skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An industrial simulation, in my context, is modeling the stateful flow of things through industrial processes. It typically involves millions of instances of thousands of types. There are typically much fewer very well defined processes, most of which would be trivial to implement with a simple impl trait with default methods. But some require stateful members in order to implement a default behavior, but Rust traits do not have fields/members, just functions.

Rust traits and Scala traits (or abstract classes) are more or less equivalent with this one exception. I was just pointed to a proposal that would allow for this in Rust, but it is not yet implemented [0]. Essentially, you would be able to define type members, and then "link" them to a member of the struct/enum that is being "impl"-ed. While ergonomically not quite the same as scala, it is effectively the same as inheriting an abstract class with a constructor parameter.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1546
What are the chances that the access pass from the foreign government to actors you don't want spying on you: criminals or your own government's intel agencies?
So I think everyone realizes this won't stop anything, which means the real question is what is the motive?

Is this an attempt to nudge people to Pre-check and the other related services that are privately owned? The former seems like it would be a great recurring revenue source for the agency and the latter would be an opportunity to pad someone's wallet.

Are there any financial conflicts of interest that are known about the various privately held Pre-check type companies? I believe Pre-check itself is an official government program.

Follow the money.
"The US can't provide universal health care to its own citizens...how could it offer it to tens of millions of poor Mexicans."

I agree there is a challenge here (because I support universal healthcare and I support open borders, while seeing how that could be disastrous for fiscal responsibility). It really should have happened years ago...Mexico would be economically healthier (though they're actually in better shape than most Americans have been led to believe), and it would be easier to find a path toward universal healthcare across the continent, so that'd no longer be a major factor for where people choose to live.

Also, by even the most pessimistic measure immigrants become a net positive for our economy by the second generation...and that fact is a big part of US economic growth over most of its existence. So, we just need to find a way to hasten that transition to contributing member of society, reduce the inefficiencies of the "emergency room and debt" universal healthcare system we currently have for immigrants, the homeless, etc., and negotiate with Mexico to normalize services across the continent (normalizing means we've got to start to catch up with Canada, too).

Sure, it's a longterm project, but I think it's worth doing. Economic growth in the US has slowed tremendously. Expanding our trade with Mexico, including free movement of human capital, would be a great thing, IMHO.

We're just in such an ugly time in our history. People are lashing out at any convenient scapegoat, and a few billionaires are happy to point at Mexicans, lest people start to question their own motives and actions.
> The money you pay barely matters to USCIS

It's literally how they fund 99% of their expenses.
Regardless of whether you continue the job search or not, pick up that hobby. I love my job, but non-work hobbies keep me sane. Relying on career to be the sole provider of personal fulfillment is a recipe for an abusive relationship with your job.
>Does it mean infrastructure is getting built at a high-quality level, GDP per capita is rising, life expectancy is increasing, quality of life is increasing, and so on?

So was in USSR, and how it fared, you know.
Excluding web workers, just one thread per tab/window. So there's really no consideration for optimization via. parallelism unless you use web workers.

And if I'm wrong, this is the quickest way to get the right info. :)
Next up: disbanding firefighters, parametics and police. Not to be outdone by shutting down the electric grid.
The Importance of Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Not uber in particular; the anarchism is in the mentality that "you want me to circumvent the law and avoid law enforcement? in principle, I'm in!" Which seemed to be the position mindcrime was taking.
I've used weather.gov for years and love the service. Every person I've talked to who complains about the crap coverage by the weather companies in the US that I've shown it to uses it exclusively as well. It's a perfect example of the governments lack of profit motive producing a genuinely better product than the competition. I know this isn't always the case but it certainly is here.

I don't agree with lots of things our government spends money on but stuff like this I absolutely support.
It's incredibly annoying since most people are probably in better position than the new lower offer.
"[...]eliminate funding for a variety of smaller programs, including external research, coastal management, estuary reserves and “coastal resilience,” which seeks to bolster the ability of coastal areas to withstand major storms and rising seas."
Every single commercial airline flight in the US relies on NOAA forecasting. Without reliable forecasting I would suspect the airline industry would crumble under delays, wasted fuel, diversions, and overall customer dissatisfaction.

This isn't to say a third party couldn't pick up the slack but then you have a very clear conflict of interest. If the airlines get to make their own forecast they can skimp on fuel and push pilots to fly into weather that they magically deem legal. The margins of safety are significantly higher with an unbiased third party.
My experience inside and out of companies has been that this tactic is employed quite a bit. I really dislike it but it's the truth. Everyone wants a top notch team and sometimes the only way to get amazing people in less amazing roles is to bait and switch them. You are getting someone who is likely zero risk and will be highly successful in a lower role. And if you ever actually need someone in the higher level role you have someone who can do it.
Same. A lot of weather sites just pull the free NWS data and wrap it in ads.

Some use higher-resolution grids or better models (check http://forecastadvisor.com/ for your area), but they're almost always at least based on the free NWS data. Also, only weather.gov lets you click around on a map to get their model results for any square on the grid, not just towns and cities.

What is wrong with these people?!

EDIT: Weird. "Its satellite data division would lose $513 million, or 22 percent, of its current funding under the proposal... National Weather Service would be fortunate by comparison, facing only 5 percent cuts." I doubt slashing the satellite budget would improve forecasts, which tend to rely upon data.
I opt to drive. People don't understand why, but the freedom of not being molested physically or technologically is important for my mental state.
The numbers on the back - the CVV code - is essentially a cryptographic hash of the information on the front of the card: expiration date, name, card number, whatever else is on there. So each physical card should have a different CVV if the card number is the same. Given 3-4 digits and millions of issued cards, there will of course be collisions among cards with different numbers.

I think every card issued by Visa, Mastercard and American Express (at the very least) in the US has these extra numbers.
I spent a thanksgiving back in junior year with a japanese student (along with a jewish bro) in my american uni smoking chronic and covering led zepplin guitar in between turkey eating. Japan needs to send more college students to the US.
"You are a great candidate, and we would like you to interview with this other role. But this particular role is not a good fit"

Why not interview for this other role?

It sounds like people like you. They want to hire you. But they perhaps they want to hire you for a slightly different role. Why not consider this role?
You joke but I know plenty of self professed libertarians who want nothing more than to see those very services privatized. I know someone who genuinely believes a privatized police force would be the end of police violence because "then we'd at least be able to fight back." Sadly this is actually how a lot of people think.
So I have been a Japan watcher/liver for the past 30 years. I might resemble some of the negative nellies you refer to, but not in precisely the same way. That said, you are about 180 degrees from what I and most of my trusted Japanese friends believe. I would like to better understand why we see things differently. Please help me understand.

So to define my beliefs in your terms:

- Japan is not currently wrecked economically, but they are rolling the dice with a ridiculously high debt to GDP ratio. Some of this can be reasonably explained away due to the specifics of Japanese saving in Japan, but not all of it.

- I don't think most Japanese people are in denial at all. They are largely cautiously pessimistic except for two groups (see below).

- I don't think that emulating the west is the best path forward. Many of my Japanese friends agree with me on this front. In fact, I think the manner in which Japan deregulated in the 80s and 90s under western-influenced guidance was a very bad move -- it gutted the core of the Japanese socio-economic structure without providing a reasonable replacement.

- I agree that Japan does many things better than the west. It also does many things worse (paging patio11).

- The only Japanese people I know who don't feel terribly concerned about the state of Japan are upper class people and folks who work for foreign companies or governments. The quality of their day-to-day lives is largely independent of the state of the Japanese economy.

So I wonder a few things about you. How long have you lived in Japan? How well do you speak Japanese? How many close Japanese friends do you have that don't speak English beyond short simple conversations? What do you do for a living?

My guess is that you work with the group I mentioned in my last bullet point, or you are just new to Japan.

If not, I am very very interested in learning from you.

Specifically:

1. How is Japan handling the debt to GDP ratio issue? This is genuinely an issue that is somewhere between scary and terrifying.

2. How are the folks in their 20s and 30s getting stable jobs at the same relatively high rate that they did in the 80s and (to a lesser extent) the early 90s? Note that anyone who went to an international school or a western university is not the target of my inquiry (those numbers are very small in aggregate).

3. How are Japanese banks handling the low/non-performing loans on their books? The last time I checked, they were just engaging in some polite fiction and hoping that a miracle will happen and/or they will be bailed out by the government via free funds or a devalued currency.

I genuinely hope you can show me the bright light of Japan's present and future. I left there because I saw that light dimmming rapidly. I will happily move back if I see any real potential. Please show me that potential in a compelling and convincing way -- I love Japan and desperately want the country to succeed, but I just don't see it now.
I think that a quick survey of the user would be helpful as well- specifically their experience with programming, and their experience with the language in question.
Everyone knows about weather and climate, but NOAA also does a lot of ocean exploration:

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/explorations.html
If you spend too long trying to convince someone there's a problem, then you are the problem.
Steve Bannon has a thing for shipyards.

Someone should tell him what the NOAA does for merchant shipping.
I don't think a poly would feel like the author of that piece.
If prices are surging here & there thru the day/night we are not making a dime. Uber's take on me is 25% (I WAS ONE DAY BELOW THE CUT OFF DATE TO BE AT THE 20% RATE) then wear & tear if you drive regularly would exceed 25-30% Then gas is +- 25% AND since we are "independent contractors we get 1099'ed & so at the end of the day we make no money. I enjoyed it at first but now that I look at the big picture after paying my taxes this year & all I can brag about is that I probably saved quite a few people DUI's & met some fun people along the way!
Can you see numbers being put on maritime vessels? Human life? Hurricane prediction matters to both. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantome_(schooner)
Oh, I've had the same. And return trip finding and complaining about wine opener.

Which is cheaper / effective DHS or private contractors?
But their competitors who comply with the law are losing now.
If the companies are worth their salt, they should be giving (or willing to give) you detailed feedback. _Especially_ if you got to a face-to-face interview. If they don't, then I'd consider that a lucky miss.

First step would be to ask, at least, the 7 on-sites for feedback. If it's insufficient, ask for more. Explain that you're having trouble at the last hurdle and that their feedback will help. Take that feedback and integrate it in to your approach. Getting feedback can be difficult, especially when it's just you. Consider giving it to some friends and/or mentors to get a clearer view. Choose someone that can bring the most amount of objectivity.

Otherwise... Attend some meetups. Consider blogging and producing some content. Build a profile that projects where you want to be (you should consider, a little, what that might be). If you're passionate and visible in a domain, combined with good skills and experience, then you're gold to these organizations. Often they will come to you.

Also consider being proactive to companies that you want to work for. Engage and see if they have any jobs. Many roles get filled without a Job Description seeing the light of day. Part of doing the above should achieve that.

Finally, consider tackling the problem in a structured way. Interview for a job that's well within your capabilities. Apply for roles that stretch you. These give you a broader understanding on the needs out there in the market (and hopefully what you're capable of).

Good luck.
> I don't think anyone on the Rust side is seriously saying that Rust is faster than C and is pointing to the shootout leaderboard as evidence.

It's not an argument to be used against Rust; people who understand
programming know this already. It's an argument to be used against Rust's
fanboys, who are especially numerous for this language.
Of course the company would not like a negative review, but they could always place an advertisement. Clearly they want to buy the appearance of objectivity, and they have gone about it very clumsily. It is amusing that in so doing they have turned it into the story, but it is a bit disturbing that they think they can get away with it - and with good reason, apparently.
Just curious what's your visa situation?
<3<3<3 for Elixir / Erlang / Phoenix

I learned about it about 20 days ago and have spent every day since then absorbing, reading and learning.

I LOVE this language / framework / OTP / methodology / community
There really isn't a "good" or "bad" ... there is only "nature" ... and it's a beautiful hierarchical food-chain that should be appreciated and understood by all elements within it. Humans are one of the few that have the capacity to fully understand it. Sadly they still do not recognize the inherently hierarchical nature of even human society and this leads both the people at the bottom and top to hate each other.

Humans are the only creatures that have somehow attached themselves to this strange idea that controlling their pleasure and pain response (rather than their freedom) is the most important thing in the world.

Society and civilization should exist but only to protected freedom-- that doesn't mean that everyone should or can be happy. But rather freedom to compete and continue the threads of nature is what is important. Nature above all else.
Makes sense when the powers that be think climate change is made up, in fact maybe they think the climate is made up. Why fund an agency that spends money on something that does not exist?
Might be useful to add the country of origin for the trains, as anyone from the U.S (e.g. me) on a U.S. based forum might be a tad confused.

Nice looking, though.
I started using windytv.com after seeing it mentioned here. It uses the European ECMWF weather model, which is well known in the meteorological community to be more accurate than the NOAA GFS: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/06/us-numerical-weather-p.... With this budget cut, it looks like that will continue.

In particular, as a non-hydrostatic model, the ECMWF gives much better forecasts in mountainous regions like the Eastern Sierra (where I live).
Are those really 2 different forms? I was under the impression that these were the same:

foo()?.bar()
(foo()?).bar()
While I really like it, I think it needs a more familiar syntax (to mainstream devs) to be anything more than a niche thing. I'd like to see something in the middle kind of go the typescript route, where valid+pure JS is valid WhateverScript, and with generally JS-y syntax, but with PureScript's additional features and effects systems.

It may end up really ugly though: how would you define operators while preserving JS semantics (e.g. no currying)?
These images still didn't even show the dam itself, nor the water being released from the normal pathways in the dam, where they also had a few problems (which I can't describe in detail due to ignorance.. I believe it was related to backup of mud and debris from the spillway problems causing backwash that clogged up some of the main dam works). And yet I agree, this has been the best presentation of the event so far.
Nobody has invested the money and work to make it happen.

You can take RISC-V ISA specification or ready Verilog/VHDL and produce working ASIC chip relatively easy, but it's not fast.

If you want fast general purpose chip in that competes toe-to-toe with AMD and INTEL, it will take huge amount of chip and physical design, simulation and verification. AMD has spent tens of millions to get new x86 ISA compatible architecture out. Doing the same for RISC-V without enough demand would be economic suicide.
Maybe one of you two should actually cite something instead of saying "yes they did/no they didn't" silly games.
Ah yeah, I read your post wrong, my bad!
Off the top of my head, comercial and general aviation rely critically on NOAA's services.
3+ years worth of expenses so you don't need to worry short of some massive disaster that leaves you unemployable.

Assuming you are reasonably disciplined you can do that pretty quickly.
Do you find it's a lot of extra writing for the contexts? I'm new to Phoenix and my first thought is it seemed kind of verbose to define every single 'meeting point' across 'models'. For simple apps it seems OK but I have some complicated apps with many models and interactions
I really love what this game accomplishes. I think rust can ultimately be optimized more than c because of the guarantees the language could hand llvm. Right now bugs like https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=27860 are preventing this. In the n-body benchmark FORTRAN is winning even with no explicit vector code because of language guarantees like this. I have gotten the rust solution to vectorize some loops but not enough yet.
I think your resume is probably more impressive than your ability to interview. Learning to be impressive on interviews is difficult. I would suggest trying out a less impressive resume so you don't lead into your interview with too much of a high standard.
hope i don't sound patronizing, just want to send a friendly reminder that hating your job is, as we say, a good problem to have! :) and a normal one... unfortunately.

that out of the way. not getting feedback is probably not an option at this point. you need honest feedback from someone who is able to accurately evaluate your interview performance. i would be pressing for more honest feedback in my interviews. it might help to humble up a little bit and explain to them what you've explained to us. (post-rejection, of course...)

might be unorthodox but if i were you i would consider scrounging up 30 bucks or something and soliciting an "interview consultation" on craigslist or some Slack channels or something.
Yes I think they were utterly bonkers to assume that a failure of the emergency spillway would be limited to "only" the top 30 feet of water. It seems likely that the torrent would have quickly cut down deeper than just the bottom of the wall.
>airline flight in the US relies on NOAA forecasting

Sure but is that what is actually going to be cut? You do realize that one common way that unelected bureaucrats defend their spending is to launder unpopular/dubious spending in very popular spending?
There's always the opportunity cost. What if the next Steve Jobs, Sergey, page or any number of immigrants who started successful companies don't come to US but go somewhere else.

Making the world scared of coming to US can have irreversible effects.
How much product management experience do you have ? What type of companies have you had PM experience at? What were you doing before product ?

It's very hard to get people to diagnose the problem online but maybe if you give more details we can help you out. Otherwise reach out to a trusted colleague.
We're talking about a hypothetical cashless future, and your argument is that right now, this isn't the case.

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This is one of those comments that sounds profound if you give it a cursory glance, but actually makes no sense whatsoever.
Just to extend this. Climate science may seem like an abstract and alarmist thing now, but as the earth warms the human cost of all this will become much more pronounced, and without accurate science and monitoring, we're pretty much totally fucked.
This is technically correct. But the regular processing can take months and you are fucked if there is any sort of emergency in the family(back in your homeland) and you have to travel.
Time and place. time and place.
Hey, he's just following through on campaign promises. How can you fault him on that?

In a decade or two, this will probably be laughable. But if he cuts back on foreign intervention, I'm happy to cut him lots of slack.
I bought a Panasonic TV because it was said to have the best UI. It used Firefox OS. The UI was OK - I have nothing to compare it to since I didn't have a TV for 10 years. Anyway, they stopped Firefox OS development soon after. I wonder if I can install another OS?
Of course they are.

NOAA does nothing which panders to populist sentiment. NOAA can't put steel workers to work. NOAA is not the grit of honest American labor, or the power of military conquest, or the gold of a halcyon age.

NOAA cannot Make America Great Again, but a new fleet of aircraft carriers can.

So it goes. Tie a rock to a string and hang it outside your window to see which way the wind is blowing.
I hate to go down this route, but can you describe your appearance / physical style? What do you wear when you go in for interview? Do all the companies that you apply to have your linked in profile?
I guees it just makes a list of suspicious people and later managers look through them and ban them manually.
Agreed. This demise had been predicted for a LONG time.

Trying to time a short has always been a fool's game. I don't think it's different this time.

That said, I don't see any reason on the ground to be optimistic at all.