skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason is some political party deliberately erases the line between legal and illegal immigration, then uses skilled immigration as an argument for causes like open border or illegal immigration, while not fixing the broken immigration policy. This harms the legal immigrants, but paves the way for illegal immigration. Some legal immigrants feel duped because they have jumped through all the hoops in this broken system only to find someone else cut in the line illegally.

That's why many legal immigrants do not necessarily trust the motivation of articles like this. Is this actually proposing a fix of broken immigration system or a veiled propagnda piece to promote illegal immigration?

FWIW, I am a skilled legal immigrant, currently residing in Canada.
I would say it is a wish for spiritual insight into the nature of self-ishness, how it is a root cause of evil in the world, and presumably the related Christian tenet that it's not a 'fixable' problem without cultivating a divine relationship to the creator or source.

But I would just be guessing.
Sensationalist headline linking to a blatantly biased source - how about some fair discussion of the legislation instead?
SAFe is probably the worst offender of what the article is focused on.

I can’t think of a more anti-agile statement than ‘RTFM’. A more productive statement might be ‘Update The Fucking Manual’.
Another solution is to only allow commands from a whitelist to be run. If the user types something not on the list you say "rm is not on the list of allowed commands, press enter to run and add it".
"A yes vote is a vote in favor of authorizing the city and county of San Francisco to fund housing and homelessness services by taxing certain businesses at the following rates:
0.175 percent to 0.69 percent on gross receipts for businesses with over $50 million in gross annual receipts, or
1.5 percent of payroll expenses for certain businesses with over $1 billion in gross annual receipts and administrative offices in San Francisco.
A no vote is a vote against authorizing the city and county of San Francisco to tax businesses at the above rates to fund housing and homelessness services."

we should at least have the money to address the symptoms if we cannot fix the problem.

it's definitely sad to see paulg's stance on this; it just shows where his values are .
The Final Days of 'Netrunner': What happens when your hobby is cancelled
Taking the lump sum is not at all indicative of a lack of good investment advice. Going with the installment payments is equivalent to taking the lump sum and then investing it all in US treasury bonds. That's an extraordinarily conservative investment strategy and most investment advisors would recommend something more aggressive.
If you're interested in precision machining, Robrenz is a good channel to check out:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ROBRENZ/videos

He demos a Brown & Sharpe electronic indicator here, showing how sensitive they are, even to errant breaths: https://youtu.be/UG6LV8v8W-0?t=25m15s
Let's be a bit more realistic, the title might as well have been "how I open-sourced my encryption software at the request of someone".

Yes, the author was way too quick to give up the source code, but it was just source code, not a backdoor key.
He was referring to “hits a key” —> [enter]
> "contract a lawyer for consultations."

This is a strikingly formal mental idea of how professional relationships begin. It's not quite so formal. You can ponder about "contracting a doctor for consultations," but most people just say "go to the doctor."

When people say "consult with a lawyer," they typically mean you should ask a lawyer for professional advice about this situation. If you don't have a relationship already, you would typically call their office and set an initial appointment of 30 to 60 minutes. If you know you have a problem, you should expect to receive legal advice during that appointment, and to pay something for it.

Yes, some lawyers offer free consultations -- typically lawyers who work on contingent fees. They are paid out of a substantial recovery, and offer to talk to people who are unsure their injury is worth pursuing legal action. If your legal situation doesn't involve a lump sum recovery, you should expect to pay for the time spent by the lawyer unless you have some other agreement (flat fee, etc.)

Still, most of the lawyers I know are willing to write off some time so that the potential client can decide whether to engage the lawyer for further advice. It is perfectly acceptable to tell the receptionist or lawyer that you're considering several people, and would like to talk about whether this lawyer or firm has relevant experience. But understand you're unlikely to receive much legal advice during that kind of meeting.
Surprisingly only 8 states allow you to claim it anonymously..
Most employment doesn't have a planned end point though
This is good news. I look forward to seeing the managed MySQL option.
Pretty sure this isn't accurate. I thought the government dropped their lawsuit against PGP in the 90s.
It's nice that we are finally at a point where PG is the first offering, instead of the "Coming Soon."
I for one have always liked the simplicity of DO for hosting but I've never wanted to take on the full liability of self-rolling a DB server (and backups and replicas). So everything my company has I've put on heroku or azure. This has potential to be really significant as I'd wager there are a lot of folks in similar situations.
The Insane LED Counter and Logic Gates [Part 1] (2008)
None of those 80's computers had power-on networks either, which is the most interesting part of the proposal, IMO. Persistent storage isn't the only way to affect the initial power-on state of today's computers.

It would also help to call this whole idea "fixed boot state" or something similar, since "stateless" is misleading even to developers, and not super accurate, which may be part of the reason you're sensing complication.

It is fun to consider how to guarantee that a computer has a fixed boot state. Not all that difficult if you can break down all the components.

The more interesting question to me is whether that truly improves security, once you start working on networks, and whether it could be made usable for the general population, rather than so inconvenient that nobody can adopt it. Is it only something the most extreme high security secret lab air-gapped environment will ever tolerate?
Well that news just made feel great about picking Postgres for my current SaaS project. Definitely going to be migrating over once I get access!

I wonder how long they've been working on this.
Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer robots (2017)
Keep thinking in that way, it’s great for your mental health
This is a common misunderstanding. Trump has attacked through policy legal immigration far more than illegal immigration.

https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/trumps-attack...
Notice how he masterfully distilled cool details about his software culminating in the 'low' price, all wrapped in a captivating story?

30 minutes later after he
has left and you have closed the door to go back to your chores, you're wondering why you ordered 2 magic-mix blenders...
Arguably stronger than the locks on most home doors, that could be picked in under a minute
I think I know his brother. Given his intellectual interests, especially at the time, I bet the phone call from the NSA is something they still talk about.
I don't see a problem with a footnote entry, this is a form of credit. The issue with bibliographic entries is that they are each day more automatically processed, so publishers and editors try to avoid non-standard entries. On the other hand, if you're publishing something in a blog or webpage you're not looking for the kind of credit that is given on a bibliographic citation, so a footnote seems to be just fine.
Can I sign up somewhere to get notified when "back up to your own cloud destinations" is complete? This is all I want in a backup service. Install on all my devices (this must include mobile devices too), send everything I care about to as many destinations as I provide, all of which I manage myself.

As great as cloud backup solutions are, the weak point is always getting things out. If I can just have it in my own S3 bucket, I can do absolutely anything I like with my files. Count me as very interested if this is where you're going.

Also, trust and security are going to be huge. How do I know you're not going to leak and / or abuse the depth of access you get by owning my backups?
Then it would be working as intended. Jobs where labor isn't so scarce as to push prevailing wages up really high don't need extra labor brought into the market.

The remaining concern is distorted markets like foreign language teachers (brought up elsewhere in the thread), where it may be politically infeasible to raise compensation to match the value workers create.
I believe you should cite by referencing with the meme of your choice
With source in hand, couldn’t they just distribute backdoored copies of said software?
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I think from a design perspective, it's better to build your sanity checks and safeguards into the UI instead of some fancy abstraction that's running in the background. Throw in some options to make it user configurable and you have a pretty slick solution that behaves in a way that'll feel familiar to gurus.

I think requiring a keypress by default to run any commands and maybe even throwing up a warning for a list of known dangerous ones (perhaps user configurable) would work well. A really fancy solution would be to do this stuff via some sort of linting.
The number of commenters who clearly did not read the story and have completely missed that this story was about the year 2000 is pretty stunning.

Plus the complete lack of understanding of the encryption standards that were legally exportable (which is also mentioned in the story) and seen as good enough is kind of stunning. 40 bit encryption in 2000 was decent. It wasn't great, but it would deter almost anyone.
Launching a Technical Kickstarter – Solo: Open Source Security Key
Hm. I think in my ideal vision, you'd then quit up, and somehow magically have the pipeline ready at your fingertips on the shell prompt, so that you can just add the `-delete` there in a "regular" fashion, and press Enter. Not quite sure how this could be done with bash easily. I think the upN.sh file is not a bad approximation however. (Someone on reddit (I think) seemed to mention that zsh seems to have some functionality which could allow building something like that over up.) Interestingly, this seems to me to support the idea that limiting syscalls/capabilities could be a good approach (if at all possible, that is). Potentially maybe also cutting off network access? But even if I add some safety options, even if I make them the defaults, I'll try really hard to keep an option available for people who want to play with it raw, with no safety belts.

edit: I totally get you as far as KISS goes; that's why I built and shared the tool as is in the first place ;)
> I mean, Bethesda is like 20-miles away from where the NSA operates

The NSA exists beyond Ft Meade
Well written code is obviously better than badly written code. But why assume the functional-style is better written than the idiomatic Python? I think a good developer understand the context they work in rather than try to fit a square peg in a round hole.

I wouldn't like to maintain Haskell code written by someone who thinks everything should look like Python. And vice-versa.
I took the liberty of converting this to LaTeX: https://www.overleaf.com/read/vbnkshcwhcyk
As a rule of thumb, that's probably still accurate. But there are specific areas where Rakudo on MoarVM already outperforms the Perl5 interpreter (eg an object creation benchmark was mentioned elsewhere).

I suspect the scale will eventually tilt in Perl6's favour, but is has been slow going...
> I can't imagine what in the world the Naval Support Activity would need the code for that application for. They're literally nothing more than a facilities command.

This wouldn't be the first time I heard of a US Military dude prank-call someone.
How about allocating some large number of 6 year work visas by a pure auction? The visa goes with the person, they can work anywhere, and after the visa is up can be a US citizen with minimal hassle. Employers could pay the fee for people to come and work for them, if they like, with a claw-back clause, if necessary. It would be interesting to see what the price would be for such a visa.
I've had a bad experience with Uptime Robot - it only checked our server via IPv4. We didn't know IPv6 was down for far too long (it was a DNS problem).
Why? They continue to use their control of the app store for financial gain. The clock on forgiveness doesn't start until the abuse stops.
Yeah, my brain said "18 years ago? Yeah, that was the nineties" and I didn't realize it was 2000, although the shareware version might have been developed much earlier.

Also the lawsuit was against Phil Zimmermann himself, not PGP.
Work hacking: Coffee before lunch, roibos tea after lunch.

Fun hacking: red wine.
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Citation? Brain drain, so that Silicon Valley can produce various ride-sharing and world-changing pizza delivery apps, is better for the world?

I certainly think it's better for the rich as it drives the stock market up, but a blanket "better for the world overall" is certainly an interesting take.
She's a white legal immigrant.
Used to be fun-sized Kit Kats. Now it's 3 Musketeers minis.

I'm pretty sure by washing them down with diet Mt. Dew they have negative calories.
Thinking about moving from Linode to DO just for this. Makes so much sense.

Would be great to have something similar for Redis.
You can't direct link to 4chan anyway, as posts are cycled out and deleted quite frequently. You would have to archive the page and link to that.
I don't see any mention of the cost. Is that listed somewhere?
This is fantastic timing—I didn't feel like dealing with Postgres configuration/management, so I went with CockroachDB instead (which also forced me off a CPU core since I required more RAM).

Here's to hoping that receiving access doesn't take too long ^_^
yeah, but the story doesn't add up for just a prank call.
But I don't buy a lock for my front door expecting the manufacturer to simply give the key to anyone that asks nicely for it.
Anecdata: I live in Oregon, and have always been mildly concerned about visiting California because I thought brown recluses lived there.

I genuinely have no idea where I got the idea.
That's really exciting! DO is knocking it out the park lately as "AWS...but easy to use". I'd love to see Mongo as a managed DB.
After compression, asmjs and wasm come out at about the same size (give or take 5% or so), wasm is also about the same speed as asmjs (unless you need a lot of 64-bit integer operations, or you're running the asmjs on iOS Safari which doesn't seem to have any special handling for asmjs).

Also, C via emscripten vs Rust via the LLVM wasm backend shouldn't make much of a difference as long as you don't need to use emscripten's browser shims (you can compile 'naked' WASM without any C or JS runtime in emscripten too).
Readers already familiar with similar data structures may save time by proceeding directly to section 4, "Previous Related Work".
NPM buys you automatic dependency resolution, a one-step process to update all your installed libraries to their latest versions, and the ability to pin some libraries to specific versions if you want/need to.

Some of these things you can get other ways -- libraries you load from a CDN will generally come with any critical dependencies already bundled in, for instance. But those solutions have their own problems; loading from a CDN means your app's performance is now tied to the performance of a system you don't have control over, and if the file on the CDN ever gets hacked, you're screwed. Managing your libraries with NPM lets you keep control over these sorts of things.
I agree, the first thing he should have asked for is a warrant signed by a judge, and then independently verified it was real.
I can't take anything in the article seriously when they call Grand Central Terminal by the incorrect "station" name.

Grand Central Terminal is called that because it's the end of the rail lines that arrive there. People who don't know still call it "grand central station".
Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament
Getting Started with AWS Lambda in F#
Brain Drain is a real issue in some parts of the world.

I grew up in Spain and got all my higher education for free. The state essentially spent large amount of money in me, hoping that I would give it back to the economy as a skilled worker.

After the 2008 crisis I moved like thousands others in my same situation. Now other countries will benefit from the ROI that my home country made on me instead.
Not on a 1-for-1 basis, but something like this is the argument for allowing free movement between comparable countries. If the UK, Canada & Australia opened up to each other, there'd be no massive net flow, but many individuals could work for the most suitable company / near their in-laws / in a climate they like.

This was I think also what was envisaged when the EU first wrote free movement into law -- general mixing, rather than one-directional floods.
I have a super tiny personal website run on a VPS. I use uptimerobot.
The real puzzle is why there are so fewer young people playing Tetris-- a fairly recent game-- than, say, Chess-- which has been around for many decades. (An impressive 100% of known Chess masters are younger than the game.)

I'd venture to guess the graphics of Tetris already look outdated by today's standards whereas the realism of Chess is much more visually impressive.
Data from an external source is usually fuzzy and requires some communication to reduce the fuzziness so that it can be properly interpreted. That involves communicating to understand why it's represented a specific way or negotiating to change the representation to better fit your needs.

The same is true for the output of your work.
> the next minute he talks about how the funding of public schools in the US is organized.

It's really not that different. The inequality in conditions between poor public schools and wealthier schools (public and private) is dangerous for the future of American productivity, causing gainful participation in the economy to become ever more correlated with prior socioeconomic privilege.

If that productivity growth runs out, and the relative conditions worsen for non-wealthy people in the US, there will be no more helping Africa, due to economic decline, or domestic political instability.

Basically, these aren't independent problems. Increasing inequality at home makes it harder to help people elsewhere. Spiraling poverty elsewhere results in conflicts in those places, and we eventually experience the effects of those conflicts one way or another.
This knee jerk reaction of claiming that Paul Graham is somehow greedy or against the homeless is disappointing. That London Breed, who ran for SF mayor on the premise of trying to fix homelessness, is opposed to Prop C is very telling.

Before San Francisco decides to spend more money per homeless person, I think we should figure out why SF is already spending so much more money per homeless person that cities like LA and New York. Just adding more money to the pot with little oversight to how it is spent doesn't seem like a good solution at all.
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Don't forget to check if they're in your gloves too!
Your lock already has a backdoor. A locksmith can open your door in 2 minutes.
At the very least there are many circumstances where reporters who were reporting on pretty underhanded activities in the us were targeted by the us govt, and what if this situation happened to them. My govt is generally good here in the us, but we know plenty of cases where they didn't have good intentions, this is done to intimidate. So if you are an author of security software, you might keep this in mind. And other countries like Russia and China would definitely put pressure on people to help them.
Right, I've run into this a number of times, especially when porting code originally written for 32 bit to 64 bit. Besides compilers getting better, I think there's another factor - it used to be that a compelling reason to write asm is to get good utilization of a limited number of registers. But especially on aarch64 (and, in the not too distant future, AVX-512), there are a lot more.

Higher level abstractions are a good idea, but the problem is, are you able to exploit the capabilities that the chip exposes? For simple things like computing a scalar function elementwise over a vector, no problem, but a lot of the more interesting problems don't fit such simple templates.
Not as much, but I'll practice every so often to keep skills sharp.
First, there was no "muslim ban", and second the list of countries affected had been defined already by Congress years previous, not the President or the current administration.

Also school visas are not immigrant visas if one wants to be pedantic about it.
I dont currently have a phone old enough, but my iphones before this throttling was implemented did shutdown a lot once the battery was worn out. It would sometimes show 30%ish battery remaining, but if you tried to do something that required heavy load and thus extra power that the battery couldnt provide, it would shut down. Give it a minute and it would turn back on and happily run down to much closer to 0% before being truely dead.

The throttling prevented sudden spikes in power usage. I dont think it was fundamentally a bad thing. It made your phone useful when it otherwise wouldnt be. A processor operating at 50% speed works a lot better than one that shuts itself off. But Apple probably should have been more clear about it and offered a toggle to turn it off.
From an employer's perspective, they don't owe you anything. This is a good thing for them, because when your company gets acquired by another company which has different policies than your company, they won't owe you a dime. While, if your company has a policy of 20 days off and your company got acquired, they owe you $$ amounting to the PTO days you haven't used up.

Source: happened in my previous company but the acquisition happened right after my 8 week vacation, so I didn't get any $$.

Having said that, I also was very lucky to have a good manager who really didn't mind how much vacation I was taking as long as the work was getting done.
Curious if it could be related to the hormone disruption properties of lavender.

https://www.endocrine.org/news-room/2018/chemicals-in-lavend...
Feature Announcement: Outbound Calling
With Amazon Echo, if Drop In is enabled, any of a number of people can turn on the mike to listen anytime [1].

This has gone wrong when erroneous connections were made, and IMO, Amazon are overly aggressive about enabling this feature.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Tail call optimization in functional programming languages comes to mind.
There is an updated version of this tutorial on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.09060
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Yeah, I still see people suggesting that phone-posters should be banned. I wonder what the site would be like if it had been implemented. I didn't know how large the numbers were though, that is nuts. Looking at the general quality of the site though, it makes sense.
There's literally no point in trying to support a position like this with a left wing policy blog.