skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know nothing about negotiation aside from a couple of classes I took early in my career -- probably the best instruction I received early on aside from deeply-technical stuff. Doubled my billing rate immediately.

Having said that, it's important to distinguish these kinds of negotiation porn stories with real-world negotiations. Especially for tech teams.

Negotiation exists so that in a world of low-trust we can all meet some of our goals by working together in a careful manner. It's a kind of careful "dance" where a back-and-forth between the parties slowly allows information to move back-and-forth so that goals can be met. It's the spot between sharing nothing and sharing everything.

A lot of management theory, like Agile, depends on some kind of weird total trust environment that's never, ever existed. That means negotiation has to happen. (If negotiation happens with your kids when you're talking about where to go for dinner, it happens in tech teams, trust me.)

Yes, in the end you'll end up with a bit of remaining information asymmetry that can be spun to make it like one party got away with a lot and took advantage over the other one. But the real goal is also mentioned in the essay: everybody comes back to the table again and negotiation happens again on the next deal. Nobody wants to sit down with Stalin again. And thankfully, nobody has to. Real-world negotiation is much more about building trust and deep friendships -- sometimes using games and tactics which can appear to be slimy -- than it is trying to bulldoze somebody.

Negotiation has gotten a bad name for many of us tech folks. It really shouldn't be that way. It's an important thing to learn and practice for everybody.
At around 15'40", Varoufakis says that Bretton Woods collapsed in 1971. I'm not enough of an economist/historian to understand this reference. Is he talking about the dollar going off of the gold standard? If so, why is he equating Bretton Woods with this arrangement (ie the dollar being on the gold standard?)

Edit: nm, found this from the US National Bureau of Economic Research: https://www.nber.org/chapters/c6876.pdf
There's always the argument about "Playing God" but we do vaccinate ourselves right? I mean I think the real issue is inflicting a change to a being that will become "Sentient" or "Conscious". When we genetically alter that which has potential for "life", do we know, beyond a doubt, that the change we inflict will be positive for the individual AND positive for our species as a whole? If we cannot say for certain, then genetically altering sentient life (who have no choice), is not a good idea.
I simply imagined drawing a line with my finger, and that seemed to work fine. But I’m on iOS/Safari.
sure, but can you imagine anything like this video happening in the 90s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZggcP1P1gU
There is a non-zero chance that a company in legal trouble will suddenly decide an employee wasn't authorized to speak on their behalf and so clearly misrepresent their perfectly legal and honest intentions, and throw that employee under a bus.

Best thing to avoid that, as I said in another comment, is to quit and get a lawyer.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740561 and marked it off-topic.
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> If you're of the opinion that a proprietary for is like slavery, you must also believe that copying is theft

I don't believe proprietary is literally slavery, it was just the most apt analogy I could come up with to show why "the freedom to take away others' freedom" is not seen as a freedom that needs to be protected in other circumstances.

I don't see how theft is a good analogy for the freedom to copy. Copying is actually anti-thetical to theft, because theft involves taking away something from someone -- copying something doesn't do that (except in perhaps in more general terms of economics, in some cases).

> no harm becomes anyone due to a proprietary fork, it's copying, not theft

No harm, until a user is given said software and doesn't have the freedom they'd have with the original version (but they need to use this version because it has certain features, or it's included in an OS which you cannot replace, and so on). I mean, at this point we're no longer talking about permissive licensing. Now we're just talking about straight-up proprietary software which may contain some MIT or BSD code.

> the options are often "build proprietary" or "build not at all", so copyleft liscences leave end users less free to use tools, because the tools that might exist just don't.

I don't think it makes sense to talk about theoretical tools that might have been written, and how users are not free to use things that don't exist. By this logic, any decision that theoretically might cause less software to exist in the world is against user freedom (and the existence of proprietary software is a good thing for user freedom) -- which is completely unrelated to an actual users experience with the software they do use, and undermines the point of user freedom.
Someone above suggested the drones were at 10,000 ft. That is way out of shotgun effective range.
I think it’s been about 90 days. Can you at least re-enable the ability for people to vouch my comments?
I think the general idea that, in a democracy, the people keep the government in check derives from this sort of thing. People with power can start behaving differently/oddly. At a personal level, I usually try to keep these people in check. But, that's something of a post-hoc justification, as they really just rub me the wrong way and I call them out, question them, or do something disobedient somewhat reflexively, and only sometimes catch myself in time to control my reaction.
I went from being an individual contributor to a manager, and I would interpret that situation differently. When you are the boss, you are getting bombarded constantly. From above, below, peers, you name it. Your cognitive load goes up so much that you actively avoid bringing even more onto your plate. I definitely found myself trying on-the-fly to keep interactions superficial, especially in a group setting, just to avoid taking on yet another burden onto my already full plate.

Perhaps that would mean I suck as a manager. Though honestly I've seen the same effect on pretty much everyone I've seen go up the manager career path. I don't take any of it personally.

There are two sizes of problems -- mine, and yours, and mine will always be much more important to me.
You know it's possible to learn subjects ~3x faster on your own than inside University in my experience.

Tbh University has its merits in that it provides some structure to a topic that you might not arrive at on you own, but it is the lowest common denominator in terms of actually learning things and if you are good at charting your own path to knowledge then it's much more rewarding and enjoyable and you can do it quicker.

The challenge is it's quite tough to get the balance right in your own. It's possible but it's not easy. You
He's been robbing his country blind to make him and his allies extremely rich.
Not viable yet but I’ve seen experimental fuel cells that can run on natural gas
Works well on Firefox iOS but (to the best of my knowledge) all iOS browser are basically safari under the hood.

Does anyone know the library or something similar for creating those charts?
If a collar sits comfortably on a cat's neck, the cat will remove the collar. If a collar sits very tightly on a cat's neck, it's somewhat uncomfortable.
I've actually tried it with people.

And in US-own media, I've seen people unable to name the vice president, think Africa is a country, not know the 50 states, and all kinds of things.
My more cynical take: the current government is also corrupt, and GS won't do their money laundering anymore. So they'll take $7.5B from it (if they figure out how) and then it will also disappear into their pockets. Just watch.
The Holodomor, The Armenian Genocide, The Yazidi Genocide, "The Great Leap Forward"...

Some Genocides get far more attention than others. Perhaps it's also our duty to proactively research all genocidal activity & research the political causes.
What an ample time to post such an article. Some context: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/18/man-ca...
Maybe downvoted because of the language, but the comment is accurate. The guy is a megalomaniac, who negotiated for Greece without ANY skin in the game.
I think he's saying:

import java.util as jvutil;
import com.betterlist as better;

class Example {
jvutil.List list = new better.List();
}
Rounding to the nearest decade
Does a technical definition of 5G even exist? Going from 3 to 4G was mostly about the transition from CDMA to ODFMA with other perks tacked on. This is why even though the marketing department at AT&T called HSPA+ "4G" the engineers knew it really wasn't.

What is the equivalent step change for 5G that is as significant as OFDMA, or is 5G is purely a collection of incremental improvements?
Interesting, this makes more sense.
Now I have to read more on the conservation of entendue.
From my laymans POV, DNA is just a shit ton of variables in a very complex code that interact with each other. No single point just does a single thing. They all interact with each other. No different than changing a variable in one piece of code and having it create a bug in another that was previously working.

For me, the real scary part is altering something, which inadvertently changes something else that isn't quite as obvious and visible or noticeable. Something that might not present itself until whatever organism it is reaches maturity, or beyond. Something like "everybody will get Alzheimers by age 50" where it takes 50 years to even discover it. And in the meantime, they thought whatever they originally tweaked was a success and made other tweaks during those 50 years thinking everything was just fine.
A plea bargain is after the event though. If you have been caught and are likely to be convicted then 5 years sounds a lot better than 10. That has nothing at all to do with deterrent effects.
Bye bye Java, still time to switch to real language (e.g Go)
The payload could also mutate, virus DNA isn't very stable.
Had the same issue trying to "move points I had placed" but that doesn't seem to be how it was designed. Moving from left to right, drawing the line in one continuous motion worked great.

Correcting a guess means drawing over from any point moving right.

The interface seemed really well done even for mobile. Tested it on chrome and Firefox for Android. I'm Really impressed. NY times does some great interactive and visualization work.
Thanks, that makes sense. For a moment it sounded to me like it says both parties in this interaction were corrupt, but that doesn't make sense.
Car Leasing Myths Revealed – A Different Perspective
I can't tell from your online demo if there is any control over the trade off between only dropping curve points where tangentially required verses even distances between curve points. (I'm sure there is some shorter term for that.) I remember a talented animator remarking to me how he had acceleration control with TCB Splines that allowed him to achieve the same curve shapes but with control where curve points are emitted, giving him timing controls for objects in motion. He liked using TCBs for everything.
Whatever it may be, it's likely not safe for living things to breathe-in or to eat.
Well I would say if you're going to use the programming metaphor that perhaps it's both compiled AND interpreted.

Compilation of DNA builds a phenotype and it gets interpreted during the phenotype's runtime resulting in epigenetics.
I interviewed at Epic Systems on-site and this article hits on basically everything I saw and felt. It's a very interesting, unique and weird place. But you also get a kind of weird vibe from it, it seems like a large facade.

A few things the article missed: The offices are shared by up to 3 people in offices designed to have 1 or 2. About half the company is akin to consultants where they fly out to a medical facility every Monday and fly back every Thursday. The vast majority of hires are new grads and turnover is very high. Oh and the article touched on this but the selling point for switching to Epic software is that Epic has nearly every person in the US's medical history in their databases (since their usage is so widespread) so if you sign up to use Epic you get the medical history with it.

If you ever interview there I recommend trying to schedule the flight in on a Thursday, your flight will have a transfer at MSP Airport and the next flight will be all Epic employees whom you can ask questions and they can answer honestly. Every employee I talked to on that flight said they planned on quitting soon and didn't like working there. This was several years ago.
Kurt Gödel and the romance of logic
> 15. Later that day, on 12/12/2018 at approximately 4:00 p.m., Tan sent the following text message to his supervisor:

... [Another Company A supervisor] was asking if there is anything I have with me associated with company IP. I have a memory disk that contains lab data that I plan to write report on, and papers/reports I plan to read at home. Now that I have been exited from (COMP ANY A), can you check what is the best way of handling the information and how sensitive they are? Can I still read the papers/reports from the memory disk?

> 16. After receiving the above text from Tan, Tan's supervisor asked him to return the flash drive (which Tan's text message referred to as a "memory disk") to Company A.

> 17. At approximately 5:15 pm on 12/12/18, Tan returned to the Research Technology Center at Company A where he provided a USB flash drive to his supervisor. The USB flash drive was Tan's personal property, which he was not authorized to utilize within Company A's space. There is no record of Company A having issued a USB flash drive to Tan.
As a Brazilian, that's not exactly my impression.

> Everyone outside the US knows the top US politicians. You even know what issues they are discussing, like gun control and healthcare.

"Everyone" is not the right word here. People speaking english on the internet probably know about those to a superficial level. There's a lot english speaking of people on the US, so we hear about your issues.

> You'll know the names of the states. How many other foreign countries do you know the subdivisions of?

People that knows some US state names also usually know some of other countries.

> You might also hear about the US sports leagues.

At least for Brazil, Spanish is the one everybody knows about.

> You know what movies are big in the US. You know what songs are popular.

Agreed here, people really like US movies and songs.
Thanks for the reply, and I think I agree with all the physical processes you describe, but I'm not convinced that your approximations are correct. I'm going to keep pushing a bit to see if we can resolve this as well.

[The surface temperature of the moon is] an absolute limit on the amount of incoming irradiance you can create to your object.

This is true for a black body, but why are you convinced this is true for the actual moon? I think we agree that a more reflective moon could have a lower surface temperature while increasing incoming irradiance on the earth. And we both agree that the moon is partially reflective. Doesn't this mean that the surface temperature is not an absolute limit?

I think the correct statement is that the intensity of light from the sun to the moon gives a limit on both the surface temperature of the moon (highest if we assume the moon is a blackbody) and a limit on the amount of sunlight reflected toward the earth (highest if we assume the moon is a perfect reflector).

Since the moon absorbs about 90% of the light incident on it, we can assume that the surface temperature is lower than it would be if it was a perfect black body, presumably reaching a temperature corresponding to a sun that was about 10% less strong. The 10% of light that is reflected, although diffused in all directions, is much more intense when viewed from earth than low energy blackbody radiation that is also emitted. We know this intuitively because the sunlit moon is much brighter at night than the non-sunlit portion, and because the visible light is more energetic than the infrared, but could integrate across the energy spectrum to find an exact answer.

As such, unless we are willing to make some additional assumptions, I don't think we can make any firm claim about the the maximum temperature achievable on the earth using lunar reflected sunlight based only on knowledge of the surface temperature of the moon. In practice, the scattered sunlight doesn't provide a lot of energy, so heating with it will be difficult. But it's energy incident on the earth that matters, not the temperature of the lunar surface.

Would you agree with this summary? Are there additional assumptions that you think should be added that would provide the tighter limit you want? Alternatively, is there something other than "[The surface temperature of the moon is]" that you think I should have substituted for "It's"?
It's not like the browser is setting up a crowd funding page for you.

That is precisely what the browser is doing.

This can have harmful consequences for the people they do it to. If someone's on a means-tested disability benefit, for example, and makes youtube videos to blow off steam, what happens when the benefits agency discovers that they have a funding option through Brave? A funding option that they didn't know about, didn't ask for, and didn't get paid out of (because the tokens get quickly flushed into the "growth pool" when uncollected)? Is Brave ready to be responsible for them losing their support mechanism?

If they start collecting on behalf of an open-source project that already has a nonprofit foundation for fundraising, what happens when a tax audit turns up this undisclosed funding stream that the project didn't know about and didn't ask for? Oops, there goes your nonprofit status! Is Brave ready to be responsible for that?

About every six months someone comes up with this "brilliant" "new" idea to crypto-fundraise on behalf of other people without telling them. And we have the same thread where people point out the same problems. And then like clockwork someone does it again. My hope is that one of these times, the people behind it get so utterly and completely financially ruined that it finally puts an end to the cycle. Maybe Brave will be the one to finally face that.
With the VSCode Python extension you can directly create cells with #%% in a similar way to Hydrogen. There is also Neuron which allows you to see outputs in a separate pane.

I'm still struggling to find a setup in which cells are auto-generated (or unnecessary like in RStudio) and the autocomplete works as well as in JupyterLab. If I could reliably see all methods/submodules/inline documentation + path autocomplete quickly and for all packages, I would switch to VSCode. (There's a good chance that this just due to me not being fully aware of what's available in VSCode. )
The second half, about his work on spec, is great.
Ask HN: Best books for startup hiring?
I’m a big believer in reading a few months ahead of what you need to do. I’m in the midst of creating a startup and we are about to start fundraising. I’ve read Venture Deals by Brad Feld and feel comfortable with that aspect of it, but the next step will be hiring. Does anyone have recommendations on good books to read for the post-seed, early hiring phase of a startup?
Clockwise and Counterclockwise Rotation of Matrix
I’m really excited about the gas efficiency, although it isnt clear if bitwise shifting itself applies to the functions I use

Do erc20 transfer methods become 10x cheaper? For example

Well it will be obvious after January 14th
Could it be that with security services under such financial pressure they decided to ignore the drone threat? Now the government will probably give police extra cash just to combat drones. 1-nil to the police administrators.
In case we forget: Here's Matt Taibbi's epic, and fact-checked, rant against that investment bank.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-grea...

Taibbi's lede? "The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. "
The NPS regularly arrests people doing extreme sports (like BASE jumping, or camping too long

I’m picturing a retired couple staying fifteen days (limit is usually 14) in the same spot, sipping a Mountain Dew while sitting in their camp chairs. Suddenly, one looks at the other and says, “I think we might be getting a bit old to keep doing this kind of craziness.”
Impossible. The cat doesn't even know if it wants to go outside.
Don't use the Jupyter Notebooks for something you want to version control it. It's like a one-line Perl script. Write, run and delete.

If you need more than that, use the plain text file source code.

Actually, just forget the Jypyter Notebooks and use good old plain text source code like the rest of the programmers.
Google doesn't pop up a thing asking me to donate to Tom Scott's fundraising campaign.

Brave apparently does (based on screenshots shared by others; in order to preserve my right to legal action in the future I'm very carefully never going to personally do anything that would require accepting Brave's ToS).

See my other comments in this thread for why A) that's a bad thing and B) if you work at Brave you should quit and hire a lawyer.
>that a function of Maybe a should be a function of a without an API change is neither intuitive to me nor really justified by Hickey

He spent many minutes motivating it. If you support some functionality to a client (as a library, or a service, or more abstractly), and then later want to relax the constraints that you require from those clients, this should be an acceptable change that they shouldn't have to worry about / be broken by. Like if all of a sudden some REST api no longer requires a specific HTTP header to be present in requests, then this change shouldn't break clients that have been including that formerly-required header all along.

Similarly, if you provide something to clients, and you add functionality to provide a response in all circumstances, not just some, then this should not break clients either.

This clearly is not true of `Maybe` / `Option[T]` and I think it's a pretty fair critique. Maybe we should be using Union types in these situations instead.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that video was faked.
Thanks for the tip, I will go for the YouTube talk before investing in the book.

baybal2 - sibling comment - was correct and unfairly modded down. A well known leader referenced the Law of Hammurabi the other day.

Coincidentally I was listening to this press conference whilst procrastinating on HN, to come across this story. New to the Law of Hammurabi, I had to check out the Wikipedia page, to read the 'ten times' bit, enabling me to conveniently cut 'n' paste the above comment.

Despite going to school I had not ever heard of Law of Hammurabi before. I have not read it in depth but just that small bit of knowledge regarding the history of written laws has changed how I see and understand the world.
Remember war crimes on his orders, The Bombing of Cambodia, thousands killed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu.