skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that SI is generally used for engineering

Except when it isn't? Are you telling me SI is used in engineering everywhere in the US? I've heard too many stories (especially accidents) to believe that in any way.
I think their power density claims must be comparing to the power density of a motor plus gearbox.
These t-shirts will look nice when they make versions addressing Automated Face Readers.
Do you really believe that Uber is run on a technology stack that is 40-50 years old?

Of course not, but I do believe - because it’s demonstrably true - that those challenges are not unique to Uber, and that they have been solved many, many times over.

For example sure, Uber handles a lot of trips. But every one of those trips is backed by a credit card processor, without the latter even breaking a sweat. I guarantee that Mastercard or whoever barely even notices the additional workload they get from Uber.
> How cooling of rotor being achieved ?

How construct grammatical sentence?
Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records
A cure will:

- Completely destroy competitor's lifelong treatments

- Can be sold at a higher price

- Will help you make best use of your 20 year patent

- If particularly effective, will get you priority on drug testing, grants,... and good publicity.
0.3.0 gfx-hal API is recently released:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cnvfrm/gfxhal03_relea...
Google launches new search engine to help scientists find datasets
Agree. It’s easy to have 5 9s of uptime when you’re not shipping any new features. In fact that’s the response that some companies have when their uptime SLAs are in danger of being violated - fewer features are shipped.
I've heard he was a supporter of some radical political groups. Maybe they're looking for a link? Co-perpetrators etc.?
I've been doing it like that as well for years. Most people you explain it (replace the number with a sum of fibonacci numbers, and for each one, take the next)
to come back with "but it becomes less accurate for larger numbers, right?". After you say "hm, no!" there's a pause, and then the penny drops: Golden ratio!

Anyway, I can't remember where I learned it.
I had no idea that the interceptor missiles are so toxic. Can anyone explain further why that is, and why no safer alternatives are available?
Good for Linus. I'm honestly surprised that he doesn't try to get more involved in promoting more competition and openness of hardware vendors, but I do appreciate his general neutrality and style in the community that he has fostered. However, he could potentially create more positive influence within innovation if he took a more stern stance and really pushed back, but I'm guessing he has to walk a pretty fine line to politically operate at the level he does, or he would risk corporate backlash that has near infinite money to set the narrative.

I do wish though that he would take more of the Stallman approach, and advocate for more open-source activism via tech, especially when it comes to politics and governance. There is so much potential to really improve the environment, social justice, and create a society that prioritizes innovation over greed, but unfortunately it seems like it would take someone like Linus to really push the agenda in the position that he is currently in, rather than wait to see what happens after he is gone, because there will be a lot of disingenuous people that will try to take his place.
It's a part of our socioeconomic system. Our economy is run on carrots and sticks. The carrots have to look bigger and the sticks have to look bigger.

If we stopped caring so much about grades, the education system wouldn't work as planned. If we didn't care about salary, the workforce system wouldn't work.

Past a certain point, food and housing is not that big an influence on workforce. Hence status symbols.

Another aspect: animals crave both status and territory. As time goes on, we start to own less and less 'territory' (smaller houses, less transportation, less long term jobs, even our movies and music aren't our own). So we make up for it by trying to own more things, or trying to project our status with status symbols.
The guy seems Indian so he probably belongs to the "confused about existing" category
you want to apply so called best practices you need an above average tech team

Actually, the opposite is true. To apply best practices you need people with attention to detail who can follow a runbook precisely. You need relatively few to keep the runbooks up to date. Traditionally the former were referred to as “operators”.
Can you link the amazon listing?
Wait, how's this helpful?

People who use localized Wikipedia are, in my experience, either a) looking for something not present in en.wiki or b) not proficient in English.

I don't see how it would help, if this is the case. Plus, also in the English Wikipedia, is not that pages are born complete. It's a refinement process. If you remove the stubs, wouldn't it become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
I believe you have never worked for major tech company? In the company this size, they have multi product line (Uber, Uber Eats, Uber Freight, ATG etc) which are supported by their platform and infrastructure. It requires tons of eng work. Unlike smaller company seeks existing solution like open source, Uber needs to solve many of these themselves, which means build from scratch and also build tools to support it from scratch. Also, being the leader, you'll need to gain edge over competitors, e.g for Lyft or others, it’s sufficient to use Google Map or some other third party vendor as routing and ETA service, but Uber has its own Map team to improve the user experience. Hope this helps you understand
They could save a substantial amount of the salaries by offshoring their technical team.

Even to the UK, where tech salaries top out around $100k.
A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (2015)
Perhaps. I mostly concur with the article. I think FCC deregulation was poorly done. I'm not happy with the wording of my prior statement but I'm not going to edit it. What I was thinking when I wrote it was "cheer up, things will work out okay"
don't they still use pounds per square inch ?

Now, in Europe (excluding the UK) they also still use some weird units from the past. Calories for example, and horse (!!) power.
Writing and testing Kubernetes webhooks using Kubebuilder v2
There could be much higher margins in the digital distributed content. Could also drive user signups if they run ads for "watch this movie you want to see for free for the first month".
Yes, Alibaba started with investments from Softbank and Goldman Sachs.

It really is a private startup story like those in the Silicon Valley.
> The concept of state and corporation should be separate to protect freedom is really a US phenomenon or ideal.

Not even in US this phenomenon is very strong. US protects its corporations with political and military means all the time, so I am not sure what separation you are talking about. In words there mightbbe some pretense for separation, but actions show otherwise.
Nope. Hence generally. I haven't made a study of it but I assume Imperial units are more common in civil engineering and other areas that converge with local construction and building trades. Metric is pretty standard in my experience more broadly. (Note also that the better known examples of unit conversion accidents are pretty old as far as I know.)
PSI is very commonplace though I'm not in a field where I use it in an engineering way. (I actually had to think for a second to come up with the SI equivalent.)

Pounds are one of the real bugbears of imperial in mechanical engineering with lb-f and slugs (i.e. "pounds" conflates mass and weight). Always hated that. I'd convert things to metric and then convert back when I had to work in Imperial.

And I still hear stones from time to time in the UK if you really want archaic.
Thanks. In Greece also (where I'm originally from) the TV tax is rolled in to the electricity bill and you can opt out. I haven't heard of any inspections but that's because nothing works in the Greek public sector. Or anywhere in the whole country.
I get that it's for fun but the danger is security. Someone could use this as a "fun" feature at work and then get pwned.
Turkish here, we use French or Chinese
Think about DARPA and their competitions.
I don't think so. Drivers are looking for short-term opportunities that are mildly rewarding. I think they already faced the reality that making $25,000 a year to drive around and get to meet and network with people is a better fit for them than a factory job or fast food work. I don't think this fits the profile for all of them, but I also don't think they compare their jobs to IT employees and would only be bothered by it if there was an opportunity to unionize behind it to see some benefit.
Elizabeth Warren?
I use π/2

Relevant xk: https://xkcd.com/1047/
Can You Resume a Dream?
There is no reason except for hard to use implementations that the computer isn't encrypted.

If you're fine with phone encryption, you gotta expect the same for computers.
Low birth rate is a sign of intelligence, it has nothing to do with suicides.
Is there an alternative link? Something without paywall?
It is politically more feasible to ban encryption in the US than it is to ban guns (or even significantly restrict them).

Wait, I'm wrong. Even essentially insignificant changes to gun laws at the federal level are harder than banning crypto.
Pretty cool, but anytime I see something promoting Debian anymore, I can't help but think it is probably outdated and cumbersome to create and manage packages, especially compared to Arch or Alpine, and definitely more bloated than Alpine.
“UK-issued Renewable Guarantees of Origin and Guarantees of Origin for combined heat and power will no longer be recognised in the EU. If an existing contract with an EU countries’ electricity supplier or trader requires an EU-recognised Guarantee of Origin, it is possible that the contract could be compromised”
Hope this helps you understand

Uber’s operations are orders of magnitude less complex than the supply chain and logistics of any major manufacturer. Or government or military. Or the post office or the phone company. Even McDonalds keeping its restaurants supplied and ice-cream machines working. All the cool tech Uber developed they did for fun. Because they had nothing better to do.

Hope this helps you understand.
4 weeks is the legal minimum where I live, so that doesn’t seem like a lot at all.

Also, the problem with unlimited vacation days is that you don’t get paid for unused days when you quit your job.
And Google translate properly detects and translates the language too.

Well despite the first sentence "He puke documents and Wikipedia", the translation seems consistent.
Not if you just remember 3,5,8,13 . You do not need to remember all fibonacci numbers, just the above and rest you can multiple by 2,5,10 and get them
Saying Goodbye to Flash in Chrome
Sure it would be nice to have access to the phone, but it is just one of many pieces of evidence that may be gathered, and mostly it is redundant with other sources. If he used the phone for contacting co-terrorists there are trails in many other locations, unless he really knew how to hide his tracks, in which case it is unlikely that he would have left any trails on his phone either.
I agree the east asia approach is better if it works in the ideal situation.

The problem is everyone is not perfect. Power and wealth corrupts. And even if we are lucky to have the ideal situation at some point, no one can guarantee the next.

That's why we need separation of power: a system with checks and balances. I think as of now we don't have a equation to make the perfect system, but democracy is proven to be the best we've got so far.
Yes. This just shows the problem that was already there. The GDPR is fundamentally a thing about having the responsibility to handle people's data properly The companies that failed, obviously cannot handle the responsibility of managing personal data without it getting into the hands of the wrong people and they shouldn't have had it in the first place.

It's much harder to test but this is a good indicator that they probably also don't have controls to manage employee access.
Must be iPhone then, not Android.
Do they though? I've read about senior level offers from Uber in London paying about 160k£. Might help explain their current situation.
Agreed, but I'm not sure those are two separate things. How do you force someone to charge more for something? And, presumably, not keep the difference?
This could actually encourage filtering for better quality content.

I could totally see bots writing most of the YouTube, reddit, and Instagram me-too-style content.

What about your average HN post?

If people want to not look like spam, they're going to have to start being more insightful. This is good.
To be honest, the solution here is different. Just allow for signed firmware that uses the TPM without a time-lock.

Similar things could be done for many forms of encryption at rest secured by a TPM based on a PIN or fingerprints. (Though I am not sure about fingerprints).

This can essentially be done without key escrow. Though you could see this as key escrow where the signing key for code that accesses the TPM as the master key.
A Secure Cloud with Minimal Provider Trust [pdf]
After the second or third, I wouldn't take the alerts seriously anymore. At least they are running their psychological and behavioral analysis operations there, instead of someplace like Hawaii:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...

Also, if they are worried about North Korea missiles being an actual threat, then they should take up their concerns with the President.
Carl Zeiss AG and Schott AG are owned by a foundation managed by the science ministries of the two German states where Zeiss was founded and where it is currently headquartered, a structure which has its origins in the Zeiss firm's original incorporation in 1889.
I thought the same way for a while, perhaps I still do in a way. After thinking about it a while, I settled on this. It might help. Probably wont.

The universe indeed, has not prescribed in its laws, a purpose for human beings, or a set of morals to uphold. The only purpose evolution gives us is to pass on genes. Hardly inspiring. I think instead, that we should spread our beliefs. How should we treat people? What is moral, what's not? Let's move humanity ever so slightly and slowly closer to our ideals.

Its true that we all only have a tiny part to play, and that really goes for all of us. Society is huge, and it changes slowly. People act on their beliefs, and anyone could change a few people, contributing to the slow shift of rhetoric and societal values and beliefs.

Another somewhat unrelated thing that might help you is the disbelief in Free Will - for that, check out Sam Harris' seminar on it: https://youtu.be/pCofmZlC72g
The day you first write a "useful" program in your own instruction set is a good day to look forward to!

I've been dabbling in Z80 assembly recently, and wrote a program to convert lower-case input to upper-case. Not useful, but the first "real" thing I've done for 20 years in Z80.
Yep, considering the concentration of wealth in few hands and the fact that most of these hands are politically well connected and fund political careers the system may not be so different. Old taxonomies for political systems can blind us for key similarities.
You beat me to it μεγάλε (big guy), first word out of my mouth was κινέζικα (Chinese) -- in fact we use the term 'Κινέζος' (Chinese) as somewhat of an unknown unknown so to speak -- it's the same with the origin of the word for turkey (the bird) every culture seems to have a different locale in mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)#History_and_nami...)

As for learning Japanese, believe me, it's nothing compared to Greek -- there are not as many tenses, nor genders, nor verb conjugations I'd suggest it's very similar to Hebrew which itself is rather similar to Greek in many ways
Uhm, the corporations handing out private data to the wrong person, are definitely violating the GDPR or probably some earlier privacy law, because you also weren't supposed to give out people's personal data like that before the GDPR either.
This is mildly related, but it's an interesting data point.

I was at a bar tonight and I chatted with a guy who works for a major cable provider. Apparently they generate 10 petabytes of data an hour on what you watch, when you watch it etc. That's a lot when you take into account that its all text columns in a MSQL database somewhere. I think they have enough room to have it stashed in S3 for a week before it goes into cold storage because otherwise it's just too bloody expensive.

What are they storing you ask? There's a whole tree on what you're demographics are, a tree on what your device is, a tree on what you are watching etc. And they're all cross referenced with what ad you watch, for how long, when in the show etc.

All of this whizbang tech to find out how to make sure you spend that extra dollar on whatever crap they want you to. I'm sure that the coming automation is pretty horrifying, but what we have now is pretty terrible as well.
The solid rocket boosters are toxic, but are safer and more reliable to keep fueled and ready to launch continuously than less-toxic liquid-fueled rockets, which are an available technology.

Immediate/continuous launch readiness is something of an essential feature in this role, so you don't compromise on it.
Before I answer, do you want to change a particular module, particular text or you want to change site-wide things?
For small utilities I prefer to use docopt (https://github.com/docopt/docopt.rs). With docopt you just write down the documentation how you imagine the tool to be used and the docopt magic generates the command line parsing for you.
One of Uber's most impressive accomplishments was that they were able to generate sympathy in many circles for the incumbent cab companies. It took real ingenuity for them to get themselves painted as the bad guys given how, in most markets, essentially no one likes cabs. OK, people are fine with private cars and cabs in a few cities like London (mostly) but they're expensive.

Uber and Lyft really are better experiences than random cabs most of the time but their culture still managed to turn off a lot of people who worry about such things.
At this point it sorts of starts to be the collective responsibility of us all to not let these people win. If people knowledgeable about the subject remain silent, the message of the malicious actors becomes the signal in the noise.
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That’s awesome how the could align the coords like that. Reminds me of Osaka where I could look up and see phone lines everywhere. It was beautiful in a chaotic and nostalgic kind of way.
As a reader of an analyst report you expect facts. As a buyer you can choose either facts or fud.
>It's something that's been consumed for millennia. There are societies based on pastoralism where milk is a huge part of the diet. I'd hardly classify it as being an obsession.

Obsession is probably the wrong word, but I'd still be curious as to the history behind it (and how long it continued into adulthood). Especially given its association with and place in a juvenile diet.
How do ERP implementations work, and what is the hardest part?
The White House Readies Draft of Executive Order That Could Break the Internet
I think I am not even close to this day :/ But I agree!
The population might have grown faster than the amount of holiday accomodation supply did, coupled, I would guess, with there being much more demand from international visitors just generally.

Perhaps there is also higher income inequality between workers? I’m not sure about Italy specifically, but generally there has always been inequality, but it has usually between the upper class that didn’t have to work and the lower class that did. I would guess the upper class would holiday whenever they wanted? I would assume that now there’s a large group of middle class workers given time off at the same time, and they would be a lot more cashed up and in direct competition for accomodation and travel fares with the lower class workers.

So plenty of reasons that could be the case. I imagine the huge growth in international tourism meaning huge numbers of visitors would be the biggest contributor.
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I thought the expression derived from the use of Greek alphabet characters in advanced math. With complex formulas looking like a bunch of Greek writing, this idiom fits perfectly.
It hasn't been shown to work that well yet. Most quality innovation and research still happens in free-er countries.
One quick extra note about the argument of file size. Those who argument about "more html size" never thought people has to download a huge CSS file for 2 o 3 pageviews. With the current state of the web, the trade off isn't that painful, in fact, you will see that projects done with React, Vue or similar the trade off is a bargain you cannot avoid.

HTML is faster, by default, as I state in the article. It's the first document and it's the first one processed. If you have a CSS file of 10kb gziped your chances will be huge in comparison with the averaga ~160kb of some projects.

The problem with inline-css (how the modern js framework are handling) is that clashes with the responsive world and cannot be preprocessed so easily as other projects.

Besides the file size factor, give a check to the other points in the arguments: amount of rules slows the loading speed, rendering and painting, etc.

You're sticking to CSS, we also stick too :)
> Another example is the FDA. Good example here is Monsanto. While it was under US ownership everything was fine. Once it got sold to Bayer, suddenly stuff is carcinogenic.

The FDA doesn't do that for pesticides, it just makes sure quantities in foods are within EPA limits. https://www.fda.gov/food/pesticides/questions-and-answers-gl...

The EPA is the one who would make the determination you suggest, but in fact they still say the opposite: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-04-3...

It's trial juries in the US that have been giving Bayer problems with regard to RoundUp, not regulatory agencies. Which doesn't fit with your government conspiracy theory.
> Git is a DAG navigation tool that can diff text, and the API shows it.

That seems like a relatively accurate characterization.

> Mercurial is a version control system that happens to abstract over a DAG. The API, similarly, shows it.

I am unfamiliar with the details of mercurial. Could you explain or link to something detailing that point?
> WireGuard is 4000 LOC, IPSec is 400,000 LOC and OpenVPN is of similar complexity.

Bollocks.

$ cat netinet/ip_ah.c netinet/ip_ecn.c \
netinet/ip_esp.c netinet/ip_ipsp.c netinet/ip_spd.c \
netinet/ipsec_input.c netinet/ipsec_output.c | wc -l
6445

You're comparing apples and oranges. Most critics implicitly count IKE and other PKI-related bits as part of IPSec. But Wireguard doesn't offer anything comparable. So if you want to compare apples & apples, you can only compare the actual transport layer. Wireguard is still more elegant, but of course Wireguard has the benefit of hindsight and IPSec has 20+ years of operational fixes.

What's happening is that because Wireguard doesn't include PKI people end up gluing together poor man's PKI with shell scripts and shoe strings. PKI is the hard part of key management, and because Wireguard doesn't attempt to solve it, it doesn't incur any of those costs. And the people who do try to solve it and get it horrible wrong, well I guess that's just not Wireguard's fault, right? How convenient.
Don’t lessen his achievements by connecting him with movie critics.