skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> contract security personnel, (often African American) who have to live 100 miles away because they cannot afford to live near work. And when they return the next day, their workplace will have been cleaned and manicured by a contract landscaping company that is staffed by mostly LatinX individuals being paid minimum wage.

Isn't this more reflecting a lack of diversity in the security and landscaping industries than the tech industry?

Why are landscapers disproportionately Latin X? Do their hiring practices discriminate against non-Roman citizens?
> There are a lot of jobs... currently firewalled behind a general contracting company. That perversely misaligns the end employees motivations and the company motivations.

Would you mind elaborating on this point a bit? I have some notions of what you're suggesting, but I'd rather not assume.
I hate remote work. I want to go to an office and do work there and then when I leave I'm living the rest of my life.

I even rented myself an office when I was working solo for almost a year before hiring someone, just so I could have a desk, a file cabinet, a printer, and a real office environment to get work done. I lived alone. I still got up in the morning and went to the office, it was good for my productivity and mental health.

I feel that it's important to set up boundaries, or tasks and work will contaminate your personal spaces. I also think that it's just 100x better for communication to have everyone in the same room working together. Nothing beats verbal interpersonal communication.

With that said, I recognize that my opinion on this is 1) entirely subjective and 2) maybe because I'm old.
In a Democracy, one can not resign fundamental rights in a contract. Not in one you get to read before signing, and definitively not in one you can only read after signing.

You can agree to some punishment (like in an NDA). But if it's in a level that would destroy your life, it ought to be illegal again. And every time you agree for some punishment for exercising a fundamental right, you must gain something proportional to the right taken, otherwise it ought to be illegal again.

It's impossible to have a democracy if most of the population is slave due to some contractual clause.
The test under the CFAA is the opposite: there is only liability if you know that you’re not allowed to go there.
Try ZOOM at jounce.space.
Fly fast at first, then slow down to maneuver among growing obstacles. Distance = score.
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I'm remote but part of a team where some people are office based, and it can be nightmarish at times - I'm cut out of the loop time and time again, and the excuse that 'oh we just had a quick conversation about it and you didn't happen to be there' has now worn thin to the point of transparency. It's definitely the case with remote working that failure to prepare (on a company's part) is preparing for failure.
Right, right. But you still WANT the X, and you WANT the 1709, and you WANT the 1803, whether it breaks your system or not. Where do you want to go today is Microsoft's business, none of yours. But yeah. Different. (See that word? It's not quite the same as "better")
Heck yeah. Such an exciting prospect.

(disclaimer: I'm on the NuCypher team also, although I haven't touched this project yet).

Research into cryptography is in such an exciting pace and direction right now.
Hi there!
We’re two guys from the UK who got frustrated juggling mobile apps for travel inspiration/booking. Quit our jobs, taught ourselves to code and launched our iOS app less than a week ago.

GoHype let’s you browse, customise and book trips created by travel bloggers (you might recognise our bloggers from Instagram).

We’d be super grateful to hear any feedback you have about the app. Feel free to check it out. Open to any questions :)
When I was a kid, I was offended that my family members would go to the bathroom while the TV was showing ads. Totally unfair to the TV network... they should have watched all of the ads!
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In the 90's and early 2000's Sun machines were pretty much the default for developing new software during the dot com boom. I was told this was due partly because Sun sold a lot of hardware on credit (and then this crashed when the dot com boom crashed.)

I worked at HP during this time helping software vendors port to HP-UX. I also spent some time on the side compiling open source projects for fun on HP-UX and then pushing the required patches back to the project's owner.

Anyone remember Pointcast?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_(dotcom)

I was assigned to them briefly.
I think the reason is twofold:

1. Highlighted in the conclusion of the Trump Tweet article above, the idiosyncratic voice employed by 45 makes the generated tweets very familiar to his tweeting patterns

2. The Trump Tweet chains are better optimized when it comes to probability and state management. The article goes into some detail about this in the Implementation Details section.
I find it sort of odd that they feel that keeping an existing house longer is a bad thing. The house I live in now was built in the 1850's, and I lived for a while in a house from the 1780s. The main drawback is you have to get used to there being no level surfaces or right angles.
I worked remote for two months and hated it. Why? Because it was lonely and chat rooms feel like talking into an abyss. Half the reason I choose to go to an office is to have a social life during the day. It also made my home feel like a prison, because I spent almost all my time there.

I'm as introverted as the average programmer, but I'll take interrupting coworkers over permanent solitude any day.
I would refuse it. I could never work from home regularly. I spend enough time there, I want an excuse to get out into the world. It would be so boring for me not to be surrounded by people, activity, and energy. Even if I'm not interacting with people I prefer to be around them in general rather than sit alone all day.

I think you don't hear about this because it's the norm and very neutral and fundamental. I don't think most people struggle with commuting, being around people, etc. Of course those things can be annoying. But I put up with the annoyances of participating in the world because it's overall better than the alternative. Which I think describes most people.
> but obviously you need someone to take the other side of the bet.

Wasn't obvious to me. Can't a prediction stand alone, as in real life?
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I wonder if that's the reason why a few of my favorite local Thai restaurants all have the same or similar Thai tourism posters displayed throughout.

Regardless I think this is a brilliant idea by the Thai government. I'd love to see other regions / governments do a similar thing!
I don't know why but I read first the title as "CastSatan"

oh wait ... I now know why

It's a C++ article.
Along with board and ceo problems, the they were fighting a battle on two fronts for computer sales. The kush high end server market was undercut by the rise of linux while they floundered with Intel on IA64. All the other proprietary unixes fell in this time too. Meanwhile Dell was undercutting them for consumer PC sales.
I worked 4 years remote. It was fine.. but I started to feel isolated. I didn't have a lot of remote interaction to explore ideas. I compensated by going to meetups. Eventually, I quit to join a small on-site team. I've like being on site.

Keeps me on a schedule
More places to put books
Less interruptions by the family.
Travelling to and from provides a moment of context switching between being a parent and being a colleague.

in the remote job, we never did video chat. Maybe that would have helped my feeling of isolation, and create a better sense of community.
If you use private browsing by default, you literally have to click through checkboxes on every single page visit after you restart the browser. They killed Internet with it already...
Where I went to University in upstate New York, there was a Taiwanese tea house run by a Korean family, a Japanese sushi restaurant owned by a Taiwanese family, and a Korean restaurant managed by a Japanese woman.

When I go to a Thai restaurant, I also frequently hear the cooks speaking Mandarin Chinese (I'm conversant in the language).
Reporting weight is based on amount of REP held, not just anyone can report and not all contributions are equal.

https://www.augur.net/whitepaper.pdf covers the security assumptions pretty well.
I had to track down a bug in an application once. It turned out the bug only happened after you printed to an HP printer - the driver changed a critical floating point flag in the processor and never restored it.
According to this article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36319877

1) By relying almost exclusively on oil

2) By implementing price controls on staple goods to help the poor: this effectively drove whole industries out of business

3) By trying to control of the foreign exchange, preventing people from freely exchanging their money with dollars

In other words, by trying to implement a socialist government program.
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I came to say the exact opposite, I find the flow of the text and my comprehension much faster than a regular web page.
Not dyslexic btw
Incredible, I love it :) Hicksville NY has a decently large diaspora, we are a bit spoiled here. I taught myself how to cook their way, here's what I do:

Buy onions by the 50lb sack, chop them up, put them in the food processor, cook them once then freeze them into smaller containers. Whenever I want to cook a quick meal in 10 mins, grab the onion puree from the freezer, throw it into a pan with garlic and oil and paprika, fry it up and serve over some bread :)
You repeated one of my own points back to me and then condescended down to me about not appreciating orders of magnitude. (I'm a physicist myself.) The whole purpose of my comment is that 25 is not that small of a factor on astronomical scales and it suggests the BB radiation of the planet itself would be detectable. As it turns out, this is the case

> As a result, [the planet] has an extremely high equilibrium temperature, assuming zero albedo and perfect heat redistribution, of ∼4050 K. This is as hot as a late K-type star, and thus we expected a large thermal emission signal, which we easily confirmed with our z'-band detection of the secondary eclipse with a depth of ∼ 0.1% (Figure 1). This measurement implies an even
hotter day-side temperature of ∼ 4600 ± 150 K, likely indicating poor redistribution of energy to the night side of the planet and a temperature closer to that of a mid-K star.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06723

Note also that, contra your suggestion that the planet might just be too cold on night side to have significant BB radiation, the night-side temperature is only 15% lower than the mean.
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Small correction: It makes the _implementation_ thread-safe.

It also simplifies a lot of CPython code, making it a lot easier to maintain.
not sure how they are comparable to begin with, since one is people guessing an outcome, and another is people voting for an outcome. in the first, you are trying to guess how everyone will vote, in the second you say what you want. sorry if thats not what you are actually asking.
Even in places that are appropriate for single family homes, like suburban areas far from the housing crises in San Francisco and San Jose, it is getting harder and harder to find new-ish single family homes. And there is zero new construction of such homes. If you prefer that kind of lifestyle (1X00 sq.ft. with a lawn), you’re stuck with housing stock built in the 1980s and earlier.

Everywhere I see new construction, even out in the exurbs, it’s 3-story apartments and ugly row homes squished together on postage stamp-sized lots.
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I agree: going single-payer is absolutely doubling down. Medicare itself, today, has more patients than most national health programs like Canada, and it is also more expensive than them. We already know medicare is not cheaper than other countries health systems. And do you believe that expanding medicare 10x will make it more or less efficient? Because I believe it will do worse, a lot worse.
>convert all contract staff into full time employees with benefits

Everyone should get a 20k signing bonus and a work PC as well if we really want to tackle tech's diversity problem.
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From Cook:

> If you look at our model, if we can convince you to buy an iPhone or an iPad, we'll make a little bit of money. You're not our product.
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Yes. A modern, efficient coal power plant has to be large and takes a while to build. Solar and wind can be built incrementally.
Most people are stating that the responsibility lies within the landlords and not Facebook. There is no disagreement the landlords are being racist.
Norwegian documentary, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaTc15plVs&list=PLaJtMuDnR5...

(The links in the Wikipedia article go to videos with a bit higher quality than the Youtube playlist.)
As someone who despises printers (that scene from Office Space was one of the most cathartic moments of my life), I mostly agree. Except that the x360 I have running Linux is by far the most satisfying instrument for work I've ever owned, by far. I hate what they've done with pretty much any other line of branding they have, but that bit of hardware was damn well done.
I don't think it's accurate to describe ECT as using small electric currents. The very name says that the procedure induces convulsions.

From Wikipedia: "ECT is often used with informed consent as a last line of intervention for major depressive disorder, mania, and catatonia. ECT machines have been placed in the Class II category (special controls) by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1976." (Emphasis mine.)
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Interesting - so it's a known scam. It's the first time I've seen it.

And no, no passwords were quoted or suggested. Possibly, as you say, because there are none with the honeypot addresses, although all the addresses have used services, so can have passwords.
Not if you don't have skin in the game. The associated risk and payout equilibrium becomes the prediction.

Without skin in the game you end up with manipulated values.
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I'll be downvoted for this too. Visited some friends in Memphis. Was told this restaurant was amazing, it's famous, that restaurant was amazing, it's famous, so on. Tried them all. Wasn't impressed. They were OK, but they didn't live up to expectations. Realized that Memphis is actually not a big city, so there isn't a huge amount of competition to motivate restaurants to up their game. Don't get me wrong, the restaurants were OK. But they didn't deserve to be called famous outside of Memphis. And I realized that a lot of American cities are probably similar size and probably face a similar situation. Hence no wonder why many Americans don't get to know what actually good ethnic food tastes like, or even good "American" food, for that matter. Can't blame them for not having developed palates.
West Virginia has more renewable energy jobs than coal jobs.
In direct democracy, you vote for what you want to happen. In a prediction market you vote for what you think will happen.

The whole point is that a sufficiently large and diverse groupe of people is better at predicting the future using those system than an individual. Being able to correctly predicting the future can lead to better decisions.
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I would suggest you don't make dramatic claims for a subject that has decades of theory behind it with a huge amount of nuance depending on the exact workload and characteristics of the machines in question.

Don't get me wrong, message-passing has some advantages, but they certainly aren't that it 'solves' parallelism. If you wish to know more, investigate:

- Smalltalk and Erlang (for message passing languages).

- QNX (for a message-passing OS)

- mpiPY (for a message-passing Python library, mpi is the
grandfather of message passing libraries that runs everywhere).

- Occam & the transputer for an example of a hardware-mp implementation (actually its Communicating Sequential Processes, but for your purposes it would be enlightening).

- golang for a modern-day implementation of CSP.

- Python implementation of CSP (https://github.com/futurecore/python-csp)

- Discussion about MP (http://wiki.c2.com/?MessagePassingConcurrency, for more just google it)

Basically, its great that you want to learn about concurrency & parallelism, but you've come to a gun fight with a blunt butter knife.
One of the things I found interesting is that in Thailand there seemed to be a big difference in the food at the Thai restaurants for tourists (which were similar to the food in the Thai restaurants abroad) and the Thai restaurants for Thai people.
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Oh now I've misinterpreted this song two times haha. Thanks for the help.
title is a little clickbait-y. Firefox didn't "axe add-ons" (ie, the add-ons isn't going away):

> Mozilla has wiped 23 extensions from its directory of Firefox browser add-ons after finding what it says were inappropriate functions in the code.
“The only way to end things completely…” Ender thinks, “was to hurt Bonzo enough that his fear was stronger than his hate”

It's interesting to think of this in terms of global politics, and the "fearing for his life" defense of shootings in the US. A pushes B down in a parking lot; A could kill B in hand-to-hand combat; therefore B is justified.

In historical terms, humanity seems incredibly benevolent, even when engaged in total war.
Their socialist experiment was unsustainable from the start, to be fair. They effectively killed their internal economy by capping the price of staple goods, driving business to failure and closure in the process.
The story of Steve Jobs is also the story of capitalism.

The way Wozniak did the Atari work but Jobs pocketed the lion's share of the profit.

"And yet one cannot deny the significance of Steve Jobs’s contribution to society either. The man is a challenge to curate. So much about him is selfish, abusive, and cruel."

"When people like Steve Jobs rise to prominence, we’re encouraged to overlook distasteful elements of their personalities. We construct narratives around how they accomplished what they accomplished that filter out all that troubling stuff"

People who defend capitalism are always giving it credit for all the advances and wealth we have in the modern world, constructing similar narratives, filtering out the ugly stuff.

So it is fitting that the company that he founded is now #1 in market capitalization, or should we say, #1 in capitalizing?
Also one is weighted roughly by number of individuals and one is weighted by the amount of $ that individuals are willing to pay
I think you have a lot of questionable assumptions, which leads to your original question.

First, at 50 my brain has not 'slowed down'. Nor has my zeal for new tech, learning or stamina.

Made it big? Not sure what you mean by that, but I've had a very rewarding career (almost 20Y in the same place) that has provided me consistently with challenge and success.

Last thought, I'm part of a team of devs in our early fifties. I feel like with our experience, maturity and honed skills we could wipe the floor with a team in their twenties if we wanted. Might just be us. Just MHO though.
Meh. It's all a game to me. Whether you win or lose, you smile and say "gg" to the other players. Because it's more aboutt the fun you have than about "winning".

I've learned to appreciate having boring stuff to do on the job, so that I can keep food and a roof and still have stamina left over for the fun stuff I do at home. Recently I've taken up retroprogramming for Windows 3.1. It's fascinating to rediscover those 16-bit programming paradigms from days of old, and learn things about the platform that I missed on my first go around.
Sounds like a sound decision, plenty of sun in Viet Nam, all year long.
In NYC, Derek Lucci (white guy) is possibly the best thai chef, and he taught himself to cook while working as an Apple genius. (Although he now also spends a few months a year in Thailand learning from local chefs in various regions.)

https://www.instagram.com/makebistro
My first thought was that the whiteboards themselves failed, that this was some kind of The Onion article, but it isn't.

It's simply that the backup plan to the failing digital boards, are plain whiteboards.
A significant potion of this is an end run around immigration law. Cleaning companies need to compete with companies willing to employ illegal immigrants for very low wages which drives down the costs below what companies like IBM would pay people.

Change some of these loopholes and the outsourcing overhead becomes far more significant. Though employing large numbers of part time workers works better at scale so the practice has some advantages.
I had a look at ratios of immigrants to numbers of restaurants in Italy a while back, but it looks like the chart may have been lost during a blog migration:

https://journal.dedasys.com/2008/05/13/restaurants-immigrant...
If only we could praise the actual product (iPhone, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, iMac, etc...) for being amazing an great and not something they dont do (collect user personal data and sell it). It's great Apple takes privacy seriously (as all companies should) it seems like lately Apple is using that all the cherry for the company versus turning out great innovative products that just work (like they used to). If they did both I could get on the Apple bandwagon, right now this is just PR and marketing.
make a market, buy up all the yes shares when the price is low, kill the person, collect your reward.
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There is a middle ground too, prefab homes, where the walls, floors, etc, are all built off-site in a factory, and then shipped to your location in sections. It allows for faster building (can go from foundation to roof on and siding up in 2 days) and in theory, much cheaper costs.. Currently, most roof trusses are already built this way, but all walls, flooring, etc, electrical, plumbing, etc, are all custom done on site, meaning much higher costs. However, the hi-end companies I was looking at when I last looked were much more focused on the speed, then the cost efficiencies.
"Think of this: no teaching university in the US is a top-tier research university."

Stanford, Carnegie Mellion, Harvard, MIT, Caltech are all "teaching universities". Most professors do research along side their teaching. Courses in India are outdated everywhere. If research is encouraged the quality of education will definitely go up.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16977334
Note that this was written after the previous-quarter's earnings, before AAPL crossed the $1T market cap.
Subjectively I'm really impressed by PyO3.

If you care about speed, Rust is supposedly as fast as C. The Rust ecosystem also has a lot of supposedly safe(!) tools for parallelism.
The original HP Laserjets (up through at least the III) were indestructible marvels. I also had a Deskjet 720c that was nearly perfect, I used it until the drive belt shredded after many years of good service.
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On Android, software developers package applications and push directly to the repo - no 3rd party is involved for a packaging step. Developers have a high degree of control in the application's packaging.
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"Marketing" is the stuff you write about yourself. Praise from a critic is called something else.