skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they’re willing to pay for it, and put up everything they own as collateral, then great. This however is a piss-in-the-wind IPO from Branson, who is horrendous. If you ever come to England, Virgin will become a curse word in your vocabulary. Rail can be great, but not Virgin rail.

Edit: Changed “one” to “wind”. Thanks for pointing that out!
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Answered a similar question about that above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19057745

tl; dr - The site is more complex than it might seem, and I highly value having someone that can give me the look and functionality I want without having to spend a lot of time managing them or doing it myself.
It is like asking why a powerlifter is scared of cancer... you are not really talking about comparable things
Wow. I have 15 years of experience and am making under 220k in NYC. There’s no way I’d have offered that much money for someone with 2 years of experience. It just isn’t worth the price.
Earth system impacts of European arrival in the Americas and the great dying
There's a reason why people say "the best thing since sliced bread". Sliced cheese has similar structural advantages. What is convenient becomes popular - for better or worse.
I can’t tell if these layoffs are good or bad.
Wolfenstein was far inferior, technologically. A flat, square blocky map, without any way to look up or down, or any height variation at all. The maps were actually defined as ASCII grids with different characters defining where it was a wall or open space, secret door, etc.

UU had irregularly shaped rooms and hallways, inclines and declines, the ability to be at two highets depending on where you are on the map (bridges over water you can swim under) which even DOOM, the successor in engine technology to Wolfenstein 3D didn't support, etc.
Seeing Microsoft die would give me great schadenfreude, but all big companies do some good things and some bad things, so it's worth focusing on their specific sins. I see two of them: their desktop monopoly and their Office monopoly.

Their desktop monopoly isn't what it once was, especially considering that most people get online today using mobile devices. But it never really went away. Windows is the only commercially successful desktop operating system. Everything else is a niche product without access to the enormous ecosystem of Windows-only desktop software. Desktop Linux exists, but it isn't any kind of commercial success. The Mac desktop exists to sell Apple hardware, it isn't a product on its own. And part of the reason it exists at all is that Microsoft publishes a version of their office suite for Macs.

MS Office is absolutely entrenched in corporate computing. Many of us here on HN can get by on non MS Office products, but if you're exchanging Office documents with customers you absolutely need to use MS Office to get a decent level of compatibility. For a huge number of businesses, there simply isn't any choice.

Microsoft isn't about to go out of business and a lot of people enjoy using their software and feel productive. People should have a choice. Microsoft could go a long way to repent for their sins if they open up both Windows and Office to the point where there are significant viable alternatives to both. Microsoft should be able to compete on quality, not on possessing the keys to their proprietary kingdom.

I'm not holding my breath.
In short, don't give managers the same interview as engineers. Sorry but seems pretty obvious.
Google Employees Report Declining Confidence in Leaders
I recently finished reading the book Never Split the Difference and I would highly recommend it. It's a slightly different take on the traditional negotiation tropes we've all heard.

I've managed to employ many of the techniques in my day to day as a PM with success, but his discussions on salary negotiation resonated with me. I'm sure you can find some notes on the book to derive 50% of the value, but the author's stories and explanations drove it home for me.
Accept Debit cards, pay by "refunding" the card.
Hello, I am from the future. You will not be able to buy a self driving car. You will however be able to rent it, on an hour, minute, or per mile basis. Not too different from what you can do today with a lyft/uber.
It will be "your car" only if you book it for let's say 3 full months. The very next day it will drive away on it's own. Max period of 'ownership' will be 6 months.

This will be known as "THE FLEET SERVICE", and every major car manufacturer, car seller, and car renter will jump on it. Lyft will be competing with GM will be competing with hertz.

There is so much more money to be made when one car is servicing many people, and when you pay for it non stop, or it plays ads to you during your commute. Records your schedule, destinations, music preferences, and unencrypted http traffic and sells it to advertisers. You can buy, sorry, rent the privacy X models, for a premium. Sometimes the cars will take different routes, to make sure you drive buy a starbucks, perhaps you will request it to stop to get a coffee. This will be advertised as a "learns your preferences and the things you love", but most of the time, it will just choose to slow down a bit when it drives by that huge billboard, you should really look at, while on the highway.

Think of this like when comcast owns the router in your house, and makes it be a node for their xfinity service, and has you locked out of admin panel. Or when your ISP injects JS in the html served to you. Or for when you run serverless on amazon. Point being, there is more money to be made in a renter's market than an owner's market.

You will, however be able to buy a semi-autonomous vehicle like you can do today, but fully autonomous will be prohibited, as the main companies will lobby with dumb excuses like "Who will be responsible in the case of a fatal accident? The company will be". Also, if you spend 150k to buy an autonomous model, and we update the service, your model gets no update and stops working in a year. The rented models always work. Governments will be against this, but will finally comply when law enforcement and tax agencies get free access to all information, though they will deny that is the case.

Hackers and open source enthusiasts will "hack" some cars to modify them to run custom software (linux self driving distro), or install adblockers and location spoofers for privacy reasons. A practice that will instantly become illegal and be branded as domestic terrorism.
If your wrote your own periodic table, that would probably be true.
Afaik Conan requires a server and you cannot install from arbitrary sources. Furthermore Conan prefers to download precompiled libraries. Unless you run your own artifactory, this may be problematic for people for people concerned about security or ABI compatibility.
BTW (I'm not a huge friend of Barthes :-)
an excellent (and frightening) and short (!) book on this topic is Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Highly recommended.

Outlines the steps the Nazis (and other fascists) took to silence the opposition, get everyone slowly into line, undermine the "public sphere" and rational discourse, replace truth by obedience to power, etc. and then gives some hints what each of us can concretely do to stop these processes.
>Japan has avoided the madness of tariffs and trade wars that has affected the west recently. Instead they have been quietly negotiating trade deals with everyone and generally getting along. Good on them!

Bilateral trade negotiation is exactly what Trump wants thought that's causing all of this shit.
> on Discord at cmFtc2V5IzAwMDE=

It seems I can't add you to talk to D: I don't have any mutual servers with you, and sending you a friend request doesn't work
thats right, find a BlckHT forum and have a look around, gain thier trust and infiltrate, you will love it im sure.

Follow the bread crumbs my lad, and you will find a magic looking glass.
Idk where you got the idea that being a Google engineer is innate haha, man the marketing and hype around the role is incredible.

The “secret” is Google tries to hire smart hardworking people, not divinely ordained superhumans. My advice would be to study hard for the interview and let them figure out whether or not you pass the bar. At the very least it will be good practice for othe interviews and you might be accepted and find a role you really like!
This idea that some good should be free leads only to misery, since nothing is actually free, and to provide a good for free ultimately just means taking it by force from someone to give to someone else, usually in a manner motivated by sentiment. That's not a recipe for efficient allocation of scarce resources.
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I wonder how that's affected with post processing - most cell phone camera's seem to have a ton of post processing applied these days that you think would cause that sort of gunk to count for less.
Yes, I'm aware that dishonourable people in powerful positions will ignore their commitments and contractual agreements.

That works, mostly, when you're a large org doing things like not paying workers (but, unions!) or you're a government disenfranchising citizens (but elections, coups), etc..

However, try it with someone who has power over you - like your police force, your bank, your boss ... now realise that the EU is the strongest organisation in the region. We, in the UK, really, really, need them for food security, for energy security, possibly for defense of things keep going the way they are with Russia.

Sure, they want us, but if we piss off the EU even more then we're going to have to dramatically change our lifestyle in order not to starve; and I don't know about you but I want the UK, and the EU, to thrive.
Do you think people's objections toward Islamic culture are unjustified?

Many muslims are vocal about the need for Islamic reform.

If you believe it is bigoted to be critical of Islam, then you are an apologist for the oppression of women and homosexuals.
Just going to throw antibiotics in there...lol
1) its my cheapest option to have local channels

cheaper than an antenna? Do you live somewhere with too much interference?
Why don’t you summarise what you found in the title, and give me an indication of whether the I should read your article or not
> supporting a technical decision without acting as a decision-maker.

manager is ultimately responsible for his team decisions (of course bad managers do try to scapegoat that responsibility down onto the team when the stuff hits the fan) and being responsible for the decisions can't be separated from making those decisions.
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I disagree with this. Over time GEDMatch will get enough samples for forensic purposes. I'd rather have an incentive program to get people to upload their data onto GEDMatch than to have the government work with the commercial companies.
How good are you in algorithms? At the end interview performance is what really matters, not programming experience. You may day it's not fair, but it's at least a transparent process.
Nandan Nilekani and Bill Gates are close friends, for all I know.
A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine[1]

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Yeah, like food and water are, so why add to the burden and make it worse?
Developers can acquire 'real manager' skills. Jerry Weinberg, from volume 2 of 'Quality Software Management"

"In the four decades I've spent in the software business, I've learned that there are three fundamental abilities needed to do a quality job of managing software engineering:

* "the ability to understand complex situations so you can plan a project and then observe and act in order to keep the project going according to plan, or modify the plan;

* "the ability to observe what's happening and to understand the significance of our observations in terms of effective adaptive actions;

* "the ability to act appropriately in difficult interpersonal situations, even though you may be confused, or angry, or so afraid that you want to run away and hide."

Though I have all four volumes of QSM, I lifted the quote from here: http://wiki.c2.com/?QualitySoftwareManagement
I don't mean this in a seriously snarky tone, but: What you're saying has been said by every generation which experienced great leaps in technology.

Why is this wave of technology, one less transformative than the invention of the printing press or transistor or nuclear bombs (none of which lead to ruin), going to be the one that leads to a dystopia?
So, we need an intelligent autonomous vehicule (i.e. you don't need to drive it) that will get you to work, but that you don't have to park. It should also increase traffic density and not sit idle while you work, but instead earn revenue while you work.

Bravo, you just invented the public transit system.
I'm one of those people at least. Coming up on 2 years, and last year and this year both, I'll see >200k in total compensation.

Many of my co-workers are in the same boat.
I also like to use boxed.com for quite a few bulk items that one might otherwise find at Costco. And compared to Amazon, I have found some competitive pricing at Smart & Final for other items I used to purchase online.
There's another aspect to "predictability." Back when I was a bus commuter, it was comforting to see the same faces every day. Even without chatting or acknowledging each other, there was a sort of familiarity to the strangers.
This is really interesting, even as someone who is not from the US.

I find it astonishing that it's only 13 bucks for a movie ticket over there (around 11 euros). Here in Finland tickets can easily cost over 20e if you see a movie on the weekend.
Yeah but that's the problem of technology though especially the AI-driven one.

It forces consolidation of data as a way to compete. You can't both have lots of competition and good use of data as the value is in the accumulated data.

What I think we still need a revolution in is how to make consumers data brokers of their own data. There are some attempts at making this a reality but it's not clear what the utility which will force this transcendence is going to be.
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I agree that mobile and search were missteps, specifically putting themselves into a position of competing so poorly in those areas overall. It's also unrealistic to think that one company could own desktop, mobile, search, office, etc.

Microsoft was going to own desktop, mobile, search? $300-$400 billion in revenue? $130+ billion in profit?

No. That's absurd. Holding Ballmer to account for not conquering planet Earth is not a fair premise. Of course there were lots of 'missteps,' what's described is impossible. Their biggest mistake was attempting all of it in the first place.
I don't have time to dig into it, but $0.50 seems like a wishfully low number.
Abusing the Kubernetes API Server Proxying
Let's talk JavaScript: unit testing
"Median Facebook Salary" on Google returns ~$240K/year and I think they're up to 34,000 employees and still making more profit per employee than most companies.

Do you think that a $200K/year salary is pretty high for tech in the Bay Area? At a global level $200K/year is very high, but regionally, between tech employees in the and their incumbent landlords, it is not that high.
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If you are so concerned with battery life couldn't you just get an external power backup if the machine has all the functionality you want? It seems more modular that way instead always having to lug around such extra stuff you don't need.
`law enforcement a means to potentially quickly identify violent criminals`

Go ahead and replace "law enforcement" with political group you don't like, and "violent criminals" for a group you do.
I feel like people aren't able to get mentally prepared while we have to deal with denialist propaganda on a daily basis.
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"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Eric Schmidt, 2009

Where did he post his e-mail address and password so we can all have a look? After all, if he's not doing anything wrong, he has nothing to hide.
Interesting idea. I should give Firefox another try.

(I'm also using Fluid for self-contained Facebook browsing, I suppose that would then become unnecessary).
The point is that 50 cents an hour is not an accurate representation of the cost of continuously operating a car for an hour. The IRS allows something near that per mile as a standard mileage rate. If the car is driving more than a mile per hour on average, it's significantly exceeding 50 cents/hour.
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Is this a violation of Fandango's TOS?
Same. Also, Target and Walmart free shipping usually ends up being 2 or 3 days for me whereas it seems Amazon now intentionally delays free non-Prime shipping to make Prime more attractive.
Note that salary isn't the number being quoted, but Total Compensation. Base salary, Equity, and Bonus. Equity grants -- RSUs -- tend to be quoted as a big allocation vesting over a 4 year period. So roughly, divide by four and hope the stock only goes up to factor it into annual income. Critically, companies offer 'refresher RSUs' to employees on an annual basis to replace expiring equity grants. Which means at year 4, you've reached a steady state of RSU vesting. Because of this, people often tend to just add RSU grant to base without dividing, figuring they'll get a stream of refreshers. Bonus is more discretionary, but basically works like salary.

Engineers with TC over 200k is not rare in the bay area. More tricky is people who's equity is pre-IPO; startups often pay low base salary in exchange for equity / lottery tix.
> This is categorically different than Windows' deep and arbitrary integration of Explorer.

Nope, Internet Explorer had its own "application platform" for the browser at the time, known as ActiveX. Of course ActiveX came with huge security drawbacks, not unlike Windows 9x itself, but OTOH it was somewhat usable compared to the security-oriented Java "applets". And ActiveX components did find some use in Windows 98, much like the web-based components in ChromeOS.
The requirement for a TV licence is specifically “live” and “BBC iPlayer”. Any online service that isn’t live and isn’t iPlayer, isn’t covered by the legislation; many (most?) of the other UK TV broadcasters have their own online catchup/on demand services.
No antibiotics? I guess if you don't want to live long.
Not small, but https://lesswrong.com is interesting.
Networks don't necessarily stop reruns just to participate in the punishment of someone. They do it because the audience's perception of someone is changed. Bill Cosby's work and Roseanne weren't directly changed for example, but in their new contexts, many people are uncomfortable now. The networks want to run what people like. If they think people would generally like a different show now over those old reruns, then they're just keeping up with the market. They don't need a court's approval for that.
What's your salary range?
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Yeah a bit too much stuff that just seemed like arbitrary gate keeping.

I have a low tolerance for "this is exactly how you do this job" when jobs like sysadmin and coding can involved a great deal of variation and variety.

I have no idea who these folks are who can't see all that variety. I do know they're horrible to work with.
What exactly does "Groovy" offer that another JVM based language doesn't? Am genuinely interested.