skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There are costs, and Uber and Lyft have determined that it’s not economically feasible for them keep operating in California under those regulations."

Do you know that's the case, or do you just mean "that's what they said!" It's in their interest to say they just can't afford to treat their workers better- that they'll be forced to shut down- regardless of whether or not they can afford to.
Fluff 'science' from Salon is not exactly a resounding endorsement for the article's content.
I remind myself before every interview that we are here to know what the candidate knows and not what the candidate does not know. This advice from my lead a few years ago has completely changed the way I conduct myself, probe their background and ask questions. By letting the candidate speak about a topic, you will learn an awful lot about their depth in the subject. This will help you make your assessment about their ability to handle the current challenges.
Sure, people prepare! But that's a good thing. We want everyone to do well.

If we sense they're doing something they've rehearsed a bit too much, we might push them to do it a bit differently. "What if you tried to do this by _____", just to make sure they can think on their feet.

Honestly, though, the best candidates for us are the ones who wouldn't try to game it. They hear the prompt, and are just so excited to show and talk about a project they're building that it's not a problem!
I love it. Just recently used their experimental OCR API that is proposed as a standard. Basically instant OCR of any image in the browser with a simple API call. Bring more APIs!
This guy makes such good videos.

I mean, I marginally gave a shit about a lot of these games now that I'm old (even though I owned all of them as a kid), much less about speed runs, but after watching his videos by chance, I suddenly care again ... and maybe even a lot more for the endeavour of speed runs.

And that's the hallmark of a good documentary.
The most critical challenge humans are facing this century is the quite reasonable scenario where we start to run out of fossil fuels. We're consuming them at a faster rate than we are discovering them and literally all our systems currently depend on fossil fuel consumption.
Ok, but you didn't just say this should be possible, you said it should be the default best-practice. Even if it were useful in a handful of cases, this would be a terrible default way of doing things.
Marketing department smart enough to make the advertisong material pique the interest of the target market, rather than have them, and you, think "they've obviously selected the best possible results".
I remember my, "Modern C as an Oxymoron" joke went over pretty badly. Buuuuuuuuut...
The first part of Larry Niven’s Ringworld explains why not. The structure requires materials so strong that even well-read sci-fi writers need to put in placeholder magic materials in.
Is this legit? What are the risks here?

I'm off to buy some SpaceX if this is a legitimate way of doing so.
Yeah common people think emissions come mostly form cars. Globally all transportation represents like 15% while electricity production is like 25% of our emissions.
Well... I would argue that they "packed up" after they "lost", legally (to Netscape, who was no hero at the time), not after they "won".

Here is a comment I wrote many years ago going into some oft-ignored background (pre-IE 5) on Microsoft vs. Netscape and extending web standards.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5718968

And here is a talk I have at a conference a couple years ago that delves deeply into the timeline of the end and the downfall of Microsoft.

https://vimeo.com/310654342

Honestly, the web has always been filled with lots of broken promises and broken dreams and almost no one was ever incentivized to act in its best interests :(.
I don't think interviewing as a concept should even exist. In a perfect world, everyone should be able to freely learn new things and help contribute their life experience in a positive way. In tech, there are plenty of opportunities to do that in the way of open source.

So what I started was a local library program (pre-covid) that I would attend before / after work to be around people who are doing career switch to coding.

Then when students learn enough and have strong foundations that I look for, I recruit them to work on open source side projects that benefit new students who are learning.

For the students who have shown the maturity to build and maintain production features, I refer them to the company I work at and they interview and (hopefully get in).

In the past 2 years, I've referred 5 students successfully and they're all doing pretty really well (I secretly stalk their internal code contributions).

I hope that one day, I could have enough reputation at my company to hire engineers based on their open source contributions. I also hope that the stock market doesn't crash next year because I plan to use my RSUs to start a fund to hire junior engineers students so they don't worry about medical benefits while they contribute to open source projects and have a hard time finding a job.

If you mentor a student as they are learning, you can instill good engineering practices: like taking the time to communicate and write good documentation, write code and comments to make life easy for the next engineer to take over, how to handle tradeoffs between time and quality, etc. These are critical engineering skills that are very hard to test in 1 hours but are very effective if mentored early on.
Wasn't David a king?

Goliath would have only been up to like double David's size anyways, so orders of magnitude sounds bigger than the David/Goliath difference.
I am always curious what people think about the following subject: Do you believe patents promote innovation or hamper it? Certainly some business models are dependent on patents and intellectual property restrictions, but do you think it actually promotes innovation?

My own observation has been that with the 3D printer for example, innovation was stagnant for the 20 years that they were under patent. Once the patents expired, innovation in the space boomed and the price of a decent 3D printer dropped by 100x.

So with the US so patent-heavy, are we actually making things more expensive and crippling innovation? What would it do to the price of your washing machine if it was open source hardware? Prusa Research has seemingly had good competitive success even with all open source products and many clones, so I feel like the economics can work. Would we be better off if we learned the economics of open source hardware and pushed the industry in that direction? Have any economists taken this question seriously?

This blog post on innovation from Bunnie Huang talks about the real on the ground experience of innovation without IP restrictions here:
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

Libertarians make a good case against intellectual property restrictions too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgLJkj6m0A
Hey thanks for the reply. I don’t really understand this answer to be honest. How do you compare fairly between two or more candidates applying for the same position with this method? If you’re judging all applicants on the “would you want to work with them scale” what are the common parts of the scale across applicants as it applies to this technical project? How do you ensure the judgement of wanting to work with someone is fair within a pool of applicants for a position?
Does innovation always depend on state funding spent on RnD?
The most important thing is choice. Some people are better off telecommuting and some people prefer the office. Forcing someone to use the environment that's worse for them will make them unhappy.
I think the stack for the next 30 years is going to be zig for low level code, something on the erlang vm for networks and distributed systems, and Julia for numerical computation.

It's just too hard to "do things right" in C. Even people who have been "doing things right" for decades make mistakes.
At the time, both Java and standards-compliant browsers posed major threats to Microsoft, and Microsoft did a pretty good job of messing up both. Only in distant hindsight do ActiveX and MSFT's hobbled 1.1 JVM seem inconsequential.
If you follow the article around you realize this isn't about money invested but simply based on how many scientific articles are being published [0] and not dollars invested even though they toss in one Chinese based companies number.

Personally I do not find article count a good number to base the claim on. Percentage of GPD might not be a good reference either but then again I am not 100% sure a dollar for dollar comparison works well in all cases.

[0]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/top-ten-countries-lea...
The article is literally about the select few people who are doing what you say, and have the financial resources to mount public misinformation campaigns. That’s not what the “older generation” is doing, it’s what these specific guys are doing.
I have a pet theory that repulsive and attractive forces exist at infinity at ever increasing scales.
I see. But anyone can buy them in practice?
You're missing the part where the interviewer is changing with each interview (and the rest of their life in general). They phrase the problem differently, get anxious as the interviewee approaches different parts of the task. So, the interviewer thinks they're giving the same test and can fairly compare the outcomes. The GP's point is that's just not true

Whether it works out to be a harder or easier interview over time because of these changes probably depends on the individual interviewer.
I ran the code and took some screenshots of the really nice web UI. Simple and inspiring since I've been working on a robot web UI recently. Here's some screenshots of the Makani interface:
https://imgur.com/gallery/NMjBJSY
This must be learned, commuting is definitely not something I would say was good for my mental health.
Yes - this bit me as well this year! I had to switch my APIs to message pack.
Exactly. The funny thing is that many Chinese science articles have been found to be completely fake. Quantity over quality.

Doesn’t mean we can relax, but nothing about China can be judged by Western standards.
Every year tons of new Javascript developers graduate from colleges and bootcamps. Why do any of them get raises when companies could just hire at the base wage? Sweeping floors may not be very exciting but you can learn skills - perhaps purchasing (supplies), handyman work (path to union labor), maybe the CEO notices the floors are freaking spotless and this guy has never been late once in the past year and decides to give him more responsibility...
TicTok is 13 years plus so it's not children in that it's growing adults mixed with real adults.

But I do not understand how uploading this video would not be an instant ban, especially if it's hidden in a shock style.

But 'liking' is up to the user.
SoftBank bought Arm in 2016 for $32 billion. A 32B investment turned into 40B over 4 years is 6% ROI. (32 * 1.06^4) = 40.3

8B + 24B loan turned into 40 Billion - 24B loan = 16B or 8B in profits minus interest. Which could be up to a 19% annual ROI 1.19^4 ~= 2x. I don’t know what their loan interest rate look like, but I suspect it’s shockingly low.
All of their assets were liquidated in their Alameda location. I bought some power tools from the auction went to pick it up and saw this really long wing span in a hangar. I asked the people with the liquidators what it was and they told me it was used for power. Then I remembered reading about this company in Wired many years ago and felt it would be something cool. Well I own some power tools they used to use so that’s as close to having their history with me.
Throughout the deposition, Gates, ever the tyrant, refused to offer his head on a silver platter to his adversaries.
> opposition to a nuclear power plant. This kind of thinking is backwards and self-destructive

I get that national grids do more than just power homes, but the article does mention the town's progressive energy policies. For example, the article mentions 'Plus energy' houses and building which feed the grid rather than draw from it. It's just not blind opposition and attempts are clearly made at reducing consumption.
We’re talking about paradigm shifts and not just incremental innovation (both are important, but there is a huge difference).
Both Uber and Facebook traded higher on second market during the 6 months prior to IPO, and then the share price fell after the first week or two. Facebook I remember had deals closing at $45-$50 and then they priced at $38.

While diversifying might help, the greatest return with 1 year of purchase might entail selling during the IPO pop... at least that held for Uber and Facebook. If you buy into one of these notes, aren’t the shares likely held as part of a 6 month lock-up? Or would JPM liquidate you as part of the IPO?

Wonder if we would see dark pools doing derivatives of these holdings (similar to how credit swap contracts were trade during the financial crisis). That would be the most likely place you could 10x or 100x an investment on a late-stage company like Airbnb, and you might even convince people like Softbank to play?
And those TVs created a lot of Chinese jobs.
Would you say premature standardization is a part of the problem?

It seems marginally better that Google at least asks others in an open forum. Microsoft basically dictated defacto standards by leveraging their dominant OS.

My preference is for vendor prefix like namespacing and waiting for at least two independent implementations before any serious standardization. But for web dev on the cutting edge I can see the temptation to play with new toys.
The key phrase you failed to comprehend was "root cause" two posts up. That's where it was asserted that it is about healthcare. Your comment is therefore out of context.
You mean they’d do something like form a cartel with each other to keep wages down in unison?
The answer is on who you expect to innovate more: big corps that can afford to file, defend, and acquire patents or individual makers?

America will win only when we can support both use cases.
Google Fi has been a godsend compared to the likes of AT&T, Verizon, and TMobile.
Ah so I guess it's "not possible" that Google has a meaningful history of their source code and I guess their project, arguably among largest and most profitable of all time, is "crippled". Weird. I wonder how they get anything done over there.
I suspect the only way humans will successfully colonize the solar system is with gene editing. Genetic modification can be used to reduce the life support requirements in various environments. For example, different gravities, different gas pressure, gas composition, tolerance of various chemicals, radiation, etc.
> I remember checking local Walmarts in the weeks that followed and I noticed all the TVs were gone.

A lot of folks became retail investors for the first time right about then, too. Hertz wiped a few of them out, and SoftBank profited off the rest.

Even a "trickle up" bailout gets taken advantage of by the big fish.
A HVDC belt buckle around the earth paired with oodles of PV seems like a rare legit silver bullet. Hopefully China is wildly successful with this, spurring further investment.
If it is really "less than 3 inches wide", it is most likely a wheel hub motor with a much bigger diameter. 3 inches thick would be a much better description. (This is all conjecture.)
> I could literately see my breath while I laid in bed

I laughed. In temperate New Zealand we have some truly crap housing and this is seen in many houses during our mild winters.
I've always found the any% categories of speed running to be the most interesting, since it often works by manipulating the code of a game to work in really inventive ways.

if you like videos like this, pannenkeok2012 does super in depth analysis of everything Super Mario 64

https://www.youtube.com/user/pannenkeok2012
Any lawyers want to comment on this? My guess is that it's unenforceable because you can't bind someone with a contract by sneak attack.

But it's funny.
Magic wormhole still doesn't have an easy way to run on windows, i have to download a 2.4GB VC Build tools with a shitty installer from Microsoft.
No and no, unless you're picking a very unusual way of attributing things
Possible credulous users cannot be the one-size-fits-all excuse for blocking the freedoms of everyone. There are many ways to mitigate any conceivable concern without abrogating the freedom of a phone owner to run the software they wish on their own device.
Compared to public company LLC have less requirements yes. Howver you still need a board and resolutions and you have submit your LLC annual returns have seperate bank accounts at the minimum. None of that is required for a sole proprietor.

> costs the state next to nothing

How are you concluding this ?

Cost to the state is just not storing few bits somewhere . Even just applications they have to build maintain those bits will cost the state a lot of money.

The non tech part of the government which needs your data.
every bank , credit worthiness, every other biz which needs to work with you, every dept that needs to regulate what you do , every small biz schemes you would like to benefit from. Healthcare, employee taxes, courts etc ....

All of these reference your corporate entity "ID" the government needs to maintain and service them. Heck even apple will ask your DUNS number when you register non personal developer account.

It may or may not cost $800, but it certainly isnt next to nothing. other states maybe absorbing the costs and are trying to attract new biz, doesn't mean that california has to be cheap too.

Like I said there are other entity structures which are cheaper and designed for businesses that cannot afford 800 dollars a year in filing fee.
I mean if they have all the power, employees will be forced to accept minimum wages.
Many of the comments on discussions such as these give me the impression that people are not considering this when they write, or at the very least omitting it.

I'm a college student graduating next year, and I just finished my first substantial internship ever in a remote arrangement. The past twelve weeks were my first real experience in my professional environment of interest, but I'm not even sure if I can call it that. I did the best I could and completed three of four of my projects, one of which was a competition where my team placed. But this was despite reassignment from my preferred original projects (in a physical lab), productivity, and general morale suffering immensely from pretty much every restriction COVID and the California wildfires have wrought on us.

I'm a young guy in the process of building myself in nearly every way. I have more "potential" than I do domain knowledge and wisdom. I'm less disciplined. I feel a huge need to get out into the world and see people in places to develop my career and every type of relationship. These have all been harder to work on in the current climate.

So when I see people extolling anecdotal virtues of no commute or not having to bother with seeing their coworker's faces in response to comments explaining why people may like the office, I get annoyed. I've literally never seen a single colleague of mine in real life or had a chance to get bored of my commute, and it was not a choice for me. Yes, adapting as things come is important. That doesn't change the assertion my demographic will have likely been more impacted by this when the smoke clears. I haven't had nearly as much opportunity as these people may have taken for granted in situating themselves so they can presently bank on their know-how and established relationships until we are out of this crisis. I hope my experiences in this regard will not be as bad as I go for full-time after I finish school in June.
Yeah a reflex is innate by definition and not learned. They're also much more simplistic responses than this - think a baby fanning its toes out when you touch the sole of its foot.

I think they might have been thinking of a conditioned response, but then again you can't classically condition an animal to do something it's not already capable of. It's only the associations that are changed
UB has nothing to do with optimization. It's about working around the differences between all the platforms that a C program might need to be compiled for. UB covers things like the layout of a signed integer(might be two's compliment, or it might not). It's about letting the platform or compiler dictate what the program does in the rare case where the program does something that might result in different behavior on different compilers and platforms.

Note that I'm using "platform" to refer to the CPU instruction set.
All the people fleeing California disagree with you
Pre-Launching of my E-Book - Beginner's Guide to Web Security [PDF]
Yes, it's supposed to be unclear because I expect the candidate to clarify the requirements. Jumping in to implementing something would be a bad move. Asking questions like these would be a good first step.

I think of it as the FizzBuzz version of getting requirements for the thing you're supposed to be doing.
They were prepared to do it. It was set to go into effect and was going to it if wasn’t for the emergency stay order.
If somebody is vulnerable, I'd say it seems like a very bad thing to make them work by threatening them with homelessness and poverty, enforced by men with guns.

So no, I don't think it is.
from the end of the article:

Take small checks. People writing small checks is something that's very common in Silicon Valley.
I love having a bunch of founder/operator investors to tap in to when we need help.
You can see from the image above, we raised over $700k from intros that originated with a small $5k check. If we hadn't taken that small check, we likely would not have connected with many of those other investors.
Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say "America will win"? What do you mean win?

Open source hardware is really good at making things low cost, because whoever can offer the best value (low cost, reasonably quality) will succeed. So what if we did that with big stuff like MRI machines and semiconductor fabricating equipment and robotics? Wouldn't that make all that stuff cheap, thereby making us better off? Like health care and car repairs and manufacturing would all be cheaper, and we can use that to thrive.
If you’re narrowing down a pool of suspects being able to clear everyone who isn’t a specific ethnicity immediately is still pretty powerful.
I think it's an excellent standard and its widespread adoption demonstrates this.

Can you explain why you think it isn't?
Here is Mitch Flower Power performing the glitch on live TV in 2016 with Stephen Colbert:

https://youtu.be/jvLwpnn1F4Y

I believe Mitch was the first person to do this trick in RTA.
I think at the point he defeated Goliath David was still just a shepherd. There may have been a prophecy he would become king but I don't think he had even been anointed.
Just synthesizing a genome isn't going to get us to designer humans - frankly its already well within the reach of modern technology to synthesize 3 billion bases. You cant just bootstrap from the nucleotide sequence - even in really simple bacteria we have to pop the genome into a pre-prepared genome free cell with the machinery to start working on doing life stuff, and adding the complexity of human epigenetics and a multicellular organism makes that a nonstarter currently. Especially when just editing the genome is so much easier.
Great! Ordered. Thank you!
Their currently the best hope of the "Davids" since none of the actually small players stand a chance standing up to Apple.
I mean, IANAL but there seems to be a trivial loophole here: have the company lawyer read the license, lawyer determines there’s a trapdoor, and conveys the contents to someone else. Nobody but the lawyer has to read it; everyone but the lawyer can use the software. The license specifically refers to people and not organizations...