skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MBA in itself is not a problem, but it should be required that MBA applicants have a 4-year degree NOT in business (preferably STEM).

Most CEOs and high-level executives in Japan and Germany (and many other countries) typically have:

- an educational background in the area they manage (say, mechanical engineering for car production)

- long careers/experience in that area

- passion for it (CEOs who race cars, etc)

Unlike executive in the US, who:

- have a 4-year business degree followed with an MBA

- jump from industry to industry (Carly Fiorina, etc),

- have no passion for the stuff they produce (they are typically finance or marketing guys)

The end result is that US companies turn into marketing/branding shells who outsource everything except for branding/sales or some kind of financial engineering schemes (GE)
The US needs to just file the serial numbers off of Australia's relevant law.

https://www.accc.gov.au/publications/advertising-selling/adv...
The CityHacker Manifesto (2017)
I think they mean they want to see how, e.g. aerobic exercise vs strength training, etc would affect the relationship, if at all.
Have they been equally upfront in their patent applications?
my (conspiracy) theory after watching some house of cards: No end2end encryption before the US election 2020 🇺🇸
This is a decent sample project to start with: https://github.com/airbnb/BuckSample
The StackExchange staff did clarify elsewhere that they believe the old CoC prohibits misgendering and that the CoC changes are just meant to clarify the matter.

They claim she repeatedly refused to change CoC violations, she claims she was just asking about using gender neutral language.

It seems to me that there were likely several misunderstandings that lead to increasingly heated discussion and then the SE staff decided to remove a moderator without following their own established process for doing so.
I think the assumption is that given imminent cashflow issues We Work will have to contract in less/unprofitable markets. Also new business will generally be damaged by the ongoing farce.

I also know of 2 (large) customers who moved from We work in the last year because employees were sick of the "unprofessional" workplace. One example was dogs pissing in the office!
That is Schmidhuber in a nutshell.
This is why I love statistics. You can dabble with integrals and functions and all the fancy math tools and still end up with something useful to say about the real world.
Bonjour is Apple's name for their implementation of mDNS service discovery. It doesn't involve XMPP.

XEP-0174 is a peer-to-peer extension to XMPP which uses mDNS ("Bonjour") to discover other clients on a local network. For a while, Apple had an implementation of this in iChat.
My mother-in-law bought Her first toaster made in China from Wal Mart circa 2000, it burned up in about a week. Since then the toasters i have seen don't burn up but they are incredibly slow and try to make up for it by having more slots. It doesn't help much because usually i want one slice or at most two.

Did old toasters have asbestos in them?
I disagree with your interpretation of the evidence.
These are not “niche applications.” Increased energy production to enable better weapons, better transportation, and increased production is what has historically enabled leaps in civilization. The first country to perfect nuclear fusion is going to have a huge advantage over everyone else. Conservation and wind power aren’t going to take you in that direction.
Sure that's fine. You can stick with your decades old computer running a decades old OS and decades old software.

What you can't do is expect the rest of the technology world to standstill or forever maintain backwards compatibility.
Hey, I don't identify with switching to a math major because I always found math the most challenging aspect of engineering. (I knew people who thought Math was a pretty easy undergrad major. I know I would have had better luck flapping my arms and flying than graduating with a math degree.)

But I did enter school interested in biomedical engineering--in part because my parents were both in life sciences in various ways. And I probably liked chemistry more than physics in high school. That more or less lasted through taking organic chemistry which I did not... umm, connect with.
Better start paying attention to what the Vulkan folks are doing, Khronos and friends haven been pushing for OpenGL deprecation for quite a while now.

https://xdc2019.x.org/event/5/contributions/329/attachments/..., 2nd slide

This is just one example, here is a nice gathering at latest Reboot Develop Blue 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcgG1RQ-BJM

As for Windows, OpenGL ICD drivers only run in legacy Win32 mode, UWP and Win32 sandbox mode doesn't allow for ICD drivers.
Why is it that anytime a discussion about massive companies paying workers more comes up, that somehow somebody thinks this is socialism. Employees deserve to be fairly compensated.
I'm not commenting on the strike (about which I know nothing), only about that post (which was not a good comment for HN).
My impression is these people aren't hypothesis driven. The smart money seems to look at things and say, "I think the world is going to need disintermediation, curation and retribalization, and leapfrog technologies for emerging markets. You either sustain an existing customers business model or you disrupt it, and our business is providing air cover to the latter, and using the former as a hedging instrument." It's a technology macro view. Dumb money says, "we provide growth capital for key technologies that support national sector x, y, z." Straight micro mandate.

From my armchair, I'd assert the difference is smart and dumb money can practically be defined by those with a hypothesis vs. those with a mandate.

A state fund could be smart money, but they would need a lot of freedom to do it - or find funds/funds-of-funds that had the freedom for them, which is what pensions do today. I wonder whether most governments could handle the political risk of the losses from a real VC fund, because the losses just look like slush funds for connected managers.

Not to dump on them, I think some sovereign wealth funds and even treasuries could benefit from being run more like aggressive pension funds, but the trouble with government is there is no way to clear off the project barnacles that attach to anything with momentum. Maybe they will do it differently.
I've often heard a similar sentiment: "Why can't we just get everything 3-d printed?" The reason is that the specialized techniques often have cost and performance advantages, especially at higher production volumes, and can make use of materials that are better suited to the needs of the design.

For instance, you could conceivably machine a spring from a piece of solid metal, but it would be quite expensive and wouldn't function very well as a spring.

Despite general purpose programmable manufacturing technology, the majority of stuff made today avoids those techniques and is made by molding, casting, punching, forming, extruding, and so forth. I'm looking around me in my little office, and I don't think I see anything with a machined part in it.
Schmidhuber was more right than wrong
I think it is a shame that longevity of software is a thing of the past.
I had that same sunbeam toaster shown in the video. It worked great for the first year, then we had to throw the bread in with increasing amounts of force to get it to start.

Eventually we were dropping bread from high above the toaster to get just the right amount of force. It often took many attempts, would not recommend.
Probably has more to do with not wanting to piss off Stalin
Religious flamewar isn't welcome here. Please don't post like that, and please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
These are all great advices, but very hard to act on. I got hired by one of the big silicon Valley consultencies with the promise of working in teams and great personal development. Had I been there an entire year, I would have worked completely on my own for 9 months. After voicing my concerns for several months I decided to leave.
This must have been a strong ispiration for the aptly named "The Wave" (2008), although I couldn't find any reference either side.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/
Early elasmobranch Phoebodus:phylogenetics andnew time-scale for shark evolution
That may be true but I also wouldn't be surprised if, in modern context, being fit can begin with something cognitive.

In my own experience, when I've been out of shape, I felt that I wasn't living to my own expectation and felt some drive to improve. The exercise that followed seemed to improve my thinking too, so there was a bit of an upward cycle.
Part of the problem is the big contract manufacturers (like Foxconn) are impossible to compete with on precision/cost.

I have a tip from speaking to distributors that a large part of the precision story for those guys is that they essentially just buy lots of SCARA robots from the likes of Denso, Toshiba, Yamaha.

Cost .. unsure. Those guys are expensive and time consuming to talk to. They don't get out of bed for small quantities. I'd posit their real advantage is vertical integration and in-house engineering. Those guys can presumably turn out a mold, arbitrary quantity castings or injected parts, solve issues and be in production by Tuesday. Many other firms face 6-8 week wait times per mold iteration, and 2-3 month delays on equipment purchase (let alone production line integration). They also have government support as large employers, so face little issue with exports, land acquisition, etc.
Well, as the Cat said to Alice...

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

Alice: I don't much care where.

Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.

Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere.

Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.

Where do you want to navigate to?
agreed. using quotes and/or appending an ascii wink might have helped
Show HN: Front end application scaffolding to start immediate development
Doing computations with single atoms also doesn't sound very practical.

Measuring distances, I suppose there could be numerous ways, like measuring the gravity or electric pull (not sure what it is called in English). I think only Quantum theory says we can not measure to arbitrary precision, or at least if we do, there are other issue. Still, that would be another argument than simply pointing at the number of atoms.
First Star-Forming Structures in Fuzzy Cosmic Filaments
In theory there is a thirty minute delay between live play and streamed play...except in cases of manipulation and an insider shares the information in real-time.

Edit: Ah, missed the comment about not liking sharing of cards in any case. I will need to think about it more but it’s an interesting position if you want purity in the game.
Caution: creative destruction at work. You can choose to take advantage of its benefits, or you can choose to fight it.
Similar in Canada. Interac e-transfers cost a flat $1-2 (depending on your bank) and the funds are debited as soon as it's sent so when you accept one it's guaranteed available and deposited and available immediately.

Just send via SMS/email from your banking app. The other person gets a link that will open in their banking app and allow deposit.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, even if another comment was provocative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The UAW's trust did own half of GM in 2009, then proceeded to sell almost all of it and lost their board seat.

Turns out a company with a lot of overpaid employees and out of date products is a lousy investment.
Exactly. It was in "X-Files" and now it's in the Wikipedia.

The epistemological status has changed in the last couple of decades. I'm hardly in touch with the mainstream zeitgeist but is seems very recent to me.
So what quantum value is it? Shouldn't the argument then at least say "the number is greater than the number of possible states of the universe", or something like that?
Well yeah reading Brainfuck is rather easy after all, it's just a few symbols. Understanding what the code does and what it's trying to do is something else, and there I think language matters a whole lot.

For example, const helps me a lot when trying to understand C++ code. If I see a const reference, I know this bit of code I have in front of me can't modify whatever it is referencing. My language at work doesn't have const references, so I'm never quite sure if a call does modification as a side effect or not. This is the kind of stuff that I think can matter when trying to fix something at 4am.

Now, Haskell as I understand it is rather pure, so side effects like that are not a big issue. But on the other hand it allows for embedded DSL's from what I understand, which perhaps could be an issue if my coworker were to get creative. Though as I said I have no background to judge Haskell on this, I just thought it was a valid thing to be concerned about.
Instead of teaching a psrson who knows autos what a balance sheet looks like we take people who know all about balance sheets and pretend they can run making of anything.
It is not just "He said, She said", it is the Stack Exchange staff deciding to unilaterally ditch the establish proceedure for removing a mod:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151606/handling-cal...
I don't know the details of the stackexchange case linked above. But, in general, it doesn't seem that complicated to me. The language you are using -- "weaponized pronouns" -- is pretty distorted.

If one is aware of how someone prefers to be called and the preference is completely reasonable (such as a trans individual preferring their transitioned pronoun), then one is simply being an asshole by refusing. Not only that, they are doing so to a group that has historically been treated terribly by most of society -- essentially kicking someone while they are down.

Innocent mistakes are one thing, but stubborn refusal to treat someone decently is inexcusable.

P.S. I understand a very small number of vocal individuals may take things past requests for treating people decently, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
It's the best known solution we have today.

The misconception is that wind and solar are able to replace fossil fuels. They can't as of now, that's just the unfortunate reality. They're a good supplement, but they don't produce 24/7, don't recycle well, take up tons of space, and batteries are orders of magnitude too expensive to be a complete solution. See the video I linked to where Gates explains this.
Snowcat Cloud: Snowplow Analytics as a Service
I did some contract work (2002-2003, at the tail end of their bankruptcy I think) for a Kitty Hawk that went out of business (after a second round of bankruptcy), and for a minute I thought this was an old article or something.
Right. It’s unreal how hard it is to find decent shit built to last, and don’t tell me I’m not willing to pay a premium for it, because I am willing. What I don’t like buying is shit branded as upscale high quality that is really the same garbage underneath.

I’m sure there a number of different elements at play here, but one aspect I’ve seen happen time and again is private equity buying out a company and using that strong brand to make progressively shittier and shittier goods, for the same or higher price, while still retaining enough critical mass mindshare that the brand is still “quality”.
"What gets measured gets improved."

It's short-termism, which is a common threat to society at large. Think of cities that build in sites vulnerable to earthquakes or floods, for example. After the event hits, everyone says, "Oh, we will never do that again," and it is true for approximately one generation. Then, unless the culture has evolved to value metrics coinciding with these kinds of long-term sustainability issues, they immediately start to relax any preventative policies.

In business, all the cycles are shorter, there's always a "new thing", and next to nobody has the kind of deep institutional experience you would see in a big topic like city planning. Thus the valuation metrics of all agents will quickly fall to current market pricing, and competition may act to hold those metrics in place - if you are the only restaurant in town that doesn't cut corners, customers will complain about how overpriced you are. Regulation, labor and consumers exercising their power all have a role in changing what a business can or can't do by raising the floors on acceptable practice.

But let's say you are exceptionally good at operating a restaurant on your own - quality everywhere - and grow to have a chain. Now you need to hire managers, and the viable hiring pool consists of the people who were cutting corners before - because there is literally nobody else out there. Good luck retraining them!

Plus, at the corporate scale, you end up with fiefdoms and power struggles leading to metrics that agree with the current internal political situation, not industry or marketplace factors, and certainly not sustainability metrics. A business is a "machinery of people" and needs periodic tune-ups and reprogramming to go in vaguely the right direction.

In a lot of ways what it all comes down to is one of my personal favorite phrases, "fix ordinary things." Most of the time, we don't. We have a habit of putting off fixing all sorts of little things in our lives, even if our intentions are good, so of course we're caught by surprise by the disasters.
> In surveys from the Anglosphere it does not always become clear [DLC] that Deep Learning was invented where English is not an official language.

Even if you disagree with Schmidhuber's assessment of his own importance, I think this is clearly true.

There is a certain arrogance (or not-invented-here syndrome) in the Anglosphere (or North America) towards research done elsewhere.
Yes, I’m interested too.
Or heterodox.
> We're paying the same prices or higher

And you are often getting a worse bin or even completely different product under the same name for that! This is 100% true, and the big co will continue doing that for as long as they they think they can get away with that.

Samsung is notorious for that. Some of their devices with the same name can have up to 4 different sets of internals for sale in different countries.
Why can't a software company just make other software? Why did WordPerfect go out of business when they could have just made games, and OS, or a web browser?
I used to work at Ford Plant and provide data for something called the Harbour report which is about manufacturing productivity. Engine and transmission had about 10 hours of direct labor per car, and final assembly was roughly 18 hours. In the transition to electric cars, one could expect a 30% haircut across the board including engineering. Tesla probably isn’t that efficient because the automation isn’t yet reliable.

I’d have to ask someone, but I’d bet Tesla is running like 30% off standard. It takes 180 days for workers to work-harden, and years to get the automation optimized. Robots are cheap and easy to buy, but tooling at the end of the robot to do something like install a seat takes a long time to design and make.
I think you acted on the advice as best as you could. I mean, I'm guessing you asked about your work environment (or were told).

If there is a bait and switch, all you can do is voice your concerns and if you aren't heard, leave. Which you did. About the only other thing you can do is share your experience, either publicly or via your network (the latter of which I strongly encourage you to do).

There's definitely an asymmetry of power between employer and employee--everyone has at most 1-2 jobs but employers have many employees.
It's ironic that you used the homograph "resign" in both words' meanings -- re-sign (soft "ess", to sign again) and resign (hard "z" sound, to quit) -- in a comment about careful word choice. Did SE mods re-sign their posts, or quit (abandon moderator role)?
"I am hiring you because your single function in the company is to increase profits."

"Well, some low lying fruit methods that have proven track record is financial market usage and outsourcing."

"Do it."

Works. A lot.

Few years later.

"We need more people that play the financial market and know how to properly outsource."

MBA programs: "We'll teach more people to do so."

Kind of just basic cause/effect rinse/repeat ambulance chasing. If using chicken bones to run a company actually works, you'd see an increase in hiring old gypsy women and fortune telling would become part of all MBA programs everywhere.

I just don't see what everyone is getting at.

"Go do learn things that will give you good job prospects and is something you like."

"Well, an MBA has good job prospects and I like the business world."

"You're a god damn piece of shit. I meant to do those things as long as I agree with them."

I mean, come on. Are you really going to blame people that find an opportunity where they're good at something and gives them a better life? Basic damn human nature for anyone with a shred of ambition. Plus there are many flavors of MBA teachings. Each university has their own MBA style. There's no "One MBA doctrine". Same like each Ivy League has a different law approach as well. They all don't believe that outsourcing and financial gaming is the single solution to higher profits. As a group becomes reliant on a method, that makes them weak in others and allows for extra opportunity for exploitation due to a willingness to be blinded by comfort. To be fair, a lot of MBA programs do relate Sun Tzu teachings to business for real good reason. Adaptability is the first principle to success. Not just end methodologies. And remember, I fucking don't like MBAs to begin with. And you're forcing me to defend them, you ass.

And Japan is literally the worst example you could provide for 1st world countries labor/management relations. Lookup Karoshi.
And yet there are decades of apps not supporting new UI features, being unstable or insecure because they were slow to adopt new APIs. This is a balance: Windows font rendering, color management, and resolution scaling took ages to stabilize because things working reduces pressure on the vendors to update.
In practice, it won't be quite that simple. Car companies buy components from third parties, and if entire components are no longer needed, there's no "same number of workers with fewer hours" to be had---catalytic converter companies are just going to see business fall off.

But in the company core, final assembly? Yes.
I'm sure your intentions are good, but what I wrote is that any logically/mathematically truthful statement is, well, true. The fact that it emphasizes this, or that side of the argument doesn't make it false, and its value is in the eye of beholder, because proper desicions are based on cost/benefits assessment where both costs, and benefits differ between people/societies/tribes/whatever.

And what you offer me to discuss in response is that your position in your particular example is certainly right.
The long history of parents complaining about their kids’ homework
It's old hardware, it cannot run anything newer: Mac Mini 2009. Pretty snappy otherwise (with maxed memory). It just sits on desk, I mostly use it via SSH.
All electric cars are simple machines in regards to their engines, transmission, and battery. A Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Bolt is also very simple.
Thanks!

ML tools have definitely come a long way in the past few years! We used CreateML for our first pass which is great for prototyping; you just give it your training data and hit go.

Unfortunately it’s not particularly transparent or tweakable. If it doesn’t do the job well enough you you’re out of luck and have to switch to another tool completely.

Edit: cool project!
Uber launches Uber works to connect workers with businesses
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