skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... why...

There are 3,480 Falklanders. My high-school had 3,900 students.

The weather is pretty bleak. Warm season average high temp in January is 57F. Average low in June is 32F. Mostly cloudy/overcast 60% of the week pretty much year round. I.e., it's never really warm enough to do a lot of outdoor activities other than hiking or maybe horseback riding. Only 20% of days are 'wet' days, so you don't have to worry all that much about rain. Still, it's too cold for swimming or beach-going, not cold enough for skiing. Admittedly, I just skimmed the article, but this caught my eye: "Since the late nineteenth century, islanders had wanted a swimming pool because the sea was too cold to swim in, so nobody knew how, and, when boats capsized, people would drown."

Make no mistake, there are many folks who prefer this climate, and the remoteness and seeming lack of immediacy that is growing in the rest of the world. I imagine you'd stay for the sameness of each day. I could see it as an unplug for a while, but living there would get, for me... dull.

One thing I did wonder, though, what does a Falklander accent sound like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHFhRyxU48
Conflict Culture is making social Unsocial
Wally is very good. They got hosed like every other grocer but were quick to retool and revamp, especially online. When the supply chain changed, they changed. We graduated from curbside once delivery became available. My wife and I, each on our own Chromebook, work over the order for a week kibitzing, questioning, suggesting and sometimes ridiculing. Definitely beats pushing a cart around to endless elevator music...
It's interesting that Finland took that approach. In Portugal the government just created its own ID provider (https://www.autenticacao.gov.pt/), which lets you login with your ID card (which is a PGP smartcard) or a two-factor PIN + mobile phone token.

The relationship is actually opposite: banks will let you login on their sites using the government's ID provider. It's not mandatory, though.
Curbside pickup or grocer-organized delivery isn't just the safest option for you, it is also worlds safer for the community at large.

The risk to people working in grocery stores increases linearly (or faster) with the number of in-person grocery-store visits. The risk to the community is probably roughly quadratic in the number of in-person grocery-store visits.

Curbside pickup is a really responsible thing to do.
Wonderful paragraph about the war:

> The islanders did what they could to undermine the enemy. Reg Silvey, the Cape Pembroke lighthouse keeper and a radio ham, rigged an aerial out of a steel-core washing line and transmitted troop information to the British. Terry Peck, a policeman, concealed a telephoto camera in a drainpipe and walked around taking photographs of Argentine missile sites. A farmer named Trudi McPhee led a caravan of islanders in Land Rovers and tractors through hostile territory at night across East Falkland to Tony and Ailsa’s farmhouse, where British troops needed vehicles to transport weapons. Eric Goss, a manager at Goose Green, convinced Argentine soldiers that the lights of British ships in Falkland Sound were moonlight reflecting off seaweed.
It is a bad enough time for everyone.
There's not much difference. Those are yearly numbers. Australians are spending about half as much per person per year as Americans, but the Australian number seems to be at least partly pre-coronavirus.
Right. To be clear I wasn't seeking advice as I've already decided what I'm going to do. I was merely pointing out that it's more complicated than pausing enrollment and resuming when things get back to normal.
The thing is that for anything more complex than simple CRUD either side (frontend and backend) is such an inherently different problem domain that I don't see that the programming language is the relevant factor.

Because frontend and backend need a very different skillsets and both need a lot of knowledge and training to become good, there are very few true fullstack engineers. And I would bet that most if not all of those can handle work in multiple different programming languages.
I really missed out by not asking for help my first year as an undergrad. With very few exceptions (maybe 2 out of 20?), every single professor was excited to explain things 1:1. My current partner is a professor and feels delighted when students don't give up and ask for help. If it weren't for freshman year I would have been a 4.0 (er, out of 4.0), so it really galls me that the arrogant commenters above insist that college is worthless or just a name game. Yes, I agree prices are out of control. That's an absolute fact. And were there boring lectures? Sure, once and a while: hell, I was 18 when I started. But overall the lectures, recitations and labs were spot on. It was like drinking from a firehose, and sometimes you need help. But to just shit on the entire institution as a scam overall is just plain sad and IMHO a political posturing of the right wing trying to demonize education. Yep, I went political.
Yup that's how I knew of Ecstacy of Gold originally. First album I ever had. Our walk out song in HS basketball was to the S&M version. I also went to the second showing of S&M^2 in SF.
I don't have a source offhand but can attest that I too have seen some of that material - I consume a lot of reading material daily so not sure on where but can say from recollection that it has critically contemplated the role of mask use from a couple different angles:

1) Are people correctly using masks - e.g. taking higher risks than the relative protection given by type of mask being used - just because you wear a bandana doesn't mean you should be hanging out in large crowds; properly wearing/fitting masks; properly disposing/sanitizing masks.

2) comparison of infection rates for other airborne/aerosol-transmitted diseases in countries/cultures where mask use is traditionally higher than the US, e.g. higher influenza infection rates in countries where mask use is traditionally much higher than US despite their success in containing COVID (taiwan, s. korea); comparison of sick rates of professionals who wear masks at work some of the time vs all day (Australian study of nurses, I think??); comparison of sick rates of people who wear veils when in public vs those that don't in same society.

Sorry for lack of source material, but armed with above one might be able to google it out if interested.

Personally, I'm starting to like wearing my largely ineffective-but-anonymizing sheer cloth mask in public. I wear a tight N95 on the plane, which sucks (effective PPE is NEVER comfortable to wear for hours), then junk it, but just try and tell me it doesn't help. I think smart monkeys should be staying home unless they have to be in public space. Strongly disagree with threatening jail time for mask noncompliance tho.
> Every OS that I am aware of gives the foreground app unfettered access to the clipboard.

The point is not whether or not other OSes do this. The point is:

1. At least some iPhone users would be surprised that Apple allows this on iOS given the emphasis Apple places on privacy.

2. Apple has been aware that apps are abusing this privilege for some time -- at least as long as it took them to develop the new alert to apps abusing the privilege, maybe longer.

3. Apple has seemingly continued to approve apps which are spying on users.

4. I don't believe Apple can make any promises that bad actors have not been able to clandestinely transmit the contents of users' clipboards to their own servers.

Many users, including me, outsource their infosec to Apple because they champion privacy, end-to-end encryption, and things like notifications for apps which are monitoring location.

But there is no good reason for an app like TikTok or LinkedIn to be constantly making a copy of the contents of your clipboard, and Apple is aware that they have been doing it.

I don't dispute that unfettered access to the clipboard is an attractive feature on many devices (not to mention hard to police on macOS given the prevalence of non-App Store apps), but on iOS expectations and messaging are very significantly different.

The second paragraph on Apple's app store review webpage:

> We take responsibility for ensuring that apps are held to a high standard for privacy, security, and content because nothing is more important than maintaining the trust of our users.

Do you consider their actions here -- knowingly approving apps to the store which could, without permission, transmit your clipboard contents anywhere they want -- to be in keeping with that promise?
In a romantic sense, I'd like to think this is what trust fund recipients do with their time.
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> Also make an O-1 type visa as an immigrant visa.

That's unnecessary, as the O-1 has the same requirements as an EB1A green card petition. The immigrant visa form of the O-1 is simply an EB1A petition. It's actually possible to self-petition EB1A. Only India and China have a backlog of EB1A petitions, and their priority dates are ~2017.

I'd love to read that study if you dig it up!

For what it's worth, I believe in wholesale immigration reform. I think the current system is byzantine and utterly ridiculous and leaves the country at a huge disadvantage compared to the rest of the world. While by no means a Trump supporter, his points-based immigration program that never materialized would be a big, big step in the right direction.
>If I had to bet, Neeva will go after business users and combine Bing's index of the public web with their index of internal business data to make a catered experience that's subscription worthy.

Completely agree. There is much easier money to be made in a B2B premium search app than in the consumer space.

It is also a common path for search companies; for example FAROO went that direction.
Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary, meant to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will—that threatens the ideology of the régime.
All my friends who emigrated to the US did so from an F1 visa (followed by a work visa sometime during their first year of employment). Of course it is a source of immigration.
Those samples were probably written by someone who had learned how to code in assembly language. In assembly, this kind of comment reminds the reader of the semantic meaning of what is in each CPU register. It could be very useful. Then the person learns C and never drops this habit.
Here was my experience a few weeks ago: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook...

Just as a helpful data point.
Yes, it is indeed quite friction-removing and combines the usefulness of both.
Be wary of the growth we’ve seen to date. Amazon is charging no delivery fees on Whole Foods orders which is distorting the market for now.
Protip: store bought salsa makes a better pasta sauce than store bought pasta sauce.

(Controversial) protip: home made salsa makes a better pasta sauce than home made pasta sauce
Similar thing sometimes happens in deep learning field. Just a couple of weeks ago I helped a coworker reproduce a result from a paper. He had been debugging it for several days. Took me about 5 minutes to make a correct guess that his batch size is too small for batchnorm to be effective. He trained the model on 8 GPUs, using a decent batch size, but he didn't realize that the default batchnorm op in Pytorch isn't synchronizing batch statistics across GPUs, so the effective batch size was in fact 8x smaller. How was I able to see it so quickly? Experience.
Is it an actual "reproduction" if the specific experimental steps cannot be reproduced? I think what people do not understand is that there is a difference between "result" and "process". The existence of one is not a validation of the other. As programmers, we know this: there are many ways of implementing the same algorithm.

So, it really depends on what is being "reproduced". Is it the outcome? Or is it the process? If it is just the outcome, then the original authors could merely store an example of it as the only proof necessary. But, my intuition says that it is much more often the process that is needing to be reproduced/proven.

Therefore, "lab technique" should have nothing to do with a proof of process. Either it can or it cannot be done as it has been defined.
These people are from India who say they are from IRS and usually target seniors.
For photos only. What about contacts?
Not particlarly. I will in a few months, though.
Yes, often a tiny bit more knowledge in CSS can save you a lot of trouble in JS (grids, menus, forms etc..).
I’m a mud-phud, use it myself and have heard it used all over!
How it would fit the market with services like DuckDuckGo, Startpage and SearX? All these services provide internet search for free. DuckDuckGo has its own engine, Startpage and SearX are meta-engines, reusing existing services.
They definitely have all the data they need, verifiable many times over. No one wants to do the work to talk to all the different agencies involved to compile it.
Ranges support negatives, so thats nice. Though i32::MIN..=9 is at least slightly odd.
Thanks you. I was just thinking about something similar last week.
I doubted their numbers originally because well... the govt hasn't been that honest in the past.

But, I've spent the last 4 years living there (came back to the US for work at the end of January). I'm in tons of Vietnam related facebook groups and I have friends there.

Whole country is open internally, nobody is wearing a mask, plane flights are full. If there was a single infection, it would be all over the news and my friends would be notifying me.

I'm pretty confident, that at this point, the govt isn't lying. They admit when they import new cases (repatriation flights) and they quarantine everyone with multiple rounds of testing. If anyone 'escapes' quarantine... it is a full on manhunt. They aren't playing games.

Hands down, Vietnam won this war.
It is an interesting open question if, should the deal go through, Microsoft would maintain a strong content licensing deal with AT&T for WB, DC, and other brands to go with the sale.

I have a pretty bad impression that AT&T, and WB especially, doesn't have a good enough handle on its IP licenses to make a strong IP deal with Microsoft. (Such as the number of IPs that its own videogame companies once created but WB has no ideas if it owns the rights to them is fascinating. For instance, it's likely WB's fault that there will never be a re-release of No One Lives Forever. They have no idea if they have the rights to it, despite owning what's left of Monolith that developed it.)

> For example, the Mad Max game was their best open world entry, but it failed to reach sales expectations due to the lack of appeal of the media property.

Mad Max is pretty well regarded brand. My impression was that WB didn't know how to market the game, badly timed its release, and accidentally gave the first impression it was a direct "movie tie-in game" which has decades of game history of bad "movie tie-in games" against it. By the time reviews came it it was tough to overcome that first bad impression.

So far Microsoft doesn't seem to have similar marketing blunders in their games division.

> but I can judge their games output, and outside of Halo and Forza, there is nothing for me there

You might be surprised, They've bought a lot of development companies in the last two years and have been expanding back out from just Halo/Forza/Gears/Minecraft (and don't forget Rare!), after the late Xbox 360 sale/collapse/divestment of studios when they decided to focus more on publishing than first party development (Lionhead RIP, Bungie, Ensemble RIP, etc). Among others, Microsoft has lately picked up Double Fine, Obsidian, inXile, and created three or four development houses that haven't made major announcements yet other than logos and game developers leading them.

It'll be a few years before all the M&A/Development work bears fruit, changes their image beyond their "safe" mega-franchises.

Much of WB Interactive's studios have rich and interesting pedigrees and on paper it seems like the kind of risky opportunities they have been taking in their M&A strategy to beef up their first party development assuming they manage to untangle access to as much of the IP rights as they could from AT&T/WB. Especially if they got the Lego videogame license with the sale of WB's TT Games, that would create a huge force at Microsoft given they already own Mojang (Minecraft).
> there's more beautiful art being created today than ever.

Except there’s not. Where is the Notre Dame of our time? The Mozart (who was well recognized in his time)? Who can be compared in our time to the sheer talent of Michelangelo? Who still produces ballets like Swan Lake?

Yes, we have beautiful art in our time, but you have to be blind to not see the difference in the sheer majesty and scale of pre modern Western art. It’s exponentially better.
Asking new PhD students to change culture is like asking Entry-Level Developers to change the management culture of Google.
Since the riots and looting at the beginning of June, all of the Chicago Walmarts have been closed. So that's out for me.
Is this move by ICE going to be additional motivation for schools to not go remote for September?

Even if they believe that will probably to cost lives on campus and in the local community?
Is it worth it?

The more I read about this the more I question if it is actually worth the trouble. However I am a US citizen, something which in these conversations make me realize how lucky (privileged) I am to not endure this
I don't mean 'use' as in a #7 torx wrench. I mean 'use' as in air.

I have shipped bug fixes using organized hypothesis checking as well. Especially sanity checks (make sure the instruments are working). But it is not the software developer's default behavior, and I'm sure you've lamented it just as I have. You and I are tourists, and many around us aren't even that. So when we speak of whether 'we' apply formal rigor to our work? Is it still rigor when there is no discipline? I don't think rigor is something you do on a random Thursday. It's something you do all the time.

So no, 'we' do not use the scientific method. We dabble.

And so when someone like Naur tries to summarize software with a line about theory proving, he's not speaking about everybody. If he were honest he might not even be speaking accurately about himself.

ETA: But he's talking about the long arc, not a single bug fix. That we are circling in on what the actual problem is and feeling it out with code. But since we stop at "if it ain't broke don't fix it", we never actually crystallize the thing we built. We never test the hypothesis we suppose that we have created. We have spot checked this organic thing that never gets pinned down and might actually be DOA. We hope the evidence we are wrong is just 'glitches' or problems with the user's machine. Until someone comes to us with a counter-proof that shows unequivocally that we were wrong.

Which leads to problems like those mentioned in this comment tree.
The UK was, and still is, a nuclear power so I would argue it's closer to super than non.

Plus, there is a great quote about the US vs the UK regarding nuclear weapons:

- Everyone respects the US because they were the biggest NATO military and had nuclear weapons

- Everyone feared the UK because due to their island mentality, if push came to shove they wouldn't hesitate to use those nuclear weapons whereas the US was seen as forever hesitant to use them again.
Amazon Fresh staff don’t take care of the merchandise. They deliver it in taped-up paper bags or plastic sacks that were in a huge pile, and within the sack they might have apples sitting on a bag of chips or loaf of bread.

Also their produce choices were limited.

Instacart shoppers take much more care but they are very expensive and their lack of knowledge of in-store inventory means they make poor substitutions, requiring me to baby-sit the order while they pick it to veto substitutions.

I have returned to in-store shopping.
Or who don't interview at all. [0]

I've seen great devs intern twice at the same company while in college and spend several years there as full time right after graduating, only jumping ships when a friend at an other company specifically reached out.

They are essentially invisible to any recruiters.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/
I’ve noticed a similar situation in biotech. I think a big reason is when real money and government regulators are involved, the stakes are higher and the definition of success is less about “truth” and more about “Truth”.
Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power? [Paul Krugman]
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> So they bring in H-1Bs to lower wages

Let's say that this was honestly true. H-1Bs have been around for what, 30ish years now? If we assume that the sole purpose of H-1Bs was to lower wages, then we should've seen slow wage growth or wage depression for software engineers.

But the reality seems to be the opposite which is that salary growth for H-1B positions seems to be among the highest wages in the country. It seems absurd to make that claim considering many other countries pay software engineers far less and America is considered an outlier with how much we tend to be paid.

This isn't to say that H-1Bs aren't abused because H-1Bs themselves do tend to be paid a lot less and come with a whole host of restrictions that make job seeking difficult. But overall I don't think the claim that it depresses wages necessarily holds water. If anything what would be likely is companies expanding international offices (which many already are doing) so that they can have access to the same cheap labor pool and avoid paying the absurd SV rates for Americans.
The carriers somehow have zero trouble figuring out who to bill for the calls. There's no reason the same system can't be used to identify the real originator behind malicious calls and cut them off.
First they paid an overwhelming fortune with minecraft after the userbase had surely peaked, now warner after the DC universe and superhero genres in general have become overheated to the point of consumer exhaustion.

Perhaps someone smarter than me can elaborate, but why is microsoft buying up IP thats arguably crested by around four years?
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Star Wars leans on Nazi symbolism and fascist themes, it doesn't wade neck deep in them. People don't try to defend the weaknesses of Star Wars by saying "But it's such a great satire", they don't have to because the franchise stands alone.

Whenever I point out the fact that Starship Troopers makes zero sense and is just a plain bad movie, the singular response I get is that "It's great political satire". Again, maybe it is. That's not the genre of movie I was interested in watching, it still isn't.

Also, for what it's worth, the only Star Wars movie released in the 90s was The Phantom Menace which was nearly as bad as Starship Troopers.
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I think a lot of people don't know this, and I just learned this now even though I used to have quite an interest in Greek mythology.

I appreciate the pedantic correction.
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