skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I had an awful time crossing the Atlantic - I could not keep anything on my stomach expect the first mate"

"Hangovers are the wrath of grapes"

"Guns ain't lawful,
Nooses Give,
Gas smells awful,
you might as well live"
Which indeed was named after Cilk.
For founders I don't think the calculus has changed much. You do it because you believe in it and have the stomach or resources to take the risk. For workers it has changed a bit from 10 years ago. I just call this making hay while the sun shines - I don't think the massive salaries at FAANG will last forever.
This is not an example of Appeal to Authority because Ben Franklin is an accepted authority. If all parties agree on the reliability of an authority in the given context it becomes a valid inductive argument. Otherwise every Citation or Source or Bibliography would be a "logical fallacy". An Appeal to Authority would be if the quote was attributed to someone like James Polk. Sure he was president, but he has no authority on this sort of subject.
The alternative would be to create a tech or hard science company which doesn't choose advertising as their core business model. Many large and successful tech companies already do this, and are contributing a lot to ML research and other fields. It's just that Google, Facebook/Instagram, and Twitter, some of the largest companies in the space, are inextricably tied to that model.

Apple and Netflix don't share the same problem, and that gives them a lot more freedom in other areas, too (but perhaps resulting in them having less total user acquisition potential than Google or Facebook; but of course it's needed less, since every customer is directly giving them money). Uber also doesn't share that problem, and they've contributed quite a bit to the community, though of course they have other problems.

The main problem isn't tech companies or monopolies, IMO; it's the tech companies that survive only by cannibalizing both non-paying users and non-paying non-users who happen to visit just about any website on the Internet (because odds are any given website is using Google Analytics or has some sort of Facebook or Twitter integration). It creates bad incentives.

Of course, there are also separate debates to be had over general issues of monopolization and working conditions (like Amazon fulfillment workers not being able to take bathroom breaks without risking accumulating points which may result in them getting fired), and control over different media platforms (like Google owning the only real video platform in the world and Twitter owning the only real microblogging / "town square" platform, and issues that may come from how they regulate users and content). The advertising stuff is just the cherry on top.

I do think trying to regulate or break them up over the content policing stuff would be a huge mistake, though. Staunch conservatives say they want them to relax their standards and stop being biased against conservatives; staunch liberals say they helped the spread of disinformation, racism, and fascism and should have tighter standards. I think if either side has their way, to any degree, it will be a disaster.
If you watch that video I linked to you'll see a lot of pretty tiny ticks.
Also, as the author quotes the driver saying, "I like long trips. This could be fun.".

It's a fun story to tell, probably refreshingly different from a usual day, and it seems like he at least made a decent wage, if not as much as usual. So at worst it's a small one-day paycut for a nice memorable day.
>Mozilla seems to be doing just fine.

They make their money from Google for being the default search provider.

Chrome could come to the same deal, but is it really splitting the company up then if they're able to negotiate a deal for big bucks from Google/Alphabet?
yeah say what you want about Thiel, but he has had 20/20 vision in seeing where the trends are going. I also agree with Weinstein's assessment that silicon valley is hiring engineers that are not there to do business. It certainly feels like every redesign of the major apps is becoming needlessly inefficient and uninspired.
> It's pretty obvious why it's secret... it's an air-defense buster, strike platform against a nation-state (vs. rabble), delivery truck for special bombs, etc or a nuclear weapon delivery truck.

This
I used to think this, but I've come around somewhat. The economy as a basic premise is expected to grow at least 3% a year or bad stuff starts happening. Obviously no kind of exponential growth is sustainable, even at a low rate. The best minds are getting sucked into this at least partly because the work is necessary to keep the economic wheels spinning. If we give up on having an average % of yearly growth, we're committing to living in an economy that's a zero or negative sum game.

So yes, we are stagnating scientifically, but it's not necessarily for no reason. The longer we keep running the economy as is, the more smart people are going to have to be allocated to figuring out how to keep up with the exponential growth our system demands. Unfortunately, no one seems to have cracked steady-state economics, so it looks like we'll be doing this for the foreseeable future...

Additionally, I don't know how we're supposed to keep up with this absurd need for exponential growth without leaning hard on technology (at least if we presume we don't want to wreck the planet more.) I feel like big tech is actually doing something important with regard to growing the economy disproportionately with the physical resources they consume.
Were they smuggled out of RIM 4 (ie. the Factory)? Or from the main office building? From memory of the building layouts this is possible, but I never bothered to try.
Because technology
It has been asserted that the best innovations come from baser instincts - the ability to go to war. Radar came from defense research. I hate this.
I think it depends on what your definition of "We" is. As a species, the scientific progress humans have experienced in the last century is unparalleled. But the United States is falling behind because we are not doing enough socially to promote careers in STEM and health.
One of my neighbors kids got it here. Had the classic ring around the bite on his stomach.
It's interesting that not having a degree is equated to being self taught developer. What if you chose to take all CS major courses but nothing else? University degrees are supposed to give you generic background on many subjects, on which you can specialize later, not to set you up as a "developer". This is why it is even called computer "Science" and not "dev ops certification".
I’m an old guy. That’s almost never how it worked. QA was always pigeon holed as QA and rarely considered dev material.
Linkedin (Microsoft by ownership now) should be ready to pay out their own massive fine, if we're going after dark and deceiving patterns.
I’m not sure what will come of the investigation, but I hope it clarifies the privately owned public space (POPS) aspect of these companies.

Currently google, facebook, twitter and others alternate between being common carriers and private networks depending on what best suits them, and limits competition, I think.

Regulation will be hard, but just clarifying the duty and liability to provide service and level of service. Currently, firms apply “terms of service” and don’t typically provide much insight into particular bans or limitations. If the phone company operated this way, it’s clear which regulator could intervene. Currently that’s not possible, but the platforms also aren’t liable for infringing content. It seems hard to practice selective enforcement, but not be liable when there is illegal material.
Instead of the word porn, I substituted the word dog and "play with dog."

I might be addicted to my dog.

Should I seek help, or is my addiction socially approved so I'm all good?
> Discovered around 1740 by the Swiss Sorcerer Supreme

And earlier published in 1714 by the Englishman Roger Cotes.
Tainted by Association
Why not? A Lyft vehicle will depreciate a lot faster than a normal car, and Lyft won't let you drive a junker.
Science hasn't stagnated yet. As someone with a long career in physics/biology, this attitude only reflects the myopia and ignorance of the people that hold it. We're in the middle of a revolution in our understanding of biological systems and our ability to engineer them. But because that field is so technical and intrinsically slower-paced people discount it in these discussions because they don't know anything about it.

There's much more to science and technology than "tech" companies.
Maybe on your free time, yes.

But only if you think it will demonstrate enough value to get you something you desire: cool work, a promotion, etc.

This requires a good understanding of what your managers and the larger organization will value, and whether they reward people who show they can deliver on those items. People's careers _do_ get bumped from these kinds of efforts, but I've seen a lot of engineers spend 40 hours prototyping something that management just won't value.
Palm rejection is a thing even on Linux
Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter desert floor in before-and-after images
what google calls "moonshots" is a pathetic joke compared to the real thing.

They called 15 million dollars in cancer research investment a "moonshot", as well as the various absurdly low x prizes (vs what they are asking for, and ONLY IF you succeed).
The issue is that academic research doesn't always translate into a product that can be useful. There are many things that can be done at small scale that look awesome, but once you try to apply it at a larger scale or trying to account for all the corner cases, it starts to fall apart. While this may not be as true for tech, it tends to happen a lot in the physical sciences.

A big recent tech-focused one that started in academia and is now in the hands of large companies is self driving cars. It looks like it may work, but then every started hitting those 1% cases and realized they can't actually ship a fully self driving car (and driver-assist features can lead to worse issues as people think they can trust the tech more than they should).
A major issue with the labor movement in America is that folks only join a union when they are weak and/or threatened by bosses.

The best time to negotiate is when you're strong, it amazes me that big tech was caught colluding to depress wages and nothing occurred in terms of a labor movement.

Many industry wide issues could be addressed through collective bargaining: age discrimination, training material, a strong voice to counter tiered voting shares (cough Facebook), guaranteed ergonomic tools, the list goes on.
>(which hadn’t, in fact, told him the destination, just that it was more than 30 minutes away)

That's disappointing. There are arguments for both sides of whether it should give the exact location but it ought to at least give the rough number of miles and rough travel time.
Technology’s main usage/promise is to make us all more efficient and rid us of the dependency on pure time & effort for outcomes. It’s like the definition of work smart not hard.

Personally I think this is why you see a ton of people who live and breath tech think in terms of low time, high impact.

High impact should equal high compensation.
I think it's fair to call yourself a computer scientist if you do computer science. If I walk dogs I'm a dog walker right?
Dunno. Just was surprised to read about it once and figured it would pair nicely with a US or Canadian passport.
Going to push back on this. Lisp is written to be "flexed". And people can and should write it however they want. I think treating students like they're all incapable of googling is utterly infantilizing and nothing about it serves any purpose other than stroking the authors ego. The vast, and I mean seriously vast, majority of programming books waste pages and often multiple whole chapters on treating the user like they can't find the documentation, like they can't reason about different syntactical constructions, and it leaves the learner hobbled and weakened when going out into the real world and trying to read, let alone write, actually code to accomplish a real task. People can cry about Paul Grahams style in ANSI lisp, or Let over Lambda, anyone who can work through either of those books is going to be fine reading Practical Common Lisp (or whatever). Also, finally, Common Lisp isn't exactly known for being a "team language" and the overwhelming majority of projects that I know of were originated by one person. I for one hope the author contributes his work in whatever way will he feels like. Lisp is a liberating language to use, we should write about it in the same way
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As did lots of awesome materials. The material science advancements that happened with WW2 and the space race (fueled by the cold war) are pretty amazing. Nylon among many others came out of those drives.

Edit: someone corrected me about nylon. It was invented between 1927 and 1938 my Dupont. But it was still a commercial Enterprise doing the r&d for it.

Looks like synthetic rubber and synthetic oil two major ones to come out of world war II
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/inventions...
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> sank with unknown causes.

do you really think military intelligence would always release information in these cases?

money down, 9/10 times in cases like these someone protecting a source or hiding some knowledge for sigint/opsec/? purposes
Are Chatbots Killing or Enhancing Customer Satisfaction?
I’m not sure that the lesson to be learned from the medical profession’s overburdening of its professionals is that other well paid industries should follow suit and overburden their own professionals.
I'm going to add my thoughts in agreement, mainly because I see the following sentiments fairly commonly:

1. "Coding quizzes" are arbitrary and unfair in a technical interview!

2. Take home projects as part of the interview process are unfair because I've got a busy life!

3. No, I don't have lots of side projects to show because I've been working for the past 15 years and all the IP I've worked on is owned by my current/prior employers.

To add to your harshness, if all those three things above are true, (a) maybe you're not as good a developer as you think you are, and (b) as someone who has done a lot of hiring, I am certainly able to find folks who will (pretty enthusiastically, I'd add) fulfill at least one of those tasks (i.e. in-person coding questions, take home problem, or extensive existing personal projects/open source), even in today's competitive market.
Because outside US, unions are not about only salaries, rather about being treated as human being while at work.

And it may be surprising to US mentality, that they are for all people on the company, from the janitor to the 10x coder that is now recovering from an accident, instead of trying to sue someone to get some income back.
> human-out-of-the-loop kill decisions is a bad idea

Maybe so, but this is an inevitable arms race. What happens when the other party has drones and we ned to respond faster than the human can make the decision?

> now all of the adversarial techniques that make state-of-the-art neural networks fall over will apply to fighter jets as well. ... Without a human in the loop , our current autonomous technologies are woefully inadequate for determining whether or not something smells like a trap.

I'm not sure humans help here. The interesting adversarial examples today are complex images that humans are uniquely good at parsing. But these things are doing to be consuming radar, signals, etc that humans don't really have an advantage with. Not saying decoys etc won't happen, but I don't think humans help here.
I dunno I think it might be kinda like quantum mechanics. If you think you understand OOP, then you definitely don't understand OOP.
Exactly why I became a programmer - biology is a lot of messy, unpredictable processes we have way too little data on. My favorite MD's are the ones who smile at the phrase 'There's a reason we call it "practicing" medicine' - and now, hell I can't even figure out the side effects in modern technical stacks :-(
Interesting I can't see it on the main page (but it's in the HTML source). Also the page misses the Australian connection.
That was Nobel's original intent, but the reality of the prize has changed with time.

The Fields Medal and the MacArthur Genius awards are very much in that spirit.
Do hospitals expect doctors to work on some patients for free over the weekend to see if they're worth hiring?

I'm guessing no.
I agree with you but the Cable company/ISP is only a natural monopoly as it applies to infrastructure. All the other bundled services on top can still be offered through a competitive marketplace.

Regulate internet infrastructure like any other utility and our problems are solved.
Sure, but on my MBP it's never been a problem. I've never had slack lag regularly or notice it impacting other programs. :shrug:
> No ETLs

This seems to be listed as a feature, which I find confusing. Not everything lives in SQL databases. Some things you extract for example from external APIs.

Is this basically "this is out of scope for the project", or it's a feature because we've got <alternative>?
Maybe so, but in this case the consumer will benefit. These large companies have been abusing their monopoly or near monopoly status to push their own politics aggressively. It's no surprise that the other side of the political spectrum would react negatively.

That's why issues like free speech for all are so important. Someday, your enemies might be in charge and if you've been eroding human rights because you're powerful enough to do so, someone more powerful may show up and use the landscape you helped create against you.

The winning move for tech was to not become politicized and just focus on being a neutral platform. Hopefully this threat of regulation will scare some of the overt politics out of our industry and everyone will benefit.
Justice Department Opens Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies
Upgrading in a production environment is not as easy as apt-get upgrade. There are tests that need to be run, version incompatibilities that need to be investigated, and plenty of other things that need to be done. The complexity varies but it's almost never as simple as running a little command and going home. To claim otherwise just because it's Windows we're taking about is being specious.
They already had all the pieces to the puzzle when the first attack happened, and they failed to prevent it. Allowing pervasive surveillance of our private communications would throw magnitudes more hay on the stack. So, this is probably not the way to go about it.
To put this in plain English, could we say Facebook asked for phone numbers in the name of "security" but there was no restriction on how Facebook could use those phone numbers. Usage was not restricted to the purpose for which Facebook collected the numbers. Facebook could use them for reasons other than "security".
Great tips. Thanks. Do you have a suggested reading list?
> there's a small handful of people who've managed to carve out a niche where they can work low hours and make a high hourly rate, but they're few and far between

They seem to be the loud minority on here though. I guess if you get a sweet gig like that, you will find lots of time to post on HN. I know I'd brag about it too if I was in that situation.
seems an odd title to the article given the analysis of "great" and "best" engineers where they highlight other factors as being more important?
There is a current lawsuit called Apple v Pepper pending that would force Apple to allow the side-loading of apps
http://tristantaormino.com/ has written some books on this (and directed porn, so she’s speaking from practice here)
Except the “have them show off personal projects” route can be discriminatory. At least by giving people standard questions/puzzles your team (hopefully) determined as being relevant you are giving everyone the same chance at success.
>This is not an example of Appeal to Authority because Ben Franklin is an accepted authority.

...huh?

>If all parties agree on the reliability of an authority in the given context it becomes a valid inductive argument.

No, it doesn't. Why do you believe that? How do you feel about quantum mechanics? Do you realize that Einstein fought tooth and nail against it for years?

>Otherwise every Citation or Source or Bibliography would be a "logical fallacy".

Citations link to works, not authorities. A citation may link to, say, an academic paper which provides evidence to support its assertions. No one is linking to random comments made by so-called authorities, that would never be accepted (unless the citation was to literally show that a quote is legitimate, i.e., made by the person claimed to have made it.)
Maybe they are used to compilers telling them all the typos before it actually compile.
As the crow flies, Chicago to New York is similar to Beijing to Shanghai, which is a long-ish high-speed-rail journey of 4.5 hours. If you have to fight lots of traffic to get to the airport that's not too bad. Probably not enough to drive demand for every ten minutes.
The real value of such a network would be an intermediate trip. If Cleveland or Pittsburgh are both two hours away from New York and Chicago and the trip is downtown to downtown, demand for air travel from these mid-size cities to the larger ones would pretty much dry up save for connecting flights. And the strength of rail is that you could have some trains stop multiple times within a metropolitan area, so that you don't have to drive to a centrally located transportation hub the way you have to do with an airport. And if you add rail stops to the airport you don't even need the connecting flights anymore.

You probably wouldn't get the high-speed rail to Bradford OH directly though. The closest you'd get is Dayton OH, but thankfully that's a more doable 30+ mile Lyft ride.
A Lyft specific thing to take into account is that Lyft drivers get a bonus if they hit a certain number of rides per week. One long ride makes it harder to hit that goal.
If you are a founder who takes on investments, the only thing “you believe in” is an exit strategy. Don’t drink the kool aid. Most founders are not trying to feed starving children.
Microblogs Affect Our Mental Health
South Korean Jets Fire Warning Shots Toward Russian Military Plane
A Lyft vehicle will depreciate, per mile, at nearly exactly the same rate any other car would.
They say sonic attacks but reading the various articles is seems quite likely it was microwaves https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba...

I wonder if microwave damage would be consistent with the effects found.
I am interested in opinions on this also- I am in the exact same situation, although I am in LA and I have not yet incorporated yet.
Perhaps think about it this way: precisely because we had such limited resources at the time, smart people were highly motivated to find those (local?) maxima. These days in many contexts it is easier to say "eh, good enough" and move on to the next thing.