skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree percentage of the company is not fully representative of your compensation, but as a single metric it's better than the number of shares granted for non-public companies. Ideally, I'd like to know everything -- shares outstanding, shares authorized, cap table, strike price, liquidation preference, etc. But if I can only know one metric, I'd rather know percentage ownership -- from that I can make reasonable guesses about dilution, strike/sale price, etc.

For public companies who usually give RSUs (like Google) # of shares are better because you can easily compute expected compensation. Since they are RSUs, you also don't have to worry about strike price. Public companies also publicly disclose how many shares are outstanding. Those metrics are harder to find for private companies.
This is pretty well-known phenomenon to vascular practitioners...

Interventional cardiologists chronically low-ball the dangers of stents and gloss-over their well-known short-term performance. Who'd a thunk that jamming a foreign body in a small artery ends up making it worse in the long-term?

Patients with coronary bypass often have a better long-term outlook, but in many cases the cardiologists simply don't refer to cardiac surgeons to line their own pockets (and admit "defeat").
https://youtu.be/GxaAhIOgho
> As you said, _to you_.

Yeah, I like policies that benefit me over ones that don't, typically.

> Government involvement is what led to both being so messy.

Well considering one of the two things that "both" signifies is the tax code... well, yes? More to the substance, that such systems under other states are, in both cases, significantly less messy leads me to believe "it's messy" does not follow simply from "government was involved", such that I would believe "get government out" is a necessary step in fixing either (again, one's the tax code, so...)

> I don't trust other people to run my life, be they union bureaucrats or federal ones, or even my fellow citizens.

Corporations on the same list, surely? Unless you're lumping those in with the government, which makes sense.

> Leaving aside my concerns about the growth of federal government, why do you want everyone to use your government system instead of just offering it as an option? What business of yours is it if others choose to stay private?

I don't really care what the new system looks like as long as I don't have to waste any more time or money enjoying the "benefits" of my "freedom" of "choice" under our current system. Any system I'm aware of from any other OECD state would be anywhere from somewhat to way better, from that perspective. Given those are proven in the real world I'd say just pick one of those. I'm pretty sure a few (e.g. Switzerland) do retain private insurance. All (AFAIK) employ price controls, strict pro-citizen rules about how insurance companies have to operate, and something like a "public option" so as long as those elements are present it's probably fine. Anything else is likely to be experimental or otherwise unproven so I'd rather avoid it, given a wealth of demonstrably-fine systems to choose among.
Well, it's most of India electing a regime that's authoritarian to one region. So it's both in the appropriate contexts.
And the amount spent on actual hardware must be at an all time low. The first lab I interned at in high school in the early 90s, every programmer had both a Symbolics workstation and a NeXTcube on their desk. (In a private office, of course). That represented a pretty significant investment. At my first "real" job, I got a Sun Ultra 5 workstation. These days you get the same Macbook Pro that everyone else can pick up at the Apple Store. Often tech folk will have faster personal computers at home.
While they focus on the very-fast-updates thing, I think their technology will apply to batch cases also. In either of streaming or batching I want to do the least possible work, their claim is that they can skip a lot of unnecessary computations automatically.

That said, I find that batch systems have enormous inertia due to simple don't-touch-it syndrome. A report got developed in 1992 for a manager who retired in 1998 and died in 2009. Each night it churns through 4 billion records in a twelve-way join that costs tens of thousands of dollars of computing time per year.

Who reads this report? Nobody. In fact, the person who asked for it read it two or three times and then stopped. But it's landed reliably in an FTP folder for 28 years and by god nobody is game to find out whether the CEO reads it religiously.
Pretty good ethnic food, if you can afford it.
It's interesting to confirm that because anecdotally my best of the decade playlist sucked lol. It had songs that I really don't think I listened to that much or liked that much. It was weird.
Seems to me that what people usually think of as the "Model" layer actually has "Operations", but we usually call them "methods."

And "Events" is essentially Controller code.

(There might be an argument that this describes a "fat" model vs some devs/frameworks choosing "thin" models that are just state rather than state + logic. )
Negative Ion Products Are Radioactive
Communicating Model Uncertainty over Space
https://api.flotiq.com/fonts/Shake.ttf

HTH
>Ideally grad students would stop pouring in, free labor would dry up at universities, and they’ll have to raise grad student salaries to acceptable wages again. Seems unlikely given how badly people want to do anthropology PhDs, and that there’ll always be people who can afford to take a poorly paid position like that because their partner or parents are paying the bills.

I like how you phrased that.

One potential solution is some feedback loop telling students how many PhDs in anthropology we really need. We're currently producing way more PhDs in non-STEM disciplines than there are post doctoral academic positions (I mean that broadly; e.g. post-docs, tenure track, full time lectureships).

Instead of giving out 5 PhD spots, maybe a program can give out 1 PhD spot and pay that student 3x more. They'd save money and could focus on creating one really good professor, instead of 5 struggling lecturers.
Can we dispense with the "you hate it because you don't like change" argument yet? It's an easy way to write off other people's opinions and often it's not even close to being true.

It's particularly unlikely to be the reason when we're talking about something that was introduced about 20 years ago because it's not "change" anymore. Everyone is used to it now, and those that still dislike it don't dislike it because "it's new".
Things need to be more than "out of date" to be impossible to modify. What technologies would you label that way?
Lenovo, HP, Dell Peripherals Face Unpatched Firmware Bugs
End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange
Malicious Chrome Extensions Impact Millions of Users
That’s already illegal and was punished accordingly, so no need for a union. Labor laws are a better tool.
50 LOC a day seems pretty pessimistic when you have an existing system to work from, and 20 years experience with the domain!
> There is no easy answer, because as others have noted, Santa Cruz is surrounded by ocean and greenspace

California's coastline is over 800 miles long and most of it is equally as picturesque as Santa Cruz. Driving down the 1 you'll pass through a hundred small towns with relatively affordable homes and plenty of oceanfront scenery. The primary value of SC is that it's close to the Bay Area and that's what it should be optimized for.
Because unions have never been corrupt in the history of America.....
>to mimic the US's successful formula

The American formula allows foreign agents to conduct elaborate, micro-targeted psyops campaigns to manipulate our elections; enables a dramatic resurgence in previously fading extremist ideologies; and facilitates one of the largest expansions of economic and regional inequality in American history?

I don't know if we can really assert we have this figured out. These are all especially areas of concern for governments like India and China, where fear of balkanization, civil war, and severe communitarian violence are either contemporary problems or have been fairly recently in their political histories.
> I dont think its just windows

I have no idea how exactly FF uses GPU. However, all 3D APIs, especially modern ones, are just ways to access the functionality of underlying GPU hardware, which doesn't depend on the OS.

If FF uses Vulkan, the direct equivalent of that query is probably VkFence, but unlike D3D11 VK has other ways too, subpasses and VkSubpassDependency, and maybe something else I forgot.
There are some youtube videos of people that have built their own drone mounted handguns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI--wFfipvA

There was another one of a rifle shooting at balloons from a drone, but I can't find the video for that.

Not quite a 'missile' but the basics seem to be relatively straightforward and within the budget of hobbyists, the DARPA program is mostly about scaling it up and dealing with the recoil and mechanical and thermal stresses associated with mobile launch platforms. Drones are severely weight constrained so getting this to a level where it is combat ready is harder than it might seem. I'm personally not sad about that, I think that any 'remote kill' capability comes with its own special set of problems and that we are very far from being ready to handle that responsibly, witness the current assassination programs.
> newer versions of Office products will flash you to a full-screen page when you click on the File menu.

I agree -- this is horrible. But I'd take it if it meant no more ribbon.
If you were concerned about losing your handwriting (if you were say - recently diagnosed with Parkinson's), you might want to have a font made that uses your own handwriting so that you could continue to write with your own style. I think this was one of the primary uses that was envisioned... not necessarily preserving a loved one's handwriting as an archive, but for the affected individual to use day to day.

It's not just about the publicly available font (which is a great tool for awareness), but also the service to capture someone's handwriting as a font.
Announcing Skynet Beta
Governments everywhere do not like secrecy. Unless, naturally, it is their secrets. Everyone else should, ideally, sit at the table with their hands palm up and on the said table.

I wish it was an isolated incident, but the more politicians you hear, the more it becomes apparent that it is all about the side you are on.
The best i've ever personally got with a handheld GPS under actual work conditions was +/- 15m. I've gotten +/- 5m in large open areas lacking trees, mountains or large rock formations but areas without any of those things are rare.

Weather conditions can make a big difference. In stormy or rainy weather I was lucky if I could get +/-20m
Do you kill the Tesla app on the phone regularly? It takes a bit for it to unlock the phone in that case. Did you try changing your phone? (Not to be offensive, just curious)
Tor has setting that hide your data to make it look inconspicuous. The issue with tor is its speed and ease of use in my opinion. https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports
Cancer warnings.
Non sequitur. The corruptibility of unions does not prevent them from being viable tools, it simply means they are a tool that must be handled carefully.
I don't see any mention of orthodontia in there.
We have yet to see how the US reacts when a massive section of it wants to secede.

We have?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
Not quite all aircraft are required to have ADS-B in all situations, there are a number of edge cases out there. But close enough, I suppose, and most planes people would want to track are required to have it.

However, there's also a new privacy initiative that allows aircraft to fly under temporary ids. The FAA will still know who they are, but for 3rd parties it will become much more difficult to determine.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2019/december/2...
Improved Consistency Regularization for GANs
Yep. Sometimes you just have to realize you can't take certain paths in life. In my late 20s I can no longer become a race car driver or a pilot. When you're 33 and you have a 10 year old son you can no longer get an anthropology PhD. That's just how the world works. This lady made bad choices and keeps making them.
> Would there be some sort of uproar if people found out that Firefox had special optimizations for common websites, for instance?

There was a comment on this site a few days ago that claimed Google was being anti-competitive by hard-coding a list of their web properties into Chrome for it to send diagnostic info when visiting them, so yes, anything where there's a special path for some 1st/3rd parties but not others could be construed in many ways that look bad for the author.
Developers at Docker and Razer, among others.
Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
Never let HN haters (among whom I am frequently numbered, it ought to be noted) get you down.

After skimming a bit of the differential dataflow writing I am really impressed. This is deep computer science doing what it does best, which is to do much more with much less.
This guy (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9HwDkwxllq5lFGkYBIH9g) also had great tutorials in english (and also a german channel) but sadly he died in an car accident and did not get the chance to use / make tutorials for the new part design workflow :(
Most of California's coastline is sheer cliffs. There are reasons why our cities are where they are.
A backup method that just copies it _somewhere else on the same device_ is not really a very useful backup. It involves manually moving files around if you want a real backup, which feels very antiquated in 2020. Why isn't there some way to automatically store my (encrypted!) backup via a cloud backup solution, whether that's Google Drive, Dropbox, or just allowing it to be backed up as part of an Android backup?
Maybe, that COBOL codebase doesn't contain the web-facing stuff. It's not handling user auth and all of that. It doesn't seem to make much sense for the web-facing side to be so directly connected to the financial backend, anyway, because some kinda privilege escalation or crafted input exploit on the web side could give someone direct access to the financial backend. Those two things are likely pretty heavily separated.

So instead, it seems like the stuff holding just account holder information was given a password field to use on their fancy new HTML 2.0 webpage, but then just mostly left there ever since. The age of the financial side is fairly irrelevant in this scenario.
The text mentions a talk you gave. Was that recorded anywhere?
Heh, I read your comment after I posted almost the same thing word for word.
The concern is not a one-time conversion to MP3 but several generations of MP3s derived from each other, each one with more artifacts than the last. It's the same problem we experience with image compression. Lossy compression of a lossy source results in a lossier output. From a preservation point-of-view, it's best to have a lossless (perhaps compressed) copy and use that as a source for whatever arbitrary audio format we're using decades from now.
>(went to the Apple Store, tried the 16” keyboard, still not impressed)

Thank You, along with the rant from Taika Waititi at Oscar. There is still hope the old keyboard with more key depth will come back.

There hasn't been a single improvement I like about the Mac both in terms of Hardware and software since 2015. ( Edit: Ok there was Mac Pro ) Sadly Windows hasn't made much improvement in 5 years either.
i was also wondering about the gfx-rs port. i've been watching that repo for over a year, and it's quite impossible to tell how far along things actually are today.
This is a pretty specious argument. Murder is illegal and punished severely, yet we still try and avoid getting killed.

I would posit that it is the same here; wage fixing is bad and punished, but wouldn't it be better if we had a faster mechanism for guaranteeing equity in treatment by corporations?
That's not true. Do you even know how grad school works? Research you produce and grants you pull in benefit the university. Your research also is directed by your PI, a university employee and your boss, and often involves directly assisting their projects. How would a research university look if all of its grad students stopped doing research?
Agreed! We plan to contribute to the Debezium project over the next months along these lines. We’ll have more to say on this shortly!
We're currently building a GitHub integration which receives webhooks and kicks off a bunch of processing actions based on the event type. Your suggestion sounds like a great way to add some observability to the service -- thanks!
> A final approval hearing was held on July 9, 2015.[22] On Wednesday September 2, 2015, Judge Lucy H. Koh signed an order granting Motion for Final Approval of Class Action Settlement. The settlement website stated that Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel has reached a settlement of $415 million and other companies settled for $20 million.

> In June 2014, Judge Lucy Koh expressed concern that the settlement may not be a good one for the plaintiffs. Michael Devine, one of the plaintiffs, said the [previous] settlement is unjust. In a letter he wrote to the judge he said the settlement represents only one-tenth of the $3 billion in compensation the 64,000 workers could have made if the defendants had not colluded.
There'll need to be a few more funerals first.
With patents you're afaik only required to describe the process itself - but not the implementation in code, and especially not optimizations fitted to your architecture.
Bolivia was not always landlocked, and very much still resents losing its coastline to Chile during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific

They would like to regain control of said coastline. In fact, they have a holiday to commemorate said loss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_del_Mar

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2015/05/09/beaches-of...
I’m a “sheltered young urbanite” but when I bring up the need for testing under a wide variety of real-life scenarios, I frequently get “ain’t nobody got time for that” from the PM (or management says yes, but does not provide enough resources).

There’s no need to make this an attack on the developers, I’m pretty sure they’re running into software development economic factors that transcend individual personalities here.
> I just want to say this is a very dangerous assumption to make.

I think we're actually arguing the same points here. It's not that every use case needs single-digit millisecond latencies! There are plenty of use cases that are satisfied by batch jobs running every hour or every night.

But when you do need real-time processing, the current infrastructure is insufficient. When you do need single-digit latency, running your batch jobs every second, or every millisecond, is computationally infeasible. What you need is a reactive, streaming infrastructure that's as powerful as your existing batch infrastructure. Existing streaming infrastructure requires you to make tradeoffs on consistency, computational expressiveness, or both; we're rapidly evolving Materialize so that you don't need to compromise on either point.

And once you have streaming data warehouse in place for the use cases that really demand the single-digit latencies, you might as well plug your analysts and data scientists into that same warehouse, so you're not maintaining two separate data warehouses. That's what we mean by ideal: not only does it work for the systems with real-time requirements, but it works just as well for the humans with looser requirements.

To give you an example, let me respond to this point directly:

> Secondly, almost all data is useless in its raw form. The analysts had to perform ELT jobs on their data in the warehouse to clean, dedupe, aggregate, and project their business rules on that data. These functions often require the database to scan over historical data to produce the new materializations of that data. So even if we could get the data in the warehouse in sub-minute latency, the jobs to transform that data ran every 5 minutes.

The idea is that you would have your analysts write these ETL pipelines directly in Materialize. If you can express the cleaning/de-duplication/aggregation/projection in SQL, Materialize can incrementally maintain it for you. I'm familiar with a fair few ETL pipelines that are just SQL, though there are some transformations that are awkward to express in SQL. Down the road we might expose something closer to the raw differential dataflow API [0] for power users.

[0]: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow
Anyone. It's open source. You can if you'd like.

https://github.com/certbot/certbot
Yeah sorry my bad , turns out marvel had black theme
Can't edit now but it should read "cool, dry pantry", not damp.
Typically for corporate use you would pick a Lenovo model with next business day onsite warranty. So in case it breaks, somebody will come over to fix it.

(This is why the components are easy to replace in those laptops)
Extension Proposal: VK_EXT_descriptor_set_view
In most states unemployment hearings are heavily biased towards the employee, and many times they are just phone conferences. It's very easy to fight.
It is true. I’m sure the university benefits, but you decide what to do yourself. You aren’t doing work given to you by the university or your advisor. Your advisor is absolutely not your ‘boss’, they’re a tutor, almost a peer.
Financial Incentives for Organ Donation
If you don’t value it, that’s fine. No one is holding a gun to your head and demanding you eat the snacks, but your original proposition was about using that money to buy your own snacks which doesn’t work for the aforementioned economies of scale.
Computers Can Be Understood (2020)
They're unionizing because they're politically likeminded. There's absolutely no other logical reason why they would do it.
Fuck international standards right? [eyeroll]
I think I'm willing to take one of my RTL-SDR dongles, hook it up to the Raspberry Pi, and start giving them a regular feed. If only just to identify a few pesky helicopters that fly over the house that aren't showing up on flightradar24 like everything else. I can appreciate this service.
Isn't cutting off communication / or various forms of oppression often part of the path to the death of a few million people?

I'm not convinced one is being traded for another... possibly quite the opposite.
> Basically the perfect use case for cloud computing. Tons of compute for a short time.

I completely agree.

> In this case there can’t possibly be people arguing for their own datacenter over cloud.

Devil's advocate time: This solution was great for the cloud because it was designed for the cloud. There might be equally good or even superior solutions designed for on-prem or even on-device computing. For example, this ceases to be a big-data problem if you are simply aggregating listening metrics for a single user on a single device.
The alt-history concept is a fantastic idea for the background of a story.

But did you actually read these books? Some of the Goodreads reviews are pretty harsh.
It was absurd trickery and PR spin trying to change "MP3 is now unencumbered by patents, enjoy!" into "MP3 is dead."
A quick google search will explain that history and will also tell you why it makes no sense to compare athletes with developers.
Janus VR pivots from startup to open source, community-run metaverse project
as muizelaar says below,

"WebRender is actually using D3D through OpenGL on top of ANGLE"

maybe an angle bug, then.