skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That was discussed with the same seriousness by the other side with Obama stepping down.

I'm just going to call that out as a straight-up distortion and falsehood. In it's effect, equivalent to a lie.

Show me reliable quotes of saying Obama he would "have to see" about the election results, as Trump has, and I'll be more charitable.

Otherwise I (mostly) agree with you. Bear in mind though that when Trump wanted to deploy paratroopers to cities during the first wave of protests and the riots associated with (but not really a part of) them after the murder of George Floyd, the only check and balance in our system left was our military leadership itself, which, to their credit, saw that such an order would be immoral, probably illegal, and un-American.

But literally all the other checks and balances meant to prevent a President from turning the military / law enforcement into their own personal squad of doofuses have been removed at this point.

Look at Barr and the FBI. Or the current behavior of DHS in Portland.

So I mostly agree with your prediction but certainly have my unsettled moments.

I mean the guy got the Army to have a Blackhawk helicopter go hover over and intimidate peaceful protestors like it was part of an occupying force.

Plus, let's not forget that the election could be a shitshow this year in terms of how long it takes to count the votes, voter access to polling places (because of neglect or deliberate disenfranchisement), etc.

So there could be a lot of gray areas and areas of concern unrelated to a "military coup."
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They are typically harden steel, so wear minimally and when you test a gap, you’re not really applying much force.

If the feeler gauge doesn’t slip in with minimal force, then that tells you the gaps is smaller than the gauge.
It's a recognized flag for a specific and rather imperial memeplex that is spreading rapidly. It also seems like a motte argument for the bailey of antinatalism, which is another strong and particularly distasteful -- for those who are not antinationalist I mean -- flag for this set of ideas that seems to come together or at least have an extremely tight correlation.
> some medications that a psychiatrist could not give me

Curious, were these medications for the symptoms you mentioned in general (Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders), or specific to the genetic disorder that caused those symptoms?

(I assume the latter, but I hate to assume.)
On H1/H1-B.

What are the options for starting a company?
> People have a right to existence

I fully agree. We need to immediately end the ongoing genocide known as "abortion" in this country and worldwide. Anyone advocating for abortion should be immediately shutdown as hate speech against the unborn. Planned Parenthood kills more black babies in a day than the police do in a decade and should be immediately defunded. Anyone supporting them should be deplatformed, and fired from their jobs for hate speech.

There is no room for debate about the rights of the unborn. It's time to immediately defend their right to life and we should not tolerate anyone suggesting otherwise.
Options traders set to cash in on Tesla’s big delivery beat
It is not the future it is the now, and it is such a scam.
Too late. Read the whole thing before coming back here to see your suggestion, now everything here, and everywhere else, is yellowish, no matter what I set in the style editor.
What you describe is clearly bad for the organization on the whole, is there some way this decision is being made to benefit the decision maker over the organization? Either for political reasons or maybe even illegal reasons?
My sense is that states and localities don’t have the money for infrastructure projects. They mostly can’t even afford maintenance on the infrastructure they have. Anything that gets built has to come from the feds somehow, so it’s up to Congress.

The democratically controlled house would have to come up with a bill, then the republican controlled senate would have to agree to it, then the president would have to sign it. I don’t think there is that much coordination happening at the federal level right now.
No one really knows; appointments continue to be rescheduled and then cancelled. Some Consulates are granting emergency appointments to those whose interviews were scheduled before the Consulates closed.
50% of the US population came from the original founding stock of the country in 1990. America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values.
From the end of article

> Such incidents do not, however, mean that the very idea of free expression is under assault. The sooner we accept that, the sooner we’ll be able to start taking on the actually important questions — about whether improving our society requires real revision to our speech norms, beyond the non-controversial exclusions of neo-Nazis and overt racists from elite intellectual life into new territory by more fully incorporating new ideas about race and gender into public life.

Translation: "free speech" is OK because what I do not approve is not speech. Also, I plan to keep changing the rules on what it's allowed.
SDCC 2020 Trailer: Amazon's Comic Book Conspiracy Tale Utopia
Heh, this reminded me of my previous company, where the CEO hosted a Christmas party at her house where only the development team was invited. The next day, the rest of the company was served the left-overs, instead of the regular catering.

It was definitely an eye-opening moment for everyone in terms of realizing which department was the CEO's favorite.
It's not where you outsource to its the mere fact of paying people who don't work for you or care for more than billable hours (at least the leadership if not the consultants too). You can get that down the street too, though it's easier to check up on what's going on. Having employees you vetted/hired overseas is way different than hiring some firm to provide bodies who are unknown to you and come/go all the time.
I can't agree with that, no. "Cheap wide good education" is not a policy. What policies need to be set to achieve it?
Sounds like you need an invite to Galt's Gulch
I suspect the problem is Human Remains (HR) who are supposed to organise this.

And I suspect its the pipeline of people who end up in HR positions that is a problem as well.
Build Your First Voice-Driven Web Application
I second that. I've helped teach ECC to high schoolers (granted, it was a summer program for exceptionally mathematical students) and they found it quite approachable.
The Founder's Guide to Stripe Atlas
I don't know of anything more awesome (in the literal sense of the word) than these photos. It makes my wonder just how densely packed (ignoring variation in distance) the area is. What will we see when we start looking between those dark spots? What if there's literally something in every direction...
Walnuts are also high in phytoestrogens, I believe, if you care about that stuff. Worth being careful
The Harper's letter was hardly from the political center as most people conceive; Noam Chomsky signed that letter.
Yes, even here, people are more reluctant to comment on political related news, being afraid of getting downvoted to oblivion.
ne chital, no osuzhdayu

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-so...
I mean I agree with you: broadly I think things like the Yascha Mounk case are bad (I mean there are even better examples on the left: take Matt Bruenig, for instance), but like it's totally insane to say it's the main authoritarian crisis in the US today in the midst of brutal police violence.

Also, I do think that the Mounk or Bruenig case are actually a little different from "cancel culture": they seem much more like political machinations at the places those people worked. Like I think either of those things could have happened just as easily 20 or 30 years ago. When I think "cancel culture" I think more about random people getting twitter mobbed for saying something offensive.

Really I think it's an issue of emphasis. And I think identifying some social pressure to be more "woke" with threat of ridicule on social media as being the first step on the way to totalitarianism, while simultaneously insisting the police brutality is nothing of the sort, reveals quite a lot about people's lack of perspective and warped priorities.
I've been trying to figure out the "assault on democracy" narrative ever since the 2016 election. It seems to have come out of nowhere, though probably boosted by the Russia Collusion tale. The reality, indeed, is that the wrong guy won. Democracy was expected to elect Hillary, but it failed to do that and is therefore flawed.
Another mostly happy Bitwarden user here.

In spite of a few annoying usability issues the developers won't address, it's a pretty flawless replacement for LastPass and 1Password [both of which I've used previously] --at least on desktop. And it's free and open source, which is a bonus.

Unfortunately, I've yet to find any password manager, bitwarden included, that works reliably on Android.

Nine times out of ten they don't recognise that I'm on a login page at all and, on the rare occasion Bitwarden does actually launch when I enter a login form, it tells me it can't find any logins for the URL of my browser [yandex.com] rather than the URL of the site I'm actually on.
So there are nuances when making legislation to enact popular policies. I know that, what is your point?

A functioning legislator discusses these nuances, and comes up with a legislation that enacts the policy such that most people can benefit from it. This is one of the benefits of having a diverse ruling class. No one person needs to know how a popular policy gets enacted, that is the purpose of representative democracy.
> In 1995, astronomer Bob Williams wanted to point the Hubble Space Telescope at a patch of sky filled with absolutely nothing remarkable. For 100 hours.

It was a terrible idea, his colleagues told him, and a waste of valuable telescope time. People would kill for that amount of time with the sharpest tool in the shed

And by 'Bob Williams', we mean the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble. Williams chose to use some of the predefined Director's Discretionary Time to explore the limits of the telescope and our understanding of the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(astronomer)
For me, those images are a sliver of the Total Perspective Vortex. The more I try to comprehend them the more blown away I am by them.
There's no pure entrepreneurial visa in the U.S. system and self-employment is generally prohibited with limited exceptions. The closest to an entrepreneurial visa are the E-1, E-2, and O-1.
There's near-universal agreement that education should be cheap and wide and good. The question is which policies best accomplish those goals. Should we add vocational high schools like Denmark has, where teachers can focus on practical skills since it's already been decided the students won't go to college? Should we add 60 more days to the school year and universal high school admission tests like they do in Japan?
50% isnt even a majority, assuming this is a real statistic and not something pulled out of your ass.
100% correct, not surprising to see it downvoted here on bootlicker central
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I am emailing you about this same topic - I just don't want it to look like spam.
I've only witnessed it on the sidelines (while the internationally distributed company I worked for was acquired).

> It's a giant headache that can never be properly fixed, yet v6 completely avoids it.

It's a headache, sure. But that it can't be fixed is hyperbole. All it takes is reassignment of IP addresses, there are plenty after all. The headache comes only from IP addresses stored in places they don't belong. If they were only stored in the DHCP and DNS servers, a script could fix this in no time. Part of the problem I witnessed was, that people are hesitant to use DHCP for static IP addresses (servers) and some devices (switches) are incapable of using DHCP.

I also observed (much earlier) misguided sysadmins using a scheme encoding location of a device in its name. That of course let to horrible long, unpronounceable names and people remembering and using rather its IP address (that danger of course is greatly reduced with IPv6 ;-}
These guys crack me up.
You are right, thanks. I don't live there anymore so that atrocity slipped my mind.
With IP monpolized and enforced by the neo-colonial global North corporatocracy or empire, thanks to TRIPS [1]

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"Meanwhile, the educational, information and intellectual commons have been plundered more than at any time in history. Thomas Jefferson, a founding father of the US Constitution, correctly said, ‘Ideas, in nature, cannot be made the subject of property.’ Sadly, that is precisely what has been done in the neo-liberal era.

A globalised intellectual property rights system was immensely strengthened by TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) passed through the World Trade Organisation in 1994, shaped by a few US multinationals, backed by the US and UK governments. This has facilitated the commercialisation, privatisation and colonisation of ideas. Since 1994, the annual filing of patents has more than tripled, with the global stock of patents close to 12 million, each giving monopolistic control of some idea for 20 years or more.

Many patents result from publicly-funded research, diminishing the risk. But TRIPS allows corporations to receive monopolistic income for two decades, or use the patent to block others from producing something. Those claiming to believe in free markets should have opposed the trend, but reveal their class-based ideology by keeping quiet. There is evidence that the patent system hinders economic growth and innovation. It merely increases inequality and rentier capitalism."

[1] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/plunder-commons-...
The United States Needs a Third Reconstruction
I am a Canadian with a TN visa. Is there a requirement that I remain in the country (USA) during the time of this visa? I only ask because now it is tempting to go work from Canada for elongated periods, but I am not sure of the legality
All of these examples are not societies implementing communism, but just merely small groups of people who do so, in a safe bubble provided by a non-communist society (US or Israel) which surrounds them. They benefit immensely from the wealth and protection coming from the surrounding non-communist society. These conditions do not translate in any way to larger scale implementation and it's not what majority of people mean when they discuss communism. I'd like to see one example of communist society of let's say even just 1 million people that is not a colossal failure.
There is another interpretation floating around: the deal language is reported to be very vague, and apparently, the only thing agreed is that the EU will soon decide on the case against Poland (which would act as "prior" for the Hungarian case, in general.)

Clearly, Poland and Hungary have bought some time during the negotiations. But once the budget and recovery plan are formally approved, I would not be surprised if there were... suprises on this front.

Still. The EU has no armed forced or obvious legal levy to condemn a democratically elected government of a sovereign state to... respect democracy.

I suspect it's not going to last forever, but that's the sad state at the moment.
Thanks for the book recommendation! Within the Republican Party, there is less in the way of groups with diametrically opposed views. But Republicans also have fairly heterodox positions on individual issues. The party contains nearly everyone that has a broad view of the second amendment, but a third want stricter gun laws. The party contains nearly everyone that wants to overturn Roe but the majority do not. Republicans contain nearly all the super anti-tax people, but half want to raise taxes on those making above $10 million. About half of republicans support same sex marriage (while 1:6 Democrats oppose it).

In terms of larger ideology, a schism is brewing between social conservatives, nationalists, and pro-business conservatives, with Trumpism versus anti-Trumpism cutting across all those groups. (As you recall, while Republicans supported him, most wanted someone else in the primaries initially.) The differences are less extreme than in the Democratic Party—where you have Marxists and 2/3 of Wall Street under the same tent—but they divisions are growing.
Yep. There's a concerted effort to keep bringing up high inflation as a means of forcing more austerity. The mythical "high inflation" hasn't materialized but the cries continue to happen.
Would a person who is openly gay have trouble?

Would a person handing out christian tracts on a street corner have trouble?

I have never been in Dubai. I may have misrepresented it in my previous post.
Sure, your comment didn't look like it was trying to disagree as much as add more info, whether you realized I had a typo or not. I had just happened to read a comment I had mangled atrociously earlier because I did it on my phone and then I saw this comment, and the urge to correct myself here was overwhelming. :)
The immigration specialist at our institution is strongly recommending that new green card applications go through non-PERM categories, such as EB-1 or EB-2 NIW, presumably because it will be harder to get this certification. Do you have any opinions on this?

Also, do you expect USCIS to become more strict when it comes to EB-2 NIW applications? Thanks!
That's correct and the occupations that I/you listed are all solid TN occupations - meaning generally there's no issue getting them if you also have the appropriate corresponding education.
Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’
Reminder this means 38% aren't afraid to share those views. The article mentions specifically in the workplace. For a time, I worked under a VP in a large public software company that wouldn't let anyone under him reimburse alcohol sales on team outings (food was fine; there was no objection to team outings to build rapport, either). It was strange, it stood opposite to company-wide policy of permitting employed-provided alcohol, and it likely had an inconsequential effect on his career, but he did push his personal views on his reporting chain.
I think that’s the point. “Cancel cultural” has always been around in some form or another when you challenge the cultural norms of some society or institution. The outrage over it now seems silly, particularly when it’s predominantly liberal people suffering from it. However, unlike other oppressed minorities of the past, the consequences are much less severe.
Throwaway...

I'm interested in nomading or maybe working in the US. Either on one of my own things, or perhaps at another startup, mainly for social interaction.

I've accumulated some wealth so far. What would be a good option, and how can you prevent being taxed by the US?

Do people normally work from their own consulting company/structure, or are people usually on the company's payroll?
That’s called BLUF. Bottom line up front.
Not without a sense of irony, as the lists above list many papers that could be readings with quizzes,

Distributed systems ->
Distributed computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

Category: Distributed computing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Distributed_computing

Category:Distributed_computing_architecture :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Distributed_computing...

DLT: Distributed Ledger Technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger

Consensus (computer science)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science)
How is the H1B1 affected and what can I do?

What should I write if there is a form that asks about visa?

What should I tell recruiters and potential employers during a phone call?

Thanks Peter

For others who don't know, the H1B1 is different from the H1B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1b1
News is mostly gossip. It tells you about unusual and sensational things. Not about how to understand the world.

To understand the world, spend that daily time reading books instead.
>is there any use-case for geolocation APIs that does not involve tracking users for shitty purposes?

Use my GEOIP and longitude and adapt your CSS to show me your content in nightmode when it is night time in my Longitude. That would be cool.
There are manufacturer approved procedures for putting aircraft into long-term storage, as well as returning them back to service.

Yes, there is absolutely additional wear that happens just from sitting around. Repairing this (if necessary) is part of the return-to-service procedure.
Which major countries or geopolitical unions are on a shrinking debt trend? Serious question, I couldn't come up with an answer after a bit of research.
But if I expect bursts, Lambda could potentially cost me a few thousand dollars in a day while my own instance could handle it fine for like $50. Even paying $50/mo over a few years would pay off in that case.
I use these on my car to check / adjust valve clearances. Every 30,000 miles.
These publications combined can't match market penetration of those that are controlled by the government or owned by PiS sympathizers (e.g. Karnowscy brothers). So yeah, there are a few but that doesn't magically balance the undue influence PiS has on the messaging.

Plus: nationality of the owner is completely orthogonal to the bias publications may have. At the end of the day it's a large business and you can stay in it only if you have access to those you write about, i.e. people in power.

The moment you start leaning heavily against those in power you lose access and, as a result, relevancy. This problem exists in almost every country and isn't unique to Poland or Hungary.
I wouldn’t be so optimistic. Level headed people in the French Revolution, the liberals in the Russian revolution, they had some rather horrible things happen. Done by very lucid people. You can’t say that was then. It’s hard to escape that fate.
> America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British

I find it difficult to understand how we can describe immigrant colonisers as "not immigrants".
I'm an Iranian, working in Malaysia. If I get an offer from a US company, do I have a serious chance of getting the export license and/or Visa?

Is this different across different companies
Also, is this different for offices in US vs outside?
>Assuming that every question in this 20-question test has only 1 right answer and you choose to answer each question randomly, what is the chance that you're so bad that you only get 4 questions right or less?

They probably mean for you to assume that 1) each question has 5 answer choices, and 2) you select one of them with equal probability. But given that this is question #2, assumption (1) is kind of a guess, and (2) should be explicitly stated... (the answer btw has to do with the binomial distribution - and you definitely need some heavy arithmetic, so are they testing your gut instinct?)
Here's one theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPYiif7znZw&feature=youtu.be... (Scott Adams @ Commonwealth Club of California).
Show HN: I made a neural text to speech website as my pandemic side project
What's the incentive to perform if you cannot be fired? A "guaranteed job" might as well be a simple unemployment check.
I went to a Clojure meetup one time and they all went on about how using Datomic in production is a nightmare and it's generally an over-engineered product that isn't worth the trouble in the end. Do most people who have dealt with Datomic in production feel this way?
I quite like the black-on-yellow theme. It’s different, and distinctive (I’ve read a few things on tonsky’s site, so I know what to expect).

Even more hilarious is switching to “dark mode”.
These days it's closer to a pathocracy: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201...
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman_surface_brightness_test
Tax assets directly.