skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a huge step forward. The issue of "immigration" is much more important than just building a wall or undocumented / illegal workers, yet those are the apparently the only topics routinely covered by the media.

I spent 2 years on an F-1 visa, 1 year on OPT after that, 6 years on an H-1B working 12+ hours a day in a high paying job that few Americans consider doing. I delivered real value to clients, trained, managed and interviewed juniors, busted my ass effectively 24/7...

In the wake of a "challenging market environment", I was one of 3,000+ laid off... only a few months before my green card arrived. I had never received a bad year-end review package. Apparently the firm 'forgot to check' my immigration status before making the decision.

I have easily paid more than $1 million in taxes to Uncle Sam over the past decade. Yet I can't stay in the country unless I get some other visa.

I can't get an H-1B because I've maxed out on the 6 years I'm allowed to stay. Which makes no sense, since the longer I've been here, the more experienced I am and the more I can contributed to the economy.

I can't start my own company because there are no "real" work visas besides the H-1B, and all work visas require an "employer-employee" relationship, as TFA alludes to.

I can't get a green card because that process would only allow me to start working about 24 months after pressing go.

I can't marry an American because that's not a real solution and, most importantly, I'm already married.

My choices are investing $800k in some shady project for a 0% return over 5 years to get an investor visa or going back to school for another F-1 visa that doesn't allow me to work.

For a country founded by pilgrims and built in large part with the sweat and blood of immigrants, this situation feels unreal.

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
> If you're not signing up, there's no network effect.

This is blatantly false. In the past, Twitter links, both to tweets and to user timelines, were widely shared through third-party services, including major news outlets.
I have a Surface Laptop 4. Watching YouTube full screen with almost nothing else running has the fan at high speed all throughout, and battery dead after 3h. I’m not even mad. It’s just sad.
Security person who thinks tools first needs to get clue stick first.
Geany can open large files (GB in size) that bring other editors to a grinding halt. It's my go-to editor for all files on Linux.
Keys can be stored in hardware meaning that they need to be physically stolen. The keys don't need to be owned by emlpoyees. You could have them assigned to judges. The hardware keys can have rate limits so stealing a judge's key has limited impact before the key is revoked.
I, for one, can’t wait to see all those startups created in the near future. All that talent leveraged without any accountability to a manager.
Single family homes in the US tend to be single phase 2 pole 120/240.

Some medium density residential, generally high density residential, commercial, & industrial are all 3 phase.
I find the current focus on GIL-less Python really strange. The Faster cPython team set an ambitious goal of increasing cPython performance 50% with each release. 3.11 contained some real improvements, but nowhere near 50%. And for much of our testing, 3.12 is either flat or slower. True multi-threading would be great, but I would much rather have improved single threaded performance first.

I of course respect that our needs may not represent everyone else's, and we are grateful for all the work that has gone into making Python a great language. But what am I missing?
Kind of a clueless article. The problem isn't small-caliber ammo, which is what Lake City makes. It's the big stuff.

Demand for large-caliber ammo is low in peacetime, and huge in wartime. This is why the Army owns ammo plants. There are at least three large Army plants making artillery ammo. But they're old. Most date back to WWII. Production of 155mm rounds has doubled in the past year, and should double over the next year, but it's still below the expenditure rate in Ukraine.[1] The observation from past wars is that at the two year mark, production has caught up. The WWII experience was that at 4 years, there were overwhelming amounts of supplies.

The US isn't the only supplier to Ukraine. Ukraine makes ammo itself. There are several European makers.[2] Norway and Finland are rather active in the ammo industry. So is Poland. For good reasons.

The biggest US bottlenecks seem to be in "smart weapons", which cost too much and are produced in too-small quantities. The Javelin is a 1980s design. But there's a new version out, the "Javelin Lightweight Command Launch Unit". The specs reads like a cellphone ad.[3] "5 megapixel color camera. Picture in picture". The original Javelin is from the 1980s, when it was exotic technology. Now it's cell phone parts.

"What on earth is the true faith of an Armorer?"

"To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles: to aristocrat and republican, to Nihilist and Tsar, to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man, white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, all faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes. The first Undershaft wrote up in his shop IF GOD GAVE THE HAND, LET NOT MAN WITHHOLD THE SWORD. The second wrote up ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO FIGHT: NONE HAVE THE RIGHT TO JUDGE. The third wrote up TO MAN THE WEAPON: TO HEAVEN THE VICTORY. The fourth had no literary turn; so he did not write up anything; but he sold cannons to Napoleon under the nose of George the Third. The fifth wrote up PEACE SHALL NOT PREVAIL SAVE WITH A SWORD IN HER HAND. The sixth, my master, was the best of all. He wrote up NOTHING IS EVER DONE IN THIS WORLD UNTIL MEN ARE PREPARED TO KILL ONE ANOTHER IF IT IS NOT DONE. After that, there was nothing left for the seventh to say. So he wrote up, simply, UNASHAMED." - George Bernard Shaw

[1] https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/09/15/production-o...

[2] https://www.nammo.com/

[3] https://www.overtdefense.com/2022/08/05/how-do-javelin-light...
> Operation Warp Speed

I know you’re using this as as example. It has me curious though:

I feel like this wasn’t a failure, but also could have been a lot more successful. This is just a gut feel, has there been any good quantitative retrospectives on operation warp speed?
A business model can be described in code as an integration test. Wouldn’t an integration test work in that case?
Does that mean customers get 0 back?
While reading:

1. No more neck strain.

2. No more eye strain.

3. No more arm strain.

4. No more context switching strain.

5. No more distraction strain. (My Solreader is on? Do not disturb).

A truly strain free experience!
I consider it a message board more than a social network, it has no focus on social links between members and nothing fancy that web2.0 era introduced (ajax and such)
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I'm also a happy Lunch Money user and I suspect that other folks in this thread would be interested in it.
Asian honeybees have developed a defensive strategy of mobbing attacking Asian hornets in a ball and vibrating their wing muscles to increase the temperature and eventually kill the hornet by overheating it. I assume this also kills a number of the colony's honeybees as well, but European bees have learned no similar defense and a single hornet can decimate a whole colony.
A friend did some service work at Lake City. Said he asked why ammo was being packed in cereal boxes and was told to forget about it.
That’s fascinating. I’m embarrassed to have been making fun of our elder gods without even realizing it. They really were gods for creating such devices, given the constraints at the time. I doubt I could’ve done much better.

The most interesting part is that we still use the same keybinds by default 60 years later. Defaults matter a great deal, but one does not expect a 60 year example.

Cheers for this. Have a wonderful weekend!
It was. The way they built it out was UML > generated Java, which persisted data as XML. The MarkLogic database could then do xpath/queries (think stored procedures) for the Java layer - so not just POJO > XML, though there was some of that too. It ended up being a non-trivial cluster.
TypeScript's specification is very out-of-date. The best "specification" for the language is "whatever the compiler does."

(It's a double-edged sword because it lets the TypeScript compiler move much faster than any other I've seen, but the lack of standardization regularly causes unintended breaking changes, and developing a competing-but-compatible type checker is basically impossible.)
There's also some $1/month and $30/year options if you look hard enough.
Lots of us were flagged as "virtual - STATE" when we got hired for a job listing labeled "fully remote".

Doesn't matter to our CEO. With very few exceptions, those folks have been told to move, often cross country, to wherever their team is concentrated. My team was forced to relocate some of the folks from CA, TX, NY, and UT to Seattle. Mind you, these folks have always worked from the location they were hired in until our CEO decided to change the rules.
> Employees generally don't have contracts.

Everyone I know signed one. It’s just one that can be terminated by either party at any time…
A publically documented part of a system that explicitly states its purpose is not a backdoor.
According to Zillow, rent in SF is about flat over the past year and a half, so it's not like all SF real estate across the board is getting twice as cheap.

I kinda like the NEMA building itself, but the location near Civic Center is right in the middle of the fentanylpocalypse. Of all the places to lose value, this one doesn't surprise me much.
It's absolutely true that you may need to customize things. And then you are stuck with the big quarto disadvantage: debugging a toolchain that typically looks like

quarto -> knitr -> markdown -> pandoc -> [tex -> pdf | html]

and not knowing exactly where the error came from.

At the same time, the markdown defaults produce a nice, readable paper. The TeX defaults get you something that reminds you of Rubik's Cube and Duran Duran.
(Devil's advocate) if someone is in a physical office, you know there's at least a possibility that they're working. If someone is fully remote, they can do chores around the house, watch TV, run errands, work 3 jobs - you can even schedule "focus time" on the calendar to guarantee you look productive.

Faking productivity is a lot easier when remote.

Yes, you can also fake being productive in an office, but in an office not being productive usually means reading HN, or whatever. When remote, it means you're probably not even at a computer.

Having managers enforce the rule encourages the transition to appear as though it's a org-wide culture shift rather than a blanket executive decree.

FWIW I run a 100% remote 20 person team (remote before covid)... personally I believe in remote work. At the same time, I can easily see why companies would want employees to go back.
They are interested in short-circuiting, so only &&, ||, and ? do that. They would want to avoid the evaluation of b() in a() => b() if a() is false.

But !a() || b() does that. So it seems that the proposal isn't needed. a implies b should just be written !a || b.
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Is that AWS as well? Because half the AWS ancillary services are run by three guys in India who are out of the office 4 days a week from experience.
The best thing that ever happen for my career (and finances) was to work (remotely) at AWS ProServe for three years.

The best thing that ever happened for my mental health was to get PIPd with a nice severance and forced me to look for another job (I found one in three weeks).

I knew from reputation and second hand experience that eventually Amazon is going to Amazon before I accepted the offer.

There was no way in hell I was going to uproot my life and move to work at Amazon. I initially turned down a chance to even interview for an “eventually on prem” role as an SDE.

The only reason I interviewed was because the department I was interviewing for was remote pre-Covid
This is not true, even in the US, the land of "right-to-work". An employee and employer enter an agreement that the employee shall deliver the work described, and the employer shall provide a compensation defined in the contract.

That's why salaries don't change at random, week-to-week. It's also why when one accepts a raise or promotion, both parties sign a new contract. The same goes in the opposite direction - if an employer wants to cut salaries, both parties have to sign new contracts.

The contract has very few stipulations, and a lot of it benefits the employer, but still, this:

> Employees generally don't have contracts.

is false.
Sorry, but the vast majority of Americans do not work in industries that are impacted by H1B, and changes to these programs have no material impact on their fortunes.

The blame lies elsewhere.
I wonder if that's why it got worse. Companies run by people who do this type of thing often accumulate sand in the wheels.
Bad police officers in Thailand were at one time made to wear hello kitty arm bands. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/world/asia/07cnd-thai.htm...

Hello Kitty is popular enough that I worry it might encourage bad behavior
It's not a right, it's mandatory for many.
> Every meeting will be partially remote, all your team conversations still have to be in chat for someone on the team

I've worked hybrid for a while. It's not that hard to coordinate when everyone is going to be in the office for certain meetings.

Giving teams flexibility is better. If someone is maliciously changing their WFH schedule all the time to avoid meetings, it's obvious. You deal with that person individually.
Interestingly I find the examples very difficult to understand.

I replaced the table "raining? umbrella? faithful?" with "raining? umbrella? dry?".

Then made sense in my head only if I write something like this:

dry = umbrella || !raining

If I use my umbrella. I'm don't care it rains.
Otherwise I will be dry only if it does not rain.
Oh to me there's an easy one:

- conceptual layer failure => asylum

- neurobio layer failure => life support
I regularly see systems with 3 different pieces of AV/EDR software running on corporate systems, all at the same time.

I may see multiple AV/EDR systems more than I see a system with just one, running.
Microsoft Entra ID formally known as Azure Active Directory is popular option. But the list goes on Ping Identity, One Login, Google Workspaces, and more are all options out there.
Everything gets hacked eventually and this way you can blame a third party. You chose an industry standard, gasp, how can you be blamed?
Thanks for the help and I can feel the enthusiasm. I have to tell you, my hatred for TeX is profound and goes far beyond this one point. But if I start ranting, I'll never stop.
> Absolute omnishambles.

The company renowned for their CEO using a pocket knife to unplug servers straight from the server room is not expected to do stellar work managing certificates.
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Unfortunately, many people treat citations as a formality rather than something to help someone judge credibility. I try to cite as specifically as possible. Cite the page if possible (and which column if available), section if possible, and if you want to go the extra mile, the paragraph or line number if possible. That makes checking easy. This was common when I worked at the USPTO as a patent examiner, but wasn't standard practice when I was in academia.

Previous comment of mine on this issue (including a bit about how to make URLs more specific): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897686
UK PM, hero of the war on motorists, is no match for a real-world conflict
Warrants are not supposed to be used for mass surveillance. Rate limits can be implemented into the design to avoid that from happening.
What's missing, in your view?
If it's in your offer letter (remote arrangement), a cease and desist to HR seems to work when you mention constructive dismissal. Haven't tried it with Amazon though, they aren't one to really care about employment laws or regulation.

(paid the employment attorney to send this letter for the person I had have this baked into their offer letter when HR said "we don't do that" and had to do it when they said they'll just walk, n=1)
There is a note on another page about it:

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/parts/#more

> Spiral Honeycomb Mosaic [0] (search the page for "Spiral Honeycomb Mosaic") is an interesting way to assign numbers to hexagons in a hexagonal grid. It results in bizarre properties.

[0] http://paulbourke.net/geometry/tilingplane/
I prefer compiler intrinsics to look like functions, not operators.

For example, BMI1 ISA extension defines bitwise and not instruction, available in C++ as `_andn_u32()` or `_andn_u64()` intrinsics. That’s a rare operation most programmers are unfamiliar with, but it’s trivial to search internets for `_andn_u32`. It gonna be hard to find anything good searching for `=>`
The issue has its context, and producing outrage out of thin air to shame a commenter into submission ain't helping you to make any point, really. It's a well-known fallacy which you are invoking
The sad thing is that security services are being paid by the tax payer to protect us from such activity that is ultimately undermining security and democracy.

But who is going to arrest those involved and prosecute?

This should be a massive scandal that should lead to closure of security services and creation of new ones from scratch as these people are compromised.
I never joined Twitter, but wasn't there a pretty great statistics Twitter at some point? Dudes like Larry Wasserman, Nate Silver, Hadley Wickham, Andrew Gelman all pretty active and collaborating in the open. I got the impression it had some nice topical communities like that, whereas the frontpage current events feed was pretty much always shit, but that seems like a universal truth of human commons, not something specific to web-based social media or Twitter.
An event organizer's duty of care
Heh. True.
why would it make any difference for the workload of middle management if their reports are in the office or remote? are they responsible for restocking the coffee machine?
I can't wait for every narcissist copycat bastard CEO to read these stories and start wondering if they should do the same.
Mastodon has fallen pray to its popularity and now is (maybe inadvertently) abusing it's position to keep the quality of Fediverse applications low. Its implementation of the common ActivityPub specification is abysmal and sadly the developers always have different priorities.

I wish at least one of their team was more focused into improving their ActivityPub code and try to act like a good community member instead of the preserving the status quo, which is: being a microblogging platform before being a fediverse platform.
> with tools like ChatGPT it's even easier to write TeX documents.

I am not quite sure whether this is satire?
Shouldn't the certificate transparency logs have it?
Salaries reflect the ability to capture value, not need or value to the society. There are plenty of highly-paid jobs with effectively zero or even negative net contribution to the society.
Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics
> Everyone I know signed one.

Where? Did it say anything about being guaranteed to work in a specific location, lest the company pay penalties for breach of contract?

Your offer letter isn't an employment contract. All of the paperwork you sign during onboarding is a type of contract, but companies are careful to avoid guaranteeing things in those contracts.

Employment contracts have a very specific legal definition. An offer letter is not an employment contract, even though it might state your starting compensation and work location.

It's very different to believe that your onboarding papers guarantee you anything: Compensation, where you work, your title can all be changed in at-will employment.
There are tons of middlemen / services directly in between the consumer and the medicine or doctor the consumer ultimately needs (including insurance). Almost all of those middlemen are trying to maximize their own profits. The industry is complex and our entire society and economic culture is to blame, you really can't single out a single entity
I (vaguely) remember playing games with terminal echoback on physical terminals back in the early-mid 1980s when I was in college. This was on a VAX/VMS system.

Someone (I don't remember who did what here) discovered that they could get `SHOW SYSTEM` (roughly analogous to unix `ps` command) to display their name in reverse video by adding escape sequences to their process name. So a bunch of us started experimenting to see what else we could embed in there.

Most of the terminals attached to the VAX were Zenith Z-19s, which mostly emulated DEC VT-52s but with some added features. One of those added features was an enablable 25th line (in addition to the regular 24x80 display) that functioned as a sort of status line. We found we could enable that, write something into it, then use the "transmit 25th line" escape sequence to send its contents back to the VAX. I remember having to work around limitations like it sending an escape sequence before the 25th line (which confused VMS), and I think it didn't send a carriage return at the end... or something like that.

I don't think we ever got it to do anything terribly interesting, but it was fun to play with. And then IIRC a VMS update blocked control characters in the `SHOW SYSTEM` listing.
No its not, its a valid way of looking at the situation.
That's my point. Non-profits like WP or even benevolent dictatorships like Valve seem immune to this. It's once you get a pure-profit incentive through VC funding or public trading that you get this kind of "we can't have nice things" where public goodwill gets pillaged into money.
A simple C coroutine library, with multithreading and more, Go and C++20 style
http://pnewman.org/engineering_mgmt_checklist.txt

This is the best write-up I've read for what a manager should be doing.
Carriers meaning the interconnect providers eg Level3, Cogent etc? How would this intercept be implemented in practice? Surely it'd be much easier to add a node as close as possible to the origin host, i.e. within the Hetzner network, rather than redirecting traffic from the outside with some sort of BGP hijack?