skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you might think they would if they had the same understanding of the issues as you do, but as of today, they don't.

How many ordinary people had a good understanding of the neurological effects of leaded petrol before it got legislated against?

How many ordinary people have a good understanding of which furniture padding materials give off noxious fumes when burned before that was legislated about?

How many ordinary people understood Thalidomide or Vioxx - or had even heard of them - before they got removed from the market?

Why is “it has to get to the level where everyone understands it before experts can recommend action” any more valid regarding tech surveillance?
Part of this reminds me of discussing the differences between "data structure" and "algorithm". Sometimes it's hard to separate them, especially since many algorithms don't need anything more elaborate than "get" and "put" into some opaque data store. Add requirements on the data store that make it less opaque (can't "put" for instance, making it immutable) and your algorithms change. Change your algorithms and you might want a more specific data store interface too ("get most recently put"). Performance requirements are probably the biggest driver for changing both, especially when it comes to actually structuring the data store and its interface on top of some physically realized medium. If we had infinite computing power our software would look a lot different and probably more mathematical.
http://www.spearmintjs.com
Than a taxi? Definitely. A taxi also has to drive to pick you up and drive around to wait for more passenger.

Than public? it's a tossup.

As for linespan, the first scooter rollout used consumer grade scooters. Commercial scooters are just rolling out: https://www.bird.co/zero/
Hopefully you were able to grasp the need for touch screens on mobile devices. Same for cars.
Oh, very cool. That makes total sense, and I agree it’s nice to give articles another chance to get up the page. Thanks for letting me know!
To be clear: if you fail a coding interview question and your self-judgement is accurate then either the interview question is a bad question, or the interviewer is a bad interviewer, or the process has a problem.

I don't think many (any?) of the people I've hired this way have spent time practicing coding interviews, let alone on HackerRank. The questions asked are simply not challenging enough to require drill. If you can code competently in your daily job you can pass them.
I'm not really familiar with animation tools, but isn't this exactly what Flare does?

https://www.2dimensions.com/about-flare
> Everyone wants a job that's [..] clearly helpful to others.

I can imagine no better symptom to show how utterly sick the current economic system is, than that it takes luck to find a job where one is helpful to others and paid well. Helping others in exchange for money is supposed to be the basis of the free market!
I think the point is that the data structure implies that there must be some operations to create and examine it. If there is no operation to create it, how did it come to exist? If there is no operation to examine it, then how do you know it's there at all? To go all Zen koan on it: if a data structure cannot be examined or changed, then is it really there at all?

That said I don't think that any particular set of operations is implied. A data structure will be more suitable for some operations than others, but it won't really require anything in particular.
"You get in the car and it already knows where you want to go because it has access to your calendar."

Less than 1% of my car trips would have ever been in a calendar...
Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market
Parts of Europe has a good system for recycling plastic bottles. It works because you’re getting only one type of plastic in and nothing else. Look up Tomra machines.

Food waste might also be worth it? You can get some biofuel and compost out of it, which isn’t bad.

The US systems have mostly seemed completely pointless to me. Many of them seems to optimize for feeling good (I put it in the recycling bin!) rather than doing what it takes to make it worthwhile (I took the bottles and cans back to the shop and put it in a machine that verifies them, crushes them and sends them back to where they came from)
West side pavilion is going to supersede the Venice/Sahara Monica R&D office I’ve heard, not sure if YouTube would, though it isn’t that far from their Venice beach office already.
> As for whether or not they're telling the truth, I don't know;

Luckily it's possible to check [0]! Although it gets a bit more complicated and can change, my understanding is that currently most people observe it increase it's network usage after it's trigger phrase, but not at other times (it uses the network for other stuff too, but audio data is typically rather large in comparison).

[0] https://www.iot-tests.org/2017/06/careless-whisper-does-amaz...

[1] 10.1007/s00779-018-1174-x <- Might want to use sci-hub
A class is fundamentally about implementing object semantics. This simply means everything (eg. all objects) are an instance of some class. It has methods which can be used to operate or communicate with other objects or itself.

Data-structures are put most simply as ways of organizing data. The organization of the data implies a specific layout--a way of representing your data as a table of integers, ie. in RAM.

After reading the article, I don't see a meaningful distinction between objects and data structures. A data structure can be represented as an object, especially in OOP languages where it must be.

A general class doesn't necessarily lay out its data in any particular way--which allows abstraction over the data representation of the class.

However, some classes are made which are designed in a manner which guarantees a certain data layout. std::vector with its contiguous memory requirement comes to mind.

To add to this, the c++ conception of a "concept" or haskell's concept of a "typeclass", or even a generic class, is really what this article is talking about. Or even Java or Go's interfaces. There is absolutely no way to guarantee a specific data structure through an interface, typeclass, or concept, since they fundementally do not mention their data representation at all.
The nurse was sued as well -- but I agree, she's just as liable as the doctor.
I have to agree. My brother-in-law, a retired tech guy, and two geek friends just opened a brewery in Nashua (you know it’s owned by geeks with beer names like State Machine and Double Helix). Anyway, definitely not right-wingers and their customers don’t seem to be either.
Is this the same thing ?

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-0960/

Multiple vulnerabilities in the SACK functionality in (1) tcp_input.c and (2) tcp_usrreq.c OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion or system crash).
I'm not sure how common it is. Thing is that the market for used cars is fundamentally messed up [0]. That 8 year loan on most new buggies will be underwater for all but the last year or so of its 96 month life.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
I think your plumber has additional material and labor costs you're not seeing.
Sorry, I don't see it. If some app blocks access to other apps, when you don't want it, you simlpy uninstall it.
“The idea of getting on
escalators like you did in the
1950s and ’60s is not
happening,” said executive Bert
Dezzutti of Brookfield Office
Properties. “People desire to
move around and be untethered.
You’re not using lazy old
escalators anymore.”

This can’t seriously be a thing right, this is the story of 1 crazy man and his vendetta against escalators and not an entire community gone mad...
This is part of the genius of iMessage. You use ONE APP. Your message is either SMS or iMessage automatically based on if the other person’s phone supports it. You never have to think about it. ‘Is Billy in this app or that app?’ Nope, he’s in the one and only app you use for ‘texting’.

Such a smart decision by Apple. How in the world am I supposed to know if my contact supports iMessage or not? I can’t without coordination. But Apple can and handles it.

Now someone may still use something else (FB, WhatsApp, etc) but SMS/iMessage is practically transparent.
Was this slow even after the policy conditions were indexed?

Did you have only equality type RLS conditions or also more heavy ones too?
JExcel – JavaScript spreadsheet web component
Yes! That's what I'm getting at. It seems like technical interviews as I've experienced them (Microsoft being the biggest name I've tried so far) are knowledge based stress tests.

This doesn't make sense to me because once I become comfortable in a group, immediate stress isn't an issue anymore (background stress yes but that's another beast entirely).

I don't preform well while stressed, to the point that I pass out in acutely anxiety producing situations.

My test (which is really just more of a traditional behavioral interview) is looking for how you introspect and reason about design decisions that you've made in the past.

Something that I value in teammates over anything else.

It's a glimpse into how they will respond if I do have to ask them about why they did this or that in a merge request.

If you can reason about why you chose a foo over a bar 4 years ago then I'll feel pretty confident that you can speak to the decisions you made last week.

My thoughts will likely change as I get more industry experience but this is a good milestone for me to look back to.

It's not always easy to remember how it felt presenting your first programming project or landing your first technical interview. Or worse how it felt just before that stressful event.

We all have a tendency to think wow I guess I was so anxious over nothing. Is this what keeps the status quo in place ? Hindsight bias
This is an excellent question with a generally fun answer, at least in python 2.

https://kate.io/blog/2017/08/22/weird-python-integers/
http://hforsten.com/redefining-the-number-2-in-python.html

I found these offhand, but I'm pretty sure I saw this trick earlier than 2017.
Uh huh. If they didn’t keep having to ‘correct’ their ‘mistatements’ about how many people were effected by their privacy screwups I might actually trust them on that.
that just doubles the irony
This was a very accurate analysis of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency projects.

Bitcoin is primarily used for regulation arbitrage.
And, of course, even G1 does not fill all memory before it starts collecting. Even generational GCs before G1 divide memory into smaller areas and try to collect garbage quickly to get rid of short lived objects, so we're speaking about Java 6 timeframe. Example from my real world server - most of objects are collected at young generation, so gc costs are minimal, very few objects get promoted to old generation and full GC runs are very sporadic (and they are sub 1sec).
Socratic method is supposed to be done in person, between professor and students, with professor choosing next question based on student's answers that typically reveal gaps in their knowledge. Doing it in form of made-up conversation in a book is a travesty.
I tried and it mostly works, but for rustc/cargo in particular you also have to set the $TERM environment variable to "xterm" [1].

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/45728#issuecomment-...
Sounds like you want Kodi: https://kodi.wiki
I am interested what's the end game for this investment? It's kinda hard for me to imagine it would become billion dollar company doing some improvements on Rest API. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I don't really get GraphQL. Anyway best of luck for them it is really good news. If people much smarter than me believe in it then there is something to it.
> …it’d make more sense …

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Not if you're the person who would have to do the work ;-)

> …my assumption is more that people understand…

Bad assumption :-)

> The obvious bit is that…

The question was — what's the "obvious" explanation for those cases where Node is not faster?
> Why salesforce or Asana or any other big b2b or b2c don’t create their crypto?

A better question would be: why would Salesforce or Asana create their own cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency (and blockchain) are just tools. They are not needed in every business/product. A new fancy hammer has been invented. It's useless/dangerous if I actually need a screwdriver.

I remember similar posts about Mongo DB a few years ago in web development circles.
Only in the US, I hear.
The latency bottleneck came into existence decades ago. It's not a wall. And it's not getting much worse, because it's impossible to squeeze many more GHz out of silicon.

What's happening from Moore's Law is that we get more transistors, and make more cores, which causes a bandwidth bottleneck. But you can fix that by keeping a fixed ratio of math units to memory channels. It's also not a wall.
Thanks for the link! The website is a bit opaque. Would you happen to know if the Basic suite already includes tracking prevention and no advertising?
...motorized scooters and bicycles that can be propelled exclusively by electric motors would be legal on the streets of New York City, but barred from sidewalks...

the city's off to a good start. now let's see if they can actually keep pedestrians on the sidewalks safe.
That it can be recycled without "waste" doesnt mean its worthwhile. Making glass costs a large amount of energy. As far I know, when plastic is recycled, it is better for the environment than using glass.
This reminded me of design antipattern “Public Morozov”, named after Soviet pioneer Pavlik Morozov, who denounced his father to the secret police. In this design antipattern implementation details are exposed via convenient public methods.
Flare lacks video and audio support since it's aimed to be used to create assets and interactions for apps and games.
I don't know, if the alternative is elevators, that can quickly become a bottleneck shit show.
It's like online dating. If someone have had a profile for 3 years, don't bother talking to them. And when you get interviewed, act as if you are super interested, even if you do not know them yet. Make them feel special, but also hinge that you are very attractive on the market. Don't go into details about how your last relationship did not work out. Never mention ex employers if possible.
You're engaged in the fallacy known as "straw-man", where you argue against a point I'm not making. I'm going to state my argument clearly so you can't continue to weasel around it.

The technical properties of bitcoin can be modified, saying that it is impossible to change them is wrong.
I clarified in other comments but we also need reform in our jails and prisons. What we do today is just release people to the street which also doesn’t work.

The point is if you break the law the state should have the ability to force corrections.

I’m completely in support of reinventing what those corrections are.
Maybe a little tangential but it immediately came to my mind Alan Perli's quote: "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."
I think I first heard this from Rich Hickey and made so much sense.
Most adjuncts are in the business of selling their services to effective monopsonies. Oligopolies, at best. Free market economics don’t exonerate the result.
The detection of the cones isn't the problem. The software properly identified that there were cones near the roadway, that's why it stopped. The really hard problem is programming decision-making logic that will properly ignore cones that aren't in the roadway, 100 times out of 100.

I used to do QA for the Waymo cars, and boy do they get worked into a tizzy if there's any kind of construction going on. It was the most common situation for remote assistance (read: people sitting in a room sending pathfinding suggestions) to get involved.

Judging from some of these comments, the problem is still very difficult.
This is embarrassingly bad for Google. Their failure in creating a stable and long-lived messaging platform is well known but I can't believe they are committing so much into something with so much reliance on network operators and handset manufacturers that doesn't meed the needs of a modern, secure platform.
This app looks great. This is an idea I've wanted to either create, or see someone else create, so nice to see it here.

Believing that users should be free to access their data, I hope it has an export function to a common format. Maybe something that can be imported to graphviz.

Of course that means they could move it to a competitor, but for $6/month for such a useful app I doubt that'll be a problem!
I hate glossy monitors with a fiery passion and don't understand why anybody thinks glossy is a feature and not a bug.

I suppose having smooth glass can make the screen look slightly more crisp, but having a bright reflection of everything in the room erases any gains in clarity.
and he could pass, with these perspectives, for an r/buttcoin regular quite convincingly as well. not that that's a bad thing.

better 5 years late than never though.
> One perhaps surprising trend is the excommunication of escalators, which were long considered luxurious amenities. “The idea of getting on escalators like you did in the 1950s and ’60s is not happening,” said executive Bert Dezzutti of Brookfield Office Properties. “People desire to move around and be untethered. You’re not using lazy old escalators anymore.”

I never though about it before but that actually is a fascinating cultural shift.

White-collar workers today spend so much time sitting, and are so conscious of health and wanting to be active, that escalators aren't a luxury -- they're the antithesis of a healthy lifestyle.

If buildings necessarily express the values of the people in them, well values have changed. It's the age of Fitbit and walking around dense city centers and walking up stairs -- not being sedentary and driving and just standing on an escalator.

(While elevators are still mandated for disabilities, which escalators were never good for anyways.)
It burns away when the metal is melted. Not having glass recycling infrastructure supports p&t's point.
http://archive.is/dieqU
Not sure. There’s strong competition in the market in the form of iMessage (and others - see WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc) so I doubt there would be grounds for an anti-trust lawsuit.
I can only assume that $3800 figure came from Feb-March, meaning this article was written months before publication and not revised prior. Kind of makes sense...
2019.24 Sequences of Int – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
”and they can't even learn ahead of time what they might need to know in a pandemic.”

They can, but why would they? The power of society is that we work together. You don’t need to know how to grow wheat, bake bread, or herd cows anymore, either, but that doesn’t make us simpletons.
Another amazing fact is that, once you take inflation into account, the Apple computers they were buying cost around as much as the just-announced Mac Pro!

Well over $5,000, and people paid it - for a spreadsheet.
This is fantastic! I had an extra audible credit, so I used hat to purchase the audio book from Amazon, but I can share this with others.
Irrational exuberance. Corporate management labeling a department or activity a "cost center" if it doesn't result in revenue or directly supports revenue generating functions.
> When the boomers combined "white music" with "black music" they got rock and roll.

Irrelevant, but this is not a thing that happened. More accurately, when white people started playing black rock and roll, they also continued to develop rock and roll, alongside and in combination with black people (and other people.) Also, this is pre-boomer.
Why does taxpayers paying for it make it an issue for you? I don't really get why that factors into it, especially given that taxpayers already pay for the roads.

All the other things you mention are good, and could probably be a priority, I am not saying they shouldn't be. But if we are talking about a technical solution to the problem, here's the thing:

a. You can either have cheap self-driving cars and an upfront infrastructure cost + additional ongoing cost, or expensive self-driving cars capable of driving on shitty roads. My conjecture is that the latter won't 100% solve the problem anyways, so why bother? Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good.

b. Why do roads get lower priority for you than high-speed internet? And why do you prioritize high speed internet above reducing reliance on fossil fuels?

c. Maintaining roads is already a thing we do, it is already done via public funding, and again that makes your existing cars cheaper. You'd need a damn tank to roll through unpaved streets at 40 mph, let alone at 80 mph like everyone currently drives in their little Civics with 15 inch wheels.

Again, I don't know which thing should be a priority, not a problem I set out to discuss here. I am saying that IMO the cheapest and best way to get to self-driving cars is as I described. Let's upgrade the roads so we can all have nice things. This also lets us upgrade the rest of the roads to make them self-driving capable later. Or we could try to make a computer that's as good at driving in Montana blizzards as a human, and not see a single consumer self-driving car for the next 50 years.
Zcash community face censorship over discussing Founders Reward
I will belive that when I see workers walking up stairs, not just the type A's looking at their Apple Watch step counter, instead of escalators ;)

I think its mostly landlords wanting to look like office buildings not retail space.

YouTube is quite proud of the employee-only slide they have between two floors (might be gone, haven't visited in a couple of years)
They need to work on making their products things you really want as opposed to commodities. They do a terrible job of marketing new TVs. When I need a new TV I go to best buy or look online and notice some new models have seeped out onto the market since the last time I checked, each with model numbers that look like an MD5 hash, confusing specs that no one tells me why I should care about them, and seemingly arbitrary price points between makes and models. Compare that to what Apple does with its phones, for example, and you can see why people don't want to pay a lot for a new TV.
I never said that "you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself".

I said:

> ... you do need to answer questions.

Your answer may be "I am exercising my 5th amendment right not to answer." But you do need to answer. Simply being silent is not enough to avoid a contempt judgment.

See https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-how-invoke-your...
The harms are not hard to demonstrate, if you study history, or have programming knowledge.
I noticed a 2014 camry dashboard creaks like crazy! The older ones do not!
Is there any other form of teaching so irritating and patronising?

It's only patronizing to people who are motivated self-learners, such as you. To people who are unmotivated and/or struggling with the concepts (such as high school students), it works better than most other styles I've tried.

I've spent a lot of time tutoring high school and elementary school students. Many of them are so frustrated that they just want you to give them the answer. But then if you do they write it down and declare "problem solved." In the long run, students who continually weasel the answers out of their tutors end up far, far behind those who work with a Socratic teacher and are persuaded to try to think of the answers for themselves.
I'm sure the motivation is accessibility for their users rather than their analytics...