skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is emphatically the case. The administrative and IT exemptions are rankly abused. It's not only big / tech companies that engage in this practice, either -- so many folks work for middling-or-less salary and expected to put in uncompensated overtime. Companies craft HR policy to shoehorn practically every full-time position into an exempt class.
Exponential back-off is one of my favorite simple algorithms. Just remember to set a sane upper limit, you don't need them to wait hours between tries.

I will sometimes use a "pseudo exponential" like 1,3,5,10,25,50,100 and hold there. Of course, if you're trying to avoid collisions on a shared resource, the classic algorithm is pretty good.
Sure, but electric cars have far fewer moving parts. Components are simply less likely to break.
My 2016 Camry Hybrid consistently gets 39mpg. There are all kinds of situations where you don't need an engine, and it shuts off completely - like coasting downhill, on a ramp from one freeway to another, at 42 mph. Engine shuts off, and regenerative braking slows the car as much as everyone else is braking.
Very well research supported points in the article.

Four things physical classroom teacher-led course offer which is often missed in an online course are:

1. well formulated Lesson Plans

2. Regular Homework assignments with Timelines and Deadlines

3. Periodic testing & grading

4. Peer students who are a huge source of motivation and inspiration

Online courses may offer some of the above in one form or another, but not nearly as effective as Classroom lead course as pointed in the article.

> Of course, another time-honored source of extrinsic motivation are deadlines.

> Course timelines and deadlines hold students accountable, spurring them to produce, keep up, and complete their work. In the ‘learn at your own pace’ model, timelines and deadlines are negotiable, at best, non-existent, at worst.
If that’s the case then please list them. I can find many more examples of executives destroying companies and employee livelihoods for short term gain.
Doesn't Google do a whiteboard interview?
> 1. Leading a niche isn't the same as "leading"

Are you calling feminist philosophy a niche or general philosophy a niche? Yes, if you are leading a niche, you are leading still.

> 2. The writeups above suggest that they're pointing out that bad science gets into journals, which doesn't apply here -- a philosophy journal can and should publish non-science work

>Feminist philosophy, more than most areas of philosophy, needs to be informed by real-world information and examples.

https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/about/
You didn't mention parking. In many European cities I've visited, you'd barely be able to park a larger American car almost anywhere. Last trip over there, I rented an MPV which effectively fit a family with seats for two children, plus luggage, in what was barely bigger than an Australian hatchback. And even that was nerve-wracking to drive in some underground carparks, or park in old-town streets.
Nand2Tetris looks really cool. Just signed up to audit the course. Thanks for mentioning it.
Do you trust Bosch and your vehicle manufacturer to be honest to you, when they lie to your government?
> Europe is far ahead because they don’t have cheap labour.

Eh, that's a tad bit generalized. German farmers still employ a lot of cheap eastern European seasonal workers, around 160.000 per year [0], especially for asparagus harvest.

Tho, due to the economic progress in Eastern Europe it's been more difficult for German farmers to find enough cheap hands.

[0] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/news/wirtschaft/agrar---bruchsal...
Yeah, we're just getting the ball rolling. I recently added support to HHVM[1]. Pushing for community adoption generally is definitely on our agenda, but will take some time.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/commit/d830ac5b335cea8433ab...
I'm just glad they used gelatin to simulate a bird. As soon as I heard the guy say he wanted to compare the impact of a drone vs the impact of a bird, I was mentally gasping. XD

I wonder if the results would have been different if they moulded the gelatin into a bird shape (it's moulded as a cylinder in the video, if I'm not mistaken) because then the pressure would have been different. Of course it would probably have been harder to fire from the air pressure cannon.

The block of gelatin also didn't seem to have any hard bits embedded inside. Real birds have bones. While small birds' bones aren't particularly tough, I'm pretty sure the beaks of raptors and some nut-eating birds are tough stuff.
http://archive.is/oSVzY
Or fising carbon to make lithium.
I've had to deal with a copyright issue recently and the answer to questions like this is usually a solid "maybe." E.g. the New York district court recently disagreed with the Ninth Circuit about the "server test" (https://newmedialaw.proskauer.com/2018/03/02/new-york-court-...)
And yet presumably the union would be quite happy with across-the-board raises, so the complaint tries to casually gloss over the implied conflict with management about who deserves a more limited supply of raises.
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I'm pretty sure the Rav4 is considered a SUV. I don't think the Outback is a crossover. Subaru's main crossover seems to be the XV.
Look under the hood of a Tesla, and you'll understand why maintenance costs are lower.

There is still a lot that can go wrong on the body, notably the infamous door handles, but the power train is just much, much simpler. Notably, no oil changes, no gas, and due to regenerative braking, the physical brakes last a lot longer. Longer-term, while there is a coolant change required, there is no timing belt replacement, no spark plugs, no catalytic converter / muffler, etc.

The batteries themselves have seemed to hold up relatively well, but in the 10+ year range, that is indeed a concern, as they represent a large fraction of the value of the car. But prices are dropping, and maybe a cheaper and better battery pack can be retrofitted when the time comes?
Social sciences have pretty deep-seated logistical obstacles to reproducibility.

If you want to reproduce an archaeology paper, well, how? You can’t exactly go dig the same site back up.

If you go out as a cultural anthropologist to hang out with some indigenous tribe somewhere, and your experiences aren’t the same as the last guy, does that mean anything? How much is because you’re different people? How much is because the tribe has already gotten used to having a researcher around?

This is part of why shit like the Piltdown Man happens.
I said "around 2020", not "by 2020".

His prediction was based on projecting technology curves out and comparing to a set of requirements around acceleration (able to merge onto a highway), range, and cost. Such projections out decades in advance are naturally imprecise. I would have considered it a darned good prediction if the first mass market electric cars had arrived anywhere between 2015 and 2025.
CORS is really for the opposite problem. Browsers do block requests from other origins by default (mostly). CORS is used to let the server decide which origins are allowed to request data and how it can be requested. If the client was allowed to decide via javascript, then attacker.com could make a request via javascript to facebook.com telling the browser to send cookies and return the user's data. This is actually what the client JS has to do anyway with CORS (using credentials: true), but the server side needs to be able to allow/deny it.
A turbocharger is a funny shaped air compressor. So let's put an air compressor in the trunk and pipe the air to the intake manifold. And if there car is a hybrid, that battery can power the compressor too.
My favorite version, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnuGjcp8h2c

Unfortunately the site that produced these kinds of images, yooouuuutuuube is no longer up, even though the domain is seemingly active on root url.
It is very subjective, I think it looks like a car from 10 years in the future.
We need to set about reinforcing the leading edges of airplane surfaces. :-)
I'm grateful too.
One of the things not mentioned, and maybe it is unique to my personality, is that I often don't like the exercises given in courses and come up with my own. If something is obvious and intuitive when hearing the concept, it is usually enough to internalize it. But if something is vague, I like to write some code and experiment with the concept to see how things interact.

MOOCS too often penalize you for not doing their exercises that don't always provide that much value and don't credit you for exploring other concepts further.

Additionally, when you have questions, office hours, message forums, Slack channels, and external sources (youtube, other courses, blog articles) are good sources.
> Components are simply less likely to break

I wouldn't say that they're less likely to break, but rather there's just fewer parts to potentially break. Your point is still completely valid of course.
Driving through Cupertino neighborhoods, I've seen several homes with not one, not two, but three(!) Tesla's in their driveway.

When I wash my Model S in the driveway, people walking by will often come up to tell me how much they love their own Tesla's (or wanting to know how I like mine). Never had that happen when I wash my Audi :) The Audi is even the more expensive car.
Exactly this.

If my banking API relies on user's not trying to commit fraud instead of proper validation, then I have a very insecure API. Making a statement that your system works as long as no one tries to break it sounds almost satirical.
Obamacare is very, very far from universal healthcare. A more accurate comparison would be Medicare For All, which has broad support from a variety of unions.
Interesting. Is this the white asparagus harvest? I know that it’s a finicky and delicate crop. Asparagus harvest has been automated, if I remember right. The Dutch has come up with this.. http://www.fruitnet.com/fpj/article/171946/dutch-start-up-in... but there are also other duct taped autonomous solutions I have heard of..

Edited to add: https://youtu.be/j8-X9Lk508I : how a labour crew harvests asparagus
Journals are for reports from scientists and academics. Would they be more useful if there was some additional review of the authors reputation, and the reliability of the particular report? Upvoting or public signing of the documents, or public signed comments. An expert in a field is more familiar with the reputation of their colleagues than outsiders.
The factory default is that you only charge to 90%, and they advise you to only go to 100% for trips.

We do 80%, but are willing to raise it for trips.

The reason why it matters is that charging lithium ion batteries to 100% lowers their lifespan. Since we don't need the range normally, we leave it at 80%.
Amen to that. And some of them are super good at appearing normal even charming.
Fewer moving parts does not mean that the components are less likely to break. A car with only one gear would have fewer parts but would break down more often.
True, but as Nietzsche points out, Christianity was primarily responsible for the inversion of what is "good" and "noble".
I personally wouldn't purchase a Model 3. I rented the long range version for a round-trip trip from San Francisco to Sacramento (about 90 miles/2 hours each way). The main things that stood out:

- Changing volume and airflow through the central touchscreen were much more challenging than the physical knobs and buttons most cars have. I'd even argue they were distracting and dangerous to use while driving. I don't believe this was a learning curve issue. Having to accurately place your finger above a touch screen and repeatedly hit a plus button is an inferior experience to rotating a knob.

- The self-driving ability has a long way to go before it is useful for anything except cruising on the freeway. In two separate instances, the car slowed at a stop sign down to 15mph before blowing through it (which could have been a non-cheap ticket that went on my record if a cop were around), and almost hit another car when two lanes merged into one.

- The supercharging stations charge at a slower rate than advertised, and cost only a little less to use than filling up a car with unleaded gas.

- The door handles are difficult to use. Maybe this is a learning curve issue, but pressing the handle in at the correct position takes more dexterity than simply pulling on a standard handle.

The technology and presentation is impressive, but I felt the driving experience was subpar.
$60k is not a lot of money to spend on a car in this day and age.
My wife is a management consultant and she has hundreds of anecdotes about owners who do not want to change.
If I were you I would be looking for a new job since you will most likely not gain the trust of the owner.
"I support unions, but only when a non-plurality of employees can join them and they aren't allowed to work together" is an anti-union position.
And I don't know if Tesla's drive train is that far ahead. Cars like the i-Pace have copied the dual-motor "skateboard" chassis, reasonable range, fast charging, etc. while including all the benefits of established car design/manufacturing.
I work at AT&T. “Manager” here means, basically, “not unionized” - so basically not technicians, call center agents, or retail store workers. “Supervisor” is the term of art for “has people under them”.
it starts recording using the iPhone's front-facing camera. Once you've stopped recording, it can text or email the video to a different predetermined contact and save it to Dropbox.

Too bad it seems to record locally first -- it'd be nice if it could stream the recording online, in case the phone is seized or powered off before it can save the recording.

Maybe it could have a checkpoint feature where it sends the current recording to the cloud while continuing to record, maybe triggered by a keyword or a cough or something.
Hello, we have engineers working out of our other offices, too!
Isn't this because there are many more models of sedans than trucks out there? I mean, the total number of trucks sold isn't higher than the total number of sedans sold is it?
> Between rebates, the cost of gas, and reductions in maintenance costs, we think that we save somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 on the lifetime cost of ownership over the life of this car versus an ICE car.

My wife wanted a new car (I'm stubborn and don't drive ;-) ) because the old one was getting pretty expensive to maintain. I crunched the numbers and we ended up buying a recent used Leaf. I live in Japan and Nissan has this deal where you pay about $30 a month and get unlimited recharges at public charging stations (essentially all Nissan and Mitsubishi dealerships, highway rest stops, major hotels, etc). I pay about 30 cents per KWh, so this is a pretty good deal. We should save enough money on various thing that the cost of the new car is negligible. We don't actually pick up the new car until November (lots of weird paper work in Japan and we're out of town for a few weeks as well), so possible I'll be singing a different tune in a few months, but I was really surprised at how the numbers worked out on paper.
I cannot for the life of me rationalize spending so much on a car. The $35,000 just doesn't make sense in New England, so I need to add in AWD. Then I need to add in the autopilot because isn't that the point of owning a Tesla so you don't have to drive your car someday? Now, with government incentives, this car is $50k.

Couldn't you grab a Rav4 Hybrid with Comma AI and basically have an electric car with AWD for $30k less?
Cunning. Why have 5G, when you can have Wi-Fi 6?

I'd posit that this renaming is part of the ongoing competition between Wi-Fi and LTE, and prompted by the advent of 5G?
In general, New York tends to having parking protection go up until the intersection, where it is usually replaced by a right turn lane. Which is not the worst; it avoids the pitfalls you describe by "daylighting" the intersection. New York does the same near driveways, but there aren't that many driveways in Manhattan for fairly obvious reasons.

Seattle, on the other hand, has way more driveways than I'm used to; they also tend to be so close to the curb, with poor lines of sight coming out of the driveway, that they have to have those blaring sirens warning about cars pulling out.

IMO, a bunch of several-thousand-pound cars is much more in terms of protection than the flimsy flexposts you see around Seattle. I just don't feel as comfortable biking around here.
Taking the light rail from Renton to Seattle costs twice as much (or more) than gasoline to drive there. And takes 3 times as long. Not including parking.

And the train doesn't run on Saturday nights, so if you want a fun night in the city, you're driving anyway.
You’re missing the point. If a monopoly is created because of government regulation and no competition can thrive because of government policy. There is no monopoly abuse. It’s just how it is because the government screwed up.
Anecdotely, I canceled my day 1 preorder after going to their AWD performance model test drive event at Telsa HQ.

The .2 seconds faster to 60 that it goes than my existing car is not worth the tradeoff off of the horrendous steering and lack of road feedback.
How do you use Syncthing with S3?
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Leave. There are better environments to work in.
That's related to one of the use-cases mentioned in the article:

one woman planned on using the shortcut to help with a stalker issue she was having with an ex-boyfriend

Though your particular use case doesn't sound like a good one -- if you're getting mugged, are you going to risk angering the mugger by talking to your phone first?
Reducing the cost of critical goods is sometimes necessary. Should milk cost 20+$/gallon?

I understand the appeal ideologically, but in practice what you are suggesting would increase inequality.
> a large push by two folks who are no longer there

Did they work for the union? Off to the next warehouse to liberate?
Clouds gather as Cloudera and Hortonworks settle on uneven merger
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A difficult thing to do with evaluating startups is clearly seeing where they can go vs where they are now. Consider Amazon: they were a bookseller because Jeff Bezos wanted to start an ecommerce company and books were a good starting place, but their trajectory and path grew to be so much more.

Similarly, there's a bunch of robot startups that aren't really _about_ the thing they're trying to do right now, so much as they want to make general purpose robots that can handle all sorts of tasks.

In this case they landed on farming, but there have been other seemingly dumb robot applications. For example: check out this massively expensive robot arm (that could easily kill a worker) that has been used instead of just putting the conveyor belt directly into the conveyor belt oven.

https://youtu.be/uFSdxwRVh8A

That company isn't interested in Pizzas or restaurants per se (if they were they'd make something more like a frozen pizza factory) they're just using it as a proving ground.

There is real innovation happening in the farming space but it looks like the video you posted or these automatic milking robots or something else that really helps out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/nyregion/with-farm-roboti...
> One study found hydroponics use 7X more energy

Hydroponics also create a lot of wastewater, its a fact rarely mentioned but when the goal is sustainability then created waste should also be accounted for.

Aquaponic systems don't have that issue because they copy a natural ecosystem on a small scale. Imho that's where the future of human food production needs to go.
Here's a more charitable way of thinking about this, based on my own experiences. When you're making a deal anyone (agreeing to do work, buy/sell, partner, etc.) there are two sets of motives you have to consider: what they tell you up front, and what they actually want. In your day to day, even at work, those two things are the same. But in many contexts where you would be talking to a "business person," those two things can be very different.

Lumping it all into "business person" isn't very useful because there are a lot of business people. So maybe a few specific examples can help.

Account managers and salespeople: while their stated job is to help you with customer issues, they're actually paid to sell/upsell you, and even if they're not, they're evaluated on selling/upselling you. This means they're likely to stretch the truth about the product they're selling in order to close the deal. So when you're interacting with salespeople, you can never 100% trust what they tell you, because they're not actually trying to help you.

Business development: the company they work for has an agenda. That agenda won't be obvious to you. Maybe they're asking you to come in to do a demo because they want to consider partnering with/acquiring your startup. Actually, they're spinning up a team to just build it themselves, but they want ideas. The problem is you have no way of knowing which is which.

HR: you know the common wisdom, they're there to protect the company, not you, and often that makes a huge difference.

Someone hiring you for contract work: they do want the work done, but they're trying their hardest to avoid paying. That means every ambiguity in the agreement becomes something they might try to leverage against you.

In other words, don't trust someone until you understand their hidden motive. "Business people" just tend to have more of them than your average person.
Ahh, ok, based on context I assumed you would understand that as an actual light second in spacetime as in actual distance traveled. Not light second as a unit of distance in 3d space at t=0.001 seconds which is a rather meaningless number at that point.

It’s a meaningful difference, but still avoids the black hole problem.

PS: The math really does not say anything about t=0, after ~t=10^-30 to t=1 seconds you don’t get black holes.
There's a lot of extra hardware that goes into a robotaxi. Waymo doesn't just sprinkle pixie dust on them to make them drive themselves. The vehicles, their sensors, compute, adn the 100 miles of wiring needed to hook it all up is just hardware costs. There's all sorts of logistics and real estate that needs to be acquired. Every new area needs to be mapped and tested. They run call centres, and pay thousands of people just to do data annotation.

The plan for all these companies is to scale up to deployments of millions of vehicles, they won't see ROI for a decade or more, and that's only if everything works like it's supposed to, it's still technically and unproven business model built on an unproven technology.

And sure GM can raise funds if they really want to, but they've gone from 0 to $60b in debt in the last 6 years, with $20 accumulated just over the last year. They have to deal with converting their fleet to electric over the next decade. Very expensive. Lots of risk. GM needs to pick and choose which risks are worth taking.
Won't this be illegal in states that require both parties to consent to recording?
What frustrates me is the tendency to use technology to replace humans beings. Then you don't know how to solve the shortcut in jobs. Couldn't we just slow down tech a little bit and let people do some good old hard work to keep getting their cut? Frustrating.
You seem to be implying that promotion of one's genes is the only worthwhile goal. Stipulating that value system for the sake of argument, procreation is hardly the only way to do that. Literally anything you do in life affects other life forms which share some of your genes.