skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my previous roles as lead developer at startups in NYC and SF I interviewed roughly 30-40 bootcamp graduates looking for RoR jobs. The bar for a jr. position was extremely low and still none of them were able to pass. Many knew they course material very well, but as soon as you threw any real world problem that required any deviation from their established lane they completely floundered. Eventually we just started filtering out anybody with that background.

Saddest thing is I keep hearing stories of people saving up huge amounts of money to go to these bootcamps with this dream that they can jump from a 30k/year retail job to a $120k/year SWE job with a 4 month bootcamp. I just do not believe it ever happens.
I saw this circle jerk and have to say:

I and the vast majority of my friends grew up in the Bay Area. The vast majority of those I went to college with (and studied CS or EE or whatever) ended up working in the Bay Area. Almost all of them have girlfriends/fiancees/are married.

None of them are CEOs of hot startups lol. None of them are unnaturally attractive either. Just regular ole average programmers. :)

I dunno what's going on but I will take the circlejerk with a giant mountain of salt lol.
what do you mean with layer 2 technology? If you're talking about the data link layer of the OSI model I am not sure how that applies here..
Back in the 19th century, Herman Melville documented an apparently stable society in Typee. It was however, not without violence -- some of it so appalling to most readers that the novel barely hints at it.
> If the US is a bad political experiment, which one is good?

I'll throw my hat in the ring and suggest sortition (think jury duty, but for 2 years at a time, as the representative of your district/state): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

There's still an argument for some level of direct democracy (ballot initiatives, but especially to throw out inevitable corruption/idiocy of representatives); though perhaps the threshold should be higher (such as 66% rather than 50%+1).

Bryan Caplan [0] and Jason Brennan [1] have made very sound arguments about voting bringing out our worst tribalist instincts, rather than the informed, enlightened voter that was fantasized by the Constitutional framers. The strongest case for democracy-as-we-know-it is simply the peaceful transfer of power, which it seems to accomplish surprisingly well; but in terms of sound policy, or reflecting the will of We The People, its track record isn't exactly stellar.

(That said, as long as our system is still driven by the vote, we would stand to benefit from bottom-up electoral reform, such as switching from First-Past-The-Post to Ranked-Choice or Approval voting [2].)

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Democracy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
The problem is that in a capitalist society, the surveillance options that provide the best combination of price and feature set are likely going to come from a company that has other revenue streams such as connecting all those cameras together and monetizing the entire customer network. Enter Ring.
Call me crazy but I think those are very different statements. And that's just leaving out everything else I wrote about how much I care.
Speaking as a senior IC with some management experience, I find that 1:1s depend a lot more on the report than on the manager.

I had exactly one really good manager in the past who could extract value from our 1:1s when I wasn't actively helping make the 1:1s productive, and, as a manager, I sucked at getting value out of the 1:1s.

Today, as an IC again, I'm in a place where I can make the 1:1s valuable by driving the conversation myself — by preemptively telling my manager what my concerns are, and what I need from him, and I achieve this largely by saying the things my old manager knew how to coax out of me, and the things I wished my reports had told me.
I wouldn't conclude that much. I think they just believe that a paper is an absolute truth but most of them don't have enough knowledge about the ways and history of the scientific field. To me it's mostly an anxiety based reaction due to this era lack of 'promises' and emerging problems. People are running for certainty.
I'd rather people actually got involved in their neighborhoods and formed or joined a real Neighborhood Watch group, rather than letting some AI handle it badly, or outsource it to some faceless company.

At least if your neighbors screw it up, there is an avenue of redress. Plus, outside of TV shows, few bad things come from neighbors getting involved in their neighborhood.
Gotta love the freedom haters. They should all leave the USA.
Oracle's case with Google is for billions of dollars, it's unlikely to hurt the rest of their business to the same tune.
I completely agree that you should run 1+ license checkers in your CI process, just like you should check anything else in your CI process that you care about.

In the CII Best Practices badge project we use both the "license_finder" program (which is an OSS tool) and the FOSSA service ( https://fossa.com/ ). Both examine the dependencies for licensing issues. While something could still slip through, it's much less likely, and more importantly we have a really good case for showing due diligence. I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that courts look very favorably on people who are demonstrably making an effort to meet their legal obligations. You're way less likely to have legal problems that way.
I don't think it's a smear campaign per say, Samsung stole their their way to display tech dominance. It's just recognition that these tactics are still being embraced in lagging industries in some countries. ASML has no-touch policy for Samsung employees for their scanners, they've been pretty savvy in mitigating attempts at copying their tech for the last 20 years.

Also I didn't mean to implicate Samsung was behind the attacks, merely they benefited most from stolen trade secrets - XTAL directly compete against ASML in Korean using the secret. The same way Huawei and BOE will benefit from flexible screen tech stolen by Samsung subcontractor Toptek. So far these have been economically motivated - thieves not spies.

I think state level espionage is going to happen soon, now that ASML has been pressured to pick sides.
What are you using instead of Webpack? I have a very old personal project still using Webpack 2 and would love a simpler alternative that isn’t just downloading library dist files and checking them in to my project repo. I don’t even need babel or minification or any of that, just simple dependency version management and fetching.
I haven't lived/worked in SV, but have hated my limited experiences dealing with the culture there.

I have been told (and seen many times on HN) that the show is closer to a documentary than a satire. That's anecdata, obviously.

It reminds me of the (satirical) show Veep, which had to rewrite an entire season because it was too similar to what the actual US White House had done.
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Your particular concern seems to be addressed:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

(t) (1) “Sell,” “selling,” “sale,” or “sold,” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

Even if Google doesn't pay you for your data, you still have the right (as a resident of California) to prevent Google from selling on your data directly, or in using your data as part of a sale (e.g. targeted advertising).

My experience is the "confusion" is in what constitutes "other valuable consideration:" Can a company offer a personal data marketplace using credits that can only be used to obtain other personal data, and can only be obtained by sharing personal data? (e.g. the old data.com connect model). The code suggests maybe, but I suspect the Attorney General will take as broad a view as possible, so I'd steer clear from any startups that think this is a good idea.
Because the normal result of this for people isn't that they have to go perform two minutes hate or praise Big Brother; it's that their packages don't get stolen. And the downside? Nothing. In fact, the expression of "I could be watched at any time but no one will" is a greater expression of trust.

People live their lives very differently from the universe you're talking about. They enforce things through trust networks. My friends and I have Find my Friends access to each other. That's right. If I wanted I could sit there and spy on one of them. But she knows I won't. I know I won't. That's how a sense of trust works.
I wonder why this is positioned in terms of tube stations?

The answer for every single one is: because that's the name of the area the tube station is in.

So why isn't the article just about where do these places get their names from? Why the extra level of abstraction to make it about the tube stations?
Sadly, this seems to be literally already happening, right? Nest and Wyze home surveillance cams, etc... all cloud-based... :\
"Time is one of a startup's most valuable assets, and several startups and their CEOs have been robbed of time by SoftBank's actions"

Oh boo hoo! The line up for getting someone's else money slows down sometimes? Or even stops! The nerve!
I work at a company that does unlimited PTO as well. I think the best way to go about it is take off two/three large breaks (2weeks+) throughout the year and then many small breaks scattered (2days). Good managers will not mind as long as you’re completing your work.
Parapsychology: The control group for science (2009)
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This is what I've heard. I didn't watch Girls because I knew too many women that behaved like them, and I couldn't watch Silicon Valley because my few experiences with SV people/companies were very similar.

I don't want to spend time with those people in real life, so the humor has to be very absurd to get me past my initial feeling of repulsion.
Not your grandfather's programming language
Talking about video infrastructure that happens to be on a porn site, sure whatever.

But, lots of people are uncomfortable talking about sex at work. I'm just trying to do my job, I don't want to have to talk with you about whether I know who "bald guy from Brazzers" is, why I do or dont, which porn sites I go to etc. My sex life, porn consumption or lack thereof is none of my co-workers' business, and keeping your nose out of other people's is a good default. Especially if you have GLBTQ+ coworkers, you can easily ostracize them.

In my experience, once sex and porn start trickling into the conversation, conversations seem to devolve into fratboy territory. Just keep it away from me. I literally quit my last job because of the fratboy vibe, my boss asked me if my wife's pregnancy "made her horny" and that was the last straw.
Lex has a distinctive style of interviewing. He's intentionally laid back and talks slowly, and gives his guests lots of room to be the star. But he's actually a dynamic and interesting speaker and quite knowledgeable; you can tell by watching some of his lectures (he's an MIT professor). He dumbs down his questions to give opportunity to his guests to explain their topics in their own way and to appeal to a broader audience.

But having said all that, one youtube commenter said of Lex's interview with Elon Musk that it was "two robots conversing without human supervision," which Lex brought up in a later interview with Elon and thought was pretty funny.
I'd also say that pushing your comfort zone is healthy behavior and will likely leave you a more well rounded person.
As an owner of a Tesla 3, if they would only put some effort into sound deadening they would be able to silence many of their critics. Now I put this car just below a pre 2010 Accord I used to deal with but let me be honest, an EV should emphasize its silent drive by trying to keep the drive as quiet as possible. Compared to my 2017 Volt, it is louder on bad roads; roads with obvious surface degradation and even tar snakes; but quieter than my 2012 Z4 but that is on par with other 3 and 4 series.

as for the EV market in general. I don't think Mercedes, Audi, and maybe even VW; parent of Audi, as whole take the whole range number seriously. To them they are being forced into an platform that they do not want and never would have gotten to. It is very much likely no governments would have ever pushed BEV adoption if Tesla had not come along. We would have forever been stuck in the sub 100 mile range cars with some incremental range improvements to convince us they were improving year after year.
I'm extremely interested in learning more about the crowdstrike arrangment. As someone who is interested in both politics and cybersecurity, it leaves a lot of open questions.

Here's some dangling questions brought out from the Mueller report:

* Mueller’s decision not to interview Assange – a central figure who claims Russia was not behind the hack – suggests an unwillingness to explore avenues of evidence on fundamental questions.

* U.S. intelligence officials cannot make definitive conclusions about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee computer servers because they did not analyze those servers themselves. Instead, they relied on the forensics of CrowdStrike, a private contractor for the DNC that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian dossier” compiler Christopher Steele, also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignores.

* Lawyers for Stone discovered that CrowdStrike submitted three forensic reports to the FBI that were redacted and in draft form. When Stone asked to see CrowdStrike's un-redacted versions, prosecutors made the explosive admission that the U.S. government does not have them.

They never even turned over the servers to the FBI? They only submitted a draft report?

Also, why use a Ukrainian company for something so important, do we not have the expertise here in the US to do this? If there's anything we've learned about Ukraine in the last few months, it's that many politician children were making a lot of money there through... let's just say questionable arrangements.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/05/...
No, only one is. Turn showdead on.
> Thus, for example, the 2016 Clinton campaign raised a lot more $$ than the Trump campaign, whereas the Sanders primary campaign out-fundraised the Clinton one.

The amount of dollars directly contributed by the campaign is a red herring. Trump had WAY more earned media than Clinton, to the tune of billions of dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-t...
Another possible solution to what you want to solve is to use a signed exchange signature: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...

The publisher server must support it, but this results in the document being signed with the publisher's certificate. This won't "date" the signature, but combined with a blockchain solution like this could prove that a web server delivered content X at date Y.
Very good point. I have a friend who start putting some of his fields into native grass rather than Bermuda and has seen much more efficient production. Plus the fields are prettier for most of the year.
Ahh, thanks for clarifying. I knew about the fictitious bank, but didn't realize you got a paper check for it.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBookworm
The startup I was an exec at was acquired by a large (>$100B market cap) company. Going through that process and adjusting to life as a much smaller cog in a much bigger wheel was definitely educational. I was no longer "the boss" and had to work very closely with people that I had no authority over, possibly had different goals than me, and who were thousands of miles away. The startup skills of being lean, problem solving, leading people, etc. still applied, but building the skills to work in a bigger company environment was very important. Going through that experience definitely helps with my life here at a FAANG.
I'm getting an ERR_CERT_INVALID, doesn't bode well for an authentication service.
They don't operate at the same level, so it's common that a project would utilise both. For instance Terraform can create your K8s cluster, that you then later use as a target to run your containers
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This is a typical effort to obfuscate land’s role in the economy and the goal of Georgism overall. The goal is not to redistribute and create financial equality. The goal is to create economic justice: to give each person as much of what they themselves produce plus or minus what it takes to ensure a reasonable living standard for everyone. There are meaningful conversations to be had in the “plus or minus” part of that, but Georgism is primarily concerned with how to eliminate a substantial violation of the first part which is hidden in plain sight.

That’s all Georgism is. When I agree to pay $3000/mo for a crappy studio to be close to a particular park/subway station/employer/school, some large portion of my rent should go to fund the things that enticed me to move there.
Personally, I buy the big brand name drugs over generics for the somewhat-rational reason that I trust the quality control and deep pockets of a Johnson and Johnson or GlaxoSmithKline more than I trust whatever random company makes those generics. It’s probably a minuscule extra risk but my medication budget is a few bucks a year and I am happy to have the extra peace of mind of knowing that a $300 billion company’s reputation is resting on these pills not being contaminated.
My personal experience around bootcamps echoes all of these points. I've interacted with several codeschool grads and several of them took those exact TA positions to boost employment %s. Of all the bootcamps I've ever seen, HackReactor is probably the only one I'd ever hire from again. Their grads (without asserting anything about the ethics of the school) seem to be more employable than the rest post-schooling.
Amen.

I had one performance review where one person said I socialized too much and another said I didn't socialize enough.

It was hilarious for both my manager and I
LOL. Maybe have a coffee or find another way to chill out.

The paper itself is pretty clear with the methodology: the throughput of each processor was measured in an installed supercomputing cluster. There are obviously sources of variation in processor performance in a supercomputing cluster beyond the actual silicon plugged into the socket. The experiment has no ability to control for this variation, and no attempt was made.

The reason why we have research and research papers is so we can read about the methodology and think about the limitations of what is measured. It's an interesting measurement that the researchers made in situ; but it also has obvious limitations.
If you just want the result of the scan (not clear if the hobby project is the scanning itself or something else) you should be able to contract it as a service, or just rent the scanner. This is common for architectural scan work.
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Who is Venezuela’s new parliamentary speaker?
That's an excellent point. It sure beats having 1,000 smart people each spending 20 years independently solving the same problem.
Current reactors are extremely safe compared to fossil if you look at the stats. 3 orders of magnitude safer in a deaths/TWh basis. The new designs (which are actually all revivals of 1960 designs) may be safer and cheaper but we have yet to prove that.

I'm in the middle of writing an elaborate history of the quest for economical nuclear power to help with this discussion.
In the UK, you can't lawfully film another persons dwelling, in that you would break the law by having any of a neighbours property in view.
Does Maven Central also require machine-checkable proofs of security?
Fully agreeing within your premise. Digitalizing the grandman standing at her window 25/7 does not change the world.

But you missed the part where not you (or your HOA) implements it:

> Services model. Part of the purchase includes a technician showing up and doing the installation. There would be no DIY component.

> Subscription only. The product would be a hardware/software/services bundle with an up front fee and ongoing subscription as default.

So, you have scale. Someone owns all the data. Or three companies, same difference. The state of the "art" security in this sector is beyond laughable (Xiamoi camera showing feed from other peoples camera [0]) and even if not, just buy the dataset. And then the real shit begins.

Give me that dataset of say 20% of the Americans and a decent laptop and I blow Cambridge and their silly facebook data out of the water.

Recognizing people gets ridiculously easy - instead of 7 billion people I only have to identify you out of maybe 100 persons frequenting an area. Cue all the low hanging fruits like your affairs, about all disabilities affecting gait, your bedtime regularity.
Let me assume the role of a big store chain: I can not only see plants and garden equipment you buy, but also how you use it and how often you break stuff or let your grass grow brown. Nice!

All these habits, unfiltered, unlike in the internets! How regular is your daily routine? Are you up to some risks due to little sunlight and sport? Your insurer would like to know! Your other insurer would also like to know, should you be considered a traffic risk considering how angry you take your driveway sometimes? But your other insurer has already pattern matched: Is probably an anger management issue. Your future job interviewer thanks you for this red flag!

But hey, you did avoid getting your electric pepper mill stolen that one time, probably!

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/cache-issue-causes-x...
You can pay for LispWorks (inseado of sbcl) and it will run CLIM programs under Windows.

Note that sbcl is just another Common Lisp implementation, you could use others as well.
@zedshaw - any idea of if/when you'll write that rant on why pickaxe book ruined ruby?
What? No.. if you go from 80% to 60% back to 80%, that's not considered a full cycle.

You seem to carry a misconception from an older battery chemistry (I don't remember which, but it was common in early cell phones), where it was supposedly better to discharge the battery completely before charging again.

Most chemistries are not like that, as far as I know. In fact, with li-ion it's better to charge every night, if your EV battery has a good buffer, or you can configure it to charge to 80% except for days where you'll actually need 100%.

Maintaining 99% for 200 cycles seem pretty good to me. Possibly better than Li-ion? It depends on how fast the battery degrades after that. But I'm pretty sure my EV lost its first 1% way before 200 cycles.
While cell-phone companies could function without keeping records of my location, credit cards couldn't function without keeping records of my purchases—at least until the next billing cycle. Somehow this makes their abuse of that information less surprising to me—which doesn't mean I like it any better!