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sorbet is relatively new and I've been avoiding ruby for the last two years
Today Elon Musk announced that Tesla is going to reach level-5 autonomy by the end of the year. Specifically

There are no fundamental challenges remaining for level-5 autonomy. There are many small problems. And then there's the challenge of solving all those small problems and then putting the whole system together. [0]

I feel like this year is going to be another year in which the proponents of brute-force AI like Elon and Sutton will learn a bitter lesson.

[0] https://twitter.com/yicaichina/status/1281149226659901441
How do you check eligibility?
When cars drive themselves, what happens to the road movie?
Links to personal sites/projects/github/whatever have been helpful to me.
>Pretty shocking in a state that has such strict privacy laws. Not sure how the two can come from the same mouth, and even be in public view.

Because they're not necessarily contradictory. This doesn't just give secret services a blank cheque to spy on everyone, it just provides intelligence agencies with a tool.

I'm German and I don't object in principle to the fact that intelligence, under supervision of the government, has the ability to say, infiltrate criminal networks using software like this. Under certain circumstances the police was always able to wiretap a phone, I don't see the difference here other than this taking into account the changing circumstances of internet communication.

Also from a cultural standpoint if anything people in Germany are more sceptic of erosion of privacy by private power than by the state, we're not the US. The former is pretty much unconstrained, the latter is so tightly limited in scope by law it's not really a practical issue. The scary thing about the Stasi wasn't that they were inteliigence, every country has intelligence officers who can bug someone's home, it was that the GDR was an autocratic regime.
But people routinely buy insurance, and it's considered a right and moral thing to do. Though the math is exactly the same as with the lottery. Statistically, odds are unfavorable. But it buys peace of mind, so people pay.
Mozilla letter to Amazon Ring: stop sharing information with police
Chauvinism has nothing to do with it. It's just raw objectivity.

Pride for any culture or race is a form of bias.
There is no single database at the scale reddit operates.
I would suggest making the business logic stateless methods ("functions") that take data records that are immutable passed between it.

That allows strict separation of all I/O from testable business logic.

If you can't separate pure logic from your I/O, it means you have a Russian-doll program that looks like:

readFromApi {

doSomeBusinessLogic{

writeToPersistence{

...

Instead of a pipeline like:

a <- readFromApi

b <- doBusinessLogic(a)

c <- writeToPersistence(b)

If you do things this way, you can always isolate your business logic from your dependencies.
> it can also mean very bad

this usage is definitely uncommon/archaic
Yes, its worth saying for context: The Nintendo Switch runs on an Nvidia ARM core.

They're capable of pretty great performance in the right contexts, and the industry definitely needs more consumer-accessible HPC-focused ARM competition what with Apple leading the charge on "everything to ARM". Microsoft has also shown interest, with the SPX, but we need processors more capable than what Qualcomm is producing; I'm hopeful Nvidia can help fill that gap in the next five years.
UNi's want to make sure you have the soft skills to complete the course as well as pure academics
Fortnite YouTubers Buy Mansion, Decorate It Like Sad Teenagers
in summary: Dunning Kruger, argot: slang for "slang"
Funny coming from Mint the worst distro security wise.
Is Remote Work Here to Stay?
I doubt the character of the journalist because of the disingenuous nature of his arguments, not the other way around.

To be clear, do you think Alexander actually intended to conceal a "creditable reason for negative coverage" by deleting his blog? If so, why didn't he e.g. request deletion from the Internet Archive, to at least make the reporter's job noticeably harder? In any case, Alexander surely understands how the Streisand effect works, and that a big public gesture that makes information slightly less available (but still available with modest effort) tends to disseminate that information, not conceal it. So do you really think that was his goal?

And do you think the journalist really believed what he wrote? I don't, and I think he was disingenuously reaching for stuff to smear Alexander with. I think that's ugly.

Finally, I didn't intend to express anger in my last paragraph. I intend to express caution, that anyone dealing with a journalist should consider the possibility that the journalist is out to cause them serious personal harm. This is true regardless of whether that's deliberate and targeted based on their opinions (which I suspect, based on the inconsistent application of the NYT's policy on anonymity, but which I agree no one can prove), or just out of habit (which is fairer I suppose, but doesn't make the harm any less).
Elon Musk announcing something doesn't make it true
I imagine it's easier and cheaper for Moft to throw customer support at these types of problems than to solve them. Which, honestly, is probably better than offering better products with no support at all (Google, where even the products aren't necessarily better)
Is this similar to doing something like `rails db:schema:load` and then `rails db:seed`? i.e. set a brand new db to a certain schema + preload a set of fixtures into it?
Luxon is great.

Also, if you find you only really need one or maybe two date time utilities, date-fns [1] is an alternative that that takes an even more modular approach for tinier imports.

[1] https://date-fns.org/
This is sort of what I've done with some success in developing games. Games in general are grossly under-tested, but there are a few good reason for that. Lots of systems can be effectively tested by just playing, and often it's tough to tease out as small of units for useful isolated testing as you would in other types of programs.

What I've been doing is writing as many parts of the game as libraries as is possible, and then implementing the minimal possible usage of that library as a semi-automated test. For instance, our collision system is implemented as a library, and you can load up a "game" that has the simplest possible renderer, no sound, basic inputs, etc. and has a small world you can run around in that's filled with edge cases. This was vastly easier than trying to write automated tests for 3d collision code, and you get the benefit of testing the system in isolation, if not automatically. For other libraries like networking, the tests are much more automated, but they poke the library as a unit, rather than testing all the little bits and pieces individually.
Don't fool yourself - both sides think the other is guilty of this.
NeurIPS, 2020: "We need more sample-efficient algorithms for finding better hyperparameters that specify how to train computationaly expensive deep learning models."

Rich Sutton, 2019: "The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781400)

I wonder if in the end simply throwing more and more computation at the problem of finding good hyperparameters will end up working better as computation continues to get cheaper and cheaper.
Indeed, in terms of scale it does allow access to a larger pool! But the reality is that even good candidates, on a given day can perform bad on these platforms - and that becomes the basis for the initial impressions. How many people would be willing to take up the next round of interview for a candidate who might have otherwise performed bad on these platforms ?

Also, on the contrary, these platforms are used to eliminate a majority of "unpromising" candidates. It's just the easy way out for recruiters - outsourcing filtering mechanisms.

As such the hiring problem is multi-layered. Programming is just one aspect of software engineering. Well designed software requires wearing multiple hats and requires thinking which novice programmers lack.

When you make hiring a sport, you are likely to find more gamers of the platform than real problem solvers.

Just read the comments on this article for the general feeling amongst experienced developers : https://dev.to/raddevon/hackerrank-is-teaching-you-to-write-...
I only wear one set of shoes at a time, so tracking their distance is quite a bit easier. If I needed to track multiple sets at a time, I’d be lost without something like Strava. My last 3 pairs (same brand/style) I’ve retired around the 380-400 mile mark, which is about as far as I trust the treads.
You're downvoted, but I agree. It's unfortunate, but that is why I say that discipline or an enforced style guide is required.
"I will personally pay $100 to anyone who can make this without a bug and passes every case out there. But if they take up the offer and fail, they have to pay me $1000"
I’m a little confused why that is relevant. Is there any payment in life that isn’t taxed?

When you interview for a job, and the salary is 100k, should they advertise it as 70k?
Speak for yourself, don't speak on behalf of 1 billion.
Ask HN: How to Measure a Teams' Performance?
In an environment with many cross-functional (product) teams with defined mission metrics (per quarter), how would you measure their performance?

I want to start suggesting ways of working as best practices (things like scoping, doing spikes, having regular retrospectives, etc) but how would you measure the effect that these could possibly have?
I looked up his name a few weeks ago after the blog was brought down. It took be a couple of days to find it and even then I only found it because I've seen him in person. People here are discussing tracking down his old blog through archive.org, but I didn't think to do that. So, 'minimal investigation' is a relative term.
War is hell...

and all of those things
I know multiple stories from just my family of people who only got adequate help through persistence of their family member or significant other.

Though I am from Poland and I don't consider Poland to have adequate medical system.

When you are really bad you may not be able to explain to medical staff what is going on. There are cases in life threatening condition that are misdiagnosed as drunk. You need a family member to tell the medical staff that no, they are absolutely positively sure you are not drunk.
I think it's orthogonal question, right? Even if there were some mistakes, how many more death there would have been if they were not thinking about rigorous process behind ML development?
Tom Scott has a great video about time and timezones on Computerphile: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY
Computer games is software art which has most chance to survive in ever obsolete tech race. You can proudly show your works to your kids and grandkids and they may have fun from it. Next and somehow related are emulators of old hardware/OSes.
When I order delivery from a restaurant, an employee (maybe the owner’s kid) comes and delivers the food directly to my house when it’s done. It‘s generally faster than the app model where you need to wait for the driver to go to the restaurant to pick up the food, then come to your house while possibly stopping at other restaurants and/or houses on the way.

I could see how the restaurant delivery would be worse if that particular restaurant is bad at delivering. Also, the app model does seem like it should be cheaper at scale by using the deliverer’s labor more efficiently.
Sounds like AP testing, which is required for most competitive institutions.
> I wrote unit tests >10 years ago for formatting a string for postal codes that I know are still run to this day on every commit because if they get it wrong there is legal recourse for the company that owns that system.

If it's critical for your business I'd categorize that as business logic, not plumbing code, well deserving of unit test coverage.
This is enraging. Identity theft in the United States can be a headache, sure, but in most cases the financial institutions are the ones taking the brunt of the damage, and even that is probably covered by some sort of insurance scheme. This woman had her entire life stripped away from her, not to mention making her doubt her own abilities by implying she “failed” the exam.

How do these people live with themselves, especially the daughter of the CCP official who assumed the stolen identity? I’m sure financial criminals justify their behavior by telling themselves that in the end corporations suffer the cost of the theft, but in this case a single individual was forced to bear the brunt of this fraud for the rest of her life considering how important and life altering a good exam score is in China.

It boggles the mind that people can live with themselves and can carry on living with such guilt. Then again, maybe it’s my western sense of morality that tells me the perpetrator should feel guilt. Perhaps they don’t...
Interesting, to be honest I was expecting the thesis to be along the lines of "people cannot write because they cannot think clearly". It seems to be that with so many distractions and information overload, the science and art of thinking and articulating ideas clearly are considered as less important.

Edit: I also feel (highlighting "feel", since I don't have data to back this statement) that people tend to read less structured and long content than before (as opposed to tweet-like content and short click-bait articles). Not sure how this influences how society thinks and writes.
I am not surprised and pretty much expected. I would love to be wrong and corrected but there is absolutely nothing that suggest Intel's FPGA ( Altera ) are doing any better than before they were acquired, and no signs to suggest future growth either. If anything they are actually doing worst all while Xilinx is storming past them.

As a matter of fact I have yet to see a single Intel Acquisition in its history that has created synergy or additional value.
Trying would be dangerous, a lot of people go from who cares about them to why are you taking my money for them.
> For any given website, more likely than not they would want the Internet Archive to archive it.

I really don't think you can make that assertion without asking the maintainer of the website.

AND if that's the case, IA can either reach out to the maintainer via the email address gotten from the public WHOIS data OR the maintainer can easily go to the IA website and opt in!
Location: Boston, MA
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Senior QA Engineer with 12 years of experience in software testing lookign for contract or full-time work.
Rasterize your content or serve SVG?
My own anecdote is about the same, except in my ZFS-based NAS, I've had one WD drive fail. It was a WD Green though, so no surprise.
How do you think warring tribes treated each other? You are aware that some proportion of native tribes kept both native and black (and probably white to a lesser extent) slaves, right?

It's also interesting that you choose the word "theft" as though the natives even had a concept for land ownership. Seems people are too eager to view history through a modern moral lense these days.
This is one of the most intense HN nerdsnipes I've seen in a while, reminds me of code reviews :P

TL;DR: google.com -> define ad hominem -> "(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining" -> go back to the quote we're arguing about, it reads: "so the reporter is either stupid or disingenuous" -> looks like those are words directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining

y'all are mistaking doing a technical word by word breakdown of an argument and picking which words are which logical fallacies with, well, the definition of ad hominem
Look at the attacks on various human rights activists- those are using the same exploits that jailbreaks use.

Fixing bugs used to attack people means fixing bugs used for jailbreaks. There isn’t some magical mechanism by which a jailbreak exploit isn’t exploitable but anyone else.
There is a case to not store a time in UTC: you schedule a meeting in the future and the local authorities change when they start DST in that location. Now your user gets the alert an hour too early or late for their meeting. The scenario is more fleshed out in the link below but I don't want to just copy and paste the article into the comment.

http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future...
Hugo Blog!
Depending on your specific needs [0], a lot of date localization can be done (painfully, but possibly) directly with Browser Intl [1] calls instead of a library.

[0] Current user's current locale is easy. If for some reason you need to show some other locale than what the browser is using you'll likely still need Moment or Globalize.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Indeed, running the Flash plugin is just the first use case of our tech.
For the record I have a brother living on a native reservation. I am well aware of exactly how horrible our past and continuing treatment of the natives have been. And strongly support fixing our ongoing treatment of them.

However I also strongly believe that our future prosperity is based more on current actions than past circumstances. And therefore believe that attempts to redress long past ills are actively harmful to us as a society. And furthermore believe that a focus on long past harms on the part of groups who were victimized is actively harmful to the people who are focused on the past.

And therefore I believe that there should be some sort of statute of limitations on which past harms we are willing to try to redress. I don't support trying to redress ills from over a century ago whether we are talking about restoring native reservations, or paying reparations for slavery. If you go back far enough, we all were done wrong to by someone else. And usually you don't have to go back too far to find it.

For example it was less than 100 years ago that my Irish grandparents were targeted by the KKK in a part of Oregon where my cousins still live. I know because my now deceased aunt and uncles told me about it. Many descendants of the KKK members still live in the same place.

On a side note, it is a little shocking to me that so many support a decision in favor of a man who was convicted of sodomizing a 4 year old child.
I mean by this logic the food delivery services are also proven not to work based on the ridiculous fees for a commodity service.
I think that both the New Yorker reporter and Alexander know that deleting the blog will not meaningfully impede people from accessing it who want to access it. I think that the reporter's claim that deleting it might impede people looking for dirt in past posts and Alexander's claim that deleting it might protect his practice and his patients are both far-fetched although not completely impossible.
Gorsuch is a joy to read because he mixes in history with some interesting side comments.
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Without reading the article, I would answer a resounding "yes."

Dogs can be trained to smell _cancer._ That is mind-bogglingly cool.
You're literally justifying genocide.
Deliveroo already does something a little like that:

https://foodscene.deliveroo.co.uk/promotions/deliveroo-editi...

They take existing, established chefs or restaurants and clone the cuisine so that the food can be produced in a larger kitchen, potentially reaching a wider delivery area.
Damn I never wanted to go to Arkansas before, now I do!
...oh, and I hope you know whether your customer is Israeli or Palestinian!

https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/
TikTok is having technical issues internationally
(Note: I haven't read the article yet; I'm just commenting on general writing practices)

It's the responsibility of the person trying to gather and present disparate ideas to synthesize them into a coherent conclusion. This is often hard work, and failing to do so diminishes the effectiveness of the rest of the piece.
Nobody is being prideful, your logic is shoddy. Your hypothesis and the null hypothesis both lead to the same observation. To disprove the null you have to actually observe non-Chinese not cheating. Given that half the comments here are people complaining about something similar happening in their own countries, the evidence points towards the null hypothesis.

(I'm an albino black Jew from Mars)
Does this need to be a law really?
I'm not sure strings are easier. When to use mutable vs. immutable strings has a significant performance impact, how do you manage memory for them (including when do you copy strings vs work with a slice) are all questions where there's at least 3-4 distinct designs that you might want (a C like language, a C++-like language, a Rust-like language, and a GC'd language).

In contrast, for dates and times, everyone really could have used the same design. Maybe you'd need a slightly different design for dynamic languages, but I'm not even sure about that.
Perhaps you could link directly to evidence of your FDIC insurance policy?
Do you know if this means that the land on which buildings are built could be taxed by the tribes?

I live in the desert in CA and here most buildings built on Indian reservations pay a yearly leasing fee.

It would be such a huge power shift for the tribal nations. It's one of those things that could ripple through the system or hit some stone wall I'm unaware of. Really interested to know what will happen.
The political disagreements within states are a lot less intense than the political disagreements between states. Maryland is a solidly blue state at the federal level. But we have a Republican governor with a 78% approval rating who won a third of Black voters against a Black candidate in 2018.
A 5 year warranty means:

the expected failure rate over 5 years, times

the percentage of customers who claim warranty on those drives, times

the future price of an equivalent drive

is less than their general profit margin on the drive.

Let's say that the price is $600, the marginal cost of a drive is $400, and the expected 5 year failure rate is a whopping 20%, with 50% of buyers claiming warranty.

That allocates $40 of costs over the next five years to warranted replacement, against a current profit of $200.
It sounds like we would ideally have a geographical heat-map overlaid on to every county in America that was per-capita based.

Then, even small numbers in an initial outbreak are meaningful because you aren’t dividing by the population of the world.

This would also let local policy makers and citizens gauge risk levels.

It seems to me that the media scared everyone in the country in March/April based on what was happening in NYC, and now people are numb to any recommendations.

This miscommunication cost us dearly.
Its pretty universal, mainly because of the Federal requirements, that its based on blood quantum. Most tribes are 1/4 some are 1/8.

Having Ancestry dot com or similar service tell you anything is not accepted by any tribe.
The newsworthiness is not that she would have a reddit account. It's that she would have one of the 10 most prolific reddit accounts.
What will be interesting to see is how Redis fares without Antirez.

He was the heart and soul of the project.

It also makes me think, what would Linux be when Linus decides to step away? I kind of don't want to think about it.

Thank you to Antirez for all your hard work on Redis.