skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to plead guilty to giving up after I saw the preference overhang thrust of the article. She in fact gives a good outline of the issues involved. Maybe I had Travis Kalanick and Adam Neumann in the back of my mind.

Still the element of unfairness about is that Certain key employees were incentivized with a “ carve-out “ in order to stay through the transaction and make sure it would happen. Using the example, four years is a long time to be rewarded with squat. However, Roizen also points out that common stock is priced lower than preferred.

Usually someone like an engineering VP or a senior contributor will figure things out well before that and bail. The idea that this was somehow a surprise is difficult to accept.

Yes, it is definitely for your own self respect.
Hoping it also ups Microsoft's game on Azure Functions, monitoring, etc. AWS needs a reason to be scared.
> Now the content we consume is mixed with commercials in imperceptable manners.

Product placement goes back to the 19th century. Remember the candy brand in E.T.? It was chosen because the company paid $1M to get them eaten by the short green man. Then there was payola, wherein the music you heard was actually a commercial paid by the record company.
I could hardly understand it at that time. What a kid could do? I was playing games, tweaking strip dice vars to always assign points to myself, moving circles across the screen with Basic, and trying to peek poke that alien assembler universe, one byte at a time.
But the integration between the two helps...
I can't think of a more ironic statement given that the oligarch named Trump is probably thrilled at this news.
Buy dead kindles and use this? https://www.circuitvalley.com/2017/03/kindle-e-ink-eink-driv...
How "personalization" and "increasing engagement" has created echo chambers and a horrific level of confirmation bias.
> depends on how your data solution manages a cache

> But this release wasn’t for the end users as much — it was more for people who would create those libraries.

Where is the documentation to create these libraries (cache integration, etc)?
I think the author only mentioned the browser so people wouldn't say "just use the browser".
I don't think anyone is asking for that. But I would gladly pay a small fee to have an app with my newspaper that gets updated in realtime and give me a great reading experience without ads, where I can choose the topics I am interested in. I would also love to have an application to manage lots of scientific articles or that allows me to review papers. And I would like to do those things in my "disconnected" device with the nice e-ink screen. Notifications? Of course not.
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I have no knowledge specific to this case, but it's pretty common for military hardware to have future capability upgrades scheduled for many years out. Which will then also need to be tested. It seems to make sense to have people with pre-existing knowledge do that - thus a longer term contract seems to make sense.
> ...unlike, say, New York City or Detroit, whose residents found out the hard way that lots of their power comes from Canada.

Interesting that this myth is still alive. It started with Bush falsely claiming the 2003 blackout was Canada's fault before an investigation had even been done. Here is the actual postmortem report.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandM...
They gave up on the buttons, actually. They sell a lot of Alexa devices though.
> The effort includes the test article configuration, the test article build, the test plan, the testing itself, and teardown and analysis.

Curiously, how long do you think it should take and at what cost?
In most at-will-employment countries/states you can just stop showing up and the worst they can do is fire you. Sure, you’d loose your unused holidays and potential bonuses, but if the company is too broke to even pay your salary did you really expect to get those bonuses anyway?
+1. I gave up reading halfway through after he complained about sexism for the tenth time without giving a single example. It seems like the author just wants to complain and doesn't really know anything about what makes a company successful. Not worth reading at all.
You owe tax on an exercise below market value, whether you can sell or not. This is why you get the official 409a valuation from the CFO before you file your taxes. The 409a is prepared by the company's CFO, accountants, lawyers, and somehow in conjunction with the IRS (or by IRS rules?) and is the valuation that you use to compute whether you owe tax on an exercise or not.

>The only thing that accurately values your shares is a sale.

Accurately? Perhaps. But until that sale happens, you can still be on the hook for more tax.
I wish I knew back then all the technic knowledge I have now.

I really had zero idea what was going on inside the machine and no-one to teach me.
Real-time surveillance of the world. Who said what when where to whom. Was that a threat. What were the consequences. Feeds for video, sound, https streams from billions of Internet devices. ML to extract salient features, at multiple levels of resolution. $10B is a drop in the bucket. This is heading into trillions territory. I wouldn't be surprised that in 10 years half the Pentagon budget will be spent on the cloud.

We can glimpse a world-wide stack-ranking system: "Echelon [0], who are the 1000 individuals most threatening to our strategic position and what will be their whereabouts today?". "Matrix [1], please dispose of these individuals at these locations". Let's pray there will still be some humans between step 0 and step 1. Worse, by the logic of MAD, it is possible we are going to end up with 2 such systems, one for USA and one for China, caught in a new cold war. Think distributed Vietnam.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
Also IIRC much of the "trade" created by free trade agreements are not trade at all, but movements of goods internal to a company (e.g. US companies produce goods in a factory in Mexico and later move those goods back to US to be sold).
> I ask because I'm trying to understand why someone would keep working

because their H1Bs require sponsorship and because they know they are incompetent but don't want to go back to being slumdogs if they can possibly keep ripping off those who trusted them for even a little longer?
"It's all in the fine print," and the fine print can say anything.

I would say that this is a learning lesson for all who think options will make them rich. If you're at a company make sure you get paid what you're worth in money. Don't count on options as part of your compensation. You are unlikely to get rich because of them. As we have seen over and over again.
He's not anti war as much as he's anti policy that pushes up against Russian spheres of influence. You see no issue with, and in fact a lot of funding and support increase to, Saudi Arabia. Where as Obama had put a pause on things during the initial outbreak. Didn't condemn things outright in public, but the Obama administration was definitely taking a step back during the Yemen war.

The trump administration also has changed the rules of engagement for military strikes on ISIS and other terrorists to allow for the potential of more collateral damage or civilian deaths. The Obama administration set that threshold pretty high to prevent blowback for our actions and feeding terrorist propaganda.
There is already a tool to make usual notebooks to standalone apps with all needed source data inside - Voilà https://blog.jupyter.org/a-gallery-of-voilà-examples-a2ce7ef...
I'm really surprised this works. Do you know if that's by design?
There are basically two tiers of startups in my mind, those that compete with FAANGs for talent (Airbnb, for a while Uber, whatever flavor of the month) and usually are comprised of lots of ex FAANGs, and those that are second choices to FAANGs.

Most of the people I know at the first tier also joined mostly for the money. Those in the second tier, it’s because that startup was the best opportunity they had. Or in some small cases, because it gave them experience in something they couldn’t get at other companies (eg a pure ML role).
I got my Kindle in 2012 and it still runs like a brand new device. I think Amazon's issue will eventually be that, unlike the iPhone, no one needs to upgrade their kindle more than once per decade or so. Of course if the newer models had dramatically better features or apps I would be tempted to upgrade.
Trump and his administration have already publicly admitted they are willing to use the power of government money for purely political ends. Dollars to donuts there will be an investigation into this contract.
Great share. I remember the inflection point that Opteron was. Essentially, it killed Sparc, PA-RISC, Alpha, Itanium, etc. That was a unique moment in time. Hearing a personal anectode between someone relatively junior at the time, and a legend, is very interesting to me. It was, really, the moment Linux/x86 "won". That 64 bit hurdle defined where we are today.

At the time, it inspired me to make a pitch that "RISC was dead", despite it's technical superiority. Kind of a VHS vs Betamax moment. My pitch worked out, and was probably the defining moment of my career.

I'm pretty happy that AMD is, again, riding high. Underdog stories are more rare these days. And you had a not insignificant part in that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21360115
Firefox Focus on mobile.
Emergent Properties of Finetuned Language Representation Models
Yeah. It doesn't seem like pi is meant to be base10
Something that is bugging me about my company - we have a hard time hiring people, because we’re almost but not quite competitive on pay. And we see H1B notices go up in the boardroom. I can’t help but think if we were better competitive on pay we would not have a problem hiring - were not doing the most complicated thing in the world.
Definitely glad that the Kindle hasn't succumbed to app store peer pressure.

One feature I would really like to see is a decent hyphenation engine for improved typography.
Thank you. Somehow I completely misread that line.
I recently got a Dasung Not-eReader... and it's amazing!

It's a quality android tablet with a high speed e-ink display.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/not-ereader-first-e-ink-m...
Great news for Microsoft, but I hope they don’t end up with the tail wagging the dog. There is a reason that you don’t see many companies straddling the defense/civilian divide that much- the military’s crazy bureaucracy, Legal, contracting, and certification environment means that organizations that work with them often end changing their culture to suit the government, and those cultural changes make them less competitive in non-public sector arenas.
What a beautiful game, love the simple concept!
While this model definitely exists, I doubt it’s helping much.

At least in the UK, it’s still more expensive for my business to rent DSL lines and offer broadband on them than the retail price of what the incumbent offers (who so happens to own the physical phone lines, albeit through a weird arrangement of multiple companies).

It’s definitely a step in the right direction but I’m still not convinced it helps much.
Did he yield?
One point here where I readily criticize the state is that they have a very, very narrow window during which prescribed burns are allowed to happen due to air quality management rules. Those need to be relaxed and fixed like yesterday; certainly the air quality impacts of out-of-control wildfires is far worse than the air quality impacts of prescribed burns. (https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article23048168...)
6. As an exception, you can offer workplace flexibility that the bigs don't offer. For instance, a 30 hour week.
> major limitations in the graphics/sound hw of the Zx

That's exactly the case. The C64 had hardware sprites and scrolling, and one of the best sound chips of all time with the SID. The Spectrum had a memory-mapped bitmap display with low resolution color, and a CPU-controlled beeper. And the Spectrum's CPU advantage wasn't as much as the clock speeds suggest, because the 6502 could get more done per cycle, and the Spectrum's CPU had wait states when accessing the 16K block of RAM containing the graphics RAM.

I played a lot of Spectrum games as a child, but looking at it objectively, the C64 is a far superior machine. However, both systems were crippled by the single-button joystick standard of the time. The greatest feature of the NES was the B button.
What does my word processor have to do with my GPU cluster I use for creating ML models?
That doesn't change the problem. Either way, you're evaluating whether to switch after the reveal.
Just a request: if you intend to directly refute another's comment by posting sources, posting a 238 page document without a specific page reference isn't really helpful.
Exactly! I have lost count of how many times people on HN rant about quality of "Indian software engineers" when they are paying so less that they get bottom of the barrel. And they make quick stereotype out of that experience without any introspection.
95 according to WAIS, below average. I guess it goes without saying that I don't care. :)
An often forgotten piece of history about Firebird is that it demonstrated how Open Source (Free Software, etc.) makes products more secure and trustworthy.

Long story short: Interbase was a closed source DB by Borland that contained a backdoor which would give full access to all data to an external attacker. The backdoor went unnoticed for roughly 7 years, then one day Borland released the Interbase sources and just before the new management closed it again and ceased any contribution to the code, the community forked it on Sourceforge naming it Firebird. Within a few months since the code was made public, the 7 years old backdoor was identified and fixed.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0008
I guess, we may be confident to see the menu bar dissappear in a not so distant future iteration of OS X. With a bit of bad luck and some rather cynical retroverse distortion, it may be replaced by a Hamburger (as in the Xerox Star Interface, which introduced it to indicate the anchor for the single menu in the entire system.)

Placing the cursor in text by imitating the new cursor catch and place game of iOS will be also fun. Probably so much fun that quite a number of people will stay longer in the office to play with it.

That said, the menu bar has already taken serious damage by the introduction of OS X, when the first menu item became the variable width application name. Before this, the File and Edit menus and their essential menu items were exactly on the same place in every application, rendering the most essential commands a matter of muscle memory, quite like a guesture.
> Why would a built-in 20kW max charging connector be a must-have specification for an EV?

The J1772+CCS DC connector can handle up to 350 kW, but even if that weren't the case, I would prioritize standardization over raw power. I don't want a car with a proprietary dongle for J1772, nor a phone with a proprietary dongle for USB.

Proprietary connectors and anti-consumer and anti-competition. It would be nice if more people said no to them.
Too bad the others didn’t follow suit. Just dangerous having two sides to drive.
I wrote my own, didn't have money for 3rd party stuff, already did a 6809 version together with a friend so it was relatively easy. Even so, the built in assembler was a bonus item and it worked pretty good to bootstrap new stuff including ROM images and proper assemblers.
one of the more challenging experiences in my adult life was my dad screaming about how upset he was that windows had forced some upgrade, and as a result (?) he'd lost genealogy work he'd been doing for years (eventually he found it).

he was furious, and crying, and shouting... "i don't want any f* upgrades! just leave my f* computer alone!! i never asked for any of this, i just want to do my work"

i dont' spend a lot of time at the house any more ... and i didn't know what to tell him, so i hugged him. later i brought up linux (again) and i think we'll get to that place soon, so that he has a chance to learn before age sets in too much further.
Ouch. The burn.
I feel the same way about CA. I suspect this isn’t that uncommon — many people put family first, then community, then country.
Well, pre-internet, my city had three bookstores. None of the people working there read anything besides the popular trash; they couldn't tell you who wrote The Metamorphosis without looking it up. The store selection was based on catalogue recommendations by the publishers.

I think many easily turned to the web for recommendations because as wholesome these kind & knowledgeable book and movie human recommenders are, they simply weren't available to a lot of us.
Oh absolutely. People tend to forget that options and illiquid stock still count for the taxman.
Good. A version of this that actually worked would be a lot more horrifying.

After all, the problem with oppressive governments isn’t usually “accuracy.”
Great question. A lot of times I want a meat-based dish or dessert. Soy and similar alternatives just don't taste that good to me (beyond meat isn't bad, but it's also not exactly healthy for you). For the former I end up mostly cooking myself, predominantly Asian (tons of naturally dairy-free dishes) and some modified Mediterranean. For desserts it's a lot harder and these days I just don't eat many anymore, which is probably a good thing anyway.
If Ribbons are implemented well, they're great. But often they're not, and then they're terrible. It takes a lot of work to properly organise a Ribbon for a complex program. Microsoft nailed it for Office, but programs like AutoCAD are still not well done.

Microsoft have put together an awesome guide to the Ribbon. Even if you're not making one, it's a great read that really goes into the reasons it exists: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/cmd-r.... I came across this page by chance when I was in high school, and I think it was what sparked my interest in user interface and user experience design.
> Haven't followed Bezos too closely, but, never thought of him to be a political person or saw anything where he made political comments.

You never considered the idea that the richest man in the world may be political?

It'd be more surprising for me to find out that he wasn't political; you don't accrue that kind of cash without playing political games at at least some point in your portfolio -- even if it's just for the opportunity to reduce your tax burdens.
There is another aspect in how interesting the thing you are doing is, or how much it will improve people's careers to work on the things your company is working on and so on.
in a perfect world options would (literally) be a bonus. In the real world people are playing stock market with their careers.
I think it really depends on the cost of an ABS test, how common ABS is, how common patients lie about alcohol consumption, and the cost savings for dealing with ABS sooner rather than later.

If you are going to hold someone in the ER until their BAC is 0 it seems fairly cheap to give them sugar water and see if their BAC increases.
You asked "Why does it make sense to have independent grids?" and I provided a reason. "But that'll never happen to us!" feels rather naive, personally - I think massive, deliberate power outages have a decent chance of occurring over the next 50 years. Future of cyberwarfare and all.

(And sometimes a system being extremely stable just means it's brittle, not strong)
You're going to have to start saying "I don't have that app"

https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2018/08/barcode-donatio...
Probably cool, but the website disables zooming in phones so I can't tell. I wish pages couldn't disable zooming -- that should be up to me. Does anyone know browsers that always allow zoomi
(If any Jane Street blog folks read this, please fix your blog.)
At least it wasn't Oracle. You can't say Azure, AWS, GCP, et al, aren't highly skilled, experienced, cloud infrastructure builders. There was a lot of wining-and-dining of the Trump administration by Safra Kat which gave the impression they'd be magically awarded the contract. Thank goodness the government isn't that corrupt.
Of course, it is money saving and also visa people are "yes men" which is good for a corporation. My generous Amazon offer had 1 day notification if they fire me, 10 days to leave the country and i will have to pay back all their expenses (rellocation etc).
That's what Tesla showed for the semi, it's 4 car battery packs used in parallel to power 4 motors, and a 4-cable cable for charging.
Ya, I'm not saying I'm 100% confident in my assessment. Just saying that reading it feels pretty fishy.

Just my opinion.
Refer to the summary of causes on page 17, as seen in the table of contents.
I'm a 2x Obama voter, but Obama totally greenlit and supported Saudi Arabia in Yemen from the beginning. Things were getting hot there in like 2010, this spanned almost his entire tenure. That's another area where as soon as things change hands, everyone has a different opinion depending on if it's the red guys or the blue guys.

As far as hooking Russia/Turkey up, Syria would be a better example IMO. We ceded Syria, the Saudis are still 100% ours. In either case, part of being non-interventionist means ceding things to regional powers.
Cato is far from a libertarian think tank, its a Republican think tank, originally it was the Charles Koch Foundation.
Well the Northeast Blackout of 2003 had quite a few lessons learned, but the fact of the matter is over time the US grid has become more interconnected - just like Europe - and through the interconnections brings more stable and cheaper power. Sure one off events happen, but the grid is more stable now than in the past when it was less isolated. Part of that is high voltage DC to DC links that allow for sharing of electrical over production, while at the same time isolating grids. Even within ISO grid regions these links are used.

The main benefit from having one ISO in the US would be a reduction of rules. If you wanted to build solar or gas or wind in California, it would be subject to the same grid rules as Texas (e.g. how to handle a fault on a line - how quickly it recovers from fault, from frequency or voltage deviations, etc.). The fact that a particular power grid is isolated from others means they can't benefit from cheaper power due to overproduction of say wind power in Kansas. That electricity goes to someone else or goes to waste.

Finally if anyone here cared to read, the FERC doesn't regulate the Texas grid.. it's ISO has its own rules (which I'm pretty sure are similar to the rest of the ISOs in the US which are subject to meeting the FERC regulations or going beyond them). The Texas grid is connected to other grids.

"The Texas Interconnection is tied to the Eastern Interconnection with two DC ties, and has a DC tie and a VFT to non-NERC systems in Mexico. There is one AC tie switch in Dayton, Texas that has been used only one time in its history (after Hurricane Ike).

On October 13, 2009, the Tres Amigas SuperStation was announced to connect the Eastern, Western and Texas Interconnections via three 5 GW superconductor links.[2] As of 2017, the project was reduced in scope and only related infrastructure was constructed for nearby wind projects connecting to the Western Interconnection."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection
Compared to? Water? Internet? Gas? What other major utilities are there. Unless you run purely on gas your electric bill will be your #1 cost utility.
Texas is a special case in this context, although highly contentious.
F11 does it
Did you not install the Word add-in that offloads building the table of references to a GPU cluster?
When I was a kid, I used to buy handful of Russian books (translated to English) for the price of one American book. For a poor kid, it was awesome. Ah, good days they were...
He wasn't the CEO.