skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoom works perfectly every single time. I've managed to make Slack's audio call feature work only rarely. I wish Slack had decent shared whiteboard, screenshare, and audio/video conferencing but that is a hard problem and they are currently not able to deliver. Zoom does flawlessly.
You said yes to 79% of the existing words.

You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.

This gives you a corrected score of 79% - 0% = 79%.

This is a high level for a native speaker.

I'm impressed, I thought I would score way less since I'm not a native speaker.
Help me understand the first part. Why do you need a US visa (well, THAT visa - I understand a 'fly over for a meeting' visiting visa) as an outsourcing company?

What I mean is: How are the outsourcing companies affected by this?
Phoenix gets to 110 every year and you can definitely grow oranges and cotton there, at least.
Stack overflow has the users do the moderation and it works well, maybe not perfect but its not bad.
Github repo: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server
I don't have specific experience with ML, but AWS spot pricing is by far the best deal last time i checked for GPU. You can get something much more powerful than a gtx1080 and get your task done more quickly. The downside is that at any time your instance can be shut down after a short warning signal to backup your progress, so it may or may not be suitable for what you're doing.
A Florida city council votes to pay $600K ransom to hackers
> Although a dlclose() operation is not required to remove any functions or data objects from the address space, neither is an implementation prohibited from doing so.

As far as I can tell, “neither is an implementation prohibited from doing so” does not have an exception for atexit. In other words, a POSIX compliant system is free to implement atexit in a straightforward way without any magic to check which library the function pointers come from. On such a system, if atexit is called with a function from a dlopen’d shared library, and that library is subsequently dlclose’d, the C library will cheerfully call the now-invalid function pointer at program exit, resulting in undefined behavior. As such, using atexit from libraries intended to be dlclose’d is fundamentally non-portable. Even if some system supported the “atexit keeps a library alive” behavior you’re asking for, any program relying on it would have to be very careful to ensure it only gets run on that system: unlike other non-portable features that can be tested for at compile-time or runtime, or at least fail cleanly if they’re not supported, this one would give you no warning it’s unsupported other than a segfault, if you’re lucky. And the system had better clearly document that it is guaranteeing that behavior forever, as opposed to it being an implementation detail that could change at any time. IMO, it’s a much better idea to just avoid that pattern altogether.
How easy is it via email to contact a person outside of your company? Do people actually answer emails from random strangers? Seems like an easy way to become a phishing or social engineering victim.
Testing if nothing else, I'd you are shipping to be people running AMD GPUs then that would be useful without having to buy a card and another machine for it to go in
73% with 0% non-words. While I was taking it, it felt like I was doing worse, but not a bad result overall.
Putting arbitrary caps on visas isn't a great way to do this though. A lot of startups in India are founded & staffed by Indian folks who got their experience, capital and connections working in the US.
I'm not sure that quite fits what I'm describing. AIUI, those phenomena describe tearing down someone perceived to be rising above his station, whereas I'm describing the subtle enforcement of segregation by class. Namely, these people werent punishing a member of their group with "pretensions" to a higher one (a disgusting enough impulse), they were trying to tear down someone who they already thought was of a different group (unintentionally imo: these were fairly close friends and there were many ways that they connected very deeply, which made these cases all the more noticeable).
> If it was the problem you claim, we would expect female engineers to make much higher salaries than their male counterparts.

You lost me here. Why is this the case?
Huh. Why did they not include communication (Gmail) data?
Oh I thought the x was a fancy substitute for the o/a ending. Thanks.
Sure but if you keep following that analogy then nothing is worth anything
As a native english speaker, answering only known words: 80% true positive, 0% false positive.

As a native english speaker, answering for known or plausible words (with empty profile to not contaminate the test): 96% true positive, 23% false positive.
A lot of these companies routinely send workers 'onsite' to US offices.

Likewise, many employees at big cos who are actually 'vendors' are employees of outsourcing companies working at offices located in America.
For science! 67% for me.

My brain small. Sad!
Oh, yes. 100%. I can't imagine how we would work in the last two major companies I worked at without it. Everyone is on slack, great place to ask simple questions, create a channel to discuss an issue, add images and video, and provide feedback when you are ready.
User's account is new and the name is "iBasher" (iguana basher?). Proceed with caution.
A significant amount of code can be run after a power cord pull is detected but before the big caps discharge on most boxes. But yea no userspace program is going to get those cycles...
Many if not most outsourcing gigs require some people on the ground in the US to drum up new business, liaise with the customer, fulfill compliance requirements ("work must be done in US"), etc.
Your comment doesn’t explain why you actually do think it’s important.
Twitter as trust network
I wonder how they take into account the kind of people who take a test like this are likely to have a good vocabulary. I suppose that might not be true but I don't think I'd do something similar for a test that measured something along the lines of matching faces to pop musicians.
Slack's paid plan is like $80/year/user. How on earth are you paying $2500?
So how many Qbits are they up to? And how fast is that number increasing?

Comparing to classical like this is kind of dumb since quantum is known to be exponentially faster. Or doubly or whatever. Just stop comparing and tell us how many bits.
This might be the most damaging of all announcements made thus far.

Companies have known they probably have relied a little bit too much on 'one country' thus far, and that there could be ramifications, and this 'mini trade war' is basically the red flag which caused them to 'do something'.

Apple is a monster, representing alone a good chunk of the trade.

But it isn't this specific move, it's the knock-on effects and the permanency of it the changes that will be the real damage.

Apple is an industry leader, and this will cause everyone to think about their situation in the same way.

Even if the 'trade war' ended today with happy smiles, companies will still look into this, because all of this could happen again, and it's probably the right thing to do anyhow in their eyes.

Once a portion of manufacturing leaves, it's never coming back, and as other sources become more reliant and competitive and other companies see leaders planting their flags elsewhere, there will be follow-on and the genie will not be put back in the bottle.

I think this year is a major change point for China and the world, as the 1990's were fast but quiet, the 2000's it came to everyone's attention, the 2010's concerns started to rise outside the border, jingoism, 'head of state for life' and enough critical mass of concerned voices lead by Mr. Big in the Presidency (rational acting or not, it's made a mark).

Combined with a natural slowdown which would have occurred regardless.

This is a new chapter.
Yep, that's what I meant. Thanks!
My takeaway was that not only was a janitor directly employed by the company (as cleaning services are basically 100% outsourced in my experience now) but was paid well and felt part of the company such that he was motivated to stay interested and contribute.
Looks like taxes can alter behavior after all. The "tariffs don't work" lie is now observably false.

That it took Donald Trump to get companies to make their supply lines less fragile is pretty depressing. Never rely on a single source for anything if you don't have to.
Interesting, found the word not from Merriam-Webster dictionary: araliaceous.
Do any OSes actually do this, though? If not, this is academic until one actually does.

Linux does have something called "KSM" that de-dupes memory pages, but it appears that it's only so a hypervisor can de-dupe guest OS pages? Odd that it's not more general than that. Though I guess there is a cost: the KSM code needs to scan through memory to find duplicate pages, which I can't imagine is fast.
Microsoft sinks another data centre with Natick 2 (2018)
$300 actually buys you a fancy walmart bike, the really bottom quality uncomfortable ones hover around $100.
That sounds like the best way to do GC in a game. Another way is to use explicit memory pools, remember to allocate from the right pool, and throw it all out at once.

General GC is really overrated I think. Automatic retain counting is nicer because it's deterministic and you never have to scan memory. Compaction can be nice but you can live without it.
I get a kick out of people asking me what I am. Umm, American?

But what is you’re ancestry, they will persist. “From America”.

Honestly my parents have told me X generations ago where someone immigrated from, but I can never remember? For some reason the factoid just won’t stay in my brain, and it has zero relevance to me.

For some people the roots of their identity is intensely personal. For others mostly irrelevant. My inclination is that it’s a place of privilege to not know (or particularly care) where your ancestors came from, and perhaps some people would even find that offensive, I’m not really sure. I certainly don’t fault someone for identifying strongly with their own heritage or being proud or even protective of it.
The submission title is misleading. The C standard library function atexit() isn't broken. At worst, some C library implementations are broken (or more charitably, not C standard compliant) if you also use certain other facilities that are not C standard library functions.
I don't think people who say this were even around at the time of the dotcom bubble. There were public companies adding "tech" to their names and seeing their values rise 10x in a day. THAT was a bubble.
Hey peeps full disclosure I work as one of Linode's RnD engineers. I want to try to get to as many of these as I can.

One of the biggest questions is why the Quadro RTX 6000? Few things:

1. Cost it has the same performance as the 8000. The difference is 8 more GB of RAM that comes at a steep premium. Cost is important to us as it allows us to be at a more affordable price point.

2. We have all heard or used the Tesla V100, and it's a great card. The biggest issue is that it's expensive. So one of the things that caught our eye is the RTX 6000 has a fast Single-Precision
Performance, Tensor Performance, and INT8 performance. Plus the Quadro RTX supports INT4.
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...
https://images.nvidia.com/content/technologies/volta/pdf/tes...
Yes, these are manufactures numbers, but it caused us pause. As always, your mileage may vary.

3. RT cores. This is the first time (TMK) that a cloud provider is bringing RT cores into the market. There are many use cases for RT that have yet to be explored. What will we come up with as a community?!

Now with all that being said, there is a downside, FP64 aka double precision. The Tesla V100 does this very well, whereas the Quadro RTX 6000 does poorly in comparison. We think although those workloads are important, the goal was to find a solution that fits a vast majority of the use cases.

So is the marketing true to get the most out of MI/AI/Etc? Do you need a Tesla to get the best performance? Or is the Tesla starting to show its age? Give the cards a try I think you'll find these new RTX Quadros with Turning architecture are not the same as the Quadros of the past.
problem I have with this test, is a slight dyslexia when hitting the appropriate key. Several times I knew I hit the wrong one a moment after, but had no way to go back and correct it.

Also, in some cases I noticed that there was what appeared to be a real word, but it was slightly misspelled, so I'm sure that counted as an incorrect input.
>even the lowest employees

Why is the janitor considered "the lowest employee" by you?
87% with no false positives. In my view many of these are not what I consider English ‘words’ - plant names, trade marks and archaic words. Still fun though.
> This would also imply that if you talked enough about how art made you feel around your people, you would be exempt from getting rejected by your extended family.

First off, this is a pretty bizarre interpretation of what I said: no one cares if you _don't_ talk about how art makes you feel. It's the rule that you _can't_ talk about it that gets enforced, in certain circles. I should also note that this isn't some esoteric desire: I've been on drugs with these friends enough times to hear them talking about how art makes them feel, but the difference is that, when sober, they not only feel too inhibited to do so but they feel like they have to mock others who do as "pretentious".

Secondly, I dont know what you mean by getting rejected by my extended family. That's certainly not something that's ever happened, either with my family or other people of the same class. The positive treatment I noticed from class signaling (unitentional or otherwise) was entirely from women or in a professional context.
They wouldn't be available if they were profitable for that. Providers usually make you do extra verification to use these instances because people were at a time using them for that, not because it was profitable, but because they used stolen cloud accounts/cards.
I was skeptical then I installed it and I can't believe MacOS doesn't ship with this! It's actually making the bar useful.

One bug I noticed is you can get in a <esc> <esc> situation, with twice the button. But since you miss <esc> button all the time, why not having it twice; or more?
Himalayan glacier melting doubled since 2000, spy satellites show
Where's the USA cited in all this? Curious. I can't imagine the supply lines here would make it feasible.

From the article, Mexico, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia:

> The countries being considered include Mexico, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. India and Vietnam are among the favorites for smartphones, Nikkei said, citing sources who did not want to be identified as the discussions are private.
Late to the party, but I just randomly realized today that copy & paste syncs across iOS and my iMac. Was surprisingly convenient. Apparently it’s been around since Sierra, but my settings are now in sync enough to just work.
Yeah, but as it was pointed out -- it could be done by a 6 month visit visa and still the payment comes through at the site in India. So technically the employee could be working for the outsourced outlet and there should be no requirement of a work visa.
Obligatory documentary on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMCCYnDvpJQ
'Don't work' to do what? Damage trade?

Nobody is going to claim that a 25% tariff won't destroy a trading relationship, of course it will. That's a monster tariff. It's big enough and wide enough it will have substantial effects if it's held.

The issue is who actually wins, who loses, what are the after-effects etc..

All things considered, China will be the bigger loser here, but America doesn't stand much to gain, other than some overall strategic leverage.

iPhone's won't be any cheaper, and Apple likely won't be making more money over this, rather, they'll possibly have a more resilient supply chain, and America will maintain more power in the ensuing balance.

If anything 'the rest' of SE Asia is probably the winner in all of this. Which is fine.

Edit: I should add, if 25% tariffs are maintained, all of America will soon start to see that hit them personally; there will be a material lift in consumer prices that will be noticeable even at the consumer level. I don't think it will be a 1970's OPEC shock, but we'll see it. It takes a long time to realign supply chains, and even then a lot of it is not very amenable to shifting away from China. It will be interesting to see what happens when this goes from an 'abstraction' to materially popping into people's lives.

It's already hitting my business hard as we're scrambling to figure out what to do, and this reality will soon trickle into the lives of regular people.

I actually do support some kind of trade re-negotiation with China, and the 25% tactic is in some ways a nice manoeuvre, the problem is, it might have to be a bluff because it's going to hit the economy very hard.
India has import tariffs (is it correct to call them tariffs?) on stuff like that. It is a huge yet growing economy. If you you relocate your production there you avoid the tariffs. Bet you dollars to donuts if or when they move it'll be to the Indian subcontinent.

"Apple's India Move Is Risky, But Better Than Facing Trump's Trade War"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidvolodzko/2019/01/17/will-a...
I think command+t and command+w are usually my go to methods. I don't have to move my hands from my keyboard.
This to me is hilarious. This is precisely what drove India away from America.

Not to mention that America quite literally supported the genocide of millions of people 1972 just to spite India. So it's no surprise that the foreign policy continues this kind of momentum.
Don't worry, I got less than that, but 0 bad guesses!

I'd bet there is a bias from those reporting scores here -- a humblebrag, for science, of course!
I work in AI and I find it pretty discouraging at times. The biggest conference in the field had about 9000 attendees last time. There are thousands of publications coming out every year. It's basically impossible to keep up, and your chances of getting scooped (someone publishing your idea before you) are pretty high. Many of the more obvious research directions have already been tried. Many ideas don't work so well. It's tough. I personally have moments where I struggle to believe I can have any impact in this field.
Its a business visa to allow exchange of ideas quicker, better.

Imagine GE, a company with a pool of power electronics talent in the US, wants to build specialized power plants for the Indian market. They can't do it remotely from the US. They will fly their US employees to India to study the market, understand rules and constraints, design and consult local Indian teams. The US employees need to stay there for years to build those things.

All that requires India to give US citizens the visa to work for such a long time. And India does give that. Business visas in India are easy to get.

Reverse the roles and if an Indian company wants to use their own pool of talent to do business in the US, H-1b are the only ones available for long term business related work, which got totally distorted by politics over the years.

https://www.usa-corporate.com/start-us-company-non-resident/...
Games with novel interactions between users are generally the ones with the substantial staying power. The rest are either clones that crest and fall with fad or "movies" that get played once and discarded.
You claim to be for free speech, yet most of what you propose directly infringes on the concept. You don’t get to determine who gets to say what.
Whenever I hear "It's who you know" my response is - and has been since my teens is - "It's not about who you know, It's who wants to know you."

I'm sure someone said it before me.

You can usually visualise the processing going on in the few seconds of silence that follows.
No one had any doubts that taxes or tariffs "work", corporations respond to incentives. If you want to get political about it, Apple's not going to be making their "big, beautiful plants" in the US [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-says-apple-ceo-has-promis...
I agree with most of this even though it comes across as a bit aggressive.

HN is one of the few places I enjoy reading comments because people actually care about communication, and I love reading well-expressed, well-written comments from intelligent people.
Fine, but asking me to change natural speech patterns does affect me, so please don't ask me to do it.
Tell that to Trump. He can't see a win-win when it stares at him.
There's a way to disconnect your tesla, but nobody does it. (I believe they remove or disable the cellular sim)
This is pretty great. Only I wish it only showed when I clicked on the desktop (Since Finder does nothing else with the TouchBar) or swipe up from the bottom. Parallels actually does this same thing (minus swiping) for the task bar in Windows guests but switches to app specific bars when you open Office or a browser. I'm in the camp that finds the TouchBar really awesome. Never used function keys (except F5) but I use the TouchBar all the time in IntelliJ, iTunes, Word/Excel and it's great in PowerPoint when scrolling to just the slide you want.

I also love the clicky feel of the keyboard so maybe I'm just special...
89% with no false positives.

I wonder how tightly coupled this will be to education, gender, age, and especially handedness. Will righties rule and lefties drool, or will an unthinkable upset occur? I expect the U.K. to dominate because all the smart movies use U.K. actors, full of $2 words.
Teams shouldn’t be underestimated. It’s pretty great, and comes with a lot of great tools that no unicorn has found a way to replace.
I use a tool like applicationize (https://applicationize.me/) to make a chrome app for a site. It mimicks an app, but is running as a tab in chrome. Saves memory but gives the benefit of separate window and workspace management (I can tab to it, it can have icon etc).
V Programming Language released
> Every single union in the planet was formed because workers wanted to improve their own wages and working conditions. Nobody organizes to protect other people’s interests.

This overlooks the possibility that workers with different statuses can recognize commonality and, so, unionize as a coalition.

This is precisely what happened when the graduate students at the University of Virginia unionized with the University classified staff under UAW for health care and a living wage in 1996ish (? IIRC).

Workers can unionize across pay grades and professional classification if and when it suits such workers to do so.
Seems I’m being judged harshly for that comment. What I’m saying is that the theory is that if you have a competitive market and low transaction costs for switching, then...

The term “transaction costs” is a reflection of the total cost to the employee, including time spent searching, applying, interviewing, potential lost wages if the new start date doesn’t match the end date, even time value for filling out the W-9. All of it.

There’s a lot that can be done on the regulatory side to reduce these costs. The really big one is probably health insurance switching costs, particularly if deductibles are getting reset mid-year.

So my conclusion is the most effective and economically efficient way to improve the conditions for low skilled workers is to reduce overhead costs and reduce transaction costs for switching jobs as much as possible.

Dialing up the legal minimum value proposition of a worker in theory does not help, and can only possibly hurt low skilled employees, if the labor market is competitive and job switching costs are zero (that is to say, in an idealized—not real-world—model).
Hardpass: Lightweight password checker that enforces a strong password policy