skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoops, thanks! I'd missed that!

I don't think that had a large effect on my compensation, if any: I joined at L3, which is what most new grads are hired at, and my salary before Google was low enough that I don't think it pushed up my offer at all. I also didn't get offers from multiple places, which is the sort of thing that (a) results in higher offers and (b) is the sort of thing new grads usually do.

But ideally someone hired right out of school would be up for sharing their comp?
Well, that's his big bet isn't it. There are a lot of studies that claim 4 day work week will keep productivity more or less the same.

The catch here is this will potentially enable you to hire those 10x people. Even at reduced productivity, 80% of 10x is more than double productivity for 100% of 3-4x people, and perhaps this work environment will foster other people to increase their productivity as well.

With the right people and product, I see this as the ultimate weapon against big tech, most of which will have shareholders that will act a lot more conservatively when it comes to risks compared to startups.

This is not something big tech will be able to accommodate in the current macro-economic environment, no board will approve basically a 20% salary bump to all employees and while risking a potential drop in productivity.
LSD is a solid (I think) so giving a volume probably means a solution which is a weird thing to talk about since it doesn’t really mean much.
How can I upvote this twice?
Jonathan Blow's talk was the first one I thought of.
If anyone demonstrates a 'working' (that is, economical) tokamak, that will swiftly prompt about ten other national and international projects to catch up via better funding. It's not like this is a magic ring pulled from a volcano by an elf or something; it's extremely copy-able.
Cannabis and THC aren't particularly bad for you.

The addiction potential is low to none. Obviously, you shouldn’t get high and then drive or load ordinance onto fighter planes on an aircraft carrier, but the direct harm potential of THC is quantitatively lower than the risk you take when you climb a ladder or drive to the store.
True, 1M in savings gives you ~40K per year to live off. This wouldn't be sufficient in SF, but given that you're basically retiring at that point, you might as well buy a home somewhere else and then you'd be able to live comfortable off of that.
China-made processor releases a new version with 100% performance boost
The claims that it's going to be wonderful don't get subject to this sort of scrutiny, but whatever...

There are multiple reasons to think fusion can't win. The simplest is that fusion is a thermal power technology. Heat is produced, which heats a working fluid, which drives turbines, which makes power. ALL thermal power technologies are struggling now, particularly "external combustion" ones that transmit the heat into the working fluid through heat exchangers or boilers. Nuclear fission, coal, geothermal, solar thermal: all of them are having trouble competing. Only combustion turbines are doing ok (internal combustion, avoiding expensive heat transfer stages). Even if the fusion heat source were free, a fusion power plant would not be competitive. And the expensive non-nuclear part is mature technology in which not a lot of improvement can be expected.

But beyond that, there's good reason to think fusion would be more expensive than the other thermal power sources. Compare the volumetric thermal power density of ITER vs. a PWR primary reactor vessel: ITER is worse by about a factor of 400 (0.05 MW/m^3 vs. 20 MW/m^3). Smaller concepts, like ARC or Lockheed's are better (about 0.5 MW/m^3) but still far inferior to fission. A fusion reactor would be far larger, and far more complex, than a fission reactor. Fuel is not a large part of the cost of fission power, btw.

This failure to be competitive is not an accident. It follows from the square-cube law: a fusion reactor must transmit its output through the surface of the reactor vessel, while fission and coal can transfer heat to the working fluid through the surface of thin fuel rods or boiler tubes. This generic handicap, which is independent of anything to do with plasma physics, has been known for nearly four decades, if not longer.

There are other showstoppers (materials, reliability/maintainability, tritium breeding) but those two are enough.

The only hope fusion has, and it's a thin one, is advanced fuels that would allow direct conversion, skipping the thermal stage entirely. But all advanced fuel concepts will still produce a large fraction of energy in photons, which will strike surfaces and be thermalized. And they either depend on 3He, which is science fictional in its sources (moon mining?!), or H-11B, which is likely impossibly difficult at the plasma physics level (and 2000x less reactive than DT, best case.) And even advanced "aneutronic" fuels will leave the reactor too radioactive for hands-on maintenance, due to unavoidable side reactions. Given how large and complex a fusion reactor would be, that is also a showstopper.
What Serverless and Microservices Mean for Computer Architects [Sigarch]
The article seems quite happy to jump in and call these claims "false" rather than "unproven" or "unscientific".

Additionally, neither the abstract, nor the article bother to actually name the strength or statistical certainty of the effect.

Neither of these serve to give this article much credibility when talking about how to responsibly talk about science.
A full-scale database server (Neo4j or PostgreSQL), a heavy frontend React app with Redux. A little over-engineered for a URL shortener, I think. That’s a lot of spinning wheels to maintain for a relatively simple service.
The culture is don't make changes at any cost. As a result you don't make many changes, and as a result you're bad at them.

Modern technology companies make tons of changes all of the time. As a result they become good at them.

Looking at the reports they learned EXACTLY the wrong lessons. It's not to make fewer changes, it's to become good at changes.
This is nice, bookmarked it for my next project. Loved it.
It is not acceptable that pilots were unaware of the cutoff switches. It is unacceptable that MAX pilots did not read, understand, and remember the Airworthiness Directive sent to all MAX crews.

The Ethiopian crew tried the cutout switches and found they couldn't trim the airplane with the hand cranks because Boeing lied. How is that a pilot training issue?

But there were other contributing factors in the crashes that must be dealt with.

A Boeing employee concern trolling over pilot training is pretty rich considering that Boeing knowingly hid crucial details from pilots.
Hackers are breaking into websites and adding links to game Google
If high intelligent without selfishness people would make some state that has low taxes and simple whitelist of actions without changing it will be great place to live.
Scientists should be able to discuss their deliberations without intimidation or fear in either direction.

If a scientist deliberates to reach a conclusion that they choose not to explain it's fine: we just need to ignore it.

There is no reason to argue that "scientists should be pressured to discuss their deliberations", which seems like the argument you are making.
There’s absolutely no upside for the consumer to buy into the subscription model if they’re not going to receive feature updates.

Security patches should be factored into the original cost of the app.
NeurIPS 2019 – How to Know
Yes, and it's a parade of randomly dead links, I really hope they stop using it soon. Or at least stop deadlinking their own content.
It sure would be nice if the Dr's office answered questions about this particular case. First and foremost, why send it to an out of network lab?

Health care COGS are rising... but this is a pretty clear case of price gouging.
> Isn't there an old film where a small island declares independence from the US, declares war on the US and then surrenders after 5 minutes to get aid?

I feel like it was an episode/arc in The West Wing.
wsup: Workspace Set UP. Installs and configures personal configurations by layer
What lawmakers want isn't some single coherent thing; you're talking about a profession perhaps most famous for getting in fights with each other. Some politicians may want draconian drug laws because they're involved with the prison industry or prison workers union, while other politicians with different interests might want drug legalization for reasons like those described in the grandparent comment. The distribution of politicians across this policy continuum may change quickly, or slowly. Not all change is quick.

Here is my pet theory: many politicians have historically opposed cannabis use because they believed cannabis use makes people lazy and believe widespread use of cannabis could suppress economic productivity. This is the sort of believe that could be challenged with evidence to the contrary; currently several states have legal cannabis and in doing so are putting many beliefs to the test. If/When fears relating to economic suppression are dispelled, some politicians who once opposed it may decide they no longer care.
> Is it a problem of race/nationality

It is, when you're saying that it is fine for Romanians or Polish to dump the market, but not Indians.
Thanks. But why some of the file systems are also referred as storage systems like Cassandra, Ceph? As per wiki, storage system (strictly speaking) are hardware or storage devices for storing data. What is actual separation point for them with respect to File Systems?
if you want the 7 best software engineers on earth, statistically 1.4 of them are in china, 1.2 in india etc, only 0.5 of them are in Europe. So you import the others. Only you want the 7 million best software engineers (plus other engineers, doctors, lawyers, writers, artists, scientists, teachers etc)
Europe more friendly for Indian developers
Rust's Freedom Flaws
I witnessed the outsourcing of 3000 IT in a large company in the mid 2000. The contract was great for the outsourcing company and signed off by a bunch of bozos who had no idea how IT runs.

The idea was to have tickets for everything and "golden" ones vichy cost a fortune but are super high priority.

IT was mad at being outsourced and played the game. "super important" thing coming? Ticket. "just a cable, man"? Ticket.

What the idiots in management discovered, is how THEIR company actually works. How important the human relationship is.

One of my colleagues in IT had the pleasure to tell a board member who came to be serviced right oway to fuck off (his words) and to open a ticket, if he knows what this is
Then he picked up the phone as someone was calling and turned away.
They can't, because they have a different business model. For TV content producers, consumers paying for content (with either dollars or eyeballs) is their main source of income. But for musicians, most of their money comes from playing live shows. So Spotify can be much more relaxed about revenue than HBO.
ethernet on a business card is just not as viable.
Yeah.

The lesson is to get good at changes, not to avoid them. Making fewer changes makes you bad at them over the long term.
The romanian education system is grossly overrated by people from that country. From experience, the quality of engineering there is only marginally better than that of india and statistically speaking the education system is the second worst in europe. Universities are ripe with corruption as well. There are some good engineers but overall it is horrible.
Keio University Research: AI in Sports Science
In the Netherlands it wasn’t planned to be shown this year and a DJ started and completed a donation incentive to play the audio track on national radio:

https://www.npo3fm.nl/nieuws/3fm/389107-home-alone-niet-op-t...
> But for many, it's about having a (tiny) shot at changing the world. It can be a thrill.

Yes he had a shot at changing the world, at Palantir.

I'm sure that it's a thrill, but it's not necessarily a benefit to the world.
Bot spotted ;)
Washing your hands after handling solder seems to be a fairly universal recommendation. It's not a concern for normal products because the users do not touch the bare PCB.
This eu madness, mainly drive by germany, to allow mass migration due to a lack “of labour” needs to end. I welcome immigrants but they are heavily abused by means of lower wages, and it depresses local wages as well.
Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
So interesting (and sad). Is there a simple way for people to detect mold in apartments without opening the walls ?
Even after this correction, the article still doesn't make sense to me:

> net revenue per employee is actually $1.6 million per year, after all costs.

What does "net revenue after all costs" mean? Isn't that operating income or net income rather than revenue (which aren't that high)?

You really should get these things straight before giving people advice.
It’s QFN though so you need a reflow oven to make the boards at home.

I’ve had bad experiences with the allwinner chips (the boards I had years ago were very unstable) but the mainline kernel support is very exciting. That you can order a few phones built around them now too is just awesome.
At the federal level, weed is still classified as schedule 1. The federal government's stance has served to place severe restrictions on exactly the sort of research you seem to be calling for.

There is certainly some evidence for health and even psychological risks, but none that I am aware of for "brain damage", which is why you are likely to be downvoted.
It’s far more than the last decade, here is an example from 1983.

“Rigorous sodium deprivation can lower the blood pressure of some patients with essential hypertension (at best, 30% to 50% of patients). In the rest, sodium depletion is ineffective and, in some instances, can raise the blood pressure and cause adverse clinical effects. In normal persons, it is difficult to affect blood pressure even with drastic changes in salt intake; for the blood pressure to rise even slightly, it may be necessary to consume more than 800 meq/d. There is no evidence to indicate that a widely applied, moderate reduction of salt intake could prevent the development of hypertension. The evidence suggesting that such moderate salt intake would significantly lower blood pressure in the patients with sodium-sensitive essential hypertension is weak. Human hypertension comprises a heterogeneous spectrum of abnormal vasoconstriction-volume interactions. Sodium deprivation, like other forms of therapy, should be applied only to those patients in whom its effectiveness has been established.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6847013
It was ~5 years ago, but I used ncmpcpp and Spotify with great success.
The amazing thing about Gamergate is that it ended being a massive waste of time for everyone involved and the actual arguments were practically over right at the beginning. Most of what anyone saw was the gossip generated by two bands of grifters and a cavalcade of wannabe e-celebs.

One of the beautifully symmetric things about the whole affair is that each side had someone who had ran a Kickstarter campaign and then failed to deliver. In fairness, I believe Carl of Swindon eventually tried to make the game (and then started giving refunds) and Anita did eventually deliver the videos (of course it's still a little suspect why she needed the money since she was already creating the type of content albeit more in relation to media generally).

Something interesting about Gamergate is that it shows you (or at least me) how both sides in a dispute may have an interest in distorting the truth in the same way. We can remember Gamergate has a historical battle between political conservatives and liberals because mythologising the events that way is convenient for both. We can forget that Anita, for example, was more socially conservative than many of her detractors. We can forget that her early criticism came from sex-positive feminists and sex workers. We can forget her disapproval of SlutWalk and we can forget her praise of the introduction of female-only passenger cars in Japan.

For something from the time (on Anita specifically) I'd suggest two video by "Intig8ive Journalism". These are 'Anita Sarkeesian Part 1 The College Graduate'[0] and 'Anita Sarkeesian Part 2 Burqa Beach Party'[1]. The original account is gone (how much else?) but the they've been re-uploaded.

I could go on but I don't think there's much point. I don't expect this comment to be particularly popular but I've think I've said things which need to be said.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xbLSe4E3XA
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njRWV12LPwY
https://github.com/davidecavestro/jttslite
As someone planning to move to San Francisco from outside the US soon, is living in SF really as bad as all the blogs make it to be?

I chose SF mainly because of its proximity to the outdoors (which I value highly) and relative lack of a concrete jungle feeling compared to NYC

EDIT: I have visited SF a few times for work before, and found the homelessness and filth to be confined to a few neighborhoods..
My eyebrows went up when I saw the processor was so cheap, but then I went and found a datasheet for it and...

$1.42 buys

- ARM926EJS core at 900MHz consuming 54mA when on and idle

- 32MB DDR RAM

- 720p H264 @ 30fps hardware decode

- Audio DAC capable of 192kHz over I2S

- USB OTG (not full host)

- LCD RGB (FPC) interface at either 1024x600 or 1280x720 @ 60fps

- Touchpanel I/O

Sources:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/17/licheepi-nano-cheap-...

https://linux-sunxi.org/images/b/ba/F1C100s_Datasheet_V1.0.p...

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My version of this would have a tiny LCD, buttons, and a Wi-Fi interface. I know all of those exist in incredibly inexpensive formats. Adds to todo list
Is GoFundMe really a popular way to pay for healthcare costs in the US?
> Even Bernstein doesn't really argue that RDRAND hurts security in the design context you're talking about

Would you mind explaining https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html then?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854108
This may be intended in jest, but it is against the HN guidelines.
I would argue that Rakudo used to implement a Perl 6 dialect, and that it now implements a Raku dialect. Perl 6 and Raku share just about everything, except the name :-)
Author here: over the years this has been my prime strategy on building new stuff. First jQuery Tools, then Head JS, later Riot JS. Happy to talk about minimalism on this weird announcement day.

Happy holidays!
I have my doubts that you'll find an increase in url shorteners internally, as one this can be handled through Dns if it must. And how often are people reading and typing urls locally?

For anything like needing to widely distro a URL it will be posted In a commonly accessible page, a email to those needing it, or distribed slide deck.

Or even physically posted QR Codes.

As far as putting them in line in a post, i can see the value there but me personally 250 characters isn't going to make or break my ability to read them.

To each their own though, ans thanks for the insight.
Or volumetric power density, or simply the cost of the non-nuclear part of the power plant.

But of course no one has solved the neutron damage issue. How could they? To develop a material, if that's even possible, that could withstand 14 MeV neutrons well enough, one would need a fusion reactor to make those neutrons to test the materials (and tritium breeding to keep it running). This circular dependency would be very difficult to traverse.
Check out https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html
Yes, xorring RDRAND with your existing secret can hurt security in certain cases.
I don't see why you were downvoted. I fully get why the blog writer didn't include USB-C with this awesome project. But there's now a growing group of people who simply can't use USB-A anymore with their laptops. Most will have an adapter, but not all.
Truth being flagged just because it doesn’t look “cool”. This profession desperately needs a re-do. Otherwise I’m pretty sure that the person that flagged my statement really cares about the environment and recycles religiously.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eezvhp/protobu...
I am no lawyer but it sound like the landlords are liable in a huge way.
You can buy test kits, which either provide a growing medium and you'll see if airborne spores cause something to grow, which you then can get tested for what it is exactly, or let you take air samples that you mail to a lab.
Given that fusion power would be much more expensive than other sources we already have, no, it wouldn't do anything of the sort.
You see, now you're making it a problem of nationality.

EU membership allows free movement of capital, goods and workforce between EU states with equal rights. Singling out Romania and Poland means you have a personal problem with these nationalities.

Don't like it? Vote your country leaving the EU.

Oh, and FYI, Romanian tech salaries are some of the highest in EU where new grads can earn €2k NET due to a hot market and low taxes so your point about wage dumping doesn't hold.
People from the eastern part of the eu, taking a 42k a year salary are probably mid to senior. Salaries in east europe are higher than that, and the quality of life is way better than india.
The first thing you'll notice when you get to San Francisco proper is how many homeless people there and how dirty it is (google "sidewalk poop"). My recommendation would be to visit before you move.
Personally, I have good experience with those airlines. As long as you are aware of the rules (print your boarding pass at home or use mobile boarding pass, limited carry-on luggage, usually doesn't go to the main airport) it's a good experience. Airplanes are relatively new, they are clean inside and the staff is friendly.
I Landed My First Web Developer Role Without a Degree or Bootcamp
My theory is that the code never gets fixed in these pathological companies. They just get higher costs until people switch away to a bank that is more efficient.
God, unfortunately, yes.
Fascinating, reminded me of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
Perhaps there could be a fold with one or two random ‘candidate’ stories underneath, so it’s clear they are not part of the ‘proper’ front page.
Just a general comment about the dismissal of the idea of "real food" . . .

Just because people can't agree about where the grey areas are versus where the defined areas are does not mean that there are no areas worth defining or that we should avoid defining those areas for ourselves because other people disagree. It's sort of like driving speed. Some people believe that average faster speeds are safe, but people who drive faster than they drive are unsafe. Other people will think slower speeds are safe and anyone who drives faster than they drive are unsafe. This doesn't mean that there aren't "real" safe speeds or that the idea of a safe driving speed is meaningless. We can still get closer to real food or real safe driving speeds even if our targets vary.
This is probably the best answer I've seen to this, the others make valid points also, thanks for the response.
If you’re working at the edge (or beyond) of your competency that’s normal.
It seems that the "ownership" was the negative press coverage eventually persuading him to voluntarily not take his £2m bonus: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tsb-boss-pa...
5 years for 122M? Sounds like a bargain :/
You could also use the SSE/AVX registers.
out of curiosity, what about this strikes you as a quality specific to primates?
Not exactly what you're asking for, but you may enjoy Shenzhen I/O and other titles from Zachtronics: http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/