skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so wrong, it is comical. You have a lot less leverage, especially if you want/are in the process of getting a green card.

As a former H1B holder (and currently on a Green Card), being on a H-1B has prevented me:

1. Not accepting a higher salary offer, but going with a more 'safe option'

2. Having to negotiate for asap Green Card application, vs. salary

3. Not being able to accept a promotion to a manager, as I had a ongoing Green Card application as engineer/ic, and that would jeopardize my green card application

4. Not being able to create, or join a very early startup

5. Having high anxiety, for all the paperwork required, and the RFE recieved after switching jobs...

6. Inability to switch jobs, if you have a Perm/Green Card application ongoing, as it will rest it (even for non-capped countries, it might take 2+ years for the whole process to go through)

etc... etc..

You must be young and naive if you believe being on a H1B doesn't suppress one's salary, or potential.

The current H1B system is in-tenured servitude, and a continuation of old Feudal System, by tying the ability to work for a class of workers to their employer. Yes, you can switch employers, but at great costs, and at risking eventual deportation (if you don't play the immigration game right, and get the Perm/Green Card in time).
I wonder why are they keeping this project as closed source, unlike the old language server
Cliff notes is a series of books that are extremely abridged versions of things that students need to read.
Hindsight is 20/20, but Intel selling off their ARM division (XScale) almost exactly a year before the first iPhone was announced looks like a pretty bad call in retrospect.
Here it is without subtitles: https://www.bitchute.com/video/tGHVq8p2kSpq/
I'm not familiar with DBSCAN as a NN search system. Do you have links to using it for that purpose?
According to [1] at 14:00, the final hardware will support 4kb pages. But the DTK only supports 16kb pages.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10686/
I was referring to monkey-patching, yes, just overwrite that function.
how long?
Clearly you did not read the article.

In there it clearly states that it is because there is no electronic tracking system of any kind. They're trying to figure out the estimates based on paper records.
In the limit case, compression and AI are identical.

Once you get to an AI that has full comprehension of what humans perceive to be reality, you can just give them a rough outline of a story, add some information on casting, writers, and Spielberg's mood during production, and they'll fill in the (rather large) blanks.

That's a bit exaggerated, but I remember reading about one such algorithm a few days ago (by Netflix, maybe?). It was image compression that had internal representations such as "there is an oak tree on the left".

It would then run the "decompression", find the differences to the original, and add further hints where neccessary.
How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear
MIT CSAIL Robot Disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
In theory it's surely possible to do so. As you mention having professors to help you when you see having issues understanding things, etc. can be amazingly helpful, but I imagine someone sufficiently motivated could teach themselves. The difference is they will unlikely be able to find gainful employment as an RF engineer, which goes in hand to what GP suggests.
But the company management is in a better position than the shareholders to know whether the company can engage in profitable R&D.
I guess that leaves Apple GPU and Intel GPU drivers.

Hypothetical ARM Hackintosh users are going to have a hard time and won't be able to rely on AMD GPUs without some sort of emulation or virtualization layer.
Yes, I’m regards to what gets produced there’s an awful lot of beautiful art these days.

There is also a line of criticism that the institutions of fine art (education, galleries, museums, grants, etc) have, in the last few decades, distorted their previous value system of beauty (complex as it is) to focus on more conceptual and academic issues. If you’re interested in hearing this analysis in detail, check out The Invisible Dragon by Rich Hickey.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9637264-0-7
Been following this guy since seeing a link in another HN comment thread about Blender a couple of weeks ago.

I haven't played with Blender in ages but it definitely makes me want to check out the current version (seems to have come a long way since I last installed it). Doubt I'll end up doing more than tinkering but the price is certainly right.

https://www.youtube.com/user/mrdodobird/videos
It does, in salaries.
How Kenji Sada drew the Blaster Master tank
Persons interested in this weird artifact of British colonial history should also read up on St. Helena and Ascension island.
This probably isn't going to fly here but...I don't like online grocery shopping and hope that it never fully replaces grocery stores. I appreciate the increase in options for people who do want it, but it should never become the only option.

Things like fresh produce, dairy and meat I need to choose myself. Looking at pictures of these things on a website is not even close to the same thing. Each individual one of those things is different. They vary in quality and weight and to be honest, I don't really trust a grocery store clerk to examine these things for me.

Grocery delivery just creates yet another disconnect between us and where our food comes from. Grocery stores themselves are already fairly far removed from our food sources, but at least there we have the option to still examine our food and choose it before purchase

Food's become far too impersonal and inhuman as it is. It's one of the most important things for us(and a large majority of life out there). It should be respected and people should never forget where their food comes from.

The way we treat food production in general in modern times is pretty appalling as is. Continuing to remove people further from their food is a step in the wrong direction and just promotes yet more mass consolidation of production of food.

Eventually, it's going to cut out a ton of businesses in between, small food producers will suffer and large conglomerates selling bland homogenized crap will take over and globally supply the population with their mass produced delivered food.
Palantir announces confidential draft S-1
Deferrals require you to re-apply, which means you might not get in again.
Morally ambiguous, but I actually implemented exactly what you’re describing back when bitcoin was at $50-100. I found some service that would pay me $1 for every 1000 captchas I solved, and then I scraped that and built a BTC faucet site (I think I called it captchacoin.com, or captchabit.com) that would essentially pay the user $0.50 in BTC for each captcha they solved.

It went from 0 captchas per day to 10000 captchas/day over the course of about a month with just word-of-mouth. Then the upstream service just quit paying me with no explanation. My accuracy rates were good. Maybe latency was high? I don’t know why they terminated it. But I struggled to keep the users while finding a replacement, and in the end I shut it down.

On the one hand, I’m bummed, because that thing could have mostly run itself and made a tidy profit for someone still pursuing a degree. On the other hand... maybe it was for the best: 90% of captcha solving work is paid for by spammers who make the internet worse.
it makes you keep typing and be more productive. very clever, if you ask me.
Codecademy Launched VR Course (That You Can Take in VR)
This is sort of a municipal income tax with a zero percent bracket up to $150k (per individual); the analogy breaks down in that spousal income isn't considered at all, and the tax rate on employee income is scaled by +0-0.7% depending on the size of the business' payroll, which is a bit odd. This complicated machination is likely intended to work around Washington state law, which forbids income taxes broadly.

Smaller businesses (under $7m payroll) are exempted. Additionally, some employers of highly compensated workers (i.e., Doctors) are exempted.

The brackets are:

$7-100 million payroll: 0.7% $150-400k; 1.7% 400k+.

$100-$1 billion payroll: 0.7% $150-400k; 1.9% 400k+.

And >$1 billion payroll: 1.4% $150-400k, 2.4% 400k+. (That's got to be targeted at just Amazon, I think? 5000 heads x $200k gets you to $1B, and 5k is like half the SWEs in Seattle.)

I don't yet know if those brackets are set to track inflation at all. It's unclear to me if a company could simply form a bunch of subsidiary LLCs to pay smaller lots of employees to get a lower tax rate.
You are not addressing any of my points with any substance. But you have to resort to cursing twice.
That's down to you having a different set of bad experiences than others. There's room for both of those things to be wrong, I think over time you get a broader and hopefully more nuanced sense for what kind of behavior is unprofessional and not beneficial to the social order of a project.
I have a feature request BESIDES make it less random! When you delete all text with select all and then backspace/del it should make a huge loud combination of noises!
I very much doubt that she's the only one. Apparently Melania Trump had one, too - I suspect that a good immigration lawyer can be very helpful in this sort of thing if some conceivable way to argue that you meet the requirements exists.
Palantir Announces Confidential Submission of Draft S-1
Returning 0 for average([]) is useful. Returning a slope of 0 for a vertical linear regression is suspect.

Any choice of behavior for x/0 will be wrong in some context, and the question is really about how much help you want from the computer (both from the type system in trying to prevent/model division by 0 and at runtime via errors, via choosing a value for the division, etc).
It's not an unguided take home. It's an interactive gig, imagine a process to demonstrate your skill. eg: when hiring a PM, we'd have them demonstrate, same with Architect - my whole process is about SHOW rather than tell.
This sounds like a fancy syncon. They have been a thing in power network engineering for a long time.

I can believe it has "new features" but the underlying mechanics of a Syncon are not new. This may just be something good, being over sold by a company with an interest in boosting.
Both Balaji Srinivasan and Jason Calacanis were wrong in this and should be avoided.
I have used: https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide

on my project https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2...

the experience is kinda poor, it's very very slow. At first I thought the reason was the packages are too huge, it took a very long time to download them. But it turned out that the slowness comes from the python runtime when loading a package.

I guess directly compile python into wasm will make code execution faster, but I'm interested in building a scripting environment.
"You'd think that it would have all been figured out by now."

Would you? Video compression is one of the few things that we will work on for the next 1000 years and still be nowhere near finished. The best video compression would be to know the state of the universe at the big bang, have a timestamp of the beginning and end of your clip and spatial coordinates defining your viewport. Then some futuristic quantum computer would just simulate the content of your clip...

So yeah, sure we are done with video compression :). This is of course an extreme example of constant time compression that may or may not be ever feasible (if we live in a computer simulation of an alien race, then it is already happening).

But the gist is the same. Video compression is mostly about inferring the world and computing movement not by storing the content of the image.

For instance by taking a snapshot of the world, decomposing it into geometric shapes (pretty much the opposite of 3D rendering) and then computing the next frames by morphing these shapes + some diff data that snaps these approximations back in line with the actual data.

We are all but in the very infancy of video compression. What should surprise you is why it takes us so long to get anywhere.
Here, for instance:
https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard...
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Still looks exponential to me
+1. I believe a lot of (if not most) people come to the US not only for the education system, but to have a good chance of getting the green card and eventually citizenship.

I don't think that's bad for any party - the US gets access to very smart and enterprising young people (and can grow the edu market), and those people get access to the US.

Making studying and converting F1=H1b->green card process harder is going to have significant drawbacks, such as

* shrinking edu market will itself negatively affect the economy.
* Now that FAANG etc have seen that work-from-home can really work out, I expect ever more hiring outside of the US in the future. That doesn't mean that jobs will be opening up in the US.
* Harder to find qualified people in the US. [Remaining US workers in STEM can anticipate ever higher wages?]

These drawbacks will take some time to materialize, so it's possible to use this argument (less immigration == more work) during campaigning and deal with the fallout later (or pawn it off to the democrats. Or silently walk back the rules after the election).

Maybe one good thing to come out of this change would be the need to press for domestic STEM education more and earlier.
Lol. The fact that the entire concept was invented here probably would contradict that.
One possible improvement would be to include space for mounting a diode. Many mechanical switches can house a diode to simplify PCB layout for NKRO keyboards
Here are 3 that popped into my mind after thinking about it for a minute. Maybe you can come up with others.

If social distancing remains in effect, post-pandemic world would have much lower density in offices/restaurants/other large gathering locations with seating, increasing real estate costs, which will be passed onto the consumer.

If social distancing is required on transportation as well, this would dramatically increase air travel costs. Not only would this require heavy rethinking in any locale which relies on tourism, but also for any conferences/conventions which have a large international attendee component, perhaps requiring a reduction in scope, or being cancelled completely as the economics no longer makes sense.

In-patient hospital costs will also rise as patients can no longer be placed close to each other. Number of tele-medicine providers will rise, and how this will affect the quality of care will have to be seen.
Machine Learning Energy Demand Prediction Project – Part 1 Data Cleaning
> Interested in knowing who considers the UK a superpower in 1980s, never mind in 2020s...

I don't know about "super", but they're one of maybe four countries with a credible second-strike nuclear capability, one of six that operate full-size aircraft carriers, maybe sixth on the list of global reserve currencies, G7 member...
I really missed it. From when I was 11, until I was about 20, I enjoyed doing this kind of work.

When I was 20, I got into a relationship with someone who was critical of it, and I ended up succumbing to their criticism, quitting my hacking, and going into IT industry instead.

I did that for about 15 years, but all along, I missed doing this kind of stuff. I kept doing it a little here and there, but my jobs would eat most of my hack juice, and I just didn't have much left for my own projects.

But I had already tasted the sweet nectar, and eventually I got tired of waiting for it, and abandoned the professional world gradually but completely.

I'm back to hacking now, and I could not be happier.
What a crap service. Thankfully I don't use it so I don't have to look for a replacement.
> every major supermarket (except Lidl/Aldi) has direct warehouse to customer deliveries by van

While obviously an Ocado order comes from a warehouse built for this purpose all the high street supermarkets near me are delivering from their existing stores. The Sainsbury's I use at the moment because it's right down the road and huge (so I can shop every eight days to get everything with only one exposure) has a fleet of delivery vans based there.

Some also have "dark" stores that don't serve any walk-in customers but my impression is that they aren't cloning Ocado, even Waitrose (whose produce is sold by Ocado) would sell me stuff from the Waitrose near me, not a warehouse.
Xi editor, featured here before [1][2], used CRDTs as a core part of the initial design. In a retrospective [3] the author found -- paraphrasing -- that the kinds of answers given by CRDTs don't map well onto the problems of making a text editor.

That makes me wonder, if not text editing (fair enough) what are CRDTs good at representing? It seems this free online web course (?!) is trying to teach the abstractions, maybe that would shed some light.

More generally, the key problem seems to be something like you need to preserve the lower level behavior (merging rules) in the semantics of the abstraction (CRDT behavior). That process seems to be an unsolved problem, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's related to other unsolved/unsolvable problems like the halting problem. Any interesting reads?

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=xi%20editor

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23663878

[3]: https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomm...
He's still been the most successful investor in modern history, including covid. It's a blip to him - and he's right. He's one of the few to consistently beat the S&P 500, and even so, he recommends just buying the index.
I would suggest that you take a look at the guidelines[1] for hacker news, which I believe set a good standard for productive discourse. Particularly:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
it gets worse. apple had apparently originally approached intel to build arm chips for the iPhone, and intel said no due it thinking it would never be successful: https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/19/how-intel-lost-th...
If you don't want to move, that's fine. Better to be happy where you're at (as long as the company is willing to tolerate you long-term in that position).

If you want to move up you'll need some different skills. "More of the same" won't cut it. Check out "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" -https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There/dp/073934223...
A local butcher started doing delivery where I live and they deliver incredibly high quality meat. It’s been a revelation.

I combine that with two other sources for delivery: Costco via Instacart, which gets you all the bulk needs and some produce, basically you never have to worry about quality.

And then Amazon Fresh for cheap staples and pantry items. We have a really high quality vegetarian market too that delivers on Instacart.

If you do it wrong, you essentially will have a bad time. Amazon has horrible meat and not great produce, but Costco and the local butcher have amazing stuff.

I used to hate shopping for groceries online, but in all honesty it’s gotten quite good if you live in the right area and figure out good places to look. I’ve changed my mind.
A combination of cost disease and the resource curse. Argentina was prosperous and its professional class gradually became an entrenched bureaucracy that skimmed off a lot of productivity (similar to e.g. Italy today); over decades its economy became more and more dependent on oil exports, even as its oil production became less and less efficient along with everything else in the country. As long as the oil price was high it didn't matter, but when the oil price dropped all their chickens came home to roost.
"Systems Analysis And Programming" (62.2%) and "Computer Occupations, Other" (8.4%) are together 70.6% in 2017. That's the approximately the same population as "254k/365k of H1B petitions in 2017 were for computer occupations" which is about ~70%.

So 86% of of "Systems Analysis And Programming" and "Computer Occupations, Other" are "Systems Analysis And Programming".

If you want to assume "Computer Occupations, Other" are not devs, which is not a good assumption in my opinion then fine only 86% are devs.
I find that my interaction with food has changed in a pretty complex way. We have not spent a dollar on carry out or dining since February — what was once a spending category we budgeted on has gone to $0. We’ve been doing online grocery shopping and I’m not sure if we will go back. We have herb & tomato gardening going on and we’ve been making a big deal of it with my daughter, and I’m making our bread from bulk flour deliveries. And I just tried moving our meat purchasing out of grocery but we will see how that goes. I thought I’d feel more disconnected but as part of this whole reshuffling I find it more nuanced.
The bad characters are part of the gag. Mindless attractive teens in this horrific society.

You even wind up with the two most vapid characters, after having found love elsewhere, winding up together because why not, those other, better people died. It actually works really well as an unconventional character arc that the actors may or may not have been in on.
> ...too busy purging tens of millions of their own citizens to develop the global reach...

I think you misread 'to' in this sentence to mean 'in order to'. The intent by the parent comment was 'too busy...instead of develop[ing] the global reach'
It really helps make sense when automation is a sibling product line or you're able to partner with an automation business. Given the detailed pictures of the assembly line for a critical product at launch, I'm suspecting that automation R&D and presentation is a factor here.
ARM64 Performance of .NET 5
When a deleted file takes 20 mins from your maintenance, but a year of your life
What exactly is cruel? As TFA says they can transfer to a school with in-person instruction.

If they have no business being in country, why should they be allowed to stay?

Should now all foreign Udemy e-learning members be given US visas? Don't be ridiculous.
Most of these experiments come out of the US where there is overwhelming pressure by society that your value as a human is how well you can sell yourself. This is especially true as more and more people are priced out of broader economic participation by how high the cost of living is vs available income opportunity.
At my company they compare you to others, you you kind of have to compare yourself to others. I'm an intermediate developer with 8 years at the company and a masters degree. If I'm in this position for about 2 more year, people will start to ask questions and write me off as not having potential (I have friends who are managers, so I know things I shouldn't).
There are some convincing studies that suggest otherwise. Combined with the fact that tech CEOs speak openly that salaries are too high, and conspire with each other to lower them, it seems fairly likely this is what's happening.

Specifically, this study, which is convincing to me, but always interested in other ideas. This one is a kind of natural experiment so the data are randomized (because companies are awarded via lottery): https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/h1b.pd...
You are replying to a peculiar caricature of what I've said.
JUnit 5 Tricks
A quick google search says it's estimated to have started 6,000 years ago.

But this is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_influenza

My only point being (which I since added to my original comment) that we certainly never entered a post-pandemic state for influenza given that it's so far a seasonal passenger of the human condition. Look at the Hong Kong influenza outbreak not long ago.

I would expect the legacy of covid19 to be more similar to that going forward than some permanent emergency state.