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So you’re saying it’s actually about ethics in AI? ;)
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As I've read: "As for why he's chosen to reveal this information now" ... I've just thought "because he has something to sell"! And sure, just a little later in the text:

"Eshed provided more information in his newest book, The Universe Beyond the Horizon – conversations with Professor Haim Eshed"

Knowing that, I also understand why he waited up to now: "I have nothing to lose. I’ve received my degrees and awards." He is 87.

Ka-ching.

Humanity is ready for his book. Aren't we lucky?

P.S. Two years ago there was a book Haim Eshed co-authored: "Project Management of Technological Innovation", then, one year ago, he also co-authored "Satellites and the New Space"... This year the world was really ready for... literally a book about Men in Black -- if we're to believe the journalists! This latest one, the said "conversations with" is a book where he is being interviewed and the writer interviewing him is Hagar Yanai, the "author of novels and fantasy books" who received "the Deborah Omer Prize for children and youth and three Geffen Prizes for Israeli fantasy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagar_Yanai I also wouldn't mind telling her whatever she asked. And I wouldn't be surprised if the journalists haven't covered the whole story up to now, about what's actually written in the book and how it came to be. I'd really like to read an interview with her about the book.
Are you really saying that it's harder to be a techie than LGBT in San Francisco?
It wouldn't be the first time, there's a bunch of games on Stadia that have no public Linux build or Vulkan support in their Windows build

Maybe Google are licensing a proprietary DX->VK wrapper for Stadia developers to use, so they can't release it elsewhere?
I don't think your selected sentence can be interpreted in any other way other than as envy (wishing for another's life). I do not think I am strawmaning your intent, though you have not explained what alternative you meant if I am mistaken.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the materials science and the actual design of a bicycle aren’t actually that simple, right? That’s why there were so many zany iterations of bicycles until we landed on the most common form we see today?
I'd appreciate it if that presentation UI allowed to go back a step.
> A tiny CSS in JS library that requires no tooling.

> Installation: npm install stylewars

so that was a lie?
400-500k is the starting pay, though. On top of that are stock refreshes and appreciation. By year 4, some make 800k.
How Dropbox used shadow IT to land giant deals
That's it. They are not really interested in getting the best (or competent) talent, they just need to follow a ritual.

I mean, it's all explained better in the article, but focusing on competence: if they don't measure the competence [of a senior software engineer] they will not hire a competent engineer. And I've seen plenty of senior engineers who can produce reams and reams of awful, unmaintaineable, and buggy code.

And, I am sure, they all aced the whiteboarding.
I guess we are in cold war 2.0!
it's one instruction in the generated code and we can reasonably expect the branch predictor to do the right thing, but branches and error handling can inhibit vectorization which is a much higher performance cost. While in this particular case you probably aren't vectorizing much, it is not always the case that error handling is almost free
In the same bag?!?

You are really jumping through hoops to try to make a platform designed to protect your privacy equivalent to one designed to sell it.
Some people don't care about those things, but do care about how big their house is, how many cars fit in the garage, and how much they (and their kids) look like the people (and schools) around them. To be fair when I was living "rural", I loved being only 45min from a 24hr Walmart, and I've lived as a minority, which doesn't feel great so I get going back from whence you came.

But I'm still going to say, what you didn't... good riddance. If you came just for the money and the ambiance a generation of intellectuals and artists created before you came, and you aren't willing to contribute to it? Leave, I'll be as happy to see you go as I was in 2001. If the pandemic (and lack of cool bars for a year) is all it takes, maybe people who give a damn will be able to move back in. Maybe that's not what created the wealth, but it sure did make it a nice place to hang anyway.

My personal guess is that a lot of those "creatives" that are moving to Hawaii/Sacramento/etc for 6 months (or a year) will be back, and if not, I hope they enjoy the place they choose to make home.
> The key to Tailwind's popularity is the painstakingly constructed system of design tokens at the core of the framework. The system's carefully selected constraints give developers just the right guardrails. They make it obvious whether a choice is good or bad by offering only discrete steps.

Can anyone comment more on this? As far as I see, there's still a big enough range of font sizes, padding/margin sizes, colours etc. that you still have to have an eye for design for the result to look pleasing. I've seen multiple landing pages made in Tailwind for example that don't look good.

Bootstrap in comparison will have a really uniform look if you use the built-in components, but you won't be able to build something that looks as good as Tailwind.
Just want to commend you, dang, for doing such a great job (in my opinion) of moderating this site. I don't mean that you're great for doing things how I want them, but for trying to hold things to the posted standards and also being visible about it. This is one of the things that I think keeps the quality of conversation on this website so high.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23543277

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060568
I think you greatly underestimate global talent for some reason.
There’s nothing stopping you from using open source drivers, actually. Plenty of open-source projects like Dokan will typically run fine with an anti-cheat (ours will, certainly). What stops you from running a patched version is actually Windows itself, since Windows requires drivers to be signed with an authenticode codesigning certificate. Plenty of open-source projects and people have one, though. So it’s not an anti-cheat blocking you, it’s Windows itself. Of course, if you go out of your way to disable driver signature enforcement, most anti-cheats will prevent you from playing, but this is a mode strongly discouraged from Microsoft and does weaken your computer’s security.
Huh! I never thought of that, about boiling time.

I wouldn't think it would make a huge difference, since the weight of the pot is a relatively small proportion of the weight of the water.

Turns out someone tested it:

https://www.centurylife.org/what-kind-of-pot-boils-water-fas...

And the aluminum wins over steel-clad by 30 seconds, when heating two liters of water.

If you're seeing much larger differences, perhaps it's more to do with the pot diameter or something? Or if you're heating very small amounts of water?
Some defense spending is reasonable, but we could get a lot while limiting things to say 200 - 300 Billion per year. That’s 4-6 times what the UK spends for example and they have 2 aircraft carriers etc.
"server-side rendering with client side dehydration"

lol wtf "dehydration" haha (also "Rolloup")

Still don't really get what Stencil is. Is it a actual single framework or a standard syntax that compiles to React, vue, .. component syntax? This talks about compiling JSX to bindings avoiding vdom diffing but as far as I know that is near impossible to do due to the variable nature of JSX..?

And just a wall of unhighlighted fixed with code is very difficult to compare the differences. And would rather see bundle size comparisons rather than 6 lighthouse screenshots.
It sounds like you have spent real time in vanishingly few places in the U.S.

With regard to LGBT protections -- as a queer person I've experienced vibrant, proud and welcoming communities all over the place. Midwest (Twin Cities, Columbus, Chicago) south (New Orleans, Atlanta). Not to diminish the importance of making progress, but your actual life is highly unlikely to be affected by whatever laws are still on the books in certain areas. There are millions of happy, successful LGBT people all over the country.
bro why are you paying so much for LTE?

you could get one with 400gb LTE data for $80 a month:
https://www.onlinewirelessmall.com/att-hotspot-49-99prepaid-...

or there's these ones that don't have a cap???
https://www.onlinewirelessmall.com/att-netgear779s-with-plan...

or buy a grandfathered plan off of ebay that has truly unlimited (no throttling) for less than $100 a month

or there's dozens of other options with hundreds of GBs of data per month that are a fraction of the $600 a month you're paying. There is no reason to be paying that much and there are other options you haven't considered.
They do this kind of scrutiny in China and Russia, and make changes as they see fit. No thanks.
I don't mind simple fizz-bang coding interviews. But some of the ones I've been to, for internal positions no less, have been absurd ambushes.

I once had an interview for a front-end midlevel position. I had some prior front-end experience in another framework, but mostly worked on midteir and vendor products. I was notified the morning of my interview that it wasn't just a regular interview but a code screen and I could use any language/tools/etc that I wanted. I got there and found out that was not the case - he was not following HR's procedures. So he hands me a Mac (which I'm not familiar with), tells me to use Angular (which I've never used), in Webstorm (I played around with it once), and tells me to build a page to upload a CSV file and display the contents in a table on the page. I have 30 minutes to do it, and then I'll get 30 minutes to dress it up in CSS. Needless to say, I bombed it. I was sort of impressed with myself that I had it almost functional, but yet ashamed at my abysmal evaluation. He said I didn't do well and that he was looking for an expert. Shouldn't you open a senior posting if you want an expert? I asked him why he gave me an interview if my resume listed none of the technologies, with my cover letter stating that I was looking for a change and wanted to learn new technologies. His answer was that maybe I knew the tech from personal projects. I had Android personal projects listed on my resume, so why would I have left off other ones more pertainate to the position? My guess is he was too lazy to read and understand the resume and cover letter, not to mention ignoring HR's instructions. What a waste of both our time (moreso mine since he was on his laptop most of the time).
>What percent of workers do work that can be done remotely?

Not a huge number, but that's all you need to support a small town economy. It's like the plight of the rust belt -- you had small communities that relied on manufacturing job to support the local retail and services jobs. When those manufacturing jobs evaporated due to outsourcing those small towns imploded.
$500 to $1M with Tesla options
The terms are excellent: https://imgz.org/help/terms/

And the FAQ link for the lazy: https://imgz.org/help/faq/

And the money link too: https://imgz.org/money/

And a quote from elsewhere “I am very happy to report that http://IMGZ.ORG, the best image serving host, has had the mythical "nine fives" availability ever since its launch.”
Aggregate price for talent probably doesn't change. Demand for talent in key markets goes down (as companies in those markets start looking for non-local talent[1]), but demand for talent in any market goes up (as non-local companies seek local talent).

So it would follow that overpriced talent in high-demand markets would see a decrease, where underpriced talent in low-demand markets would see an increase.

This would be the same concerns with offshoring as well, but that hasn't led to massive salary drops. Because there's still a big cost to switching people. If you could fire all your SF SWEs today and replace them with identical, knowledgable, fully-ramped, culture-carried SWEs in $secondary_market for half price, you would. You can't, so you threaten and you try to convince your SF SWE that you could just enough to keep their expectations low, but not so much that they actually quit.

I see a lot of companies still trying the "CoLA trick" on employees moving to secondary markets. "We can hire your position in $market for cheaper," so the argument goes. The best move there is to call their bluff: "go do it then". Most people won't do it because a) conflict is hard and b) finding a new job on top of moving is annoying. So they'll take it on the chin and just resign 6-12 months later after they're settled.

[1] In the old world, there's still a premium to convince talent to relocate. So companies in high-demand markets (e.g., SF) either have to pay +x% to tap non-local talent and get them to move to the high-demand market (where they become local talent).

Even in the new world, non-local talent isn't going to sit by and let themselves be underpaid. "I'm doing the exact same thing, delivering the exact same value, but someone is getting paid 30% more to sit in the office? Oh, and you don't even pay for my home office?"
Facebook faces lawsuit over new name of its Diem crypto project
Discussed in 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20443822 (498 comments)
Here's an informing (and inspiring!) Changelog podcast episode with a technical co-founder of Matrix, https://changelog.com/podcast/384.
I believe they will, given the current Keith Rabois as a mentor.
Lots of replies are saying this exists in "every major metro" in the US.

But if you start narrowing it to places with pleasant weather, suddenly it starts looking like a smaller picture. The west coast, west of the cascades or central valley in CA. Probably places like the Carolinas, Tennessee. And maybe we'll be nice to Colorado and give them a trophy for at least having sunshine in the winter :)

You don't have to pay SF rents, of course, but you're not buying a $100k mansion and getting all of these things either.
Except, is ATG equity actually worth real money?

Seems to me this is a clear attempt to get ATG off the books (16% of net loss in Q3 was due to ATG https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...). If Uber felt that ATG would actually deliver eventually, I doubt they'd be doing this deal to rid themselves of the department.
Timnit's position is a direct result of her actions and internal reputation at Google.

No one forced her to do any of the following things:

1. Griping about the racist reviewers of her paper on Twitter.

2. Sending an email to a internal list criticizing Google's behavior and telling people to stop working on diversity.

3. Demanding the names of reviewers and threatening to resign if they weren't provided.

#2 or #3 would get you fired or cause your resignation to be accepted any place that I've worked.

#1 wouldn't get you fired but it's not going to help your career.
What is the problem with whaling if done in a sustainable way?
I think you and that commenter misunderstand that quote. Picasso's is not the only story that an artist must follow to become renowned, just one of them.
The fame and fortune around an artist are nearly entirely the product of the mythology surrounding them and the connections they have with other influential people rather than their output.
The concept of science and licensing bodies is incompatible. Peer review is sufficient for scientific articles. The idea of licensing scientists puts us back into the middle ages. The opportunities to politicize and raise barriers of entry to scientific practice have an understandable appeal. Think of unions, hair dressers having to spend $5k on cosmetology degrees, M.Ed.'s.
Hopefully this licensed profession would be given a name other than scientist - maybe data engineer, analyst, doctor, or technician to avoid confusion.
What's needed is more peer review of data related practices, not credentialing and fake authority.
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This view presupposes that nations themselves are important, and that preserving the existence and concept of nations, and their superiority over other nations, isn't wasteful.

I doubt very much that the children born on Mars will share your view about the value of Earth nations.
They are not inexpensive. In Finland you need a Radio Operator Licence and pay some 20€ annually and also you have to pay for reprogramming the special "National ID". And thus this mostly useless device costs 400€: https://www.marnela.com/product/1304-01261

Some 40 years ago I made 2 Mhz emergency Morse transmitter from RCA Cosmac, because I planned to spend a summer on Antarctis. It worked quite well with long ass wire antenna. But they do not monitor that frequency anymore and nobody understands morse.
Having just read the earlier article about him, that's totally fair. That first one is a much more substantive (IMO) and scholarly scathing takedown of PG. This one is certainly more personal and political in nature.
> If you had listened to them in the 50s, you would have been astounded by the completely new sound.

I think it's similar to how back in the day, and Apple ][ or Commodore was revolutionary. That doesn't mean they have remained the pinnacle in their field. But it also doesn't take away from the significance of what they accomplished in their time.

But still, I just really don't care for pop rock whether new or old.
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Curious to hear from the downvoters. What about Peter Thiel’s banal punditry justifies overlooking his active and enthusiastic contributions to neo-Nazis?
Telegram also shows all the replies to a given message as a separate chat, effectively turning messages into Reddit-like trees.

It's half-baked, but it seems like a great alternative to regular presentation: linear history, but filterable.
Having been a participant in the attempted evacuation of a 15 story building during multiple fire drills, I'm not looking forward to ever having to evacuate for real. After 2 hours under ideal conditions, the stairwells were still clogged with people, and nobody above around the 10th floor got out.
Wasn't Uber's whole money losing strategy based on the vision that one day they'll use their self-driving cars to get the driving done for cheaper?
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Payment pause for student loan borrowers will be extended amid crisis
Whom are you paying that much?
Tom from Codecov here, looks awesome! Thanks for building this out.
There are many immigrants in US getting paid US wages who graduated from non-US colleges. Companies in other countries need to start paying US wages and stop exploiting developers.
> If I make my own bike store and produce bikes which are identical to yours without taking yours away, then it's not theft.

That's exactly in line with what I said. It's not theft in that case. You are getting lost in your own analogy.

A bike is valuable because of the time, energy, and money put into producing it. If you set up your own bike store and produce the bike that's identical to my bike, you deserve to make money from it.

But that's not what's happening here. Here's what's happening: Let's say you start making your living by producing and selling bikes at your own bike store. One night I break into your bike store and just take a bike away. I didn't put in any time, energy, and money into producing the bike. You did. You spent your time, energy, and money to build that bike, which you could have spent on other things in life. If I didn't steal it, you could have made money from that bike. I deprived you of an opportunity to make money from your investment.

Let's use a more large scale example to see how this can be a very dangerous line of thought. A guy named anthony levandowski took intellectual property from Google and tried to produce autonomous vehicles which are identical to what Google was trying to build, WITHOUT taking google's technology away. Google can feel free to build their autonomous vehicle, what's the big deal? This is not stealing, right? Well, here's what happened: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354906/anthony-levandows...

Intellectual property is very real. Just because certain types of intellectual property cannot be protected because of the nature of the digital technology, does NOT mean it is not stealing. Stealing is stealing. Some thefts are considered "ok" because "everyone else is doing it and there's no easy way to enforce it", but it's steal stealing.
I agree on almost all of your points with a few caveats.
- Cars : The Bay Area is very walkable but that’s mainly SF. The tech burbs of Palo Alto , Menlo Park are not super walkable and you are relying on the BART and other public transport . But Covid has destroyed public transport and cuts in funding threaten them further.

LGBT : This is not really the 80s and 90s . Most big cities from DC, Atlanta, Austin ,Chicago, Phoenix, Miami have strong LGBT presence . And a lot of racial heterogeneity there too.

Art and Culture: Almost all artists that I met in Austin, Chicago , Miami , Portland , Asheville left the Bay Area . They were priced out by tech . Everything is tech in the Bay Area . Even artists have to align or suck up to tech .

High quality food: Yes, again a lot of other cities are replicating that.

The Bay Area is truly great and very beautiful . But I cannot constantly hustle at 45 while raising 2 kids , pay a million dollars for a shack . I am sort of tired of constantly competing and hustling . I am tired of being told that we are counter culture since we are not Wall Street bro’s but I need a million dollars for a 1950s 2 bedroom house .
I spent almost 2 decades biking in SF. It's the best way to get around.
'Resigned' indicates an action on her part, and typically considered to be an amicable parting. 'Fired' means an action on Google's part, typically because of a perceived misdeed.

By calling it a resignation, Google is making it sound as if it was an amicable choice she made, not their judgement call about her actions.

Words matter. Word choices always matter. Especailly single words which come with a lot of built-in context.
"There is nothing special about managers."

Managers are very often (especially in a bigger organization) is the only channel how information flows to owners.

As a result, managers can paint very different picture of the same situation (as an example, that people working remotely from home are less productive).

May be in some abstract world, "managers are just employees and there is nothing special". In reality they wield a lot of power to sway company in one or another direction.
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It's not just testing fundamentals, it's testing who spent the most time on interview prep. Companies increase the difficulty level as more people do prep. That's become a cycle that favors those who have the most spare time. Senior engineers often have houses, kids and aging parents to take care of.