skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the real issue, that's just the initial domino. The real issue is how self-driving companies will combat that. They'll surely want to record film at all times and have a pipeline to law enforcement to curb suspected bullies. It's often the over-correcting solution that becomes the bigger problem. There are analogues in other human-robot interactions.
I think you misread my post.
The solution is to stop trying so hard.

As you said, the problem is fuzzy, so you do... a fuzzy search, return a bunch of results, and let the user pick. If the dataset is too large, then you just let the search include more details. "Mueller from Berlin" or "Muller born on july 7th" are much better queries to find a specific person than a perfectly written "Müller".

In fact, if you were to crack the problem of searching by considering all applicable rules, the system would still be useless because people make mistakes all the time and the Müller guy actually wrote "Miller" while signing up ;P
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People can enjoy being rich. I think it's quite obvious when you look at real cases and not just hypothetical.

Bill Gates - He admits now that he was bully and behaved badly. He was completely ruthless. Not because he was a sociopath, but because every time they had to decide between winning and morality he chose winning. Paul Allen was one of his oldest and closest friends and when he was sick with cancer in early 80s he overheard Ballmer and Gates talking about his lack of contribution and scheming to dilute his equity.

Steve Jobs - Jobs conned Steve Wozniak at the beginning and it did not stop there. According to his bio it seems that being asshole was big part of his success.

Mark Zuckerberg - His habit of doing the immoral and apologizing if getting caught started even before FB. Facemash was "completely improper" according to Zuckerbergs apology. Starting phase of FB was based on all kinds of foul play.
Most corporations are systems which create products, those systems have QC, feedback loops, etc., that tend to provide homogeneity of quality?

That's how brands are supposed to work, "I've had other things from this company, they were good, I'll get more".

Companies are usually designed to prevent single shitty employees from ruining things (and usually to prevent goods being "too good" as well!).

I've heard that MS is structured as highly separated departments, like separate single-product companies. Which goes someway to explain things - if they're bad at sharing best practice and senior management can't/won't control quality.

Personally, this seems highly interesting.
Not just an interpreter – unless there's a standardized subset that one can look for as a web developer then one can't really adopt to it (through either graceful degradation or progressive enhancement). Same reason why eg. Noscript addons creates havoc at times. Web sites expects a certain baseline and when it's not there, they expect that javascript will be disabled altogether and <noscript>-tags to get executed, but just disabling some code prohibits that fallback, making it less usable than fully disabling js.
Japanese deflation is brought up a lot. However it didn’t really strike me as a troubled economy when visiting - on the contrary, things looked quite well.

Can someone elaborate on why deflation is so bad?
If you follow a PR heavy or PR only methodology heavy on meaningful merges with good descriptions, `git log --first-parent` can be more useful than `git log --no-merges`. It's more condensed and focused on high level features instead of the smaller baby steps that build up the high level. `git blame` also accepts `--first-parent`.
People are broadcasting to multiple platforms at the same time. People broadcast to facebook/periscope/youtube at the same time via 3rd party apps.

There needs to be a way for these new content startups to allow broadcasting on multiple platforms. If a creator has to "upload" to each site, that going to turn them away from many alternatives.

I toyed with the idea of a portal for crowdfunding clone, with a threaded feed, and other technologies that already exist. Then there are dozen(s) of funding ideas for the Creators and the site.

The technology is there, the knowledge is there. But little interest from investors.

All Reddit would need to do is create creators subs with crowdfunding and paywalled content, subscriptions, etc, and they could easily own the market.

Linus is doing floatplane, so creators do see this big giant hole that is just waiting for someone to drive a truck and smash youtube.

I just can't understand why the biggest problem and the simplest solutions, and nobody has done it yet. Its like fedex\amazon, after its launches, people go, duh, that was a good idea.
>> One issue not discussed enough is all this push for automation really needs road marking guidelines pushed down from the Federal level.

That would be a mistake. You don't take a safety critical system and rely on a nationwide beauracracy getting all the details right to make it safe, or even effective. We've had the discussion here before, and the only way for full level 5 autonomy is a general AI capable of most everything a human is. Until people realize that it will be an endless stream of "we just need to fix these corner cases" or put more constraints on the physical world because the cars aren't smart enough.
Um, how is Dropbox anything even close to "privacy-focused"?
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Yes, for me the solution was to stop thinking about search problems as a deterministic problems with a solution that can be (easily) found. It’s a very complex domain space, google still improves their search, with many people working on the problem for more than 20 years.

So it is unreasonable for me to think that I can do a name search (I have exactly the same feature in my product) in a perfect way from scratch just by thinking hard, just because name search is narrower, hence simpler domain (lol).

So I implemented something, got a round of feedback, implemented other forms that users used. My search will display Sjögurd even if user typed in Sjoegurd, despite that the name is Norwegian? Probably, and what’s the downside?

My search will work imperfectly for some lesser known languages, like Georgian? Most certainly, and users from these cultures expect that, they will sigh and deal with it. I know, because I too come from a country with non-latin alphabet and we have lots of different transcriptions into it. It’s ugly, yes. Because the world is ugly :)
That's not a good way to handle it, harmful to the web :/
Flash reached a point where it was basically unmaintainable spaghetti, and not something that was going to be trivially reimplemented by a third party. Sadly, that's exactly what's happening to the Web now. Instead of being standards-first, and browsers implement it, we've basically shifted to descriptive standards that attempt to formalize what a corporate cabal unilaterally decides. And we're in inch away from a homogeny of browser engines...
Direct account-to-account transfer is supported between all major EU banks. It takes a couple of seconds at most, and it's free.
> What I think this underestimates is the exponential nature of big wins.

Yeah, I'm not so convinced of his music business analogy. Normally, people in the music business are quite aware of the fact that "a hit leads to another hit".

The issue is that getting a "hit" means that people are willing to give you more chances to get the next "hit".

Maybe your next song isn't as good, but, hey, we're willing to throw more marketing behind it this time. Or, you've been playing bars, but the market research shows your profitable group are tweeny girls, so you retarget your tour sites. etc.

In this instance, the fact that you once had a hit means people are more willing to apply resource to help you get the next hit (ie. music execs are sheep--aka VC's are sheep).
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1) It's jQuery, not "JQuerry". I've been using it since 2008, and Prototype.js and script.aculo.us before that.

2) For quick prototypes, I can't imagine why you'd need to accommodate pre-HTML5 HTML. We're discussing quick prototypes, not production sites targeting browsers going back a decade.

3) VanillaJS equivalents are slightly longer than jQuery snippets, mostly because the API names are a bit longer:

css:

// jQuery
newDiv.addClass('foo');

// Vanilla
newDiv.classList.add('foo');

siblings:

// jQuery
const nextElement = $('#wrap').next();

// Vanilla
const nextElement = document.querySelector('wrap').nextSibling;

etc etc.

If the extra verbosity bothers you, you can always alias `document.querySelector` as `$`, or `sel`, or whatever. Then you get stuff like:

// jQuery
const nextElement = $('#wrap').next();

// Vanilla
const nextElement = sel('wrap').nextSibling;

And yes, the jQuery method names are a little shorter, but for quick prototyping, I'd rather use something that I know can be run on any modern browser, with no build step or library required. For production apps, I'll 99% of the time use a framework, either React or Vue.js.

I get that not everyone prefers that. That's OK.
That's what background check is for.
First of all he should have some sliver of prove and not just complain about things that are the same on his software.

And if he was serious about it and not just bs marketing he could actually recommend an app that is actually significantly improving on the security.
This is a problem even in production autopilot in Teslas. When stopped at a stop light, you can see cars "dancing" and rotating randomly in a jittery fashion. Today during an auto lane change, the system blinked a truck from two lanes across in and out of my target lane, causing the car to cancel going into an empty lane after quarter ways entering it, twice.
Here's a link to a similar course offered by UMich EECS. I really enjoyed it when I took it as an undergrad.

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I use Teams every day (mainly at my desktop, but sometimes via the Android app if I'm outside) because I work from home and I have found it to work perfectly fine. I text chat with teammates or others at the company and have regular meetings (voice/ screensharing) with no issues.

Whenever Teams comes up on HN, there are people complaining about how much infinitely better some cooler product is. I don't doubt that you see a huge difference, but I feel like I'm listening to a wine expert explain how some $1000 bottle of wine is better than a $20 bottle, when to me they taste the same.
> is no more risky (arguably less due to design) than the current "do you want to download and run nativeusbapp.exe" permission.

I'm nervous about justifying one thing based on the fact that a different, objectively terrible, thing is allowed already.
>> Tesla & SpaceX have a reputation for being a terrible place to work, with Musk expecting everyone to be working as hard (or harder) than him, and firing people in weird and capricious ways.

> specially SpaceX has been rated very highly in some rating I have seen.

IIRC, SpaceX has a COO who handles much of the day-to-day management, so the employees there are shielded from much of Musk's management style.
Only problem with that is it breaks so many sites now. Most major sites I've tested without JS recently are borked.
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Of course you can optimize better if you have the right intermediate dialects.

I’m saying that MLIR is unproven for that purpose outside of the ML space.
Signs stating "$100 notes not accepted" used to be seen in many shops Canada about 15-20 years ago, when cash was much more commonly used. Since the switchover to polymer bank notes around 2011, counterfeiting has become almost non-existent but cash payments in general are much less common too.
What are you paying Google for their video hosting service? Why are you entitled to have them do convenient things for you?
If outside in success is what is being measured as succcess (money, nice things, big house(s), etc.), than my experience is that its almost always luck that got someone those things at a young age or without a lot of risk.

Getting hired at a small company that goes on to become a Unicorn or just being in the right place at the right time. Like getting hired a month before a big acquisition are 100% luck. However, starting a company, taking the risks and beating the odds, is not luck, its gumption and timing.

Most of the wealth in "Tech" comes from luck. There are very few Founders who maintain enough ownership to cash out big especially compared all the employees who took the right job at the right time and scored big with options or an exit...
When is IE gonna die? I'd really like to use flexbox/grid and other css/js niceties, but we still have 16% of users on IE. I know Microsoft is planning on supporting forever, but does anyone know if they are trying to move people off of it?
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Do you think raising the block size would create more issues? Although it seems BTC is committed to layer 2 scaling solutions.
I think one of the major stumble blocks on achieving "true AI" is that there is no consensus over what constitutes "true AI".

I suspect that --As long as AI can be perceived as a potential threat to the human ego-- the goalpost will perpetually be moved to just outside of the state of the art in AI research.
They make their money from enterprise software, for which privacy and access controls are very important. The other tech leaders on the board are more consumer-focused businesses, and consumer-focused businesses generally don't care as much about privacy.
Well, we can look at a place without much government to see how well their innovation is doing: Somalia. How many vaccines, or anything really, have they come up with?
Big fan of treating all inputs and outputs to and from functions as hostile. So parameters and return values as well. Always interesting how fast the bugs turn up once you start enforcing that.
Of all the Big Tech antitrust scrutiny, this one seems like the most straightforward case.
Whatever problems I have with Google pales with what problems I'd have with whatever the US would want to carve Google into.
Sorry brainfart, was responding to the second part, ie comparison to another null.
Skype gets worse and worse, I don't understand how. You're not allowed to choose not to autostart it. My only explanation is they somehow get more out of making it crap (it's a user tracking app primarily now AFAICT) than they would out of it being good.
Yes, but there's close-to-simultaneous arrival, in which case you yield to the person on your right.

But what's "simultaneous"? If I show up 0.1 seconds before the person on my right, he could think it is simultaneous and go...

There's also the direction that is 'claimed'. If there's a dedicated left turn lane or it is obvious that the person across from you is going straight, and you want to go straight, you should go too.

In the end, multiagent arbitration of a shared resource is hard.
Relying on spare parts from Earth for anything important is impossible, since it takes months to years for a one-way trip depending on where in their orbits the two planets are.

I'm just speculating now, but I think this might be one reason Musk is so interested in robotic manufacturing (e.g. the failed "alien dreadnought" vision for the Model 3 production line). If you have mostly automated, flexible manufacturing systems that can be computer controlled and require minimal human expertise to operate then all you need is the computer files for whatever spare part you need to build. Set up 3-4 of these manufacturing centers at different spots for redundancy and you don't have to worry so much about spare part availability.

The first effort (Model 3 assembly) was a disaster though.
Good luck finding remotely decent candidates without an extraordinary offer at the end of significant unpaid work.

Remember, it's a two way process; any candidate worth their salt is interviewing the company.

If the candidate is worth it to the company, they won't expect them to jump through absurd hoops, and will treat them with at least a professional minimum of respect.
It is an interesting side effect of the tenancy of software developers these days that any process that requires action on a > 2 year interval is likely to fail, if the cycle is 5 years or more it will always fail.

The turnover insures that nobody in the department was there when the process was started/last interacted with, and so it is off the collective organizational radar so to speak.
Main job is to represent the shareholders’ financial interests by hiring, monitoring and firing the CEO.
What? You go to a car dealer, sign, pay and drive away.
It still strikes me why so many people are still against a future with self driving cars. Sure, people throughout history are scared of change & new tech. But if you look at this video and compare the amount of stuff the camera catches AND processes, with the things you are seeing & processing, it's really hard for me to see me being better at it than a computer.

The reality of driving (as a human) is that most of it happens on autopilot anyway. It's rare to deal with an anomaly. So realistically, it makes total sense to keep refining these algorithms and make driving safer and more pleasant for everybody.

I just find it very hard to understand the perspective of those that are opposed to self driving cars.
partial evaluation much
This. Please make people use this today on Navi. That will go a long way cementing AMD's position in compute
>"utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process"

I'm mostly referring to this part of the quote. Pure FP is basically a static program and not a dynamic process. Nothing is changing in FP, nothing is dynamic.

FP makes this gap zero. Outside of FP (the distributed system) is a different story of course.
Good point. I guess there's no real hope, then. I'll take the runner-up position in that case -- I want a browser that has no support for Javascript and the like at all. In the meantime, I'll just continue to leave it disabled.
Yeah that'd be interesting.
Sadly, I think this is normal. I also find that after about 2 years, I start itching for a new challenge. You learn the most at a new job, new role, new team, just because everything is new. After a while, you learn a lot about your company, where things are, what has likely gone wrong, etc. This gets boring pretty fast. Being in a role long term is a totally different feeling than job hopping and building your resume. I don't think either is wrong, but they are very different.

Plus, if you're competent, your management chain may have problems giving you more work as you get faster, or promoted to the right level fast enough. If you really like your company, maybe switch teams? If not, switch companies? You're likely to get a salary bump, and probably harder work because you'll maybe get brought in at a higher level.
Top tech companies are very stable in terms of employment. It is notoriously hard to get fired at the likes of Google and even if you draw the short straw, you often have 6-12 months of notice. People generally leave because they get job offers for more money or a combination of same money + shorter commute or more interesting work or change of scenery. Finally, the last recession was a doozy and still hit tech no harder than any other industry. Most of the same tech giants you’re talking about didn’t even have layoffs. I would call that as stable as it comes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of these are actually banning petrol/diesel car sales at all. A hybrid/plug-in hybrid cars are exempt - so pretty much every manufacturer has a "mild-hybrid" version of every model, with something like a tiny 1kW battery to help with the initial movement, and that's enough to get around this ban. No?
No, copying without a license is a tort. Distribution is usually the point when it's found out. But it's the copying that is tortuous.
Isn't that exactly what the federal government has done to extrodinary success with the interstate system?

The interstates follow very strict and powerful standards that make us all so much safer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_State_...
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The title is completely misleading. It should read "I couldn't use WebUSB".

And WebUSB is by no mean dead. Geez, it just got supported by Microsoft in the last version of Edge!