skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN needs to stop pretending only companies like Infosys and Tata abuse the h1b.

Even big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook hire h1b workers so they can create sweatshop environments. H1b workers are afraid of being deported if they do not perform well, and a certain percentage of workers are forced to be on the PIP plan every year in the stack ranking.

Can even lead to suicides or suicide attempts. Ex:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/15/facebook-employee-i-was-fire...
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-share-thoug...
As an anecdote, LinusTechTips, which has a huge Youtube channel, recently commented on WAN Show about Youtube Premium and Ad Revenue.

The takeaway was that, if you are a youtube premium user, you are contributing way more than someone just watching ads, and if you buy merch, you had contributed way, way more than someone who watched the entire channel library with ads turned on.

"60x More": https://youtu.be/rXz0veV1AuU?t=1950
"Merch": https://youtu.be/E4ikRN5-W18?t=1180
The bridge just shrugs the hits off it is very tough. So the damage and the problems are really for the trucks not observant enough to see half a dozen warning signs and lights.

They are the ones who end up paying, not the railroad that owns the bridge.
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The down side is that you don't own any of the users. You don't even know who they are.

Is user management for an API / backend only service that difficult that it's worth giving over all your users to a 3rd party service which simply forwards on their requests?

Throw up a POST /user endpoint which returns an API key, and implement auth and... you're done.

I see value in the payments portion.
Half eight in Swedish is 7:30 :-)
It’s was within spec when it was built.
Hey, I saw you posted a few comments saying that it's highly unlikely that there are "meaningful" differences. So even if we leave the "obvious" differences between populations like skin color aside as not "meaningful", do you have any sources that explain (or if you want to yourself) the "obvious" or "well-known" differences between groups, such as Dutch height, Ashkenazi intelligence or Kalenjin running endurance? Sincere question, I'm genuinely curious as I can't think of any other obvious explanation than "genetic group differences" (and it's kind-of hard to Google for).
Skilled crafstmen are not in the underclass. They ones I've met are very well paid, and take pride in their work, and know a lot. The stone decorations of mediaeval cathedrals were very expensive. Modern architecture avoids decoration partly to avoid expense.
>>Most people will not ever interact with law enforcement over bollocks laws.

That is actually a very bad thing, and once the people in power abuse

If few people encounter "bollocks" laws then there is no outrage over their enforcement, therefore if you piss off the wrong person in government suddenly they go over your life with a fine tooth comb and you have 100 "bollocks" charges and your life is ruined but since you are just one person there is no so speak out for you.

>There will always be bollocks laws.

That is a bollocks position and one that can be solved (in part) with mandatory sunset of all laws. Every Law, Regulation, and policy should have to be affirmed by the legislature at minimum every 20 years if not more often. If not is ceases to exists
docker-compose logs -f <service>

So you don't have to manually hunt down the container you want the logs for.
I'm on FTTC 80/20. Their control pages (which are excellent BTW) tell me the VDSL sync speed is currently 72.7Mb/s. They allow you to set an FQ/shaper upstream of the DSL infrastructure. I have the shaper set to 95% of the sync speed. This means I'm trading off 5% of the capacity, but in return I never see any queuing delays in the BT infrastructure. For example, I just ran a ping from my home to my lab across London. With an idle link, I get 10ms RTT. Then I ran a DSL speed test and saturated the downlink. It reports 65 Mbps which is pretty much what I get 24/7. But the real story is that the ping briefly only increased to 30ms just when the speed test started, then dropped back to 11ms for the duration of the speed test. That's really good isolation. Bandwidth is really not a big deal anymore - what matters is latency, but most ISPs just don't get this. Often you need to buy stupid link speeds just to avoid queuing delays. But I find that FTTC is fine for everyone in my family to run simultaneous Netflix sessions and me to videoconference at the same time with no noticable additional latency on my call.

Edit: here's the graphs from the A&A control page for my line for the last week. These are really helpful figuring out what's going on if anything is strange. You can see that the mean RTT doesn't really move off the bottom axis, and the peak RTT pretty much never exceeds 50ms.
http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/tmp/latency.png
I've had good luck with Wiha tools.
And yet the majority of these only result in a minor annoyance. Bitcoin mining doesn't impact the consumer from a financial point of view. DoS/proxy bots affects someone else but not the consumer. Stealing data is possible but most malware out there limits itself to either card numbers (for which the bank will compensate you) or social media accounts for spam purposes (which again don't impact you financially), there is rarely someone at the other end manually looking through your data to see how they can leverage it for more impact (because this requires manual work and doesn't scale). Ransomware could but with the prevalence of cloud storage today its impact is heavily mitigated.

While there are odd cases where a targeted attack results in devastating outcomes, in the majority of cases malware just sticks to simple, automated (and thus easy to scale) attacks like harvesting card numbers or accounts, for which the bank will compensate you. In most cases getting malware (aka a burglar in your PC) doesn't have the same financial impact as a burglar in your house (when you typically get thousands worth of goods stolen that aren't likely to get replaced) so there is no opportunity for learning or being worried.
It feels like Spotify keeps recommending the same few somgs to me unless I go for the weekly 'Discovery' playlist.
Recently, (or maybe it's just me) I have seen a surge of articles providing advice on $Thing. Most of these articles seem to me an expansion of aphorisms which people have been saying since time immemorial. This reminds of the saying,

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Such articles can be compressed into a common adage that most people are aware of.
I'm reading this on a late 2012 Macbook.
The discussion on Ghoti[0] around language standardisation reminded me of this essay. It's a review of an American Usage Dictionary[1] that centers primarily around the question of the purpose of dictionaries (as a prescription for the way language should be used, or as a record of use).

The post links to Harper's hosted scan of the original printing but it's a little difficult to read. There is a copy meant for screens [2] (under the title Authority and American Usage, subtitled or "Politics and the English Language" Is Redundant, as it was published in his collection of essays Consider the Lobster[3]).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23581841

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garner%27s_Modern_English_Usag...

[2] https://github.com/borges-paradise/DFW/blob/master/dfw-autho...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
I mean, I’ve been hearing a lot of cases where the police killed people who were definitely not “violent criminals who have no regard for police life”. Brianna Taylor’s boyfriend wasn’t a violent criminal when he fired at the police.

“ A defence attorney for Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, says he fired in self-defence because police did not announce themselves and that he believed they were breaking in to the home.”

The police did a no-knock raid unannounced on the wrong home, then shot EMT Brianna Taylor 8 times. Those violent techniques are at issue here. They seem to be violations of 5th and/or 14th amendment rights and clearly not appropriate.

https://lailasnews.com/international/brianna-taylor-death-br...
It's mostly the refresh rate, I think. The processor is fairly decent.
My understanding is that for this to work everyone has to get in the same room periodically and talk.
True. A city near me paid about $350k for a few dozen ALPR cameras at major intersections. Not a bad price for near total surveillance of every vehicle traveling in and out of town
Wait, when? For iPhone? I just checked and don’t see it.
I used to drive under this bridge almost every day. It is remarkably well signed. But some people just can’t be reached. I’m reminded of the elective attention test.

http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html
It is about two feet or so below modern standard for bridge clearance. But it was within spec when it was built.
> Their control pages (which are excellent BTW)

Can confirm. They are awesome! You can see network logins/logouts for the last 12 hours.

I love the email I get whenever my connection has dropped, and the next email 30 seconds later after reconnection.

Absolute genius.

EDIT: Check out their network status page: https://aastatus.net/
For a larger snapshot ND, the BestOfNextDoor twitter account is solid gold : https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor

The oft-repeated quote of "ND is just Tinder for old racists" makes it sound so lovely.
Miami is RCIs headquarters, lots of staff there.
> So, you're telling me that they're gonna pay the same amount they'd pay for a local employee PLUS the H1-B overhead, just to hire a foreign worker?

For the most part, sure, it should be cost prohibitive. I think companies should go out and find the best talent, they should try to do it locally, and if they can’t, paying the little overhead is nothing when you realize you just filled the role with world class talent.

It seems odd to have cost be a factor when you are basically saying you had to search the world to fill the role.

I personally don’t believe most companies need to scour the world to fill most roles. For those that do, they won’t scoff at the price. This will at least eliminate the arbitrage that is rampant in the global economy.
Teardown of Aircraft Transponder
One-fifth of Earth's ocean floor is now mapped
I think it should depend on the context. One of the problems seems to be that there is no public space for 'monuments' in the modern world, so we get user-hostile bourgeois 'form over function' in buildings where people actually need to live and work etc. I would rather a division between 'temples' of aesthetic value, where the architects can play aesthetic games, and 'secular' spaces of more utilitarian value.
> Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds (i.e. "dirty money") appear legal (i.e. "clean").

Someone should let FinCEN know that their definition is incorrect: https://www.fincen.gov/history-anti-money-laundering-laws
Could this be used to determine the temperament of a piece of music (well temperament, meantone, pure intonation etc)?

e.g. recently I've been looking into the Persian Santur but have been unable to find a reliable source of tuning information (https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/101000/how-is-the-...).
I second the recommendation for the iFixit screwdriver sets, the Mako is great for precision/smaller things, and the Manta is great as more of a general purpose set. I use the Manta all the time for general household applications. The other awesome part is the lid can double as a parts tray. I do with the Manta had more hex drivers, but I have a separate set of those as well.
Fate of $1bn in Venezuelan gold hangs in balance at high court
That's relevant but it's definitely not the whole problem.

As the article shows, lots of architectural ugliness isn't cost-saving at all. It costs extra and makes the buildings less usable
http://news.mit.edu/2008/sponge-book-1007

Sometimes it costs a lot extra and is much less usable. https://thetech.com/2010/03/19/statasuit-v130-n14
Any chances to see something similar ported to older Mali GPUs such as the ones contained in lower end Allwinner ARM SOCs? So far it seems only newer ones are (officially) supported. https://developer.arm.com/solutions/graphics-and-gaming/apis...
Try having a spouse die from cancer. People need to buck up.
Well, 31, if my calculator is correct! - but, it's very true that you're never too old to want to impress people, whether for sexual purposes or not.
Considering that soldiers in Ancient Greece could only retire after 30 years of service, I think it's fair to say there were plenty of 80 year old "primitive" humans.
Yes.

I'll take it a step further and ask, do adages actually contain any signal at all? If you have a saying "try try again" and another saying "don't bust your head against a brick wall" which one wins? When?

Getting fluent in French is probably best done without a plan, but just practicing a bunch. But I'm sure you can think of several activities where "just try it" is godawful advice. Who says writing is in the former camp? Prove it.
Same here! My main change was getting an SSD. If you're in this boat, I highly recommend it. If I wanted to really push it, upgrading to 8GB of RAM would probably make it work extremely well.

It's nice to have things that run well with relatively small changes.
Preferences are almost certainly a factor. I live in Houston, where we don't have zoning, yet it's specifically cited (and I can confirm) that the vast majority of residents live in suburbs. The article itself acknowledges that, "Americans have been running away from dense, vertical design for a century." People don't want to live in small spaces with close neighbors, or at least, I don't. I don't see the appeal of going to a restaurant on foot given that I never (or very seldom) eat out. Same thing for coffee. I don't shop except for occasional online purchases, and never "go shopping" as many are wont to do. Just about the only things I do are go to the office (which was at least partially virtual, even before corona) and occasionally drive to a business function or symphony performance. Living in an urban area simply holds no appeal for me, or at least, I don't see any appeal. While I can't be sure as to everyone's reasons, it appears others may feel similarly.

As an aside, the article refers to "the suburban wine room." I have yet to see someone with a "wine room"; is this commonplace? A regional difference, perhaps? It also refers to "his-and-hers walk-in closets"; I don't know any guy with his own walk-in closet excepting those that live in apartments that came with one.
The cost of housing isn't the problem, this has been proven over and over again in SF. Yes, housing helps, but its not a cure. During the CV outbreak SF has had a hard time getting people to go into hotels when offered, because people had to abstain from drinking/drugs and to take their medication.

There's a really interesting character from SF who posts on twitter (@MyTwolffamily) about his personal experience of being a homeless drug addict, it might be enlightening to read some of his posts.
I'm with A&A as well and since the mid 2000's. Despite being on Universal Credit due to my freelance biz going down the toilet due to Coronavirus, I'll do my absolute best to stay with them even if it means living off of cheap frozen peas and 50p supernoodles. They're not cheap but they bloody well answer the phone within 30 seconds and their tech support know their stuff. Even in my present crappy financial situation the thought of settling for anything else cheaper from Sky, BT, TalkTalk et al makes me shudder.
I suspect that varies. Actors, e.g., are far more likely to be recognized. I think the only author I’m a fan of who I’d recognize is Asimov, and obviously I’m unlikely to meet him on the street.
I think that came from Mark Twain.
"How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" by Great Courses is really good. The lectures are by a professor/composer.

Forget about consistency or naming conventions. But you'll get a lot more out of the listening experience once you know a bit about different composers from different periods: baroque, classical (talk about confusing!), romantic, contemporary. Now when I dial the classic radio station I can often tell the period and even the composer even if I've never heard the piece before. Fun :)
Looking at his magical artifacts floating in the air, he appears to be incanting some sort of USB driver.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/USB_icon...
To summarise: the authors speculate that the NSA invested in a lot of resources into breaking Diffie-Hellman key exchange for certain 1024-bit primes. Just a few hardcoded 1024-bit primes were used in the majority of VPN handshakes and a significant minority of HTTPS and SSH handshakes worldwide in 2015. This would give the NSA the ability to recover the shared symmetric key used in these encrypted communications, and therefore decrypt them.

Since then several protocols have shifted towards preferring Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange which doesn't suffer from the same attack, or at least using larger primes for plain DHKE (1536-bit and above). However I don't know the extent of this - a lot of VPNs at least are still using the old, weak DH keys.
I live in a small semi-detached house that's walkable to the downtown of our city. I can bike to dozens different places to get take-out, we have a small private back garden where we can host guests, and we have enough space for two of us to work from home in privacy. We also actually see our neighbors outside every evening when we walk around.

There's definitely an in-between, medium density option that this article seems to ignore in favor of focusing on car-focused, isolated suburbs where everyone had 5 bedrooms and a pool.
Reminds me of this [1] old TED talk about horrible architecture that I still find relevant as ever.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
Compressors can get a build up of condensation in the tank. I've personally never had that be an issue, but it's definitely a concern.
I'm using a x230 as well, where'd you purchase your battery? mine's nearly done I feel.
> We offer both the slower ADSL services and the faster VDSL (fibre to the cabinet) services, FTTP and G.FAST services where available. The package is available with a copper pair or you can use with a phone line you buy from another Openreach-based provider such as BT.

https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1/
Neuroticism is an ordinary and healthy part of human expression, although high neuroticism is generally associated with poor life outcomes.
> Today, 29 percent of Nigerian-Americans over the age of 25 hold a graduate degree, compared to 11 percent of the overall U.S. population, according to the Migrations Policy Institute

> ..overt racism hasn’t stopped Nigerian-Americans from creating jobs, treating patients, teaching students and contributing to local communities in their new home, all while confidently emerging as one of the country’s most succesful immigrant communities, with a median household income of $62,351, compared to $57,617 nationally, as of 2015.
Can't you just stop paying the bill until they pull the plug?
I feel like slightly less of a fuck-up every time I watch one of these.
Sat solver on top of regex matcher
SF has recently proven OP's postulation as fact.

Even the extremely "progresive" mayor pointed it out.

SF's homelessness is not about any of the things you've noted.
There's also many kinds of thermal energy storage systems in use (I think molten salt systems are the most promising[0], esp if you design salt mixtures that have have higher delta k's[1] and more efficient HEX and steam turbines to about ~60% efficiency of converting heat to electricity[2]), not limited by geography.

Going of the example powering 100MW turbine with a working temp range of ~278C[0] and using an eutectic mixture of calcium chloride and magnesium chloride (ionic halide salt)[1] with a working temp range of ~1440C, can make the "tank of about 9.1 metres (30 ft) tall and 24 metres (79 ft) in diameter to drive it for four hours by this design." last for nearly a day, though with higher upfront cost than a typical NaNO3 + KNO3 system, but nowhere near nuclear costs (except for the similarities with dealing with supercritical water for electricity generation).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Molten-...

[1]: https://gist.github.com/cinquemb/015f8b0775db2381513f0e20186...

[2]: https://www.solarpaces.org/vc-funded-thermal-battery-based-m...
This is never the case. The issue is almost always due to the costs of hosting and making available the data.

Look up the open justice initiative in California.
Oh and after this overview you can dig into more specific periods and composers, also by Great Courses and same prof. If you're in US, you can check the local library, they have these audiobooks by the great courses for free.
“ Imagine now that your specification gets magically air-dropped into the Huaqiangbei. Only your spec - not your product. If a month later, successful clones of your product emerge in the Huaqiangbei, then you have succeeded in writing a good spec.”

Cool litmus test.

At the end of the day a spec is a communication tool to tell other humans how to pull off the original vision. It’s more efficient than words and talking.

It’s a medium.
True. I wouldn't have known I don't have the competency to sight-sing if I didn't try it first. That said, doing the "real thing" is out of my reach until I level up in other areas.
No, in English one uses 'they' for the third-person plural and 'she' for the third-person singular for females and objects which contain humans (e.g. buildings, ships and cars); for the third-person singular for animate objects of unknown gender one just uses the default 'he.'

And there's nothing wrong with that!
Thanks very much. Useful
Hi,
Can you elaborate on what was happening to your machine regarding 'which was spontaneous black screen and poweroffs'?

My late-2013 Macbook Pro has recently started similar behavior. Somewhat randomly the screen will go black, sit like that for a while, then fans speed up for maybe 10 seconds then it eventually turns off. This whole cycle is something like 20 seconds.

Is this similar to what you observed which was fixed in your case by the script?
> the US had better invest heavily in education

At this point, more money is not going to help. Education in the US is fundamentally broken. Combination of "no child is left behind" and standardized testing (because everything else will be called discrimination) ensures uniformly bad results. If you pour more money in, it's just going to be wasted on bureaucracy and busywork.

So H1-B is actually a great idea. If we can't educate, let's attract well-educated people from elsewhere. They want to live here, so we can choose.

We don't mind buying electronics made in China because they can do it better and cheaper, why not do the same with people. Finland seems to be doing just fine with education at a fraction of US cost, let the market do its thing and flex the comparative advantage.
If you think Tesla is an exception, perhaps you should revisit your assumptions. Their story is not over,it is just beginning.

These stories all work the same way: "Obviously there is no fraud here, this is a short seller scam!" to "this company was always a fraud, obviously." Most people have their head in the sand on the way up, and pretend they knew all along when it implodes.

Every major fraud looks that way.
Or you go self employed and get your own fancy workstation since you know it’s easily worth your money in the long run. Don’t work for people that don’t understand this.
That’s exactly what I want except where I am the schools are all awful for any area with houses like that. So either move to car-centric suburbs or add another $20k+ per year to send two kids to decent private schools.