skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have noticed this as well, both as a worker and an interviewer. The number of unqualified people of Indian ethnicity that inundate job applications is staggering, and some perform embarrassingly bad in the interview.

That said some of my favorite people to work with (smart, easy to work with) are Indian. It's really a shame that the issues affect perception of everybody. It's a good reminder to me not to judge a book by it's cover, metaphorically speaking.
> Certainly SF has problems with property crime, homelessness, housing costs, and NIMBYs. But clearly people still love living here, as evidenced by the continual inflow of people to the city and the region. Articles like that this attempt to paint it as a wasteland feel completely out of touch with the actual reality of living here.

San Francisco, objectively, has a net-outflow. This is not a normative statement.

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/bay-a...
This means you have immune system issues. Get it sorted out.
It always bugs me that "Free snacks" rarely includes fruit, nuts or other things that aren't processed.
While it has never happened, States unlike the federal government can become insolvent, Issuing IOU's (aka debt) only works if the businesses are willing to accept and loan the state the money. and IOU for services is no differant functionally than a loan, and if your business does not believe the state is good for it then you will stop providing services

Further I am sure employee will stick around for a long time when their paychecks are replaced with "IOU's"

So sure technically there is no bankrupcy court for the entire state, the fact remains that a State can absolutely enter in to a condition that is more or less the same thing as bankrupcy. The feds can just print more money, and most likely CA would beg the feds to do just that to bail them out should that happen

Local municipalities and counties can absolutely go bankrupt. Which is more likely in this situation
I guarantee you there's plenty of profit to be made in delivery and even telecommuting. Hell, Amazon alone is investing more than $3B extra in the next quarter!

Besides, delivery would also benefit from this.
I wish plantUML would update it's default theme, I feel like more people would use it if it didn't look ancient.
>Free snacks & beer are an anti-perk if you want to maintain a healthy BMI, and a healthy body.

or it turns into a perk again if you think of it as a way to train yourself against temptation.

This mentality is weird to me.

"employee stock options are an anti-perk if you want to maintain a gambling-free lifestyle."

"airbnb travel stipends are an anti-perk if you want to maintain a body free of traveler's diseases."

"free on-site dry-cleaning is an anti-perk when they lose a button on your jacket."

everything good in life can be viewed from a dark angle, but it gets pretty tiring to do so.
react-native-macos is available today. The documentation is linked on the sidebar:
https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/docs/next/r...
Very interesting work. I need to re-evaluate in the future.
No apologies necessary, I frequently forget that I can’t assume context is known and should be providing more citations upfront.
Restaurants make up for the 30% charged by apps by increasing the prices of the foods offered through the app.

None of the apps require businesses to offer items at the same price, and if they were to try an do so most restaurants would simply leave that app for one of their many competitors.
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Agreed, SF has it's fair share of problems as most cities do. I'm not sure why the "well techies live there, why isn't it a utopia by now" comment still pops up.
Everyone probably doesn’t need fiber to their homes. Good 5G access without onerous caps is probably a reasonable alternative.
I use Autohotkey to set up my tmux bindings when working under WSL, it's gotten my WSL environment nearly up to parity with an OSX iterm2 environment.
The worst is the banks that don’t let you copy it...

I don’t understand this insanity around bank account numbers... they should be treated as public info, they’re on every single check, anyone you’ve given a check to has your account number as does your employer...
Downtown is great for running and biking due to lack of foot traffic and pedestrians. Otherwise downtown is a ghost town as of late and it’s eerie at times.
He is correct - the evidence overlaps with his experience.

Creativity is better face to face.

WFH works perfectly for routine non random event related work.

When you need to communicate fast, need to come up with insights - essentially when you need that high bandwidth node to node interaction of working together - then face to face is significantly superior.

We are designed to work with other humans - chunks of grey matter exist only to interpret non verbal cues. Heck we actually suck at symbol manipulation and math, those are learned skills we force our species to pick up.

It should not be surprising that when working face to face, we end up using those default programs installed in us to get more work done.

Just being able to clarify something is faster if done in person because you have access to body language, eye direction, and tone.

Video goes only so far, and is still not as immediate and in person as physical presence.

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2014/h...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/when-wo...
You can read the article he wrote called "Chavez for Life"

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/chavez-life/
No, that's the point. Everyone claiming to minimize Gini gets Gini 1, so in a POSIWID sense, the system that claims to minimize Gini is aiming at maximizing Gini.
It's an easy way to feel smart? I had to put up a fuss about this and cite NIST.
My bank tried to do this, but it only works on the username field in chrome?
>How does rich people forgoing luxuries help poor people?

easy: take all of the money you would spend on luxuries and donate it to a charity. was it really that hard to come up with that yourself?

>I lived in Africa for two years and a minimum wage worker in the US would be considered almost unimaginably wealthy

great so did i (i can prove it if you think i'm lying just to contradict you). the poor people in africa lived with their families and worked the fields and were able to eat and shelter with those families. would you like compare health care? like the kind that poor people don't have access to either?

>Poor is relative

what does this mean? poor people in america have shorter life spans than rich people, fewer teeth, are incarcerated more often etc etc. who are we relativizing their experiences to?

> You guessed it, the government

the government? you mean the same institution that in other countries is able to succor the poorly and sickly but somehow in this country can't manage to get out from under the thumb of lobbyists?

> medicare/medicaid

you're clueless. is single payer cheaper or more expensive? who is preventing single payer? is it "the government" or interest groups?
Our version of this is https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/; though someone recently tried to start a more direct port!
Care to list everything they take a position on and been wrong about?

That's quite a claim.
If you are willing to take a pay and level cut, why not just pay your relocation yourself? It's not expensive long term if you think you will do well and be rewarded at the new company.
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Your reasoned response and respectful tone are truly appreciated. Thank you! As a matter of fact, I do have family in NYC, Queens, and CT. It's perhaps the hottest "hotspot" in the world. In general, children below 5 and older adults don't have immunocompetence comparable to older children or younger adults. So caution is certainly called for for those age groups.

At the same time, for me personally, after spending years in biotech and healthcare (doing academic mathematical research on hand hygiene, including published peer-reviewed study of compliance rates of doctors to their own hygiene protocols, working within and analyzing clinical trials, doing pharmacokinetics, publishing epidemiological studies, mathematics of mass decontamination, etc.) I've realized a few things.

One is that doctors in particular are always calibrating their behaviour to what butters their bread. In the same way American police write "to serve and protect" on their cars, when it really it should say "to serve and protect [THE STATE]", doctors believe they should "do no harm [TO MY CAREER]". Meaning, the treatments and recommendations for patients are totally different than the standards they apply to themselves and their own children. It's safer, and garners more power, to prescribe a lockdown, than to risk getting caught out on the off-chance this is another Black Death.

You'll see the same repetitious behaviour with respect to things like dietary supplements, lockdowns, and masks: do as I say, not as I do. And what I say is always going to be coming from a cover-my-arse perspective. It's the outrageous hypocrisy that drives me mad. No doctors that I know or work with personally believe the hype, yet the peer pressure to conform in public and lick boots is overwhelming.

The impact of the deaths from delayed non-covid-19 medical treatments, mental issues, depression, hunger, economic distress, and so on is going to be enormous. There is no accountability in this scenario, because of the mass hysteria. All the damage gets ascribed to the virus, and none to the policy makers, similar to how iatrogenic deaths get swept under the rug.

The only positive that I see is that the mask has slipped and the possibility exists that soon, some proportion of the people will see what maniacal control-freak lunatic weirdos the people in charge of the state have become. Never shake hands again? Guess what, if strangers never touch each other, it will be the end of the human race in just 50 years. God help us.
At least in the US, having a Ph.D. and insisting on being referred to as "Doctor" is considered a real asshole move. Usually one might address the person once as "Dr. Whatever", but they will invariably reply, "Please, call me Jane".

Even referring to someone as "Dr. Whatever" in the third person is pretty unusual, if you've ever met them. If I was to speak of my college professors right now, I certainly wouldn't use "Doctor". Maybe if they were 70 or had a Nobel or something.

(Related: In the movie Avatar, one scientist introduces himself to another scientist as "Doctor Norm Whatever". It absolutely clangs, at least to my ears.)
> If the IFR is ~0.5%

On the link I provided, you can see the actual testing results. 10% of those tested have/had corona.

No need to make up stats.
If you're looking for an equivalent for Rust, I've found Rust by Example[1] to be an excellent resource.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/
For what it's worth, it's near impossible to buy a regular Switch at the moment. You can occassionally get Switch Lites.
2500 people left over 8 years. While technically a net-outflow, it's statistically insignificant. The outflow for immigrants was around 80k.
That's not what your article says?

> The overall population of San Francisco County increased by 78,121 people between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2018. Besides the annual thousands of deaths and births that occurred within that eight year span, the county had a total net migration of 52,066 people.

They distinguish between domestic and international migration, but that's not relevant to whether SF has net inflow or outflow.
Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break from Rivals
Seems like it'd do the opposite.
The top story on Hacker News right now is how Twitter is allowing (some) employees to work from home permanently. The locational cost of living arbitrage (from an employee perspective) and labor arbitrage (from an employer perspective) available in the market is immense and companies that can succeed in overcoming the language and cultural barriers are looking at a massive opportunity.
so now we're down to "devs move to suburbs and poor people move a little closer" in order to improve the world? and you still don't think that this disproportionately hurts poor people? do i really have to do more work to show you how this is galaxy brain thinking?
Until recently you couldn't. My ex was constantly complaining that she knew people probably had it and couldn't get them tested.

That reversed in the last week. She now has enough tests to give them to anyone who asks. Which is why they put the banner up.
The Murder of Junko Furuta
Sounds like some of the cynicism behind Dijkstra's bit on software engineering[0]

"A number of these phenomena have been bundled under the name "Software Engineering". As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot."."

[0]https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E... Edsger W. Dijkstra's "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science"
Considering the discussion of AI and Consciousness comes down entirely to definitions of words, I think it's reasonable to point out where these definitions will lead us. Of course what I'm saying is absurd. And yet, isn't that what the author proposes when he says that we can't hit dogs because they are conscious, but it's ok to hit a car?

If consciousness is to be the measuring stick for moral behavior, then we should absolutely point out these inconsistencies.

Keep in mind that this work was made along with Crick, who has occasionally espoused eugenics [1]. If the author is broaching into the subject of what constitutes personhood, we should be extremely skeptical of the path it leads to.

[1] Whether or not you think his position is defensible, it at least should make you read the proposal more closely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick#Eugenics
We are a small SAAS startup that is funded by a slightly larger architectural services firm. My partner was staunchly against WFH until he saw productivity rise and employee satisfaction go through the roof when the business was forced into WFH. While he will continue to come to the office (because he is an old dog), everyone else is WFH forever. He owns the building so i'm sure he'll attempt to rent out the vacated office space. When he realizes nobody is going to want his office space due to severe oversupply, I wouldn't be surprised if he sells the building or converts the land into something more profitable. You might ask, what changed? He assumed that people who work from home won't be effective. He lacked trust. The employees proved to be trustworthy.
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I don't have an answer, but I might have a path to an answer. There's a fantastic Slack community of customer support/success people and they're very supportive of newcomers: https://supportdriven.com/groups/

Many have worked through the same problem as your friend.
I've been working through the Rustlings exercises for the past week or two. I get through a handful at a time (spending 20 min to an hour) and have done maybe 5 or 6 sessions. It doesn't seem short to me (doesn't seem long either, but it isn't like I blew through it in a few hours). It can be confusing as the hints are sometimes really vague. I've cobbled my way through so far and if I've gotten stuck I just stop and come back to it another day. Usually I can progress quickly with fresh resolve. It is nice in that it helps you learn the syntax, but it doesn't seem to help me much with the concepts. I feel this is in part that when you run `rustlings watch` it doesn't first point you to the section of the book you're reading it just throws broken code at you and tells you to run `rustlings hint <foo>` which only sometimes points to the book. Most of the time you are just given broken code and asked to fix it with some suggestions of where to look in this specific code. I have completed 53 exercises and am in the process of working on standard library types. I could go into some more specific details if anyone is curious about my experience. Hoping to post my annotated work through to github when done, but I could either copy out the few bits that were particularly vexing or could post the code with my comments now for people to peruse. One thing I would like to find is a place to start interacting and asking questions. Heard someone mention discord so I'll maybe start there or on IRC.
>The file sizes are still incorrect, though; it calls the units kilobytes now, but it still claims there's 262 of them.

1024 * 1024 / 4 B = 262144 B = 262.144 KB = 256 KiB
Oh that's a great idea. I already found a php parser for it. Thanks for the suggestion.
I've heard that a lot, and it never made any sense to me. What are they gathering exactly, video and radar feed? Nobody does end-to-end ML, so this data needs labeling. This is the costly part as it requires manual labour. And it doesn't scale with the deployment size at all.

What am I missing?
You say this as if the Feds wants inflation, they don't want inflation, that's the entire point of QE.
OP was saying that sheltered Americans think America is racist, but other countries aren't/have fixed it.

Are you providing anecdotal evidence to support him or were you trying to disprove?
Check out Ionic which now fully supports React and will give you a similar benefit but without the need to use RNW or have different code for each platform. Also Ionic’s components are much more robust and widely used than RNW.
OK, but I assume those trains are sometimes moved around empty?
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> -- Operational complexity vs. Go.

The JVM is superior for operations, observability, and monitoring to anything that golang has to offer.

>> Disagree on operations part. Take a bare machine and with various configurations (some you don't control) and be ready to drop and run. Nothing beats Go. You cannot be simpler than copy a binary. Yes, the JVM has all sorts of observability. And also a load of tuning that often needs to occur. Go just runs and generally has outstanding performance.

> -- Deeply-nested code directories.

I've seen the same in golang code due to its packaging.

>> Go code is generally not as deeply nested. Often you have <project>/<package>/<file.go>. Not stuff like:

tomcat/java/org/apache/tomcat/websocket/server/xxxx.java

> -- Std lib not matched to work I use Go for.

let's see what golang has to offer anything remotely similar to java.util.concurrent.*

>> Friend, I'm talking about all the packages here:
https://golang.org/pkg/

> -- Memory consumption.

Depends on how you set up your JVM (Xmx, GC settings, etc.). Java is getting value types soon to address this even more.

>> Yes, mu point (Xmx, GC settings, future things). Many dials == complexity.

> -- Concurrency model, as compared to Go.

Java is getting green threads (see project Loom), and they'll be superior to what golang offers.

>> More Java getting/future vs. Go has today. "they'll be superior to what golang offers." Since we are predicting the future, can I also get next week's S&P500 level for my trades?

>> Let me know when you can remotely close to writing <200 LOC that can handle 1m websocket connections from a laptop. There are 2 source files here.
https://github.com/eranyanay/1m-go-websockets/tree/master/4_...

Again as I opened with, these are my experiences. If Java and the future versions of Java and the tolling, IDEs, CI/CD tools, inspectors, etc, work for you. Great. Have at it.

I will keep deploying rock solid Go applications with minimal complexity and maximal performance/reliability, out of the box. I shall enjoy flatter code trees, working without a IDE when necessary (totally possible), enjoying simple make files for builds, and solving a ton real world problems with minimal external libraries (again, dependencies ~= complexity ~= risk).

Checkout some great stats from the 2019 Go Survey here: https://blog.golang.org/survey2019-results

I will depart with a final thought about Go: Why are increasingly more and more web-scale infrastructure projects being written in Go? (CockroachDB, Openshift, NATS, Docker, Istio, Etcd, Docker, K8S, large parts of AWS, Azure, and CGP).
an entire international coordinated delivery network

Why does a local restaurant care about an international delivery network?

apps that work on all devices

If by all devices, you mean iPhone and Android. Some services like Uber Eats are either not available in a browser or offer reduced functionality in the online version of their service.

background checks, vehicle registration and checking sites

It has been demonstrated many times that this is not true.

marketing

Marketing of a third party service, yes. Marketing of restaurants, no. Thus, this point is useless and arguably even detrimental to the restaurant.

huge expensive legal departments

Which does not provide support to the restaurant and thus is useless to the restaurant.

In fact, all these apps offer restaurants are vastly increased costs for minimal if any benefit.
The story goes into how 90% of them are unqualified even after training. It doesn't matter how cheap I can hire someone if they can't do the job they're a net negative.
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> given basic enterprise features like database mirroring still aren't there

Database mirroring has been deprecated for several years. The replacement is Always On Availability Groups, which is vaguely supported on Linux.
Would you buy a package shipped on a plane with a remote pilot? Not all flights carry passengers
That's not what "proportionally" means.
Because you'd also have to pay that $1000 hardware cost to run any other DAW. Apple laptops aren't that much more than PC laptops with comparable specs anymore.
That’s the housing crisis, yes. While related, it is not an excuse for shit in the street and high crime.

They could probably improve tourism by providing mental and homeless help outside downtown. Maybe break even or profit. No political will apparently.
Clear writing communicates complex ideas effectively and drives endeavors more than we give it credit for. Most emails I receive are longer than they ought to and makes N recipients spend T additional time to finally get the wrong idea and diverge in execution. More rambling emails are sent to align people. The sender can prevent this upstream by writing in a "clear, concise, complete, correct" way.

This is valid for issues/bug reports/feature requests/user stories, etc.
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Needs options for adding dog ears and a shadow cast from the top of the page, and maybe stapler holes.
> My cynical take on this move is that the company doesn't have to pay as much for office space + worker transport anymore.

Don't forget it removes the work/home barrier. Now you are at work 24/7 and on call at all hours. Work and productivity has consumed most of modern life. The last bastion of freedom from work/productivity was the home. Now people are celebrating the loss of that precious personal space. Strange.
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