skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming the author isn't exaggerating, he selected the co-founder based on this:

"He knew electronics, he knew firmware, he could design and write the firmware for a device that would collect the information."

Then, at the end:

"We went out to the lab at the back of HAX where the Knobgoblin explained he didn't really know electronics and didn't understand what needed to be done"

Regardless of any load from his day job, it sounds like the co-founder had none of the skills he was selected for. Which would explain the ThingWorx hail mary, the earlier "find some other existing board that sorta meets the requirements" event, and so on.
>We as an industry really REALLY need to figure out a better way of conducting interviews.

Won't happen, because most don't want to figure out a better way. We just have to come to terms with it.
The suspicion is that McDs also profits from this. It's the franchisees that are hurt.
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Author here. My background wasn't firmware or embedded systems, more databases, mobile and server software. I found building firmware extremely difficult, the rest of the system was well within my range of experience. The rest of the time I was solely responsible for organising field trials, getting customers, finding money, and still finding the time to build the software stack. This probably doesn't come through clearly in the post.
It was less fun for me because I haven't seen many of those movies. If it were 100% classics it would be more fun IMO. Not classic as in old, just most popular. On the other hand who gives a shit what I think. This person probably just generated the images for their favorite movies.

For the ones I did know, I almost always could see a similarity to the "feel" of the movie. But the Rear Window one?? What happened there? Didn't capture the "feel" whatsoever IMO. Of course there are windows but it looks more like a backalley in Japan. The color palette is way off.

Tangentially related, this AI image generation account on Twitter never ceases to fascinate me. Many of the photos are seeded with an initial image however, which reduces the magic/specialness for me a bit: https://twitter.com/images_ai
I have no actual data, but I strongly suspect that recent content accounts for the majority of piracy. Just look at the seeder count for, say, The Mandalorian compared to the original Star Wars.
That's a rather rosy view of how laws and regulations in general come about.

First, the stated reasons might not be the real reasons.

Second, the stated reasons might be the reasons as intended, but the people making the laws might still misunderstand what's actually happening.

See eg https://www.alt-m.org/2021/05/20/how-u-s-government-paper-cu... for some wider background.
In fairness I don’t think anyone really thinks that Guy Fieri drives from city to city, and the car is a little bit if flair, not really germane to the content of the show.
> There is no reason for Meson to exist: it should not exist.

> If CMake was bad, CMake could, and has been, improved.

> Even if you would take Meson over CMake any day, you should not do that.

Are you seriously believing this, or are you just trolling? Because you are basically saying:

* There is no reason for car to exist because if horse wagons are bad, they could have been improved. Fragmenting the transportation means is atrocious. Look at all the extra cost on the paved roads.

* There is no reason for C++/Java/Python/Rust to exist because if C is bad, it could have been improved. If everyone just reads and writes C, we would have built the tower of babel.

* There is no reason for Fedora/Ubuntu/BSD to exist because if Debian is bad, it could have been improved. Imagine a world where Linux = Debian and all shells, utils, libraries are written for this one OS and apps can be distributed in binary form just as Windows and Mac.
Yup. The good has to come with the bad. I can understand the motivation for things like limited liability, but if that is to exist then the individuals should not be able to extract billions from the corporation. We see this consistently. The rich and powerful justify something that benefits them by pointing out the downsides and then when the downsides rear their heads, the rich and powerful find a way to ignore them.
You can usually expect them to work as supersets. But I believe it's possible to implement USB4 without all the Thunderbolt compatibility, and Thunderbolt 3 has some situations where it's not backwards compatible with USB 3.
Well these are scientific articles and as such must be preserved, the cost of which must be paid for sooner rather than later. So it's not just the 'wire cost' of sending PDFs around, but the archival work too that needs to be paid for.

I also think that journals are too expensive, but that's why I only publish in society journals.
Pretty much everything. It sometimes causes mild annoyance to people, or forces me to drop everything to get something done. But as a wise man told me "if you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute.".
Indeed. The author describes the problem very well but their solution doesn’t seem right.
There are lots of opportunities for feisty, multi-client competitors.

Cloud providers are not monoliths. The Greylock analysis points this out implicitly by counting the markets they span. You can work with part of Amazon (e.g., EC2) while competing with other parts (data services). Meanwhile, services like AWS EKS (managed Kubernetes) give you leverage to compete against other teams within AWS.
The reason it's called 'junk' is because they don't know what it's there for yet. (Same reason archeologists find so many 'temples'. And consciousness is just a 'side-effect' of physics and chemistry.)
I found when I tried doing this "calibration" phase, that it's not just about sheer time spent on a task.

A task that took three 1-hour sessions is often not doable in one 3-hour session, because you lose creative productivity after a bit of time. That was my first mistake when trying to estimate how long things would take.

Instead, now I calibrate based on time as well as sessions, so I know preparing a new 80-minute lecture (for a class) takes two 5-hour sessions: the first 5-hour session to outline the class and activities, gather the major sources and bullet points I want to make; then the second 5-hour session to put together the polished version of slides and activity script, and do a 60-minute mental run-through.

Same with a lot of other tasks. Some are short but need multiple sessions, like writing recommendation letters that will be closely read. Even though it's easy to write the 2 pages in about 30 minutes, it rarely gets the right tone, and needs at least one or two more 20-minute sessions to capture the applicant's character as clearly as possible.
The World After Capital (2018)
You have to understand though that renting even a tiny flat in the valley or NYC is equal to a full monthly salary in some other parts of the US and the world.

Median rent of a 1bd apt in SV is … $3,300 per month. That’s $40K/y for just the rent alone.
I always felt worse two days after all nighters than the day after. I feel like the next day isn't necessarily when you pay, once the morning comes around again you get a second wind
There's a guy in jail for life because he stole a pair of hedge clippers. He didn't ruin someone's life, he inconvenienced a gardener.
Looks like an interesting paper. The various SARS-CoV-2 timelines are basically impossible, which renders the entire "response" farcical.

Retrospectively we'll have to consider the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 went endemic in late 2019, after the super-spreader event at the Wuhan military games.
This is why you don't start a company with a stranger. An all to common story.
Can you give me a pointer to an X2xx that has a comparable keyboard and trackpoint to the old ones?
They also lost Purdue Pharma which is still worth something I think.
I imagine these are the sort of tactics that worked right up until the end of the Ancien Régime. Then suddenly, they didn't... and things rapidly devolved.

FDR managed to stop his fellow class members from pushing too far, and got the New Deal passed. Now that is unwound, and the tipping point is far too near, again.
Why certainly not Google?
It's not rare at all in my experience. You just have to have a combination of skills that pays more than average on the open market (big data runtimes or distributed systems, say, or AI, in addition to other domain expertise perhaps), and you'll be L6 or L7 IC, no problem. No managerial duties whatsoever. L7 is more nebulous, but L6 is absolutely doable for anyone with a modicum of marketable skill.

You see, in spite of their internal promo treadmill and brainwashing, companies have to compete on comp regardless. Comp ranges, in turn, are tied to levels. If, say, someone who knows a distributed query plan from a hole in the ground costs $1M/yr, they'll get that and the "level" will be adjusted accordingly, as much as necessary, ignoring the elaborate formal descriptions of job responsibilities.

It's the proles in the trenches that take the levels seriously. People who actually run things understand that levels are merely a hamster wheel, put in place to give you something to look forward to, and to keep your comp expectations in check. Lack of "broad organizational impact" is _the_ most often used cudgel to deny promotions to the more senior level, unless your skill stack allows you to bypass this bullshit entirely.
Pretty standard and it was done with tobacco companies.

The goal is to reach a final resolution. You’d have to be out of your mind to enter into any such agreement if it left you open to future risk of liability.

Would you agree to a plea bargain if the DA said “ok, you agree to a 1 year jail term and if we decide to prosecute you in the future for another related crime, well tough”.
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Well, obviously not. How could he cite a study that wasn’t out yet.
Author here. I perhaps should have kept it private, but I am tired of having to demur and gloss over the difficulties encountered of getting the product launched. A common question over the last few years from potential investors has been "what happened", so now I will just point them at the article and they can make any judgment they like. Hiding it and glossing over it has been counter productive so far, so I'm trying something different.
Yea... to be honest, after listening to Chomsky and doing activism for years, I think that's because effective action looks like things that would destabilize the US imperial state and economic system. Chomsky is tolerated in academia because he stops short of saying such things and sharply criticizes Communist countries often in ways that do not feel as solid as his research. I think he's very much worth listening to on the problems, but I ignore him on solutions.

You can't solve these problems while leaving concentrated centers of market power intact. Nor can you leave the market system that would regenerate them intact either. The trust busters took action in the early 20th century but here we are in a place where it's even worse than before. Nor can we leave the arms manufacturers and military contractors intact either. If all that goes, so does US dominance over world affairs and the influence of the dollar. To that I say: good.
I appreciate the article trying to sort things out, but overall the tone is "just do it, and stop asking so many questions, you're not an expert." This has been the problem all along.

There's acknowledgement that masks had conflicting messaging from the beginning, yet this doesn't factor in to the vaccines, why? How can people trust what is advertised when there is already precedent of lying to the public for ANY reason. This includes censoring people who question the origin of the virus, only to then allow it a year later.

> Unfortunately, most Americans don't trust the government.

This is a feature, not a bug. Author is from Bulgaria, what happened in Europe throughout the last century that it kept becoming authoritarian over and over again? Have we not learned anything?

> How is it that people already accept the existing vaccine requirements in place for decades without protest, but not Covid?

In my opinion, it's the inconsistency in the messaging from the government, coupled with the extreme distrust in institutions that got substantially worse around 2016 when there was no intention to accept the elected administration in any way shape or form. This includes some Democrats denouncing the vaccine just because Trump was still in office!!

I'm just saying this shouldn't be surprising. All of sudden people forget how politics was injected into the pandemic (remember the riots a.k.a. peaceful protests? those large gatherings were fine right?). This was a huge factor in getting people to comply and trust government. The extreme reaction to Trump made everything political including the pandemic. I'm not saying it's an excuse, but rather an explanation that is being ignored conveniently, to continue the blame and thus the politics of it.

*: sorry, not riots, peaceful protests
I definitely noticed that it got easier for me after 3-4 tries. I got a sense for how the computer was depicting stuff.
Most of those are because the defendant is in a position of weakness and the courts are busy, not because the defendant is able to cut a deal that lets them live out the rest of their lives outside of prison and with billions in the bank.
Survey shows 45% of Googlers visited office, lower at Facebook, PayPal, others
Yes, the main problem with leeches in historical use was that medical theory believed disease was caused by a miasma and that drawing bad blood would cure the cause.

Today, we still use leeches but only for those cases where they can provably affect the cause.
Crypto sci-fi book recommendations
Exclusivity of data presentation should depend on personal ability to keep it exclusive not state force in every digital nook of society where they can't be stopped from copying/writing to everything also. Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus wrote some of the best books and they were always meant to be mass redistributed for free like all common knowledge and recipes - recited from memory. You paid the scriber if you wanted it written out again.

Expecting direct payment for any knowledge product experience is a poor idea to carry on to extremes like plays & skits. If today someone finds a lost manuscript by a great ancestor author then they own the copyrights to it the moment they publish it. But we wouldn't have the Iliad without mass copying. In a way our imprisoned OP is a perfect reciter of plays who is doing his bit to ensure the plays that do get made remain true to human spirit not deepening state tentacles.
Yup, and when you create a token they advise to give it an expiration date, just in case it ends up somewhere down the road.
Something that helped me enormously with blogging was when I realized that I had so many posts that I never write finished and published because I didn't think they were perfect enough.

So they I set myself a goal of always hitting publish before I was happy - and always feeling like it could have been better if only I had spent more time on it.

One example: I used to really sweat over having a good closing paragraph. My policy now is to publish without even having that closing paragraph - just write until I run out of things to say and put it live.

This has worked so well for me! I actually publish the things that I write now.
So how do you prove your identity now, when you need eg. a drivers licence?
your blood doesn't contain everything to fight every sickness just waiting around all day.

some molecules/enzymes/structures are only made in response to a disease- so i'd say analyzing DNA/RNA capability would be more useful than analysis what's currently floating around in the blood.
The chips are down
> He admittedly had started a new job in a field he was keen to get into (IoT) after a period of being unemployed and was reluctant to devote too much time to SmartShepherd. This was fair enough but by now we had missed an entire season. In October 2016, I quit my job and started writing it myself.

>> was reluctant to devote too much time to SmartShepherd. This was fair enough

Huh? Your cofounder is openly reluctant to devote 'too much time to their own startup and your instinct is to regard this as "fair enough"? At some point, you need take personal responsibility instead of just flinging insults at someone else.
Great read; thanks for sharing this personal story. I’ve been in both your situation and your cofounder’s situation (as far as not contributing, not the gaslighting etc.) Sometimes, for whatever reason, it’s impossible for someone to actually make progress on their share of a startup, whether they have the skills or not. In either position it’s a great relief to both sides when one either bows out or fires the other.
Funny, I've been a devoted fan of Taylorism ever since I read _Cheaper by the Dozen_ as a kid. To me it just means doing things better and faster each day. To you it seems like more of a harsh taskmaster?
I am the only person I know in my group of friends who can change the focus of my eyes independently of the distance of the object I’m looking at. In other words, I can make vision go blurry (wide eyes open) without it going double.
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Depends on what the tweets are. For a photographer, the tweets could be your entire work. For some scientists, their tweets are some of the most influential things that they write. And for an indie game developer, the tweets might be the medium for links to exclusive add-ons, etc.
The problem Is I see reminders to my failures constantly (I have mint.com open on one of my monitors). I can’t easily escape being an abject failure because of my lack of social class and status.
I would certainly think so. But it turns out to be surprisingly hard to quantify.

(I'll just talk about lobbying, not political donations, which is a related but separate issue.)

The organizations with the most lobbying spending are the US Chamber of Commerce (politically right, but not necessarily representing the very wealthy) followed by the Open Society Policy Center (politically left, but not necessarily representing the poor).

Most lobbying comes from industries of some sort (e.g. realtors, hospitals, farmers, coal, manufacturing, unions, education, etc). The legislation these groups favor will often disproportionately benefit the rich, but they tend to benefit rich and poor alike within that industry. For example, the farming industry may favor subsidies that benefit both poor and rich farmers.

As an example of industry working against the wealthy, the life insurance industry is the main group lobbying in favor of estate taxes (a tax which only affects the wealthy).

I'm not aware of any lobby groups that are specifically for the interests of the wealthy. However, politically right groups largely fill this role (the distinction being that right-wing fiscal policies are broader than just cutting taxes for the rich).
Well his signature is on the Executive Order,
and the order starts with “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote the interests of American workers, businesses, and consumers, it is hereby ordered as follows:”. So I would say “hilariously wrong” and “poor understanding of civics” is a pretty bad characterization.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
I got really good grades in college from doing this (this might only apply for humanities majors, though):

1. Take notes of the keywords and core concepts

2. Make flashcards (you can use Quizlet if you like) of the keyword/concept and definition/explanation.

3. Quiz yourself a few times a day by going through the flash cards. I liked to start studying about 3 days before the exam.

Getting good grades in the humanities can be really easy. Mostly because the humanities are really easy, but I digress.
This reminds me of a Newsweek magazine cover at the height of the dot-com mania in 1999: "everyone's getting rich but me!"

https://backissues.com/issue/Newsweek-July-05-1999
Hmm, that certainly colors a rumor I've heard about Apple. That they'll have two or three teams compete on a new product... but they won't tell the teams that they have competition until final demo day.
I have no idea, how countries like india, and countries like members of former yugoslavia (with changing borders) do it, and first world, developer, rich USA can't.
I wonder if this is related to the “grudges” [0] President Biden promised to hold against Britain a few days ago.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/29/joe-biden-...
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Why can't they get one? How can countries like India manage it? How can former yugoslav countries manage, when the borders shifted only recently? ...and USA can't?
Ultima Online had more of that feeling than EverQuest (I played both). EQ was quite clearly a game in which you could make steady progress in power with proper grinding (and every 5 levels sucked thanks to a coding error).
I was raised Catholic and had Paul's letters read to me every week, both in Mass and in Sunday school/CCD.

The Stoics, Buddhism, and CBT proved much more fruitful in finding healthy balance between my aspirations and capabilities.
> Let me stop you right there. Generally speaking, you shouldn't hold cash. Nobody should hold cash. Nobody should have ever held cash because even at the baseline expectation 2% inflation that's still a loss.

Nah, holding cash is fine under some circumstances.

Yes, the 2% inflation that the Fed chose to aim for makes holding cash costly.

But everybody holds cash. It's just that higher inflation expectations makes people hold less cash in real terms.

But then, you can be angry at the Fed for choosing that particular inflation target. The Fed could just as well go for 0% inflation. Or even go for a stable nominal GDP 65,000 USD per year per capita in perpetuity. (The latter would basically automatically ensure its dual mandate. Though most of the proponents of nominal GDP level targeting suggest to target a slight increase over time.)

In such a stable nominal-GDP system, holding cash would be rational in many more circumstances than today, because in general cash would slowly increase in real value as productivity and thus real GDP improved.
I believe something like 93% of McDonald'ses are franchised.
Wait you started this thread making it seem like it was ridiculous to equate covid misinformation and other forms of objectional content (such as calls for violence), implying that you felt it obvious that allowing the former would not mean also allowing the latter. Is that not your position?
Speaking as somebody who used to have to sit close to others in a cube farm; we do notice, you stanky bastard.
Very few of us are legally required to show up for or login into our work laptops.

There’s a perfectly legal mechanism for exerting pressure.

We’re too cowardly to do it, while we watch every other tribe cross all the uncrossable lines.

The reason the rich win is because they stick together. The public is taught to be atomic agents.

These people are gifted their wealth through public deference by preying on traditional fears.

The reality is it’s a bunch of typical humans. We can just … not work for them.
What shows or movies do you want to watch that none of them are on Netflix or Amazon Prime?