skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to be able to prove who you are, but you don't often need to do so.

I have been checked by police on a train from Denmark to Germany; the guy they arrested (or at least, led away) looked a bit like me. They only checked the two of us - a proportionate check, which is allowed by the Schengen rules.

It could be the same on a plane, except presumably they can check when the boarding pass is scanned at security.

I do not normally show a passport travelling from Denmark to Germany, by train or plane.
I'm one hour outside the city, nearly rural burbs surrounded by farms. Parking ticket junta knows no bounds my friend.

Also your logic is a bit scary. "I'm tired of seeing extra-judicial killings." "Sounds like you're just tired of living in Manila"
What do you think HR is abbreviation for?
From the many statistics I saw usually the breaking point is the middle to end of eighties. I'm thinking the fall of Soviet Union had a large impact on the middle class Americans. Basically the middle class was discarded as something that served its purpose as a shield from communism.
If a given business is forbidden from discriminating for any aspect of their potential customer's life, then this rule has to be applied across the board, regardless of what you happen to approve or disapprove of.
Yeah I agree with this but the problem is that it exists, period. It's extortion. If left unchecked, they'll just raise the price of the fine.

That's why a speeding ticket used to be $25 in North Dakota with no court date, compared to $400 in NY with a mandatory court date and points without reaching a plea.
Unfortunately, yes. We are just replaceable cogs.
In the 1 to 350 equation where was the line where things turned south and what were some of the qualities that differentiated the good experience as a manager and the not so good?
A non-trivial amount of redwood is still cut down, including in the Bay Area. This mill near Santa Cruz processes ~20 million board feet a year: https://bigcreeklumber.com/
That's fantastic. I'll see what I can find. UBI tops the list of good things humans could do for one another in my mind. Public school, democracy, universal health care, and now universal basic income... what's next? Sometimes it's hard to remember that we do do nice things for each other every now and then.
Here's my favorite talk on how to test, pin, and fix broken, weird, and ugly legacy code.

It's called "Therapeutic Refactoring" by Katrina Owen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dlF0kcThQ
Their github repo codebase is too unreadable to be useful. Some of worst software engineering out there. The irony of some org trying to push openness but giving near unusable code.
A great project. Here is more info:

https://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/J...

The conclusion is as follows:

- Serialization may cause significant bottlenecks in big data frameworks

- Prevents effective deployment of accelerators in some cases

- Apache Arrow can help to alleviate bottlenecks

- We created an FPGA interface generation framework for Arrow

- Fletcher works with SNAP
It's called "Face to face"
Isn't this model pretty much how Costa Rican preserved rainforests were funded?

I get the sovereign state thing, but there are models of engagement, flawed, which are like this. My limited understanding is that its not enough to buy the land: you have to defend it from predation by outsiders/others.
Yep. That realization is a big part of what led to serious changes in habits and thinking about Slack. The stats now are around 1/2 of what they were, and that's in a different role as a team lead rather than a full-time remote engineer.

Given my communication style — basically a line per sentence and (for better or worse, probably worse) the byproduct of IRC — that 196/day average was likely more along the lines of 10 to 15 conversations per day. Probably some number less than half were truly wasted; they were still work-relevant, but the randomization is the concerning part.
Love that you’re sharing your mistakes. Link to archive where I can see some past ones?
David Graeber talks a lot about this.

What would you think would help? I personally feel like more voluntary collectives could help protect people from these things, and help make life more worth living.

What do you think?
What about the rise of antibiotics resistant bacteria, superbugs... etc. Everyone is sounding alarm on that, but factually how many preventable deaths it caused?
Part two is here:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/24-core-cpu-and...
Lack of sense of purpose
Everything is expensive and the junkies are everywhere and the town government is inefficient and semi-corrupt and yeah it just all around sucks unless you are a multi-millionaire and can pay your way through all of this and set up your own private castle in the woods.

Tbh I pay like $650 to rent a room in a reasonably quiet town and I just spend my time meditating and doing free hobbies outside of work.

The most liberated I ever felt was basically living on a mountain in Chile at 14,000 feet for a week but then you run out of food and water and the -10c nights are pretty bone chilling and you start to wonder why you had to go to such a remote and physically demanding place to feel unencumbered by society for a moment
Sleep. Sleep is a big one.
Sequoia Sempervirons, the coastal redwood, is good wood and naturally weather resistant. It is still logged.

Sequoia Gigantis, on the western slope of the mid Sierra, is brittle and not very practical to log.

(please pardon my Latin spelling. English spelling gives me a rough time....)
I apologize, but I don’t understand your question. Can you clarify?
I'm shocked it's not caused by all the crappy diet that is still so mainstream: sugary foods, government food pyramid made by lobbyists, meat overdose, etc.
Since maybe others will be looking for it too: the link above is for the live show - for the recording of the match (which is over) there's a link on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2EQCE9LRXE
> all of the fees and carry associated with the fund will be donated to non-profit organizations that enable African Americans to enter the technology industry.

if i were a founder, why wouldn't i be bothered by this? if i'm going to be working monomaniacally to make the a16z LPs rich, i want to be making the GPs rich too. if they're funding me out of the CLF, they won't be getting rich so they won't want to help out as much.
> Brunelleschi built a wooden and brick model of his plan but deliberately left out crucial details and left no comprehensive blueprints so his rivals could not steal his secrets.

This sentence makes me so angry. If you’re going to come up with a great new way of doing something then the worst thing you could do is to keep it a secret so it’s impossible to figure out how it works and it ends up forgotten.
medium level = 2 yrs experience? with degree?

i have news for you, it’s like this at all companies.

you can’t fix it. it grew that way from the people there. you need to outnumber them 2:1 to make headway.

grin and bear it. fix what you can along the way. trust me, the next guy will consider your code garbage. no matter how good it is!
Decades of “trickle down economics” have robbed from the vast majority and given to the tiny, select few.
I find it more depressing reading people like yourself who think that black people want the same things as everyone else. Maybe most black people don't want to be scientists or programmers? Maybe most of them want to be sports stars?

I say this an Australian and here we don't just expect aboriginals to stop hanging out in the bush and become a programmer. If that's what they want to do with their life, living the traditions of their parents that is admirable. To be honest I see it as disempowering to claim they aren't achieving much because they aren't enough aboriginal scientists or CEOs.

Why should it be the monolithic white culture that gets to decide what for blacks for success is?
That's not actually true in my situation. My visa requires that I not hold a Mexican job. As long as I hold a job in another country and pay taxes in that country, I owe zero taxes to the Mexican government.
I'm just saying it doesn't have to be emotionally painfull. I do my work as best as I can, regardless the outcome.
The wealthy of the world are buying up houses.

And why not?

They will be great investments for the next few decades.

Their will always be poor/middle class individuals that need a room, especially in the desirable realestate areas.

I'm almost ready to go back to Bush's liberal policy on banks, and mortgages.

Right now, I have the house to my right is empty, supposedly owed by a Chinese guy who supposedly hasn't even been in the home physically. He bought it from China.

The house to the left was just bought by a tech worker. A millionaire dollar house he uses on the weekend. (I'm glad he's not there all week, but it doesn't seem fair. A loud, passive aggressive guy at that. The guy moves in, and knocks on my door. He said, he like to do Google searches on his new neighbors. Yea, I was beyond astonished. A few years ago, I might have turned the fat guy upside down, but age has caught up with me.)

Across the street, an industrious little dude, befriended a very old, lonely lady. She ended up leaving him the house. Her kids got nothing. He's renting out five rooms for over $1700-2200/month--each room.

This is the Bay Area, but it just doesn't feel right.
First as tragedy, then as farce, or something like that. If the banks are right about what they've been saying recently, Warren is going to be elected against the threat of seizure once the recession hits its stride.
Where’s the “thwart”? It’s open ocean between Hawaii and Mexico. I don’t know of any political force to stop development regardless.
The language survey class I took as part of my CSci degree, had us use Lisp on a MicroVAX. The resources that Lisp required versus the machine we were running it on made it very much like programing a batch system. The terminals were slow when Lisp was running. It was so bad we typed our programs out on a PC and ftp'd it up to the VAX and then loaded it, check if we got the syntax right, run it, and repeat. The whole interactive lesson was lost on us since it would take forever to do anything. The only good that came out of it was winning enough money at poker played in the lab to pay for pizza that weekend.
I hope some day the most corrupt and restrictive people and businesses in society just leave us alone and find some other profitable thing to do.

A mafia is defined as a group of people who create a problem and then ask victims to pay for protection from that problem.

End the mafias in this world and we'll have a lot more happiness and entrepreneurship
How about toxic chemicals that make us sick?

https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/diabetes-time-to-resort-to-plas...
Yep, other languages (Chinese for example) don't see it as odd if you have to use the same word repeatedly --people don't feel pressure to use synonyms to say the same thing or elaborate on a given topic. Wish more writers of English felt the same way.
Identify what the thing does and if it does them poorly replace the thing. If you're thing does too many things break it into smaller pieces that do things individually. Repeat.
The basics of stereo depth vision
This is such an interesting approach. I’ve read about this at Pivotal, and it’s interesting to see how it’s described on their blog vs Glassdoor. I greatly enjoy working with another engineer to solve an especially tricky problem, but only pair programming seems like it would be exhausting.

What do you like and dislike about it?
Start writing tests, change no production code. You need to understand how it works (by reverse engineering its behavior with tests you’ll learn this) and you need to verify your changes don’t accidentally change existing behavior unless the existing behavior is verifiably wrong, and hey, you may find instances of this too, but don’t start making changes until you have a suite of tests that can spot behavior changes. There are times when things that appear to be bugs are actually weird features that the business needs to function. Sometimes cruft is actually a bug fix.

Start with high level integration tests of the most critical business processes. Then, work your way down to frequently used functions/classes/modules. After the whole thing is covered you can start cleaning/repairing, and I’d suggest doing so incrementally/as you’re adding new other features (make sure all new features come with tests).
I’m more worried about the Lesters.

https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...
That is how I play it too. These systems will not end well in my opinion.

Someone above mentioned due process. I second that. What we have right now is no where near robust enough.

So, I will have a friendly conversation with someone. The human means, ways, methods work well and are time tested, production proven.

5 stars, unless it is really bad, and they do not have some cause for that being the case.

Honestly, the income is thin, many of these people are working their asses off, and is that not harsh enough?

Not much to like in all of it.
Kinda cute, but that's a giiiiant stretch of metaphor to enforce the exact shape of the periodic table on a domain whose first principles have little similarity to the principles that drive the patterns of behavior in the elements.
I would definitely not put weed in the same category as lsd or shrooms at all.
Rewrites are riskier when requirements need to be reverse engineered from the current solution, or if requirements are complex. When requirements are simple, rewriting should be simple.

This should at least give you the opportunity to contain technical debt to the most complex requirements.

To say "everything is complex therefore we cannot rewrite anything" is pretty implausible and mediocre.
I use https://travelingmailbox.com. They're great. Not super modern and hip, but certainly functional and affordable.

My employer doesn't have to pay Mexican taxes. I don't even have to pay Mexican taxes. They do US taxes just like for everybody else because my bank account is in the States and I'm an American.

I use Skype and Google Voice. I can give out a US phone number and receive calls just as though I were in the US.

It's just so very very frustrating.
15MPH over in Seattle will run you $159 iirc, with the option of a deferment every 7 years. Or, they'll often bump it down to ~$50 if you go to the pre-trial meeting. No mandatory court though!
Cloud: just did a quick calculation for AWS. 75 PB (= 150GB * 500,000) of storage costs $300,000 on AWS Glacier, and $1.57mil on S3 Standard. And that's before accounting for any read/write costs.

Wow.
Thanks for providing more details.
> with questionable returned merchandise restocking policies

Heh, I got an mp3 player new from Fry's once.

It came with a large number of songs.
> they will have a bad time trying to do the same is either confusing or disingenuous depending on how charitable you want to be.

How? For me the interpretation is straightforward: if you create OSS in the hopes of making money from it, you might succeed but the odds are overwhelmingly against you.

Ultimately, the only success guaranteed when you open source a piece of code is the fact that you... Open sourced a piece of code. There's now a new library/tool/application out in the world for everyone to see.

That's how I interpreted the other comment, and I wasn't even too charitable.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/03/19/chick-f...

Anti gay marriage
Y'konw, honestly, the time-zone thing I understand. If you're looking for people to cover specific shift work for incoming tickets or events or whatever, that makes sense. Just like on-prem jobs.

But I'm talking about totally asynchronous work that's just an assignment given to you, and you turn it in completed later.
Things I Achieved by Leaving Social Networking Sites for a Month
The first piece of AI-generated art to come to auction
A Lazy List Implementation in Squeak/Smalltalk [pdf]
The whole Meltdown/Spectre thing also contributed greatly to reducing timer precision.
I don't know. Sounds like the ratings might just be working.
As a millennial, the idea of paying your way through college on $3.05/hr is mind blowing
Not a large one.
I agree. I feel like the only way we can rid ourselves of those people is by building a system where those people cannot benefit. A challenge worth taking on, I think.
Yes, SNRI/SSRI's can precipitate panic attacks. And I agree aerobic activity of any sort can be very effective for controlling stress/anxiety and even depression. The important thing is to find some things that work for you and do them.
I've never thought about requesting to be transferred as a contractor. That would mean I would have to pay my own taxes as in the self-employment situation.

As was the case for my termination a few months ago, I actually WAS working as a contractor, so that's not 100% foolproof.

I actually just recently heard about a guy who moved here. He told his boss, and his boss's boss, who were both fine with it. Then when he told HR they were like "no way, dude." But then both bosses told him "just tell HR you're moving to Florida." LOL!
WordPress is a steaming pile of dung in a dumpster fire. I have not touched a codebase which has brought me more turmoil.

I hope to never touch it again.

If I had to start a new website I’d likely use craft or Jekyll+netlify+netlify CMS or forestry
Zero knowledge proofs come to mind. You could prove you voted for one of a set of people without saying which one
Australia was one of the few countries that reversed the trend. I think Australia cities are great, for some reason everyone things they need a huge house with a block of land and a car. And they can't figure out why their life sucks.
There really is just two things that kill Americans: heart disease and cancer [1]. Despite what you hear, it isn't terrorists, depression, tickets or sharks.

IMHO. Heart disease is related to salt intake and lack of exercise. Cancer is related to a dna gamble on each cell split (the more you intake sugars & fat the better odds these deformed cells have * age). So. Basically stop eating. Fast. Give your heart a break from salt - let those deformed cells die.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

[2] Fat monkey vs skinny monkey

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
This is easy to hate on, and certainly ethically dubious....but man do I love it.
I'm okay with this. They are paying me because the work isn't something that I'd do in my free time. I'm okay knowing that others can do my job as well as I can.

Its not art, it's a job. (to me)
I just checked and Chrome on recent Android offers it.

I just pinned a few sites I use.
I’ve lived in Vancouver for 17 years and while there is no direct fire threat in the city, the smoke in the area has never been this bad and for such an extended period of time. Rain in the forecast for this weekend (fingers crossed).
This just sounds like a really expensive pencil if all it does it print it out on paper.
I think there is too much hubris in that opinion. Before the recent election there was very little evidence of the vote being gamed by foreign powers. But if there had been proactive safeguards in place, the attempt could have been nipped in the bud.
I'm a born, bred, red-blooded American, dude. I've only been living in Mexico for 3 years. My English is spectacular.

I'm even from Alabama and don't have an accent.

The risk of delivering or not shouldn't come from my geographic location. That should be susses out in the interview process or probation period.
Augur is fintech. If it takes off, Wall Street is really going to care.
There's a lot of good advice here, but I'll add one thing. Learn the codebase really really well. Figure out where the seriously bad problems are. Figure out why the codebase is this bad, ideally from the original developers (not in an accusatory fashion, try to frame it as learning from them). Figure out the context of the bad code, otherwise you might end up repeating it. Write up notes and sketches and plans of the bad code.

Then, isolate a section that is practically reeking. Maybe it's even so bad that it's leaked into the user experience. It has to be a super small part of the codebase though. Plan out the refactor, making sure to make it backwards compatible (that means no regressions, no changes to internal interfaces, etc.). Start the refactor, then when you reach about the 70% mark (which will be more like the 30% mark considering regressions and stuff), try to pitch the refactor. But don't pitch it as a refactor. Figure out any problem that the user or manager is having, whether it's slowness, crashing, etc. and then slide in your refactor as the solution. Like hiding spinach in brownies. If there aren't any problems, well, then maybe the codebase isn't that bad.

And remember, 50% good code and 100% done is better than 100% good code and 50% finished when it comes to refactors.
> This is why I always get very frustrated with the particular kind of pseudo-libertarian who blithely asserts that artists and writers don't need to be fairly compensated for their work

Who gets to determine what is “fair compensation” and to whom?
"obviously capitalist"? It may be a market economy, but it's certainly not capitalist. Proceeds of the investment of capital are not free to be distributed amongst the investors. Formation of enterprise is not free and voluntary. Exchange rates are not set by the market. Money transactions are strictly controlled. Businesses are not allowed to hold funds in forex. The list goes on and on. I'm not sure you are aware of how business is done in China, you may just be seeing lots of business and then be assuming it must be capitalism.
Meta reviews would be great, but are expensive due to having to basically repeat an experience.
Childbirth in Canada
But if "protecting US jobs" means giving jobs to US Passport holders, THAT'S ME! If it's protecting US tax income, THAT'S ME TOO!
Huh. I'd always considered the definition of disposable income as the income that I would literally consider to be disposable, e.g. the money left over after I've covered everything I need (including housing, clothing, food and taxes) that I could set on fire and not change my current condition.

Per the wikipedia article of disposable income, I could afford a Ferrari (on a payment plan), but I would generally say I don't have the disposable income to afford a Ferrari because I still have to pay rent and feed myself.

Obviously the article defines that as discretionary income, I've always considered them to be equivalent terms.
Dammnnnn Seattle the land of speeding protections!!

Doing 72 in a 55 (17mph over limit) came with a sticker price of $400 fine, 6 points on the license, plead guilty by mail or in person pre-trial hearing in the absolute middle of nowhere in NY. Plea bargained to $225 "parking violation" that went straight to the town's budget. Sickening considering most roads in MA have a 70 mph speed limit
Been through this in one of the largest car dealer companies in the world. Get them to buy third party components and slowly replace existing ones. Implement new features inside new, bugless, tested environments. Try moving sql to procedures and table functions. Add missing features like udp syslog logging, CI/CD, etc. That will increase developer happiness.