skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
_harmonics_ means more than just the first odd harmonic.

With 20 kilowatts flowing it's very believable that the comb reaches quite a ways up the spectrum. And the radiator doesn't have to be tremendously efficient or focused with that kind of input power to produce significant effects in unintentional receivers. Also remember that wiring harnesses in spacecraft are probably very long, so will be good receivers at many frequencies reaching quite low.
The cost of a product is not only replacement price but also replacement time. Replacing with an alternative is more cost than an identical. High-quality long-life products have excellent value efficiency. The key to online review info is convenient centralized interfaces and accurate-trustable reviews. Curation is the future.
I still don't see how this has anything to do with decentralization, and frankly the way you're justifying it sounds like you wanted to use a clickbaity word that doesn't really apply here.

How does this help data ownership? How does this decentralize the 'power structure'? The ownership and power is still in the hands of the server. The benefits you highlight here are addressed by SSL. Is this trying to address the downsides of SSL? I can't see how it is/would.

It seems like 'frictionless monetization' is the only thing this really addresses, and even that I'm skeptical of.

I don't mean to be such a detractor, but you really need to reconsider what the purpose of this technology is and sell that purpose better. Because your current explanation makes no sense.
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Sure, the PC said fast Fourier transform rather than Fourier transform so I pointed out the "underlying" identity
There was still controversy about software copyrightability in 1974. That said, I expect IBM still explicitly copyrighted their implementation of SQL (and licensed it [1]) as they had first started doing with some of the System/360 software during the prior decade. Note that, in 1974, you still had to explicitly copyright something; it didn't just happen automatically like today.

[1] As a side note, IBM may not have been the first to license software but they certainly helped make it a standard practice. When they unbundled much of the System/360 software, they felt that copyright was a weak protection (given its uncertain legal status) so they combined it with a license.
IIRC IBM was in the play as well, but yes. I guess Google didn't want to inherit all the internal late-SUN problems so they passed on a chance to own it. Now Google had to switch to an alternate strategy utilizing JetBrains for Android.
"BIFL" footwear; genuinely curious, does such a product even exist?
All these roles have certain code they have to work to. A plumber can't just go into a home and install something outside of code.

Software is generally rather ephemeral and without a code to write or build to. We have "best practices".

Yes, some software is built under engineering assumptions - airplane software, etc. NASA has a standard they write code to and software engineers are expected to work within these confines. Part of the code requires reviews of written software, etc. [1]

[1] https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/software-assurance/2019...
Medicine does have a strong culture of ongoing technical interviewing.

The OSCI is done on a weekly basis by most first and second-year medical students in the US. By the time you come in contact with real patients (as a student), you've done the equivalent of nearly a hundred technical interviews. It's increasingly common to be doing them both in Spanish and English as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_structured_clinical_...

"It is designed to test clinical skill performance and competence in skills such as communication, clinical examination, medical procedures prescription, exercise prescription, joint mobilisation/manipulation techniques, radiographic positioning, radiographic image evaluation, and interpretation of results."

"An OSCE usually comprises a circuit of short (the usual is 5–10 minutes although some use up to 15 minute) stations, in which each candidate is examined on a one-to-one basis with one or two impartial examiner(s) and either real or simulated (actors or electronic patient simulators) patients.

Each station has a different examiner, as opposed to the traditional method of clinical examinations where a candidate would be assigned to an examiner for the entire examination. Candidates rotate through the stations, completing all the stations on their circuit. In this way, all candidates take the same stations. It is considered to be an improvement over traditional examination methods because the stations can be standardised enabling fairer peer comparison and complex procedures can be assessed without endangering patients health."
Great, so you “invented” automated stack ranking based on some bogus metric?

If someone at my company tried to pull shit like this and they weren’t shut down immediately, then I would promptly start looking for my next job.
I think "Why is software different?" is the wrong question. Why is software the same? Most professions don't need professional licensing, and it's not clear that the economy would be served well by adding licensing requirements.
We (Remind) hire a lot through Triplebyte. We replace our technical phone screen with Triplebyte's report, but we still do our full onsite. Our onsite is very focused on collaboration and communication rather than just coding ability and we don't get those signals from Triplebyte.
tl;dr: He and his Junior Achievement of South Florida club members created Germ Genie™, a travel kit filled with TSA-compliant essentials for staying germ-free, including tray table placemats which have become their signature item – and which have become even more important since COVID-19.

The rest is pretty much an ad for that product.
You've seen a study? Have you seen the experiment that proves the opposite?

Romanians(with GDP of 8k per person) didn't just get up and move to UK once they were completely free to do so in 2012.

US also had mostly free migration between Mexico and US, till some xenophobe decided to put up a legal wall.
An interesting article. I was unaware that John Carmack worked on the code before it was released.
Yes you don’t need a warrant to interview witnesses or associates.
IRS is a law enforcement agency
Openbase (YC S20) Is Hiring Back End/Front End/Fullstack Engineers, Dev Advocate
hmm. I had a discussion about dynamic linking with Eben years ago, and my memory (hazy as it might be) what that he implied that it was coming from the FSF, not from him (at least the libreadline argument). But as I said, this was a long time ago. (probably 15 years at least).

Apple could have decided it wasn't worth the fight, i.e. the benefits of thei front end being GPLd or not being GPLd in the end made no difference, so no reason to fight it.
> you need ongoing physical access in order to install and maintain a presence on the device

I don’t think that’s 100% true. Yes, you need persistent hardware to re-root the T2 on every reboot. But what about a one and done T2 attack - a drive by keylogger installer? Get credentials and then mount a more traditional attack to install APT/RAT.
I never thought I'd see the lack of unicode support in my terminal as a feature...
Are they really though?

On the topic of boots, let's say we're talking about high-cut hiking boots. I'm not an avid hiker. I do casual hiking sometimes so I just wear regular shoes to those. When I do slightly more strenuous hiking, I wear a specific pair of high-cut hiking boots that I own. I get a chance to do this maybe once a year, or less.

I bought a pair of Denali ones from Big5 for $40 for this purpose. It has been with me for 10 years now with barely any wear. If I don't use it often enough, it makes almost no difference to me to get a $400 "more durable" pair. The $40 pair is not going to get worn out in another 20-30 years at least. I probably won't go through more than say 2 pairs of these in my lifetime.

Is that an uncommon example? Maybe, but I'm not sure it's as uncommon as one would think. How about a travel backpack? I used to travel multiple times a year. Now that I have a young kid, I don't anymore. I go with a $20 backpack that I've used for a number of years that is still in decent enough condition to keep using. I'm probably not going to get much use out of it for the next 10 years before my kid is old enough to travel around the world with me.

How about a cast iron pan? They aren't dishwasher safe, and as a parent, I save time whenever I can. I don't own a cast iron pan, but even if I do, 99% of the time I'll pick up one of these non-stick sauce pans I bought from Costco as a set for a decent price of good quality that is dishwasher safe, when cooking. I've only owned these for a year but based on my experience with past sauce pans, one usually last me a good ~10 years, and that's with very regular home cooking. The iron handle skillet on this site costs $180. The set I got from Costco costs about that much, for a set of 4 pots and 4 pans.

Overall, I'm not sure I buy this entire idea of "buy expensive durable things because it'll cost less in the long run". That just hasn't been my experience in most cases, other than some very specific examples.
No one has a source for “DuckDuckGo is just Bing” either. We know that they use Bing, but not for what, people have just asserted that DDG is just Bing (or Yandex), but no one seems to be able to provide at source to back up the claim.
For the hours they have to work and the conditions they have to work in... doctors are paid ok.

You'd have to pay me a hell of a lot to have to drive to a hospital each morning and stand around on my feet for a 48-hour shift dealing with high-risk problems and real people all day. No thanks.

I think they do it for pretty reasonable compensation considering.
I think the article's author didn't even think about separated onboarding and confirmation emails. He's just stating that you can use the confirmation one for onboarding too.

I have seen those separated emails. I agree that they add nothing, and I imagine their conversion is much lower than a single email (they don't bother me, I'll just ignore another message). I do agree that onboarding is best done on-channel, but adding an extra link on the email you are sending anyway can only help.
Most of the work these companies are hired to produce is done in India. People on H1B are few and hired to delegate across time zones. It's hard without someone in the US connecting the bridge. This pandemic made it clear.

It's a possibility that this new policy has very little implication on the overall budget of projects.. unless the companies are financially strong enough to hire local employees at a high salary. When compared to an employee salary in a developing economy, local salaries look very high!

Smaller and mid-sized non-tech companies are hurt during this pandemic. These IT consulting companies work mostly with non-tech companies. Fiscal policy this year has failed to "really" provide loans or stimulus to small struggling companies. They all want tech and that means more work will go to these IT companies that can do at a lower cost.

International trade is done on the mutual-benefits equation. Historically the unwritten understanding is that India allows US companies to operate in its local market in return partly for labor market access to its people through a work visa. That these workers are not creating value is a myth looking at the financials of these IT consulting firms. Getting a grocery purchase order database implemented correctly has far more immediate influence than the work of a futuristic researcher.

Overall this new policy looks like an election stunt to appease a certain electoral audience given its timing and lackluster fiscal policy.

That's called election hacking.

Every economy specializes, influences international trade to that end. It's cheaper to manufacture in China, buy corn from the US, write computer programs in India. I feel just so sick to read comments here calling these companies bodyshops, sweatshops, cheap labor.. whatever word degrading in the context.

The right question is perhaps: how to help create locally employed IT consulting companies that can compete with Indian IT consulting companies... and the answer is more than bad-mouthing or volatile short-term regulations. Is it even in the country's interest to spend resources to become a leader in IT consulting?
Maybe wallets can implement an identity system (either as a standard or through federation among vapor nodes)?
the real point of the store greeters is to limit shoplifting -- they hang around the entrance watching people and may check people's receipts against what they are taking out of the store.

making them say hi and act friendly to everyone is just a way of camouflaging this and making it seem less hostile.
Brave is good. HN just loves Firefox too much.

I use FF as default. Brave as secondary.
Or D, go back to what built the organization in the first place instead of trying to be a non-evil version of Google.
That was my first impression. It seems pretty brilliant to me—a design that looks so simple [and still works] cannot have been simple to engineer. And all said, it's just a video game box so I'm not sure I grasp the controversy.
Didn't Macs have trouble booting if the clock is wrong? IIRC because from the system's point of view some cryptographic certificate's validity is in the future...
The horrible Switzerland, that literally voted for open borders a few weeks ago.

But thank's for being that stereotype I was referring to.
I will reply to this comment since this is probably the most relevant.

You're on point that there is a personal bias. Developers without degrees congregate together where they can, while developers with degrees congregate together to other places. There is a major self selection.

Saw a lot of the first when I was doing contracting in the UK, saw a lot of the later as permanent in tech companies. If you're interviewing for google you're way more likely to have 2 stanford majors in the interview panel than 2 developers without format education.
That's hope, but hope is not a concrete plan/strategy.

So as far as India is concerned, the overall quality of talent has only reduced. Thanks to all the regular office politics and general cultural problems we have, the quality of management is lower than ever. There is more job hopping than ever, there is lesser quantity of serious work done compared to previous times. People don't exactly train for skills the same way they do for interviews and the whole thing reduces to acing gatekeeping. The kind of leadership talent you need to build talent and skilled people on the longer run is just not there. So we just get the outsourced work done, and send it back(services). Even the Google offshore center described by the OP is that way. Most offshore centers in Bangalore don't have autonomy beyond that.

When you have this you just can't take on technically challenging projects or the kind of engineering projects which actually count for something.

This is one of the perennial problems in the Indian system. We are unable to move beyond services, and low level IT jobs. Even the product ecosystem like Flipkart etc is not comparable to innovation coming out places like Amazon. Its not really a money problem, because Flipkart actually got tons of funding. All this leads to the ultimate result. We are really a country of resellers, and service economy people. We make money by reselling or servicing things, not by making things. So even to make our metros transit systems, we need to hire German/Japanese firms. Or that our national monuments and statues are engineered and assembled in China. We don't make 747's or F1 cars here. Let alone that Maruthi Suzuki- Suzuki makes cars and we(Maruthi) do servicing.

Basically unless we have a larger culture of merit, fairness and justice- Topped by engineering and industrialized economy the bigger gains won't come.

Lots of this has got to do with culture and priorities. The only way this can be changed is politics and the current political priorities of India aren't anywhere close to this.
Coffee shops ask for your name so they can write it on the cup to make sure you get the right order at the pickup counter. It's a quality control measure. I guess they could ask you to think up a random number instead, but some people would find that mildly offputting I think .
Durability is one of the reasons we shop at Costco
My first mobile app was a 2012 “Beach Weather app” called SafeSands (no longer available for... many reasons) that I made as a project in college. I grabbed weather data from iGoogle’s private API (which they turned off 4 months later) and tidal data from NOAA’s legit public API.

One issue I ran into was the irregularities described in this article. The other was that the tidal data available through NOAA’s API was from NOAA tidal stations which were (at the time) kind of sparsely placed. I ended up fielding a lot of support email due to what I’ve come to call “the Florida problem”:

As TFA notes, the Gulf of Mexico has weird tides. Also, most of Florida is a long thin peninsula. So let’s say (I forget the real locations) that NOAA has one tidal station in St. Augustine (northern FL on the Atlantic side) and one in Sarasota (mid-to-southern FL on the Gulf of Mexico side). You’re using my app in Ft. Lauderdale (southern FL on the Atlantic side). The St. Augustine location probably better reflects the tides you’ll be seeing, but the Sarasota station is closer, so the app would pull tides from there.

Solving this problem well would probably require establishing “coast domains” based on where each station is accurate (which strikes me as a nontrivial task) and you’d also need to solve for degenerate cases like if someone uses the app from somewhat inland (if they’re planning a trip to a beach a few hours away for instance).

My guess is that in the intervening 8 years someone has taken the Dark Sky approach of aggregating tidal data, figuring these things out, and selling access to an API. And that person deserves whatever money they’re making.
>If your argument is that there is variance within the EU, you can make the argument that there is just as much variance within the US

No, my argument is that the EU tries to "have it both ways" by taking away fiscal and monetary sovereignty but leaving cultural sovereignty intact. The result is that Greece, Ireland, Spain, etc were not really able to regulate their economies in any meaningful sense to prevent the kind of blow-up we saw in 2008, particularly because, when you share a currency and trade zone with a heavy exporter like Germany, their surpluses are your deficits.

The Spanish, Irish, and Greek housing bubbles were underwritten by the profits of German exporters. Greek fiscal malfeasance was overlooked because it was considered politically more important to grow the EU and the Eurozone than to let anyone at all have the authority necessary to enforce healthy fiscal and trade balances.

The United States does not actually work this way, because the federal government engages in countercyclical transfers between the states. The wealth of New York and California gets recycled, through taxes, to pay for military bases in Maine, pensions and Social Security checks in Florida and Arizona, and timber conservancies in Idaho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Minotaur
George Church praised the Nobel committee’s choice and noted that there are plenty of ideas and companies to go around [1]. I wouldn’t be surprised if CRISPR in medical applications leads to future Nobel prizes, and there will be many winners on the commercial side (e.g. Editas cofounded by Church, Doudna, Zhang and others [2]).

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/07/a-terrific-choice-george...

[2]: https://www.genengnews.com/topics/genome-editing/zhang-churc...
There might be more ads, but that doesn't mean that they're converting into sales.

Iain and I are both Mozilla employees, and terms of search deals are very much NDA-covered things -- we can say very little about our limited knowledge.

All I will say is that the revenue from Google is not fixed, and what the press release said was in fact true: revenue was substantially affected by COVID.
Something I never understood when I was younger is the professional networking side of getting a degree is just as or more important than the educational side. Yeah, it's good to have knowledge, but you can learn most of it after the fact, especially with the resources available online these days.

However, you can't learn or get a do over on getting in with the right social group. That's why so many "successful" people come from ivy league schools even though some of them seem to be pretty dumb. It's more about getting into a rich and powerful social group than getting an education. Once you're in with that group you have a very high chance of success as long as you're not a total fuck up.
My way of thinking of it is like this: imagine your eyes were located above and below your belly button (on a vertical axis). What would be 'flipped' when you look in the mirror?
They need to give it to James May afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqRkilbNprY&list=PLc_cO9OfR3...
I'm not sure which assumptions I've genuinely revealed, but I certainly would agree that the ideal systems are those that manage the good and the bad in human nature.

It's a straw man to say that a better system must be competition-free. Simply ameliorating the level of intensity and competition would go a long way. We need a more incremental seniority and funding system, where the difference between being able to do academic science and not to do so isn't defined by dramatic forks in the road. We have a vast separation-of-wealth in science funding and institutional power that must be addressed to get back to a healthier place.
Doctors do have side projects, though.

I even worked with a doctor on a mutual side project https://chrisseaton.com/merseyburns/.

And guess what? Based on the strength of that side project the doctors I worked with now have jobs related to what they did in the side project!

It's literally no different.
I hate that they call him "mastery of fantasy."

He himself didn't even call his works fantasy. In fact, he seemed to hate fantasy. But he also seems to call himself fantasy's "savior" in a way.

Some reading material if you'd like to hear his bullshit from his own mouth:

http://cgi1.usatoday.com/mchat/20030805003/tscript.htm

Then there was the contest he posted to his Facebook that insulted the artist of one of his book covers:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/26/terry-goodkind...

I don't wish anyone ill will, but, as a fantasy reader myself, I'm just glad I'm not going to have to listen to anymore of his drama in the various fantasy circles I participate in.