skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Netflix you'd be fired not because your manager didn't like you. You'd be fired because he didn't like your performance. There's a lot of it, alas it's just not the quality we are looking for here...
I have a 30 year old car with an ECU that has been repaired, so I think your perspective on electronics is incorrect. There are also replacement ECUs with custom electronics available for my car. People can and do repair, modify, or develop replacements for old electronics on cars. The practical aspect with old cars is that most of them are not beloved enough that there will be much support in the aftermarket. But that's not specific to the electronics.
For a 2nd version, it might be better to use a fighting game like Overgrowth (https://store.steampowered.com/app/25000/Overgrowth/). I haven't tried it but it has a scripting and mod system.
OpenBSD didn't break embargo.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=152909822107104&w=2

("Mathy" is the researcher who discovered KRACK.)
Sure but in your example you are adding sodiumhydroxide.

I agree that after adding say CaCO3 to distilled water containing inorganic carbon (CO2, carbonate ions, ...) the carbon content will have increased after equilibrating with the atmosphere, but not with the claim that the eventual carbon content of the water will be the sum of the original carbon content plus added CaCO3 carbon content... some undisclosed part of the added carbon content will be released as CO2 to atmosphere...
It's tricky. Normally you're not supposed to establish intimate relationship at the workplace if there is a clear power difference between the parties. Similarly to how teacher-student relationships are frowned upon (even if both parties are adults). The problem is simple to understand.
Don't be horrified for your safety. The software controls where the empty elevator goes. Many of the safety features, like the brakes, are tested regularly under the law and separate from the technician/programmer's work.
> The letter was in response to a New York Times report that Android creator Andy Rubin received a $90m exit package despite facing misconduct allegations.

Woah, holy shit, a $90M exit package? It's like Bighead in the Silicon Valley TV show, except 4.5x more. The writers for that show picked a crazy number and reality comes along and over-quadruples it. Granted, Bighead did not create Android, or anything, in the TV show. But an severance package of that size is still absolutely ridiculous.
Escalators have mechanical interlocks and they've been failing a lot recently. Time to take the stairs.
Epsagon Live Demo Environment for Serverless Monitoring
This story is honestly one of the most unhinged things I've ever heard.
I agree with you on that bombs thing. Currently USPS mail is very underscreened. All (or almost all) drugs in the US and coming in use USPS mail due the fact they need a warrant to open your package.

They currently have greatly stepped up their screening game though, mostly due to fentanyl. But that doesn't mean you have to ship straight to the US in bulk. A common route for fake pressed xanax was alprazolam powder to canada where it was pressed and either reshipped or smuggled into the US.
> Google has literally millions of employees

Literally millions? More like 75,000:

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/24/16022210/alphabet-google-em...
>Its unbelievable how power and money makes people lose any judgment

I'm reminded of this South Park clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN57UhWy8_g
Chances are you are going to get diarrhea and bronchitis anyway if you get flu, whether you take the cure or not.

I would be more curious about how well does it play together with something like ambroxol hydrochloride - I used to get bronchitis as a complication every time I get cold in the past but as soon as I've discovered ambroxol hydrochloride I've forgotten about ever having bronchitis as a bad dream.
Emojis as a Language (simulation)
Getting people to pay for all of those things is what taxes are for. If it was completely voluntary how many people would actually pitch in to pay for all of these services?

What about the communities that are unable to afford these services?

It’s very easy to imagine that in your scenario that the very wealthy segment themselves off to pay for private services while everyone else suffers.
I don’t think this has too much to do with Burning Man. If he had even invited her to travel to a business conference with the intent to get laid it would have been the same deal.
Totally agree! It really seems like the article is trying to say she was invited to attend her first burning man by this creepy interviewer and that she attended it mainly for networking purposes but brought her mom and a “conservative” attire to keep it professional. This isn’t explicitly stated but is strongly implied. The author also links predatory behavior with burning man by making Star seem like the outsider to it.

I commented because I think this article is doing a disservice to the victim and falsely depicting her as a bit naive, clueless, and perhaps a tad too desperate for the job which isn’t accurate at all.
I wonder if this is really true. My understanding is that the majority of ICO funding actually comes from Bitcoin & Ethereum "whales" who got in early, own thousands of coins worth tens of millions of dollars, `and are looking for something cool to do with it that won't trigger a huge tax bill. (Well, technically investing in an ICO is a taxable event, but when you can just use your private key to send Ethereum from your pseudonymous address to a smart contract that exists everywhere and nowhere at once, enforcement is difficult.)

Most of the newbie Bitcoin investors I've met at meetups have been very wary of ICOs. Too risky; they won't go near them. Occasionally they'll be someone who spreads maybe 5% of their crypto portfolio across a dozen ICOs, but they're the die-hard exceptions.

If this is the case, the analogy really is more like Google X or YCombinator: an already-wealthy firm who spends money on passion projects because they can, with the potential added benefit of a small chance of an even bigger payoff down the road, and a nice PR boost in the meantime that increases the value of their primary holdings.
As someone who has used all of them in my days in the rave scene, they’re very similar but not the same — in particular, adderall doesn’t give the same sense of euphoria. If you’re trying to be productive, sure they’re all about equally good. If you want to party adderall is strictly inferior.

Also as someone who dabbled with them and who had lots of friends who were like really into it, I saw the negative consequences first hand, but they’re subtle and take quite a bit of time to manifest. By the time it becomes obvious to you that there’s a problem, most of your non drug using friends have known for a while. But of course you don’t really hang out with your drug using friends any more.

It’s not the immediate horror show you’d expect from the movies or from watching Cops. You only see the worst of the worst. For every drug casualty you’ve met, there are probably dozens of people who do the casually for a few years, maintain jobs and relationships, get bored and then quit. That was at least the case for most of the people i went to raves with back in the day. Almost all of them settled down with families and careers and very few of them had trouble quitting.

I don’t recommend doing any of those things, I just think that people have a skewed idea of what it’s like.
The biggest difference between Adderall and crystal meth, in terms of safety, is purely that one is manufactured by pharmaceutical companies and the other is manufactured in "meth lab" conditions. (Also the consumption pattern; people don't generally smoke their ADD meds.)

Adderall is a combination of two amphetamines; dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine. If you don't react well to Adderall, the next step is to try the constituent amphetamines separately. Dextroamphetamine is widely available by itself; levoamphetamine, until recently, was not. Fortunately, a close analogue to levoamphetamine is Desoxyn, which is just methamphetamine. Medicinal methamphetamine is legal in the United States.

Desoxyn, like Adderall, is a controlled substance kept in safes in pharmacies, and so it's a lot easier for your average junkie to settle for Uncle Jethro's crystal meth than to try to get his hands on real pharmaceutical-grade amphetamines, whether that's Desoxyn or Adderall, just like it's easier for your average junkie to get black tar heroin than to get Oxycodone.
I was wondering if he just stood there and drank straight lemon juice while he talked about lemonade.
Why? The asteroids aren't really composed of anything that useful.

In addition, the total mass of the asteroid belt is something like 4% of the moon's (and half of that mass is in the 4 largest asteroids). You would be better off just mining the moon.
48 employees over a 2 year span is nothing. How many employees has Google had in that time? It is probably at least 100,000. We are talking about less than 0.05% of the workforce. I don't know what percentage of the general workforce has committed sexual harassment (I have seem the victim rate as high as 20%), but 0.05% is insanely low. Either Google employees commit sexual harassment at an incredibly low rate or they are punished for it at an incredibly low rate. My money is on the latter.
Brilliant. This is indeed a huge opportunity waiting to be taken by an otherwise stable country that is in need of some cash. Botswana, perhaps?
An art photographer had a show where he presented his original photos of... other famous photographs. Lovely controversy about what is an original photo.

It's just what a segment of the art world does - mess with the definition of the art world. Look at Banksy's million dollar shredder.
Well, you'd have made a packet on the stock, and could've watched a lot too.

Does the value of the subscription really vary according to the company's HR practices? I'm not even sure that of the stock will.
Can you combine this with tamiflu for super recovery?
I guess so, but it’s not like you have to believe in the dance with your heart and soul in order to perform it.

I think this is a “pick your poison” situation. If you freelance you need to kiss clients’ asses, in a smaller org there are politics as well, just expressed differently.
Those are frowned upon primarily to protect the company's profit interest or the honor of the schools grading system.

It possibly makes the potential for harassment greater, but it's not necessarily harassment to have a relationship with a subordinate.
Is this only for flu or could it become a general purpose anti viral?
AFAIK, Slackware doesn't even have a package manager, does it?

The only experience I had with Slackware was just that, I installed it, found out there is no package manager and installed Ubuntu.

I have a hard time understanding why someone would use Slackware when there is distros that is literally better at every aspect.
The flu can also cause bronchitis. More often than not I end up with bronchitis after a severe flu or cold.

I don't even bother with the doctor anymore (unless I have a fever) because I'm not interested in the codeine and I can just buy Primatene (ephedrine + guaifenesin) over the counter. Both my doctor and a pharmacist have admitted they could do no better.
If it’s not uncommon, then it should be easy for you to cite one.
I can't help but wonder why just about every company has terrible hiring/HR/management practices.

At least with startups, I think money is too cheap and is flowing to underqualified people, managementwise. The VCs see a business person and a tech person, call it a startup and try to eke out a real company. Meanwhile, employees learn the meaning of shit flowing downhill and how culture comes from the top. Anyway, these cheap-money bosses are more often than not predictably bad at org-charting. Just add "flat hierarchy" and 3rd party HR, and 90% of the time it'll be a shitshow that at best elicits a chuckle when you mention how you work. [exaggerated for effect]

Obligatory "sick systems" reference: https://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html
Open access Nature Communications paper :
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06773-2
High-performance and scalable on-chip digital Fourier transform spectroscopy

Here we demonstrate a transformative on-chip digital Fourier transform spectrometer that acquires high-resolution spectra via time-domain modulation of a reconfigurable Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The device, fabricated and packaged using industry-standard silicon photonics technology, claims the multiplex advantage to dramatically boost the signal-to-noise ratio and unprecedented scalability capable of addressing exponentially increasing numbers of spectral channels.
Another characteristic of tech is that it is comprised of very, very many people that effectively have no idea how to accomplish the task they were hired to do.

For example, a civil engineer would need to have a degree in their field and then pass a series of stringent examinations to get an FE and finally a PE. Most will require a PE to practice their trade.

In tech an "engineer" may or may not have a degree and there may be certifications, but very few that I know of have ever provided any value. In my experience, there's also not as strong a correlation between a degree in CS for example and one's ability to produce software.

Lots of folks in tech come out of Enterprise IT where projects usually fail and the modus operandi is to purchase technology from vendors and blame them when it doesn't work out.
Where is the best place to find great developers?
autodux looks amazing, thanks for the link! I hadn't seen that before, and that's exactly what I'm looking for. Looks like there will be a bit of work to add support for Flow and Immutable.js, but I might look into that.

redux-starter-kit looks great too!
This isn’t a thing currently. (I run repair shops and the #1 thing we do is fix iPhone screens.) Independent, non-Apple-authorized repair shops do significant enough volume that Apple has been forced to fix anything that trended toward this.

Exception: The home button on iPhone 5s and above cannot be replaced by anyone except Apple. If third parties replace it, Touch ID won’t work. On iPhone 7/8, the button won’t work at all. However, it doesn’t brick your phone.
Abacus the movie: free-stream in US:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/abacus/

free-stream in Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episodes/abacus-small-enoug...

Possibly available in your country on the world's biggest streaming site:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=abacus+movie
Could you get a class-action lawsuit together from everyone who's "bought" a digital book, and sue them for false advertisement?
Fasting. Not think about eating 5 times a day gives me a lot of free time. Sometimes it gets to the point of been boring, but it brings a lot of benefits to the body.
It’s specifically 48 employees that were at the senior manager level or higher. It’s got to be much higher than that if all levels were included.
This is an odd move that doesn't sit very well with me. They waited until the NYT article to actually do anything about it...
Exactly my thoughts. This was a fantastic company in the early 2000's and to be honest they probably did a lot worse back in the day as a fast moving startup flush with cash and success.

The difference today is that Google is a solid Ad-tech company and is just like any other massive advertising company, rife with politics and an army of anonymous employees just grinding away each day.

The similarities between these stories and Madmen is striking.
>The problem with this is people easily underestimate the potency and use too much on top of the issue of varying amounts of fentanyl used to cut increasing risk.

this is especially dangerous amongst users who are relapsing and initially using their old dose amounts when starting again and their bodies aren’t able to handle it
48/85000 = 0.000564706

I think he just forget to multiply by 100 to get percent instead of ratio - 0.0564706%, which still represents a pretty small fraction. His conclusion is still valid I think - two orders of magnitude difference still gives you a tiny number
In tight Senate races, dark money backs Dems, hammers GOP
Warning: unaligned reads invoke undefined behaviour!
Hello, I'm the creator of this project, and also "language-evolution-simulation". I tweeted some examples of the simulation: https://twitter.com/fthrkl/status/1055574821520715776

You can ask me questions here, I'll try to reply to them.

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How would you feel about a regular petrol car having extended range as an option, but you knew the shorter range model had exactly the same tank but the fuel gauge was calibrated differently, and the fuel pump stopped pumping before the tank was really empty.
Only have to get rich once.
Critical Path Method: A Project Management Essential
I don't think it works like that... The company doesn't ask you if you'd like to switch to the cloud, and then you give a yes/no answer.

In my experience, what happens is there is a technology shift -- the company leadership decides they want to use the cloud (or use containers, or start moving their codebase to ${LANG}, etc.) and there is a group of employees that will lead this effort by learning and working with the new technologies, and there is another group that will actively oppose taking responsibility to learn about the new technology, and may actively work to sabotage or slow down the process.
I am of two minds about this.

On the one hand, I think lectures matter. Often I can't understand a paper until after I've heard a lecture on the subject. This is particularly true in logic as a lot of the papers are written in greek letters (seriously). The lecture includes the words that give meaning to the symbols. The symbols are rarely fully explained in a papers (e.g. what is Gamma?) since they assume the reader already knows and they have a limited amount of page space.

On the other hand, I took a course from John White where we were given a few dozen papers. Each person was assigned a paper to present for 20 minutes but we were all required to read all the papers. It was an amazingly productive class and I learned a lot.

Lectures and textbooks are where papers go to die. Papers are where ideas have their funerals. Conferences are where papers get their all-too-short life. In order to get to the leading edge of a subject you have to start with the lectures and textbooks, read the recent papers, attend the conferences, and then create a presentation.

Universities are basically the "shopping mall" of ideas. Lectures are the sales talk of ideas. Not everybody buys the product but you can't expect people to read a textbook (e.g. calculus) without the sales pitch (the lecture). So I think lectures matter as a "natural selection" mechanism to find people who will go further in a subject.
0.05% is not insanely low for something as specific as sexual harassment.

If 1 in 2000 is insanely low, how much would 'low' be, and how much would 'average' be? No environment should deal with whatever you think the average amount of sexual harassment is.
OMG. I am Dan also. I am getting older also. I LOVE Go also! Too funny but we are living parallel lives. Now get off MY lawn!
> In general I object to the idea that people who have a lot of money (earned or inherited) create more value than the people working for them. Both sides play a role in this economy and deserve to be respected as value creator.

Right. Efficient economies do reward people according to the value they create. I'm pushing you toward one of the following arguments:

1. Returns on investment are artificially high (relative to wages) because of an inefficiency in the economy
2. We should introduce inefficiency in the economy in order to keep RoIs artificially low (relative to wages)

If (1), then please describe the inefficiencies (you mentioned one possibility--taxes on investment income). If (2), what good could come of this?
Realistically, the whole DMCA needs to be repealed, not just one piece.
Criminals  aid  new smuggling route from Morocco, Swedish news site reveals
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica: MEPs demand action to protect citizens’ privacy
What we need is for software that attempts to impose restrictions on its users to become ineligible for copyright protection in the first place!

The output of a compiler is a mechanical result, not the creative work itself. A company should not be able to purportedly license a copy of a creative work to an end user under the copyright regime, while then stripping away the ability to utilize/service that copy via computational complexity.
How is it tricky?

Unless you start to mess with the QT libraries directly, there should be no problems whatsoever. You just attach unmodified object files and/or source code (as you did not make changes to them) into the software distribution.
How are you going to do a review of Night Sight and not even go outside? Every photo just taken in a room with the lights turned off. Come on, man. Tell your editor he needs to wait until nightfall.
> How am I making them falsify their opinions?

If I believe you're female, but call you male because that's what you prefer, in what way is that not speaking contrary to my beliefs (i.e. lying)?
For some reason I can appreciate the adaptive cruise control being an optional extra, as they've had to build and maintain the software for it.

The battery / range thing no so much.
No. 48 "including 13 senior managers".
Careful now.

Taken at face value, this paints a pretty 'fun' portrait of Netflix. I'm NOT doubting the WSJ, especially after the Theranos articles, they do really good reporting and have the back-ups. The firewall between Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Ramachandran and Mr. Flint's reporting should be considered as good as it gets. At least, it was for Mr. Carryrou despite it costing Mr. Murdoch literally millions of dollars.

However, follow the money on this article. Disney just bought 21st Century Fox in late August. Disney is purported to be setting up it's own streaming services as soon as the contracts with Netflix run out [0]. News Corp. owns the WSJ. Though 21st Century Fox and News Corp. are different companies after the split in 2013, this article sure isn't something Disney is going to object to.

Look, again, I'm NOT doubting that any of this is true. In fact, as it's coming out of the WSJ, I'm pretty certain it is true. All I'm saying is that this article really helps out Disney. Especially as it's trying to ramp up streaming services.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWkDZ51yrUg
It solves a big part of the problem.

As for the suits, they were designed half a century ago, before the problem was known (and still worked well enough to get the job done). There has been some progress since then:

https://www.seeker.com/space/exploration/new-spacesuit-syste...
A kid can do sport, AP, have lead role in play, have stem club without parent doing micromanagement or spending a lot of time on it.
> React is intended to be a view-only library but in practice people shove all their business logic in there, mostly because React makes it incredibly hard to do anything else. Because of this, innovations in React are going in the wrong direction. This Hooks feature is meant to solve a portion of this, but it's going in the wrong direction.
A better bigger-picture innovation would be to have a React-alike that is actually only the view layer, and makes it significantly easier to write your business logic using plain old JavaScript functions/classes.

This. This is spot-on IMHO.