skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, I was very foreigner and I stick out like a sore thumb (you could probably spot me from satellite photos in a busy street), and I had absolutely no issues finding rent, banking and all other services outside of obtuse language. Other English speakers I met around never had issues with it either, including other Asians and even people of color (who you'd think would be affected a lot, but Japan's actual racism is very targeted to their neighbors, not unlike everywhere else I've been at).

It seems to me nobody has any problem with you if you make a minimal attempt at speaking using Japanese (most of them don't understand English at all and that puts them "on the spot", and while you can find some who are adept at Spanish and Italian and other languages you'd never expect, by raw statistics you aren't going to meet one of those in the streets if you are asking for directions or something). They seem to be pretty reasonable about it if you suck or make mistakes, but they seem to really value the effort.

About the bars, I never pried too much, but I was told it was Yakuza hangouts and I probably don't want to go in there anyway. I don't think locals are welcomed either. Not sure if they were messing with me or not, but to be honest they didn't look like a place I would have fun into if I was magically accepted. None of the actually fun places seemed to have an issue having me or my colleagues as patrons.

I have far more people checking me out while shopping like if I was a shoplifter, giving me weird looks, troubling me with paperwork and rent, trying to charge me more in restaurants or shops, and generally making me feel unwelcomed when I am in Spain. And I was born there! (I did lose the accent and I don't look very "typical" so they think I'm British or American).
There have been and most likely will continue to be zero consequences for his actions. So he will continue to lie and mislead, and the media will still happily carry water for him. It's sickening.
It's transparently obvious that the whole Wuhan lab-leak narrative is purely a smear, possibly even a deflection. It's extremely unlikely that the virus even originated in Wuhan.

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-did-not-start-at-wuhan-...

Moreover, it has likely been present in the US around that time, perhaps sooner:

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-united-states-december-...

Considering the spread of COVID since March 2020, with major epicenters in Europe and the US, on the bare face of it makes Wuhan and even China as a whole look like an extremely unlikely candidate for the place of origination. A much more likely hypothesis is that the virus has been around for a long time in both the US and Europe before it was first discovered in Wuhan. That is simply the most reasonable explanation. There was a major outbreak of lung illness in the US in early 2019, which has mostly just gone under the radar for most people during the pandemic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_vaping_lung_...

Not saying that it's Covid necessarily, but drawing on both the fact that (serious) researchers are up in the air about the place of origination of the virus, and the widespread presence of lung illness outbreaks in the US, it is more likely than not that that the virus originated in the US sometime during 2019.
This thought occurred to me, too. The example given is about pinning bad code on someone else, but the inverse is also possible: changing the author of good code to yourself. I'm kind of wondering, now, if there are some unscrupulous coders out there messing with their employer's internal git repos to give themselves credit for work other people did. I knew one guy who would create tickets, assign them to himself, and then abuse the tickets closed metric to inflate his productivity claims. He wasn't very subtle about it, either. Of course management ought to have been more skeptical of that, but .. stuff happens.

Yeah, I work in information security for a living, how did you guess?
> Working with other people is much faster and easier in person

Does "in person" mean sitting next to each other? Or can they be in different rooms?

I have seen developers collaborating over Slack even when they are in the same floor in the same building. And if collaborating over Slack works then it doesn't matter if you're in the same building... or even in the same town.
So people might make bad decisions, therefore they should not be allowed to make decisions at all?

Sure, do everything you can to educate the user on what they're doing and make things as hard as possible for scammers, but ultimately it must be their choice who controls their device, not yours.
Apart from this being a very American perspective I am not even sure it is correct for America. Who said a white person has an advantage one on one if all else is equal? How something like that can be measured considering all the other parameters you need to control for? individuals are so complex that I don't think anybody can make any replicable scientific research to come to such a conclusion. To me it sounds more like a religious believe and in general, since we don't know each person situation in life, to judge a person according to this dogma is in itself very problematic.
Talk to a lawyer but mostly the company's majority owners can do whatever they want in terms of how the company's finances are run. I bet something you signed said something about dilution. Dilution happens to most stock based companies since they mostly need money for operations until they are profitable. They could even have cancelled your stock,with notice, and left you with nothing if they could justify it. With startups the bar is very low. Since you left, you're lucky you got anything. But anyhow, your best bet is to get all your paperwork and take it to an experience corporate lawyer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_...
Rand Paul: You take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans. You’re saying that’s not gain of function?

Anthony Fauci: Yeah, that is correct. And Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially, you do not know what you are talking about, okay? You get one person … can I answer?

The guy is clearly full of it. He's been at the helm of his org for 40 years. It's time for someone new.
Black startup founders see progress, but it's not enough (gated)
Also on the "trust but verify" bit: you don't have to hire someone new and immediately give them the keys to the kingdom. Gradually build trust, and don't give an employee access to sensitive internal information until they've shown they can be trusted with it.
Not all female players do:

"These titles are sometimes criticized and some female players elect not to take them, preferring to compete for open titles. For example, Grandmaster Judit Polgár, in keeping with her policy of playing only open competitions, never took a women's title."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles#Women's_titles
Tesla is big tech company? What tech company are you comparing Tesla against? People, get some perspective. It's easy to grow from 0.5 to 1 (wow, double) than from 500 to 1000
Well, the fuel infrastructure already exists, and the weight of the ICE engine is at least partially offset by the smaller battery.

I'm extremely skeptical of any claim that hybrids are better for the environment than EVs in aggregate, but for specific use cases over certain timeframes the difference may be small.
Small world. I've looked through these libraries before and have chatted with NREL staff at conferences (didn't expect to talk on HN though). I've enjoyed some of the more recent papers on inertia and frequency response as well and will have to look into this study in more detail.

I tend to stick more to Python + Numpy and ScyPy, but do check in on Julia from time to time. I'm still questioning whether the sparse matrix routines have matured enough in Julia (necessary for the truly large systems). On the optimization side, has all of NREL switched to Julia + JuMP, or is the native Python API for GUROBI used and Julia for the network pieces?
I am with you.

I started out at 55-90 hrs over 5-6 days and occasionally 7 days a week after being promised 4-10hr days a week. I was pretty sure I was paying excessive dues. This was entry level engineering after all.

Later got a 32 hr a week job. Should have stopped right damn there. Ah the fool I was. Bumped it to 40.
Then left for “growth” - a “startup within” a megaCorp.

Now doing “every waking minute I can stand without breaking”.

Sweatshop corporate slavery on both ends of the experience/skill ladder. Credentials and experience mean nothing to work life balance.
>Data transfer isn’t a finite resource like oil or gas.

Clearly you haven't seen those crappy limited data ISP contracts floating around. It's an issue for some people.
it runs git rebase under the hood, in production environment with multiple people pushing to repo it will break things and it'll be spotted immediately. So this actually shows how hard it is to spoof commit author, you can't do it without leaving a trace, git is a solid system.
> It should be abundantly clear at this point that it does not

Honestly, I am not so sure. Yes, I feel the same as you, but I might be biased, there are so many people who swear by the new approach. I don't think anybody has a definitive proof one way or the other.
This has saved me so many times. I’m sure I would have lost my job a while ago had I not been able to use this, it’s one of my most actively use tools. I’m sure eventually I’ll be losing my job, but at least this repo has enabled me to keep it a little bit longer.
As unpopular as I think this opinion is, I can't help but agree. If you want a hackable phone there are literally thousands of different Android phones that you can buy for a fraction of the price that you can tweak/hack to your heart's content.
Operating margin is 11%. It’s the first time Tesla has been GAAP profitable without regulatory credit sales (pollution credits that delay other automakers’ EV programs) included, which is significant. They never should have sold a single pollution credit; that’s a violation of their supposed mission statement. Every Tesla you buy allows a big polluting gas guzzler to be sold elsewhere, so there’s no environmental benefit.
Each and every modern car has a driving assistive system. It is vaporware since it is still no autonomous drive as touted for, but simply an assistance to the driver which requires his permanent attention.

I have been much more impressed with HUDs in common cars lately. Now that, although definitely not related to autonomous is a huge help to offset the cognitive load.
Digital Film Cartridge for Analog Cameras (Using Raspberry Pi)
Im in the suburbs of Houston, TX and I easily see that here too if not more.
> Also, when people usually talk about Matrix being adopted by masses they are talking about Matrix on matrix.org (or that's my understanding which may be incorrect as well).

No idea how you got that understanding. With respect to adoption the server does not matter at all (though many consider it advantageous if it is not matrix.org)
No, that was part of my argument as to why SWEs have the capacity to abuse their positions of power far worse than police can.
Always good to attract experts from other languages. I was mainly addressing the claim that Julia core devs like to crap on other languages, not trying to claim that we're experts in every language — obviously we're not. But saying that we're uninterested in other languages or unwilling to learn from them is simply untrue — we're a bunch of huge programming language nerds and we love programming languages, even some of the notoriously flawed ones like C++, Matlab and Perl.
At least in California, on our road trips, ever supercharger has been near a place where we could get food.

All the ones we stopped at in Canada were near food as well
Still need to be able to "push --force" on the remote repo for this to be useful, right?
The “fleet learning” pipeline Elon described at Autonomy Day doesn’t actually exist in practice. They have some hardcoded heuristic triggers that capture snippets of data to be annotated by human labelers to train perception models off of. The bottleneck is labeling/engineering.

Autonomous vehicles by and large aren’t a data problem anyways - it’s a robotics problem conditioned on the output of ML models for perception and prediction. The majority of the work is just implementing all of the bizarre edge cases inside of the robotics stack.

The idea of tackling this with an e2e ML model is a pipe dream touted by people that aren’t familiar with the space or trying to hype up their approach. Whenever this approach is attempted teams will very quickly realize how untenable it is and return to implementing individual robotics modules.

tl;dr there’s nothing special about Tesla’s approach to AVs or machine learning and you shouldn’t expect them to leapfrog the competition because of some nebulous ML-based advantage.

Coming from someone who has seen the interiors of both the FSD beta and the stack at an actual AV company.
> Further how many times does this issue really come up in the course of time.

One possibly common case would be police officers operating on hospital grounds. Video taping patients who have not broken any laws is an enormous invasion of privacy.
Yeah well, that's a pretty big thing to put aside just like that, isn't it?
New compiler improvements have vastly increased the space of linting -- please see JET.jl, for example: https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl
Do you have the "Allow More Data on 5G" option selected? iOS updates will not be allowed otherwise.
I was very surprised when I read the part about pair programming. Am I the only one who finds pair programming to be highly productive? I find that when someone is sitting next to me or watching me screen-cast and I'm explaining out-loud my thought process, my ability to focus and zone in goes through the roof. A human rubber ducky, if you want.

I will grant the possibility that I have bad habits when it comes to work and I get easily distracted when I'm programming by myself. Having someone there effectively mitigates this and the lifestyle choices that negatively impact my ability to focus for long periods of times. So perhaps there's an untapped flow state that is even better than pair programming.

While I figure this out for myself, I still can't deny the fact that the last few times I've truly been in the zone have been with someone looking at/hearing me code.
Both your POVs can be true.

It's not "full" if it's missing the 5%. In that sense, it's vaporware.
I actually liked working in the office. But maybe I was lucky having nice colleagues. During the COVID-19 home office year I initially hated working from home. I kind of got used to it over time and it is working better than expected.

However:

1) I am definitely feel less productive and I find myself getting stressed out easily when something unexpected happens at work (live bugs for example).

2) I hate teams meetings. I mean the whole microphone/camera not working mess got much better. But I find these meetings less focused and less communicative. Nobody feels obliged to bring a meeting to a productive end (less than ordinarily).

3) I definitely experience a lack of communication across teams. I have no idea really what my colleagues are doing outside my team. Four to five people quit during the year and, personally, I have no idea what happened making them so dissatisfied.

4) I gained some weight due to the lack of commute and decreased mobility. During the warmer months I enjoyed my bicycle ride to/fro the office.

5) The commute also helped me to shut off my thoughts about work issues. Now, I carry them with me all the time and sometimes I return to work at night because I feel the need to finish something. I try to add breaks during the day to distance myself from working at home.

All in all, I don’t see why techies are so eager to isolate themselves at home. While my colleagues are certainly not good friends (which I don’t have much) but I always enjoyed lunch time with them, chatting with them over a cup of coffee or enjoyed a team event outside the office. Living with and loving my family for many years it feels good from time to time to be a separate person with a separate realm from home.
how is git log -S more efficient? You have to write whole line, what if line is long? What if you need to look at several lines within some range. git blame is much better than your git log -S
> And not every s/w engineer works in the way described, eg pair programming is hard if one of you is at home.

For me the pair programming experience has only improved with remote working. It's so much easier to share a screen in a remote call than to awkwardly huddle together around a small desk and look at a single 22" monitor or 15" laptop screen. Also it's easier for teammates to chime in into a call or ignore all together which is harder to do in an (open) office space without requiring headphones. Even onboarding new team members went better than I expected.
> Doctors and lawyers have very steep tradeoff curves for their work. One lawsuit can ruin them. Yet they're still liable. Why should companies be any different?

If a few doctors decide the liability tradeoff doesn't work for them, a few patients that could have been saved might die. If Pfizer decides the liability tradeoff isn't worth developing a COVID-19 vaccine... Well, we're already past 600,000 dead in the US alone.

> If the world was certain of the vaccine's safety

Define "certain." The preponderance of evidence is that it's safer than catching COVID-19. Long-term effects are by definition unknown. The PREP act allows HHS to basically say to a private company "We will assume the unknown risk of long-term vaccine consequences by shielding your company from direct civil liability" (and Uncle Sam will foot the bill for treating long-term effects of the vaccine in the population).

> It's crazy how people are just shrugging their shoulders at this

I think few people who understand medical risk profiles are shrugging their shoulders at this (note: I don't consider most of the public to be in that category; this stuff requires college math to really grasp and the average American tops out around a 6th-grade level). The decisions government officials are making are literally life-or-death. But the regular risk / reward profile goes out the window during a pandemic and is replaced with "apparent best course of action" tradeoffs, because society lacks the luxury of doing nothing. Do nothing, and a lot of people definitely die (back-of-the-napkin math suggests the US would look down the barrel of 5.9 million dead at the end of the pandemic). Deploy a vaccine with possible (but low-probability) side-effects, and far fewer people die unless there's an extremely unlikely set of unknown-unknowns.

To give a (bad) software development analogy: unit, integration, and functional tests are best practice. But at a startup company, there are occasional instances of "we need a demo by 6:30 tomorrow or the company will run out of money and die." In those circumstances, regular best practices go out the window because the company lacks the luxury of time. Project managers in such circumstances will declare that if the quick hacks result in pain down the road, they'll cover the team's ass (and devote resources later to fixing any pain caused by less-than-best practice).

Pandemic time is risk tradeoff time.
Totally false.

If you are in Caribbean country for example, and get services, if you don't pay you will literally not be allowed to leave the country until you settle up.

Generally the costs are fractions of what they are in the US. But they are not playing - they don't have confidence that once you are back in US or wherever that you'll pay.

Some countries even have exit fees etc. You are there until you pay to leave.
This is all devastating. These kinds of devices should use a a cryptographic tramper-evident log, and those logs should be available to the public in real time for archival purposes. That's the only way to avoid tampering. The same should be used for things like, e.g., rolls of who voted at every precinct.
Regardless of what you aim for regarding culture, culture itself seems like the sort of thing that people can't readily change about themselves (just like you can't expect people to change their religion, even though technically they're free to do so in many cases), and for that reason, culture seems like it should be among the protected classes that shouldn't be used for hiring decisions. Sticking to whether they can get the job done, as cold as that sounds, seems most equal-opportunity IMHO.
Big Solar: Where do large solar power plants pay off?
Elon already promised a ~$25k "Model 2" car within 3 years about a year ago, and the icon at Battery Day made it look like a compact car.

Though with Elon-time maybe tack on another year.
I still love the People Hub the (shell of a) Contacts Manager despite it being years since it was truly great and truly a "Hub" (back in the Windows 8 era).

(For a brief time the People Hub could show you a contact's most recent Twitter and Facebook messages and Text messages and let you send a quick message to them on any of those services. It was a great inversion of "I want to chat with Person, let's see what they are up to and which would be the best app to reply on" versus "I want to use Facebook to maybe chat with Person, hope I don't get distracted on the way". That "golden period" didn't last that long because Microsoft themselves had to build all the Twitter/Facebook/etc integrations to get it to happen, and couldn't keep up with social media platform API changes, and they never quite convinced the social media platforms it was in their interest to build such public footpaths into their walled gardens. That inversion was great for users, but not great for walled garden lock-in and advertising eyeballs.)

The People Bar was something of a sad last gasp of the People Hub app/concept, but unfortunately after Microsoft lost/gave up the mobile device struggle and almost all of the People Hub integrations. (Almost makes it a curious question if desktop users would have paid more attention to it had it shipped in Windows 8.)

> I wouldn’t want to spend a lot of money on half assedly integrating with this kind of service though because you can be assured Microsoft will have some important special features available for its own apps you’re not going to get.

I sort of understand why that's a sometimes common opinion, but I don't feel like the evidence exists for it. Most of the "special features" Office is purported to have gotten over the years from Windows were either very early/rough previews of features that showed up in the next SDK, features Office built entirely for themselves with no intention of handing them over to the OS, or API hacks against the Windows API that the Windows team themselves publicly disliked and tried to prevent Office from doing (much less anyone copying).

There are certainly documented cases of Microsoft sabotaging the performance of APIs when used by competitors, but history generally shows Microsoft as a "developer friendly platform building" company that typically doesn't keep "the good APIs" in house or "special features" to only themselves. The first part breaks a lot of trust in the second part, obviously. By the time it became the People Bar it didn't even have most of the APIs that the People Hub supported and instead mostly just acted like a popup window host for other apps. (They had learned the wrong lessons from the "walled garden" problem and thought if they made it look more like a "mobile phone" popup where people selected which "walled garden" they were interested in, companies might play in the sandbox more.)