skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to penalize them for that without also meriting them for the benefits directly related to the actions they took to achieve those deductions and credits. Paywall, but I didn't see any of those mentioned in the summary, which makes me question the balance of the article.

Also, any single out Amazon here? The entire corporate tax rate in the US is extremely low. It's part of what makes it a business friendly country.
I had absolutely no doubt that this was satire when I was reading it; for heaven's sake, the site is called bitoduc, their proposal for pipeline based on the French word for an oil pipeline (oléoduc), which definitely wouldn't be used by anyone here given how much it sounds like you're talking about a duke's genitals. But the site also lists genuine and common translations, and it seems most people in this comment section are criticizing it for containing weird, unused ones. I think it's the point; it's mocking the French language purists (often from Quebec, actually) who come up with funny-sounding, unidiomatic translations for English terms that people have already adopted.

On a side note, I love that we came up with our own word for computer ("ordinateur"), from a suggestion by an IBM employee's former humanities teacher, and I wish we could still do that instead of using English words or some weird transliteration of them. But it's a different time now, one when communication is instantaneous, computer science is discussed on the Web rather than in universities, and words become commonplace far before anyone can introduce a recommended translation. English is concise and prone to imagery, which means new concepts can often get accurate one-word descriptions which are more likely to stick than a three-word French equivalent.
From my perspective, I'd say politics stands more of a chance of delivering a societal collapse.
Two large pizzas feed sixteen people if they're all elderly or trying to strictly limit their calorie intake.

Two large pizzas feed three to four people if they're all under 30.
I feel that it really all comes down to good first-level management, and retaining engineers longer than 18 months (see "good management," above).

I don't think there's any "silver bullets." Humans, are, well...human, and that means there's a lot stuff like emotions, personal motivations, ambition, self-doubt/confidence, team dynamics, etc.

That requires managers that don't just follow buzzwords, but understand the humans they lead, and act as shields between the employees and upper managers that aren't very good at managing humans.

Armies run on their sergeants. The Captains, Majors and Colonels are necessary to implement strategy, and convert into tactics, but if you can't keep your teams trained, focused, and motivated at the sharp end of things, the finest generals in the world won't be able to take on a playground full of toddlers with water pistols.

But then, that's just my experience and opinion. YMMV.
Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design
One really nice things about newsgroups was that most clients let you write your own scoring rules for posts, meaning I could moderate each group and set "karma limits" based on what I cared about.
My ideal setup:

Small teams that own and are responsible for products.
Teams expose any information they need to share via APIs (including data for reports)
Teams consume any information they need via other team's APIs.

My experience:

Teams that have 9-12 people on them, all working on different things/products, people external to the team completing some tasks that the team can't do, struggles to prioritize work since there is so many work streams coming into the team, members moving from one team to another, work moving from one team to another
Octa is latin for eight, in fact also Italian has the word "ottetto" that is used more in an academic setting and becoming even less common.
It is true though that in French saying Go (Giga-octet) instead of GB (Giga-byte) can avoid confusion with Gb (Giga-bit).
>This can add a lot of overhead, and some candidates may have jobs that forbid them from accepting outside work

How is this enforceable? Even in the case that someone finds out about it, what’s the company going to do? Sue the interviewing company for the rights to a few hours of work?
Maybe there are too many managers, that should be elsewhere. Because management is money and glory and this attracts wrong kind of people. And then all the adventures and problems with management start. Engineers, on other hand, with technical experience and some charisma are hard to find. These are doing well as solo entrepreneurs.
If I were you I’d go to a clinic to check my heart health and ask a doctor whether or how much exercising is good for you.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
It's not an either/or... we should be pursuing lots of different avenues for power generation because we don't know what will pan out and what won't. Fusion might still be a huge win even if it takes 50 more years to perfect.
The (((WOKE REPORTERS))) are writing stories about how the vast majority of decent and rational human beings actually care about female empowerment now.

First off, nice antisemitism strawman. Yikes.

If you really believe that the vast majority of people believe the same thing you are severely affected by your filter bubble. Your given example might fit your narrative but look at the US elections as an extreme example of polarization.

This is assuming that you include a subset of those who do not share your views in your definition of rational and decent. If that's not the case I don't see any point in further arguing.
The OP is describing Conway's Law, and shows that half the battle is being able to define the problem space in a way that minimises communication and maximises utility. As such, it could be inferred that beginning with a monolithic organisation, and splitting off a new team at the appropriate time when a useful problem space had been defined could be a possible best practice, assuming the organisation was flexible enough.

Food for thought, at least.
The problem described in the article is one the industry has developed a solution for: SAFe, which is explicitly designed to help small teams align their goals and yeah I can't finish this with a straight face.
Then it will be features on your ears which can classify you
The question is, is this different from how humans learn to write and speak a particular language?
Two buzzwords that make both statisticians and computer scientists roll their eyes: "statistically significant" and "Turing test".

It's not downvote worthy, but it is cringey.
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They do not come from fairies, but from mostly creative people like developers and designers. They provide this education bonus because they see value in highly motivated and educated personnel.
Fusion creates much less long term radioactivity.

However, the mass of material contaminated with radioactivity is very high, since the radioactivity that is created is not concentrated in fuel elements, as it is in a fission reactor.
I’ve run a creative studio as well an an independent photography practice for many years and much of what this article says about the future is true. The main driver here is to reduce costs and increase output by removing the human element. It gets closer each and every day.

But at the same time, the high end keeps getting higher and that’s why the photo studio is still going to be around for a long, long time.
Budget justification. How government works.
> and this was expressly the reasoning that led Angela Merkel to reverse her stance

I know a lot of Germans who think that reversal was just opportunistic pandering to environmentalists to grab votes from the Green party.
Total revenue in the second quarter was $714.3 million, a 97% increase from the comparable quarter in 2019.

New stores created on the Shopify platform grew 71% in Q2 2020 compared with Q1 2020, driven by the shift of commerce to online as well as by the extension of the free trial period on standard plans from 14 days to 90 days

Q2 2020 GMV grew 119% compared to Q2 2019 with year-on-year GMV growth accelerating in April and May and decelerating in June and thus far in July

The migration to Shopify Plus of larger sellers continued in Q2 2020, resulting in a record quarter for new merchant adds to Shopify Plus. A large number of merchant upgrades to Shopify Plus in Q2 2020 outpaced the number of downgrades, which peaked in April before returning to pre-COVID levels by quarter end.
I was an inflight-refueling technician in the USAF and there was a variant of the tanker (KC-135T) that had isolated tanks to specifically carry this stuff, for refueling an SR-71. Sadly that was before my time. A neat little factoid tho, I guess.
Awesome!! I hope they bring back that feature that would load a random bookmark. I used to discover so much weird and cool stuff on the internet that way, kinda like HN ;) Conversation starters for days. The Roy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm fanfic group was still by far the most “unique” thing I ever came across.
Yeah we need approve for the given resource.
Why do they have to wait to buy ARM to do that?
Thank you, very valuable answer.
Perhaps there's an opportunity for a startup to automate and simplify this.
Fusion has been touted as avoiding waste and fuel availability problems of fission.

But the main problem of fission is that it's too damned expensive, with very large capital cost. Fusion makes this main problem worse, not better.
I guess there was 180k wafers allocated to Huawei before US sanction, but that has nothing to do with Intel.
adding rss feeds to (say) google reader doesn't require technical expertise. email newsletters require your email address, which is obviously prone to abuse and spam. newsletters aren't the new rss, but rather an arguably inferior replacement.
Why are physicists trusted to make this prediction? Isn't this like a chemist creating a theory for quantum gravity?
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I would say I've definitely changed in some capacity as a result of this lockdown.

Certainly in terms of understanding my limits with work and how I react to situations. It's been a learning experience, that's for sure.
Or maybe people in the US just don't eat that much? - I've heard they are a healthy, sustainability conscious people who only consume as much energy as is needed to live a happy and productive life
Thanks, yeah I am still not secure, always fear of incompetence. Not having a degree is a fear. But I just have to keep learning/save/make more money ha. Get that burn rate, entrepreneur, FiRe, etc... I'm fortunate to have gotten into this field though and enjoy it personally.
I really don't understand how any of this can be considered scientific.

> irreversible collapse of our civilization

Strong words.

We really have no clue what will happen in the future. Blindly extrapolating current trends to predict what the state of the world will be 100 years from now has never been a useful approach. Complex systems are ... complex. Stuff changes, feedback loops kick in, people and societies adjusts.
Guessing these were the golden ones?

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-R-4-7GB-UltraLife-Archiv...
What to know: Very little will change as a result of any of this.
In my case I had a strong community outside of work: local theatre. Unfortunately that's now dead and likely to be amongst the very last things to return. I've seen a lot of friends since lockdown lifted but it's not the same as the regular rehearsals and annual shows and socials to look forward to.
If you think P/E ratio of 25 to be reasonable after the growth spurt slows down, AMD's earnings must grow

10% per year next 20 years, or

20% per year next 10 years, or

30% per year next 8 years, or

50% per year next 5 years

to get P/E 25 with current price.

I don't think the price is unreasonably high but I don't think ROI will be very high if you buy AMD today.
> How often do English speakers use non-English-based acronyms?

Not every often, but LSD is a notable example: the S is for "Säure", German for "acid".

Also names of foreign political parties: the full names of political parties aren't usually very informative, so expanding the acronym, translating it into English, and then making a new acronym would be ... unhelpful.

Edit: Of course it's not CCCP; it's СССР, or SSSR!
> Who's date? The date the customer sees it or the date the developer wrote it? Hopefully you have a continuous deployment pipeline in place, in which the customer gets an evergreen version without thinking about it, in which case our versioning should be developer centric.

This might work for a web page but an app... an app in any kind of environment that tries to control for security (like some large corps)... likely not.

And, for server side software.... yeah, not going to do that.

This whole thing doesn't work well for shipped software.

If you don't like semver for shipped software... there's always something like https://calver.org/.
At the company I work at, we're definitely not autonomous. If as a team we have a goal, as a dev, I don't know what it is. We have roadmapped (read: itineraried) work items, basically handed to our team to produce. Devs are resources who are paid for by budget that was earned by committing to said roadmap items delivery.

So what does it look like? Well, as devs, we have specific feature requirements handed to us with little-to-no prior input, we're always behind schedule so we're never afforded the time and space to do things right, it's always "we'll fix it later". We occassionally have some kind of "our competitor is doing this, we have to do this" piece of work that comes in and shifts all of our roadmap items later of course. No one ever stops to ask whether we're having the impact we anticipated, or whether it's even worth keeping the work.

Combine this with a replatforming-through-new-work effort on the go, you've got a slow mutation from the old platform into an even uglier new platform that doesn't get the right effort applied to it.

But hey, we're "agile", we have mission teams, we have two-pizza teams, we're goal oriented. I mean, we say these things, but in reality it's planned out work, with deadlines, delivered by multiple generic teams named after areas of the customer journey that end up being the center of philosophical debate about whether this bit of work lives with _this team_ or _that team_.

Although I don't think the team size or the number of them is necessarily the problem, the article rings true in my experiences - but it's down to culture of the organisation, more than the topology.
Neither provider is claiming that they download images as a matter of course. From the provided links:

Gmail: "Sometimes, senders may know whether you've opened an email that has an image."

Fastmail: "Clarified that the image server cannot see where the request came from. It may still be able to determine who the request came (ie email address validation) if the image URL has some kind of tracking data in it."
Yes you are right there are already lots of apps which people use to change the content.
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Largely debunked:

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/
Sure but you’re bound to say that ... Find me a hiring manager than publicly says anything else. That’s kind of part of the point.

I roughly recall google touting ~50% hiring success rate and that’s with a 4 interviewer, 10-15 man interview process, and undoubtedly a massive false negative rejection rate.

I think some undesirable attributes are observable in fairly short screeners ; sure screen away . But I bet you that you’d do at least as well if not better by just selecting at random past that point.
I almost forgot about this one. Nostalgic.
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I think they’d struggle to do anything with it, given anti-trust concerns
This. The software lead is just incredible; almost everything uses CUDA.

There has been some progress, but PyTorch still isn't fully functional with ROCm yet and that feels like a good litmus test.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/10657
The equation of fusion skeptics to anti-vaxxers is an unacceptable slur. We have excellent and incontrovertible evidence of the efficacy and value of vaccines. We have no evidence that fusion can be made practical, and there are well understood arguments for why it will not be.

Fusion is more like the Emperor's New Energy Source, an exercise in groupthink and sunk costing.
I was so sad when del.icio.us stopped. I wonder if old logins will work - I still remember mine!
And perhaps more pertinently, we (outside France) use French ones in other cases: SI, UTC.

(Well, outside of CS, GMT is much more common than UTC here in the UK. But I'd put that more down to self-centricism and not having a different term for our own non-Summer time than translating the acronym (which of course it isn't, and came first).)
Well, hunting riffles, even if there are extremely common in most countries, specially in rural areas, are hardly in the same class of weapon as a bolt action/(semi-)automatic riffle or an handgun.
The latter also has a different goal in mind, being generally used for self protection/deterrence.

Also, carrying a gun all the time is extremely uncommon if not forbidden in most European countries if you don't have the proper permits. For example in France, IIRC, you can only get such permit if your professional activity justifies it (Police, Security Guards, etc).

Even for recreational/hunting uses you need to be registered, and maybe have a permit, depending on the type of gun. And that's just for ownership, it doesn't grant you the right to carry the weapon loaded and ready to fire.
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Good point. Just launched an A/B test on the page using GPT-3 generated suggestions: https://soapbox.wistia.com/videos/TRn6lQiVhU

Let's see which one gets more participation :)
But are they ISO/IEC 27001 complaint
As an anecdote of this, I'm in an R&D department of a small company. I'm basically a team of one with an intern (which is its own challenge because he likes to be somewhat micromanaged). My manager just recently was finally convinced to shift from a waterfall module to something agile, except now it's just becoming a micromanagement tool... for a team of essentially 1.5.
We had a conversation the other day in which I was given to understand that if we thought some documentation was finished, but had to go back and make a tweak with no more than 15 minutes spent on it, we should be creating a ticket in Jira to do so. I'm currently cursing all the people who've sold agile because this is insanity (imo).
Feels good to get that off my chest haha.
So this state of the art technology is no longer used for newer jets?
Broadly timeseries DB's are optimized around the following:

- ingesting large amounts of data

- aggregating data around a "time" field (i.e. per minute, per hour, etc)

- updates are rare

- deletes are rare

By sacrificing update and delete functionality, timeseries DB's can optimize creating and reading records.
Good for you; not everybody does that :)

If you don't mind me asking, how big were those tasks?
Ha! Those are great arguments, and I totally agree! :-)
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Interesting that nobody mentioned a magnificient essay "How and Why I Thought My Toddler To Read" [1]. I tried it with my son. He's now 6 years 3 months and reads fluently German, good Serbian (cyrillic), and okay-ish English.

[1] http://larrysanger.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/How-and-Wh...
Quantum mechanics is incredibly elegant and appealing as a theory. It's just counter-intuitive.
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State of the art for the late 50s. Most jets then and now don't operate in regimes where a fuel like this would be necessary.
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It's still there, but support isn't great - a lot of sites don't have a feed, or it's waaaay outdated.
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How long was the first powered flight?
Europe has like 100x the salt cavern capacity needed. Hydrogen can also be stored in deep aquifers or hard rock caverns.

Using the 2030 data is proper, since any nuclear reactor we begin to build today won't be available until about then (which renewable and storage systems can be built in just a couple of years.)

Some of their cost figures are already too high, btw. Their 2030 estimate for the cost of electrolysers was 600 euro/kW; it's already down to half that (or even less, in China).
Check out NetNewsWire which is a free (and open source) RSS reader for Mac and iOS, under active development:

https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

NNW is fast and simple. Using it, I've come to feel that RSS doesn't need to be updated -- it just needs modernised tooling and a frictionless UX. Now I have a good reader, I spend as much time reading feeds as I do on social media. And I feel good about spending time reading and skimming, knowing that there isn't an engagement algorithm which is trying to steer me towards extreme responses.
I feel as if we will see fewer, but far better, pro photographers.

It will probably be some time before we have AI-assisted composition and lighting, and that's the real secret sauce of high-impact photography.

That kind of thing comes from having an emotional being in charge of the photography device. They "feel" the image, as much as they "see" the image, and know how to capture it in a way that will have others feel the power of the image.

That is what separates the pros from the amateurs.

But those pros now have some truly marvelous tools to help them to capture that emotion.

This is like the growth of CGI. When the tools first appeared, they were high geek-factor monsters that only an engineer could use, so only engineers used them, with predictable results. That resulted in some technically marvelous, but not particularly enjoyable, stuff[0].

Then John Lasseter and Pixar happened. Anyone remember the "Luxo Jr." animation?[1] That was where the world changed.

For the first time, emotion was reflected in CGI. Nowadays, true artists can do amazing things with tools like Blender, Maya and After Effects. There are now feature-length CGI movies that can have 300-lb cage fighters sobbing in their beer.

Until AI can produce emotions (shudder at the thought), there will always be a need for pro emotional craftsmen. The tools and medium may change, but artists have been around since the days of the Maltravieso Gallery.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4NPQ8mfKU0
Yes, it's not about reducing communication, it's about keeping the number communication channels and coordination manageable.

The "two-pizza team" is like a squad/section in military organization. It's the sweet spot of having enough people to get things but not too many people so that communication and coordination starts to be a problem.
Trivially proven true. Within MAX(human_lifespan) everyone shall have died.

Rest in peace, everyone.
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ah, but newsletters allow you to serve adverts, which is really why RSS "died".
nothing will come of this, as expected .