skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many companies hire contractors because they are seen as a capital expenditure on the finances. While employees are classified as an operational expense.

This has several accounting benefits, and in some jurisdictions makes it easier to dismiss the employee/contractor.
VIA doesn't have a license for the AMD64 instruction set, however. Intel and AMD did a cross-licensing deal so they have a co-equal position.
Because like a gas giant, the surface is effectively unreachable or at least absolutely uninhabitable (if it even exists for a gas giant). The atmosphere of Venus, like a gas giant, becomes a very hot, supercritical gas as you go deeper. Like a gas giant, the only potential habitable area is in the atmosphere.

Venus still has a sensible surface, although it's unclear if that concept makes sense for a gas giant. "Gas dwarfs" exist, which have a thick atmosphere around a rocky planet (i.e. around Earth's mass), but Venus probably doesn't qualify for that. It's sort of a continuum, though, so the dividing line is somewhat arbitrary.
> Her personal website is one of the best I've ever seen.

Wow, it's really good indeed!
OpenTitan: Open-source silicon root of trust
These systems where never triggered because of where Theranos was in the development process.
Good design as advocated by the author is generally conducive to change and is saying pretty much the same thing as you are.

It's a lot easier to take away unique constraints later on instead of adding them in. It's easier to de-normalize some data for performance than to normalize it later on. The list goes on.

The reason the waterfall method received so much bad press is because of requirements gathering, not the software or data design phases. Requirements are hard to get right the first time and they also change over time. But I'd be surprised to find someone argue that good architecture and design is a bad thing (being defined as the ability to adapt to changes in requirements).
They can, of course, be prosecuted for fraud if someone brings a valid complaint against them. Is there any evidence that any of their investors were tricked into giving them money or were made false promises?
Life on Venus Is a Social Construct
I'll answer: first paragraph was trollish and could have been left off. I'd flag but for the later stuff being more substantive.
I wouldn't be so sure. Fundamentals don't matter much in this market.
> but conversations on whether to impose them or what they might be have not even started.

Sorry for the cheap shot, but the current government is not very good at starting conversations, signing agreements or to to keep them.
Who is this "we" people keep referring to. I find the blanket "we's" so annoying.
The author also has a Nim version, https://github.com/paranim/pararules
That's not really how it works. The land and ocean radiate their energy directly into space.

This works through emitting mostly infrared frequency light for which, just like visible light, the atmosphere is mostly transparent.
> The _only_ factor to programming language popularity is how accessible it is.

> Beauty and elegance don't matter. Performance doesn't matter. In fact, no measure of "fitness for purpose" matters.

If that were true, C++ wouldn't be so popular.
Thanks for the links.

Overall, there's an interesting organizational dynamic that we've seen around data enablement. Marketing and other operational teams need it and it's often locked in the product space. It's usually not a priority for the eng team because they are focused on the core product, but the data is there. The important stuff (ETL copy of the product db) is usually not a huge mess.

We are inspired by warehouse tools like Looker that made that accessible to more people, giving them autonomy to be successful. Grouparoo takes that one step further to add on top of the data and make it actionable in all the other places that people want it.
Zoom's Blank Check
How fast can we get a probe there?
If the author had payed with a credit card, he could have gotten a refund, and it would be the responsibility of the credit card Issuer to track down the merchant and get a refund.
Everything You Should Know About Dropouts and BatchNormalization in CNN
Quite telling that some people see this as a triumph of humanity and your reaction and some others is to make sure you can you end your life if in a similar situation. Martin of course never had that choice to make.

But I think the real point of his story is his message about how important it is to communicate with others, how the depth and content of that communication with others is who we really are. I think a man who was alone with his thoughts for 15 years is very qualified to give us that advice.
But again, you'd have that problem whether you used Homebrew or not, as soon as you tried to (even manually!) install the official macOS binary distribution of TeX, or XQuartz, or PostGIS, or...

Homebrew just acknowledges that these external third-party binary distributions (casks) are going to make a mess of your /usr/local — because that's the prefix they've all settled on burning in at compile-time — and so Homebrew tries to at least make that mess into a managed mess.

And, if some other system is already managing /usr/local, but isn't expecting the results of these programs unpacking into there, it's going to be very upset and confused — again, regardless of whether or not you use Homebrew. So it'd be better for those other systems to just... not do that.

/usr/local isn't supposed to be managed. It's supposed to be the install prefix that's controlled by the local machine admin, rather than by the domain admin. Homebrew just happens to be a tool for automating local-admin installs of stuff.
tbh thats probably legalistically enough for them to avoid getting sued

But the very idea that "yeah, you're right on all the facts, its just that we didn't really 'lie'" isn't a great defense of the business
Riot Games Hires a Cheat Hunting Vigilante
A few weeks ago there were rumors that ARM was looking to be sold to Apple and Apple turned them down. If an NVIDIA acquisition is such a deal breaker for Apple, why wouldn't they have just acquired ARM to begin with?
It's great that universities here are stellar. But the K-12 students are taking a hit. I feel bad for the vast majority of children going to school in this state.
Had NKLA not been publicly traded, there would have been little financial incentive for an institution with skin in the game to systematically research and report on potential fraud.
I live near Seattle and I’m astounded to see people going about their normal lives while the air they are breathing is literally toxic. It makes me wonder how much people actually know or care about the problem as they are willing to sacrifice their lungs in order to ignore it.

This also further solidifies my belief that asking people to change their lifestyles in ineffective in tackling the climate disaster. Given the choice people will carry out their normal businesses (even as the world is burning around them).

What we really need is actual policy that combats this. We need the state to build the infrastructure and enact restrictions on polluting behavior so people aren’t given the choice of carrying out our polluting destructive business.
Yes. Many of the privacy and data protections are not based on where the data is stored, but rather where the people who provided that data reside. For example, GDPR (an EU regulation) applies to US companies with data in the US, but only if the data they are storing belongs to EU customers.
AI deployment is already hard thanks to anti-open source nature of Nvidia. Have you ever tried to deploy models using nvidia-docker? Why are GPUs not part of Linux Kernel? Why are server grade GPUs so expensive? Why does PyTorch/Tensorflow not really support AMD GPUs.

Nvidia is a monopoly. A monopoly is never good for the market and innovation in the long term.
There is a whole cottage industry on giving advice, coaching etc (not talking about this article, just in general). Maybe most of the advice is well intentioned. But everyone's situation, skills, motivations, drive etc are different. What works for one person may not work for another.

We can take general advice from successful people, I guess (especially those who has had recent success). But more than that, it is on the individual to tailor what he/she learned according to their needs.

After listening to whole bunch of people giving advice and trying many of them, I haven't found much that can be applied as is.
The time for fundamentals will return soon.
Not really. They can probably sell it at a loss and recover it all back in tax breaks.
> Have they looked into what's going on in the west coast of the US right now?

Despite the current fires, wildfires are down and have been for decades. A lot of the current wild fires stem from reducing the number of controlled burns we use to do.

Also there is quite a significant amount of arson:

https://archive.is/GWLYq, https://archive.is/cFPbd, https://archive.is/xHiFO, https://archive.is/mhKtG, https://archive.is/US23e, https://archive.is/JyfJe, https://archive.is/owMeD, https://archive.is/rl2cm (and there are a ton more)
Multi-screen smartphone: LG announces the WING 5G
Roles I've seen pay the same, but FTs benefits of healthcare/401k/vacation are worth 50k/yr.
I live in (or near) Cambridge and it is rubbish. It's different if you went to Cambridge University, though. A lot more doors are open for you. But it's far too expensive to live in so most people live miles away and do a horrible commute every day involving crawling traffic and general anger and frustration.
Ouch. I would have thought that Microsoft would have learned the hard way that shoving a product into's peoples faces is a great way to kill them. If they did that with TikTok, then TikTok would be gone in ten minutes. Even Oracle would need a decade to kill Tik*Tok.
You too can now spend 50k to play AC:C and get smoked by a 12-year-old with a G27.
What Android gets right that the iPhone gets so wrong
They don't, SPACs up until recently had a very poor reputation, and it seems like we will soon have a new generation of investors learn the hard way why they had that reputation.
Yeah this is it in my experience. It looks like they're optimizing for age, but they're really optimizing for cost and ageism is a side-effect.

I've seen this happen at almost every job I've had: Senior engineer with 10+ years experience works 40-50 hours a week and gets laid off. Senior engineer is opinionated about how things are implemented and can come across as "difficult." Two junior engineers are hired for about the same cost and are pushed to 60+ hours a week. They'll do literally anything you tell them to. Non-engineer management sees a win but then eventually gets mad about codebase issues like it's unrelated, and end up churning through juniors trying to fix it.

Another alternative is outsourcing of course, in which you can end up with a small team for the short-term cost of one senior engineer... and a lot of the same problems with the junior route.

It feels like one of those risk problems where people are happy about the short-term gain but fail to look far enough ahead to see the long-term issues.
When you need to add info to your database, do you refactor existing tables or do you add a key-value table.

I've seen so many key-value tables that really needed to be refactored into proper normalized tables.

It's just so tempting to stick extra info into KV when you don't know where the project will end up.
This is an old tip my father gave me 40+ years ago that applies to banking, mortgages, insurance, investing, credit cards, and all personal finance.
This is currently the golden age of fraud. Jay Clayton has destroyed any set of teeth that the SEC once had.

This is why people have been so critical of Elon Musk. Elon Musk's flippant behavior engenders worse and worse.
I assume we'd send an orbiter + probe package. The probe would aerobrake into a low orbit and descend more slowly, gaining more time in the upper atmosphere. I imagine some gas spectrometry would be on board. If the probe was moving slowly enough it could deploy a balloon and remain airborne for hours or days, maybe longer. The orbiter would stay in an eccentric orbit and act as a relay and take more measurements.

If the probe was built to withstand higher temperatures it could descend towards the end of the mission and do more work at lower altitudes. It's unlikely there would be a surface mission because of the weight involved with keeping electronics working at 464°C/867°F.
As to your first point: In the sense that it's useful to say "every integrable function f has some antiderivative F so that you may compute the integral by computing F at the endpoints", yes, your definition can be useful. On the other hand, it's also an important question to consider "which functions can be derivatives?" and in that sense, the definition is less useful. But definitions are definitions; the most we could objectively argue about is which one is the more standard one.

> Here again I'd argue over semantics, though I'd concede it's much more a matter of personal preference than my argument above, which I think has mathematical weight behind it. Namely, I'd argue that the numerical integration is doing something directly with the non-elementary anti-derivative, namely, evaluating it at a point—just like we call reading off the value of, say, the sine of an angle from our calculator doing something directly with the sine, even though what we're really doing is summing sufficiently many terms in a Taylor-series approximation.

Fundamentally, at a mathematical level, yes. That's what it means for two definitions to be equivalent. But on an algorithmic level, the process of evaluating an integral numerically and the process of finding an antiderivative (especially symbolically) are quite different things.

But in the end, it doesn't seem that we fundamentally disagree.
I think the biggest problem is that an energized in-wall circuit must have an upstream circuit breaker. His new circuits do not, and rely on the source power supply being connected to a breaker. Because the power supply is a UPS, turning all the breakers off will not cut power to that circuit.
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I'm not so sure UK politicians would know what to do with a complicated tech company.
You laugh, but if we make this a matter of regulatory oversight, this sort of word parsing is exactly what every case will come down to.
> The Apple environment is absolutely _miles_ ahead of the web platform in several respects...

Such as?

In any case, I'd assume those miles are only gained on iOS where Apple has gimped the newer web APIs.
BZflag, the tank game, is named after "Battle Zone", the original Atari tank game.
What about health care costs. Education costs. Amount of vacation time. Pension.
If your answer to a problem is "I'll just write the solution myself", this isn't for you.

But if you don't have the time or programming skills to create something from scratch, Airtable is a very compelling alternative to "I'll just throw it in a spreadsheet."
Not a money-gaining proposition, but that's why some CEOs should go to jail. We need to create an environment where fraud like this isn't profitable or sustainable.
I don't know about vimagit, but vim's org-mode support is very barebones.

Give doom-emacs a try though. You really can have the best of both worlds nowadays.
> after changing careers.

This is a big one. There are arguments for not hiring older experience programmers, then there is a different issue about hiring older people that want to be new programmers. I'd think the second group wont have much hope of getting hired.
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It's also regional, I started my career at a startup in Kansas City, where the situation is completely the opposite. The average age of the company was 40 or so, particularly in engineering.
Are you presuming that a 'well-thought [out] design' means that all the thoughts, and the design, came only at first? I can see a well-thought out design either as the waterfall you presume, or as an accretion of design decisions made over time as in your 'fluid design.' Either way can save many hours of coding, testing, troubleshooting.
Ask HN: Where do you find this mysterious product “niche”?
Since my last side-project failed I was looking where to apply my technical skills: maybe to create some business, to have fun implementing something useful, to have purposeful side project. Everywhere you look for "ideas" you'd find a common thread of advice: find a B2B niche with some unresolved (or poorely solved) problems aimed at medium/small business, where customers would want to pay for that problem solution, and try to offer something there (cheaper/better). Do an MVP, iterate on an early feedback, pivot if needed, GOTO 10.

The problem #1 is: where the heck do you find these niches? Let's assume you're a highly skilled and motivated engineer working a typical job in a big corporation. You have absolutely no contact with thousands of small businesses with all their problems: you have no idea what kinds of inefficiencies small legal firms have (that have optimization potential), you have no idea what professional landlords expect from their CRMs, you have no idea what small scale-metalworking shops have for problems.
What are possible solutions to this? Networking events (hard in COVID times), endless HN browsing, endless scrolling through openstartup or indiehackers?

The problem #2 is: even if you'd find some interesting and seemingly successful niche product, you go to the landing page and are welcomed with some abstact marketing bullshit bingo about "enchancing productivity", "no coding required", "track your goals", "manage contacts" and you're like: "wtf, people are willing to pay for this?" You think: "all of this can be solved with a bunch of properly designed excelsheets and some python glue, why is there a fancy webapp for that?"
How you get rid of this mindset and adopt a more business-oriented thinking?

I would be very grateful for any sorts of insights: interesting idea sites to browse, good books to read, etc.
You could build (or get built for you) an full motion rig with all the bells and whistles for probably at most half this amount.

Worth mentioning that they can't simulate G-forces as per se they just mimic the motion of the car
> potentially illegal ways.

Is anyone in jail?

Are there any pending legal cases against them?
And for those platforms it’s a plus as well (more political ad income) given the poor quality of the average eyeball.
Looks pretty neat! I wonder if multiple repl's can hook up to a singular database, this post makes it sound like it's a 1:1 relationship. Either way Repl stays adding great features.
It's pretty much the same. I'm sure the Hoover Institution uses some level of peer review for their papers, except those peers probably get paid to review it whereas academics don't. Peer review doesn't do much, it's very much getting you to first base quality wise, often not even that. It can be effective if peers are able and willing to really go deep, burn bridges and object to the core thesis of a paper. Clearly not going to be true at the Hoover Institution but equally untrue within most academic fields.

Many bad papers are bad because they're actually political papers dressed up to look like science, thus (ab)using a university's reputation to lend credibility to abject bullshit. I know that link claims most of them aren't. I think that's good news. But note, that's because many of the papers that replicate, only replicate because they're making vacuous observations. Of the papers that get attention because they make surprising claims, many of them are politically or ideologically motivated.

Partly this depends on how widely you define politically motivated. For instance it's common for supposedly scientific papers to run a model, and then advocate for certain government policies based on the output predictions. This is political activity. It's also often not scientific because the models haven't been validated, and in fact if/when the political recommendations are acted upon it renders their predictions unfalsifiable, which a disinterested scientist should not want.

This problem is much larger than grad students. Bad papers are routinely being written by career academics, professors, large groups of them.
There is zero evidence that keeping neural plasticity at adolescent or young adult levels will help, especially considering it's mostly an issue of power dynamics (preserving social status), not the merits of the science. Based on our studies of childhood trauma, increased neural plasticity is likely to hurt as much as help.
Every ten years a new generation of investors have to learn the same lessons
If it was that simple, why don't they use that strategy with young workers as well?

Because the young workers are already cheaper. Hard to out-cheap them. (Obviously not their fault.)
"Avoiding single points of failure". Boom, engineer-speak.
You can more subtle about that.

For example since 2007 Russia started to pay “Mother’s capital” for each child born after a first one.
~$10k for a kid.

China has enough money to give away.
Yeah, that's pretty stupid. Writing free and open-source code is not a privilege. It's a community service. Imagine if you decided to pick up some trash in your local park, and cops would stop you from doing that and ask you first to submit an official form, mail it to the city hall, wait for a few days for it to be reviewed and approved...
This is the first I'm hearing of repl.it and it looks like an amazing resource.

How does this work business-wise? How does it make money?

Edit: Will Julia be supported in the future? This is not good...
https://repl.it/@asemic/ConsiderateBelatedAccounting
Browsers largely aren't taking advantage of native UI frameworks (aside maybe from the window chrome and basic controls). Aside from the minimum required to get an OpenGL context (or whatever graphics tech) onto the screen they don't need to build on native UI.

Sure, they're technically building on top of the native UI frameworks, but only by completely ignoring all of their functionality.
I admire your commitment trying to tackle this, especially trying to come up with a model for the disease. There needs to be more intersection of medicine with engineers to advance things for patients.

John-Patrick, a fellow JP
The investors could bring a derivative suit against the officers of the corporation. They wouldnt be collecting from the corporation, but from the officers of the corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_suit).

Presumably it would not be feasible to collect large sums from the officers, but they frequently do have D&O insurance policies that could kick in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_and_officers_liabili...)
They aren't the only ones.
I'm assuming it would have been a bigger scandal / might have been revealed earlier if they had used GGI. "Truck rolled downhill" is harder to proof than "Truck doesn't exist and was done using CGI".
5 years planned with no maintenance (e.g. no storage disk failures to replace). I wonder how many spare drives were slapped in that tube to make that feasible?
To hire back young people on contract would cost more than the entry level salaries they hold.
I'm not sure you've learned the lessons from Tesla
How can you get benefits from e-learning?
Great source for e-learning
Alphabet's Loon balloons are helping scientists study gravity waves
They say he wasn't conscious for the first couple of years. So even if they tried at the beginning, they wouldn't have got anything, and then they just assumed he wasn't conscious.
Wile I agree that the triple "sss" is not great and very prone to mis-typing, I'll just add that MOZ recommends avoiding TLDs like .page for SEO reasons.

https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain