skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is completely US-centric, but the subject isn't. Teacher's pay in France is quite low, from primary school to university. I'm an associate professor of compsci in France and, after 4 years, I make less than 2200€/month (it starts under 2000€ at the beginning). I should get to 3000€ 15 years from now. A typical mid- and high-school teacher is paid less than that and can only hope to get to 3000€ by the very end of their career. Most primary school teachers are paid just above the minimum legal salary which is a bit under 1200€.
So, that gets complicated. What if medicine finds a certain physical trait that is prevalent in 90% of cases where people are trans? What does that mean for the other 10%? Odds are good their lives just got WAY harder. Coupled with a history of being mistreated by the medical industry, there's quite a lot of (rational, imo) fear in the trans community about medical diagnoses.
I am using the last 4q.

You can use the data from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_3#Deliveries

and here:

https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesl...
No, then it’s “more than expected”. Wall Street has been a bull market for 10 straight years. If anything analysts are considerably charitable to companies
But changing the parking situation changes everything. The concert we went to was an The Great Hall on Queen St W. There were only a few hundred people at the event, but nowhere around there were there a few hundred parking spots— the whole neighbourhood is packed with restaurants, clubs, and other destinations. The character of it would be completely changed by setting all that stuff up to be accessed primarily by personal vehicle.

The reality is, most of the people around us attending the event got there by some combination of transit, walking, and uber/cabs. And we should have too; we'll know for next time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663
That was interesting! Considering this article was based in 2015 (which feels like forever in startup years). Decided to look up the points.

# max(market_cap, enterprise_value) || most_recent_private_valuation

Uber - 50bn

Palantir - 10bn

SpaceX - 40bn

AirBnB - 35bn

Dropbox - 10bn

Pininterest - 10bn

2) Stripe's most valuation is 35 billion
3) GitLab latest's valuation is 2.75 billion
I'm running Linux on my SP4. It's pretty good.
For some reason that link doesn't work, but you can navigate to the right link. Here's the 2018 one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190901025541/https://www.ycomb...
I've been working as a developer at a shitty company with no mentorship or room to grow for 2 years. My co-workers are obnoxious, loud sales people which drives me insane. I've tried my best to get out but due to visa constraints/random shit I've not been able to find anything.
I scanned the article. The authors make no claim that they reversed a year of cognitive decline. Nor did they assess the health of the subjects at any earlier date in order to compare post-treatment performance to that pre-treatment performance to quantify the treatment effect.

At most, they idly speculate that on one metric, ONLY THE RESPONDING AD PATIENTS saw as much as 15 months of disease regression (ADAS-cog):

"Since a typical decline in ADAS-cog expected for AD subjects is around 4 points over a 12- to 15-month period [48], 2 months of TEMT appears to have reversed cognitive decline (as measured by the ADAS-cog) of responding AD subjects as a group, perhaps back to the cognitive level subjects had 12 to 15 months earlier."

Science Alert clearly hyped the story's lead.
So 2008 didn't happen I guess. I guess nobody in their right mind would buy and sell loans which aren't guaranteed. And I guess usable mass market EV's existed before 2018 and I guess Tesla is just running a scam .
When it comes down to it, pretty much every service takes advantage of someone's need. Someone needs to borrow money? Sure, lending the money at an interest rate takes advantage of them. But so does billing for emergency room services or, heck, charging for a bottle of water on a hot day.

Get over yourself-- and good luck finding a job where you're not pandering to someone's needs and then exploiting it to make a living.
"... over the long run, a publicly traded company wasn’t going to sacrifice a meaningful amount of income to avoid destroying lives—unless the law required it."

Emphasis mine; I believe that's the true point of the article. I also believe that banks, and lending institutions generally, as experts in that field (rather than average consumers which should not be expected to be experts in that field) should have a legal duty to the customer to act in the customer's best interests first.
We just need to build a station in the neighborhood: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613127/a-halo-drive-could...
Large search engine company??? Altavista? Excite.com? Duckduckgo?
Am I the only one who thinks the Wall Street is playing dirty? Right before the report they increase the expectations so tesla miss, if they wouldn't increase it that should be a beat, same with eps last quarter. It feels like they force the news headlines to be 'tsla miss'. Or maybe I'm a bit fanatic, please correct me if I'm wrong.
NIPCC
Because they don't work for people with disabilities. They dissolve, they're more easily bent, they're less resistant to accidental biting. They disintegrate even faster with hot beverages.
Ah yes, Steve Jobs, noted expert on such topics as education and medicine.
Tarifs on airbus the moment Boeing is doing that bad with the 737 fiasco seem more than "happy news" to the Boeing's shareholders. I call that effective lobbying.

What is astonishing however is how Trump is so willingly trading the relatively stable economic environment with EU for another trade war front.
You only get to have the problem of rearchitecting for scale if you're successful. You can't worry about that too much when you're still trying to find product/market fit.
Having to ship cars to the other side of the planet to the largest electric car market on the planet and pay super high import duties while not having access to local labor (etc) seems like a pretty thorough ball-and-chain on prices compared to what GF3 will enable.

Additionally, they have a significant update to the high end Model S & X coming (three motors), the 2020 Roadster, the Model Y, the Semi, and the Pickup all announced, some of which likely has suppressed demand for their current offerings, which they've been too busy ramping up Model 3 production for to ship. So I think demand is not a problem. And considering they're doing this at a time when their EV credit is nearly completely gone and gas prices are at a near-all-time-low, I think they're doing remarkably well.

...especially considering they don't have a moderately-priced SUV/truck/crossover available yet. None of the top 6 best-selling cars/trucks in the US are actual cars. Model 3 is doing remarkably well considering it's not an SUV, crossover, or a truck.
> But where is it vertically in the cake? Right in the center of that frosting layer, or off by a bit up or down?

Did the author answer these questions? How far above the center of the cake is 55 light years?
This month
Thanks! I worded the question poorly but this is also a cool number to know.
Dual-screen laptop where the second screen is above the first? Then it would be tall, but you'd have the screen split in the middle. Maybe if Samsung ever gets their foldable screen mayhem hammered out properly that could work.
As someone who spent 5 months interviewing, studying, applying, tech screening, full-day-onsiting, healing from rejection, washing and repeating

Definitely yes, majority will do full day interviews and reject you because you can't write on a white board.
If you think that this situation has much to do with that door tag, you really are reaching.
This is kind of a plot element in Mass Effect, but the humans are lucky enough to have a stop in our system.
You can calculate it from the orbital speed and distance to the center of Galaxy.

It comes to something like 2*10^-11 g
In some states, teachers don't pay into Social Security, so their pension/retirement plan is in place of that. At least this is the case in Maine.

It's especially bizarre that the rules also penalize drawing on spousal survivor benefits.
> But the morality of the credit card executive is a morality of autonomy: If I’m giving people choices, that’s a good thing. “How could I be making this customer worse off,” a credit card executive asks herself, “if nobody is forced to use this product?”

I guess I'm an evil executive, because I do think that the default assumption is that people are better with more choices. There are obviously exceptions, but I'd want some evidence to the contrary before I started blaming others for offering them choices. And I'd want especially strong evidence if banning those choices is damn near impossible (since loan sharks will just appear), so that unilaterally deciding to not offer choices makes people even worse off (because they go to the loan shark instead).

I went searching in this article for evidence, but couldn't find much. This seems to be the extent of it (am I missing something substantive?):

> As Scott Schuh and Scott Fulford have shown in a paper for the Federal Reserve of Boston, people who get credit limit increases tend to keep their “utilization” constant. In other words: If a person is carrying a $1,500 balance when they have a $3,000 credit limit, you’d expect them to start carrying a $4,000 balance if the limit is raised to $8,000. If most people use the full credit-limit increases they are offered, the thinking goes, that must mean that most people want to borrow more money.

Isn't this consistent with poor people needing loans, and yet them also wanting to make keep some of their credit limit in case things get even worse?

The author's main argument seems to be that Capital One has a lot of research resources, and if they were making their subprime customers better off they would be able to prove it with data, but they can't so they must not be.

> If [CEO] Fairbank cared to know the answer to any question—such as, “How many of the loans that we give out actually make the borrower’s life better?” or “What are the consequences of raising our credit card interest from the prime rate plus 19 percent to the prime rate plus 23 percent on child hunger in America?”—he could have gotten thoroughly researched answers. But those are the kinds of questions that the entire Capital One workplace was designed to drive out of view.

The author concludes

> When I was at Capital One, I wanted to understand if it was possible to keep loans as an option for the people who have exhausted all their better alternatives—without also causing suffering for those who would be better off forgoing purchases or borrowing money from friends and family. After five years, I concluded it was more or less possible to achieve that goal—to do the good loans without doing the bad loans.

But I can't see why she thinks that.
Examples? Islam is not as old as Christianity. Nor Judaism. This seems wrong on the face of it.

Oh sure, there might be some lost tribe in the Amazon but I don't accept it, even if it is technically long-lived.

Interest is how we pay people to save and share their savings with others. Growth and reinvestment is much easier with it. This is why the Muslim world has come up with financial gymnastics to reward savers without technically paying some interest.
Test signing isn't meant to be used on a real system. You're intended to have an entirely separate test cluster or at least test machine. There are usability downsides to this, many of them cosmetic, but one major one is you need to disable secure boot. In some cases (this may have changed) you could only enable test signing for the next boot meaning you had to constantly keep re-enabling it.

Overall very user hostile, and it leaves one with the impression they don't want you to run your own code or let other people run your code without paying protection money.

For the other part... go look at the driver documentation. The names are different but the patterns are all the same except for a few places.
might as well call them pessimistic educated guessers.
Dunno about the benefits of fermented food: oxidized nitrates ain’t great for you.
But the ISP can likely map most of the IPs to hostnames, as one would expect shared hosting to only be used for smaller sites.
And then when you bring a KVM switch into the mix... sometimes it works well, the rest of the time it does what you described, or just gives up and decides there are no monitors until you replug them.
Stipend and educational "choice" programs rarely work as intended, hence the charter school movement withering in the US.

Most alternative schools are like TM Landry, with profit or religous indoctrination often being the 1st priority, and actual education not being statistically different than what public schools offer.
Isn't politics about seeing a larger picture?

No. In fact, there's a saying in politics: "All politics is local."
Not hard at all, there is plenty of information about wages in IT. If you understand the root of the article, the US versus Europe comparison, take Silicon Valley numbers and compare to €58k and you will find it ridiculously low. Damn, you get more in Romania (Bucharest or Cluj), I am not kidding you.
Round abouts dont reduce evergy use much. If you reduce speed by 50 percent, you've still converted 75 percent of your kinetic energy to heat. I agree that many of the stopsigns are not needed.
> off of pneumonic devices

mnemonic
What does fit in a low resources namespace? 3rd part
That being?

They are almost nowhere to be seen across European consumer electronic shops.
> I can't fathom why the US insists on stop signs and traffic lights everywhere. A neighborhood I used to drive through on my way to work had 4 way stops sprouting up constantly.

I don't mean to sound snarky or judgemental, so please understand that is not my intention... Sometimes they do this to dissuade people from commuting to work through neighborhoods. Again, I don't mean to judge, that might be the best/safest/only/etc way for you to get to work and you may not be the target of these stop signs.

There is a 4 way stop in my neighborhood that is going to be converted to a traffic circle next year to keep traffic moving. Waze currently routes a lot of traffic through our neighborhood when the freeway is backed up at rush hour. I think the traffic circle might make it worse since the "pain" of the 4 way stops will be gone so the backup might be gone but the traffic volume would be higher. I might be wrong, but I'm curious to see the final effect. I'm also not sure which is worse for overall health and safety -- the higher volume with no bottleneck or lower volume with a bottleneck.
Microsoft Announces Surface laptop 3 Family Including AMD Ryzen APUs
I was looking up the 1553 bus mentioned and it turns out the Military replaced it with IEEE 1394 also known as: FireWire.

FireWire is the main bus for F-35 and other advanced US/Nato weapon systems.

The Ruskies also used the same buses for their MiG fighters, which makes sense for standardization and maintenance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1553

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394
Meh.

The author of this assumes that his game theory civil war will be made up of the binary falsehood of political views portrayed in popular media - blues vs. reds.

In reality, the largest portion of the US citizenry aren't happy about the government and though they may have views in one direction or another they recognize the need for the rule of law and are loyal to the country as a whole, not to the DFL or GOP. Rather than blue vs. red, it would be extremist nutjobs vs. everyone else. Everyone else would win, hard.

If Trump tries to do something illegal like ignore election results, either the GOP will pull him down to preserve the present corrupt situation that is to their advantage, or the majority of the citizens would hang him on the front lawn of the white house.

American are apathetic to many things, even those things that cause them to go hungry or lack medical care, but they'll leave work and take up arms to pull down an obvious tyrant.
Pretty solid predictions.

1) The below 6 companies will be worth >$200B by 1/1/2020.

public:
- uber 50
- pinterest 14
- dropbox 8

private:
- airbnb 35
- spacex 33
- palantir 26

$166B so very close so far.

2) Stripe, Zenefits, Instacart, Mixpanel, Teespring, Optimizely, Coinbase, Docker, and Weebly will be worth > $27B total by 1/1/2019.

Stripe alone was valued at $35B, so this one looks like a lock.

3) Winter 2015 batch will be worth >$3B on 1/1/2020.

GitLab $2.7

So looks pretty close.

Impressive.
I am from Romania. It varies greatly. Some devs are awesome, some less so. I'd say the quality is on par with the German engineers I encountered in my field. Experience shows though, so places that people have had chance to work in a field for longer will be better so I expect expertise will be localized.

The education system pretty much sucks here, IMO, but most good devs got so by being interested in their field. I would say fresh grads as worse than those in other countries.

I find it interesting that the best people tend to cluster together. I live in one of the bigger cities in RO and in my field it seems everyone knows everyone and the most experienced ones tend to hang together.
Yeah I didn't have a chance when I posted the question, thanks! But wow that's small!
State-backed crypto exchange in Venezuela launches new crypto debit cards
I don't have any great love for Facebook (except for the Oculus Quest VR product) but in general I like the idea of a digital currency backed by a Special Drawing rights kind of mixed bag of currency (I think Libra would be about 1/2 US dollars, and the other 50% split amount other currencies).

As a US citizen, I realize that we won't control the reserve currency forever so it seems wise to slowly ease into all international capable transactions to being done in a basket or currencies. As a US citizen, I would like the US dollar to be a fairly large percentage of the basket. I think this is really something that we need major cooperation between major economic power countries to make this transition as smooth and gentle as possible.

If there were multiple digital currencies backed by real currencies like like Libra, that would probably be for the best.

The goal is to reduce transaction fees and friction in international trade (and all trade).
I worked in tech consulting, and my colleague actually had a very thin ~23" (IIRC) portable LCD screen he somehow carried with him on planes. It had a foldable kickstand so he could set up a dual-screen on any hotseat desk in seconds. It was brilliant, and I briefly considered the same, but my backpack was already heavy enough. I've heard of folks doing this with the MBP + a iPad Pro, but idk how well that works.
Why the Future of Software and Apps Is Serverless (2012)
Nice. But this statement: „Bigslice is serverless. Requiring nothing more than cloud credentials, Bigslice will have you processing large datasets in no time, without the use of any other external infrastructure.“ is a little bit confusing. It will use plenty of external infrastructure.
But in those transactions both parties end up better-off than they were before. Predatory loans are more akin to gambling or heroine: they intentionally undermine a person's rational decision-making in order to leech value from them, without any reciprocity. This undermines capitalism itself, in a way.
Is “Swarm AI” the Answer to Fears over AI and Jobs
What does 2008 have to do with anything? A company that hasn’t made a profit for 16 straight years, especially valued at billions of dollars, should be considered a extremely risky investment
I keep waiting for someone to implement Anthem as an Excel plugin.
I was thinking about this as I read the story as well.

I'm not familiar with the product at all, but I suspect it's hardly a "healthy" snack to begin with, and then Kellogg is not exactly a company dedicated to public health.

Similar concerns exist in tech as well, for example, if Facebook wants to buy your startup, would you feel good about selling it to them?

I suspect that people who are not bothered by ethical considerations are much more likely to succeed as entrepreneurs.

I wish I was more like them to be honest.
Ask HN: Who Is Testing in Production?
I would love to understand your experiences. How do you detect issues? Are you using feature flags? Have you had any disasters? How do you deal with problems? What are the biggest pain points? Kubernetes? Etc?
Some days ago in HN there was a post about how expensive and slow was serverless. Maybe in a long distant future…
yup I have the exact same worry, I have a little side business unrelated to tech that is profitting about 500-1k depending on the month. Considering taking a leave to work on that fulltime but also worried when I come back I'd just become completely out of touch.
I’m sorry can you detail?

I thought Airbus started with the Concorde, the project of UE willing to do something industrial and inspiring together to increase our pride, interdependence and more interestingly our engineering skills. The Concord itself failed as a market but the skills/organizations we developed resulted in Airbus/EADS and their civil planes, in which the acquisition of smaller companies was a mere tool participating to a grand scheme decided by Europe.

Are you suggesting that this storytelling is rather reversed, and that Airbus was the result of a natural, organic merge of several companies?
If it fits in RAM, you might as well put it in memcached. You will likely get a 10X speedup.

EDIT:

To be fair, RAM is cheap these days, and most real world projects fit into RAM without a crazy budget.
Amazon was kind of similar

Edit:
Wow, so much hate for a one-line comment. I have five replies and three downvotes as of now.

I stand by my comment. I think Tesla is building long-term value (brand recognition, a reputation for innovation in an stodgy industry, technical know-how in multiple industries) that will allow them to be profitable. I know well how Amazon got here, but I don't care about the technicalities. It is the behemoth that it is because of the compounded value added over 14+ years. I see Tesla equally driven and able to take advantage of the things it puts in place now.
What you describe is not anything like a startup. Product quality and speed to market are very important, you cannot get these with students learning to code.
> Islam is not as old as Christianity. Nor Judaism. This seems wrong on the face of it.

Sorry, what? What does that have to do with anything?
Is there a write up somewhere on that? I'd love to read about it.
I guess the less harsh word that I wanted to say is reliable.

DDG has it’s own community. It’s growing, but I don’t think it will catch up with google. There are other factors too.

As for authenticity. I think people interpret DDG as unwanted, unfortunately. Because it was frequently set as home page as a bundle. If you search its name, you will find people frequently asking “is it a virus”.

It’s hard to advertise an engine these days without being viewed as a forced advertising. But there are better tactics like offering incentives.
To be fair, that would still be an improvement because we could make them isolate those bags and recycle or burn for energy or something. It is by comparison impossible to control what consumers do with those bags.
No it's implying that it's my company. ;)
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