skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The typical headline making layoff % at a Fortune500 type company is ~10%, fwiw.
I think that a better idea was (is?) to create a LispM on cloud services, and just use it through the browser, like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioBIKE

"...[the authors] wanted to create a web-based, multi-user Lisp Machine,..."
One question that I like is “Who do you admire on your team?”
Paid Tesla shills are dominating the comments.

Hacker News is influential. Upvotes can easily be gamed.

Noise is added to mix good info with misinformation to confuse and frustrate people sifting through comments trying to make sense of things.

These people will make weaker arguments against Tesla's actions so those arguments can be easily discredited. People making stronger arguments against Tesla will be clumped with them.

Trolling increases noise and frustration. It makes people not want to read adversarial comments.

Denigrate, dismiss, discredit.

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Highest upvoted comment is usually gamed, because it makes the most lucid argument (it was pre-written) and is seen as the most solid piece of info amid the noise.

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I’m a fan of monero, but transaction fees do not decrease as more transactions occur. There are limits to how big the blocks can grow, and also how quickly they respond to demand, and at the end of the day the transaction price will go up as demand increases.
They support labor "in the abstract" which is to say they don't support labor "in reality".
You may enjoy Lee Kuan Yew's biography, The Singapore Story, and to a lesser extent his more recent Conversations with Tom Plate. There is a lot in common between Xi and Lee's thinking and way of doing things.

Reading the BBC and Wikileaks texts, the events fit neatly in the "Singapore experiment with a billion citizen" narrative which the PRC has been doing since Deng Xiao Ping, ethnocentrism excepted.
We are already able to run native code in Atom via node's native extensions, so we have no reason to wait for WebAssembly.

The only benefit of WebAssembly would be if we wanted to port Atom to work in a regular web browser. We can even already do that without WebAssembly by compiling the superstring library to JS with emscripten. This works today and benchmarks show that it's already quite fast, but I think WebAssembly will make it even more efficient.
The idea that unions wanting workers to form unions is somehow underhanded says more about your viewpoint than the rather abstract disclaimer that "So while I strongly support organized labor in abstract, ..."

The idea that unions can magically get a level-playing field in any country without support from the state also suggests you are a bit naive about how employers have reacted and still react to unions absent such protections.
If I line up a random group of 100 people at the average company, I can almost guarantee you that there is at least one who isn't doing his part. As someone who has worked with some of these people (and seen them laid off in rounds of performance-based cuts), I can tell you that some people deserve to be sent to unemployment. Yep, some good people will get hit too, but from my experience a good middle management layer can identify the low performers with a great deal of accuracy.
> groups that are entrenched in legacy car manufacturing wish to prevent Tesla from accelerating those companies' decline

It's not that they want to hurt tesla (or walmart, etc) any more or less than they want to help GM, Ford, etc... it's that they, like any other business, wants to grow their revenue and they grow by representing more people (union dues). Sure, it might cause a little more competition for the other people they represent, but like any good business they want to diversify their holdings as much as possible so they're always on the winning team too.
1. Cut the cost.

2. Most companies don't pay until they get hacked. Find any security vulnerability in your client app/backend and explain how it can impact their business and show how your product can protect them from such a security vulnerability.
IMO the risk here is that onion link lists and search engines can't be trusted. How else are people getting these bogus onions? There's no authority on these "hidden services" and hiding identity is kinda the point of Tor so phishing is easy.

Onion addresses are basically hashes of the public key of the hidden service. Trusting only the first few characters for match (for these "vanity onions") to identify the service is just a bad idea...
What are the limits to how big the blocks can grow?
Lol, big labor? So you just mean workers.
>simply because Tesla is much more competitive without its workforce unionized

Do you really think unions believe that they have a negative effect on business? This action fits in with the stated ideals of unionization, so why do you feel the need to explain it as part of some hidden agenda?

>In many states labor unions have significant power granted by favorable laws that far exceed the market power they derive simply from organizing labor and leveling the playing field a bit.

This doesn't provide evidence that unions are overstepping their bounds in this case.

>So while I strongly support organized labor in abstract, it's difficult to blame Tesla for wishing to make its workforce less vulnerable to attack from big labor. Like many interest groups, big labor is mostly concerned with its own survival and growth, and is not really about the workers at all.

What in your mind separates ordinary labor unions from "big labor"? What made you draw the conclusion that the workers distributing literature were part of "big labor", and not just "leveling the playing field a bit"?
I really feel like I should start live streaming some of my coding sessions; taking a clear task from my issue tracker and working on it until completion. When I work on stuff on my own, I get distracted by things like ... well .. typing this comment on hackernews.

Streaming a coding session over a well defined feature seems like a really good idea to stay focused .. like XP except not terrible and make you want to stab your partner in the face.
I think it is best to fix this for everyone.

Dang, looks like adding white-space: normal; in pre and pre:hover in the css can make things much better for mobile web users. Can we consider it? Demo on Firefox nightly https://i.imgur.com/j4qvqfo.png

Edit: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27126549
Reflections of a Lifelong Metalhead
I was wondering about this. I assume you're treating this info as proprietary, but in case you aren't I'd love to hear more about how you actually implement this.
I agree, the latter batch of questions strike me as terrible things to ask.

> What are you trying to figure out about a candidate in an interview? Why do you think your current process does that effectively?

Unless the interviewer is from HR they probably don't know (or care) much about the answers, and unless you're interviewing for a position in HR, knowing the answers won't tell you much about whether to take the position. So why ask at all?

Questions like these are analogous to bike-shedding - asking about what's most visible to you at that moment, rather than about what's important.
This reminds me of when I met someone who was convinced that teachers leaned liberal because the evil teachers' unions intimidated them into voting democrat.
On the other hand, multiple items on the same topic made to the HN home page.

People truly got eyes on this.
> its march has stalled

Clojure being a Lisp probably exceeded and overachieved its goals when it comes to popularity. Sadly, not a single Lisp probably will ever become a mainstream.

And for the same reasons why Vim and Emacs would never become more popular than IntelliJ and Sublime. People tend to choose something easy to start with, out of the box thing, not something that has a small, simple core yet extremely extensible and rich ecosystem.
Most of the innovation in Clojure-space happening outside of Cognitect, driven mostly by individuals.

Look at Clojurescript. It hasn't stalled, au contraire - with every release it's getting better. Pick any large Clojurescript project - PrecursorApp or Circle CI, look under the hood. Compare Re-frame and Fulcro projects with other popular Javascript frameworks. Check out Re-Natal, Lumo and Planck.

Right now Clojurescript probably the most pragmatic choice if you want to build web-apps using a functional language. GHCJS and Purescript (that appeared few years before Clojurescript) - still hasn't quite reached popularity. Elm - which is 5 years old (same as Clojurescript) - still feels a bit experimental. ScalaJS - I don't even want to talk about Scala. Fable/FunScript/WebSharper? Microsoft has failed to convince even its own herd to start using F#. Largely - C# still in use. And those guys prefer Typescript - not really functional. Only ReasonML someday soon may become true competitor to Clojurescript simply because: a) Facebook behind it; b) ain't a Lisp.
Tesla is notoriously fond of libel lawsuits; a local paper probably can't afford to fight one.
I was very glad to read that has finally been scientifically proven that a non-coercive style of interviewing that focuses on establishing rapport works better than a coercive style.
>a good middle management layer

Fairy dust is more real than that.
I like the simplicity of this website design!
What’s the average life expectancy of an aboriginal Australian? How’s Tony Abbot doing, and how’s the weather in a detention camp in Papua New Guinea this time of year?
They're not alone. I spent about five hours (across several meetings) trying to convince a CFO that giving an employee no annual increase was a negative signal. I think he only gave in when he realized I wasn't going to let it go.
The fact you put Bayes rule on your page excites me. I am taking a graduate course in Bayesian machine learning, so Bayes is all around me lol. Any use of Gaussian processes or probabilistic graph models? Would love to hear also if you use Bayesian treatment for automatic model selection. It sounds ideal in lecture, but I am interested to see how it is applied in real world settings.
That was a clearly-written, knowledgable, info-dense and effective bit of writing you just did, @Veedrac. Ever considered doing more of the same, and delivering the kind of educational material you just described?
I'd be curious how much CPU is wasted rendering billions of ads, especially video, I suspect it's a lot more than the crypto hashing

The exact opposite. Video decoding is done quite efficiently in hardware now, and displaying ad images is not much worse than any other image or video. There is certainly an impact, but it's not continuous 100% client processor usage. On the contrary, mining is basically going to push the processor to 100% and keep it there just by virtue of how it works.
Spotify has a 'deep focus' playlist that works really well. it's over 10 hours long. Two million people subscribe to it and with good reason.
That's assuming that the same neurogenesis still happens in the absence of a conscious experience. Do you have evidence that supports this?
If the shoe fits.
Thing is, none of this becomes definitively cool for at least another 100 million years after we go extinct, when the universe resumes an era of prehistory prior to the next intelligent life form to emerging from some primordial soup.

Worse still, if that inter-historic era never occurs due to the persistent presence of intelligent machines.

At that point, all bets are off, as to whether even remnants of our pollution might remain, in the face of pervasive systems engineered to keep ecosystems free of the detritus of human civilization, and automatically recuse themselves from pristine areas that require no further stewardship.
Some of them just routinely fire the bottom 10% every year.
Most video (excepting more modern codecs) is hardware accelerated, which if I understand correctly, uses the video card and is more efficient.
At least it’s not “people familiar with Elon’s thinking”, because that’s the journalistic standard nowadays.
आज 14 अक्टूबर को पुष्य नक्षत्र में कुबेर खोलेंगे खजाना बना दे स्वस्तिक इस स्थान
I doubt efficiency is their primary concern. It seems that it is more likely to be efficacy that concerns them most. Namely, does it generate more income than it would without it?

The answer to that is probably yes. After all, it isn't their resources. They are simply adding a line of code to their markup and calling it a day.

I see no problem with this so long as they get consent and, ideally, allow a method to opt out, though the back button is opting out. I'd also mention that it should be informed consent. In plain language, the user should be aware of what is happening.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_drug

An orphan drug is a pharmaceutical agent that has been developed specifically to treat a rare medical condition, the condition itself being referred to as an orphan disease.

A rare disease, also referred to as an "orphan disease", is any disease which affects a small percentage of the population. Most rare diseases are genetic
And yet they failed to fire the worst-performing employee of them all.
How does this prevent databases like the one run by equifax that keeps salary info and is still available to California businesses?
Ask HN: Is there a url for newest asks?
I know there is news.ycombinator.com/newest and a newest for 'show': https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew but is there a newest for ask?
In regard to you second part, that has happened/is happening in the US on a state by state basis with marijuana.
"who", the people who were distributing union related materials

"why", because they were distributing union related materials?

"without offering any evidence", which is why it says "believe"
It has nothing to do with "scale" but everything to do with Tesla trying to prevent people from organizing and fighting for their rights and interests, 19th century style.
Can you and GP please avoid turning this into a battle to see which is the worse country?
"The idea that unions can magically get a level-playing field in any country without support from the state also suggests you are a bit naive..."

Didn't essentially every private-sector labor union in U.S. history start without support from the state? (and, arguably, despite the opposition of the state?) Government intervention on union behalf generally doesn't happen until after a union installs a number of its candidates into that level of government.
Technically, yes. Legally? I'd assume mens rea still applies.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. If you wish to provide material support to ISIS, consult a qualified legal professional in the appropriate jurisdiction.
You should consider the fact that EpiPen is 'off patent' and that it is priced at some high number by a generic company and that there apparently are no others.

The 'market is speaking'.

If it were in way lucrative, someone would be doing it.

I suggest that it's just a very expensive thing to develop and make, and there isn't a huge demand - otherwise, someone probably would.

Now, $600 seems just crazy to me, and like you, my instinct might be 'there's room for someone' - but in reality, it's never that easy.

My father worked in Pharma, and once sold a small empty building on behalf of a company for huge $$$ to a Chinese firm - only because it was 'approved' by the Canadian government for making drugs of a certain quality, and that this approval would have been very expensive to obtain. This is just at the top of the list of how many regulatory issues there are in making drugs - and why they are so expensive.

I mean it does seem a little crazy that there are $600 EpiPen's but no others - when anyone can make them, but that's where we are.
Finishing high school at 21 certainly sounds strange. It sounds like you should take the job.. in part because you've already gone two years down this road of not finishing schooling.

If you can find a way to combine the job with a path towards college, seems like it'd be ideal.
What’s the general impression of what it’s like to work for Tesla? I’ve always gotten the impression that they work their employees quite hard, and that they can afford to do so since there are a lot of talented people who are intrigued by their specific mission. That sounds similar to what I’ve heard about video game development. I’m sure it’s a crude oversimplification, and my only anecdata is one acquaintance who worked in accounting at Tesla and had worked straight through Christmas two years in a row.
All of the drugs? Drug discovery isn't solely owned by a single country, I would think. There is truth in the GP's comment. The fact that the country in which the GP resides has its own troubles should not preclude them from talking about that of yours.

Edit: s/parent/GP/g
I live with a roommate. We're friends. He's like the only "social life" I have and it's not much. Just work at restaurant, work at home (web).

Often I'm fueled by the drive of escaping poverty. Sometimes though I actually feel bored. I just stop and lose momentum. Binge eat, pass out, feel bad at lack of progress. Like what is my life for? What do I enjoy?

I dream of working/living in a city but I'm also afraid of crowds/new people haha.

I don't know I want to be exposed to nature more like seeing grass, feeling heat, blue sky... I just spend most of my time in a box staring at screens. There is always something on, music, some show/movie.

I used to live in a fraternity house and was not really the cool guy I don't know throughout school I just wanted to be cool/fit in. I don't know I wasted a lot of time/money made a hole for myself.

After I crashed my car a few years back (nothing major just broke a tie rod), I didn't fix it. I became unemployed and I enjoyed the freedom of sleeping/waking whenever. This was also when I tainted myself financially and now (future) I realize my mistake.

I then committed myself to learning webdev. This thought of building high traffic websites and getting rich entered my mind (did not happen). I guess I couldn't commit to school. Man time flies. So yeah that's what I pursue, freedom.
If you weren't doing licensing, you'd still need to do coordination, and give the coordinators teeth to go after people who don't follow the rules - in effect licensing by another name.
The word “layoff” appears nowhere in this report. The words used are “fired” “dismissals” and “firing”. This is a completely different activity than laying off.
Putting someone under while on drugs that typically render it hard to sleep without disrupting the drugs seems considerably harder and riskier than keeping the trip a safe experience by having experienced psychiatrists and antipsychs on hand.
The article seems harsh. Maybe he just likes toys.
How did you conclude this is a result of trimming fat and not just moving on to a better opportunity?
Back in the 70's it was common knowledge that oil companies bought up patents for 100 mpg carburetors and buried them. I asked my dad (Air Force) about that. He laughed, and said the military had desperate fuel problems, and would not let any little ole' patents get in the way of getting their hardware running several times further on a tank of gas.
> It's important to keep in mind that Tesla (like Walmart, Whole Foods, and Amazon) has been targeted by big labor for infiltration and union formation.

The hell is "big labor"? that's some ridiculous level of conspiracy here. Time to read Marx again(or for the first time for most of the people here). Employers and employees don't necessary have the exact same interests. If Employers can be free to pursue their own interests, so should the employees.
Reading this as a single founder startup is both hilarious and very useful.
But if you are already using emacs, you already have learnt the configuration language. What's the benefit?
Thanks, that was a good explanation
I didn't even know about Rich Hickey talks and "Simple made easy" when I decided to start learning Clojure. I came to conclusion that I needed to learn a Lisp after learning Emacs and dubbing in writing small elisp functions. I had no idea and was really surprised when I found out how awesome Lisp can be, so I looked at the current state of Lisp at the time. And then after learning a bit of Clojure and Clojurescript and seeing things people were building with it, I quit my job. I really wanted to use Clojure full-time. Never in my life I ever before have had this urge to learn a language and build things with it.
In my industry, and having to make the decisions to fire people, our worst 1% not only didn’t pull their own weight, they were a negative contribution. Getting rid of them and not replacing them actually put us ahead.

In most cases the employee wasn’t a bad person, they just weren’t able to satisfactorily do their job and weren’t willing to accept reassignment to a job we felt they could do.
Since it's a song quote here's a movie about the issue -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1368443/

It's a strange argument that the people of have world have easy access to pharma.
How so? (genuinely asking) Isn't Tesla focused on using automation to scale?
I think this is a bit of a fallacy. You don't have to always be firing some percentage of your workforce. While hiring the best is not easy and you may need to let people go you also shouldn't just constantly be on the hunt for the next head to chop. I have seen the effects of stack ranking and it's not pretty.
People never fight for the fighting's sake, they fight for profit, all sorts of profit.

Why Xi wants to put down the tigers and flys?

It's because those are in his way to achieve his idea of "revitalize the Chinese nation". Because those people are having different ideas on how to do the same thing, or entirely having a different purpose.

Conveniently, it's always been true that absolute power comes with absolute corruption. That has never been more true since the economic take-off of China. And anti-corruption has always been the most effective weapon to put down powerful people.
Great question. Would love to see controlled studies on this, though the anaesthetic drug would be a confounding factor.

That makes me wonder: what if we gave people psilocybin and knocked them out with ketamine until the effects subsided? Hmm...
Beware of Bitcoin's possible incompatibility with some major services
I think they meant: who are the "some people" who "believe they were targeted"

And why did they believe that?

Without some grounds for accusation it's "sneaky".
would be interesting to get a count of engineering staff at least.
I'm a Monero dilettante, but my understanding is that this is not the case - your private key (or some derivative of it) is needed in order to unmask transactions on the blockchain that involve you, so others can't see what you've been up to. See below:

"When you send funds to someone’s public address, what happens is that you actually send the funds to a randomly created brand new one-time destination address. This means that the public record does not contain any mention that funds were received to the recipient’s public address.

For the same reason, the funds that you are sending were not associated with your own public address either in the public record. Therefore, when you send these funds, the public record will not show that the funds originated from your public address and will not show that the funds were sent to the recipient’s public address."

Source: https://www.monero.how/how-does-monero-work-details-in-plain...
This looks good, but I prefer my copy of Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena.