skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. I wouldn't risk it myself.

Currently our air carrier Finnair is under investigation because they offered a climate compensation payment for flights. They say the payment went towards biofuel and other compensation methods but it's being investigated if it was considered a donation.[1]

[1] https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/17392-finnair-discards...
Nope, I have nothing. The most popular thing out there is Acestream, which is a weird Russian fork of VLC that is probably spyware but it "just works". It's closed source and I have never seen anything written as to how it works, sadly.

My point was along the lines of, p2p streaming is feasible with current infrastructure because it already works under those less than ideal conditions
> People aren't allowed to make mistakes, it seems.

Not even mistakes. Things that were considered progressive as little as 15-20 years ago have now been flipped into "microaggressions".
There are 2 sides to every coin.

It can be frustrating/demoralizing to American software developers as well, when they go to interview for a job, to see they are competing with an absolute flood of Indian and Chinese H1Bs. Then, when all of your interviewers are Chinese and Indian as well and you don't get the job, you sort of feel like the victim of favoritism and that you've been pushed out of your own country's industry by foreign nationals.
The NYT has reported on Bansky without revealing his name. Why is this different?
Thank you for the pointers! This is great info.

Also, please feel free to file feature requests or bugs/issues over on github: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues
I use Superhuman. It's really good and they get the details right. Good keyboard shortcuts, good offline. It isn't revolutionary but has an attention to detail other services I've tried in the past miss. I also like paying a premium for software rather than see a company flounder to make the financials work. I've had so many of my favorite tools die. I like that I can pay Superhuman to help them continue to make a great product.
In the article white is written with a lowercase w but black is written with a capital B.

Seems odd.
> None of the huge tech companies (Google/Apple/MS/Amazon/etc) have an easy (or in many cases any) way to contact human service representatives. This is intentional.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us/ - I have never failed to talk to a human that way.

(For AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/)
Yeah but consider other brands that are mainstream now. They sound kind of stupid too..

I mean.. Google? Yahoo? Go Daddy? Duck Duck Go?

Really I wonder how these made it past initial adoption sometimes :) I think the name is not so important as long as it doesn't have a negative context. It's more about the overall brand identity. And now they're household names.
Most tech companies are not FAANG that pay above 150k. Most tech companies don't even pay that much for any IC.
> Even though people have been interested in donating, I can't do that legally.

What you can do is to "sell" something in lieu of donations:

E.g. - To support me please buy this wallpaper image file of my project logo. Or one-day email support etc.

You can always add a note that Finland laws prevent you from accepting donation, and this is the only way you can accept money from patrons, and even provide a link to the law in question.

(Note that depending on the laws in your country you may have to register as a freelancer / small business and pay taxes. In most countries this will be free or near free, and you probably won't get enough money to reach the threshold aftwer which you have to pay taxes).
They don't tell you until you've started.
> We blame politics, journalist but at least they sign their articles. Don't you think they receive death treats all the time ?

1. They are professionals. SSC is a hobbyist.

2. No, I don't think they receive a lot of threats. This days people expect very very little of journalists. Many consider journos to be the lowest form of life.
>hopefully some day it can be integrated into the standard.

see jpeg-xl
IMO all this uncertainty is due to a lack of action from Congress on immigration. US Citizens need to come to terms with their immigration priorities - how many and what kind of immigrants do we need in the US, and vote for representatives who promise to bring this to a conclusion.

H1B, in its current state combined with green card laws have led to a massive group (600K+) of permanent non-immigrants in the US. This leads to a lot of pain and heartbreak for people who follow all the laws, pay all taxes and looking to establish a stable life. Many of these folks have US citizen kids.

Many don't realize how difficult it is to keep up with all the paperwork just to ensure you are in legal status in the US. The level of arbitrary regulation by USCIS is only making everyone's life painful while not solving the root cause (H1B abuse).
Timezones are the biggest issue from what I’ve seen. People can learn English, and get used to video calls / written communication.

I wonder why more companies don’t outsource to Canada and South America (or the Midwest, for that matter.)
R also has some decent spatial libraries.
A homeless person out of a job is not able to pay taxes and contribute to the economy either.
Economists solved this problem a long time ago; Pigouvian taxes. No need to dump markets. You just make them pay for their externalities.
> In such a case, it is standard journalist ethics in The Netherlands to not disclose the name.

That's in The Netherlands, a country with different laws and regulations for the press.

This case is specific to the United States, with its own rules and protections.
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Absolutely. Simply unscrewing the Huffman stage from the bottom of JPEG and replacing it with a more effective, modern lossless stage kills webp's gains and does not incur in generation loss - the image is pixel accurate to the source jpeg.

You'll probably know this already, but Brunsli made it into the JPEG XL standard. I'm quite happy about it!
The "old school" style they're advertising is mostly based off of Dyson Logo's maps. I think it's interesting that this seem to come out after Dyson started teasing a similar program for his Patreon subscribers. On one hand, it's a great looking piece of software, but it feels a little scummy to write software that heavily leans on Dyson's style and then directly compete with him.
Perhaps, you would share these spreadsheets and their provenance. I certainly do not recall ever paying H1-Bs less than domestic workers.
There will be lawsuits. This is not settled.
It's really incredible how much the hatred for 'socialism' goes in certain circles.
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Visa stamp's term depends on the country: it's reciprocal to the equivalent visa Americans get from that country. If an equivalent visa for an American is 1 year then the citizens of the country get 1 year visa to the US as well. If it's 10 years - same thing (obviously not applicable to H1B since its max term is 3). Visa fees are following the same rule, foreigners are charged the same their country charges Americans (and it's free if Americans get free visas there).

Having said that, the story from the OP does not add up: you don't need to renew the visa stamp to stay in the country. The stamp is for crossing the border. I, for one, never renewed my H1B stamp since I did not have a need to leave the country. If I were to leave, I'd just go to a consulate and get a new stamp to get back so having visas stamped only outside of the country does not appear as such a hurdle - you only need the stamp if you are already abroad.
I've been using DAVx5 for CalDAV calendaring and OpenTasks (referenced by DAVx5) for CalDAV-synced tasks. Both are available on F-Droid.

How does Tasks.org compare to OpenTasks? The website doesn't seem to have any screenshots or describe any features, so I can't compare.

The thing I miss most in OpenTasks is recurring tasks. Can Tasks.org do recurring tasks?
You can create that and I think in 99% percent of cases you can also collect github donations without problems in Finland. If it were to go in court I think it could be easily explained as non-donation because there is work performed.

Also OPs explanation is not so straightforward, the money collection act is being contested all the time and many succeed in collecting money here.
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People pretending to be charities and scamming donations. The idea would be that all legitimate charities are registered and have a permit. If they don't, it's likely a scam.
This executive order has nothing at all to do with reform or the concerns you are stating.

The only point is to make life more difficult for people that need a J1, H1-B, or anything else to continue their career plans now.

It's also to make it seem like these positions are taking jobs away from current US residents, and stoke anti-immigrant sentiment.

There are undoubtedly flaws with the H1-B process, but this move makes it less likely for reform to happen, not more.
What is also funny is that settled immigrants often have more right-wing views about immigration than people born into that society.

This doesn't appear to happen in the US because of the history and the significant levels of illegal immigration today but, where I am, the group most in favour of controls on migration are settled immigrants.

It seems very odd to say limiting immigration is white supremacy. The US has a huge illegal immigration problem, being in favour of immigration is being in favour of controls. There is no realistic alternative (I get why Democracts want more voters...but speaking non-politically).
Ask HN: How do you do web development without a framework?
Every time a web framework is discussed on HN, inevitably a number of people will comment that they prefer to use a curated selection of libraries over a framework. I tend to use frameworks because of their out-of-the-box functionality, e.g. to create an admin interface for an MVP in Django can be literally a few lines of code per model. That kind of speed in early-stage development is something I consider crucial.

So my question is, for those who roll their own framework using libraries, have you created your own equivalents that provide similar power with very few lines or do you just prioritise the flexibility of using libraries (as opposed to an opinionated framework) over (at least early-stage) development speed?
Wow, then my apologies for offering non-applicable advice. I'm crazy-curious what it could be.
I'm struggling to understand your point beyond "she didn't do literally the worst possible job she could have done".
I don't know what that has to do with my comment. It seems like you agree with me.

My point was just that choosing a universally inoffensive name is a very common and practical part of branding.
>I don't agree with Most of our behaviour is based on instinct. We allow perfect strangers into our homes to fix the plumbing.

And we stay in the house to keep watch on them.

>A baby can learn to enjoy the company of a Malamute. Even our instinct to avoid being eaten by wolves,

You have to first establish that we have an instinct to avoid being eaten by wolves. And how that would work in humans that don't live where there are wolves for thousands of years.....
Not anytime soon. China, India and other countries are planning a huge number of new coal plants. Just as much capacity as currently installed in Europe in total.

Coal's life may be limited, but in the coming 50 years it's just going to grow significantly.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants
This won't work. We need real regulation that penalizes polluters so much that it's no longer profitable to destroy the planet. We need social and cultural changes so that it's no longer hip and cool to fly around on jet planes and cars. This is mostly a political issue, not an issue of private industries in search of profits.
Denmark is more expensive but ultimately it'd depend on the area and so on.
ASK HN: Since this discussion has come up, I would like to ask HN if you are interested for an in-depth comparison on a production workload.

I run this https://www.gumlet.com which serves more than 50M images per day. We can put entire study on different image formats if HN finds it helpful. Please let us know.
tax laws change routinely, so you'd be best off consulting an accountant

somewhat relevant reading on what can be done if you're well versed with tax laws: https://scottestill.com/buy-new-used-car-2018-get-100-tax-de...

Surprisingly, this dealer has an entire page dedicated to it this, and why you should buy one of their SUVs: https://www.landroverhuntvalley.com/business-tax-advantage.h...
Sigh, GitHub is still promoting the "open source gig economy"

https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-...

It's been about 2 years of GitHub sponsors and they haven't shared any data on how well people are doing.
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Do you have a source for that "the pay is always lower" comment? As far as I know, visa status doesn't affect compensation for employees in the same full-time role at FAANG + Microsoft, though I only have direct experience with one of these companies.
What I mean is that "mail" was a thing before email protocols existed. "Mail" and even "email" has meaning beyond any specific technology.

The name told you what you could expect the technology to do. That's why it made sense to include these words in the name of email clients.

The same is not true for "Matrix".
Basically sounds like be cautious and use as little as possible when you do this.

Maybe they selected a bad low code platform? Or is this generic advice?
Why did you combine compile time and execution time?
What about phone-related names: "Protocol 8110" "Model 1500" "Project Landline" etc.
Most working class in Europe live in "extreme" areas also "not-wanted-to-be-officially-known-as-no-go" zones.

Lol, I love how you question if I've live/d there, like the complete inability to take in information that might not be fit to your world view.
If that is the case, then why are people in the same culture not equally fat?
The polar bear swims in circles because he doesn't know he's trapped. We walk in circles and social distance to protect our family and our communities.
I think it's originally to prevent scammers. Like if someone was collecting money door-to-door and then said that people willingly donated to them (which would be true). I think it's just to add oversight into those kind of situations and to prevent scam money collection campaigns.
Thanks, great to see they feel that way too!
(warning: focus on the tech-sector) My reading of his argument was that the companies that will survive over the long term are more like the bootstrapped, cash-flow positive and efficient tech companies with a good long-term culture. While Softbank-money driven companies will likely have disappeared by then.
To be fair the bar to be considered a white supermacist is very low in today's political correctness environment.
Newspaper comment sections are highly problematical. You have occasional thoughtful posts mixed in with hundreds of completely moronic, bigoted, and deeply stupid posts. When a comments section gets bad enough that it demands moderation, perhaps it's better to get out of that business entirely. (No need to get rid of the letters to the editor.)
https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php - take home on $100k in England is about £55,000 ($68k) and london living costs are https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/London.

https://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php Says take home on $100k in ireland is ballpark €55,000 ($62k), and living costs are here - https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Dublin -
Someone started a Twitter thread to compile examples where the NYT reported about someone using their pseudonym:

https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/1275460707069210624
I’ve talked to several H1-B recipients who resent being second class citizens, and have to endure abuse from their vendors. The complaints have universally come from the large IT services teams, who have a form of legal non-competes in the Visa.
That's a strange law. I assume it serves some purpose (or must have served one when it was introduced, at least). What's the argument for it?
You set the price of the tax equal to the mitigation cost. In this way consumers pay to mitigate. If mitigation is coat prohibitive, consumers substitute products that are not harmful.

Edit:
W.r.t. regressive taxation... No one has the right to force their externalities on someone else. Just because you are poor doesn't mean you can dump your garbage on my lawn because it's cheaper than paying to haul it to the dump.
Yes, Tasks.org can do recurring tasks. Some of the core features are listed on this[1] page which compares different syncing options.

1. https://tasks.org/docs/sync.html
Honestly the write up seems ok but does not evoke optimism to me. I can't help it but to me macOS and it's multifinger gesture support is not about how many gestures it supports or which actions it supports, but the fluidity of the execution of gestures with animations.

When you start pinching/unpinching fingers apart, the zoom happens in sync with your finger spacing. As soon as you start pinching, the application seems to receive with the event stream all the x and y coordinates so that pan and zoom can be done simultaneously in lockstep with the finger positions and spacing on the touch pad.

Similarly when you pull 2 or 3 fingers from the side to e.g. go back a page, the reveal animation starts, or an arrow appears, and you can change your mind mid gesture by reversing the finger movement and the animation feedback is helpful enough to tell you that indeed the gesture will be canceled.

I honestly hope that the developers interested in improving this in libinput and stack have the same understanding that gestures are not about recognizing the one-off side/pinch movement with a couple of fingers, but about low latency fluid interaction of fingers with visual animation feedback tightly coupled. The other (one-off) type of gestures where you swipe your three fingers to the left and then after a sampling interval the framework or stack receives a ThreeFingersLeft swipe event (with length or time or xy values) is IMO a very underwhelming experience.
Apple already supports ARM so they have the whole toolchain, most of their operating system, and many frameworks ported. Most of the heavy lifting was done in Project Purple (aka the first iPhone).

Porting from PPC to x86 was arguably more difficult as a lot more of the framework code had endianness assumptions baked in.
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Alternative! Software distributions - community maintained packages.

As Arch Linux user if I found a software I like and want to help with distribution I can create package and push it to AUR [1]. This works as recipe - list of make and run dependencies, configuration, installation. Package is not safe and should be reviewed on installation.

Popular package may be pulled to official repository [2], distributed in binary form. "community" repository maintained by Trusted Users [3], "core" and "extra" by Arch Linux Developers [4]. It is evergreen - rolling release. Some distributions provide Stable releases which should be even safer.

Distributions may remove package, block version, patch to its standards. I think if opt-out addons were distributed by Debian they would be patched to opt-in.

In other words - many 3rd party distributions, by users to users, pulled - not pushed, not required to accept all packages.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/

[2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/

[3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users

[4] https://www.archlinux.org/people/developers/
also, the article isn't at all about historical wars
I am not a foreigner seeking to immigrate. I'm an American, but only because we had open borders (for white people) when my ancestors immigrated. Developing "our" workforce is only possible through more immigration, not less, and that has always been the story of America.

Many Americans meanwhile are blind to the fact that our current administration's immigration policy is emblematic of the systemic oppression of non-whites in our society. It's not about "protecting" anything but the comfort of whites.

It's not that "anything short of total open borders" is white supremacy. It's that our current immigration policy is functioning as a tool of white supremacy, whose endgame is a white ethnostate. And a huge reason that literal Nazis and white nationalists vote Republican and celebrate the Presidency of Donald Trump is because their explicit goal is a white nation, which that party and that man are furthering through these immigration policies.

If you want to protect and develop our labor, you should be in favor of more immigration and not less.
I see the time spent making that 300k at a fang as 40-60 hour a week opportunity cost on better work with the caveat that if you are doing work you consider personally interesting then good for you. I think ultimately we have very different priorities from each other though and view money differently as well.
If millions of Americans were moving to India and taking up huge numbers of the top university spots and jobs, Indians would call it white supremacy, and they'd be right.
> 99% of the H1B jobs could all be filled locally

that’s a bold claim. do you have a any sources to back that up?

also, just because someone that is only interested in the financial aspect does a bootcamp, does not mean that they can immediately ramp up and do the work someone else has a formal education in and has been doing for 10 years. that’s not how life works.
I want to learn about firmware development. I have been playing with rpi gpio and arduino i2c but have no idea how to start with firmware development. please throw at me references, i'm very fragile but i'll take it and learn from.
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That's the incredibly frustrating thing about the problems of journalism. It's a horribly broken, extractive institution, but there are simply no better solutions. Information flow is just too important, it has too many potential exploits, and there's no uninterested agent that can validate it (eg gov't regulation of what journalists publish would be a disaster).
The IRS website sometimes uses exact dollar amounts of reported tax information as identity verification. Author probably should replace screenshots of tax forms with rough figures.
instead of runc, I think ccrun would be a good name. cc is usually the c compiler so ccrun would make sense and be short and explicit.
The good journalists are mostly gone. The NYT has fired a lot of people the last 4 years.
> ignore most of the news for a while

This has been the number 1 thing that I've started doing recently that has improved my mental health. I've been incredibly depressed and anxious this year, and realized how much of that has been tied to the news cycle. I've mostly ignored the news for about a week now, and I'm feeling much better. I still have an underlying current of anxiety that I need to deal with, but overall I'm feeling better.

Rather than reading the news constantly, I ended up subscribing to the print edition of The Economist, so I'll read that once a week rather than constantly flipping over to Google News every hour.
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