skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
teamblind.com is closer. Lots of good commentary on various companies and hiring processes. The site itself is god awful (slow, tons of feature creep) but there's some good content on it.
If you are a New Jersey pension fund recipient (and you're smart), you moved out of New Jersey as quickly as possible.
We frequently hear amazing testimonies in MSFT threads here. Who does she report to? We don't know the grand plan (perhaps neither does she) and that org looks a little too crowded for my taste.
Oh well. I still find it extremely weird to be asked to open YouTube on my iPhone to login, though. And my IMAP scripts are going to be irrevocably broken as well, I suppose.
I think of the problems that the homeless face as being like an evil roundabout. Although you enter with one of mental illness, addiction, or despair (or several, the analogy is imperfect) the roundabout mixes these up until you have them all.

Ultimately, we are all responsible in some sense for our own behaviour. However the freedom of people to choose to do the right thing is often severely limited by circumstance and previous choices.
Interestingly, no mention of Linus anywhere. So much for that open source ethos.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/japan?view=daily-deaths&tab=t...

Basically no lockdown other than shutting down bars at 8 PM, plenty of exposure between proximity to China and super-crowded trains

The difference between Japan and the USA is their ubiquitous mask use

We went on a 20 year jihad over a single 9/11's worth of preventable deaths in the USA, and yet we can't be bothered to take any action when we're racking up a 9/11 every couple of days?

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view...
I see the same things you do, I was actually agreeing with you that we are in a drug crisis more than anything else. It's not an easy situation to "solve" because at the end of the day people make there own choices for the most part, and it's especially hard to offer assistance when people are unpredictable or dangerous.
> To be clear, there is a place for H1-B and O-2 visas, but they are systematically abused, especially in the tech sector.

The last administration actually started doing something about it, and issued a lot more RFE for fraudulent applications.
Strong feeling of impending doom
Author here - I’m learning as I go. I thought of talking a out the actual sunlight starting at closer to 1300W and losing efficiency at each step, but I don’t get have the right tools to do that properly.

I’d def love to hear your suggestions though as I continue to iterate this one.
> I am talking to a guy who wants to argue with an ML model

Are you suggesting ML models are infallible? You might want to sit down before I tell you the news...
I will admit that my current tax rate is a little....irritating in a state that can't seem to provide reasonable roads or trains, especially trains, ffs why is the east coast so much better at this. But I think that the segment of the homelessness that has the greatest negative impact on life in SF is probably smaller than you would imagine, and maybe it is just flat out worth it.
> a certain nation controlling another nation decided that the food from said controlled nation was economically most useful being sold somewhere else.

> The locals couldn't afford the "cost".

That sounds like one of the many soviet famines, which happened exactly because there wasn't an open and free market for said food.
They were. It was the _VIEWSTATE thing that ASP.NET sticks into pages. The developers put the full SSN into the _VIEWSTATE object, which is base64 encoded into the pages.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992667

There's a good comment there that the Microsoft ASP.NET help pages specifically call out an SSN as a terrible thing to put into _VIEWSTATE :)
> You're saying rsync.net can legally provide service to Iranians with ... some paperwork ?

A lot of it probably. Also, not sure how you can collect payment from these users. And keep in mind your software might end up being used by their regime for oppressive purpose.

Keep in mind the people of Iran can end these sanctions at any time. It's a personal and societal choice.
By how much, and is it worth it? The first is a scientific question. The second is a political question. Americans fail because neither side recognizes the difference.

Other developed countries are not masking kids as young as we are doing. Countries like France are rescinding mask mandates now. For us, there is no end in sight, even in highly vaccinated areas.
Even better than a calculator - it's your actual experience ;)
I think one of the truest empathy tests is asking someone whether they think an unhoused person WANTS to shit on the street or not.
Rackspace, Indymedia, 2004. Ancient precedent by now.
Commercial jet aircraft fly at 30,000 feet ~4psi to save on fuel which also translates to higher speeds, which was the joke. Hyperloop was supposed to be lower at ~0.1 psi mostly to allow for higher speeds.

As to the effort to maintain a low vacuum, that has relatively minimal associated energy costs assuming the track is reasonably air tight.
How does Bitcoin incentivize cheap energy? It only incentivizes energy that has a marginal cost less than the Bitcoin it can produce. As long as human speculation outpaces finite resources, it makes economic sense to burn the most expensive, dijon fuels. This is true even if externalities are factored into energy prices, which they aren’t.
* Mercenary: Escape from Targ (Novagen)
http://mercenarysite.free.fr/mercframes_graphic.htm
"open world" vector FPS/RPG, fully RAM-resident, in 48k & 64k editions.

* Alternate Reality: The City (Datasoft/Paradise Programming)
FRPG with 90-degree turns, rendered walls/doors as scaled textures between the animated backdrop and foreground NPC sprites.

I wrote an FAQ as a kid for Mercenary for local BBS' - I think I discovered at least 3 victory conditions. :^)
I was a Flow holdout for the longest time. TypeScript's support for discriminated unions is one of the things which finally won me over. Super glad to see it being improved upon here.
Nuance: Touting high effectiveness agains infection, which degrades over time. This has been explained elsewhere in this thread, the original vaccine claims were similar and later morphed into "but the vaccine was always designed to protect against severe infection".

Nuance: Not mentioning that their own full application estimates saving one in a million children, under the best circumstances. See Table 14 on page 34.

The difficult ethical question: on one hand there is 1 child you may save given the information available today. On the other hand you don't know which one ahead of time, you need to inoculate 1 million children with a vaccine for which you don't have any longterm data on.

https://www.fda.gov/media/153447/download
> The CDE dock kinda demands a 4:3 monitor as well

No it doesn't. From the 1024x768 up to the highest resolution of this days, it works well. Screen ratio matters even less.
> X is still fundamentally an unsychronized protocol

Again, factually false. X has various synchronization options from the older double buffer protocol to the XSync extension to the GLX/DRI vsync commands.

I've also never seen tearing in X since like 2006.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992667
Haha. Wait, are you serious?
I think you can have a secret ballot with mail in too if you drop it off in person.
> But another is that successful policy takes a long time to work.

I am familiar with a much better expression of this lesson by, of all people, bill gates:

> We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
If you can sign up to DecisionDesk, you can see it:

https://results.decisiondeskhq.com/nov-2-2021-elections
Where / how can similar situations be identified? That is, consistemtly low turn out rate in an area where the incumbent isn't that highly rated? With such info, a dare I say agile "start up" party could make 2022 very interesting.
How do you know if they have something to say to decide whether or not to give them a turn?
Mostly clouds and rain bring this down to 600Wh/day. Washed the bird poo off the panel to get an extra 2 watts.
Wow, there really is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
That completely ignores leaving the gold standard... which was necessitated by... runaway govt spending
sort of like how GW Bush was the one you'd rather have a beer with (than Al Gore)?

When will Americans realize that being "the sort of down to earth person you'd rather have a beer with" is not a qualification for political office?
I can say this with someone who’s been his “own boss” for 11 years. Clients suck as bad, if not worse then corporate overlords and at least corporate overlords are pretty predictable.

“My job would be great except for the clients and employees*” - Me.

(my employees are awesome people - this is more about dealing with HR Issues that inevitably crop up.)
Why do Americans do drugs and have more bad behavior than other parts of the world if it's just a personal choice?

Blaming the poor for being poor does not help. Other countries does not depend so much inn police but on other social services, that 'non sense' actually makes a lot of sense and works. Police cannot solved social problems.

So, I agree that voters do not back up these policies. And that is why you get the problems and human suffering that you get.
For instance:

* Search - XKeyscore is so '00s! Using the infrastructure developed for Dragonfly, Google could build an on-premisis instance of search for the NSA's bulk collection archives.

* Quantum could finally become lucrative with proper funding to make Shor's algorithm practical.

* Speech recognition to automatically transcribe phone calls in bulk with high accuracy. They just need to sell the model, really.

* Deepmind could leverage computer vision to identify drone strike targets.. oh wait.

I support IC and acknowledge how necessary good intelligence and a credible military are, but it's terrifying what uses Google's tech could be put towards. It's like an alternate universe where privatized nuclear power showed up first, then came spooky contracts for atomic bombs.
And they should be helped. Absolutely. Regardless of the reasons I think people who need it should be helped. I just think that the most difficult group to help is also the group that causes the most serious issues.
What is the idea?
I've heard people blame Obama for stuff that happened under W. Like the bank bailout (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act) / TARP.

Those events did not happen that long ago, and it's a 5 second search to find out what president signed those.
Goodbye Facebook, Welcome Moonshot
We went to Italy over the summer, and mask usage was ubiquitous. Nothing fancy, just the basic surgical ones. They are required in schools there because children come into contact with adults.

"Is it worth it" is an ongoing question; at some point, it's probably not, but we're not there just yet. Our vaccination rates are still pretty low. And remember: the bellowing about masks started before we even had vaccines.
Indeed. If you think the results from yesterday were a shellacking, imagine the carnage if there was no early or mail-in voting. In VA in particular there were ballots cast as early as late September. Given the turn of the contest in the final weeks, nobody could say with a straight face they would have all lined up to vote for McAuliffe in person. There's a reason certain groups want to bank those votes in advance.
PrintNC reference info:

The wiki: https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home
The Discord (very active): https://discord.gg/RxzPna6
The GitHub repo: https://github.com/threedesigns/printNC

There's also the "PrintNC Store": https://threedesign.store
Is it for an R/C car or something different? I’ve found out that RTAB-MAP works quite nicely, but whether it would be useful for you depends on many factors.
I find it so weird that people blame homeless people for defecating on the streets.

Where else can they go? One of c. 2 dozen 'pit stops' that mostly close by 8pm?

That's the reason you've lost empathy for them, because they are humans who have to shit and are denied access to toilets?
The book is terrible. I toss it out and read the proposal or at the worst look it up on a few sites that track issues. There is not enough information for complex issues and the wording in my experience is very biased. It takes me more time to vote, but at least I can make an informed decision.
> Why do Americans do drugs and have more bad behavior than other parts of the world if it's just a personal choice?

Do we? (Genuine question.)
> Project managers don't know anything about technology

In my 10+ years of experience, that's the rule rather than an exception. It is very rare to find a Project/Product manager who actually has decent technical knowledge. I think I've found one or two in my whole career (one is now product VP, the other moved to Switzerland).
I would agree with you if this were 5 years ago. But the math you referenced is the data that’s been used to formulate a solution over the last decade and the problem’s only been getting significantly worse. So either your data is incorrect or the solution to build more housing is incorrect. Either way, the status quo problem/solution set is not working.
This seems like a straw man “takedown”. Are there really people who don’t remember Carter the deregulator? Or who think the USSR died this way?

I lived through that period and none of it was any secret — quite the opposite, it was current affairs in the newspaper!
What a fantastic project. Is the design parametric, in other words, are there parts that would need to be scaled up to have larger x, y or z axis or are those all off the shelf and are the various STL files for the components the same if the design is scaled up?
You mean 24-hour private meth dens?

San Francisco built a bunch of 24-hour public restrooms in the early 2000s downtown, and today they're horrendous. The problem is cyclical: people shit on the streets because there's no public restrooms -- but there's no public restrooms because San Francisco is filled with psychopaths who have no problem dropping their pants and shitting in the middle of a street. Give them a public restroom and they'll destroy it.

The people causing these problems aren't normal people who think like you and just happen to be homeless. You can't relate to them by trying to project yourself into their position. They're completely different mentally. They do not think rationally, and they do not have any empathy for others around them.
> called “donorcycles”

Only by ghouls.
Mail in voting is still secret ballot - you have an internal "secrecy sleeve" that is in turn mailed in an outer envelope. The outer envelope signature is compared to the signature on file, and then the internal envelope is removed but is not opened in the same location.

https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/wa_vbm.pdf

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/politics/barr-secret-vote-fac...
>... and those who choose this lifestyle...

I don't think that "choice" is the right word for a large portion of that second category.
It would probably not be healthy for my karma to go deeper.
Just be thankful it wasn't a body part that is regularly on display when walking down La Rambla.
To be clear though, that was a somewhat unusual race, e.g. the incumbent progressive Democrat probably would have won if he hadn't been knocked out in the primary.

The ex-Democrat, Obama/Clinton/Biden-voting Republican who won benefited greatly from the fact that her opponent had some pretty radical views, too radical even for Seattle.
You tend to get Alzheimer's after you are done having children, so resistance wouldn't evolve.
Consider the cluster of policies that just resulted in the 469 Stevenson St project, alluded to in the article, getting axed. As I understand it:

* The project had been before the Planning Commission for at least a year.

* The project had completed an final Environmental Impact Report that had been approved by the Planning Committee. Another regulatory hurdle of questionable value for a mid-city development.

* An advocacy group, Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium, apparently run by a local affordable housing ownership group called TODCO, had their lawyers file an appeal to the Board of Supes opposing certification of the EIR. What could have been a pro-forma approval is now another potential place for roadblock.

* The environmental reasons? Millenium Tower FUD, gentrification, and shadows on a nearby mid-city plaza. The scope of EIRs has apparently gotten massive if gentrification is included. (Whether a Nordstrom valet parking lot better serves the local low-income community than actual housing with an affordable housing carve-out is another question.)

* The Board of Supes reverses the Planning Commission's approval. Back to the drawing board. Or... if you want to _sell_ that property you can't do anything with, I'm sure there's a local property owner that will take it off your hands if the price is low enough. ;-)

We see here multiple stages way beyond zoning where a housing project can get torpedoed, and that these extra stages have grown in scope to cover just about anything local property owners might want to object to. And that's not even considering San Francisco's Discretionary Review process, which gives local groups even _more_ opportunities to delay or kill your project if they don't like it.
NSO Group: Israeli spyware company added to US trade blacklist
Everybody wants to focus on how miserable raising an infant is or how great being single and having your weekends free is, but the discussion of what makes a fulfilling life always gets left out of this discussion.

Being a parent is one of the most difficult processes you can undertake, but, at least in my experience, it is by far one of the most constantly rewarding, fulfilling, and satisfying things you can do.

Do I wish I could take a two-week vacation any time I want without needing to move mountains to arrange the delicate logistics of babysitting? Obviously.

Would I trade that for the warm, rich, and socially complex environment where I feel deeply connected to those around me and where I feel like I can make a real, immediate, tangible difference in the world. Of course not.

So much of modern life has shed the human parts over the course of history and is now devoid of the intangible human essence that provides the ingredients for a good life. Parenting is one of the few remaining undertakings that hasn't lost what makes being a human being around other human beings so special.
because the other candidate was seen as an extreme left-winger
It's incredibly reductive to refer to DevDiv as Azure SDK development.

Also, Nat reported directly to ScottGu whose purview is literally all of Azure and then some. Don't you think that's a closer relationship to Azure than someone who "overlooks Azure SDK development"?
I’ll try to measure this. I guess I need to purchase a shunt.
Ok, but then you're not "investing"... you're storing. Unless you use one of these services, you miss out on all the possibilities for yield (beyond coin value rising).
Actually it wasn’t. The national debt had been falling for a few years when Nixon took the US off the gold standard. This was even discussed on HN in the past few days.
If accurate this is a disgusting way of communication on behalf of the Hetzner employee.

I would immediately consider to move my projects to another provider if I were a customer with them.

They have an account on HN, so maybe they could clarify. I certainly wouldn't be considering to become a client with them.
Astronomy decadal plan being released tomorrow
> `The researchers say that with improvements to the writing techniques, particularly by taking advantage of parallelism, they can design a system that can fill that same 500 TB in a mere 60 days.`

It's possible to get it up to 100 megs per second, which is write speed of a good hard drive. And I suspect it could be scaled up even more. Progress in this field is quite good, 8 years ago they put 300kb on it, now it's 5gb.
Why we’re using a 4-point grid in Webflow
> There's an offshore team in Traansylvania busy making it a legacy codebase

As someone working for a US company in Mexico, I take offense at that :(.
I think we have this post/rant every few months on this site, so let me explain how recruiting works.

There's 3 types/market for recruiters and they almost never overlap.

The first are "body shop style" recruiters. It's basically a numbers game where they try to cold-call as much people with githubs/linkedin or blogs that reference programming. They don't know programming (not even what's the difference between languages or front-end/back-end) and are looking for a list of buzzwords. They'll send copy-pasted messages (you can tell because it references tech you never used or never even claimed to have used). If you respond (and really you shouldn't) you won't be able to get any relevant information about the position because... they don't have it. These recruiters are often contracted by external firms in "best value countries" and are given canned response to message you. That's probably what the author encountered.

Second type are professional recruiters. Their salary is by commissions will often be a percentage of your salary. They are knowledgeable about programming and tech (often former engineers who wanted a break from coding!). They typically are looking to match specific profiles to specific jobs at client companies. This goes all the way to recruiters specialized in C-Suite executives (and you can picture the commission finding a CEO will bring in). Their messages will be personalized and you shouldn't hesitate to reply back even if you aren't looking for a job. They know that most great software engineers are almost never openly looking for a job so their goal is to be on good terms with a large number of talented developers so that the minute they start looking for a job they can match them with positions. You'll know when you encounter one.

Third type is basically referrals. A players attract A players, smart companies know it. Make sure your referral bonus is a percentage of total comp. It's probably the most effective way of recruiting (it has an insane signal to noise ratio). But you only get access to that type of network by... bringing value and being part of it in the first place!
> want to cut taxes

local taxes such as sales and property tax, state income tax, plus federal tax, make this city objectively to be some of the highest total tax in the USA for working people (probably related to the high city wages for ordinary positions)
Right after you figure out how to 3D print solid rocket fuel without things going 'bang' prematurely.
We had the same experience and just renamed the calendar booking from "standup" to "morning meeting" and made it 30 minutes. Great for morale and team building! Small supporting team though in a highly moving complex domain with lots of consultants coming in and out so ymmv.
I've worked with the homeless, this is absolutely the case. Being assaulted or stolen from while homeless is a matter of when not if once you've also lost your car. Sexual assault is also not uncommon.

Drugs drown out the non-stop pain of existence.
Using atomic clocks too, nice. From an older post:

> It uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each Region to deliver time derived from these highly accurate reference clocks.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/manage-amazon-ec2-instance-c...
The risk from infection is small enough to be considered zero. There is no reason to mask the children.
I've purchased a 90W USB C car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Cigarette-Lighter-Adapter-Cha...
If you want an "intuitive" approach, you might check out this new book: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Differential-Geometry-Forms-Ma....

Disclaimer: I haven't read it (but I have heard good things).
Ireland. It was Ireland.