skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps presenting the for-profit system with more profitable uses for the space is the way out, for better or worse. For example, Louisiana has filled empty space with ICE detainees at a higher rate per resident. Something to take into account with reform.
Here's the thing. Most food doesn't deliver well. So what delivers well? Pizza, Wings, Subs. and some Chinese food. Who already has their own delivery drivers usually. And when they do they run 3 and 4 deliveries at a time. way more efficient.

Right now the dynamic has a lot of power towards the delivery services. So, restaurants will subsidize some of the delivery cost to sell the food. But in a few months a lot of the restaurants are going to be crowded as F. because there are less restaurants to compete with. So, most deliveries are going to cost $7 plus tip or more. and it won't be as good as right from the restaurant.

And I see some of the service really pushing their own shadow stores because they can make profit off that.
I wonder whether its possible to transplant the bacteria out before such a treatment and introduce them again later..
It seems like for TVs, it's more that you get a better TV for your money, not that people are spending less on them? A cursory Google search suggests $500-$1,000 was the norm in the 90s, and that seems to be about what people are spending these days too. I can find a nice 24 inch one for $100, but I expect you could find cheaper TVs in the 90s too.

(http://www.tvhistory.tv/tv-prices.htm)
The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life and argues that the notion that every individual has a sexuality is a relatively recent development in Western societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Sexuality
That is my conclusion as well. I have tried Autopilot and it's basically as good and useful as any modern lane steering and cruise control system out there.
Companies are always willing do do anything in their power to attract good employees, short of raising wages.
A lot of really insightful and disturbing stories in the comments here about discrimination in hiring. To bring them all together and improve, what hiring practices have you observed that have really worked well?

(Particularly interested in responses from often-marginalized individuals)
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I agree and think the timing is everything - When you are the first one responding to a job request, your chances of winning increase considerably. We are doing this with an internal tool at Light-it (the agency I run) which has been paying off really well. It notifies us via Slack of the best opportunities for our business.

In case anyone is interested in reading how: https://lightit.io/blog/how-we-are-using-technology-to-hunt-...

PS: I think this should not be in the Ask section.
AI learns from brain signals to create personalized attractive faces
>It's not malicious, it's just a fact of how these things work

While I agree it's not malicious, I'd say the reason it works this way is that there is a financial incentive to have it work this way.
> Invite the minorities to boot camps, coaching and mentoring programmes and so on... But subject them to the regular interview process and hiring bar.

That's not affirmative action. That's like giving free SAT prep to disadvantaged minorities. Affirmative action is further down the line, moving the bar for test/interview results to hit targets.

Which is not to say Google doesn't do it, just that the programs you're describing aren't it.
[dupe] further discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26365579
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961242867/the-worlds-biggest-...
That seems to confirm what the article said. The first email appears to be dated December 20, 2019 from the CA DMV to Tesla.

Here's the original email sent to Tesla:

> Subject: Announcement of Full Self Driving Feature.

> Al we’ve seen press reports that Mr. Musk announced on Twitter that a “Tesla holiday software update has FSD sneak preview...” Many people generally translate “FSD” to be “full self-driving.” Is Tesla releasing a full self-driving software update to any California Tesla owners? As you are aware, the deployment of autonomously driven vehicles on public roads in California requires a permit to deploy. At this time Tesla does not have a permit to deploy. Please provide an update on what this announcement for the deployment of the feature means in terms of autonomous operation on public roads in California?

I don't see anywhere where Tesla are seeking approval, quite the opposite in fact. Tesla are saying they shouldn't be required to seek approval for "City Streets."
If you can barely store a box in a storage slot, increasing the space doesn't allow you to store more boxes.

You can't really assume a 100% packing rate along with increasing x dimension by y% meaning you can store y% more stuff
> They're very articulate that they're not competing with Google in any shape or form :)

They can say that all they want, but it doesn’t make it true.

In many ways it’s a pretty odd denial.

It seems pretty likely that in the absence of Gmail, Hey would have a bigger market.
It's plenty possible, but few have the desire to put in that much work as they get older. There are people who play at near-GM-level strength in tournaments reflected in their single tournament evaluations, but don't play enough to obtain 2500+ rating or score enough GM norms in major tournaments.

There's a even a guy from Russia who is 2550ish rating and isn't even an IM because he hasn't scored enough norms, and is 3000+ bullet/blitz on Chesscom, which is incredibly elite.

Someone picking up chess at age 25 could certainly become a GM. They just usually don't have the desire for it.
Just another instance of VCs pumping money into a bad but appealing idea and propping it up indefinitely at the expense of society at large. This kind of investment really needs to be more closely regulated - the businesses never even have to be successful for the investors to profit as long as they go public in time to leave retail investors holding the bag before the crash.
> keep hydrated

And I should have said, keep your electrolytes up.
People react to many different things that are said or done to them. Many people use 'discrimination' as the cause. I will give you one example many hi-tech company's in the USA hire a people of the same heritage or culture - is that discrimination. If you say yes then many white people should put a class action lawsuit against all the non-white companies operating in silicon valley.
Interesting. Now that you mention this, it makes sense. It worked as an offline MP3 player before if I remember correctly. Quite unfortunate that they decided to remove this functionallity as well with the update.
Tesla shills here are good at turning fraud in to saving the planet.
Porsche increases stake in Rimac Automobili to 24 percent
Absolutely. I've had it happen. I have even undergone tests that shows I experience performance anxiety, and that it actually goes up the easier a question is.

I've had interview instances where my face felt flushed and my mind completely blank on a question I knew how to do but struggled on. And then 30 minutes after the interview finished, the answer is clear as day in my head because it was indeed something I knew and the anxiety was gone.

I feel there is a fair amount of discrimination against those of us who experience anxiety like this, but in a way, I don't care all that much because places that interview certain ways aren't places I want to work anyway.
This is one of the reasons, I prefer small take home assignments which can be later discussed with the interviewer about the pros and cons of the decisions made during coding. As an interviewer, you get more insight into what the candidate was thinking and whether they were able to actually implement something end to end. Leetcode style problems rarely give you that signal from candidates.
OASIS is good but there member orgs need to pay membership dues and do it every year. I think ISO encourages independent experts from public sector and academia to provide expert feedback without paying for membership.

Though, I think that ISO can be fully funded by the national standards bodies on an annual basis just like OASIS is funder by companies and not charge for PDFs.
The state of rendering – rendering trends in the VFX industry
Who defines the rules in the society that you blame? How would they be enforced?
Those are great, I'm more talking about a complex problem you're given and have to whiteboard the solution while making sure not to be silent for too long or you'll interrupted or given a hint.
Very cool! Independent of the cool use of `aesenc` and `aesdec`, the features for skipping ahead in the random stream and forking a separate stream are awesome.

> My current home project is bump-allocator + semi-space garbage collection in SIMD for GPUs. As far as I can tell, both bump-allocation and semi-space garbage collection are easily SIMDified in an obvious manner. And since cudamalloc is fully synchronous, I wanted a more scalable, parallel solution to the GPU memory allocation problem.

This is a great idea. I wonder if we could speed up LuaJIT even more by SIMD accelerating the GC's mark and/or sweep phases...

If you're interested in more work in this area, a former coworker wrote a neat SPMD implementation of librsync [1]. And, if you haven't seen it, the talk on SwissTable [2] (Google's SIMD accelerated hash table) is excellent.

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/fast_rsync

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4
>There is also a difference between ethnic jokes about Poles and racist jokes about black people or Jews, but that’s a different discussion.

Oh wow, here we go with racism gatekeeping.
Yeah, I always think this when this stuff gets posted here and people go "oh my god, I *wish" I could pay Google for support".

You can, it's not very expensive and you get a phone number you can call if there's any issues. The times I've needed it for problems like this, they always were able to help. But hating on Google brings karma, I guess.
It’s a great way to pass on otherwise awesome employees. You don’t need all your employees to be the same. You don’t need them all of them to manage their stress the same way. You don’t even need all of them to be good at managing their stress.
Tesla shills lol
We discuss interviewing a lot here. Despite all the proposals things don't really change. FA(A)NG style interviews are just that - whiteboarding solutions to N algorithmic problems in M minutes (or minor variants of this). Either we accept this and move on with solid preparation or modify our priorities such that we're fine with not wanting the money and/or the quality of work (debatable) offered by these companies. At the end of the day, it's a choice and it's still in our hands.
> That's how IBM implemented the AS/400 platform. Everything compiled down to a processor-agnostic bytecode that was the "binary" format

Originally, AS/400 used its own bytecode called MI (or TIMI or OMI). A descendant of the System/38's bytecode. That was compiled to CISC IMPI machine code, and then after the RISC transition to POWER instructions.

However, around the same time as the CISC-to-RISC transition, IBM introduced a new virtual execution environment – ILE (Integrated Language Environment). The original virtual execution environment was called OPM (Original Program Model). ILE came with a new bytecode, W-code aka NMI. While IBM publicly documented the original OPM bytecode, the new W-code bytecode is only available under NDA. OPM programs have their OMI bytecode translated internally to NMI which then in turn is translated to POWER instructions.

The interesting thing about this, is while OMI was originally invented for the System/38, W-code has a quite different heritage. W-code is actually the intermediate representation used by IBM's compilers (VisualAge, XL C, etc). It is fundamentally the same as what IBM compilers use on other platforms such as AIX or Linux, and already existed on AIX before it was ever used on OS/400. There are some OS/400-specific extensions, and it plays a quite more central architectural role in OS/400 than in AIX. But W-code is conceptually equivalent to LLVM IR/bitcode. So here we may see something in common with what Apple does with asking for LLVM bitcode uploads for the App Store.

> And objects contained both the IR and the native code. If you moved a binary to another host CPU, it would be retranslated and run automatically

Not always true. The object contains two sections – the MI bytecode and the native machine code. It is possible to remove the MI bytecode section (that's called removing "observability") leaving only the native machine code section. If you do that, you lose the ability to migrate the software to a new architecture, unless you recompile from source. I think, most people kept observability intact for in-house software, but it was commonly removed in software shipped by IBM and ISVs.
I've always been afraid of having to lower the hiring bar due to diversity quotas. Thankfully, I have always had the chance to focus on the particular skill set, instead. The ideas about ensuring big enough sampling from diverse sources during sourcing sounds like a good solution, without having to lower your hiring bar.

What sparks my curiosity, though, is out of 3 companies the original poster has written about, the second time she knew she is a diversity hire. Yet, this time it doesn't matter at all, because she was excited about the opportunity.

It strikes me, because it suddenly wasn't a problem once it aligned with the original poster. If we stand up to some idea, shouldn't we live up to it every time? If you hate being a diversity hire, why would you accept it once it suits you?
not all homes that were inflated improved as such
But I always thought that if it ever happened to me, it would be a transparent process and I would have the opportunity to accept the conditions deliberately.

Why would anyone think that? The point of diversity hiring is to do deliberately what we should be doing naturally until we don't have to do it deliberately anymore. I would be flatly amazed if being told you are a diversity hire is common in any industry. Can you even imagine if a college recruiter said to a prospective student "You're only being accepted because you're Native American, do you still want to attend here?"
I haven’t seen anyone ask this question yet: do we LOSE anything by removing these fees? Does the incentive structure change in any meaningful way? i.e. do we need these fees in order to incentivize the production of quality standards?

I agree that the fees seem like annoying gatekeepers, and antithetical to the purpose of standards. But if we remove them, where do the economic incentives come from?
Something interesting I learned when looking into all of this is that if you have a large environment (2000+ mailboxes) and transition to Exchange Online, Microsoft still (since 2010) has no idea on how to fully decommission your Exchange Server environment, since you need at least 1 to facilitate on-prem AD connectivity (which isn’t true if you didn’t have a hybrid environment). So even if you transitioned to the cloud, you may not have been safe.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/decommission-on-pr...
Show HN: Abandoning my own tablet OS
After months of intensely using Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go 2, I decided to call it a day and switch back to a non-free platform.

As many people reached out to me applauding the tablet initiative, it's only fair to renounce my failure to make it stick. For now that is - because once you've tasted (software) freedom, it's hard to forget!
If you can make use of your past industry experience and combine them with some relevant technology knowledge you might find it extremely easy to get into tech.

Technology itself might look hard, but the real challenge is applying it to the industry problems at hand.
Don't forget that Uber is also charging the restaurants nearly the same amount.
thats cool.

speaking of gauntlet network, do they have a way to model asset backed tokens? this is getting complicated, people are trading LPs now and I'm not sure their value. for example, stkGHST is actually one of three GHST liquidity pool shares on Quickswap, which can be deposited into the Aavegotchi project's smart contract which gives out the stkGHST bearer token, but there are also farms that allow stkGHST to be paired against USDC or other assets for farming, adding liquidity to those systems. Should I create new stkGHST or should I buy stkGHST, if I buy whats the accurate price? seems like gauntlet network is primed to keep this data clear

the rest of the market seems to be determining a value, but I don't know if its a good value for me, easily.
(2015)

plenty of prior discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11682816
> A human can drive in the snow, and has a sensing package which effectively consists of two cameras.

Two cameras, and a huge amount of mostly not understood wetware interpreting their signals. Our current approaches to ML may be a local maxima. The true path to AGI be somewhere as yet undiscovered. Lidar certainly seems like a good tool to use given our current ML capabilities.
Failures
That doesn't make sense. That virus that's causing the pandemic was the result of two related virus, one from bats and the other from pangolins somehow meeting each other somewhere in China though a human host, most likely in Wuhan. The only way that could have happened is at a wet market. That is the most likely explanation. It doesn't help that China has a history of being secretive sadly.
I don't get it. You're saying now that without no-fault divorces, free love, nudity in movies etc, we would have more war and famine?
But that could be true of the people in front of you too.

This place is worth working at to get some hours on your resume, but it's not worth staying at beyond that.

Within the wider world of employment, this is not an uncommon sentiment, but within software you don't hear so many people talking like this.
From the article :

"For instance, O’Neill and colleagues find that “many studies” use scenarios that are “unlikely.” In fact, in their literature review such “unlikely” scenarios comprise more than 20% of all scenario applications from 2014 to 2019. They also call for “re-examining the assumptions underlying” the high-end emissions scenarios that are favored in physical climate research, impact studies and economic and policy analyses. As a result of such high prevalence of such studies in the literature, they are also the most commonly cited within scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. O’Neill and colleagues find that the highest emission scenarios comprise about 30% of all applications in studies over the past five years, from a family of 35 different scenarios that they surveyed."
Interview with Chris Wysopal, Veracode and L0pht
As an American who lives in the UK, here are some of the daily things that you might think are someone being cute but are 100% proper and accepted speech, even in a formal BBC news story:

- Vegetables are just called 'veg'.

- You don't get a shot, you get a 'jab'.

- You say 'whilst' instead of 'while'

- You don't get a turn, you 'have a go'.

- Band-aids are called 'plasters'.

- Many vegetables have different names. Eggplants are 'aubergines'. Cucumbers are 'courgettes'. Pickles are 'gherkins'.

So a headline like "To Promote Veg And Vaccines, Boris Johnson Has A Go With COVID Jab Whilst Eating A Gherkin and Walks Away With A Plaster" is maybe a little silly, but totally proper.

They also write 'Mr Johnson' without the '.' after 'Mr' - and they call the '.' a 'full stop'. Basically it's a real nightmare over here.

tl;dr - You should localize your US software for the UK market if you want to fit in. It's more different than you think. Even street addresses work differently here.
Honestly many of the comments in this thread illustrate the author's point - there is such blatant sexism in tech, to the point that many people don't even realize it is sexism.
Cynical take: Tesla GC says "We completely understand and agree that we won’t deploy any autonomous vehicle feature without a deployment permit" [ https://www.plainsite.org/documents/242a2g/california-dmv-te... ]. Absolutely certain that Tesla won't take liability for city driving unless they absolutely must. Especially when so many Tesla drivers are so open to accepting the liability. If Tesla's competitors (e.g. Waymo etc) launch taxis, then Tesla might change course and do the same. But if Tesla doesn't have to do that, they're going to play a game with California where they get to argue over if their cars are level 2 or actually self-driving or whatever .... all the while Tesla users continue to assume liability and help train Tesla's software.... which is what Tesla really wants to continue as long as possible.

These docs don't really shed light on Tesla's FSD plans so much as they illustrate the lengths to which Tesla will go to skirt regulation and liability. All the chatter and rumors about Tesla FSD just drive more attention and more potential users (trainers) into their pool.
I'm dubious that Starlink will really be all that great once it really scales up to tons of users. It's not surprising that it's great for a limited beta run.

Driving on a highway is an amazing experience when it's mostly empty, and a nightmare in rush hour traffic.

Has there been any good write up about how well Starlink (or any other satellite internet) could feasibly scale? Even if SpaceX can start dumping tons of satellites for dirt cheap with Starship's economy of scale, surely there's a limit where the risk of a Kessler syndrome event makes further expansion impractical.
(2015)

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527447
Closer inspection of the shelves in the London store shows regular cheap steel shelving units with no weight sensors visible anywhere.

Either the weight sensors are very well hidden, or there aren't any.
How to Rewire and Innovate Our Minds
The ability to learn is what makes us human, yet learning is so random and flat most of the time, we may lose our natural curiosity and motivation along the way. How can we rewire ourselves and make learning fun with an endless curiosity?
Nice to see such a post, some great stuff here!

I produce techno and house with mostly hardware instruments and sequencer (love my Cirklon Sequentix...) and have been doing so for the past 2 decades.

https://www.instagram.com/phonosheeet/
Things that work for the general public need to be far less technical and way more automatic; from an end user experience perspective.

WoT could work exceedingly well for a decentralized replacement of Facebook... though at that point there's also the issue of competing against a walled garden with moats and most of the population already inside.