skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given our respective points of origin, I don't know if I'll be able to give you an explanation that will be satisfactory, but I'll try.

First, the Texas government was designed, post-Reconstruction, to give as little authority as possible to the state government and to move government as close to the citizens as possible. That's all well and good. Had we stuck with that model, I would have few complaints, but we didn't. The Legislature has, over the intervening hundred years or so, routinely chipped away at the ability for cities and counties to run themselves as their citizens see fit. To pick on a popular thing to get riled up about, as soon as Austin and Dallas tried to regulate plastic bags and Uber-style taxi services, the Legislature fell all over itself to prohibit cities from enacting ordinances of such a type. When Denton wanted to regulate (but not prohibit) fracking, the Legislature yanked that, too.

I take the view that there must be some government and that, in a state with as varied of interests and as many moving parts as Texas has, a rural-style, infrequent central government with a weak executive (the Texas Governor has some of the most limited authority out of all 46 states and 4 commonwealths in the United States), and limited home-rule city authority is not a desirable state. Running such a large entity should be a full-time job, both for the executive and the legislative, because a government should be able to react to changing conditions and the needs of its citizens. That stands separate from the scope of authority that a government should or should not have. If the government is not even present most of the time, how does it serve the oversight and governance functions? And if we wish to have limited central government, why should cities not be able to do what their citizenry wants with limited exceptions? Why can Dallas voters not tax themselves for all of the light rail they want (DART can only exercise the tax authority granted it by the state)?

Another example of "we've always done it like this" is the sunset bill. Most Texas agencies sunset after a specified time, usually 10 years. There's always a scramble in the legislative session to reauthorize some minor agency like the Texas Department of Prisons or, my personal favorite, the Railroad Commission (which, despite its name, has not regulated railroads for generations; it is the oil and gas regulator for the state). Yet, somehow this mad dash to get the work done before the Legislature goes sine die is seen as a useful exercise.

I don't understand the thinking that makes the word "politician" a pejorative, nor that it should be something that someone does in his or her spare time. Running a system that directly impacts the lives of almost thirty million people should be the singular focus of the people we send to do it. Maybe not their entire lives, but for sure while they're in office.
You could try that. But I'm not sure so many people would think that corresponding with you is worth the trouble.
DNA tests exposing family secrets that normally people would take to the grave.
Well it’s one problem or another. If you compress too much you lose the value, and if you leave it too large you have the size problem.

Inverted indices are very efficient. How much of that can you give up at what trade off? If I’m only going to be better for 10% of queries, is that a cost effective solution? What if I spend the same amount of time tuning a traditional engine a bit more and get better accuracy for 5% of queries? Tradoffs rule the world of practical search implementations.
Many many years ago, I used to take the 560 from Kamal Cinema to Connaught Place (in Delhi for those who don't know these references) with a couple of geeky friends.

We would walk from the CP bus terminus to Connaught Circle, grab a bite to eat at Nirulas and then make the pilgrimage to the MIR store, which used to occupy a huge space right in the middle of the circle. I don't even know what's in that space now. Probably a McDonalds or a jewelry store.

That's where I bought books by Piskunov, Nikolskii, Perelman and many many other books. I still remember being puzzled that every discovery that had one name attached to it in the the western texts that I got out of the British Council Library - the next stop in the pilgrimage - had another name, usually ending in -ov or -sky attached to it in the MIR books.

That was before the end of the Soviet Union, liberalization and Shining India. That world has faded away faster than my imagined memories of Gondor.
Which AI Managed Radio System Shares Spectrum Best
Found an article about it here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniedenning/2018/09/19/why...

TL;DR: Bezos thinks the Post is an important institution for our democracy, and he believed he could help it recover financially by taking advantage of the internet.
Tree(3) vs. Graham's Number
It's true for any job switch that you have to find a new employer willing to pay for you.
Why is Microsoft excluded?
I drove a family member's Aztek for a few years back in the day, and it was never a particularly nice vehicle, but its primary problem was simply being ahead of its time before the current crossover mania really took hold.
Only the rich, rather than the market, were free in this apparently in any meaningful sense of the word, beyond the incidental outcomes.

The US taxpayers who invested trillions (largely in the guise of military expenses) in inventing the tech [1] didn't get to decide freely how the business to be conducted or how the profits to be shared. The Chinese workers (or similar ones elsewhere) didn't get to move freely to places for work with competitive wages.

The rich had the freedom to take the publicly funded tech, to exploit the confined sweatshops, all the while without even paying regular taxes that the ordinary Joe has no way to avoid [2].

[1] https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/what-the-ste...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/03/04/w...
I totally agree, but I also totally disagree that supporting this alternate use case will make the app worse for naive, regular users to discover their grandma is on Signal.

Im asking for an alternative canonical source of identity other than an extremely trustworthy telco.

Some other conglomerated examples are: Scanning a QR code in person to initiate discovery, or querying other data in the phone's "contacts" PIM app for example, email, or more imaginatively, keybase, or maybe mail out QR codes to residential address for a nominal fee?
How? They’re paying more than ten percent of GDP to keep the value of their currency down in a massive subsidy to their export sector at the expense of everyone else in China. They’re subsidizing the rest of the world’s consumption.
With the number of CS degrees produced from China and India alone each year, the evolution of slave labor is going to make the H-1B horror stories from the 90's to the present sound like fairy tales.
From my experience, people are upset about "Mexicans are coming for your jobs!" because of employers hiring illegal immigrants to do labor work at a discount.
No...usually they fall in the bottom quartile as far as total compensation goes. That is exactly why companies like hiring them.

The "slave" part of it is that they are totally dependent on the company in the sense that they will be kicked out of the country if they don't follow orders, which usually means being overworked and underpaid.
My understanding is that the comp is not in the same class at Microsoft as it is at the companies in the acronym.
The second example did... but not all colorblindness is equal. What you want is something readable by as many people as possible. The goal is not to make the most people happiest.
> an organisation as evil as the Pentagon

Given your feelings about the US Military, you probably also don't like the police. The Jedi order were a law enforcement organization, a police force. I'm not sure you would have liked them much if you were living in the Star Wars universe.
As a citizen I’m not getting deported if I can’t find another job in 60 days, and I can walk from my current employer at any time consequence free. Those on a visa are not afforded the same, and that is my point.
In my college days, I played World of Warcraft too much. It got in the way of attending classes. Then my graphics card broke. So I started reading psychology textbooks totally unrelated to my classes.

Procrastinators gonna procrastinate. And time-wasters gonna waste time.
We don't know Azure's exact size, but half revenue is the best analyst estimate available. Counting O365, MS cloud revenue exceeds Amazon's
They also have a simple rule that you can't hire a guest worker without considering domestic applicants. These companies shouldn't be allowed to dispense inconvenient citizens who can be retrained for these jobs while bumping up their visa pool. Lack of any enforcement or penalties makes that a meaningless requirement but the current administration claimed it was going to do something about this kind of abuse. They don't even have to wrestle with Congress to make meaningful improvements on how the program is run.
I was about to make this comment with the exact same year.

In 1994, the low-end brands went bad. By 1995, all brands were bad. A few years later, the drives started to be bad.
This implies boredom is inherently bad. As a child, a lot of creative play came from boredom. Of course, we're all bound to lose some of that as we mature, but I can't help but feel that the availability of cheap distraction in the form of boundless information is allowing me to sabotage myself.
>No...usually they fall in the bottom quartile as far as total compensation goes.

That's simply not true. I suggest you familiarize yourself with H1B more.
If you lose your job for any reason, you're accruing unlawful stay from the next day.

Obama admin during their lame duck days introduced a one time grace period(within 3 years) of 60 days. If you lose that new job, you're supposed to leave immediately. However, immigration officers usually waive minor periods of unlawful stay before filing for a transfer, how many days is a matter of your luck.

>And your employer possibly requires you reimburse them for all sponsorship fees

This is pretty illegal and even the shady body shops never do this.

Also the law states that that company has to reimburse the employee for the return tickets.
That's very interesting and unfortunate.

The Atari had a brilliant 'display list' method where you defined the screen as a series of raster lines and each raster line could be in a different graphics mode varying from 1-bit monochrome graphics, 2-bit 4-color, 4-bit 16-color and there were scan-line doubling versions of many modes that used the same memory but covered more vertical lines. The character modes similarly defined 8x8 sized blocks that varied in size with each character mode, or 4x8 in 4 color which the character bitmaps being read from modifiable RAM. The display list itself was defined in RAM so you could dynamically change the screen layout, even in sync with the horizontal flyback swapping color definitions between lines. The player-missle 'sprites' were crippled compared to the C64 but worked well enough with hardware collision detection, but was limited to 4 on any scanline as Ms. Pacman would show unwanted flicker of ghosts being alternately rendered.
Here you go then:

From the president's transcript of the call with Zelensky:

> The other thing, There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me.

From Mulvaney's press conference where he described an exact quid pro quo and then tells reporters to get over it (search for "But to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo."):

https://www.rev.com/blog/mick-mulvaney-briefing-transcript-g...
Either way the point still stands: raising too much money transfers the economics and control away from the people involved in day to day operations.

As employees get more educated around stock options I’m certain their risk profile will change and founders will find it harder to rally a tribe around airy promises of a future exit.
China is now the world’s largest official creditor
I have no reason for this other than the way you phrased it inspiring it but I wonder if there's a class divide on this...
Interesting article! Time to start a new crusade, I guess like I did for True Colors[1], and BiDirectional[2] text. This time for a better font shaping support. If you have ready tests it would help a lot. Personally, I am waiting for ligatures support to be merged[3] in alacritty terminal emulator.

Update: I started a list[4] of terminal emulators supporting it and not.

[1] https://github.com/termstandard/colors

[2] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/a0e49e1c65370ba11c17

[3] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/pull/2677

[4] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/070ed8b1c1186097cad65ef492201...
Penn created Desert Bus...worst computer game ever.

https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/10/4510388/why-teller-created...
> the evolution of slave labor is going to make the H-1B horror stories from the 90's to the present sound like fairy tales.

Sorry, english is not my first language. can you please elaborate on what you mean?
You can tell me. I spent years with immigration as a former H1B holder, who knows a lot of people on H1. But I am happy to hear more
Never heard of an employee receiving preferred stock.

Anybody seen this?
If you work in startup business, you should really take some finance classes to learn how it works.

Your chances of getting any money out of the equity are basically 0%, no matter if company succeeds or not
Ask HN: Is it an exciting time in your field?
I really like how the visualizations are animated based on scroll waypoints. What libraries have support for that?
“A Warning” by Anonymous – Available November 19 (#1 best-seller already)
That 60 day grace period can be used only once per 3 years.
That's part of the software engineers job too is it not? They're the hired expert.

When I was consulting I spent half my being a product development/manager person because I needed to be.
Sorry, but Cato is definitely a libertarian leaning think tank (one of their few redeeming qualities, in my mind):

- Penn and Teller, the original small l libertarians, are in the board at Cato. That pair wouldn't be caught dead associating with some neocon or populist outfit.

- Cato created and maintain libertarianism.org

- first sentence in Wikipedia's description of Cato: "The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C."
I'm fine with the ribbon, but good God do I hate the full screen save & open menus.

They've obscured the "save as" functionality and really push one drive saving. Even as a one-drive user, oftentimes I just want to save a file on my disk in a specific spot without backing it up to the cloud.

I really wish Libreoffice Calc was a better Excel replacement, because it feels like Excel gets more dumbed-down each year. I get a UTF-8 csv emailed daily from a vendor, and I still can't get Excel to treat it properly. It only applies that setting to that specific file, I can't change it system-wide. Maybe it's possible, I found it easier to just write a python script to convert the files to windows-1250 like it expects.

The ribbon is far superior to the old menus though, this week I needed to create a shudder PowerPoint presentation. Don't think I've needed to do that in 5 years, but it was easy enough to find all the functionality I needed. Plus, the search box actually shows where the buttons are located, so you actually learn how to use the program instead of relying on search. I remember the mess the Office 07 menus were, any time there was a need to use a feature that wasn't familiar was a chore. I remember actually needing to Google for some excel feature and needing to rely on screenshots of the menus to find what I needed. I don't get it, since Visual Studio has far more complexity buried in it than Word, but I've never had anywhere near the difficulty finding features than I did with the old Office menus.
Yes, companies applying for H1B visas are not doing so in an attempt to save money, they are paying a premium to acquire desirable talent. However regarding your comment about "anti-immigration hysteria" US tech companies use foreign contractors to save on headcount costs. These are not H1B visas, these are contractors that are paid a very small fraction of the salaries of software engineers. These contractors are working along side US engineers and doing the same job for much lower pay. That is a concern to me as I cannot compete with the salary of someone living in Eastern Europe, Macedonia, India or Argentina. If you want to label my concern hysteria, you may do so, but it's still something I'm concerned about.
In the general case, when it comes to startup financing, isn't the "power" we're referring to is market or bargaining power? Venture firms compete with each other for access to viable startups. If the terms being offered to a startup include >1x or participating preferences, that says something either about the negotiating competence of the startup or about its underlying value.

Is it a moral issue if a startup isn't valuable enough to avoid punitive terms? Who's doing something wrong in that scenario?

Obviously, it's bad if founders conceal that predicament from employees. I agree with the prevailing sentiment that employees should be wary about taking equity compensation.
Can you explain the restrictions ? Especially in the context of software engineer and Silicon Valley
H1B is a lottery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Lottery

You might be thinking of the L1 visa
I never really thought about the joystick button limitation at the time. The original Atari 800/400 had 4 joystick ports so someone could have used two ports 10-bits of input per player for a 2-player game. Each cardinal direction (NSWE was 1-bit with pairs being closed for diagonals).
It could, but the thing I think you and the others who are replying to say "but what about..." are not fully considering is just how tight the entanglements are even though Texans don't seem to want to acknowledge them. 174 years of trade, legal, cultural, financial, and infrastructure policy would be astoundingly difficult to untangle. Given that any business of any size currently operating in Texas would have 51 (including Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia) other jurisdictions from which to immediately operate with virtually no change in legal or financial policy, I predict that a staggeringly high number of them would do just that. (Just as several businesses have relocated away from the UK to remain wholly within the EU.)

To continue the analogy, the United Kingdom has "only" been a member of the EU and its predecessors for 47 years and it retained direct, non-delegated control over far more areas even after joining the EEC. Texas has been completely subservient to United States policy for four times as long and even if such a split were amicable, it would still be very messy.

The United States military has such a large presence in Texas because the United States Military is such a large organization, generally. There would be no reason for Texas to have such a comparatively large military, nor, I think, would an independent Texas be able to afford one. Killeen, for example, would probably still be an incorporated city but its population would be cut by two-thirds at best.

But the point of the thought exercise isn't to say whether or not it could happen; it's that Texans take an outsized view of whether it should happen and hold them/ourselves up on a false pedestal propped up by the idea of Texas being above/different/better-than the rest of the country when we're one of "the several States which may be included within this Union."
Really? It is well-known that H1Bs earn less because they have zero leverage when it comes to negotiating.

Why else would Uber, and other tech firms, like hiring them?
Chrome on Android has a similar accessibility setting named "Force enable zoom".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17180321
> Large groups of people are so embarrassingly bad at predicting the future.

They are pretty good at creating the future, though. As in - separating the power grid is a step towards separating other things and finally "separating the country". Classic Soros' reflexivity.
The IC has been backing away from AWS exclusivity even before this contract. The NSA and CIA shifted some of their budget and awarded MSFT a cloud contract.
I don’t think the paper suggests that this protocol be implemented in an ER to evaluate all inebriated patients. Should there be a suspicion of ABS, it would be appropriate to refer for further outpatient management. This would be the case with any other differential diagnoses. In addition, the authors are clinicians who likely have had plenty of ER experience in their training.
Over the years, I've really come to appreciate Penn Jillette as a public person. Always pops up with new interests and insights.

Believe it or not, something about his recent appearance on Rogan inspired me to cut down my drinking. Just the way he made a life of temperance seem aspirationally cool (and not just cool in a Christian rock sort of way)
I love his “thurman” idea.... definitely going to use that the next time someone asks me for help with a computer problem. Ehh, maybe only in April since it’s a little mean.
We can quibble about the exact political slant of Cato, but it definitely takes policy positions that are more libertarian than mainstream Republican positions. See, for example, the drug war.
Remember that OP said 10k volts. 400 isn't close to that.

For all the "move fast and break things" of Tesla, they haven't moved fast and electrocuted people with a 10k volt battery system.
> The really sad part about it was as we were leaving, they were establishing a training program for junior H1-B’s with liberal arts degrees to learn programming. I have no idea how they got the visa licenses for those folks

H1b places no requirement on the degree you have, only that you have one.
Obscene liquidation preferences for investors?
Was just looking for a refresher on cap tables and the like, and being a visual learner, this is great.

Another tool some might find useful, which I was introduced to during YC Startup School:

http://growth.tlb.org

Startup growth calculator that helps get a basic feel for funding requirements and runway length. Really helps when it's visualized like that.
Where did you get the idea that print matching is untested...?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093498/

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2004/07/nist-study-sho...

https://www.pnas.org/content/108/19/7733.short
They were reliable prior to 1994, reliable for good brands in 1994, and unreliable after 1994.

A few years later, the floppy drives became terrible too. Every computer was expected to have a floppy drive, but the drives were seldom used, so the quality was cut for price competition.
Tell them you plan on eating animal flesh when you get home.
Ha, didn't have that problem with my A4000 keyboard.
Politics? Amazon already serves the CIA so that probably wouldn’t be a con. 10B is a massive contract.

Ask Frank Underwood says: When the tits are that big, everybody gets in line.
FedEx uses drone in first-of-its-kind trial flight
Many H1Bs are expected to work longer hours. Failure to comply can have negative consequences.
Bank of America Does Not Support Firefox