skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a big enough company, potentially. A bad executive's impact is multiplied across everyone in their org and can quickly destroy a previously high performing group.

Think of it this way, the output of an exec (like all managers) is an organization that functions well. If a well functioning group gives an average 10% improvement in productivity to everyone (which, if you think about the delta between the best and worst teams/groups you've been a part of is on the low side) that's 1000x the contribution of an IC for a company of 10,000 people.
It’s going to take a bit more than some storage and a network widget to get to that stage...
Yes, it would, and thank you for bringing that up. I'd forgotten that little bit of news, but now I'm pretty sure it will figure into this case.
My first thought reading this article was: "I can't believe the EU uses daylight savings time. I thought the US was the only country that would ever go along with that kind of nonsense."

Then I read this part:

> The practice, which was used as a means to conserve energy during the World Wars as well as the oil crises of the 1970s, became law across the bloc in 1996.

> All EU countries are required to move forward by an hour on the last Sunday of March and back by an hour on the final Sunday in October.

...and my second thought is: "wow, the EU members must give a lot more control to their central government, in the US the states do whatever they want with their timezones and would scoff at that kind of micromanagement."

Now, you're saying that the states actually are substantially constrained by federal regulation and I am much less optimistic than I was about our current mechanisms of government and democracy when it comes to dealing with timezone policy.
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From a singular technology perspective, indeed it seems like investing a lot of money into a hypothetical device. However, there are many other factors you have to consider.

1. Quantum computing is a cryptographic arms race at the moment. One country can choose not the invest in it, but assuming QCs work, whichever country makes one first, is going to win big time. In a way, its a national security issue. Nobody wants to be left behind. Funding levels have to reflect this.

2. Many different architectures for QCs are being researched on, and in each area we have made tremendous advancements in new techniques of quantum-level-system control and new ways of nano scale manufacturing etc. The feedback alone from these advancements will enrich and enable many other areas of science and technology. For instance, the development of photonic quantum computation also advances the development of optical classical computer as the basic architecture is very similar.

3. Many physicists like myself don't care too much about actually building quantum computers, though it would be nice. Whether or not QCs are possible, just forcing ourselves to think about physical reality from a computational and information theoretic perspective has resulted in massive advancements in physics, a field which had pretty much stagnated since the 80s. The ideas generated from studying quantum information and computation have percolated into other areas of physics such as gravitation and the structure of spacetime. And its not sufficient to just think about QCs in the abstract. New ideas such as novel error correction codes are generated when physicists are forced to think about specific architectures and their limitations and/or real problems faced in the lab.
- Poor leadership (me). Inability to align team on a common goal (!), inability to communicate clearly about plans, etc.

I learned that I'm not the leader I thought I was.

- Canadian business. Means US B2B enterprise checks get stopped at the border for 3 weeks while they 'investigate'. Makes your last mile enterprise sale that much harder. Investors are conservative. Wanted $5-10k MRR before considering angel-level investment, no go until then. Harder to compete against Valley companies.

I learned get the revenue first anyway, the days of bootstrap a free service until funding are harder and harder to come by. Revenue first.

- Problem we were solving was harder than expected (barometer data to weather forecasts). Main product was going to be a weather model but we never made it that far. Data quantity, quality control and user retention were bigger problems preventing us from executing to success. This leads to running out of money.

I learned that hard problems are hard. Your startup doesn't have as many advantages as it thinks it does if the incumbents can copy/do better than you with your "hard problem" solution or if you take too long to build your real MVP.

- Team skills were not right to solve our problems. After company founding and initial pivots we were not left with founders and staff that could solve the problems we now had to solve.

I learned to be careful starting a company with your friends. And that pivoting can have risks like a lack of skill required to complete the pivot.

- Probably the final item would be despair. When things get bad there is almost no way to come back because you've lost the trust of the people who were holding up your fragile startup to begin with.

I learned to know when to quit before driving things into the ground and taking your team with you.

- One more item: If you can catch it before you start a startup, it's a good idea to really make sure your hobby project shouldn't just stay a hobby project. Maybe it has some organic growth and media attention - but that doesn't mean it should be a startup.

I learned to keep my job and my hobby separate. I'm employed with a day job now and I can do phone weather experiments in my free time with a hobby [1], not trying to shoehorn some idea of a startup into an otherwise neat and successful hobby.

[1] Labelling photos of the sky as a training dataset into machine learning classifiers for auto-labelling of weather data in photos is a hobby - not a startup: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe...
New discovery? I noticed this many years ago when cooking just a tinny bit of food in the droplet and you see the food roll around inside. Maybe I should have written a paper, cool pictures though.

I guess maybe it's more surprising to learn what has not been written about. Makes you wonder what things were noticed by someone but they never said anything.
Where does spent fuel go? Right next to the reactor, in pools, where it is stored indefinitely because there is no other place for it to go and the proposed mines to store it forever never get built and used.
I learned to drive on snow and ice in the midwest in a stick-shift car from the '70s.. of course, I would rather have traction control and ABS, but it can certainly be done (and it was for many years before the modern conveniences)
How did people survive before ABS and traction control?

It's not that bad. You just dial back your risk taking to reflect the situation.
That's because of LIDAR, rain and snow interfere with LIDAR. A simple Google search shows
that https://www.quora.com/Autonomous-driving-how-good-is-LiDAR-u...
Perhaps San Francisco rain is solved, but I doubt the downpours we get in the South East are solved. Zero visibility is just one thing, how about hydroplaning when there is over 1" of standing water on the road because it's coming down faster than gravity can drain it away? Or spotting that your lane is fine but the opposite one is flooded so that car coming the opposite direction is going to have to borrow your lane for a bit?

These sound like edge cases but there are places where they occur very frequently and local human drivers, for all their faults, do have a way of dealing with them.
Heart recipient died from sepsis before developing cancer. There were two kidney recipients, right kidney recipient remains alive because of nephrectomy.
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Basic time zones makes sense even to me, you don't need to match it perfectly. Just don't make arbitary changes all the time.

It's equally easy to regulate that everybody change their schedules at the same time as you regulate the clock. It's just less popular. Doesn't make it impossible.
My own startup about five years ago (I've worked at several others, all different types of failures):

Running out of money. We were bootstrapped, and the style of work we were doing had some decent capital costs. We failed for a "bargain" (less than 7K), but we had cut to the bone and deeper while trying that. Side jobs to make rent just increased stress and distracted from the business.

Why did we run out of money?

Focused on engineering instead of sales and marketing. Manually spinning up servers would've been the right thing to do--since we instead were both technical we solved technical problems and kinda missed the people side of things. It was real and hard work, but it was not work that was relevant to making sales.

After we ran out of money, why didn't we keep at it?

Stress blocked further work. Too much stress led to neither founder being able to even think about the company and its business without severe anxiety. Times were dark and bad.

~

I learned that you want to prioritize the money funnel over literally every other thing that you as an engineer think matters. Coffee is for closers.

I learned to try out only with other people's money. Don't put your rent and basic living on the line for an idea if you aren't comfortable with what that can entail.

Probably most importantly, I learned that the glorification of the startup lifestyle is a lie perpetuated by people seeking to make money from it at all levels. Nowadays, even the glorification of failure and celebration of mental health seems to be by people looking to advertise their businesses, cure-alls, or just get internet famous.

It's rotten to its bloody core, and unlike finance doesn't even pay well.
In the current legal environment, self driving taxi cabs everywhere at all times will never exist. Waymo seems to think they can work in Arizona desert though.

How many deaths per year would be acceptable? Like you mention, in the US, it seems that zero deaths per year, similar to commercial aviation, would be required. It is a bit of a shame that a tech that could save a million lives a year globally won't be deployed because it can't be made perfectly safe. On the other hand, I'm sure people in India or China will be happy to build and deploy them with much higher failure rates. Maybe we can import those to the US someday.
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People in icy and snowy climates are not necessarily better drivers, but usually drive better in ice and snow than people who are rarely exposed to such conditions. It's a skill that can be learned through repetition.

They also tend to appreciate the importance of winter tires more.

This is anecdotal, but based on a rather large sample of people I know who moved to a nicer climate.
Yeh working on that ...but just incase
Perhaps I should have been more specific, but what I mean is forms of reasonable legal content. Sexual harassment is not content. General sexual content has legitimate reasons for having, say a content warning filter (same with violent content), but I would argue against it's outright banning.
I kid you not - “No parking Mon Tues and Thurs. Every Month” is a real sign. I'm yet to figure out what that means. Then there are the slightly confusing ones with conflicting messages which you learn to decipher with experience.
Placement of signs (esp one-way) are not consistent or does not take into account and driving cars - how will a car exiting a garage or a highway know if it's one-way or no? Definitely not without a mapping software.

As someone who had to relearn the rules of the road for a new country - there is a lot that's unsaid.
What if women ruled the world? A Victorian writer gave it some thought
For an adult, that sounds reasonable. For a child, you're stealing actual brain development and enculturation time.
To be fair, rain and snow interfere with millimetre wave radar too.
The post you're responding to specifically calls out "illegal discrimination" - for better or for worse, youth is not a protected class (in the US, at least). Age discrimination is only illegal against those 40+ years old.
It seems plausible to me that LIDAR + radar could eventually outperform humans in white-out conditions.

Here's an interesting bit of research on filtering out snow noise from a LIDAR point cloud:

http://wavelab.uwaterloo.ca/?weblizar_portfolio=real-time-fi...
Low-level memory work, if you care about things like data locations and exact layout of memory, is possible in practice with C. There are cases where you can run into aliasing problems, but controlling the actual memory layout is no problem at all. (There are some limitations.)
With some planning, you could convince most of them to change schedules at the same time as you change the DST regulations.
There's a bunch of relational algebra systems in Haskell, and one in Ruby that gives better first class control over these structures. However the fact that SQL engines all use SQL as text to communicate results in marshalling cost. However there are also languages that have embedded database such as K+.
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That is only if the entire cross stitching community chooses to remove you. The alternative is facebook, and if facebook decides to remove you it doesn't matter what the cross stitching community says, you are out
Long-standing evidence has demonstrated otherwise. Go read the commit message I linked to: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

"Explicit guidelines have demonstrated success in other projects and other areas of the kernel."

Many people do not start out sharing a common understanding on this topic. This HN thread is more than enough evidence for that. Hence writing down a framework to give people that common understanding.
You have to implement quantum error correction on these 49 physical qubits to avoid errors, which leaves you with a lot fewer logical qubits. Also you have to take into account the constants.
Is that with proper winter tyres or not ? With good tyres you can drive in pretty bad conditions.
It seems our jobs are a double-edged sword.

Unlike professionals like doctors, lawyers, and many accredited within their professions, we don't need degrees. I certainly don't have a stem degree, and many of my friends, some of whom make a third to half a million dollars in the Northeast of the US (not SV), don't have any college degrees at all.

We're able to learn and shift, going from developer to sysadmin, architect, manager or security professional and back again. Pre-sales anyone?

We can choose relaxed, helpful-to-society non-profit companies, mean, 24/7 work ethic startups with monthly death marches, low-salary beer keg outfits with bright colored furniture, boring investment banks or many other.

We have a sort of highly competitive meritocracy where I can go home and learn something I happen to know is hot in the market, and maybe climb the hierarchy (maybe).

On the other hand, I'm pushing 40.

That means events beyond my control are pushing me down the hierarchy, or at the very least making the ladder rungs more slippery.

Would you take it all back and pick a different profession, if my assessment is balanced?
I chased and successfully won a huge customer for my small and fledgling startup. I chased and successfully won a sole service contract for a key part of their business process. I allowed a credit situation with them to grow over the course of 3 months while I allowed them to have 60 day terms. And then, they went out of business and left me holding the bag with $150,000 in unpaid AR after I spent $90,000 generating that AR with them.

The lesson is never trust the size of a company as sufficient reasoning that they can and will pay their bills.
Parent doesn't seem to be arguing that these providers are anonymous, just that you get what you pay for in customer service. They explicitly say that end to end encryption (ie client side PGP) is required for privacy.
And learning to drive in the ice and snow is definitely a leg up; in racing (I have heard this in rally and F1) "If you want to win, hire a Finn"
That is not possible.

What presumably happened is that there was an undetected early cancer. That left circulating tumor cells throughout a body otherwise filled with healthy tissues. Unless you find those specific cells, there will be no sign of a problem. (At least not until they find a home and start a new cancer.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulating_tumor_cell for more.
next: code signing certificates under Windows

a lot of B.S. there too
Frankly, many of them didn't. Highway deaths have come down a lot since the invention of ABS.
>Also when you do fire people who have a longer tenure it begs the question as to why you didn't fire them earlier

I mean, presumably they were cheaper in the past.
I think we're talking cross purposes, but, no worries.
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> I'd rather share the road with a computer.

Not version 1.

Factoring in all these variables is going to be a lot of work for a non-universal feature. I have no doubt they'll be included some day, but I doubt it'll be day 1.

EDIT: To be clear, I believe that dealing with ice and snow is an order of magnitude more difficult than driving under normal conditions. This is an 80-20 feature that many people won't need. I can't imagine holding the product back for additional development when just locking the feature based on a thermometer would suffice.
And visible spectrum light (human eyes).
I was an early engineer at a startup that failed for a somewhat unique reason with an important overarching learning.

We built a software platform that intended to automate the job of market researchers. Those researchers we hoped to replace ended up finding the tool itself useful. Since the platform didn't replace the employees, our pricing model fell short. In the end, we found success by hiring our own market researchers and effectively pivoting into a software-driven consultancy. Profitability came slow and steady.

After months of profitable growth, things changed on a dime. Our lead investor effectively unseated the CEO one day, and made the statement that we were doubling down on the original SaaS vision. Within a month our 100 person company had been reduced to around 60. The now-unneeded consulting staff were recipients of strategic layoffs. Revenue dropped overnight.

The morale of the company also fell off a cliff. The C's lost their ability to cheer up the team and the senior staff saw the holes in the boat and promptly abandoned ship. The company folded about 1.5 years later for a fraction of the initial investment.

My learning in all of this: the tales you hear about the "bad VC"s are occasionally very real. Make sure when bringing on investors that they align philosophically with your founders' vision. Make sure that philosophy is deeper than "we want to make that cash". Great investors i've worked with since can be an immeasurable resource in so many ways. It is absolutely critical that founders be excellent in their courting of valued investors. Similarly, they must be ruthless in their rejection of the bad ones, however sweet the check may appear.
I fired IBM from my life "for cause" a few years ago after 32 years at Research.

This comment is overall correct, though there were some isolated pockets of truly amazing/wonderful (some classified) things to enjoy working on since the mid-2010s.
I’ve been through something very similar, and I know how much that bad to hurt. Hope you’ve had time to rebound and recover, and thanks for sharing your story!
Yes it does. The people who are being “discriminated against” and can’t find a job are likely to not have kept their skills current. They are being “discriminated against” for the same reason anyone else would be - they don’t have the skills employers want. What “policy” needs to be put in place? How hard is it to keep a $35/month PluralSight subscription and watch the job boards to see what you need to be studying?
The only electronic voting machine I would ever trust wouldn't have any more hardware capabilities than a TI-81 calculator. It doesn't need it, and every bit of extra bullshit and hardware and layers of software is a security vulnerability. The only other problem I see after doing that would be whether or not to publicly release the hardware diagrams. Maybe have the gaming commission verify the machines like they have very successfully done slot machines and electronic gambling machines.
Depended on the assembler. Some let you have 8 characters, internally uppercased and silently truncated. Others let you have 16 chars, others were effectively unlimited.

I wrote a bunch of assemblers, each one better than the last, ending in the one that Atari used for Atari ST, 7800 and Jaguar development. It's the assembler included in the 7800 tools archive. Someone cleaned it up a bunch and put it on github a few years ago.
People not driving drunk less and wearing seat belts more has a heck of a lot more do with it.
Not all of the people committing property crimes are homeless. For example: https://www.insideedition.com/inside-wave-smash-and-grab-car...
Is there a list of websites that discuss the latest research? Open to all fields...
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> It's equally easy to regulate that everybody change their schedules at the same time as you regulate the clock

No, it's not, and I think if you spent a little while thinking how you'd write a law or regulation to do each you'd recognize that.
For some definition of 'better'. I know excellent race drivers who were in rather unfortunate and totally avoidable road accidents.
> Cloudflare’s IPFS gateway is simply a cache in front of IPFS. Cloudflare does not have the ability to modify or remove content from the IPFS network. If any abusive content is found that is served by the Cloudflare IPFS gateway, you can use the standard abuse reporting mechanism described here.

That's an interesting legal hypothesis for when they are prosecuted for serving kiddie porn, isn't it. Seems like they're taking on all of same types of likely abuse as running a Tor exit node.

At a minimum it seems like they will have to blacklist serving known abuse.
I don't quite understand what you mean by all vs average, but I think he was saying that if you have 100 random old people and 100 random young people, there will be more people in the young group that know React, for example, than in the old group.
I don't understand the need for the sudden change. Like sure Linus could be blunt and direct. Like I understand some people would not expect that, but if I was being dumb I could understand someone calling what I did idiotic, brain-dead ect...
> hiring people based off of their skills is unacceptable as you say, how are people supposed to make hiring decisions?

Hiring people based on skills is perfectly fine. Hiring people (or firing them, which is what this is about) and just saying it's about skills often is not. That's why I put "skills" in scare quotes. It's like when companies use "culture fit" to mean whichever races, genders, and fads the founders feel comfortable with. It's not that culture fit isn't a real thing, but much more often it's a shibboleth (or "dogwhistle" in current parlance). Similarly, "skills" is clearly the messaging IBM has chosen. Now it's up to them to prove that they were truly making efforts to optimize skills and not something else.