skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are saying that venture capitalists and naive investors are paying for part of my ride each time I take an Uber why wouldn’t I want to get as many subsidized rides in as I can before they go broke? How am I as a consumer not gaining every time this happens?
Blankfein Says Tariff Strategy May Help Pressure China
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this was the genesis of client-side prediction for games.

If you don't know what that is, Valve has some good documentation on it (relating to Source engine, but it's the same concept).[1]

Latency was still a problem even with CSP because we didn't yet have lag compensation on the server. So although you got an authoritative server (no cheating) and instant inputs (no round-trip wait), you could still shoot someone on the client and miss them on the server. You had to shoot ahead of them, further if your latency was worse. As far as I know, Source engine was the first to add lag compensation, which has the server rewind the other players to be where you would have seen them on the client.

Since client-side prediction can be performance intensive, and lag compensation can be difficult for anything beyond simple raycast checks, many games still don't do both. Team Fortress 2 for instance does lag compensation on basic guns but not on things like the soldier's rocket or the pyro's flamethrower. Some games simply allow the client to decide who they hit, which removes the need for either solution, but totally opens things up to cheaters without some very careful server-side validation.

[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin...
Can you get in touch? rustam@cloudflare.com. I’d love to get to the bottom of this.
This is exactly how Sidecar used to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_(company)

Sidecar was acquired by GM after it shut down at the end of 2015.
Ask HN: PMs, what would be your dream content/social tech co to work at and why?
It’s closer to double for about the same amount of work if my friends back home are any indication (and I work for the frugal FANG)
Come on, there's room to ask questions and be skeptical while still assuming good faith. That's what the site guidelines ask you to do. Please don't break them while posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While ageism is real, I like your spirit and somewhat agree.

Probably the hardest part of looking for and getting a FTE gig is starting over clearing a space for yourself I think. It's tough to switch from being the local expert to just another FNG.

Personally (like anyone cares, but this is the internet after all) I'd like to find a really interesting job and I don't give a rip about the money. I suppose there's always open source, but working for free violates all kinds of my internal makeup.
Federal law has set a minimum for car insurance, I think, might be per state (I think you have to have a minimum of liability). Many states have requirements that exceed the Federal min. They don't contradict it, but require extra, which so far has been held to be fine.

I don't know the full history about why you cant buy health insurance across state lines, but I think it's a blend of different state's regulations and not wanting to be beholden to interstate commerce clause regulations (ironically, the provision that was used to justify the ACA mandatory insured or penalty as a tax ruling.)

I never have nor will understood how the interstate commerce clause was used to justify the ACA "tax". The mandate is effectively compelling intrastate commerce (I know of know interstate medical insurance available) under the guise of regulation interstate commerce. This seems to fly against the letter and intent of the constitution in regards to interstate commerce.
This looks like a big enough change that someone could fork Sentry. Disconnecting the the fancy search and reenabling sqlite shouldn't be lots of work for the next few releases. I bet there are companies that will do it in private - would be interesting to see if any of them go public though.
I don't think Intel's chiplet strategy is getting off the ground soon enough to help them deliver 10nm client CPUs this year. AMD's way closer to shipping something like that, because they're using fairly traditional packaging techniques instead of something like Intel's EMIB. For this year, Intel needs to ship a regular single-die client CPU with integrated graphics, which means they need a 10nm process that solves whatever prevented Cannon Lake's integrated GPU from functioning. (This probably means at a minimum redesigning that GPU to use lower density transistor libraries.)
So if you're talking 200-300k for 35 hours a week of fully remote low stress work then yeah, I'm all mixed up on this topic.
Congress is actually very limitted in the areas it can supercede stare or local law. The courts and congress, on the other hand, have often decided to ignore those points of the constitution.
Universal healthcare has decent (but not 'strong majority') support in the abstract [1]. In terms of concrete proposals (i.e. once you've answered the questions of what universal healthcare is and how you pay for it), there is not a single plan that is even somewhat popular.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-have-no-safe-...
"You can bet the company didn't ask for it." is your quote, thus my, "who cares what they ask for".

And core tenet is that they defend and represent you, not that they protect you from the consequences of reprehensible actions; representation is the whole point of unions! As I said in another post, you absolutely can be fired from a union job; union just makes sure you got a fair shake and got fired for a real reason, other wise you could get fired for sneezing too loud and you'd be shit out of luck.
More power to you. I personally haven't not seen a leetcode-style interview in at least 15 years in Silicon Valley. There's also system design questions these days and I was told Google does "Computer Science Fundamentals" and Facebook does "Distributed Systems Design" specifically.
I found my way into programming via a civil engineering background (lots of GPS and GIS), but I used to be a sysadmin. I also can't invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.

Oh well, I guess I'm not employable! (I'm currently a remote web developer).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19911341
I grew up a few miles from Boston. No one had a Boston accent, save for people who moved from certain areas.
Cloudflare's blog posts' quality is top notch
Yeah probably. JC created a lot of standards for the ones to follow. And I remember reading the valve stuff the first time, it blew my mind.
> For example, sound [k] changed to [h] from Latin to Germanic, and the Latin word casa transformed into the English house.

The way this is written is incorrect. German is not a daughter of Latin, and the word "house" has a fully understood old Germanic origin [1].

Borrowings from Latin to German starting with the hard c sound retain that sound.

The relationship between the old Germanic and old Latin is that of cousins. The various Proto-Indo-European "k" sounds became "h" in Germanic and retained their "k" pronunciation in Latin.

i.e.

English PIE Latin

hound kyon canis

who kwo- qui

1. https://blog.oup.com/2015/01/house-word-origin-etymology/
There is a startup called Paribus that was doing automated claims for Amazon price drops. Amazon locked down the policy after a while.
No, it's the opposite of that. The act is congress abdicating its power under the commerce clause wrt insurance so that each state can regulate insurance as it sees fit.
I don't think senior developers are in demand anymore. There are too many, and senior means 3-5 years at many companies so the pool is even bigger. The number of developers required is getting smaller as frameworks/serverless are/is getting bigger. The importance of their work has been reducing..
Yes, planners talk to the general public. You can talk to them at your planning commission if you want by going up to them and well taking to them...

Additionally if you raise a good point during public comment a planning commissioner might even ask the planner to provide a response.

Also locally I know a lot of planners are pretty active on Twitter, so you can talk with them that ways.

Lastly a lot of bad planning is driven by politics (the planners are just staff who have to implement what the mayor and/or council says to do). If you want to change bad urban planning change your city’s politics.
Maybe doctors should work less?

Hospitalization with acute myocardial infarction during Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting dates was associated with lower 30‐day mortality, predominantly among patients with non–ST‐segment–elevation myocardial infarction who were medically managed.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.008230
Agree with everything else, but what company (even in silicon valley) is paying $400k total comp in the first year to a senior engineer?
agreed. Ordoliberalism is really the only fungible path to ensuring most people in a society get a fair shake.
Being forced to be lactose free... I can tolerate pea protein with powdered fiber, 2/3 lactose free milk and 1/3 water.

But it took me a few weeks to 'enjoy it'. YMMV.

I mean the alternative, rice protein is absolutely :vomit_face:

On the positive side pea protein will keep you 'regular' ;)
My point is that it's the reality. Change and adapt or die along with the COBOL programmers. I watched the COBOL programmers get laid off in droves after Y2K and the dotcom bust so it's a lesson I won't forget. Sure there are some COBOL programmers making mint as consultants but the total number were laid off with prejudice.
???

Chernobyl being a place "where if most mammals go they die in agony" is patent nonsense. I quoted from the article linked above your post to suggest as much.

What on earth does RTG have to do with this discussion?
But any competently inserted intentional backdoor is going to be indistinguishable from a mistake.

If Cisco had some SecretFBIChinaBackdoor() function somewhere the backlash would be way way worse (or at least an unknown). Whereas at this point it's abundantly clear that serious "non intentional" security vulnerabilities in networking hardware basically go ignored by the market.
I've done phone screens with coderpad/hackerrank if that's what you're talking about. That's the industry norm for several years now.
Thanks - I am a native English speaker and I am aware of the origin of the root word. @hprotagonist addresses my confusion.
You can have 'additives' by consuming actual peas. Tastes pretty good.
So instituting a policy reminiscent of HIPAA policies in order to plug a leaky system they fostered in the first place.

It’s a fortune 50. They make money on ads. All the rest is smoke and mirrors to distract and entice young prospects to the firm.
I am wary of facial recognition, and I avoid the use of it. But I'm not convinced by this line of reasoning either, so let me play devil's advocate.

> But again, once authorities have any of this data in their possession, abuse always happens. Literally always.

Well, before something can be abused it must first be available to use. Conversely, once a tool is available to use some may abuse it.

For example, if collecting fingerprints or DNA were completely forbidden then that might prevent abuse of such data (such as false matches). But it would also prevent any beneficial uses as well.

Banning facial recognition prevents not only abuse but also any potential good uses, such as locating victims of abduction or trafficking, and perhaps other uses we cannot foresee.

Killing it in its infancy may be easier than doing so after it takes root, but it also gives society less opportunity to learn what the consequences of the technology may be, intended and unintended, good or ill.

We know it can be abused, especially in the hands of an authoritarian government, but does that mean it cannot be used responsibly? Anything that gives the state power could be turned against the people, as libertarians might warn, but social progress also requires that we learn to work together rather than reject anything which might do us harm.

Perhaps a better argument for an early and complete local ban might be that it allows other regions to be the test subjects. Or that by taking a less compromising stance the anti-facial recognition side gains a stronger bargaining position at the table. But those arguments are not as attractive, maybe.
So one so outdated that no discipline uses?
The simulators are certified training devices, which means that you can do part of your legally required training in them (and not have to fly an actual jet).

To be certified as a training device it has to be accredited to act similar to the real thing. That accreditation costs money.

That's not to say it couldn't be done cheaper, but until someone does $15 million is what the market will bear. The other option is gassing up a real jet for training.
A bit off topic tidbit:

Early Matlab version(s) had an interesting Easter egg. Once when frustrated with the learning on the REPL, I typed "fuck you" and the console spit out "your place or mine?" instead of an error that I was so used to.
400k TC is about average (if not low) these days for staff-level positions in SV. Getting those jobs requires studying hard, though.
I was just listening to the audiobook “Thinking Fast & Slow” a few hours ago which references this study and specifically notes that the researchers couldn’t find any other factors and that the order of the prisoners review was random. Weird discrepancy.
Who’s Afraid of China’s Internet Vigilantes?
The providers still hold the key to pricing. When your choice of hospitals or specialists is limited, you’re going to go with whatever insurance company they accept, or pay some exorbitant price.

The problem is that most people don't pre-shop for insurance that way, and only find out that their local provider is out of network when it's urgent that they get help.
The Valve docs there are very well written. It was the first time I really understood all the concepts too.

Overview of Source engine networking: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...

Ways they combat latency: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin...

Lag compensation (server): https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Lag_compensation

Prediction (client): https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Prediction
Before globalization, rural communities had walkable towns, maybe just a few blocks, but enough stores to fulfill daily needs without the use of a car. Now all those communities have is big box stores several miles away.
I've had over 10 jobs in my career so starting over, making new friends, learning new code bases from scratch etc is old hat to me. I wish interviews would test for that instead of leetcode.
>There are all sorts of other cool stats that we could mine out of the data: greatest frags/minute, longest uninterrupted quake game, cruelest to newbies, etc, etc.

I agree with his use of a double etc there.
> You now have a larger pool of great developers you can add to your team but, on the downside, this has drastically increased the number of applications you have to sort through in order to find the right candidate. Could you imagine sifting through 500 applications for a single position?

Maybe the problem isn't 500 applications, but rather an organization that is trying to hire too fast by not being specific enough to hiring personnel and services. Shotgun approach is a very effective way to generate spam.

Regardless, any job for which an automated online test can reliably be used to filter candidates is a job that's at most a few steps away from automation.
Web Perception Toolkit
Coding exercises are just coding exercises. Sure some maybe stupid, but most are perfectly fine. I’ve been surprised by both who passes and fails them. And yes, I know good engineers I personally worked with and would vouch for fail them. They are an imperfect test, but usually not an unreasonable one.

Occasionally (usually at smaller companies), you’ll get some exercise that’s completely inappropriate for the time allocated, or requires knowing some unobvious trick.

One exercise I think of was the time a startup company you know, asked me to write both an IRC server and client in like an hour and a half. The interviewer and I spent a surprisingly long time googling how to open up a port in Python (something I have never had to before or since, and something I hadn’t done at all since maybe 1999), and trying debug terminal settings about why terminal was receiving things twice. None of that is related to the problem at hand, and all could have been solved with a skeleton. Needless to say, this went poorly, and I wasn’t very impressed with them either.

However, the only interview I ever refused was with HomeJoy. The interviewer said, “Why don’t you come and spend the day with us, and wow us with what you can do with our data.” Seriously. “Wow us”.

No. I’m not going to spend 8 hours on something completely ill defined, subjective, and biased towards a meaningless visualization. It’s not a serious interview, and proposal confirmed my impression of the company form the phone screen.
What if an app is sold and I don't trust the new developer?
To each their own. Some people value privacy. That’s fine. But most of us spend more waking time with coworkers than with our partners or spouses, so it’s nice to open up at work.
Genuine question: is there a clean, higher-level abstraction at which a ban like this could be implemented?
> courts and congress, on the other hand, have often decided to ignore those points of the constitution

Saying the Interstate Commerce cases ignore the Constitution is reductive. Many IC-buttresssd laws involve carrots, e.g. highway funds. In other cases, single-state violators are perfectly legal. They just don’t make economy sense in a connection national economy.
Bipartisan Groups Call on Congress to Reinstate Office of Technology Assessment
What do people here think Soma was? Had a major role in at least two civilisations.
if Google Maps becomes too difficult or terrible to use, and there's a better competitor, users will naturally switch to the alternative.
Unless you guys can start something better, you'll just have to use Google Maps?
I don't think Apple Maps or any other service has a good enough data or feature set right now or forseeable future, outside of the California or US geographic area.

Either Google Maps raise it's developer API pricing to support all their investment into the service, and I'm sure it's not cheap to support, especially with their streetview efforts, or else ads go into the consumer side.
For a long time we enjoyed the free ride from Google Search's desktop revenue.
The Blue-Collar Jobs Boom Nobody Seems to Notice
If a compamy as big as Cisco can screw this kind of thing so badly, the future of IoT looks bleak.
Same here. It was my first and only entry into the coin space. I figured I would let the coins sit there and see what happens. Good thing I didn't try to acquire more coins because I ran into the same issue. It was a cheap first lesson (free) but it has kept me from wading in further anywhere else.

I think this goes back to a critical point in the crypto space.

If you don't have your key pair, then you don't own the coins. I think everyone who lost coins had wallet issues. Maybe there would still have been issues even if you had your key pair, but the general rule still stands.

Back when Stellar got stared, you had to use the API to create a key pair and then you needed the API again to interact with that address (send coins from it.)
FYI, Sidecar did this in 2013 - you could set your own price, both as a rider and driver. Then, when you request a ride, it would be more like market-making, with you getting matched with the driver whose price is closest to your requested price, but under it. I personally tried using this many times - it was a poor experience for riders. I can imagine it wasn't very pleasant for drivers either.

The theoretical ideal price for a ridesharing trip changes in realtime and depends on many different factors like how many drivers are nearby, how many other riders are nearby, each driver's willingness to drive to your destination, etc. Letting riders and drivers set their own prices would make the market significantly less efficient, and would make both the experience for both sides of the marketplace quite miserable, especially during events like demand spikes. There is literally a several hundred-strong organization at Uber (Marketplace) whose single focus is to make a maximally efficient marketplace. It's honestly kind of dismissive to suggest something like this, and to call it "a simple change".

Disclaimer: the above is not meant to be a representation of how Uber pricing works, just my own theoretical musing
pushlatency -120
Most senior level jobs don't even break 200k. Sure for a faang job it should be expected to play this game no matter how silly it is. But for 99% of positions out there it's absurd.
Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003
You definitely should. It's quite a fun field, especially historical linguistics. I recommend /r/linguistics and /r/badlinguistics (they require an explanation of why things are bad). I've learned quite a lot from them.
Disagree on that as well. There is going to more exposure for local channels with Fox in their names along with 20th Century Fox logo that comes on before movies.
The chapter in The Invention of Tradition (there are PDFs of the book online if you're interested in the topic) is about the efforts by Scottish nationalists over the century prior to the Allens to establish the idea of kilts and clan tartans (and efforts by historians against these ideas - the author of the chapter points to a 1940 book by McClintock as making the case "conclusively"). Clan tartans were not, as represented in the article, "all made up in 1829 by two brothers from Surrey" - the Allens were popularizers, not the origin of the idea.

I mention this because I think that the whole idea of political "invention of tradition," while it has lost currency because it seems to reflect poorly on anti-colonial nationalist movements, is far more interesting than that of "random people making up stories for gain."
It was not justified via the commerce clause, but rather via congress's taxing powers:

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax. Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_Indepen...
So you'd rather live in a city with lower property crime and high violent crime if you had to choose? Seems like you have a lot of choices in that list.
Okay I can appreciate that point. I guess why I disagree is that while I agree that you need to adapt to new technologies, you should never need to adapt to absurd hoop jumping in terms of working nights and weekends just to get hired. Ie. I do not accept the idea that, "well x hours of interviews and code trivia is normal so you need to just go do that."

At that point I would rather die than adapt. I'll go do demolition with Peter Gibbons and see my kids evenings and weekends.
Gee, maybe they’re doing different things?
I think it’s pretty common to believe that life is better the more power and prestige you’ve got.

Comparison: how many people are surprised when it turns out that a celebrity is miserable? You usually hear “but so many people love them, and they’re rich!”
Imagine what Tokyo would look like if they instituted this law. In some ways, it would cease to be Tokyo and become an “Edo”