skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. My guess so far is that it's an "interpretation" written by one of the human characters — which is fine in principle, but I find it really off-putting. The mixing of hard science fiction with this Jules Verne-like fabulism just doesn't work for me.
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"wE aRe iN tHe MidDlE oF a GlObAl PaNdEmIc"

Man, fuck off. Sick to the bone of this shit. Where's that massive solar flare to show us real fucking problems. Not a manmade retarded response to a pathetic virus.

Edit: and you, piece of shit going through old comments and downvoting everything. I see you. You're pathetic. At least flag something.
It certainly wears them out. Hawiian Air has the highest number of pressurization cycles of any US commercial airline (at least as far as I can tell--ontime data shows up to 18). So far they seem to have managed it without issues.

Another airline in the region, Aloha Air, did suffer an inflight fatality in 1988 when the fuselage ruptured. The cause was apparently poor maintenance. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243
I have only actually talked with the guy from Facebook. All he did was talk about how great his teams are, how super intelligent his engineers are, etc. While he politely listened to what I had to say, he was definitely on a mission to market his little slice of Instagram and get me interested in running the Facebook interview gauntlet.

He even suggested that it would be totally okay if I was one of those people that wanted to study for a month or two before interviewing. Study?! For a job interview?

It was a weird experience. I normally shun recruiters, but I was just curious enough to hear what this guy had to say. His LinkedIn profile didn't indicate any past involvement with recruiting, so I wanted to know why a senior manager would spend time recruiting random people -- he must spend every waking hour on these calls.
It should be possible for the jammer to subtract off its own signal rather more effectively than anything which doesn't have access to the pRNG it uses to generate the interference.
IRC is becoming the HAM radio of our generation. Pretty soon there will just be a bunch of crusty old men who do it as a hobby but insist how vital and relevant it is.
If fitness culture were the main problem I think we'd be ok. Most people in the US are not even remotely fit.

The other end seems much more common... we've got big boxes of cheap frozen hamburgers sold in supermarkets that consist largely of beef heart, tongue, and whatever other garbage is left behind. The baseline for what consists of meat in the US is almost literally what's swept off the floor.
Please Disable Your Bot
There are terms you need to follow when you link to LGPL libraries, as well. You need to provide your compiled program in an object format such that users can link it against their own versions of the LGPL library you originally linked it against. The LGPLv3 also adds some anti-Tivoization clauses, too, that make those rights explicit.
A coworking space was the solution for me, even before the pandemic.
This reminds me of a similar story recently posted to HN:
https://bennuttall.com/the-surreal-experience-of-my-first-de...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28058816
W/E marginal differences exist outside of specific health conditions they are less than negligible.

People do extract pretty much the same amount of effective calories form identical foods, it’s basic evolution as more efficient eaters would’ve outcompeted the rest a long time ago.

So unless you have celiacs, an onset of diabetes or some belly buddies you aren’t going to be absorbing less calories than someone else.
Do you live in one of these areas?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/05/8993658...

This is what it looked like after the first wave. Belgium was the leader worldwide by large numbers. Sweden was 5th.

Fast forward to today:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rate...

Sweden is now ranked at 45. Better than Italy, UK, Spain, France which are better countries to compare Sweden against. Sweden is the hub of Northern Europe and the rate in Finland or Norway doesn't make a great comparison.
That could work. But I think limiting your search to brightness patterns is going to make for a lot of false positives. The brightness search might make for a good first pass to find a subset of the corpus for a more in depth search.
Those are Hypothetical anecdotal problems.

Don't fear the idea just because in your mind there are purely hypothetical situations where it might not be optimal.

The direct opposite of your opinion & posited hypothetical situation may exist in someone else's mind.
i was thinking how come India didn't take China's approach to prop up their own foundry like SMIC. since India seem to have a need for semis. from the article:

"India’s semiconductor demand is said to be valued at around US$24 billion and is expected to reach US$100 billion by 2025. The country’s semiconductor demand currently is entirely met through imports."
If by understand, you mean understand and not regurgitate it when asked as a trivia question - I agree with you. However, there are different interpretations of the chain rule.
No wonder everyone seems more of an asshole than usual. Great society we're building. Really future proof. /s
never heard of this, TLDR on how it works?
What I learned reading 550 books for work and life
Ah makes sense. Trans-fats were definitely bad. But you can get trans-fat free and even lower staturated fat content margarine today.
China doesn't want to ban it, just some grumpy people. There's always some grumpy person who blames loud neighbors for their own life or sleep problems.
We All Are Playing Squid Game with One Exception
Local hackerspaces have been closed for months. Meetups online only. Why would I not be 2000km away? Good fucking job.
This is funny but certainly not weird. Are people surprised that companies use models for their stock photos and not actual customers or employees?

Also, I'm willing to bet the smiling girl with a headset is see on every second contact page isnt a real employee either.

It reminds me of that apparently now deleted twitter thread about the different stock pictures of the girl famous for the "girl whose boyfriend is looking at passing girl's butt" picture
I came here with "That's not possible...is it?"
Get a good pair of ANC headphones. They won't cancel everything, but play a rain loop and you're gold. This has been very useful to me while WFH. I can't sleep with them on, though; I get nightmares if I sleep on my back.

Someone should make an ANC pillow!
Remember, GPS is a military tool first. Civilians get to use it at the militaries discretion. They could turn the selective availability (which was turned off in 2000) back on and remove a lot of civilian accuracy.
Maybe civilian pilots are the ones that need to training aids more than the military. It seems to me that they should be able to navigate without gps in a safe manner.

Edit: fixed term for selective availability.
It seems that to participate in group activities you have to bring friends you have nowadays instead of going out and making friends. My view might be wrong.
The author described the constant emails as "exhilarating" and something he loved, even if it meant raised adrenaline levels.
i thought this as well explained. title a bit clickbaity, but it got me to click.

i'm interested in learning more about the mp4 format. where can I read more? is there a canonical read that everyone but me knows about?

OP seems like he has some kind of file explorer UI for it - also interested in that
Unless I'm getting paid to do so, I don't give a shit.
You took the best option presented to you. A fresh-faced 18 year old isn't presented with much in the way of good career opportunities.

Our stories are pretty similar. My first dev job paid $9/hr! Sure, in some ways you could consider that to be "taken advantage of" but only because we were successful. Had either of us been flunkies, we would be the ones taking advantage!

When you hire an 18 year old for an important job, you know the risks and the potential payoffs.
Well said about being able to control your auditory and visual environment. I used to struggle a lot in office spaces if there were noisy conversations nearby, people pacing about etc. Much better at home in solitude.
Sorry for offtopicness but could you please email hn@ycombinator.com? I want to send you a repost invite.
You're completely unable to empathize with those of us who have families and other commitments outside of work. Being forced to travel for work to some faraway "exotic" destination is literally the worst thing ever for someone who has kids or an ailing relative or even a garden to tend to. Mandatory offsites are extremely painful for those who have strong ties to home.

At my company offsites aren't mandatory: those who want to go, can go; but those who for some reason don't want to or can't are not looked down upon as "non-team players" or "antisocial". People are all different, and it's about time you recognized that.
Sounds like you both dodged a bullet.
Here’s the original: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
And some marketing.
> solar panels require rare earths.

They don't require them, and most common ones don't even use them.

We already covered Rare Earths not being rare, but since they're not really a big limiter on renewable energy anyway, it doesn't really matter.

So, to a rough approximation, everything is wrong with your argument.
> No commercial aircraft is going to be allowed to take off with only 1/2 engines in operation.

That's a different question.

If you're knowingly flying into GPS jamming - these jamming operations are apparently announced via NOTAMs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833002) - you should be planning ahead even more.

A pilot is responsible for having enough fuel in case of an emergency, like the GPS unit crapping out. Anyone running out of fuel due to GPS jamming was ill prepared for other emergencies.
What do you mean when you say "they're not showing up there"? If you look at senior SDE comp for Amazon, you'll see that most of the numbers fall in that range (especially for new hires, with 0 years of experience at the company): https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...
I think it is, on average, incorrect to say that people are staying home for fear of the pandemic which is what I think you are suggesting. I think the average hn reader probably skews much more cautious about coronavirus, much better able to remain indoors, and much more, for want of a better phrase, socially responsible than the average person. And even among hn readers plenty will not be staying at home much.

That said, I think there are pandemic-adjacent reasons people might be doing less socialising. Maybe people you might socialise with have moved away and not been replaced in the last two years. Maybe the people who would organise events you would go to skew more towards the cautious end. Maybe people are less interested in social things due to other upheavals in their lives. Maybe people have forgotten how to socialise. Maybe they are focusing on the relationships they had before more than anything new. Maybe we just forget how hard things were before and look at the past with rose-tinted spectacles.
You are right - the market has shifted and developers can now work from home, far away from their office, and still get paid great salaries. This may also work for marketers, designers, and few other digital verticals. For the majority of regular people (teachers, bakers, warehouse workers, hospitality workers, waiters, medical workers, etc etc) this is going to stay a pipe dream with physical barriers in place that will never enable them to get something similar.

What an advantage in life to have chosen this career path over any of the above ones. And what a shame whenever we come across one of those "I am a developer and it's horrible!" type of posts.
One dimension that isn't being considered is that humans have had billions of years of evolution, while neural networks are essentially a blank slate.
Studying a month for a job interview...well, if you need a job and have the time, it can definitely work out well in the end. The leetcode problems are kind of fun to work on once you get into them, but they are definitely of limited use.

My Facebook interview was weird also, but the people were super nice and the coding problems were fairly easy. I failed on distributed systems architecture, oddly enough, as it was an area I had no experience in for a senior hire (but I got an offer from Google the same day I was rejected from Facebook, so I didn't have much time to be sad about it).

But managers recruiting random people, just seems weird to me. If they wanted me for my specific skill set, that would be great! But if they were just looking for general hires, they must have lost a bet or something.
not spoilt, rather, forgetful
((Diversity))
At least with a house the timeline is long and it's easy to hire someone to do it for you. Even galvanized pipes last 40-50 years without much problem, and newer pex pipes may last indefinitely. Roofs are 25+ years.
Specific terms that offer pro rata re-assignment at YC discretion:

"Neither this Agreement nor the rights contained herein may be assigned, by operation of law or otherwise, by Investor without the prior written consent of the Company; provided, however, that this Agreement and/or the rights contained herein may be assigned without the Company’s consent by the Investor to any other entity who directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the Investor, including, without limitation, any general partner, managing member, officer or director of the Investor, or any venture capital fund now or hereafter existing which is controlled by one or more general partners or managing members of, or shares the same management company with, the Investor."
You could tell if you screwed something up performance-wise, because the tape would have to reposition and reread if your program was not ready to read blocks coming of the device. With IBM 6250 BPI drives this meant it would overshoot massively, rewind a bunch of tape, and then have another run at it. [0] It was painful to watch and not super good for the mag tape either.

The old movies that show tape drives sort of stuttering back and forth reflect slow program performance. That's not really how they looked for most of the things I worked on.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_342...
Are meat eaters the target audience here? I was always under the impression that the target audience was vegetarians that longed for a burger et al.

As a meat eater, I can't imagine myself ever even trying a plant-based "meat" product. If I want veggies, I eat veggies. If I want meat, I eat meat. I know, crazy.
SpaceX are launching satellites with ("frickin") lasers now. So, if you are in the middle of the ocean, your packets step between satellites on the same orbit, forward or back, until they get in range of a node. First actual use is for polar service.

On certain routes, packets will be artificially delayed so that high-speed traders can pay big bucks to get their packets through first, ahead of fiber. And, maybe pay even bigger bucks to prevent their competitors from getting their packets through as fast. Imagine tiered pricing, where each millisecond ahead of the rest of the pack is ten times the price.

So, for example, orbits inclined near 70 degrees pass near New York and London/Frankfurt. Packets going by satellite laser links can get there many milliseconds ahead of those poking along on subsea fiber. Somebody in London who finds out 10 ms before everyone else about a price change in New York gets to make a killing trading on the exclusive information.
I think it’s not a question of what is rational but of how one feels and how one’s social circle feels.
Apart from that, this is a really nice way to put it:

> Your time is a commodity. Why give it away?

These things aren't even considered most of the time in regards to commute or other practices in the corporate world, just because they're "the normal".
>Please take care researching this topic, it is a large lightning rod for alt-right and heavily conservative view points.

"Be careful to not allow facts, social psychology, and science based approaches get in the way of the narrative! We can't have any conservative view points around, regardless of how correct they are! The spooky alt-right fascism is just around the corner if you don't delude yourself like a good leftist!"
ATC / radio failures happen. If ATC can't plan a route for you, you're still the pilot in command and responsible for finding a diversion airport and getting down safely, and for having had enough fuel to deal with traffic while doing so.
We are in the middle of a global pandemic. I'm sorry this reality upsets you.
The cause of climate change is total consumption of resources, and so the solution to climate change in a relevant timeframe requires a decrease in the total consumption of resources. That can be accomplished via decrease in per capita consumption, or per capita. The former is not realistic at all. And maybe neither is a legitimate timeframe for decreasing total consumption.

However, the most effective option at this point seems to be reducing the number of humans themselves, especially the ones that are consuming a lot.
Lack of Competitive Compensation Packages Amidst Fastest Rising Cost of Living Increase in Living Memory Keeping Some Firms Out of the Cloud*

There, fixed that for you.

If employers wanted to they could pay more, fix their culture and get the talent they needed, if they can't pay more then perhaps their business model or unit economics aren't viable and that capital would be better distributed elsewhere - market dynamics cut both ways.
We’re discussing GP requiring that their “WFH” team live within a certain radius of the office for regular meetings. It’s my assertion that the team described is not really WFH, but rather a mislabeled form of flexible working or semi-remote work.

I do not believe that Amazon’s framing here is duplicitous, although I find their policy insufficient. I would however keep an eye out for companies offering “WFH” with expectations that are incompatible with the popular understanding of that term. Therefore I disagree with your assertion that it’s not profitable to discuss what “WFH” means.
Look, I really want open source to meet the "real world", and not be stuck as another "socialism for the rich" where companies can do things on the cheap but the software is useless to the average person as an alternative to anything. (Great example: Google using Linux in Android does not mean the user is any more free of advertizing and spying!)

But unless I misunderstand what this is for, I think the economies of scale needed are in way fancier things like combine harvesters. When farmers decry the rent-seeking of John Deere, I don't think they are talking about basic tractor-bulldozers? Conversely, as the other replies say, there is little issue with decades-old-style tractors, right?

What I really want to see is an open source Khrushchyovka. The worlds needs more cities, not villages.
Skimming through the article, they compare a few ROMs from significant phone manufacturers, LineageOS with Google Play, /e/, and Stock Android.

It seems that LineageOS has GApps installed and /e/ does not (presumably since they use MicroG?), so it is looking like for LineageOS, it's really Google Play leaking this data.
2 weeks ago.
> I am completely unable to empathize.

If you're travelling away who will look after you kids? Pets? Parents? Believe it or not most people have responsibilities.
No, the middle is far behind.
"Viral videos and reports have shown the groups arguing and fighting with basketball players to take over their court, or, in one case, breaking into a football field and stopping the game to dance in the space, prompting a police response and arrests."

That seems pretty unruly, but it could easily be the vast exception.
i think a big issue is that apple thinks of apps like actual "things" you can buy on a store shelf whereas just about every app is actually some kind of going concern that needs to deploy anytime and anywhere... it just doesn't scale
Anecdotal sure, but I joined earlier this year and am absolutely loving it so far. Fantastic pay, great manager, interesting impactful work, and more than enough flexibility on the personal side.

I specifically chose a team based on my perception of the manager, and that decision has paid off so far. Amazon is a huge company and experiences can vary dramatically.

Imagine if 20 public state schools, 50,000 students each, formed a mega university and someone started describing it in terms of a singular culture. Ridiculous right?

I fully expect my experience is different than others and I don’t expect it to generalize to Amazon as a whole. It’s nice to hear first hand accounts from former employees (positive and negative), but I could do without the people parroting what they read online.
What’s the point of society if not to stress test it? Humanity won’t be able to rest on its laurels forever. If it’s not some local natural predator trying to kill us (animal, virus, etc), it’ll be some extraterrestrial species next. We need to go through periods like this to adapt and become stronger. God forbid humans go through a couple years of reduced contact. If we can’t do and society is really that fragile, that we deserve to get wiped out.
Well, if you cannot "realize the suffering that enables your cushy lifestyle", why do you expect others to?
If you’re in the US, I think your attitude is basically just extremely unrepresentative of the general population.
The thing is accounting for the risk and the lack of liquidity and opportunity cost I don't think it is worth coming to the table for most investors without pro rata. That's from my own calculations and some others posted here and there. Essentially, if you don't have pro rata or something equivalent to bet more on the winning horse the rational decision would be to place money in the stock or commodities market honestly with much less risk.

But yeah you should pick an investor according to what you want-- help and advice as part of the package is valuable and good investors and advisors give it openly.

Curious of course on feedback on this -- do other people get different numbers?
P.S. Maybe that is the idea for this post from someone from YC? Push away other future investors? :D
It is just a weird hill to die on. I know people who could get a small reward (+$100) for getting vaccinated and also would be unable to work for two weeks (-$1000) if they test positive. Yet they still don't get the vaccine. I can only guess that somehow they would still get payed a portion of the time they would be unable to work? Not sure :/
So if we can process nuclear waste in fast reactors like this, why haven't we done so with existing nuclear waste? Scale? Cost? Something else?
And continue with their coal mines and turbines too…
I wonder how that employer got affected when the guy left, and employer was left with $300k worth of employees laid off. In 2007 engineers have already started being pretty hot commodity.