skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately, I doubt many of us with CompSci degrees and years/decades of experience have those sales and marketing skills.

The history of enterprise tech is strewn with stories about that first big deal happening before the tech was even ready. Bill Gates and Paul Allen's meeting with IBM is probably the best known one. Hell, even Steve Jobs, with all of Apple's power, publicly pitched a ghetto-rigged iPhone because a fully working version wasn't ready at the time.

The 'best' sales people I've met always, always exaggerate the benefits of something. In tech, the "Comp Sci" people are the ones building the product, so they are especially mindful about not overstating what their product can do. Psychologically, they are forever in a problem-solving mode, meaning that when they talk about the product, they are primed to talk about current bugs, or how far away it is from being 'feature complete'. Not the people you want extolling your virtues in a sales meeting.

Salespeople aren't as closely embedded within the product development process, which gives them the mental bandwidth to straight up lie about what the product can do. I've seen it numerous times; sales exec closes a big deal, then goes to the dev team and says "I need X, Y and Z to be added to this sprint because customer H wants to launch in a month."
I really get annoyed by the mixture with the different definitions of stoicism. One would avoid using it in a paper if it causes confusion
Rostock, I assume on the German side. Took the ferry with my car, was curious about the tracks at the edge of harbour.
The aliens are coming. And they’ve caught us with our pants down
The sitting president 50 years (minus 10 days) ago was a
Republican.
> Why do you see European spying operations as more impactful to your daily life than Chinese?

Because I have no interest in Chinese politics, don't support any dissidents there and it's unlikely that they'll be interested in what I think, vote or support financially.

Not so with the European/US spying operations, when you e.g. support Assange, are opposed to US meddling in the ME, agree with right-wing positions in Europe, are opposed to sanctions against Russia etc. ...
So capture dozens of messages. Better yet, capture dozens of symlinks to make it trivial for me to review the messages in the original context.

The point is, I've already had a long, sprawling, disjointed conversation with the interested party. Don't expect someone to do manual data entry that will never actually be kept current enough to be useful, and don't force me to have the same conversation twice.
Worse case, insurance on the exchange is $440 a month but I would assume someone making $30K has a full time job with group insurance. If not, and since it would be pretax - add $5280 a year.
As I understood, estimates for that wall range between 25 and 75 billion USD depending on who you ask. And this being government contracts, it might very well balloon to 100 billion or more if you factor in surprises and corruption.

Other than that, I agree... NASA isn't getting enough funding. As are climate initiatives in the US. And the same goes for similar agencies and initiatives in the EU where I live.

I'm more skeptical about DARPA, but to their credit they're not just enablers of death; they're also working on some certifiably good stuff, like fighting human trafficking [1].

[1]: https://www.darpa.mil/program/memex
I followed this reasonably closely, and I didn't see anyone in the Math community criticize Atiyah. And Math is certainly pretty pro-speculation.

People were mostly just sad that journalists were hyping up an obvious case of age-related cognitive decline from a brilliant Mathematician.

And to be clear, Atiyah's last work wasn't speculation – it was completely off, in the "not even wrong" category. Unfortunately, that's pretty common as people get older, but there's no reason to publicize it.
This kind of argument always comes up in these threads, so I'm just going to cut to the chase with the response:

"Alike in desire to surveil" is not "alike in values and behavior."

Looking for the next poster to jump in and say something about "But are the values really that different?" or "But which are really the better values?"
If we are to have streets full of Lidar-equipped vehicles all constantly blasting out laser light, I can imagine this will become a real problem.

Will digital cameras improve so that they are less sensitive to lasers? Or will Lidar improve to use less-powerful lasers?
When trying to solve the worst bug I ever encountered, the critical clue came when I looked at the assembly output that the compiler produced.

You don't have to write it (much). You should be able to read it (with the instruction set manual if needed), and maybe be able to write a little bit of it in a pinch.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We ban accounts that do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm from Seattle too. It should be the case that the organization they were speaking to paid for their travel costs, that worker's union, not seattle. Why would seattle pay for them to travel there?
Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome on HN, so please don't take HN threads further into it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886501 and marked it off-topic.
I agree completely. This is just a superficial overview of the most obviously ridiculous manifestations of fitness trends, focused on ridiculing people's tastes and motivations. I'm personally frustrated by the quality of information that my friends and family get from various unqualified sources seeking money or attention, and I would love anything that would help them get a better critical perspective, but "isn't it all ridiculous" is not a critical perspective. It's easy to expose how people's concerns about physical fitness are wrapped up in vanity and arbitrary social norms, but you can do the same with food, shelter, and human relationships; does the author have anything interesting to say about what that means?

The closest the article comes to hinting at a more interesting point of view is when it points out in relation to a "Ms. Prudden" that "the paper’s honorific [in 1982] for the author was Miss; The Times was notoriously slow to accommodate Ms., adopting it only in 1986, 15 years after the founding of Ms. magazine." The purpose of mentioning this would seem to be to point out that fitness trends are not unique in reflecting contemporary social mores. But if we're already aware of this, then I'm not sure what the article has to offer except transtemporal voyeurism, trotting out the past to serve as a freak show for the present.

The history of fitness trends could make for an interesting way to see changes in popular ideas about health in gender roles across time. But this article is not a history; it is a catalog of mockery that happens to span a few decades.
The primary motivation is that players' understanding of the current meta suggested an attack like this was impossible.

This is the kind of thing CCP puts up in-game memorials for.
Well from my point of view when I read the link, I see (with a little bit of characterization) two academics, one of them points at an issue on the standard statistical approach and tools, provides a reproduceable way to showcase that answer, and the other one answers “not interesting - i’ll go now to do real work”. And I found that avoidance of a discussion of a shared example disheartening.

And Pearl isnt just complaining - the provided an alternative. So it seems that one side identified a problem, curated examples, delivered a solution, and now the other side doesnt care about the problem - and causality is not a trivial problem. As academic discussion, not a business meeting, to me thats subpar.

That’s only my view from the outside, it may well be the case that it is wrong and I just need to review more in depth Pearl to see that he does not bring anything useful.
I think this observation can resonate with anyone who has struggled with changing a of themselves that is so big it is part of their identity. For example people who are chronically depressed sometimes believe (including myself in the past) that taking pills to not be depressed will remove their intellectual edge and prevent them from having the insight of an outsider. It's objectively false, you actually get smarter since the depression isn't interfering with pursuing intellectual interests anymore.
The 2 consecutive sentence both contain the identical LONG fragment "as heat in high temperature molten salt and cold in a low temperature liquid for days, or even weeks, until it’s needed"
So, where does the transition from 2014 to 2016 add up to less than 365 days? I'm confused by your numbers. In 2015 the minimum was was $11 and 2016 it was $13. Not sure where you're getting your gripe from.
It depends on how the game engine works. If your game code is directly linked with the engine in the same executable (or a shared library) it would fall under GPL. If the game engine provides a virtual machine that executes bytecode compiled from game scripts I don't believe that would count.
This looks like a form-letter DMCA takedown thing (good tip-off: referring to Cory Doctorow as "one of your users") so while Boing Boing isn't wrong to refuse to honor it, making a galactic big deal out of the shock-and-awe caliber of their legal response has a weird feeling to it, sort of the same as Eric Raymond's "I'm your worst nightmare" response to a Microsoft recruiter form-email.
This feels like the same argument:

"Al Gore claims he's an environmentalist, yet he flies using his personal gas guzzling plane."

And yeah, it's an ad hominem. "Is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument"

You can most definitely use centralized servers to disseminate decentralization. I'm pretty sure https://ipfs.io started as a github project and on a monolithic server backed by cloudflare. That doesn't dismiss them in the least - considering they now heavily dogfood.
In Brazil, there is an official residence for the Pres. and their family, but they could choose to live in some other official building. Pres. Collor (1991--1992) lived in "Casa da Dinda", instead if "Palacio da Alvorada".
Google Fi, is one of the best services I've been on thus far and I've been with 4 other carriers in 10 years.

It's great for domestic and international travel and I don't have to worry (as much) about my number getting ported, so big security win.
Wow. I thought this was going to be some silly alternate meaning of "illegal" within software, like a famous invalid memory address or something. Nope, it's actually a number that's against the law.
I wouldn't say all of those things are bad things.

I'd hope even the smallest of startups is thinking about how users interact with their software and organizing those interactions into some sort of prioritized backlog for development.
People in their early 20's don't even know Half-Life (released at the end of 1998, over 20 years ago now), let alone Quake. We're definitely getting old!
> doomsday hyp(e), ... Calm down.

As an aside, my original reply to you was simply trying to correct your statement “HN does not organize large amounts of copyright-protected works” by means of a counter-example. I think you may be reading things between my lines that aren’t there.

I am, and always have been, calm on this matter. I don’t find the situation scary in any way. I simply enjoy exploring the logical consequences of various lines of thought through the medium of writing, even to the point of playing the devil’s advocate for the purpose of a more thorough exploration of the various issues.

I’m really not sure where my opinions lie on this one, so I’ve been free-wheeling a bit more than usual. I’d like to apologize if my mental wandering caused you any distress. It was not intended.
Backing up your photos using the Google Photos API
Rich people don't hoard cash. That wouldn't be a smart move, because it would erode in value every year.

Instead, they typically move it into Bonds (Debt), or Stocks, which both fuel the economy because they create liquidity and spur economic growth. Also, most wealthy people are into philanthropy and pay a massive amount of taxes. In fact the top 1% of taxpayers pay roughly 37% of all income taxes.
"The cited sources literally state that Mao's regime was fully capable of feeding its own people and chose not to because grain exports were deemed a higher priority."

Ah well, looks like I learned something new today.

"TIL presenting facts is "distort[ing] the actual points being argued". "

Nah, it's your use of strawman arguments.
Or the opinions being presented against minimum wage increases aren't compelling.
I think the part ignored by so many is the need to decentralize the computers into the home. I'm not talking meshes or shared resources. For the majority of use cases, we don't need distributed storage, compute, etc. Just start making these self-hosted "servers", "data pods", etc as easy to install as desktop software and make it clear that they are inaccessible when the computer is off. People that aren't already will gravitate towards at least one always-on machine in their house. Modern societies have reasonable upload speeds and electricity/network uptime to support it. Sure, things like ISP firewall/NAT and dynamic IPs are a bit of a barrier, but you can have volunteers help with relays.

For example, I can easily fire up a Tor onion service on my never-turns-off home desktop computer and reach my stuff from anywhere. Why can't I reach my friends' stuff the same way? Because, to use business-speak, there's nothing "turnkey". It's something I've been pondering and working on. Sure, the bigger players may have to be in DCs, have more stringent uptime requirements, and distribute their bandwidth/workload more. But for most of us, desktop software and web-of-trust style connections could go a long way so long as the front of the software has a FB feel (e.g. a feed, messages, etc). We can tackle discovery, searching, aggregation, offloading, etc later.
You're saying you care nothing for the absolutes and only consider relative wealth.

Granted, it's not the case in reality, but all the numbers in the the post you're responding to are compatible with a world where the wealth of the poorest members of society has doubled (or even increased tenfold) over the same time period.
Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind (2016)
It would help to read the context of that list [0]. She's discussing the different ways that you can change a system (its leverage points). Changing paradigms can cause the system to be changed substantially. But you're still acting within a narrow constraint (that of the paradigm you've changed to). Versus going beyond paradigms, and recognizing the value and potential in each of them. Synonyms of paradigm shift might also be culture change or mindset change.

The purpose of the leverage points is to change the system at a fundamental level. Changing taxes doesn't (until you hit extremes) cause that. The system continues to behave in the same way but with increased or reduced constraints. Consider birth control policies. Eliminating birth control (making it illegal, so not really eliminating it) can cause an initial increase in children born until a new stable point is reached. Once you make birth control legal again, unless there has been a culture change in the interim, the birth rate will drop to the prior level.

Taxes and subsidies are the same. They don't change the system at a fundamental level (or don't do so easily), they only alter its external behavior. But once they're restored to their prior levels the system will probably return to its same behavior.

As a tax example: Perhaps we want to encourage people to save money for retirement, so we give them a tax break on their IRA contributions. This seems to help, people are saving more for retirement (as measured by IRA contributions increasing). We remove the tax break, do they continue to contribute (it's now a part of the culture) or do they stop contributing (they only did it for the tax benefit)?

If they continue, then you managed to create a substantive culture change. But most likely you'll get a drop of contributions.

[0] http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...
Foods like potatoes, rice, beans, apples, carrots, and chicken are all healthy and cheap. Generally canned vegetables are just as healthy as fresh.
Undernet: a CSS and JavaScript framework – my personal project this past year
I have no idea where this inherent trust in people comes from. Google has shown again and again that they are just like any other company in this system.
Tests prove the presence of bugs not their absence. You should be writing more tests if you have no static type system, in order to find the bugs that you would otherwise prove don't exist.
It's some kind of alarmism over letsencrypt ... "letsencrypt will give tricky attackers a valid certificate for a domain!!!" (if they get control over the domain) (... certs have almost always been granted based on control of the domain, though historically it mostly MX records ... so attackers could do pretty much the same thing 15 years ago)
Note that these attacks involve compromised accounts with authority servers, so despite being the most visible and impactful DNS attacks of the last few years, DNSSEC would have done little to defend against them; in fact, even in the DNSSEC fantasy-world where DANE replaces X.509 CAs, these attackers would still have accomplished their goals.
You were able to charge $1000 for the Airtable gig? If you don't mind my asking, was the client not aware of Upwork, Fiverr, etc, which I would imagine would be perfect for these one-off, low-engagement gigs?
>In general front end work requires knowledge of HTML, CSS etc. which kids do in high school.

15+ years ago I took multiple programming classes in a rural high school where we were "taught" VB6, C, and Java.
if you have the funds to early exercise, chances are you're joining a company that isn't yet a rocketship. and of course at that stage you can't make the same comparison with what you'd get at FB because your strike price is probably in the pennies and you're getting some small % of the overall company.

Real world example: low to mid level engineers at Uber joining in 2014/2015 at this point have stock worth over $2m over 4 years if Uber successfully IPOs at $100b+. By that time, Uber was already at "scale", offering RSUs (options strike price would be so expensive that it would be a huge risk to exercise), and that $2m is almost definitely more than what you'd otherwise have received in the same amount of time working at Google or FB.
They're not working 80 hours a week. They're just saying they are, because that's fashionable. Or rather it used to be fashionable. It isn't anymore, so I'm surprised you're still hearing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17003457
> the economy is powered by money changing hands

The economy is powered by creation and exchange of value. Money changing hands is mistaking the incentive for the act itself.

Most economic schools of thought advocate stimulus during recessions to stop a slowdown of money changing hands, but this is a short-term measure. Money isn't the economy and there's no reason to believe making money fly around willy-nilly will help the economy in a permanent way.
I've ordered 2 phones through Google Fi and both were shipped very quickly. Trade-in of old phone via mail also went perfectly. So far Fi's execution has been great.
The phones were cheap (Nexus 5X 32GB for $250, Moto x4 64GB for $300) and the monthly cost is extremely low for someone who doesn't use a lot of data.
For those leaving I imagine it seems like they're leaving forever, family, friends, everything you knew is gone. There's no way to know if you ever can go back considering the possible consequences and you're often going to places that aren't familiar. That's a rough choice.
OpenTracing in Swift Compatible with Uber's Jaeger
Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game
If it can do that to a camera, what's it doing to eyes?

edit: > "Cameras are up to 1000x more sensitive to lasers than eyeballs," Dussan wrote. "Occasionally, this can cause thermal damage to a camera's focal plane array." - I'm still not entirely sold.
A business tax is paid on profits, so it has little to no effect on struggling businesses.
Depends. In this case the engine is just a blob of code that you clone, and you modify it in order to make your game. You'd have to comply by the rules of the GPL.
> A country isn't a household, its balance sheet can have debt permanently, etc. etc.

> I think taxes matter for justice and equality

Thank you for saying this. I wish the president of my country (which is not the US!) understood this. And that running a country is also not like running a business.
Decentralized web can be downloaded and backed up by one entity. Then, you can go to that centralized entity to enjoy all the content.

If we still don't have decentralization, it's because it is not as easy.
What is the less moronic theory that I should read up on instead?
From the article "Cameras are up to 1000x more sensitive to lasers than eyeballs," Dussan wrote. "Occasionally, this can cause thermal damage to a camera's focal plane array."

Another site claims "However, there are no MPEs for sensors such as CMOS or CCD chips. This means a show may be perfectly safe for eyes, but could possibly damage a camera sensor. One reason is that camera lenses may gather more laser light, and concentrate it to a finer point. Another reason is that CMOS or CCD sensors are more easily damaged than the eye."[1]

[1] http://www.laserpointersafety.com/ilda-camera-info.html
That's what Boeing is marketing it as, but the 757 has higher performance. Being designed for turbojet engines, the 737 is too low to the ground to use any bigger turbofan engines than it currently does, and getting it higher off the ground is difficult (can't just shove a taller landing gear in there). The -9 (if I remember correctly) will need a telescoping landing gear in order to fit big enough engines under the wings. The design seems pretty maxed out in that regard.
i have two 4-deep threads with that person, nobody else commented, calling that a flamewar is a bit of a stretch, but ok, point taken.
Most current self driving car lidars operate close to the 900 nm range, and they are required to output 1000 times less power than the 1550 nm lidar in this article. [1] So far these seem totally harmless to cameras.

1550 nm lidars for self driving cars are a relatively recent thing with only a handful of companies (AEye, Luminar, Blackmore) making them. The benefit is that, thanks to the extra power, they have longer range. Unfortunately they fry cameras and are very expensive.

It's also worth pointing out that the 1550 nm pulsed lidars like AEye and Luminar with fiber lasers may have much shorter pulses than the 5 ns pulses of, say, a 905 nm Velodyne lidar. So, not only is the average power 1000 times higher, but the peak power may be even higher.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IEC60825_MPE_J_nm.png
I can't escape the feeling that SOLID will be at best neutral but likely will make things worse. Some of the diagrams show more companies having access to your data where it will continue to be mined, sold, etc. If you control storage but not execution it seems like you control nothing.
That sounds fantastic, can we put this into something I can wear?
This is a thing every young idealistic programmer discovers. And then he thinks he has found a big, evil injustice.

Until he matures and realizes the "illegal number argument" is structurally the same as the "I didn't murder her, I was just moving through the room with my knife extended" argument.