skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, the argument is academic since MS is also willing to increase prices on universities when they feel like it. I remember when they revoked per-seat pricing at the University of Texas 25 years ago.
This is just true for tech overall. Job hopping will almost always lead to more money than staying at one place and navigating the ladder. What you gain with cash, you lose in clout.
From a risk management perspective, with the little that we do know, an increase in cosmic ray dose is indeed a concern. That we don't know the exact % isn't all that relevant, we know enough to know the baseline dosage was already substantial enough, that any increase is not negligible.
The US did get a National Anthem out of it I guess...

And a burned down White House
How are you all on this fine WWW I need to prosper for me most importantly, my Son, others less fortunate as guidance. ¿
Or even around decision making which is a large part of engineering.

If I ignore or undermine the choices made by manager I will be fired. But vice versa is not true.
> You think everything from Berkeley to Patterson should be under unified government? Everything from Palo Alto to Los Banos?

Berkeley is in Alameda County, while Patterson is in Stanislaus County, so no.

Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County, while Los Banos is in Merced County, so no.
How can I explain the importance of shell access to my non-technical manager?
Hey HN, long time reader first time poster.

The situation: I'm a new data scientist at a large food company after leaving a large software development company (complete career domain change). My current company is in the beginning stages of a contract with an analytical software company and the applications are in the contractor's cloud. I'd like to write scripts against these applications to automate of work like changing projects, taking data extracts, etc. The software company also has their own proprietary language that I'd like to use Python to make calls too. I can't replicate their language server locally.

The problem: The only entry point into their cloud is RDP which only provides a desktop. I've asked for direct access to our instances in their cloud through ssh and have been denied by the contractor citing a security concern ("The internet could try to compromise it"). This makes a lot of the work I was planning to perform much more tedious and so I'm trying to explain to my manager why shell access is so important.

Appreciate any input. Any good analogies? I've tried explaining it in different ways to my manager - who kind of gets it - but the full importance hasn't really been clicking. Hoping the wisdom of the internet might able to help out.
That depends on how you define "manager". In our company, managers serve empowering function and don't have firing powers. They take full responsibility for growth and progress of the people they manage. They can report issues with people they manage to certain parts of the org, but can't solemnly pull the trigger.

We are also significantly smaller than Square though, with 40+ employees. We want to keep it this way up until sustainable, then figure out something else. We don't want managers to ever be able to single handedly fire people.
Is it possible you are conflating positional power with earning power? Your earning power is not limited by staying on the IC track in this setup. Positional power is always dependent on where you are in the organization and what your actual job in the organization happens to be.
Also reminds me of the quotes that Niles said to Frasier when Seattle named a day after him:

Niles: Happy Frasier Crane Day. Or is it Merry Frasier Crane Day,
I can never remember.
Frasier: Very amusing.

[...]

Frasier: Oh, up late last night?
Niles: Oh, I'm afraid so, as usual I left it till the last minute
to write all my Frasier Crane Day cards!
The side effect of a promotion quota that managers who have the knack for hiring more talented people then other managers may hit the same limit as managers who hire a terrible team.
As a layman, I imagine the simulation would have to account for any one of the thousands of different compounds and chemicals in the brain where emulating it might be easier but a lot less useful, like testing drugs on mice versus humans, never knowing what real difference will make an important one.
It's certainly not taught as a US victory, at least in Pennsylvania. It was taught as a stalemate at best, with a final battle at the end that gave Andrew Jackson an impressive victory.
We're looking ... Something about Gsuite permissions isn't working as expected :)
you are (we all are?) confusing promotion as tournament with promotion as payment for services and promotion for span of control

An engineer who stays an engineer will want to increase in skills and experience and be recognised as such through increased pay

An engineer who wants to get the top jobs in management will want promotion because there are scarcer fewer positions as you go up the ladder - they are deferring their pay for a hope of massive tournament winning payouts.They would be well advised to avoid having direct responsibility for greater control (ie approving the change is ok, changing the feature flag yourself bad)

An engineer who wants to stop being an engineer and mentor others (and fight the idiosyncrasies of the organisation) will want promotion with the added responsibility

If your pay and promotion strategy is not aligned with these then problems will result
I'd rather see the repeal of Prop 13:

• more municipal revenue means better schools and infrastructure

• better schools and infrastructure would support more development

• higher property taxes would remove the incentive to hang on to property forever making it easier to buy and develop property

• removing the disincentive to sell property also reduces the NIMBY imperative, since home owner can move to another area if they don't like how their neighborhood is developing

It's not a silver bullet; we'd still have to tackle zoning issues, remaining (and still powerful) NIMBYs, and the everyone-has-a-veto problem, but it's a good start.
Thanks for encouraging consumption of tropical fruit that needs to be shipped on diesel around the world while growing it results in rainforest loss?
> I don't know if that level of consolidation is necessary but the core area could definitely be consolidated into like 6-8 municipalities

There are 9 Bay Area counties, so we agree?
NYC Vim – May 2019 – Chuck D. On Package Managers
How do you mean, python is slow to start up?

$ time python -c 'exit()'
python -c 'exit()' 0.01s user 0.01s system 98% cpu 0.021 total

Seems pretty fast to me...

And though python is no speed daemon, for a scripting/embedded language, it's likely to be fast enough.
Sure. Some may even find your stance too sympathetic. There are countries where, today, executives would be jailed or executed for the harm they've brought upon their users. Such insane views are the norm for other countries, but not for a democratic country like the US. What was FB's crime again, that deserves for it to be wiped off the face of the planet ?

Of course it is perfectly fine and within your rights to believe and say that the world would be better off without FB (and Google no less!) but you must understand by now that your opinion is that of a tiny minority.

To answer in good faith however: I do agree with the spirit of what you are saying. Companies should be held accountable and fines are probably a good tool to achieve that.
Nope. There is no acid in the mouth, and acid doesn't break down carbohydrates anyways, its all enzymes in the intestine.

Amylase, the thing in the mouth, breaks down starches, like in rice or bread. Glycogen is different from these though, as it has different linkages, and can't be broken down by amylase.
The US example doesn't invalidate all forms of intervention, but it does call into question any proposal of US intervention, which is the context here.
Zoom out, you’re looking too close.
I see your point. I'm left wondering if there aren't real impacts to testing this technology in the real world though. Like if there have been any deaths due to emergency responders being stuck behind these vehicles or something similar.
Use frameworks that are at least 3+ years old for production
I feel bad for you, man.
Goodwill is the accounting balance recorded when a company buys another company for more than the value of its assets.

If you have $1bn in assets, and you sell to my company for $2bn, $1bn is recorded as the assets bought and the other $1bn has to be recorded somewhere - and that somewhere is 'goodwill.'

Later, if the acquisition turns out to have been a bad idea, and what I bought from you was worth only $1.2bn, I will record an $800mm 'goodwill impairment' that would be a loss on my income statement and 80% of that goodwill would no longer be recorded as an asset.
My boss does an evaluation of my performance for the purposes of HR, but he doesn’t really manage me and I don’t think he makes more money than me. Our IC roles go all the way up to Director level without having any reports.
It seems someone's trying hard to be funny without remotely succeeding.
Is it weird that I don't trust the settlement link at the end of the article?
The way we implement this, you cannot report to a manager who is the same level as you. A sufficiently senior IC with an entry level manager gets transferred up the org chart upon promotion.
Any alternative suggestions for air-gapped home PC backup?
Hrm, but then how does someone vote about stuff that directly impacts where they live?

Maybe if people would get one vote in each area, or a double-vote if both were the same place...
Our recent infusion of Y Combinator investment money had enabled us to switch our diets from mooching off of my aunt and uncle to actually buying our own food at the grocery store. This was super exciting, and I was taking full advantage of this newfound freedom.

I love this bit of the article.

"I can afford groceries" + snark = accidentally founding a new holiday
Revenue is up 19%.

Net income up >300%.

Most of the revenue and profit from ads.

Stepping back for a minute, political polarization has be increasing for about the length of time that Google has been in business. I'm not claiming Google is the cause, but rather that Google's tenure is a proxy for an acceleration in political polarization. [1]

Polarization enables outrage. Think Antifa vs. Proud Boys. Pelosi vs. Omar. AOC vs. ICE. Outrage reduces the amount of critical thought people put into the information they see and use to draw or reinforce conclusions they have about other groups, in particular, their polar opposites.

Outrage drives clicks, shares, likes and retweets. Clicks, shares, likes and retweets drive views, views drive ads, ads drive revenue.

Now, toss neural nets into the cycle. Neural nets do in fact learn and improve as feedback loops transpire.

Why wouldn't we expect these systems to learn that among other things, information that increases polarization results in the desired goal of increasing revenue, absent of any deliberate intervention by human beings?

[1] https://www.allsides.com/blog/political-polarization-america...
Nope! but good to know.
ssh is much more secure than rdp imho - I guess unless it's all behind a vpn, in which case you could just ssh over the vpn as well and the ssh port is never exposed on the actual internet, so the attack surface would be the same.

That being said, there's always a way -- you could use rdp to constantly run a reverse ssh tunnel somewhere, then just connect to the other end of the tunnel...
The U.S. wanted Britain to stop kidnapping American sailors for its own war against France.

I'd say there was a major conflict of interest there.
Note I said core area, I didn't mean to include most of the east bay. The areas I was thinking were only in 5 (SF, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda) of the 9 counties
"Endangered" and just 125$ in compensation in the same sentence doesn't sound right
That's why I recommended oDroid to people who want to regularly use systems like rPi's. Most of their offerings support eMMC add-ons
Yep. I write my engine in D, which is nicer than c++ for prototyping, but regardless I embed a scheme for scripting.
Interesting note about Ray Kurzweil, his predictions on when humanity accomplishes human brain simulation don't predict we will achieve this until the next decade. (2020-2030)
The classic Andalusian hacienda has two levels, top for winter living and lower for summer, it has an inside patio (some with a fountain) covered with a canopy or canvas.

But yes white and thick walls, thick roofs with ceramic tiles help a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Towns_of_Andalusia
You can do better. :D
There's nothing stopping Canadian companies from paying the same wages as American companies.
Yes this is a huge problem. These days everyone gets a say and the loudest voice wins but many people are simply not systematic thinkers. Their idea of a how a system should behave is whatever behavior gives them what they want now, regardless of what the final equilibrium of moving to that state would be.
No the finding is that they tested GR near a boundary, where you might expect find issues, and found that it held up. The title and the comment Ghez makes about the interior of a black hole are a bit misleading.

As far as interiors of black holes, I can only guess that she's pointing out (a) that we can't directly observe anything past the event horizon and (b) GR doesn't really make claims about what's going on in the very center at the singularity. From what I've read, it's thought that inside the event horizon, black holes are almost totally empty until you get to the singularity (or torus if it's spinning) at the center.
Sounds like they may want to remove water out of the cargo for transport and pump it back in for unloading
> Promotions don’t unlock new responsibilities; the new responsibilities and increased scope come first and then we recognize it with a promotion.

I think a big part of the problem is the difficult position managers are in when they consider promoting somebody. I've never seen anybody get demoted, even after failing to meet the expectations of a new role. They're either left in their role indefinitely, moved to a less important project, or fired. As a manager there's a lot riding on promoting somebody if my only corrective option is to give them up, especially since they're likely good in their current capacity if I'm considering promoting them. If I want to be absolutely sure, my least risky option is to have them do the work for a fraction of the pay to prove that they can do it. This also helps prove to their peers how capable they are so I'll face less backlash from people who would otherwise argue that they deserved the promotion.

If demotion was common practice it would guarantee indefinite accountability and increase managers' risk tolerance when considering whether or not they want to promote somebody. Realistically I think employees would leave in droves if a company started implementing this over night, but it does seem odd that such a potentially useful course of action isn't even on the table.
"What kind of dream world do you inhabit where you think it’s easier to travel to other stars or terraform planets than simply not “shit where you eat” on this planet? Slow down our economic growth? Stop dumping trash? Nah, that’s too hard."

A lot of people do see the concept of some entity strictly controlling the entire world as unattainable, regardless of whether it would be desirable or not.

Seriously.

So, yeah, travelling elsewhere is easier, because it requires less coordination. Space travel doesn't seem as rooted in the insolubility of political problems.

Not trying to convince you this is right, just that the opposite of your opinion is "obvious" to other people who think differently than you.
From skirmishes in the 1990s crypto wars I can assure you plenty of open source software was export controlled.

In fact this was a drive for some of Cygnus' overseas offices: not to evade the law but to do development that could not be spoiled by accidentally exposing it to a person subject to export control laws. Stupidly, we could import that software into the States, but people there couldn't fix bugs in it, only file reports.
Intel NICs are indeed good. I suppose that an exception. I don’t know much of the history behind HDCP, but the crypto is a joke.

Interesting things to look up: SoFIA, Puma 6, all the Atom-based phones out there, Larrabee / Xeon Phi. A lot of money has been spend, and the returns have been dubious.
I'm no radiation expert, but I have referred to https://xkcd.com/radiation/ a few times.

The symptoms they describe of a solar flare would, according to the chart, put it at around 400 - 4000 mSv.

I'm not sure it's correct to say that cosmic rays are 20x worse than solar flares since they're over a much longer period of time and the effects of radiation are related to both the intensity and duration of exposure.
I think you're discounting the roll of America's massive industrial output, which shipped more than 17 million tons of goods to the Soviet Union throughout the war, including more than 400,000 trucks/jeeps, 7,000 tanks, 11,000 airplanes, and 1.75 million tons of food, just to name a bit.

Relative to national size, the Soviet Union received more tanks and planes from the British than the Americans, but the American trucks in particular were incredibly important for the Soviets. During that same period the Soviet Union only produced a fraction of that many trucks and Soviet trucks were frankly inferior trucks. Beyond the obvious logistic advantages of trucks in a war largely characterized by mobility, receiving American trucks allowed the Soviet Union to dedicate more of it's (relatively limited) industrial capacity to the production of tanks and airplanes.

Incidentally, here is something else American students aren't taught (I wonder if Japanese students are?): The leadership of the Japanese military considered the emperor to be a figurehead and after the 2nd atomic bombing when the Emperor was preparing to surrender, the staff office of the Ministry of War as well as several members of the Imperial Guard seized control of the Imperial Palace, with the goal of preventing surrender. They failed of course, but only due to the bravery and good luck of a few people in the Palace. The point here being, there were high ranking elements of the Japanese military that wanted to continue fighting even after the second bomb, and even with the Soviets preparing an invasion. Nationalism is a hell of a drug...
This is basically a page to help with recruiting. A lot of companies do this, long detailed posts about career ladders. Then sometimes a short bullet point list about "good work-life balance", "competitive compensation", basically the things that really matter, but no real details.

As a senior engineer with a good job who has been in this industry for a while, here's what really matters for me when I look at new jobs:

- Does your company allow WFH schedules to everyone? There's debate about full remote vs full onsite, I'm not talking about that. I'm just talking about working within driving distance, but having a 3-2 or 4-1 weekly schedule of onsite vs WFH. There's really no excuse to not offer this at this point in communication technology. Some excuse like "more collaboration" doesn't apply if everyone is still going to the office regularly. And this has to be allowed for everyone, not just special exceptions for a few. It must be a culture where everyone is WFH regularly.

- Will I have to write code on a whiteboard? If yes, then goodbye. Even a chromebook with a html page that has nothing but a <textarea> element is better than a whiteboard for writing code. Will I have to study leetcode for weeks to pass your interviews? Then also goodbye, I don't have time for that and it's a stupid way to do interviews. A fizz buzz type question to just see if someone can write any code, that's ok. Leetcode stuff is not ok. Take-home test? It better be really short or also goodbye.

- Compensation, it's actually ok if you're not at FANG level, few companies can be. The other things like offering regular WFH schedules are very valuable and this is how non-FANG companies should compete. But it needs to be still a reasonable amount of compensation. Guidelines are really difficult here due to so many factors such as cost of living. But I know a bad offer when I see one so don't try to trick me.

- Well defined on-call process that doesn't burn out engineers.

- Minimum of 4 weeks vacation. If it's less to start, you better have a schedule that increases that quickly (not some 1 week for every 5 years bullshit). And if you're doing no vacation (AKA "unlimited vacation"), you better have something really convincing that shows people do take long vacations in your office. Like an official policy to encourage this.

I don't care about free lunch, video game consoles in the office, all that silicon valley "perks". Tell me about the stuff that really matters.
What about the fact they're unrealized?
I think beer should be considered food, but otherwise I can get on board with this.
As it should be. Eminent domain is a policy that's is designed to be abused if there ever was one. I suspect that the only reason eminent domain has such a fancy name is to take focus of the fact that the other word for it is theft.
We have a very similar system here at http://www.synacor.com, and it works really well. The "Promotions don't unlock new responsibilities" thing actually has a big upside: you don't come in the day after your promotion and have the chance to fail at your new job, you were succeeding at it already.

The downside is that it really relies on EMs to work hard to make sure that ICs have clear, measurable plans to advance. At Synacor, there's a standard format for how these plans work, and all plans get review from senior managers, so it works fairly well, but a vague plan or one filled with details that are easily overcome by market changes will usually fail and the individual will not be promoted. It can also be challenging because, at higher levels, the plans often include improvement in multiple areas -- say, improving development skills, but also taking on more mentoring. If the developer learns and applies new skills well, but is having a hard time with mentoring, that will delay the promotion, which can leave a frustrated dev whose promotion is delayed.

It does essentially eliminate the Peter Principle, however -- people who are about to get promoted beyond their abilities will discover that before their promotion, and they'll stay in a happy spot.
That ratio is unreliable because of how they invest so much in future growth. Those capital and R&D expenses will not be around forever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
what if is impossible to simulate a brain without ending creating exactly another one, brain use tiny space and mass, and in that confined space is very efficient doing a lot of calculation that we are not even aware of, using the least amount of energy and dissipating the least amount of heat possible.

have you ever feel that your brain is suffering from overheating?
I agree, he did great!
I really like ChaiScript and have used it in a couple of small game projects.

But I stopped using it because it was insanely slow (in both compile times and runtime performance). Several hundred (if not thousand) times slower than the equivalent Lua code.

That was a few years ago, but skimming through the release notes, it doesn't seem to have been fixed.
The US does intend it for terrorists, but the US also intended to neutralise "WMDs". So, believing either US or China is crazy.
I was taught (in the USA) that in the end nothing substantial changed (i.e., it was essentially a stalemate). I think that is more or less true.
That’s 3% of market cap, try again on your explanation. Hint: accelerating revenue growth
>I guess the US is afraid that terrorists may develop weapons using Adobe flash player xD

Don't forget the old iTunes TOS.