skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Peter,

My co-founder is a Canadian PhD on a J-1 visa. he has been in the country on the J-1 for 8 years. We incorporated as a C-Corp in June. He plans on switching to a TN eventually. I assume I cannot issue an RSPA (with vesting) or Consulting agreement without violating his J-1, but the TN I think I can. Will this work? What other issues should I be worried about?

Thanks.
This is a very edgy post but is comparing two completely incompatible concepts.
Hey, Dave. I’m not sure why you thought I was a libertarian. I haven’t identified as such since the ‘80s. As for Buchanan in the ‘90s, I don’t support everything he said - I was most supportive of his economic nationalism.

Did you ever support a politician (say, Obama) only to find they said something you disavowed? Sam Yagan of okcupid did. I disavow Buchanan’s unconstitutional AIDS registry, and probably other proposals he has made.

As for “social authoritarian”, California regulates and licenses marriage via family law, as do all states. I come from an older generation of allies who supported Mark Leno et al. when they labored over, passed, and amended to full positive-rights equivalence with marriage, CA’s Domestic Partner Law (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership_in_Cali...). This was considered just and sufficient, until it was not — and then anyone who questioned the revolutionary tactics used to cast former allies as haters and bigots became a hater too.

I dissent from all such revolutionary tactics and agendas. I agree with dissenting LGBTQ scholars of note on this point re marriage equality, e.g., Camille Paglia. (I don’t agree with those scholars on everything, of course. Same as with most people, including politicians I’ve supported in the past.)

Now the shoe is on the other foot. Marriage equality is law and I’m an officer of a corporation with a genuinely diverse roster of employees. I am committed to the fullest definition of inclusivity, which covers right wingers as well as left, libertarians and non-libertarians. For you to gin up a case that I pretended to be a libertarian is silly (I never pretended that).

But worse, if you judge Brave by a past and too-narrow slice of my opinions, you are doing what haters who boycott Apple because of Tim Cook do. It is your right, of course, but it looks like consequentialism (end justifies means) or really just Who/Whom ax-grinding. I hope you will use Brave in view of what we are trying to do, as a group of people who share a cause and set of beliefs, whatever our other or past causes and beliefs.
Just swallow them. Same as a guava.
I wonder how hard it is to get this effect in other languages. "The google translate lady" is really helpful for my foreign studies but I wonder how robotic it sounds to a native
Same. Except I'm not as optimistic about Atlanta because the state is mostly poor and it's farther from the huge cities on the upper east coast. NC and Texas are both booming state-wide and have 'world cities' in reasonable driving distance.
Thanks for the AMA Peter!

For someone on H1B is it legal to patent an invention on the side (software in my case) and generate income by licensing it? Will it be considered passive income?

If no, what options are available short of starting a new company?
maybe things like this are why elon is getting hit pieces against him in some areas of the media.

he is either a threat or a disturbance in the following industries: auto, oil, coal, electricity, aerospace. Most of these don't like things changing.
I see no information about integration with calendar and contacts web apps. Did I somehow miss it?
I think I read it pretty much at the surface level. I'm not interested in reading into what he meant, his choice of words is plenty to interpret.

'PC culture' is not a thing. what you call PC culture is free speech working as designed...everyone has an equal right to free speech, free action, and free thought. What you call PC culture is in reality nothing more than a group with power demanding their thinking be privileged above critique.

The fact that a person with extreme financial and social power feels 'freer' expressing their point of view in a totalitarian regime than in a place where someone with lesser power might have their own free speech rights is a demonstration of how free speech fails not how it thrives.

Fetishizing rights, as is becoming common in the US, is an impediment to equitable access to the power those rights give. It confuses the issue and is nothing more than a recuperative act[0] designed to reinforce existing structures of power.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)
A Startup Uses Quantum Computing to Transform the World of Machine Learning
How can you possibly make this claim?

The director of this program is on record saying that after deploying extensive analytical resources at the Pentagon onto all the evidence (cross referencing radar signatures, satellite feeds, etc) and leveraging internal expertise to rule out alternatives there remain cases for which there remains no explanation consistent with the idea that these are aircraft in any government's inventory or any other natural phenomena.

Either this person is lying, or somehow otherwise should be given no credibility, or the government has decided to reveal that there are in fact objects in the sky whose origin are, to the best of our country's ability to analyze them, unknown. This person specifically ruled out the idea in their NPR interview that these objects are part of some hidden government advanced aircraft program.

You can believe what you want to sleep better at night, such as that there is in fact some hyper-advanced tech the government has that this program was kept in the dark about, but there's not much wiggle room at this point other than to accept that the level of public acknowledgement of the UFO phenomena by the federal government (and particularly, the department of defense) has changed significantly now and that there is a very high prior that there are objects in the sky whose origins are a mystery.
If you look at the traffic data, part of that is the growing proportion of users from the EU and India. The EU is a continent suffering from pandemic stockholm syndrome and Indians are not likely to be a fan of anything that keeps them from a green card.

I would say less than 30% of HN posters are professional programmers/engineers. Most are 20-something unemployed wantrepeneurs from Reddit and the remaining minority are academics/scientists/doctors/financiers.
These rules aren't about leaking data accidentally (everyone already tried to stop that), "exposing" it is vague, not sure what you mean by that.

And as for selling personal data - er, how? People get drinking water from rivers. If they're polluted you can get very nasty symptoms. I've never heard of anyone being sent to hospital because someone sold their data.

At any rate, if the goal was to tackle data trading then there'd be no need for a "right to be forgotten" which is where most of the confusion and ambiguity comes from.
Efficiency gap is a decent objective metric of fairness.
In these cases, isn't it the dayjob that's the "side" project?
They could ask their users. That model seems to be working well. But even if they couldn't make money? Who cares?

The web existed long before it was monetized, and it worked great! Better than now, actually.
Yes. We did that. The reply from USCIS had nothing other than the standard reply.
They didn't tell me anything in the interview. Just took all my papers.
>By voting for either party we are essentially enabling the either-or system to continue

I used to agree, but the parties have no ideology attached to them. Their names are just generic terms regarding democracy and you can see how much their platforms have changed and moved over the last century. At this point they are just the Urban and Rural divisions of our election playoff.

They are just the ideology of the people elected. If you change the candidates of the party, you have changed the ideology of the party. Trump figured this out and instead of sticking with the Reform party, he just took over the Republican nomination.
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The Bay Area's diversity is more than just "lots of Asians." Also, "Asian" is a pretty broad category. The numbers you quote just don't create an accurate picture. It's far more accurate to say that diversity in the Midwest practically starts and stops with "both black and white folks live here."

Integration/segregation is also significantly different.
Mysterious alien cigar 'asteroid' is interstellar lump of ice, not a spaceship
I'm not a grid-scale engineer. My guess is that these batteries work by pushing more electricity into the grid when voltage / frequency is low; and putting less electricity into the grid when voltage / frequency is high.
Well, there are a few more issue. None is a real show stopper but each would be worth to be solved in the sense of usability:

- Explaining decentralization aka. 'Its like E-Mail: you need an address'

- Choosing a good provider (reliable to stay for some time, server features)

- Registering an account (many providers require a registration via browser)

- Obtaining Conversations:

-> Play store: and pay for it - 'yes, its worth it and you support the development'

-> Fdroid: free, but more complicated

- Adding contacts (as Conversations doesn't scan your address book you have to do it manually)

- Enabling OMEMO (not enabled by default)

- Adjusting settings as some default settings are kinda weird (e.g. disabling green background of encrypted messages, show online status, enabling confirmation of receipt)

So to solve those issues I have a few Ideas:

Provider selection: The App could score all available providers (important features, years of service), sort by score and let the user select the desired domain extension. Afterwards it could perform an in-band registration (it already does so if the server supports it).

Price: While I find the app totally worth its price, I think it hurts the adaption to some extent. So if I could decide it, I would make it available for free and see to make the money somewhere later in the customer journey, as setting the price up-front kills the network effect.

Contacts: Actually, I do not like it when Google & co. scan my whole address book and send it to their servers and keep it there for future use. But think there could be some compromise like: I can decide to publish my own address as a hash to some central service and use my address book to ask if someone else has registered the address (rate limited). Yes, you would still have to trust the central service to some extent, but that should be an acceptable and completely optional way of contact discovery.

OMEMO: Should be enabled by default.

Default settings: Maybe some day I will create a pull request.

While this list looks kinda intimidating, using Conversations after the installation is pretty much the same as WhatsApp/Signal.
Really? Or they're just using this as a false flag. Given the posturing so far, I doubt NK has the ability
Peter, thank you for doing this.

I recently cofounded a Delaware corp with a US citizen and we are in the process of raising US seed investment.

Am I permitted to travel to the US to work on the company under the VWP?

I currently work on the company from London.
To tail logs, you can use my tool, ktail: https://github.com/atombender/ktail

It's designed to be user friendly. For example, you can type "ktail foo", and it will match any pod containing the string "foo". (If you don't give it any filters, it will tail absolutely everything!)

Homebrew:

brew tap atombender/ktail && \
brew install atombender/ktail/ktail
Procy service?
Hi Peter, can you petition for a green card for yourself with an Investor (E-1 or E-2 treaty) visa?
Have you seen Flutter.io? I haven't tried it but it sounds like the framework for you.
Like the trade ban you mentioned above, any other sort of ban, such as banning the buying of financial products from the UK, or banning flights from the UK to the EU is pure fantasy.

What is really the case is that Brexit risks causing British financial instutitions to lose their financial passporting rights, that allow them to trade in the EU.

As to flights, the risk here is that, without other international flight agreements for some UK companies (such as Ryanair and EasyJet) other than EU agreements, such companies risk losing the right to fly outside of Europe, or within the EU.

Both of the above are the result of international agreements being rendered invalid because of Brexit, and not some sort of punishment that the EU decided to bestow upon the UK.

Obviously EU competitors will step in immediately and eat the UK's lunch, wherever they find the opportunity. But I don't know what else anyone could expect. I understand the British are great believers in a free market, after all.

Indeed, as far as the UK is concerned, the market after Brexit is going to be almost completely unregulated.
AS1 was a very close relation of JavaScript, prototype inheritance and all. AS2 was based on Netscape's initial proposal for ECMAScript 4. AS3 was a more fully developed proposal for ECMAScript 4, which in turn was abandoned.
maybe! i don't see how it's possible to have two competing world wide webs, or two competing facebooks. The fact that there's only one of them is why they are valuable.

It's interesting that facebook wants to be the world wide web, and if they pull that off, they'll have just eaten the one network and merged it into theirs.

Its as if the only way to compete with a network is to swallow it up by a bigger, more powerful network. Iterate that over 20 or 50 years. We're in trouble :(
My guess is you're both gainfully employed :)

Side projects are more and more being touted as a way to "stand out" from the enormous crowd of people trying to get tech jobs. A company choosing among 100 candidates, all things being equal, may bias towards the few with active interesting side projects. If you accept that, then starting some kind of side project would be worth it.
I thought thunderbird was in pure maintenance mode and practically abandoned. Has something changed? Is this a maintenance release or is thunderbird starting to be a viable client again?
Which is a good thing.
Congrats to her!
My experience with gnash is that it even partially works on maybe 10% of the swf files I've tried. It's basically unusable.
In the US at least on average people are getting about 1/2 the salt they where 100 years ago. We no longer preserve food with salt primarily we use refrigeration now.

[Salt: Are you getting Enough?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ-ev8Ial8
During a college course my group also did a comparison like this but specifically for handwriting and we simulated low-quality scanned images.

Microsoft was by far the best at this. Google wasn't even close.
Used to eat a tasty cactus soup at my favorite Mexican place in Texas.
Mame is a platform to keep old games playable on modern open hardware.

Emulation is an implementation detail. It may be the best approach or it may be abstracted away.
> the difficulty truly isn't lack of capital, it's lack of founder talent (and ideas)

IMO the VC culture in the midwest is also a lot more conservative. The money isn't held by former programmers, as they are in SF. They're usually more finance execs.
This is the company that continues to ship new games with Windows XP Embedded (they are allowed to due to a technicality in the licensing agreement with Microsoft). No one expects them to up their security game all of a sudden - and I sure hope they don't :D

Of course, thank you to all of those who have done this type of work over the years! You know who you are.
When I came back to Perl after about four years of working primarily in Python, this was the first question I asked, in the form of "How do I make my scripts testable as a library while also runnable as a command?"

It wasn't immediately apparent how to do it back then, and it took a little explaining to even get people on the same page about what I meant. But, it was a really nice thing in Python that I immediately missed when coming back to Perl. You don't need to know the word "modulino" to do it, though.

brian d foy first talked about the idea in Perl well over a decade ago but it was already common in Python (and probably other languages, Python is just where I saw it first).
Yes, I also imagined they were talking about 100% electric cars, and not plug-in hybrids or hybrids.

[edit: The title was just changed from "electric cars" to "electrified vehicle", which is an even odder way to put it, but at least most people know they don't know what that means without looking at the article.]
Slovenian from Cleveland here and I can confirm that Ohio has some of the worst diversity in the country (I've lived in Cleveland, DC, Houston, Dallas, and SV) that I have experienced. The metropolitan neighborhoods are highly segregated by race and socioeconomic class. Summers regularly stay over 100 degrees and winters regularly stay under 32 for weeks at a time. It's far from the coasts and Lake Erie is disgusting (full of dead fish and debris). The people are generally racist and homophobic and like country music far too much for their geographic latitude.
Creating a cross-platform desktop app with PyQt (Electron alternative)
For all that is holy, carry a small gas generator instead. The same way people today carry a small extra battery for their ICE cars.
Shit, you got me! Post your BTC address please... :(
You should really check out egret game engine. They offer typescript which is very similar to actionscript. Link: https://www.egret.com/en/
BC's density is both low and high. For the entire population, it is very low. But if you start with something like 80% of the population, that lives in two or three tiny places, basically the GVRD, Victoria and Kamloops. The BC population is best described as being very dense but surrounded by vast areas of emptiness. Draw a line from West Vancouver (one of canada's most expensive suburbs) to alaska. You will cross only two roads. Dense urban city, a small fence, then thousands of miles of nothing.
Same for me, we paid WhatsApp to use a messenger that’s convenient, and isn’t Facebook.

And yet, this now happened.
In Illinois, we have the Illinois Policy Institute, IPI, which is a "think-tank" by definition. In reality, it is a modern grassroots messaging campaign sponsored by Republican chessmasters. IPI, and it's sister organization Illinois News Network, is more local than Shareblue, but still very comparable.
The HP Envy is another great 4k monitor with USB-C and much cheaper the LG models. Getting it working with a macbook can be extremely frustrating but once you got it configured you can plug/unplug at will.
How GitLab Switched to Headless Chrome for Testing
It's even worse than a monopoly, it's the elimination of a market. When you perform a vertical merger you no longer have to negotiate with people at that level of the market. The acquired business now only has to respond to the demands of the parent company and it is only through those demands that market forces act on the child business.

Furthermore, since the parent company has removed its demand from the market, there is less money moving around. The less competitive businesses who contributed to the market forces keeping prices low end up folding or being vertically integrated into competitors. The market dies and the oligarchy strengthens immensely. Especially so because now startup competitors must have all segments of the market in order to compete.
Oh my god. Thank you for this great news. I was almost resigned to see Thunderbird being sunset. It's an amazing client and will only become better by utilising the progress made by Firefox.
You can use Helm with local files, instead of fiddling with the awkward "repository" concept:

helm install .

We use this to wrap Helm with a nice deployment tool that does a lot more (e.g. automatically annotate our resources with git commit information).
The problem there is the climate, and I say that as a Midwesterner used to cold harsh winters. SF, LA, Seattle, and Austin all have more human-friendly weather more of the year. People here in these comments complain about the winters in Ohio, and winter in Toronto isn't going to be any nicer to live in.
4 seconds faster (within milliseconds of the frequency drop event occurring) than the coal plant contracted to provide frequency response services.

"But in reality, the response from the Tesla big battery was even quicker than that – in milliseconds – but too fast for the AEMO data to record.

Importantly, by the time that the contracted Gladstone coal unit had gotten out of bed and put its socks on so it can inject more into the grid – it is paid to respond in six seconds – the fall in frequency had already been arrested and was being reversed."

TL;DR The reserve system did this to show its skills. It can respond faster than any existing base load generators, and can derive revenue not only from providing energy on demand, but also grid services (in this case, frequency response).

Tesla plans to provide these services in a virtual fashion with vehicles in the future: https://i.imgur.com/oLBNeW4.png
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My point was that many smaller midwestern cities have no reason for anyone not born there to come, except for college towns and a few with big employers. Those are some of the only assets that will help increase diversity over time.
a lot of technical interviews use super contrived problems for you to work through. There is a non-zero chance that a super experienced engineer could be qualified for a job, but stumble on the applied questions asked by some interviewers.

leetcode is intended to help that type of interviewee get up to speed on a lot of those sort of technical interview questions that they may not have directly thought about for years.
Water is wet and using a battery to cover high speed changes in supply/demand works exactly the way you'd expect at the car, datacenter and grid scale.

This is really just a fluff piece.
True. And if you get convicted of a political crime in china, it is also difficult to get a job (they run background checks also).
I was a bit nonplussed reading this as well. If I'm interviewing a future colleague I am especially curious about their side projects on GitHub ... but I don't care how well what they have done dovetails with my current technical needs, or many "iterations" they have shipped, but rather: are they passionate/do they make things they care about? Can they write clearly? Is the code of high quality? Have they interacted with others well (respectful/helpful tone in PRs, Issues, etc.)? I find most candidates don't bother with half, or any, of these, but the ones that do tend to be good ones (and, alas, are also employed already).
Cleveland is not diverse compared to most US cities, it's below average.

Edit: Source: I lived in Cleveland ~20 yrs
I'm a Canadian working for a tech company in US on TN Visa. I want to start my own endeavor and work in US. Can I start a company and sponsor my own TN visa? I've heard of friends who have sponsored themselves via their own startup, they usually put someone else as CEO and got that person to sign their employment letter. What are the liabilities of that person as CEO? I was considering making my friend a CEO and having him hire me for the company. Also, does the company need a minimum revenue or funding?
Sure you can "nationalize" facebook or the world wide web (by like the UN or something?? these are international Earth-scale entities)

But there are a lot of tradeoffs there too and some really chilling consequences.