skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll start by saying that pushing to normalize remote-work is a noble endeavor. But that being said, as you said, glossing over the disadvantages leaves this site/post feeling very one-sided. I say this as someone worked fully remote for 2 years. It was a fantastic job but the main reason I left was the disadvantages of being remote. To say that the advantages are far more numerous, and far outweigh the disadvantages is subjective and myopic. It works for some people and some types of work but to say it's the Best Solution sadly seems to be to just be being disingenuous.
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Companies have a huge influence over the distribution of who applies by the wording and placement of their job adverts.
I do not believe there is any US regulation that denies brokerage accounts to foreigners or minors. If they do, it may be an independent decision by brokerage firms simple because they don't want to deal with the extra paperwork.

Being a BD means a whole ton of paperwork, compliance and regulation. You have to abide by KYC and AML rules (Know Your Client and Anti-Money Laundering). People in charge of accounts need to become registered reps and take 1 of the Series Exams administered by FINRA. I imagine there will be some changes to incorporate crypto into the licensing.
A lot of medicines have a version with caffeine to make it more efficient and prevent sleepiness.
I wonder how you came to the determination that those who support equality are far left, rather than just left?
Error management is different, and quite uniquely done. Zig deals with failure modes in a much more fine-grained way than Rust, which favours the algebraic-wrapper approach (Result / Option types). If you're writing actual, low-level systems code, your code might need to react differently depending on the failure mode: you need to know if it was an I/O issue, or out-of-memory, or disk-full, or etc. At the call point, Zig lets you enumerate all of the possible failure reasons comprehensively, and handle each one specifically if you choose to. This enumeration is produced and checked by the compiler, so you can't miss any cases. (It also lets you disregard the specifics if you don't care.)
Thanks for noticing this post. It covers many of the questions that arose in the comments on my Part I post. It also details two more shortwave trading sites around Chicago.
I've looked at the guide[1] to writing Brainfuck interpreter, and the Zig language indeed looks very practical. In particular the test "..." {} block is neat, and the love for stack backtraces makes me feel at home.

Definitely a language to keep an eye out on.

[1] https://blog.jfo.click/how-zig-do/
>I'd characterize it as, "journalists" using their platform to go after specific people they don't like. Thiel helping one of their victims who couldn't afford to mount a case without running the risk of ruining themselves if they lost. Seems to me like a really noble thing to do.

And yet Breitbart is still up. So this idea that it's just about enforcing the law rings a bit hollow.
Great product. We have been using it for years. I was expecting it to be first in the list.
More of us who know a thing or two about financial systems should get in the wealth redistribution business.
> Unions always look like a good idea to workers.

It's a great idea to older workers. Every union I've been part of sacrificed the benefits of younger or future workers for the benefit of the older ones.

> I love the New Yorker. I hope enough rich urbanites are willing to pay a subscription to keep the magazine going even if times move on.

Why would we pay a subscription for a magazine full of ads?

I'd rather support independent journalists, writers, etc than those working for establishment media. The only reason writers/journalists needed media companies was because they needed a delivery platform. Now they have the internet, maybe they should strike out on their own.
There's very few things JS classes can do that ES6 modules/named exports along with closures returning plain objects can't do better, in term of code organization, isolation, and extensibility. For the 6 times a year where I need an actual class (it does happen!), I can write the prototype code.

The main issue with adding classes is that they're very, very complex if you want to make them useful. The initial version was pretty harmless, but it was also almost pointless. Now they need to back fill all of the missing features (eg: private fields), which brings in an enormous amount of complexity. Most of the time, if I need private fields, I can just use symbols (not quite private, but close), or I can do

function() {
let private = 123;
return {
// use private in functions here
}
}

It adds (there ARE things classes are better add) very little compared to the insane amount of work that has to be put in the language to get it all working. Decorators are in a similar boat, where many decorator usages can be expressed just as easily with a higher order function, so adding the extra syntax is just bloat.

The cost isn't worth the reward.

The biggest thing classes give us that is very difficult to replace in vanilla javascript is a semantic construct that is easy to statically analyzed. In the typed flavors (Flow, TypeScript), I can analyze the interface of plain objects, but not in vanilla JS. Part of why React using ES6 classes can be useful.

Thats a great benefit, but Im not sure it's worth the trouble.
I don't live in SF, I had a cursory google and came up with [0] for 2100/month. My point was that even spending that amount on rent, and paying tax on a 100k salary, that you still have more left over at that point than someone on 50k a year will _gross_ and have to pay rent and taxes out of. The commenter I replied to said:

> many software developers in SV might make over 100K (most do) but have vastly less money left over to actually save compared to someone earning less than half that in other places.

Not that he couldn't afford to buy a substantial house in SF.

[0] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/411A-Lincoln-Way-San-Fran...
Radical activists bullying everybody else is why. Good to hear Google are being rational about it.
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I haven't really taken it as a supplement/extract by itself, but drinking lots of strong green tea gives me distinct but different effect from coffee/energy drinks/caffeine pills.

It mostly seems to negate the negative effects of caffeine (apart from problems falling asleep) and gives a mood-boost and counteracting stress. It only goes so far of course, over-consumption of tea will still yield anxiety and dependence, but the threshold for this is a lot higher.
Having the courage to take the plunge is admirable, and that's enough to get $1/month from me. Congratulations on making such a big decision!

One thing I'm curious about: the current ~$400/month from Patreon (minus fees) isn't close to enough to cover a similarly comfortable standard of living in New York, and I imagine that this would affect your "runway", if you will. Are you able to live and work off of savings, or will you be relocating for a lower cost of living?

Apologies if this comes across as prying into your financial details. I'm more just curious about the process. Again, congrats!
The claim is full self driving hardware right now, right?
Watch out for variance too.

If variance is different in the two populations then a high hiring bar will overweight the high variance population.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Al...
I had this misconception too & Google has not had 50/50 parity as a goal (unsure about specifically what this proposal is but I don't think it establishes quotas either). The discussion has been centered about reaching parity with the available talent pool as you describe. It's even in the article:

> Eileen Naughton, who leads Google’s HR operations, said the company remains committed to an internal goal to reach “market supply” representation of women and minorities by 2020, which could help bring hiring in line with the diversity of the candidate pool.
Anders Hejlsberg got $1M for joining Microsoft: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
Yep. It took me about six months to write a replacement of ActiveRecord with an identical API (for what was needed) that could scale to arbitrarily large number of writes.

Shit, pre-A16Z raise 500px ran on Rails and they were a social network around photography. You think Twitter is bad? Try timelines where you have half a million photographers liking hundreds of photos an hour and every like gets pushed into every feed of the people following them. Guys syncing their entire photo library. It was 5 application servers, 4 MongoDB servers for the timeline with some crazy data structures, one or two MySQL DBs.

I think most web projects these days should be in either Pheonix, Rails, or similar. If you need something really fast here or there just fork off the request in Nginx or compile something in Rust or C and extend it into Ruby (or whatever). Or have a compiled worker that communicates through the DB or Redis. There is this long tail of UI you need to make for every web project and nobody uses it 99.999% of the time. It should be in whatever secure language / framework that brings it to market fastest.
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I have never seen any rickshaw driver say yes to some place that he doesn't know. Either he will say he is not sure and he will stop at a place and inquire for u with people nearby and then take you to the place or most of them have google maps and can look it up if you cant by urself. Since they are pretty hyperlocal even without maps they can simply by talking to couple folks here and there figure out the right destination or by looking around a little as they may have seen the same place a while back.

You seem to have internet access, so clearly without asking him to choose the route you could have seen the maps and given the route yourself which many smart people do these days to save time and if you are not able to identify a route and are at the mercy of the rickshaw guy then may be you should have some patience and be thankful to the driver for figuring out the route and taking you to the destination.

Or may be they can be smart and ask for fees if they have to find the route and if u set the route then separate fees for that.

I guess one needs to learn the art of comparison since comparing random stuff will yield pointless opinions of no value.
Of course it is. $16k of the cost of that watch goes towards showing others you have $17k to piss away on a watch.

The market segment that buys a $17k watch only wants a new and improved model if everyone with the previous model is transformed into looking like a penny-pinching try-hard that doesn't quite fit in.
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> Day 2, you are asked to do something really massive because by now you must surely know your way around.

At big companies, my experience has been that if you know either where something is or what color something is, you are now the goto expert on that something for the rest of your life.
Because "society" is made up of (among others) companies, and Google is a large company. The way things change in a society is when the members of society start to change them.

If a company with the weight and power of Google feel something is wrong and isn't doing their damnedest to try to fix it, then it won't change.

Now, from the linked piece, it's unclear exactly what has been proposed, so I'm not offering an opinion about whether it's a good idea or not -- merely answering the question in the general. For the record, I'm broadly sympathetic to the notion that fixing diversity starts rather a bit upstream from internal Google-policies.
I agree that it depends on who the law enforcement is. I think operating a VPN service for Chinese citizens to evade censorship and not doing logging to protect those users would be ethical, for example. Like I said in another comment, you have to think about the odds of dealing with an LE request you consider unethical, and balance the consequences of providing logs or not providing logs. Personally, I trust the US justice system enough that I wouldn't have a problem with complying with a valid warrant (after legal due diligence, of course). But that's subjective and I understand others may not feel the same way.

> VPN companies operate at an international level. The cops from some countries cannot be trusted. Cops in all countries make mistakes. A few of them our there are corrupt. And often times the person claiming to be a cop is either well outside their authority, or just lying about being a cop. I tell my client's to not even respond to communications from any sort of law enforcement. Pass it to your lawyers. Let them first verify who and what authority is making the request. Do not leave such determinations to engineers and support staff.

Totally agree with everything here.
There seems to be no real sound logic to the current admin's economic decisions. I am not considering short term political moves as logical or helpful
They already were, in the anti-globalization anti-corporate backlash at the end of the cold war. Orcs and comic book supervillians and bankers had two decades in the sun, but the wheel has once again turned.
Some land is expensive, but outside of cities it need not be. And coal plants aren't exactly small. They are surrounded by all the apparatus necessary to move tons of fuel.

And consider that even if the footprint of a coal plant is smaller, that doesn't mean it would be cheaper. Coal plants have huge construction costs, and unlike solar, have huge ongoing costs to remediate their waste products. Plus there's the cost of buying and trucking in the fuel.
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Cool, good for you :). I like the world where the internet enables niche creators to live and engage with invested supporters/patrons.

Aside, have you seen the language Jonathan Blow's working on (jai)? Curious how you'd compare the two, goals or implementation-wise. (Given he hasn't released anything yet, no worries if this is unanswerable :))
Conversely, if Google were more like Apple -- just building and selling their own devices and not (one might say) propping up the entire non-iOS industry, they also wouldn't have this problem.

So while I'm happy to be able to run LineageOS on my phone (with GApps installed, for the record) and would prefer it if manufacturers were able to pre-install Firefox, I'm also worried that we may discover the cure to be worse than the disease.
> Asking you if you finished your task and getting a "yes" when you haven't finished it is outright lying.

That's incompetent management. The question should be reworded to avoid yes / no answers. "How much has been done?" would be a better question.
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as far as i know, angular 1 still works just fine... :)

(as it happens 1.7 was released recently.)
The United States is now a massive oil exporter, most of the news stories you read about pipelines or other new facilities involve getting this oil out of the country and selling it.

"Energy independence" is one of those buzzphrases from another era that doesn't really make sense anymore, insofar as it ever made sense. The idea that oil or electrical capacity is special and shouldn't be traded or should be traded differently than anything else because "security" is utter nonsense and has been used to justify lots of bad things.

If you actually wanted "energy independence" you'd stop allowing oil companies to export or otherwise nationalize the energy industry, which is probably not going to happen.
> If you have a fever because of a bacterial pneumonia, antibiotics are much better than Tylenol.

You also don't go "but don't have tylenol to break the fever because there's a root cause too," because an unchecked fever is itself damaging to the brain. And you especially don't do that if the root cause is unknown, unclear, or will take a long time or is impossible to cure.

The root causes here are complex and will take decades to undo. Dismissing efforts in the meantime to address the symptoms is effectively dismissing the harm these systemic problems cause now.
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WAY faster!
This is why I host my own open vpn instance on AWS EC2. If the government is going to come after me/my IP, they are going to get it one way or another (I know Amazon will hand over my account info if asked for it) so I might as well cut out any security risks in between (are the servers that my VPN providers using secure?).
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When you say settled status wait time is about 15 years , is it just for Indians or other nationalities too ?
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It's not just about privacy and the Fourth Amendment; I'll admit that my examples were limited, but there aren't many unambiguous non-localized monopolists outside the tech industry.

It's more generally the problem that there can only be one single federal policy, and one single territorial policy per territory; and that therefore, any disagreements of policy can only be resolved by imposition of tyranny over one group by the other.

Setting aside the inherent evil of tyranny, it is also readily observable that anyone with sufficient time and resources can gain a tyrannical majority (either in elections or in the legislative bodies themselves) and that this prize is so valuable that there is no system by which corruption can be prevented.

Ergo, the state is inefficient at best, and evil at worst.
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Agreed. Somebody else mentioned it's more similar to Segway than to Theranos - overhyped to hell, but not a scam.
Building off your example, the company going out of their way to try and bridge this gap could hypothetically alleviate the 90/10% gap in the future. The gap is in part caused by women not having the same role models higher up in the STEM world to look up to and follow. In this case, Google is part of the society that leads to your gap in applicants and can definitely make a difference through their hiring policies.

I completely understand the other side that this may not necessarily lead to the most qualified candidates being hired though. It is a difficult topic to discuss, and we just don't know yet what effect equal hiring policies have because they should more strongly affect future generations.
Then it's not a startup, just a small business. That's basically the thing that makes a small or medium-sized business a startup.
>No - foreigners (ie non Indians / Chinese etc) are missing this fact : there’s 40 students to 1 teacher in india, or more.

Growing up in a poor Seattle suburb in the '80s, that was very close to the (public school) student-teacher ratio we had as well. The school my youngest two attend now is significantly improved in this regard, but I suspect 30+ to one is still not uncommon around the country.
US labor is much more expensive
IMO we're about to see a robotics renaissance.

That embedded world needs a simple, performant, low-level language that isn't C. If Zig focuses on providing that for the robotics domain, I could see it becoming popular.
The article quotes Google as shooting for “market supply” representation, instead of artificial targets of the proposal.

I can’t think of any legitimate reason they can’t achieve market representation so that makes sense to me.

Forcing 50/50 at Google would force many, many smaller companies out of balance. They should spend their efforts on the top of funnel imho, with more high school and university programs to support women and minorities.

Edit, here is the proposal:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1394096/000121465918...
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He didn’t come to that determination. People pushing these don’t support equality or anything close to it.
www.nudjed.com we're a health/gov-tech company. Predominantly working with the NHS in the UK. Around for 5 years, raised £700k. Not your typical SaaS business, more hybrid consulting, due to the clients, we work with.
Please don't feel insulted. It's merely a general observation relating to culture in certain geographies, not to be applied to you specifically.

For example, an Indian in India may not think twice before throwing their food wrapper on the road side, but would probably never do that when on holiday in London (if they did, society or police would reprimand them for it and correct their action).

Similarly in tech, certain things (esp. related to quality/code cleanliness etc) seem much more relaxed in India compared to elsewhere.
It was noticed by some vendors. They just didn't know what it was. Mikrotik, for example, posted a warning on their forums months ago, when their users noticed a sudden uptick in attempt to get at ports 80 and 8291. In this case the attack was scanning for the existence of port 8291 to identify these routers, and then attempting an exploit on port 80. It was only months later that we all learned the VPNFilter was the culprit.
Then these prices are somewhat artificial. Even if you get the land for free, there are significant operating costs. Maintaining solar panels out in a field is very different than on the roof of a factory. In a place like Colorado (not a Nevada desert) you first have to cut down all the trees/bushes, which isn't a great image for green energy. Then someone has to keep the vegetation from growing back. Theft of panels does happen. So you need security guards. The costs aren't extreme, but at the quoted prices they are significant.
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This is a hard question to answer. But I'd consider something like racial bussing in the 60s. This was a positive step and was enacted without explicit exit conditions. Such exit conditions are not necessarily a requirement for these sorts of initiatives.
The answer to this question I usually get is that you cannot oversteer because
a) we are still far away from a fair state and
b) even if you oversteer it’s fair to make up for past injustice.
Man, Atlassian... they royally screwed up with SourceTree as well; v2 is unusable on many systems, to the point that myself and many users have downgraded to v1.

For a bit of entertainment, take a look at this open issue https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-7374 created on 01/Jun/2017. Yes, an issue that makes the product unusable for many users, that has been open for over a year now.
Doesn't sound like much of a choice to me.
My guess would've been CYP3A4, but you could be right.

I found a study of caffeine producing grapefruit-like inhibitory effects on some people https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625156/
Happy at work is the thing of inspirational propaganda, upper management and elite techies who can afford to be choosy. The rest of us have mortgages and families and health care premiums.

Not a Facebook employee, but I've wrestled with these questions after years in investment banking and a bit of adtech.

Almost anything that pays well isn't going to the end goal of feeding orphans, or improving society in any way.