skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a good first portion of my career badly picking startups that would fail. I got pretty darn good at sniffing failure. In 2018, I started getting those smells from the US itself. My family packed up and moved to the EU in 2018. I don’t regret it, not for a second.
Luckily, most vandalism doesn't appear to be committed by people with the intelligence to cause real damage, they just spray paint their initials on it, try to set the metal box on fire or scratch or dent the case.

There's only so much one can do to defend a 1mm slot that has to accept a plastic card (ditto for coin slots).
It's still littering. Used toilet-paper is biodegradable too. Would you care if I threw some on your lawn?

Anyway, throwing away food is appalling. It costs a titanic amount of resources to grow, make, manufacture, transport, package and sell. There are significant environmental costs to producing anything and most of it isn't captured in what you pay for things. To throw almost anything away is bad; throwing away food is criminal.

And it's irresponsible behavior in front of children, who typically take on board what you do, and not what you say.

Don't do it. It's nothing to do with Freedom. It's to do with being a responsible adult.
what happens when the "demographic collapse" becomes the current thing, and abortion becomes a "public health" issue? Will we see another change then?

I think many people who have been repeating slogans without thinking about them are suddenly wondering if they actually believe in a principle of bodily sovereignty or not. I kinda hope so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700s

1700s may refer to:

- The century from 1700 to 1799, almost synonymous with the 18th century (1701–1800)

- 1700s (decade), the period from 1700 to 1709
Interesting, what smells were you picking up?
Flash, ShockWave, WebGL, Java applets, and Silverlight was great when it worked.
Media coverage of suicides is a tricky topic, I know there is worry about a potential copy cat effect. Actually when I went to look for more detail about this, it seems that Switzerland specifically has had intentional campaigns to influence media coverage of suicides because of this: https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/4/238
Why does it have to work for 10 years? Make the parts replaceable and service the machines. The machines in the shade work for 10 years and those in the sun get a £5 replacement every 6 months.
> I honestly think we're very biased towards assuming our senior corporate leaders are foolish and misguided.

I honestly think we're very biased towards assuming our senior corporate leaders are gods and not fallible mortals.

All humans make mistakes. Very bad mistakes. Even very smart people. Depending on circumstances and level of power, some people suffer the consequences of their mistakes, and others don't.

One common mistake of leaders is to surround themselves with "yes men" who never criticize them or tell them the truth. Leaders can become very detached from reality, but their power allows them to survive and even thrive in a state of reality detachment. And these leaders always have people who will defend them no matter what and paint them as infallible geniuses because of their power, which is part of what contributes to never suffering the consequences of mistakes.
At work I usually have 1 or 2 Webstorm windows (there are two front ends) and at least 1 IntelliJ windows, maybe more if I am simultaneously working on different modules in the back end.

I keep them apart by using multiple physical monitors and/or virtual desktops. The workflow depends on what I am doing…. For instance i might have a back end running but never do anything other than boot it up, so I put that on another desktop and never look at it.
> then in the coding exercises you were asked what the O(n) complexity of time/space were

I usually ask people to roughly describe what is meant by computational complexity (sometimes I slot it into the conversation when discussing some code they wrote), or what big O notation is for... assuring them I'm not looking for a formal definition but an understanding and applicability. I probably wouldn't do a great job actually using big O notation to express complexity myself if asked on the spot; however I believe a basic understanding of the underlying concept is invaluable and separates juniors from everyone else.

Is this not considered reasonable these days?

[edit]

To clarify, I think the author was being asked to express their code in big O, I'm just wondering what people think about ask about big O and complexity in general.
> there are "four C's" currently driving the investor citizenship industry: COVID-19, climate change, cryptocurrency, and conflict

One of these is not like the others – is someone able to legally avoid US taxes from selling cryptocurrency by holding another citizenship?
Seems like a perfect storm of harmful incentives, no oversight, and weak political leadership. It's a great demonstration of how legislators (and the public) need to remember that policies have to work in the real world with real world constraints and not just on paper.

It's good that some measures are planned to help prevent the fraud, but it's frustrating how slow they are to get implemented.
Illustrating Why the First ICMP Ping Is Lost
Depends on the school, but some will prosecute.

My local community college woke up their sleepy 15 unit cop squad, and worked with financial aid, in order to prosecute a few people doing it. (A sleepy community college with 15 cops/detectives. There's a state law requiring cops per student ratio regardless of crime which is basically zero. They don't do anything besides ticket cars.)

This is what we pay our police to investigate.

The couple in Marin County signed up for classes, and got federal aid. They told their friends and it was a popular way to make a few grand, but their public outing stopped the scam. They always showed up to the first class though.

Poor people will do sketch chit in order to get ahead. Rich people cheat better, in greater numbers, but don't get caught. (According to professor Cartman. "You know how white people get ahead? They cheat, but they call it, I miss interpreted the ruuules. I'm looking at you Covid business fraudsters, or moral fraudsters.)
You seem to have absolutely no experience with the governance of rural America and the abuse of it. Just look how Scientology or the Mormon church are taking over cities. There is no way to fight back if a giant entity with money and questionable morality decides to get involved.
When such big donations happen can the entity which received the money re-purpose it should the political landscape change?

It's no coincidence that most of donations are for stuff which is sure that people are going to care about 10/20/50 years from now. Like diseases prevention, medical schools and R&D, and mostly financial aid for the disadvantaged. Mike Bloomberg still holds the record for his donations to John Hopkins which is the largest sum ever donated to a University and it's all about all the above.

Will people care about ESG 10/20/50 years from now? Who knows? At the end of the day it's a political front in the culture wars between left and right.

The donor clearly voiced the purpose of his donation, can Stanford re-purpose it if needed be?
The article defines 300% increase in the requests made to a particular company as “skyrocketing”, but I see no base value that this change is measured against. If four dudes got themselves an extra passport as opposed to one in 2019, the numbers start sounding far less impressive.
It is both to stop tickets being transferred but is also to help the number of complaints about "I bought a ticket but it fell off my dashboard". At least this way, it is easy to check.

Also, if you use the app, you don't need to use the machine although for some reason, we seem to have at least 10 different parking apps in the UK. Not sure who decides that we need another parking app.
Sounds like another Lisp interpreter. While everyone is on transpilers.
In fact the main goal of the plate number is to use cameras with plate number recognition to automatically generate the fines
We're not talking about 2FA, we're talking about account recovery. I do have my authenticator app set up. Can I use it to prove myself if Google thinks somebody stole my account?
I clicked on the post thinking it must be because the streamer is a hot young woman. That was the stereotype of popular streamer doing something uninteresting that came to my mind based on what's been going on with the game streamer community on twitch. Some girl in a microbikini with fake glasses pretenting do read a book and winking at the camera from time to time. Like, yeah, ok, I'm sure you could get as many viewers with sexy beekeeping.

It actually seems a lot more wholesome that people are wanting a virtual "study pal" as motivation. That's pretty normal and healthy. We're a social species. If this helps people not feel alone and it helps them get started, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. I'm sure some people also watch this guy because they think he's attractive, but at least he's giving them a positive stereotype, attractive because he's doing something good for his own development vs attention grabbing and attractive because skimpy outfit.
Traumatized minds think alike
>He said his US clients often work in tech, real estate, or crypto, and are worth between $50 million and $20 billion.

>The one thing they all have in common: deep-rooted fear about the future of American society, he said.

That tells a lot about the changes that happened in the American society in the recent years.

I wonder if they also try to fight against those changes or they will wait for the situation to degrade more and then leave.
Banks can't decide these things on a whim. They are heavily regulated.
> One of these is not like the others – is someone able to legally avoid US taxes from selling cryptocurrency by holding another citizenship?

Not unless they renounce their US citizenship and pay the exit tax.
This reminds me of Roman times, when generals would inflate the number of soldiers under them, get paid then pocket the difference.

Or a more recent example, Afghanistan: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59230564
You don’t need to get citizenship to get a passport. Panama and many other countries have resident visas that get you a passport without becoming a citizen.
Here in California, I believe I have seen administrators cover up enrollment irregularity (direct fraud?), even before covid-19, in the Hayward Adult School -- English as a Second Language (ESL) program, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The administrators are cool like lawyers, but now reading this, it all fits.
Link the source.
Correct. I don't see a path to direct financial benefits with a poorly created fake enrollment.
I'm going to rail against this. The far majority of tools are not so obscenely complex you can't learn the majority of it. The far majority of jobs are not so obscenely difficult you need the bleeding edge implementations available in those tools. Looking online, the amount of information available to do what you want is insane. There's almost always someone who has already done things, especially for technologies older than a few years.

This is even more problematic considering this selection is done on framework and library level as well, and many other tools. At the same time, making a tech stack is much like creating an ice cream cone with thousands of flavors, decorations and even cones available.

Language agnosticism and general intelligence should be applauded far more than the industry currently does. Many toolmakers are doing their best to make using their tools as seamless as possible, and they are doing a good job at it.
usually resume has all the info, why do we need to enter education history all over again while applying for the job?
Aren't there extra steps required for actually getting the aid dollars where they confirm you are a real person? All this seems to do is get you a .EDU email address (which is useful on its own for getting discounts and such)
That is a great trick. I played along with the number trick, and I also had my number predicted. So this is success on a random independent sample of 2 people, with 1-in-20 odds. I'm sure LLN eventually kicks in, but I'll remember this coincidence for a long time.
In the late 2000s or early 2010s is when I first read about PowerShell (v1? it was still bleeding edge) and my jaws dropped.

Ability to work with both .NET and COM objects? Piping objects and not strings?

Absolutely amazing and useful tech, and I had to reread to
make sure I wasn’t reading about some future plan.

I wonder which division pushed hard to demote; the Windows division?
Probably he was still getting paid a lot? It is MSFT after all.

I imagine that a certain kind of person, willing to write tooling and even get demoted for it, is willing to stick around with a bit of a pay cut anyways.
> If three dudes got themselves an extra passport as opposed to one in 2019, the numbers start sounding far less impressive.

If those "dudes" are multi billionaires is still impressive.
It's not that the aid is 'going to the wrong people', it's the fact that financial aid needs to exist in the first place. Setting that aside, I don't really understand how this fraud happens- when I applied for FAFSA, the student loan account was created for me, the assistance applied through some automated system, which was hooked up directly to the college. I never saw the cash at all. The article doesn't explain how the fraud works either.
Sigh. it's not a comment on the downvote, it's a call to those down voting to participate to enhance the convo. If you read the rest of the guidelines, they also state not to cite the guidelines as a reply.
I've generally taken at least that long looking for new jobs.

It depends on whether you want /a/ position, or /the/ position. My past few jobs have been perfect fits for my background and interests, and I genuinely enjoyed work.

A random SWE position is petty fungible. Perfect fits are rare. Markets are pretty inefficient too, so you can command better salary or benefits, if you want.
I've actually installed Powershell on my Linux PC last year. I daily drive a Linux box, but I sometimes have to interact with my employer's MS ecosystem (that's technically not my job, so running Linux is fine most of the time).

After waiting for the installation to do god knows what for what felt like ever (and I was running an 8 core Xeon with a fast NVMe drive at the time...) I attempted to connect to the Office 365 tenant to do something.

Since it was my first attempt at running this on Linux, I was following along with the MS docs (actual docs.ms, not the TechNet circus) and I started getting uncomfortable with statements along the lines of "this should work". I mean, if you're not sure, who can be?

Anyway, it managed to install whatever libraries it wanted, so I was ready to go. But everything ended abruptly with some "incorrect credentials" or similar. The credentials were, of course, OK (they worked fine in the web-based admin console). But after some digging, it turned out that, contrary to what the MS docs said, you can't connect to Office365 from linux...
web3 in the subtitle, ctrl-w for the tab. not a hard and fast rule, but given the main title, bye.
Is that supposed to be surprising? I don’t tell people about unannounced projects I work on either.
Should we really be drawing any kinds of conclusions based on such a small, statistically insignificant dataset?
A lot of that is American carmakers playing to their strengths if not their fetishes.

It has been easy to get parts to make radical revisions to American cars (crate engines) for a long time, much more so than other carmakers. Also, American carmakers have long been obsessed with trucks to the point where sometimes I wonder: Will they stop making trucks? Will the people who used to think cars were a problem for the environment (with bicycles, busses, walking being answered) come to see trucks and suvs as the problem and cars the solution?
> I've noticed more with Conservatives because of the noise they make about things like welfare freeriders, election fraud etc, but i imagine it applies to Liberals as well when talking about other issues.

It's a big generalization to say that, because one side of an ideological divide behaves one way, the other side must, too! I think rather the Democrats (we don't really have a Liberal party) are a party that takes some tentative steps in the direction that it's better for everyone to have something, even if there are some people who don't deserve it; that is, that the malady you diagnose is a Republican, not an American, preoccupation.

Of course you can look back in history and find instances where Democrats have embraced such positions, too, and you can find plenty of odious things even in today's Democratic platform, but I think that today's Democratic party is consciously, if very slowly, trying to distance itself from exactly the mindset that you describe. But maybe I'm blinding myself to this behaviour in an attempt to justify my adherence to the lesser of two evils. Do you have examples?
I want to thank the author for explicitly saying the article is about Web3 - saved me from wasting my time.
Hum, not sure you can avoid climate change or covid by moving either. You might escape climate change and covid policies though.
> I've found I generally have to explicitly ask if I want someone to explain what they're doing and why. There is very little 1:1 teaching/mentoring. In an office I think there is more informal mentoring.

Asking people questions and engaging in 1-1 conversations is no more difficult over Slack + voice + screen share than in person. In fact it gives you more options for how to conduct the conversation and remember the results.

It's really not hard, and some people are great at it. The problem is that people sleepwalk through their remote experience and don't spend any time thinking about how to make the small changes needed to fill the needs that in-office used to fill. For some reason, it only occurs to them to seek out information if they can walk to a person in a room rather than type in a box.

I constantly observe people excitedly blabbing in person, seemingly reaching all sorts of epiphanies, but at the end of the day, the conversation lacked specificity and no one really learned anything. It's a perfect medium for feeling like you learned something without actually doing so.

Figuring out how to make remote work produces better results when the team is willing to do it. It enhances all work, including in-person work, and there are lots of resources by now for how to do it well. But if the team is unwilling to do it, no surprise that remote doesn't work for them. They chose to make in-office the only possible way to work.

It's not an inherent thing to the environments, but a choice that particular team made.
Title is "What the $#@! is Parallelism, Anyhow?", which was probably easy to guess but not completely clear from "$". I assume this was over-eager HN autoformatting. :)
> Good for you, realisticly not many people are that fortunate to find a nearby opportunity

If that's true, then you can't really complain about it.

But in my opinion if people are willing to resign or accept a (rather big) paycut to work from home, they could have found a lower paid job closer to home.

In my case it wasn't luck, I moved to another city to get the job, but I chose to live at 15 minutes walking distance from the office, because commuting for hours it's not what I want.

It's all about compromises, I believe anglophones say "you can't have your cake and eat it too"

> but remote work opens endless opportunities for me.

that's true also for companies.

Why should they hire someone from US and not someone somewhere else where the pay is lower?
The issue came from banks, for instance, who demand mandatory crapplications just to allow web logins from desktops with the excuse of "safety". I do not know if banks from your country have done that, it's a moderately recent idea in southern EU since around 4-5 years. Some arrive to the point of stating that's mandatory by law, witch is not only false but also the contrary since EU PSD 2 law they cite mandate that no single device can authenticate and operate, while most of such crapps do.

I know some have analyzed their (unsafe) protocols and now use desktop otp software, but that's not a thing should ever be needed in the first place: banks who mandate the usage of unsafe platforms (and the rise of Android banking malware is a nice proof) must be forbidden by law with sanctions severe enough no one ever try to push such systems just to grab more data from their customers.

A thing we already see for EV recharge and other activities.
Exactly, the app is a compliment to the native "Sound Recognition", they don't step on each other's toes. We don't 100% endorse that functionality because we don't want to be liable for inaccuracies or weaknesses in that functionality
Get a Delonghi Dedica ec685, you can find it at ~150€. It's the cheapest good machine I can think of.

It comes with a pressurised filter so you can throw whatever ground coffee you buy in the supermarket and it will make a decent espresso.

If you want to take it to the next level you should buy a non pressurised filter, good fresh coffee in beans and an extra 300 for a good electric grinder.

That's pretty much the cheapest setup I can think of to make a good espresso.
Seems like you got it backwards. In this case the fraud is enabled by the means test. If the education was simply free or affordable to anyone and funded from tax revenues, this fraud would not be possible. The highest level of fraud possible in that system would be that someone gets an education they did not truly need, which is hardly bad at all.
We should simply make those who support things be personally financially liable for the costs and waste. It’s easy to be flippant about waste when it’s other people’s money you’re wasting.
is 'f' before the string a typo or is it required?
What does Peter Thiel have to do with people worried about the US society and buying an exit?
You know what makes for boring reading? People not engaging in discussion at all and just relying on downvotes to convey their opinion.
The alphabet has been around for even longer though. QWERTY, along with key staggering, seems to be useful for backwards compatibility with typewriters, or perhaps with those who learned on backwards-compatible computer keyboards, but this keyboard isn't close to that of a typewriter either way, not likely to be used any similarly. And I suspect that random people on a street are more likely to know the alphabet, rather than the QWERTY layout.

The screen indeed looks like it'd be tricky and annoying to read.
notice that Biometric Identification company posting the very first comment in that article comment section. While other YNews readers casually promote constant surveillance, I for one, am steadfastly, actively against biometric tagging for benefits, constant and automated surveillance against the powerless for violations, and no-recourse bureaucracies with guranteed revenue.
Not a lot of overlap between people concerned with legality and crypto-wealthy seeking multiple passports.
"screenshots" of printouts... sounds like a typical academic institutional farce. Sounds like it impacted other states too, but I'm willing to bet certain states reduced the barrier to exploitation to zero and they wonder why it was an attractive target?

reaping and sowing springs to mind
The Supremes in the US have just ruled "My body, my choice" does not apply to abortion, so that undercuts things a bit.

But pregnancy or its termination isn't contagious. Airborne viruses are and so the effect of not-vaccinating is larger and the ability of a sick individual to affect others is far greater.

EDIT: Smoking, seatbelts, vaccination prior to entering elementary school, ... these are not contentious like Covid.