skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was down for me a couple of minutes ago. Up now though.
Partially agree with this. It is not uncommon for a virus to sneak into the brain or other organs, but SARS COV2 is a little different in that it specifically attacks receptors found in all those areas. It isn't just a bi-product of the virus overwhelming your immune system and being so prevalent it gets into everything.

I do wish these articles would talk more about what the virus is doing (less scary) than what it can do (article can be written to be as terrifying as the author wants). If .0000001 of cases have their hearts attacked it isn't as fear mongery as saying "look it can attack your heart!"
Besides the cluster compilers used by C++.

OpenJ9 for Java can use a cloud compiler,

https://blog.openj9.org/2019/05/01/openj9-internship-making-...

.NET when AOT compiled for Windows Store uses cloud compilers, https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2015/08/20/net-na...

And as of Android 10, the cloud compiler is everyone's phone, because PGO data gets uploaded to the play store and improved on each device feedback.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/04/improving-...
The point is that infrastructure was mainly paid by the rich, not that life is easier for the poor.
Respectfully, it might be worth considering how people have a plurality or reactions to content. This content is obviously distressing and could have used some sort of warning.

Not everyone thinks or responds the same and it is good to be conscious of that.
I think in "our" line of work you tend to see at most 30-some year olds actually talk about the job; I don't know what happens to people in the tech industry beyond that, they seem to have a lot less "presence".

Mind you, maybe there's just less of them because access to education and work in tech has improved so much over time?
As a private citizen you aren't legally mandated to buy local. I don't begrudge someone for buying local themselves but it's annoying when they want to force that decision on me.

At any rate I think your analogy makes more sense for services procured from outside the U.S. If you hire someone who then relocates to the U.S. they become local by definition.
Each queue is managed by country of origin. Last time I read about it, each country would get, at most, 7% of the available GCs.

What is more fair? A guy from Island waiting 20 years because he is stuck behind 1 billion Indians? Or Indians waiting longer because more of their nationals are applying? Honestly, I don't know, but I know the 7% rule is justified. The idea is to avoid massive inbound diaspora that would be very hard for the country to absorbed culturally.
> Yes, that's what I'm equating it with. I think it's a fair analogy.

That you think it's a fair analogy doesn't help me in the slightest to understand what your reasoning is.

> Disabling Javascript isn't enough to 'protect your privacy',

In the same sense as wearing a face shield while operating a chainsaw is not enough to save your life. It goes a long way.

> I haven't heard of any tangible impact that would have on anyone's life.

Have you heard of Facebook? Google?
Depends on the country, for people from India or China, 10 years is generous even. For people from other countries ~5 to 7 years sounds normal.
Advanced PostgreSQL and NASA data ... sold. Shut up and take my $30. Instabuy :-)
Supporting local businesses, you say? Well then who would be upset by this:

https://www.facebook.com/831551/posts/10109802281855389
My wife started as an H1-B. It's true that she was unpaid and locked into her company, but ultimately it was her path to US citizenship.

She knew exactly what she was getting into - and now she's making higher six figures than I do.

The H1-B program is a choice they can walk away from at any time, which makes it fundamentally different from slavery.
It says: Hey, we plotted two things on top of each other, and get them to kind of fit, (might be) evidence that "scientific community itself can be interpreted as a [ideal gas]".
Hmph, are you on Pro? I've only got the consumer version of Win10, and I can't see that option... .
I think there's truth here too.

Given how likely the NYC subway is responsible for the disproportionate illness and death why hasn't it been shutdown?
This is gross generalisation - I know many workers who are hired on H-1B who are getting same (good) pay and conditions as locals.

Cut off the abuse, don't shut down everything for everyone.
> 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.

“Buy Local” is so controversial in fact that the US government has entered into international agreements limiting it, which is why, e.g., country of origin labels are being removed from meat products. Capitalism and globalization go fist-in-gauntlet.

The fact that one side is overrepresented in empty PR while the other side operates quietly between the economic elites and the politically powerful obscures the disagreement if you don't pay too much attention.
I'm adding features all the time, I'm thinking of providing a quick preview as well. I appreciate you checking it out and glad you like it!
> As much as possible, encourage people to post anything of interest to the public channels. Notice that I’m saying public channels, and not private messages, because we don’t ping anyone unless it’s necessary. We just want to make the information available.

That makes it technically available, but also less accessible than a paper Encyclopedia Britannica. Are people actually going to try and search through the Slack channel for a solution or are they going to continue asking their co-worker in a private chat?
> I don’t see how project managers are highly skilled labor. I don’t see how QA testers are highly skilled labor.

It's unfortunate that you've never worked with a good project manager or good QA testers. The high end of these fields are incredibly highly skilled.
I don't really agree that it's been abandoned, nothing suggest that this is true. They're not known for just abandoning established services, there's a public roadmap[0] that you can follow. Like all services there are pros and cons. Up until very recently EKS lacked more or less everything ECS has in tight integration with other AWS services, so there's that.

[0] https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/projects/1
A spectral line is a special key frequency that can unlock and electron in an atom and cause it to move to a higher energy level. Several thousands of these lines are known. The authors made a bar chart that showed how many spectral lines were known for each frequency. They found that the shape of the bar chart looked like the shape of the spectrum of the light that would be emitted by a glowing stove element at 9000K (admittedly this would vaporize the stove element but just imagine the red-orange-yellow-white thing extended a bit further). The "spectrum" of the light means a chart of how bright each color of the rainbow would be if you made a rainbow out of the light by diffracting it through a prism. (For example, if I made a rainbow out of an Edison lightbulb's light, the blue and purple part of that rainbow would be much dimmer than if I made a rainbow out of sunlight.)

There is no particular relationship known between these two things. The authors are curious about why the charts look the same. The authors forgot to pull the old trick where you publish your speculation separately from your experimental results[0], so HN is complaining about their speculation.

[0] The trick works because physicists are mainly interested in remembering right answers, so if your speculations are wrong they will remember only the experiment, and if your speculations are right they will remember both.
In my experience, there's companies where it's clear that TDD solves less than hiring competent developers and having anyone writing requirements. Testing requires being able to think in depth about maintenance and verification of software. These are not easy tasks and often get distorted into 100% coverage or else - which really just encourages unmaintainable and usually useless tests.
> they solved a problem of where to stick money to try and get a greater than x% return

That is literally any company, be they large or startup, that is trying to attract investment. These were both "disruptive" types that had the backing of a few notable investors and interested parties, and looked juicy to those who could stomach the risk.

Theranos was trying to solve blood testing problems, to make them quick, cheap, and to disrupt the handful of companies that dominate the medical testing field. The whole idea was that poor folks could get a cheap, reliable blood test at Rite-Aid.

WeWork was an REIT designed to resell coworking space to low-to-mid scale clients; rich people and big companies aren't getting coworking space, they're just getting their own private offices.
Just like GCC has had Cobol, Ada, Fortran, Modula-2, Pascal, Java, Go and plenty of other ones throughout the years.
Point is it shows how wrong the original situation was, or vice versa

Mathematically, someone can say P, or not-P, or "P and not-P". One of those is most obviously wrong.
>Developers like simple sites like Hacker News. Nobody else does.
StackExchange ( Which is not only about developers ) Serve their Server Rendered HTML page in less than 20ms at 98th projectile with little to no caching.

They didn't even bother caching their most popular section or page.
Thank you very much.

Do you know if there will be a DAFx2020? That would make it the first conference in years that I would really want to attend.
Well, Gnome 3 is starting to grow on me.

I know you can still use gnome2 or unity but I eventually decided to stop fighting and embrace changes.

Maybe it's just me getting more comfortable with Linux, but I fell I now get more things done with vanilla 20.04.
Assuming it's the time from when he shoots to when it arrives at the backboard
> Not to mention, they've already paused green card processing

This one is personal for me. I have a good friend who had been in the US for like a decade, and finally his green card application was going through before the pandemic hit. What’s going to happen to him? Are you going to leave him visa-less during a pandemic, and kick him out of the country on whatever few flights are available? Is his company supposed to magically rebound when they’ve just lost a key worker with tons of experience?

Throughout the campaign cycle this president motivated his supporters by talking about illegal immigration. Yet at every opportunity, they instead reduce legal immigration.
Obligatory- this framing of Learn/Earn/Return is a good one, but this application of the model to age cohorts is fantastically unrealistic and outdated. Especially if you have/plan to have kids.

Unless you are exceptionally, unpredictably right place/right time lucky- I cannot emphasize how exceptional and unpredictable this is, and how much it depends on right place/right time and not on any unique attributes you possess- you will need to Earn for all of your adult life.

In order to do so you will also need to Learn for all of your adult life, in cycles that are far, far tighter than 15 years.

And you will benefit from Returning as soon as you are able. Even tracing and documenting your Beginner Mindset journey will be helpful for others.
Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet introduced me to the term "TTP" (Time To Penis), as a measure of how long before somebody makes a penis in an online, user-content based videogame
One of the best self projects i've ever seen. I hope he is being mentoring somewhere to take advantage. This guy could be the next Jony Ive.

But why windows? Realtime OS needed badly.
> * H-1B employers must attest that they can't find an employee domestically and have made a good faith attempt to do so.*

How effectively is this enforced? The arguments against these visa is that companies know how to game this requirement. They specifically write job descriptions in a way that’ll fail to find someone locally, so they can hire cheaper immigrant labor.

And cheaper isn’t just lower salaries, they’ll also cause fewer waves and be more accommodating. An employee who depends on your employment to stay in the country is more likely to put up with abuse.
After being subscribed to Louis Rossmann's YouTube channel for a while, I'm not sure Macs are much better in that regard (e.g. butterfly keyboard issues and replacement program, the bizarre cooling solution in new MacBook Air, pin layout that's very susceptible to liquid damage, etc.)
I can imagine it's a cat-and-mouse game of sorts. Maybe they just say 'play' via Javascript after the video has loaded?

It's a JWPlayer video, maybe they have some tricks up their sleeve.
Hey, I'd say that being "uncomfortable" wearing a shirt and tie is relative. If I wore that as a uniform to school every day as a kid, it might make me uncomfortable to switch to more casual clothes. And that's precisely where I might start to learn.
>Frontier and Ryanair lower the bar

Absolutely. Over the past few decades budget airlines have made it obvious that there's a certain (fairly large) class of passengers who will endure significant inconvenience and discomfort is it saves them a couple of dollars.

The traditional airlines certainly have the option to say "Nah, we're not going there." But, for example, business class-only airlines and routes generally haven't worked out for airlines.
==you should be forced to source local talent before you're permitted to source from outside the country.==

Sounds like pretty heavy-handed regulation. “Buy Local” doesn’t force anyone to do anything. It encourages consumers to choose a specific product, but all products are still available. Not really sure how they are similar.
> 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.

While this is true, what percentage of employers make an actual good faith attempt? I'd be shocked if it was even as high as 50%.
In my experience, companies design job postings for a market where only an H-1B applicant could get the position.
A Chrome extension to measure essential metrics for a healthy site
I thought the O1 was the genius visa?

You are right about the H1B1. They should give the visa to the person, not to the company, so that people could credible threaten the company to walk away for a different job somewhere else. That would do away with the slave mentality.
Medicare for All (or equiv) is enabler for widespread UBI.

The combo of M4A, UBI, and affordable childcare will lead to an explosion of entrepreneurial spirit, small businesses, and startups.

If I had had health insurance, I would have taken a lot more risks. But I average a major health crisis every two years, so whenever I ran out of savings and COBRA, I had to take jobs just to get insured. (ACA helped by prohibiting exclusion based on preexisting conditions.)

I did manage to work solo twice, with modest success. But the uncertainty freaked my partner out and we needed guaranteed insurance for our family.
Yeah, this sounds a lot like quitting reading books or watching movies cold turkey.
You're probably right. "The Terminal" is still a wonderful feel-good movie though. "Medicine for goat" :-D
An Ubuntu "remix" was previously defined in the trademark policy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070429002528/http://www.ubuntu...

I'm not sure about the current legal status of such use of the trademark, but I hope this explains what is usually meant by "Remix" in the context of Ubuntu.

"We recognise and encourage the concept of a “remix.” Remixes are derived versions of Ubuntu, and it is intended that any software and hardware certifications will apply to a Remix. Therefore the changes from official Ubuntu product must be minimal to be permitted to use the Trademarks. These changes can include configuration changes through the existing Ubuntu configuration management tools, changes to artwork and graphical themes. and some variance in package selection. In general, a Remix can have applications from the Ubuntu archives added, or default applications removed, but removing or changing any infrastructure components (e.g., shared libraries or desktop components) will result in changes too large for the resulting product to be called by a Trademark. Note that if the nature of the product's divergence from Ubuntu changes, the Remix naming and Trademark use may no longer apply."

"Therefore, if you are creating a derivative of Ubuntu, you may use the Trademarks in association with the software product provided: [some conditions]"
A wiki is only as good as the big picture and structure of the people feeding it. Maybe you could use the logs of a chat to feed into a wiki. Just having everyone edit away with that ever is on their plate today, sure sounds like a wiki I don't want to use.
Markdown files using Nextcloud - I can edit and the files on my phone/browser. When it comes to note taking, I want something fast and everywhere.
Eh, one of their proposed explanations (really, their only explanation beyond the vague "coincidence" and "unknown physical law") is specific to how the NIST database is compiled, so disagree they're taking them as a "holy source of truth".
Yup, it's taken some people a month to get back home, and that usually involved negotiations between countries and special flights.
This is often a false choice in reality - many H1B recipients have lived here for decades or more, have kids at school who are American citizens and know nothing about where their parents even came from.

To go back deports their American children to a country where they may not even know the language, as one example.

I wouldn’t go as far as to call it slavery either of course, but it undoubtedly has a servitude element - the outcomes of the policy speak to that.
And has five-fold symmetry, which is impossible for wallpaper groups.

The discovery of Penrose tilings is partially tangled up with the discovery of quasicrystals, where researchers found minerals with 5-fold and 10-fold symmetry that ought to have been mathematically impossible to exist. Turns out that the Crystallographic Restriction Theorem has an important caveat that people neglected up until the 1980s: it assumes that you have to have translational symmetry, which Penrose tilings do not.
Indeed. Having myself spent some time in the "VST lifestyle business" when I was in grad school (was selling a guitar emulation based on physical modelling synthesis), and now working in ML, I think there's no chance for such an approach to hit "mainstream" anytime soon. Even if you do your inference on CPU, most deep learning libraries are designed for throughput, not latency. In a VST plugin environment, you're also only one of the many components requiring computation, so your computational requirements better be low.
That's purely software, if you use Windows under Boot Camp on a MacBook it will be identical to a PC
> Is a gymnasium a school in Europe? It's an exercise facility in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)

> I've gone through high school and taken CS (and a bit of discrete math and logic) in college, and never seen the ⊢ symbol before.

Interesting. I was taught ⊢ first semester in CS in Logic class. Along with most other common logic notation.
How do you thinking the individual underlying shares of an equity index fund are valued? The performance of a company is analyzed, and market participants buy or sell shares and derivatives based on their analysis. You can make the argument that an over-reliance on indexing leads to less price discovery, but I don’t buy it.

The people shrieking the loudest about passive indexing are active fund managers.
My company is still hiring. We just onboarded a new H1B a couple weeks ago.
I've worked with a ton of H1B talent in my 20 years or so in the industry and I can count on one hand the number of times that they were an exceptional talent (compared to the rest of industry) that couldn't otherwise be sourced locally.

That's true for anybody in any IT position, though, generally.
Truly exceptional people are few and far between.
Also in those cases those H1B folks were highly paid. No, the vast majority of times I've worked with H1B talent was because they were willing to work hard and for less.
Show HN: I run ReactNative/Expo inside a Gatsby blog post
A Brief History of Google's Street View Cameras
In any given field, there's a certain base level of applicants who are never hired because they're completely incompetent in their chosen line of work, i.e. a lot worse than slightly less exceptional. Are you okay with your team being forced to carry someone with negative productivity who happens to be "local" over anyone, no matter how highly skilled, who happens to be foreign born?
I've told SQL learners before

There is no Advanced SQL; there's only "a very large amount of SQL", "exotic SQL", and "SQL no one should have written."
"Simply go to MIT and work at Google"

I say this in jest, but that isn't the most replicable path. For someone who didn't go to MIT and is mid-career, should one just throw in the towel and give up on the industry?
If you like it, please retweet :)
https://twitter.com/sebastienlorber/status/12598330039011614...
The show won't collapse, if you have one glitch an hour.
Okay, taking Facebook as an example. Let's say you visit a random website and get tracked by a Facebook Pixel (which happens to be an image, not JavaScript), what happens then? You see behaviourally-targeted advertisements on Facebook and partner destinations, instead of generically-targeted advertisements. I don't agree with the assertion that this has a materially negative impact on anyone's privacy or life as a whole.

I understand that this is an unpopular opinion, but it's what I believe.
Ask HN: How to scale my freelance job?
Hello,

For the last 6 years I've been freelancing for fashion brands taking care of all technical aspects of their online presence. That means Shopify setup, image retouch, mailing list management, A/B testing for their store design, assets for social media, collection uploads etc. Basically all the tech stuff, marketing excluded.

I realized that those needs are pretty much the same for all fashion brands, so I want to scale it to a subscription service for fashion brands. Different tiers will have different hour packages for PM and Development.

I'm starting to gather info about my monthly expenses between services I would need to have to run the business, and I'm discussing with my developer to understand pricing for development hours.

I always been a creative person, and really not in the marketing /business side, I would love any input on a path to follow to build this up. Articles, suggestions, anything you can think it would help and it will be greatly appreciated.

The project name and one line is: "Tailry — Grow your fashion brand with an in-house digital department, on demand."
A Surface Go has been computationally sufficient for remote SSH dev use for VS Code with Rust with my (admittedly small) projects. I no longer bring my XPS 15 when visiting parents for extended visits. The 10" screen/keyboard is a drawback, obviously, but performance hasn't been since it's the remote machine doing the heavy lifting.