skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I've found when working in a silo or remotely is the difficulty of getting accolades.

Pretty much all discretionary accolades like "team member of the month" is related to building rapport with the decision maker.

This factors into not just the employee of the month, but bonuses and layoffs.

I'm not even sure if abstracting this out into specific performance metrics is the solution, an individual will still want to give another certain individual praise at their discretion.

Just something to be conscious of.

Glad Stripe is having success in this area.
Just wondering, at what point has Star Citizen ever clearly looked like a 10+ year project? From what I can tell, according to the developers and many of the fans, Star Citizen has always been 2-3 away from release ever since it was announced. Or do you just mean that it clearly looked like a 10+ year project to you and you were otherwise okay with the developers misleading backers about the release timeline?
A heuristic is a bias, not a fallacy. "All else equal, I'll try this path first".

A fallacy assumes a cogent argument is being made. This is just a preference.
$5B Facebook, FTC deal could add more privacy oversight
A few years ago, Scott Meyers gave a keynote at the D Language Conference. It was titled "The Last Thing D Needs". The answer given at the end was, "Someone like me". It's a bad sign if your language is so complex that it needs someone like him to write books on how to not massively screw things up.

Fortran does not need Scott Meyers. And that's a good thing, because those who program in Fortran are typically not full-time software developers, they are individuals with other things to do that would not ever invest the time to write "proper" C++.
Does Stripe pay at FAANG level? Even outside the USA?
Can't forget Limbo. That game had a huge reach.
I'm not a cultist but certainly a fan boy. You try innovating and putting a time box on it.

You need to be optimistic and a little crazy to think you know better.
The Sony toolkit debacle was its own thing. In addition, that rootkit was on music CDs.

I worked for a game division of Sony at the time, and we were furious at the mothership for that incident.
IIRC, some SR-71 crews had a hobby of local newspapers on towns they usually flew over, to see which ones reported UFO sightings the day after the missions.
He used Tesla to save SolarCity, he can still continue using SpaceX to save Tesla.
Most AEBs do not brake at high speed because reacting to a false positive can actually cause accidents. This makes sense as the time needed to respond to a situation demands detecting objects at greater range which requires more than just higher resolution sensors because as you get further ahead of the vehicle you have to contextualize what you're seeing.

Tesla's system is attempting to do that contextualization where as most other manufacturers systems are simple feedback loops.
I really like that example, but I am wondering if it would really be true? Real drivers would not maintain a perfect speed, but would instead work to maintain the average. If you looked closely at the speed, it would drift away from the average, then the peddle would move to return it to the average. So it would look a bit like an integral (The I in PID control) of the difference from the mean speed right?
Pop_OS is based on Ubuntu, which is itself derived from Debian.
It did! It boomed beyond anyone's expectations, and still is.

The problem now is that there's so many indie games out there that it's a lot harder to get discovered.
It's from the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, here's the relevant portion: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357#a_3 . It should be noted the constitutionality of that section has been upheld by the Supreme Court, for instance in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Martinez-Fuer... .
Could you send me a link to a video of anything like Elite: Dangerous gameplay from Star Citizen?
you can grind your way to a high SAT score (I know this personally because in a span of 2-3 months i went from mediocre to 'great' SAT scores just from grinding), you can grind your way to great grades, you can grind your way to an "elite" college. But ultimately, while those things may help you get ahead, they don't make or break you. What is needed to be successful is hard work, creativity,risk taking and luck. Your woe is me attitude is going to hold you back much more than your not attending an elite university.
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A projection is always a messy mix of what you know at the time combined with your own emotional temperament and wiring. I think the big debate on Elon is if he's a serial liar or a serial optimist who's often wrong.
This is often how I feel. There have definitely been days when I just sat around doing nothing, but even on those days I find myself reading a book, practicing a language, writing down ideas, practicing music, and thinking about things that matter to me. I feel like not doing 'something' is a waste of time and brings me no value. Even in times when I am 'doing nothing' that I think of right now, I am generally at least walking or doing some exercise.

I strongly recall going with my parents to the laundromat as a child and sitting there for 3 hrs straight on a chair. I had no phone, no book, no other kids in the building, and the arcade machines and other things all costed quarters that I didn't have. I would just sit there bored out of my skull, and I hated it more than anything else in the world. It wasn't like playing outside with friends where we could invent our own games, it was cold sterile nothing in a smelly building. When people complain about contemporary kids on their tablets or phones 24/7 and how this is bad I always think back to these times when I literally didn't even have a crayon to scribble with. The times I remember fondly of exploring/playing/running around the neighborhood/drawing/ fighting/ etc are more memorable, but in terms of objective measurement, were vastly outweighed by sitting doing literally nothing. I feel like people often view the world with rose-coloured glasses when they write these anti-screen messages.
You can surely win some laptop benchmarks by mmaping some files on certain close to the metal filesystems.

But for general production case mmap shouldn't even be considered a solution to the syscall and memory copy overhead problem. If that overhead is too big for you, other approaches work better, like buffering, application level caching, etc.
Look, the first 2 planets, 9 moons and an asteroid are always the hardest.
REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHESIS !!! :-)
There is a little more then that, but it is literally just a series of glorified tech demos.
Apparently those weren't enough.

You also forgot Galloping Girdie. The Tacoma Narrows bridge.

That and the rudder reversal problems Boeing had back in the 90's.
I always though the right way to do things in a democracy is to talk to your neighbors and reach consensus (campaigning). The purpose of a democracy isn’t so individuals can say “I voted”; voting is merely democracy’s technique for communal action. One could even convince enough people to buy an ad.

It should be obvious given that a person has one vote.
>It looks like the base model 3 I can order is about $39k

You can also order the $35k model which is distinct from the $39k model. Yes, it takes a phone call, but it is available.
I think it's fair to optimize for CPUs that have vector operations, though optimizing for Intel specifically is unfair, so much I agree with you.
Do you have actual data to counter that narrative? Or just a single unsourced anecdote?
I do a bit of Node.js stuff at work (not a programmer by trade, just lightweight stuff) but on my side project it's Rails first and foremost. As the sole developer, I need to just get stuff done. Performance isn't a concern at the small scale I work on. I've experimented with other frameworks and besides Django I've never found anything that's end-to-end the way Rails is. I don't have to think about the framework or the technologies, I just write some code and I'm done with it. I don't have to interact with the database directly, ActiveRecord handles it for me. It's pure productivity, which as a solo developer is the most important thing for me.

For some front-end pieces where I need more flexibility, Vue nests in nicely with Rails where it's needed and gets out of the way where it's not needed. There's nothing in the JS world that even begins to compete with Rails as an end-to-end solution.
Governments Begin to Take on IoT Security
> but unjustified belief in a deus ex machina which designed life is somehow enlightened...?

Humans are designers already, what more proof do you need:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2122619.stm

You are confusing ID with creationism. The later is one foolish and easily refutable variant of ID akin to Santa and other fairy tails.

> There is no evidence of god, therefore I don't have any confidence in the flying spaghetti monster.

Comparing life to another life is not the same as comparing life to superbeings.

> who designed the designers?

That is irrelevant for this topic. It didn't stop people researching big bang, did it ?

> In the meantime, I stick to the models that don't rely on an allmighty entity to bootstrap biological evolution

In the meantime, understand it doesn't have to be allmighty :) It can simply be another advanced enough life (remember that one about advanced tech compared to magic?). The topic is about UFOs, not about origin of life or origin of origin of origin ... of life.
Facebook is quietly updating it's icon and brand colour
Something that's not mentioned in the article is the fact that on May 1st, people can sell Lily of the Valley (never knew this word before today) in the streets of France without licence or authorizations. The flowers has to come from one's garden though, you can't resell.
"If you were still in the office at 7, you could expect a heartfelt appreciative email"

This sort of thing is horrible. Stop normalizing this. It's OK not to work all day.

My kid goes to bed at 7:30 and I hate that my colleagues are so willing to work late, normalizing the idea that 6-7PM calls are OK. I mean, I get it - it's not their fault I had a kid, but hell, when IS it OK to stop working?
> [...]misleading about having an investor
> they didn't have[...]

It was a lot worse than that:

1. TSLA told the SEC Musk's personal Twitter fell under their purview.

2. SEC: OK, thanks!

3. Musk proceeded to talk shit on Twitter.

4. The SEC got upset, TSLA agreed to have all of Musk's investor-related musings reviewed before posting.

5. Musk proceeds to share investment-related musings on Twitter again without going through that process.

6. The SEC tightens the screws.

There's mistakes, and then there's dangerously infantile and reckless behavior from a CEO and the board.

It's not even about the specifics of what he said. How hard is it to have one Twitter account for your random musings and another one for investment commentary?

Or, hire a full-time small team of lawyers whose only job is to be constantly VNC'd into your phone and shut it down if you're about to violate the SEC's terms about your use of Twitter.

If only there had been some prior warning signs, I don't know, maybe the board having some actionable thing to work with earlier. Say, like Musk calling a worldwide hero "pedo guy" on Twitter a year earlier, which might suggest that maybe his impulsive use of social media should be reigned in?
Any border crossing checkpoint is necessarily not at the actual border (which is mathematically impossible). And it’s absolutely incorrect to claim that historically we only patrolled the border to prevent smuggling. The border patrol was established in 1924. Federal immigration officers have been around since 1891. Exercise of the authority of the US to expel aliens for national security purposes dates to the founding era.
From watching some videos on the workings of their factory, it still seems like they've automated significantly more than their competitors. They reached for the stars and fell short, but that short is still ground-breaking.
I just looked up the 2018 federal budget for examples:

Department of Defense : $574 billion

Department of Veteran Affairs :$78.9 billion

Department of Education : $68.2 billion

Department of Health and Human Services :$65.1 billion

Environmental Protection Agency: $5.7 billion

Does this not seem off to you?
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Cryptocurrencies Market Activity Report. April 2019 [pdf]
>I think it's way further off than that, like, 10+, and almost certainly not without extra hardware being added to Teslas

Doubting like this is a pretty common view outside of Tesla, and we've heard it repeated many times here. They clearly disagree.

>Full self-driving is 90% edge cases. Adaptive cruise control is not a few incremental steps away from full self-driving

This they would completely agree with, as you can see from watching their recent autonomy day presentations. And they have an overwhelming lead in collecting edge case data, so... they're in good shape with that.
Would You Let the Police Search Your Phone?
The industry didn't take kindly to this:

Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, 204 Mich. 459, 170 N.W. 668 (Mich. 1919)[1] is a case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than in a charitable manner for the benefit of his employees or customers. It is often cited as affirming the principle of "shareholder primacy" in corporate America. At the same time, the case affirmed the business judgment rule, leaving Ford an extremely wide latitude about how to run the company....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Mostly, it just that like any CEO, he will always paint the situation in the best light possible. "Semi is coming next year", "Model X deliveries will start in 2015" etc.

The going-private-at-420 thing was reckless, and he's paid the price for that.

But I don't think its accurate to brand him a serial liar. He's just doing what a CEO does.
So we're using an imaginary alien threat to justify massive military spending while literally destroying billions of dollars by just eliminating it from the economy through stock buybacks.

Fictional times indeed. Just don't think too hard about the money.
Don't waste too much time on user on boarding, but putting some time towards user on boarding is good exercise to see if your product is understandable and are any holes that may off put users.
"And though we intend to hire remote engineers in Europe and Asia eventually, our hubs in Dublin and Singapore are not sufficiently established to support remotes just yet."
Listen to Queen's song of the same name. :)
Is GuixSD more stable after this new release? I really wanted to try using it on one of my machines but I ran into issues.
obviously the aliens will save us from all your worries
For Web serving, I could work around those GC hits right now, but it would take some work. (I previously did a lot of optimizing request latency on Racket-based Web servers using `scgi` fronted by Apache for historical reasons, and have some ideas about where to go next.)
It looks like https://simplepostal.com is the best deal since it starts at $2.50 with tracking, for which most of the other sites seem to charge $5+.
That the vast majority of humanity choose to ignore their moral impulses only testifies to our free will being absolute and the callous disregard (or worse) of others in the choices they make. Simply put, most people simply choose to remain moored to our physical body's animal heritage, where the mammalian dictates are competition between groups for power and within the group for sex and status.
In 2016 when you could pre-order a Model 3, Elon Musk promised a $35,000 car with a $7500 tax credit.

The tax-credit is gone, never to return... and the $35,000 car is no where to be found.

> 200,000 have been delivered to date.

Elon Musk promised 20,000 Model 3 Cars created / month in 2017. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/881757617416056832

In Q1 2019, the company created 50,900 Model 3 over three months, or 17000 Cars/month on the average.

This 20,000 / month number is important, it is estimated that 20k/month is roughly the profitability point for Tesla. Elon Musk is over a year late, the profits haven't come in yet, and they can't sustainably create cars at the promised rate.

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I understand your optimism here. But this $1.5 Billion raise is more debt to a company that never has seen a yearly profit. It HAS to make money to survive, and Elon Musk has been wrong on every financial metric worth a damn.

If Tesla doesn't make a profit, it will run out of money, eventually. It can't just keep borrowing $1.5 Billion in loans every couple of years when they are late on these kinds of targets.
> If anybody wants an example of where ligatures will cause problems, try playing a roguelike in a console using the Fira Code font with ligatures turned on.

I'm more looking for an example of where ligatures will cause problems while programming.
Only in North America unfortunately
This. Whenever someone asks "but how do they manage to be as productive as an office" I just roll my eyes

People who "can't adapt to it" usually is resistant to using technology to communicate efficiently. They're usually the ones who think it's just fine to do a quick loud meeting with a colleague (next to someone else's desk who has nothing to do with the conversation and is deeply annoyed by it)

Of course, talking in person is important, but it is absolutely not necessary to discuss 90% of mundane stuff.

"How do you remote work?" The answer is "Always work as remote, even if your colleague is next to you"
Just because you don't use or need those features doesn't mean that everyone feels the same.

Many people use any enjoy the features that steam provides. For example, I enjoy the ability to go to someone's profile and be able to instantly join their game. I enjoy the ability to organize events through events in steam groups. Many people I know use the Steam Workshop to share their fan-made content or the Marketplace to sell their items.

It's not just those features in the client though. Steam also has a number of integrations that developers can make in their games, such as achievements, integrating their multiplayer with steam (allowing for the aforementioned joining via profile), cloud saves, controller support, etc.

Right now Epic is missing many of these features and more. With that being said, what reason do I have to use Epic over Steam besides the fact that Epic has a few exclusives?
It's certainly possible that Stripe is offering productivity as the reason for their embrace of remote work when it's really about cheaper labor, but I'm hopeful. I know there are other companies where those decisions are transparently about lowering costs, but if what you say about remote workers typically getting less equity is true, too, that's pretty disappointing.
Isn’t the typical development time of any bigger game ~5 years? As somebody who followed the development with curiosity without backing anything, I never thought it was <5 years and given the scope I had the feeling it might be more.

But on the other hand, I don’t really get why it is so important how long it takes? As long as they get it done and as long as they can fund it who cares?
They probably don't care at all about any of that
His companies are exciting and I think we're all rooting for him to succeed.

I'm glad he's doing it privately though. If the government was spending the same amount of money (yeah, yeah, if the government was really doing it it would be 10x more expensive, slower, never gonna happen, etc.) and producing the same results I'm sure they would have pulled the plug already.

These companies could dramatically change the world and I'm glad he has the persistence and commitment to keep doubling down on these moonshots (or Mars shots).
H1Bs are used for non-immigrant workers to be allowed to work on US territory. So no, no need for H1B if workers live and work from a different country.
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Wow, that was really fast, congrats! I'd love to have Eternum support on ipfs-deploy, btw. Please let me know if you'd like to submit a PR and need help.
Why China launches its rockets over land, not water
Switched to Android years ago and am still sad that Tiny Wings is the pretty much the only game that is Apple exclusive.
> who wants to take this freedom away

Which freedom? If you are writing the code, you can do whatever you want.
Good to know about the terminology change. Thanks!

I understand what you mean by the difference. (I currently overlay Nix on top of a different Linux distribution.) But without the "system" part, Guix on its own is still not strictly an OS, since there's no kernel being deployed. A pedantic point, but an accurate one I think. :)
> I’d take an hour of staring at a wall over an hour of Hacker News any day, if I was trying specifically to drum up ideas for something to hack on.

I feel like this misses the point because you're still looking at it through the lens of productivity, albeit a step removed from "writing code" kind of productivity.

In your example you're still doing something -- "trying specifically to drum up ideas for something to hack on".

It seems like, if anything, this is an example of what the author is talking about: the need to turn everything into productivity.
What metrics do you use to realize that you are less productive?
I agree that the border is an infinitely thin line, and the checkpoint might not be literally on that line. But CBP has been detaining citizens not attempting to make any border crossing who are not even near the border or anywhere reasonably near the border; they have permanent checkpoints of this nature[1], too. (And I am of the opinion that those internal checkpoints exceed what should be allowed under the constitution.) Sure, the ACLU might have gone a bit too far with the marketing, but your post makes it sound as if they only operate checkpoints in manners that a normal person would think (not literally on the border, but within eyesight of it, or other reasonable distances based on geography), when that isn't the case.

In this particular case, the 100 mile debate is irrelevant. The argument here is not that CBP doesn't have the right to do a warrantless search at the border, it's that that right does not extend to searching the contents of a mobile device. Border-crossings are an "exception" to the fourth amendment, and that exception is a "narrow" exception that only applies to what is needed in order to balance the governments interests (here, securing our border against illegal immigration and importing goods not permitted) against the rights of the individual. The search is scoped, and should not exceed that scope; the argument is that searching the contents of electronic devices exceed that, since CBP has no business there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_in...
On that note, I have nothing against sponsored content. For example, a blog on programming that happens to have posts sponsored by a company that specializes in dev tools or something.

That makes perfect sense!

Sure, some of it can be puff-pieces for the company and they are quite clearly just bullshit but it's easy to leave and go elsewhere if they take the piss.

A banner at the top of a blog post saying "this content was kindly sponsored by <insert company relevant to the content>" is a great idea and more should do it.

But they don't!

They use ad networks that track the ever-living shit out of every move you make.

That's the issue for me!
On the photography side, you could either upload each day from hotel/coffeeshop wifi or put it on an SD card (which could be searched and confiscated).