skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience there are several overlooked aspects of the remote work situation:

1. Extroverts need lots of interaction, etc. Introverts are more inclined to focus on their work. Naturally the latter are going to do a lot more comfortable with remote work and lower levels of interaction.

2. There are many talented people with disabilities who find it difficult to commute, etc. For them, working from an environment that is set up to accommodate them well, is far more productive.

3. There is the ever present danger of micro-managers. They are the ones that constantly interrupt and need to see people working under them to feel "useful".

4. Employing people is not always the best option. Consider sub-contracting, i.e. work is performed to agreed specifications, timeframes and costs.

5. Much of technical work is "Deep Work" (cf Cal Newport's book, etc) so reducing interruptions leads to greater productivity. I once worked in an office where the norm was to email co-workers 6 feet away so as to not interrupt their being in the flow.

6. Many multinational consulting firms have their staff work on client sites all week and then bring them back to their local office for Friday afternoon debrief and drinks. The managers travel around the different client sites to manage relationships with clients and check-in with their staff.
Strong dislike. I'm already paying $2.75 per ride - how much are the ads subsidizing my ride by? I couldn't find anything on it with a cursory search but my guess is not much - far less than the psychological cost of getting toothbrushes, mattresses, food delivery services, and who knows what other ads shoved into my face any direction I look. I think the worst ones are the TV show/movie ones lining the subway walkways where I feel like I'm walking through some sort of physical channel directory.

I do think the space should be reserved and used for advertising city services such as 311 information, elderly housing services, housing rights etc. It's a great way of educating the city residents about benefits and rights they might not otherwise be aware of.
> In many cases our devs haven't used types, pointers or any equivalent of goroutines & channels.

How do you manage to get a job as a developer without having ever learned this stuff?

Are these people that are just self taught straight to javascript / ruby?

I mean, are CS course nowadays so bad that students come out of them without understanding things like type-theory, pointers etc
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> Internet companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google actually have more money then even them. They will pay.

I agree. And this is where the market dynamics changes, it will be interesting when the cost / economics model changes how things will unfold. Especially Amazon as they are already designing their own ARM CPU for Cloud Services.
I would assume the number of photons coming from the sun is many orders of magnitude higher than any LED could ever hope to produce.

This is of course overlooking the whole "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" vibe.
I'm not saying they're pipe dreams. I'm saying things go wrong sometimes. How many companies have never missed a deadline? I'm not even saying that to be argumentative - I am genuinely curious.
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"Let's just infer explanations that makes sense to us and interpret our findings the way that suits our agenda."

Hah, this very much seems to be the original problem that leads to universities leaning only one direction. I wouldn't say it's a hard 'only leaning against conservative thought', as I've seen academic bias go a lot of directions. But I had many experiences where a prof or curriculum was clearly saying they were right because of their perspective and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Maybe this is the product of a world with an abundance of information. You can find evidence to support basically anything (ie fake moon landing.) If you aren't willing to deliberately go outside your knowledge bubble and tackle challenging counter ideas, you're inevitably going to end up with false beliefs.
"I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent amount of money"

This is incorrect.
On Android, MDM profiles create a separate isolated sandbox which doesn't see any of your personal information. This also means that the company can only remotely wipe that sandbox and not your personal data.

There's also very convenient quick setting which disables all work apps and silences all work notations. A critical feature for work/life balance.
A strange claim. You can reliably find white label stuff sold under their brand, just like of any other big company.
Too many carbs.
And said notation causes the generic type system to be Turing complete, as in the Java case.
This is cool, and might be useful to a friend of mine with a non-traditional background. But your company's blog is very focused on Toronto - do you all have relationships with NYC companies?
Farmed forest can be very effective in the short term for CO2 sequestration how ever, although the net CO2 sequestration over 200 years or so may be lower the sequestration in the short term can be very high. This gives you time to reduce the amount of emissions that are being made in the first place. Planting trees is not a long term solution in and off itself but it is an important tool in reducing emissions
True, but if your enemy is expecting you to send a plane one random day in August, streaming constant noise on EVERY day in August is going to cost them resources and make it easier on the day that you pick.
Analog computers in the past were mostly used to solve differential equations. The input was voltage levels. You could add, multiply, integrate or combine multiple inputs. The is what is done in artificial neural networks if you imagine the voltage levels as input.
That is the idea when you control the system. This however is not a system, it is an ecosystem - payments ecosystem. No one party controls the interfaces or implementations between any two counter-parties, let alone multiple counter-parties along the line. The point I was making was infact about lack of control over externalities like this one. For those in payments, this actually is a real problem, especially with small merchants in developing countries but true for even large ones in the west. And this does not even go into the details of cash oriented systems in india, china and elsewhere.
As someone who works in email I've never used a platform that's not using real-time lists or segments. A business could certainly do it this way but it would be a lot more work and a lot less effective.
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Exactly, it is much like using a fan on a boat to blow a sail.
Yes, but let me elaborate.

I quickly learned the way to get promoted is to be replaceable.

If you’re relied upon too much or if you’re the guy who always fixes things - it’s actually too risky for a business to promote you.

Throughout my career I always made sure I was giving people below me the opportunity to step up, which allowed me to step up too.

I quickly appointed team leaders as soon as a team I managed had more than 4 people for example.

I had to manage the team leaders but they had a lot of freedom.

Some days I had so little to do you wouldn’t believe it, but the department was running the best it had in years and everyone was happy.
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fruit trees are great because you can eat the fruit
Yeah, seriously. It's not emulating a processor, but it is emulating an API. I think the only reason it's not called Windows Emulator is (probably well-founded) concern about getting sued for trademark violation.

Citation with detailed history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13476390
I think this is good and would be interested in trying some hiring via you.
That's like trying to propel your sailboat by holding up an electric fan.
"Veggie burger that tastes better" is kind of a big deal, because (to at least a first approximation) the only reason people don't exclusively eat veggie burgers is that they don't taste better.
They're going to shoot themselves in the foot doing that. Eventually people are going to stop donating as people become more blind to the donation drives.
Re: 1 - that statistic about 10% extra premium for private labels is supposedly data. I'm assuming it's correct(just a Google search, sorry no link , on mobile).

// You don’t need many companies to erase margins if they are competing on price.

Can you explain ? Because my mental model of this is wireless carriers, cable TV, etc, with good margins.

// Apple is considered the best in supply change management in the world. They have huge bargaining power because they sell a lot of a few goods. Amazon would be selling a relative few of a lots of stuff.

Xiaomi does that sucsessfuly over a large range of electronic products.

Also, sure Amazon won't get to 50% margins like in software.

But could they get to 10% ? Or maybe 15% ?

And they'll surely grow, globally.

Would that be enough for the p/e ?
I want to believe in such a redeeming explanation for moral failings, but I think my experiences have shown that a lot of people just care about themselves, and some are enthused to defeat or put down others, even by cheating or other abuse.

I wish I knew where to get help. I just want to have a normal life.
That would be like taking fan and blowing it into your own sails. It wouldn't work.
This is the UK.
Dark web criminal bought 'quadrillions of Zimbabwe bank notes'
Maybe there could be a middle ground: keep most of the internet ad-free, but allow users to do explicit "commercial searches" for e.g. vacuum cleaners, or hotels, or fun things to do in their area. Then the escape room would show up there.
It is a stop gap, but it's at worst a 50 year stop gap and we can go a long way in reducing our gross emissions in that time.
I mean, it's only the size of a boxing ring, not a football field. I think LEDs could produce enough light to have a net effect.
This is an awesome story.

Oh, and in case you're wondering how they did (similar) things in the Good Old Days(TM), let me tell you a story from the late 70's/early 80's.

I subscribed to "Cycle" magazine in my youth, and due to mistakes on their part, for a couple of years I got two copies, and when I finally decided to unsubscribe, I got only one copy a month (but for another year).

My mother had written to them to unsubscribe me (it was a recurring birthday present).

My first year of college I wound up meeting a guy in the magazine subscription business, and told him my story, and told me how it worked.

Turns out that they got a LOT of mail at the (US) publisher. So they had a machine with a gripper that grabbed each letter, held it while a grinder ground off (!) three edges of the letter, and then put it on a conveyer belt. One person was tasked with folding the top page of the envelope back so the letter was revealed, and a few people (IIRC) took them and put them in boxes, taping the letter back together (!) when part had been ground off with the edge of the envelope.

These boxes of letters were then sent to Ireland (!) to be processed, where people entered what should be done on some kind of mainframe application, which then cut 9-track tapes that were sent back to the US for processing.

Told this to my Mom, with the delightful result of seeing her collapse in tears of laughter.
I always thought the tech industry would benefit from probationary hiring/apprenticeships to help counter the challenges in technical interviewing - basically this same approach as internships but for experienced professionals.

Would you expand your program to include those experienced in the industry who don't (or won't) perform well in traditional tech interviews?
Why deorbit it though? Why not try for an EM-Lagrange point?
Yes, memristors are real, and no, their properties are not magic[1]. As I stated elsewhere on this thread, you can even make them at home[2]. It's even been discussed here on Hacker News before[3].

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/76097/what-a...

[2] http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9853984
This reflects my experience with Go to a tee. (Well, minus being a prolific library contributor, thanks for that!)

Prior to using Go professionally, I scoffed at the language and wrote it off as an extreme form of Blub paradox. Having worked in languages with generics, as well as languages with advanced type systems (Haskell, Rust, Scala), it seemed like a huge step back.

Initially, I did have a problem with the lack of generics, because I leaned on the feature regularly when writing software. Four years of professional use later and I can say that I am very much glad for the lack of generics. It is almost always straightforward and easy to read and understand Go code that someone else has written. The same cannot be said for the other languages I've mentioned.

For the problem domain we are using it in (devops), it has been a godsend. The company makes use of many different languages from various paradigms, yet anyone can pick up Go quickly if they want/need to contribute to or deeply understand our tooling.
You’re probably not going to get your $125 from the Equifax settlement
As a functional leaning programmer, I think it's striking that the resulting draft is essentially a curried function whose first parameter is the type!

func Reverse (type Element) (s []Element) {
first := 0
last := len(s) - 1
for first < last {
s[first], s[last] = s[last], s[first]
first++
last--
}
}

This is later called like:

Reverse(int)(s)

Which if this were a curried function, would also be callable like:

Reverse(int, s)

Now I wonder if facilities for currying functions might be a higher level addition that could result in the same thing (so long sa we can pass bare types, which is part of this change as well).
Please Sonic, come to Ingleside Terraces!!!
> So why is it unethical for us, specifically, to eat other animals when it's not unethical for other animals?

You almost answered your own question. "Unethical" is a foreign concept for animals because they don't even have ethics. Humans do, and these ethics have implications for how you should or should not treat other sentient life.
All of those can do just fine with a general search engine.

You just need to know that removing a stump is generally possible. That fact itself can be advertised by a the guild of stump removers if it is obscure enough. "Tired of hitting your toe on the stump in your backyard? Ask you doctor for an eye check!"
It does work though, depending on the material your sail is made of.

Try it: attach an electric fan to a pinewood derby car and point it so it is blowing into a tin foil sail also attached to the pine wood derby car. The car will move forward.
This kind of technology had been demonstrated many years ago and many people around the world had been watching it at the time[1].

1. https://i.imgur.com/VL0Q9hT.gif
If I understand you correctly, then it does seem true to me that nature has no agency. However, when the choice a consumer has is to either pay the asking price for a <em>needed</em> drug or to die then I think the consumer has no meaningful choice at all. Given how unequal the bargaining power is between the buyer and seller in this situation, it's hard to see a free market solutions applies: it might be efficient, but it's also brutaly inhumane.

I know I've set up kind of a straw-man. It might be that the consumer could choose to forgo an expensive drug or medical procedure without fatal consequences, but that's not the interesting case.
Not necessaraly.

The node size represents the equivalent 'gate' size of a standard transistor with similar performance characteristics.

By using better transistor designs, you can make the effective gate size much smaller than the actual gate size.
Not a sailor (solar or otherwise) but my instinct is you could turn by "furling" parts of the sail (say, if there were vanes that could be turned perpendicularly to the flow of photons). But lots of designs seem to call for propulsion from a laser, so maybe that could just be angled away slightly. At astronomic distances that might be tough, though.
Somebody tell that to Ticketmaster, I've unsubscribed from their shit at least half a dozen times over the last few months but I still get a marketing email at least once a week!
mythbusters were able to show a weird effect where the fan on a boat thing worked - I think they chalked it up to some blown wind from the fan drawing in more than from around the fan..

https://youtu.be/uKXMTzMQWjo?t=75
Seems most of the contributions are from hardware/distro developers. Recent contributions pin Google at making up about 2% and Facebook at 0.8%. I can imagine they're contributing far more value with their Linux Foundation memberships though.

[0]https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/08/26/top_30_linux_contributions...
Net effect is not zero if the photon bounces off of the sail
Red meat is classified as probably carcinogenic to humans by the WHO.

https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
Advertising is understood to be push and broadcast (or at least multicast) communication. If I initiate the communication, that is not advertising. If it is targeted to an audience of one, that is not advertising. The OP was lamenting the ubiquity and tactics of abusing broadcast media to manipulate consumers en masse. I'm taking a wild guess here that the OP would not put consumer-initiated communication into the bin of "advertising" they were talking about.
This guy should work on his website a bit. It's just a blank white page with no content.
From my experience planting trees, most of the trees planted at such a rate will die. You may need to do a few multiples to be safe.
I got the impression that whoever posted this originally created it as a sort of puzzle or mathematics test, or to illustrate varying precedence over time.
I doubt if anybody is still alive from the time when BODMAS/PEMDAS wasn't universal so for practical modern purposes the equation is not ambiguous. In fact it isn't possible to write an ambiguous (valid) equation.
If you allow drugs to be imported it will make it impossible for a company to sell the same drug cheaper elsewhere. It will have the same effect, wouldn't it?
Spotify keeps big lead over Apple Music but disappoints with 108M subscribers
With your logic none of the great inventors mattered, because their stuff could've been discovered/created by others.
I thought you want the LED mounted on the spacecraft itself.

That would be the equivalent of the fan being on the sailboat.

Yes, if you had another power boat next to the sailboat you could blow the boat, but it would be transferring some energy from the engine of the powerboat.

So if you had another spacecraft near the space sail, and that spacecraft was shooting light, it would have some miniscule effect, but I didn't think that is what you meant.

Edit: I suspect you're kidding but I can't be sure.
It's highly disputed because the original allegation is not just France, but rather a French-led NATO joint force that included Britain. It's assumed that the British investigation can't be trusted.

The other investigations also doesn't explain the wreckage of a Libyan fighter jet, close to the wreckage of the airliner.

Multiple Italian soldiers were also found guilty of concealing evidence about the event, allegedly by the request of NATO.
It's only the naturalistic fallacy if I was claiming it is good. I wasn't, I was simply claiming it is what we are, so to claim it is wierd or inherently strange is not valid. The claim that it is "bad" may be correct, but it needs to be supported before there is any reason to change our nature.
why do we even use these companies?
Dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol are not the same thing
One general way to achieve that is sin taxes (on sugar in this case).
The point of the F22 is that you don't get into a dogfight in the first place, you blow the adversary away from beyond visible range. The Rafale is a very good plane, but is not as stealthy as the Raptor.

In any case, it will be years before we can say which is the superior plane, since all the good stuff is classified.
I'm not even looking for a financial home run. I'd settle for a Newton. If Apple had released Google Glass, at least it would show creativity and risk-taking. In fairness, it was easier at the time for Google to fail with Glass, though, because no one expects them to be great at consumer hardware (though they're in the process of raising that expectation). Apple has more reputation at stake, and maybe that's made them more conservative design-wise.
Cats will hunt even when well fed.
It only works because the fan pushes against something not directly connected to the car. This is the same reason you can't use a jet engine in space.
Oblivious question: is there any notion of granulated permissions, ie a ‘mouse’ user group that the game could add itself to? Seems like something like this shouldn’t be a deal-breaker.
This is such hysterical hyperbole I don't know where to start.

Considering you don't know where you live, how do you know what I am saying isn't true?

Where do you live that you fear for your safety in public? Even in Otara you won't run into trouble in public.

Have you lived in Otara? Or have you just been there a few times, found you weren't immediately beaten up, and decided it was an alright place?

If you're an Aucklander I consider Auckland CBD a pretty safe place, big police presence. But even then you have endemic violence problems, ie asian students getting mugged in that park outside Auckland Uni.

Shop owners not having guns is a good thing. The last thing we need is an escalating arms race between shop owners and criminals. Violence begets violence.

Petrol station and dairy robbings are common, usually for cigarettes. People would absolutely think twice if they were armed and could legally defend themselves.
Hyperloop project in India inches closer to reality
It's a bit disappointing that you would talk down a competitor without knowing much about them, and then, to add insult to injury speculate about all kinds of things without having facts to diss them some more.
I don't know if the strength of an LED is enough to move the craft significantly, but if it is you'd need to point it at anything _but_ the ship itself, otherwise the two forces would cancel out. Just shine it in the opposite direction of where you want to go.
> The phone companies say that the ruling will free up more of their resources to improve their broadband services, although at least one FCC commissioner says he will be watching to see if that's really the case.

> ISPs such as EarthLink, which already have a hard time competing on price, may still negotiate access contracts with the phone companies but are looking for alternative ways to deliver their services.

EarthLink sold the next year to Windstream for $673 million in an all-stock transaction.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/dial-...

Three years later...
Windstream unloads legacy EarthLink internet assets for $330M
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/windstream-unloads-leg...
No because it’s too easy to clone.
it's easy to see how species go extinct

>
Domestic cats are responsible for the extinction of numerous mammals, reptiles, and at least 33 bird species globally.8 A study published in 2013 estimated between 1.4–3.7 billion birds and 6.9–20.7 billion mammals are killed annually in the U.S. by feral and free ranging domestic cats, making them the largest human-influenced source of mortality for birds and mammals in the country.