skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might not make any money and then California wouldn't get any money!
The thought of China creating an army of genetically modified 200 IQ super soldiers/scientists is both fascinating and horrifying. It's comparable to the technological singularity that would occur if we had chains of AI creating superior AI.
No on #3, but nothing on my car is obviously misaligned. If it's to that point for yours too then of course don't worry about it. But you are far from the only person to have these issues in a Tesla, and panel alignment issues simple don't exist in large numbers for other car makers.
Funny enough, this is another obvious feature that they get completely wrong -- lists are publicly editable, with no (apparent) way of restricting adds to the original creator. So inevitably any niche curatorial effort slides back to the lowest common denominator taste over time.
How do you maintain consistency across candidates with this approach? One of the struggles I've seen with interviewing is making sure that candidates are judged on a fair and consistent scale across interviews, candidates, interviewers, etc. Do you find having a different project for each interview makes getting a consistent and comparable signal out of interviews challenging?
I’ll listen to him about physics but that doesn’t mean I have to give him any credit for what he thinks about climate. Incredibly smart people are still wrong about stuff all the time, being smart does not mean everything you have to say is worth listening to.
> no grocery store

I can't tell if you forgot about Ava's, or if you've never actually _been_ to downtown Mountain View, or if you only consider chain supermarkets to count.
Just the minority of people who had bad experiences and shared them. Stack ranking almost always creates such environments.
I'm 95% sure this is sarcastically referencing https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/super-mario-bros-35-sw... but in case it isn't or someone reading isn't aware.
Erm, in my experience (20 years, good but not a superstar) the numbers are 2x that. My last BigCo offer was $300k total comp and jobs with smaller companies (all remote) were around $120-150k. One startup offered me $190k to work remote (but I would have been the only remote worker).

That said, I agree that your average non-FAANG job pays about half of FAANG. Although this is true regardless of remote-ness.
I was born in a town of similar size and have always been fascinated by my friends who grew up their entire lives in Houston who have no relatives in such small places and really have no concept of how different it can feel an hour outside of the city.

Recently I was surprised to read that at the time of the Revolutionary War, Philadelphia was the nation’s largest city with only 20,000 residents!
If these are like most electric cars, the batteries are in a flat compartment at the bottom of the chassis in a box design, giving incredible torsional rigidity and a very low centre of mass, so great cornering. They could be pretty safe for the occupants, even fanging it down a narrow European street. However, not so safe for pedestrians. I'm guessing these won't come with ABS or mm wave collision detection emergency brakes; it's one of those items that is cheap to manufacture and install, but the IP and testing is expensive.
ffmpeg is pretty nasty as well, and I don't have much fondness for ImageMagick's command line either.
Yes. If you don't really want to pass an array then don't do that. The language shouldn't get in the way when somebody wants to pass an array.

Take the address, and pass a pointer, if that is what you want to do.

Maybe I want the callee to be able to modify the array without affecting the caller. Maybe I'm even telling the linker to put that array in ROM, but I want a writable copy in the callee.

Whatever... I have my reasons. The language shouldn't block me.
Rick’s argument seems to be that we should have better tools in the language type system. If your language doesn’t give you those tools, these are still very useful types. In addition, the library maintenance issues he raises seem trivially solvable with languages that allow function polymorphism or have refactoring tools to me.
What’s the digital equivalent of sticky notes?
> Physics doesn't need another Einstein. Einstein explained Brownian motion, the Photoelectric effect, created special relativity and general relativity, the cosmological constant, helped found quantum mechanics, served as an invaluable critic of quantum mechanics. Then he foundered. Einstein never accepted particle physics, refused to follow new developments and became a dinosaur.

If you measure a scientist not by what they accomplished, but by what they got wrong, you'll quickly find that there are no good scientists.
I suspect they own the shares, and you own a fund that is made up of those shares.

I own a Vanguard index fund instead of individual shares, for example. I don’t get to vote in shareholder meetings and whatnot.
What I like about postgREST is you’re leveraging a mature system for authorization (postgresql roles) rather than rolling your own outside the database and introducing a ton of code and vulnerabilities.

Not every application needs roles though, but it definitely feels like the saner approach if you do.

Also a nice side effect, depending on the team, is a significant performance boost as your forced to go deep in database land instead of leaky ORM abstractions.
> The Makani "kite" turbine was 2000 lbs.

Essentially the same code could run Makani's smaller machine, the 20 kilowatt "Wing 7", with a 7.8 meter wingspan and a mass of 60 kg. Many of the existing kite power companies are working on machines of this scale.

But we did have the luxury to design and build the system from the ground up, whereas scrappier startups might have to cobble together existing components. Hopefully they will be able to utilize some of the materials we've just released.
> wondering if it got worse - if they did manage to build more nuclear plants like French did (75% from nuclear) instead of closing them all down, maybe Germany will be able to heat their homes without CO2 emissions in winter.

They don't need to build anymore, they just import it.

I lived 30km away from Alsace, and despite us having a significant amount of solar on all of our buildings, as did most of the local community/neighborhood, it was well understood that a significant amount of Baden-Wuttenberg's energy (the 'greenest-centric' Stat of Germany) needs were just bought from France.

I don't have the figures in front of me, but I was there in 2012-13 during the transition, and I lived in an old 7 bedroom old Chateau style home that had its top floor being renovated, which was exposed to the cold winter.

We lived on the bottom floor and mainly relied on wood heat from the backofen in the center of the home to heat the rest, and when we didn't/forget to keep it goin I could literately see my breath while I laid in bed as I lived the furthest away from the source, and as someone born and raised in SoCal it was incredibly terrifying at first.

Before I wised up and figured out the heating method I often made my bed before having a shower and going to bed and I stuck a 2L glassflasch with hot water from those instant water heater kettle's. But it wasn't long before I summoned the inner pyro in me I had suppressed since my early teens.
Arm is actually building this:

https://developer.arm.com/architectures/cpu-architecture/a-p...
Oh, that makes sense. It did seem like a lot for such a small processor to handle.

Still, that sounds even cooler; a reference for how to set up a local network of MCUs controlled by a big processor? Awesome.
That's right; or the IP gets sold to someone and never sees the light of day. Think of BeOS (sold to Palm Inc) etc.
We have very standardized process at Pex (https://pex.com). It's not perfect and we are always trying to improve it, but it works quite well at this point.

First couple of rules:

- quick turnaround. We want to give an answer to a candidate within a week they engage us. If we make an offer, we give them plenty time to sign the offer, even shop around, before they make the decision

- no step can be repeated or returned to. If a candidate progressed from step 2 to 3, our hiring managers are not allowed to go back to the previous step

- we disclose as much information as possible early so there are no surprises

Here is the process:

1) Initial 30 min call with one of our recruiters. We cover mostly the company, the compensation package for the role (usually range based on the level they fit in) and our expectations. We also cover the culture and share as much as we can so the candidate can make informed decision if this is a right fit. We ask some high level questions, but usually focus on the company itself.

2) Take home challenge. We have one for every type of position, from engineering to marketing. They are usually simple and fairly arbitrary problems that illustrate candidate's thinking about problem, how they analyze it, what tools they choose to solve it, etc. When we design the challenges, we are aiming for it to take around 30 minutes. We are not trying to get the person to any significant work for us, rather just figure out how would they solve problem if it was given to them at their position.

3) The candidate meets 4 people:

- their manager where they cover the role, the expectations, the growth at the company and anything related to their job

- random colleague. Essentially someone they will not work directly with. We use this person to help us to focus on the candidate themselves rather than their skills

- our COO, who covers with them more high level topics like what they did/didn't like about previous employments, what they care about in working environment and such

- our CEO (me). I usually focus on their individualities, especially passions and hobbies. I want to see that they care about something, anything. I also answer any unanswered questions from vision, company's cash position, customers, how we generally work, etc

As I mentioned, we try to get an offer to candidate's hands within a week. With this process we get around 95% offer acceptance rate.
futures is definitely the big one for me. Getting all concurrency fully on async/awaits is amazing, e.g. actix-web awaiting an endpoint calling juniper for graphql, with async resolver methods making async calls against my DB, without needing to spawn a single thread, is lovely. Still doesn't work as smoothly as that, even though on paper it ought to. Getting close though.
This isn't about healthcare. Part time employees don't receive it; instacard doesn't provide healthcare to their shoppers as it caps hours at 30 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-instacart-shop...).

It's just workers comp and minimum wage.
I’ve never seen anyone from my company disclose, which has way more engineers.
The use of those processors and ethernet were not major cost drivers.

There's a very nice technical document describing the network topology titled "A Low-Cost Fiber Optic Avionics Network for Energy Kites" in the collection of technical documents:

https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/Maka...
I suspect that the California legislators would agree however they don't feel CA can solve that problem on it's own (due to budget, tax requirements, etc, etc). So they went with the best solution that they could realistically enact. Needless to say, working with your hands tied and blindfolded doesn't lead to great outcomes.
Agreed, I was first perplexed at what was going on, starting to not see where it was going at all with the low-level explanations, and then when the enemy positions turned out to be assembly instructions... mind blown.

It also reminded me of this video which shows Flappy Bird being code injected into Super Mario World, by hand... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
They’ve already announced an intention to spinoff that business line.
Why are the drivers driving for Uber and not say being Instacart shoppers where they can be employees?
printf("%lu\n", sizeof("Well, actshully")); -> 16
Depends on supply though. Say you found two perfect people for the job, can't chose one from the other. One has 6 years of JS, one has 6 years of Perl. You are hiring for a JS company. Which do you pick?

Now if all you find is Perl guy, that is another problem.
Various fillings you need to do. While different states have different requirements and fees . It will not cost zero anywhere .

While it looks high, if the biz cannot afford the $800 fees annually then perhaps LLC is the not the structure for it ?

LLC come with many requirements for corporate governance and accounting this typically means you need accountants and lawyers and they cost lot more than $800 .
They generate proofs in the article, not validate existing ones. The algorithm to validate a proof is known and AFAIK does not need much improvement (e.g. it is already practical).
We hope that others find the code useful. There are a lot of goodies in there. A full-fledged flight simulator that could be used to simulate a variety of physical systems. A Kalman-filter-based state estimator. Math libraries. Firmware to run high performance electric motors. We also understand that it's typically very hard to adapt and re-use other people's code, especially when it's no longer actively supported.

Aside from the "code dump" portion, we have published 400 pages of entirely new documentation describing the system, plus about an equal amount of technical document artifacts.
My first thought when reading this article was "I wonder how much Uber paid for this?"
How does this compare to UBI?
> The speedrun world is almost like a scholarly domain, with all the usual bickering about terminology

Right. Like the most recent 100% runs of Ocarina of Time[1], which use glitches to obtain items early and break the sequence of the game, while still obtaining every item from its source eventually making them still legitimate 100% runs.

You'd think "100%" and "glitchless" were synonymous, but they're not anymore!

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4nc4lhj3Uk
Good question! We’re lucky we don’t need to worry about this for engineers. We never choose between two candidate, rather each candidate is judged on if we want to work with them or not.

It’s an advantage we have as a small company! We can rate people based on whatever criteria gives them the best chance, and we can find a ton of great candidates that maybe wouldn’t make it through a traditional hiring interview at a larger company.
Well, I just lost The Game.
I totally agree that we need to protect our poor people from being exploited.

However, I think that trying to place market restrictions on two parties making an agreement is not the right way to go about it.

If we had a stronger social safety net (either something like a UBI, or some other form of economic assistance), we wouldn’t need to try to manipulate the market with blunt restrictions on trade.

There are a LOT of things a market economy is bad at, or simply won’t address... externalities, extreme poverty, taking care of people who don’t produce something that the market will pay for, etc.

Attempting to force a market to address these issues by passing blunt laws is extremely inefficient. If we want to support poor people (which I want to do), we should tax everyone and pay to support them. Then we can let the market do it’s thing and set prices and wages and contracts without having to guess at what policies will force the market to fix the issue we see (without also causing unintended consequences like we see here)
This is so dumb. Just IPO and take the windfall.
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I've met many talented developers who would describe that as their worst nightmare. Presenting to a group, especially a group you don't know, and with an added high-stakes outcome is incredibly stressful and not at all relevant to the work that most developers will ever have to do.
Uhm, wasn't it fixed a week ago? Comedians (and others) can work independently again...

https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/09/05/governor-sig...
> Historic evidence shows that most workers do not have the ability to negotiate with their employers on workplace safety

I wonder how the perception of these laws would change under a more unionized workforce.

As an example, professional sports players unions are fairly powerful and the risk of injury is pretty high, much higher than I'd expect to be acceptable under OSHA, and people seem pretty comfortable with it as long as the players are informed of the risk (CTE disclaimer).
Thanks. Now that I’m thinking about it from the perspective of maximizing flanking fire... geez these are nasty nasty citadels to attack...
WFH doesn't mean they can't walk for 40 minutes though.
From what I've seen, when something like this happens, anyone who's around, given that the environment is safe and that they are able bodied, stops and helps, regardless of race. Did you expect something different?

Glad you're safe.
Yeah, Microsoft does some very strange things. Particularly, I'd like to draw attention to how skydrive/one drive used to have 25? GB and not only did Microsoft lower it to 7? But it said it would delete files over the limit. I have gone over the limit on Dropbox and it just stops you from uploading until you bring your storage within quota. Google Drive does the same iirc. Microsoft is just outright terrible.
or standing on-stage with a literal jar of shit [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9nRsJinHhM
> I'm not sure how it's gotten this way, but I've actually been told as much by another grad student that my field should be moved to the engineering department because we aren't doing real physics.

That's a touch unkind of your friend ... but I think it hits the heart of the problem.

"High-energy physics" is pretty much "uniquely" physics and so is easy to describe to laymen as "physics".

Conversely, the line between something like "solid state physics" and "solid state engineering" can be really blurry (the solid state EE's and solid state physics folks at my alma mater took almost exactly the same classes at the graduate level). So it's a lot harder to describe the differences to laymen even if you point out that solid-state physics is what gave us semiconductors and computer chips.
Honestly, ITER is so bad that you're insulting the Shuttle with this comparison. Shuttle was super inefficient, but it actually launched stuff. Military, commercial, and scientific satellites. And only like a decade after the program was started, too. ITER started in 1985, won't achieve first plasma until 2025 at earliest, and they won't even start D-T fusion experiments until 2035. That's a full half a century until the START of real fusion experiments, and it could still slip. It won't even produce any electrical power. Any thermal energy produced will be vented.

Shuttle is a shining example of efficiency, competence, pragmatism, and execution in comparison.
If the richest state in the union with some of the highest taxes in the union can't afford universal healthcare, who can?
Monoculture is bad, but this is a different kind than IE ever was. IE once went 5 years without a release.
How does eliminating Uber help the poor? Over regulation kills jobs, so a poor person could make $10 per hour, with all of these “protections,” now they make $0 because the job disappears.

Why would I pay an uneducated, inexperienced person to sweep floors $20 per hour? I’ll do it myself first. But at $8 am hour, the numbers make sense. So rather than one job at $8 per hour, now there is no job paying $20 per hour.

What’s better for the poor? $8 per hour at an entry level job, or $20 per hour for no job. And presumably when that $8 per hour worker gains experience and can provide more value, he either gets a raise or goes to another job that will pay what his skills are worth.
There was a reason it was the dining room. The guy wanted to make you feel comfortable, forget all about the deposition and just have a chat... so he can nail you to the cross with your own words.
But the whole article is specifically about his tweet. That was the parent’s point.
Bounds checking is a solved problem in C. The challenge is proving that your program _cannot_ go out of bounds. That is very much not a solved problem in C.
These are the types of things that will be fixed as we tip toe into altering our genes. But in the end, like most technology, someone will end up doing whatever is possible if the outcome gives them an advantage.

Some country will allow it as it gives them a leg up on others. And once you can do it in X country, the pressure will be strong for others to follow suit and allow it or fall behind.

This is excepting the case where it generates some near term negative effect that outweighs the gains to be had by it.
From what I hear the robotics initiative is still going. I left in early 2019 and the project has its challenges (robotics is hard), but from what I could tell they still had support of leadership.
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.cdd, .cdd a:link, .cdd a:visited { color:#000000; }

Whilst those class names can seem somewhat random, they actually refer to the original color names, so should be pretty stable for an override.
Here's a free alternative that doesn't require participants to sign up: https://gather.town/

I doubt it has as many features as Branch, but it's still useful (and fun to try!).
Ask HN: Any OSS interproc data flow SCA tools for C#? If no, should I build one?
SCA = static code analysis.

A Google search didn't yield any promising results. Thinking about building one, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. I also don't want to build one if the C# community wouldn't find it valuable.

If I were to build one, it would be applicable to both whole program and component analysis.
> Why this failed?

Well, I think the main TLDR is that it would require significant additional investment to reach MVP. Also- the energy sector lacks the huge margins of the tech sector. Renewables have long been subject to a boom-bust cycle driven by the prevailing price of energy.

Our released technical report "The Energy Kite" is intended to help answer this question, and to explain what we would do if we had the opportunity to continue our work. Check it out here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/Maka...

One major learning is that it ultimately appeared to us that crosswind kite power currently offers little benefit over traditional horizontal axis wind turbines for onshore applications, except perhaps niche applications such as small-scale generation allowing rapid deployment. There may still be a viable opportunity for large-scale crosswind kite power in the deepwater offshore environment. In that environment, conventional wind requires huge floating platforms to deal with the overturning moment arising from the turbine drag acting at the top of the tower. In crosswind kite power, only a small buoy is required to support the tether tension.

Finally, the M600 failed to meet its performance specification (the "power curve" which shows how power generation scales with wind speed). The reasons for this are detailed in the technical report (starting on page 231 of the above link). (We designed a follow-on system called MX2 which we believe would meet its performance objectives but the project was cancelled before it was built.)
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We call that "piva-translate" at my local watering hole ;)