skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proving again that heuristics don't solve problems, they just make them less obvious.
From what I understand, last year they decided to continue all coal-fired electricity plants presently under construction, but cancel all the ones that were only in the planning stage. And China is making a very strong push on renewable energy and electric vehicles.

China is a very big ocean liner, so it takes a long time to change direction, but it is definitely changing.
As a self-identified HODLer - I like to think it's because holding isn't nearly as easy as it sounds. Ignoring what 'Mr Market' is offering you for your property on any given day and overruling your herd-following instincts is not easy, else Warren Buffet wouldn't be such an outlier.

And yes, the HODL mantra is a way of reminding myself that I shouldn't make emotional decisions in the heat of the moment.
If you want to do “field-effect calculations” or care about preservation of shapes you probably want a conformal grid. If you want to trade off area vs. shape distortion, it’s probably better to pick a projection which tries to optimize distance errors. Using a gnomonic projection for each icosahedron triangle is probably not the best choice for pretty much any application, though it has the advantage of being less work to implement.

There are lots of reasonable choices for high-level grid shapes, e.g. http://www.lib.ncep.noaa.gov/ncepofficenotes/files/on467.pdf

For human comprehensibility of coordinates I would recommend instead starting with an octahedron as the basic geometric skeleton.
My naive expectation would have been that the CPU maintains some kind of process level isolation.

My new understanding is now that the concept of a process and isolation of processes is handled by the kernel.

This is probably a silly question, but maybe we could handle process isolation in the CPU somehow?
Prison stocks up 80%, overcrowding of scum in prisons unaddressed by current Congress.
How is this different from coding, say, a wall hack in an online FPS?
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I would liken it to Apple myself. First mover advantage does count for quite a bit in software.
Presumably because over a certain threshold, you're paying far more than you'd ever expect to receive back from the program in retirement?

Not saying I agree with it but that's my guess as to the reason.
This was why I was so unhappy with Stein.
It's an interesting project, I really wish that they would have talked more about how the system has been implemented. As in what system are they using and how close to "real time" are they getting the data? Those are a HUGE number of sensors and without even considering how they are getting the information back to any gateways, it would be a gargantuan task to build anything out that would be easily digestible my a person in a Control Room.
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Wasn’t Dodgecoin created to be an indicator of how much of a bubble the market is?
18 months of severance? Like, their monthly wage x 18, to let them go? What startup could possibly afford that?
Try using it for consensus debugging. Like wrapping a few zookeeper or console processes with FC. Time is a fun one to debug, slips are not fun to debug in prod even though one thinks ntp is always reliable.
The problem with this specific one is Apple changing the glyph, and thus the meaning, with an update.

Messages I previously sent were completely rewritten in a software update because Apple changed the glyph so drastically.
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That's kinda how it works in Asia. You sign a seven year contract, they send you to a flight school where you learn the basics, and they stick you as like fifth-in-command in an airliner. At some airlines you have to work for the company in some other capacity first.
Open Source projects don't generate profit by themselves so if you're expecting dividends or something you're not going to get any. If your company makes use of badly funded open source projects then it makes sense to donate first to make sure the project keeps existing and second it's good publicity to attract devs. If you're talking about companies whose product is open source such as mongodb or redhat, you must think of these companies as service companies (like IBM) and as such you should check the quality of their dev and sales service capacity to sell well, service contracts. Not sure if this answers your question.
Did you comment on the wrong article? That quote is from https://technology.cloverhealth.com/how-to-interview-entry-l...
A good way to gauge a founder's (first-time founder) likelihood of success is to see how receptive they are to this list of advice. As a contract developer, I find that many many founders consider themselves the exception to the points listed in the original article which is a huge red flag. The biggest exception is probably listening to customers - I find a lot of founders insist they have to 'educate' customers which basically never works. I wrote about it at length here: https://www.turbo360.co/blog/startup-red-flags-syzdan
Still terrible. Just bought two. Both are slow and absolutely riddled with software bugs. If I didn't get them on a deal day for £29 they'd be going back.

Ive never seen so many bugs. Both pads suffer from things like kids profiles having to redownload (or do something) to every app everytime you open it. App crashes and slow launches every time it gets used (around 30 second launch times on both pads) Downloads simply do not get save to SD card despite clear settings saying otherwise. Accelerometer freezes. There's some kind of race condition in the app store so even though I've disabled it with parental controls sometimes you can get it to download an app without password.

One nice bug is that if you set up a kid profile it wont show ads on the lock screen. A fun bug is that if you delete the kids profile, it'll not actually remove the profile data, it just stays on disc taking up space. You have to reset the device to factory settings, but if you dont and you just leave the kids profile deleted it still thinks ones on there and doesn't show ads.

That's not all the stuff I've run into (initial setup had all sorts of other issues) but those are just of the top of my head.
There are already unfunded pension plans and systems waiting to blow up in the next decade. This article [0] details the South Carolina government pension plan, covering 550,000 residents, which is currently $24 billion in the red.

Your response is engaging in "political crap" by providing no evidence besides name-calling. For some actual proof of the Social Security situation, here's the SSA report [1] explaining how its Trust Fund will run out in 2035. So yes, Social Security will still exist, but it will rely on short-term funding rather than a big account. That's fine in theory, provided the budget is there. (It likely will be; I imagine the politicians will cut military funding before they hurt SS!)

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/collapsing-pensions-will-f...

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p111.html
Privacy Settings is a good start: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-setti...
How about employment by sortition: let the RNG decide.
Unsure if this is satire or not. Bezos's businesses don't give a damn about their customers. I don't trust Amazon at all, even if I use their products, that's because I like many others have been screwed over by them on occasion.

Trump criticizes everything, Jeff is not singled out. He's the equivalent of a Gilded Age robber baron. You want to put him in charge?
Sounds like a good way to discover those timing-dependent scenarios before they happen in production ;)
It's a common misperception for the general public to value lower prices for higher end products and disregard how margins works in practice for 99% of the products they buy.

Meanwhile they think nothing of paying large margins on sub $20 products such as T-shirts. But the differences go well beyond that.

Luxury pricing is partially psychological but there is also real value in having a high margin product, allowing the company the luxury of hiring the best talent in the world and get the best supply line in the world, etc. Most mid-tier competitors are just mimicking the talent of top tier brands (otherwise pure low-end markets tend to stagnate as we've seen in many Japanese markets absent 'innovation'), and lowest tier is doing the best with what they can with the lowest quality talent + parts/supplies.

Even if Apple doesn't remain the #1 brand I still hope there remains a luxury brand that is pushing the envelope of the tech and software progress the way they (and Google Pixel recently) has been.

It doesn't benefit anyone when the only services or products left are on a death spiral towards low prices. That's a symptom of either a dead product/market or economy.

Not to mention the plenty of other factors (sometimes irrational) involved in non-low-end pricing strategies.

I haven't even touched on the more primary influences of high prices on preventing shortages and meeting consumer demand (which in absence is often the death knell of price capping critical markets such as food in socialist countries like Venezula).

I tell everyone to read this book before pricing their products and buying into the myth of 'success' by trying to low-ball your prices, it's both bad for your business and also bad for the industry if you're one of the few offering the product (because you'll likely die before it becomes sustainable):

https://www.amazon.com/Pricing-Profit-Command-Products-Servi...

TLDR: ignore the average persons comments on pricing, the lowest possible prices are not always the best prices, certainly for the entrepreneur/industry but also notably for the consumer/general economy as well - often for non-obvious reasons
Haven't heard of Libby, but there's also 'Axis 360', 'hoopla', and 'OverDrive'. My library uses all three. You choose a book and it'll only be available on one of the apps.
Time spent being educated is not necessarily related to being educated.
How is that supposed to help team morale?

Perhaps it's just me talking, but I like my work. I like my co-workers. I have no kids nor debt, and I would be pretty sad working at a place that says that they want to fire quickly.

The hiring process sucks, and employees are human beings. Perhaps you mean to say that you should be fully transparent when someone underperforms? If that's the case, I would agree with you. No need to beat around the bushes, just be honest.
In Swift you can also reference the enum types directly, like `var h:String? = .some("Hello")`. You're also missing `??` for Swift's version of default values.
See, THIS is what we should be fighting. NN is unnecessary if we have actual competition. Those exclusivity contracts, to me seem like Sherman Antitrust Act violations, since they are effectively creating cartel-like conditions to limit interstate commerce (i.e. commerce over "the wire.")
I really should not have read that resume. Really doesn't help the overall inadequacy problem.
Bezos is an accomplished entrepreneur, but from everything I've heard about how Amazon works, I can't imagine being an effective politician. He's a corporate dictator, not a coalition-builder: the exact quality that built Amazon would seem to be his greatest weakness in the White House.
Position Requirements

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As someone without a degree, there are quite a few positions unavailable to me. Some positions state a degree is required even though they would take an exceptional developer, but many others are very strict and require the degree. The pedigree of the employees can be important when the company is in the market to be bought or sold.
I'd add 2 more anecdata points

- The strong sense of rapid progress, culturally, technologically, socially, infrastructure-wise. Everything transforms every few years and there's still the sense that everyone's hard work goes towards making the pie bigger instead of fighting each other for pieces of the pie. In relative terms, there's more stagnation in the Silicon Valley. I don't know when's the last time there has been a brand new shiny mall built. POS are still routinely being plugged with a card so you revert to using a magnetic stripe. NIMBY movements are still trying to revert society to an agrarian state.

- The comfort feeling that your hard work translates to social approval and your personal wealth vs the feeling at least in the Silicon Valley that your hard work translates to your landlord's wealth and increased vilification of the tech working class.
yeah thats what i did. too late to delete
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Those things are specifically exempt from VAT
>technically Oceanghost didn't steal anything either. He just customered a little better than Microsoft was counting on.

That's like saying if a business left their door unlocked everything's free.

>It's not theft in the strictest legal sense

It's fraud.

The law doesn't think you're so clever, make no mistake, this scheme is illegal. I posted another comment where a woman was convicted of wire fraud for doing essentially exactly the same thing.

The intent to defraud matters as well as the scale (which goes hand in hand with intent).
EDIT: misread “customers” as “employees.” As a satisfied longtime Amazon customer, I really couldn’t disagree with you more.

In contrast to the current President, Jeff is a stable and effective leader with broad popular appeal, a good head on his shoulders, and respect for the institutions of American democracy. In 2020, I think that’s the best we can hope for.
I don't think it's a terrible way to look at it, I think it's reality. I say this as a new employee of a YC startup-turned-unicorn. Yes, we have a mission as a company. I happen to believe in that mission. I also know that we have made a lot of obligations (investments, options as compensation) that make an exit important, too.
The first person to do this for catwalk dresses and suits to fabric patterns will make a lot of people very happy! (although not the big fashion houses)
If you are willing to have some pairs of hexagons border each-other along two edges, you can squint and pretend to cover a sphere by hexagons alone. http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-237.pdf

The way the discrete global grids people handle it (TFA is an implementation of that) is generally to stick 12 pentagonal pixels in their grid at the corners of an icosahedron.
That list is a bit under-specified for an absolute newbie to electronics. A link to Digikey or Mouser would be helpful. A resistor just isn't a resistor, for example. I imagine they really mean a 1/4 watt 5% tolerance thru-hole resistor for use on the breadboard, for example. Someone who orders a surface mount 0402 1k resistor is in for trouble...
Visualizing Meltdown on AWS
IIRC, for the longest time, you couldn't even get the emoji keyboard on Western devices without some sort of weird kludge.
> "I think the reason this paper was accepted is different from the reason the author likely thinks it was accepted."

That's a great perspective to have! I wonder if opinions like these are available online - I'm thinking in a format like Adrian Coyler's morning paper. I would love to read opinionated, yet highly educated material.
Many founders talking about hiring or firing employees. I'm not from US, so I wanna ask How long trial period do startups offer? Do they pay severance package during/after trial and how much?
Then we find HQ eventually pivots to being a machine learning research platform once someone invents a perfectly scoring bot ;-)

Joking aside, I'd say HQ Trivia are getting savvier with the questions. A final question the other day was along the lines of "Which two female artists collectively have the same number of Grammys as Beyoncé?" with the answer being "Adele + Madonna", I believe.
I use IceCat which is essentially that. It's based on the ESR releases though since it's hard for the few volunteers to keep up with Firefox's releases.
I don’t think you’re entirely wrong, but you could have said all that about Donald Trump in 2016. We live in strange times.
I've seen little league board members with a better ability to lead than Trump. Just because he's better than bad, does not make him good. Why can't we have higher standards for the person running this country?

Why can't a nation of 300 million people choose someone who hasn't spent their whole life making money or being a pop star? I'd like to see someone with a broader outlook than that.

Your satisfaction as a customer comes at the expense of their employees (as you pointed out) and their sellers. It's something you have to experience and then you get how they work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661710

As a once (and still) happy customer they lost all my trust.
I didn't down vote you. Sorry if I gave that impression. I don't downvote people who meaningfully contribute to the conversation.

I was just responding to the excuse.
> similarly, we should expect people to gain experience in government before they are considered suitable.

I agree with the principle (and I despise the whole "tv stars as president" trend), but Bezos' experience isn't completely irrelevant.

There was a similar argument to be made (and that has been made) about Trump and business experience. Now, Trump's failures as president are correlated with his failures as a businessman and in life in general, but it doesn't undermine the logic.

CEO of Amazon is a massive amount of experience that no former president can claim they have. And although Bezos wouldn't have experience working in government, I highly doubt he's unfamiliar with it; he, just like any CEO of companies like amazon, would have worked with governments (especially US government) a ton.

(Now let's not say that too loudly in case Larry Ellison reads HN and is getting new ideas)
I have for many years suspected that the US telecoms have colluded to set a price floor for broadband service at $60/mo, and for mobile data services at $40/mo. It strains credulity that data services would be markedly cheaper in nearly every other country.
Mayor is probably easier to learn than President. If Bezos ran for mayor of Seattle and governor of Washington I would have more faith in himbeing President. Right now he leads an authoritarian organization (as most corporations are). the qualities to lead that may not translate into leading a democracy.
Amazon is a company that has spent years acting incredibly immorally: many many clearly anticompetitive practices, censoring 1984 from peoples' Kindles, avoiding and evading taxes, etc.

People don't 'trust' the Amazon brand. People just know that Amazon is cheap because they're built a huge economy of scale by acting anti-competitively. How, you ask? By lowering their prices to the point they were losing money or making very little money.

Amazon is no better than Walmart or Microsoft or any big American company that has acted monopolistically, IMO.
Why do you want to make things more expensive? Wasting their marketing dollars means they have to charge a higher price for their services. It's like going into a grocery store and taking all of the advertisement circulars and throwing them into the toilet. A pointless exercise that drives up costs.
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This was a very helpful explanation, thank you! Does using hexagons represent the start of a paradigm shift for mapping applications or is it something that has been used for a while? This is the first I have heard of it, but based on your explanation it makes a lot of sense.
Love any science article that provides a clear, scientifically accurate answer to any question my 6 year old asks me.

That's a lot of salt, though: "if the salt in the ocean could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick."
I agree with you, but Amazon is definitely more of a substantive organization than whatever it is Trump ran.
Agreed! 18 months isn’t feasible. Even well funded Fortune 500 would refuse that.

At the end of the day you have to think of this as an employee benefit to convince people to jump ship from their current employers.

I personally think 3 months + 1 month for every year they’ve worked for you is attractive enough.

You can make exceptions if you’re trying to poach some high level exec.
The important lesson being don't secure the signal, hide it in the noise.
Please do not encourage more political discussion here.
Note that the "e" is inspired from CS107e [1], the experimental version of "Introduction to Computer Systems". 107e also uses a Raspberry Pi to help students incrementally build up a working knowledge of basic system components including the processor, memory, and peripherals.

[1] https://cs107e.github.io/
Websockets? Really?

Even if they are an ugly hack on top of HTTP, they are too damn useful to be disabled.

Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it.
Right. The virtualization is just a way to allow you to use the legacy applications you need while they are phased out in favor of the new hotness.

Of course, that'll get you nowhere unless the new hotness really is so much better that cost/benefit of running it, plus oldOS in a VM, is greater than that of just running oldOS.
Time to bring in the big questions. The tortoise is on its back. And you are not helping it. Why?
Jeff who?
Maybe he could run for President of China where most of his stuff comes from.

Mark Z. can be his vice and they can think up kid names together.
> [...] we thought paying more to get experienced people wasn’t worth it.

> we thought because we knew how to code that we didn’t need senior

> engineers [...] Shouldn’t we just be able to teach ourselves?

> The answer was maybe, but with a lot of wasted time along the way.

A lot of startups make this mistake from what I can see
Oh wow this is really neat! Can be very useful for debugging.
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Will you be sticking to the timeline mentioned in this post: https://millcomputing.com/topic/meltdown-and-spectre/#post-3...

Will you be posting this paper on HN? I'm sure a large portion of the community here would be interested in it.
That's biased against the unhanded
Yeah, Redox has precisely one interesting idea as far as I can see: it evolves the "everything is a file (except when it isn't)" UNIX paradigm with "everything is a URI". Other than that it's just any old UNIX clone with worse hardware support and Rust hype.
Trump isn't an effective politician, so whatever people were saying in 2016 was exactly right.