skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same way.

I've been getting better, though, and I don't mean getting better by reading more technical literature, listening to more podcasts, and doing more programming in my free time.

Instead I mean accepting the fact that I simply don't enjoy those things and the way forward is to let go of the shame I feel for not liking them. There are plenty of things I do want to do in my free time, and I'm going to do those things. Every once in a while that thing is reading something technical or writing a program. In fact, I find that I enjoy those things more often when I'm not trying to force myself to do them.

I used to have quite a large stack of technical books I bought and then never read. Now the local Goodwill has them. Hopefully the next owner is someone who actually enjoys them.
This is an insanely privileged thing to say though. The problem, in your mind, is that you have to see sick people, not that there are sick people who need help.
does the world really need another js framework?
Right now they’re focused mostly on parity with BeOS R5 in terms of features/capabilities. Once that goal has been reached, the focus will shift to making Haiku a proper modern OS and addition of new features in the spirit of BeOS. I suspect that it’ll become much more interesting to a wider variety of people after a release or two with the latter focus.

The one thing that makes Haiku intriguing and promising in my eyes is the fact that its developers want it to be a first class desktop/laptop OS above all else with no server/mobile/other kitchen-sink-isms muddying the water. There’s nothing like that out there today, save for maybe macOS (which is more desktop focused but still suffers from the various multipurpose compromises brought from its *NIX heritage).
yep, looks like I broke something with a recent commit. D'oh. Not in a position to fix right now... moral of the story, no website is too trivial to have acceptance tests
Recycling individual components is profitable with sufficiently low wages. Here's Bunnie Huang talking about that: https://youtu.be/y5QkM2Work0?t=1464

You can make a reasonably good living in Shenzhen by reselling expensive chips from discarded hardware.
Richard Hamming "The Art of doing Science and Engineering"
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30
But the proprietary drivers are too, just add

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];

or

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "ati_unfree" ];

to the system configuration and do a sudo nixos-build switch to switch into the new system with NVIDIA drivers.

(NixOS is pretty fantastic in this respect, in the installation live environment I just added

boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "zfs" ];

to the configuration and switched to the new configuration. I could then do a root on ZFS install without any extra effort.)

https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#idm140737316292128
> I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit.

Enter my project: https://notabug.io

But honestly at this point in its development code contributions are more important than crypto if you can spare it.

https://github.com/notabugio/notabug
Wasn't 'jobs,jobs, jobs' Trump's core economic message?
Email and let's talk because we've obtained waivers for Iranian citizens.
The question here is -- are you "productive" because you write _good_ code faster, or because the language allows you to _not think_ about certain aspects of design and just postpone issues to the future (or GC).

OP wants to be fast and "productive", but forgets that in systems programming your first priority is good design and solid implementation. This is because _other_ components will be relying on your code to do their job. It pays to go extra step and make sure your component is properly written. Rust offers more than any other systems language to help with that.
There are some other great numbers with respect to this full employment

- In 2017 the combined reshoring and related foreign direct investment (FDI ) announcements surged, adding over 171,000 jobs in 2017. he U.S. had gone from losing net about 220,000 manufacturing jobs per year at the beginning of the last decade, to adding net 30,000 jobs in 2016. http://reshorenow.org/blog/reshoring-initiative-2017-data-re...

- Within the United States, growth also has become more balanced across industries. As in past years, the service sector, supported by growth in employment and real wages, has grown steadily with increases in retail trade, business services, personal services and construction activity.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bbrbin/166/

- Job-hopping increases, in possible boon to wage growth and productivity
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-this-economy-quitters-are-wi...
> JS has one of the fastest VMs on the planet and virtually everywhere.

Citation? Last time I looked at LuaJIT it still beat V8 by a healthy margin.
This is why you make it possible to fork a community, retain the content and as much or as little of the moderation decisions as you agree with.
https://www.draw.io/
Source was at the bottom of link.
That's the whole idea. Thanks.
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> We should celebrate the Asian focus of intellectual excellence rather than punish them.

First, I’m going to remove the “Asian” aspect of your comment, because I don’t think the phenomenon you are speaking of is uniquely Asian.

Let me frame it slightly differently.

One group, let’s call them TestPreppers, are excellent at acing tests. Yes, these types of students are common is East Asia (e.g., due to the cram school culture), but they can be found other places as well (e.g., upper middle class communities in the US NE corridor regardless of race).

The second group, let’s call them ThinkersDoers, are really good at identifying interesting problems and doing constructive work on that problem. These folks tend to be smart, creative, and hard working. They exist is all races (including, but not limited to, Asians).

In an academic setting or some professions that have domain specific hard problems to work on, the TestPreppers are largely terrible to work with. Lots of hand holding. Lots of training. Outcomes are predictable but uninspiring. They are great grinders. That said, they will almost never contribute anything positive to your work group other than a willingness to do grunt work that others don’t want to do. Note that the doing the grunt work is valued, but finding grinders is not hard. The VAR (value above replacement — a sports stats term) is basically zero.

The ThinkersDoers, however, will provide unique insights about the problem space and will advance the team in unique and valuable ways. Their VAR is very high — these folks are so difficult to find at any level. These folks are incredibly fun to work with, and you are very sad when they leave the team.

I really wish that we, regardless of race, would encourage the development more ThinkersDoers rather than focus on the relatively mundane TestPreppers. Raising a TestPrepper (to the exclusion of anything else) just seems like a wasted opportunity to develop a ThinkerDoer who has the opportunity to move the needle much more substantially in any endeavor they choose to persue.
Generally, yes - it's easier to get the second O-1 visa.
What do you think about the stuff Christopher Richardson and similar folks are doing fighting the travel ban and the 'sham' of a waiver process?
More importantly, did the people running analysis on this dataset get explicit permission from the European post authors as required by the GDPR?
We might change it. There's an issue open if anyone is motivated to comment
https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper/issues/263
> “A full UI redesign would make this site/software so much better!” - said no end user ever.

Said someone who has never used The GIMP 1.x line.
Depending on what she does for work she could come to the US immediately on a TN visa. If she does a fiance visa or a marriage visa it will take 6-12 months before getting work authorization.
Where do you run your persistent apps?
Do you honestly think Mozilla is going to deliberately treat Americans worse than Europeans? :)
Goes to show that Obama did much better than he was often given credit for. While Obamacare fell fall short of the medicare for all that is needed by business - imagine not having to worry about covering healthcare for employees for your startup - his overall job of captaining the ship through incredibly hard times was very successful.
Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders
How much of underemployment is caused by people not willing to move? For instance, I can almost guarantee you that if you’re a good Node developer you could find a job in less than a month in my market.
I really enjoy this Noam Chomsky interview on automation and the structure of society, and find it highly relevant today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_x0Y3FqkEI

I also enjoyed the documentary Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, which can be found on torrent sites.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Power_Mixtape_1967...
Power consumption is going down with each gen and is big cost driver. Also heat dissipation in data centers is costly. Gotta consider TCO in these cases.
Greenhouses solve the problem of water while still using the sun. Peri-urban greenhouses also save on transportation costs while only being mildly more expensive in terms of land costs. As cities become more dense, former sprawl can be repurposed into local agricultural land.
one of his other works, rather. there's a lot, including TMI,[0] MT,[1] and FCACL[2] for instance, and I've forgotten some others.

0. The Mind's I

1. Metamagical Themas

2. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
An E-2 also might be an option if the U.S. company is majority Turkish owned. We've done this for a number of Turkish entrepreneurs/companies.
I don't think you read the article in full.

First regarding the phone number Krebs at least speculates that since he didn't know what button to press for + maybe other callers pressed some button other than 0 (which maps to '+') which he claims all went to businesses callers would not want to have called intentionally.

Second regarding the website, towards the end of the article support for the rewards program claims that the website has not been published yet or is at least not finished.
My point is the ease of abuse. None of us have used it or seen any evidence of abuse via their platform - we shouldn’t judge something before it’s had a chance to prove itself.

That said - I absolutely totally agree with your sentiment about those abusing the system. 100%. But, UpCall (likely) isn’t them.
I will say that a front-end focused framework that even acknowledges the existence of a backend is refreshing. And this seems to be a framework in the classic sense - a complete solution to deliver a particular type of app, rather than a library that handles one aspect for you.

That's not everyone's cup of tea, but it is an area that doesn't have a lot of attention in modern JS libraries.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/dont...
Navigating Big Data’s Fake News Problem
And ask what they're paying. When an employer says they can't find anyone qualified, it's usually because they're not willing to pay enough. There is always someone qualified.
This is bad statistics. If your only evaluation of an employee is their resume or work history then you've already failed, regardless of what it is. You need to personally evaluate their work history. If you have knowledge of the work environments at different places then that might help you evaluate whether someone is truthful about their reasons for having short stints. If you don't then you'll have to use your judgment of their technical skill, interpersonal skills, etc. (all the stuff you get from the in person interview) to make that determination.

Ultimately, the resume is a very weak form of recommendation for or against any particular individual, in my opinion. I've seen people with very strong resumes who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. I've seen people with patchy or "weird" resumes, no CS degree, sometimes no college degree whatsoever who were top tier developers worth their weight in gold. Your screening and interview process needs to be good enough to be able to provide a reasonably trustworthy result even without a resume, if it's not then it's a failure. If it is, then it's comparably easy to make a decision on someone with lots of short stints.

Also, I find this whole discussion a bit odd in a couple ways. For a lot of big companies (like Amazon and Google) the average tenure is only about 1 year, and people here are drawing attention to 1 year as some sort of red flag duration, when in reality it's super common for a lot of devs at a lot of companies. Another is that I don't see people being concerned about overly long periods of employment at the same place. To me that's potentially a red flag too because it might indicate someone doesn't have the sort of job prospects necessary to get hired elsewhere. Though, again, you do need to always rely first and foremost on the in person interview.

Someone's resume might raise questions but it's unprofessional to fill those questions in with prejudices, you need to answer those questions with data from phone screens, homework assignments, in person interviews, etc.
> Safe and unsafe is not a binary.

You could make it a reasonable binary if you define unsafe as "has known bugs that could lead to deaths", which is what the top comment was doing. Not sure if any already-in-use planes satisfy that criterion though.
1) Thanks again for doing these threads, so helpful in a sea of so much uncertainty.

2) I’m currently on a O1 (that you actually helped get), do you know if in post-Trump era re-petitioning to change employers (or extending at the same employer) has got much stricter?

3) As I understand it, O1 can’t lead tho a green card, if I’m interested in that is there anything else I can do currently?

Thanks again so much!
Someone at Boeing or GE -- do the right thing and leak the bug details.
So we can't talk on here about how we have a President now that sees fit to strip away people's citizenship?

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/uscis-starting-denaturaliz...

We can't talk about how he's rolling back promises to soldiers to score political points?

https://apnews.com/amp/38334c4d061e493fb108bd975b5a1a5d

How his DHS is conveniently losing documentation on children they've forcibly separated from their parents?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/us/migrant-children-chaos...

Why do we see ourselves as separate from this conversation? Are we not people living with this? Seeing this happen to our neighbors? The people that serve and make our food?
We haven't yet developed a full set of best practices around i18n, but the SSR/SEO stuff comes for free with the Sapper model. See https://github.com/sveltejs/realworld for an auth example - better and more self-explanatory ones to come (project is still in early stages)
Ohhhhhhh that's pretty cool!

Just looking through the list here though, that's going to dump out the list of all of the installed packages, not just the ones I've requested explicitly I think. That's the part that the App Store gets really right. I still want all of the dependencies for the packages that are getting installed, but a way shorter list of "these are the things you've explicitly asked for"

It seems like that is actually inside Apt somewhere too... since it does keep track of packages to auto-remove when their reverse dependencies go away.
> You rolled the dice, it didn't work out.

> The bigger question in my mind is why you got into so many situations with failing startups- were they doomed to fail and you just didn't have the business sense to see that?

I think you answered that yourself in the prior paragraph. Joining a company is like rolling the dice. As an employee, you generally have no idea which ones will succeed and which ones will fail. You pick a horse and hitch to it. I look back to my friends in undergrad. We were about as smart and hard working as each other, but comparatively where we are in our careers today seems largely based on how lucky we got in picking which companies to work for.
Yes, but limited - via an O-1, H-1B, or E-1/E-2.
Not familiar with the political situation in Uganda, but if that's the case, then framing this as a tax on "Over The Top" services (and including things like Skype in the restriction) is mainly about finding a plausible excuse for effectively censoring access to uncontrolled, peer-to-peer communication?

Sounds like the despots and the profiteers are aligned. Good luck, Uganda. :(
>"Rust basically has a carbon copy of all of its features"

Might you have any links or resources where I could read about the similarities between the two?
Yes. Remaining with my sponsoring employer. Thanks for the clarification.
They're not in bed with the FBI, but they are in bed with the NSA, hence their participation in the PRISM program.

The US government is big enough that it shouldn't really be thought of as a monolithic entity most of the time.
Building a Fuzzy Emoji Finder
> I wouldn't trust Mozilla's guarantees without actual contractual language...

Then go read the fine print:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/firefox-pioneer/...

But more importantly understand that this probably isn't for everybody. I think it's a fair guess to say they just want a small population, not something in the millions.
Wait do they not own the domain? Or they own the domain and the registrar's parked page is full of scams?
Excellent point and something I sometimes forget to mention. We have a lot of clients who've obtained a green card this way.
> "The thing that nobody told me is that OCaml’s runtime cannot do two things at once. It has a Python-style GIL."

That's the reason I kick-started a crowd sourcing effort to collect a table of such basic facts among compiled "systems" languages:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BAiJR026ih1U8HoRw__n...

(There's still a lot of gaps in there which you are welcome to help fill out)
In this case, the reason that Uganda is taxing social media is to stop people from criticizing the government. Taxes can be a great tool for censorship.
So instead of having someone pay more for what is a scarce resource lets just reverse inflation? I'm not seeing how that is easier.
This was one of the ways we found out my wife had a brain tumor. :-(
> You are the reason I keep a few pieces of esoteric code in my interview notebook. I'll gladly answer yours as long as you can answer mine.

I don't see those examples as esoteric at all. Ignorance of those basic things can result in all sorts of bugs. If I'm paying someone a six-figure salary, I want them to know those things. But that's just me.
Watch something you normally wouldn't watch if you had a choice but might find interesting. It's a good way to force yourself out of your comfort zone.
Writing correct code that has all edge-cases in mind is not very intuitive.

Teaching people to keep this in mind is a hard problem.
No, you are not barred but we should talk because the issue is a complicated one.
Hey Peter, I'm a US company incorporated in WA with a single US employee (me). We're thinking of hiring a recent STEM degree graduate from a local university. They are authorized to work under OPT, but I worry that the current environment would make it difficult for both of us. Am I right to worry or should we go ahead with making the offer?
Hi Peter,

Fully agree with @ajiang -- Thanks a lot for taking the time.

outside of YC and start-up specific immigration matters, do you handle non-YC/start-up cases?

Thank you.
>It reminds me of a simpler time. Not fields and football in the street, but when the fact of being online was a straightforward joy, as opposed to a warzone of heartbreaking news, mass misanthropy and weaponised geekery.

Why does this resonate with me so much?
I don't unfortunately but anecdotally I've heard yes.
Awesome, we have full employment, which means the economy is doing really well, right? Which translates into average people being prosperous and feeling like they're doing well, right? ...... Right?
Awesome, thanks for the clarifying items.

When going through this, I did test it and see that the upgrade appeared to work, until I think it was 3.3 where it would panic, but didn't want to rely on the undefined / untested behaviour, even if it seemed to work in a lab. The interview was long, so as we were cutting it down I think this aspect got lost.

And thanks for the hard work on etcd.
Just wait until you see Julia's unicode input - you can use pretty emojis instead of ugly "Y%#$ and lower_UPPER_CamelCase"!
What is your country of nationality?
Domestic violence was so absolute norm that there was a saying "Бьёт – значит любит", "he beats, means he loves". Rapes, domestic and not. So many of them. Corruption related crimes. Everywhere. Education, Health, Finance, you name it. There was not a single sector in the country that was not affected by corruption.

Also, don't forget that USSR is not only Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev and few other big cities. Rural USSR was very poor, and full of all sorts of crimes. Life in SU was not rosy as they might have tried to describe.

Edit: Formatting.
Hi there Peter, I'm a Canadian citizen currently residing in Canada. I would like to incorporate a US startup (Delaware C Corp I guess.) I don't have any familial ties to the US, but my business partner is a US citizen. What are my options for incorporation in the US? And what considerations should I be concerning myself with? I would have controlling ownership of the company ideally.

Thanks for your time!
I know, I couldn't resist. ;)
I wholeheartedly agree with the "similar looking domains" thing. They should just use a subdomain.

If I'm used to visiting "capitalone.com" - and the site to activate a new card is something like "activatecapitalone.com" - that seems sketchy. It should be capitalone.com/activate or activate.capitalone.com -- I tend to simply avoid sketchy sites even if they appear to be from official sources.
Or they can buy the 787-10 with the Rolls Royce engine that is already certified. (Check out the article!)

In this case, the problem is with the engine, not with the plane, and the alternative engine is already approved and in service.
As a general rule, a degree isn't required for many visas, including a B-1 business visitor visa.
Because most companies aren’t just looking for “developers”. They are looking for developers who know “X”. The companies that are willing to hire someone who is not a perfect fit are going to usually pay a lot less.
Semiconductors are fairly unique in this regard- power consumption has been going down so quickly for so long, it can often be both uneconomical and environmentally unfriendly to continue to operate older hardware.
Then why do you use a Windows laptop? Get a Chromebook, or something else designed for people who don't actually want a personal computer.