skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One option is to emigrate to the United States

Not an easy feat. Most would be reliant on the H1B program.
That's how it all starts. And how will they know what ads to show you? By mining your conversations.
> almost completely eyewitness

There was positive radar and flir data, along with multiple witnesses from their air group. Not 'almost completely eyewitness' accounts, which makes their observations rather compelling.

My moneys on some actor - US or another state - having some kind of exotic aircraft that aren't on the books.
I hope those products have enough customers that think the way I do.

The reason I use and pay for Dropbox is that the primary focus of the company is to offer a product that syncs my files across multiple machines and keeps a copy of those files online. The have to do it well, or else they fail. It makes me nervous as a customer whenever I see them trying to "grow" by offering other products.

I don't trust Microsoft, Google or Amazon one bit with their competing products. Those are gigantic companies that don't depend on those working well, and they could kill them overnight.

The problem though is this mindset that everything has to constantly grow. That's what makes me nervous as a customer. I don't see what could be so wrong with building a product that works well and maintaining that long term, being satisfied with having a customer base that allows the business to be self-sustainable. If that customer base grows, great. More money. Otherwise, as long as it doesn't shrink to the point where it becomes unsustainable, it should be just fine. But often I have a feeling that that kind of feeling is verboten for tech companies.
What does the 4.2K mean then? I assumed that was the temperature in kelvin.
Yep - simply deleting ROAs would make it "unknown".

A RIR could, however, purposefully sign a new ROA with a different origin.
It's never actually about the food until the decision has already been made.

On so many levels.
Simply put, internet giants taking a majority of their profit from the global market, and since a large share of those cooperations are headquartered in the valley, where they would have most of their staff, reasonably, valley pays are much higher.
I remember having to code a 2d Lattice Boltzmann fluid simulator in Matlab for a college course, how fun and interesting that was!

https://github.com/danieldugas/Lattice-Boltzmann-Simulation/...
>I am not sure what is the point of impeaching a president after he left office

Doing so bans the person from holding federal office forever. In other words he couldn't run again in 2024.
The whole IT contractor bonanza at £650/day is being killed off by the government in April 2021.

Also perm developer jobs in London are at around £100k at the 90th percentile, nowhere near £160k

See https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/london/developer.do
Facebook's effect on society is still being studied, the jury is still out. It may very well be more damaging than doing good. Just because people are paying for something doesn't mean its doing anything good. Tobacco is a good example.
I guess Drew never got the memo
He also said it hours after the protest (that turned into a riot).
But us customers can watch Intel succeed again, rather than squander 7 years.
Why would amd be screwed?
We've experimented with idle tracking in https://usepunch.com/ - it will do three things:

Have a visible idle counter with suggestions of what to work on next (from your queue). Though we've worried this might frustrate anxious people.

Let you convert an idle block to a task (e.g., if you had forgotten to punch in).

Give you an indication of how much money you're leaving on the table by being idle (via your approximate hourly rate).
What’s not normal about it? As soon as you’re insolvent and not able to meet your due payments, why would you be allowed to keep raking up debt?
I wish the post was on a wiki. Imagine what masterpiece the HN crowd would come up with when it was done!

Very meta... someone should do it :)
It is perfectly possible to be worried about both, which is where I'm currently at. The amount of influence a handful of individual companies (run by unaccountable BDFLs) have over our entire social discourse should make everyone uneasy.

If I had to pick though, yes I would say I'm more worried about people who think the state of affairs this article is discussing is completely fine, as opposed to idiots acting out after being cooped up at home for a year. The latter is a concerning problem but one much more easily dealt with, if for no other reason than that a large majority of people agree that it is actually a problem.
Porting the JVM to a new CPU architecture is hard but it has already been done for AArch64.
For corporations, it is generally different.

"In a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the debtor corporation is typically recapitalized so that it emerges from bankruptcy with more equity and less debt, a process through which some of the debtor corporation's debts may be discharged."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11,_Title_11,_United_S...
An interesting revisit on the making (and omissions) of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". An incredible book that I've been meaning to read again since I first read it in my teens.
>Also, not a lawyer, but I feel like conviction after impeachment would make conviction in subsequent civil suits a slam dunk.

I doubt it. Congress can impeach for almost anything - it doesn't have to be anything illegal - they just need to have enough votes for it.
Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
No, they’re not. A 10-year fixed rate 65% LTV mortgage from Halifax is currently 2.15%
> but also praise the low wealth inequality and low income inequality in Europe and Canada.

Now what happens if you include expats in the calculation?

> makes it much easier to found and grow a business without the threat of death

And yet you see a lot of Europeans and Canadians founders going to the valley for funding. Yet the opposite almost never happens.
Interesting, I just realized I should market my project as a personal knowledge management system as well. Thanks a bunch!

https://github.com/SeanPedersen/HyperTag
Funded by the Mercer family, Parler was a single purpose site. Not independent, not neutral. This is not a debate about free speech but of one of accountability towards entities that took exacting efforts to radicalize and activate political terrorist and reality denial in a good portion of the US population.

Parler Reportedly Backed by Mercers, Same Family That Funded Cambridge Analytica: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/parler-reportedly-...

>Hedge-fund investor Robert Mercer, former principal investor in the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica, and his daughter Rebekah Mercer are among Parler's financial backers, according to a new report.

>People familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal about the Mercers' ties to Parler—an American microblogging and social networking service launched in 2018 that has a significant user base of Trump supporters. Parler CEO John Matze confirmed that Rebekah Mercer was a lead investor in the early stages of the company and that her funding was conditional on the app relinquishing control to users on what they can see.

Amazon's response to Parler's lawsuit is damning: https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20449127-amazon_res...

>In interview's Parler's CEO stated he doesn't think it is Parler's obligation to monitor the full range of user activity.

>Content encouraging violence continued to grow rapidly after the events of Jan 6

>During a call with Amazon Parler CEO stated they had a backlog of 26,000 reported pieces of content.

>Parler CEO posted "we could be operational within 12 hours of downtime from Amazon. That they had prepared for events like this by not relying on services like AWS and having bare metal products."

The Mercer funded Parler project doesn't think it needs to moderate it's content, has a backlog of reports they have been unwilling to surmount, and they stated they don't need Amazon anyways because they prepared for it. Please don't bother complaining about AWS depriving them of necessary services unless you can prove a requirement to knowingly disseminate terrorist propaganda without functioning moderation.
Oh that’s easy, make those darned socialists pay for their education and healthcare out of pocket, remove public transport infrastructure, and have the police randomly shoot a good percentage of them annually
Yeah but you can change jobs and find better work with less fires far easier than changing your personal life.
> In comparison, ten years in a similarly-sized company in europe might buy you a slightly-larger-than-average house.

Lol. That's wishful thinking. You'd be lucky to get a 2 bed apartment in a not-terrible area with pretty bad sound proofing for that.

Unless you move out the areas where the tech companies are at(which is generally in dense cities).
I think it's largely because deceloper time is so expensive. Hardware seems cheap in comparison in many contexts.
Someone should file a PR with a git hash (and some form of proof) of the currently running app?
One of these is not like the others....electric utilities are regulated monopolies that have an obligation to serve their customers.
There's some manufacturers doing this, or close.

https://www.gl-inet.com/ uses OpenWRT as a base for their firmware, and also provides clean images or you can install from OpenWRT images directly. Their specialty seems to be the form factor of the devices, and while they put some effort into a web frontend, and it's fine, they also make OpenWRT support a feature.

Buffalo does something similar.
That’s true, though I suspect in that case it would be a known object with ample evidence (a la Rendezvous With Rama) or undetected.

It’s definitely possible to imagine a scenario where a handful of people or “the government” somehow witnessed the only fleeting evidence of its existence in our atmosphere, but it still seems exceedingly unlikely.
Yes, I was looking for the comparison to local MLFlow and Tensorboard (and Losswise, and Weights & Biases, and all the remote options in this ecosystem). It looks nice, but without that, it's difficult to know whether it's worth spending more time looking into it.
FWIW I found couple therapy very helpful. Especially around the feeling of lack of control in the relationship and not being able to fulfill my needs or being able to ask for them.

It really helps to have someone independent who has both parties' interests in mind and who can a) see what is healthy in the relationship and what isn't, b) help with talking about invidivual needs, c) bridge the gap between the two people in the relationship.

Couple therapy is often portrayed as a weird thing for broken people in movies and shows. In reality it can be really empowering and rewarding for everyone involved even when it is not about impending doom. But, it requires being honest with yourself or being willing to learn to be honest with yourself. That shit is hard. As in seriously hard.
> Who would have predicted 20 years ago that we should be more wary of Little Sister (big tech) instead of Big Brother?

William Gibson?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy

Cory Doctorow? Ridley Scott with Blade Runner and the Alien series? Paul Verhoeven with RoboCop. Frank Herbert with CHOAM.
Twitter signed an agreement with Amazon last year, but I can't imagine they have much if anything hosted there yet.

The filing also misspells Parler as Parley in at least one place. I noticed a few other typos. So it was written in a hurry and didn't get much review.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/12/22/twitter-and-amazon...
GMAFIA is a much better term. I don't see Netflix leading the tech world. Amazon and Google do videos too (as do others, Disney, CBS, HBO ...) so it's not that hard.
A good solution might be an "exponential back-off" temporary ban.

In this, an open-source project adopts a policy that the mental health and wellbeing of its developers is a priority, and in particular abusive language from end users is not accepted. Specifically, if a user communicates with such negativity (e.g. commenting this way on a github issue), two things happen:

1) That comment is deleted

2) That user is prohibited from posting on this project's issues for 30 days.

That's for the first offense. If, after 30 days, the user does something like this again, they are temporarily banned for 60 days. And then 120.

You get the idea.

If you don't like 30 days as a base, then it can be 24 hours, or 90 days, or whatever the project decides is appropriate. Regardless of these or other parameters, this strikes a balance between accepting needed feedback from the community, and "canceling" someone from contributing useful feedback in the future.

In fact, I bet you this will have a role in conditioning certain people to communicate in more nurturing and kind ways. A permaban would likely NOT do that, but a short temporary ban that increases on repeat offenses probably will.

I am not sure if Github supports this already, or provides some mechanism that could be used by the project maintainers to manually implement it...

But if you are developing on any platform where end users sometimes communicate toxically with volunteer developers just trying to make the world a better place, maybe this idea is worth considering.
What Is Overcommit? And Why Is It Bad?
Twitter recently signed a big deal with AWS.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/twitter-taps-aws-for-its-l...
I sometimes was one of the students who didn't do the reading. Almost always one or more of the following was true:
1. The reading wasn't immediately relevant to getting a decent grade in the class.
2. The class was obscenely boring and in no way relevant to my future life.
3. The whole class didn't do it either so we where going to repeat the whole thing in class anyway.
In the end of the day, it is entertainment business, that pretty much sums it up. Hollywood isn't better when it comes to attention seeking behavior.
This scares the shit out of me. Long story short: I work for a company about to go public...this year to be exact. It sounded exciting at first but as I dug deeper I realized some companies start dying slowly after IPO. I guess I’ll have see it to believe it :(
There’s nothing wrong with buying competitors or offering lower prices by themselves. That’s fine. The problem with railroads is they impose a heavy cost on society by occupying a lot of territory. Railroads are noisy, polluting, obstruct highways and other transport and infrastructure. Every town wants a railway, but no town wants two competing mutually redundant railways providing the same service with two sets of track and stations.

Many other utilities tend to natural monopolies in similar ways such as telephone service, especially to rural areas, but railways are an extreme case.

Online some network effects can create natural monopolies because users get benefits from being on the same platform as all the other users. It’s a very different dynamic though and different platforms can cater to different communities and use cases with complementary value. Twitter and Facebook for eg. They don’t impose a cost on the public in the way railways do either.
Italy Government on Verge of Collapse as Renzi Party Quits
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/13/20692415/jeffrey-epstein-...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets...

So apparently Frank was one of the sugar-daddy's enablers too.
As a software engineer your leverage should be higher than near any other profession. This is why SV engineers are paid handsomely. Your productive output eclipses that of any profession without force multipliers. Your income should not be based on input (risk, comfort), but rather your output (scale, value).
I think this move by airbnb is gutsy, risky, costly and the right thing to do [ in these unusual circumstances ]

I have been an early adopter of AirBnB and used them while living and travelling for a few years. More recently I've been more critical of them, mainly for the amount they charge in commission/fees. But their service is pretty good, booking from other hotel / motel sites is a pain, visually, information-ally and and logistically.

You may argue that AirBnB [ and others such as Twitter / Facebook etc ] are engaging in censorship - but laws and norms of good behavior are always a balance between rights freedoms and safety / efficiency.

I would argue that at this moment, everyone of us has to ask what they can do to prevent further violent insurrection, to prevent the spread of Covid, to address climate change. Clearly the fomenting of right wing nationalism / Qanon / antivaxx etc has realworld consequences we cant ignore.

When I wear a mask it helps other people and myself not spread an airborne virus. I see this as my civic duty, informed by science, not as a political statement. If I thought Covid was fictional, I would still wear a mask out of general politeness or to comply with laws and the prevailing medical advice.

Individuals must act, and we must take collective actions such as this - our institutions have been weakened and the past year has shown this, and its all hands on deck to shore them up.

Not to say we need to get back to 'normal' .. we need to improve things, and quickly. We need to act even when we cant see current events in clear historical context, we are in the melee.
>right now takes 8 seconds, and we're not even incredibly happy with that

With the amount of explaining and skepticism you're having to deal with in most of the threads here (plenty of reasonable questions, some seem to approach the question with the assumption that your approach is totally wrong) I feel compelled to comment on how nice such a fast feedback loop would be just so it's known that you're not listing these benefits into an ether that doesn't appreciate them.
They canceled Carousel after Google Photos came out.
> From what I can tell, there's very little enthusiasm for online education, on the part of either professors or students. Pretty much everyone is eager to get back to normal, and I'm fairly confident that this is exactly what is going to happen.

This is probably true from a faculty and student position. However, as an IT person for a university, nothing would get me to quit faster than being forced back into the office. I would leave this job in a heartbeat and go make WAAAAAAY more working a remote job in industry. Given current hiring freezes, budget shortfalls, and low, uncompetitive salary ranges, I don't think universities are in a position to lose many IT personnel.

I'm not the only staff member who thinks this. Universities should prepare for a mass staff exodus if they try to get us back on campus.
I'm kind of surprised by the idea of saving nothing for your children. Is it a symptom of the dog eat dog American system of capitalism that it seems kinda wild to me? I guess if you can be certain that their fundamental needs will be met, it isn't as important. But in the US your life can be pretty crap, even if not abject developing world style poverty.
There are some places where the cost of the ticket goes up the higher you are above the limit. Assuming it’s a school zone in one of those areas (pick whichever one you can answer for), what would the cost be then for going 28.4 mkm/hr?
I'm obviously biased but... Transparency.

I've heard from compensation and hiring managers directly that Levels.fyi has had an impact on compensation. We believe we're making a significant dent in the market.
One could read into Snowden's tweet that he has sent/received messages using Signal that would with certainly have pushed the US government into wanting to send that hit squad.
If Bellatrix Lestrange could go for throwing knives, I feel that guns, and especially snipers, would be pretty effective at assassinating witches/wizards. Most of them doesn't seem to be putting up a shield all the time.

Reminds me of a light novel, where the MC used witches' magics to bootstrap his industrial process, instead of fighting directly with magic.
It is not correct to say none of the dropbox competitors offer linux sync clients. We (https://www.getfilecloud.com) are a dropbox competitor and we offer clients for windows, mac and linux. We are also rank comparably well when it comes to customer rating in Gartner Peer Reviews (https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/content-collaboration...).

It is most likely Dropbox faces higher churn in their primary customer demography (Creatives and Professionals). Their offering lack many admin controls it is not yet ideal for enterprises where the churn is low. Further, OneDrive and G-Suite offers much better value by bundling the productivity suite.
I think it's safe to say that whenever there is a policy that requires professionals to be less-than-truthful to get the outcome they want, probably the system needs to be considered for reform.

To answer your question : No, this shouldn't be a part of an MD (or their paperwork writing partners in the office) job.

In the U.S. do I personally seek MDs that excel at writing insurance codes? You bet I do.

It's important to achieve any decent level of personal care without breaking the bank -- keeping in mind that i'm not particularly wealthy.
Fortnite for example refuses to run if you boot in test mode. I don't play online much so I assumed it was standard behaviour in multiplayer games.
For reference, Dan Abramov's tweet regarding his salary in London :

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1228454264915271683
I'd add that there is some kind of toxic behaviour from men in my CS class. Think the typical 4channer type people. Obviously not all but when I had a chat with a couple of women from my class, they mentioned it was common to get hit on all the time during group projects when they were there to study and get talked down on as if they don't know what's going on.

I see similar behaviours to how men sometimes "gatekeep" games or even anything computer related. It's quite common to hear of stories women face on online games when they open their mic.

Is there a chance they'd avoid it based on the type of people they might face? Maybe.
Yep, the point of this post seems to be to get full access without turning off the safeties because that will trip anti cheat software.
What kind of wavelengths are we looking at for the kind of temperatures used in this article?
I unfortunately don’t have much perspective on software development on Europe, but one of the differentiators I’ve observed in the US between high salary SWE jobs/regions and lower SWE jobs/regions is that engineered in the higher categories are considered a core part of the business and are deeply integrated across the business. The engineers sit closer to and interact more with the “money people” than in companies where there might be a layer of analysts or business program managers, etc... As a result, engineering and computing at permeated throughout the business.

This often makes these companies more agile (the cycle times for requirements and feedback are shorter) and seems to make the business more willing to pay for engineering talent generally (as the decision makers see the value or are former engineers themselves.)

This is easier in some industries than others - consumer internet and commercial software companies will tend to organize more like this then health care, for example.

So I guess my answer would be ensure your software engineers aren't just doing software, but helping define the businesses