skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> businesses will adjust or die.

This is the key point for me. Too many people seem to think that only workers should adapt for companies, and that the labor market exists to compete for the jobs that are bestowed on them. This is evident in the whole "no one wants to work any more! What a bunch of lazy [millenials|zoomers|derogative of choice]". Naw dude, they just don't want work for you, for peanuts, with no benefits or healthcare, in the middle of a deadly pandemic. They're not lazy, they're maximizing value for their shareholders too, in this case themselves. Covid has made a lot of people realize that the shit they had to take before was not a great deal for them, and they want something better.
Yeah, just thought that they probably pick munich / near munich.
How’s your battery usage though, with the cell radio on (compared to wifi)?

Battery crapping out is still a major taboo with iOS updates, I believe.
> It literally happened when a Republican was president.

In fact, Twitter changed its rules to provide a PR excuse for why it didn't censor Trump under the same rules as other political actors, entrenching a policy of pro-government, pro-elite bias in its censorship.

Trump’s minions got upset later and screamed about unfairness when they learned that that favorable bias wasn't unlimited while he was in power, and are even more incensed that it cuts against them now that their icon is out of office.

OTOH, freedom of speech means private actors generally are free to decide what ideas to participate in relaying and what ideas not to.
The market for industrial metal and chemical recycling is completely different than consumer plastics. Metals are often recycled because there is significant money in it. Recycling plastic is not profitable and frequently not even possible.
I cut my teeth on stuff that would have a lot of folks 'round these parts, crouching under their Uplifts, clutching their teddy-bears, peeing their pants, sucking their thumbs, and sobbing. I started off doing Machine Code and embedded stuff, back when that was still fairly new.

I am very happy to use a nice, safe, memory-avoiding, strongly-typed language like Swift as my principal language, and on a GUI system.

I don't particularly care whether or not some rando on teh Internets tubes thinks I'm a "wuss."
I mostly live in the Rust world, not the Python world, but I worked on two Python packages wrapping over my own Rust libraries and it's been pretty great.

https://github.com/InstantDomain/instant-distance
https://github.com/InstantDomain/instant-segment
> With all that said, what prevents anybody from saying "I don't feel comfortable taking a phone call" or "I need extra time for this" without actually being autistic? Then the disadvantage they claim to be removing hasn't actually gone anywhere.

Nothing. A small minority of people gaming the system shouldn't necessarily mean you get rid of accommodations.
> 87% of trips were within range for an electric vehicle with overnight charging

That is the wrong number. The real number in question is what % of cars never do any other trip. 90% of my trips might be within range of an overnight charge, but my parent's house isn't on that list, so there will be several times per year that I will make a trip that isn't within range of an overnight charge. (My parent's are too close to making flying a reasonable choice)
Tech is skewed so strongly towards the young, that I thought your comment implied the author was old, not young.

A teen hacking together something awesome is commonplace. A 65 year old doing it is less so?
I took a Ukrainian class but this also applies to Polish:

The tip they gave English speakers for pronouncing "szcz", was that it sounded like the sh-ch connection between the words "Fresh Cheese".

Ironically, I didn't know how to pronounce it properly until then and it's in my last name! I always anglicized its pronunciation to "sha".
"Damn, that guy knows nothing! He hadn't the faintest idea of how fishing nets work!"
That might very well be true! But it's still much less pleasant than just using a compiled binary from a static language.
That why you have multiple stages.

It’s stupid to rule out accommodations because people might cheat. You shouldn’t punish the innocent majority for the transgressions of the guilty minority.
Correct and that's unlikely to change, but it should be grounds to throw out the prosecution. Yes, this will make it harder to convict real criminals. Too bad.
This will be another botched attempt at taking some tech and making a shit product out of it.

I wouldn't trust my money in tech with people whose idea for data-security is 13 feet walls.
What @dagenix said. See e.g. Thomas Pornin's answer here https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/3979 for more details
He could simply be less aggressive in moving money so it isn't taxed and pay this in tax.
That's why I like this (10 years old, wow!) Nissan Leaf ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn__9hLJKAk

It is obviously ridiculously over the top, but I think it paints interesting analogy.
Not to be pedantic but that's not what that means. That means that the slide was pulled back then released with the slide lock activated either manually or by an empty magazine. It's advisable to store pistols in this way with the magazine removed because it's generally the least threatening configuration a pistol can be in short of being disassembled.
Govt transparency does not require Blockchain to happen, this could be done with any database. The hard part is recording everything.

Imagine what happens when some agency loses their wallet key...
The question is meant to gauge whether you can create a simple model of a system that is completely foreign to you, but for which you are familiar with the fundamental rules governing it.

Then talk about a real problem, for chrissake.

You're forgetting that you're "interviewing" someone who not only cranked out supercritical calculations for the first atomic bombs - but the first working models for path integral calculus in QM, and so much other stuff.

And you're asking him about... ping pong balls and 747s?

Granted, your average dev doesn't get to do work quite as interesting as what Feynmann did. But still, if they're senior-level - and especially if they're at least reasonably good - then there's a 99 percent chance they can easily whip out 5 or 10 "end-to-end" problems that they've solved for which the guts were much, much meatier than those of...

Any of these jerk off problems that it used to be almost de riguer for interviewers to ask, a few years back.

Fortunately this practice is starting to fade from popularity, but unfortunately, not quite fast enough.
Become a history teacher and open up a chess club. Organize tournaments and write books. There’s a lot he could do beyond “professional chess” as it’s known now.
It's hard for people in the US to completely respect this. Just look at US attitudes towards China. From our perspective some of the things China does are Atrocious, but from the Chinese perspective it's just normal enforcement of rules from a central regime for the betterment of society.

Essentially US cultural standards mark certain behaviors as horrible in the same way Muslim countries think women wearing a bikini is a crime. Very hard to change the way we think and arguably maybe we shouldn't change the way we think.
Yes you could make 14 million hybrids from the batteries in 300k pure EVs.

But the sad truth is that Q1 2021 they only sold 140,000 hybrids in the US (23% of 600k), less even than the number of Teslas (180k).

At least in the US, they are clearly not doing more than Tesla, even if they are going about it with significantly less battery usage.

The Prius came out 20 years ago, and the Highlander Hybrid 15.

I expected them to keep their first-mover advantage going and have hybrid-only models other than the Prius at least as early as 2015, but it took until last year to do that.

It's a shame, because their hybrids are so nice—I have a Prius, and my parents just replaced their Highlander Hybrid with a RAV4 Prime.
Not as a simple end-user with no other Apple infrastructure available to you. If you're using MDM, you have additional options available to you to create such a model on your own, but for Apple's consumer offerings, Apple defines the check-in schedule for each update, and it sounds like they've selected "install overnight" for this update.
Pluto (reactive execution) and Revise (automatic re-evaluation) are the standard solution for this problem in the Julia ecosystem. Not that your workflow should not be supported too (people are working on it), but alternative solutions preferred by much of the current Julia community do exist.
Easier said than done in today's world, unfortunately.
A Prius Plug-in is 44k€ in Finland

A Model 3 SR+ is 48k + a 2k€ government subsidy -> 46k€

So yeah, not that affordable. One has two power trains that need to be taken care of + oil changes etc. Other has 0€/year maintenance costs.
Huh. You're absolutely right. Learned something today :)
Honestly, significant whitespace is a far more annoying design choice than 0 vs 1 indexing.
The link you shared shows:

- Decreasing per capita emissions in the US starting in 1973 (-27%)

- A decrease in the countries emission starting in 2007 (-13%)

Meanwhile for the same period China has had

- a 7x increase per capita since 1973 (+532%)

- 48% increase for its global emissions since 2007

Clearly one is not like the other! One of them achieved significant results.
That is sort of interesting. Depending on how extremely good Lebron James is at basketball could make Brian's statement false. I think I disagree that number of people is a meaningful metric. The difference between you and I, assuming we're both near average competency, could be millions of people, while the difference between Lebron and Brian could be just hundreds or thousands of people but represent a substantially larger skill gap. Otherwise you're suggesting that the more skilled two players are, the less noteworthy differences in skill are because there's fewer people around them to measure with.
When I was a contractor (Air Force) in 2000s, I certainly didn't notice a looks difference.

If there was one, there was at least a ton of exceptions to the rule, male and female.

EDIT: Though I didn't work with any generals. There are only several hundred U.S. generals, and that number is capped.
Puzzles are not just for training.

Many like me enjoy puzzles because it a problem to solve like any other type of pzzule not because it helps in the learning the game.

Knowing that a puzzle(chess or regular) has a solution does not take away the joy of solving it.
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I'd also be very careful throwing around a word as heavy as "most" when talking about something as broad and far-ranging as the collective experience of human civilizations.

The [citation needed] for that is the stuff of multiple lifetimes of research.
The difference is how the electricity in the battery is generated. Even if your local power grid runs on coal, the electricity coming out of the wall is WAY greener than electricity coming from the gas motor. If a hybrid doesn't plug in, then the only way to get electricity into the battery is by using energy which is created by running the gas engine. Sometimes this is direct, and sometimes this energy first gets turned into momentum of the car to be later reclaimed by regenerative braking. It doesn't matter that they don't happen at the same time.
We're a pair programming company, and we believe in it so much that we make each pair spoon each other while programming.
There's a native icon editor.
How to automate logistics with voice AI package and delivery tracking system
One crazy idea I have is to run some very crude ab-initio QM or DFT stuff starting with folded proteins, and gradually running the temperature higher until it unfolds. Then amass a dataset of protein structures + positional delta vectors. Then time-reverse the dataset (flip the sign on those vectors). Then train a 3d convolutional NN on the reverse-melting curve to obtain heuristic rules for folding in whatever universe the shitty physics engine represents.

Then it doesn't matter if the QM simulation is very crude and deeply flawed, so long as it gets to the right answer at the end.
Actually there is a lot of current semi activity in Dresden. It's the biggest cluster in Europe.

Notable fabs in Dresden: Globalfoundries, Infineon, Bosch (recently opened), X-Fab, First Sensor, Plastic Logic (now defunct). May be noteworthy that some of these fabs are among the semi fabs with the highest degree of automotation world wide.

Add to this many bigger and smaller suppliers, universities, reasearch institutes and so on.

https://www.silicon-saxony.de/nc/en/members/sorted-by-alphab...

There are also plenty of Fabs in other parts of Germany: Infineon, Bosch, Nexperia, TDK, Osram, TI, X-Fab, Vishay, Elmos and some I forgot probably.

There are also many design companies. Especially noteworthy is probably Apples modem team that keep growing and growing...

CERN certainly stimulates some semi research, but it is rather specialized.
Find some like-minded people (perhaps including journalists), pool some resources, and use FOIA to sue. If your chief of police equivocates, call them a liar. Treat them like criminals, accuse them of running a protection racket.
Deep Thoughts Engineering Speaker Facebook Series: John Carmack
Sounds like a plot from Silicon Valley (the TV show).
The Supreme Court ruled, unanimously, that this sort of thing isn't required:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Harris

It's going to take actual legislation to get this fixed, which is not something I think we have any reason to be optimistic about.
I presume doing so wouldn’t fulfill his belief system (exceptionalism, self made person). SpaceX should, imho, hire away whomever is left at Blue Origin (look at their Glassdoor reviews) just to kill this drag on their efforts (having business people trying to compete with lawsuits and back room deals instead of engineering after they’ve lost the contract). Pay them to hang at the beach at Boca Chica if they need garden leave to avoid BO litigation.
If there was solid external evidence of when a shooting occurred (eg gps timestamped video of the event) I could see them doing it purely for calibration purposes.

Clearly those adjustments should not be admitted as evidence in a court case. ShotSpotter just needs to take the 'L' and they will have to prosecute without (or admit whatever was originally recorded as corroborating evidence).
The author isn't wrong, but there's enough straw men in there that I'd recommend that you refrain from smoking while reading it. What was written was most likely true for the group the author worked in at Microsoft at the time. It most certainly is not a report on the software industry in general at that time. Some of it's true, some of it might have been true at some companies. But do note it's generalizations that don't give much to argue about; it's mostly old man shaking fist at clouds. Or cranky old anti-social asshole rants about kids today, depending on the read.

But this gem stands out:

"I would fix it, he’d verify, and we’d keep no records."

Yeah, you don't get to work on my team if you're going to sweep bugs under the rug.
I'm not asking about shots off in the distance. With the population densities of cities, people should be close enough to know.

Discharging a firearm is a crime in most cities, with limited defenses. They should be collecting evidence like shell casings and investigating if another crime was committed (check for victims). If you have people illegally shooting firearms, there's a decent chance they arent legally allowed to own them either. Catching these people for this crime, could prevent others.
Do you have an example of a question or interview process that you think fits your description? I think a standard tech-company interview has a lot of time pressure, and providing more time would help many candidates considerably.
Russia actually has even bigger factual ratio, because a lot of GMs in other countries are from exUSSR, which usually means 70% Russia, 20% Ukraine and 5% Kazakhstan. I just checked three top players in Australia, two of them are clearly exUSSR guys.
> done anything particularly special for Taiwan lately in return

Hinted they might come to TW aid in event of invasion.

> some pretty good trades

Or coercion. Subsidies and vaccine diplomacy are good carrots, but TSMC is wholey dependant on US/EU tech and JP supply chains. Push comes to shove, US/EU and even JP will get their fabs. Only US has enough leverage to get the crown jewels. Even US weapons sales aren't scheduled to be delivered after fab completion. Though one has to wonder if these expansions are serious, whether TSMC/TW will try to delay/undermine for national security.
Lehman was quite small by the time it collapsed.

Doesn’t mean Tether will have a ripple effect but you’re ignoring leverage.
What? A body cam is useful for the same reason that AWS CloudTrail and other audit logs are useful-- auditing? What part of policing necessitates that it is done in secret?

> but there are bad apples in every profession

A "bad apple" software engineer probably over-reports hours or is neglectful in their job. A "bad apple" cashier probably skims off the top of sales. A "bad apple" executive probably enriches their personal wealth.

A "bad apple" cop probably results in ruining the lives of other people through wrongful arrests, excessive force, or other means.

Some people simply should be held to a higher standard because of the responsibilities of their position. When you can quite literally be the arbiter of life and death at times, you should be held to a higher standard.
Given a 15 year retrospective, would you say that Rails lived up to the hype? If you think so, then there is nothing “disparaging” in that comment at all. If you don’t think so, then doesn’t that mean a reader should not regard such promotion with confidence? No need to be defensive.
Capsule hotels, but transparent so you can look at your co workers
This man's world was blown open when he found that employees aren't actually their friends, "culture" is generally tolerated rather than enjoyed, and people only show up because they're paid
I know core devs and hodl, just saying they continuously fail to deliver and that there is doubt that a solution is actually possible. Things get far more complex and the exploits quite interesting
To be fair to Levy, Hikaru is the best blitz player alive and one of the top 20 classical players. Hikaru is better than your typical grandmaster by about the same amount that a grandmaster is better than Levy (250 rating vs 150 rating points).
The climate doesn't care which datapoint you cherry-picked your starting and ending ratios from. It cares about the current rate of emissions.

I really should not have to explain on this forum that when you multiply two numbers together, the values of both multipliers matter. Seven times nearly-nothing is not very much. Point-seven times a lot is... Still a lot. It's basic arithmetic.
There is also more/different functionality (e.g., designing a permutation or a tweakable blockcipher instead of a plain blockcipher, or a hash based on those), or better analyzability---making primitives that are simpler to "prove" (or make an argument for) secure against some classes of attacks.

And these days there are also the primitives purposefully designed to run in blockchain....whatever it is, using large GF(p) or GF(2^n) field operations as components. This mostly falls under the "more limited hardware" umbrella.
8k is a massive difference. You can also negotiate on price, you’re looking at MSRP or a dealer price and they will almost always go lower. There’s also always the option of ordering a vehicle instead of buying one already in dealer inventory so you don’t have to pay for options you don’t want.
An alternate way of viewing this is that large productive resources are channeled into providing consumption for an exponentially growing bloodline rather than re-invested for general profit.

There was a general practice that samurai funded positions for the children of their servants. By the time of the meiji restoration the number of servants a Samurai supported had grown by nearly an order of magnitude. Meanwhile the productive land remained fixed.

Unfortunately this lead to the productive assets of Japan being directed to support an increasingly capital inefficient consumption system. There is no natural reason to assume that an estate would be obliterated with time.
It's a 4.0L in the 4Runner (still 17 MPG), and now a 3.5L Atkinson cycle in the Tacoma. The majority of their sales are neither Priuses nor Tacomas, though (efficiency outliers be sales outliers, too). CAFE factors are going to be weighted by production numbers (right?), so as long as they sell 10x as many Corollas & Camrys as Land Cruisers the spot's not so tight.

I definitely agree the 5.7L in the Tundra/Sequoia gets horrible mileage and that's why I see many times more F-150s near me.
Even if that's the case, the thing we want is syntactic sugar. It'd be nice to just do `sets.New[int]()` rather than manipulate maps manually or create bespoke types.
Toyota’s basketball robot steals the show at the Tokyo Olympics
I think some people could (and will) argue that you haven't tested real dynamism until you've used Smalltalk or Common Lisp and that there could be a shift from Typescript/Rust to these. That's not my opinion, but it seems fair. There are often cycles like that, with each side getting better at each cycle.
CES HQ 2021: Artificial Intelligence in American Defense [video]
That's a good point. At the same time I'm not sure what level of privacy people expect in a public bathroom. Anything you don't want someone seeing should be done within a stall. At best I would consider a public restroom as having increased privacy, but by no means being private.

I understand that's probably a hard sell though, as people have some idea that it's verboten to record in the open space of a public restroom (it's definitely frowned upon, but I think police cameras are a good exception to have, especially if they need to enter the restroom to perform their jobs because that's where a disturbance is), so whatever gets more camera use in the end I'm on board with, from a practical standpoint.
SolidJS Creator: JavaScript Innovation isn't slowing down
Well, for one thing, if you have "normal" employees who can conduct a regular interview process, they might raise some red flags in how they conduct themselves in person that wouldn't be apparent in a remote setting.

One example could be that an interviewee inappropriately stares at a woman or makes an inappropriate remark while on-campus. You wouldn't see that if the entire interview were conducted only via Google Docs.
>Toyota could spray silver paint on a dog turd, slap a 40k sticker on it and people would buy it

As the owner of a few Toyota's I think you misunderstand how they became pretty much the world's largest car producer. Mostly because they produce no nonsense reliable cars that work well for years and years. I don't think many people think wow cool brand.

(I know VW is technically bigger but they did it by acquiring Audi, Porsche etc rather than people buying more VWs)
Assumes facts not in evidence, to wit that he had a full clip at the outset of the incident.
The whole M1 mac and its architecture is so closed, without Apple providing any useful system literature for it, or even closed source drivers, that developers are experimenting and trying to reverse engineer it to successfully install and run Linux on it. And they are still struggling because Apple is the least interested in helping their effort.