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I am from Germany and a lot of people did help. They were ordinary citizens before 1933, then they supported mass murder until 1945, then they became citizens of a democratic country. History has shown repeatedly that most people will follow brutal dictatorships and only a few will resist.

I don't know what I would do and neither do most of us without being in that situation.
When you sell the RSU, can't you use that cost basis to claim a capital loss, reducing your taxable income enough to cancel out the tax disadvantage? The disadvantage being that you can't claim a capital loss until you do sell.
Did that interviewer hire you after admitting that you were right in pointing out his mistake?
For a lot of them they do like the challenge, it's what drives many agency analysts/operators, but for many it was the lure of money. Packages up to half a million depending on your former position/credentials, free housing and more were throw about like candy. Some of those leaving the agencies were former military or newly hired GS9's. You can see how the monetary lure would pull you out.

A bigger problem that has persisted is why are they leaving the domestic agencies? What needs to change for retention there?
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Coming from the view that I agree with almost all the points he's making, I found it an incredibly bad article.

Half of it was a long tangent about NPD after which he flatly admits that his readers shouldn't be trying to diagnose NPD... but he's giving you detailed recommendations about how to recognize all the behaviors associated with it and then act on them! This is coming from a clinical psychologist, so that seems wrong.

I agree you want to identify people with that behavioral profile and get them out of your organization (whereupon they'll be Somebody Else's Problem...) but it seems like this psychology could be translated into guidance with less ethical sharp edges than "here's the DSM description of this disorder. But don't actually play psychologist, LOL!"

After that he finally gets to deadlines and kinda sorta gets into why they're bad. And I don't disagree, but the article claims that deadlines are used by emotionally immature managers acting out of "fear." Sometimes, but deadlines are way too commonly used in every sector of industry to attribute them to emotionally immature leaders.

It's off to a vignette about a manager who couldn't recognize his greatness. So after he's spent pages tell us about how narcissistic people behave, this section felt like he was trolling me to think he's a narcissist. (I don't think he's a narcissist, just full of himself; which may well be an accurate self-assessment.)

But the manager's problem wasn't deadlines, it was micro-management which manifests exactly as he describes. In micro-management deadlines are one of a number of symptoms, but the underlying problem is the fear and emotional immaturyity he mentioned earlier.

He finally does get to why deadlines are so common: "They are a form of contract that can enable multiple organizations to synchronize their efforts, organizations that might be in the same company or in different companies."

The need to synchronize between organizations is plainly why deadlines are extremely common.

That's my real criticism of the article: he's a clinical psychologist, a rather irresponsible one, and he's viewing this through that lens. While it's insightful in many ways, deadlines represent a structural problem more than a human problem and the article would be better if it didn't try to solve them. (And, in fairness, most of it doesn't even address them.)
The article mentions the no-interaction exploit used:

> The attacks utilized a cyber weapon called Karma. As Reuters reported in January, Karma allowed Raven operatives to remotely hack into iPhones by inputting a target’s phone number or associated email address into the attack software. Unlike many exploits, Karma did not require a target to click on a link sent to an iPhone, they said. Apple declined to comment.
I dont see the name of my company in this list
I for one welcome the looming cow genocide.
This may sound like a stupid question, but I am genuinely trying to know/see what people at HN think. Is it less ethical to kill and eat mammals/birds than plants? I know farming and eating animals is certainly worse for the environment, but I wanted to know the ethics aspects of it. Why is the life of a potato tree any less significant than a cow’s?

Edit: wording
I dont see the name of my company in this list published. What does that mean?
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Sure, maybe.

But I'll note that for every Amazon there's dozens or more Pets.com. So, yes, maybe Lyft is the next trillion dollar company -- or maybe it's, you know, a cab company.
Hold on a minute. Today's society has vastly more surveillance than the society of say fifty years ago. Cameras are everywhere - in our phones, on buildings, on dashboards, on policemen. How has this affected our democracy?

I'd argue that so far, the cameras are working in our favor. Police abuse gets caught on tape and prosecuted. Political corruption is harder to hide. A white supremacist who murders someone with their car and speeds off is caught. The Saudis get busted murdering a journalist.

I'm not sure we can honestly estimate the negative consequences of mass surveillance. Certainly not if we lump every camera in to that category; I wouldn't want a camera in my living room, but I sure would like a camera pointed at my parked car. Streetlights? If it stopped my car from being broken into for the fourth time, I'd be pretty ok with it.

Here in the US, it's not for want of camera technology that we are not living in a police state. If anything, the cameras are helping keep our social institutions honest.
Pretty much all massive objects except black holes emit light/radiation, and black holes, afaik, are detectable. Thus there's something else that we give a placeholder name "dark matter". It's possible it's not a matter of any kind at all, but just some very smooth but irregular field that interacts with the space-time curvature (gravity).
can you let me know which news site you used it on?
Stoic philosophy has a lot of overlap with CBT. It basically re-opened those cbt books for me and kept me at it.
RTX provides a unified lighting model that "just works" out of the box. It's a feature that caters to AAA game artists, who want to spend more time doing art and less time rebaking textures for 2 minutes each time they change something and writing custom shaders for the cartesian product of every lighting scenario and every dynamic character model, not just to ensure things look realistic, but also to ensure entities in the world aren't lost in insufficient lighting.

Gamers would probably prefer RTX not exist, but the decision to make a game mostly comes from within the company, and when management realizes just how many expensive GLSL-proficient shader devs they can replace with passion-fueled artists willing to slave for pennies...
My day job involves multiple third-party systems that enforce their own proprietary version control systems for any custom scripting/programming within those systems. Unsurprisingly, these proprietary version control systems are complete garbage 90% of the time, especially if you're trying to collaborate with someone else.
Most of fiance’s family is vegetarian and when we go out to dinner we make sure to separate the utensils and plates between the veg and non-veg people. They are very sensitive to the scent of meat and consider a utensil that has touched meat to be contaminated. Usually, when we’re at her parents house, we aren't allowed to cook meat (unless her mom is out of town). In short, anything that has been used in the preparation of meat is to be avoided.
Per Wikipedia (and also this one time I was chatting with a Rabbi), the rule comes from a prohibition against ritual magic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law#Ex...
Thank you kind sir.

When I was investigating backup solutions in 2010, I did read about rsync and had read a few negative reviews saying that user's had their backups corrupted (by rsync) and that they were unable to restore their backups. However, looking now I am unable to find those reviews. So, likely either those issues were fixed in a newer version of rsync or I am not remembering the posts correctly.
That would be equivalent to the server going offline and back online, as opposed to the route constantly changing.
I'm certain they have different tests for people who don't have such arithmetic down.
My understanding is that nvidia uses some machine learning to fill in holes in low sample # maps generated by raytracing, so presumably this could be improved?
"I was also able to leverage my programming background to creating some automated vba scripts which carved hundreds of hours a year off of my teams workload. Simple scripts that any developer could do but only a developer would think to do."

This is the sort of thing I enjoy. If you work as a regular programmer, you're usually walled off from the effects of your work, and you can spend months on a big project and then it all gets scrapped or becomes pointless for reasons outside of your control. And there are innumerable cogs between you and the customer/client. Your managers and PMs don't truly know what they want either. But helping someone that you interact with daily is tremendously more rewarding, regardless of how cool the technology is or isn't to the cognoscenti.
Not because people don't eat enough meat. Because people eat too much sugar, and refined carbs (pasta, flour) are effectively sugar. That's where body fat and cholesterol come from. Meat is largely neutral in this regard. Cholesterol in your blood is produced by your liver. Only a trivial amount of dietary cholesterol becomes cholesterol in your body. When people replace meat with low-fat, high-carb, vegetable-derived alternatives, they're consuming a diet that is far worse than a meat-heavy diet. Whole vegetables are good.
This is similar to my own experiences.

During the past decade the JavaScript ecosystem had to evolve and adapt to handle increasingly more advanced requirements. Multiple tools and libraries rose up to meet the challenge, and the best ones have slowly floated to the top. It's not like the winning tools are even that recent: I think Webpack was already around before 2012, TypeScript was released in 2012, and, if I remember correctly, React was released around 2013. Fun fact: babel was called 6to5 when it was initially released.

Webpack can sometimes be difficult to configure because the problems which it sets out to solve are also complicated. To be fair, their old docs were quite lackluster, and the creator's coding style was uncommon, which made reading through the source a bit challenging. I know a lot of people are critical of Webpack, but I was overjoyed when I first discovered it, as it enabled me to correctly solve a huge number of issues. Once adopted, it let me drastically simplify our build pipeline, as well as our development and testing environments.

I can sympathize with non-frontend developers because I also feel overwhelmed sometimes when I look at all the tooling related to backend / devops / infrastructure stuff. But I understand people build and use these tools because they're usually solving fairly complex real-world problems. I suspect that many people that complain about JavaScript don't care much about the frontend and they just want to get it out of the way as quickly as possible. They want to pick up whatever standard tools the community has centered around and hammer together something without having to dive in too deep. If the developer looks down on frontend development and they encounter a difficult problem which they're unable to solve, then they must deal with the cognitive dissonance.

To give a concrete example of something I've struggle with: I can barely make sense of the containers ecosystem. Using docker-compose during development to bring up an application's external dependencies is amazing. However, I generally haven't had much success configuring and using docker to run an app locally. There's always performance issues, or I can't get something to work correctly, or I can't figure out how to get a good workflow going. Since we're on the topic: if anyone knows a practical example of a regular web app (e.g. rails or node, but I'm not picky) which has a few workers and which depends on a few services (e.g. Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, MinIO), I'd love to check it out. Oh, and I haven't even mentioned deployments and Kubernetes, which seems like a whole nother dragon.

If you're not a fan of frontend development I'd suggest using server-side rendering with occasional scripts dropped in for extra functionality. Think carefully about your application and its requirements; not everything needs to be a Single Page App. Depending on the kind of application you're building, you might want to evaluate next.js [0] and create-react-app [1].

[0] https://nextjs.org/

[1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
You know there are almost 3 nationwide LTE networks?

What would you count as improving infrastructure?

Or are you talking about subsidies to wireline business not resulting in enough fiber and such?
MIDI was added later to the MSX standard, and came after the CX5M, which added them along with the FM module (which was iirc 5 FM operators - the DX7 synth was 7 FM operators) which was the cheaper flavour of FM.
>Have you considered that they have given the other side(s) a fair look as users and found them unacceptably lacking?

I know they haven't because the things they complain about only apply to Windows XP ("you have to reinstall it every year!") or Linux from 15 years ago ("sound and wireless networking don't work lol").
Maybe it has some sort of internal pressure. Just like our planet doesn't simply collapse into a black hole.
Computational Irreducibility in Economics (2012)
Uh, check your sources. History suggests a ~5000 year old document probably had little to say about calcium absorbtion.

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/15/why-does...
Hey, you shut your mouth! How dare you, oh, wait ...

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29660010

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30295883
> Lack of standard, OPEN, free to implement formats; for everything.

I was surprised when I talked to a doctor family member awhile back and learned that this was not part of the ACA. A big sweeping re-write of the health care regulatory structure would have been a good time to require data interoperability.

Maybe the new plans both parties are supposedly interested in getting done this time around will include this. I won't hold my breath though.
Another fun aspect is that, surprisingly often, these "tests" are poorly (and in some cases, plainly wrongly) articulated and/or simply not do-able as articulated.

Or do-able, but they end up requiring 2-4x the "just a couple of hours" they asked for to be done reasonably well.

After which at some point one starts asking one's self: "Do I need this industry actually?"
Technology makes full surveillance easy, and usefulness of surveillance in preventing small crimes, regulating traffic, etc. makes fighting against it hard.

Maybe instead of fighting with technology we should find ways preventing it's misuse: more open governments, electronic voting for individual laws, more surveillance over finances of elected officials.
Racket has sometimes seemed like a closely-guarded secret, outside of research and education circles, so it's great to see this new outreach.

I've used Racket very successfully in production, and Racket is overdue for a few startups to use it to get to launch.

There've been a few Lisp family industry success stories, including the one that famously lead to YC and HN, and Lisps still have a few tricks up their sleeve that all the stacks upon stacks haven't covered.

Small side comment regarding outreach to practitioners: when challenging a perception that Scheme descendants are only for problem sets in school and academic curiosities, we should try not to use a code example of a Fibonacci function. :)
I may be wrong but isn't Multipath TCP pretty darn new and rarely used? At least on iOS you have to explicitly opt into it, either using the new Network framework for raw networking or a special configuration for URLSession, and also requires an entitlement to even do (no idea why). AFAIK the only Multipath TCP that my iPhone regularly actually uses is Siri.

Which is to say, it still feels largely experimental.
Yea, lets just figure out what sort of ideology leads to that.
Then lets make a list somehow of people who are of that ideology or likely to fall to it.

Then we just ought to round em all up, maybe put them in camps where they can be reeducated on why they're wrong...and ones who are uncooperative could be put to work, and...oh shit we're the next nazis, woops!
Agreed, one large 4k monitor is the way to go for me as well.

As I posted in that other thread... When working, I typically split it into thirds (so mostly portrait mode for each application). And this is the key advantage for me:

With multiple monitors, you're confined into smaller, "hard-coded" boxes that can't be changed. With a single large screen you have much more flexibility.
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Yes, just another fanciful element of this article.
In general, if you made it past 18, expectancy ranged from 40-50 years. These populations were generally in very high stress - anemia was nearly universal, once farming started stools show universal evidence of pin worms and other parasites, and so on.

For example, the book "Centuries of Decline during the Hohokam Classic Period of Pueblo Grande" shows a mean lifespan of 20.1 years at Pueblo Grande, but 40.9 years if you make it to 18. https://books.google.com/books?id=DopkDQAAQBAJ

That's not Chaco, but gives the general idea.
I’m going back home this month. There is literally no point living here, given the ridiculous wait times for having a stable life. Even after the “battle” is done, life here, tbh, isn’t all that awesome outside of work. I can always be a visitor.
Seven Ways Machine Learning Fails
Show HN: Web Performance Monitoring with Lighthouse as a Service
Wish I would have seen this earlier wait list position is over 200K :(
You'd think so from the PEP, but the amount of drama it has created is off-the-charts
This Sounds Too Good To Be True
That’s exactly what I thought when I read about the
launch of Gmail exactly 15 years ago today.

Is this supposed to make me less suspicious?
We're talking about a packet-switched network. The other ships aren't your destination - some server on land is your destination.
From the top of the article

> I break your understanding of physics but don't overhaul your knowledge. Who am I?

From the bottom

> Does it still help us push past the boundaries of known physics? For sure. Does it break known physics? No, because odderons were predicted to exist within our current understanding.
DC Universe Will Get Access to the Entire DC Comics Library
I don't really understand CRDTs, but I'd like to. The problem I keep encountering is that resources either assume I'm better at math than I am, or they come across as trying to over simplify/poorly analogize a hard thing (reminiscent of monad tutuorials ~2011). Can anyone point me to some resources that slowly,but thoroughly explain the concepts to me?
Evidence from around the world is that government plans are likely to be cheaper and more effective. Are US private plans standardized regarding what will be covered, as well as the justification of a given procedure or drug? As far as I've had direct experience every plan is different, and even within the same plan there have been inconsistent approvals, doctors have to often get re-involved to add more or different justifications for procedures that are denied then covered. It's all unnecessary added overhead as exemplified by the relative costs of more than 2x other nations with government unified healthcare.

I'd much rather be paying for the time of my doctor to treat me instead of fighting my insurance company armed with a similarly high-overhead software package.
At my institution, they developed their own EMR in house. And it works really well, presumably because 1) incentives are as well aligned as they could be, and 2) it allows incremental improvement. This latter point is crucial - the basic system went out, everyone could use it and make suggestions, and then other services were gradually integrated (radiology, pathology). The same people working on the EMR keep working on it over (thus far) 7 years. It also was dramatically less expensive than say getting a product from Epic, which is what the next iteration will be. Everyone is worried.
Ask HN: Advice about VoIP-like service
I'm looking for something I'm not even sure exists, but decided to post it here:

- I own(ed) a Straight Talk sim card

- I came to Portugal and lost it here

- Is there a voip-like service into which I can port my lost sim card's number, and from which I can port it back to a mobile carrier, when I get back to the US?
Facebook Considers Adding a Dedicated News Tab and Paying Publishers