skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many years I rode and was in favor of "bike culture". Now that I finally live in such a place, though, it's quite clear that this experiment is a failure. Bicyclists ride as they like, without respect to laws or even likely tragedies, and there is no countervailing force to reign them in. I cannot walk a block without observing a bicyclist breaking a law or risking someone's life (often their own).

If bicyclists want this mode of transportation to be taken seriously, they need to start self-policing in a major way. So far I'm seeing not even a hint of that.
Yajilin (Japanese Arrow Puzzle)
I can't explain the number of times my mom has asked me to explain what open source is.

I wrote this fun, short article so that you can easily explain what open source is to anyone by using this analogy.

I'd love feedback!
The most popular apps are starting to look the same
Experienced this myself.

Adjusted.

Next performance review I was told I socialized too much :)
Google still offers an enterprise intranet search product which will index anything you let it access.

https://cloud.google.com/products/search/
That's not accurate. A university is a relatively small population and not something that Google will necessarily optimize for. And there's no guarantee that the university isn't doing something wrong that is artificially increasing latency.

My anecdata counterpoint is that I pay for the cheapest/slowest broadband available in a midsized city and my ping to google.com is 14ms.
Nice. I'll give it a try when I get to my primary PC.

Journalists have a bad habit of linking to tweets which are often ephemeral because accounts are deleted, tweets are deleted, or accounts go private.

Another problem is where publishers themselves change the open graph meta (or whatever it's called) after a tweet has been published. One memorable example (for me) is where Washington Post changed the image on an article about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Jewish heritage depicting her with her hands clasped similar to the Happy Merchant meme[0]. Obviously they realized the resemblance enough to change the image, but didn't comment on it. If you look at the original tweet[1] now, you can see the replies look completely out of context because they changed it.

[0]:https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/happy-merchant
[1]:https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/107212454556018278...
Can you name a modern production car sold in the US that weighs less than 1000 lbs? Lightest available appears to be the Smart Fortwo at ~2000 lbs.

The curb weight of a Model 3 is in the same ballpark as a BMW 3 Series or Ford Taurus. Lighter cars exist but mostly because they're significantly smaller or slower or both.
People are seeing ‘Cats’ while high out of their minds. These are their stories
Ray for the Curious
No comment on the "shafted" aspect, but the "not geniuses" thing is exactly correct, and I wish I had realized it sooner.

I didn't apply for google when I left college because I didn't feel like I would "meet the bar". ~4 years later, feeling like I was a much stronger candidate, I interviewed, hoping to barely scrape by and be the dumbest guy in the room to keep leveling up.

I was dumbstruck by just how totally normal everyone was. Everyone I met at google struck me as being in the 50-75th percentile of my peers in startup land. They're not some high-powered cohort of elite intellectual supermutants. They're regular people. I was ready at graduation, and sold myself short for no good reason.

Now that I work at a BigCo, I feel even more strongly that the bar is, if anything, on the low side, simply because an org that big needs a constant influx of warm bodies. We hire more people in a month than some of my past employers would hire in the lifetime of the company. It's flat out impossible to staff 5,000 people while demanding that they all be in the top 10%.

There are weird and arguably arbitrary hoops to jump through, but you can do it. Interview prep was radically simpler than EG buying a house (in terms of prep, context gathering, etc.)
some of it could be jealousy and envy since most SWE won't get to ever work at a FAANG. FAANGs higher the best, and if you've failed at getting highered by a FANG then you probably won't like seeing all these great figures.
I can't help but feel this entire article was written through the prism of a gamming addict.
It's very simmilar to the cable news channel viewers that see every minor political event as the end of the world and believe everyone else in the world feels the same way, but in reality most people couldn't care less.

The truth is many people do spend lots of time and money playing video games but eventually they get bored and lose interest, then they find another game to consume their time and bank accounts.

I would think that age demographics would shed a more impartial light on the true amount of gaming consumption as compared to other forms of lesure activity. I have a sneaking suspicion that Millenials, the largest demographic since the Baby Boomers might be skewing the numbers and once this current generation of gamers grows up, start families and begin enjoying life rather than seeking an escape, gaming will not "Take Over".

I would also like to point out that the person writing this article chose to spend their time creating this long post rather than playing a game.
Heres what happens when that happens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

Television special about that flight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cS1SMptlnQ
The CA data is a BS story. But its also more or less definitive that Russia's slow leaking of otherwise innocuous emails really hurt Clinton's campaign. Its easy to get confused because there's so much going on.
I run https://hackclub.com, which has received donations via Facebook, through Stripe on our website (https://hackclub.com/donate), through individuals, foundations, and donor-advised funds writing checks, through systems like Benevity (https://www.benevity.com) that facilitate corporate matching programs and send the funds via ACH, and probably through nearly every other method out there.

Here's a breakdown of our processing fees:

* Facebook: None. They cover the credit card fee. If you're interested to see what data nonprofits get from Facebook, here's exactly what I see for our 2018 fundraisers: https://i.imgur.com/lsCFqJh.png. Facebook has not taken noticeably longer to disburse funds than foundations we've worked with.

* Stripe donations: 2.2% + $0.30 for Visa / Mastercard, 3.5% for American Express (this is the nonprofit rate)

* Receiving checks: $25/check. We outsource receiving checks to a vendor to make sure they don't get lost and that we aways have scans on file.

* Benevity / electronic transfers / wires: None (our bank charges no wire fee)

On top of that, it's important to note that checks and manual ACH / wire transfers take the most processing time for me, as for each check I need to work with our accountants to ensure donor information is properly on file and the donor received any needed tax documentation. We're small enough where I'm still doing this myself for each check, which probably takes me 20-30 minutes for each donation. Up to an hour if the donor didn't include all their tax information with the check.
"don't pirate our software" can hardly be called bullying, no?
I agree, he's really difficult to listen to. It's surprising how someone with communication skills as bad as his managed to get quite a few great guests.
ARIN suspends Cogent's access to WHOIS database [pdf]
Feels like it really depends on ego. If your employer only hires "rockstar" developers, they'll get used to being treated like rockstar and won't be able to handle any criticism. Same goes for IT and Ops, if everyone gets treated like a hero, no one will ever see a need for improvement.

The best performance reviews I've had the are ones where my manager/TL is asking me what I'd like to improve in my work and my team's work. And the next part actually establishing a meaningful and attainable goal.

If your spouse does something that drives you nuts, do you bottle that resentment up and save it for later (too late) or do you have the open and honest conversation to get through it early?
Fine, I will bite.

https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-rea...

Cambridge worked both for the Trump campaign and a Trump-aligned Super PAC.

Cambridge Analytica was paid $5.9 million by the Trump campaign, according to Federal Election Commission filings

If you have a source that shows otherwise, please share.
> Are you sure?

I'm not. Do I think it's likely that they are? No.

> How can we as citizens verify it?

The same way we verify that Google isn't producing broad-scale AI systems looking for specific subsets of people across the GMail data. Investigative reporting, whistle-blowers, regulation/lawmaking, and looking closely at the evidence presented when the government acts. This is why parallel construction is pernicious, as it prevents meaningful oversight of government malfeasance.

End-to-end encryption, and user ownership/encryption of data is also great, but it's not widely available, and many use cases don't work when the service provider can't see the data they're storing. Even when the data is encrypted, you can get a lot of valuable intelligence from metadata.
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People on the next street over (it's a grid) are on Nextdoor complaining about all the traffic coming down their street now. And I'm sure it's the worst of the traffic that's going over there to avoid the features. I'm not sure how the city will fob off spending money on that street after spending the money on this one.
My ring is basically useless for surveillance, at night especially. It can't see across the street and barely gets beyond my front stoop. This is even with the lights on and a street light nearby. Likewise for my Arlos, useless at night. During the day they are a bit better but the resolution isn't anything special and it'd be impossible to catch a license plate. Make, model and color but that's about it.
Americans Rate Honesty and Ethics of Nurses Highest Among List of Professions
This is a particularly important counterargument when talking about the 2016 presidential election, since Clinton seems to have been the only candidate who was actually trying to win the popular vote. She put a bunch of campaigning resources into places like California which would increase her popular vote share but wouldn't affect the result. Trump's campaign, on the other hand, was by all accounts focused on simply getting enough electoral college votes to actually win. This was pretty obvious from their respective postmortems in the press.

The idea that a particular candidate was cheated because they won a symbolic but politically irrelevant victory that the competition wasn't even trying for is not a particularly good argument. In fact, it's positively Trumpian; he famously used the "popular vote" argument to discredit Obama's victory.
Changed from https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/supercharging-tomorrow-.... Thanks!
This is so interesting, whenever I hear about a woman in tech people (including me) usually assume they have a technical role, but statistics say that most women in tech doesn't.
Note that scissors cut well when kept partially closed (instead of repeatedly fully opening and closing)
I had the opposite reaction. I thought Fridman was a very good interviewer. I've talked with Donald Knuth a half dozen times over the last thirty years. I really enjoyed this interview. Knuth seemed relaxed and to be having a good time thinking about the questions and answering them. If Knuth is happy, I'm happy.
It takes surprisingly few data points to draw small and detailed psychographic categories of people. This has been known in the advertising world since the 50s, we just didn't have the tools to make microtargeting practical at scale until recently.
this is really awesome. I've worked at a SWE for over 15 years and never made anything close to that amount, even in a super high COL area.
I worked at a place where we had peer reviews. You had to select three people to rate you out of five in a number of areas.

One review I got a few fives. They got scrubbed. So I averaged out at three ish. I was told its basically impossible to get a five, so all fives just get discarded. That fours are best you can hope for but even then you have to be exceptional. So most we're expecter to average was a three. Only if yoy were under three was it a problem.

However, the annual pay rise was linked to your score! And when complaining about measly two percent, you are told to get a higher raise you need to average a four....

It was just exhausting and absurd.
At trivago, we rely on the ELK stack to support our logging pipeline. We use a mix of filebeat and Gollum (github.com/trivago/gollum) to write logs into Kafka (usually we encode them using Protocol Buffers) these are later on read by Logstash and written into our ELK cluster.

For us, ELK has scaled quite well both in terms of queries/s and writes/s and we ingest ~1.5TB of logs daily just in our on-premise infrastructure. The performance/monitoring team (where I work at) consists of only 4 people and although we take care of our ELK cluster it is not our only job (nor a component that requires constant attention).
I remember that one! The people who defended the practice in that thread were laughed out of the room, if I recall correctly.
> What makes you think that people are malleable? This article doesn't say anything about the effectiveness of what CA did. It's impossible to say if people voted the way they did because of a FB ad. My >20 years of experience in the consumer technology (ad) industry tells me that ads had little to no impact.

The difference here and ordinary ad is, that unlike ads which target people based on where they live, interests, gender, income and many other things, here they categorize people by a psychological profile and then use whichever triggers work best. They also use other information to trigger emotional responses. For example my family member is a veteran who is a Republican. He forwards plenty of messages that has intentions to scare him and make be even more to the right. For example some article of a parent of a soldier who got a note on his car from supposed liberal wishing him that his son would be killed, or liberals burning flags, or democrats not standing up and clapping when a widow of a soldier that died (it was in 2017 I believe) was honored by Trump etc. It is trivial to manipulate pictures or recreate scenarios that would trigger, but those things work really well on him, and he wasn't even a nut before.

> Clinton vs Trump wasn't an option people were waying. No one switched from Clinton to Trump (or vice versa) because of an ad or anything else. Those that hate Clinton voted for Trump, those that hate Trump voted for Clinton. It's really is as simple as that.

> Have you ever met or even heard of someone who supported one of those candidates but switched to the other? I haven't.

Yes if you're hardcore Democrat or Republican and only vote in party lines, it's unlikely that you will be changed, but then you would be classified as a different profile.

The effort was to discourage Democrats from voting or even make them vote 3rd party (for example there was a campaign that made Clinton look quite evil, and frankly it fooled me too), everyone else was encouraged to vote for Trump (in different ways depending on their profile).

Back in 2016 I saw on /r/AskReddit a question, someone was asking why Trump supporters were planning to vote for Trump. What stick with me was one response where person acknowledged that Trump was bad, but he still was going to vote for him, because he hated establishment and "it needs to get real bad before it gets better". People have different personalities and reasons but if you can categorize them correctly you can provide them reason they want to make them cast a vote for candidate you want.
The Bay Area has around ~900k "tech jobs". FANG is a small fraction of that. Also "tech" may include other roles (non-engineer) which earn less.
>it's useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of "independent" voters.

At the end of the day, one of two people almost always win. Either the person who spent more, or the person who was more outrageous. Democracy largely reduces to a competition to be louder, and those are the primary means to the ends.
> Unless you have fiber, it's not worth it.

You don't need fiber. Feels as good as local play on my 220 Mbps down/15 Mbps up internet.
I have the iphone app and it didn't require this permission or maybe it asked and I denied it. Is that not possible in android?
An EDSL that compiles to SPIR-V for graphics programming on the GPU in Haskell
It seems like the investor profiles and expectations are different. Prior decades of VC / high growth and exit investors are now seeing those exits are no longer as common in SaaS. For many reasons, easier to start a company - more competition, more startups.

The area is moving to lower returns, which still can be good for smaller independent teams that can grow or bootstrap. They'll make a similar return to founders, since VC's cash was needed to fund large teams or infrastructure
Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (1991) [pdf]
This is where technology meets social network effect. Which is easier (modifying the scheduler for better spinlock support or get developers to stop using spinlock when it's easy to implement and works in other OS targets) is an open question.

"Don't use spinlock" is like "the user is holding it wrong" for API. The user can either choose to modify their behavior or throw up their hands and not port to Linux.
Perhaps you are misunderstanding, and sabbath mode will turn the heating element on and off without regard for user input - i.e. opening and closing the door. That the manual is not clear is not a surprise, nor is it that someone completely unfamiliar with the Jewish Sabbath laws would misunderstand them.
> Nothing related to my workload changed

The individual work is only part of the job, collaborating with the rest of the team and communicating with your peers and managers is a huge part of it as well. That's something that I wish I really learned/accepted earlier in my career too. Appearing more friendly makes it easier for the rest of your team to interact with you, but on top of that just the act of smiling can actually make you happier so the change may even be deeper than just an appearances thing.

It sounds like you tricked yourself into genuinely improving as a software engineer :)
The Death of Iran's General Soleimani Is Big for Defense Stocks
Not at all. I think this is just an example of one of those "differences in culture" that I was mentioning.

We seem to have a "combat psyche" in our communications, these days, where we start off from a critical PoV, and degenerate from there; always looking for wrongs and weaknesses.

I see this a lot, possibly because I don't hide my age, and may be perceived as "ok boomer." It could also be that I simply come across in a rather "starchy" fashion. That's deliberate. If you knew me personally, you might (possibly) have a different view, as I might, of you.

No big deal. I'm getting my comeuppance. I used to be a rather..."pithy" troll, in the UseNet days. I tend to overcompensate for that, these days, and probably come across as "stuffy."

I just don't ever want to go back into that cesspit again. That's a big reason that I stick my personal brand on all my work and interactions on the Web.

I want to be held to account for what I say. If I say something that offends you, you know where to find me (look at my HN account page).

With that said, you actually have a good point. I did not mean it that way, but it's easy to see why it was interpreted that way. I screwed up how I wrote it.

However, just because someone misinterprets my intent, does not make their interpretation correct, even if I screwed up the way I wrote it, and encouraged that interpretation.

I'll see if I still have time to edit it, and maybe correct it.

EDIT: Nope. Too late.
In my experience, most people making gifts >$25,000 are either making them through a foundation or through a donor-advised fund, both of which almost always write checks.
> like asking how well cameras would work if 20 of them were looking at the same object.

> Lidar sensors can interfere with each other

Then it's not really like 20 cameras looking at the same object. Mostly due to the fact that cameras are passive observers and not really emitting much. And if they do, it's light and it won't really affect the others because they all benefit from it (within reason).

I'm reasonably certain that such issues will still appear in productive use in the future but will get fixed at the time, not in labs today.
Well the issue is that you have input lag on your controller inputs. When I move my crosshair it takes a long to actually show the crosshair moving on screen.

In normal online gaming you do not have that issue. When I move my crosshair in cs:go it moves instantly.
I think this depends on the size, structure, and governance of the company.

Maybe the title needs a slightly weaker claim:

Companies CAN stagnate when their leaders stagnate.
So do you have anything constructive to add to the conversation? Alternative resources you've found useful in your, I assume, long tenure as a manager and coach of staff?

I mean, we can't do better than "Eternal September" here on HN if talented, experienced folks like yourself don't share the wisdom you've acquired over your long and illustrious career.

Right?
Nope. I said "80 years isn't enough to inspire awe". Do you honestly think someone wouldn't consider any building whatsoever to be awe inspiring unless it is over 80 years old?

Let me put it this way - is there any car from 1995 that is awe inspiring? Maybe yes, perhaps some lambos or rolls royce models. But those were killer cars in 1995. Even better brand new. 25 years isnt enough to make them more cherished than when they were new though. They go down in value through those 25 years. But 50 years... they start to surge back up in price. Why? Because the age factor starts to inspire awe - cars if that age driving around are rare sights. With buildings, 80 years or less doesnt quite do it, particularly when there are lots of buildings that are hundreds of years old.

If Penn Station was 300 years old, and someone proposed tearing it down, people would laugh. But in 1960, at 80 years old, Penn was just an old train station in disrepair.
I also work in this and strongly agree.
"Companies" in the general sense definitely do employ European developers. I've worked several places that used remote developers from Ukraine, Poland, etc. And in my experience, Ukrainian developers are generally very good.

But for startups in particular (which I assume is what you really mean, since you mention VC), I think there's more reluctance to employ that kind of contract help, especially in the very early stages. The thinking seems to be that you want the people building the early version of the product to be all FTE's, probably with some equity, sharing the same vision of what the company is trying to do, physically co-located, etc. Now I'm not saying that it's actually the case that those factors are important for startups... just that a lot of people seem to think that they are.

Me personally? When we get to the point of needing additional help, and assuming money is available for paying help, I'll almost certainly be looking to some of the Ukrainian firms I've worked with in the past. But that's just me. shrug
The fairness doctrine went away in 1987. It was created during an era where virtually all Americans had only the big three television stations as news sources. Given the relative diversity of sources available today, serious questions exist as to whether it's reimplementation would even be constitutional.
Pros Discuss Apple Stock One Year After Profit Scare
Someone was pointing out on Twitter yesterday that his taxi driver said “death to traffic”. Context is everything.