skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they simply say non-things such as "this person was in my class, they had rank xyz, they came to office hours, etc."

before i knew how to ask for letters of rec (be sure to clarify explicitly whether they're prepared to write you a strong letter of rec) i had a prof fill 90% of the letter with his own biography (yes this was also the first time that the letter writer sent me the letter he'd written).
This isn't a novel thing, as far as I can tell. A decade ago when I was working on routing of over-the-road trucking, our maps provider moved the entire United States a couple meters and it broke all our road restrictions.

The problem for us -- and likely for those in Australia now -- is that converting physical address descriptions and lat/long becomes a little more fraught. We described road restrictions as being "on the road that is found between X1,Y1 and X2,Y2." A separate layer would snap those X,Y coordinates to the road network and find the road between them. Before the move, that meant converting to "Highway 6 Southbound from milemarker 16 to milemarker 28"

But when you moved the world, X1,Y1 no longer landed on Highway 6, and instead snapped over to the frontage road. Your restriction now read as "Highway 6 Southbound, down to exit 21, around the corner to the frontage road, then down the frontage road". And your restriction that used to say "stay off this one section of road" now says "stay off the highway, the frontage road, and don't use this exit."
What does hardware 1 and AP1 have to do with the latest hardware and autopilot?
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It's pretty clear at this point what you're signing up for at Tesla and SpaceX. They're intentionally trying to filter for people who will dedicate much of their life to the mission of electrifying transport and becoming interplanetary. If you want to do that, there are few better options. If you don't, avoid.

As for firing, well, who knows... The story about Elon's assistant was apparently rife with misinformation, as these things often are.
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> Even if it is a red flag

Why is it?
If you wanted to buy a place then your left over is probably closer to $3400/month.

I haven't added less regular expenses like personal travel costs (maybe another $400/mo on average), misc shopping/clothing ($100), and gym membership ($80).
No, there was no such requirement in the DMCA. Remember, we're talking about legislation that was written in the late '90s — the idea of Content ID would have been completely alien to them. YouTube has actually implemented a completely parallel system to the DMCA's takedown process.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821 (360 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22218181 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22228900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22227204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226498

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223187
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> 2/ You get to build a blended purchase price which is less dependent on the circumstances of a particular moment in time.

This is essentially Dollar Cost Averaging... which is a recommended approach when you psychologically fear the risk of lump sum investments (though, lump sum investments are expected to have a higher return than DCA, at least in the case of index fund investing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
Just curious, if these things were necessary to protect your freedom, your children’s freedom, and the future of world order, (hypothetically) would you be opposed to your government doing those things?
Mac hardware (despite their best attempts to ruin the keyboard) is still the best IMHO. No other laptops have that perfect balance of touchpad sensitivity, touchpad location relative to the keyboard, intelligently-turning-off-the-touchpad-when-your-palm-accidentally-rests-on-it-while-typing, sleep/hibernate that "just works" when you close the lid,.. Oh and all of this runs a pretty standard Linux-ish OS that thousands of other developers are making packages and tools for.

Linux is catching up (slowly), and Windows is doing pretty well with WSL (which is great - but Windows laptop hardware isn't quite up to the same quality as Macs).
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821
Agree. I was waiting for the new insight, but it never arrived.
Are developers complaining about not getting permits to build more? That's the usual failure mode in cities.

Median rent in Toledo, OH is $550/mo. With a median household income of $33,687, renters clearly could pay more, but there's no shortage letting landlords demand more.
> because they don't have the manpower to manually review everything.

Because they don't want to pay for the manpower to manually review everything.

Youtube gets 250-300 million hours of video uploaded every year. At $20 an hour to review it, that's $6b. Call it $10b.

Alphabet made $86b last year.
>Why do electrolysis plants need to run at 100% utilization rates? In a renewable world, almost nothing will have 100% utilization. This is not really a big deal since electrolyzers can be turned on and off quickly.

The problem is capex. I am not at all an expert here, but from what I have read electrolyzers are at present very expensive, so to pay off their capex they need to be run continuously. Perhaps that will change in the future.
Tesla vehicles equipped with the Full Self Driving package do have an onboard computer that runs neutral networks in real time to process sensor data and control the vehicle.

https://ww.electrek.co/2019/04/22/tesla-full-self-driving-co...
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It's almost impossible to directly quantify in dollar terms the productivity of individual programmers. I am suspicious of the claim that all programmers who command a high salary are "highly productive" and "reduce the amount of work that others must do." Unlike professional sports or finance, where extreme outperformers are generally compensated in proportion to their contributions, the output of engineers is generally less quantifiable at tech companies so median engineers are paid more than their personal labor can justify.
Tech salaries are also a function of how much VC money has flooded the sector since the crisis - expect this effect to dissipate as (i) investors focus on profitability before growth at all costs in the wake of WeWork etc. and (ii) if/when valuations in private capital markets undergo a correction (for which they are long overdue!)
> I meant more about doubling down on your (expected) winners particularly when their price falls irrationally

You can't really know if the price fell irrationally. Maybe its just you misinterpreting the available data.

The data is pretty clear, holding cash in case the market drops costs you more than a possible crash.

"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves"

This is an iconic quote that captures that sentiment.
Today is Monday? (Tuesday in other timezones already)

There's almost 700 comments in the recent "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174828 from 5 days ago.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands Tesla sales dropped from ~12000 in December 2019 to ~36 in January 2020 because the tax advantage disappeared.
Afterburner seems like an odd name, given that afterburners sacrifice a great deal of efficiency for a small gain in performance.
It's not that hard for people to learn; see a ball, expect danger and take action.

The problem with people is distraction. The problem with code (AI-ish) is people.
> Camping people like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden 'all around bad' is shameful.

Manning OR Snowden site:tass.com OR site:rt.com OR site:sputnik.com

>About 11,800 results

Thank you for making my argument for me.
I'm more interested in what I can do to boost my resume, though am interested in being hired as well.

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You replied to the 4 scenarios I posted, but forgot the thousands of others left while you missed my point. They were rhetorical to illustrate that nothing yet can replace a trained, experienced, and attentive driver effectively yet.

There are no simple answers to the above questions, but if a driver causes the accident, they are accountable. Companies want to launch this tech but not own accountability for accidents when it could well be faulty logic and or code that contributes to deadly incidents. In a ship... less of a risk... In a car, surrounded by 4-10 other cars, the risk is much higher.

Profit making should not drive this blatant hubris... We forget how history reminds us of an over-reliance on technology and intelligent design.
2nd this approach.
I just tried to go to www.certera.io to learn more and got a “connection not private” warning page in Safari on iOS. Very ironic :)
The sad truth is that they likely have enough candidates to not need to consider this.
I'm young and don't have kids (and plan not to). I think my wife and I would gladly trade a year or two of overworking to effectively be able to retire immediately thereafter (or at least, have financial independence and get to choose work and hours).

EDIT: I'm not suggesting a large company is going to hire me as CEO...
It seems like that might offer a good target for anti-trust action.
The copyright at the bottom of your site still says 2018 :)
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The one thing about these old cabs I still love is the artwork that adorns them. I know there's always been a huge market for skateboard deck artwork, but I still wonder if there's a market for this type of art - some of it was just magnificent in its heyday.
It's not discontinuous - that's just the theory behind patents. Patents give inventors a legal "cudgel" as the commenter before put it, which makes innovation more profitable. Patents are just a legal construct, the idea is that having a patent on an invention gives you access to legal tools to protect a temporary monopoly which makes innovation more profitable, so you don't have to worry about investing money in innovation and then losing all of your profits because of copycats. However well that actually works and whether or not it ends up being a net positive for innovation is a different question, but all a patent is is a legal tool to stop others from using or making money off of your innovation, as enforced through lawsuits in the court system.
That sounds right. Using the latest figures I can find online, the lowest Premium Bond prize (£25) was £75,665,750 of the total £88,099,800 prizes[0], i.e. over 85%, whereas lowest National Lottery prize (free ticket worth £2) was £2,306,736 of the total £19,891,729 prizes[1], i.e. under 12%. So if you calculate on only ever winning the lowest prizes, the Premium Bond's not too bad notional return is likely to be not that much worse in practice, but the unfavourable distribution towards the headline grabbing large jackpots means the National Lottery's very bad notional return is likely to be significantly worse in practice.

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Is your assumption the converse of the article? That VC money is driving up FANG salaries?
I didn't add personal travel costs, misc shopping, gym membership.

Again, if you bought an average house then your left over goes to maybe $3K/month (without account for less regular costs above).
I don't know enough about this to come up with search terms that give results. Would OP / someone be able to provide example search terms? Cheers! :)
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To my sibling point above, an $80/month gym is a really damn nice gym. Even a 24 hour fitness super sport is only $52.

I agree that if you want to live on the high end, $300k might not be sufficiently high end. But it's still high by any reasonable metric.
The article uses the 'Forbes 100 fastest growing companies' list and equates it with the most successful companies. Fastest growing does not mean most successful.
> In this particular example, I would expect self-driving cars to be vastly better than most human drivers in this situation at maintaining control while pulling over and stopping.

Cars today are vastly better at maintaining control in this situation even without self-driving. If the car has traction control, as long as the driver doesn't panic they will have a much greater chance of keeping control of their vehicle, compared to cars without a computer assisting them.
Who says every project has to take industry trends into consideration?

An LFS build pipeline stamping out a Linux distro of arbitrary spec isn’t going to be that hard to get going for a hardcore cloud user, the sort of person that is crazy bothered by attention given to grandpas desktop-centric way of computing.
1) Personally I don't think you need to explicitly address it on your resume. I personally know lots of tech people who have taken 6-24 month off to travel and had no problems getting interviews / jobs.

2) The main place I could imagine this gap coming into play is the sourcer stage (ie the recruiting person who reviews all of the incoming resumes), since most hiring managers doing resume reviews will mostly be looking for technologies / job experience. To avoid this you can lean on your network to see if you can get a referral to roles or look for head hunters who can skip you to the initial screen.

Good luck!
I think you also have to factor in location. You can’t pay someone 50k and expect them to work in SF or NYC.

As companies adopt more remote work strategies, I believe there will be downward pressure on salaries.
Not sure I'd trust an autopilot based on crude visual odometry and segmentation that can only achieve a paltry 17 fps.
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Because some people on HN voted so, I suppose? So much aggressive and frankly stupid presumption here. But, the vote wins!

I just don't understand people here.

Obviously it's perfectly natural for a trillion dollar company to allow a government agency to use their brand on their government domain - without any notice it all. Especially a government agency that is tasked with surveillance. Yeah, there's really no problem with that.

It's that, or someone messed up setting up a captcha service for some public NSA service. What would be more likely?
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What did they do to Paddock?
The underlying logic for Lump Sum in an index is that the index is tracking the broader economy, which "always" goes up over the long haul. That same logic doesn't apply for a single company, where idiosyncratic risk will quite likely swamp the effects of the slowly rising tide of the broader economy.

I would guess you probably get better valuations in the early rounds, but have less risk of loss in the later rounds. If nothing else, survivorship bias is playing in your favor for the later rounds (ie, the company has at least survived long enough to reach a Series B, C, D, etc round).