skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the patterns I noticed in MMO games is that there's always a hardworking, gritty, tight-knit group that rises to the top against all odds. Then they suddenly attract 20x more recruits, most of whom are low quality, and then collapse after too many of these people fill their ranks.

There are people out there who simply optimize for getting as far as possible doing as little work as possible. These people are attracted to "winners". They'll do anything it takes to succeed, and anything it takes to avoid failure. It's the fear of failure that makes them especially unpleasant.
Also notable - there are companies that provide 'free' perks for your staff where a few of them are concrete and the rest are discounts on things from their marketing partners.

Honestly, I'd be tempted to sign up and then tell incoming employees the truth thereof.
Ok, but it's a bad thing to post like that to HN.
>alphabet is a conglomerate

Some may claim that. But there is little support for it besides the fact that they simply structured it that way for strategic purposes and possibly to try to de-emphasize their search dominance for the monopoly hawks.

The 'Google' portion of Alphabet is the only net income producer and almost the only revenue producer. All other Alphabet business are big time money losers right now.
If your webmaster wants to use a 32MB gif because he can't be bothered to figure out how to embed an mp4, fire him on the spot. Serving up 32MB of gif to every user who visits the page because you can't figure out the <video> tag is inexcusable. This is very far from rocket science.
They're almost sort of opposites? Firekube is the Kube control plane running on lightweight Firecracker-powered VMs. On the other hand, Kata Containers is a CRI runtime (like containerd or CRIO) that allows Kubernetes to schedule containers to start through Kata (which then allows the container to run via Firecracker or Qemu, IIUC). But also, I think in practice everyone uses Containerd/CRIO and then configure them to pass untrusted workloads onto Kata.

I'm not sure what to think of how all of this ended up.
Waymo might be part data company though.
Just a note - the OH and the H+ don't specifically pair up to form a single water molecule; realistically, there will be a number of water molecules in play throughout the reaction.

Rather nit-picky, though. Thanks for the diagrams :)
Communists believe countries and governments should be abolished. Seeking the destruction of the American government and country is unamerican.
I always have a problem with this quote because I personally acknowledge a bit of the keynesian argument regarding military spending, that much of it is returned back into the economy and is put to the productive uses listed in that quote.(I'm not saying that's a good reason to raise it)

Also, if you are going to mention the opportunity cost of defense spending, then I think we should also carefully assess the opportunity cost of not securing the world with american power and returning to a world without a dominant unipolar power, as a multipolar world seems much more prone to conflict.
I built an extension called Hide Feed that replaces the feeds to stop you from being distracted before it even happens: https://hidefeed.com/

It might be what you're looking for.
It probably isn't worth it.

But it might be satisfying enough for you to decide to do it anyway.
> 2. Fight open office layout (my opinion, may not be shared by everyone)

This is, I believe, the biggest strike against unions. If the unions decide you don't get open offices, then that decision binds everyone, whether they wanted an open office or not.

You just have to hope that the many tradeoffs you make are worth the things you get in return.
I on the other hand think that the comment as yours is why the rest of the United States thinks tech is full of a bunch of entitled pricks.
Can I group individual elements into custom tool bars that can be docked on any side of the window or be free floating? Can I change the sizes of said tool bars independently to allow larger or smaller buttons for different toolbars? Can I have independent labels for each toolbar?
Not quite. Facebook can kick you off their platform, but they can't bring you up on charges and throw you in prison.
Your comment (along with statements in the article) presumes that tech is the root cause of these problems but in my opinion this assumption is faulty.

Concurrent to the rise in loneliness, depression, anxiety etc. we have experienced a rise in geographical mobility, single parent households, and the divorce rate.

Which means that for many, the traditional social networks people relied on for support during hard times--family and lifelong friends--are more distant, geographically and emotionally, than ever before.

People may turn to social media as a poor substitute just as alcoholics confronted by trauma turn to drinking, but this doesn't mean that booze or tech are the root cause. I think it's absolutely fair to compare social media to say booze or weed as something that's fine in moderation, but can easily turn into an escape/coping mechanism which has its own problems.

Maybe tech can help, maybe not. But what troubles me is that we may be scapegoating tech because the real root causes of our growing mental illness epidemic are too difficult to face.

As far as I know there has been no society in history prior to ours where families and lifelong, geographically proximate friends were not the central part of people's lives. Thus we have no proof in the historical record that such a society can even last more than a few generations.
The US has possessed low-yield nukes for a long time
I actually think it was worse before, just like in many areas. The bullying and fighting then was physical and real.

Everything keeps getting better over time (measured in say decades) but the one constant we will always have is complaining.

Yes there are always real problems and new ones are also created, but on the whole we are doing better in many matters.
I think it's fine as long as you _know_ github is going to make it public. The only problem is that it's not at all obvious, as can be seen in this very thread.
This sounds reassuring until you realise that "People who cough and sneeze" = all humans.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9717937
There is really no news here.

Every nation has some kind of immigration policy and the vast majority of nations don't provide many visas for low-skilled workers.

The example for the UK is Australia/Canada points system for regular migration, which is exactly what the US (or anyone else) would do were there some kind of meaningful reform to its system.

Canada does provide quite a number of temp-worker spots, but it's in a different scenario than the UK, i.e. no need for swaths of workers in remote areas like the Oil-Sands.

That there are no special status for EU citizens I think is fundamentally part of the negotiating position, and within a couple of years, my bet is that EU citizens get 'more points' than others for whatever kind of work and visa-versa.

That the headline leads as 'No Visas for Low-Skilled Workers' I think is unfair as it's not representative of the reform, which on the whole is as to be expected.
Congrats on the launch. I have a ton of 3rd party APIs I'm integrating with, so like you have been thinking about all the stuff I'll need to do to make it reliable in production.

What do you guys do for masking or encrypting sensitive data? I like the opportunity to log everything but a lot of what I'd want to log is PII or sensitive financial data.
Ireland bans Tanzanian ships until someone pays up.
Ask HN: How to experience the problem you're solving firsthand?
I've been solving journalists problems for the past two years and, recently, I decided to make those problems my own.

Is joining an existing newspaper as a journalist intern a good idea? Or I should just start my own online local newspaper?

During the internship I won't have as much time to dedicate to my startup, but I will be gaining invaluable insights and hopefully build tools for "myself" along the way.
Building my own is more feasible but I won't get a "real-world" experience.

Keep in mind I'm a solo-founder and my company is already profitable.

PS: My goal is to build a Basecamp for Journalists, whatever it may be.
My gut feeling tells me it should be an app that has the following apps functionalities: Trello (story lifecycle management) + Hemingway App (Style, readability, proofreading)+ Feedly (keeping on top of things) + CRM (they need to manage a lot of contacts/relationships) + CMS (publishing the actual content)
Many entry-tier English teaching (ALT or Eikaiwa) companies in Japan only require a native-level proficiency and Bachelor's degree from a recognized institution in order to hire you and get the visa sponsorship set up. Does that qualify as a "skilled professional" visa?

Also to my knowledge, it's possible to gain citizenship in Japan after only five years of constant time in the country, so long as you're legally there, you can pass a basic Japanese language test (or write an essay), and show evidence that you can support yourself financially.
ADS-B Exchange has a very active Discord channel where they will help you pick the right equipment and walk you though the setup process. https://discord.gg/JJ6QC4c
low income housing doesn't get built because it's banned almost everywhere

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21754205
Of course, the tier 2 system is already set up like this. The whole "points-based" talking point was always a canard. There's not a meaningful change (yet)
So will ADS-B Exchange.
Making money on the bubble.
For piggybacking on the local devices' contacts: What makes e-mails different than phone numbers?

For app-specific contacts: They can store and sync conversation logs. I don't see how contact lists would be harder.
I think you didnt fully understand the parent poster. The point is that in this thread many people are questioning the case for unions in software engineering and the parent comment responds to that. He just gave examples that unions protect all kind of workers, software work included, to make a point in case.

So it's you who seem to be without arguments.
Presumably a maximum pay is set with the intention of allowing that money to go elsewhere in the sport? The NBA knows stars will get paid very well, but they want to ensure not all the money is spent on them so that lesser known players are fairly compensated as well. It seems a smart idea especially because an instituted max is still allowing stars to be paid 8 figures a year.
Yes, and they'd probably throw a CFAA violation in there too.
Every time I sign up for any kind of banking service (loan,credit,checking,etc), there's a note about by signing the document I am acknowledging that providing false information would be a bad idea. How is it not fraudulent to deceive potential investors by using false user data/stats? I've never read any investor agreements, but I'd assume there's some sort of similar statement/clause.
I've followed news about stents for decades.

They're about $5,000 each.

A couple times per year there is some news report similar to this story.

I have a feeling that, just like hip replacements took decades to find the right combination of materials to not disintegrate or be rejected, we're still researching what to make stents from and when to use them.

The problem is that patients aren't told they're guinea pigs, and stents aren't that reliable. Oh and doctors get to bill a fortune per operation regardless.

Regarding this particular story, rather than be outraged, we should have cardiac experts and statisticians sit down and figure out what's real and what isn't. There is valuable data in there somewhere.
Agree 100%.

A 96 vCPU box with > 200 GB of RAM is ~$1.55/hour with an EC2 Spot instance. Back that with a big SSD and you have a data processing monster. Use you some nice Golang with well-formed goroutines to leverage all those cores and a damn good many data processing tasks could be crushed on a single box for sure.

Metaphorically: Every gear you add to a machine (distributed this and that) is a gear that needs to be cared for (configured, managed) and could break the overall machine.

Simpler is better.
I get it all the time but I have gfx.webrender.all set to false. gfx.webrender.blob-images, webrender.dcomp-win.enabled, force-angle, picture-caching, triple-buffering.enabled are set to true

However gfx.webrender.enabled is set to false so are they even active?

FF 72.0.2
With the introduction of Spectrum you can back a Redshift table with data in S3 directly. I'm not sure how that interacts with the materialized views though. Probably not supported yet but I would expect it to be eventually.
Not necessarily senseless. If a low-yield nuke is bad because it reduces the threshold to nuclear war, then the article itself mentions that America already has about 1000 such nukes. Adding a few more will not fundamentally change the picture in any way.

Then why create these new nukes? There's obviously an official explanation, which you can read here [1]:

"to address the conclusion that potential adversaries, like Russia, believe that employment of low-yield nuclear weapons will give them an advantage over the United States and its allies and partners. This supplemental capability strengthens deterrence and provides the United States a prompt, more survivable low-yield strategic weapon; supports our commitment to extended deterrence; and demonstrates to potential adversaries that there is no advantage to limited nuclear employment because the United States can credibly and decisively respond to any threat scenario."

But why are the new nukes necessary if the US already has 1000 low-yield nukes? The prior low-yields available were 0.3, 1.5, 5 and 10 kT TNT [2]. It appears that the new nuke, W76-2 has a yield that fits in the gap between 5 and 10kt (the exact yield is classified). More importantly though, the existing low-yield warheads are either gravity bombs (B61) or air-launched cruise missiles (AGM-86B). Launching them is a headache. Shifting these nukes from one military base to another is a headache. Just making the preparations necessary to launch these nukes will escalate tensions. Having W76-2 available 24/7 on nuclear submarines can change the situation. And finally, as the DoD states, the Trident-based nukes are more survivable.

The nightmare scenario that keeps US military planners up at night is a fait-accompli Russian invasion of the Baltic republics. How do you stop a few thousand tanks advancing towards Riga, when your closest mechanized forces are in Poland and the way to Riga goes through the Suwalki gap [3] that the Russians can easily interdict? An easy solution is to invoke Nato's Article 5, and then drop a nuke on the territory of a Nato member (Estonia). It's not nuking Russia. It's nuking one's own territory in a defensive position. That's a scenario Russia will keep in mind.

[1] https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/20...

[2] https://allthingsnuclear.org/lgronlund/us-already-has-low-yi...

[3] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/suwalki-gap-40-mile-l...
X86 absolutely can make observable reorderings. Here’s a link with citations to Intel docs if anyone wants to read more. https://bartoszmilewski.com/2008/11/05/who-ordered-memory-fe...
fully agree
>How is it not fraudulent to deceive potential investors by using false user data/stats?

Where did that happen? It certainly isn't alleged by OP.
Copious and well run state parks, CA is a really great place to spend time outdoors.

The local organic produce is very good too.
How to Make Multiple Streams of Income in 2020
Czech Republic is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe.

Check wikipedia if you don’t believe me.

Otherwise awesome!
If they were so easily bought then they would be, but you missed the fact that the state is broke and can't pay for anything anyway.

Family keeps my primary residence here, but that's irrelevant to the discussion.

Here's an exercise: ask a CA resident to name 10 things that have gotten better over the last decade in this state. I'd be surprised if they name 1.
Not a Santa Cruz resident, but I have occasionally worked out of The Abbey, and see students there.
Kibi: A text editor in ≤1024 lines of code, written in Rust
If america has an ISP/telecom monopoly issue, why didn't Donald Trump receive more support when he tried to block the sale of Time Warner to AT & T?
I don't think the analogy is apt. People need ways to socialize and many are isolated by, among other things, overabundance of individual or shallow entertainment, overabundance of entertainment vs. learning and challenging activities, and excessive demands of work. An app simply trying to connect people could bring less of the former.

The problem isn't apps (or 'tech') per se, it's more of a systemic problem. The solutions will almost definitely involve a mix or cultural evolution, technology, and the impact of various groups and organizations.
I agree with you, but it will never happen. I lamented with a few reasons why in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167207

The best we can do is get behind solar and wind and pray for a fusion breakthrough.
Assembling Sets for Contra
Are these used to inflate records of customer bills for laundering, or to deflate customer bills for tax fraud?
> Equal pay referred to between equally qualified men, women and other genders. Not clear why a talented and hard working person of one gender would be opposed that a similar person of another gender get same pay?

Because there might not be an even distribution of people with certain skills. For instance, some point to the disproportionately large number of Asians in higher paying roles, and demand a form of equalization.

The issue is not that people don't believe in equality, it's that people don't have the same view of what is equal. In particular, some view equality in terms of equality of outcomes while others view it in terms of equality of opportunity.
Python 2 is no longer receiving security updates as of 2020, so the hand is forced. When you're an operating system vendor, expecting some support team to materialize to handle security updates for a package as big as python isn't a viable option unless that team is yours.
Please don't use HN for political or ideological warfare.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Klipped app is the best way to book a haircut
> May be I missed it but can someone tell me what was the crime the company was committing ?

From the description in the article, obstruction of justice, at a minimum, possibly also with the intent of furthering other crimes and civil wrongs by the firm or it's customers.

> Almost any company will have defensive strategies such as stalling LEOs and Warrants in whatever way they can.

Many companies will do anything within the law to do this, which is, of course, not a crime. But “whatever way they can” is a crime.

> A lot of this is not really "crime" as in kidnapping people or shooting people dead in some alley.

Yes, obstruction of justice is a different crime than murder or kidnapping. It's just as real of a crime.

> Is having shell companies a crime ?

No, but using them fraudulently can be a crime and/or a civil wrong, and which has been involved in both civil liability already established against the firm and CEO in question and which is seems to be a key part of the mechanism of the fraud involved in the 20-count federal criminal indictment against them. [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/fraud-case-in-charleston-s-c-sh...
Klipped is a new tech start-up based in Santa Barbara, CA that allows you to browse hairstylists' schedules, book an appointment and pay for services - all from your phone. Klipped also lets hair stylists to manage their bookings, reminders, and payments.
The points-based system is not a 'canard' and this is not a 'two-tiered system'.

It's actually what it says it is: a 'points-based system' which is the modus operandi for most nations that have had reforms in recent history.

Any nation that had to invent its migration scheme from scratch in 2020 would end up probably with something resembling this.

In a mess of negotiations and unknowns during Brexit, this is actually one of the least surprising, predictable outcomes.
https://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/immigrate-settl... mentions points?
Or fanfiction.net. I find it easier to find things there than on AO3, and in the categories I like reading stories in it seems to have a fair bit more.
Hey - I wrote this article. Kind of surprised how popular it is; think I've had more hits today than I had all of last year.

To me, the 4 GB Raspberry Pi 4 is quite an acceptable desktop. Yes, I could have a Pinebook, but they don't have the support community.

I wrote about FreeCAD because the charity I work for — Makers Making Change [1] — makes open source 3d printed assistive tech to empower people with disabilities. We're always looking for free CAD solutions, and to get FreeCAD running well on a Raspberry Pi 4 was too good to miss.

I'm trying to get as many of our designs usable in free software as possible. Up to now, I've been a pretty solid OpenSCAD user. It's good, but not perfect: it's possible to generate non-manifold volumes even if you do the right thing all the way through.

[1] https://www.makersmakingchange.com/
The root cause of this is pretty much entirely greed.

Greed in the form of housing policies where that is used as a tool for investment, rather than an investment in the community.

Greed in the form of a missing integration in to society and support for all who are in it to at least a basic level of guarantee. (Popular example, Star Trek utopia)

Greed in the form of profits being squeezed upward rather than shared as prosperity for all.

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If everyone had their own, quality (private, outside noises/smells/etc excluded by good design and build quality), living spaces nearer to each other that would be far better for the design of our cities and the environment.

If everyone had a useful, non-broken-window, job and place where they added value to society, that would be better for everyone.

If everyone needed to expend less and less of their day working as things got more efficient, we would have the time to actually exist as humans / intelligent emotional beings among Family, Friends, and those we don't yet know.

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I really believe that if people were treated like people, and had the time to be better people, much of our social ills would sort out sooner rather than later.
The team is actively working on it. Why would they invest work in something they don't want.
I agree, I know some french people who can't get a visa in a reasonable amount of time (I would not wait for more than 3-4 months myself) despite being in a sector with shortages of workers. It makes no sense to me, especially from a government that pretends to be aligned with the needs of businesses.
They got a slight budget increase in the 2020 budget to $3.56B.
Asheville doctors accept thousands from big pharma
Why is everybody on here suddenly a fascist? It's like all of the hackers have been replaced with temporarily embarrassed unicorn founders.
This comment breaks more than one of the site guidelines. Please make your points without crossing into personal attack.

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Life comes at you and you have to deal with it. However I can say CS grad school was really hard just with me. I don't know how I would have handled a kid. We should support each other in life whenever possible.
Meals Are supposed to be taxed but the irs doesn’t enforce it.
Well looks like I'm already living in the future. It's a comfy future with much time spent in my undies.

In all seriousness I have been apprehensive about the current pandemic and have been working from home mostly the last month. There are lots of co-workers coming and going to HK, Taiwan, Macau, and other Asiatic locales.