skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Answering my own question, here is the docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14528071/churyumov-v-am...

Here is the complaint: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.269265...

Note that this is filed "pro se" (he is acting as his own lawyer), which is universally a bad idea.

Having read that complaint, I think he is extremely likely to have a case (though I am not a lawyer). I think he's extremely unlikely to manage to get results through the court unless he gets a lawyer.
There's not much weather up at the planned operating altitude.
Given that experts in the field seem to think this is an incremental step forward, OpenAI has already demonstrated a track record of doing things probably more impressive than this, and the massive loss of credibility that would come with being caught in a lie here, on priors we should expect they're not lying.
A California Law to Protect Immigrant Home Cooks May Help Tech Giants Instead
So the opposite of "not really a technologist"?
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Former Amazon employee here (worked at Lab126, on the original Kindle devices).

While I didn't have a bad manager there (my managers were actually nice people), it is Amazon's corporate culture that turns the place into a 'dog eat dog', arse-hole driven, development. Managers have to run around and cover their arse, as in the first or second misstep, they are out. This pressure filters down to employees who are often thrown against very tight deadlines without much corporate support (ie. basic training on new tech, or even clear coding review standards, and more). Code reviews usually turned into: "Who screams the loudest wins".

Amazon tends to be notoriously 'cheap/frugal', to the point of lacking basic things that most work places take for granted. (I am not talking about cheap coffee and lack of perks, but not even throwing a Christmas party, even though the Kindle was a huge success and sold more than then even the more optimistic prediction). The company will not show/give a basic token of appreciation, even though the team is performing well. Hence, employee morale was not high, but people saw it just as a job. If you are 'young' and still learning and want to grow as a person, you will hate an environment like that.

But the worst abuse was done to H-1B folks like me.

1. Amazon abuses on people that are on H-1B and need their greencard application going to stay in the country. They delay your application at every step, to the point that you realize that something that should take 1 year, it will take 3-4 years at the given pace, or maybe not even done ever. They dragged their feet, and played with your life as a simple leverage tool. (even after talking to the VP of HR, and while getting: 'Yes, it will be done', nothing got done, and things got dragged out anyway).

2. Amazon abuses on people that need some flexibility (due to family reasons). I remember really as at some point I had to pick up the project of co-worker as she had a mental break-down at work. (crying and all). Reason? She needed some time off due to children/family reason and she couldn't get it as 'we were on a tight deadline'.

My first week at work there, there was a 'goodbye' party at my team, where one of the managers/lead engineers was leaving. The reason: Burnout. (I learned that part later).

3. Their back dated options, (i.e. you get most of your stock compensation only on your 4th year), are done in purpose, as they know you probably will not put up with it until then, and leave the money on the table by leaving. Most people stay 1-2 years and move on.

So, yeah, I think Amazon is a bad actor/employee to even software engineers (who tend to have options). I can't imagine their warehouse and lower level employees.

When the NYTimes article came out, I thought it pictured a very accurate portrait of the company. Perhaps things have changed, perhaps they are still the same, but I usually do not recommend friends to work there. They fully deserve their bad rap, and I am glad NYC didn't subsidize their abuse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
Apple definitely have a major issue here - I upgraded from the 2016 MBP to 2018 MBP (max'ed out specs in both cases apart from SSD size) and audio dropouts etc when using Mainstage for live performance with virtual instruments (sound sources) have increased greatly. I'm a (piano) keyboard player and low buffer sizes and latency (<5 ms) are essential for turning my MBP into a responsive and expressive musical instrument. Unfortunately such settings reveal harshly the huge degradation in audio performance that has occurred and I am not any longer be prepared to use my MBP in a live performance situation. (Even if a larger buffer size reduces the dropouts I don't want to play an unresponsive instrument.) It's just ridiculous to see my powerful MBP running at very low percentage CPU utilisation and performing so badly.

Interestingly yes I experience issues with my USB2 interface (RME Babyface Pro) but also when using the MBP's headphone jack or the interface via USB ports on my LG Ultrafine 5K monitor (which has its own USB chip). I do wonder if the root issue may be along the lines of this poster's theory about poorly written Apple driver code (since Apple probably wrote new driver code to accommodate T2): https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpost.php?p=13492144&post...
Limping home would be the easy part. It would be really impressive if the system had the ability to attach the tether of a replacement "blade" in flight, extending/replenishing the formation on the go.

But we are hardly able to keep conventional solar glider UAVs in the air, I suspect that adding the drag of a tether moves the goalposts far out of reach.
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And I've bought an Indian version of a textbook for about 20% of the price of the "regular" edition that was perfectly adequate for my needs. So, if you're implying that Amazon shouldn't sell these, I don't agree. They're legal and they're good enough for a lot of people. (As I recall, in my case, it was obviously not the US version.)
I would sadly have to say no. Because in some completely different universe unlike ours, the aliens have no concept of, say, "hemoglobin" because there isn't matter like ours: no atoms, no iron, no carbon. Unlike numbers, hemoglobin and unicorns contain a kind of arbitrary complexity. Yet one is definitely real. Some real entities are far removed from elementary math (even though they may ultimately rest upon it, many levels down). The question is: are unicorns bunk, or are they like hemoglobin.
>Maine more interesting? Maine is mostly white. California is far far more racially diverse and the cuisine

Lol, yes, because white people don't know how to cook anything. Great argument. I guess you've never been to Maine.

>SF has the most restaurants per capita of any city in the US.

Obviously having the most of something means they're the best!

I agree: I am a snob -I think SF is bloody awful and people who say "the food" is something to crow about rarely notice the rivers of human sewage flowing by their restaurants, or the fact that the tomatoes taste like paste.
In case people don't realize, the linked site has one blog post per day going back the past ~2 weeks all about this protest. Some choice excerpts:

> I am sure in the future Mr Bezos will be placed in one line with Adolf Hitler as an example of genocide.

> There are 2 most difficult parts in the rally:

> - to get courage to start

> - to make a banner

> Courage is easier. Few YouTube videos about Martin Luther King, AC/DC song "Thunderstruck" and I am ready to fight.

> To be honest, in the morning fear of public shame almost caused symptoms of bed wetting.

> But Deadpool told me how to manage this fear. [embedded youtube video from the deadpool movie here]

> They can argue citing last words: Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly. Why didn't I commit? I ask: decision taken by whom? If my manager and his managers all the way till Bezos support oppression, should I respect their opinion?

> Then the only authority here is God. I say: Once a decision is determined BY GOD, I commit wholly. But God didn't ask me to stop protesting yet.

> Thus, most of NYT Amazon examples are really cruel and inhuman. Employees are punished because their parents are dying, their children are disabled etc. I hear shaking Hitler in his coffin. These are not single examples of "bad" managers. This is a company culture. Official company policies support the CULTURE worse than genocide. During the genocide, Jews were not treated in that way.

> If I don't find printer today, tomorrow nobody will know about horrors of Mr Bezos.

> How can I do leafleting without printer?

> Where are all these librarians?!!!!!!

> Btw - got to library. The one near of UW was open even during the "storm"... How can you call this nice Christmas snow a "storm"? I thought the storm is when Dorothy flies in her house through the sky... In Russia we have such storm 9 months a year with a temperature of -22 F.

> Anyway I printed almost 300 sheets of dirt about Amazon. Tomorrow 300 Amazonians will know the True. Jeff, I am coming.

> I was thinking I am afraid of people. But then I realized: in fact people are afraid of me. Now I feel I am more powerful and more free than anybody else. Amazon employees are restricted in their freedoms: they are forced to spend most time of their lives to do the work they hate. They are restricted to speak.

> I am free to speak and Jeff Bezos with all his billions can't close my mouth and can't prevent me from walking on the street with my banner.

> I like that. Like a student who lost virginity. I mean, well, you know.

> But today it will be incredible day. I am going to Whole foods store at Denny way. If Spheres s a heart of Amazon, Whole foods is its stomach. This store is always full of people and engineers. God bless me.

Before the outrage machine gets going, probably worth reading that and asking how reliable of a narrator this is.
Let me preface by saying I use it just for API bashing as a researcher, not for deployment of anything commercial or even public-facing. I'm totally unqualified to talk about a production environment.

I came at it from audio synthesis, where modularity and interoperability are priorities and there is relative cooperation between manufacturers and developers on technical standards. I mention this because audio synthesis and the closely associated business of sequencing have a great deal in common with breadboard electronics and super-basic computing like adders, flip-flops, and so on. You can implement simple classic video games like Pong and Asteroids in a modular synthesizer and play them on an oscilloscope if you're that way inclined.

If you find this interesting, I'd suggest Reaktor as the software platform of choice as it's affordable, ahs a large community, and excellent documentation. Flowstone started as audio software and is now aimed at the Robotics industry. It has one of the nicest UIs and allows you to write code directly into modules. I use KNIME for high level data processing because it has an extensive library of database connections/ format translators/ API hooks etc.
Also, since Yann LeCun said yesterday that Deep Learning needs a new language, this has become a major topic of interest.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/18/facebooks-chief-ai-scient...

Of course, our view is that Julia is one such language that people should consider seriously. The talk linked here is a peek under the hood and shows that differentiable programming in Julia is not a special add-on, but something that fits naturally within the language.
Women left at a higher rate than men.

People who had children left at a higher rate than people who did not.

Women who had children left at a rate with a greater (additional or multiplier) increase over the rate of women without children than did men with children over men without children.
However, they probably have discovered numbers, pi, Pythagoras theorem, e^(i pi) + 1 = 0, etc.

We can only be confident of that if they're in this universe. Also, this is only a conjecture. It's just something some of us imagine would be true. You can't elevate such an idea to the level of empirical data.

So, does the fact that something is discovered (rather than invented), and can be discovered many times independently in identical fashion, confer it some sort of elevated ontological status?

Unicorns. Kirin. Narwhals. Rhinos. So you have two independent origins in culture for such a creature, plus two appearances of something similar in nature. Does that confer it some sort of elevated ontological status?
JulianSmiles gets treated different than JuliaSmiles, though. That's the whole point of this research.

"Dragging your personal identity in" only seems to apply when that identity is different than the assumed default (male), hmmm....
In the old days, you'd take the time between two "fixes". A fix could be a visual reference, or a NAVAID. That'd result in your shadow's speed.

Then came DME, distance measuring equipment. I don't know if DME ever took altitude into account or if the error resulting from altitude was just ignored, but analog DME radios would just tell distance at first and then digital versions had a groundspeed feature. At least instrument rated pilots were aware of the increasing error the closer to the NAVAID.

At some point in the ATC radar system, a controller's screen could show groundspeed. Pilots can ask ARTCC what ground speed is, although I would never ask approach or departure control such a question. This would have the same error as DME.

Today it's a value reported by GPS. I don't know if this is based on the plane's movement, or its shadow, or if there's a regulation that dictates it for aviation certified GPS. From a pilot perspective we don't distinguish between kinds of ground speed, whereas we do distinguish between kinds of airspeed: indicated, calibrated, and true. Mainly groundspeed is important navigationally to know if there's an unexpected headwind that'll lengthen enroute time and thus impact fuel management. And while there can be big enough error between estimated winds aloft and actual that this computation will affect enroute planning, I tend to only care about tens of minutes or hours, not seconds.
That's interesting I updated my comment to be a bit more specific.

I'd love to know how the problem space looks in this game vs chess for example as I mentioned.

My terming is a little vague what I had meant is 'black box' solutions I guess where the logic can not be inferred via looking at the code
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Or it could be about reducing the impact of taking his child to therapy on work time. If it saves him an hour or more of travel during the day then it makes sense to let him WFH.
Former Amazon employee here, my experience was terrible. (see my other comment).

While it is great you are happy and defend your company, your experience might not match others.
I am also an Amazon employee (and also do not speak for the company), and I agree with this assessment. My manager has told me and my teammates on multiple occasions to take care of family stuff first, to make sure we're working sustainably (i.e., not super late all the time) and so on. I also have scored some questions low on the same survey and not suffered retribution.

I don't want to claim that anyone's experience isn't valid, just that it doesn't match mine.
That's always been the argument to people who are on the fence about Amazon: "I've heard some bad things, but haven't seen it in my department". Amazon, and the people that work on the "good" teams never seem to be terribly concerned about horrific reports, and I frequently wonder why that is. In companies I've worked for, had I heard about people crying at their desk and being forced to choose between their child's health and their job I'd want to know how the company is putting a stop to it. It seems that everyone believes that the people complaining are doing so for attention, but from the outside it seems like there's been a lot of reports that are credible - and this is the white collar stuff, not even warehouse worker things.

Its hard to know: Is everyone indoctrinated? Are they addicted to the paychecks? Is the sense that there are bad things happening but its being handled properly?
Yes +1; mostly so we can laugh at how much your PR team exaggerated your results.
Fantastic! Did you send us an email as well? It's generally unlikely we'll see the application if you didn't (although I'll look now).
Ditto. And I imagine there are many other companies around the world willing to work longer hours that may eat the lunch of their 'you decide' competitors.
Oh sure, but then the article started talking about sheep and rocks and I'm like "Oh boy, I bet I totally don't understand what it means to be even!"
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The thing is, your manager is from a decent background as a human, they probably aren't going to do otherwise no matter where they work!
Reading your comment, I thought "how bad is a high-altitude stall anyway? it's obviously undesirable, but what makes it dangerous? possibly entering a flat spin?"

Doing a little digging, it seems that there's also a significant risk of entering an overspeed condition during recovery, and inducing a structural failure! Makes sense considering that we're talking about speeds near Mach 1 to begin with.
I really don't know. I've never thought of it as anything other than a colorful metaphor and don't know enough physics or chemistry to speculate.
Not so slight. At airliner altitudes they can differ by 50% or so.

IAS is what the pilots care about while flying because it’s what matters for aerodynamics (ie stall speed)
:)

Is there a break down somewhere of what each series should signify?
No, working from home means working, as in getting particular things done.

Working from home often means that your (equivalent of) lunch break is a time you can spend elsewhere, e.g. take your child to therapy. You don't waste time commuting from your office if the doctor's office is nearby.

You can also spend more time for off-work activities in the middle of the day, but work until a later hour, again because you're not commuting back from the office.

As long as you get done what you planned to, and participate in whatever communications you planned to participate (video calls work well these days), I don't see why working from home would be a materially inferior way of working, at least if practiced in moderation.

Taking a day off is a different matter.
That might work in some use cases, but unfortunately tagged template literals require greenfield browsers. Vue 2 works in anything that runs ES5.
If you're being pedantic about science-related matters, it's 1290 km/h. Don't give false precision with your conversion; there's no way the original measurement has >3 significant figures.

Even better yet, 361 m/s. km/h is a derived unit. ;)
No I wouldn’t. Firstly because shocking unexpected people is streaking and/or (in some jurisdictions at least) some kind of offence. Secondly because I’m willing to see people undressed doesn’t mean it’s universal (everybody has there preferences, prejudices, and ingrained values). Thirdly because I’m the managing director and enthusiastic or not or not one of my duties is to set the tone for the workplace by example not by demanding that others do what I tell them to but by leading by example, and that includes conservative dress.

Then again I’m in Italy where somewhat different social norms apply: people ask each other out on dates after they meet in the workplace and even if it’s unappreciated nobody dreams of kicking up a stink for sexual harassment because they consider it a normal form of human interaction. It’s also normal to compliment people on their looks and choice of attire. Both genders do it. Nobody gets offended. It’s more like “yeah, I put a ton of effort into choosing and matching this outfit this morning, and nobody noticed?! WTF??”
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Wow Cloudflare just continues to do big things over and over, I'm continually impressed by the amount of stuff they churn out.

Sort of shocking Amazon or Microsoft have not yet acquired them given where the markets seem to be going
Depends on how you define drag. If you define it as friction due to air against the plane then no, because a lot of the drag is due to sending air downward to keep the airplane up.

The distinction is that, that that part of the drag is impossible to reduce, while friction you can work to reduce.

That's what the GP meant by "discounting lift".
Couldn't this be distributed?
Just make a mandatory 5 weeks a year.
"Unlimited" PTO is a gimmick.
goodstuff.
What I don't understand is if we get faster speeds, will we still see data buckets stay the same? I mean what's the point of a faster network if you're still capped at 2,5,10GB. And will qualcomm be the only game in town thanks to patents? My iPhone Xs feels like a bicycle in terms of data speed, while my Galaxy S8 is 2-3 times faster.
> They probably don't have the concept of unicorns.

What would happen to your epistemology if every alien civilization has unicorns but some lack π?
You're correct about choosing between theories, but I think what's being challenged here is how we're determining if something is unlikely or not given our imperfect knowledge...and how it was described in the article. I'm not making the case for aliens here.
Creating your own tunnels and safe spaces sounds like Minecraft. Maybe they should adapt Minecraft for training the mindset.
The indicator "bars" usually show RSSI which doesn't necessarily map to throughput. Or rather, it's closer to a normalized metric for the (mobile+network infra)'s capability, but not an absolute metric like a speedometer.
Members of a sexually reproducing species find that their instinctual genetic imperative is more fulfilling than current-epoch cultural fads.
Well, "my" theory is also pretty wrong if it doesn't allow for the human civilisation that built Stonehenge.

A theory that is wrong will sometimes predict correct things by accident. That's unavoidable, but we a) have statistical methods for modelling how often things go right by chance, and b) have a philosophy of science in which theories are forever tentatively held: your aliens theory might beat any theory which says Stonehenge is impossible, but will soon be replaced by a theory which explains Stonehenge more economically.
Have you come across arbtt? It's a script that pretty much does exactly the same thing, but comes with a few extras for categorization and analysis.
Yeah. Microsoft was seen as evil, not bad - "evil" is quite the opposite IMO. Anyone incompetent is not in the position to even become evil.
Starting a list:

> https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10201...

> https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/understanding-startup-...
> are going relative to themselves.

You mean relative to the air outside the window. Relative your yourself you're always standing still.
You seem to be confused. Being able to bring someone someplace at a certain time can be, depending on the locations, much easier and less time intensive if done from home.

So, for example: If your commute takes twenty minutes and therapy is twenty minutes from your home taking someone to therapy who is at home takes 40 minutes if you do home office or between 60 and 80 minutes of you have to be at work.

Nowhere does it say that he wanted to do home office to take care of someone. That’s nonsensical and a nonsensical interpretation of what was said. The most straightforward interpretation is that this is a simple case of simplifying logistics.
Some of that thrust has to be used to generate lift.