skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who might be inclined to give the NYPD the benefit of the doubt:

There are two major ice cream truck companies in NYC: Mr. Softee and New York Ice Cream. Mr. Softee uses their own (extremely recognizable) jingle, and New York Ice Cream uses a version of "Pop Goes the Weasel."

Neither uses this song; the NYPD's usage of it is intended to convey the racist subtext.
I can't figure out how it works, any links?
Yes, thanks, that summarizes the whole situation. Just make min salaries 200k, it could push up us salaries a little, but would mean many or most of those people like those laid off from us universities working in it would not have lost their jobs.
This is incorrect information. H1B "Status" and H1B "Visa" are two separate things.

A common immigration path is F1(Student) -> OPT -> H1B Status. If the person was already in the US(because they're going to a US college) then they would be given H1B status(read: no visa). Getting a H1B visa from the US consulate would be required IFF they: 1) Weren't already in the US, 2) Need to leave and reenter the US.

If the person is _already_ in the US when they receive H1B Status then they don't need to receive a visa. Not having a visa is not illegal or affect work status. A visa simply allows ingress and egress in/out of the country and does not confer work authorization(which is what an H1b "Status" does).

Source: I've gone through this process, and from a family of attorneys.
> obviously the cases where engineers built the right thing on the first try because of the clear design are harder to measure.

That's a fair comment.

> Also, look! Engineers are talking to designers.

I think most good teams have had engineers talking to designers since well before Figma :)
Figma does not seem to tie into the OS UI primitives.

What is the experience for visually-impaired users that need high contrast UIs or braille terminals?
Even in the Bay Area or NYC, $300K is a pretty nice salary unless the requirements are unusual (seniority, special skills, etc.)
No I think we’d just be born with four fingers on each hand.
In my experience, my local Nextdoor is filled with racist Karens who think every black person walking the street at night is casing a joint, and every homeless guy is intoxicated.

This system feeds the neurosis of so many stay-at-home parents and upper-middle-class professionals and is overall a net negative. Too many false positives make the system useless and actually harmful.
Because on Nextdoor, walking down the street while black in the wrong neighborhood is a minor offense. That site is a complete cesspool.
With this regimen, you would simply do as your blood sugar numbers direct. It sounds like these patients were measuring and found their glucose to be too low if they took any insulin. In that case, it is safe to stop if coordinated with a doctor. There shouldn’t be any point where a decision is made to drop insulin permanently while your reads are high.

Even if stopping insulin prematurely, low carb would mean low risk of DKA due to slowly rising glucose, giving plenty of time to react. Dropping long-acting insulin would be harder to revert, but frequent small doses of short-acting would be an effective stop-gap.

A good general principle for us diabetics is to encourage everyone to safely explore the control they have over their particular flavor of this disease, and respect whatever those limits turn out to be. :)
I rarely doubt my German spelling (a language I haven't used much in over 10 years) but with English it happens several times a day.

The fact that "spelling bees" are even a thing is proof that something is wrong, at least if you are using an alphabet.

German is a lot better than my mother tongue (what kind of spelling is that? Tounge? Tung??) Swedish, which, while awful, is still better than English.

I would guess that the best in class would be Italian. I took an Italian spelling test (listen and write) and I got 95% correct without knowing any Italian.

Edit: and even though I read and write englush several hour a day, my spelling is still awful. I wrote a small elisp script to find out my most corrected words in flyspell. The list just grew in every direction until I gave up.
Oh come on. Part of the reason why we're facing these job losses and high unemployment rate is because our administration fucked up hard managing the coronavirus and now they're looking for easy wins and scapegoats so people can blame the big bad other rather than the people responsible.

The fact that you're defending their cruelty because of the economy (that they fucked up!) is immensely disappointing.
Nice! Fascinating how many letters you need to represent all the vowels.
I used to be a programmer but left because I wanted, basically, to collect cool stories to tell my grandchildren. Don't regret it at all, plus having coding skills gives you superpowers in some situations (like xkcd 208 but actually).

I work on child sexual offences at the moment but I previously worked mainly on drug importations and had a case involving Canadians which is how I worked with RCMP.
Am I the only one surprised at how calm this article seems to be about this? Is there any reasonable doubt that this is racism? Shouldn't we be rioting in the streets about this? Oh wait...
The contracting company is acting illegally. I've seen a couple of similar stories in California - when they get caught, the officers go to jail.
Disclosure: I worked at Facebook.

You do not want your landlord and your employer to be the same. (Unless you're a live in manager of the property, then it's more likely to make sense). For one thing, it makes looking for another job much harder, because you'll presumably have to move as well. For another, because an employee that lives at the employer's housing may never interact with people who aren't employees, and end up even more disconnected from the community at large.

It may make sense for Facebook (or others) to put their money to work increasing housing supply by building denser housing, or by financing such building, but they need to divest as soon as practical. If the issue is employees can't live near work, because housing is too expensive, increasing the supply near work should help with that, even if you don't restrict the new units to employees.
Given the variation amongst different varieties of English, a phonetically-based reform would be tricky. E.g., should we spell 'car' as 'kar' or 'kaa'?

(It's also worth mentioning that English spelling is position-dependent: there aren't any real words where 'gh' at the beginning is pronounced as 'f'.)
The larger alphabet codes are unwieldy to type/read out loud. Past 10+26=36 you run out of decent symbols (making case significant is not user fiendly), and even in that range you have confusing pairs like 1iI 0o.

My personal favorite is z-base-32. It has none of those issues, and is much more compact than hex. It's the perfect in-between.

http://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encodi...
A couple of other examples: an old US Army training video on the workings of various categories of firearms [0], and an old video on how transmissions work [1]. Both make great use of physical models of the mechanisms.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqUgvoVXqg0

[1] https://youtu.be/JOLtS4VUcvQ?t=226
Ask HN: Resources to Use My Phone Like I Use My Computer
Apologies if the title is unclear. I often feel a disconnect between the freedom I have to interact with laptop versus the barriers put up between me and my phone - often due to the app-centered relationship. Examples include:

* The ease of being able to drop files into Dropbox for syncing on a laptop, but not having a clue how to do the same on mobile.

* Not being able to interact with the file system "normally". (I know there are some mobile terminals but none seem to fit well.)

* Not being able to run scripts and use a scheduler.

There are products out there like Integromat to lessen this disconnect, but I was wondering what the scope of the resources was.
You are of course correct about minor offenses.

I suggest you show the courage of your convictions, and do a few hour's research on exactly how much is illegal at present.

Then, turn yourself in for only the Federal crimes you've committed in the past year.

We'll never see you again, of course, but it's a small price to pay.
By the very nature of a highly skilled worker, they likely cannot realize the full value of those skills without a certain economic and commercial context. It is definitely not the case that for most H1-B employees the counterfactual is "growing their own countries out of poverty." Most likely, the counterfactual is being another 75th percentile wage worker in a low income country.

In addition, this line of reasoning totally discounts the very real benefit of foreign transfer payments from workers in the United States to their international families, often supporting large extended families.
"we" being Americans: the rest of the English-speaking world says "a herb" as the "h" in "herb" is not silent
A centralised platform might have the same problem. A decentralised or federated one might not, since no one would have the power to remove anything.

Maybe also some blockchain based system where uploads are physically impossible to take down. That's going to be interesting to see the results for court case wise, just like it'll be if illegal content ends up on the Bitcoin one.
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Ghoti, sure... But the whole world still wants to learn English. Most people are not deterred by the messed up spelling and other irregularities.

Also, English like any language is a living and breathing thing. New words come in, new spellings, etc... Reform would cause even more confusion than benefits
While I definitely appreciate the existence of pretty and accessible books like this, I wonder how effective spaced repetition is. If the end goal is testing the rate of retaining information then I definitely agree that spaced repetition is great.

However, my take is that people that have mastered subjects are the ones that can create stuff with that information so I believe the goal of "education" should be to graduate people to creators as soon as possible. Instead of flashcards why not graduate people to messing around with a quantum simulator. I'm not even sure how important memory is these days.

As far as I'm concerned some of the best educators out today are the Zachtronics and the Factorio devs. I hope more people follow in their footsteps.
Linux++: Issue 20 with Cassidy James Blaede of Elementary OS
Google's got a Pinterest competitor called Keen
I found it was the opposite. White Karen soccer moms virtue signaling with BLM drivel about systematic racism, etc.
> Post WWI we see architecture completely incapable of producing stuff ordinary people like. In fact it would appear the opposite, architects secretly revel in designing stuff ordinary people hate. Yet there was an explosion of high quality popular music.

These are two sides of the same coin! Both are the result of radical reinvention caused by new and strange circumstances.

Brutalist architects did not set out to make things people would hate. They set out to make habitable spaces that put people first - that residents would love - that prioritised the resident over the casual viewer. They sought novel and sometimes dramatic ways to achieve this in a context of rapidly improving technology but limited funding.

They failed a lot of the time, but I think it's quite unfair to say that they revelled in designing stuff people would hate - they were trying to do an honest job of hard things, the importance of which hadn't always been widely acknowledged before.

In my interpretation of this history, the architect is definitely on the same side as your musician.

The curious part is why the public took against the architect, but (eventually at least - it took much of a generation) accepted the musician. Obviously the architectural idea failed, at least to some extent. I don't know whether it failed in practice (producing buildings that were no use) or in communication (producing buildings that were an improvement, but that other people found unusual and offputting to look at). Perhaps both, but from what I've heard the 60s Brutalist flat is generally no worse to live in than its 1980s postmodernist or 1860s Peabody counterparts.
I use overdrive from my kobo. I have three library cards in it, unfortunately I can't use them three at the same time so depending on what kind of book I want, I switch accounts. I can search, reserve, and borrow from any of those consortiums directly from the Kobo device.
Both those prices seem excessive.
Yes! Unfortunately it is no longer mainstream since the monetization opportunities are fewer. But a lot of tech-savvy people prefer it for many reasons:

1. You get a personalized view of what you have and have not read.
2. You can scan over a lot of posts very quickly, and pick out what you want to read.
3. You can aggregate a lot of different websites in a single place. No need to visit each website individually.
4. Increased privacy.
5. Less tracking.
6. Increased control.
7. Fewer ads.

Probably more reasons, but these are the primary reasons why I still prefer RSS.
I disagree that his encoding is friendly.

I understand the compromises he made in order to make it less ambiguous, but regular users come across hashes sometimes, and unless you know it's his encoding, they're (often) smart enough to know that some characters look like others. So, when they go to recite the encoded value, they're still going to struggle "is that a 0 or an O?" etc.

We may know it doesn't make a difference, but someone who doesn't know it's explicitly his encoding (and the parameters he transposes) is still going to get hung up.

Lastly, the removal of "u" only prevents 1.5 offensive words from showing up, but I guess he chose it because he had to get rid of some letter to make it base32.

I think a base ~32 by removing all ambiguous characters and adding a non-separator punctuation mark would be ideal, frankly.

If we're worried about swear words then also remove the vowels and add 4 more punctuation mark.

IMHO
Well.. I don't actually think the article claims a 'cure' either.

If I get cancer, have treatment for it and am now in remission, who would think these doctors 'cured' cancer? Everyone would understand _my specific instance_ of cancer is reduced to being not a concern anymore.

Being in remission just means a greatly reduced or almost inexistent dependency on insulin.

I'm not saying the conclusions of the article are correct either (low sample size, short period of time), but it's a far cry from claiming 'LCHF cures T1D'
I am deeply offended when people call me 'white'. I do not reflect all light shown upon me and I do have all kinds of shades of brown, yellow and pink. I think calling someone black is just as racist - no person absorbs all light shown on them. This is ridiculous. How on earth is the word "master" relates specifically to black people slavery? One could use "slave owner" just as well so should we now abolish the word "owner" in Linux and avoid using file owner (you can't use file 'creator' because that would offend atheist). This is such a bullshit and thinking that adult people are playing with this shit... people just lost their minds.
And natives still laugh when I pronounce a word wrong between the million others I say
> Whereas it's not clear that any brutalist concrete cube will withstand the test of time.

Some brutalist buildings must be left standing as a warning for future generations.
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> It sounds like Figma reduces friction in the collaboration process by clever use of cloud based and browser coordination. It's not innovative but it's a good application of existing technology to the design space.

Out of curiosity, what do you consider innovative?
I don't know much about architecture, but I found the essay very biased and unnecessarily biasing - I didn't actually think that most of the buildings they presented as monstrosities were actually unattractive. Many of them looked quite elegant from the outside. I also found some of the examples they presented as positive too complex for my tastes. It feels like the authors overextended themselves in the assumption that their readers would feel the same revulsion to post-modern or brutal architecture that they do.

The article did bring up some good points about how the sentiments of people using the buildings should be taken into account during the design process.

I really enjoyed their take on how democracy should be treated in architecture. It feels profound beyond the scope of architecture itself, and something that society has been playing with in recent decades - e.g. panchayat government in India [0] and decentralized governance and decision making as embodied by various blockchains.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayati_raj_in_India
This is for all years, but the numbers for 2019 seem to indicate SV will be affected: https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp...
Google is #8. Amazon, Facebook, Apple are in the top 20. I don't know how accurate this list is, but I am worried for my colleagues.
This is evidently untrue. The principles of architectural schools and trends can be objectively evaluated. We also have some historical evidence of lost buildings that show they were not all the ugly ones. And we have many buildings that were not preserved intentionally that are nonetheless beautiful.

Perhaps you meant that inferior or cheaper schools of architecture co-existed with the prestigious architecture of their time. That is less controversial (and is also true today, mercifully.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_practice
Well, then the government in the USA is wrong, because...

That's always true. You don't need to provide particulars.
This is giving modern architecture entirely too much credit. For example, one of the many crimes of the UWaterloo Davis Center[1] was that the roof (curved and made of panes of glass) leaked every time it rained causing a mess on the floors below. These designs are often neither attractive nor practical. The weird shapes and angles used often waste usable space, are hard to clean, and introduce additional joints between sections where water or air can get in.

[1] https://uwaterloohistory.wordpress.com/davis-centre-dc/
If you classify someone as foo and have them do bar you can pay them above the prevailing rate for foo while actually being below the prevailing rate for bar.

It can also serve as a way for third party to earn a sizable chunk of that persons wages which would be a less likely scenario for someone hired stateside.
I saw it as the underlying issue. It's because CS is hard, people don't think they can do it, they don't know about the opportunities, they don't have the education or the pay is not enough for the intellectual demands. If a job is too stressful or they treat you like shit or demand overtime (ie gaming world for overtime) then just work somewhere else.
I'm sure some hybrid will come, as I can see some features being wasm and some being server side, depending on use case (eg. ease of maintenance vs. offline support).
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In Germany, a election must be equal, secret and comprehensible. (Hope I translated correctly: gleich, geheim, nachvollziehbar). One of the three will always fail in online voting systems. The obvious is always the comprehensibility, because the majority won't understand the software. That can only be sold by losing the secret vote, because then a vote is reasonable for anybody.
What % do you see Blazor eating React's lunch?
> One is the office of The POTUS from which only real information should derive

Who would think this? Who ever thought this, at any time in history?

> SNL is entirely for laughs and satire. There is no premise of it being news

Au contraire. Plenty of people get all of their "news" through SNL and other related comedy / parody / punditry shows, running the gamut from John Oliver to Tucker Carlson. There's plenty of premise of that being 'news' even though it's all entirely editorialized content designed to push a narrative.

> Do you trust his opinion because he is the President or because you ONLY trust Donald?

Do you force everyone into false dichotomies, or do you beat your significant other?
Are there any statues in the US being “protected” by vigilante groups opposing BLM?
Makes sense, so are avocados, olives ect... (mostly fat), but you are essentially eliminating 90% of plants out there...

When you say Plant based diet, people assume lettuce, beans, tomatos, carrots, olives, broccoli, etc.. etc...
>Why is this a problem? Minor offenses are still offenses and they can often be very frustrating and problematic. They still deserve police attention where they constitute a violation of the law. Streamlining the process is a positive not negative, and the framing here just seems like these activist groups don’t want people to be held accountable.

Be careful of what you wish for. You might wish to look at your local municipal/county/parish/state laws. I likely break dozens of laws/ordinances every day and I'm very positive you do as well, without even knowing it.

I am very saddened that I have to spell this out. I don't know whether you use NextDoor, throwawaysea. Would you be willing to post this under your real name in NextDoor and share the link here?
Because it is exposed, you could easily fall and die and a few people do die every year or so. Here's one from 2018 https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/teenager-dies-afte...
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The nice thing about English if that with punctuation you can make up your own rules - pretty much. I toss in hyphens and stuff all the time...

Just match how you talk with how you write, and it reads very naturally.
It already exists, but it's against Apple's wishes, with everything that entails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia
I understand your frustration, but I don't think you're giving a complete picture. I did a quick 5 minute search on the internet to figure out what the website in question was, and it's the Italian equivalent of itlab.com (as in IT Lab), which is a bit generic to say the least. The business in question appears to be an actual business, but with a somewhat different name, and which is, actually, what could reasonably called and IT lab, as in a computer repair / network installer / small time website developer shop.

Searching on Google for your website name, including the TLD, does not yield the business result, only searching for the equivalent of "itlab".

All in all it seems to me like Google should remove the business suggestion for that search, but I don't think it's as clear-cut as you put it.
It should very well hurt you because this is just the worm-up. The moment you start playing this games with language, people will become ever more sensitized and new words will become unspeakable hurting the freedom of speech. Do we now have Master becoming the new M-word? There were also slave owners so are you going to take down the file owner concept now because of 'slavery'? This is so wrong.
i don’t like this line of thinking. digging in can help you tailor your diet and lifestyle on the genetics you have. also, decades of medical research cannot just be swept away based on a gut feeling. do know everything? no. do we have some good indicators? definitely.