skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they don't do that, then:

A driverless taxi service in any city where it snows will never exist.

It will not be possible to replace my personal car with a driverless car.

Relatives who are in the southern states (with driverless cars) will not be able to visit for many winter holidays.

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Self driving cars are very interesting - but can you get to the point where it is possible to replace them in Chicago or Minneapolis with the same availability for personal or services as a human driven one?

With airlines, yes, shutting canceling the flights out of O'Hare is certainly inconvenient. Is it reasonable to also make it so that people can't get to work via local commuting because of snow?

To get to the point where self driving is default, it needs to be able to handle the conditions that a human driver currently does with the same availability. This goes for taxis, trucks, and the daily commute and errands.
You still need to host paperless, right?
Well, if 100k years is what is needed to offset, then obviously FB can not do that credibly.

Do you have a source that that is the requirement? It's not my understanding.
I always thought the white one looked cooler when it was fresh but aged much more poorly than the black one. Same with white sneakers, too much work to keep them icy white.
Next to python it is a system language by comparison and that is what matters ultimately.
Why would you think that's likely?
Interesting. We find the situation to be quite the opposite. The older and larger the system, the more expensive figuring out is.

You mention a 3-6 months. That's quite a high price. Would it be inconceivable to optimize this significantly?

Stability can also be misleading. It's especially the small changes that can be problematic because when the code is large enough, people simply do not know what of what they already know (what's already in their memory) is no longer true. This is the challenge. Instead, the proposition is that we should not have to rely on our memory of things that can change. We can just check it. Only to do it in a reasonable timeframe, we need custom automation.

In any case, the article does not propose a tool. It proposes a way of working. The tool is important to show how it can work in practice.
> What happens if I pay for something with a credit card and the vendor fails to deliver?

You are paying 2% - 5% premium on the price for this insurance that a credit card company providers. This is what the merchant gets charged in transaction fees and flat fees to get access to Visa/Mastercard network. There are many cases when you do not want to have insurance benefits of credit cardand you would simply take 2% cheaper price. However, with the current consumer payment rails (credit/debit) this is in practice impossible. (Granted some large enterprises like Amazon get charged less, but economics of scale, combined with the business practices, of Amazon have been found to be harmful for ecommerce ecosystem as a whole.)

I think it is ok to let the free market to pick the winner. Cryptocurrency might not be an ideal solution for all problems, but it might be still a good solution especially in developing countries where banking system is expensive, inefficient and corrupt. Let the option be available for others even if you do not use or believe in it yourself.
I agree with every single word of this. We're currently paying ~ $40 per month, been a customer since February 2018, and love the product. But we've built a load of internal tooling that uses EnvKey v1, made some small contributions to its library and ecosystem, and we're running it on maybe 80 servers (staging and production) so that migration to v2 looks like a pretty onerous task, and that pricing page is so opaque I have no idea whether or not at the end of the migration we're going to be looking at a 1400% price hike, which would feel like a pretty grim bait and switch.
Whistleblower portal for Russian blood money
> English-speaking, White U.S. adults (18 years or older) were recruited from MTurk between September 5th and 8th, 2020 in exchange for $2.50.

TIL that scientific studies use Mechanical Turk.
FORCEDENTRY: Sandbox Escape
No Fooling (2021)
It's now redirecting to http://arrowloans.co.uk for some reason.
Is it? Is it overthrow for a senator or citizen to vote against the advice of the PM?

There is an intentional conflation between political reform and treason/rebellion happening here.

Not doing what you're told to and seeking political reform is only rebellion in an absolute dictatorship
Beyond the Second Law
Looks like Dropbox has trouble retaining tech talent?
> You would not be contributing to an ecosystem controlled by a single entity who is increasingly abusing their dominance to extract more rent from consumers and other developers.

c.f.

> > If you're going to argue about some kind of collective loss by many people making the same choice as me-- that we all lose freedom, etc-- spare me. Tragedy of the commons, etc: not enough people are going to make the choice you're posing to have any significant effect.

So, I'd be using my market power to advocate for things that are disproportionately important to you at my own expense. That doesn't seem like "freedom".

I've been a Linux user and developer forever. For awhile, I was a kernel subsystem maintainer. I've walked the walk about making free software available and useful.

I also believe having a Mac laptop benefits me, and is worth the money, and that it is not morally corrosive. Can you please spare me the judgment that I'm "weak-willed" or stupid for my choice?
Yeah, I have one at home. But it's not ideal for non-tech-savvy people like my mom.
This seems to be a prime example of the Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule. About 12 years ago, I had built something to do something similar and published how I did it [1]. It was a very simple process, which my younger self called "the meat algorithm", as in, how to get the meat of an article.

It was far less code and worked perfectly 95% of the time (though, the average web-page was also a little simpler 12 years ago). But that code would have quickly ballooned out if our use-case had called for addressing the other 5% of webpages, as the Firefox Reader View must do.

[1] https://www.alfajango.com/blog/create-a-printable-format-for...
Rust: Strict Provenance
I think any article on design can have its entire HN comment thread written by bots. Not even GPT3, maybe GPT2.
Public web forums attract trolls, bots, spammers, and all sorts of bad actors. It's ultimately better this way.

In the 90's, the notion of "netizen" as a distinct fun, curious, respectful culture seemed to exist and therefore letting random netizens on your Internet doorstop was fun, even despite trolls and what not.

I honestly believe this culture is an accident - the Cold War ended in the early 90's and that coincided with the rise of home Internet, the vibe was very positive and freewheeling. This vibe ended 9/11/2001.

There's pockets of that culture around still but the hordes of unwashed masses enabled by mobile-internet + Myspace/Facebook age are now dominant, and it's long been past time for netizens to develop their own gatewayed islands.
I had a similar problem with an Airpod microphone (only on one side) starting to get quieter with intermittent drop-outs. It was likely a hardware problem and Apple exchanged it for a new pair after examination.
Scraping Instagram
Ah, but rationing based on mutable characteristics, like how much money and access to professional opportunities that your parents were born with, and whether or not you grew up in a broken home[1], or whether you grew up in a redlined apartment with lead dust peeling off the walls is fine?

[1] Because dad's in prison for a crime that the right kind of people get community service for. And he wasn't the right kind of person.
If you know of oligarch money being used in the VC world, or sitting in hedge funds, you're in a unique position to help stop Putin's war machine.
I think Linux to many is a hobby much like woodworking, one that can also help feed their identity. I've been there myself.

I don't think you can expect deep empathy and a strong desire to simplify things down to the grandparent level if much of the reason for using the system is for geek cred and a landscape for such endless tuning/tweaking.

I'd even put myself in the latter camp, I like tuning things!

Certainly Linux on the desktop has gotten dramatically better over the last few years, but I don't see it ever getting to appliance level without really cutting out what we typically associate with the flexibility of Linux (more like Android or a set top box)
If that's true, then why did their government solicit people to send them these "meaningless novelty coins" on social media? Just for fun?
I'm not often a fan of the "billed yearly" but $5/mo if you fork out for that.

Have used it for a long time now, and can absolutely recommend.

I have a mechanical keyboard. A loud dog. All sorts of noises, and Krisp mutes all of them, and does so without clipping me.
Legibility is relevant. The problem is that legibility requires one to read. And one cannot read the whole code fast enough. That's why legibility is relevant in the small (~one screen). In the large, we can benefit greatly from other ways to summarize the system.
If you have so much paper volume that pressing a button is tedious, you should be using a scanner with an ADF. Fujistu makes a bunch and they've been on the market so long that finding a used one for less money is pretty easy.

If you don't have that much volume...just improve the physical UI. Whatever floats your boat: a foot pedal, capacitive switch, Clapper, etc.
Any good startup books/forums/blogs?
Can anyone recommend any high quality books/forums/blogs related to technology startups? (other than Paul Graham's) I am really new to this and am currently just working on an MVP and testing.

There is so much written online, but it is difficult to know what is evidence-based and what is guesswork. Forums are filled with "hustlers" and irc is practically dead for business discussion.

A book/blog giving a good overview of the processes and knowledge that a founder should be familiar with would be helpful.
> Why would a section header in your article contain "author" if you didn't mean for it to designate who the author of the article was?

It's bad substring matching. It's "authorization", but apparently Firefox just interprets that as "author".
I hope they can find something that works for them. I've been intensely critical of cryptocurrency, but if it can perform better than regular currency, especially in a war-torn/economically devastated area even for a few months/years, it's serving a useful function.
> There’s also the issue of selection bias. Maybe we’re just getting people who really feel like they need practice and aren’t an indicative slice of engineers at that company.

Or that your interview preparation platform prepares candidates better for Dropbox's interview process than it does for Microsoft's. Or that the people who were confident in their interview skills for Facebook decided not to use your platform. Or that these companies have different interview processes and selection criteria (they obviously do) so ranking "best" based on performance on different tests doesn't tell you that much.

There's hundreds of different ways to slice this data to come up with different hypotheses about what's actually occurring.
:)

Nitpicking: I use 1 ton = 1000 Kg, but world wide it's more complicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton
> I worry that the consequence of Spectre research has been that people conclude "in-process sandboxing is useless, cross-process is too hard, oh well, too bad so sad". Whereas in reality in-process sandboxing even without MPKs or equivalent would still be a massive win for computer security in many contexts where Spectre is hardly your biggest problem.

Well, I agree that in-process sandboxing is still quite useful; it at least closes the barn door. But the rest of the conclusion is not what we made in Chrome; we had to go whole-hog multi-process for site isolation. That and just moving as much as possible out of the renderer process so that there aren't many secrets left to steal.

It's really an issue for situations where a process (or platform) is required to run untrusted code from lots of different sources. There isn't a software solution that is robust to side channels yet. They can still spy on each other. Clearly, two import cases that Google cares about are Cloud and the web.
Alternatively, s/where the best performers work/where the best performers run from/
Right, value has been removed from BTC and sent to the energy companies mostly.
This study assumes that the companies have similar rates of people wanting to leave.
The article is saying "this is why we aren't doing it for our startup," not "this is why you shouldn't do it for your personal life or startup."

It is fair to say that for building a startup, crypto adds additional risk due to the issues they say. It isn't about if those can be overcome, but rather if it is wise for that group of people to approach it for the problem they are solving.
Not sure if this is a European thing but in the German speaking countries of Europe there are universities and vocational universities. The first focus prepare you for an academic career and the second prepare you for entering the work force (with some academic knowledge in case you need it in the industry or want to pursue an academic career).

I think this makes a lot of sense and we have a system that allows you to get a well paying middle class job by completing a vocational education and offers paths to get higher education from there or even switch to the academic track. This always made sense to me and I think it's crazy how this is in other countries where the choice is going to University or learning your profession on the job.
I have a pair of first gen AirPods and a pair of AirPods pros.

The former are so crappy I only use them in a pinch when communicating with others. However the ABP are fantastic. Sound quality on both ends is always fine. The noise cancelling is appreciated. The only issue I have connectivity wise is on occasion when I join a Zoom my laptop will disconnect me. Which is admittedly irritating. But not frequent enough I'd call a serious issue.
Gov.uk removed jQuery and saw some big performance improvements as a result
If you want to use that, you need the closed-source driver.

The open-source driver is the minimal to make linux kernel developer happy.
I recommend against it for exactly that reason. Without the local feed, a lot of what makes Mastodon cool goes away.
Gauging the happiness benefit of US urban parks through Twitter
Indeed, I guess we were not talking about the same issue. For local transfers, sure, use whatever floats your boat: cash, digital wallets, bank transfers (I would not advise this, but whatever). Here we have several options for that, like Mercadopago, Burbank, Uala, Reba, Naranja X, etc. These are really good for day to day purchases, and you usually don't keep a lot of money on these accounts, so if you happen to have any issue is not the end of the world.
> Good grief. I'm sure this is not isolated to lesbians.

That's an oddly special group to single out, but yes, I assume cryptocurrency is also used by people of other sexual orientations.
Maybe because people buy nonsense opinion pieces that twist the truth to try and imply experts spend their time on nonsense as described?

What actually happened, if you read the sources, is a Catholic healthcare company set some wrong parameters when deciding who should get the treatment. No "woke left" racism against white people, a Catholic company that actively protests contraceptive use (about as far from "woke" as you can get) messed up, and then changed it as soon as someone pointed it out.
Ask HN: What is the fastest way to get hands-on with .NET from Java?
So, thats the thing. I will start working on a company who's main technology is .NET (C# with WPF).

My background is Java and Javascript, so I bet I won't have to trouble to get hands on with C# itself, but I'm asking if somebody was in this situation at any time and could give me resources or recomendations for getting as fast as possible up and running with the .NET environment.

Thanks!
> Because without multi-region or multi-AZ durability, Wave could lose balances. For example, in the event of a DC fire.

I think you are making a bunch of assumptions that you haven't written down, so it is hard for me to guess what your assumptions are. In the boring, normal, standard setup that people have been using Postgres for in the last 20 years, data does not get lost so long as you have a main server and a sufficient number of backups running in sync, possibly at some distance. A question like "How not to lose data when your main server is destroyed by a fire" is an old question that database engineers have been working on for 40 years, and for which there are many good answers.

But I think you're imagining some kind of automatic link between the distributed nature of the blockchain leading to a distributed Postgres. But you would need to write out what your assumptions actually are before I could respond to them.
Except that universities now prepare you for leetcode and those who studies in them do better at leetcode. By that I mean that there are actual classes to train you leetcode like exercises.
Three summer internships is roughly a year of industry experience, especially if they are done at 2 (but not 3) different companies.

Actually, those three 3 month engagements can constitute several years worth of experience if they are done with excellent mentors at good companies. Reasons:

1. You see several teams, several projects, several codebases, without having to spend an awesome amount of time at one place. How many engineers work with multiple teams and companies in their first year (without one of those experiences being terribly catastrophic)?

2. You get the interesting meaty projects, or get to work on prototyping projects, but are also expected to contribute to the existing code base (or at least build on top of it). You participate in meetings, give presentations, etc. Basically, you see an entire compressed project/product lifecycle but embedded in an existing codebase.

3. Most importantly: Doing 1 repeat internship is super valuable. Spending 6 months at a place in 3 month increments with 9 months in between is an exceptionally unique experience in terms of understanding how orgs work and evolve. Most engineers don't get to experience until they are in the consulting portion of their careers.

University students in CS should do as many internships as possible, and universities should be more proactive about finding a way to mock summer internship experiences for students who do not get any internship offers.
Grafana Dash-N-Grab
There's the widely used Itanium C++ ABI [0], which contrary to the name is actually the one used on x86-64. Without a standard ABI it wouldn't be possible to dynamically link C++ libraries (which includes the standard library!), especially if they weren't compiled with identical compiler versions.

[0]: https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html
SoCs in head-units would still be automotive qualified variants (temperature grade, etc).
Ola Finance promised to skip “cumbersome” lending requirements, hacked for $3.6M
I think people put too much effort and time in this whole interview business.
My suggestion, based on my experience, is to spend a reasonable time like a month, brushing up on most common data structures and algo.

Then just take your chances. Rinse and repeat.
We can significantly expand mining of common elements like copper and iron, the demand simply isn’t there.

Over 5% of earths crust is iron, aluminum is over 8%, we really aren’t running out of them.

Amos stuff is more rare, but for scale roughly 700 million metric tons of copper has been mined out of 2800 million tons of copper discovered in economically viable concentrations. With perhaps another 3500 million metric tons in undiscovered but economically viable mines.
> The energy is expended

It certainly is.
1000 tons is definitely heavier than 1000 kg.
> Why do you trust that?

Not OP, but I'll throw my two cents in. While some people on HN were hyperventilating about the CSAM thing, I was digging into the docs to see what was actually happening. In every instance, I found myself a bit more impressed with how much engineering the folks at Apple clearly put into making it work without compromising privacy. Contrary to what people kept saying here on HN. It made me a lot more suspicious of randos on HN and a bit more willing to give Apple the benefit of the doubt.

I'm always amenable to more actual evidence, but as of yet that seems completely lacking. If I were more conspiracy minded I'd wonder if there was an orchestrated effort.
I guess it's possible, I did the reagent test where it turns green. I also snorted it. It was slightly psychedelic, the duration was short and sex was intense which lines up with other things I heard about it.
Yes - but we're currently in a situation where irrationality absolutely dominates. (And it's not exactly short term)
It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.
This isn’t specific to technology startups but your marketing chops may benefit from checking out Reddit.com/r/juststart.
> People, in general, don't enjoy when powerful monopolistic entities directly ration access to goods & services based on immutable characteristics such as race.

How would you describe current health insurance systems?
Toy maker wanted to help Ukrainian refugees. The response stunned him
That wasn't the argument. Self governance of the project was the argument. If it happened once, it can surely happen again.
Author here. We didn't publish a histogram showing how many users we have from each company, so I guess you'll have to trust me on this one. Dropbox has waaaay fewer engineers on interviewing.io per capita than some of the other companies... many of whom didn't make the top ten list.

In our experience, they're quite good at retaining talent.
But my point is that even if you use some closed-source driver or whatever is required to "set up" your project - you still can't re-use your regular code wholesale, but will have to modify to fit within whatever features they support. Right?
The US has around 700 million barrels in the strategic reserve [1]. This release would give up a little over 25% of US strategic reserves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...
Another happy Chromebook user here. Apple has become too expensive when one can easily spec a PC laptop to be far better for less and have money left over for accessories. I can write code on my Chromebook (Linux), I have an SSH terminal for remote servers, and a great, always-on and updated machine. Total cost: $650 (Pixelbook Go). I've never understood why so many programmers and sysadmins feel the need to go straight to the Mac without considering any other option. I have an issued laptop from work running Fedora 35 and I in no way feel like I'm missing out. I'm not impugning Mac users, but it sometimes feels as if some of them have a holier-than-thou attitude towards anything not Apple.
My self reply was JS