skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> And, to be honest, it didn’t really matter how much his colleagues protested. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he had a certain amount of Hubble’s time at his personal disposal. “The telescope allocation committee would never have approved such a long, risky project,” he explains. “But as director, I had 10 percent of the telescope time, and I could do what I wanted.”

Also:

> “Scientific discovery requires risk,” Williams says. “And I was at a point in my career where I said, “If it’s that bad, I’ll resign. I‘ll fall on my sword.’”
As a user I am totally happy with Amazon's service. They shouldn't change their entire setup and make things a lot more expensive for everyone based on these infrequent use cases.

And Amazon customer support is awesome. Your bullet 2 is false.
> I really don't see what practically changed.

The law. Are we arguing essentialist philosophy here? The things that were seen as implicit by cynics (and observation) were made explicit. We just know all of the megadonors by name now, and monitor their relationships with various candidates (and the ways those candidates can influence the donors' businesses, for possible investment opportunities.)

When you eliminate principles in law, society becomes unmoored. If they eliminate the First Amendment, will we just say "there wasn't ever really total freedom of speech anyway. Remember cancel culture?" That's the most useless possible internet-typical reaction to catastrophe.
Or TLDR:)
Your service has a response time of 20-30ms (from one of my servers, at least). So on top of everything else it's faster than OP too. Great example!
The organization had an established policy, permitting employer-provided alcohol at work social functions. He pushed a personal view, without the consent of his management, to the maximal extent his role gave him.
Yes, this narrative about not being free to talk about "dangerous" ideas is always left intentionally vague.

We have so much free inquiry going on right now that I can't even keep track of it. If free inquiry is being eroded, one of the central claims in this essay, then that means we are coming down from a greater high. When was that high and would you prefer to go back to that time?
This is not directly answering your query but you might sometimes be surprised at the positions available at major companies that work towards your goal of nature conservation. For example, I had a stint at Siemens working on an project that managed customer site environments. This meant doing things to help them conserve energy and helping them save money by reducing power waste. I am guessing Siemens doesn't come to mind as an environmental pioneer in spite of their work on wind power, etc. but there you are: it was functionally one of the more gratifying jobs I had.
I think the title should include "India", since I don't know if everybody is expected to know that Chennai is in India.
> Jobs that any other organization would do with one person being split into 3 different roles with a net result of costing more than hiring the more expensive onshore devs

When I first started working with an offshore team of Capgemini devs back around 2007, this really struck me too.

It was bizarre - you had "devs" who literally knew nothing beyond their very limited task space. Literally.nothing.

You'd have 3 people doing nothing but creating worthless unit tests that didn't test anything, 3 people writing HTML, 3 people writing CSS, 3 people coding an API, 3 people coding a backend, 3 people whose job it was to "manage the config files", 3 testers doing basically nothing... it was... so completely and utterly inefficient! It was a running joke that there would be someone to write the opening HTML tag, someone to write the name, and someone to close the tag - it wasn't far from the truth.

Of course, not all offshore teams are this insanely inept. To some degree it comes down to how much the client is willing to pay, but outsourcers also have different groups that target different segments. Their ODC (offshore development team) groups cater to the cheap-as-possible crowd, and are invariably atrocious, but their digital/consulting groups are comprised of "real" developers.

Disclaimer: I don't mean to make sweeping assumptions etc. This post is based on around 15 years experience working with outsourced devs in Indian, across multiple companies. Plainly a country the size of India has plenty of excellent developers.
US immigration has no say over working remotely for a US company so that's fine. Also, depending on your qualifications and field, there are visa classifications that don't require a degree, such as an E-1, E-2, L-1, O-1, and certain TN occupations.
> These are all specially formulated, and it’s all proprietary, just us. It took us six months just to formulate these plastics. They make bulletproof vests out of it! And it’s incredibly sturdy, and it’s just beautiful! There’s never been anything like that. How do you make something like that? Nobody ever made anything like that! Isn’t that beautiful? I think it’s stunning!

Weird. This reads like something straight out of a Trump speech.
This is probably a good place to start: https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories

(Not a balanced evaluation, just cherry-picking failures. But I suppose we're at the point in the hype cycle where it's easier to find success stories being talked about.)
When Americans stop referring to things like social media banning, deplatforming and "cancel culture" as violations of their First Amendment rights, as does often happen, other Americans will stop needing to correct them.
Not a lawyer, but somebody who went through the greencard process.

The answer is yes. Same for E3 (for Australian).

The risk is once your company files I-140 petition (petition for immigrant workers), you might be denied entry if you leave the US. It's hard to prove your non-immigrant intent... So if you have less than a year on your i-94 it's risky (i-140 takes a while these days to process - mine took 1 year). It would take a few more months to get the EAD and advance parole document before you can travel internationally. So consider these factors as you will have to miss visiting Canada in the meantime.

My friend who was on E3 went through this and his i-94 was running out so he was told he might not be able to work while the application is still pending (the company did offer to continue paying him though, which was nice).

H1B lottery is safer, but the chances are low. If you have a committed employer + stable job then I'd go with the adjustment of status route.
That's why companies end up requiring "extensions" over and over for consultants. I know people working for consultant firms that have been with the same client for more than 3 years.
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask, but I thought I'll try because I couldn't find much information online.

My neighbor is a really nice undocumented immigrant family. The family has 2 hard working kids who used to tutor others kids in the neighborhood to make income. They are now suffering because they don't have work and they need help. I have been giving them a monthly stipend to help them pay for food and rent. (2k / month).

I'm thinking of starting a non-profit charity so I can write off the money I'm giving away as donations.

Question is, are non-profit charities allowed to help undocumented immigrants? Or are American non-profits meant to help Americans only?

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(Update based on answers) There are alot of wonderful charities that do these kinds of work. I specifically just want to help the undocumented immigrants I know (like my neighbors). It may be seen as unethical if I simply donated to a charity and asked them to use the money to specifically help my neighbors.

So I plan to start my own NGO to specifically help my neighbors first and then eventually other people around my local community if I get more funding.

Giving cash money to help them is okay if we make sure 100% they are not doing any work for me (or my org).

In case you have the same idea, hope these info helps you make your decisions. Thank you @proberts!

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Update 2: Changed wording from illegal immigrants to undocumented immigrants so thread can focus on the right topic.
Yeah, not bad at all. A little annoying, but above average for the HW side of things.

But that's PSoC Creator, used for their PSoC 4 and 5 lines. (Avoid the 3 and older -- they're really old.) The newer 6 requires Modus Toolbox, which I think doesn't support the 4 or 5 lines (STUPID). I have no experience with that one. It's Eclipse based, so who knows.
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I think the "secret police" part is a red herring. My opinion is that the federal police were justified defending the courthouse, but were not justified hunting around for suspects in vans, unmarked or not(this is the state police's job!), but I don't think too many would agree that the federal vs state divide is what's important, which is why I didn't bring it up initially. I feel the anger against the federal agents is not rooted in principle, but the principles are used as a rationalization for removing an opposing force to the protests.

Hopefully we can agree that it's well within police prerogative to prevent rioting, serious property damage(like trying set fire to buildings), possible violence. I am definitely willing to concede that Trump is a tactless brute, and sending the federal agents in like this was far from the best strategy. We could even perhaps tentatively agree that his actual goal is to disperse the protests under the guise of preventing rioting, but again, we'd have to agree first that the rioting is there.

Which brings me back to the original post - is there protesting or violent rioting? Both. Is there secret police or not? Not really - there should be police to monitor the protests and prevent the rioting. If the state police is unwilling to do it, then the federal police may have to step in, although I'd have preferred to exhaust B through Y instead of going straight from A-Z.
Well, I stand corrected. That's both surprising and an incredible feat of airmanship by the pilots!

Since I love reading about these kinds of incidents and the best way to solve a problem is to claim it's impossible, I amend my claim to "I rather doubt there are two examples of an off airport landing of a 737 without significant damage to the aircraft." :)
Facebook Boosts Facial-Data Settlement to $650M to Appease Judge
What (if any) are the payroll/income tax implications of working remotely from another cities/states for extended during the office closures? Does it also impact stocks that vest during this time?
> But the digital transformation is over

"Digitalisation" has merely been replaced with "Industry 4.0". And after that hype train ends, they'll come up with some other nonsense.
You're right, it doesn't really matter how known the incident was. However, I don't think it should have happened at all and if someone were to sue, I would have assumed they would only be entertained if it was a widespread case or they were famous (not something I agree with, just how the world works).
Cool opinion.

Ever heard the one about the non-profit activist orgs that had to send emails to tens of thousands of people who had already opted into receiving emails and had to allocate substantial portions of their budget to sending out their donation drive emails because the system keeps breaking and different companies and government departments keep finding new ways to make things worse, requiring regular mail-outs, and there wasn't really any near-zero-conf, _actually_ cheap off-the-shelf solution for that?

It's hilarious, the punch line involves being called false altruists and spammers.
if you give me a github repo, ill see what I can do
It's probably a misconception that database-level transactions are the primary way to implement business transactions - many business processes w/ customers or 3rd parties rely on ACKs and/or compensating transactions, escaping the scope of a single database-level transaction.

In practice, if the services are loosely-coupled enough, transactional boundaries will be local in scope and transactions spanning multiple services are unnecessary. Downstream services can be eventually consistent if idempotency is guaranteed and retries/replays are free.

Inside the scope of a single service, when needed, we use Datomic, which provides ACID guarantees for that (https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/acid.html) and also helps w/ idempotency guarantees by allowing time-travel (https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/getting-started/see-histori...).
> I did not interpret it as hubris.

I mean, he refers to the "passively conventional minded" as "sheep". Whether or not that's true, it's still dripping with condescension.

I agree with the parent commenter. I largely agree with PG's essay, but it's also telling that he doesn't see (or at least, doesn't comment) on any potential negatives from "aggressive independently minded" folks. If anything, a lot of the current backlash I see in the technology realm is where entrepreneurs and "visionaries" promised us enlightenment and the world, but it didn't quite work out that way. The pitch for social media was that it was supposed to bring the world closer and let people develop more and stronger relationships. Yeah, how'd that turn out...
and in effect nothing has changed yet until the transition period is over and agreements have been made.
I've come to consider the official inflation figures as absolute nonsense. It's a shame, really, because the BLS does a lot of good work, and outdated metric calculation methods really put a tarnish on an otherwise great agency. I'm not sure how much of that is being held hostage to political goals.

Things that are in actual demand [1], like health care, education and housing (in desirable areas) have absolutely been outpacing inflation.

Sure, if you measure the absolute basics needed to not die in a society, the figures might make sense (as it would be mostly food and clothing, both of which are dirt cheap. So cheap in fact that most of the time they can be had for free! Thrift stores and food banks are your friend)

But if we're talking about a thriving society and population, surely our aims should be set higher than the very first step on Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

[1](it's not Smart TVs and Smartphones, although even flagship smartphones have recently ballooned in price far outstripping any sort of inflation figures)
> “Who decided that this was important to you, and why did you let them decide that?”

Thank you for that comment... I'm now going to turn on my news blackhole hosts file, which I disabled long ago. I remember being far more content back then so I'm not sure why I reverted back.
As proved by this very news item, some of the positions emerging from the Visegrad block of countries (technically Chzechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, but others band with them on some issues) are fundamentally illiberal and contrary to the spirit of democratic solidarity in the Union.

For a long time, these countries have reaped the benefits of Union policies without making a real contribution; they enjoyed economic solidarity (by being the largest recipients of European funds) and then refused it on social and humanitarian policies (like sharing refugees). This is unsustainable in the long run.
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At Google, they say "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission".
I don't think anything else that I've seen or read has properly conveyed the scale of the universe the way these images do. They did and still do stagger my imagination.
> Like you realise the protests were sparked off by a murder, right?

And since then they've resulted in 17 deaths. Tit for tat? Were those 17 people guilty in that murder? Yes that initial act was wrong and we should address that, vandalizing businesses and setting federal property on fire has nothing to do with that original offense.

> it’s ridiculous to think the main authoritarian crisis in the US right now

You keep asserting this. You don't show evidence for this. What's the authoritarian crisis? That cops have qualified immunity? That's not new. Is it that you think poorly of the president? I think poorly of him too but he's not Mussolini.

You can't vaguely claim there's something wrong with a system and use that as an excuse for violence and destruction - especially when the violence and destruction isn't even targeted at the people you're accusing.

> you didn’t mention a single thing the police did wrong in your list of grievances

No I didn't because it's not relevant. You're creating a strawman when the reality of the situation is complicated. This isn't cops versus protesters and attempts to cast it as a binary problem is partisanship. If you're interested in solving problems instead of stirring up anger then your interest should be in understanding the problem and not polarizing sides.

> This is not a view supported by the evidence.

1. https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/effect-higher-educa...

2. https://inpublicsafety.com/2014/07/how-education-impacts-pol...

> The US has more prisoners per capita than any society at any point in history in the world

That has nothing to do with this topic. Like, I agree that's a problem and we should address that by considering how we treat low level drug offenses, but it has nothing to do with police brutality and cancel culture.

> The police are armed and violent.

Police brutality has decreased mindbogglingly since the 1960s. Yes the police have more gear and we can talk about why it makes sense to do things like remove camo from their inventory and the pros/cons of using APCs, but that has nothing to do with canceling people and ruining their careers.

> But maybe you should tell me more about how these systems work so well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_...

> proud history of violent protest so quickly

Violence is not something to be proud of. A violent victory for one person is a funeral for another. Violence is against justice and it deprives the accused of reasonable and rational defense.

You talk so much against authoritarianism, but violence is the fundamental tool of it. Courts and ballot boxes are the tools of democracy.
They can easily build and view their own versions of the gmail stack, but they would not be able to generate auth tokens to decode the private data of accounts they did not have passwords for.
I was (and currently still) working for such a company in US. Their business model is to sell you bodies. That’s it.
Right, that's why I put visa in quotes. And yes, there is no quota but I wasn't clear if there were e.g. COVID related restrictions on application currently.

People have definitely used this for even undergrad co-op, but I don't know how widespread. Obviously more easily applicable for grad students.

Part of the issue is that as you note the admissibility criteria is decided by the border agent you randomly see. So you provide evidence of education and fit for a TN category, but they decide if you qualify, and it's unclear how much guidance they have in this. Appeal process is mostly only through the same agent.

NB: my experience in this area is a bit out of date, things may have changed.
> We pay for the entire floor of a building in Pakistan, have cameras, etc

Good post, upvoted, but why the cameras?
I‘ve used Cassandra, its not that impressive. Much slower than the C++ rewrite (ScyllaDB?), latency issues due to GC, can’t hold a candle to Clickhouse. And they’ve been optimizing it for a long time now.
My dishwasher doesn't work well, and after thinking about it, since I don't have a lot of dishes, I have been doing them manually for a few years.

It has not really enhanced any aspect of my character. If anything I tend to get paper plates more often because I don't want to do the dishes sometimes.
Not a lawyer :). USCIS website is pretty informative:
https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-we-grant-your-green-c...

I think it answers a lot of your questions :)
Lyft was actually the first entrant in their market.
Controlling media and influencing it social or otherwise is a concern when media is a oligarchy , social media is also an oligarchy , there are few players who dominate most of the readership .

The big American conglomerates are just as partisan as Sinclair , there is still some professionalism that they have not devolved to Sinclair level.

However trends in recent past point towards only downward movement simply because of economics , you make more money telling people what they want to hear.
Not just politics... Although maybe we could argue that all of the other taboo topics have become politics, and that's part of the problem.
There are several startups working on conservation/anti-poaching initiatives using image recognition and/or drones.

https://airshepherd.org/

https://wildlifeprotectionsolutions.org/

https://observer.com/2017/05/artificial-intelligence-can-sto...
I miss Apple using color. I know they abandoned it because they want their machines to melt away and just have the screen left, but they abandoned fun in the process. Computers don't just have to be windows into a virtual space.
I had a friend in NY who did the citizenship interview last week. I think they're back to processing OK.
It appears that you are subject to the ban on the issuance of H-1B visas so you could be stuck outside for a while if you leave.
Is this still true? I recently went to a Walmart for the first time in a decade+, and it was obvious most of the items weren't seconds, they were just cheaply made. Even higher-end retailers with outlet stores have just started making lower-end merchandise specifically for outlet stores.
In the latest EO, the Trump administration mentioned changing the H1B program to protect American jobs better and transitioning to a merit-based system. There may not be enough time to make that happen but I imagine some sort of immigration reform along those lines will happen if Biden wins the next election. What reforms do you expect to see to the H1B program and employment-based green card? How should current H1B visa holders do to prepare for those changes?
I once bought a lawnmower where someone had swapped it out with a lower-end model. That was from Lowe's.

I'd like to know what action companies take against this type of theft, it seems trivial to identify the culprit but maybe difficult to prove anything and probably expensive.
even if what you said is true, in USA you have courts that adjudicate impartially. But the real comparison would have been Obama doing what I said to FoxNews and NewsCorp.
Of course they always make it right.

The question is where does the discount from my doing their inspection for them go? It doesn't go to the prices, they're the same everywhere. It doesn't go to the shipping, that's my Prime account.
It's time to lazy-load offscreen iframes
There's also plenty of unclocked stuff in the FPGA... like the LUTs that do all the work. There's enough of this and it's important enough that I believe thinking of FPGAs as "just state machines" is dumb. But then I also believe that digital electronics are not "just digital circuits", but better thought of as "bistable analog circuits", so what do I know....
Sure! https://github.com/georgyo/ifconfig.io/blob/master/templates...