skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Accumulation of many titles, not always held by the General Secretary. Sometimes this is Xi gaining a title of an already existing leadership group, sometimes he has created new groups, such as the "Central Commission for Integrated Military and Civilian Development" ( which is about funding military industries, sort of like the US military-industrial model ). Titles like this mean he has effective policy control over many branches of China's administration. His ability to create new groups shows his ability to reform the bureaucratic hierarchy.

- Anti corruption campaign, restore legitimacy in party with regard to people's opinions, level some playing fields, purge the party of corruption and also strengthen ideological and political support for Xi.

- Xi has been called "The Core", this term was only ever used for Mao and Deng.

- Anti-corruption has also focused on military. Result seems to be Xi has greater control of and greater loyalty from the military.

- The PLA garrison in HK broke tradition this year to address Xi as "Chairman", instead of "Commander" --a first. Perhaps this reflects that while usually the leader also Chairs the Central Military Commission, as Xi does, Xi's power is less figurehead and more effective.

- Xi has achieved many things internationally that have not been done by China ever: first overseas military base, in Africa; taking control of disputed islands in its coastal waters in defiance of neighbours; creation of the ambitious, "One Belt One Road", infrastructure, trade and investment project, to expand China's influence along a "new silk road" Westward; and exercised tighter control over old and new media, with very effective online censorship.

- In summary, he does a lot, has made many changes, is always in the news cycle as an effective leader, and has presided over a very successful period for China both with regard to domestic growth and stability, and international standing and ambitious expansion.
It's spun from this: http://theconversation.com/what-is-mindfulness-nobody-really...
Reddit style, low value add comments tend to get downvoted on HN.
Which problems arise due to homogeneity?
What do you mean by "absolutely spanked"? They have out delivered all the other brands you mention this year, by number of sales and dollars,in and have a huge backlog of pre-orders.
https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
With pools of GPU- and FPGA- and ASIC-miners in play in a blockchain, raising the block difficulty, any individual user just doing CPU mining has a negligible chance of ever generating any money for themselves; and will only make negligible amounts by being a member of a mining pool.

These mining scripts are worth money to their owners only because they get to make all the dividends from the covert mining pool they've created.

There is a reason that "immediately join a Bitcoin mining pool" isn't commonly-heard advice; that it's not something everyone does for their aunt. The average computer just isn't going to make enough money to be worth it—even just to pay for microtransactions.
Peak Silicon Valley Anarcho-capitalism.
I don't know if OP meant stack ranking, but I've definitely seen approx 20% annual turnover at a well known consulting firm, by design. Either you go up or you are out. Not stack ranking, just performance review. Cut throat environment, but the upside is the firm is able to keep the very sharp ones. Also the alumni usually end up at other firms that can potentially become future clients. Seems to work very well for this consulting company.
"Be bold. Make the claim, or don't make the claim. Half-heartedly making the claim is shoddy journalism."

No.

It would be impossible to verify and to say with certainty the fact that Tesla was targeting Union folks - if this were true.

Second - the journo is communicating the opinions of others, not his/her own.

There would be Musk, and a very small handful of trusted lieutenants who would have been behind it (if it happened).

But - one could look at the totality of those who are fired - and find that 'most of the vocal union bakers' were let go.

So what does this mean?

It doesn't prove anything - but it looks pretty bad, doesn't it?

So a journalist talks to some of the current or laid off workers, and they say 'off the record' - that this has happened, and 'we think they did this to kabosh the union agenda' - well, then it's reasonable.

If the journalist is just 'making it up'- that would be a deep dereliction of their duty.

But if 'some were actually saying' this, in this journalists interviews, then it's fair for them to say.

And it would be irresponsible for the journalist to say 'Musk specifically targeted Union advocates' unless they had some pretty good evidence that this were true. Which would be very hard.
> you even used yourself as a source

That part is simply my opinion, no other citation is available.
I went for the last time probably 7-8 years ago, before I had ever seen any TV coverage of it, so my opinion is my own, and not biased by some Food Network star. When I went, there was no line to stand in, in fact you could walk freely among the tuna before the auction started (on my last visit, they were just starting to put procedures in place to keep people from taking selfies with the fish).

On my visits, I roamed around for hours, entirely unmolested, just keeping an eye out for the funny little electric carts driving everywhere which threaten to mow down unsuspecting tourists.
Thanks! I remember reading about this a while back, but lost the link.
There is no stack ranking involved (as far as I know, at least in SW). That's why when an engineer is evaluated as under-performing this is really about their own (manager-perceived) performance vs the expectation, and there is no question about whether they'd be in an exceptional team. Now instead of a formal PIP that we know won't get anywhere, HR isn't shy about letting go dead-weight. My impression is that the default approach from HR when a manager rate someone as under-performing is that we should let them go, unless the manager wants to setup some sort of PIP.
Junior Developer Certification Program (Zed Shaw)
What kind of 'annual renewal' rate do you get at $199/yr?

Is there a good reason not to just do $199 lifetime?
It was good while it lasted.
Peaceful and constrained to whom?

I guess a better question, so that I can understand, is when are you considering their ascension to have begun?

Also, the person you responded to is Chinese. I suppose they can be patronizing if they want? In fact, I can't think of a person more able to be justifiably patronizing. I find criticism from within to be better than criticism from abroad, generally speaking.

But, mostly I just am curious about what point in time you're using as the start of China's ascension. If it is 1990, I'm inclined to agree. If it is 1945, I am skeptical.
While 300-700 people sounds massive, it's out of 33,000 or about 1-2%. It's not hard to believe that 1-2% of a company were bad hires, couldn't/didn't deliver, or weren't a great match for the job anymore.
China Takes on Its New Tycoons
I get the theory, but you're over-interpreting the specific words of one part of the policy.

The words are an expression of the ideas in people's heads, and are written with a particular context in mind. That context is fighting the normal kinds of platform abuse they see. The policy was definitely not meant to encompass the typical actions of governments and heads of state. Nobody was even thinking about that at the time they were written.

If they were to use that to ban Trump, it would be pretty obvious rules lawyering [1]. Which many people certainly feel is justified, and I understand why. But from Twitter's perspective, rules lawyering, no matter how much people feel it's justified, undermines trust. So if they want to get rid of Trump, they'd be better off writing a specific policy that Trump (and others) are clearly violating, not bending something else to fit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_lawyer
Maybe it's about cutting costs for new project ramp up, or maybe they are trying to get rid of leakers / security threats / bad eggs, or both.
Any term for being awful at your job (either in skill or motivation) is going to be insulting. What would you suggest to avoid being dehumanizing?
I've been weightlifting for a while and got fitter and stronger but the progress has been slow so I decided to change things up. I read about keto and the more I read the more awesome it seemed.

Since I switched to keto I have an amazing mental clarity. Literally from the moment I open my eyes in the morning I feel lucid (before I'd take me maybe 30 min and maybe a coffee to "wake up"). And I feel lucid all the way until I fall asleep (I don't get tired before falling asleep. Just go to bed, sleep). Nice and steady energy throughout the day.

Also, I feel noticeably better overall. My max strength suffered a little bit (keto can take 1-3 months to adjust) but I'm more energetic throughout the day, mind and body.
I collect my bargain-basement digital library, $1 at a time.

Wish I could pay for multiple bundles at once.
Alright, I have to ask. How did he make him look like Pooh? When I think of Pooh, I think calm to the point of naive, not very smart but sometimes philosophical, friends with all, and very fond of honey.

I'm well and truly confused. This is not entirely unusual.
Only for Steam keys. $0.01 still nets you DRM-free downloads.
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Does this mean that they will only stick to game bundles? I really like the e-book bundles they do.
Given that the Bolt premiered this year, was only available in California for the first 2 months, and had no pre-orders before December... those are extremely good numbers.

Especially since: conspicuously absent from this list is the Model 3. What month is it again? What month was the Model 3 supposed to launch?
Your concern may be right. But what is wrong with storing JSON in DB? Many databases have primitive support for storing JSONs.
You don't think that the company's algorithm for hiring your coworkers tells you much about whether to take the position? That's almost literally the most important thing I know how to find out during an interview.
To be honest, I haven't cared for Humble Bundle for a very long time. The first few were amazing: all cross platform, great stuff. Since then they've branched out... Into becoming a glorified Steam sale. It may be a viable business model, but I don't find it terribly enticing.
They ARE deadweight as far as the employer is concerned. Nothing disrespectful to them. They may be very good in some aspects and decent human being, but they are at a wrong place.

Parting company should benefit both side. Layoff often come with severance package to give those who were let go time to find another job, at least I hope that's what Tesla does.
even if it were e.g. sixteen or seventeen, for all of them to report lessened depression a week after is a fairly strong finding, at least enough to merit someone else attempting to reproduce the research. present depression medication barely works better than placebo
Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower
One cool benefit of using C for a C compiler though is the ability to self host the compiler.
I actually prefer the Firefox dev tools these days. One thing that I really like is the edit and resend functionality[0]. Quite useful when quickly testing API calls. I know you can use other tools in Chrome to do the same, but I like that it’s built in. Good to see improvements in the Chrome dev tools nonetheless!

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monit...
From what I remember, he switched to 4coder because it supports modal editing that's better for his rsi problems. I guess he didn't care for vim or emacs with vi emulation. Casey also likes to support his "Handmade" network promoting simple C/C++ applications.
A capacity for empathy, and a greater capacity for putting words in people's mouths. The assumed offense is what needs to be proven, not the lack of it.
In my experience with CS conferences, reviewers are rarely anonymous to anyone involved except the authors.
> Union membership/power has been steadily decreasing over the past 50 years. To me, it seems disingenuous to refer to "big labor" as if they're some sort of powerhouse given the way that corporate interests have been chipping away at them.

Some states have passed less union-friendly laws, and firms have located to those states and have massively invested in robotics and automation simply to avoid the morass associated with having a unionized labor force.

When unions are too strong (such as they have been in the past) they take too much for their own members at the expense of the health of the firm, and the firm dies.

In the case of the automakers and the auto worker pensions, the pensions were negotiated as defined benefit plans and backed by the PBGC. Lawmakers failed to require firms to pay adequate PBGC premiums, and so when the companies failed taxpayers are left holding the bag.

Workers need to have power, but unions are on the decline because they got too greedy and resulted in massive (and inefficient) economic shifts to route around them. Thus they are less relevant now than in years past, but significant harm has been done. This is not just the fault of the unions, but of the politicians and firms that colluded to make the pension deals possible and who refuse to let dying firms simply die.

Unless we want to go back to a world where everyone aspires to become a "lifer" at a firm and retire after holding one job for his/her whole working life, unions really can't offer much. The economy shifts much more rapidly now and I'd be shocked if skills that are highly marketable this year are still marketable in 10 years.
> Isn't that exactly what's happening in slower motion with the incredible price hikes in many drugs such as insulin?

Again, the market for medicine suffers from regulatory capture. The regulations make it prohibitively expensive (literally millions of dollars) for new competitors to enter the market, which allows the incumbents to conspire to fix prices.

If we had the same standards for manufacturing medicine as we have for manufacturing food, that wouldn't be happening.

> And you assume that the neighborhood can sustain two emergency rooms - a second competitor isn't going to arise if the setup costs are high and the competitor can't undercut and survive the competition phase.

All you need is for the profits from entering the market to exceed the entry cost, which is exactly the case when the existing provider is charging outrageously high prices.

It is certainly true that adding a competitor will increase total costs. But that means total costs will at most double. That's not good, but it's not anywhere near as bad as having a monopoly that can demand your lifetime earnings in exchange for saving your life.

And everybody knows that to begin with, which is why you get this:

> This is exactly why there aren't multiple competitors to residential ISPs, because after the risk and costs are factored in setting up overcapacity for a market isn't a good investment.

It would be a good investment if the incumbent ISP was charging $500/month for residential internet service. But they know if they did that then it would open the door to a competitor who could charge $400/month and still pay the cost of duplicating the entire infrastructure.

So instead the incumbent charges $50-$100/month, even in areas where they have a monopoly, because they know that price is low enough to deter new competitors from entering.

A credible threat of competition is enough to prevent prices from becoming completely outrageous even in areas where there continues to be a monopoly in practice. Only monopolies under no threat of competition, like the ones enforced through patents or Certificate of Need laws, can charge outrageous prices without that happening.
Artists and everyday people are mutually exclusive? I think there's a lot of music created by ordinary people - it's what you might call the "long tail" of the distribution, people who survive on "day jobs" and don't make platinum records but continue to make music. And things like Youtube have made it easier for someone ordinary to reach people with their music.
> They ARE deadweight as far as the employer is concerned

no that's just how the employer qualify these people, it doesn't mean these people are responsible for Tesla's shitty management or them missing their financial objectives. They are scapegoats Tesla uses to save face in front of their investors.
I am entirely unfamiliar with California's regulations.

But, unless the penalty is insignificant, it seems unlikely that they'd flagrantly violate the law. It seems very likely that they were advised by legal council and followed those recommendations. The visibility of Tesla makes me suspect they are very likely to be aware of both optics and law.

Disclosure: I am invested in Tesla and have been since the early days. However, I've made every effort to remain objective,
Thank you! I'll take a look.
Admittedly it's a small fraction. To me, while not a communist by any means, I do think that cos. often simply think about he employee-employer relationship as unidirectional: the employee owes the employer but I see more and the company owes society at large to support its workers, where it can. Not saying they should carry inept unqualified workers, but that they should make some effort to place mal-assigned workers. Make it work for everyone, in other words.
A decade of change in capital markets
I have written a bookmarklet that sets the viewport width to 800px (I wrote the bookmarklet on a Mac and have iCloud sync it over to my iPhone). It’s as easy as changing an attribute of a meta element. Makes the font size a bit small though.
> Teaching the former is like teaching a physicist all the different kinds of gear systems, rather than the math that lets you model them.

Most programming work is less like theoretical physics and more like car repairing.
Programming is one career where, for many firms, experience
still trumps academic credentials.

That becomes less true every year, unfortunately. And it's entirely predictable. There are millions of middle-aged and elderly adults today who as young people enjoyed employment in a growing sector with minimal formal education, only to find themselves economically stranded when the sector matured and shrank.

Counseling a young kid _not_ to get a GED is indefensible. Life is a lottery. Just because you can see a path forward today doesn't mean that path will remain viable tomorrow. And despite the increasingly rapid pace of changes in our modern economy, a high school diploma or equivalent has remained extremely valuable. Among other things, it will be difficult to pursue post-secondary education at accredited institutions without a GED.

Kid, there's no reason you can't take the job _and_ get your GED. And remember: formal education isn't for learning stuff you could learn on your own, it's for learning stuff you couldn't or wouldn't bother learning on your own. That's why it's simultaneously so difficult (in the sense of willing yourself to do the work), yet so important. It's a cruel world out there[1] and you want to acquire all the tools you can, especially easy ones like a high school diploma or GED.

Also, always remember success is more visible than failure. Similarly, people who succeed without credentials are much more visible than those who didn't succeed or who suffer significantly diminished earnings power. I can assure you, as somebody who has worked in IT _without_ a STEM degree for almost 20 years, and who makes much more than the median compensation in Silicon Valley, that engineers with a STEM degree enjoy a significant advantage, notwithstanding people like mindcrime and myself.

[1] It's cruel in the sense of being unforgiving. Many people, perhaps even most people, will enjoy a comfortable existence with nominal effort. But it only takes one illness, one accident, one crime, or one some-other-event to drag you to the bottom. Climbing out of a hole is immensely more difficult than falling in, and it's at times like those when decisions like you're facing now will matter most.
But dropbox doesn't save automatically when you use the snipping tool. Is there any way to make that happen?
I mean like I said, I don't really give a shit about being down voted, it's not about to get me hell banned or anything but: cbanek, js2, fjsolwmv and pravula might care that i am glad to be informed and my original comment was actually a question and not just me being a dick.
Probably a negative thought but the one thing I notice in conversations is it immediately turns to "me" and it's prevalent in many places particularly YouTube comments.

Give me attention sort of thing. (I'm guilty of this too) but you're talking to someone and they immediately turn it to about themselves/compare/bigger-better than your thing.

Of course the YouTube comments section isn't a great source of examples in civil society. Maybe this is what conversing is, relating one's experience to others to show comprehension/care.

I just did it here with my initial response haha.
Totality
I'm all for stuff like this in theory, but in my experience I never use said knowledge for any productive purpose and eventually it degrades... until I read a post like this, feel a surge of professional inadequacy and go re-learn it. :P
Generating Java from JSON
Show HN: DnsLearning.org – Helping parents fight the YouTube addiction algorithm
https://dnslearning.org/

https://twitter.com/DnsLearningOrg/status/919058340168306688
Measuring the volume of one liter of water.

But, more seriously, it depends almost entirely on the highschool itself. I know of a range going from essentially no lab work to undergrad material with looser report grading - and I imagine that top flight magnet schools must have all sorts of amazing equipment.
I couldn’t say. I haven’t followed them for at least a couple of years. I seem to remember them branching out into other digital media like books and music. I still admire their ideas (although I’m not sure if they’re still in place), like adjustable payments, charity contributions, DRM-free (or even open source) games, and games supporting Linux and OS X. I’ve been away from the gaming scene for several years, so I’ll admit to being very out of the loop.
Really unsurprised considering how much Budweiser and Spam the people of the Mariana Islands consume.

EDIT: Pure speculation, but given remoteness and how well preserved they are, I suspect they're the litter of commercial fishermen.

If this reference[1] is historically accurate, then the Budweiser is from circa 70s or early 80s, a period before I was conceived and probably predates what would have been a convenient Born On Date reference that Anheuser-Busch made popular.

The relevant production stamp on the Spam can reads F01031, and if we were to trust this reference[2], then it decodes to plant location F (199N cross-references to a plant in Fremont, NE[3]) manufactured January (01) 3rd (03), with certain ambiguity in the year code 1. Observe Hormel Foods label, so this comes from after 1993 name change as suggested by this brief history[4], leaving 2001 or 2011. The styling of 25% LESS SODIUM label cross-referenced against this guy's collection archive[5] factors out 2011, deductively pointing to 2001. Other clues considered include rough time period for when Spam Stuff marketing was a thing, and lack of BEST BY date which is included on the bottom of Spam cans manufactured today.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/P3cyai6.jpg

[2] https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/information-center/self-r...

[3] https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/a5c2b5c8-92e0-4565...

[4] https://www.hormelfoods.com/about/our-history/

[5] http://www.alaska.net/~royce/spam/
Without knowing the details - which we never will - we don't know which of them were just in bad positions for them or if they moved 10, 100, or 1000 to better fitting roles or if there were the "better fitting" roles for this group.