skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using business intelligence tools for real tech management
It depends on how much you heat it up, though. What people are expecting from 3D printers is enough heat to melt the filament but not too much so the filament releases fumes or burns. I'm not saying that's how it works in practice, but I think that's how people see it and why they're surprised.
It’s an SNL sketch from years before reddit existed.
All I can say is: it doesn't match the accounts I am hearing from friends.

For example, a couple of my friends interviewed with Amazon fairly recently, for senior engineering positions. In every case when the same person received an offer from Amazon + another FAANG - the other FAANG offer was substantially higher.

In one case I know the exact numbers, and the other FAANG offer was 50% (!) higher.

> The difference in compensation between amazon and fb/google/netflix is minimal except for at the very junior levels.

This not only contradicts what I know from friends, it also makes little sense. Hiring top talent straight out of college is a huge priority for companies like Amazon, which is trying to build a strong talent base. Underpaying at the entry level means they'll lose all the best candidates.

Only paying competitively at more senior levels means they're counting on these people to suddenly relocate to Seattle after 5-6+ years at another FAANG, which would never happen. Especially as Amazon doesn't pay particularly well at the senior level too.

You want to tell me an L4-5 from Google will move to Seattle to work as an SDE3 for "almost $300k"? I.E. take a 50% paycut to work for a company with worse reputation in an area that has far fewer tech jobs than the Bay? Mid career?

Please.

It's pretty well known that if you get an offer from Amazon and also from Facebook or Google, you will accept Facebook or Google. This is true for all levels, and the numbers you are quoting only confirm this preference.

My impression is that Amazon has been having trouble competing for top talent, and is working to improve its propositions, with this big new office in NYC being part of the pitch. They do have ways to go before they can actually compete with the better FAANGs out there, to the point when people will routinely choose them over Facebook or Google or Apple.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/11/...

YouGov poll on labour voters would suggest caution on Mr Corbyn's part.

I voted remain mainly because I could not see how UK could dis-engage from local markets and just-in-time processes without significant turbulence. Corbyn gave EU 6.5/10 marks, I personally would score around 5.5/10 or 6/10 mainly because of the treatment of Greece.

Basically, like on Slackware when you misconfigure something, 'stormy weather ahead'
Vue-konva – JavaScript library for drawing canvas graphics using Vue
How does it make a difference from a legal perspective? I am a former lawyer and can't see how any of this matters. I have thought about this deeply in the past (dealing with the same issue for another app), and talked with IP lawyer friends, and we cannot determine what basis Apple has for singling out apps that are essentially specialized web browsers.

I'm happy to be enlightened on why this practice makes sense, but so far I've come up with nothing.
I feel like a new fresh look at what UNIX is today could be valuable. I wouldn't want to give up a lot of the philosophy around it. Redox does in fact do this in a number of places, for example I think the expansion on "everything is a file" [1] is a pretty awesome idea.

[1]: https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/url_scheme_resource/eve...
If SAP is how Lucifer interacts with our world then Biztalk is how Cthulhu seeks to enter our world by contaminating the minds of innocents with its eldritch horrors.

Mind you, it may have got better than my experiences with it, which as you can probably guess weren't very positive.
> ... the immediate area can contain this, with minimal spillover to Manhattan and Brooklyn.

I think if Amazon ends up building there (and that's still far from a given at such a scale) employees will end up residing all over the place. Just drop a pin and take a radius that is as large as humanely possible for a daily commute.

People in high paying jobs are often willing to make huge sacrifices in commute-time to land a desirable job while keeping the housing situation that suits them. There are folks with absolutely insane commutes in the NYC area, will Amazon employees will be any different?
...Yes?

This has been happening for hundreds of years. Part of being a responsible adult is managing your finances and being prepared. It is crazy to me that so much attention these days is basically advocating for the babysitting of adults.

It is not as if this will happen overnight, either. If we allow people to stay in subsidized housing we remove the biggest carrot for self-motivation.
I am not sure I agree with this assessment.

Where are Amazon employees going to live? Probably not out on Queens Boulevard on the 7/E/F/M/R so they'll be taking the train in the opposite direction. If they live on Long Island, they can take LIRR to Hunterspoint Ave (infrequent service, but demand can change that). If they live in New Jersey or in MNR territory, they'll take the train to Manhattan and then take the subway in the opposite direction from the main flow. If they live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, they're taking the train in the reverse peak direction; trains that are largely empty today because very few people do the reverse commute.

Similarly, JFK is 15 minutes to Jamaica on LIRR and 10 minutes on the Airtrain from there to the terminal. LGA... not super great. Probably take the 7/E/F/M/R to Jackson Heights/Roosevelt Ave. and transfer to the express bus (my preferred way of getting to LGA and I live in Brooklyn).

Finally, as I understand it they are going to use office space in the Citi tower... which is already built and I assume has had tenants throughout its life. So the transit problems were already understood.

All in all, I see this whole thing as completely non-newsworthy. 30,000 employees is nothing compared to the 1 million that already commute in to NYC from the suburbs and the 5 million that already take the subway.
Actually, if you want to see clean code that works well, try the traditional ex/vi source. It's something like 20K lines, but very neat functional programming all the way down.
Because that’s the majority of it’s members and people who vote for them want, they supposed to be an opposition party.

If Corbyn wants to run his own personal personality cult he should go form another party.
Both a fault of the employees that worked on this, and the manager.

Your deliverable should be an interpretable model. You can (and probably should) make neural network models interpretable. If upper management does not trust your performance evaluation enough to bet on it, either the evaluation was weak (and no model should be deployed, however simple and interpretable) or upper management doesn't know enough about modern ML to have to make these decisions.

I have sympathy for the manager in charge for making a decision on a complex model (while all they ever knew was simple survival models and basic statistical models). But you got to move with the times. Your competitors will use the most powerful models available (and some may go under due to improper risk management). Your employees don't want to build logistic regression models until eternity.
> How do people trust experts? That's a fundamental problem.

Yes, this! I've often thought that a lot of hereditary socioeconomic underperformance may be in some sense attributable to a self-reinforcing information deficit where people don't figure out which experts to trust, which life advice to take, which friends to make and keep. If your parents don't start you right it must be a helluva job to figure it out later.
> > Thanks, I also read the article.

> I'm not sure the extent to which you considered this, but in this context it's hard to read that sentence without making you sound like a jerk.

Did you consider the possibility that I was simply thanking dyeje for their reply, and confirming that I had noticed the examples that they referred to? Assumption of good faith, etc? Nevertheless I've edited my reply to hopefully make my intended meaning clear.
A wall can provide much freedom, depending on what’s outside. Freedom is a complicated term.
GitHub has been banned in the past and yes it didn't go unnoticed ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090700 ), but that's not much consolation when you suddenly can't access it. Currently they mostly don't block it ( https://en.greatfire.org/https/github.com ), but if GitHub ever became popular among ordinary citizens (as opposed to programmers) downloading e.g. censorship circumvention tools from GitHub, they'd probably find a way to mirror most git repos, except those they want to block.
The GitLab compensation calculator seems really odd. At least personally, when I saw it, it drew almost all of my attention away from the mechanics of the role and towards trying to game this thing in order to get paid comparatively well.

If someone takes a job with a London postcode and then moves a few hours north, what happens? Do they just get docked in pay?

Do you trust them to tell you they've moved house even though they're going to lose tens of thousands a year in income?

I'd considered applying in the past but don't really feel comfortable with the fact that it's not really 'remote' because if I actually live where I want to, I'd get paid peanuts.

Evidently it works for them, but to me it looks like some weird way to push everyone into the expensive cities.
Nothing wrong with luxury apartments. Today's luxury is tomorrow's regular housing.
Companies can try to do that. I've worked remotely for 5 years and always inquire about compensation up front. If they try to pay local market rates, I decline to interview with them. When you're working remotely, you need to view yourself as being competitive with candidates that are local to their SF / Seattle / NY offices and demand the same compensation as a local hire. This further reduces the pool of companies willing to hire you, but if you have the time when looking for a job it is definitely possible.
That's nothing.

Especially for a place like New York.

Consider, in Wisconsin, we have to pay on the order of roughly USD400M to USD500M per year, for about the next ten years. And we're a state that, compared to New York, is mired in abject poverty.

And to add insult to injury, that USD400M per year is for only HALF the jobs that New York is getting. And they don't pay as well.

Yeah, not a good time to be a Wisconsinite.
Some cities prohibit billboards, too. And some places only allow them along freeways, or prohibit them only along freeways. Or restrict their size, color, intensity, how often they change, etc...

It's a very messy space. I don't envy their lawyers.
No, the vaccination shots are relatively small. Very small painless shots, not as bad as a flu vaccine at Walmart/Walgreens. HOWEVER, the first shot of the PEP series, the immunoglobulin shot, is a large painful shot... But the subsequent vaccination is a piece of cake. Source: received PEP a few years ago.
Honestly if this guy was able to bring in business he will be an asset to whatever company he goes to and can probably negotiate a golden parachute of some sort.
Perhaps people are associating your arguments with other, flawed, arguments and assuming yours are flawed as well. Might not be incontrovertible proof but it's enough to critique you.
If the reasoning skills of nutjobs are already suspect, you can't take as trustworthy their endorsements.
On the other hand, Italian courts were the most wiretap-happy in Europe a while ago (and not very tech-savvy), so perhaps I'd think twice before running anything there. I bet/hope Amazon got good lawyers to handle that.
I have done 3-day long prints and have seen reports of 21+ days for a single print.

This all from hobbyists who have full-time jobs. It would be impossible to sit next to the printer for the entire print time for any big/complex enough print.
You can remove correlated predictors or do stepwise regression to get a minimal model with more intelligible coefficients.

The problem is it's still difficult to determine direction of causality. That's why controlled experiments are so important.
Opinion on Brexit. Hopefully of interest:

I'm torn on Brexit.

If Britain stays in the European Union, then it won't have a lot of power to manage her borders. The "liberalness" of Britain's immigration policy ends up being at minimum the liberalness of each of the other 27 EU countries. Germany could let in 1 million immigrants (good for them), all of them would get citizenship, all of them can go to the UK, the UK can't say to any of them "Hold on a minute. Are you even a fit?"

Also, this kind of unrestricted immigration is a historical anomaly. 100s of years ago, it took too long to travel from one place to another, and so people who lived far away were more different to each other. It's not clear whether throwing all the borders open will result in something stable that will last for centuries.

It's also a colossal experiment. If the experiment doesn't work out (see the above paragraph) then 28 countries pay the price. The UK will be deeply affected because it's an immigrant magnet, due to its high living standards, a lot of employment opportunities, and a widely spoken national language; something might happen to Romania and Poland, given that much of their population has apparently emigrated. If the experiment turns out bad, then multiply the impact by 28 for each of the 28 countries.

And there was a recent article on HN about an EU law that says newspaper headlines are going under copyright. Again, mistakes like this affect 500 million people (the citizens of the EU) and 28 different countries. This is a monoculture, which is bad in nature; why not in politics? The Ottoman monoculture might have been one of the things that set the Middle East / North Africa back. For instance, the Ottomans banned printing (in Arabic). How would that have been good for science? And China's another famous empire/union (monoculture), in which one emperor dissolved their fleet, which was the most advanced at the time, impacting their trade, and preventing them from settling elsewhere. How is a European, or even a globalised monoculture, any better?

On the other hand, I can see how the immediate economic impacts of Brexit might be bad.
if you just need to publish something quick, and don't need the rest of the blogging features.

https://telegra.ph/
Struct-uring your [Ruby] data
The 100% remote company I work for is based in Chicago and pays Chicago market rate for all positions regardless of where you live (I live in South Dakota). I find that it's generally fair and a plus to both the company and the employee this way.
> the Alchian–Allen theorem

Uhm, I'm not an economist but how is this a "theorem"? What is the theory, what are the axioms, where is the proof? This seems like an empirically observed trend.
It might be nice if the subsidies were granted “per job”, but it seems as though they weren’t.

Also, it’s not yet public what these cities promised, but how do you “half build” new transit infrastructure and such?
Counting items in real-time on Android using object detection
Losartan and Amino acids drug interactions – from FDA reports
More folks should give additional thought to what STAGE of company they want to specialize in. It is totally ok to want to be a great early stage engineer/salesperson/marketer where the ability to make decisions and move forward when the environment is vague/uncertain is HIGHLY valued. In my experience (leading teams at both early stage and 1000+ employee companies) most of the folks that thrive in the early “Wild West” stage start to wither when things get more formulaic as the business matures.
They probably just use ADP.

Benefits are most likely more complicated to handle than payroll. May be hard to find competitive plans that cover the entire country.
If K-A-T doesn't spell 'cat', what does it spell?
It could also be that the entire world isn't Austin.
Once they're mobile, it gets many times harder. It goes something like this:

- Newborn to ~6-9 months: not mobile, and not too demanding either (especially early on)

- 6-9 months to 3 years: mobile and constantly trying to hurt themselves

- 3-5 years: mobile, mostly safe, but not understanding what "no" or "I'm busy right now" or "I'm on the phone" or "I need privacy" means; also not napping anymore, which means you lose that daily couple hours of bliss

- >5 years: gets progressively easier as kids begin to get independent and (somewhat) reasonable

Of course, this timeline is different for every kid.

We have four kids ranging in age from 1-7 years old. I work from home, but rarely am I in charge of taking care of the kids (right now, for instance, my mom is watching them while my wife runs errands). On the occasions where I am solely responsible for them, I consider any work I get done to be a bonus.
That's exactly what I thought. $10.5M yearly revenues with 350 employees is rather bad.
This article explains the risks well and provides references at the bottom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_triangle_of_the_face
My principal concern in this case is a core problem with E2E web applications in general. For it to be E2E, your decryption needs to occur client-side. In the case of a web app, this would be JavaScript. An attacker could modify your decryption code to send the plaintext to an attacker with ease. More importantly, however, since the user won’t be storing their decryption key on their computer like they would with a real desktop app, you’ll be sending both the cipher text and the key to the user on every request, meaning that it’s not truly E2E since an attacker on the wire would have the ability to decrypt the message too. Your server would store both as well and could decrypt the messages if it were hacked.

This is the fatal flaw of ProtonMail’s supposed E2E and I don’t think you could get around it without forcing the user to use a real app that stores the keys locally and not on your server.
I agree that this is a problem. See my other comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442686
Maybe a different paradigm to blogging would be bring your own cloud, put in your cloud creds, then it does the beauty work for you in publishing static stuff to those cloud providers like AWS S3. You just pay a minimal fee to use it ad hoc or something as you would need a way to keep it running. Wouldn't need to store creds, just client-side signing to upload. It then updates its "home page" to list your articles recently for SEO. Have community plugins etc you can use etc. Kind of like a modern wordpress but without the terrible code. I don't have time to do this but thought it might be a good idea to flip it based on what we have now. I guess an issue could be broken links if people flop on their cloud payments but seems pretty light weight to build.
Duke University, just a few miles away from NC State, had a coal-fired boiler system (switched to NG in 2011) and a spur railroad line for delivery of that coal. One of the roads names bears this history, today : West Campus' Coal Pile Drive.

Article: https://www.miuraboiler.com/resources/news/blowing-off-steam
That's false. If you use JSON.stringify on an object, it will call the method toJSON of each values recursively. The toJSON method of a Date returns the ISO string.

source:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Redox is still very much a prototype and shows you can't simply slap "safe" Rust together and magically conjure up a kernel and OS: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/issues/1136
The issue with such an OS is that there aren't won't be any libraries and tools. So the OS vendor might need a custom shell, custom utilities, custom libraries for everything ... or they offer POSIX-like APIs.
One area where one can see this is IncludeOS - they had their custom APIs for a long time to leverage their architecture, but are now focussed on providing POSIX compatibility ... and that's only for single purpose unikernel systems. If the OS should also be universal this is even more of a problem. (Especially if you also want a graphical desktop ...)
> Okay, so on my screen that means 80% of the window is whitespace and it burns my eyes. background-color: black, I guess?

Apart from calibrating the room lighting and monitor brightness, one can still have a dark background for the body but not for the wrapper that has max-size on it.

E.g. http://camendesign.com/ here you would have white that burns your eyes if it was done without max-size, as is it's much better. [edit: just noticed that blog actually doesn't use max-size, it doesn't shrink; but it easily could]

> Responsive design is a thing, yes, but ultimately on a desktop computer you're always going to be able to choose a browser size that breaks a site.

Only if you make it too small.
The Case for Minimalist Infrastructure
I really wish Datomic will go Open Source some day! It is such a great product... a lot of innovation would come from a community driven Datomic.
I'm skeptical whether automation of handling failures will be feasible. For example, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger of US Airways Flight 1549 "Miracle on the Hudson" fame intentionally skipped steps on the checklist for handling engine failure because he didn't have time to go through everything, and the checklist itself didn't quite fit the actual situation which obtained at the time. In the end that proved to be the correct decision.
An Interview with Laurent Pellegrino, Founder of Noticeable.io
I once had a huge black Labrador Retriever (45 kg, and tall, not fat) that got up onto the kitchen countertop and ate almost an entire 32oz box of chocolate-almond bark. The only ill effect he apparently suffered from it was getting yelled at. Some of the other grossly inappropriate things he had ever eaten include a 60W incandescent light bulb, two toilet cleaner tank pucks, and the blue dog vomit caused by eating toilet cleaner pucks.

This was not an animal with discerning tastes. Nevertheless, sweet milk chocolate doesn't have a lot of theobromine in it, and he was rather large for a lab. Didn't live to 16, but larger breeds usually don't.
That's why they are scrolling on a phone or tablet.
* entirely async api

* more light weight memory manager (possible thanks to borrow checker)

* GPU first OS

* a better shell. I know I can run whatever shell I want on unix but a better shell being native would go far.
Lol. I find that to be quite something. I couldn't fathom attempting something like this. Every time someone distracts me I spend another 15 minutes or so getting back into the 'zone'.
both are used to approach the same problem: immutable manipulation of javascript data. The fact that immutableJS provides a persistent object is an implementation detail in the strategy used to solve that problem.
If you are worried about it, you can buy automatic fire extinguishers. If you hang one of those directly over the printer, I think the risk of fire spreading from that area would go close to zero.
It's one of the simplest language to pronounce, along with Spanish
Triumph of the City sounds like something right up my alley. I'll have to add it to my reading list. Thanks
What is a lambda to you in this case? That lambda will need to be scheduled, it will need to maintain it's scope... All the same general issues could exist. There have been plenty of machines that simply run functions, in fact before there was things we call OSes today, the machines that ran the code would typically not have an notion of time sharing, and would map even more closely to a pure lambda evaluator.

Without specifics about what differences you mean, lambda = function = process = thread = fiber = service = worker = ...
An WSJ article about that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-internet-traffic-is-brie...