skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an LPR myself, this is true. I keep mine in my wallet. It is handy as a secondary backup identity card when (for whatever reason) I don't have my drivers license on me.

(PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong!) I understand there are some weird situations you can be in though (caused by poorly written legislation), for example, not having your LPR Green Card is a *strict liability* federal misdemeanor, without any exceptions or legislated consideration if someone stole your card off you, or even if the card was confiscated by a federal or state/local official. So you could be stopped by a cop, who asks for your Id and confiscates your GC, and then immediately charges you for not being in possession of your GC. However I gather that this has never been tested in court, but it's still an unpleasant possibility.

...and if you lose it, that's $600 (!!!!) to renew it, which means having to go to your nearest USCIS building in-person (which can be hundreds of miles away) to have your fingerprints and other biometrics re-taken - I don't know why but USCIS simply won't re-print an existing GC unlike how WA's DoL has been re-issuing my drivers' license using the exact same biometrics and other info unchanged from almost a decade ago... it still says I weight 140lbs (lol... I'm 90kg now, ugh).

And you're on-the-hook for that $600 regardless of the reason for reissuing it: whether it was your fault or not (though if it was someone else's fault I guess you could file a civil claim for damages at least)

LPR rights are not exactly high on the priority list - but the law should be changed to not require us to carry the GC; and misplacing a GC (or being the victim of a crime of GC theft) should certainly not cost $600 and a half-day spent at a (depressing) USCIS building every time.

It's super-absurd: I understand the "must carry" rule also applies to children: so rambunctious kindergarten kids too young to even tie their own shoelaces need to carry a $600 hologram of past presidents' heads. Surely there must be some way this is an unreasonable burden or maybe even unconstitutional because of the power-imbalance it introduces?

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...also I could be horribly misinformed about all of the above.
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This was incredibly moving. Thanks for sharing.
The current private carrier letter rate is over an order of magnitude higher than the post office. And no, they're not going to make it up on volume. The post office is a public service, and naive attempts to run it like a business are responsible for its current state.
I use it in a "static-dynamic hybrid" site generator.

There is a pure static mode, when you pre-generate all the HTML.

Then there is a hybrid mode, with basic templating of time/clock. SSI can also be used to update pages.

When PHP is available, it can very closely approximate a dynamic site, with pages being pre-generated just in time, but then served to all subsequent requests.
but mainly I could always just tell something was off about their behavior and then we wouldn’t take any chances. groundhogs were pests as well, so it’s not like we needed any extra incentive to take them out.
Not especially- because generally whenever zoning is enacted, the current land owner gets to decide the initial zone of their property.

And land that is already zoned can't be rezoned without the current property owners consent.

So the only thing restricted / "taken" here, is if the property owner wants a re-zoning and is denied.

Yeah, being forced into the system at all is arguably a violation of rights, but I don't think requiring the land to be used in a consistent way (of the owners initial choosing) is at all comparable to not being allowed to use the land.

The owner never consents to endangered species restrictions. For zoning they do.
Just reject take-home assignments.
Root rot is a death sentence.
Balancing how?

Say each member has a point, and additional members have counterpoints to balance the group.

What exactly happened? As a member with a point countered, you've effectively been silenced. You have a group where extremes are neutralized. That is either a set goal by whomever controls the group, or works towards the greater ideology that becomes the group voice and group think that no one member can overturn.

You don't need to be in a group to have additional data points.

Thinking alone might be easy, but not thinking in a group is also easy. That's what most members end up doing.
Engagement or enragement, they still get you.

I get the feeling that visitors on Facebook are often angry and annoyed, and Facebook is fine with that.
Why is that ridiculous? If you set up a farm that releases GHG surely you are the producer of it.

Oil industry spinned us to calculate personal carbon foot prints [1]. That’s a good tool, but at the same time it dissolves the responsibility. In one hand the people actually producing the harm get to blame consumer demand and consumer can aknowledge that what ever they do makes no difference in the big picture.

If you go to work somewhere and release lots of gasses heating the planet you should probably think long and hard why you are doing that.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oi...
Maybe hard for some. I dodged most of this preCovid and in office. I have no problem declining invitations though (It’d be a nightmare for my wife lol, to whom I often say invitations are not obligations). Maybe if you have a persistent coworker who just happens to work in your fully remote and fabricated neighborhood, you’ll have to make the trip over a couple times a year to appease them.
This is what i mean: https://sci-hub.st/downloads/2020-11-04/ff/guan2020.pdf?rand...
> Why should a worker accept a smaller cut for a feature the whole team contributed to?

It’s simple. They don’t have to, but then when someone in Bali will do the same work for less, why wouldn’t the company mix shift that way over time?
Yeah, the interesting thing is that lots of people vaguely know when they have to use flatMap instead of map and still say things like “monads are too hard”.

You can go pretty far by “tricking” people into writing monadic code that works correctly without ever going through the bewildering problem of justifying monads in the abstract.
Is this from somewhere? Interesting 7-5-7 syllables per line, like an inside-out haiku.
I have used them as reverse proxies to have re-direct slack messages to the Firebase project (we use one Firebase project per environment).

Also used them to return images from different providers, and resize them, on a single endpoint.

Plus, if you decide to pay a premium (but still often cheaper than lambda), they can run for just as much time.

All that’s actually missing here, for me, is the triggering mechanisms and integrations with services like S3, SNS, DynamoDB, etc.
> I can imagine a version based on an emulation using a small ARM with the same physical keyboard and box, minus (or maybe not) floppy.

For the C64 at least what you describe exists: TheC64 remake by RetroGames. It's exactly that, an ARM chip running VICE inside a case that looks and acts like a C64, complete with working keyboard. I own one and it's pretty cool.

Why not a real C64 I hear you ask? Well, real C64 are brittle, require swapping components, and outputting to modern TVs and pen drives requires expensive specialized hardware gadgets and addons anyway. Some hardcore fans do it, but it's not for me -- I just wanted it to work out of the box.
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I don’t understand the appeal. Genghis Khan was a fascinating individual but we don’t really need his tomb to answer any historical question I can think of (though I’m glad to be wrong.)
1800 Watts for a full rack? That’s bordering on useless. You can run maybe two real servers on 1800 W.

You need to provision enough power for simultaneous startup after a power outage, unless you have some really smart PDUs and automation. We have a 10 year old DC with 30A@208V per rack and we have to leave racks half full because modern servers are so power-dense.
Ironically, quality will equate to cash for most companies. No, what companies want is observability and control, and that's what scrum enables -- for Product to be able to surveil and manipulate what Eng does.
> I was working on a Spring Boot REST API a few months ago and the senior engineer had defined every single service class as an interface and then implemented that interface in an actual @Service. The interfaces weren’t extended by multiple classes, this wasn’t an external library or a dependant, and there were no plans to implement additional classes later.

Reason I avoid working in Java and especially the "senior java engineers".

> The logic from the senior engineer was that the interface represented the “contract” and the class the business logic.

This is basically religious dogma
I can see some truth to what you're saying, but one thing about this story really sticks out to me: the charge of counterfeit currency for movie prop currency. This makes it seem like they were charging him with whatever they could to make his life miserable.

If "possession of forged currency" is really just "found movie-prop money in his wallet", then is "resisting arrest" really just "he dragged his feet a little"?
In some cases. In other cases the government regulation is what puts people at risk in ways that the companies have no interest in doing.
Ah yes, the infamous Thucydides snap.
Growth at all cost: https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/1443451725768105986
Besides the obvious modern political axe you’re grinding, the parallel doesn’t quite apply to ancient Sparta. While the Spartiates had more training and equipment, the same was not true of the lower caste armies they also fielded. The US army has great logistics; the Spartans could only afford boats when Persia paid for them to beat up their neighbors.
You could choose AsciiDoc instead which lets you choose your own IDs and is supported on GitHub and GitLab
Macy’s sues to block Amazon from taking over signature NYC billboard
Please understand the Post Office is flat out awesome. Private entities cannot compete realistically.

And the reason for that is the Post Office exists as infrastructure to connect us all and enable economic growth, as well as serve as an important pillar of democracy.

The PO serves everyone mor or less equally. Some are at a serious loss, others are at a nice margin.

The PO runs off postage too.

So why does it look so bad?

The Bush Administration started it with rate adjustments and a requirement to prepay benefits so far in advance that at the time of the legislation there were people not even born yet, who would work for the PO and see their bennies paid for well in advance.

Since then, it has been death by 100 cuts, with the most notable event being the destruction of mail sorting machines during the last Administration.

Congress has control over the Post Office and has acted for private carriers looking to grow and own more of mail delivery. But, they have a problem with serving everyone as well as the PO does, and generally don't.

The Post Office handles the last mile more under contract, and at damn near giveaway rates too.

Had Congress acted on our behalf as citizens who benefit from a robust Post Office, we would not be having this discussion.

The interests who want everything privatized pretty much hate the Post Office because it represents an exemplary example of government service working as it should and it all runs on postage. The people who need it, fund it.

The "lower rates" and "faster arrival times" look appealing now because several decades of artificially hobbling the PO has done damage to the point we are today.

All the debt, service problems, delays, were caused by bad actors hobbling the PO to favor private interests.

It is not that those services are better.

And in specific niches, sure! There is room for FedEx and friends.

We need them to handle cases the PO may not handle well.

But we also need the PO to do the majority of delivery and equal service too.

Getting rid of the PO will actually raise prices and reduce or eliminate service for many who depend on it.
> The scalper isn’t going to buy something they can’t sell on

That assumes they have perfect information which they don’t they can only estimate demand. It’s perfectly rational for a scalper to regularly purchase more tickets than they sell due to the kind of markup their looking for. At say 4x they could on average sell 1/2 the tickets while doubling their investment.

And of course that assumes they never run into logistical issues.
I see the opposite right now, with transfer rates being about the same but latency over IPv4 being quite bad compared to IPv6:

Pinging www.google.com with IPv6:

$ ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com(sc-in-x67.1e100.net (2404:6800:4003:c02::67)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from sc-in-f103.1e100.net (2404:6800:4003:c02::67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=108 time=4.46 ms
64 bytes from sc-in-x67.1e100.net (2404:6800:4003:c02::67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=108 time=3.73 ms
64 bytes from sc-in-f103.1e100.net (2404:6800:4003:c02::67): icmp_seq=3 ttl=108 time=3.73 ms

And with IPv4:

$ ping -4 www.google.com
PING (142.250.186.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from fra24s06-in-f4.1e100.net (142.250.186.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=107 time=317 ms
64 bytes from fra24s06-in-f4.1e100.net (142.250.186.100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=107 time=317 ms
64 bytes from fra24s06-in-f4.1e100.net (142.250.186.100): icmp_seq=3 ttl=107 time=317 ms

I have no idea why that happens. It's not on all sites though, so it's not like my ISP adds latecy to all IPv4 sites, but rather something to do with routing. The IPv4 traffic might be routed to a google datacentre further away.
> The venn diagram of NFT haters are almost exact matches of Crypto haters

Nonsense. I'm pro-crypto but think NFTs are absolutely idiotic.

Scarcity is fundamental to any store of value. There are an infinite number of potential NFTs.
20th century history is littered with these types of developments [0]. They all turn out the same way. Decrepit and abandoned within 20 years. No one wants to live like that. Living your life in a 30th story studio apartment is a dystopian nightmare. You are completely disconnected from your environment, and daily needs like grocery shopping, package deliveries, buying furniture, all become herculean tasks. It's why these places very quickly become slums. The only people willing to live like that are those with no other choice.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/22/pruitt-igoe-h...
Congrats!
Through this journey from 0 to 1 to 100, what do you regret doing/not doing?
Oh, not implying that BO is there yet. But Tesla, SpaceX, Apple, Amazon, clearly are and have all been called toxic. Hell, even Microsoft was once extremely toxic, especially if you were in a room with Bill Gates.
We are in for The Great Supply Crisis. This is everywhere from fuel to agriculture to chips. I believe the high level picture is that a significant percentage of labor force has decided not to return to work and that causes staffing crisis and that causes reduced outputs. Even though chip industry don't suffer from staffing, their suppliers do.
> What of those who graduated from engineering programs taught at engineer colleges?

For new grads? In my experience, they're usually miles behind an 18 year old who has been messing around in their spare time for a few years. There are, of course, exceptions, but at this point seeing something they don't teach at the local universities is more eye-catching on a resume than most degrees.

It usually means they bothered to learn something on their own.
I am doing this and it helps in mocking the interface in other classes tests.
Where I am today I often get tickets that are too vague to start on.

I think about it a bit, spend ten minutes talking to the person who wrote the ticket, turn the ticket into a good ticket, and proceed.

The effort to do that is maybe 5% of the work to complete the ticket so I can't complain.

Even though we do sprints what we are doing is really kanban where the main focus is finishing what we start and not having excess WIP. If a ticket takes a sprint and a half to finish, there is always something from the backlog to add to the sprint.

There are many ways to use a ticket system. One of the times I was happiest was when I was able to quickly break down my work into 10-20 minute subtasks and make super-accurate estimates. That was dependent on having a framework in which the tasks were predictable and also quickly punching tasks into a spreadsheet. If the work involved a lot of struggling with the runtime, build system, algorithms, database, etc. that kind of predictability is impossible.

There is always some disconnect between "what we say we do" and "what we really do" in a ticket system. Those agreements and disagreements can drive people crazy (fine-grained tasks help me focus but will drive many people up the wall) but it's also possible to reach an accommodation where work gets done without a lot of space.

(e.g. it drove me nuts to write a daily standup summary of yesterday and today in the morning with the rest of my team. in the morning I'd find it hard to remember exactly what i did yesterday and what I was planning to do last afternoon and it would slow me down getting to work. Now I write my summary when I leave with the headlines "what i did" and "what i plan to do" that recognizes that those things don't always agree. Those notes help me get started in the morning and nobody complains I am 180° out of phase.)
If general population is good enough for normal people illegally committing violence, it should be good enough for the police illegally committing violence.
I'm looking at moving from Sydney to Adelaide, any way I can reach out to you to get an idea of the industry over there? I'm hoping to do a remote job from Adelaide too, but would still like to understand the lay of the land.
As a concrete example of what this enables, the Pulumi Automation API lets you embed IaC straight into a bigger program. Folks have used this to create infrastructure-oriented SaaS products, self-service portals, and new higher level abstraction frameworks and tools, for instance, often spanning multiple cloud resource types (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, others) -- https://www.pulumi.com/automation/. Transpiling to YAML and handing it over to CloudFormation is clumsy and wouldn't work for these cases among others.
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This would have been more interesting if the author had traced where all the money being plowed into NFTs is coming from.

I suspect that most of it does not come from outside of the current ETH (or whatever) ecosystem. I'd bet that most of the volume comes from people who are either treating it as play money, or trying to pump the NFT scam for their own benefit (real or imagined).
"are anything like what you see covered in the US."

Judging US police from media coverage is really not useful.

Having lived experience of living in the US I think does illustrate some things, and then, more importantly, having access to 'good data' (which is hard, but nevertheless possible) is even better.

I believe the police in the US overall take a more aggressive tone and posture. I also believe US citizens are far more likely to act in defiance. The things I've seen American individuals do ... I have never in my life seen in Canada, UK, France, Germany and couldn't even imagine it happening.

The scenes of a man, with two police officers arresting him - four hands on him, putting cuffs on him - and he goes for his gun (!!). Or the number of times people race away from police after being pulled over and resulting high-speed chase. It's absurd.

It's an issue I think people often don't tend to want to think about, but if we use car chases as an example - I think this is worthy because these are generally not situations in which arbitrary police aggression is going to be a 'root cause'.

You can see total deaths in the US from car chases is ballpark 2/million/year, where as in he UK it's about 0.2/million/year. [1][2]

High speed chases are a cultural phenom [3]

(FYI about 1/2 of the people who die in high speed pursuits are innocent bystanders.)

Obviously, this will be affected by police police in terms of pursuit policy (i.e. in many forces they won't pursue if it's too dangerous) - but there's no doubt that Americans have a much greater propensity to run from police, in cars, which is an extremely dangerous thing to do for those involved, but also for everyone else. It's nary impossible to get the data, but I believe that this applies to all other forms of confrontation as well. I think that they are related, i.e. civilians more aggressive posture - combined with the fact so many people have weapons - makes the police more 'on edge' and combined with their more systematically aggressive posture, you have considerably greater chances of 'small things' escalating into 'big things' - as we have in this article.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/319294/deaths-during-or-...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/727008/vehicle-pursuit-r...

[3] https://www.lamag.com/longform/how-high-speed-car-chases-bec...
> There are an infinite number of potential NFTs.

That doesn't mean there is an infinite number of any given collection.
It totally is. Fact is anti government interests have paid Congress to hobble the Post Office to encourage your point of view.

Corruption, bribes, deliberate mismanagement and debt all have impacted the Post Office to make private carriers look better.

It started with the Bush Administration and has gone on for decades.
As dystopias go, it seems pretty charitable to jump to education instead of to surveillance monopolists. “Ad attentiveness too low, please drink verification can”, etc.
Actually, answering “yes” to that question would have been extremely confusing given how the question is worded! Which makes the snarky request for a binary response even less reasonable.
It's ironic that in tarring all forms of "government" with the same brush, conservatives who lackadaisically compare the actions of multi-party democratic governments to those of single-party states minimize the importance of what was probably the most important structural difference between the Eastern Bloc and Western democracies. Eisenhower would be horrified.
eyeroll I won’t deny that there are tons of NFT projects that are nothing more than modern day tulip mania. On the other hand there is an entirely new world of opportunity that has never existed before for both common people, artists and corporations in the form of DeFi projects.
Basically any distributed form of ownership you can imagine is now possible through NFT and DAOs. There has never been a better time to learn about it either.
There are ~50 officers 'feloniously killed' in the US every year.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018/topic-pages/officers-feloniou...

If you dig around most other nations have substantially lower rates of LEO homicides.

Bunch of older stats here https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ph98.pdf

I think one begets the other in a positive feedback loop that is difficult to break.
Facebook in 2021 is like aol 10 years ago. No one I know use it. Why is there so much noise about it?
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28553778