skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, you can buy a used car for the price of a set of new tires. And you can buy a used fridge for $50-100.

A common thing that I notice with poor people is that they buy bad cars. 15 year old American sedans. That kind of crap. When you can buy a Japanese sedan, use it for 5 years, spend almost nothing on maintenance, and then sell it for most of what you paid for it.
GOGON: Get off Google, now. :P

Weird things are going to happen if Google were to shrink: paid gmail, premium search, subscription navigation in maps, lock screen ads in android, and hard monetisation of user data. A giant doesn’t go away without a fight, but Google users are not its customers, just data in its products, so...
> While the West thinks that we were exploiting China for it's cheap labor, the Chinese had a much longer range view

You're describing it like it was a planned action. Is there any reason to describe it like that rather than exploiting an easy opportunity?
Because then you’re paying a ridiculous amount of money for your monthly plan. You should be paying for your device outright and then using it on a prepaid carrier. The reason the large carriers finance at 0% interest is because it ties you to their exhorbitant plans for 2 years.
Is it? I was given to understated that, legally, contracts can be binding with only verbal agreement.
Signal. Open source and secure.
Hangouts meet is different than just hangouts?
Sorry for the silly question but I honestly have no idea anymore.
Unless we implement a new visa for graduates of American universities we experience brain drain. We would be exporting American educated individuals to other countries rather than making use of them ourselves.

It also doesn't account for the fact that H1B isn't just for engineers. Not all highly skilled professionals get paid salaries commensurate with the IT and CS industries.

So now we also need to split it by job type.

There's a lot of overhead involved in getting this proposal to just be as good as the current system, and even more to make it better. If we do all that, sure. But I'm not sold on the idea that we would.
> my savings account interest rate is higher than that of my car loan

Then you overpaid for your car.
From what I've read about starving yourself vs fasting and my own experience 800-calories sounds like HELL.

I can fast for 2 weeks no problem (although that's kinda long and I wouldn't do it if I didn't have enough body fat to sustain it. If you're skinny and don't have fat to spare better not stretch it unnecessarily).

I'm eating keto and I usually only eat once a day.

Fasting feels good. Starving yourself feel horrible.
The last American sedan I owned was a 1974 Dodge Dart. Terrible car, but my sister's 1980 Dodge Aspen was much worse.

I've looked at American cars in the intervening years but I haven't seen anything to change my initial bad impression. They always seem like they're a step below in both form and function.
What's the difference? Sedans are dead in America, else where Saloon lives on.
Have been on the hiring end here and have a strong preference for citizen and LPR hires. Even so, finding the right talent is challenging because we’re not a famous tech company. All the talented kids who are citizens want to work for cool companies, and we’re not one. Also statistically very few citizens go to grad school in STEM fields, and we’re looking for folks with graduate-level education in our field. Our salary rates for citizens and non citizens are identical.

The few citizens who apply to our non prestigious company are competing against a pool of talented H1Bs (not all H1Bs are body shop employees; many are graduates of fine American schools... we’re talking MIT and CMU), yet because of the pool they are in, they often come up short. The most competitive citizens tend not to want to work for non prestigious companies, so we get the less competitive citizen candidates and more competitive non citizens.

I don’t want to say this is the norm out there, because it is not, but to those who have misgivings about H1Bs (the non body shop variety), I’d be interested to hear your stories about your experiences hiring and where/how you found your quality citizen/LPR talent pools (I’d be inclined to hear from employers and hiring managers rather than anecdotal hearsay about a friend of a friend).
So, based on your public profile, it appears that you work at Apple, which is not at all representative of the experience of the vast majority of software engineers. You also seem pretty young, so you’re unlikely to have a lot of experience prior to your current job. It kind of shows in your reply, too. For example you suggest that a manager should focus their efforts on changing the organization around and above them. That is very bad advice in almost every large company. First, you should focus your energy on helping your team succeed within the organization you have - not the one you wish you had. Then, if you have any bandwidth and willpower left, you can attempt modest amounts of positive change in the organization, starting with the absolute worst hair-on-fire problem you see. But keep your expectations low, because most attempts to change large organizations fail. If you are too unhappy with an organization to tolerate it, and you don’t have the power to fire the people in it, the solution is generally to quit.

You appear to be one of the lucky few not in this situation, but you don’t have enough experience to realize how lucky you are - or how quickly your situation could change. You think everyone is happy with their organization at Apple? Think again. Like I said, you’re just one reorg away.

Please refer to the last paragraph of my previous comment, it is extremely relevant to you.
if you need accurate verification, or it boils down to a single person, agreed. (though that's not often possible, e.g. bribery)

if you need to know the final consensus (or lack thereof) about that verification, regardless of how consensus is determined, it's not a deal-breaker. multi-party signatures, basically, which is what ethereum is designed to do.

(for context tho: broadly I agree, blockchains make zero sense in very nearly all potential scenarios)
Ummm?

"Google doesn't even ask for GPA or test scores from candidates anymore, unless someone's a year or two out of school, because they don't correlate at all with success at the company. Even for new grads, the correlation is slight, the company has found."

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-people-2013...
So it's an issue of the optimizer; as is often the case, it unrolls too aggressively and shoots itself in the foot, all the while missing out on various other opportunities.

In my experience, loop unrolling should basically never be done except in extremely degenerate cases; I remember not long ago someone I know who also optimises Asm remarking "it should've died along with the RISC fad". The original goal was to reduce per-iteration overhead associated with checking for end-of-loop, but any superscalar/OoO/speculative processor can "execute past" those instructions anyway; all that unrolling will do is bloat the code and work against caching. Memory bandwidth is often the bottleneck, not the core.
And then what? Loose almost 50% of its value?
In general kernels know nothing about codesets, but filesystems do (e.g., ZFS definitely does). I call this just-use-16 and just-use-8 depending on whether the strings are arrays of bytes or of uint16_t's.
You realize GPA is a relative, not absolute, metric, right (i.e., a 2.6 is considered ok for engineering students at top universities)?
Nope; doesn't work for clang. Clang actually detects and compiles the algebraic closed form sum(i^2, n) for a bound n.
Humans aren’t logical. We’re apes who evolved in the context of groups of 100 or so individuals. We pay attention to how others are doing. If there is too much of an imbalance, mob justice and violence are the means by which the scales are re-balanced. All sides of the political spectrum (and especially the rich) should acknowledge and accept this.

And I say this as somebody on the right.
> ...it is a Biblical principle to have jubilee years...

That part of the Bible also establishes a government funded priesthood consisting of only men that routinely perform ritual animal sacrifice. Point being, the jubilee year stuff was specific instructions on how to govern a particular people in a particular place at a particular time in history.

Now, I would consider guaranteed loan forgiveness after, say, seven years, but that would probably just reconfigure how loans are structured. I figure people would get smaller mortgages, having to buy smaller houses with larger down payments. I'm not sure that's better for the poor than what we have now. Maybe it would be? The adjustment would certainly strain the economy while the housing sector sorted itself out.
It would be burgulary instead of breaking and entering. You still get charged, just like accessing a computer unlawfully doesn't have to involve clever tricks to be illegal.
He said they had his transcript from the beginning, this is definitely a bad move from Google, or the hiring process is not communicated clearly across teams.
A law is worth its enforcement; otherwise it's just a nice idea.
Anyone who have spent some time on the social media in China interacting with people from the IT sector would know, the petition is clearly genuine, not propaganda.

Currently, Google's launch of Dragonfly creates an interesting disagreement in public opinion. In the U.S, the opinion in the "technosphere" is overtly negative, due to its implication of supporting censorship and oppression of the general public.

But in China, the public opinion from the "technosphere" is completely the opposite. The dominate search engine, Baidu's reputation has became notorious after the death of Wei Zexi, the 21-year-old cancer patient, after finding misleading treatment information on search engine Baidu. Citizens on the social media became aware of the existence of Putian Medical Group, a special interest group in the profit-driven healthcare market for its questionable medical treatment. Baidu was believed to be the largest supporter of the multi-billion-dollar industry, they may have contributed 12 billion RMB (1.8 billion US$) to Baidu's ad revenues. (See this article for the background: https://www.whatsonweibo.com/behind-baidu-scandal-baidu-puti...)

But it's not the only scandal. Baidu is known for its predatory and invasive advertisements, including consumer support fraud, visa fraud, medical fraud. Most of the time, entering any common keyword, people are confident to say that the first three results of the search list are the ads, and highly likely to be frauds. The daily victims of these ads is likely to be hundreds, if not thousands. Baidu is doing little, if not actively supporting the false advertising.

The public opinions of the IT workers in China, in my own words, is basically: if Google is a criminal, then Baidu is a maddog. The politics is authoritative, changing it is out-of-question. Then at least you can replace a wild maddog with an ordinary megacorp, which at least has a well-defined bottomline and more or less under the public supervision of the citizens.

I don't know what to say. On one hand, censorship and oppression surely causes long-term damage, but on the other hand, the damage of victims by these frauds is also a large number. Even if I take an utilitarianist approach, then what is valued greater?

u(free from censorship and oppression) x Google's contribution?

^likely small

or

u(free from ubiquitous frauds from Baidu)?
>> We are a generation who will leave nothing behind.

I mean, if you want you could hand write letters. Or post your chats on a private blog/wiki for posterities sake.

You might be older than me, but you just made me feel like an old timer. I feel like I learned this lesson when AIM shuttered, and I am now numb to the feeling that all our data is both fleeting and yet permanent. Everything since then I've been much less attached to any data I put out there unless I make a real effort to save it on my own bare metal. Also I like to think that somewhere I've got my AIM chat logs saved off in all their ever changing font/multi-colored glory....

(Obligatory mention of Google Reader, beloved by many, but completely contrary to the internet they want you to see)
That is assuming everyone is moved by money and everything works in perfectly rational way. The problem is - humans are irrational.
That would be a narrated game. ;)

Narrative games are an old genre with its roots in text adventures that focuses on telling a story almost to the exclusion of other gameplay elements. If they do include other elements it will most likely come in the form of an environment puzzle, I find.
I've never met a company that simultaneously cared about GPA, but also had the bar low enough where 2.6 would be passable, and recruited from a top university.
You have hit the nail on the head.

The reason that Silicon Valley has so many of the Chinese/Indian/Other nationalities is simply because of the volume of available "Good Enough" Engineering talent. In most of these cultures a Master's degree is almost the norm. With this in hand, the practical aspects can often be learnt in training/on-the-job. Given that much of Modern Engineering has been systematically streamlined and commoditized, you really don't need very much "Creative" and "Out-of-the-Box" thinking as much as people who can manage and contribute within the existing framework and systems.
I'm afraid that you underestimate the quality of life and personal freedom in China and overestimate those in US.
It doesn't hurt to travel across different countries a bit rather than simply buying what Fox news says. Or you can check what those American expats staying in China say on Quora.
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I'm not really sure it's still an active project:

└─$ git clone git://git.debian.org/git/logcheck/logcheck.git
Cloning into 'logcheck'...
fatal: unable to connect to git.debian.org:
moszumanska.debian.org[0: 5.153.231.21]: errno=No route to host
moszumanska.debian.org[1: 2001:41c8:1000:21::21:21]: errno=Network is unreachable

Also none of their mailing lists seem to exist anymore: http://logcheck.org/lists.html
Unfortunately there's https://spectrum.im/ which is a bit close for comfort; compare:

https://spectrum.chat/
https://spectrum.im/
I don't think it is a big deal and hope no one gets charged. But you are using up resources, both ink and the time it takes to stop the printer from printing 100 pages of garbage, which could be non-trivial and disrupt important business functions. So I think it's a bit more malicious than calling unlisted telephones.

Oddly, I think calling unlisted telephones is more morally opposable than printing on random printers. So there are clearly two different ideals in my brain dueling for relevancy...
What you described is just symptoms of bad design.
When I worked at Mozilla, on MDN, we had this mysterious bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776048

The tl;dr is that MDN is a multilingual site, and supports categorization in a few ways, including by tagging. An example of the bug: the English MDN's CSS reference tagged articles with "CSS Reference". The French MDN's CSS reference tagged them "CSS Référence". Sometimes, the French tag appeared on English articles.

The source of the issue was MySQL's utf8_general_ci collation, which did not see "e" and "é" as distinct, so it was a toss-up as to which tag you'd get back from the database. The solution was to build and install a custom collation to teach MySQL to see accented and unaccented characters as distinct.
Google employees are a loud bunch. They always seem to be making statements, protesting or petitioning.

That there is so much controversy over there seems like the company has a values problem: nobody knows what they are.

At Apple, there is likely dissent about various decisions, but overall it seems like at a far lesser degree because the culture tends to reinforce the core values of the company. While at Google, it seems like there isn’t any leadership. Management sure, but no real leadership reinforcing values. It’s like they’re an old ship where the captain is wanting to go north, but the rowers are all rowing in whatever direction they want with no sense of mission, direction or purpose.

It’s a luxury that Google has because they essentially own a money printing press. A long way from the Don’t be Evil days.
> why not housing?

There are non-cynical reasons. It's not clear that optimizing for housing will work consistently. If many instances of poverty are caused by addiction, mental illness, corruption, or exploitation, it's not clear just throwing free apartments into the mix would address what we mean by "poverty".
Did they say it was GPA related or was that purely speculation? There's a bunch of stuff that can sink an offer and nowhere that I've done interviews has GPA been the reason that late
I think we're missing a big part of the story here.

>[I] was asked to write a statement justifying my lower than usual gpa (2.6) and a week later i was informed that the offer committee was unable to give me an offer.

What if it wasn't the gpa that turned them off, but the statement he wrote? I'm imagining something along the lines of "Well my GPA was bad because my professors weren't very good and I also partied too hard, but I've come to know better now.". It sounds like they really wanted to give him a chance, but he blew that statement.
Things move faster(fortunately) but the effect is similar. Any small invention in the past had huge effects on history. Europens won over the indigenious people because of the technology. It was not very advanced but good enough to change history. If the chinesse were not so...communist I wouldn't really say it's a bad thing in the big picture.
I disagree about the book mechanics dragging down ‘gameplay’. I can reread Tolkien ad nauseaum, but I still can’t get more than a quarter through any George Martin book.
It's not racist if it's somewhat true.

But seriously, I don't see why chips need to be built in a foreign country. What's wrong with building them in the US?
I like to think of the rage that social media has spawned as simply a natural result of everyone's thoughts coming on-line.

When Twitter first appeared I thought it was pretty dumb. Why would I want to see a friend's comment that they just went for a haircut? Or that someone just decided to watch show X?

The rage is everyone's collective, private thoughts. It's unclear to what extent the internet has exacerbated what was already there.
Conj always makes me so envious. So many good talks.

This one, the Rich Hickey one on Maybe, the Stuart Halloway one on REBL.

Any other must watches?

Hickey: https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug
Halloway: https://youtu.be/c52QhiXsmyI
I admittedly haven't looked at it since I gave up on my personal project, so I'm not entirely sure of it's state. However, a quick glance at the changelog seems to indicate that it supports .NetCore in some fashion.

https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/blob/master/CHANGES.txt

It'd be a shame if they discontinued it! A lot of incredibly smart and dedicated folks have put their hearts and souls into that project.
Indeed. https://add.org/undiagnosed-adult-adhd-a-high-cost-for-socie...
Complete list of managed dedicated server based on my exp and deep research
Just in case your family grows like mine, get this:
https://www.chevrolet.com/commercial/express-passenger-van

Store extra rows of seats in your garage until you need them.
grotesque, half baked workarounds are among the most long-term damaging things I've seen, yea. nobody understands them, so they limp along until they take other things down with them.
Whatever Docker is, it's Windows-only. Apparently.
An ABC of Kotlin
They already do that. On WallStreet they've been doing it for years(i.e hire ex MI6/Mossad/CIA). I don't see why it wouldn't happen in other sectors.
More so just the teenage angst driving a 19 year old to leave his mark on the world with a public prank
> Many of us won't be alive to see this code legally.

Dunno about you, but for me, it's hard to imagine an 85 year old in the year 2083 even caring about seeing this code legally.
> You're ignoring the male side of the equation

No, when I'm not ignoring the fact claim you point to when I say that Dworkin’s fact claims tend to be unsupported Fabrications of whatever is convenient for her ideological agenda.

> The sexual revolution dramatically reduced the reciprocal obligations men used to have in connection with sexual activity: i.e. taking care of the resulting kids.

Except that it, well, didn't do that at all. Except maybe in a transitory way, at the height of the sexual revolution, as far as informal social obligations within the subculture at the center of the sexual revolution, but that subculture had almost entirely collapsed as a coherent group and social force by the time Dworkin wrote Right-Wing Women, and is a distant memory today.

There's actually a not insignificant political movement centered around the fact that the increase in women's acceptable (including legally acceptable) choices in recent decades (in part, but not entirely, stemming from the Sexual Revolution) was not matched by a reduction in men's obligations (which the movement sees now as unilateral rather than reciprocal) but instead increased vigor in social and formal/legal enforcement of those obligations.

It's also hilariously ironic that people are resorting to Right-Wing Women as an authority in support of a reversion to the previous degree of support for traditional gender roles for women, quoting bits where she paints the sexual revolution as a false effort at women's liberation foisted upon women by patriarchal elements on the Left, since the central point of Right-Wing Women was describing how Dworkin saw those values as tools of patriarchal enslavement of women and, more to the point (hence the title of the work) female support for such values as a defensive adaptation to patriarchy that reinforces and normalizes their enslavement by it.

At the end of Chapter 2 of Right-Wing Women, Dworkin writes:

---[begin quote]---

Right-wing women see that within the system in which they live they cannot make their bodies their own, but they can agree to privatized male ownership: keep it one-on- one, as it were. They know that they are valued for their sex— their sex organs and their reproductive capacity—and so they try to up their value: through cooperation, manipulation, conformity; through displays of affection or attempts at friendship; through submission and obedience; and especially through the use of euphemism—“femininity, ” “total woman, ” “good, ” “maternal instinct, ” “motherly love. ” Their desperation is quiet; they hide their bruises of body and heart; they dress carefully and have good manners; they suffer, they love God, they follow the rules. They see that intelligence displayed in a woman is a flaw, that intelligence realized in a woman is a crime. They see the world they live in and they are not wrong. They use sex and babies to stay valuable because they need a home, food, clothing. They use the traditional intelligence of the female—animal, not human: they do what they have to to survive.

---[end quote]---
Not entirely. I do approach new projects with a bit more scrutiny than before, which I consider to be a good thing.

I do a lot of small projects here and there. I'm currently working on one that I've been chipping away at for the last six months or so, but it's coming along at a much more relaxing pace.

While I do think that it's important to finish what you start, I also believe that knowing when to stop is just as valuable.
It might not correlate much with an employee's "success at the company" but that doesn't mean it has nothing to do with success of the company.