skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither time did I have a safety net ready. But my life still continued.

Did you mean safety net as in another job lined up or substantial personal savings? Having a safety net generally means that your situation might be tough but you're okay if you quit/lose your job.

Getting deported because of your H1B would be an example of "doesn't have a safety net". The definition has gray area (such as if your family in your birth country is rich), but as a rule of thumb if deportation is the likely outcome, then you don't have a safety net.

IF you are an immigrant family, this is a trolley problem. Regardless of the courage of your convictions, you are making a choice for not just yourself, but your spouse and kids. It's not purely your own choice.
Do you know a good introduction to adaptive/sequential designs? I'm looking for something along the lines of a textbook aimed at a graduate level seminar.
My limited understanding of how this works from reading descriptions by others is any registered organizational entity can apply to the CCP for an organization-wide VPN for approved purposes. But the CCP maintains the right to MITM the VPN and snoop your traffic to their hearts' content. I don't see how they can inspect your traffic in the clear though, without coercing you to install their VPN software in order to use a VPN appliance they supply/approve to forcibly modify your browser to accept their certificates, so I'm confused on just how much they can snoop.

So how do these "approved VPN's" really work?
> and would have chosen my words more carefully if I'd known the author was here in the thread

Not a specific dig against you, but I find it useful to write (and say) anything with the assumption that the author I'm (hypothetically) addressing is a direct witness.

It really helps with online civility :)
NASA's Curiosity rover finds an ancient oasis on Mars
Apple Salaries and Levels
SmileDirectClub tumbles after IPO banks give thumbs up
Don't forget government run lotteries
How is this different from or any better than Ubiquiti's Cloud Controller hosting?

Also based on your pricing it is cheaper to buy a Cloud Key if you plan to use your devices longer than 10 months.
This affects ALL of their products. Adobe has a huge suite of free/trial/student tiers as well, which also are rendered unavailable by this decision.
All of Apple's products require China to produce

Today. But maybe not tomorrow. India, Vietnam, Brazil, and a dozen other countries are more than willing to take on that production. Heck, most of Apple's contractors in China (think Foxconn) already have manufacturing in other countries.
The transhumanists who are 'upgrading' their bodies
Response from Trey and Matt: https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320
At least it might drive the people of Venezuela to use libre alternatives, although I'd assume a large amount of them are doing so already.
This is not crippling any businesses in Venezuela. Anyone using Photoshop has already been pirating it because it's ludicrously expensive relative to local wages. They are instead being crippled by the barely functioning and heavily rationed power grid, food shortages, hyperinflation, etc.
> There's no way Amazon with its efficiency mantra would let this happen knowing how it eventually impacts the bottom line.

How do workers trying to leave the warehouse affect their bottom line? They are no longer on the clock so it is no longer Amazon's problem. It is a big problem for workers who have to waste 5-15% of their free time on this obligatory work task.
This explains the downvotes. I did some googling and noticed "Universal Binaries" mentioned in the results, which I remember in the 00s but had no idea that was remotely related to the OS binaries themselves.
That sounds about right - EE is a lot if differential equations (or so I’m told), so you’d need a rock-solid calc framework for it. When I took CS in the early 90’s, calc I & II were required, but that was it.
Yes, why wouldn't residents of Magnolia want the same violent, unpoliced drug addicts now inhabiting the streets of Ballard and West Seattle in their neighborhood too? In other countries with dense development, those are often nice places, but in Seattle we don't lock up repeated criminals.

https://www.myballard.com/2018/11/03/man-stabbed-after-chasi...

https://q13fox.com/2017/10/13/west-seattle-mom-walking-infan...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/from-home...
I don’t see what the big deal is. Taiwan’s own passports say China on them.
I am confused. Executive Order 13884 concerns only the government of Venezuela & about 150 specific people/companies in Venezuela. Am I misreading this order or did Adobe?

PDF: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...
You can install it manually if you want. The reason they did it is their version of bash is ancient since they don't want GPLv3 in the operating system.
Some days ago a big discussion here in HN was about FCPA preventing American companies overseas. Well, you don't need to be corrupt if your government always do the dirty work for you.
That's OK, guillotines are cheap.
I wonder what Foxconn, a Taiwanese company and massive Apple manufacturing partner, thinks of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
Haha. Hello, I had an Archos Jukebox 6000, in 2001 or so. From what I remember it was pretty awesome. The first MP3 player with a decent hard drive (available for some years before the iPod). I think my main niggle was that it was missing a 'play randomly from my whole collection' feature if I remember correctly. And I think there was a limitation to the length of a playlist so you couldn't just make a huge playlist and randomise that.

Before rockbox there was some PC utility that would read the whole Jukebox file list and then generate a series of randomised playlists numbered 01 to 99 which covered everything. As such, a roundabout way of getting a global shuffle.

In a way I think this is quite interesting, these days the idea of shuffling songs from your entire collection is very commonplace, but before large-capacity mp3 players people hadn't really thought of doing that before, so perhaps it never made it onto 'features people want' lists. Its obvious now, maybe it wasn't obvious then.

Was there any thought given to a global shuffle feature?
Nothing beats building stuff in software that just works with a simple small interface while being powerful!

May I ask what you use R for? I like learning languages for fun and I've been meaning to do some NBA analytics stuff. I'd love to have a REPL style interface to just do one-off math and analytics or short scripts. I haven't dug into the data science stuff yet but I'm disinterested in Python for some reason (maybe because I used to write Ruby for a living).
There is a pretty well established delivery system for those.
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Exactly. Magnolia provides a significant source of property tax revenue, yet is constantly ignored when it comes to infrastructure upgrades. It almost makes me want to move out.
"When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI...
If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock." - Tim Cook
Even if the US, he isn't someone who would be covered.
"We only treat our warehouse workers as badly as Walmart does!" is not exactly a rousing defense.
I get what the author is saying -- I use R in shell scripts too. It's really useful and composes well with other shell tools.

I also get what the commenters are saying, because R is a useful interactive language too, and it's also pretty good for data cleaning. Although it's significantly slower than Python, which is why I do all cleaning that cuts down the data before loading it into R.

As an example, I generate some benchmarks with every release of Oil:

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.7.pre5/benchmarks.wwz/osh...

and the tables are manipulated with R, but running the benchmarks is done with shell, and creating the HTML is done with Python:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/benchmarks/repor...

(and yes this page is meant to be motivation to speed up my principled but slow shell parser)

R and tidyverse are the best tools for manipulating tables by far. I wrote an intro here:

What Is a Data Frame? (In Python, R, and SQL) http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/11/30.html
Agile AF - Introducing the Agile Anti-Framework
It would be feasible to upgrade if you were incentivized to make it work. It sounds like some programs, particular Adobe which changed its licensing model, are not incentivized to make it work.

This is fine for the producer, who can drop support for old software. It's not fine for the consumer, who may not want to pay yearly for their software and therefore don't want to upgrade to the latest versions.
Hulu finally catches up with Netflix and Amazon, offers video downloads
Yes governments job is to respond to the people. I'm not sure what your point is. That inherently makes the government a group that can't be trusted. It's too fickle to be trusted.
this sucks, Internet was supposed to be place where I can meet people and discuss different topics including some controversial ones,I am not talking about racism but more intellectual things like abortion, differences between male and female , gender topics. I may have an opinion on x and someone could make an argument and change my mind (in general most of us are ignorant and have a single point of view)
It might have been an unopened box... I did something similar with an old copy of Adobe Premiere that I got on clearance for a couple of bucks, then upgraded.
Site doesn't work without Javascript, but also doesn't tell you that you need Javascript enabled.
A document signed with Taiwan instead of POC I would add.
Anyone care to explain what happened that there are audio complaints and breakages? What part did they rewrite? I see this comment a lot, but googling doesn't find a quick answer.
Bruce, Prior, Carlin, etc joked about how people in power tried to enforce the status quo.

There's a difference between that and people deciding that (for example) Eddie Murphy making fun of LGBTQ people in "Raw" hasn't aged well.

As I said in my other comment, you can joke about anything, but it's about a) how funny it is and b) who you're targeting.

My problem is that these days the likes of Seinfeld joke about nothing but how you can't joke about anything anymore. Have you watched "comedians in cars getting coffee"? Some of it is great, but some of it is just so tired.
Or maybe on a long enough timeline everyone's a criminal with a record, and the social ramifications of having a record become less significant because it's so ubiquitous among adults.

I could see it having an opposite effect, people make strange decisions when they view outcomes as inevitable.
WSL2 could soon be one of the biggest deployments of the Linux kernel. (Though WSL outsources the rest of the distribution work to existing distributions, so WSL itself maybe doesn't count as a distribution.)
This seems like a weird product, considering its just a single-use VPS. If you're using a DC with NPS (or not, just plain ol PSK) in the sky, your ubiquiti controller just goes on there anyway.

Some clients just allow access via site-to-site vpns. Seems like a better solution than paying for a VPS to host free software
The courts are very clear on other aspects of work. As any wage employee will tell you, you don't write an email if you're off the clock, you don't answer the phone if you are off the clock, and you don't do any work related task if you are off the clock. So the only question is is a bag check work related or not. And that is in the power of the courts to decide.
I tend to agree with the idea that the wealthy should be taxed more, in a progressive taxation sense.

Perhaps I should have prefaced by previous comment with “playing devils advocate”.
Works on my machine. There's virtually no difference between bare metal. Of course you need enough cores and dynamic memory (GPU memory too) to run your host OS and macOS. No benchmarks but it feels snappier than my 2017 MBP.
Wow, that is depressing. I would definitely be ashamed to implement a feature like that.
Then fork. Why don't they fork? The XFree86 group didn't have an issue forking and disbanding. Yet these people, with projects like Guix that noone has ever heard of, are simply using a GNU name to lobby against the hand that fed them.

Dr Richard Stallman is a person, too. It's no longer a secret that he likely has high-functioning autism. What is he supposed to be being now being disbarred from his own project that he founded in 1985? If people think he doesn't deserve to be credited as the founder of FSF, just fork, and be done with it. Instead what they're doing is trying to actively ostracise the very hand that fed them.
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Scribe is also an enterprise integration/ETL tool. For _many_ years before FB existed.
Central control of multiple sites without having to mess with VPNs.
Yeah, I got sick of Adobe's subscription model. Every release it seems like PS gets slower and slower without adding any features of value to me. I hate that if I want to have a certain combination of 2 or 3 apps I have to pay for basically everything which includes 80% of stuff I don't need. Paying $600/yr for something I only occasionally use a few times a month is a joke. I've since switched to Affinity.
Unfortunately the applications I use are Proprietary and Music related _on top of_ being OSX/Windows specific, and there's no way I can replicate this setup on Linux.
Right of first sale overrides that, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

Of course, the person selling the software would be in trouble if they put the physical media up for sale without deleting all local copies.
To be honest I don't find Python to be very useful for data cleansing. Full disclosure I use R quite a bit and use Python sparingly.

If you want to use R for data analysis I suggest the R package Tidyverse or use a product like OpenRefine.

If you just need to run summary statistics with an application then using Python is just fine.
Your post shouldn't have been killed. Your comment is the same as the last sentence in the summary on wikipedia: "It is similar to plywood but with distinctively thicker laminations (or lamellae)."
This [0] was also a very good introduction to elliptic curve cryptography written by a friend of mine in 2015. Highly recommended.

[0]: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cry...
A lot of things affect people's interest in a project. RMS being the original creator of GNU is definitely a big plus towards interest in hearing him speak. I don't see anyone who would be a better fit. Furthermore leading GNU is not just about giving talks with maximum popularity - and if popularity is such an important point then GNU is the wrong project.
Isn’t it likely that would be an NDA violation?
That was the public reason but i’ve also heard they simply could’t compete and decided to use that excuse to save face.
macOS Catalina and iOS 13 are free-of-charge for supported devices.

Duet Display's iOS component costs US $9.99.
http://tool.chinaz.com/speedtest/
It's amazing how once you put a label on something, you start noticing it _everywhere_.

Someone pointed out "confirmshaming" to me a few years ago...and since then I feel like it shows up on > 50% of the sites I visit.

https://www.darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern/confirmsh...
The standards for a clean room to manufacture a 1980s home computer CPU or modern lower-tech microcontroller are far, far less stringent that the clean rooms for a 7nm or 10nm part. The photolithography equipment you need is far less precise and far more common. There are a lot more fab cranking out IoT device chips than Xeons.
You might enjoy some of the Warhammer 40k lore; enough time has passed that technology is often literally indistinguishable from magic. A cult of "tech priests" are the only people who know how to speak to the souls that are inside the machines. It's heavily implied that they're not actually souls, of course, but that's how it's described to most people, as its easier to understand.
Q. Interesting. For my Web site, I wrote a simple key-value store, I use for Web user session state, based on two standard .NET collection classes. My code is single threaded. Sure, multi-threading could be better, but with my code design then I'd have to use multi-threaded versions of the collection classes, IIRC, which ARE in .NET.

But, I'd guess that multi-threaded collection classes, due to the logic for locking or other means of concurrency control, would be slower and not faster.

So, any thoughts on why, how multi-threaded could be so much faster, e.g., the OP's 5X, not just for the OP here but in general and maybe general enough to apply to my code?

By the way, with my code I get a weak version of multi-threaded because the software interface to my key-value store is just via standard TCP/IP sockets moving byte arrays from object instance de/serialization. So, I'm taking advantage of the standard TCP/IP FIFO (first in, first out) queue for the incoming work to be done. I.e., more than one Web server can be sending a key-value request to my key-value server at the same time; TCP/IP handles that muli-threading; and I get a weak version of multi-threading. Broadly I'm wondering if having my actual code and the collection classes multi-threaded have any chance of being faster: Okay, the server has 8 cores so that MIGHT be the key to being faster.
That doesn't seem to be the case since 2009: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=148be5c9-c0d4... (or at least it was properly tested then)

Has anything changed since then? It seems Adobe CC was created not long after, so... maybe not a coincidence?
Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
I use R on a daily level. A significant portion of our climate change adaptation research code and decision planning systems (which are used in various utilities around the world to support decision makers) are built using R.

I understand what the author is stating, but I just feel like this is from inexperience with R and ignoring the vast amount of packages available within it that are specifically targeted at data science. There are some valid issues and criticisms of R, but I think this article only focuses on the application of R in a single context. A significant portion of data science is about cleaning the data and an entire suite of packages known as tidyverse solves these problems (for me anyways) while also being very simple and easy to understand. I mean tidyverse supports piping, which is exactly what this article is saying to use.

Obviously your mileage may vary, but this post irks me the wrong way.
> If you're an Amazon corporate employee, you support these decisions by working there.

It's better than supporting mass surveillance by working at Google or Facebook I'd think, if you compare to the alternative FAANG companies.
> it has one, only one, progressive tax - the federal (not state) income tax

The estate tax is very progressive, at 40% for estates over $11.4m, and 0% for estates worth less.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Yes..ish. Because plain-sawn veneers also exists so plywood can be made the same way.
Non-trivial is still better than outright impossible.
He mentions that its only applicable in a certain range of collapse-severity, I'm wondering what kind of scenario he foresees that would lead to that type of collapse?
Inuit languages are relatively restricted in their phonology. It's a three vowel system (6 if you count long/short separately), fourteen consonants (2 of which are unfamiliar to Germanic/Romance speakers), allows gemination of consonants (i.e., consonants can be short or long), and mostly follows a C?VC? syllable scheme. The only unfamiliar consonant without a general transliteration to ASCII text is the /ɬ/ sound; q is already familiar to people who transliterate the Arabic /q/, and ng is common for /ŋ/.
As a user, I get some of my disk space back.
> Are employers allowed to take the location of prospective employees' residences into account when deciding to hire or not?

I believe they are.

> If I lived across the country, would the employer have to pay for daily plane tickets?

I don't know anywhere in this country where an airplane is considered public transport, so no (vale-transporte is only for public transport AFAIK).
How do you like the competitor offering so far?
Most people think if the government allows this then it is okay.

People are buying based on price, quality and for some products image.

The products purchased based on image can be shamed away. The other two cannot. No matter what some will buy the best quality and some the cheapest. Government can't help with the first but can control the second.
Maybe, but for my part I'd break it in a heartbeat and let them sue me. Perhaps the right answer is a tech workers union.
Where is it wasted? It gets invested or spent.
Then after that just go to the App Store, search for Catalina, and install it.
Ostensibly being the key word here as there appears to be some scenarios where none of those things are true.
So Apple hides a Taiwan flag and HN thinks the Software Engineer should have done something, they should rebel and fight against oppression of the Chinese government.

Imagine my surprise here seeing so many people supporting Adobe.
Suddenly I wish I'd written down all the applications the OS reported as needing to be updated. There are a couple I really need.
Figma is free as in beer, but not free as in freedom.
If it has DRM, your mistake was thinking of it as a purchase rather than a rental.
> Regardless, every regulation has a cost to compliance.

I don't buy this. Is there a cost to statutes against murder? What about trespassing laws? How about loitering laws? How about road laws, is there a cost to automakers for speed limit compliance?

while regulations CAN have costs for compliance (see FDA testing for an extreme example), they don't ALL have costs.

NN falls in the low to no cost bucket. "treat all traffic fairly" is a much easier algorithm and maintenance scheme than "Slow down netflix because we are partners with AT&T" or even "Slow down netflix because the user hasn't purchased the fast netflix plan". That is MORE costly to maintain for a network provider, not less.

About the only way to spin it as costly is if you talk about opportunity losses (IE, they can have higher profits with shittier plans).

I'd be more sympathetic if ISPs hadn't attained regional regulatory capture basically everywhere. If there were true competition in the ISP market then you could sway me to thinking NN could go. However, as it stands, most areas have only 2 competitors. In that case, either we need NN or we needs some trust busting.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Do you have a reason to use the graphics card on battery in Linux? Most people don't, so turning it off makes sense. You didn't misread it.
Author defines it to be 18-35.
Perhaps the engineer in question is a Chinese citizen, or immigrant from China who still has strong ties to their homeland. Maybe they think it was right to remove the Taiwan flag, and has been quietly annoyed for years that it'd still been there.

Or, hell, maybe the person is an American citizen, not even of Chinese descent, and agrees with the PRC's stance on Taiwan.

(Frankly I probably wouldn't get along with someone like this, but at a company the size of Apple, there are bound to be more than a few.)
Gifts are taxable above a certain point which is kind of crazy since taxes were already paid on the initial income.
Thanks for the accurate breakdown of this. People should not be relying on the courts to make law. If people are upset with the law being wrong then the law needs to be fixed through the legislature (Congress, or alliteratively States' Congresses)