skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The decision of ICE essentially was to not change anything. A student on F1 is only permitted to take certain number of online classes and must maintain his status with in person classes. The change to online classes means this affects ones status and the ICE notice meant they will not make any changes to these rules even in this situation. What people are saying is that this affects ones work status if he leaves the US post study but ideally a student is a student not seeking work or immigration into the US especially given that the H1B is suspended and OPT is not work it’s training. If the university says class is online then it means there is no reason for a student to live in the US. People confuse students with long term immigration even if that maybe the intention of the student. They are just students who are paying tuition and living in the US as far as anyone is concerned.
Wow, does non-profit pharma even exist? That's a combination I never considered before.
Understanding Bandwidth (increase productivity, increase contentment)
No, C and Unix were not developed to improve global telephony.

Part of the story is that Ken Thompson wanted to play a video game. This is documented in a number of places

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)

As a part of porting the game to the PDP-7, Thompson developed his own operating system, which later formed the core of the Unix operating system.

Multics was closer to something "important", while Unix was something unimportant and a great example of the principle laid out in the article.

Also, the first application of Unix beyond Bell Labs was typesetting. They were using it to produce patent applications, saving the labor of many secretaries. It was not used for telephony.

C was co-evolved with Unix as portable language to write an OS in.

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edit: For some color on how Bell Labs related to the rest of the org, I recommend "The Idea Factory" by Gertner and Brian Kernighan's recent memoir on Unix.
I took that from one of the ways that DDG monetizes results. It's more aspirational right now than actually in practice. I was briefly in the Amazon affiliate program, but they told me search engines aren't allowed as part of their TOS.
Wouldn't Graduate students be exempt from this to begin with? At least at the Ph.D level, past the first year or two you aren't even taking classes, the whole point of the degree is the research. They are also usually employed by the University as teaching assistants. How would this law impact them?

Note: I support the lawsuit, I have many friends who are or were international students, I live in Boston, just wondering how this would affect research-based grad students.
Augur 2.0 is coming out this month and it solves many of the problems of the original one.
I think there are many interpretations that are all probably a little true

Generous interpretation: if classes are primarily online, international students do not have a reason to reside in the US except for easier access to the labor market. With 20M Americans out of work, the administration is prioritizing citizens for first access to the labor market.

Skeptical interpretation: This is another anti-immigrant change that uses COVID as a scapegoat for racist/nativist policy.

I generally interpret most of the administration's moves as political gambles. Given current trends in deaths, they may be hoping that daily deaths are near zero with the country mostly opened back up by October. That seems like the only path to reelection given the current gap in approval ratings between the two candidates.
I remember reading a third of tenants in LA did not pay april rent
My understanding is that there is no 'best option'. Dual input is a situation that shouldn't ever happen while a crew is flying according to protocol.

In AF447 it has been established that the crew failed to follow multiple protocols, ignored warnings (including the audible "dual input") and while design / instrument improvements have been put forward, it's not clear they would have avoided that tragedy. The conflicting inputs only happened during the final seconds of descent.

Here's a good discussion on the why: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/23577/why-do-ai...

The latest Boeing 787 has switched to fly-by-wire.

EDIT: an eerily straight-forward report of how the AF447 flight came down: https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a3115/what-really-ha...
I knew this was a matter of time after games started using BE methods to encrypt network data. It gave cheaters and incentive to look into BE encryption and break it. This is the result. Without a rework BE is essentially useless now.
As engineers, we are spoiled in that we are accustomed to (1) navigating high signal:noise ratio environments (2) systematically improving the signal:noise ratio in environments where it’s poor.

On (1), many corporate meeting rooms have terrible ratios, and so they intuitively feel unproductive. On (2), it’s much easier to improve the ratio in code than it is in words spoken by people.

It requires a lot of patience, but in the long game, engineers do improve that ratio in meetings and strategy discussions, and the company benefits from it.

My theory is that most engineers are not interested in playing the long game, because (1) it’s not as fun (2) they don’t plan on being at the company on time scales where the investment will have been worth it.

While I personally don’t emulate their behavior, I think the developers you describe could conceivably be acting perfectly rational for their career goals.
I think this is a basic tenant of research - you can't always expect a specific outcome, sometimes you just have to explore curiosity and see what turns up.

However the contrarian in me wants to call out a counter-point:

> Working on unimportant problems can create important side-effects.

If over-applied - this logic can essentially become the tech-investor equivalent of trickle-down economics.

Who is to say that those areas that benefited from the side-effects of other work wouldn't have benefitted even more from direct investment?
I currently develop for mainframes and I can say they are still very relevant today in multiple industries. For my own company, we get a lot more bang for our buck than if we were constantly worried about the hype cycles.

>if the CTO doesn’t care that he is using somewhat modern technology he should be fired for incompetence

A ridiculous statement. The last concern of the CTO should be "are we using the latest tech for the sake of having the latest tech". Their concerns should be about cost, what the business actually needs, and what the future will entail. Finding new developers isn't that difficult, even for something like mainframes which most college grads today are totally unfamiliar with.

Your point about being more easily hireable by staying up to date with the current hype is true and valid. However the CTO doesn't have the same concerns as you. This is the important difference.
My point is that the idea that there is this (clear) distinction between sex and gender is not universally accepted and that there may be some reasons why people are skeptical of it.

In terms of the science of sex differences, my understanding is that they (at least sometimes) don't make the distinction between sex and gender because many traits and social behaviors that we might assume to be part of "gender" end up having a underlying biological component as well (that isn't easily separable).

In terms of the general populace, I would say that for many people the realities of their biological sex (including their reproductive capacity) have a great deal of impact on their gendered experience.

This is not to say that the experience of trans people should be ignored. But this may help account for some of the surprise people express at statements like "trans women are women" or "women is not a sex".
The average human attention span is 8 seconds. With the rise of social media, youtube, netflix, etc. We get everything we need instantly with our phone. It's impossible to consistently stay off it, so much so that it begins hurting our relationships and work life.

Regular pomodoro timers are boring. Why not add an avatar that you study alongside with and give experience to? A collection of over 200+ items to collect, and a cool UI that makes it feel like more like a treasure quest than a pomodoro session.

Would love your feedback. I want to make the android version as soon as I see success in the IOS landscape.
I mean, whatever floats your boat really, but when exactly are martial arts useful? The average person might use them once in a lifetime. A year's worth of voice lessons and pretty much any non-trained person will love hearing you sing along to any song, and you will make them want to sing. It's a way to relate to people and make friends in nearly any social situation.

Even if you're just more into the kinesthetic work, dance will pay more dividends and be more useful for basically the same reasons. Breaking is especially fundamental and nearly always works.

Again, do whatever works for you. But martial arts are really very rarely a useful thing to have learned. (And to be fair, performing monologues per the OP's suggestion is about as un-useful as martial arts relative to singing and dancing.)
GraphQL with Apollo on the front-end provides very nice front-end global state and cache management, but at the cost of increased complexity. For example, fetching data updates the global state so that any page accessing that data is updated automatically.

Are there any lighter weight RESTful JS client state/cache management solutions out there people can recommend?
It's reminiscent of an ancient sci-fi series, Fireball XL-5.

Who names a rocket "Fireball"?
Card tricks are good for this one. My great-grandfather had one (that I've now forgotten) that he'd use to entertain all of us as kids.
When the speech in question is hate speech directed at minorities, then giving a platform to bigots to spread that hate is definitely a setback for civil rights.
That sounds seriously like agile gone wrong. If the team isn't able to complete the amount of points in the sprint, there should be reflection: why not? Maybe we estimated the amount of work wrong? Maybe the amount of points was already set up by "crunch standards", not normal standards. Btw. who does the estimation? In our team, it's us, the developers.
and then you're going to do a secondary saw operation? $$$
On Interviewing Programmers
The field is medicine and doctors are predominately male.
Except the DAO wasn't shady, it was just buggy and got hacked. If having bugs is shady, we live in a dark world indeed.
Julia's ModelingToolkit.jl is already pretty far along and has a lot of SymPy, plus extra features like parallel simplification and generation of parallel sparse functions via its form of lambify. See the first tutorial on that: https://mtk.sciml.ai/dev/tutorials/symbolic_functions/ . The equation solver is in progress right now and is moving along quite fast. The nice thing is that this will all use Julia's multithreading, since separate tree cases are mostly independent so there's a lot of parallelism that the symbolic pieces can use here.
The author of the Forbes blog is irrelevant. There are sources cited for the claims made.

Besides, the article you link says a lot of things that are true. Death rates vary according to age, China peaked and declined first, CV affects high risk groups the most (kinda tautological but not really discussed much in early March when it was written), etc. I'm not sure what's so objectionable about it.
And in the 1950s--at least before the very end of the decade--you're talking prop planes likely with fueling stops in Gander and/or Shannon. So transatlantic air travel was probably not the most comfortable experience.
Apple Org Chart (Under Steve Jobs)
Not who you are replying to but I recently (2.5 months ago) started using YNAB again and have fallen in love with it. The last time I tried it was when it was desktop software but their newer web-based version with transaction import/sync is a game changer for me.

As for food I can't really help there. I ended up writing my own app to manage/track expiration dates for what I have but that's barely the tip of the ice-burg. I hope to integrate with my recipe app (Paprika) to work on meal-planning and picking recipes I like while trying to use up the stuff that will go bad first.
I like what AWS built on top od GraphQL.

AppSync + Amplify DataStore is pretty nice tech!
That's not at all my understanding eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering

'chemtrails' does not appear in the article.
Looking at my monthly eat-out cost is a real wake up for me.

If I don’t have prepared food or a snack it’s very easy to be tempted to grab something quick and overeat.
HIPAA is a facet of the general disease in the US healthcare system. The compliance cost is enormous but the industry doesn't object, it even benefits them, because it's all getting billed to insurance and the more everything costs the higher the base cost they get to multiply by their profit margin. Meanwhile the insurance is heavily subsidized by employers due to tax incentives, and the employees/citizens don't even realize how much it's costing them because there are so many layers of indirection.
That's fascinating
There's probably a long tail of domains bought, used once (if at all), and forgotten. The registrars aren't going to be happy holding these in some kind of quarantine.
Long distance phone calls getting cheaper and not needing operator assistance certainly didn't help much.
Darknet Diaries Podcast on “Psyop, or Psychological Operations”
> The Linux Mint project has made good on previous threats to actively prevent Ubuntu Snap packages from being installed through the APT package-management system without the user's consent. This move is the result of "major worries" from Linux Mint on Snap's impact with regard to user choice and software freedom. Ubuntu's parent company, Canonical, seems open to finding a solution to satisfy the popular distribution's concerns — but it too has interests to consider.

An excellent and succinct summary of the issue in the first paragraph. I have to hand it to LWN for excellent synopsis/summary paragraphs in the articles. This is a lost art in today's clickbait headline where the lede is buried in the center of the Earth.
Having used Flutter extensively since I was first introduced to it 9 months ago, I can say that it is an absolute joy to use and build interfaces with. An easier way to install the Flutter SDK on linux is only good news and I hope it gets more developers to adopt it.
Except if international students are in the US, then they're contributing to the US economy and not their home economy. They're buying goods in the US, paying taxes in the US and perhaps most importantly, they're exporting US culture back into their home country if they go back or resulting in positive brain drain to the US if they stay.

Do you not realize how bad of an idea it is to just completely cut all of that off? For benefits that aren't even tangible because universities grow to fit the number of students attending?

Again, it's not based in any sort of rational basis. It's xenophobia.
With the later versions of iOS supporting "Files" now, Strongbox points to the file that is stored within the "Sync" (Resilio) location. What this means is that Strongbox is actively reading/writing to that file within the "Sync" location on iOS. Whenever I open the Resilio Sync app it will either push the changes I made on mobile to the server or pull down the file from the server and overwrite the file on iOS, depending on which is the newer file.

Also, I don't use Resilio's proxy servers either, so all of this is 100% running on my own infra. I have Wireguard setup on my home network, so if I am away from home, I can "VPN" in on my phone and then open the Resilio Sync app to sync up remotely.
There was previously an exemption put in place, they're suspending it.
The Hated One videos on how to be private
Doesn't the US hope that those highly educated students stay in the US afterwards? I was always under impression that this was the main goal of those programs. Get the smartest from other countries, show them how good it is in your country, and hope for them stay and contribute to the economy.
Much of CoreOS has become the base for OpenShift 4. It's now called RHCOS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS ) and is the base host operating system for OpenShift. Also it's using CoreOS Ignition for installation.
> someone stating something in a fairly colloquial way, particularly something they thought was widely known, then having to progressively clarify the specific thing they meant when challenged by someone who didn't have the same facts

"neurological" is not the colloquial phrase for "non-obstructive" and "non-obstructive" is not a clarification on "neurological". They are different things.

So ... I mean are there other options than (a) and (b) here? Because if it those are the only options, and (a) is not an option, then well ... it kinda seems like (b).
Wait, so there's Keepass, KeepassX and KeepassXC? I understand the X is cross-platform (initially was linux-only) whereas presumably Keepass is win-only; but what's the "community fork" for? Why not improve KeepassX? And why don't KeepassX and Keepass merge now?
This way of reasoning is like a Chinese finger trap. We are educating China's new (first?) generation of scientists, so if they stay here they'll somehow work for our benefit and not that of China, and if they go back then it's even worse supposedly.

How about we don't educate CCP's scientists at all? Knowledge is power and we are selling it wholesale to CCP.
Your post says your wife gets out of breath sometimes after a relatively mild COVID infection. That sucks and I'm sorry to hear it, but I'm not sure that rises to the level of dangerous, exactly. Lots of people end up out of breath just from obesity, which is I guess can be considered dangerous in some ways, but most people probably wouldn't actually describe it that way relative to many other medical ailments.
At least I Scrum, as I understand it, the commitment should be chosen by reflecting it to past velocity. If that velocity is achieved only by crunching and overworking, that's a problem that needs to be addressed. If it can't be reasonably addressed, that's a sign of a toxic workplace.
I have a personal "shut down" period at the end of the day where I close out my browser tabs that are no longer relevant, and review all the scribbles I've written down in a notebook, transfering the few important ideas to the relevant longterm storage, or to the appropriate project file's todo list, etc.... I also write down the first thing I'm going to do in the morning (because I don't believe the first thing to do should just be "catch up on Slack" or "read email").

Helps me clear my mind, and it saves me a lot of time in the morning, because I can start work and have some wins for the day within 15 minutes...and that momentum carries me through....

Also, the shut-down period is nice, because when I'm tired at the end of the day, it doesn't take a lot of energy.
Thank you! You wouldn't believe how long I messed with that when I first set it up. I just couldn't get it to click.

On the differences between the pages, currently in the middle of a redesign. Everything will be consistent very soon.
Ahh, the site uses book images from Amazon's CDN so you may need to disable your ad blocker. I think that's what's happening.
Yep, it sounds like a plug:)
Canonical's decision to abuse the power of apt packages to make it some "universal installer" is kinda gross. I get the thought but I would consider is surprising that, say, installing python-* actually installed pip and ran pip install.

This is totally going to break Gnome Software's UI since it has plugins for snap, flatpack, apt, dnf, pacman, etc.. and making it so that Chromium from apt is doing a run-round with snap makes it really confusing to the user.
Bills can be forced out of committee to the floor via a discharge petition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition), but it requires a 2/3 vote.
> And for those wondering how a business forgets to renew, it's pretty easy: the employee (A) in charge of managing renewals is let go, and so is their manager (B) at around the same time, so the manager (B) doesn't transfer responsibility from (A) to a new person, and their manager (C) doesn't realize the original employee two levels down (A) never had their responsibility transferred, because that was B's job.

It's still pretty ridiculous, because businesses have plenty of other periodic filings and fees and renewals to deal with that have nothing to do with computers. There are permits that need renewal. Old fire extinguishers need to be replaced or recharged to avoid fines when the fire inspectors come around. There are all kinds of tax filings due monthly, quarterly, and yearly. There are various trademark and patent maintenance fees they need to pay during the life of a trademark or patent to keep it alive. They might also have long term contracts with janitorial services, landscaping services, copier/fax maintenance services, utilities, payment processors, and many others that they might want to review a couple weeks or months before they expire to research if they want to change providers.

Somewhere they should have a shared unified calendar of all these things, listing when they are due and what manager in in charge of getting them done. The computer stuff, like domain renewals and certificate renewals, should be on there.

This calendar should be regularly checked by someone high up, like the COO. That person just has to check it enough to be aware of any deadlines approaching, and if they do not get marked as "in progress" as they get close this person can poke the head of the appropriate department to get it taken care of.

Sure, a department could still have forgotten in the way you describe, but it gets noticed before the deadline giving them time to figure out how to fix it. But unless you get a chaotic shake up at the top, it should be nearly impossible for a company to actually forget about any of the aforementioned deadlines.
Or people just trust Red Hat for being always "heart, mind and soul" of the community of contributors that makes open source great. And keep doing the same thing, that inspired many others such as SUSE, Rancher, etc.. and IBM :)
"White" people are a minority worldwide, any blanket foreign policy will disproportionately target non-white people.
The author of that article clearly can describe his thesis in 3-4 sentences. He does so on the middle of the text.

But he decided not to add a summary at the beginning of the article. This is a perfectly valid option and helps him making his point, even though it did reduce his audience.
There is no "100% fixed", only forward progress or regression. Forward progress was being made before the current administration; forward progress was stopped during this administration.
I know ZeBu very well and... "a bunch of FPGAs" is an understatement. It can go all the way to 1500 FPGAs !
I've dealt with whole teams of these kinds of people. They also get extremely defensive about anything they don't know. Even worse, this was particularly the case around proper testing. Suffice to say the team committed a lot of bugs to production.