skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor nitpick, but UAE (United Arab Emirates) is not the same as Saudi Arabia. It is a neighbouring country.
So having feelings is the new peacocking?
And arguably going to be overturned after a couple attempts at enforcement. Backpage was taken down with the law after making themselves a political target. If they hadn't been painted as supporting sex trafficking I think people would realize the law is unconstitutional.

It attempts to place prior restraint on speech.
> Retrofitting all of those is hardly "without too much trouble". That's a fact.

No, the fact is they've already done exactly that in Europe: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-supercharger-dual-charge-ccs...

But Tesla is still not allowing other EVs to charge at their chargers.

Tesla only needs to do three things to move to CCS properly: 1. Put a CCS plug on the charger. 2. Implement the CCS protocol. 3. Allow all EVs to charge at the charger.

Easy peasy and civic-minded. There are no downsides here.
I hate Horror/Serial Killer movies and avoid watching them. I find them morbid and do not understand the American fascination with them. To me it is an indicator of something intrinsically wrong with modern American society. Other countries/cultures with huge movie industries (eg. India, China etc.) produce nothing like what Hollywood does in this genre. Psychologically, our minds can be bent towards the best of the best and the worst of the worst given the right stimulus and conditioning. For a healthy functioning society we need systems in place to dampen our worst tendencies and heighten the best ones. These sort of movies do the opposite.
>Google X is a money sink

Dunno. I'm not quite sure of the figures but in 2015 they put in $3.5bn for the year. Against that Waymo which came out of X was recently valued at $105bn (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/waymo-valuation-cut-40percen...)
Apple specifically uses the words “secure by design” on their website. That’s a lie.
Absence of evidence is no evidence of absence. You could put the Bayesian prior to be extremely low, but a zero chance would not make you a Bayesian anymore, it would make you a believer in that something is simply not possible (and no amount of scientific evidence would update your priors. It really is scientifically a mistake to claim: There exist no black swans. To proof that, one would have to observe all of existence. Now... should you worry about black swans, when all you see is white swans? Depends on you and the amount of risk managing. But that poster claimed all of priming is non-scientific, when we have clear replicated proof.
That’s all anyone’s code ever is. Just a pile of poo trying to be better than someone else’s pile of poo.
> they straight-up can't or won't answer me, what's going on

The answer is they probably don't know. Or if they do know, they can't be 100% in their answer.

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There are literally thousands and thousands of insurance combinations. Aetna might approve one thing while Blue Cross won't. Even within the same provider network, your specific medical history (or even your claim processor) can affect if you'll be covered for a specific procedure. Even if the doctor contacts insurance, it won't guarantee something will be covered. You have to wait until things get billed to resolve specifics.
> You could manage that $100B like an oversized hedge fund

The largest couple hedge funds are in the broad neighborhood of that size, so perhaps not too oversized.
Do you think it’s possible that someone doesnt have hatred toward and wasn’t racist against asylum seeking immigrants yet still supports immigration control that results in children locked in cages? Do you think all ICE employees are hateful racists? Are all proponents of a wall hateful racists?

I think it’s hard to understand someone’s position when they are lumped into caricatures. Maybe there are other reasons. But setting up a world where people who disagree with me are all racists is a world where the people I call racist don’t want to talk with me. Yet we live in a world where they vote the same as I. So if I want them to vote my way, I need to understand them. To understand them, I have to talk with them.
Is it really so difficult for engineers to create a task to process a Kafka topic? It takes one day to write a program to consume from a topic of events and push to an API like Amplitude, and you have total flexibility in how you push to those integrations.

Why would you use postgres for an event professing system? This seems like an inefficient architecture.
People are not perfectly consistent.

Not even RMS.

It seems more likely to me he made the threat legitimately, but chose not to follow through.

Do you have evidence for your assertion that it was a joke?

The woman who experienced it certainly didn't perceive it as one.
Point of logic: it's a mainstream idea that there exists a type of masculinity that is toxic (strict subset) not that all masculinity is toxic.
If 8 more days is the difference between having “anxiety” or “burnout”, that means you are already close to the edge.

If I had 15 more days what would I do with it? Stay at home and try to burn through it? My lack of PTO isn’t what’s preventing me from taking more vacations.

Visiting friends and family? They work and have families too.

Hobbies? With who? All of the people who have jobs so that we could only get together after work or on the weekends?

In other words, the impact wouldn’t be that much.
Yes, getting edgy over a generic culture fit question struck me as cultish as well. Word goes around, people talk to each other and some candidates will stay away.
> Why would an idea exist other than to serve a purpose

Because ideas are the substrate of thought, belief, motivation, desire, and human life itself. Without ideas we lack the ability to understand anything at all.
Do not experiment with software in the office
(This is a bit off-topic from the subject of the article about particular methodology of rendering data as opposed to usage of these kind of wind maps)

I worked on X’s project loon in operations for a spell. We were interacting with balloons in flight regularly. The referenced nullschool wind map was unendingly useful.

Something I always wanted for using nullschool or other similar publicly available “tools” was more granularity between wind layers, or derived estimations of data between wind layers.

When putting any flight systems in the atmosphere, having visualizations (even estimates) of wind direction and speed estimations at more altitude levels is more valuable than visualizing more particles more efficiently, IMO.

I wish similar thought and processing power was put towards smoothing out guesses at wind speeds at different altitudes.

Tl;dr: I wish this demo map had an altitude slider, even if it was smoothed out guestimates between available data layers.
> we cannot have out customers data leave our aws account.

Unintentionally funny?
I suppose Pope Francis hasn't been on Twitter recently..too little too late.
Agree in many ways, from the other mode of this bimodal distribution.
Ha! Twitter can target based on email. As soon as I signup for some services, I immediately get ads. Same with LinkedIn.

Banning targeting via email address, birth date, name and other personal identifiers would go a really really long way.

I work for a tracking company and I know how much power marketing folks have nowadays. It’s scary precise.
In case anyone else is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s
I am hoping for a postmarketOS port for some of these devices. Especially the iPads with 120Hz screens.
>Rather than downvote, instead reflect on the fact that if you interview, you'll often be on the receiving end of this. And think about how to prepare.

Eh - none of my good jobs had this style of interviewing. I'm not sure I'm missing out on anything.

I am gauging the interviewer from a human perspective, and you're exhibiting behavior that I cannot respect. In general, I advise people not to work in teams if they don't respect their coworkers, and never if they don't respect their manager.

I like discussing these topics in interviews, as long as it's not a one way discussion. For the last job I interviewed, I got loads of interrogation style behavioral questions from all the interviewers (you can likely guess which company). Yet none of my interviewers could answer a simple question adequately:

"What are the reasons people leave the team/company?"

Very tempted to have acted like you did when they gave lame answers.

Edit: I think my comment doesn't convey my thoughts well, so I'll give another stab at it.

In general, if you want people to be open with you, there needs to be some kind of reciprocity. Playing psychological games causes people to raise their guards, and the natural response is not to give you what you want or be evasive. In an interview setting, that doesn't look good - so the next natural response is deception. Your style of questioning (I'm guessing here as you didn't give details) does a good job of eliciting the behavior you are trying to weed out. And then as a result, you get confirmation because you think you've caught out a guy trying to deceive you. Yet your behavior is likely a serious contributing factor.
Yup I agree, the hard problem of consciousness should be deliberately excluded from discussions on various topics, particularly AI. It's not useful, its fascinating, but it's irrelevant and distracting for most purposes.
pretty good considering something like half of all human beings who ever lived died of Malaria!
Great question. Complication arises because of failures. One or more destinations may be down for any length of time, individual payloads may be bad etc. To handle all these you need to retry with timeouts while not blocking other events to other destinations. Also, not all events may be going to all destinations.

We build our own streaming abstraction on top of Postgres. Think layman's leveled compaction. We will write a blog on that soon. The code (jobsdb/jobsdb.go) should have some comments too in case you want to check out. Segment had a similar architecture and had a blog post on it but can't seem to find it. Also, eventually we will replace postgres with something low-level like RocksDB or even native files.

Yes, in theory you can use Kafka's streaming abstraction and create create a topic per destination. Two reason's we didn't go that route

1) We were told Kafka is not easy to support in an on-prem environment. We are not Kafka expert but paid heed to people who have designed and shipped such on prem softwares.

2) More importantly, for a given destination, we have dozens of writers all reading from same stream. Only ordering requirement is events from a given device (end consumer) are in order. So we assign same user to same writer. However, the writers themselves are independent. If a payload fails, we just block events from that user while other users continue. Blocking the whole stream for that one bad payload (retried 4-5 times) will slow things down quite a bit. If we had to achieve the same abstraction on Kafka, we would have had to create dozens of topics per destination.
I'm yet to find a physician (especially somebody trained at Harvard/Stanford/etc plus a couple fellowships) who is actively practicing, and who hasn't told me with intellectual honesty that 80% of the patients they see present with trivial cases which could have been handled by a resident or a midlevel. They mostly put up with it because they get reimbursed a couple hundred $ for these trivial cases, which they shouldn't be.

Same for rads fighting over high RVU MRIs and CTs for 30 year olds without prior history. Half of those shouldn't have been ordered in the first place, the other 40% can probably be read by RAs.

That's why I think physicians are overtrained in the US for the type of work they de facto perform.
I guess you haven't lived in Los Angeles?
No. He went off on the color of plastic, the radius of curvature of a housing, the color of the resin in a circuit board. He had no concept of the control of electrical noise in the read head of a disk drive, but almost everything in the company was more like that than the damn plastic. He flattered himself that he controlled everything, and nobody contradicted him, but it was both delusory, and a damn nuisance when he did notice some detail to bother people over.

My phone is different from an iphone in literally millions of ways, some thousands of which Jobs could conceivably have perceived, but very, very few of them are better for his attention to them, and in many of them my phone is objectively better.
> They don't have

Those police don't have

The ones where I live aren't like that.
A Newly Discovered “Bizarre” Virus Is Breaking the Rules of Infection (2016)
Do you have any proof they designed it to be insecure?
For anyone curious, she posted a few entries on her blog with corrections regarding The Verge's article.

https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/corrections-to-...

Personally Sci-Hub was invaluable when doing some exploratory research on Free Space Optics.
I remember Apple's marketing in 2005:

"I'm a Mac."

"And I'm a PC. Achoo!"

"What's wrong PC?"

"I have a cold."

"Huh, too bad. Macs don't get viruses."

"You never have any security vulnerabilities that get exploited?"

"Nope. Macs just work."

The End
That seems like the type of thing your state medical association should lobby against.

Btw, in California the state medical and hospital associations are definitely more influential than insurers. And I bet that's true in MA too.
Inside the debauched recording session that hastened the end of the Replacements
Wait a second. If the issue with the analysis is as the article says, that is that some countries were weighted far higher, that means that in some countries the original conclusion does hold (probably for a small sample size). Perhaps this is because some religions promote generosity and some do not? Would be interesting to look in to.
My mechanic gives me a more or less binding estimate before he starts working, and calls me to confirm before doing anything that costs more.

I understand that's not necessarily practical or helpful in an emergency or operating room, but if we could get that for office visits, it would be great.
Those are similar to the ones I am using. Yes. And prices are similar too. Sadly....

Next rev I am replacing it with a small FPGA which will act as dual port memory. Believe it or not, that is much cheaper.
>…? Freedom from sexual assault is an "urban experience as imagined by privileged male pedestrians"?

That's my take. Reminds me of the current calls that anyone who doesn't treat male to female transsexuals as women, up to and including sleeping with them, is a sexist or transphobe.
Siraj makes way too many gesticulations for him not to be a reptilian entity. Gross!
I have one of the best health insurances, it costs dearly, and yet I have no way I could get an appointment for anything without weeks wait. Perhaps with exception of emergency room. And it's expensive as hell. And not in a single place I see a price list, and no physician would ever tell me their cost upfront. That's what you call "standards"?
And plenty of aluminum cans of water as well, not to mention aluminum recycling is perhaps the most implemented recycling effort of any materials.
I think some of the articles recommend you find some good guys to talk to in a private setting, rather than posting things on your doorplate at a university, for instance. Talk with some good guy friends first if you think having sex with 14-year-olds is ok, and perhaps they'll give you some feedback so you don't have to hash it out on the public stage.
Most simply, you should now have ready example of a recessive phenotype, "Fugate Blue", that will allow you to immediately understand how all other recessive genetic diseases work.

Further, this is an example of a rare genetic disease, of which there are thousands. However, instead of needing an expensive research project to find a cure, a simple off the shelf chemical will do. So if you are ever reading about "Orphan Drugs", you'll also have an example of a successfully treated rare genetic disease!
So I can not speak highly enough about having an Amex Platinum for this crap. Call them, say this sucks, here is the reason why and they say yup, refund. In the case listed the extra 14.99 EURO they would have said, hum not listed up front, here is your refund and then told the car rental to take a swim. I have had a number of instances like this where I just said whatever to the company and after (returning car, airline fee, etc.) chatted to Amex and solved.
Not sure how that relates to my question. Why would an idea exist without someone to give it purpose?
But that won't work for every interviewer. In general I think these kinds of questions have little signal.
If human civilization collapses and humans go back to hunter-gatherer subsistence, it means death to about 95-97% of humans.

Not precisely an extinction, but still not a lot of hope.
I think you're misreading the aversion to making money.

Tech entrepreneurs in SV have been trained for years to avoid revenue, profit, etc at all costs. The reason? Because as soon as you have profit, the conversation and metrics at fund-raising time are entirely different, and rather than lala land they will be rooted in a reality that no one wants to be in.

I've seen many founders, even some with decent revenue and growth, actively steering away from that to avoid valuation based on traditional metrics.
Wow, I had no idea spoken notices were a thing.
> I'm yet to find a physician (especially somebody trained at Harvard/Stanford/etc plus a couple fellowships) who is actively practicing, and who hasn't told me with intellectual honesty that 80% of the patients they see present with trivial cases which could have been handled by a resident or a midlevel.

There's almost no job where 80% of it couldn't be done by someone significantly junior. Especially when people are going to die if the person in the role can't handle the whole job, and there's no cost-effective way of presorting the work, it's not at all a sign of overtraining that 80%—or even 90%—of the work items could be done by someone far less skilled.
Honestly, it depends on the location and the industry you want to work in.

Having said that, PHP and JS aren’t the only ones. You will also find Java, Python, Ruby, C# for examples.

> PHP does not solve any problem JavaScript can’t

Any language will solve anything you can do in any other language.

> JS is also more in demand

Depends on industry, location and even teams at the company as well as the standards and requirements which could vary by project.

Having said all that, if you‘re learning JS, yes, you can find jobs that use it.
Aluminum cans are typically lined with plastic.
Do Not Feed the Climate Trolls
Right, I'm aware of that. This is just an alternative for users who don't like using the hot-corners, the keyboard shortcut, or the touchbar
What is future of optical engineering
I don’t know if I’d call the inability for your blood to transport oxygen merely inconvenient.
Does the plastic come from the bottle, or from the water source?
There's a subtle line between repressing and ruminating.

This may be colored by my experience of mental illness, but generally I've learned/grown more from pondering and sorting out feelings in the past rather than right now. It's easy to fall into a trap of "worshipping your pain" (or your hypomanic euphoria for that matter).

OTOH I'm very appreciative of the dispassionate attitude encouraged by stoicism and meditation, etc. -- but that kind of wisdom is acquired with work, like building muscle. "You should lift heavy things!" is both an interesting aspirational model and dangerous advice if it isn't culturally obvious that you can get hurt lifting heavy things while not in shape.

(Edit: stoicism/meditation etc. are more or less like "second-order repression": as you acknowledge your fingertips or your breath, you acknowledge that you have feelings in order to theoretically understand them (locus of control/illusion of self). The danger is that letting go of first-order repression, you can let yourself have feelings about your feelings -- feeling good about feeling miserable would be the common type.)
>Drinking age is tied to necessary federal highway funding, so states aren't going to lower the age.

Federal mandates for funds exist because the 17th amendment took away State governments representation and handed to popular human vote. Few Senators faithfully representing their State would pass mandates telling their own government they must comply or not get money. They'd likely get removed or replaced with someone else by the state government that put them there.
Which of course stopped Snowden from collecting gigabytes of random stuff and writing it to NAND flash cards, thus we don't know any of this.

The people in counter-espionage are not subject to such regulations, nor are generals, and the evidence is that the only people they are used against are those who make any kind of fuss about rule-breaking or, you know, felonies.
Interesting, waitstaff on reddit always say religious people tip worse or not at all.
Ok, let’s add “renewable” to the equation. How do fossil fuels stack up to a clean, renewable source of energy?
Practically all computer science research is published openly in arxiv.

These papers are self edited and peer reviewed in public. I don't see much difference from when CS papers where in journals
Yes — this is the thing that will make it click for the ordinary people: that when we talk about online advertising, it’s not the digital equivalent of printed magazine ads we’re talking about, we’re talking about this.

This, bought en masse, by most companies on Earth.
The majority of medical procedures are neither unique nor proprietary, and the majority of medical procedures are not to save someone from imminent death.

In other words, most of the time people would have options and time to compare those options. Iff the conditions I described above obtained.
That’s a great way to hire someone. Have they produced quality product? Hire. Culture games like this speak more about the toxicity of the employer than anything about the employee. Do you really think subjective questions like this as interpreted by hr or a random manager say anything? It’s purely a power play against the prospective employee.

Good managers can manage all kinds of people. Culture fit is just looking for koolaide drinkers.
> My honest answer to "why do you want to work here?"

I want to chill and pace myself here. I'm looking to do 30+ hours of work per week on my projects outside of this dayjob, so it's important for you not bother me too much during my 40 hours here.

My only goal is to build a company on the side. I've turned down better jobs just so I work in an environment and with coworkers that I fucking hate, so that I am extremely motivated to do whatever it takes to have my own business. Overall this job is just a paycheck - a necessary distraction to maintain a reasonable standard of living, and completely irrelevant to any of my goals in life. If contract work didn't cause too much stress/friction for me, I would be doing that for money. I hope you understand that I want to see you fail, this company fail, and any project I'm on to fail miserably. I will do the work you assign me according to spec, but please remember to leave me the fuck alone.

So... when can I start?
(that's carbonated water in glass bottles)
The problem was with the editor Carol Hunter. Firing the cub reporter for writing the tabloid copy she wanted made it all the more worse. Until the Register removes Hunter the paper is defacto dead to much of Iowa.
For the majority of the population of South America, it is bought because the tap water is not potable. I imagine that is the case in other continents as well.
I also played this game.

http://www.sgalaxy.com/