skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about the siren level, but police cars have definitely been leveraging the low wattage bright LED technology to make their cars light up like the worlds brightest red & blue Christmas tree. Seems like they're innovating also on different strobe patterns to see just what is most attention getting. Sometimes I wonder if it isn't counterproductive to make your car so violently visible that nobody can actually look directly at it. Especially for drunks that might actually be drawn towards all those pretty flashin' lights.
A different way to look at this is: does this particular perverse incentive justify reduced regulation so that it can’t happen anymore.

Even if your assessment is valid, you’d likely be throwing away the baby with the bath water if you’d cut regulation to avoid it.
Any paid influencers promoting the product also must disclose “any relationships between you and entities that create labeling for, advertise, market, and/or promote the products, on your behalf, or at your direction.”

It's a pity that social networks don't require this as part of their TOS. There are a number of high profile accounts on Twitter, for example, that seem to leverage their follower counts and blue checkmarks to promote propaganda for the highest bidder (and they have multiple admins on supposed verified individual accounts, churning out said propaganda 24x7).

There are creative ways to hide the payments, such as using books authored by the influencers, but that's another discussion.
You are proving my point.

Why build products for customers if you aren't going to provide service to them, oh wait, it's because it's not as profitable.
IMHO, FB has a problem worse than their scale. It's their complete lack of morality of any kind.

The fastest way to fix it is to permanently delete your account.
>so low to the ground because it was designed to support a non-jetway use case (which is now non-existent)

Complete bullshit. I’ve boarded/deplaned without a jetway in Beijing, SLC, JAC, and AMS in the last couple of years alone.
Its not that they dont believe it, they just think its not that big a deal. 4ft sealevel increase in 100 years
Julia's syntax is sufficiently similar to Python/R/Matlab that it should be pretty easy to read (but might have to look up a few things) even if you've never used Julia
There’s no longer anything that qualifies as intuitive design, and training isn’t really enough.

I say this as someone who’s been designing and using computers since the Osborne 1, who can’t use his own iPhone 7 when my girlfriend gives it back to me, and who can’t verbally explain to said girlfriend how to gesture effectively on my iPhone XR.

It doesn’t work when I re-install Linux after not using it for merely 3 years, even though my WordStar sense memory is stronger than vi, emacs and Word on both Mac and Windows. What the hell did they do to Gnome!?

I do UI and UX testing when rolling out enterprise and web apps, but design..!? It’s temporal and artificial. It’s not actually foundational, like thumbs and squatting.
If your office has a significant amount of open space, chances are pretty good they're using white/pink noise generators to try and mask distracting sounds (conversations, etc).

Last place I worked at had one big room that was a couple hundred feet square, and they had the noise generators cranked up so high that you couldn't successfully have a conversation with someone unless they were within about five feet of you. When I'd walk outside, it was a physical relief from the onslaught of white noise.
The boy crying wolf has been crying for a few decades now. Didn’t Gore say we’d be underwater by now?
Do you have trouble sleeping?
I say that meaning their fiduciary responsibility is to their shareholders. Their other stakeholders are by nature secondary. I'll have to check that video out but unless the shareholders themselves vote to prioritize employees and others above profit, the company and, more directly, upper management risks lawsuits and loosing their own lucrative positions.
I used to deal small amounts of MJ in college, it was a great way to have a side income and honestly was pretty low-risk.

When I graduated and was getting ready to move to CA, I had mentioned to my dealer that I was moving and was obviously pretty broke as I had not started working yet.

He told me he could hook me up with a one time job to drive an escalade towing a boat filled with MJ from CA to the midwest and I would be paid 20k.

I thought long and hard about that and ultimately decided it was a terrible idea. However, if he had made that offer to me a year or two before, I probably would have taken it. For someone like me, 20k at that age is a massive boost.
Way more thoughtful than the GPT-2 model’s take on the question: https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/#sample8
We have UBI. It's called jail. I'll pass. "Guaranteed employment" is also called socialism. I'll pass on that, too, thank you.
Wow, seems like most of the comments here are just blaming the author, trying to find all the flaws with her story, or dropping truth bombs about big companies and jobs in our society ("coworkers aren't your friends", etc). I still think it was a worthwhile read for me, since I'm about to start working at MS next month. Good to be aware of stuff so I can keep an eye out for it, and try to make things better.
Ask HN: What do you personally host on your servers?
I'd wager the majority of us have at least some services running on a server somewhere. What does your personal infrastructure look like?

e.g. I run postfix for email, nginx and Let's Encrypt for a personal website, and a Minecraft server for my wife and I.
It's not appropriate at work, full stop. HR will have to discipline if not fire you in order to limit their legal liability for this. They will certainly have to fire you if you continue doing it after being asked to stop. They could be on the hooks for a lot of money in a nearly-guaranteed workplace harassment lawsuit if they allow you to persist.

And anyway, if your intent is actually to get laid, then randomly asking people in professional environments is the worst way to do so. It's not even a good tactic in nightclubs, let alone in the workplace. So you're not actually accomplishing your intended goal; you're just harassing your female colleagues.

Good god man, ask people out for drinks first, don't just jump immediately to asking for sex! Did no one teach you how dating or hook-ups work?!
I love Typescript but as a recovering C# programmer, I try to stay away from OOP in nodejs.
For real for real? An Escalade? You think cops don't watch COPS?
EVs are just as loud as any other modern appliance car. I yearn for the day when we figure out how to make tires that still perform well but are silent. They're so loud now that at anything more than about 20mph that's all you hear. And if you live within a few miles of a highway you get a constant background level of white noise from the tires.
Oh, I spent about 3.5 in therapy. It's somewhat second nature at this point for me to wonder at root causes in myself.

But I feel like I failed to communicate something. Let me give a few examples from actual conversations I've had:

Someone was talking about having recently self harmed again after x amount of time refraining. They were saying they felt so ashamed and like such a failure, that refraining for so long had been a big accomplishment.

I told them it was still a big accomplishment. That fact remained true and was in no way diminished by their recent self harm.

Someone who is incredibly sweet and interesting and knowledgeable has a lot of baggage. When their baggage trips them up, they don't know how to stop and the kind, supportive replies they get keep the drama rolling. It is complicated by an "either/or" framing of certain things.

A couple of times, I've managed to say a thing that largely stopped the drama. They then took a break and did me time activities. When they "came back," they were much more able to focus on things other than their own baggage and emotional drama.

In short, I've put down a lot of baggage. I sometimes can help other people put down the baggage.

That's my focus. If they drop the baggage, their emotional landscape changes.

Because feelings come from somewhere.
This site recommends Tristan Harris's work pretty prominently.

For a sober take on Harris and "tech humanists" more generally, check out "Why Silicon Valley can’t fix itself" by Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/03/why-silicon-val...
I hate excessively loud bikes as much as anyone; there is a line between 'hearable' and 'earsplitting' that is often missed. Is not some noise, though, a de minimis appropriate compense for the danger associated with choosing a lighter weight, more environmental, and federal HOV-compliant vehicle? If the per person transportation ecologics and economics are favorable for bikes vs. cars shouldn't we look to improve the externalities (safety) around such transportation methods? Even if it comes with some externtalacious discomfort?

(fwiw my current vehicle is approximately the loudest allowable per federal regulations, because I enjoy the sound it makes, not safety per say.)
There is an energy saving component to recycling. Aluminum for example takes a tremendous amount of power to produce and recycling reduces that.

Recycling makes different amounts of sense depending on the material. I suspect that a fair amount of material mined is subsidized by different governments (natural resource extraction at least in the us often takes place on leased government land).

I did some landfill design engineering in a previous career. while there is lots of space sometimes it’s far away, so there is trucking waste around. Plus landfills despite their liners and clay layers can leak nasty stuff into the groundwater.

You pay for what you put in the landfill by weight, so reducing waste can save municipalities money.
So much ignorance and misinformation about this issue even on HN.

The parent comment and entire thread is 100% correct. There is nothing inherently unstable or unsafe about the MAX 8. It has a pitch-up characteristic that's mild compared to some other commercial jets like the 757.

The only reason MCAS was put on that plane was to allow the MAX 8 to share a type rating with the rest of the 737 family, to make it so that it handles like any other 737 despite the pitch-up characteristic.

Go ask any commercial pilot, go watch any of the commercial pilots on youtube who have commented on this, go look on stackexchange. The notion that the MAX 8 is inherently unstable, or unsound, or dangerous, is a laughable myth to anyone in the industry. I get that the news cycle is financially rewarded for fearmongering, but I really expected people who frequent HN to know better and do some cursory research into the topic rather than posting comments that perpetuate bullshit.

There are several major issues with what boeing has done, such as the alleged failure to reclassify MCAS as a critical system after flight testing. But instead of discussing these legitimate issues, public debate seems to have been directed towards a bullshit myth about the airframe being inherently unstable. This has been eye-opening and dispelled my notion that HN had above-average quality of discussion on technical topics.
> Either that, or I'm the most boring 28 year old that works there.

You are, presumably, male and doing technical tasks.

It's much easier to get into drama when you are a 1) young female, whom lots of people want to interact with, hired to do 2) marketing, where your job is to be extremely social with semi-strangers.

This is simply the way of the world.
> It's not that the aerodynamic change was worse or better...

Having the control get 'lighter' (more sensitive to increased back-force) as one approaches the stall is definitely an undesirable characteristic, as it increases the risk of a distracted pilot stalling. While a change in the opposite direction might have been problematic (insofar as additional training is a problem), the way it actually goes is more likely to prompt the FAA to require something be done about it.
The author states:

>"A Skylake CPU has 348 physical registers per core, split over two different register files."

Just looking at some literature on recent Intel I can only see a fraction of this 348 number. I see the following:

16 general purpose registers
6 segment registers
1 flags register
8 x87 registers
16 SSE registers

Could someone explain where this 348 registers figure in the post comes from exactly?
This is the same company that puts cigarette ads on billboards next to schools in third world countries. I would take any suggestion that they want to "reduce youth smoking" with a big heaping spoon of salt.
Oh for sure. I see so many areas in the city where I reimagine as pedestrian only and basically weep inside for the lost opportunity.
Do you live in the country? How did you decide on your current home?
This is yet another failing of US Suburbia. Households are too spread out for centralized collection points to be viable - you'd end up with each point only serving a few houses or people driving the stuff over - both of which rather defeat the point.
Or you're not getting good sleep because of noise pollution.
You can buy air filter/purifiers for air pollution.
You can avoid plastic to some degree.
You can't isolate all noise factors, especially low-freq vibrations.
Try sleeping in an area where road noise occurs 24/7. Sleep deprivation is a huge health modifier.
"Not paying attention to X because Y is more important"
Most people don't give a shit about Y, when X isn't fixed for them, they see X as far more immediate/important problem: its like telling an african tribe that cooked for thousands of years with wood that you can't burn wood from tropical forest for cooking because its causes Global Warming.
Yes, this was one of the things I learned in Big Co after a few years. You end up realizing most work relationships (not all) are what I now call "proximity kindness".

Think two people walking into an elevator together.
I've taken 30 second exposures of stars at night but they were too blurry for my liking. The earth never stopped rotating and I didn't have the gear to correct for the rotation. There's no way to get an accurate panorama on a moving subject unless all exposures are at the same time.

(Fifteen second exposures worked best for me.)
Basic income does nothing to help since most people will fall in a hole where good enough is good enough so there won't be any reason to move forward in life. Free money leads nowhere.

Guaranteed employment makes a lot of sense. Create something similar to a Peace Corp where people are paid to help out different communities or work at public works that need to be done. No matter how much automation can be created there will always be things where humans will be the prefared way to accomplish a job.
>> Huge campus, nice cafeterias, woods, a pond, overwhelming space. Everything seemed great....

>Ugh, this trend to make work environments indistinguishable from a university campus is just >the latest trend to warm up new employees until their fully committed to the boiling sewage >that is a life that is all work and ass kissing.

Every feature that you are complaining about happens naturally when you have as many employees as MS has in Redmond. It has nothing to do with malicious agents planning to boil employees alive in ass kissing.

Well, maybe not the pond. Clearly THAT is the infernal device of campusness that entrances the innocents.

Disclosure: walked to that pond from time to time during lunch when I was working in the area, probab ly already brainwashed.
It really didn’t. There are always a few loud people who will make a global warming comment on a cold day, but for the most part I’ve seen more sentiment around how we stop it from a global perspective without just penalizing ourselves. There’s also a very high degree of sentiment for more nuclear power and seeing opposition to it as double speak when it comes to climate change. Essentially, if you’re truly concerned about the environmental impact of coal power, etc but you oppose nuclear then you don’t really want to solve the problem as much as push a specific agenda.

IMO the recent trade deals in Europe mandating high tariffs on imports from countries who don’t have a carbon policy in place is on the right track.
There is definitely a lot of cautionary tales here. I especially relate to the working 24/7 part ;). You'll see the same problem with offers that require you to go to other countries to work. If you're a young person you'll probably think its an amazing opportunity and want to go straight away. But the reality is from the moment you touch down, to the moment you leave, the company basically owns you.

If you think separating work and life is hard now try doing it when a company is directly paying for the place you go to sleep. No space or time will really be "yours" in any sense. They'll virtually know where you are at all times and be paying for you to be there. Hence, its strongly implied you live and breathe for the company.

Btw, I'm not saying people shouldn't do this. It can honestly be a really fun and motivating environment. But the trade-offs are something to keep in mind when accepting offers that seem too good to be true. I've found that constantly traveling and spending all your time working is super unproductive for me. All it leads to is burn-out and I usually end up doing far more when I'm happy, healthy, and in control of my own life.

Remote positions are god-tier for this. It's hard to beat being able to lie in bed writing code for something you love. I'll take that over other perks any day. Also, side note. It's always depressing reading about the sexism that women have to face in tech. If you're a women dealing with this at the moment I hope you continue to flourish and don't let stupid remarks get to you. Not everybody acts like this
Is ZF a hack? (2006) [pdf]
If you read the article, the problem remains regardless of whether garbage is sorted manually (Denmark) or automatically (Canada). The problem is that the sorted recyclables are subject to market supply/demand laws and are frequently cheaper to send to landfill than to sell (and deliver) to manufacturers. In other words, we produce too much garbage and there simply isn't that many manufacturers that are interested in buying and processing recyclables.
Very tough to do much legally because these companies are shells operated out of Lower East Moldrovia.
Adults fall farther to the ground than children do. I bet that has a great deal to do with it.
Open Source, FPGA-Based Gigabit Ethernet Demo at Maker Faire This Week
Thanks. An interesting one: "Neuromodulator • A sound designed to squash down your tinnitus"
Just Salad in New York City has a reusable bowl program that has made me return a bunch of times to avoid single use plastic. You pay $1 for the bowl, and each time you bring it back you get free toppings.

https://www.plasticstoday.com/packaging/just-salad-s-reusabl...

The hygiene part is rather interesting. The people working with the food are not allowed to touch your bowl with their gloved hands, and your bowl can’t touch anything behind the counter. They set a plate on the counter that you set your bowl on, and then they grab the plate and steady your bowl with tongs that they clean after each salad they make anyway. Going back to reusable in restaurant settings would require thinking about the hygiene of those reusables.
Salaries at GitLab were increased (at least for engineers) towards the end of 2018. This meant that at least my salary went from so-so to something I am actually really happy about (this was combined with some other adjustments, such as my experience level), and something that is hard to beat here in The Netherlands.

In other words, the opinion will vary from person to person.
I am a bit confused by your comment. I'm not sure if you agree with gliop or not. I am simply saying that Newtonian gravity is useful (in pretty much any sense) and that it did not match all experiments. Particularly in the orbit of Mercury could not be explained.

> Even flat-earth theory makes useful predictions - albeit already proven false as time and time again, it predicts the wrong results.

I definitely agree usefulness is independent of fitting experimental data. gliop would seem to say flat earth theories are not useful.
That wouldn't really work in a litigious society like the US. If someone got sick or died
due to food poisoning was it because of the product or because of the unclean container? Even if it was due to the container, there's no way to prove it and in the era of social media, the manufacturer's reputation would take a major hit and no major brand will risk that.

So the only viable option becomes reusable containers aka glass containers which lets manufacturers control the cleaning with a supply chain - this is still big for soft drinks sold from restaurants in India. However they're very heavy vs. plastics and both actual cost and the carbon cost of transporting them are probably unfavorable.

It's not really an easy problem to solve though reduction in consumption of packing plastics is definitely possible
In micro services world this makes perfect sense. In the legacy land - this is slightly tricky as dependent application (where our foreign key points to) may or may not be in services world. But I get the idea.
Yes, I'd rather just use a longer password that is easier to type.
Nor with a keyboard. https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20161007/F78
Many children are also abusive.

It doesn't serve their interests either if in their search for identity, they end up bullied or exploited to suicide in secret by their peers.

Either way, I get what you're saying, it just sucks that FAANG reserves the right to know our children better than we ever will.
> Can anyone just sue anyone else for defamation?

Anyone can sue anyone for anything, but actionable defamation has a fairly narrow definition in the US, largely as a result of the First Amendment, and to survive the preliminary phases of legal action there must be at least an allegation with evidence proposed to be presented that could reasonably meet the definition.

> I'm just trying to figure out why Elon is in so much trouble over this.

Because people aren't, legally, free to publish harmful lies about others, and Musk stands credibly accused of doing that.

> He isn't an elected official or anything.

How is that even relevant? (Were he a public official, and the statement was related to his execution of public duties, he'd probably be in less, not more, legal danger because of governmental immunities.)

> Is he not allowed to call people names for some reason?

He didn’t just call someone names. He both publicly offered a bet that the label would prove to be factually accurate and followed the general accusation with detailed and specific supporting allegations of sexual predation on children, which were presented to a reporter.

> I once called my friend a douchebag, so can he sue me for defamation?

Since it is impossible for a human to be a literal douchebag, it is impossible for that to be construed as a fact claim. It is quite possible for a human to be a pedophile, and Musk’s conduct can (at a minimum) reasonably be seen as indicating that he meant the accusation to be treated as literal fact, not generic name calling.

> I have to agree with his lawyers here. I don't see a crime.

He's not accused of a crime; were he accused of a crime, it would be by a public prosecutor, not a private litigant. But if Musk's lawyer’s “Twitter is not for fact claims but only opinion puffery that no one takes seriously” argument had any real chance of being taken seriously by a court, he'd never have settled with the SEC (and then done so again when accused of breaking the first settlement) over his problem of tweeting about Tesla.

It's like Musk is dedicated to getting in trouble in every domain of law in which it is possible to get in trouble for improper fact claims, all by way of Twitter.