skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Genuinely added value. I was firmly in the "NO" camp when I got to AMZN. Writing was something that people who didn't understand hustle did. :)

What I found, over time, was that the exercise of writing forces critical thinking. PowerPoint is corporate theater. Very easy to convince with your voice instead of facts, logic, data, and insight.

There were certainly times where I felt that the doc process was used unnecessarily as a blunt cudgel, but for the big decisions, and the planning process, it was incredibly helpful. As I have transitioned to working with companies as an investor, advisor, and board member, I have continued to use the templated FAQ docs for driving decisions. I am starting to get my teams to use them for board meetings.
Hehe I also fly a super decathlon for aerobatics. 0.3mile finals! ;)

For a VFR aircraft I don't mind an iPad-type device for nav. I did my initial training on a 6pack 152 and I was fine with that.

I'm mostly interested (and they've remained silent) on their choice of avionics for the IFR eFlyer4. I'd kill for a G1000...
Always appreciate the reminder. I'm answering questions at a high level and hoping to share the learning from my time at AMZN. Anything confidential will remain as such.
> And everyone has known for 20 years that you have to job-hop to grow your salary in this industry

And this is why companies continuously lobby to keep the current H1-B system in place.
I remember a fun(!) find of three human skeletons in a saber-toothed tiger den. They were fairly co-existant (within 300 years?). So that was a rare chance to compare and estimate variability within a single population.
Same here. For me it's org-mode that made me commit to it, but I might end up using it for many other things eventually (git, coding, etc.).

I'm mostly okay with code editors coming and going, but the one constant in my life has been project/task management, journalling, and personal information management in the broadest sense.

I just got tired of my tools either turning to shit, being deprecated, or not quite doing what I need them to do. Org Mode has been exactly what I've been looking for, and once I started using it seriously it became the thing I didn't know I wanted.

It's really comforting to me to know that I'll probably be able to use the same tool for the rest of my life, and that I can (and often already do) use it for many other things (Tramp, magit, coding in general).
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I love deleting more code than I add! Is there a bot or something that can detect and celebrate these kinds of commits like what was described here?
Difficulties with drivers in terms of quality, availability or both? Regarding availability (and often quality) the only real/sustainable solution is for hardware manufacturers (who I think you are referring to by "they") to improve their Linux support.
That's not enough, though—you also have to make sure your friends are not on facebook, and don't put pictures of you online. It's not an individual consent issue anymore in a wired-up world.
JIT != emulation.

I've been watching the RISC-V J extension but it seems to be a blank space, a placeholder hoping that someone has a good idea for accelerating JITs. I don't even know what that would mean.
Well, this was awhile ago so I don't know how relevant the advice is today, but when I did a startup in the 90's we didn't take any angel money for over a year and until we had our first live customers. What we did was run super cheap, crappy office space, minimal everything, didn't take any salary ourselves. We wrote code all night and called prospects all day. I was never really comfortable cold calling, but I learned to be. We were selling to banks and called anyone we could find contact info on. Not spending any money we didn't have to spend, and not giving up until some people said yes, basically.
The journalists and Facebookers who are excited about a person who has done some work as a computer programmer... how much would you have to pay them to sit through the first hour of an intro programming class? (Maybe coding is like public transit. People think it is a great idea for everyone other than themselves.)
Just like your finger prints, height or face. It is uniquely yours but not your property. It's your set of attributes.
either that or NYC is just really inefficient in terms of cost.

Keep in mind you've cited probably the first or second most expensive mile of any subway ever built, and subways usually cost much more than other trains.

China regularly builds high speed rail for $30M per mile. Europe is usually closer to $50-60M. Tokyo has built subways for $400M per mile.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
To file patent, you have to have some prototype, but it actually cannot be in production for more than year (and does not have to be in production at all).
My visual acuity varies, so I benefit a lot from software that lets me change the size of the elements on the screen. The typical Mac app allows the user to change the size of the text in the main pane, but everything else is a fixed size. In contrast, all the Electron apps I've tested give the user an easy way to change the size of everything, e.g., all the icons in all the panes.

If I had found a way to change the size of everything on one of the Lua-based editors on the Mac, I probably would've switched years ago to one them. (I don't recall their names.)

If I stay with Emacs it will be because learning how to modify vscode, e.g., by writing my own extension, proved too difficult. (I want my editor to be a general interface to information that is easy for me to modify by writing code.)
For one example that I like to cite, install Org-Babel and play around with a Jupyter-notebook-esque interface within your document. When you’re done, GitHub will render it statically like they do Markdown.
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There's a strong community there of people who are doing exactly what you are all at various stages of growth- someone who's business is within stonesthrow of where you are and in the direction of where you want to go may be in the best position to help advise you to get to that next step. (check our their podcast, might be useful for you)
In the US, you do have certain rights to your image. I cannot use an identifiable photograph of you for marketing or advertising without your permission. (That's why, for example, a lot of conference registrations require you to affirmatively agree that photos or videos of you may be used for marketing purposes.)

But pretty much any other use of a photo in a public place is fair game if it doesn't misrepresent you in some way.
Or your breathe you push out of your lungs.
Reminds me of the service that Tomahawk Music Player used to offer. [0]
The rationale is, your friends don't have the same streaming service as you have, but you want to share a track.
Solution: Generate a track URL that would map to any of the streaming services.

[0] https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk
Good luck convincing your employer to do this. One feature request from me in case someone from MSFT is reading - please design things so that no file modify hooks are invoked at all for files under wsl directory. Files in wsl should be in a secure sandbox by default outside the reach of any antivirus.

I have heard that system devs at Microsoft have Admin mode enabled. I think that is why they dont realise how bad the dev experience is on windows when you dont have admin. You cant turn windows indexing off, you cant exclude things from anti virus, you cant launch Application Verifier. All dev workflows should work without Admin.
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I think the problem is exactly the opposite: people are now getting way too much of the content they can’t help but like, and that in way too many cases turns out to be deliberately polarising and extreme content.

In the long run, that works out like the children's story where the young girl gets to decide she'll eat nothing, ever, but peanut butter and jelly. If it's stupid nonsense, then most people eventually figure that out, and you're left with a fringe and ironic onlookers. Hell, if they left Alex Jones alone, he'd just have wound up being the 2019 version of The Weekly World News. Eventually, his viewership would have devolved to sundry weirdo plus college students watching him while playing a drinking game.

As it is now, big tech has fueled his conspiracy narratives by engaging in behavior that looks an awful lot like a cabal of big tech colluding as in a Sci-fi dystopian movie.)

The marketplace of ideas no more leads to good content choices than the marketplace of food leads to healthy eating.

Over time, the marketplace of ideas has lead to wealth, freedom, and public health unprecedented in all of human history.
I wish you made that post as a top-level reply instead of a reply to my post. The simple way that you explain growth requirements is extremely clear and important to know.

Thanks!
The distinction here is between a hunter-gatherer mentality and an agricultural one.

Are you picking and choosing or are you farming?

Currently we grow engineering skill in (often) high cost institutions with limited capacity such as traditional universities. Moocs and bootcamps are alternatives which try to address the scalability, cost, and time commitment barriers of traditional education.

The question is should there continue to be a strong dichotomy between organizations who consume the output of these growth channels and the growth organizations, or should software development companies create programs of structured education and growth that have a low barrier to entry?

As others have mentioned startups who can hunt/find/pick people with relevant, high quality skills have the advantage of not paying the time and organizational cost of training.

Personally I think that large organizations should be taking more hands-on approaches that take all, or nearly all comers, and then provide training for the kinds of skills they need.

If you look at military funding for medical educations (for example) you'll see that the organization can be very generous in terms of time and training cost as long as a candidate ends up with the skillset they need. You might not go in wanting to be a urologist, but you can end up highly skilled and very well paid if you're willing to meet the needs of the organization.
unlike every other time in human history

This is not true. People have paid for music for centuries. Before it was recorded on discs, tapes, wires, or cylinders, people bought and sold sheet music. It was a massive industry.

Before everyone had an electronic music player there were pianos in almost every middle-class home. Pianos were a huge industry with some cities having a half-dozen local manufacturers.

And before pianos became mass-market, people bought sheet music to... get this... sing! People would get together in each other's houses to sing. Companies had bands and choirs, and would compete against each other.

Spending money on music is not something new.
If you have a headwind, which is very commonly 30 knots or more, then in this plane you are barely moving. So, it would be hard to reliably get anywhere at all.

Training flights are mostly in the vicinity of the airport so speed and range matters less. But you do still have to get places (eg the practice area and back) and a really slow plane is going to make a difference in the number of flight hours you need to accomplish the missions.
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.'

Granted, it's aspirational.
Someone needs to use sound and voice.

You enter a dank, dimly lit room, water trickling off to the side, reflecting the fire from your torch. You become aware of a disturbing, low grinding sound, low growl... off to the north, and a cool breeze following you in the exit to the east.

Two things:

Displaying text, with a soundscape would be amazing and, I'll bet, immersive.

The second order might be a mix of spoken word and soundscape that has directionality. You hear most of it, details are spoken, say on move.

North.

Quickly spoken room details: exits to north, east, water trickle.

Soundscape is looping.

On next command, look, turn, move, repeat.

Voice and or text for user input.

I want to pop in earbuds and either speak or type, and let my minds eye fill in the rest.

No time right now, so I just put it here.

Go!
As opposed to the silly 75% decrease in Bitcoin from December 2017. So deflationary.
We must do better, and we will do better.
Vi(m) is not just a set of key bindings. It is also a philosophy of text editing that is much more integrated with the command line. You cannot replicate it entirely in other editors.
This tweet is absolutely ridiculous, but sadly at the same time represents a non minor opinion.
Yes, they do. It's called extraordinary rendition.
Denver started out as X86 but then were scared away by Intel legal and switched to ARMv8 with an architecture license from ARM.
Characterizing nonlocal dispersion compensation in deployed telecoms fiber
The thing you use daily will always be the most familiar. I’ve gone from your position, to the opposite; now the switching-costs of moving away from Emacs to an IDE put me off.

There do have to be real benefits to make it work. For me it was some very specific things I wanted to do for data analysis that weren’t possible in an IDE at the time, and the other benefits (org-mode, tramp etc.) just sort of compounded.

It’s certainly been a process though. And I wouldn’t have got here if I didn’t find fiddling with editors an enjoyable thing to do, while waiting for a database-query/drinking-buddy-to-leave-work/partner’s-Netflix-binge-to-conclude etc.
At maximum endurance speed, sure, but that's not likely to be the maximum lift to drag speed. The maximum lift to drag speed of the eflyer2 is 20.6.

If we assume 35% of the in-flight vehicle's mass is batteries and the batteries have a 168Wh/kg specific energy at the pack level (same as the Model 3's battery pack), operating at the EMRAX motor (used for the prototype)'s peak efficiency with a high efficiency propeller, that gives about 400km range.
Is there any evidence that the amount and types of pesticides used today are more damaging than those used 30 years ago? Or 60 years ago?

Gut feeling: regulatory environment is a lot more strict these days, so we're probably a lot better off with today's pesticides than whatever straight-up toxic chemicals were used in the past. I bet if we started looking we'd see things like arsenic and similar used in the past.
Exactly. To me, if the sheet is larger than what I can keep on a decent sized screen, it's probably time to move it. Not definitely, but probably.
Just finishing a decathlon checkout. They're awesome :)

The ipad could be fine if they have some simple steam backups (compass, ASI, altimeter). IFR it would not be a good idea though. G1000 would be awesome though!
I’m not sure it’s a good fit either. I’ve had to interface with unionized tech workers and getting routine things done took extra effort.

My point is that if they institute a union it then should also be a strong union that looks after its workers.
It does, but after some months of just taking what they said and keeping on smiling, they lose interest. Every time.

Some companies addressed it directly and some let it happen. It also was not every co-worker at every job. Just a select few personality types mainly.
Physical distance from commenter? :)
More that I recognized a position that comes from a cursory understanding of the situation. About the level I'd expect from having taken a few classes on it, but lacks true experience in the domain. One of those "in theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not" sort of situations. You've taken those ideas to conclusions that could have been valid, but the industry took other options.

Now, as someone who has spent a decade in that domain, I'm down to continue having a conversation about it and helping overcome a few of those hurdles, but you need to be willing to hear something that isn't your own conclusions.
Because it is still more expensive than just hiring b).

If you decreased a) wages during their initial training to cover the costs and be able to break even with b)-like wages at the end of the training, you wouldn't be able to hire anyone as a) at all.
The key part of this is the word arbitrary. You can't take 'anything down for no reason'

The government can prevent you from branding your email product 'Gmail', they can censure you for shouting fire in a crowded theater, they can go after you if you issue a tweet which lies about how many cars your car company is going to build in the next quarter, etc.

All of those things have due process and objective standards attached to them. None of those are arbitrary. Those are all following established law. That's a far cry from only saying, "Okay, these messages are 'bad.' We're now de-platforming them."
> If you share none of your mother's DNA, the only possible explanation would be adoption.

Not necessarily. There was a case where a DNA test of a woman's children showed that they did not share any of her DNA. Social Services was threatening to take them away from her. When she had another child, they court ordered an officer to be present during the birth and collect DNA from both of them at that time. Even still the DNA "proved" she was not the mother. It was only after another similar case was discovered that they were able to determine that she was a chimera, basically that she was her own twin, and had two different DNA strands.

https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/shes-twin/story?id=2315693
This works for the company because most people don't bother interviewing and coming up with a counter offer. In my previous company the best of the best would leave because company had this blanket policy that they would never do a counter offer. But in overall it was good for the company because they were able to retain most of engineers with raises as little as 1% and no stock refreshers.
I'm not native to Japanese or English, but I do think Kanji is beautiful and kana is "better" than the Alphabet, and although I dislike resorting to whataboutisms† to assert a point, @everyone here who suggests the abolition of kanji, please consider this proposal for "simplifying" the English language:

• Consolidate letters with identical pronunciations into a single letter: A/E, E/I, C/S, C/K, C/Q, G/J, I/Y, K/Q, U/OO, V/W, X/KS

• Split letters with ambiguous/variable pronunciations into multiple letters with fixed pronunciation: A, C, E, G, I, O, S, U, X, Y

• Remove any "silent" letters from all words.

• Disambiguate homographs and homonyms+homographs (e.g. lie, fair.)

I'm sure I missed or left out many examples, but would any of these proposals fly, at all?

Do they not disregard all the subtle nuances and historical significance which only advanced learners might appreciate? Do you feel a little aghast at my naiveté for even suggesting this? What would be the response of native speakers to a foreigner campaigning for a more streamlined and consistent English?

† or more accurately: Tu quoque

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I'll just leave a piece of fun trivia as an example of the cool stuff that would be lost if kanji was abolished:

The "slang" for a female ninja is kunoichi: く ku, ノ no, 一 ichi (the first two characters being katakana)

and the kanji for woman is 女, made up of the following strokes: く, ノ, 一

It's something that I noticed on my own some time ago and it brought a smile to my face, like someone discovering an in-joke. There is a lot of arguably-clever wordplay like this in Japanese, and losing that would just make things bland for everyone, and for what? Just to make the language a little easier to stomach by Westerners?

What we should be campaigning for, is better resources and tools for learning and looking up kanji.
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That sounds quite far fetched and completely unfounded in facts.

Btw Freud was wrong and his model of child development have been disproven for a hundred years now. Don't pay attention to stuff like "anal retentiveness", it's an inaccurate model of real psychology.
Install GTA 5 APK on your mobile?
My answer to this is if you have to ask if you need the money you need the money. Why? Because you are entirely discounting the benefit of having an experienced VC and firm and what they can give you. Sure you can take time and DIY the process and people have done that. But in the end it might make more sense to have someone to lean on and to give up part of the business for that value.

And how would anyone's in particular guidance (here) apply anyway? What they are doing is most likely not what your are doing or whatever luck they had or didn't have is not what will happen with you.

> We have been approached already with VC offers, but I am just so hesitant to let someone else in. Sometimes (read: lots and lots and lots of times) something that started as a noble pursuit ends up being corrupted by all of the cooks in the kitchen.

A great big 'it depends'. One thing is for sure in a battle between a well funded company that can afford to experiment and have losses and one that can't (because it's bootstrapped) the well funded company has a super big edge. You know as they say 'all else equal'.

> we do not really need the money or investments as we have some earnings keeping us afloat

Well there you go 'keeping us afloat'. Would you like to not have at least that to worry about?

(My perspective. Back in the day 'pre internet' what I did worked but was not the type of idea that investors would fund. As a result attention had to be paid to every cent spent and every single decision had to be dead on. Was a profitable situation and I sold it. But no doubt having capital and even giving up control would have made things better (but was not possible for a host of reasons). Also today I do various work for startups and I can see the flexibility they have because they can afford to (and this is super important) make mistakes. That is a very very very big advantage that you can't easily do when self funded.
The Modcomp computer, 1970+, had a dynamically programmed instruction set capability using a programmable ROM. It was targeted at applications written for other systems, and for realtime problems that benefited by an instruction set crafted for a specific problem.
Utah arrays overwhelmingly fail within the first year: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868924/figure/...
Would this work with a real wikipedia word. Oops I can't remember call back.
California attempted a zero-emissions rule in 1990, with a target of 5% by 2001. That failed.

Industry has fought this for far too long. Tell that to your grandchildren, if you (will) have any.

For three decades, California has set the benchmarks for auto emission standards. But now, all that may be changing. In a series of recent cases, California's regulations have been challenged in court, not just by the auto industry, but by the federal government....

In 1990, the California Air Resources Board adopted a regulation requiring that 2% of new car sales by 1998. 5% by 2001 and 10% of all large automobiles sold from 2003 onward be zero-emission vehicles (ZEV's) — cars powered by electricity or alternative fuels, like hydrogen....

https://www.pbs.org/now/science/caautoemissions2.html
To be fair, the Godson-3 that this thread is about emulates via a JIT.
The end result is hiring trained developers for the price of trained developers, and sending the inexperienced developers to be trained somewhere else. Where? That's their problem.

See? Looking just for one's interests works both ways.