skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see a stiffer policy in critical care, (or assembly line) types of jobs that have to be organised to fill the position well in advance to train-in/hire/book via temp agency the workers so they know when you are going/returning so things work well on a continuous basis. Some companies have a full shut down and people get some sort of bonus for scheduling their 2, 3, 4 weeks then. Often line changes/upgrades/model shift etc are done efficiently so the line runs flawlessly at startup.
High tech jobs, esp startups often have novel policies that are rarer in the average industry.
Lots of interesting points of view in this thread.
The elephant in the room is race.
Because the neighbors know that violence will only be directed against those causing harm in the neighborhood, restoring peace should criminal activity cross a line, and deterring criminal activity by assuring perpetrators will not benefit from their vile actions.

I know other families who have guns are willing & able to protect my children. They've thought about such situations, and have means to protect the innocent.
I can't remember where I saw the post, but the reason it's such a fast product is that they put a large amount of time into performance analysis and fixing those issues.

So it's not so much the stack as the pure engineering time.
I see this claim a lot, but I always ask myself "what, exactly". As far as I can tell, he just happened to get swapped in during the transition away from Windows 8 and the building up of Azure (both happening anyway).
I’m dismissive because I find your nativist “sorry, we’re full” (or more appropriately, “fuck you, I got mine”) attitude to be contemptible.

Since you are the one in favor of curtailing the freedoms of businesses and people, the burden of proof should be on you to demonstrate why we cannot simply build our way out of this problem.
I'd like to see each country's median wealth per adult by purchasing power parity. Anyone got that number? I looked online but can't find anything.

Purchasing power parity is the thing that interests me the most and gives a more realistic picture.

For example, we have all been fed the utter lie that the USA spends more on military spending than the next 252,895 countries combined.

This does not take into account that a welder in the USA might be paid $52/hour (or whatever it is for a union welder) but a welder in China might be paid $8/hour. So if an aircraft carrier is being built, it will cost $13 billion in the USA, but $500 million in China. So when you add all the billions together for the USA, and for China, of course the USA is going to spend more in absolute dollars, but in what they get, an aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier no matter what is spend, no matter if it is $500 million or $13 billion per carrier.

This is the purchasing power parity (PPP) which more accurately reflects what you get for your monies.

So when you look at military spending by PPP, the USA only spends more than the 2.5 countries. The USA spends $750 billion. China spends $464 billion and India spends $234 billion = $698 billion for China and India. Adding the third highest spender, Saudi Arabia for $174 billion brings the total up to $872 billion in expenditures for the top 3 countries vs USA's $750 billion.

However, this number is probably skewed, because some of the USA's military spend goes towards the defense of other countries. This expenditure should be reallocated to the countries that benefit. For instance, Canada isn't even on the list. Why would it be? USA would take on 100% of any Canadian military needs. The USA has a huge military presence in Japan, Australia, South Korea. All of Europe is under the USA's umbrella.

It is eye popping that when you look at the GDP PPP of each country, that China's GDP PPP is $23 trillion and the USA is $19 trillion.

Here are the numbers if anyone is interested: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm

Here are the numbers if one goes by the absolute dollar figures, which I know that you will now understand is incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

This is just to illustrate the difference when talking about numbers in purchasing power parity.

As I said, I would be interested in a PPP of the median wealth of every nation. Which I have not been able to find. I'm sure the USA would not be very good on that chart, either, but I would be interested in seeing how it changes everything and how everything would be rearranged. So if anyone has this info, please post below my comment here.
Exactly. Nothing enables a tyrant like a sympathetic mob that is more heavily armed than those who would fight for freedom. Historically, would-be tyrants tend to make sure their sympathizers are well armed more than to disarm anyone. The idea of someone with MAGA and Punisher stickers on their pickup using their guns to oppose tyranny is laughable. No, they'll be first in line to trade in their fake military insignia for the real version.
Yes, I was curious and a bit skeptical when I heard that they fit these scientific operations into 320 instructions. That's what motivated me to look at the chip in detail, to see how they did it.
One U.S. state stands out in restricting corporate use of biometrics: Illinois
That is indeed interesting. I didn't realize Nvidia's acquisition may be stalling due to the EU. I had rather hoped it would go through in order to create three viable companies offering both state-of-the-art CPU and GPU options.
So you mean just like how 113 kWh is greater than 110 kWh? No way, man.
TF has locks so that two people cannot modify infra at the same time.

There are also dependencies within the resources to consider, such as network creation before firewall rule before VM
How do you patch these executables? I know 7zip can open .exe but there must be a better way.
Jesus, glad to hear. Will certainly never work at Atlassian.
Eh, your example is on the other side of the hills, where yeah there's space -- and also horrendous traffic bottlenecks to get to/from the bay-surrounding cities. Which are out of space.
Every time I see a job listing with Unlimited PTO, theres always some accompanying verbiage that makes it sound a lot like that unlimited PTO will be unavailable.
> Moghadam says his brain tumor has given a renewed vigor to his community building efforts. “I think this is going to be the ‘Facebook of Cryptocurrency’ – our President Sam Kazemian is known as the ‘Persian Zuck’ – he’s going to make the internet better by giving everyone a cryptocurrency stake.”

> Moghadam believes in God and says his two brain tumors give his companies their Jewish, philosophical roots. “Sam (Kazemian) is actually one-sixteenth Jewish and 15/16ths Muslim – he is a special Persian breed. I think knowledge projects and social networks are a lot like the Talmud – we are all using the internet to make people smarter.”

Wait... what?
In a world without "government interference" you wouldn't have leave, you'd work every day of the week, and you'd work 12+ hours a day.

Being paid out leave, and having leave accrued isn't a stupid rule. It's a law that's made in reaction to companies writing an upfront amount of leave into contracts, and never allowing their employees to take that leave.

When you side with no regulation, you side with abusive employers, not for "common sense winning out". People will abuse you as much as they're legally allowed to.
Okay, but you said "Blacks are not afforded the freedom to run," not that some people (how many?) have apprehensions or misgivings about doing so (not a lack of freedom). Apartheid in South Africa was a different thing from "some people are afraid, possibly irrationally so".

Lastly, this has nothing to do with gun ownership? You can find people expressing exactly the same sentiments all over western Europe.
Why don’t they just charge for removing ads? Would get substantially more adoption.
I think the other measures of diversity are the ones that are important. For instance, an influx of Canadian immigrants to the U.S. would, I expect, cause no problems at all because Canada is by and large very culturally similar to the U.S.

The border is important in my thinking mainly because corruption and organized crime are endemic to Mexico, though immigration of people from a significantly different ethnicity+culture is also important in the U.S. picture.
Are you in favor of a wealth tax in general or a property tax in particular?
To your last question, yes, those ads haven't changed one bit.
you don't have to make stuff up - that's not simplifying things.

And dumbing-down is not equivalent to simplifying, unless you do it in a dumb way.

Talented writers take one issue, or one theme, from the big picture and weave a story from that.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/us-z...
> When did being against lockdowns become harmful?

When it leads to a healthcare crisis.
Evidence Found of Humans Making Clothes 120k Years Ago
The Bay Area is a desirable place. Even if you limit tech workers wealthy people will buy property here.
I'll bite.

What infrastructure management tool do _you_ prefer then?
This doesn't seem a long-term take. Historically pricing was based on vehicle cost because the vehicles were expended. With reusable vehicles the companies can make a handsome margin well above launch cost (and covering the fixed up front research) that is much lower price than vehicle cost. In the same vein that an Uber ride costs a bit less than buying a car. This isn't idle speculation; SpaceX has already made clear target $/kg pricing for Mars delivery that incorporate vigorous reuse.
I assumed unlimited PTO was BS and then I got a job that offered it and confirmed.

In my industry/level 4-5 weeks PTO is pretty standard, with maybe 1 week allowed to carryover to say Q1 or maybe Q2 of following year. I almost certainly take slightly less average PTO now with "unlimited" than when I simply had that 4-5 week allotment.

With a fixed allotment it is an entitlement you feel free to use. With unlimited managers get into psychological games of trying to shame you out of taking it. Even if you are strong and don't give in, many of your team isn't. A lot of studies have shown "unlimited PTO" is actually used less than the standard allotment for the industry/level studied. I certainly have to wrangle almost every request. Very few people take 2 solid weeks consecutive either.
Americans really don't get it. Guns aren't the issue. Americans are.
The acquisition by nVidia is problematic from numerous fronts, not the least of which is the relevant concerns raised in the EU case that this would be leverage nVidia would use against its own competitors and monopolizing the ARM architecture for their own purposes.

Arm as an independent company is better for the broader semiconductor industry because of widely their technology is licensed, and the current ease at which it does so. These are risked by any kind of an acquisition, let alone nVidia who is not famous for their generosity of their technology (CUDA, G-Sync, Linux drivers, DLSS, etc. are all proprietary).

Contrast this with AMD's approach on such matters, where they offer theirs with liberal licensing and/or for free: FreeSync (which is just VESA Adaptive Sync),FSR, Linux drivers, their backing of OpenCL, and more.

Edit: Added AMD counterpoints to nVidia.
The core of Troy Hunt's argument about the legal difference of biometrics vs a password seems to be that the cops are "going to shoot you (too) and take your phone". Which is dramatic but doesn't really address the issue. Yeah fine sure, if you're a criminal drug dealer and Denzel Washington's crooked narcotics cop character from Training Day rolls up on you and wants your phone, you're either going to give up the phone or you're going to die.

Back in the real world, we saw civil unrest (of varying types) in the past 12 months, but the rule of law is still there. See how the case against Backpage for sex trafficking is being re-run.
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Yes, see

http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com/
How do you find clients with social media?
Do you use any tools on social media?
My current process (let me know if yours is the same):
Create content on twitter, get dms, try to close sale
The third party apps are very good though, some even open source.
I would find not having defined benefits extremely uncomfortable.

Saying that you have unlimited paid leave when that is obviously untrue and leaves the policy open for abuse by both employee and employer. I'm sure the example stating that less leave was taken when it was "unlimited" was because people understood that there were limits but didn't know what the limit was and didn't want to trigger management. Once things are defined, of course people will think that it's ok to take the maximum leave allowed.
This is such a shitty reductionist argument.
I don't believe it won't work on a larger scale. If the leadership sets the tone, the community will naturally begin to adopt it and will help out with guiding others into it.

For an example, take Caltech's honor system. It involves several thousand people, and it objectively cannot work. But it does, and it does because the Caltech community likes it and takes a dim view of anyone who would disrupt it.

I liked Caltech's honor system very much, and have tried to model my own life on it. D's community attitudes very much reflect that tone I've tried to set.

BTW, see my other recent thread about honor. I am saddened by the pushback I get for it.
From my experience, when people look at your resume and ask questions about it, they want to hear a reasonable story with details available.

When those stories are all kind of 'well, I just did this tiny thing', it's off putting. But if your listing is more of a project with the components you used and you indicate you contributed to some of them, then you can tell the story of the project, and how it used that component anr show your knowledge of that component and that you fixed a couple things here and there. And talk about your process to identify the problem, find the source, collaborate with upstream etc. Following the interviewers interest to detail the parts they want to talk about.
My last post was June 12, 2012, but I did a blog for over 4 years about exactly what I thought. The county has already done REDInet (Regional Economic Development Iniative) which thought it would sell little chunks of bandwidth for big prices after it was done, and somehow that last chunk of fiber through the San Ildefonso pueblo's overhead power poles never happened, and fiber between the townsite and White Rock never happened. Comcast had the only fiber between the hill and White Rock, and consumed it with TV and the relatively slow DOCSIS technology. If the county builds anything, it will be very expensive and unpopular with the voters.

Try talking with Allan and Mariela Saenz at Los Alamos Network, losalamosnetwork.com.

My blog is still there at fiberlanm.blogspot.com.
Don't forget: biometrics are NOT protected by the 5th amendment.
Do you just want me to tell you that I think you're right? I don't really see this thread going anywhere productive. You seem to be arguing a purely philosophical position, and if I "changed the subject" to relate your position to TFA, then my bad.

Meanwhile, facebook is using the actions described in TFA to ban anti-lockdown accounts in germany. Just like my hypothetical, but in a different country!
>Why is it so hard to recognize that governments like to give themselves special "temporary" powers and then not give them up?

No need to be condescending. I understand that it's happened in the past.

But, there's an "unintentional slippery slope" concern; then there's the "willful conspiracy" concern.

So, I'm asking whether, in this specific instance, people believe it to be the actual intent of the U.S. government to willfully and maliciously use COVID as a pretext for turning the U.S. into an authoritarian regime?
Those familiar with guns know their place, and are (on the whole) actually much less likely to harm others without cause - precisely because they are familiar with the likely harm.

One cherry-picked anecdote is insufficient. A million or so crimes, murders included, are deterred/stopped every year - most without firing a shot.
I routinely have a double-shot latte at 7:15pm after dinner and proceed to sleep 15 minutes.

Many workers around the world have independently discovered that there is a way to take the 10-minute nap and kick it up a notch. It’s called the caffeine (or coffee) nap.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sleepless-in-america...
I won’t be surprised to see it used selectively, too.
How do I sell a high value software when I was able to build it by myself?
Hello,

I have a new software product. I am about to onboard the first customer. We have not spoken about price.

The customer is large. Market cap ~ $12bn, publicly traded.

The problem I am solving is big. Over the past year we have documented at least $15m in direct cost prevention, with about an $8m increase in associated revenue.

The solution also prevents substantial liability. $100m+ at a minimum, sometimes more. This might occur once or twice a year – or more.

They have been trying to solve this problem in-house with no success for several years, at a direct cost of over $2m a year, plus a few (8ish) salaries.

My solution is simple, but it works. And they are asking about it with increased interest. We are nearing the first real demonstration – one that incorporates their own data. I expect to be asked about pricing.

Q: How do I sell a solution that has such a high value when I was able to build it almost entirely by myself in a few months?

…after years of industry learning, research, and experience, but still – it is a fairly simple solution.

I am concerned that I am not the best person to make this deal. I have never done anything like this before.

A price-deal based on a % of saved cost doesn’t really work for this service, and I need revenue to continue to grow the company and improve the software, so that option is pretty much out as far as I can tell.

Even with the past 18 months of specific examples, and over 10 years of their data to back up even more examples, I am still up against the fact that they know me and my team. They know we are small, and I feel like I will lose the deal if I ask for $45,000 per month. I feel like I will get the deal if I ask for ~$12,000 per month.

We have a technical roadmap with increased value add offerings but so much value to the customer is available in the current product.

What should I do? How do I go about handling this? Has anyone experienced a similar situation?

Thank you,
An0n
Because I can't help but get the sense that using those countries, culturally very distinct from the US, is cherry picking st best. If the "legal firearms lead to more violence and crime, and if we restrict comparison to new world highly developed countries this still holds" argument is to stand, then the comparison has to apply to every country with firearm restrictions, not just a couple. If it doesn't apply across the board then that is an indicator that culture plays an outsized role and legal status of firearms does not.

So I answered your question, now your turn, what about Argentina?
As you get higher in resolution, I'd expect the difference between AA and non-AA to get less noticeable. Is that not the case?
> you're creating a premise that the only reason gun legality can be justified is self defense

What other premise is there, when we're talking about a device that is designed to seriously injure and kill others? It's either a defensive weapon, or, worse, an offensive one.

I think hunting is a totally legitimate use for a gun. I think your grandfather's case is as well, though there certainly are other solutions to his problem, if more difficult and less efficient ones.

Sure, you might want a gun as a collector, or because you enjoy shooting one at a gun range. But I'm not convinced these "recreational" reasons are good justifications for allowing general ownership of a device designed for its lethality.

You hunt? Fine; get a license for that, and you can own guns made for hunting. You need to a weapon as a part of your job (like your grandfather, perhaps)? Fine; same deal: be licensed and restricted to types of guns appropriate for your job. A gun for fun? No, not fine (let the properly-licensed gun range own and store guns, and you can go and shoot them for fun). A gun for self-defense? I don't think it's clear that use outweighs the downsides of having a heavily-armed populace.

I think the thing that gets me the most is that you can walk into a gun store without having seen our touched a gun in your life, and walk out with a gun (modulo whatever waiting period your locality might require). No training needed, no license needed. Fork over some cash, and here's your deadly projectile weapon and as much ammunition as you want. That's irresponsible.
I'm not sure what you're complaining about. The FDA already authorized a third vaccine booster for immunocompromised people who want it.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...

The FDA never banned cannabis. That was done by Congress and the DEA.
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How can it be abuse? If 2 months leave is part of package then surely it's up to them how they use it. You wouldn't criticize them for using all the money they get paid would you?
Unlimited can also mean erratically occurring. Plenty of 2 job + 2 kid families have sudden 'parent must be at home' times, when families/friends are suddenly not able to fill the instant need.
Look at how many people complain how Amazon fired them where a parent had to be absent for such an emergency - they then go from bad to worse in a heartbeat - AND they now have no job at all. I feel enormous compassion for these people, and I can do nothing at all for them.
Is it a handgun?

My understanding is that the best firearm for home defense is a shotgun because it has high stopping power, doesn’t require as much accuracy, and is less likely to penetrate walls.

Therefore I don’t particularly take people seriously if their home defense choice is a handgun
I don't even trust the "turn off" buttons.

I just write my own utilities. They're simple to write, they work, and I port them around as needed.

P.S. I have file indexing turned off on my drives.
Farms are large and spread out. It could take animal control 15 minutes just to drive from one end of your farm to where you are, let alone from wherever their office is.
Looks great, but reliability and price will be key for home users.

(I bought a pair of yubikeys some years ago, 2013? I set them up as recommended. The main one, on my key ring, failed idiopathically after less than 10 weeks. I stopped using yubikeys.)
I'm a _huge_ fan of leafy green vegetables. Unusual, I know, but I think of myself as something of an aficionado. Dandelion greens are among the most bitter I have eaten. I find it difficult to incorporate them.

Edit: I had to look up rocket. Apparently it's arugula? I'm speechless. Arugula is one of my favorites. How could anybody not like it?! Anyway, I can't imagine somebody liking Dandelion greens if they don't like arugula but I would be interested hear from others.