skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a particularly insidious circumstance since standing water can conceal hazards from any vision system these cars or humans have. I would expect self-driving cars to refuse to drive through water in any circumstance. There could be a large pothole in the puddle that would ruin your car.

Worse than a mere car-destroying pothole, what if the flooded portion of the road no longer existed at all? That's a common enough occurrence that student drivers are generally warned about it specifically, warned to never drive across flooded sections of roadways because your car might fall into 10 feet of water without warning. If a self-driving car doesn't avoid a scenario we teach teenagers to be wary of, I don't think it deserves to be called self-driving.
Probably hundreds of them at least. But there may be only a smaller fraction of them targeting Canada.
On a related note am curious about these conversations at work where someone names a film and a lot of people have seen it, and that pattern applies to many films across many genres leading me to think “most people” watch 1000s o hours of film but not only that can recall the plots of those films. I’m sort of jealous as those conversations seem interesting but i feel. can’t contribute much as I hate most films!
Thank you for this follow up comment.
What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?
This. Exactly this. Some company in the US does the VoIP->POTS connection. Someone's name and CC is on their file.

Saying "oh there's no way to know where the calls come from" is just lame excuses. CallerId spoofing is one thing, but POTS has other systems.
The businesses were purchased by Avaya (enterprise) and Genband (carrier). There are support and upgrade paths available. This fact also has nothing to do with the problem.
Depends on what the company rewards. That manager is probably very competent at that particular thing.
FWIW. This is an absolutely awful coding challenge for an interview especially in a 2-hour setting. The challenge requires building off of implementation details for a few very
specific technologies. Interviews are supposed to test for general problem solving capabilities within some domain of competence. Unless the job was specifically to work on a go language server, and that was your aforementioned domain of competence, I see no rationale for using this programming challenge to determine employment.
Learning complicated stuff is a compound process. There’s no framework as such. It takes slow, methodical, frequent look-ups, trying out, dead-ends and everything inconvenient at first.

But once we get past a certain stage, it’s more about connecting all the dots you’ve collected. It gets exciting as you get to see interesting patterns, and eventually get a sense of all the abstract ideas your learning materials where talking about.

Past that point, it’s faster, easier and exciting!
>Would anybody seriously argue that not having to pay rent, and not facing with the possibility of eventually getting kicked out [...] does not translate to more stability[?]

Paul Krugman does. [0]

Subsidies to home ownership increased economic volatility (people spend more when their house is worth more, spend less when its value decreases); weakened financial services; and made labour markets tend to become more rigid. [1]

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/opinion/23krugman.html
[1]https://www.economist.com/briefing/2009/04/16/shelter-or-bur...
There are plenty of small teams within FAANG that offer big impact, and which have good WLB.
Netflix never wanted to do DRM. They fought the studios and tried to teach them for years that it was pointless. Eventually they had to relent because the studios had more power than they do.

To answer the follow up question -- the Netflix originals have DRM because they aren't made by Netflix, they are still made by regular Hollywood studios that demand DRM. And for the few where Netflix has control, it's easier technology-wise to just put DRM on everything instead of littering the code with exceptions for some content.

At the end of the day, DRM for rented content isn't so bad. You're renting it. You shouldn't have control over it.

I still don't like DRM on content I'm buying.
No, I think these books are still a decent recipe for a good start.

There are a few mentioned on this thread I have not read yet so maybe these will change my mind.
Hopefully the drop is from less people taking VC money.
Great! This really helps. Thanks a lot! I would love to discuss more about how the interview process was like. How do you think we can connect?
Please point me to the technical solution that I am avoiding.
Its doubly frustrating for me because I'm on a kidney transplant list and there is a small change I might get a call out of the blue even thought there is still some wait time. So I end up answering the phone most of the time...
Yes, while I found this annoying about San Francisco when I first moved there, I soon came to appreciate the value of the consistency.
They probably tried to add more info but couldn't do so without repeating some knowledge.
So the new boss is from Oracle, who hired new managers from SAP and Microsoft, they are hiring like crazy and cutting some old jobs. Looks like they are trying to get rid of internal critics, resistance. Interesting wars
That's why Bernie needs to be elected so he can bring the neoliberal age to an end. Your career might be over by the time you're 45, but at least you'll have Medicare.
Amazon does this kind of thing all the time. It's very rare with engineers--they just get moved around. But if you have some reorg, you don't need two sets of marketing folks.
Ages ago. Keep at it, you won't miss it.
Pascal-S, Mini-C, 256LOL (x86 assembler)... Nice!
I have a pretty long resume at this point (23 years now in the workforce)... I use the cover letter to try to summarize a few takeaways using very short sentences. It seems like if you don’t hit at least one positive talking point within the first 5 seconds of reading they will never bother reading the rest of the resume. I once actually did step into recruiting at a startup I worked at once. We had about 25,000 emails come in for 20 positions and the recruiting team was going insane trying to sort them. I wrote a few quick filters to draw out interesting resumes but I ended up reading nearly half the resumes... over a weekend. I get that reading resumes is tedious but I just have so little sympathy for these people who have so little attention to detail / ability to structure their work passing judgement on my ability to conjure some algo.
Logically there's nothing wrong if "human" is viewed as a finite resource or as livestock.
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It's not like any one uses hadoop or kubernetes and has any success am I right?
Why would that drop precipitously? It might vary a bit, but up up up then bang?
I only disagree with "as they must be in a small org". I only wish that was true, but my experience says otherwise. A small company might give one agency or it might not. Or it can do both over time. With a dozen people in the company you'd think it'd be wise, but the latest management trends and compensation procedures prevent it. In other words, we build what the boss wants and have zero incentive and time to work on anything else. In fact, if there is time, I actively avoid any tasks not delegated by management so as not to appear like I'm working on non sanctioned things. But mostly, the time just expands to fill the work. Or the other way around. There is zero incentive to try to change this or do anything not scheduled as it has been shown it'll not be appreciated but with empty words.
I dont touch anything where I have no control over fast forward/pause/rewind.
Sorry, you failed the interview! Your algorithm doesn't terminate, it's no better than an empty infinite loop.

If a list is sorted, then you'd be able to return the largest value. Since that is impossible the correct answer is that it's impossible.
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most groups don’t change until it is obvious to most of them that what is going on is not working.

When most people stop returning Google’s phone calls, so that positions go infilled, then they’ll start talking about change. Right now there’s still enough supply that they don’t have to do anything,
Probably, I think 'colleague grade' peer refers to candidates that have worked on the same problems with the same technologies and arrived at the same solutions as the people working at the company.

I agree that there is definitely a bit/lot of tunnel-vision that happens within companies where they don't realize how much cumulative knowledge is just specific to the particular evolutionary path of their development team.

IMHO, so much of success is based on ability to learn that it would be better for candidates to be evaluated on their ability to acquire new skills or integrate new knowledge.
I've had a tiny chargeable buzzer that would light up entire rooms when it was plugged in. I started habitually closing the bathroom door just so it didn't bother me when trying to sleep.

I eventually got fed up that I broke the LED with some fingernail clippers. The device never turned on again.

I'm a pretty easy going person in life but learned how mad I could get over time at a pointlessly bright light and the people who put it there.
it's a good, although pretty long piece. On Harari's popularity itself, I'm not convinced by it at all. as the article points out it's a weird mixture of Buddhist philosophy, futurology, and very broad accounts of history with some new age mixed in.

That seems to be a very popular syncretic combination these days but it often veers from speculative into science fiction and sometimes even pandering, both to a large mass audience fascinated by AI news and tech elites who like to be told they're controlling the world, even if Harari is scolding them.

On technical topics itself his takes, however, seem surprisingly shallow or outright wrong. There's is a very good case to be made that we're in fact not living in the transhumanist age and that society is not changing that fast at all. (secular stagnation, Robert Gordon on innovation, Thiel in the popular press) etc. In the discussion with Pinker, Pinker was very quick to point out that a lot of Harari's speculations about genetic optimization are fairly unreasonable given what we know about how complex genetic interaction is, and so on.

It seems to me ironically the way he writes is to feed into the common anxieties that are also reflected in the mainstream press and that are also popular among people like Sam Harris or Bostrom or others who have carved out their media niche in this space. They've found their audience but I'm not sure how good any of it is.

And also one thing that I find to be absolutely unacceptable behaviour for a writer who talks about the dangers facing our liberal societies:

"Last summer, he was criticized when readers noticed that the Russian translation of “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” had been edited to make it more palatable to Vladimir Putin’s government. Harari had approved some of these edits, and had replaced a discussion of Russian misinformation about its 2014 annexation of Crimea with a passage about false statements made by President Trump."
Someone please overlay that with a Bitcoin price chart
"I don't watch TV, I watch [TV] shows on my computer."
One thing that helps society unify is a shared media experience. Used to be oral poetry reading and plays. Then books. Then radio. Then TV. Now a massive milleu of various social platforms.

I've dropped out of almost all of these, but there is a downside.

As Jesus says, "be in the world, but not of it."

Unfortunately, completely dropping out makes me "not in the world."

Not being in the world, hard to say whether I am not of it.
In some states, you can and will be ticketed if you don't stop whenever someone steps off the curb. I seem to remember hearing or reading that is the case in Massachusetts, so you may see drivers from out of state being very cautious even elsewhere.

Also, the other day, I was making a left from a one-way street, from the left side of it, and someone tried to drive around me on the shoulder to the left, because they were unaware I was waiting for a jogger pushing a stroller to cross in front of me.
See, I come up with a tongue-in-cheek idea that with a creative could make for a great set of movies.

HighwAI or HAIghway or AI-95 or Night on the Interstate where the plucky action hero has to save the day with the help of an old car, a grizzled mechanic, and his sweetheart from a malignant swarm of AI controlled cars that have terrorized and paralyzed the country by killing any humans they sense near the roadway. Or a small town is terrorized by a swarm of autonomous vehicles that lurk the stretch of highway between them and the next town, and some disaster necessitates a massive human piloted convoy protected by the town sheriff and traffic cops as best they can until they can eventually make their way to a rendezvous with the State Patrol. Or teenagers having to avoid a gruesome death at the whims of autonomous vehicles on the way to Grandma's house.

Then you all have to bring insurance into it.

Seriously HN. Keep this up, and I don't think we can be friends anymore.
It is, even in Australia. Backhaul and transoceanic links have economies of scale. Last mile doesn't.
Literally free on local equivalents of Craiglist.

If the toner gets low or photodrum dies, I just get another one.
Say I was a freelance salesman. I buy and sell expensive things that I can't afford. I line up the deal and make it happen. This month it's a cruise ship. It costs $500 million from the manufacturer in Amsterdam, but I can get a client in Dubai to pay $504 million delivered. I get a short term-loan which costs me $200k, plus short-term insurance for $400k. I buy the boat where it is for asking price, and pay $2.7mil to deliver it to the customer.

I made $700k on the deal, not bad. I moved more than half a billion. The _revenue_ number is huge but mostly irrelevant from my personal perspective. Almost all of it was money that was never mine, that I never made.
Creating navigation menus in your Flutter apps
C + knowing the Linux API and what is done in kernel vs user space can lead to very efficient Linux software. Since much consumer software these days is a webapp with a Linux backend, this sort of embedded optimization can make good consumer sense.
The confusion seems to come from most people seeing nation and country as synonyms. The older traditional definition of nation has mostly faded except in the context of the modern use of the word nationalism, but even that has been perverted to mostly mean extremists.
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In Seattle all unmarked intersections are considered pedestrian right-of-ways, by law. There have been campaigns to promote this. Ten to twenty years ago it was not uncommon for pedestrians to throw tantrums and shame drivers for not stopping them, usually in Fremont and Capitol Hill. That may explain some of the behavior; possibly the drivers you encountered were native Seattlites with intersection PTSD.

But I generally agree with you. it’s a often egregious and can be extremely dangerous for both the pedestrian and other vehicles when a lone driver stops unexpectedly on a >2 lane road.
If you’re interested in a quick crash course in film appreciation, I recommend the documentary series The Story of Film: An Odyssey [0]. The whole thing is 15 hours, but you can easily skip the episodes you’re not interested in and still learn a lot.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Film:_An_Odysse...
Make leveldb work on S3 storage
Do you have a community, where you'd learn together?

I wonder if it weren't more efective to i.e. buy books and organize book-club with your colleagues.
I want to interview at this company just so I can rick-roll them during the song singing part.
I stopped about 17 years ago. After I entered university, I stopped watching TV. I don't even watch it when I'm at a friend's house.

Quite possibly the best decision I made in my life. TV and news, especially the news channels, are massive time sinks that just slowly eat your life away. And not only do you get absolutely nothing from it, they make your life miserable too. I'm pretty sure that people who don't watch TV are happier than those who do. Someone should do a study on that.
The exterior algebra can be defined over any vector space. It just happens that the exterior algebra over the cotangent space is useful for differential geometry.
I'm pretty sure the market is turning. I'm seeing more stories on TC about companies shutting down than starting up.

Rich people are starting to hold their cash in anticipation of a market dropout so they have reserves to buy up cheap assets.
where is my post that was here?
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There is also the case of Alices & Bobs using inconsistent variable & function names, etc. if left unchecked and make life difficult for everyone. Organization/Consistency in code is a real problem that can't be simply wished away.
We shouldn’t give them much credit on this. It’s not really an approach it has to do with regulations for large companies. This “hr strategy” is just a friendly way to tell an employee to leave or figure out what to do. I wonder if the genius behind this also came up with the term “unlimited vacation”.

https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WAR...
You can do that for preact,vue,svelte,angular and others. That should tell something.
Well, that was both entertaining and heartbreaking. They both are great hosts.
That’s a shame. TV is amazing these days. HBO especially, is pumping out amazing shows, like Succession, Watchmen, Chernobyl, etc. I’m only subscribed to HBO and Netflix, so I never see any ads either.

Whatever floats your boat though.
Ask HN: What technology would you bring to the world, Manhattan-project style?
How and why ?
S3 is painfully slow. Is this viable?
I think you mean competitive advantage, not comparative.

I got a D in my only economics class, but I think that I've seen comparative advantage used to mean that "X is better at doing Y than doing Z", whereas competitive advantage is "X is better at doing Y than Z is at doing Y".

If you're not using it as jargon, then the fact that it is jargon might be confusing.
1. Preheat the PCB with common iron.
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Thank you for pointing that out. I'll fix that.
Nope. Horses obsolete, slow, hungry, disobedient. Future was in machines.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/when-people-in-the-1920s-and-1930s-i...
Trading 3 employees @ 333K for 1 employee @ 1M would increase organizational risk assuming equivalent value/productivity.

Much harder to lose 3 employees than it is to lose 1.
After my divorce I went over to a friends house and when he opened the door you could hear a women screaming in terror on the TV. I was in a bad emotional state and it was jarring and abrasive. I haven't willingly watched TV since. 25 years.
Ask HN: How to solve the pay inequality in Tech?
Hi fellow hackers,

A thread has been trending on Twitter about pay inequality in Tech since yesterday. Looking at the salaries that people are getting in tech especially in Bay Area, US and many parts of Europe, these salaries are pretty high, I would say 8-10 times what an engineer generally makes in other "not so developed" countries like India(I'm from India). Well of course the cost of living is significantly more in US and Europe. Still i feel there's a big gap in the salaries paid.

I feel it's very unfair for good engineers to get paid less. How do we solve this problem?

I have been thinking about remote work for sometime now. I've read some companies pay same salary regardless of location. I wonder how many companies actually do this. There's another option of freelancing through platforms like Toptal, Freelancer.in etc. However these options are not practical for an average engineer.

What other options are there through which a good developer can make same salary as that of an US engineer?
This is pretty impressive. Are there builds for a cli?
Yawn. The differential forms version is almost as compact (2 equations) and far more interpretable (if you understand connections and curvature).
The question is ambiguous and misleading or just simply nonsensical.

This sort of thing is sadly common in interviews, where the interviewer some arbitrary answer in mind and expects you to read his mind, which is possible only some of the time.

By definition you can't sort an infinite list. You've conveniently turned the question, in your mind, into something like "how do you efficiently maintain an ordered list of incoming items?"
When you say you stopped watching TV, do you mean you stopped watching linear television with commercials, or all visual entertainment?

Because if you mean the first thing, I stopped watching linear TV in 1999 when I got a Tivo.

I guess technically that's not true, I still watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune live with commercials. But other than that no linear TV.

Unless you count sports. Sometimes I watch live sports.

But other than that no.
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The whole idea of voting for someone to vote for someone on your behalf is stupid and unnecessary. The electoral college system and the district voting system are designed to allow gerrymandering and other unfair practices that all together result in the very obvious fact that 1 vote != 1 vote.
"I don't really care if my trip to Taco bell is automated."

Well, it would probably be a significant benefit to someone who is blind to be able to commute to work by themselves.
How about a DVR?
> a nation state has a monopoly on violence within its borders

But this isn’t unique to nation states.
What events correspond to the recent peaks in the chart? It looks like the VC world was spooked around the start of December and nothing has changed its mind ever since.

Given these are startups, I would expect much of the information to be private, but it seems highly unlikely this is a complete black box.

Edit: The comments below raise good possibilities. My own (very naïve) research yielded that there was a sharp dip in the the overnight repurchase agreements at the start of December and a small rise a month later. I don't think this is the cause, and I'm probably biased by media narrative more than anything, but it might lead somewhere assuming there's a connection by way of the amount of easy money floating around. The EFF rate also dropped around 24th of July and hasn't gone back up [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFF
One obvious answer may be controlled nuclear fusion. But then you realize that the manhatten project was not very expensive ($23B in todays money) compared to the current efforts on fusion like ITER ($20B).

Unpopolar opinion: Maybe the Manhatten-Project, the fission bomb, was actually not that difficult compared to other challenges that are ahead of us?
What can c do that rust can't?
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