skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not how it works, if you have a master's degree and want to work for Google you will most likely get your H1-B visa.
> https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-masters-quota/

The Master's degree needs to be from an US university - which is pure genius, as this way a prospective immigrant needs to pay a lot of money (US degrees are not cheap) for the right to have a better chance of getting in - even if they already have a Msc, or could get one for free in their country of origin. America's basically found a way to profit on people wanting to move there. Of course, it's not new, with indentured servitude being common in previous centuries, but it's cool (in a creepy way) to see it still being alive.
Also, what does it mean to "learn" a language?

Is it to be able to read it? At what level?

Is it to be able to understand the spoken language? Of a kid, an adult, for work, in social situations?

Is it to be able to speak it? For what purpose, how often, how well?

None of the tools for "learning" a language really address this. They are all kind of linear and very vague about what skills you are training. Most of the popular ones feel like just memorizing words and phrases.

In my experience, the only way to "fully learn" a language, is to be fully immersed, i.e. for months, pretty much exclusively, read/listen/speak the language - watch movies, read news, talk to as many people as possible, all in that language. Unfortunately, pretty much the only way to do that is to move to a country that natively uses the language and ideally have a native significant other that you interact with a lot. Also, usually the biggest barrier is being ashamed of making mistakes, most people stay quite because they are afraid of sounding stupid in another language, so they miss out on most of the best potential learning experiences.
In my senior year English course, there was an extra credit assignment that involved analyzing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I decided to just email the author and ask about the book, hoping he would give some unorthodox answers that I could say we're the authors true intent. He ended up sending me some wacky email with Futurama references, and he died about a month after that before I finished the paper
"You've read 11 stories this months, lets make things official".

Medium is trying to look like NY Times, minus any kind of effort to actually write the stories.
In the grandparent comment’s specific example police stalked and killed a completely innocent man because they thought he looked like one of the bombers from their CCTV tapes
Human Driving Association hopes to pass amendment for age of autonomous vehicles
Meh. Will never happen.
This soup is great but need to understand a bit more. Does it allow for manipulation of audio using code? Use case examples?
If you hire world class tool makers to make the best tools for your farm then your farm has a strategic advantage.

Really good tools can make a big difference.

You really do need world class though - the trade off of custom means your tools really do need to be a lot better than the standard.
*This is great
> Saving (what I would I guess is) at most a few dollars per uniform

It really doesn't make a material difference to your point, but just to note that it isn't just a few dollars per uniform. A soldier's webbing, bergen and day sacks (all their battle load carrying equipment) is highly personalised, takes a lot of time to break-in, and takes up a lot of space. Maintaining three or four sets of that in different patterns for different environments would be a huge hassle.

A single pattern effective almost everywhere makes more sense than in just simple money.
I would be stoked to read about your projects with embedded systems or your unpublished short stories. Hell, even if they suck, that’s more authentic and more interesting than 99% of the internet right now.
Fixed with a normal link :).
I learned this in freshman interpretation class in college. In the beginning I fought against the TA (English PhD candidate) teaching the class and I ended up with Cs on my assignments. Then midway through I started playing her game.

"Oh yeah, that cushion represents a vagina; the broom a phallus! Cinderella has a conundrum - her Electra complex will remain unresolved because her birth mother is dead and her father will continue to replace any dead wives by marrying anew. How can she overcome her predicament?! In this version Perrault introduces the fairy godmother as a foil to the mother in Freud's complex. Now the godmother helps Cinderella obtain her own princely phallus and win a bloodless coup over her foul stepmother! Actually in the end all the ladies get a phallus!"

A+

Joking aside, it took me another decade to have this sink in and apply it in life. I still deal with this foolishness daily. The originality of the and variety of the "chicken shit" determines whether or not I stick around at the job or in the situation the chicken shit is flowing.
The article doesn't mention that USMC included their logo in their new and effective camo so other services couldn't/wouldn't use it.

Otherwise, the Army could have used the same patterns developed by the Marine Corp.
Deep learning outperformed dermatologists in melanoma image classification task
> King Louis of France

Which one? Because there's 17 of them. (I count 17 kings of France named Louis, since Louis 17 never reigned or anything)
Not that this would be and easy thing to do but I always read the demand curve as the best possible reason to have a lot of destination chargers (in addition to home chargers). People are out in the community with their cars during the day when solar production is highest. Start piping that production into those batteries when it isn't needed elsewhere.
The thing with Spring drive is that Quartz oscillation in it while used for the same purpose (time keeping) is used in an entirely different fashion. Being a mechanical watch admirer I consider it more in the realm of automatics than in the realm of mechanical watches. I wouldn't give the same distinction to Seiko Kinetic though.
Beyond languages, DevOps and process are helpful to start on the right foot. This can have multiplicative benefits as scaling becomes a concern.
Optane is persistent and bit-addressable, with mean latency under 1 microsecond, which is an order of magnitude faster than other SSDs.

I don't think the market has figured out the right use case for Optane yet. The majority of desktop applications won't benefit from lower latency IOPS and it's too expensive to use for general purpose storage on servers. It does make sense for constant write or seek-heavy applications like database journals, but most databases are optimized for doing bulk sequential reads/writes and won't take advantage of Optane's bit addressable storage.

Intel's recently started shipping Optane DIMM modules that act like slow, cheap, high density RAM. This is an interesting option as it allows in-memory databases to be atomically persistent without having to add any code.
Fortnite’s Pop Culture References Risk IP Infringement
I've only used it for working with Ionic, so I can only give feedback on that. I updated the text to point that out.
Ask HN: Value of “Shares of Stock options” when joining a startup
I got an offer from a US start-up (well +25 employees) which has an office in EU where I would join them.

The offer's base salary is good (ie. higher than average for senior positions for that location) but I intend to negotiate it further, as I have possible other options. patio11's negotiation guide was a great read in that regard.

However, I'm relocating from a non-EU/US country, and I don't have a single idea about the financial systems, stock markets, and how to evaluate "15k shares of stock-options" or what "Stock Option and Grant Plan" means, I'm asking you fellow HNers about this part.

Do I just treat them as worthless and focus on base salary (as some internet sources suggest) or is there a formula to evaluate what they would be worth in say 2 years for instance ?
The Navy's camo is blue and would be useless on land. It's not typically worn much on ships where blue coveralls are the norm, at least as of ten years ago.

The idea that this was a gift to clothing manufacturers is pretty much the only logical explanation for the Navy's uniform...uh...situation.
Yep. Even simple `dnf upgrade -y && dnf updrade --releasever=30 -y` should work, because difference between releases is small enough. (No groundbreaking changes). I did upgrade from Fedora 26 to Fedora 28 using simple upgrade.

Recommended command for system upgrade is `sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30` then `sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot` .
Note that even if government pays, the costs still exist. Maybe the government can decide researchers are worth less money, but or some such - if they are willing to drive researches in it for money out (everybody is in it for money at some point, as you need to eat and you like other luxuries money can buy: the only question is when it is worth leaving).
Hardware drivers is one of major reasons, AFAIK.
A difference is that phased arrays need sub-wavelength tolerances in phase between emitters to work
I've found containers are helpful when you want to replace one or two specific pieces in the middle of the dependency tree for testing - let's say a mock database, for example.

On the other hand, I've also found myself avoiding writing code which requires deep mocks like that in order to test. Functional core, imperative shell helps with that.
iNaturalist
In many states the non-compete remains in force whether you get quit or get fired.
For anyone looking for more context see https://github.com/soul-lang/SOUL/blob/master/docs/SOUL_Over... and https://github.com/soul-lang/SOUL/blob/master/docs/SOUL_FAQ....

To quote the overview: "The SOUL platform is a language and an API. The language is a small, carefully crafted DSL for writing the real-time parts of an audio algorithm. The API is designed to deploy that SOUL code to heterogeneous CPUs and DSPs, both locally and remotely."
i was in the 70's era with baggy solid green fatigues and they you usually got one or two wears out of them before they needed to be starched again. They looked good for about the first hour after new starch and then terrible. Apparently there was no need for camo during the cold war.

that said, I did see that Avengers End Game got the 70's fatigues right. And also the hideous baseball cap we had to wear.
Grease stains don't show so badly.
Please consider my apologies. I was taken aback by you're reply. It was not my intention to express bigotry but I thoughtlessly offered an unintelligible attempt at poor pedantic humor absent of context and comedy. You replied quickly and so I choose not to delete it.

I enjoy watching this technology as it moves to become an available option. The article is 9 sentences of an information scarce announcement, but as is often the case, I returned here to find plenty of useful information in these comments. Interestingly, ATSC 3.0 which is packet based and already overflowing with DRM now looks to be nearing a consensus. As early as 2020 (US) it could prove to satisfy enough content distribution traffic to reduce some downstream bandwidth demand and relieve congestion. SpaceX in partnership with ATT or CenturyLink for dedicated up-link over DSL would be an interesting offering.
https://www.atsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/A360-2018-Se...
Haven't we done this for a long time? https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-registrar/
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Many teachers are pretty crappy.

For these sorts of topics, there are no right answers, although there are certainly some wrong ones. Your job, as a student, is to learn to, and to demonstrate that you can, think about the material, to have some sort of insight beyond the surface features.

You can certainly say some author is not interesting to you; you can say you didn't learn anything from it. You cannot say the text is boring or talent-free; that's the same as saying there is one right answer. And keep in mind: the reason a classic is considered a classic (Hiawatha not withstanding) is because other people found it interesting, talented, and learned from it.

One difficulty is that a good answer and a wrong answer are not immediately distinguishable, especially from the student's side. The teacher's job is to, among other things, explain why an answer is wrong without pushing some "one true answer". That's hard.

Unfortunately, many teachers are crappy. The current US primary and secondary school system tries really hard, with its standardized testing, to enforce crappiness, in the name of fighting other kinds of crappiness, so...yeah.

P.S. There isn't a grand conspiracy out to get you. Well, the probability is really low, anyway.
Congrats! Making it round was a good design decision! Who would think a square (or squircle) watch is good watch design anyway? ;)
It may have been just thrown out as a buzzword, but modern AI requires specialized and expensive hardware (GPUs) that other servers don’t need, and Macs aren’t known for their broad GPU selection or support. Many high-end Nvidia GPUs don’t have drivers for MacOS.

In the context it was written it sounds like “this other shadow IT usage can be under the table because it’s deemed unimportant to the business but now that our business is all-in on AI we can use that momentum to get better servers”.
> Marrying someone for the purpose is immigration is considered "immigration fraud"

No, it's not; Marrying someone for the purpose of evading immigration laws is. There is a difference; even if immigration is sought as a benefit of marriage, if there is genuine intent to enter into and maintain a bona fide marital relationship and that is maintained throughout the conditional period associated with immigration by marriage, there is no fraud.
I vividly remember the moment I first thought in French. It was about a year ago, I was 31 years old and walking along the beach after hanging out with a French couple for a few hours. I don't have a clue what I thought, but I remember idly musing about some subject in my head for a few seconds, suddenly realizing that the musing was in French.
Asked the other way around: Why should it result in less 'general' solutions compared to other methods?

Now that I thought about it some more, building a generator might be problematic because unless you want to hide toroids, there wont be a continuous mapping with reasonable amounts of distortion from the surface of the object in question to the 2D plane. That would mean that CNNs can't really be used.
Make you harder to see if you fall overboard.
> Realistically, do you want a trustworthy author?

Fictional storytelling is an exploration of truth given certain fictional premises. That's what makes it so fascinating. The differences between genres of fiction arise only out of varying the premises of stories. The trustworthiness of the author shows in how faithful they are to tell the truth to the best of their ability given the premises they've chosen for the story.

So, yes. It matters to me whether an author is being true to reality through the story.

Gratuitous character deaths for the sake of "having a bit of fun" at the expense of readers is a good example of authorial untrustworthiness. Martin's motivation in doing so isn't always to be true to the characters, the setting, the way the world works, the nature of reality, or a conflict. There are lots of excellent and entertaining stories by truthful authors, so why waste time with Martin?

> why not have your emotions tormented with not knowing whether or not they will die

If that's your intent, Martin would be right up your alley. For my part -- no thanks. Truthful fantasy is so much more enjoyable to me -- Tolkien, Lewis, George MacDonald, etc.
I have binary NVidia drivers. I have no problem with upgrades for last few releases at least (since akmod invented).

Sometimes, I need to switch from supported release to legacy release of drivers or switch back, because of NVidia politics to remove old drives from binary.
The currently submitted title doesn't match the article title, and is rather editorialized. The term "cover up" does not ever appear in the article.
“Software is anonymous by default.”

Ha ha ha ha ha HA!

https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/

“The final way software is changing what we can produce is by killing gatekeepers.”

No. The gatekeepers are now simply smaller in number and more powerful. Being unpersoned is a thing now, where maybe the rich elites would tolerate a message and downplay it before, now the message, if unpopular, ceases to exist.

Unfortunately, it seems like this article is full of hyperbole, which if true would mean we’re living in the greatest of times, and maybe that’s true, but only if you’re the one ordering uber eats, and not the one delivering.

“It’s good to be the king.” - History of the World, Part I
Nintendo does tend to allow things that let users "code" their own games, as long as it's well-checked and the devs are upfront about it. See SmileBasic(http://smilebasic.com/en/), a commercial BASIC interpreter for 3DS that let's you make simple games, condoned by Nintendo and sold on the eShop. Coincidentally, it led to 2 separate exploit chains that allow for native code execution - Nintendo doesn't want any of that and it's understandable that they want to avoid any possibility of it happening, especially if the groundwork for such an exploit is getting snuck in as a legitimate game without even telling them about it. People will always find their way around sandboxes and limitations, especially on a highly targeted system like the switch.
Astronomers Watch an Active Black Hole Dragging Spacetime Around It
French spoken in Quebec is the same French as in France, they use their idioms and slang at time with an accent but we can 100% understand each others.
If you are not convinced you can find multiple interviews of Quebecois speakers done in France on youtube and see for yourself that it is without filters or subtitles. Here is an example for celine dion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x6ezHzWPDU
Awesome. Props to the Purism Librem team for excellent ongoing progress on the superb laptop, new phone, and this new Librem One software offering.

The offering is a bundle of services that respect you and your privacy. $7.99/mo for a software suite: Librem Chat (Riot), Librem Social (Mastodon), Librem Mail (K9), Librem Tunnel (OpenVPN), and more services coming soon e.g. Librem Files, Librem Backup, Librem Contacts, Librem Pay, Librem Dial.

The key value for me is all of these are curated, updated, available/accountable via one vendor, etc. Other people who prefer free-as-in-beer versions can still get Riot, Mastodo, K9, OpenVPN, etc. as is.

And if any of you are product managers or technical marketers, have a look at the Librem products matrix and explanations area-- in my opinion it's the among the best in the industry: https://librem.one/#mce_1
There's a few affiliate links.

It looks like the author also added Blog Planner[1] to the list which they wrote, it uses the same GA account ID. You should really disclose these things. I don't have an issue with using affiliate links, but I think should clearly disclose them.

[1] https://blog-planner.com/
Harder, I don't know. Hard, yes.
CentOS 8 is not fresh enough for you?
It matters in the sense that it shouldn't distract you from your business goals. Pick something you're familiar with.
true, VoIP allowed this mess to happen, but only because it's one-sided, VoIP vs POTS. My POTS-side doesn't allow me to configure anything. Give the receivers full software control and they could block specifc or all Class 2 providers. "Old people" could set up their system to only accept calls from POTS lines, "hackers" could route "robo-callers" to "robo-answerers" that feigned voice responses like real people, etc.

I suggested FB only because it has fairly strong identity verification and (arguably) spam control. Plus they have the infrastructure to handle the bandwidth of a massive VoIP network.
Link to the MR https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
> In that case, which CPU could the Yubikey use?

Dedicated AES engines exist. For example, the 3DS shipped with a AES engine inside its SoC, exposed as memory-mapped I/O.
Nvidia's cuda is, as far as I know, still heads and shoulders above anything offered by AMD, and yet Mac pros only come with AMD gpus which are soldered to the boards.
The problem is that the tools you need are "listening to and interacting with people in the target language". Human language is a problem of interpreting the creative social signals of other human beings, and there's no way to automate that. With the Web, YouTube and internet radio, the actual amount of target-language material that a person can expose themselves to is hugely, hugely more available than it was 20-30 years ago.

You have to keep in mind what a tool is trying to accomplish relative to the personal development it takes to grow into another human language. Different levels of learners require different kinds of instruction. Bilingual instruction is quickest if a person has zero knowledge of the language whatever. Absolute beginners need direct instruction in phonology. An Anki deck is to build basic vocabulary or literacy for a person who has some. Duolingo is there to get you comfortable with basic grammar or phrases, to get you interacting with native speakers in the first place once you stumble off the plane. A more advanced speaker might need accent reduction work.

Anki is fantastic at flashcards. Duolingo is fantastic at translation exercises, way better than what we had a few decades ago. Definitely the author in the OP should be using Anki rather than postcards on her bed.

"Mastery"-level linguistic tasks include things like writing creative poetry in the language that another person finds moving, describing the movements of a complex machine, or composing an essay in a specific literary style—things that native speakers may find difficult without formal training. There's just no way Duolingo can do that.

I took a survey recently that clarified a lot of this for me. The questions were all things like: What percentage of your time do you spend listening to music in the target language (and your native language)? What percentage of your time do you spend watching moveis in the target language (and your native language)? What percentage of your time do you spend reading books in the target language (and your native language)? What percentage of your time do you spend thinking and interacting with other people and thinking in the target language (and your native language)? If I spend 1% of my time or less in the target language and 99% in my native language, it's no wonder that I have plateaued in it.
Type hinting is a standard feature since Python 3.6.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

The thing about python, as overall language philosophy, is convention over enforcement.

If you want your team to have a particular style and use certain features, then you should agree to do it and then use automated tools (like pep8, flake) to check that code complies with those rules, but it is up to you how you want to write the code.
I mainly write js but our team maintains a scala app as well. It is much more of a polyglot company with a history of java (I have only been here 1.5y so this is from hearsay and my expirence, not a definitive source).
If you do this while making it clear via subtext that you've messed up the difference between liver pâté and foie gras, you might as well get a cab right to the airport before you're deported.
The “we don’t have flying cars” argument always strikes me as begging for something to complain about. We could easily have flying cars if there was literally one reason to have a flying car. There is not a single reason to have a flying car, so no one has put in the time to make one because no one would buy it because it’s pointless.