skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many years to go to hit 38? And what do you plan on doing from ~38~58?
Do you plan on sending your kids to a big name school that's going to charge 5-6 figures per semester?

As someone who's bearing down on my mid to late 30's, my recommendation is to work you ass off while you're still young and full of energy.
Looks like Boeing is the biggest producer of aircraft in the world. What is the problem again?
> No, it cannot be fixed

If it cannot be fixed, then why is it only a problem for Linux?
Love that Rabbis 1700 years ago were using the wrestling terms like kayfabe
Some of the best coders I ever worked with were women.

I worked for a Japanese company, and the engineering floors probably had about 40% women.

That's not necessarily for a positive reason, but I won't get into that. Suffice it to say that I worked with quite a few brilliant, disciplined and well-educated women.

At my company, everyone in Tokyo had at least a Masters' degree (it was a marquée company), and there were a lot of Ph.Ds around.

In her case, I think she was in customer support, but she talks about having a [rather unsuccessful] crash course in JavaScript.
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1) That kind of targeting is even less useful outside of FB. You can upload gmail addresses to Google to target, or use something like LiveRamp to target on display networks, but both options suck compared to FB.

2) Nothing beyond whats publically available.

3) It's not unusual to test different audiences, I've definitely tested all sorts. I'm sure thats how it started for Cambridge. Of course now, tin pot dictatorships hire them all around the world now to be basically a subpar FB agency, so they're happy with the PR.
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How so ? The papal infallibility doctrine retroactively aligns God's will with its interpretation by the Pope.

Compare "It is not in heaven" with ""Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
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Totally agree. But isn't finding out clear priorities from sales and other teams, with the context behind it as well, useful as a PM?
Websites aren't required to provide you content for free, and (for the most part) shouldn't be. But they also shouldn't be able to claim that there's an implicit acceptance of TOS by visiting the site. If they want to make it a cost of accessing the site, they should put the equivalent of a paywall in front of the site for data.

If I make an unauthenticated HTTP GET request to a server, and it responds with a 200, it can't claim after the fact that receiving that request means I agreed to something.
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Eh, nothing changed for me. People probably just got lost in the hierarchy on mobile or something.
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For FMCW, there should be no interference at all for any number of sensors (there is more information in the link in my original comment). For pulsed lidar, it's an issue of how well you engineer it. I can confidently say a good sensor can regularly withstand dozens of sensors operating simultaneously in a small area because I've personally witnessed it. The devil is largely in the details of specifications and manufacturing quality (that latter one is a much bigger issue in reality), but there is no theoretical reason you couldn't make it work with hundreds of sensors simultaneously. And like I said, I know current off-the-shelf parts that will work with dozens of sensors simultaneously.

Maybe I can add a little color to my original comment this way: most lidar sensors today, including some very expensive ones from supposedly reputable vendors, are not very good. In my experience, it is more often a manufacturing problem than a design problem (this varies more by company than it does by technology).
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A project I wanted to play with 10 years ago, and didn't have time or money, was a tool you could set in a room, and it would put laser 'dots' along the ceiling where crews should hang the parts for a drop ceiling, to minimize cuts of both hanger equipment, and the ceiling tiles.
also terms like 'off-the-record'
1,5 mm accuracy isn’t doable that easily. There is company called Photoneo having structured light system with such advertised accuracy. But the scan volume is rather limited.

Working on time-of-flight Stereo camera in my spare time. Few centimeter error is very normal. It was shocking at the beginning, but I now understand why bin picking is still hard task.
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The other possible angle here is that it represents itself at a USB HID keyboard device and injects keystrokes.

Unlikely but possible.
wow what a fine bunch of communists and terrorist sympathizers we have here
Of course the customer accepts the lower quality.

Dying once every 10 million flight hours instead of every 1000 million flight hours is a fair price to pay for 10 USD of savings.
So are you saying CA wasn't effective at all? Or just as effective as any other agency is/could have been. I'm confused...
Muslim extremists just hate anyone who is not muslim. That's why Iran is in the place they are right now. These people hate with all their hearts, minds, and souls. When has the U.S. chanted "Death to ___"? When have Americans wished a whole group of people to be wiped out of the face of the earth? This is just every day for them. If it's not Americans, it's Jews, if not some other group. They won't be happy until they're the only ones left.
Totally agree with the “yes and” approach of firehose plus top two - I haven’t had a chance to update the post yet, but responded to similar feedback here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971011
I'm trying to think of US English idioms with a similar down/dead potential for mistranslation:

- They're dead to me

- They're killing it

- They're dead wrong

- They're dead in the water
>I suspect the Attorney General will take as broad a view as possible, so I'd steer clear from any startups that think this is a good idea.

He was one of two AGs to not join other state AGs in their antitrust investigation of Facebook [1], so I'm not holding my breath. Private right of action is what's going to hold businesses accountable, even though it's also been crippled [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/technology/tech-investiga...

[2] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/a-closer-look-at-the-ccpa-...
Yup, totally agreed!

And that's where a) as a professional, you need the ability to advocate for the development of skills if you think the business will see benefit, even if the benefit isn't immediately obvious, and b) as a manager, you should be actively encouraging staff to think this way, and you should have an open mind when a they bring these kinds of ideas to the table.

Personally, I desperately wish my staff were more aggressive about thinking proactively about professional development. Most of the time I have to nag them just to take an hour out of their work week to read a book or something...
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I can’t find the exact program but this was in Massachusetts. Quick googling showed me, though, that if you’re over 60 you can take 3 credits at a state school for free. There are a ton of tuition waver programs for all sorts of demographics. If you live in New England and you get into undergrad, you can go to Mass state schools for slightly more than in-state tuition, which is what I did. Probably saved me like 45000 dollars.
For social networks, Manyverse is an interesting new player. It's p2p with no central server, and the app is open source.

https://github.com/staltz/manyverse
> And battery packs have cooling systems too. So no savings there.

That's not quite true. At the very least, EVs require a much smaller radiator, if it has one at all. Some EVs don't have cooling at all (Nissan Leaf), although that increases degradation in hotter climates.

I think his point stands.. An ICE engine weight at least 200lb. With transmission it could be up to 600lb. The Model S engine is 70lbs.

You "only" need to halve the weight of a Model S battery for the drivetrain+battery to be in the same ballpark as an ICE drivetrain as far as I can tell.
Do US postal services offer a shipping option where you need to sign for the parcel? I'd try and opt for something like that, if possible, rather than trusting the courier to leave the package on my doorstep.

What I'm saying is, the problem isn't people stealing your packages. It's that you leave valuable property outside. Perhaps a good analogy is locking your door.
Bah, of course someone is already trying it :)
If that was the right call, then great! If not, hopefully someone learned from their mistake. If nobody did, I'm probably not interested in that business anyway; it sounds like it is a recurring source of friction.
Yes. That's really common when someone very senior at a FAANG wants to achieve a greater level of autonomy and "impact". Once you hit L5/L6 at Google/Facebook (or equivalent elsewhere), the promotion rate slows down quite a lot. So one option to continue career growth is to jump ship for a smaller (but promising) tech company in exchange for more responsibility and a title increase.
A further complicating factor is that quality can be masked from the customer, and indeed will be if that's less expensive than actually improving the quality.

And thus no one will actually know that Boeing's planes are of lower quality, until a couple hundred people die.
As a freelancer it's basically my game plan... Keep adding to portfolio. Keep writing articles. Keep building stuff. Keep moving forward. I'm not always as organized as I'd like to be, but as long as your 'body of work' grows you'll become more valuable. It's not sexy, but it DOES work.
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Maybe, but not necessarily. I live in a neighborhood with an HOA, have a four-by-four with no complaints, and have neighbors who've replaced their entire lawns with complicated gardens and maintained them for years. The HOA even hosted a seminar on butterfly-friendly gardens.
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Sharia law prohibits interest on loans. As such there are a bunch of loopholes to allow Muslims to have an economic stake in the game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance

I believe until recent history Christianity also prohibited loans and debt, or at least usury debt.
FWIW, robotic process automation (RPC) is very hot these days, and it's always a bespoke service - unless two companies happen to use the exact same software, and follow the exact same business logic.

The RPC consultants, often titled AI / ML consultants, make money hand over fist traveling from site to site and implementing some automatic procedures.

Same with chat bots. The past 2-3 years there's been an explosion in demand for chat bots, and these often take entire teams to implement and train. Again, lots of bespoke products.

Who gets these gigs largely depends on networking and sales. The big companies (Accenture, etc.) are rolling in this, since they also have a good picture of company software from previous projects.

The accounting industry is also desperate to get in on the ML revolution. I've lost count on how many times I've been contacted by recruiters in that space, who want magic ML pixie dust.

The market is there, but it can be difficult to break into as an outsider, or smaller player - if you're planning in building some one-size fits all product. Best plan, IMO, would be to focus on some niche part of the process, and become the best at just that - and then pitch to the big companies that deal with actual F500 clients.

There are of course exceptions, but a 5 man startup vs Accenture offering the same base product, Accenture is gonna walk away with the gig 99 out of 100 times.

(But with that said, a lot of the startups that focus on these spaces, seem to be ex-consultants from said big consulting firms. Logical enough, as they have both seen the problems first hand, and built networks within the industry.)
>> but professionals, they are not

This is exactly correct. And if you're interviewing juniors/graduates trying to find "professionals" then you really don't understand hiring.

"We're looking for professionals with no commercial experience." It's a contradiction in terms.
> I literally have video of the dude grabbing shit off my porch, but can do nothing about it.

In that case, what is the security system really doing for you?
That you can examine your negative thoughts/emotions mindfully, let them play out and then pass away. They rarely return, and the number of thoughts that trouble me has dropped ~95% in the last few years.
This seems like a dogwhistle. Basically, all the various groups that really do hate America feel happy with "Death to America", while still being able to say, that that phrase only really means "Down with America."

Given that this phrase was used during the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and is often accompanied by flag burning, probably a significant part of the crowds chanting that slogan do actually want death to come to individual Americans.
"Why do lawns even factor into the equation... water usage?"

That's not what this article is about at all. But that's cool, I guess.
Regarding the remote work, companies have their own limitations like timezone requirements/tax complications in providing full-time jobs to the global workforce.

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Yeah and terror has a way of making those authoritarian jerks come out of the woodwork. See the repeated variously aligned purges of the French Revolution.
I am serious, aside from minor personal details being changed. (different animal, etc.)

The pond is so that the kids can go fishing out in the back yard. They don't need transportation, they can be watched from the house, they can have friends over, and there is no performance pressure to catch fish before it is time to go home. They can float on the pond with a canoe or a makeshift raft.

Having a little creek is fine too. Kids can build damns, dig for crawfish, catch frogs, pan for gold, make waterwheels, and so on.

The kids can camp in the backyard, complete with a campfire. The larger back yards have room for shooting.

The point really is personal land to enjoy.
I've done things before where you shim in a library (using LD_PRELOAD) between the executable and the C standard library, and blacklist function calls which are potentially blocking, (abort if they get called in the wrong context).

It's usually sufficient to do this in testing, and then have as is, in production.
> because the customer accepts the lower quality.

This presumes a perfect market where customers are rational actors with access to a variety of sellers whose product differs only on quality, which consumers have access to accurate information about and the time and expertise to precisely evaluate.

Of course the reality is we're just trying to book a flight to get home before Mom's chemo starts and all we know about each airline is the ticket price and how good the peanuts were the last time we flew on them.

Airlines are about the last industry on Earth where we should expect laissez-faire capitalism to produce optimal outcomes.
Assuming it's more noise than signal, increases or decreases to that measure don't tell me anything about actual improvement.

I'm all for reducing the defect rate, I'm just not convinced optimising bugs/kloc is meaningful.
So we know what it means as a literal translation. What does it mean in the minds of people when they say it while they burn flags and effigies?

When they chanted death/down with Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war did their actions just not coincide with their chants as they bombarded Iraq?

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> I played with this idea some with a startup called Perch, which intended to turn old smartphones into security cameras or modern webcams.

> Petty crimes are currently very interesting to people to catch in this sort of age of online shaming. This is evidenced by the stolen package bomb videos.

I hope you do not take this as a personal attack, but I consider this line of thinking...well, fucked up. Just because an idea is remotely viable in an economic sense it seems to be instantly within the Overton window of serious consideration.

> However, it is still possible to do terrible things in broad daylight and get away with it.

Like manipulating the self-assigned greatest democracy in the world as a foreign actor via, you guessed it, mass surveillance and analysis. I would rather prevent that instead of pleasing some digital mop and peoples craving for "vengeance" on criminals, but oh well.
To also address this part which I seem to have missed earlier

> This all shows XML needing to support at least two different but related mechanisms. I'm not saying any of this is bad or that it makes parsing impossible: its just a source of complexity. JSON has key value syntax as well. XML has this flexibility but it quickly adds up. This is not a fault - it's the whole point of XML.

It is not really two different mechanisms. It simply is part of XML's syntax, just in the same way as these two JSON examples are very similar

[
{ "hello": "world"},
{ "hello": "world"},
{ "hello": "world"},
{ "hello": "world"}
]

{
"1": { "hello": "world"},
"2": { "hello": "world"},
"3": { "hello": "world"},
"4": { "hello": "world"}
}

Does any of that add complexity? Yes of course it does. If you dont want complexity you should probably go with a "Hello world" program, which incidentally will be also relatively bug-free ;)

However saying the additional syntax support of XML adds complexity which adds hours of CPU time when processing the same data in different formats (JSON and XML) borders ludicrous. Unless your XML parser is (deliberately) slow of course.
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I'm a weirdo, and my particular answer may seem waaaaaaaay out there, but you asked, so let 'er rip:

Did you watch the "What Bodies Think About" lecture I linked in a sib comment?

I suspect that we are on the cusp of a bio-information revolution.

Study of evolving systems indicates that intelligence is ambient in the biosphere.

Now some people have been "talking" to life since the dawn of time, and now Levin's work (it's his talk) is filling in the scientific basis for what Robert Anton Wilson and others call the "Neurosomatic" circuit of awareness.

We should be able to e.g. learn to "talk" to our own tissues and regenerate organs and limbs. (We might not need any technology to do it.) Also, see Findhorn (the gardens and spiritual community in Scotland) where they communicate with Nature spirits. We are just at the point where science can begin to validate this sort of thing, which will obviously lead to a major shift in global society/civilization.

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"When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words."
> Probably the most useful takeaway from CA's approach is that it's useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of "independent" voters. Ad experts and entertainment companies have known this for decades, but I get the sense the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.

I would dispute this claim, as it has yet to be proven any of the work Cambridge Analytica did was in any way influential or effective. As someone who has worked extensively in data science, including on marketing campaigns, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the effectiveness of advertising, or at least targeted advertising, is so overstated as to be bordering on snake-oil. Others working in the space agree [0].

[0] https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
The chants protest the U.S. killing of Soleimani, who was indeed responsible for the deaths of many Americans. Given this context, I think many of the demonstrators chanting "Death to America" should be taken literally.
On top of all that, Obama's campaign had the same or better data directly supplied to them via facebook API's, with facebook's knowledge and approval.

CA 'outrage' stories are nothing more than the media wagging the dog.
Why not use opentimestamps.org for this extension instead?
There is an HTTP status code of '402' with message 'Payment Required'. Sounds like an appropriate use case for this scenario.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
Things like Ring are really worrying because it's Amazon. Fear is the motivator in security camera sales. With Ring you've got a parent company whose CEO owns a national news organization(Washington Post) and a large media company(Amazon). Amazon is so aggressively pursuing being in every part of your life that the fear motivator is going to be really easy to manipulate.
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>I don't think we really want a centralized entity deciding what is "honest, fair, and equitable". I think what we want to do is reduce the incentive for media to be dishonest.

I'd be interested to hear ideas about how to do the latter in ways that don't, de facto, do the former. At some point, someone, somewhere is making a decision about what counts as "dishonest" and someone else somewhere will need disagree with them. Even if that decision is made by some algorithmic or emergent process from defined procedures, that still means a decision is being propagated.
Cool! Another weird thing I've noticed when feature requests are capped for customer teams, is that customer teams will "game" the system.

At scale, customer facing ICs will do things to benefit them personally. It's not a bad thing, it's just human. Sales people do what they need to get quota, Support want to keep their ticket backlog down and CSAT high, etc.

If you receive all customer facing feedback, you can make the final prioritization call on your own. If requests have been filtered too much before they reach you, the priority must be taken with a grain of salt.
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As an average fucker from FAANG, this comment hurts my feelings :(