skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are well within reason to lobby against policies they see as more destructive to the business community than the claimed net benefit. If you want an example of why you can't whimsically tax businesses for whatever you want, look at what happened to the yacht building industry in the US. Idiotic taxation destroyed it and cost thousands of jobs and millions in lost tax revenue.

You can simultaneously be for fixing homelessness and be against destructive taxation of an industry.

>they ask them to pay a slightly fairer share

Let me stop you there. Your notion of calling this a "fairer share" is completely subjective and political. Why isn't a 99% tax of all profits fair, why not 0%? The phrase "paying their fair share" is nothing more than a baseless appeal to emotion, unless you're literally suggesting everyone pay the same amount for services they use. However, given that you are advocating raising taxes on entities already paying vastly more than the bottom 1/3rd, I strongly doubt you actually want equal taxation.
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Out of curiosity: what do you think when you meet the candidate, and it’s obvious they have much more than ten years of work experience? Is there something the candidate can do to put you at ease?

I’ve noticed some anxious double-takes in interviews after passing hiring filters with my shorter resume.
Yes - we initiate a VPN connection first to the gateway, then inbound/outbound connections are over TLS. Over 92% of email traffic is over TLS and we will be exposing an option in the future where customers can require it or reject emails.
Nah, you can still call malloc/new. Worked on a sweet RTOS that had tons of default overrides for new that ultimately let you define all layout from your top level module despite following these guidelines. Let you share tons of code across boards, but still make decisions like "this guy's buffers should be this big, and stored in this ram bank" all from the top level C++ file for each board.

And it's definitely not stack allocated like the original point of this thread.
> Here’s a unique idea: if you want to influence elections, tamper with tamper-evident stickers to get votes from an unfriendly district thrown out.

Because you don't automatically throw out votes even if the seal is tampered.

You have other means of cross-verifying authenticity. You can look at the voter roll signatures to see if the vote totals match. You can do statistical analysis versus the expectation and look for anomalies. You can ask observers if they saw anything untoward. etc.

Paper is secure NOT because it is untamperable. Paper is secure because we can bury it a whole host of interlocking cross-checks--of which tamper seals is one of.
This is the state of libssh. As if it wasn’t already, “many eyeballs theory” is turning over in it’s grave.

Contrast this level of insanity to a proposed standard of “developers should be liable for the damage caused by their negligent code”.

Just, wow.
Nice work...

I've ported this algorithm to Python, but mine is nowhere as succinct as yours (or the original).
For my needs, I require the meshes to remain watertight (if the inputs are watertight), and this specific implementation doesn't preserve it.
But I still love the algorithm due to its conceptual simplicity.
That's a complicated question but I'll sum up my thoughts on it by saying because you have benefited from it too. Would you have reached your position in life if not for a stable society and functioning economy? As I see it we've got to pay it forward for the next generation as the last did for us. Whether you prefer it or not you are a part of our shared society.

There is of course more nuance to it all.
As far as I can tell, yeah.
I think most rational and competent people would choose sharing an apartment in Bakersfield over living on the streets in San Francisco.
A syncretization of technology and scientific thought, hearkening back to our more animistic tendencies, sounds both poetic and plausible.
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If you prefer to read the original text rather than Fox's summary the goodbye memo in question is here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

If you hit escape shortly after the page loads, you can bypass the paywall.
As if businesses are not currently paying taxes. This is an additional tax.
The one thing I don’t like is how when someone becomes super rich, suddenly their opinion becomes super important.

Benioff’s opinions are no more important than your next door neighbor’s.

Even though Benioff May be worth billions, he still only has one vote.
Wikipedia says there are ~7k homeless people in SF [1]. We are spending $250m/year [2]. That's $35k per person. At $3k/mo we could be housing everyone at market rate in SF studios, or housing them somewhere cheaper plus paying them a basic income to cover food & clothing.

I may be thinking about this wrong, but it seems like doubling our spend might be a bad idea when we're doing so badly with what we're spending already. (Interested in input from folks that actually know how these numbers compare to other cities' spending).

However if we're actually doing well with the money we're spending (e.g. comparison to other cities is favourable) then absolutely let's increase the spend. I'm a little suspicious about the "let's tax the tech companies" mentality though; why not just a progressive individual income tax? (Or a moratorium on tax breaks for companies?) If we treat the tech companies like a piggy bank, then we'll eventually drive them away, and the whole region will be much less well off.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_San_Franci...
[2]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/29-million-incre...
I think forward reasoning works only because the underlying type theory is intuitive. When I approach proofs in agda, I simply approach it the same way I write haskell code. "You have bunch of cosets and you wanna go to group." You have objects (proofs) around and you want to construct an instance of a type (theorem) so you start with functions (lemmas) that give objects of desired types. Again, I'm not very familiar with Coq (only agda) but I suppose by backwards reasoning you mean the last unconstructed type in your proof is the type with highest level of abstraction. On the other hand, in agda it's the first one because either you already know a function (lemma) returning this type and need to construct it's arguments (assumptions) or you can use an anonymous function (implication introduction).

This is a totally random and not a well-thought-out statement but to me it seems like the difference between agda and Coq seems like the difference between purely functional and imperative programming.
Amazon invests in ensuring their Elastic IPs are not on blacklists. Less than 2% of IPs we get through AWS are ever on a blacklist and when they are, we cycle through until we get one that isn't.
While my large metro center has homeless, compared to the west coast cities its nothing. It was a humanitarian crisis 10 years ago. Today its a caste system.
And why are we using machines for tabulating? The number of people available to count ballots scales linearly with the number of votes cast generally...
I know for fact that there were students from African nations who attended not IITs, but the B-Schools(IIMs) and Med schools(JIPMER etc). PLease follow-up with the resp IITs by contacting the faculty directly. You might have to obtain the Indian equivalent of F1(US student visa) though.
Don't they use to abuse this weird law to blackmail their clients?
> The issue here is should somebody be completely destroyed for a difference of opinion?

I've seen Eich doing a lot of things in business (and posting around here) since the dust-up; I don't think he was “completely destroyed”.
If you're not even getting to the phone interview, it might be ageism and/or your resume isn't written for the role you're applying to.

I'm a hiring manager and all too often I get resumes from people that think listing more is better. 5, 6, 7 page resumes are exhausting to read.
Write for your audience. Know the company you're applying to. Know the role you're applying for. Write addressing those points. Take it from the perspective of the reader. I have 20 resumes on my desk, I need yours to stand out.

As for the ageism, take out dates. Don't need to know what year you got your degree. Don't need to know past 10 years.

That should get you on the same level as everyone else for the phone interview. After that, it's a different story.
libssh is pretty niche. This isn't openssh.
It’s been stated a few times on HN, and I think it’s a fair argument that you should be looking at all the people that are not only homeless, but also those housed (I.e. those receiving assistance).

That said, SF’s budget is one of the largest of any city in the US. I think i read that Pittsburgh (which is also a city + county) has a per capita budget less than half of SF’s.

Last I checked Pittsburgh wasn’t a wasteland, so where is all that extra money going?
Then I presume you're fine with switching to a toll based system where bridges/roads are funded by usage. You wear the road down every day,I am you pay every day. That's as fair as it gets.

The notion that rich people simply have to pay more for roads because they are rich is senseless.
Thanks!. Like what you are doing with https://codeflow.co/ . Good luck with the venture. Always have a special respect for Entrepreneurs.
"by increasing taxes on corporate profits, very large incomes, large inheritances, etc., expand enforcement against tax evasion, and eliminate legal"

Have the rich write laws to tax themselves? We hope so.
Ask HN: How many times have you been rejected?
Inspired by https://rejected.us I decided to gather some data. Here is an anonymous survey
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This is the code equivalent of being allowed to wander around in a restricted area because you're carrying a clipboard.
I'm imagining my neighbors on either side having no fire protection and while they're properties are allowed to blaze, mine is sitting there in the middle. Sure would be nice if the fire department could have stopped the fire sooner....
Going with your premise: Who are the authority figures young people are listening to?
> they are incapable of generating or maintaining anything of monetary value.

I've met lots of engineers that fall into that category.

Not to mention whole divisions and companies.

Besides exiling people from the community they were born into is genocide.
Weird indeed. What happens if the company had $100M in revenue, but a $10M loss?

Are they expected to take out a loan to pay the tax?
It seems weird to say "And because (as we learned earlier) we read word by
word, too much spacing between words breaks this rhythm" as a reason to avoid
justified text, and then immediately after say that you can temper bad
justification by telling it to auto-hyphenate words, so now "masters" is
"mas-\nters" and "artisan" is "artis-\nan". That seems like a much bigger hit
to quick readability than the poor justification they were initially
complaining about. Their "better" example is easily worse than their "bad"
example for readability, I would think, and to my eyes it's a bigger
difference than between their "bad" and "good".

The spacing between words is better in the "better" version than the "bad"
one, but if the point is that we read by words, then breaking up words across
lines seems like a much graver sin than bad inter-word spacing.
How Sears Was Gutted by Its Own CEO
I own a Yotaphone 2 which is a a dual-screen android phone. The e-ink screen is able to display the whole OS and not just some widgets.
We are using StrongSwan right now. We've taken a close look at WireGuard but have not yet completed our evaluation.

We automatically configure SPF, DKIM and DMARC for our customers. We are also investigating MTA-STS.

Device diagnostics are opt-in by default so they are not collected. Customer data like shipping and billing information is not opt-out unfortunately as we need to be able to process payments, ship the unit and track warranty coverage.

Appreciate the feedback on wanting more architectural details. This will be coming in a series of technical posts explaining how we designed and built the product. Stay tuned and thanks for your questions!
Nice to know, thanks, I've never head about this phenomenon before, used to think government run stores only exist in officially communist countries like China.
This reminds me of the thing recently about spiders using electrostatic tension in the air to generate lift with a streamer of silk.

Evolution is crazy good at finding and exploiting quirks in physics.
Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter
#4 will kill your mental health over time - would not recommend. Take 15 minutes to close your laptop and sit somewhere else. The other suggestions are really good.
If it's good, it's worth it. I have a phone about this size and it doesn't do anything other than SMS, phone calls, and Snake; and while I would lose the tactile feel of real buttons, if TCL's "Palm" had even one twelfth the standby time of my current phone, and competent enough as a standalone device, it would be worth considering at $350.

I don't get why people (including TCL and Verizon, it seems!) are calling it a "second phone", as though everyone in their right mind is reading novels on their telephones. At least half of the people I know are considering switching, or already have switched, to a feature phone because new phones have awful, unpredictable battery life and are unwieldy in size (and recently, because most of the things they thought they gained from smartphones seem to come with massive privacy strings attached).

The biggest problem with the TCL Palm, to me (if the standby time is okay, on the order of four days, and it probably isn't with the size of the battery), is that it is locked to Verizon, and only available as a secondary phone; this means I just can't buy or use it right now.
Do you know what a percentage is? Not only are taxes already proportionate to profit, but they are disproportionate larger for higher incomes in any progressive taxation scheme.
I would imagine most billionaires have their money in the same place as Benioff, tied up as equity in their company.
Perhaps instead of being mean, you could be helpful and post a link to said answer.
> The number of people available to count ballots scales linearly with the number of votes cast generally...

Yes, but the amount of work in tabulating with humans, if you have a time bound, scales superlinearly; as you scale out the number of people tabulating initially beyond one, you add coordination overhead, which is superlinear with the number of people coordinated.
Despite being 25yo, this is how I started programming too. My "computer" was a TI-80 calculator I had laying around. It can be programmed in a simple variant Basic: 26 variables, 6 arrays, but also plotting capabilities.

You can probably still find such a calculator, like the TI-82 family which is being revived. Just avoid the TI-Nspire which looks fancy but is hard to program.
There's also https://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_the_swedish_mystic_....
Exactly, I actually thought this would be about neutrino EAS induced lightning strikes or something.
Same in Italy, each party can have one person observing proceedings. There used to be tons of parties, hence there were lots of eyes around. The better-organised parties also tracked in realtime whether their sympathizers had actually voted, seat by seat, and could send messages through relays to hurry them to the booth. Before computers, journalists typically relied on the major parties to have the first results, well before they were officially declared.

This has changed in modern times, as a number of parties disappeared after electoral reforms; and the risk of tampering and shenanigans has increased substantially.
This is very consistent with what our experience has been with Elastic IPs combined with email authentication and blacklist monitoring.
State liquor stores have been a thing in parts of the US, too.
Also:

> When some animals, aeroplanes or seeds fly, rings of circulating air called vortices form in contact with their wings or wing-like surfaces.

> Researchers thought that an unattached vortex would be too unstable to persist in nature.

I guess those animals and seeds aren't natural then?
unfortunately DO does not seem to be as active as Amazon in maintaining the reputation of their IPs.
What am I missing? You seem to be taking the YC-specific unicorn numbers and dividing them by the much broader A16Z "fundable" numbers. Apples & oranges, no?
Title is misleading. Overall emissions didn't fall, rather, "Greenhouse gases emissions from the largest U.S. industrial plants fell 2.7 percent in 2017"
> Last I checked Pittsburgh wasn’t a wasteland, so where is all that extra money going?

Pittsburgh has a self-correcting mechanism around homelessness that San Francisco does not have.

It's called "winter".

A significant cold snap results in a lot of unfortunate deaths in the homeless.
http://archive.is/GVage
This talks primarily about WinDbg and Windows, I wonder if time-travel debuggers like rr in Linux are able to go from a core-dump and step backward. I would assume not because I remember rr actually keeps track of the execution as it happens so that it can step it back.
Reading through your comments/replies (e.g.: "knack for listening to customer", "generalist", "can setup machines"...etc) make me think I'll be in your shoes once I reach your age... Hence I have to ask - any advice you would give to younger self?

Should I focus on having some/one/few "unique selling propositions" - something I can say I'm expert in? And what would those be?

Anyway back to trying to give you (and other younger folks) some answers.

I've been interviewing candidates for a while. From technical phone interviews, over F2F, and now mostly so called Fit interviews.

And first time I interviewed someone with CS PhD that they have since around the time I was born - I was happy to be paired with another older colleague.

Not that I was scared/intimidated or felt inadequate. I was really worried about candidate getting impression we're a bunch of "teenagers" ;)

So actually on that point I've got nothing for anonOver60 - other than saying to others that instead of being intimidated, you should just be yourself and there is nothing to worry about.

If the candidate is good - being more experienced they'll know how to handle situation in a way that won't make you feel like 2nd class compared to them.

I second the idea of different/customized CV for different roles/positions. In fact each place/position you apply for should be it's own tuned/customized veraion of generic CV..
Actually it's not that simple.

Is it more environmentally friendly for 100 people to work in one office or for 100 people to work in 100 homes?

Is it better to heat or cool one office of 100 people or to heat or cool 100 homes?
The top 1% pay something like 60% of all taxes.

Are you saying that’s “not appropriate”?
I agree with the importance of the freestream turbulence intensity, but at high Re numbers, it's extremely hard to control it.

It can be shown mathematically, using a technique called parabolized stability equations (PSE), that small disturbances amplify rapidly thorough non-linear interactions in the frequency space. Hence, although it's possible to create a laminar flow at high Re number in the lab, it's extremely hard to achieve in nature.

One interesting case of this is the Rutan's Voyager airplane in the 80s. It was designed to have a laminar flow over its wing to reduce drag. It worked quite well until it faced rain drops at some point which messed up the aerdynamics of the wing and caused the airplane to stall. At that point, they had to add vortex generators on the wing to prevent the stall.
How Much Time Should You Invest in Training?
Not if they want more clients.

Plus, prostitutes, dur to the nature of their services, already tend to have blackmail info on many of their (especially married) clients, so if blackmail was going to be their business model, they don't need this law.
Also, if the feds raide your home you will know that your data was compromised. Apple won/can't tell you..
Would it be possible to quantum tunnel the wave packet through the solid wall of concrete? (In this case it would be the wave produced by an RF device)
I was commenting beyond the homeless problem.

Why does it cost SF twice as much per capita to run this city?
Interesting that they use the term "driver-partner" in some parts but just "driver" in others.

I guess they want to avoid liability as much as possible?

Would it really be possible to use a blog post in a legal proceeding to determine whether Uber has drivers or partners?
Curious if the invalidated patents[1] make this harder to prove.
I suppose trade secrets don't have
to be patents.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-wa...
Is Google Search Fair?
I'd love to try this out! My email is my username at gmail.
It’s annoying that most studies, statistics, laws, etc. related to coal plants omit things like coal fired cement plants which are also huge contributors to pollution.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219612
> Also, if the feds raide your home you will know that your data was compromised.

Not necessarily: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneak_and_peek_warrant
"(without tipping) then there is no incentive to perform above average - no lesson learned for lackluster performance."

How is it then that non-tipped employees have incentive to perform above average, or learn lessons from lackluster performance?
Truth about religion obtained via spiritual methods
> If what LIGO achieved is not loud enough for the 21st century, then we are probably doomed.

The problem is that it is REALLY hard to describe to the layman just how excruciatingly difficult it is to do what LIGO does.

I like to think that I know a thing or two about electrical engineering and quantum mechanics, and even I probably don't get just exactly how amazing LIGO is.
Local labor and real property costs.
Hyperloop One says Missouri route is economically viable
I was wondering how Uber could possibly need 100PB of space; but if you consider that they've served roughly 10 billion rides, it actually only comes out to roughly 100 kilobytes per ride.
Weapons of Micro-Destruction: How Our Facebook 'Likes' Hijacked Democracy
Yes, but they don't have to log that, and given the way the system is described there's no reason it would by default.
> I don't thing the crisis we're in right now should be blamed on patients; they might want a script, but that doesn't mean its in their interest.

I'm guessing you're American since you're assuming everywhere has the same crisis you do. From what I've read here (on Hacker News), you have plenty of systemic problems. I doubt blaming doctors is going to be the most useful course of action. But then, I don't really know. Perhaps all doctors in your country deliberately do things that are against patients' best-interests, and would continue to do so if patients actually wanted the best thing for them. Do your doctors really not suggest good diet and exercise as treatments for type 2 diabetes? I'd be very surprised if they don't.

Edit for clarification.