skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people can get a Green Card within a year (even with moderate skills) and citizenship at 5 years without language test.

You are hilariously misinformed. I am 3.5 years and waiting on an EB2 and I am British, I know Caltech professors who took 3 years to get on EB1.

Part of the issue isn't entirely the government but also the cottage industry of legal firms. These firms (at least in my experience) can take _longer_ than some of the government steps.
Different concerns.
> When faced with a choice of behaving in a way making you think they care, or behaving in a way that makes you think they don't but actually provides better care and outcomes, what would you prefer? I think we need to be careful about jumping from "this is what it looks like" to "this is what's going on" without evidence clearly pointing to one over that other.

This is an important point but I feel you're approaching it from a very short term view. Look at Pakistan, for example: after the CIA used a vaccination program as cover for a genetic testing scheme meant to find Bin Laden [1], there was (and still is) a significant impact on the Pakistani and other population's trust in their domestic healthcare industry [2]. Even if it was a real Polio vaccination program that saved thousands of lives in a purely utilitarian short term calculation, the damage that distrust causes long term can far outweigh the benefits. Worst of all, due to the nature of that distrust, measuring that damage becomes so much harder.

The point is, doctors don't just need their patients to trust them, but to trust the institution of modern medicine and healthcare as a whole. They need the patients to trust their nurses, pharmacists, specialists, and technicians just as much as the primary doctor. Given how critical patient cooperation/honesty and preventative care are to clinical outcomes, I don't see any convincing evidence that patient perception isn't just as important as the rest of the process.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc...
Both Manhunters. I've never seen anything quite like them. You'd watch a cryptic, low-tech surveillance-style scene play out, then travel to the scene and try to figure out who was who and what happened. Then on to the next scene to advance the plot.
If they did not, perhaps China would ban iCloud (similar to WhatsApp and google’s services).
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Greatest is a complicated word. But smartest is a real possibility. I think von Neumann was the last person who matched Witten's raw intellect.
RNs make 100k easy in any mid city market.
It impacted salaries for everyone in the industry. I don't live in the valley, and it impacted me.

I didn't say it had anything to do with immigration. But it does have to do with suppressing wages, which is what they comment you were replying to was suggesting as a motive. My point being that tech companies have a history of this.
Thanks, that's interesting. The chrisltd blog is from 2015, so I did wonder if some of it might be out of date by now.

AFAICS (which I didn't notice at first) sharingbuttons has a slightly different FB URL, which may not give an error:

https://facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=YOUR-URL

Compared to chrisltd's:

https://facebook.com/sharer.php?u=YOUR-URL
Firstly, I'm not sure you're right in your reckonings about what sort of consumers want what sort of range. And especially if you look at Europe or Japan where things are less spread out than the US.

If Tesla doesn't nail this [300 mile] range segment for higher end of the medium priced cars produced at scale in the next 2-3 years, some of the traditional car manufacturers may catch up.

I'm not sure about that. No one else is coming close to making batteries as cheap as Tesla's. The Chevrolet Bolt has 200 mile range but each one Chevvy sells is an $8000 loss because they have made it artificially cheap. Unless the other car manufacturers get started with their own huge battery factories, they are going to stay years behind.

Also: the Renault Zoe and Nissan Leaf are rated at 150 miles (EPA), not 200 miles as you suggest. Teslas and the Chevrolet Bolt are the only 200+ mile cars by the EPA standard.

Making an affordable 200+ mile EV is very difficult. That's why Tesla are building the biggest factory in the world.
Oh, the old ones where too - the stories just never circulated.

Someone i know worked as a surgery nurse - by now almost 40 years ago. The surgeon was quite choleric - and once, when a cotton -wad was unaccounted for threw a sewn off hip joint twoards those who dared to assist him.

All praise be upon the anaesthetist.
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40k, 50k, 60k possibly. Medium-level is pretty nebulous though. It could be a talented coder without much experience, or a journeyman with many years and without something extra like domain expertise. Smart money would pay more for the first, but people like a bargain too.

Head out of finance and tech (funded or profitable) and those numbers start to look more like senior salaries.
You're going to have to translate what a navvy or ground worker is for us yanks.
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that's maybe a reasonable comment re: their minority holdings in other public companies.

but they have other business activities apart from their minority holdings, which you're ignoring.

they're also able to identify opportunities to take over (both private and public) companies entirely, and add value to those businesses in an active way that a small private passive investor is not able
All of the major tech firms could also just hire more aggressively in their overseas branches if the cost in hiring in US becomes too high. You’ll face globalization one way or another
This sounds great! Congrats on cutting your losses!
I can very well attest to the fact that the chaff gets H1Bed to the US thru mega body shops and the cream stays in India.
I've never thought game dev was a smart career move. Too many naive kids entering the market and too many sweatshops taking advantage of them.
I don't particularly understand why anyone would downvote you, but your comment didn't offer any reason why one would want to point out that Chicago has already had 200 gun homicides this year with its strict gun control laws, nor why that would result in one being labelled a white supremacist.

It is difficult for others to determine your intent without you providing additional context. That you are reporting a fact is immaterial - the question in others' minds will be why you are reporting that fact, because they are trying to understand what you are trying to show with it. As I said in a previous comment, context and intent are important, and if you are unwilling to provide those yourself, you have to accept that people may misunderstand you. Complaining about those misunderstandings is not constructive, you should simply try and clarify your position.
Where did your numbers come from? Did you pick peak years? Canada is higher but slightly. It still stands that the waitlist is way longer for the US than Canada.
> Unfortunately, there are lots of people talking about how bad AMP is, and why, but nobody yet has suggested how we do anything to stop it.

I don’t follow amp links. Then again, I’m satisfied not signing up for twitter, or even loading their site as an outsider to get context when people link to tweets. I also killed my fb account about six months after registering (seven years ago). I clearly accept trade offs that don’t appeal to some.

Others have mentioned switching to ddg to withdraw support from google. I will probably test the waters with that in the future. It’s not as though we are held hostage in the fashion that many are beholden to ISPs.
This is why I always disable such things. Other vendors are mostly worse.
Yes, exactly. They (Google, others) cannot instantly load arbitrary websites because those sites would have access to the google.com domain in an unsafe manner. That is why AMP is “different” than other HTML. It is a safe way to allow Google, Twitter, Bing, Yahoo Japan and others to cache pages and preload/prerender them in the background before the user clicks.
Medicare has no income limits. It's available to all over 65, as lots ng as you've paid in.
With a weak identity you can just hop over to the winning side. I think a lot of polemic attacks over identity aren't aimed so much at the opposition, but at weak supporters to stop them defecting.
Much better for each doctor to directly interview patient than to rely on previous histories that may have omitted crucial info or asked questions in a way that led patient to not realize what was being asked.
That special relativity continues to hold at high energy is not a new prediction. It does distinguish string theory from some other guesses at new physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry_breaking_scale implies LHC was expected to show evidence of supersymmetry. That's what I was thinking of by 'easily'.

Anyway, I guess you are saying he's the greatest ever because of string theory? And we'll just have to see if that pans out as physics.
Witten's work has taught us an enormous amount about the structure of ordinary quantum field theory. It's important even without strings. Indeed, Witten was already a dominant influence in the physics community when he began working on string theory.
Isn't there actually an xkcd for that? Can't find it now, maybe I'm imagining.
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Yeah, I see where you're coming from, but it seems this therapy is forced upon children (another commenter linked an article who experienced this at age 14). That seems wrong to me, and at the very, very least not something we should be funding at the federal level.

In fact, there could be some parallels here to federal funding for abortions. Many conservatives feel this procedure is morally wrong as strongly as others might feel about gay conversion therapy. I can see why they would be similarly upset about federal funding for clinics that perform them, although I don't necessarily agree with their final position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU6scly2AFU
His very countenance rippled like the sea, and the sound of my own voice came back to me, distorted. ... it was how I affected his sounds and how she affected mine that transmitted the message. - SMAC

I don't disagree with what I interpret as the intent of your message - that there is real value in process, question repetition, and not jumping to conclusions.

I do think it implies a false choice at the end though. A doctor can imply they care / listen / are familiar with your case, while still asking insightful questions and probing for relevant changes.

[Analogy] As there are many engineers here, consider this contracting example: how would most companies respond if, for a project, at each meeting, the contractor sent a new representative, who asked all the same questions as the first meeting, could provide no status updates, and many reps suggested apparently different solutions, platforms, or approaches?
Each doctor also has an incentive to re-examine the patient so they can bill for that examination.
Thanks -- that's more the sort of info I was hoping to find out.
As a person who works there, please expound why you think so. The real people making it difficult has been Congress and the never ending budget issues. We are in a critical time ramping up and going from continuing resolution to continuing resolution has made things rough. Now trying to push to add a citizenship question will really screw things up. But once again that’s Congress not us or Trump.
I don't think Mark Rippletoe would countenance a program that invariably leads to injury, and would agree that the program needs to be tailored to the individual. If a given individual needs a slower progression to avoid injury, that's the progression they need to follow. In a brief search online, I came across this paragraph:

> "Training is the process of changing an athlete’s physical capacity over time. Its specifics depend on the precise task the athlete will perform, when it will be performed, and how often.... The process must also reflect the current state of physical preparation of the athlete: a freshman in high school doesn’t train like a strong, experienced college senior unless his coach is a fool."

https://startingstrength.com/article/strength_and_prevention...

If you happen to come across something that directly contradicts this, please do share.

There’s no guarantee for perfect prevention of injury, but paying close attention to one’s current state of conditioning and adapting training to fit, you’ve got a much better chance of doing so. Injury sucks. I hope you find a regime that fits for you and helps you reach your fitness goals.
I attribute most of my adulthood problem solving skills to figuring out how to get Larry laid.
> Harley demographic is entrenched

They're not targeting existing customers, this is a growth story about attracting new, younger, urban/suburban customers.
I came to a similar conclusion recently, and I believe that evolutionarily, the concept of identity originates from the biological drive to protect one's physical body. One then voluntarily expands or contracts one's sense of identity from there.

So I did some mental experiments. Temporarily reducing my identity to not include my physical body, bit by bit.

Then, what am I?

My consciousness.

What if I reduce it further?

I lose consciousness.

(But I get it back after I wake up.)

What if I try to lose the sense of identity while still remaining aware?

It wraps around and I become the universe. Am one with the universe.

It was an interesting journey.
This is a false equivalence. The reasons they’re being linked are important too. When Trump and others point to cold snaps as evidence against climate change, they’re just drawing a straight line from one to the other with no rationale or explanation in between. When extreme events like this are linked to climate change, they’re presented as illustrative of a well studied phenomenon that definitely causes this sort of thing to happen.

It’s like if I take the Lord’s name in vain and then get sick and you tell me this shows that I shouldn’t swear. Then you lick a handle on the subway and get sick and I tell you this shows how disease is transmitted by germs. The two may look superficially similar, but the underlying reasoning is important.
I wonder if it would be sufficient to restrict nouns that you use to assert your identity to those which can be 'verbified': I am a juggler because I juggle; I am a programmer because I program; I am a writer because I write.

Those particular nouns seem to be inherently less likely to cause partisan behaviour that nouns that can't be as easily 'verbified': I am British because I Brit; I am not Christian because I don't Christ.

I suppose a simpler way of saying this would be to restrict your sense of identity to things you do over things you believe. Although I'm not at all certain that this would actually serve to avoid the kind of 'dumbness' the author describes.
I don't think there's a problem. From what I gather, websites simply adopt AMP for the preferential treatment Google gives AMP pages. It's an SEO-hack.
As a tech worker I always feel super grateful that the job I like is also lucrative. There’s no end to greed.

Is it possible that we may get paid higher? Maybe

Do we deserve to get paid much higher than those equally talented people working elsewhere in the world? Or those who are super smart and hard working but not making much money just because they don’t work in tech? I don’t think so
Shadertoy in the new WinAmp Visualizations.
To sort of piggy back off of your point, I think Harley is headed for the rocks and it all comes down to number 1. Harley has such a concrete demographic and it's been exhausted. The problem is, by catering so hard to that demographic they are not able to get new riders.

To make matters worse, things like electric motorcycles, discontinuing the Dyna / FXR line, and changing from an air cooled engine to a liquid cooled engine is also annoying their diehard demographic.

The only demographic which seems to be growing (though, I'm extremely biased on this) is younger kids who are getting into customizing motorcycles. Not "Orange County Chopper" bikes, but buying old Harleys (or Triumphs or BSAs or Hondas for that matter) and making them into cool choppers or cafe racers or whatever. The problem is, this demographic doesn't give Harley any money. They don't want the Harley branded everything. They want old bikes that they can get cheap aftermarket or NOS parts for and they want to ride those.
I saw it last night at the CHM. There was also a screening at the museum at Bletchley Park. Really entertaining, and I learned much. One interviewee explained his labor-intensive method of pirating computer games.

I've never owned a Commodore 64. I was an Atari computer fanboy back then, and I thought that the C-64 was junk in comparison. Now I see that it did have some good features, especially the sound chip.

Later, I met a guy in high school who had a C-64 and gobs of pirated games on floppies. Some memorable titles were Hover Bovver (a game about mowing lawns), Paradroid (you are a robot that takes over a space station by mind controlling other robots), and Ultima IV (I was fascinated that you could visit various towns and talk to all these characters).

In 1988, I bought an Amiga 500.
Is there anybody making an enclosed 1,2 person trike? That seems like a way to get to a 300 mile EV sooner and more than enough for city use.
It was started by demoscene people.
I've found that wherever you go there will be people you need to work with that don't live up to your own expectations and it's tempting to dehumanize them as stupid.

However since this is the case everywhere I think it's better to think about ways to mitigate this problem than try to solve it via some sort of gatekeeping. Even Google with their rigorous process has this problem.

Personally I think the inability to fire-fast because of lack of a social safety net is a core part of the problem.
Yep and the common thread in both is the government.
That says a lot more about China than it does the US.

In the last 15 years, China's economy has gone from extraordinarily backwards and impoverished, to massive, increasing in size by eight fold.

What that means is, there is a lot more money to pay the best Chinese engineers to keep them in China. There is a lot more capital to fund local businesses.
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1) any SUSTAINED focused resource improves educational outcomes
2) resource allocation is strongly sub-linear--it takes FAR more than 10% more resource to cause 10% improvement in outcome from our current system

I’d like to learn more about these 2 points, particularly the first (how it’s measured, etc). Is there any specific work of the Gates foundation you could point to?
Please don't assume everyone's brain is like yours.

Being perpetually late is a psychological problem. Telling people to "just be on time" is like telling depressed people to "just be happy".

Yes, depression can be remedied, as can perpetual lateness. No, it's not as easy for people who suffer from these. Please assume that if it's easy for you to either not be depressed or be on time, then it's hard for you to understand the people who exhibit these behaviors.

If you want to understand perpetual lateness better, please read this article: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/07/why-im-always-late.html

(I would also recommend it to everyone else who is late - it's a weapon in my arsenal).

Signed, someone who just appeared at the post office that closes at 2PM at 1:59:37 PM.
Democracy failing: Most people don't have any idea about who they’re voting for
You say that, but SLIB [0] is the canonical place to go with Scheme, which has the "Macroless Object System" [1], based on CLOS from Common Lisp.

SLIB is included with Guile, and compatible with almost all Schemes. If a Scheme has an object system inbuilt, it is likely to be built around SLIB's.

[0] https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib/Object.html#Object
The health sector is the Afghanistan of the tech business. It's entire history is of empires arriving to solve its problems, and after a decade and massive losses, they leave, mystified at how something so contained could be so intractable. The only people who survive there are the ones who don't try to change it.

When you can send your diagnostic images to get a consult from 2 clinics in India and an expert system for less than the price of a three block ambulance trip in the US, prices for domestic care will come down.
Nice!

It reminds me of two other recent demoscene productions, also shader-based:

Waillee, in 4kB: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=71873

Fermi Paradox, in 64kB: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67113
SAT is not hard be design, this is true in general for tests of mathematical aptitude.
Whoops! Thanks, fixed.
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Are the ports on the 1080ti's used for video output at all? Is there one with SDI out? Or are they just used for CUDA?

At the risk of asking a silly question, what does the LUT-box do that couldn't be done in software (or, I guess, why isn't it done in software)?

This stuff is fascinating to me.

Do you know of any good YouTube videos on colorist hardware? I've seen a couple of videos on workflow, but neither went into the guts of the machines and LUT-boxes.
I see this as a failure of the US's public education system, and a twisted reward system.

The education seems focus heavily on making students happy/comfortable with themselves, and congratulate them on ever tiny achievements. Thus hard stuff like STEM is now avoided, because not good at them is definitely not the problem of the students, but the subjects themselves. Also the culture seems to discriminate against people who do have an interests in those topics, and punish them by isolation.

This deceptive system isn't really doing a good job that prepares students with self-confidence. Instead it cultivates an unique entitlement to blame the system for any personal issues. Which is the exact opposite of east asian system.

I think education needs to be repurposed as means to obtain knowledge through learning and a lot of practices. And as a selective system, the competitiveness of education shouldn't be avoided, where some people will achieve higher and access better resources and there is nothing wrong with it.

US's universities still have much of that perspective of education intact, but the high school education and below is just bad, and leave a lot of people unprepared.
And how productive do you think "voting with our wallets" can be for a product we don't pay for from a company with more money than all of us combined?
Thanks for the heads up! Never heard of them before.

I actually just went through the quiz and it said I did "a good job". Is that actually true or is it just a morale booster? Note: I suffer from a bit of imposter syndrome since my background is not CS and I don't have much professional experience.

But it's good to know that the process is well-structured!
Specifically, the government's mostly laissez-faire approach to handling both and, for education at least, its inability to prioritize it above other priorities like declaring war on vague concepts (drugs, crime, terrorism, etc)
It's not xenophobic, which is fear of foreigners, and it might actually represent his experience of Russians. Stereotypes exist for a reason; it should hardly be surprising that people from the same culture tend to act similarly, and not all cultural traits are perceived positively by others.