skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The students who come to US for MS spend 2 years of their studies. They are not going to magically follow American culture all of a sudden. If one goes to any Hindu temple in US, you will find a huge number of these students.

Another thing is H4 is not something unique to the Infosys crowd. The Infosys crowd usually gets sent back to India once their deputation is over, they don't even get a chance to apply for h4.

An h1b spouse gets h4 only after the h1b's employer files for their green card and they complete the i140 stage. Companies usually file this towards the end of 6 years so that the h1bs are forced to continue with their employer for as long as possible. So the spouses would be waiting doing absolutely nothing during that period. Compared to those working in American consultancies, the Infosys crowd rarely gets a chance to stay in US for that long. So majority of h4 beneficiaries are not working for the likes of Infosys.

>Now these people are mostly by themselves and invested heavily for their education. No reason why these people flock to so called 'consultancies'. -

The reality is these US students are one of the biggest groups who flock to the consultancies. They are desperate to get a h1b before their time runs out, so they settle for anything they get, which means usually a level 1 salary. Some also resort to scams such as faking experiences in their resume, paying consultancies money in return for keeping them in status and so on.

How to Spot H-1B Fraud & Fake OPT Candidates: https://www.bridge.us/blog/how-to-spot-h1b-fraud-fake-opt-ca...

Hundreds of Indian students held in US for immigration violation:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/600-indian-student...

US-India Farmington university row: 'I fled after fake college raid':https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47154187

Fake university students knew they were committing visa 'crime':https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/fake-uni...

How the American Dream Drives Indian Students Towards Shady US Universities: https://thewire.in/education/indian-students-arent-abusing-t...
If you love terraform, please also look at Pulumi (I have no affiliation with them).

https://pulumi.io/reference/vs/terraform.html

https://github.com/pulumi/tf2pulumi
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He lists 'Datacenter setup' in his bill of materials at the end so it likely won't be kept at home.
That icon takes you back to the original source app of the video - from there you can initiate fullscreen (I'd assume). I guess it would make sense to allow going from PiP directly to fullscreen, but then you'd need another button to return to the app, or you could just use the multitasking gesture to return that app manually - however I guess that's too confusing for some users.

Double tapping the PiP video to toggle fullscreen would be a nice compromise in my opinion.
Most of the Tube network (by usage, not by distance) is underground so turning cellular off will save battery as well.
Note that "N2" is Level 2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, which is the 2nd highest level of 5 and entails multiple years of study.
Long-time user of Terraform here, never used CloudFormation. Where does CloudFormation beat Terraform?
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041295
This slows the train down it doesn’t stop it.
maybe you shouldn't have waited until the absolute last minute to do this or it wouldn't have been replaced.
I think its a great career niche to be fluent in everything Mainframe, they are still used in critical places and will be for the foreseeable future and they are largely overlooked as a opportunity.

So if you want to work in this niche, having your own Mainframe will greatly speed up learning the system.

It probably also looks awesome when you market yourself.

So all in all, 25k USD for kickstarting a potentially very profitable career sounds like a bargain ....
I'm not even sure if there are still use cases where companies use main frames for newly developed systems. Even core banking systems can be build without using a main frame.
As far as I'm aware these LCDs switch between black or very reflective silver and not so much black and white. Doesn't really matter what the ambient conditions are since the black is always reflecting way less light than the silver.
> better scenario would be to enact tight regulations on a country

Here, I am less convinced.

Globalisation came about in good part to move from the places with tighter regulation - on pollution, on employment, on finance - to those without.

It is the same way that offshore finance came about by trading each regulation against each other. The net result is there are fewer controls everywhere, despite a few headline money laundering regs. The history of this is fascinating.
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A 50W laser would blind you even from reflections. That's not something you should play around with even with laser goggles.

This is about a 5W laser for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVWW-bmKwQ
Because motion sickness. I can absolutely never sit backwards even on a train, and plane take offs make me queezy as it is. I suspect there are people with much worse motion sickness issues
Apple customers who don't consent to WiFi tracking should not be driven by UX dark patterns to disable cellular service, when there exist distinct iOS buttons in Control Center for cellular and WiFi. Other buttons are on/off, stateless toggle switches.
I agree - videos should actually support all those split screen modes used by apps.
They didn't even try to contact the author?!
yes, unlikely.
most people use IDE's, very few limit themselves to simple editors.

they're very rare but do exist.
> Every fossil fuel company is going to lie their pants off because that's what you and all other humans would do if they got into the same situation.

Speak for yourself.

1. A good number of people actually have a spine. I'd not say the majority "is good && have a spine" but enough that you are lying.

2. It doesn't help at all to spread the lie that everyone else lying.

Speaking as someone who has been embarassingly honest, and who also admires his friend who came back and admitted he'd been laughing at me behind my back.
Skimmed most of it but still learned some useful stuff. Will keep it in my bookmarks.

Also, would suggest mentioning gitbash in the Windows section. You get it for free with git so it's easy to come by, even in corporate environments where obtaining permission to install software is hard. If combined with something like ConEmu, it's actually pretty nice.
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> Governments will not oblige their citizens to make steps on their consumption if it means reducing their comfort

It's interesting though that they will oblige them to wars.

This is generally not a true statement. Government is not entirely segregated from the citizenry. It is, in some form, representation of society (even in a dictatorship).
How large is it? Like 40p when you put it on a printer?

Let me help you with this:

man -t bash > man.ps && lpr man.ps

Then, grab a coffee, sit in the sun and spent some quality time with your tools. :)
On similar note: I am so addicted to the programmable synthesizer http://foxdot.org/
> I have this constant feeling that life on Planet Earth circa year 2000 or so onwards is playing out kind of like a bizarre imitation of the old movie Lord of the Flies. To me, it feels like everyone is absolutely batshit insane. Everyone (well, mostly) is so sure of themselves, so sure of what is right and wrong. As if life is so simple.

Apart from scientific progress, what has changed? Humans gonna human.
I thought Trump supported Wikileaks in the pre election, it was Obama that refused to pardon Snowden before leaving office.
True, although this is not an anti-China article.
The old district line stock used to do it, but they’ve all been replaced now. It didn’t stop the train it would limit the maximum speed. The driver would keep announcing to stop leaning but in heavy traffic that wasn’t always easy.
No it’s not bigotry to say that someone that is half-japanese is ‘not all Japanese”. Bigotry is if you treat her worse because of it.

Citizenship may be “dual” but biological race isn’t, it has to add up to 100%. Clearly that is what they are referring to here.

Not all countries are America, there are plenty of places with a pretty well defined ethnicity, like Japan.
I find it weird that there's so much confusion about the way emergency brakes work and when to use them on the London Underground. If people on HN can't agree on it, how can the general public? Confusion about this sort of thing can be dangerous.
Why would taking pictures of the infrastructure be illegal?
What does it even mean by high level?

Once the API is high level enough it gets unusable by major users who are high end networking, GPU and graphics libraries and low latency sound.

Nobody else truly needs to bypass the kernel. Even low latency can work with good real time task handling, making the users exactly two cases, who have special DMA handling in hardware already. If it means introducing special case kernel bypasses for high scale computing, it's already done, and the low level APIs just get wrapped.

And the Achilles's foot is security.

If it's arguing for making all hardware a kernel free fabric, it's essentially a move of everything to firmware. Worst case, we get zero memory protection and unfixable bugs.
This really, really, bothers me. The rationale seems absurd. Is there no more uu encoded data in the world? Throwing this code away is a recipe for a future where some data is never recoverable. Python is a swiss army knife. The imagination that pypi is going to survive forever and be accessible forever is absurd. A programming language that throws away the past is doomed to become a passing fad. If the code is old who cares as long as it still works?
In reinforcement learning this can be attributed as exploration be exploitation
I think that the gap between trains and the number of trains per hour is different. I can believe that there are sometimes merely 30 seconds between trains, but train frequencies don't really exceed, let's say, 50 trains per hour (and this is being very generous) because of a combination of signalling constraints and the need to reverse the trains at the end.
USA democratic system is one step away from China's one party system: it's a two party system in USA which hasn't changed much for centuries.

Europe, Australia, etc, have more than two parties in government. More choice, more representation.
Unless you have the right conditions to see the beam emitted there would be no way to detect a laser unless you were near the target.
the scientific method DOES say that a result should be reproducible. and in this case it is reproducible beyond what is required for it to become accepted
So, a general Stacksort? https://xkcd.com/1185/
There is a major problem with tech employment in this country. I used to support a tech heavy company in St Louis, a city with over 50% black population. What percentage of the employees were black? Guess it depends upon what percentage of employees were security guards.

The US minority population is dramatically underrepresented in tech. Reduce the competition for entry level tech positions, and their numbers will grow.
There are problems, but the fact that "95% of our criminals plead guilty, without trial" provides no evidence of it. Consider these possible explanations:

a. We only arrest the guilty. Of those, 95% are remorseful and willing to admit that they did wrong. Just 5% stubbornly try to evade justice.

b. We only arrest the innocent. The 95% who plead guilty are taking plea deals, but would have been found not guilty.

c. We only arrest the innocent. The 95% who plead guilty are taking plea deals, saving themselves from losing at trial.

d. Of the people charged with crime, 95% are guilty. They accept it. The remaining 5% are innocent.

e. Of the people charged with crime, 99% are guilty. The innocent people, and some of the guilty people, choose to fight.

...

Ideally there would not be such a percentage, because there would be no crime and no trials. Failing that, the next best thing would be perfect arrests and 100% guilty pleas. This puts all the criminals in prison without putting anybody else in prison. The next best after that would involve trials with a 100% conviction rate. This also puts all the criminals in prison without putting anybody else in prison.
It's also how the cabin crew sits in a plane during take-off and landing. Passengers sit facing forward, but the crew sits facing backwards.
I see there's a way to not use the hosted service for storing state files, but how do you address things like locking in Pulumi?
Steve Losh in his already-classic CL blog post [^1] suggests either Vlime or Slimv, quote:

„If you’re like me and already have Vim burned too deeply into your fingers to ever get it out, I’d recommend Vim with Vlime. It will give you 80% of the experience you’ll get with Emacs.”

If you want 100% of SLIME goodness without sacrificing vim, try spacemacs [^2]. I switched about two years ago and am very happy.

[1]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#lis...
[2]: http://spacemacs.org
> The basis of the theory of trade, frankly the whole point of trading at all, is that some people can make or get stuff more cheaply than other people, and that by "trading" those items with people who need them for stuff we want we all win.

If your base assumptions are wrong you can be very wrong in very consequential ways for a very long time. Economic specialisation as an inherently positive process is in fact a higly dubious propostion[0].

> The more specialised a country is, the higher its welfare will be, and specialisation
via free trade will promote growth in all countries... It is a beautiful story. Unfortunately, disinterested empirical research by data scientists strongly
suggests that it is in fact a fantasy: the wealthiest countries are not the most specialised economies,
but the most diversified.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318021429_Trade_and...
In the Netherlands all public transport (from city buses you only use for one minute to intercity trains to the other side of the country) use the same chip card. You scan it where you enter the bus/tram/metro/train and scan it where you leave, you pay depending on distance travelled. The buses use GPS to calculate your cost.
Depends on how you look at it, I suppose. It slows him down, a very efficient metropolis would be able to cause much more harm at much greater speed. Strategic sabotage can hinder the war efforts, and it doesn't have to be one large bomb, a thousand needle pricks might have an effect, too, and they are much easier to disguise as incompetence.

"Sorry, we didn't mean to put an ad in front of this important information, we just hadn't considered that people coming up the stairs wouldn't be able to read it."
All population data for the last century disagrees, and no magic is needed to explain why: the cost of raising children in modern society is so high and the child mortality rate so low that there is strong societal pressure to have less children. Sure, some fringe groups can resist this in the same way that the Amish resist electricity, but this will not be mainstream. Even the Haredim are having less children than they used to:

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5439005,00.html
The word Japanese can refer to both nationality and ethnicity, no?
It’s giving me what I assumed is a wrong password feedback (login form shakes and a short haptic feedback), but I’m 100% sure the data is correct (password manager and pasted the values both into the website and the app to double check). I guess it’s an URL encoding issue, there’s a '&' in it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-oversaw-the-us-nucl...

> I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.

> By Gregory Jaczko

> Gregory Jaczko served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2005 to 2009, and as its chairman from 2009 to 2012.

The author is arguably talking his book, since he invested in a wind power company. But it's still noteworthy that nuclear physicists and former regulators don't necessarily agree with you.
Zones aren't usually time based though, they're based on where you got on and how many zones that is away from where you are when your ticket is checked.
CPython is a relatively simple program calling for a (relatively) simple language. It's meant to be understood by lots of people, used within many different contexts and C is in much better position here.

At its heart it is just a bytecode interpreter, i.e. a loop with a huge switch. I don't think you need an elephant language just for that.
Because those limitations are minor compared to "eat less meat", "don't drive a car" and "food will be more expensive in general". These are going to be very tough sells among populations that are not rich. Look at the Yellow Vests in France.
The audience with required cash reserves is there. It just that it has higher standards and needs to see consistently glowing stream of reviews to trigger an impulse buy.

Not impossible by any means, but still rather unlikely.
> Is there no more uu encoded data in the world?

The uu codec is provided by the binascii module. The uu module is a "high-level" interface for conversion between binary and uuencoded files ("-", paths, or file-like objects).

Basically uuencode(1) / uudecode(1) reimplemented in python.

> A programming language that throws away the past is doomed to become a passing fad.

That's complete nonsense.

> If the code is old who cares as long as it still works?

Keeping it working is a maintenance burden. Why keep it if it's worthless?
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I have no doubt there's great value in learning basic bash, but I use zsh and almost all the features I use are exactly the same commands in both bash and zsh, so I think you'd probably be okay learning one or the other thoroughly.
They didn't kill them. They went through a government change, a revolution where they were experienced in fighting, not farming. The alternative was living under the old government that they hated.

It's like in Zimbabwe, they kicked out the white farmers and suddenly they're no longer the bread state.
There's lots of good sequencers at that price point, or cheaper. E.g. check out NI's Maschine range.
Very well known in the music/synth world thanks to their OP-1, which I bought 2 weeks ago: https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1

It looks like a toy, and kind of plays like one, but it's actually a marvellous piece of gear, very capable musically, and providing a fantastic user experience. There's just nothing else like it out there.

The company itself is very unique. Just look at what they came up with [1] for OP-1 accessories: brick LEGO shafts, a bender, and a crank, like the one for Coda.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COVNwdMld8Q
The man pages are the worst form of information ever for anybody trying to really solve any real-life problem which is not specified as "learn all unnecessary switches and once-useful but used-by-nobody-today options of a command X."

It happened to me often enough that even when I knew what I wanted to achieve and which command X could do that I would first try to read darned man page and fail to find the solution, but then just googling gave enough of material to

a) have something to try

b) have a discussion of the cases where that "something" doesn't fulfill the use most use cases of those who asked (the "natural need") including, of course, the use case I've had.

I have a completely opposite attitude. Bash is horrible on many levels. Bash man page is only a part of horribleness.

The main problem for all man pages is that they are mostly as if written for those who already know about every unnecessary detail of both the tool in question and all related tools or environmental issues, but who searches for some even more obscure detail among all obscure details that they already know.

Not to mention the descriptions that aren't: e.g. the complete explanation of the option --frob-blonk FILE would be something like "this option uses the FILE as the frob blonk" oh, how helpful.

I use bash every day, but I've at least managed to reduce its use to the minimum that keeps me still sane.
to be fair for kubernetes deployment you don't need a lot of knowledge. either use k3s or kubespray and just edit some variables. (baremetal)
We all knew. I learned about CO2 greenhouse warming in high school in 1974. At a lecture at the University of Trondheim, Norway, around 1980, (in)famous physicist Edward Teller joked that we of all people shouldn't be worried about global warming.
You can enter full screen in the original app, before switching to PiP.

Then the icon to exit PiP will return to full screen (or the app's video state when PiP was initiated).
It was Excellent. Sometimes I feel the other way. I am the only human and everything else is made up.
once the bees are gone, there will be no food for anyone of any kind
Makes you wonder why trains even have an emergency brake. A button to alert people to an emergency, sure, but when does stopping a moving train in a tunnel or the middle of nowhere fix a problem with passengers?
Thanks. I feel the same. I work at my client as well as in my own office, and when leaving my desk, I often take my laptop with me. The single Thunderbolt cable is fantastic like that.
>I’m quite surprised to hear this actually. I visited Japan recently and I consistently saw other foreigners around the center of Tokyo

Of course, but those were mostly tourists?
Regardless of how well the democracy your government is based on is functioning, I have a rather hard time imagining that a corporation focused on maximizing shareholder profit would do anything better than a piss-poor job for the vast majority of the population.
So all that stands between today and slow drivers having their doors kicked in by DHS is a manifesto somewhere on the internet?
Mobile games:

1] are infested with IAP/psycho crack time gates

2] cant cost more than a dollar or so, no one will buy them

3] have no buttons, and the number of games that work well without buttons is few.

4] have a horrible reputation, people discount games just for being mobile

5] ridiculously fragmented hardware, who knows what screen size or device type you're targeting if you develop for mobile?

6] are too high res. All new game systems are. Low res games with few buttons can be developed cheaply and quickly (i.e., 20k instead of 5M)

I want some simple games with real buttons. I want to make some. I'll pay for it. I think others will too.

I do think $150 is a little high, but that might also convey a sense of value, rather than "another crappy emulator box thing"
Pity it actually fails at the truly complex levels. Gets stuck in decision minima due to lack of memory?

Or is the reward too sparse?

Cannot find the symbolic notion of progress and dies of boredom?
Yes, not everyone is a unix purist / keyboard warrior.

(I've got 10+ years of experience in software development and I just can't get to grips with it, at best I can do basic operations in Vim (for git). Looked at emacs the other day but I need to read a lot of manuals and tutorials and practice to get to grips with it)

I'm currently using VS Code, before that it's been IDEA, Atom for a little while (but it was slow), Sublime Text (I still miss it), and much longer ago, notepad++ and eclipse. (the folder I have all my code in is still called "workspace").