skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sad we just have to wait, you'll discredit yourself if you think about it outloud
That's a lot to ask of someone. If that is senior, what is a principal engineer? That's a whole different level in our vaguely defined informal software engineering world.
Hi Peter,

Would you happen to know anything about the H1B1 visa for Singaporean nationals? In particular, if I'm Singaporean (and hence qualify for the H1B1), would that still count as 'needing sponsorship" when applying for jobs? I'm currently finishing up a non-STEM PhD, and will be eligible for the 1-year OPT; I plan to apply for both academic and non-academic jobs.

Thanks in advance for your time!!
If the overhead is X, and the amount of work that can be done ignoring it is Y, you have Y - X. If you double the amount of work that can be down, but overhead stays the same you have 2Y - X, which is more than 2(Y - X) = 2Y - 2X. You're over performing doubling by not having to double the synchronization cost.
Whole series is totally amazing!
Is there anything like (formerly) Google Skymap that works? In the "good old days", Skymap was my goto to answer the question "what is that point of light in the sky?"

The most recent versions of Skymap don't seem to work for me _at all_. I have to use the manual orientation.
This is kind of cool. How do you prevent people from running malicious code?
By that logic CEO pay does the same thing, along with every other cost.
For sufficiently complex and large programs like writing an operating system, writing a computer language... you need to be a poet and a hacker.

Makers are a dime a dozen. In the end everyone is "making" something so everyone is a "maker" in a sense. It's just the "makers" described in the article don't know how to hack or write a poem so they just concentrate on delivery time.
It's worse, not answering with bullshit seems it could lead to negative results. If the real reason I would love working at company X is because the commute is 1/2 the other equal choices instead of making the world a better place, I won't admit it because 1) it makes me sound banal, and 2) in prisoners dilemma style I expect other candidates are bullshitting and I would be at a disadvantage.
M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Oh my god, GP literally mentions the source at the end of the comment! Come on!
The cost of bugs varies wildly. I do not want my FADEC to have the bugs my word processor has but I do want the word processor to have more features.
I lol'd at "[...] they think I'm psychic". Nice one.
> Are saying that Porsche--which is spending billions of dollars on the Taycan and its transmission--is doing this for no good reason?

Yes, they are. They are saying that "better on a track" is a bad reason, and "it makes more money" is a bad reason.

That is not a claim that Porsche is incorrectly engineering to reach their goal, or doing anything unprofitable.

It's an opinion.
Even though people claim to work 40-50 hours many times they are spending half that time watching videos or messing around, this is a generalization of course.
Does it make sense to try to switch from L-1B to H-1B? In particular, are there any downsides?

The way I see it: the H-1B would allow 1 year more (6 vs 5), increase flexibility (employer + position) and if it fails one can just continue with the L-1B. Do I have that right?

(Background: My L1-B expires end of 2020; I would renew it if H-1B is not granted first. Also we're working on EB2 via advanced degree, but are just restarting the PERM labor certification due to layoffs.)
So you think that the government should be able to set prices? I don't know why you don't like how business regulates prices.
> forgive me for not taking any chance to piss them off

This is another example of why monopolies are bad. Same goes for Google with Android. G can ban your account (and correspondingly any future accounts you might try to make), so any work you do for Android is just as much as risk.

Even though the apps aren't as rich on the web, I think most developers should target mobile web except in cases where they really need something special in the hardware. No app stores, and no begging to be allowed to update your own product.
welcome to capitalism
Except he's largely right. His tribes are real things, as real as the dichotomy between SQL admin and python programmer.

I know what you're talking about though... Lots of blog posts talk about their own ideas about the industry that are largely irrelevant. But if you touched all the technologies he has listed in his write up you'll see he's completely correct. He's not speculating about something. This is reality.
Interesting how the article turns a story of mass torture and killings akin to nazy mad-science into a story about one individual murder.

Makes one wonder why would a state research mind control from drugs, when mind control from history books and newspapers is already so efficient.
How Database B-tree Indexing works
One of the most played games of all time, Counterstrike, started off as a mod.
I was sure that was going to be Benny Hill.
I actually run all my docker services on one 16-core server.

Great thing about Docker is a commit is all that's needed to reproduce everything since I also use terraform to deploy the infrastructure.
DreamCloud+Labor+Day+Savings
Not necessarily.

One thing that seems to be often overlooked is that yeast do not simply convert sugar into ethanol. They require nutrients and will produce different compounds(Google tryptophol) if a nutrient runs out and prevents complete metabolism.
Yes this is strong evidence that Mungo Man is not related to the individuals who now live in the area. The current Australian Aboriginal population is all descended from a single population that appeared sometime between 10-32K years ago [0].

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18299
> See, O'Neill, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties (2019).
Verbatim word match:

“word”

Verbatim phrase match:

“some phrase”

Verbatim word negation:

-“word”

Verbatim phrase negation:

-“some phrase”
who ever said free? they could make a paid service like LE with automated renewals etc that integrates better with enterprise software, or that does better audit logging, or any number of things. let’s encrypt is a great service, but there’s still plenty of money to be made off overzealous corporate security policies
The ever-increasing divide between the Left and the Right is probably the single largest threat to the well-being and prosperity of the United States. It hampers our attempts to do almost everything.

https://i.imgur.com/cjg9Ryo.gif
As with most things, it's a little of both, not binary. Your decisions effects others, others decisions effect you. You can spend your entire life not making a dent into how complicated that particular equation is..or...you can just not be a dick and either try to help other folks or at least not go out of your way to make their lives worse.
Except... nobody in many places (like Australia) don't get the internet speed we pay for therefore we need to pay for the internet speed we don't need, to get the internet speed we need...
> Another one was: The project has a non-negotiable deadline and feature list and it looks like it's going to be late. What do you do?

If both the deadline and feature list are actually non-negotiable and I'm quite certain it's gonna be late I'd advise them to halt it immediately to cut their losses, I guess. I don't know what else would be a sane response.

Of course "non-negotiable" when it comes to feature lists and deadlines is usually grade-A horseshit so they don't actually mean it. Hell "deadline" is more often than not an exaggeration itself—you're not gonna drop the work in the trash if it's not delivered by 12:01AM on such-and-such day.

TL;DR I'd assume "non-negotiable" was a lie because it basically always is. Bet they'd love that answer.

[EDIT] Alternate answer: fortunately I'm in possession of a clock that changes reality when something's non-negotiable, so I'd just let it know what was up and it'd go ahead and make every hour twice as long for me.
My grandfather was from a town in Missouri and told me a story that when he was a kid, his little town had the biggest factory in the world to make a certain item. That item was stirrups and of course there aren't many horse riders and we don't need so many horse product factories. Today his town has no factories and there's basically no town left anymore, just an old building that was the schoolhouse.
This article acts like the restaurant has some right to control what Google shows. I don’t want to order food from restaurant websites - it is a lot better experience to use DoorDash or UberEats. So I prefer it this way, where Google optimizes for the user rather than the website owner.
Everyone who lived 40,000 years ago is either the ancestor of everyone alive today or the ancestor of no one.
If you like that check out Celestia too - https://celestia.space/
> These days, even those options are gone.

On Android, you can distribute, download, and install .apk files outside of the Play Store [1]. There's also an app called f-droid [2] which acts as a 'store' for some open source apps.

[1] https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/alt...
[2] https://f-droid.org/en/
I keep seeing this headline, reading the articles and being disappointed that none of them seem to differentiate between cannabis/tobacco oil vaping (e-cigarettes) and dry-herb vaping. Dry her has no other chemicals, and no fillers. It just boils the THC/CBD and other cannabinoids out of the leaf. There is no smoke, and the vapour is pretty much colourless. It's very easy on the lungs and much better (and cheaper, I find) than smoking it.

Those oil based vapes just seem nasty. Smaller vaporizer though, I guess.
Nah, you're already a part of their spreadsheet, they don't need everyone as a customer, the profits still roll in.
We have an obesity epidemic.
Gasoline/Diesel cars cause pollution and climate change.
Electric cars still encourage suburban sprawl.

More bicycles please.
I think a lot of people that you could dismiss with terms like "crackpot" are more accurately described as "gradually slipping into writing clickbait for economic reasons".
What a load of bullshit. The article is making a merit out of a clutch to cover for their failing. I had to stop reading after ridiculous statements like “that 5 percent range improvement can save significant money as battery capacity” - riiiight it can save ... 5%. I’d rather pay more for the battery and save of the maintenance down the road. Serious Wired, how much did they pay you for this?
> avoiding large speed differentials

That would be (or should be) the entire point of a posted speed limit, go with the flow. There should also be a lower speed limit.

On roads I would bet many crashes occur due to the difference in speed between vehicles. Speeding motorcycles, slow trucks, fast sports cars, all of which would be around vehicles of moderate speed.

The reaction time for the faster vehicle driver is different than the the drivers other slow vehicles. Also consider not all drivers have the same experience. Those differences are dangerous.
More impressive would be, “Nudes solicited and obtained by AI.”
The scientific payloads of missions (development, design, manufacturing, operation, analysis) are usually a large percentage of the total mission's cost. It's worth looking at the exact scientific capabilities of a mission while comparing it with the cost. It's amazing how economically the Indians sent a probe to Mars, but its scientific capabilities were far smaller than the billion dollar NASA missions.
Except there is no evidence that Mungo Man was cleansed with smoke after he died or that the fireplace was used at the time he died.
Interesting that psychedelics are being pushed by elites via popular media like Joe Rogan, etc.
‘That’s Not Funny ’ Well, It Is to Dave Chappelle
What drives thinly veiled corporate propaganda?
There is a mechanical latch, but they seal much better once the aircraft is pressurized and the door is being pressed into the frame.

If you look at the windows on a research submersible, the Plexiglas windows are cone-shaped and placed facing the opposite direction from those on a plane, as the pressure there is coming from the outside. Same reason - the cone shape means the pressure differential creates a tighter seal as it becomes greater.

Story time: I was once on a Northwest flight, and a passenger in the exit row behind me called a flight attendant back while we were still loading. It seems she could put her arm out of the aircraft through a gap in the over-wing door opening. Sure enough, I look out my window and there's her hand waving back at me. They call a mechanic who reseals the exit (applying a new safety-wire seal) and off we go to our destination.

It almost certainly would have sealed shut once we got to altitude. And probably did for some unknown number of flights before she discovered the problem. But I definitely felt better once it had been repaired.
An Evaluation Dataset for Intent Classification and Out-of-Scope Prediction
Does this mark the return of 'offensive' comedy?
> Modi is definitely investing in space, with the manned mission in a couple of years. I just hope this doesn't impact that.

Are you serious? All these projects were funded since UPA2 time. This craft was to go in 2013 but Russia backed out so postponed to 2016.

Same story with Mars Orbiter Mission

I don't think Modi has any money left after his disasterous economic policies which have brought an economic slowdown. Also if he is funding space missions they'll fly in 2025 or so because building those missions takes time
> What do you believe you can achieve with us personally or professionally that you can't anywhere else in the world?

Not every company is SpaceX or even an industry unicorn.

It's possible to do great work at a great company without it being the sole place in the world where things can happen.
None of this “resistance” is doing anything to fight global warming. We already have plenty of editorials abstractly saying we need to do something; a million more won’t help.

We need to build a cheap way to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. That way we can stop global warming without requiring global agreement. Global political agreement to slow down consumption will just never happen.
This is correct. When I'm riding my bike it's easy to stay in the moment. I have to be alert for busted infrastructure, innatentive drivers, impulsive first responders and all manner of other threats. If I'm driving a car it's mostly boring. I have to actively work to keep my mind on task. I suspect others are like me, and that's why distracted driving is such a big problem.
Volkswagen’s Road to Riches or Ruin Starts in This Factory
I would still expect the `maximum theoretical load` to be well above the `designed limit load`.
In one hand, of course all those story fragments are alarming and revolting.

On the other hand, each time such a thing surfaces the most surprising is always that it seems to have surfaced due to this automatic declassification mechanism that I've never heard of an equivalent anywhere else in the world. In most places, including many modern and wealthy democracies, I believe you would just expose yourself to troubles if you asked for some clarifications about any ancient classified material.

I wonder if there is any recommended source to learn more about how this law/practice came to be?
Um, I tested both on Chrome and Firefox and can't see any ads.
You say you're between 2 and 3, but everything else you wrote in that comment puts you pretty squarely in #2.
Mungo Man’s bones weren’t dug up, they were exposed by erosion. If they had not been collected then they would have just turned to dust on the surface.

As for digging up the long dead plenty of non-Europeans are involved in doing this in Britain without comment.
Very importantly, this hasn't been described as a "test failure."

That was heavily implied:

Sources tell KOMO there was a stunned silence after it happened.

…

an event occurred that forced the test team to halt testing. … The team is currently working to understand what happened and ensure the area is safe for work to continue.

Edit: You're not going to silence the crowd with a successful test and you don't temporarily halt testing because of a successful test.

Edit 2: Seattle Times says this explicitly: This ground test failure is another blow.
Regretfully, not.

Adblockplus.org is just trying to capitalize on the name and their ability to slide advertising under the door, and they’re trying to whitewash the fact by claiming to serve only trustworthy ads.

I would say that Brave’s Attention Token is a better implementation of the OP concept.
Need a better source for this. Aviation Leak will probably have something better in a few days. What broke? Door? Doorframe? Fuselage around doorframe? Which door?
He said it takes him “hours” to explain the theorem to phds in other subfields of math.
As someone with an "auto filter mental disorder" I have to work very hard to read this post charitably. I know this is the internet and written text is hard, but it would be easy to perceive this post as "othering" folks with metal illness. I don't think that was your intent, so that's why I'm writing this.
I bet you're fun at parties
Yes, there is value in memorizing things, as things in our memory are easier to work with for thinking than things we have to go out, search for, access, and then get into our memory. See for example Barbara Oakley's discussion on mathematical fluency:

nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to-become-fluent-in-math-rp

Or Feynman on the need for mathematical fluency to do physics:

> What we have to do is to learn to differentiate like we know how much is 3 and 5, or how much is 5 times 7, because that kind of work is involved so often that it’s good not to be confounded by it. When you write something down, you should be able to immediately differentiate it without even thinking about it, and without making any mistakes. You’ll find you need to do this operation all the time—not only in physics, but in all the sciences. Therefore differentiation is like the arithmetic you had to learn before you could learn algebra.

> Incidentally, the same goes for algebra: there’s a lot of algebra. We are assuming that you can do algebra in your sleep, upside down, without making a mistake. We know it isn’t true, so you should also practice algebra: write yourself a lot of expressions, practice them, and don’t make any errors.

Of course, in this particular discussion re: javascript, I think the design of the language doesn't help much here. Consider Javascript's `Date`, which the OP calls out as an API with a particularly difficult to remember set of conventions. Authors of languages and libraries can remedy this by having a coherence in design, naming, and behavior that help people build mental structures to memorize how these work and achieve the kind of fluency they need to do things without googling. Ruby's standard library I think is particularly good at this(here "principle of least surprise" helps not just with discovery, but retention).

EDIT: also want to add that using documentation and external resources is totally valid, as the grandparent comment states. There's just a balance to be had between relying on Google versus what you can draw from your mind quickly. Also think it's worthwhile to note that there is interesting work to be done in making documentation systems better and more integrated into our runtimes, see for example: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/margin-notes/
an organization is centralized by definition, it's just a matter of scope, the arbitrary place where you draw the line depends on your politics.
Facebook's chronic underhanded tactics requires one to ask for confirmation. The onus is on the dishonest party not the victims.

Good that he asked... we all should more.
Could be concerning, see

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/04/seaturtle.html
Doesn't look like this story is getting better for MIT.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer...
That link is amazing. Thank you for that.

Yea I have a pretty good idea of what’s involved. None of that is impossible to do. Time consuming? Sure. Impossible? Far from it. The root programs have documented processes to get included and will (eventually) accept a legit new CA that’s passed WebTrust audit and has good practices (afaik). Hardest thing is finding someone to cross-sign to accelerate the process. That’s why I asked jaas if he would do so :P.

I run a company that does public key infrastructure stuff (smallstep.com) so I have the software and some of the people. I think I could track down some hosting and a couple operators from a partner or two. What’s left seems like maybe a few hundred thousand a year for audits and HSMs, mostly. Pretty sure I could scrape that together too.

Idunno though. Mostly it’s Friday night and this is a fun thought experiment.

Good thought on buying an existing CA. Are any currently up for sale, I wonder? If anyone who reads this knows, plz email me (mike at smallstep).
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I’m asking because they presented Crystal as Ruby with OOP and high performance. I’m asking because I’m curious, is it the ruby syntax that much better?
I had wondered what happened to his videos, as I hadn't seen an update in my RSS feed for a while. Turns out he's just stopped updating his blog!

I've got some videos to catch up on :)
Yes - a black comedy.
"I hate to break it to Siri and its creators: if ‘it’ believes in equality it is a feminist."

And I hate to break it to Sam Smethers, but feminism does not hold a monopoly on equality [1], and it has become associated with more than just that belief: "Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unfairly within those societies." [2]. In fact, I find it hard to believe someone in Sam's position isn't aware of the word's expanded meaning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism
I don't think it's ethical to pay that little period, but I don't see Waffle House commercials talking about this either, so if the company isn't trying to profit off of it and the employees want to do it I'm all for it.
According to the story she chose after each cup, not at the end (so it's harder for her to make use of the 4-4 information); therefore, the odds calculation is not so straightforward right?
If you google/duckduck go something more than once, I think it should be put into documentation. I have one central org file where I keep that majority of my one off questions about a tool, and these days I look there often first before man or info because I have condensed the information into something faster to parse for me.

Right now my main battle is deciding to port docs like this into asciddoc(tor) or keep them in org, both being exported to html5 eventually.
Yes, I'd think that there was a breach of the settlement contract by virtue of the fact that the family was lied to. They might have done something different if the facts were known then as they are known now. It's definitely new information or new grounds.
I read this as "You can now 100% confirm to Facebook that, indeed, that is your face".
So, in other words, yes, entropy is subjective, and depends upon your definition of variables (and ordering). What's the other argument, leading to debate?
Marc Andreessen shares the 4 realities facing every entrepreneur today
The original blog says this is a failure case for China, what went wrong specifically? Would this attack normally not be indexed/scraped by google?

Apple PR seems to be trying to muddle the 2 years that the attack was likely available, and the 2 months where these sites operated.
> an organization is centralized by definition

No, it's not. An organization can be distributed/decentralized as well as centralized. “Organization” does not specify the latter in opposition to the former.