skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the opportunity to take a scientific glassblowing course as an undergraduate. It was one of my favorite college experiences, period. The focus and precision, combined with the fact that I was working with my hands, meant hours could fly by without me noticing. (Even when I burned myself all the time.)

And the instructor (who had been making custom lab equipment for the university's chemistry department for around 25 years) displayed such a high level of skill in his work it was mesmerizing. Outside the lab was a display case with some of the most complex glassware he'd made in his time there. I can't find a photo online but many of the pieces were like looking at the most complicated car engine you can imagine... but all out of glass.

For our final project we made Hero's engines[1], and had something like six weeks to do it. Whenever we had a question about any part of it, the instructor would make the entire project from scratch in maybe three minutes right in front of us, and every part of it was perfect every single time.

Sometimes I wonder if that should've been my career.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
Try; http://archive.fo/Qk7PU

The .is domain has been occasionally problematic.
eBay is great for items like wheels. I got a like new one for $70, the dealership wanted $390 for ONE, it woudl have been cheaper to buy 4 aftermarket wheels at the tire shop.
They can always create their own mobile platform, if they think Apple providing them with one is not worth much to them...

After all Google and Apple did.
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Wowza, hard not to look at these things and feel twinges of jealousy. It's hard to stay grounded in what the important things in life are....

United States - have perfect SAT and ACT scores, went through university for free

Age 21-28 - Work in NGOs, non-profits - $25k
Age 28 Finish Masters degree
Age 29-32 - Work in NGOs and non-profits and policy analysis - $32k
Age 32-34 - Suicide Counselor - $35k
Age 35 - Bootcamp - become Rails developer -$60k
Age 36 - $65k
Age 37 - ask for raise $80k
Age 38 - $85k
Age 39 - Senior developer/manage projects/do mentoring/keep coding - $90k
Age 40 - $92k

Based on these it seems like 5+ years of experience on the backend and frontend with multiple stacks and the ability to manage 4+ engineers, keep backlogs groomed, talk to clients to manage expectations and translate requirements into usr stories and acceptance crtieria, etc should be more than $95k - and yet $95k still seems high for a developer anywhere outside of the US
They are implying that AP is complete and it works, and they are just waiting on approval. This is not true.
Lexus is decent for those who don't mind polluting the atmosphere. For those who care about the environment, EVs are the future and Lexus is way behind.
> I think the biggest difference might be that Americans report their salary before taxes, and I think Europeans tend to do it after taxes. $150,000/year with a small family is probably $110,000-$120,000 after taxes in most states. €90k after taxes is comparable.

Europeans also report before taxes, and that 90k€ is definitely before taxes. I don't know about this person's taxation, but it's probably around 50k€ after taxes. That's still a very good salary in Europe though.
As other poster said, not without a relevant degree, and likely that the degree needs to be from a prestigious college.
>I completely understand why people do not want to pay the Steam tax
According to anonymous developer comments, Epic Tax is higher than Epic advertises due to extra "associate" (or "influencer") packages that add extra 5% to 20% on top of the 12%.[1]

[1] https://archive.fo/7Xtvt
That regex should have been declared a variable on its own line.
You forgot about the Audi Q2.
YouTube too, can't find it now but they did a study where they degraded users to 480p to see how many would manually switch back to HD (spoiler: very few did)

I believe YouTube also experimentally surfaces new recommendations slowly to see how many clicks they get and if it should be surfaced more or not
Perhaps building a world where the occupants don't realize they're in a simulation....
> Every Linux box that is connected to a printer (specially networked printers) runs CUPS in part by Apple.

CUPS was an independent project before Apple bought it, and we haven't exactly seen major improvements since the sale.
I actually find strong typing speeds up green-field development rather than hampering it, because it cuts down on the little avoidable things that inevitably creep in when you're trying to architect and evaluate and code all at the same time. The kinds of things that make you smack yourself in the face for an hour wasted by the most trivial mistakes.

In addition to my own personal experience this has been incredibly well illustrated to me because I'm overseeing two junior JS devs right now where one starts any new code with "any" types and tries to make Flow happy later and the other starts with real types. The former has a LOT more "this isn't working and I have no idea why, help" moments.
App stores feel different because they are different. You seem to have an incorrect definition of what a market is

McDonalds is not a market, McDonalds is a vendor in a Market.

Apples has a created a market on is the platform by virtue of the App Store, a case can be made for Anti-Trust due to to this, but it would be a hard one.

Defining what is and is not a market is always one of the largest challenges for Anti-Trust, take for example the Merger of Sirus and XM, there was a debate over if Sat Radio was a market separate and independent of Traditional Radio, in the end Sirus / XM won and was able to establish that Sat Radio was not an independent market because consumer could easily switch between Sat Radio and Traditional Radio

Given the Lockin, and increasing Costs associated with Changing Mobile Platforms it becomes more of a question on if iOS and Andriod should be separate markets or be considered a single market. I can see cases for both
It's like the old Jaguar joke. Why did you buy a second Jaguar? Your first was so unreliabble?

"Well, I needed one to drive while the other is in the shop"
Western governments have historically been allied with and have had intelligence sharing and cooperation arrangements with the U.S.

There is a general alignment of Western intelligence agencies as a cooperative group against the antagonism of China (and Russia, NK, etc)

It isn't just "everybody spies" - it's "we are actively engaged in an adversarial relationship together against this other group"
You are free to buy a smartphone from other manufacturers. No one is forcing you to use an Apple product.
Wow. Those pictures are ridiculous.
In SF Bay Area:

1999-2006 - $55k (starting) to $70kish various jobs at a startup. Began in an implementation role, moved to software engineer

2006-2008 - $80k-$95k as a QA engineer at NetSuite

2009-20012 - $95k-$105k as a SWE at NetSuite

2012 - $110k as a SWE at an early-stage startup

2013-2014 - $120k-$140k as a SWE at a different startup

2014 - $150k as a Sr SWE at a different C-stage startup

2015 - $158k as a line manager at same startup

2016 - $170k (?) as a line manager at same startup

2017 - $190k as a manager-of-managers at same startup

2018 - $205k as department head at same startup

2019 - $220k as director of engineering at different late-stage startup

All this is base salary, excluding equity and so forth. Very recently, bonuses have started to be a thing, so base salary is a little less relevant than it was.
2005 - $15k consulting and college

2006 - $16k consulting and college

2007 - $20k Company 1

2008 - $26k Company 1

2009 - $40k Company 2

2010 - $52k Company 3

2011 - $104k Company 3

2012 - $170k Company 4

2013 - $180k Company 5

2013 - $215k Company 6

2015 - $250k Company 7

2016 - $350k Company 7

2017 - $450k Company 7

2018 - $700k Company 7

2019 - $1.6M Company 7 *

* Based on stock remaining at today’s share price.

Only the company >=6 had significant portions of compensation contribution through equity.

I recently interviewed and secured two offers for around $1.5M but ended up staying. Offered role were Distinguished Engineer / VP Engineering.
>Steam is popular and has a loud following because it does not make unethical choices that annoy users

VAC now reads all the domains you have visited and sends it back to their servers hashed

-Goes through all your DNS Cache entries (ipconfig /displaydns)

-Hashes each one with md5

-Reports back to VAC Servers

-So the domain reddit.com would be 1fd7de7da0fce4963f775a5fdb894db5 or organner.pl would be 107cad71e7442611aa633818de5f2930 (Although this might not be fully correct because it seems to be doing something to characters between A-Z, possible making them lowercase)

-Hashing with md5 is not full proof, they can be reversed easily nowadays using rainbowtables. So they are relying on a weak hashing function.

You dont have to visit the site, any query to the site (an image, a redirect link, a file on the server) will be added to the dns cache. And only the domain will be in your cache, no full urls. Entries in the cache remains till they expire or at most 1 day (might not be 100% accurate), but they dont last forever.

We don't know how long this information is kept on their servers, maybe forever, maybe a few days. It's probably done everytime you join a vac server. It seems they are moving from detecting the cheats themselves to computer forensics.

All game launchers will fuck your shit up except for maybe gog.
> They can only do this in the absence of competition from non-awful games.

No, they can only do this because there's actually a solid market for what I (and I assume you) see as awful games for extremely portable handheld devices; essentially, I think they are pretty much digital fidget spinners.
Top Approaches to Financial Software Development
Whatever test you do, you would need to know the total number of visitors in each group, right?

And unless I missed it the article doesn't state those numbers.

Intuitively, the numbers you quoted would be more significant the bigger the test and control groups are.
Same, irrelevant. The average includes much cheaper cars, much older cars, cars with way worse security features, etc.

How's Tesla doing compared to the upper-mid range or luxury cars?
This is the direction some major Canadian telecoms have been going.

I’m not sure if they’ve all changed their plans, but at least one or two of them have already made this choice and have used them in the past. Never heard of any problems in delivering.
I used http://www.abtestcalculator.com/ and entered 3000 participants -> 28 conversions and 3000 participants -> 39 conversions.

I neglected to record how many views each version had, but should be at least 3000 since the conversion ratio is about 0.5 - 1%.
It's not like DP is the only way to solve problems even designed for a DP solution. So an interviewee might have a general technique that applies for most problems but when faced with a DP problem their method takes more time. Now in an interview, taking more time is generally bad and this candidate would be judged lower. However, in real life scenarios, since DP problems are so rare, the interviewee's method might actually be faster.

Basically, giving any test question that is dependent on someone knowing something they could look up in a book is not as effective as testing how well someone reasons about an unknown type of problem.
Yeah, you might be in the rare - and lucky! - case...I've worked for numerous large enterprises in northeast U.S. (in different industries), and all of them were 2~3% increases per year max.; and in some years such as during recession, they were 0~1%. Kudos to you good sir!
First rule of Fight Club?
Wait, Reddit is banned by ISPs in India?
It was indeed peaceful since he was monitored by secret police 24/7 for the rest of his life.
> Apple connects Spotify to our users.

This is a bit of a ridiculous claim. From another perspective, an iPhone is just another way to access your favorite apps and content. Taken to more of an extreme, imagine Comcast or T-Mobile claiming that they provide users to Spotify... Apple is easily just a middle man here but they make themselves sound like the entity that owns the users and plugs them into apps. It's not like people buy iPhones just because they're shiny pieces of aluminum and glass, and using apps is secondary to that.
I agree that fiber rollout will probably slow to a halt in favor of wireless, but purely for cost reasons. Fiber will always be superior if you can get it, but most users don't care enough - like how people complain about bad service and small economy class seats but won't pay 10% more for another airline with better seat pitch.

I know lots of people now who use wireless plans at home - they whine at the end of the month when their cap runs out but won't switch because it's cheaper (monthly cost similar, but free signup vs $200 install fee + router purchase).

So 100% yes, as a business it makes little economic sense to build a consumer FTTH network. I'd still like to see governments and incumbent telecoms do it though as an investment in quality, stability and diversity. I feel a lot more comfortable replacing the POTS network with fiber than wireless.
This is a very good point. The simple act of having a popular app on the App Store is a significant contribution to that marketplace.

I imagine losing Spotify wouldn't cause every Spotify user to ditch the iPhone, but I'm sure there are others like you. And many people likely have some other app that they'd consider ditching the iPhone for if it was pulled.

A healthy app ecosystem is a big part of what drives iPhone sales.
I do qualify that I speak about languages that are still "Algol-derived".

Rust is not some significant paradigm shift (like e.g. Scheme vs C vs Prolog vs Haskell, etc).

It's the same concepts and programming styles as C, C++ etc, plus fighting the borrow checker.
I stumbled across an 1874 editorial rewvise war between the British authors and American publisher of Chamber's Encyclopaedia, which provides rare insight into the disagreements over and politicisation of information and its dissemination.

My commentary:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...

Source:

https://archive.org/stream/chambersencyclo00unkngoog#page/n1...

The power to define narrative has always been immense.
I feel slightly motivated, but mostly crushed by these crazy TC levels.

Although I know I'm doing fairly decent for myself, as someone who is very critical of my own progress or lack of, it feels very disheartening to see people my age making 10x what I am, simply because they are located in SV, doing the same work.

In my area, short of being extremely fortunate to land some amazing fully-remote job, there is not one tech company that pays out anywhere close to 300k+ TC, unless you are in senior leadership or just consulting/doing work on the side.

I understand the reasons for the big disparity, but still... feels bad man.
I own a Prius. The center-mounted instruments were weird for about 5 minutes, then a total non-issue. I concur.

I've done the button dot thing. Or rather, I did it with velcro and stickyback sandpaper, because the dash lights in my old Pontiac went out and it was more fun to make it tactile than fix the lights. I realized I could quickly distinguish hook velcro, loop velcro, and 3 grits of sandpaper, so that gave me 5 "colors" to work with. I coded the HVAC controls, the radio presets, and the rear defroster controls. That's about all I used on a regular basis.

It was great. Previously I could find these controls without looking, but knowing I was on the right one meant groping to the end of the button row and counting back. My eyes never left the road, but my attention definitely faltered. Once they were tactile-coded, I had instant confirmation, and it took a lot less attention to interact.

Modern cars tend to be the complete opposite of this pure-tactile experience. The Lincoln Touch console, with its capacitive controls that activate before you even register that you've touched them, are the absolute worst. You can't grope over to a control without looking, or you'll change a dozen other things on the way. Touchscreens are only slightly better, in that they tend to have borders you can follow with your fingers, and buttons are often placed along the edges. But not always.

On the Prius touchscreen, I can get in the ballpark without looking, glance down to fine-adjust my finger placement, and get my eyes back up to the road even as my finger makes the selection. But that only works on the radio presets which are along the edge of the screen. Input source selection goes to a shit-tastic "pretty 3d" screen where the sources' display order can change, so you absolutely have to read the display to make a selection. (The steering-wheel copy of the "mode" button can also cycle between some, but not all, sources. It's worse than useless.)

I've spent some time in a Model S and I can't love the touchscreen implementation. It's not the worst I've seen (that trophy goes to Lincoln, hands-down), but it's way more distracting than it needs to be. I feel like it was designed as a showpiece first, an interaction method second, and a reliable cockpit control not at all.
I am against banning anything like that, but I hope you also realize that some people would involuntarily waste years of their life and completely destroy themselves playing it. The addiction is real and harmful.
A lot of people “want” a model 3, but “need” an SUV / seating for seven. The Model X is also beyond the reach of 95% of the market.

Also, it’s not canabilizing if the margins on the Y are substantially higher.
This is something I think people miss. Almost every other company I have subscriptions with make them a pain to cancel. Subs through the App Store are easy to find and cancel. It's very consumer friendly. Plus as you said, I'm not a fan of giving every service I want to use my CC.

Is that worth 30%/15%? I don't know. The fact that 15% exists shows that Apple is thinking about the pricing and adjusting. Apple just doesn't do anything quickly.
(For those who might not recognize it: this is a clever play on the first line of Jane Austin's novel Pride and Prejudice.)
>If you don't like the Apple model, there are alternatives.

What alternatives? Without allowing developers to create 3rd-party payment systems, all payments must be routed through Apple.

>Apple's argument (which seems compelling if we judge it on the result) is that their model is the best solution for customers and developers.

Apple's model does not seem to be compelling for developers/content creators. Developers need to pay a large (for some) amount of money and give Apple a large cut of their profits.

It's also unclear why Apple's model is best for consumers. While it seems good because it protects consumers from scams on third party sites, for reputable companies like Spotify or Netflix, there doesn't seem to be a risk, except for increased prices to the end user because companies need to compensate for losing a third of their earnings.
I think those coding interviews don't apply to frontend, sysadmin and DevOps.
Nevertheless, I just emailed and tweeted him the link. You never know with Woz.... About 10 years ago, I posted a link about him on my blog. In it I wrote that he wasn't much of an athlete in HS. Within a couple hours he posted a comment correcting me, noting that he was a varsity pole vaulter on the Homestead High School track and field team. OMG
> I think this is an incorrect analogy. This is why Apple only charges for physical goods, not digital ones. The rationale is they distributed your product to customers you would never have had access to without them:

Would the app developers "never have access" to those consumers though? Because if the iPhone didn't exist then consumers would just use another handset. Just like we did before the iPhone and just like a significant amount of people do currently.

There's definitely a blurred line somewhere though. I agree to Apple having a fee for app sales though I think 30% is a bit steep but I agree Apple ultimately get to decide how much they want to charge. I agree that some apps might try to circumvent that fee by offering in app sales instead so Apple are trying to close off that particular loophole. However I don't agree that Spotify fall into that same category because their "in app sales" is actually a subscription service to a much larger product. However where do you draw the line?

> I think this is an incorrect analogy.

Obviously I wouldn't agree but I can completely understand why you'd say that given how open to interpretation analogies can be.

To be honest I hate posting them in debates because if you agree with the point then you'll agree with the analogy but if you don't agree with the point then you'll naturally find a reason the analogy doesn't fit. And given analogies aren't meant to be 100% representative, it means there's always plenty of ways to disprove it. Thus analogies are never persuasive in a debate. Worse still, sometimes you end up going down a rabbit hole of arguing analogies rather than discussing the actual point at hand.

For this reason, I usually try to avoid them.
I would like to see one of the YouTube car review channels take the Model Y on a very milkd 'off-road' course.

Not a real off-road park, but one of those loops the manufacturers put together, for cars like the Honda Pilot or the non-Wrangler Jeeps.
For long distance trips where they have an option? I'd guess that many don't.

Still that 4e-6 per trip number is worse than the city driving statistics I've found. And that 8e-6 per trip (4 per airport operation) is around the motorcycle values.
> I wish I could personally meet a cultural Christian (someone who is Christian only because everyone else is)

Aren't most religious people like this? If you are born in Pakistan, chances are pretty high that you believe in Islam. Cambodia? Probably a Buddhist.

All Christians that I know, are born out of a Christian family. I see culture as the main driver of religion. Or do you expect if you take a Cambodian baby and place them in Pakistan, that they will grow up to be Buddhist?

I'm an atheist, and almost all people around me are atheists. What a coincidence! My wife is from a foreign country. All people around here are dedicated Christians. And guess what, she is also a Christian! What a double coincidence!
Not blocked in Mumbai right now.

Basically it is blocked in some places and not blocked in some others:

https://www.medianama.com/2019/03/223-tell-me-it-aint-nothin...
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That's not how you use prop.test. What you've tested using that invocation is the null hypothesis that the underlying probability of 39/67 is 0.5.

If you want to perform a test of a difference of two proportions, you need to do:

prop.test(c(39, 67), c(total_group_a_impressions, total_group_b_impressions))

I don't have experience with A/B testing, so I'm not sure if this is typically or best handled using this particular statistical test.

Edit: The first parameter should be c(39, 28), meaning the total conversions in each group. I have no excuse beyond being tired.

Edit 2: To clarify, I think he should still use the two-sample form of prop.test, especially since we did not know at the time of his posting that the sample sizes are equal.
Why do you think it's a waste? And why do you think it's involuntary?
Okay now THAT's cool. I drove a Model S for a while and didn't love the touchscreen, but I'm super intrigued by this idea. I'll have to get my butt in a 3 sometime.