skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an underlying PERM application? If so, when was this filed? If not, when was the I-140 petition filed?
Would this be a marriage-based or employment-based green card application?
Additional advice is:

6. Do not shake hands or otherwise touch anyone around you.

7. Keep a distance of at least 1 meter (2m ist better)

8. Do not touch your face, your eyes or your nose even when they are itchy.

9. Use your brain to foresee situations where you can be infected.

10. Don't use public transport and don't sit near anyone closer than 2 meters.

11. Wear gloves (any kind, skiing gloves are fine too)

12. Get desinfection gel after a possible contamination situation and wash your hands when you come home.

13. Do not enter your PIN codes with bare hands

14. Don't use cash! No coins in your pockets.

15. Don't share your mobile phone. Keep it to yourself.

16. Don't share your earbuds.
Artificial Intelligence in Java: how to code planning optimization [video]
HTML? Not RTF?
Cool - thanks. Happy to chat further. Is your product mostly UK/Europe based or you also have an active client base in Latam?
There are large, serious, public companies on Azure AD, OneLogin, Okta, etc. They often like those services because they eat some of the compliance burden. This doesn't ring true.
Are there some examples of antibodies like this being employed successfully like that?

I find it fascinating how the body is able to adapt to new entrants and the immune system figures out how to uniquely bind to the virus - but seemingly based on the article only when it changes into an active infection mode and exposes a certain part. Potentially ignoring it unless it’s an active threat to the body.
"Building development teams that include skeptics and realists, rather than just visionary idealists, could keep ensure products get safeguarded from abuse before rather than after a scandal occurs."

On the face of it this sounds fair, but the problem is that being "sceptical" and "realistic" is far easier and requires much less effort than being "visionary"[1]. Too much of the former early on can really suck the life out of a team, increasing the risk that the product fails, or is simply never built.

Safeguarding from abuse is much better achieved by systematic thinking and discipline (which are learned skills) rather than hiring "realists" who might simply turn out to be whiners and energy vampires.

As much as Zoom is currently in the spotlight, and I can't say I'm overjoyed by a number of the issues I've read about (e.g., encryption keys being passed through Chinese servers?!??), many of them are the problems of success, and every successful company has or will experience their fair share of those.

[1] I might also add that it's far easier to commentate and to critique than to do, eh, TechCrunch?
Really not React in 33 lines at all.
Because it is argument of authority, that he works with the subject company and has subject matter expertise. Take it however you will
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Amazing. Sure, feel free to email me / us at pablo[at] or hello[at] and happy to discuss further.
Once US Consulates reopen, I would contact a Congressional representative to make an inquiry with the US Embassy. Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for US Consulates and Embassies to fail to take action on these types of applications and effectively deny them.
I'd hold off on getting too excited about this. Until it:

- Is fully featured and has a conditions and restarts system that works on JS, and has CLOS, multimethods, etc

- Has great interop with the existing JS ecosystem. No painful conversions to and from CL, works/is documented well with existing JS tooling like parcel, webpack, mocha, etc

- Is close to being fully featured and not just implementing <50% (usually <30%) of the features of the language
- Is production ready -- no weird compiler bugs, I can use this with real business

- Has a powerful linting tool -- A linting tool that can blacklist/whitelist a subset of common lisp macros and expressions that can be used in a project. You would need something like this for a real company to prevent the team from shooting themselves in the foot. Could probably be done in CL, sblint comes to mind but it's not well documented (like most lisp libraries) so I'm not sure.

- Culture changes: specifically the community needs to document things much better and be more pro-social instead of living on an island. Backend workflow needs good docs. Ex: I think fukamachi's web frameworks supersede weblocks afaict? not sure, but he has like half a dozen or so web frameworks and it's not obvious which one to choose. Ningle? utopian? caveman? clack + woo? documentation in most CL libraries are really lacking and you need to dig into the source

- Run CL programs without opening a debugger. Modern day workflows have CI pipelines and automation out the wazoo. CL expects you to run the debugger manually. There's a way to run asdf projects like a script but it's not well-documented

- The debugger needs to be more user friendly. Don't get me wrong, the debugger is one of the coolest features of CL, but asking a plain old JS dev to try to understand those low level stack traces is a form of torture. It's roots come from lower level programming, but newer devs want to use it for web app dev (like this to-js compiler posted here). A nicer, easier to understand layer like ReasonML's BetterErrors would be needed or an update to CL itself

- A real package manager. Not quicklisp -- that's a curated package list where you need to talk with a single person who approves it to get your package published
Ah, and I neglected to note that VLC does the speed-trick both on desktop and Android. On a phone, it's not quite perfect for audiobooks due to some hiccups in controls, but the versatility is its favor.
Git commands to know just after you get the basics
This essay is filled with so many falsehoods, assumptions, and lack of knowledge that I don't know where to begin. It's also written with a snarky, arrogant attitude which is not helpful. To list a few:

- "there is every reason to believe that a human brain is a machine"

Given what evidence?

- Platonism died for mathematicians some centuries ago, and simply looks silly.

And yet Frege and Gödel, two of the most accomplished mathematicians of the past century, could be described as Platonists. Clearly this isn't a closed question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics#Plat...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/

Regarding digestion: if the Turing Test is determining whether a computer is thinking like a human being, then focusing only on input and output, and not the 'being', sort of misses the entire point. Remember that Searle's Chinese Room is primarily a criticism of the Turing Test.

As always, the truth is: it's more complicated than it seems.
Yes, I've spoken with them recently as have a number of my clients. And one of their focuses now is to help US citizens and their families who are abroad.
It's more likely that voluntarists/ancaps/libertarians made the meme than some PR firm, no?
At the moment only in English. We've seen that most developers we work with are generally OK using English-based documentation to code. We might look to broaden that to Spanish and Portuguese down the line but it's not an immediate priority.
DevOps Engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience with Linux infrastructures.

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:
• Cloud Platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack)
• Ansible and Puppet Certified Professional
• Docker Containers and Kubernetes
• Linux Infrastructures
• Scripting in Python, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Bash
• Building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
• Hashicorp Tools as Terraform, Consul, Serf, Packer, Vault
• Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graphite, Grafana

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisarslan / https://www.dropbox.com/s/i02okgink5fumx6/Dennis%20Arslan%20...

Email: hello@arslan.co.uk
> It's not rocket science.

Tell us how to correctly don and doff a surgical mask, or a filter, and we can tell you how many steps you got wrong.
SEEKING WORK | DevOps Engineer | REMOTE

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Remote: Yes

Technologies:
• Cloud Platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack)
• Ansible and Puppet Certified Professional
• Docker Containers and Kubernetes
• Linux Infrastructures
• Scripting in Python, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Bash
• Building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
• Hashicorp Tools as Terraform, Consul, Serf, Packer, Vault
• Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Graphite, Grafana

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisarslan / https://www.dropbox.com/s/i02okgink5fumx6/Dennis%20Arslan%20...

Email: hello@arslan.co.uk
If they have their own fleet they can generate their own (historic) traffic data e.g. via Map Matching and use an open source routing engine like GraphHopper with OpenStreetMap data. (disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of GraphHopper.)

It is unclear to me whether their current practice is in harmony with the Google Maps TOS. For some places there are also open traffic data sources: https://github.com/graphhopper/open-traffic-collection
I can't comment on the second question but the response above is correct, the answer in part will depend on the cofounder's country of citizenship - as well as residence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22776593
> It's even unfair

Life is not fair, and you can't fix it. Play the cards you're dealt. The good news is every hand can be a winner in life (as in poker), it's all how you play. You get to choose.

Me, I will never be tall or handsome or muscular or have depth perception or have hand-eye coordination. I'm only good at one thing, and I take advantage.

No, I don't expect to change your mind. But I'm happy to try.
Right now, we are providing MEP service to architects and are back office for MEP consultants.
When we move on to SaaS, which is our main vision, all the companies doing MEP designing would be able to use our tool.
ffmpeg -ss $START -i $INFILE -c copy -map 0 -to $END $OUTFILE

This is functionally the same as

ffmpeg -ss $START -i $INFILE -c copy -map 0 -t $END $OUTFILE

FFmpeg normalizes input timestamps unless told otherwise via -copyts. So, in the first command, output timestamps start from 0, effectively making -to a duration limiter.

Both -ss and -to should be on the same side of the input for (close to) expected result.
Is that okay in terms of the ToS? How frequently did someone have to create new accounts?

Won't Google just ban the server's IP?
‘Not compliant’ – Two words that are killing Coronavirus app innovation
Brazilians have been enjoying the exact same setup for more than a decade. The estante virtual (virtual shelf) site is exactly that, a single store front where you can search and buy books which are fulfilled from indie bookstores throughout the country. In our case, since books are often rare and expensive, the website is mostly focused towards the second-hand books market (which is huge in Brazil, specially academic and specialized books) but it also sells new books.

I'm sure other countries have similar setups. I've heard that in Germany, Amazon never really got that much of a foothold as there is a system of fulfilment between the various bookshops where you can order on your local shop and have the book arrive there in couple days from a different unrelated shop using the same system.

It always surprise me how American tech ecosystem reinvents the wheel from other countries and then proceed to make huge deal out of it as if they invented sliced bread all over again. If people looked away from the U.S. and into home grown, grassroots, little tech startups from different countries, they'd find a plethora of new ideas and solutions.
Indeed. HTA showed a lot of promise before MS deliberately crippled it in fear of "web technologies" overtaking desktop apps. A very interesting read: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
Judging from the indenting, the poster used HN’s codeblock/verbatim formatting for the asterisks. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Responses in order: To do this, you would need work authorization such as a concurrently filed part-time H-1B petition. No, there has not been any change in the law on this issue. Not that I am aware of. Yes, I think the volume of green card applications will go down as a result and this should affect the backlog over time.
Like in all of Google's "free" apps, the consumer is the product. They gather your data through Waze and Google maps and sell it for nice money to paying customers.

Maybe they can expand on the model a bit and let the paying customers query the API to find out what you were talking while driving. I'm sure that they can find a justification for it.

I was trained to think that companies like Google was all about doing good things while companies like Microsoft were evil.

What happened to "do no evil" policy Google pretended to stick to?
Perhaps slightly askew, I’ve read Norwich’s History of Byzantium and he talks about there being the Green and Blue factions that kept squabbling some thousand years later.

It seemed the White and Green had collapsed in previous centuries.

I was in the Blue team at my primary school...
The first step would be to have an attorney do an analysis of your background to see if an O-1 is an option.
Don't get me started on Paypal. They send emails from a domain that isn't paypal.com with login links in the email that point to a domain that isn't paypal.com

I genuinely can't distinguish official Paypal emails from phishing emails - and that's because the Paypal emails look like bad phishing emails rather than because phishing emails are so sophisticated.

EDIT: Good write up here: https://cantoriscomputing.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/paypals-e...
Since this is important to you I feel the need to tell you that your doffing procedure is incorrect and will lead to you being infected. You're missing two hand-washings. If you're removing your mask in the same room as all the other stuff you're potentially breathing in infected particles.

Here are three doffing procedures specifically for covid-19:

https://twitter.com/EMedSligo/status/1245948283576561670/pho...

https://twitter.com/DisneyBen/status/1245224791122030592/pho...

https://twitter.com/ashaukat09/status/1245169306234769408/ph...

This is supported by your Cochrane review:

> Compliance with interventions—especially educational programmes—was a problem for several studies, despite the importance of such low cost interventions. Routine long term implementation of some would be problematic—particularly maintaining strict hygiene and barrier routines for long periods, probably only feasible in highly motivated environments such as hospitals without the threat of an epidemic.

Something like 80% of infection of healthcare professionals happens during doffing. These are people who are trained to don and doff PPE, and who are supported to do so by their infection control teams. https://twitter.com/drbencb/status/1236635924274057216?s=20 https://twitter.com/NydahlPeter/status/1244875837448638464?s...
As far as I know Dutch keyboards have your basic US layout plus the € sign as a third glyph printed on the [% / 5] key. I've bought my US layout DasKeyboards from a German retailer online though.

Real Dutch keyboard layouts never took off unlike what happened in France and Germany. We're not that dependant on our diacritic characters (although I am a stickler for correct usage).

Personally, I prefer the standard US layout, because I use more than one language. For Dutch („éëè€”), English (“—”), and German („ßöüä”) the compose key does everything I need and more. For Japanese there is a dedicated IME (Anthy).
The local library is networked in with all the other libraries in King County. You can order a book from anywhere in their system. It's still a thin supply of scifi, and wait times for single copies are often several months.

kcls.org
It was funny for me to read on the bible that talents of gold/silver where just a measure of economic unit.

Gimme some talents too!
What's your friend's US immigration status?
Is synthetisizing antibodies a thing? Is it hard? If so, why?
For those wondering that this is all about, refer to "LS on New IP, Shaping Future Network" [0] (and the attachments listed there):

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> The September 23-27, 2019 meeting of the ITU-T Telecommunications Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) considered a tutorial and contribution presentation on “New IP, Shaping Future Network” proposing to “analyse the current challenges and provide a development path for the future network for the next decade”.

> It was noted that the activities proposed could be related to the current work of several Study Groups across ITU-T.

> Please find attached the referenced contribution and tutorial for your review, and comment back to TSAG for its consideration ahead of WTSA-20.

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The "tutorial" [1] (PPTX) is, well, "interesting"; to pique your interest, it includes such terms as "space-terrestrial network", "multi-level verification filtering system", "holographic communication", "multi-semantic addressing", and, of course, "blockchain"!

---

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1653/

[1]: https://www.ietf.org/lib/dt/documents/LIAISON/liaison-2019-0...
I am reasonably happy with blink, that it supports mosh is a big bonus as iPadOS likes to kill background tasks, but the screen refresh is not fast (the output is html based) and it doesn't deal well with split windowing.

I am aware of iSH, but as you say, its requires "using" the testflight system and while that might be ok for enthusiasts, it is nothing for the large audience. Obviously , as testflight is limited to 10k users.
Idk how Catan can be mentioned as a counter-example. Everytime I play it's exciting for the first half, then a winner becomes clear and it's no longer fun. The article mentions negative feedback loops but...they're not really there. Sure you can refuse to trade, or place the robber but if someone has a bigger "engine" than you, then every turn they're getting more and more ahead.
WinUI and UWP seem like desktop to me, plus there are plenty of other ones,

https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/wiki/Platform-Suppo...

Just like with Qt, Flutter, wxWidgets, Gtk+, Swing and JavaFX, Forms is only ugly when one cannot bother having designers on the team.
I'm surprised that no-one is complaining about the lack of Active Directory integration for authorization.

#disclaimer - Author of an AD integration solution that never got off the ground.

https://github.com/gregn610/padnag
> False. ULA has launched commercial flights in the past[1]

Lets be clear here. Before SpaceX showed up the US had about 0% of the commercial launch market. And yes, ULA had a couple of commercial launches, but incredibly few, you could probably count all the commercial launches in the post-2000 on one hand.

What you say is true, Falcon 9 is also more expensive for the DoD as well. But we are still talking about 40M plus in difference minimum.

> Rocket Lab is winning contracts that would've previously gone to SpaceX

I would disagree with that. Maybe a few rideshares (tiny, tiny market) but more likely those would launch on ISRO rocket or one from China.

> No. An Ariane 5 costs around €100 million. Unless you got really unlucky with the exchange rate that isn't 200 million USD.

Whats your evidence for that? That would price would make Ariane 5 dominate in the GTO missions and they clearly are not.

If that were their price they would not have thrown away the Ariane 5 to replace it with Ariane 6.

Btw, they officially said that Ariane 6 would be around 100M and it has less performance then Ariane 5. That would be a pretty stupid thing to do if the Ariane 5 were 100M$ as the Ariane 6 is less performant then 5.

I have done this research a few years ago, and I can't send you reference to the price, but I am 100% sure its much more then 100M$.

> In particular the payloads that no other American launch vehicle is physically capable of delivering

The DoD has already certified that they can fly all orbits that the DoD requires.

However your argument is correct for a small number of launches. Mostly those that require a larger fairing or vertical integration.

SpaceX is adding the larger fairing and a vertical integration bay, they are now already allowed to compete for all future DoD launches.

Until the last contract handout, ULA absolutely was the only provider so many of the flights on their books are from that.

But on those alone ULA could not survive. We will see how the EELV2 turns out.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that SpaceX is by far the cheapest and it seems they are making the best margin as well.

Sorry if my initial statement was rude.
Same, but interactive and more powerful: https://www.datacat.cc/covid/
Hourly backups with rsnapshot - which serves more or less the same task but does it without a fancy UI - take no more than the size of the changed files plus some space for file system metadata. If Time Machine takes half a GB on a quiescent file system I'd say something is amiss...
Goes to show, companies don't give a damn, and people will start realizing this pretty fast. "Company family" my ass dude
I agree! Cumulative charts are less useful. For my charts, I represent new cases or new deaths per day. It shows such a clear picture of the trend of the growth:

https://mobile.twitter.com/zorinaq/status/124578701743622144...
Unfortunately, under USCIS's current policy and practice, unless and until you work for the sponsoring H-1B employer in H-1B status (after October 1, 2020), another company can't file an H-1B petition for you without going through the lottery again. Now USCIS could relax this policy (and sometimes USCIS doesn't follow it's own policy).
Crucial Facts About Covid-19
Can you also concatenate exactly same format video files instantly?
You could consider using the compose key instead of dead keys. Diacritic characters take a three-key chord instead of two ([compose ` a] instead of [` a]), but all programming characters type as-is. The right alt is usually chosen as compose key.
Author here, this was written as a way for me to explore the core idea of react in a minimal setting. Things it's missing

- jsx

- routing

- performance (maybe?)

- component state management stuff

What else would you include?
Suggestion: use fixed style for the same label across multiple graphs. If a country is blue+dashed in the cases plot it should be the same style in the deaths plot. Use a style from the label hash or a global table or something.
Why can't you assume time symmetric billiard balls? If you take a lot of them, black and white, put all the black ones on one side and the white on the other, give them random velocities, and wait a bit, you will end up with them all mixed together. The entropy has increased even though all interactions are reversible. The macroscopic transformation is time asymmetric (the balls will not sort themselves back again) even though the microscopic transformations are time symmetric (elastic collisions and frictionless movement).

The way I think about this (from Feynman) is that entropy measures "how special" a macroscopic state is, on average. When you apply many microscopic independent fluctuations to a given state you are unlikely to end up with a "more special" state. That's how states are ordered at the macroscopic level giving the arrow of time a clear direction.
If that is half a GB Firefox would be crawling. Here is is around 60MB on a well-used machine with an ancient FF profile.
You don't have many options if you need high accuracy: you have to pay a lot or try to trick Google which might be both immoral and against the law and for sure is tricky, hard to maintain and you can't count on it in the long run.

Let's hope there will be alternatives to Google provided traffic data. For now they seemed to monopolized it by offering it for free while losing money to discourage competition.
does anyone know of an existing alternative to goodreads?