skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually one of the first 'known' UFOs supposedly crash landed in 1930's Italy, and Mussolini blabbed about it to the Pope, who warned the US. Allegedly. We're not the only country that's supposedly had contact.
My assumption generally is that PIP is a result of "HR engineering" - it's basically a legal way to bully someone out of the company with the worst case scenario being you maximize their productivity and burn them out right before they might've been fired anyway.

There's also longstanding evidence that Amazon uses PIP's just to recapture locked RSU shares after bad financial quarters. Basically, have a bad financial quarter, just tell managers they have to stack rank and fire a few more employees than usual.
H-1B's undercut supply and demand: if a company can't find workers (low supply) and they need them (high demand) then they're supposed to raise wages to compete for them. Artifactually increasing the supply of workers suppresses wages. It's crony capitalism.
>Should they have known better? Maybe. This makes me wonder if they were actively mislead, rather than being left to make their own mind up.

This is why true believers are the most dangerous kind of idiot. They will lead otherwise reasonable people off a cliff.
In most classified arenas, there is no private sector competition. No one in SV is building subs, SOSUS arrays or stealth a/c. So it's completely reasonable they're way ahead of some niche innovator building a sub out of carbon fiber. But it's not sci-fi tech.

People talk about the SR-71 as an example, but the A-12 predecessor was only a secret for about 18 months. The P&W jewels were out by ~1978 or so.

LM, afaik, doesn't do propulsion so there's no place to hide an anti-grav unit.
We need to push lifestyle change to treat obesity - diet, exercise, sleep - vs. pharmaceuticals. Big pharma just keeps rolling out v2.0, 3.0, etc. for the customers they've built through advertising and having doctor's marketed to push them on their patients along with government lobbying. He'll, how many COVID boosters did Big Pharma try to push at $30bn a round going into their purses?
Hi everyone, Yury and Michael here.

1.5 years ago, we launched Narrative Bl. 2,000+ growth teams worldwide have been using it to make sense of their data.

The backstory is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627953

We collected a lot of feedback, data and insights from our users and ran with it to launch https://nbi.ai

https://tech.einnews.com/pr_news/641661303/narrative-bi-laun...

NBI.AI is a generative analytics platform that helps growth teams get automated insights from their data.
The UK between 1945 and 1985 was practically a communist country. The government owned significant portions of industry, housing, healthcare, transport, manufacturing etc. Vital industries including coal, steel, water, electricity, gas, railways, and airlines were nationalized under the Labour government's program following the Second World War. The National Health Service (NHS) was established in 1948, offering government-funded healthcare to all residents.

IIRC correctly in the early 80s the highest tax band was 95%.

I asked GPT4 to convince me that the UK was actually a communist nation during that time, but it won't bite: "While the UK did assert considerable control over various industries from 1950 to 1980 (paralleling elements of communist societies), its democratic governance, surviving private industry, and support of property rights exhibit significant deviations from true communism. The era could more accurately be described as an age of robust social democracy." (emphasis mine)
But you're supposed to measure it unpacked
Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
Completely anecdotal counter-point - the smartest person I know is a physicist who subcontracts for the Army
> It does seem odd that people would put their reputation on the line by making up a story about seeing a UFO.

Why does this seem odd? People embellish or make shit up all the time. Trump loved to tell transparently goofy "sir" stories (https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/sir-trump-telltale-w...).

"But no genre of Trump story is more reliably sir-heavy than his collection of suspiciously similar tales about macho men breaking into tears of gratitude in his presence."

> For example, why would this guy lie about it publicly...

Might not be a lie. False memories exist, and misidentifying things in the sky at night is hardly uncommon. I was once in the Adirondacks and observed what could only be described as a UFO - a bright, silent, slow moving light in the sky - until a minute or two later that C-5 flew loudly over the lake we were staying in, presumably to land at Fort Drum. Size, shape, speed, etc. were all impossible to accurately identify.
> For example: you might not want to use Rust because its steep learning curve means you’ll spend more time learning than delivering

Related to that, it might not actually be the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36495667. Key takeaway:

> Rumor 1: Rust takes more than 6 months to learn – Debunked !

> All survey participants are professional software developers (or a related field), employed at Google. While some of them had prior Rust experience (about 13%), most of them are coming from C/C++, Python, Java, Go, or Dart.

> Based on our studies, more than 2/3 of respondents are confident in contributing to a Rust codebase within two months or less when learning Rust. Further, a third of respondents become as productive using Rust as other languages in two months or less. Within four months, that number increased to over 50%. Anecdotally, these ramp-up numbers are in line with the time we’ve seen for developers to adopt other languages, both inside and outside of Google.

> Overall, we’ve seen no data to indicate that there is any productivity penalty for Rust relative to any other language these developers previously used at Google. This is supported by the students who take the Comprehensive Rust class: the questions asked on the second and third day show that experienced software developers can become comfortable with Rust in a very short time.
This was also a surprise to me when we started TigerBeetle.

How clock synchronization protocols can experience unaligned network partitions, where the ledger database cluster is able to continue running, but now with the risk of unsynchronized clocks and far-future timestamps, which can in turn then lead to money being locked up in 2PC payment protocols.

We therefore spent considerable effort [0] on clock synchronization in TigerBeetle, not for the consensus protocol—we never risk stale reads or take a chance with clock error bounds—but rather simply for accurate audit trails and to keep inflight liquidity from being locked up if transactions take too long to get rolled back.

[0] https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/three-clocks-are-better-than-on...
You should look into the battery supply chain. It's quite horrible for the environment. There's no way of consuming that will save us, we need to consume drastically less. We won't turn society around before hitting rock bottom because that's who we are.
Well $400 for them to order the test for you, then however much for quest to actually do the test.
Supposedly the President is deliberately kept in the dark. Bush Sr. denied President Carter access to that information, and I have no doubt other more recent Presidents were denied access or purposely fed misinformation.

Trump in particular never showed any interest in anything besides enriching himself and allowing the Saudis, Russians, and Chinese to feed his ego. I doubt he even thought about the aliens, let alone went through enough trouble to ask about them....because if he did, and was denied info, he would have fired the intelligence officer who denied him access and publicly blabbered about it on Twitter.
I've played so many video games based in Akihabara that I imagine I know how many steps it is up the staircase and across the pedestrian bridge from the JR station to the theater where AKB48 plays.

I want to go skiing in Japan and go to an onsen but I don't want to go to Akihabara at all because I'm sure it will be a disappointment.
> It's a shame there's basically no other encrypted mail host that competes.

What about Tutanota?
"Google kills project" - in other words, it's Tuesday.
In my opinion, the conditions in AAA are considerably better now than they used to be 5, 10 or 15 years ago, in general. Not everywhere, certainly, but overtime culture is lessening and there’s a more supportive attitude to employees.

Average pay for the average employee is slowly improving too, and getting more evenly spread, though still a lot lower than equivalent jobs in other tech sectors. Better pay for most, but fewer Ferraris in the car park.
Or those from the wrong country with extreme green card waiting times, those who roll the wrong lottery number, or were working at companies that went under.
I wouldn't be surprised that in 5 years, there's a little drop down when you go to donate blood that asks if you're a firefighter, ski wax technician, factory worker or lived in certain contaminated zip codes. You select it, and they exclude you.
The negative health effects of PFAS are completely irrelevant if the alternative to this "bad blood" is death.
I sure hope it finally supports MPU-401 style intelligent mode!
I think parent is referring here to the fact that math used to be written without symbols (other than numbers) up to the 1300s according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematical_notati... (very interesting article!) However, I would say that there is a reason why notation tends towards terse symbols: it's much more efficient and unambiguous.
The other day while I was in the countryside I saw a military drone (I live near an airport doing military maintenance). It was the second time in a few months. I had my phone in my backpack, yet I didn't take any photos. Somehow the four seconds or so wasn't enough for me to make the decision.
Most Chemical-Resistant Material
It's true. I use ORMs in my projects.
I highly recommend this long video:

"Waldemar On The Life Of Vincent Van Gogh"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365r2m7_B10

Waldemar is awesome, Van Gogh's life is much more interesting than I ever thought.

Also highly recommend all of Waldemar's other "Perspective" videos. You will no longer be a noob. These are definitely from his perspective- it's all about Mary Magdalene with Waldemar.
sounds more like a recruiting and management fable than anything material and had idealized views of the direction given to you and your peers. all you've said is you were below level of being exposed to budget.
There's tons of things you can do.

What you should not bother doing is replacing your cooking pans because PFAS does not come from that. (Nor does it come from food storage containers or water bottles.)

The first thing to do is avoid paper dishes, no paper straws or any other kind of compostable dishware. The are frequently sprayed with PFAS to make them waterproof, and unless you are buying them yourself and checking you have no way to know what kind they are.

Avoid snowboarding - snowboards (and skis also I think) are sprayed with PFAS to make them slippery. The snow in the area will be covered in it, so just don't do that kind of sport.

Check your outdoor clothing, and kind of breathable clothing that is also waterproof is most likely coated with PFAS to make that happen. This is not just rain jackets, but also active-wear advertised as "quick drying".

Add a carbon filter (any kind) to your drinking water, you don't need reverse osmossis, carbon works fine. And helps for tons of other things you don't know are in there - plus it tastes better.

As a general rule any time you see an object that should get soaked with water stay dry be careful!
Neat! Love the "type-safe" prefix; we'd called them "tagged ids" in our ORM that auto-prefixes the otherwise-ints-in-the-db with similar per-entity tags:

https://joist-orm.io/docs/advanced/tagged-ids

We'd used `:` as our delimiter, but kinda regretting not using `_` because of the "double-click to copy/paste" aspect...

In theory it'd be really easy to get Joist to take "uuid columns in the db" and turn them into "typeids in the domain model", but probably not something that could be configured/done via userland atm...that'd be a good idea though.
I think it's pretty rare for F150s to be driving on the sidewalk, thankfully.
Incorrect. During the mid to late 80s law firms were some of the favorite customers of integrators. Firms moved from a 1:1 lawyer to secretary ratio to 2 or 3:1. IT also transformed the accounting department. Who do you think was buying all those WordPerfect licenses?
Big assumption?
Sure, but those COTS parts still underwent lots and lots of rad/ vac testing. There's a design-for-resilience vs test-for-resilience tradeoff at play. I'm saying that not all systems require design-for-resilience.
Lath & Plaster is still pretty common, they were usually built without insulation so retrofitting the knob & tube was actually pretty simple to do from the attic.

Bathrooms have usually been gutted though, if for nothing else than the common designs had windows in the bath/shower and pretty much guaranteed water damage in the wall.
I don't think you fully understand how big their codebase is and how many different teams are working on it at any given time.

There are very fundamental differences between a mono-repo and a bunch of repos for each "service" or whatever. Lots of tradeoffs. I've worked both and I can see the reasons for huge monorepos. They make a lot of things that were previously hard much simpler... The tradeoff is your tooling needs to be able to scale with growth of the company. And for a company the size of FB, dedicating an entire team to improving the tooling for their monorepo is well worth it.
I think you made a mistake in your math. The Birthday Collision probability of just a trillion random UUID is much higher than that.
While I would agree with you in an otherwise normal year, in the year of layoffs, this policy may be the kind of fast-thinking that actually makes sense.
Totally agree. You can blame the Washington Post.

But we choose to use it because a lot of people don't know the chemistry but recognize this label.
> they will literally make less money doing the same amount of work

I call BS on this. Doing more in less time means you can do even more than before and kill your competition.

There is nothing but upside in advancing technologically for pretty much every industry.
> In jobs where you have to actually engineer instead of build CRUD web-app #2,000,001, it's very hard to be effective without in-person communication.

Trivializing the work of others isn't making your point any stronger. There's plenty of complexity in delivering software via the web that benefits from in person collaboration.
> get as many copies for whatever development branch

Why would someone need a more than one copy of a dev/feature branch?
Every time I remember that torrents exist, that blows my mind.
When I see a headline like this, I think that this must mean that the courts upheld human rights and the totalitarianism fans are spinning it as a loss for law enforcement. Anyone want to click the link and tell me if I'm right?
"But that's haaaarddddddd for me as a lazy software developer who went to college and learned complex algorithms and calculus and physics and chemistry just because but can't seem to handle a few #ifdefs because they aren't in vogue anymore"

Except our organization builds python and java apps so all our shit is multiplatform by default or even by accident. Hell, I put together consistent, cross platform Swing UIs before I even understood what maven was.
Apple introduced optional end to end encryption for photos after withdrawing the on device scanning plan. Do you claim a back door?
Oh, ok, that.

The comment doesn't really apply to that either. Germany and France were quite involved on that one, so it wasn't exactly secrecy that kept things slow. It was more due to the sheer unpopularity of the thing (on both sides) even between the people high-ranked enough to know about it.

I mean, by 85 Brazil had already a nuclear reactor in full activity. A reactor can get you enough plutonium for a bomb long before it's in full activity.
Storing is one thing, computation is another :-)
Again, literally not true. There's plenty of people that would hate to live in the US, and much prefer Canada. Plenty of immigrants. Those people work in the Canadian offices.

I don't know if you know this, but the rest of the world considers the US to be kind of a terrible place. Sure, it might be better than home, but Canada is way better than both.
Equating "Wealth taxes are counterproductive" to "Let's posison people" is a quite a leap. It's less reading between the lines and more deranged hallucination.
If I and O are already excluded and you also exclude U that removes a lot of potential rude looking three letter combinations like *** and *** and *** and also the four letter ones like **** and **** and the dreaded ****. Of course because you have A then **** is still a possibility but very very unlikely
If you have a whole half ton of energy guzzling metal machine just to move you around town, are you minimalist?
Not everything needs to meet those specific standards, but essentially yes. My sibling comment mentioned Ingenuity (Mars Helicopter), but let's mention Curiosity. It often gets cited as costing $2.5 billion dollars. So that alone says why you wouldn't want to risk anything (see my other comments, especially about TRL[note]). But that also took almost a decade![other note] Time is also very expensive, so how much would you risk? On a 10 year project, that is going to operate for another 12+ years (still going, landed in 2011) with no way to repair or fix the product, you probably want that thing to be reliable as shit. Worth an extra year or two to make that happen.

[note] TRL 9 pretty much doesn't exist in these types of missions. We don't have decades of operation of specific devices on other planets. But you still use very robust and redundant systems.

[other note] People often cite this as a waste of money, but when we consider the time it is pittance in the government budget. Costs could definitely come down, but in government money can only exchange hands through leaky buckets. NASA politically prides itself as having parts from every state, which from an engineering perspective should sound like a logistic nightmare, and it is. But this is the type of people you are voting for, people that love pageantry over pragmatism. (pageantry gets votes, pragmatism doesn't)
I would think that knowledge of ETs would be very destabilizing for our society. Why go into work the next day if there are literal ETs visiting our planet? Why pay taxes? Why fight for generals who have lied to you? Why worship your god? Especially if its a truth that has been kept secret for so long, that would be particularly damning for the legitimacy of current governments of the world in the eyes of most people, I would assume.

On the other hand, if we have our hands on ET craft, you'd have to imagine there are some capitalists who would like to profit hand over fist over whatever this technology might offer, people who aren't well leveraged for this revolution be damned and left to fight amongst themselves while your cabal maintains the largest technological advantage relative to other groups in human history. We have plenty of examples of capitalists profiteering at the expense of humans and the earth today.

This is all speculation of course, who knows what is happening.
1) Iran? did you forget about sanctions? Apple does not operate at all in Iran. No offices, no employees, no data centers. Nothing. Apple doesn't care what Iran tells them to do lol.

2) I mean they search for spam, malware, copyrighted material (as required by the DMCA), etc.
It's quite amazing to see that the mars rover has what you'd call self-driving capabilities, complete with onboard mapping & localization, yet without GPS and any kind of reasonable computer.

However, they did create an FPGA to do the stereo vision in real time, which is pretty cool too.
No, that is incorrect. PTFE is not a PFAS (it's chemically related, but is not the same).

You are perfectly fine with PTFE dental floss - it has no reactive PFAS components in it.
GitHub CEO: AI and software development are now inextricably linked
What is the process of moving to the USA as a Canadian?
> A 1 bedroom or a studio will rarely go above 2K, even in Vancouver or Toronto.

Average price of an unfurnished 1 bedroom in Vancouver is well over 2k now.[0]

> If you're cooking, and not being frugal at all, you're spending 500 per month at most.

I said food, gas, utilities, electrical, and all the other sundries required of living in Vancouver. And 500 CAD on food was achievable pre-pandemic, but inflation hit grocery bills the hardest.

I paid for renter's insurance, and extended medical while living in Vancouver. It was worth it, because my storage locker was busted into several times by junkies and we had things stolen that we later replaced. And, if you bike you are potentially liable in accidents. Getting insurance if you commute by bicycle is sensible.

> Canadian cities are walkable and have public transit, you don't need a car.

Taking Translink will still run hundreds of dollars a month.[1]

0: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-rent...

1: https://www.translink.ca/transit-fares/pricing-and-fare-zone...
Not a very robust analogy. There are tons of different wheel designs out there. Some are good for racing and suck for rain. Some are great in the snow but are noisy and inefficient on the highway. Etc... Maybe their needs are so special they need a wheel design that doesn't commercially exist?
Why not call that "MMC"? Why is it called "Woke"?
I had a similar experience.

Instead of moving hours away to Toronto or Vancouver (if you don't live there), just move the same distance south and you can find cheaper housing, higher wages, more job opportunity, lower taxes and lower cost of living in general.

It's like a secret power up to your life.
pfas are estrogenic. And yes, it explains a few things.
I didnt realize that - I was just trying to convey, that mayhaps ; If a secrete message would be sent via Sonar, an image encoding might be efficient, such that the blok of info one wishes to convey, might be a really long stream, as opposed to encoded into an image which would result in shorter sonic comms...
HN is not America (thank god)

Private companies catching child predators is actually pretty popular.
Can you describe what happens after one graduates after coming here on a "college visa program"?
Of the one, or that fiery death that never ends
To the heart of its description
Go through great changing of conciseness
It becomes what becomes the lesser, not to much more and not of us.

And without whining (or any sad crap)
One crappy song, you know is very much like this place
Goes the same way and that is:
“Thanks to you, and me, it’s super awesome!
I’m leaving all the bad times behind.“
> The annoying part is getting it mounted in every pod that needs it and needs to consume it

Yes, I suppose, in that it does need to be available to the pod.

This is one of those problems you're solving regardless of Kubernetes. I think a few lines of YAML to say "pull this secret into this Pod" is pretty acceptable to trying to figure out how it ends up on a VM with Ansible, or do I pull it from SSM, etc.

> Node has its own way of doing it, Java has its own way of doing it, etc etc and they all have their own little ideosyncracies that you have to worry about.

Yes… all the world doesn't use the same HTTP/TLS libs. That's just dealing with encryption, period, though; you've got this regardless of whether the CA is internal, or you're on k8s, etc.

Java, though is particularly annoying, most of its ecosystem stubbornly refuses to use the same formats for key material as the rest of the world does, necessitating a translation into its format. That is annoying, but nonetheless that's a Java-ism.