skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are my red flags:

- required to be geo/physically present

It sends the message that they would rather you be less effective and productive and visually visible.

It also sends the message they do not care about your health for commuting 1-2 hours per day. It's costly and there is a danger of traffic/accidents... and all that comes with it.

When study after study shows that remote workers produce more, and my personal anecdotal evidence that I'm easily 2-3 times more productive.... it's frankly insulting that an employer would want to treat you like a child and be your baby sitter.

Next point...

- all employees of theirs are in same timezone

This means that they likely have not chosen from the best pool of talent and you will likely face more typical/mediocre developers vs. working with a comoany that draws from many more time zones.

It's important to me to know that they value talent and production over geography and drawing from different time zones is evidence of that.

Obvious no go's

- Unpaid coding assignments (Fuck you pay me)

- Any psychometric tests (no thank you)

- If they promote their "diversity" programs and meanwhile only focusing on the metric of skin-color and ignoring mental qualities (How racist can you be to call it diversity when your diversity program is only skin deep?)

- If they have a pay scale and "have to be equitable"... no thank you. Hire some chump for less and good luck.

- if they want to meet you face to face in person

Why? Are you going to order a limo and buy me dinner?

If not, then I'm not interested. See point above about different timezones and all remote. exception can be made if it is a startup and this will be a top level position or this is an executive level position at a big compant (but they better pay for your trip and act like a good date)
>Unskilled migrants care for babies or the elderly, thus freeing the native-born to do more lucrative work.

I'm sure the same argument was made in favor of slavery way back when it was still legal. After all, slaveowners were free to pursue more meaningful things while their slaves were collapsing of heat exhaustion and malnutrition while working on the plantation.

Illegal immigrants often find "employment" at below minimum wage, and in inhumane working conditions, because otherwise what's the reason to hire them over locals? They're also more likely to be abused or mistreated, because what are you gonna do, go to the police?

A less harsh variant of this often happens with H1Bs, which I know all too well because I was an H1B myself 15 years ago: you get hired for a job that's way below your skill/pay level, and then you keep your mouth shut until you get a green card, which for some nationalities takes a decade or more. Glorified indentured servitude. If you lose your job - GTFO of the country in 2 weeks. Doesn't matter if you have a child or whatever, GTFO anyway.

It boggles the mind that people could be in favor of illegal immigration and H1B abuse, especially if these same people are in favor of worker rights and unionization.
Indeed!! We’re closer than we have ever been, and that trend is likely to continue.
> ... hard to get adequate B vitamins from a vegetarian diet

in particular, B12

OTOH, a quantity of other B vitamins can be made for us, in the gut, by intestinal flora as byproducts of their work on the food we've ingested. and properly prepared whole grain products can be a direct source of some b-vitamins (e.g. maize prepared with lime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization)

a reasonably large supply of B12 can be stored in the liver for future use by the body during lean times (perhaps multiple years' worth).
Yeah - you can actually implement surprisingly complex motion by nesting <marquee> tags with different directions, speeds, etc.

I posted this long time ago: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/marquee.html
> Incidentally, it would make the browser vendors themselves fairly obsolete, which is probably why it hasn't happened yet.

Mostly, but not entirely true. It's been a while seen we've seen a new browser come out, but the time is ripe to begin work on one, and release it in a few years. Just fork webkit to maintain backwards compatibility. I see browsers just becoming a sandbox virtual machine with a key ring, with minimal functionality.

Apple has the strongest incentives to build what I am mentioning. Not sure if they will.
How would you feel about all states in the US instituting their own immigration controls? Would there be a negative effect on the US economy if moving from New Jersey to New York required lengthy visa applications and waits for green cards?
Title needs to be updated. It sounds like the load was likely the cause of triggering faulty hardware. Nothing specific about memtest.
No idea why this is getting downvoted, as you're entirely correct (obviously). OP is talking about real economic growth as massive amounts of wealth are created. A change in the money supply would create nominal growth, but no change in the underlying quantity of wealth.

For those confused as to the difference between the two, reread pg's essay on How to Make Wealth. http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
We could argue that the fear of being fired ought to motivate as well. Professional athletes operate under this model. Perhaps we could implement a teacher’s “draft.” Lower performing but still competent enough teachers could be “traded” and stars could result in bidding wars. At the end of each “season” the lowest school gets first pick in that summer’s draft. Substitutes could be like free agents. And winning “seasons” could be financially rewarded with bonuses. There could be a system of measurement based on improvement of students rather than just raw scores, so even lower performing students could help the team “win” by improving even if they are still not meeting the overall standards. You might find teachers wanting to go to tougher schools because bringing a kid from a 20 to a 50 earns more “points” than bringing a kid from an 80 to an 85.

I haven’t fully thought this out yet, but we do know one thing: if you are in a hole, stop digging. If something isn’t working, brute force rarely helps. We need innovation in education but not just pedagogical— but with the entire incentive structure for both teachers and students.

Crazy idea, I know. But sometimes crazy works.
How complicated/large is the part? $10-$20k is a pretty expensive mold these days even for production tools (from China).

If you only need 2000 or so for a simple part to start, and are willing to pay 2-3X the part price, Protolabs is a good option.

Another low tooling cost, low volume option that might be worth looking into is cast urethane.
Never underestimate the power of competent and interested people with free time.
Alternate title: we thought money is what good teachers find rewarding, but we were wrong
I don't know if I follow. Are you saying you've travelled to 52 different countries and found that they all exist on the same planet populated by a species devoid of interplanetary travel and that they have set up a system of artificial geographical barriers to control the distribution resources and movement of individuals of the species?
I think the comment was that GovCloud is not approved for storing information whose classification level is "secret," not that AWS does not keep data in GovCloud secret.
Although I generally agree with the generalities of the article, and I share the author's "on premise" philosophy (and recommending outsourcing when it seems an obvious fit for what they're asking on-prem), being a sysadmin myself, I can't help but smell a false dichotomy.

Running something well may not be trivial, but it may actually be easy enough. If someone only has one or two such services that are critical to their business, that could be OK.

Also, many of the example of maintainability don't necessarily apply if the services themselves are low volume and/or limited exposure. For example, a DNS stealth master, and maybe any internal/on-prem DNS servers (but anything external is outsourced) I would argue is trivial compared to full outsourcing.
Graphics in Plain Language
If it accomplishes nothing then the 'quality' of the teachers is irrelevant.
I use those functions a lot and I'm still impressed by how fast they are ran by current JS interpreters (especially V8).

I did a layer over strings/arrays/objects to get nearly the same behavior everywhere. An example of those functions (in my custom programming language) https://p.sicp.me/h4MJE.js and the compiled code https://p.sicp.me/ctr6M.js.
The Case of the Hash Array Mapped Trie (2010)
+1, not everything is meant to go through the 11th iteration of the regex-meatgrinder.
I say “users” because most actual developers know better at this point. The real problem has come from the innumerate people using CMS systems that think nothing of dumping a script tag on the page they copied/pasted from some random plugin provider.
When the state structure is considered to be the status quo endorsed by the gods is capital punishment not a ritual sacrifice?
The article mentions removing simple elements, e.g. "‘Center’ widget is nice for a Hello, World container but I never understood it. Why can’t ‘Container’, something that’s way more prevalent have a property to do the same thing?"

I'm perfectly happy with the nesting of simple elements. Having a single 'Container' also handle various layout rules is what makes all the positioning options of CSS difficult. Similarly for constraint systems. Composable, single function components are easy to learn and use. I'm just presuming that it has good runtime characteristics and haven't run into any issues yet.
They must have been getting good results.
The suburb is best for healthy childless people aged like 40–60 who have few social hobbies and enjoy commuting to work by car and then spending the rest of their time at home, e.g. doing carpentry in their garage, gardening in a large yard, or sitting on a couch watching a big TV. Or those who really love driving cars every day.

Someone age 2 or 6 or 12 or 17 or 23 generally has a better time in the city: more freedom, more things to do within walking/transit distance, less time wasted on car transportation, more people of all ages and interests to engage with.

The density of cities can support a higher density of parks, playgrounds, plazas, markets, museums, libraries, schools, art galleries, music venues, coffeeshops, restaurants, ice cream stores, churches, community centers, ...., which means these can all be easily accessed on foot.

In typical American suburbs everything is dispersed and there are oceans of concrete standing between any two points, so walking around is unpleasant and impractical. People who walk around are viewed with suspicion, and children walking around alone are often reported to the police. In many suburbs, almost nobody rides a bike or takes the bus. Instead, nearly all trips are taken by car, which adds a ton of time overhead to every trip and makes anyone without car dependent on someone else.
This reminds me of the unfortunate logo the email sending company 'bronto.com' had before Oracle bought them out:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140101030328/http://bronto.com...

The Brontosaurus in their logo has the tail dragging along the ground, as if we are still in the 1980's when all dinosaurs were drawn that way. As if they ever dragged their tails along the ground like that, but it was plausible then when serious study of dinosaurs was only for small children!

Actually it was only a decade or so when the Natural History Museum in London changed 'Dippy' to have the correct tail posture, i.e. in the up position, not dragged along the ground. However, I did not take the Bronto 'product' seriously in part due to the fact that I despise marketing types (and their product was shoddy) and in part because their logo was so lame.
For me: Good health, and peace and quiet. Fellow people to enjoy in same.

The U.S. has made it increasingly difficult to achieve these. "Health care" has become wealth extraction, and a culture of excess combined with cheap electronics have taught people to "turn it up".

And damned to your neighbor; they should learn to "collaborate" at work and turn up their own music, at home.

It's exhausting.
The advantage is collecting email from disparate addresses (e.g. admin@your-domain.com) and forwarding them all to your preferred Gmail accounts. You can't setup ACM or other certs services without that to prove ownership. Previously I paid ~$100/yr to get all these mail forwarding routes setup. You can also capture inbound mail directly to a queue (e.g. unsubscribe@your-domain.com) and feed it to a Lambda to take action.
Yes, there's very little in software development that's strictly impossible. Practicality is another matter.

> Look at SubstrateVM. It turns Java code into a .so file that doesn't depend on the JVM, compiled ahead of time, with a C API exported.

Thanks, will do. I've been mostly eyeing Webassembly for some "cross-platform shared object" use cases.
I definitely agree with this sentiment. I lived in the Philippines for over a year and I was expecting the people to have the kind of sadness I would see in the commercials they sometimes show in the US for charities and such. In my first area, in the Phillipines, out in the rural boondocks I saw a lot of poverty, but I also saw a surprisingly large amount of happiness and a deep community atmosphere.

The people were so kind and thoughtful. I didn’t ask them about their aspirations all that often, but they often seemed content with their life as it was. Every once in a while you would get someone who had higher ambitions e.g. those who wanted to move out into the city.

Seeing their contentment and the time I spent there helped me realize that happiness doesn’t need to come from material things and having more than everyone else. I feel American culture has often tried to teach me otherwise. Sad.
How so?

It allows unsafe C to be incorporated into safe Rust while maintaining the same level of safety.

A similar less ergonomic solution would be to load C via WASM modules.

I'd take slab or wasm over whole lib translation into unsafe Rust.
If you're really iterating quickly, much of the code may have a short shelf life, so you can also see it as leveraging tech debt, since a fail amount of the code may not be needed in 3mo.
Looks like botg is trying the "offers" crap again. I suggest using WinSCP instead.
Executions were of condemned criminals. The Western world, and many others, mobilized to stop Nazi Germany. Lynching was an illegal act. I'm not sure those really compare to industrial scale ritual sacrifice as a cornerstone of the society.
As a student of history, the amount of hate that pre-Israel civilizations get is really astounding.
At least they use "Potentially" in the subtitle, sheesh.

"If we had open borders we'd be $X trillion richer" is silly. It makes the huge assumption that institutions would stay the same, or inexplicably trend better everywhere, instead of worse. There is no thesis for why this is so, it is hand-waved here.

> Suddenly, they can join a labour market with ample capital, efficient firms and a predictable legal system.

This should prompt some navel gazing about:

* Why some countries succeed in building institutions and what is different about them.

* Why some countries used to have good institutions and now have dysfunctional ones. (Like say, Argentina, Lebanon, etc)

They might even learn something about why free movement isn't common.

> A Nigerian in the United States cannot be enslaved by the Islamists of Boko Haram.

The author has almost figured it out.

> If lots of people migrated from war-torn Syria, gangster-plagued Guatemala or chaotic Congo, would they bring mayhem with them? It is an understandable fear (and one that anti-immigrant politicians play on), but there is little besides conjecture and anecdotal evidence to support it.

Okay, he hasn't quite.

The planet is awash with dysfunctional institutions clawing away at function and semi-functional ones. Just going off of his Boko Haram example, the South Thailand Islamic insurgency is 13 years and counting of fighting from Muslim separatists. The Myanmar Islamic insurgency has been going on for 70 years and counting. The Somali civil war has been ongoing for my whole life, the Nigerian insurgencies over the years are numerous and ongoing, boko is just a continuation. I'm sure you know the story of other countries, weary reader.

So why isn't the thesis "A world of free movement would spawn a new era of separatists"? Crazy, yes, but at least we have some precedent for it as a nonsense headline.

No discussion of why nations differ in institutional quality is one thing, but no explanation of why the good-institution countries wouldn't degrade is another. As Taleb says, Economists don't seem to understand things that move.

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A little tangential, but one of the things I think is under-discussed, is what happens to the places where people mass migrate from.

Recently there has been massive brain drain from Southern & Eastern Europe to West: Half of Romania's doctors left between 2009 and 2015: http://www.politico.eu/article/doctors-nurses-migration-heal...

In Venezuela, 40% of recent medical school graduates have left. Medicine shortage + lack of physicians = countrywide health crisis: https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2017/12/12/venezuela-he...

Other countries, like Lebanon after its civil war, are similar. Syria might end up similarly, I don't know.

It is hard to fault people moving en masse for a better life, but it further solidifies that the places they leave behind will continue to be governed by the looney bin for the decades to come. I wish there was a more thinking about solutions to this problem, and less glee at the capital class counting chips over the obverse.
If someone asked me to recommend a single XX century novel in Russian, I would certainly point to this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1060818.It_s_Me_Eddie

Provokes very strong emotions (both positive and negative :). I cannot vouch for the quality of English translation though.
That's a great talk and animation.

Amusingly, the cheap plastic resin chair shown prominently in the video probably isn't injection-molded. Those are usually formed from a flat sheet.
> You can even completely abandon DOM/HTML if you like

For most applications, please don't do that though, unless there's eventually a web accessibility API that's independent of HTML.
#TrumpHotels
It's very hard to find public facing information about internal organizations, but here are some examples:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jcalev/2009/09/30/a-great-b... shows there is/was a Microsoft Photography Club. They produced the book at http://www.blurb.com/b/833258-photographers-microsoft-2009 .

But that's in the US, so what about Sweden? https://www.fsy.se/azfotoklubb/digitala.asp (via Google Translate) shows that AstraZeneca's photo club has a room at AstraZeneca for their equipment.

Or the Accenture in the Philippines; quoting from https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Accenture-... "They have several clubs for hobbies like Photography Club, Move for dancers, Accenture Pool Band for musicians, Gamers for people who love sports, Run for runners, Working Moms for women/mothers and many other more. Each club have fun activities that saves us breathers from work. You'll get to connect with the others that has the same interest as you."

Or Accenture in Ireland - https://www.accenture.com/ie-en/Careers/team-culture-club-so... . "Joining one of Accenture’s many clubs and societies is a great way to relax whilst expanding your network within Accenture.

One of the Accenture clubs in Ireland "aims to promote the use of the Irish language and members engage with fellow Irish speakers within Accenture." - a club based on national/cultural identity, yes?

The companies involved with the Ariane rocket have a yearly shared sports event, with teams from the different companies. Eg, http://www.arianecross2015.com/ , http://arianecross2016.com/ , and http://arianecross2017.com/ . The last two show that it was organized with the involvement of the companies, and not all done on personal time.

I can well believe that we may have difference experiences.
What if most teachers aspire to teach in places that appeal to them and have no interest in being traded like cattle?
It’s also a great story that brings up a lot of philosophical questions, especially as we started getting into cloning and bioethics. Michael Criton was a genius and had a good handle on the future.

Jurassic Park was more than dinosaurs — it was a fable of caution in a rapidly evolving world.
>For comparison being in the top 2% of any Olympic sport would land you a spot in most Olympic teams.

Being in the top 2% of performers in a given sport qualifies you national and even international achievements, if you chose to follow that or not it’s up to you.

But in any case top 2% of any group is by definition exceptional.
Yep. Another 9/11 will get everyone on board.
Not super-surprising to me, but I agree with the postscript: "kudos to the Gates Foundation for running an honest test. They designed it well; they funded it properly; and when it was over they hired a third party to provide an honest assessment of what happened. That’s the way it should be done."
In my view, it comes down to a few questions, the most important of which is:

What new capabilities does WASM afford us?

I by no means think JS is beyond criticism, but much of the excitement about WASM revolves around writing web stuff in other languages. Is that really disruptive?
Obligatory:

http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

...but a carousel using the marquee tag?

Definitely. Maybe throw in some inline CSS for good measure, maybe sticking to web safe colour gifs too.
Yes. For the reason stated and also because they imply an easy/cheap/straightforward way of taking a copy of one of those objects that actually doesn't work. Does the caller of your function expect you to take that object it passed to it as "configuration" and mutate it?
"Before you at least knew a front end project was probably written in JS, now... who knows?"
=> Not really. Don't forget about CoffeeScript, Dart, TypeScript, ScalaJs, Fable, ClojureScript, etc
What if the article is just propaganda?

I don’t see how letting 3rd world people strip mine the resources I paid for is a help to me? My wife and I have been in a crisis for months because our son’s school has taken in so many esl kids that nothing is being done to teach him—it is like he got 1/2 a 2nd grade this past year! It is so bad that my wife is now a “former liberal”—America’s kids should come first. We pay the damn taxes. We keep the place clean and decent and nobody is just going to come here and stake a claim to it and run us off so they can turn it into the shithole mess they fled from with gangs and child rapists. Fuck that and fuck them.
Or: A poorly conducted experiment with small sample sizes and larger external variables is said to "Accomplishes Nothing".
That's not the story at all. They meassured actual performance and fired teachers who showed bad performance, and rewarded those showing good performance. This was not just a test of dangling money in front of teachers and expecting them to improve their performance.

What you could get out of this study is however that it doesn't matter if teachers find the job rewarding or not. It doesn't matter if you keep on bad teachers, in fact the study might point to the fact that teachers are not the bottleneck of student performance at all.