skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're certainly correct, a solution does not require a benefit to the manufacturer. I suppose I was thinking about it from more of a laissez-faire point of view - that is essentially, how can we have our cake and eat it too (or in this case, our cheap soda)?

If the government passed laws/regulation that mandated certain packaging requirements for companies like Coca Cola, that would be a top-down solution and Coca Cola would have to comply, lest they wish to face steep fines and litigation.

In regards to soda, you're right - consumption taxes have proven effective. I believe cigarette taxes have proven effective in the same way. But an environmentally effective top-down solution would of course apply to many more consumables that just soda, sugar cakes and other generally unhealthy items. It's possible that top down regulation could push costs higher for smaller companies that offer healthy options in environmentally unfriendly packages. If costs are too high for smaller companies like these, then there may be fewer healthy alternative options (because we know Little Debbie and Coca Cola aren't going anywhere, regulations or not). This is obviously a very generalized example - in reality, many of the healthy/organic foods items already come in environmentally-friendly packaging.
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I understand that you claim that it enhanced their bottom line, but that makes no sense.

I (and many others) will _immediately replace_ a phone that routinely turns itself off under load. I will limp along, for quite a while, with a phone that is a bit slow. Every piece of evidence supports the notion that it was a well-intentioned decision that turned out to be not ideal.

And yet all you unhinged haters are _STILL COMPLAINING_ two years after Apple apologized for the decision, explained it, built features to expose the battery health, cut battery replacement costs down to zero-margin levels, and have now agreed to pay a settlement on top of that. To quote you: "Just. Stop."
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Why would they need to restrict the feature to new photos only to get that information? They could just use telemetry and see what photos people pick if they wanted to.
What about MX (machine experience)?
$ systemd
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I've heard and read in numerous places over the years that this occurs. It apparently is related to how and why your windows block uvb and only let in a small amount of uva (try tanning in your window to test this one out.) What I wonder is if lacking that protection of the natural lens increases the risk of eye cancers or other complications.
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> Because academics around the world who are native speakers of non-English languages do much of their professional work in English

Source?
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You might find this interesting. It's about C++, but it's a very similar take:

https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/C-and-Beyond-2012-Herb-Sutte...
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Repeating a point without adding proof doesn't make your point more valid. When people say "code wins arguments", they're referring to using source code to prove something, not "it wins because it has more source code" (???).
Ruby became far more popular in the US. Especially after Rails kicked adoption into high gear.
Fwiw, I lead Product for Ocean at SpotInst. Your analysis is _spot_ on :). At SpotInst, we predict interruptions by calculating a Spot Market Score which is based on Instance Family, Type and AZ (using historic data). This allows us to spread pods/workloads across a variety of spot instance types while delivering an SLA. As an additional data point, we have a mix of stateless/stateful workloads running 24x7 on our platform. For critical/management workloads/apps, RI could make a lot of sense and we can dynamically buy/sell those on your behalf, delivering a fully-managed Spot <--> RI <--> OD solution where needed.
I guess you cannot share the portfolio of companies, for privacy reasons, but it'd be interesting to know at least how many companies even use this service.
It'd be also nice to see how faster the application process becomes. For example, how long does it take, on average, for a developer to receive an offer, once he subscribes?
I did on the 'who wants to freelance?' version once. It was a whole 45 minutes after I posted - someone one town over noticed my location and we connected. I ultimately didn't get the gig, but got a nice tour of their facility and some of the work they were doing. :)
These guys just took $323 million in a series E. They're valued at 7.6B (well, they were...) Can't afford better engineers?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars

I think you’ll want more detail than the article gave.
I think you're misunderstanding the headline.

The article states that it is merely the engine that is capable of hitting 1,000 fps, but their test systems have only hit 400 fps. In other words, the game simply has some future proofing.

This is relevant because there are games that can exceed the supported framerates of their engines. As mentioned in another comment, if Skyrim runs at over 60 fps, then the physics engine breaks down.
Can you show me where Apple denied that battery age affected the iPhone's performance? I see this allegation repeatedly in this thread, but so far it goes unsubstantiated.
1) With this move, Alphabet is basically saying they a) don't want to continue funding the autonomous moonshot on their own, and b) want some partners to come on board for various reasons

They need external investors to provide validation to the business and its valuation. Those $2.25B would have been a piece of cake for Alphabet (sitting on > $100B in cash).

But if it is Alphabet that's funding Waymo, everyone else (and in particular Alphabet investors) are left to guess what a fair valuation for Waymo would be.
I thought Messenger was ReasonML's flagship use-case inside Facebook. If so, it will be interesting to know what impact this has on its development.
My iPhone 4 became unusably slow after an update I could not revert. I liked that device and would have preferred to have it still work if needed in a pinch.

edit: To be clear I would have preferred them not force the upgrade on me. I still would have likely purchased a new phone, but instead I purchased an android phone.
look up papers by Dr. Klenner on the use of intravenous vitamin C

see also "living proof" a New Zealand 60-minutes segment
When working I always maintain a portion of focus on main task. Even if someone interrupts me I can easily jump back. I can juggle multiple dev tasks by maintaining multiple clones of repos and a good setup.

Another important thing is to remove interruption you control. I only check email once per day, reject or "forgot" to attend meetings I deem not important. I gave up on some social aspects like small talk or water cooler chats. I would interrupt people if they get sidetracked too much.

I am doing very good as IC but I would never get promoted in current role.

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1. Special/overhyped architecture
2. homemade tools and anachronism
3. in house frameworks
4. Lack of testing
5. Red tape and compliance
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Hopefully they fix the outage quickly and solve this problem. If the problem is a leap year bug and they can’t fix it eternally they will a lawsuit every 4 years.
Sorry, but the more I read this, the more I feel like KPMG is the main reason for the failed process...

> And so in September, we granted exclusivity to a bidder. (...) And so began the extensive due diligence. KPMG had warned me about this phase right at the beginning of the process and from memory, the word they used was something akin to "onerous".

You're supposed to have your ducks in a row before you launch the process, not after. As you're drafting your IM, you should also be preparing a virtual data room with as much data as you reasonably expect to be asked, and board minutes are the absolute minimum that any advisor should know...

> Among literally thousands of other requests (seriously - the total number was four figures)

And you don't have to respond to all of them! You can answer any request with "The company believes this can be answered as a matter of confirmatory diligence"

From literally dummies.com[0]

"Sellers can’t be afraid to remind Buyers that due diligence is confirmatory in nature, meaning Buyer should spend the time confirming Seller’s information and not planning, creating, and combining the two entities. The Buyer should take care of post-closing activities after closing! Otherwise, due diligence will drag on longer than necessary."

[0] https://www.dummies.com/business/corporate-finance/mergers-a...
you can download a bunch of sequences here (i filtered for lung and 'oronasopharynx'):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType...
A. Deal with your respiratory problems. You probably do it because your nose itches because it's low grade infected all the time.

B. Deal with your circulatory issues. Hands, feet, nose and ears get shorted first when you have circulatory issues.

C. Pick your nose in the shower while your hands are clean before sticking fingers in your nose and can be promptly recleaned afterwards without contaminating anything else. You probably have that nasty habit mentioned in another comment because of low grade chronic sinus infections. Mucus firms up like cement to trap stuff, at which point picking your nose makes more sense than blowing it.

D. Get better salt in you and stay adequately hydrated. Both salt and water are major components of mucus and mucus is your respiratory system's first line of defense against invaders.

E. Don't know how to fix your health issues? Try fasting. It likely frees up immune cells to address other issues while your gut is empty of pesky foreign invaders brought in via the food you eat.

F. While addressing all that, have something you can fiddle with to occupy your hands so they are doing something else. Let me recommend that your fiddle stick/toy/thingamajig be made of copper or silver because they are both antimicrobial.

G. You may also need to up your environmental hygiene. Dust everything or get rid of nasty carpets, etc.

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Yep. In my high school and college days (2008-2016) Facebook Messenger was the way that you chatted with other people.
> I have no idea what the c++ committee were using as predicates

And in fairness, neither do I. My point wasn't "C++ copied closures from Java". My point was "I can't think of anything else they copied from Java", and therefore that I suspected that the answer to jedberg's question was no.
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You could very well be right, according to this[0] post on Twitter:

> Hey @RobinhoodApp
did someone forget to add isleap() to your python module? Imagine losing thousands of dollars because someone didn’t code for the leap year. It’s looking for 3/03 data and throwing errors out the ass. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESIuB4nXYAAYImF?format=jpg

[0]: https://twitter.com/jtech63/status/1234600045787394048
I'm not sure how the pushing of the Trump/Russia narrative could be seen as anything but "organized".
> iOS does not allow apps to use the microphone while the screen is off.

Isn't the screen off in nearly all of the legitimate uses of a microphone, ie. "I'm replicating the ux of a phone call in my chat app"?
OP is also looking in a niche field [0]. Maybe we should be talking about their resume and what they are actually trying to get a job in? Genetics or a general programming job. I think it is fair for recruiters to be wary of someone with a PhD in genetics that is looking to get a general software job or data science job. OP needs to tell a better story and I think that might be an issue here.

Agree or disagree?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22468840
This makes me wonder if there's a similar term for things that are created outside of the country that it's associated with that doesn't get reintegrated into said country.

For example, I (a Danish person) had to ask my Australian friends what an "Apple Danish" was as it's similar to, but quite unlike anything you'd find in Denmark.
Fuel (fossil) is causing the problem. It doesn’t matter if it affects rich or poor more or less, the only solution is to reduce the use of fossil fuel. Raising the cost will also reduce truck’s usage of fuel.

I don’t think sustainable fuel (non fossil fuel) is realistic on the timescale that humans need it to be. Fossil fuel is just so convenient with its portability and ease of use, that it will remain preferred for many uses.
There's a more fundamental question here I think. I can understand wanting to get an older, theoretically unsupported app running on Catalina, but that makes less sense re: iTunes as AFAIK no functionality was lost between Mojave and Catalina. iTunes got renamed to Music, and the syncing functionality was moved into Finder. Is the integration between those two functions _that_ critical?
> the sideways reference to "eco-tax" shows there is an ideological driver here

Yes clearly, thinking a few cents of eco tax will outweigh your ecological impact is like thinking using paper straws makes up for taking the plane once a week. It's nice "feel good" idea but it doesn't have any real world impact. Just look at every pollution related threads on HN, there are always a lot of people blaming China and Asia for having the most polluting rivers, while the majority of the shit ending in their rivers was consumed in the EU/US. Recycling really isn't much more than "I'll put it far away and from now on act like it doesn't exist anymore".

Everything I read about recycling in the US, or anywhere else for that matter, is that it doesn't work very well and most of it is exported, so I'm not quite sure about which recycling projects you're talking about.

https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2019/3/6/1570...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-pla...

https://www.boell.de/en/2019/11/04/waste-exports-rubbish-dum...

https://www.statista.com/chart/18229/biggest-exporters-of-pl...
I think it's worth noting that Troy may have wanted a firm with a global presence given that he's based out of the Gold Coast. The firms with big M&A reps in the USA don't necessarily have that same rep or presence down here, particularly in Brisbane.
You dont. Infinite scroll is rubbish.
What did you do to prep for the interview process? I'm assuming you weren't already prepping nor ready for FAANG, but maybe I'm wrong :)
It's one thing to identify poor performers and have a one-off clear out. It's something else entirely to repeat the process year after year, for every team, no matter how well each team performs as a unit.

That's even assuming you can somehow objectively identify "C players" in the first place.

The reality is decisions are often made for personal and political reasons. And because of that, stack ranking turns a company culture into a back-stabbing mess of simmering fear and hostility, and product excellence is forgotten.
Maybe something might change => official news from Nestlè (7.Feb.2020):

> Swiss mineral water brand Henniez announced that its entire plastic bottle range is now made of 75% recycled PET plastic (rPET). Henniez has already been using 30% Swiss recycled PET since 2013 and has the clear ambition to move to 100% locally recycled PET. This will close the PET circular loop, as discarded PET bottles will be made into new Henniez recycled plastic bottles multiple times, without tapping into new oil resources.

https://www.nestle.com/media/news/henniez-mineral-water-bott...

I don't know/understand why they would use this process only for their Henniez brand. Maybe it involves $-margin or maybe they want to do this experiment without endangering all their brands, etc... .
Your comment made me think of SimEarth for the SNES (I never played it on the PC).
As one of the "Federal IT managers" actually doing this, there are too many broad statements here that the overall message ends up being misleading.

If you were completely cynical, then you could find enough examples to make anything in here seem true.

For example, this entire paragraph is wrong:

Here’s something that will surprise you a lot: when it comes to government, cloud computing represents a huge shift of money from the public sector to the private sector. It’s the privatization of of government data. Lock-in is completely ignored: how will government departments ever get their data back out of the cloud? “Not my problem,” says the federal IT manager, “besides, there’s nothing about lock-in in these Powerpoint slides.”

There is realistically too much here to unpack in a comment, but I would say that the overall thesis of the article is pointing in the right direction.

However it's not like failure is a forgone conclusion, if competent people (like a lot of you reading this are) join the government to actually help fix these things then we can actually do things correctly. I posted in the Who's Hiring Thread last month so we're ready whenever you are.
You thought wrong?
Yeah, all I can say is "ouch." I went through a very similar courtship process with a large tech unicorn and luckily my outcome was good, but halfway through the process I basically had to ask them to give me 5 figures in legal fees because I was paying a huge bill to attorneys and the power dynamics between single person startup and unicorn are huge. They were spending 6 figures on attorney fees and I was spending a smaller multiple, but as a single person startup.

I hope he got good advice, because this sounds really bad. HIBP is an amazing resource, and should easily command an 8-9 figure exit for the founder. It's disappointing to learn that the one suitor he settled on ended up being a dud.
Oops, lenna.png is definitely NSFW.
>A lot of car guys just aren't going to rip apart their wiring harnesses and do testing to make sure it'll work with their onboard sensors.

I'm not so sure about that.

My go-to mechanic is an older gentleman, late 60s, and oftentimes I'm surprised how quickly he updated his workshop to include electronics. He went from barely having a multimeter and not knowing how to use a computer in the early 2000s to having a well equipped electronics bench with oscilloscopes, scan tools, soldering equipment, etc. He told me he went to a bunch of courses to get updated on modern car technology because his clients started bringing newer cars. Keep in mind this is in a developing country (Mexico) so he has to keep repair costs down to keep clients, because the more affluent people will go to dealerships to get a proper fix. A lot of his repairs that I've seen involve what I'd charitably call "bodging" using parts that aren't original or intended, but they get the job done on a budget.

Similarly with car guys I hang around here, there has been a noticeable uptick in electronic knowledge, maybe not to the level of custom ECUs yet, but stuff like making an arduino controlled radiator fan or making a custom box to read the CAN-bus to get the steering wheel controls do stuff they weren't intended to do is pretty commonplace.

People working with cars are already used to complexity and learning new things, after all, so I don't think electronics will scare them off. We don't see as much of it yet because of all the lockdown and manufacturer's insistence at straight up replacing parts, but now that modern-style fully electronic cars (2010 or so) are becoming affordable enough to be "project cars" for average car guys, we'll see more and more stuff like this. A car guy might not want to rip into the wiring harness on his daily driver that he paid 15k for, but a 3k shitbox he bought as a second car for fun? Well, people are already doing that.