skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was remote at my current job for approximately 1.5 years until it abruptly ended. I was asked via e-mail (completely out of the blue) to return back to campus within the next 2 weeks. When I returned I found that they have allocated a nice little cubicle for me beside a bunch of employees who enjoy taking personal calls all day long. To say my productivity plummeted would be an understatement.

A few months went by and my manager told me that the higher-ups wanted me to be in an office (no clue as to where this order came from) so I didn't complain at all. This is not typical where I work. Offices were almost always reserved for Directors and Executive Directors so it was a bit of a shock. It even had a window! They told me I needed to be moved in by Friday (it was Monday). I moved 15 minutes after I was told the news.

I've now been in my office for 3 weeks and wish for my remote life to return. I have a light that buzzes loudly above my head that must be unfixable as our facilities seem to ignore my complaints. I also found that my room temperature is based on the average of the 4 nearby offices - one of which receives direct sunlight all day causing the room to be much hotter than average. As a result, the A/C is running in my office when it is currently 46F outside (but at least he's comfortable)...

I spend my day sitting in an uncomfortable chair (at-least it's ergonomic - according to the stickers), working on an under-powered laptop that requires administrative access to install software (...I work in a software department).

The good news is it's 4:30pm and I'm heading home for the day! Unfortunately I live an hour away...
Reducing Docker image size and cutting Google Cloud costs
> they thought I only did 1 1/2 weeks of work on it although my git history says otherwise.

> all of a sudden they told me I did not do a good job.

> this time around I trusted them and we "winged" the project management

Sounds like a series of miscommunications you'll just need to put safeguards in for next time e.g. use a planning board to keep track of what's been done + what needs to be done, agree on how time will be tracked, meet more regularly to review progress (especially at the start of the project). Best not to beat yourself up over it and just learn from it instead - nobody's perfect!
Your formula yields zero in some cases.
I'm not convinced.

Rising housing prices are already dramatically changing SF. If you want to let residents maintain their way of living, I don't see how thats achieved by pricing poorer residents out of the city entirely. I'm sure most residents would prefer to live in apartments in SF than move to another city entirely.

As for transport, cars are already pretty unfeasable in SF with the population as is. Whats so bad about investing more in public transit and biking?

As for crime and traffic, most larger cities in Europe are much cleaner and safer than SF. More residents means city hall has more money to play with, which it can re-invest into schools, parks, the police, public transit and other things. Cheaper accomodation makes it easier to re-house homeless people and it makes homeless shelters more affordable for the city.
>If it wasn't a real story it's a brilliant bit of marketing

Marketing for what?
Finally, we agree.

A PoW coin has the same economic impact as a 48% rate of inflation. If that’s what we have to pay to “decentralize” our currency it’s time to stop trying to do that. The burden is not on the incumbent to prove why it’s better, it’s on the new guy.

That’s what we’ve learned from this decade long experiment: it’s just not worth it. Time to put this idea to bed and pursue something worthwhile.
This is one of those cases where distribution really matters; for quite a lot of the work we do, AGPL would probably be fine (to-order in-house business tools;client pays for development, gets source anyway).

While selling those tools under AGPL certainly would be both Free and open source (but not gratis!) - the only real impact of the AGPL would be on our client - in that they'd be guaranteed the four freedoms (but they generally specify that in the contract anyway - they want the possibility to continue development in house, or with a possible new partner down the road).

However, the products are proprietary in the sense that our client only ever use then in-house and don't distribute them or expose them as public facing services. So no redistribution.

So you're technically correct (the best kind of correct!) - I just think the distinction is important, as you certainly could sell software with AGPL components.
It's the second time in the past two weeks a cop in Texas has killed an innocent person for no good reason.
> trying to live the lifestyle of young professionals in the 1980s

I've been interested in the subject for while, but do you know of any recommended reading material about what being a YP in the 80s was like (socially, career wise, etc) and the economics of how it was possible?
Millennials are still young. Maybe they just need more time to catch up to the previous divorce rate.
thanks for saving me the effort of hunting for this, really good info
> wish OPD had taken an interest in the theft

Sadly, in California most theft is merely a misdemeanor, and busy PDs do not have time to chase down criminals to give them a ticket.
Speed and latency wise it should be manageable, but the bigger problem is spectrum licenses. Depending on your local legislation, it might be that new competitors cannot do last-mile 5G delivery because the existing telecoms have purposefully lobbied and bought out all available spectrum.
I use it in the distant past for language and photography socializing in a big capital city. I looked not long ago and most groups were now tech based that were clearly startup pitches and other "business" related things instead of cultural and social. Everything seems to get ruined by people trying to squeeze money out of it like the internet in general. I was just thinking today for some reason about when Omegle started and it was cool talking to normal people all over. Less than a year later it was overrun with scammers, spam for websites, and other nonsense. Skype is another example even further back. Everything that gets any attention ends up like this...twisted and ruined for profits. Has really ruined my faith in anything and anyone at this point because it all just gets gobbled up in pursuit of riches.
A grey area where you don't have any rights, if they don't like anything about you they can just put you on the next return flight.

That's if they let you fly there in the first place. I know someone who was denied access because they had a criminal record from over a decade ago, even though it was a minor offence (no prison sentence). This is a UK citizen, so you can imagine how much more difficult it is for someone from a less favourable country.

This is advice for Brits from the US Embassy:
"Can you advise me if my arrest, caution, conviction will prevent me from traveling visa free and registering under ESTA?
We cannot advise whether a traveler’s specific situation will have a bearing on their eligibility to travel visa free under the Visa Waiver Program. Our advice is that if you have ever been arrested, cautioned or convicted you apply for a visa."

Cautioned! You don't even need to be convicted or even arrested for an offence.
Thank you! This is a very well-reasoned comment that I will find myself returning to also in the future.
"no one is looking" quickly becomes "no one was looking" when an individual or group becomes problematic in the eyes of an authority. Recording everything allows a government's executive branch to selectively and successfully prosecute more or less anyone at will, which defeats the purpose of having an independent judiciary.

Ideally the legislative process would step in and curb back the excessively restrictive laws and surveillance, but it don't seem to have much incentive to do so. Plus, legislators are subject to the same onerous regulations which everyone breaks all of the time because "no one is looking".
Depending on your needs, of course, AssemblyLoadContext supports unloading, if the goal is simply loading then unloading plugins.

(Security sandboxing is obviously a different matter, but Microsoft hasn't seemed too keen on the old .NET 1.0 CAS model for over a decade now, and has mostly recommended against it.)

Example code: https://github.com/dotnet/samples/tree/master/core/tutorials...
I'm not fond of the slippery slope argument, particularly when it comes from NIMBY's that bought their houses when markets were at a low because nobody wanted to live in these cities.

Bay area residents, Seattle residents, etc need to get over themselves and accept reality for what it is. They aren't protecting anything but their own sense of self-worth and the "theory" that bad things will happen if a 3 story apartment complex comes into the neighborhood.

The reality is, most of them want their property values insanely high, for when they are ready to sell and move to cheaper cities.
What part? I visited KC earlier this and frankly didn't find it too terrible, but idk if I'd live in like Topeka or Wichita
I’m an engineer now at Amazon. I’ve been here 7 years. 5 years ago, our culture was far more toxic. More recently, some orgs are horrible places to work and others are much better. I don’t think we’re much worse than other companies. Our pay for engineers is less than Google and Facebook, as far as I know, but we beat other companies such as MSFT.

Amazon naturally attracts people who want to accomplish big things. It just happens that many of these folks are assholes.

Is Amazon predatory to its employees? Some organizations are - yeah absolutely. Are we worse than other companies I worked prior to Amazon? No. Does that mean it’s okay? No. I’m just saying there’s a public perception of Amazon being at the deepest level of hell and it’s not true.

We absolutely burn people out. We overwork employees. We don’t promote them when we should. We try to find the tiniest bit pick reasons not to promote. We practice stupidity and call it frugality? You’re an engineer making $200K total comp a year? Your computer doesn’t work and is crashing? Oh too bad - we won’t replace it for you. Yeah I mean that kind of fucking stupidity.

We encourage everyone to automate their role so we can replace those folks with college hires.

Amazon is not a place you can have a long career at. You’ll have to jump teams or orgs every couple years and eventually you’ll get tired enough that you learn to manage upwards yourself and stick with a manager that you can manage.
Well, it might be unsophisticated of me to belabor my point, but it doesn't take a genius to see that there are major technical drawbacks with 5G, and the industry has not been successful in convincing consumers to buy into the hype.

Telcos are blowing $26 billion on this new tech, so I think it's important to question how they're going to make that money back. If you read how the industry itself answers this question, hint: it's not self-driving cars. It is 5G network slicing. The current wireless infrastructure is built on net neutrality, so they cannot differentiate traffic without rebuilding it all from scratch. That is the real reason behind the $26 billion rollout and millions of new devices. They need to rebuild the internet to charge enterprise customers high prices and 5G is just how they decided to market this project to the public. They need to do this before the political environment changes or else they lose their opportunity.
Sure, but 150k users liked and 30k users retweeted a deep-dive engagement into the intricacies of how hack-ey the current money transfer system is.

Some percentage of those people who deal with this stuff on a weekly or monthly basis will say "yeah, this is f'd, there must be a better way..."
But this is a standard bank account and transfer? This is the old way of doing things, not his new way.
When you own a small business and some land your wealth may be over 11m but not liquid.
>Is there a chance they might get looked down upon because of the emphasis on the "whole person" or finding "interesting" candidates.

There is a deliberate admissions emphasis on ensuring the class is as diverse (in terms of viewpoint and experience) as possible. An MBA class full of only people with finance degrees would be a poor experience for everyone.
Don’t ignore your bullshit-ometer on social media platforms, it’s rarely wrong.
Every non-free database management system has this clause.
Windows 2000 SP3 was felt really nice compared to constant crashing with 95/98 and XP's ugly UI and again increased crashes. But if you try 2000 now, it's clumsy and it was only SP3 that was finally stable.

XP could be easily improved by just switching to classic UI style and any wallpaper other than the default teletubbyland. Still I think 7 was the first Windows that didn't need reboot at least once per day and would't give blue screens.
Atlassian Jira’s license, section 3.2:

« (h) use the Software for competitive analysis or to build competitive products; (i) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Software; or (j) encourage or assist any third party to do any of the foregoing. »

https://www.atlassian.com/legal/software-license-agreement
Or "three rings means I'm staying over, any more means come pick me up".
Funny enough, it doesn't have a bang for Dark Sky, which is the source for the weather info box when it has one.
HELP is your friend.

The VMS help system, while far less verbose than Unix man pages was, thanks to its hierarchical organisation really, well, helpful.
The MERGE statement is less functional and has a LOT of hidden gotchas, I won’t argue that I can be useful but I don’t disagree when them not providing the footgun.
I have yet to hear of a single well-known mathematician who gives a damn about this.
It is often easy, but not always.

Write some tests around the problematic functionality before attempting the final port, it should help in this situation. Should be broken into multiple files as well.
Thanks for the feedback. What's funny is I actually tracked the previous engagement with them meticulously. I just based this new one on trust and feedback through constant communication, since I worked with them in house.

There was no sign of me not doing my job well until I started to bill, all the issues came out.
Yeah - 30 miles outside Raleigh isn't really a small town, IMO. It seems more like a suburb.
I might be treading on thin ice here, but more cultural diversity at ABC could have prevented this. The Knob Creek machine gun shoot is kind of famous in gun-enthusiast circles. With the number of machine guns being shot and the number of hollywood style gasoline explosions going off, I do think I would have recognized the source of this video if it were presented to me without context. There are many videos of this event from different years and from different spectators, but they all generally look about the same; tons of tracers and tons of gasoline fireballs.

I am not a combat veteran so the following is speculative, but I suspect the footage may look suspect to combat veterans as well. Big orange fireballs like that are from milk jugs of gasoline, not high explosives. That sort of thing is done for visual effect, not lethal effect. Certainly vehicle fuel will catch fire on battlefields, but I can't help but suspect the video would look "off" to a combat veteran.
You bank account information is written on your bank cards, which are in your wallet.
Also US citizens and foreigners. God help you if you intersect more than one of the bad sides.
Just bill monthly. Your power company doesn’t process a charge of $.08 every time you use a KWh of electricity...
Have people deposit a few dollars to open an account, then let them reload it when they’ve used up their posts?

Edit: actually the sibling comment’s suggestion (bill monthly) is probably better
As everyone else has said, lesson learned on always having a written SOW, and/or a contract.

Now you have a couple choices:

(Insert standard IANAL disclaimer here.)

1) Contracts do not have to be written to be binding. If you had a verbal agreement that amounted to a contract (specific details you would provide in exchange for specific compensation at the least), and you feel you met your side of it, you can bring in an attorney to argue it. Of course, this is the nuclear option, and may not be worth the trouble or damage to the relationship.

2) Sit down and tell them your side, and ask them to compromise on a deal that you both can live with. This may mean less money from them, or more work from you, or both. This may be the healthiest option for the relationship, but requires some negotiating skills.

3) Just accept what they give you. This is bad for you in multiple ways, but is the simplest and easiest answer.
Hi, I’m the guy who lost his wallet! I agree it’s a convenient overlap and understand your cynicism but I assure you that it’s genuine. I can even provide you with the receipt from me riding a jump bike around for an hour looking for my wallet! :)

EDIT: spelling + I did pin the tweet about transferwise after it blew up, and I also changed my bio to share my small side project: Podmast.com - check it out :)
> it has even damaged our relationship

Might have a case for lawsuit arguing alienation of affections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienation_of_affections
Make your own Debian fork and stop pestering the rest of us about how volunteers should support software they aren't interested in.
Usually custom, that needs to be reverse engineered (with some help of usually minified JavaScript)
Instead of a table-valued parameter, wouldn’t you use an array of a composite type in PostgreSQL? What are the relative good and bad points?
It is. The effort is not really as other comments put out to build a Oracle competitors. Arguably for most companies, the open source alternatives are enough for them to be happy with.

What Amazon shown here is the transition at scale is possible.
This is not true. If you have newsworthy footage, they'll pay. The problem is that you're usually not the only one with the footage, and a lot of people like to see their name on the news!
After experiencing a year of 'let's build an Angular app with 60+ developers', Flutter is a breath of Fresh air. I'm an army of one again!
What about IP agreements? After reading "Venture Deals" you get the idea that if you to talk about your project and bounce ideas off of them during the development phase they could have implicit "rights" to IP. What do you have to have everyone you talk to about developments sign an IP agreement?
A Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Neural Conversation Model
The only really appropriate response I can give is:

Ask someone who, like you, built a business and then went for an MBA. Definitely don't ask people who don't have an MBA.

The only example that comes to mind: Angie Hicks of Angie's List fame. Although she didn't run Angie's List, she probably knew all of the ins and outs of it. Then she left it to get an MBA from HBS. You can hear about her experience on "How I Built This":

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639532403/angies-list-angie-h...

The summary: She found some aspects beneficial. She also found some of what they taught to be bad advice given her knowledge of running a business. So yes, she did gain something out of it.

I'm sure I've heard other How I Built This episodes where the founder later got an MBA, but I don't recall which ones they were.

Now having answered that: Some comments for you:

Your question is isomorphic to "Having taught myself programming and earning over $200K/year, I'm not sure what a CS degree would teach me." The answer is "It will likely teach you things, but it's not clear they will further your career," The other response to such a question would be: "Not everyone can be as effective in teaching themselves and getting a job as you were, so there is still value in the degree for many people."
"moments later". It takes time to turn around.
> I thought WPF / Core was the recommended / modern approach.

The recommended / modern approach for 100% new applications would probably still be UWP (WinRT XAML) / Core, except getting that up-to-date with the latest .NET Core improvements is currently delayed until .NET 5.
That could very possibly be the video encoding used by Apple or the 3rd party that might doing their bitrate specific video encoding. There are some incredible anime specific codec's out there that do a great job and I would want them run instead of a standard encoder you might use for non-anime movies. There's a reason why dvd ripped and compressed anime looks so good.
> Regular travel isn't even a goal of most people today.

I see you've been boycotting Instagram for at least the last half a decade.
Usually shizophren parents, who create a world of horrors to keep there children under control.
> I'm very interested to know why this port is taking so long. Few human resources?

That would be my guess. I don't know how big VMS Software is, but I doubt they are that big. The market they are addressing is limited in size, and is almost certain to shrink rather than grow, so it would be difficult to justify a massive investment in developers.

OTOH, how long did the VAX->Alpha port take? How long did the Alpha->Itanium port take? How long would have HP taken if they'd decided to commit to an x86 port themselves?
I needed to "get around" on OpenVMS in a previous assignment. Some java processes executed there and needed my attention from time to time. I never became good friend with it and never "saw the light". I much prefer Linux.
What racist drivel right here on HN.
We have several projects tackling large global problems launching shortly with interesting backing.

These include fighting poverty with intelligent smartphones, fighting commodity volatility and fighting online hate and extremism.

All have a AI + human angle and interesting backing.

Mail me on semantic at gmail.com if of interest
you are spreading misinformation here -- there is legal precedent, and courts do matter
This used to be my favorite OS. I am pleasantly surprised to see it is still around. The security model at the time was vastly superior to Unix. I maintained the SMS gateway for a mobile provider on it. OpenVMS on Alpha had incredible performance and stability compared to the Unix system counterparts at the time. (comparing rack space real estate that is)
>There are some comments out there on the web I've seen that point to there being some issues at slow speeds and high AoA.

1)This is precisely how you induce the accelerated stall I mentioned. Slow down, nose up till you get to the bottom of the energy curve, then accelerate while continuing to nose up. Hold this straight back, or bank to one side, and you stall. It's one of the most basic training procedures there is, although maybe not for 737s.

2) If accelerating causes nose up on it's own (without pulling on the stick) while near the bottom of the energy curve, you could have a run away condition.

So are you saying a run-away condition can still be "stable" in aeronautical engineering terms?

Because I'm pretty sure that's wrong. You might be studying the wrong books re: the technical language.
Wrong question... right question is, who is enriching themselves on this policy?
Package maintainers have to deal with worse things than that. Also, major distributions migrated their core packages to Python 3 a long time ago. Even if Python 2 was supported for longer, the Python 2 age is definitely over for system programming.
'Oh, this road is a lot less bumpy and is also going in the right direction, let's just keep following it'.

Did this across a European border by accident. Took us 10 minutes to notice the different style of road furniture.
Such logic leaves you with no idea if the top X% is qualified or not, just that they are the top X%. You need to enumerate requirements and test against them.

Same thinking leads to weed out classes that just pointlessly limit the number in some profession. Saying "wow, everyone passed calculus, that can't be right" and making the test harder serves no one.