skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that statement was about riders in the collective sense. Riders are typically willing to pay more, e.g. on New Years Eve than on a random afternoon.

But, in any case, dynamic pricing at both the individual and the collective level is pretty widespread these days. By and large--there are some exceptions--companies don't have to sell at a fixed price to all people at all times.
Yeah, "autocode" is just an old timey term for "compiled language". Like how "condenser" means "capacitor".
>The trend in machine learning right now is to try and solve problems "from scratch" by training "end-to-end", which means without any prior knowledge.

That's not a very useful goal. I can trivially make a game that is impossible for such an AI to win.
It would require you to enter a 1024 bit code [0] and if you are correct you win. For a speed runner the time it takes to beat the game is merely limited by their typing speed because the code is always the same but an AI with no prior knowledge can only brute force the solution. How does the speed runner win in the first place? They ask the game developer and then post the code on a wiki.

[0] an euphemism for minecrafts crafting system
Rideshare can be profitable for everyone just like Craigslist is. The problem is that Uber and Lyft decided they were large enterprise with a SMB profit model. You could gut 80% of either and if all you had left was drivers making good wages and the service fees for using the app to support the backend you'd be sitting in a lucrative spot. Yet both companies jumped in way too far and way too early. R&D at Uber hasn't delivered and they've continued to burn cash. WeWork, Uber, Lyft - all built on a greed model. Most drivers that I've talked to in the last few months complain how their pay stays the same or goes down and the ride prices continue to increase. These companies are like cancer: just there to take as much as they can and hopefully steamroll the real drivers that bootstrapped them into autonomous ride services. If Uber/Lyft fail someone else will come back around to pick up the key pieces that can work. But for now your "cheap rides are over" - because Uber and Lyft have decided that is the answer to the problem they've created.
I think it is reasonable for you to be compensated according to the skills you have and the performance you demonstrate. I think it's reasonable for everyone with similar skills and performance to be compensated the same.

You are moving from a role you have 18 months experience into one where you have much less. Personally, I wouldn't cut your salary immediately, but I would work with you to build a transition plan made up of SMART goals. At the end of the transition period (probably 3-6 months in this case), we would discuss your performance relative to the expectations of the role and level you have transitioned into.

If, at that time, you were performing at a level more junior that you are being compensated, I would offer you the option of returning to your former role (assuming we still had a need for someone in that role) or level you down and adjust your compensation accordingly.

The CTO was foolhardy in making a blanket promise that you could move "horizontally" without impact to compensation, but the CFO is also overly focussed on what could be a small amount money (2.5-5% of your total salary).

I'd suggest that you go back to the CFO and the CTO and propose a transition plan with an eval at the end to determine your level and compensation. You should also ask what the promotion path forward would be like if you transitioned and were leveled down. Will you be stuck there for a long time or will you have a chance at being promoted back up once you have a year of experience? Then you can decide if a possible (presumably short-term) decrease in compensation is a valid investment in your long-term career.

"my SE friends and older acquaintances and all of them without exception find it scandalous"

Obviously, you need to balance an anonymous voice* on the internets against your friends and acquaintances, but this really isn't that scandalous. Perhaps they've just not experienced it themselves.

Actually, the biggest problems you have right now are that the CFO and CTO aren't on the same page and that the CFO is making decisions about compensation for engineers. The CTO (or whoever your direct supervisor is) should be making your compensation decisions based off strategic decisions taken in conjunction with the CFO (and others).

*I'm actually the head of engineering at a growing startup, but maybe I'm lying :-D
Because keeping a blacklist means keeping a list of all invalid tokens that haven't expired. If a user creates a crapload of sessions, you have to keep a running list of all the invalid tokens until they expire, which creates a few problems. You now have to have some mechanism to clear out tokens that have expired, which totally defeats one of the benefits of JWTs. And keeping a blacklist opens up the doors to someone slamming your /session endpoint, eventually running out your storage and/or memory because the blacklist will just keep growing. Sure, you can build in rate limiting, which you should have anyway. The reason I think this is still a problem is that a lot of amateurs are going to go straight for JWT and are too inexperienced or lazy to implement rate limiting.

But why add all this complexity? Just have a whitelist, and you avoid these problems.
My mobile data usage 2.6 terabytes yesterday
Would it be fair to say you're saying that Kubeflow may become eventually incompatible with EKS?
Your job is also to love them! Emotional neglect has real and serious consequences.

For an introduction to this concept, I recommend:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129659-adult-children-...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15812553-running-on-empt...
> American parenting is a cancer...you can’t go out because kids and you have to constantly hover them

Helicopter parenting is a problem, for sure, but that isn't any more american than obesity is.

It's parenting based on fear, a reality of being in the information age and less fortunately the age of social media.
See traditional Mormons and Catholics.
What if you had 22 hours of footage showing speedrunners entering the 1024 bit code to train on?
Not 30 days. 72 hours. "Water inventory in the reactor pool is adequate to cool the NPMs for at least 72 hours without adding water." NRC filing [1], page 41, bottom of page.

A NuScale press release does say that. "The system is capable of providing 30 days of cooling without adding water to the pool."[2]

The web site hype goes even further: "Should it become necessary, NuScale’s SMR shuts itself down and self-cools for an indefinite period of time, with no operator action required, no additional water, and no AC or DC power needed."[3] But that's not what the NRC filing says.

Looks like they make bigger claims when they think they can get away with it.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1924/ML19241A398.pdf
[2] https://newsroom.nuscalepower.com/sites/nuscalepower.newshq....
[3] https://www.nuscalepower.com/
Geez, does everything have to be turned into "us vs. them"?

Please tell me more about how you "despise" me for living in a city, complete stranger who knows nothing about me.

This is a fun Saturday thread, is this really the place to grind your axe? (see what I did there?)
>Saving pages as HTML is not ideal because a) you get an HTML file plus a folder, not very practical if you want to retrieve them later

MHTML exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML
Use a proper JOSE module like https://www.npmjs.com/package/jose that uses native node's crypto key objects (ergo not leaving you vulnerable to HMAC based validation bypass) and doesn't even implement "none" algorithm.
I've gotten the sense that they're using them, you just can't buy them on the open market. The Chinese government has a ton of uses for passable x86 chips that they control the masks of and could easily consume the whole production line.
> It's initially easier to sell software with that quick-and-dirty approach, but if you keep doing it you'll find that you're incurring a lot of technical debt.

Developers think a lot about technical debt as it relates to engineering (and they should!), but I find that "product debt" (features that need to be combined / streamlined / reimagined for UX / product purposes) is actually more meaningful in most contexts. This can make conversations with product folks difficult as engineering and a product owner often have very different ideas about what the phrase "technical debt" means. It can be hard to pay down either when you're talking past each other.

> If you're right that customer requirements are requiring more essential complexity of our industry, keeping these dynamics in check can only be even more important, rather than less.

The world is simply a lot more complex and interconnected than it was 20 years ago when the type of development OP describes was still widespread. I don't think we can put the cat back in the bag. Agile approaches honestly reduce the complexity by not building anything that isn't being asked for and being intentional about which tech debt to pay down.
The amount of wastage I see in online store returns is mind boggling.

I recently ordered something from a manufacturer on Amazon. After couple of days, they dropped price on product by $20. So I called up Amazon for price adjustment. I was politely asked to return it to manufacturer and order a new one.

Seriously, Amazon cannot work with manufacturers to just refund price difference instead of returning the product and ordering it again. It is wasteful at so many levels.
Audi's future interiors will be all screens, no buttons, and use AR
By whom?

Well, the eyes of the law, for starters, and all that that includes and implies.
One thing that I'm not sure is generally understood is that Samsung etc. are advancing folding-screen phones, and MS is jumping back into phones with a dual-screen model, for just the same reason that Apple is apparently working hard on AR—and the reason isn't simply to have something new to sell smartphone users. It's because the usability of the smartphone as an all-round personal computing device is now massively bottlenecked by its small screen, and if you simply make that screen bigger then as soon as you go beyond phablet size you simply end up with a tablet, too bulky to carry all the time in your trousers pocket. And when the alternative is an overly-small screen too close to the eyes then (present and near-future) AR/VR drawbacks like low pixel density are not so bad in comparison. (One snag here is the bulk of the AR HMD itself: we'll have to see what Apple has done on that front.) Laptops have that problem to a lesser extent, being unequivocally on one side of the screen-too-small/device-not-ultraportable tradeoff, but AR/VR is going to displace (or at least supplement) the laptop clamshell screen too, and it will eventually come for desktop monitors as well.
Autonomous vehicles in cities aren't even close. And if they exist, then all the capital and operational expenses of ownership - which they've been fooling drivers into paying -- are theirs.
I'd like to see some improvements to virt-manager. And has zfs storage pools actually been implemented yet? Last time I checked it still doesn't work. I can however create zvols and use those, which is fine for me.

Other than these somewhat small things qemu is the fantastic, much appreciation for your work!
This is true. Having kids changed my life and outlook, but it didn't necessarily subtract from my personal ambitions. I've experienced it more pragmatically than as an epiphany. Some epiphany, for sure, but it didn't change my personality.
I don't necessarily disagree although I might argue, for example, that maybe Uber drivers are willing to take a smaller cut in exchange for the flexibility they have. But you make a good argument in general that there's certainly little reason to think that Uber rides should be significantly cheaper than cab rides are given a sustainable profitable business.
That's the same line they used on the US, Germany, and Japan when each was bootstrapping their high skill economy.
The humans finding diamonds in 20 minutes are cheaters by that logic.
This looks like some kind of propaganda. Any trustworthy news site confirmed this video?
You are right that it is qualitatively different, and I think this makes it more relevant.

The biggest predator of humans is humans. If we wander around being naive about this fact and acting like it is an outlier, or an exception, we can't deal with it realistically ... we fail to take precautions and then emotionally overreact when we are wronged.
Yo, right here buddy. No regrets, but yeah, that’s kind of how it is right now.
Did you dislike it before you had kids?
Is there some skill that links chess to this? Seems to improbable for a coincidence
As important as climate change is, plastic and other waste is one of several environmental problems. While it does affect climate in production, it also poisons land, air, and water, kills wildlife and messes up their hormones, us too, and more.

Then there's deforestation, extinctions, topsoil loss, fish depletion, heavy metal pollution, etc.

I distinguish these problems because solving them all is rooted in changing our culture -- primarily our valuing growth and externalizing costs. Replacing those values with enjoying what we have and stewardship, which many civilizations have that lasted far longer than ours has taken to trash the planet, would make a big difference.

This community mostly talks technology, but changing values is probably more important in the long run.
No. You are normal. Not everybody reacts the same, modern humans have been in the planet for 250k years facing wars, devastation, famine, lynching , rape, murder, etc and they have always prevailed. Nature does not have trigger warnings or jazz hands.
She says she makes more if you buy these instead: https://wizardzines.com/
I don't understand. Was the guy angry because the kid was using a loud/bright (?) phone during a movie? Was he angry just because he was drunk? Like some people get booze-happy, and some booze-sad?
No, worries never go away no matter where you’re at in life. It boils down to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

He doesn’t have to worry about financial stuff and instead gets to focus his worries on getting sick, dying prematurely, and not giving his children the awesome life he can with his unique personality.

You didn’t mention that anywhere in your list, but I guarantee you it’s on his.
Those tests can be written, but if you do it naively coverage is measurable and very small.
And the physics engine is not necessarily deterministic (or if it is, you can't always control all it's parameters)
1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513337
What almost always bothers me about Paul's essays is that he includes 'facts' like they apply to everyone. This is why I don't like most of his eesays.

For example: "..but having kids may make one less ambitious.".

It might apply to Paul but I have never been more ambitious since I had kids.

In his next sentences he almost makes us feeling guilty for it because "..you're probably going to care more about them than you do about yourself."

Ehm, no. Taking more care about your kids has nothing to do with ambitions. At least not for me. You can have great ambitions which include your whole family.
I don't follow start ups, but the one I am familiar with: SendGrid. One of the founders had several kids.
I think this is a bit of a distortion. I know many Apple users, myself included, who still have laptops or desktops from 8 - 10 years ago that are still running and useful. They last just as long as Windows machines, if not usually longer.
Perfect candidate for a sociopath CEO.
I highly recommend watching Mike Birbiglia "The New One". It's on Netflix, which is how I watched it, but I bet it would be pretty awesome to see in person.
what is the augustine quote he is referencing?
Not really. Chernobyl was explicitly known to have a vulnerability at a very unusual operating point. Fukushima was repeatedly flooded and officials refused to make protections against modest natural disasters. Three Mile Island was a mechanical failure.

There aren't many examples where something that went wrong was thought to be impossible. Much more often it is scenarios that were known to be possible, but ignored for reasons of cost or politics.

Nuclear plants are hardened against virtually everything. Certainly there may be things people haven't managed to think of, but there are many, many more things that we have thought of and haven't dealt with. A plant may be able to survive a bomb, but not a bunker buster or a full out war.

We don't want to and often can't ensure safety in every event that is thought of, which is why fail-safer designs are so popular in research and press circles.

It's a bit of an unfair rap since other thermal plants blow up all the time, dams burst, and windmills fall over. Radation makes everything more dangerous and has a permanent impact on our planet, but the actual rate of accidents is tiny. We do need more fail-safe plants (Fukushima in particular was inexcusable) but the real problem facing nuclear right now is cost.
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The go big or go home mindset is useful for specific kinds of investors. If you have 100+ million your not going to notice the returns if you’re a partner at a modestly successful restaurant.

Yes the odds are terrible that you happen to fund the next Google. But, the allure is the same thing that gets people to play the lottery even with negative expected returns.
Skill Stacking
It’s like the exact opposite approach that Microsoft seems to take with Windows, and a key reason that I prefer Apple/MacOS
Pretty sure FBI provides fake bombs to would-be terrorists as part of sting operations, which is pretty much your example, so yes, you do charge someone with "attempted" murder.
Two things stood out to me when my first kid was born.

First, my life didn't fundamentally change overnight. My life's a lot different now, a couple years and a couple kids in, but it was a gradual change. Lots of slow roll through phases, with some dramatic small-scale shifts. Granted, I'm super lucky to have healthy kids and almost daily help from my in-laws. I can see how the change is significantly more dramatic for most.

The second is that it's a lot I like the experience of traveling in an unfamiliar country. If you like constant novelty, tiny surprises, and having to adapt to your own ignorance, it's a blast.
Antinatalist sects have existed within Christianism, but unsurprisingly they tend to fade out.
This seems just crazy, is there really an example of this?

Does this also mean that if a programmer will write a song at weekend, his employer will have the copyright? Because I see no difference.
I would imagine it's that both are game theory on Markov Chains.
You shouldn’t be using SharkTank to form your view on Silicon Valley...

Some of the worst companies get on there, SV or not. Think about it, why would a good company need to go on Shark Tank? They can raise from much better investors if it was a good company.
Awesome! And some tensor cores for inference, neat!

Honestly, wouldn't be surprised to see more vendors spring up out of nowhere soon. The base patents are about to expire on x86_64. Everyone keeps saying that Apple is going to release an ARM laptop, but IMO a homegrown x86_64 chip is way more likely.
Probably another factor is wealth. He must be, what, at least a hundred-millionaire at this point? That's going to afford a lot more options for dealing with the dreary parts, and give him a lot more confidence that he'll be able to follow through on those protective urges he describes.
You can manually trigger GC in Lua. I’ve used this to trigger light GC work every frame in some games to buy more consistent GC times (no spikes) at the cost of higher average times.
I'd say having kids is also really good and worthwhile if you raise them into responsible, productive adults.

Why would influence have to always increase? Kids have a lifespan as well, it's just much longer than most projects.

The piece of software I'm currently working on will almost certainly not be doing squat 20 years from now. It will have been replaced with something else or upgraded beyond all recognition. And if I wasn't there to write said code some other software developer would be hired to do it. My personal contributions will have zero or asymptotically approaching zero influence 20 years from now. Kids on the other hand...

Kids aren't entirely selected at random, you select your partner based on impulses evolutionarily designed to produce stronger offspring. Then you spend over a decade shaping their behavior, whether you choose to do so directly or not. If you're a responsible parent you teach your kids what you know so that they can build on it as they see fit, when they grow up. And then they pass along a diluted form of said lessons to grandchildren. Now there's no guarantee of this happening, tragedy can strike and you can mess it up. But it's an effective enough mechanism that, for most people, your indirect influence through raising kids will be far greater over time than your direct influence via your work. It's one of the ways generational wealth is formed.

If you can take an honest look at your work and say:

1. If I don't do this no one else will, or they'll do it substantially worse

and

2. Its direct or indirect impact will still be felt 70 years from now

Then sure, don't have kids. And I'm not being facetious, if you're working on some unique device or policy that shows real promise at saving/fundamentally improving lives and your leaving would set development back years or worse, that qualifies. Most people aren't doing stuff like that though, in part because simply being in a position to do so is largely luck. In that case, kids are probably a better bet.
LRB is relatively benign, you get several free articles per month. And there aren't many LRB submissions to HN.
What are the performance implications for switching between languages like this? Does it do something like redeclare all global variables in the new language?
You can be a pioneer without being the strict first in a field.
Alcohol, ‘Asian glow’ mutation may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease
That will change though - or at least resolution in both will increase to the point where it doesn't matter.
This is what Facebook (or other social media) "connecting people" also means in practice. You get children connected to whoever wants to chat with them online.

The Facebook will even helpfully provide you with the closest children around you, and help you infiltrate large groups of children, just by sending a few invites around, and being lucky to hit a few that will accept your invitation mindlessly. Then you'll get much easier way into their social circle, and easier time getting accepted by others in the social graph.
The Uber model relies on an underclass whose need for cash right now overrides any concerns they might have down the line about vehicle depreciation, the consequences of operating a taxi on a consumer insurance plan, the high self-employment tax burden, health insurance or actually breaking even after taking those factors into account.
And let's be honest, having (essentially) unlimited resources makes having kids a lot less stressful.

Many of us stress about college costs, and costs in general. And, getting help can be very expensive, unless you have extensive family support.
It gets better. Way better.

Last night I explained quicksort to one kid.

Now we are designing cards to laser cut.

The kids get interesting and independent quicker than you might imagine.

The days are long, but the years are fast.
Based on that post more than 50% would use the term soccer.