skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DA14683 is fantastic. I played a bit with an eval. board and it's really good for it's price vs. features (~$3 for 250 pcs. at Mouser). But soon the idea of releasing code for it as Open Source faded away, since you need to sign an SLA (https://support.dialog-semiconductor.com/connectivity/reques...), that limits the way source code based on their in SDK is released (only to your customer, in an only “need to know” basis). I hate when this happens.

I wonder how the creator of this watch managed to publish the source code, including the Dialog SDK; if there is a backdoor I am missing.
I agree completely, most people overlook the "opportunity cost" of investments. If an investment makes %3 per year but you could invest in something else that makes %4 per year, while you did make profit, you actually lost money, because you missed an opportunity to make an extra revenue equals to %1 of your money (or %33 more profit).
The question is why? It's a $20 movement in a poorly finished case. The most important part of the watch isn't made in the USA. It's a $50 product being sold for $500.

Further, it completely misses the point of what made Timex famous to begin with; excellent quality at a low price. This is neither.

For $500, they are going up against some vastly superior products. For example, this cannot hold a candle to any similarly priced Seiko.

The price is, frankly, insulting. It would be an iffy sell at $50, but at $500, this has complete failure written all over it.
You don't owe the company you work for anything. You worked, in exchange for money. End of transaction. Two weeks is being courteous, sixty days is being ridiculous. See the comment below, where Microsoft guards escort you out two days after giving them two weeks notice. This is not unique to MS. Do companies normally give you 14-60 days to find a new job before firing you? Nope.
i fire people who don’t work for me all the time :)
A two weeks notice is the accepted norm in the US. If you are moving to a new company, they also expect to you start within two to four weeks.

If it takes more than two to four weeks to transfer knowledge, both you and your management are doing it wrong.

You as employee should be cross training and knowledge sharing on an ongoing basis. If you are the only one that understands a process, that means you will be stuck on it forever. The person who puts themself in a position to never get fired also can’t be promoted. From a short term view, you also can never take a vacation without worrying about being called and interrupted because you are the only person that knows how the process works.

On an employer side, you should insist on knowledge sharing and cross training in case an employee “gets hit by the lottery bus”.
No, your attitude is fine. I am OK when somebody corrects me. When they switch to English because they think English will be comfortable for both sides, this is also fine.

It is rolling one's eyes and immediate passive aggressive remarks that I hate, and they are quite common...
As it happened, that was only true for a minority of visitors. Many people would happily punch in an answer to recaptcha v1 to read the article one of their friends sent them, and might not have even known it was to increase the legitimacy of ad clicks.
So according to your logic, lack of apps == gimmicky?
Manufacturing output in the US has more than doubled in the last 3 decades, but the number of jobs in the sector has shrunk from 17.5M to 12.4M [1]

The main reason for this is automation.

I think the right question to ask is how to make the productivity from automation benefit more the workers?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/25/most-americ...
My remote gig has several people who are pretty much digital nomads -- they move around often, travel even more often, and work from various states. We all get paid on the same scale (north-east coast based) so there's no issue; but, how would Gitlab handle this? Change their salary every time they log work from a new location?

Even with that, it seems arbitrary and unbalanced. One person's cost of living paying for a mortgage in the city, raising children, or having college debt is very different from another's renting a 2 bedroom with their partner in midwestern suburbs. You might say that it's not the company's duty to compensate you for the financial impact of the life choices you make, yet they're doing exactly that by adjusting compensation based on the broad geographical area one chooses to work from.

I guess for our situation, the folks on the east coast have the worse deal as their rents/mortgages are higher than remote workers' in other states, but the pay is also competitive for that area so there are still people choosing to be local. On the other hand, if my pay was lower I'd just find work with an NYC or SF based company that is remote or happens to have an office in my metro as they tend to pay higher salaries.
Textile manufacturing is coming back to South Carolina, USA as it's cheaper to produce in SC than in China. Along with favorable trade agreements they're able to access/use South American markets for cheaper as well.

There are fewer jobs than in the past in part due to automation.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article91482...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/04/why-i...
To be fair, this comment would make a pretty good blog post
I'm very much a US American, and shaped by it. But, as a fellow human, talking with people around the world on the Internet, tacking `.us` onto my name might feel like I'm asserting traditional borders between people, when my intent is more warm-fuzzy worldwide fellowship.
Sorry but I don't believe that gathering data is going to be an effective advantage for Tesla over Google. It's an advantage over the bloke off the street and his autonomous driving start up. Google has proven time and again they will brute force problems. Google wanted to have pictures of every single road in America for Google maps. So they did. If that data is useful Google will get it - and they'll be doing it on a standardised platform that collects all the information they need. Meanwhile Tesla has a fleet of cars most of which don't have the most recent sensor suite, and even their most recent sensor suite may well not be enough - at which point they'll need to convince another 100,000 people to buy a new Tesla to get the sensors.
Code formatting does not get poetry to appear reasonable. That's actually the whole issue being discussed.

On the other hand if you don't like each line spaced as a paragraph, as it would be if you try to keep the line structure I. HN non-code text, you can, on HN, use the same convention used everywhere else that it is impossible, impractical, or undesirable to set poetry while preserving the line structure:

“this is a line of poetry / and this is another line / each separated from the next with / a solidus set with space / on either side.”
I always enjoyed this story from Michael Crichton. http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-got-a-b-at-...
I'm confused. Can they copy raw data of iPhones? Even if the encryption is not breakable today, it might be in the future.
Thanks... I'll post it to my blog later today!
The patlive.com service does seem to be the obvious place to track down who their lawbreaking client is. It's a US company, which was probably a mistake. I assume "Will" could have contracted with a service outside the US.

On the plus side, patlive.com charges $1/minute as their cheapest plan. Robodialing them back, with a sufficiently clever script, would be costly for "Will".
Per your last para, isn't that "the train is important to the exam boards recognised interpretation of the poem because ...". Unless the poet makes it explicit then you're making up facts and expecting people to buy that one, likely false, interpretation.

It's simply not useful to anyone except exam paper sellers and politicians who want numbers to put in election material and don't care how many years of other people's lives are wasted to make those figures appear to mean something.

That sort of lame education system needs putting out of its misery.
How many whale-sized harnesses are just floating around in the sea anyway?
If you try to speak Russian, no matter how broken, you will be encouraged and praised by every Russian person out there, no exceptions. The same is with Spanish. With French, it doesn't work this way, for some reason.
Watches are a weird market in that a $30 one from Walmart keeps better time than pretty much any watch from a luxury brand costing $5000 or more. $500 is way more than the average person will spend on a watch but once you get into the watch world a little bit you start to become numb to prices and all of a sudden $500 seems dirt cheap. I don't think this is targeted to a normal person, but the type of people who already own tens of thousands of dollars in watches and will buy this as a novelty with out even blinking. It's a weird and very rich (elitist) market.
Elon Musk learns about Ethereum from Vitalik Buterin, will SEC be after him?
The problem is you're trying to educate millions of kids and you want some common standard to judge them against (to figure things out like college admissions). You can't just say "put down whatever and we'll judge it by how you feel or how I feel".

Besides, you're not testing their artistic abilities, you're testing learning comprehension and and things they learned in English class. Do you know that we're graduating kids who are functionally illiterate? I think that's a bigger problem to tackle than worrying about how poetry is taught to kids.

>The point is that applying this model to art, something which has been essential to the human experience for tens of thousands of years, is a stultification of our culture for no better reason than that we want to measure something.

You say that but what are you basing this on? Just personal feelings?

>I would hesitate to dismiss the damage done by a system that produces questions like these at the societal scale.

I disagree. These are perfectly fine questions. In fact, if you converted to the education system to the montessori-style system that would be disastrous.
> Like everyone, I harbor fantasies about how interesting I am, and if I run into you at the pub, I'll talk your ear off about the places I've been and the things I've done, but if I'm objective about it, none of it is particularly praiseworthy, and it's hardly going to make me stand out to a potential employer. Any attempt to dramatize my life or skills is going to reek of pomposity, even the rare bits that are somewhat unique.

https://fs.blog/2012/07/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-peo...

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.

Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.
As a developer, a very natural choice would be Github Pages and Jekyll [1]. If you're not a fan of having your whole site out in the public like that, you can also use Jekyll locally. I'm sure there's other similar static site generators, but Jekyll is pretty widely used and in my opinion easy to get started with.

[1] https://jekyllrb.com/docs/github-pages/
I don't think it's weird for there to be places with illegal cannabis. I just don't think the 'locals want it' is a valid end of the debate.

For instance we know that inconsistent enforcement of drug laws is a civil rights issue. You could frame an argument against local choice fairly coherently on that point.
So you don't apply VAT to inelastic commodities. We have in fact figured this shit out. Austrian or Keynesian are not the only two choices available to us, despite what some would try to lead you to believe.
I was joking a bit.

I agree with your last statement, and I'd argue as well that if you had the cure to say, cancer, you could charge whatever you wanted for it (at least in the short term). When it comes to money, you just can't take it with you, and you'll spend pretty seriously to improve your lifespan.
> Globalism has brought down prices and made many things very cheap and affordable, but at what cost?

See this oped by James Rebanks, a sheep farmer from England https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/opinion/an-english-sheep-...
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I'm not disputing any facts if they are indeed facts. I am merely pointing out how the public opinion can be shaped to react differently given the same subject wrapped differently.

I am very sure, inspecting phones has, or will at some point in future be used to stop some crime or terrorist attack, but that's not the point here.
I’m a sample of one, but my experience with French people has been much different. As long as I’ve been open about being a beginner (from Western Canada) who badly wants to practice, I’ve actually been quite pleasantly surprised by how hard French speakers work to make me feel comfortable.

For example, just last week, I asked a French speaking couple I know to help me pronounce “de rien”. When I say it, I sound like I dun just gots off the potato patch. They quite literally tag teamed me, one started working on drills to help me roll the ‘r’. Another started making a list of other similar words (so that I could sound stupid across a wider range of vocabulary).

It was quite amazing. But, with the exact same people, if I just speak French without prefacing it with a request for help, they switch to English instantly.
Wave Physics as an Analog Recurrent Neural Network
You're building the AI of the future:

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2018/09/24/trolling-the-ai/
'Own time and own equipment' IP clauses seem bogus to me
I built Kismet (https://findkismet.com) and don't have nearly as much time to spend on it as I'd like.

I would consider selling, but only to someone who wants to continue supporting it for the long term. I'd love a collaborator if anybody is interested!
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Fairbnb: Community Powered Tourism
Most (all?) of their examples in the FAQ are related to corporate drivers, not individuals. Something like Uber would be a bit of a gray area since you use your own vehicle, but all the others are more like DHL and FedEx, where you're driving a company-provided vehicle and there should be no expectation of privacy in regards to how you operate that vehicle.
The Swedish government is and was very cautious to not point fingers without having proof. Getting proof is often hard when it comes to submarines. Unless they get beached on your islands...

According to the article you're linking:
"'NATO subs never entered Swedish waters without being given approval beforehand,' Weinberger said."

Sweden dropped depth charges on these submarines. You think the Swedish government would invite NATO subs just to drop bombs on them?
I don't buy this argument. The things you have to do to support remote workers are the things you should be doing anyway. I am currently in an office gig after 10 years remote and I explicitly tell people to pretend I'm not in the office so they will have to document their conversations with me, and I won't have a conversation where decisions are made outside of the confluence wiki where we keep our project requirements and technical documentation. It works wonders (but I am sometimes viewed as a bit of a monster).
worth mentioning the attr library in this context, which is I think the most popular implementation and inspiration for dataclasses (I think I read the reason it's not in core is to allow it to move faster). My interpretation of dataclasses in the stlib was to put a seal of approval on attr.
He forgot the best two:

Gyros and Villains

Spaghett-about-it
Gifted programs were mostly just designed to segregate white students from minority students.
> then on low volume play a podcast that's interesting enough to listen to but not interesting enough to keep me engaged

I tell anyone who will listen about the podcast "Sleep with Me." Scooter is a master of being just-interesting-enough but in a very soothing voice. For all I know he's hypnotizing me every night because I'm always able to fall asleep long before the episode is over.
Homeopathic. I was shocked too. Hyland's homeopathic teething tablets contained belladonna, and the strength of different batches varied from placebo to lethal.

Most homeopathy is literal water, but there's a section of the market offering low-dilution preparations ranging from 1:10,000 to 1:100. Given the "like treats like" logic, some of the active ingredients are sufficiently nasty to do real harm at 1:100 or lower. And given the exemption from batch-strength testing, some preparations are substantially stronger than intended. (As far as the ear drops, that seems to mostly be a matter of contamination or infection. Which is a secondary harm, but again one that can occur because those companies are exempt from many standard testing practices.)

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-conf...

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-warn...
How about go the other way? Make the patent term much longer, but add a compulsory licensing system that allows anyone to make and sell the drug if they pay a royalty at a rate set by regulation.
With a name like Zigurd, SEO isn't a problem. Nor was registering the .com. A very simple site that points to Amazon and other places with information in context is useful. Google Sites is free and simple, and it is no longer sucky looking and retro. It took longer to do the "do you own this url" dance with Hover's DNS tab for the url than it did to create the site.
The article addresses this: "The only way to not have people in a satellite office is not to have a main office." You need to have no main office to have a remote-friendly culture. Otherwise you have second-class citizens who aren't privy to in-person conversations: even if you have good electronic communications system, people are going to just say stuff in person because it's easier. So if someone's looking for someone from a team to do something, they'll be more likely to pick someone in the office. Otherwise you'll have less attention to whether meeting rooms have working AV. Otherwise you'll keep an expectation of people working synchronously during working hours, and the remote benefit of "if you need to take care of your kids/run errands/etc. and work a little later, that's fine" doesn't materialize: it might be acceptable but it's not normal.

I think if I were applying to your company and I knew that you and your buddies were working together in person and that I was living in a different city, I would be so concerned about being out of the loop on conversations and whether that would limit my career growth that I wouldn't want to work there unless I could move to your headquarters.

(I'm not sure I buy the "room by themselves" argument; I'm quite happy working in coffee shops or libraries. And the article points this out, too. Certainly one thing a company could do with its unspent office budget is reimburse the cost of coworking spaces. But also, the traditional office arrangement before the open-floor-plan fad was that you're working by yourself in an office with a closable door or at least in a cubicle with limited sight / sound. And that seemed to work fine.)
you do know that this is a well known tax avoidance strategy right? The profits would be later used to offset the losses carried forward by the parent.

Are you an accountant/CPA or attorney?
One case 14 years ago that didn’t prevent a terrorist attack is a terrible reason to give up civil liberties
Sure, I am passionate about Russian grammar too, and I used to correct mistakes of native Russians writing in Russian (I stopped doing that when I learned that dyslexia is quite real and common, and I now feel sorry for that).

However, any foreigner trying to speak Russian, no matter how broken or incorrect, will meet nothing but praise and encouragement from other Russians.
It's sad that one of the most fundamental revenue streams for Musk's companies have been government subsidies. I really thought we were past that by now.
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> police encounters

That's a euphemism if I've ever heard one ;)
Conspiracy theory: deliberately fail in order to demonstrate that “Made in America” doesn’t work so they’ll get less criticism about manufacturing elsewhere.

More realistic: fleece suckers who think “Made in America” make it worth spending $500 for a $50 watch.
That means the graph questions were only really relevant for the position where you maintain a graph based API. They were completely irrelevant for the other positions.

My guess is, even after working with graph algorithms for awhile, you still needed more than 20-30 minutes to make implementation changes and still needed to have a reference to look at while doing so.

I know for a fact graphs are quite useful. I also know complex algorithmic questions during an interview for most cases are also not useful. The fact you obtained the position and were able to adapt and still manage graph structures shows that those questions didn't gauge your fundamental abilities. Maybe you didn't hit the ground running day one, but after a little bit of learning/practice, you were fine under reasonable delivery conditions.
Actually I don't entirely agree. There are many actually interesting government projects that may not pay great but will certainly impress interviewers who just implement button x on app y. It's not as hard to move out as you would think.
I feel like it is the end of the responsiveness debate. I don't like dry counties, either! I drink like a fish!
I agree and I just so happen to have built a Jekyll theme for personal sites that’s kinda good for hackers & nerds and is available here: https://hydejack.com/ (it’s based on the Hyde Jekyll theme)
>then give them a piece of technical writing, and then ask them whether the nuts should be screwed tight before or after the wooden pieces are put in their slots.

And I'm sure they do get technical writing samples to analyze. Also poetry. Why? Why not! Why not, vary it up a bit. They could have done the same exercise with Rap lyrics.

Again, I'm not sure what the problem is?

>They want to PRETEND to be testing ability at deep literary criticism.

I think you need to manage your expectations. Kids aren't going to give you 'deep literary criticism'.
The effect of running on my happiness
0.1% has business meaning, as does -1000%, for what it's worth.
ordinarily I would say the same but if the service seemed valuable I would be okay with solving a captcha
"I pressed it because a number 2 was imminent."
The whole "golf friends" thing doesn't make sense to me. I go to play golf to play golf, not find friends there. That seems to be unpopular opinion, but seriously, why do we mix those things up?

My point being, why do we do bother to do anything with friends? If you're going to do something, whether it be work or play golf, isn't it better with friends than with strangers?
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That doesn't mean its worth it. There is always a tradeoff and I would rather live in a world where I know I am free from surveillance than a world where I am .000001% safer or criminals are caught 10% faster.
Full reports hints that they can already read data from iPhones too:

Highlighting the potential value of data from mobile apps, a recent murder
investigation in Germany utilized metrics from the apps on individuals’ phone. In
that case, Apple’s iPhone health app activity record stated that the suspect was
“‘climbing stairs,’ which authorities were able to correlate with the time he would
have dragged his victim down the river embankment, and then climbed back up.

I'm not sure if the data comes from physical access to the phone or from asking service providers.
How are you any more of a risk after you let them know of your intent to leave than before you let them know? You had an intent to leave the minute you started looking for a job.

If you wanted to harm the company, you wouldn’t have given them notice.