skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming the new hire will be able to process all information and - if I'm reading your comment correctly - read all messages and / or e-mails sent to everyone. That's unlikely and unreasonable, nobody has the energy to trudge through all information when they join a new company.

Instead, make sure you have a good onboarding procedure. Documentation is important, but categorize it in e.g. a wiki with a solid landing page, so that new hires can get up to speed quickly on the one hand, and know where to find information relevant to what they need to know on the other.

I've been at my current company for nearly six months now and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface in the application (which was started eight years ago, but built on top of two more decades of domain specific knowledge and platforms).
Some still love real GIFs! My preferred use is cinemagraphs. See the images in this link:

https://blog.flixel.com/what-is-a-cinemagraph-how-do-they-wo...

True, ‘kids these days’ are oblivious that most GIF hosts don’t host GIFs.

H264 (H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 Part 10) is a video compression encoding often paired with AAC audio, often e-delivered inside an .mp4 or .mv4 file container.

Imgur’s GIFV file popularized on reddit is a renamed .mp4:

https://www.filedesc.com/en/file/gifv

Note WebM is an MKV-like container for VP8 video encoding w/ Vorbis audio. You would have to convert (transcode) the video and audio to go between MPEG-4 and WebM.

https://www.webmproject.org/docs/container/

Just for fun, GIFs can contain more than 256 colors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#/media/File:SmallFullColou...
The other half of the battle is lasers (25% blue lasers, 25% red lasers)
Further challenge - if someone does understand exactly what the paper says, would you mind adding an ELI5 for those of us who don't?
There are over 200k Indians who are stuck on h1b for more than 10 years. Most of which have us born kids. Makes no sense to have a 60 day freeze on h1bs
H1B != immigration

Edit:

From Wikipedia:
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens.
This. After having fiddled around with Emacs over the weekend, having tried out Spacemacs and Doom and working through some tutorials, I concluded that I definitely won't replace VSCode with Emacs for coding any time soon.
As a Git & PIM-Tool, it seems to be useful though.
Plz donate app for hack friend for iphone4 or fire 8
In my particular case no, it would be too much hassle for a small business like ours (we are a remote only firm with only a few people). But I can imagine it would make sense when we grow.
The differences between people who can and can't drive a stick (2011)
It takes an optimized video file from YouTube and bloats it into a GIF that is 20 times larger.

Why not just mute the video, trim it, and reduce its resolution? GIF needs to die.
I’m not defending that design flaw but MacBook Pro’s haven’t exactly been free from issues themselves (up until their recent generation they had an ongoing problem with their keyboard that went on for years).

Frankly I miss the days when business machines weren’t made with aesthetics given as a priority.
> Every time you send a private message is Slack or send an email to just one other person, it's like taking a $100 bill and lighting it on fire.

Maybe, but with a public channel, it's a stack of $100 bills, for the time of everyone who doesn't need it now and won't recall it or be able to find it when they do.

“Spam everything to the public channel” is the equivalent of “send everything you find interesting to the All Staff email distribution list".

There's good ways of preserving information that multiple people on a team are going to need at different points of time in the future, but posting them to a public Slack channel is pretty far from the target.

A team wiki is among the many better options.
This isn't a logical argument. The companies that hire H1-Bs are obviously going to be even less happy now that the quota is down to ZERO.
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
Using terms like mansplaining and whitesplaining

As noted above, I don't generally use those terms. You are "using" them yourself currently by including them in your comment telling me I am wrong to "use" them.

There's a pandemic on and I haven't slept. I don't really care to discuss this further with you. But for the record I don't think you have any right whatsoever to "request" that I behave in accordance with your wishes while leveling BS accusations in an uncharitable reading of my comment that you refuse to back down on.
Confirmation bias overrides ear training. Always have an unbiased tone junkie do your blind test.
Very cool finding that IMHO goes beyond coincidence. Some are saying the authors compared "two completely different plots" - this is a strange thing to say. Both plots have an X axis of wavelength, that's obviously the same. There's some ambiguity of the units on the Y axis, since the BB is in W/m^3 while histogram is unitless.

However it's really not a stretch to consider the BB as some relative intensity. So it's totally reasonable to overlay these plots.

A possible way to reconcile this would be to model some gas mixture composition and determine the aggregate spectra of that, and that would be in W/m^3.

E: downvote(s), do you have a rebuttal, or just think I'm wrong?
This means they want to suspend the processing of current queue of H-1B apps, right?
> it's like taking a $100 bill and lighting it on fire.

Interesting example, appreciated!

Let me try to improve it:

it's like taking an envelope that might or might not contain an $100 bill and lighting it on fire.

Not everything is useful, but we don't know until later.

Also, the company doesn't get that $100 bill right away, only if they can dig it out 2 years later.

Still, good example.
They do some major contributions to Clang/LLVM, which is the fondation of many non-Mac programs.
Two of my friends sometimes enjoyed role playing as me. Imagine Robin Williams playing board games who always tried to "shoot the moon" (Hearts card game reference).

Another fun variant is "backseat driver". 14 participants. Each country has a "mover" and a "talker". Movers cannot communicate, only observe. Talkers cannot move.
when I used to use linux as a desktop environment, I preferred LXDE or even just Busybox. So, you're not alone.

Another decent one is Ubuntu Mate.
In the software industry, these are several problems that prevent the success of written communication culture:

- Most of the dev are not trained for that. They're trained for finding shortcuts (Google, SO), rushing the deadline and fix the code with any solution they can find. People tend to follow the easy path (fix and forget) rather take time to write good docs (code comment, commit message, wiki, ...)

- Some people have good writing skills, some have good technical skills. The ones who are good at both are rare. So some time the docs are confusing, misleading.

- We're lacking good tooling for writing docs. At my work, people prefer to write on Confluence for its inline-comment feature (before, they write in Google docs). But Confluence (and Google docs), IMO, are terrible editors for technical heavy docs and they can't work offline, don't have desktop, can't be used with external editor (I'm a die hard vim fan). Another example: tools for drawing diagram. The plain text solutions (PlainUML, mermaid) I've tried so far don't work well for big diagrams. The non plain text solutions can't be tracked in git, thus defeat the point of single source trust.

I believe if someone can build a product solve my points on tooling, their product will beat Confluence easily. I don't have any ideas to fix the other 2 points, though.
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...and also because they're cheaper. H1-B's are like indentured servants.
Should work out of the box. You just need to rename them to *.drawio :D
Part of explaining this "funny" coincidence is going to be how one motivates their selection cuts, like the choice to use only one database instead of crossmatching several for better robustness [1]. The choice to ignore higher ionisations, the choice to ignore any systematic effects from the fact that the heavier elements, with their shorter wavelengths, are just downright harder to work with experimentally.

Finally, what do our current best atomic models predict that this distribution should be? These authors seem to think nobody models atomic spectra...

[1] See here for one such effort of comparing various databases: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/04/aa31933-...
That was great fun, thanks for sharing.
They already did, it's called Outings:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/outings/9pc50k3qbh0x?activ...

Sadly it does not have animations.

They also released an SDK, so there are a few other interpretations floating around the Microsoft Store.
It is a stretched analogy and omits both practical (at the proof level) and theoretical subtlety, but you can sort of think of a dependently typed function as a compile time macro or a template-like generic. However, I think it would be fair to say that macros and generics are merely a mechanized implementation of a very small slice of what dependent types are capable of in full generality
Your timeline is incorrect. Both Unity and GNOME 3 came out before Windows 8.

I also dislike the trend, but I've moved on to tiling window managers after a few months on Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
I've only ever enjoyed using Ubuntu with Gnome 2. Nothing else has come near meeting that standard.
> his name is more German than comfortable for my tastes

Bold claim, Karl.
I disagree in case of Surface Book. I didn't try Go.

This is a powerful premium laptop which can be used not only for pleasant programming experience due to good keyboard and 4k screen but also gaming due to powerful GPU card. It does not get hot and loud as much as any traditional gaming laptop with the same GPU card because GPU and CPU are separated (GPU under the keyboard and CPU in the detachable screen). I mean this is like the biggest advantage of all Surface Book laptops that makes them powerful, silent and cool at the same time. It might be not as powerful as dedicated gaming laptops but it is better because it is not even half as hot and loud. And which of your gaming laptops can run at least two hours without a socket? Honestly, the battery life of my wife's Mac Air 2019 is laughable in comparison.

It is also a good tablet. The only disadvantage for as a tablet is battery life which is far less than in iPads and Android devices. But neither of them is 15 inch and is equipped with an iCore.

There is no alternative on the market for Surface Book 2. Recent Surface Book 3 might not be more powerful as the audience expected but I would go for it all the same just because how much more malleable this machine is. If you need a mobile pc, this is the one.
From key press to screen update (Windows: 48ms, OpenBSD: 16ms)
> Do those activities generate enough money, so that government collects enough taxes from you, to cover your UBI + all the other costs (roads, schools,...)? If not, you're still a net burden on society.

The median person on UBI would probably be a net burden on society.

The mean? Probably not. Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity was a side project. It'd only take a couple of similar projects to make all of UBI worth it.
> Comparing US wages to countries that have far greater social safety nets and healthcare is impossible.

No, it's not impossible. I'm from the US and live in Canada and it's essentially comparing the lower US tax rate + health care premiums and expected unemployment benefits.

For the record, the US is clearly cheaper for a slim 30 something with no kids and no medical issues -- like ~27,000 bucks or so per year, when I compared WA to AB. When you start adding kids and getting 60+ that changes, and long term it may be a better deal up north, but in the short term I'd rather do STEM in a state with no income tax.
Besides GCC, Clang, and MSVC++, most other C++ compilers license the EDG frontend, so there's less heterogeneity than you would expect. I don't actually know if there's another implementation of C++11 besides the ones I listed. Even Microsoft now uses the EDG frontend for Intellisense, rather than their own (more incorrect) frontend.
>Sounds like it's still above 0

Because of frictional unemployment, it's neither possible nor desirable for the unemployment rate to reach 0.

>which means you should be forced to source local talent before you're permitted to source from outside the country.

This is already a requirement; H-1B employers must attest that they can't find an employee domestically and have made a good faith attempt to do so.

>It's so strange to me that this viewport is controversial, but "Buy Local" (which I have yet to encounter someone who is against supporting local businesses) is not. This is the labor version of "Buy Local".

Buy Local is not enforced by the jackboot of the federal government. You're free to hire only non-visa workers for your business.
I think for Rails the more accurate counter part would be [1]
Stimulus Reflex where it is actually modelled after Liveview.

But yes, I really hope ( especially the new Phoenix 1.5 ) HTML wins back some mindshare in dev.

[1] https://github.com/hopsoft/stimulus_reflex
Wuhan lab phone records show 'possible shutdown' in October
GC caps are not based on race but on citizenship.

A GC worker does not obey to the same rules as a H1B worker. A GC worker is not dependent on the company to remain in the country, they do not help companies keep salaries artificially low. A green card holder is essentially a US citizen on the job market (minus DOD clearance and such).
The coming disruption of colleges and universities
“ high-skilled immigrants anymore.”

That’s funny. I don’t see how project managers are highly skilled labor. I don’t see how QA testers are highly skilled labor.

But I do see how to get people to work harder for less.
10 years in the U.S.? I thought the path to citizenship or green card was 5 years, or 7 years at most? This is really not a very fair system.
Can confirm. Our requirement to fit the "cannot find American" requirement was to post a tiny ad in a small unknown paper with a ton of requirements that they H1-B we were about to hire didn't himself even really meet.

It was HIGHLY abused to just get cheap low-level IT staff. ...like the kinds who confuse Java with Javascript.
No X-ray radiation from MRI - I’d bet it’s the cost thing.
> GIFs [are] fair use

Are they, though? Fair use only covers use for the purpose of criticism and parody (as in, making fun of the original work, not just making up your own lyrics to a popular tune).

> not using YouTube api

Even if you're not using their API, it still counts as a ToS violation. But since downloading YouTube videos is the main feature of your tool, there's not much you can do about it.
Nope.

44, write code every day and don't intend to stop any time soon.
I assume you're referring to astrophysical jets[1] that are common with SMBHs. I'm afraid, though, I'm not familiar enough with jet physics to answer your question. A priori, the tidal forces only cause infalling matter to get shredded (and heated up). Whether a proper accretion disk together with a (significant) jet can form, given the size of the black hole, I don't know.

On a related note: It'd be interesting to see in how far such a small BH would actually be capable of "sweeping [its] local neighbourhood clear of objects" like planets are (as was claimed in some comment above). Only then would I expect a significant accretion disk and, possibly, a jet. The reason the answer to this question is not obvious (at least to me) is once again the tiny size of the BH: How would anything manage to fall into the black hole, given that it's so tiny and, thus, very easy to miss?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet
but terrorist attacks on flights seems more controllable than a virus and also more rare. Granted that it's true that there is a lot of sensationalism there are also events that will disrupt an industry for a while
That's good information. I hope he is getting access to hot showers. I think that's a reasonable request and can be justified on the basis of "there's a pandemic on and it's important germ control."
You'll have to explain why using a single database, when there are several available that focus on being extra reliable on different elements, is a defensible choice.

I fully understand "let's just use NIST because that's easiest", but that's not a serious attitude if you want to claim something about reality rather than the NIST database itself.
I'm actually doing the same thing right now. I had been using a textual output to make sure my AST was correct, but that is a real pain. Graphviz made it extremely easy it is so much easier to read.
High quality models are created via sculpting (5-10 million is actually still on the low end for that) before being retopologized. For anything high-fidelty (that is, anything you might encounter in a non-hobbyist project) it's _more_ work to create a model with a low polycount. The human work amount for animation is also mostly dependent on the rig, so if you're fine with a simple rig, animating a high polycount mesh isn't really any harder.

What kills it though is that even though raytracing scales well, animation/simulation does not.
What if you want a vehicle for daily commuting, plus occasional road trips?
OK, thanks. I am surprised though. Doesn't lots of employment law make a distinction between "fired with cause" and "downsizing"?

Lots of questions, but also: Can they actually collect this?

I guess my proposal of "half pay while training & a post-dated check" probably lines up with "leave our employ for any reason".
Same problem. Did not go to uni, self taught instead, did not foresee the problem of not a lack of options but far too many, and a lot of them are pretty good. But I'm a noob. Following thread.
Price has always been a factor. It is a non-trivial amount for any international travel. The old country business travel can easily reach beyond what is reasonable. And I evaluate my trips based on cost and comfort ( I am way too old now to travel 12+ hours squashed ).

But you are, overall, wrong. The goal is, and always has been, milking. Extracting maximum of milk with a minimum of moo. The current breed of travellers are docile and compliant ( I honestly don't know my parents would have been able to pull some of things they did today ).

Consumers are idiots. I sometimes wonder if they even saw how things could be.
On the contrary, if you are looking for ‘diagrams as code’ you likely don’t mean postscript, SVG, or XML of arbitrary lines and shapes.

You likely mean something structured and readable, like ‘literate diagramming’.

The top comment’s first phrase explained that rationale.
I think this would be very possible - there was quite a bit of discussion of using NN techniques for modelling fx discussed at DAFx2019 (http://dafx2019.bcu.ac.uk/). There are a number of papers discussing different techniques in the paper archive.

Many of the techniques discussed were variations on image processing - transforming the input to the frequency domain then converting this to an image, and applying standard techniques to transform the image, then back to the time domain. There are many compromises with this approach (loosing phase information for example) but with a suitable overlap/add the results were better than I expected, and certainly there's room for further investigation to see if there's useful stuff in there.

Another time domain approach that was applicable to your amplifier model question was an attempt to determine hidden variables in a circuit. Basically, the circuit under test is examined, and rather that build a spice model (which can be laborious) the technique was to expose the interval voltages following components with memory (so capacitors for example). These outputs were included in the NN training model, and so in effect the normally hidden internal state was exposed and allowed for a very good approximation.

Here's the paper:

http://dafx2019.bcu.ac.uk/papers/DAFx2019_paper_42.pdf
> They change the rules almost yearly to try to patch loopholes

I haven't seen much in this way. As for what I would propose (if the quotas would be kept)

- Go through the applications by higher salaries first

- Limit the number of hires per company by number of current employees (something like 1 H1-B for every 5 employees - as an example)

- Make the visa transferable after a while
Go Running on a Nintendo Switch
Absolute nonsense. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the H1B program have been FAANG - they often apply for some of the largest numbers. I’ve also seen this in personal experience, as will anyone who has worked at these companies. Hiring at these companies is typically focused on just hiring the best candidate, who will often need a visa such as this if they are not American.

Abuse by firms such as infosys and “bodyshopping” are of course a problem as well, but Microsoft, google et al love these visas too.

A lot of people who work in very senior positions in this industry came here via an H1B, it’s not just low level positions.
For others interested in why ray tracing scales O(log N), this is covered in an earlier video in the NVIDIA "Ray Tracing Essentials" series, specifically this one:

https://youtu.be/ynCxnR1i0QY?t=173

It's timestamped to the discussion of why this is true, but the whole video (like the series, IMO) is very informative, this one focused on "Rasterization vs Ray Tracing".
Most of the notation was invented either before or at the dawn of the computer age.

It's also not particularly difficult to pick up. We teach basic sequent calculus proofs to high schoolers in our summer program. If you can follow the two column proofs from high school geometry, then you can follow the notation used in standard programming language texts and papers.
Also, all the outbreak games, animations, and simulations show planes flying everywhere spreading disease and not packed subways and buses.

finally, like you said, the airline industry is always living on the edge and in the news.
My argument is not this. My argument is that NEITHER party was happy with the current system. So, in a way, getting rid of it entirely and starting with scratch might be a good thing. I do realize that there's HUGE human costs to people on H1-B visas who will have their lives totally destroyed by this decision. My sympathies are with them.
Choosing a nonpartisan description of "U.S. Senators" obscures the fact that all of the senators are from the same party (Republican).

An example of where the journalistic commitment to being politically neutral harms the ability to properly inform the reader.
As I haven't used Racket for anything professionally, I can't really answer the question with Racket in mind.

But Clojure is also built on top of immutable data structure, recursion and more, but also provides features for mutation of various things, both for pragmatism and sometimes performance. Clojure also lives like a hosted language (on top of JVM/browser engines/more), most of them being mutable by default, so providing those constructs help with interop as well.
Same could be said for sickness, poverty, or well, any other forms of time drain. Somehow, someway, many make time to create awesomeness anyway. This makes it sound like a reason so you can resent the kids when they are grown up?

Take a look at Tech Ingredients. He involves his son in all his projects/videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TechIngredients

I would say he's a better father than most because of the fun experiments he does with his kids.
I certainly would think so. But nonetheless, the US right has been attacking the US left for that for decades. As long as the politeness is being applied to historically disfavored groups, anyhow.
And sometimes you get MS St. Louis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis