skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way your comment came out made it sound like you don't know how the world works and that you would jump into supporting legislation that can have strong negative unintended circumstances (e.g. Farmers and miners in BC lose their jobs because they are not competitive due to the legislation you supported).

That does not mean you shouldn't look for legislation and solutions to ameliorate the issue, it just means that if you haven't done it already, you will need to think a lot harder with regards to the consequences.
Regarding the negativity towards Tesla: IIRC the specific author, Edward Niedermeyer, has had this same type of tone before (which is why I remember). So I'd say this is not representative of some general attitude, but of this particular guy.
Don't have proven techniques, but have been toying with an idea I'd like to try the next time I have the chance.

Have been thinking of starting a "farm team" to develop green programmers. Have a meetup once or twice a week, work on a focused project together, do mutual code review. Read the classics (e.g. the MMM) as homework.

Perhaps give out some Amazon gift cards for good work. When a participant levels up, move them to a paid role.
America Bad
I like email more than Slack for asynchrounous communication, Signal more than Slack for one-on-one or small group and IRC better than Slack for bigger groups or topic based conversations.

I tried to like it. I am a young person for whom IRC and Email seem very oldfashioned. But hey, it works and doesn't get me distracted.
Driving through airport terminals is possibly one of the most chaotic possible environments, with people almost suicidally throwing themselves in front of you, not to even speak of the cabs, double lane parking, security guards telling you to move and other things. It's probably one of the harder environments to automate for outside of inclement weather.
I bet you can stick a snow plow on one of these:
https://products.rivian.com/
YouTube takes 45% of the ad revenue in a video, the creator of it takes 55%. If a video is demonetized then it won't have ads on it. This means that YouTube won't make any money on that video. It's in YouTube's best interests not to demonetize videos. They do it, because they want to avoid bad PR and avoid advertisers from doing yet another boycott.

I don't see how YouTube is not giving away half of their ad revenue. Note that even when a video is "unsuitable for advertisers" the creators still get paid by YouTube Red.
Agreed. That's what I meant by long-term, I should have been more clear.
Yes.

And the whole practice of huge scary obtrusive modal-like dialogs (that tint the background so you can't even read it normally) are the cheap tricks used by sites to incentivize you to consent to tracking. So, it's almost certain that those are not compliant. They replace the fundamental function and purpose of the site with a fake choice.
That's a good point. One of the places I worked hired a ton of juniors and placed them under "senior" team leads, but the leads were too few, not exactly all-stars, and code quality was all over the place. I tried to have a positive influence on some of the eager new hires, with varying success (mostly because I wasn't very senior either, just a little further along than they were).

Eventually the environment became frustrating enough that I had to move on. Great people, really friendly environment, and even a product I believed in, but it felt so bad to keep having to read through awful, giant, bug-ridden code reviews with the same old rookie mistakes. I only had enough influence within my own team to slow the rate of bad code entering master, but it still came alarmingly fast. I think nobody from my team is still at that company. I really hope management has turned it around since.
Question for current/previous Amazon employees: How much of that compensation is likely due to stock rewards vs salary?
Again, not saying the problems are easy, and that Tesla hasn't had success, I'm just saying in the case of the self driving car, novelty WILL define success. I'm saying this is a different category of problem for Tesla to solve compared to others.
The title is a bit hyperbolic, since obviously we sometimes hire great developers, but I agree that a focus on mentorship and growing engineers is critical.

There are simply many more new engineers than there are senior ones, and high quality teams are able to get much better productivity out of these junior people because they're better at teaching them. I see a bunch of people in this thread suggesting that their new developers are often a drain on productivity for a year or two. This suggests to me that their teams are not very good at training.

I've hired and managed quite a few junior engineers, and I've generally been successful at turning them into productive members of the team within a couple of months (or even a few weeks when I'm lucky and the person is very strong). I think perhaps the most important ingredient is to trust them, and to encourage measured risk taking. They need to feel safe to explore and make mistakes, and you need to have a robust safety net (via CRs, unit tests, integration tests, etc...) so that it doesn't cause customer impact. I'm a big fan of giving new developers real tasks almost immediately; treat them like professionals and I find that they tend to start acting like professionals.

People who don't feel safe don't learn well. You need to develop a culture of it being okay to ask questions, okay not to know things, and okay to make mistakes. If this culture is missing then you're going to fail to grow people into great developers.
Ahh, I actually understand the hit pieces. There is a lot of money to be made on Shorts if Tesla fails. I just don't understand the community of people who some how make being anti-Tesla a part of their identity.
Your defense against Tesla’s missed deadlines is that its CEO is busy doing things with his other companies? The Obama administration also “shepherded” the massive EV subsidies that Tesla baked into its pricing.
Are they given time during normal work hours to grow? Are they given adequate assistance and resources? Is training a priority?

I've run into two different situations in my work life:
a) You should learn new tech and keep up, but it's all on you, your own time and discretion (outside of work). It was expected to do project work 100% of the time on the job.
b) It's expected for you to learn and grow and we will help you get there. $ for training/conferences. It's expected that you will spend a decent amount of time out of your 40 hr work week improving yourself and learning new tech.

In situation A, I would have been (I was!) labelled as someone who lacked the will. It was hard to put in a full day and do more at home, learning new stuff. I still did it, but it was difficult. I was burnt out by the time I left that job.

In situation B, I feel like I can live a normal life. I can learn, do my projects (I'm more productive), and go home at night and enjoy my time off and weekends. I feel like a normal person living their life.

Work/life balance is highly underrated.
It's likely that your lifestyle requires mineral extraction workers to live in BumPhuck, B. C., along with those that support them. They're not necessarily living out there just for the wide open spaces, that's where the valuable rocks live. We all play our part, and we're in this together.
Others have mentioned the downside of having venture capitalists hanging around, wanting an "exit" -- a way to get their money back tenfold or so.

A couple of other observations:

1. VCs only crowd around trying to invest in you when you don't need the investment. If you actually needed more capital to keep going, they'd be hard to find.

2. they'll make your ownership structure more complex. Read about cap tables, preferred shares, and participating preferred shares, to learn a bit more about this. All the complexity favors them, not you.

A suggestion: if you need an investment in your enterprise business, ask one of your customers to invest, or to pay for some development that benefits them. Enterprise customers do this. And they're far more patient than VCs.

Another suggestion. Think of your businesses as businesses. Unless you're looking for a quick exit, you have more in common (in terms of bookkeeping and finance) with a local bookstore than you do with a typical VC-funded startup.

Ask yourselves these kind of questions:

Are you making enough money to meet your expenses and payroll? Are your customers happy? Do you like making and selling your product / service? Do you want to keep doing it for a few years into the future? If the answer to these questions is "yes" then great.

Looking to the future:

Need for funds: Will you or a partner need to take some money out of the business at some point to pay a big bill or two (college fees for kids and the like)? If so, how will you manage that?

Succession: What if you and/or a partner wants to retire? Are you funding 401Ks for yourselves and your employees?Can you sell the business, or have a younger family member take over?

A final suggestion. There's an outfit called SCORE.org. Use them. They're affiliated with the US Small Business Administration. "Service Corps of Retired Executives." They offer free (yes, really, free) and confidential advice to business owners. You can ask general questions like "here are our books, what do you think?" or specific questions "How can we get new customers in Europe?" "We're growing and need to move, how can we make sure we get treated fairly?" and "We want to sell the business in ten years; how can we prepare for that?"

I've volunteered for SCORE and can vouch for both their cost (0) and their confidentiality. My fellow volunteers were really wise folks; I learned a lot from them. We were NOT ALLOWED invest, or even offer to invest, in the businesses who used us. And the NDA we signed has teeth. It was with the feds; the FBI has been known to go after SCORE people who abuse the trust of their clients.)
I recommend you try Figma, as it addresses and solves most of the gripes in your post.
An analogy: Server farms are far more efficient than doing the same workload on laptops scattered around the countryside. Centralized energy production and pollution control is likewise more efficient.
> an auto-car that crashed at a rate 1/10th of humans

This is incredibly generous assumption, especially given the fact that cars with advertised Autopilot features, like Tesla's offerings, actually make accidents more likely[1][2]. Compared to the driver fatality rate in other luxury vehicles, Tesla's offerings nearly triple driver fatality[3].

This is like theorizing about a car that survives 99.9% of all impacts at any speed. It doesn't exist, nor is there any indication that it will exist, and it doesn't serve a purpose other than to prop up a contrived argument.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/in-2017-the-feds-said-t...

[2] https://driving.ca/tesla/model-s/auto-news/news/iihs-study-s...

[3] https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...
Infinite number of quantum particles gives clues to behavior at large scale
The goal of a dictionary is to be a reliable indicator of actual usage, so an authoritative dictionary is a bit of a contradiction. Almost all English linguists reject that sort of prescriptivism.

Meaning that the opinion of the experts is that a word's "true meaning" is however it is commonly understood by the people using it.
Huawei regularly figures in the largest contributors to the Linux kernel. How concerned are you now?
In the US the jury is merely sequestered off from all electronics to prevent this in trials that seem to be taking this sort of turn, and then the media is free to report whatever they want. The public has a right to know that some has or has not been arrested. How are people supposed to contest or protest a arrest that is made in secret that the press isn't allowed to report on?
I always have difficulties with drivers on linux. Never on Windows. Until they fix that I cannot use anything other than windows as my base system. I don't care if linux handles things slightly better
My point is Bitcoin isn't designed to be a communication network, so the tradeoffs it makes aren't educational for those just interested in communication networks.

A more educational example might be the design of Bitmessage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage
I've only recently installed cams (front and back) on my bike. I hadn't felt the need, but a couple of weeks ago a friend of mine was pelted with eggs while he was riding.

I decided that being able to gather evidence and, if lucky, license plate numbers, is not the worst idea.
I was going to say the same thing. Lower Mainland? That could work.

Price George, BC? Yeah, no.
I know there's no "real" difference between archive.org and other sites, but I think of it more as a museum or library than a publication.

Feels very strange to demand a museum or a library to destroy items in their collection.
It does imply that. Multiple concurrent scheduling algorithms is nothing new, Linux and MacOS both support per-thread algorithm selection.
I think this might actually be a good thing long run. Regulation forces decentralization until you reach the equilibrium where playing whack-a-mole ceases to be cost effective. If YT didn't have regulatory capture, the easy answer would be another YT clone startup. Now the solution is a protocol rather than a platform. The protocol can't be made illegal because it's not inherently against the law but if someone uploads something illegal to their node/whatever, that's on them.
That would be the case if one read such postings literally.

It is best to disregard the bullshit in job postings and just apply if you can demonstrate some proficiency with some key skills. Or better, make contact with someone in the organization before applying.

It's not about meeting the job description. It's about being better a better choice than the competition.
About the Book: Why Cryptocurrencies?
Lollllzzz

I would love to read a legal opinion that freedom of the press only applies to literal physical printing presses.
Perhaps, although I think full self driving will be how my kids develop. They crawl, they walk, they observe, they mimic, they vocalize, they can associate faces with people. They've become inquisitive. They reason. They update their world model with input. Slowly, but eventually, become a full blown adult. But there is no switch that causes it to happen overnight, and I think full self driving will be the same. You will see a feature here (lane keeping), a feature there (red light detection), an improved feature (automatic emergency braking reliably using the camera and structure from motion to assist front facing radar in discriminating potential obstacles), and all of a sudden you find yourself in a full self driving car (just as one day I'll look at my kids and think, "you're people now!").
It's worth reading. It will remind you of the rule of law; that we all should follow the laws because it makes society better. You can speed your car down the road and there is no mechanism to prevent you from breaking the limit, but most people don't do this because they respect speeding laws and why they were created.

Same thing here. Yes GDPR has no mechanism to enforce these things. It's up to everyone to respect the law and enforce it upon themselves. If you don't respect laws, then you don't respect 'em, simple as that. Eventually, you will get caught.
Compact cars (Tercel, Escort, Civic, etc) were getting 40mpg in 1990. If it weren't for the perpetual safety arms race making vehicles fat we'd likely have crossovers that get a real world 40-50mpg by now.
I see where you're coming from but I disagree on a few points. I work as a UX designer, designing web UI. I should understand and consider how the design will flex when the browser is resized (and understand what's possible). I have a good understanding of what will be trivial to implement versus what will require an extra week of development for little gain. I need to understand how the web works so I can think about how the site will work on a bad connection, how it will work when the request times out, how the data that powers the site is shaped and the implications of that.

The web is my medium and how can I effectively design for the entire experience (not just how it looks) if I don't understand how the web fundamentally works?
Posting videos of death, gore, kiddie porn, targeted bullying, fascist propaganda, trying to incite genocide, rape and other violence.

The idea that we should allow sites that are marketed to the general public to be unmoderated is completely ridiculous.
Great idea, however would be great to see an option which used the dataset but did not upload your data.

I've read the "FAQ Why must IoT Inspector upload the data to Princeton?" and do understand the reasons for data collection, maybe once it reaches a data saturation point this new option could be introduced (I believe there is a “Start/Pause Inspection” button but that seems to only temporarily pause collection).

Naturally, there's going to be some reluctance in using and deploying a tool that uploads data to an outside party.
That's quite interesting! I always wondered why there was a "tingliness" when I ran my fingers lightly over the top of my laptop when it was plugged in, good to know.

It is a little concerning that this was with my Asus Zenbook, which comes with a 3-prong power adapter...!
This sounds like a wonderful idea in a business culture not obsessed with burning tomorrow to a crisp for more return today. Not to mention this requires trust and loyalty, both rendered cruel jokes by the all-against-all knife fight that our (in the US) labor market is.
Matrix is hacked, hacker leaves friendly post-mortem on GitHub
I wish Google would let individual users upgrade to GSuite Business to try these tools, rather than forcing the whole organization to upgrade. The pricing model is impractical.
Bad things happening all over the world less and less is uplifting and we should be more optimistic because of that.

Well, I think this is pretty bad advice for times when things keep on getting worse, and it is all about perception. Feelings are pretty subjective and asserting that some objective numbers ought to change someone's perception of the world is not helpful. Maybe it is what floats your boat, nit necessarily everyone else's.
I expect a billionare to say he needs his workers to have no free time and do nothing but work. Why? It makes him more money. It does not forward the aspirations of the workers, it just becomes a race to the bottom that the workers lose on. This is good for the already rich, because it makes them richer. This "996" encouragement from the rich is just an expression of their desire for others to help make them richer and others poorer.

In short: This is the avarice of Ma speaking, and nothing else.
GM didn't take any money for those cars did they? FSD is scammy vaporware, and they are selling it now. Tesla is a dishonest company run by a narcissist.
They're both assholes, so definitely possible.
There are probably a dozen papers of this magnitude published each month across the sciences with multiple authors and github repos.

Which of them have you dug into before? Any of them?
I am very wary of making this about respect or the individuals in the company who didn't grant you better compensation. It's toxic for yourself and if other people find out you think that way it can spoil relationships. Never underestimate how the people you work with at your old jobs can end up being stepping stones to bigger and better things later on.

I believe no one in my management chain could have done significantly better. They had their budget and even if they had moved things around in my favor it would have just been a different level of inadequate.

Structurally the entire industry is biased towards preventing you from achieving what I call equilibrium. Equilibrium is where you can't leave your current job for a >10% raise.

I believe it's just a cost saving measure (assuming the ability to pay exists which it may not) and the industry has decided that the average wage suppression is more valuable then the cost of the turn over it creates. I'm not going to pass judgement on whether they are right or wrong.

Ability to pay is a big factor. Most of my prior employers could only offer a fraction of what I currently make.
They have dangerous thoughts and they express them.
The Nordic model shows that it is possible to have a highly unionized workforce with free higher education, free healthcare, and social welfare. They have been very effective in fighting poverty this way.
Is running a forum a purely personal activity? I'm not so sure. It certainly won't be if you have any third party services running on it.
Meaning just how awesome email and Excel are!
This is depressing. Are we just going to erase chunks of history because we don't like it?

Hopefully the Internet Archive can at the very least simply mark some of the content as "non-servable" or something but continue to archive it for historical or research purposes. I'm not sure how that fits in with censorship, libel, copyright, or right-to-be-forgotten laws, but hopefully the restriction is just on showing the data, not storing it.

When we have time for cooler heads to prevail, hopefully this content can be resurrected once the information is no longer as timely or relevant.
Thank you for pointing this out. We decided years ago that people shouldn't be involuntarily exposed to smoke, which is carcinogenic and psychoactive. People were fine with it for tobacco, because smoking isn't really "cool" any more. Now all the young, "cool" people want different rules so they can smoke whenever and wherever they want to.
whatever gets them to stop recommending me BEN SHAPIRO [EVISCERATES / DEMOLISHES / LEAVES SPEECHLESS] LIBERAL [PROFESSOR / SMART PERSON / SPEAKER] OVER [SOMETHING BEN IS CLEARLY WRONG / TROLLING ABOUT] videos.
Scroll down to Features on the linked page..
The whole purpose of tools is to make craft accessible to more people. It's perfectly logical not to expect a designer to excel without knowing what they're designing for, but to expect tools to aim for that goal. How much knowledge has to be "in the head" vs. "embedded in the tool" can be debated, but the direction where things generally go seems pretty obvious.
This is a real thing. I’ve experienced it myself. I tried to explain that the email client may reorder them, etc.
Yeah - I should strike 'nobody' from my vocabulary in most cases. I meant most people.
You can get from one coast to the other entirely on a single interstate highway (e.g. I-80), and do it in dry weather and clear conditions. It's the easiest possible thing for an autonomous car to do and is basically just adaptive cruise control.

The hard part is making it work with crazy cyclists on city streets and blizzard conditions and defending against malicious adversaries who purposely try to confuse the car into crashing into something.
That argument is exactly what slanderers say when they know their target didn't say something that the slanderer wants to attribute to them, to distract from the complete lack of any evidence of their target having said it.
>They already have cars driving people 95% of their miles, which would've seemed impossible 6 years ago, and yet here we are, and the last 5% is going to take a decade?

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."
It really wouldn't. YT makes a big deal about vanity metrics like "10,000 hours of video uploaded per hour" (or something like that), but the 80-20 rule still applies.

A giant chunk of uploaded content is never even watched.
> "full autonomy" means lots of different things to different people.

And don't doubt that Elon/Tesla use this to their fullest advantage.