skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source companies could run on a blockchain and one could have a smart contract to release the source code or access to one's proprietary data upon company going out of business..
I think that’s implied by the article. Experience matters. It’s not like these guys were garbage men before.
I agree, knowing why things were done the way they were is far more interesting just knowing how they were done and the supposed advantages.

Maybe if Tesla fails (or succeeds wildly, has a IPO and many people cash out and take jobs at more established car makers) we'll get to hear the stories behind these sorts of decisions.
They appear to have been found guilty of predatory pricing in at least one case:

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/13/business/company-news-wal...

Searching "Walmart predatory pricing" returns quite a lot of results.
In the 1950's, anarchist(?) bombings were epidemic I understand.
> Oil companies fail because they think they're in the oil business. When in fact, they're in the energy business.

Correction, successful oil companies realize that they are in the financing business. Exxon Mobil has the uncanny ability to earn billions of dollars without selling a drop of their own reserves.

In this sense, the successful technology companies have realized that they are also in the financing business. This is why I think Apple and Microsoft will outlive Intel -- Intel innovates in their own market while Microsoft buys into any profitable market and can capitalize on the arbitrage the comes from being an established player.
Today. However as EVs become more common other solutions will emerge. Slumlords will put in charging stations if the tenets demand it (which is to say the poor decide having a charging station is worth paying additional rent). Any parking spot can be upgraded for charging - at a price.

Remember, the poor are not buying new cars. Even if suddenly all new cars were electric it would still be years before the poor get to these cars.
Additionally, modern microcode updates are both encrypted and signed blobs. Granted, it's of little use if Intel/AMD are playing the role of bad actor or if the signing and decryption mechanisms are bypassed somehow; but trying to load unsigned microcode by default will result in rejection.
It has also been archived to Github:

https://github.com/opsxcq/mirror-vxheaven.org
What exactly do you mean by unions without politics? Unions are inherently political. The things you've listed here are literally just employment perks, they can exist independently of unions as reasons that someone might want to work at a given company. They also all have a cost to the employer and employee, either of which might prefer to have those resources allocated elsewhere.

Companies naturally offer differing employment perks to try to entice people to work for them. Google famously has bowling alleys, dance classes, laundry, massages, food, etc, which all form a part of the package of what might make somebody want to take a job as a developer at Google. Facebook followed suit with many similar perks. As an SF/SV contractor for the last 5 years, it has been my experience that all different companies offer completely different costs and benefits to working for them, and I'm perfectly happy to let the companies compete among themselves for talent.

If I have to join some software engineering union whose demands are going to be some bastardization of collective goals, which inevitably will deteriorate into a wasteful bureaucratic entity (as unions tend to do), I lose my ability to freely choose what exactly I'm looking for in a workplace.

For example, I don't care about personalized ergonomic workspaces, I don't care about legal counsel, I don't care about training, I don't care about representation to recruiters, I have my own health insurance, I get my own tax advice, and I don't need equipment rentals. Every thing that you've outlined as an objective for a union to accomplish are things that I would rather have the employer spend on salary. Your objectives do not align with mine, I don't want to pay you to accomplish them, and I don't want you to have my employer spend money accomplishing them. I have completely ignored companies with things like swimming pools, ping pong, seminars, etc, and have instead chosen places based off of how much they pay, or how interesting the project is to work on.

Everyone's objectives are different, and so long as there is not a massive imbalance of power against the workforce wherein we lose the ability to choose freely, which in the case of a SV developer is absolutely not the case, then I see many more problems than solutions from an attempt to collectivize them.
"spending hours giting gud at Haskell doesn't translate to hours saved solving real problems"

As long as we're playing "make baseless assertions at each other", my experience says otherwise. That's going to be hard for you to talk me out of.

Programmers still seem to have this bizarre belief that programming, uniquely among all the skills in the world, is not possible to improve via deliberative practice, and an equally bizarre belief that improved skills can't possible translate into better programs or even worse, must inevitably translate into worse programs. I can't wrap my mind around it.

I don't deny that there certainly is a trap where you learn these skills in a sort of greenhouse environment, then fail to translate them out of that environment properly. But that's the fault of the practitioner, not the skills, and I prove by demonstration that the skills can come out of the greenhouse and improve real code. I mostly write my professional code in Go, so you can be quite assured my production code is anything but a mess of functional paradigms inappropriately applied, since that's basically impossible in Go. I find what I learned in Haskell to be incredibly useful in Go.
I think that makes sense though, Tesla is a new brand with no history. Mercedes have been around for a long time. Buying a Tesla right now I would have to assume this as a known risk, right?
That's one of the things that the union/guild would be there to protect against.
There were the autonomous F 015 videos, a sort of parlor room on wheels thing.

(Don't know if there was actual hardware or just videos. To be fair, it will probably come to the depicted solution in due time.)
I have the same in Firefox on Linux.
> why is so much money going to the middle men?

Because the middle men like getting free money, and it's not other people's jobs to fix the problem. If you're an academic, your job is to produce papers that get published, not fix the publishing system. If you're a library, your job is to make materials available to patrons, not fix the publishing industry. In contrast: If you're a for-profit publisher, your job is to maximize profit, which means minimize your costs and maximize your income.

What's changed is that the costs are now so steep, and the value provided by publishers is so little, that it's become painfully obvious that scientific journal publishers don't provide value compared to the rent fees they charge everyone else.
That’s not accurate in this example. In C, uint32_t* literally means “a 4 byte-aligned pointer to a 32 bit unsigned int” on every platform. The author wasn’t getting bitten by UB so much as misunderstanding how pointer types work in C.
In the USA, you'd almost certainly be in violation of a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) which are usually established over stadiums during games. That is a federal problem that'll get your pilot in a huge amount of trouble.
I have 0 interest in this spec.
The fight over the sugar industry's influence on nutrition research
I’m teaching email security to Democratic campaigns. It’s as bad as 2016
I think the edit button ages out and I've missed the window?
In California no white person has ever been pulled over for having one non-working headlight.
So, a .wasm file can call into functions defined by its host environment; this is often a browser but in your case, it’s the EOS VM. The trick is letting Rust know what those functions are so you can call them. wasm-bindgen should have you covered there.

Beyond that, it’s all the same; the VM can’t care what the original language is.
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> This leads to many subtle "gotchas" and associated work-arounds that are non-intuitive.

Exactly! Just because your pods is accepted and scheduled, you can be left in a lurch if an issue occurs at the container runtime layer that k8s didn't handle. Image pull issues are a big one. The pod just sits there and keeps trying to pull.
x86 was originally based on Z80 so it should be extremely similar (for 16-bit code at least).
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The average NYT subscriber probably doesn’t understand these intricacies around how websites are built and delivered to their phones, or how network effects and scaling affect the infrastructure needed to do so.

They also probably don’t care because they just signed onto the latest “unlimited” data plan with their service provider.

So there probably aren’t enough people who understand the problem to make NYT notice (or care) due to boycotting.

Regarding your last point: a waste for whom? AFAICT the only people benefitting from sticky/engaging services, highly instrumented frontends and downright dark patterns are the people extracting wealth, either directly from subscriptions (not so bad) or, in a much grander sense IMO, data brokers (bad, real bad).
True, but 20k is not 11k. And that's the out-the-door price with lower than average mileage bought by someone who didn't want to haggle. You can get a 2015 Leaf with 30k miles for 9k.
See also the re-branding of FAO Schwarz: https://www.businessinsider.com/fao-schwarz-reopening-after-...
I agree with this in entirety there is a whole set of production steps that take it from a skeleton to seaworthy to battle ready. The issue from the American perspective is that those shipwrights, technicians, and other workers do not have a job past the conclusion of their phase. After primary construction is done you just don't need as many welders. If the ship has been wired properly to completion you don't need as many electricians, and so on and so forth. This especially holds true because after acceptance by the military most of the maintenance roles will be taken over by enlisted personnel or contractors separate to the production staff. The problem is it turns into 'if we don't order a new ship we're down 5,000 high wage jobs.' So while Ship A is being polished for deployment the original company has a bunch of staff that they don't have any work for. The next contract that comes in provides money to cover those 5,000 jobs to do that primary construction over again to build Ship B.

I'm also not sure in the comparison between foreign governments and US defense contractors but US defense contractors generally only sell to the military markets (domestic or international) so it's not like their facilities are designed to be able to build ordinary commercial goods side by side with the military spec hardware.
Thats pretty much the same story as usenet’s eternal september: as the rate of newcomers increases, it eventually outpaces the rate of teaching. At that point, no culture can be sustained longer than a year; a new batch will arrive, and learn things from scratch, and come up with their own solutions... until the next batch, which overrides any lessons learned by the prior

At the very least, here, the knowledge learned is sustained by individuals, and acknowledged (so you still have “experts” and “elders”), but as a general community, you can safely assume that everything is forgotten very rapidly.

Another example of it I’ve seen in video games, where modern designers seem to have forgotten that games existed before 2005: the same design mistakes solved in 1990 crop up again in 2018.

My preferred example being star control 2 vs mass effect: very similar games in design and spirit, two decades apart, and mass effect features many of the same mistakes, and even mistakes solved in star control. As if they had started the design from scratch.
I'm still writing some notes in Evernote on my mobile, but on desktop I've just switched to markdown notes in a Dropbox folder. I have a vim plugin now that generates a html preview as I type.

I think markdown is the most future proof technology for the moment because you can just use pandoc to convert it or most note systems will accept markdown as an input format.

I'm not sure how tags would work in markdown, I guess you can create links manually but that's not really what you want.
FMLA is a joke. All FMLA actually says is the company can't outright fire you if you need up to 12 weeks to deal with family matters. The company is under no obligation to do anything else for you and if you can't afford to take time off without pay, well sux to be you.
> I'm not a religious person but for me paper books are sacred.

Most of my French friends are genuinely revolted by how I treat the books that I use for work.

I highlight, write in the margins (often with a pen, not even with a pencil), then scan passages for students, who in turn, are often revolted by what they see.
Not to downplay their achievements, but it seems to me that they just dug up the implementations in the IP stack for each OS.
I honestly do not care about those other countries. I'm not a citizen of those countries; I don't have the ability to influence what happens there.

I am a citizen of the USA, and thus I am able to influence things here. I absolutely can and will criticize the US's lamppost for being dirty as fuck, regardless of the state of other lampposts.
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I can't believe Microsoft hasn't bought it yet.

Why on earth would they want to? OneNote runs on everything, ties in well with Office, and covers the big ticket features that Evernote does. I'm a vimwiki user for the most of what Evernote/OneNote cover, but what I can't believe is that Evernote users haven't saved Microsoft the trouble, and just switched to OneNote. I mean, if you're going to go walled-garden, Microsoft has some nice landscapers.
I pursued 20 years of experience in 10 years of living/work because I came out of university after the dot com crash and had to become recession proof, and deliver value no matter what. It was very fortunate that the world adopted the internet, technology, etc.

If I couldn't see the future, I had to get up higher to see further ahead. Having the experience of a mid-senior technology exec 5-10 years earlier was not a career goal, but to gain a perspective to then see my own life and goals I could pursue. I had/have a lot of learning to do when it comes to business/people skills - outside of my technical abilities, and I'm sure I was inefficient at it. Today, my ability to deal with young techies is my most important skill.

How that happens was largely inefficient... I don't worship the cult of working a lot of hours though, maybe learning from a lot of hours the long way while I was young and could afford the time. This meant generally working 6-7 days a week for probably close to 5-7 years between freelancing, contracting, consulting, and building products, straight out of school. I stayed on call 24/7/365 myself for a large number of those years, never flying more than 3 hours away from me due to obligations I let myself take on (and learn to handle much better - even though I was on call, I got good at building systems and processes that didn't need me).
Your question seems to be looking for tactics, when it's not about tactics alone. Going to the gym alone doesn't make anyone an athlete who can compete at a high level. Getting better at your sport is really important, for me:

1) I got over having to work harder than I should have to. It means outworking, outlearning, and outgrowing everyone by a country mile not only among your similarly experienced/aged contemporaries, and those senior to you too. If I have to be 8x as good as everything around me to make up for the slack/mistakes/learning, I have a chance of being much better than I may have been.

2) The small opportunities along the way really do become larger and multiply in numbers over the years. You gotta love what you do, not the returns alone. You have to learn what your limits actually are. I know I can push myself in certain ways, but not others.

3) My key lesson was learning discipline before everything else, and then using that to be more efficient and effective. There's no finish line on that though, and you might need something else.

4) The most important part about getting 20 years of life experience in 10 is learning from others rather than wasting your time having to learn everything. We are not special, and no problems are special. Use your bandwidth to solve problems after getting insights from others, not all on your own.

Being in the right place in the right time also means being places that no reasonable person would be, especially for outsiders.

Happy to chat via email too, I didn't want to shortchange a reply to you.
Insider trading is relying on secret information to gain an advantage, and is illegal. Card counting and court siding both rely on storing and transmitting public information, and is not illegal.
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When on mobile, I don't actually passively browse. I only browse when I need something specific (e.g., directions, movie start time, etc.). To that end, I've used less than 100MB in the last month.

It would also be nice if we could have browsers restrict page size. That is, "hey, server, I'll only accept your page if it's less than X size." That'd be nice because then developers could get some actual feedback.
If the only thing you got from "Clean code" is Don't Repeat Yourself then I highly suggest reading it again.

(IIRC the DRY principle comes from "The Pragmatic Programmer" and not "Clean code", but it is referenced and is one of dozens of "clean" concepts.)
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I'm finding it difficult to navigate the Alibaba (and similar) scene and wondering if there is a better method. Trying to accomplish this without travel and without hiring a consultant.

What have you found to be successful paths? Any good books or online resources?
Exactly. It's the "match that ignites an industry" and increases competition in order to create an economic imperative for the rest of the industry players to make electric products.

Supposedly this has been goal number one the entire time, so Tesla ought to be very proud to have played a role in finally breaking the electric car into the mainstream--not as a single company which may persist or may fail, but as an enduring concept adopted across the industry.

https://medium.com/@cormiston/the-elon-musk-business-model-c...

Musk has his flaws, but it's not a bad strategy.
I came just for the cookie bug and was not disappointed.
Also any modifications to the space that belongs to the page is just begging for someone to build an in-page facsimile, especially when that modification is meant to engender trust.
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Too late for an edit:

I can't find a single review of this device by not-that-company, and also it's not even in stock lol.
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You don't need them if you don't need to diagnose your analysis. But the hard part is of course thinking about why your model doesn't work, which is the strength of R.
"You have no proof that the accident wouldn't have occurred anyway without the update."

Well, the NTSB preliminary report doesn't make any statements about what the software update did, per se. But it does indicate that the driver's hands were not on the wheel at the time of the accident and that the "autopilot" software was activated. So it's fair to say that the "autopilot" software was responsible for the crash.

"Or that their updates didn't save one or more lives."

This is a red herring. It could be true. But there's no evidence for it so it's not worth thinking about. Our system of moral judgements rightly puts a lot of weight on demonstrable causes and effects, and generally ignores hypothetical, but totally unproven speculation like this. Otherwise anyone could get off the hook for anything, by saying, "I may have done bad action X but you can't prove I didn't also do good actions Y and Z which could well outweigh X."

"Not an "accurate" but misleading accusation at the software without considering the hidden variables."

In ordinary life we never know all the hidden variables. We just make judgments based on the best available information (or if necessary, decide to postpone judgment until better information is available). The NTSB preliminary report seems credible and I see no reason not to draw reasonable conclusions from it.
JPL's does. See Rule 5, on page ten: https://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
Yes true, but a half million miles will do and I'd rather spend the time in a Tesla.
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