skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for not assuming I'm a racist.

Looking back, I couched my response in terms of "if you are offended by the word, then..." and I don't think I directly indicated that I thought you were offended. To be honest, I don't think the people who even kicked this off at GitHub are offended. They're just trying to do something.

There already is skin off your nose with this change though. First, because you're already here having to waste your attention on defending it. Second, because if Git and other tools surrounding GitHub don't change then there will be constant friction. (e.g. What now happens if you init a repo on your PC and push to GitHub with the default `master` branch? That's my exact workflow.) Third, if you have to do the work yourself to change it on your own projects. Fourth, because if you don't cover your ass 100% you'll potentially be targeted by this witch hunt.

Maybe you don't mind one or two of those situations, but I doubt you would all of them.

> ...but without a doubt it is one of its definitions (and one of the important ones in the history of the US).

I don't know what that means. Ideas are important. Words are constantly changing by meaning and usage and they're really only as important as a person allows them to be. In my opinion, assigning power or importance to inanimate things is folly. Power lies in controlling how you react to things. Philosophically it has been said that the only thing you can truly change in this world is how you react to things.

At the end of the day, this is a GitHub company decision. I can't do anything about it other than exploring my thoughts and talking about it. If GitHub starts harassing me over not changing my branch names though, I'll leave the platform in a heartbeat.
As said in another reply thread[0], I booted Windows 95 on a first gen ipad almost a decade ago using bochs, hence the sarcasm re: Xcode finally being the proverbial straw for GP.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23579974
In general, you don't want to take anything if you can.

Drugs usually inhibit biological processes. Metformin inhibits mitochondria. This can be good for diabetes and good for aging, but it depends. Hopefully your doctor understands when to prescribe it.
http://ghoti.xyz redirects to the Wikipedia article.
Violence by the police is as off topic to the NYPD playing the ice cream jingle in black neighborhoods as drone strikes are off topic to the national anthem being played at political rallies.

It's like the debate between Emacs vs. Vim. It's a debate that needs to occur. It is such a contentious issue that it quickly dominates any conversation in which the debate arises. The debate between Emacs vs. Vim, therefore, needs to be avoided in conversations of other, less contentious issues to allow the other issue to be the focus of the discussion.
Maybe, but your comment doesn't help much either.

If you think someone made an erroneous comment, it would be good to correct them by replying to it, or just summarize the common misconceptions and share your expertise in a top level comment.

Saying that people are making dumb comments, I know how it works, but then not following up, is not in the spirit of HN
I know this is a politically sensitive topic, so full disclaimer: I live outside the US but I work (and worked) for a company whose headquarters are in the US. So I know people in different visa situations.

I see this type of measure as something that has a xenophobic base.
The economic problem can be approached by applying sanctions to companies that use visas for cheap labor, not to the immigrants.
But that type of action will be seen from a part of the US society as anti-capitalist because it attacks companies and businesses. So a big chunk of the society prefers the xenophobic idea of blaming the immigrants because they "steal" the job positions, but very little is said about the companies that abuse from cheap labor to be competitive.
Easy question: Nope, because owning things (objects, files) is normal and not related to enslaving a human.
when you use LDL, HDL and cholesterol interchangeably this tells me that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Cholesterol itself is part of the lipid membrane of every cell. It’s essential. When people say “high cholesterol” they usually talk about high cholesterol carrying lipo-proteins in the bloodstream. high ldl is definitely a risk factor for CHD
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The urgency is coming from mobile networks and high reliance on low latency for user engagement.

Also even if we assume that 50% of all internet users have access the most modern protocols as soon as reasonable we still care about how quickly the next half will upgrade.

And in a sense I agree with this vision of the internet. On one hand the internet could be a super optimized distributed communication network with a lot of embedded functionality (I really like the concept of content-centric-networks/name-centric-networks) on the other hand the internet could be a dumb many-ended pipe (the IP protocol)

In terms of how I use the internet in practice I always prefer the dumb pipe model.
H1B Employee with 100k Salary contributes $12,400 to Social Security and $2,900 Medicare every year. (Total:$15,300 per year).

Majority H1B from India and China are stuck in green card backlog; with the current immigration system, they will never get the green card. Option for them is to stay in the USA on H1B in green card waiting queue or return home. (I do not think this is right or wrong people who are stuck in the queue, they chose to come to the USA and work here, it is up to that person to decide if they want to stay or go back or go to another country). After returning to home country from the USA, Social Security and Medicare deducted is a contribution to the USA (I am not saying this is right or wrong, just a fact).
I can maybe help here.

Many SV companies are in constant need of more skilled engineers.

Since the H1B visa can be transferred, when I arrived in the USA, nothing would have prevented me from going door to door and find a better paying job. Especially in the SV where there are tons of companies hiring.

So companies have a good incentive to give you a fair salary.

This is not true for all visas. In particular there is one visa (sorry can't remember its name off the top of my head) that is an "international transfer visa" : you work for one year for the company in a foreign country and then you can move to the USA while continuing to work for that company. It is pretty easy to get that visa but it is also very hard to transfer it to another company afaik.

Hiring is also a bit broken in our industry. The thing is, it is often pretty hard to distinguish what makes a good or a bad engineer. This being said, there are just not enough skilled engineers in the USA.

It would absolutely be possible to hire more local engineers and train them on the job but that would cost a lot of time for uncertain results. Companies prefer to hire engineers that can already be pretty productive from day 1.
It's well understood that insulin production in type 1 diabetics can continue at low levels for ~5 years post-diagnosis; the process of beta cell destruction is a gradual one and diagnosis typically occurs after 80-90% of beta cells function has been lost.
> They will live in anxiety, fear and uncertainty.

This. All my adult life(15 years) I have worked and lived here and my parents are old and you never know what can happen with current pandemic. Being from India the green card wait is over 11 years and increasing so I keep waiting. There needs to be a distinction between legit employers and ones who abuse the system.
There's a small category of words, at least in British English, that act as a fairly effective shibboleth when it comes to identify non-native speakers. Usually names for places, but not only:

Glouchester, Worcester, Worcestershire, leftenant etc
DeFi Powerhouse Compound Outpaces MakerDAO with Assets Held on Chain
It wont get you very far seems to ignore centuries of aloofness and often very bad behavior being rewarded with great success.
The countries that took early measures i.e. Taiwan and South Korea have not had anywhere near the economic shutdown we have had. Economic damage and the need for gargantuan bailouts has been greatly curtailed.

We are now perenially in a wave of shutdowns and loosenings as the virus ripples through the population till we have a vaccine or herd immunity or it is reduced to a manageable chronic problem.
> Nim on the surface has a dream set of features

It's "too good to be true" is for real. The lack of friction when developing in Nim is what makes it so fun to code in (IMO). Metaprogramming in particular is just great in Nim and give you a lot of scope for doing things that would otherwise require new language features.

> how do you cope with the ever increasing scope of the language?

I've been using Nim pretty intensively for several years. From my perspective the language design has been very stable, even since before 1.0. I don't feel like the scope is expanding, and I don't think it really needs to either because the core language is built to be expanded with metaprogramming.

None of my code breaks when updating versions (and I do a lot of heavy metaprogramming). Nothing seems to be abandoned, only refined, and there's a big effort towards backwards compatability so breaking changes are exceedingly rare. The only one I only remember was some time ago when seq (the variable sized list type à la C++ vector) became not nil, so I had to replace `if list != nil` with `if list.len > 0`, so a good change IMO.

Most of the new things have been mechanical under the hood improvements and ownership is one of those. As I understand it, when using gc refs, you'll get free extra speed, better multithreadding, and better compile-time checks. No code needs to be changed, and when it's considered ready it will replace the previous GC, and you can add extra annotations for performance. It's refinement of the GC using ownership rules rather than a whole new set of rules for your program.

The stdlib is very stable (at least from my experience), and again great effort is spent on backwards compatability. Stdlib focus is on being small and "essential", so there's a high bar for stuff getting into it, and probably why it's rare for anything to change API there.

So personally the pace of change has been great - basically my code's just got free speed boosts when it's already fast enough :)
$364 million per year, so the endowment grows every year. After just 10 years, the endowment will have grown to $3.64 billion. Also you can do a lot better than 3% if you invest the money wisely.

You also don’t have to divide it equally among homeless people. You could start with a few and add more to the program over time, as the endowment grows. Those getting the money would be assessed based on potential to get off the streets permanently and find jobs, housing, etc.
I've had some success in agile-style places pushing for separate story pointing of special-snowflake bullshit design. Like:

"This feature's a 3 if we just do it with native elements or and/or existing UI guidelines, but it's another 5 story on top of that if you really need this ugly crap you're insisting on that'll bloat our bundle by a ton, likely be fragile in a variety of ways, and, realistically, probably have some a11y and cross-platform issues even with a "5" of effort put in."

Suddenly they don't really need it that much, and if they do, well, they have only themselves to blame when "not much" gets done this sprint. Congrats, you just saved them money and (probably) improved the UX and maintainability of the project. Every now and then they'll really insist, which is fine, but if you've got someone who's picking their (let's face it, usually terrible) glittery UI ideas over features & bugfixes more than very occasionally then the project's probably doomed, so at least that becomes clear really fast and you've got numbers to point to if shit gets toxic and the blame-game starts (you did document it, right?)
Status as a Service (2019)
After tens of thousands of photos, hundreds of songs, and millions of words, I can confirm that doing the thing is more effective than aimless research and analysis. The doing guides the learning.
The idea that LEDs last forever is a myth. LEDs degrade over time. They actually list it on the spec sheet. For example an L70 rated led with a 25k hour life will produce 70% of the light it produced when new after 25k hours.

Recently I replaced 4 Asus monitors with led backlights that were produced in 2014 and 2015. Asus says 300 nits. Tested them when I was calibrating their replacements and they were 110-120 at full brightness.

Monitors color shift and dim as they age... that’s why hardware calibrators exist.
Just off the bat I can’t help but think the citric acid cycle is probably more famous?

(Just checked google, and it has 55,000,000 results for the former, and only 3,000,000 for „Carnot cycle)
Using Servers to Heat Homes: Facebook Embraces Heat Recycling (2017)
They don’t save.

The abuse happens through contractors.

Companies hiring full time H1B employees directly will not save money because there is no incentive to and they have to pay the government additional fees simply for the H1B visa, and they have to almost certainly have an immigration team, or at a bar minimum a lawyer on retainer to keep up with the immigration stuff.

My company applied for an employee I manager’s permanent residency (she is on an H1B visa which has a limit of 6 years unless you apply for a permanent residency). The application process costs the company 30k on a one time basis, including fees to the government, lawyer fees, and associated expenses.
How do you source these accounts to buy?
For a contrary view, see "This is It".[1] (The one from the US Navy, not the one from the dead singer.) It's the story of four pilots who didn't take their training seriously enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=fNBwBHTWec4
Just makes me wonder whether there could be any conflict of interest here and who owns the copyright. I know some of the big corps assume ownership of whatever their employees produce even outside working hours. Or Maybe the project was signed off ?
> spell 'car' as 'kar' or 'kaa'?

You've forgotten "kair", the northeast/canadian maritimes version
The only thing I can think to add to the discussion here is to say that this behavior by the police force of New York City is simply intolerable.
This is a failure mode I've seen before in other distributed collaboration situations: there is a giant artifact that either clueless participants or homeless tools force everyone to carefully reexamine every time a change is made. If Figma really were all that I guess it would accommodate the futuristic technology called "diffs". Even if your excellent extension idea weren't available, ISTM designers should just maintain a current representation of production in Figma if only to themselves have some idea what's going on.
But wasn't the question about where to convalesce, that is, recover after having been treated?
Not the OP but looking at your example I can only think that the place lacks chairs/something to sit on.
I did, thanks.
Much of what you say is true, but it's important to realize the H1-B is not designed with any of those benefits in mind. Its only purpose is to fill roles where there is no local talent.
If you’re from India the current expected wait to get your green card, no exaggeration, is closer to 50 years.
New Zealand police shooting: Suspect on run after one officer shot and killed
As a polyglot and linguist, I have analyzed the spelling as follows:

Gh - Arabic hard G,
O - Persian Ou,
Ti - Russian Tee.
Can you see how someone emigrating of their own volition and bringing their skills is different to a country purposefully trying to encourage immigration of skilled workers from [poorer] countries where there is a skills shortage.

The end result looks similar but motivation matters.
O type Visas have no quota [0]. This is what the H1B are represented as though in practice suppress wages[1][2]. This issue is decades in the making and companies exploiting these programs earned their scrutiny. Especially when there's massive unemployment companies importing labor under these auspices need to be called out.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-look-at-the-h-1b-visa-pro...
[2] https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2015/05/economists-h-1b-v...
$45 per month is too expensive?
I love this idea. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing better than a well executed modern site with all the bells and whistles, but there is still the adage , just because you can, doesn't mean you should. People reading news, want just that, nothing more, well, I guess that is what I prefer.
You don't need to go to an alternate Universe to find a place that uses a phonetic script and the metric system. Just go to India.
Immigrants starting businesses aren't doing it on H1-B visas. Those are only for employees of existing companies and don't upgrade to permanent citizenship.
I live in an immediate suburb of Boston, and joined Nextdoor and joined to see what features were attracting so many folks to a new social media platform. Wow! Anyone with a tattoo, going to your door for any reason was considered "suspicious" and reported. One alarming thing, is that NextDoor is feeding on our fears about outsiders who look different, and creating a loop out of this for higher engagement when people post pictures and engage their camera feed.

It's too bad, I think idea of organizing a social network based on proximity and centered around community information is a viable idea, It's just that NextDoor is doing that with our worst instincts.
I don't know how shutting down one specific PWA would work but shutting down all PWAs could be done by removing relevant APIs from popular browser(s).

PWAs make use of in-browser APIs that enable native-app-like features. For example, a service worker (i.e. the Service Worker API [0]) enables us to build offline-first web apps. Other examples include the Payment Request [1], Web NFC [2], Notifications [3], Web Speech [4], Contact Picker proposal [5] and more. Google and Apple can choose what they support and could remove APIs from their popular browsers. I think removing APIs is rare because browsers generally care about backwards compatibility but one notable exception is the sunsetting of Flash.

I'm no expert but I think Google is betting on PWAs succeeding (or at least sees them as inevitable) and is trying to put themselves in the best position for when/if it succeeds. For example, ChromeOS supports PWAs and Chrome shipped APIs, that could be useful when building PWAs, that aren't supported in other browsers (e.g. the Web OTP API might be coming to Chrome soon [6] and makes inputting 2FA codes from SMS real quick). I'd be surprised if Google tried to "shutdown" PWAs. However, if PWAs were to succeed then we wouldn't rely on native app stores as much as we do today and that could mean the end of the Google/Apple duopoly on mobile operating systems. I wrote a short post about this on my personal website [7].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Req...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...

[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

[5] https://wicg.github.io/contact-api/spec/

[6] https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/chrome-84-beta-web-otp-web...

[7] https://konaraddi.com/writing/2019/2019-01-06-pwas-could-hel...
Advantage for governments is more control. For citizens, not much. Should the virus be around during this push, it'll be promoted as a "safer alternative" to physical cash.
With that said however, the average American diet is generally messed up enough that a lot of substances could benefit them, because there's so many existing problems that have room for improvement which are created by bad diet.

With a perfect diet, the amount of drugs you may want to take would definitely go down, perhaps even to zero.
Tom Scott is an educational YouTuber that teaches people about a wide range of interesting topics, and there is a reason why his main series is called "Things You Might Not Know." He always ensures that his content is short and to the point, all while maximizing the amount of thoroughly researched information. Funny enough, the video linked regarding copyright is actually one of his more unique projects with a much longer run time and higher production value. Tom Scott is one YouTuber in a small set that I would recommend everybody checkout to learn something cool.
Most tech companies are WFH right now, so if the government does this, there'll probably be lots of work for foreign lawyers setting up subsidiaries in other countries so that all the people affected can literally work from Home.
Quite a lot of languages well outside of India and United States are spelled phonetically.
What is this “remission” for type-2 diabetes? Does it mean that someone with the condition can, after adhering to the diet for some time, then go back to eating how they used to?

I don’t think so, so “remission” is bogus. The symptoms can be controlled with diet, but you have to stay on the diet.
Mozilla restricted comments on contraversial Megabar issue
Covid-19 de-materialized our world (+ Organizational Culture 5.0)
It’s not negative. It’s actually a positive that people running other browsers would like support. I just widened his potential user base for future experiments. Just because it’s a criticism doesn’t immediately indicate tone.

Arguably only developing for Chrome is what is impeding experimentation by not allowing it to be run on other browsers.
The police cars of the NYPD have a little microphone attached to a loudspeaker that officers can speak into to project their voice clearly to people outside the vehicle on the street. It is loud enough to be heard over midtown traffic on a busy day.
This brings up an interesting question: could YouTube be forced to fix its abuse-ridden copyright system by having individuals spam major companies' videos with bogus takedown requests?
And now they own his home office as well!
"Mr. Wright, I love the house you designed, but the roof leaks so badly we might as well not have a roof. Could you fix it?"

"No. That's how you know it's a roof!"
> Then I got my cholesterol checked during a routine blood work and it was through the roof. WTF? Anyone know better than me about this?

This is not necessarily a bad sign, but you should talk to your doctor about getting more advanced cholesterol blood tests.

There are different measures of cholesterol, like concentration per particle, number of particles, and size of particles, and regular bloodwork usually only measures one of those (concentration, I believe).

You can have a lot of small, empty particles, or fewer large, dense particles, and so forth. This means a regular test may not paint the whole picture, especially if you’re doing something “non-standard” like a keto diet, fasting, or if you’re losing significant body fat.