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Ask HN: Would you hire a felon for technical work?
Committed a white collar money crime, over two decades ago. Did time for it. Left that behind. Completed parole, even got pardoned for the crimes. NOTE: pardon != expungement.

I have an extensive IT background, including sysadmin, support, automation coding, HPC admin.

Jobs and gigs since then have had me working on critical systems and having Administrator/root access to sensitive data.

It just seems harder lately to get past this, and it's extremely discouraging.

Would you hire someone with those creds, or does the presence of a past felony just automatically preclude them from consideration?
More specifically this:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/deepmask/blob/master/REA...
McKinsey Statement on The New York Times Article
When I lived in Germany almost all my German friends bought large bottles of water to drink at home and never/rarely drank tap water. It's also uncommon for people to order tap water in restaurants. It would be interesting to know how this became common practice. They do often use reusable bottles, though.
If you go on a Very Low Calorie Diet(usually in the range of 400-700 calories or less a day), your body goes into starvation mode, thinks that there must not be enough food to go around so no need to feel hungry. That might be what you're referring to as fasting should have the same effect. I haven't heard of the effect continuing after starting to eat 1000+ calories a day again though, so I'd need to see some data on that.
>and it's not POWER9

Surely POWER9 is open as well? Otherwise how did Raptor ship their POWER9 CPU?
Why we are moving away from Om
Surely that could be pumped up, write a script to auto-grab the video files, rename them to $dvd_name(n) and place in folder. Deal with combining those files later(when you have more time).

Note:it's been a looking time since I have tried to pull DVD files, but if my (rusty) memory serves certain types of DVD readers will just let you copy the vob.
Sci-hub

And for a guilt free conscience, donate to a decent non-profit 1usd for every paper. Or directly to authors if there is a way.

Publishers are a racket
It's not the time, it's the energy. To get to the nearest star (4LY away) in 200 years, you'd need to accelerate to 2% of light speed (6000km/s) and have the means to slow down when you arrive.

And that's just the energy to move you- how do you stay fed, etc, for 200 years far from any star?
How people use a tool is not the fault of the tool - there is an underlying issue that drives that behavior. It would be like mandating that hammers have to be soft enough that they can't damage a skull because people use them to bash in peoples heads, which yes would prevent hammers from being used as weapons but would render them ineffective at their original purpose.
Yep, totally spoiled now. Can’t eat a steak at a restaurant or anyone’s house after sous-vide.

I also have a great marinade that we add to the bag while it cooks. Seriously, it is ridiculous.
You’d want a block level image of the DVD for archival purposes, such as an ISO or BIN format.

Using dd (Linux) or Disk Utility (Mac) makes this straightforward.
Thanks for the perspective on the actual performance of these algorithms. So yeah, as an algorithmic fact it isn't necessary to proceed sequentially, though perhaps not performant to proceed in parallel either.

Anyway, I heard AMD has 64 cores on a single chip so it may not be too long..
What is the current science on the safety of drinking tap water?
Gamer's Nexus did really great coverage on the PC tower versions. Both a written and video version:
https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3401-walmart-gaming-pc...

My favorite part is where he ordered (and paid for) the $2100 DTW3 but received the $1400 DTW1.
Hell, I managed Manhattan for three years on <30K during grad school with money leftover to take trips here and there and party a bit on the weekends. I wasn’t living like a king, but it’s 100% doable. Get a roommate in Washington heights near the A, be smart about your grocery purchases, get an unlimited metro card and don’t take cabs or Uber.
I would contend that there is a difference. They are advertising a watch. But what most people are receiving is a piece of trash.

If a local taco joint advertises 5 cent tacos for a promotion and they give you a moldy peanut butter sandwich, you would probably be really annoyed.
And living in Park Slope is much nicer than living in Millbrae, at least if you're looking for an urban lifestyle with walkable amenities. New York City just has that everywhere, for miles and miles.
Interesting. I am deaf, thanks to tumors on the auditory/vestibular nerves and do experience pretty bad loss of balance issues, to the point where people often think I am walking around drunk when I am not :) But I can't remember ever experiencing motion sickness! Time to apply to NASA I guess.
https://css-tricks.com/box-sizing/

https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/box-sizing-secret-simple-css-...

https://quirksmode.org/css/user-interface/boxsizing.html

https://www.jefftk.com/p/the-revenge-of-the-ie-box-model

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/12351

https://jgthms.com/minireset.css/

https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize

https://semantic-ui.com/globals/reset.html
The intent is definitely to handle this as well. (Not really going to try and dig into legal reasoning here.)
There's an In-N-Out on the north side of SF and Chinatown has a ton of cheap eating options. You can eat for cheap in either city.
It's not coming from just Americans, it's coming from anyone who wants to hold companies accountable for their behavior when it impacts the general wellbeing and rights of human beings, regardless of where they live. There's probably just more of that in western, non-authoritarian countries.
Jason Scott has a nice podcast where he talks about a range of topics of interest to the HN community.
The Boring Company is on really shaky ground after the entrance cave in back on Dec 5th and construction setbacks. It'll be interesting to see if they survive, they're still in live or die startup mode.
Empirical Evidence on Impact of CA SB826: Gender Quotas for Boards of Directors
According to the rumors, Dragonfly goes far beyond censorship, in that it has provisions to identify specific people from search queries. So it's not just that searching for "Tiananmen Square" wouldn't give any useful results, but it'd also let the Big Brother know who was inappropriately curious.

Combine this with their upcoming social credit system, and you can easily see how this is proactively helping build an authoritarian panopticon dystopia.
Yea but transit in the Bay shuts down hella early. Getting to Park Slope at 2am from Manhattan is significantly easier (and safer) than Millbrae (or Oakland or wherever) from San Francisco.
There’s this thing, called a grocery store.

I’ve even heard there is multiple of those in the city !
Bogus, slanderous title. The phisher is clearly not Cloudflare.
Damnit, America!
The worst part in most of these "Big Deals" is lock-in taxpayers money without any flexibility to save by cancelling titles of lower value. This is what prevents these funds from being spent on the new innovative lower cost and higher value initiatives.
https://medium.com/@dmitri145/inefficient-publishing-industr...

And this is how we can change it:
https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/100
With roommates you can definitely have 1500 of rent in SF in « desirable » neighborhoods.
I remember when I took the programming algorithm class back in college. That was the first time I saw Dr. Knuth's book the art of programming... and I was thinking "what the? Are we supposed to read this?"
The only thing that would of made your summary better is if it was written in the Dotsies font.
On the topic of The Boring Company, is anyone else going to the tunnel unveil event tomorrow?
Though it's probably not the case here, there are some discs with copy protection that specifically trips up block-level copies. The drive will continually error and misread sectors. I'm not sure what open-source tooling can be used to circumvent; I always end up falling back to AnyDVD.
> ... for what would theoretically be a pretty normal CRUD app in most people's minds

Is Facebook also a pretty normal CRUD app?
But negligence implies an obligation to act. Did facebook have an obligation to recognize the breadth and depth of the Russian operation against the U.S.? I don't see how.

These are the questions that folks who want to see facebook suffer consequences of some kind need to address. Your argument is not made simply by pointing out that bad things happened on facebook.
> This seems somewhat misguided... I know Facebook is the whipping-boy de jour, but it seems evident that Facebook is the biggest victim in all of this. All of the bad press FB is getting lately... literally years after events occurred and after they've been working to rectify the issues is curious.

They helped throw an election. This is not the sort of thing you forgive and forget after a couple of years and some apologies.
> From what I've read, the main opposition is only coming from Americans... oddly enough.

Google is headquartered in the USA. Not only that, but the engineers working on Dragonfly also reside and work in the USA. As such, not only is it not surprising that the main opposition is coming from Americans, but American citizens have a unique right to express it and have something done about that.

If Google execs want to operate in China without being impeded by the American public opinion, they are welcome to spin off an independent organization for Dragonfly and headquarter it in China, where there are no such pesky obstacles.
Wow, that's wild. It makes me happy someone else remembers it. I kinda figured it was just me as I think I attended the lecture alone that year--pretty sure it was 2015.

FTR, the answer to how I got it: I made an off-hand comment to my wife about the magazine and she tracked it down for the next gift-giving occasion.
I am still not sure if this is an elaborate satire or not.
Binaries are not opaque gibberish, it is possible to analyze them.

And of course for major apps, there are people doing so.
Censorship, Alas, Works
Twitter Bug Leaks Its User Phone Number and Country Codes
https://docs.opencv.org/3.1.0/db/d5c/tutorial_py_bg_subtract...
Cities like NYC and Los Angeles are seeing an explosion in tech jobs lately as the Bay Area is bleeding out.
Same thing but the other way. Sometimes my shirts touching my belly cause me discomfort for some reason. Now I can blame my perhaps faulty cerebellum for not filtering it out.
> It's definitely interesting that Chinese nationals were almost universally for dragonfly and yet the "progressive" activists didn't care at all

Human rights are not subject to a simple majority rule.

And this whole thing isn't about what Chinese want. It's about what Americans are okay with helping Chinese do. If the majority of Chinese support labor camps for ethnic minorities, that's one thing; but when American citizens aid them in filling those camps, then those citizens are a fair target for their compatriots, regardless of what the Chinese think about it all.
The book where he discusses these is also wonderful: "Things a computer scientist rarely talks about".

https://www.amazon.com/Things-Computer-Scientist-Rarely-Lect...
Asked this in another thread, but putting here so you see it. What is the current scientific basis for the vilification of tap water? How unsafe or dangerous is it?
No, because on Earth one can reconcile time. If Vikings go to Newfoundland, fight a battle, and return to Norway 10 years after they left, both the people in Norway, and also the warriors who went to Newfoundland, will agree that 10 years passed. You don't end up with one group feeling that 1 year passed and another group feeling 10 years passed, and perhaps a different group that feels 100 years have passed.
>We never will, but it’s very important that we be able to. But we won’t. So let us do it. Because we won’t do it. Which is why we’re spending so much money to make sure we can. But we won’t. But let us.

https://twitter.com/loresjoberg/status/933784794713821184?la...

Why not write them so secret dragooning is not possible then?

The answer to that question is painfully obvious.
“Hypothetically” you mean
Now imagine how much time and energy it would take to gather 15x6x2in blocks of wood. To mill them out to shape, transport them. How long does it take to grow trees big enough to get such large blocks from?

Quite a bit worse than a bit of injection molded plastic.
Yep, its a classic problem of externalities.

The pollution caused by plastic bottles, and the cost to clean them up, are not paid for by the people buying them.

10c tariff for every individual plastic item should solve the problem. Use the money to fund public water fountains, and 5c to whomever hands in the bottles to be recycled.
Why is this getting downvoted?

I was asking a question?
If you weren't getting a "They Live" vibe from this whole thing, then, whew those interstitials will definitely do the trick
Isnt it a subsidiary of SpaceX though?
Consider that the article may be written for people on the law enforcement/policy side of the debate.
Get rid of the screen obscuring pop-up that can’t be closed, and I might recommend this site to others.
> I get what you're saying but a country is sovreign from othets and corporations don't get to decide what's acceptable in a country.

That is not the question at hand. If China or Iran want to implement censorship, Google can't stop them.

The question is whether Google should help them. And since Google is not a Chinese or an Iranian corporation, but rather an American one, USA as a sovereign country - and, since it's a democratic republic, its citizens - absolutely gets to decide what's acceptable on its soil, for its citizens, and for its corporations.
Windows 10 now has its own exclusive Linux distro – WLinux
Wow, what a headline "Company faces Questions" ?!?!

Oh my, not nasty, horrible, scary, questions!

The anti-Telsa/SpaceX/Elon news cycle gets more transparent every day.
I'm glad SpaceX is private. There are legitimate concerns here but let the man build his tunnels!
When they were first released they were not at all cheap, while being noticeably factually inferior to solutions from many other systems integrator's.

They did however adjust the pricing subsequently to be competitive price-wise however still with inferior components. So better than it was but still not great.

(the DTW3 is $2100) "Markup on this thing is completely insane, even for a system integrator. Incumbent competitors like iBUYPOWER offer an RTX 2080 and i7-9700K at a cheaper price of $1700, but also include brand-name PSUs, motherboards with Z-series chipsets, and 3200MHz memory in multiple slots. For the same price, Walmart uses unbranded PSUs without any efficiency ratings or certifications, 2400MHz garbage-bin RAM, and an H310 chipset with half the bus transfer speed as baseline. The Overpowered DTW3 and DTW1 (and presumably DTW2) are criminally incompetent in their components selection."
Source: https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3401-walmart-gaming-pc...
https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-rippi... can be modified fairly easily to just copy the disc image and not attempt any encoding.
It's the difference between not actively resisting something that is morally wrong, and actively assisting in its implementation.
To me, what you are saying sounds more akin to government mandated attorneys for litigants in civil suits though, not judges.

And yes, I would see that being an issue.
Just one in-n-out?
If there is great uncertainty, both you and your client will likely find great value in pursuing a roadmapping and discovery mini-project. [0] Also, don't forget that even big unwieldy projects can be broken into smaller more manageable milestones/sub-projects.

[0] https://taprun.com/newsletter/12#question
It's what all companies there are required to do and the Chinese people accept it, and a lot of them welcome the social credit system (according to reporting on the program) it's arrogant to to presume we know what's best for them.
Yeah, it's a telling point that when we're asked to read passages of Dotsies, the font's sized up least three times (36px to 42px)—and so at least nine times the screen area taken—compared to the base 13px size used in the "How much better is it?" example.

You're going to need damn good eyes to read Dotsies at anything like 13px, and I suspect even the sharp-eyed are going to misread a lot. Size Dotsies text up to the point that people of average vision can read it as reliably as a normal font at a reasonable size, and I don't think you're going to get much, if any, greater information density.

I'm reminded of Speedtalk, a language from Robert Heinlein's story "Gulf", which had every combination of phoneme and delivery (pitch, length, etc.) represent a word in the Basic English vocabulary. So, every spoken "word" in the language is actually a full sentence. But, it takes intense futuristic training just to be able to speak vaguely intelligibly in it, because all the normal imprecisions of speaking (much less speaking in a new language) take any tiny error from "You used 'record' as a noun, but with a long 'e' and the stress on the second syllable." to "You have a hovercraft, and it's full of what???"

Now imagine trying to follow speech in such a language if the speaker's out of breath, alarmed, surrounded by background noise, etc. Just not enough redundancy for reliable communication.
Could this be tunneling? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunneling_(fraud)
I think this is an excessively cynical interpretation: sometimes people and organizations just return money because they think it's ill-begotten, not because they've calculated that keeping the money will either harm their reputation or cost them more than it's actually worth.
What is need is open protocols. Users can write their own implementation if they do not want to use the existing ones. WhatsApp uses XMPP according to Wikipedia, so you could implement your own according to XMPP, I suppose. You might also just use your own programs and protocols. If the messages are encrypted with the recipient's key then nobody else can know what is the message, but only that there is a message. So, you can implement encryption on client the server does not need to know about it.
Would you rather it stay closed?
On this, we disagree about the evidence.

It appears that there is a federal investigator on the case, so I suggest we watch what comes of that.
I thought this was an obvious prank until I read the comments here... which I also assume to be a part of the prank.
> I've heard that interviews at all the FAANG companies are all difficult (as an aside, why is Microsoft never in that list??)

Because the original definition of FAANG was for the investor crowd, and looked at companies solely from the perspective of their stock performance and "potential growth". Microsoft wasn't supposed to be good at either back when this was coined.

We now use it in very different contexts, though, such as when discussing employment practices and internal work culture of those companies. In that particular context, I think Microsoft does belong there.
Nearly $113M raised, wsj article says it owns only 6%

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/16/elon-musks-boring-co-raise...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1737630/000173763018...
Nope: automatic readers rely heavily on redundancy. QR codes are like 20% data, 80% error correction. OCR is still a difficult problem, despite the redundancy built in to the alphabet. There's no way a machine reader could tell apart characters that differ by one pixel
un-paywall
https://outline.com/RcMRDF
"on the north side of SF" is really "over in Fisherman's Wharf", which is a notorious tourist trap that's not convenient to get to in the slightest. It can't be compared to a pizza slice joint or falafel or what have you.

Chinatown, yes.
>And that's just the energy to move you- how do you stay fed, etc, for 200 years far from any star?

If you are bringing enough energy with you to achieve that kind of propulsion everything else will just be a tiny sliver on top of it.
How does this background removal tool work? The removal and keeping the people is really good, far better than I have done in the past manually
> They built tools that can be used this way? Are you serious? This is the big crime?

Yes. It is. Selling hacking tools is illegal. Running a darknet marketplace is illegal. Selling cell-phone jammers is illegal.

All of these are tools that may have various legitimate uses, but it's still illegal to sell them. (And in some cases just to produce them).

> But why do I have a feeling they did not actually review ads?

Because your perceptions are misaligned with reality. Here's a handy link to Facebook explaining that they review ads: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/204798856225114
Apologies for not taking Poe's law into account, but it takes a serious lack of self-awareness to suggest that the organization responsible for the integration of the American public sphere should self-segregate.
If someone I knew would recommend you, I wouldn't care at all about the record. You need to build a network and you'll be golden.

If on the other hand, if you just applied on a website - I would not hire you. Some people will not say that on here, but you're looking for honest feedback. That's mine.
You can use Graal native image to compile Clojure apps to single binaries. https://www.astrecipes.net/blog/2018/07/20/cmd-line-apps-wit...

There is also a lein (clojure build tool) plugin for this at https://github.com/taylorwood/lein-native-image
Little Ice Age? No. Big Warming Age? Yes
they AND'ed the three criteria which may explain the lower percentage, if you just consider uninspired then yeah 90%, but some of the uninspired may not be unhappy
Gold is very different. There's a lot of ornamental uses(some industrial) and also historical and cultural value. Owning and hoarding gold is a status symbol in some cultures(2.5 billion plus with just China+India) way beyond owning the latest and most expensive iPhones.

Throughout most of modern history, you could buy things with gold and that's unlikely to change. Barring alchemy or some extreme globalwide natural disasters, there's a value floor on gold that's missing with bitcoin.

There are no current killer applications for bitcoin beyond some semi-legal trade of illicit drugs and ransomware which doesn't even need or cause the currency price to go up since it's usually converted back and forth to fiat. Perhaps this will change if countries currencies go belly up and die (think Venezuela, Argentina and Zimbabwe).
It doesn't matter whether 10 or 100 years have passed, the only thing that matters is causal order. After all, the King only needs to assign punishments and rewards, and those are based on what happened and why. "What happened and why" is the same in every reference frame.

Even things like 10-year jail sentences will still work, because you clearly are asking for 10 years from the perspective of the convict.
We've had a few tunnels built around my city. It transpired through every one of those projects: late, ended up bankrupt, rebought, refinanced, ended up expensive to users. I mean they still made them and they work, well, but $10 a toll :)
Is that actively maintained? Last commit on the GitHub repo has been two months ago, and the wiki page was last edited in 2014.
I'm somewhat horrified by the constant struggles Musk's companies have with ethics.

Why is there a cult following when fraud and employee abuse is common?
In the article, they mention one of the first states to enact similar legislation is New York, not a state usually refered to as right wing.
Dragonfly is a search engine project. It's nothing to do with the situation in Xinjiang other than being in the same country.

The US has our own issues, and I'm not comparing or trivializing anything, but you'd be nuts to say that Google should boycott America over them.