skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following quote makes it clear:

> “It became increasingly clear that their strategy was divide and conquer—flatter a handful of us in the hopes that we would go along with their plans, and not put up a fight when they fired half of our co-workers,” Westergard adds.

But seriously, what were they thinking? How could they have been so blatant?

> In mid-January, after most of the unit signed authorization cards to be represented by the union, Lanetix was informed and the union filed papers with the NLRB. Ten days later, the engineers were fired.
What is the black box situation with these cars? Is there a dump of the last minute before the accident that the programmers or NTSB could look at to see what and why the car made its decisions? I am curious if the merge looked different from a human that got it rear ended.
>There was a very small detail that was almost overlooked in the article- it seemed like they were planning on keeping their more senior engineers and fire their junior ones.

This seemed pretty clear in the article? They tried to buy off senior male employees with extra stock options last minute.

>Maybe that really is the story, but so many details were left out to focus on the narrative that we won't know without better journalism.

It felt like there was a fair amount of detail to me. If anything, it exposed how much sexism in tech is something management sees as a useful wedge to divide and conquer workers.
Work for the government. Work for a school or school system or for the local assembly of elected representatives if you really want the summers off.

There are plenty of clock punchers but typically they don't job hop. If you're not OK working for years, often more than 40 hours, at some company that will eventually become big enough to not be a startup, to accrue enough internal knowledge to have value even when you don't work, you are never going to get to the 40 hours a week long vacation stage. The alternative is the public sector. In academia, you don't get the summers off (research doesn't stop) but it does significantly slow down often for months at a time and you have some variability(based on funding schedule) about what you work on, so that's another option.

(Also, you're in Canada. You can get a seasonal non-tech job and code in the off season. People find "full time dev who quits every 9 months" weird but they'd find "full time contractor who is a rafting instructor/diver/park ranger/snowmobile tour guide and codes to fund their lifestyle, so don't schedule them in the summers/winters" mostly cool.)
Yes, or some startup figures out that they can start doing it and charge the tech companies for access to their platform.

An open standard would be better of course.
SQL doesn't fit every use case. Ansi-SQL being the standard, has been extended on by most vendors. I too often get frustrated by the idea of learning some new query dialect, but context matters.

In the case where a vendor creates something that looks like SQL, it's frustrating if the basics that I expect from ANSI-SQL aren't there. This especially if my data is stored relationally.

If the database/store doesn't behave or store data relationally, SQL often doesn't work well. At least you need some mechanism which the vendor might not want.

I can't expect to use SQL for a graph database. It also might not work so well for a KV store that doesn't have relations/joins.

MongoDB's query language is actually good. I know they support SQL on the enterprise product, but it feels like a compromise.

I suppose the rant has some merit, but I'm trying to say that SQL can't solve everything.

An interesting project is Apache Calcite, which gives a single SQL query model to various data stores. Perhaps one could write a plugin if they really want to use done random database that doesn't use SQL.
Whelp, they marketed it as Android and it had access to the Google Play store, so I thought it was Android...

Seems I was wrong! I still maintain its very poor for reading papers I've found on my phone and then syncing the annotations.
https://outlookzen.com/2016/11/17/too-big-to-fail-a-call-for...
One of the counterintuitive things that I've learned is that procrastination is often a side-effect of perfectionism -- but in cases where the "perfect" path isn't obvious. It's better to do nothing at all until the perfect path is understood.

Defeating this is a real challenge and requires serious conscious effort. People who have reputation as "doers" often gain it by finding the "good enough" target and driving towards it. Many "do nothings" are really people who have an overdeveloped desire to "do it right" and can't overcome it.

It's absolutely a matter of emotional control.
Was that the reference to the 80% packet loss between two networks?
An open standard is easier for lawmakers since they just quote the standard document.
heh, this is actually covered in the video.
Nah, it’s simpler than that - once you bring a dependency in-house, it’s almost impossible to shop for the best option on the market because your internal product is always “the best” and if you don’t agree, then you are a “jerk”.
It seems like this would require an array of microphones, plus knowledge of the user's location, mushed together into a model of the environment. Like MIMO for sound.
If you don't trust the abilities of other people, who do you think is currently driving cars? You are trusting everyone else on the road with your life every time you get in a car.

You ever look at other drivers when you are stuck in traffic? You will see people looking at their phones. You will see people eating. You will see people shaving. You will see people doing their makeup. You will see people reading books. You will see people with dogs on their laps. And that is just the people who might accidentally kill you due to carelessness. Vehicular suicide is more common than most people expect and there is no telling if you might be collateral damage in one of those collisions.

Self driving cars don't have to be perfect to be dramatically safer than human drivers.
The way I typically understand this is by Dunbar’s number: that 150 or so persons who are “real” in any given person’s head. Any org larger than ~75 has this type of multipolar dynamic where different sub-units are pulling different ways.

It’s held together by the myth of money and/or organizational purpose, which is actually less immediately “real” than any one of those sub unit in-group people.

It’s not that explicit, but it is certainly innate: large orgs all suffer the same way.
If Apple could built a nice, reasonably priced electric car, it would sell like hot cakes, self driving notwithstanding
First: THANK YOU, Dan, for your and your team's first-rate work on React. Please keep it up!

Next: Tempted to say, "don't feed the trolls".

Finally: it seems to me that all too often React the library gets conflated with "React" (+Redux, +[middlewares], +Webpack, +Babel, +Node) the ecosystem.
> Then we saw the huge crime wave starting 20 years later, which peaked and started tapering off in 1993...

This seems to correlate fairly well with the government's war on (certain) drugs as well.
FWIW, it's not just lead in fuel, it's lead in paint (banned in the USA in 1978) that is a source.
annotations -> connotations

If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct.
I don't know what will actually happen but I'm partial to strict liability for manufacturers. If the cars actually cause fewer accidents than regular cars, then even if manufacturers are liable for every accident, the total cost would be less than what people currently spend on car insurance. The cost would be initially paid by manufacturers and I'm assuming passed on to drivers through the purchase price, resulting in basically the system we have now, without the drivers of driverless cars having to carry their own insurance... Sounds good in theory, anyway
I like the evening light which means that DST is great in France and losing it would reduce evening light by one hour.

To be fair, if I had a choice, I would prefer DST to also apply in winter so to switch the timezone of France by one hour.
The Costco deal is a 4GB/128GB model with keyboard that isn't available elsewhere.
Taking Back the Wheel
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i think it is unhealthy to stay hooked in to work while you are on vacation. completely disconnect. unless you have agreed to some strange arrangement where you are on call while being on vacation (doesn't sound like much of a vacation to me).

separately from this, the company needs to figure out a sustainable plan for how the infrastructure is going to be maintained if you are not available for one reason or another. you might need to call this out to the powers that be if they're not keenly aware of the risks already.
The initial tutorial didn't work with an Aussie accent last time I tried it. Anyone else have that issue?
In places where airports are close to residences, the houses will typically be older and poorer. Which may mean they have other sources of lead - e.g. old paint.
More interestingly, it was 64-bit from the core, and eschewed the use of traditional MMU in favor of just using the 64-bit address space to separate process's memory.

Except, Terry Davis became schizophrenic and wouldn't take his meds. He changed the name of his OS to TempleOS after he decided he was hearing god through it.

He used to comment here on HN (user "templeos" now deleted apparently), but his increasingly irrelevant and (literally) insanely racist comments quickly led him to being shadowbanned.

Vice wrote an article about him: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonel...

Last we heard a year or so ago, he was homeless in Vegas after getting kicked out by his parents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16105043
Is there anybody driving a car that does not use acceleration and braking? I could understand your argument for lane control, but otherwise your argument makes zero sense. Everyone's car is controlled by software, period.
Seems like very poor management and people skills. Also it's probably not a good idea to backstop a pre-product startup with bootcamp engineers regardless of gender. The foundation is set early on which is very costly to change. No wants to be changing data models and relationships when there are mission critical features that need to be done.
I like this argument which only looks at very long term statistics. Violent crime has been decreasing since colonial times if not earlier and globally. In this sense, a particular decrease in violent crime doesn't explanation as such (though the long term trend does. Perhaps lead exposure has been decreasing for a long time, perhaps not). Increases in crime, long term, are correlated roughly with veterans returning from war.

See this link for the argument.

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent-...

Edit: also the original lead argument pretty hinges on a single moment of crime increase. I don't see how more detailed studies of the correlation could be more revealing since reality only provides one instance of a potential to leaded gasoline and reality is going to be noisy.
For anyone that thought this doesn't feel comprehensive the Prior Work sections covers why -

"The WireGuard handshake protocol has undergone rigorous formal verification of desired properties using the Tamarin proof system [2]. Many of the cryptographic primitive implementations have also been formally verified as correct. The remaining implementations have been carefully fuzzed against the verified implementations to ensure correctness."

So all put together the simplicity goal really paid off for WireGuard.
Apple executives have never publicly spoken about the company’s self-driving car program, but filings in a criminal court case last month confirmed that the company had at least 5,000 employees working on the project and that it was working on circuit boards and a “proprietary chip” related to self-driving cars.

That sounds like a lot of people working on this project. The estimate appears to come from this July 2018 article:

But the complaint also for the first time gave an official account of some details of the self-driving car program. About 5,000 employees were authorized to access information about the program, including about 2,700 “core” employees with access to secret databases.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-autonomous/criminal...

What's the plan here? To retrofit a Lexus or similar car with self-driving features or build a self-driving car from scratch?
Electricity is relatively fungible. It's a distinction without a difference - it's like claiming that I don't get my pay from my employer because my boss doesn't actually hand me a packet full of cash each fortnight.
The obesity rate only really accelerated sometime later.
Ask HN: What sensors do you have in your home?
I started looking for tools to measure air quality, and found many more commercially available sensors (for various things) than I'd ever considered.

I image more than a few people on HN must have experimented with these kinds of things. What sensors do you use and what metrics do you collect?
I think it depends on where you are.

I lived in Indiana the first 35 years of life, generally in towns with 3000-70,000 people. It was quite common for folks to go to church. Single? Want friends? and so on? You needed church. It was really, really common. To the point that folks weren't as willing to be openly athiest or customers at a retail place to assume that since employees were nice, they must all be good Christians. It was definitely mentioned, and wasn't uncommon for folks to ask where others went to church.

I always got the impression that larger cities or different areas were more free with this sort of thing.

I now live in Norway, and I know very few folks that spend a lot of time at church. There definitely aren't nearly as many of them here in town, and I think half the churches are as much of a tourist attraction as they are places for congregation. There is also more activities that aren't connected with any sort of religion here as well - organized volunteer work, for example, with no affiliation with religion.
Ask HN: How much money do I need to bootstrap my startup?
I intend to build an app, and I'm a developer with some business skill. Could you throw some numbers of what you think I'd need to save up in order to bootstrap my startup to the following stages:

1) Product Market Fit

2) Scaling

3) IPO
Highly recommend reading Dan's reasoning; it makes a lot of sense. This quote is as close as I can get to distilling it:

>"I think this is the primary reason it's desirable for props like tabIndex, cellSpacing, and most other DOM-related props to follow the camelCase convention. It's not because they're DOM property names. It's because they often end up in component APIs. And we want component APIs to be consistently camelCase."
Agreed, I just noted that a high-profile failure of a woman-owned business like Theranos just brings the closet misogynists out of the woodworks, including on sites like HN. Also my comment getting flagged is just a further validation of peoples unwillingness to consider the feminist angle on this. Sad.
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Oh, didn't know it'd leach into metals, that's interesting.
I get it. The best explanation I've heard is that this is a major difference between EU(and UK) regulation and US regulation. In US regulation, the letter of the law matters. In the EU the spirit matters.

The UK has had regulation like this for decades, and as loosely worded. The regulator rarely imposes fines, and then only when forced to because the infringer is refusing to change their processes. Almost always they give some advice, sometimes a warning. This is done in the context of a conversation with the regulator, like "hey, we've received a complaint, have you got any reason why this happened?" instead of "we received a complaint, you're fined $1000 for it".

It's not a revenue source for the government (which it would be in the US). The wording is loose deliberately so that the regulator has the power to enforce the spirit of the regulation without getting tied into knots by the letter of it.

So yeah, I get that it's freaking people out. And there are costs in adapting processes. But, to be honest, if those processes need adapting then they were probably doing the wrong thing in the first place. Also, the EU gave everyone years of warning, and nobody paid any attention to that.
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> Despite their futuristic sheen, tech companies “actually operate like traditional industrialists and will go through old fashioned methods of suppressing workers,” he says.

Spot on.
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Take an inexpensive laptop. The others have too high likelihood of failure (SD card corruption, Bluetooth keyboard runs out of charge, VNC connection slow/drops due to flaky WiFi connection at hotel) and/or will mean you carry more (external keyboard+mouse).

If you want to go very light, and have more time than money, then find an older Chromebook that can run SeaBIOS and GalliumOS. Otherwise, just get an X220.
This is a good and simple thing to focus on. My working theory—-as a parent of a soon-to-be teenager—was that teens are missing out on any true responsibility. No one expects them to do anything that actually is crucial to the family or community. That said, I don’t yet know what that will be for my kids. Maybe some kind of service thing weekly, or maybe it’s some critical chores.
That aside, I found that construction earmuff is quite good for blocking sound and gain focus — with just about 5% price of top noise canceling headphone in the market. It took a bit getting used to though(and took quite some times to 'stretch' the earmuff in order to make it not clamp too tight to your head, but it works quite well and very cheap alternative.

It looks derpy though so I can't wear it in the office — where I want to use it the most. :(
> Probably the single most important thing is this: try to deal with injury before it becomes chronic. If your wrists seem sore or you get tingling sensations, seek help before you develop an injury that's going to take months or years to heal!

The problem I have with this is that I don't feel much difference between regular fatigue and pre-chronic-injury kinds of damage. Typically by the time I can even identify the discomfort as non-transient, I'm already in for weeks/months/years of recovery.
It would be great to come up with a service to crawl AngelList for predictions
In all seriousness: because mankind is depressing and the only system of incentives we have requires people to compete with each other rather than cooperate.
There's not really one where I am. If I'm going to relocate somewhere, it seems like SF is "where the jobs are". Maybe I should broaden my search a bit, though. Thanks for the feedback.
I'm guessing OP understands this, but cannot fix the situation between now and the start of vacation.
How large the screens should be is relative to how far away from the eye they are. Look up Apple's newest corporate acquisition announced this week. Maybe some of the screens won't be large.
The difference between PowerPC and Apple's A series is compatibility. If somebody comes out with ARM-based SOC that is leaps and bounds better than what Apple's got, they can easily become a customer and build an iPhone around that rather than their own work. There would be no need for a long and difficult transition like the one from PowerPC to Intel. Another option would be to buy or license specific components and incorporate them in to the next A-series SOC. The haven't boxed themselves in at all.
Absolutely. A bunch of people in here are suggesting that the effort is wasteful considering Lego's current emissions, but
this is R&D work that could have impacts far beyond their current facilities. Given Lego's quality and durability standards, I'd imagine that anything they're satisfied with will have a wide range of applications in other industries.
You should waive unit testing, full stop.

Most people have zero professional training on how to do them properly. So don't.

/s
Rappi is such an amazing product. Better and more reliable than seamless and GrubHub, in my experience. I used it in Medellin, Colombia.
How do you figure? Can you explain where the overlap is between Apple's current tech investments and autonomous vehicles?
Remember SGI? They were both but their focus market was too limited.
I hate white noise and It bugs me a lot in current office settings (theory is that my brain is trying to make sense of what's thrown at it).

Isn't anti-noise signal, in itself, a noise? Whether or not it perfectly matches the noise signal or lags behind. Wouldn't that be more patterns that the brain would try to make sense of.
How can "ability to communicate their ideas with other developers" not be part of the technical interview?

How could a developer get a 'hire' or 'strong hire' rating without communicating their ideas clearly to the interviewer?
As a Go programmer myself, I read this whole article thinking "well done, you've implemented Go's structs + interfaces model into Swift!"

I'm curious about the enum thing, though... I think the closest we get at the moment is the sql Null<Type> structs, where the value can either be null or a valid value, and we have to jump through hoops to work out which? Is that what you're talking about?

How would you see this working in Go? It is coming up to Go v2 after all, totally the right time to propose stuff like this...
Also, Kenny Paterson's analysis:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/080

And, of course, the original peer-reviewed NDSS paper:

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2017/ndss-2017-programme/...

Spoiler: it's pretty solid.
Apple can buy Toyota, BMW, Mercedes, Ford in cash? Today I learned.
> I genuinely do not understand Apple's move into this space

There are only so many markets big enough for Apple to consider entering. Cars is one of them.

Banking is another. They're allowing people to pay by phone now through credit cards. One day soon it will be an easy transition to just keeping your money in Apple Bank.
Your argument is addressed by Dan Abramov in the comments on the Github issue -

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13525#issuecomment-...

tl;dr, There's already a lot of inconsistency, this is not a good argument.

That said, I don't like the className->class change either. It's a reserved keyword, it always made perfect sense why they originally went with className.
I hope that the FCC leaves well out of this, unless the state law later morphs into something that restricts home servers or favors California based servers
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We'll miss watching your live streams Terry. See you on the other side.
Jobs, back when he was still breathing entertained notions of building a car, and I believe that when Tim Cook and Apple's executives make strategic decisions about the company's future, they're still asking themselves "What would Steve do?"
I mean more like... brakes.
The point of antinoise is that the pattern is erased. The air is still.
Completely anecdotal, but I had some digestive issues for a few weeks, fasted for two days, and everything returned to normal.
I'm pretty sure the founders got extremely diluted after their two most recent rounds.

Unfortunately start-ups in emergent markets have very little leverage to negotiate reasonable terms, especially when there are just a few institutional investors willing to bet on these markets.

Also since these businesses require so much capital and have burn rates that grow exponentially there's little room for negotiation. Unless you want to wait and see how Uber eats your lunch.
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