skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how difficult is it to take all your information from MailChimp and move onto a competitor?

It seems like the sort of thing that should be moderately inconvenient, but given that they seem to be increasing people's costs by double to triple digit percentages, I'd think a lot of folks would be fleeing their service.
Dustin Moskovitz cites decades old research to back it up. You can only work overtime for about two weeks before it starts getting inefficient and you get diminishing returns for the hours you put in.

https://medium.com/building-asana/work-hard-live-well-ead679...
The radar Tesla spec'd is quite limited.

The radar that companies people on HN don't think highly of sell to the government is "scary good" and that's just the decade+ old tech that I'm familiar with.

I'm sure there's reasons Tesla doesn't/can't put that in cars though.
It seems like this is a case where the autopilot thought that the truck was a stationary object. Based on my reading of the press release, it seemed like the truck was turning across the car's path, which should look like a stationary "bridge" to the model and subsequently ignored.

This seems to be a hard problem where you don't want the model to false positive on a stationary object on the side of the road and slam on the brakes.
A very small-scale assignment with a work/difficulty level on the order of magnitude of an Advent of Code single day challenge seems reasonable. And a follow-up discussion afterwards is crucial to ensuring that the interviewer has put an appropriate amount of effort into actually reviewing the interviewee's code so that it wasn't all just a waste of time.
But getting to the point where you can ascend El Cap in 4 hours requires modern gear. In Free Solo, most of the documentary focuses on his progress over years practicing the route.

Getting to a specific point on the face of El Cap used to be a weeks-long endeavor in itself, pushing everyone to their physical and technological limits. The fact that he was able to go for day-trips to any point on the wall to practice is a testament to all the technology involved.

He used modern ropes, hauling gear, etc, to essentially turn the route into a gym that he could practice on. He used modern climbing holds to re-create the dyno problem so he could practice at home. He literally memorized the entire sequence of moves.

It would be impossible to learn a route to the level that it requires to ascend it in 4 hours without modern technology.
Imagine if practicing the dyno problem required having to fund and set up a 47 day expedition to reach it.
> my belief is that most people attribute ergonomics and improved typing ability to the new alternative layout they learned instead of the fact that they finally learned how to type properly

Not in my case. I first learned to type properly on Qwerty.

> I found Dvorak to be significantly worse than QWERTY in both speed and comfort, seeing as Dvorak is more heavily biased towards the right hand and I am left hand dominant

I'm going to need to see some proof for that assertion. Just going off the top of my head, I'd say I type far more with my left hand than my right using Dvorak.
This is a very interesting look at climbing as it relates to knowledge transmission.

Prior to YouTube, learning proper form really required you to probably take lessons and live/breath/be super friendly with some really good climbers as a necessity. Now, you can watch a number of good climbers online on having proper technique to get 70% there.

For example this video demonstrates how climbing crimps (a specific type of hold) requires more than just finger strength: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws06PjI4FTU

Stuff like this was nearly impossible to convey by book. If you want to learn how to be a better swimmer for example because you didn't take up swimming until you were in your 20s, it was very difficult. I did this as an adult, and each private lesson with an instructor to improve my form was $100 in recession dollars. Now, you can gather so much online and iron out the wrinkles with live instruction.

Disclaimer: the video linked above is my friend's YouTube channel.
It's on par but still bullshit. I interviewed with Uber, got said phone screen, managed to solve the problem then was told Uber decided to "go in another direction" and would not be moving forward with my application. When I asked for clarification as to what that meant considering I solved the problem the recruiter called me and said some hand wavy stuff about how I didn't solve it "quickly" enough (I had plenty of time left to answer questions about it and ask question of the interviewer eventhough my first solution was not optimal and we did optimize it) but that the interviewer was up for having me try again. I declined.
http://archive.is/yZ71a
Chinese facial recognition startup can identify a person in seconds
>Why are we tolerating this loss of freedoms?

The press sold us out. They rolled up, told us they were the forth estate. People are busy so they outsourced their critical thinking about government to experts. The press then proceed to not give half a shit about civics.
> The score is based on 15 factors in three categories that are pretty hard to fake: neighborhood, family, and high school.

Actually, several of them are not impractical to fake (and neighborhood is something people often fake for educational purposes—which also affects school directly—though usually in the opposite direction that would benefit adversity score for both; once there's an advantage to going the other way for, say, the period relevant to the SAT adversity score, of course people will hack it if they know the factors.)
In the photo, it looks like it is picking plum or cherry tomatoes. Is it able to harvest heirloom varieties without damage? Will this make it possible to have better tasting tomatoes at your local store?
> That's a lie. If nobody was happy, then the new site wouldn't have been deployed.

You're losing your cool just because you have different ideas of the perfect trade-offs to make while having zero, and I mean zero, skin in the game.

It's not as impressive nor noble of a position as you seem to think it is.
Username checks out :)

Ars technica cited a researcher at Northwestern that said GPS isn't necessarily a perfect fallback

> One reason: the types of runway misalignments that would be effective in a spoofing attack typically range from about 32 feet to 50 feet, since pilots or air traffic controllers will visually detect anything bigger. It’s extremely difficult for GPS to detect malicious offsets that small. A second reason is that GPS spoofing attacks are relatively easy to carry out.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/the-r...
I have a fair number of "shall not be infringed" friends (pro 2nd amendment, perhaps to a fault. I make no judgement calls here). An argument I've heard from them goes along the lines of: "yes, we could perhaps reduce things like school shootings and accidental gun deaths with stricter anti-gun legislation. But that comes at the expense of our American freedoms, and a couple of lives simply isn't worth it."

Which sounded pretty harsh to me at first, but when you think about it, thats effectively the same as the HN narrative: "yes things like the PATRIOT act could reduce terrorism, but it comes at the expense of our American freedoms, and a couple of lives simply isn't worth it."

And now for these cars: "yes removing Autopilot could reduce car crashes, but it comes at the expense of our American (?) freedoms (maybe freedom to drive/technically innovate/something else entirely), and a couple of lives simply isn't worth it."

One additional trend I haven't personally witnessed, but I hear about, is that when in some freak accident "a couple of lives" includes the life of someone who one of these gun guys, PATRIOT guys, or car guys knows, their opinion flips.
That's where the MMORPG is supposed to pick up.
Actually, your question and followup answer is valuable addition to the discussion.
Not to be confused with Fedora's Koji
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji
Yes. This seems like a way to remove the liability away fro m the university, and therefore, the university doesn't have to give predominantly Asian applicants a poor "personality rating" to affect their application. This new way could be more fair though, for instance, it could rate an Asian applicant growing up in a tougher area higher than one that went to Phillips Exeter.

Potentially, there could be ways to game this too, such as parent's of private school students renting an apartment in a dangerous neighborhood, and using that address as the application address. Overall, it seems at least as an improvement over the dart on a dartboard approach colleges have taken to measure adversity or hardship.
V8 release 7.5
Speaking of "propaganda" and then using the argument "they have admited guilt in the past, therefore any future action must be malevolent" is interesting...
Even bad drivers are very, very unlikely to get in any crashes so long as they're not intoxicated or distracted. Most people will probably never get in a crash (that is their fault) in their life.
Xi Jinping's colleagues rejected an 'unequal' trade deal
No, but he is the “Jony Ive” of the website on which that announcement is published.
They found 23,227. They estimated a total of 414m. Big difference.
Isn't this pretty much the plot to Die Hard 2?
That would be my fault. I just googled for an image.
This is off topic and unacceptable on HN. Regardless of how strongly you feel about the unborn, no internet flamewar is going to improve or resolve anything, ever say anything new on the topic, or ever make any new connections between people. All you're doing is helping to destroy this site, which is fragile enough as it is. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> People even jam ATC for giggles sometimes.

Or impersonate. One of my pilot friends was planning a trip across the CA Central Valley, and he reported with some bemusement that there was at active NOTAM (NOtice To Air Men) to be on guard about some guy in the Fresno area that was impersonating ATC. Apparently it had been happening for months and nothing much by way of investigation had taken place.

At this point I pretty much concluded that bad Part 15 devices or PG&E power line noise h0rk1ng over my ham radio reception was not going to get any attention, ever, if the FCC can't be bothered to find an ATC impersonator. I mean really, there are hams that do hidden transmitter hunts purely for sport. A posse of them could find that clown easily on any random Saturday morning and not be late for lunch.
Naming Crashes in Windows
Radar is not sufficient for mitigating this scenario. Too low resolution.
Show HN: Raspberry Pi E-Ink Photo Frame
This trend has been great for my productivity. Any time one of these comes up, I just close the tab. So far I haven't felt like I've missed out on anything important!

If you manage to find a trustworthy news source, support it with cash to make sure it sticks around. If they break your trust, revoke your cash (and be sure to let them know why). That's the only way things will improve.
A cute thing to do whenever someone sandbags you with trivia is to suggest going over to the developer desks and asking everyone in turn if they know the answer. If you find someone that does, you answered the question. If you don't, then you suggest doing a web search, and you have also shamed your interviewer.

If they don't wave you off at the suggestion, you also get to meet everyone and see their work environment.
> But even if I were to donate 100% of my salary, it would barely dent things for those 500 employees.

There's a lot more people like you than billionares in the world, though.
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Being offended by a pay cut doesn't make you a sociopath, just makes you selfish. And "emotional value" is much less relevant to a company than engineering value.

I know lots of people focus on less profit-driven motives for their career, but I bet even more do not, especially at places like Google.
What if 996 work hours do, on average across a large population, make workers more productive? When they burn out, they are easy to replace. Would this justify such a work schedule?

EDIT: This post is not in support of 996. Does anyone do Socratic dialogue in comment threads anymore?
At least for Google, IMO I don’t think it would generate long term consequences if engineers with this mindset who also aren’t in love with their work left the company.
This seems to be the pivot point at which the thread went into flamewar. I'm sure you didn't intend to cause a wildfire, but combining inflammatory material with inflammatory rhetoric has that effect. So would you please not post like this to HN in the future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19923668 and marked it off topic.
You can buy much, much nicer radar than Tesla specs for their vehicles.

The stuff the DoD buys (or was buying a decade ago) is good enough to tell two basically identical tractor trailers apart based on minor features, dents/dings, etc.
SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
You're creating a weird distinction to try and justify that western atheism is derived from christianity, which doesn't make sense given that the same stances existed well before christianity.
It's often presented as a loss of freedom when in reality it's a tradeoff in freedoms. One group might loose the freedom to carry a gun whilst another group gains the freedom to be safe at school.
Homeowner/builder relationship idea [pdf]
Not sure that athrowaway was arguing for deplatforming, though...
No, those detailed individual non-race factors are being used as a better measure of actual disadvantage than race, just as the opponents of race-based affirmative action in admissions always argued they should be, because race-based admissions risked favoring the rare already-advantaged members of races whose members were on-average disadvantaged while doing nothing for the truly disadvantaged regardless of race.

(Of course, perhaps they did so dishonestly with the hope that raced-based affirmative action would get axed but that alternative race-blind alternative measures wouldn't materialize.)

Now, do they have racially disparate impact? Only insofar as actual adversity does.
Susquehanna made a killing during the dotcom crash by selling near-dated options and buying longer-dated options. Essentially, the majority of the market was pricing the dotcom crash to be very similar to the 1987 crash. Instead, it was closer to a slow bleed.
That focus on increasing shareholder value above all else is definitely a regrettable inevitability of publicly-traded companies.

I know my engineering curriculum hasn't focused on empathy, or ethics much at all. Unfortunately you can't educate the selfishness out of humanity.
I'm actually interested in how would this actually provide better testing tomatoes. Are you suggesting it will lower the harvesting cost of tastier varieties and therefore they will make their way to your local store?
> Making it free would of course change the idea around it.

For every good private college I know of (and almost every good public school) prices are free or enormously close to so for people in the bottom quarter of incomes. Making it free for everyone might change the psychology, but not the reality for lower-income people today.
Yeah. I had an interview with a 2 tests. One had a you check a list of personal attributes you see about yourself (diligent, careful, fun, approachable.....) Second side of paper, same list of terms “check all that others see you as”. Then a one hour paper coding type exam.

I’ve also done a one hour codility online coding test more recently. I thought I’d hate it but frankly it’s wasnt over the top hard and kinda fun.
That storage buffer problem leads to one possibility. (excuse my english!)

I think there are really two major business cases for Prometheus. One is in earning back carbon offsets (reducing net CO2 production from a polluting source) while producing a valuable byproduct. The other is as a way to ethically and profitably use local excess energy to create that same byproduct.

I think it makes sense for the Prometheus apparatus to be paired with electrical load balancers (aka industrial battery banks) built for renewable energy. Allow me to expand:

1. Renewable sources like solar collect electric energy on an inconsistent basis.

2. Depending on local energy demands (a factory, the neighboring town, etc.), the grid will either use or store the electric energy. Storage for large businesses and nations nowadays occurs through industrial battery banks (i.e. BYD's).

3. Usually, those who use battery capacity battery stored energy can be used before conditions are right for collection again. However, if local energy demands less than can be stored and used in the next collection cycle, that "buffered" energy is wasted.

This is a prime use for that wasted energy. I imagine it only becomes viable at scale. And there is one other issue to address...

Companies like BYD who do national-scale renewable grid storage usually undershoot the amount of battery storage they provide because over-storing is costly (the energy isn't used or is distributed less efficiently and the batteries incur both capital, installation, and maintenance costs).

If Prometheus reaches cost effectiveness, a renewables/storage company could start over-providing energy generation and battery storage and pair it with CO2 factoring to a) reduce costs associated with wasted energy b) earn carbon offsets for large companies and c) create valuable byproducts.
> If you do think it's boring, there are a lot of industries that need programmers to solve different problems in different ways.

My experience is a bit more mitigated here as a junior dev. No one wants to recruit a software dev who has only webdev experience somewhere else.

Unless I have some serious open source contributions to prove myself I guess, but my point is it's not as straightforward or easy as I felt it is implied.
I have routinely created firmware written in Rust which are just a handful of KB. The issues people are having are related to system-integration, such as static linkage, can be mitigated in cases anyone really cares about, and will disappear over time.
how effective is it at identifying mysterious objects, the way it's crowdsourced on Reddit's "/Whatisthis"? (meaning, how big is the index?)
The US is is a rule-OF-law country, China is rule-BY-law. The difference is that in rule-OF-law, the government is subject to the law. In rule-BY-law, the law is the tool the government uses to rule (dominate), that is, rule by means of law. It may sound nitpicky, but it’s a rather big difference.
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what pay inequality looks like for top earners. This isn't about using pay to buy luxury items like iPhones vs putting that money to charity. This is about people stuffing bank accounts with more money than they'll be able to use in their lifetimes because the generations of executives that came before them made it acceptable to take a disproportionate cut of the earnings from a business.

Businesses _shouldn't_ exist for the purpose of making the executive team and the shareholders rich at the expense of the employees. American dream or not, businesses serve a purpose in _society_ not just the tiny fraction of society who have the skills to start and run the business.

The goal now is to make executives and shareholders disgustingly rich, and use the government to subsidize the underpaid workforce that generates that wealth. We've created a socialist state for corporations.
ILS works pretty much the same way as the Lorenz/Knickebein system used in WWII by the Germans to guide bombers (described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737056), so the attack described in TFA sounds basically the same as the countermeasures deployed by the British.
The scope is important. Some of the data science take homes I've seen could be looking for a decent/good-enough solution that takes an an hour to a full-fledged research program that would keep a few FTEs busy for a year.
Then why do automakers who support AEB not spec this radar? The Car and Driver link in my GP post above this specifically demonstrates that Tesla is not immune to failures to detect obstacles in the vehicle's path; it happens across many automakers (Subaru, Toyota, etc).
Are you sure? It works the same way as in other EU countries who have stepped progressive taxes.

This means that you pay a% between x and y €, then b% between y and z€ etc. It means you cannot get less because you got to the higher interval.
One of these crashes involved a firetruck, which unlike a semi-trailer, does not have a large gap underneath it.

That fire truck wasn't crossing the road, it was at the road side, which creates a different situation. The problem with high trailers is, that they very much look like a bridge to a radar. In any case, a proper side bareer can prevent deadly accidents.
Is this good/viable idea ?
What I'd like to see is what the numbers look like if you:

1) Pegged the CEO <-> lowest-paid worker (or contracted worker, so you can't just contract out the janitors) to no greater than 10 to 1.

2) Balance out the next few layers of management to reflect that cap.

3) And see what pay looks like for the lowest-paid workers.

If you don't like 10-to-1, maybe we do 20-to-1. Find a nice low ratio, though, and if people want to make more, they can run the business such that everyone makes more.
Please don't, regardless of whether someone else started it.
"our data shows that, when used properly by an attentive
driver who is prepared to take control at all times,
drivers supported by Autopilot are safer than those
operating without assistance"

This is nonsense. The whole core of the argument against this sort of system is that it induces inattention. The fact that Tesla consistently refuses to share full data on identical models driving with autopilot turned on, enabled but not turned on, and not enabled is extremely suggestive that the overall safety rates for autopilot on are not better.

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So... To demonstrate that data science is a distinct field from statistics we get the story of four statisticians?

Similarly we might find the backgrounds of programmers to be diverse - less than 50% are CS majors. We might conclude that programming is a separate discipline from computer science. Sure, it is. But i think data science and statistics are related in the same way: one provides the theory for the other's practice.
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Having actually met Honnald several times, I’m pretty hard pressed to call him a daredevil.