skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait for "Microsoft would never!" brigade...
The EB-5 might be a good option but I'd recommend that the founders get an evaluation of their options first before proceeding with an EB5.
> threads and processes waiting on some resource should be able to update some piece if metadata pointing to the thing they are waiting for This will allow "donating" their priority and cpu share to the other process/thread.

That's what, for example, futexes are for. But the "donating" part can be expensive, so short spins can actually be beneficial for overall system efficiency.
> what organisation in all seriousness gives a junior developer the access rights to drop a production database

It is pretty normal. Someone with university education, should know how to use a SQL client! I personally would fire such person as well. Carelessly copy&paste and execute code from some website is a huge redflag! Getting rid of such person on their trial period is very cheap....

Also many services are not mission critical. DB drop could mean short downtime, and restoration from backup (or Kafka stream), and with little loss revenue.
Presumably the is no overlap in the Venn diagram of people who want PGP encrypted emails and people who use Facebook,
Typing speed is not a bottleneck, staying in the zone is.

Training yourself to do less effort / having more fun while writing code is a good way to stay in the zone longer.

But it is not enough in itself, tooling (fast compiler especially) can break or improve the flow substantially.

I’d say that typing speed should only be seen as an optimisation target once the tooling is really smooth.
UK English has "public schools" which are private fee-paying, so Swenglish has the edge here
Raw GDP numbers don't mean much as they don't always translate to citizen welfare and citizen wealth.

Just because there are some major companies in a country, experts at extracting wealth from the global economy, it'll push the GDP up, but that doesn't mean you'll necessarily get to see any of that money.
> I guess there must be something about our brains that divides us in the dynamic vs static typing camps.

I've wondered if that's a thing. It seems to be.
Rent in North Dakota averages $821/month, GDP per capita is 94k.

Rent in UK averages 880$/month, GDP per capita is 46k.

There’s nuances to these numbers, but the US economy is really strong in many ways.
Have a look at my posting history and work it out.
Cultural practices that don't match the current society either have such a low impact that getting rid of them isn't a priority, or they're not long for this world.

Sometimes practices can feel completely at odds with one's believes, but if they're still widely adopted it usually means influential parts of society are still relying on them.
Steve Jobs in one of his talks was mentioning about this very interesting possibility in the future and the future seems to be now:

Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535700
> It doesn't say you are not allowed to hire those people as regular employees and treat them like regular employees.

What you're saying defeats the purpose and idea of having contractors.
> Once a hacker gains access to a Facebook account, they can proceed to activate email encryption.

> This renders recovery emails sent to the user’s email address unreadable, as only the hacker has the encryption keys.

So: PGP encrypted emails were rarely used, except to lock out the legit user after account was compromised.
> the dirty secret at Google is that there's too little meaty work to satisfy all the people hungry to take it on

I think this is also a good reason behind 20% time. It's not to crowd source ideas, it's to keep smart people with the company.
I'm overly careful person in these sort of cases.

But I expect people to take lot of care and thought when doing something in production like Database. And some even in shared development/pre-prod one. If you know how to replicate whole thing, go wild you are only wasting some time.
Immortality yes, it is a curse, the option to choose your own time of death, no, it is not a curse.
> Immortality being a curse is a common trope.

The silliness of the trope starts with the notion that once you have gone immortal you can't go back. Somehow you are stuck yearning for the sweet release of death.

In reality life is extremely fragile, maintaining the right conditions to support it requires constant effort. There is no reason to think that any future scientific advance will alter this fundamental fact.

Therefore it is highly likely that whoever achieves practical immortality will be also able to undo their "curse" by simply discontinuing whatever practice keeps them alive.

Also, "forever" doesn't happen all at once. Give me immortality, and then check in with me yearly if I still want it. I will let you know once I'm over it.
I did switch to Linux, but that's also starting to look and function like Windows.

I wish I could switch to Linux at work...
After persons destroyed the usefulness and value of all the keyservers a few years back, via flooding and other actions, this is no shock.

I suspect this was a state actor funded operation, for this has effectively, and significantly reduced the usefulness of PGP/GNUPG.

Many people I know were starting to use it, now they do not. It doesn't matter that security should overcome conveniences, conveniences often win.

And state actors hate encryption at rest.
> Why would you be pissed if those were the rules of the company you were contracting to?

Not being on the Google health or retirement plan is one thing. That's something you can do maths to, see if your alternative arrangements make sense.

But witholding food is something that feels anti-human. Like it hits some primal parts of me. Eating a meal with people you work alongside is, depending on your interpretation, between a few hundred thousand and a few hundred million years old as a social act.

Denying that is... something else.
It's just the low quality of the comment that's getting the downvotes.
>The average salary in Germany is twice as high as in Poland.

And the average Pole owns 2x more housing than the average German (number I made up for exemplification) who's most likely gonna be a rentoid for life.

From what I noticed Poland (and Czechia) are still an attractive place for skilled migration from the EU working in the service sectors, as the constant growth and low-ish taxes and CoL, make it a better place for building wealth and buying housing than Germany.

On the other hand, Germany is a better palce if you're on minimum wage unskilled style jobs and/or will depend on state support to live, as the German state is quite generous with the poor.

My point is they're both attractive, just for different demographics.
I'm not saying it's necessary or efficient for all activities, but it means I can talk to people on the road, face time the kids with grandparents, respond to that important email at the soccer game, etc. Are these things necessary? No. But they help me accomplish goals I care about faster.
Thank you for the clarity and precision of your writeup.

The organization you described exhibits a fundamental attitude of learned helplessness when it comes down to software development, as opposed to operations (tech or otherwise).

I saw this pattern in various manifestations across the board, and it frequently boils down to an inability to trust engineers and their leaders.

As an engineering leader, I wonder what kind of a culture shift needs to happen around the business-tech interface to make waste of this kind not as frequent.
uk public schools are public in the sense if you have the money for tuition you can go, wheras "private" schools are only open to invited families, no matter how wealthy they are
So, assuming that's a growing startup, if all engineers keep committing 0.5/1k LOC/w with number of engineers doubling every year, what will your codebase grow to in 5 years' time?

Let's say you have 20 engineers now (low for 8 year old startup). That's 1M LOC/annum. Next year you add another 2M. Where does this go?
It doesn't matter where they get married as long as the marriage is valid where it occurs and under U.S. law. The location of the process abroad is based on the non-U.S.-citizens's country of citizenship or country of residence. Regarding the specific process, whether in the U.S. through USCIS or abroad through the State Department/U.S. Consulate, definitely consult an immigration attorney to understand the timing, requirements, and risks.
The EFF is great and important too, but I feel like developing a competitive browser has more direct impact.
Our understanding of economic "classics" like manufacturing often seems to be one generations' propoganda layered onto previous ones.

Labour productivity, today, is a very hard metric to understand. I'm not sure it means anything as an aggregate.

The ideal/goal of industrial policy (mostly determined in trade agreements) forthe last 40+ years has been... I think Apple is the cleanest, best understood example.

Apple US (or Ireland) houses the engineering. The marketing. It's where the "creativity" lives. It's where the intellectual property is. Where the "platform strategy" takes place. Where "network effects live."

Foxconn (taiwan+china) is where the hard capital investments live. It's where the factories are. Where the workers are.

United States (apple) gets most of the profit. They get most of the market returns (see apple share price, Vs foxcon/etc.). Most of the taxable corporate income. The lion's share of high paying jobs.

China (via foxconn/etc.) gets jobs. Industrial development. Labour productivity... all the benefits of manufacturing.

That was the deal. It was (and still is) what the US and China wanted. They both liked the deal. It worked well. Both governments got what they expected and more.

Apple (and others) did very well. Insane profit margins, market caps... financial returns beyond all expectation. What they wanted.

China did get lots of jobs, industrialised their economy, developed whole regions. They also got what they wanted... in spades.

This had had consequences though.

Instead of modernising manufacturing and continuing to get real productivity gains... Manufacturing got to go backwards. More labour intensive options work again. Fewer capital intensive, high productivity options, were necessary.

That game is kind of played out, but we did not go down the path of manufacturing efficiency. Trying to design the factories of the 2030s now... inevitably speculative work. Risky. Hard.

Meanwhile, the market is used to factories/manufacturing representing the low risk, low margin part of the economy. The proverbial "commodity" business.

Adding innovation, risk to big chunky investments for tight margins... you can see why US (especially the financiers) wanted out of this game originally.

Meanwhile, 1950s manufacturing-based suburban lifestyles... that mind's eye ideal is... Hard to know where reality relates to this now or in the future.
Emacs being Emacs it is possible to change how Emacs behaves for every key you type. Evil mode is a fantastic example of how you can emulate most of Vi within Emacs! But it's not the only game in town.

If you don't want to buy into the whole Vi and modal editing thing there are plethora of packages to have better key bindings. To name a few: god-mode, devil-mode, meow, hydra, general, spacemacs. Pick any from this and you don't have to worry about key chording anymore.
The transaction (tx) rate is too low and tx cost can fluctuate wildly in addition to costing far too much. Some sort of side chain (like the lightning network) could help boost tx rate but there’s nothing currently anywhere near what could be regarded as near peer in regard to visa or other financial network tx rates.

And, above all, the immorally high energy consumption required by mining needs addressing. Again, lightning offered solutions but it’s not enough to satisfy larger scale adoption.

I keep hoping though.
Well, employees are a liability for the hospital. You were not, hence no need for you to get training. It is logical. Ethical, up for debate.
The poster I replied to has suggested the man giving the heads up on bombings should not be doing that: that's what "I just followed orders" sarcastic line implies. Do you agree with that?
Eh, Scotland is in a similar position with a common-civil hybrid. The Channel Islands use a local customary Normon-derived legal system. And that's only in one European country!
No, no this is about Google.
> Existing interprocess parallelism

> When you compile a Rust program, Cargo launches multiple rustc processes, compiling multiple crates in parallel.
Silicon Valley's Big, Bold Sci-Fi Bet on the Device Coming After the Smartphone
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53 tons of it are produces annually... Surely not "any application" uses up 53 tons per year.
Good advice. Thank you. I simply would add that you should speak with an immigration attorney to prepare you for your visa application appointment/interview since the interview is the key event in the B-1/B-2 visa application process.
A lot of people are saying that using this device would require speaking all kinds of private things out loud in public, but people would likely alter their behavior and use of the device in public. The nature of the questions they ask would be different, they would self-censor. In private they'd use it differently. People don't watch porn on their phone in the subway (mostly) and they wouldn't state their credit card info out loud using this on a subway either. If you have to say "take a photo" then the people around you know you are taking a photo. If it can record video it should beep occasionally or something. I still don't have a complete idea of how the UI works though, can the projector project onto a wall instead of your hand? Can you listen to replies via wireless earbuds? Would like to see something more in depth about how to use it and what can be accomplished with it.
Actually, on Windows GTK uses native widgets.
It's that, and the fact that a hacker would enable the feature after compromising the account (some other way, unrelated to PGP) to prevent the legit user from using the account recovery email.

So feature was basically there only to shoot oneself in the foot.
UK also has "free schools" which are similar to state schools but unaffiliated with education trusts, normally setup by parents, locals, the community.
Yes, you should be able to; we've done this many times and even where the gap is longer.
Or, in other words:

There is much to criticize about the EU. But where the US has brought the world "By farting during installation of this software you consent to us stopping by and taking your first born child" kind of EULAs / "choices", EU's GDPR is forcing big tech to treat humans as humans again (instead of just data).
Native code, not native UI (whatever that means, these days)
Wow, that brings back memories!

Back in the day (that's 40+ years ago), I played this so many times. Forerunner to speed running: I tried to optimize the number of moved required to finish the entire game.

From "advent" to D&D to other RPGs...
> There is a huge risk in niche languages and platforms. Hard to hire for, hard to find libraries for, hard to find blogs/tutorials/etc. With alternatives like Go having a pretty respectable concurrency story ... it is pretty hard to justify taking the risk on such a small community.

People say this every time Elixir comes up, but, I would like to hear evidence of this being true.

I worked at a startup for a couple of years and had never used Elixir. The majority of the engineers who worked there, whilst I did, also hadn't. We had a few who were experts in the language and a couple who had well-known open source packages.

Genuinely from my experience, each of the things in your list are simply not true.

> But I get concerned looking at the magic of LiveView (and LiveBook).

What magic? Again, genuinely questioning this.
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Back in the Flux7 days, an AWS consulting startup I called home, we pulled off a solid 50% YoY growth, paving the way for an acquisition by NTT DATA. It was quite an adventure, demanding a blend of technical skills and business acumen.

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The pun was intentional (hence the capitalisation :-)
Does anybody know of something similar for Go? I think it could work well: both languages use mutable datastructures, have a GC and are expected to be reasonably fast. It would bring all the Go libraries to CL.
Like any skill it's about cultivating a set of "hardwired co-processors".

The more skilled you are, the more of these tasks can be handled in parallel, for example typing and reading, thinking.

Or, for example, walking and chewing gum at the same time.

It's like how a learner driver needs to focus on the task fully, while an experienced driver only seldom needs conscious thought to execute the process.

Or a pianist sight-reading and playing the notes, while also interpreting the piece on a higher level. It's all about parallel processing
> You've ignored other alternatives that would work better than a capslock even for the less tech-savvy crowd

What are those alternatives? Why talk in riddles when you can simply share those alternatives?

I'm looking at a mac user's keyboard settings right now and the only built in options I can find for Ctrl are Caps Lock, Option, Command, Function. If they want to have a better Ctrl experience which of these other alternatives should I suggest them? Install a new tool only to manage key bindings? I've already lost their attention!

> it's bad because you're using very inconvenient key for very frequent operations

Says who? I don't turn my CapsLock to Ctrl but every longtime CapsLock-as-Ctrl user I know swear by them. They say in person and online that CapsLock to Ctrl helped them get over RSI.

How do you decide for them that it's bad for them? You could say that CapsLock to Ctrl is bad for you. I just don't understand how you could proclaim that it is bad for me and others.
No. The TN while easier in many ways is less flexible regarding alternative requirements; for nearly all TN occupations, an actual bachelor's degree, not the equivalent based on education and/or experience, is required.
I switched to Mailspring a year or two ago and am very happy about it. It's based on electron so here be dragons, but does the job quite well. It's simple and basic and no fuss while not being an eyesore. Basically, a clone of the Mail app on macOS.
I don't understand how the attack works. Does the workflow for enabling, or changing, Facebook email PGP keys not include an email verification step? Or is that being circumvented in some way?
I don't really write huge complex types in TS, I basically stick to just the native data objects like string, number, boolean etc., but even then I find it so useful just for the autocomplete that you get out of it.

I jumped into some code I haven't touched in half a year the other day so had 0 recollection of any of it, thankfully cause of the types I knew exactly what to pass where and what to expect back without even having to read any of the code other than the type definitions.

I love me some dynamic languages, but damn if it isn't nice to have that kinda power available to you.
Funny how all the antitrust stuff melted away in recent years. It's almost as if the parties involved see that their interests are aligned.
I'm staying on BitstromWera Nerd Font. Works great with Starship.

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

https://starship.rs
https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqid=19&step=3&isuri=1&1921=su...

The GNI[1] grew from 18,388.0 in 2015 to 25,796.4 in 2022. The "Rental income of persons with capital consumption adjustment" component of that, which includes imputations, grew from 601.4 to 878.3 in the same period. From these numbers we can conclude that rental income growth only made up 3.7% of GNI growth. This doesn't support the claim that "the American economy is only "growing" because Americans are constantly reselling houses to each other for ever-increasing prices".

[1] GNI is supposed to be equal to GDP in theory, but for various reasons they vary slightly. For the purposes of this discussion we can assume they're interchangeable.
Also https://token.dev which supports JWT and PASETO tokens
We've handled a bunch of them but the program has been dead in the water. However, the Administration's call-out of this program suggests that it might be an option again.
no transaction costs, fast transactions, low energy use to do so.
WordPress and WooCommerce GPL Plugins and Themes
That is part of facebook's reasoning, as to why they dropped it. The second part should be kept in mind, and that is, few use it.

If it was popular, they wouldn't axe it.

My comment was certainly about facebook dropping it, but also about how this is a larger picture issue. You don't need to weaken encryption standards(NSA, others), or have back doors(loads of states), if people just find it too annoying to use!
> Is it the system advocated by Milton Friedman or is it different?

I think Milton Friedman's idea, was that parents would actually receive education 'vouchers' and be free to use them in whichever education context they chose for their children.

This is slightly different, as the private/public system is wholly handled by the State system: parents simply choose between alternative schools, and the state channels taxpayer's money to whichever school the child attends.

Unfortunately, in many cases this has simply led to corporations or individuals who employ fewer or less qualified teachers, who in turn hand out 'optimistic' grades to the kids (attracting more parents), and extracting enormous profits from the State system.

At the same time, the normal State schools are being starved of resources; standards are falling, leading to more parents putting their kids into the private schools, leading to an inevitable downward spiral.
But...free NHS healthcare?

/s but maybe not really
LLaVA-Plus: Large Language and Vision Assistants That Learn to Use Skills
LLaVA-Plus maintains a skill repository that contains a wide range of vision and vision-language pre-trained models (tools), and is able to activate relevant tools, given users’ multimodal inputs, to compose their execution results on the fly to fulfill many real-world tasks.
Learned the art of fermentation and started to make my own fermented hot sauces.

Currently enjoying a two week fermented Carolina Reaper hot sauce!
The facts matter but as a very general matter, there's almost always a solid basis for an EB2 NIW and even EB1A as well for those with a PhD (or far along in the PhD process).
I use the \\wsl$\ to get an occasional file out of wsl2 super easily, vscode remote wsl, the shared localhost interface and a wsl2 gui app every once in a blue moon. Don't think it's nothing.

What I don't use: files on the windows fs from wsl2 for continuously or vice versa.