skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the DC Metro for all the reasons you list. That's what made its recent missteps all the more frustrating. The Yellow Line which serves Reagan National Airport will shut down for maintenance soon for eight (8!) months, even after it was shut down all summer in 2019. Meanwhile, the new 7000 series cars continue to have serious safety problems, which are not well-understood but may be inherent to their design. They've just recently been brought back into service following a serious derailment last year.

This is to say nothing of the dysfunction and alleged racism in the WMATA union, or public safety on the trains, which while generally still good has lately deteriorated. Masking was never enforced during the height of COVID. Buses are and have always been worse. I hate driving in the DC area, but Metro seems like they're doing their very best to keep me on the road.

"Unsuck DC Metro" used to be my go-to source for Metro reporting. Sadly, the man behind that account passed away last week:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/19/matt-hi...
I understand all the above, but the general rules kinda supercede it all.The general rules are that when you are the best/biggest thing around the block, rules just don't apply to you.

Also in general when government is involved rules don't apply to it. 80% or more of the amount of money that LPs as a whole administer are either Govt. Pension Funds or SWFs.

So in the case of big LPs it's one of the rare cases where both the above rules are at play to give them carte blanche.
Why would you judge what I want as an employee. If I am happy living in a low cost of living area with the salary I am getting, why is it your problem to worry for me ?
> And many tools now are priced based on headcount.

Ah, live by the ARPU, die by the ARPU: you lack of control over the "U" means your company performance is coupled to the broad market!

Thanks for this example. It's obvious in retrospect but apparently not prospectively.
>> No, you need at 5 years for ILR

As I mentioned I am on Global Talent Visa - Leader (earlier UK Tier 1 exceptional) in which you get ILR in 3 years.

Yes, I am OK on giving up citizenship because OCI works well for me.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/global-talent-digital-technology

[2] https://ociservices.gov.in

edit: about giving up citizenship
It’s kinda funny everyone here arguing they should be paid the same regardless of location - but then complaining when the reality of that wish is not what they’d imagined.
They won't have decided to ship poor drivers. That'll be an emergent feature of the conditions under which the drivers were written plus their commercial decisions.
I’m pretty sure ancient Romans and Greeks hired mourners too.
Isn't it easier than ever to filter such comments yourself? If it isn't, it should be. That lets everyone speak, allow researches and other interested parties to look at the entire spectrum of discourse, and for each of us to maintain our focus and sanity as well.
you lost me here

> But it comes down to Republicans accepting black and latino people are here to stay

because, at least in Texas, Democrats have been losing black and especially latino voters to Republicans hand over fist. It's borderline racist to assume black and latinos are automatically Democrats and not accepted by Republicans.
This one surprised me when it came out, felt more ‘human’ than lots of stock photos: https://labs.openai.com/s/AsRKFiOKJmmZrVDxIGa75sSA
It will be interesting to see if Texas ends up with some sort of Proposition 13 equivalent given property values and property taxes have been increasing a pretty significant rate.

Fight over increased property taxes in Texas becoming political
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzUwoFVUc_I

Texas voters to decide on 2 propositions that could impact property taxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz67VXkjRfg

It seems like the Texas Homestead Exemption Act is starting to morph into something analogous to Prop 13. Perhaps if there's enough growth in tech jobs (and more billionaires start hiding out there) they'll end up with an income tax like California and New York.
I hate discord for its threading, spaminess, and now its weirdness with multiple identities. It's also hard to sign up for without them deciding that you are a bot and arbitrarily banning you.
> Whose platform is it? It's the users that make the forum valuable.

It's the user's community and content, but Reddit Inc's platform.
I had to unsubscribe from sci.electronics.design; the s**posting over politics out-massed the electronics design discussion 100:1 (and wasn't even entertaining, just the same 3 people blowing each other up).
They lost and keep losing serious money.
xah lee might be a troll but at least he did a good job documenting emacs lisp on his website. i've learned more from him than i ever did from the official emacs manual (by which i mean <C-h r>).
The world is awful, the world is much better, the world can be much better
There's a decent amount of burning tools that take cue files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(computing)

Although I think that only helps you with audio CDs.
More than one semi-legit app asks you to install the APK on its own.

There are also app stores on Android that basically push lots of scamware targeted at kids.

We aren't the target audience so we aren't going to see much of these going ons.
I'm struggling to make sense of the cause and effect in the article:

"The high cost of property taxes have long pushed away speculative investors as it has pushed the carrying cost beyond what is profitable to hold as a passive investment long-term."

Alright, so now the speculative buyers are gone and we're dealing with ordinary home buyers that actually occupy their home. These genuine owners are paying high property taxes. Next:

"This has led to is a glut of high quality housing at very low prices. The amount of money one needs to save up for a downpayment in Chicago on a 2BR in the city center is 5x lower than in San Francisco or New York."

How does specifically a high property tax for genuine buyers lead to lower prices? Because of less demand from speculators? If so, why not just get rid of speculative buying (simply make it illegal)? What does it have to do with property tax for ordinary citizens?

And what on earth does Chicago have to do with San Francisco or New York?
I'm pretty sure Reddit stopped locking posts by default.
Frankly, once you have some practice, most of these games come down to a few rules that you apply mechanistically. However, I couldn't figure out ‘Cube’, and never in my life had luck with ‘Pegs’.
Where would a small group of people get their electricity or medicines? What if none of the small groups of people wants to develop medicines? This isn't a solution, it's just handwaving things away.
If they’re all married who’s going to catch the bouquet?
The results with things that are artworks or more general concepts are fascinating, but there is for sure something creepy with "photorealistic" human eyes and faces going on...

If you want to see some really creepy AI generated human "photo" faces, take a look at Bots of New York:

https://www.facebook.com/botsofnewyork
Way to 'toyie'.

Looks weird, spends tons of time to promote the dolphin angle and the use cases are all shuffled together.
fascinating how people come to the defense of corporations like this.

why? do you feel that someday you'll be in their shoes and have the power to dictate salaries?

you are likely a worker like everyone else here. demand better.
Only thing I’d care about is if it could operate like the loop card wallet thing that Samsung bought and then killed. Applepay is great but still isn’t accepted at Walmart and Krogers owned stores (among others) would love to have a little device like this that holds all my cards.
>The tools can reduce the time and mental energy spent writing boilerplate

If you're writing enough boilerplate that you find it useful to have a little helper write boilerplate for you then you are writing way, way, way too much boilerplate.

If you have literally any boilerplate in comments then you probably have too much.
Nonsense you can still give a good toast even if you aren’t married.
This is why I roll my eyes when I see people suggest that government is wasteful and should be run like a business. It's like they have never worked a job in their lives.
> Isn't that Capitalism 101 ? If employees are happy, company is happy, why does it matter ?

I don't blame them for applying "Capitalism 101", but on the other hand, Gitlab is selling an ethos, not just a product¹. Surely, nobody likes to hear "when it's about management, we're rainbow and unicorns, but when it comes to the bottom line, we're capitalism 101".

I also think that they target talented but (from a career perspective) inexperienced engineers (a bit like old Google's free lunch and table tennis tables), which I find - at least - distasteful. Gitlab cleverly capitalizes on their brand, and in addition to the location-based salary optimization, they also offer substandard salaries (or at least, they did for a significant time; I interviewed with them, and by that time, they were paying at least 20% less than comparable companies).

¹: amusingly, they're not immune to marketing nonsense; see, for example, https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/all-remo....
Same here, I have my tracking number for 3 weeks but no activity so far
Neato, I did something similar at https://danielx.net/composer/

Web audio has come a long way. MIDI and SoundFont support was an adventure. Good luck!
Seriously. One discord that I am unfortunately on has one person who just drivels on and on and on. But I can't mute him, and he does this even on channels that are the whole reason that I bother with it. Apparently there is little or no moderation possible, so everyone has to put up with his train of though word vomit.
1) This effective backlash/education-campaign has not already happened despite there already being significant problems with this kind of thing, and most of it not being that hard to spot, even, and 2) I think the more likely effect is the destruction of shared trust in any set of news sources—we're already pretty damn close to this being the case, in fact. "It's all lies anyway" is a sentiment that favors dictators more than it does democracy.
In my experience the price is always the same, the house never loses. If the landlord paid the broker fee then they put that amount amortized in the rent, if not then the tenant pays the broker fee but the monthly rent is “cheaper”
If you want to work for multiple customers, become a freelancer where you decide your own hours and ensure that there is no conflict of interest. Otherwise you are doing a disservice to your actual employer who expects your attention for the hours you are hired for, provides benefits like Health Insurance and everything else, trusts you that you will be there when they need you and in good faith expect you to not work for someone else at the same time.

Suddenly with remote work, this question has been coming up a lot and boggles my mind. How can someone do this in good faith ? ANother reason why fully remote work will be very tough for all employers.
Having used iPhones since the very earliest ones, I also fear this might turn it into an Android situation. I like iPhone because I know it’s likely the page works in Safari since iOS+Safari is a large customer group. While choice, a diverse web, competition & all that is important, I personally wouldn’t want anything but a walled garden monoculture in most cases. Being able to integrate a different voice assistant??

Sideloading apps as an advanced user concept sounds great. But if users who switch on their iPhone for the first time had to @choose a store”, that would be an absolutely terrible UX.
That sounds like they have a model of population demographics and try to “correct” their sample for various biases that effect likelihood of reaching and getting a response from people by reweighting the actual sample to match the expected demographics.

If actual views on the target issues are predicted well by demographics and independent of the response biases beyond their correlation with the demographics, this should work well.

If they aren't, though, this potentially magnifies the impact on the overall result of subsamples that are potentially most unreliable because of small size.
Except the government math is kind of hazy. Google promised 1000 jobs in Ann Arbor and the deal helped get then Gov. Jennifer Granholm reelected, that's why politicians of both parties do it.

But Google only ever created 500 jobs. Yet rarely if ever do any of these companies have to pay back part of the money if the jobs never get created.
Transformer Models: An Introduction and Catalog
I like how everyone’s face is rendered by DALL-E to look either like a still from a David Lynch film, or have teeth and hair coming out of weird places.
Broken windows policing isn't necessarily the same as stop-and-frisk, although they are sometimes related:

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500104506/broken-windows-poli...
You can already but it at lab401 since weeks, they have them in EU warehouse.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1549527748950892544
https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/doug-m...
Again, I didn't say that you shouldn't be compensated-- just that you shouldn't be compensated at the rate if they were having you actively doing work the entire time (else, why not just have you actively do work the whole time?).

> Do firefighters only get paid for the amount of time actively fighting fires?

I believe firefighters tend to do 24 hour shifts, where they actively work 8 hours and are paid full rate for that (during which time they have responsibilities in maintenance, etc)...

...and are paid a reduced rate for the other 16 hours they are on standby. (Here, in my jurisdiction, it's 10 hours + 14 hours). During this time they hang out at the firehouse, but may be eating, watching TV, sleeping, etc.

They do 3 of these 24 hour periods per week.
yes, very silly that people desire equally well paid jobs regardless of location. how very silly of them.
The accepted definition of marginalized groups is actually rather large: https://www.mnpsych.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog...

The wording in this rule is probably not great. There is a difference in promoting, "Be nice to everyone, but pay special attention where you may have a gap with marginalized folks experience" and how this rule reads. I'm not sure that there's a difference in outcomes though.
The reason is that every other major country subsidises chip manufacture in some way or another, making the US undesirable. Last I read, China has subsidised fabs by upwards of 70%. Europe has followed suit with their new chip funding legislation. It doesn't make financial sense for a global company to fork out multiple billions if they can do cheaper elsewhere, ie, Intel's new fab in Germany.
Interesting. Incidentally, I would claim that TDD done properly is in fact a lightweight formal method. It helps to be conversant with some kind of formal semantics, but you can definitely play a bit fast and loose by treating your tests as a lightweight specification. In that case any formal properties I want the code to have that can't practically be expressed in the test is included in a comment on the test. Also, fuzzing is a way to narrow that gap further.
Read developer hegemony and start a software consulting company.
>KEYFORMAT="com.apple.streamingkeydelivery"

yep you are right, looks like FairPlay Streaming (FPS).
The thing I really miss about traditional forums is the lack of the up/down-voting feature. I think in a way it sometimes worked better when posts naturally bubbled to the top that simply had more active discussion. And if you really cared about a topic being addressed, you could just bump it. I think the basic difference with up/down-voting is that unpopular topics couldn't be squelched as easily. I also suspect that, when there was no visible "approval" score from the up/down-votes, people would tend to approach discussions with more of an open mind. Of course, it was probably the case that this sort of style worked much better with smaller scale communities. For example, the bumping behavior could easily be abused by bad actors if the community moderator didn't have enough bandwidth.
They already sold to USA, but the devices for USA are different than EU because of some regulations and they are out of stock atm
Having grown up in TX and having gone through the required Texas propaganda (only state flag allowed to fly at same height as US flag etc) history courses in school, I can understand the fantasy of a by-gone era. A few people really take it to heart though.

Texas has a bit of a unique history compared to other states, it was it's own country at one point and they made sure that we learned it, even in US history courses. Part of what makes the idea realistic is that the state could support itself, if it had too. There are major air & sea ports/trade, energy, food, defense, medical, technology, research, etc. While it seceded from the union, it really didnt do much in the civil war - but the most telling is that it still went with being a part of other states instead of becoming a Republic again. The idea of being an independent country is more of having this mental place to escape too when things are not going their (currently republican) way. The 180 the state did from its heighten Independents/secession rhetoric during Obama to going full-on Trumpism kowtowing is dizzying.
Financial companies need to consume large amounts of data from external sources. In some cases there is a low-latency requirement. In all cases there is a reliably requirement.

Pay at certain firms in this industry can meet or exceed FAANG
I wonder how this could be used by a state actor to manipulate.
> That's fine; win-win for the EU market because it clears the playing field for a European-originated competitor to the iPhone.

I think that's what the EU is hoping for. Their technology industry completely failed in this space, so for them it makes perfect sense to simply drive competitors out of the market entirely. Worst case for them is that the international competitors actually comply.
Right. But the thing to realize about Prop 13 is that it was passed in malice. Angry voters wanted a "tax revolt" because they were upset with the state. That's why it expands to all property and not just primary residences (Jerry Brown's Prop 8 on the same ballot in 1978 was targeted but voters shot it down).

Of course nowadays it's easier to hire behind grandma than it is to defund school buses.
The purpose forums served aren't dead, but the experience has continued to evolve. There's plenty of topic-based messaging products out there...enough of them that if you don't like one for a particular topic of your choice, there's almost definitely another. This feels like a "cars killed the horse-and-carriage" issue.
When both sides of a marketplace are willing to commit fraud, what can the middleman do? Most likely not much. As long as purchases are not "notarized" or otherwise observed in person by a neutral third party, it is very, very difficult to reliably and fairly police unethical or fraudulent intentions for internet purchases.
I totally agree. Chargebacks are one of the few tools consumers have to fight back against shady companies. I think I've only done one or two chargebacks in my life, but I have threatened them other times when dealing with dishonest companies, which usually leads to them suddenly resolving an "impossible" issue.

If Visa ends up crippling this ability there's no chance I'll use their cards again.
Surely, this ban does not apply to servers which do not connect connect to Mojang servers (e.g. online-mode set to false aka "cracked" servers)?
> Abstractions that paper over problems that you are unwilling or undisciplined enough to tackle properly are usually bad

some abstractions carry decades of legacy (e.g. linux file-system hierarchy), and cannot simply be replaced. things that did not connect to the non-existent internet did not have to paper over problems that simply could not exist at that time (VMs, multi-user, multi-tenant hardware). there is plenty of deep software dependencies that are no longer maintained which still rely on these abstractions and cannot be cheaply/reasonably replaced in the field. sure, we have new abstractions since then, but only new and actively maintained software can ever make use of them, and that will only end up in systems that are also actively maintained instead of simply continuing to work with exactly zero effort.
If these were internal memos among domain experts, then understanding the nuances between "100% effective" and "immune" would be expected. But when the vaccine is being sold to the general population as "100% effective" I think we're just talking about wordplay.

Those articles made some pretty strong claims, and I'm not really sure what else a layperson is expected to take away from this besides "100% I won't get covid".

> Covid-19 vaccine is 100% effective

> Researchers observed 18 Covid-19 cases among the 1,129 participants who were given a placebo, and none among the 1,131 volunteers who got the vaccine.

> Pfizer COVID Vaccine Is 100% Effective in Adolescents

> A two-dose series was 100% effective against COVID-19, which was measured between 7 days and 4 months after the second dose.
Ironically, I never jumped into the tech industry because of my mental health (though I couldn't articulate it that way back when I decided to go to college for something else, and I do program as a freelancer - I just won't be a tech employee). Still, I can understand having a specific experience you need understood: I got diagnosed with MS my last semester of grad school, so I had to cope with losing any hope of a normal career path, accepting that I was probably going to slowly lose physical capacity, etc. I needed someone who could work within that framework. (For example, imagine trying therapy where part of the worldview is 'you don't know the future/the future will be better'. That's just plain GASLIGHTING in my case!)

Regarding tech specific issues, I'd try to come up with a sense of what you need understood and a few questions whose answers would let you determine if the person groks where you're coming from. Things I can think of are:

- The hypercompetitiveness and lack of stability in the tech industry. Leaving jobs every year or two is common, as is having a ton of your compensation be in stocks, the companies themselves failing fairly often, etc. It's hard to re-establish a sense of safety if your life is not stable + routine is difficult.

- The libertarian/bootstraps type worldview in SV + adjacent types (primarily due to filter bubbles + survivorship bias) can combine with PTSD to create some really, really nasty thought patterns.

- The therapist needs to understand systems thinking. I know a lot of my problems come from the fact that I can't turn that approach to things off, which means I both spend a lot of time stressing about system-wide problems I can't do anything about and I don't spend enough time creating heuristics. I try to look at using systems-thinking too much in my daily life is like looking directly at the sun or not wearing earplugs at a concert: Just because I can do something doesn't mean it's the best idea for my long-term health. It's very slow going. But you'd need someone who can understand getting lost in (and genuinely distressed by) these large issues.
I agree with parent. You phone is broken, my friend. In the years I've been using iOS, these have happened to me less than a handful of times. Definitely not something I would ever remember if not prompted.
> Sweatshops pay like shit.

Like Gitlab then?
To do a layoff properly you don’t want to lay off people who joined a month ago, or just gave up a job to be there, or rescind offer letters.

To do that, you first need to pause hiring for a bit to provide some gap in the pipeline.

Then you can do an organized layoff with respectful amounts of severance.