skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No tracking, no receipt emails, no machine learning of my behavior to figure out when my partner is pregnant or whatever, no extra apps, no facial recognition, no 2-4% charge for businesses that only doesn't apply if you're an international monopoly.

Sounds awfully inconvenient. I'm constantly having to travel to the bank to get more cash, it's easy to lose, steal and destroy, the money I get in change might be counterfeit, it takes a lot more effort to track my cash purchases, and it turns out banks charge merchants a fee for handling cash too! (a local example of a fee schedule: https://www.oregonstatecu.com/business#/tab/fees)

Perhaps this all is a cost some feel is worth paying in exchange for privacy, but a cost nonetheless.
> Engineers are also figuring out which person to charge when a couple goes shopping together.

This made me giggle. I've tried to figure out the same thing myself when shopping with a significant other or close friend. I'm having a hard time imagining how this would be cast as an engineering problem.
I am Canadian and I've worked in tech in the USA for the last 5 years.

I wish they made getting an H1B even harder to get.
The mistake with this bill is it assumes that tech workers excluded from the US will just disappear. They won't. They'll set up shop in other countries, and those companies will compete with US companies. It will also encourage larger US companies to set up dev offices in foreign countries.

One way or another, those workers will be competing with US workers regardless.
I like cash but it does necessitate standing in line for stores that are in dense places like cities, which I don't like.
Office 365 taught them how much corporate testing and imaging hurt their products.

In one case I’m familiar with, they were getting pummeled over poor O365 user experience in 2015 because the customer was refusing to upgrade past Office 2007.

Everything they’ve done in the last 5 years is about pushing out software faster and making traditional enterprise IT too expensive.
ISO 8601 say January is 01
These submarines are weapons of war, for defence and offence. It is interesting how rival countries are willing to help out in these situations.

If this submarine had got lost when the Falklands war was a hot war, would the British lend them a helicopter or two to help them look? Particularly if it was a day or two after the Argentine Air Force had taken out a ship or two of the Task Force.

'Here you go guys, if you need help with salvage...' would not have happened then or in the post-war aftermath. Instead the Royal Navy would have denied the Argentine armed forces access to the area and the depth charges would have been deployed, the submarine gone for good like the General Belgrano. The victory would be selling newspapers. Only a few left wing anti-war moaners would be grumbling.

But today obviously there is 'peace' and as much help as much as possible is coming from the British establishment with no hesitation.

If the North Koreans lost a submarine would other countries such as the UK/USA offer them help to find it, particularly if it could one day point missiles at the USA? Maybe there should be an on-going 'lost-submarine test' where world tensions and hostilities are gauged by how many countries participate in military search and rescue operations.
Who said Trump doesn't deliver?

There never was a skill shortage. Only a pay shortage.
So if you're a single mom you now need to get a babysitter to go grocery shopping?
Probably some facial / clothing recognition goes on as well when you scan to keep track of you.
More interestingly that is simply a maturity issue. React told people the official API and people still used hidden features as it was easy and clever. Thankfully Facebook did the right thing, kept the API sacred and refactored all the hidden APIs breaking the world.

People got bloody noses and red faced and the React ecosystem is a better place for it.
Yeah or pick a different store.
This is a huge difference. Argentine submarines reportedly average 10 hours per year submerged. Hours. The UK’s Vanguard-class boats remain submerged for entire 10-week patrols.

At one time, Argentina had the most extensive navy in South America. That time was not in the last two decades. Much of their current capability could be best described as left-over.
The x86 processor basically has 4 modes: real mode, virtual 8086, protected, and 64-bit mode. There's no real distinction between the protected 16-bit and 32-bit modes, it's just a bit (a few, actually) in the descriptor saying what the default size is for operands. The 64-bit mode is truly distinct however; note that you can't access rax from 32-bit or 16-bit code, but you can access eax from 16-bit code.

It's worth pointing out that x86-64 still retains segments, although in a far more limited capacity (fs and gs are set up as a simple linear base and are used mostly for thread-local addresses).
Do you have a link? I'm in the market for a new laptop right now and a cheaper Dell with Linux installed sounds optimal.
Pfff. If I could get a waiver of legal liability in advance I can think of multiple ways to get around that. Since there aren't any cashiers whose safety could be threatened I'm heartily in favor of people developing creative hacks for the brief duration that remains before we turn the whole damn world into a capitalist panopticon.
I think that is correct because otherwise they would have mentioned it as an outstanding feature of the model. It does require fewer parameters than a CNN to reach the same accuracy.
Regardless of whether or not you think the bill is a good idea, I don't think the opponents arguments against it quoted make sense.

As long as the new minimum still clears the market and all spaces are still filled (I think they would be), all this bill does is replace the pool of H1-B visas awarded with a higher-paying one.

The quote "It also could disrupt the marketplace, threaten thousands of US jobs, and stifle US innovation" would only make sense if one would expect that lower-paid workers on average contribute more to US innovation, and are less likely to displace Americans. I would predict the opposite, or at least no effect. One might hope that the people companies are willing to pay top dollar for are the higher skilled ones that companies have trouble hiring enough of in the US.

It's interesting that the bill is a half-measure in that it doesn't take the idea to its logical conclusion and eliminate the lottery and sort applications by salary and take the top N, but I imagine that would be politically unpopular.

I think you could possibly argue against this bill perhaps for some kind of fairness reasons, but I think the arguments quoted don't make sense.
> Does delivering Uranium to The Enemy

You're of course referring to that exploratory deal involving no delivery of Uranium anywhere.
The US will do fine without cheap labor from Infosys and others. These people aren't top developers
That is the case even today; American engineers compete with foreign engineers housed across the world. The difference here is that there is some benefit in having workers come domestically - communication and collaboration among other things improve. American employers will hopefully be driven to pay better wages to Americans already here instead of importing cheaper labor.
So this seems to be more about prestige than actual job satisfaction?

I suspect medicine involves a long period of training and menial toil before you get prestigious roles.

Finance is the obvious choice for people who can feel important because money.
Zimbabwe crowds rejoice as they demand end to Mugabe rule
I personally love $5 and $10 bills. I frequently do exact change when I have a bunch of those. Buying a BLT at the bodega? That's $5.75 with a coke. Here's $6. At the end of the day, I fire my change in a bucket and bring it to a machine once a year to get exchanged.

Also, taking out $100 in 2017 is silly, at least if you spend more than $200 a week, which is most non-students here. I just get out the max that the ATM will let me have and I never regret it.

"But what if I get mugged?" This is silly. If you actually do get mugged, you want to have a big load of money on you, not $3.29. Happy muggers mean fewer dead programmers.
You could say the same thing about any law aimed at increasing wages/workers rights. Minimum wage encourages companies to move/setup overseas. Same with workplace safety laws.
I also lost my window, but it was in the "recently closed windows" menu, so no big deal. Most of the (all?) changes that you got with Classic Theme Restorer can still be accomplished with userChrome.css. Check this[1] github repo for the quickest way to set it back up the way you like it.

[1] https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx
Meh, 60K engineers won't be much competition. if anything, this is good for the US as it will make room to allow the US to drain more 90K+ engineers from other countries.

This rule was long in coming. Low wage body shops wasn't doing anyone any good.
Nice! It sort of looks like they’re deliberately exaggerating their hand motions when they pick up an item to maybe ensure the camera gets a good look?
The claim of a quid-pro-quo is fabricated (seriously: it requires collusion between like five governments and three branches of the USG, of which Clinton had control of only one -- there is zero evidence of any of that). Obviously the conspiracy nuttery exists, so yeah, it's "out there".
We're losing so much of our planet's biota, and at such a catastrophic pace (eg 58% decline in vertebrate abundance since 1970), that it's hard to know where to concentrate resources. This is an ongoing debate amongst ecologists. There's a fundamental quandary: the problem is planetary, a specieswise response is known to be inadequate, but it's the only one on offer.
This is a good thing, but mostly because it will help those who went to school in the united states, and struggled to win the H1B lottery during their time under F1 yet are able to command salaries well over the new 90k minimum.
This may be true, but it is not always the case. Licensure is the strongest form of government regulation. There are many people who deal with these kinds of challenges who do so without a license. Public health is often the justification held up for occupational licensure but the dangers haven't proven themselves. In fact the licensure schemes have done more to keep people OUT of the profession, or to beholden themselves to private credentialing organizations, with costly fees, supervisory practice, and examinations.

Certification is a much better avenue. Let the consumer choose. The Institute for Justice has had enormous success in lawsuits on this very issue, and it's only a matter of time before barber licensing falls too.

https://www.wihfc.com/2017/11/18/nov-2017-wisconsin-act-now-...

http://ij.org/case/missouri-hair-braiding/

More: http://ij.org/pillar/economic-liberty/?post_type=case
Scoring conditions for chess tournaments cause forcing a draw to be more favorable than a loss, likely causing the programmers to heavily weigh draws over losses. Contrast this with Go engines where there are no draws, the incentives for finishing chess games in a draw that would otherwise end in a loss is much higher.
I mucked about the bios quite a bit and had to create a custom boot CD.

I'm not super familiar with bios and the five hours I spent might have added up just finding "Literally a single toggle in the BIOS" for all I remember but so what?

If you think this isn't a serious impediment to most users, you know less about the average user than I know about bios configuration.

Argue "this is the way to do it" all you want. But arguing things into easiness is inherent ridiculous.
Thank you, dropped an of there indeed.

For me personally, #1 reason for using NoScript was controlling which domains can execute JS. uMatrix delivers that superbly, and more.

Sadly, ever since NoScript started pushing malware[1] to users with every update, I lost all confidence with the author for securing my browsing experience.

[1]: https://liltinkerer.surge.sh/noscript.html
> Usually, in Moscow, there is a strong correlation between being a highly educated, well-paid IT professional and having a negative opinion about current Russian regime

Do you have sources for this? Well-paid professional might not care about politics at all or might be OK with current regime because it doesn't interfere with their life. Furthermore, some of them might be even proud for occupying Crimea.

But I can agree that there is relatively high percent of anti-Putin people in Moscow.
"It's out there" is the only bit of content. Anyone who reads that and says "well damn he clearly means watch out Hillary, they know about all your illegal doings. Shred everything!" rather than "fyi the right are spreading that nonsense talking point" is making a bit of a leap IMO.
* Flint, Michigan
* The Gulf Coast
* Anywhere in coal country
* Wall Street
* TARP

If you really think regulations are made to protect someone other than the poor or middle classes I've got a bridge in Alaska to sell you. The whole point of regulations is that the collective power of the masses protects itself against the wealth of the elite and business interests who don't generally have to live with the results of their actions. Are there stupid regulations? Of course, lots of them. Are there some that just don't plain work? Of course, lots of them. That's why you don't make regulations based on feelings and instead look at what the evidence says.
Indeed, you can. It's good to be aware of what these laws are going to cost you.
The quality is much higher than ffmpeg. Encoding is slower.

GIF works like a canvas that can be painted on with 256 colors at a time. This encoder takes care to reuse existing colors on the canvas as efficiently as possible.

Also most encoders generate ugly palettes (e.g. for a start throwing out 3 of 8 bits of precision) and use naive dithering.

This one spends so much effort on getting optimial palettes, that if I were to get VC funding for it, I'd say it does machine learning.
Suffering is really too strong of a word. I think most people focus best when they are out over their skis a bit. It's not suffering as much continuously challenging that requires focus.
I don't think the purpose of the bill was to address that concern. The US will award a constant number of H1Bs no matter what the salary requirements are.

I think that the main benefit is to have higher quality H1Bs. There are many talented temp stays who lose the lottery to less talented people and have to leave the US. Salary can be used as a heuristic for talent.
How to read newspapers
> Gun rights are on obvious one and everyone throws up their hands in the air saying there is no solution for the problems no one else in the world has.

My position on 2A is probably that I wish it didn't exist, but _given_ that it exists, I'd want to tread very cautiously around violating constitutional rights. People take for granted how much better society is than it was for most of human history, and part of the credit for the incredible advance of human rights (from a historical perspective) of the last couple hundred years goes to advancement in governance that I think people are often too quick to take for granted. Reductively dismissing this baseline as ill-considered, hollow support for "freedom" just means you don't understand the conversation that's taking place.

Again, you and I probably substantially agree on every gun control policy you could imagine. The difference is that I don't need to reduce my opponents to shallow caricatures in order to feel secure in my beliefs.

You're also being extremely dishonest in pretending that your gas and electric example is even remotely relevant to the article or the discussion. Neither the study, the article, nor this thread is making the claim that regulations need to be entirely done away with. They're making the claim that the current state is one of excessive regulation: that florists and barbers[1] are unnecessarily regulated, not that we should allow anyone to do any job, regardless of safety concerns.

Again, if you can't make a counterargument without having to grossly misrepresent the opposite side, you should probably seriously examine your views on an issue.

[1] There are dangers in barbering that mostly avoid proper use of chemicals, but those can easily have their sale controlled instead of just requiring all barbers to be licensed.
Complaining about licensing does not always/usually represent a serious objection to licenses that are reasonably available to all who are capable of doing the work, and which are actually going to be revoked if someone proves unfit for the industry. These do not so much limit your freedom to work in the industry, as the manner in which you'll conduct yourself in the industry.

I object to licensing as a means to protect incumbents by deterring (or outright capping the number of) new entrants, where the quality-control angle isn't really there, and it's just an extra tax/filter on having that job.
I agree but the fact stay the same : you put a H264 video and a GIF in a webpage, most of the time you get better colors with the GIF.

(H264 also has 444 by the way)
I can see the other replies but you are entirely right . I work for one of the big 4 and the overseas office where I am is growing rapidly . I hear one of our peers is doing the same .

Of course they aren't making too much of a noise about it as they're smart.

These policies are already backfiring.

If that means companies discover that you don't have to be in California to do tech that would be a good thing . Bring on the foolishness I say .

I would like to add that I'm not talking about this policy in particular but the growing sentiment against even skilled immigration.
I believe the comment I was commenting on was about corruption and The West. Looks like I should have pulled a quote and spoke to that. Sorry?
Do you actually believe that H-1B slots will no longer be filled at 90k/year?

I would wager a great deal that not only will all slots still be allocated but that demand will continue to far outstrip supply. The number of workers excluded from the US will be identical as to that under the previous rules but those granted H-1B visas will be paid closer to what their American colleagues are.
I had to give up. I got tired of the CC app itself breaking and requiring reinstall way too often. And this is on two different platforms! To uninstall, I had to get an uninstaller for the uninstaller because it broke.

I got the trial for Affinity Photo and bought it after using it for a few days on both Windows and Mac. It doesn't have the pure power of Photoshop, but it's 95% there for my amateur use. Only $50 and I put it on all my home computers for that $50.

The sub for Photoshop is cheap, but all the anti-theft crap they have baked into it makes it a royal PITA to use.

This is the first time since PS 5.0 that I haven't had PS installed on anything at all.
Not sure why you're getting voted down. I'm looking for something to replace hip chat at the moment (we replaced slack with hipchat as slack didn't work well for us either), so I'm genuinely curious why a suggestion for riot is unpopular. Anyone care to comment?
For me, it is the fact that most people connect with multiple devices, and want to have a smooth transition between them, and to be able to see history on all of them.

There is no easy way of doing that with IRC, which kills it for me.
Why would people in Silicon Valley care about this change? Pretty much every software developer in SV makes over 90k.
Discord, overwhelmingly.

Every IRC community I used to be a part of even a year ago has made the jump. It's just more convenient for all concerned- the only holdouts are people clinging to their CLIs and people objecting for ideological reasons.

I wish it hadn't come to this, but IRC's just stagnated for too long. The barrier to entry's too high, using it on mobile devices is a chore, the feature set's extremely limited, etc. Had IRCv3 managed to get off the ground and made some strides towards creating a modern user experience maybe two years ago, Discord wouldn't have had such a vulnerable market open for it to stroll in and snatch up.

Discord provides seamless cloud message logging, mobile notifications, intuitive clients, a huge ecosystem of easy-to-use bots, and integration with games that just works without the user having to set anything up. Even non-gaming-related communities have been switching to it for convenience's sake.
I don't see how that makes sense. Presumably if you've worked in the US for 5 years you'd like to stay there. Canadians often try for an H1B while they are on a TN because with an H1B you get immigrant intent and can apply for a green card.

Canadians still have it easier since you can work on a TN and try the lottery many times.
Ultimately everything comes down to BATNA [0], but a good place to start is what you would be doing if you weren’t running a startup and how much you would earn (after tax) if you worked as hard for someone else as an employee. This is your BATNA.

An investor (in theory) could pay you a high salary as an employee to work on the business and keep all the equity. An investment is in someways equivalent to a very high interest non-recourse loan. Given this you want to take the absolutely minimum in investment you can and an extra paid in salary to founders will cause you to take more investment than you need.

Personal circumstance should never play a role in what someone is paid, only their BATNA. When it comes to startups there are three forms of compensation; salary, conditions, equity. The split between these can vary, but the total should be fixed by the individual's BATNA, not how much many kids they have or student debt.

Slightly off topic your compensation in any job should never be based on how much value you bring to the company, but what your BATNA is. It is up to your boss to decide if your BATNA means they want to pay you as much.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
Sounds like the kind of thing that'd last until you tried to sell the house, and a prospective buyer's home inspector caught it. Then you'd end up paying for proper work to be done, one way or another.
well what would be cool if TFS could be installed on Linux and use a different database than MSSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL or MSSQL) (I mean search uses elasticsearch anyway...).
Even better if it would be more close to the online service. And way better if it came with something like gitlab-runner.
For me, due to GitHub/BitBucket restrictions. When spitting a piece of frontend code, I like to help my fellow reviewing collea^H^H^H^H^Hvictims with a little screencast of what my code ends up looking like, typically ten seconds of me clicking around the new feature.

GitHub/BitBucket (as of today) won't let me embed a webm/mp4 to a comment field in a Pull Request, but supports drag&dropping a GIF and displaying it inline, so GIF it is for now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Maybe our GitHub & Atlassian overlords will see the light at some point in the future, hopefully before the end of our year 1998. I see one intrinsic valuable feature in GIF today: the guarantee that there will be no sound (and even this is kinda moot, an mp4/webm video can be embedded muted by default). Other than that, I agree, it's a shame not to use a better format.