skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will L2 congestion become a problem once JWST and a few more missions join this craft? Will we have to manage that orbit like we do with geostationary?
> He also denied that Amazon had any responsibility for the negative impacts of their AI/ML technologies, or role to play in industry efforts to self-regulate.

For a period of time, there was a lot of chatter about all developers having some kind of professional oath, like doctors. Many of the approaches that were taken have issues (preclude working on smart weapons program or legal surveillance).

I wonder if what we really need is a developers oath along the following:

"Anything I build can and will be abused. I am responsible for my designs, for my products, and for the data I collect and store. If my technology is used for evil, I am responsible."
Even an unlevel playing field would be fine — if it were stable and not subject to the arbitrary whims of the CCP. Predictability and consistency are paramount.
The fastmail calendar is excellent, IMO.
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I'm honestly surprised more "digital nomads" don't get caught at customs/border control with the advent of government surveillance of social media and LinkedIn.

CBP Agent: Purpose of stay?

Nomad: Pleasure

CBP Agent: types It appears you work for a remote startup. Are you currently working for them and/or do you plan on continuing to work within our country?

Maybe they let you stay if you're honest? Likely you're on the next flight out and you incur the possibility of a visa blacklist.

Disclaimer: Have an associate who has been blacklisted from US entry due to lying to CBP. Don't lie at border control.
For as long as I can remember, the sales part of every organization I've worked for has been seduced by the "1 Billion Customers!" idea of China. that plus manufacturing with sweatshop style wages.

And in every single case, after much pain, they realize that it just doesn't work like that.

worst was an org that had their hardware cloned and sold (right down to knock-off pcbs).

another, selling a hw + sw solution to a chinese client with 5000+ sites, initial phase was for 50 sites, with the client doing installation and first tier support. guess what. the project didn't go beyond the initial phase. but part of the requirements of the project was sharing of ip.
Have you filed your I-485 application?
In run of the mill mathematics, I've never seen zero treated as a special type. In derivations, a restriction against zero (because some variable appeared in a denominator) is usually carried as a logical assertion that is attached to subsequent derivations, like "<.. equation ...>, x /= 0".
Incidentally, if you live in SF, it's worth getting the vaccines for hepatitis A and B as an adult.
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A blog post is the "old web" now?
The US still takes the lion’s share of immigrants.
Why are date based searches so hard?
It was started by a former apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee [1]. At apple he said he wanted a kernel on macOS[2]. When he started BE they did develop their own hardware (BE Box). They eventually decided to port it other hardware (hardware is expensive). Microsoft had a strangle hold on most PC manufacturers and the BEbox was power PC so it made sense to try to get Mac clones to use it (There was a brief period in the 90s where apple clones existed.). I got a disk and tried it on a "Power computing" mac clone. It was kinda amazing compared to macos8. But the lack of software made it hard day to day.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gassée

[2] https://mondaynote.com/50-years-in-tech-part-11-getting-the-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox
What? I read in the article that some of the companies barely broke even.
Isn't the meat industry already heavily subsidised?
> it makes sense that this is not allowed, it will be way too easy to evade immigration laws if that was allowed on a massive scale.

How do these immigration laws even make sense themselves? What does a country loose when a freelancer travels in, lives there and spends money received from abroad?
Which is why iOS should be avoided too. They may appear to be playing kind of nice now, but they won't forever. That blatant disregard for openness is a sure sign they're going to end up the same way, no matter what they say now.
Thanks a lot Peter!
Idk if it does anything beyond normal CalDAV stuff, but honestly, I'm not sure what more you'd want for a personal calendar. Does GCal have any useful exclusive features?
I'm not plugging this school but Northeastern University School of Law is a progressive coop law school so you could gain a lot of experience in public interest law while pursuing your degree, including working with asylees.
So you allow managewp to login to your sites?
When I first saw the headline, I thought it sounded disgusting. After reading the article, I think my curiosity might win out over revulsion, given the opportunity.
>>Gilead has also licensed 11 manufacturers in India to produce cheaper generic versions of its hepatitis C drugs for sale in 101 developing countries. The generic medications retail for $300–$900 per treatment course in countries where they are permitted...

Maybe India et al politicians should steal a bit less and save lives by paying roughly 100x less that USA patients. The drug costs money to be developed and trialed, you can't just copy the finished product, otherwise no one would try again...
I think you're referring to recent news of the arrest of a Huawei executive on request of US.
Huawei is the biggest private company in China. In technology, its market share comes in second to Apple.
In addition, the arrested executive (Chief Financial Officer) is the daughter of Huawei's founder.
This event just light up a spark on an already tense situation and surely begs for a tit-for-tat decision from China. Meaning: the retaliation from China is expected to be about personal safety. So... more pressure to head out fast in case you're an American entrepreneur.
Location matters to food and drink. You can taste the difference. You can even taste the difference in ordinary tap water. I don't care all that much about SF sourdough starter, specifically--it was the only one I ever noticed as being sold commercially.

There is also a hobbyist network of people that trade their local sourdough starter to people in distant lands, as dried-up blobs on index cards, through the mail. People also trade kefir, kombucha, yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchee, and vinegar starters. They wouldn't go to the trouble if it didn't make a difference.

The local ambient microbiome certainly contributes to the texture and flavor of fermented and aged foods, and it can be transplanted successfully for a few months, but then the locals usually overwhelm the foreigners. When you find a commercially significant one, you have to take great care to preserve it and keep it pure.
risking their own health so that the human genome can keep
battling with and evolving natural defenses against disease?

Diseases evolve orders of magnitude faster than humans. Giving ourselves a chance to evolve also gives the disease a chance to respond and they will always find ways around our defenses faster than we find defenses. Remember, the usual result of failing to complete a course of antibiotics is a new strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Leaving a reservoir of a disease that we have a vaccine for is far, far more likely to result in a new strain of that disease that can bypass the vaccine.

Additionally... what's the point? Any disease that has a voluntarily unvaccinated population also necessarily has an effective vaccine. The development of a effective vaccine equally necessarily indicates that developing vaccines is easier, faster, and better than attempting to evolve defenses. Why try to go back to evolution at all? The existing vaccine works. If it stops working, make a new one. No need for these ad-hoc primitivist schemes.
True. I'm not a physicist, so help me understand -- we've only ever observed fermions with spin 1/2 and bosons with spin 1 (and recently, Higgs at 0). We've postulated that gravitons would have to be spin-2 because of how the math works out (I don't understand the math but wikipedia suggests that its because gravity is defined by the use of 2nd order tensors) but we've not confirmed the existence of gravitons. Hopefully I'm not talking past you by speaking of particles, correct me if I'm wrong but particles/fields are interchangeable as a matter of quantization, right?

I definitely trust the general relativity math -- gravitational lensing /GPS atomic clock corrections are perhaps the easiest bits to wrap my head around as evidence.

Anyways, all that is to ask the question -- Is this negative mass model in conflict with observations or is it in conflict with other models of those observations?
The problem is that a mountain of evidence stands against climate deniers and your example "could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings."
For some definition of sudden. What we're seeing now regarding geological speed is unprecedented.

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Thanks for the post. I really like point 2:
"If you’re wondering whether you should write a piece at all, you probably should"

If the topic is something you've just learned, it can be helpful to write about it right then versus a week down the road. The topic will feel more meaningful, and your less likely to downplay your own accomplishments.
That applied only to certain AMD CPUs that were available in 2012. It's just an example in which there was some effort to take a "fairer" approach to per-core licensing. It's especially notable since the EPYC line is evidence of the great strides that AMD has made since then when MS just gave you a blanket discount for running SQL Server on AMD cores.
My gym also uses facial recognition, but does it via a person sitting behind a desk checking that my member ID matches my face. I don't think many people are uncomfortable with this process, and this biometric method has been used for a long time.
As a non-web-dev, I'm still looking for a reason to not use Safari on my macbook. Perhaps I'm too dumb to see the difference, but I've never found chrome/firefox to be better than safari.
Can anybody explain how does this make any constructive sense?
Sorry, non-native speaker. What’s better? “Inherited”?

Edit: “passed down” is most common, but “transmitted” isn’t totally unheard of. Transmission also touches many concepts other than diseases, such as messages, traditions, DNA, Torrents, or torque.

In this light, your interpretations seems somewhat bad-faithy and I retract that “sorry”.
Oh boy, if they somehow made the control panel even worse than it was in Win7, I'll have to take a look at it myself.

I've counted the different kinds of windows in Win7 control panel: there are ten of them. Ten distinct methods of organizing stuff in a window, all in the settings section of the OS, and that's not including third-party additions. There are navigational widgets that don't occur anywhere else in the OS (sidebars with links, iirc).

Also, all the hours lost in wandering through the control panel due to its awful localization…

These days, I'm pretty sure control panels can be used as a litmus test as to whether the GUI authors have a grip on UI design.
Seeing as browsers on iOS can’t have their own rendering engine, no, you can’t run Firefox on iPad in any meaningful way.
Let me just add my take here. You don't have to agree with it. But it seems unrepresentative for this to be the only remark about the Elements of Style.

I started to read the PDF you link to, "The Land of the Free." I found myself disagreeing with sentence after sentence. It doesn't help that he uses Strunk's first edition, which is very, very different from the famous second and third editions (my favorite). The edition he looks at is just Strunk. There is no White.

- Strunk and White did not write it together. Strunk was one of White's professors. Strunk had a homemade textbook. Strunk died. Decades later, White's publisher asked White to take Strunk's old handbook and rewrite and add some stuff. White did. The second edition. I can't remember if I have read this edition. I own the third edition and have read it over and over.

- When I look at the first edition online, it is much less inspiring. It has a lot more tedious tidbits and completely lacks the second half that White added.

- Even the third edition has stuff that I'm not sure is that important. But for me the overall gist was groundbreaking. Things like shorter is better. Don't try to be fancy and draw attention to yourself. Basically, writing is not some competition for fanciness. Many people think it is, but if you are trying to write for the sake of the reader --- instead of just to make yourself look good --- you will try to write efficiently and clearly.

- To me this was groundbreaking, because in not a single English class was this book ever mentioned, the overall teaching of all my classes was totally different, and the output by most of the world (blogs, textbooks, emails, whatever) seems to indicate that they have never read Strunk and White at all. "The Land of the Free" seems to say the opposite, that the Elements of Style is oppressing everyone, that most people are following it. Maybe in his neck of the woods, but not anywhere I have been.
"Being humble is one thing, but forcing yourself into this kind of fawning emotional servility feels dangerous to me."

Ironically, this attitude may have made you a good candidate to work at Apple.

There are many anecdotes about Steve being blunt with people, in an attempt to figure out who will be honest with him and who is just trying to kiss his ass. He wanted to work with the former, of course. And this is hinted at a little bit in the article.
I guess... In the past we had “Windows Services for UNIX” - which, by the way, was based on the actual POSIX subsystem rather than something that sits on top of Win32. Anyway, the point was, shouldn’t “for” in this context be understood as “instead of”?
there are also cruel jerks who are incompetent idiots.
Part of it is the law hasn't caught up yet (and smart nomads can fly under the radar), the other part is there is very little benefit for allowing remote workers in your country. Maybe they contribute a bit in consuming local services and housing before moving on, but if things go wrong (ie you're stranded because some idiot's business failed without contingency plans), those benefits get wiped out.

From the government's perspective, it's a razor thin margin policy endeavor. For you as a digital nomad, you think it's a great deal for them. For a government, they'll just work towards more tourism instead (which nets them greater ROI; way more tourists in the world compared to remote workers).
Recentish Chromebooks can trivially run Firefox Mobile.

I actually spent last night getting a full-blown desktop FF running on my chromebook (by way of Crostini, their Linux virtualization). It's not something my mom or even my wife would ever be able to do, but it is possible. And if Mozilla really cared, they could package it in a way that would make it a whole lot easier to install.
The E-2 is a great visa and is good for 5 years initially and theoretically can be renewed indefinitely as long as the company is operating and generating some U.S. jobs. There's no legal limit on the number of E-2 employees a company can have but the company also needs to employ U.S. workers (although there's no requirement of a certain ratio).
The general advice seems to be "Don't be blatant about it" and generally keep stays under 30 days. The reality is that a lot of tech people taking a long vacation these days will have a computer with them and may well do some work. So it's really a difference of degree if you're working remotely full-time.
In markets where a "Privacy Fee" is considered standard, the price raise will not be considered arbitrary. I fear this is a potential reality.
Yes, but there are few chances that the person sitting behind the deck will be the target of a brain cyberattack!
How do you define "experience"?
eating beef being higher quality of life may be less real and more perceived (because of habit and freedom), given that there are several similar substitutes.
One thing worth trying out as well are the folly::F14 hashmaps (https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/containe...), which has a roughly similar design. You can find some discussions on the performance tradeoffs by the SwissTable and F14 authors at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/hashtable-benchmarks/-....
Hello Peter, I'm a non-resident and non-citizen selling consultancy and development services to U.S. companies (as a contractor, filing a W8-BEN). I hold a B1/B2 visa (only used for conferences and training so far).

Are there any potential immigration issues if I do U.S. based work for a couple of months on my B1/B2 visa? Could I do that more than once in a year or would that be a red flag for immigration services?

I don't want to move to the U.S. but I do want to be able to work onsite during crunch times, pushes to production or similar events, without risking my visa.

I also want to allay fears of potential customers that I don't qualify as an employee, but that's not an immigration question I guess :)

Thank you for taking your time for answering!
Then the discussion should have been a post unto itself, not a comment piggy-backing on another project's thread. I dunno, seems like basic netiquette to me.

But I agree that if you think your solution is better, there's really nowhere better to put it out there than in front of eyes that are looking at something similar.
I have absolutely no idea who is right, but I don't see why Dr. Hossenfelder is being so patronizing? In her rebuttal in the comments she says

>Trust me, I do not enjoy doing this, but I do not want false claims to spread in the popular science literature.

The only way to stop popular science lit from misinterpreting/aggrandizing scientific findings and publishing what eventually amounts to false claims would be to just never publish anything provocative at all...and then they'd still probably find some BS to publish. I don't really see why such reasoning would prompt this response for the paper.
> Whose ré­sumé got your at­ten­tion—Vi­o­let’s (the first one) or Trixie’s (the sec­ond)? [...] I’m guess­ing you picked Trixie’s.

Actually, Violet's grabbed my attention more. The dark backgrounds, the heavyweight bullet points, the bold letters... I guess my first reaction was that Violet's contained more information because it had a higher black-to-white ratio, and that's what caused me to favor it. Trixie's seemed too white (the black lines too thin) and so more difficult to read. I'm not sure what to take away from this. If Matthew's judgement is the more common one, maybe I'm a poor judge of what people would commonly think of as good graphic/typographic design.

Then again, maybe a large reason of why I favored one over the other is because I saw them as small images instead of printed pages. Maybe as printed pages, Trixie's would've read fine, and Violet's font would be too big and loud.
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Yeah the press release and subsequent science journalism is all annoying and breathless and overblown -- totally agreed.

But to say that its unconfirmed by experimentation and "not how science works" is a bit silly, don't you think? The paper proposes a model, shows outputs of the model, and demonstrates how it predicts things we have already observed. It's a good starting point for other experiments and observations, don't you think? Plenty of papers do purely theoretical work and science is better for them, too.
It's almost as if workers should own and control the means of production.
If you are living anywhere it's worth getting vaccines for hepatitis A and B.
Android phones sold in China don't come with Google Play Services or Chrome. Even my Canadian Samsung Galaxy S7 used Samsung's "Internet" as the default browser app, although Chrome did come pre-installed.

But otherwise, you are correct. For most Western markets, Android phones give Chrome a big advantage.
I think WeRoam had a great idea, there was no shortage of customers. Here's what I think they did wrong:

1. Solve the legal issues before you take the first dollar

2. Know your costs to the penny

3. Watch cash flow like a hawk

Like to see someone try this again because I might be a future customer.
Your support of that claim only describes 0.00055% of Earth's geological history.
Thanks, that's helpful to know! Do you believe an O-1 would be equally easy to obtain whether I go into academics or industry? How reluctant are companies when it comes to interviewing someone who isn't presently in the US?
> labor is still very high quality.
China
wut?
"I had set my life up and housing up to be gone for a year. I’d found people to watch my dogs. And now I’m five months in. I can’t just go back."

I think the issue is more about the lack of refunds and sudden need to make drastic life changes. These people had made a major commitment to a company that folded, sure they can get home, but their lives are still in chaos. It's a reasonable cautionary tale about making such a major life-changing commitment based on the services of a startup.
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He wanted to keep his first hand memories intact, and not be distracted by a dramatized or fictionalized account.

Why do you need the interpretation of people who weren't there, of events you have directly experienced yourself?
> It’s legal because it’s not done, thankfully.

You don't know that it isn't done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion#United_...

Those who strongly favor male offspring may be a small minority. Even without intervention, there will be more male births. That ratio differs geographically. It would take a lot of sex-selective abortions to show a clear correlation.
I'm one such 'engineer' who is good at whiteboarding algorithms. I can do well on 'system design' questions but dont feel confident at all about really designing such a system from ground up. I, for one, am glad that I can find gainful employment by memorizing 200 pages.
Like most, I've been rejected by a few companies. It hurts but it is normal. I've had what I thought was great interviews but not got it, and on the other side been offered jobs after what I thought was a terrible interview.

And I've been on the other side of the table many times and rejected good candidates simply because we had what we perceived to be better candidates.

So it is often not even be your fault, just for some arbitrary ranking/preference done by the interviewers that day someone else got the role(s).
Given the open hostility to NAFTA by the current administration, I thought that the categories would have been reduced and made more onerous and restrictive.
There is already a circle around an individual’s health data. This represents an expansion of that circle, and I think by focusing on the technology before it becomes too deeply integrated into “the way things are” it can happen quickly, in the way that congress passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act in 1995.

Expanding the circle to protect more PII in general is going to be a longer fight because we’ve already let economic power and consumer behaviour develop into a strong status quo. For instance, if strong regulations came in to limit the creation of profiles for targeted advertising and that resulted in Google withdrawing free email accounts from the market, it might not have a lot of popular support.
They missed revenue because of video cards effecting them more then they expected, look at Nvidia, they expect backstock into several quarters next year. Stop spreading fud, their cpu revenue, ip etc is right on target where they said it would be.
Yes, but that person can't copy your biometric data stored in their brain, convert it to a standardized format, and distribute it to millions of other devices.