skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they do. Not 100% of the time, certainly, but it very much happens.

Eg, under SVN, people would check-out our project, do some work and then either need commit rights, or create a patch.

Under git, people have full power to clone the entire thing, explore the entire history, rewrite whatever they want to, easily collaborate with other people with the same interests, and then maybe submit it all upstream.

So for instance right now in Vircadia we're having a big project of redoing the scripting engine. This work could conceivably take months, and thanks to git it doesn't have to happen in the main repo. It can happen between the people interested in that part of the code, where even several people can collaborate on a gigantic PR that would hopefully get merged in the end. SVN doesn't allow for that kind of workflow.

Yes, the high level view is still centralized, but the ability to break away from the centralization to do something big is very helpful and important. Even if it's not the dominant way of working.
This is fine, just make getting the money contingent upon Blue Origin doing 2 things:

1. shipping fully functional engines to ULA for the Vulcan rocket on-time and on-budget (it looks like they have pretty much done this so far with only minor issues, but still not fully tested on the rocket)

2. putting their New Glenn rocket into orbit

Then they can have their beloved billions. If they can't do that, NASA should take the money and give it to RocketLab.
"Contact" could be seen as interpretation of General Relativity. On earth, to the outside observer, it appears like the space travel took no time. On board the spaceship the time lasted much longer. I guess the space ship curved the the space-time.
If unclear, the "reasonable effective income tax rate" was for the top 1%.

1) Where do you live?

2) Are you in the top 1%?

3) In your location, what is the effective income tax rate for top 1%?
There’s a thing to be done, and hopefully, some sort of timeframe to complete it. There are a number of ways to contact all the people involved. End of story.

Where in all of this is a central office necessary? I stay engaged by the quality and quantity of work, not by useless office politics (which happen regardless) and seeing people whose only connection is that we work for the same company.

Those people are there to solve specific issues and if one arises that needs their attention, well, I can reach them.
And for every person like yourself - there are plenty of companies hiring people like me who are going into their 6th job in 8 years. (Comp is ~400k/yr, was much higher in previous role but that’s stock appreciation at work)

:/ 2 years is usually where people can only put up with so much toxicity before leaving. Even at 1m+/yr, I couldn’t last longer than 2.5 years. A lot of work environments change too - so, often you’re quitting your new manager (who won’t let you transfer) and not the company.
There is a discretionary budget allocated to the executive that can be used for funding EOs, although it's not huge when looked at relative to the budget - $800m a year is what's in my head but I could be wrong.
You're not the target audience. My wife drives her Tesla to work every day and wouldn't change it for a 10x more expensive car. She also has the performance model, although she would never go above 60mph. She couldn't care less about the interior not meeting your standards, because the interior looks like a spaceship and as far as she's concerned, it's the coolest thing ever. I personally drive an ICE car, but I recognize that I am not the target audience and can tell that the Teslas are resonating with a huge segment of our population.
OK, I've taken a crack at the title above.
Define decentralized.

Ripple owns a lot of XRP(in escrow). That is the only claim of centralization that is true. The network has equal or greater decentralization than BTC.
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yes but if you allow alternative app stores, then what? it’s either regulated by apple, which defeats the point, or it’s a security risk.

I’m against walled gardens, I just disagree that there’s no security upside to it
Greykite: A flexible, intuitive, and fast forecasting library
Those in engineering fields (vast majority of H-1B) know that the job can be done anywhere. If you can't hire the people in the US, you do it outside. Once you start, there's no stopping.
I hope Foundation is as good as it is pretty...
Are you suggesting for you “enter-“ and “inter-“ are entirely intermingled?

From South of Mason Dixie line and anecdata of one, but don’t pronounce pen like pin or English like Ingrid (or -ing).

// Of course the beginnings and endings make one think of big endian and little Indian.
But we aren't. We're talking about git. We're having a digression from the main topic because git is kinda tangentially related.
As a laborer, if I have a choice between a world where golden handcuffs exist and world where they don't, I choose the world where golden handcuffs exist. Presumably the idea is they will be forced to make work better to retain employees instead and it will a net win for workers, but there's zero details or explanation as to how exactly that will happen.
>"Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it"??

I don't understand why this is often held up as a valid criticism of the authenticity of the movie. This quote is a character speaking and not the filmmaker. The movie isn't necessarily saying Anne Hathaway's character's reasoning for her actions is any more sound than Matt Damon's character's reasoning. The plot of the movie does not rely on her character's reasoning being right.
Exactly, which is why an open and complete back and forth discussion of the data is required to establish the truth. People who have trained themselves to be allergic to data often do so because their prejudices and preconceptions do not survive a careful analysis.
Nobody would consider Tokaido Shinkansen to not be HSR, but it averages ~125mph.
A 2021 Civic actually will brake by itself in certain circumstances. And I'm pretty sure no Civic can drive itself.

From
https://owners.honda.com/vehicles/information/2021/Civic-Sed...

The system starts monitoring the roadway ahead when your vehicle speed is about 3 mph (5 km/h) and there is a vehicle in front of you.

The CMBSTM activates when:

The speed difference between your vehicle and a vehicle or pedestrian detected in front of you becomes about 3 mph (5 km/h) and over with a chance of a collision.

Your vehicle speed is about 62 mph (100 km/h) or less and the system determines there is a chance of a collision with:

- Vehicles detected in front of you that are stationary, oncoming, or traveling in your same direction.

- A pedestrian who is detected in front of you.

Your vehicle speed is above 62 mph (100 km/h), and the system determines there is a chance of a collision with a vehicle detected in front of you traveling in your same direction.
Enigma: GPT-2 trained on 10K Nature Papers: Can you spot the difference?
I have worked as a mortgage processor for residential homes and as a commercial mortgage processor for about three years in a past life. And to be frank, the first paragraph reads as an entitled person who thought they're home was valued at more than it was when it really wasn't.

Appraisers need comparable properties. They CANNOT choose houses in the same area unless they cannot get comparable properties within a certain vicinity. Appraisers have laws they need to follow too. Appraisers can also revise it if the person who paid for the appraisal can provide comparable houses sold and their price. This is the major kicker. Most people just assume "Oh well that house lives near me so my house must be worth as much!" No, it needs to match things like square footage, number of rooms, history of sales, the community at large, and whatever else that appraiser likes to do.

Funnily enough, something they could've done to test if it was racist is to have a separate appraiser do the appraisal but give them the previous appraisal without the dollar amount quoted. Then give another one with the dollar amount. I guarantee you they will more or less come in at or around the same price.

From someone who was in the inside (and had numerous minorities get loans and appraisals), this just looks like NIMBY pissed they over inflated the value of their house just because they changed linoleum with tile and removed the wallpaper. Appraisers don't even know your race until they walk in your house 99/100. They communicate almost exclusively with the financial and not you. And due to Truth In Lending since 2008, the likelihood that you can prove discrimination and racism in the banking industry is borderline impossible. That's why it takes so damn long to get a mortgage and you have to wait 3 days between signing the final documents.
I took "Show HN" out of this title because requiring an email signup to get access to the content is against the spirit of the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, which say that there needs to be a way for people to try it out. In the case of a book, the established way to let people "try it out" is to share a sample chapter. If you share a sample chapter on your web page, rather than just a sample page, we can put "Show HN" back. (Edit: done now.)
Almost. Really wanting a list of all of the individual endpoints for each of the APIs (unless I'm not seeing it on that page)
> Have you seen _any_ major tech company with close to 50% women or 40% non-hispanic white employees? In engineering roles?

Depends on what you'd consider close. Apple, for example, reports 47% white non-Hispanic employees overall and 44% in engineering. (https://www.apple.com/diversity/) From my personal experience, I've never worked on a team where white people were a majority, although in one case I think the company as a whole was.
I've heard of this one before, note a key point:

"To get that one, Duffy, who is African American, communicated with the appraiser strictly via email, stripped her home of all signs of her racial and cultural identity and had the white husband of a friend stand in for her during the appraiser's visit."

She's saying she stripped it of all signs of her racial and cultural identity--but note that this means she stripped it of all signs of her identity, period. It's known in real estate that one should strip signs of one's identity when selling a house as this makes it easier for a prospective buyer to picture themselves in the house.

Lacking a control renders this completely useless information.

(And it's also possible that something she stripped out was making the home seem unattractive.)
One of the things that I love about working for Netflix is that they just pay you every 2 weeks and that's basically it. There are no RSUs that are stacking up, no yearly bonus, etc. No smoke and mirrors. No internal websites to calculate the value of your compensation like at Google.

I remember how much trouble the yearly bonuses caused when I worked at Google. In the fall, some people would become much less active and turn from top performers into dead wood while they hung around, waiting for the yearly bonus payout in Jan.
Similar to the question from myself248:

Does it run on Free Software? Put another way, what would the FSF Respects Your Freedom programme [0] make of it? How does it compare to the Purism Librem machines?

[0] https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria
Your electricity runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you are in a position to notice power outages much more easily than gasoline "outages". Gasoline supply is hidden behind a logistics dance of shifting prices and for the most part "outages" (really "shortages") usually get swept under the rug of economics and you won't notice them. (Until you do, such as the panic runs we've been seeing in the US South after a single pipeline hiccup.)

It's a fun false equivalency, but thanks for trying.
This is not a knock on Framework, but it amuses me that a base spec of 8 GB of RAM is acceptable in 2021.

The last time I bought a laptop was 2014. It was a Macbook Pro 15'. Even then, 8 GB was an irritating amount of RAM, so I bumped it up to 16 GB.

7 years later things have hardly improved.
Like with every old phone: they will not patch it. Then they will tell you to buy a new one or a similar but new model.
Thanks! We are developing an Ethernet Expansion Card. Due to the size of the receptacle and magnetics required, it'll bump out rather than being flush like the other cards, but still more convenient than an external dongle.
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Rising prices are the latest financial blow to low-income Americans
> 5. The focusing system is usually way better. DSLRs depend on a translucent part of the mirror to direct some light onto a focusing sensor. Mirrorless cameras have a load of split pixels scattered across the main sensor, that allow them to do phase-shift focusing. But because they're using the main sensor, they can do things like work out where people's faces (or even eyes) are, and focus on that.

I might be wrong, but I thought most DSLRs use phase detection, while mirrorless cameras use contrast detection. Phase detection tends to be much faster, but contrast detection is more accurate.
I don't know about the windows problem, but git annex can be configured to be pretty simple to use. See:

https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2020/03/git-annex-is-grea...
Help, my POC got funded, need serious Dev advice to build and scale my Flask app
I am new to full stack programming and 6 months ago I started building a proof of concept web app, it worked well enough for a company to acquire me. I now need serious advice / consulting on how to make it properly so it will scale.

So far it's a Flask app on Google App Engine, with PostgreSQL database and totally vanilla frontend. About 5,000 lines of code, but might make sense to re-write it now before hiring more devs?

Basically, I was advised to pay a lot for a good senior dev to structure my app properly now over the next month as a freelancer / consultant, before I actually start hiring people.

What do you think? Anyone here good enough or interested enough to help a fledgling startup ?

Regards, James
It's also fairly controversial within the Python dev community. I read this title as a jab at that one, because it's not recommended to follow a lot of the "Hard Way" patterns and practices. It's been quite a few years since I was working in Python exclusively, so I can't recall specifics to point out.
1 - RSUs are taxed as earned income from the time they vest.

That means - if I was granted $75k worth of Google stock to be paid this year - but it has quadrupled in value... Upon vesting - I'll receive $300k worth of Google stock this year...

I pay "earned" income tax on all $300k of that - meaning, after taxes, I get about ~$185k of that.

If I should hold that for a year - and it goes up 20% in value - I would pay capital gains tax on that 20% / ~$37k just like anyone else who bought and held Google stock for a year.
...maybe in theory.

Fines are, largely calibrated one way or another. It's not marked to gross revenue... but it is usually marked to the infraction. In the EU-Adwords case, the $2bn fine was relative to the size of adwords search partners' EU market share. In this Italian case (I assume) the fine is scaled to the size of the monopolised sector... Italian apps or whatnot.

This is why I called it a "violation-fine paradigm." Courts can't arbitrarily fine companies "enough to make it hurt." It has to relate to laws, specific infractions. Laws have to be general. Etc.

My point is that the infraction itself is not the problem. It's a sign of the problem, a symptom... the problem is monopoly. There's no version of adwords partner agreement (including the post-fine version) that isn't still a problem, even if it doesn't contain abuse of power clauses. The problem is that the only meaningful market for search ads is Google's. Similar issue for Amazon marketplace. There's no version of Amazon marketplace policies where amazon retail competes on a level playing field... they own the field.

You fine a company for doing something wrong. Google do things wrong, from time to time... but the main problem is what Google is, not what they do. That's derivative.
Did you ever try to respond to O'Toole's argument or was it all character assassination?
This is really a great idea. I hope your company succeeds.

I would buy it just for the blank ISO keyboard. I hope you also add shipping from the EU.

BTW. Why does the Enter key look so strange?
Ah, so it's fine to destroy civilian homes if they live near military targets and you give them some warning? Interesting. Do you apply that logic both ways? If Hamas sent a warning to Tel Aviv residents to evacuate because they would be firing rockets, would that satisfy you?
The bail outs being described are the invisible hand though. Government actions aren't being described, private companies engaging in private investments are. "Bail out" seems to be a catch all term for "struggling company I dislike received financing".
If you are suggesting that the media is biased for the Palestinians over Israel then you aren't discussing in good faith and there's no point to this conversation.
I've talked to two FAANG-level recruiters recently about remote openings, which are all the rage now.

One was willing to give a base-salary range but absolutely refused to provide any comp information beyond that. Signing bonus? Equity? "We are still working out those numbers for remote employees, we'll negotiate when we give you an offer"

The other - everyone at the same level at the same location gets the same comp and the same equity, here it is.

Guess which one I'm willing to pursue. These days the whole process of doing a tech interview is grueling, between the 'leet' coding practice, the take-home assignments, the 4-8 separate interviews. If they think I'm putting myself through all that without some guarantee of a considerable pay raise, they're crazy.

I don't think "wait til we get you the offer" is going to work much longer for a lot of companies. Not unless they go back to the old-fashioned "tell us about yourself" interviews, which would be quite a relief but I don't see happening anytime soon.
The question is if this should be done at the language-level or library-level. With sufficient metaprogramming capabilities, an enterprising programmer could write safe resource management abstractions for Zig. However, this wouldn't make the language "safe by default," which seems to be what Rust programmers are bringing with this criticism.

Even if Zig doesn't bring safety by default to the language, however, I think you could get it in practice by making the standard library enforce safety. Then, unless someone goes out of their way to write their own libraries from scratch and eschew all of the safety mechanisms, they would likely live in this safety bubble.
> it's harder to maintain that brand image from a pricing standpoint if everyone can just sell it at whatever they want

Does this apply to discounters only? The PS5 (and earlier, PS4) resellers are re-selling them at premium, but AFAIK Sony doesn't go after them, at all.

> (b) supplying so much product to the discounter meant less was available around the country for retail shops

...don't supply to the discounter so much then? Don't the manufacturers usually supply the retail chains first and only then dump whatever left to the discounters anyhow?
Small typo:

Not everytime you have a brilliant idea,

=>

Now everytime you have a brilliant idea,
Somebody (Guy Steele?) once did a benchmark of Maclisp and the DEC PDP-10 Fortran compiler on numerical problems. As I recall Maclisp came out ahead.
A lot more transactions on BSC.

https://bscscan.com/chart/tx
We designed our mainboard system to be able upgradeable to future CPU platforms. We have nothing we can share around that today, but it's a core part of the product!
This reads to me like when you talk to a used car salesman and the first thing he says is, "We don't negotiate on price."

When someone you have a semi-adversarial relationship with removes your ability to negotiate, they aren't doing so in your favor.
What about prestige
> they need 10 km just to get up to speed

Why is that? Cars and airplanes accelerate much faster, without any real rider discomfort. If it's due to train hardware itself, wouldn't an assist to get the train up to speed work, in a fraction of that distance?
90% of that is burying the lead that leaking methane is an issue. No shit, but moving from Bunker>LSFO>LNG is going to cause a net decrease in GHG emissions. Operators that have to focus on profit margins, not maintaining artificial monopolies can't afford to subsidize leaking equipment.
Aliso Canyon caused a substantial investment in methane detection hardware thats in use. Next step is getting E&P co's to pay into a perpetual fund that monitors old wells.
I highly recommend you play Kerbal Space Program if you want to get an intuitive understanding for how it works. But in short, yes, and also if you accelerate towards another orbiting object your own orbit becomes more elliptical such that over sufficient distance you will actually move away from it rather than toward it.
It really depends on the context. Nothing is black and white when it comes to hiring.
They should, most policies do cover ransomware. If their policy did not, CIO loses their job in 5…4…
Well done, beautifully well placed comment.
I absolutely feel this in the UK. It’s probably worse for me because I tend to spend a lot of time indoors
Division of labor in work shifts by leaf-cutting ants
Can I get it without Windows please and save the licence fee for something I'll never use?
Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5M in ransom after cyberattack: report
It's certainly possible to achieve serious security but probably not practical for most private entities. I've spent most of my development career making software for the US intelligence community and their systems were definitely not going to get broken into by a ransomware gang. Security measures include multilevel air gapping plus heavily armed physical security, six foot thick concrete walls set back from the street by other concrete barriers, locating facilities on military installations, disabling USB ports on most devices, banning anything radio enabled from being anywhere near your workstations, jamming radio signals anyway, severely punishing, possibly executing, anyone caught working as an intentional insider threat, requiring multiple persons in the custody and approval chains to move any files from one network to another via write-once media like DVDs, having the transfer media itself in a separate locked cabinet in a separate locked room inside the actual classified vault serving as an office. Installing and running everything in a separately sandboxed staging environment even after it gets through all the walls and air gaps and DVDs and running it through some fairly extensive testing and analysis before putting it anywhere near a production system.

Clearly, you can never make it literally impossible, but to my knowledge, nobody has ever managed to get malicious software onto a classified production system. Information leaks are, of course, another story.
This is a list of movies that would be interesting to people who like physics, not movies that accurately depict physical phenomena. As someone with a physics degree, I've enjoyed almost every movie on this list, so I would say it has something going for it.

People watch movies for the fantasy element, including physics lovers. Some of us watch gravitational simulations all day long as part of our work. We don't go to the movies to watch them in cinematic form when we're off the clock. It's fine if they get the physics wrong imo, and again, I say that as someone who invested a lot of time and money in understanding physics.
France had plenty of airports, they just got less use once the TGV network expanded.