skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I don’t think if I lost a programming conpetition to someone who was taking adderall I would feel any different about it. If it’s a conpetition, let’s just have the best person win and not impose arbitrary limitations on people.

A good example is the South African women who the olympic committee told to take a testosterone lowering drug in order to compete.

Competitions aren’t fair and there’s no such thing as “natural” in the first place. If the purpose of competitions is to find the absolute limit od human ability, it’s seem silly to me to ban steroids or long legs or too much testosterone.

I guess this is a different point that cheating, though.

Moreover, life is about bettering yourself and winning. That’s why I’ve always thought that cheating in college say is irrelevent. Unless the students are being graded on a curve, I don’t think academic cheating is a big deal.

tl;dr: By cheating you are only short changing yourself and no one should care about it.
These guys can get heavily rewarded by using those meetings effectively. It's hardly just punishing people for doing regular business activity, it's all about earning bonuses on top of a base income combined with a decentralized managerial approach.

It says top performers can get a full years salary each quarter which is hardly working for some peanuts like most bonuses.

The workers can choose which managers to work under based on their ability to perform, while allowing workers to bid and propose what to work on, while freeing up budget capital directly under the people doing the actual work. Which together is an amazing concept by itself.

Plus I don't see how this fuels consultant speak or useless managerial processes. If anything this is very hostile to those types of people who feed off useless meetings, long email threads, powerpoint presentations, unwieldy google docs, etc at high hourly rates.

I can't count how much of my career (and millions of other people's careers) was wasted appeasing heirachical managerial processes, usually via useless meetings so the managers can feel like they are doing something.

Although I agree that the small stuff like charging for "space for a wet umbrella" is taking the concept too far. Sometimes basic ideas work really well in some core areas... then people get excited and try to pigeonhole it onto everything (gamification is a good example of this in software).

The other challenge is avoiding rewarding "vanity metrics", which means they need a very good analytics and data science teams working with top management to establish KPIs, with frequent retroactives to evolve the reward models.

This also obviously isn't for everyone but I could see this working very very well with certain types of people.

Valve has a similar structure, minus the currency part, which resulted from hiring a very left-leaning economist to help build out a decentralized company structure.

So it's not just "free markets" vs top-down authoritative control. But rather strict hierarchical managerial structures vs decentralized individual units. Combined with a purely fixed compensation vs a basic income + fluid performance based compensation.

TLDR: It sounds brilliant to me, given a couple of the above asterisks (avoiding vanity metrics; pushing back on pigeonholing incentive systems onto everything just because you can; not every personality or industry niche flourishes in these types of environments).
Nintendo has unfortunately not been kind, but I can confirm that Kaze is a legend at what he does.
Here are a couple videos from reInvent 2018:

Jaso talking about DynamoDB internals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ

Marc talking about Lambda internals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzV04T_kec
Is the time spent compiling drastically more than the time spent debugging code because of the lack of types? A few seconds of compiling is because than the potential hours wasted on debugging. Besides, you can mitigate compile times by getting a faster computer. Silicon time is still way cheaper than carbon time.
As far as I know, this is the only reason to use GM (aka “roundup ready”) soy. The genetic modification only affects herbicide resistance.

If they’re using some other (uncommon/obscure) GM soy, they should have said so in the press release!
“contracted by Valve to work on XServer projects and improve KWin”
That must mean it's tempered at least, which would be safer. And I believe polycarbonate yellows after long-term exposure to UV, but would have more structural integrity. Glass would probably be better in the long run but they better not have any exterior trees with their high-wind-branch-shrapnel in proximity to the glass lol
Why would gluten allergies and intolerance be on the rise?
Do you mean not in the Dow anymore? It's 21st in the Fortune 500.
> Those foods can be assumed safe because, by definition, they have been eaten by humans for hundreds of thousands of years

Even prior to GM foods, humans have been engineering food to change it's traits for longer than civilization, and essentially everything humans eat today is a product of such engineering. GM foods differ systematically from other forms fo engineering only on the degree of precision and control possible (which is far from perfect, but much greater than any other known technique.)

Basically nothing humans eat today has been eaten for hundreds of thousands of years.
Yeah today's Seattle Times expose was tough to read.

So sad when profit comes before the loss of life.
I've been using ngrok for development purposes. This seems like an interesting alternative.
I read in one of the issues that he compiled some thousands of calls to print, one per line, and that was the benchmark.
You got the association off: It's not brand -> generic, it's "user has a problem" -> brand.

For non-techie people (most users), it was always "my computer" or "my PC" until they had a problem with it and had to think about "Windows". So yeah, as GP said, "Windows" did already have a negative reputation and was viewed as a necessary evil.

Particularly when the iPhone was released, Windows Vista had just come out a few months before.
Am I the only one who saw DEC in the title and got excited (perhaps a revival of the DEC Alpha 64 platform)?!?
Since K is supposed to be very small, the mystery is why no one has looked at the disassembled code of the free version and copied the optimizations to elsewhere.
Obligatory Matt Levine take

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-21/slack-...

> Good lord have they never read Coase[1]? The point of working at a company is that, like, there are pens, and desks, and a place for your umbrella, and the ability to commit to continuous work on a project for a sustained period rather than constantly shaking things up with never-ending auctions for resources and people. If it’s just a bunch of by-the-day freelancers at rented desks, why have the company at all? (In fact, it's a mixed bag: “Disco’s operating margin has risen to 26% from 16% since the experiment was implemented eight years ago,” but “engineers have quit, complaining the approach detracts from their ability to focus purely on research,” and “the relentless focus on quarterly profits can encourage short-term thinking.”)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
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I’m surprised there’s no mention of how anecdotes and rhetoric fit into storytelling. I’ve found that good, empirically-based historians tend to weave in facts and data through stories.
Time can be exchanged for money.

And requiring people to burn money-equivalents for tickets produces a large loss - the potential gains from supposedly better distribution hardly seem worth it.
> Yes: meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts...

Yes, but if you zoom out to categories that broad, GM food still fits within them. GM foods are not any less like foods eaten tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago than anything else we eat.
Nature will take care of it by killing us until we start to do things differently.
Sounds like utter bullshit to me. 0.1 ppb causing severe organ damage? This cannot possibly be true. The LD50 of glyphosate in rats is 5,600 mg/kg, or 56 million times that concentration.
So its even worse, our leaders gave them the crown jewels and got nothing in return you say?
I linked it above too, but 1ppm (1000ppb) is the proposed EPA guideline, but 20x that is proposed for soybeans:

https://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=EPA-H...

I’d be curious to hear what the guidelines are outside of north america.
I don’t know but Moms Across America is 100% not a credible source for anything. If they’re right it’s a “stopped clock” situation.
From the article: "94% of the soy grown in the US is genetically engineered to resist herbicide toxicity. This helps control weeds without more toxic weed control agents or over-reliance on tillage, which drives soil carbon loss."

And while GM soy itself is harmless (per the links in the article), the Roundup herbicide it enables is far less conclusive as to its health effects: see https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-parent-company... and https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/how-toxic-is-the-...

It's very difficult to fully avoid produce treated by these products, and I doubt that Impossible Burger does anything to concentrate herbicide residue any more than any other processed foods. (EDIT: other links in these comments throw this into question.) And I respect that they've made a pragmatic compromise: their use of GM produce could truly move the needle on livestock consumption, whereas rejecting it could prevent market adoption of their entire category. They're making the best of a horrid situation; if you want to blame someone, blame Monsanto, not them.
https://twitter.com/we_didnt_start was a pretty hard-working bot for this sort of thing.
well some people are not interested in management positions and building your own thing is sometimes not as easy for everyone, so care to elaborate why it doesn't make sense?
Ha! I did the same in 2014, interesting to see how it has changed in that time http://interconnected.org/home/2014/12/12/billy_joel
This is purely anecdotal, but I (22) know a lot of people in my generation who easily get stomach aches from milk and gluten. I've had some problems myself. Really kinda sucks.
> We also tended to die a lot of malnutrition.

Only because populations tended to run closer to their own carrying capacity so that any shock (from variation in the natural environment or human conflict or ...) would put them over and cause malnutrition, not because normal supply was inadequate.

It's only fairly recently that humans other than in the most ideal environments could produce more than a small surplus of food even in good years (of course, that capacity was acheived in part by millenia of engineering for food for yield traits, with a lot of incidental changes induced along the way.)
> A lot of GMO soy actually lets them use less additional roundup that would contribute to runoff.

How so? (I’m genuinely curious)
GMO foods have been eaten for well over 3 decades. I think if there were adverse health effects, we would've seen 'em.

The only reason to dislike GMO is if they increased herbicide usage (e.g., roudup). But from what i hear, using GMO to reduce herbicide usage is more likely, and therefore, is better than a non-GMO version of the crop.
One bullet from one drone, and the thing is a puff. It's more expensive to build than a drone? Why does this make sense?
> Also, Roundup is almost certainly a carcinogen

That point is highly contested.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/spray-pr...
> if you put food in a small microwave then put the small microwave in a bigger microwave does the food cook faster?

No. The microwaves stay in the smaller microwave oven because it is a microwave-tight box. If you put that small microwave oven in a bigger microwave oven the bigger one will likely fry many of the component of the smaller one but the food inside the inner microwave oven is unlikely to be affected because the outer microwaves are unable to penetrate the inner microwave-tight box.
Could you please explain how is it Xenophobia to call out someone (or a group) who have been systematically stealing inventions from other nations over the last few decades while profiting from it, sponsored directly by their very own top governmental organizations?

Look what happened to the Japenese bullet train, the Samsung foldable displays, Huawei, etc. etc.
They did it in local tribes. If the experiment proved harmful, the impact was local. In this case, the impact could be global. Big difference.
"The disagreement led to McFly being arrested on suspicion of resisting and obstructing, as well as for a warrant that was previously issued for an old parking ticket"
That's what I thought too but it has over 800 stars on Github
That hinges on a very outlandish, entirely unsupported conspiracy theory that you floated in your initial post: that the US Government is intentionally allowing China to steal all the IP in question.

The politicians in DC obviously love the idea of debasing their sole superpower status and their global power that goes with it. They like that notion so much, they've never been known to launch wars on the other side of the planet, commit coups, abuse sanctions, abuse their global intelligence / espionage position, or use any other such tactics in the post WW2 era to continue that position of power. So they'll just hand it over to China on a silver platter through vast, intentional IP transfer. More likely, there is a combination of political superpower naivety (persistently overestimating their ability to control China over the past two decades) and incompetence at work.
Every GM product is different.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employme..., it appears so.
Figured I'd create a throwaway account to chime in here.

I'm 40+, and have to say the last few years (working for Fortune 100 companies) I am truly mortified at the lack of skill in many of the younger folks I've worked with.

Also, generally speaking when I've had a younger boss I would say it's NEVER because they're qualified for the position. Generally it seems they've been able to pull the wool over their managers' eyes. Don't get me wrong, they have no bad intentions. All I'm saying is confidence can only get you so far in technology.
Whatever they promised - The Google's and VCs of the world put in money into them. What does that tell us about investors in this country?
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Oh, that’s the cutoff? What about Brussels sprouts?
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Is it possible you read this as thy give you only the information you need without context?

I always give the why along with the request, but spare the noise.
Someone here described chatbots really well. They attempt to address a failure of your product.

The problem I see is that if you want to know what it's doing you could probably spend less time fixing the issues that the chatbot attempts to solve.
The diagram showing running processes within threads reminds me of MIPS pipeline, which I know the n64 CPU wasm I've seen this article before and I didn't notice the copyright Nintendo. Was this apart of the official Nintendo api provided to developers?
That FOMO is rampant; if you’re waiting for the startup to prove its tech, you’ve likely missed the investment boat already.

Just saying, there is definitely some rationale to it, esp when considering how investment portfolios are precipitated on a few huge winners and 99% losers.
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I guess OP means "amount of content", which is definitely true. That one little trick, combined with genuine fresh gameplay, gave it some incredible longevity.

I've been playing through the first two Thief games, released 20 years ago, and I put 60 hours into beating the first and am already 30 hours into the second.

Gotta say I'm extremely impressed given most games I've played in the last few years are on the order of a few hours' playtime.
Thinking about this again, there's a bit of difference: most people running a Tor exit node probably made a conscious decision to take this risk.
I've wanted to do something similar to test webhooks in the past.
Firing shots off in the air introduce a lot more variables then blasting them with microwaves.

Bullets are cheap, but I don't see that solution working in urban environments.
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It really is winner take all ... There’s room for exactly one non-Apple operating system, and what’s that worth? $400 billion that would be transferred from company G [Google] to company M [Microsoft]. -- Bill Gates

Who'd have known in 2011 that by 2019, The Four Greatest Companies in the world (by cap) would be All-America [1], Microsoft would be back on top, and then combined together, they spell MAGA -- in almost perfect order too [2]...

Symbol Company Cap Rank

M MSFT Microsoft 1.05 T 1
A AMZN Amazon.com 940.99 B 2
G GOOG Alphabet 779.39 B 4
A AAPL Apple 914.60 B 3

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-America

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again#Socia...
The bullet has to connect with the drone, they can move very fast in a number of directions.

One bullet may not be enough unless it hit the flight computer.

When the navy shoots bullets at a incoming projectile, they pretty much create a wall of lead (Phalanx).

Even if you could shoot one bullet, one bullet could go through it and into the window of a high rise office building.
Laser induced plasma channel and then zzzt zzzzt lightning ;)
I'm always excited to see updates on V
The cognitive load needs to be high; it’s the thought required to make better decisions about time and resources. Normally little thought goes into these things.

Plus, it seems that over time it becomes easier to operate more effectively. A team who has decided to save $200 a week by skipping status meetings isn’t thinking about them anymore beyond a periodic re-evaluation.
Yes!

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

GANs simply try to replicate a set of features - you can think of this as images or text. Variations in the GAN designs will be present, but the general principles are the same.
I’ve been buzzed by 120 quite a few times. Never 220 though. I also got shocked by about 800 volts from a tube radio once, which lit me up pretty good. Fortunately that was pretty low amperage I think.
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Dead on!
I asked this very same question while I was there during its development. The answer was "its a badge of honor". Ugh.
[I have no affiliation with the Vue team .. just a happy user]

IMHO, composition functions are an elegantly simple and well thought through addition to Vue brought about by a good consultative process. I think this demonstrates that Vue is in good hands with intelligent and wise counsel steering the ship. This small change is nothing like the Angular v1 => V2 experience! No one is breaking backward compatibility!!

Vue is all about coding simplicity ... and although reading through this RFC is at times heavier reading (meaning Evan's team thought through this addition very thoroughly), the final outcome is not! It's uses syntax that is very similar to existing Vue components so if you needed to refactor existing larger components into smaller composition functions, the coding experience is fast and would feel very natural and familiar with minimal to learn. No one is forcing this additional on you ... its just there if you needed it.

So please before getting spun up on any further misinformation in this thread please read the RFC from Evan You or this very thorough explanation of the RFC which has some nice coding examples.

- https://dev.to/danielelkington/vue-s-darkest-day-3fgh

Is it just React Hooks? ... here's a Comparison

- https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/blob/function-apis/active-rfcs...

My personal journey

I've coded Angular/Ionic, ExtJS & Sencha Touch, Knockout/jQuery in the past. Learning Vue was nothing like learning and keeping up with these! I was highly productive in Vue in 3 days and the learning curve and documentation was much simpler and lighter so more time to stay focused on the code. I've refactored a legacy boostrap/jQuery web site into nice Vue components in a few hours (impossible with the others!).

I'm absolutely loving the super productive Quasar Framework built on Vue 2.x/3.x which now delivers 130 components, directives and boot plugins with builders for ALL platforms: Web or SPAs (Desktop & Mobile), PWAs, SSR, SSR + PWA, Cordova iOS/Android mobile, Desktop/Electron and dream documentation.

- Check it out: https://quasar.dev
The article mentions that the upside is a quarterly bonus that can approach the value of the annual salary.
Apparently lenses can be radioactive: https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Radioactive_lenses
I should have clarified that to be Chromebook and Android.

End of the day, the Microsoft ecosystem just dominated client tech utterly. The previous king of mobile, Blackberry, was basically a hardware version of Microsoft Outlook.

They had tablets and phones years ago, but chose to position them as shitty PCs instead of real devices. Internet Explorer for Windows CE was a steaming pile of shit that has it been something better would have changed many things.

Today Microsoft is in trouble and is running on inertia. In many ways Apple owns higher ed. Google completely dominates K-12. The Windows 10 strategy is designed to make IT people in enterprises fail.

All of that was triggered by the iPhone.
The kids now a days hate the work ethics and common sense approach of older workers. Managers who got their jobs by social justice polices are scared of experienced workers quickly replacing them.
You still believe (or are pushing the narrative at least..) the USA is a sovereign entity.

That's cute, especially after you've already mentioned the Fed and QE.
Biggest mistake was to let Ballmer to stall Microsoft progress, creativity and business for a decade.

Say it, Bill
Can someone explain the title? :)
For context, that'd be about 1.25 years of current world GDP [1]. If we maintain a 3.6% growth rate for 100 years, the economy will be 34 times larger, so it'd take two weeks of the world's total economic output to capture all that carbon. (In the worst case scenario there'd be about twice as much carbon by then, so stretch that to a month. [2])

Of course we might not be able to smoothly convert the entire world GDP to carbon capture plants for a fortnight, and there'd be deleterious global warming effects in the meanwhile, but overall napkin math paints a pretty optimistic picture for geoengineering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
[2] https://e360.yale.edu/assets/site/_600xAUTO_stretch_center-c... from https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon...
I don’t know. I’m willing to pay $5-10 to get work done at a coffee shop. I must think the result justifies the cost. I’m also aware I could save this money if I learned to do the same work at home. Four developers paying $25 each to reserve a conference room isn’t too different of a situation.
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I see many people here calling engineers to people who are only coders. A software engineer is something else, and guess what? It is not only about coding, is designing a product from concept to delivery. ( and maintenance of course ). By the way, ageism ( at least in the Bay Area ) is real as hell. It’s happening to me right know, and I am ONLY 43 years old. This is the truth, if the interviewer is younger than you, it does not matter how good you are or what amazing skills you have, you won’t get the job. Sorry, but that’s the truth right now.