skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There a definitely RE and software roles than involve RE roles out there, but I imagine you have to be pretty good at it. Thebreverse engineering subreddit has job threads. Not sure how a hobbyist could break in, givenbthat most side projects probably toe the legal side of things outside of CTF challenges and such
Is most cases, large companies need to give a 60 day notification if they plan a sizable layoff. So perhaps they were just given the notification but not laid off yet. But many employers will "pay in lieu of notice" and lay them off immediately with the 60 days of pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
As funny as that is, this was recommended to me next:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n0uhkLa5lBg

Id buy that.
> Didn't find any hint what the GW is/was supposed to stand for.

Hah! This is the real mystery, isn't it? I noticed Wikipedia has a section on the topic (without resolution): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC#Name
It’s very unusual among the kind of people who staff the admissions departments of selective colleges though.
IBM Is Latest Tech Giant to Cut Jobs in Midst of Pandemic
I would prefer if schools just gave as concrete as possible feedback for why individual applicants are or are not admitted.

i.e. Congrats, you got accepted. Your GPA ranked in the top $X percentile of our admitted class and your engagement in robotics was astonishing.

or

You were not admitted because while your GPA was excellent, we did not see sufficient community engagement in your extracuriculars.
brew install rabbitmq?

I agree rabbitmq is often adopted in places it shouldn't, or ill-configured.. But to completely get rid of it because you didn't take the time to RTFM when setting it up seems a little extreme.

And redis/rabbitmq have completely different use-cases 80% of the time. Sounds like you were trying to get drunk on kombucha.
> Also Facebook’s admission that salary will be tied to cost of living wherever you choose to live sets a bad precedent […]

Facebook didn’t set this precedent, GitLab did with their Salary Calculator years ago [1].

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
Also if you want to learn about the NeXT days (which live on in many ways!) check out the ones with Blaine Garst and Steve Naroff.
The Canadian Manitoba Mincome experiment is probably as close as has been done for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
My college did this. They don't have the strictest admission standards, but they're ranked well in STEM because of this. What's funny about people criticizing standardized tests in college admissions is, at least in a big school, 80% of your Calc I grade is effectively three standardized tests, so if someone's just "a bad test taker," throwing them into the deep end with 1200 other freshman engineers isn't doing them any favors.
You can work around this by searching for the video within YouTube and adding it from the search results page.
You could definitely pipe (literally) the ball to the input like in real pinball machines and trigger a new iteration.
Disclaimer: I work for CloudAMQP

Yeah we hear you regarding AWS IOPS: for some type of loads and smaller plans we need to offer an alarm + an easy way to scale IOPS. It is something we're working on.
You think the misinformation described in the article is both factually true and not misleading?
who is? the human race or national governments? those two are not the same.

wealth and GDP is growing faster than the cost of living in absolute terms.
Not a .deb, but still pretty damn easy to install:

https://github.com/QB64Team/qb64/releases/download/v1.4/qb64...
Argueably MS already provide a complete language pre-installed in PowerShell.
However would be nice if they more of a beginners IDE for simple programming.
Agreed. As for why, it's obvious. It's the media. It's going to be interesting to see what happens when Trump signs off on extending the Patriot Act. A law that was renewed and expanded by the previous admin.
Not sure why Youtube thinks its a kids video, but the preventing of saving to a list is may be because of child predators targeting videos featuring kids? https://news.yahoo.com/t-suspends-youtube-ad-spending-203549...
> Part of the Mare report -- obtained by Sander through an open-records request -- looks at applicants by race/ethnicity for several years, noting those who -- all other factors being equal -- would have been admitted based on standard criteria. Over a five-year period, he notes that more than 1,300 Asian American applicants in this group were denied admission, while black and Latino applicants were admitted.

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/11/19...
I don’t get why the pay adjustment is so controversial. Facebook (and Google, and Apple, etc.) already have offices throughout the world, and they already set pay based on the local market and cost of living. Not sure why “remote work” independent of an office should be any different, or why this is surprising?
nit: s/stabe/stable/
> The Barack Obama article completely fails to mention many well-known scandals: Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, and Fast and Furious, to say nothing of Solyndra or the Hillary Clinton email server scandal—or, of course, the developing “Obamagate” story in which Obama was personally involved in surveilling Donald Trump.

Leaving aside the issue of whether these articles warrant inclusion on the Obama Wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_articles_about_the_Depart...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Dona...
Shut your subreddit down and detail your actions. Use a tool that doesn't put your moderators in danger.

A subreddit isn't worth your safety.

There are online places where they use a third-party to verify identity. It may not have the most adoption, but at least you're not putting yourselves at risk.
Why are data scientists doing DevOps?
What about precious metals?
Yes, but if you aren't formally trained in this, you have to build a reputation in order to get a good job.

I did really neat things as a kid, but because I didn't broadcast it or document it, it doesn't seem to matter much to employers.

Start a blog & track your progress. Discuss your hobby with other people that like it. Try to help others.
Now the school has a bad reputation, and students who spent four years of time and tuition have a diploma worth nothing?
Definitely no plans for lock in. I haven't implemented downloading the data yet but I will do that soon. I'm working on csv and Emacs org file exports first.
You can always click on a faded comment's timestamp to go to its page, where the comment should be in a readable font. I'd love to know what Orwell would say about requiring an extra click, but oh well.
Hi, I'm the author of Freechains.

Any feedback is welcome.

Francisco
I mean a big co doing it.
Because Google clamped all different concerns about kids on YouTube into the one feature without differentiating between videos with kids and videos for kids, and there was concern about recontextualisation of videos with kids as pedophilic erotic by including them into public playlists with inappropriate names and descriptions.
"the niche for the FPGA has almost vanished."

While Xilinx posts record quarterly profits and there are more FPGAs moved than ever before.

But go on. Enlighten us...

"There are very very very few compute tasks where an FPGA solves a problem with better performance per watt than both a CPU and a GPU."

Oh right. Let me just slap those into my satellite, radio system, aircraft control system, military system, enmbedded system... How could I have not seen the light?

"I would bet that emulating a RISC-V program on x64 is far more power efficient than running a RISC-V core on an FPGA for example." Hahahahahahaha. What size bet, chief? I need a new pair of shoes.
Remote definitely does not help only the employee side. Because of remote I have hired people that I would not be able to hire. You vastly increase the talent pool when you cast the net wider.
Where I went, there was a hierarchy of lesser degrees to pick from.
This is akin to saying "I've heard enough of these NHTSA reports every week when car accidents happen. The thing is, I don't care. I just want things like this to never happen again."

A 0% error rate is a great aspirational target. But it's also important to acknowledge that a complex system may never be perfect. Insisting otherwise is ignoring reality.
If you’re the hustling type, learn to do your own brake replacement. That’s usually under $200 in parts for pads and rotors for front or rear and it’s an easy 90-180 minute task requiring maybe a $100 tool kit and $50 in jack stands. I budget 60-90 minutes and rarely run over, but I have a fast pump jack and air tools though I did them for years with hand tools and the jack that came with the car.

Though it seems daunting to go work on your brakes, I think it’s actually one of the easiest and highest RoI jobs you can do on your car. Saving $1000 (tax-free) is like working an extra 2 weeks in half an afternoon. Then, consider if you could be doing the same for your friends for $500 (you buy the parts), so you win and they win.

(This could be a direct option for your call center friend of course.)

Offer not valid during COVID but I’ve offered people to come to my driveway and they change their brakes while I watch and guide as needed. It’s puzzling but I’ve seen only about 1/4 of people keep doing it after I show them how, how easy, and how fast it is.
Andrew Yang had the right idea with the Freedom Dividend. That's a smart way to frame it, and Alaska is an example of it working with an annual payout to residents ("Permanent Fund Dividend").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Permanen...
Ripcord isn't a modification of their software. It's an original implementation. I didn't look at any of their code.
I didn't dismiss them. I asked how those are so much worse than the transgressions of the previous two admins? I'd like to remind everyone that an estimated 100,000+ non-white skineed _civilians_ were killed in Iraq. Alledged hate crimes vs real war crimes.
Once every four years sounds like a no-brainer, to be honest.
Ignoring the fact that someone find a way to use this to sell ads, it is actually a very useful idea for humans as well with some refinement and safety measures.

Having something that keeps tabs on certain vital signals will be huge because you suddenly have a baseline for personalized medicine development!
QBASIC was also my first programming language. Learned it my Senior year in high school computer programming class back in 1995.
> You just have to fake an autism diagnosis to get $3k euros a month in cash alone (not counting all the other programs).

Do you think the type of person who would fake an autism diagnosis for $3k a month is the same type of person who could successfully run a profitable enterprise?

My parents came to the USA $500 in debt. They had no place to stay and a 6 month old baby to raise. They refused all welfare programs out of pride except for Medicaid, because they needed a doctor to vaccinate me. 21 years later and we are comfortably living as an upper middle class family. They didn't get here by swindling bureaucrats, they got here through honest work and a quarter of a lifetime of pain.

Most criminals stay stuck on the bottom rung for this reason: of course you might be able to sociopathically hustle your way to the top a la Theranos or Enron, but to do that you have to believe you are capable of honest work. Hustlers don't believe in anything except for their next hustling opportunity. For every successful hustle there are another 1000 failures that never got anywhere.
I can't say I agree with this decision. I graduated from Cal probably a bit higher than 70th percentile by GPA in EECS 10 years ago. To this day, I was motivated by everyone smarter than me who was admitted based on merit based on their SAT. If I were to graduate today (at lets say) 85th percentile, not because of merit but because Berkeley admitted applicants not as strong, that would've damaged my motivation more than being in a fair 70th percentile placement.
I would take an aggressive stance againsnt these assholes that are vandalizing someone's property. It's petty, immature, and crosses a line. Physical mentorship is the only way to get through to pieces of shit like that.
[1] That paper brings back memories! Back in 2011, I was chatting with Nick about admixture and graph theory when it dawned on me that he was effectively trying to solve the Steiner tree problem. Knowing that his formulation of the problem was intractable provided a little nudge in the right direction.

It's also worth mentioning that (long) before joining David Reich's lab, Nick Patterson worked at GCHQ where he was famously mentor to Clifford Cocks. The story goes that Nick threw an unsolved asymmetric cryptography problem at Cocks and he came back in the morning having invented RSA.
It’s different when you’re already hired at one salary level and then forced to take a cost of living pay cut based on some fuzzy cost of living calculator.

I rarely find publicly available cost of living calcs to accurately reflect lived cost of living.
What happens when a user creates an email address just for a single purpose, e.g., making a single purchase, then she never uses the email address again?

How strong is the assumption that all users have only one email address and will keep that address long-term? I remember hearing that one could keep getting AWS free trials simply by signing up with a new email address.
https://invidio.us/ likely has no such restrictions, you may wish to check it out.
Hi Neil,

I just wanted to echo the other comments and strongly endorse their products. I have a DM15L, a recently-bought DM15, (just so I can carry it with me everywhere I go!) a DM16, a DM41L, and a DM42, and will absolutely get a DM41X when it's released! You might call me a bit of a fan.

If you are a fan of HP calculators, but can't stand how expensive they are on eBay, do yourself a favor and pick one up. They're wonderfully constructed and from what I can tell, extremely faithful to the originals (that are out of my reach, unfortunately.)

Also, Neil--I emailed you a question I had about my DM42, in case you can clear something up for me.
I don't really like working from home, primarily because I like the social aspect of a workplace and also because I have a very hard time separating work from home life. But if places transitioned to something like 3 days a week wfh, with the option to come in anyway but not the expectation. I'd totally love that because I do a lot of outdoors stuff too and I like sleeping in lol, which commuting prevents, but I don't need this everyday (though others might, especially those with kids). But I really think communication simply when not in person is sub par, but that could be a failing on my part or those in my company.
Yes there was a demo, but it didn't actually submit anything at all. It just mocked through what the exam would look like with timers.

The demo is still up and you can still look at it
It's a win-win! Efficiency for all.
Out of curiosity which office did you work in between 2007 and 2018 when you started working for stripe? How is your teams WFH experience within stripe?
Google sets pay on local market rate only, not cost of living - they're very specific about this. And generally, the local market rate tends to lag the CoL increases,
This is exactly the point: it being in FB’s “big pile of everything they’ve ever seen“ is entirely different than it being publicly available.

And therefore there is a purpose to having it taken down.
My favorite extension is the "Tab reloader". I can set it to reload my work login page and it won't expire my session.

And uBlock Origin and Tree Tab are fundamental for the web. Containers also nice, I can login at sites like Trello and GitHub with different accounts.
And once you did that, your content was on the "World Wide Web", not just some "Gopher server". The WWW name made the venue sound more intriguing.
Yeah, you pair hanging GETs with XHR to get bidirectional transfer. Yeah I agree websockets are a lot easier than the hacky hanging GETs + XHR setup.
this is trivially defeated by a script that enumerates globals looking for something that extends or implements WebSocket
I've edited my comment because I wasn't clear. I agree with you.

>This hurts working class and poor applicants who don't fit the, shall we say, "background" that admissions offices of elite universities are looking for in 2020.

Exactly this.

The test was a way out, especially for gifted kids from poor backgrounds.
Oh oh. Those are called Caribbean medical schools.
It'll never stay $1k a month because voters will vote in politicians that will increase it, year after year.

We've already seen this happen with the US Social Security program. Why repeat something that is known not to work?
Thunderbolt & Firewire before it. DMA to external devices is powerful but the feature also means you expose a bus that wasn't originally conceived to be read by malicious agents.
Those adjudicators might try to milk the system. There might not be anything left over!
Seems totally unrelated, unless you believe that academic aptitude is 100% environmental.
You're assuming they'd charge for the test. Is that documented somewhere? I don't see that in the article.
Back when I was looking at SV companies they had several satellite offices, but the perception at the time was that if you wanted to climb the ladder you had to be at HQ. That would be Mountain View, Cupertino, etc.

It feels like that wouldn’t change even after COVID-19. Partial remote work is definitely coming and I hope it’s permanent, but needing to be at HQ on a semi-regular basis doesn’t seem like it would go away. It’s also probably why the LA-SF airline routes will probably bounce back rather quickly.
There's stuff I'd like to watch on Quibi, but I gave up watching on the phone. I'd continue subscribing if I could watch on my Apple TV or Roku. Not supporting those options seems to be a very stupid business decision, I'd think you'd want to be across as many platforms as possible (or economical).
As a student I worked as a sysadmin in the engineering department at Iowa State, we had something similar running in the mid 2000s out of anybody's home directory, it looks like it's still up and running. Some graduate students had really great information up.
> Just taking a couple sample exams will net you almost 100 points as you don't waste time figuring out how to take the test.

You don't go in cold for the SAT. They give you enough free practice resources that anyone serious about taking the test should get those 100 points. Maybe to a practice test every weekend for a month leading up to the test. It's the tutoring where you have to invest a lot more time and money for more marginal gains.
To think that a decision like this rests on the whims of the most incompetent public official (and his cronies/family)in known history of the developed world is remarkable.

The decision might come out in favor But the point still stands. When we have public officials that are incompetent everything is just random. In a way it forces us to break the illusion of how we see the world and exposes the reality. Life is fragile, we take things for granted and everything is just random
"The UBI discussion really needs to start with 'where do we get $350B a month'?"

Congressional appropriations create money. That's how fiat currency works. We're not on the Gold Standard, we don't need to trace who holds how many Pretty Yellow Rocks.

The real question is "What is the inflationary impact of that spending?", and thus what level taxes have to be raised to destroy enough money to negate the inflation.
What about the Xilinx Zynq?
If you pay it daily, then they will not go hungry for long.
The fraudster profits regardless of whether the key is revoked or not, because they sell the key to some sucker before the fraud is discovered. The fraud is discovered when somebody looks at their credit card statement and notices the unexpected charge, so the game developer has a very limited ability to revoke fraudulently obtained keys more quickly.
I guess this is so the Google overlords can know who reads what patent.
K Nearest Neighbors
Numbers Station
So what if someone spends it all on whiskey or oxy? They're maximising their own preferences. If they were addicted to alcohol, sudden withdrawal can kill.

One of the big reasons for UBI is the belief that an individual can better assess their own needs and wants, and procure them more cheaply than the government.

This is partly a moral/philosphical stand - the tension is between giving individual freedom in the form of money, or giving freedom via paternalistic methods where the government decides what is best for you. It can be argued either way.

I do agree it would be wise to have systems in place to trickle the money in daily instead of monthly - this would help your concern of people blowing all their money at once (but not prevent them spending on what was most important to them).

I also think that just UBI will never be enough - there is a place for targeted government support - healthcare, addiction (part of healthcare), mental health (also part of healthcare).
Wikipedia is a very useful resource

and at the same time it does have its biases

I'll give an example that should illustrate this

ONe of my close friends belongs to a royal family

The Wikipedia editors who control the article will not update the information ABOUT HIS FAMILY because of some reason they will not explain

They also disregard records from the Government about his family

*

Basically

whoever the Czar of that area of Wikipedia is, or the group that controls those decisions

want to put their research (or beliefs)

over

What the government of the country says

What the actual members of the royal family say

*

they have family member names wrong
the hierarchy wrong
and key details wrong
I am looking for opportunity at Dropbox. ~5 YOE. I worked in Java so far. I am open to change technology, do you think your team can consider me?
You will get a pay cut if you relocate from one office to another today, e.g. moving from New York to Huntsville, Alabama will result in significant decrease in salary.
As far as I know, ALL big tech cos have paid differently based on where you live since forever. If you work for Google Pittsburgh you make less than Seattle/Bay/NYC, if you work for <FAANG> London office you make less than American hubs. I don't know why people are surprised that that applies to remote workers as well.
> It's built on people spending money

Money is a recent invention, and economies have flourished without it. Money facilitates trade, increases liquidity, and reduces friction in transactions.

> This fetishism with "work" as a proxy for the value of the human life which performs the work

It is not a proxy for the value of a human life. It is a representation of the value of the labor of that human.

Americans are very generous in voluntarily giving to charities.
It seems like they're divergent enough to keep separate. Last I checked, at least.
We are infectious disease experts. It’s time to lift the Covid-19 lockdowns
Freeways vs rail is a false dichotomy. The best transit systems are multi-modal for different needs, and those things do serve different needs. What we're really talking about is establishing rights of way. Once you have those it's usually no harder (politically) to build one type of artery alongside the other, like how BART's Concord and Dublin lines were built in the medians of the existing CA-24 and I-580, respectively.
> the whole system in Europe

Pet peeve: There is no European system. At least every country has their own unique system.