skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber, Lyft, etc are other useful examples.

I think some of the sort-of-obscurity/confusion comes from the fact that, as the OP tweet gets at, you don't really see a very visible "GIS Industry"/products most of the time, you just see tools that happen to have maps embedded in them, and those often require a lot of backend GIS work to power them.

Finding a rideshare and planning your next oil well don't, at first, seem to have a lot in common, but on the backend there may be a surprising amount of overlap.
This says everything: "Instructions on what to do when stopped by the police are on the back of student IDs at Summit Academy in Red Hook, Brooklyn."
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> Amazon announced it’s on a path to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule.

A possible silver lining of market domination is the ability to tackle issues like climate change without falling behind competitors who aren't making those harder choices. Unless this is all PR and Amazon is actively burning down their namesake or something?
Amidst this debate, I think it’s worth looking at the EU Blue Card scheme [1].

A few key differences versus the H1B (correct me if I’m wrong - my understanding of H1B features are basis discussions I have seen here):

1. Not tied to a specific employer. At least theoretically this is the case though your residence permit clearly specifies your employer.

2. Family-friendly options where your family can join you with the initial visa application. Spouses/Partners are immediately eligible to work.

3. Integration courses for language and culture, offered for free usually, and for the entire family.

4. After 2 years, you can switch jobs and after an another year, you can apply for permanent residence. The steps and guidelines are clearly specified and all the laws side with the employer to ensure no exploitation or harassment.

1 - https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aamt/zugastimaa/buergerse...
Interesting and good point.
I could see how people could think that it's good idea to censor violent extremist viewpoints.
I tend towards Taibbi's interpretation of publishing anything because I would rather err on the side of releasing dangerous info and let people decide for themselves, than having a media police that police what we read.
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It is completely irrelevant. It's like responding to "It's raining today" with "It was sunny last week". At best, it's a non-sequitur, at worst it's an active attempt to distract from the conversation at hand. And it ignores the facts that A) black-on-black crime does not happen at a substantially higher rate than white-on-white crime, B) the explanation for why most crime is intra-racial in a segregated country is pretty straightforwardly obvious, and C) Black people actually are attacked and killed by police at wildly disproportionate rates, which is why the subject of police violence against Black people is a valid topic of conversation, whereas "black-on-black crime" is a pointless or hostile digression.
Super excited to share the public beta with HN community. We think Prophecy is a big step up in Data Engineering tools, and would love to get feedback on the product.

The public beta has Spark built-in, so you can just spin up clusters, please be kind with usage!
"because from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals"

Are we not allowed to fact check false claims?
Doctors vs Software Engineers are very interesting case studies in my eyes.

AMA (American Medical Association) has successfully lobbied congress to cap residencies at 100K a year, essentially restricting supply. Foreign doctors have to go through a gauntlet of exams, tests, and licenses that keeps market from being flooded with cheaper talent and diluting local doctor salaries.

Software Engineers have failed to unite like this, so the MS+FAANGs and consulting companies have lobbied for free flow of cheap labor under the guise of innovation. There are no board certifications, no licensing exams, and no restrictions on supply. This is why software salaries have been artificially suppressed for two decades.
AFAIK, if you deploy an app to an AWS auto-scaling group, then bundle size can very much impact your cold boot times, and therefore scaling agility.
One wonders, once it is GA, if there is value in a Go transpiler. There is a lot of useful software in Go land that would be immediately useful for Crystal devs, and Go itself is not too complicated to map to another language with the same features (a few of the runtime features will have to be emulated).
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> The black lives matter organization in my city presented a list of demands to the city council and every one of them was ignored

What were the demands?
Avoid US schools. Don't be a fool. Don't go into 6-figure debt for no ROI and a brutal environment that doesn't want you. It's a no-brainer.

Avoid any business, education or employment in the US.
Is JAVA still a thing?
I 100% agree with your statement. But for now, all that was done was suspend H1Bs without a viable measure that would create a path to citizenship (or just settlement) via a high-skilled degree. So it seems like a step backwards and very disheartening.
The repost[0] in r/golang shows similar critiques. This perf comparison is naive on many levels.

- binary size (static vs. dynamic linking)

- recursion is not idiomatic in go, it is assumed that you write imperative for loops.

- mathematical functions like the Fibonacci sequence are a rather atypical computation use-case for a Go program (I don't know about Crystal). Tree/graph traversal/mutations would be a more fitting test. Or generally something that is composed of dynamically growing and shrinking slices and maps.

- http test apparently cannot be reproduced, some get better results for Go, some for Crystal.

- http tests w/o involving some parsing/marshaling/serialization or something along those lines aren't that useful. You usually want to either read or send some JSON string or similar.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/h0kogq/go_vs_crysta...
I can second this recommendation. Not cheap, but this dock has been excellent.
IIRC WebP is open-source and unencumbered by patents so there's no reason it couldn't be implemented. That said, it's not a good source format.
Can you find any recent examples of good journalism?
Haven't you just yielded control to the creators of the AI? AIs are not de novo genesis. They are created things and embody all the biases and goals of their creators. There is no escape from the responsibility of self-rule. If we humans can't handle it maybe we don't deserve to survive?
Can you link sources to contesting it? I'm interested in learning what kind of things are approved.
Cards on the table: I'd expect Crystal to outpace Go in general. Go is a "fast language" on the general landscape, but as compiled languages go, it's on the slower side. So this isn't a partisan-driven response. (I'm broadly in favor of the entire landscape of newer languages and look forward to the success of many of them and more.)

That said, these two benchmarks straddle both sides of "not very useful"; the first is more likely testing function calls than any sort of what we usually consider "performance", and the benchmark times suggest to me that what you're seeing there is a one or two instruction/cycle difference in the function boilerplate between the two languages. In the vast majority programs, function call time is far from your biggest problem; usually you're writing functions that are much, much larger than the function call overhead.

On the other side, as a language benchmark, testing the entire HTTP server stack is way too big. There's just way too many software engineering decisions involved in writing an HTTP server around performance vs. correctness for that to be a fair language test. The autodetection of content type may be the dominant factor today, but it's only an example of a whole class of decisions that can be legitimately made in various ways, plus all the other software from OS on up that you're also benchmarking implicitly.

(I'm emphasizing "language" because benchmarking "the simplest, fastest request this web environment can give me" is a useful bit of information. I think it's often greatly overemphasized. Once time-per-request (which I think is a better way to think of it usually rather that requests-per-time) is substantially less than your customer handlers, it stops mattering whether it's .1% of your web request or .06% of your web request time. It's a useful bit of information, but it's only a small bit of information about the web stack in a large pile of other considerations. But it's not a great benchmark of the language's performance because of the aforementioned substantial, legitimate differences in structure and safety/performance tradeoffs that can be made that can dominate the language differences.)
As long as the market dominator decides that climate change is a problem it needs to solve
Is it ridiculous to consider that you fail your interviews because you’re not as good on a global level because some countries have better work ethic than others and better education systems than others even if America considers them to be “lower than”. Adobe and Microsoft CEOs went to the same high school and it wasn’t in the US ;)

- jealous American student
> language barriers

Americans couldn't comprehend the perfect English spoken in these countries?

(Sorry - couldn't resist!)

Edit: In case people don't get it, it used to be a common joke that Americans had poorer English than well educated foreigners. Definitely for written, but even occasionally spoken English. I've worked with at least 3 people who were either from Singapore or from Malaysia but educated in Singapore. All had great English, and with 2 of them you'd never know you weren't speaking to a native English speaker - you'd think you were speaking to a British person.
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Is there any web framework for it, like rails? That's really the main reason I use ruby is because as a single developer it's amazingly fast to set up new apps (admin panels, reporting panels, sales funnels, etc). The out-of-the-box functionality of rails makes this super painless. I'd LOVE to use something faster but I don't really want to have to custom write a lot of things (CSRF, sessions, cookies, blah blah).

Also, how do you handle jobs with Crystal? Sidekiq being the common one for ruby.
Once saw a police car in a smallish town whip a u-turn for no clear reason, no lights, nothing, nearly hit a car that was pulling out of a bank parking lot and the driver of which had clearly already looked that way and seen no-one coming, then the cop freaked out, u-turned again (lights this time) and pulled over the car they nearly hit. Guess whatever they were breaking traffic laws and driving very dangerously to get to wasn't so important after all. What a shitty day for that person. At least it was probably just a totally unjustified ticket and an unpleasant lies-filled conversation with an upset and fragile-ego'd cop, and not death or injury, I suppose.

[EDIT] this and other dangerous-driving observations lead me to treat cop cars on the road like someone I've seen through the window drinking a 40 while talking on the phone. They're far and away the most likely category of vehicle to do something batshit crazy with no warning.
Is this somehow distinctive from Dragon Magazine / Dungeon Magazine from the late 80s in a way I'm not seeing? Or eg. the various TSR boxed settings with dungeons?
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Thanks for your thorough response, it's greatly appreciated.

Created a new issue at https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues....
Covid-19 is laying waste to many US recycling programs
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Well that's fair, though a different discussion. I would argue you could probably find a project at Google that promotes your values, who knows though.

In any case, my numbers hold up for bay area startup salaries as well - if they didn't, I wouldn't live here lol.
I still think Vector was a great name for a Matrix client. I don't think it would put off non-techies really, but I'm looking forward to seeing what you're coming up with!
Here's an interesting alternative to the current H1B visa. It replaces the lottery with an auction. I imagine this would make companies think twice about hiring "cheap" foreign labor, but then again it might lower the salaries further given the extra burden on the sponsoring company.

https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/aafs/2013....
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Email from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Employees: Addressing Racial Injustice
Rubber bullets have steel cores, and are aimed indiscriminately. Imagine getting hit by a steel paintball. Without a mask or protective clothing. People get hit in the face, losing eyes.

Chemical weapons like CS gas are an aerosolized powder, dispersed using a burning canister. It was never meant for anyone who might be infirm, and it floods the area, getting into people's homes.

Flash bangs will permanently damage hearing and create shrapnel that can cause injury.

In Seattle, police were firing these weapons into packed crowds of peaceful protesters, and specifically targeted medical tents.

Thankfully, the Seattle City Council just voted to outlaw the possession or use of crowd control weapons, including all the weapons in this article, by the police. Here's hoping other cities follow suit. (Contact your city council member! Get a friend to do the same!)
Have you considered being better at your job?
Looking at the source, the frontend is built on top of Syncfusion Diagrams https://www.syncfusion.com/javascript-ui-controls/js-diagram
The exact same thing is for India. Individuals can't get non-profit status. So you have to sell something. A software dev friend tried donate button with cta "Get exclusive support" for few months. But international audience didn't quite get it.

I have seen some gamers in India asking for donations and giving direct account details(UPI[1] details), but I am very cautious against this. I am just waiting(selfishly) for Income Tax dept to serve notice to someone and get this clarified via court case.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
> it baffles me that it had to come this far. There were warning signs all over it.

It's not a Germany specific problem. Warning signs all over tons of companies.

Most of silicon valley darlings are plastered with red flags all over. But financial regulators like SEC are unable/not willing to take an action against darlings of wall street.
yeah no. that’s not how life works. we like to believe that we are all equal and interchangeable but the reality is that if you’re comparing the quality of people that come in on an H1B in tech with the average joe in the US you’re going to have a brutal awakening. most people that have the skills have a job.
In terms of sweeping reforms, no – especially re: qualified immunity with SCOTUS recently declining to reexamine it [0]. But I would venture to claim that the Overton window on what police can be held accountable has certainly changed. That all 4 police in the George Floyd case were arrested and charged was unexpected, given the lack of consequences in the Eric Garner case. The arrests and assault charges for officers who attacked protesters in Atlanta [1] and Buffalo [2] is the kind of thing I never thought we'd see, and signals an opportunity (albeit unguaranteed) for the balance to change. The change in public perception is quite striking – including a doubling of white Americans since 2015 who think police brutality is a "very serious problem [3]. And this shift is happening under a presidential administration that is one of the least likely to take federal action against or even just criticize law enforcement.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-qualified-immunity-p...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/atlanta-police-booked-felo...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/buffalo-police-officers-arrested-s...

[3] https://apnews.com/728b414b8742129329081f7092179d1f
Exactly, gestures without interactivity are honestly not worth it in my opinion.
Hey, quick question about your coffee – why do you add peppermint oil? And how much do you add? I'm always looking to improve my coffee routine or try new things out. Currently I'm on an iced cold-brew trend because the place I'm in has been in a 40+°C heatwave for the last 5ish days.
From what I can tell this has nothing to do with that. Anything that could be considered commerce or an exchange for goods (even abstract goods) falls outside of it. This only applies to donations; it's just that the internet has created this in-between category where "donations" are made to someone working on a product that can't really be "sold" in the traditional way, and the law doesn't have a proper carve-out for those cases.
Are we not allowed to fact check false claims?

For my part, I have not made such a claim nor do I hold such a position that fact-checking is not allowed-I'd encourage asking someone who actually said this.
Use the developer tools, right click on the image's request and from there copy as curl... paste in an editor and remove all the headers, etc and you should get a more compatible version.
I FULLY recommend the Claris Companion: https://www.clariscompanion.com/. It keeps things as simple as possible, and they provide tech support. I've used them for over a year now I think and I've been very satisfied. My grandfather is in his 90s and is able to use it in his care home.

The UI takes over the normal android UI to make things very simple. It also provides an email/messaging system which blocks out communication from anyone but the approved contacts, so there's no need to worry about email scams etc.

I'm not sure if they ship to the UK but they have a 4G version. But if you can get a 4G device, you could still use their app.

The key thing is absolute simplicity of interface and use, and this service is great for that.

Sorry this sounds like an ad, but it's seriously provided so much value to me in being able to keep in touch with and see my grandfather from 1000s of kms away.
Most of the stuff Trump has done in the name of "America first" has restricted economic freedom for Americans. Tariffs make it more costly for American importers to do business, and restrictions on immigrations deprive American firms of the freedom to hire the most qualified candidate.

It is incredibly ironic that anyone views these moves to restrict freedom as beneficial to "America". They simply create small advantages for some at the expense of everyone else.
YouTube paid content creators $3-4B in 2019
This has no sources other than the SPLC's analysis of some leaked emails and selective quotations from them [1]. The SPLC has further examinations as well [2].

Look at the out-of-context quotes given in the first link and decide for yourself whether this is enough to justify a charge of being a white supremecist, even given that the article is explicitly dedicated to working towards that conclusion. Don't just take their word for it. I'll gladly concede that Miller is anti-immigration to the point of being xenophobic, but white supremecist is a huge stretch.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-mille...

[2] https://www.splcenter.org/stephen-miller-breitbart-emails
> who live a different lifestyle and pay ridiculous amounts for water

Who choose to live a different lifestyle. I'm not saying everyone has to live in a bus and use a few gallons a day. I'm saying that if the cost of water significantly impacts your life you should reduce how much you use.

No one in the US pays "ridiculous" amounts for municipal water. We're still talking pennies per gallon.

> You should care about the nation's water infrastructure

Absolutely. It's one of the reasons water should cost more, to maintain and improve infrastructure. Water should be billed at a rate that covers all of the costs involved.
It could also be feel good PR to deflect attention on their supply chain: both the political and environmental concerns people might have it they looked too close.
Thanks for the link, I confused him with the chief strategist of trump campaign Jason Miller.
Weirdly, it only seems to come up when you mention police brutality!
Less likely? Or easier “fire the IT guy” accountability theater?
Okay so we pass regulations but we still need new technology to make manufacturing and so on cleaner.
Notice how we don't have this issue with, say, Debian or Arch package repos. Is it because third party source allowed in package managers?
Evading a paywall is.
Or have several k Twitter followers ...
One obvious problem is creating only one output face when there are many possible faces that match the low-res version. A tool that turns a low-res face into, say, 16 maximally-different upscaled versions doesn't suffer from the same level of false certainty.
It’s multi-faceted. In some cases NYT (or any news org of any prevailing political inclination) might want to expose real names to exercise control or rally people to cancel someone. Other times it might be more mundane, just wanting a better angle for the story or more solid corroborative details.

In the case of SSC I really worry that NYT would be trying to exercise control. They probably like many things written on the blog, but also hate other things like diving into statistics of gender based pay discrimination or statistics of racial motivation in police violence.

These are topics which the modern left (which I’m a million percent a part of) is increasingly pushing out of scope of the Overton window and treating them like they are not allowed to be subject to statistical evidence or neutral discussion.

There is only One Right Thing To Believe about police violence (that is targets blacks and minorities, even if this is simply not supported by data). There is only One Right Thing To Believe about gender-based pay discrimination (the popular notion of “women make 70 cents on the dollar” which is not close to the real effect size, and requires a ton of uncomfortable nuance to discuss properly because of confounding effects of women staying at home more often and choosing to stay home after maternity leave).

I think they want SSC to write about things that comply with their moral narrative, and see doxxing as a way to turn the screws and essentially promote a vague threat that if he writes something controversial about IQ or sexism or income inequality or whatever, and it doesn’t stick to liberal talking points, they can do a damaging hit piece.
Correct. WebP is 10 years old, based on the VP8 codec that is about 14 years old, which lost in the market to H.264 that is 17 years old. In video streaming VP8 has been completely replaced by VP9 years ago, and VP9 was going to be replaced by VP10 which became part of AV1.

So WebP is hardly new, and a couple of generations behind. Now the next hotness is AVIF (or maybe JPEG XL), so ironically, WebP is becoming usable and obsolete at the same time.
European police forces are not very different in practice. They are significantly less blatant about it though. But we see the same general behaviors and narratives. The average person is a lot less likely to encounter these abuses though.