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We have to keep society running. We won't have the energetics to get it started again if it stops.

That's what I tell myself lying in bed every morning.
Zoom's stock jumped around 81% on debut. They seem to have left a lot of money on the table.
I just failed mine and they said I can only try once a year though?
Good information. But be warned that CNET has popup auto playing video Ad which doesn't get caught by uBlock Origin.
Maybe, but code reviews don't catch everything. They never can. Relying on them can also be a mistake.
> The U.S. is the favored country

EU needs to up its game on this. It's a travesty we haven't managed to lure these people to the EU reliably yet.
Pitting societies against each other when we all live on the same planet is appalling amoral trolling. I choose that we all survive together.
> Not recent at all.

The illegal crossings by refugee applicants are recent.

> The United States has received waves of refugees for centuries.

Yes, but under the modern legal asylum regime, there has been no reason for those seeking refugee status to make border crossings other than at regular ports of entry, because there is a legal process for them to apply for asylum at such ports and it's in their interest to follow it. Until, that is, the government actively prevented them from doing so, which is a recent phenomenon.

> What sets a lot of those refugee groups apart is that they were fleeing war and persecution

The recent waves are also fleeing war and persecution (as in many of the previous waves, war that the US is directly involved in, this time, I signficant part, the Central American drug wars, which—unlike the largely metaphorical war on drugs in the US—are actual wars.)
>same stuff within the standard library, like list.sort() and sorted(list)

Those have different use cases. `sorted` is for situations where you would use a list comprehension and immediately consume the result vs `.sort` where you need the iterable sorted for future use.

As a quick scribble, you can do something like the following to sort random numbers in a single line:

result = sorted(random.random() for x in range(10))

From your Medium post:

def list_sort(arr):
return arr.sort()

def sorted_builtin(arr):
return sorted(arr)

Only the `sorted_builtin` function returns the array, `list_sort` returns None. The `list_sort` function would have to become:

def list_sort(arr):
arr.sort()
return arr

Edit: goofed the formatting
I love the bit about being able to view content in a larger window. “This thing called an elevator shaft, with an elevator in it. That thing is still there today, called the scroll bar”

That makes so much sense how it came to be
Until you improve on the pitiful salaries offered in Europe's tech industry, that's not going to change.
Sex too.

The Innocence Project has overturned hundreds of wrongful convictions, around 99% men.
Zoom requires native install and has better resolution.
I don’t think there’s a shortcut to a true sense of ownership. So I’d lean less on the welfare topology. I would lean heavily in making it more accessible to provide value to society. Setup technology that allows people to provide value to community and society as best as possible.

That’s my high level thought which of course requires a lot of boiling down.
Once you install Zoom into all your workplace conference rooms (aka Zoom rooms), you're pretty much locked in. It's also pretty great from a work angle. We have remote workers who can Zoom into any meeting and it's seamless.
To increase your chances of getting the visa.

Sometimes it's even required. I traveled to Nigeria from the US (on a British passport) and needed to turn up to the visa appointment with proof of flights and accommodation.
Things happen like this when it's not a issue established by any parties yet.
I would add another.

7. Problem solving: figuring out how to fulfill goals and objectives

Design is fundamentally about solving problems. It's something that gets overlooked and/or misunderstood by so many web designers today.
I've used many different screensharing / video conferencing solutions.

I especially miss the one called Screen Hero - purchased and killed by Slack.

I must admit though Zoom has been great, and everyone on the team loves it. They also give you a great try-before-you-buy setup (unlimited 40 minute meetings)
Ask HN: Why do I exist as a sysadmin?
I am currently a Linux administrator at a state university in the US. I do the standard variety of administrative things that one would expect: provision servers and VMs, manage storage pools, use monitoring tools to keep track of systems, use configuration management tools to automate installation and configuration of packages and services, etc, etc...

As more and more services and tools are rolled into cloud provider's portfolios, I can't help but think that there's no point for me to exist. Here on HN, in person with other tech-minded people that I know, and elsewhere in the tech sphere, I'm bombarded with a viewpoint that boils down to: "Be a developer, or get out of the tech industry."

Herein lies the issue. I have thus far been unsuccessful in any programming endeavors that I have attempted. I can manage to throw together bash scripts and other glue that's necessary to make automation tasks function at my work, but these are largely cargo culted from various stack overflow posts or other online resources. Whenever I attempt to dive into anything that I would consider "development", such as python programming, it's as if my brain completely ceases to function and all of the words and symbols on my screen turn into an incomprehensible alien language. It doesn't matter how long I stare at it or how much I reference the documentation, that alien language never reveals its true meaning to me.

This inability to understand syntax is not only saddening to me, it's made much worse by a variety of mental issues that seem to amplify the issue, such as: PTSD, anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, and dyscalculia. All of these feed off of each other in a vicious cycle of frustration, hopelessness, self-loathing, and worse.

I suppose my question is:

Has anyone had a similar experience and managed to push through the mental blocks associated with learning to program while having your own mind constantly working against you?
Sure, it helps get your resume past the guardians.
Do they? They didn't used to. In 2015 we were routinely dead in the water, unable to test and deploy anything from our google3 projects because some random submitted a CL for a project we didn't even care about. Teams would appoint "build cops" whose job is to complain as quickly as possible because that's all we could do about it.

Every problem you could have with bad dependencies is entirely self-inflicted. The Right Thing™ is to choose a known-good version, and update when you have the bandwidth to pay down the tech debt.
Pretty sure that was a vague enough description.
Nice paradox! It is resolved, I think, by there being two different concepts of 'learn' here.
The USB killer isn't really needed if your going to do it yourself and leave evidence. The use case would be to give it to someone else, or do it once in a reasonable manner and claim ignorance.
Thank you for your response. I think it would be really cool to try and display the interface from a Cobb AccessPort to the screen. So much diagnostic info via Cobb.
The JioPhone is effectively offered for free, with a ₹1,500 ($21.60) deposit that is refunded after 3 years. To be precise, it's a candybar phone that runs on KaiOS (forked from Firefox OS, closed source).

https://www.jiophone.com/
Google Meet and their conference room solution work fine where I am across thousand+ conference rooms.
In general, physics majors tend to be badasses.

I know of people in a myriad of tech careers: site-reliability engineer, MBB management consulting, QA, offensive security.
At the very least it's useful as a guide for what keywords to put in your resume or LinkedIn profile as a designer.
I wouldn't say this is a universal "ARM vs Intel" claim, just a specific heuristic for this company's products.

Synology's ARM line is generally underpowered compared to their Intel offerings, in terms of clock speed, memory capacity, and core count. They also tend to gate additional features (e.g. hardware-accelerated encryption) behind their Intel offerings.

edit: We're mostly talking Atoms / Celerons here, so not exactly screaming performance either way.
The premiums for flood insurance can be pretty steep, and I would be extremely surprised if the fund operated at a loss. In my case, the annual premium is a little over 1% of the covered value, even though the historical record high (back in the 1960's) would probably only require about 10% of the total coverage purchased to replace (in this case, mostly from a few out buildings that are a little lower than the house itself).
I used to sell insurance, including homeowners. As part of selling a homeowners policy, I was supposed to ensure that a home was not ridiculously vulnerable to catching fire. An example would be making sure the owner hadn't stuffed the house full of canisters of gasoline, or that the exterior of the house wasn't in direct contact with an abundance of dry vegetation.

Any insurance company that is willing to be represented by agents too lazy too verify a home is a fire waiting to happen is gonna lose money big time. It seems the logical approach to handling house in a wildfire prone area orvavflood plain would be to simply charge stupid high rates or not offer the insurance at all.
It seems just like crypto the 'ai' hype cycle is coming to an end with zero achievements to show for itself beyond puffery and premature speculation about radiologists, drivers and others losing their jobs.

And its not just hype, like crypto the ai hype stepped well beyond the line to outright fraud and deception with tech folks trying to pass off backward looking pattern matching as 'intelligence' and hope no one notices. Every single commentator here knows there is nothing in computing or software engineering today that will allow one to 'create' an 'ai' as the world understands the term yet no one questioned pushing intentionally deceptive communication.

This end result of dystopian scaremongering amounting to nothing is there is now zero credibility and extreme suspicion of problematic in-built bias. At the minimum there must be some standards for machine learning solutions to be thoroughly transparent, open to verification and exhaustively tested for racist and sexist bias before any rollout, for anyone who cares about the impact of their work in the real world.
U next to I. B next to n. "Things" is my guess.
My first reaction is "wtf? What about WebBluetooth?" That is an open standard that supports tinkering, integrates with Permissions api, etc. And it's been withering on the vine with no help from Moz... this looks like a poor alternative, tbh, unless I'm missing something.
Wow!

Compensation has changed dramatically since I worked at Amazon, although I worked in non technical Operations Management.

I can relate to leaving a LOT of money on the table(back in the days of BiG AMZN stock options and SMALL salaries).

Orgs and their cultures change, people and their motivations change.

We only get one life.

So best to be happy and/or challenged.

I wish the author well and will try to follow his updates.
There have been plenty of restrictions throughout history, and those who didn't meet the requirements were deported.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2301603
If you can't trust code reviews for reviewing code of someone relatively new to a codebase, what can you trust (besides tests)? Despite tests and reviews, you might still introduce bugs into production code.
Sort of ironic as I always think of Amazon as the most Chinese of the FANG companies
I agree it also includes some usefully prepared people, nevertheless no state welfare program exists without bureacrats.

Also, preparedness/trainings are not exclusive feature of gov't system. I know what I'm saying here because I volunteered in private charity (not in US, so American mileage may vary), and I dare to say people who worked there were more competent then relevant state officials, at least target group always preferred them.
I never knew there was a name for Wake Therapy, but I had read about it long ago and wondered if insomnia is evolution's discovery of this treatment.
To the folks claiming he's not taking a risk, he's taking more of a risk than most similar articles.

He's got two kids and a mortgage to worry about and he's assuming whatever he cooks up will be able to add $250/month in value in perpetuity while he has no PoC implemented.

His monthly budget and insurance setup were particularly fascinating.

https://danielvassallo.com/from-employee-to-bootstrapper/
Was there a TV-come-on to turn on the mall TVs in the morning?
I think this is logical - otherwise the assets get added to the rate base that serves as the basis for consumer pricing. It’s important to understand how the utilities play games with the rate base - in many cases things they put into the base have zero connection with gaap and or tax accounting.
Show HN: Billion Songs – deep learning based song lyrics generator
Why the .co rather than a .com?
Developed in China?
I could not participate in an internship at Google a few years ago because my US Visa was refused, seemingly because the consulate clerk was having a bad day.
My experience with Meet has been nothing but nightmarish.
This is New Orleans we're talking about. Everyone there knows the government is corrupt from top to bottom. This isn't news to anyone inside the city.

Some of them can't leave for various reasons. The rest of them just won't. You have to spend time there to understand it.

The question is do we want to save them.
this could be the ideal testing grounds for dealing with global sea-level rise. What's happening to new orleans is expected to happen at most low-sea-level cities relatively soon.
Which has literally nothing to do with the "dollars per homeless person spent"

Think about it, if there was a threshold and somehow spending $1 more per year reduced the number of homeless by 50%, that metric would get worse.

It's fine to make the argument that the outcomes are bad but it's lazy and ignorant to divide two unrelated numbers and declare yourself outraged.

Spend some time working with the thousands of underpaid and overworked social/case workers and volunteers in SF if only to get a sense of the scale of the problem.
He was probably going for an investors visa which is a permanent immigrant visa not a short term visa. Gotta get the paperwork right. And for such visas there is a lot of paperwork.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman.
> Behavioral issues in young males without a physical outlet for aggression?

There are so many other sports though. Soccer can be played without heading (Barcelona under Pep Guardiola were acclaimed for playing it that way), and there's flag football, basketball, field and ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, karate, judo, handball, ultimate Frisbee.
No one cares you went to Yale, they're just being polite and trying to be engaging. If you make it weird, you're making it weird not them. E.i: If someone asks what school you went to, tell them and ask where they went and try to find common experiences. Not hard, just regular social skills and psychology 101 -- the more you make someone talk about thenlm the less you're talking about you.

I get it, I grew up in France and people always latched on to that fact when meeting me. Frankly I found it bizarre when I moved here (who cares where you grew up, and France isn't that exotic anyways imho.) What I realized is that most of the time they don't want to talk about my France -- they want to talk about their European experiences traveling/studying
If the federal government would just do what North Carolina did and pass a law prohibiting basing coastal policies on the latest scientific predictions of how much the sea level will rise, these levees would last indefinitely.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-bans-latest-science...
I mean it existed before that of course. But it wasn’t widespread until the 1930s.
the worst advice ever.

If you have medical issues - take care of medical issues in the best way possible.

Challenging yourself = denying yourself treatment.

Challenging yourself is not a treatment for something like sleep apnea.
If I try to open a known phishing URL, most business firewalls will block the connection. It's not so much a reference to endpoint antivirus, but a part of the all encompassing "AV" solution. You can look up what Mcafee will do with a URL for example here: https://www.trustedsource.org/

Of course the catch is being a "known" phishing site. Google Safebrowse usually blocks URLs in Chrome by the time our firewalls get a block in place.
In a AP neighborhood Facebook group old timers say they’ve seen seepage since the 70s and can’t report any significant raising
Can't figure out why the tea gimmick draws me in so much, ha. Also slightly confusing--does the $250k criteria include checking+savings? Or strictly checking, as stated.

But otherwise, what do you see as differentiation from something like Azlo?
I was looking for an unlocked option that would work in the US.
> Is Amsterdam asking anyone else to subsidize them?

Nowadays, mostly tourists. But, they come willingly to be fleeced, being priggish.
Discretionary spending is about 1/3 of the budget, and, yeah, defense is half of that, but when the GP wrote that "military spending takes up more than half of the budget" it paints a misleading picture.
I didn't know about using zoom in browser. I've only used the desktop client.
For what it's worth, you're almost exactly the type of person I would look to hire.

From my (albeit small) sample size, pure Physics majors have incredible intellectual chops, but aren't necessarily interested in hacking or building systems.

Pure CS majors usually love the latter, but don't always have the mathematical sophistication for more heavy duty (ML) work.

Someone who offers the best of both worlds is very desirable.

Obviously this doesn't apply across the board - there are countless people who fit the mould in the CS camp, the Physics camp, or without degree whatsoever. I'm just saying that if I had to go through 100 CVs, the simple fact that you're a Physics/CS major is enough to shoot you to the top of the list.
If we stopped doing things because they might fail we'd be nowhere.
Surely he could have gotten an O Visa by now if he applied previously?
Fwiw, years ago I studied clowning under David Bridel, the head of one of the clown schools in the article. I think it’s worth noting that clowning is a really fascinating cross between improv and commedia del’arte, where there are these very structured roles people play. It’s an under appreciated art.

Edit: for the record, I was terrible at clowning in my early 20s and always wished I was better.
Google's constant shifting finally lead us to abandon it in favor of Zoom. We used Google Hangouts, then Meet for 3 years. Finally switched to Zoom and happy. It always seems to be 5% better (our marketing guy always used it for external meetings).
Does anyone know what a "standard brain-computer interface" is?
> Just because a crime happened doesn't mean someone has to be punished for it irrespective of their actual guilt.

The failure to prosecute the case of someone attacking someone else in their home merely creates an incentive for people to enact more violence in response, because the system fails to ensure baseline safety and won't be able to hold them accountable for their revenge.

Punishment for violence against others is required to have a peaceable society.

You can argue what you are, but you're advocating for a world of anarchy and uncontested violence.
KaiOS is relatively successful in India, with 15% market share for mobile devices in 2018 (second place).

https://www.bgr.in/news/jiophone-kaios-surpasses-ios-india-s...
You'd think they'd pair it up with a naive bayes classifier at least.
Seems that the next iteration of the Turing Test will account for this...
If it were fast enough, then caching stacks wouldn't be a win. Bump allocation is like 6 instructions.

The idea that generational GC would not be a win does not match the experience of any other language. Generational GC is virtually always a win for languages like Go. This is just another reason why Go should adopt it.
Heh, I remember crossing into the US by land for a conference.

Their first question was whether I was presenting or attending. I just said "attending", without getting into the specifics of an un-conference.
What if they had style guidelines like software engineers do?
I feel like any bachelors degree in the sciences should have you capable of doing any math needed.

I am quite concerned that Doctors in the medical field have limited to no understanding of statistics. IMO, stats should be second nature to anyone with 200 level math courses.
How could an MPL & GPL licensed project be closed sourced? Mozilla didn't relicense Firefox iirc.
what is ux/ui as a skill ??? it's like saying programming is a skill it is very vague
a "social" program for defense contractors. I m sure they are hurting, and need to make more money.
> No one cares you went to Yale

This is not entirely true. People from Yale care (generally speaking). You can actually leverage connections with people who went to the same school and who think that it made a difference to them.

Speaking as someone who came from an obscure school this surprised me when I noticed it.
keto.fm -- if you're interested. It's a content only site with ~1300 email subscribers. Stopped working on it a few months ago.
After reading the full report, I actually have a lot of respect for the author, even though I personally support leaving gender and race out of it. I also have minor gripes as well about "women, trans, or non-binary" - I believe a more fair representation of the underserved in programming would be women, minorities, or older people - but hey, I'm not running the program, and I have no stakeholder value in it, so who am I to comment on what they want to promote?

My gripes aside, I believe there is value in creating a program for people who want to learn programming but struggle to do so in other environments. Programming is not some sacred art reserved for nobility or certain personality types, it's a skill that anyone can and should pick up. Even if most don't become a rigorous full time engineer at google, it's still an empowering skill that should be accessible to anyone.

Accessibility of training should be universal; earning money as a programmer should be skill based. These values do not conflict - I think there are underserved classifications of individuals that, if given the training, would become great programmers. But I also think that diversity in programming will never happen to the degree the article wants it to. I'm happy to be proven wrong, I just don't think it will happen.

Saying that "accessibility of training should be universal" is me playing armchair policy maker, because I have done nothing to make that happen, nor do I intend to, and the amount of effort to make that happen is quite large. That's why I have respect for the author, who, despite my disagreeances with his political leanings, does something about it, especially in a rational and strategic way.
Really cool! I kinda wish I had thought of it :) Any thoughts to adding further parameterization to icons? Like altering the length of the handle of the magnifying glass or something?
Eh, some people will be tempted, knowing that their children will get a decent education that doesn't cost the world, healthcare, gun violence, etc. But you're right, we'll likely never convince the people who have never experienced another culture and who value money over everything. Edit: Even if we did pay more, the language barrier is still pretty high.