skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview
Capacity factor (which means that you have to reduce the number to that factor which is betewen 20-40% of what is stated as capacity is different than actual usage)

I know what capacity factor is. But I was not talking about the installed peak power of reneweables, I was talking about the actual amount of energy which has been produced. It is irrelevant what the capacity is, it is only counting the energy being produced, which is measured by the meter. That is the number I have been talking about.

It's only electricity produced in germany (which means you have to include electricity coming from other places than Germany)

What are you talking about? Germany isn't importing electricity on a large scale.

That electricity is a subset of energy.

That is true, that doesn't make my statement, that reneweables are over 40% of all electricity production in Germany wrong. But you claimed my statement were wrong.

It's pretty simple. Your number ignores those facts to get to that numbers. If you factor those things in the number will dramatically smaller.

No I was just talking about the metered electricity production.
My experience has been the exact opposite. It's just that both the problems resulting from just getting it done and the benefits of finding the proper abstraction don't come until months later. So by that time it looks like the non-CS developer was more productive.
Yes we use a headless process that the editor plugins talk to. Our heads-up-display app also talks to this headless process. We put as much functionality there as possible and try to keep the plugins/HUD as small as possible.

It’s still a challenge with this approach. We have to be careful what new surface area we add to plugins, and have rolled back editor features that users don’t engage with.

We also keep the API well documented and have a detailed product spec that the editors try to adhere to. The product spec can be challenging because each editor API supports slightly different types of interactions.

So after all of these strategies the main thing making it work is the team!
Elites? Protecting jobs? There is no secret cabal here doing "protection". Not sure where you get this stuff from.
Adobe tests doubling the price of its Lightroom and Photoshop plan
He is the biggest shareholder and has the supermajority of voting shares, how can he violate his own benefit? He can only violate fiduiciary duties towards smaller shares.
Need to read this!
You can be sent to jail for a mistake if it was caused by negligence.
China Fleshes Out Exascale Design for Tianhe-3 Supercomputer
I'm sure the fasting market is really going to take off soon, there's a killing to be made selling absolutely nothing.
Great to hear Kite has been a useful part of your workflow, thanks for being a user!
Thank you for that reply, I see your point and it’s a good one.

I think that the two arguments are not in opposition though. It is possible for foreign interference to have harmed democracy in the Middle East and for locals to have damaged it too, and there are plenty of examples of this.
Minimum wage drives down demand just as artificially forcing a lower price for something increases demand. Minimum wage is NOT just money. If an employer is required to provide benefits, those are also a form of minimum wage increase, but one that does not show up the same way as cash income.

ALWAYS remember: All benefits are paid for by reducing wages one way or another.

The effect of benefits on minimum wage is actually BIGGER than the current hourly minimum wage. Consider health insurance. Employers are required to pay for insurance for their employees working more than 30 hours. They cannot force the employee to pay more than around 10% of the cost AND the insurance must cover at least 60% of the costs. Average health insurance costs are (according to a quick google) $440 per month which leaves the employer paying $400 each month for health insurance per full-time employee (that's a $2.50/hr minimum wage increase for all full-time employees).

This leaves four options. The first is to raise prices across the board (hardly feasible). The second is to hire a ton of 29 hour "part-time" employees, but there are still hidden per-employee costs like extra unemployment, worker's comp, training, scheduling issues, etc. The third is to work employees 45-50 hours per week because the overtime cost in that range is still less than the cost of 1.5 time is still cheaper than all the fixed costs for bringing in another employee.

The final option (probably what we see here) is to use the other options until inflation allows you to recover from the pay issue, but with cash benefits not recovering in order to pay for all the other benefits the employee is buying.

These same things apply to all the other benefits ranging from vacation to 401k.

This also ties into 1099 negotiation. DO NOT negotiate with the cost of employment salary in mind. Instead, negotiate with the total cost of benefits in mind. Ask what the total cost of ownership for an employee would be. You need to be compensated for that $400 per month health insurance. You need to be compensated for that 3-4 weeks of vacation you can't take. You need to be compensated for losing 1 year of unemployment benefits if your job disappears. You need to be compensated for that 401k match. Especially don't forget that extra 7.5% you need for the other half of social security.

I worked for a company a few years ago for a while before finding out their cost to hire me as a contractor was around 100k per year while an employee with the same position would be paid 90k in cash and another 80k in benefits. That made a huge difference the next time I sat down at the negotiation table.
++ on the touchbar being worthless. I use a touchbar MBP for work. It's managed to complicate the most frequently used functions (brightness + sound adjustments), and I experience bugs / temporary freezing of both of those sliders until I cmd + tab switch apps.
First off, my race doesn't matter. Secondly, I never said I speak for people of color. I said "In my Experience." I hate this notion that white people can't have opinions on social issues.
First in a series of blogs a colleague of mine, Stephen McIntye (ex-early-Google and VP @ Twitter for EMEA (Europe, Mid-East, Africa)), is publishing around the things to consider about when US founders are thinking about opening an office in Europe & why Europe is important for long term success.

Most of the big companies have messed one part or another of it up. The series is effectively a guide on how to get it right.
The problem I have with ligatures in source code files is that it makes pairs of codepoints visually indistinguishable from a single codepoint.

For example, if I see "ﬂ" in a string, is that "ﬂ" or is it "ﬂ"? That is, is it the codepoint sequence U+0066 U+006C turned into a ligated version visually, or is it U+FB02 the single codepoint?

Then I get paranoid: Did my text editor Helpfully convert the sequence of characters into the ligature character? The paranoia is probably unjustified, and would be seen as a bug if it weren't (probably), but a clear visual distinction would banish it entirely.
That's a pretty broad statement drawn from one strange case.
To throw a data point out there - I'm from the USA and I value family more than anything. That being said, money is a tool that lets me spend more time with my family. I don't care about the currency itself, but I work hard and save because money is time/power that enables me to spend more of my time with my family. It's complicated to try to untangle motives and values when money is involved because it enables other values.
Quite a few times I've heard the line that blockchain can revolutionize supply chains, but I still don't understand it. Since you're dealing with physical goods, you're relying on the participants of the system to enter data truthfully and accurately, which defeats the purpose of a "trustless" data store like blockchain.
You can still call the dealership and have them discount your car and get a software limited version of that vehicle for less.
Electric scooter use results in 20 injuries per 100k trips, CDC finds
the ceo should step down. it's ridiculous.
There's a hint of hubris in this move, the way I see it. Google must have enough confidence in the interferential power of the data they've accumulated that they can now wash their hands of anti-privacy dark patterns and declare themselves pure. It's a huge PR win without having to commit to deep changes in their (primary) business model.
Online church: Ministries use VR, apps to deliver services and virtual baptisms
>Companies and nations this cruel have no place in modern society.

That's exactly the direction modern society IS moving towards
My questions are based on actual experience using a "graphical" language [1]... I am not using it anymore, but the "theoretical" advantages you mention never actually became real for me (or my former colleagues still using it, either).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMethods_Flow
Can you name a single company that pays Remote Employees SF/Bay Area salaries?

Edit: Fair enough. There are companies that pay everyone SF level salaries but you can also find companies like Gitlab - 100% Remote but they explicitly downscale from SF salaries based on location.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
Beyond Meat surges 135% in its IPO debut
Show HN: Faast.js – Serverless Batch Computing Made Simple
- What resource leaks are introduced by mmap?

- Nobody ever said mmap was always faster than the alternative. If you care about performance then you should do whole-application performance testing with and without features enabled (like mmap IO). This is not unusual, there are plenty of aspects of performance that are counter-intuitive, where speeding up one part of your program causes a seemingly unrelated part of your part of your program to slow down.

- The signals are SIGBUS, and they can be intercepted, mapped with zeroes, and the errors can be propagated back to your app code later. This is not trivial but neither is it outrageous.

- You can overwrite arbitrary memory with read(), too, you just have to pass it a pointer to something you want to overwrite. mmap() is not any less safe. Recall that typical use of MAP_FIXED is so you can overwrite an existing mmap() region with something else, not so you can nuke random parts of your address space.

Keep in mind that you are, if nothing else, an indirect user of mmap(). The question is whether using mmap() directly is advantageous for your applicaiton. "Yes" is not an unreasonable nor outrageous answer for some applications.
We need to stop relying on the assertions Big Tech make about themselves, and work towards regulation.

What most viewers saw during the Facebook congressional hearing was woefully out of touch, forgive me for using this phrase “old white guys” questioning Mark with many facepalm-able moments. But the house hearing, which includes 40 representatives from the Millennial generation, who grew up on tech, asked much better questions. It just got swallowed up by the news cycle because the Manafort Raid was happening at the same time as hearing about the Cambridge Analytica scandal was occuring.

All of this is still new. Banking, Finance, Real Estate, those are all well regulated at this point and arguably much more sophisticated or complex. The situation we have now with the Googles, Amazons, Microsoft, Facebooks of the world packaging up our metadata, combining it with other third party data, training AI, etc is all new, and those who are knowledgeable about it are just now making it into congress, so I am optimistic we will start to see real regulation on these shameful business practices soon.

Roger McNamee had an excellent conversation on the Sam Harris podcast recently about all of this. It was a very good conversation and one I highly recommend listening to.
Tesla claims you can still order the $35k version via phone or stores.
From how you put it I think the analogy that resonates for me is from the world of mp3 players. Remember how Apple brought out the iPod with iTunes? You knew it was expensive and that there were cheaper and 'just as good' mp3 players out there but they all missed the mark. Even when Apple brought out the screenless (and useless) Shuffle thing nobody was buying Kodak's MC3 mp3 player with built in camera and speaker, even if it was a pretty good product.

Apple weren't out of the woods when the iPod came out, they weren't really making money. Kodak's revenue dwarfed that of Apple. Same with Sony, better known for audio products at the time.

I think your analysis of China taking control of the EV market is correct. China has a better culture for innovation and an extremely competitive domestic market. Whatever survives that will be something that legacy U.S. auto makers will not be able to compete against. Cheaper wages has nothing to do with it, lower environmental standards will have nothing to do with it, neither will patents. In China they have robotised factories making robots, these robots will be making our cars.
How are leadership qualities measured?
And their endowments... and tax payer subsidized student debt programs... and rich people paying $10m to skip the line... not sure I would characterize that as clinging to life support. I would say though, that it's a giant waste of money and an efficient market gives ZFs about how much money you wasted.
Not sure if it helps any, but box.net allows webdav access and can be mounted natively by Windows.
> Blue & yellow hues using the same method. The blue set provides us quite a few usable shades where as the yellow set becomes unusable early on.

What do they mean when they say a color is "usable" or "unusable"? All the colors in this image look fine to me.
Recent cases are taking things to the point where it might soon be difficult for senior executives to own stock without a blind trust.

Superficially this doesn't seem like a crazy idea - or at least it seems plausible to set it up well.

I get the thinking that execs holding equity gives them more skin in the game, but it also seems to often lead to poorly matched incentives, and a reward structure that is only loosely coupled to real performance.
I feel dumber for having read this article. The journalist is just pointing their finger and shouting, "Hey everybody, look at this weirdo! He does things we don't do--isn't that so WEIRD?!"

I lost interest in that kind of "information" after middle school.
Wow there are a lot of them. And of course they all have in-app purchases :/
https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Stripe&track=Software%20Engi...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Stripe-Salaries-E671932.htm

https://www.paysa.com/salaries/stripe

Competitive for local markets they hire in
> This is true for the general population though.

Not really. Engineer's disease is specific to engineers, because at its core is the implicit belief that engineering (and science/math) is the ur-discipline whose mindset and techniques are universally applicable to all problems. That often comes with the attitude that other mindsets and techniques are inferior (e.g. those from the humanities in particular) and/or that engineers are more competent and can easily master needed parts of other disciplines when they choose (and thus the practitioners of those disciplines have little authority).
There are people, not too many anymore, who write C without even remembering how to use the bitwise operators. They can't use any of: left shift, right shift, bitwise and, bitwise or, xor, complement. They may use unions or pointers, but not for any sort of aliasing. To them, byte order and struct packing are fuzzy concepts that never come in to play.

Most of these programmers have moved on to Java, Javascript, and Python.

Those doing "C bit twiddling" are the other C programmers. Most commonly I hear the phrase from people who are capable of this low-level programming but never liked it. People using the phrase seem to be mostly people who have moved on to languages like C++, C#, and Go. People actually doing the "C bit twiddling" seem to just say "C programming" as you have suspected.

So I guess it is a way of saying "C, including the parts I don't miss" for people who could do it but never liked it.
see this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-housed-t...
Nah, it's more like automating you away once significant part of your coding process is replicated by AI in the future and then selling your replacement/virtual clone to your employer at a lower cost :-P I guess at some point there will be a replacement/clone store and any company could add 'mhermher'-style coding to their own projects by purchasing clone there. Internally ranked and price exponentially rising the more capable replacement is (e.g. ACM ICPC winning replacements will cost millions).
Sounds like a relative newcomer to the Bay Area. Newcomers are, generally speaking, always a bit disconnected, and tend to have odd ideas about the area they've moved into. Over time, I'd expect that poster to get a better view of what San Fran really is. As you said, "prosperity disparity", "income inequality", whatever you want to call it, is a good deal worse in San Fran than it is anywhere in the rust belt. That's for sure.

Unskilled laborers moving to SF thinking it's the land of opportunity are likely to be disagreeably surprised.
It is, but also carries a clear message; I think that dichotomy is why it's been such an enduring phrase.

The term became well known in the US during the cold war, in the context of arms treaties. The US and Russia were making agreements that relied on at least the appearance of, and some degree of actual, trust. Meanwhile they were undertaking extensive efforts to check if the other party was actually following their obligations.
I am sure there will be many people cheering. However people don't seem to realise that just because it isn't you getting censored now, it may well be you in the future.

What is deemed acceptable and what isn't deemed acceptable are quite transient. It wasn't long ago it was unacceptable/illegal to be a homosexual, but now it is at least (in the Western world) readily accepted. I wonder if facebook was around in the 1950s would they be banning prominent homosexuals?
I work remote for Tanium, and they do not cover the cost of a co-working space, but they do reimburse me for my cellphone and home internet.
Our current planet was made habitable by organisms infinitesimally less intelligent than humans. I think we're up to the challenge.
The median personal income in the US, including all ages, is 30k per year. You're the one being a coastal elite here if you think the advice in this article isn't helpful to the average person.
“In some instances, when Facebook bans an individual or organization, it also restricts others from expressing praise or support for them on its platforms, the spokesperson said, adding that the company continues to view such action as the correct approach.”
"In-house" typically refers to work performed by direct employees of the company, in contrast to outsourced work.

I think you mean "on-site", which refers to work performed by people in offices occupied by the company, in contrast to remote work.
I think this is a story submitted by a PR firm on behalf of HVMN. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html changed how I view the "news"...
Humm yeah that's a bit different from WeWork there...
I think this is exactly what I wanted to hear, will give Guix a shot I guess.
In Lisp notation that would be (In List Rust) or maybe (In Rust List).
If your corporate network can connect to every domain that is NOT in this top10million list, your network will likely have a breach in the next 0 to 120 months. Most malware domains are not in the top_10_million. Also, match IP connection traffic to DNS responses to cover the direct IP connect problem.

/www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/6zwu1w/list_of_the_top_10_million_websites_based_on/
I mostly agree, I’ve been a .net developer for over a decade and the current state of things is very wonky. For the past couple years I’ve been unsure where to focus my efforts to make sure I don’t wind up in another situation where I get very good at Silverlight just to have it all thrown away. At this point with Microsoft half backing away from UWP and half continuing to push it, I don’t know if it’s better for me to make the jump or not. Also it’s more clear now that .net Core the future, but for a while it’s been very confusing and it’s still not 100% clear if it’s going to encompass all the scenarios I need or if I’m going to have to keep abreast of both sides. Rather than staying at the bleeding edge of .net like I used to, I’ve been finding it safer to just give it space and wait for things to solidify. All in all, developing for the Microsoft platform has become very confusing over the past several years.

Still better than trying to keep up to date on the NodeJS or frontend development world though :-P
I'm 56. Today, we got legal custody of our 13 month old son, whom we are adopting. Three grown children; five grandchildren age 1-6. Their future matters more to me than my own. I'm deeply concerned for the second half of this century; I want my loved family to have a better life than I've had.
...and nothing of value was lost. Facebook is not the government. They have no obligation to allow all speech.
What do you mean? Google is the ad network. They aren't sharing that data with anyone else.
The trust part is me trusting you to want to do the right thing. The verify part is me checking that nothing went wrong - either through a mistake on your part, a misunderstanding on mine, or just the signal loss from the fact that human communication is imperfect.
BaseCamp. https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/making-a-ca...
Well by design, LVT discourages having land be the majority of your home's value. E.g. Single Family Homes are fine in the outskirts of the city where land is less valuable, but LVT encourages building up the more valuable parts of the city (e.g. downtown, next to the subway station).

In both cases (SFH on less valuable land, condos on more valuable land) the land shouldn't end up being the majority of the value, since with condos the land value is effectively split among all units in the building.
Google should know that they have very little credit left on my side. When I read the this article, I immediately think about the ways on how they can still keep tracking me.

- Check the latest user status after 3 months before deleting user history.

- Compare it with the previous 3 months and update the difference ona separate table that are not facing the end user.

- Scrub location and web history from user facing database.

It saddens me now that all google apps on my mobile phone are no longer allowed to access nothing. I try to only grant access if i really need to. This is how it became unfortunately.
I think they did it to avoid competing with themselves. Before we bought our Telsa in 2017, we test drove a Bolt. The sales people tried really hard to steer us toward a Volt (which was more expensive). It seemed clear they were not really interested in selling the Bolt.

Speaking of the design: On the drive, we noticed that the seats in the Bolt were narrow and uncomfortable. The odd thing was that they had plenty of room to make the seats a few inches wider. Doug DeMuro noticed the same thing in his review: https://youtu.be/d2ogGZXmepY?t=624
What is bad about Munich? (For those of us off the continent)
Well that is the beauty of the stock market.

Whether your view of a company is positive or negative, you can put your money where your mouth is.
Cloud data specialist Snowflake picks new CEO
Well... what schools does the NY Times mostly hire from? Simple question.
Heh, worked on me. So I can't really complain about the strategy. Still, it is annoying clickbait.
Regrettable. Are they banning radical left types? Of course not.