skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rewards are ok for a free card as long as you use Apple Pay. Don't use the physical card if you care about rewards (I didn't even order the card). The clear, daily cash back feature is nice.
I wasn't trying to find a mate but I ended up meeting my current and likely life-partner during a particularly "stoic" time of my life where I had decided to stop trying so hard to make other people happy and focus on my own goals. I didn't stop holding the door open for ladies, or anyone passing through with or behind me, but I did re-align my career and life focus.

Since I wasn't trying extra-hard to win and keep her as I had in previous relationships I think it allowed us to find the places where our interests truly overlapped and allowed us a much deeper connection. I ended up having two kids with her and we get along and work together great. She's more attractive than me and makes more money, so what I offer her is not superficial, but I don't know that she would have discovered that in me if I had been trying hard to amplify those superficial attributes.

So I think there is something to be said for pulling back a bit on pulling out the chairs and paying all the bills but not for the same reasons you seem to think so. Also, I think many women are rightly cautious about a potential mate who seems to be trying too hard.
TRUMP: Trump Lightyear to Space Command.
Come in, Space Command.
(...)
Space Command - come in.
Do you read me?
(to himself)
Why don't they answer?!!
(GASP)
My ship!!
does not hold an edge, which is why there are no titanium knives.

The titanium knifes my team and I all dive with say otherwise.
I have zero problems with FF MacOS. Might be something in your setup?
The Nigerian entrepreneurial spirit is abouth the fear of poverty
yes, i was going to say PGO :)
Car crashes are a major cause of death. Actively making cars harder to see should be a crime instead of a stupid marketing gimmick.
I agree. It'd probably be akin to gluing talcum powder on the car.
Yet there still are all kinds of scams advertised and millions of people download trojaned apps from Google Play.
Lime, Jump, Bird, Spin pledge to remove Florida scooters to avoid flying menaces
E9x was pretty good too.

But they really missed electric train, and this the main problem for BMW nowadays.
Again, not to defend Taleb too much, but he does have just about every academic credential a person can have.
Yes, if you use a strict denotative definition of "works" as being a method of operation. But that says nothing as to the ethical justification relative to the other case that you complained about.

Your position just comes off as saying "in its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges".
Probably better off painting it with zebra stripes like they did in WWI to throw off torpedo targeting.
I call is sustainable based on the evidence of tons of projects sustaining themselves. Many for decades.

There are flaws in OpenSSL and they were corrected. Sometimes projects like gpg die off. That stinks, but there are other options.
You might dig: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
They probably wanted to remove every single thing from the card that was superfluous - leaving the name, chip, magstripe, Apple's logo along with the bank and network logo (GS and MC).

Particularly, no numbers, signature, bank contact info, or NFC.

And yes, they get away with this by pushing wireless payment, number/CVV, and contact onto the phone.
Pretty much fuck all.
The instant feedback mechanism is just begging for someone to turn it into a GAN by writing the other half. I would absolutely love to hear that some particularly clever high school student was able to train an ML algorithm to consistently fool the grading algorithm, thus instantly rendering all of their efforts worthless and dragging the administrators through the mud at the same time.
> At the same time, all the current implementations of rootless containers rely on user namespaces at their core. Not to be confused with what is referred to as non-root containers in this article, rootless containers are containers that can be run and managed by unprivileged users on the host. While Docker and other runtimes require a daemon running as root, rootless containers can be run by any user without additional capabilities.

non-root / rootless
If you change the userAgent to Chrome it will work.

Add-ons such as Lider's Custom useragent ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-user-a... ) solves the problem
I've also never used a debugger. Python libraries like icecream (https://github.com/gruns/icecream) make print debugging pretty nice. I wonder if I'm missing out, though. I use VS Code a lot, and have been intending to see if I can fit its debugger into my workflow.
Slippery slope there. Is all black paint dangerous? Grey?
So, these guys supposedly planned the attacks on September 11, 2001. Right?

And the accused were picked up in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003, right?

And now it's coming up on September, 2019. Right?

They've been held in prison for ... how long? With no trial yet, or now even planned before 2021?
Here's an estimate, rough and from small-N sample size:

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1155334969583030272

Quoting:

"Looks like 26 people donated 50.35BAT in 25 days. comScore has 100 page/day browsing average. Assume 1<=N<100 http://aternos.com pages per day for all 26 ppl & all unblock ads there: at most .65N x PageCPM <> 50.35 BAT or PageCPM <> 77.46BAT / N =~ $20/N. I believe BAT wins."

Again, disclaimers: rough, small-N, lots of other problems. We will do proper case studies as we can. But assuming we would max out at $300 to you is unjustified.
I think this is the crux of it and there’s a balance.

Debugging by printing the state of variables too frequently and resorting to line-by-line debugging of every function can be inefficient if it becomes a crutch for the developer. This could be due to a lack of confidence or a lack of understanding — or just habitual.
I've said this 1000 times, but garbage like Facebook or Twitter could be replaced overnight by a protocol. There is really zero reason it couldn't be built from existing distributed tooling, be secure and just as useful without lizard people getting in the way.
How so? What you just said has no bearing on a comment describing that there is a solution to the problem.

I guess if you want to just "thoughts and prayers" it then that's your prerogative.
I wonder if this could be applied to success of frameworks or programming languages. (Of course, you'd have to define "success" as something relatively binary which might be hard to do.)
Same experience here. Been writing code for over 20 years. There's a reason we don't do big Waterfall projects any more. No amount of research uncovers all requirements. In the real world, with the ease of refactoring in powerful IDE's these days, there is no reason to spend too much time thinking about a small problem like those presented for whiteboard coding.

In practice, in an interview, this is the wrong approach. I've failed interviews for this as well.

Most of what differentiates a Senior Engineer is communication, mentorship, ability to compromise on product requirements, set realistic expectations, design solutions to big problems, think in the large and hold the whole system in their head, design API's, things like that.

I no longer do interviews that require me to write code. They're just ridiculous for the type of skills I'd hope a company would value in a Senior Engineer.
It doesn't. In my opinion this is no longer a frustrating experience, it's a consumer protection problem.
I really dislike this type of comment. I’m sure the people buying the X6 like it. You aren’t the only one buying BMWs, and it’s ok that not every model appeals to your needs. Buy whatever you like, but don’t assume that there’s anything shameful about a company making products that you wouldn’t buy.
Use the bookmarklet, people!

javascript:window.location="http://news.ycombinator.com/ submitlink?u="+encodeURIComponent((document.location+'').replace(/.utm_.*$/,''))+"&t="+encodeURIComponent(document.title)
I agree.

Look at that stark white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has an Apple logo.
I'm not sure exactly what this is, but looks very interesting. I'm going to dive a little deeper. Thanks for sharing.
They mentioned Guns, Germs and Steel, and how Jared Diamond gave concrete examples of this with domesticated animals.

One of the most awesome books ever written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs_and_Steel

There's an entire generation that hasn't read it. Probably worth a shufti.
And I think cancerous if inhaled.
Probably something to do with this https://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/02/anish-kapoor-exclusive-rig...
Really wish they had blacked the chrome grill too.

But practically it's a non-starter. You want your car to be visible in dusk conditions
Hemp is not weed and the title is clickbaity for bad reasons.
> As a side note, a JIRA board full of random feature requests in my experience will generally become a patchwork graveyard of backlog feature requests with little to no coherent relationship or roadmap between them.

Agreed. The purpose of these "on the fly" tickets is to document the request in real-time, so it's not forgotten. It's critical to return to these tickets to add color and file them into the proper epic.
> I've said this 1000 times, but garbage like Facebook or Twitter could be replaced overnight by a protocol.

No, it couldn't, and saying it more won't make it any more true. That is, sure, you can design a protocol that supports manpy of the same basic functions (and such protocols exist already), but centralized governance is ultimately part of what people want, or at least essential to stop a social network into degrading into what people don't want.
This thing will melt on a sunny day.
>The easiest car color to keep clean is white.

Have you ever owned a white shirt in your life?

Also, every white car here looks like this during the winter: https://www.germanboost.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6058...
Hard to have wage growth if you have an excess supply of workers.

So either you need job growth to outpace workforce growth, or you need to eliminate workers (e.g. less immigration, lower retirement age, shorter work week / lower overtime thresholds).

The job growth is impressive - at least, it’s the best job growth we’ve ever had in one run. It would be nice if it could keep running for another 24 months at least.
This will make the marketing CGI much cheaper to render. Zero reflection means no bounces needed for the bulk of the car.
Super critical water oxidation has been a benchtop process for quite a long time. As far as I’m aware they pretty much only use it for dealing with super toxic sludge these days, presumably because it’s too expensive to use for anything else.

It can burn just about anything which is why it’s difficult to get the ceramic pressure vessel right. Wondering if this will do anything to improve the situation.
He doesn't say what happened to all the blocks that were dropped in the way of grave robbers. Did they just batter their way through them, and haul the pieces out? Maybe the archaeologists hauled them out?

I thought the "air holes" were supposed to be a way to fill the cavities with sand, after it was all sealed. Grave robbers would have had to shovel it all out before they could get anywhere.

I like the notion that they had wooden pieces shaped like the chord of a circle, four pairs strapped on four sides of a block, and then the whole block could be rolled. (Apparently there are pictures of the things on tomb walls, misinterpreted as boats.) That only gets them to the base of the pyramid.

Of course, the methods used could have changed radically even over the period of building a single pyramid. Doing something the hard way for a few years ought to motivate some cleverness. But other pyramids had been built, so methods were probably pretty mature.

I wonder how they got all those facing blocks off and hauled halfway across the city to build mosques out of. They probably split them into pieces on site and moved the pieces.
I use xeyes on wayland to determine whether a given app is using Xwayland or not.
You are confusing memory consistency with cache coherency.
Waterloo researchers develop 200 times faster, low-cost network for 5G
"It's so ... black!" said Ford Prefect, "you can hardly make out its shape ... light just seems to fall into it!"
>I prefer to create a draft quickly to build a mental model. Is my way of logging to console frequently and coding before building a mental model a junior habit that I should work on?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. There is zero research that says developing a mental model before a prototype is better (in fact research says the opposite is true). If compile times are like an hour, probably don't want to do this, but there are many languages where code to executable time is seconds.

A lot of senior engineers may disagree well, that's unfortunate, because those are the people interviewing you. They think they know better but there's literally no evidence.
In the example thread above, people are reacting by complaining about the problem. If they reacted by switching email providers, they wouldn’t be in that thread. I highly doubt Gmail’s active user count is affected by any more than a minuscule amount as a result.
How to best handle conflicts of interest at work
Only 329 results for me. Google is always "over-estimating" result count estimates (it does say there is about 4m results, at first)...
Wondering, if it's possible to build "application firewall" on top of namespaces. Only thing I'm missing on Linux.
Is linux bad?
Is git bad?
Your argument needs a little more development.
As far back as I remember the code behind sync was on GitHub and I do mean the backend. It probably still is. But I let Mozilla host it cause they encrypt it. If I lose my password I lose my synched items.
The Google employees who are paying attention likely don't have the power to address the problem, and the Google employees who have the power to address the problem either aren't paying attention or actively decided not to address the problem.
On a practical note, when I need to write code for a platform (I usually write for Apple platforms), there's usually a dozen ways to do something, but only one or two ways to do it right.

I just went through this today, as I was selecting the best way to trap and pipe stdout.
This is not entirely true and depends on the logic system that you choose. Something that helped open my eyes to the different possibilities is this article, which talks about producing a formal logical system for statements in Buddhism:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-logic-of-buddhist-philosophy-goes...

This is written by a professor that I think has produced some really interesting results. Anyway, he discusses something called a plurivalent logic, which is a kind of paraconsistent logic:

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

These logical systems allow for more than true or false. For example, they allow for neither true nor false as well as both true and false. Outside of their general theoretical interest, there are direct applications to systems with contradictory information. I like the paper "A Useful Four-Valued Logic" by Nuel Belnap:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1161-7_...

which discusses a 4-value logic system and its application to databases.
Cerebras has at least a three-year lead on competition
New research alliance cements split on AI ethics
Yes, it's important to develop a habit to plan ahead before coding. For anything bigger than small scripts or utilities, you need to do this.

On the other hand, there's the eternal conflict between the waterfall model and the iterative development model. The waterfall model dictates planning (almost) everything ahead, while the iterative model says plan sufficiently far ahead, then start coding, then take a break and re-evaluate, do some more planning, do some more coding, rinse, repeat. I certainly prefer an iterative model, and building prototypes, as you do. But even then, I'd say professional development work is 90% planning ahead, and only 10% actual coding. Probably even less.
there are a lot of assumptions in your reply.

> 3 months of work

according to whom? this will almost certainly need more than a single engineer's eyes on it. and even if it is 3 months, that's 3 months they don't spend working on features for 98% of their userbase.

i want this to happen as much as anyone, but i just don't see the compelling math here. it's a chicken-egg problem (if FF could use VA API [1], then more might switch to linux).

personally, i'm happy that Panfrost recently got mainlined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Acceleration_API
why not?

it certainly is technically feasable
Tech tool aims to stop 'bottlenecks' in reaching UK homeless – Reuters
Show HN: Basic Randomized Decision Forest (C++) that reaches 96.5% on MNIST
Black paint that has almost no reflectivity at all certainly is.

My family talks about black cows that your headlamps just don't see and how dangerous they are, this would be even more intense.
> Do most senior software engineers take time to build a mental model before coding and testing?

What's the alternative?
Yes, tox is great and you can have multiple clients, from regular software, like qTox, to web versions.

Jami is also very nice!

Both have an amazing plus side: they are distributed systems.

It's a shame they are not that used by "our friends"
I wrote this with the intent to help engineers (or any other discipline) who may be going through hardships at work. Please share your stories here (or in the comments section in the link).
DHS Launches Smart City Sensor Pilot in St. Louis – Nextgov
Neither of you have provided any meaningful arguments to support your positions.

I would say that Mastodon is an example that supports the OP’s point. But in the real, practical world, a social network needs investment and marketing to catch on and extend to a useful amount of people. So in that sense, you’re correct as well.
A Week with No Tear Gas
He shared pictures of their damaged space center? I don't think NPR understands what "sensitive surveillance" is or is clickbaiting.

He definitely shared surveillance but it's not as if everybody and their mom didn't know the US had these capabilities.
The blocking wireless charging when using a card case has been a pain with all the new metal cards. I wish Chase and others would offer an option for "plain" plastic.
I made something like this, called Aether. (https://getaether.net) It’s not federated, but distributed / fully serverless.

It has already made its way up here on HN a few times already, this was the latest one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161171

The protocol underlying Aether is called Mim, and it’s close to what the article is asking for: https://getaether.net/docs/developers/
Pretty sure you can choose a profile with specific settings if launching from selenium or cli.
Computational Approach Speeds Up Advanced Microscopy Imaging
Unfortunately they practice these sorts of policy on the app store as well.

We've been saying Google does this, Google does that. The thing is, a company is composed of its people.

I am just curious, how does something like this, something most people with reasonable sense of "fairness" would flag as concerning and potentially very wrong, comes to be implemented? Even more so for a large company like Google? (smaller companies can have a "bad dictator boss" which can push this through without issue)

Policies like these, which appear to have consistencies across their products, how far up does the chain of responsibility go? How does stuff like these occur?

Does it start with some MBA grad who comes in, gets assigned a KPI to "cut costs" and then their natural bias is that customer service is the first to go, proposes it to their managers and it bubbles up for approval and implementation? All the while everyone at each level is oblivious to the potentially damaging collateral the policy would cause, but only think that "oh this is a great move, we would save a bunch!" and then finally gets implemented?

Or would this more be a top-down thing where executives discuss and push this and then the employees, being good people at heart have no choice but to implement it?

I just find it so difficult to imagine something like this being OK-ed by all the people involved within the company. Like, is everyone "in on it"? Or do they not know? Or they know but can't/unwilling to say anything?
>The easiest car color to keep clean is white.

I disagree with that. I think dirt is least visible on metallic grey.
We don't do "Acceptable ads program". Are you willing to look at what we do more closely, in order to understand it?

/be
Mastodon does exist and isn't perfect in all regards.
> By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this paint will not make its way into that hands of Anish Kapoor.

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2016/12/anish-kapoor-stuar...
I think the most interesting thing I learned out of that was from the link posted at the end about the feud between Kapoor and Semple about Kapoor's exclusive rights to vanta black in artwork and semple's creation of a competing almost absolute black colour usable by anyone but Kapoor.

>British artist Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights for the Vantablack pigment in 2016, making him the only person in the world who can paint using this colour.

>It led to a long-running feud with Stuart Semple who created his own version of blackest-black, available to anyone but Kapoor.

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/05/black-3-0-stuart-semple-an...

That was an odd read. I didn't know exclusively licensing a colour was even possible.
It turns out that businesses all over the world have to protect themselves from fraud to stay in business. It’s also unfortunately the case that telling fraudsters how you identified them as such just helps them avoid detection in the future - and they tend to share information with each other. This doesn’t excuse Google’s chronic lack of human customer service but it does mean their problem is harder than you give them credit for. In Italy how much information are businesses required to give criminals about their detection capability?
> I would say that Mastodon is an example that supports the OP’s point.

I would say Mastodon’s degree of success in replacing Facebook, etc., is an example which refutes OP’s point. (Also, Mastodon is more than just a protocol, but even if you ignore that...)
Look what happened to all the matte black factory paint jobs that were popular a few years ago.
Wow. Hats off to Japan then.
> opinion: a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
Cars of any other color look even worse.
I just checked mine half one way half the other so it seems random I guess.
Indeed mbasic.facebook.com works, but it doesn't look as good and doesn't support message notifications. It's a trade-off I'll take for now, but not everyone will.
According to pg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347
Algorithms Aid Search for Source of Spacetime Rumbles IEEE Spectrum
The Golden Rule and the NAP stand for instructive, good principles, here. Treat others the way you want to be treated, and don't do things which harm others.

It could be argued the BMW X6 is gluttonous. It gets horrible fuel economy, and it's characteristics of size + performance lend credibility to the idea of it being a burden on the road for others.

Finally, I disagree with your general sentiment against criticism. Criticism makes us better.