skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ouch. I'm glad you cut it short. I had a variation on that.

Earlier in dotcoms, I wanted to work in a then-prominent organization. The technical phone screen went well. When they asked what I'd like to work on, I said something like HCI-ish R&D (in which I also had experience) for their important product, so they scheduled me for another phone screen, with the person who was in charge of that.

I'm reasonably good at hearing tone, and the person on this second phone screen didn't seem to want to talk with me, from the start. They asked me to talk about ideas, then they muted their end. I knew this wasn't going well, but I really wanted to work there, and I was trying to figure out how to salvage it, and I had to start talking immediately, so I started going into some applicable research ideas/approaches. Still muted, no comments, no questions, no backchannel cues whatsoever, so I kept going. When apparently the time block for the interview was up, he un-muted his end, and said something like, "I'd hoped you'd talk about a GUI enhancement to <product>." And that was the end of the interview.

That gave a bad impression of the organization, that they'd have someone who'd behave like that, managing people in a key group. So I didn't pursue things with the original group, which liked me.

It's a little validation, but no consolation, that their market-leading product later got driven into the ground, losing to an innovator who entered the market.
In a world of ample private capital, there are only two real reasons to IPO: providing an exit for investors and raising monies that can't be raised in private. Neither reflect well on the future prospects of the company.
Typed Concurrent Functional Programming with Channels, Actors, and Sessions [pdf]
I concur, something definitely feels very off recently. The question is what can we do to ensure our survival?
Anyone who's played a strategy game has planned an invasion.
Think of it as hostage-taking at mass scale, intending for fear of continued bombings leading to capitulation.
Yes you are right. I had messed up in the comment above. It continues to be a function on the restriction Y=y
BIC:Multiphoton Scattering+Delayed Quantum Feedback
> 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.

So why don't they?
That may be how one wants to present it, but it's disingenuous.

There is no freedom from danger or "freedom to be safe". Therefore one party has sacrificed something of value to placate a sentimental imagining that amounts to nothing to the other side. That isn't a trade. That's loss. No agency is gained by that arrangement. It's the equivalent of legislative/rhetorical marketing language. Sounds nice, but ultimately empty.

Safety is a function of the inhabitants of an environment's ability to mitigate threats. If the environment is full of disarmed people, then the person who brings the gun anyway faces nil resistance.

No one is safe. No one has agency to counter the threat, and there is nothing to show for the sacrifice of the right except the ill will of those who recognize the physical, realistic (read: pragmatic) implication of the act, and disagree in the first place. Which, ironically, decreases safety even further.

Tech like Autopilot is actually kind of the reverse of the gun debate. It's an active development that increases complexity creates new problems, and decreases agency since everything then gets bound by "Autopilot safety is a must." The argument is made that automating the task with a machine must make the thing safer, because every act of automating things up to now through a machine has made things safer, which is just an inductive fallacy if I ever heard one.

Sometimes the things you don't do mean as much if not more than the things you do. A point oft overlooked, and lamented by the "Do as I say not as I do" parent.

Anyway. That was a fun tangent.
Doing it for the love of the game is certainly an option, I don't mean to exclude that. I'm going to my next gig for something a little under-market because I think they're good people and I like the vibe there. (It helps that there's a big video component to what they do, and I do a lot of video stuff for fun already and want to learn and contribute there in addition to my usual infra/mobile/frontend/backend nonsense.)

Just saying that most people coming in the door, the sorts of folks who are going to be asking this sort of question, are just not in the same position as you or I are. ;)
Reproducible builds *without* patching tool chains
Increasingly surprised how we need all these various ipads/terminals in businesses. Seems by now technology should be able to push something to the customer's phone when they walk into the store and have them complete their order on their phone without having to install apps.
This should get interesting.
This article seems to be saying that getting the data infrastructure built (i.e. backend) is the exciting part, but when it's time to build the front end it becomes boring.

Is that because it's boring, or is it because people think front end is easy/straightforward and then realize it's not? I'd argue that the front end is a much more difficult task than the backend in the beginning of a startup.
Does this mean the moon likely has a magnetosphere?
There are discussions already to ban people from connecting new homes to gas lines (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47306766).

In general however I think politics should focus on bigger problems before small ones. Industry, power plants and central heating are the primary users of natural gas. In Germany, over half the energy production is generated from gas, which the pollution graphs clearly shows (https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=map&solar=false&remote=...)
As far as I can make out, the new website was considered a key part of the "Rust 2018" project, and so the maintainers chose to launch it before it was really finished (and without the planned period for user feedback), at the same time as the Rust 2018 release.

Evidently it wasn't quite such a key part of the project that they could consider delaying the new Rust edition until the website was ready.

In hindsight tying the website update to the new edition was quite possibly a mistake. The Rust core team has asked people to hold off on discussing the process or proposing major changes until they've published a retrospective on what happened (that was five months ago, and the retrospective is now "mostly finished").
It doesn't look that way, seems to have been in a lane, but any report on whether the autopilot was in fact engaged?

https://twitter.com/CC_Firefighters/status/95552999131956019...
"Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data."
Japan is running out of phone numbers
In south- and east-asia mythology a frog lives in the moon.
This is part of an australian aboriginal myth:

"The frog opened his sleepy eyes, his big body quivered, his face relaxed, and, at last, he burst into a laugh that sounded like rolling thunder. The water poured from his mouth in a flood. It filled the deepest rivers and covered the land. Only the highest mountain peaks were visible, like islands in the sea. Many men and animals were drowned.
The pelican-who was a blackfellow at this time -sailed from island to island in a great canoe and rescued any blackfellow he saw" - http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/mla/mla09.htm
Yeah, I seriously appreciate WG. Allows me to keep all home automation local / non-cloud while still giving me the option of easily controlling and checking elements remotely.
what data would you train your machine with?
I havent actually. But I drive a car with a gear(stick) and whenever I drive a car without one it feels that I can use the hand to hold some coffee or get some texting done.

I do get your point regarding cognitive fatigue though but I think we need a conclusive statistic rather than one thrown by Tesla.
I would, but then the linked FAQ is outdated (in fact, the 1.20 version[0] indicates it moved to the website), and I don't think having a redirect that points to the prev website would work. According to [1], the presence of an FAQ on the website is an unresolved question.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.20.0/complement-lang-faq.html

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/issues/445
I don't hate dealers, but stories like yours are what I think of when people complain about Tesla delivery issues or service issues.

Both of them are really far from perfect.
TXL: A Structural Transformation Language
I'd say the difference in attitudes in between US East and West coast

Pfff my, a typo: last is West coast
Yes. It would have gone a long way to make me feel like I wasn't being conned into free labor.
WebAssembly in Redex
>it's still worth asking whether lidar could have prevented the crash that killed Jeremy Banner.

Lidar doesn't automatically make a car safer without the software written to accompany its use. Its a very trite summation on a very complicated and cost conscious subject. The same sentence could be equally re-written:

>it's still worth asking whether paying more attention to the road, while using a system you are supposed to could have prevented the crash that killed Jeremy Banner.

And it's more to the subject.
We do not need to wait to know that high-speed collisions pose a threat to other people in addition to those in the vehicle that causes it.
I'm not going to ask them to take a picture of this years vs last years returns and I am aware that an anecdote is not data but I can assure you when most people are expecting a return and get hit with a significant out of pocket debit instead they were quite upset. Out of an office of 10 people, 6 own a home, at least 2 of my coworkers I know for a fact complained that when last year they had a refund, this year they had to pay. I don't know about the others I can't ask because most people are working from home today.
Go's page is for programmers; Rust's new page is for non-programmers. I think it's a mistake that you have to click "Get Started", then read through installation instructions, to finally see what Rust code looks like. It's all backwards. A short snippet (or two) should be front and center.

Crystal lang is another very good example: https://crystal-lang.org/.
Anti-nuclear movements and sentiments are very similar to the anti-vaxer ones in their denial of science and basic statistics.
Perhaps even more dangerous for society.
The public also dreads vaccines, dihydrogen monoxide, and planetary alignments.

The solution to all of these problems is solid education to make informed citizens.
Any time someone criticizes unions, these conspiracy theories pop up. No one is spreading FUD. They're relaying their experiences with unions, which in no way contradicts your statement that there are many types of unions.
Yes - the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) have been running side 2005. Carbon allowances ban be traded on some exchanges - for instance in the UK ICE Europe trades carbon contracts.
San Francisco Is Right: Facial Recognition Must Be Put on Hold
These crossing-the-T accidents are difficult to avoid manually but radar might have helped. The article's claim that "Radar systems lack the angular resolution to distinguish a truck crossing the road from a large street sign suspended over the road, so they tend to simply ignore stationary objects" is spurious because signs don't typically move across one's straight-ahead line of travel. Edited to add that a doppler-only radar would fail, perhaps they meant that, or one with awful vertical resolution, but a radar exploiting a static return as in the Bosch adaptive cruise in my ancient chariot has enough horizontal angular discrimination to usually succeed at distinguishing the car in my lane of travel from vehicles in adjacent lanes subtending less than 10-15 degrees off of my heading.

It's not clear what time of day we're talking about but if it was in the afternoon on a clear day the truck, south of the Telsa, traveling from w->e, possibly was in or near sun glare and given poor roadside maintenance, obscured by all of the foliage along both roadways.
CNBC Disruptor 50 Companies
Theoretically you could link to a .so with just `#[link(name="soname", kind="dylib")]` in the code.

The hairy part is finding the library on the system, and that's a mess that Rust merely inherited. The build scripts are there to run pkg-config, search system lib dirs, and compile a fallback if necessary (next everyone suggests to just have Cargo automatically figure it out, until they see how deep the rabbit hole goes for snowflake libraries like openssl and llvm).
Do they also provide an IPv4 address? If not, have you run into any problems with sites that don't yet support IPv6?
I've seen plenty of people in the middle that didn't get formal training, but instead developed patterns based around clusters of keys. They may use more than two fingers, but they have no concept of the home row. In fact, I've been asked by people who type fairly often what the little bumps on the 'f' and 'j' keys are, which tells me that they most likely didn't learn to type properly.

My 5yo can "type" by hunting and pecking, and he's actually getting good enough that he doesn't get frustrated trying to type simple words (he likes looking up words at the library computers). My 2yo, however, knows his letters, but I don't think he really understands how keyboards work.

Personally, I'd say that someone can type if they can use a keyboard productively and have some means of speeding up entry besides looking at every key until they find the one they want (most people know vaguely where there keys are, even if they can't touch type).
A big part of that announcement was be able to claim that they had delivered on their promise.
I am beginning to get frustrated with news surrounding both Tesla autopilot crashes, and self driving car crashes. I understand that we are seeing lots of news about it because it is new, and people are scared that self driving cars are going to kill people. But can you imagine if an article trended every time someone got into an accident while using cruise control?
> says we should move on 'cause there's nothin' to see here

It says nothing of the sort. It's a straightforward, albeit brief, report of a public opinion study that someone at the university did.
There is a company doing both
http://www.climeworks.com/
Jamming is relatively easy. Spoofing is a bit harder.
The primary barrier to social safety nets is the cost, and the ideological idea that government should not take more from its productive citizens to cover that cost.

If the largest organizations are effectively optimizing humans out of the costs, then wouldn't their profits correspondingly increase? And as the demand rises for the safety net, along with corporate profits, it seems so would the argument to take a portion of those profits to cover the nets. Maybe to the point of breaking the ideological barrier.

So wouldn't the businesses most harmed be those who continue to employ humans, as they'll have to pay the increased profit taxes as well as their employees?
I've been wondering about qualitative differences between Mach-O and ELF, after hearing a Mach developer trash the ELF format, but I don't know enough about either to comment. Do you have any insight?
I think what you said is true. But I don't think there is a lot of overlap between what an MBA teaches you and the business knowledge that helps as a developer. Most of the business knowledge that helps as a developer is the very specific business knowledge related to the company. If you write software for a blood testing company then the business knowledge that's really going to help is knowledge about how blood testing companies work not necessarily how businesses in general work.
Why is it so "amazing"? They're between a rock and a hard place. Their economy is guaranteed to collapse if the US keeps erecting trade barriers. The US is much less dependent on them than they are on the US. It will hurt here (with a nice side-effect of import diversification), but it will be totally unbearable over there. They know this perfectly well. The US has a tremendous leverage in this negotiation. China's main sticking point is they want to remove this leverage and make the deal unenforceable. Yeah, that might have worked with Obama (who was, IMO, too eager to please), but the current administration knows better than to sign something like that.
I guess threads like this remind me why it's nice to have professional doc writers review my customer-facing text at work. ;) Congrats on your project getting some more attention! If you'll indulge a bit of bikeshedding, this particular miscommunication could probably be avoided in the future by changing the sentence to the short "The PDF rendition of the reference manual is over 600 pages long." Even if you add extra things to the PDF later the statement won't be incorrect and so you won't have to deal with nitpickers coming by next time with a comment like "But if you remove the index it's only 597 pages!"

Another edit preserving more of the original would be to replace the final "with no" with something like "even excluding any"...
Mozilla survey results on online misinformation
Racewar comments are unacceptable here and will get you banned, so please don't.

Also, accounts that use HN primarily for political or ideological battle eventually get banned here, and when people keep doing that, we eventually ban their main account as well. Why? Because HN is subject to all sorts of forces tearing it apart, and those forces win by default, so we have to protect it. If you'd review the site guidelines and take that spirit to heart and help protect it, we'd be grateful—and it's in your interests to do so, since that's the only way HN stays interesting in the long run.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the most valuable engineering leader would be someone who can remove code, or at least prevent unnecessary code from being written and maintained.

Code is a liability as much as it is an asset.
> They trace the transmitters back to you

What? You can't "trace a transmitter" like this. You could triangulate someone's location while transmitting.

> purchase records tied to serial numbers on the transmitters

Yeah, I'm sure second hand sales would update this information if it exists in the first place at all, and even if it did, it's not like transmitter transmits that information.
Age – A simple file encryption tool and format
Designers are hired based on their portfolio, why are devs treated differently? I have a plethora of options on my github as I'm sure most here do. Why is it not acceptable to judge a candidate by their already written code?
That is the first thing I thought of. We had several case of partners API being deprecated and we were not notified in a timely manner. This could be used to trigger monitoring alerts.
I could never understand why export subsidies are bad for the importing countries, I mean, we have the Chinese taxpayer directly putting their money in the pockets of their foreign clients (this point about subsidizing exports was made by Jean-Baptiste Say two centuries ago). And while the Chinese are kind enough to help us pay for their products with their own money we can focus instead on other stuff which we’re really great at building/providing as a service.
>What is PHP's multithreading model again

Since it's inception, the PHP implementation hasn't been threadsafe and since, the way of doing paralellism has been process forking. Later iterations where released with support for long-lived processes and threads but it's still not officially "stable" since again, historically the model of process forking made the ecosystem take for granted non-memory safety.

On the other hand, at least since the last time I was doing Java, paralellism is done via multithreading. Sure, there must be someone doing some else out there, but relevant frameworks like Spring work by making 1 thread by http request.

IMHO the right way of dealing with concurrency is the Node way. But comparing the PHP vs Java y think the PHP way is better. In small-medium scale the Java way is obviously more performant. The problem is when you scale to more instances. The PHP way of immutable processes really makes vertical scalling easier.
Visualizing the Consequences of Climate Change
Unions did take root in America. For a time all major industrial sectors were dominated by unions. It resulted in America losing its manufacturing edge and seeing most manufacturing migrate to Asia. The entire passenger rail service also went bankrupt due to the demands of the Brotherhoods, which had a stranglehold on the industry.

Today, besides a few notable exceptions like Hollywood and the screen actors guild, unions are only growing in the public sector, and that's because taxpayers are forced to subsidize their inefficiency.

Also, socialism did take root in America. Look at the percentage of GDP consumed by government spending since 1900. It's steadily grown, especially on social welfare programs. America paid a very heavy price to gain real world experience with unions/socialism. Let's hope that after paying the price from that century-long mistake, it learns a lesson.
I don´t trust Microsoft with my data since they deleted all my mail history back when they took over the Hotmail.com.
Magic: The Gathering Is the World’s Most Complex Game
You aren't wrong at all. Though it does matter more if it crosses a physcologically significant number (thus so many prices ending in "$.99 or $xx,x99").
The phrase “conspiracy theory” is a thought-terminating cliché used to delineate heretical from approved thought.

If the Moon did indeed “ring like a bell”, it’s evidence of something, whether that something fits within our preconceptions or not.

No, I’m not making an argument.
I have conflicted thoughts on this. On one hand, nuclear energy seems to be the only way we have right now to at least try to avoid the oncoming climate catastrophe. On the other hand, I'm reading "Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies" by Charles Perrow and it's scary. Really scary. The combination of very complex systems with interactions that no one understands and greed, poor oversight, and other human behaviors results in something we should be afraid of. And yet, we might have no choice but to use nuclear power.

By the way, official statistics are one thing (I used to love quoting them as well), but if you look at the number of "close calls" that we had and if you look into the causes behind various incidents, a different picture emerges and you might lose some of the confidence.

I also now think that anyone taking part in the discussion should read Perrow's book.

One thought I had while reading the book is that these days it might make sense to try to model these complex systems and run simulations to at least try to discover the unexpected interactions and mitigate them. Similar to (for example) how FoundationDB was developed. Simulations on that scale were likely difficult or impossible at the time when most nuclear plants were designed, but with modern computing power we might have better ways of reducing the problem domain.
> The solution to all of these problems is solid education to make informed citizens.

Easier said than done. Even if you drop a world class school with world class teachers into a poor neighborhood, you still won't guarantee everyone gets a "solid education". Education is tightly coupled not just to public schools, but private family life as well, and the latter is much more difficult to solve.
I don't understand this reference. Can you elaborate?
We rapidly train machine learning models with Kubernetes
Bell's Rocket Belt still looks impressive until somebody mentions the price and 30 second maximum flight time.