skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentive is in the reward you get for performing well.

Also I don't think it's necessary that a job guarantee make an employee immune from being fired. I'd imagine a job guarantee would have all kinds of jobs ranging from relatively simple (eg. cleaning) to more complex (eg. science). If you're in a more demanding department and underperforming, you could get fired and have to apply to another job in another department.

For example, the military is sort of like a job guarantee in the sense that anyone meeting the physical bar is effectively hired. But any military member can get discharged.
I think it's safe to assume that your coworker may have these beliefs. It's even highly likely since these are the core beliefs of the person and platform they voted for. Should you wonder about such things? Absolutely. I've worked with worse people though, no doubt, likely actual rapists. It's just a fact of life. Stay away from them and don't talk to them outside of work. Hell, that goes for people who don't think you're a rapist or murderer, but ten times over for those who do. It's possible, but dangerous, to make friends at work.
Wait until you find out the population of Geneva :-) Or Sparta, for that matter.
May I suggest you re-evaluate your history reference material?
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Maybe the available tooling for extracting good performance is not friendly to people that aren’t already familiar with it?
I should add that the key to good writing (in most domains) is to be concise. Editing is primarily about cutting what's unnecessary, but it's often treated like the part where some words are swapped out with fancier ones (e.g. "use" to "utilize").

I'm a big fan of PG's essay, Write Like You Talk, on this topic.

http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html
> “With this achievement, the estimated number of galaxies in the universe had multiplied enormously — to 50 billion, five times more than previously expected,”

This numbers is sheer incredible. Each of them contains 50 billion stars. How come some think we’re alone in this universe?

EDIT: yeah, I know speed of light and all... it’s just a stupid fantasy that is fueled by these numbers
Yea, they are both capable of doing the same job, but one comes with a $104.01 piece of paper that proves that a clerk in an office stamped another piece of paper and filed it away in a cabinet, which makes it legal to use with a certified airplane.
Wrong. In France, this "culture of protest" means to go all-in, on strike, right from the beginning for any reason, be it serious or just a pettiness. And in France, taking it to the streets and making noise is more often than not some sort of a social happening, too often for economical reasons, like yellow wests initially did. Not for any "higher" reasons like democracy, justice, freedom etc. It's individual people and various interest groups competing (on a wider level) with each other in their subsidiary demands, united in their fear of loosing status and comparative influence of the social group they belong to. E.g. rail-road syndicates. In short: Citizens of a rich country worried about their pockets, demanding reforms, refusing change, regarding it be some a kind of a zero-sum game, thus preferring short-term egoistic strategies.

Compare it with Eastern Europe with seldom protests, maybe once in 20 years or so. And not against poverty but for justice (Slovakia), democracy (Ukraine, Serbia) or alike.
This is the 3rd round, not the second.
The documentary says that original expedition swapped a whole 600kg gearbox on a Kharkovchanka when one of them failed. Crew worked for 5 days at less than -50C.

So they ceranly did change much more than just belts :)
Discretionary time is usually given to projects which otherwise didn't get any time, it's not usually hoarded for the director himself.
I dispute that; I think schoolbook RSA has probably done more harm than good. It's not showing you how this thing that seems like magic work; it's just replacing one magic trick with another.

It's not a hypothetical concern; you see it in every instance where someone has implemented schoolbook RSA in production, which was a not-infrequent occurrence when people were still using RSA in new designs.
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You certainly can throw errors away in Go -- in various ways. It's one of the notable flaws in a largely cohesive, sensible language. (Which I use daily.)

success, err := fail()
do(success)

success, _ := fail()

fail()
>Do field technicians have dependable tools and methods of measuring with such high degrees of precision?

Yes, it is basic stuff in most mechanics. For instance, the valve clearance on most car engines is going to be .002-.005.

I worked aviation maintenance for years. Most larger planes are held together with 'hiloks' [0] They are an "interference" fit.

For a quarter inch hilok, you'd first pilot drill a hole around 3/32" (#40 drill bit), then up drill it to .242 (C drill bit), then swap out to a .242 to .247 "reamer" and ream the hole to .247. The hilok itself is around .248-.249" so you can't just "push" it in but tap it in with a hammer or rivet gun. There was a "go-no-go" gauge. The "go" end was .246 and the "no go" end was .248. So yes, tolerances of 0.001" are quite common.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hilok&ia=web
> There's thousands of people that have the ability to drain your bank account right now.

Let them do it... the bank will always be responsible and it will always be solved without much issue.

Twitter accounts though... good luck taking back theses bitcoins from all the one that got scammed. Good luck even getting back your account if you aren't named Bill Gates.
Average distance between galaxies is 10-100 times the diameter of the average galaxies.

Andromeda for naked eye is a smudge six time bigger than the moon (3.0 degrees across).
> they do prove that certain classes of errors don't exist in your program

That's particularly important when refactoring because you want to assert that you haven't introduced new bugs, and the type system will often let you prove that with almost zero effort on your part.
"Bob was right" would be a good framed reminder
Stopped reading when you said Mac OS 9 was slow. Compared to the current Mac OS on modern hardware, OS 9 was blazing fast even on that old hardware. Most things being single threaded also meant that even if your machine was lagging, you could queue a bunch of keystrokes and clicks and they’d all execute in perfect order exactly as expected as soon as the lag stopped. Nowadays all those keystrokes and clicks just fucking vanish.
The main point of lean startup isn't to have better ideas, it is to identify and discard bad ones faster, and focus your limited resources on the wheat among the chaff.
In return you have to sacrifice a lot. Just to make an example we have to order stuff from EU countries (like buses and trains) instead of buying form our own companies because it is against "regulations". It is just an extortion racket behind the scenes.
> And the call of the aggressively independent-minded is "Eppur si muove."

I wonder if PG picked that specific phrase ("And yet it moves") because of the recent brouhaha over IQ and genetics….
I won't call it cause but there certainly seems to be correlation between lowering food costs and healthcare increasing.

Truth is, worldwide there are more deaths from the side effects of too much food, than not enough.
Lol what?

But... Why?
No it does not.
In a democracy you are to free to voice your opinion, any way you prefer as long as it does not infringe on others' lives.

Blocking the road to work, hospital, etc. is infringing on others.
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First world countries need to realize that war in the 21st century is not fought with tanks or warplanes and redistribute military spending accordingly.
May be are referring to thermo-piles, which convert heat to electric power using bimetallic joints.
It might be far from fool-proof, but I think it might have the same effect as terrestrial oceans / distance had in the past.

Oceans and long distances have always allowed wildly different governments and cultures to flourish contemporaneously; these barriers have become lower and lower lately, but space-scale distances might bring them back.
You're absolutely right. But I also find that what customers/executives actually want, and what they say they want, turn out to be different things once you start unpacking them.

And sometimes it's just a matter of framing. Don't say accurate, say, "Accurate to within x%" or "Rounded to the nearest $x" type of thing. But I certainly would never actually pick an argument over it. Sometimes they do know what they want. Other times they really don't, but you still don't get to decide for yourself how the problem is going to be solved.
Pretty much anything really. HTTPS, private communications, etc. I am using a computer, not an IoT device.
when 36% of google can be asian, majority coming from a different country and most probably a much poorer per capita income then anyone in USA. I don't really think anyone was discriminating, go to any top tech school and see the percentage of people by race and you'll pretty much see the same in companies. if anything there's a supply shortage of tech talent I'm pretty sure they don't need to discriminate if someone is good enough
The fetching of content is done by a long-running update daemon that is separate from any PHP code that is the UI. The worker code is pretty naive, does not use a blocking queue etc, and sleeps for a configured interval before the next feed update run.
I'm a US citizen living and working in Canada. I work for an American company as an independent contractor. I own a Canadian Company as a sole proprietor. Given the space I am in, I have signed a BAA for HIPAA compliance with my client. Would it be wise for me to change the corporation to an LLC?
I got me one with the digital Trinitron CRT (which is, BTW, one of the best CRTs ever, while just at 17", and looks just great in its transparent case) and it was perhaps 12% more expensive than my regular office G4. But for this you got the small footprint (as this was my home machine, this was of some importance), no fan noise and really good speakers, and it was even a bit faster than the standard G4. The only drawback was the rather loud factory fitted HD, but if you wound down the HD (which could be done at that time by the press of a single UI button), it was perfectly silent.

I simply don't understand the myth of the prohibitive price. Just check the price lists. [1]

BTW, I've it still in my office and it's still running flawlessly on OS X Tiger an System 9.2.2. (At one point, rather early on, the capacitive start button failed and was replaced. Otherwise no issues in two decades.)

[1] Edit: Mind that the Cube had a special type of a digital RGB connector for the monitor and worked only with the dedicated CRT and the LCD displays. Both displays weren't exactly cheap and you couldn't just use a cheap 3rd party display as a replacement, which added to the price.
Sadly, this doesn't look promising. At all.

> In the exclusive report, The New York Times detailed how the mysterious government program began in 2007 with support from then-Nevada Senator Harry Reid. The allotted budget reportedly went to an aerospace research entity run by a Robert Bigelow, billionaire businessman and a longtime friend to the senator.

I would love if there was something exciting and real behind it, but what is more likely:

- plain old corruption, or

- plain old corruption + alien or alien-like technology?
> I'd argue that while Apple serves those markets, it hasn't catered to them for a long time, and it would be fair to say that in many cases it's downright neglected them.

This comment is dated. They had a stretch where they'd lost their way, but Apple's Mac lineup has been in pretty good shape for the past ~2 years. With them fixing the MacBook keyboard, they have a lineup which is more or less solid across the board.

A lot of their processor issues revolved around using specific CPUs which Intel was slow to update... an issue they won't have when they move to their own silicon.
IoT devices should be behind private networks rather than being directly accessible to the internet anyway. Said devices can use a "weaker" algorithm like NTRU.
Ask HN: How to turn an idea down without hurting sb feelings?
Since some months ago, I'm the midst of a very heavy struggle trying to keep my small company going before I eventually give up entirely. Pandemics has made things a bit tougher.

I've been really honest about my situation with my family and friends, and sought for some advice from them. I thought it would be nice to get some insight from outsiders. It hasn't gone as I thought it would, though.

I've been in this industry for eight years or so. I'm humble enough to admit that I haven't learned much about the business side, but my knowledge is also not an absolute zero.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but I must say that some of the ideas I got are really terrible.

Some would demand me to spend time or money I don't have; some are simply too evidently bad to me as in "send a detailed mail to your prospects about the benefits of your product"; "redo your website" -- I'm currently on the third version of my website; "you need to assess the product-market fit" -- this is not an innovative product, there's already half dozen companies selling similar products in my country and they are doing great. I only don't know how to compete with them.

It's saddening because I usually ask for introductions, contacts and ideas about sales and I end up getting generic advice targeting areas of my business which people have little to no expertise on. And the worst is: people who give the shittiest advice is usually the most passionate about their own terribly bad ideas.

I don't wanna hurt their feelings but I also don't want to hurt my bank account even badly. And to deal with their outbursts has made my head even messier. So I stopped trying to take advice from them, which, however, I believe is also sub-optimal.

So I considered asking you guys about some advice on how to cope with it.
Dying in an ambulance or shot to death because police could not get there because "democratic" protests block the road is not inconvenient.
> These hundreds of passengers died when they couldn't swim the twenty feet to the shore. It makes you question why they wanted to have their party on a boat.

I mean, should I be required to be able to flap my arms and fly to hop on an airliner?
Sorry for not acknowledging your reply in good time, but thanks for the pointers for me to look into this myself.
>> deliver newsletters to hundreds of thousands of campers per week

> I'm not a fan of spam. Never will be

This isn't spam. It's a newsletter subscription people opt into by joining their website as a user. Users can opt-out of this specific newsletter in their FreeCodeCamp settings page and be fine and dandy afterwards.

Spam is something else entirely.
That's a bit of a different topic.

There's the type of generic/private label stuff you mentioned, which both Amazon and Walmart do. Amazon originally had a major competitive advantage here in that they could leverage insights from their own sales and third party sellers in order to inform decisions for AmazonBasics (and their other private label brands). But Walmart also introduced third-party sellers to their ecommerce platform. Amazon's sheer volume of third party sales still gives them a leg up over Walmart in this area, but the type of risk-free consumer intelligence Amazon gets from third-party sales data is no longer something only they have.

Then there's retailer-specific SKUs of branded products, which is what I was referring to before. Amazon does this as well, but they take a fundamentally different approach to it that doesn't really impact the effectiveness of Walmart's approach. Amazon-specific SKU variants will likely have the "same" product as the standard SKU, but have unique packaging that's optimized for shipping. Walmart-specific SKU variants are optimized to sell the greatest volume possible while being considered "good enough" by consumers, and usually result in actual product changes in order to meet the price point, reliability, and feature set Walmart deems necessary to do so.

Because they have different optimization functions in their approach to retailer-specific SKUs of branded products, Walmart's approach is likely to continue working for Walmart, at least for their B&M sales. They'll start to have some of the same optimization concerns as Amazon as their ecommerce sales grow, but will be able to benefit from all the experience manufacturers and packaging companies are currently gaining from their current work with Amazon.
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Sounds like it’s similar to the tool that creates these deep dream images, but for text.
Does this still exist? The page mentions being launched in 2011 and last update 2018...largely dead I think
The vast majority of comments here are from people with first hand experience of the level of incompetence from large I find consultancies. I have personally witnessed a major Indian IT consultancy cause problems with a file server migration. They had no idea that you needed to propagate permissions from the base folder. This took out production for 8 hours.

In the end, an on-site employee took over and fixed the issue in 5 minutes. It was pathetic to watch.

One day there will be a reckoning for these large consultancies. On that day, virtually no onsite IT employee will be unhappy.
It was in bc in canada. It was after I finished school. I went to school for fish and wildlife management and ecological restoration. That was actually our own project we'd gotten some grant money to run for a couple years. All the programming and stuff I know is self taught. I've been learning since I was a kid. It's mostly something I do for fun though. I make small games and little apps for myself and stuff.

I'd recommend looking for local parks and stuff with conservation activities going on and volunteer. There's a lot of volunteer work involves in that kind of work because money is scarce, people do it because they care.

While I was in school, I volunteered many hours with the conservation group at a local park. Helped them around their office and with their computer stuff, some data analysis and reportinv, as well as on field counts and other things. I led a few teams of other volunteers and we had our own slot with some volunteers for our own study we were doing as a school project with the park. Those kinds of groups are always looking for help though. There's always lots to do, with never enough people or money.

I know volunteering may not seem as appealing, but volunteers, especially good ones are usually first in line for job openings when they do eventually appear.
You have to consider that web browsers run on IoT devices now and shouldn’t be excluded from security.
The Euro won't even exist in 5 years, if that.
From what I understand, the game of bingo is similar to lottery in the sense that the participants can and do decide the contents of their tickets themselves. Is organizing bingo OK in the US or does it run against the gambling laws?
The thread seems to boil down to some very basic premises: Build a good product, network it well, and create a niche. I suppose it's good to re-state these every few years.
Exactly. It’s absurd the consequences of losing your job are so fundamental. It’s time civilisation moved forward from this.
Ask HN: What SaaS apps do you personally pay for?
Someone asked this question back in 2018 [1] and I found the thread fascinating. So, re-upping it for 2020!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17136052
Though of course the captain could have stopped the ship overnight, and I suppose the owner would have complained but that's it.
This is so meandering and incoherent that it's hard to comment on, but the idea that silicon valley and finance types are "independent-minded" is downright laughable. It's pretty clear that those types are in lock-step with each other ideologically, maybe broadly split between east-coast and west-coast aesthetically.

This categorization is such nonsense. People in the hard sciences don't neatly fall into a type, and in fact is almost the opposite. In physics and math (maybe especially in math and physics), people are split right down the middle between conventional and independent. pg just doesn't seem to understand the internal politics of the sciences.
It's literally a meme where <startup founder> announces on Twitter their excited discovery of <banal thing that everyone else already knows>.
This is actually a very interesting point that I've come across on a few different platforms recently (Patreon, for example, [also targets their homepage to creators, not consumers](https://www.patreon.com/)). I wonder if Substack just doesn't want to deal with opening the door to some newsletters getting "free promotion" by being features on their homepage? Nonetheless, I'd love to see "trending" or "editors picks" or something.

Nonetheless, here are some I subscribe to:

Big, by Matt Stoller (about monopolies): https://mattstoller.substack.com/

Margins (about business and tech): https://themargins.substack.com/

Flow State (music): https://flowstate.substack.com/

Normcore tech (tech, data science): https://vicki.substack.com/

The Passion Economy (business): https://passion.substack.com/
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If you want to find nothing without hurting your career, spend your time reproducing other people's results. Lots of the time you will find what they found, which doesn't help your career much. But sometimes you'll find frauds or mistakes, and that will help your career and our civilization quite a lot.
I really don't see the difference you're trying to make. The RSS reader would also "fill up" in the sense that if you open it all the items would be marked unread just like in the inbox. Personally I use my inbox as my RSS reader by using a service that forwards RSS feeds to my inbox.

Everything is just a feed, email, RSS clients, social media, messaging apps, notifications channels. It's just a matter of managing which ones you make a habit of visiting and being notified about.
Classic McEliece is not good for HTTPS or anything where you need to download new public keys frequently.
Well they are so far away we are for all practical reasons, alone. Suns will be born, die, reform from the ashes many times before a message at the speed of light could make a round trip. And that is to the ones at only a few billion light years away.
Are you saying you went through the leetcode/hackerrank daily preparation routine for a couple of months, but you are still getting nervous during interviews? If so, why do you think that is? Are you comfortable solving those programming puzzles outside of the interviews? Have you timed yourself? Have you done mock interviews with a friend?
I am surprised at this , for a long time the reverse use to happen .

Also it is usually not coz the IMEI, it is because each model has sub geo variants depending on the spectrum they are allowed to use in those regions etc. Cross region variants other region decline to service . It is not just Moto, Apple does the same .
Imagine the world had a single supercomputer, and somebody wanted 100% utilization for those hundred hours to, say, train a neural net to play donkey kong. It's not a huge cost, given the expected lifetime of the resource, but to everybody else waiting in the queue, it would be quite the opportunity cost.
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Unfortunately I suspect everything on Amazon is unreliable now, we just notice technology item issues first because we know them better.
> when a narcissist gets a modicum of power, they can destroy an organisation from within

Or, as with Hitler, they can take over a formerly-democratic country and plunge them into war.