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I'm enamored of the org-mode textual formatting convention: •bold︎•, /italic/, _underline_, =literal=, and ~strikethrough~. Although `literal` a la Markdown is arguably better, I prefer the other choices.

Especially because org-mode lets you italicize //Face/Off// by adding more slashes, and so on for the others, like ==e = mc^2==.

Incidentally, I have no idea how you're typing literal asterisks, I gave up and am kinda jealous.
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I'm a former Microbiologist turned Frontend-focused Engineer with 4 years of experience working in the SF Bay Area. I've been working in a fast-paced startup environment for the last year and I'm looking for a bigger company to cut my teeth and get experience of working with different types of people. Please reach out if you think I could be a good fit for your role. Thanks!
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If you haven't yet worked in H-1B status for your initial H-1B employer, then almost certainly you would need to go into the lottery again to work for another H-1B employer. Regarding switching the approved petition to an in country change of status petition, the employer would need to file an amended H-1B petition.
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It's probably against their ToS and Google could detect it and ban all of those accounts, or the servers' IPs.

You can then keep fooling them by creating new accounts or changing IPs (assuming your usage doesn't have clear patterns they could look at).

But such events would be clearly disruptive for the business. Works for a POC, but if your business has actual customers, it's a terrible solution.
Before COVID19, UK govt promoted ‘business opportunities’ in Chinese wet markets
In this set up, the answer to q1- Intent: No, intent can’t be inferred.

If intent could be inferred- the meaningful and material portion of human privacy would cease to exist.
Taking this approach to its logical conclusion, one could sample Google to infer a congestion heat map for all the main routes in an area, and calculate the transit time estimates directly from the inferred heat map.

IME congestion is also often modal, there's probably reductions in sampling effort you could make by noticing the patterns in how commuters route, whether school is on break, and what the latest roadworks are.
I have not heard this be a factor when people get mortgages or loans. So "because it doesn't matter".

But apparently in the UK it does! So if I understand right, not having a history of debt can be a problem when getting a mortgage or loan simply because lack of data for them to make any assessment?
> Doing this basic formatting in ascii text is just mind-numbingly stupid.

Nope, ascii more or less represents your keyboard. Using ascii as user input has zero dependencies. Are you really suggesting some binary encoding for formatting, that is only possible with the respective tooling? I see only disadvantages in that.
> since NASA is no longer doing world shattering stuff like landing on the moon

NASA has its Artemis program which is doing exactly this, returning to the Moon with a goal of a longer-term lunar base.

And they just held a period of application (it closed a few days ago) for the next generation of Artemis astronauts.

Artemis :
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
How much knoweldge is transferable? Isn't Aurora just protocol and SQL dialect compatible, but underneath it has nothing to do with postgres?
Even worse when people use averages as a method of policymaking for everyone, rather than realize that history is made by the exceptions. Not the averages.
You harvest what you grow. If there is not enough food we haven't planted enough.
And by the way, when I do go outside, it's with a P100 mask, goggles, and gloves. I leave my shoes outside, go in through the garage, take off my clothes, throw them in the washing machine, sanitize my hands, and then take a shower.

For god's sake, this thing is so serious that we're not allowed to go outside for normal activities or go to work. We are all prisoners on very limited work release. If you're not taking extreme measures to protect yourself, you're an idiot.
> A NAS is a standalone box that receives automatic updates, is 100% remote-management enabled by default, can be easily reset to factory settings,

Most NAS fail at one or more of these.

In addition 90% of them are very bad about security, and putting these kinds of devices on your company or office network transforms it from an internet access network into a garden for insecure appliances to be coddled, a stepping stone that must be vigorously firewalled, scanned, and monitored.
No. Xamarin focuses on mobile apps, not desktop. Also, you have to chose between Forms which is ugly everywhere, and Native which require a non trivial understanding of each underlying platform.
No, landing page is made in webflow by not-the-frontend-team, talking about the Bravo Studio featured in the video (accessible here: https://projects.bravostudio.app). We're a young startup so been doing less planning and more doing, maybe to a fault, as what we lacked in planning would have to be covered up by spending more time working on it.

But yeah, Bravo Studios frontend had it's initial commit May 27th so coming up to be about a year soon. Bunch of work mixed in on a Figma Plugin that didn't go anywhere as well, so I haven't been 100% focused on the frontend all the time but think we've made good progress so far.
Seems like the highest paid athlete of these days is this:
https://archive.org/details/37AsterixAndTheChariotRace/page/...
This is basically the same problem that cross-cultural or -temporal IQ comparisons have.
> I think you're mixing up your timelines. ES5 brought `Object.create` and other prototype helper methods.

You’re right, I did. So the actual timeline was somewhat less dim than I remembered.

> The `class` keyword was introduced in ES6, which is indeed a kludge on top of prototypes.

I wouldn’t say that it’s a kludge. I’d anything it’s more of a realisation of the original vision of JavaScript (which you could fairly call a kludge): using a prototype system to underlie a langage approaching java semantics.

Which may well be the dumbest way to approach it as you get the flexibility of a class-based system and the performances of a prototype-based system rather than the other way around, but at the same time JS’s prototype system was kneecapped from the start.
OSRM is astonishingly fast (it uses the Contraction Hierarchies routing algorithm, or alternatively Multi-Level Dijkstra). This is compelling for draggable routing UIs, and for large matrix calculations used in the Vehicle Routing Problem (Travelling Salesman). It also makes it easy to customise your routing weightings through Lua 'profile' scripts.

The principal downside is that the routing graph takes a lot of time and memory to prepare; runtime RAM usage is also high, though not so much. I think there's some potential for reducing its memory footprint.

Valhalla builds on the older A* algorithm, so it's not so fast (or memory-hungry), though it does make some use of hierarchies to shorten query time. Graphhopper is another, featureful routing engine designed for use with OSM data (written in Java).
> it's very likely a paid hit piece against bug bounty companies.

A thought on the incentives behind such a paid piece. There is a big free rider problem here. All pentesters, or all opponents of big bounty programs, would benefits equally from a hit piece, or to be more specific, would benefit proportionally to their market share. So suspicion on who would pay for a hit piece should fall mostly on entities who control a substantial portion of the market share, or some kind of lobbying organization/cartel representing multiple entities that add up to a substantial market share. Or some entity that makes a financially bad decision and ignores the free rider problem to fund the hit piece - but at that point, you don’t need the hit piece to be paid at all. It’s just ideologically motivated.
Maybe there is the opportunity for someone starting an open source solution to provide real time traffic data.

Until now there wasn't a need since Google provided the data for free.

But everything changed and I bet there are lots of people who need the data but can't afford paying Google.

The only question is how you gather the data since you don't have Google maps and Waze?

You can try to provide a Waze alternative, but how would you convince people to use it?
That's a pretty cynical interpretation. To me it seems more like they took an easy engineering approach when the cost per API call was low, then when the price went up they re-designed their software to use API calls more frugally by using some domain specific knowledge (that google couldn't know about so wouldn't be able to build in to their pricing).
>in Germany/Europe

Wow, I honestly didn't know how widespread non-QWERTY keyboards are in Europe. Wikipedia has a nice map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ

I live in Poland and we pretty much exclusively have QWERTY. QWERTZ is a historal artifact. Not sure if that's still the case but at least until recently, it was installed by default on Windows as an alternative layout, seemingly mostly to confuse non-technical people when they accidentally press the Ctrl+Shift combination to swap.
It's not worth arguing with a frequentist mindset to success. It is clear that better starting positions in life lead to better outcomes. It's even unfair and getting worse. This isn't genius level analysis.

The issue is that using averages, making blanket statements, and dismissing exceptions to the averages as pure luck and statistical happenstance is a pretty common form of frequentist bias and leads to even worse policy, if used as justification for a remedy.

Exceptions are routinely waved away as statistical noise or survivorship bias, rather than taking a more nuanced and Bayesian look at the exceptions.

For all the libertarian bias Hacker News is accused of, this particular issue is exceptionally neoliberal/socialist in nature and persists on the site for some odd reason.
I'd take a pound of modern seeds. The plants we have today are amazing in terms of productivity compared to even a century ago. And to be pragmatic, although it's fun to fantasize about being the one to start the Industrial Revolution centuries earlier, one person in ancient times is very likely to just die of disease or violence before anything grand could happen.

But Farmers know what to do with seeds, and after the first harvest, the boon of plentiful crops will have spread no matter what.
Multimarkdown tables are fairly straightforward, no? From a blog post about the linear typewriters last year, a simple table (unformatted because I'm lazy.)

input file | my score | article score | ratio
-----------|----------|---------------|------
stripped.txt | 5262321 | 5499341 | 95.7%
s2.txt | 5510008 | 5499341 | 100.2%

vs

.Table Scores
|===
| input file | my score | article score | ratio

| stripped.txt
| 5262321
| 5499341
| 95.7%

| s2.txt
| 5510008
| 5499341
| 100.2%
|===

And that's just two lines of four columns - I've got blog posts with 20 lines of 5 columns. It would be heartbreaking to type that in.
That's correct, if this is a self-petition, then Form I-485J is not required. Is your self petition an EB1A or NIW? My response to your questions depends in part on your answer to this question.
Really? So it‘s real US and not some kind of ISO English?

Yeah, I‘ve seen that Dell for example sells US BTO options in the Netherlands, but in the past (when I considered an XPS 13), dell.nl didn‘t ship to Germany. But obviously the times have changed, and it‘s much easier today to get US keyboards than 10 or 20 years ago.
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You can order almost any book in the world to be sent to your local library in most library systems.
Hmm, could you please expand? What I'm trying to get at is that the Bus at D and the bus at A expect to reach stop F at different times. So, the ETA between F and H is never quite the same for them, as the traffic conditions could change.

When google maps gives me an ETA, I assume they account for it (or their ML model does from the vast troves of past data).
The landing software is really the same, the engine controls are different but that was never the major issue.

They don't need a 'tanker version' initially any Starship can refuel any other Starship. The 'tanker version' would just make it more efficient.

How do you know that they don't have any payload? Do you have special insight into what SpaceX is doing? Or are you just assuming because they haven't developed that stuff outside in a tent it can't possibly exist.
-Thank you; unless this corona thing paralyse anything and everything for the rest of the year or more, I expect to land on my feet (and, should the current state of affairs continue for that long, I suspect the lack of a paycheck is not going to be the biggest of my worries!)

I hope we'll see a partial return to normal-ish after Easter - at least to the extent that the companies I've been in touch with start planning for the months and years ahead, rather than just trying to figure out how to survive until something resembling normalcy returns.

What I see locally (in the Sunnmøre maritime cluster) is that a lot of smaller companies have pivoted from being suppliers to the oil industry exclusively to catering to offshore wind, fisheries, aquaculture &c - whereas the larger corporations say they are doing the same, only spending years burning through cash trying to develop a strategy for the new reality.

With any luck, your partner's company will get business from this - for lack of a better phrase - 'greener' economy as it matures. Exciting times with lots of opportunities for entrepreneurs around here, at least - with lots (by rural Norwegian standards...) of skilled people, machinery and capital available for cheap.
If ML could predict everything with accuracy, they would be better by predicting lottery, stock prices or Forex pairs.

I used an app which predicts public transportation arrival time based on historic data and it mistakes most often than not, sometimes by a lot.
People say "disclaimer" when they mean "disclosure" for some reason.
Many people find business to be fun.

> There's a reason that people like Ken Thompson or John Tukey worked for companies.

Then they chose their fate.

Anyway,

1. What do you want?

2. Do you have a plan to get it?

3. Are you working regularly and consistently on that plan?

If the answer is not "yes" to all three of those, luck is not going to find you.
It would certainly be interesting if they had compared the quality of Mapbox’s traffic data to Google’s. Perhaps the authors tried this and the data wasn’t as good? But it’s not mentioned.

OpenStreetMap itself is just the base map, not a provider of traffic data or routing.
Do log scale on both axes, suddenly all the plots will be nearly straight lines and you can start to reason about uncontrolled growth and how well mitigation is working.
How to solve the Jane Street Puzzle of February 2020
> I dislike the cybernetic approach because I find that it first commits to epistemic helplessness

The confusion here is that my statement has nothing to do with cybernetics. Although it’s taken from his book titled Cybernetics, almost 60% of the book isn’t about cybernetics but instead a philosophy and analysis of Science as it progresses through history.

Though it’s fair to Wiener to preemptively note there is no failure in epistemology in one of the most successful theories which holds ground in neurons, to electrical circuits, traffic engineering, the abstract feedback loop. There’s no assumption that “we know nothing of particles”. Wiener originally wrote the book in 1948 and completed the second edition in 1961. He made significant contributions to quantum mechanics[0]. It’s quite suspect to make such a defamatory remark about Wiener’s cybernetics given his quantum knowledge and the field as a whole.

In fact, what would cybernetics possibly be predicting about the interactions between a particular system of which each component cannot exhibit a property? Surely some property must be being reinforced by means of itself or another auxiliary property.

QM & Cybernetics answer completely separate questions.

You’re missing the bigger picture. The irreversibility in any physical phenomenon is only through scientific paradigms which are probabilistic—such as thermodynamics, temperature, cloud, turbulence etc. These concepts are simply more powerful in dynamical systems, which are always due to microscopic phenomena, where there are no analytical, deterministic solutions for the otherwise favored deterministic paradigms (e.g. three-body problem).

“while when a great number of atoms (of the order of Avogadro’s number) is considered, this energy related to irreversibility becomes so large that its order of magnitude must be taken into account. Consequently, macroscopic irreversibility results related to microscopic irreversibility by flows of photons and amount of atoms involved in the processes.”

[0] https://www.ams.org/books/psapm/052/psapm052-endmatter.pdf
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35796
I hope you see you are making choices. Own the results, or change your choices.
From my experience working in Germany, yes but a lot of German programmers will use a US layout as it's very hard to reach the necessary brackets and symbols easily on a German keyboard.
It seems to be part of Akamai since last year. Surprised the website is not completely taken down.
Sales and marketing positions are tough from an H-1B approval standpoint and I am sure that is why the company's lawyers are trying to position the job as something more technical given your background. Unfortunately, beyond this, it's really hard for me to comment without doing a full analysis of the offered position, your educational background and work history, the educational backgrounds of those in the same or similar position with this company, and the company's hiring practices for this position and similar positions over the years.
Google is using machine learning to improve the quality of Duo calls
This company was shockingly deep into their lifecycle to still be using this approach. And yeah, they'd cycle IPs as needed too. I think the thought was that Google isn't doing a ton of fraud analysis for this particular modality of fraud. Still though...
There was a bookshop around the corner which had a lady sitting in the corner and tens of thousands of second hand books everywhere, on shelves, in piles, room after room of these books.

I wondered if there was a way to sell them online.

I thought maybe it would be possible to photograph a bookshelf, and some sort of program could identify each book from its spine and find its ISBN and automatically list it for sale online.

Then if it sold, it would be referenced back to the photo so it could be easily found even without an indexing system.

I still wonder if the current tech is good enough to do that.

Sadly the shop closed recently and its all gone.
The Japanese have the “koku” unit of rice measurement - which is approximately the amount it takes to feed one person for a year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koku

They don’t mention anything about the person’s appetite. :)
Here is a collection I started some time ago: https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection
We are starting with the banks with most coverage - so think Davivienda, Bancolombia, Banco de Bogotá, etc. We'll be looking to have quite a few go live soon. Good point on 2FA/MFA. We have built our API so it can fully account for those in the connection flow. More info here --> https://developers.belvo.co/docs/handling-2-factor-authentic...
I dont know what it is called but they use to start radio shows some seconds (or minutes?) before broadcasting them. Some technology was used to skip tiny parts where the host was silent (breathing or going uhhhmmm)
Interesting. But we have to be clear here: It‘s not only about QWERTZ vs QWERTY. Many countries still have ISO keyboard layout: a tall return key and the left shift key is short (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY). The US keyboard is different: the return key is wide and not tall, and the left shift key is also wider. If you once got used to the US layout, it‘s annoying to use an ISO layout, because your pinkies have to move a little larger distance to hit return and left shift, if you know what I mean. :-)
Eigen Paradox
I get they compare the prediction from maps with actual time for a few stops / busses and if the difference is big they make a new API request, making Google wealthier.
There is no provision for partial stream encoding. It's either complete streamcopy or encoding.
foobar2000 + media player classic HC
True, but you can also spin up replicas in your cloud providers' nearest regions.

Everybody talks about capacity elasticity, but easy geographical distribution is the much cooler property of public clouds IMO. I could drive to a local colocation site and maintain my own boxes if it came to that, but having dozens of datacenters around the world would be physically impossible for me otherwise.

Of course your applications have to support that, but if they can be distributed across in-office servers then they already do.
How stupid can arstechnica be?

They didn't loose any Starship, they are still testing tank weldings with various pressure tests, which had a problem from the beginning.
Then they switched the manufacturer and the tank welding might still not be good enough. Or as announced it was just a bad test.

Such iterations are totally expected, it's the third now (SN3, serial number 3), but no engine tests yet in integration with the spectacular new Raptor engine.
Great stuff. OpenTTD has been my go-to time-sink since I was 14-15. Great for lockdown.
I tend to agree with your line of reasoning and wanted to write a blogpost about it eventually.

I implemented a "markdown-like" parser, and I noticed the biggest problem is that the edge cases are a mess, the notation is a mess, and doing efficient single-pass parsing is unnecessarily complicated (urls are also an unnecessarily complicated element that hits a parser of this kind, but that's a story for another day).

I generally agree that making special unicode characters to represent these things could go a long way into making everything easier to understand, parse, disambiguate.

To be fair, this could be tested without insane effort: unicode has a range of characters reserved for private use. Adapt a font and make a simple online editor where holding some key will make javascript generate the appropriate unicode character. We should just try it and see if it's really better.

If the concept works out well, same as we have modifier keys for alt, shift, ctrl, etc., we could use that and integrate in keyboards without much trouble. Of course, it's a big change, but I think it's being proved that there's a common set of markup needs that most platforms should handle.

And many might say: well, it's not like everyone needs to implement markdown, we can have a single implementation and re-use it. It's not such a big deal. Well, I'd argue that the right approach is make things as simple as they can be. This kind of markup is necessary, but we can make it much simpler (now someone might say that pushing more things into unicode is not a good idea, as unicode is far from as simple as possible and perfect, but that shall be discussed another day too).