skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the advantages others listed, I think a big advantage of a large corporation is risk management. If you're a "small" company managing a handful of buildings, and something catastrophic happens to one of those buildings, that could threaten the company's existence. More so if those handful of buildings are in the same city, and all suffer from the same event (flood, hurricane, earthquake, etc.). A large company managing hundreds of buildings spread across the entire country would more likely be able to handle a one-building catastrophe.
This. Tesla Model S’s are going to those who would be driving black Audi A6s anyways. There isn’t Chinese brand loyalty in the high end car market, no one thinks any BYD can substitute for a BMW, Mercedes, or Audi. Note all these are already made in China anyways.
The contractors in question aren't necessarily white collar. Most contractors at Google work in the cafes or in maintenance roles, etc.
A similar situation is happening to me currently and it’s quite killing, I thought I’d share it with you.
We are 4 partners, we have created a startup a year ago. We work in electronic payment systems, I have done our whole infrastructure including the payment gateway integration and PCI certifications, etc and my best friend and college had done the Android part.
We are in a very critical situation now as he’s leaving to pursue a masters degree (studying abroad). It has been since then the worst time of my life. I have never talked to him about it and I frankly so mad at him that I just want him to leave.

I own 20% of the shares, it’s quite unfair but I really couldn’t care less. All i wanted is to make our startup work.

It might be irrelevant but I just thought I’d write it here
Source for them being arms of the Chinese state?

Some of them are state-owned, but the two largest electric vehicle manufacturers in China are not. In descending order of revenue from electric vehicles (source: [1]):

* BYD (a publicly traded company, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange)

* Geely (also traded on the HK Stock Exchange)

* BAIC (state-owned, sells a lot of plug-in hybrids)

* SAIC (state-owned)

* JAC motors (state-owned)

BYD and Geely's combined electric-vehicle revenue is significantly larger than that of BAIC, SAIC and JAC (combined). The electric vehicle market in China does not appear to be dominated by state-owned companies.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-20/electr...
These are different things.

You should first and foremost be able to do everything on the iPad (or any touch device) with touch and/ or gestures. As soon as you require a mouse (or stylus, trackpad/ whatever) on a tablet you've screwed up. The whole beauty of a tablet is in its portability. Having to rely on a mouse or trackpad screws that up.

That said, mouse support for the iPad can and absolutely should be much better. Just never a requirement.
Not having enough at any price. The "peak oil" nightmare scenarios are where demand truly outstrips supply. Price eventually becomes irrelevant as physical access to the resource matters more than cash.

I personally don't think that will ever happen. The increased adoption of renewables means oil demand will not outstrip supply.
I'd prefer something that supports longer posts. By default, Mastodon only lets you write short posts. Changing the default would mean messing with the UI or changing the way it uses the underlying protocol. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7973#issuecomme...
Precisely - Real estate boils down to financial operations on assets that have a number of factors and signals that go into predicting market prices. This also includes demand for commercial space.
Personally I think this is great but I would spend less time on certain things and more time on others.

I think what people who are trying to train themselves for programming jobs need most is topics in software engineering. And in particular I have my own view of the most important parts of software engineering.

So I would put more emphasis on modern tooling, practical requirements analysis, hammer home the importance of iteration and closed feedback loops such as end-to-end testing and observing/interacting with users. Emphasize iterative requirements analysis and verification -- it's very easy to get on to the wrong path early on in a project and waste a lot of time. And for most projects the programmer is the person who is best equipped to really understand and steer requirements and this means they need to be assertive which is quite a challenging aspect that requires practice.

Also modules and components can be critical so they need to get beyond objects or functions to that level. And also they need to understand and have experience with package managers and registries. These are examples where things have changed over the years. In the past it might have been more important to, for example, have experience with assembly language, or something. But these days, for building new software or integrating existing, selecting and combining components is critical to leverage the massive amount of available code and systems and avoid reinventing the wheel. People disparage that as "glue" or "plumbing" etc. but it is a high-level skill that needs to be developed and I think in most cases a much more advanced approach than building everything from scratch. Also it takes practice to know which parts should be components and which parts should be custom.
"What to expect when expecting", and the follow up books on the first few years. What it did mostly was address anxiety issues of 'omg is that normal....'

The other thing was telling my wife: 'Do not worry about if we are going to screw our child up. It is guaranteed. Only thing you can control is how badly you screw them up. That and hope Jerry Springer is canceled before they get old enough'
>As a VC,

Have you ever invested - transfer has cleared, they have the money - into a company that cold emailed you?
1. Are you referring to something specific that I'm not aware of?

2. Is this really the primary concern, in the grand scheme of things? In a utilitarian sense, a problematic or offensive choice of words is peanuts compared to (for instance) failing to sufficiently question the WMD narrative in the run-up to the Iraq War.
Your original reply was not really a material response to my point about social engineering at all - you just said folks at MIT are superior in a direct comparison. It's hard not to take away from that a direct attack on average folks like me, but I will say this - I'm not at all surprised.
And after people provide them with enough suggestions-samples-picks, they will train AI to do the coding for you.
The OP literally just told you stuff they're creating on the iPad. I get we should be cynical of marketing-speak and all, but "it is possible to create real things on the iPad" is not just marketing speak, it's stuff people who are actually creating real things on the iPad have been saying for years.

I'm currently kind of down on my iPad due to travails using it for writing screenplays (long story, not that interesting), but I have used it for creating -- and presenting -- slideshows to large audiences, writing multiple articles and publishing them directly to WordPress and Medium sites, creating technical diagrams for my office, writing a 110,000-word novel, doing revisions (change tracking and comments) on other people's novels, touching up photographs, doing GitHub reviews, on and on. There are people who edit successful podcasts with Ferrite, edit multitrack 4K video with Luma Fusion, on and on and on.

iPads are tricky-to-useless for most development work currently and that tends, for obvious reasons, to be a major limitation for HN's main demographic. But that doesn't make the iPad "just for watching videos". To claim that it's not capable of being used for a wide range of real work is either ignorant or trolling.
Historically Starbucks has been used as a market indicator for other companies' expansion. If a starbucks opened in a location then it was assumed that there were growth factors at play in the market since that was the north star for Starbucks.

Starbucks in 2019 is the McDonald's of coffee shops, so it's not the same, but if you track their Starbucks Reserve locations you'll find the same predictions being used.
You should know that makerspace is not bankrupt, actually alive and well after 10 years, and expanding (having signed the lease on the other half of the building, and raising funds to build it out) right now!

Come on back for a visit, you'll find a welcoming community and tons of creative stuff going on.
API-Driven CMS: A Win for Both Marketers and Developers
Depends on the nature of the work and variability of worker skills, along with the union structure. For work where the skills of the workers are mostly consistent, or where skills can be easily grouped into buckets based on training and seniority, unions work out really good for the employees.

For highly variable skill work, and where skill levels are difficult to track (at least in a non-gameable way), you can have lower skilled (or lower performing) employees that drag down higher performers, due to union rules requiring things like seniority-based pay brackets. So people that are really good at convincing their management that they are really good, and work in industries where there is high competition for their specialty, those are the ones that tend to be more anti-union for their line of work.
Ask HN: What the largest NTP clock drift you have observed and Why?
No, the open secret of high energy particle physics is that certain facts cannot be disclosed to the public, for fear of unchecked nuclear proliferation.

Most of the smoke and mirrors is for want of preventing an excess of capable practitioners, so that motivated political entities are denied crucial information that might enable their ability to bargain with nuclear tipped devices.

But the obvious flaw in the Joe Rogan UFO nonsense is the hypothesis of unlimited energy produced by UFO technology. The theory is that bombarding mysterious compounds with particle beams can generate nigh limitless energy. That special magic elements result in unbalanced equations where you get more out than you put in.

The Blink 182 singer, Tom DeLonge, claimed during his Joe Rogan interview that his new company is developing technologies capable of harnessing magical anti-gravity drives just like those described by Bob Lazar's UFO legend lore.

The thing is, they might have some credibility if they could simply speak in terms of the fundamentals of fission and fusion, but they never do. If they could frame their theories within the bounds of readily understood atomic principles, like converting the standing potential energy of strong nuclear forces into kinetic energy and photons, they might not sound like kooks.

Bob Lazar is smart enough to know better, but Tom DeLonge not so much, it seems. Bob Lazar sticks to a script of what he read and what he saw, and relies on principles of military compartmentalization to add mystique to his tale. He knows enough to steer clear of hard science, because it would get him into the weeds with hot waste isotopes that burst the fantasy bubble.

Bob Lazar leaves some breathing room to suspend disbelief by floating the premise that the documentation he was exposed to might have intentionally introduced absurdities as a means of obfuscation, and to spike the beverage with loaded secret keywords that might reveal leaks to counterintelligence.

So we say "okay, Lazar's data might be poisoned" and then cognitively cherry pick what enthralls us. Maybe it wasn't "unobtainium" or "ununpentium" but some other dangerous heavy element (plutonium) that he'd have refused to work with or even get close to. Maybe it wasn't "space aliens" and that little tidbit was simply a conceit of the compartmentalization. Area 51 was real, so maybe as a civilian employee he lacked awareness beyond the scope of his project.

It's not like nuclear reactions don't unleash huge quantities of energy, but there isn't much to differentiate UFO power supplies from the free energy that cold fusion promised, but failed to deliver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
Management does not understand software.
Microtransaction Payment Handlers (In Development in Chrome)
Doesn't seem ironic to me. It's easier to be the play by play guy/sports analyst than to get into the field/cage/arena/whatever and make something happen.
My company was at a WeWork for 6 months or so, and now our new self-owned office is staffed by WeWork employees. They man the front desk, keep fridges and coffee stocked, put on monthly events, etc.

No complaints as a customer.
See also this gist, which seems to be the discussion point: https://gist.github.com/rsolomakhin/eba91c185028899883d2c7f3...
For a startup, raising less money, and a new employee getting more equity, also generally means the position has more risk. So the reaction you see is not necessarily irrational.
I think she shoots in JPG because of memory budget. A family friend talked her into buying some kind of photo management / photo touch-up application (can’t remember its name), but I think it mostly just makes her angry because it took over as the default handler for photos on her computer, and her computer is too old and slow to run the software acceptably.

How seamless is the iCloud backup when the total volume of pictures is greater than the local storage? Does the photos app smartly fetch the full photo as needed?
I think you are confusing patrons with podcast listeners.

What you see on Graphtreon is the number of patrons, meaning podcast listeners who decided to donate to the podcast through Patreon.

I don't know what the average conversion rate is, but I think it's safe to assume that patrons only make up a small percentage of total audience, I'd be surprised if it was higher than 5%.

In fact, it's probably significantly lower than 5%, my guess would be that it's more like 1%.

So, your assumption that it doesn't take more than 2000 listeners before you can pull in a livable wage is wrong, but maybe you meant patrons.

It depends on what your definition of a livable wage is, but my guess would be that you'd probably need an audience of at least 100,000 podcast listeners to make $5000/month on Patreon (assuming 1% conversion rate and an average donation of $5).

Also, it seems to me that you are confused as to how Patreon model works, creators who use Patreon don't put their main content behind a paywall, they simply throw in some extra goodies for patrons.
I’m pretty sure that’s not the full report, irc they release a beefy car buyers guide each year to members with the full report, and Consumer Reports has rules against the republishing of the data in their reports.

It makes sense to me. A new car shouldn't have problems, full stop. My 25 yo car got its first maintenance in 5 years apart from oil, the only problem it has is the air switcher is cranky, and that took over 20 years to crop up. If i bought a Volvo (which I’ve been considering because all I want to upgrade on is safety) and it has a problem in the first few years of ownership, even if it was under warranty, I’d be LIVID!
And while we are on the topic of reliability, with the warranties that come with most unreliable cars, why _wouldnt_ a bugged infotainment system rank the car lower just as much as mechanical issues—either way it’s just a trip to the dealer.

I see cars as an appliance, I don’t want to think about it, I just want to use it. So none of this really makes sense to me, if all consumers shared the same sentiment, I feel certain that the market would look considerably different.
There is a great chapter in "Designing Data Intensive Applications" about this very subject
That is the most obvious gain of inflating their reserve numbers. It should ring a warning bell, if a relative old company is going to the stock market. That means, the owners want to cash in at the current value and they don't believe in huge value gains.

The typical reason for an IPO is a company in its early life phase which needs money to grow. There is no lack of cash in SA, so why would they sell off Aramco, if it had a great future?
What are some examples where HN is too skeptical? I find that it's a good filter to view "news"
But the expert consensus at the time was that the (now known to be problematic) course of treatment was correct. Do you have evidence that there was evidence to the contrary during the relevant period of time?
"We lose money on every transaction but we'll make it up in volume!" was literally the rallying cry of the DotCom boom/bust. It's not new
So interested in watching a video of one of those internal events. Sounds like Herbalife cult.
Hard-sectored 8" and 5.25" floppies did exist.
The war on drugs doesn’t work. the government should not have the authority to interfere with what people put inside their body.

Stop blaming drug addiction on everybody but the drug addicts.
> Most languages approximate it with a combination of /ʃ/ ("sh"), /t/, and /tʃ/ ("ch"):

> - all three, "sh", "t" and "ch".

This is not because we're confused! Just borrowing from the historical Russian pronunciation of Щ as ШЧ
You're right but it says that the contractors who unionized work for an IT outsourcing firm.

Google has kind of a random relationship with various classes of employees. There are contract cooks and janitors and whatnot but they made the physical security guards full-time.
Hypothetically, if I had a working solution for WeWork that would add value by really differentiating them from most other cowork spaces (because its technical complicated). How would I be able to sell it to them?

I would mainly be worried that they copy it after explaining and a few demos. In the end they can hire a lot of people very quickly whatever their value is.
> – The new CentOS Stream is a rolling-release distro that tracks just ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development

So if someone wanted a free RHEL through CentOS, now CentOS is no longer a free RHEL.CentOS is now RHEL-devel.
I'm privileged. I get to see with my own eyes how a religion is getting formed in the 21 century in otherwise atheist west. We have the original sin (releasing of CO2), doomsday prophecy (destruction of the habitable earth) and now also a savior to lead us on the one true path.
This is great, but I was wondering if there is any similar, more text-based alternative? Videos are great, but I prefer text.
Not quite ;) S3 is the primary data and metadata store, so that the rest of the stack is a pure function of S3 data (including Elastic). We don't use git at all yet. We use S3 object versioning and then capture the version, SHA-256, etag, etc. in a JSONL-based manifest https://open.quiltdata.com/b/quilt-example/tree/.quilt/packa.... Said JSONL manifest is simply a "locked list" of all the S3 objects in that package. The same manifests can be checked into git for fork/merge of data sets, but we're still exploring the right way to do that.

I'll let Kevin answer the database fragments question.
Oil prices have always been all over the place[1]. A 50% bump isn't great but it's not really much to be worried about.

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...
I find in tech, being skeptical by default is usually a good thing - perhaps not if you're an entrepreneur, but certainly if you're a developer or engineer.
TFA is absolutely worthless.

Better one here: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/24/20880727/google-workers...

> These 80 employees who work as analysts and trainers for Google’s shopping product

To me, this sounds like low skilled labor.

> Most of the employees organizing hold college degrees, get paid as little as $40,000 a year, and don’t receive sick days or many of the other perks that direct Google employees get.

"perks that direct Google employees get" is irrelevant at best.

The first COL calculator I found (ie, first google hit, let's assume google didn't suddenly game this result) says pittsburgh is 1/3 the cost of SF. $40k = $120k. This is not bad at all (?) for such low skilled labor, if the "COL curve" is linear down to $40k. Also, they say "as little as", so we know that's the floor, not the median. (Shame on the editor for presenting it that way.)

The lack of sick days isn't that bad if the employees have health benefits and are not penalized for sick time off. (Just take away 1-2 weeks of salary -- the typical amount of sick days one would get.) However, if they don't have sick days, I have doubts about the quality of their health benefits and maybe they don't even have 401k?
Why Coinbase can't provide tax info to millions of users
? Google devices receive Android updates well into 5+ years. I had a Nexus 4 (2013) running Android 8.1 (2017-2018).

I also belive Android tends to have fewer breaking OS changes that render modern apps incapable of running on both older and newer OS versions, compared to iOS, so it's significantly worse for usability on iOS with a device that is ~4+ years old.
Bart, it's not about how much stock you have; it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building with. (c) Simpsons
Just wondering, what's your opinion on the flowed format? I like it when the recipient uses a smaller screen geometry (phones can be <80 col). And sadly, that page doesn't track this feature...
I do not think a feature that delegates DNS to Cloud Flare is an unalloyed good. I think the protocol is. The distinction is important.
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees
This is the real question, I would like to see VCs here commenting on investments they made that were not through their network.
I guess the market is in small robots, e.g. the micromouse competitions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003683

YouTube doesn't even like robot fights: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
Granted, Nextdoor is a source of a lot of drama. The features I like are the ability to connect with a specific neighborhood, receive local notifications, and coordinate with neighbors. I think if there were very specific groups for very specific purposes in an area, or only govt employees could start new posts, it could be useful, such as "the parks department is having a clean-up day this weekend near you, post here to coordinate rides to the park", "there is an amber alert in your neighborhood", "police are asking if you have any tips about a break-in that happened on your block", "school closures tomorrow", "local elections tomorrow at the following locations".
> drop off rates are extremely high for MOOCs.

I see this statistic tossed around quite a lot.

Maybe it's because many MOOCs require you (or at least urge you) to login and officially "enroll" in their course to see the content.

Many times I've been just looking around a MOOC out of curiosity, but I'm required to "enroll" in it in order to see the material. So I login, "enroll", take a quick look at the content and forget about it.

It's not necessarily a fault of the MOOC format.
iOS 13 bug grants third-party keyboards full access to iPhones
More seriously? I’m not sure it’s a reasonable position to claim that renewables and battery tech are not being “seriously” worked on.

Just looking at solar and battery manufacturing growth, on the order of $100 billion / year is being invested annually in these technologies. I think it’s very reasonable to conclude that doubling the investment would not nearly double the rate of advances, because all the top experts are already fully employed and fully funded.