skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course.... for many it is, even though it is very abusive and a terrible system. Let's be honest, it is a modern interpretation of 19th century 'in-tenured servitude'. It is almost Feudal system by nature.

It is very similar to workers having to 'pay their immigration' debts, while not directly, but by tying the visa to an employe, and making hard to move employers if you are going through the green card process (it can reset you green card process in many cases).

Who knew, the feudal system if live and well, in the 21st century. If you don't like it, banishment/expulsion from the community. (aka, deportation) to where you come from.

It is something that many put up, for a better life. If you are in the 'non capped' countries, usually it is few years to endure it until you get the green card, but for the caped countries, it can take decades to get the green card.
>We may have some very disappointed Pro Display XDR owners soon.

It works on Macbook 12" and iPad [1], it works over DisplayPort. [2] Although you do need TB3 for native 6K support.

Pro Display XDR requires a GPU capable of supporting DisplayPort 1.4 with Display Stream Compression (DSC) and Forward Error Correction (FEC), or a GPU supporting DisplayPort 1.4 with HBR3 link rate and Thunderbolt Titan Ridge for native 6K resolution. If multiple displays are being used with the same Mac, each display can be configured independently for settings such as reference modes and orientation.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/16/ipad-pro-works-with-pro-displ...

[2] https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/pdf/Pro_Display_White_...
For someone from countries like India - it is. Not so much for someone from countries like Germany or Japan I suppose.
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Thank you; I've been needing a reminder to work blender3d into my NX Realize Shape workflow.
I don't understand how someone could believe a federal agent wanted to be paid in target gift cards. Why would any official, for any reason, request gift cards as payment?

Cognitive decline must surely play a role here.
Remember Tryweryn!

In case anyone's wondering what this is about, in the 1960s the Tryweryn Valley in Wales contained a village (Capel Celyn) which was evacuated and the valley flooded to make a new reservoir to provide water for Liverpool. There's a portion of a nearby wall painted with these words.
I had a similar experience as a beginning grad student. A postdoc in the lab had developed a radioligand binding assay, which we were using to purify a small protein. And I could just not get it to work, no matter how careful I was.

TL;DR - I was being too careful, and so too slow. Because the binding was transient. So once I focused on speed instead of precision, the assay worked fine.
I don't think I agree. Identifying an abstraction as leaky and breaking it apart is substantially more difficult and riskier than identifying duplication and creating an abstraction for it.
Which is why it must be illegal to arrest someone for an opinion in the first place. Anonymity is a tool that can help in certain circumstances, but the problem is that a vulnerable person feels vulnerable to begin with. Anonymity doesn't fix that, the cultural climate does.
> Like, why couldn't have H.266 been invented 30 years ago? Is it because the computers back in the day wouldn't have been fast enough to realistically use it?

Here's something to consider:

In 1995, a typical video stream was 640 x 480 x 24fps. That's 7,372,800 pixels per second.

In 2020, we have some content that's 7680 x 4320 x 120fps. That's 3,981,312,000 pixels per second, or a 540 fold increase in 25 years.

The massive increase in image size actually makes it easier to use high compression ratios. I found this out the hard way recently, when I was trying to compress and email a powerpoint presentation that a coworker had presented on video. In a nutshell, the powerpoint doc with it's sharp edges and it's low resolution made it difficult to compress.

Increase framerate plays a factor too; due to decades of research on motion interpolation, algorithms have become quite good at guessing what content can be eliminated from a moving stream.
Neeva is interesting. It might be worth having a premium search engine. The first pages of Google and Bing are now almost all ads. Often, badly chosen ads. Some people may pay $10 a month not to see that. But it's a niche. I don't see how this gets big. Maybe if it was sold to Comcast or AT&T and came bundled with Internet connectivity.

Anybody know anyone over at Neeva? I'd like to talk to them.
Also you’d need to land it in Argentina which would have issues
I tried Safeway and it would have been faster to do the shopping myself rather than wait in the car, so it's not something you do just for convenience.
Webvan 2020!
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Well, I’m not saying that they’re not aware of the races per se. I’m saying that “black” for them means the name of the color, again, not the racial reference. That’s why renaming blacklist/whitelist things is a very american-centric thing, which looks ridiculous to the most of the world outside Americas.
Electrical Engineering

But with that said, there's a ton of variance within school themselves. Courses can be different from year to year, depending on who's in charge.

One thing I noticed was that the lifers - that is, the older professors, usually had very predictable classes. They'd use the same lecture notes, hand-ins, etc. year after year, often running on decades. They knew their audience, so to speak, and had extremely structured classes. These classes tended to be quite comfortable to take...no surprises, to put it that way.

Then you had the freshly minted professors, that would have a class here and there, usually new classes every other semester. These guys tended to be much more rigorous, and assuming on the level of competence (of their audience) - at least in grad school.
Lots of authentic documents are illegitimate.
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I got from h1b to gc in under 3 years but that was a while ago when caps weren’t being maxed out. Essentially your argument is to remove the caps which Im not sure most people would support (for rather selfish reasons)
Yes it does do that and worse. When I was on H1b years back in big co, most of my coworkers were on h1b as well and they were scared to death to leave because of comfort and self doubt. Some manager knew this and abused this power by pointing out that their green card application can be withdrawn any moment if they don’t work on weekends.
I'm a patient at a (physical) rehab place, and my case manager is expecting. With COVID-19, any gifts like baby clothes seem too germy, and the best I can think of is a gift card that she can sanitize. Better than paper cash, and we don't know her well enough to know what she needs.
This is only tangentially related, but the dictionary isn't helping me distinguish between these two concepts. In networking what is the difference between bandwidth and throughput, if there is a difference?
You didn't have to go to an office to get your COVID benefits. They mailed a brief, mostly prefilled form to your home and you put in your bank details and a copy of your ID to mail back.

You may be thinking of people rushing to get their applications in for their NFC-capable "My Number" cards, which haven't been very popular... that was entirely optional and gave you access to a digital version of the same thing.
Nice catch. The Iliad doesn't actually concern itself with the end of the Trojan War.

The horse is mentioned briefly in the Odyssey, since it's attributed to Odysseus's cunning wit. Probably the work that describes it most thoroughly is the Aenid, which came hundreds of years after Homer's works or the Little Iliad.
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Don't these companies usually end up failing though? I'm not very familiar with the startup space but in academia it feels like these system-gaming labs receive perpetual encouragement.
Oh, come on, I've seen the Harvard circle jerks.

The undergrads don't see the best professors. The best professors there, as everywhere, often do what they can to evade teaching. Many of the real-world resources are, of course, unavailable online, (computers being a likely exception).
That sounds worse than delivery? I don't know what it's like in North America, but in the UK grocery delivery is pretty ubiquitous, not all companies everywhere, but someone everywhere, before this year & the coronavirus.

The people that didn't use it didn't by preference, and the surge in demand is the (maybe partially but not entirely, or perhaps entirely, open for debate) change in preference in the current climate, not that there's suddenly an availability of this concept that didn't exist before.

Nobody's worried that Ocado, or the online divisions of the major supermarkets, might disappear when we're all innoculated.
What is this "ISA cable" thing you keep talking about? You mean an IDE cable? ISA is a bus, not a cable.

I have all sorts of ISA cards that have no alternative (other than for huge expense) or software. Quite a few IEEE-488, many other weird interfaces, DSP dev boards, one of a kind/prototype boards, other stuff. I have boxes of the stuff, and know hundreds of people who have the same needs. We have mailing lists.

No, a PI can't do that. No it can't emulate that. No it's not as generally useful as you think unless all you care about is stuff written in the last 5 years.
No, I didn't consider studying abroad back then and ultimately I was able to graduate without any student debt, much like my European peers do without thinking about it.

But yes I've become a fan of what Germany and some other countries offer. I've seen something that made me even more envious: a friend in neighboring Austria was in University there (for free) and it turned out the school was like a sister school to NYU and she wanted to go there and was able to go to NYU for free.

We are really getting the short end of the stick in America right now, amongst developed nations.
An important thing to recognize is that every version of macOS (and iOS!) so far has retained some official way to boot a custom/unsigned/"unclean" kernel, specifically for kernel (or kernel extension) development.

When SIP (rootless v1) was introduced, macOS came with a way to disable it, for the sake of kernel developers. When APFS was introduced by default, macOS retained two workarounds for kernel developers: both the ability to boot from alternate APFS volumes within the APFS container; and also the ability to install to/boot from HFS+. And when the system volume became truly read-only in Catalina (rootless v2)—that's right, even that restriction could be overridden via csrutil, specifically to facilitate kernel development.

Apple is never going to lock themselves out of booting custom OSes that are almost, but not quite, macOS; because that's how new macOS gets made.

And, of course, as long as you can boot something that's not literally macOS; then that same mechanism can always be abused to boot something that is much less macOS, or in fact not macOS at all (but may still seem to be macOS, from the bootloader's perspective.)
I’ve been going shopping at 6am. Most grocery stores in my area open up at 6. Stores are empty, for the most part clean, and typically stocked.

Some stores have senior/at risk hours but then there are some that are open to general public.
It's the Köln concert actually. The internet is pretty cool - you can look these things up when you don't know anything about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Köln_Concert

Also, this JazzKeys post is worse than useless.
Fair enough, that's a good counterpoint, and I do agree seeing all the data from the source without our limited bucketing would be very interesting.
I haven't seen any houses being offered for free in my area, but have seen number that were listed at less than $15K USD and wouldn't consider any of them livable without at least some major renovation - and in most cases you'd probably want to just demolish the house completely and build something new. Of course different people might have differing definitions of what is "livable", so your mileage may vary.

Focusing on the abandoned houses is a bit of a red herring, though. There is definitely affordable non-free housing to be found in Japan... less than $100K USD for a move-in ready house in a small city seems very doable to me.
If you ask, it costs money. In many cases, as much money as just being an enrolled student, and taking the course.
CS seems pretty easy for H1B to fulfill the 'unable to find a worker in the US' because there's always another library an employer can say is required for the job.
This is not completely related, but it reminded me of when I used Sup (a console email client that took a lot of inspiration from Gmail - labels, fast FTS, etc) and the author had an inspiration to create a client/server version, which could handle "Email, RSS feeds, notes, jabber and IRC logs" and more.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120810005232/http://masanjin.n...

Unfortunately, I don't think he even finished splitting Sup into the server+client (called Heliotrope and Turnsole), let alone get them to handle other stuff beyond email. Felt like a lost opportunity.

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For your project, seems like the direct competition is IFTTT and similar. What do you think differentiates your project from those? Could be useful to push more in that direction.
Yup, i've been following the alphabet soup of insolvency for a while[0]

[0] https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/US-Fed-Bal...
It’s more complex then that. If you reduce bonuses/raises, then talent will start leaving your company if they can get better offers.
Seems like it is working to me!
Not asking for a literal definition of those words. I'm asking what's the difference in living in "post-lockdown" world vs "post-pandemic" world. Personally I think masks will become more prevalent in the west, like it is already in the east. And more remote jobs. In the grand scheme of things, these two changes seem minor to me.

So what is it that I'm missing here? What grand changes in the way we live are we expecting in "post-pandemic" world?
If you want to convince people, please post a paper supporting your point of view, then. My mind is open. I've found one such paper described here, but haven't yet found the original paper:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/05/19/immig...

If it's accurately described, I have some problems with this one, but still looking for the original.
1. No, why?
2. Well I never argued with that, but no one in the whole world ever called them “blacks”.
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If someone says you are contributing to the mistreatment of animals by buying fur coats, they are not implying that you personally skinned a beaver/fox/what-have-you. Although your purchase of a house does not necessarily directly cause someone else to get ousted, it is still contributing to the problem of displacement, because through a sequence of events it does cause someone to get displaced when their landlord says, "I can rent this place out for 4 times the amount you're paying, so get out."
Another Xbox Series X Game Showcase Coming This July
Microsoft has announced that the next Xbox Games Showcase for the Xbox Series X will be coming in July.
> "When social media was taking shape fifteen-odd years ago..."

Maybe 5-10 years before that, if you didn't get your news from a newspaper, radio or television, then you could blissfully ignore the news. Now, because the mobile phone is small, convenient, and fun to swipe (now with more yummy haptic goodness), you can get "your news" between the alarm clock and breakfast while on the toilet.

This article disturbs me. If there is a crisis here it's growing up thinking what comes packaged with your friends birthday pics, selfies of your new do and cat picture of the day is a platform for news. [1]

Why is 'content collapse' not just post-hoc rationalization of the evolution of social media as a toy experience for connecting with friends to media outlet? Because the latter makes the former into a great place for businesses to place targeted ads within a local community [2].

Besides, I just plunked down >$500 for my new phone, and I have a >1hr commute to work--Oh wait! That was before The Thing. Now I'm baking bread, trying to keep from getting distracted working from home, and spending time with my family. hehe

[1]: In a recent interview with John Stewart about his new film on politics, David Green asks, "I look back to "The Daily Show." And I, as a journalist, just remember being like, this is someone showing that people can get their news in an entertaining way."

Stewart. "I'm not sure. I mean, I never thought that we were delivering the news, I guess. So maybe I'm not quite - I think we were delivering criticism of it. [...] The thing that we were doing has generally been around forever, which is making fun of the powers that be and the news of the day in a satirical fashion."

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/25/883233441/jon-stewarts-new-fi...

[2]: As recent FB ad boycott makes clear, Who can afford TV ads?
Genius!! From what I can tell it seems to be random keys? Would be nice if a certain progression can be specified, but this is already awesome. Saving this as my new note taking tool.
How were you able to get the greencard in that short time frame?
You would have a different network if you had studied abroad.

Nothing you did in your university was guaranteed and was just as much of a risk.

I don't think non-elite schools offer a noteworthy network, especially for computer science or IT.

There is elite, and then there is everywhere else that's accredited where you just need a sheet of paper with the correct degree name on it.
Nitpick: SIP and rootless are the same thing.
It's got to be higher than 100s.
This is not entirely accurate, travelling for 3 hours is not very common, most people travel less than an hour and they do it on a train where they can read or play or listen to something, it is not that bad comparing to the US where most people drive to work and waste a lot of their time. After work dinners/drinks are not every day, maybe once a week or two in average and are actually a lot of fun for most people.

Regarding women, the Japanese women do the same work women do in the west only in Japan they give it the true name, "office lady" which is equivalent to secretary rather than some fancy "document controller" or "diversity officer". The ones who actually do non secretarial jobs are titled and respected exactly like their male peers, at least at the places where I worked.

Many Japanese women choose to raise their kids rather than spend their life in an office, they contribute more to the economy by doing this than many office ladies and I wish more people in the west will realise that women are not that beneficial to the economy as we like to think they are. They don't create new businesses, they don't innovate and they are good only for very specific jobs, the rest are are net loss comparing to an housewife from a pure economic view. That's why also buying an apartment in Tokyo is cheaper than most other major cities, because the prices are adjusted to one person working in an household, not to two.

The Japanese mix old wisdom with new tech, that's why almost anybody who get a chance to live there is amazed by their lifestyle and the way everything is working. It is true conservatism as it should be, slow progress while taking into account the wisdom of past generations, especially when it comes to social changes. That's how you end up with a society where you can forget your purse in the street and find it the next day in the same place or the police box, rather than 70% out of wedlock pregnancy rate and lives that matter, or not.
I started playing too many video games :(
While I have never done an algorithm style interview in 25 years of being a developer across 8 jobs, I have softened my stance to it.

One of the biggest problems CS grads face is that they can’t break out of the cycle of not having experience and can’t get a job and can’t get a job so they can’t get experience. After the first job it gets easier.

You can practice for algorithm type interviews and get a job. It also doesn’t matter where you went to school. It’s the great equalizer if you can teach yourself.

If I were trying to get my first job today instead of in the mid 90s, I would have been spending time “grinding LeetCode”.
Well, just look at how long flu/influenza ravaged humans until we got it down to a level where we hardly talk about it anymore (despite 6-digit global annual death tolls).

Depending on where you want to draw the line, you could say we never entered a post-pandemic period of the flu. But most of us act as if we did.
Where do you see exponential infection rates at the current point in time?
I'm sure most Chinese don't think like Liu's books either, because most humans don't. God, those books were unrelentingly DARK a.f. Really good though, the trilogy is big but totally worth it.
I'm Canadian, and based on my social circle at least I don't think anyone wants to see the border open to non-essential travel until either the US has things under control or (more likely) there's a vaccine.

We're finally getting a handle on COVID, with 200-300 new infections nationwide daily and dropping, and we're on track to have schools opening (sort of, for some TBD definition of "open") in the fall. We don't want to fuck this up.
The roadblock as always is bringing all that info together. Few places have access to all that information and a way to synthesize it together.
> I wrote some cliff notes if anyone else is interested

What does this mean? Tongue-in-cheek interpretation: 'some simple paragraphs without full stops follow'. Is it some sort of note-taking framework though?
I'll admit I came in expecting "Aliens" and was deeply disappointed. Even in retrospect, the movie might be good commentary, but it doesn't have good characters or good storytelling.
Standards organisations are older than publicly-available software. The concept of "reasonable and non-discriminatory" patent licensing was what they went with, and it seemed sensible at a time when goods were physical and the idea of giving away a product for which standards would be relevant would be ludicrous.
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Are any of the mentioned projects open-source?

Do you have any articles about the software that reduced logs by 96%?
It would be funny if that wouldn't be so widely spread in other countries too. I have a fancy title that sounds nice on various levels. People's attitude changes completely: they listen to me,some even try not to say something wrong and etc. Oh, and I'm popular amongst sales people,who want to sell me all sorts of solutions because they assume I sit on a big budget. It's a circus.