skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love take-home assignments. Especially reasonably scoped ones. They allow me to show off my skills. However, my opinion is that it should be paid labor. Give me a day of work and pay me to do it. This values my time, it actually doesn't add all the much more to the hiring expense (all that engineer interview time, resume review time, etc is expensive!), and it makes sure you are screening out early and often and not wasting 20 people's time doing a bunch of take home work for one dev position.
Depends on the component or product probably. Some is, some isn't.
It would've helped if the top titles were there. (If you bought/built a SteamOS box, you have a rough-looking thing that doesn't play top games, when you could instead just run Windows+Steam, or get a Sony or MS console, any of which would play most things.)

Valve seemed to not make the final marketing push on Steam Machines, that I could see. Maybe because they realized that it wasn't coming together. And/or maybe it was intended as a warning, to not be forced out when MS was grabbing the app store.

Your idea of Valve in making a console themselves is interesting. They did get some limited experience with hardware, with the controller and the thin device. I don't know what all would go into some kind of manufacturing and branding partnership.

One thing that I think didn't happen is an initial loss-leader on the console, to bring people into the lock-in ecosystem, like the console companies might do. I don't see how the third parties had that incentive. And I don't know how loss-leader works if whatever anyone builds is just a commodity PC.
Large fraction of renters are foreigners. Around 27% CA population, twice the national average.

If they could vote, they would change this.

2 things that would wreck california here are:

1) restricting immigration (they lose suckers)

2) liberalizing immigration (suckers get bargaining power)
Witcher 3 is a single player game and the users who care about lag by far the most are multiplayer gamers.

Certain games like rhythm games would also be pretty miserable with jitter...
Thanks for these points and questions!

First, we'd love it if you would try our early container prototype on your build. Contact us and we'll add you to our closed alpha test. Also, we can send you the full paper (preprint) on the Debian case study, with the gory details.

I would never argue against patching tool chains to make them deterministic. If I were the maintainer I would always accept these patches! (And the GHC community we're part of has made some efforts on that front.)

You raise an interesting question regarding bootstrapping which I believe is similar to the good old Ken Thompson "Trusting Trust" attack:
https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...

Well, there's always some trusted code base (even with Coq), but I would argue that it would be harder for us to execute the trusting-trust attack in a container than in a compiler like Ken Thompson's original. The compiler can inject malware when it recognizes that its compiling itself, but we run arbitrary build systems, compiler tool chains, JITs. On top of that, one can build the container itself without ever using the container, so we wouldn't have an opportunity to inject.

Any containers or VMs that we use in binary form need to be trusted for the same reasons. And Debian Reproducible Builds still has the original trusting-trust approach to contend with as well: i.e. they could bootstrap with a previously-corrupted gcc binary. The DRB website lists a Ph.D. dissertation on improving this situation, but I haven't read it, and I don't think it's been implemented in DRB:
https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
>> "...who is prepared to take control at all times..."

I honestly don't see the point of "autopilot" if I have to be prepared to take control at all times. It's not like it's any less work than actually driving manually (the hard part is maintaining focus, not twiddling a steering wheel back and forth). In reality, I don't think people who use it are actually prepared to take control at all times. Hence the accidents.

> It's an advanced lane-keep assist system combined with dynamic adaptive cruise control.

Can these features be activated independently in Tesla vehicles?

I like the idea of adaptive cruise control (ACC), but I don't think I'd like it if my car steered for me. That seems reasonable, and many cars do have ACC without lane-assist, but what about the other way around? What if I want to control the gas pedal, but have the car keep itself in the lane? Like if I'm eating a sandwich and need to take my other hand off the wheel for a few seconds, but I'm not prepared to put it into full auto mode.
I think you're overestimating the taxes paid by a shell office (it's not uncommon for dozens/hundreds of organizations to use the same small office suite, staffed by a single receptionist).

Fancy private school in expensive neighborhood registers their official address in a poor neighborhood, and calls the school in the 'nice' neighborhood a "satellite campus".
High speed rail isn't that good for what you want. It will churn through too much infrastructure for too little value for point-to-point. What it is good at is creating regions. Done correctly it can open up a lot of land and opportunities. (I don't know the specifics of this project however).
Great we've identified the problem, our government is horribly inefficient.

Time to fix how we organize our societies.

edit: I am __not__ advocating for authoritarianism
Agreed. Just being in the presence and interacting with other people can often help me on my worse days. Even somethig as simple as interacting with a waitress or a cashier at a fast food restaurant. It's something we're losing at a rapid rate, and it sucks.

This lack of face to face communication also hurts us in other ways too. I've an 11 year old cousin who's had a phone since he was 8. He can't understand tone and jokes, and unless it's obviously meant to be funny, he'll often come back with a really rude remark about something too. He just doesn't understand empathy or how to interpret jokes because he spends all his time watching YouTube...
It's the eternal debate. What has more impact? Employees joining the company and making changes from the inside? You always have the risk of having the employer be: "see! no need to change! there's no problem, people are still applying and we are filling all our position easily!"

Or the employer realizing they can't hire anyone good anymore and decide to make real changes in order to be able to attract the right talent?

It's hard to say which one has the most impact. At the end of the day, management needs to be on board to make changes
Yes it was the same for the British adjectival trad system, ES used to be the top grade (after HVS) and this grade is now divided into an open ended scale E1-E11... but I think this probably caused some hard climbs to be categorised as HVS in an attempt to differentiate from the _really_ hard climbs in ES at the time. It's worth checking the FA date around this grade in old crags for this reason, but even being aware in my case - it was surprising just how much harder they can be.
> the analysis often doesn’t quantify the insight/value of the results

Can you clarify what you mean by this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/bpd2ro/a_simple_and...
Pelosi's nephew attacking President Trump, who would have predicted that!
If we continue the way we're going, that dictatorship is going to be the world superpower, while the USA will look like the UK does now.

Also, it's not a dictatorship, it's really a cabal, which is probably why they've avoided the problems that eventually take down dictatorships.
> Your suggestion relies on the assumption that there is some way to change standardized tests such that they do not correlate with wealth.

Good IQ tests exists that are hard to game. They are easy to learn easy to vary and easy to measure.

(I think I have heard someone here talking about IQ tests that include language and geography questions. This is not the kind of IQ tests I'm talking about. Perfect IQ tests should measure your processing speed, not your "software" - i.e. education.)
They have to pay more. Median monthly pay for intern: $8,000

https://www.vox.com/2019/5/15/18564801/facebook-interns-doub...
Immortal as in reproductively, intellectually and physically functional, or sitting in a nursing home at huge social expense for 50 years immortal?

I think people are more interested in having working joints, no wrinkles, youthful energy and libido, and a full head of hair for an additional 20 years than immortality.
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
> 10 billion people have used it

Not to be too technical here but... 10 billion individuals surely have not used it. Maybe 10 billion fares have been sold or trips made.
Elon Musk’s Firm Could Congest Orbit and ‘Trap Humanity on Earth’
LA to SF is 3.5 million flights (edit: passengers) per year. It’s one of the busiest routes, but just 1/3 of what it would take to make HSR a net win in terms of CO2 footprint.

The idea of an SF to LA HSR matching the Northeast Corridor’s passenger volume is completely laughable. You can ride the train all the way from the mountains north of NYC to exurban VA. Neither SF nor LA have the massive transit infrastructure connecting to the intercity rail that you have in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and DC.
I'm curious what voter turnout is like for renters vs owners.

With only my friends as data points, owners are more likely to vote.
To be honest I would be surprised if any land-intensive project gets completed in the Texas/NMexico/Arizona area; those ranchers are really territoral

I mean given all the adversity and polarization in current US culture we still haven't escalated to the armed siege of government buildings, yet those guys have already done that twice this decade over fucking cows
Clearly this is subjective, but I'm regularly impressed with Photos and Maps. Thoughtful, subtle, and yet informative. With some delightful interactions.
Why does it have to be instant? We're talking about the difference of perhaps 100-200ms.
So basically you're arguing that the perceived (or real) precariousness of one's environment should or does have no bearing on one's mental state. It's their fault for not having an overly optimistic perspective. While I agree that it's almost laudable to have an unshakably optimistic outlook on life, its also not very conducive to making the hard decisions and sacrifices that history teaches us must often be made in the pursuit of a brighter future. Getting down to brass tacks, (and I know I'll have a lot of boomers screaming about the cold war and mutually-assured-destruction, which is actually why I believe the cold war wasn't as scary as they thought) the world seems to me, and a lot of the most learned people out there, to be in an unprecedentedly dangerous state due to what can only be described as a global pollution epidemic and the apparent beginnings of large-scale ecosystem collapse.

There's also an element to your original post of "why don't depressed people just snap out of it?" which is, as always, risible.
Because we've done studies to address exactly that question. What we've found: The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents, hence the adversity score to rectify the inequity in life circumstances.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/money-academic-su...
The other consideration is bandwidth. Streaming a game is far more intensive than just playing it and many US households are under tight data caps (not to mention throttling under peak hours). I just am not convinced by the advantages, for much of the gaming demographic.
You need a portfolio lender since the GSEs won't buy an interest-only mortgage. Union Bank, Navy Federal, and SoFi are some examples.
With all due respect, I disagree. What the evidence lays bare is that there is a massive difference in what individual members/collective groups of society interpret as a threat, and thereby find worthy of attempts to mitigate. It also stands that until recently, violence had been on a downward trend.

On the collective front for example, the anti-arms crowd sees a citizen exercising a right as a threat. The pro-arms side sees the anti-arms's willingness to engage in rhetoric to dismantle a fundamental right as a threat to the overall underpinnings of civil society. The pro-arms is not innately threatened by the bearing of arms, or refusal to do so, but by enforced asymmetric eligibility to bear arms without a darn good reason. This is the basic blueprint for any major X/!X or an X/!(X&&Y) divide [I think I got the truth table right there].

On the individual front, things get even more diverse.

A gang member sees a rival gang member on his turf as a threat, but the "civie" right next to them sees neither as a threat until the violence starts, and they have no defense.

A harassed/abused/ostracized child generalized the infliction of suffering by members of their peer group to the rest of humanity, making everyone a threat.

An oppressed/marginalized population feels threatened by their oppressors.

A previously oppressed/marginalized populations feels threatened by their previous oppressors

That's what I mean by there is no positive "agency" or "essence" to the "freedom to be safe". The state of safety is accidental to the circumstance. As long as there is an agent willing to break any civil consensus in such a way as to cause harm, the best move is for everyone to possess the most effective means of causing harm, but to refrain from employing it. This protects and perpetuates civil society, without creating "soft target" situations where no resistance can be offered to a violator of the peace.

I respect your right to the view that there is some positive existence to the freedom to be safe. However, at most I'll acknowledge the legitimacy of a claim to the right to live a life in the pursuit of Safety to be semantically and grammatically capable of bearing significance and recognizable meaning; in parity with the recognition of the purpose of a government to secure for its' People the right to Life, Liberty. and the pursuit of Happiness as proscribed to in the United States.

Pursue, by all means, but finding/catching it is far from guaranteed, and depriving others of what brings them Safety will inevitably set the stage for violent conflict, even when done through civil means.

However, I digress, and fear this interesting diversion may have long overstayed it's welcome, and it certainly was not my intent to turn this thread so far off topic. I just had a moment of clarity enabling me to formulate an articulation of an observation that has hitherto resisted my attempts to elucidate.
The danger comes from the organic solvent electrolyte.

Rechargeable lithium ion batteries don't contain elemental lithium, and thus don't constitute a fire risk in that way.
Not entirely true. Many networked games use client side prediction, and collision detection (at least for collisions against terrain and walls, weapon hits are often computed on the server to curb cheating).

If you have a 100ms latency to a stadia server, then there's a 200ms latency between pushing forward on the stick and your character moving forward. This is not the case on a networked game, the client would start moving your player immediately (even if there is a 100ms delay to send those updates to the server).
The value being in the network means the value is subject to social whims. That's not a secure place to do business long term. All other places I listed have networks as well. You have chosen to think this network is better for you, but if/when people move then you might need to re-evaluate that as well.
agreed, I'd have been an enthusiastic proponent of both quora and pinterest were it not for the forced login simply to view public content.
Snapchat is (still) the king of filters
The example is merely used to motivate the principle. Let’s not miss the forest for the trees.
This is off topic, but .. My cousin graduated from Harvard and he's like the least well paid and least connected person I know. Just a nerdy introvert kind of person.
With that authoritarianism comes a whole set of externalities: wages, pollution, imminent domain, risk tolerances, disregard for other things etc. none of which would be palatable anywhere in the world.

I suggest there's a way to build a train in CA without having to have Chinese style operating environments.

It's sad though; right on the doorsteps of the Valley itself.
I can tell you what the turnout of CA foreigners that vote: 0%.

And CA is 27% foreign born population.
I have both. Dislike wearing Apple Watch in the bed since it turns on randomly and it's bulky. The Oura doesn't feel much larger than a wedding band and it's lighter.
I see this as being a more plausible implementation for say multiplayer twitcg shooters. Market needs to scale up a lot for this to be viable though...
The Global Helium Shortage Is Real, but Don’t Blame Party Balloons
That's great that you like your neighborhood. Presumably you thought it was the best choice for you.

I don't want to live in a high density area, so that's why I chose to live somewhere else.
Underrated comment. People yearn for the "good old days" when shit got done, fast and cheap! Let's just forget all the progress in safety and reduced deaths since then..
I think the original article title, "How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest" is actually quite informative
I have seen cold emails from Facebook and Instagram recruiters recently and they all start on the defensive about privacy, how it's "Zuck's" big thing and how he's taking it seriously. Seems a little desperate.
"The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials."

That's... kinda scary.
Considering that pretty much all multiplayer games in existence perform some sort of local prediction / state interpolation to hide the lag on the local machine, cloud only multiplayer will be considerably worse. After all you can no longer hide the lag locally, since you're not computing anything on the local machine, so the minimum precieved lag will go from 0 (for movement of your own player character) to the RT between the datacenter and your PC :/
Manipulating Sentiment in NLP
SF area was pretty down for more than a few years in the 90s (almost a lost decade from a gain perspective). Yes, it is temporary but even a small blip is enough to take out most leveraged speculators.

HK is an especially speculated and manipulated market, only experts should play there.
Homeowners vote often and also are more engaged. They show up to hearings more than renters.

This is the problem with renters. When they don't like how things are going, maybe they feel helpless, they just move to a different city.
They do, it's called the Apple Watch. I find if I charge it in the morning and night while I'm brushing my teeth, the battery lasts all day. And there's a few apps that do good sleep reporting. I like AutoSleep and SleepWatch
> The largest U.S. state has repeatedly sued the Trump administration and officials expect the state will sue over the rescinding of rail funding.

Um..did we forget about Texas and Alaska?
Turn on theater mode and the display only activates when you press the crown. The battery also lasts longer!
Even if I accept your premise that privacy from facial recognition in public is to your safety as swinging my fist at your nose is to your right to not be assaulted (I don't), I don't think the police in the UK have done a good job justifying the benefits of using facial recognition this way. How much safety benefit does it actually produce?
Infrastructure is the textbook example of pork barrel spending. i.e. each voting representative says, "I will only approve this project if <widget> is sourced from my district".
I’ve played Bloodborne on PS Now and it works great. This game is really dependent on fast reactions and smooth camera panning. I think if you try it out you might learn something.
But stadia can't use these techniques. The game engine and rendering isn't done on the client side. Normally a network game the client displays the user's actions immediately, and the lag is only seen from other player's perspectives.

On a streamed game, all interactions need a round trip before the user sees any response.
> I don't think it's some intrinsic quality of the food that's causing people to gain weight.

This study seems to suggest that there is some intrinsic quality that causes them to eat more of it, and thus gain weight.

I'm not saying that money isn't a concern (it is). But the money concern doesn't negate the intrinsic qualities.
> The headline, "People who know how radios work can affect systems that are based on radio." is so much less scary.

No, it is not. Nobody should be able to influence air traffic in that way just because she/he understands the transport layer.

After spending a night with a friend who just returned from a security audit (lots of cocktails were involved too) 15 years ago, I am convinced that the only reason we have not seen major disruptions yet is because of a pretty strict adherence to hacker ethics: one of the global "airport tech players" was deploying systems that used UDP for ground traffic control.... Having a bus or lorry use an active runway is just a single, malicious UDP packet away...
Normally transportation projects seek to complement existing mode of transport. CA HSR was doomed to fail it was envision as an alternative to driving and flying. The lack of synergy means benefits would come at too high a cost and to too few people.

If the money had been spent on a mag-lev line connecting SF and SJ instead, I imagine it'd be close to completion already.
Yikes. Is this what our imagination has come to?
I have been looking at your board on Tindie! Alas, I don't think it should be my first major soldering job (if you don't count the board I stuffed 25 odd years ago that my friend had to fix for me)
A Kale salad with an oil-based dressing and absolutely loaded with nuts and cheese is not something I would consider a chore to eat.

That depends. Eat anything a bit too often, and it becomes a chore. As you note above, the diet being "highly varied" is very important.
It does, I like AutoSleep and SleepWatch to track my sleep, and as a fellow poster added, you can get by with just a few minutes of charging in the morning and night
Not really.

I don't believe you actually need to force/motivate kids to do homework. Homework as a concept is fundamentally flawed as it is IMO and is another problem with the system. I love maths and science and all that stuff we all do on that forum, but I don't believe for one second that kids should be forced into it. Forcing students to do homework/exams/uninteresting subjects, and not fostering natural curiosity, is why school is not engaging.

I'm oversimplifying massively and understand there's a middle ground somewhere, but this is what I believe.
> I was on an airplane once where SWISS served Hiltl food. The person next to me was very positively surprised by the quality and asked me about details of the dish.

Was probably me lol. I made it a point to visit that restaurant in that trip.
One of the things I really like about WireGuard is how easy "split tunneling" is. I can define a subnet as available through the interface and only traffic destined for it will be routed.

This is especially helpful for users with metered connections. You don't have to send ALL your traffic, only the ones destined for LAN will get sent.
Merced to Bakersfield will probably be the fastest-growing corridor in the state for the foreseeable future, however, the state received HSR funding contingent on the development of a San Francisco to Los Angeles route.

It’s completely unsurprising that the Department of Transportation wants the funding back after the state downsized the project from nationally-significant to regionally-significant.