skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can be cynical about this, and a healthy amount of skepticism is warranted given the authorship.

That said, it would be interesting (healthy?) to discuss/debate the merits of the actual statements:

* Delivering value to our customers. We will further the tradition of American companies leading the way in meeting or exceeding customer expectations.

* Investing in our employees. This starts with compensating them fairly and providing important benefits. It also includes supporting them through training and education that help develop new skills for a rapidly changing world. We foster diversity and inclusion, dignity and respect.

* Dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers. We are dedicated to serving as good partners to the other companies, large and small, that help us meet our missions.

* Supporting the communities in which we work. We respect the people in our communities and protect the environment by embracing sustainable practices across our businesses.

* Generating long-term value for shareholders, who provide the capital that allows companies to invest, grow and innovate. We are committed to transparency and effective engagement with shareholders.

Curious where people thing they are wrong or incomplete.
If everyone got a constant equal share of capacity on LTE, it would be so slow nobody could watch video at all. Are you sure that’s what you want?
I experimented a lot with exercise. I found that it doesn't influence my mood, productivity, etc. at all, so I didn't include it. Admittedly, I'm an outlier here.
I think the main checks and balances should come from the union members themselves, however, often times it's the "loudest voice" that wins over.

It's difficult as an individual to make an argument against striking for increased pay for example, even if you believe the long-term impact of that decision will ultimately be worse (i.e. it could lead to increasing the speed with which the employer investigates automation to stop the impacts of you striking).

Am almost wholeheartedly in favour of organised labour, but am not convinced most unions have the right organisation (although something is often better than nothing in the case of workers rights).
Based on sales, I still consider Tesla a niche. The Camry sells about 3x the Model 3. When you compare the M3/S to all of Nissan/Toyota/Honda/Kia/Hyundai/Mazda/Acura/Infinity/BMW/MB/VW-Audi sales in the US, it's a drop in the bucket. And that's just "imported" cars. Add US automakers and it drops even further.

EDIT- Forgot about Honda and the Korean car makers too.
> the west' (e.g. anglophone world)

hmm... just for clarity for a non westerner, is Germany and France not part of the default West, as they are not anglophones?
Depends a lot on the area I'd guess. Here in Iowa people are generally pretty happy with the public schools in my experience.
And is it not true?

Consider that Hollywood is unionised even though the pay differential between an extra and a star is far greater than in tech. They can make it work, why can’t we?
It happened to Nissan with the first-gen Leafs. Couldn’t make them fast enough, until the early adopters ran out and Leafs started to pile up on dealer lots.
How else can you reach your final form!
Hey,
Not yet. We have build MVP for ios only.
I agree with the above comment, people who are complaining against h1b driving wages down, should know that the companies that hire h1bs or any one else at lower salary in general are meant for profit right?. In a country based on capitalism, how could someone force the corporations to spend more than they need to?.

Having said that I strongly think that people usually exaggerate the effects of h1b on wages and employment for natives in general.
Then the importer has a revolution, wipes all debts and starts again.
I don’t actually do it. :)

I can't help feeling that most internet advice falls in this category.
Interesting, I had not heard of this before. On the surface, I was very much of a fan, for it seamed like it could process a fairly crunchy waste stream. If you have a report from (not just) a government lab on the failures of the process, I would love to read it.
"Self-regulation" like this always fails. The marketplace is unforgiving: a company which does not push externalities onto wider society will be put at a competitive disadvantage to one which does.

This statement is a bunch of malarkey designed to present the appearance of reform in order to avert the reality of reform.
The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks
Trade war is one reason, other is external debt in USD. This is explained in great details in article that China needs 100 billion dollars every year to service its external USD debt. So they don't want to let CN¥ fall in value significantly.
>You use Uber because you don't want to drive.

Or it makes more financial sense to 'rent' a ride than to own it. You shop at a supermarket because it is cost-prohibitive to buy from the source yourself.

Not every transaction has to be about squeezing out someone else for less money.
This article is about wireless carriers, not wired ones. In all but the most remote areas, all 4 major carriers are acceptable.

Wireless also does truly have true limits.
Specifically, Amazon was cash-flow positive but deliberately chose to reinvest all their profits into the company instead of paying out dividends, so that appears on the books as a loss but it really isn't.
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It's an American thing and it's more than that. Having a dog is like a signal that you're 'normal'. If you don't have a dog, there may be something wrong with you. The lack of a dog or love for dogs is actually the red flag. The dog just raises you closer to the baseline. If you don't like dogs and have the audacity to voice your preference out loud, prepare to be a social outcast/weirdo/creep.
> Curious where people thing they are wrong or incomplete.

Enforcement.
Nothing can ever replace your dog.
HAHA if you cancel you have to pay 1500 $
The really pivotal change was the financial crisis. Before that the Yuan was at over 8 to the dollar.
I worked on EMS data entry software for a while (deepest apologies to any EMTs reading) and the big issue we ran into was needing to fulfill doctor/administrator pet projects to get a sale.

The county wants to collect data on if a drowning incident happened at a pool without a locking gate. Now all services need to update their software to include a random checkbox. An EMT was caught without gloves and now the parent hospital wants EMTs to record what levels of PPE they wear on every run. The customer might get a grant if they can help track infectious diseases so now there is an extra box where the EMT can guess if the patient has the flu.

In the abstract that is good data to want to know, but it ends up being more junk on the screen for the EMT to skip over while dealing with the patient or sitting in the hospital parking lot after a run.
I don't have the usage & programming labor stats to make a definitive statement on that particular application including the size of the org using it. My main point was that "it depends" and should be subject to further tradeoff and business analysis rather than "X is always bad".

A quarter-second lag does not sound like a significant problem to me, and may require a lot of IT funds to remove. Often such is only justified if it's a high-use application. Would you agree that 100 hours of extra programming to save 50 hours of data entry time is usually not worth it (all else being equal)? If so, let's start there and slice into further factors.

Please don't give me bad scores for trying to be logical and rational, people! Resources are limited, orgs have to spend with care. Sure, it's nice job security for us IT people if orgs spend big bucks to make all apps snappy, but from a business and/or accounting standpoint, it could be the wrong decision. You view the world different when your money is on the line.

If you know a way to make all apps cheap, good, AND snappy at the same time, let's here it! I'm all Vulcan ears.

Note that one can make web apps snappy, but there are often maintenance and/or creation time tradeoffs for doing such. A few well-run shops do it well, but most shops are average-run.
What if I'm talking about redirecting an entire TLD "www" to ""?

Obviously it's a separator, I just found writing "" and "www" too weird. Not to mention that in this context where you're not really a recursive DNS resolver it really doesn't matter how one specifies the existence or lack of it of a subdomain. In addition to that some things use "@" (instead of the dot I used).
Porsche drives Taycan EV at high speed for 3,425 km in 24 hour endurance test
True, not even IE11.
Maybe not, Babbage might disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine
There's a reason the pediatrician was excellent - they were a specialist, trained to deal with difficult, unpredictable patients (babies). They were also likely getting paid more for their time than a normal PCP, which might explain why you felt all the doctors in the area were subpar.
> Skill levels are widely varied at the higher levels. Collective bargaining means, valuing them about the same (a common agreement means the same outcome for all?)

you seem to be inferring that skill level should influence compensation, and since unions are primarily in the business of bargaining on wages, the downside is that they introduce some ceiling or whatever

but, that's not how all unions operate. many are focused on working conditions/presence of work/benefits alongside. your average SWE doesn't care about these things because their job is physically and mentally easy, plus they are wooed with free food/working conditions/intellectual challenges etc. so average software guy is sated and doesn't have much incentive to rock the boat.

but, let's run with your example. suppose there is probably a large amount of variance in ML engineers. suppose some have a skill set 1x (average ML engineer) and a few have a skill set 5x average

the 5xers like yourself (maybe) probably feel great, they have tons of disposable income and don't feel any particular pressure because their work is intellectually fulfilling etc. so no need for collective bargaining. don't hold me back! you say as you cash check after check

but, in the case of ML engineers, one thing they are creating is self driving trucks which is a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars! management throwing them $500k, $1mil etc. a year is absolute pennies relatively despite being a large absolute salary

were you to pipe up about this as a contractor, you'd just get run out of town. but unions may be able to take the collective and say "we are an insanely talented group of specialists worth 10x what you're paying us, so pay us... or we quit"

there are unions like screen actors guild that mandate membership but function as a sort of "loose" union insofar as they have extremely talented people alongside entry level people (high skill variance) vis-a-vis more manual labor (e.g. nurses, coal miners) whose variance in "output" is way more narrow
Watch out there: the kernel will cache what it wrote out, and all you'll end up checking is the cache and not the card. dd has a "nocache" option but it's only a request. "direct" might work; I don't know.

Maybe someone will come along and provide references to a a definitive answer on what the behaviour will be.

My point is: it's not trivial to ensure that you're actually testing the right thing.
In the US, the Tesla 3SR+ is $39K with a 220 mile range, and the electric Mini is projected to start at $35K-$38K with a 114 mile range. I don't expect the electric Mini to sell well in North America.
Piling on, I’d also recommend against a 15 hour workday.
When unions were illegal, they could only survive by being in the interests of the workers they represent. The ones that became legal were the most willing to cooperate with capital, and in turn were given structural advantages against more radical unions.

For example, in many shops there is only one union. It is not difficult to see how that would lead to perverse incentives on the union's part.

I can ask you in turn: What checks and balanges are in place to prevent businesses from:

- Rampant corruption

- Protecting bad/lazy managers

- Blocking strategic decisions in the name of protecting profits

- Manipulating national politics for their benefit
It is available in few states as of now. Going here and choose california https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels
You reply would only make sense if we didn't have a new thread every month about how broken tech interviews are, where even experienced/senior engineers are complaining how exhausting it is to get a new job.

You need to think about others, not just your particular case in order to understand what drives people to support the idea of union.
> Kubernetes wrapper wrapper wapper wrapper at a former job

oh god why
> * My only question with unions is: what checks and balances will be in place this time around to prevent unions from:*

The same can be asked for elected representatives in government.

See "Democracy or Oligarchy? Models of Union Governance in the UK, Germany and US":

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2995297
I mean, wink wink, it's exactly what they wanted to do. Apple wanted a closed garden, they built it, and they won't allow anybody in from outside, and for now it's working, so, for them, there's no problem.

Sorry, I was being a bit sarcastic :P ;)
What about the unions at that Shell plant where Trump spoke and the workers had to stay unpaid at first? Why did they roll over?

https://twitter.com/spettypi/status/1161360126361710592
Respectfully, that is a common and tempting argument, but no, no, and no. The raspberry pi 3 has a freaking dual core 64-bit 1.4Ghz processor that is more than fast enough to run full-screen video games at 60Hz.

It's more than just an "optimization" that is making UIs on these plenty-fast processors so slow, it's a large scale failure of software engineering, building slow layers on top of slow layers.

The processor is not the reason for slowness, and we've had absolutely responsive UIs not just 10 years ago, but 50 years ago too. The actual reason is economic: cheap engineering. Using freely available components not well suited to embedded devices, writing layers using scripting languages because it's easy, treating the problem as solved when the functionality is there without regard to the speed.
This statement is being billed as 'demoting shareholder value' but I don't think that's what it is. These are all very good ways to deliver shareholder value, especially in mature markets. In other words it's telling you how they plan to reach that goal, not that they have suddenly changed their goals.
>We know a lot about the language of large ocean mammals but it's just not as one to one with how we would translate it.

Well, not exactly.In fact, we still know surprisingly little. For the humpback song, one of the most studied topics up to date, there is still a major disagreement if it is a reproductive display or something else.Humpbacks make tons of other sounds as well, those have not been studied as much as their songs. For bottlenose dolphins, the most studied species, we sort of know the function of the signature whistles (again, not everyone agrees), but know very little about the function/meaning of other whistles and other sounds like burst pulses or LFNs.Echolocation has been studied a lot, still, we do not know if it is used in communication in any way.
This might be ignorant, but in this case would it be more humane to own two so they can entertain each other?
Very little original software from apple is open source.

Things that they’ve adopted/forked/bought are but there’s not much they’ve started from scratch and released as OSS.

There is almost no expectation of it from people who know Apple.

Promising something unexpected and not delivering is undoubtedly more damaging than saying nothing.
It's using Animate.css by Daniel Eden: https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
I don't know if this was viable at the time, but nowadays I expect you could use an OpenWRT router to do per-domain/mac traffic shaping on the device displaying the cartoons. That would force it down to 480p (or whatever) and reduce your overall usage.

Another option that might not have been available at the time would be taking the Netflix device to a different connection (work, the library, whatever) and then pre-downloading a bunch of the cartoons for offline viewing.
People are misunderstanding the purpose of this statement. Everyone is saying it doesn't have legal teeth. This is true. But that's not the point. The point of this statement is to signal to the public, that the wealthy are ready to give them what they want and understand that the inequality is unsustainable. They are prepared to make concessions now and it's up to the public to take them.

IMO This is basically a "Go vote for Bernie Sanders" nod from the wealthy. None of them would say this so directly, except a financier like Asher Edelman, who explained how his economic policies would lower inequality and increase the velocity of money.

Read Ray Dalio's Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed https://economicprinciples.org/Why-and-How-Capitalism-Needs-...

If you want some accurate reporting, go read the financial and business press. Turns out business people kind of need to know what is going on to do their job and are willing to pay for good news reporting. So if you want 'just-the-facts' reporting, the business press is pretty good.
I should have clarified that it was something I learned from someone else who actually does do it. But yes it is definitely second hand.
I didn't realize it was that long, it really is indentured servitude at this point.
Wait, is this not the joke? Why's this getting downvoted so much?
Presumably the crankshaft is in the engine, so it should be fine. The transmission, driveshaft, differential, and axles may not be up to the task, however. But it will be torque that breaks them, not horsepower.
Yup, creativity usually takes a hit when you have limitless options.
> What can I do to check and balance anything? How can I bet anything except a tool to be used for various warring factions to extract more money from each other.

See also any democratic society.
I really, really hate to defend mobile carriers, but...

Congestion is a real thing. Mobile subscribers are now using significantly more data due to video streaming, and wireless carriers aren't expanding their capacity fast enough. 5G won't help for most of CONUS. Millimeter wave 5G, which will help, will only be deployed in urban areas. Mid-band and low-band 5G will only increase spectrum efficiency around 20%.

For now, carriers are throttling videos and introducing various deprioritization options. All the major carriers only offer plans with forced traffic deprioritization. For some plans, all traffic is deprioritized. For others, deprioritization happens after a threshold.

There isn't enough bandwidth in the US to support 240 million subscribers streaming Netflix 24/7.
English Cannot Encode Real News
I recommend SBCL with emacs. http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html
Weirdly, I've found TV shows to be a great place to find great artists.

Even weirder is that American Dad got me into loads of bands, from My Morning Jacket to Wax Hang to These Kids Wear Crowns. I can name a handful of acoustic artists that I got into thanks to Netflix shows like Bojack Horseman, Queer Eye, Jessica Jones, and Final Space. I also watch wrestling from time to time, and the WWE often use some good songs when promoting PPV's or building promos.

The next time you watch TV and you hear a song you like, look it up on your phone or Shazam it. You'll probably find a ton of other songs by that artist/band that you like too.
So you're saying the yuan hasn't been pegged to the dollar all these years? This is revisionism.
Paywalled.

Try this:

http://archive.li/2SOos
Many revolutions started when one person though things weren't right.
Software like this doesn't get written in someone's garage. There was almost certainly a team behind it, including a dedicated product manager. The product manager made a decision not to prioritize performance.

On one hand, it seems a clear failure. On the other hand, it's hard to judge these kinds of decisions from the outside. The product seems to be successful; the customer paid for it and installed it in ambulances. Maybe if they'd focused on performance instead of adding feature XYZ, or increased the price by adding a faster CPU, the customer would have bought something else. Your competition checks more boxes, therefore must be better!

Mostly when I see shitty software, I think not "who wrote this?" but "who bought this?"
Many systems have historically prioritized how nice they look at the expense of speed. First Mac OS X releases were notoriously sluggish for example.

I cringe every time I see a laggy but 'nice' looking interface. I'd rather see a wireframe with just text, it will still be more useful than a button I can never trust.
Corporations are just people, the same as countries are just people. To think that they operate apart from the decisions of their leaders and members is just silly. There aren’t “good” and “bad” corporations. There’s good and bad leaders and members.

I feel like there’s a strong shift happening in the US away from personal affect and responsibility and shifting it into legislative and corporate policies. The self is out of the equation.

The strongest manifestations of this (to me) are the perceived hypocrisy of proponents of this change. For example believe everyone should pay more in taxes without voluntarily paying more than the minimum themselves. Insist on inane doomsday climate predictions but also fight vehemently against nuclear power and jet travel for vacations without a care. List goes on.

Our problem as a society always seems to be those pesky other people and never ourselves.
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Is HN really for trite, emotional, insubstantial stories about people who think their dog has a favourite pizza parlour though?

Seems more Reddit or pulp magazine territory to me.
Did you try to install OpenDrop?

Just hope you are lucky enough to have the right C dependencies installed.
You probably want to have text in UI. :)

I mean it's fine for physical things to avoid it, as you probably don't want to manufacture 200 different power on buttons for your TV.

But in software, I like UI's using text much more than the icon/graphics using ones.
What's worked for me every time I get in that routine is to force myself to do one to five push ups every time I think about switching tabs.

During that time I think about what it is that I really want to be doing. After a while I automatically skip to this step without having the desire to refresh HN.
I use this rule for introducing abstraction: don't do it unless you have at least 3 different use cases you're abstracting, and the test suite doesn't count.
Some selection bias there. People who procrastinate at stuff don’t become olympians, I’d guess.
You should try Scribd.com for audiobooks (disclaimer: I work there)
How does a fail-deadly deterrent factor in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

Supposedly this is real - and likely still in operation.
I wonder if this is in response to a common narrative (by politicians) that corporate America is essentially screwing everyone and has gained immense control over every aspect of life.
I'm working on a 2D maze game where you have to fly a ship that has asteroids-style motion and controls through a maze without hitting a wall. Hit a wall, you start maze over. As levels progress, inertia increases, walls narrow. Later levels include a maze that rotates in various ways as you are flying through it.

Most of the programs I've written up to this point have been quite small, so this is my first large, ambitious project. I'm having a good time so far.
The trivial solution is to to do the two MD5 sums on two different machines.