skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all feels so off to me. Why would the pentagon just openly admit that they have no idea what this is?

If it was a foreign military's advanced aircraft, this is them admitting that, yep, your stealth/whatever technology works great, and we are baffled by it.

Why would the pentagon do that? It seems much more reasonable to keep it a mystery and imply that we have an even more advanced tech that they don't know about.

Okay and then to engage the 14 year old in me who used to watch alien shows on TLC: wouldn't this be a great strategy for disclosure about alien life?

1: No aliens do not exist, and you are crazy for it!

2: Well there are some technologies which are just really advanced

3: Well there are just some technology which is really advanced and we don't know what it is.

4: Well there have been a bunch of encounters our pilots have been having with something.

5: Well maybe that something is very unexplainable.

6: We might have some materials from another world, but the only people saying so are crazy!

If I was in charge of disclosing to the world that there were aliens, this is how I'd be doing it. Extremely slow drip, people argue about the details of it (well yeah it's alien tech but they haven't been here for 3000 years, and will probably never come back vs no I think the aliens visit all the time vs no THIS is all the conspiracy there are no aliens etc.) until it's finally just an accepted fact that aliens exist and have visited earth or are actively visiting earth.

Very strange.
Newsletters are the modern spam. "Spam" as we used to know it is actually a solved problem nowadays on major e-mail providers with good spam filters.

Regarding newsletters, the majority of those are opt-out (as opposed to opt-in) and the opt-out process is intentionally convoluted ("untick this checkbox if you would prefer not to subscribe to our newsletter"), so as far as I'm concerned it's indeed spam.
As one example, flouting your skepticism in r/atheism is easy.

Coming out as an atheist in the Bible Belt without living on r/atheism first?

Orders of magnitude more difficult.

Being a pro-social justice liberal in the universities is trivial - the whole social environment supports it.

Be an open, conservative Catholic in one?

We are anti-slavery today because we really believe it, but let's not forget that one huge factor in us being so is that it's laughably easy to be so in the modern West.

Environment matters.
Objectivity is 'the view from nowhere' and potentially harmful
You do not need to download a new public key in HTTPS frequently (except if you use forward secrecy, in which case a mixed scheme could be used), most people visit only just a few specific sites. In addition public keys could be cached. Anyway, a lot of web pages are already much bigger than the McEliece public key.
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> mosh pit in water

In fresh water, which is far less buoyant than salty ocean water.
Exposing Your Homelab
> Non technical folks under-appreciate the cost and frequency of long-term technical debt.

Undoubtedly this is true, but there's an implication here in this context that somehow on shore, or more well paid developers don't create such technical debt, when in fact they do. It amazes me that I see team after team of competent well intentioned developers create one ball of mud after another. It's striking really.
Indeed, but planes are quite repairable. I don't have a source for this (too lazy to look), but I briefly worked for boeing on a government contract to service C-17 aircraft for the air force. There was a story there of a C-17 landing on a dirt/sand field somewhere in the middle east (this is normal there) except in this case there was a small concrete barrier out in the middle of the field that wasn't seen. The front nose gear impacted the barrier and it torn the nose gear off along with a large chunk of the underside of the fuselage. As the front of the plane touched the ground, the hole scooped up sand and blasted a ton of it into the cargo bay. A crew was flown out there and they "fixed" it and it was flown back to the states.

Another popular instance was the Lockheed EP-3 flying the China coast in 2001 before impacting a Chinese fighter in the air and making a forced "rough" landing. It was taken apart and shipped back to the states where it was repaired in Waco Texas and continues to patrol the China coast to this day.
Wall Street Journal Staff Erupts over Race and Opinion
Hi Peter,

I work for a large tech company that has recently announced internally that they will be putting all PERM filings on pause indefinitely. The reasons cited are:

— The 10-day in-house job posting is of dubious quality now because there is no one at the office to to see it (it's closed and empty because of Covid), and they believe the Department of Labor may notice this and refuse applications.

— Because of the current administration's outlook on immigration, they're worried that more filings will be audited/rejected, which could lead to more oversight on future filings for the company, making things more difficult.

They said a number of times that pausing all PERMs is a proactive measure — there have been no issues so far, but they want to make sure there never are any.

The basic premises seem to make sense, but it puts all of us running through the process in a difficult position. They wouldn't give any timeline for how long such a pause would last, but reading between the lines with office closures, it seems that it would last at least all of 2020, and probably well into 2021.

My question: Is what my company doing reasonable, or is it more of a situation where they're adopting a very conservative stance to reduce their own risk down to zero, even at the cost of putting all its employees into immigration limbo?

Thanks!
Can you speak at all to how a US based company that is 100% remote should hire "employees" in various countries? Today we make most of them contractors, but are trying to understand if there is a better method. It seems particularly difficult especially when we only have 1 person in a given country.
The problem with classic mceliece is the size of the public keys, which is measured in megabytes
Also on Anandtech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15926/intel-7nm-delayed-by-6-...
No, that is not what happens.

The local RSS reader you never launch is not executing. It does nothing - does not pull content. Nothing happens - no bits are transferred over the wire, nothing is written to disk until you initiate the pulls by launching the app.

Email servers operate continuously, so that when some publisher sends ("pushes") an email, that is delivered to your inbox, which will eventually fill up your quota (or the disk).

You can blur the distinction of what happens from the user's perspective all you like, and that's why I mentioned marketing phrasing. But it does not change what is actually happening.
> independent news outlet ... New York Times

It's not independent, and it's not a news outlet.
I first came across this about 20 years ago when I was learning Java. There was no StackOverflow. Sun's Java forum (java.net?) was the place to go for beginners. I clicked into a thread "How to Send SMS" that had thousands of replies spanning several years and every reply had almost the same format:

"please send the codes!!! some@email.com"

All with Indian names and emails. I was pretty naive about the world then so I assumed it was some joke I was missing. I would check in every year or so and the thread kept growing until the forum was shut down when Oracle acquired Sun. I didn't realize until later that these were all university students doing the same Java SMS project year after year. There was some blog post years later about that epic thread but I doubt it's been archived.
I completely agree with you.

Most managers can't even manage remote work from people in the same city, not to speak about same nation.

Those managers fall apart with people from offshore. Because they have no idea how to communicate and how important it is to document, document and document everything and set targets.
I don’t remember Mac OS 9 being slow—was it? I remember everything else—it was certainly unstable. Windows XP was introduced about a month after the G4 Cube was discontinued. If you bought a PC during the time the G4 Cube, it would have likely come with Windows ME.
Out of morbid curiosity, how does one become an "egregious offender" and nuke the entire back-button history? Are there ways other than (intentionally or unintentionally) doing history.pushState in a loop?
I honestly doubt that an IoT device capable of displaying a modern fancy site and running bloated things like webkit would have trouble using Classic McEliece.
Digital Habits Are Hard to Break
Even after a thermonuclear conflict, Earth would still have an atmosphere, water, soil and lower levels of dangerous radiation. There's really nothing that can cause Earth to become worse than Mars.
I don't see why anyone would think that's silly[1]. TBH, I'm tempted to record all of my unboxings at this point, at least for more valuable items...

...especially after reading some of the experiences here.

[1] Okay, so someone could argue it was staged, but there's a point in time where you can't "prove" something any further without disproportionate costs to your time or finances.
By the way, what's marlin?
I am not an immigration lawyer in US. I practice law in a different country. But in general most lawyers put in a lot of work to find and retain clients.

My advice could be to ask around if anybody can recommend any good lawyer, no matter what field he is specialized in. Ask that lawyer if he/she can help you with your questions. If he/she can’t he/she will refer to a colleague that is specialized in the field you are looking for. Lawyers know lawyers :), we network a lot.

Another way could be to try to research the topic you want to get answer to online. Most law firms/lawyers publish informative articles when they have free time for marketing purposes. Contact the lawyer/firm having written that article.

And believe me, if you connect with a lawyer, he’ll come and connect with all your friends who are looking for a lawyer too :).
To the person who downvoted I ask, which pre-1989 political system of Hungary was better than communism?

Hungary exists as an independent nation since 31 July 1921. Since then, these are the political systems that lasted any significant amount of time:

- Kingdom of Hungary: created anti-semitic laws before the nazis, waged wars of conquest against it's neighbors and collaborated with the Nazi regime, perpetrator of Holocaust

- 1944 until the end of world war: Nazi control of Hungary, perpetrator of Holocaust

- until 1989: a few years of Soviet military occupation, then Communism

- since 1989 current system

So which of the pre-communist political systems of Hungary is the one worth recovering in your opinion?
They should have seen this coming. The big Indian IT consultancies have existed since the 1980s and they have been swimming in billions since the early 2000s. They should have invested into actual product development at least a decade ago.
I don't really know what it was trying to accomplish. What needle is being moved here from a "personal computer" perspective?

For example: What I really want is an end to the laptop form factor altogether. Take an RPI4 form-factor with a projection keyboard and a flexible fabric display I can roll up into a map tube and a few cables. Now THAT would be a game changer.
Any person's coordinates will change over time, that is true.
I don't think that removes any value from the measurement system.
There are zero newsletters, large-scale transactional emails or mailing lists in my inbox. Are you suggesting that I am missing out on something awesome, or maybe that's how e-mail should've been in the first place before the marketing industry laid its slimy hands on it?
You'd make a fortune investing in companies that use Rust and don't have these problems.
This is the 2nd round that selected 3rd round finalists.
TBH nowadays in the USA I'm seeing significantly cheaper prices on ebay vs amazon for many things. Ex: an HDMI capture card was $13 on ebay vs $20-25 on amazon. Shipping is a bit slower, but something has to give.
I just had this thought that, say, in prison, or a bad relationship, there could be a person in the room right next to yours, and there could be such a gulf between you that you are in fact completely and utterly alone.

... If there's no communication between you, what else would you call that but "alone"?

Edit: I should say that I think I hear what you're saying, and I further think that there's always hope that you could bridge that gap.
One essay written by one graduate on a contentious contemporary issue and the whole place is evil. The tone of the essay indicates it was a rhetorical exercise in dissent from a popular opinion. The modern judgement that such a thing is now abhorrent, is exactly the point.

I think perhaps this criticism suffers from a lack of imagination. People that cannot understand another person’s ideas are quick to label them evil.
I think with the Rowling Forstater case there's a nuance that her contract was not renewed, rather than being drummed out of the office in the middle of the day [0]. When you have a job representing an organisation there are expectations of how you act in your public role in a job and I would fully expect making discriminatory statements to see me not employed at a company if I didn't make an apology for them. I'd also expect making statements that talked down our product, or belittled a colleague, to be a disciplinary matter, we are professionals after all and if you want shoot the breeze with friends and family, twitter probably isn't the forum.

On Bari Weiss I've not really been following it, from a distance it seems like attention seeking. She's a public figure with a huge platform, people used their free speech to call her an idiot (no doubt tipping into abuse as the Internet tends to and that's a moderation issue). But we have a right to call columnists thick as shit. We all have a right of reply, speech is free (though less so in the UK where pretty much anything gets you sued for libel by free speech crusaders like Rowling). Speech isn't free of consequences, it doesn't exist in a vacuum and discriminatory and hostile speech has historically preceded violence against minority groups. As my previous comment getting downvoted shows, being in the outgroup on a forum can suck, but people don't have to uncritically upvote me and give me the warm fuzzies if they disagree.

Edit: typing on a phone so it's hard to do a long form reply. On the master thing, like I say I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, I'm happy for github to change it if only because it's shorter. I don't think it's a particularly valuable cause or hill to die on and I don't know of an instance of the enraged mob tearing down someone for keeping their branches named as master (though again they might use right of reply to call them a prick) but it's symbolic of white Liberal responses to injustice. We're not debating git branch names, except in the navel gazing tech world we inhabit. We're debating there being something like 5 days last year where the US police did not kill one or more people. We've (or rather for US readers, you've) got a president who wants to outlaw bail funds, protest medics, etc. The real cancel culture is the power wielded by states, as pretty much the entire ME for the past however many centuries could attest to or transgender, gay, black soldiers who serve or served the US in uniform, or corporations and lawyers, as blacklisted construction workers or Aaron Schwartz (sp) could tell you.

Discussions about whether we have to give Bari Weiss our eternal gratitude for excreting another column feel deeply unserious when they talk over real problems.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-...
Is the Ask HN page broken for anyone else?
Looks fixed :)
I've read conjecture that it is likely one of two things. Either the US is wanting to hint to its enemies new advanced technology that we have, or the US military found that pilots weren't announcing mid-flight UFOs so are working to change the culture to allow such announcements without fear of reprisal.

Who knows what the truth is though.
Because the pan took Teflon to get there.
1.3 MiB for the most secure parameter set (mceliece8192128). The other sets are less than 1 MiB.
Have you looked into the Blue Card? That seems to be the most common one for people I know that come to the EU (Germany specifically) and isn't that hard to get by for engineering positions.
From the perspective of law, it matters very much how that defect rate is reached, because intent matters more than the outcome itself.

If you have a 10% defect rate for unavoidable causes, that sucks. If you have a 10% defect rate because you chose to cut all corners and cheap out on every aspect of your manufacturing and testing, that sucks but it's legal. However, if you have a 5% defect rate and intentionally choose to mix in extra 5% of known defective units - that's fraud.
Hi peter,

I was on a H1b and quit my job in March (I still have a year and few months left on my H1b). I applied for a change of status to a h4 (this is still in progress with the USCIS) and had planned to relocate to India in June to start my company, but am still in the US waiting for the covid situation to resolve. Is there any option for me to start the company here?
This is the best possible mundane explanation of a similar video, claiming it's camera glare. Good take down of the NYT story on the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Btns91W5J8
I've spent the last 6 years building a company with a core product that relies on MutationObserver. I've personally spent many hundreds of hours working with it.

I have never encountered an issue with MutationObserver that made me doubt its accuracy.
> because it was cheap and not ask why?

"Because it was cheap" answers all your questions.
Garmin hit with outage in suspected ransomware attack
I am a greencard holder currently living in the UK due to the coronavirus pandemic. I have a re-entry permit but I am concerned about taxes while I am in the UK. If I rescind my greencard will I have a more challenging time securing a non-immigrant or immigrant visa in future? I was considering rescinding the greencard and going through the H1B or O1 route in future.
So, if your goal is the fitness app market, maybe start with a more specialized segment, like parents of small children (because pushing a stroller increases the effort) and expanding from there (say, to seniors with mobility issues).
I suppose my point, more specifically, is that functions return errors instead of opaquely throwing them. Most languages expect you to know where they're going to occur and catch them as close to their occurrence as possible, in Go you are explicitly carrying them along the whole way. Some people don't like this, I prefer it.

True, if you completely ignore the function's return values, you can throw errors away, but then you wouldn't be using the language in the way that makes it powerful to me; that there are simple and clear interfaces that you interact with.
Broken here.
"made into the second round" means that it passed the 1st round and entered the second.
with the change of immigration laws, I have an L1 case entered before the covid situation and before the Trump ruling halt of L1 visas, even if he changes the rules, because my case was entered before these changes will I still be able to enter under the previous rules? Thanks
These types of stories seem to pop up around major election years. I've begun to see them as requests for more funding or justification for current funding.
How much do you charge for an initial consultation?

(Serious question; I don't have a sense of how much things like this generally cost).
> They did it anyway.

If the post office decides to use illegal means to deliver your Christmas postcard, or steals a copyrighted work for the stamp it's not you that should be punished.

> social media has conditioned us to take other people's work and do whatever we want to it and with it.

Perhaps but this is not the example with which to make this case. The material was already on the platform and they did nothing to appropriate it or profit from it.

I am not familiar with the Japanese justice system although it's known for some very idiosyncratic situations. But using common sense one should not be punished for an action taken with no bad faith, no reasonable expectation of breaking the law based on how another party decided to implement that action.
Could there be a crime ring in the factory?
Which pre-communist political system of Hungary do you wish to recover?
I suspect two things to be at work here (among possibly many):

- First, reciprocity. If you send me an email with a one-liner, I will feel that replying in kind would be adequate. A verbose email on the other hand, may have the opposite effect of creating a feeling that I should also be more detailed (which you may not even need). My response might be to set your email aside with the purpose of addressing it later when I have more time (we all know that famously elusive promise of a future that never materializes).

- The second point is slightly in line with the previous, but different. The length of the message can be used to estimate the cost of a conversation. A short message can be perceived to announce a one-off (cheap) exchange, whereas a verbose message may seem like the beginning of a more involved (expensive) one where if I engage, you will ask even more from me (how much exactly, nobody knows). That uncertainty is uncomfortable enough that I may not want to respond at all.
52 reports of journalists being abused in Portland by law enforcement
If I'm not expecting the email I generally won't read it unless I know the person who wrote it.

It's part of the reason I think the mailing list gold rush has peaked and will probably decline. I don't know many people that want more email.
It should be noted that Bernstein was complaining about the lack of transparency and NSA involvement in https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/1285922808392908800
The material is not really what might thought of as conventionally "ultra-hard". In fact, it's deformability is one of it's features.

It is billed as practically uncuttable by several different tools owning in part to the material's ability to create resonance feedback to destroy the attacking tools.
I think this board intends to favor passive independents. However, in almost all cases, it is aggressive conventional that dominate the conversation.
It's called "turning it off and on again", and for USB devices, can be as simple as unplugging and replugging.

I've personally done it to fix a malfunctioning USB device many times.
What is conventional rebellion? I label myself as anti-capitalist which is pretty uncommon in the US, but communism as a concept is not in any way unique or new and there have been millions of supporters of communism throughout history.

If I identify with values that less than 1% of the population identifies with, am I conformist?
don't worry logic is on your side, claiming that silence, or the absence of something, is an affirmative of something else, is a classic fallacy: https://reflectioncube.com/2018/04/05/argument-from-silence-...
>Phytoestrogen Content of Beverages, Nuts, Seeds,and Oils

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23141692_Phytoestro...
From another source:

> Effective control and treatment of rabies in India is hindered by a form of mass hysteria known as puppy pregnancy syndrome (PPS). Dog bite victims with PPS, male as well as female, become convinced that puppies are growing inside them, and often seek help from faith healers rather than medical services. An estimated 20,000 people die every year from rabies in India, more than a third of the global total.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#India