skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how to do it on the cheap in Boston metro: Go to Craigslist, go to apartments for rent by owner, and look for a room that matches your balance of affordability, location, size, and amenities. Meet with the landlord to see it beforehand, be sure to discuss things like leaks, mold, and pests, and if you think you have a winner, move in. You will probably be sharing an apartment with three or four or five other people, but hey, that's Massachusetts. (The Ylvis song "Massachusetts" even makes reference to this.) You won't have to pay a finder's fee to some agency, you will be dealing directly with your landlord, and you won't find yourself in a situation that looks like it'll rapidly degenerate into a Focus Features dystopian art film. (Seriously? "The Collective"? You want to convince people you're not shit-tier offbrand Orwell with a name like that?)
Just blaming "regulation" without qualification is a little vague for my tastes. There are important reasons why we don't just allow anyone to come along and build anything anywhere. Some of those reasons are really good— neighbourhood character, height limits, flood/ecology/watershed management, traffic management, etc.

And some are bad or over-used, like parking minimums, and the various barriers that prevent density and walkability upgrades (low-rises, multi-unit conversions, mixed use development).
That’s not how accounting for fixed assets work. If you buy a stamp press with a 10 year life, you convert 50m in cash into 50m in fixed assets. Both of these are assets, so this conversion affects liquid cash, but does not change your profits.

You then take 1/10th of the value of your stamp press and subtract it each year (depreciation). This is the amount subtracted from your profits each year.

Accounting as a profession has been around longer than tech companies. They know full well that companies buy fixed assets. Tesla isn’t some special case in this regard.
Hi Peter, thank you so much for doing this.

I'm a Mexican currently going through the Green Card process, In the part where Form I-140 has been approved and form I-485 will be filled in October according to the company I work for lawyers.

Over the past 3 years, there have been layoffs in my department around October (start of Fiscal Year), last year the company let go key people that otherwise nobody ever suspected they would be laid off. I'm concerned this year I may get laid off, if that were to happen, how would my green card process be affected, considering I'm still holding a valid H-1B visa?
I am a PHD in Microbiology and currenlty working in biotech startup on H4 EAD. Can my company apply for my GC in EB1-B category while I am on H4 EAD?
And the cultists are the ones who listen to the person who claims to have all of the answers.

If you're listening to a person who claims to have it all figured out, you're the cultist.
Allowing outsourcing was the morally only correct thing to do. Otherwise the craftsmen would have been doomed to eternal servitude to their art. An artists signature on a work is not a guarantee the artist vouches for working on it only themselves. It's a guarantee the artists vouches for the quality of the product. So an artist signature is more of a form of branding than a signed proof of n units of work by person x.

Lots of great artists have outsourced the commoditiziable components of their work.

If you look at craft people, the ones who try to toil alone making articles that are not thousand euro a piece luxury items you wish they would know how to leverage outsourcing so they could focus on what makes their product unique and not just a batch of labour.
"I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13."
I disbelieve.

The problem is that people want an answer to the question, "Here is a pile of data, what should I believe?" But mathematically, the proper role of data is to modify existing beliefs, and not to dictate beliefs.

Statisticians can spend forever explaining this. But instead have gone with the cop-out of asking a question that is confusingly similar to the one that people want to ask. It is popular exactly because it is so easily misunderstood. You can give any number of lectures on what it actually means - I guarantee that it will be misunderstood.

Worse yet, p-values are sensitive to particulars of experimental design that logically should never matter to inferences. My aunt and uncle provide a classic example. They wanted a son and a daughter. They had 6 sons then a daughter. Are they biased towards one gender? The p-value for this question is .03125 (we'd see this much evidence against with all boys, all girls, last girl, last boy, so 4/2^7). But if I instead said that they planned to have 7 children, and had 6 sons then a daughter, the p-value changes to 0.125 because the one child out could have been anywhere in succession. But in Bayes' formula, their plans if something else had happened cannot ever affect how we adjust our inferences.

(This example is not made up. When Lorna found that they had a daughter, she told Bill to get a vasectomy from the delivery table. By another crazy coincidence, their 7 children were also born on all the days of the week.)
That's really the best use for security questions: have fun with customer support.

"Pet's name?"

"ICUP."

"Can you ........ Oh."
My problem (with Skype, so ok that's two problems) is people just put "hi" or "hello" and then the choice is to either ignore them and hope they'll get around to actually asking the question, or give in and say "hi" (passive aggressive or "hi, what's up" (I don't care what's up - you started it). I can't think of a polite way to say "please don't just type "hi"" without making it sound like I think I'm special, but at the same time ignoring them outright seems rude. They know I'm here because of the presence indicator.
I don’t understand the cynicism; That feature already exists. It’s under Settings > Battery. And users really don’t care. Facebook uses a ton of battery and people keep using their app.
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Fellow founder. How are you guys marketing this besides social posts?
> Slack reminds me of the open office plan, in that it seems like a solution to a bunch of problems, but in practice creates a whole new set.

Slack solves actual problems, open office plans exactly one: managers can reduce operational costs and with them raise -their quarter/yearly boni by cramming more people in less space, just like a herd of chicken moved from free range to a huge mega stable with 1 DIN A4 space per chicken. By the time the epidemics race through the chickens (=workers flee) the manager responsible is long gone and cannot be held accountable any more...
> Regular quarterly targets are an important part of management discipline.

This boils down to "having goals is important", which is certainly true, but most of us have seen managers try to improve quarterly numbers at the expense of company health. The effect is pronounced enough that people time purchases to be near other companies end of quarter, knowing they'll get a better deal.
The approach is going to be very fact-specific so it's hard to say in general (and probably requires a phone call) but the options that many entrepreneurs/founders pursue are a concurrent part-time H-1B through their own company or an O-1 through their own company, although both of these come with their own issues and challenges.
On the supply side, building height and density are directly regulated by local politics.

On the demand side, the asset price trend of housing / land is directly chosen by the central government when it picks interest rates.

It's foolish to say that the housing market is anything resembling a free market. And brushing off discussion of specific mechanisms of causality as "conspiracy" is just intellectual laziness.
The “Collective” in a big block building? I assume this is a pun at the Borg, but maybe not.
Thanks a lot for advice! How does L1-As compare with L1-Bs or O-1s on terms of being tough? Those two are my other options I'm considering.
Actually, over 2 million people signed up. The original page was taken down.
That's a lot of extra stuff to read through. Do you summarise the discussion too?
Wow maybe Poland don't have a "communications commission" whose primary task is to protect telco monopolies?
That's why Basecamp is better suited for work in my opinion. Don't use chat to solve problems. Use longform text like messages. And avoid notifications.

Allow your team to response in a matter of hours/days, not minutes. Let them think about and rethink a problem or question.

This requires to be able to work on a couple of problems at the same time. Divide the work accordingly. Or use the time waiting for a response to learn something.

There's a quote going like this: The urgent is not important and the important is not always urgent.
4K? Try 2 million: https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51/storm-area-51-they-c...

The latest seems to be that they're organizing a festival called "Alienstock" in the desert near Area 51, maybe it could end up being similar to Burning Man or it could also just be a scam. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/21/will-alienst...
What is equivalent of something like this for Linux?
Since you're in the field, maybe I could ask about your impression of Wolfram's NKS? As a layperson, I understand it's a generalization of many classes of such patterns.

https://www.wolframscience.com
Is this a company-sponsored green card application? If it is, then protections won't kick in until you have filed your I-485 application.
I had an L1-B extension request inside the US and they came back with a request for more information. Honestly it looked like they were about to refuse my visa extension. I told the immigration lawyers that I'd be back in London over Christmas and they changed their tune. Applying through London, albeit with an L1 company blanket doc, took all of 30 minutes starting with review of the application and finishing with an interview where the person interviewing me obviously knew very little about my industry.

There appear to be wide discrepancies within the system that can be arbitraged.
Neighborhood character and height restrictions aren't "really good", they are maybe okay sometimes.

Traffic management is a planning problem, but it isn't a reason to not build things (for instance, if you refuse to build things for traffic management and limit density, you probably just end up with more traffic anyway...).
Intuition indeed. Nothing can replace a stream of several-hour long hyper-focused sessions of debugging bizarre multi-layer multi-language multi-concept bugs. The mind needs to expand and adjust to that.
> where developers have made the code more generic than it needs to be, or added functionality that isn’t presently needed by the system.

I agree with this when it's internal interfaces. When you have public interfaces that you expect to have to support in a backwards-compatible manner for (ideally) years in the future, it's worth taking some time to think about how people might want to extend it in the future.
Can you recommend any texts, videos, or websites to learn more about statistical power? The term is quite overloaded in google.
Yes, I consistently vote in favor of local tax increases.
"Mistrust of American big tech" is not unknown in USA either.
why did you switch from the mit site to twitter ? (i'm currently blocked on twitter - they want a phone number and are blocking all content till i provide one)
It's all about the cost.

During WW2 and Korea, militaries generally favored larger, heavier bullets. The thinking was power is good. Over time, people realized that carrying weight is bad, and volume of fire is usually better than the power of a single cartridge – so the US moved to the M-16 (M4, AR-15) and the Soviets to the AK-74.

The sticking point is you have to have the money for BOTH:

1. Mass caliber conversion (rifle replacement, new ammo, new tooling...), AND

2. Purchase of additional, larger caliber weapons to replace the capability you lost when switching most of your forces from the intermediate cartridge to the newer, smaller bullet.

So, poorer countries tended to stick with the AK-47, and wealthier Soviet-bloc countries went to the AK-74...but there aren't too many wealthy communist countries, so the AK-47 remained the standard.
That’s a solution to housing, not urban loneliness.
Looks like a great service. Sadly none of your current markets are near me and the closest city I could vote for is an eight hour drive away. I'll check back periodically and see if you've expanded to anywhere within driving range. Thanks for letting me know about the service!
Here in the UK, Three offer unlimited 4G data for £22/mo ($27). That's a very compelling alternative to fixed broadband for a lot of people; it's going to get a lot more compelling with the rollout of 5G.

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E5573bs-322_4...
Goodenough!
Unfortunately, I don't know UK immigration law. If you need a referral, email me separately.
Looks like:

* https://i3wm.org/ (i3)

* https://xmonad.org/ (xmonad)

* https://awesomewm.org/ (Awesome)
Whenever a CEO complains about quarterly accountability I ask them “would you like your direct reports to check in with you once a year?” It is ironic as management move towards real-time 24/7 dashboards to track key metrics, every 3 months is viewed as an inappropriate timeframe to judge progress or lack thereof.

The fact is public market investors are desperate to find high return places to invest capital. There is a shortage not a glut of long term opportunities to invest capital at an adequate rate of return. Companies that can do so are well rewarded by the marketplace. Those that aren’t either aren’t generating adequate returns on invested capital or are unable to communicate their prospects.
I really really wanted Ultima Online 2 to happen, and looking back, it could have changed how future MMOs like Everquest or WoW had been developed. The failure of UO2 made a lot of studios wary of sandbox open world games, and they decided to go the more moderate route of theme-park design (limited, predictable design) for both world design and character abilities.
And yet it does move.

So you want a language that never changes, but also perfectly matches today's mores? And you want enough people to speak it that it lasts multiple decades?
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Parallelism in Crystal
I appreciate that use of your vehicles was essential for you during the aftermath of Katrina. But I don't think emergency situations are a good enough rational for using a gasoline-powered car every day. As in many computer science problems, there are benefits from treating the worst case (e.g. medical transport after a natural disaster) and the average case (e.g. commuting to work) separately.

In general, I suspect electric is better in the average case, and gasoline in the case of emergencies. We see this with household power: most people power their houses with electricity, but may use a gas backup generator. For the similar reasons, we should probably drive electric cars to work but continue using gasoline-powered ambulances.
Another part of the appeal is that nobody may ever know how many people, if any, actually showed up.
You say it's caused by inappropriate lack of deference to police. I say it's caused by an inappropriate expectation of deference by police. Their motto is "protect and serve", not "rule with an iron fist".

Police need to maintain discipline and composure regardless of the attitude from people that they are interacting with or they are not worthy of the power that they have been entrusted with.
>If you go into a company expecting to be handed work on a platter and to have someone know exactly what is going on, the way that, say, a college professor knows how to teach physics 101, you are going to be disappointed. It’s much more likely that the folks who are senior to you are trying to stay one step ahead of the customer.

I had a "non traditional" education.

I was a great High School student, but once I was in college I struggled, mostly due to non educational issues (poor reading comprehension, depression, general issues I think would be termed ADHD) and I dropped out. I managed to work my way into the tech industry with luck and just making stuff work. The fact that I didn't and wasn't going to know what to do I chalked up to my own reading comprehension and other issues. So I just accepted it and kept "moving forward".

Meanwhile a lot of friend continued on through college being very successful and accomplishing a lot and then... really struggling when the working world wasn't fair, and perhaps most importantly didn't provide a prescribed path to high fives, good grades and knowing they were doing it right and would get good outcomes.

So I'm often working with CS grads and I see the same thing from some of them, folks struggling when they're not told what to do, how, and confidant in their own actions.

Education seems to provide a lot of specific environments that just don't exist outside that and it tends to be a bump in the road for a lot of people.
I accept that but ANY measured goals will be games as a fairly universal principle of human organization. If you shift accountability to annual the incentives to game increase because you have a whole year before you need to fess up.
The gate fee keeps the undesirables out as well.

Much as a bar's cover charge is a filter. Conversation I had a few years back, at New Years:

"Why would anyone pay $100 just to enter a bar?"

"To be at a bar with people who can afford to pay $100 to enter."

A similar role, though different mechanism, is described by Joseph Wood Krutch: "There's nothing like a good bad dirt road to screen out the faintly interested and to invite in the genuinely interested." Often recast as "bad roads make good filters".

https://www.greensboro.com/the-highway-less-traveled/article...
> ... as they have worked together for quite a while without any substantial progress on the juniors side.

Seems like a misalignment on ability and expectations of the jr. What is "substantial" progress defined as? Was that definition shared with jr? It's hard to make progress towards something if that something is nebulous.

>He seems motivated to learn but has a bad intuition on how to do things the "right" way.

What is the "right" way in context? Is it the difference between a non-working and working a solution? Or is the difference between a sub-optimal solution and the best possible solution?

To me this sounds like an ideal jr hire. Eager to learn, and still green. This sounds ultimately like a case of poorly defined expectations.

What do you expect the responsibilities of the jr to look like in 6 months? A year? If you start there you can work backwards and help set smaller goals.

Without a strong idea of where you want them to end up, you're just asking them to "get good" which is bound to be frustrating for all parties.
I use embedded Linux, not rtos chips. The tool chain is generated by yocto. Yocto is an embedded Linux from scratch distro creator. It creates images and environment for cross development. My connection with the docker was not so toolchain related, but system component test related. I modified the testing harnesses of yocto to start docker containers that serve a kernel zImage(over tftp) and a copy of the pristine ext4 image over nfs. With some program scriptology I made in python I was able to have serial boot log expects as well as boot time monitoring. I made a write up about it but it seems not many people dabble in such topics as SCTs for embedded devices[1]. I must say that embedded developing is a kind of a lonely experience,compared with for example the docker and web developer communities.

Regarding the investment it is an embedded industry problem. There is very little re-use. My experience is that we are an industry of wheel reinvention, where all of us are deep experts so we roll everything on our own. Maybe against myself I speak as I indeed developed this harnesses even though other solutions exist. My quip with what exists is that Intel absolutely owns, or used to own yocto and embedded tooling open source projects. This lead to very crappy code that was Intel specific being half merged into upstream. Mind you their featues are really not working,and were accepted because Intel is a gold yocto project sponsor. When you try to remove the broken code to a more sane one, you cannot because then the actual good rules of making small changes will bite you back and your changes will not be accepted. So you need to wait for Intel to cave in to remove their broken features. I digress sorry :). Even so Yocto project is a great step towards embedded projects productivity and knowledge re-use.
https://www.reddit.com/r/embeddedlinux/comments/bk8a8k/yocto...
Maybe just live in an affordable area.
You ended that quote too soon.

>"However, I've come around to realize that this makes financial sense."

Clugston says that it costs about $20,000 a year to house someone. If they're on the street, it can cost up to $100,000 a year.

This one is pretty heart warming too:

>He says city staff found housing for one man, but he insisted on leaving to sleep under cars. Day after day, they'd search him out and take him back to his new home. "They did it 75 times, but they had the patience and they didn't give up on him and, eventually, he ended up staying in the house," he says. "Ultimately, people do want a roof over their heads."
True, I somehow though we were talking about the digital wellbeing apps that Apple copied and banned.
Huh, the bit about just plugging in the real values for variables being a bad idea is very interesting. Pretty sure I've done that in the past, without really thinking too much about it.

Does anyone know of books that cover stuff like that? There's plenty of books explaining Simpson's paradox to laymen, but I want something that explains common statistical pitfalls for people with already some education in the area.
Not if there were other crabs in there with you!
It's not an actual thing beyond a big in-joke. If anyone does actually show up, it will be something like the pizzagate gunman situation, where they have mental issues. Area 51 is so isolated [0] that a raid by any average person is pretty much impossible, they'll be stopped miles away from the facility. It's a long gravel road just to reach the restricted roads. [1] If you type for directions from Crystal Springs to Area 51 into Google Maps it'll also show the gravel road (and the street-view person also changes into a UFO haha)

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/37°14'52.9"N+115°48'00.6"W...

[1] https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g45991-d117062...
Apple is doing this for ages....Like how they demonstrate Swift is faster than Python, lol
So a cable at 300,000km at, oh, I dont know, an average of 1 meter wide, is not massive?

I think scrapping together enough material on earth to build this will be the first problem.

2.36 x10^8m for rough cylinder volume.

Steel weight would be 1,864,400,000,000 kg. Yes itd be a hybrid material. So, half of that? Maybe a quarter? That's not an insignificant amount of material at a 1m diameter cable. We haven't even gotten to labor costs and energy required.

I get astronomically, its insignificant. But I doubt it's going to have no effect.
"Allow your team to response in a matter of hours/days, not minutes. Let them think about and rethink a problem or question."

Is anyone using dsr55rhel? I need to reboot it.
US immigration law has still not come to terms with remote/digital employment so there is some gray here but the short answer is no.
Your boss sounds pretty bad. I doubt you’re going to have a good time with any set of tools.
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We do that with VM images, WAR/EAR, RPM, NuGET, MSI packages.
> The point of the article is that some people want more than that, and can't figure out why they aren't getting it.

Well as an Asian I’d say these delusions of grandeur are part of the problem.