skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many paths your can take
- test engineer, can still write some code but don’t have to. you can find out if you would really want to move forward as a coder or not

- scrum master roles, where you are managing agile teams

- sales engineering, helping sell technical products

- solution engineering , helping implement a company’s product, little coding and configuration

- training and teaching schools

- management and business, start as business analyst, get an mba and run a busines
A good point, it is a privileged position to do this in the US especially. But the nitpicker in me would point out no one place can satisfy your criterion B, to fit 7 billion people.
It's the free market at work, to an extent.

If Toyota doesn't want to offer $rate, Hyundai will - and now Toyota has to match it or they lose market share. (Of course, it's more complex than that, since obviously people get car loans from banks, but most of the big automakers have finance arms).
Musk has been a little weird these past few days. Like he really had time to go off to Thailand when he wasn't going to contribute in any way because at this late stage of the game, he definitely couldn't be a plan A, and there was only one shot given the rainfall timeline? This isn't the picture of the guy who sleeps on the factory floor to get them out of production hell. Besides that, he looked petty on Twitter. I know that he's always used Twitter for marketing but he looked dare I say Trumpesque.
A few months ago the WSJ reported that the aerospace supplier Woodward was in talks to be acquired by Boeing. [1]

After the market closed, Woodward came out and categorically denied the WSJ's report, saying that it was not in talks. Period.

Its not necessarily nefarious, but the WSJ does in fact publish stories that rely on questionable sources. It's absolutely not out of the question that that could have happened here as well.

Note that since [1] was published, Woodward has not been acquired by Boeing, and its stock took a dive after the WSJ's poorly sourced story caused the stock to shoot up ~10% when it published. A lot of people that bought it on the WSJ's bad report lost a lot of money.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-in-talks-to-buy-aerospac...
As a counterpoint to this argument:
https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
David Graeber and David Wengrow argue that both oppression, and freedom, are present in every society from tiny to huge, the "egalitarian hunter gatherer" trope is a huge oversimplification, and really it's the cultural choices we make that determine whether we live in a free society or one full of domination and oppression. My favorite quote:

"Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace. Egalitarian families and households are not. Once the historical verdict is in, we will see that the most painful loss of human freedoms began at the small scale – the level of gender relations, age groups, and domestic servitude – the kind of relationships that contain at once the greatest intimacy and the deepest forms of structural violence. If we really want to understand how it first became acceptable for some to turn wealth into power, and for others to end up being told their needs and lives don’t count, it is here that we should look. Here too, we predict, is where the most difficult work of creating a free society will have to take place."
Howdy! Thanks for the links. I didn't mean to come off as so fatalistic. I'm still very optimistic about our future, whether or not other people in tech participate (it will just take longer, and we'll suffer more consequences).

My point was to mostly to impress that problems exist outside of web tech, that web tech experts could help solve. The smartest people I know are in the oil industry. They know how to literally go into Nigeria, bribe the right gangs, and get the oil out. They are way better at "getting shit done" than anyone I know in silicon valley. These are the people those of us in cleantech are up against, so we're severely out-gunned.

We truly do need all the help we can get, even if it is from tech elites. I'm willing to make that deal with Worry Free[1].

[1]: Reference to Sorry to Bother You: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/so...
What is the most valuable resource a car salesman has? Time. She/he can’t make more of it and any time spent on something that likely won’t bring them a deal has a huge opportunity cost.

Knowing that, the most effective way to get the lowest possible price is to spend as much time with a salesperson as possible. Test drive every model, have them dig up odd questions and get them convinced that you’re going to buy. After all, a serious buyer would never take so much time if they weren’t serious.

The sales rep will see all the other potential buyers coming into the lot getting help from his competing reps. This isn’t a big deal if she/he is convinced you’ll buy.

After spending all day, walk away. And do it at the absolute last minute. The sales rep and their boss will do everything they can to get you locked in because 1) they were already set on you buying and 2) they burned a huge amount of time helping you and missing out on other buyers. They’re too mentally invested in seeing you buy.

There’s no guarantee you’ll get something at cost or at a loss but you’ll put the power in your hands and be working with someone who’s as invested in buying as you are.

The idea that you can email your way to the lowest price is far less effective. The amount of time it takes for a car salesperson to reastart one to an email is trivial compared to burning an entire day test driving vehicles with you.
Tesla seems like a company that is poorly operated. Apple is arguably the best manufacturer on the planet.
Their (next and hopefully final) crash crunch can’t come soon enough - Mr Tony Stark has abused the taxpayer and gullible “investors” for way too long.
It is fake news. How else do you describe a story that is pure speculation backed by no evidence?

There is zero credible evidence here to support WSJ's outlandish claims. And no, a single unnamed source, is not credible evidence. You would think after the Iraqi war and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people based off such claims from "anonymous sources" the American people might realize this. Seriously, grow up.
> isn't "controlling the playback" a means to control piracy?

No, it's about controlling the channels of publication so they can maintain their position as a gatekeeper.

> I'm curious is there any evidence of this?

See the SCOTUS case at my previous [1]. Universal Studios sued Sony over their new "Betamax" video tape recorders, arguing they were liable under the Lanham Act because their device could record video, which could be copyright infringement.

For more recent examples, see the requirements in DVD/BD licensing that force playback of ads and allow disks to disable various features (like fast-forward or track-skip during an ad).
If self-driving cars were out and affordable, maybe I'd use that. Otherwise I'd never go without a car that lets me go wherever I want whenever I want and transport anything within reason inside it. I would never want to live the life of being beholden to the where&when of public transit and having to do grocery trips a few bags at a time, constantly surrounded by strangers. I drive half a mile to a Wendy's from my house fairly often, and I love having the freedom to do that instead of walking or biking.
Which is why you only pull this card when you're desperate. Hopefully, you never have to do it again.
If states allowed direct sales, an entire industry would vanish overnight. Auto dealerships employ two million people in the US. No politician wants that on their hands.
I would bet a moderate amount of money that I could not buy a car equipped with Waymo on July 22, 2019.

But perhaps you didn't mean buy. Perhaps you mean "use it like Uber now". Well, I don't want to use Uber for all my driving needs now - why would it be different once it's Waymo instead?
Boston Mayor says scooters will be confiscated until regulations worked out
It looks nice! I like the browser view.

One feature I need (and would like to tinker with the code to add it) is support for subtitles in multiple languages at the same time. http://voicetube.com does this to help people learn English; I'm trying to learn Chinese.
Yes, somehow I thought the GP was talking about small business, but I see there is nothing in the text that says so (at least not now). Yes, of course, with cloud infrastructure or just virtualization and spare hardware, service contracts have much less value.

> makes no sense for a commodity hardware installation beyond a trivial size

It's not the commodity hardware - x86 servers have been mostly commodity hardware for decades - it's virtualization (or other rapid recovery and migration tech) that makes it work.
>Now, if you were in this situation and you decided to come back to the old project a few years later (we're now in the early 2000's) wouldn't you expect to be able to continue where you left off?

That's unfair. Back then, storage was expensive, backups were expensive, bandwidth was expensive, server CPU time was expensive. You can't fault them for removing unsupported projects in an era when Microsoft and Yahoo were only giving you 10MB of email storage (you might get an extra 15MB for $10/mo) and similarly aggressive purge policies.
Netflix videos are pretty easy to decrypt, there are a bunch of public exploits you can use to dump videwine device keys.
People who don't want to get ripped off are "boneheads"?
Also depends a lot on where you choose to live. In the city? Totally understand an on-demand car service.

Out in the country/rural area? You're may want a truck that's matched to what you tow/haul/etc. Pretty sure it'd be against Waymo's ToS to haul your garbage into the dump in places where trash service isn't a thing.
People are angry about elites and somehow they could be convinced to vote for a guy who is part of the elite, hires mainly people from the 0.1% and makes policies for the 0.1%. In addition the Christian value voters could be convinced to vote for a serial cheater and liar. That's true genius.
With a "starter CPU" that doesn't support virtualization, so realistically you're paying another $375 for a CPU upgrade. Still quite a bit closer to a useful price point, though. Thanks for the link!
Jonathan Gold, L.A. Times Restaurant Critic, has died
> As for the claim that agriculture encouraged the flowering of art by providing us with leisure time, modern hunter-gatherers have at least as much free time as do farmers.

But we're not looking at the free time of only farmers, but of society as a whole, thanks to specialisation and division of labour. Farmers produce food, others produce other goods and service and trade them for food. Economics 101: everyone is better off and more efficient because they do whatever they have a comparative advantage at.
Clearly not, but potentially not just coincidental either. There have been many theories suggesting that flood myths in cultures all over the world were inspired by actual floods[1], which actual geologists are working to uncover evidence of.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Claims_of_historici...
Acting like trump on twitter and like trump in business. Maybe he can run for president and try to salvage the company that way.
Leases are literally the option to purchase a car at a much later date at a predetermined price. You’re betting you can keep the value of the car above the price difference of the vehicle at that later date. The manufacturer is just raking it in - they’ll rarely not be able to fix a vehicle up for a great profit. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the lease contract price (Ie sum total of downpayment and monthly payments) more than covers the manufacturers per vehicle cost.
I've used SourceForge for a while for my hobbyist game development. I've never had a problem with them product wise; their tools work well and they're really making solid progress on the redesign.

The malware incident was really bad, but I'm surprised more people won't give them a look given the fact it is new ownership and a much smaller team.

What's strange, to me, is that last week there was a thread with a majority of commenters defending Microsoft and their new attitude towards open source, when Microsoft has been making terrible products whilst being hostile to developers and consumers alike for decades (just my opinion).

Everyone has different grudges for different reasons, I guess. It's a tough and complex problem as a business.
Until you have someone double-clicking on browser links (and other things) because that's how you open stuff in a computer, as I've seen multiple less-experienced people doing it.
"Easy problems take me 2-5 hours."

Are you sure you're not reinventing established theories and algorithms? Those problems are supposed to be hard because they're based on ideas discovered by the most brilliant minds. If you can do them in 2-5 hours with no background you might actually be real good.

Depending on what level of familiarity you have with the material, you might be selling yourself really short. Deliberate thinkers (often misunderstood even by themselves as "slow") are often the most reliable because they take the time to understand and think things through.

Please take a deep breath and start with a reasonable supposition. If "easy" problems are taking too long for you, maybe there's an easy way to "solve" it (memorizing the patterns and knowing the most likely to be tested algorithms).

Like others say in this thread, not only are those problems unrealistic, it's much like test prep for standardized tests that you may have taken getting into college.
>>no one place can satisfy your criterion B, to fit 7 billion people.

Fully agreed - exactly the point :-)

For the foreseeable future, we'll have to live in heterogeneous environments with limited "one size fits all" , or "implementable immediately by all" solutions :-/
I don’t care. It’s sort of like wiping out a virus with a vaccine. If everyone in the pay day loan industry loses their job, who cares. Car dealers are at the same level.
I think we are all slaves to DNA to the extent it determines our genetic makeup. In terms of having kids, like I said, I enjoy life and so I naturally want to pass down the experience of life to my children.

There is a biological “want” built-in of course (oxytocin, etc.) but it’s something I consciously want, too. So, no I’m not completely enslaved by my DNA.

I see myself in the context of my past and future, and I want to actively continue my chain of existence through my children. In comparison to that, extra free time and money seem trivial to me.
> Why does it still exist?

Well, we are using Sourceforge... For one particular reason - free mailing
list [for our open source project]. The code is on GitHub, but we want
to do things the "old way" - send a patch to the mailing list, let people
review it.

-ss
IIRC in many chips the decoder stage translates native instructions into micro-ops, which are RISC-like and the main food for execution units. The translation is not necessarily a simple one (one native instruction is often more than one micro-op, and it's possible to collapse multiple native instructions -- especially stuff like prefixes -- into one or more micro-ops).
>a serial cheater and liar

Right, because the Christians also voted for Bill Clinton.
I guess because being stuck within a city and not being able to go hiking or whatever is my personal little hell.
I like the poem. I also like this take on what we should do about capitalizing his name, it feels like it's as close as we can get to a rule: http://eecpoem.pbworks.com/w/page/9068325/Decapitalization ... Where he changed it, keep it changed, everywhere else, use standard capitalization.
Just because the company denied the report it doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't true. Companies deny things all the time in accordance to whatever suits their current interests.

"Several hours after The Wall Street Journal reported on the talks, Woodward issued a news release saying that it “is not in discussions with Boeing over a possible acquisition of Woodward... After the statement, the people familiar with the matter said the companies remained in talks."

The Wall Street Journal has a long history of thorough research and well-respected publications. There's no doubt that the vetting process for industry sources is extensive. Remember when a right wing group tried to approach the Washington Post with a fake story and how quickly they were able to expose it? It's entirely possible for sources to give occasionally incorrect or unreliable information based on changing events, but the notion that the WSJ consistently relies on "questionable sources" is ignorant of how extensive the process is.

Just because it isn't transparent (which is precisely to protect the quality of their sources) it doesn't mean it isn't reliable.
I would think it's closer to branch prediction but on a larger scale than just instruction pipelines.

I'm curious if it modifies the original binary.
Yeah, there's a whole load of gear that you need when taking kids on the road. Not just car seats but toys, sippy cups, spare nappies, snacks, etc. that you'd have to bundle into and out of the car every single time if you're not using your own vehicle.
That government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich shall not perish from the earth.
Remember the link recently that predicted Tesla shorts are about to unleash lots of negative press to make money? That's part of that.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521946
A friend of mine had a similar problem. He leased a flat (New Zealand term for a rental of various sorts) and took photos of the place, including the thread-bare carpets. When he moved out, the landlord decided that they hadn't cleaned the place properly and wanted to charge them for it. Friend hired a carpet cleaner, and went back in, scrubbing every square centimeter of the place. Landlord insisted that it wasn't properly cleaned, so the Tenancy Tribunal got involved. In the end, the landlord took half the bond, and my friend got the other half of the bond.

The landlord still won.
yet... i would think a sizeable portion of them would just be shuffled and reemployed someplace else in the auto chain. maybe not 100% but... most?
There's lots of infrastructure work to be done if politicians were concerned about employment numbers.
American automakers have been financially whiffly-waffly for as long as I've been alive. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is industry standard for that industry. It also would be pretty smart to play that game given the bad press if it's possible by past precedent regardless of financial condition.

It's also quite lucrative to publish these sorts of things about an industry darling with whiffs of smoke coming from a part of the world that gave us Theranos.

So it could be good business on the part of Tesla. Or good business on the part of WSJ.

Tesla could also be fucked. We shall see...
What will Waymo provide except as lightly cheaper version of what Uber provides right now, which again is a cheaper version of what taxis have provided for a hundred years?
Drone Launches Cloud Native CI/CD for Google Cloud
It’s a few hours over 1-2 days - not that much effort to save a few thousand dollars.
Having a mild form can be even more difficult. You appear different enough that people can tell, but your similar enough to other people that people don't understand the difference between you not getting it and simply misbehaving. When someone who will never get why they're being disciplined for what to them is acting normally keeps getting repeatedly punished, it's usually going to go poorly.
Prediction: conservatives and liberals will both read this as confirming their suspicions.

It would be interesting to note which policies are considered elitist so we can see specifics.

I’m assuming on tax policy this study would vindicate the left but curious about what other policies the “elite” like.
Are they a manufacturer? I am under the impression it is mostly outsourced to Foxconn.
They do happen to have the advantage of being somewhat of a niche product with inelastic demand and (to my knowledge) no good automated substitute. I'm sure that if somebody figured out a way to make cymbals as good as these on an automated line, they'd do so.

That aside, this was an interesting quote:

The Greek immigrant has been retrained seven times in 40 years
Especially when they come with GPS that tell the lender exactly where it is to come repo it.
Yeah, that makes sense. I’d agree it’s unethical to have kids if you didn’t want them. You have an obligation to provide for them once they’re born and it’s a lot of work. Neglecting that duty can cause lots of damage. It’s not for everyone, I suppose.
I drive my car less than half a mile to a Wendy's on a regular basis. On a bike I wouldn't be able to bring my dog, it would be weird using the drive-thru, it would be uncomfortable on all but the few days of the year that are a perfect temperature, and I'd be much less safe in the case of an accident (people don't look at all coming out of this one place they're supposed to yield sometimes).

And taking home the amount of groceries that I do on a bike would be impractical, and if put in a backpack, probably hurt my back.

I cherish having the choice to take a car to these kinds of places. No way a bike would be faster because whenever there's someone on a bike in front of me on these routes, I have to slow down, and these routes are never badly congested. Admittedly riding a bicycle in a bike lane can be a lot faster in some of the most congested parts of the country like Manhattan, but there often aren't bike lanes and using sidewalks is a point of contention.
What is the nr. 1 performance/ux/bugfix you would like to see?

BTW This month we shipped 35 performance improvements https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?scope=... and there were 141 bugs closed in the release of this month https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8...
This is just speculation.

They have a memo, they talked to Tesla who do not appear to challenge their narrative. Plus, it's a business story in the WSJ, not some random blog post.
I’m not saying this is likely, but imagine white Toyota or Honda could do with Tesla’s battery/platform technology.

I’d say there’s a lot of outfits who would be better positioned/more likely than Apple.
Absolutely. I clicked through to the underlying paper and read it for that very reason, but couldn't find a table or any examples of what some of the policy differences are. Be very curious to see where our elitist policies differ from what the average person wants.
Well, the UI still sucks. They still have their weird download mirror page that reminds me of filesharing sites like RapidShare and Megaupload. So there's that. It doesn't exactly engender trust.
It is, but obviously Apple designed everything to be extremely easy for them to manufacture at high volumes. That’s the kind of thing that Tesla seems to be having a lot of problems with.
Thanks! Incremental progress in the form of iteration is one of our core values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration