skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a job in Minnesota, we were paid a "production bonus" for working over 40 hours / week. Bosses were extremely clear about never calling it overtime, because they legally couldn't.

The reason? We salaried, not hourly employees, and overtime is a legally regulated thing for hourly employees. Of course, we were paid the equivalent of our hourly rate, not hourly + half, which might have had something to do with it, but working over 40 was always optional, so noone complained.

I'm not a lawyer, but that's what we were told at least.
You can create/have an Apple account without any Apple devices, I believe.
Agreed. I’m very concerned about the impact this will have on battery life and general performance.
I've moved on to Windows since last year. Besides terminal emulators being shit (which they're fixing now), worse PDF support and shit OS config management, there's really not much anymore that goes in favor of Macs. Their laptops are worthless junk at 40% markup, the OS gets buggier and more locked down with every version while Windows is on a clear trajectory of improvement and PC hardware gives real choice and innovative solutions. I was a Mac user for 13 years, but no more. Since they gave all the keys to Jony it went down the drain real fast.
Lol, I doubt it. Apple is years late and sucks at doing the leg work of getting third parties to adopt its suck. Look at Apple Pay which was launched at the perfect time.
Favelas are a mass transit problem. People live there, in bad conditions, because they are somewhat nearer to their jobs. Otherwise, they would spend half a day in their way to work.. Renting a 'house' in a favela is more expensive then renting a good house in small cities.
At least to me, your comment reads like you wish Trump would act more like Hitler so you could feel more justified in not liking him.

Edit: See reply below. I realize now that this was me misinterpreting the parent's words.
Interesting list, but I violently disagree with some of their calculations.

I noticed that no one mentioned an anti-matter black hole, ripped from the core of a galaxy in an anti-matter universe. That’s a pretty big “m” to put in front of c^2.
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I think people has to recognise there are two class of student; children from bourgeois class that mainly come to US just for their Bachelor, most of them don’t stay in the US afterward; Postgraduate student from the newly formed middle class in China that, if given chance, mostly won’t return to China.
What's even more interesting is how Twitter has locked the number of likes and retweets.

This hit the front page of HN. Myself and many others liked and retweeted it.

The likes and retweets haven't gone up. Just 17 likes, 1 retweet.

https://twitter.com/OptimizingMe/status/1135731744496209920?...
Yeah! And don't forget Shepard Fairey for the visuals. I hope you're incorporated because you could make a fortune in the agitprop business. Just sell the people what they never knew they needed.
Doesn't work on Terminator.
The reason more Chinese students returned was because the number of Chinese going to the USA to study exploded. It is really hard for those liberal arts fuerdai to find a job in the states after they graduate.
Sensible people absolutely do choose a phone on the basis of how they're perceived by owning that phone.

Perception has value. You can rail against society all you want, but the reality is your peers make and break you.
The thing is, it doesn't need to be Win10 machine.
Even if you're developing for Apple.
If you need a "Mac Dev" you can setup up any Intel based machine with macOS. It's not "plug-n-play" but it's not that far from getting Linux running with drivers and performance you'd expect it to.
Since it seems you know a bit of data science, may I ask you a quick question?

In my line of research I am frequently trying to use high dimensional data, but with few examples (<100 per class). Thus methods like SVM are used. I've been thinking about how I might leverage my sample to artificially simulate new training examples via pairwise warping of images within each class, with the assumption that informative features will be preserved with warping.The training examples within class are already quite variable, so I don't think a little increase in redundancy will hurt me much..but I am not sure.

Without knowing more concretely, do you have thoughts on such a strategy?

Data are 3D brain images and classes are disorder groups.
I spent, what, $50 or more on a calculator toolkit for the Mac about 25 years ago, just because it was such cool software. Never got any value out of it, just fun.

We are absolutely spoiled by low software prices, and they’re literally spoiling the market.
If you look far enough in the future it is probably feasible to engineer organs in the long run, or who knows maybe full bodies?
This is the transcript of the original interview: https://sayit.pdis.nat.gov.tw/2019-05-17-interview-with-stev...

In the interview concerns of government over-control did turn up, but it wasn't well addressed I think. The journalist skipped this part in the published article.
Since we're talking about stress, let's talk about rechts vor links in residential areas... =)

http://crankydriver.com/word/rechts-vor-links/
I'm going to venture a guess as perhaps there's some hypocrisy on the US being the moral authority on human rights... yes I realize that we don't currently run concentration camps, but we did not that long ago (see Japanese internment camps), or the more recent black sites where prisoners are tortured... or funding friendly dictators with death squads... etc.
Hmmm, I'm not familiar with command line email clients but this looks cool. I wonder if I can use aerc in a bash pipeline? Say, to pipe email content from/to gpg?
And one that the GOP will actually care about. Truth be told the GOP doesn't care about the average American locked into 1/2 ISPs available to them, but when businesses are the ones being price gouged you can bet the GOP will be the one to save the day by regulating big tech.
Caring more about human rights abuses is to "act more like Hitler" Sheesh..
"Back in the spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton owned shares in the South Sea Company, the hottest stock in England. Sensing that the market was getting out of hand, the great physicist muttered that he ' could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.' Newton dumped his South Sea shares, pocketing a 100% profit totaling £7,000. But just months later, swept up in the wild enthusiasm of the market, Newton jumped back in at a much higher price — and lost £20,000 (or more than $3 million in [2002-2003's] money. For the rest of his life, he forbade anyone to speak the words 'South Sea' in his presence."

https://www.businessinsider.com/isaac-newton-lost-a-fortune-...
> Another phone goes to landfill

That's disingenuous. Apple has a recycling program, where they take apart every component to be reused or recycled into new materials.[1]

[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-adds-earth-day-...
Apple stopped shipping updated packages because bash went GPLv3...

Since ZSH is under an MIT-like license, they’ll probably ship updates to it.
I do a mix. The "program by painting" is great for some things and sucks for other things. Unfortunately, programming UIs entirely by text is terse for some things and incredibly laborious/tedious/boilerplate for others (e.g. doing autolayout in code sucks).

So I end up doing both. The problem (and I've seen this for many years with other similar systems), is that you have to become relatively comfortable with both approaches, so you can make informed decisions about when to flip back and forth. When can I do this with IB even though it's a teensy hacky vs when should I just subclass UIView and take over layoutSubviews and friends?

That's been my experience at least. YMMV.
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> enterprise dlink switches

"enterprise" DLink switches aren't really a thing yet, regardless of what their marketing team wants to brand them as. :(

Cisco, HPE, etc have "enterprise" switches. DLink might be in a decade.

> it is hard to saturate a 10gbe connection with a single NAS, unless it is packed with SSDs

No, it's just a matter of having enough spindles behind it.

As a rough guide, with a (say) average spinning rust HDD able to push out 100MB/s when reading, you'd only need 10 such drives to push out 1000MB/s (raw).

In the real world, you need extra spindles as some of the data being pushed out is just internal checksum/redundancy, and doesn't go over the network.

But for reading back large files in mostly sequential access, you'll hit 1GB/s from about 10 drives onwards pretty easily. More drives, more throughput.
Most students returned to China because they are not allowed to work in the US. The chance of getting a work visa dropped significantly since 2010s.

Foreign students aren’t getting American education for free; they pay much higher tuition. They are effectively subsiding the tuition cost of domestic students.
Just so you know, that "$400 expense" survey has been widely misreported: https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2019/apr/19...
"Writing it down clean at first" implies that you know what is going to work when you start. If that's the case, it's not research.
If you really wanted to take this next level, you could export some of the changes to a browser plugin called So-and-so elementary school Expperiment (you don't have to show them this) and say they can load the plugin on their home computers. Voila, their parents now have a tricked out NYT home page.
This is legally true, but when I waited tables if I ever claimed that my tips didn't get my salary up to minimum wage, I knew I'd be fired. This condition was just shy of explicit. It was the same if someone ran out on their meal. Fortunately most of the time all of my customers paid their meal and tips pushed me over minimum wage, but I remember one slow night that had a diner and dash. I think I paid to work that night.

Life at the lower rungs of the economic ladder is a total blast.
Donald Trump's Next Trade War Target: Chinese Students
Is that what they've done? The linked article doesn't say that.
Neat! I used to be a kernel maintainer, and had a similar setup going inside emacs with gnus, and dvc-git commands bound to keys to apply patches. Here's an old blog post about some of it:

https://blog.printf.net/articles/2010/10/04/git-patches-in-g...

Gnus was too slow, but worse, emacs is single-threaded, so e.g. polling for new mail in the background blocked the rest of the editor while it happened. I never understood why it was impossible to have any kind of multithreading in emacs.
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It is. And I think SwiftUI will only push people toward Anko as this kind of libraries/tools will become popular. Also, some concurrence with make both tools even better. That's great news!
Since I'm getting downvoted, here is a link:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/traffic_l...
All this anti-China activity almost reminds me of the "yellow peril" at the turn of the last century...
Isn't Netflix stuck at 480p without properly working widevine?
That's why there's SREs (badass generalists): too many developers get ensconced in a tiny silo and afraid/unwilling to venture outside their turf.

Frankly, someone who hasn't:

- written a self-bootstrapping compiler

- designed and microcoded a branch-predicting, pipelined processor

- written a toy OS that works

- spent an inordinate time with assembly

- ran fuzzing against a library

can't legitimately call themselves an engineer. People who don't grasp the implications of their implementation decisions are vast the majority... and how many of them can fix things when something malfunctions at a layer that they they're unwilling/incapable of debugging? Either they can depend on some other specialists, find a local generalist engineer to fix it for them or they can "be the change they seek."
Acting like either one of these forks is Bitcoin is disingenuous at best. The main Bitcoin chain (Bitcoin Core) has over 95% of the hash rate and exponentially more transactions. The fork of Bcash/BitcoinSV was an attempt by Chinese miners to take over the network which failed! BCH blocks aren't full because nobody is even bothering to spam the blocks. Almost no one is using the network for anything real.

Look at the hash rate: https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate
If it were true then it means being you can be duplicated ad infinitum and therefore you have no personality on your own. I done think we have a good answer to that.
Chinese student and liberal art subject??
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Perhaps I misread the comment, which is probably what other people did as well then.

I believe based on your comment, the intended statement was "I wish Trump would make a bigger deal out of China's human rights abuses." Which does seem pretty reasonable.

Given the general pattern of comments on the internet where everything about Trump is negative, I read it as "I wish Trump would have some human rights abuses added to his list of things that are wrong with him"

As I said, sounds like that is my mistake. I am guessing others may have read it that way as well.
I live in rural Arkansas, where we have lots of turtles and terrapins.

I learned this year that if you see a turtle on the road and want to move it (so it doesn't get run over) you should carry it to the edge of the road and place the turtle in the same direction it was travelling. If you orient it differently, or place it on the 'starting' side of the road, the persistent turtle will re-orient and again go on the road to advance in the original direction.
Tangential anecdata:- I know H1B workers who paid a "monthly % of their salary" to their Indian managers for bringing/sending them to the US on an H1B visa.
I trust apple w/ my data way more than the EU
Soulver is amazing, and totally changes the way you use a calculator.
> Although some participants in the study drank 25 cups a day, the average intake among the highest coffee consumption group was five cups a day

There's an obvious sampling bias, where if Joyful Joe is happily guzzling his 25 cups a day, he's probably not fighting weird heartbeats and trouble breathing the whole time, whereas Jittery Jim has one cup and talks the ears off his local beleaguered 7-11 worker and has to be dragged out by security only to spend the night awake in bed chewing every loose bit and bob off his own fingers.

Also, IIRC when people say people with heart conditions shouldn't drink coffee they mean "because stimulant overdoses screw up the heart's electrical rhythms and can turn not-so-good oopsies into fatal oopsies" and not "because you'll have a heart attack in 50 years". Heart attacks in 50 years are, however, a good reason to keep away from the delicious cookies you are probably disappearing into your hungry feeding tube washed down with a milk-and-sugar mixture sold at a huge markup because it contains 0.5g of plant material painstakingly harvested by faraway children, but definitely not 25 times a day, because no one's that rich.

> The research also showed that moderate and heavy coffee drinkers were most likely to be male, smoke and consume alcohol regularly

Oh, well, they're dying of heart disease either way, might as well have fun doing it.
I use apple music because of the homepod but i miss Spotify. Discover weekly was good, automatic genre stations were good and didn’t repeat themselves and it has a much better ecosystem of custom curated playlists compared to apple. Apple music ux is a bit clunky at times and Spotify buffered songs better
Trier made €0 notes with Karl Marx images on them to celebrate his 200th birthday...
Which they sold for €3 each.

https://www.thelocal.de/20180418/karl-marxs-birth-city-sells...
Not sure i still have it around ping me at the email in my profile and i'll see what i can do.
It used to be on their ftp server, which they took down.

I expect if you email ken kennedy over at rice, he may be able to find it as well.
Off the top of my head: Succession, VEEP, Barry, Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects, True Detective (seasons 1 & 3), Chernobyl.

Big Little Lies was probably the worst of that bunch, and is still lightyears ahead of any recent Netflix drama.

On Prime, The Man in the High Castle is a guilty pleasure despite its flaws. The bizarre spy drama Patriot is absolutely excellent.

I like that with Prime, I can subscribe to HBO within the app, and also buy seasons of some cable shows, like FX’s Legion, Fargo, What We Do in the Shadows.

I prefer that experience much more than Netflix. With Netflix, the original content has to be so good that it offsets the lack of being able to purchase non-Netflix content, and frankly Netflix originals have just not been good enough to cut it for a while.
There is the story which isn't new that China is using some students as spies. A long game where students end up staying in the USA after graduating and getting jobs in Industries where they pass information back to HQ/China.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/25/china-uses-...

A senior U.S. counterintelligence official recently said publicly what many officials and experts have been warning privately for years: China is using its large student population in the United States to spy.
Bigger issues to me are the inabilities of iPads compared to iPhones: no watch pairing, no phone call or sms support, et c.
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That was the single biggest difference I observed when I switched from Android to Apple 4 years ago. I no longer had periodic episodes where my phone would burn through 80% of my battery in 30 minutes, while getting lava hot. Not sure if Android has figured background tasks in the last 4 years, but the inconvenience of not having background tasks was greatly outweighed by having predictable battery life and performance.
I was a grad student when the Tienanmen Square demonstrations happened. Chinese students in the US formed the backbone of a network that maintained communication with their compatriots in China.

I personally think that welcoming international students and treating them with goodwill is good foreign policy.
You can't pipe emails into aerc (yet?), but you can definitely pipe emails out of aerc. The :pipe command is bound to | by default, so you can type, for example, |gpg --decrypt | less<Enter>.
Often when I plug one of my Razer mice into a different USB port I get a big pop up with a prompt to install their Synapse software that takes two clicks to dismiss.
I own a 2016 Macbook Pro and 2018 Macbook Pro and I have to agree with the others in this thread: don't buy a modern Mac laptop. I really regret purchasing the 2018, my next laptop will probably a Linux based machine.

I recently switched to iPhone after using Android devices for many years to get away from Google and that was actually a purchase I can recommend. The Macbook Pro, not so much.
Neither the UK nor Sweden would give him guarantees that he would not be extradited to the US. The UK stopped all attempts by Ecuador to leave the UK (he became a Ecuadorian citizen and was appointed as a diplomat, but was refused diplomatic immunity by the UK). Assange stated many times that he wanted to go to Sweden, but only on the condition they wouldn't extradite him to the US.

So, I think staying the embassy was the only option for him, given that the US clearly wanted to have Assange and had already tortured Chelsea Manning for simply being the source of a leak. Not to mention that "Collateral Murder" was literally a video about the US military murdering journalists and then killing first responders. If they were willing to cover up their killing of US journalists, god knows what they'd be willing to do in Assange's case.
Hey, would you mind writing up some details about your email setup for kernel work to sir@cmpwn.com? I'd like to understand more email-driven workflows, especially from kernel maintainers, to guide aerc's design.
I consider myself a professional (at least in that I get paid to do what I do), and I don't think my work hard drive has more than probably 40GB used on it. So 256GB seems like excessively plenty.
It's not a major network these are forks off of Bitcoin made for political reasons that claim to be Bitcoin. 95% of the hash power is on the main Bitcoin chain and not these forks. None of the primary development teams that contribute to the Bitcoin source code support these forks. It would be like making your own US Dollar and calling it USDCash or Dollar WV (Washingtons Vision) and trying to convince people its the same as a real dollar.
Shout out to the fish shell which can do all the fancy syntax highlighting and show command options out the box with no plugins
Set TERM=xterm and try again. tcell (the library aerc uses to render its UI) has a really annoying built-in terminfo database, which at some point I plan on fixing myself.
Looks like it’s related to the stated use case of the app https://stackoverflow.com/a/11044108
I've seen it on German cars in the US, but not in Germany.
No.

Are you trying to credit Chinese students as the sole reason for America's technological supremacy and economic growth? Ha ha good try but no.

Besides, India isn't affected by this and they make up equal share of foreign students in American Universities.

Plus, you know, western European students, African students, Russian, etc, have also contributed over the decades.

China isn't everything.
I really, really like that the editor is embedded within the mail client. The need to shell out to vim or whatever is what always kept me from using Mutt, despite loving its UI.

aerc isn't quite as colorful or well-laid-out as Mutt but this is very promising.

This reminds me a lot of my all-time favorite mail editor, which I miss dearly: GoldED [0] [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldED

[1] https://blog.onlime.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CwkTcNSWQA... (Russian screenshot but you get the idea)
Imagine getting funding in USA for research and sending the research and results back to China so they can patent it before. Who benefits then?
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As a user I'm going to turn this off as soon as possible. The background app refresh feature is widely misused by app developers for tracking purposes, and it destroys battery life. I see no drawback when apps can't do things in the background. Maybe you'll now have to wait a few extra seconds for your mail app to download your latest mail or for your weather app to fetch the latest weather. It's really no big deal.

Of course this is my particular personal preference. YMMV.
Japan mandates cars to be 30% more fuel efficient by 2030
Chicory's a pretty good impossible burger equivalent. Not sure on its carcinogenic status though.
separation of church and state

... is not an element of the U.S. Constitution. It simply prevents establishment of an official religion.
Those seem like pretty big downsides to me, and I don't believe the new terminal marketing gimmick. I will admit Windows has been very attractive lately for gaming reasons, but from a development standpoint, MacOS still seems way ahead of Windows. I seriously considered it, but there would be too much I'd miss if I switched. There's some minor reasons too, like why does IntelliJ look ugly in Windows? It looks great in both Mac and Linux.
> Are you trying to credit Chinese students as the sole reason for America's technological supremacy and economic growth?

No, but more is more. The carrot is the cream of a billion people tasting American culture and having the opportunity to contribute to it. I’m just trying to see the counterbalancing, and un-mitigatable, cost or risk.