skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading through it and absolutely loving it so far. They're able to succinctly capture concepts I have had trouble defining.

Are there any specific parts you'll recommend? Or anything I should skip?
I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but at least here in the US there's this cultural tendency to want to crush anyone who's made any kind of mistake, or even made the right decision but happened by chance to have had something go wrong in a way that could have been avoided with a different decision, if they can be blamed for it, but also to accept paper-thin excuses for why a person who might be held responsible can't, in fact, be blamed for it, and once blame has been so laundered enough times we just forget about the whole thing. It's completely weird, really expensive, and ethically gross. And it's present at every level of our society, just about everywhere.
Feels nice to click the author's name and see their previous two articles "How the 2010s Taught Us to Hate the Rich" and "Ban the SAT and ACT".

I don't think this narrative was actually written by the person they are discussing even though it's in first person.
With technologies like Nearby it is possible to determine if you are near other individuals' devices. It is possible to infer you are in a car based on samples from phone sensors. In addition, it is possible to tell you are not driving a car based on your body movements. The kinds of apps your car insurer likes you to run have to make all these inferences already (if they don't have a hardware component independent of your phone).
Wow. This really makes me thankful for what I have.
Because echo chambers need their bubble's pierced every so often. Kubernetes is such garbage that no one runs it on their servers and if they do they have an army dedicated to managing it 24/7. Go to any company that's running it and ask them how they feel about it.
That's right, any amount of alcohol reduces awareness and increases reaction time.

I think what the poster meant is that while a person driving under influence might be slightly distracted (there is full spectrum of being under influence) the person fidgeting with a phone is always very distracted.

You can't be only slightly distracted when you are not looking at the road but reading or replying to message.
Uber drives up prices for shared rides, Chicago data reveals
If you want to learn more about it, the effect is usually called "intermittent reinforcement". Check out the first two episodes of https://humanetech.com/podcast/ (transcripts available)
What types of program are you writing?
They never have, but grocery stores also do not prevent you from selling your product for cheaper elsewhere.
Memory accurate reimplementation of Space Invaders in C
> Cannot she ask them to pay for a taxi then?

Should could ask...

> Also I didn't understand why she lives so far away from work.

Because when you earn so little, you really don't have much choice where you live.
As a pedestrian, I'm often passed at close range, at speed by bicyclists that have their head in their phones. It's difficult to fathom this level of negligence.
There's a lot of truth to this, but the fact remains that a 43 year old will have twenty additional years of experience in life and various fields, not merely a narrow subject. This can improve a project's chance at success.

For an example young folks can relate to, rate your current self against self-five_years_ago for an important task.
In California if you apply for a license while under 18 you have to take lessons. Nowadays most people take them online. Anecdotally most new drivers get their license while this would apply to them.
The director of the NSA gets a modest salary of $180,000. That's roughly the comp of an associate at Mckinsey or entry level at a FAANG. I doubt that they can attract the top talent with the amount they're paying.

https://cryptome.org/2014/03/nsa-salaries.htm#:~:targetText=....
I don't want to personalize the comment. But in Europe there are many examples where McKinsey implement a model to fix the money distribution problem. At the end, society gives up the culture and ideals. While the ppl get short handed the partners get a bonus. Still, I think this is mostly a problem of bad public leadership that is not approachable.
"Referee" is too unbiased a word. Shocking how frequently the consultants' conclusions mirror the arguments posed by the side that pays their fees.
I’m just annoyed at my links being hijacked. When I click a link, my intention is to visit someone’s page, not to view it through some sort of creepy iframe. When I go to share a link, why is it a google link instead of the newspaper? Why do I have to spend a minute or two hunting for the real one in the ugly ui?
Gatsby.js could be added as a solution to make sites load faster, it's awesome what it does
This looks really nice.

In principle, I'm a big advocate of self-hosting (one of my services is even on this list). In practice, it just doesn't work for me. Once I get beyond 2-3 services it's just too much hassle to keep track of everything.

The key realization for me is that I don't actually care too much where the software is running, or who is running it for me. What I do care about is a avoiding vendor lock-in. As long as I have a reasonable escape hatch if my service company starts doing things I don't like, that's good enough. This keeps them honest. My issue with the current crop of monoliths like Google services is that there's no obvious migration path if you get fed up with them, so you're pretty much stuck with them no matter how crappy their software or customer service is/gets.

That's why I think something like sandstorm.io or cloudron is the future of self-hosting, at least in the near future. Maybe eventually we'll have a substrate of simple protocols and practices that will make it reasonable to manage everything yourself, but we're not there yet.
I also have good friends who work in policing (and don't have a problem with most policing as some do).

I certainly would say that police have a solid ethos, which is indeed voiced in mottos like the ones you mention.

The distinction I'm making is that the "do no harm" goal at the top of the medical ethos is different, and wondering if that could help in the policing world.
These have an M.2 slot. https://www.seeedstudio.com/ROCK-Pi-4-Model-B-4GB-p-4137.htm...

https://www.youtube.com/explainingcomputers is a good YouTube channel for reviewing these types of single board computers.
I am very tempted to do that...

I had people cut me off ilegally, pass another vehicles by going in the wrong way (risking a frontal collision with my car), turn while texting, miss the radius and climb on the sidewalk (that one was scary, I genuinely believed the guy would hit a nearby trash truck)...

I saw several crashes, including cars literally flipped over in a straight avenue, dunno how that one happened.

Yet... I started driving only one year ago, in one year I saw much, much, MUCH shenanigans on the road, it is just ridiculous, I don't like using my horn yet there were days I had to use it more than once to avoid collisions (ie: people not paying attention were about to crash on me, 4 DIFFERENT people mind you... and it was a 10 minute drive!)
By 2030, dollar inflation can easily make $100 battery to cost $60 alone.
this is exactly what i was looking for, thank you!
Almost all education is forced. Realistically, the problem you're describing also extends to educating people.

My proposal attempts to activate a level of empathy and self-preservation. A tolerable amount of trauma is induced in potential drivers to get them to treat it as a necessary evil, not a rite of passage, a right or an enjoyable activity.

I think I understand what you mean when you say it sounds authoritarian, but I disagree. It's not authoritarian, it's just a more stringent set of rules on a gating function which already exists. I guess I would agree it sounds dystopian because of the VR simulations that would be involved. But then, it's a measure intended to curb tens of thousands of deaths each year, thousands of which are due to distracted driving in particular.
It's difficult to talk about because there's an angle of blaming the victim to it, and I understand and even applaud peoples' gut resistance to that. When I'm with friends who cross without looking my reply to them is usually "There are plenty of dead people out there who had the right-of-way."
Have a look at odroid HC1/2
Multi-Patterning EUV vs. High-NA EUV Lithography
I'm realizing that I should temper my cynicism.

"Senior leadership contracting an outsider to tell them how their own industry works and explain their place in it" might be a straw man. Strategic consulting could just as easily be, "We're considering expanding into this new market that we don't know as well, and we're hiring a consultant who specializes in that." Or, a previous employer hired a consultant for guidance on how to prepare the company to be sold.
The data is from police reports where there was an accident. Do you think that it's underreported, and that people would not volunteer to an officer they were using their cell phones? Your first link talks about this in the Data Limitation section.

Also, and they don't note this, but people can be intoxicated and using a mobile device. I suspect their model substantially unreports DUIs where distraction was a factor. It is very easy to do a field test and chalk it up to a DUI and not investigate further.

"Honestly, I think the real number of fatalities tied to cell phones is at least three times the federal figure "
- https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/10/18/46...
Everyone is talking about Amazon promoting their own products, but can we talk about the type of products being promoted in the top 5? Security camera, Ring doorbell, Echos, i.e. all surveillance devices people are willingly and voluntarily putting in their private homes, just waiting for that data to be compromised by hackers, data leaks, you name it.

Call me tinfoil I don't care, but don't invite me to your homes either if the place is going to be bugged, I'm good.
Is the expected use case to build generic queries on any type of database?

Also why Javascript?
AOSP is absolutely open source: the code can be viewed, modified, built and deployed as desired. There's good reason to be skeptical of Google-developed software, but your characterization of AOSP as "not open source" is simply not tenable.
Yeah I was going to mention the touchpad too, own two. Been meaning to repurpose them as small monitors.

I should probably thank you and the other jailbreakers and hackers for the two platforms for your contributions making them more useful machines.

Also worth pointing out WebOS lives on! https://www.webosose.org/blog/2019/11/20/webos-ose-2-1-0-rel...
Wouldnt prices of the grid go down as well? The grid could switch to a storage model too. Making it not that attractive to deal with all the maintenance.
Yea there are people who enjoy the act of training and people who do not. Personally I'm the former but it's easy to understand why people don't want to turn a game into work.
>Also, this lets the CEO appear unbiased to all the people who "lost". So they can get on board with the new policy but not feel like the CEO shot them down personally, which is bad for morale, can lead them to quit, etc.

The flip side is that it is also bad for morale for someone to be recommending a solution for some time, the recommendation is ignored, a consultant is hired, the consultant recommends the same solution, and then the recommendation is implemented. This is exacerbated when the consultant's fee is some large percent or maybe even a multiple of the salary of the person who originally recommended the solution. It makes the original employee feel worthless and doubt the leadership's ability to properly evaluate solutions.
> I can't pull out my visa card and go buy a (atx, microatx, mini-itx) format motherboard for an ARM CPU, the CPU itself, RAM, etc, and build a system to run debian, centos, RHEL, ubuntu whatever on.

You can buy a SBC though, so you don't necessarily need to. There's SBC's with more power than the Raspberry Pi (at least up to 3). They just cost more. I'm starting to get into the habit of using more Raspberry Pi's at home for network stuff, and I'm debating setting one up for a web development target platform, something that can be code-pen like but on my Pi. Beats running a bunch of VMs and cheaper than buying a whole rig just for VMs.
Will extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography save Moore's Law?
Do you feel most candidate pools seem pre-selected? It seems that way to me and I think Bernie and Trump are recent anomalies. A lot of push back from their respective parties during their primaries because they weren't part of the preferred candidates. You can't win an election without being a member of 1 of two parties today.
Those stats are kinda messed up. They have a table that separates distracted drivers from cell phone drivers, for example. Are they not the same thing?

Also, in an accident where all parties are dead, how do you determine the cause?
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> On the occasions I've felt I needed to glance at my phone while driving, I've held it up and in front of me so I still had peripheral vision of the road. People using their phone and doing so from their lap or console, not to mention actually interacting with the phone... I can't even....

You're right. The lap people are worse because they are trying to hide what they are doing in a way that makes it more dangerous!

> I apologized. From his perspective it was a dick move; I got it. The look of shock on his face when I apologized was priceless; he almost looked dejected.

As a cyclist I talk to a lot of drivers. I'd guess, just based on my intuition, that about 1/3 of drivers will apologize outright for dangerous driving when I talk to them. I'm not surprised this would disappoint some people but I think it's the right response. I myself have tried to get better about pausing to evaluate my situation when I've been accused of doing something bad and apologizing if necessary. It takes practice.
A bike would possibly be the ideal solution for someone in her shoes. Of course, there's that lovely enhanced risk of dying you get for daring to brave the streets on two wheels in the US. But if she gets back significant time from changing it up, it might be worth it.
By the way, this is not to denigrate the analysts at McKinsey who were in my time typically very smart, nice, hardworking, etc... They performed an important data gathering function. But the bill for their time has the sort of relationship you get when a Legal Assistant at Cravath photocopies stuff in your file. No they aren’t “worth” $500k/hour or whatever rate they bill at these days to photocopy but that isn’t the point. You are paying for Cravath and how that Cravath fee is broken down is largely irrelevant.
US Customs Reverses Course on Mandatory Facial Scans for U.S. Citizens
Search HN who's hiring threads for companies looking for it. In December's thread I see one, and it's telling that their listing says "teach us all how to deliver more robust software."
This really seems to be anti-competitive behavior by a monopolist.
I agree, but at the same time an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of treatment. 40% of American adults, including the woman featured here, are obese. You can't just eat 3000 calories of junk food a day and expect the doctor to "fix it"
What happens when that much energy is so cheap and every home has what amounts to a sizable bomb inside?

There will sure be plenty of them which aren't actually certified and the failure rate of any consumer product is never zero.

How are the positives of a distributed storage grid offset by the negatives of the technologies?
1980, operating systems class, write a shell for UNIX. I thought I'd be clever and do more than simple pipes, so I created some syntax to enable the specification of a directed graph. It's pretty neat to see that someone has now done this industrial strength.
Her job is already going away; McDonald's around me have already replaced cashiers with kiosks. Unionizing and requiring $15/hr + full benefits is only going to accelerate McDonald's automation plans. Is the answer to fight for $15/hr or is the answer to go back to school, apply to more jobs, and/or go into a trade? Honest question.
Dash 5: API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager (macOS)
We mentioned them in the article; keep your eye on Nuvia.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/11/18/nuvia-d...
My first experience with a giant texting anus was with a guy in a big SUV who I noticed was draping his hands over the top of the steering wheel while driving too close behind me on the Merritt Parkway. Eventually I figured out he was holding Blackberry (back in the day) and texting. All the way to New York. Using me as a human shield. I'm sure he was delighted at his "system."
Natural gas leaks are worse.
Lost me at the end ... took an otherwise detailed and nuanced analysis and concluded it with a broad generalization that smooths over all of the detail and nuance.

“At any rate, at some point decades ago, we decided that most political and business institutions in America should be organized around cheating people. In this case, the warped and decrepit state of the GSA leads to McKinsey-ifying the entire government. Mr. Clinton, you took a fine government that basically worked, and ruined it. McKinsey sends its thanks.“
As another comment here mentioned: outsourcing of decision making (consulting) is endemic to bureaucracies, whether that's in government, education or elsewhere.

Has research been done on the amount of money saved/wasted on these consulting firms? Have any economists tried to evaluate whether or not these consulting firms provide any value at all beyond political cover for bureaucrats afraid to make or incapable of making decisions?

From my brief experience working in a large University's bureaucracy and seeing how consulting firms took advantage of the school, I believe the public is being swindled by companies like McKinsey and others. If private corporations want to spend money on consulting firms without any tangible benefits, fine. But taxpayer money should not be wasted on these corporate vultures.
Does anyone know if there is existing terminology for Class A/B ? Investor class / working class ? Or maybe capital class / labor class.

The typically discussed classes in the US are lower, middle, upper which I always took to be one std below the mean income (lower) and one std above mean income (upper). Perhaps if we used mean days until $0 dollars in the bank if you stopped working it would be more useful.
EU considered it anticompetitive because of Google's marketshare in search (something like >80% in the EU). Amazon doesn't have nearly the same marketshare in retail.
Wanted to say the same thing, in my case thinking of Sun's ChorusOS and Solaris schedulers and definitions of realtime wrt bounded dispatch latency. I can't believe, even having been a v8 committer ten years ago, that node can make guarantees about response time to events, i.e., bounds on dispatch latency, that are super enthusiastic. I hope I learn there's more to be enthused about.
Uncovered: Reality of how smartphones turned election news into chaos
McKinsey data scientist (basically a consultant who codes). Can answer this after following some colleagues who have left and seen many technical teams at clients for my general role.

Most data scientists... don't know what to do. And most clients... don't know what to do with them. So they do little data science projects and build dashboards that few people use. Coming out of McKinsey you can quite confidently say you've learned how to identify top problems, organize a project around it, and solve it in a fast timeline with realistic solutions. That's pretty much gold. It's really useful to be able to say you've worked with c-suite leaders.

Finally, it's probably a function of just fast growth internally. You gain responsibilities much faster at McKinsey than at most most companies. The company invests in your development more. And when you leave, you get weeks of paid time off to search for a new opportunity.
I'm trying to parse the phrase "peer level strategic counsel".

Does it mean advice as good as the advice we're giving other firms like you?
Desktop Chrome, yes. There's a darn good reason why my browser of choice on Android is Firefox, and that reason is spelled "ublock origin".
You're worth more as a data source plus customer than just as customer
Are you comfortable parking your car inside of your garage? Even with a full tank of gas? Safety issues are real, but they have been solved before and are being solved now
Poor cross-browser compatibility. You don't need flexbox and new CSS units to display a page with a single button. Javascript code doesn't handle connection errors and disconnects. The app by itself is completely useless and doesn't use a database or something to persist state, and cannot be used as a base for writing a real app. Node is a poor choice because it forces you to write asynchronous code and it is very inconvenient. Also, it is easy to leak memory in Node and I am not sure whether there are memory profilers for Node with GUI.

Also the article doesn't give any explanations, so the only thing it teaches is how to copy the code into the editor.
Yes, I'm somewhat amazed by those cyclists. The "best" (i.e., most dangerous) distracted cyclists have no hands on their handlebars at all. Yet they might still be traveling at an appreciable speed. There are jerks in every transportation mode.
By persuading them. It's also much less of a problem that a small country as a bad actor takes advantage of the system compared to big countries abusing smaller ones.
I worked as a cashier once and it wasn’t the same as it is for my friends who still do. These days, they all have employment contracts, non-competes, and self checkouts taking their jobs. Back in my day, you could just leave any retail job like that and go across the street
I agree with this, I don’t want to share AMP links because it feels wrong for some reason. Still, on the right top corner there’s a share button that would give you the link to the original source.
> You can't just eat 3000 calories of junk food a day and expect the doctor to "fix it"

What you're saying is true, but that's not what everyone believes. If you watch any episode of My 600 Pound Life, you will realize just how unwilling some of these people are to help themselves because it's hard work (and many people featured on the show die as a result). Yes, those are obviously extreme examples, but they're all extremely well documented.

I absolutely agree we should focus on taking care of ourselves before it leads to enormous health issues, but weirdly it doesn't seem the US healthcare system is designed for that.
We do parallelism across CPUs and nodes. We run single-threaded to get the most out of a CPU in a shared-nothing architecture. Many single-threaded apps aren't written to really take advantage of all a CPU has to offer. But there are also prices to pay to run multi-threaded; context switches, etc.
You'll need to use Firefox Developer Edition, Nightly, or ESR. Then, go to about:config and set xpinstall.signatures.required to false.

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-...

You can then sideload unsigned add-ons by following these instructions:

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/distribu...
Fixing healthcare would (by definition, IMO) alter health system incentives. If the government were responsible for all citizen's health, AND it wasn't too heavily influenced by lobby groups, it would make a lot more sense to focus on prophylactic measures, such an promoting healthy eating.

Doctors should be paid for how healthy their patients are, not for continuing treatments of the chronically ill.