skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. I live in a big city (Washington DC) and I'm a huge fan of remote work. I like living in a city but that doesn't mean I want to spend hours every week shuttling back and forth to and from an office. My job went from pandemic-remote to forever-remote and I love it.

Some people will take their big city salaries and move to rural areas. More power to them. After the pandemic, I figure we can all get together once a quarter or whatever and socialize. Otherwise, we can focus on getting work done.
A pretty fun read, but the site is struggling. If it does not load for you, here's a cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20210619021044/https://blondihac...
Your comment doesn't make sense.

MySQL was originally purchased by Sun, not Oracle. Although Oracle did acquire Innobase Oy (makers of InnoDB, the most popular storage engine in both MySQL and MariaDB) prior to this.

Oracle later purchased Sun, which included other valuable properties (e.g. Java) in addition to MySQL. Naturally this would be a more expensive acquisition than just MySQL itself.

Regardless, the current enterprise value of MySQL (meaning, the MySQL business unit under Oracle) would depend primarily on Oracle's MySQL revenue. This really has no relation whatsoever, in any conceivable way, to the initial listing price of MariaDB's SPAC. These are separate databases with separate userbases, separate cloud DBaaS offerings, separate support contract businesses, etc.
> Those medallions are still out there, by the way. If Uber is really charging more than a cab, then the cabs will come back and undercut them.

The cabs are gone in most places. Why would someone go through the risk of getting cars, insurance, etc when Uber will notice a dip in business in days and crush you with discounts?

The NYC scenario is very different because medallions were a control in place to limit congestion; NYC in general and Manhattan in particular is a unique place.
Planning I/O in Amazon Aurora
Ask daddy/mommy for $1m/3 every year for next 3 years.
A company DB can be expensive to buy and rapidly gets out of date. API is easier to integrate if you're building an app with company data, and easier on our end to keep the data fresh.

I'm still debating on what I want to do, but I'm open to chat if you're interested in any of this. michael <a t> bigpicture.io
You're right about the common knowledge part, I remember not talking about the Standard Model [1] in school despite it being the foundation of all matter and interaction (except the parts we observe and can't explain with it). That's unfortunate, but admittedly I'm a bit biased (did my PhD in theoretical particle physics).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
You can click on the post time next to their name and 'vouch' for them, which will un-dead their comment. I've done so for that one.

Looking at their comment and submission history, everything is marked [dead]. Their only thread participation has been in these hiring posts, and an 'Ask HN' where they were lamenting being a software developer in Kenya. How does HN track this stuff? Maybe they've made some comments so heinous that they've been removed from the comment history altogether?
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> You might say I’ve won this battle. However I just spent 20 hours armor-plating a cat feeder. I think we know who’s really in control here, don’t we?

The stuff we do for our pets.

I use this nifty feeder/hopper in conjunction with an outlet running ESPHome for scheduling:

https://superfeederstore.com/wall-mount-cat-feeder-csf-3xl-b...

It's dumb and it works great!
The webpage appears to be made to serve as a warning to data-driven businesses to not fall into the same perverse set of incentives that McNamara created, to encourage business managers to diversify their accounts of the success of their business beyond just the quantitative narrative.
I became a multi millionaire this past decade, and I think it's now become even easier to become one. Here are the steps I took:

1. Work remotely
2. Live in a low cost of living area
3. Work multiple remote jobs (I currently work 4 full time SWE roles)
4. Invest that money (Equities, real estate, side hustles)
5. Rinse and repeat

This pattern has lead me to an 8 figure net worth (primarily in real estate rentals and retirement accounts) and a 7 figure income that doesn't even include passive income such as rentals and dividends in the mid 6 figures.

It took me a decade to achieve that but with remote work growing and inflation increasing it should be achievable in 5-6 now. Will 1 million be worth what it was? Probably not, but you'll never be poor.
Sun bought mysql, oracle bought Sun.

https://www.e-channelnews.com/sun-microsystems-to-acquire-my...

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oracle-buys-su...

But it was close 2008 and 2009 I believe.
> Consider, for instance, if there are two countries (A and B) looking at conflict with perfect information. Given their relative strengths, the war will cost both $1 billion, but A will win and reap $1 billion + $1 in plunder. In your model, B will always surrender and give A $1

In the perfect information scenario, B will surrender more than $1. B is better off at any tribute level up to $1,000,000,000.
A somewhat Europeanized version of this Dub can often be found behind the query "steppa, steppers or dubtronica" of many platforms such as Spotify. Which, also, is best heard on either good headphones or with your head stuck down a giant soundsystem wall (don't do that, though, seriously)
You Can Have Covid but Still Get Negative Results on Rapid Tests
Sure. michael <a t> bigpicture.io
Glorious.

Maybe it's a West Coast thing.

In most of the south, besides maybe Austin or Atl, we ain't got no fiber to be shootin'.
I hope robotaxis will have a setting for this.

It can be a real pleasure to enjoy a buttery-smooth ride, and robots will excel at it. And of course manufacturers will optimize for it since it demonstrates confidence and safety. OTOH, you know what can also be fun? Having a Tesla kick your butt with almost 1 G.

There should be a reasonably-smooth default setting, a "show me your skills" super-smooth setting, a "sporty" setting, and "madman". The latter would probably cost extra due to the extra wear and tear, and I'm sure I'd pay for it, at least once, for the experience.
Don't understand why it's taking this long since we have had a far superior free software alternative for many many years now...postgres
Which is intentional. ar5iv does not aim to be a live preview service, or replace arXiv.

The primary aim is to serve the community with the outputs we have, while we improve the coverage and fidelity of our generator.

And yes, using only the official sources arXiv has released for reuse:
https://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data_s3

This is indeed a major difference with -vanity
Reminds me of Warren Buffetts line -

“if a far-sighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.”
I still don't see it as all theatre—maybe I just see it more like a probability function. 100% of people won't use them properly, no matter how much instruction or how foolproof the design is (because one way to fix improper usage is to improve designs instead of blaming the user). Will 50%? Maybe 10%? OK, if 10% use them 100% properly, what if another 30% use them at 50% effectiveness? I'm making up these percentages but just showing that I don't believe it's all theatre if not 100% of the people comply 100% perfectly.

So yes, people can get infected at half an hour. Are their odds much higher to get infected at 5 hours than 0.5 hours? I'd assume yes.

Heck, even people who wear it over their mouth but don't cover their noses, yes, they're potentially leaking covid out of their nose and breathing it in thru their nose. But if they cough, I imagine a percentage of the covid comes out their mouth and gets trapped in the mask...even despite them not wearing it 100% properly.

I'm saying that some of it may be theatre, or maybe much of it is (by theatre being ineffective but trying to appear effective), but I don't think it's all theatre.
I am ok with it,

https://www-oern-pt.translate.goog/v-0C0J0H/informatica?_x_t...
" dont think we are even scraping the surface when it comes to electrical motor efficiency"

It's not uncommon for electric motors to be well over 90% efficient, and approach 95% or better within their ideal RPM range.

Windings are just part of the design; there's the lamination of the rotor and its materials, and the arrangement of the magnets (for example, halbach arrays.)
I don't think it would be close at all, unless you were already a senior engineer (and even then would require amazing stock appreciation). Also, the jump between levels at top companies/FAANG is around 50%, not 100%.

• Junior engineer at FAANG, yr 1 = 180k ~113k take home - 42k living expenses (based off of 3.5k per month) = 71k to invest

• Yr 2 = 71k to invest

• Midlevel engineer, yr 3 = 270k ~160k take home - 42k living expenses = 118k to invest

With 10% stock appreciation per year that's roughly 78k end of 1st year, 164k 2nd year, and 310k by 3rd year.
No package maintainer is verifying the code of every update of the software they're packaging. Those 40 lines of shell script are the only relevant difference between packages and the AUR, security wise.
A bad hire isn't on a recruiter unless they are basically lying to the employer about the hire's credentials or background, and even then it's the employer's job to vet what is being said.
How much of your information does Google want? MORE!

This is a big reason why I carry a Graphene OS phone... and searched eBay for a Garmin GPS -- that cannot phone home! -- for my car.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing that repeatedly lately. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Also very cool that she and Casio effectively have licensed the beat under a permissive MIT-like license... just credit using the keyboard and have fun!
Many of us who are resistant to vaccine mandates and undue coercion are by no means "anti-vax". I am double-vaxxed myself. I simply refuse further doses of this product until safety concerns are rightfully addressed.

Everywhere I go, I'm hit with messaging about how important the "vaccine" is. On the buses, on YouTube, on the Twitter sidebar "fact-checking" doctors who don't toe the party line. Nine or ten months ago, we were told by our President and media elites that vaccination is the way out of the pandemic. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be true. We can point the finger and say we were lied to, or that they were operating off incomplete information, but none of that really matters. What matters is that now, we know a lot more about these "vaccines" (which should REALLY have been called a prophylactic shot) than we did a year ago. The clear and present facts are:

1) Even with mRNA shots, you can catch COVID

2) Even with mRNA shots, you can still spread COVID

3) Even with mRNA shots, you can still die from COVID, however the risk and severity of illness is supposed to be far reduced, though that benefit seems to wane after 4-5 months.

4) Even in a country in which over 90% of the population has had mRNA shots, COVID continues to spread. Why is this? I don't know. But it's clear as day that contrary to what we were told before, vaccination is NOT the path out of the pandemic, nor the path to herd immunity. Omicron is actually the answer. Study the great flu of 1917-1919 - the virus mutated to a far less harmful form, and became endemic. The same will happen with COVID, unless puts on tinfoil hat some fuckery goes on.
I've had the same experience. I have no idea how this advice is working for people in most job markets - it certainly doesn't seem to be a thing in Australia.
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You need to fix your domain configuration. smartleaf.com didn't resolve but www did.
It’s really too bad; I found the tagging alone to be far more descriptive than any other site, e.g. I can literally tell in an instant if a job is using: this IDE, that language, that build environment; and ultimately I can tell in seconds if the job makes any sense for me.
Does it? What’s the expected response time on disengagement for a plane?
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It only takes one side to engage.
Feynman's description of the circumstances at the national labs processing nuclear material for the bomb:

The people in Oak Ridge didn't know anything about what it was to be used for;
they just knew what they were trying to do. I mean the higher people knew they were
separating uranium, but they didn't know how powerful the bomb was, or exactly how it
worked or anything. The people underneath didn't know at all what they were doing.

Things at SAS are a lot like that.

So ought there to have been procedures in place before Feynman came along and directed them to make the changes that averted what would have almost certainly otherwise been a disaster? Sure, there ought to have been. But there's a world of observed difference between is and ought. The person I responded was making a claim about whether or not this was intentional. That's what we're talking about, not whether it ought not to have happened. (They stated a zero percent chance that it wasn't intentional. I happen to think that's wrong, based on my experience with how boneheaded things are actually run at SAS and other places like the way Feynman describes Oak Ridge, etc.)
That's not the biggest problem: All drivers have to obey hand signals from policemen and other people who are authorized to direct traffic. Which means your car has to know what police officers and state troopers and highway patrol and mounties look like where you happen to be located right now, and not be confused by some dude dressed up as one. Oh, and it has to understand the hand signals as well.

Good luck little car.
Work on personal projects, or better: projects which directly help other people (for a non-profit, say) so you get some actual users and visibility. Then start building it in whatever XYZ stack you like.

Also: not every job requires React (and in fact many people hate React) - you might want to look at Vue.js, or perhaps other frameworks (I'm not a real JS person so I wouldn't know what people are using these days). And then even if you do apply at a React shop then (if they're smart and worth working for in the first place) they will definitely want to talk to you - especially if you can articulate why you made the framework choice that you did (and how it compares to React).
Same applies to small food places that need to comply with food regulations.
> You have to request it, then prove you can win a game vs. the car's Safety Score feature for a few weeks or months, then wait to be upgraded. It's available to the public, but only in limited release.

Or have enough social media clout (in the appropriately Tesla-positive direction).
The reason passenger cars have gotten bigger and heavier so far can be mainly attributed to 2 reasons: (1) more room for passengers and luggage (2) safety requirements. I think they are both starting to hit the "diminishing returns" stage, so a little more efficiency could potentially go a long way.
We do get update notifications in many linux distros as well. I guess the difference is how aggressive the windows updates are. Its like having a gun to the head if at all there give a choice in the first place. The fact that windows is still kicking around with these shitty ux practices says how low the desktop or laptop market must mean to companies these days.
For every suggestion to curb the car problems of society, there will always be someone bringing up edge cases to defend status quo.

How many meters are done on a track each year, compared to public roads? I'd wager most people have never even set foot on a track. Cases like that should have absolutely no bearing on policy making.

And emergency is always used as am excuse as well to not limit car use or rebuild streets. If anything, getting rid of traffic means that it's now easier for them to get to where they are going. Same for disabled people. It's always people shouting "you can't ban cars here, think of the disabled", when the truth is that getting rid of most of the cars and building better infrastructure would make their day easier.
I'd bet your LinkedIn isn't optimized at all for discovery. Populate a skills section with languages and tools you use, and you'll often see an immediate uptick.
I think what we'll end up seeing are the developments of sensors and protocols that are invisible to people, but can be sensed by cars nearby. Traffic lights and road signs will have sensors that emit electronic messages identifying what they are and what rules they are communicating that self-driving vehicles should obey. Other cars will start to have them as well. We may even see small barriers constructed between roads and sidewalks that exist only to discourage pedestrians from entering the road to make automated driving even safer. Your vehicle will be rented from a third party. The owner will legally have to have it registered with the city so that the interior cameras can conduct facial recognition to identify the drivers and passengers. Law enforcement can remotely disable a car and could also send signals to get all other cars to pull over to ease the arrests of carjackers and other criminals. Possibly coming to a small town near you.
Every company developing medical and automotive software for production use (ISO 262652 etc).
> I don't think that's necessarily true. Another interpretation of being hired as a salaried employee might be "they get the work done that they were assigned, in a satisfactory manner, and are able to respond during regular work hours when needed". If someone can hold two jobs and fulfill that, then why is that a problem?

If that's true, then there shouldn't be any concern about sharing with them that you're working another job at the same time.

Like I said, I don't have a problem with it if each employer is aware and is fine with the situation. IMO the ethical question is if you are lying to one or both parties.
Note that this is only about known and disclosed security vulnerabilities.

It will not be enforced by an overworked regularly body, but by customers suing software companies.

No reason for the government to investigate proactively (as long as the government was not affected).
In this scenario do you just sit at the bar and start working? I’ve never been at a bar where this wouldn’t be very strange. But I’ve only been to bars at night on the weekends.
> If they focused on 1 or 2 goals at a time, I reckon they'd be able to manufacture these faster and cheaper.

... they went from concept to manufacture of a completely new and novel laptop design in a year. The result, in that year, is a laptop that has a premium feel but is as cheap or cheaper than other competitors in the space, while also hitting all the marks on their mission of repairability and consumer focus.

This is, as far as I can tell, a complete, out-of-the-park success. I can't imagine how they could've executed any more flawlessly.
Your source does not say anything about gov't subsidies for nuclear plant construction.

Nuclear plants are built, like any power plant or major project, with corporate/state/municipal bonds. These aren't really handouts. They are fixed income instruments that allow corporations to spread the cost of construction over the life of the project.

Nuclear reactors are profitable. The challenges are those we create to stop them. Lawsuits, protests, political work stoppages, etc...
Market incumbents quite often welcome the new regulation. It helps them to avoid competition by creating entry barriers.
If you have a spare minute, please pay a visit to the "report issue" button at the bottom.

Indeed - hard problem and a messy solution. I have no easy answers.
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> They don't take space requirements into consideration probably because it's trivial to dismiss.

Ah yes, so trivial.

> 40,000 square miles would provide enough energy to power the entire US with solar

No, it wouldn't. As the document yo link shows, even countries with similar makeup have very different solar and wind profiles.

Also. You can't just wave your magic wand and say: "here, we now have 40k square miles". You're saying "oh, let's just randomly find an area larger than Austria (population: 9 million people + farmland + industry + ...) and cover it entirely in solar panels (without taking into consideration the place for all the required infrastructure to go with them".

It is so, so trivial to dismiss, true.

> The wind is always blowing somewhere.

Only... What is the amount of that wind? Is there enough wind in Denmark to cover non-windy days in Spain? Will the grid be able to switch fast enough? (answer is: no, because renewable sources are notoriously slow to ramp up production)
Why not just limit patents to 3 years before they expire.
In today's world this should be all you need to pay for the research and go from startup to established company.
Yes. At least in Europe you can retire with that amount of money and never work again
I'm reasonably certain the comment you are replying to is a joke.
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