skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Senator Feinstein ran for reelection at aged 85. A full term in the Senate is 6 years. So if she didn't die in that time (which is a very real possibility at her age) then she would be 91 at the end of her term. That's... ridiculous.

She seems to be in clear mental decline now, so much so that she stepped down (some say was removed) from the senate Judiciary committee [1].

So what allowed her to get renominated? Simple she was good at the most important thing for a large blue state Democratic Senator: fundraising. For whatever reason, she was a massive rainmaker. You have to be to be nominated as a Demorat for Senate in California. kamala Harris was too. It's pretty much how she rose to being VP now.

It's also why Chuck Schumer is the Senate Majority Leader and also why you will never see any serious Wall Street reform under the current system. It is the core of Schumer's fundraising base.

So there's a fine line between fundraising and corruption (legally speaking). Unfortuantely this Supreme Court has decided that money is speech [2], which has made all this even more important.

As polarized as things may seem, all that is on social issues. Both parties have class solidarity with the capital-owning class that has bought both sides.

So we can look at Feinstein's "corruption" in isolation but that's really missing the forest for the trees.

[1]: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/23/dianne-feinstein-st...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#:~:text....
Spoiler alert: Good relationships involve both parties contributing 100%.
It's true.

I'm using Linux and/or BSD on all my private machines, but from an outsider's perspective Microsoft appears to have undergone some significant changes since Nadella took over. From what I know, if someone had suggested making the .Net runtime open source in, say, 2008, under Ballmer, they would have been treated like a heretic.

There's still plenty to complain about, it's gotten more nuanced.

Also, it's important to keep in mind that Microsoft - and surely many other companies of that size - are like a feudal system internally, with different teams/divisions doing things their own way, not necessarily playing nice with the others if it doesn't suit their own agenda.
How do you obtain “after hours” work / double dip?
I’m sitting pretty comfy and decently paid (not faang) in a senior security position in a rather good company.

With the current market looks coupled with some upgrades I would like to do to my house and hobbies I would like to do some extra work instead of changing my currently strict budgeting.

I’ve tried to look industry work outside of “normal business” hours but I’ve come up short. Unless I want to do tier 1 help desk or SOC monitoring. Which I don’t want to do as I’ve already paid my dues in those trenches.

I’ve thought about consulting but I don’t really see a market. Typical consumers don’t care about “enterprise” grade security. I’ve thought about double dipping as I’ve seen a ton of openings in my wheelhouse. I do have some moral issues with double dipping. Currently I have full control of my schedule and it’s very lite on meetings. I could probably handle 2 9-5 jobs simultaneously. I worry about employment verifications and how my current employer could find out via background checks or credit reports.

Anyways looking for any advice from anyone who currently or formally double dipped and or finding after hours work.
What's needed is a ban on usage of location and health data unless very specific conditions are met, targeting the purchasers of data not only the middlemen and ensuring that it's illegal to use personal data which "fell off of a truck".

Data brokers can go underground to circumvent a ban on sales, but the end users funding that industry are legitimate businesses who (hopefully) would have to follow the laws, so it's important to target them.
Most salaried 9-5 jobs have conflict of interest clauses that prevent you from concurrently working for other employers without agreement from your first employer anyway (From a legal standpoint, this is generally regarded as part of the difference between salaried and hourly labor)
Alright. Since you want to want me to look through a US lens (I am not a US Citizen) I'll do so. But I won't go by your talking points as the Right Wing in US isn't bothered about the questions you pose at all. The Right Wing in US specifically has issues that affect it more. Some of them are:

1. Do you agree that it is true that the story of Hunter Biden was gagged by the Establishment and the details were not reported or were skewed to favor the Biden family in the leftist media? That the narrative was decidedly more in favor of the left?

2. Do you think it is fair that sources that consistently claimed the opposite (of Hunter Biden's laptop story being authentic) should be deprecated by a resource (Wikipedia in this instance) that espouses factual content (New York Post in this instance)?

3. Do you think it is fair that Fauci, who flip-flopped multiple times on mask mandate (funny how you moved away from mask mandate to vaccination as you know you will be on a slippery slope if you go that route) was still considered an authority on the pandemic by the Left wing Establishment to such an extent that they kept defending him and keep defending him to this date?

4. Do you think it is fair that the "Gain of function" research, the Wuhan lab leak theory and Dr Fauci's involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology was suppressed by the media and left wing establishment? Anything that tried to counter the mainstream theory on origins of the virus were shut down or blocked? That the theory on origins of the virus being from natural causes (that it jumped from bats to humans through another animal with no proof whatsoever) was peddled and enquires on the lab leak theory were shut down or blocked, giving enough time for the perps to clear up any evidence that might link back to them?

I have plenty more that go into realm of internal US politics and issues. Like why did CNN, NBC and Washington Post settle lawsuits with Nick Sandmann? If they are epitome of Truthfulness they should have fought the defamation case to the bitter end rather than settle for an undisclosed sum of money. If I am speaking the Truth I wouldn't back down.

> Can you think of a similar non-factual conspiracy that has infected substantial numbers of left wing sources?

Yes. Blind belief in whatever mainstream media spouts. Maybe you should start to wonder if conspiracy theorists have already gone mainstream and those who are now labelled conspiracy theorists are ones who are asking genuine questions and seeking answers that none in the Establishment have a straight answer for.

If I have to go by what mainstream Western media says about my country, it would be that my country majorly lives in slums, is extremely poor and has money to waste on Space and Technology but isn't using that money to feed the poor. This is how mainstream Western media denigrates my country repeatedly. I have seen enough fake news peddled against my country by Western media outlets to even consider them reliable anymore.
That's true, I grew up during the 2008 recession so I constantly have that at the back of my mind. Massive layoffs, housing crash, breaking news everyday, everyone in just constant worry for an extended period of time.
Now in 2022 I find myself reliving these memories a little, and I have observed my behavior to be extremely risk-averse these days.
Author appears to be some guy who makes math videos and has Udemy courses.
Yeah the thing that struck me about his Twitter thread was the absurd scare quotes around the terms he clearly disagreed with. It doesn’t come across as well intentioned at all. It’s like a get out of jail free card for literally any behaviour.
I think it's more so that they fear the fed can't stop inflation without causing a recession. So they are holding cash as they think there's still a lot more pain yet to come in the markets. If inflation is 10%, but equities decline by 40%, then you're better off holding cash than equities.
In the particular linked case of protobuf parsing, a loop with goto's doesn't produce very well optimized code because of specific internal details about how modern C compilers do optimizations. You could certainly imagine a compiler that can fully optimize a go-to heavy program, in which case the code cleanliness argument would be the only reason.
The closer I got to my PIs and their friends/enemies in various academic departments, the more I realized that university departmental politics are more stereotypically 'high school drama' than anything I actually experienced in high school! My god, professors can be so petty.

Don't consult a self-perceived expert on a field on a project you're considering? Uninvited from their July 4th BBQ.

Standing up for a junior tenure-track faculty who a senior person doesn't like? Have fun getting work done while scheduled to teach the 800 person remedial chemistry class, disparagingly called 'chemistry for artists.'

Need some equipment but you forgot to wish me happy birthday? Sorry, unforeseen maintenance lol. Oh please.
No but what's the realistic action. Don't hire from certain countries? Push American values onto entire other countries from the safety of your computer? It's just not a battle that can be won so why fight it?
It's 3. Our intention is to only monetize DbaaS revenue and opensource all/most of the tech with Apache 2.0 license. It's similar to that of Databricks. Databricks over time built out photon that is proprietary. We will stay away from this ideally forever. Enduring technologies are fully open source, we see an opportunity to build a standard scalable storage tier for Postgres and maybe for other engines over time (other engines are off strategy right now).

Please do apply! we are hiring around the globe!
Video games.

https://www.matrixgames.com/game/armored-brigade

Armored Brigade is probably a good start. 4 minutes for artillery to aim, 1 to 2 minutes for shells to actually arrive, 10 minutes for air-support to fly in.

1 to 2 minutes to deliver commands to any particular squad (depending on how good their radio contact is).

Roughly realistic levels of arms, armor and penetration. Angle of shots and type of weapon (kinetic energy, such as APFSDS, or Chemical energy, such as M47 Dragon or HEAT rounds) are factored in.

Guided missiles, top-down missiles, fire-and-forget missiles. Etc. etc. Its not every weapon, but its a solid set of important weapons that probably cover a wide variety of possible combat situations.

Line-of-sight is simulated on an incredible degree: height maps matter, but so do trees (partially obscured), houses, and smoke grenades even. Line of sight is best at 12noon. Line of sight is worst at night, unless your squads are equipped with thermal vision. Weather (foggy conditions especially) can change things dramatically.

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The simulated soldiers/tanks aren't the best, but they're smart enough to run away during artillery barrages and hunker down. They'll seek cover on their own (and if you tell them a direction to defend against, they'll look for cover on their own too against that direction). Tank commanders "button up" during enemy fire (reducing their vision but likely saving the commander's life). Covering fire is therefore effective.

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The AI is okay. The AI runs into traps and ambushes, and never really figures them out. Still, good enough to get you the basics of strategy of each of these weapons.

Seeing the 3000m range of a tank vs the 150m range of a M72 LAW really demonstrates the bravery that those unguided anti-tank bazooka squads have.
> The PI wrote the grant and budgeted for post docs. Meaning that they set the salary for the postdoc in advance at the time that they wrote the grant (most grant applications I was part of required approval from the University's finance office before submission). They can increase the postdoc salary if they want.

This is often not true and the article addresses it: A PI needs the university's approval to increase salary, regardless of how much their funding is. It's usually set by the department. If a postdoc wanted more, they needed to apply for independent funding (e.g. a fellowship). These would have their own stipends defined, and the university could not take it away. Often, they're not even tied to a PI or even the university - if the postdoc decides to change institutions in the middle, he takes the money with him to the new institution.
Same, I imagined a situation where a doctor is explaining to a member of the Bloods that he is experiencing "Crip time".
> It's the music player that made me stop using a dedicated music player program.

More or less the same for me. I loved Amarok until KDE4, but had to abandon it then. For a few years I used an XMMS2 client I wrote myself, but I grew weary of keeping that updated so I switched to VLC, and later mpv, with playlists loaded from my (custom, but general purpose) file manager.
Firstly, ranting about your employees to 100k Twitter followers looks childish and unprofessional. A CEO should be capable of dealing with their employees without talking about it on Twitter.

Secondly, it's never a good look to go on the defensive on an article that isn't even released yet. If the article is bad and unfounded, then he's just bringing more attention to it. If the article is valid, then this just makes it look like he's unwilling to acknowledge or address the problems at his company.
That video is delightful; Feinstein actually won my respect for that encounter for telling it like it is and indirectly giving the middle finger to whoever tried to manipulate her using a bunch of kids as sockpuppets.
Them be right pansy pirates! In my day, when the crew's "values no longer aligned" we called it "mutiny" and hove 'em adrift in a lifeboat in the middle of the sea with nought but a couple of loaves of bread, a couple of bottles of water, a bottle of rum, and a few disingenuous wishes of "safe travels".
The first time one of these companies hire someone from Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba or any of the other countries under sanctions practically everywhere and et hit by multi-million dollar penalties and severe restrictions on how they can operate in the future, this thing will stop being a thing.

How would they even know, if a competitor got hired to work for them?

This might possibly be a good thing for workers, but there's so much risk involved for the employer, any competent legal expert would strongly advice against it.
> It's not an arbitrary choice whether to treat a particular interaction as an employee or as a contractor - the nuances are a bit tricky, but in general it's prohibited to treat it as contracting if it isn't actual contracting but if someone is working what we'd call a standard full time job at a company.

Yea, but I suspect these are all going to be remote jobs with people in other countries at which point they're all contractors. It's only people in the same country as the company since generally the thing they're trying to avoid is tax evasion and they don't care if they can't tax you.
And strangely it doesn't appear to be the Crypto side that's getting cut:

> The changing conditions mean the company will now focus more heavily on core businesses, like investing and banking, and products he believes will power financial innovation, like those within the crypto industry.

Instead it's a few products they seem to be dumping, and cutting off parts of business teams:

> Wealthsimple will reduce its investment in other areas like peer-to-peer payments, tax, and merchant services and restructuring teams dedicated to recruiting, marketing, client success and research, Katchen added.
What about the Great Recession?
How is this belief surfaced? Is the queer person being threatened by the coworker? Why does it need to be treated differently than any other death threat?

I know quite a few high profile queer tech leaders that are constantly posting negative things about cis white men on Twitter. Am I expected to work with them when they're clearly not tolerant of me based on my immutable characteristics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0yESuI96c
Wow, sneaking Google Analytics into an extension like this? Some people really have no morals
Lots and lots are under construction. UK just committed to a 10 GW cable from Africa, that will be expanded later.
For some reason I find this even worse. What an ass. It's a shittier version of the "trans apache attack helicopter" meme from forever ago.
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As soon as you suggested that such an embedded PNG may only work on an older client, a lightbulb went off for me.

Most spam is predicated on attacking those too technologically literate to vet the attack. A smart scammer could create an email that would go under the radar of more modern client users, who are likely to report the message as spam and reduce the scammer's reach. If the message only works in older clients used by softer targets, then their chances of success are increased.

If this is the intended method of the attack, it's quite clever. Imagine if you could still blanket spam every email you come across, but only target users with old, outdated clients, who are likely older, less technologically savvy, etc... It would be well worth the R&D time.

Such reasoning follows the theory that spam messages include many typos in order to weed out 'smart' users, who are not desirable targets anyway.
How about liking wine and getting laid? I've never been in an orgy where dungeons and dragons was involved (I'm aware of the game but never played it, so I might be missing out). In situations that might lead to that, women push for horoscopes and dudes in need push for truth/dare in the hopes of something. In situations that do lead to that, people get down to business without playing games. If games are involved, they're never in the hope of something else and done for their own sake, as opposed to the hoping in the first situation.
> Please do apply! we are hiring around the globe!

Do you expect candidates to have background in database development?

Also, any advice for someone looking to transition their career from backend to database development?
Why is IE still in use and what's stopping people from switching over to something new?
> Reality has a well-known left wing bias

Nick Sandmann begs to differ.

On a more serious note: Nope. I have had enough of left wing fake news about my Country and my experience says otherwise. I was center-left most of my life. Not anymore. This is now the majority sentiment in my Country.

The fact is that left wing bias exists in mainstream media outlets in most Democratic countries. Whether they are tied to reality is highly questionable. Yes they do get some of it right. But most of it horribly wrong. Left wing media today is beholden to the Establishment. There is no counter to the Establishment anymore.
1. Great, another thing that's "Putin's fault"

2. Great, due to #1 we don't really have any power anymore at the negotiation table
Then find circles where people with the same mindset gravitate. For me it's the climbing gym and/or dating apps (they might not be the best but a necessary evil, especially considering how much time we spend working). For people with religious upbringing I have no idea honestly.

Anyway, I am sorry to hear about your struggle, and is something I am having troubles relating to since I grew up in a colture/family that is very open about sex.
Come across a charming small biz in a sea of generic chains, ask about landlord
I think you're interpreting that backwards.
There are times where they are very useful.
Geekbench 5 score for Apple M2 chip: 1919 single core, 8929 multi core
Right, but there’s no way to undo a sudo authentication.
>and being self-aware if you need to make improvements on that version of yourself - your authentic self can't be a jerk

So, you need to be yourself... but you actually don't.
> On the other end of the spectrum are organizations that offer "full anon friendly" where they don't request any information about your legal identity.

Have an example, besides jobs that are completely in-person and pay is done in cash/without government reporting?
Indian Point tried thorium. They abandoned it, for reasons.
I'm a bit scared to ask but... How do you stipulate a contract if you're pseudonymous? Or maybe you are supposed to work without a contract and accept monthly payments using a cryptocurrency?
Car prices are stickier than fuel prices. A lot of dealer inventory was purchased before gas prices went through the roof, when the pandemic was still in full force and every manufacturer was cutting production and talking about chip shortages. So used car prices were sky high for dealers, and now they don't want to sell them cheaply. They might have to eventually, but they'll hold out as long as they can in the hopes that gas prices will come back down.

But with a recession on the way, and the fact that new deliveries can only go up, and gas prices can probably only come down...it may be that there's a big crash for car prices on the horizon, especially used cars. This is coming from someone who just bought a used car!
Am I the only one to notice more tiktok videos on youtube?
Isn't that a war on billionaires using drugs? Where "information usage being criminalized" is "drug consumption being criminalized" and the "billionaire doing drugs" is the "multi-billion dollar corporation using the data"?
Someone that makes an empty promise sounds exactly like the kind of person I should ignore when they endorse things.
Interesting and glad to hear, I think it makes a lot of sense in this case!
A lot of comments in here misunderstand what it means when they think that teams at Big Tech aren't required to follow a specific process as meaning that those teams don't follow a process at all. The difference is that most senior, capable, and autonomous teams define and figure out their own process that works for them, not a pure absence of any process. Empowered and capable teams are simply better suited to figuring out and defining "just enough" process that works for them. It could just be an ultra-basic Kanban board managed through Linear.app or JIRA. Or it could be a more mature team that is still doing a more streamlined version of Scrum that probably is one or steps away from really looking more like Kanban. But autonomous teams does not mean that those teams "do whatever they want" with zero process at all. That's chaotic and doesn't yield very good results.
Modern civilization is nothing without gas and oil.
It's particularly interesting coming from those at the top of the food chain at a company.

Yeah they can say what they want and too bad if someone isn't thick skinned enough / nothing happens.

If someone not at the top of the food chain says something and someone further up isn't thick skinned enough... they can retaliate.

Then there's the weird setup where often folks complaining about people not being thick skinned enough are just reacting to situations where they're ... not being thick skinned / didn't like what they heard.
Minequackft!
My personal experience with bars is the ratio still isn't great at face-value (counting men vs women) and even worse when you dive deeper to consider the girls-night-out groups with women interested exclusively at spending time with their friends rather than looking for their partner (think bachelorette parties with half the girls in stable relationships).

Men (and women?) in IRL situations must overcome the barrier of: "is this person single or is their bf at home or in the bathroom"? Whereas dating apps provide an explicit context as to why both people are there.
Yes, SQL Azure has customers with 10K+ tenants. I's anecdotal, but I'm pretty sure
since I used to work at SQL Server!

This makes it super easy.