skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't sell them on a kitchen benefits package.

Where is the money going? I don't know. I have ~50 expense categories from utilities, raw materials, labor, transportatation, insurances, rent, interest expenses, accounting, taxes, etc. A dollar doesn't disappear from the kitchen budget and arrive in my pocket. Maybe it went to the R&D budget or maybe it went to buying a new dining room table.
Location: Bangalore (India)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Docker, HTML, Javascript, Database, Machine Learning,scikit learn, Numpy, Pandas, GIT, Linux.

Email: jagjyotsna@gmail.com
Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eaf9aa17akvso63/Jyotsna%20Rupaliya...

I am a junior developer experienced in developing web apps and python modules, interested in the field of machine learning.
Why was it a big improvement in the 1800's but not now? I don't understand this sentiment -- passing laws looks almost identical today, and I think congress was even more divided (e.g. just post civil war?).

I've seen RR used extremely effectively in contentious meetings to get to resolution -- because action is more important to the group than the individual's inclusion.

Susskind's methods always seemed like the work you should do outside of the actual meetings. Look at the steps around "fact finding", "assigning responsibilities", etc -- that's exactly what congress does today! (and what you should be doing outside your meetings)

Are there any videos of how a meeting would be run with these rules? If I fly across the country to meet with a board and we need to make decisions that day, how do I accomplish that with consensus building?
Depends what you mean by “appropriate”, I guess. That word doesn’t really mean anything in this context
It only shows ads on programs that aren't theirs which is even now nefarious.
fun fact: it's illegal to wear a ski mask if a demonstration is planned that day. Otherwise it is of no concern.
An In-City Growth Cap Is Climate Arson
No your expectations are not unreasonable, but your results are not uncommon either.

You might consider yourself lucky though, usually when things are disorganized at the interview stage and there is poor communication there it is a sign that the company suffers from the same thing. There are of course exceptions when shit just hit the fan for them and so they struggled during a time period, but more often than not I find when companies lack good interviewing skills and basic process they themselves struggle with organization and communication.
I disagree. If people fail to better themselves because they're surrounded anti-intellectuals, then nobody in the lower middle class would ever rise to upper middle; they would fail to challenge that culture. It's a personal choice to go with or against the prevailing culture.

I empathize with the fact, that for many people who do want to better themselves, they're often surrounded by people who don't want to. And that's a tough situation to be in -- that can drag you down. It's tough to persevere in certain situations.
this. pretty UI but disjointed documentation. it's quite up to date (for what i do though) but
it's hard to get the whole picture.
There used to be a neighborhood in Boston called the "West End" which was actually pretty far east in the city, bumping against the North End, Beacon Hill, and the Longfellow Bridge which crosses the Charles River.

Most of the buildings were brick tenements built in the 1800s. One of its most famous native sons was Leonard Nemoy, who left the West End in his late teens to start his acting career.

The West End had narrow, winding streets, and the city government said this was a fire hazard because fire apparatus couldn't be driven down certain streets and alleys. That was true (I saw an old black and white picture of a fire truck that got stuck making a turn) but there was another motive in moving to have the tenements cleared and the area flattened: "Urban renewal." The city wanted other buildings built there, not to mention the elevated central artery. Over the strenuous objection of residents, almost everyone was cleared out and the buildings flattened from 1958 to 1960. The elevated highway, new hospital buildings, government buildings, and commercial structures went up in its place.

The history of the West End is covered by the West End Museum (https://thewestendmuseum.org/)

Leonard Nimoy was never able to go back home; his parents relocated to West Roxbury. The central expressway was demolished in the 1990s and the highway put underground (part of the "The Big Dig", see https://www.mass.gov/info-details/the-big-dig-project-backgr...).
Buying ready to eat chicken every day and buying fast food is different how?
expected to read an article about someone 3d-printing their own glasses, was disappointed
The article points this out explicitly.

> The groups who find Robert’s Rules most helpful are those who know who they are and generally where they want to go but disagree about how to get there. For these groups, the process of making motions keeps the body in motion but does not fracture it.

> Groups that are deeply divided may find that Robert’s Rules exacerbates differences, giving power to the side that knows the rules best. We’ve all been here too. [examples follow]
Why not just link the Microsoft article?

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/10/04/recent-...
I think the initial level is mostly a function of experience. Then depending on your interview results it can go up or down. In my case I interviewed at level 5, and did well enough to be invited to come back for another round at 6.

I was super lucky to work with a gem of a recruiter at one of the FANGs who spontaneously pushed for 6 after my feedback from 5 came back positive. The other FANG was more reactive and didn't invite me back until I told them of the competing offer. So perhaps try pushing for it yourself if your recruiter is not as proactive and you feel you have a shot. Worst case they'll say no. (Or they'll say yes and you'll bomb the next round. That's not supposed to reflect negatively on your first round, although it would likely have affected me psychologically and made me less confident during the comp negotiation.)

I ended up joining a company without levels, so I'm afraid I don't have any more useful information for you than what I gleaned as a candidate.
If the fourth amendment doesn't apply to your phone, then your phone can be looked at anytime by authorities with no need to cite probable cause, nor a warrant. Or am I missing something?
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/gallery/landsubsidence-poland.htm...

> This photo shows the approximate location of maximum subsidence in the United States, identified by research efforts of Dr. Joseph F. Poland (pictured). The site is in the San Joaquin Valley southwest of Mendota, California. Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 1977.

> In this case, excessive groundwater pumping allowed the upper soil layers to dry out and compress and compact, which is by far the single largest cause of subsidence. Soil compaction results in a reduction of the pore sizes between soil particles, resulting in essentially a permanent condition—rewetting of the underground soil and rock does not cause the land to go back up in altitude. This results in a lessening of the total storage capacity of the aquifer system. Here, the term "groundwater mining" is really true.
And a gajillion comments on code

# see https://stackoverflow/something to understand the next two lines

And then one day SO closes.

(I saw some software build pipes explicitly looking for SO comments and rejecting the code)
Top Bitcoin maximalists to follow on Twitter
Let's take Colorado as an example. It's because the water lands there and flows through into the Colorado River and on down to California. There's a treaty among all the states the Colorado River flows through governing water distribution (hint: California gets priority, and there's more water in the treaty than the river). So all that water is not just governed by local law but by interstate treaty.

And, frankly, such laws are necessary in many more places than have them. I until recently lived on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Plenty of water, right? Except if you drew down the aquifers too far, the sea would leach in and there goes your fresh water supply. They're currently fighting it out about how much population increase they can support and still have water, how much of the island needs to be left as or put into wetland and forest that efficiently captures water into the aquifers...

And on the mainland on both sides of Puget Sound, the water supply is snow melt. If you didn't get enough snow in the winter, you're looking at shortages in the summer. This is going to get worse over the next few decades most likely, alongside an increasing population.
$30K/year may seem trivial if it's a VC-funded startup. However, if it's a bootstrapped company that's struggling to turn a profit, $30K/year could be the difference between life and death. For example, if you spend it on marketing you live, but if you spend it on snacks, you die.

> Is the reduction in employee satisfaction really worth it?

Not everyone cares about free food/drinks. The only freebies the company I work for provides are bad coffee and tea, but I don't care one way or the other. My decision to stay or leave is based on factors like the work I'm doing, the people I work with and the quality of management.
https://www.amazon.com/Web-Analytics-2-0-Accountability-Cent...
I spoke poorly, I meant there's nothing wrong with people spending money on expensive things simply because they like the way they look/sound. I don't like predatory pricing. Limited Editions are OK, but when every single product is a limited edition designed to milk every last cent out of people I have an issue with it.

Although, if its gonna happen, I am very happy that its happening to a luxury product and not something my friends and relatives that make less than a 3rd of my annual income desperately need to survive.
Agreed, if you want to play this game, you might as well say that Canada is subsidizing criminals because of crime's unpaid externality. Total cost of crime is on the order of $100 billion in Canada[1], which comes to $2,700/citizen.

Are you ready to say that Canada is subsidizing criminals, and when you force them to work off their cost of crime, you're just removing a subsidy for harmful behavior? No? Then don't be so loose with terminology. [2]

[1] https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/crime/rr10_5/rr1...

[2] Previous comment/thread on the matter of using the term "subsidy" consistently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018166
> "Rich people stacked the deck against you and there's nothing you can do about it" is not helpful in any way.

Does anyone even say that?

It's not rich people stacking the deck, it's nature. The rich just happen to have a lot more tools (money) available to deal with that deck.

> It took a tremendous amount of strength and faith in myself to ignore literally everyone I knew and do what I thought was best.

You even touch on it here, so clearly you are aware that your struggles had nothing to do with rich people (except maybe tangentially) but with the environment you were in. That's what people talk about when they talk about the deck being stacked against someone.
The pain kinda disappears if you have a physical Kindle. You enter the serial number once during setup of the plugin, then download the books from amazon.com/myk ("Download & transfer via USB" option), and just drag-and-drop downloaded files into Calibre's interface.

Works on Ubuntu too, which is really a PITA otherwise.
It seems that you are talking about features. I never said that AWS UX isn't horrible. It is. But GCP is also pretty shitty. They don't deserve any praise in this area at all. They have useful features but that doesn't mean their UX is good.
Are all subsidies cash handouts?

Yes. That is the definition [1]:

subsidy noun
sub· si· dy | \ ˈsəb-sə-dē , -zə-\
plural subsidies
Definition of subsidy
: a grant or gift of money: such as
a : a sum of money formerly granted by the British
Parliament to the crown and raised by special
taxation
b : money granted by one state to another
c : a grant by a government to a private person or
company to assist an enterprise deemed
advantageous to the public

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subsidy
I thought margin on the cloud business is pretty high...
It's DB, if they knew what they were talking about then maybe they could have predicted their own share price sliding 97% in a decade.
Reminds me of a recent New Yorker piece where a local oversight group in a small California town tried to push out corrupt healthcare managers through elections, only to be subjected to massive online influence operations. Fascinating and terrifying[0]

0: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad...
There's a few products or there that do just this. Not a lot, but one or two.
I upvoted because I did poorly word what I meant by the latter part of that statement, see above.
Adobe's market cap has gone from a stagnant $20-$30x billion, to being as valuable as SAP, in five years, solely due to their booming cloud subscription business. Previously the stock hadn't net climbed higher basically between the dotcom bubble in 2000 and 2013.

Here is their chart back to 1986:

https://i.imgur.com/lVeAGHQ.jpg

Sales were hardly moving for years and have soared since fiscal 2015, from $4.7b to $10.6b (last four quarters). In that time operating income more than tripled from $900m to $3b.
I carry a passport-sized traveler's notebook (Midori-style). One insert is for a minimal bullet journal to track personal projects/todos/dates/etc. Another is for long-form journalling, and I also transcribe any interesting quotations/excerpts/poetry/etc here.

When it's full, I go through and transfer these to a collection I have in an online note-taking site (used to be Springpad, now Quip, probably migrating again sometime soon).

I have a third insert that has quotations/verses specific to my Catholic faith, so I can have them accessible. I suppose this is the closest to a traditional common-place book.
Not possible under capitalism. Work or starve modulo the welfare state is the order of the day.
I find the GCP dashboard very confusing to navigate, and the material design does not help the information hierarchy one bit. I'd argue GCP is just as bad, if not worse, than AWS for beginners.

I'm already intimately familiar with the AWS dashboard. Just because GCP's dashboard has a bit more polish is not enough for me to switch. Even slightly lower prices may not be either.
Three Big Things: the Most Important Forces Shaping the World
Bilaterally symmetric during the larval stage; the asymmetry develops during their life cycle.
I think that kind of reasoning is akin to saying we should eat pesticides because there aren’t beneficial pests in our bodies..

I did take an antifungal while sick, two actually. The first one made me break out in hives and the second one was a bit dehydrating (also couldn’t drink alcohol while on it). Would not recommend unless it’s necessary.
Curious about this question of direct subsidies, will re-read the IMF report and see if they break these categories out.

IMF report summary:

- $5.3T global subsidy in 2015

- 6% growth per year between 2011 and 2015

- 6.5% of world GDP (2015), 6.4% (2013)

- 24 countries have a subsidy >10% of their own GDP (including China, India, Russia)

- Highest by percentage of GDP is Ukraine, 60.73% of GDP

Source: IMF “Counting the Cost of Energy Subsidies” (2015)

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Glo...
Both of you have valid points.

I too am one of those people who overcame a lot early in life.

Our choices matter. Of course they do.

What is often not discussed is a reasonable, modest life. For many people, that is all they want, and our current society is growing toxic to it. The "game" of life does not need to be as hard as it currently is. Nor does it need to select for extremes.

No matter how great our ability to choose is, the fact is only a fraction of us will do well, and the rest are going to really struggle and that is unnecessary.

The other fact is luck plays a huge role.
When Dinosaurs Roamed Antarctica
Try it on Windows. Or in an unsupported device. Or anywhere they don't want you to see it. You own nothing with digital. It's a long term rental. Also try passing it along when you die.
Loop invariants – where should we put them?
Sadly, this is well known inside the industry. The functionality of these systems significantly degraded when dark.

I've been told that there is similar degradation in the performance of autonomous emergency braking and forward-collision warning not only when dealing with pedestrians, but with cars that have their lights on and are perfectly visible to human drivers.
The Secret to JPEG’s Longevity
More. A lot more. Azure is growing 20 points faster than GCP and from a much higher base too (and I will point out that it is in Microsoft's DNA to run this sort of business, unlike Google's).
For more established corporations that's usually the case, yes.

As I alluded to in other comments, most companies in the US do not put 28 in writing currently. A subset of the "unlimited"/"flexible"/"open" PTO companies will allow you to take 28 days.

Such companies do exist, I have worked at a couple already and know people working at others enjoying the same benefit.

However, off the top of my head, Mailgun offers ~28 days PTO in writing. Wikimedia foundation has "flexible" vacation and 19 paid holidays.
As has been pointed out, you don't have a right to free speech on other people's servers. Y Combinator and Facebook can ban them at their discretion, for any reason or no reason.
no, if you say "no", you're screwed. they jail you until you cooperate with the investigation.
> Its also a shame that none of this nonsense actually helps any of us when we're using a laptop away from a desk setup.

I use a 68 key keyboard and I'd say the compact design of "boutique" (as put it) keyboards is the main advantage over a Das Keyboard or Razer where they put half an inche of plastic and a bunch of useless media keys/knobs/indicators around all the edges of the keyboard. With the more compact design I can basically carry my mechanical keyboard anywhere I carry my laptop.
Have you tried aws cli though? The whole thing is 100x easire in the command line and the documentation is 1000x better. There's even help pages you can get as you type in help. aws s3 help basically list a bunch of option to deal with s3 and you could read through and do exactly what you want. Not saying that console are useless but AFAIK all possible action through console can be a command that's (probably easier).
Maybe they need automatically-updated signs in the front that announce the number of parking spaces available in the back.
Maybe not to determine what "propaganda" is, but I think it's reasonable, and necessary for them to determine what real accounts are.

> The accounts, which have now been taken down, appear to have been professionally run by PR firms

These aren't real users and presumably violate the terms of service.
My theory on this is that the web console isn’t actually the real UX for cloud providers - their API is the UX, and the web console is just a thing that they fling in at the end because everything is meant to have one
We decided to go for a Big Rewrite for a completely different reason. The initial license for the proprietary NoSQL database we had negotiated was about to expire, and the company was going to charge us an order of magnitude more to renew.

So we immediately set out redesigning our system to use other, fully open source technologies. Also gave us an opportunity to reconsider architecture decisions that had not scaled well. In our case, moving from a monolith to microservices has had major benefits. Maybe the biggest being able to quickly see which microservice is the bottleneck and needs to be scaled up to handle the load. With the monolith, if it got slow, it was very difficult to figure out which part of the workload was making it slow.
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Lightning-Headphone-Jack-Adapte...

You're right, $8.79 is a RIDICULOUS price to expect apple users to pay for the former ability to use wired headphones!
I installed it on one server that I only ssh to JUST to use that ebook-convert so I can read anything (epub, mobi, pdf, etc) on the command line. It's so easy to use, detects to- and from-formats from filenames and works on anything.
This absolutely happens - and I'd argue it's not a bad thing - but I'm not aware of a scenario where things become more dangerous because of it.

Normally it eats up some percentage of the naively expected security gain, but my question is if it's ever > 100%?
It generally refers to the practice of living on enough land to support yourself, producing your own food, heating fuel, etc. Depending on how many people are involved you might be able to do this on 5 acres with a good water source, though of course that depends quite a bit on whether you want to eat meat, have cold winters, have bad soil, etc.

It's been popular with plenty of folks for some time, like libertarians, fundamentalist Christians, environmentalists, etc. - I notice it's becoming more common among people concerned about climate breakdown, who are probably concerned that the support structures which make cities possible will fail.

Calling it unsustainable probably refers to half-assed homesteading, where you basically do some gardening on a big patch of land but still drive everywhere and use lots of energy. Homesteading (grow your own food, coppice trees for heating fuel, solar panels for electricity, ride a mountain bike to get around, etc) can have a very low carbon footprint.
I agree, because for all the money and chatter about them most of the companies providing them are making carbon copies of each other with little real innovation -- they're always the same square shape and its always about fancy keyswitches, RGB, and little else.

Computer-building has turned into this, at least if r/pcmasterrace is any indication. It's positively infuriating -- 99% of people's posts are bragging/validation, there are cliques/cargo cults around 144hz, LinusTechTips, RGB, and watercooling, and I cannot remember the last time I saw an in-depth technical discussion about anything there.

I personally think humans' need to form cliques and ingroups is its worse trait; it has transformed a deeply technical hobby that I love into yet another bragging and dick-waving contest :(
You have to account for the fact that a lot of the algorithmic volume is due to ETF arbitrage. We now have more ETFs than stocks in the US by a wide margin, and each new ETF likely creates another trading opportunity. There are also a lot of factor and smart beta strategies now, which I would classify as more systematic, but these could distort the market more than arb strategies.
> Unlike in New York, where regulations and the density of the city core have partially shielded yellow cabs from the effects of competition from ride-hailing companies, the taxi industries in Chicago and other cities have been devastated by Uber and Lyft.

Chicago resident here, the change didn't feel devastating to consumers and the drivers I talk to who used to drive Taxis much prefer driving for Uber/Lyft.
and whats the difference to this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/31/us-cuts-fund...

in truth of course the US government is doing exactly the same thing all the time, standard practice.
Completely agree. GCP is confusing as hell to navigate. I don't need some polished up pretty looking UI. I need to be able to access my resources quickly and move around the dashboard easily. Things are scattered everywhere in GCP.