skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“I’d pay more for a quarterback who creates a positive image for the team during press conferences.”

“Does this mean you’d pay extra for a quarterback who never completes a pass, but is always chipper?”

I’m pretty comfortable saying the answer is “no” here.
Trying to keep technology from China is a qualitatively different problem from other technology sanctions. Russia, for example, has half the GDP of France. Denying a technology to Russia is effective because the relative price to Russia to work around technology restrictions is much higher. It costs them, measurably, visibly, in resources not applied to other pressing needs.

In the case of China, an import restriction amounts to an endorsement that replicating that technology is a higher priority for a country that, in general, is entering the first tier of technological powers. Picking fights with benefits that won't evaporate in a short time would be wise.
That's pretty much what NextDoor is for my neighborhood.
How many moving parts does this have? What's the difference between solid state lidar, and "digital lidar"? I understand that there are 0 moving parts with solid state lidar.
I agree with your overall point. However:

> low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs?

I live in Seattle. Package theft is a white swan event here. Everyone I know has had packages stolen. Most people are forced to come up with some strategy to deal with it: get things shipped to work, use Amazon lockers, get a camera on your porch and make sure to bring the package inside as soon as it shows up, etc.

You are right that materially it is a low-impact event. However, psychologically it isn't. It sucks having shit stolen from in front of your own home. It immediately undermines that "sense of trust and community" you mention. My home no longer feels like a sanctuary, and random people ambling down my street no longer feel like friendly neighbors. Any of them could be a thief scoping out porches and the evidence is clear that at least some of them are.

It is a maddeningly disempowering feeling to know that I am unable to prevent someone from stealing shit from my own property. Worse, I know the police won't do a thing about it either. I literally have video of the dude grabbing shit off my porch, but can do nothing about it.

I think it is that feeling of helplnessness that leads people to buy security systems.
Regulatory capture. Corporations entice regulators with cushy jobs when they leave public service, with the implied understanding that they won't act against their interests while they work in government.
> 7. Software-only defense contractor.

Yea, I keep thinking of doing this but there's so much red tape in starting a defense company, it's seriously daunting. I'm a software developer in the defense industry, btw.

> ...be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model...

Actually, I think the time may finally be right for something like this in my industry.
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We're never going to figure out how to rebuild trust until we can figure out how to redesign our systems of government and commerce to not reward lying and manipulation, or at least to mitigate its appeal. The problem has never been that we don't know how to overcome human biases, the problem is that we don't even really want to because exploiting them for political power and financial gain is so lucrative.
GMP has constant time functions for the relevant primitives you'd need to implement RSA (notably, constant-time/space modular power functionality). You'll probably still fuck it up completely anyway if you're doing it yourself, but not because of that.
These tech guys who's only relationship is with their mother? I'm pretty sickened by reading all the comments on this post. So many incels it's not even funny.
Austen seems to be working exceptionally hard to get around the fact that they're operating illegally in CA. California laws are often garbage (overbearing, ill conceived, whatever) but damn is it frustrating to see so many vulnerable students saddle themselves with so much debt in pursuit of making a stable living.

https://insights.dice.com/2019/10/02/lambda-school-violation...
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The opposite of this is true.
You forgot 3. You are doing a great job. Push harder and maybe you'll get that promotion next time. (earlier at a budget meeting: no budget for promotions this quarter).
NextDoor is great because I can learn who is and isn't racist in my South Carolina suburban neighborhood.
logging to stdout prevents any sort of systematic parsing or handling of stack traces, package names, or error levels, cause people are going to dump whatever shit they personally find most useful onto stdout and everyone's going to use a different format. That is a far far more "analog" solution than using any logging API... or even multiple ad-hoc logging APIs.

The idiomatic solution is to have a standardized facade like SLF4J and then behind the scenes the "end user" (final developer writing the application) can choose their own logging backend to drive the facade.

The slightly less idiomatic way is that everybody does their own thing and then you use bridge libraries to hijack all of the various logging APIs and redirect them through SLF4J or through your logging backend of choice.
I encountered _so many_ "I was a teacher and I wanted a new career" types that quit their jobs and moved in with parents/family/friends to attend bootcamps, only to find that they actually hated programming, and afterwards couldn't find a job and had to return to their original industry.

Of course, the schools don't care, they make their money either way.
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What do you dislike about his interview ? He asks good questions and listens. What more do you expect ?
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Using an email alias could be also a solution to protect your email as it a)allows you to use a different email address for each website [1]. b)you can choose whatever email provider you want (Protonmail, Tutanota, Fastmail, etc).

[1] https://simplelogin.io/blog/an-email-for-each-website/
Palantir does really well for what they do, but this article is as true today as it was in 2016 in terms of what they are https://simplystatistics.org/2016/05/11/palantir-struggles/

They're almost just a consultancy.
They vote ingroup first, whatever that means for them. What changed is that the're virtual ingroups these days, and that the limitations through location that once existed, where many connections just weren't possible, don't exist anymore.
You don't need to fight traditional wars if you can dominate economically. Which seems to be what China has been doing so far.
Huh, I like your design - it feels like something that's simultaneously a throwback to the mid-2000s while also feeling modern. Hard to explain but fun when I load it.

My site (https://rymc.io/) is my take on the same concept. It's HTML-purist, but not in the sense you see elsewhere.
Since HOAs are much less capable of doing violence to people, it's certainly not as harmful for them to implement this technology as it is for the state to do so, but I think the impulse to view every single person passing through the neighborhood as a potential threat can create a very dystopian vibe.

There's always a house or two for sale in our neighborhood, and naturally people will slowly drive by the houses to check them out, and without fail, someone will post on the HOA FB page to watch out for such and such sketchy vehicle.

The house we bought was vacant for a short time and some kids came along and threw rocks at some of the windows, but for a few weeks after we bought the house, people would ask us if we knew about the "break-in."

We live in one of the nicest neighborhoods I've ever seen and it's some combination of the news and technology like this that makes people think they're about to get Purged every night.

I don't think the technology is the problem so much as the attitude it creates toward the world, and I think the technology can be quite useful, but when everyone believes it is necessary, it creates a 1984 vibe without government intervention. No government involvement is necessary for us to be suspicious and mean toward each other.
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If you're going from maybe a high-mileage high-volume hybrid, or other gas efficient compact to a Model 3, the driver is going to think the Model 3 is quieter. If you're going from a conventional Mercedes/BMW to a Model 3, you'll think the Model 3 is louder and a rougher ride.
I wish there was a genuinely excellent, highly configurable, and privacy-supporting browser.
> Yes, I constructively added this guy has no idea what he's blathering on about, and is definitely not letting that stop him from pretending he's an authority and dispensing advice.

Okay, well, so... examples?

This sounds an awful lot like a simple appeal to authority to me. But "noobs" may have useful insights, just as "people who have 10 or 20 years of development" might have bad habits, biases, or misconceptions.

Look, I think we can all use our brains and determine if this post contains some value or not. Personally, I've been a manager of staff for about five years, and the more regimented, structural approach outlined in this post illuminates some ideas that I might explore in my own practices, and dovetails well with how I've been trying to improve myself in this area.

Am I going to take what this guy has written and follow it as though it's the bible of staff management?

No, of course not. Again, I have a functioning brain, and in general I try to use it.

But, I will read this post with an open, thinking mind and decide for myself if there's value to be gotten from it.

That said, I come to these comment threads to find commentary or discourse that might touch on things I've missed when reading this material for myself.

Ideally, that would include constructive criticisms of the content so we can, as a community, learn both from the post itself and from contributions from folks like yourself.

If that's not what you're here for, and you'd rather just tear the author (and this community) down, I guess that's fine. But it seems like a waste of your time, not to mention an unnecessary expenditure of emotional energy. HN comment threads are really not worth getting worked up about.

Anyway, I hope you have a good day!
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I am amazed I've only seen one of these ever. First saw it maybe 15 years ago, and would pass it on my way to school.

When Roomba came out everyone flipped like it was an amazing invention that nobody had thought of. All I could think of was that little yellow lawn mower diligently mowing its grass. Cute little guy is still running today.

Why don't more people have these? I'm gonna buy one when I have a yard.

edit: I see they are decently expensive. If they work still totally worth it.
No surprise when you kill off the weak, dumb and slow ones.
What I would like to know is how much is your take home pay when working for a FAANG after taxes and rent. Not including equity.

If you make 130k base in TX, you see around 8k monthly assuming you put close to 10% in your 401k. For a two bedroom relatively close to Downtown you pay about 2k so that would leave 6k monthly after taxes, rent and 401k savings. What would be the realistic equivalent in a FAANG in the Bay area if you want to maintain that standard of living? Meaning at least a 1000 sq ft apt that's at most 20 mins from work?
I guess there is some curation, yeah; we don't really invite back those who are unpleasant or can't handle being wrong. I personally don't use much social media, so that might be a difference? I'm tempted to say that people just don't do too well arguing behind a screen, me included. It's difficult to see the other person as a person. I also thinks it takes some willingness: just the other evening I conversed with someone else, not a typical acquaintance, and trying to persuade him of a point. Went through my chain of logic, got to the end, and watched him shut off when he realized where I was going. Not everyone is interested, plain and simple.
Imagine if the FTC actually still did their job, not just how much more innovation and competition there'd be, but also lives saved.
Do not relocate. Figure something out. Have dual residences. Negotiate negotiate negotiate. Read every relationship book known to mankind. Especially out of fashion things like ”way of the superior man” and such.

Read How to Win Friends and Influence people.

Do not quit your job.
They'd probably be better off doing FreeCodeCamp, and then spending 1 hour per day on ProjectEuler, blog about their algorithm's, and post 1-2 tutorials per week for 6 months. Eventually they'll cement their understanding as well as get people to 'trust' they know what they know.
For the evaluation of costs of prevention measures it is exactly the right way to measure it, isnt it?

Prevention measure cost dollars are identical to catastrophe damage cost dollars.
However, lithium-sulphur batteries may face similar ethical problems to lithium-ion batteries. The metal oxides in lithium-ion batteries are typically nickel, cobalt or manganese, which are expensive and diminishing in natural stores. They also have associated ethical problems: a significant proportion of cobalt is sourced by child miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example.

“In order to have much cheaper energy and more ethical batteries, we need a radically new energy storage system,” says Shaibani. The researchers will further test battery prototypes with a view to manufacturing them commercially in Australia in coming years.

It appears that Shaibani is saying that their new battery chemistry is an example of a radically improved battery that removes ethical problems while it improves energy density. The way the New Scientist article is written, that preceding paragraph makes it sound like Shaibani's new chemistry still needs improvements to remove cobalt.

There is already no nickel, manganese, or cobalt in this new lithium-sulfur cathode (nor in most lithium-sulfur cathodes). See Table S1 in the supplementary table for elemental analysis:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/suppl/2019/...
Maybe for some or even most sites this makes sense. But Walmart, Home Depot, etc., from the article are businesses open to the public, and as such operate under laws governing public businesses. Few would put up with Walmart making them sign a contract letting them sell their personal demographic information in order to enter a public store (except if every public business did this, removing the choice - currently how most of the internet works). Why should websites for public businesses be different?

You may say that credit and debit cards do this already (and they do), but you can still pay cash in public stores. Of course they can track you with your phone's bluetooth identifiers, facial recognition, etc., but why as a society should we allow public businesses to require this? Once we permit one place to do it, others will follow.
They should be. They want to keep collecting ad money like adults watch their kids based content.
> As someone who currently mostly programs in C++, lack of memory safety barely makes my top three concerns.

Isn't having a UB-free JVM a noteworthy goal though? Especially if it gets used in life-critical systems such as avionics or autonomous cars.
0.6.0 is scheduled for April 13, 2020. Let's make sure your project builds successfully and correctly with master branch 1-3 weeks before that, and I'll prioritize any bugs before the release that affect you.

(This goes for all zig community members with active projects)
This sounds almost as intriguing as Fermat's scribbles in the margins.... "Got a great proof, no room here, brb" (I paraphrase). Hope it comes back to your mind!
So, that is not how sabbath mode I am aware of works. I think in this case most rabbis would agree with you; I've never heard of a sabbath mode that turns it on after a "random" delay. I think the GP was mistaken.

Rather, sabbath mode is things like... a sabbath mode elevator just goes up and down all day stopping at every floor, so nobody needs to press any call or floor buttons. A sabbath mode oven, what it actually does, it just stay on all day (disabling features that will turn it off if unattended for a few hours), so you can just leave it on at a relatively low temperature all day and put things in and out of it, without starting a fire yourself. (It is starting the fire that is forbidden not making use of it). (In some cases a timer you set in advance before the sabbath is okay though, so perhaps a sabbath mode oven could have a timer you set Friday afternoon telling it to turn on and/or off at some point in the future).

HOWEVER. In general. I think there is a larger point. As someone who does not particularly believe in God, but still has some respect for following disciplines like this: You say the rules are "meaningless" -- but I would say the rules are meaningful only because of the meaning WE give them, the effect they have on us, the meaning we find in them.

If you don't believe in God, that's the only kind of meaning there is, anyway, right? Or you believe everything is meaningless in a kind of nihilism, which is something some people do, but I don't believe it's what most of us atheists do or is the only option.

So the rules of shabbat can be "meaningful" because of the meaning we find in them, because of the _experience_ of following them, which may be an experience that we find meaningful, especially when done with a community doing it consistently. Shabbat is a good example, because I find it to be so, having some experience with observing it in a community; it is a pleasurable and personally meaningful experience with no need to believe in God to make it so. So whether a modification of a 'strict' rule would make sense would depend as much on the effects it has on the practice as anything else.

I don't think religious Jews usually look at it quite this way (although not as different as you may think either); but the Amish, for instance, I think are closer to this. It's not exactly that God said don't use cars so you go to hell if you use a car; it's what effect do cars have on our lives and communities, and do we want those effects, and it might be okay to use a car sometimes in ways that minimize those effects for a greater good (say, an ambulance, perhaps).
In China, this already happened with smart cameras everywhere to monitor traffic and people

And once the Chinese market starts to look saturated, the companies that make these systems will target Western governments. Hard.
>I believe that the user experience from this system, and similar, can be equally attained with other languages.

Only with Smalltalk. And then, Common Lisp has a more powerful OOP system and usually runs faster.
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't they getting sued for breaking iOS terms of service? I think we can all agree that to build the virtualization tool they would first need to have created an iOS image which, as I understand it, is in violation of those terms. You can bet your retirement on Apple winning this one.
Heavily optimized column store, incl use of SSE instructions, etc. Moreover, some architectural tradeoffs mentioned at https://clickhouse.yandex/docs/en/introduction/features_cons...
Obviously the point is that you still gotta survive on this island, and the reason why we have diversity in personality, physicality and intelligence is because different combinations of those things matter for survival. And it's unlikely that you would "date" at all in an island with such ratios.
Well, kind of. The law technically goes into effect on Jan 1, but the CA Attorney General is not allowed to enforce it until July 1. This was part of a compromise brokered around the fact that it's taken a long while to nail down the final wording of the law. While some companies are already compliant, others are taking this as a grace period to get their act together. Which is necessary because of the short timeline.

As far as I'm aware, the actual text of the regulation is still not finalized. The most recent update to the text was in October, but the AG office was gathering public feedback in early December. They still haven't released their findings from the feedback. The October version was more a Release Candidate, if you will.
If companies really wanted their employees to use their "unlimited PTO" then they would also include a MINIMUM usage (e.g. 4 weeks a year minimum).

The actual reason "unlimited PTO" exists is to reduce total PTO and so companies don't have to pay out unused PTO in certain states (the states were "unlimited" is coincidentally popular).

As to "how to best use it?" that's very job/manager specific.
What can a start-up driven cloud mass surveilance do in that regard what a 1950-tech alarm system can not?

Why not look into the countless measures other nations with far less crime or individuals have successfuly done which coincidentally also are not opening an attack surface for sinister activities as large as Alaska?
There's still zero evidence that the compiler or language ever have been or ever will be called "Jai," aside from the fact that it is the tenuous file extension being used in development streams.
follow link, reads twitter bio He's teaching people how to code, the hard way.
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I was a TL on a team and one of my team members was an average contributor at best. However, he had passion and an infectious positive attitude. He made the team better through terrible puns and corny jokes.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen employees incapable of their job try their best to get by with friendliness and good attitudes alone. I'm happy to see those employees go. Having a positive morale impact on the team isn't sufficient on it's own. But I definitely agree that having a few people on the team that can elevate morale while also contributing technically is worth more than many realize.

People talk about how some people can make a house a home. Some people have a way of making a group of coworkers a team.
Previous discussion on basically the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304277
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I don't think we really want a centralized entity deciding what is "honest, fair, and equitable". I think what we want to do is reduce the incentive for media to be dishonest.
I think you're right that highly competitive markets can push down quality but that happens because the customer accepts the lower quality. If air lines or the customers actually flying on these planes decided that they were not going to buy/fly on Boeing planes, the quality issue within the market would be resolved fairly quickly. Either Boeing would produce higher quality planes or they would go out of business and their market share would be taken over by a competitor with higher quality. Of course, I'm assuming that such a competitor exists. In case they don't, my argument becomes invalid.
Is it more or less a forgone conclusion that a good LiDAR sensor would not be affected by potentially hundreds of other similar or identical ones shining their beams across the same region?
The whole concept is kind of strange. If there's a god, and they care about their rules, an eruv is cheating your god. You were supposed to stay home on the holy day, but someone found a cheat code. If there isn't a god, or they don't care about this stuff, it's pointless.

This is religious checkboxing. You check off all the boxes, and you're good. Islam is very much like that. Ultra-orthodox Judaism is close. Catholicism is more about intent, leading to a system based on being made to feel guilty.

Enough theology for today.
Perf review history is also used by other managers if they want to approve a transfer into their team and used as part of promotion packet considerations. So does matter beyond that too.