skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree and also like to add that after seeing many teams without any imposed deadlines or pressure, I can tell you those teams who are "free to roam" also end up even more frustrated and unhappy because they often feel less part of a success story and ultimately that they're wasting their time.

Time boxing projects teaches people to innovate and become more resourceful. I've seen endless scope creep since starting at my latest company where people aren't help to any type of deadline.

I think the best approach is to have deadlines but allow teams to workout how they manage their time during that window.
Your comment reminded me of some amazing photos of a Sony MSX machine: https://mobile.twitter.com/AttractMode/status/11038522081924...

I wish PC makers today would branch out from their "copy Apple" sterility.
Just curious, but were you ever tested for an anemia or anything?
Yes, either case is possible. Lyft could become Pets.com or Amazon.

You can argue that Lyft will become Pets.com, due to other reasons, such as growth potential etc. That would make sense.

BUT, the argument in your graphic, that a company is overvalued simply because its valuation is higher than traditional well-known brands, that ARGUMENT is flawed.

Lyft's valuation is totally independent of Ford's valuation. These are separate companies with separate paths. Amazon's valuation was not tied to Sears--the 60-minutes journalist made the mistake of connecting the 2 together. The argument behind your graphic is wrong.
Meanwhile "I'll learn a new language to do this" when abstracted across an entire team or company leads to code that no one knows how to maintain when the one person who wrote it leaves.
This is rather obvious and has always been a major advantage of rail. The problem is the capital costs and real estate requirements of building the rail lines, especially when locations are far apart and there's already existing infrastructure that needs attention.
"uttering a word is like striking note on the keyboard of the imagination". Except this time in reverse!
Probably the same reason why the life of a cow is apparently less significant than that of a human.

There is a hierarchy of 'life'.
Those who try to say 'All or Nothing' when it comes to harming a sentient being are either ignorant or simply trying to justify their meat-eating habits.
We are rolling out Adopt OpenJDK 11 (and 8, for those who can't make the jump to 9+) LTS to a few hundred thousand folks in our org. Free as in beer. Passed the internal audits.
Demand is skyrocketing in China for mice that mimic the diseases of humans
Given the size of the queue to join (request via their 1.1.1.1 app), I'd say get it, got a slot and by the time that comes up any issues or concerns would of been well debated.

But looking good so far.
it's fascinating, and those therapists already exist! infidelity and polyfidelity is as old as time... just that discovery is accelerated now.

i am mid-ivf cycle right now, and we expect to have some embryos left over. it's been a set of fascinating conversations with various people including my therapist over how to donate these embryos - potential full siblings of my existing child(ren) gestated and raised by other people.

we're definitely set on open adoptions if we do it though - i've seen enough donor conceived children that benefit from such a relationship. and yeah, you cannot hide any more anyway...
tldr; a rambling article about narcissism (ironically)
Maybe the sense of exclusivity is part of the appeal, too?
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> current withholding rate is substantially under most engineers' marginal tax bracket

RSUs are withheld at Federal bonus rates, which seemed pretty reasonable (it's 25% until your total taxable comp from an employer hits $1M in the tax year, and then it jumps to 39.6%); and California equity statutory rates, which is the second to top marginal rate, which works out right, unless you made enough to pay the mental health tax.

Although, given that state tax isn't deductible anymore, perhaps 25% isn't nearly enough at the federal level anymore?
Do all dev managers that report to you -- initiate conversations with you about how to increase their salary?
This is one of the best videos I've seen on CRDTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMMDVphop40

CRDTs are just a way to send to send data between parties so that all parties end up with the same thing after receiving all messages, even if they receive them out of order. The way the messages are encoded is the math part, ensuring that you can keep applying these functions to your existing state to always get to the final state. That's where the associative/commutative requirements come from.

Note that there are operation-based (sending how something should be updated) and stated-based (sending what it should be updated to) CRDTs and they have different semantics and use-cases.
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E-cigarettes do not normalise smoking for young people – study
is this the final list already?
The Ladybird Book of Quantum Mechanics
This assumes that your morals are the same as whoever is behind the camera. You don't know that, which compromises the integrity of any moral value knowledge of being watched would have given.
I'd prefer just more humane animal farming vs. fake meat. It may be more expensive - but if we incentivized humane farming of animals as much as we subsidized corn and/or wheat it might not be that bad (or just got rid of subsidies altogether).

I also think the environmental cost of plant farming is vastly underrated.
which religion is this ? I know many Hindus & Jains are strictly vegetarian.
Los Angeles to clear up to 50k old marijuana convictions using algorithms
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You can do this in PHP:

<?php
eval('class Hello {public static function you(){echo "Yes!";}}');
Hello::you();

or this:

<?php
file_put_contents('c.php', '<?php class Hello {public static function you(){echo "Yes!";}}');
require('c.php');
Hello::you();

Thus generating a class at runtime-ish.
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No, you don't know exactly who the rockstars are going to be, at any level. That's exactly the point of having at every age, some "reach" opportunities for those who can use it at that stage and show that they're outstanding and benefit from being helped to test/learn to their potential.

Versus what, you suggest that we have mandatory remedial level education for everyone to sit through until the last kid is performing up to grade level?
OPEC used to have that power, but not really any longer. U.S. / Canada production has steadily lowered production costs, cheap oil will bankrupt OPEC countries before it kills off US production.
Yes, it will be a capital loss, but you can only cancel $3,000 worth of capital loss against ordinary income per year. If you had enough RSUs to make insufficient tax withholding a meaningful issue for you and the stock price is significantly down by the time your lockout expires, it might take several years to offset the losses against your income. On the other hand, having a stash of capital losses to carryover makes rebalancing easier in the future.
What were the key or note chording patterns you used to make this?
Yep, great idea. Today I broke my work into a whole list of commit messages, then made the changes one by one.
Good advice. The idea that 'AMD might be really great soon' may never be true for consumer GPUs. Although AMD does a great job in consoles like the PS4.
Its just a scheduling thing, line up all your interviews into a single week. Similarly, when they start coming back, push them out into the week following so you have room for the slow responses to catch up.

You can reasonably fit in 5-6 interviews into a week.
"an odd particle" You fucking monkey.
This article is not typical of hackaday.
Except memorizing multiplied numbers is not foundational knowledge for any higher math, knowing what the concept means is. Learning this involves working through some examples but it doesn't mean you need to know an entire table. Not knowing 7x8 never held me back in higher math/math-relevant classes like Calculus I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, Physics I-II, Chemistry, Macroeconomics, Computer Science (anything from basic programming to language processing or algorithm proof), Music Theory. Had a fun and mostly easy time in all those. Once in a blue moon on a test I'd have to do a multiplication and count it out (8x5, add 5 8 times) because it was a product in a derivative or something and that class had an (unrealistic for the real world) no-calculator policy. In fact I'm pretty sure mathematicians are notorious for poor arithmetic.

Additionally to your point, I think forcing arithmetic memorization on students is harmful because it makes math seem boring and hard.
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> one thing people always miss with Cloudflare is... follow the money

I think that applies almost anywhere. One could say "don't trust Google or Facebook with personal data" merely based on the fact that almost all of their money comes from advertising.

And thanks for the interesting exchange!
Sure, but doing nothing publicly does mean a lot.
I'm a huge fan of Datadog for this sort of thing. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but they have the ability to do all the grafana / logstash / splunk stuff and are making lots of progress into the APM space with OpenAPM.
I envy you. University was not fun for me, and everything I know how to do was from skipping class.
They are different variations of the same character. This is not very common but does occur. So it is a font issue.
Arguably the one source of animal protein and fats that can be ethically sourced without harming the animal [1].

I think dairy also applies. Yes, lots of dairy operations in business today are cruel. But they don't have to be.

There are dairy operations now that let the cattle decide when to be milked. The machines are fully automatic. The cattle need not be separated from their calves, either.

With all of those systems in place, there is no real ethical difference between the dairy operation and a human mother using a breast pump and donating the excess to a milk bank.
10% isn't exactly what I'd call rare. 1 in 10 is uncommon, but it is certainly the kind of thing I'd worry about in other situations. Hell even @% (if I had a 2% chance of getting assaulted by everyone I met for example I'd be a shut in).

Obviously that isn't a fair comparison and I find this isn't actually an area I'm concerned about for whatever reason... But I wouldn't call it "exceedingly rare" with the numbers you gave
Self-taught programmer here. A long time ago, I lucked out with an internal promotion that helped me bridge the gap from support to engineering. Getting a foot in the door was the hard part. Ever since then, lack of a degree has been a non-factor during the hiring process. I've got years of experience and plenty of references to vouch for my abilities.

The only thing I feel like I missed out on compared to a CS grad is a better intuition for big O. I just don't have any use for it in real life, so it never really clicked. Good benchmarking tools are all I've ever needed. But it would be nice for my own intellectual gratification.
This is base salary, a large portion of Google compensation is GSU.

A director at Google wouldn't be making much more than $200k in base salary, but their total comp can easily exceed $1M if you count stocks.
> They were sure to tell me that if I stopped treatment I wouldn't be given any more refills and one doctor condemned me for even showing up to my appointment with the intention of discontinuing medications. He said I was wasting everyones time.

Wow. Just wow. That's very unfortunate that you had to go through that. That seems beyond malpractice and if its not, it should be. I don't want to dox anyone but those doctors should be avoided...probably by everyone...
> SEC says the risk management controls were inappropriate, but clearly Knight thought they were appropriate or they would have fixed it.

By this logic, we can claim that if a hospital is storing all its employee passwords in plaintext, that's "appropriate" because if it was inappropriate they wouldn't do so.

Or that if a company is neglectful about offsite backups, that's an "appropriate" data retention strategy because if it wasn't, then the company would be taking backups.

In this case, if Knight thought its controls were "appropriate", then that's the problem that needs fixed.
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https://www.synopsys.com/dw/dwtb.php?a=hsic_usb2_device

Most modern smartphones use usb for baseband comms. I’m no expert but I don’t think the DMA thing hasn’t been true widely for a very long time.
> "..disparately impact communities of color."

Just want to note, to be fair here, the "communities of color" have next to or no active cameras installed (according to the map in the article).

That said, this is sad but not surprising.
I always sort of hold my breath and hurry past everything in that aisle.
Cycling is cleaner than any of them. So what?
Isn't there a deep ethical difference when the human has autonomy and the animal doesn't?

I don't think it's immoral to keep livestock, I'm questioning whether the situations are analogous in an ethical sense.
Are you a dev? If yes, how do you refer to documentation without internet??!!
I had a hard time getting in the habit of learning French but I adapted to it when I had to. However, as I've mentioned in another comment, shoddy arithmetic in particular was never an issue for me in real math contexts.
> The only way your outcome is unmeasurable is if your outcome had no observable impact.

I don't think this is correct?

Your work having observable impact and being able to show exactly what observable impact your work had in a quantifiable manner are two very different things.

I feel this is a huge problem at Google, where performance reviews/promotions are supposed to be based on objective measures. If you fix a lot of bugs, the end user might be much happier. However, to quantify exactly happy you need to have some existing infrastructure, and even if you do have that infrastructure, how do you know whether they are happy because of the bugs you fixed or the bugs someone else fixed?

It may be possible but is not really worth the effort for a company to invest in. So, what ends up happening is people (who care about perf/promotions) fight for the projects which will give them the most easily measurable impact, and ignore other things which may well be very important to a project or company but are difficult to measure.

Ideally, your performance should only be rated on things that were actually in your control. Admittedly, I don't know how one would do this though.
Really? "Thinking time"? Is this satire? 20 seconds to vote electronically is a lot.
I'm strongly considering that. 17 years in the US, $550k in annual pay, $750k+ in taxes paid in the last 15 years, American-born kid but I still don't have the freedom to switch jobs at ease or even take a break between jobs, start my own business or work at a small startup, take part-time jobs from advising companies, rent my place out on Airbnb, etc. My wife, who teaches special needs kids, cannot work soon after H4-EAD is revoked. Trump has made some noise about fixing immigration for high-skilled immigrants but no progress on that and no one else seems to care. Thinking of moving to Canada or Australia or back to my home country. The other option is to start a SuperPac and raise $1000 from every Indian stuck in GC limbo.
I’m quite fond of Phoenix and think it compares favorably with Rails and Django (I’ve never used Laravel).
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> Also when we talk about long waits for Green Cards, we really mean for the large body of Indian technology workers, broadly speaking. For other nationalities the wait is typically a year or less (for those unaware there are effectively country based quotas for green cards). The gap in earning potential is even larger still in the Indian example vs my earlier UK one, so again I’m not surprised few actually move back.

From what I know, American based tech companies pay good salaries in countries like India as well. These are of course adjusted to cost of living, which is significantly lower. I don't think it's realistic to be working in a tech company in India and expecting silicon valley salary but the salaries people usually get is generally good enough for that region.
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Once again, Americans are "discovering" things other civilized countries knew and implemented for a long time :)
Having to ask permission for things we didn't used to is sort of the sea change of the computer age.

I would love to be able to run my own software on my iPhone in an unfettered way.
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Back on the team liquid forums, we used to call this an announcement of a possible future announcement.

Will read the article when it is an actual one.
Not practical in the same space. What train or flight plans will you be canceling in favor of cycling?
I don't think anyone is "discovering" this.

The US has prioritized other modes of transport because the US had priorities beyond "how clean it is".
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One of the best old-school pieces of advice I ever got was "always throw away the first one". (Widely advised on comp.lang.perk.misc back in the 90s... Tom Christiansen is the name I've got mostly attached to it in my head.)

I'd read that as two requests.

1) "Make a tool that does X."

2) "Fast track a tool that does X by Friday so we can do Y."

The use the time prototyping X quickly to learn the entire space around solving the problem X, while mostly aiming to just solve the parts of the problem that will roadblock Y, with the agreement that this is only a prototype and while the Y team may choose to put it into production, there'll also be a much more complete set of requirements and specification of "The X tool", (which may well include Rust evangelism, proper testing infrastructure, performance benchmarking and scaling plans).

(Note: _most_ of the time this does not actually get acted upon, and I've got several hilarious war stories about "quick hacks to get us past next week's deadline" that out survived the company that I implemented it for. But a least I had it in writing...)