skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I think for most people it's changed quite a bit. It accelerated WFH adoption by at least two decades. The knock on effects of transportation, city planning, and the demographic effects of people moving due to no longer needing to be so close to their jobs, we've only begun to see.

That said, I agree that it still points to the opposite conclusion - civilization has not ended, but has changed dramatically. Same as every other time.
I'm going to ignore "being an artist" and "being a writer" and assume you want to work on technical things. I'm also going to ignore academia because that opens a whole new can of worms about what it means to be independent within academia, how to achieve that independence, whether it is worth it, etc. But you should note that I think most people who want to work in the "independent, technical, research-first" mode would traditionally pursue academia.

Anyway, examples:
Colin Percival runs Tarsnap by himself, and it turns a profit.

As another commenter mentioned, there are independent game developers who get to do technically interesting work (e.g. Marc Ten Bosch, who got a SIGGRAPH paper out along the way while making Miegakure, or Jonathan Blow, who is building a programming language [although his team grows and shrinks, so he must be acting in a management capacity, or at least like a film director]).

Sylph Bioscience is a lean team of three that seems to me to be doing very interesting work (and I don't think any of them have "traditional" educational backgrounds, though I might be wrong).

Matt Keeter works a day job and pumped out a SIGGRAPH paper largely for fun.

You can do consulting, freelance, contract work, etc. etc. until you land on what you want.

You can start some technical product with the aim to sell it in its entirety ASAP to some other entity (though of course the less work you put in on the "business-bits," the less you'll be selling that product for).

It's going to be harder to find these things or make them happen, and often they may not be very financially attractive compared to more standard paths (nor are they necessarily stable), but it seems that autonomy and creative control don't come for free in this life: you have to trade off money, time, stability, and status to do things in this manner.
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Feinman said something like that. IIRC, “I cannot understand it if I cannot create it.” I probably butchered it.
> For example, because of his bullshit aws certificates, this person will have the feeling of being part of a special club, and a sunk cost incentive to push for whatever possible aws solution to any problem instead of anything else.

I haven't met very many, but this is basically the attiude I've got from most people with AWS training.

Edit: With good/experienced developers, it's usually not that bad, but with new developers it can easily turn them into architecture astronauts.
How can college students on F1 visa start a startup?
I am an Australian nation and wondering if you know of any companies that sponsor under the E3 visa in Silicon Valley?
Where is the Hispanic and Black representation? I see 3/15 people on that page being women, not a very strong point for a group that is 50% of the population.

This is the standard SV makeup. Do a random sample of any large tech company and this is the team you’d get. This tells me they’re not doing anything different.
We don't need to corroborate each individual complaint. The story here isn't that one employee was passed over for a promotion. The story is the trend that all these anecdotes support. There is corroboration for the trend.
The weird twist to this tale is that the teamster's pensions didn't disappear or get cut when they were invested through the mob.

However, after that corruption was cleared up and the pensions moved to Goldman and Northern Trust, the funds were destroyed and benefits to retireeswere deeply cut.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-teamsters-pension-...
Well, I'd say it's sort of like "Reddit". Despite being a bunch of different forums, Reddit has a certain feel.

Design choices in the software influence people's behavior, as well as influencing which people join and participate to begin with. I imagine Facebook groups are largely different than subreddits for the same reason.

I was a pretty early Reddit user, I think 2007 or so. And it definitely got worse, so by ~2012 I had almost entirely stopped using it.

But since ~2016, there are a couple communities I like, so I'm back on there. There could be gems on Usenet for sure ... but I checked the forums I used to frequent and you know what happened :)
“Most people of color working in tech know that there’s a diversity problem,”

Interesting. Are Asians or Indians not “people” or “of color” in this worldview?
There is a variety of desktop mail clients, but the vast majority (of cross platform _and_ open source) is small-ish unkown-ish programs. The plugin system is in my opionion important (like for browsers) functionality, so popularity of a client is a significant factor, in order to have plugins available.

Evolution is possibly the only valid competitor, however, it's not cross-platform as Thunderbird.
This is quantifiable.

Ideally start when you’re only in the “pre-diabetic” range: fasting glucose above ~105ish, A1C > 5.7.

Those are the numbers you’re trying to lower. So how long you go with a dietary change depends on how well you’re able to manage this numbers down, and keep them down.

Surely some of this depends on how rigorously you can decrease your sugar intake, fasting or not, and/or restore better function of your systems (e.g. exercise, fasting).
> (Jan 14, 2020)

Yeah, exactly. This is way past the U.S. pullout from the deal. You're proving my point.
>It is possible for a Black person to feel discriminated against because of their race even when such discrimination has not occurred.

This explanation's believability has an inverse relationship with the number of claims. I could buy the idea that a couple people perceived "normal annoying work crap" as discrimination, but would that happen 15 times? 75% of the Black employees left the company in a 6 month window. You don't see anything like that at any other company.
Just so I'm clear on this, how do you pronounce "synecdouche"?
> 5-10x performance penalty.

I don't use Docker on Mac, but I'm curious how much of the performance penalty is attributable to VirtualBox. I use a VirtualBox-based Vagrant environment, and the performance is awful. It mostly comes down to terrible disk performance due to how VBox shares directories from inside the VM to the host filesystem. Apparently it can be fixed entirely by switching to local NFS, but I haven't had any success getting that working.
"Lisp" in fact refers to a set of details for implementing a programming environment. The requirements are wobbly, but not so wobbly that you can call anything "Lisp".
Depends on the time period. Overall buying a house has been part of the American way of life, however during 2009 it ill advised by most people due to the bubble pop.
It might be equal in CPU performance but the M1 has significantly better GPU perf, and also only uses 10W total!
AMD, Nvidia, and Marvell after the Cavium acquisition could do it. Intel could too but wouldn’t unless the x86 market tanked badly.
>The trademark is not being used to sell cheese.

But it's not a trademark, it's a PDO. They're two different types of exclusive right.
China just put 200% duties on any wine products from Australia so it might be a good time to import the excess.
One of the best Java books ever written is 'Java 2 Exam Cram' which replaces all the hand-wavy Java discussion prevalent in other Java books (of the time at least) with precise details on Java language specifics. I would expect other certification resources to be similar in quality since they have to be concise and correct, and that makes them superior to a lot of other learning material.
We've been talking about metabolism, hunger has to do with metabolism, and you are the only one who has replied with a dictionary argument. Have a great day!
> I was relatively impressed all the way through and then the polygonal visuals flew by and that just blew me away.

Indeed. The polygons were quite literally jaw dropping to me.
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I’ve been using docked on macOS for the past 5 years and it’s been quite pleasant. I had a few times when CPU was spiking and that was fixed with subsequent patches. Definitely over a year ago. I don’t think “constant CPU pegging” is a typical docker-on-Mac experience?
Again: the NYT is a newspaper, and isn't vested with subpoena powers. They operate within the limits all newspapers operate in, and there is more than enough meat in this story to understand why they ran with it. "Isn't interested in discovering the truth of the accusations" is hardly a fair criticism here.
The expanded processing time is the product of the pandemic (shut down of offices, their limited capacity, and the backlogs) and political priorities. The Obama Administration made the expeditious processing of naturalization applications a priority and reduced the processing time to around 6 months on average. We will still feel the effects of the pandemic for some time but if the Biden Administration makes the processing of naturalization applications a priority, then the average processing could go down, and probably significantly.
Hi Peter,

I'm wondering which visa pathways are interesting to consider for permanent relocation of EU citizens, and possibly Iranians and South Koreans when relocating entire startups to silicon valley. Thank you for this AMA!
Why do you believe it would be lost? Did we lose a substantial amount of previously developed knowledge when the Greek or Roman civilizations collapsed? I humbly suggest that we did not ....
Looks really cool, albeit a little bit NOSQL everywhere!
The Pentagon (or Navy I think you mean) has never made any statement on the content of the videos other than validating that they are real videos (by releasing them).
With data from pre 2005 as well? If not maybe a simple greasemonkey style script could be enough.
Our execs have short text guides on how to work best with them and everyone on my team has been encouraged to share similar. The default assumption is everyone should be working together to accommodate on how we can all work best together.

I've been in environments where certain communications styles are labeled more correct or ideal. So I've really loved this guidebook + accommodation approach.

I went into this article with an open mind about there possibly being toxicity I haven't witnessed w/i the company. But tbh the evidence comes up short and just doesn't match with what I've seen. I have interviewed at companies where some level of toxicity was easy to pick up on during the onsite (eg Uber during peak growth years).

My fear is that this article might scare away diverse folks from Coinbase, and possibly even crypto at large given some of the descriptions about the industry at the end. CB is a really great company for any curious nerd to join. I'd also say the Ethereum community and associated startups+labs are especially welcoming and friendly.
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Note that "correctly" means that (2 3 . nil) comes out as (2 3).
If you are using Docker-in-Docker, you may want to checkout the new Sysbox runtime (find it on Github). It's a new type of runc that sits below Docker and creates rootless containers capable of running Docker, systemd, K8s, etc. All you have to do is "docker run --runtime=sysbox-runc" <some-image-with-docker> and you'll get a docker daemon that is fully isolated from the host. It's a great way of avoiding privileged containers or mounts to the host docker socket.
Reporting bias.
There's a lot to dig into here that's wrong:

One fundamental problem with this is the lack of baseline determination of glucose sensitivity. People with diabetes, especially type 2, have different sensitivities & levels of insulin production. A group with greater or lesser averages on those factors would strongly influence results. They don't even appear to have accounted for medication dosage, merely whether or not the person was on biguanide. Or even mention weight, another significant factor for insulin sensitivity.

Second is the glucose increase: Glucose tests have margins of error, an issue not addressed here, and the difference in glucose levels this study measure were small considering that factor, about 20 points. Specifically: Even a blood-drawn lab test has a total error of about 8%. If that's tge type of test they did, then an 8% swing could reduce the results to insignificance. If they used a rapid test, even the sort used in a doctor's office, it's even worse: those are considered accurate if it produces results that are within 15% of what a lab test would produce, meaning +/- 15% of a value that already has a total error of 8%.

There's just too much wrong with a study like this that's poorly controlled with ~15 people in each group. And unfortunately there's a decent chance we'll see headlines soon along the lines of "Diabetes: Think sugar matters? think again ::lol lol we made a pun::"
I was on a team that used them because we needed to run our own virtualization layer, which standard EC2 instances disallow. I don’t recall seeing any performance difference compared to a comparably sized virtualized instance, but we weren’t really looking.

Especially on Nitro or Firecracker instances, I wouldn’t expect the “virtualization tax” to be very high, and metal instances come with some very real drawbacks in terms of capacity. E.g., it can be difficult to launch a new instance on demand if you will only accept an entire machine, and this can make auto scaling pretty dicey.

EC2 instances have per-second billing, so I would encourage you to run some realistic benchmarks on a variety of metal and non-metal instance types to see what (if any) performance benefit they would offer your application
Then you probaly should change your bubble.

At least here in germany, there are lots of products proudly claiming to be GMO free.

(which they actually are not, as a certain percentage is allowed by law but to still have that label)
Okay - one context is where one department has a large number of black people, and that department is defragged for purely business reasons to a different office across the country. Most people never choose the relocation package, and so a big chunk of black employees end up quitting. That's the event that triggered 8 black employees of the 15 who left as I understand it from the article.

> what are your priors on whether or not a given company engaged in discrimination, and how do these change if you're told 75% of employees of a particular demographic stated there was discrimination?

I completely agree that it's a very bad look. It is probably even more likely than not that given those facts, it is due to racism. I guess the question comes down to, philosophically, how one answers the following question: In the quest to eradicate racism and racists, is it better to be over-zealous and destroy a few non-racists to make sure you get all the actual racists(the chemo approach) - or is it better to be slightly more circumspect and let a few racists slip through the cracks so that far fewer non-racists are punished (the US judicial system ideal)?
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Optimistic? He ends with the Atlantic Conveyor slowing and saying we’re screwed because we waited too long.
I’m sure you meant inflection rather than infection, but somehow it still works and makes complete sense. :D
There are not enough qualified black people in that job market, what is this that Americans have that difficult to grok?
I am 99% sure ska is saying that "lots of people would have suggested to buy a house in 2009."

I was not in a position to buy then, but IIRC the market had plummeted the previous year and was at an all-time low; if you were in a position to buy, it was a great time to do it.
I would expect an immigration attorney to be generally well-versed in immigration in all facets. I’m a Rust developer but I generally keep up with all topical software engineering issues.
It’s almost like power efficiency is all about the process node. M1 is 5nm. It’s a great core but it’s power profile would not be so impressive at a larger node.
As I read this study, the take away I have is:

Food labeling with sugar causes increased stress for T2 diabetics. The stress response increases blood sugar.

This all sounds sort of 'ho-hum duh'. Am I missing something?
Things aren't increasing as fast as they were in the 90s but I'd be willing to bet at least the last 5 years of single thread stagnation was largely a fluke due to lack of competition in high end CPUs coupled with various setbacks in Intel's next generation processes preventing the (at the time) best from gaining advantage from significant manufacturing advances. I think releases like Zen 3 and Apple's M1 give a good sign the next doubling period for single thread performance may be the first that was significantly shorter than the previous.
I've been using sc-im for a few months, and I like it a lot. It crashes here and there (not wonderful) so I wish it were a little more robust, but it doesn't corrupt your files when it does so it's just some work lost (save early, save often). But otherwise, it's powerful and ergonomic for Vim users, so checks all my boxes haha.
One way to do it: incorporate the company (Stripe Atlas), raise funding, apply for the O-1. Can smoothly move from H-1B to O-1 without leaving the country.I've helped a number of people do this over the last year.
If you have cofounders it is slightly easier, but solo founder is certainly possible.

EB-1 is a logical extension of the O-1 - same "exceptional ability" criteria. The EB-1 isn't any easier at a big company vs a little company; it's all about your professional accomplishments. Arguably, raising money and building a startup shows you've accomplished more than being engineer #600 at BigCo.
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Disclaimer: Not an attorney

Really, there is nothing about a TN that prevents you from working in Canada, because you don't need any authorization for you to work in Canada (as a citizen).

But what you are suggesting sounds wrong. Do you plan on paying US taxes but not live there? Do you plan on not paying Canadian taxes?

If you are getting a TN to prevent your employer from having to follow appropriate processes for employing people in Canada it feels like you are putting yourself personally at risk for this employer.

Again, I am not an attorney, but you should probably talk to one about options here because something just _feels_ incorrect about this set up.

Edit: I accidently remoted a sentence:

There are many organizations (PEOs) that try to solve this problem, such as https://remote.com/
Andrew Gelman is definitely worth adding to one’s list

https://mobile.twitter.com/statmodeling?lang=en
I am suggesting that Jan 14, 2020 is indeed way past May 2018 when the U.S. pulled out.

The EU was not able to ensure the benefits Iran agreed to the deal under because of secondary U.S. sanctions, so Iran pulled out. They would have no credibility left if they didn't.
It's going to vary depending on the country of citizenship but right now the best path to transferring large numbers of employees to the US is the E-1 or E-2 visa. For large companies, the L-1 visa also can be a good option.
Hi Peter,

Thank you so much for doing another AMA! I'm a 25 year old student on F1 Visa (OPTX) that expires in 7 months. I work as a software engineer at a tech company. The company will sponsor me in applying for the H1B visa. I'm also working on a startup with a US citizen. We plan to have the startup sponsor me as well for the H1B visa. Hopefully applying for a concurrent H1B visa (source: https://www.am22tech.com/concurrent-h1b-multiple-jobs/) will help improve my chances of getting picked during the lottery. I'm also considering a US O-1 visa and EB-1 visa, but might not have the right credentials. I have a Master of Sciences in Computer Engineering with Master Thesis in Machine Learning. I've built sophisticated logistics tools that generated $500k+ of annual recurring revenue in my role as a software engineer. The startup I'm working is launching soon and will be a B2B SaaS that should generate good cash flow. For who have been through similar situations or with immigration knowledge, your feedback and advice would be greatly appreciated:
1. What are my best options for staying in the US?

2. What other options do I have for staying in the US?

3. For an H1B visa, is there any downside to applying through multiple employers for different positions at different companies?

4. Do I have a shot for the O-1 or EB-1 visa?

5. Is it worth exploring options in Canada? If so, what is recommended for my situation?
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I would love to use this method, but I am just too stuck with an actual proper IDE like my Jetbrains editors. VSCode just doesn't cut it when you compare it to any of the existing Jetbrain ones.

If anyone has some good tips for this, I would greatly appreciate it.
What has been your cases about SQLite ? would love to understand never breaks part.
I'm not responding to you? If anything, I'm on your "side," since the question of "what is high grade corruption" has not been answered yet.
I see your point and I agree with that, as long as it's not a metric, but the way you chose to communicate because it was best for the situation.

I've been on both sides of both situations (in person better, online better). But what I always did was: ok, feel free to interrupt me if something urgent comes up, otherwise, send me a slack with the full details and I'll answer later.

As mentioned in other responses to this post, having the number of emails/slack messages as a target doesn't help make the work environment better (in both 'more pleasant' and 'more productive' ways)
Wikipedia is interesting on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_the_United_State...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_on_Uniform_Traffic_Cont...
Probably. My understanding is that the attacker installed a rootkit in the system or the kernel, with port-knocking access, which cannot be removed by patching the original exploit. Well, it's why wiping and reinstalling is common sense for any compromised server.
There's no study to rebut.

We're talking about something published by a student in an undergraduate newspaper.

The information I've looked at is clearly wrong, as I've highlighted elsewhere in these comments.

I used "suppress" because you wrote "suppress true research results" - given your qualifiers, I assumed you thought suppression was appropriate for other contexts.

For example, isn't retracting a paper a way suppress the propagation of egregiously wrong research results?
Source? Here's mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus
Linked from the article is this: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/20/craig-federighi-on-wind...

Which makes me wonder: do the new M1 devices support booting alternate OS's in their current form right now? Or are they as locked down as iOS?
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I posted a youtube link in a sibling comment.
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But the point is that the corroborations are all on the lesser or non-complaints of the article, not the most egregious ones. To make an extreme example, posting a series of actual facts that culminate in aliens have visited earth doesn't make the latter assertion any more true.

edit: Sorry, I'm the poster from above, I just posted from my phone which has a different account logged in that I originally intended to give hiring advice unlinked to my main account(opsec fail).
A lot do and as you probably know - at least pre-pandemic - the E-3 visa is relatively easy and fast to get. Unfortunately, I can't provide the specific names of clients.