skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diablo 3 took a few hours to get to max level on the first character, an hour max on the second, even less if you had friends. Items are already level-gated in the game anyway, so you'd need to come up with a convoluted gear-score system to judge power-level of gear.

D3's auction house made the game suck because the combination of game difficulty at Inferno and the way the loot dropped meant that the fastest way to gear up was to do chest runs where you ignored all the enemies. The extreme imbalance on the AH also meant that top end gear was stupid expensive and everything else was dirt cheap, limiting mobility for those who chose to "play the AH".
Don't get me wrong, I agree there are a lot of arguments in favor of building efficient houses!
They are pointing out the existence of a fixed point in the oligarch state.

Yes, you can estimate the time to leave this fixed state by invoking an analogy to a classical mechanics problem, where the time to leave is proportional to the exponential of the action.
If you're in software, it's easy. You just have to learn how to control your spending and save the rest. Get comfortable living at about $30K per year
No, this is a video from a shitty dash cam released by Uber (and then happily compressed to shit and forwarded by police, who don't miss a chance to blame whoever died in a crash) to deliberately misrepresent the situation. This garbage pinhole sensor has not one hundredth of the dynamic range of the actual cameras they use for the autonomous driving and is not at all representative of how human eyes see, which would have had no problem spotting her from many many seconds away.

No, this is part of the crime here.
Astute observation. I thought it was worth mentioning in the context of what I was talking about.
1) Setup a status page for what you want to monitor (/health/queuelength)
2) Point statuscake at that url
3) Connect statuscake to pagerduty.

This approach is easy to implement and scale
How's Lockheed's Skunk Works coming along? They're quietly building their fifth test model of a compact fusion reactor.[1] Using Lockheed's own money. They plan for ignition at the eighth test model. Once every year or two, they issue a quiet press release. "The work we have done today verifies our models and shows that the physics we are talking about – the basis of what we are trying to do – is sound," Jeff Babione, Skunk Works Vice President and General Manager.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29074/skunk-works-exot...
they actually address your concern in the article.

once an agent achieves "oligarch" status in their model, the flow of wealth towards them accelerates rather than decelerates such that the remaining agents have no ability to exchange wealth with anyone other than the oligarch. so intermediates between the lowest level with nothing and the oligarch are temporary at best.
Then your system is not ready to be on the road. We're taking about metal box weighting at least a ton, launched at dozen of miles an hour on roads where they can hit people.

"They had to not react quickly because they keep mis-detecting things" is really not an acceptable justification. If that's the why (and it probably is) that car should never have been on the street.
Why Not Having a CS Degree Is Awesome
If you click on the squares under Owners Describe Model 3 Quality and Reliability, you can see comments.

Here are a couple amusing ones from very dissatisfied.

>Summon repeatedly tries to ram into the other car in my garage. Documented by your own tech at our house.

>I miss BMW

A few more about steering wheel being off center.
http://archive.is/QpjJc
IMHO this fail is cultural, but fixable, and is a similar symptom to feature creep or platform sprawl - people gravitate more towards creation than curation, and so you wind up with celebration of "adding more documentation", ignoring whether or not the doxs are relevant or valuable.

It's similar to some of the traps I see burgeoning PM's fall into, where they're moving things around, following or building a process, and the feeling of work makes them feel like they're getting things done, but they're really just doing something with low value for time like printing out JIRA tickets to put on a whiteboard or copying the `README.md` over to Confluence.

A few culture hacks I've seen success with over the years;

- Move private questions into a public space, and have someone pay attention to them. When the same thing gets asked a few times, don't just add the answer to the docs, but look at why the context isn't apparent and the question keeps getting asked. Fix that instead of answering the question.

- Aggressively mark deprecated docs. Make this easy process-wise. In one case we just tagged a wiki page with a tag that changed the whole styling to make it really visually apparent that it might be wrong.

- Foster a culture of cutting - this usually has to happen top-down, but once you get this baked in, it has compounding benefit across the place. Cut features, cut code, cut documentation.
No, it was a single real-world database.

Just in case if it looks surprisingly that Postgres can deal with such numbers of objects, I suggest checking this out: https://www.pgcon.org/2013/schedule/attachments/283_Billion_...
If somebody stands to profit by a bad design, they don’t get the benefit of the doubt.
Do you want to explain?
How recent was this? Years ago I remember hearing the scenario where people who switched from iPhone -> Android (keeping the same number) would continue to have iMessages go to their old phone. Or the messages would just get lost in the ether if their old phone was off or sold.

For awhile, at least at the Apple store, they were very deliberate about disabling "Find my iPhone" and iMessage when handing off or wiping a phone. I don't remember them doing this recently, so I figured it was built into the process now.

I do think we need some basic awareness about digital devices, just like people do when they let someone borrow the keys to their house (although, many people are terrible at managing that). I recently sold a house with a Nest and a few other IoT things. I wiped them and reset them to factory settings. The realtor and new owner were asking me for my login/password (I'm sure this happens often for them) because they figured it was still tied to my old account.
Not great. I'm at an all time confidence low. In my personal life I feel like I'm not respected by the people closest to me. In my professional life I feel like I've moved to a role that I can't and don't want to grow in. For the first time in my career I do not like work. I feel stressed and overloaded with 'busy' work.

I was thinking of getting a life coach or something similar. Does anyone have experience with that?

To end on a positive note, I'm eating well (mainly a plant based diet) and working out more than normally within the last few years.
I never said inequality is bad (by itself). Inequality is driving progress.

Historically, people made little progress in circumstances where they could not amass and defend wealth. Property rights and working public institutions is what allows people to stop spending their entire time defending what little they have and instead figure out how to improve what they amassed (in other words progress).
Dodging and ignoring has worked for them before:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/07/29/fac...
Right now, people with a lot of money basically dictate how people with not enough money use their time. How do they do this? By effectively withholding housing and food unless the people with not enough money do the work that the people with more money tell them to do... Often at the cost of taking care of their kids, of their bodies, of their mental health, of their living spaces. Money as a tool for distributing resources and collective decision making is at odds with money as a tool for domination, exploitation and extortion.

Modifying the distribution of wealth isn't about chopping up the richest peoples money and handing it out to everyone else. It's about altering the flows of the dynamical system so that power is continually distributed in an equitable way, one that optimizes more peoples' ability to thrive and co-create healthy lives.

It's about changing the meaning of having vs not having money, it's about reducing the intensity of the leverage people have over one another, and about freeing people to have basic autonomy and agency in their lives.
The local people and government antagonized this man so he made composite armor, converted his bulldozer into a tank complete with mounted guns and started demolishing the buildings of his enemies. Explosives and bullets did nothing so they actually thought about deploying anti-tank weapons and attack helicopters against this guy. One civilian in a bulldozer!

There is no doubt he was wrong but the fact is he built a tank. Can't help but respect his achievement.
BWB is also the only online bookseller that seems incapable of delivering their orders consistently. I have given up trying to order from them.
Actually, I'm aggressively looking for higher quality content that I can pay for, like (e.g.) nzz.ch for news. I was also a Google Contributor subscriber, before it required an opt-in for site operators.

What I would really like is to pay for the Google Feed (aka Google Now) on my Pixel instead of having to ignore the ads that have recently started to show up there.
However this quote is referencing writing, and the author is primarily in print. Getting started is definitely key, but the kind of work being referred to here isn't typically experimented and iterated on once it's published.
Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
Question for HN experts:
what would be the best approach for object-detection when the object I am trying to detect is a specific image (not a class of objects) printed on a 2D surface (therefore it could be partially folded / curved, but still more of a distorted 2D object than a complex 3D one)?
That has nothing to do with the reaction time. Yeah, they weren't looking at the road, but that's a separate issue that doesn't involve reaction time. Going from an unexpected buzzer to full control of the vehicle in a single second is a pretty good speed.
In case anyone missed the context, this is probably related to https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-ho...
You don't really want to outsource innovative projects. You want to keep your best staff with you and have it work on most important projects and outsource the least important but highest volume of work.
My favorite story is the game that Turing invented with one of his chess-and-running buddies (Champernowne?) where one would have to jog around the house after each chess move.
Also worth noting that this was solved in 68010 by changing the exception stack frame.

On that regard, it's a shame the Amiga released (1985) with a 68000 cpu. Particularly, move from SR became privileged 010+ and thus caused problems when Amiga finally moved past 68000. Those could have been easily avoided by releasing Amiga on 68010 to begin with, which is also a CPU with slightly higher IPC.

They compounded the issue by using 68000 again on A500/A2000 (1987), for negligible savings.

Of course, this does pale next to the gross mismanagement Commodore did of the Amiga thereon, which ultimately led to Commodore's own demise.
which apps support full embedded HTML? I like markdown but I run into exceptions where I need some html all the time. It could be a short span for color or an iframe for an example and most libraries and apps seem to fail there.
This looks awesome, any initial benchmarks against cloudflare workers, lambda, gcf?
This is where Waymo uses deep learning models that can predict the future behavior of other road users in real-time. They are hiring: https://waymo.com/joinus/1235933/
Well, if a large bird - say - an emu or ostrich (but probably also a turkey) suddenly crosses your car's path I believe you would brake.

At least here (in the country) it is not uncommon that wild boars or deers cross the road suddenly at night, and I have seen cars literally destroyed by the collision, in some cases with the driver seriously injured.
Article for those of us in Europe.

https://outline.com/CaUjCw
The Fisherman's Secret
Any movement can use those tactics. I wouldn’t be surprised if they also read rules for radicals too. Any group looking for influence is going to use tried and true methods.

So while many vile groups like the nazis and others seeking power, there are many other groups who hold unpopular opinions even unpopular and illegal outcomes (as presently held by the public), I’m not sure we want to suppress that. Much of what we have today as acceptable discourse and so on is because we allowed those voices which were considered degenerate or unacceptable one way or another.

We don’t need a new dogma telling us the way to think correct.
Does anybody do a sort of power law fit for wealth distribution?

i.e. (yearly income | total assets | net worth | passive income) vs. population percentile?

I can't seem to quickly find raw data to make an example.
Why shouldn't you disable them on servers that don't run Javascript or any other untrusted code?
A Simple Approach to Securing Web Forms
> Do you believe that I will take better care of myself or be a better father in the long run if I get a one-time bonus of $917?

Your POV fails to take into account the utility and time-value of the redistributed dollars. It's the difference between some unelected doofus having tons of power because of their stationary dollars, or building a universal pre-k and/or healthcare system.

I know I'd personally work less if I wasn't "blessed with the opportunity of choice" of terrible insurance plans offered by my employer where an emergency appendectomy leads to $5k in bills... or if I could work 75% time and reduce daycare hours.
Increased click-through I guess, and because they have unlimited money.
> when you lack the ability to read four sentences.

please reread because I believe you've misread the sentences.
>(On the other hand, the baseline is much higher now...)

Which unfortunately hasn't resulted in a more responsive user experience.

Faster CPUs just meant that optimising code got less important. Now, we're stuck with a bloated stack, top to bottom.
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Is the story wrong? This is what it says:

"In these 37 incidents, all of the robo-vehicles were driving in autonomous mode, and in 33, self-driving cars crashed into other vehicles."

This is saying the self-driving cars crashed into other vehicles.
> At the end of the day, advertisers and viewers can't possibly care what video it's showing on as long as they're getting the right target audience.

This isn't true?

Advertisers certainly do care. They don't want their ad dollars to be spent paying publishers for content that's controversial because it makes them look bad. It also has the potential to damage their brand.

This actually happened and is what led YouTube to lose a significant amount of ad revenue which in turn created the situation we have now.

I work for Google, opinions are my own.
For me it works, are you still unable to access it?
Redbox is a thing. Not for renting out PC games, but there is a case for renting out physical console games. A large part of GameStop’s business model is retrading second hand games.
which costs more money. Getting more work out of fewer people thereby cutting costs and increasing shareholder value is the capitalist thing to do. Not saying it's right or wrong.
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It sounds like your beef is with the employer, not the IRS.

The IRS knew your return was inaccurate when you submitted it. And it sounds like it was off by enough to trigger statutory penalties, which was appropriate based on the facts provided.

Yes, it sucks that your employer gave you the wrong statement, but there's nothing the IRS can do about it. Your employer had a legal obligation to give you the corrected statement when they filed a correction with the IRS, and if they did not your recourse is to go after your employer to make you whole for the penalties and interest owed. The IRS is not in the business of determining who is telling the truth about not receiving legally required documents.

Why can't the literal authority on the matter tell you first?

Because Intuit and HRBlock spend a lot of money preventing the IRS from implementing that sort of system. The IRS has proposed an EZ-file system like they have in Australia or in the EU many times, and has been shot down every time.
It’s also unrealized. Maybe just tax on the sale or transfer.

Honestly the whole situation is a nightmare. I feel like whenever I think of a “solution” I just find problems with it.
You're getting away from the tread though. At 0.1% you're not FedEx to Google's UPS.

And if you're running a similar service, say a speciality search engine, Google might come after you at a moment's notice.
They got work they wouldn’t have otherwise had. I’ve been made redundant before, but don’t hold any grudge. I don’t expect a contract for life, if my employer can’t or doesn’t need to pay me anymore I don’t feel they owe me an eternal salary, I’m grateful for the work and compensation I got. This attitude that any employment is immoral if it’s not for life makes no sense to me.
Months? Bah. Try years.
No it's not, and hitting the brakes isn't "full control". Honestly, how long do you think it would take you to hit the breaks if something jumped out at you? It would be almost instant.

Edit: ok, I was just making a bit of a joke at first, but I looked it up. Reaction times vary by person, but tend to be between 0.75 and 3 seconds. 2.5s is used as a standard, so I guess I have to conceded that 1.25s is pretty good... I guess, for whatever that's worth.
If latency is a big deal, don’t use lambda. I went from not knowing anything about Docker to having a Fargate (Serverless Docker) NodeJS app running in less than a day using a walkthrough I found.

But then again, I did already know the other fiddly bits of AWS.
Tough crowd, tough crowd.
I was on an early pilot for Google Stadia and could play Assasin’s Creed Oddyssey smoothly on a high speed internet connection.
The App Defense Alliance: Bringing the security industry to fight bad apps
In fact, inequality will happen just through luck alone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16618385
The least unequal countries from the time they started measuring GINI have had a value between 0.250 and 0.300, including the likes of the Soviet Union which was on the upper end of that range, and many former eastern block countries alongside Scandinavian countries who are currently at the lower end of that range. Note that these values are after taxes and transfers.

I think the goal, especially within an economy modeled loosely around capitalist principals, should be to have a low GINI prior to taxes and transfers, something South Korea can claim to have one of the lowest in the world at around 0.350 and they've had some of the fastest economic growth on earth over the last couple decades, in addition to having one of the most highly educated populations on earth, especially among young people. They also invest the highest percentage of their GDP on R&D.

Switzerland, Norway, and Denmark also still have one of the lowest levels of inequality before taxes and transfers at around 0.400. As such you have created a much more stable society, where you do not divide society into groups who either are deeply concerned about inequality or feel as if they are being taxed too much.
You can do the apple thing, but imo that's more than just marketing abs branding. To be a startup though (work radical growth) it's likely you'll be able to do and sustain that only with marketing and branding as a differentiator. Imo.
In the world of software, I think this counterpoint definitely applies. When faced with a new problem, especially when greenfielding, I sometimes have the impulse to just jump in and start writing code. Almost every time that I succumb to that impulse for a complex problem, I discover weird edge cases and lots of little issues which could have been avoided by further contemplation at the drawing board. Stated in a similar format: a lot of refactoring can be prevented by a few extra hours at the whiteboard.
Care to share the book names?
Yes, they could... If Intuit and HRBlock didn't spend a lot of money each year preventing the IRS from doing exactly that.

The IRS has proposed this many times, and have been blocked by Congress just as many times.
In this case not being worth their time is a good thing. They can always asses interest and penalties until it’s worth their time prepossessing a home. But, when someone is making a good faith effort it’s crazy to escalate this far.
If you provide value and they really need you, they won't treat you this way. Find a way to become more valuable and competitive in the marketplace demanding your skill. Save your money so you can say goodbye to micromanagers.

Nobody with valuable skills should put up with crap like that
It’s a soft limit. You can request a larger limit and get it increased within 30 minutes.
Do you have any advice for younger developers looking to get into the consulting life? I really hate the 9-5 life, and consulting seems like the best way to break out of it.
100 boxes handling 1000 connections

I hope this is a typo ;)
I found the book "When Kale and Coffee Compete" to be helpful when understanding JTBD.

http://www.whencoffeeandkalecompete.com

While many startup teams take a product first, "if you build it they will come" attitude, JTBD thinking can get you to a paradigm shift.

The best way I can describe it is:

Producers, consumers, solutions and jobs to be done all work together as parts of the same system.

You have to see clearly your place, and your solution's place, in the system, in order to build something people want.

If you can't see the system that your product fits into (and don't have ways to get feedback from prospective users), you're probably building something that you won't even be able to give away for free. And that spells failure.
> they are too busy trying to be the one to profit off it before the next guy does

That's not how innovation works. Moonshot projects take time. And they are risky and expensive.

The risk/expense is too high for one or even a few investors to bear. That's why innovators can't get "too busy to profit off it." These efforts need buy-in from a large crowd, from charities, states, institutional investors, etc. Convincing such a large crowd needs a PR effort, which is why such articles get written.

Are all of these efforts genuine? Of course not. But a project being long-term and "needing more money for the foreseeable future" is not a good heuristic to tell that it's not.
Immutability is a big one, and I absolutely love things like Elixir's pattern matching and pipe operator, I'll never program the same after coming into contact with them. And I love never really needing to write a loop or to have a "counter" variable, the declarative style just makes things much easier to read, write, and understand imho.
It's a little bit more complicated. Sure, if you're doing low-level programming I imagine you might run into the Win32 API, but if you're just building typical desktop applications (particularly for newer devices like the Surface Pro X or Surface Neo), you'll most likely want to use UWP. Usage of Win32 for app development is only going to decrease overtime for typical consumer applications. I'm sure businesses will continue building LOB apps in WPF and WinForms until the heat-death of the universe, but there's also businesses building apps in VB6 and you don't see many people recommending to learn that.
do they cancel your order or take forever to deliver?