skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not that's a fair characterization of their justification, that seems like a perfectly defensible justification to me. Most people out there are dealing with legacy code (as in "code I didn't write") and business logic they can't safely rewrite, and it's more important to deliver business value than to build an emotionally-satisfying architecture. And even so, why design for concurrency when the high-level task (loading a web page in a bounded amount of time) doesn't require it? Personally, having a system that scales very well that doesn't need to scale isn't even an emotionally-satisfying architecture.
> A person is within their rights to try and change the company from within before leaving. But, that will likely come with personal costs (right or wrong).

It is generally the opposite. You usually don't have any right to influence, or even sometimes speak about, the company. The right you do have is to suspend your work and go on strike. Companies are free to negotiate collective agreements that prevent worker to go on strike and instead have them complain to their representatives.

Google have opted for another model where there is no agreement. As such it is up to Google to win the trust of their employees.

> If those costs get to be too high, the correct action might be to leave. At a company, the impact of leaving could be much higher than the impact of moving to a different country on politics...

Impact isn't the same as change. If all people who like ice cream leave Google it doesn't make Google (or necessarily any place) better for people who like ice cream. Which is what they would want.

The whole point of taking action is that you think you are right and therefor shouldn't be the one to have to change, or at least not end up worse for it.
Holy cow Elon said a lot of things that will drastically change the world in the next 2-3-5 years. I think it's very, very clear they've been doing a lot of stuff behind that scenes that nobody has given them credit for over these last 5 years. Everyone thought they were just throwing everything at the Model 3 ramp and doing nothing else, but it turns out the opposite is true.

At the end Elon said autonomy is basically their entire expense sheet!

Whether or not Tesla can pull it off is obviously going to be an enormous topic of debate with haters and lovers on each side.

This is super, super exciting. I'm going to grab the popcorn and enjoy watching Tesla try. Whether they succeed or fail I admire them aiming so high, and planning so far ahead.
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried says venture capital funding destroys startups
They probably did expect Google to illegally fire them, but they would be morons not to publicize that Google illegally fired them.
It looks very promising. What text-to-speech engine are you using?
Not sure about Iran, but Israel got support and kind of an open market with silicon valley and it's an isolated part of the ME anyway it's not like an Iraqi dev would casually go to Isreal to work lol, UAE not really special, most of the working force in tech is imported talent so the local circumstances are irrelevant.
In the summarising the results of the TD Ameritrade survery, there is a "Q" number in the bottom left of each results page, e.g., "Q300".

What does this represent?
> I completely agree with you that the world would be a better place if "everyone were to suddenly switch to being vegan." The point is that in aggregate, not much is ever going to change in the short term

How does social change happen? It is slow. But it has been happening. Not only are people becoming vegetarian or vegan, but those options are increasingly seen as valid, occasional choices for meat eaters as well.

> It can thus be assumed that changing the way animals are raised and delivered will have a bigger impact on their well-being, than will those who do not eat meat continuing not to eat meat.

This is a much different argument than you have been making. You're (now) saying people can't be persuaded not to kill animals, so we should do so in a more humane way.

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/08/03/you-m...

Yeah, but that article doesn't exactly undermine our points because the poll was only for 1,000 people, and even then the actual Gallup poll says:

1) Vegetarianism is slightly higher among Americans under 50 than among those who are older.

More younger people are vegetarian. This will shape social attitudes for decades.

2) Sales of plant-based food grew 8.1% in 2017 alone and exceeded $3.1 billion last year, and plant-based alternatives to dairy products are soon expected to account for 40% of dairy beverage sales. [...] it appears Americans are eager to include alternatives to animal products in their diets but are not willing to give up animal products completely.

Every single plant-based product people choose to buy means slightly less demand for animal products.
Robotaxis Are Coming. So Why Are We Still So Unprepared?
It's just not that simple: https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1027702531361857536?...

Rust doesn't have higher kinded types, every closure has a unique type that implements up to three different traits, and it has imperative control flow structures that don't exist in Haskell, et al.

By the time you've solved all these problems, you've moved away from monads to full-blown delimited continuations, one small step away from an effect system. And nobody really knows how to make that work while still providing Rust/C++-like "zero cost abstraction."

It might be nice, but it's not at all clear that it would even be "just one interface" anyway.
Family Comes First
Amazon is out of China not because of CCP but capitalism. If you ever bought stuff from Amazon.cn you would know what I am talking about.
Studies show that children who don't drink animal milk are shorter: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/milk-children-height-1.414983... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15981182; https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/80/4/1088/4690374

Also, "properly nourished" is a weasel phrase here. You see the exact same phenomenon among the U.S.-raised kids of Bangladeshis/Indians/Pakistanis from very comfortable families. The kids are way taller than parents who did not suffer any malnourishment back home. Just because it is theoretically possible to construct a vegan diet that results in the same growth as a diet including meat and dairy doesn't mean it's easy to do so with the kinds of foods readily available in the developing world.
This piece advocates pseudocoding in such a structured, formalized way it might as well be defined in BNF and the engineer should just write directly in the target language (the child of the mating of APL and PL/M?). It seems to me the benefits of using a PDL - placing concept to paper, in loose narrative if need be, and filling in details and structure as the embodiment coalesces in one's thoughts - are lost when straightjacketing this stage of the development process.
Another (lightweight) tool for debugging is the q library: https://pypi.org/project/q/
Debugging python processes running in containers unfortunately requires a bit of setup in VS Code (no idea about Emacs).
Online education can't replace college, yet
Do you have any thoughts on the way more and more software is accessed through the "cloud"? Do you prefer offline apps? Do cloud-based apps cause problems?
So you haven’t gone vegetarian then - you just don’t eat meat a lot.
if you want a say in the policies of your workplace, a traditional corporation isn't the kind of company you should be working for. you explicitly don't have a say unless the structure of the organization gives you that power, which is explicitly the case for cooperative corporations only.

if you want real change, start a cooperative.
It's easier to optimize a working system than it is to get an optimized system working.
It's definitely intuitive to me that most all claims from outside the institution will be mistaken/naive. But, for really big wins that have thus far evaded the institution, what's the likelihood that the solution will come from within the institution rather than from outside? (I'm asking sincerely; I'm not a mathematician, and don't know.)
This is another evolutionary strategy.

In fact, milk and wheat may have compounds, that are addictive.
CLI to pretty-print GELF log lines
Of those, the only one I would say that's actually fairly generic is ipod, but that's also the one that's been relegated largely useless as it's an "also" feature of everything else. I don't event here people refer to their non-iphone as an iphone, or their tablet as an ipad. People have have one of those might refer to theirs, and the class in general this way, but given they are actually in the minority of owners for those devices usually, I definitely don't hear it all that often as the generic term.
I think it was clear enough - it didn't say "Why Turning On HTTP/2 Is A Mistake" or "Why HTTP/2 Was A Mistake," either which would have implied universal badness. The phrasing had me expecting a specific war story, which is what it ended up being.

Besides, I think it's quite reasonable to argue that it's a majority bad idea, even if it's not a universally bad idea. I think many people are probably in the same boat.
US State Comprehensive Privacy Law Comparison
The Soviets did not honor the Geneva convention, as they had not even signed it at the time.

The Germans explicitely suspended its use in their armed forces for the Eastern Front – which is why millions of Soviet PoWs were left to die of starvation in what was basically large cattle pens while Jews or card-carrying Communists were to be shot on the spot after capture.
Amazon isn't near top ever in China, it is like 1-2 percent of the market share.

Not that different than Microsoft sunset their gaming business in Japan
Since it was my first year trying CreditKarma I decided to do my taxes with both CreditKarma and TurboTax to compare. CreditKarma matched TurboTax return amount exactly for me this year. I also found CreditKarma interface easier to navigate and it took me less time to complete. Would recommend over TurboTax (if you're eligible).
I'm not assuming the best, I'm assuming basics. We've just watched a presentation where Tesla put immense resources and talent into designing a state of the art vision processing chip. Do you think they're going to let it be rendered useless by not implementing simple physical measures to keep vision coming in from the cameras? (What measures are already there plus easy opportunity for improvement). Of course not. Such a line of argumentation is transparently bogus. I don't know why the top level commenter's autopilot turned off in the snow but trying to argue that that shows that snow renders cameras useless and makes lidar necessary is stupid. Sorry for the strong language but really, I don't know how else to put it.
This is so true and is why I use "pure" functions where possible. Make it super obvious that a function can be replaced or reused safely and your future counterpart will praise your name to the code Gods.
Even for scientific uses on Infiniband clusters, we used Rocks (which deploys CentOS or RHEL). There wasn't a compelling advantage to using SL, except the year or two about a decade ago when CentOS was in chaos.
Stealing from Peter and donating some of the gains to Paul is not ethical.
It also rejected my Google Voice number.
They explained that in the talk to
That seems like an insane restriction on what you can do with your private property. What are they trying to protect against? People peddling lemons? There must be a better way.
Now that would be an interesting system, if corporations were deprived of the benefits of legal personhood.
I didn't present it well - though I'm not convinced it's quite in Motte & Baily territory. It can after all be perfectly consistent to hold both views (i.e. that society treats people in various gendered ways and favors men over women on average) - you just have to be careful about what you are taking as evidence for what claims.

The original statement is perhaps even more in danger of falling into this and similar logical fallacy - the existence of a subset of disenfranchised men is not evidence against society favoring men generally, while it is evidence against that being universal.
In many parts of Eastern Europe $20-30K USD a year is considered a fairly good salary... but then again there you can rent a place for 300 euros, and everything else also costs a lot less than in West, so that needs to be taken into the account - because after all a profit is income minus expenses, not just the income...
Clever code does not mean simple or readable
Anything from 2k€ - 20k€/month, so pretty varied. This is from very varied backgrounds in different industries (software engineering over caregiver to business consulting), different education levels, and also got to know them in very different ways (high school; job; friend of a friend). All in Germany, which I think is about as secretive about salaries as the US traditionally, but also spread out across all parts of the country.

This is why I thought it might be a generational thing, as that's the only common denominator I was able to make out.
Stream just went offline. Anyone have a link?
Here comes billions of ideological vegetarianism and virtue signaling dollars. Might as well be a charity. Great business model. Lose money forever to chase a shared ideological purpose for the benefit of investor's ideological salvation.

It's like funding of the building of a church for the PETA crowd.
I don't want to get into it but I've dealt with issues like this and I don't think you are terrible or bad at your job. I'm seeing a lot of shade going your way. Sometimes a particular configuration works well until something changes. Just wanted to offer my two cents.
We have way too many deer in our suburban area. It's technically possible to legally hunt in the area, but not practical. The permissions and everything else you need to get are way too onerous. The level of knowledge about the need to manage the deer herd for safety, public health, and deer health is just not there. Every fall the roads are stained with redish brown stains of deer being hit by cars. People get hurt or killed, and their cars get damaged.

Instead, this beneficial activity has been driven underground. We hear the deer being poached at night (when the poachers are using rifles). I imagine the more stealthy poachers are using crossbows.
Developing on iOS and Android
When have you seen taxes on the wealthy actually work or even pass the House or Senate? Again good in theory, but not good in practice. All that is going to do is get the ultra wealthy and corporations to use more loopholes than they already do. Again it is a great talking point, but not something that is realistic. But it'll get all of the people hampered by tuition and student debt to say "yeah stick it to them". I personally still have loads of debt and would be nice to get rid of. Would be nice to see my son be able to go to a public university for free. However, the logistics of it will make it never happen. In fact it would probably affect public universities, and the quality would decline more than it is now.
People like attention, especially if you care about what they're saying and take their needs and frustrations seriously.
> Otonomo’s docs are a systematically written rip-off of ours

> Did none of the over 100 Otonomo employees (according to LinkedIn) think that what they were doing was wrong?

> Today we are taking legal action. We have sent Otonomo a cease and desist, demanding that they immediately stop ripping off our hard work.

Is publicly available documentation protected by intellectual property rights?

Since I'm not familiar with the subject I'm trying to understand the grounds for taking the legal action in this situation.
My maiden name is Irish in origin. At one time, Irish Americans were an othered group. Now, they are just a subset of white.

I have a German immigrant mother with very olive skin. Her skin color is very close to that of some light skinned blacks. But, of course, she's "white" because she's German.

I have been told my father was 1/16th Cherokee.

I tend to not really fit in with white middle class Americans. I never really have. I'm too culturally different from them.

Of course, people of color don't want to claim me as one of theirs. Natives are extremely critical of people like me. I'm not really welcome by them.

I've started checking "decline to answer" the race question when filling out forms. The options they provide just don't seem to fit my reality and there isn't enough space to explain it. If I did, no doubt whoever read it would promptly conclude that I'm white and my discomfort with the question is neurotic and not legitimate.
Sometimes it takes theatrics to get people to care enough about a resource, especially when it is a commons.
It is caused by Control Flow Guard introduced in 8.1, so there's no point testing other versions.
nolo.com for standard contracts. You are welcome to stary a business or an open-source effort to publish standard contract templates.
Not really. The thing with Apple devices is that you can be relatively sure it will work and you only have to test against a couple devices. For Android handsets? Different and vastly larger beast.

There's so much that may or may not work: the USB port must support OTG/Host on the hardware side, which is already a hit-and-miss. The port must be able to supply the power required for the ultrasound. Then the Android stack must support USB OTG - and that must have been properly tested during manufacturing. And then the vendor must have compiled the Linux kernel below Android with support for uvcvideo (which is not standard enabled in cheap phones). Then the CPU and video unit must be powerful enough to run the software with video playback.
Big business is trying to gut California's landmark privacy law
Indeed, Musk has encouraged competitors from the start. I believe they open sourced a lot of their patents in an effort to encourage competition in the electric vehicle space.
Zemskov, Krivosheev, Overmans, Glantz, Goldhagen.
Because my employer does 5% matching. So I put in my 5% and they put in their 5%. I know I should have an emergency fund, I just don't have the means to fund it.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE
Here is the link to the recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE
She was active in organizing the petition drive that successfully pressured Google to keep Kay Coles James off the committee. [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/01/google-ka...

[1] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/04/google-employees-call-on-...

[2] https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/04/leftist-googlers-kay-cole...

[3] https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/05/google-drops-heritage-fou...

[4] https://www.newstarget.com/2019-04-06-leaked-emails-suggest-...
Icefish Study Adds Another Color to the Story of Blood
Doesn't look that much cleaner than try/catch, to be honest.

What I would really like to see in C#:

public int DoThing(int y)
{
//logic
}
catch (SomeException e)
{
//handle things
return 0;
}

This would remove a lot of useless syntactic garbage without the need for any radical changes in the language. (It would translate to try-catch that wraps the entire body of the method.)

But so far I gave up on syntax-level error handling of any complexity. Generally, I just write multiple "agents" and all the error handling, retries and recovery is simply done by separate agent(s). The agent that tries to perform the initial actions simply records that it failed in some persistent storage and terminates or goes on to do something else.
The US has maybe twice the average annual growth rate than Europe, if you compare the S&P500 with EU stock indices.
There is a movie called Waiting, that does a great job of illustrating that era and those type of restaurants.
Korea is even more strategically important to Koreans. And the Japanese have tried to invade or have invaded Korea multiple times.
Companies like Harley-Davidson, Ford, GM, McDonalds, Dominos are running fine in India because they have plenty of local competition and create local jobs.

Walmart, Amazon are seeing resistance because they could potentially put thousand of small business owners out of work.

Boeing, Intel, Corning are doing great business in India because there are no local alternatives.
I've even seen automotive lifts for auto repair shops with Made in USA in red-white-blue decals at local repair shops.

Companies like Visa and Mastercard will see protectionist moves by the government as India goes digital 'cause there is no reason for a foreign duopoly to corner the huge market in India.
FTDI modified the driver for their USB<->RS232 chips so that it would brick counterfeits: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/ftdis...
It's on the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/technology/google-walkout...

Their readership is certainly outside of the HN crowd.
At the tail end of Karpathy's presentation, he said something that reminded me of why Peter Norvig decided to join Google: because that's where the data is. In Tesla's case, they have a unique and likely accelerating advantage in having the best source of data up on which to train their models. I think this forms the basis of an enduring moat relative to their other competitors, none of which are collecting data at the same scale.
We can 100% objectively say this.

Animals like chickens lack self awareness and the ability for future planning. They operate on instinct. We can prove this. Thus, they also don't know what they want--outside of the immediate satisfaction of an instinctual urge.

They do feel pain and hunger however. In the wild, these animals suffer more pain and hunger. In free range "captivity" they suffer less. It's as simple as that.

I swear most of the arguments against proper free range farming are grounded in either:

a) A fallacious appeal to nature, ie. the false presumption that just because something is "natural" it is automatically better
or
b) Projection of human awareness and emotional intelligence onto other species

Are factory farms more cruel to animals than proper free range farming? Yes. Is nature more cruel to animals than proper free range farming? Yes.
How about instead holding schools to account for their shoddy product? Universities routinely sell shoddy degree programs to unsophisticated consumers (18 year olds). They have even enticed the government to guarantee unsecured loans for the products. As a result, the purveyors of these shoddy products have proliferated. Who would have thunk?