Aristotle and others broached the topic as well. [1]

Finally, to answer your question of "How can the world support so many of us?", I would like to point at that with every new person born, that is a new person thinking of scientific advancements that can be made, producing stuff for others, for their kids, etc.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#History_o...
“Games as a service” is fraud
Really? overblown? They just don't care.

People working for Facebook, taking the money Facebook has because of all of it it is doing but the AI Expert doesn't care?

Thats probably the same people who like the challenge for military drone guidance systems because they like the challenge.

Great.
Great article! Add to it the moral cost of interviewing multiple subpar candidates and improving the fit of candidates at the top of the interview process has a huge impact.

This is one of the reasons that many companies work with us at Insight (insightdatascience.com), as the interviews to join the program are done by Data Scientists and Engineers.
That's my main worry with Tesla not using LIDAR as a backup. Sure, the image recognition will work in almost all the cases, but occasionally (hopefully very rarely) there is going to be a pattern that it might not recognize (either deliberate by an attacker, or occurring naturally).
I really hope someone else eats their lunch soon. There are some genuine improvements to the status quo in their cars, but the unbelievably poor quality control and silicon valley user hostility (near impossibility of DIY repairs & parts acquisition) should not be part of the future of cars.

This is to say nothing about their quixotic attitude towards self-driving in the face of competitors using better methods.
Buzzfeed and Uproxx are the ones you're thinking of that started out with the "pithy clickbait gradually transitioning into legitimacy" business model, some with more success at that than others. From what I gather this is not what The Markup was built to do.
Exactly. Investigative journalism is the stuff that takes weeks or months, while clickbait is churned out all day long.

Sounds like the whole idea here was to have a journalistic organization that skips the fluff and just does big stories. Hard to fund, but a noble goal nonetheless.
In the US sure, here phones have always been unlocked.
Totally agree, especially on production and servicing. All German manufacturers, I personally would never buy a car from by the way, are relying a lot on the corporate leasing business. In that market customers don't wait months to get a car repaired. Even more so if the customer is not just leasing them for employees but operating a business with these cars, e.g. Taxis.
We built https://learnruby.bigbinary.com/ to introduce programming concepts using Ruby.
That doesn't surprise me, if all you do is follow the rules of music theory on a standard piano. If you creatively deviate from music theory and modify your instrument (or create a new instrument) you could easily come up with something new, the question is whether anyone besides you would enjoy it.
People who live on Montreal would argue it is.
Conventional plastic in soil or the ocean is "largely an aesthetic problem" says Huang

Is that true?
You are right. Consumers bear some of the blame. At the same time, many options are outright unattainable due to legislative capture in the financial industry.

Right now the only way to charge the average consumer is through their debit or credit card. This makes micro transactions through the web infeasible.

Imagine a world where there weren't such massive legislative moats and selective enforcement in favor of big financial players and against the small.

Personally I believe if setting up the competetion to MasterCard/Visa weren't made virtually impossible via legislation, we'd see many card with transactions fees of $0.000X instead of $0.xx/transaction + Y%/transaction + minimums.

I think consumers would be much more ok with paying for reading a news article at $0.01/read. But alas, such options aren't on the table. I do concede it's hard to prove the reason for current transaction fees is what I attributed in my post, but there is evidence for it.

I also think that the way money is created an placed into the system could be done in a way that created more smaller competitors instead of such large pools of capital, which can more easily try and engage in anti competitive behavior.
A lot of those people are Elastic and LucidWorks employees who are monetizing their contributions to Lucene through their companies' respective products. I'm sure there are others there, too, but those were the obvious ones.
It seems like they'd get caught sooner or later.
How to Pick Your Next Tech Focus
What ML/CV/AI API Do You Wish Existed?
Is there any ML API that you wish existed? Or, do you think that any current ML API is just not good enough?
How do you compare them to Aiva [1]?

[1] https://aiva.ai/creations
This is blatant SPAM and should be removed. This post is rife on reddit as well.

To those interested in what's actually written on the tin, here's a direct URL:

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/full-stack-webdev-bund...
Is there any chance that the half-life of Xenon-124 is lower than previously thought?
Rust Types Cheat Sheet
Show HN: Breadth-First Search as path finder on a 2D grid map
And an interview with the pilot https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/episodes/035-ufos/
From my experience gym/steam/sauna is probably the only structured activity you have other than work, and probably "too weak vacation" if you are lucky. And those are just required to be physically functional. 5x12 in the office at PC/phone is absolute minimum, then one of the two weekends, usually Sunday, you catch up and prepare for the next week because during other days there is too much client work (in a general sense - both internal & external clients). So it gives you 72 hours minimum office/PC time, not average.

And then you are expected to be always online, even on rare vacations, and respond to emails very quickly. Plus work from remote desktop before bedtime and right after wake up to handle overnight emails and read news. So even if you are not in office you are constantly "ON" and the brain is always working, even on a treadmill in the gym... And then during IPO/initiation/reporting season it's actual 100-120 hours of actual office hours, but that are spikes, after which there is usually some relax time of only light 5x12 schedule. This is for research. Investment bankers in a narrow sense (IPOs, etc) just work in those spike/calm mode.

When I first saw the 996 story, my first reaction - given my background - was "whiner"... But in banking your monthly salary is just to cover your "costs of doing business" (but still high), only total annual compensation is a meaningful number, of which the fixed monthly part used to be less than half in good years. So in banking you kind of know why you are doing this. In programming bonuses are usually a much smaller fraction. Plus important thing - you could actually do 100 hours work if you do different work and are switching between tasks that load different parts of the brain. Financial modelling is comparable to programming (actually it is if we agree that Excel is the most used functional programming language) by cognitive load, but it takes a small share of total time. In the 996 case of constant coding it's very doubtful. I mostly do programming now and when I have 8 hours of uninterrupted clear mind spent on complex algos - that's a very productive lucky day. In the 6-8 hours range the focus and brain capacity usually drop so much that having good sleep & rest is much more important to have another good and deep 6-8 hours tomorrow.

But then you could write docs, add tests, do simple refactoring, setup backend & cloud, fight with configs - it takes hours and does not load brain as much as some concurrent lock-free data structure. Someone still needs to do that job and it could easily turn 6-8 hours into 10-14.
Doesn't this mean they can't sell/buy/exchange tethers at all!
This reminds me of the people I know who claim they haven’t slept in 2 days or some such nonsense.
Anyone in the cryptocurrency space with half a brain knew something was up the minute they refused an independent audit. It was only a matter of time before someone brought charges and/or Tether collapsed.
I think people fit on a wide spectrum ranging from hoarder to absolute minimalist.

I was speaking for myself, and some of the hidden costs associated with buying in bulk.
Tesla is just a cult of personality around Elon Musk.

Most of its supporters, especially its die hard supporters, are just people that love Musk.

He’s kind of an arrogant prick though, hence all the haters.
A simple debugging module for AWS Lambda (λ)
ATI had an infuriating tendency to make their cards as impossible to identify, visually, as possible. Two different cards of the same model sold a year apart might have little in common.

Matrox may not have had cutting-edge cards, but you could at least tell what card you had.
Gtk# is... OK. I've used it a little bit and for the most part it implements everything the C/C++ version does.
> Why does a function to check if a number is even need its own namespace, and a dependency on another namespace which tests if it's a number at all, and a third to check if it's odd? What's the benefit to this?

The benefit is modularity, separation of concerns and versioning but in this case it's ridiculous...

Any philosophy can be taken too far

That should be printed on my office wall!
Types of Developer Community Projects
People who short Tesla stock have become an industry. Tesla is a volatile stock and they've made seriously good money on the dips.

So they have a vested interest in amplifying all bad news about Tesla. At times as some have commented Elon has been his own worst enemy.

It's messy but he's inventing the future with Tesla and SpaceX. I've got a friend with a brand new Tesla. He took bets a while back on when the first fully self driving car would be available. This week he drove on our town's main artery, Grand River avenue, from Dusty's Cellar in Okemos to Biggby's Coffee in East Lansing. There are many signal lights, varying speeds with MSU students dashing out in front of you. He drove the entire 3.9 mile stretch with one finger on the steering wheel to prove a point.

I guarantee you without Elon Musk's efforts to save Tesla this future would have arrived many years later. If that doesn't get you excited likely nothing will.

Just sorry my Dad who first had his drivers license in 1930 didn't live to see it.
I'll give you that health insurance is more expensive as a contractor (though not enough to significantly cut into $750k), but if your taxes are also higher then you really need to talk to a good CPA. If you are doing it right, paying less in taxes is one of the BENEFITS of being self-employed.
I get the feeling that people are more fed up with Facebook than with Tesla. I don't own a Tesla but have family that does and they respect the big vision.
It's a fair question. The best argument is if you give a horrible interviewee experience, they will tell all their friends about how much you suck, or post about how much you suck on HN, and that represents a cost.

Particularly if you treat a well connected talented engineer poorly, and they tell their friends, or even end up not using your service in the future out of spite.
C&H has superfine sugar in 4 lb packages, but they're the old cardboard milk carton style rather than the paper bag bricks used for granulated. They also have "Bakers Sugar" in fairly large print. Domino also sells it, but the grocery store site I checked only shows it in 12oz plastic bottles.

https://www.meijer.com/shop/en/pantry/baking/sugar/ch-superf...
Selling data, renting it, or monetizing derivatives of it...does it matter? Being a gatekeeper to data pays regardless of what kind of transaction is occurring.
I'll push a better (more organized) version of this code to GitHub later.
it's also more inclusive to cook fries and pastries and such in a way that jews and muslims can eat them too.
Async/Await Callbacks for Arrays
Wasn't the previous CEO of intel exactly that person.
It looks pretty similar to the typical Apple hating.
This is a stupid question. The employer is the one forcing constant distractions. You can (and I have done so) rebel against the distractions, but it is not going to make you popular.

At best you'll be classified as a willing work horse.
So why hasn't the bottom fallen out of Tether yet?
I'm sorry you feel that way. There is a lot of thought that goes into our pricing and what tier a feature should go in. At the end of the day though, we still need to make money as a company. If you're interested in how we determine which tier something goes in, you can read about it here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#the-likely-ty...
Your argument is about the reproduction rate, not whether it's optional.
that is not a tragedy of the commons
When I was a kid, a comedian, possibly Carlin, lamented that it was "too bad that stupidity didn't hurt". In this age of disruption and the snake oil that seems to go along with it, it appears that is exactly what stupidity does. Hurt.

That's some serious bravado and optimism. Why the fuck would you ever move that much money at once? They should not have transferred a penny more than the monthly volume at a time. Was the volume $850 million a month? I seriously doubt it.
Show HN: Generic N-Tuple Store
> The attorney general said Bitfinex’s problems began in 2018, when it handed over $850 million to third-party payments processor Crypto Capital Corp. to handle customers-withdrawal requests. Over the months that followed, Panama-based Crypto Capital failed to process the orders, the attorney general said.

For all the noise about Tether being insolvent, it turns out that it was completely solvent? Then in 2018, Bitfinex got taken by Crypto Capital and raided the Tether reserves for $850M backing the Tether issuance?

So if I'm reading this right: The holders of tether are now screwed and should be converting to bitcoin/litecoin/etc asap.
Not saying you're wrong, but it makes more sense if you look at it the other way. Jobs that require no skills attract workers with no skills. That includes skills like time management and conflict resolution.