skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not stupid at all!! For a while apple slices and peanut butter were a staple but she throws that up regularly now. Blueberries are still good if mixed with something, a little watermelon.

Haven’t tried ginger ale, but will pick some up today. She says she doesn’t like it but we’ll give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for that lovely story. It made me laugh at how badly MS is navigating whatever the fuck it is they envision this path they are going down/paving.

However, it did give me a Business Idea; (this is for some hungry 20somethings out there):

Sell a machine image which is basically a windows VM on top of Linux with support, which can handle and navigate all this bullshit that MS is throwing at common users, instead of trying to force the population to become sysads themselves.
Apparently the car doesn't try to read road markings, I stand by my comment I made 2 days ago in response to that.

"Isnt that below minimum viable product for something expected to be used with other people around?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21089373
A quick google shows the same thing is true in France and China. Those were the first two arbitrary countries that came to mind.

This seems to be a non story explained away by globalization or at least only of interest when discussed in the context of globalization as the trend seems to have little to do with the “US” specifically.
That’s really not the narrative at all. Elon said several times, these are not official estimates. He said “this is just stream of consciousness”.

He was giving you literally the picture in his head of what could theoretically be possible if everything came together perfectly.

Then people go and quote just the last sentence which was ...[so that could mean there’s at least a chance we might even see] humans in orbit on Mk4”, take the last part out of context, and run wild with it.

It’s like the “1 million robotaxis” comment. What Elon was actually trying to explain in that moment is that the day the software is ready, they push it to the fleet and every Tesla with AP3 can immediately be a robotaxi. The point is to convey the enormity of the architecture that’s been built and what it enables if the software can be made to work.

I think the way Tesla is managing safety relevant things is the way forward for automobile safety which can save 30,000 lives a year, and not to mention countless maimings, injuries, and hundreds of billions in property damage. Roads are dangerous and lethal for humans, and IMO Tesla will be the company which makes them orders of magnitude less so.
> Do you have some sources on this?

Fatalities of human-driven cars is ~1.5 per 100 million miles driven, and that's across the entire range of driving conditions.

The autonomous car industry (level 3) totaled under 10 million miles driven as of the Uber kill, putting them way beyond despite benefiting from only good conditions.

Tesla just reached 1 billion miles on autopilot early this year and has 5 fatalities, that's slightly better than the human-driven rate but (again) one can assume this is in good conditions pretty much exclusively.
Capitalism and free markets are different things and a few threads here have lumped the two together. Capitalism just means the capitalism is owned privately. Capitalism drives towards monopolies and central control just as much as a totalitarian state does. Enforcing, regulating and supporting free markets is what keeps capitalism in check. And while rare you can have socialist free markets.
As an immigrant from India who is happily living in Toronto with no desire of going (back) to US, here are my reasons why I like it here better. My reasons have nothing to do with job opportunities. (I lived in NY for about 8 years ).

As a "visible minority", life in Toronto and Vancouver is less stressful than it is in USA or Edmonton. Also your dating life will be better in Toronto. If you plan to have a family and kids, you don't have to worry about school shootings -- this is now a thing parents worry about in USA. Your parents can visit you and getting a visitor visa is not a pain.

Of course taxes are higher and take home pay is lower than in USA and the rent is too damm high. But somehow your quality of life will be better here. People are more chill here than in USA (my experience is limited to NY/NJ) and I will bet you already have someone you know who has relative living in Canada. So loneliness will not be an issue.

Also, you can start your own business as soon as you get permanent residency. in USA, a green card could take upto 12 years. In Canada , you will get it in 3 years at most. And when you start contracting as an independent , you will make a whole lot more.

I have never been to Berlin but I hope to visit it one day. I have German friends and they are wonderful people.
X86 has also had saturation arithmetic since MMX was introduced.
>And for the case you mention, a kid on a bicycle, the car will stop itself if needed for safety

That's what it's reported as NOT doing, tho (and also what Tesla asks you to keep an eye on yourself while summoning, in their small print)
looks a lot like minecraft.
Point is that diminishing returns for great legibility kick in far north of ~100 DPI. Perhaps 330 or 440 is pointless at typical desktop viewing distances, but 220 certainly isn't.

I mean, just because ~100 looks okay isn't grounds to get stuck in a rut dictated by what was economical to mass produce in the year 2000s.
It's an alternative to insurance, if you use GoodRx the pharmacy doesn't bill your insurance.
I think it will happen. Buses are already electric where I am from. Won't be long until trucks are too.
Are there no dedicated parking spots for the disabled in the US?
German here. Several of my colleagues are from India. As far as I know they are quite happy here. One of my former managers is from India. So You can make a career here.

From what I can see, salaries are diverse. It is possible make decent money even in Berlin. English is usually not a problem in Berlin. In some companies English is default. Knowing a bit of German helps of course.

Consider Hamburg too, salaries are better there and it is more secure.
Ive been reading some books about innovations and it often seems like this. A lot of random encounters (is word serendepity correct?) coming together to create new idea.

Now if only there was more options for this random encounters on the Internet. For me only HN and reading nonfiction helps in this
Chef had great support for automated testing. We also generally did a lot of testing on other tools.

Sure, things like ansible lack proper testing support, but that doesn't mean that all of the profession doesn't test.
Im Western Nicht Neues, Buddenbrooks, Schiller and Goethe are all enough reason to learn German.
Agree. I love my 4k monitor, and I think 8k will reach the point where I don't need any higher resolution.
Yes but with fusion there is a zero. Warp drive etc is just walking away from the table.

We put our bets on everything that might help, long shots included.
It was my understanding that the asymmetric key pair was generated locally, and only the public key was exchanged. I am unsure about whether or not this is a requirement of the Signal protocol, but Signal itself will only store the private key locally, meaning they would need to alter their software in order to store said keys in a centralized database.
Original press release that is the basis for the story:
https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2019/new-...
The author probably meant the largest available integral type, which can be __int128 on gcc and clang.
> Evidence for existence of a (il)liquidity premium in the stock market is very weak. What this means is that the market has been liquid enough for a long, long time.

That's not entirely true. Liquidity is often used to mean 'ability to exit your position at the most recently traded price', or something similar. However, i'm using a slightly expanded definition, which means: exit your position at its intrinsic value. The ability to sell your stock for what its actually worth is extremely valuable, and statistical arbitrageurs help you do this.

> Consider high frequency trading. Does it really matter for capital allocation that you can sell your Google stock for a fair price in 10ms instead of 20ms? There are hundreds of PhDs working on algorithms and billions invested into infrastructure to make those 20ms into 10ms, which I'd argue is a byproduct of how exchanges work and doesn't serve humanity in any way.

Here I agree with you, although I think it's important to understand that a lot of high frequency trading is actually making markets efficient. That is to say, the service being provided by HFTs is truly valuable. What is not super valuable is squeezing out that last marginal millisecond. The energy poured into the last millisecond is indeed deadweight loss, but I think the amount of energy being spent there, while very large in absolute terms, is not so large relevant to the financial industry writ large.

So yes, I agree that the competition at the margin in HFT is probably not productive, it is a byproduct of the necessary service that HFTs provide and the dynamics of the environment in which they provide it. I also think that any 'solutions' to the problem of that energy expenditure are likely to make everyone worse off over all, not better. You really want the HFT game to be a winner take all market, in the way that it currently is, precisely because competition is deadweight loss.

If you do things like introduce purposeful stochasticity into order submission (for instance), you're going to make the competitive equilibrium more multipolar, so that instead of one dominant firm taking it all, you have a bunch. And that's actually worse for everyone. What we want is basically 1 HFT firm that is the best and does a good enough job that nobody else tries to compete, and earns a reasonable profit for providing the efficiency and liquidity that they do. I think the competitive environment is actually converging on that, even though it may not look that way from the outside.
As a Canadian coder who lived in Toronto for 20 years, I recommend Germany hands down.

I love my country, but high taxes, housing bubble, stagnant salaries, horrible choices when it comes to political candidates...

I will say the healthcare is great, and the people are generally awesome (to a lesser degree in Toronto though).
Divergent: Fileless Node.js malware burrows deep within the host
I’d go further and say that deep networks are excellent for sentence understanding, and various types of RNN or 1D convolutional layers are very good at this in specialized domains just as CNNs and ResNets are good in specialized vision applications.

It absolutely makes sense to use deep learning for both of these tasks.

In fact, one very effective thing to do is to use a Siamese network to learn joint representational spaces of text and imagery in the same network.

It’s really specious and disingenuous to say “boy, vision and language sure seem different but can you believe these DL researchers are using the same tools for both!?”
If I was a young person I would do this instead of these courses.

Start with leetcode easy and see what I am missing if i am unable to solve that problem. progress all the way to leetcode hard.

Anything else is pure waste of time and would not land you a job.
> Saving for retirement will be also taxed heavily.

There already is a public pension system, that should cover the biggest part of the pension.
Saving anything beyond public the public pension system is taxed like normal capital yields. Capital yields are taxed as 26% or the tax rate of the normal income tax, whichever is lower.

> dental problems and modern procedures you must pay by yourself.

Basic dental healthcare is included (biannual checkups, fillings, getting teeth pulled, ...). I don't know what you mean with modern procedures that don't get paid. Healthcare pays everything that's medically necessary and some stuff on top (e.g. the contraceptive pill is included until you're 22).

> I also wouldn’t accept offer under €70k in Berlin. Of course, it’s doable with €45k, but I am not sure if it’s worth all migration effort. Fresh graduates start with €55k nowadays.

That seems a bit high in my experience, especially as Berlin is one of the areas with lower pay.
Not the source code for PHP itself, though.
Yeah this is the way to go. European internet/cellphone plans are also cheaper than in Canada. So for freelancing or working at a company, it's worthwhile. Plus you can travel more easily around Europe when you're within an EU country.
Nobody called humans the bugs.

But sure, humans sometimes do make mistakes.

And when a Tesla is involved on either side, news hysteria effect seems to kick in.
Wouldn't apply at any company doing that.
Multiphoton quantum-state engineering using conditional measurements
Yup. There’s plenty of places along "the corridor" – Kitchener/Waterloo, Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal – in eastern Canada that could cater to the OP's goals and hop between them if there's a particular event happening in one of those cities (though not as a cheap as hoping around Europe).
You should never rely on the underlying CPU architecture's behavior on integer overflow when you write C or C++. It is undefined and not unspecified or implementation defined.
That seems really unlikely. People are used to devices being things that you buy once and keep forever without a subscription. Why would Microsoft go out on a limb and do something weird like that?
Until F-Droid removes the app from the store for whatever reason
This is an incredibly "hner who is out of touch with reality" comment.

I don't like Alexa devices in my home, but I'm gonna need to see any data backing your claim.
There is no authoritative definition of DevOps, so there’s really no point in arguing that one of our definitions is wrong. I’m telling you that it is more valuable to treat ops as an engineering problem rather than “duct-tape it and keep it chugging along”. So yes, if you want to treat it as an engineering problem, you must _employ engineers_. These engineers can be former sysadmins so long as they know how (or can be trained in a reasonable timeframe) to do engineering.

WRT your “walled garden” quip, employment is about qualifications. No one is entitled to jobs for which they are not qualified, not even sysadmins. If the employer is hiring engineers and the sysadmin candidate can’t or won’t learn how to engineer, then they are not qualified.
I share my time between Montreal and Berlin for past five years. in short: if you are searching money then the answer is definitely Toronto. It is expanding more and more, tech scene is booming and getting your permanent residency or even Canadian passport is not that hard if you are determined.

Berlin is a life changing city, once you are there you may see life differently. You may end up getting a small programming job then being a DJ in evenings.
You cannot go to Berlin with a plan, Berlin will re-planify you.
While the tech scene is going up (specially during recent years because of blockchain startups) access to money and VCs are far limited.
On top of that although English is ok in Berlin but if don't speak German, competing with local people is hard.
> Having found something that works well doesn't proclude [sic] finding something that works even better.

I'm not suggesting it does. There might well be a system that works more favourably, but I don't know what that would look like and I have never heard anyone suggest anything that isn't some flavour of Communism hiding behind the extremely arrogant position of "but it's never been tried! It would work if we did it my way!".
> If you come to me looking for a job and didn't go to college, why

How about "because it is really expensive, and not everyone is provided enough to pay for it, or take out the debt, and there are other ways of learning that stuff".
Complementary vibrational (infrared and Raman scattering) spectroscopy
I had pretty much this exact thing happen to me. I had left one company to go work for a startup. The startup failed. I was contracted to come back to the first company to cover for a former teammate who was going on maternity leave.

For insurance they put a sizeable early leave monetary penalty into the contract. I thought just giving my word would be sufficient but I had no plans to leave so didn't matter either way.

During the contract I did well on an online programming contest that turned out to be a recruiting tool. I was made a now or never offer I shouldn't refuse but I did explaining that I was committed to my current contract. When discussed, they we're willing to payout the penalty to have me start earlier.

At this point I thought hard about my personal ethics on this and it came down to if it was based on trust, I would have stuck it out to the end but since they made it monetary I was playing by their set out rules and had no qualms (well maybe still a little) about going before the end.
Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, ...
I believe they do, but it’s a pretty modest interest rate.
In the first video from the article, the Tesla would be found to be at fault in most jurisdictions as the driver backing out was well into the backing out maneuver before the Tesla even rounded the corner. The Tesla without question did not have the right away at that point.
Yea, I replaced cJSON with this library last year on one of my personal projects and never looked back. Good library. I came to this thread thinking, "Oh, did someone find something nicer than nlohmann json? Now I'm going to have to take some time to investigate it!" Turns out it's the one I've been using.
Plenty of people die in cars every day. Cars are released products, right? You are making no sense here. And the collisions reported with smart summon are fender benders not “killings”. No need to hype up the drama level.
The answer, as usual, is 'it depends'. Many will just burn it at incredibly high temp and hope for the best, while many advanced scrubbing systems exist, with various effectiveness, usually correlated with cost. The incentives are obvious on both sides.
Well, I believe that we should be totally able to stop technological progress, and not have autonomous "technological progress" for the sake of progress.

We should have targeted progress, in the areas we want to improve and which is beneficial, and not in other areas, which is not beneficial or has negative externalities or adverse second and third order effects...

The same way governments try to control e.g. nuclear proliferation.

Here's an example: would you be ok with a nuclear-equivalent technology that could be made by anyone in their homes, with simple materials and be able to e.g. wipe out an entire city? Surely, it would be a technological and engineering progress. But just as surely as that, I'd rather we regressed technologically and prohibited access to the materials etc, than have that be available to every idiot, madman and bigot.

Now, you might say that "it's impossible", but I don't think so. In a democracy nothing should be impossible, and political and cultural action could be made to curtail certain technologies.

That's not unlike Kurwzeil and Musk, notable technologists, warning against AI singularity...
In addition to the press release someone posted, if you’re interested in some of the (high level) science behind this, I’d encourage you to read the ESMO presentation slides this news comes from: https://grail.com/wp-content/uploads/ESMO_2019_Oxnard_CCGA2_...

I don’t think the article mentions it, but the study is funded by Grail, which is commercializing a variety of related technologies.
How are you envisioning this library being used?
> How can a data format be insecure?

If it tries to be too featureful, then it requires parsers to be very flexible. Malicious input can trick a too-flexible parser into doing things that the developer of whatever function called the parser probably didn't want to happen.

For example, YAML:

https://arp242.net/yaml-config.html
I'm pretty sure Windows 10 LTSB exists for this specific use case
Fair point - so certain scenarios likely would benefit from visual and perhaps audio signals, lights flashing - certain lighter horn noise. Perhaps even listening to audio for someone nearby to be able to say "stop" and the vehicle would stop - or respond similarly to other horn noises.
Are we looking at the same video? https://twitter.com/eiddor/status/1177749574976462848

It pulls out as if it were going to continue across the traffic lane and very clearly stops right at the threshold. At no point is it in the traffic lane, nor in the path of the gray vehicle that stops.

It's true that it "looked like" a human driver who was going to continue straight out, so the other driver (correctly) hit the brakes.

But spinning this like the Tesla "stopped in the middle of traffic" is just plain wrong.
I'm not fluent in any language (except maybe English), but this was my job on Android for about five years, and I still have my hand in. I got very good at being able to spot various forms of incorrect rendering, and of course called in the experts when needed.

One of my favorite examples was Devanagari shaping. In the word ट्विटर (tvitar = Twitter), does the "i" matra shape before the "tv" it in the middle of it? In my sample, people accepted it either way (and you'll see both depending on font), but there are lots of examples where one is just wrong.
Berlin is still a great place to live, but dev salaries are low and seem to stuck at a ceiling of about €70-75K/y gross for senior/lead positions (there are exceptions, but even this is a hard sell to get). For a long time this was "justified" by the allegedly low cost of living. This is not true anymore, the city is rapidly getting more expensive (housing) and the leverage has all but vanished. Senior devs who are moving here, please smash the ceiling and ask for more (you deserve it).
I grew up in Canada (Calgary), and have spent a decent chunk of time in both cities. I live in NYC now.

If possible, I recommend you take a trip to both cities and see what you like more. Spend a week in each, and maybe try to go to Toronto in the winter to see if you like it. Berlin has mild winters and doesn't get much snow, but Toronto can have harsh winters. Summers in Toronto can be hot and humid, which you might be used to already (since you said you're from India).

The biggest advantage to Toronto over Germany is the proximity to major US cities. Like it or not, most of the "tech innovation" is centred in the US.

Also don't count on the TN (which is not a visa, btw) sticking around forever. If your main reason for going to Canada is border mobility, you're probably better off staying in Europe. An EU citizen can live and work anywhere in the EU. Canada and the US have a close relationship, but NAFTA (which is where the TN comes from) could be gutted whenever the politicians decide that's what will get them reelected.

All things considered, if I were in your position (knowing what I know) I'd go to Berlin. It's more trendy, has better public transit, milder weather, and Europe has much more culture to explore and learn about than Canada (sorry).
Sure, but there is always a need for more beds. It doesn’t end. At some point, the money runs out.

That’s what countries like the UK do with QUALY measurements. You have X billions of Euros to spend, so you spend it on the most effective measures and say “no” to everything else.
Skunkworks, if you haven't yet. Less relevant, but another good read is the Robert Coram biography of John Boyd.

A skunk works is what happens when you decide to remove bureaucratic obstacles, it requires team consensus, political sheltering, and subterfuge.

Boyd managed to get things done without this consensus.

Musk simply eliminates all bureaucratic obstacles from the top.
And that scenario of a kid on a bicycle not being seen until they're almost in front of you exists while a driver in the vehicle too: collision detection will certainly be able to have a faster reaction than a human driver as well.