skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not talking about ECU firmware, he's talking about infotainment software. You can't use the best practices for ECU firmware development as you use for other types of software development: it would never get done! Safety-critical software running on bare-metal or an RTOS (like for ECUs, ABS controllers, avionics, etc.) isn't much like software for doing GPS mapping and other infotainment functions, and the development process is entirely different. The latter has orders of magnitude more lines of code and is far simpler in scope.

The OP is right; currently, automakers basically outsource all their infotainment software, and generally do a poor job with it, though it's getting better. Considering how much drivers now interact with these or similar systems (usually on their phones), to do things like stream music and especially navigate, automakers should be doing a better job integrating this stuff into the cockpits for ease of use and safety.
Feds Order Apple and Google to Hand over Names of 10k Users of a Gun Scope App
Refrigerators are safer now
Baumol Effect does not really explain much, in fact there are a lot of examples that directly contradict it. Check the section 3 of https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost....
Read the next bullet :)
Ask HN: What do you expect from a senior software engineer?
When hiring or working with a senior engineer:

What are you expectations?

What skills or concepts should they have mastered?

How quickly should they be able to deliver features or products?

By nature the question is a little amorphous, but I think it beneficial for mid-career developers to understand the expectations of experienced developers, and hiring managers, with regards to senior level positions and work.
Not necessarily - they're given multiple "tries" so they can just pick "a bunch of random letters" as one of their first few choices in hopes that they guessed correctly.
There's nothing particularly difficult about building a spinning structure that has 1G of force at the outside (you see this all the time in carnival rides and the like -- if anything, it would be easier in a 0G environment, because you just have to start spinning and it'll keep spinning by itself forever). It's just not particularly useful -- astronaut comfort isn't really a priority, considering how expensive (and prone to problems) it would be.
So true.

At one point management had the idea that we should do "chat support" on the website.

The website (a god awful mess) was run by the marketing department (that's why all our handy documents were hidden from the world) and they took the lead and suddenly announced support was just gonna be available to "chat" 24x7... and support via twitter would come soon too... nobody in support knew anything about it.

Thankfully even the CEO recognized the amount of manpower it would take and how bad an idea that was for what often were complex issues.... and really most social media and chat contacts were from folks who bought second hand equipment and had no support contract.
oh boy, how come scientists missed this. They should hire you immediately to ask such tough questions.
I like the application, because it forces me to login with the browser to view code snippets.
This is unfortunately a natural consequence of going public. The founder was pushed out 4 years before the IPO, so what's happening now (pressure to compete with gigantic ecommerce stores) was already being planned around that time.

"The New York Times called it (the IPO) a test of whether Wall Street will embrace a company that puts doing social and environmental good on the same pedestal with, if not ahead of, maximizing profits."

A test for which the answer sheet has been available for decades. A company like Etsy had no chance of retaining their original culture once their operations had to fit into Wall Street analysts' "competitor metrics" decks.

Now it'll be measured on the same metrics as Walmart and Amazon, like it or not, and management will be incentivized to continue to push for free shipping and other seller-unfriendly policies to keep that revenue growth up, regardless of whether it's sustainable or not.
Exactly, I think there is nothing wrong with the legislation but many things wrong with the enforcement.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-knew-another-boeing-737-max...
U rob, or europe, but a choice there is.
P-values are much more problematic at the alpha=.05 threshold than the alpha=.005 or alpha=.01 thresholds.

In my work as a data scientist, 99% of the time this is not even relevant. We have huge sample sizes and most of the p-values we see are <.0001, meaning there is SO much data that even a very very small effect size can be found "significant."

The question then: does a mean of 20.02 being significantly different from a mean of 20.03 over 10 million patients, is that actually important to us?
I was curious what the actual justification for the data grab is. The article buries it halfway down, but tl;dr the feds think that some of the scopes have been illegally exported (by parties unknown) in violation of arms-trafficking laws, and they think that learning where they're being used will help them track down the exporters. "Reports online" (for all they're worth) claim that the Taliban got some of them.
> But in Bayes' formula, their plans if something else had happened cannot ever affect how we adjust our inferences

That's not how statistics works. Frequentist p-values and Bayesian inferences are both entirely dependent on the mathematical model in question. "Their plans if something else had happened" are a key part of the model. What you're describing at 2 entirely different experiments:

1) A couple has children until they have 1 of each gender. they have 7 children. How likely is a result this extreme (or greater)?

2) A couple has 7 children. They have a gender ratio of 6:1. How likely is a result this extreme (or greater)?
Making Instagram.com Faster: Part 2
Also for those that prefer bspwm, I find chunkwm to be excellent
I had assumed it was one of those where the players who are found join the seeking team. I think that tends to scale because the seekers usually have explosive growth as the poorly-hidden players are rapidly converted.
I saw a documentary where doctors snuck cameras into NK. The doctors were doing free cateract surgery for people, and it was really prevalent because of how malnourished they were. The people getting surgery kept praising Kim Jong Il for saving their eye sight, even though he was the reason they needed surgery in the first place.
Scientific industries are the natural habitat of some of the most amazing and rare humans in existence. To destroy their means of living for the sake of supporting a self-destructively prolific form of human seems like a really poor decision.
Thought you'd find this useful:

Was really frustrated today. And searched for a way to make firefox a bit more touch friendly.

1. Launch Firefox, click on the hamburger menu and navigate to “customise”.
2. In the customise sub-menu, look out for “Density” settings at the bottom left of the screen.
3. Select Touch Density, and tick the option for using Touch density in Tablet Mode as well.

source: https://mspoweruser.com/how-to-set-up-firefox-quantums-inter...
I think we used to call it Pink Panther.
It can run on VMs but doesn't have to. There are many bare metal k8s users out there doing some really neat things with the stack.
They’ve had virtual desktops for some time now, and I think the shortcut is Ctrl-Win-(left|right). They’re not terribly customizable but they’re not bad.
I disabled all notification from slack every platform I have it. Same with email, facebook and all the other platforms that designed to disrupt your normal workflow or life.
That's a lot of fentanyl
He might have been stuck in a Caldera.
It's amazing to me that Slack has been operating this long with such a backwards concept of Organization > User hierarchy. After Apple fixed their portal a few years ago, Slack is the only tool I have left that requires this multiple credentials. It's also frustrating that every time a user leaves an organization, my entire chat history with them is deleted as well.
> most magnetic drives there is no inherent relationship between the sector number and its physical location on the track

This is false. Sectors are approximately in block order. You can write a predictor which can predict the latency to read a block based on the last block read using that information.

You can also take the lid off a drive and watch it with a high speed camera to see where each bit of data gets stored.
Ask HN: Is full codeless web development (e.g. Salesforce) possible?
I've been asked to evaluate so-called "codeless" web development solutions. It seems to me that about 90% of code on 90% of websites is just Create, Read, Update, and Delete from databases. This theoretically should be buildable using a GUI, but so far, I haven't found any consensus solutions. The closest I can find is Salesforce Lightning, which seems limited and appears to actually require some coding; or alternatively I could imagine using some modified version of PHPMyAdmin, which is obviously limited. Is it even possible to develop most of the back-end of such sites through some sort of codeless GUI interface? If so, why doesn't such a tool exist. (Throwaway account so I don't look foolish)
I completely agree but with services like Prime Wardrobe and Bombfell etc you can have a box of clothes delivered to you in 3 different sizes and return what doesn't fit.
Man, that saves me from so much alt-tabbing. I was using a custom AutoHotKey script to move between all sorts of Visual Studio solutions and manually opening email/chat/chrome/whatever else.
Not to mention the eventual demise of everybody, plus the heat death of the universe!
Where do you think the money is going? Is it being spent within the Indian economy, or is cash being lifted to the moon?
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It’s not binary. Move somewhere with some jobs, maybe for lesser pay with better cost of living. Then other (higher paying) jobs may follow, which will raise the pay for everyone.
Never used a chat client for anything other than work. Not sure why that's so difficult.

Not to mention, chatting with people usually means they treat any request you have as low priority. Whereas going to them elevates that priority substantially.
Working on two or three projects concurrently over the course of two or three weeks is not the same as multi-tasking. If you’re expected to immediately respond to things and have multiple projects going, yes that’ll be trouble. But if you’re able to pace your own work, and respond in hours/days, you can be more than capable of holding more than one thing in your head.
Yep, this is exactly my point. A lot of stuff in various European cities isn't cheaper, or not that much cheaper, than internet service, so internet service in America is comparatively overpriced.

Of course, everything else in America is overpriced too, and you're not actually getting a better overall experience for that money. If it were an extremely safe, clean, and well-managed country, then it'd make sense for the cost-of-living to be high, but it isn't: gun violence is an epidemic, environmental regulations are being gutted, and the political leadership is utterly incompetent. And don't get me started on what an utter disaster the healthcare system is.
I think this still could change though given Wayland is still very much a work in progress. Maybe they just haven't implemented this feature yet. AFAIK it isn't technically impossible with Wayland.
Very cool concept. High open rates?
This is correct, and also illustrates why merely replacing frequentist methods with Bayesian methods is not sufficient to fix the scientific reproducibility crisis.
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I've been adopting this approach in order to have higher-quality free time. I find that if I wake up early (around 7:30) then I can take an hour or so to myself in the mornings to read, play a game, or work on a personal project, and I have my full brainpower to apply to it. However by the time I get home from work around 6, I don't have nearly as much energy to put in to the same activities, and can't focus as easily or make as much progress.
“People are stopping everyone who ‘looks like they are here for a game of hide and seek.”

Deep down, everyone who walks into the great snaking corridors of IKEA is playing a game of hide and seek.

But what does a person who goes there to play the game on purpose look like? What are the tells? Are they wearing IKEA bedlinen?

I love the idea of a stop and search on that scale and basis. “Hide and seek, officer? I just came to buy a Prickig and a couple of Pysslingars.”
What exactly were the police planning to do if they found someone playing hide and seek? At most it seems like they could ask people to leave the store, and if they refuse charge them with trespassing - but those are civil matters.
People do this because they want to know that you're available for the conversation. Like ringing the phone.
While the B-1 would allow you to engage in certain business activities, such as setting up the business, meeting with potential investors and clients, etc., it wouldn't allow you to do "productive" work in the U.S. And yes, frequent travel to the U.S. as a B-1 visitor can raise questions with CBP about what you are doing (whether you are you working without authorization in the U.S.) and where you are living (whether you are residing in the U.S.) and cause significant problems. And yes, we handle these types of matters all the time. At a minimum, we could give you a lay of the land.
Fourth item on Monday: "undo a rebase - oops."
Not really. Solaris is (was) from a ground up a corporate Unix environment designed to run mission critical applications. All the management interfaces and features reflected that. Zones were way ahead of the time, also pretty nice features.
Suggesting all of the Bill or Rights just applies to people is incorrect.

The tenth amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Is not about individual freedom, it’s about what freedom the states have and the limitation on the federal government.
For a keynote, I'm ok with the no axis graphs. It's technically not even trying to be a "graph". Just a comparison graphic. But units are a must.
Great comment, I absolutely agree. I learned to code largely through problem sets, HIGHLY defined, clear issues with pre-cleaned (!!!) data. Once I'm out coding in the wild, I am the one creating the dataset, it's highly messy in its infancy, and most of my collaborators are in flux about what they want, how they want it, and which subgroup and sample they want to examine. The name of the game seems to be quick iteration and fast communication loops.
Log axes for highly-variable or compounded-growth data are not only valuable for showing low-scale movements, but greatly reduce apparent growth. They're commonly used in financial data.

Compare:

Linear scale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=oMZ6

Log scale: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=oMZi
> It's very interesting that so much of it is about the social aspects of engineering - a lot of it kind of reads like "don't be a jerk". In CS engineering classes, where presumably we would learn to become great engineers, I don't recall learning about any of this, and instead I remember the emphasis being on technical knowledge and accomplishment.

Yes. Dorm life is supposed to provide the social aspect. And to a lesser extent, real group assignment/projects.
Test coverage only matters if it's at 100%
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/150-people-in-astr...

tl;dr: it's trivial from a materials point of view, but hard from a "but you have to build it in space" point of view. We're still not great at building large structures in space.
Don't tell me to "calm down"; you sound like a patronizing asshole. You're injecting your prudish religious values here, not me. There's nothing wrong with being sexually attracted to people, and if you only make friends with opposite-sex people you find repulsive, then there's something wrong with you.
A quick 101: https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/power.html
Interestingly, the lander separated from the orbiter on Sep 2 into its own orbit. Its main descent begins from around 30 km.
That looks like a cool project. If you don't mind me asking, is it just a side project, and if so, how much money can you make off of an app like his?

(Obviously not trying to compete in your space, just want to know if selling apps you've written is a worthwhile business.)
Same on Android Firefox, although it is a bit annoying to have to scroll back and forth to read multi-line quotes formatted like this.
Location: Medellín, Col

Remote: YES - Experienced working remote

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: Angular - NGRX - React - Redux - Node

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VR Editing: The Choreography of Attention (2015)
Why not use golang for everything java?
It better in every aspect.
> I’m obviously biased - I was the first non googler to have commit on the repo.

How well was your PR received?
And what exactly does "delete" mean? It's removed from production, or it's also scoured from backups?
I made this comment.

Since you're curious: I signed into telebanking and it asked for me to input my password. I didn't ever remember setting a phone password, so I tried punching in the numbers that corresponded to my online banking password. It worked.

Obviously the only way this would work is if they stored the numeric keypad representation of your password instead of your actual password. So I experimented a bit and found password horror.
This is the strangest comment i've ever read. Using the term 'rare humans' non-ironically really gives me the creeps.
Use Win+Tab then in the upper left corner there is a button for 'New desktop'. On my work Dell laptop I can use three-finger swipe to switch desktops. Not sure about moving windows between virtual desktops.
For readers from outside the UK, you should understand that the 'authority' here isn't really a government body, and never really issues punishments.

They pretty much embarrass companies into having good honest ads, and mostly it works. No company wants to be called out on having a dishonest ad by them.
Fair play - I had no idea about any of these coming from newspapers! Maybe the Daily Sport invented the World Cup for all we know?
If I were Ikea I'd try turning into a paid event. Collect the money ahead of time ($5 per person?) and you're golden.
That's a great analogy. And what's interesting is that looking back, living in a college dorm was one of the happiest periods of my life. I'm sure many others would express the same sentiment.

I think the lesson is that having a sense of community and opportunities for regular socialization far outweigh the impact of things like square footage or granite countertops. In terms of subjective wellbeing, most of us would probably do better to live closer to friends and family, even if it means a step-down to a shittier house.
There is an exception of sorts within the B-1 that allows those who will be applying for an E-2 investor visa to establish a business and seek investments for that business. There are limits however and gray where permissible preliminary steps become unauthorized employment.
Why the price of Bitcoin has increased over 200% in the last 7 months
It's hard to tell whether you're presenting this as worse or better than the current situation.
> A change that improves sales for its sellers.

It's the sellers who would eat the cost of increased shipping fees, reducing their operating margins. Etsy is basically telling them to implement price controls or risk lower exposure in search results, and not doing anything to meet them halfway.

>My sales have improved by about 30% over where I'd expect them to be for this time period.

Are you confident that this will be a permanent boost, or do you, like Etsy, feel you'll need to continue riding the waves so as not to be pushed out altogether?
This is true! Was going to mention that, but opted for more snark.
I was thinking about the same thing. The money could be deducted from the fee they add to the sales.

VC capital and fast growth are toxic
He was an authoritarian dictator with terrible economic policies and no respect for human rights, but "horrors he inflicted on millions" is overstating it a bit. He's not Idi Amin.
Because in the military you have a lot of adults in the room running things and those who don't play by the rules get rightened real quickly
I don't need Kubernetes, no. But what do I use? What's there to automatically deploy my software when I push in a simple and reliable way? All the other stuff I can do myself, but I want something to deploy stuff to servers.
For now it is in fact the former, at least on debian testing where I encountered it yesterday. Of course you can create an alias...
You can compare them here, https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/historical-price/

Maybe I am wrong, but Isnt log scale the standard for investing charts?

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/logvslinear.asp
Yup, basically this. Another idea would be to add a "please review this title that Hacker News won't let me submit with" button that would get these kinds of things in front of you sooner.
I wonder whether this might violate GDPR if the companies just voluntarily handed the data over and it included Europeans.
It is not computationally tractable to enumerate all triples of integers up to the size required to find the values for 42.

So certainly any integer N either is or is not the sum of three cubes. Deciding which is the case computationally can be intractable.

Each of the integers in the solution are ~53 bits in length. To enumerate all triples of integers (with plus and minus) requires testing around 2^(53+53+53+1+1+1) = 2^162 items. If you could test one per nanosecond, this is 10^32 years, vastly older than the universe. If you threw 1 trillion such computers at it, it's still 10^23 years, also vastly longer than the age of the universe.

Thus enumeration is simply not possible.

The point of this is they found a solution for 42 after great effort.
At that point it's better to build stuff on the moon and move them into geostationary orbit on earth via the cable the other way around.

It's not like the moon lacks resources, we won't be needing to push 300 tons of anything to the moon if we have the capability to build the cable from it.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008
Are you sure they changed it? https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910
Can't speak to EA's motivations then, though I worked with a couple of Origin engineers who worked at Origin post-acquisition and have been at EA in Austin most of my career. The impression I got from the ex-Origin folks is that Origin was a ripe acquisition target: large portfolio of games and franchises; good body of talent in a major game development hub; and a failing business that they could get on the cheap.

I've never understood the cynical way certain people view EA from the outside. EA is a large business (~30B market cap) and subject to the same sorts of challenges of any business at that scale. From my perspective EA is a federation of mostly autonomous studios trying to "find the fun" in an increasingly competitive entertainment landscape. Even if you manage to create a compelling core experience, bringing that to market is a challenge even at EA's scale.
haha, ultimate hypocrisy: posting on HN when you could be solving <whatever you think the world's biggest problem is>.

Life and economic success is not about everybody solving the One Biggest Problem(tm) to the exclusion of all else.
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They could also be testing if you're the kind of person who gives away secrets too easily.