skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be an albatross for Microsoft. Amazon not having control over wired munitions is goodwill outside the US, and especially outside NATO.
> You may never have a situation where you wouldn’t want to share camera footage with authorities. But many people do, for a variety of reasons

... For example?

> Creating a norm where your home is a node of some surveillance network has obvious negative potentials

Would you mind explaining what those are? They're not "obvious" to me.
Capacitance, not batteries; your calculator includes capacitors, and has low enough draw that they can power it for at least a second or two.

That's the minimum requirement. Power draw varies on sub-second timescales; just because your power meter shows a continuous draw of 4 kW doesn't mean it's actually continuous, or that 4 (or 6, or 8) kW of solar panels would cover the spikes. When they don't, you get brownouts.

You wouldn't want your house to shut off because of a passing cloud, either.

Solar powered houses do not in fact need batteries -- a large capacitor bank would be plenty. It's just that a capacitor bank capable of running it for (say) five minutes, at a draw of several kilowatts, is enough power in a scary enough form factor to need armoring. Batteries are far safer, and also let you use power at night.
Look at bulb spectra: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fawzia_Abdel-Rahman/pub...

Any reptile or bird owner can easily attest to the effectiveness of full spectrum light on a living being.
"journalist with integrity"

Is there such a thing? Media landscape in the US is a sad view these days.
Options holders are not shareholders. Options holders are not owners of the company. Options holders are not investors in the company.

Too many forget these things and are shocked when then find out some event doesn’t treat them like one of the above.
It’s not that we will, it’s that we have the option.
Or the computer said he was lying about not being a terrorist, so we went to arrest him but he was not cooperative and violently resisted, which of course is what a terrorist would do, and thus we had no choice but to shoot and kill him. In self defense of course and to protect the public. This is OK because the computer determined he was a terrorist and computers don't make mistakes.
ZX Spectrum of my childhood. Some of greatest moments spent thanks to it. Determined my career.

And superior to C64 :), except turbo loader was just a thing we couldn't have properly.

Raspberry Pi could become something similar with a little love and support.
The Post runs the same stories seen in essentially all papers in the world. A lot of them implicate the president negatively. But how does precluding the pentagon from it's first choice on these grounds good for the country?

In a free and uncorrupt country, you don't allow leaders to intervene in national security issues because they are embarrassed by a paper's coverage. Thus few people are directly saying that amazon should loose the bid because their CEO has a paper the president doesn't like.

More common and to be consistent with the notion of a corruption free democracy, the defense for this is the claim that, despite significant pressure, this surprising turn of events would have happened anyway. This is the story being promoted more but it does require a improbably interpretation of events that only supporters could really ever internalize. Especially since Trump's own secretary of defense flatly said the goal was to screw Amazon over the Post.
I agree,that being said I think everyone agrees languages with good internationalization support (as in built to support translation of source code to a different language without affecting the logic and machine/byte code generated). Power to anyone making a language in their native tongue. I wonder if dying languages can be kept alive longer this way.
Looks like Sweden has never held a binding referendum. [1]

Firstly, the goal of a non-binding referendum is to gather public opinion.

Secondly, the outcome of the referendum was respected for 13 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_in_Sweden#
The hilarious thing is that the two intersections I see this happen the most at...are two of the intersections that have this sign. Maybe if the City actually enforced the $500 fine, people would think twice. One operator with a few cameras could handle most of the downtown area, but, alas...
The reality is both highly skilled professionals and the run-of-the-mill IT contractor jobs end up in the same H1B bucket. This leads to skewed perceptions since the latter seems to be massively exploited by certain companies.
Agree that not all countries would do this. But Allies? Also don’t other countries use AWS Gov ( or whatever it is called ) even though it AWS is “deeply embedded” in the US gov scheme of things?
the point isn't detecting lies, the point is pressure to confess during interrogations. what matters is whether the person being interrogated thinks it works -- or even if they don't, to make lying more stressful.
Preferred stock (and specifically, liquidity preferences-- the common 1x, nonparticipating term) exists to ensure that if investors put in $10M for 20% of a company, you don't immediately sell the company for $10M and give them $2M back, and split $8M among yourselves. The deal is structured so that the investors have their option of either getting their original money returned or their share of the proportional share of the returns.
distributed Vietnam lmao.

I think most of your description is coming form a high-ranking general's wet dream though. When it comes to actual engineering, it would be between the simple solution that works - or complex solution that doesn't work.

Having worked in a predictive analytics role before, I can guarantee that '1000 individuals most threatening to our strategic position' would consist of 500 innocent villagers, 30 kids playing around and 1 hospital.
Oh yeah, I heard about those :) Nice one.
Capacitance is not the word you’re looking for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance

You mean electrical storage.
Top right corner over by the user info - 3 years ago.

I double checked by going to their other posts - it is the post-age, not the user-age, despite the "follow this user" button right next to it.
>He's not anti war as much as he's anti policy that pushes up against Russian spheres of influence.

At the moment Russia is extending its sphere of influence by opportunistically exploiting American mistakes in the middle East. Those mistakes were started by Trump predecessors including Bush, Clinton & Clinton, Obama, etc.
I suspect WoW might be like several other games in that the marginal benefit of continued play after an initial phase is small.

But if it's social/multiplayer and your group feels a personal connection while playing (maybe w/people you know IRL), you might get a greater benefit from the game.
When a company goes public, they usually hire an investment banking firm to manage the process. The I-bank does a lot of work to properly value the firm and price the IPO right, but part of their job is also drumming up interest among potential buyers of the stock. Like any securities offering, the IPO is basically an auction where the amount of money you raise, and the terms you raise it at, depends critically on how many people you can get interested in your offering and how excited they are.

One way to incentivize the I-bank to do their very best to get the highest price for the shares, and to keep the price high, is to make them shareholders themselves. Thus, Microsoft did a small (Crunchbase reports it as $1M) financing round with their investment bank right before IPOing, despite not needing the money at all. Any dilution is more than made up for by the better IPO price; basically, the I-bank got to share in their upside by making their upside bigger.
If it's Europe my understanding is there's substantial expenses paid to employment security overhead, it's how they pay for things like the exceptionally good maternity leave and unemployment benefits type stuff.
Marc Z. just become consultant for Mr. Xi
The Pentagon is not evil, from my point of view the JEDI are evil.
That assumes employees are fungible. Which they are not, especially in tech roles. They may have too many employees in some departments and not enough in others. They may also need to replace people who quit of their own volition.
I'd say 'being' a politician is a stupid thing as-is, but regarding the 'hat' or 'part-time' thing; that seems to be counterproductive as it probably means people will not be able to specialise as much and people will not be able to keep their multiple 'hats' from interfering with each other.

The only reason we have those nice modern things like phones and the internet is specialisation; it makes it possible for people to pursue things other than basic needs to survive. Sadly, that also means that people can pursue things that many people might find useless or repulsive, like being a professional liar as some 'full-time politicians' seem to be called by the various journalistic outlets. (let alone the opinionated internet - look, it's us!)

If we were to leave out the 'politician' and just say "person assigned by people who are busy doing other things, to govern those people that choose them". The politician part that would normally be in there would ideally only be scoped to the candidate phase of things and the interaction between different governing persons/positions to get stuff done. If you put it that way, it suddenly makes much more sense to have someone do a governing job full time as you'd want such a person to actually get stuff done.
This perspective is interesting. Explain
Exactly. I have no doubt that H-1B has been and continues to be abuse. But it's also literally the only viable work visa in the majority of cases, so painting with a broad paintbrush about the exploitation of H-1Bs is a bad idea.
I think it would be quite fitting for Oracle to be awarded the contract. The culture of these 2 organization would be compatible from the start.
How IEEE Uses Stem E-Mentoring to Inspire the Next Generation of Engineers
I think that comments like 'Fix the toilets first' when ISRO achieves a new milestone is careless because space research has serious defence implications. India is surrounded by multiple hostile and semi-hostile countries and should be able to deter certain actions from other countries. Only when people feel safe and secure can they start building and progressing.

However, I think comments like this only further darken the image of Indians to westerners. India is, on average, a very bad place to live. For example, India's state with highest HDI -Kerala ( where I am from )- is only comparable to certain Eastern European states.

And despite this positive news about startup funding, there has been massive capital flights from India in the recent years.

We have serious problems. Acknowledging them is the first step to solving them.
Wiki says: "Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in 2000".
The dial-up BBS Penn and Teller ran around 1990 was quite good.
The best, and perhaps the original, use of this concept: in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"[0] as Arthur complains about the surprise demolition of his home:

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard!'"

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40705-but-the-plans-were-on...
Suspect the parent poster was thinking primarily about the other five-eyes. The rest of Europe though... has no great cloud options I can think of for genuine national security stuff.
FYI, the current publicly-available code for Metamath Zero is here: https://github.com/digama0/mm0
I see, I didn't know that their frontend was that old. I also didn't know the difference between angular 1 and other angular. It was not fair to say "constantly rewriting".

I wonder in how many years they, or other users of React, will be required to rewrite all over again.
I remember it from news reports at the time. I can't find any documentation now, so it easily could have been Petaki. I can't find a transcript or video of Bush's address to the nation on the day of the blackout though.
اللي اشترى – علي الحجار
Company growth is almost always compared on a percentage basis as individuals don’t own the entire company making that number meaningless to them. What they care about is if they own X$ in some stock today what’s it going to be worth at some point in the future.
I first recall reading about Don Valentine in the October 1982 issue of National Geographic on Silicon Valley.

An excellent snapshot of Silicon Valley and a glimpse of Don Valentine’s role in it.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/high-tech-high-risk-and-high-...

Risk/Venture Capital, despite valid criticisms of it, has had an outsized effect on our world in the last 50+ years.

And Don Valentine played an outsized role in it.
It would not be politically expedient. US allies are mostly democracies consisting of people that don't want to spend on the military if they don't have to, and if they have to, better to spend it domestically instead of giving it to a foreign firm.

Europe have its own fighter, armor, command systems despite being US allies militarily.
Being statistically significant is nowhere near a high enough bar for this sort of quackery. Statistical significance is gameable, doesn't carry information about type I and II errors and frankly just means there is at least 1 common case that the machine gets right.

People shouldn't be given or denied opportunity because a magic machine likes them. This machine will be like a human - it will develop a bizarre set of biases and one of them will happen to be correlated with reality. It could be producing about as much evidence as someone guessing that Arabs are Muslim - grossly stupid, statistically significant results.
It is absolutely not a condition of the visa approval process that H-1B receive competitive wages. The language specifies recipients must be paid "prevailing wage" and that is defined and determined in a variety of ambiguous ways that allow lots of ambiguity for wage suppression

I personally know at least 8 H-1Bs that are not being paid competitive wages as specialists in the medical industry who in many cases earn 50% or less than their actual peers.

The current person I've been dating for four years is one of the people whose wage jumped 200% once they obtained their green card and had leverage to ask for a raise or switch employers at will as part of that negotiation process. I know those wages are not competitive because there were several friends working in the same area in a small community as full citizens who disclosed their salaries. In addition, others who went through the immigration process in that community frequently explain the process to H-1Bs that their salaries will jump significantly.

Underpaid H-1B is most certainly not a myth, it's a very real abuse of the system. Now, I'm sure there are plenty of legitimate competitively paid workers on H-1B, but my sampling of exposure to that world leans towards continual employer abuse of the system, at least for the healthcare industry.

I don't hold this abuse against people going through the immigration process, but I do find it highly unethical where many employers use the system akin to past forms of indentured servitude when the individuals are highly capable but make the sacrifice to gain more opportunity. These folks should be getting paid what their peers do (less some of the legal overhead required to manage the H1B aspect which is less significant for large companies than smaller businesses).
Isn’t the future inevitably created
LCA are publicly available and searchable anyways.
Yeah that is really too bad.
Actually the woke thing now is moar government. Way moar. Just wait for Warren to take office. And, what is truly bizarre - the same woke crowd is quite militaristic. It is not clear, is it just to spite Trump or because of general lack of brains, but what you observe is quite true.
This is depressingly relatable. Sometimes when I'm walking back home, I end up checking Instagram, Reddit, work mail at every crosswalk while I'm waiting for the signal to turn green.
And I'm not happy because either there's nothing new or because I realize what I'm doing and I tell myself "look what you've become, you're not even capable of waiting 30 seconds without pulling out your phone".
And the one that kicks in after an iOS update? That installed overnight on your phone? That appears first thing in the morning, right when you're actually trying to check your mail, calendar, catch up on overnight notifications, in between getting ready for work and kicking kids out of the house... that tutorial is getting dismissed and will never be revisited.
Doesn't all of that simply mean Texas (and the UK) are basically only giving up their seat at the table but still have to do all the things the other party wants in order to stay connected?

Unless the leaving party has a lot of somethings that the party they are leaving from wants, they don't really have much of a position to bargain.

Everyone seems to think that a (relatively) small unit of land and their people can 'take care of themselves', but unless you want to go back to just before the industrial revolution it really doesn't work that way. Almost everything everyone touches every day has some form of link to 'the outside world'.

Giving up interconnectivity really doesn't give anything back in return. (including self-regulation, unless you'd start living under a dome, or on the moon)
That’s why H1Bs need to be bid on, and the generated revenue should go to fund STEM scholarships for US citizens.
Facebook has amplified negativity. I never thought it would be used to develop psychological profiles and the "Russians to elect Trump".

Waze and GPS has ruined local neighborhoods and the sense of direction.

New kinds of addictions due to instant gratification.

Lack of social skills and engagement.
I try to maintan only VPN outbound traffic and Comcrap starts dropping it. I have to genrrate some other noise. Mobile carries are similar. I had a VPN I use at work,when I work from home it won't work,one day I thought maybe DNS might be the culprit so I looked and it turns out I was using dhcp (normally default to static config) and the comcast gateway set my DNS to their 75.75.75.75 resolver, change that to 1.1.1.1 and voila my VPN works again. I have so many stories with them but the worst part is that their competition in the US are just as dirty except some are less agressive and obvious about it. In many ways Google is like Comcast, they just keep saying "sorry,but it's not so bad" while they continue to fling glittery faeces at you (sorry for the colorful expression, my passion for the subject overwhelms me)
> if the employee worked for substantially below market wages all of that time

For an engineer that could get a job at FAANG or similar, I think this is pretty much universally true for all startups.
Because some generating units require electricity themselves before they can be brought online. A good example is a nuclear station - you need electricity to run the cooling pumps and withdraw (carefully!) the control rods, before steam generation starts and the turbines start spinning.

While nuclear plants do have diesel generators for this, it'd still be a good idea to have one or maybe two sections of the country which could bootstrap the rest of the North American grid(s) should there be a continental blackout.
I don't think Bezos is inherently political, but the world/US requires him to be so. Anyone in his position would have to be whether they want to or not.
The concept that corporate ad spend is somehow “free speech” is a relatively new concept and not universally accepted.
If you can get it working locally with certificates, then there’s definitely a way.

Shoot me an email joel at browserless dot io
The racism is in this thread is something else.
>> Here are some telltale signs that someone is lying: https://parade.com/57236/viannguyen/former-cia-officers-shar.... & https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-tell-someones-lying-b....

That is all bunkum as evidenced by the sources quoted (business insider?).

Just to hand-pick an example I find particularly egregious - that touching one's face is a sign of lying. This guy would disagree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmNqwEhGIk

(Zizek ticking)
How does Android do it better? I don’t remember there being any way other than the fiddly little handles, which you can also use on iOS
It’s also not the most polite/politic way to ask about it. A neutral way to get the same information is to ask about the cap table and then go from there if needed.
In Go, there is an official, experimental project called gomobile [0] that allows one to generate a Java or Objective C binding to be used in mobile projects based on Go source code.

It comes with some restrictions and is still deemed experimental. But it could be a viable choice in the days to come.

[0] https://github.com/golang/mobile
A reductive view that isn’t quite correct. In a healthy job market there should be a smooth range of work in a field from lower value and lower pay up to higher value and higher pay. An uneven distribution means there are companies who struggle to justify the salary demands of an overqualified person because the work or the business model supporting the work doesn’t benefit from the surplus of value that employee brings. There’s nothing wrong with being that kind of company. In time the median skill level of Indian engineers will increase and solve this.
Why don't you build your solution and show it to HN and Google or Microsoft?
I'm sure someone at a big company would convince an exec to pay you at least $10M for your improved spam filter.
Wow, what a Mad Lad!
One of the best teachers I had at Caltech. Though, given that this apparently happened in May I'm not sure why it's being posted today.
this is a miniscule number

You could argue that it's a smallish number for a growing company, but it's a ridiculously large number for a company that is shedding hundreds of employees in the same job category.
Is this a paid product? I was pretty sure a FOSS equivalent already exists.
Around Texas?
Knowing that Monty could not have revealed the car (vs happened not to) has an impact.

If you are objecting to how I described that, in terms of who knows what when, then you may be right and I probably could have been more precise.

But if you are disagreeing that scouts sent to investigate an area and return an answer (which this time happens to be negative) differs materially from the original question then you are wrong.
It’s a company that made a lot of millionaires has had its share of problems.

2003 wasn’t a good time for Microsoft, but events like internet worms made them double down on security and made it a stronger company.
I was the third "employee" at an internet startup (maybe the fourth, I forget) after the CEO and the lead tech guy, and I got...$5/hr as a 1099 consultant. That's actually more like $8 in today's money. I just looked it up and it was the same year eBay (AuctionWeb) was founded. Coincidentally my boss asked me to (with hindsight) basically create eBay and I didn't have a clue where to start or the necessary hubris. After that, they figured I wasn't useful as a programmer (I was hired to answer the phones).
One of the big things for me is the demise of trustworthiness in just about everything. Extremely cheap phone calls plus Caller ID spoofing has made the telephone almost useless (raise your hand if you only answer callers in your contact list!), email has never been trustworthy, and the internet has made it possible for hoaxes to spread farther and faster than ever.