skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument presupposes that a person either believes (if they're not a physicist) or knows (if they are) that a spin-2 field must obey those rules, and that gravity is a spin-2 field, which makes the conclusion follow naturally.

The math for this would not make any sense to a layperson, but is widely accepted. Proposing a new theory of negative mass means proposing much more significant alterations to the underlying theory of gravity; the theoretical machinery supporting this current understanding is huge.
I don't know if this really counts as a trend; I'd think the trope of "Person who has more than you complaining about how bad they have it and getting only resentment in return" is as old as civilization itself.
The best use of a thesaurus, is to replace a ten-dollar word you remember, with a one-dollar word you just can't seem to.
So that's the issue - you're hiring someone and you have no idea which version of them showed up to the meeting, and which one will be coming to work every day.

It's almost like we're trying to solve a taylor series of work efficacy (of an individual on a given team) by capturing a very small number of data points in stressful situations (interviews) and doing a hell of a lot of extrapolation.
I would class a number of Microsoft's releases of source under that category.
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Hi Peter,

Thanks for doing this!

I am on a US Green Card, living outside US for about 2 years 3 months, with a re-entry permit and N-470 approved. However, I have been making quarterly trips to the US except for one long stretch of 10 months. Thereby I have totaled perhaps 3-4 months of time spent in the US in this duration.

I am interested in preserving by green card as well as ability to file US citizenship. What would be a good option for the same?

1. Renewal of re-entry permit?
2. Moving back to the US, and then shortly filing for citizenship?

I have heard that to file for citizenship, I need to be present in the US for 2.5 years cumulative in the last five years, and also be there in the last 90 days.

So it seems from this that if I chose option '1' to stay out for two more years before moving back, it will be a few years before I can file for citizenship to complete 2.5 years cumulative spent in the US in the last five years.

If I move back before the expiry of re-entry permit in mid-March 2019, then as I understand, I can file for US citizenship after 90 days of moving back and then perhaps receive it within say 6-9 months of the latter. During this period, including the 90 days, can I make short international trips?

Given the current situation, do you think a reentry permit renewal may even get approved?

Thanks.
>I mean they disallow users to uninstall their apps

All default apps on Android live on the system partition, meaning even if you uninstalled them, regular, non-rooted users wouldn't have any additional space to use.

This policy also means you can't really mess up (for average consumers) an android phone by uninstalling something important, like webview or the Play Store.

Any updates to the default apps are installed on the user-accessible data (IIRC) partition, and so can be uninstalled by users, actually freeing up space.
I doubt that. In most companies the Managerial chain kill bottom up innovation.

There’s less than 1% chance Facebook messenger would be able to live to the philosophy of “no ads, no gimmicks, secure messaging”

That’s why startups can disrupt. It really does reward bottom up innovation.
Hot reload is like the REPL of frontend development
Plug: I work out JumpCloud, a directory as a service company.
Well, you can make 100+ high-quality plastic parts a week on a $500 SLA printer (if you can fit at least 5 on the bed, vertically), and the price per part for the material could be below $1/part (the goo costs $70 per liter). At least in theory, that's my plan in the next weeks. PCBs are no issue in smaller quantities, although the setup cost for PCB assembly will add to per unit cost if you are doing less than ~500.

Here's an example, although perhaps a little big: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDUn3CoVmuc

Looks quite saleable to me. Maybe sand blasting would improve the finish.

The real plus China having Taobao.. like eBay, but with every imaginable component you could need, and five different Chinese clones of it at 20% of the original component cost, all available at wholesale prices, in quantities of 1 or 100,000. The Shenzhen markets are still active, but shrinking.. you can usually find more variety, faster, cheaper, online. You can hand your BOM over to an agent on Taobao, and he'll get the parts together for you and ship them over.. it might cost 1/4 of the price of Digikey.
Honestly hell yeah. I really want to do this.
Be serious. If I use a page builder, such as Enfold or Visual Composer, I can get a client site completed in much less time, with a consistent design, and with more precision than with Gutenberg. You're saying that I should use Gutenberg because simply because it is the WordPress Spec. But, as it stands, Gutenberg is simply inferior to page builders. IMHO that goes against the ethos of WordPress, which was always for extensibility i.e I can take my choice of competing plugins, themes and page builders according to the needs of my client and the project. Now, it looks increasingly like we're stuck with a system that is slower to use, delivers imprecise results, requires the download of overlapping blocks, is barely out of beta, AND that will destroy competition in the space. Even if it conforms to the "WordPress specs" that's not a good result.
American entrepreneurs aren't needed in China any more. Enough people in China know how to do that now. More than enough.
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The statement seems to imply that he would have gotten offered if he had been able to answer whatever this question was. There's no way he can know that.

It seems more likely that he was shaky in his other interviews which all added up to him being rejected. If you're an interviewer and the interviewee is doing poorly, do you tell them they're failing? I certainly don't.
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You are 0.0001% representative of the population. You will be tracked by metadata absence. There are a couple articles about terrorists/spies tracked through data patterns generated when the closed their usual phone and switched to a burner one.

Even if you pay cash, your transactions can still be tracked, because your face will be on the cash register camera.

Public transport has cameras inside too.

It's just a matter of time until the computing power and software to analyze all this video will be everywhere.
Hi Peter! Thanks for doing this. I am a Canadian citizen and a freelancer with a Canadian federal corp with annual revenue of ~$300k CAD (no employees, just me right now). I am currently turning the freelancing business to a product-based company.

I am originally from a non-north-american country. My brother and sister immigrated to the US long ago after they went there to study and got their American citizenships around 10 years ago. They then sponsored our parents to the US and now my parents are also US citizens. In parallel, I came to Canada to study and settled here (got rejected by US embassy to study initially because they thought I would settle in the US too).

Now I want to move the US to be with family and to grow my business there. What are my options? Thanks again!
>but um now we need governments to stop us, please?

I read it more like: "we now need governments to stop our competition by creating a much higher barrier to entry than we had to deal with."
Possible, but with the current geopolitical line up, general attitude towards ethics by various cultures, and so on, the people willing to exterminate others for such reasons and the people who are willing to heavily use "designer baby" tech appear to generally be the same people, so it didn't seem worth mentioning as a possible outcome.
If you want to live as a Native American, then yes, you basically have to be on a reservation, and we forced them there to begin with. We'd do so again if they were deemed a large enough national security risk. Our current moral high ground is built on the history of hundreds of years of dirty work. In a hundred years, when Uyghur culture is wiped out, China too, will start claiming their own moral high ground.
Just drink tea or baijiu with more people. And then, since Xi started the anti-corruption campaign, hope that they don't drink with the wrong people.
You're right, it is a two-way street. Candidates go in to the process hoping to get a job and employees go in to the process hoping to get a co-worker. Both are acting in good faith

Most companies disclose what their process is up front and you're free to opt out at any time. Intentionally wasting the time of the recruiters and engineers at companies you don't want to work for just to "practice" just seems really rude
Hi Peter,

I am a software engineer from India. I was on a H1B for roughly 1.5 years working for a startup. Due to various reasons, I quit my job ~2 months ago (my last paycheck dated Oct 15th). My i94 doesn’t expire until January 2020. My questions for you:

- Could I technically stay in the US till my i94 expires without a job? (As I’m not accruing unlawful presence)

- Could there be complications if I find a new job in the next few months and file for a H1B (say through consular processing) if I’ve been out of status for more than the allocated 2 months.

- Would you suggest I file a change of status to B2 right away to maintain status?

More broadly: I’m burnt out and need a little breather before jumping back into the job market. Realistically, I hope to find a new job by Feb/March and file for a new H1B.

Thanks!
Aston Martin will make old cars electric so they don’t get banned from cities
```tar --help | grep <thing I am trying to do>```
Wagtail is a great CMS for developers. WordPress is for end users.
What does “Windows Services for Linux” even mean - given the conspicuous absence of what is being “served”?
There were multiple people arrested and convicted for campaign crimes relating to what prompted the 1996 investigations in fact. With some of it pointing directly back to Beijing on record. To say nothing of the unusual amounts of Chinese money flowing into Hillary's campaign when she was running against Obama [1]. The Chinese foreign money connection to the Clintons goes back a very long ways.

Then conveniently Bill Clinton goes on a blitz to get China into the WTO during his Presidency.

See (2017 article):

“The FBI uncovered evidence about the alleged plan, in part, through electronic intercepts. ... The plan, first discussed in early 1995, called for Chinese officials to channel more than $2 million into U.S. campaigns."

"This isn’t even ancient history. Last week a 17-year-old video surfaced from convicted Clinton fundraiser Johnny Chung in which he confessed to fronting for Chinese intelligence and worried about being bumped off."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-was-bill-clintons-russia-...

[1] http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1679979,0...
As others have pointed out, it's not entirely about Intel doing badly, but rather Intel putting out a mediocre performance and AMD finally really succeeding.

And while the various technical reasons for that are interesting, I do think that at least some of the credit/blame needs to go to the leadership. AMD had a string of bad leadership that led to the company to near bankruptcy, but then they hired Lisa Su, who is basically a superstar engineer-turned-manager who has excelled in everything she's touched, from doing very low-level transistor research to being the leader of large teams (and now the entire company). At the same time, Intel hasn't actually had a good CEO for a long while now, with the top leadership in the company chasing the latest fads and spending billions on weird acquisitions that only get written off later, while the key areas of the business are not doing nearly as well as they did under their predecessors.
I was nodding along, until you said that "on OSX things mostly just work". Oh boy. I have fought homebrew, I have fought Apple destroying permissions on each update, and the OS having embarassing mistakes.

Linux: not much better.

Everything sucks, they just suck in a variety of different flavors.
What if we all had a green wall with aquaponics ?
Your analysis is completely correct on all points and to answer your question, you should have no problem getting another 2 year reentry permit (if you choose to go that route).
Companies calling for more regulation is a ubiquitous phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

More regulation generally gives an advantage to larger companies over smaller ones since it creates barriers to entry; compliance costs usually increase sublinearly with revenue. (E.g., it's a lot easier for Microsoft to hire a dedicated lawyer than it is for a garage start-up.)

This idea that "companies always want less regulation than is socially efficient" is usually based on a misunderstanding of economics.
What would make people eat less beef? Since taxes seem a hard sell, would subsidizing chicken + non-meat protein help? As a vegetarian I'm trying to get my head around what would help change the behaviour of the meat eating HN members.
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As he says, he wasn't a CS major. I can totally relate. I had a pretty popular DOS shareware back in the day (along with some other things). But I wasn't a CS major and would not have been able to answer most algorithmic CS questions unless I had specifically studied them for the purpose of an interview.
I'll drink beer and have fun with my life instead.
The problem isn't a high barrier to entry, what's tested is a separate skill set. It's like testing a carpenter's skill by looking at how good he hits with the hammer.
I think he was very good. But from whatever I have read he was also a big jerk and could be very cruel to people.
Or you can use a frontend language with a proper REPL (e.g. ClojureScript)
But traditionally it's been full of caveats, namely whenever you have long-lived objects or instances of classes somewhere in your hierarchy, causing all sorts of hard to debug issues. I used to do manual hot-reloading when working in a Clojure codebase full time for a few years using Cider (Clojure IDE inside Emacs), and it still required a fair amount of organizing your code to mostly be immutable to avoid these caveats altogether. An entire philosophy came out of this when Stuart Sierra wrote about how he solved this using lifecycles and then released his Component framework to kind of codify these lifecycle ideas into a concrete thing. All this because hot-reloading is great but really fragile.
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> Basic on typography (It makes a big difference even if most people don't notice it)

Can you expand on why typography matters? I've never understood why some people seem to care so much about kerning and line angles in the glyphs and such. What do you think are the most important topics in typography people should learn and why do they matter?
A lower subsidy on corn would significantly raise beef prices relative to chicken, without being a tax. That's difficult in the US for systemic political reasons, but not necessarily a tax issue.

Longer term, lab grown protean is likely to be a net win.
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Flutter is the first thing that has gotten me excited about learning how to write a mobile application. Instead of some mash of languages and platforms, it seems as portable as they claim.

What are the best guides for learning Flutter? Any guides to mobile development for the type of person who works full time on C++ and C operating systems?
Yes, I imagine a lot of .NET devs don't realize their apps are TLSv1.0 only. I've worked with one vendor who was surprised when I told them.
People who outgrow the solutions they‘ve built themselves, and then look for better designs, custom plugins, hosting etc. and fall into the hands of businesses that provide those solutions. And these businesses fall themselves into the hands of other businesses further down the WP food-chain.

The “guarantee“ comes from the growth hacking minded ecosystem. People who set up their own WP businesses read up about it and usually follow the advice they find, what plugins to use, how to FB ads etc.
There is also the problem of food distribution. Ignoring future population growth, the world does produce enough food to people everyone [0] (obtained from the first sentence of [1]). If we are collectively unwilling to solve the distribution problem today, then it there is a good chance that we won't do much about the shortage tomorrow. In addition, unconsumed food waste is also problem, and probably does have some correlation with the unequal distribution.

An article with the headline "Can we share food more fairly today?" does have a simple answer, but would rock the political establishment uncomfortably, so has little chance of ever being published.

[0] Leathers, H., & Foster, P. (2009). The world food problem: toward ending undernutrition in the third world. Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc.

[1] http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/problems/inadequat...
Or fenced yards, which only acts as echo chamber with an extra chorus.
Hi Peter, thanks for your time. This year it seems there is a significant delay in H1B processing and their effective dates. As an example, I was selected in the lottery but have not heard anything from USCIS since May. Is there anything I (or people in similar situations) can do? Have you heard anything in regards to when applications should expect approval?

In addition, I have heard that USCIS has been rejecting H1B transfers immediately without issuing RFEs. Have you come across these cases? What would you recommend people who are transferring H1Bs do?
That is the wrong mindset, trying to fix the effect and not the cause.
Hi Peter! Thanks for taking the time to answer immigration questions!

Back in June, there were reports that CIS had formed a task force in order to identify people who lied on their citizenship applications and to denaturalize them. How often does this happen? Have you dealt with any denaturalization cases? Asking for a friend, of course. :-)
i just discovered some awesome tools in the moreutils package mentioned elsewhere in this discussion:

sponge: soaks up stdin, so you can pipe it back to the same file you just read. compare:

grep -v "^me:" /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd # failed attempt to remove user *me*.
grep -v "^me:" /etc/passwd | sponge /etc/passwd # this works because sponge will wait until the grep is completed before writing back to the file.

another is:

vipe: insert vi into a pipe to do some manual editing of the data while it's handled in a pipe. could also be useful to preview pipe contents while they are being processed.

moreutils also includes vidir, an alternative to qmv.

greetings, eMBee.
You are out of status now and 60 days has elapsed since your employment ended so you can't change or extend your status in the U.S. That being said, being out of status rather than being an overstay - that is, staying past your I-94 expiration date - is much better and if it is relatively brief (and doesn't include unauthorized employment) shouldn't impact a subsequent H-1B visa application.
i get clean enough for my needs, which might be different than yours. I find that hot water is only really necessary to get rid of stuff that's stuck which is not a very frequent thing, but if you don't agree you can always combine hot and cold
It's funny.

Look at science fiction voice assistants and you will find many male voices such as KITT, Jarvis, etc.

Cortana, Siri, Alexa and others I know are female and I wonder why. I know the spectral content and legibility of male and female voices are different, but I do wonder if people feel more comfortable with a female in a "servant" roles and have the same kind of fear of men that many people have towards black people.

The evidence is clear that both boys and girls benefit from male role models. Having a actively involved father is great, but it is also good to have male teachers and caregivers at the preschool and K-6 levels.

Preschools that hire male workers, however, find it is just a matter of time before somebody is like "yikes! they have a male working there!" and a complaint of sexual abuse is filed. Often these turn out to be groundless, but it can be a big burden on an organization that isn't equipped to handle it.

Although you still hear the broken record that the educational system discriminates against women, and it probably does in some way, women are getting better results today from preschool to the PhD. I think growing up in a female-dominated space might be teaching boys that education is a "girl thing" the same way that many black people have gotten the idea that education is a "white thing"

Most commercial voice synthesizers have multiple voices, both male and female -- I don't think they do it for "political correctness", I think they just figure people want a choice. Why don't voice assistants give us that choice?
Hang on, Hang on. Let's not get too carried away here. The big corps are all scared after what has/is happening to facebook, and this is an attempt at trying to "go down the unsteady river together" with the authorities.

Now, in an ideal world, where governments are ideal, then this is a good thing for the population, as the government theoretically represents the people.

However, the government is run by people and is not ideal. This is not a good thing, and will allow all sort of actual abuses of power occur, in the long run.

I read this as the tech industry trying to get the gov. in with them also. (even more than already so), in my opinion.
What would be the process for establishing rules?
> Will Gutenberg actually help Wordpress? I don't think so. Why? Most site owners aren't designers and don't do layout or content building well at all. Maybe I am short sighted on this though.

I agree! I use wordpress.com because I DON'T WANT TO DESIGN MY SİTE. Nor do I want to design each individual post. I want my blog to have a uniform look. I may make some tweaks to CSS and that's all. I don't want to think about design.

WP is arrogantly pushing the new editor but I tried it and I see no use for it. I think it should only be an option for people who want to design their own site.

It's true that there is no other place I can take my blog to. WP knows this and they know they can get away with it.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on spaced repetition?  Have you heard of it?
I'm curious if the HN community has heard of spaced repetition?

Essentially, it's a way to remember massive amounts of information by timing the study and review by the material you're learning.

Simple things that you mostly already know don't need to be reviewed often but more complicated things need to be reviewed more frequently or you will end up forgetting them.

I ended up building a document reader system for spaced repetition named Polar:

https://getpolarized.io/

It sync's with another system named Anki.

Anki manages the flashcards and Polar manages your reading.

What I like about this is that you never have to worry about forgetting an important fact again. You can just spend 15-30 minutes studying and you're re-tested right before it's forgotten.

Anyway. If you haven't heard about it I'd recommend diving into it... really fascinating topic and it's dramatically changed how I view my long-term education.