skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Examples like this are why I like HN as a community of "engineer and similar minded people". We pick up details like this and call them out.
It has a carousel at the top with a picture and a diagram.
There are many professionals using it. See YouTube.
Many people are deeply afraid of or do not enjoy losing competitive games. Further, they may also fairly associate the effort of learning a new game with an experienced player a prelude to losing. So their behavior could be fairly seen as 'pain avoidance' or 'enjoyment optimization'. Few people are motivated by intellectual stimulation or curiosity beyond childhood years.
There is no doubt that some of the OTA updates increase vehicle safety. I was just pointing out that one could make an argument that it is not anti-safety to prevent updates from being applied. It's just a matter of what is more important: the new things being added, or having a better understanding of how the vehicle will consistently behave.
10 years ago they had GPS maps on the bus showing your current location, but afaik you couldn't access that when waiting for the bus. There were covered bus stops, just none of the ones I used were. They were only "ok" at marking stops when routes changed. The bus schedule (for the routes I used) was sparse.

So it seemed like they were tying to invest in these things, but weren't quite at the level of being pleasant.
I’m actually very surprised, and interested, to hear this. I’ve never felt software was looked down on in any middle class/professional circle I’ve mixed in. Perhaps a generational/geographic/tribe thing? 32y/o, London for 13 years, left of centre.

Conversely, when I’m in SF I do feel a bit anxious about saying what I do - when I’m talking to people who aren’t in tech - due to the inequality/negative image of techies.
When I was in Boy Scouts loooong ago, there were instructions and diagrams for making solar stills out of a sheet of plastic, a cup, rocks and dirt.
Randomness Can Make Math Easier (2019)
In practice, it's almost never an issue. The standard lib has push/pop/shift/pad methods available.

So example, if you had numeric indices that you wanted to guarantee that index order is equal to insertion order, you'd create an array using $my_array = array_pad([], 20, null); If it's an array that you didn't create, the ksort(...) method will order the array for you as expected.

Edit: after reading through the documentation on array_pad, it looks like it will even correct key order in existing arrays. https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-pad.php#87735
That is expected, as any transit planner can tell you. Transit only makes a difference to traffic at the very edges of rush hour. For every person who gets out of their single occupancy car there is enough space for one person to leave just a little latter and still make it in time, which in turns leaves their space for someone else until finally you are out of rush hour entirely and there is nobody to take that time/space slot.

Or to put it a different way: everybody wants to arrive to leave at 7:30am and arrive at 8:00am. (you can subtract a few minutes from the leave time for people who live close to work). Anybody working some other schedule (who has a choice of when to work) is doing it because they are avoiding traffic. Thus if transit makes traffic a little better someone on the edge will adjust their schedule to account for that and bring traffic back to where it was.

Until you get to a city where rush hour lasts for 15 minutes transit will not make a measurable difference in time spent in traffic.
You crossed into personal attack repeatedly in this thread, as well as breaking the site guidelines by making insinuations about shilling/astroturfing. We ban users who do these things. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the spirit of this site when posting here? We'd be grateful.
It is likely that 100 year events, calculated on the basis of historical data are overly optimistic. That is, these events will occur with higher frequency. However, "every year"? The only way to make that a correct statement is to say that there is at least one 100 year event (fire flood earthquake viral outbreak, etc.) happening in each year globally. But that has essentially always been true. "100 year event" really only has any meaning when talking about a specific event: e.g., category V hurricane landing within 50 miles of Houston.
Disappointed that dependency management seems to be based on old vendoring technologies and not Go Modules... (caveat, I only looked at the toc and some previews... but still)
I'm satisfied but it's only because I make more than twice the median household income by myself with no kids and can work remotely at an easy job. I don't know how 90% is satisfied with so much less.
No, it is asking people to design and test systems for the long-term. It would require establishing strong interfaces between components that will hold up when subcomponents are swapped out.

I think of it like a car where parts can be replaced if those parts have an issue, but the designs of the connectors stays the same, and replacements are available. A 100-year car isn't one that requires no maintenance for 100 years; it is one that can be maintained, and replacement parts can be acquired, and it will still continue working.

If a car depends on a remote server, such that the car stops operating when the remote server is shut down, then that car is perishable.
The Dot-Com Bubble – 5 Minute History Lesson – By the Plain Bagel
Why? Because Bell's Inequality. That's why.
I think it's intended as an extreme upper bound, not the optimal value.
I thought pilot wave theory was disproved recently?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot...
Please don't feed flamewars on HN, even when another commenter is wrong and/or you feel provoked. It helps nothing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you take a second (ok, 4 hours to download the repo) to take a look at the git history of the chromium repo, you'll notice that 100% of the hundreds of commits per day are for things that are unrelated to uBlock Origin and AdBlockers.
The ordering property is a side effect of the new and more cpu/memory efficient data structure. It would be very surprising to say no to a 2x performance jump to avoid the (sometimes useful) ordering.
Met the US chamption of Monopoly in LA at a boardgame meetup in 2010. I asked him how he found enough interest in the game to continue playing to such a level, since it was so shallow/predictable. He replied immediately that Monopoly was really just about convincing people to give you what you want. Turns out he was a lawyer.
ban cars LOL. Do you have any idea what you are saying?
> because people wouldn't learn anything

I mean, I suppose that's part of it, but the biggest reason (if by "technical solutions" you're talking about geoengineering) is that it's pants on fire crazy to run uncontrolled global scale geoengineering experiments. Unfortunately it's looking more and more likely that we'll be left with little choice.
Very cool idea! I also like that the provider script was written in Ruby, makes it easy to start hacking on it.

I converted it to Crystal for a bit more speed and safety, you can find it here if you're interested: https://git.io/JvnCm

Ruby execution time: 0.09 real 0.07 user 0.02 sys

Crystal execution time: 0.00 real 0.00 user 0.00 sys
> It's not breaking, it was implementation defined

And randomised at interpreter start, since Python 3.3.
Sympathies. On the flip, side, though, if the interview process was horrible, and the company doesn't provide some sort of mitigating feedback on what happened, I tend to assume the worst. And yeah, I don't necessarily keep it a secret.
Getting around the city is a totally different problem in LA than NYC. Wikipedia says NYC is 303 square miles (784 square km), and just the city of LA is 469 square miles (1214 square km); but getting around LA doesn't usually mean getting around the incorporated city of LA, it means getting around the whole greater Los Angeles area, which is 33,954 square miles (87,940 square km). That's immense and fixed route transit is just not going to cover very many trips.

That said, the LA MTA trains do seem to get pretty significant ridership, and voter support, so it makes sense to me to keep building them. Some people are able to make it work for them, and I'd guess more people over time will be able to find housing and jobs near enough to the lines that it makes a difference for them.

I doubt it's going to make a significant dent in congestion, but it might bend the curve a bit. If you increase transit capacity, and you don't limit population growth, congestion is going to get worse over time. The LA area in general doesn't have the same general resistance to high density residential as the bay area, and there's also always a lot of single family housing going up on the edges, and of course, nothing stopping people from having more people in a single unit, so population growth seems to be a given.
Please don't cross into personal attack or respond to a bad comment with a worse one. Those things don't help.

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iron seeding can increase amount of cyanobacteria which recently have been identified as potentially being methanogenic, thus this might not be a good idea. Unintended side effects of most geoengineering solutions are a big problem - some things like marine cloud brightening might be a bit less risky though. The other big issue is that most of those measures are just a bandaid which offsets a fixed amount of CO2, so it counter acts a few years of emissions but then you can't scale it up anymore. Adding Sulfur to the atmosphere for example can have a cooling effect but alongside other bad effects like acid rain, there are also studies showing that after a certain amount of sulfur, it does not provide a lot of negative forcing anymore.
I need a decent json schema for a recipe.
There are some out there but they have problems.
Can we all agree on a recipe json schema so we can put our recipes in json and share them and make apps on top of them? I'm talking a schema that has quantity that can be plugged into IoT devices.
Tinder would seem to contradict you there. How often is an eloquence requirement given vs. height requirement? Sure, height is not something we should fixate on, but it doesn't mean that doesn't happen anyways.
Lead would work a lot better.
interesting. What will the boffins think up next?
Mastering Go from the same publisher might work better for you.
A case study on engineering gene circuits with synbio
I work with GCC since 1996 and I never encountered a compiler bug. Whatever I wrote, the program always ran as it was supposed to run (even if it, more frequently than I'd like to admit, it didn't do what I wanted it to).

There is software that's incredibly solid.
'cause you ain't gonna be able to afford it
Bike lanes are good. The easier and safer it is for people to bike, the more bikers there will be. It takes time and additional infrastructure to make it worthwhile.
In addition to that:

- Clojurescript code is easier to edit, e.g:
if you want to wrap the string in <h1> tag there's a lot less typing you have to do.

- Cljs code is also "data", it can be send over the network without any modifications or encoding, sent to the REPL for evaluation, etc.

- You can "eval" every single part of it:

"Hello, world!" string;

[:div "Hello, world!"] vector;

component function itself - these are all valid Clojure structures.

What happens if you copy-paste any part of the JSX into JS REPL?
This helps a lot in developing and testing for postgres.

Maybe that's one of the tech which "John Carmack" meant when he said sophisticated tech is indistinguishable from magic.
The Post’s masthead will have to accept that it is not God
Panpsychism is a dirty word these days, and lacks formality. Fundamentally the loose idea is sound, and is encapsulated in Integrated Information Theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory) for the most part.
No, in places with great transit people with a 15 minute drive have at most 20 minutes on the bus and for some it is only 10 minutes on the bus. Of course where transit is great people also move to live near the right line, so the 1 hour trips like you see still exist - but those are different neighborhoods where you rarely go.
Unofficial reply ...

Sometimes the mods decide that an article or submission was missed by the HN crowd and deserves a second chance. To do that they will sometimes de facto resubmit the item, which involves some minor tinkering with the data fields underneath.

That may have happened here.
Yeah, and it's clear the computers come wiped. The issue here is that they sold the car with a sticker that included several mfr-added features and then later took them away.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, and we're trying for a different sort of discussion here.

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Same for Steam accounts / cellphones vs. 80s consoles / portable handheld gaming systems.
This cannot be accurate. I've traveled the midwest, and so many are miserable. I don't buy this at all.
Climate scientists have long feared being called alarmist, and indeed - the preliminary evidence is that this may have led to over-conservative estimates of the impacts and timescale of the climate disaster.
Right, it's linked from the intercept article:

> Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication[1] to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him.

[1] this is a link to the Amazonpost.com.

So,is it really set up and run by Chevron for the purpose of discrediting?
>a neutral recipe

What's neutral, though?

There's no accounting for taste.
This is me, and I'm still not "satisfied" - I want to leave the US.

I find this completely bullshit.
They'd have enough salt to last forever! >> https://youtu.be/jmzJXVEnmKc
When your charger becomes self-aware because someone put a TPU in it by accident...
Coronavirus – Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping and making the difference
some info on the worm can factory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddS_vmEbUwY

imho the goal should be to get money to the people who created something and proportion it with the effort. Shit posts should be excluded for starters. Oh so you've pointed a camera at something! Lets sink tax money into defending your huger for lazy ass exploitation! A journalist traveling to some place to do some cheap crap news report on something should be modestly monetizable for a few weeks. A studio sinking millions into a production should enjoy a few years of ownership but if they fail to break even in say 2 years we should free up the system for actual efforts.
I've been fortunate to know a number of people that I consider to be true geniuses. My wife's entire family is extremely talented, but that's not the only source.

The thing I've noticed about genius is that it's just part of who you are. It flows out of your pores. You work the kinds of hours and achieve the kinds of things you do, simply because you are driven to do so, and could not be otherwise.

If you're not a genius, then no amount of practice or experience will make you one. You can get better, sure. But to be a genius, you have to start out life as a genius.

Of course, there are many types of genius, in many different areas. But all the geniuses I know fit the above description.

OTOH, our culture does throw around the term much too easily. Many people seem to mistake lots of practice or experience for genius, which is understandable because many geniuses do seem to have a lot of practice and experience. But in a true genius, the cause and effect is reversed for practice and experience versus the results achieved.

I am most definitely not a genius. But I do have a fair amount of practice and experience in certain fields.
> our best option is probably solar shades in low earth orbit (giant sheets of ultra thin foil)

A thin reflective foil would not stay in a stable orbit because of solar radiation pressure. Instead, you can put it near the L1 Langrange point but slightly more sunward to compensate for that pressure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4550401/
Yeah, that was apparent with Paw Patrol, but the show itself isn't bad. Every episode is centered around helping people and working as a team. "Hey team, there's a problem, let's go fix it!" That's the core focus and messaging. The stories aren't about buying things. When kids emulate Paw Patrol, they're going on missions to solve problems and using the associated vehicles as tools. Which is what the pups do.

Unboxing and "loot haul" videos are a whole other thing and are absolute garbage, totally agree. It's especially gross when it's little kids as the "talent", being pushed by their parents. Buy a bunch of those eggs. Film their kid(s) opening them. Slap on some wacky editing and SFX. Upload. Just gross.
SpaceX Starlink
ESAS/methane gun hypothesis: hold my clathrates.

If you want more, current scientific analyses and surveys of CC literature/papers/talks/conferences, I would look at Dr. Paul Beckwith's channel on YT.
I wonder if they could parallel other engineering disciplines and give exemptions for specific areas or other avenues to ease the burden.

For example, as long as a certain percentage of principal engineers are licensed, others within the company don’t have to be. Similar with working under a licensed lead or specific article industry exemptions.

It would also give some power to the developers over management in key decisions. I’ve seen managers try to back engineers into a corner and when the engineer ultimately said they wouldn’t sign off on a design, management backed down because they didn’t have an equivalent to “just ship it now” and get it stamped later.

I understand the fear of it, but sometimes it seems like the sw development is run like the Wild West.
I think it's common courtesy to offer some feedback in exchange for the amount of time that these interviews often take. It's the consolation prize that helps you have a better chance of winning the real prize next time.

I've only been turned down once after interviewing so I don't have a lot of data on who does and who does not provide feedback. The time that I was turned down, I spent a day working on a programming assessment and 6 hours on-site interviewing with 4-5 different groups of people. I felt like everything went really well. I left and heard in a week or so that they were "pursuing other candidates". I asked about feedback, they said they don't give it.

Cool, then where's the ~$600 for my time? It's a Fortune 500 company (in the top 50). I'll never interview there again and I'll recommend to everyone that I know to vote with their talent and stay away from big, soulless companies that have forgone basic respect.
Public transportation's only certain benefit is that people who simply cannot drive are able to get from A to B.
More often than not recruiters (external and in-house) make up large numbers to get you to reply. Here is a verbatim quote from a mail I got last year:

> For the right candidate year 1 comp will be up to £500k.

After going through a three hour coding test, phone screen + onsite it turned out to be 120k + smallish bonus. Maybe I'm not the right candidate but most likely 500k was never on the table.

It's not the first time this has happened to me or people I know
either. What I'm getting at is that I'd take the Oxford Knight compensation numbers with a pinch of salt. Those 300k jobs _do_ exist but nowhere near as many as in the US.

Additionally levels.fyi or glassdoor data doesn't support a large number of 300k jobs in London.
That itjobswatch java London: London median annual salary £75,000

I'm not sure big tech and finance are representative of London.
Defined in the paper as

> the solar-to-vapor conversion efficiency, defined as the ratio of total vaporization enthalpy to total solar energy input,

So ya, they are just comparing to a really low baseline...
So USAmericans feeling greater pressure to claim they're satisfied? Acquiescence bias effects increasing in more fascist society?

Would you all who live in USA say people are more satisfied? Why, in your opinion?

[Edit: I'm interested in what is wrong with these questions, so if you feel they're bad questions and need downvoting I'd be happy to hear from you, email if you like.]
Here's a video of Tom Scott playing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I
Trains can get you to like 2% of LA... that is why they're hardly used.
So does that mean if you sell a Tesla back to the company, the don't take into account the fact that you paid for FSD?

Also, when people buy a used Tesla and add FSD, do they charge the same price as buying it new? Most Teslas aren't that old, but I could imagine if you bought one with 25% of its useful life gone, you'd find it pretty unfair if they asked 100% of the FSD price.

Also, just on a price discrimination basis, I'd think people who buy new Teslas are willing/able to pay more than people who buy used ones.
Well, the three guys mentioned in the article creating hand made post stamps were actually put on trial but ultimately exonerated because they did not attempt to imitate any existing or valid stamp, if I recall correctly the point was that there was not forgery involved, and thus there was no crime, it was considered like if you mail a letter without a stamp (or with a stamp with a value lower than the needed one) it is up to the Post Office to notice and ask the postage (or the postage difference) to the sender or to the addressee when it delivers the letter.
AI Accelerator Summit Silicon Valley 2020
Om my book “x doesn’t exist” demonstrations are absolutely worthless if they don’t as a minimum show at least one “closest” member of the training set.

You could set up a script that just randomly picked one out of 50 images of my closest family and no one would know the difference from going to it.
On desktop the type is sooooo tiny!
Yeah modern microcontrollers are probably less efficiently used than they could be, but the AGC essentially crashed twice during the lunar landing because it didn't have enough compute available.
Azure DevOps Roadmap Update for 2020 Q1
an other report from someday ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22207018
I’m not sure I follow. Aren’t entangled particles in superposition until they’re measured? That would mean we have no way of saying they behaved the same way, until we measure them — at which point the “spin” of the particles will be random and opposite.

Also, “measurement” doesn’t have to mean “by a human”. Particles in effect “measure” each other when they collide — which is one theory as to why we don’t see quantum effects at a macro scale — there’s too much stuff colliding into each other, collapsing the wave function.

A book that’s pretty fascinating in this regard is “Life at the Edge: The Coming Age of Quantum Biology”. It explores how birds navigate the magnetic field via quantum effects that we once thought couldn’t “survive” at a macro scale. Fascinating.
What's the name of that meme with the dog in a house ablaze saying everything's fine?
If its helpful in any way, lots of tool specific file formats like that are basically C structs dumped to a file, then loaded when the file is loaded.
Do you want MCAS?! Because that's how you get MCAS!

EE in me died a little reading this, while programmer loved the hack :). Personally I would just replace the backlight, discoloration is most likely sign of impending failure anyway.
Btw we already do something similar to a lot of electronics by design. For example camera sensors have defect lists, pristine ones are extremely expensive, think highend microscopes and satellites.
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