skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My stance on that: ex-bloc countries have that¸ I tell you as one who did part of my high school in Russia. Weak students cheat, strong students cheat, and only few cranky principled oddballs reject the system and shout "Hey you, ex university prof, throw whatever you want at me, I'll solve it and shred it to pieces" - those being universally hated for "making life harder for everybody"

My mom once had fun listening to shitty talks from parents of other students along the lines "hey, can you tell your boy to quiet down a bit, he raises the plank to high for the rest of the class"

You can understand weak students' reasons: they simply can't do it otherwise. But why do strong ones cheat? That what dazzled me about Russians, and Russia in general. What that was is the gigantic, monstrous, totally pathological fear of failure that permeates country's "socially endowed classes."

And secondary to that is the element of social pact: when pupils with excellent marks begin cheating and copying from one another, they begin to embrace the "omerta" created by this, sealing their social contract with their peers.

Most rich, powerful people in Russia teach their children very intentionally to behave along the lines - get close and sycophantic with others privileged people. And you know, to infirm young minds, the reasoning that any privilege one gets in life is through joining some "exclusive social clubs" of other privileged people, is hard to challenge, especially when this comes from their parents.

And after some time, their children become completely accustomed to not to taking upon any challenge straight, because they genuinely believe that even simplest things in life are not doable without tricks, cheats, and favours from other power powerful people. This is the culture in which social elites in Russia grow up.

After being around mainlanders for 11 years while working in electronics, I feel it is very much the same for them. For both of above reasons, people from both nations are extremely afraid of challenge, and more so when you deal with people higher up on the social ladder.
> Yes, it sucks - but there is a reason that despite all its flaws, people keep trying to use it for things

Yes, but the main one is that institutional IT policies frequently dictate that people whose aren't employed specifically in software development roles aren't allowed software development tools, but everyone in the org tends to be allowed core Office apps like Excel.

When it's literally the only remotely applicable tool most people are allowed to have, it shouldn't be surprising that it gets used for a lot, independent of merit.
Does this exemption qualify if selling a business that has no stock, just a standard asset sale?
First startup, I traded nearly all of my salary over four years for stock options: $0

Second startup, I was told I'd get 5% of the company (no contract though). I quit after a year without pushing the topic: $0

Third job was not a startup, but it was a fairly small company, and I've made nearly two million in tax deferred accounts having made a healthy salary the entire time. I'm retiring this year.

I learned a lot of great things at those first two companies, but I would never recommend a startup from a financial point of view. I almost joined a third startup, but I didn't, and they folded as well. I suspect you've got better odds going to Vegas and putting your salary on a number from the roulette table.
Excel has been an interesting tool that has been abused by many different people for many different subject areas, from petro-engineers to asset management to budget forecasting to drug sales forecasting to activity planning and on and on and on.

With a judicious use of vba, many of the tasks above, especially those related to forecasting, planning and reporting can be automated down from hours to just seconds. I have seen inordinate amount of hours wasted by people using excel to do all sorts of tasks that were repetitive to the max. A thinking programmer can work with such people to change those tasks from being hugely manual to simply automatic.

Mind you, the vba that has been written by non-programmers is usually so bad that you don't want to even try to attempt to change or fix it. It is far better to just start from scratch.

It is a tool that can be used in quite novel ways, but it does have its gotchas that will cause interesting failures for businesses that rely on it. But when it is the only tool you have, then you use it any way you can.
The main one, because it's there and it works perfectly fine for my use case
>Between April 2003 and December 2017, Ariane 5 flew 82 consecutive missions without failure, but suffered a partial failure in January 2018.

And the satellites still made it to the proper orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Launch_statistics
My point is: just look at the Ask HN thread of yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18047553. Look at the marketing tips. Half of them make me feel dirty just from even considering them.
You also cant use the Google Assistant on your phone without turning on the Voice & Web Activity afaik. Its terrible. I switched to DuckDuckGo and dont care much about giving up some convenient features anymore.
(fictional, simplified) Example for a Software Engineer based in Germany [1]:

Gross income: 100.000 EUR / year [2]

-------------------------

TAXES

- Income tax (28.600 EUR)

- "solidarity premium" (2.300 EUR)

- church tax (1.600 € - cumpolsory until you leave the curch)

SOCIAL SECURITY (compulsory)

- unemployed insurance (1.200 EUR)

- pension insurance (7.300 EUR)

- health insurance (4.500 EUR)

- long term care (800 EUR)

-------------------------

Net income: 53.700 EUR

Add to that what is often called gross-gross-income: Hidden from your paycheck is that social security has to be paid by your employer as well (so in this case amounts to 113.080 EUR which makes for a combined rate of 53%) [3]

[1] Hypothetical young graduate from Italy/Spain/France: Unmarried, no children and catholic

[2] 100k is not the typical pay for freshly graduated-from-school devs in Germany, but an attainable income goal after some working years nonetheless

[3] some exemptions in that employer-part, its a bit less than the employee-part
I had a variation of that mini phone you linked to (the internals get repackaged by various manufacturers). Mine was exactly the height and width of a credit card, and not very thick. It was lovely in my pocket, so unobtrusive. Everyone thought it was a calculator. :) Had to give it up after a while because the battery was really bad. One serious call and it was toast, and the battery got worse with age. If they made a model with a swappable battery it would be more tolerable because I could take some spares with me.
Dude. Yes. I have ocular migraines on occasion, and when that happens, I know that I will have to go to the bathroom in an hour or so. It doesn't happen every time, but whenever it happens, that's what causes it.

Likewise, I have PVCs (extra heartbeats) whenever I have matter going through my large intestine (I think it's the transverse segment).

It's also tied to left arm pain for me, and occasional panic attacks.

It's been very obvious to me that something is 'wrong' with my Vagus nerve for around 10 years, but I started getting the symptoms a few years before that. I had every kind of non-invasive heart examination I've ever heard of, up through cardiac radiology, and my heart is absolutely fine. I pass EKGs, I pass stress tests. I just sometimes have extra beats, and they're correlated to when I need to go to the bathroom.
I'd hazard that a very large fraction of people who work on open PLs and open operating systems get paid --and expect to get paid -- for the effort they put into that project; take Golang, Rust, Linux, Kotlin, Java/JVM, Scala, Haskell, OCaml, Swift and so on. These are not written by homeless people. Try telling Rob Pike that he's not going to get paid for the ten years he spent on Go, and that he would only get paid for his other contributions to Google.

Further, it is an author's prerogative (whether that author is a company or an individual) to set the terms of the pricing. As a consumer you can choose to accept it and pay the price, or come up with an alternative model (like iTunes or the App Store) that changes the market.

I resent it intensely that after putting my own money and time and effort into a project (took a full year off a job), somebody just pirates it so easily. And then attempts to claim moral high ground with weasel phrases like "knowledge wants to be free" and "class barriers".
It is sad that Google is so deep into the rabbit-hole that they think people will share their enthusiasm for a future of AI-driven user-focused ads.
What we have often seen in the business, is that Excel gives a flexibility and freedom that purpose-built tools often don't have. Want a extra field? Done. Field need to have a date larger then xx-xx-xxxx? Done. Even if the purpose-built tool has some kind of custom field system that accomodates these wishes, there always will be some feature the developers need to build. And that costs more turnaround time (and money) then doing it yourself.
Nice to know that we're just barreling ahead towards a cyberpunk future. I've been meaning to get a mohawk anyways. Shame about neon lights dying off though.

More seriously, the amount of security theater going on at airports is getting out of hand. It's obvious that this is intended to start off optional, gradually warm people up to the new norm and then ramp up the data collection.
“If you wouldn't have bought it anyways, why is it worth your time stealing and reading it?”

This is literally the same thing as getting a book from a library. The exact same argument applies.

Throwing Latin around doesn’t progress a discussion.
It’s Bloomberg, so it’s possibly not beggering belief that this is little more than a PR piece for Intel. I’m not saying it’s paid for or anything, but PR agencies are always there with the outline of a story for reporters too lazy to bother with actual journalism. While this piece isn’t recurring like a submarine, it still has thst general stink.

I can’t think of a plausible reason beyond that, to ignore the role or AMD and Intel’s recent struggles.
Really wanted to watch the show Billions, but the opening scene is literally main character’s ( Paul Giamatti) wife peeing on him right after she burns out a cigarette on him during a severe BDSM session.

What.
It sounds like the Founders had to have made some poor/greedy decisions if even employee #1 didn't see anything.
What's the tl;dr?
Inside look at modern web browser
Joined among the first 10 employees. The company grew to 200 employees and 400M valuation in 4 years. Sold last year a portion of my vested shares for 1M to investors as part of a secondary transaction, and I still have a decent amount (70%) of vested shares and unvested options, since the company hasn’t exited yet and management has no plan of doing so in the short/medium term.

I’m not counting on the rest of the equity to be worth as much because I don’t believe in the company ability to execute well at this point, too many changes diluting the quality and the mission. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to sell more as part of the secondary transaction (company rule), otherwise I would have dumped it all (the vested part that is).

Yet I consider myself lucky after having read all these comments, but had I gone to FAANG 4 years ago my financial outcome would have been very similar, if not bigger.
I said that more than a select few can afford the book. I did not say that it is affordable globally.

Pirate away dude. The piracy of JSTOR repos didn’t help the global poor population, nor will piracy of this book.
I'll admit that this was a quick grab at some references. I've seen several better, though Gwern's essay is pretty good. I don't have the others readily at hand.

The failure to account for switching or information costs is fairly common among misuses of SCF, and looking as to why that is may be fruitful.

SCF is not completely wrong, but analyses claiming it are very frequently incomplete.
Content Is King (1996)
shouldn't the title be "preying"?
Multi-account containers (posted as a sibling of this comment) in combination with "temporary tab containers". Works awesome.
“Alternative” medical people have been saying it for a few years now: gut health matters a lot.

It’s kind of frustrating having industrialized medicine scoff at people’s experiences, only to turn around and “discover” what they’d been told about repeatedly.
> "[Their] upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis
The New Scrum
This is extremely common in Australia already. It is required when you check in through customs. I assume they'll use similar vendors.
The tl;dr is: you move on to the next submission.

Seriously, why do people brag about "I don't want to skim a medium-length article"? I don't read many articles, too, but I wouldn't go around announcing it to the world and demanding a wrong because too short summary.
This isn’t about security, it’s about speed. They’re trying to speed up the boarding process.
>they're building a Chinese government spy system and that the government needs to step in and stop them

I mean the government should stop them. Aiding and abetting human rights abuses either is, or should be criminal.
Newly discovered letter by Galileo resolves puzzling historical mystery
Seriously? 4 years at FAANG would net you $1,000,000 savings?

That seems... crazy. Can someone explain how that works? Your salary alone living in the bay area, definitely isn't goin to net you $1,000,000 in savings.
Deadpool is part of the X-Men franchise that 20th Century Fox has movie rights to produce. They put the MARVEL logo and appropriate Disney credit in the credits, but that's as far as it goes... it isn't produced by Disney.
It's also a sad irony that this mirrors what's happening to the Internet, as it became commercialized and now found itself in the cross hairs of nation states.
>> Businesses need to ensure they can make profit before throwing money at huge problems, otherwise they'll just lose money and go out of business.

Can you say this is true about Tesla and/or SpaceX? It doesn't particularly seem like Elon cared about those things all that much when he launched them.
To one-up themselves, perhaps Delta could also scan faces immediately upon arrival, with a focus on sentiment analysis to get an idea as to how satisfied their customers are at the end of the trip?
Yep, and like most things there will likely need to be flagrant abuses and people getting hurt for any significant fraction of voters to even begin caring, let alone vote over it.
Yes I have. I often watch video tutorials at 4X speed (chrome used to cut off audio after that so I couldn't go over that limit).

Nowadays i even watch movies at 1.5x speed and it looks very normal to me. Once you get used to it you can't have it any other way (especially documentaries and slow movies)
As they really do with some Instax cameras:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images2500x2500/fujifilm...
The airline isn't learning anything from this that it doesn't already know. Flight reservations are decidedly not anonymous, and the TSA already checks photo ID.
"Third job was not a startup, but it was a fairly small company, and I've made nearly two million in tax deferred accounts"

I would love to know how. Am I just stupid? How am I missing these opportunities? Someone above posted that 4 years at FAANG would net you $1,000,000 savings. And you're saying that a "fairly small" company netted you $2,000,000 savings?

I am failing at life, apparently.
Coudnt that be easily managed by saying:

"Sorry about this but we've had some candidates passing others code as their own. So we've been asked to take all candidates through some code line by line. Such a pain but we have to do it unfortunately. Ill try and get through quickly. You dont mind do you?"
It's for differential equations. Getting uncertainty without parameter sampling saves a lot of computational time and really opens up the problems that can be solved.
I got an offer from Netflix for 450k cash and another offer from FB for 210k cash with 600k equity over 4 years, a few years ago.

Considering how well those stocks did after such offers were made to me, and how frugal I am (avid minimalist spending <50k a year in the bay), I would have saved even more than 1M (I know most of my friends working there did).

Also, the 1M from the startup wasn’t net, but gross (taxed at long term capital gain luckily).
OK then, fair enough.

Here is me talking about his scientific illiteracy at least four years ago to give people a rough idea: https://delimiter.com.au/2014/06/17/nbn-debate-heats-ieee-co...
I’m good with it.

In comedy toilet humor is easy.

In Movies, it seems shock value is the equivalent. It’s much harder to tell a great story.

There are many popular titles that don’t include shocking levels of violence or sex. Just take a look at Star Wars or lord of the rings
No, you bounce around 4-5 counties.
Hmm somewhat scary that I thought "hey, those earrings with earplugs, and the funnel glasses for eye drops, those seem pretty useful!"

And while I don't think they sell that "lipstick mask", an eyebrow stencil is an actual product that is basically the same thing for your eyebrows.
>> why have other people not done this

A lot of big money is held by public companies who generally don't like these longshots. Elon talks about it all the time himself.

It also should be a rare thing; they're moonshots, after all. The intersection between "has billions to spare" and "is insane enough to try things like going to space" is not large.
Let’s get this said early in the conversation.

Apple isn’t interested in restricting your access. They’re interested in brand association. Nobody conflates Apple’s Sari browser with adult content.

This is about Apple producing or licensing content. They don’t want their name, logo, or brand associated with certain content. It will limit their ability to ship content like Game of Thrones, but it’s not about blocking content produced by third parties.
An old, Russian set of heuristics to think out of the box and try to solve engineering design problems.
Emphasis was on physycal design (i.e. not software) despite some attempts to port the idea to other domains.
While popular in Russia (but then at the time it was difficult to understand how much "popular/effective" it really was) it did not seem to get more traction elsewhere.
You should see South Africa. It is more of a stampede. Everyone I know has either left or is trying. Literally ten out of the twelve friends I have are either in UK, Aus or US.

The ones still in ZA are clammering to get out.
I do try to talk a lot about their own projects during interviews, though, since I can only assume they like to talk about it.

And it can lead to very interesting discussions, you learn a lot about a candidate that way.
A lot of Excel's issues are well-known because of how pervasive it is. Python and kin rely on C libraries and other layers of imported packages for numerical work that can lead to all sorts of numerical mischief. Even doing:

round (2.575, 2)

in Python leads to 2.57 instead of rounding up to 2.58. Everything in our engineering firm is checked by another engineer.
My first mobile phone was a Motorola V50 flip phone [1] which cost £500 in 2000. Despite being released four years before the RAZR V3 [2] it was both smaller and lighter (although slightly thicker). I reckon it would still look cool today if they upgraded the screen.

I can't remember why, but I didn't bother buying any RAZRs and my next phone purchase was a Sony Ericsson K800 [3] in 2006.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_v50-223.php (83 grams, 83 x 44 mm)

[2] https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_v3-853.php (95 grams, 98 x 53 mm)

[3] https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_k800-1485.php (115 grams, 105 x 47 mm)
It's dumb and it's there to pander to an edgy audience, but it really shouldn't be a problem. Why does that scene bother you? Isn't it just because that stuff is taboo?
Can you at least read the article before claiming it's about speed? This was a move pushed by the CBP to 'crack down on those who overstay their visas', this data will obviously be collected and stored by the government which should start firing off alarms in anyone's head.
There's a difference between having humans check IDs and storing facial [and other data] data in a database.
It is useless to cowardly downvote an unpopular opinion without giving any reasons or because you don't like the style of a comment. Cosplay of political-correctness huts the truth and sometimes a form (wording) matters a lot.

Well-researched thing will always beat fast-coded-to-market crap. Erlang (despite all its syntactic ugliness), Go (especially stdlib and runtime, which is hard), Scala, Redis, nginx, Haskell (monad-madness aside), Clojure etc, etc.

Ability to produce a lot of crappy code quickly is not a substitute for a decent academic research with proper attention to details. This is the point. Postgres was a research vehicle in the past, now polished to a state-of-the-art product, just like SQLite.

How is MongoDB, by the way? Still a default choice or it has been recently obsoleted by a blockchain?
Then you're dealing with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of sentiment analysis in face-scanning: person may have been pretty happy, until they noticed you face-scanning the people ahead in line.
>it did not seem to get more traction elsewhere.

Samsung, Goldstar and other Korean cos are on the train. In Samsung, you actually have to get a TRIZ certificate as a prerequisite for promotion above a certain level in their engineering units.
CTO on founding team. Started out with 10% equity. Co. is now 6 years old. After a merger (diluted by 40%), $10m investment (diluted more), $4m strategic investment (diluted more), then investors taking money off the table first for an exit event - I stand to make $100k if we sell at $20m and $600k if we sell at $40m (currently valued at $20mish). That's pre tax.
Brexit: Labour 'would back members' on new vote, says leadership
Yes, and I fully trust Delta to properly secure my facial recognition data such that the odds of any malicious actor getting such data are negligible. Large old "we are not a tech company" corporations and government agencies are just amazing at that :P
Pirate away bro, it’s just like a library, you’re correct. The word “library” is derived from the Latin word “liber”, meaning book.
Damn. They don’t do this in China unless you are leaving/entering the country. At that point they take your photo and fingerprints.

If America is starting to do this, then for sure China will at some point.
One of the first employees, the company got sold in about 3 years from starting, enterprise space but very little revenue and a frankly half baked product. I think of it as a team acquisition, made about 5k and 40k in RSUs to vest over 4 years.
ERA grants vary widely in prestige, money, and requirements. It is correct that they hold back money that is freed after audits are carried out. However, as in the case of the MC fellowship, which can amount to > 300k over three years (so not beer money), you can write whatever you want in the reports and never hear back from your liaison officer.

"Defections" from academia to industry are prevalent and logical, since for one there are many more jobs there than in academia. However, MC fellowships are explicitly meant to support researchers and their research, train them, and then bring back knowledge and talent to EU research Institutions. Having a very high percentage of MC fellows leave academia after the end of the fellowship defeats their purpose and waste money and talent.
I got started with this back in May 2015[1] and would highly recommend YOU (yes, you!) try it! It's super easy - you just have to download and install Processing[2], then write some Java code to manipulate an canvas and viola!

[1] https://zk.gd/art.html

[2] https://processing.org