skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be a minority, but I'm willing to stick out my neck for meandering, illustrative, and indirect writing.

Don't get me wrong, if it was the only thing available, I'd probably go crazy, too. But I believe there is a time and place in my "reading diet" for this kind of long-form journalism.

As your adjectives suggest, New Yorker articles are less bullets of breathlessly-repeated facts, and more illustrations of nuanced scenes and interactions. I think it's natural, because life is messy and meandering, too.

That being said, most of their articles have very well-defined and well-informed points. They don't make them by stating it up front, but by drawing a picture, observing some of its details, and asking you to form your own opinion. We can disagree, but to me it feels more intellectually-honest than other forms of journalism.

Yes, it takes longer to get there. Yes, some of the details (what clothes people are wearing, what the rooms smell like, whatever) could probably be removed without compromising the structural integrity. But the New Yorker is about structural integrity and style. It's like the "literary fiction" of news. I don't read each article in each magazine, but it's still pretty rare that I've regretted finishing one; maybe once every other month.
If you read my comment I'm not conflating both. I did explicitly call out that my knowledge was for people who worked as subcontractors for state agencies, not federal agencies.

So I don't get your question. I was the one that from the beginning claimed ignorance about the federal policies by bringing up the fact that the people I know worked for state agencies.
I hate it when white supremacists admire and respect black authors.
I'm kind of just getting started on web development. What would you recommend instead of Bootstrap?
That’s not on Wi-Fi is it? Or your router is in the same room as your device, and it’s the only device using the signal?

I agree you shouldn’t rip out 5e cables to install 6e if what you have works for you and there aren’t any substantial improvements.

To that end, I’ve personally skipped Wi-Fi 6 and will wait for 6E before considering an upgrade. Even then, I’d like to have at minimum 3 devices that support Wi-Fi 6 before I upgrade. I’ve two such devices right now, so it’s not out of the question for me.

I’m in favour of keeping devices automatically updated even years later, but I suspect the only economical way of doing so is emulating devices in VMs, a giant test suite and automatic security update testing (no humans required beyond reviewing code diffs). But setting up that kind of automated testing infrastructure is a high bar for most companies, so it’s cheaper to put the cost on the consumer to consume again within 3-5 years for the next product update lifecycle...
My company hires H1Bs to contract us out to the Federal govt. Half my group was on an H1B at one point.

The contract has a lot of really weird particularities too. For example, I can't remote work (over ruled by the pandemic) even though my job is 100% on computers and 100% FOIA-ble. Noting stops the Fed from putting a "no H1B" workers clause.

Of course, the best way for the Fed to have the workers it prefers would be to hire them directly. But I prefer this system since I have no intention of becoming American, and its just about impossible to get a Fed position in my particular corner of government.
> This shouldn't be down-voted. Just because you don't like something Lenin did doesn't mean all his observations are wrong.

He is probably being downvoted for saying that consolidation will lead to feudalism. That is a ridiculous idea that deserves a downvote!
It's an industrial HVAC system that has control systems to allow this (simply just changing damper settings)...but ours is also ~25 years old. Schools opening windows would just be a low tech way of looking at how we change the damper settings.
Why not privatize it? Also, does it make a profit? If not, maybe privatization should be looked at. As far as I can tell it's always been a government-funded jobs program operating at a loss.
It’s your setup, those are svg icons so there should be no blur on any display.
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I'm looking for a senior developer position which provides mentorship to help me grow. I've been working in Microsoft Azure for 7 years and have 3 years of experience working with data scientists to bring ML solutions to production.
It's hard to see which is the obscured window when they are very similar, like the bottom of WSL terminal windows for instance.
Co-sign! Helm is one of the coolest companies in the valley right now.
I think this is a big part of it.
In my experience, almost everyone who doesn't wear masks are reacting to compulsory action, and filling in justifications afterwards.

Some people are just inherently reactive to threats, and respond better to request. A governmental recommendation and public awareness campaign would likely be more effective with these people than a law.
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It has been revenue positive for decades, and the rates are cheaper than the private alternative.
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The ideal solution will not throw away encryption, but enable self-policing. It's the difference between HN and 4Chan. AI with safety vs Pure AI unleashed.
If stealing a car was legal, would it be a good thing? Would it be wrong to blame me for doing it?

It would obviously also be reasonable to blame the government for allowing it and lobby to have the laws changed, but it is entirely appropriate to blame someone for doing something that's legal but wrong. "It's technically not illegal" might fly in the courtroom (and I stress might), but it doesn't and shouldn't fly in the court of public and private opinion.
25 years...but we also have the ability to open outside dampers on our return air chases to output all air if needed.
Right now I’m waiting to buy a new router even though I do have 2 of 30 or so devices with support for Wi-Fi 6.

Previously I did buy a few new devices to get 5GHz support from an ac router, after I moved to a location that had very poor 2.4Ghz connectivity. It can happen but it’s rare, I’d say?
Especially when Java is involved

Uh, what? Java started as a write-once-run-anywhere platform for applications. Java gained popularity as a browser plugin for richer UIs. Significant amounts of enterprise and in-house software are written in Java using AWT/Swing, SWT, etc.
Steampunk Venus rover win NASA contest to 'explore hell' with clockwork robot
Could you please share your email address?
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. I realize there is a provocation in the title, but resisting provocations is part of the art of avoiding degenerate threads.

What tends to make for better threads is focusing on the specifics of a specific story, and steering clear of the pull of the nearest generic black holes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe something here can do what you want? https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/learn/guide.html#_Mobile%2...
Artificial Intelligence Identifies Prostate Cancer with Near-Perfect Accuracy
Vietnam has total confirmed cases of 642, out of 96 million population. When they have a few dozen patients, they call it a new outbreak.

The US has ~60k daily new cases - that is, 642 new patients about every 15 minutes.
Hey, would you be interested in a rising senior applying for a full time job for may? or is that too long term? I am a computer engineering major with a cs minor and a lot of software engineering experience
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You mean Affordable
Yes, well that's the trouble. Not much use in knowing what will help when no one is willing to sacrifice, that of course being the charitable view.
I mean, neither have I, but it definitely shows up in pop culture depictions of the mafia and drug lords and oligarchs and warlords.
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Awesome Knowledge Management
No, these are local workers. It’s like Mexico saying, you know what, the USMCA is making us pay you workers $16 an hour, we can build cheaper by having this work done by Salvadorans, get outta town, we’re hiring them!

They’d be selling out Mexican workers for lower wage workers —which is what happened to the IF group at SFSU. So now they are not working.

This isn’t about saving cobblers jobs or phone assembly jobs, these are skilled jobs that were saying, sorry fellow taxpayers, but we found cheaper!
There are a vast number of critiques regarding the model those ecosystems have used; it would be unwise to stick the label 'progress' on them until some of those core problems are resolved.
I'm about as deep in the user space as you can get, and it would take YEARS for a new company to have a proven record before my company would even consider adopting it. years. And not only would it take years, it would need to prove that it is better than AutoDesk, not as good, better. Most likely, orders of magnitude better. We are so far deeply entrenched into AutoDesk ecosystem that any change would probably be on the scale of decades.
> Then try thinking about potential ways of how all these things could interact to break a system.

This is where your advice goes south, IMHO. The sysadmin can't think of every possible way his system can get compromised -- they are not paid for that, black-hat hackers are.

Instead of collecting settings from a hundred places that must be set correctly for production, and inventing ways the system can get compromised, the safe settings could be provided in one place: ideally in the default settings so they are impossible to miss, or in a list, such as Django's deployment checklist [1].

Not saying that Postgres doesn't provide such a list, although googling for "checklist site:postgresql.org" only resulted in a mailing list reply [2], with some points not trivial to follow. Please comment below if you know an official one.

[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/check...
[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4...
Have you tried Excel? Seriously, it can connect to DB really easily. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-a-query-to-an...

PowerBI is good too, as is Quicksight, and pretty cheap.
> I am amazed how often people blame this on the tax prep industry

Should I not blame clothing companies for contracting out to sweat shops? We should absolutely blame companies that are acting against the country's interests. Not all unethical behavior is illegal.
Pretty much any Veblen[1] good tbh.

Cars, watches been the typical examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
> But then again he is punishing them for hiring sub-contractors then. What's the rationale here? I don't understand how any government agency can operate without subcontracting. Why would anyone go for the most expensive subcontractor on the basis that they don't employ H1Bs? I don't think anyone is using that criteria.

I would expect that you would be required to meet federal government labor regulations and standards (including H1B visa requirements), even when using subcontractors, when you are a federally chartered corporation or are doing business with the federal government.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/guide-to-labor-and-empl... (A Guide to Labor and Employment Obligations for Federal Contractors)

> IX. Subcontracting:
Contractors must recognize that their obligations under these laws and executive orders also apply to their subcontractors. Many CBAs provide that the agreement applies to any subcontractor used by the contractor to perform work done by covered employees, and the contractor is responsible for the subcontractor’s failure to comply with the terms of the CBA. (snipped non-relevant union language for brevity, available in link above)

EDIT: @belltaco: You're violating the law if you replace US workers with H1Bs [1] [2]. This is supposedly what TVA contractors have done [3] [4] [5].

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/08/h-1b-spouses-h-4-work...

[2] https://www.uscis.gov/report-fraud/combating-fraud-and-abuse...

[3] https://usagag.com/tennessee-valley-authority-firing-america...

[4] https://whnt.com/news/huntsville/protesters-in-huntsville-ra...

[5] https://youtu.be/nlXUooEvd4o
I've heard a trick that acrobatic flight squads like the Blue Angels use when coming into really tight formations is each pilot hums at a specific frequency/tone. By varying their pitch up or down, they can signal to the other pilots what they're about to do, kinda like an audio turn signal. And because each pilot is humming at a different frequency, everyone in the squad can be communicating at the same time -- in the same way you can pick out different instruments in a song, our ears can separate different simultaneous humming at different frequencies.

Not sure this is what the author meant in the first section when he wrote:

> I suspect you can push the user into a conversational skeuomorphism if you think that’s best, and the user will play along, but it’s no more right than another metaphor. It’s a question of quality of interaction, not ease or familiarity.

...but it's an interesting example of non-conversational multiplexed voice communication.
All illegal aliens should be deported (according to US law).

This is karma for being far too lax on immigration law (to the detriment of the American worker), not "treating criminals horribly".
Racket has a much smaller community. Also, it is more geared towards academic/hobby work than towards production software.

So priorities are different from the languages you mentioned. Still, racket remains by far the best solution for research in language technology.
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I usually post this long thing about why we're a great company to work for and I realized that nothing compared to mission and purpose. You can read our accolades and I'll reference them below, but the truth is nothing matters more than why we exist:

We're fighting climate change by building better apps for farmers and the agricultural economy. Our farmers are able to produce better quality crops with fewer resources and less land. For example, we piloted a program with Anheiser-Busch and saved 2 BILLION gallons of water in the last year.

If I didn't believe this was one of the most important problems of our generation to help future generations, I wouldn't put so much emphasis on this. If you want a mission you can tell your grandchildren about in hopes of creating a better environment for farmers (and really the whole world), we're working on it right here, right now.

I'd love to hear from you and learn more about how you can work with us. Our stack is JavaScript (React & Apollo front end, some Node on back end) and Python (Flask for the back end).

For reference, we're a Unicorn company:

https://www.builtinboston.com/2017/09/26/agtech-startup-indi...

We work on the most under-hyped sector in startups today (agtech) 2 years in a row:

http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2018/#trends-and-takes

https://stateofstartups2019.firstround.com/

CNBC named us the Most Disruptive Company in the world, beating out Flexport, Airbnb, and other companies you've seen here on HN. We're in the top 5 2 years in a row:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/indigo-agriculture-disruptor...

And our big climate goal is to use regenerative agriculture to sequester 1 TRILLION tons of carbon from the atmosphere:

https://www.indigoag.com/the-terraton-initiative
> And if you don't believe then why do you even care what the Church thinks?

Because your friends/neighbours/relatives may be Catholics, and you may care about your appearances.

In my experience with religious folks, keeping God happy is not the sole driving force behind most of their lives to the exclusion of all else. It's a framework around their lives, but not always priority #1.

Given that, annulments are essentially a catholic divorce, with a little bit of magic added.
That is a good point, the end game is maximizing the separation cash out.

Not entirely unlike bosses who give employees they want to fire impossible tasks until they quit of their own volition.
It’s possible you will get better TCO by spending more upfront if you intend to keep the phone while it is still “current” and receiving OS updates - some quick calculations below based on phones mentioned in another comment (happy to be corrected if the info is wrong).

The pixel 4a has “No guaranteed Android version updates after August 2023” according to google. $350 / 3 = $116/year.

iPhone 11 is $699 according to google. Let’s assume 5 years of support which is reasonable for Apple at this point which = $139.80/year.

Galaxy S8 seems to have been released 3 years ago and only has android 9.0. So let’s call that 3 years (might be less since I don’t know when the last update landed). Assuming the same for the $900 S10 = $300/year.

Note that I am told some phones have advertisements built in and also some manufacturers are also selling your data but not sure how to cost this in (and some people don’t care).
Avianca, the second oldest still operating airline in the world went bankrupt already.

KLM is the oldest still operating airline, it'd be crazy if they go bankrupt too!
I work remotely doing Network Engineering in a big Canadian city that has a hockey team that actually wins things occasionally.

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Mon - Fri

* 0600 - 0630 -- Wake up. Coffee or Tea, either at home via Moka pot, or walk to one of the local places (depends on weather, opening, COVID, etc.). Usually a light breakfast, usually whatever is in the fridge (e.g. 1/2 cup yogurt + oatmeal, or couple slices of toast + peanutbutter, etc.)

* 0700 - 1500 (9-5 EDT). Work. Schedule varies based on projects and workflow, but usually a couple of quiet hours first thing in the morning, with tons of meetings in the afternoons (when the California crowd starts coming in to the office).

* Grab a shower anytime I can snag 15 minutes away

* 1000-1100 -- Try to get something that resembles lunch at 10-11am (12-1300 EDT), usually walk to something nearby that's open; lots more delivery these days due to COVID.

* ~1400-1500 -- Clock out of work, chill out around the house and decompress for a minute. Usually try to knock out any chores that have to be done during business hours (banking, etc.).

* 1500-1700 -- Workout / gym, depending on when I can get there. Gyms have re-opened, but require a booked time slot and are only good for 1 hour -- and that's fine, pretty much what I did pre-COVID.

* Usually hit the grocery store on the way back from the gym -- it's right next door.

* 1800-1900 -- Dinner. Try to stick to mostly protein & veg in the evenings, since lots of carbs at dinner keep me up. Maybe 1-2 alcoholic drinks depending on how I feel, but not common (maybe 1-3 drinks a week, tops).

* 1800-2200 -- Evening activities: watch netflix, putz around w/ projects, now that Steam is on Linux do some light gaming

* Aim to be in bed by 2200 (10pm), going to sleep before 2230.

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Sat-Sunday

* Saturday is my busy day, wake up early for volunteer work. If that's not going on I'm usually up at 9 and putz around playing games and drinking coffee. If I didn't hang out w/ friends on Friday then usually on Saturday.

* Lazy Sundays, usually. Household chores as needed.

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Any Day / Weekly

* No pets or kids, only plants. I water plants once a week, generally on weekends. The hydroponic systems get replenished as needed.

* Laundry on Wednesdays and Sundays, usually as needed

* Dishes usually every 2-3 days. I feel like I should be more diligent about it but usually it's a couple days at a stretch until I can't stand looking at it.

* Try to do yard work at least once or twice a month on weekends

* Try to get to the shooting range once a month when the weather permits; hunting and processing game as needed during the appropriate seasons.

* Usually trips to the mountains / parks during summer and shoulder seasons; skiing and skating during the winter. Usually try for once a month, sometimes more. Got a kayak a few months back and have been on the lake every week this summer

* Try to fly out to visit the family at least once or twice a year. Skype/Hangouts call w/ the fam usually every week or every other week. COVID has changed this -- no travel this year, me thinks -- but still doing the skype calls.

Edit: formatting
Trump acknowledged that he was made aware of the issue
after seeing a television ad ... that aired in prime time
on Fox News.
...
The ad, Lynn said, had an “audience of one,” aiming to
persuade Trump to stop the TVA from outsourcing much of
its information technology division.

I wonder how many other Trump administration policy decisions can be linked back to an ad buy on Fox News...