skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salesforce allegedly helped them with their "trafficker and pimp database".

On one hand, that's Salesforce doing their job well. On the other, seems like they would know what's going on.
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The implication of that framing is to somehow overcome:
"Local political culture limits natural housing supply growth"

via - ignoring NIMBYs or at least reducing their influence, rezoning for density, deregulating to allow smaller/denser/cheaper constructions...
We got Misha in Hyderabad too in the 80s. My mother used to buy them for me regularly when I was a kid.
Exactly. If you’re recently laid off and looking for work, why jump on Twitter and be as obnoxious as possible? I know I wouldn’t hire this person and can’t help but think if they do this regularly that it makes sense that they were let go.
Blue Cross Blue Shield buys for 100 million patients. How much bigger does it need to get to save money?
It's not uncommon. A lot of the layoff "process" often includes resources to help with finding a new job. As with anything, it depends the company, but it isn't anomalous for a company to provide re-jobbing support as part of the severance.
umm two of the award recipients are Canadians
That's what confused me. They did light it up as a passing shuttle's headlights briefly played over it, perhaps that was the choice, but it looked really out of place.
France would request your extradition. The country you are in would actually extradite you.
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No, we evolve society based upon cost / benefit - my argument above is that there is far to great a cost for any benefit. Someone needs to come up with billions in seed money for a high risk potential payoff in centuries?
Yes, I agree that it's hard. It's hard to displace dictators in general. It still must be done. And we should learn from this as a society and tweak the rules to make it harder for anyone to become a dictator in the future.
Humans didn't wear manufactured clothing or have access to antibiotics for the vast majority if our existence either.

Things change.
This generates pressure, driving up prices by constricting housing supply sure, but what is preventing SF from constructing lots and lots of new buildings? If there is pressure to increase the amount of available housing, then the government of SF has a Civic responsibility to create an environment where the housing supply can increase. Full stop. Property speculation will always take place.
He's saying the article doesn't need to. The article is about how Eritrea manages without using cars like a traditional city does.

The article itself is fairly barebones (not saying this is bad), it covers exactly what it wants - to describe some pictures of the lack of cars. It doesn't try to sugar coat it either, it's fairly open that the reason they don't have cars isn't due to teams of engineers, but rather lack of money to afford them.

> which combined with low salaries, high import taxes and fuel shortages
Well, yes, but you really need to add some information to it. The last system I worked on that really needed dates for transactions and reporting stored: local time, local time zone, local offset from UTC at time of event, and UTC time stamp.

Its amazing how complicated your life can get when reporting across time zones and then mixing that with legal requirements for some reporting.

Also, time zone id and local time is insufficient unless you keep reference tables that can calculate what offset was in effect at the time of the event. Save the trouble and just record it along with the time stamp.
I did a full switch to Postgres like 2 years ago, and a decent chunk of the decision was `timestamp with timezone` saved me a huge amount of headaches working on multinational services

Use timestamp with tz, drop Unix timestamps and use ISO8601 DateTime format across the application ezpz never look back
If you already have a credit card with Stripe then definitely yes, you know the merchant doesn't have your card number. IIRC, when you first enter a credit card you remain on a web page controlled by the merchant, so it would be hard for Stripe to guarantee the merchant didn't intercept it in any way. Since this guarantee isn't possible, they're not going to show a message that says the credit card is stored at Stripe and not the merchant. It's up to the merchant to show such a message.
NYC does not have a ton of construction going on, on a rate basis. They permitted fewer units per existing unit than SF and LA did last year.
While I think Russian lit is indeed beloved in India, Nabokov is perhaps yet to get his due appreciation, perhaps Solzhenitsyn also.
I would think they'd need to demonstrate that Saleforce knew that Backpage engaged in illegal practices. Considering that anyone can signup for Saleforce through an automated system and begin using it, this would be difficult. It would be like trying to go after google because Backpage used gmail.
I would be very, very hesitant to to this.

First of all, you definitely don't want any chance of incorrect recognition of handwriting coming from a nuclear weapons plant.

Secondly, who knows what policies he might violate by using some unauthorized, untested software (whether OP is the author or not) with potentially sensitive information.
No, Calvin and Hobbes is not Great Literature. After reading the other comments, I know how out of tone I am, but I do want to respect the meanings of the words. Over the past centuries, "Literature" evolved from "written words" to "artistic written text". Most of C&H strips would be complete failures if we removed the drawings. I love C&H, and I think it's great comics, cartoons, art, à la rigueur bande dessinée… but not literature.
Rent control is good for the people who already have housing who don't see their rents go up, but it's bad for people who might want to move to an area. It's very much a "pull up the ladder behind you" sort of policy and in the case that the article addresses it will tend to weaken coalitions in favor of reducing housing prices for new home buyers/renters and will tend throw currently homeless people under the bus.
Only problem is I don't know how likely it would be that the writing is neatly separated by character for mnist to work, and handwriting recognition isn't accurate enough. Maybe some restraints on the inputs will fix that
I look forward to the "let's build Hipsterburg" gofundme - the $1 billion stretch goal of basic sanitation will be really nice.
What's the use case for a pause button on a video camera? I use my iPhone camera many times weekly (vlogging), if I want to stop a video and move somewhere else and start again, I just take a new video instead and fix everything in the edit.
In your parent post you mention outcomes, and that's a really important thing you're missing when you talk about "rationing".

If a scan is more likely to cause harm than to treat illness is it really being rationed, or do single payer systems have an easier time not providing harmful over-testing and over-treatment options?
Advice: Start by defining MRR. I had to DuckDuckGo it.

Though to be fair, I don't really understand your post even after understanding the definition.
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Putting a variable into the equation was a mistake to begin with. You shouldn't have to look a person up in an encyclopedia to know when a copyright expires. It should be a fixed 20 years, automatic, with no extensions or exceptions, and no ex-post-facto alterations of the terms.
It was determined dynamically, determining it statically with no false positives is impossible.

Try sticking a `println!("Hello");` statement at the start of main, it will get run before we run into this error.
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I have a Masters in Physics and Applied Mathematics. I started to work (edit: original role was Frontend Engineer / Architect) for US-based startup 6 years ago, 4 years ago founded development office in EU (for the same startup), became engineering manager and eventually GM of that office (75 people back then). Last year we exited for reasonably big number, now I help to finish the integration into the corporate and partially cover SW Architect role.
We used to shift people to our partners and other offices when layoffs were coming for only a specific office.

If it's truly a layoff and you think the person is good and the situation is just shit, we did everything we could
Considering Hanoi is banning them all by 2030, I don’t agree with OP.
> I saw a show earlier this week, an insulin shot costs 2$ in rest of the world and 100+$ in the US.

"Insulin" is not a singular thing. For various reasons, lower-cost insulins are difficult to impossible to find in the US, which is a problem.

Also, some insulins are $2/dose in some parts of the world. Most insulins in the developed world are significantly more expensive than that (to whomever is paying for it), though still significantly less than what they cost in the US.
my impression is that unless you're in a super high-demand and high-level role (ie. Andrew Ng), it's still not that appealing compared to the US. For engineering roles, you're going to be worked harder and for lower pay than in the US. As an engineer with a degree in Chinese, I originally planned on working in China but found much better options stateside. Some of my colleagues have been successful in getting decent business-side tech jobs in China, or doing supply side stuff for businesses based outside of China.
If someone wants to read more, this artice contains several links: https://alj.artrepreneur.com/copyright-public-art/
Where does OP imply the state is an arbiter of morality? OP does not say "fighting the law is shady," they say "these guys are blatantly fighting the law in order to continue being shady." The assumption here is that the practice Facebook is fighting to preserve is shady.
You posted this in a thread full of Physicists in Industry, maybe you should reevaluate what you are doing.
I need a lot more context here.

What's Npm? All that means to me is "NodeJS Package Manager", but surely there isn't an entire company associated with that, right?

Secondly, what did the severance package look like? Re-employment assistance is just one component to a severance package; if it includes several months' pay then it's still a comparatively good one even lacking this assistance.

EDIT: So apparently NodeJS Package Manager is a company?! News to me.
Startups are complete risk and should jump on the new cool and shiny toy ship.

When you start making money or wish to start making money you need to stabilize the insanity.

I have done both.
Is that so! xD
Everything is linked to cancer now, and I'm just speechless..
Meaning, science as a pastime for the idle wealthy, with no pressure to publish or perish?
> nurses, firefighters

Minor nitpick, but these workers have 6 figure salaries in SF. In fact, firefighters often make 200k+.
I have used Mongo to store medical data that had to be stored for 7 years. We set it to make sure that all three servers in the cluster did a write acknowledgement.
I dunno; he might have liked Patreon, with its much more direct connection with the fans, and funding directly from the fans.

The ancillary stuff—at least some of which is probably still necessary to make a living off a webcomic—yeah, he would've hated.
It always sucks to get laid off, not disregarding it. I empathize with the employees who weren’t expecting it.

I can only speak for myself but the minute I get a job, I know that I can be terminated at any moment for whatever reason. There should never be any shock. Even if you move across the world for a position, it could happen on your first day. You have to always be prepared if you’re gonna be working under someone else’s roof.
At least in Europe it is not uncommon. For example when the small animation studio I used to work for many years ago had to lay off 80% of its employees due to lack of work, the managers there called around to friends they had in the industry and helped set up at least informal meetings.
Human beings didn't evolve to be online either.
If she can't afford to move anywhere today, wouldn't that make her homeless without rent control?
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Raising LVT proxies (e.g. property tax) would make the NIMBYs quieten.

Untaxed land -> higher property values -> NIMBYs start getting agitated about proposed housing developments taking chunks out of their home equity by increasing supply
This article is pretty interesting. However, if you read closely you'll see that they fail to justify their implication that digital media access is causing young people to feel more lonely. It's speculation that appeals to readers "common sense".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704501
No. The models tell us about the real world and behavior. People have a choice: smell pee or have a more distant from stuff/smaller space to live in.
Visualization of Ionizing Radiation. Ionizing radiation has been outside our visual domain for far too long, with scintillators and computer vision (semiconductor detectors + processing) we can shift the spectrum. --- This may be more engineering than physics; I'm a clinical medical physicist and sometimes the lines are blurry. :)
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> I worked as a computer guy for an academic department and that was fun and I'm trying to get back into it

Pick up a copy of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.
Individual engineers may or may not, those companies however stand to make no change in margin by agreeing or disagreeing with Google on how the AMP works behind the scenes.
The people that were the raw materials of the sex trafficing.
Sounds unlikely lol but why would you want to? Definitely more expensive than missile
Because you will be talking to other people, including the ones you have worked with and built a relationship with inside of the company. And the company has an interest in being seen as a viable place to work for others. So making sure that ex-employees are being taken care of (to a certain degree) is in the company's best interest.
Here is also Paul Krugman in The New York Times 19 years ago:

The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and -- among economists, anyway -- one of the least controversial. In 1992 a poll of the American Economic Association found 93 percent of its members agreeing that ''a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing.'' Almost every freshman-level textbook contains a case study on rent control, using its known adverse side effects to illustrate the principles of supply and demand. Sky-high rents on uncontrolled apartments, because desperate renters have nowhere to go -- and the absence of new apartment construction, despite those high rents, because landlords fear that controls will be extended? Predictable.

...

None of this says that ending rent control is an easy decision. Still, surely it is worth knowing that the pathologies of San Francisco's housing market are right out of the textbook, that they are exactly what supply-and-demand analysis predicts.

But people literally don't want to know. A few months ago, when a San Francisco official proposed a study of the city's housing crisis, there was a firestorm of opposition from tenant-advocacy groups. They argued that even to study the situation was a step on the road to ending rent control -- and they may well have been right, because studying the issue might lead to a recognition of the obvious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent...
Well it may not get one hired in typical corporate but Woke companies or at least Woke hiring managers in other companies are quite likely to hire them.
Additionally, people in rent controlled units are strongly incentivized to stay put, keeping the unit off the market. Knowing this, landlords must estimate the future market and price that in to new rates or they risk being even more below market rate after that new renter has been there for a few years. This is a feedback loop between landlords. Therefore, even if median rent paid in the city is reasonable, all available units are priced sky high.

This leads to people being stuck forever wherever they managed to land on their first try. Got a new job offer across town that pays better? Ready to upgrade from your straight outta school studio apt? Too bad. Moving out of your established rent control would cost you so much you’d be moving for an effective loss. Just stay immobile and keep that unit off market for decades.
Yep, it's one secret technique they don't want you to know about.
This is a good intro. But I don't understand why the author says in the Searching section: "In the image below, the colon is missing but required." when in fact the picture is correct - you don't need the colon. It works the same either way, and omitting it is faster.
I will take a look at it, thanks. I have tried some off the shelf OCR things and had little success. But what I do is really needle in the haystack kind of thing. I am looking for a "U" or and "Sr" in a particular place and happy to find one in a thousand pdf pages.

I am looking into auto-scrolling pdfs and batch loading, sequencing of pdfs to make things easier. But I will definitely check out fast.ai - thanks!
That’s what annoys me about google calendar and most others. When I schedule an appointment most of the times it will be for the time zone i will be in at the time of the appointment. So when I travel and agree to meet people at 10 I want to enter it that way. But in most calendar apps everything gets shifted around as soon as I arrive at the new location. I would much prefer to have apps not shift stuff around unless I explicitly tell the app to do it.
There is technically a second option - better transit to handle it but it is usually a worse one and like landfills they have to be built somewhere. And of course the most efficient, scaleable, and clean transit benefit from higher density housing. And of course people resist that as well. The problem with rent isn't that we don't have a cure but that people don't want to take their medicine.
It's trivial with respect to moving the needle on the overall problem, particularly since that number needs to be broken down by how much is spent on really expensive drugs versus how much is spent on affordable, generic maintenance medications.
There's also the effect that in places where people are most likely to complain about new development you both have less development but you're more likely to hear online about that development.
Does anyone have more info? It looks like this person doesn’t work for NPM.

EDIT: see this tweet 9h ago https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/1110766133660041216?s=2...

And here’s the story as told by another employee https://twitter.com/neverett/status/1110626264841359360?s=21
So pictures that show the Eiffel Tower at night will have to be filtered by the glorious upload filters that were gifted to us by EU, Axel Voss, Germany and France yesterday.
And watercolors of the Eiffel Tower at night will be filtered, too. Accidentally.
https://www.npmjs.com/about

> npm, Inc. is the company that hosts and maintains all of the above.
> Anything the FSF recognizes as a Free Software license (whether or not compatible with th GPL) is compatible with the FSF philosophy—It may not be compatible with the FSF strategy, because the FSF has a strategy, but that's a slightly different issue.

I don't think this is accurate. Anything the FSF recognizes as a Free Software license can be relicensed under the GPL because nothing in it contradicts the GPL. BSD, MIT, Apache, etc. licenses don't put any restrictions on how you can relicense the software, therefore they can be relicensed under the GPL.

The philosophy if the FSF is that you should have access to the code of the software you run, and that all software should be GPL. It helpfully offers a list of software that can be used as a base for GPL'd software.

In this case, "compatability" should actually be read as in "IBM-compatable" not as "simpatico" or "synonymous."
There seems to be a lot of backlash over using mongodb recently. Which current hip tech will we see receiving the same treatment? graphql? golang?
Okay? That doesn't automatically invalid what he is saying.
The person in the linked tweet isn't one of the people affected.

I'm drawing some inferences here, but she's contrasting the perceived lack of support from the company for those affected by the npm layoffs with npm's public brand on the Internet. If layoffs happened and npm did the minimum legally required, that's a fair criticism to make, IMO. npm's hiring page says:

> We are responsible adults with diverse backgrounds and interests, who take our careers and our lives seriously. We believe that the best way to iterate towards success is by taking care of ourselves, our families, our users, and one another.

> We aim for a sustainable approach to work and life, because that is the best way to maximize long-term speed, while retaining clarity of vision. Compassion is our strategy.

@seldo (npm co-founder) frequently tweets about people in the community who he perceives are not performing to his moral standard.

I don't have any details, so I'm taking all of this with a grain of salt, but if it's true, it's something of a betrayal of their brand.
One has to wonder if in this case, there was something else than a layoff...

/edit: more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19501227

/edit-2-since-i-already-got-downvoted: Facebook used to have a 1 year cliff before the first vest, they removed it about 1 year before I left.
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Modi takes the credit for anything achieved by the government or government backed entities like the space organisation. He singlehandedly opened bank accounts (that are empty), surgically struck Pakistan (with his bare hands), got us to space, developed missiles, brought the black money back, won the cricket world cup, created jobs, built the mandir (that's built, right?) and a million other achievements.

What's curious is that he seems to go missing when there's a fuck up. Who was responsible for demonetization? No idea, blame anyone you want but don't blame him!
It's bad for people who might want to move to an area of you believe that rent control significantly affects the supply of housing.

If you believe that then it might be worth pondering why New York's highest rate of homebuilding occurred when it had its strictest rent controls though.

In reality all rent control really does is redistribute some the spoils of rising land values from certain owners to certain renters.

This makes some property owners extremely angry but as far as renters and potential renters are concerned it's potentially good or potentially neutral.

If you really want to incentivize home building you need to disincentivize land hoarding. That means repealing prop 13 or implementing LVT.
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It happens. I'd never experienced it before signing on with the company I work for now. But I've survived several rounds of layoffs over the years and employees who asked would often be shown some help in the form of at least seeing if there was another place in the company for them.

I'm not sure about normal, though.
So much time oxygen is burned trying to get San Franciscans to change their ways. Why don't businesses shop around for cities more? Make it in the city's incentive to solve these problems? Why does San Francisco deserve a monopoly on high paying tech jobs? It is pretty clear that nothing is getting done because no one is worried about the big businesses moving away?