skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're overlooking one critical point in your deduction about type of NVGs used. The drone was visible with the naked eye due to a green position light, which should have been enhanced and been visible under through the night vision goggles. The article says the drone was last seen entering IMC at 14,000MSL while the helicopter's ADS-B track shows it reached 12,000MSL which means the helicopter could see the light at least 2,000 feet away, which suggests a bright light that should have been visible through light amplification.

It's more likely that the night vision device was either malfunctioning or pilot error made its use ineffective.
i'm surprised to run across so many purported tech professionals who still don't know the difference between options and RSUs, and how the latter are as good as cash
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> So in theory you could get (50+epsilon)% of the votes in each of 51 seats, and 0 votes in any of the other 49 seats and hold power, despite only getting ~25% of the overall vote

Ah ok, got it. However, probably an unlikely scenario even in a "segregated" (republicans vs democrats) country as the US. But yeah - the reality right now that 40, 45% of the votes are enough for - in the case of the US - the republicans to win is pretty bad already.

> Depending on the electoral system you might not need to win a majority of the votes in any constituency,

In Germany we have two ways to get into the Bundestag (national parliament) - the one is a "Direktmandat" (the candidate with the most votes in one county county gets the seat), the other is via the party ticket. The parties have lists of candidates, and depending on their percentage of the total vote, the first X candidates get a seat.

That system tries to balance between each county getting the representative in they favor, but also representing the relative votes via the party ticket.
> Straying off the beaten path quickly leads

to a terrifying abyss. The contrast is remarkable. When everything you need is packaged and it just works, it's amazing. Hands down the best system management experience I've had. And then one day you learn you've been dancing on the edge of a cliff.

I'm hooked; there's no going back now for me. But there's at least one project (TidalCycles) that I simply gave up on ever running, because installing it requires peering deep inside the machine, and my psyche cannot handle it.
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At a public company, equity comp is a stock grant. This has a greater likelihood of being valuable than equity in a private company, though of course the value could still go down.
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As a people manager, I have encountered this issue of managing "to the curve". Regardless of the composition of the team and the fact that they could be all high performers, I have had to make decisions that fit to a curve which senior mgmt is imposing.

As for Jack Welsh, he was on record that his methods were really for organizations in trouble to rectify their issues in the short term. Unfortunately many companies run with it as their standard practice.
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I'm really not sure about "Streamlined clutter-free menus": the screenshot with the menu shows way too many things in there, and what is "more tools"?
At an early stage startup, no sane person counts equity comp. But at a company that’s been public for 15+ years, why wouldn’t you?
Um... do you know how the US military uses drones?
... especially since hire-to-fire means that a lot of people will never actually receive that equity compensation.
How much am I going to get for all the answers I posted? :) (Hint: not a dime)
Oh no :(

I hope there is a public archiving effort in case the posts get paywalled or something in future.
I wanna buy a switch lite but now I’m hesitant since I really want to buy an old psp

I wish SONY never discontinued
Amazon has many tech workers on visas, and it can be extremely anxiety inducing around performance review time. Once a manager puts a target on your back, it's a major uphill climb to remove that target. And for someone on a visa you don't just lose your job, you get repatriated back to your home country unless you can quickly get rehired somewhere else. Edit: And not just you, your wife and kids too, even if your kids were born here and it's all they ever knew.

The other side of this perverse incentive is it encourages overwork culture, hyper-competitive work environment, and promotion oriented architecture.
I buy a computer I own that computer there should be no strings attached.
I don’t want to seem like a jerk saying this, because I’ve put effort into supporting the site and helping with moderation, I know it’s all very challenging and difficult, but: I think stack overflow has been dead for a while.

Maybe you and I wanted different things from it and you still find it useful, but I haven’t really enjoyed it for many years. I loved it over a decade ago, these days I generally avoid it.

I was surprised by this purchase for that reason alone. I must be missing something. Stack must be way more useful and active than I realize, for reasons I’m unaware of.

I find the community pretty abrasive mostly.
At a FAANG? Why not? If the company is public you can immediately sell it for cash upon vesting, and I pretty much always do.
The most successful companies are always brutal in at least two aspects: (1) they are demanding and (2) they do not tolerate mediocrity.

Go to any of the top players in a given industry and it will be the same. That actually makes sense because competition in the marketplace is brutal. You won't succeed (or not for long) if you don't aim high and let people take it easy.
Same here but perhaps to an even more pond-scum drinking level: instant coffee.

I found one I like (Mount Hagen), it tastes better to me than most exotic coffees my coworkers rave about, and that's it. Cheap, easy to make, taste like coffee.
Ehh... equity comp at a public company is just cash on your vesting schedule (if you chose to sell each vest).
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Nit: it throws if you wanna use a negative bigint as `i` hehehe :(

let i = -1n;
let test = +i;
> Uncaught TypeError: can't convert BigInt to number

See this is where standard libraries shine, they consider all the pieces of the puzzle. There's no good reason to disallow bigints here.

P.S: Unary plus operator is neat but this TypeError with BigInt is why I am starting to prefer the more verbose `Number(i)`.
Presumably, one wouldn't know if they were properly incompetent.
> sad to see it die this way (because we know it all will)

Why?
Yes, if Guix were "Nix but with Scheme" I'd go for it in a second. Unfortunately, although both Nix and Guix make hard choices about things (e.g. the init system), at least the choices made by Nix are more livable day-to-day.

As to why Nix wasn't some system written using Haskell (for actual language features that is also lazy) or Prolog (for its whole thing about solving constraint-based problems all over the place), I will never understand...
I Agree

Why is it so hard to see his intention? He generalised to them that was wrong , it's like saying black people are x y z. However, the rest of his talk is pretty much true.
NixOS also covers package configuration, not just which packages are installed. And because it owns all of the configuration, it can semi-intelligently merge package configurations that are managed in multiple independent places.

It can also be used to apply patches to packages (which are then automatically carried over when the upstream package is updated).
I hadn't heard of Prosus or Naspers before this. Apparently Naspers owns 31.2% of Tencent. Time to revisit my assumptions with respect to how companies are owned.
> "investing in something that is so obviously a scam"

None of us has any idea what was presented in the application form and interviews, but given YC prizes its reputation above anything else, we can reasonably presume it wasn't obviously a scam.
Why not, assuming the company is public? If you can convert to cash as soon as your shares vest (which occurs monthly in most instances) it's as good as cash (with some discounting factor for the uncertainty of the first year pre-vesting).
> People leave, either because they move on to new opportunities or because they aren't able to perform at a level the company deems acceptable. That happens in every company.

Or it could be that people are treated like a dogs and would be better off not being in that environment regardless of having a plan b.
So now you can have a line in your resume that you worked in Amazon - one of FAANG - and it's easier to get there.

Good.

And also you're not incentivized to make particularly good work there, as you'll be fired soon.

Great.

/s
Investing in Shef
> Not sure if the nail painting itself is what women pay for when they go to a nail salon.

I thought that any type of salon was meant as a congregation point for gossip vectors to intersect and the manicurist was more of a surrogate therapist whose services must be conducted physically closer (opportunity for optional hushed tone) because the client's hand must be held thus setting the conditions for more personal conversation (mostly attentive listening) and accountability in a public location? Grooming-as-a-service is the commercialized intimate connection made as a reprieve from the cold robotic touch felt everywhere else in "civilized" society.

Afterwards, the "prepared" cuticles of a person's readily visible hand in any social situation is supposed to be an indicator (trophy? Cash to spare on something without surface level utility) that this social grooming session has occurred (and consequential fresh gossip fodder behind a tongue poised and rearing). Simultaneous (or primary) announcement that "these hands do not labor" (if she breaks one of these "expensive" nails, she can then draw attention to her role in a situation). This is similar to ancient Chinese foot binding that made it "beautiful" to be immobile and thus vulnerable - social status announcement that a wife with sufficiently warped feet cannot go anywhere on her own without service labor.

The offensive odor of nail polish solvent fumes is just as "necessary" a pain as the restriction of a corset, wrapped foot, elongated neck, or "temporary" hormonal disruption of birth control.

Perhaps the robot is meant to liberate the manicurist from an entire shift of toxic air.
That's a local install/config issue then, the product itself doesn't differentiate
For many reasons, I typically do better with qualitative performance reviews, and I'm usually more critical of myself than my manager. I have first-hand experience with exactly the kind of point I believe you might be trying to make, because I've been lucky enough to be managed by people who are genuinely passionate about managing people (and have therefore used qualitative reviews).

The problem is when people disagree on performance, in isolation ("I don't deserve a 3 this quarter") or in relation ("why did X get a promotion instead of me"). Quantitative reviews are essentially your employer covering their ass. People might game the system, but there's a paper trail to back up their actions: "we hired Y, but they had a worse quantitative review than everyone else on the team and so was fired." 'Y' has no reasonable recourse, to sue or whatever.

Quantitative performance reviews are too valuable for labor relations.
IMO the escape hatch doesn't get you any real benefits. It's not like you can install packages from apt/yum/aur so you don't get access to any new software (plus nixpkgs is bigger than all those). All it does is result in confusing tutorials that hide the benefits of declarative management and make it difficult for new users who just want to get things working.
I wonder why I never hear any good stories about working for Amazon?
A fuel powered drone uses collective pitch propellers. The blades all spin at fixed RPM but the angle of the blades on each propeller can be adjusted individually with a servo. It actually far outperforms electric motors in maneuverability.
The 787 uses Rolls Royce engines.
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Oh, sorry; I missed that part of your reply.

I support a UBI that's paid for by increased taxation on the wealthy. Then it's not actually increasing the money supply, just redistributing it.

I also don't buy the argument that even with a UBI fully funded by printing more money, all the benefit would be eaten up by inflation (though certainly, much more would be than if it were paid for by increased taxation). I don't believe that's how inflation works in practice.
I don't know if this is somewhat similar to other companies I won't name, but there's a practice of hiring contractors that work for a "contracting company" as a W2, but then works "in the office" at another company. I did this a couple times. One thing I would say is that even though my contract was 6 months, the contacts you get is incredible through doing this. It also offers people a way to get a job at more stable companies without the insane interview process.

Definitely helps open doors for people that would otherwise not have a chance at getting a job at the place.

That all being said, if this is different from what I described, ok.
I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers.

Unrelated story, I have a day one Stack Overflow account. I don't remember how I found it but I'm sure it was posted on digg or slashdot or something at the time. I had a lot of posts in the first few years about some generally broad concepts, and completely inactive since.

In spite of this, I am in the top 7% of accounts on the site, which is a nice reminder on the power of compound interest!
Starbucks Coffee, perhaps?

But really, having good health care shouldn't be tied to having a job. That's a peculiarity of the US that's done long-term damage over decades.
The consensus seems to be that SO has peaked some time ago although I still get a lot of value out of it.

Why then does nobody seems to think there's an upside to the acquisition? Maybe they can fix some of the problems.
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Both are tiny compared to the total wages of workers.
> Most (any?) other UI toolkits give you distinct "canvas" that can be in more-or-less arbitrary relationships to each other.

In HTML we call this "position: absolute" and "z-index".

> And if that is not enough, they let you drop down to `onPaint` and paint your own stuff.

In HTML we call this <canvas>
Israelis have used them against protesting Palestinians with unidentified toxic gases.
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19579/where-are-the...

For pete's sake don't scrape what Stack provides for you in an easy to parse format.
You can also buy "crappy" coffee and make it taste better just by dialing in how you make it. Watch a couple youtube videos, spend about an hour and a half practicing making cup after cup of coffee, and you can make pre-ground Folgers taste pleasant.

Most people aren't aware that they can practice cooking many times in a row and get noticeably better in a day. You can't make 25 roast dinners in a row, but you can make 25 omelettes, or 25 cups of coffee, and dramatically increase your proficiency. If you only practiced once a day, you would actually not get much better, and it would still take you 25 times as long.
You're assuming this is a decision available to each app developer. In fact these dependencies are usually chosen by the developer of a library that's a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a library you choose as an app developer.

Auditing the entire dependency tree of every library you choose is extremely arduous without proper tooling, and the tooling here has never been good (and even the more recently available better tooling is CVE-focused so won't highlight tells like package size/maintenance status/whatever other heuristics you might devise as a proxy for quality).
I may be being a little more optimistic than some other people here, but I agree with you. There's a history of larger companies acquiring smaller ones only to ruin them (ahem, Yahoo), so hopefully Prosus understands what makes Stack Overflow so successful and will be mostly hands off. (Also, I'm not sure when Prosus acquired Udemy, but as far as I know that acquisition didn't negatively affect that site.)
That's not true. It makes sense to discount pre-ipo equity at 100%, but post-ipo equity is much more predictable.

I personally discount equity at 40%. So you can offer me $300,000 cash or you can offer me $150,000 cash and $250,000 RSUs and I'd consider those equal offers.
I like your method better because the Aeropress is plastic. Plastic+boiling water is an absolute no-go for me. "BPA free" is marketing bullshit from the plastic industry, it absolutely will leech into the water.
I'll try to qualify my assertion:

> It's merely a tool that reacts to what is mostly useless/placeholder/redundant/uninteresting/spam content

Happy?

The current topic on my region is "#Hurentag" and the most relevant tweets are mostly "Happy #Hurentag", plus some spam from people linking to their Instagram.

The second is #getimpf which is just people making selfies, others complaining about the selfies, and some people trying to prop-up their blogs.

The third is "Switch Pro" which is one article by Verge and lots of people discussing why it's trending. Plus some blog and Instagram spam. There's also an OnlyFans spam showing up for me.

Then there's "Nintendo" which is the same as the above.

If you scroll down two pages on each topic you'll always see people posting unrelated things with the trending topic words/hashtags.

Apart from one post from The Verge on the top of "Switch Pro" and "Nintendo" there is NOTHING of value on those tweets. ZERO discussion. Nobody talking about anything.

The issue is not that it's useless. That's quite fun, actually. The issue is that it's not really a proper way of measuring what people are really talking about, because 99% of the content has NOTHING to do with the topic in question other than containing a word or hashtag.

> The only difference I can see between that and generating "lazy pseudo-journalism" is remuneration.

Not really. I'm doing this while I wait for my tests to run, so I'm definitely getting paid, probably more than journalists.
Do you happen to have a list of the ports you had to open?
I have hard time imagining how this "unregretted attrition rate" (URA) works for very specialised position like research scientists. If you expect to lose even 1 of those per year it seem like the interview process could be a bit lighter.
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Uh, you knew that going in, right? Aren't all answers CC0?
Several hobbyists have built them so I’m sure that commercial versions exist. They can’t really do any better than electric in altitude and speed (electric drones can get to 14,000 feet despite the article) but their endurance is measured in hours
The big four are buildings, electricity, transportation and agriculture. The typical consumer has no influence on buildings, because they rent. They have a little influence on electricity, because they can choose to buy greenwashed electrons, but they have no influence on energy policy. They have yet a little more influence on transportation, because most can choose not to fly, some can choose not to use a car (or at least use an EV if they can afford it). But they have almost no influence on, e.g. public transportation infrastructure, charging infrastructure, cycling infrastructure, or city planning. Only in agriculture you can actually make a difference in your emissions by eating less meat, but there too there is no path for the consumer to carbon neutrality.

Overall, a conscious consumer can maybe cut their carbon output in half compared to their peers, but their actions have no path towards actual carbon neutrality. That is a problem that needs to be tackled by politicians.
> substance abuse or mental illness in the home, parental divorce or separation

That should already account for a good chunk of the population. The truth is that there is no such thing as a "normal" childhood.
Those are establishment politics, not moderate liberalism. But yeah, moderate liberal politicians (like politicians of all ideological brands) often act out of line with their professed ideology in favor of establishment interests.

I'm a moderate liberal only in the sense that my politics tend to be moderately liberal, but "moderate liberals" aren't my tribe (indeed, I don't have a political tribe--I'm very independent in that regard). This is all to say that I don't take offense to criticism of other moderate liberals because how a few moderate liberals behave doesn't define me.