skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar situation applies to 3D graphics for game engine programming. You'd think if a piece of hardware can run a AAA game with impressive graphical effects at 60 FPS, it should be able to run your simple indie game engine with simple graphics for proportionally less development effort. But, no, it turns out unlike CPU's where we got so many "speed ups for free", most of the things that make the AAA game able run so fast with so many effects are bespoke, opt-in features.

(The following is based on my experience learning from the Irrlicht engine. YMMV) You find a random N-year-old basic OpenGL tutorial and it doesn't run N/1.5 iterations of Moore's law faster now, it still runs inexplicably slowly (compared to what you know that hardware theoretically should be able to do with modern games). You have to figure out, oh it's not using GPU memory for the meshes, how do I tell the driver to do that? Fixed that, but wait I'm using immediate mode, retained mode would be faster. Wait is retained mode going away, what's replacing it? So I gotta learn shaders now too?

The problem is the APIs are terrible and the drivers are buggy. The levels of abstraction keep being chosen all wrong - too low-level for the library or drivers to give user code "speed ups for free" and too high-level for a power user of the API to be able to be able to tell directly what's happening and profile what's making things slow.

A better model would be to break the high-level and low-level into two layers, like the Clang / LLVM compiler. The high level API defined by an organization like an OpenGL working group and they could provide a reference implementation front-end (corresponding to Clang or another compiler front-end in this analogy). The hardware vendors would just provide the low-level implementation (corresponding to LLVM).
It isn’t a great way to learn the details, but it’s a great way to learn about topics you might not have come across.

This video is about the hierarchy of fast-growing functions indexed by ordinals, and it includes enough details for a competent mathematician to be able to work out the rigorous general definition. For someone unfamiliar with the topic, it’s an enjoyable and low-effort way to learn enough about it to recognise whether it’s interesting enough to learn about properly.

There are several examples of cutting-edge mathematical work having been directly inspired by numberphile videos, most recently the work of Andrew Booker and Drew Sutherland on expressing integers as sums of three cubes.

3blue1brown concentrates on giving clear, elegant, rigorous explanations of established subjects. So perhaps ironically, despite being typically more rigorous, I don’t know any examples of it inspiring new mathematical research.
FYI - at support.brainio.com you can request new features :)
They not only withheld information about the negatives you mention, but they also sowed disinformation.

Furthermore, nobody here is arguing that oil is all bad. Obviously it has been immensely beneficial to society. And yet, how is it that those benefits are privatized by these companies, and the negatives (costs) are externalized?
The submitter of the image did not believe it to be a meme.
That can be true together with the allegations in the lawsuit. If a person robs a bank and donates it to charity it’s still a crime. Maybe it’s true that if oil companies hadn’t mislead everyone the world would be different today, but that doesn’t mean crimes should be excused “for the greater good.”
HTTPS: //Youtu.be/4tHyZdtXULw
> Everyone wanted to add OOP to every language. C++, ObjC then Java.

By mentioning the languages after that comment, was it your intention to imply that OOP were added to them? Because to my knowledge, all three were OOP based from the very beginning.

Please comment with a source if you feel I’m wrong on saying any of those were OOP from the beginning. I (as well as others I’m sure) would enjoy the learning opportunity.
I knew it. Seems fishy
I'm not sure if those statistics are published, but FAANG companies drive all of their business decisions with data; recruiting shouldn't be any different.

> when you have 15/20 years of experienced, are you grilled, tested and probed like a junior?

We get this question a lot. We just worked with an engineer with 20 years of experience. He signed up for CodeBreakers because he knew that although he's a much more experienced programmer than I, he was aware that he needed help with the whiteboard interview if he wanted FAANG.

His Google onsite interview had 3 data structures and algorithm interviews, 1 system design, and 1 behavioral/leadership interview.

Junior engineers have 4 data structures interviews and 1 behavioral now. 80% of the interview is the exact same.
Not the OP, but my guess would be that they're worried about the precedent set by fairly explicitly using a law meant to outlaw X to punish someone for doing Y just because the government dislikes that someone is doing Y. If the government wanted to outlaw promoting self-serving doubt/misinformation, they could do that, but that's not really what "fraud" is for.

Part of the rule of law is that the government doesn't just get to make up laws because it wants to punish you. It's why there's generally a prohibition for punishing people for things they did before it became illegal to do them.

A lot of this is symptomatic of both sides of the political spectrum feeling impotent to pass laws that actually do what they want, so they're doing what they can do bend existing law to do what they don't have the votes to do in new law. The whole situation is bad on a number of levels.
> If the models didn't predict the lag, it stands to reason that the models weren't accurate, even if current temperatures align with them. That is to say that the current alignment is just coincidental.

Or the lag was a minor factor that only briefly overrode the primary drivers of climate change, which have since reasserted themselves. I think we both know what the smart bet is.
Technically you might be able to make that claim, but I have a hard time understanding the point if it saves more people than it kills. Then at least morally I would question who is really in the right here.
Documentation seems to have vanished.
Or, the city could have the police put a boot on the truck tires.
This is common in NYC. The biggest violators should be paying the most, but instead, they pay the least per violation because they bargain down the fines.

Here's a pretty typical fine record for a truck that was illegally parked in the bike lane during my commute this week: https://twitter.com/CydeWeys/status/1188467550822293512 (expand all replies) And note how they're getting a reduction in fines: https://twitter.com/HowsMyDrivingNY/status/11884675886255882...

And Streetsblog has written an entire series of blog posts on it: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/category/issues-campaigns/stipul...
Still my all-time favorite web framework. To date, I still find so many other frameworks lacking the vision that brought about WO.
> "Hiring an exec who supported Trump's travel ban" is purely a political issue.

Yes it is. And that issue is that the person did something in a previous job which many employees found repugnant.

But the trust issue, is that the employees also don't trust that Google has the integrity to hire someone who did that, without understanding the whys of it. Or being sensitive to both their existing and new employee on the issue.

If I were in Google management, and I had the trust of the people I managed, I could explain to them the reasoning that went into the hire; The skills that came with the candidate, the business need, the qualities of the candidate. And the sensitivity around their previous job choices and how they made those choices (most people do what the boss tells them to do) and what was expected of them at a place like Google. And the people who trusted me would expect me to hold the new hire to those standards and to fire them if they didn't live up to them. I would be able to lean on that trust and say, "Hey, we need to give this guy a chance to prove he can do the right thing and we and he both understand he is held to a higher standard here."

Folks I managed wouldn't trust me if they had found out that I had allowed a sexual harasser to work for me after I knew that they had a problem. That is because they would lose trust in me saying that I would hold people to a certain standard.

That is the difference in a "only if you get caught" situational morality play. Someone with principles and integrity will take the necessary action, even if it is painful, even when they could "get away with it because nobody else knows."

It is a good litmus test. That test being to evaluate how you respond to people who do the right thing even when no one is looking, and to people who do the right thing only after the need to do it comes to light through some other path. In my experience, I trust people who do the right thing even if no one is watching way more than I trust the opportunists.
It's the best solution because attempts on it don't scale; any attempt at it requires either everyone in the room be in on the fraud (and it takes just one person to break that) and even then, going through ballots by hand takes a long time, where the crime can be found at any point due to physically being there.

E-voting? One hacker can reprogram thousands of machines, possibly not having to even be in the country, anonymously. It gets even worse when you have online voting, because then you have a whole host of potential exploits, like MITM, DDOSing targets like libraries, gathering IDs, etc. When you consider the amount of money running on elections, it's not unthinkable to consider there could be state-sponsored hackers, so there's no problem of resources there. And this is all assuming the hardware and software aren't already compromised by the manufacturers; considering we've seen compromised hardware coming from China it's a very likely possibility.
Very good quote. I am very sorry, that I hear from my own country (Germany) that more and more laws come exactly from industry lobbyists without any serious review, because our politicians either lack the knowledge or interest to make any serious review.

Even worse, there are nearly nobody in public service than can review some topics (that is the reason, they more and more rely on the expertise of consulting companies when it comes to taxation and finance topics -- and the interest of the consulting companies also lies in reducing taxes for their private costumers ...).
In Poland we have "Paczkomaty" which are often very close to homes and people can retrieve packages in 3 seconds by waving phone to QR scanner. You can also retrieve packages in convenience stores like "Żabka" or gas stations like "Orlen".
> Oil saves more lives than it kills and it makes lives better for all of us. You can't just take the negatives and ignore all the positives.

Let's revisit this statement in the next century and see if it holds up.
The Austrian school gets everything right. Like a broken clock is right twice a day, Austrian adherents endlessly predict recession and are eventually right, though anyone who invested based in their theses loses their shirt.
Devaluing the currency to increase exports makes everybody in the country poorer (reduces their purchasing power for all imported goods). It also can't necessarily reduce the price of exports that depend on imports (e.g. importing iron, exporting steel) because the price of the imported components rises, causing an increase in the price of the finished good. Switzerland is an example of a country with a strong currency and citizens with very high purchasing power because of this.
The Reciprocation Effect – How Fortnite Makes So Much Money Off a Free Game
This is a big bet by TSMC.
If they pull it through, and they might do, they will be ahead of competition for the next decade.
You might find this useful:

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
Banksy pretty much ripped off Blek Le Rat — so much of his work is completely derivative. Plus you could argue he did much of his work in the public domain. If I graffiti an image in a public place, haven’t I kind of given away copyright to it?

Given Banksy’s anti-capitalist, semi-anarchist stance, and utilization of public property for his own fame, I can’t think of any better means for him to honor himself than to allow people to rip off his work freely.

I certainly can see the case against those who misappropriate bad work to his name — artistic integrity is important. There is also nothing wrong with him wanting to make money. But I see no moral problem with selling knick knacks with banksy imagery on it.

FWIW I love his art and his moral stance. Just can’t have your cake and eat it.
You also can’t just take the positives and activly suppress all knowledge of the negatives, which is precisely what the oil companies did.
According to elitist NYT only the old rich settlers of manhattan who own multi million dollar apartments and 1000$ a month parking spot are entitled to have a car and drive in the city. Thats why they are against Uber and Lyft as well.
Yes, its quite possible the next layer up know there's a problem and want to fix it, but don't know they have someone willing to step up if they moved the original tech lead somewhere better suited to their talents

Alternatively they may know about similar position elsewhere they could move you to

Finally they may think you're a total muppet and think far too highly of yourself, which is useful to know (you either are a muppet, or you need to leave the company)
Here's the story on that quote. It's not Picasso

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
Central banking - especially in the US - tries to keep inflation and unemployment low. In accordance with Real Business Cycle theory.

The theory says that the central bank should help speed up the economy when it's too slow, and apply the brakes when it's getting too hot.

The problem is that when a recession (inevitably) hits, it'd be good if people had savings, social security, etc. If there were structured ways to unravel over-leveraged investments, and so on, without hurting the people.
Good question. I’ll be moving in to your house this evening, thanks.
This is kind of cherry picking evidence because it also doesn't show the rest of the world, especially the developing world, where the quickest path to GDP growth is, at least historically, to build a lot of coal plants.

Arguably, if India, which is currently the world's fastest develop major economy, goes the way of China, we are all screwed. Doubtful they will however, because they are at the ground zero of climate change and other pollution problems due to the fragility of the himalayan glaciers (which cause the monsoons), low latitude climate, and a large portion of the eastern side of country being at/near sea level, particularly at the delta of the Ganges River (not to mention neighboring extremely low lying Bangladesh, which may be the source of one of the largest sources of displaced people in human history since it's basically one big river delta).
I agree, that's actually how I prepared. Unfortunately, most don't have the luxury to dedicate 30 full-time days. Many that we work with our university students with courses or full-time employees. This is why the 250 hours if a pretty big barrier to entry.
This comment reads exactly like an anti-vac rant. Person with almost certainly no economics background rants about things they don't understand based on a bunch of YouTube videos and Twitter threads they've watched.
The Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act of 1965 was the first real vehicle pollution control act and it limited certain tailpipe emissions. However, it was one of the stupidist regulations ever, since it limited the proportion of unburned hydrocarbons, etc., in exhaust gas. The auto manufacturers did the rational thing and met the requirements by increasing the displacement of engines and pumping more air in a leaner mixture. The result was poor performing gas guzzlers and fleet mileage dropped from the mid 60s to the mid 70s. Thus, a decade of misguided federal clean air regulations made the oil crises much worse than they would have been.

The regulations should have limited grams of pollutant per ton-kilometer in order to require both less pollutants and better efficiency.
I like this idea and want to know more, but I wish the README.md actually told us how and what, instead of just why. I didn't want to watch an asciicast.
I was a WebOjects dev from 2007-2009, it was really neat to work with, and although I'd learned about "frameworks" in my Software Engineering degree, it never fully appreciated just how much of the work a framework does for you. So, so much different to just a "library" like everything else I've used before or since.

Apple still use WO internally for a lot of things (apple store, iTunes store), but I think it's slowly dying outside the company. The place I used to develop for slowly moved away from it, interestingly mostly because apple killed the XServe and so it got harder and harder to deploy.
Some of the allegations are exactly that vague. One of the major alleged misrepresentations is that Exxon claimed to be environmentally conscious:

> 687. ExxonMobil's greenwashing misleads consumers by saturating its brand with deceptive "green" images that portray ExxonMobil as a good environmental steward when, in fact, these images are contradicted by the actual environmental and public health impact of ExxonMobil's business. These images direct attention away from the massive and dangerous climate and public health harms caused by the routine production and use of ExxonMobil fossel fuel products and focus consumer attention instead on ExxonMobil's purported environmental responsibility and leadership.
Sure I get the technical argument but in my view it makes things much more complex than simply arguing some technicality ill intent.

Then again I don't know all the details, I smell an attempt at scoring political points though more than anything.
I'm in roughly the same boat though rather than "take their job" I was trying to create a new position and split the existing team in two. Ultimately this hasn't worked out (the conversation has been going on for months and no end in sight) and now I'm actively seeking new opportunities.

It's pretty shitty working in a team where the leadership is utterly ineffective. Ultimately it's managements decision and more than likely they will back the existing structure even if it has problems.
They aren’t in the Schengen area but they have open borders with Italy, which itself is in the Schengen area. Schengen or not, it doesn’t really make sense to talk about immigration in the Vatican since there’s no nationality and the Vatican can’t even issue visas.
"Great artists steal." Jobs identified an overall vision that was something like "to sell great technology." This later became refined into something that was a little "different" as Apple latched onto the "better alternative" image when confronted with clone PCs.

Jobs was always on the lookout for selling points, the "one more thing." But the impact of objects as a selling point through NeXT and WebObjects on Apple's consumer-focused tech is only skin deep, because creating a comprehensive system would have taken much longer, but it was enough for Jobs to impress people, and provide an essence of an advantage. This was clear in at least early versions of OSX (I haven't used OSX for years), where drag and drop between identifiable objects worked… sometimes. The remaining functionality would have been much harder to achieve, and would have meant something really significant was being built, rather than what became a current generational marketing push. The idea of an object oriented system isn't talked about much anymore, and Apple really focuses on Raskins' ideas for interface, which aren't really compatible since it focuses on one object at a time, rather than a system of objects.
Let the receiver choose the pickup point. In Denmark it's usually possible to choose the pickup point in the checkout flow when ordering. In that way I can take my business elsewhere, if I don't like service.
FWIW, the city data portal posts parking violation data by year (~10M rows/year): https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violat...
First, how do you know it's the tech lead's "fault" and not an issue with company culture? Yes, your tech lead may indeed not be the best lead ever, but only too often is this a reflection of overall company culture.

Second, how do you know he's uncoachable? Have you tried? Does the company even offer coaching for new managers? I've run into this far too often that as great engineer, somehow you're supposed to know how to manage people and it shows.

Third and most importantly, given the environment why do you think you can do better? You say you have worked at that level before so obviously you have some experience, but do you see all the obstacles that your current tech lead is facing?

Here's what I would do, based on the fairly limited information you provided:

- Help your tech lead. Make her/him look at least better and try to see if you can affect team culture and morale. Unless it's a company culture issue, this should get recognised (often with a promotion) and you can get a better idea if it's actually an issue with your lead and not the company. It sounds like you came onboard after their promotion so you might not know what sort of dumpster fire they inherited. What I wouldn't do is play political games to undermine the lead - if I as a manager would find out about something like that, you'd be out the door quicker than you can say "but they don't know what they're doing".

- Second, I'd keep an eye out for other job opportunities. It sounds like the issue may well be considerably bigger than an involuntary tech lead. Sometimes you got to know when to bail.