skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people profit short-term by trading with China. It's easier to make a profit as a middleman with China than as a manufacturer in a western country. I'm definitely left wing, but I applaud Trump for the tariffs. Tariffs are a must for the western world if we want to maintain our standards of living and survive long-term.

Germany is also a predatory exporter in Europe, but fewer people seem to care about that. The US definitely doesn't want to end up having the same relations with China as Southern European countries ("PIIGS") have with Germany. You can't win if you have zero leverage left to negotiate.
Also used in research grant proposals
Perhaps a Segway might work for you? Keep it in your car.
Is there something like 'good data'?
> "H1-B candidates are attractive for companies because it is harder for them to switch jobs"

The extent to which this is true, is severely overestimated. Both by citizens and by the h1b holders themselves. I have a close friend who has switched companies 4 times while on a h1b, and it was a breeze.

https://www.prideimmigration.com/can-you-change-jobs-h1b-vis...

The only complicating factors are Trump-era changes such as suspension of premium processing and greater risk of rejections. Combined, these do have a chilling effect on job transfers, which ironically leads to h1b abuses like mentioned in the article. But even then, these are easily surmountable hurdles.
The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (2017)
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NYT is a great example for mindless optimization of short-term metrics. Canceling my subscription during the 2016 presidential race was such a humiluating experience that I would never again subscribe even though I miss reading the NYT. They lost me forever.
automation could also do the opposite....liberalize and spread technology. Imagine a world where owning an "advanced" production robot costs $500-$1,000. Right now people view automation technology as being very expensive but if you look at trends in automation technology the price of that technology is actually declining so even small businesses can utilize the same technology as the mega corporations of the world.
That article is a little short or exactly where the combining is failing. Can you elaborate?

I'd probably argue that if you're not a massively established shopping portal that content (either to drive relevant traffic or as, essentially, a long-form sales pitch) is absolutely the best way to get sales. If you're not running ads pretty much anything that's going to rank or go viral is content rather than commerce.

Or am I missing something?
58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, state official says
No, our economic system does not rely on lots of consumers. It relies on people spending money. 1,000 people spending $1 is equivalent to one person spending $1,000. It is the dollar amount of spending that is important, not the total amount of consumers. Another key economic metric is the velocity of money...or how fast money goes from one person to the next. The faster the velocity of money...the better because we assume that when people trade...both are made better off through specialization.
The post links to "Podman - The next generation of Linux container tools" (https://developers.redhat.com/articles/podman-next-generatio...), in which the author notes that Docker "requires anyone who wants to build a container image to have root access. That can create security risks".

I'm extrapolating that an advantage of Podman is that it should not require root permissions. But almost every call to podman in the article involves sudo. Can anyone clarify?
It doesn't involve any loss of data, but it could degrade your data safety. If you cancel your subscription, your quota is reduced and, if you're now over quota your desktop client stops syncing. It may also prevent Camera Uploads from working on your phone. So you might delete a photo from your phone assuming it was uploaded to Dropbox but it wasn't because you were over quota.
I very much agree. We recently did a dive into this business model to see if it solves a problem people would genuinely pay for. https://medium.com/lean-canvas-takedown/why-ar-fails-blippar...

Short answer: no it doesn't.
Yeah, a lot of it is hard to watch. Remember the whole room watercooling project?

That being said, I gotta say kudos to the business end of his operation.
Aren't most of the oil tankers near China supplying oil to China? In which case there's no need to sink them — just stop buying the oil.
Spouse, "family" and friends are different goalposts. Mapping friends and family is AFAIK a key part of who gets bombed by the cia. Sure, if your spouse is found to be an "enemy of the state" under a new totalitarian government - your immediate family will have problems.

If a friend turns out to be union organizer, you might be banned from jobs, if the government decides to collude with employers (again).
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clairity 4 days ago | parent | on: A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

> "Schools are upside down. Students should be teaching, and teachers at all levels should learn no matter how much they resist doing so."
i was musing about this the other day... split the day between teaching and learning (probably alternating by hour): teach the grade below you

Interesting idea but not so easy to do right: my wife when she was young had to teach her (much younger) little brother: the result? She was doing his homework instead of teaching him how to do it: much easier for her of course..
A good friend of mine from university is a Googler. He is a nice guy, but incredibly political and technically not very capable. A master of making himself look good, schmoozing and talking the talk. He has done rather well at Google.

Yet another friend, a brilliant, straight-talking techy, struggles at moving up the ranks Google.

Only one data point, but given the comments here, perhaps it is somewhat accurate.
I agree with you but I would like to point out that this is not Elementary School's fault. It's society's fault and Elementary School is when we first see the effects of this phenomenon, also some (most?) people will only get out from their caves at a later point in their lives.
Leaked a Recent Image of the Galaxy S10
As r/soccerstreams falls, where next for illegal football streams?
It is dangerous, but it is also fairly common if the bonuses are all but guaranteed and make up a significant part of the total compensation.
So dependent types. Unfortunately, not decidable.

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/12691/what-makes-type...

In general I am torn between the enthusiasm people like the author bring to the table and their apparent lack of due diligence regarding a discipline that has been subject to thorough research for decades.
It’s not hard. It would just be utter chaos for any executive to oversee or steer in a certain direction.

Well, I guess that means it’s hard if you look at it from the perspective of running a listed company.
Well, some of the ways they are not treated well seem to be sailing pretty close to the wind in terms of Australian labour law or are outright illegal. It's also pretty hard to imagine these services being remotely workable without a steady supply of "students" who are in Australia supposedly earning degrees but in practice are a giant pool of cheap labour. You can make various libertarian quibbles about both Australian labour and immigration rules, but not everyone wishes to subscribe to your libertarian newsletter....
I believe the better approach to #1 is to:

- say that you’re not sure

- articulate an hypothesis of what it might be to the best of your knowledge (it's likely you’re going to be 80% right)

- propose to launch an effort / work stream / project to figure it out

In many cases managers are just happy with an 80% answer and will reject to waste efforts to dive deeper. Managers can deal with uncertainty and with situations where the 80% answer is wrong. What they typically don’t like is being stalled
> "The trick is when you H1B employer also offers to sponsor your green card. That isn't transferrable"

Yes but the priority date itself is transferable. This allows you to job hop as many times as you want, without losing your place in line. If you have to wait 10 years for your green card, you might as well take advantage of this option and only worry about your green card 9 years down the road.
I was immediately reminded of a scene from "Office Space": "Peter: You’re gonna lay off Samir and Michael?... Do they know this yet?

Bob: No! No, of course not! We find it’s always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there’s less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week."

It's all so hilariously penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Personally the bezel is driving me nuts. How is the screen not flush with the top frame? Coil whining is taken care of by preventing any single core to run at 100% for any period of time.
My biggest grip is still the lack of proper docking station for using it as a desktop replacement. Every single port replicator I have used fails at some point (ethernet, dual monitor, external USB device) and requires a reboot. For that reason I would personally go with a TP given the choice.
> To me, it feels like people not getting the promotions they think they deserve is an extremely mundane problem.

Google management to this day claims that eligibility for promotion is based solely on whether or not an employee is consistently performing at the next level on a well defined job ladder. If they are, they're promoted.

The problem is not the lack of promotions. The problem is that introducing promotion quotas or limits directly conflicts with the merit-ONLY-based promotion system that management claims exists.
More clicks gathered is more money gained.
One horse-drawn chariot definitely makes more noise than one car, even when the car goes faster.
Manual in my case -- a light clutch is a lot less force than body weight.
Honestly, I would pay to see video-screen-share of how guys like TJ code.
I used to do accounting for several retailers. Markups are insane. Brand name frames retailing for €100+ would be purchased from suppliers at €15 or less.
Ask them a few questions. It's pretty easy to figure out that that AWS "expert" has just clicked around on the console for a while and doesn't really understand things by simply talking to them about it. Or if someone says they've been programming in python for 10 years, make them talk about the projects they've done, how the code was structured, etc.
>If this message gets delayed, oh well, the customer might end up with a negative balance - sucks for the bank if the customer decides to go into hiding - but as the customer typically can't control the delay - it's hard for them to abuse this feature.

Nope! When I'm just at +40€ on my account, I can get three or four times (in separate transactions) this amount in a short window of time. I have no authorized overdraft, but end-up with -80€.
I do not like Oslos city center. Everything seems so over-engineered and non-organic
The headline is misleading. They've flagged 95000 "non-citizens" as "WEAK" (their caps) matches over a 22 year period (1996-2018). Until the counties have checked (and some of them may decline to) the current status of those individuals, we have no idea how many cases of even suspected voter fraud there are.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/25/texas-flags-tens-tho...
These dark patterns are not good. but this submit is good PR for Loom.
At first, I thought someone who works at loom complaining about it.
how irrelevant - this and you and what you share with strangers
The split is fairly similar though. "All cars aught banned"-type of folks only live in larger cities.
I honestly don’t think that making the lowest paid employee get a liveable wage at the cost of a few percentage points of mine is a problem.

Even if I’m paid a ton more, I’d be happy knowing that at least my coworkers are not being exploited.
These people have no loyalty, they’re the scum of the world!

/s
You have arthritis, so therefore we should center our urban planning around personal cars?

That is not logical. What is logical, is that if car usage was heavily reduced inside urban areas, it would leave more space for the few cases where cars and lorries are actually needed.

It is a variant of the old argument "but without cars and lorries there would be no food transport" (or ambulances, constuction, or something else where it is easy to see the benefits). That has always been a false premise. The biggest problems with cars in urban areas in cogestion. Fewer cars would mean more space where it's most desperately needed.
> The document also discussed how the proposals could be best presented to employees to minimize frustration, according to one of the people.

These approaches always annoy me as it feels the company's leadership is unable to talk straight to their employees. E.g. my employer had some layoffs recently. The language used internally was that some people were "impacted" by "proposed changes". This language was used by so many execs in different business areas that it was clear that there was some top down direction that this was how they should be referred to. Is it that hard to just say "We missed our revenue targets, so we had to lay off some people"?
He's been posted to HN a bunch of times since 2015-01-01.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=holowaychuk&sort=byDate&prefix...

Seems to be working on a startup which might explain the lack of noise.
From my point of view - both excluding you from the job market or giving you general purpose work visa are better for the rest of the people in your industry(with second option better for you of course). Than work permit depending on sponsorship.

If you are valuable enough to work in US, you are valuable enough to do it as a full market participant without shackles or handicaps.
I'm not an UX consultant and what justinclift said makes sense. Maybe the downgrading process could be a bit more streamlined, but, since you're dealing with data, erring on the side of caution does not seem too bad of a strategy.
Here is the only piece of code Oracle accuses Google of copying, out of slightly under one million lines of code:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}

Note that of course "rangeCheck", "arrayLen", "fromIndex" and "toIndex" are part of the function signature, as is "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException" and "IllegalArgumentException".
External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears
I had an awful experience with this system the last time I went to a Whole Foods. The problem was that there was insufficient signage explaining the system, and the computer announcer was quite vague about who should go up. When a register was free, the computer spoke “next”, not “A” or “D”; if there was a screen with the letter, it wasn’t easily visible. In fact, I didn’t even notice the tiny signs labeling each line while I was standing in line.

As a result, when I was at the front of line “A” and the computer called “next” after the other lines had gone, I went forward, but another customer did too. The other customer ended up cussing me out for going ahead of him – it turned out he was in a “D” line that, from my “A” line, looked like part of the “C” line. Being yelled at for not understanding the rules of a poorly explained system made for a unpleasant experience.
TW, G, and FB have always been user surveillance and behaviour modification corporations that happen to sell ads rather than vice versa.

The idea that FB "accidentally" allowed - e.g. - Cambridge Analytica to make a game designed to harvest user data is ridiculous.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/26/the-cambridge-a...
I was going to mention CPU context switching as well, it's very expensive even when you don't account for the initial fork overhead but I guess it's definitely a better idea than CGI for HTTP given the long lived connection.

In an ideal scenario, you shouldn't have more active processes than you have CPU cores. As soon as that happens, context switching kicks in and performance degrades sharply.
> Stop posting on HN.

I guess you are one of the US citizens who promote hate and war against Russia and China and thus want to censor free speech and messages to defend and promote your worldview.

Your words from the first comment I replied to: Nobody in the US is going to censor your email so that if you say something about Trump it gets magically deleted.

Your last comment proves that you are no better and you would love to have my comments deleted or having me banned from HN.

I guess it is also you who downvotes my comments.

You know you have nothing to say against the proofs that I linked.
I think this whole back-and-forth points out that having to give those who need it some special token/permit/allowance necessarily politicises the issue.

The nicest accommodations are those you don't even have to ask for.

While I want able-bodied people to take the stairs, I think it's great when we can afford enough elevators that nobody cares. The situation where they are rationed, whether by needing a special key or just by a sign & dirty looks, is always less pleasant. But when it comes to cities and transport, this is genuinely hard, as cities with so much parking that it's free for everyone are radically different to mostly non-car cities.
Everyone can be harmed by conspiracy theories. Some of the smartest people in the world have believed the stupidest nonsense about conspiracies.
yes, you can get 130TB RAID6 of 15 disks for 269 a month. But in case you need less...
The problem of the system is that US left close to nothing to regular work visas. The premise that only "high end" companies are deserving to be let hiring cheap workforce is wrong.

In reality, it seemed to me, that pretty much any "white collar" job was passing H1B invariably of the salary, but even very high skill requirement "blue collar" jobs were denied by default.

This is my experience from the time one of my past employers tried to make a final assembly plant for electronics in Washington state. It was very hard to find well educated assembly line workers. The company ended hiring fresh master degrees grads to simply do assembly from knockdown kits for 70k, but even they were not up to the task.

That business was scrapped in the end.
The Big Short, inflection points and nature of event-driven investing
If you want to do web applications in C, you may also be interested in the kcgi[1] and ksql[2]. kcgi takes a more traditional approach by using CGI rather than embedding a static file server in the final binary.

[1] https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi/

[2] https://kristaps.bsd.lv/ksql/
> I'm definitely left wing, but I applaud Trump for the tariffs.

I thought tariffs are leftist proposition. At least in Europe it is.
> State senator Jim Abeler formed the MN Autism Council last fall to address issues surrounding autism, including “treatment, educational options, employment opportunities, independent living, and more.”

Sounds like it, yes. What would you suggest? Abandoning them?
True but if my system has a compromised anything binding to a port then they can talk to it via whatever they want at that point.

I'm of the opinion that if an attacker gets a local account then I'm already hosed given the regularity of local privilege escalation CVE's
Certainly those videos are more watched than other videos on Antartica (from shear clickbait factor alone), but also, most content on Antartica is in the form of copy-written documentaries that legally shouldn't be on YouTube, so there might be some bias in that direction as well.
I cancelled Dropbox for Business a few days ago and it wasn't as bad as this video.

- I went into settings

- Pressed the button to cancel the plan

- ~75 words about what would happen to the individual accounts created with the Dropbox for Business plan

- One more button saying I still wanted to cancel my account

- Three checkboxes confirming that I understand my data would be deleted from Dropbox

- Now I could finally cancel

It might sound like a lot, but I appreciate that they didn't have any "No I don't wanna be awesome anymore and have 10TB of Dropbox storage" like they did in this video.
Q: for those of us with friends/groups that still insist on using WhatsApp to co-ordinate stuff, what's the recommended way to use it while handing over as little data as possible?
The "loosing the errno" issue seems to me easily avoidable: just save the current value if ferror returns an error.
You're a superficial carrier of American culture. Sure you speak English and consume American media, but you have socialist values which are not American. This is the land of the free, not the land of government-enforced equity and insanely high marginal taxes for the rich. Let me guess, you're anti 2nd amendment? If there were more people who thought like you in America, the country would indeed collapse in on itself.
True, Amazon Prime is full of dark patterns when you want to cancel.

I got the first two months free (Amazon.de), and at the end of the trial, when I wanted to cancel, they added a month for free, and I accepted the free month. My card was charged regardless and I had to email them to cancel it finally with no option to cancel at the end of this extended trial.
These devices are way too small to be damaged by CME.
The bill of rights is culture. Twitter has totally corrupted your world view.
Honestly I'm surprised no one has suggested replacing SMTP with a HTTP POST request. All you would need is an email address -> HTTP URL conversion (which I believe something like WebFinger already has). Then just POST your message to that URL and you're done. ISPs can run proxies that just authenticate that requests are from users and forwards them on.
iDeal- basically money from my bank account to the bank account of the person I'm doing business with. Instant, free and no Sillicon Valley dipshit middle men parasites.
From a legal perspective, would it be enough to send them an e-mail telling them that you no longer want to subscribe to the services before pulling the plug?
I love discussions about hiring and immigration. People always focus on their idea of what others should do while ignoring all the data and the reality at present. When you see otherwise rational people ignore data, focus on unqualified conclusions, and opinionated targets their bias is laid bare. Regardless of what you believe is the right answer what does the hiring data actually say?
Latest WeChat update hints at its ‘operating system’ ambitions
There are huge financial incentives to get these ads right.

Not really. All you have to do is convince companies that machine targeted ads are worth it. Apparently that is orders of magnitudes easier than actually recommending anything relevant.

Which isn't hard to imagine either, there aren't much competition after all. So the primary purpose of targeted ads is that it functions as an imaginary hammer you can use to squash new competition with.