skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fan of Musk and his projects, but I also understand finance... And Tesla's cash burn is unsustainable... He uses tactics to keep his stock over a certain value in order to protect company debts. I can like what the man is doing in terms of innovation and also see that he's gaming the system in a way that could end in ruin. He's playing a dangerous game and it's he has a lot of shareholder money on the line. He can afford the losses, others can't.
Occam's Razor: postulate as few as possible new entities to explain an event. Aliens causing UFOs not only postulates that aliens exist, but that they're intelligent, and have visited Earth. That's a lot of new entities we have to consider. On the other hand we know foreign governments exist. We know foreign governments test new aircraft. So the only entity we have to assume here is that an aircraft with these properties exists.

That said I think there are other alternatives that are even more likely: that these sightings are sensor malfunctions or natural phenomena that have been blown out of proportion by popular myth and deliberate disinformation -- (which is certainly the case with all other UFO sightings).
I had a big StarCitizen fan for a coworker for a while and I asked him what he thought of that. His response was that the original 100 star systems weren't as vast and detailed as the singular system they're building now. He says the content and depth of the current system is far better than 100 empty systems.

I'm not sure entirely how I feel about that response. While I agree that fewer fully fleshed systems are better for a game it feels a lot like they promised things they had no clue about in the first place. Unless someone can possibly link me a brief overview of the original scope vs. what is in the works now I'm lead to believe my coworker had just been drinking the koolaid and will hand wave any scope creep that this project presents.
Instruments for Testing Photovoltaic Panels
W8-BEN has nothing to do with work autorization, rather with IRS reporting of accounts.
This actually looks great for job candidate coding exercises. You can guide them through working out some problems, and validate each step with an Action. Neat!
The Cost of Ransomware Attacks Revealed
Do you have a good "beginners guide to the ultimate voice setup"?
Expanding on this idea, it is unlikely that another inconsistency between a belief system and reality is going to change a believers mind when there are so many inconsistencies (in every belief system) explained away already. This is the nature of belief - it persists despite all evidence to the contrary, because it is belief, not reason. E.g. belief in flat earth persists, despite all evidence to the contrary.
According to wikipedia, caffeine can be synthesized, but is normally just obtained as a byproduct of decaffeination.

If anything would increase in price, it would be energy drinks and other caffeinated beverages. Price increase would probably be minuscule, as I imagine the demand for solar panels is dwarfed by the demand for soda and energy drinks,.
Epic are trying to do with gaming what Disney are doing with TV -- not pay distributers when they can do that but themselves, and use a strong monopoly on a sector of popular material to leverage their way in to distribution.

It sucks for consumers.
They probably got downvoted for wrongly assuming the technology doesn't deal with rain or snow, and then presenting that assumption as fact. It works great in rain. Snow, I have less experience with, but it seemed OK during a winter vacation with snow.

With neural nets, a lot of things just get learned. You don't have to specifically address them to get great progress. I'm not saying snow is 100% solved, and yes specifically addressing aspects like snow in the future will help make it even better, but autopilot has worked pretty great so far.
I dont think eating a lot of meat is a bad thing. I feel 100% better when I eat mostly meat and no carbs. I could argue that a vegan diet, for me, is much worse than carnivore diet.
It is an unusual perspective, most would happily click a few images than pay for access to a site. Then ad revenue may go up too since you now have a more captive audiance
The FAQ says the IPA is: ɡiːks (𐑜𐑰𐑒𐑕, not 𐑜𐑰𐑒𐑟). There is a snakey S at the end not a Z like Americans are used to using.
Knowledge legacy: the issue of passing the baton in open source
Which is not the same as pulling the brakes on current very significant production
Yeah there was greed and corruption but as the article says other countries have stopped too:

>A similar reversal is beginning in China, until recently seen as nuclear energy’s biggest champion. There, as in South Korea, Fukushima awakened public fears and forced the government to adopt tougher safety standards, which now threaten to push the cost of nuclear power out of reach. Of the world’s other major producers of nuclear power, only Russia is still aggressively building more reactors...

I hope renewables and batteries play out.
> Having the source code will not help you when the APIs change

Yes it will! If it's free software, you can update to use the new APIs!
Survives Headless for 18 Months
That'd be great! What sort of integration are you thinking? My JS is terrible but pinning stuff on Eternum is a simple HTTP call.
I couldn't say. I run Nix, not Guix.

Personally the thing that holds me back from Guix is their (understandable) insistence on packaging libre/free software only. Guix looks like it has better usability than Nix, IMO, but I don't want to jump through extra hoops to get non-free software installed.
I think the punishment to Boeing should be that HQ has to move back to the industrial park in Everett from Chicago. And the C-suite executives must work from offices inside the main assembly building for 20 years. Force them to reconnect with the products they make every day.
Women in Tech – Becoming comfortable with being confident
"Renewables could work as a replacement"

No. They can't as long as cheap energy storage on mass scales doesn't exist. Case in point: closing nuclear plants and replacing them with renewables is what Germany has been trying to do and has failed to do so far. They essentially replaced (and will continue to replace) nuclear by renewables paired with coal and gas plants running on standby. They can't cold start these plants fast enough to catch dips in energy production from renewables.

You simply can't replace a constant energy source (nuclear) by an intermittent one (most renewables).

I'm guessing South Korea will go the same route as "good example" Germany. Push renewables. Which translates to; close nuclear plants, invest heavily in solar and wind paired with gas and coal. End result: more CO2 emissions, higher consumer energy prices, but most importantly: a clean reputation through good intentions.

Renewables at this stage are more about politically correct marketing than about clean and safe energy.
No problem! Alt text is super confusing if you don't do it often, and there's a lot of untrue assumptions out there about it :)

I highly recommend this page by WebAIM on it: https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/
As somebody who didn’t back the but followed some of the dev stuff purely out of curiosity I would say it is exactly the other way around. They did a lot in the tech behind it, while a lot of the gameplay stuff started to come together just in the recent months. Purely from my limited subjective perspective I have the feeling they built a pretty solid ground for implementing content and gameplay alike
as a remote worker I could use a maximum screen time limit more than anything else..
That's why HR is Human RESOURCES. I believe you are correct in your observation and your comment makes me very sad.
Love it, and more companies should make it as evident and public as they are doing it today with the announcement.

Remote work is here to stay, and certainly the future, and one of the main reasons I am now working full-time in the space with my product, to help improve culture and communication within distributed teams, which is one of the main challenges around remote work. Edit: ps. in case you'd like to check it out it's https://standups.io
Help Wayback Machine and MuckRock Preserve Links from Redacted Mueller Report
I think it just depends on the person. I work full time remote for a 100% remote consulting company. Some people come in and do very well. Others don’t seem to be able to make the transition into remote.

I’ve worked with new hires that literally take entire days off and give excuses why they were unreachable. Sadly they are just shuffled around the company instead of disciplined but that’s another topic. But I figure in that case, they were probably not so great workers in-office either.
Logging for scientific computing: debugging, performance, trust
> Anonymous mappings are backed by swap and may be overcommitted, it's still possible to catch signals in a wide variety of circumstances

Anonymous mappings won't cause signals, they'll trigger the OOM killer. Remember that malloc() is just a fancy wrapper for mmap() (and sbrk()).
If you are already copying things around (between address spaces even), you might as well just use pread or lseek+read, which at that point is likely a much better choice overall.
Eliminate all federal funding for public transportation
Even if you don't own a home you need to continue paying rent, so in either case you can't be jobless longer than your savings allow.
I read that, but the timezone problem doesn't really explain why south america was slashed.

Overall it seems a bit strange to explain "we officially have a remote hub" and "remote workers need to be supported by physical hubs".
“Alexa, turn down the lights and play music”: How to handle compound requests
China is the biggest story in EVs, Tesla is the biggest story in EVs outside of China. However the potential emissions avoided is massive there, from a climate perspective all of the big Chinese EV makers are just as crucial as Tesla. Sadly Tesla is a controversy magnet.
I don't think the post is say that you CAN be the next Jeff Dean, Norvig, Linus, Stallman, Carmack, Wolfram etc. etc. by not coding outside of work. I think they are saying that it's OK not code outside of work, its OK not to be in this very top percent of the profession.

What is a 'True Professional' in the context? I don't think you can compare the top 0.01% of any profession to the rest and say this small percentage are the 'True' professionals and the rest are not. Pretty sure my accountant is not doing accounting in his spare time, he is no less a professional for not doing so.
The mistake here is using longjmp / siglongjmp. This is a possible way to handle SIGBUS, but in practice it will be intractable in larger programs written in C or C++. The compiler is generally free to move loads and stores around, and you might be completely blindsided by how the compiler has reordered your memory operations once you add side effects to one of the operations. Theoretically, if accessing a memory location can siglongjmp out then at least the memory location should be volatile.

A better way to handle SIGBUS is to just map zeroes over the offending pages using MAP_FIXED and then setting a flag. After every operation that works on a file, you check the flag.
@patio11 - thanks for your reply.

> I cannot conceive of a reason we'd track screen time for employees, remote or otherwise. I can model why a company which had an adversarial relationship with employees might want to do that (to discourage shirking). We do not have an adversarial relationship with our employees, and (hopefully) have more interesting utility functions than that.

its not about the company. See you guys are in a unique position - you have an in-office team and you have a remote team. So it is a A versus B for those people - people who are having to commute for hours to work, mandatorily sit at their computer screens . Versus others who wake up late (because no commute) and can walk about the house in their pyjamas.

How do you deal with the perceived imbalance in quality of life between these two teams ? I asked about mandatory screen time from that perspective. Because there is a set of people who are working synchronously - is there no cognitive drop off between them and the remote team who may have chosen to take their dog walking at the same time when a team decides to ping on a code bug question ? this wouldnt be an issue if everyone was in office together.

An all remote team is a simpler setup. I'm not at all arguing for one or the other - i do understand some people are very social and need people around them (like me) and others work best at their homes. However, after having run large orgs, I do know if you have both kinds simultaneously together - there is a massive grass-is-greener issue. The remote workers think that the in-house employees have more management "ear time" and the in-house employees grumble at the remote workers taking it easy. I have massive respect for you guys, if you have built a cultural practice that neutralises this issue.

>Something Stripe Atlas does, for example, is schedule time for the team to low-key socialize without an explicit agenda

How do you do this ? any learnings here? this is something i have wondered a LOT about.
I've noticed the people who call him out for being dishonest are the same people who continually misquote him, claiming he "promised" things that he said were "expected" or "likely."
Why does the nuclear industry require the Price-Anderson act to subsidize insurance for it? Or what happened to the whistleblower Karen Silkwood?
I just looked at Stripe's job page and noticed they don't advertise any positions as "Senior" nor do they appear to list 'years required' in any of their listings.

Definitely a fresh take, and I hope it actually does yield better applicants and results!
NPM isn't all that great
The Right Way to Regulate Electric Scooters
I wouldn't call any Lisp dialect the single best. As a Racket and Scheme fan, I'd like to acknowledge that CL, for example, has a lot of neat things, including some kinds of dynamic power that Racket doesn't have, at least not nearly as easily. Also, CL's CLOS is impressive, and Racket's main object system is a very different kind. Clojure also has some novel merits.

Last I heard, HN is developed in Arc, which i think was implemented in Racket long ago. Racket has added a bunch more support for implementing languages since then, so, if you want to design a language today, you might also decide do it in Racket.
I'm skeptical of the part where it went to the CAP point. First, it was apparently only detected at the CAP point by the USS Princeton, it was gone by the time the jets arrived so we don't have multiple confirmation. But more importantly, how did the craft know to go to the CAP point? Even if the jets were bearing in that direction at the time (and I don't think they were) how would it know the distance to travel? Was it listening in on radio chatter, meaning they have reverse engineered our communications protocols, broken our encryption, and understand enough of our language and technical jargon to determine where to go? Were the exact coordinates of the CAP point even discussed over the radio while in the presence of the craft?

And the whole thing just seems weird to me. If you're an alien vessel visiting our planet, it seems like you're either going to try to make contact, or ignore people and just gather samples. But this? Just sort of bothering the US Navy? You could argue it was gathering samples of ocean water or something. But then why go to the CAP point? That can't be to collect scientific data. And that doesn't make sense as their attempt to contact us. As I mentioned above, they'd have to have a lot of knowledge of our language and communication to know where that point is, which means they know enough to simply make radio contact.
Ah, looks like you can set that up. But it's not as convenient, because 1) you have to provision the remote repository and 2) instead of transparently installing from PyPI, you have to specify the remote repository each time you install from it.
I don’t know anyone that clicks on ads. But apparently they’re still valuable somehow. It’s a mystery to me, but I guess even without clicks the chance to pollute someone’s mind with an ad in a website is still valuable to an advertiser in the same way that it is on a freeway billboard.
Yeah i currently WFH one day/week and i actually look forward to going into work the next day. I guess it might be different if you had family and kids, but i'm single and live on my own and I am a bit of a social person so i actually look forward to going into office.
How is eating a vegan diet an improvement ? Diets vary from person to person. I dont like the way I feel on vegan diets.
This is a great sentence:

> We are doing this to situate product development closer to our customers, improve our ability to tap the 99.74% of talented engineers living outside the metro areas of our first four hubs, and further our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet.
With the current chinese policy against anything non-chinese, as well as the tariff wars i don't think china is going to represent any kind of market for tesla (especially since electric vehicle are seing as a strategic industry for the chineese regime).

Europe is completely stuck in economical weak growth, and has an extremely high population density and good public transport system that makes it clearly try to steer away from personal vehicle. Not to mention the fact that german cars are starting to embrace electric engines, and have an insanely better reputation regarding manufacturing quality than tesla.

There again, i don't see how a 40k vehicle is going to sell well enough to compensate from the american market decline.
And leverage depends on clarity regarding price/performance. Neither of which is readily accessible for health providers. Way too many variables, of course, but some basic price facts would go a long way toward improving the situation.
There is no Doctor Who canon
Hey dude, fuck your user name.
its not about less productivity... its about perceived unfairness about quality of life by the in-office team. this is a very tenuous issue when you have one company with an inhouse and remote team at the same time. I made another comment to patio11's response up the thread.
Yes. Everyone should check it out:

https://pharo.org/

They have a pretty friendly community too.
I think this article is trying to tie two things together, the p-value problem and the fact you can throw in more data.

I disagree.

It's cheating, it's goes against experimental design analysis, and it does not differentiate between given data and data that was carefully collected. We have experimental design class for a reason. It helps us to be honest. Of course there are tons of pit falls many novice statisticians can do.

It also implicitly leads people to think that statistic can magically handle given data and big data by doing the old fashion statistic way. If you do that than of course you'll get a good p-value.
Cool! Didn’t see it in mobile but did see the “Labeled for Reuse” filter option
My understanding is the video is a demo of what their research technology can do as a one off demo, not recommended procedure.
Dealing with lawsuits, data leaks, and other support nightmares in Healthcare
> many people getting burned by undelivered promises has halved the amount of money being donated to video game related kickstarters between 2014 and 2016

I think you might have misread that wikipedia page... it says “In March 2014, Kickstarter announced it had achieved over $1 billion in pledges, with more than $215 million of that dedicated for video gaming and tabletop gaming projects.[23] By mid-2016, Kickstarter reported over $186 million in video game-related pledges with over $500 million for all game-related projects.”

[Edit: my reading in the following paragraph is wrong too, see my reply below. Kickstarter funding for games increased. It did not decline.] Between 2014 and 2016, video game donations dropped by around 14%, while total Kickstarter projects dropped by 50%. Video games vastly outperformed other categories on Kickstarter. That tends to indicate Kickstarter lost popularity in general while video games did not. It would be wrong to not assume that some of Kickstarter’s decline came from competition ramping up, like IndieGogo, RocketHub, FundRazr, Fundable, Pozible, etc., etc.. You’d need to look at aggregate contributions to figure out whether crowdfunding for games is actually in decline.

> there is a lot to lose if indie game companies do not get the opportunity and resources to make great games

We don’t have any strong evidence that indie game funding is even in decline. Kickstarter contributions are rather far from representing the available “opportunity” for indie games. Since crowd funding wasn’t a thing 10 years ago, indie opportunities are still way ahead of where they were in the very recent past.

That said, why isn’t having some competition for funds a good thing? It’s not like every indie game ever made is amazing. All the crazy amount of funding available today is definitely attracting more people in search of dollars, people who wouldn’t normally make games, and aren’t committed to making high quality games. The funding for games is a big part of the reason the market feels over saturated.
I hate that this has become so entrenched, and I hate that my previous jobs don't allow me to use samples from their codebase in my portfolio. I hate feeling like my github or bitbucket are sparse and this is somehow a sin. Just give me a takehome project and I will show you how I program, it is really that simple! Don't force me to waste my precious time making little toys in my spare time to potentially amuse someone. Yes I could make a minesweeper clone in a day, no I don't want to.

Most of the fun of programming for me is the mathematics and theory portion, I like to implement or toy around with algorithms and write little half finished scripts. That is fun for me, but is that presentable? Nope.
In perspective: https://us.wikibudgets.org/w/united-states-budget-2016
This is also why I stopped preordering games that are available from an online store. I understand the anticipation for when you can finally play a game you've been waiting on, but that experience doesn't change whether you pre-order it or not. If you simply must be separated from your money, there are places where you can put that money for the same period of time and they will pay you for it. The only difference is the story you're told about what you've just done with your money, and working with a bank isn't nearly as fun as buying a game on Steam (though the promise by the bank is approximately the same kind of game).

Kickstarter is sort of like a more up-front version of this, in that it's easier to figure out what you're actually paying for than standard pre-ordering of a product that does exist. Of course there's the default story that you're supporting the independent developers. But I haven't joined a Kickstarter without the expectation of some product at the end of it... so in these cases, I'm paying money now in an attempt to create a future where this thing that does not exist now, does actually exist.

What a time to be alive. All of my grandparents watched every dollar of their cash flows, and here I am throwing money at people I'll never meet, working with hundreds or thousands of people doing the same thing: trying to conjure up some new reality we'll experience for a very brief period of time through a 24" screen.