skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no way I'm installing software like this on my computer. They already snoop through your phone when you pass through border control, I'm not assisting them in their data collection efforts by granting them access via an install.
I've lived in Texas for 8 years and this has always been talked of as a fun fact or a curiosity, not as a real, possible thing (aside from some minor fringe elements.)
Nah, lots of people are trying stuff like this :)
You can hold down any key not just the space bar. Just press down anywhere (besides caps/options/emoji etc)
Honestly the only business I would be comfortable accepting options or even stock in lieu of adequate compensation is the guillotine factory.
It could backfire I'm the case of war, if an enemy gets control of Texas the US can no longer cut their energy supply.
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Changed in iOS 13.
I'm really hoping for India, the world's largest democracy, to overtake China as an industrial and tech powerhouse of Asia in the next 10-20 years.
Also other parts of the government may say "If it's good enough for the DoD, good enough for us".
"The Obama administration set that threshold pretty high to prevent blowback for our actions and feeding terrorist propaganda."

Really???

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120703074500-bergen-d...

https://www.juancole.com/images-ext/2012/06/graphs-of-death-...

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120611015028-yemen-ai...
it is understandable that this info is private (after all, you don't want this info leaked to your competitors).

But if you are trying to lure candidates, this info is critical for them to evaluate their offer (esp. if the offer consists of large amounts of stock/options etc). There's no reason this info should be kept secret from them, except when there's foul play on the part of the employer!

If the employer is concerned about the data leaking if the candidate rejects the offer, make them sign an NDA before telling them!
Any nationality in NY, Indian or otherwise, would hardly be a representative of the countries where they came from.
I’m not sure what you mean. Keywords are keywords. The meaning behind what the user wants is in their head. You cant turn keywords into a sentence without guessing what they meant.
i mean thats how lisp had it, youre probably fine :)
> I bike most places, and the number of pedestrians (and other bicyclists!) who can’t hear my bike bell is astounding.

Two words: Air Zound. It can get the attention of even the most oblivious jogger. ;)

I can't stand to wear headphones when walking or biking. I want to hear what's around me.
The Z80 takes 3-6 clock cycles to execute a single instruction. The 6502 executed one instruction per clock cycle. So a 3.5MHz Z80 gives comparable performance to a 1MHz 6502.

The Z80 had more registers than the 6502, which is nice, but the 6502 instruction set included immediate values, which is super helpful.

Overall you can't argue about CPU performance without writing non-trivial programs which do the same thing in both Z80 and 6502 assembly and benchmarking them. The architectures are simply too dissimilar.
There are many arguments, but Visusl Studio is the best IDE for the last two decades. Same is true for the Office suite.

In my current job we don't have either and its utterly frustrating how bad the alternatives are.
I wonder what the government has done so far with the ACIWA fee paid with every H1B filed.

This is in addition to the premium processing fee which enables USCIS to run a budget surplus.
Name a poorly run California public power utility.
After moving to the west coast, I've learned that PG&E is suprisingly shitty (and absurdly expensive). I actually had a blackout for over three hours in SF. It actually forced me to do some blackout planning by buying some high efficiency portable solar panels just in case.
This is a really good point that I hadn't considered. Employees are "investing" money in a startup too in the form of opportunity cost, but a founder can't turn around and "sell" the investment when it's just time; when it's actual cash they can.

I wonder if there are stories about this happening in certain contexts that predated liquidity preferences?
I’ve spent time writing CPU detection code for previous projects, and there is nothing that jumps out at me as biased in the linked ISA check. In fact that is really the bare minimum required to split the AVX variants, and will detect AMD support just the same as Intel.

You can compare it to other detection functions - one relatively easy to read, non-vendor biased example that does dig into all the extensions is this Go implementation (not mine): https://github.com/klauspost/cpuid/blob/master/cpuid.go
As I was reading your post, I was wondering why I rarely see anything depressing on Reddit. And then I remembered that I unsubscribed from r/news and r/worldnews :)
What did you find underwhelming?
You're probably thinking of rr: https://rr-project.org

From the Pernosco FAQ:

> What is the relationship between Pernosco and rr?

> rr is a free software project founded by Mozilla. rr is an enabling technology for Pernosco, and rr maintainers founded Pernosco. We aim to maintain rr as free software with at least its current level of functionality.
Does any startup give market rate salaries?
airbnb lost me forever at, "Oh, that'll be another 10%" and then again at "Yeah, that $89/night place is actually $264/night after all the fees and ridiculousness."

Fraud all the way down...

I don't care where they are. I will never stay at one of my own free will.
I would like to see an update of Desert Bus that uses all the latest 3D technology and satellite data like they put in flight simulators.

I mean, Teller referred to it as "a game that just reflects reality", so how real could you make it?

Recreate a real bus, but the most boring one possible.

...Desert Bus 2020
Wow. Krugman is a free trade economist now... and most people in the comments seem to agree with that.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Would you be any happier if you were, instead, standing there staring at traffic waiting for the light to change?
Initial rumors were a trip at Niagra Falls on the Canadian side. I believe Petaki spread that rumor.
>As of the latest release (Focus 8.0.23), everyone should be getting GeckoView.

Oh you're right.
I think the cascading thing has been fixed in iOs13 as long as you don’t drop the icon
Not in digits of pi necessarily (needs a proof), but indeed in any truly random character sequence with independent probabilities of characters; you can easily calculate the probability of it, exponentially decreasing with number of characters in the desired sequence.
That's the thing. That's never changed. Vacations have always been more fun. The change is that now, when you're doing boring mundane things, you can pull out your phone and have at least some modicum of entertainment.
Unnecessary consequence: assuming what is around you as the norm. Like communication across the globe and having a social media account is as common as toasting bread (see the irony in the last part?).
That's not true. For some of my properties, they charge about 25% more including taxes and service charge. For some properties, it's 31%. SYou won't end up paying three times as much, obviously.
I'm no expert, but I'd imagine that India being the world's largest democracy is not guaranteed to be a good thing given that only 33% of Indian citizens get through high school (and 8% graduate college). Many politicians are themselves uneducated, and it's easy to sway the opinions of the masses using religion and hatred as leverage.
This has been my experience as well. The company I worked at never promoted h1bs and all of them worked around 60 hour weeks. Not surprisingly the turnover of citizens was extremely high and the turnover of h1bs was virtually none.
I was looking at some of his work, and saw that he had died. I didn't remember hearing of it, and searched for an hn discussion on it (as there are usually some excellent stories pertaining to the person; a good reason to read hn.) It hadn't been posted, so I did. Sure enough, someone who knew him.
Not to mention plug-and-play finally started coming into its own. XP started the trend of having the massive generic driver repository so you could actually get your NIC to work so you could DL your other drivers without needing the CD/floppy with the NIC drivers :) Oh man, XP was great.
Of course not. But my experience is a counterexample to the claim "People on visas cannot get raises", which is worded so absolutely as to imply that it is not allowed under the visa program to give someone a raise.
Didn't someone do that with notepad.exe recently? The demo spawned calc.exe from notepad.exe.
I would love, so much, for Youtube to just stop targeting recommendations. At least then I'd see new things once in a while...
Here's a Desert Bus playthrough. The player collects 3 points by completing the trip three times, a feat which normally takes 8 hours each way, but the video is at 3x speed, so you see it in "only" 8 hours. Catch the excitement at 2:45:20 as the player scores their first point!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtiHla1dNg
That’s not correct. It actually has nothing to do with that. It is an acronym (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google), and it was a group of high growth tech stocks about 5 years ago, coined by Jim Cramer. It’s not even relevant anymore. It has nothing to do with who pays the most or who is most desirable for employees.
It's called burying the opponent in papers. I watch Suits, so I know how this works.
It's gotten worse lately. I'm seeing calls allegedly from Citi, Capital One, etc., that have the identical credit card scam spiel. They go nowhere (but get recorded), since I've used Asterisk to put a CAPTCHA in the way. My "landline" (actually VoIP now) stays blissfully quiet. If it actually rings, I know it's a human...
I am red-green colorblind and I actually thought the article nailed it in my case. Don’t depend on differences in hues, but use differences in contrast (saturation and brightness). If UI folks followed this rule I’d be good.

Aside: Last time I was in Spokane some genius decided to turn the light signals sideways. I had no way to tell whether to go or stop w/o watching other.
Another thing that makes it hard I think is that these are all by necessity multi-agent protocols/algorithms. How should we unambiguously describe and specify them? Well verbal verbiage is not very formal.

Maybe something like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_...

What makes this all rather critical is that these are security procedures and, and complexity is the foe of security.
Backblaze has good rates, but it's only really good for storage...which is their main use. I am also surprised GCS (GCP?) is so high. Last a checked AWS was the highest, maybe they cut their rates. I am a pretty happy Azure customer. My only complaint really are their service plans being subpar, but now I've switched over to their IaaS model and it's much better.
Advertising the position for certain time periods is typically a requirement related to using federal funding obtained through grants for paying personnel from certain agencies or a general university policy.

The process OP described is extremely common when groups already decided who they want to hire, but have to appear above board. Your resume essentially becomes the job posting making it nearly impossible for someone to compete (assuming you have niche skills/experience which is likely).

I worked in academic research for over a decade and have received a raise using the exact process OP described (I was/always have been a full citizen). I've also seen it used by other collaborating groups.
Commoditization of human behavior
I see. Well, thanks for the single data point!
Wait 'til you hear about all of those people who use Excel.

Azure, sure, but Windows and Office are at this point very mature products. They're not going to win awards, but they get the job done.
FlightGear Open-Source Flight Simulator
Another poster has a picture of a posting for an H1 job that pays $13/hr for someone with a doctorate in a category for which a) the wage is a joke (even a few years ago postdoc average would be $35k+, I think, currently I think it's low 40s), and b) there's no shortage of Americans (well known glut of available postdocs).

I think that's really all that needs to be said.
Average men should seek average women and the reverse should be true. There are a lot more variables than just looks. I don’t think dating apps are necessarily the problem here but the skewed expectations that were enforced through media: actors, models, etc.

I had a roommate who confessed to me he had never been in a relationship. He was 30, average looking or around that and it turned out he was rejecting any average looking girls while constantly being rejected by very good looking girls, way out of his league. He had no experience, seemed desperate etc but would not lower the bar at all.. I was getting the feeling that he was self
sabotaging somehow. Not sure how it eventually turned out, we lost touch a while ago, but I surely hope he stoped obsessing over looks and just got into some relationship and took it from there.

Personality is underrated these days. I found myself attracted quite often to people’s personalities such that I am totally blinded to what they looke like. And personality can be worked on throughout ones lifetime, looks are pretty much genetics. And working out has at some point of diminishing returns. I’ve seen guys who try to better looks by building some
muscle but often don’t know when to stop.
"Doesn't perform?" "Forced to raise under desperate circumstances?"
The last experiences I had at an Airbnb was less than ideal. The place I reserved was a co-habit (like a hostel, but in an apartment), but failed accidentally/intentionally to mention this anywhere. There was no photo of the bunk bed I found out I had to sleep in when I arrived.

It's back to hotels for the foreseeable future.
Economics always has been and still is very dogmatic, subservient to authority and hostile to "crackpots," dissent. That is until an honorable, respectable man like John Maynard Keynes uses elegant maths and trendy words to argue in favor of crackpot ideas.
The difficulty is, it's often very difficult to find news from an organization who isn't "like Breitbart or RawStory", to some extent.
If it was a political decision in the first place it shouldn’t be surprising that they’ve flip flopped. Politics is fickle.
Back in the dotcom era, they called it "hanging paper."
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Worked at an open pit mine in the 90's...electric shovels. Cat had just come out with a diesel one when I was leaving. If you go huge electric is the only thing that will power it and the danger of fire from secondary forces like friction are greatly reduced. Friction provides the heat and you don't want a fuel source close.
There's no such thing as "corruption free" country. The US is very, very far from corruption-free, both in the government and outside it. It's less corrupt than, say, Zimbabwe, but that's not saying much. Basically one has to ask themselves a question: given that the mainstream press is wildly unprofitable (with very few exceptions), might there be a reason why its owners sinks hundreds of millions of dollars into keeping it afloat? I think you know what that reason is, Chomsky has been railing against it for several decades now. They're instruments of propaganda. They manufacture consent. They are literally no better than Pravda nowadays, although instead of being government controlled, they're controlled by five rich men. It's better than government control, but not by much.
You bring up a good rebuttle, to which I ask, why not have the preferred shares vest? Then your stake accurately matches the risk you've taken on at any given time.
If you want it should be reasonably straightforward to modify the code to do that: https://github.com/trishume/numderline

More advanced but totally doable would be switching to that mode for hex strings after "0x" or "0X"
So you went to a platform that on 99% of devices barely offers any OS updates?
This is why mining haul trucks use them for brakes.
I'm surprised how many people don't get this part.

Person A, investor puts in $100k

Person B, employee gets paid $100k

Company fails.

Person A lost $100k

Person B gained $100k

This is why person A gets the lion's share of the rewards if the company succeed. Person B risked nothing. Person A risked $100k.

The typical retort from Person B is they could have gone to a different company so their risk was to work for this particular company. For example they could have gone to a FAANG company and made a high salary but instead went to some startup at a lower salary on the risk that it would succeed. From one POV that is a risk but it's not your money until it's in your hands. Future money is similar to saying well "if I won the lottery tomorrow". Until you do actually win that money it doesn't really count. You can use that line of reasoning in negotiations (you want me to join your startup but I have an offer from a FANNG company, sweeten the deal if you want me). But after that you didn't actually take a risk relevant to the company. Instead you made a choice to be paid X amount for your labor.

Note: I've never been on the investing side, only the employee side, but for some reason I've never felt ripped off since I knew I was taking no risk.
>> At its core, Microsoft is a company that makes its money the old fashioned way: by creating products of value that people willingly part with their money to use. They stand as a bulwark against the data mongering and user exploitation that Google and Facebook see as the future of humanity.

This statement is so true, its golden.
A minor correction - the article makes a couple of mentions of "Handbrake donation[s]", but I think the author was referring to the donations made to KDE and Gnome by the Handshake project.

https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/08/gnome-foundation-receives...
It's very easy to avoid such experiences. Just pick any property which has more than 50 reviews, and a rating of above 4.95, but higher than better.
It's a matter of type and scale. If an org is selling commodity products to DoD as like 5% of annual revenue, it's very different than 30% as part of suite including services.
Pay them a market wage for the best people?
How is that relevant to the topic or infrastructure comment?
This. Erosion of quality in any kind of art. It's cheaper to do 3d movies than animate. It's easier to sell simpler ideas than a complicated story with a deeper meaning. You also see this in music with stuff like autotune.
I wouldn't call sending truckloads of boxes of paperwork during discovery to opposing counsel and linking a 238-page PDF with a good ToC and summary equivalent, but I guess the internet has robbed a lot of people of basic research skills.
Wanting information to be free forced companies to rely on advertising and to spy on us.
I'm sure they are a problem child, but can Oracle really afford to lose more big customers? I feel like they are pretty universally reviled, but I am inside the HN bubble. They have done nothing to woo developers and everything to exploit IT management and public budgets AFAIK.
It is, of course. But I'm talking about this, specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

Which can be summed up as "if you think this hard enough it may just come true".

Soros developed this idea after studying under Popper and put it to test in his ridiculously successful hedge fund manager career.
Polio was already eradicated in 2012(?) from India. They should replace it with something else now
Some of the bigs do offer that. I know several people who work 3 days a week or 20 hour weeks at FAANG companies. They probably don't offer it entering though but only after a few years.
Is that a huge sucking sound I hear as californicans start migrating elsewhere ?
You cut off the quote too early:

> Again, let me emphasize, this is not inherently unfair. [...] The problem is most companies hide it.

The author is saying it's not inherently unfair if the company is honest and upfront about it.
Uh, “much much faster” is 1st derivative. “Getting faster” is second derivative.
> we do not 'crush the competition'

All employees of large (tech?) companies have received exactly the same message from legal.
It is absolutely true.
This isn't exactly XBRL as the calculations are all bespoke, done for the purposes of these specific presentations

My vision is separating financial analysis from formatting, or bringing CSS / markup languages into the world of Excel and sidestepping PowerPoint entirely if possible

PowerPoint is a slide presentation tool that is sadly used for authoring so-called "books" with lots of formatting in Investment Banking, Management Consulting and Corporate America at large... and its shortcomings become immediately obvious

As we speak (!!!), I'm having to reformat a book from our standard template into the client's template by manually resizing charts, recoloring series, etc... literally wasting hours of my time because we use Excel + PPT
‘Decade of Darkness’ for California Spurring Generator Windfall
Others have commented on technical feasibility already, but I want to point out, this is not sitting in an office powering a smoothie machine. It will be in contact with dust, dirt, debris and tools, and angry people.
Your 1 mm of insulation will not last a week.
I can easily spend 3+ hours a day on HN. I've banned myself 3 times. Started again recently to look for jobs. Time spent here is climbing. Will probably have to ban myself again soon. This account is greggman2 because one helpful way of banning myself is to set my noprocrast on and my minaway to some giant number and then set umatrix to block
It shouldn't be a problem.

All the things that matter come with switching power supplies. Switching power supplies can adjust. They normally handle everything from Japan at 90v to Nigeria commonly exceeding 250v. They also internally have capacitance.

For everything else, it just doesn't matter. I couldn't even tell if power for the toaster oven dropped to 70v for 200ms.
You could probably make a mod for American Truck Simulator VR.
Well, you hold access to it, not the knowledge itself.
Looking at the numbers they give, they're probably talking about base pay without RSUs. Uber, like most tech companies, pays senior engineers proportionally higher quantities of stock than junior engineers, so they can fire low performers before their vesting cliff without losing as much money. The total pay for L5s on visas and for L5s in general is 50/50 cash and RSUs, while L3s are more like 30/70.

It's surprising that Ron Hira is questioning why the pay packages are close together. If he's studying the use of tech H1Bs he should know that their actual income will be much higher than the number written on the LCA.
The USA took literally all of India's top engineering talent for the past ~25 years, but thankfully that trend is reversing now. While improvements in standard of living, more urbanization, emergence of a real middle class, more local opportunities etc. are definitely all valid reasons for this, I believe the biggest one is that there is no path to US residency or citizenship for an Indian today. Even those educated at top universities there have to eventually come back (and that is great!).
I think that's a self-centered PoV (not meant as a criticism) which focuses on the wrong things when trying to understand the state of the cloud market.

What really matters long-term is who is acquiring the new-to-public-cloud customers as they move away from on-prem and who is attracting the new high-value workloads (AI). These are not growth of existing customer base which is why I think raw numbers are more useful in understanding the state of cloud market as we come to the end of the beginning of the public cloud era.
They probably overlooked it, got excited, and posted here lol.