skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a misrepresentation.

Human rights activists, lawyers, etc, who oppose the occupation are welcomed into the West Bank. I've experienced that first hand.

The violence comes from the occupation forces - settlers, army, blockades, economic and politican control...

I've been told by so many fellow Israelis this myth about 'taking the wrong turn' in the West Bank, and, frankly it's a myth that hides the real problem, which is the occupation.

I had a similar icecream in Istanbul, and it was delicious. Thank to the OP for sharing.
Can't fail to link the classic work with nice pictures, explaining apparently the same thing: https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...

(The above is the first in a series of 3 posts, IIRC, including a post on effective beating of procrastination.)
lol https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/48d710e2cb4c462c7b2...
To my modern sensibilities, lynching is not a different crime than murder. Why would a separate law be needed to address it?
What are your plans with respect to open source? I’d love to contribute to the effort!
I once said "I get paid twice as much as a junior engineer, but I can do things two junior engineers can't do".
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chrome isn't open source, is it?

I'd be surprised if you found the red/yellow/green logo image in chromium
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> When I imagine a 60s artist, I tend to forget how young they achieved their stardom.

Indeed. What surprised me wasn't that she hadn't already died but that she was much younger than I thought. I thought she was in her late 80s, not 76.

She's actually a year younger than my dad, which I don't think I ever realized.
Also popular as "Maraş Ice Cream" in Turkey:

https://www.google.de/search?q=mara%C5%9F+dondurmas%C4%B1&tb...

It is of middle-east origin, as far as I can tell. It also comes with its traditional show, as you can see in the videos.
Paris is already more dense than Hong Kong and Tokyo
We use Leo to organize about 1000 puppet modules managing about 500 linux systems (50/50 real/virtual), of which 60% are "unique", a.k.a., pets, not cattle. Geppetto in Eclipse is the closest thing, but Geppetto only helps with puppet modules, not puppet nodes (hosts).

The good: Leo provides rapid access to understanding the complexity.

The bad: Leo XML file format is collaboration hostile, since resolving git conflicts in its multi-megabyte XML file is out of the question.

The ugly: I've got perl code to translate the XML file to and from a directory of several thousand small files, one per Leo node, and far more git-conflict friendly.

The worst: the version of Leo on which we're stuck used "sentinels" - specially formatted comments - to keep Leo's structure of the file in sync with external changes to the file. Never use that: use a new version of Leo and use its @clean format, which doesn't use sentinels. Not only are sentinels offensive to look at in the managed file, this version of Leo occasionally gets confused and tries to use "//" for puppet comments instead of "#". (Yes, some of what puppet (and thus Leo) is managing is php.) But we're stuck with this version of Leo, because when newer versions of Leo read our Leo XML file, many of the nodes lose their content, namely, a catastrophic lack of backward compatibility. It would take me at least a month of getting nothing else done to re-ingest our puppet configuration into a newer Leo.
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Failure to Modernize Energy Infrastructure Is Crippling American State Economies
What is so wrong with not changing companies? I ask for a friend who has worked on the same product for over 10 years, although the company has been bought sold a few times.

This "friend" found that any job offers he got always resulted in a pay-grade drop (normally for startups), or working with boring technologies that would not advance his personal knowledge.

--

I know for a fact that this has hurt me with big companies like Google when interviewing there, the last interview resulted in them flat out telling me I have not worked at enough companies.

I personally think that is unfair, as I don't think you know what you have done good or bad at a company if you only stay there for 2 years. I did some checking and found that many software engineer seem to have a chain of companies they worked for 2 or less years. And I could not help to think they have no way of really knowing if the things you did were good or bad in the long run.

Anyways, just wondering what others thoughts are on work patterns, and their experiences.
The average salary in SF is 129K per year. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...

100k is not unreasonable for a new grad.
I don't have an undergraduate degree in CS or engineering and was accepted with about 5 years of software development experience.

If you're saying that you think people should be able to attend a graduate degree program without an undergraduate degree, then that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. There is a long established precedent that (formal, possibly legal requirements, too?) you must have an undergraduate degree to take the next step in your education.

You either want the formal education or don't -- if you do, then you have to meet the pretty standard requirements.
"all the dull tasks"

Now that is how you advertise at me. I've seen more "minimal flexible generic configurable simple performant powerful easy extensible non-bloated" libraries than I can shake a stick at. But "this helps with the dull stuff"... that's a sales pitch I can get behind!

(A constructive hint to those describing their libraries: At this point, use of pretty much any of those words in your summary sentence is a massive negative to me. They are of null content, and you just burned the most valuable marketing space you had on these null-content words. Everybody says that about their libraries. Tell me what it does in the summary. If you really want to make the point for one of those words, do it later in the documentation, because if your summary sounds like you copy/pasted my quoted bit above, I'm not even going to read your extended documentation. And when you do, provide evidence; if you're "performant", show me competitive benchmarks. I get that they're going to be biased, but it at least shows me what's important. If you're "simple" show me in the sample code. Etc.)
> Happy to answer questions about Wayland if anyone has some!

OK then! Hopefully this isn't too off topic.

How should I write an application that does smooth animation in Wayland? I'd like to have a main loop like this:

while (1) {
DrawStuffIntoAPrivateBitmap();
GiveBitmapToTheCompositor();
WaitUntilNextFrameNeeded();
// This loop should iterate at 60 Hz or whatever the monitor's frame rate is.
}

Does that seem like a reasonable approach? I've searched for this info before and got nowhere. Does Wayland even have a mechanism to allow the compositor to tell the application that it is time to draw another frame? If I give the compositor a bitmap every 60th of a second, to I get any guarantee it will display it at the right time?

An application I have in mind is smooth scrolling in a text editor. I have a mild preference for doing the private bitmap update on the CPU rather than the graphics card for various reasons.
>You had to ask me for help on what for loops and import statements are. I had to give her a crash course on running Python code and using Git. This girl was fast-tracked to an offer on the Watson team. None of the IBM employees understood what she was doing because there were literally zero technical people in the loop - it just sounded/looked cool so her plagiarism went unnoticed.

It's going to be brutal when she has moved out there, spent a ton of time and money to relocate herself, and then gets fired for being unable to do the job she was hired for.

And it'll be all her own fault.
"The screening interview requires:

A webcam with a clear view of you and your room
Granting a tool (admin) access to your computer to make sure you don't cheat

which alone constitute a massive breach of privacy, in my opinion."

This is the sort of thing that might be alright when IBM does it, but absolutely should not be normalised because you can't trust what people are going to do with that admin access and how it might feed into the hiring process.

> "If you need literally any [disability] accommodation, You won't be getting it"

Again, if this isn't actually discriminatory it's certainly something that shouldn't be normalised.
Abstractions like map and filter that have decades of use and countless pages of research behind them are not the wrong abstraction. You are more likely to get the wrong abstraction by forcing programmers to create their own abstractions instead of letting them use well-known ones that have been refined over many years.
Probably goes back to where the tree got its name, the Greek word, mastikhan, which means grind your teeth, and is the root for the English word masticate.
> does that make Opera and Safari clones of Chrome?

Umm, Webkit spun out of Safari, so that would make Chrome the "clone" of Safari.

Which is rather your point. Chrome has made a lot of changes to Webkit over the years, and these days appears to be putting more effort into it than Apple is.
> It can be perfectly appropriate to punish people for making poor choices while at the same time helping them overcome some of the natural consequences of those choices.

Then we are still not talking about the same kind of punishment. I refer more to "they did this to themselves and have it coming" types of attitudes, of the self-serving moral outrage kind[0]. Which is not the kind of "tough love" you are talking about.

[0] http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/01/moral-outrage-is-self-serv...
As your own link shows, the main problem with condoms is people failing to use them properly (the 98% figure given for proper usage is actually one of the lower values I've seen for effectiveness in that case). Part of it is not putting them on right. The other part is much closer to one of the problems this app has: people getting caught in the moment and making an impulsive decision to proceed at least partially against the app/without a condom, then pull out (and either stop/apply a condom).
I'm always a little skeptical of someone's report on their competition under high-pressure circumstances.
"All procrastination is delay, but not all delay is procrastination"

Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, was an amazing audio book, where the author mentions that it's short so the audiobook itself does not become a tool of procrastination for the listener. :)

"Just Get Started" (step 1) is something I still tell myself.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079767-solving-the-pro...

The audiobook is on youtube (not sure if a legal copy), this link skips the 17 min intro. (link in the comments)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I6nGw2GeU0&t=1030s
That's great info - thank you for sharing your journey. It sounds like UPPP was on balance quite positive for you. I feel like its sort of a blunt instrument in solving a very common and widespread problem people have. It can do more damage than good. But good to see that its brought some benefits for you.
It isn't clear. Women are not 'oppressed', especially not in the tech industry. Far from it indeed. The only way I've seen the rules be different for women is that there are lots of events, funds, trainings and jobs specifically reserved just for women.

Given this long history, I would assume from the headline on this page that men are either not allowed to apply or are strongly discouraged from doing so (like a group of men turning up at a "women in tech" event would be)- and if that isn't the case then Stripe are surely giving a very misleading impression.
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Writing from scratch in Rust and using process per domain isolation from the very start can make things much more secure. But I doubt that is something that can be done under, say, 3 years.
> Huge scale and persistence of accidents.

This also affects the cost equation. One Chernobyl or Fukushima and nuclear is suddenly by far the most expensive source of energy, even more costly than the most expensive renewable sources.

Pre-Fukushima nuclear power in Japan was economical. Post-Fukushima Japan would have been better off building hundreds of billions of dollars worth of solar, wind, pumped hydro, and batteries, and building undersea cables to link its grid with neighboring countries. All that would have cost a lot more up front but amortized over 100 years including Fukushima it would have been a lot cheaper.
Yeah, look at these people, expecting to be paid their market value!

I mean, they're just engineers, right? They should be thankful for anything thrown their way, even if they'll never be able to afford a house or raise a family on it.

They should be working for the lowest comp possible, just like the founders, chief executives, and the VCs.

P.S. there was a NYT article posted here just a couple of days ago about how it's become incredibly easy to raise VC rounds of $100m+. There's a ton of money pouring into tech right now, and everyone is benefiting, from VCs to chief executives. Except engineers. We're not supposed to enjoy this success, I mean, all we do is build the products.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/technology/venture-capita...
They do that to the Central and Mountain timezones. Why would you be any different?

I should say, I treasure the time I've spent in the Boston area.
Source: http://yuanchuang.caijing.com.cn/2018/0816/4501631.shtml

Classic - he mentions not wanting to rip off state funds and government agencies multiple times. Thats exactly what he did though ;) I hope this isn't the last anyone ever hears from Chen Benfeng - "The special expert of the National Thousand Talents Program”.
How can you tell if someone is a lawyer, or pro settlement? Do you have to wear an armband?
I think that the case you're describing is the exact reason this requirement is important. Lacking credits in an undergraduate degree is a red flag -- why are you missing them? Why didn't you go back and make them up? If you're serious about a formal education, the lack of a few credits shouldn't hold you back.
I wonder if setting up a fresh, secure virtual machine and working out the incantations to forward your webcam and microphone devices to it are part of the test?
> Consensus democracies also have "kinder, gentler" traits: lower incarceration rates, less use of the death penalty, better care for the environment, more foreign aid work, and more welfare spending.

Uh, I'm not convinced it's working here, chief.

On the Convention count, as you can see, I find some logic in both explanations.
> My greatest fear is that I will emotionally injure my kids despite my unconditional love for them.

You will. We all scar our children in different ways. The best we can do is make those scars as shallow as possible.
Just wondering, do you mean the range of questions covered is too narrow? If "10% of interviewers" ask these kinds of questions, what would the other 90% of interviewers do. Other types of common data structures/algorithms, DS/A questions thought up by themselves, or something in entirely different directions?
Sad, but hn relevant?
Ah. See that's called the Mandela Effect. The next stage is for you to declare that your memories are evidence that you and everyone who also remembers what you do are right and everyone else is crazy. Your memories are infallible, what must have happened, obviously, is that you unknowingly were transported to an alternate dimension where things are wrong, like the Bearenstain Bears being spelled with an 'a' and not an 'e'. Definitely the most reasonable explanation given the facts at hand.

http://mandelaeffect.com/ for more obviously true stories of people traveling through alternate dimensions rather than just misremembering things.
Including RSUs I presume
I'm in the CS program and the rigor is definitely there. It's not pay-for-play at all, although I am not sure that's what you're suggesting.
Managers managing
>Does Wayland even have a mechanism to allow the compositor to tell the application that it is time to draw another frame?

Yes, Wayland will tell you when it's time for another frame.

>If I give the compositor a bitmap every 60th of a second, to I get any guarantee it will display it at the right time?

Basically you should wait for the compositor to tell you when it's time to draw the next frame, diff it from the time you drew the last frame, and smoothly animate over the difference.

If you don't want to draw on the GPU, what you can do is allocate a pixel buffer with wl_shm (shared memory). Then the compositor will read from this and presumably upload it to the GPU (with wlroots the GPU is always used, but you can probably convince it to use blitting instead with a custom renderer).

Check out my intro to writing Wayland clients article:

https://drewdevault.com/2017/06/10/Introduction-to-Wayland.h...

A friend of mine (and core contributor to wlroots) has written a dead-simple example client you can check out as well:

https://github.com/emersion/hello-wayland
KFC failed in Israel as the recipe without dairy didn't pan out and the franchise holders didn't want to run a non-Kosher restaurant while McDonalnd's didn't care.

KFC is hugely popular in the Arab world in general but fried chicken never really became popular in Israel with or without buttermilk.

Starbucks also failed in Israel since apparently the locals being used to actual coffee didn't not accept what they sold as coffee while "high-end" Israeli coffee chains like Aroma Coffee became hugely successful in Israel and expanded abroad.
treating addiction as a disease has brought us drugs like chantix (varenicline), among others. it is very profitable for them to first create an addiction, then offer the solution.

i agree that the drug companies will continue to profit from pitching addiction as a medical problem, and it is very true that preventing addiction is far easier than treating it.

regrettably, preventing addiction is not something our society is geared up for. if anything, we are in the mode of causing addictions for the purpose of profit -- whether by social media or by opiates. our society inflicts enormous pains on people and drives them to escapism via drugs as a result. the rat park experiment is very enlightening in this regard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

the treatments for depression are, unfortunately, a way of compensating for the deprived and stressful environment in which we live. it is this environment that i suspect is the root cause of the widespread prevalence of depression, though there is probably a sizable population of people who develop depression regardless of their environment. antidepressants are intended to help the latter group, but are used for both the former and the latter.

as we know, the antidepressants don't definitively solve any underlying neurobiological problem, though they may save a few lives and empower some people to change their life's circumstances and ultimately recover. is it better for someone to be reducing their pain using antidepressants rather than street drugs? certainly.

you mention ADHD, but i think your angle on it isn't exactly in the same bucket as depression. people with ADHD are at extremely high risk of addiction. i imagine that if we could reliably treat ADHD and increase awareness regarding the disorder's attendant comorbidities, we would be preventing many addictions before they could develop.
When do men unfairly benefit from things in the tech industry? Can you show something specific, that isn't a strong assumption of invisible discrimination on the basis of statistically differing outcomes?

Cuz I don't recall encountering any "men in tech" events, or investment funds that invest only in men, or efforts to encourage white boys to study computers.
Google Chrome isn't. Chromium is, but Chromium also tends to download 3rd party close-source blobs from online resources, like the one that turns on your microphone.
It should be noted that while IBM is a global company that shares a lot of processes across globe, this might not be something that is identical everywhere. It kind of shows valley-centrism of OP, or I guess of everyone working there.
Through years of reading articles about performance and productivity, I had kind of extracted those same conclusions and over time have given those recommendations to people around me with procrastination issues.

However, I had never read a short article that summarized the ideas in such a concise and well written form, very informative but at the same time very easy to read. So a big thank you to the author for this piece. I'll be linking it to several people.
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Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
She leaves an incredible legacy. Not just in her own work, but in all the musicians she inspired to find their own voice.
It is open source. The icon after a quick search: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/skia/resour.... Unsure if it's the one that's, say, put in the Windows app manifest. Also unsure if the repo contains all the Chrome resources, but I was under the impression that it did.
Do yourselves a favor and listen to “Get it Right”. 8 minutes of perfection.
Possibly that, but life experiences and environmental factors (stress at work, etc) play a huge role.
Dondurma just means "ice cream". What you mean is "Maraş Ice Cream" (Maraş Dondurması). It takes a lot of patience to get it from a traditional shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNhiv5FJ9Q
> Perhaps we can start treating addiction like a disease and not a moral failing?

My friend who died from heroine overdose.

Here is his story, my friend got banned from online forums. In his opinion, he was banned for posting political rants. And moderator told him, do not do this here. So, he felt is not accepted in the community and got addicited to heroine.

These days, some moderators think they are lords of the universe and ban anyone like a robot.

It's failure of the soceity in part of his personal failure.
CO2 per kWh focuses purely on the issue of attained performance of electricity production - which is the main matter for production technology to concentrate on.

Dividing by GDP flatters the view of wealthier nations, and GDP itself is not a real measure of wealth or benefit to self and others. The purely technical measure of CO2 per kWh avoids argument of who is most/least beneficial by examining where production is performing best.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-de...

$100k is fine for a new grad.
I call BS. His entire head was not submerged. He simply found a way to breathe through his ears.
The most likely answers are:

- she knew what one was, but had forgotten details of the syntax

- she was panicking (pressure makes people say ridiculous things)

- she knew perfectly well what it was but didn't interrupt his unsolicited explanation