skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software engineering is the blend of software, business and people. When the business is itself purely about software, and the sole team member is yourself, then I agree with the article.

The ultimate currency in software engineering is time. Time spent on ideation, time spent on requirement gathering, time spent on designing, time spent on communicating ideas, time spent on iterating features, time spent on maintaining existing codes.

If going through the hierarchy saves you time, by all means do it.
I'm the original poster. I misspoke in the original comment (too late to edit it).

Now that I think about it, I believe unlocking does work regardless of cell service (as long as you don't extend the reservation, and try to unlock it after the original reservation time ends).

I had the car towed twice:

1) First time, the car wouldn't start because the battery was dead while parked underground with no cell service.

2) Second time, the reservation was about to expire while parked without cell service, and I extended it on the app, but the car couldn't know that since the cellular unit couldn't phone home.

EDIT: For what it's worth, I don't blame Zipcar for banning an unprofitable customer. I acknowledge that i was definitely pushing my luck by parking there a 2nd time after the first incident.
I live in apartment building with ~100 units, lots of Amazon packages and many from independent contractors. I've never even heard of this, and can't imagine them bothering.
1. I took a look at the attached article. The device they describe is an optomechanical setup specifically engineered to be very sensitive to radio waves. LIGO, by contrast, is engineered to be sensitive to gravitational waves and not radio waves.

2. This point is valid.
The list as is seems to be of low value, beyond stating what most people would have likely already assumed to be true.

There are 74 countries on the list and only three have very unusually low figures: Cuba, North Korea, Ethiopia. The first two are obvious, the last one has probably changed a lot since ~2013.

After that you spike up to Lebanon at 64 phones per 100 people, with data from 2010. So that's probably 90+ now.

The extreme majority of all adults globally now have a mobile phone, even if it's a $20 KaiOS phone.
AWS Lambda is the best way to host websites for free – isn’t it?
Hypothesis: they have been given more money than they have good investment targets for, among others by Saudi Arabia after they postponed the Aramco IPO. They had to invest that money somewhere, so they gave companies like Uber and WeWork 10x what their most generous investment should have been.

Disclaimer: I don't have any inside or expert knowledge about Saudi Arabia or Softbank. But they seem to have been stuffing billions of dollars into companies that can pretend to be "tech", but aren't really.
I mean, why are tabloid newspapers still obsessed with horoscopes? Much the same thing for a different demographic.
It is, but the comparison cannot be done, since the numbers vary from 2013 (2009 according to another top comment) and 2019.

The percentage would be cool to compare across countries, but sadly it is not possible with this data.
That wasn't what the Article being critiqued said though.
> They didn't want to, that was the general point of my comment. American gun owners aren't a guaranteed bulwark against tyranny - they're just as likely to welcome and defend it, if their ideology supports it.

> I have yet to meet an NRA member (and granted, I haven't met them all) who doesn't believe the American left poses an active threat to their right to keep and bear arms, and who wouldn't consider a "pro 2nd Amendment leftist" to be a contradiction in terms.

Your first statement proves the importance of having the right to keep and bear arms be upheld in the "American left".

And you will probably run into many in the Democratic party who think being a "pro 2nd Amendment leftist" is a contradiction in terms too.
With Clojure, the answer is straightforward: here's a jar (or war), or some JS. It's no worse than mainstream languages like Java -- and much better, if you might also need to target JS.

Everyone likes to bash Lisp and Smalltalk for this, but what are you going to do with all your Python/Ruby/Java code if you need to deliver an iOS app? Or target an embedded system, or a game console? Every language has environments where it's difficult or (nearly) impossible to support. It's not unique to those funny languages that don't use curly braces.
Compiler Fuzzing: How Much Does It Matter?
Thanks to user who mentioned this article in related OpenNoteScanner app issue thread.[0]

[0] https://github.com/ctodobom/OpenNoteScanner/issues/171
The WeWork spaces I've been in have been more professional than most tech company offices I've been in. I'm not a fan of WeWork but I don't think this is at all a fair criticism.
Which is on a regular schedule, and subject to all manner of political gamesmanship on what is and isn't included in it. It's not as reliable as an actual distinct law, in other words, and can't be treated as such.
> Yes, index investors are free riders, but this is the way most markets work. We don’t go to the grocery store to bid on prices of oranges against one another to set an equilibrium. The market does that for us.

Actually, our behavior does shape the price of oranges. If we go to the store and they're less expensive, then we are more likely to buy them. The analogy breaks down because he's comparing indexes and oranges, not stock indexes and food indexes. Imagine if 14% of people went to the grocery, picked up a sack of pre-selected items that were best sellers last week -- all in the name of efficiency and reducing overhead. That would be quite weird indeed, and some people would point out that if enough people did this it would create market inefficiencies and potentially cause a glut or crash of certain food prices.
> With aerobraking it's much easier to get to Venus

Easier. Not much easier. Mars is still closer, energy-wise.
I think even if it were more neutrally named it would still be less popular than Myers-Brigs because MB gives you an either or which gives you the simple [E/I][S/N][T/F][J/P] categories which maps to just 16 convenient categories where the Big Five tests spit out numerical scores ranking you relative to the population. The former lends itself to the kind of short in grouping and desire for fast categorization that keeps horoscopes popular, Myer-Brigs giving you ENSP is a clear group to belong to with all sorts of "what does it mean to be ENSP" articles to write, where the former doesn't really give you a clear concise slot to use it in. The closest would just be ranking high or low in each category but that's 32 groups and long to type compared to the 4 letter MB personality groups.
I think you are a bit confused. They are very different in what they guarantee.

The goal of MPC is to hide the inputs of the program. But it is okay for an adversary to make all sorts of inferences by looking at the outputs.

The goal of differential privacy is to limit the kind of inferences that an adversary can make about a particular user/input from the output itself.
No Waverers Allowed
It's worth pointing out that concurrently with the breakdown of Bretton Woods agreements were the OPEC oil price hikes. The change in price of energy contributed a huge amount to the change in price of everything else.

In addition, in the US, we had the "guns and butter" years of the Great Society and the Vietnam war. One can only pump so much fiscal stimulus into an economy before one gets inflation.

All these things mattered.
First long-distance heart surgery performed via robot
Don't think there's a list; the only other pages that I see regularly are for email protection[0], CF apps[1] (the ones that inject scripts), expect-ct (CT monitoring), and image resizing[2].

0: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-scrapeshield-discove...

1: https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/

2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-image-resi...
Wish them all the best, but I tried the latest firmwate image on my dev kit last week and although there's plenty of progress, many things are not there, at least on that image + platform combination.

No lte, no wifi, browser scrolls at ~10fps, browser crashes, display has some hw jittering if you look closely.

I guess some of these are solved on the production hw (they use a different lte module) but still, only consider it if you have a pain threshold or have booked to go into hypersleep for 18 mo.
Only 13 customers affected? I guess I won the haveIbeenpwnd lottery today.

Here is the email I got:

" We are writing to notify you of a security incident that happened between August 26 and August 31, 2019. We became aware of it on August 31, resolved it immediately, and have been assessing the scope of impact since then. Based on that ongoing assessment, we have concluded that the incident involved your workspace. We are very sorry for any issues this may cause.

What happened?
Between August 26 and August 31, 2019, an unauthorized party compromised a Segment employee’s account and used it to gain unauthorized access to Segment product usage data. Upon detection, we took immediate action, disabling and deleting the account and removing unauthorized access. We also reported the incident to law enforcement.

What information was involved?
The unauthorized party accessed information about how Segment users interact with the Segment product, as well as first name, last name, email address, and IP address for your Segment users, and the Segment write keys for your workspace. No Segment customer passwords were compromised.

No personally identifiable information relating to your own customers was accessed. As a result, no action is required from you at this time.

More information
For more information, please visit oursecurity bulletin page. This page contains a detailed timeline about what happened and information about what actions Segment has taken in response. It will be updated with any new developments.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to support@segment.com. We again apologize for any inconveniences this incident may cause.

Sincerely,
Coleen Coolidge
Chief Information Security Officer"
I hate this kind of smart-ass top-level "ITT" comment that paints an entire discussion happening besides it with broad strokes.

If only one person does this I can call him names and downvote him. If there are two camps and both camps do this, people tribalize and everything goes meta. Then no further actual discussion can take place.
It would be interesting to know what prevalence of dual-sim phones are in those countries. Equally tourist levels as there appears to be no single definition of active phone numbers per country. Do they include roaming numbers, some may, some may not. But no single source for this data set and each number set has its own source for that data, which have no standard metric across all sources for how they are measured.

But certainly a more insightful way of viewing this data than the totals alone.
Nahh, you could do more than 0.0001 floating point operations per second. To beat that you need to do a single floating point operation in two hours, which is quite achievable with paper and pencil ;-)

0.01 floating point operations per second seems harder, but perhaps humanly doable.
Chrome same-origin bypass using the portal element
As someone who placed their order recently, I am totally fine with that if it opens up the possibility of people who ordered late to get their hands on one sooner. I don't mind having to tweak component alignment and update via the terminal (and maybe update keycaps?).

I think people who are afraid of effectively being beta testers are going to have a tough time with a full-on linux phone whether they get one now or after another year of development.
> why would they be sold at a larger discount than larger holdings? It is all in proportion - they own less and sell less of the smaller holdings

His argument there AIUI was that the daily volume is not in proportion.
Tech Talks on the Lake
The one thing they failed to mention in this press release was pricing. All the competing dating apps are so expensive. If this is free, that's a game changer!
> Nobody's answer is going to be to refuse the crumbs.

Most people won't, perhaps, but I run a handful of reasonably popular websites, and I block Google's crawlers. I have no use for Google.
'End of irrational exuberance': WeWork considers slashing valuation in half
I also live in a complex with over 100 units and yet Amazon still manages to track my packages effectively, take pictures, etc, so I'm not sure what the point is. Different delivery people treat packages differently?
Shameless self-plug, but I wrote about my decade long experience of remote work here[0], and included some further reading material that I've personally found useful. There are some books dedicated to this. I am actually toying with the idea of writing a book on this and would love to get your thoughts. Ping me at @vpetersson if you wanna chat.

[0] https://blog.viktorpetersson.com/remote-work/2019/05/18/a-de...
interesting article, thanks for sharing it. I have been seeing more and more of these 3rd party contractor vans milling about and it makes since they're skimping on safety, etc. in order to get a piece of amazon's shipping needs, meanwhile amazon attempts to disclaim all liability while turning the screws and upping the pressure
You can find the source via audio clip from a netflix special called "13TH", which is about racial injustice and the prison system, I'm almost certain this was quoted in the documentary.

EDIT:
It's about 18 minutes into the documentary, but I'm finding out their source is Harpers.
"What we want is a vehicle for exploring that space -- something like an IDE for your problem domain. It's been joked that any problem in computing can be solved with another level of indirection, but I wonder if it would actually be better for software teams to build not the thing they want, but rather the thing that makes the thing they want."

To this Lisp programmer, this sounds like plain old bottom-up design. I'm making primitives and syntax for The Thing I Want. My IDE essentially is an IDE for my problem domain.

It's a bit harder in other languages, but still more or less feasible. I think many people would be surprised by how much of my software is written in itself.
In my observation, it's mostly because engineers usually don't want to write this kind of articles which needs to be reviewed by multiple stakeholders. If they want to write its themselves, I believe it's possible and there's some instances as well.
So, Tinder?
Seems like a much smarter approach would be to make it seems like you have different personas, but behind the scenes you can tie them together.
> The Patrick Henry quote seems pretty clear to me. He says every man, not every militia man

I provided a link to the original source. He is arguing about who is responsible for arming the militia -- congress or the states, or whether citizens in the militia are responsible for bringing their own armaments. The important thing, he notes, is that every man have a firearm, whether by his own provenance or the state's or congress's provisioning.

Directly quoting, he says, in light of the organization of the militia being subject to both federal and state oversight, as to whether the members of the militia should be required to arm themselves:

> So that our militia shall have two sets of arms, double sets of regimentals, etc., and thus at a very great cost we shall be doubly armed --- The great object is that every man be armed --- But can the people afford to pay for double sets of arms, etc.? Every one who is able may have a gun.

Read the link and I dare you to offer an interpretation that explains why, during the discussion of arming the militia he engages in a total non sequitur of mentioning that all people should have guns?
I guess this is a little off topic, but can anyone recommend a good side sleeper pillow? I've bought around 6 pillows in the last few years and all of them cause me to wake up with neck and back pain because they don't hold my head up.

I've had insomnia for a long time and I'm still tackling the causes. I'm definitely going to try one of these weighted blankets, and maybe a sleep mask. I made the leap a few months ago to buy a Casper mattress and that's helped a lot. It's not as dramatic a difference as I'd hoped but replacing a ?? year old mattress with anything is better.
MIT Media Lab co-founder defends decision to take Jeffrey Epstein money
Not working on iPad Safari.
Edit: Can’t find variable Offline Audio Context
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

I think that most rational people would agree the already-existing baskets should be distributed instead of being left to rot, so the president deciding against that in order to strengthen his position could be seen as tending towards autocracy or dictatorship.
We are shutdown to acknowledge the Climate Crisis
Regardless of the attached feelings, the motivation is the standard authoritarian delusion - a belief that more control will straightforwardly translate to better outcomes, or more commonly prevent bad outcomes.

We see it across our society - it's not just the politicians, but the whole mass media cum social media narratives of the government needing to "do something" in response to something bad having happened.

In reality society is not a monolithic top-down entity, but rather full of individual actors that each have their own motivations and respond to incentives in their own way. The idea that lawmakers can simply declare something to be a certain way and it will effectively happen that way is a naive fallacy. And unfortunately bad ideas do not fail fast in the modern age due to a surplus of resources that allow them to keep going indefinitely.
> "Liquidity is not a huge problem for index funds" -no market impact to sell (v dubious if you ask me), unlevered.

If you're talking about index mutual funds, then the author is just plain wrong. Any open-ended fund offering daily liquidity will trade, and therefore produce market impact, to meet its daily redemptions.

If you're only talking about ETFs, then this is technically correct. Besides the occasional index re-constitution, unlevered index ETFs don't do any trading. However it's definitely not true that there's no market impact. As the fund grows (or shrinks) the shares just don't magically appear in the portfolio. Somebody has to go out and buy (or sell) those shares, and like any trading volume, that creates market impact.

The mechanism that ETFs actually use is something called "Authorized Participants" (or APs for short). Basically market makers have the right to create or redeem shares in the ETF. To create new shares, they go out and buy all the stocks in the index, then hand a basket over to the ETF fund manager, who then hands back new shares of the equivalent value. And to destroy shares, the AP hand over shares in the ETF, and the fund manager hands back a basket of shares from the index.

If there's high demand for investors to own the ETF, that'll push up the ETF's stock price. As the price rises relative to the index value, APs will detect an arbitrage opportunity. They'll go out and buy the basket of stocks in the index at a cheaper price, then create new ETF shares at the richer price, and pocket the difference. Vice versa if there's demand from investors to exit the ETF.

The mechanism keeps the ETF price closely pegged to the index, because the further out of line it gets the more arbitrageur activity pushes it back in line. While also flexibly satisfying investors' specific demand for the ETF at any given time. Basically it delegates the role of trading from the fund manager, who usually doesn't have any special expertise in trading, to highly specialized trading firms and market makers.

However, as you can clearly see, market impact most definitely exists. If a flurry of investors rush to enter or exit an ETF, then a huge amount of trading has to be done to create or redeem the shares. Just because the APs create this trading impact, instead of the fund itself, is a distinction without a difference. The underlying stocks in the index are subject to market impact.
Can you explain this further?
1. A static site hosted by Netlify probably doesn’t have a 3MB payload.

2. Asset caching should ensure the 3MB payload is less than 3MB on subsequent loads.
If the light is too bright, it'll blow out and you won't see color. You probably need only need small LEDs, but the object needs to be large so it can easily be tracked, so bulbs.
We were kind of heavily invested in Atlassian stack, which means we used Confluence a lot.

We had a good system for creating and looking for documentation in our wiki system, so I hope that was not a selling point for Slack. Unfortunately we (Tech) never really knew why we switched.

EDIT: Also, on the performance side, we were there for the beginning of both systems, and both had their good amount of issues initially. By the time we switched, I don't remember that many HipChat outages. I remember a lot of Slack outages starting up as well, and these days I have issues with Web interface connectivity at least once a week (native works).
Very astute observation! Two things:

* We implemented a feature to share memory between these connection handling processes so that makes it a bit more efficient

* Longer term we are thinking of switching to a thread based model. This is how our other API YCQL works.

(cto / co-founder)
Due process seems to only affect a specific circumstance. For example if you want to drive around but you are stopped at a checkpoint that is supposed to find inebriated drivers, a court will rule on whether that was an undue restraint of your constitutional rights and if the court goes against you it will not waive the rights of free movement or association entirely.
Short answer, from experience: unless the company is on a clear track to a liquidation event, no.

That said I bought half the options of my last company because the strike price -> FMV was great enough to take the risk. However I consider that a gamble equal to rolling pass line in Vegas, and I didn't make the bet with money I needed to live on.
They almost definitely have liquidation preferences on that 2B.
>energy efficiency is the next key metric, and that specialized hardware (like TPU) might be the future.

This is nonsense pushed forward by large corporations who want to own all your data and computational capacity.
Next year I can vote to remove the misogynist in charge of the United States, and hopefully replace him with someone better. (And even if I fail, he's gone in just another four years.) However, even Google's shareholders can't remove the misogynists in charge of Google due to the share class structure.

The government has problems but trends towards the people's benefit in the long run. Corporate greed trends towards enriching the lives of sick and disturbing rich men like Larry and Sergey.

Corporations are a far worse and far less regulated threat than government, with far less checks and balances in place to protect us. Throwing out the government bogeyman hasn't worked on me before and isn't going to work on me now.
Not even a diesel microsubmarine will be able to manoeuvre freely there unless surfaced
> Most startups only give you 90 days to buy your options once you leave. After that, they expire and revert back to the company.

This is the real problem here. While this used to be standard, many startups have started offering employees the maximum ten years allowed by the IRS. This is something to consider when joining a company: if they're not willing to give you the full ten years, why not? More: https://triplebyte.com/blog/extending-stock-option-exercise-... https://zachholman.com/posts/fuck-your-90-day-exercise-windo...