skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even at tech salaries those are expensive commutes.

But for a ski weekend in Tahoe? Seems legit, assuming these aircraft have a great safety record.
Am I misreading you or are you framing the left as the forces of conformity?

Only one side has badgeless forces snatching people off the streets and is talking about disregarding the results of our election.

My apologies if I misunderstood.
If it's freelance then you're effectively a company negotiating task<->money with another company. If they change the scope (add new requirement) you can absolutely push back and either tell them the work will take longer or ask for higher fee. It's easier if you get paid per hour/day and you add more hours/days to the bill than raising the per-hour/day fee.
Yes, it's possible to get an H-1B petition approved through a company you have founded and own a substantial interest in. The question (for USCIS) is whether it's a real business (that is, whether it has clients, products/services, revenues, employees, etc.) and whether a valid employer-employee relationship exists (that is, whether you can get fired). The existence of a board that you don't control and can't control through appointments, the existence of an employment agreement, etc. all can go to showing that a valid employer-employee relationship exists - but USCIS has to believe this and not infrequently doesn't.
I worked as well in Capgemini although in a nearshore team. The project was a customer portal to manage some of their contracted services.

We were about 60 people comprised of several teams doing nothing but attending to some specification documents who most of use would infer on the go. Beside the whole architecture was a mix of Java beans based on a XML schema and some transformations on them using Spring. Something which would be easily done using XSLT or XQuery in a fraction of the cost. Also we had some middleware interfacing a Tibco bus which was utter bullshit because they were unable to use JavaEE in a proper manner.
> I use it as a list of what not to use.

Bernstein's (the one that made 25519) own submissions passed to round 3 though. Do you also avoid AES/SHA3/BLAKE because they were NIST finalists?
> Horseshoe theory is real.

This was literally Hitler's primary argument for establishing the Nazi Party in Mein Kampf in the way that he did. So at least a 100 years old.

Based on the results, there's a pretty strong argument that it's true.
too bad fry's is done for. despite the problems, i miss them now.

towards the end, ie the last few years, when i brought an expensive-ish item to the counter, or more often when they brought it out of the cage for me to complete the purchase, i'd open the item at the counter in front of the cashier. 100% of the time the cashier would balk "hey you can't do that" (i hadn't paid yet), which is of course stupid to say. i just needed to verify that the item was new and also not a 52-switcheroo, as we used to call it.

recently (2019-2020) i've bought 2 damaged high end products from best buy. outer box perfect, inner product damaged. luckily BB is like amazon and has complete no-hassle returns.

more longer ago i've received a few duds from ebay and other non-amazon retail merchants. smaller value things i just write off but some of the bigger ones it's been painful getting the rep to take it back. the next time i do such a purchase i am setting up a camera to do an unboxing video.
I personally found the Kleppman book to be great. I wouldn't characterize it as essential for data science per se but anyone designing data-intensive applications ought to give it a read.
Is it possible for a Canadian to work remotely for a Canadian company from inside the US? For how long? Would this be on a B2 visa, since my presence in the US is unrelated to my work?
VTOL from a space the size of 6 car parking slots; never start a trip without energy reserves for an additional landing/takeoff/landing cycle; have higher reliability/safety than any other form of transport ever.

And then be economically justifiable.
I have no desire to defend the Soviet Union, but out of curiosity, do you think our current system rewards productivity? I'm thinking along the lines of the movie "Office Space".

I don't know much about the USSR, but I don't think they set everyone's salaries the same or distributed money equally, or any other nonsense like that.
Yes, you can take advantage of the grace period (although it's limited by your I-94 admission period).
Wonder if the mass is low enough for a parachute to be used as a final failsafe.
And that's fine. These systems can use NTRU or whatever else. These systems being weak is not a reason to drag everyone else down.
This lecture was frustrating as hell to watch because she only addressed the concerns of naive critics of deficits who don't really understand how monetary policy works. She did basically nothing to address the concerns of people more versed in the topic, such as:

- What happens when your deficit gets so high that it's obvious to the people buying treasuries you can't pay the interest they expect without massive inflation?
- How do you explain away stagflation from the 70s without being concerned about repeating it?

Basically, deficit spending is fantastic for as long as you can get away with it. The question is at what point will you no longer be able to get away with it? 10 years? 20? 100? No one knows. But at some point the interest burden of the debt itself requires more monetary expansion than purchasers of treasuries are willing to accept (inflation is the enemy of fixed interest assets), and then you have a problem. The US recently doesn't have this problem because of its dominant economic and military position in the world (as well as the petro dollar/default currency status), but what happens when those things cease to be true?

Those are the concerns I wanted Stephanie to at least pay lip service to, but she conveniently didn't even mention them.
Many sectors can use custom software.

there's also lots of scope for software to help plan or schedule or optimise business decisions in large orgs. e.g. scheduling & routing trains, packing traffic onto ships, scheduling staff for shifts, optimising mixes of input ingredients to produce outputs of sufficient quality while maximizing profit
The operating cost per hour of an r44, according to some quick googling, is $190. The cost after ownership is too high, and probably the reason that everyone still has cars instead of helicopters in their garage. Reliability and maintenance will be the most important thing here and will determine their success. And that's notoriously tough in the aviation market.

https://www.aneclecticmind.com/2010/12/28/the-real-cost-of-h...
If you are interested in finance or markets at all, Bloomberg's Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter is great http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
My guess: deleting.
Ask HN: What email service do you use for personal accounts and services
Trying to do some digital cleanup and after writing down all the services i'm using it's a bit of a mess.
Different services uses different email accounts. In an ideal world it would all be consolidated under one email, but that seems impossible at this point.

Interested in your setups. Do you use Gmail or another service to sign up for stuff?

Bonus question: How many email accounts do you regularly use?
I agree, 10.4 seemed "complete" (besides lacking Time Machine, which I didn't know I wanted until it was added).
I went to a large state school, Rutgers, and have worked both with people from Ivy League schools and other state schools.

You could swap out UNC and NC A&T with "Ivy League" and "State School" and you would effectively get the same story. And yes, 100% there are tech companies who put a premium on Ivy League vs non-Ivy League based on my own personal experience with recruiting.

Dan Luu (mentioned in the original article) has previously talked about this along the lines of (paraphrasing): "I went to #25 of the top 25 schools. Friends of mine, who were better potential hires, went to #26 and got substantially fewer offers and the offers were lower quality".

If there are biases in how companies treat you based on solely the university you went to, I find it easy to believe that there could be other biases as well.
i don't know how far off you are but i had access to an 8GPU allocation last fall and all I had to do was ask. longer term would've cost money though. Interesting fact was someone in the chemistry department had something like a 360GPU allocation (probably for DFT).
The real scam is from Amazon, selling store return items as brand new.
EDM?
More likely given the pandemic and the understanding that it can be impossible to return to one's home country or at least unsafe/risky to travel internationally.
Nice, I wrote an article too that helps develop an intuition without much math

https://aguaviva.github.io/KalmanFilter/KalmanFilter.html
We'll have AGI before we have usable formal verification. Just let the AGI write the code.
Most of the "uncomfotrable-ness" of smaller aircraft is how easily they are blown around in the wind, which is not insignificant at safe operating altitudes.

This aircraft proposal will not be able to negate the effect. Think small boat on a lake - even with azimuth thrusters, still bobs up and down back and forth with the waves. Larger boats don't experience the effect as much, due to mass - same with large airliners.
I know someone who's grandfather saw the Lusitania being torpedoed. It was not unexpected, there was known to be a u-boat in the area and people watched from onshore
Classic Mac OS was very slow. I triple-booted my 7600 with Mac OS, Linux, and BeOS and I remember that Netscape was 10x faster on Linux.
> well, I'm not sure, how the trumpet from 1970 differs from a modern instrument

I consider a trumpet a modern instrument. How did you procure said trumpet? Did you pick it from the wild trumpet tree? No, of course not.

Someone mined the copper and zinc, refined them, someone combined them into the alloy brass, someone formed that brass into a trumpet. Of course, the trumpet wasn't conceived magically, it was something that went through countless iterations and revisions as instrument building matured. Then someone had to sell the trumpet to you. Unless you were at the factor-direct trumpet store, it was shipped to a retail location or warehouse where you then purchased it. Money and labor was invested just so you can obtain the trumpet.

How much labor goes into making a trumpet? Lots. Someone realized there was a market for trumpets and invested a good bit of capital to produce them. Improvements in manufacturing (aka, market efficiency) has resulted in high quality trumpets being produced cheaply, same as anything else. I'd say, the entire price structure of the trumpet (or much of anything, really) is entirely labor based. The metals exist in the ground. Digging them up is free (purchasing mineral rights notwithstanding) in terms of needed to pay the earth for them.

Much like libraries, there are places you can rent musical instruments like trumpets. These are often 'required' for education purposes, so why doesn't the government just have a trumpet library same as the book library? Don't you enjoy music? Why don't you demand taxes pay for instruments for the homeless that can't afford their own instruments? They're so enriching and such.

All those things exist because people voted with their money to make sure they exist. It's not because some greater good commanded their existence.
https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Need-Legal-Help/Lawyer-Refe... exists for basically exactly this purpose, and similar services are offered by most state bar associations.

Yes, you do have to /pay/ for lawyers, they do law stuff as their job, not as a favor for random acquaintances. Basic consultation to establish whether a firm is a fit for you should be fairly low-cost or free.
I encourage you to at least read some criticism of her thinking as well and form your own conclusions. She definitely has an agenda to push and tends to ignore some legitimate concerns. [1] is a decent summary.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deficit-myth-review-years-o...
He’s not talking about effectively what happens. He’s saying textually there is no “large company tax break” and if you tell legislators to repeal “large company tax breaks” they’d all give you confused looks. Textual precision is important if you want to start fixing the problem. What exactly are the test breaks that work for big companies and not small ones? Why do they exist? What was the original intent? What are the side effects?
It sounds like you’re arguing that there was racism, whereas your example suggests there wasn’t racism, just differences in application process - it certainly doesn’t sound like there was any resistance to improving the process in a way that resulted in dramatically increased success of minority students. Or am I misinterpreting something?
I bricked an expensive high end motherboard by ignoring the "Win98 or later" requirement listed on the box and trying to install Win95.

Actually, two of them...when the first one bricked I assumed that it had just been defective, so tried again on the second one we had.

It turned out that something in the Win95 device scan happened to trigger a BIOS flashing, what flashed garbage into the BIOS.

I really hate old buses where there is no mandatory and standard form of device ID, so the only ways a driver can find its device are (1) ask the user, or (2) read and write registers at likely addresses looking for ones that respond the same way its device would hoping that at addresses where the is something that is not your device your commands don't accidentally make what is there do something terrible.
Yeah, what I'm not clear on is: what's the cost to fly from SF to Lake Tahoe in a helicopter? If it's a lot more than the $250 that Lilium is promising, what is it that makes Lilium cheaper? Is it just the up-front investment in scale and the route network?
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
Go for Omega-3 sourced from algae, that's where the fish get it from. The algae are grown artificially, so you avoid both pollutants and participating in the destruction of our oceans.

I take Opti-3 [1], it had the highest (DHA + EPA) / price ratio last time I checked. Not affiliated, just a fan.

[1]: https://www.vegetology.com/shop/opti3-omega-3-epa-dha
The short term thinking was exacerbated by historical discrimination. There were cases where black businesses became successful but then were forced out by whites who wanted what they had. Such a system doesn’t promote long term thinking.
I think then ultimately there could be no way to not have a zero sum allocation of finite resources between two parties.
I would have thought any new transport technology would be heavily automated - from a brief look these require 1 pilot per 4 passengers.

Not that it would be easy, I'm just surprised something so ambitious doesn't also include automation.

At first glance I would have thought automating a small plane would be easier than automating a car - for one thing there are fewer things to crash into.
I have this nagging thought that maybe intelligent life really is a coincidence of a grand cosmic scale. Maybe we really really are all alone in this galaxy and among many others. What an incredible opportunity we are given, and how we squander it with our bickering.
And it reportedly had limitations, including performance: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/551842

This is something Apple and VMware are now obviously working on together for Big Sur.
One of the newsletters everyone points to when discussing this trend, Ben Thompson's Stratechery, now includes an audio podcast version of each day's written post read by Ben.
That’s a lot of steps upfront to avoid any hint of piracy, but you’re almost certainly breaking the license agreement by dumping the cartridge, so what’s the point in trying to avoid piracy.

Just because you bought a cartridge with a binary and a license to execute that binary on a switch doesn’t mean you have the legal right to back it up and play it on your PC.
It's that true? Opti-3 has lots of DHA + EPA.
Until you invent anti-gravity, VTOL will always be (i) very energy intensive, and (ii) and very disruptive to the surrounding environment. This is both in terms of noise and air turbulence.

Self driving is something that may be solved and can become practical for popular use with current and near-term foreseeable technology. Everyday mass use VTOL is not. Sorry, the Jetsons lied to you.
Following is roughly accurate from memory.

Worldwide, Corporate tax rates by country range between 5-55%, but typically are between 20-30%.

US Corporate tax rate is now 20%.

State corporate tax rates range from zero (NV) to 10%.

State income tax rates range from zero to 11%.

Federal dividend rates range from 15-20%.

Using the the best case scenario (no state income or corporate tax, foreign corporate tax of 5%) gives a total effective tax rate of 35%.

Using more typical rates (8% state income/corporate, 25% foreign) produces a total tax rate of 58%.

So looks like I was pessimistic, probably because my from memory numbers didn’t include Trump tax cut.

But a worst case scenario (France 35%, CA 9%, Dividend 20%) still produces a 65% total effective tax rate.
It's always possible it's something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik, or some secret skunk works type project by China or Russia. If they've announced the nuclear cruise missile, maybe this is the next generation still-secret thing?

Also, keeping in mind this incident:
"A MiG-25 was tracked flying over the Sinai Peninsula at Mach 3.2 in the early 1970s, but the flight led to the engines being damaged beyond repair"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25

It could even be stretching next-generation technology beyond its sustainable limits. Maybe even as an intentional psy-op. Intentionally use some weird materials and some weird technologies that would look unfamiliar.
seems like this video mainly just shows that it wasnt rotating as much as it looks like in the video, not sure how it proves/disproves anything else about the UFO
You are talking about being a founder on the side, I assume, but not filing anything with USCIS so that you can work for/get paid by this company? Then this shouldn't compromise your green card process. The question is just whether what you are doing is permissible and as discussed above, the limits are a bit murky: at a minimum, don't get compensated in any way.
There are two kinds of protests. One where you go on the main square with a banner inviting people to join your fight for a noble cause. And the other is... well, not that many will join you in your fight for full pockets and you know it. So you go for the next round-about, straight on.
I'm a Canadian with a BA in economics, but I now work as a data engineer at a startup. I see postings for remote data engineering jobs in the US which say that I must be eligible to work in the US and/or have a social security number.

Is it possible for me to work for one of these companies using a TN visa? Does my degree have to be "engineering" if the role is "data engineer"?
A flip side of this is that cloud systems can mask performance problems in code by making it seem fast. Badly written code running in a cloud service might seem performant, because those services will magically cover for you by spinning up additional resources. Were the same issues to happen on your own network, you'd be able to address them.

Distributed or cloud based systems should be viewed as a tool that can be pulled out to solve specific problems only when they arise.

The default for new projects today is the cloud. I wish the default was to self-host. Privacy, control of your data, vendor lock-in, costs, and even environmental concerns are risks that get swept under the rug in the name of choosing the hot new thing.
I can’t see this taking off. If people truly wanted to travel between these places faster they’d already be doing it in Helicopters.
Nanotech Systems (Moore's current name) make a high-precision drum lathe with 1nm positioning precision, with a 2600mm working area [1].

1 part in 2,600,000,000.

Dan Gelbart built his own lathe with <1µm final part tolerance [2].

Within a few thousandths of an inch isn't very impressive. I can hold 1 thou on a cheap manual lathe (Grizzly G0602 10"x22" working area), with a decent amount of care. Holding to tenths (1/10000") is impossible with the equipment I can afford though.

[1] https://nanotechsys.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HDL2600-B...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFrVdoOhu1Q
One word: compliance.

FAA has lot of restrictions to allow a planes to fly with pilot in it. Imagine convincing them that without pilot.
Legally, yes, if you have a work card; just be careful that the side business doesn't raise questions about the realness of the sponsored job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency
>I'm dying for an alternative to the 5-star review

Trusted source, e.g. particular friends/family/reviewers. I've had far better experiences trusting one knowledgeable person than 100s of anonymous reviewers.
No one goes after doorstep package thieves, why would they crack down on this?
I agree deflation isn't a problem for consumers. How many people buy electronics knowing that they will be worth 30% less within a year?

It is a problem for debtors ( home owners, and corporations ) and banks.

Who wants to have a mortgage on a house that is going down in value every year?

How is a corporation going to get investment in their factory when a competitor could create a similar factory at a cheaper rate in a couple years.

Why would a bank lend money to people who may not be able to pay them back when just holding onto the money generates returns?
The ones I can find quickly:

* Nicholas Sandmann (for an image taken out of context)

* Tenured UNC Professor Mike Adams

* Goya Foods' CEO Bob Unanue (attempted)

* Terese Nielsen (allegedly)

* Grant Napear

* Justin Kucera (allegedly)

* Aleksander Katai

* Kathleen Lowry

* JK Rowling (attempted)

* Cornell Professor Dave Collum

* Stephen Hsu

* Leslie Neal-Boylan

* James Bennet

* Melissa Rolfe

* Emmanuel Cafferty
It absolutely is!
Since we seem to have a good discussion here, there's something I've always wanted to know.

If I understand correctly, the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old. As is mentioned frequently when staring at deep space, we are looking at the universe not as it is, but as it was, since it takes so long for the light to travel to us. Some objects in the Hubble Deep Field are over 9 billion years old, and some within 1 billion years of the beginning of the universe.

My question, as best I am able to ask it, is assuming the big bang theory is true, how can it be that we on Earth can be looking at something simultaneously so old and so far away? If everything originated from the same point, how can it be that we pick an object in the sky and say "that is what the object looked like 12 billion years ago"? Doesn't it beg the question, "well then where were we 12 billion years ago?" As in, how can we be here, observing something close to the beginning of time? Didn't both objects start at the same place?

I hope that makes sense..
Articles and videos much appreciated
oh is it? last i knew there were 3 bids over the last year or os, all unable to get through re-zoning. The last news I heard was april 2020 and it is still stuck.

do you know something very recent, or are you going on vaporware press releases.
The celebration in banning Stormfront, Alex Jones, or The_Donald would indicate otherwise to me.