skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In NZ, my wife took 6 months of parental leave (with a huge drop of salary...) and I took 2 weeks* (one unpaid and one paid by my company). So yeah, I did not take anything else because our mortgage is not going to repay itself and the pragmatic move was that I continue working.

Note*: in NZ, the partner is allowed 2 week unpaid if you are in your current job for more than 12 months, 1 week if you are in your job between 6 and 12, and 0 if you just join a new company. And it does not matter if you have been paying taxes and working several years before that. Silly system really.

At the same time, I WFH the full time so I was there for almost everything and my kid started to have full nights straight away so it was not that bad :).
I think in this case Google might not be right. Other sources say it's more like 10-15kg (22-33lbs)[1] for beef cattle. Dairy might be higher.

[1] https://www.thebeefsite.com/articles/3154/how-much-forage-do...
> The US threatens to sanction any country doing business with Cuba. It also heavily limits who can do business with Cuba.

That's a lie. Cuba trades with China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands.
Aloixa Sinclaire has a YouTube video describing at least some of the derivation [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDQoehS4uP4
Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?
The way I said it is misleading for the sake of brevity. That's a small gas giant worth of matter and antimatter to power a warp drive for a ship so small that it's not even worth calculating its mass relative to the fuel. The entire mass of Mount Everest is something like 0.00000000001% of the mass you'd need to create the warp bubble. If the ship was in the center of the fuel, it'd be crushed into something so dense it'd resemble the earth's core.

Best case scenario we're talking a mass effect style planetary megastructure that forms a warp bubble around a ship and shoots it with just enough "momentum" for the warp bubble to fail right at the destination.
I myself like the "proverbs". It's short, simple ways that get me to understand what frame of mind I should be in when writing or reading a particular language.
May also be an American thing (at least the whole spending a lot of time on analogies for SAT testing thing)
> Even health insurance typically has lifetime maximums

The ACA, in the US, prohibited lifetime and annual maximums except those that apply only to services not defined as essential health benefits, with the exception of pre-existing grandfathered-in individual (not group) plans.
No, they're not.

Cuban officials say the cargo carrier of Colombia-based Avianca Airlines declined to carry the aid to Cuba because its major shareholder is a U.S.-based company subject to the trade embargo on Cuba.
Oh but that's what basically every gps software is doing - one moment you're slowly trailing on the highway, the other you're placed on the bridge above.
Why are companies adopting this “IC#” nomenclature? What does “IC” even stand for?

I guess it’s a Google or MS thing, or perhaps a modification of US government pay grades (GS-1, GS-2, …)
This is a pretty normal framework they must've inherited from somewhere else. It's almost exactly the same as at least two other companies.
> The model size is the zipped size of your model that is uploaded to Inferrd (either through the SDK or the website).

Nice to hear!

> We only have servers in the United States at the moment but are looking to have servers all around NA and EU very soon.

Sorry, my question was not quite clear. What I actually wanted to know was more along the lines of being able to use your service in Europe legally. For example, I can not find a privacy policy or a way to get a GDPR data processing agreement.
If aliens decide to visit us using the warp drive today, they will still arrive tomorrow, not 50 years ago.
This is wrong if true.

Science based on experiments that are not repeatable by anyone cannot have the legitimacy that have been traditionally assigned to Science. Because where does the credibility of science come from? It comes from the fact that anyone can do an experiment, and the results will agree.

If you do an experiment that very few people in the world is able to replicate, because it is hard or due to lack of resources, then the rest of the world have to trust you.

Then it is no longer science or credible as science. If we go by the logic that a chain is only as strong as the weakest link, then the chain that started from science, and ended with a trust in the entity doing science cannot be as strong as science, and it can only be strong as the trust in the entity, since it is the weakest link.

So the public has been a victim to bait and switch, I think. The authorities buy the credibility and trust of the people by touting science.

So ultimately the decision of an individual if they want to trust you (the entity that did the experiment) or not, is really up to them. And if you do mandates based on such science, then you are really imposing your trust/belief on to others.

This is exactly like imposing your religion over others of a different faith.

And that should be pushed back and resisted with everything we have got.

You can argue that we will lose a lot of things if we go by this idea. But it does not have to be. No one is asking to give up such things. But the trust in them should not, and cannot be mandated.

Just like one have the freedom to believe in or not believe in a religion.

So if a scientist want people to believe in their research, they should do so by publishing research and explaining it in an accessible way, so that more people will have a chance to be convinced, voluntarily. And similarly when an authority makes a suggestion based on that research, more people will go along voluntarily.

This is not unlike the idea that public health authorities should re-gain the trust of the people by becoming more transparent. But with a crucial difference.

The trust of people should be won, research by research, not authority by authority, and the non-requirement of mandates goes along automatically with that idea.
IC = individual contributor (as opposed to manager, etc)
I agree.

...with some qualifiers.

Everyone, or let us say a whole lot of people, should be given a go. We do this with some basics, like public speaking, even if that is just presenting something in class.

At the very least, literacy will come up and basic concepts will be better understood. Just the idea of asking a computer to do something we want it to do makes a whole lot of sense to have out there as a baseline.

And I am thinking about law and other core aspects of our society and how decisions can be made.

Now, the most interesting bit in this to me is your last statement:

"I don't believe we are smarter than everyone else."

Yeah, neither do I.

Smarts come in many forms, by way of one supporting statement I can add.

Secondly, while we all definitely have some upper limits, above which we just do not get it, those are not generally high enough to put most things out of reach for most people.

The idea of many things being out of reach is harmful, in my view.

What it can mean is work. But, it also can mean doing the work gets us into doing the thing too. And that doing the thing part is where all the action is!

I find that empowering, and it was drilled into me very young by mentors who did me more good than they may realize.

For me, software is not a full time focus, for example. I can code, and often when I do, it is scripting, or lower level where the bits are, embedded style. And I have to spool that up, sometimes being away from it.

Basically, I need to do the work, but when I do, I also end up doing the thing too. Fine by me.

As a kid, the other thing drilled into me was skills. Just do shit. Lots of interesting shit and do not worry about failure. Keep at it, ask questions, get help, and in general, do the work to get skills.

That has always paid off. Either I can get a skill that is needed, or I need myself for whatever reason, or I can apply one I have and get something done, or ramp up on a thing reasonably, competently.

To me, getting more young people into more experiences, developing whatever skills their inclinations and adventures lead them to is most important.

They learn yes, they too are smart enough, and they learn how to do the work. It won't always be true. Some people just may not have doing the thing in their nature. Happens.

Given some diversity and education on how to develop and understand ones nature, I submit that negative outcome will happen a lot less, and that body of people who understand these things will be a high value, robust resource.

Just the kind of people I want to hand it all off to as I watch and share what I got out of life in my old age, same as people in my life did for me long ago.

Someone has to take this all forward, and we all get old.
Individual Contributor. (No direct reports)
Welcome to the publicly traded company club.
Individual Contributor aka not a manager.
Sad to see no mention of Ryu Ryuko and Higaonna Sensei[0] in the section describing karate in the early 1900s. Higaonna Sensei was the person whose likeness became “Sensei Miyagi” in the Karate Kid movie. Ironically, Kanryo’s student Chojun Miyagi[1] was the one who established another well-known style of karate, Okinawan Goju-Ryu[2]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higaonna_Kanry%C5%8D

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Djun_Miyagi

[2]: The practice of Goju-Ryu is focused on both mastery of physical control and mental focus (summarizing my experience in this). With the death of Sensei Miyagi, however, the lineage split between his sons who each claimed to be the heads of their own branches of the system.

Edit: Another peeve. In the very beginning of the article they try to group the practice with unconventional weapons — farming tools, bo staffs, etc — into naha-te when the reality is this branch of practice is kobudo. I wish that the author did more research on this section because there are plenty of sources documenting this portion of the art’s history.
In the past information had to travel by people or pigeon (some sort of physical movement). Realistically this is communication happening faster than travel does. Currently we have the inverse, where information is faster than travel. This should similarly happen in this FTL world because of Ansbiles and that you can not just send ships full of people FTL but information (and presumably more easily). So I think the only difference is that the travel time is scale. Right now there's nowhere it takes months to travel and we can communicate instantly. In this scenario we actually have a mixture of past and present. We can maintain near instant communication but maximal traveling distance is years instead of days.
Print to PDF, most browsers support it natively if your OS doesn't already.
Website changes design each time you blink
Wikipedia wars: How Hongkongers and mainland Chinese are battling
> The US threatens to sanction any country doing business with Cuba.

No, it threatens to impose legal liability on any company doing business in Cuba using expropriated property. Which is a bad enough policy that it doesn't require exaggeration.
Is there an alternative to heavy bureaucracy like this once a company reaches a certain size?

What other mechanisms exist for combatting nepotism, feeling too abstracted from the mission etc in a larger company?

Does a company like SpaceX with lots of people working towards big clear goals and where comp isn’t in the set of top reasons for choosing to work there use a levelling framework like this?

I work in a company of 10 where we all have strong drive towards the company goals. I’m worried that we will lose this as we grow but I can’t see any clear alternatives. I wonder whether you could build a company that operates like a loosely-coupled network of smaller teams with internal accounting so that teams are compensated based on some kind of internal team valuation (similar to how startup valuations are set by the ‘market’). Probably a terrible idea!
No I am not. Users who require accessibility have it setup in their MacOS/Windows settings. It's a global setting for them. It's not website specific.
Have a look here too :)
http://www.dl.unospace.net/defender_sound/
So basically you're driving full speed against an obstacle and you get the commands handed out. It sounds like a slapstick comedy where the pilot says "lol bye you're on your own" and jumps out the plane door.
My kids are 20 and 16 and I got 2 weeks of parental leave. I'm happy to see it's getting better.
I don't know many parents whose goal is for our children to learn to fight. We want them to be strong and healthy. To learn to have fun exercising, to learn control and the ability to listen to others, learn from others, and work with others.

Martials arts is great for all that. So are other sports and activities. I've studied martial arts for 20 years of my life - never did I have a goal during that time of learning to fight, but I loved practicing, and loved the community of people I spent time with in those years.
Siegfried Marcus Car (1875)
I am not from the US but on the lookout for agriculture related stories since all generations in my family up until my grandfather have only done farming. My uncles still do it full-time.
Well that is disappointing.
Ahh the apple model. I'm not sure they even have a screwdriver in the back of an apple store any more.
My workplace updated their leave policy from 2 weeks to 3 months back in April, and in May my wife and I welcomed a new baby boy. I’ve taken the whole 3 months and it feels like one of the best choices I’ve ever made. Getting to spend so much time with him has been incredibly rewarding, I have so much confidence when dealing with anything that pops up, and I’ve been able to support my wife in recovery from a fairly traumatic birth. We’ve already decided that if we have another kid I’ll take 3 months off just the same, even if it has to be unpaid. If you have the opportunity to take the time, absolutely do it.
I’m reading the comments here and I’m flabbergasted. My work offered me one week of paternity leave. That was it. My child was born several weeks early and I can’t comprehend who came up with 5 days and thought “what a great benefit”
"feature to group repositories into projects while Github is lacking"
I feel that this was covered by the article (there's a second part) with the conclusion that this cannot be the main factor of the obesity epidemic. Margarine consumption was much higher in the 1970s than today, but obesity today is much higher.
> Does anyone know how/when this has changed in tech?

I think the first-wave of modern startup land is having kids themselves - the change in most companies seem start with the founder - like Zuckerberg taking time off (the last generation feel like the opposite, with folks like Marissa Mayer having a nursery in the office).

That said, in my close circle, I was the only one who took the whole 3 months off work while being on a H1B visa.

There are folks who have the option, but did not take it because they are really worried about replacing themselves at work in an active fashion for a whole quarter.

On the career ladder path, there's a fair amount of ugly politics which goes along with this as well, with the same people who encouraged you to take time off also trying to disassemble your team for parts while you are out.

Because of that, I like the idea of taking paternity leave just like maternity leave (it's not the same, no baby was trying to extract my blood sugar).

It balances the inequalities of having children to be more fair between parents, but highlights the inequalities of being a parent (vs not having kids).
It is nothing new. It is similar since way back to MSFT times in the 90s and then google changed things a bit in the early 2000s.

Heck, I worked at a stogy financial company way back in 2003, (Fidelity), and had similar grades for engineering (4 grades), then Director, or VP for the highest level.

The Dropbox post would have been much more interesting if it had salary ranges attached to it. Otherwise it is just kinda fluff.
"exaggerated to the point of caricature" is de rigeur for wuxia.
> I think the author is not exaggerating by suggesting that solving Attribution Error could dramatically change the outcome of human civilisation, but just identifying it as a problem isn't even half the battle. Perhaps the best we can do for now...

I used to think that it might be worth a try for forum administrators to define this behavior as unacceptable just like any other unacceptable behavior (racism, snarkiness, flamebait, etc) that occurs on forums, as noted in the HN Guidelines [1], but then @dang informed me that improvements to human behavior in the future are impossible because people will continue to behave the way they do indefinitely, regardless of rules.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The military--a completely flat structure of promotion based primarily on tenure and time-served, not necessarily ability or award/recognition. Before you blow it off as worthless there is some potential merit to it as it cuts out nepotism, cronyism, and other kinds of corruption that push unqualified people up the ranks.
Maybe its time to decouple all non salary benefits.
> academics found that for heterosexual married couples, the father taking any paternity leave after the birth of a child can also cause the divorce risk to drop for up to six years after the birth.

I’d challenge the word “cause” here. My guess is it’s just a leading indicator signaling the dad is engaged in/places high priority on the family which extends to the marriage.
This would be far more interesting if it included the salary range for each level. If you're going to be transparent, why not be transparent?
I'm going to get on my high horse to tell an anecdote about why I'm mildly suspicious every time someone suggest that karate is not violent enough to be useful.

I practiced karate for years, and I still would if I hadn't moved far away. My teacher was a fan of exchanges with other schools, which is how we ended up visiting a Jujitsu school to learn some grappling moves. The instructor was a police officer that worked at the local prison.

During our first break, the instructor excitedly told my teacher that he recently found a second-hand book with techniques that his Jujitsu line had banned years ago for being too brutal. He was starting to bring them back. Later on that day he showed us such a technique that could, in theory, paralyze a man for life. He seemed very proud of that one, and was looking forward to try some of his new knowledge in his next prison riot (his words, not mine).

I shudder to think of the type of BS macho mentality that one would get from training under this guy for years - I've met plenty of karate instructors from all over the world, and they were all great teachers and great human beings. Given that I personally know of three people who had to use their karate skills for self defense (two robberies and one home invasion at night), that seems to me good enough: you learn how to defend yourself in a realistic situation, but also respect, self-improvement, and a healthy general distaste for violence.

Every time someone suggests that karate doesn't work because it wouldn't be as effective in a modern war zone, I remember that guy.
Gambling game is of negative value so it is easy to beat that :)
Prioritize A over B implies you give more value to A over B. Example: we all sure value chocolate and health, but you must set your priorities.

If you give priority to your health,then you shouldn't care about the fat guy eating chocolate restlessly.
> It's super noisy, the sound vibrates through all the pipes in the house, and sometimes the water can't even get as high as the inlet to the pump.

FWIW, the first bit means the pump is defective/badly designed and you need to get a better one (don't have any actionable advice on where, unfortunately), and the second should be fixable by putting the accumulator tank in the basement/hole in the ground, although YMMV on practicality.
On the contrary, first of all there is no rule that requires a C++ compiler to also be a C compiler.

Second, Microsoft considered C done on Windows, and green field systems programming should be done in C++, there were a couple of blog posts done about the subject, which apparently hater kept forgeting to read about.

So no, it wasn't about when it was convenient, rather to the extent required by ISO C++ compliance.

In fact, as per Microsoft Security Center advisory, C# or other managed languages, Rust or C++ with Core Guidelines, should be the main languages to use for new applications.

Most likely they ended up backtracking with the goal to drop C support from Visual Studio due to pressure from high profile customers, WSL and FOSS code on Windows, or even the culture change brought by Satya.
Just a heads-up Pawn Stars is super fake. The 'customers', the 'store', the 'experts',the prices paid and items sold/bought are fakes sometimes (known and unknown).

Tons of articles all over about them over the years.

Disclaimer- I still watch it from time to time, it's a guilty pleasure.
... "binary option" which is actually quite similar to a lot of crypto projects.

Yes. Some of the same scammers are behind both.[1]

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-police-raid-call-center...
"Student Full Self Driver"
Moreover, gravitational waves are affecting speed of light, while EM waves are not affecting gravitation, so speed of gravitational waves is fundamental, while speed of light is not.
I would love to see a FUSE filesystem for Kubernetes, CloudWatch, Data Dog, etc. Maybe something that lets you set up the folders/files based on your preferred facets, then read your logs with tail/less/grep as you like. It would be so much faster than clicking & scrolling in their web UIs!
> and other kinds of corruption that push unqualified people up the ranks.

If the metric used for promotion is time served, in what way is that stopping unqualified people from being pushed up the ranks?
I mean, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up and Accelerate are right there...

The first two suffer from bad choices of first track. Up is weird because it takes absolutely ages to get into it but I contend it's a surprisingly fine album that was extremely badly received.

I'm not gonna try to defend Reveal and Around The Sun. Even REM seem to hate Around The Sun in particular.

(For post-Cosmic thing gems, try "Revolution Earth", "Juliet of the Spirits" or "Pump" (not on YouTube, though, boy there's some lousy sound quality there...)
Why are QA Engineers not defined as software engineers?
I’m sure it’s all been fixed by now.
From my time as a cyclist I can tell you that all car drivers constantly disobey the law.

In truth all groups of road users consistently disobey traffic laws, the laws worth breaking just differ from vehicle to vehicle. It's easiest to condemn those that break laws that you aren't breaking, even if you yourself are no less innocent.
Basically Silicon Valley's version of a Viking burial
That quip was from 2007, so I will give you that as proof of it being called out early.

The TED talk that kinda kicked it off for the public was early 2006, which pre-dates HN - https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_one_laptop_per...

Early comments are somewhat sceptical on HN.

My favourite was something like, what the people in developing countries actually need are radios and cell phones. That was referring to brick phones. Which you might say was an extra lucky comment since smart phones are now so vital in developing countries, but I think the commenter recognised at a base level what mattered. It's not they also knew phones would extra matter in the future, but by recognising a fundamental it progressed with global society.

[edit] I will say good coffee at a homeless shelter matters, but agree espresso machines are way to complex and easy to break.