skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>[The] defenses include obvious technical components (e.g. backup systems, ‘safety’ features of equipment) and human components (e.g. training, knowledge) but also a variety of organizational, institutional, and regulatory defenses (e.g. policies and procedures, certification, work rules, team training).

This omits "design" for defenses against problems.

Example: the chemical industries in many countries in the 1960s had horrendous accident records: many employees were dying on the job. (For many reasons) the owners re-engineered their plants to substantially reduce overall accident rates. "Days since a lost-time accident" became a key performance indicator.

A key engineering process was introduced: HAZOP. The chemical flows were evaluated under all conditions: full-on, full-stop, and any other situations contrary to the design. Hazards from equipment failures or operational mistakes are thus identified and the design is adjusted to mitigate them. This was s.o.p. in the 1980s. See Wikipedia for an intro.

Similar approaches could help IT and other systems.
It would depend on your country's tax treaty and the treatment of the Roth 401k's annual required minimum distributions (RMDs). In comparison, for countries that don't accept Roth IRA pension income as tax free when tax resident in that country, the Roth IRA allows you to flexibility plan income amounts to stay under income thresholds for tax. This is one of the things you need to consider with a Roth 401k.

However, you could rollover funds from a Roth 401(k) to a Roth IRA, just be aware of the clock for the 5-year rule.

If doing any of this stuff please for the love of binary get proper financial advice!
If you add all the dog whistles he's even worse than that.

He's good at manipulating the crowds - the amount of downvotes that you are getting say a lot.
I read somewhere, and forget where, but most probably from
Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/super-power-spoony-bards-and-...), that Sega never had large margins with their home systems, unlike Nintendo. When the Dreamcast had an underwhelming initial release, due to their cooled reputation, they simply didn't have the money to keep investing in the system to try and turn it around.
My colleagues will email you if you can share an email and we can reference HN in the email
The guy admits to using multiple accounts. Nobody needs multiple accounts. Perhaps they were using the accounts to game reddit.
There's two things at play here.

First, candidates who complain about the whiteboard interviews uniformly complain about it "not being a good representation of how I can write code" which betrays a lack of understanding of the other skills besides writing code that these firms care about. People who understand more can connect the interview type to the other relevant attributes, so it's already clear who's more right.

Second, yes, companies do a shitload of triangulation on recruiting performance including looking many years out.
> (...) BSON, which is effectively TLV encoded json.

For those who, like me, never heard of TLV prior to this post, it's type-length-value encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-length-value
I distrust all ‘studies’ when it comes to nutrition and life style choices. I am of the ‘what worked for the grandmas would work for you too’ camp. We are our genes and studying ancestor lifestyle(with tweaks to accommodate modernization, of course) is most logical.

Example: I have never been for the anti-carb lifestyle. I come from an uninterrupted line of long lived rice eaters. I feel worse off when I have wheat..due to the gluten probably. I am primed for rice.

I remember a time when I went to a nutritionist and she said that given my age and weight, I should have no more than 1/4 cup of cooked rice. That’s 4 tbsp, ok? And I told her that my daily rice budget would be spent just tasting the biryani for seasoning while cooking it ..even before I can sit down for lunch. Doh.

A rice diet wouldn’t kill me but that bowl of raw lettuce leaves with no nutritional value and smothered with high fat high sugar dressing probably would.
Bell Laboratories had a pretty cool culture from the interviews I've listened to.

It is also interesting how culture changes from 6 people startup to 600 people mid-sized company. Culture is best when its pull rather than push; when a large company imposes culture on you, it is natural to feel that its foreign and you're forced to adopt it. Compare this with a small group of people that you truly enjoy being with, solving problems, expressing frustrations and listening to their woes - you can create a microculture of your own which I only see as a positive thing. I do think that its better in a physically close setting like an office-space than being completely remote.
https://driveghost.com/

current users aren't very loud about it. RTI is implementing DDS for sel4. productionization is still early days. DARPA is pushing for it. you might look at the speakers, sponsors, and attendees of the sel4 conferences and workshops :)
Yeah - it’s a fun project. I considered doing the same, because of course.

However there is more than one solution for ecobee.

1. Replace the existing wiring! Probably not as hard as you think.

2. Use an external power supply - this is supported by ecobee.

3. There are 2 to 3 wire converters: https://support.ecobee.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008702251-FA...

Roll your own is fun, but these options are all going to be quicker and result in a better solution.
I don’t know. I’m personally partial to FP, but I tend to work in languages where it’s not the dominant paradigm, and where throwing exceptions is more idiomatic than say Either types. For those cases, checked exceptions are much nicer than having no error handling semantics in the type system. At least if you generally know what kinds of error cases are likely you can guard against them.
Restrictions on commercial flight are there to protect the public from getting involved with unsafe operators. It’s to ensure that people obtaining flight services are getting a safe product.
>>Only if exposure to each scam is independent! I wouldn't expect that to be the case.

Yes! It's a social contagion.
Nice project, but why do you need to redirect from HTTPS to HTTP? Besides being a bad security practice, it also breaks on Firefox when HTTPS-Only Mode[1] is enabled.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs
The problem comes when services start effectively 10x'ing or 100x'ing prices, like what postman did at the beginning of this year (bumping up the price for each tier and dramatically reducing what you get)

That $200/mo today could easily be $200K/mo a few years from now, and at that point it will be harder to switch off.
You may have plenty of resources but there are many that have to "make due" with 8 GB, 4 GB or even less RAM.
> Figma

Figma isn’t very good. It’s better than sketch for prototyping, but not as good for vector. It’s also web based, so it’s painfully slow. I also think it’s a bit expensive.

> Gsuite

Google is an evil company, but it’s a choice between giving an evil company money, or using a terrible product (O365). I have to focus on the business, not wondering why Outlook isn’t filtering Spam. So Gsuite it is.

> Gusto

Gusto is fine really. I contemplated putting this one in the Happily category, but ultimately decided to move it down given that I do think it’s a bit expensive for what you get.

> Stripe

Stripe’s core payment processing is obviously the best around. Where I have issue with Stripe is in the fees they charge (pretty high), and their new Customer Billing Portal. It’s a half baked product that doesn’t support even slightly complex billing mechanisms.

> Netlify

Netfliy is a good product, and I enjoy using it, but their pricing is strange. I can host 10 sites for free but it’s $15 per user for a collaborator? Seems weird. I’d happily pay say $30/m for unlimited users.
The statement

"Which came first, HTML5 web browsers or HTML5 web content? Neither, of course. They evolved in loose synchronization, tracing from way before HTML itself, growing slowly and then quickly in popularity along the way."

Prompted me to abandon reading the rest of the article.

There were committees and centralized coordination efforts involved in HTML5, just like the languages before it, for the standard and for the participating vendor own implementations. Development of the standard came first.

These sweeping generalizations and grand conclusions make an impression that the example was pulled along the ears to serve some grand statement.

It is the statement of the article that appears to be loose.
>If everything is a priority, nothing is.

Other things could be a _higher_ priority than a new thing. Just to give you an example (for huge amount of people priority to earn money to be able to have food on the table trumps almost everything else).

I answered below. I chose sport activity, because it's so simple and clearly benefits everybody and still only 30% of adults do it.

If you go to more complex things and on the opposite side of scales put a lot of complex and tangled priorities, it becomes very unclear what benefits most and how to pay yourself first.
I'm really hoping for the first. Pre-COVID I was pretty happy with WFH 2 or 3 days a week (sometimes Monday/Friday to bookend the week if possible). But this way I also still get to work with people in person at least a couple days a week. I'm definitely not the type to want to be working by myself at home all week.
This is false.

We have been accurately modeling climate change for over 50 years now.

Also, epidemiologist have been predicting a coronavirus outbreak specifically for about 10 years, and a larger global pandemic for about 100.

You can choose to ignore science if you want, but that doesn't mean people havent been warning us.
Didn't realize external power supply was available on ecobee, I contacted support (before purchasing) and they only gave me the neutral wire suggestion.
I meant to say 3 or 4 cars ahead. Thank you for taking the point.
The term God Parity is useful in this discussion
Wow. Didn’t know you were such a small team. Cheers
The current legal understanding is that according to the current copyright laws the ML models trained on some data are not considered derived works of that data, so if the data was obtained legally and without other restrictions (e.g. if the researchers sign a contract with the data owner that gives them access to data but agree to certain conditions) then the authors of the data do not have any claim on some rights to the resulting model.

One aspect that causes this is that historically statistical models calculated from large volumes of text (which is a notion that predates computers, e.g. frequency dictionaries and the whole [sub]field of quantitative corpus linguistics) have been considered facts about that corpus of text and thus not copyrightable at all or (depending on jurisdiction) entitled to different set of protections/limitations assigned to compilations of facts, which give some rights to the people who compiled the facts but no rights to the source of these facts (since facts as such aren't entitled to protection by copyright law).

This also applies to many forms of analysis of audiovisual data, where the copyrights of the source works do not transfer to the results of the statistical or qualitative analysis and can't limit their creation, distribution or sale.

The appropriate analogy to a commercial book or movie is not a translation, but some analysis of it - e.g. a thorough literary review and critique of some book or movie is a separate work with its own copyright, and the original author has no claim on it despite the fact that is (obviously) based on the contents of the work and describes it in great detail. Including verbatim fragments of the work is limited (fair use allows some inclusions but not all), but all the other details are not.

The whole notion of copyrightability of ML model weight files is interesting and IMHO not settled. You could argue that there is some creative expression in forming the model (which would support it being copyrightable) or you could argue that it's a mechanistic result of the application of some algorithm and settings (which have the creative part, and are copyrightable on their own), and so the output can't be copyrightable, no matter how much work (human or machine), time and cost it took - at least in USA copyright law doctrine (e.g. Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service) is that mere "sweat of the brow" (no matter how much) does not entitle a work to copyright protection; it requires application of human creativity to create an original work, and automated processes can't satisfy that requirement.

And crucially, if some output is not copyrightable in the first place, it can't be considered a derived work according to copyright law i.e. the exclusive right of authors to create derived works (or grant permission for others to do so) does not apply.

Another analogy might be a simple n-gram model (i.e. counts of bigrams - word pairs, trigrams, etc) which is quite clearly a mechanistic noncreative collection of facts about a dataset, and is also able to "answer" questions such as what is someone's telephone number if that was in the source data.
The big software firm I worked at (not FAANG but we competed with them for talent) absolutely tweaked its interview processes based on long run outcomes.

FAANGS evolve their process over time too.

One clear example - at FAANGS even if the manager likes you, it doesn't matter. You have to be evaluated by a committee of people who're indifferent to your manager, aren't under the gun to fill a slot and are less likely to be swayed by a one-time positive conversation.

Do you think this process came out of nowhere? That's just one example of them settling on something that worked, I am sure having previously tried other less structured approaches and tracking the results.
Definitely not directly comparable - since every civ has access to some common/baseline technology, but certainly differentiation (peaks/dips) in specific areas. That said, SC2's races are more different but not enough IMO to say the game is overall way more diverse.

Why do you say 'The downside is that it makes balancing nearly impossible.' when referring to MOBAs?
Founders with just enough cachet in the VC community.
Fair warning to anyone thinking of taking advantage of this gray area: the FAA is very, very strict when it comes to interpreting whether something is a commercial op. Pilots, for example, are considered to be getting compensation when they log flight hours, even if no money changes hands. (If this sounds ridiculous, you’ve never had to build 1500 hours. Every tenth is solid gold.)
With #1, I agree you need an escape hatch from GC and or reference counting.

But for most problems, these don’t impose a meaningful penalty and do remove a huge cognitive burden. Why penalize all programmers?
The problem is that fuel cell cars really can take you to 100% green transportation. This is a problem that can be avoided entirely.
Great tips! I am already doing the parallel with current thermostat (I don't trust my system at all). I will look into the other things as well, maybe I'll add them in my v2.
Thermostats have been the subject of maker magazines since the beginning of DIY electronics, (personally) to the point it became boring to read another article about them. If only I could have guessed they had the potential to spawn a billion dollar industry. Anyway, just typing "DIY thermostat" into Google returns quite a lot of projects.
I read HN just so that I can stumble upon an article like that once in a while
You are making the assumption that causality is useful and exist in these complex systems. Dr Cook base his treaty on what we know from the research of them, which is that these causal links are far less stronger than you think.

This means that searching along a causal tree is indeed detrimental fundamentally.
Alternative title: “Reddit: twenty first century eugenesia?”
I think it's quite likely as a long term trend for a big enough number of companies.

Face to face meetings are much higher bandwidth than anything tech can offer us so it will remain a competitive advantage for at least a while. Also most people are sociable and yes, work counts, too.

I'd bet on a split something like this 10 years from now: 60-80% split, 10-20% no remote, 10-20% fully remote.
People seriously expect fuel cell cars to allow for 100% green transport. Only from a BEV context do you talk about figuring out the last 10% or whatever.
> API's were always how software has been built ..

For software designed to be used by other developers, sure. For software in general, that's not my experience.

> Web API's, on the other hand ...

The ellipses suggests a natural conclusion, but none come to mind. Do you mind completing the thought?
The speculation in the thread appears to be that this is triggered by a part of the app that is not using the public APIs.

But also, I'd bet that this is just FPs from anti-abuse, not some kind of ad blocking conspiracy. Somebody sent a lot of spam using the chat feature, and the fingerprint of that traffic happens to match the fingerprint of this application. And rather than combine both signals derived from the chat message content and from fingerprinting for issuing their bans, they just used the latter.
For me I read the complex stuff because 1) math papers do put her to sleep, and 2) then I get time to read math papers.

The kid will be fine. It's not as if you won't have conversations with simple words as well. Is my kid gonna understand that Neruda poem about an onion, either? No, but she's developing an ear for poetry, consonance, assonance, rhyme. And she won't be afraid of the word "eigenvector". I grew up with parents who did not know the word "eigenvector" and had friends whose grad student parents could correct their multivariable calculus homework before it got turned in (so she always got perfect scores). We both turned out fine.

Talking to oneself as a technology though does get harder when you get a lot of, "What, mommy?" in response....
Just out of interest have you ever tried rewording the support button?

When I see 'support' on a website I think tech support not money support and blank it if I'm not looking for support. Might be just me, course!
Just discovered Pickleball and it’s a blast. Easy to learn, difficult to master. And I never liked other racquet sports. And in most areas there’s lots of open play so you don’t even need friends to play with.

3d printing is a really fun hobby. And pretty cheap to get started.

Wood working is a good one I’m trying to get into but I still get scared of the power tools.
Well, yeah, "space communication" in the title really means "SPACE"-- as in not on Earth.

There's interesting considerations in space laser communications that you don't see in fiber such as "point-ahead" optics to account for the fact that the speed of light is finite and the target is moving. This can be thought of as the optical equivalent of peeing into a moving bucket.

It's a fascinating review article.
Mine is Acquired’s overview of SpaceX: https://overcast.fm/+FaxmmY8Jw.

It was done right before the first Crew Dragon launch. They do such a great job of digging into a company’s history and the business model that powers them.
As this is a copy of the paper, probably.

I would point out that Dr Cook would probably disagree greatly with the whole idea of AntiFragile, or at least has the few time i have been able to talk with him. This link you offer is probably not the best context in which to comment on this paper.
When California Went to War over Eggs
Team play is definitely something I missed in my comment which is a big part of the picture. There’s a bit more nuance to it though. Solo queuing a team game can be miserable at any skill level simply due to a lack of accountability for team members. Playing with a group of friends, as you pointed out, can be fun at any skill level.

For competitive games that are inherently one on one, I don’t think it’s necessarily the case that they feel like work. Yes, StarCraft definitely falls into that stressful category. Hearthstone would seem to not do so.

Chess is a pretty interesting example. It’s one where you can have fun games even at very low rating, provided you’re appropriately matched. Low rated games may even be more “interesting” due to volatility in the evaluation, where high level games might be much more likely to result in a draw. Of course, high level players online tend to play a lot more at fast time controls, bringing blunders back into the picture.
This is exactly what we need in our industry as a whole. Please, express your gratitude to your teammates about every positive action you notice around. It helps to build up morale and stronger bonds and also has literally zero costs.
This is great to see.
Personally I think storage using hot rocks is going to be a big deal in the next 10 years.

https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/heated-volcani...
Truly dramatic to consider being suspended from an inconsequential social media site equal to eugenics.
How often do you fall? There’s that huge mat under you but the thought of falling 20 feet still freaks me out. How do you get past that?
I did play it as well, and noticed each of your points, although the PC I owned at the time of HL1 release barely fared better performance wise.
Sir, where do you pay $15k for a startup developer salary?!
>> It's pretty cringeworthy to think you can bring someone in, externally, to cultivate your culture.

Terry Tate disagrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94
I think this gets at the root of the problem. If Facebook tries to get to the optimal level of moderation, then for every person who thinks they're doing too little moderation, there will be someone else who thinks they're doing too much. Unfortunately for Facebook, that's also the point where pretty much everyone hates them.
It’s times like these that people should realize that fuel cells are a type of battery. You can call them hydrogen-air batteries.
Personally I think the Facebooks of the world ruined thanks.

I have no actual data but I swear people used to be more open with their thanks before everything was boiled down to one-click feedback (likes)
Super interesting - is a perfectly smooth cylinder most desirable? or should it be a little rough in order to better tug on the air as it spins?
Genome-Wide Epigenetic Signatures of Adaptive Developmental Plasticity in Andes
What’s peculiar about “red badges” and “oranges” at Amazon (genuinely interested)?
Honestly, I am less concerned with the money and more concerned with the level of process overhead. This article makes it sound like they are spending a lot of time in email, notes, meeting minutes, etc. Which seems like an awful lot for 3 people who can just talk to each other. I feel like todo.txt is enough organization for three people.
This is cool. It's crazy to me that this sort of thing needs to exist
> Would I add a beer keg-refrigerator aka "kegerator" to keep some 25 year olds from considering other companies for 3 months longer than they would anyway? sure

This has extra benefits too. You don't want to turn the office into a bar for quite obvious reasons, but having it in the office makes it convenient. A lot of senior will skip off-site events because they have a family to go back to. But one beer and leave? Sure.
> realtwitter.com

Strange. It doesn't show tweets chronologically, so I don't understand what it's supposed to be. Certainly not original twitter.
Why does no one need to have multiple accounts on Reddit? There are multiple subreddits where people post using throwaway accounts to protect their identity but still engage with the community.