skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A board of three is ideal. Your board should never exceed five people, unless your company is publicly held. (Government regulations effectively mandate that public companies have larger boards—the average is nine members.) By far the worst you can do is to make your board extra large. When unsavvy observers see a nonprofit organization with dozens of people on its board, they think: “Look how many great people are committed to this organization! It must be extremely well run.” Actually, a huge board will exercise no effective oversight at all; it merely provides cover for whatever microdictator actually runs the organization. If you want that kind of free rein from your board, blow it up to giant size. If you want an effective board, keep it small."

— Peter Thiel

More board members may increase intransigence, decrease oversight (cover over who is really making the decisions and who is not), and turn US corps more bureaucratic.

Many totally rational worker ideals (keep comfy job) are often very opposed to a company's ideals (upgrade technology, take new risks, automate) that may disrupt current workers in favor of fewer workers or different workers. Boards beholden to current workers may sacrifice a lot of progress to keep things comfy, at the expense of future workers and jobs.

I get why, as this article describes, it happens in Germany and is suggested for the US. But on the face of it that mandating board composition is probably not the best way to help workers in companies. There is probably some better way that throws less sand into gears, that involves fewer attempts to mortgage the future of a company for its present workers, etc. Obviously it "works" in germany, for some amount of "works," but it should need no explanation that US companies as a whole are able to move faster, and in high tech, often with higher wages(!!) than in Germany.

Sorry that my perspective is dragging this in a tech centric, but everyone should ask themselves: Why are tech workers wages so low in Germany compared to the USA, if they have workers on the board? It seems unaddressed in this discussion so far, which I think is a great discussion to have. But lots of people so far are acting like its obvious that the German model will lead to higher worker salaries but its... not true already in Germany, for tech at least.
Is it really larger than expected? Or could it simply be a reflection of how popular Toyota cars are in general?
> Even in the "hard" sciences even if the experimental data itself is solid there can be confounders that were overlooked and will only be uncovered by follow-up studies, depending on importance of the result it might take years.

I work in fluid dynamics. In one subfield I work in there is at least one confounder in most studies (Weber number and Reynolds number are confounded, in particular) and an important variable is often omitted (turbulence intensity). Many people don't seem aware that turbulence intensity matters, either, and most who do think it matters don't want to measure or estimate it, so it tends to be ignored. Just because it's hard to measure does not mean it's not important! This is supposed to be "hard" science, but sometimes I feel it's not much better than social science.

How long has this been a problem? I'd say over 50 years, easily!

At a recent conference, one of my papers addressed these issues briefly (I tried to avoid them in a data analysis), but I think it'll take more than that to correct these problems. So I'm planning a new article specifically addressing these concerns. I still expect progress to be slow, but any movement in the right direction would be appreciated...
Steerable phased-array base station antennas make Elon’s LEO network possible. Latency is all about the speed of light. Existng networks use geosynchronous orbit, because existung base stations have fixed aim. Elon’s LEO satellites will be as low as 300km versus the 35,000km to geosynchronous orbit.

Latency may actually be better than fiber for long haul access, because routing will take place between satellites. The speed of light in vacuum is about 50% faster than the speed of light in a fiber (which of course we use terrestrially)

https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/elon-musk-quietly-plans-to...

EDIT: More details here on p2p, encryption, etc

http://www.alphr.com/space/1008632/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Starlink...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/807fns/elon_mus...
Maybe a lock on the directory.
LIBRARY is set to become my new favourite candy bar.
"or that our question didn’t use the vocabulary they’re familiar with"

I lost out a job interview in 1997 because I wasn't familiar with "state management" for websites. The guy was pretty insistent I needed to know what "state management" was. I'd already sent over a project using session management (and he'd created an account, logged in, I sent him the code, etc), but... I didn't know what 'state management' was, so I was passed over. I wasn't strong enough on the phone (and was in a different country at the time - was worrying about the long distance charges!) and... it fell apart. I was essentially a perfect fit (had had an interview before - this was second interview with someone else), but I choked on that phrase, and they passed me by...
AIOGram – fully asynchronous Python 3.6 library for Telegram Bot API
No individual worker can hold enough shares to matter. Unless you're talking about a labor union buying a non-trivial stake in an employer? I've never heard such an idea before, but I'm sure at someone else has thought of it in the past I would be curious to see how that went. It also doesn't do anything at a private company.
Netflix already pays for their Internet connection. I already pay for mine. Why should Comcast et al be allowed to seek yet more rent between two parties who are already paying customers?
No, I get that! I think the author does a good job of implicitly recognizing the weakness of interview processes. I'm really just saying 2 things:

1. They missed a failure mode: in addition to (a) lack of knowledge and (b) lack of communication skills, there is also (c) lack of interviewing skill.

2. It's possible to design an interview process that is resilient to both (b) and (c), and I figured Triplebyte, "who has just one job", would do that.

In addition, on this thread, I've tried (badly) to point out that while (b) is maybe a reasonable thing to check candidates for, it's better to do that explicitly, with an actual test of communication skill, rather than something that can easily get confounded with (a) and (c) (and all the attendant stress that situation generates!).

Thanks for the opportunity to clarify; I'm doing too many things at once today.
In such cases, websockets generally aren't handled by the application itself, but by a server (e.g. the nginx in front of the app with plugins, or an extra server) that manages the connections, often provides "channels" and takes commands from the application.
Negative thoughts detected! Your comment is now being run through a text pattern recognizer to tie it up with your Facebook and your email account. God forbid you might have a stray creative thought somewhere ever, that may threaten our precious democracies.

Have a nice life.
Pigeon poop is pretty much harmless. It's dog poop everywhere that's annoying.

And seagulls, because they will fly over you on purpose. A pigeon defecating on you is pretty much something that happens randomly.

Also, ducks in nature.
> but the data isn't too complex for you to use to make accurate predictions?

> but your conclusions are correct because for some unknown reason you are free from bias?

Who said my predictions would be better or free from bias? I also can’t read the tea leaves!

Instead since there is a great deal of uncertainty we should treat immigration as a risk management game.

Low skilled immigration can clearly have major costs to our society and from all available data provides a very limited upside.

And once you invite people into your country it is extraordinarily difficult and in many cases immoral to kick them out.

Basic risk management techniques tell us don’t take high risk low reward actions that you can’t back out of.
So, concretely, how would the process look different to someone who went through the project track 2 years ago?
Oh for fuck's sake.
It's funny you got downvoted for this (at the time I'm writing this), considering (based on your comment history) you're likely Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP.
The "fight the power" aesthetic of late-1980s/early 1990s zines feels at home with EFF's history and mission statement. The Library of Congress is the power.
I do not see anything wrong with providing weapons to people who are being literally slaughtered by their own govt.

There is no evidence that any foreign govt helped cause the Syrian Civil War in the first place.
Nuclear waste won't kill anyone, as long as it is contained in the storage containers. We just don't have found a way to keep it guaranteed safe for centuries.

Solar alone could easily power the country. Covering large parts of Arizona would produce enough energy to power the whole world. Powering the US, especially distributing it across the states, makes that an easy job. And of course, there is wind. Probably it would be enough to cover all rooftops to power any state.

On Sunny days, Germany can power 30% of the grid by solar only, and that is in a country which is less suitable for solar than any place in the US except Oregon.
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Backward compatibility. Linux can never remove the older interfaces in this case. Only extension or creating new ones is possible. If you want new properties, you need a new interface.
It could be moored off shore similar to Offshore Wind Farms.
Not an economist, but I have tried to keep informed and what you say doesn't seem like it should follow.

(Then again English is not my first language.)
The article notes that this has happened. UAW's retirement plan had bought enough shares collectively to leverage them for a board seat at GM.
Yeah, with web apps and webassembly really gaining traction, browsers should have a per-domain control of permissions.
My argument would be: we should have worked harder to make the rules good in the first place. Yes, I agree that damage to the credibility of the system is bad, but it can easily be the lesser of two evils. We have release valves like bankruptcy for a reason - we don't want to get stuck in negative feedback loops.

See the current trend towards nullifying possession charges for Marijuana. Yes, it sucks for people who got punished under the old rules, and yes, it's not good to say "laws might change and you might 'get away with it'", but sometimes that is better than letting a lot of people suffer.
I'll pile on if that's alright.
In what way doesn't it work? Germany has quite a few quite successful companies, world market leaders in their fields and a quite good social relationship. Certainly there are issues, but far from "doesn't work" in my observation.
Windows on Chromebooks? Stay tuned
I would love to see how they handle the multiplexing and routing of so many high speed links by many people, while only using the power that a satellite can maintain.

I am very much looking forward to this. This would solve several problems for me.
I hate our industry so bad.
To be fair, I feel like I, as a human, get confused about what I’m supposed to be doing driving in SF at a rate worse than once every thousand miles.
Yep, which is why Laravel [0], CakePHP [1], etc prefer to use a node app or separate server to handle WebSocket connections that then use an internal router to call PHP code.

0: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/broadcasting#driver-prerequisit...

1: https://github.com/scherersoftware/cake-websocket
EFFECTIVE AWS IAM Know, Don't Slow, Your Users
Have yet to meet a technical CEO who does not think they know sales, marketing, design, etc.
High-Performance Computing: If You Build It, Will They Come?
A bit pedantic, but this is more product management. Not design.
Why would you even work at a place like this?
Yes I mean the workers collectively buying shares, if they want collective representation on the board. Why do workers need to be a special case? Anyone interested in the direction of a public company can get involved this way already.
Corporate boards in USA don't include workers because workers would pull money away from the shareholders and executives in the form of pay raises and better benefits for lower level employees.
On the point of legal risk, I’m concerned by the authors naïveté in believing that as long as you’re not actually discriminating based on race/sex/religion, you won’t be accused of it.

The more data you put out there, the more likely that someone will crunch it and find some statistical patterns that they will label “racism” or "sexism". Even if you’re innocent, you will get dragged through the mud in the press and maybe even in court. Not worth it. No matter what, you lose. And what’s the upside? You gave some random guy some feedback.

This is the world we live in, unfortunately.
Ask HN: Resources for Learning Horticulture And/or Viticulture?
Can anyone recommend good resources for learning about horticulture and viticulture?

I am looking for online courses and/or books.

Thank you!
> Rent shouldn’t be anywhere near the cost of a mortgage

Rent (for the same property) should be MORE than the cost of a mortgage (for the same property).

The owner is taking on both risk and maintenance costs.

Now, if you're saying "monthly rent on a 2 bedroom apartment should be cheaper than a monthly mortgage payment on a 5 bedroom house", that's different...
Most of the contaminated material in Fukushima, which isn't the molten core, has already escaped into the Pacific ocean. Which is not good for sure. Luckily, the Pacific ocean contains a lot of water. So the dilution is massive. Still, nothing I would consider acceptable.
In the US? Sure. If a group thinks specific representation will make "things" better for their group, then this is a method occasionally exercised.

In certain circumstances, a judge can also appoint you to a board, or even to a CEO position (been there, done that) - but things are generally fairly broken if that happens.
Suprisingly to me to lot of people it looks bad. Same goes for Bloomberg which is similar. The reason why it is suprising to me is because this is how lot of the things looked in 60s and 70s. The medium/bold helvetica with clear colors coming from swiss design school. Lots of stuff used to be like this.
Good for you.
For my part, I just stopped liking Toyota.
If the kernel code is vulnerable then the attacker gets full control over your system. They can also easily hide their presence. If the code is in userspace, the attacker won't even be able to read your files if you run the daemon under a separate user account. They only will be able to mine Bitcoins or use your computer as a proxy for a short time.
The base was 1Tflop, practical, in 2009. The design worked just fine. Later processors were spec’d, internally, up to 10Tflop. They were just obscenely priced.
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
I can tell you some undesirable properties, which is what keeps motivating people to think of new ones.

Bad property 1. Limited number of things you can block on. select(2) can only do FD_SETSIZE descriptors.

Bad property 2. Entire list of descriptors needs to be re-examined on every blocking call. select(2) and poll(2) have this problem. Entering the syscall, the kernel needs to copy the list of descriptors, and after returning from it, the application needs to scan the list to see what changed - these are both O(N) operations. (Aside: Windows's WaitForMultipleObjects suffers from the former problem but not the latter, but has bad property #1 since it's limited to 64 handles.) epoll and kqueue fix this by having the kernel maintain the list of descriptors across calls, notifying you of which ones change.

Bad property 3. Too many syscalls, which epoll suffers from and this latest one is trying to solve. kqueue(2) tries to mitigate this by allowing you to batch add/remove descriptors, rather than doing a separate syscall for each.
It is the same logo. Big heavy sans-serif font with the full name of the org stuck in the middle. The only difference is EFF's big EFF letters are stretched and the full title is condensed, while LIBRARY LIBRARY's big LIBRARY is condensed and the full title is normal-width.
Hedging is very smart when there’s a huge future market at stake and you (Toyota) makes hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue per year.
I think this isn't just about self-driving tech (I believe Toyota already partnered with Waymo on that given the old Google self driving cars were Lexus RX and Prius) - but this is also about car sharing. I think car sharing might be a bigger and sooner threat to car manufacturers than self driving cars. By partnering with Uber Toyota gets to hedge.
Stop telling women how they should talk
I would argue that these innovations were able to be created in spite of the military not because. Think of why the military exists. With finite resources at its disposal what does it fund to maximize its objective? Remember that the military exists only for one purpose, and that is the ability to wage war.
For arrogant, I'd try to make the feedback as concrete and specific as possible - "sometimes you gave confidently wrong answers. If you're guessing, it's better to tell your interviewer that. Interviewers typically won't hold it against you if you guess and guess rightly, but if you don't acknowledge you're guessing and get things wrong, it raises questions about whether you know what you don't know." or "sometimes it's great to ignore the spec because you have something better in mind, but on an interview it's typically better to demonstrate your creativity and knowledge while still building to the spec - it makes it easier for us to evaluate you" or "when talking about your last company, you said some things that came across as disdainful about your coworkers. It'd be better to highlight your achievements."

All of those are ways being arrogant can manifest, but they're much more actionable than 'you were arrogant' and unsurprisingly get received a lot better.

I wouldn't comment on smell - yes, that's valuable feedback a candidate really ought to hear from someone, but the risk of really angering them is too high for me to feel comfortable with it.
I'd hesitate to say PHP has a "perfect sandbox". I certainly wouldn't run a script like `eval($_GET["foo"])`.

The only "perfect sandbox" I can think of for CGI programming is something like Unlambda (pure functional, except for monotonic reading of input and writing of output)
If workers had enough capital to do that they'd be capitalists not workers?
I've gained a lot from switching between open memory questions and open creativity questions, preferably back to back.
Is that python 2.x or 3.x that is perfect?

GRIN

well put BTW
tl;dr: the author's answer to the question in the headline is that US unions have become too weak to negotiate adding union representatives to corporate boards.
But practically speaking you can’t though. You’re not starting a new java process on every request because the overhead is too big, and you can’t fully reset the jvm state for every request.

PHP with fastcgi reliably and quickly resets the php process to freshly launched state after every request, and very few languages can manage that trick in a production context.
Do you have any historical examples to back up that assertion?
Interesting, when I took Geography 101 the first thing they taught was “mapping is super subjective”.
Msynch, track phone activity remotely with calls recording
There are two nasty thing going on with raid5: a) You can tolerate 2 drive failures, no more. One less, but if you tolerated one, you can tolerate one more, and no more.

AND b) raid rebuild causes MASSIVE stress on the remaining drives. Seriously massive stress, beyond what distributed systems or raid 1 / 6 based systems do.

This occurs because RAID5 both rewrites parities, but it also has to re-read data from all drives while writing parities to all drives. That's a lot of random access and especially spin-drives and larger drives (see the coincidence?) dislike that. That tends to cause similar-aged drives to die and then your raid is gone.

I'd suppose this is less hard on SSDs than HDDs. But there's still a lot of rewrites going on, and SSDs don't like that either.
This is really exciting! I wonder how the R9 390 in my gaming rig will fair.

Between Threadripper and speculation that the RTX 20XX series might be lackluster, I'm starting eyeing myself a reasonably-priced red-team DL home lab.
IME, Peter is spot on. The most ineffective board I ever sat on was a charter school board. There was so much representation present that nothing could get decided in the time allotted. This was, in retrospect, perfectly optimized by the administration of the time - they did whatever they wanted, and unless it really upset a large number of people, nothing changed.
Having to give that kind of feedback just sounds horribly draining to me. I know there are people who would accept it. There are people it would really help.

Some would already know it and just say ‘thanks’.

But the people who argue with you that you’re wrong, or they need another try, or ‘I forgot to mention X’, or ‘you just hate me because Y’... the people who feel hopeless and you’re just ‘confirming’ their fears (even if they applied for something way outside their qualifications) or falling apart over it.

I would never want having to deal with that be a big part of my job.
Their FAQ mentions an on-premises option that keeps data in house. Depending how that works and if it's firewalled off, you might mitigate the spyware angle
There was the spec and what was achievable in the real world. Having programmed both the Phi and GPUs - the GPU was the clear winner.

The bottleneck of the Phi was those non-vector instructions you inevitably needed.
> I recently talked with an employment lawyer about this, and he didn’t think that specific feedback on technical performance put companies at risk. So legal risk, despite being frequently cited, seems unlikely to be the real driver of policies here.

This was either written very poorly or lacks serious basis to conclude thoughts about employee feedback (of which drives the thesis of the whole article).

First - "I talked to a lawyer and he didn't think it was a risk", does not sound very much like legal advice. Is there precedence for civil cases that were thrown out due to the basis of "just giving technical feedback"? How often do firms that provide "just technical feedback" get sued and how often do they settle those suits?

Second - I think most people want feedback on "how they interviewed" and not "were they the right fit for the job". This is where you get into a gray area of legality, because anything you might say may get misconstrued as discrimination. "Oh you think I was too nervous during my interview...well I have X condition that makes me like that and you can't reject me for that"

Third - feedback on technical skills? To what avail does this hold for the candidate? Example:

Potential Employer: "You couldn't reverse a string, so work on string reversals."

Potential Candidate: "Ok, I'll go learn a string reversal so I can ace my next interview"

Feedback on interviews is imperfect because the hiring process is imperfect.
Sure :) Send me an email to dtbgamestudio at gmail.com!
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i personally dislike them, they are rats with wings imo

they bread like crazy and shit on everything. I didn't take much notice when a pair nested under my deck. it wasn't long before two became 10+. It was really difficult to get rid of them.

there are these neighbors that will throw them full loaves of bread. honestly they should be fined and forced to pay the bill for all the cars in front of them that are literally covered in white shit.