skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You fail to realize two things. 1) car compabies are retooling already every couple of years with each model change. They are good at that, that's what they do. Due to scale it seems that it takes longer, but given the headaches Tesla had with the Model 3 the effect is not as big. 2) EV are actually a lot easier to build than ICE powered cars. So the only thing that held incumbents back was low expectations on the sales volume. And that is changing.

This also explains to large degree the momentum these compabies have once the move. And don't even talk about first time pass yield for the Model 3 compared to other companies out there.

EDIT: Typos
Engineering abilities does not imply political awareness.
Making things work is surprisingly hard and (imho) a soul crushing process. You need a specific kind of people's profile for that. From my experience, the presence of a political vision alongside the engineering skills is much lower than expected.
When both are present, the political vision does not come from a kind of enlightenment in the engineer's inner soul. But from a feedback loop coming from accurate sources of informations.
Sure.

https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/jun/24/...

The main takeaways here are:

1. Players have a range of qualities. It is nigh on impossible to rank them in a simple linear order, since strengths and weaknesses come in bundles, not as a single order of merit.

2. What makes someone a winner or a loser varies as they move up the ladder? Success criteria are context-dependent. Qualities suited to the top position may have little value in the middle, and vice versa. Indeed we may kill off the very leaders we need in middle echelon tournaments.

3. Something like the Peter Principle operates, where people are promoted to their level of incompetence. We advance people on yesterday's, not tomorrow's, competence. It is also striking that no one goes down. Losers just get stuck in their positions or exit the game.

4. People move ahead as much by luck as through performance. They get a good break, have a strong sponsor, make the right friends and get handed an opportunity to shine.

https://theconversation.com/women-in-tech-suffer-because-of-...

"In the U.S., women own 39 percent of all privately owned businesses but receive only around 4 percent of venture capital funding. Put another way, male-led ventures receive 96 percent of all funding." https://www.nawbo.org/resources/women-business-owner-statist...

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/27...

Women account for just 6 percent of the chief executives of the top 100 tech companies

There's plenty enough to dig further in this area. The numbers are damning, and show that "Turns out women don't get 'merit'." rather effectively. Well, unless you think that half of the population has 'fair' representation with only 4% VC funding, or 6% CEOs.
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You are building it for your salary, for shareholders, both private and public, and users.

There tends to be people who will screw over one or two of those groups to enrich the other group.
>dead posts

What do you mean by 'dead posts' in this context, please?
It's not very common for me. I maintain a few boxes at different hosting providers for different projects that have been running for a long time. Sometimes I ssh in and update everything. Right now I have to google everytime I ssh into a centos box because I keep forgetting the yum syntax.
In the case of Puerto Rico, it's apparently the case that you can land your jet there, refuel, step outside, and count that as a day on the island: https://www.gq.com/story/how-puerto-rico-became-tax-haven-fo....
This is very interesting. I'm looking through the Hours [0] code. Instead of:

'Week Day': stategroup (
'Monday' -> { }
'Tuesday' -> { }
'Wednesday' -> { }
'Thursday' -> { }
'Friday' -> { }
'Saturday' -> { }
'Sunday' -> { }
)

I think it would be nice if you could just write something like:

'Week Day': stategroup ('Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday')

Or even something like %w() from Ruby:

'Week Day': stategroup %w(Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday)

I also see a lot of "'Yes' -> { }" and "'No' -> { }" stategroups that are quite verbose. So it would be nice if you could just do:

'Active': stategroup @default: 'Yes' %w(Yes No)
'Subsidized': stategroup @default: 'Yes' %w(Yes No)

Or even a "Boolean" shorthand instead of 'Yes' and 'No':

'Active': stategroup @default: 'Yes' Boolean
'Subsidized': stategroup @default: 'Yes' Boolean

Also 'can-create:' and 'can-update:' seem to always have some shared logic. Instead of:

can-create: user +'Roles'?'Manager'|'Yes'
|| user +'Roles'?'Project Manager'|'Yes'
can-update: user +'Roles'?'Manager'|'Yes'
|| user +'Roles'?'Project Manager'|'Yes'
|| equal ( user , $ >'Project Group'>'Owner'>key )

You could do something like:

can-create: user +'Roles'?'Manager'|'Yes'
|| user +'Roles'?'Project Manager'|'Yes'
can-update: &can-create || equal ( user , $ >'Project Group'>'Owner'>key )

[0] https://github.com/M-industries/Hours/blob/master/interfaces...
Ah, that makes sense. A conscious choice to trade high salaries for high security, I assume?
It's specified as wrapping in DTLS/UDP, so implementations have to do that if they want to be interopable. The "just an expectation" is sadly a well-studied fact.

That FreeBSD can do that is neat, but just it doing that is pretty much the answer why a library wouldn't implement it, or at least not as a priority.
One is a large company and one is a person. This is a well worn logical stumbling point that many don’t consider.
I think meritocracy isn't really desirable if you think more closely about it. Still, this is ridiculous.

Mozilla has done some fantastic work in shaping the internet like it is today, but this doesn't really bode well for the future.

On the contrary, I would think words like "diversity" and "inclusivity", since their politicization, shoulder a lot more subtext directly excluding certain political views.

An constructive environment doesn't need to check it's language. Maybe appeal to the conscience of the community. Worked pretty great in my opinion.

disclaimer: Only contributed tiny bits to OSS, but I believe this to be false:

> open source projects tend to have less diversity than other software organizations.

I also think that there isn't any real discrimination based on the idea or the word meritocracy. Ironically, although there is not much merit to meritocracy, there seems to be even less with inclusiveness and diversity.
As I haven’t read it, can you explain the connection and why you recommend it?
So learn Polish? Why is it up to the locals to adapt to you?
Well, the OP mentions it. But you haven't actually provided any rebuttal to my analogy with terminology for other missed goals. I think they're pretty good examples of words that are "historically tarnished" in similar ways.
I specifically mean "smart devices" like refrigerators, watches, these weird voice controlled home automation devices, tablets. I just saw a commercial for headphones that are voice controlled.

I don't want or need any of this extra gadgetry, cell phone and laptop are quite sufficient for all of the tasks I care about. I suspect most 'normal' people are like myself and just don't care about all this electronic nonsense.
OMG this is a godsend! I've wanted to do webrtc outside of a browser in python for a while now but there was no available implementations (besides the native one, and I didn't want to go down the swig route).

Some questions:

Can it handle the signalling on its own?

Can it substitute any part of a webrtc session? That is, can I have either browser-aiortc, aiortc-browser or aiortc-aiortc?

Can it be used to build, say, a desktop application doing webrtc communication?
But the one referenced as an example in your original post DID fail - and you wrote "IF it fails". You described a potential failure "in the nature of the things".

It is natural to consider the nature of things - apply equal consideration to nuclear power and your comparison will be more valid.
So not a data center, but like an Arduino.
I think the point of dead posts is that there is no punishment that works. These are posters that thrive on and are reinforced by conflicting interaction regardless of voting. When the posts are "dead" (and thus get no interaction) we have extinction of the reinforcement.
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it's happening for millenials already. Everyone I talk to feels that emptiness of blindly sharing status posts and photos.

And pretty much everyone I talk to about this mentions that they do those status updates and photos for family members more than friends, and that they keep up with friends differently.

In fact, I keep up with all of my friends through direct messages on one platform or another or IRL.

The only exception is Twitter because I feel like you can get into interesting conversations on there...I just wouldn't get on there to share stuff with friends from IRL.
There's the media posturing and then there's reality. A lot of people in Poland have not had any contact with other cultures and make inappropriate jokes about that, those who traveled a bit are totally ok with it, the last 20 years introduced a lot more multiculturalism but there's still ways to go.
The leading right-wing political party is a data driven monsters - they will build their policy on whatever gets them seats in parliament and local elections.
One the most successful right wing policies in Poland right now is 500+ - a form of Universal Basic Income for every family with children. This clearly a very socialist idea, but introduced by a 'conservative' party. My point is the conservative party, like most of Poles are very pragmatic and generally will do what works rather than being too principled. If you understand that, you'll gel well with the society in Poland.
Vudu Orders MGM Shows for VOD Service
> Like "traditional American values" and "celebration of European culture"

Or diversity and inclusiveness.
At https://views.tools we're giving users a 30-day free trial provided you enter your CC details upfront.

Our product will be involved deep enough into your tech stack that you need a bit more than the standard 7/14 days to try it out.

We're testing this model first because of the feedback we got from other YC companies (we're part of YC SUS 2018). They said we should charge as soon as we can to get validation. Most of them charged too late and regret it because there wasn't enough commitment from their users.

On this talk from the lectures https://youtu.be/xZi4kTJG-LE?t=1986, the speaker suggests going more aggressively at it and ask for an annual agreement with a 30-day money back agreement instead of a free trial. The point is that it gives us validation and commitment. We're discussing that now.
Why not just use Pandas? Whenever I want to do any slightly complex modification to an excel table I just load it into Pandas instead. It's a complete breeze and very fast.
To counter this, as someone who lives in Chicago, there are some additional drawbacks beyond the weather:

- Taxes are extremely high here, with no sign of slowing down

- Political corruption is rampant in the state

- Crime is mostly relegated to south side of city, but it's still an issue

- Public works are decaying: train stations, airport, and everything else look like they need work

- Schools are undesirable and a magnet/charter school has very high competition.

My wife and I have lived here our whole lives and are considering joining several friends who have recently moved to the Nashville area to alleviate the above mentioned items. There is no state income tax in TN, public schools in suburbs are good w/ only a 20 minute drive into the city. There are some drawbacks but we're comfortable with the trade-off.
Whatever the issue is you can always find haters, I think its better to make oneself immune to this.
In your project, you write specifications. These are read by the runtime components (database, web client) and this specification fully defines their behavior. There is no project specific code, everything you can write in your data model is supported by the runtime components. You can look under the hood at that level, the runtimes are built in C(++) and TypeScript etc., but it's completely generic. In fact a lot of that codebase is generated.
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We're not allowed to talk about celebrating European culture anymore?
I'm a software engineer living in A2 and also recommend moving here. It has a small town feel but has most amenities anyone would need. Comcast provides gigabit internet for $120/mo in some areas of town. There's a great downtown scene with a ton of university students to stimulate intellectual curiosity.

There is a growing tech scene here with companies like Duo (sold for 2bn to cisco), barracuda networks, and a thriving startup scene (farmlogs, trove, spark incubator, etc.).

We have excellent meetups -- at least for javascript (regularly 100 people attend them).

The food here is pretty great considering the size of A2.

The cost of living, however, is quite a bit more expensive than most places in the midwest. Getting an apartment downtown is going to run you close to $1.5-2k.5/mo. There is definitely affordable living here, but you'll have to look further outside the 2mi radius of downtown A2. Purchasing a house in A2 is extremely difficult and fairly expensive.

Also, we are 45 mins away from Detroit, which is making a huge comeback. It has a ton of cultural diversity and some excellent food, things to do.
Facebook Portal video chat screens raise privacy concerns
You're not competing with your locality but with an entire country, or more. You need to stand out somehow.
The war on fake graphene
>Google (and "SV") have spent 2 decades telling everyone about their open and selfless ideologies. People bought it. They went to work for Google instead of a bank...

Let's inject a little honesty into this discussion. People didn't flock to google et al in droves because of google's selfless ideology. That was coincidental.

People flocked to google because they wanted to get rich. Especially in the early days when google touted their "don't be evil" philosophy.

For the techies going to work for google, it was never about not being evil. It was about getting rich.

We, as technologists, certainly knew and understood the dangers of companies like Facebook and Google from early on. (Again, if we're being honest, that understanding of the danger is one reason many of us don't even have a facebook.) But we compartmentalize. What we would put on our own home systems rarely reflects what we would put on work systems if someone is paying us enough money. What we would develop in hobby time is, again, very different than what we would develop if someone is paying us a lot of money.

I get it. We have to feed our families. I'm not faulting anyone. I'm just saying that it's a bit revisionist to put forth the "google/facebook/whoever tricked us into working for them" narrative. Most of us understood what google and facebook were going in.
It's always interesting to read about the intense reaction from certain communities to anything that disparages/challenges Columbus and his 'discovery' of North America.

As a European (and particularly, as a Brit) I tend to look at most of our 'explorers' as violent colonisers, and consequently have complex (but mostly negative) feelings towards them. It also seems that's the way the public opinion here is moving (at least in my microcosm).

Is that the same in the US? I understand it may be a little different, in that Columbus is so tied into the grand mythos of the creation of the US.
I feel like there should be a link to a demo application more easily accessible. I'm interested in what type of things I could build with it, is the only way to check that out forking the tutorial repo and building it etc?
Rationalizations can be made for nuclear as well. But it doesn't touch the evidence that dam failure has and may continue to be the far greater risk.
Unnecessarily uncivil and bizarre posts can be flagged and killed for normal viewers. If you want to see them, you can change the setting in your account (set showdead=Yes), but it's not really an improvement to the experience on the site, just a bit of transparency...

Also, shadowbanned accounts have their posts dead automatically. If you think the post contributes in a positive way, you can vouch for it (click through to the post page).
While this is no doubt great I don't really believe a statement "But most importantly, Frein said, it helps InVision build a better product".
Under what metric? I don't believe that people who are forced to cooperate with video and screen sharing options can deliver a better product than these, who can walk up to a colleague and ask them in person or use a whiteboard to explain their problem. In the end, remote workers are logically forced to spent much more time in meetings that their "in-office" counterparts.

EDIT: You're very much all correct, but I still don't believe that I would be effective without any personal contact. Guess the experience is personal!
The only thing they could do for Wasm would be to allow sub-process-granularity hardware memory access virtualisation and easily-enforceable float rounding modes afaik
So you're saying that reward should be separated from the decision? If I make a shit decision regarding architecture on my current project which drag down the entire thing, I should receive the same amount of praise as if I had taken the best possible decision?

Or you could remove all possible reward, just so that there's no more incentive to do anything.
There are a few use cases where the screen is helpful. Multi-day weather forecasts, recipes, video calling, viewing security cameras or doorbell type cameras.
Alan Turing? Because it’s not Turing complete?
Really interesting framework. And the docs are super easy to understand; nice work!

I'll be interested to see where it goes with pricing. It's hard to start building on a platform if you don't know if it's going to become too expensive in the future.

Paid hosting seems like it would work really well for a system like this (though I'd encourage some type of open-core model as well, so people have some escape hatch if the company goes under).
District Attorney John Chisholm went so far as to rule that "there was no basis to conclusively link Mr Trammell's death to the actions taken by the police officers" - WTF did I just read??? I can't believe it.
The military beard ban is about sealing a gas mask, it does have a real purpose. Having said that, they do let SF grow beards.
If I were a betting man I'd take a wager that by the end of Q1 2019 there'll be basic automation support built into Alexa, in the form of "when this motion sensor goes off turn on the lights", and a fairly robust set of functionality by the end of 2019.
I'm more annoyed by the extremes. Services are awesome (not using the SOA term...) but how about a monolith for most stuff and splitting out a few key things? I guess it's so boring that no one writes about it...
When does anything done by Facebook not raise privacy concerns
Repeating that this was a reaction to EFI does not make it the case. That remains an ahistorical explanation.

And this despite the change of tack from from naming the firmware to naming the boot mechanism. The name used for the boot mechanism, also adopted long before EFI existed, was a "boot record" or "boot sector", subdivided by type into volume boot records and master boot records, terminology that goes back to the 1980s. The boot protocol was not actually named "BIOS" at all.

IO.SYS/IBMBIO.COM was the Basic Input/Output System, nomenclature (alongside the names of the other parts of the operating system: the BDOS, the command processor, and the housekeeping utilities) that MS-DOS got from CP/M. It was one of two things called that, the other being the machine firmware.

Neither was in any way influenced by something that did not exist until decades later. And although there was confusion between the two, it was not some generalized confusion about parts of the system in general. "BIOS" was not a name for a boot sector/record, even though one of the things contained within a boot record was a BIOS Parameter Block, which people had to regularly explain meant "the other thing that is called a BIOS". And people regularly distinguished in the 1980s between such things as "BIOS services" and the "ROM BIOS".
This is really impressive! Seems like a great way to learn WebRTC and potentially is going to be much more portable than the reference C++ implementation.
The big expense right now isn't 50" TVs, it's housing - and the cost of housing is very much affected by how much your neighbours can afford to spend.
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
It still exists in extremely large numbers, so it's not 'overused rhetoric'. Please don't dismiss an extremely large issue as 'rhetoric'.

Half of the worlds population lives in poverty, and ~650m live in extreme poverty [1][2].

[1] https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-p...

[2] https://worldpoverty.io/
"All technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first." - Eleanor Saitta
BBC authors need money too
There might be a niche for an 'always on' (more or less) video service. It feels very awkward to 'be quiet together' on most current voice and video call services and that causes people to end the conversation faster than they would if they were there physically (it's one of the reasons why I like gaming with my long-distance friends, because you can chat, then focus on the game for a bit, then go back to chatting - it feel more like hanging out, and less like a focused exchange of information). As another example, Snapchat is strictly worse than normal messaging from a purely technical perspective (there's no history!), but in reality it causes people to communicate in a different way, and share things that might be too small or inconsequential to add to your permanent message record - it makes it feel like you're sharing your day and the small things in it with someone even if they're not there physically. So in a similar vein, Portal might feel like a different medium just from being on more often, and nudging people toward just leaving it on while cooking dinner. It might also not - I certainly don't want more Facebook in my life, but the point is, details in implementation and framing can make the same technology feel like a different medium that enables different kinds of communication.
You'd still choose Lisbon over Paris right?
;-)
It looks better with this color scheme than on the linked page: https://alan-platform.com/
Ah yes, that's the context I was looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...
What the hell is European culture? German culture, Italian culture, Romanian culture, sure. But...?