skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he's a fraudster. I think he's a visionary who sometimes sees things more the way he imagines them than the way they really are.

Things aren't as black and white as a bunch of people on here make them out to be. It's possible to deliver great products while dreaming too big and failing on others. The quality of being able to take risks and fail repeatedly until finally succeeding is one that most entrepreneurs possess.

I don't know why everyone gives this guy such a hard time. And I don't know why he has to be either a genius or a crackpot but not both at the same time. He can be enormously successful - like getting a new car company off the ground, making electric cars mainstream, putting unprecedented driving aids in the hands of consumers, rocket launches at an incredibly affordable cost - and not hit a home run with other ambitious projects like hyperloop, underground tunnels, robotaxis, etc.

Personally, I think the robotaxi idea is stupid. I get that there's a market for autonomous fleet vehicles but which individual car buyers are asking for a taxi service? I didn't buy a 70k car so that it could drive a bunch of strangers around and make me a couple bucks on the side. And, assuming they pull it off (which I doubt), I'd be pretty pissed if the cost of new Teslas went up because of the availability of some service I had no interest in to begin with. It would alienate me as a customer.

That said, I love my Tesla. I use Autopilot every day and it has been life changing. It's not perfect, but it works well enough for 90% of my driving. I rode in one of those self driving Lyft cars recently. It required 2 operators, the driver had to repeatedly take over and it was very similar to my Tesla in terms of ability. The difference is the Tesla is in the hands of consumers. It would be very difficult for me to go back to a regular gas car and I don't think I could go back to daily driving without advanced driver aids like Autopilot.

I have my doubts about city self driving. When I'm coming up to a light and it's obstructed by a big truck that's in front of me I wonder how they will solve that problem. Or railroad tracks, pedestrians, animals running into the road, etc. Those seems like insurmountable problems to me. I'm willing to wait and see though. They've already achieved more than I thought I would see in my lifetime. I won't begrudge them the occasional failure.
Better Prices Than Twilio
I know this has come up before but can you link us to resources that describe what you're talking about in detail?
How can Musk be involved in so many high-stress projects and still have the clarity of mind needed to pursue even awesome-er projects? Crazy dude.
> something so easy to check in the code!

Except it's Java ... too much bloat to go through.
I just read through 1Password release notes [0], "Addressed a bug in the new popup where items were checked for vulnerable passwords even if you hadn't opted in to the Have I Been Pwned service." which also links to a KB article that talks about the security risks of HIBP [1]

I would be very concerned if my credentials are being shared in _any_ form with 3rd parties without my explicit permissions.

I hope this firefox feature is disabled by default.

[0] https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/B5X
[1] https://support.1password.com/kb/201907/
Websites are still using Flash, not because better alteratives dont exist, but because of cost of redevelopment. HTML5 will do anything Flash will and isnt a giant security hole like Flash is.

Flash should be taken out behind the shed and shot, I removed it from my personal browsers years ago rather than deal with security issues.
I think many of those are third party sellers selling through Amazon.
At least I noticed that during prime day.

Still, something that is normally illegal for real shops, AFAIR, and should be investigated.
it's not intended to be dismissive of an individual's dream, but a 50 year old today is less likely to be a product of a failed education system than a 12 year old today.
> Byteboard evaluators—software engineers with up to 15+ years of experience

So evaluators have literally any level of experience? Can we, as a society, please agree to stop using this actually meaningless "up to X or more" language?

I get that they want us to have the impression that the evaluators have experience, but it seems like they weren't confident enough to commit to any real statement to the effect. E.g. most evaluators have at least 10 years experience. Even "at least 1 evaluator has 15 years of experience" would be a stronger statement, although it would be more obviously empty.
Yes, but encouraging a lower birth rate in first world countries will quickly put them in the same position as Japan currently is in.
It's actually not blatantly selective, you're merely misunderstanding the set of rules they are looking at. Most of the places you probably think of as "in a similar situation yet not bothered" [like retail stores] are NOT marketplace, they do NOT sell shelf space. They buy the product, and then they resell it to the end consummer. They are the seller.

Amazon presents itself as a marketplace, and gets a few advantages from that (such as being able to shift responsabilities for some issues to the "real" seller), and as such they must act like one on other aspects too.

Other French exemples of marketplaces with such rules to follow would be cdiscount for exemple (2nd after amazon in volume).
NTPsec is potentially dangerous: hostile forking and temperamental leadership
US government policy didn't create North Korea. In fact the Chinese government had a huge hand in that.
If you mentally decide "the Raspberry Pi is a $100 computer all-in" you will be much happier. You won't buy one to sit in a drawer (as many on HN have complained about), and you won't try to use a USB charger from your phone from 1992 and that SD card you got with your sandwich at IKEA and be disappointed that it's not very reliable.

It's a bit of a shame that what started out as an educational computer is about $100 to get started properly. Nowadays I recommend Micro:Bit for tinkering (our daughter has one, she likes it very much). It's about 20 Euro and you have everything needed (including a battery pack if you want to use it portably).

If you want a machine that fore serious work (NAS, media center, low-end desktop), before spending $100 one should at least consider spending a bit more and get a NUC. You can buy a NUC for around 120 Euro, then you have to add memory and storage. But at least, you get a machine with fast I/O, faster CPU, and is more expandable. It also does supports 4K and h.265 decoding like the Pi 4.
I used to do consulting for an international telecom....

One telco customer did not have tethering limitations in their customer contract agreements, so this one end users customer bought a number of devices, and then would resell internet service in local rural areas using his devices as backhaul. This one customer and his dozens of "ISP" devices were doing gigabytes and gigabytes of data per month, using approximately 80% of this whole carrier's data capacity.
True, you must be talking about Summly, I prevoiusly read about it too, a great app.
> is that they tend to still focus on the "trick", quiz or algorithms parts of engineering.

FWIW, this was exactly what we were against at Headlight, as is Woven and (presumably) Byteboard as well.

There are plenty of practical interview questions to ask candidates, but it requires a lot more thought and preparation than I think most companies want to do.

The reason (imo) that quiz/trick/etc. type questions are popular is that there's a clear "right answer" most of the time. No nuance required. Introducing nuance requires humans to reason about things, and that takes up time (and thus money).
Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017)
Why would you say the impact on low-income people was unintentional? Do you think that Intuit would release a tax product without an analysis of who it would affect? It feels like you’re giving Intuit the benefit of the doubt here when numerous sources, including Intuit employees, say that Intuit deliberately set out to increase revenue at the expense of lower income taxpayers.
> The Pi4 is overpowered for a Kodi box.

Even for software decoding of codecs or containers unsupported by the hardware acceleration? If that's true, I might have to get one.
Windows vs. Ubuntu
Just what I was thinking. While I imagine this might trigger a price war and bring subscription costs down for consumers, there's going to be a lot of people that aren't going to pay subscriptions for 3 or 4 separate services.
In other countries, they have:

- higher standards of living

- longer life expectancies

- better healthcare

- higher taxes, but the money is used more efficiently and for better results than on mass incarceration or the largest military-industrial complex

- very easy tax payment processes

Taxes aren't universally "bad": fire departments, police departments, roads, schools. And guess what? That's "socialism." So is Social Security and USPS. The myth of anarchistic hyperindividualism (libertarianism) is a self-delusion because there are benefits to common infrastructure no individual could build themselves alone.

PS: Why don't most Americans know how bad they have it? Is it their lack of passports or lack of honesty in paying attention outside of their filter bubble?
Most people that apply to a job (in tech) aren't qualified for that position. At my previous company, 99% of applicants didn't make it through hiring.

Yes, the candidate is taking a risk by interviewing. But the company is also taking a risk, and spending considerable engineering/recruiting time on a candidate that most likely isn't qualified. They're also footing the bill for travel, if needed. And because most don't make it, they end up investing 100 times over, for every candidate that they actually hire.

That sounds like a fair trade, to me.
You may be surprised to hear that it actually is the case that retail stores are very much in the business of selling shelf space (at least in the United States - I cannot say for the EU).

It is known as a "slotting fee" and manufacturers pay it for limited shelf space in grocery stores for example. It is particularly important for the distribution of new products as stores would prefer not to take risks on an item that may or may not sell very well.

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotti...
I do not know about the BBA.

I know people who have been through the MBA route and I'd agree with the conventional wisdom on that topic.

That is, people who work in business management, take a break to do an MBA, then get back in to management are on the right track to get a C-level job in an existing large business. It also is a good path for people who are likely to take a role in a moderate-sized family business.

Another path is school to MBA to being a junior at McKinsey which is an education in itself that will leave you settled somewhere in industry. People with engineering backgrounds often do great that way.

B-schools recognize there is a market for learning about entrepreneurship (and are developing products to serve that market) but MBA programs are focused on what you need to know to run large and established firms (which is a lot). The attitudes you'll get acculturated in as an MBA won't serve you well in a startup; in fact, once you have an MBA, you'd probably look at any particular startup as being poorly paying, poorly run, etc.

If you are serious about business, I would say look for a job as startup cofounder or as one of the first few employees of a startup (someone who is in line for VP of Engineering.)
You're wrong. Calories are a measure of physiologically usable energy and already take extraction efficiency into account. Even if you had a point, which you don't, the first law of thermodynamics would still apply, and leptin would still provide negative feed back.
you can have contacts send you another contact. There is no way to set up a server of public identities, but you should be able to share your own contacts.
It's an opinion piece about a book, the american trap, which is a demonstration of the US being the bully of the world and racketing every country which make more sense to me that the french government choosing the wrong deal by incompetence
> 2) How do people just "go to bed" early because they get bored? I'm actually jealous of that idea. If I just decided to "go to bed" early, it would most likely involve me staring at either the ceiling, my phone, or a book for a few hours.

I did a no electronics and no electric light after sundown thing for a couple weeks. Lived after-dark hours by a couple candles—found two beeswax tapers are about the smallest amount I could comfortably read by, assuming they were close, though unshaded looking at them directly by accident and being blinded/feeling eye-pain was a real problem. Beeswax because once you notice how chemical-spill-smelling the cheap parafin ones are you can't un-notice it.

I went to bed way earlier than I would have otherwise, during that time, and generally much better rested than usual. I think it was a combination of the lower light and the lack of hyperstimulation from having a world of audio-visual, passive and interactive, entertainment at my fingertips. I'd usually read for a while then turn in, not because there wasn't more I could do (there's always more to read) but because it was just time to sleep and because I didn't have a friggin' carnival going on in my house I actually felt that.

I'd thought my whole life I was a night owl, but now I'm pretty sure 90%—or more—of the "I just can't sleep at night, it's how I am" stuff you read on here and other places on the Web is the same problem I (actually) had/have: our houses are friggin' amusement parks complete with incredibly bright lights, so we're constantly hyper-entertained and hyper-distracted. Of course we can't sleep! We've got more and better entertainment than a damn Emperor's celebratory feast would've in yester-year—with the relative plenty in food and drink to match, I might add, should we desire it—and it's on tap, in our homes, 24/7.
That's nice, but how many hours would it take to fill that space?
The illusion is that that file is the application. Correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm working off of screenshots here, but the entries in /system/Applications are not presented as shortcuts, nor are they strictly menu entries, they're presented as a single file. But the application is not a single file.
This initiative (Byteboard) is a part of a small incubator/accelerator that Google runs called "Area120". Think of it as a small startup being run separately within the company. It's unclear whether Google itself will adopt it first from the blogpost or if Byteboard will try to partner with other companies.
Measuring the Ecological Impact of the Wealthy
Great questions.

Monoculture ecosystems are fairly easy to avoid, you just have to plant different types of trees that will thrive. This is easy for the Community Tree Planting project on our site because the farmers are the ones planting the trees and they usually want to incorporate agroforestry techniques as part of their farm, so it's a fairly diverse ecosystem already—they aren't just going out and planting 100s of pine trees.

There's a few strategies to ensure wood isn't harvested. The first one is by making the trees valuable in the ground to farmers—focusing on fruit and nut trees that the farmers benefit from day to day.

Next reason is simple: they're paid to keep them in the ground.

The next is that there's social pressure. These farmers plant trees with a group of other farmers, and if anyone cuts down their trees the whole group loses some of the benefits.

It's a promising model which is why we like this partner.
The POE hat comes with a built in fan, so might be a nice option.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/poe-hat/
correct, if you run a dedicated monitoring system for a handful of targets. If you run a SaaS or a very large monitoring system for a large corporation, this doesn't fly anymore. There is simply no moment available to be down. There is always overlap with some system.
Indeed, that's a better overall definition. My comment was in the context of AirBnB and housing.
>+ religion(these days, US outright ban any casual religious reference because it offend some believers, resulting modifying some manga/anime/game)

this isn't done

>+ child porno(their definition includes some commercial Japanese manga/anime/game which we believe not possibly be a child porn since it's a pure fiction and no real-life human being harmed).

are you actually arguing in favor of not censoring this?
that's a very bad analogy. Apps waste way more bandwidth. It's better if you turn it around: "unlimited gas for you 4mpg hummer. But we will nickel and dime you if you try to ever fill up the 1L reserve tank on your electric scooter"
Esrange Rocket Shelters – Esrange, Sweden
Rumors say the keyboard will be redesigned, and the screen bezel may be thinner, giving you more screen-size-per-device-size. Also, while I don't loathe the touch bar, I wouldn't be opposed to them reversing course on it.
^ yea. My guess is that they're trying to improve the basics to the point where third party ones aren't necessary, which I'm fully in favor of. I don't really think there's any risk to them removing other managers, just competing.
If you really think about this, that looks totally like spamming someone (which is totally illegal).

This could be illegal as much. Especially in the long run.
I've been listening to podcasts for about 12+ years. I doubt their effect is much different than reading magazines. There are so many to choose from that certainly the selection makes a significant difference in the outcome.

Certainly you can select dribble that simply enables you to parrot an opinion, but you can also select engaging shows that promote critical thinking and/or expand your knowledge of the world, business, and chosen skills.
This may be related to ones number of copies of the amylase-coding genes.

Put a saltine in your mouth and start chewing it, without swallowing. Note the amount of time required until it starts to taste sweet.

Anecdotally, I never taste sweetness from this test. And I do not feel satiated by high-carb foods. I could eat spaghetti until I'm basically the gluttony murder victim from "Seven". The satiety signal from carbs is almost completely absent. The feeling of fullness only comes from the physical stretching of the stomach, or from other macronutrients.

That's why low-carb diets work better for me. I eat less when only eating foods that make me feel as though I have eaten at all.
No, it's probably not what the user wants in that moment, but it's what they should see.

And under some circumstances, it may quite literally be the most helpful result. If someone searches for Tiananmen Square, what they really need is a hint that it's time to switch to a VPN.
HttpMocker – new HTTP JVM mocking library to handle offline modes
Hardware acceleration comes in degrees... It's totally possible to hand-code some GPU firmware to decode any bitstream far more efficiently than the CPU can do it...

It's just a lot of work, and either Broadcom hasn't done it, or they don't want to license it to the Raspberry Pi.
Blind person here. I actually wonder if audiobooks don't have similar effects, on some people at least. For a while, I used to read a lot of books, mostly not requiring much thinking. Lit RPG was my favorite genre). I mostly used to read ebooks with speech synthesis at ungodly speeds which I'm used to, so I could finish medium-sized books in a single day of binge reading. I remember having book marathons, which were not that dissimilar from watching a whole season of one show on Netflix in a day. I didn't have to exert much effort, I just used the continuous reading function of my screen reader and let it speak. Not going to sleep until very late at night just to know how that damn book will end is also no news for me. The fact that there are no real breaks between parts, as in show episodes, makes it even worse. Sure, there are chapters, but switching between them in audiobooks is automatic, instantaneous, and they're sometimes short enough that I don't even pay that much attention to it.

I sometimes watch TV shows with audio description, a special audio track overlaid on top of the normal one, with a narrator describing the visual aspects, and I don't enjoy them as much as books. That form of entertainment seems to require much more concentration and I'm often tempted to just stop. I think that for us blind people, the books vs shows thing may be completely reversed.
Thanks. Yes, I made these maps several years ago.
This is an interesting idea. However, I see a couple of major problems:

1. It strongly incentivizes bad behavior for bad hires. A completely unqualified candidate would be extremely motivated to obtain an interview, since even getting to do a first round of screening might result in them being paid $100 or more.

2. It doesn't sufficiently disincentivize bad behavior for employers. Companies like Google spend A LOT on interviews. A few hundred bucks more per candidate is not going to significantly burden them enough to change any practices, especially when the cost of hiring a bad engineer is so high.
Introducing WebAssembly Interfaces
In the 90s they did something similar, wiring up some poor soul who did not have any other options with a bunch of wires to make him walk by wiring impulses from the brain to the legs eventually to abandon him with all the wires still plugged up into him when the funding was cancelled. Please don't be that guy. This is very far fetched and totally science fiction and much like most of Musk's other schemes, or maybe like Elizbeth Holmes schemes, does not really match up with reality of what's possible.
"Of course we hope that when they operate in China they respect China's laws and rules, China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and the feelings of the Chinese people."

>Three biggest US airlines bow to China Taiwan demand as deadline passes

That was interim solution, if you check AA / United / Delta, they removed references of "China" for Chinese/Taiwanese cities name altogether. Also asking companies to conform to UN recognized sovereign states as bullying is pretty silly.
> subtracting nutrients

Could you name at least one?
You can probably do it without divisions if you use the name table creatively... You can place line 720 of the input at line 192 of the name table (720 modulo 256 is 192) as long as everything above and below it is displayed correctly.
Tim Davis also wrote the underlying code for much of scipy.sparse (his code is underneath almost all sparse matrix libs [1]). See...

[1] Tim Davis Research http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/research.html
Adding TLS cert expiraton warning is one of the things on the roadmap :)
> I can't agree with that conclusion. Where has the "low power" goal come from

...ok, checking again I may have read that into the goals when it wasn't.
Also, many device screens and light bulbs have daylight color temperature which can disrupt melatonin. It's amazing how blue LEDs are built into everything.

I wish some of the smart bulbs makers would get rid of their fancy mood lighting colors and make a light bulb that automatically adjusts its color temperature and brightness with the sun (or at least an ideal sun cycle if you don't want to go to bed at 5pm in the winter, or live in Alaska).
Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them
Additionally, this is an investigation into "anti-competitive practices" by the "competition commissioner".

Not into "monopoly" by the "antitrust", the title is misleading.