skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The programmers have as much of a right to be there as anyone else does. People who owned their condos and houses weren't pushed out, they usually sold to buy something bigger. That would be practically everyone my parents knew. (Edit: Of course, people who rented apartments for 20 years and then had their rent jacked sky high by a new landlord, that's a different story...)

The fun part for me is I was born in SF. My family relocated to a suburb when I was little to get a bigger house. They never could afford to move back. Now that I'm a programmer, I can afford to take us back there! Would I feel guilty about it? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

That said, if I were to do that, I'd be buying an old beat up house in outer sunset. The only thing I'd be displacing in that case, are the people who decided to sell it after owning it for 20+ years because they wanted a bigger house in Fairfield or something. (Let's be real though, I can't afford to buy a house in SF at all haha. Maybe a few more years of saving.)

I don't know, there's a large gap between "I've got mine, fuck you" and "You must be apologetic for having a good career and being able to afford the rent."

Of course, I feel that displacing all the old hole-in-the-wall restaurants for shit like starbucks and panera bread is a disgrace. Especially because I don't eat shit like starbucks or panera bread lol. I'm all about the $5 lunch special at the chinese place. (Although now it's a $20 special!)
Would receiving dividends from stocks count as participatory economy?
That would be great if people could admit that the kernel isn't the operating system.
Only a visa extension (I-539), which will cost you > 400 bucks. We just went through with this for my mother in law, whose Delta return flight was cancelled a week before she was to go back after an almost 6 month stay. Fortunately, the USCIS is being pretty accommodating on letting people file extensions close to the end of their stays (usually you have to do it 45 days in advance), and she will probably go back before they even decide her case, hopefully (but she will have to carry around her I-539 app/judgement for awhile).

We've got her booked on a flight at the end of October, which is the best we can do right now. There are flights to China that you can get tomorrow through Taiwan or Hong Kong, but neither will allow you to board if you aren't Taiwanese or from Hong Kong (so no mainlanders). The remaining direct flights are in very limited supply and very hard to get and/or very expensive.
Most jobs are who you know. So cultivate the kind of person who interviews well and will quickly be trusted to say hire you.

My first job all open positions went to Jon (last name hid), if he handed a name that person was called in, the interview was reverse, unless you really did something stupid you had the job, the purpose of the interview was to convince you to take it. If Jon didn't know anyone a head hunter was called for a 6 month contract, with option to hire if we liked you. So moral of this story is know Jon.

Where I work now we train people on how to put you at ease. It works okay, I think.
Interestingly, DHS just decided today that international students cannot maintain their legal status with a 100% online education https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-ex...
> If you were 0.25% of GDP for a country, you can go to the government and lobby harder than if you're 0.05% of GDP in 5 different countries.

Minor point on this great post, it would actually be 0.01% instead of 0.05%, because the amount in each country is divided by 5x, but the GDP is also increased 5x, for a 25x percentage decrease.
I haven’t heard of any country turning down their own nationals returning home.
I'm not sure, I think someone there has realised schools could essentially sell visas - if the course is fully online, the student just needs to pay for it, so they don't really need to be a real student.

I'm all for opening or abolishing borders (and keep recommending No Wall They Can Build (2016), free as a pdf to people), but I'm not sure if this is simple or that thing you said.
Or have faith in the guy that's been the most successful investor in modern history, up until now.
That is an interesting question. For me personally, no, not at my current life situation. For the most part, teams are subsidiaries of larger corporations and there is a little bit of security there. The privateer teams other than that pose some job security risk but most staff are highly skilled (normally to a post graduate level) and would be no different than joining a startup which might go bust at the end of runway.
Why not sandwich two LCDs together — one B&W lower resolution, and then the 4K color one? Align them so one B&W pixel switches for the three sub pixels of RGB.
But once the situation with the coronavirus is over, the kids will be in school/daycare, so this won't be an issue.
That is really amazing, but I'd just like to point out how amusing it is that he looks really tired in the thumbnail of that video.
Sure. Machine Learning is just "heuristics we don't understand."
You have a point here, however:

Step 1: Use scale-derived lower WACC and an army of lawyers as cudgels to destroy independent retail and grocery in exurban and rural communities.

Step 2: "You can't get rid of us because without any other retail or grocery there'll be a food desert here!"
Metro Denver definitely has this through Xcel Energy. I'm enrolled in a program called Wind Source and I believe there is a similar program for solar.
Thank you for taking the time to expand!
From its definition, it follows that gentrification will have resulted in existing resident landowners getting outbid and/or renters outbid or otherwise being forced from their homes. To avoid gentrification, you need to devise a market distortion (e.g. incentive, regulation, etc) to keep people in their homes, or provide them with comparable replacement homes that are still within the community.

But, then you must also discourage or disincentivize the relocated residents from immediately losing and/or selling these homes to newcomers who are willing to pay more. Owner-occupied homes allow each owner to evaluate whether or not they wish to sell, whereas renters rarely get a say. If all owners willingly sell to richer newcomers, would you look back and consider the community to have gentrified?

Rent control is one such market distortion. Prop 13 is another. These tools serve to keep certain houses off the market, while largely allowing their residents to stay in place.

These mechanisms are irrespective of supply, because the supply is always finite. The mechanisms act on the demand-side.
If they really did have nowhere to live, and no funds, they would take the option to leave themselves. This policy takes away an option at least some of them would otherwise have. I'm very left-wing, but I think that anyone (left or rigth) on the libertarian section of the political compass should oppose a move like this kind of government policy.
> If the shareholders don't think the R&D is going to be profitable then they can sell their own shares

It's not that the companies aren't profitable, it's that past a certain point their money is more valuable as cash to their shareholders than anything the company could use it for.
> Their sales pitch was that the product was petroleum-free, a boon for spas that like to market being “natural.”

It's interesting that people see genetically modified yeast producing hydrogen peroxide as "natural" -- but not regular hydrogen peroxide.
Hey, DVC maintainer here. For those who interested in this topic, I like this one about the same problem - https://petewarden.com/2018/03/19/the-machine-learning-repro... (industry focused) and an excellent talk from Patrick Ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSunU9GQdcI&t=1s how they structure data projects.
My hunch:

Trump hates universities. So he’ll do anything to ensure universities are on life support. This is a great way for him to bring the uncertainties to follow his orders.
It means there are no people involved in the assembly process; you can run the manufacturing line with the 'lights off'.
I think Apple removed their restrictions on programming languages long ago. If you can get it to run on the platform, you can use it, AFAIK.
most up to date kernel, but Aboriginal Linux was end-of-lined in 2017

http://landley.net/aboriginal/
You're correct. Original press release is https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-ex...
Well you can see the advantage here, the biological process that created this hydrogen peroxide from wastewater also created other compounds beneficial to the application. This isn't New Age chakra stuff, this has a direct chemical cause-and-effect.
Image carousel is 21st century slideshow, which are cliched as a hated imposition.
Thanks for the interesting reference. The drive to reduce uncertainty could certainly be a hypothesis in explaining animal curiosity and its persistence through natural selection for a population.

I guess I'm more intrigued by the individual phenomena of obsession. The psychological aspects of my occasional obsessions are so vivid to me still. Years back when I got into woodworking, for example, I remember just visualizing as I fell asleep the use of hand planes and the pursuit of getting thinner and thinner shavings. Then I got into bread baking and I pursued everything I could for the ultimate oven spring, I would then start visualizing the reveal of the bread out of the oven. Then I got into mechanical watches (thankfully briefly) and couldn't stop reading about them, and relevant imagery kept popping into my head, etc etc etc.

My world, priorities, value systems all just made sense in those periods which spanned months to years. Then inevitably when I moved on, I would look back and I couldn't relate or understand the obsession anymore. I'd transition from an insider to an outsider looking at it. It always surprises me how that transition, into and out of, an obsession alienates you from yourself.
Fans are in a ponzi race to discover talent before the masses pile in. (Who's Got Talent meets Democratized Dragon's Den)
> There is near-universal consensus that technical hiring is atrocious

I hear this a lot on Hacker News, but not inside any companies. And when asked why people think it's atrocious, I rarely get a set of answers that agree on the specifics. I'd love to hear more about what metrics show evidence that hiring is atrocious, as well as what is making it atrocious for you. What does that mean in the pre-coronavirus context? Are companies not finding people, and are people not getting jobs? I'm asking honestly and seriously, so I can improve my own hiring practices. I don't doubt there's a problem, I just don't have a handle on exactly what it is, and the reports here on HN aren't matching my own experience. I admit I don't match the profile of the average web developer, so I may be ignorant of what's happening in the broader tech world today, especially regarding recent hires from school.

In my own experience interviewing at and hiring for multiple companies over the last 20 years, what I've seen and done matches some of your ideas. We are getting and giving real world interview questions. The interviews are at least somewhat standardized. There are dedicated onboarding resources.

I haven't seen names redacted anywhere, and that's a good idea to normalize cultural or gender biases, but problematic if you want people to review your online portfolio, or if you know someone in the company who can vouch for you, both of which many candidates do want.

It is my experience that internal referrals have significantly higher chance of success, pay for the candidate is likely to be higher than for external candidates, and referrers are typically rewarded financially for the referral. Many people complain that the referral system is part of the problem under the logic that it can encourage nepotism and echo chamber behavior. I don't fully agree, but I don't think this is as obvious of a win as you suggest either, or that the majority of people would agree with it.
I doubt this decision is coming from the WH. It's a very simple calculation made by an agency with different priorities from what might be represented here in this forum.

You have thousands of foreigners, a large portion of which might not be in the country, waiting to return to the US to continue their studies. Many of those countries don't even allow US travelers to arrive at this time. Everybody is urging for caution, but that there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of individuals preparing to arrive back here, with possible infections, is something an agency might be concerned about. So naturally, why not prevent this travel from happening in the first place with a policy like that?

Of course it's a heavy handed approach, but so are the lock-downs and closed schools. So we go to great length trying to prevent the spread, we close schools for over 4 month, and some don't even want schools open in the fall, but somehow an influx of half a million students is something nobody should be concerned about?

Those are valid discussions to be had. Assuming right away that this is a way to force universities to open is not a very genuine way of thinking. You cannot encourage full online classes for health reasons, and applaud that on Monday, and on Tuesday complain we don't allow students from all over the world to return just to sit in front of a computer.

Everybody is laser focused on these case numbers, and some states will close schools due to high case counts in the fall, impacting millions of families. If you support that, you should probably also support any measures possible to keep case counts low, including discouraging international travel.
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the u. s. is not the only country in the world
One of the main reasons SD cards fail in a PI is shutting them down incorrectly.
If you pull the power cord you risk corrupting the card.
If the PI had a proper power switch system (also omitted due to cost) then you would see less SD cards being corrupted.

It is possible that even on-board flash memory could be corrupted by improper shutdown, and if that happened the entire pi would be useless, not just the SD card.
Please stop. Ideological and nationalistic flamewar on the internet is tedious, predictable, and therefore off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
what exactly do students on F and M visas have to do with employment? they can't work to begin with.
the money they save on rent they can use on getting a kick ass internet connection. internet is pretty good in most countries if you are willing to pay up. GSuite is blocked, means use word online? not insurmountable barriers
Ask HN: Are there reasons to avoid a Sublime Text-like business model?
Many times I've seen statements like, "it would not be viable to run our business without charging a recurring (e.g. monthly) fee for our software."

And I can see how for most businesses that might be true, or at least much more comfortable.

However, for certain products it just does not make sense to have a recurring cost (I have in mind a desktop utility someone might use a few times a year)—although charging for a major version upgrade may be possible.

What I'd like to read but can't find is something like: "What you'll wish you knew before starting a one-time-cost/pay-to-upgrade software business".

If anyone has general comments about this (on both negative and positive aspects would be great) or resources they could point too, that'd be much appreciated!
It's likely continued xenophobia from (the one non-family senior advisor to Trump):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advi...
The guy's picture was also a random one from the internet. Quote from a reddit post:

> The guy isn't real. A quick reverse image search would have shown this guy is also known as "David Shiffer" based in Norway, apparently a CEO of ServiceLayer, yet no mention of him anywhere else on the internet - including LinkedIn (strange for a CEO) and another profile of his linking to a dating site.
Coincidentally, I first learned TIG welding at Williams via the physics machine shop. One of the memorable pieces of advice from my earnest instructor (the Buildings and Grounds guy who did the necessary welding) was something like "Only weld galvanized at the end of the day because you'll feel like shit afterwards. It helps if you go home and drink lots of milk."

The wisdom of his health advice aside, he was a decent welder taught me useful techniques. But when I later took a community college TIG course from a former nuclear welder, I was astonished by the precision the instructor demonstrated. I got a lot better, not exactly because of the quality of instruction, but just from having seen what excellence looked like.
Obligatory kitboga mention: https://twitch.tv/kitboga. The dude is a genius at baiting scammers and his stream is family-friendly as far as I know.

Then there is Jim Browning on YouTube.... I’ll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/le71yVPh4uk
The article seems to end before solving the original problem. You start out with a call to `analytics.track` and seem to just forget about it. Do you mind sharing examples of how to disambiguate the sender / event args in `captureTouchablePress` into something meaningful?
I ran into this argument before.

I can understand that it makes sense for proof assistants. As the post shows, proof assistants don't allow you to misuse that anywhere else.

(But as a sidenote: couldn't you fix this with dependent types somehow?)

I still think it would be wrong for a regular programming language. Afaik, the Pony language does this too, but that is a general-purpose programming language that does not check your logic, and I am very wary of something like that. People might type up some algorithms, or even just try to compute an average, and the system absolutely should yell at you if you try to divide by zero.
I'll give it a stab:

> climate change

Implement a high carbon tax/fee, and companies are now willing to spend money to reduce their carbon footprint, as long as the cost to reduce is less than the tax (so the tax has to high enough).

For the geoengineering case, you can simply to the same thing, in reverse: offer money for carbon capture.

Both of these create an opportunity for new businesses and jobs, since companies usually don't have the climate related expertise in house.

> housing crisis

From what I see, the incentives are already there to build more housing, but the government (and those who already live there!) in many jurisdictions puts up as many barriers as possible to prevent people from actually acting on those incentives. The solution, then, is to convince the government and those who live there to allow people to build (there's already a long line of organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, who'd gladly start build tomorrow if they could).

As dougmwne mentioned, both of these ultimately require political action. I'm not aware of what organizations are advocating for a carbon tax, but in the case of housing, YIMBY does some good work.
Will sing-a-long contest return this year? That's a neat idea.
Where I work mentoring a junior person is almost mandatory once you reach a certain level. I've been told flat out one reason I was passed for a promotion was I wasn't mentoring people, event though my department didn't have any juniors in at the time, it still held me back (and my boss also started looking for opportunities to mentor outside the department, but I left before that got anywhere for other reasons)
Ask HN: Innovating in Remote First Environment
In office scenario, you meet your coworker discuss and brainstorm together, and come up with an innovative solution.
How do you achieve innovation in remote first environment? Scheduling video calls for innovation simply doesn't cut it!
Part of calling this stuff out is to not let bad arguments (or outright disinformation) go unchallenged to people who are just reading along and haven't formed an opinion yet.
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Do you understand the amount of money spent to be able to immigrate to a country? Or to be able to pick a country to do your studies in?

It literally sucks life savings of families.
> What that signals to me is that practically they should be considered a speech platform

I'm not really sure what problem you're solving here. The social space is too big to moderate effectively, so hamstringing what little power the company chooses to exercise over its own space is supposed to somehow make things better? I don't see it.
I have a custom built PC with 2 monitors. It runs Windows because I do lots of Windows development - despite getting to .NET Core we still have some older components that need visual studio. The gaming spec works quite nicely, the main thing I need is 32gb of RAM for running numerous VMs.

It also doubles as my gaming rig but I'm going to be moving us to a more strict device management strategy soon so I will have a dedicated work PC, and this will likely be a top-end Dell Precision. I recently bought a couple for some new developers (latest core i9, 32GB of RAM, NVME SSD) and they're very happy with them.

I also have a very light macbook air for travelling and taking notes in meetings etc. I couldn't actually develop software on it though, it's far too tiny.

I couldn't go back to developing on a laptop and definitely couldn't go back to 16gb of RAM. It does seem that with many laptops you must choose between >16gb or it being portable.
Why does it not work?
I don’t think the “in type theory” restriction is correct.

This choice works fine when using type theory in theorem provers, but would be unacceptable if we did it in programming languages that use type theory (or would that be called “type practice” ;-)?)

In Haskell, for example, 1/0 returns Infinity.
"It's not the hammer manufacturer's fault in how their product is used" is a philosophy that took a pretty huge hit when physicists were called upon to solve the problems of the first atomic bomb.
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I'm afraid the solution cannot be simple, not only because the trust problem is not so simple, but because the nature of the problem is political, not technical.
And so the solution must be political (CA/B forum, ballots, convoluted documents, processes for misbehaving entities).
I don't think there is a need to go slightly less efficient in order to improve the current processes; they just got frozen in time and there are many such examples with companies and countries. Remember Japan is not the first time doing it, at the end of the shoguns era they were behind the rest of the world they were more advanced than.
Thank you!

I stumbled upon GoAccess after I noticed that nginx logs were enough to get the visitor info. Hours later I found out the HN post where someone else did something very similar to what I was doing :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883876
You'd think so, but it is possible to scam intelligent people. Intelligent people are still subject to the same fears, emotions, and cognitive biases and flaws that other people are. If a scammer can successfully harness those human weaknesses, intelligence might not be enough to save someone.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/woman-loses-entire-life...
ICE tells students on visas they must leave US if schools go online-only
My partner has been struggling with the US immigration system her entire stay here. With this administration things have gone even further downhill. They're violently, cruelly dedicated to the idea of shutting down immigration and dying a slow intellectual death.
Innovation happens from intersection and combination of ideas. This doesn't require in person meetings (it doesn't hurt but is not necessary). So you'll need to be more specific. What exactly is the obstruction from combining ideas in remote environments?