skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lying to the investigator is worse. Ultimately getting a clearance depends on a judgement call from several people. Answering truthfully to a very open ended question like that is not necessarily a dealbreaker.

More targeted followup questions may be worse. Stuff like acting on impulses, doing stuff that you could be blackmailed for, seeking out materials, etc...

People see questions on the forms and think that answering yes anywhere means no job, but what they really want to know is if someone can get leverage over you to betray their trust and if you can show a good level of judgement and maturity.
there's always bugs in software even if you trust the developers...
Large moissanite stones are vastly cheaper than equivalent-quality natural diamonds at trade prices; if you can afford a decent .75ct diamond, you can afford a 15ct moissanite. When cut correctly, moissanite is visibly superior to diamond in fire and brilliance. That's a large part of the reason why small synthetic stones aren't as cheap as you might hope - it takes about the same amount of skilled labour to properly cut a natural diamond, a lab-grown diamond or a moissanite. CZ stones are cheap and look cheap, in large part because they're crudely cut.
How much does it cost to keep everyone who wants to from gathering your personal data from that $100 phone, though?
Does it do turn-by-turn?

I currently use Google Maps on my Android phone for its navigation.

That's important to me, but another user is saying there are Linux apps that do that already, so for me, that's even better!
> but all them are willing to put a gun in their mouths if it comes to that.

An easy thing to say when it is still some distant future event.
It's better because it uses mainline open source Linux drivers.

Your Android phone has drivers written for a specific kernel version. The userspace software can be kept up to date for a little while by making it work with the old kernel, but when applications eventually start to depend on newer kernel features it's time to chuck the phone in trash and buy a new one.
The biggest pro is that it gives you infrastructure change traceability.
They even cited a source
Google could pay developers for popular extensions.

The money doesn't have to come directly from the users.
I see these kinds of books as good points for reference. These days I like video formats that reference the theory and show real world examples.
I am 40 and I do not currently plan on retiring. I still put money into retirement for my spouse, but as for me, I think that when I lose the ability or simply the willpower for continued productivity that there is simply no point anymore. I refuse to be a pressure on the earth's ecology if I cannot aid in the development of the world in the interest of posterity and their well being. My last huzzah will hopefully be meaningful use of my corpse for scientific purposes, or even my live body should it be allowed at that point.
While true, this still restricts you to learning one trace per input. With symbolic representations of a program, you can perform symbolic execution (whether in your head or using a formal tool) to understand whole classes of traces in one go.

Determinism is important, but it’s also not enough. You want some analogue of continuity / smoothness to be able to generalize observations based on one input to others that you haven’t tried.
Economies of scale kick in when you own the fleet. I'm also not sure about the statement "most of their drivers are making little more than the cost of operating their vehicle".
In most of the country $40k/year is a very reasonable salary for a full-time, mid-level office role.
Discord's voice features are only really live and full duplex. Think more like party line / conference bridge than sending recorded snippets. There also isn't a built-in way to record such voice communications. That said, there are many other chat platforms which either support voice snippets in conversations (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Signal) or even are focused on sending voice snippets (Voxer, Viber).
"Do things that don't scale" ... and then cash out before the market notices.
Yes it will be. I've compared houses with junkyards next to them to houses without and it made no difference. Junkyards next to your house implies a rural area, where your neighbors will have horses and tractors. Your house isn't that close to theirs in the first place. Either that or the junkyard has been there for years - the neighborhood is probably bad, but the junkyard isn't the cause it is the effect.
FWIW I tried going to the zoning board for the parking issue mentioned above, and I got different answers from different people (which is a big problem in and of itself), but basically the answer I got from city officials was "you have to do this if you want to build a duplex." The lot is already zoned/approved for duplex, and whether there are 2 or 4 parking spots won't affect things like utility capacity.
My dog almost pulled out of his harness and took off a few weeks ago because of some random evening fireworks. It's not a harmless thing.
It means people know how you voted and also your identity
Hey while we're all poking and having fun, has anyone mentioned here why 'red'?

I've never developed film photographs myself and just assumed it was for the benefit of preserving low-light sensitivity in our eyes rather than anything related to exposing the paper to different wavelengths of light--just lower intensities that we can still see.
I'd second that. Some years ago I had a look at the quake 3 bots code, which I think were also written by John Carmack. The code was amazingly intuitive.
In Berlin it's mostly "späti" - short for "spätkauf" or "late purchases". There's a big culture around them.
This reminds of a Business 101 professor (former tech CEO) that I had in college. He liked to survey Freshman on their preferences. I don't remember the category precisely, but he was visibly taken aback and commented that "McDonalds" had never NOT been the #1 in one of the Freshman preference categories (I'm guessing it was for "favorite fast food", but I can't remember precisely). This struck me as a great way to keep a pulse on the market.

I bet he'd pick up the diamond trend if that was in his survey!

I got married a few years back, both of us in our mid 30s. I never intended to buy a diamond, and instead bought a sapphire engagement ring. Interestingly, it wasn't until AFTER we got engaged that I found out/realized that both her mother AND grandmother wore sapphire rings. Her 100 year old grandmother had been married multiple times, but her last and favorite engagement ring was a sapphire, despite having certainly received plenty of diamonds throughout her lifetime.
well you can use most JWT libraries with alg: none but specify the alg (so not none alg) it still is against the spec, but it works in over 70% of all libraries.
I've pretty much told my family my primary issue is happiness and comfort. If I'm even at the point where I'm not able to enjoy my life any longer and there's little chance of that improving they are free to pull the plug on me. I don't want to burden them with medical expenses or draw out pain and suffering needlessly.
Nice quote from the piece:
"The structure of the community that develops a new technology is formative to its evolution. Innovation requires high bandwidth information exchange between people. The design of technology is as much about the design of organizations and processes as it is machines."
Well, to put it bluntly: I don't need to be consistent. I only want to play my physical Switch games on my Switch. I don't expect to be able to back them up. The fact that it's copy-protected and locked down and all that doesn't change my mind. I should, within reasonable limits (the cartridge being stolen by silverback apes, the Switch cartridge port going bad, etc), be able to play my Switch physical games indefinitely, and for that, I am fine with the DRM implemented on the Switch and my entire collection of handheld devices which have similar policies.

DRM that requires verification to a central server is guaranteed to not function in a few years, and that kind of DRM I am not OK with. Those game will die soon, and tons of games die every year. See these videos for info on them: https://www.accursedfarms.com/videos/dead-game-news

I find it interesting that when someone points out something they do not care for, they have to 100% reject everything under that umbrella in a weird "zero-tolerance policy". I have no clue why, according to every discussion on the Internet, I cannot, for example, dislike sports cars, but think that the Bugatti Veyron is pretty cool. Not everything has to be 0 or 1.

Then again this is hacker news so maybe it's the inner engineer in us all.
Echoing twic's disbelief here. A quick googling turned up Coca-Cola's global advertising budget as being $4 billion/year [1].

>Coca-Cola has made a yearly commitment to large ad spends. In 2017, the beverage manufacturer spent $3.96 billion, in 2016, $4 billion, and in 2015 $3.96 billion on global advertising.

But I'm not sure if that's a comparable figure, as "advertising" is only a subset of "marketing". Still, if the latter is basically just the former plus salaries, it still suggests Uber is overpaying and/or has some inefficiencies in how they operate here.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/081315/look-co...
Maybe the experience is better than usual at the Costco store across the street from Costco headquarters is Issaquah, Washington, where I usually go.
If we get enough YIMBYs and pro-reform Democrats on the DCCC, then the type of candidate the Democratic party supports will fundamentally change. The DCCC on my side of the city (East side) has 14 seats, so we have to run and elect as many pro-growth people as possible.

Enacting this vision will take years of diligent hard work, but that's what I'm signing up for.
Pretty sure that's a vanishingly small minority of churches. BTW, did you know Jesus provided us a protocol for correcting such misguided churchmembers? You can read about it in Matthew 18:15-17. You should accept Christ as Lord and Savior and then apply this protocol against the offending church-leaders. If they refuse to listen to you, Jesus himself sanctions you treating them as outcasts!
That's rotten.
there are just as many people involved in shooting missiles from drones as from manned craft
I always thought a great idea for stepping over this whole problem is a robust tagging/categorizing system, and then make certain tags opt-in to view. That would be the least amount of work and least likely to be upsetting to reasonable people.

That aside, the one worry I share is that the outrage is going to drive a legislative solution that ends up splitting the baby and sucking for all parties concerned. I was entirely serious when I said this situation wasn't tenable, though. Too much emotion/polarization/etc for something to not give soon.
Since we're talking about tech startup marketing budgets, it's a good time to reread http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"
I would really like air exchange systems to be mandated, and the a noise rating that includes testing with windows shut.

If I shut my windows I should NOT be able to hear the kids screaming outside nor other loud outside things (emergency sirens/etc).
> The "smartphone" is essentially a small "glass TTY", rather than personal computer in the '80s sense.

We now have a generation or two that completely missed this era, and, worse, might be uninterested in the history. The idea that you would have a ubiquitous, portable, always-on personal computing device and that -- at least from the perspective of people who are knowledgeable of about this history -- you would put a Unix on it is completely crazy.

It is, as you say, an expensive and sleek teletype emulator
Lambda employees always do PR damage on HN. Had commented about a poor experience of mine and was told to reach out via email, no response ever. They're all talk.
Semantics. Cars don’t cost that much to operate. Uber doesn’t cost that much. The portion going to the human take home pay minus car value depreciation and other expenses is small, but a substantial chunk of it.
What do you mean? It seems like you described Lake Meade -- the reservoir created by the hoover dam.
"Thanks for the free shipping by the way."

You are welcome!

Just out of curiosity, as I do not know much about nuclear power: could you give some example of an existing reactor with advanced technologies you just haven't built enough yet and which can reprocess old fuel?

I just googled a bit. The most modern nuclear plant, which is going into operation by the end of 2019, seems to be Olkiluoto 3 in finland. Building time (without planning and licensing procedure) was 14 years and that building time and the actual costs missed the forecasts by pretty exactly the factor pi. This plant is NOT processing old fuel. The current calculations says, if the plant runs for 60 years under full load without interruption, the price of the generated electric power will be equivalent to the price of offshore windpower as it is today. China hasn't started new nuclear power plants since 2016, as the produced electricity would be 20% more than solar and wind.
https://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Atomkraft-Die-letzten-ihrer-...

By the way: all of this calculations do not at all include costs for storing wasted fuel for a couple of thousands years (which is ok, because, as you say, there won't be any, as it can be reused in your reactors).

So any hints where I can find more information about the new reactors that burn old fuel??
If a public company open-sources something (as Uber has done on occasion) that gives them a competitive advantage, could they be sued by shareholders for giving away something valuable?
Adds friction. Ideally user-made extensions should be more trusted and easier to work with than Internet-sourced ones. I can understand that in practice, if user can make something, the user can also be convinced by an attacker to selfpwn through, but we ought to accept some level of that risk.
The Windows API was very ugly... not to mention unnecessarily complicated. It does not belong in this thread.
Have you read the GPL? It makes very little sense for hardware (it’s actually a pretty weird license full of all kinds of software specific things. “Linking” to “operating system components” for example doesn’t make them a derivative work, whatever all that means. There’s quite a lot of other stuff.)

The argument for using the GPL when creating copyleft software is that most copyleft software uses the GPL and you want everything to have a compatible license, that’s not really the case for hardware.
>>Facebook should responsible for the data they collect – not websites which use their widget. Safe harbor laws need to be strengthened.

In another POV: you are sending users and their data to FB by them using the share button you added to your site. YOU. The fact that FB is doing the same in violating the laws is separate. Now FB will create a new button

From the press release: The consequence of embedding that button appears to be that when a visitor consults the website of Fashion ID, that visitor’s personal data are transmitted to Facebook Ireland. It seems that that
transmission occurs without that visitor being aware of it and regardless of whether or not he or
she is a member of the social network Facebook or has clicked on the ‘Like’ button.
I loved the spätis when I visited. Being able to buy beer at 3am is definitely convenient.
The median is 10 to 14 years.
"Dark Background and Light Text" for Firefox has worked for me. Some necessary background images are still invisible, though I chalk those up to bad implementions.
> By studying the existing commands issued, and by being able to interject new ones and block old ones you can change the system without caring about the implementation of those commands.

There's a sort of semantic shell game happening here, though. It's like:

1. Understanding the code is hard.

2. So instead we'll use these event things and you only need to understand the events.

3. And events are so great that we'll design a language around them and implement the whole program using them.

Step 3 is equivalent to step 1 now, except that instead of "statements" and "expressions" you have "events" and "yields". It's still "the code" for any meaningful definition. It's an authored system with behavior that you need to understand before you can profitably modify it. All you've gained now is that instead of textual code you can read and at least somewhat reason about statically, you have a dynamic stream of events coming from who-knows-where and you have to somehow hold the entire possible state space of them in your head in order to add new code that patches them on the fly.

> Obviously to not have the water jump to hot or code by 3 units before it gets to lukewarm, but to incrementally make it lukewarm.

Obvious to whom? What is to prevent some future maintainer from breaking that requirement when they bolt on their change?

There was clearly a previous requirement to have the water jump to cold by three units. Is that requirement null and void? How do we know?
So set aside bullying a US alley and a democracy. We shouldn't be trading with a dicatorship anyway.
> There is an entire class of people who are living paycheck to paycheck.

Like over 75% of all full time workers in America. If you aren't living paycheck to paycheck you're much better off than the vast majority of the nation.
Nope. Those are books. Try again.
I’ve always referred to them as the alimentaire. At least that is what’s written on the canvas.
> I'd argue those ain't "primitives" in that case; what differentiates a "primitive" from some other kind of computation is that it can't be broken down further.

Usually when you program you don't create a library made out of the lowest level primitives. You start out with higher level primitives and hopefully if your design is correct, all upper layers are different compositions of this lowest level set of primitives.

I am talking about this layer of primitives. If you chose your primitives incorrectly and find out that you need to break apart your primitives, it is far easier to do this if your primitives themselves were also made out of compositions of lower level primitives. If your primitives were already a tangle of objects and procedures this would be very hard.

>Depends on how you define "procedure". In the sense used in procedural programming, you certainly can compose them (i.e. by jumping into a subroutine that in turn jumps into other subroutines, pushing and popping things to/from the stack in the process). This is a pretty fundamental concept for threaded interpreters, and Forth in particular (as well as other stack-driven concatenative languages descended from it) exemplifies this as the very basis of the language itself.

I defined what I mean by composition. By procedure I mean a list of procedures of instructions. What does it mean to compose steps One through five with steps six through ten? Is steps six through ten compose-able with another set of steps from a whole different sub routine? Most likely no. You cannot define a singular function compose(step1, step6) = step4 like I described in my definition.

>Object composition (both by including objects within other objects and by using interfaces and implementations thereof) has been a thing for multiple decades now.

Does this fit with what I defined as composition? No it does not.

Object composition is a horrible word. It is not true composition. Dependency injection is a more fitting word for what is actually happening. You are making one object depend on another object, you are not composing two objects to form a new object. When objects "compose" you create dependencies and custom glue code to make everything fit together.

When I refer to composition I am talking about how bricks compose to form a wall. There is only a singular form of composition to compose bricks into a wall and each brick can exist without a dependency to another brick.

"Object composition" is using as much concrete as possible to compose bricks of every geometric shape into a mishmash ball of solids.

Again objects and procedures do not compose like bricks. Another programming primitive is more suited for this. Maybe someone knows what this primitive is.
I think driver incentives falls under marketing spend at Uber. Driver Incentives are they will pay driver $X to make $Y trips. Essentially riders are paying $5 and drivers are making $6. I believe this is where most of the money is burned at Lyft as well.
> Quant finance is nakedly a battle of wit.

I'm afraid it's also a battle of least ethics. Ethics can be considered in a broad sense here.
> Apps to hail a cab are interchangeable commodities as far as I can tell.

That's what I keep getting stuck on. It's getting easier to compete with Uber and I don't think that's going to change. They have a well known brand but even that feels like it's on verge of becoming genericized.
Is there any upper limit to the amount of paperwork you feel is appropriate to protect from 'trump university' copycats?
If you've spent months and $20k, now "wasted", in a school environment then I have serious questions about the school's feedback and gating systems. Why wasn't this individual given unambiguous signals about their progress (i.e. insufficient)? Even hard stops because they "failed a required class" or similar?
Your comment reminds me of something Dan Luu had written about.

https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

> I can't think of a single large software company that doesn't regularly draw internet comments of the form “What do all the employees do?"

Granted he's mostly talking about engineers, but I'm sure someone more knowledgable about marketing could write an almost identical essay.
Wins against newspapers for libel are extremely rare in First Amendment country.
>He argues that demand remains robust, and millennials will covet diamonds the same way their parents and grandparents did.

RIP diamond industry.
Not sure if you're talking about the recent Chrome drama, but if so, "geeks were up in arms" because the new architecture essentially neutered ad blockers through the limits imposed on the block lists.
The sheer amount of bones makes you wonder how many souls ended there, a truly unique sight.
The graph appears to me to show Java as in use before its release. Or am I mistaking the colors?
CSS has one of the strangest designs in all of computing. It's simultaneously Turing-complete yet too weak to easily encode many common types of styling. It has practically no abstraction capabilities, no namespacing, and its syntax at every level (selector syntax, Unicode escaping, etc) is different from the other languages it has to interoperate with, for no apparent reason.

I doubt Hypercard would have ever gotten anything like CSS. It was unlikely enough that CSS ended up anything like CSS!
a gesture of financial commitment

My wife and I decided to build a house together instead of getting expensive rings and having a wedding. We paid $15 for a wedding, the rings were a little more.

I think it must be very easy to come up with ways to have productive financial commitment together. There must be all kinds of things you can do.

Financial commitment and sweat(!) commitment: https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9zGc4aCat6qjNeEA

(We did not build the entire house, just lots of finishing stuff)

Wedding: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1152244909077913600
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