skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn't been mentioned yet, but the same pipelines can likely be used for hydrogen as well as methane. Those pipelines would cost a fortune if built today.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-pipelines#:~:....

If there is a place for hydrogen in the future of energy storage (and there probably is, in addition to batteries and pumped hydro storage), then I think it's quite a good buy. It will take some time but they will make money out of the natural gas use case until then.
Qtile is great, for me the missing killer feature is the ability to have multiple top bars. It's close:

https://github.com/qtile/qtile/pull/1239
https://github.com/qtile/qtile/pull/1387
Uhhhhh...
The point of the Jewish Problems is that:

1. They're an entrance exam. They were explicitly designed to discriminiate against otherwise worthy candidates.

2. The key feature of the problems is that they are not difficult because they are an average example of a difficult branch of math. Instead they are easy problems, but they are only easy if you can figure out the correct substitution. Otherwise, they are extremely difficult. In other words, getting good at the problems won't make you a better mathematician, it'll just make you better at passing that particular test.
They take into account COL, they definitely take existing debt obligations into account, as well as size of family.

That said, yes, if you have more money left over per child than someone else, you are expected to pay more.
Electronics manufacturing has been moving to more and more automation for years. Humans don't place components on PCBs anymore (well, most components). it's done by machines that look more like a gatling gun than human arm. It's quite stunning how small the components are these days.

Gamers Nexus: How Motherboards Are Made (2019) | Taiwan Automated Factory Tour, ft. Gigabyte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAFTMaS5R0
Analytics II: Goat to Clicky
Nvidia has already embraced ARM, for example the Jetson machine learning platform is based on custom ARM SoCs:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
Yeah, it’s almost like if he was partying all night :)
Using Scott encoding in the Lambda Calculus it is actually possible to define a 'usable' infinite natural number as a recursive construction (essentially its predecessor is defined as itself).

Interestingly enough, constructions for add, (natural) subtract and multiply work as you would expect with this infinite number without needing special handling. E.g. for all n, n + inf == inf, n - inf == 0, n * inf == inf.

Furthermore, the construction for (natural) div yields this infinite term (or at least something that behaves exactly like it) when the denominator is 0. Even more interestingly, 0/0 == inf for this system.

EDIT: Why might this be useful? Well now when you 'take n' from a list, n=inf will give you the whole list, regardless of how long (or even if it is infinite - i.e. lazy). Likewise 'drop n' will return the empty list - except with an infinite list, whereupon the calculation will fail to terminate.

EDIT: inf - inf == non-termination in this system, suggesting that not only inf - inf != 0, but it != inf either, and in fact it is something unreachable (in this system) (note the correspondence between 'subtract' and 'drop').
Wow I did not see the controls over there at all
I wonder how much of the pain of today’s impromptu WFH is that there literally isn’t much else available to bring joy and distraction. Am I working more because there isn’t a good separation between work and home or because everything fun is closed?

Even with working more and having a fairly short commute (20-25min ea way), I find I have a lot more time for (solo) hobbies and tinkering. Losing 4 hours a week to commuting and probably another extra 3 to lunch (over quick lunches at home whenever I want) adds up pretty quickly.

I expected to hate WFH, but I like it a surprisingly large amount.
Off-topic, but what did ever happen to Cuil?
Do we have a lot of examples of smart people being scammed? There are certainly a lot of old people being scammed.
Japan exists simultaneously 100 years in the past, and 100 years in the future. Averaging out it's still like living in 2020, but for each small interaction you never know if you'll be facing the 1920 experience or the 2120 experience.
I worry it's the overconfidence of an Oxbridge education that leads to picking the most complicated of possible solutions. Rail privatisations or farm subsidies implemented in such a Byzantine way that no normal mortal can ever understand them, let alone implement them. Though ultimately we will get better government when the electorate votes for better people. Despite their good intentions so many of our MP's are way out of their depth.
The book and movie are completely different stories. Verhoeven prides himself on that he didn't even finish the book and if you watched the movie it is pretty clear he read less than half and then wanted to write a movie that was a satirical take on the book (which he claims was promoting fascism, but readers are confused by that take).
Reminds me about the classic regression excel joke saying that to get a better regression, one should sort the points to be in order first.
If commuting is effortless, it is relaxing. I can't walk while reading a book, but you sure can fly on a bullet train while reading. Back when I was commuting, I actually would get a little miffed if my bus commute ended up being faster that day as it would prevent me from getting a chapter done and hitting a good stopping point in the book I was reading.
Especially since the government gets from all non-immigrants:

- Common carrier arrival manifests.

- Visa stamp process arrival record and I-94 issuance. [4]

- US-VISIT biometrics collection on arrival. [2]

- Form I-9 when starting a new job. [3]

- Form AR-11 every time they move. [1]

- Common carrier departure manifests.

- Tax returns.

As far as I can tell the only people who "sneak out" do so by crossing the border into Canada and the US should have access to that data from Canadian authorities after the fact also.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/ar-11

[2] https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/usvisit/usvisit_edu_trav...

[3] https://www.uscis.gov/i-9

[4] https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/
They are down a lot, but that doesn't make them cheap
Location: NYC
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Technologies: Java, Python, SQL, C#, .NET, Devops/SRE, Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Angular 4+, HTML / CSS, React

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Looking for Backend/Fullstack work. Can contribute solutions, planning and execution across the stack as well as DM board games afterwards
Reviewing your route and drawing it out beforehand works amazingly. You learn the route pretty damn well, and hardly have to even look at the map. This makes your whole drive safer as you're not looking at a screen watching the countdown to the next intersection. You learn how to actually get where you are going, and you learn your way around town better as a result. Using GPS with turn-by-turn directions forces me to rely on it, as I don't tend to remember the route for the next time I go to that location.

I also find that if you look at the map and review it before you go, you can simplify most directions. Turn-by-turn directions tend give you every little detail that you may not need to remember to get to where you're going.
Movie is anti-militaritic, the book was pro-militaristic. It's not "a weaker version of the same".
Or feed the URL into outline.com or archive.org
Oh good, Microsoft can spit out faster Halo and Gears of War spinoffs.
Next time I have to interview someone for an analyst position I will pick this article and say "find 5 mistakes within 5 minutes"...
Reminds me of the discussion of "tacit knowledge" HN had the other week [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23465862
With so many types of data collected, one shudders to imagine what will happen if they discover the join sql statement.
U.S. to force out foreign students taking classes fully online
I wonder if this can be generalized along the lines of: problems with processes tend to be dynamic issues, but people want to look for static issues.

Like, if something is wrong with your car, it would be nice if there was some magic elixir you can add to fix it, and indeed any auto parts store has dozens. They have fuel injector cleaner, engine stabilizer, stop leak, no smoke additive... But if there is a real problem, it probably requires doing something to fix the way moving parts are interacting, not just adding a little fluid.

Which seems to me suggestive of an analogy with how people* talking about adjusting the levels of brain chemicals, when surely it's got to be a dynamic process that isn't working right.

*as in, the people who write the patient info pamphlets for psychotropic drugs
The 2013 Falklands referendum was quite decisive. As the article mentions, only 3 people (0.20%) voted against retaining their status as an overseas territory of Great Britain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereig...
This is a great article. An undiscussed issue I've personally seen when conducting interviews and being parts of roundups is a lack of self understanding. lots of people who conduct interviews think they are way smarter than they are (me included!). They hold up candidates to very high standards and then dismiss them at the slightest mistake, however many of these people also make many mistakes on the job. When I give interviews I always just ask the easiest and clearest questions I possibly can that still try to be relevant to the job to minimize this bias.
There are technical issues involved and the system has evolved over the years, but part of the issue is that certificate companies make a vast amount of money doing very little and can spend a bunch of money resisting any change to the system that would cut them out of the loop.

IMO, DANE might make sense if DNSSEC wasn't such a mess, although it is a very similar group of parasitic companies involved in DNS. In general, alternative name systems (such as the GNU Name System) could also potentially replace the certificate system and many name and certificate issues are related. Many of the hardest technical issues around certificates relate to revocation and the demonstrated inability of almost anyone to secure anything.

Other options that make a lot of sense in many ways would have govenments or banks involved in identity in a direct way. This is resisted for a varity of reasons.
> FWIW, I personally think distance learning is underrated, although I have been doing it for years so I've had time to become accustomed to it. I can understand why some students (including my wife) do not like it, and may never like it.

I appreciate distance learning, it's the distance testing that doesn't work ;).

We went online at the start of the year and while some classes were ok to evaluate online, classes which require coding for example, weren't. Since you have access to an IDE they tend to test other things than what was taught - it becomes more theoretical rather than practical even though the class demands the latter.

A class would need to be fully changed to support online learning, and evaluating, say for example more focus on assignments.
It has just been a nightmare to handle different versions, and themes and plugins, and make latex equations work for rendering in pdf.
> According to Grubbs, there was only one way out: my dad had to convert the money to “government certified gift vouchers,” or gift cards.

Yes it is.
Ehh... I'll bite.

I worked at Global Crossing in the late 90s and early 2000s as an engineer. I was a Primenet employee.

We got Huawei gear in to evaluate. Virtually everything they made was based on IP theft. Their routers literally had "Cisco Systems" strings all over the image files. It was blatant.

The PLA were constantly trying to break into our systems. We knew it. We talked about it. It wasn't a secret.

This is a difficult subject that I don't talk about with other people, in persona or otherwise. The conversation almost always quickly goes stupid in one of two ways: The person I'm talking to instantly goes nationalist one way or the other, or they just don't seem to have the IQ to grasp the issue. Having a rational conversation about the topic of what the US government and as private citizens/companies do about blatant Chinese aggression feels impossible.

As for online, the 50 Cent party quickly shows up en-mass with the typical FUD, bullying, distracting jokes, pearl clutching, and so on.
That is also true, and unfortunate.
> If you think your average anti-mask anti-lockdown American is making that kind of analysis then frankly I think you are disconnected from reality...

I never said anything about what the average anti-lockdown American believes. Frankly, I have no idea. Again, what does this have to do with whether lockdowns are good policy or not? If 99.9% of people believed the earth was round based on some flawed argument, would you conclude that it must be flat?

> virtually every major developed country on the planet has ... beaten this thing with lockdowns and masks

Nobody has beaten it, since the pandemic isn’t over. Once places that had very few cases start opening up, it stands to reason that the outbreaks will start again, as happened in Arizona for example. It seems clear that the only way to truly beat covid without it naturally burning out due to herd immunity is to impose a strict lockdown until a vaccine is widely deployed, which I believe to be impossible.

(Unlike probably anyone who thinks this is a scam to hurt Trump, I hope I’m wrong and a vaccine comes out quickly, because things going back to relatively normal in the near future is a much better outcome than various jurisdictions stubbornly locking down until their unemployment systems collapse, causing mass unrest...)
They call it "vinyl" and they sport very fashionable beards.
Why do some intelligent people lose all interest in academia?
Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees
1. Stop comparing yourself to others.

2. Moving up (to a lead position) might be worse than a programmer job

3. Identify what you're missing and fill the gaps
Elm does this for integers (Floats support Infinity, natch) and I support it. Elm is meant for writing declarative UIs, and the only example I could think of for blindly dividing by 0 is taking the average of an empty list without checking first. But any time you might do that, you'd be better served by matching on the empty list _before_ trying to take the average and rendering something helpful for the user.
You can’t but that many without getting a talking to from
Target.
Some Canadian businesses want to let Americans back in. Most Canadians don’t
A month is not enough if all the tickets have been snatched by scalpers and you can't afford the markup they ask for.
Pretty much any growing metro is experiencing a housing crisis because no where is building enough housing.
The H-1B program is terrible and needs to be reformed. It is supposed to temporarily shore up the supply of critically skilled workers that are in demand.

While it does this, when the program was envisioned no one imagined H-1B visa holders working here for 10+ years.

If only there were a word for the importation of minority labor and locking them into employment with their sponsor, effectively reducing their negotiating power for salary to zero...

Not to mention by artificially suppressing H-1B salaries over time, it puts negative wage pressure on US workers in similar positions.

I believe H-1B workers should be offered green cards if they are here for more than 2-3 years, so they can negotiate on equal footing with US citizens.
History of ARM
This depends on a very liberal interpretation of what "displacement" means.
There's also the environmental impact of the energy use. That 486 is pumping out 10x the greenhouse gasses.
Hopefully colleges will create some sort of "hybrid" programs that is not completely online to allow foreign students to stay in the US.

But yeah, this is very sad.
The big coming conflict is over splitting the surplus. If remote friendly policies going into play, even if it’s the “live three hours away because it’s only once every two weeks” variety then pay is going to fall. Many engineers seems pretty excited about the glorious remote future but I don’t think they’ve thought through the impact on compensation. Even after the Facebook announcement the prevailing sentiment seemed to be denial.
I agree, but the jobs are only in the cities, unfortunately. Remote work is a thing, but it seems that isn't quite as easy to find as HN would think.
The troll was claiming to be Jewish so I'm not sure it applies here.
Dumb luck.

Working for small companies all of my career forced me to wear a lot of hats. So I could answer questions about “the Leadership Principles”.

Consulting is more about helping “big enterprise” move to AWS. They cared about a few things - could I deal with customers, solve business problems, juggle tasks, and did I know how to do your standard “enterprise development”. It even seem to be an afterthought whether I had any experience with AWS - I did.

The interview process was a little more intense, but it was mostly just like all of the other soft skill interviews I had with my last two jobs as “adult supervision” for companies that were trying to move past the “move fast and break things” phase to the “how can we stabilize all of this stuff and have good processes”.

A recruiter first reached out to me about an SDE role - I knew I would fail miserably plus I didn’t want to relocate. She told me about the consulting role.
Interesting cultural difference with Australia (25 million people) where online grocery sales are ~USD$4B: https://www.ibisworld.com/au/industry/online-grocery-sales/5...
In what context?
CCCC in ND. Salish Kootenai College always struck me as a group that knew their business well. Also, it was nice having another Moodle user. A lot of the TCUs are using Canvas. We did the same push and it paid off. Still looking at how to do some of the VocEd that way (more from an equipment perspective).
An RSS reader would come pretty close. Even thou major social media platforms don't supply an official feed, the world is not short of unofficial and self-hosted ones.
Or did it just happen to be released a few years before 9/11?
That was my issue. Images would take 3-10 seconds to show in the UI. Once I moved to a ryzen 5 server I was seeing everything load like it was local.
Only on Xbox Series X:

Mortal Kombat: Nuts & Bolts
Windows Remote Assistance has been a built in feature since XP.

For security reasons the account you access in Remote Assistance is the account requesting help, and UAC prompts on the remote machine (anything on the "secure desktop") are not remoted, and have to be agreed to by the person you are assisting. However, if you have setup an Admin account on that machine, you can still use any RunAs tools of your choice/familiarity (runas.exe, Shift Right Click Run as User, PowerShell Start-Process -Credential) to escalate to your Admin account (so long as they don't need you to input your password on the "secure desktop").
Covid-19 and Fall 2020: online courses for international students [pdf]
Starship Troopers isn’t a bad movie.
5% down is typical in high cost cities
Strictly speaking that's insufficient as crossing from the US into Canada by land doesn't invalidate your I-94. They do need to join it against a bunch of other data -- which they do have.
I'm 75, and have gone through several painful surgical procedures.

There is no pain worse than a cluster headache that I have experienced, so far. The only good thing about a cluster headache is that each one only lasts several hours. The very bad thing is that they come on like clockwork, at (for me) 1pm every day for months.

For me, they are stress induced. Luckily, I have not been stressed badly in quite a while.
> The chart referenced in this article was by the same author.

Didn't realize. This guy is an embarrassment.

> Discovering a vertical regression line sounds like a beautiful prompt for a hard sci-fi short story.

:)) the tale of the quantum dependent variable.
Simple Web and API Servers in Scala
There are plenty of people who (correctly, I think) consider the movie to be superior to the book (as both entertainment and as a genuine artistic accomplishment). You may be catching flak from them.
What process or processes were you running in the container?

Edit: nvm, saw you answered it in another thread: `find / > /dev/null`. Interesting!
My understanding is that the father was paying off a corrupt individual agent, not making payment to any government agency.
I find the most useful application of old hardware is to occasionally re-ground your perspective on code performance and resource utilization. Writing software for old hardware is an effective way to force yourself to write performant code, even if only as a rare weekend exercise :)
Nooooooo
wonderful website, thanks for sharing!
I had no idea the Linux kernel still supported the 486. I thought you had to have a Pentium class or better.
> But we know the stereotypes already, because we use them as intentional cultural signals

So call that tool 'detector of cultural signals'. Plenty of people do not care about cultural signal knowledge, but a tool that allows to read and analyze cultural signals by AI predictors can be interesting. Such tool could do similar work as expert in given cultural field, but can be used by non-experts.
I have been trying to find a source for this story for a long time. Any pointers?

That is, I don't mean that I expect it to be a true story, but if you were to cite this parable, how would you cite it?
What's good about it? I don't know much about movies I'm just curious why it's good.
I finally shelled out the $ for the paid version of a flight radar app because I was curious. The friendly skies are mostly empty. 85ish% of all flights in and out of Bay Area is from/to China.

I always had the free version but the paid version will ping me every time a flight goes over me(my phone actually) and for a mere $6.99/month, I can find out the air traffic of the area. It’s an affordable hobby for covid. I highly recommend it.

I don’t know what it really means but just an observation.
> If only there were a word for the importation of minority labor and locking them into employment with their sponsor, effectively reducing their negotiating power for salary to zero...

It really doesn't do that. To be fair, H-1Bs are supposed to be in-demand specialty workers, to meet the spirit of the program. That means they have, by definition, negotiating power. I've spent a lot of time in H-1 status and I have definitely negotiated my compensation -- with both current and prospective employers.

This data is available for you to search, and it's all public record. You can find my salary in the database. [1]

[1] https://h1bdata.info/
Looks like about 25% of software developers (broadly defined) are on H1B visas.

254k/365k of H1B petitions in 2017 were for computer occupations (those are predominantly in software development and computer programming). If we assume the proportion of actual workers is similar to petitions, we would assume there are about 400k H1B workers in software. About 1.5 million were employed in software development and computer programming 2018.
I feel ya. Every now and then I have a burst of creativity though and try to pick a project that can be completed in a day =) they're rarer now though (mid 30's)