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by lph 4y ago
The author of the letter details how salary contraction would work: "Alphabet should limit stock-based compensation given the depressed share price." So, cut back on RSU grants.
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by lph 4y ago
Tesla's attitude and approach to self-driving technology has been and continues to be outright negligent. There's no way I'm trusting "full self-driving" which clearly cannot live up to its name. It feels like P.T.
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by lph 4y ago
I've experienced what you describe with Anki also. Moreover, I've felt there needs to be a model of the user's current acuity, because it's highly variable. If I make one error, then yeah, apply the SRS algorithm to th
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by lph 4y ago
It's astonishing how much benefit of the doubt Elon Musk gets from his cult of personality. Whether or not he's smart, the things he's doing at Twitter are /glaringly/ not smart from a business perspective: He'
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by lph 4y ago
Indeed they do, the "City of Everett". You can walk around inside. Boeing used it as a test bed for various experiments. The Museum of Flight is really a gem. Boeing used to offer tours of the 747 factory. It's immense. I w
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by lph 4y ago
Seamless queries that span different storage layers is a pretty big deal. This is like having a table with new data in RDS and old data in Athena. The potential downside is unpredictable query performance. For example, suppose you have a q
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by lph 4y ago
...and for bonus points, play that soundtrack as a background for the AI Herzog-Zizek infinite conversation [1]. It is glorious. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33437296
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by lph 4y ago
> I had no time to port the music driver, so I had a band that Art Data hired to redo the music so all I needed to do is call a streaming audio function to play the music. This turned out to be an excellent call because while the graphic
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by lph 4y ago
I admire your commitment to this discussion :) In the Three Body Trilogy, the hyper-advanced aliens use projectiles accelerated to very near the speed of light. The premise is that there's enough energy in these that their impact is an
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by lph 4y ago
Maybe the disconnect is the word "godlike". A truly godlike power wouldn't care, because they're beyond threat. But imagine something more like the cold war: Powers capable of mutual destruction, but not godlike. In the
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by lph 4y ago
FAANG jobs stack rank you against people working 60+ hours a week who are desperate to keep their visas. You might not be technically required to work those long hours, but if you want to keep your job, you have to, unless you're an ab
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by lph 4y ago
Yes. The Ask MetaFilter section of the site has a deep bank of questions with high-quality answers. Google used to weight these heavily in its search results, so Google directed a lot of potential new users to the site and accounted for a
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by lph 4y ago
I guess "don't suck" is relative, but my AirPods failed after about a year. It's a coin toss now whether their microphone will work or not, rendering them unreliable and worse than useless for the work Zoom meetings I bo
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by lph 4y ago
I made the mistake of clicking that link on my phone without an ad-blocker, and woooooo boy... far-right fascist ads front and center. Sigh.
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by lph 4y ago
Pro tip: If you absolutely must buy the junk being sold by MOFFBUZW and other randomly generated drop-shipper brands, the exact same product is usually available on AliExpress for 10% the price.
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by lph 4y ago
Google made an algorithm change a few years back that knocked ask.metafilter.com answers way down in search results. The resulting drop in ad revenue was disastrous for metafilter, which runs with a small staff on a tight budget. Kind of bi
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by lph 4y ago
Most recent program: I wanted time-lapse photos of some potted plants I'm trying to grow. So I stuck QR codes on the pots and take a picture of each one each day with my phone. That goes to Google Photos, and a cron job scans new photo
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by lph 4y ago
Mito looks very cool! Looking forward to trying it. The blending of spreadsheets and notebooks seems inevitable. One trend notebook-as-program. I've heard several variations of this: "The data scientists give us a notebook, and ou
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by lph 5y ago
So tired of the culture war infecting every corner of public discourse. This article: One culture war guy criticizes another culture war guy. Nothing to do with tech. Why is it on Hacker News?
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by lph 5y ago
No, the teams weren't trying to exclude women. Not at all. They were representative of the company and the entire industry. There are very few women in tech. So then the question is why are very few women in tech? If you really dive
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by lph 5y ago
I disagree, and here's why: Andrew Yang is ignoring the elephant in the room. It's not just that the concerns I brought up are another factor, it's that they are by far the dominant factor in why young men are dropping out
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by lph 5y ago
I have two elementary-aged children, a boy and a girl. They fit the pattern you describe to a T, and I think most teachers' experience would agree. So anecdotally, the theory that (in general) boys need more nudging than girls from so
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by lph 5y ago
"No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order." -FDR
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by lph 5y ago
> hosted a men’s IT society at work Maybe, just maybe, the point of those events for women has something to do with the fact that everything else in the tech world is a de-facto boys' club. My current team at work: 6 men. Previous t
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by lph 5y ago
Andrew Yang makes some good points in this piece, particularly about positive masculinity and role models. Whether fair or not, the perception that the left is hostile to men has driven recruitment for the far right, and that merits some re
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by lph 5y ago
Lots of stolen cars are used for joyriding or other crimes and then abandoned. The "recovered" statistic includes a lot of "your car was found six weeks later, trashed, in an industrial parking lot".
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by lph 5y ago
It's a good idea. The flaw is in thinking USPS is even slightly interested in innovating. They're not. But then we also have a notary public system, which is already in the business of verifying identification for official purpose
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by lph 5y ago
"The judge responded by disallowing the zoomed-in footage unless the prosecution could prove that it wasn’t manipulated, and only giving them 20 minutes to find and produce an expert witness from Apple, which was obviously impossible.
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by lph 5y ago
When I was a kid, I found out that serious game programmers used C. So I convinced my dad to buy me a book on C and managed to get a C compiler for the family Mac 512k. But the book only covered the C language, and it didn't give me an
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by lph 5y ago
This article misses the more interesting thing, which is tech founders getting huge pay packages for companies that haven't yet delivered anything or have no realistic path to profitability. They call out WeWork and Theranos, but fail

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