skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this is better but I heard of people coming into work and no one is able to log in to find out that half the staff is being laid off. Also I have heard where you can't badge in one morning and then security escorts your to HR. This is prevalent particularly in the defense industry since they are worried about sabotage. Though this is all hearsay from Senior Mechanical Engineers that I met throughout my years. I have been warned many times to only bring enough to work where you can carry out in a box. I know colleagues who had their stuff in a plastic tote at all times (like valuable reference books) so they are always ready to leave at any time.
What about the value of the data? For a B2B company like MS, seems to me that the goodwill would really be worth that much if it generates future intangibles (useful data). I still see almost every professional with a linkedin account, even if nobody uses it. Imagine what you can infer about what projects other companies are working on just by the social graph. To explain what this article was complaining about, that doesn't give much incentive to make LinkedIn better.

Another reason why we need more itemization on intangibles in public filings...
I like this summary, but disagree slightly with

>Laziness is a lack of motivation that could be caused by any number of things, but is generally a sign that your current life situation doesn't inspire you into positive action.

I see motivation/inspiration/laziness conflated a lot. IMO 'laziness' is just a lack of discipline. You can be disciplined and still accomplish things without motivation or inspiration. In fact, I would argue that if you wait until you are inspired/motivated to get things done, you will be on the less-productive side of the spectrum.

Of course, it can be a huge challenge to stay disciplined when you are burnt out or depressed (or both). But, laziness is the difference between "I am depressed and don't feel like going to the gym" and "I am depressed and don't feel like going to the gym anyway, but I am still putting on my shoes and walking out the door".
dons tinfoil hat...

Chinese government unofficially encourages entrapment of high profile executives as bargaining chips.

Canada doesn’t like when one of their citizens is ensnared, applies pressure by upping the ante - holding a legitimate financial criminal from China.

China sees a game of chicken and ups the ante further - to “death” the ultimate expression of raw state power, intended to intimidate.

What happens next? I just hope no one dies.
Properly governments operate by the consent of those they govern.

Gangs rule territory and the people within it almost strictly by violence. The closest similar in governments is a dictatorship, which must rule by the constant arbitrary application of violence to keep people terrified. A proper government operates by the peaceful consent - representative government, democratic systems, constitutional rights protections - of citizens of that government.

This is obviously not always the case with governments, however it is overwhelmingly (nearly exclusively) the case in the more prosperous, stable nations.

Gangs don't operate by the democratic vote of those that suffer/live within their dominion, they operate by the stray, subjective, whim based application of extreme violence. Codes of honor that are strictly adhered to within the mafia or gangs is wholly a fantasy, a lie, cheap hollywood bullshit at odds with all of history. Brutal behavior is a requirement of maintaining power as a gang. Gangs must also constantly murder or intimidate other neighboring gangs, to maintain their territorial control. Properly a government does not behave that way. The US doesn't need to kill everyone in Canada and take what they have, in order for the US to be prosperous or to maintain US sovereignty and power; the same goes for the relations between eg Finland and Sweden, or Australia and New Zealand.

Gangs very specifically do not primarily operate by an objective application of rules of justice. Stable, prosperous nations & their governments tend to thrive precisely due to the application of objective laws, the steady enforcement of and protection of human liberty. Gangs operate by the subjective command at the top and the effective enslavement of productive people through terror. The rules are subject to arbitrary, often extreme, change when it's convenient to the gang's ruler/s. A new gang leadership can pivot the gang to an entirely different behavior on a whim; such behavioral change is wrong in a civilized nation, where human rights protections should be the primary concern and are not up for arbitrarily being tossed out the window. When the next leadership of the governments of Australia or Sweden come into being, they aren't going to randomly decide to murder a lot of people to establish their dominance.

This list doesn't stop, the differences between a proper government and a gang is elaborate. They're nearly polar opposites.
I'm not the inventor of anything but I'm going to call it and say that microformats and microdata are dead.
Fair. The time jumps were a bit jarring, though I guess I got used to those after a similar one pulled in Seveneves. I wouldn't mind if Cixin Liu shortened some parts of his book and used the reclaimed space to fill in those time jumps a bit, though.
I’ve always had a pleasant experience returning home. I travel 200 days in a year and never have I had a bad experience during US Immigration. In fact, I look forward to “Welcome home” from an officer although now it’s more expedited with the automated passport control and they hardly take more than 20 seconds to let you go.

I am curious of your bad experience, can you tell us more?

Edit: I do not look like a typical US Citizen.

Edit: Tangentially, I have also had great experience with American police. I’ve been pulled over a few times and the officers always have a calm demeanor with utmost level of professionalism. The narrative of US authorities mishaving happens in headline cases, not to vast number of people.
And WebSQL was more or less specified to be backed by SQLite, given its "specification" for the SQL used was "whatever SQLite x.y.z implements" (which was one of the reasons it was rejected)
Maybe you can also still work in the same field but for a different company? Because it doesn't sound like you're mostly missing a challenge or interesting problems, it sounds more like your management / senior staff isn't making the right decisions for you / in your opinion..
I'm still seeing these on the underground.
Sadly history suggests the turn into part isn't new at all. Just look at pretextual abuses like troublesome political figures receiving it like union leaders and anarchists with only tennous links to crimes philosophically let alone evidentiary. And before that there was King Henry the 8th and he certainly wasn't remotely the first.
You can disable or cripple fingerprinting by disabling or faking the data you send.
Blah, blah blah. Try telling this to my wife.
You don't think there is a big difference between 15 years in prison and the death penalty?
You still have a lot of time left in life after 15 years so it is major difference.
Reminds me of YotaPhone 2 eInk display - pretty crummy, but the Snapdragon 820 device stayed on a week on without additional power saving...
It's not my argument, it OECD economist reports.

Also, Germany laws are not France laws; comparing them is not valid.

Here [1] is a well cited paper showing from theory and empirically that gains in labor do result in unemployment. From the abstract: "Tight hiring and firing rules and military conscription most clearly seem to have adverse effects".

Here's [2] a slightly older one addressing France and Germany in particular, showing what I claimed. France is not Germany; your comparison is invalid.

Here's [3] another heavily cited, more recent paper, that pulls France out in particular. From the abstract: "Heavier regulation of labor is associated with lower labor force participation and higher unemployment, especially of the young."

There's plenty more papers with the same results. Use Google scholar to find them.

You can dislike the results, but ignoring the result and claiming they are not real simply hurts more people through ignoring evidence, thereby avoiding correct solutions to the problems.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014759670...

[2] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.11.3.37

[3] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/119/4/1339/185...
Yeah, as someone who is on the extreme end of introverted (not shy, just happy to be alone) this was the case for me. I got a membership to the co-working space, did many of the social events, attended some meetups even, but the connections just wouldn't stick.

On the flip side, when I have worked at an office I have always come out after a year or so with a couple close friends in the organization. Because of the physical proximity many of the shared experiences are more intense. Putting out production fires, after work beers, dropping in on a co-worker to talk about the product, etc, lead to longer lasting relationships.

Developers have a tendency to assume that technology can solve more of our issues than possible. I have plans to start my own company with a bit more savings and network under my belt, and I will be doing zero remote, assuming I can afford to.
People who find this interesting might find this answer of mine on stackoverflow interesting as well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44729275/1163490
I don't know if blender is comparable at all. There's a lot more to a game engine than rendering, and AFAIK blender is not even intended for real time animation. Ogre is an open source 3d engine, although I don't know about its funding: https://www.ogre3d.org/
Getting messages should not/does not have anything to do with running in the background.
Wow nice. The first time i heard someone doing what you did.

How did you find that project?
Even if you use open formats, if it's a web app it's not unlikely that it has a server side dependency. For single user flash apps it's uncommon not to be self-contained. So actually it's a requirement as well that the source code and the assets are open.
I know it's nice to see you in here and commenting, but I have to weigh in a bit to offer advice. These types of issues shouldn't exist in a modern application. Particularly one that deals with a fairly sensitive subject for a lot of people (looking for work).

I hope it's not an indication of the overall data handling approach within the application in general and just an oversight for launch. It might be worthwhile to re-visit your internal policies/review practice for safe harbour and be upfront about it.

Just a suggestion!
Not really. In terms of “this has completely ruined my life,” 15 years in a Chinese prison would rate about 9.8 out of 10 for me, while death is 10 out of 10. In terms of balancing the benefits of travel versus the risk of law enforcement misconduct, that additional 0.2 out of 10 makes no noticeable difference.
I help maintain systems so that people can manage their pensions, and have money to live on when they retire.
> -Government difficulties with taxation of digital goods and currency

Cryptonomicon covers this, too. Arguably so does REAMDE.
Right. If you want to hire people who live in the bay area, you should pay enough for them to at least live sustainably there.

If that's too expensive, adjust your recruiting or hiring strategy. Maybe recruit bay area programmers that realize their current salary isn't sustainable since they need to plan for illness, retirement, saving up to launch an idea, etc.
They don't have the incentive to ruin people's lives to game their performance metrics (like prosecutors do). They don't have incentive to make much to do over nothing to justify their budget (like cops do). They don't have incentive to keep people in the system as long as possible to milk money from them and the state (like the prison system does). They don't have incentive to perpetuate the war on drugs to sell crap we don't need like tasers (police abuse them) and post-release monitoring (an overpriced joke that plays fast and loose with people's lives).

The bad incentive for judges seems to be that most of them have a desire to not rock the boat too much which is pretty benign compared to all the other actors who go out of their way to perpetuate and further the status quo because they materially benefit from it.

I find it hard to fault the judges for apathetically presiding over a flawed system when every other group you mentioned is doubling down to further that system.
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Thanks for informing. Will fix it.
I first encountered this idea reading VoxDay. He was against free markets because - to paraphrase - US workers are too stupid to compete.

This tribalism is so strange to me. I can sort of understand the US-vs-the-world thing (the US is huge), but being from Europe, with dozens of tiny countries, the ideas that Belgians are intrinsically worth more protection than Albanians is just nuts.
I work hard so that the end of my life, nobody can attribute the things I accomplished to 'being lucky' or 'being privileged'.

I acknowledge that those I have luck and privilege. Everyone does. But I don't want my biggest accomplishments to be "he was in the right place at the right time."
> "those people probably did something stupid, it won't apply to me"

To be fair, he did attempt to smuggle "methamphetamines to Australia in pellets stuffed inside tires".

It's not like they picked some random foreigner and accused him of something.
This sort of portability is usually handled by the DB routing layer in cloud native ("webscale") database deployments. eg in Cassandra.

of course there are a lot of systems where one MySQL DB instance is needed and sufficient for the forseeable future. so that's a very static resource allocation one VM on a hypervisor with local disk, (and with backups every day), makes a lot of smaller sites very happy, and if they get the local provisioned performance instead of the EBS variant they will be happier for longer.

of course, EBS is a lot more fault tolerant.
Maybe it is different when you don't _look_ like you're a US citizen.
It’s unusual to change a 15 year sentence straight to death penalty. What due process do Chinese courts have?
SBT is awful (so ignore it); Maven is wonderful. Visual Studio is very good, but grandparent said their code was previously in Java, in which case their team will already be used to IntelliJ or Eclipse, and it's F# that would involve making a transition.
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I wonder what an AtariLisp would look like ;p
It's always been like that here - the police departments that were supposed to fight drug trade basically overtook it. So why would they arrest their own employees when they can close their quota with drug users instead?
> Is a safe 9-5 job inherently "meaningless" now?

I didn't read it that way. Two sets of ppl whose 9-5 jobs can be 1. meaningful 2. meaningless. OP's question is for second set of ppl. Wans't implying that set one doesn't exist.
Literally in the same position (miserable WS tech gig). How'd you get the grit to make the jump?
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Most tourism in China probably comes from within China.
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I am researching for a project idea I have and was actually looking up in memory SQL databases for node last night to store and sort data instead of creating a object and custom functions to filter it.

I came across https://nanosql.io/ also which I am leaning more towards. Not to the point yet to play with either yet but it seemed like nanosql had better documentation and also less issues opened on Github right now.

Kinda odd how when you look up things or think of things you see signs of them... Just wow'ed to see something I was looking at last night be #4 on the HN homepage... I know people talk about positivity and the law of attraction but starting to believe more and more in it where thoughts and focus becomes reality.
Respectfully, your comment makes no sense.

> Yes, you have to be good at your job and hard to replace before you make demands.

You are required to sign a non-compete before accepting the job. You cannot be "hard to replace" because you haven't started that job yet.

They won't even "replace" you - they just won't hire you!

> At any rate, I've had plenty of success striking all non-compete agreements

As I mentioned elsewhere, this is possible if you are a very strong senior candidate negotiating with relatively small employers who are desperate to hire you and don't have many alternative candidates.

At larger corporations, I've been told straight up that the non-competes are policy and won't be waived for anyone.

If you check the history of non-compete lawsuits, you'll find some very senior employees being sued, so this statements seem true.
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Also, I've been working on an US EST schedule since 2000 (from Eastern Europe). It's great for waking up late (I hate early mornings) and having the day free for shopping or whatever.
Cool, what kind of fossil fuel does the machine run on?
Quality in online markets is better than from your dial-a-dope guy.
Having talked to

1) one coworker who moved from the bay area to the midwest

2) another coworker evaluating NYC vs other potential places to live in the US

it seems like what Mozilla pays doesn't differ that much across their different US geographic salary bands. Both coworkers found it would be more favorable for them to take the small pay cut in exchange for a dramatic cost and quality of living difference.
Reminds me of the sarcastic and cynical inversion - referring to gangs as baby governments. Historically that isn't wrong given that strongmen charging protection fees (by consent or coercion) and making an example of any "bandits" harming his income by robbing them or harming their paying subjects. This creates the monopoly on violence and things can progress from there for better or worse.

Given an apocalyptic collapse and enough time you might see the Crip Nation eventually become literal.
That is a very uncommon opinion.
> So the guardian, a member of the media, is telling us that the media are unwittingly selling an AI fantasy?

No, it is an opinion piece written by an academic that summarizes the findings of a research study of how media outlets covered AI in their articles.
Can I ask on which platform you bought the project? Would like to do something similar.
I’m also in my thirties and have a 1 year old boy. I want to wake up at 5, but can’t find the power and energy. What would you suggest me?
Nope. I work in equity research and am lucky enough to be on the team that I'm on, but it doesn't seem meaningful or worthwhile. I generate investment ideas through industry, company-specific, and technology-specific research and then publish these ideas in reports for my client base. Most of my job is then debating investors on specific technology investments or trends.

Sell-side finance (e.g. investment bank) is broadly declining in my view. Companies are cutting many positions, technology is enabling downsizing while making certain areas more efficient, and there's fee compression across the board causing many public market facing roles to see substantial revenue declines.

The trade that existed in the 2000's of trading substantial hours of your life for $$$ has broadly disappeared. Instead positions tend to offer compensation that's similar to many tech roles, but requiring substantially more hours.
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Presumably you would have an error log in the crash circumstance, unless it was very seriously broken.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Actually, we do precisely this. Google contributes heavily to Linux, KVM, LLVM, and so on in addition to the open source projects we launched (Android, Chromium, Kubernetes to name some popular ones).

Our marketing team decided to highlight this on https://cloud.google.com/open-cloud/ which does an okay job. Feedback welcome, and I’ll pass it along to them.
.d is a common Unix include directory pattern. See cron.d, xinetrc.d, conf.d etc. Packages can just add/remove things to the include dir rather than modifying the main config.
Well yeah, that's the point. MongoDB's business model before was trying to sell Amazon CD's. Then they turned the screws on that and switched to an even more onerous license that a company like Amazon wasn't going to accept, so they wrote their own replacement.

If it's an economic lesson in anything it's that companies and individual open source users alike are going to be a lot more careful about using any project where one for-profit company demands copyright assignment and can re-license the project at any time to squeeze existing users.

MongoDB's bet was that they had enough of a moat that Amazon et al would fold up and accept their new terms, that was obviously miscalculated, but there still might be other similar cloud companies who'll fold.

But both Amazon and other users are going to be a lot more careful in the future to not run critical infrastructure on some project that's likely to be subject to a future bait & switch by upstream.
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Oh man, too accurate. Why were these words exactly what I needed to hear?

Good site, thanks for the help.
After 20 years in recruiting for tech startups I decided to launch a resume writing and career coaching business. In recruiting I was often helping candidates to fix their resumes and teaching them how to get jobs, but I was working on behalf of companies and my incentives weren't always to the benefit of candidates.

Now I focus 100% on helping people get jobs and build careers. Much of my coaching work involves convincing people that they are qualified for roles they felt were beyond their reach, or helping write a resume that will open doors that had previously been closed.

Sometimes my clients come back and send me a thank you note about how they have been offered their dream job or a raise that will change the lives of their family. Sometimes I just see a LinkedIn notification that shows a past client took a new job.

Being a resume writer is an odd career choice. It's not glamorous like writing novels or screenplays. But I can point to thousands of people that have benefitted from my work. That feels meaningful to me.
Since you want to do drawings and stuff we're definitely talking JavaScript and graphic frameworks, either raw canvas or something like the D3 library would be my guess.

For the backend, although it pains me to say so, I suggest PHP simply because there's a metric fkton of tutorials, guide, mentors, bootcamps, and what-have-you.

However, if your goal is to expand one day and hire on developers, I'd look around your area to see what's in demand and go with that, as it'll be your best bet to find developers later on.

I'm sure you'll get lots of suggestions for JS frontend frameworks, but honestly I'd stay away from them and go with the basics, JavaScript + JQuery + D3, plenty powerful and doesn't have the extra learning curve of whatever flavor-of-the-month JS framework.

Personally I'd not use PHP because I don't like to work in it, and I'm more productive in other languages, but there's no denying it's the most used webserver language in existence, it's updated/modern, hosting is cheap, and there are LOADS of information out there for how to do just about anything.
yes sure, go ahead
He was a convicted drug dealer, that's little comfort when other people like the random teacher [0] and entrepreneur [1] they arrested were not.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-sarah-mciver-detained...

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-officials-meet-wit...