skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are definitely right that classism could also produce the same effects! However, in the US most of our classism is motivated from racism, I think. Or perhaps, if we didn't have the racism, we'd still find reason to be classist. Here is the current US president being explicit about what is usually the quiet part of the Southern strategy:

> The Suburban Housewives of America must read this article. Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream. I will preserve it, and make it even better!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12863721751177912...

Fear-momgering about blacks being able to move into your neighborhood, like what's happening in this Tweet, is what shaped the single-use suburban dream. Levittowns, the first cookie-cutter suburbs lacking any sort of small commercial businesses, were very explicitly segregationist.

It may be possible to disentangle the racism from the classism, but in the specific example from the US, they are so tight that I have a lot of difficulty being able to find any space between them.
Do you know how the CS program is doing these days? I heard it was on the ropes a few years ago but this looks like they are investing in it again?
> If the large crowd is told to disperse by government agents, you are no longer a peaceful protester.

This is the US, not China. People have the right to protest in large crowds. Some wannabe fascist telling you to go away does not make a protest non-peaceful.
Plus the cost overhead for a few more rivets isn't crazy; even if they're superfluous and you know it, better to spend brainpower on more complex and critical engineering.
>Canada has destroyed their Atlantic fisheries

Not entirely accurate. There's lots of blame to go around:

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

From:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...
Do you want to partner with someone in the tech industry to deliver some sort of technology product?

Every time I talk to a lawyer, they always have some part of the system that's failing them completely and working with them has always been enlightening in a depressing way.
Hey, we are working on this
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Drop me an email at nhh@downforce.com. We don't have a framework for hiring at the moment but might do very soon.
Hungary's only been in Schengen since 2007, and in the EU since 2004. In that time their GDP has tripled, and there's a huge jump over the accession period (which, oddly, flattens out when Orban takes power). Public debt hit a peak in 2010-2011, and is now 20% below that point. It's hard to see the economic effects as negative, looked at in isolation.

Hungary has its own problems that the EU isn't positioned to solve. That's not evidence that the EU itself is a failure, or bad for states that join it.
Can you perhaps say more about what you dislike about the lowercase “m”? It has to be extremely condensed to fit into a fixed-width space, just the same as any other monospaced font for code.
ACLU lawsuit:
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-federal-agents...

Restraining order issued against attacking journalists:

U.S. District Judge Michael Simon today blocked federal agents in Portland from dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, or targeting force against journalists or legal observers at protests. The court’s order, which comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, adds the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Marshals Service to an existing injunction barring Portland police from arresting or attacking journalists and legal observers at Portland protests.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-issues-res...
Oh wow, I had literally the exact same thing happen to me last June: https://imgur.com/a/qzVDuJr
> Based on prospectively collected and geocoded participant addresses, we used a spatiotemporal model to estimate the 3-year average PM2.5 exposure before the MRI.

In broad terms (not specific to PM2.5 exposure), I've heard that indoor air quality is often much worse than outdoor air quality. Is geolocation a good way to estimate PM2.5 exposure? I.e. is most of the variance in exposure captured by where you live, as versus stuff like how you cook, heat your home, whether you live with smokers, etc?
Is it risky to change jobs on H1B with an I-140 approved right now? Both in terms of H1B transfer and especially a new PERM filing since a lot of Americans are out of jobs right now. Have you noticed or do you anticipate PERM filings being difficult?

Thanks for doing this, Peter!
Ownership gap might be a better term than ownership vacuum. The attraction to take ownership varies wildly.
Looks like they had about 5000ft to work with. Not great, but not bad either.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/30%C2%B001'52.7%22N+89%C2%...
Ask HN: Technical roles without technical interviews?
Well, I'm done with technical interviews (as a candidate). So far in this job search I've gone through the full interview process at close to 15 companies, and have done over 40 technical rounds in that time.

I just can't handle the stress, anxiety, and rejection any more. Is there a job out there that can take advantage of over a decade's worth of software engineering experience but that doesn't have a technical interview portion?
I agree. It was an essay on two of the big 5 personality traits: conscientiousness (conventional) and agreeableness (passivity). His thesis is that disagreeable conscientious people are responsible for "a disproportionate amount of trouble".

There's a couple problems with this though. First, these traits are sort of immutable - humans can't really change their personalities. Second, as you said, independent-mindedness can cause huge problems as well.
US mulls endangered status for Nevada plant in mine fight
Almost all access to the media, access to the Internet and so forth in the US has been consolidated into the control of six corporations: AT&T/Warner, Comcast, Disney, Newscorp, Sony, and ViacomCBS. As control of almost all communication is centralized under the control of entities ultimately controlled by billionaire heirs, the natural reaction of people will be to struggle over what communications comes out of these channels.

The average inflation adjusted hourly wage is below what it was in the early 1970s in the US. All the wealth has gone to the heirs and a handful of people mostly born into the white upper middle class. Channels of communication are shut down. The monopolies I mentioned shut down Usenet and communication became centralized by them and companies like Facebook.

Everyone I have heard whining about the end of the Enlightenment recently is part of this to the manor born type, as well as their bought off stalking horses in relevant communities.

What is happening is a very natural result of what has been happening for decades. As anti-trust laws are not enforced, as the Fairness Doctrine goes away and our media channels consistently advocate oppression of nationalities alongside a newly militarized police, we don't hear of the monopolization of communication or proletarianization and impoverishment of the population or militarization of the police, the end of the Fairness doctrine - we hear the newly centralized lines of communication can't spew out their propaganda without complaint.
Having lived in Japan, I get what you mean about the American suburbs sounding claustrophobic, but now that I live in a pretty typical, American suburban subdivision, ironically a lot of my neighbors would feel the same way about the idea of living in a dense city.

In terms of walking for leisure and exercise, some do, but not everyone. I see people walking/jogging/biking through the neighborhood throughout the day. But the rate at which people do is likely lower than those living in more urban areas. As mentioned by commenters above, just about the only reason to walk outside in the suburbs is leisure/exercise. The nearest non-residential area from me is about 1 mile away, and that's the city core, with some restaurants, dental offices, etc. The closest grocery is probably another half mile. And I'm far closer than most. I'd say the average distance to a non-residential area for most of the city's residents is closer to 2 miles, and the average distance to a grocery store is probably near 3.

But even strictly for leisure, there are likely fewer people walking here than other cities/countries. When I lived in Japan, I went walking because if you go outside, you are basically in the street. It incentivizes walking somewhere like a park, or a shop, or path, or somewhere interesting. In a neighborhood like mine, most people have large enough yards where they can easily relax there. You can throw a football or kick a soccer ball easily. Houses with kids will often have swing sets or trampolines in their backyards. I'm in Indiana, so I estimate no less than 40% of households have a basketball hoop in their driveway or on the street in front of their house. A lot of the things that drive you to walk places in denser cities simply don't exist. Walking outside becomes a decision to walk for the sake of walking, because most people already what they would be going to a park for at home (greenery, space, playground/sporting equipment, even pools are common), and you aren't going to be close enough to actually walk to many destinations.
Laurent Bossavit tears the Boehm paper apart in his book "Leprechauns of Software Engineering"[1]. It's a good read for anyone interested in the empirical side of software research.

[1]: https://leanpub.com/leprechauns
If someone on H1b wants to create a business, a non profit, or just wants to freelance - what are the options available to them?
I came to ask the exact same thing. According to this article[0] I read the other week, (and according to my admittedly limited understanding of US law) you definitely need probable cause to arrest someone.

Has this right been repealed in the US? Is this not currently the case? If so, are there court decisions that have temporarily repealed these rights? Am I misunderstanding something?

The cynical part of my mind tells me that nothing has changed apart from the police brazenly ignoring the law, but I'd like to understand if I'm missing something in this regard.

[0] https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/two-dhs-officials-app...
Hey Peter,

Thank you so much for doing this!

Im a German citizen living in Mexico. Since I have been to Iran I no longer qualify for ESTA and had to apply for a visa at the embassy here in Mexico City to visit the USA.
My visa has been in processing for 2y now and I have not received any response other than "still in processing, we will be in touch". What do you recommend? Is there anything I can do to accelerate this? Or withdraw the application and apply from Germany?

Thanks a lot!!
This is what Flutter was, originally. It was formed by a bunch of ex-Chrome people, including Ian Hixie, the former editor of the HTML spec.
I just finished the book "The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy" by Stephanie Kelton. Highly recommend to anyone who hasn't heard of MMT and wants a good intro with examples of how MMT could help today.
You're making a very broad statement here. A more specific one would demonstrate the underlying problem. Our society relies on the free market to assign value to work, and the free market values video games higher than education or improving the environment that supports us. Capitalism doesn't really support the values people would at least claim to believe in.
Losing your livelihood, in a nation famous for it's relative lack of safety net, is in fact a big deal.

Here's the thing, you don't have to pick a side so hard. It's not, either we get this dude fired for citing a study about the 1968 riots or you're in favor of the border patrol arresting citizens without due process. These things are actually highly unrelated, and both can be bad.
What are the rights of someone on an L1 VISA in the US with regards to starting up a business?
This is one really good serif variable font:

http://www.gt-alpina.com/

Different variable fonts use different variable “axes” – choosing what parameters can/should be variable is just another design decision in making a font.
One way that I could imagine is having long-form discussions about it with friends rather than getting a journalist’s opinion and settling on it as fact.
> I would also say that there's a pretty big difference between "stiff upper lip/no emotions" that people imagine when using the the adjective "stoic" and the Stoic writings of Marcus Aurelius and the like.

A quick way to find out what sort of self-proclaimed lover of Meditations you’re dealing with is to ask what they think of its physics and metaphysics.
have a former friend that would do a brick and mortar version of this... even went so far as to buy a shrink wrap machine.

buy an external drive, take it home and remove the drive.. fill case with rocks or wood or something to add mass.. put it back in the box, shrink wrap it and have his wife return it.. doing a slight upgrade to the next size up. repeat a couple of times.. then get full refund.

he'd even end up with his own crap filled drives once in a while..
Interesting, now that we have the maneuver operations covered in cube sats with ion drives, I wonder if someone will re-open that investigation.
Ah, it means an information radiator, which is a funky term for a big thing on a wall that everyone can see:

https://www.leadingagile.com/2017/11/information-radiators-i...

In this case, it's a screen displaying monitoring information. And since we're all working from home, it actually means a web page we all have open and keep an eye on.

Daftly enough, we don't even call it the radiator, we call it the dashboard, but i thought "radiator" might be a more understandable name!
Police are given the latitude, with some limitations, to arrest people legally even without charge. Importantly, they must release uncharged persons within a certain timeframe which seems to have been respected in this case.

If ultimately there is no charge and the person is released, they can obviously contact a lawyer and have access to the courts.

We can debate all this as a matter of public policy and law. What we should not do is sacrifice our credibility by pretending that people are being kidnapped and "disappeared" or comparing this to what is going on in HK.
> They are a respected company with many respected products, despite your personal feelings towards them. They did screw up big time with the 737 MAX, but they still have a huge portfolio of well engineered products and will surely launch more well respected products in the future.

No. All of their recent models have had serious issues. The 787 was also a death trap with Li battery fires and wing root cracking.

They outsourced fuselage construction to Spirit - a huge red flag for aerospace.
>We believe that a re-write of the platform is due ...

Oh oh.
Do you think PR teams don't have the ability to block topics on a whim?
If you're into 3D Printing, feeler gauges are also a great way to level your bed... move the extruder 0.04 above the bed at four points, stick your 0.04 feeler under it and adjust the springs until it touches the feeler. Voila, one perfectly leveled 3D printer bed.
These numbers aren't directly comparable. They're reported on different timescales, because determining cause of death takes longer than determining that someone who died had CoVID-19.
My country (Argentina) has a lottery(esque?) approach to giving work visas for the US, so basically: even with company support, work visas are subject to probability (~30% chance of getting it for a given year). Do you have experience, or do you know, how companies handle hires from countries with this methodology?

Thanks for doing this AMA!
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Or they’re worried about losing their source of income with which they feed and house themselves and their families. Because the leaders of the US have explicitly threatened them.
Neither of those sources prove that BLM is only about white on black murder. Check out this source if you are interested in learning about the goals of BLM https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
Obviously the Trump administration is, by far, the bigger threat.

The trouble is the left are staring to adapt his tactics.

At the beginning of Trump's term, there was a lot of concern about how Trump was trying to silence the press through his rhetoric about "fake news" and threatening spurious libel claims, trying to shut down speech he didn't like.

Now the left is adopting the mirror image policy of trying to shut down speech they don't like.

Very few are left to actually stand up for the principle of granting freedoms, even to people you don't like or disagree with.
I wonder what GPT-3 will do to their business models
Explain that to the MBAs and bean-counters who are in charge over at Boeing.
Times are different now.

When Alpha launched, proprietary software was the de-facto standard. Windows ran on it, but Office didn't. Neither did a huge number of popular Windows desktop applications. Alpha was reduced to a limited role in servers where the lack of software wasn't an issue and performance was important enough companies procured hardware that would be harder to remission. Alpha lived on for a good couple years running OpenVMS and Tru84 proprietary enterprise OSs and, for some lucky people, Linux.

Now most mission-critical software is one recompilation away from running on ARM. Or POWER, or RISC-V, or SPARC (for now). That AWS offers ARM-based servers is seen as a non-issue. I run the same workloads on x86, ARM and s390x and they all feel the same (except that z15 hardware is ridiculously fast). If tomorrow someone comes up with cloud servers based on RISC-V or MIPS that are competitive in price/performance with x86 and ARM, I see an easy migration path between these architectures.

In terms of mobile, that's the same. If tomorrow someone releases an Android phone running on RISC-V instead of ARM, that'll be largely irrelevant to most software.

On the desktop, Apple (and NeXT) have a couple extremely successful architecture changes under their belt. They should have no problem with this one.

Porting was difficult enough that Itanium and Alpha never got much Windows software and, therefore, were relegated to small niches, with servers and single-purpose workstations. It seems Microsoft made it right this time and that porting Windows software to ARM is easy and seamless. We'll see what happens.
> At the end of the day, you still have to go to disk on writes, and this must be serialized against reads for basic consistency reasons.

No, absolutely not.

That's why modern databases use a thing called multi version concurrency control. You can run (multiple) queries on the same table that is updated by multiple transactions at the same time without one blocking the others (assuming the write transactions don't block each other). Of course they are fighting for I/O, but there is no need so serialize anything.

Mixing OLTP and OLAP becomes increasingly "normal" theses days as the capabilities of the database products and the hardware improve. With modern high-end hardware (hundreds of CPUs, a lot of SSDs, large RAM) this actually scales quite nicely .
Have you considered not including the entire bootstrap.css on the front page since you only use about 1% of it :)
> ask a Trump voter of your choice about whether they think Chinese or Latino looking people are inferior to whites

They are not. There you have your answer.

I would posit you have created a 'hallucination trump supporter' that does not exist.
It's not clear to me how anyone can make a judgement about whether models are more conservative than reality. We have no ability to independently measure climate change within our tiny data point of existence. Even a decade of observing it being hotter than it was in your younger years is not any sort of indicator of climate change.

Unless you're reading the entirety of academic research yourself and able to critically judge the validity of that research (by being a climate scientist yourself) it seems like you're always depending on someone else's biased interpretation.

To clarify: not disputing climate change. Only the ability for someone to make judgement calls on whether the reporting is accurate.
Right. Though it does happen with "new" items as well, I've been hit with RAM swapped in the package with an older module (sold by Amazon as new).
This is a great answer. The details REALLY matter. One of my best early tech success stories was rewriting a SQL query that took 27 hours to one that took ~5 seconds. This was running on a very large Oracle cluster. They had poured more and more money into hardware and licensing trying solve this. In the end, it was a matter of turning a cursor-based query into a set-based query.
The scam is illegal, the advertising content is not unless there is a regulation expressly forbidding that messaging by regulation, which falls under the pervue of commercial law. The subject of this conversation is the advertising content and not Bitcoin scams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity
A republic is a way to organise a state and its government (with elected head of state and a kind of legislative or governing assembly). In a representative democracy, the people doing the governing and the legislating are elected by the citizens who grant them legitimacy.

You can have democratic (e.g. Iceland) or oligarchic republics (e.g. Ukraine), all the way to dictatorships (e.g. Russia).

Being a democracy and being a republic are completely orthogonal.
In my personal experience working in nonprofits there is a tendency for organizations to have the actual technical work done by vendors rather than staff unless the work is central to the mission of the organization. There's a feeling that this is cheaper than trying to hire and maintain staff with those skills.
If I moved into a neighborhood that had rules that I liked, and now you want to replace it with a free-for-all, should you have to pay me?
Sustainable tourism is a good example that is helping add value to the natural world within the constraints of our capitalist society. When an animal is worth more alive than dead then local people are more likely to protect it. Gorilla Trekking in Rwanada and Uganda are examples where the tourism dollars had greatly reduced poaching in the parks. Sadly things are unravelling without tourism money coming into the country and poaching is on the rise.

Unfortunately there aren't going to be many jobs in this sector currently until COVID-19 is brought more under control.
I'm a Canadian residing in the United States and have been on a TN for a few years and was selected in the H1B lottery this year.

Would the visa ban prevent me from re-entering after October when I receive the H1B? Would it also prevent me from switching jobs before January when it expires?
I'm already thrilled waiting for an addition with "Kubernetes everywhere" ice shower.
> I hope your "many years in academia" weren't spent in anything even remotely related to linguistics. And that your editors there corrected your grammar, as well.

Please don't use personal attacks.
couldn't get more simple than that.

Believe it or not, that's actually a lot of the idea that drives commercial aviation design.

Or used to anyway.
Could be, but almost every company I have encountered is desperate to hire good people and none of them cared at all about where I or anyone else I knew went to school.