skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your sentiment. However, put yourself in the shoes of a manager. Who does he look to promote? Those who are already doing the job. It is annoying, but at least Square is codifing this so that the expectation is explicit.
Samsung ships about twice the number of phones as Apple but has a third of the ASP. The conclusion that most Samsung phones are low end is not hard to reach.
Going from one proprietary locked-in system to the next doesn't solve the problems. Especially 'The Web'®© services are unsuitable for anything with remotely sensitive documents.
Are you lumping TedX into that assessment? Those are independently organized and are mostly terrible.
If the scooter companies were playing ball, they would have a place to return scooters to that a tow team could bring the offending scooters back to instead of their lot. The alternative of 'dump it on a public sidewalk' is a terrible suggestion. If they get 100 scooters on their property are they supposed to stack them like cordwood and block a public way? I wouldn't say it is masquerading as a public service, these are just some people being paid for labour. A business owner would have to expend resources moving all of these scooters, so they outsource this effort to a tow team and ask them to look for compensation from the scooter owners which are the large companies in lieu of direct payment.

Instead the scooter companies try to defer all responsibility to the riders and charging contractors. The scooter companies have an equal opportunity to pay for a different kind of contractor to fix scooters that are parked poorly, or pay the tow team that collects them on behalf of private property owners. If the private property owners are not permitted to destroy/dispose of the scooters as trash, it is only reasonable for them to be removed and the scooter companies pay up for the nuisance.

Instead? They are going to courts, which they will lose. So they may try to get some local ordinances/laws in their favour instead. Once again it's just a gamble to hit it big before the hammer comes down, and I wish this scooter generation of companies learned from Uber/Lyft and work with the communities instead of just taking advantage of their goodwill and make it harder for the next companies to try the next big idea. I can't place these tow guys in the wrong here, it is unreasonable to force a private property owner to manage whatever non-trash things end up being dumped on it on behalf of the thing's owner at the property owner's expense.
DeepMind helps Waymo train self-driving cars
Expenditures correlate very poorly with school performance. The evidence seems quite overwhelming.

Which isn't to say funding doesn't matter. Just that it's clear that "investing in our children" through school funding was a dead-end, sort of like expecting increased traffic light expenditures to improve school performance. The primary determinants are economic and sociologic factors in the home.

We need decent schools just like we need decent water & sewage, but we're long past the point where such civic infrastructure is capable of transforming our society. Focusing on these things as agents of change is counter-productive if not destructive.
Whatever political problems we have, we're going to bring all them with us if we travel someplace else.
I don’t think it takes “billions of resources” for a third world dictatorship to use a VPN.

For the average citizen of those countries, VPNs are either illegal or more expensive than their daily wage.
What I find amusing about both countries is that neither spends time on what was bloody obvious at the time. Namely that the reason why the US picked then to start a war was that Great Britain had their hands full with Napoleon.

Still the outcome was that Washington was burned to the ground, the US sued for peace, Great Britain granted it because the US had already proven to be ungovernable. However it was the last war where natives could fight open battles against the US, and with the decimation of the Iroquois the Western border was open. Also Andrew Jackson's victory in New Orleans (after the peace treaty was signed but before anyone knew about it) meant that the USA kept Louisiana rather than possibly giving it back to France.

So it was a net loss at the time, but set the stage for westward expansion.

Incidentally one of the things that the USA was upset about is now international law. Namely the pressing of US citizens into the British navy. But today if a US citizen visits a country that also considers him a citizen, and that country drafts him into the military, the USA has nothing to say about it.
If the French had won something in 1759, it's entirely possible that the American Revolution in 1776 would never have happened or would have played out completely differently.
I think you missed the point because it's irrelevant if Telephony has the capability. MQTT does not and there is no way to send a message once disconnected (Telephony included). The best you can do is preemptively say, "Do X if I get disconnected". X could be "Reconnect if not intentional" but if it was a network issue, you might perceive the lack of reconnects as an intentional hangup when really its network issues. Going back to the OP, MQTT has no way to distinguish intentional vs unintentional disconnects from the client(subscriber) prespective.
> The part where I don't agree with this principle is that it's essentially saying "do the job of position XYZ, and after you prove to us that you can do it, we will recognize and pay you for it."

Google's system worked like that. What they don't mention is that there is a pay range for the various promotion levels, and if you're on your way towards a promotion, you're also on your way to the top of the pay for your current level.

So you are not really sacrificing a ton of pay to be "almost" ready to be promoted. (But the top range of the next level is always pretty incomprehensible to someone at their current level.)
Fish eggs and huge ocean bugs slathered in butter are somehow a delicacy? Go figure.
MIPS may enjoy a resurgence, it will be open sourced soon I have read.
Giving everything a unique identifiable name is tricky business.

What we need is clear and common labels. Vegitarian, Vegan and contains meat. If they all had a logo that we all go used to all the confusion is gone. At least in prepacked supermarket foods.
It's true that a Nazi victory was practically impossible. But I have no idea how you can say that the US prolonged the war. Supplying the enemies of the Reich and fighting against them is not the sort of thing that causes wars to extend longer, and certainly it drew resources away from Barbarossa.

>by forcing Germany into an untenable position

No more untenable than what Germany had forced upon France following the Franco-Prussian wars, or what they forced upon Russia in Brest-Litvosk. It seems that neither of those countries engaged upon a ruthless war of extermination, though.

I also don't think that having your country split up is less harsh than reparations basically similar to what your country forced on others. Wilson's mistake was insisting on Peace with Victory, which resulted only in delaying victory by a few decades.

>I don't think you can support Wilson's lying our way into WWI.

Wilson undoubtedly bungled the aftermath to WWI, but I don't think that any of the events preceding it were faked? The Zimmerman Telegram was confirmed as being real by the man himself, correct? Unless you're talking about him breaking his promise of peace, in which case, I agree.
And “assets” as accountants define them are an almost useless metric for knowledge-based companies.
Investors have always disliked Google's bad capital allocation. They'd much rather have the cash. The expansion in the buyback is a signal for a new era of capital return.
I have no problem with only paying taxes when they are realized. I think I would be okay with not being taxed on dividends if they are reinvested within x number of days.
Or Prohibition?
“algorithms using the PBT (population based training) method were trained twice as fast, using half the computing resources, and were able to achieve better performance than Waymo’s previous best. For instance, false positive rates in a pedestrian detection model were reduced by 24 per cent, compared with Waymo’s control algorithm. “
Google/FB etc makes a lot of money for (mostly) liberal people by making as many people as possible non-liberal. In the future the ML's sole job will keep that momentum going but will be trained on perfecting _exact_ ratios of polarization that's needed to prevent a civil war. In other words fine tuning where that tipping point maximized profit at an acceptable level of violence.
It feels more and more that people go to cool places just to prove they have as many resources as their peers.

Travel and social media is just an extension of "keeping up with the Jones's" but on a personal identity level- only at the cost of whatever destruction you are willing to put our planet through, be it that new camera you bought, or the jet fuel you paid to burn.

I couldn't help but feel guilty on the way to my last international trip- the homeless do less damage to the planet than I do.
Show HN: Ethereum Time Travel, trade 2 years in 2 minutes
You can follow the link from hereL https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...
JMS's story arc for Babylon 5 was amazing. It is so unfortunate that the suits at Paramount refuse to allow that property to be refreshed or expanded upon as a new series or rebooted one. Such great writing. I enjoy his comments on twitter as well.
MIDI controller and GarageBand is a good place to start. Or you can buy Logic, it's got a similar interface, but more features and a large sound library and some fun virtual synths.
I don't think "war with the US" was meant to imply "A war in which America was on it's own and did everything"; that's a cynical read of it. A less cynical read would be that "war with the US" means "war in which the US was a participant."

Germany did declare war with the US, hence there was in fact a war with the US. Of course, Germany was also at war with lots of other people. All Americans are taught that in schools. It's called a World War for a reason and people do understand that, even when they're going out of their way to mention it. If Americans don't mention Canadian participation much it's simply because they don't talk about Canada much in the first place. It's not because they're unaware that Canada participated in the war. Canada is a commonwealth country, of course they participated in the war. Everybody here knows that.
What if it's downranked because most of the people who search for him aren't looking for his site, but for commentary about him?

I mean, maybe this sounds implausible to you, but I think you should be conscious of whether you're discarding it as a possibility and why.
You can get 90% of the way to correct just by using square roots and squares. There's really no excuse.
Put Menlo, Mountain View & Atherton with Palo Alto and keep it separate as the "mid-peninsula" entity.

Move Sunnyvale, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and Campbell into the San Jose / Santa Clara group as the "south bay" entity.

Then you have your RWC through San Bruno entity for "north peninsula", and everything from South City through SF get lumped into the "SF" entity. That keeps it relatively simple and puts similar NIMBY categories into like groups (I'm mostly looking at the PA / Menlo / Atherton / Los Altos folks here).
It's amazing how many Americas have no clue the White House was burned down by an invading army.

Interesting what the US history books choose to leave out.
Beautifully written and illustrated article. The live examples are perfect. Back when I was in university this is what we imagined the future of technical literature would look like.
“Increase prices”

“More profit”

“A million people end their subscriptions”

Wha??
What's the relation of this to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)?
could you tell me more about the D/scheme integration - specifically what scheme you used, and what you had to do to integrate it with D? i spent a couple of days trying to integrate chibi with D, but gave up because it made too much use of preprocessor macros.
Little Ice Age
And yet the distinction is important as we are discussing a project on the very topic.

I don't think anyone playing SimCity thinks there's a whole real city running on their CPU. And certainly no one has a heart attack if you say SimCity is a simulation of a whole city.
No one's suggesting you memorize information you don't understand....
I think that until you're able to emulate meatspace in every aspect with VR, you cannot replace face-to-face.

Economic clusters aren't just valuable for people being in the same office. They produce value because people and ideas meet in bars and restaurants and coffee shops and backyards. All of this is stuff you'd need to replace to "disaggregate the knowledge economy".

This is not something you can accomplish with GitHub and teleconferencing.
If it didn't happen on any test flight, the aircraft wasn't adequately tested. That sounds unsafe.

"anti-stall protection not being aggressive enough under SPECIFIC circumstances" means "not enough MCAS in the A321neo"

(there is no leeway for "SPECIFIC circumstances" unless to grant that to the 737-MAX as well)

The FAA could require more MCAS in the A321neo, and of course more testing.
This just sounds like poor law enforcement to me. Stopping your car on the side of the road is typically legal. Photographing something from public property is legal in the US. What isn't legal is littering, trespassing, and theft. If you were there to damage the lavender because you thought that would be a fun thing to do, that to me is the same as being there because you want to take a selfie. You should be arrested and charged with trespassing. The fact that this isn't happening is a failure of law enforcement, not a failure of social media. (Though my own photographic philosophy is that a picture with people in it is ruined, I realize that not everyone agrees.)
Heh. So it's like a regular cell but everything inside of it is full of padding? What is it padded of, water?
The original PIL was pure junk when it came to doing things correctly. Pillow is better but I haven't tried to quantify it yet.
If any model counts, then I can "simulate a human brain" as a sphere on a stick figure given five minutes in a physics sim.

We need to have some standard, and I would say the bare minimum is modeling each neuron in an ultra-simple way along with the connections between them.
The level thing reads like some kind of horrible gaslighting, but to be fair it's mostly true across all companies. Being a senior engineer in a company that has QA and/or project managers is a very different role than in one that doesn't, for example, and this is a dimension orthogonal to "level".

The bit on promotions is fairly commonplace and sound, about the only real solution I've seen to the Peter Principle.

This doesn't strike me as a particularly exciting document but it doesn't seem terrible either. I like that there are a variety of ways companies handle this sort of thing, and that companies are being more open about it. It really helps potential employees sort out where they want to be.
Yup, reproduction in fishes is "imaginative", sex is complicated and things can turn bizarre easily.

https://australianmuseum.net.au/blog-archive/science/large-m...
The US will also happily draft non-citizens.

https://www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/Non-Citizens-a...
Career interview with reknown cybersecurity expert Susan Landau
"In no way I believe the ends justify the means. I also did not defend Elon in this thread. You are reading your own bias into my comments.
"

If you really really believe this, you need to take a long hard look at yourself and your comments again.

You literally defended him, for example:

"Every CEO is a salesman. Anyone who believes every word of a salesman is a fool. I'd not paint it as Trump-style, bona fide lying. It's just inflating promises, or being overly optimistic. Par for the course."

As for the rest:

Numerous people have tried to help you understand in this thread, and your response has not really been to try to understand their perspective, but instead tell them why they are wrong, and how it must be everyone else.

If you really want to understand, people have tried to help as best they can.

Maybe, rather than immediately react, take a while and process it?
I don't think they would. Do they currently have instagram drug influencer in Europe, where direct-to-consumer drug advertising is illegal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising
They allow you to order in advance for discounts, and book all the sales on one day as a PR exercise.
The south of Spain is quite big. I grew up in the interior, so no sea winds
When reading this article...

...and the article a few days back

"Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20435576

My mind thinks about all these people reading articles instead of writing their thesis.
Gruits were medicinal herbal meads - funny to think that in not-so-distant history, a doctor may have prescribed one of several "medicinal beers".

It's interesting how molecules can be considered 'food', 'medicine' or 'poison' in different contexts.
They work with noscript
"water intake mode"
The body is not known to have such a mode unless you are referring to literally having your mouth open while you pour water into it.

I suppose next you will tell me that constantly breathing is harmful because it means that the body never gets rest from air intake mode.
When recruiters mention unlimited vacation, I translate that in my head to ~3 weeks, which is less than what I currently get, so definitely not a selling point. I think we'll see unlimited disappear over time because everybody knows it's BS, and we'll see lawsuits from employees who were reprimanded for taking 10 weeks or whatever.
> left libertarian

What's a left libertarian? A liberal socialist? Those words are opposite.
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?
You know, when someone wants to buy a public company, Joe Schmoe doesn't get to say "I'm only selling my 10 shares for $1 million apiece!"

Is this an outrageous affront to property rights, or is it something you just take for granted because you don't see the connection to the government?
It means more clicks. If CTR is constant, then it means more impressions (i.e. seeing more ads), or it could mean that ad targeting/serving is getting more intelligent. Probably both.
There's other new EU regulations than just GDPR. The recent copyright ones do nothing for users but severally cripples startup competitors to YouTube, as an example.
Multiple Google Cloud Services Reporting Issues
I consider talking about Type II and Type III civilizations ridiculous in the context of discussing potential increase in the use of air conditioning in India.
Sounds like one officer each evening issuing citations might do the trick.
he meant tact
Are Facebook, Google, Microsoft also still considered late stage Startups?

FB Growth 28% YoY, P/E 26.51, Mkt Cap 573B
GOOG Growth 19% YoY, P/E 25.90, Mkt Cap 788B
MSFT Growth 12%, P/E 27.69, Mkt Cap 1.07T

They all have a much more reasonable P/E. Agreed that it's harder to achieve growth from a massive base, but they're also priced from being able to continue doing so much better than their competitors.
> But today if a US citizen visits a country that also considers him a citizen, and that country drafts him into the military, the USA has nothing to say about it.

I imagine that they might have something to say about it if the other country considered all US citizens to also be citizens of that other country. It's been a long time since I got this in school, but I also seem to recall that they weren't conscripting US citizens visiting Britain, they were boarding US merchant ships at sea to conscript the sailors.
It doesn’t hurt that they own what for many years most considered “THE open source company”

Can’t properly quantify (on mobile atm) but I’d venture to say they release as much or more than, say, Amazon
Well in 1812 the US army wasn't in good shape compared to the Armies on the continent.
That's because every time you give an inch they'll take a little bit more. So you out up a huge front and the only thing that can be approved are small nimble changes. Plus it's wildly beneficial economically to keep the status quo when it comes to owning a home in the California.
That question became much bigger than expected. It was an honest question from a point of ignorance, so maybe that’s why.

I got some interesting insight. One trend I noticed in the replies is that answers are tending away from the goal of car driving being part of daily life and trying to make that electric. Those who did touch on this, were of the opinion that Tesla was not doing anything new or essential in that area.

Instead, most criticism was targeted towards the negatives of Tesla without regards to the positive. Tesla driving the advent of electric-powered personal transportation was barely touched upon.

Overall, I’m of the opinion that the technical advances Tesla has made, the influence on the market and public thinking, outweighs the negatives.

One explanation I came up with myself for the hatred is the overriding positive optimism of Musk. I do think that his marketing is partially bluster and partially the way he sees the world. The latter perhaps is what people hate. And nerds are somehow predisposed, understandably, to be sceptical. There’s a direct conflict there.

If you’ve spent years working for Facebook or others, then it would be hard to accept that a much better way of spending your time is possible. Easier to think all tech companies are bad, than the idea that you’ve made the wrong choice. Especially when earning well.

I have no axe to grind for Musk. He’s said enough things to lose my respect. I think being on Twitter is unhealthy for him and he’s crossed many lines. I also think Tesla is net positive, and I still think the hatred of this community is irrational. I think everyone feeling that way about Tesla should take time out and imagine trying to explain how a world without Tesla would have been better.