skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I didn’t think there were any elite schools on the West Cost apart from Stanford and after googling “most prestigious colleges Oregon” the only one I’ve heard of before is Reed, which USNWR ranks #68 among National Liberal Arts Colleges. This isn’t a knock on the students or the quality of education in Oregon or on the West Coast generally, just a statement of social reality. If you go by Lauren Rivera’s research on hiring practices of elite professional service firms the super elite are HYPS, with the remaining members of the Ivy League, Northwestern, MIT, Cal Tech and some others sometimes being included depending on who was hiring. No one’s transferring to any of those schools after three years at a community college. I doubt that’s ever happened at Reed.
Anecdotally, I saw a lot more people ordering online in the last two weeks in March than in late April and on. (And, based on the empty shelves then, probably an equivalent increase in in-person stocking up, too.) Remember that stores were running out of stuff before official shutdowns happened, too.

I'm curious what week by week data would look like.
I'm looking at some ETL code from the dark past, and it uses low-level Db code to shovel in .csv files like a boss.

I'm all' "Well, I guess that code that obtains the .csv files must be rock solid."

Famous last words.

A freshly done system later, I'm left to infer that there had been some other cleansing to to which I was never privy.
I still have my sheevaplug. It was great to have a small self-contained computer at the time. The raspberry pi definitely fills that spot today, but it isn't a full self-contained package like the sheevaplug was (for the pi you need to figure out the case and power).
You've just described the Google filter bubble
Why are you having to stay up until 2 am?

I've had no problem filling my cart and getting a delivery time any time I want. There were some "delivery windows are full" problems early in the pandemic, but no problems now.

Most sites I use make it easy to re-order past purchases so I can get my shopping done in 5 minutes most weeks.
> Nearly 30 years after MP3, the only audio codec that could rivals mp3 at the standard rate of 128kbps at a significant lower bitrate was Opus at 96Kbps.

AAC and Vorbis were doing this for years before Opus was on the scene. Opus is a further improvement on audio codecs, but not an unprecedented one.
It's fundamentally not a level playing field in "at-will" employment states where losing a job means finding a new one or leaving the country within <x> number of days.
Bill & Melinda Gates and their foundation have been exposed for preventing millions of childhood deaths in Africa and elsewhere.
[[Ryan Sleevi wrote the m.d.s.policy post this HN item is about]]

That link says the even number month changes are CA led.

Now of course you certainly have much better insight than I do into what's behind those CA led changes because I'm just a Relying Party with their nose pressed against the window. Maybe that new Root Program manager is encouraging participants to clean stuff up with an implied threat that if they don't Microsoft will. But as an outsider it still looks a lot like the old Microsoft root programme to me. Also Microsoft's "revoke or else" rule still sits badly with me despite its purported use to prevent people scamming Microsoft's customers. But I guess I'm glad to hear you think they've "greatly improved".
> behave like racists

Please, note, that English is not native language for all these people (me included). For us technical term is technical term, without emotional load. Why do we behave like racists?

> “I don’t have anything in common with those racists”

I disagree with term "racists" here, but I have many in common with these people, including knee-jerk reaction. But I force myself to stop this reaction and think like this: "It is not my native language, I can not feel emotional load of these terms, so I need to believe native speakers that it is a problem". It requires conscious effort from me, each time.

> please don’t involve the Soviet trauma bs in that.

Sorry, but I can not, because, again, I analyze my feelings and see roots of them. Yes, roots are in hate to USSR past and clear parallels which I see between USSR (or, if you want Orwellian) newspeak and changing of technical terms, which doesn't have any relation to slavery in USA ("black list" is black because it is list of crossed-out items, which makes lines in this list black, for example).

But then I say to myself: "Stop. I'm not native spaaker, I'm not living in USA, I need to believe, that is change for better, because I cannot judge by myself, as I don't have same cultural background".

Of course, all people are different, and it will be stupid to claim that everybody who live in ex-USSR ("extended") territory is the same, but I know, from discussions in my native language that many people (not all!) share these feelings.
Someone wrote on HN that you can not make all of your employees happy at the same time. Identify the 20% who gets done 80% of the work and make sure they will want to work for you in the future and follow you if you jump ship. How? Build a relation to them based on trust and respect and ask them directly.
Extending the real numbers with 1 vs. 2 points at infinity both have applications where they model real situations.

For example, if we take a mercator projection of the globe onto a 2-infinite-ended cylinder, the latitude coordinate could meaningfully be either +∞ or –∞. If we take the stereographic projection of the globe onto the plane, every pair of coordinates with one infinite value corresponds to the same point on the sphere.
I'm curious why we have this view that the in-store pickup order worker wouldn't end up just as "optimized" as the general online shopping warehouse worker.
Especially through much of the current situation, I found stock in grocery stores to be sufficiently sporadic that it made more sense to do things myself so I could substitute and change plans on the fly. And going to a local (non-urban) store early-ish isn't a big deal.

It's better now but the one time I used grocery delivery a long while back (Peapod) because I had a broken foot and had trouble doing a full grocery shopping, it was better than the alternatives but still lacking. I would usually still end up going to the grocery store but that was OK so long as I just needed to put a few items into a shoulder bag.
I feel we are no longer getting our money’s worth from our taxes.

We are taxed at almost an effective rate of 40%. This includes federal, state, and sales taxes.

Then, the other 40% goes to rent, or mortgages.

And you have to make due with your remaining 20% to pay for your medical expenses, food, gasoline, car, entertainment, etc. And god forbid, if you have to pay to help your aging parents, which is an added burden on your remaining 20%.

What will it take to get the attention of these Washington elites, that we, the people, are getting fleeced for our money?

Meanwhile, all this low interest rates, are going to do one thing, which is to further increase asset prices. Namely, housing prices, and stock prices.
It's not possible to solve on a technical level, (lots of edge cases) but this is my recurring "make the provider hurt" comment.

Every call should be possible to report and the last organisation which can't justify the caller ID sent gets fined for each such call. Ideally this will end up with a scammer. If not possible, it will end up with a telco which will assign blame on their international partner until they get cut off. No properly run telco wants to get cut off from sending calls to a large country.

But the fines have to start due to correct regulation which applies to everyone.
Based on the worn-out spot on my touchpad, it seems like I mostly use a circular area on it.
The H-1B system is terrible. I applied twice to it while I was on an internship visa, and ended up not getting through the lottery and had to leave the US. Then had to wait a year and a half to get a greencard in order to come back.
It's a bit paternalistic to call restricting the set of options available to someone "doing them a favor".
> devolved into a bunch of people running around with guns shouting randomly at giant bugs.

That was part of the satire actually. When a pro-militaristic society knows nothing but violence, they continuously look at the problem through a violence-only lens.

> It basically stripped away all the interesting science fiction bits

The propaganda bits and sarcastic take-down of fascism is the big part of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijvTiDnWJLE

Its probably easier to see the sarcasm with all of the Federal News Network clips in a row?

Or maybe the "Failure of Democracy" speech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBxgrr0wL8M
Asof EOD friday from about 1145 trackable CUSIPs in firna trace underlying HYG, there's 20 of them either in default or companies that have applied for bankruptcy protection. A lot more have be rolled out from HYG though.
Apple Removing Support for AMD GPUs in macOS Arm64
You need domain name insurance
>...it should be easy to make the proverbial google killer.

Let's say that's the case (which absolutely isn't true), the challenge is that Google currently controls the access points to the web for most people. Google owns the default settings in Chrome, and they pay Apple and Mozilla billions of dollars a year to also be the default search engine in their browsers/devices.
Reminds of Wisdom of Chopra, a random Deepak Chopra Tweet generator: https://twitter.com/WisdomOfChopra
It's not like the NYTs doesn't have a history of spreading unfounded 'conspiracy theories' too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_aluminum_tubes#September...

In terms of damage done to society, I think all the examples you list combined still pale in comparison to that single example.
So had they been complying with govt data requests from Hong Kong up until 5 days ago? I have no idea what China's policies on ex post facto laws are but does this mean there are political dissenters in Hong Kong who will likely be punished for this new security law based on info given to them from these companies just 2 weeks ago?

Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely grateful these companies are taking this stand. But I'm so frustrated that it's always a reactive measure. Would they have still done this if the law hadn't gotten this much international attention? Are these companies actually doing this because it's the right thing to do, or because they would suffer a PR storm if they didn't? I wish these companies would have been more proactive about doing something to support the people of Hong Kong because this is literally the first news I think I've seen, in the entire 1.5 years of the ongoing protests, where a major US company actually did something to help them.
Has anyone else ever heard of an MD-PhD student being called a "mud-phud"? I'm in a PhD program (and have several friends that are MD-PhD candidates) and my wife is an MD and I've never heard of this term.
Thanks for kind words!

It is generational trauma, unfortunately. I could work with it personally, but it is passed from parents to children, and several generations should pass. Current situation in Russia doesn't help, either, as it again more and more like as back to USSR...
I've changed the name in the ticket after the fact and it hasn't been a problem. They do it for national security purposes, not to prevent scalping.
Any remember Mixer?
As an outsider to Academia, this looks like a long array of excuses and saddens me. A huge number of hours are wasted every year by undergrads fighting with incomplete papers when we could do better. We could enforce higher standards. Everything in a paper should be explainable and reproducible. Have a look at efforts by PapersWithCode, Arxiv Sanity, colah's blog, or 3blue1brown in either curating content or explaining concepts. I couldn't find a single excuse in this blog post for which we can't come up with a solution, if we have the consensus to enforce it.
As a nit, this isn't as clear cut and dry when you think about qui bono -- The fed's purchase itself increases the value of other outstanding Walmart debt, creating wealth for the other debt holders...
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium all have custom styling specific to that platform. The person you're arguing with has interpreted me exactly correctly, you're the one misinterpreting. Please don't engage in pointless flame wars based on poor reading comprehension.
Good for them for not being linked to Argentina anymore, if they where an Argentinean province they would be in default, with unemployment, and with high poverty rate.
> Many Asian countries as well as Europe have managed to get cases down to levels where it's entirely within reach to completely eliminate the virus.

On a per capita basis the only large European country with a lower death rate than the US is Germany. Italy, France, Spain and the UK are all higher. Comparing US and Europe, all of whom messed up badly, to the competent governments that ignored the WHO is absurd. Asia did much, much better than the USA and Europe, which are basically comparable.
I also like going grocery shopping for certain items. But only when roads are empty as I visit 4-5 places. I only buy fish from one store in town. Buy my bread from a bakery I really like. A few other things at a small mediterranean store, etc. But I still order many dry things online since it can be cheaper (esp at large quantities) and the selection is great. Things like quinoa, dates, etc.
Trying to attend online school from a different time zone is a nightmare. Imagine having to wake up for your finals at 3am.

Plus, what are students going to do if school goes online after an outbreak?

It's a rough time to be a student.
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>you’re saying that I’m the one misunderstanding OP

Yes, you are.
I don't know why you're downvoted, this is a pretty important topic. Well, I do know why you're being downvoted -- you're challenging an a very dear orthodoxy.
> There is also this very common idea that since this word is purely technical to me, like slave, it must be purely technical to Americans too.

Yep, it is a problem, you are right, I've thought (and speak) about this too.
Broadcom is horrible with datasheets. If you're not apple or intel, an f off should be expected in any request for a datasheet from them.
Surely videoconferencing doesn’t actually use 60 FPS...
Highly dependent on local areas and chains, I suspect. In my city, there were no delivery slots for weeks with most chains, just one had pickup.

Now they pretty much all have it scaled. But I could imagine some places don’t, especially cities with surging cases and new lockdowns.
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I don't think incremental reform can work here. As you say, the H-1B is by design a non-immigrant visa. If we want a "I'd like to immigrate to the US for software engineering" visa, we need to design one from scratch; anything jury-rigged on top of the H-1B process is going to be inequitable or unfair somehow.
> 450k just 4yrs ago

> > 600k

Speaking of skyrocketing, GP's link says 700k for me.
> The 737 Max? It uses an 80286, so it’s even older.

If we are talking about the computer that runs MCAS, my understanding is that it isn't a 286, it is a Rockwell Collins FCC-730 (aka EDFCS-730). The FCC-730 is a proprietary custom CPU architecture, there is limited public info available on it, although I did read somewhere that it uses a stack machine architecture (like Burroughs mainframes, classic HP 3000, Tandem T-16, various "Forth on a chip" processors, etc)
> Are we using the same words to mean different things?

This is a big one when it comes to talking about "socialism".

Bernie Sanders's brand of socialism does not match the textbook definition of socialism. It's still capitalist, but with wealth distribution through government assistance programs and services. Yet when people on the right are criticizing socialism, they're usually criticizing the textbook definition.

It's basically summed up with this meme: https://i.imgur.com/tVB77jV.jpg

We can't debate socialism until we agree on what we mean by "socialism".
I remember it being a not very good film, mostly because it's way too on the nose. I like my irony with a little subtlety. But since our current POTUS has killed irony[1], maybe it works better now. I haven't seen it in years. I'm willing to give it a rewatch.

[1] "We will not allow anyone to divide our citizens by race or background. We will not allow them to foment hate, discord and distrust" as just one recent example.
The RPi4 is excellent as video player using Libreelec/Kodi, but for some reasons their desktop Linux distro still doesn't support video acceleration, so be prepared to sluggish performance for a while.
I also experienced lots of Firefox crashes when playing Youtube videos from the desktop, but cannot tell if due to the interface slowness for the above reasons.
I agree with you so much i could have written your comment myself, word for word.
When you enter the country on an H1B or otherwise do anything related to any visa status, the onus is on you to carry around all relevant and supporting documentation, in physical, original paper form. Visas, passports etc. existed before computers, probably in much the same way as they do today.
I've also had several employers (from a startup to a FAANG) tell me that an H-1B transfer would be no problem. I haven't actually done it, but I don't feel as mobility-impared as people seem to believe I should.
On top of that, the pain is extra bad for people from India, where the queue wait is effectively infinite. While for Chinese people it's a relatively tractable 5 years last time I checked.
Some people enjoy grocery shopping. Some consider it low-key exercise (for office workers that do not engage in any actual sports, it's often the 2nd most strenuous regular activity, just after sex).

It's also furthering the trend towards isolation, the segregation into precarious low-wage service jobs vs a feudal class mostly busy with co-ordinating this personal army of theirs. The latter can afford this because they have institutionalised power structures that have kept lower incomes flat for half a century while the tax structure was turned on its head, with the highest incomes now paying lower rates than day labourers.

One would assume that high-paying jobs somehow correlate with value generation. But when shit hit the fan, they were the first to be sent home for half a year and economists are still trying to find anyone who actually noticed that regional key-account managers were mostly just busy with creating funny zoom backgrounds.

Online sales obviously kill brick-and-mortar retail, which leads to whatever the opposite of a liveable city is.

Large companies tend to run more efficiently. Or, more accurately, they are wasteful in ways that do not have the side benefits of, say, a single-proprietor sponsoring some small-town event because that's "how it's done", or continuing to employ someone even when it's a bad business decision, because they have worked with them for a decade and feel a sense of responsibility.

They also heavily favour concentration of market share with just one or very few companies, who are more powerful in relation to customers, employees, and the state. While gains in efficiencies have so far dominated, the beneficiaries of this shift in power will at some point try to cash it in.

Other than that, it's pretty cool.
I don't trust Microsoft much at all, privacy-wise, Windows-wise or otherwise not-being-evil-wise, but in my view, Warner Bros Interactive is the combination of the bad elements of the film industry with the depressing mediocrity of a second tier game developer/publisher.

But they bought and hollowed out the maker of the favorite online game of my childhood, turning it into a mobile game developer, renegged on releasing the server so the community could keep it going, and refused negotiations to sell the IP, which is pretty worthless AFAICT.

So I may be biased. If this goes through, I need to figure out who to talk to to see if we can recover it from whatever basement it's bit rotting in.
The title is also not describing it right: they must leave the US if they want to keep attending a college that is going online-only (or a college that is doing hybrid instruction, but all the classes they need that term are online only).
The few HNers who actually care about these things do not make a market that vendors think is worth serving, most likely because it would be unprofitable. There’s not going to be a market if sellers don’t find it profitable.
I think a global warming debate could be quite enlightening. I am not a climate scientist, so if I were to discuss global warming with someone else who wasn't a climate scientist, the questions I would be most curious about are: do they acknowledge that there's a scientific consensus? If they don't believe a consensus exists, that's a present-day, non-forward-looking fact that someone could be convinced of. If they believe they know better than the consensus, I'd at least be interested in learning why in more detail than just "they're irrational".

I don't believe for a second anyone would actually admit to believing that "my convenience is more important than the certain loss of your life". There are situations where I would agree my freedom is more important than your life, self-defense being the obvious example. Even if that's logically what they're saying and don't realize it, I believe that for the overwhelming majority of people, if delivered in the right context, in the right tone, by the right person, they could be lead to empathize and see why that's not right.
It's actually using Bing under the hood so it doesn't need to get to Google-size on its own to get similar quality from user interactions.

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.

I mean it kind of makes sense. How is there not currently a company offering businesses a way to circumvent Google's ad machine and have customizable scope and indexes?
They will likely have some Apple specific features, but I doubt they'd want to make them incompatible to the point of requiring a software rewrite compared to other ARM chips. Just recompile your stuff, jump through whatever hoops you need to publish it, and that should be it.
I don't think the analogy quite works anyway, but I think the "civilizations must be rivals" aspect is what was being referred to, not the "dark" part.

The Dark Forest is the second book btw.
I wonder what would happen if ffmpeg made the choice to not implement a decoder for it. Or maybe just not a encoder?

Can we agree not to work on such projects? I feel that the lack of a good open-source encoder/decoder would spell the death of most codecs nowadays. That would also teach Fraunhoffer about it.

Of course, everyone is free to scratch their itch. And the bigger the void, the more itchy it gets. Luckily, we still have AV1.
On further research, I believe you are correct.

I am just surprised that Microsoft would change the default behaviour of DeleteFileW in a Windows 10 build. It seems like the kind of thing that would cause backward compatibility issues. Indeed, I've even found people reporting things breaking due to this [1]. Maybe Microsoft's culture doesn't put the same emphasis on backward compatibility that it used to?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60424732/did-the-behavio...