skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conceivably, they may have to dismantle the entire vehicle to get to a hidden weld, which could require compromising the structural integrity of the vehicle if dismantling is equivalent to cutting at any step in the dismantling process.
Yes. I'm guilty of this quite often. And probably in this case too. That's why I need constant reminders like your comment.

Do you know the article beforehand or you discovered it through my profile?
I remember those times and that phone. Indeed that was an awesome piece of design and as a mobile phone (as in "tool for making phone calls on the go") it checked all the boxes.

The software side was quite limited though.

Specifically, at the time I was diving into J2ME development (THAT was strangely pleasant to look backwards -- a pain to make it work, but such great satisfaction to overcome all those limitations) and the number of JSR it's JVM (or better, KVM) implemented was pretty low. For this reason, I decided to buy the awesome Nokia N73 (Express Music edition).
It looks like Amazon's migrating away from Oracle pretty aggressively, however. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/amazon-plans-to-move-off-ora...
I was totally floored by 4. What a bizarre regression. 3 was relatively good so I had my hopes pretty high... I literally never used either of them again. If that's the future of the app, let me out.
You started this wretched flamewar and now have taken it to an even lower level. We have a high tolerance for assuming good faith on HN, but the stench of prejudice here is acrid.

If you do race war or nationalistic flamewar on HN again we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Affix a small mirror to the camera and calibrate it such that if you see yourself in the middle of the camera you’re also in the middle of the frame.
Just noticed on my one of my notebooks is featured in this collection!

Also, the other collections are defiantly worth checking out: https://beta.observablehq.com/@observablehq?tab=collections
Those effects are compatible with a proper understanding of the sunk cost fallacy. The 2nd order effects are future benefits that can make the project worth completing. The point is that it's the magnitude of the benefits you expect to get that matters and not the amount of resources you've already spent.
> Always ask the candidate to walk you through the repo line by line!

That seems a bit much, you're liable to scare away good talent that way.
I'm amazed that somebody outside China picked that up!

But yeah, that is symbolic of the cohort that Bo and Xi led.

Jiang and Hu era was a period of a relative meritocracy, with such shit not being tolerated, or at least not highest levels. But yeah, being anticommunist while being a communist party general secretary wasn't likely to be a working arrangement.

What an irony.
They may be referring to the actual process of perfecting the automation. Bespoke CI/CD isn’t an instantaneous thing of beauty and efficiency gains.
I instantly thought of Ron Popeil (Ronco) when I saw this...

1 - Pocket Fisherman, around 1975
2 - Buttoneer, around 1977

I wonder how much effect Popeil had/has on Kawakami.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh_YwAnv7w
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2ttNu3F_M
I've never heard of an IPO'd company--meaning one that's listed on a public market like the NYSE or NASDAQ--with such thin trading, nor have I ever heard of option grants measured in hundreds...
What about the massive effect on wear?
What does RDS have to do with being multi-cloud? It's a hosted offering which only works in AWS. And Citus Cloud does offer VPC connectivity so you can access it privately. As stated before, the extension is also open-source and you can run it in any cloud or datacenter yourself, for free. Why would you claim that's not allowed?

You seem to be stuck on a strange intrepretation of vendor support when PG has no backing vendor, so you can pick whichever one you want. If you aren't comfortable with Citus and prefer AWS then that's fine, but you make the trade-off in the features as well. Not every managed postgres service chooses to support every PG extension so it's nothing unique in that regard, and is ultimately no different than the choices involved in picking any other database with vendor backing.

You've posted several comments now that seem to show that you do not know much about Citus or are willingly misleading people about it. I'm not sure why but perhaps it would be better if you read up on the details or disclosed your angle more clearly.
there is an extraordinary amount of freely available content online for people who want to learn, improve themselves, and to make more money.

To those who cannot afford it, here’s 2.5 years of my side work for free http://billsix.github.io/bug
You may be right, and I may be mixing up between the two. They looked identical aside from software menus. I know I had one and the wife the other thanks to being on different networks.
I assume multiple profiles still works? If so, could give Google its own profile and only use it for Google stuff.

(And while you're at it, do the same for Facebook.)
I think they're saying it's correct to only consider the 5 million, then pointed out that you're also biased in that way for other reasons.
The pricing is interesting. But, imho, the true benefit of S3 comes with the integrations with lambda, etc. And signed URLs. You can move so much of your client side logic into AWS infrastructure if you build it using their tools. I'm not sure how Wasabi could really integrate with those systems. And, that is where the real cost is, in building and maintaining those systems, so the cost is not in the storage but elsewhere. For a large organization maybe the cost savings would be significant, but I can't imagine they would outweigh the gigantic development and maintenance costs.
"shares held(000s)" reads to me like "thousands of shares".
I'm a senior software engineer with over 12 years of experience.

6 out 7 start ups I worked for never had a liquidation event that resulted in any monetary gain.

The one that did ( i was employee #97 and worked there for almost 6 years) and they finally had a 2ndary offer which allowed me to sell 15% of my shares, for about 7K, but because it's short term gains, about 4K is what I got after taxes.

The rest of the shares were completely worthless because they couldn't be sold. I am not disappointed. I never assumed the options would ever be worth anything - I choose my employment based on Salary and work life balance. Options are just a nice bonus, if they do happen.
I had saved nearly $1,000,000 from salary (plus subsequent investment returns) over the years. But I didn't think that's what the question was asking.

I have never worked in the Bay Area. Or anywhere on the West Coast for that matter. And most of my career has been outside of the US by this point (including the successful exit).
Worst is that they took a spot at a university that could have been given to a student that wanted to learn.

Gee, I feel like I'm on another planet to people in this thread. Am I super-naïve or something?

What about - worst is, it makes a total farce of the entire university system? Does no-one care about that?? If you can just pay to get someone to write your work, how is that better than a non-existing diploma mill? Isn't the whole idea, to educate people? If they've just paid for a bit of paper, and that's ok, why do we need universities at all?
Did you lose a bet or something? I can understand carrying a dumb phone that you like, but using a dumb phone that you absolutely hate? With so many options available...
https://dbeaver.io/ is something you may want to try, really good based on my experience.
DBeaver (free community version) or Jetbrains Rider. Both are cross-platform desktop apps with multiple database support and are very capable and reliable.

If you want something that's a webapp-style, perhaps to host as a separate service, then check out OmniDB from 2ndQuadrant. It's still maturing but has some unique management features that are helpful for Postgres.
I would imagine theyd try to automate QA too, akin to unit testing

You could imagine a situation where the automated QA is trusted and does its job in sets, with humans interspersed to backup the QA programs. But one of the QA checks is actually buggy and OK’s the missing weld, but the full batch of work covers it up before reaching a human for the double-check

In which case, both issues are at fault: too much reliance on the QA program, and allowing too much work to be done before it reached a human (bad double-check setup)
> They go towards different budgets (Social Security and State), so it makes sense that they are collected separately.

Kinda beside the point, but that does not actually make sense. My home budget and car budget are different, but I collect them from the same source. I don't get a different job to pay for my car. Many countries pay for social security out of income taxes, or pay for general budget stuff out of payroll taxes.

I don't know what the real reason behind payroll taxes is. Probably it's mostly historical, as opposed to something you would reimplement if you were doing it from scratch today. But it is most definitely not simply because those taxes go into a different budget.
Yep, someone forgot to put those welding points and others didn't observe them missing.
Note: these all sorting algorithms implemented in Python.

Nice (even animated) illustrations in readme.
I got an option grant once for hundreds. It was for a promotion and, whatever the intended effect, I felt like "why did you even bother?"
Relevant:

Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays (2013):

http://www.windytan.com/2013/11/decoding-radio-controlled-bu...
This looks really nice. But can someone recommend something more like "The Practical Experiments of Quantum Mechanics"?

You might have a look at https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Quantum-Physics-through-Pro... . This book stops short of covering molecular beams, though.
I agree. I also feel that the majority of people have a low bar for that, like you say; I don't suspect most people consciously try to subvert constructive discussion, but I do know that's a tactic employed by a small minority.
I'll second that Bulma wish, I'd buy templates off that.
Agreed, scooters (and skateboards) replace walking, not biking or driving.

IMO, they’re also an Attractive Nuisance, in the legal sense of the term. They encourage people to ride them who are not adequately trained or equipped, by virtue of their stunningly low price and easy availability. Then those people are much more likely to hurt themselves or someone else, thus driving up trips to the ER and local healthcare costs.

The old method of drug dealers giving away the “first hit for free” seems to be very apropos here.

If the scooter companies were required to provide health and liability insurance for every rider, and get a hefty fine every time one of their riders was seen using the sidewalk and/or not wearing a helmet, at least those costs would not be externalized on society.

The original Segway device had large wheels that were set horizontally, and incorporated software and hardware to make them as stable as possible. We’ve thrown out all of those advantages in the name of chasing a “cheaper” device.

Disclaimer: I am currently recovering from my own accident from riding a scooter, and so I may be a bit biased. Or maybe That gives me a unique insight that many others in this discussion do not. You decide.
wow thanks, I never thought to try it, just dismissed it and never dig further. I’ll try this!
Just wait for hardware to get fast enough to do deep fakes in real time - they'll sit the video interview for you and fake your face and your voice at the same time.
$1000 from a part-time gig quasi startup, and $0 from a startup that got acquired.
About $2500. It was basically a lousy tip for about 14 months work.

Some context: The initial offer was either higher salary and lower equity, or lower salary and higher equity. The difference in pay was $5000 / year. Given the nature of the exit, I felt like a decent thing to do was at least make up the difference in pay. (The terms of the deal were confidential.)

Things were eventually "made right" by the new owner.

The problem with startup equity is that employees almost always have little bargaining power and always are kept in the dark about the real value of the equity. It almost always turns into a lottery ticket... Some people make out well, others don't, and always for reasons out of the employees control.
Related:

I make paintings from generative art, which I use to inspire physical paintings.

https://medium.com/@rememberlenny/digital-processes-inspirin...
This is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!
what needs to be explained, a several hundred million exit is LOWWWWWW. If they had a series B for 20 million or so, or a series C for close to or above 100 million, then the valuation itself was WAY more than that.

A few hundred million exit will result in ZILCH (almost $zero) for any common stock shareholder every single time, unless the company was in series A or lower.

VCs have a separate share class called Preferred, and they also negotiate "Liquidation Preferences" with a multiple. So a Liquidation Preference x1 means they get their money back, as much as possible. A Liquidation Preference x2 means they get double their money no matter what, before anybody else - like common stockholders - get paid.

And this is before your stock options' strike price matters.

Its a shitty deal, investor protection laws should be extended to cover this, because the information and transparency is lacking.
would love to but this is a no-go at this point, since I’m on RDS. I think it’s great you’re solving this though - I currently use a cron job to create new partitions.
Are the businesses really the problem here or is it the NIMBY homeowners?

Seems like Stripe has every right to oppose something that they aren't causing and are going to wind up paying for just because they've got the obvious pockets.
My anger isn't misdirected. It is directed exactly at this sentiment of yours: "The words are still there". It is the same whether I came up with a new magic trick, or a song, or a film. Don't fucking steal it because you have this wonderful tool called "copy" that "destroys class barriers". There is plenty of stuff on the internet (mine included) that people have chosen to put up for free; go use those. Or wait 10 years. The words will still be there, and you can get it much cheaper.

There was a lot of energy put behind those words, and I expect to get paid a modest sum for it. The means of knowledge transmission aren't free, just as you discovered that while a river wants to be free, the mechanism of converting it to useful energy and transmitting it to you isn't free.
It's in the alpha testing, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdyOAiIgfEAS8x8DjC...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdyOAiIgfEAS8x8DjC...
Low cost high wattage 12 Volt power supplies. I make adapters that let you recycle old server PSU's that otherwise have zero value because of their proprietary connectors. It primarily has applications in Crypto Currency mining. The real money is in targeting industrial scale miners who need them in volume. I had one really good year in the 5 I've been selling them, mostly by dumb luck.
I think you can get an apostrophe if you put it in symbols mode first by mashing the # a few times
The GSM carriers in the US have both turned off thier 2G networks.
> Started with 15% but got diluted to 1% after several rounds of funding including down rounds.

haha WOW oh my god, and the software engineers getting a fraction of a fraction of a percent and being "reassured" that its a generous offer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
The key to the theater tickets example is that you should treat tickets you've bought the same as if you got them for free. Replay the scenario but instead of buying the tickets everyone at my office got free movie vouchers. If I'd give you the free voucher but not the ticket I bought, that's indicative of the sunk cost fallacy.

Better examples usually make the alternative better than the thing you already paid for. Giving you my tickets isn't much of a benefit to me, but icy roads can make a difference. If conditions are too dangerous to drive to a free movie showing, I shouldn't drive to use the tickets I already paid for either.
I'm guessing the welds aren't all that hidden, since the recall notice mentions that people will be inspecting the vehicles for them and if any disassembly is required it presumably won't take all that long since it mentions the B-pillar --- a part which isn't buried in a bunch of other stuff, unlike e.g. under the seats or the firewall.

In any case, a weld done right won't weaken the structure --- they can be as strong or even stronger than the original material. It can be a bit surprising, especially to anyone who learns to weld for the first time and then tests his/her joints to destruction, to see just how strong they are.
Note that "making" means gross receipts, not profit.
I’m OK with this.

The market is already saturated with entertainment that is little more than shock value. There’s a reason that channels like GSN, RFD, MeTV, etc... have growing audiences. As some point people want their entertainment to be entertaining, not a stream of sensory overload.

If Apple goes all-in in this programming strategy, we’ll have a better idea how popular this sort of thing really is.
Again with this SJW nonsense on here.

Interesting - such a bland word, it says nothing. Why not say what you mean. Apparently you find it unacceptable, racist and biased. I find your comment ridiculous. If something the GP said was wrong, say so. You just tried to censor him, successfully it seems. I don't understand either of the sentences in your second paragraph. They both contain dubious, condescending claims. Apparently you are the police for this site. Telling others from on high what is not acceptable, what are their "unconscious biases". Who do you think you are? I don't buy it whatsoever.

p.s. I submitted Hofstadter's amazing Person Paper on here yesterday, no-one commented. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044595

Edit: Now I'm flagged too, within a minute of posting.
Of course there is. But that’s neither what you said, nor the topic being discussed.

What you said is more than a select few could afford a $40 book.

The topic being discussed is, the morality of charging so much/piracy.

Good work plugging your github though!
According to SSB, the 75th percentile for full-time system architects in private industry (the highest paid software developer category) in Norway in 2017 was $103K/year. This is close to the 50th percentile for all software engineers in US in 2017, which was $104K according to BLS. The 50th percentile for system architects in Norway was $87K.

Norway has a higher cost of living due to the 25% VAT, and because the national (non-developer) median salary is so high. Not to mention vehicle and gasoline taxes.
Immigration levels are at all-time highs into Australia right now. The #1 source country is India, #2 China. Australia hit 25 million people 33 years earlier than planned, and annual migration levels are about 300,000.

Immigration is achieving the following:

- Lowers wages by increasing supply of labour, including creating a pool of workers willing to be employed at illegal rates - $10/hour. Many workers are willing to work for these rates, substantially below minimum wages, because it is more than they would earn in their home country, and because of promises from the employer that they will sponsor them for permanent residency. (Typically they will be paid correct minimum wage for 20 hours work, but in reality be staffed to work 30 to 50 hours).

- Increasing demand on public services. More people means a greater need for shared services: health, education, public transport, roads, welfare. Considering that the majority (~80%) of new migrants are going to Melbourne and Sydney, two built-up mature megacities of 5 million people, adding more services to these cities is incredibly expensive (eg. a new rail line means tunnelling, land buy-back, extensive shutdowns of existing road and rail etc).

- Increases consumption. This means increased consumer demand throughout the economy, simply based on the higher number of people. However, it also means consumption in an environmental sense: increased demand for water (which we need to desalinate, on the margins), increased demand for food and land (resulting in land clearance), increased CO2 emissions (Australia is a CO2 intensive country), increased pollution and waste.

- Increased demand for land and housing. Young Australians can no longer buy a house in their own country, and home ownership is at historical lows. Huge amounts of houses are being converted to large apartments.

So, if you're a land-owner and business-owner, happy days. You have greater demand for the things you own, and lower wages to pay out. If you're a tradesperson, you're also benefiting a lot from the intense housing and infrastructure construction activity. If you're an average Australian, you have lower wages, higher congestion on public services, increased taxes to pay for those services to be expanded, and no hope (in many cases) of buying your own house.

There is also the added social friction of these two large groups of migrants moving to the country - Indian and mainland Chinese culture is dissimilar to Australian. Already we are seeing neighbourhoods stratified by ethnicity.
I would recommend you to shop from used book stores like thriftbooks.com. I got the knuth's books for like $30(3 volumes) and many more.
My first thought was that these weld points must be inaccessible without cutting the vehicle open. A weld point may be surrounded by metal structures that are themselves welded in place.

I'd love to hear from a mechanical engineer how likely it is that a structural weld point would be buried this way.
I read through part of the Prop C text and I'm not convinced it's taking the right approach. The biggest problem with housing in this city is one of supply. The proposition does say that the money can be used for construction of housing, but that's just one option among many, and so the fund would be perfectly justified in constructing zero housing and instead simply trying to "acquire" more housing. Hell, it can even just be used to operate existing housing without even increasing the housing supply at all, or could be blown entirely on short-term rental subsidies.

Trying to acquire more low-income housing without increasing the overall housing supply is not a good idea. That's just going to make the overall housing market even worse, not to mention it will be quite expensive. I would be much happier if this proposition explicitly set aside money to be used for construction of new housing.
Bizarrely breathless and short-sighted article when Intel has fallen so far behind in process shrinks and AMD multi-core is on the rise.
Extension or not, that's a really useful shortcut. Coming from SQL Server, the best option I know of requires a CTE or subquery:

WITH CTE_messages AS
(
SELECT
*
,row_nbr = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY conversation_id
ORDER BY timestamp DESC)
FROM
conversations
)
SELECT
*
FROM
CTE_messages
WHERE row_nbr = 1
ORDER BY
conversation_id

This does give a performant plan in SQL Server with an index on (conversation_id, timestamp), for what it's worth. I imagine the same is true for this syntax in PostgreSQL. But SELECT DISTINCT sometimes does strange things to execution plans in general, and I wouldn't be surprised if that extends to SELECT DISTINCT ON.
I’ve been solving this problem with PowerShell for the last year or so. It’s usually available on locked-down corporate Windows boxes, and you can use the entire .NET Framework, as well as third-party .NET libraries, without admin rights. I’m using it with System.Data.SQLite to build a WPF application at the moment, which will hopefully replace a whole bunch of messy and hard-to-maintain Excel sheets and Access databases.