skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. It looks like this man has no idea what the free software spirit is. I mean, he definitely hasn't, as he's talking about "exit value“. Still, he's writing that with HTML, using SSL and TCP, on a PHP website probably running on Nginx or Apache on a Linux server with a postgresql database... Opensource is what allows him to talk to people or even create his business he is so proud of that he gives advices to everybody, yet he encourages everyone to not join the game. If open source has some problem, it's certainly because of people like him.
> If you have production outages resulting from new code you have serious gaps in your certification process

If you have production outages every week, yeah. But no organization is free of production outages. When they do happen (I said when, not if) it matters a lot if you used standard libraries, code that is plugged into the infrastructure, and the like, and not hand-rolled cowboy code
Also known as lowering your expectations.
I had a critical acute stressor a few years ago, I wont describe the situation, but the symptoms were:

- panic attacks

- waking up into a panic attack; imagine sleeping, then waking hyperventilating, shivering, and for lack of a better word "freaking out"

- sleep disturbances

- periodic severe emotional disturbance

- inability to remove the stressors, and critically, I had to increase the stressors involved as it was time critical

I was able to take two weeks off from work, and I took escitalopram.

I didn't find escitalopram to be ... a game changer, but it did allow me to "decide" how I was going to feel, and if I felt I was going to have a panic attack, I could head that off through feedback and self aware thinking.
I think the implicit assumption is that you are doing the majority of the development, and you want to make money from licensing, and you want to be the only one making money from your product. So basically, the plan is to make money exactly like a proprietary software company would make money, except that you make the product open source for marketing.

I never understood why people thought that was a good idea. People like Open Source because they don't want to depend on a single vendor, and yet these companies want to be the only vendor of their Open Source solution. It doesn't make sense.
San Francisco is one of CA’s most conservative cities when it comes to housing
The US built one dual use reactor at Hanford. The N Reactor generated weapons plutonium starting in 1963 and it also generated 800 MW of electricity from 1966 on. It shut down in 1987.

https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/NReactor

But as you say it was not the norm in the US.
The more people you enfranchise, like democracy, the more values shift. This is the new normal.
> They believe that lidar sensors will be indispensable to get early self-driving vehicles on the road.

I agree with this assessment. It seems to me that lidar has a consistency in its ability to detect objects that computer vision based techniques just don't have. While cameras may eventually be able to achieve the same thing, I would argue that lidar will always be as safe or safer, and for that reason I think it will be the only acceptable version if self driving breaks out in the next few years.
Not having a formal cs background, the comments on HN that wax about predicate calculus and algebras always raise questions for me.

Is it a higher plane of programmer thinking or just abstract technical jargon and ideas that are suited for hard core technical cs research but bear little value in practical programming tasks?

Like knowing the Latin names and full phylogenic tree and exact relation of humans to the animal snuffling outside when all most people need to know is whether it’s a small animal like a raccoon or is large like a grizzly bear.

Like in the course of writing a feature engineering pipeline, tuning a ML model, and then deploying it as an api or as a scheduled batch predictor for another pipeline, at what point should one start thinking of parts of this in terms of “1st order predicate calculus” during the day to day tasks?

At what point in working on a feature card does someone generally think of relational algebra?

What tools don’t respect these things? What will happen by using them?

Like can anyone give an ELI5 of the day to day use of explicitly using these concepts to guide average programming tasks?
> Apple Watch not identifying the heart rate of black people

Do you have a credible source for this claim? The one I found—from 2015 [1]—corrected the bit about skin color in their reporting but retained the bit about how Apple Watches can fail to work due the kind of pigment typically used for tattoos.

Perhaps you misremembered and should have mentioned Fitbit [2]?

1: https://qz.com/394694/people-with-dark-skin-and-tattoos-repo...

2: https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/24/fitbit-accuracy-dark-ski...
Counter argument: the Linux kernel. (Since we are mentioning open source projects with the highest profile on earth, I don't think neither of the examples are fair)
They used SHA-256 and SHA-512. I am furious right now.
Because universities have teachers that haven't spent six years in industry to learn these things, and they pass on their unsupported-by-real-world-experience ideas to their students.
Category theorist: What is the universal property for “realness”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_property
But with 8kb zipped (I assume that following pages aren't that much worse) why should one optimize with a solution that adds that much complexity?

I believe that shaving a few additional kb from this already low number isn't worth the proposed complexity.

But this is a tradeoff that everybody has to decide for themselves.
All Delta Chat messages have the "Chat-Version" header. For more specifications see https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/blob/master...
Respecting your edit: $75k is $6.5k/mo, which gives you $1820/mo for a mortgage. That's not enough for a large home in an expensive area, but it's plenty in most of the US.
Inlining is a measured risk. If your CSS is sufficiently small, and the number of pages per visit is low, it's still faster than cached CSS.
It’s mostly like taking an Uber, but I think the future will have many more instant-car users, since it is so convenient in major cities.

There are benefits of course, a self driving taxi could show up configured to your exact specifications, would probably be a more standard/reliable experience than Uber, no need to interact with people if you don’t feel like it, and no need to consider them either. Play loud music or sit in silence. Make a private call. Sleep.

Relatively minor benefits in the big picture but it’s mainly that I don’t see Apple hiring a bunch of drivers, so I think a self driving fleet could be the dream. They’re big on UX control, kinda their signature.
> But I don't see any path that gets there without a self-driving singularity to allow for humanless valet movement between "users."

Is self-driving really that unlikely? It probably won't be ready for another 10 years, but Apple probably won't be looking to launch this until then either.
Ask HN: Why did Anonymous Remailers disappear?
> 2. The bulk of metadata protection on Signal comes down to trust in SGX, which indeed is an entirely broken technology and keys can be extracted from it via a number of side channels if there is sufficient motivation, such as a government trying to track down dissenting views, or a future owner of Signal that secretly is willing to cooperate with a state actor. Intel also could, if ordered, also issue a microcode update intentionally compromising the RNG used for keys, etc. Signal places a huge centralized target on its back so I think these risks are plausible and worth being aware of.

Question: are you talking about address book protection, right? Because I don't wee how SGX would be required for protecting 1-to-1 chats -- keypairs for identity management and PFS-compatible encryption would suffice for that.
Hi OP here

You definitely need to learn Kana beforehand. It used to be specified but I decided to remove it a while ago.
I’m not sure if I feel easy about this “statistic” - deaths per mile?? These are humans, and more importantly to the business - paying customers.

If my product has the possibility of killing my customer, I’d probably not be comfortable with making it market ready (without massively improving its safety features).
And I guess this is where I go into full old lady "get off my lawn" mode and mention that I still remember when forums used WWWBoard and its clones (anyone remember CyBoard or VIPBoard?) that provided full comment threading. Any comment can be directly replied to and have its own tree of comments. Like... well, like HN, or Reddit.

I really thought forums lost something when UBB and its clones (vBulletin, phpBB, etc.) became dominant, because those systems only let top-level posts have replies. So you just had forum -> subforums -> posts -> non-threaded stream of comments under each post. It was honestly awful, and for much of the 00s forums just became a chore to read and participate in. And it really seemed to bring the worst out of people and of moderation policies: like, back in the WWWBoard days, if you wanted to respond to multiple comments on a thread, you'd reply individually to those comments, and they'd be threaded in the proper position. But on a UBB forum, if you replied individually to comments like that, half the forum would scream their eyes out at you for "double posting" and often the moderators would threaten to ban you if you did it again. And it also meant that any time an argument would start in a post's comments, that argument would take over any and all discussion under that post. In a WWWBoard system, the argument would be segregated into its own subthread and normal discussion can happen in other replies, but UBB didn't allow that. And when you have megathreads, a lot of times they just devolve into everyone just saying their piece and nobody having any real back-and-forth discussion (and honestly "megathreads" are something that didn't exist at all until UBB came around, because WWWBoard and its clones had no concept of bumping or sticky threads: every post was displayed in descending chronological order with no way to reorder anything)

Honestly, I jumped for joy when Reddit took over as the de facto Internet-wide forums system, because it finally meant we got to have real threads again.
I think this is similar to what happened in Fukushima, where the original architects of the Daiichi plant suggested building a much higher protective wall against tsunamis, but were forced to build a lower wall because such a catastrophic tsunami was deemed too improbable. (Then it came, of course.)
I think a lot of people overestimate how much of a cost uplift comes from having a ~minimum wage driver piloting the vehicle. Been a while since I looked at the numbers but say you could cut the prices of an Uber by about 50% per mile--which is the ballpark number--how many people would give up their cars outside of dense cities if they haven't already done so. (Assuming they can buy autonomous vehicles themselves.)
You seem to care about whether the messaging provider knows your phone number / email address... but that simply isn't the attacker model most people have: they want the people they are talking to to not have their real phone number / real email address, and couldn't care less if Telegram or Snapchat or Google or even Facebook knows who they are taking to; essentially, they want a trusted provider to protect them against untrustable contacts, not to speak with their trusted contacts using an untrustable provider. Now, can you solve for both of these problems at the same time? I think so--and maybe Three.ma is exactly that!--but Signal doesn't seem to care, as they have a somewhat strange model of how people chat. The question, then, is mostly about how well the application supports creating unrelated accounts / aliases: what you really want is just some kind of separate user identifier (such as you get with Three.ma, or with services like Wire/Kik); but, barring that (as federation makes that weirdly hard), email addresses are way better than phone numbers, as it is way way easier to get throwaway email addresses--even ones from unrelated hosting companies--than throwaway phone numbers.
Haha well are you're working on anything interesting?
I would think 5 billion people living in some sort of balance with the environment would better be able to explore space than 50 billion people living in some sort of environmental/climate hellscape.
Why is it irrational to stay private? Going public constrains you with oversight and public shareholder demands.

If you can get access to capital without public shareholders, you absolutely should.
Lots of Nvidia SoCs in cars too, Tesla's being one example.
A full discussion on this would require an article several times as long as this one as well as some understanding of how vehicle control systems work. I do a fair amount of work with OEMs in this space and to summarize it in a horribly short way:

1) A system that relies primarily on cameras is necessarily limited by camera constraints. No, just because humans primarily rely on vision does not mean an ML model with cameras can do the same and achieve the same results in situations as complex as urban driving.

2) Every major player other than Tesla in this space spends a huge amount of time architecting an entire computing, data exchange, and control platform for autonomous vehicles that is bulky by necessity, but far more robust both in terms of sensor capabilities and ability to cross-check between data inputs to decide what control signals to send. Tesla basically added some cameras and low-resolution radar (they're improving the radar now, but it sure as hell wasn't in the platform they originally promised was FSD-ready) and is hoping it will be enough when everyone else studied the capabilities years ago and decided it wasn't.

To summarize, what Tesla has built is a platform with capabilities that very strongly seem to be limited to Level 3 automation, while engineers working on Level 4 long ago concluded that the Tesla approach is insufficient, and then adjusted their own hardware and software strategies accordingly.
The Fediverse is more than Mastodon and should not be conflated with Mastodon's implementation of ActivityPub.
How does this manifest in costs? Is it noticeable?

And does rain rate mean the frequency of distinct rain events over hours/days or the intensity of a single rainfall?

Just curious, maybe you can shed some light on this
In addition, visibility may participate in animations. In particular we can delay the transition of visibility to false, but not of display to hidden. So it is very helpful in some pure-CSS disappearance animations, such as fading out a modal's background overlay.
You then also need to work out the ramifications of the change.

Eg if motion 39 amend section y to x - Therefore 9.3(iii) is removed and renumber section 9.3, these are the Consequentials and should also be included.
With subsidies I could make a profit in 15 years. But I don't want to make a plan that stretches that long, and that's a best case scenario (assuming no damages, expensive failures).

So while I can get 100% renewable from the grid, I'll stick with that, at least until an installation can pay for itself in just a few years.
Phantom braking and similar issues are a full stop for me, no pun intended. That just seems fantastically dangerous given that so many drivers don’t pay much attention when they don’t expect you to brake. Seems like a recipe for full speed rear end collisions.

Tesla may make this stuff work eventually but it doesn’t seem safe at the moment and you can count me out.
Seriously. Programmers making >> $100k hem and haw about upgrading a tool they use 10 hours a day. It's worth it to upgrade for $100 even if you use it for a week, let alone 6 months.
coffee cups say "be careful this is hot", but the regulator allows a product called "Full Self Driving" to be sold - I think ultimately consumer protection will step in here like it has in Germany [0]

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot-germany/g...
This article explains it: https://medium.com/dev-genius/detroit-and-london-schools-of-...
There is no analysis whatsoever about that why [...] (actually the article says as much if you scroll all the way to the bottom)

I'm confused about why you left your first assertion in place since you went on to acknowledge it wasn't factual.
That seems optimistic, the M1s were already discounted $65-150 earlier this month. I think the decider here would be simply having an M1 if your workloads benefit from it.
Salt is also useful for things other than eating it, and more of those uses may be cost-effective if salt were more plentiful.
CarPlay (don't know about Google's system) is a huge upgrade over car manufacturers' systems. Still wouldn't cause me to sell my 10 yo vehicle with <70K miles though.
they don't do world news?

edit: they do, https://www.bbc.com/news/world
Even if there are, they still get a lot less data since they only see what you posted publicly. Unlike Twitter/Facebook, scrapers won't see your every mouse movement, how long you stare at any individual post, or any other of the more invasive tracking opportunities that are available to Twitter/Facebook.

The scraping services also won't know your email address unless you post it publicly or they figure it out some other way, so they'll find it much harder to associate the data they scrape with your other online identities, too. This also makes the data less valuable to advertisers, so I imagine there's less incentive to scrape it.
I skimmed the paper, not its citations, so maybe some details are already explained in those sources.

But, I'm not sure of several things.

First, are these effects solely because the lack of minerals? If you drink water with a non-empty stomach, would that still be a problem? Or is it that pure water has some "magical" property that I hadn't thought of?

Second, anecdotally, I find distilled water to taste better. I've drunk tap water, boiled water, and distilled water side by side, and I prefer distilled.

Third, the longer term changes, can they be remedied if you take supplements or mineral-rich diet?
You’re probably right, but doesn’t Apple kind of seem like a company that would be well positioned to reduce all these issues for a luxury price? Well, perhaps besides moralist issues, if the App Store is any indication.
At least here in CA, if you are on the grid but don't have a battery then you will go black with everyone else even if you have solar. This is a safety measure for the technicians from the electrical company fixing the issue. According to another comment the additional cost of a battery is between $6,000 to $10,000.
DOM, but a single div element per column. So no <tr><td> DOM.
People can die. Honestly in my opinion it’s worth it. Will it happen to me? No, because I’m extra cautious and won’t slack off but to make progress quickly these things must be done. If you really want to be hyper cautious, you can always make the case that it’s saving lives that would otherwise be lost.
All the photos he posted were from Slab City. I was just there around October, truly a strange place
> And that statement is emblematic of the problem. I'm immediately lumped into "right wing" by people like you because I challenged the narrative you believe. I'm not a right winger, and that "counter-factual" isn't right wing either. It's real.

You may not be right wing, but you're repeating several right-wing memetic shibboleths around COVID and other things, so don't be surprised at the confusion.

Also, you're trying to re-litigate stuff that got settled months ago without actually adding anything new to the discussion, which is tiring.
A lidar would have discovered that truck immediately.

Is is confirmed that this Tesla was using self-driving?
> Are Sydney and/or Auckland emptying out?
Sydney and Auckland aren't, but Melbourne (in the State of Victoria) is, which endured highly restrictive lock downs for 7-9 months.

From friends and family there, it sounds like apartments in the Melbourne CBD (aka. Downtown / City Centre) are effectively ghost towns, with tenants leaving the city, while still paying rent, and rated rental prices dropping by 25%. The general sentiment seems to be that no-one is interested in being forced into close proximity in home & work situations like you'd find on public transport and apartment blocks. So free standing houses, townhouses with separate entrances are at a massive premium.

From friends and family in New Zealand, it's hard to tell, because the already over-priced and rising market is reaching utterly insane levels, potentially (disclaimer: anecdotal based speculation here) driven by New Zealanders returning home from overseas from countries that are now seen as unsafe.

[0] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-... - Graph: "Residential property prices, quarterly percentage change, September quarter 2020"
seriously - what is the problem with 'underpopulation'?

just the fact the the financial system is structured around infinite growth?
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You really should work impressive examples! If I right-click the mini thumbnails to read them, my browser guides me to https://cvservant.com/static/cvtemplates/thumbs/cyber.png which is anything but a good academic CV.

Furthermore, the overall website looks a bit like 1995, but that's of course a matter of taste. The fees are hidden somewhere in the lengthy text https://cvservant.com/cv/more/ -- this is almost a "dark pattern" and definetly not transparent.

Furthermore, sharing CVs is advertised at https://cvservant.com/cv/sharing/ but again, I don't see any examples of CVs shared on this site.
Note that grading of translations is impossible for them to do without a model that maps arbitrary English to a semantic representation.

I believe IBM actually implemented something like this as part of their "Watson" efforts, but there's certainly not a public solution around.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to offer useful translation exercises, though. It means it's impossible to use a computer to grade them. If you, as the student, are willing to ignore whether you get marked "right" or "wrong", you get the full value of the instruction -- you make the attempt, Duolingo tells you what the sentence meant, and even though Duolingo can't tell whether your sentence meant the same thing, you can.
I should have expressed this in a more clear way: the most interesting thing to understand for me here is the non-technical aspect of different jobs. It is not specifically about embedded, just more systems and low level than working with (as opposed to implementing from scratch) APIs, workers, queues, DBs.

To rephrase the original question: it is not easy to imagine an "Agile" approach to a kernel/network or other kind of systems programming. I would be glad to know there is a chance for a more natural, R&D driven development and bit less fuss about corporate "values".

Thanks guys. Your answers provide some really good and unexpected insights!
I feel like it's to each their own, but I was never one for socialising or tooling around (I have Aspergers too), I am definitely more productive since full remote and asynchronous communication became the norm, my code quality is equal or better, and my time it takes to complete a story has dropped heavily.

I'm entirely confident that work is extracting more value from me for the same wage - and thus I don't feel bad about it.

It's also nice to not have multiple-hour commute in a completely packed metal tube with standing room only.

What they paid hasn't changed, but they get more value out of me than before (removing the constant interruptions, people always behind me, loud typing, the only thing for lunch being 8 different kale salad bars for $25 each with lines out the door, hours of commute wasted).

I mentally "stay later" because I don't need to leave early to catch the train right before peak hours that isn't so packed there is no room to board.