skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Google Cloud, that may be true but 1) they took way too long to figure out what an opportunity it represents and 2) in terms of internal culture and external reputation they are not well suited to take advantage of the opportunity.

The former includes things like not being good at enterprise sales, the history of allowing employees to veto customers, and ADD induced by the wacky promotion system. The latter includes a legion of techies burned product shutdowns and abandonments that will never, ever believe that google really cares about back compat and long term support no matter what kind of contract language it puts out.
I'm the one who map escape to capslock.
Since my capslock doesnt usefull at all !.
I work with thermal imaging cameras. The rules are very specific on what can be exported, but it's not a blanket ban. I've asked FLIR for CAD documents before and they just sent them. The actual technology inside the systems is very hush hush though, very difficult to find anything publicly.

Basically anything below 9fps is fine to send anywhere except countries on the USA naughty list.

Anything above that can be exported with minimal effort to countries on the USA "nice" list (called STA). If you're in a non "terrorist" country, but not in the friendly group you can apply for an export license which isn't particularly onerous.

There are specific exceptions for high resolution cameras, high speed cameras, cooled options and so on. That's not to say you can't export them, but you need additional clearance.
They're investing in R&D - except people on the outside can't see what. Keyboard,Notch,Airpower - where is the money going exactly? on the credit card? ipad is slimmer i guess

They're not pinching pennies - except they're obviously pinching pennies across the board, no long cable in macpro box anymore, no headphone dongle in iphone box anymore, no extra tips in apple pencil case anymore etc etc.No product recall on the garbage keyboard design is another penny pinching move imo, they've lost so much goodwill coz of that garbage design.

I think the reality is quite different from what you're painting. They're cash bloated and dunno where to go because they've painted themselves into the "we're the best" corner
I know what you mean but I think the opposite: It IS unsafe to have warrantless government searches on your phone.

Once people get used to that what's next? Since we have your phone open, just go and pop your Gmail credentials in there for us why don't you? Your phone was in your pocket so what else do you have in there? Keys, what do they open? etc...

It's a slippery slope and the reason we have checks and balances.
And it's so vague and broad too.

It's laughable that "Data analytics technology -> Visualization" (which, on the face of it, could include the dashboard I built to show which clients have been billed properly this month) appears on the same list as "Advanced Materials -> Adaptive camouflage".
It makes no sense. That's why I'm calling attention to the absurdity of it.
Earning more revenue =/= maximizing company value

The benefit of cofounders has a doing more with fewer resources and having more diversity of opinion (making fewer long-term mistakes).
Ah yes, that makes sense now. Thank you.
Not when it gets compiled from scratch all the time, or is open to spaghetti code modifications.

Modular code in subdirectories is what gave microservices an excuse against the "monolith".
Learning morse code directly from audio is absolutely essential. Once you have learned all the characters by sound, I found it helpful to listen to code at a faster level than you can handle. You will miss characters, but I found it speeds up your ability to copy well. For example, back when I was taking morse code tests for licenses, I would listen to code at 20 wpm to prepare for the 13 wpm test and 30 wpm to prepare for the 20 wpm test. The tests seemed easy. BTW, I cannot read morse code without making the sounds in my head from the visual representation.
Fortunately writing home brew for old consoles keeps my wits up about this.
Ok but, what's the byte size of 10MLoc, and how many process executions per build - since these were actually the metrics used. My experience is that lines of code don't actually take up that much space.
I think this type of work is much better evidence for the claim of cultural homogeneity from the article: The photo series are all taken within short time windows of a couple of hours in the same location.

Instagram on the other hand contains billions of pictures from multiple locations taken over long periods of time. It is only natural to find some repetition and much harder to argue how much of that repetition can be attributed to lack of creativity.
I prefer 52G. I guess it's not less keys since you're hitting shift, though.
Sure, but just to be more structural about allowing people to work from home and to collate shipments from multiple senders to a single recipient (like we used to do...) would already cut down tremendously on un-neccesary mileage.

A very large percentage of the jobs out there could be done just as effective from home as from an office.
European universities dismal at reporting results of clinical trials
Clicking on the "public comments" link on the federal register page provides some interesting reading.

Facebook was fairly agitated about the impact of some of the proposals on the PyTorch project.

The director at CSET pointed out its kinda a wasted effort to try to censor source code in 2019.

Uber claims that broad classification doesn't work anyway for developing tech as a general rule by the time it can be classified accurately its no longer developing tech, and classifying the result of government sponsored research grants would work a lot better than first amendment violations ever would, anyway.

Any inaccuracy at summarizing a position above, is my failure, not the failure of the corporate comments, etc blah blah.

General public comments on a govt proposal are more interesting reading than either the proposal OR general public social media comments. I actually learned a few things about PyTorch because of this. Interesting stuff.
It's a bit unfair to accuse languages which predate Nix by decades of "reinventing" anything.
All of those sound like someone hasn't really listened to you tell your story and your desires, and taken the time to apply their own deep insights on what is important to you.

In other words, listening first, finding out what matters to you (not them) and caring about what you care about.

I don't know many people who will do that, but I know a few(†), so I'm inclined to think it's that you haven't built up a useful enough network, or to put it a different way, made enough good and insightful friends.

(†) Most of them not in IT.

1 and 3 also have the clue word "just", that says someone is shrugging off the enquiry.

Even if you got one of those three responses, it would be a fine in a conversation, if you had the time with them to explain why the initial response is mismatched to your goals, and that idea was developed with further conversation.
I am looking at this from Europe, and when I read things like this I feel like the US have not realized that their standing on the international scene has changed in the last 30 years.

Most of the research and advances in the technologies listed has not been made in the US, and even when it has it often hasn't been mostly by US nationals.

You were the country that defined globalization, and now you refuse to see the state of the world and actively harm yourselves with protectionist decisions like this. You have already lost business with regulations like Cloud Act, and now China is quickly eating your share of the pie.

You still have a major influence in the West because of two things: capital, and the historical fact that the large market leaders in tech which control distribution (Google, Apple, Microsoft) are American. Would you bet this will still be the case 20 years from now? I wouldn't if I were you.

I know a lot of the Americans here on HN probably do not agree with a lot of what their current government does, but still. Export controls don't work except to cut yourselves out of entire markets abroad and foster the adoption of competitors to your domestic companies. I don't understand how this is a viable long-term strategy.
Hope you're as well as can be expected given the circumstances.

> Being single founder has it's merit, but when things go south with your health or anything personal; you'll loose your company.

I've been a solo and co-founder before.

Yes, in the early days you can't afford to hire staff. It's all on you as a solo founder and the risk (incl. burnout) is high.

But, as soon as the company is doing ok, you can and should hire an employee to shoulder some of the responsibilities a cofounder would otherwise take on.

Just because their compensation is weighted more towards cash than equity doesn't mean they can't be just as effective.
conda is not bad as a generic package manager for this sort of stuff (packages don't have to be Python although that's what it was initially aimed at).
What do you mean "a legitimate need"?

Why do people need paint in more than one or two colors? Why do people need multiple styles of clothes, beyond a "summer uniform" and "winter uniform"? Why do people bother to maintain both vi and emacs when only one is necessary?

Most of the time, any tape will do, but sometimes you want the perfect paisley to complement your wrapping paper choice. Since most people don't care most of the time, most stores that sell tape won't have more than one or two kinds, so you go to a specialty retailer to find the unusual stuff for unusual circumstances.
I don’t know how else to say this: I think Tether might lie about what composes that 74%.
This comment made my day. :)
“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
As with individuals, the measure of a society is how they treat those with no power over them.
We've been here for nearly two years now, but when I was interviewing with the intent of moving to the US I was very direct with employers about our insurance requirements to make sure her quality of care would not be reduced. I turned down some better offers because their insurance was worse (one company would've required her to move to a known-worse treatment until she demonstrated it didn't work for her. This escalating method of treating her condition is well known to have much poorer long-term outcomes but it's cheaper).

Re avoiding treating people with chronic conditions, my understanding is that used to be a (state-by-state) thing that the ACA federally outlawed. We live in NYC where the state had already outlawed it, so even if the ACA is rolled back we should be fine.

We have very good insurance atm. I would go so far as to say, ignoring the general craziness of dealing with the US system and the occasional billing frustration, we have better coverage now than we did in Australia because _almost everything_ is covered (even most things Australia would consider "elective" and hence one would pay for out of pocket). We pay a token $1/month for premiums because law says we have to contribute and my employer pays our deductible. As long as we stay in-network we have basically no out of pocket costs.

If I lose or leave my job I have to find a new one and transfer my visa within 30 days, or leave the country within another 90 days after that. There's a thing called COBRA which allows you to pay a relatively low fee (iirc it's ~$700/m) to continue with exactly the same insurance post-employment for a short period (I think 9-12 months? Unsure exactly). Otherwise we'd just move back to Australia. We're both Australian citizens and we aren't really interested in making the transition to being US permanent residents.
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I have a Garmin Fenix 5 that has this and lasts 2 weeks on a charge.

https://explore.garmin.com/fenix/
Happy to, but I've no way to ping you?
That herring is so red it may as well be a cooked lobster. The overwhelming majority of medical care is not urgent care. The overwhelming majority of medical costs are costs that can be foreseen long enough in advance to shop around. Even if you think you might have skin cancer you're still in a position to choose where you go to get your tests.
My parents are essentially zero/negative. Totally unprepared. Similarly, the wife's parents are totally unprepared, but one of them earns a pension.

Meanwhile, I'm nowhere near standard retirement age and am in the 7 figures. Not going to repeat the mistakes of the prior generations.
I know, I just think they would lie about it. It’s not like they have had any qualms about lying continually.
> We can't go back to non-mechanical sources of power unless we want to economically regress to those times.

I really don't see why not.

> Can you imagine ships taking months to cross Atlantic? Can you imagine horse being used for delivery?

Yes I can. I can also imagine less shipping by producing more stuff locally.

> Can you imagine horse being used for delivery?

No, but I can imagine deliveries to be much more efficient than they are today. Just for one anecdotal example, last week I ordered two memory modules for a NAS, they arrived in two different shipments. Even a moments' reflection would have shown the ridiculousness of partial shipments, for one that particular NAS needs its memory incremented in double banks, for another, you'd have to do two upgrades even if it worked. So two different DHL trucks had to drive a significant distance in order to deliver two very small (less than 30 grams each) devices. The inefficiency there is staggering.
Seriously, how is the penalty only $46 million? Should be multiple billions of dollars. And the employees who faked the tests should be in prison.
I imagine poor is a measurement of quality rather than personal wealth here. MacBook keyboards with the touchbar come to mind.
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Your shrill comment is emblematic of the problem it laments.
And this is related how to your original post?

(To be honest, you give the impression to blame the rejection on your skin colour when the alternative option is less comfortable: Someone thought you're not qualified to do the 'f#*ck!ng job')
Over the years I've had a personal site that focused on my portfolio and skills, and eventually I would have the desire to blog and feel out of place writing about non-technical things. So I just switched the focus of my personal site. Now the homepage is a grid of blog posts, but all of my work is still readily available on other pages. I like to write about whatever interests me, not just what I "should" write about considering my technical profession.
Fortunately there’s a natural experiment of precisely this: drug ads targeting consumers were illegal until 1985. The result has been an explosion in drug prices; the ads were used as a way to try to go around any pricing constraints.

I worked for a time in pharma and believe me direct to consumer was seen as a boon to profit margins, not a constraint.
70% or so of all the daily commutes, and maybe 30 to 50% of all delivery van movements? The impact of that would be huge.
I don't know common sense? Honor? Respect perhaps?
A lot must depend on the type of business. For example the solo founders could be launching KFC franchises while the teams are trying to reinvent air travel or some such.
I agree with you, as I cannot see, for example container ships or Australian Road Trains [0] converting to electric anytime soon. Also what about freight trains in remote parts of the world?

EDIT: freight trains are for the most part electric, they just carry their own diesel-powered power plants with them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
The three pitfalls TFA mentions are the reason why I enforce the following rules around operations automation at my company:

1. Only that should be automated what can be done manually.

Before automating something, a sysadmin must be able to manually carry out the same operation. If they do not understand how it works, without using someone else's scripts, they are ineligible to administrate it.

2. What has been automated should always be doable manually.

After something has been automated, a new sysadmin should be able to read the automation code and re-do the steps manually. Maybe not at the full scale of repeating actions manually on every server, but enough that if the automation tools are irrecoverably lost they can be rebuilt from knowledge.

This also serves as a test for adequate documentation in the automation code. A new sysadmin should not have trouble figuring out why a certain thing is done a certain way in the scripts.

3. What happens, even when automated, should not be hidden from the sysadmin

Even in full auto, what's going on is always visible, so a sysadmin can jump in (i.e., go full-manual) at any step. This was one of our earliest rules, because we (me & my teammates) wanted to be able to debug without friction if anything went wrong. Also, it looks cool(er).

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As a guiding principle behind how we automate operations, we assert that no amount of automation is replacement for a sysadmin's skills; it replaces only manual, error-prone effort.
Former Theranos scientist: Elizabeth Holmes should come forward and apologize
Did they buy it on Amazon?
My maybe-controversial view is that peace and the removal of the US protection racket are consistent aims, and the constitutional changes are not necessarily a precursor to Japanese aggression. Still, regular people in Japan seem to be mostly completely checked out of their own politics, so this is a game played among professional politicians and some business leaders.
It's on the list, towards the bottom of the 6-wheel section.
Only within certain parameters. If you choose a stack that you or your early employees don’t know well or that it’s difficult to hire for, that will affect your trajectory.

But if you’re choosing between broadly comparable common stacks with comparable ecosystems, there’s no wrong choice. AWS vs Azure? Laravel vs Rails? Angular vs React? MySQL vs Postgres? Yes, there are tradeoffs, but unless those deeply affect very specific key needs (hint: for the vast majority of startups they don’t), you’ll do fine with either.
Likewise - with visual mode it's normally pretty quick to select an area and do a basic regex, even for things like re-indentation (auto-completes to something like :'<,'>s/^/\t/) even though I'm sure there's a 'proper' way to do that
have you considered using something like the reCaptcha approach, where you have users classify/improve results?
Formatting note: using code blocks for list works horribly on mobile.
I read this, and I still don't know what "many benefits" they're referring to. I basically read one in the article -- a monorepo avoids the pain associated with making changes to multiple repo at once, which was happening frequently. Does the author make reference to some other benefits that I just completely missed...?
I'm a multirepo advocate, but I suggest splits similarly.

Maybe it's my old-timey way of releasing software, but because I do releases as RPMs, it bothers me less if you do things like have your base library, your backend services, and your frontend in the same repo. If they need to be able to be deployed independently, I just split them up as subpackages.

I guess most language package managers don't really have such a concept, so people are optimizing for that...
The balloon comparison is strange. I would've just said that adding shift to a shortcut often reverses it... / for search and ? for search backwards, alt-tab to switch windows, alt-shift-tab to go the other way, ctrl-tab to go to next tab in Firefox, ctrl-shift-tab for backwards. It's incredibly common.
Almost all the cases under the “How to fix that” heading seem addressed by Julia, but also MATLAB or Python if performance is not an issue.

As a PhD student who heavily relies on highly optimized Fortran code and who has spent time translating small Fortran projects to Python+NumPy, I don’t understand why anyone would start a new project in Fortran. The only people I know who write Fortran do it because of legacy code or because that’s the only language they know.

Since calling Fortran is fairly well supported for languages used in/designed for science (Python, MATLAB, Julia), I don’t see legacy code being as big a driver.
Nice, I have been mostly using bing as search engine for public domain // CC0 images and it worked reasonable well but a search engine specialized on this area is something which is very useful.
What I immediately noticed is that when you search for something including "icon" it shows lots of images of religious icons which make sense in a way but it probably not was most people want if they search for "fireball icon" or "mail icon" or "car icon".
Don't make mistake if you apply for US Visa. When your research area is Deep Learning/AI, it may take longer to get B1/2 Visa and additional documents might be required. Simply Software Engineering is sufficient.
I went to one of few genuine clinics there, and I think the only one with service in English

1000 is in Chinese yuan
When I was a contractor at Google I was surprised by the mono repo, but really liked it. Scaling issues aside, it makes sense having all dependencies in one repo.

I thought of having a mono repo at home because many of my projects are inter related but instead I spent some time with a library setup. For Common Lisp, I used a pattern in one of Zach’s blogs to have one central repo for all of my personal Common Lisp code that is configured as a root for Quicklisp. Any of my code can be quick loaded no matter where I am working. Really simple but it makes it possible to write small utilities/libraries and reuse them for whatever I am doing.

I sort of do the same for Python, writing a setup.py for each small project or library to install globally, including appropriate executable scripts. This also allows me to combine small things easily. I am not yet set up to do this yet for my Haskell projects but it is on my todo list.
People are not creating that stuff for others, they are creating it for themselves.

I don't need a social circle which creates content for me.

I'm quite happy that evolution and the masses created tv shows like GoT or other professional high quality content.
"The personal effects allowance was assigned in order to aid astronaut morale."

This strikes me as a weird reason to object: surely,
Getting significant financial gain could help aid morale.

I'm not in favour of astronauts using their launches to establish a for-profit souvenir business. But I'm not objecting to that on the grounds of their morale.
The reason why those other exchanges had a USD problem was because they didn’t want to do enough KYC/AML to gain access to legitimate banking. Providing an entrance and exit ramp for exchanges that are enabling money laundering probably put them in legal risk from day 1.
This is mostly limited to Kickstarter, which is not exactly the dataset that I would go looking for if I wanted to make definitive statements about 'organizations' or start-ups in general.

A better description of the findings would be 'kickstarters started by individuals rather than by pairs of people have a higher chance of success, but not much different than from larger teams'.
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One of my favorite ideas of his is the Geon [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(physics)