skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As well as stability issues, long range dependencies, etc..
i know that they use labview and national instruments for some components, but my comment was more along the lines of "if they have some large dependence on labview and ni hardware, then [it would be very surprising...]".

however, it does seem they have used it a lot, at least in the past. they have a site license (which is uncommon except for universities) and what appears to be a large internal component written in labview.

https://readthedocs.web.cern.ch/display/MTA/LabVIEW+support

https://readthedocs.web.cern.ch/display/RADE/RADE

https://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-10795

http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-16048

if someone is heavily using ni hardware and software, then there are really not many alternatives at all.
An IC can definitely have and maintain more control than managers, they just need to produce visible value to the company.

I've seen multiple ICs with more power than their direct manager. They are basically immune to being fired because higher-level leaders understand their value and respect their track record.
How do you airgap a backup?
Cool to see this published. At GitLab we have a page that serves a similar purpose on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/career-develop...
What Are Coinbase's Engineering Principles?
this seems directly copied from the model used at Amazon (even down to numbers assigned to levels)
> That’s not true either. Who’s the highest compensated person at Square? Is he a manager or an IC?

> The root poster is absolutely correct. The responses that say you can have a great life without climbing to the top of the highest ladder are also correct, but they aren’t refuting what the root post says.

> Also, while things look pretty rosy for senior ICs right now, I wonder how many people lauding that path are in their forties or older. It’s one thing to be a respected principal engineer in a strong economy but what about if we hit another recession and your third wave tech company gets bought out by IBM?

I was with you until the very last part of the very last sentence. In my experience, often times where there is management duplication they will trim management (we don't need _all_ of these engineering managers do we?) but keep performing ICs.
Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming
Contrary to popular legend in Canada, the White House was not painted white in the aftermath of the fire. But it’s amazing how much was destroyed, including the entire Library of Congress:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
> Look at car ads. Do they say "The new 2019 models are available"? A few do. Do they say "This car gets better gas mileage" or "This car is safer"? A few do. Most say "If you drive this car, you'll get the hot girl". That's not "educating consumers". That's trying to make consumers want your product on the basis of something completely unrelated to your product.

You and I must be watching different commercials, because I see far more of the former.
What are your objections to using remote workers based in your own country?
We're a startup in YC's Startup School.
Our website is: https://assistable.com/

We're in the process of identifying objections to using remote workers based in the U.S. & Canada by clients in the same countries and time zones.

What are your objections to using remote workers based in your country and time zone and how might we be able to overcome them?
Try looking it up in search engines first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Effect_on_electroni...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays...
They lied about their plans to raise prices, and raising prices has caused a problem. The lie, combined with their error in judging price elasticity, is enough to represent a material harm to shareholders who could not act with accurate information. Perhaps given knowledge of a price hike they would have sold, anticipating subscriber loss. Or maybe not. The fact is they were lied to, and denied the opportunity to act on accurate information. There's enough meat in that for an activist investors lawsuit on grounds of securities fraud. Even without a material loss, lying to investors is fertile ground for a suit.
Since neural networks train using the data of the masses I would exactly expect the effect to funnel towards consensus as opposed towards controversy. Let autoplay run long enough and eventually we all get the same videos.

I think there's plenty other explanations for the current political climate. It has perhaps moreso to do with how the media was previously controlled by small number of big players versus the many smaller players we have today with more extreme views.
Is there an agricultural industry of which you approve that treats field hands well, etc?
The history books I read in school didn't leave it out. But they did leave out the impetus (i.e. American troops burning down civilian buildings in Canada).
Publicly funded research must be held to a higher standard. Investors can throw their own money at whatever, but when you're throwing someone else's money, there's a duty to actually communicate to the public what you're spending it on.
I see. So when you said "No, it won't ever(x) become a problem", it was like one of those ads "Unlimited(x) data", with the fine print "(x) unlimited is meant to be understood as less than 10 GB per month", or in your case "(x) ever means at most 200 years from now"

Note, that when I said "all of India being airconned" I literally meant all of India, as in the whole subcontinent being a single giant city with 100 billion people living in it. And on that scale you need energy not only for airconn, but food/water/waste disposal/... But I guess you exclude that possibility too. It's understandable through why you would just imagine that I was talking about making India into something like present day Europe. In general people find it really hard to imagine anything radically different than the status quo.
NLP Eminem and Other Rappers BCI AI/Algorithms
AFAICT those are the national figures from a National Association of Realtors (NAR) report. I can't find figures for California.

EDIT: The closest I could find was an ambiguous stat in a CNN article, https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/real_estate/home-prices-sel..., which cites an average of a little over 4 years (2000-20007) that might be for San Jose. However, there's wording that suggests such figures are computed from the tenure of sellers, not across all homeowners, in which case the statistic seem useless (imagine one guy selling every two years and nobody else--that would be a 2-year tenture average but in fact nobody but him is moving). Would nice if the NAR report was freely available.
> on any modern device

This qualifier is why Unicode icons should be avoided where possible.

You're correct that Unicode icons are different from icon fonts in the sense that they're standardized -- but the standard doesn't matter unless everyone implements it; and as we can see on HN, plenty of platforms don't.

In practice, there are just too many platforms/devices that implement only part of the Unicode standard, or that implement it incorrectly, or that extend it with their own stuff.
> 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.

I think it will be hard to find another job at director level without any reports. I have witnessed the struggle of my friends with this exact setup.
SMT as a term of art in the translation field means rule based SMT... it's not a google particularity, I see the same usage in both industry and academia
Boot from a read only device, either DVD-ROM. Copy data through a USB data diode.

That is airgapped, but really expensive.
It is because they aren't subscribed to The History Guy on YT. ;)
Do you donate money to your government above and beyond your taxes?

I don't mean to impugn your political feelings. I consistently vote for people who will raise my taxes, personally. That doesn't mean I'm volunteering to pay more than I'm obligated within a system that doesn't provide the social services my family needs. I just want to point out that almost no one pays more taxes than they are legally obligated to, regardless of their political views. This implies that substantially everyone sees value in optimizing their taxes.

In light of that, surely you can understand why the question you asked does not make much sense? The law is what it is, so of course within the law people will attempt to pay less taxes.
Same here. Not only are they immune to being fired, they can more or less switch teams whenever they want.
I’m talking about figuring out the coverage of a vector shape, not about sampling some arbitrary rendered scene or transforming a pixel image (etc.).

Calculating the percentage of some radially symmetric kernel covered by one side of a straight line should be very cheap (it’s just a monotonic function of the closest distance from the pixel center to the edge).

If we want to extend that to shapes with multiple edges close to the pixel, or to curved edges, it will get harder, but I don’t think it’s necessarily inherently more expensive than the “calculate the coverage of a little square” problem.
> You likely can’t accurately compare level numbers or titles directly between companies, even with tools that provide mappings between companies.

Companies may claim this but it can't really be true in practice, otherwise it would be impossible to level incoming candidates
Ah, whataboutism; a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy.
Every top MT uses pure-NMT, not SMT
It wasn't white when it burned down, only after to cover up the damage.
It depends on what species the lawn is. If it's the same species that grows naturally in vacant lots and by the roadside, it doesn't need watering unless there's a significant drought.
No one is interested in this.

The amount of fines are balanced to ensure:

- minimal legal pushback from FB side

- quick pay.

- make sure it's repeatable process (i.e. FB do what they want to generate revenues. FTC succeeds in fining FB with accompanying political wins, bonuses and promotions that somes with it)

Rinse and repeat.
We also studied the War of 1812. It was a crushing, symbolic defeat in battle for the fledgling nation, although it didn't make much difference in total.
BUT Tulsi has bought and paid for the Google Ads that were disabled during a critical SIX hours when interest in her was high and her top placed ad would have driven traffic to her donation page. She BOUGHT that ad time just as much as an advertiser buys Superbowl ad time. This was an outright breach of contract.
Most other first-world countries have banned drug advertisements, and they appear to be doing just fine. Actually, they appear to be doing significantly better than we are: no opioid crisis.
The VC market isn't as overheated as it is in San Francisco.

"There's nothing stopping New York companies from paying the same wages as..."
Project Veritas has utterly shattered their credibility so many time, that they should not be used as a source even if what they say is true.

They edit videos, not even deceptively, but in a way that makes the people featured in the video make them look like they're saying something completely different. Not just clipping but also reordering the clips
There are complaints on both sides of this issue:
http://christianresearchnetwork.org/2019/01/16/the-smoking-g...
It must be a joke because the rice took down the ship.
Note that in at least some places, that could be a fireable offence (possibly even a criminal offence, if the company takes it badly enough).
Yes, because he's literally done exactly that many times, and lost lawsuits over it.
I'd settle for the same performance without constant hysterical fundraising by the PTA, parents being asked to buy and donate basic classroom supplies and teachers buying stuff out of their own pockets just to be able to do their job.

But really, I just mean "neighborhoods more friendly to kids and parents." School quality is a big part of that, but it's also a matter of finding a good school near your home, public spaces where kids can play etc. SF isn't completely devoid of that stuff, but there's a reason new parents move out to the suburbs. The point is that if we want higher density we need more homes, but we also need more of all the other stuff that people want and need nearby.
Using stackshare stats for software adoption is somewhat disingenuous. Companies aren't required to disclose what they use, and many don't. You are also more prone to finding similar tool stacks in similar companies (new tech, startup, enterprise, etc...), this isn't even mentioning that the only two software solutions you presented for document management take two very different approaches for monetization, and your post implies that you value the convenience of customer-as-a-product models which we don't have the stats available to back which approach is better. That perspective is also not valid anymore as even Office, and the likes of Libre Office now provide similar conveniences of cloud backed storage and web interfaces.
Credit cards --- bona fide, revolving-credit credit cards --- are so completely avoidable in modern life that I'm a little mystified as to why people get them at all. I couldn't for most of my adult life (weak credit score) and feel like I've dodged a bullet. I have a (secured) card with a low limit now, just to rent cars, but it's gotten a lot easier to rent cars with debit cards now, too.

Heading off a routine objection to this observation: I've had a family with kids since I was 22, and spent most of the years prior to the Matasano acquisition living, if not paycheck-to-paycheck, at least pretty close to it.

I'll add: I don't know what my credit score is now --- it's probably better than it was, since I've had that dumb car-renting card for 6+ years --- but, knowing that my credit was bad enough that I couldn't get a non-secured card, including from my own bank after the wires for the Matasano acquisition cleared, and knowing that I had at the time a house and a car and all that stuff, and really no trouble ever getting a lease for any place I could afford the rent for, I find myself wondering a lot how much credit scores actually matter. If I'd thought that when I was 22, I'd say, "welp, I just don't have enough life experience to know". But I'm 42 now, and I have a bit of a hard time projecting to a point where I can see a clear reason to give a shit what number Equifax generates for me. Like, maybe I'll care a lot when I'm 62? I kind of doubt it, though.
Lifting is basically weighted stretching. You can't train a movement and lose mobility for the range of motion you're training.

If your training has at its core multi-joint compound exercises, you shouldn't have to worry about your mobility.
Were those higher-level leaders managers? I mean I agree with your exact statement, but in my direct experience, the higher-level leaders tend to be less and less engineers.

Unless there is some power of the purse-strings, the two-tracks thing is always going to be biased in favor of the managers.
I believe the list is shorter if you make it about which countries allow direct-to-consumer advertising:

USA, New Zealand.

That's it.
Well, also recall that nothing happened to M$.

There was no breakup because the courts laughed the government out of the room. In the end, they ended up having to negotiate with M$, and there was an agreement to allow other browsers on M$ operating systems. Basically it was laughable. But the law is the law.

And that would be why we need to change the law. Going after digital companies using laws set up to regulate non-digital companies, is just the height of foolishness. You would think the M$ experience would have taught people? But I guess not.
The problem with this of course is the necessary level of detail depends on the phenomenon: simulating seizure propagation is probably different from simulating emotions. For more complex tasks we have no clue what that level is.
Serum. Omnisphere is for ad spots.
That’s true, probably slightly less likely to be fired than a middle manager, though your salary is going to be a juicy target. But if you do it’s a lot less scary interviewing while middle aged for manager roles than it is for IC roles.

Age discrimination in this industry is very real (notwithstanding the tired excuses we see in every thread on the subject.)

People that are in their late 20s or early 30s need to start thinking about this. Right now you’re the age that the industry loves for “senior” ICs but mid 30s come on fast.
> where direct-to-consumer drug advertising is illegal?

The US and New Zealand are the only countries where direct-to-consumer advertising is legal.
okay! so i'm not insane!!
This has not been my experience, renting in Chicago, Ann Arbor, and San Francisco (around 2001).
At the time of the 2004 election, Facebook was open to students at some US universities. So to the extent the Obama campaign used Facebook at all it was the first national campaign to do so.
multiple nuclei means division by mitosis, if a single cell suffer mitosis and split the nucleus is not a single cell anymore. Are two cells sharing the same citoplasm and membrane for a while. Cells remaining citoplasmatically connected with is brothers by a bridge by its entire life aren't uncommon in some multicellular organisms (is typical of all the kingdom fungi so is pretty common among life beings in fact).

Valonia vesicles are able to hold several smaller bubbles attached. They differenciate from the larger bubble by a process similar to gemation and quickly replace it when is too old or damaged and it bursts. If a bubble equals a cell in function and looks, an organism able to have rhizoids and other smaller cells glued to its main cell, is clearly pluricellular.
No. Equifax tracks you whether you take out loans or not.
I had 401k through https://www.yourinvestmentaccount.com/ at one point. So sketchy.

They had a virtual keyboard with only 16 choices of chars to type your password in on there at one point.
> Yes, of course migration is difficult! Any company doing it will need to retrain people, make toolchain changes, and undoubtedly invest in improving both the compiler and language itself. If only there was some enormous company with vast resources and a commitment to privacy and security who could embark on a journey like this…

You mean Swift?
Completely concur with this. After 10+ years in engineering management, rising through the ranks, I'm at a stage where I don't want to solve people problems anymore. I want to get back to coding or solve problems as an IC. Most companies will need only a handful of VPs, Directors and Managers but almost all companies will need software engineers. As a manager, one has to sacrifice becoming technical and competitive in the market or be the best in their field. Even if they are a really good manager, different companies have different expectations of their managers. Google might want pure people managers whereas LinkedIn might want managers that write code 60% of the code. It's just not worth it though some perks are really nice.
> but rather your file now looking so bad that you can't legitimately get credit if you want it.

Yes, but under the new system, the bank can't just tell a credit reporting agency that a person they never interacted with failed to make a timely payment. If the bank can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they actually entered a contract with you, then they can't affect the actual person's credit rating.
> It's pretty meaningless to look at P/E for tech companies and compare it to a retail company.

Tech stocks usually have higher P/E's than retailers, but for comparison here are the P/E Ratios of the world's largest retailers:

WMT 38.8
COST 34.33
KG 9.24
WBA 10.75
HD 21.73
TGT 15.39
They are technically all candidates. The winner of the primary is a nominee.

Pharma gets what they pay for. Vote for someone who isn't beholden to them.
$1M liability with car/home insurance is less than $500. Anyone with a 401k should have it.

If you end up in a bad situation, getting liquid enough to pay out a big judgement will kill you with taxes.
Google Cloud's run rate is now over $8B
Well, not quite, or not definitively. It depends on which subscribers they've lost. If the 10% lost subscribers represented higher paying (as in gold package) more profitable subscribers, meaning the 10% increase hit more lower paying customers, then they've got a net loss. In short, the 10% of lost subscribers may have accounted for more than 10% of their revenue.
Wasn't left out of the history books I read.
Build a product, cover your salary. It's not easy, but it's doable. I've done it.
One idea I think conveyed on the political grounds is that others are quick to pass policy that benefit others regardless of meritocracy, hence you get fiscal repulsion towards welfares. I take the information from the article as suggesting that fiscal repulsion while not wholly, a certain amount looks at any collectively refinanced aid as being non-meritorious and hence the idea that liberal policy no matter the mildness is at the cusp of giving money irresponsibly despite the fact modern workers across the fields and competencies still do work consistently, deserving of aids.
If so, why are many people hesitant to condemn the left wing extremism that does exist? Does right wing extremism somehow justify left wing extremism?
> 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?

This is all well and good, but revenue is not an input to most machine learning algorithms at Google. First off, there is a pretty serious firewall between search and ads, so any organic results will be completely oblivious to revenue. Search systems literally do not have access to that kind of information. Even within ads, the concept makes sense only if you don't think about it too much. The big money-maker ads are when someone is trying to buy something. Ads around viral content are just not something that people can pay much for, because the margins in the news business are very thin.

Now if you want to make an article that the media has learned that spectacle and outrage drive clicks, I am here for it. (But this has always been true. Yellow journalism was a thing more than a century ago.) And I guess you can make an argument that Google facilitates this by pointing you to the media, and by participating in the feedback loop. But I don't think Google revenue is as causally linked to outrage as you seem to believe. After all, correlation usually doesn't indicate causation.
I'm also coming from Boston and this take is silly.

Housing prices in Boston aren't Bay bad or even close to it.
10ms is already ridiculous for a program that just call exit().

Now try importing some stuff, and also testing a little more thoroughly...

> python3 -c "import sys, timeit; n = 10; print('%.2f ms/spawn' % (1000 * timeit.timeit('subprocess.call([%r, %r, %r], stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)' % (sys.executable, '-c', 'import re, argparse, subprocess'), 'import subprocess', number=n) / n))"
Ubuntu (native): 20.82 ms/spawn
Ubuntu (WSL): 43.16 ms/spawn
Windows: 89.45 ms/spawn (without imports: 74 ms/spawn)

For reference on Windows, here's PHP, taking half the time to start up:

> python3 -c "import sys, timeit; n = 10; print('%.2f ms/spawn' % (1000 * timeit.timeit('subprocess.call([%r, %r, %r], stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL)' % ('php', '-R', ''), 'import subprocess', number=n) / n))"
45.14 ms/spawn

Now consider that you'll generally be doing a LOT more on initialization than just importing these packages, a lot of packages end up being extremely heavyweight, and very likely you'll be calling Python several times in a row... it can easily waste seconds on startup, even on Linux.
Don't forget MS Office. That's microsoft's real crown jewel, and it only runs on windows, or much more expensive macs.