skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that happens, then I think premium processing will be suspended and the processing of any application or petition by USCIS will take forever; I think USCIS effectively will come to a halt.
Could I say that it's also hopeful in a way, that nobody more violent than us seems to have emerged?
Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All
The Russians didn't start this brand of insanity in the US, it has been a cornerstone of Republican policy for the past ~12 years. (And has been present, on a lower-key note, for the prior 20. The toxic culture war isn't anything new - Reagan was fighting it against homosexuals[1] and welfare queens 40 years ago.)

It's a monster of our own making. When politicians start courting that fringe, you get a virtuous cycle, where the fringe starts impacting policy, which emboldens and encourages more and more radicalization.

[1] Look at the rhetoric surrounding the AIDS epidemic, and tell me if anything has changed.
> I'm from South America where the US experimented with setting up dictatorships after WWII

Source?
Whataboutism aside, your analogy is still very off the mark. The government has every right to confiscate products trafficked into their country. The British opium trade was operating under legal contracts until China unilaterally revoked the trade agreement.
> There are certainly programmers nearly as skilful as Gates who nonetheless failed to become the richest person on Earth. In competitive contexts, many have merit, but few succeed. What separates the two is luck.

I think Marc Andreessen addressed this when he asked whether team, product, or market was the secret to success. He concluded that product-market fit was key. Bill Gates found product-market fit several times; luck it was not.

Perhaps "market meritocracy" is a better way of framing the question.
I'm not familiar with the immigration rules of EU countries unfortunately.
For a minute I thought it was the Next. But that was a bomb that went off 32 years ago.
IHC directs PTA to 'immediately' remove ban on PUBG
Archive link: https://archive.is/KmHGU
My last job in Canada paid me $70k CAD, or $52k USD.

The same job in the US would likely pay me $115k USD.
it used to be, for years, thats the older stuffin the "geoip.<key>" namespace.

the stuff in the "client.geo.<key>" space is from a newer/better/higher-tier service (they say, i forget the name). also I think some of it is mixed in with other sources and some of the info is self-sourced.
This is actually the opposite of current limitations. Stick a capacitor and some DRAM on the NVMe and you can "instantly" flush to disk, but there's no way to anticipate where the next read will come from and therefore no way to accelerate it.

You'll see modern NVMe disks with sustained writes greatly outpacing reads until the write cache is saturated, at which point what you say is true and reads will greatly outpace writes. But you don't want your disks to ever be in that threshold.
And it's dumb. We're not setting hot lead into column inches anymore.
This is a surprising argument to me. In my opinion, the opposite is true: thinking about types makes you understand your building blocks better, whereas the danger of dynamic typing is that you can go a long way being "lazy" and not understanding/caring about the types involved, "it just works". Sometimes this speed is welcome, but (in my opinion) you end up crashing and burning sooner or later...
Bars are a problem, but I live in an apartment and there's a bank, a few cafes, a liquor store, multiple drug stores, an optician's, an orthopedic shoe store, a pawn shop, a shop selling kitchen furniture and god knows what else in the same building. The biggest issue is public urination, but these people aren't the customers, but people leaving the subway.
Right, so the way to get more replies is to convince the reader that they will get a useful answer if they do reply.

One thing you can do is not bury the request (the offer to help) at the end of the message.

Another thing you can do is make your automated message seem like it isn't automated, and a shorter message and better subject helps. But I wonder if it wouldn't be better to say "Yes, this is an automated message, but we read and respond to every response". Why trick your users when you can just tell them the truth?
> If the item is (looks) unopened and pristine, Amazon will usually sell it again as new.

This is a big reason I stopped purchasing most goods from Amazon.

I was tired of getting open-box merch sold as brand new.
Altemeyer should be viewed with some suspicion: He thinks left-wing authoritarianism is a "Loch Ness monster", and in talks with David Friedman couldn't comprehend why eg. labor unions could constitute an authority to a person - he viewed union membership purely in transactional terms with little ideological content.

His scale may identify a certain kind of authoritarian, but his work is almost assuredly blind as a bat to others and not a comprehensive take.
Large-scale mutation in the evolution of a gene complex for cryptic coloration
Rejecting meritocracy entirely as an ideal to even strive for is pure poison. How could a society possibly function if it doesn't elevate competence above incompetence and expertise above charlatanism? I think we're going to find out!
It has worked for the US and China so far ...
You are mistaking cause and effect, I believe. If a government behaves in a way that earns trust, trust increases. If it behaves in a way that earns distrust, trust decreases.

I actually think that widespread perception that the government is corrupt increases corruption. If you think you can bribe an officer of the law, or a judge, then you might try. If an officer or judge believes that it wont' be reported or that nothing will happen because of it, they may ask for a bribe. If Republicans think Democrats are cheating in elections, then Republicans are going to cheat to even the odds.

Trust, but verify, right?
Better-informed implies useful knowledge. Stop with the news for a month and you'll realize that 98% of it doesn't provide you with any information that stays with you for more than a day or so. It doesn't matter that you read it. It only has negative effects on you.

This opens up a lot more time and effort to explore the 2% that does matter.
“Hey Siri, where is Chennai”

The article also covers it immediately.
> Speaking out against racism, bigotry, and systemic issues that overwhelmingly impact POC and the LGBTQ+ community is not what I consider "conventionally minded"

It’s so unconventional that almost every Fortune 500 corporation has done so in unison.

I think there’s a part of pg’s essay that’s doing a lot more work than people realize, because everyone keeps missing it:

“ When measuring conformism, of course, you have to say with respect to what, and this changes as kids get older. For younger kids it's the rules set by adults. But as kids get older, the source of rules becomes their peers. So a pack of teenagers who all flout school rules in the same way are not independent-minded; rather the opposite.”
We are objects. Our humanity comes from how we're used and for whom. One of the purposes of meditation is to separate the ego from the self and be able to look upon ourselves dispassionately and objectively, for the purposes of improving both, the spirit and its current vehicle.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is considered a crime punishable by imprisonment. Would claims made in ESTA application fall under this: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1546
Quoting:

Princeton professor Robert George recently wrote:

"I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it."

He's too polite to say so, but of course they wouldn't. And indeed, our default assumption should not merely be that his students would, on average, have behaved the same way people did at the time, but that the ones who are aggressively conventional-minded today would have been aggressively conventional-minded then too. In other words, that they'd not only not have fought against slavery, but that they'd have been among its staunchest defenders.
Well, my opinion (now) is that it wasn't so huge a gamble and completely unknown. The galaxy luminosity function (# galaxies per brightness, basically for those unfamiliar) is a curve they knew the beginnings of through images to date, and it wasn't unreasonable to suppose it would keep going beyond what had been done.

It's not like you would expect galaxies to suddenly stop being found if you took exposures a little deeper. It was a good (and not outrageous) bet. I would liken it to -- if we built a better microscope and looked deeper into a cell, is it likely we'd find nothing new? Probably not.
Is there a download available? It could be an exciting time to do some bootleg research
B12 is good but also known to accelerate certain cancers
It definitely was NOT a "real" attempted coup with full US backing. That being said, the guy in charge of the coup ran security for Trump at many events and explicitly mentioned his relationship with the president when recruiting people. I suspect that there was tacit knowledge and approval of the attempt from a few people in government but it definitely wasn't a well-funded operation, backed by the US.
As sibling comments indicate, the overhead of C# isn't what it used to be and certainly isn't comparable to other languages like Python/Ruby/PHP.

Of course, there's always performance left on the table when you write in a language like C# or Java (and even a little performance matters a lot when it comes to emulation), but the memory safety that C# can provide over C++ can save the developers a lot of debugging.

I think such an application can perform perfectly well in a hardware generation or two and until that point compatibility matters more than speed anyway; that's where ease of development will shine. Running an unplayable game well is not a very interesting project for end users.

When the project reaches significant compatibility, other emulators can take ideas from its code and port them to C/C++/Rust/assembly if they desire to do so.
conventional definitions cannot speak on absolute truths.

you must define love for yourself.
IANAL, but am an American in the UK...

I can say w/ reasonable certainty that you can go to Ireland or the UK now, if you can get a flight. You'll need to spend 14 days in quarantine. Good sources of information:

- US Embassy for the country you want to travel to

- Expat groups on Facebook w/ personal reports on what does and doesn't work

- https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/
If you write several essays about "the way society works" and they consistently resolve to a protagonist who happens to be very much like yourself, you're probably writing about your own mind, not society.
“And” also helps with some of the upsides and downsides to it. Meritocracy is great as a motivation to push yourself forward and keep working towards a goal. Deciding everything is based on luck really saps from that. Merit is also used to dismiss the life circumstances of other people so being able to recognize that luck plays a part in things can greatly improve empathy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
> a = (x & c) | (y & ~c)

> is a branch-free conditional assignment, and only works with c = 0 or ~0.

Using this hack only makes sense if there is no "conditional move".
But the bitmanip risc-v extension offers a "conditional move" (cmov) [1].
With the addition of this operation there's no longer a need to use "0/-1" instead of "0/1".

[1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-bitmanip/blob/master/bitmanip...
page 36

PS: You may notice that there's also an operation (cmix: conditional max) to do what you're suggesting: rd = (rs1 & rs2) | (rs3 & ~rs2)
Which allows to mix the bits of two registers.
> what's to stop you from winding up with what amounts to a caste system wherein unfair a priori privileges go unexamined and treated as merely "the way things are"?

I don't think you have to have meritocracy to avoid this. The way I see meritocracy is it is a tool for those with priori privileges to fool themselves and others that they are deserving of those privileges. It's slightly more convincing (and therefore more sinister) then just justifying it with "the way things are".

But really I don't see why you need either system. Why not a system where nobody has these unfair special privileges?
You'll note that the paper you cite observes that g consistently predicts performance well, and that assessing "more than g" consistently fails to improve the quality of predictions.

And then it goes on to conclude that "If the goal is to do a good job in prediction... it makes sense to use the most general measures available" and "If predictive efficiency is the goal, it will be hard to consistently beat g."

It's an opinion piece arguing that, because the concept of g provides no mechanistic insight into how people solve problems, studies that seek to explain how problems get solved (as opposed to whether problems will get solved) should try to explain that process in terms of factors at the second-highest level of abstraction, rather than the highest level.
The point made in the article is that there are different contributions to success made by personal effort (meritocracy) and by external circumstances. The problem is that people intuitively assign weights to these two parts incorrectly. Personal effort, although useful, is in fact a relatively small part of success in a complex society like ours. If you put a lot effort you can maybe move 1% in the scale of success. But external factors, like the industry you are, your family connections, the neighborhood where you live, personal characteristics that you can't change such as having special needs, your country of origin, your skin color, and other factor of blind luck, can easily contribute 99% or more of what is perceived as success in our society.
Bridgewater Associates Lays Off Several Dozen Employees
Can a company file for a green card for a STEM worker without going through the H1B Process?

If so, what are the requirements and the chances. Note, that worker is not the citizen of a country of which there would be a ton of applications from (I think that matters)
Yes, they can. However, that will leave their trails in their KMS service CloudTrail - unless they manage to exploit CloudTrail as well. That's a lot of barrier to bypass, especially because accessing all these services require you to be in the correct permission group with a hardware MFA token.

Somebody can access the key hardware but they can't extract the actual key out of that. However, I've never met anyone with that level of access - and AFAIK you have to go through various security clearance and approval before such human intervention is permitted.

There's no such thing as perfect security - but KMS is as solid as I can see with centralized key management at the moment. And customer can roll out their own key server as well that is managed in your own data center.
That's my main beef will all these web-based doc/database tools like Notion, Coda, Airtable, etc—despite their neat features, there is absolutely no focus on accessibility with any of them. They're all div soup. I love text documents because they're accessible and easy to produce, but these tools have failed to follow the spirit of the web (not to mention web standards).
I actually still have my Cube. I haven't powered it on in years, I can't bring myself to throw it out, but I can't figure anything useful for it to do. I have other PPC macs that are in regular use, but its mostly to support hardware that never made it to intel. Since I cant stick a PCI card in the Cube, it just sits there.
They're saying the same thing, but PG added the "He's too polite..." bit as though he didn't read past /1 in the thread.
Do you have more detailed info on this? I guess this could really help making a decision and understanding the tradeoff's of using datomic.
Honestly, I think it's a sign of the times. We might be at the peak here. I have recently interviewed at a couple of "AI" labs at banks and some MLE positions at insurance companies and one startup, and they are all requiring leetcode. Most of them have asked dynamic programming questions and expected working solutions in 20 mins. IMO it's a sign of higher supply than demand. I think it's about to get much much worse with many companies moving to remote work, meaning we are competing with folks in countries like India (no offence meant here, it's just a product of the education system) who are much hungrier and will literally do every possible Leetcode problem out there.

I think we are about to experience a tech bubble bursting type of situation (especially given the over inflated valuations + ridiculous stock prices of FAANG), meaning much less jobs, much higher competition and a whole world of pain, which will result in many folks leaving this profession (especially those with little experience and with no real formal education).

Now with the emergence of things like GPT-3 expect further automation of annoying software dev tasks and a lot of front end roles transforming or going away entirely. I think future devs will need more ML exposure and experience as that will become a standard part of the job soon enough, and we might enter an era of growth after the bust with much more ML integration into products and new companies forming around that.

In 5 years, the world of software dev will be a different place.

In the meantime, take a vacation, relax your brain, understand that most of us are getting rejected and it has little to do with our skill, and get back to leetcoding if you want those high paying cushy jobs. Use the smaller companies who insist of pretending they are FAANG as practice, and aim for FAANG my friend.

That's the best advice I can give because I feel the same pain and that's what I'm doing.
HN may not have teams dedicated to getting you addicted like Twitter or IG does, but it's still addictive.

Many people refresh HN multiple times per day and spend hours arguing about the same things over and over (seriously, I've seen the same arguments for 5+ years). I'm sure all of us have caught ourselves closing HN and then opening it again a few mins later.

This goes for all forums ever, so it's more of a personal change than anything 'wrong' with HN or others.
In my experience my professors always referenced Hastie, Tibshirani, Freeman, The Elements of Statistical Learning to be the reference for most of the tasks you would need to perform as a data scientist. For an AI/ML researcher Murphy is probably more comprehensive.
> are used to working with onshore talent that has context

What do you mean by this? Context is really important in programming. I'd say offshore devs are at an actual disadvantage if the offshore team always has less context than the onsite devs.
Thanks. Pivot table is a hard one. Doable. In a new Sheet, like how google sheets does.

Some kind of a Layout Component that has top/left/right/bottom bounds, and access to sheet data
Do green card holders need to be worried/do anything with these changes to immigration laws or is it focused on Visa holders (H1 etc)?
> The last picture reminds me of Shurik and Zinaida's apartment in Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession. Did soviet apartments normally have that dorm-suite aesthetic, or was that characterising Shurik as a botanic?

Not sure if you're serious here, but I had to rewatch the scene—and I wouldn't get too many ideas from it about a typical household. The apartment there is about as lifelike as a 50s interior decoration advert in the US. I'd say it does somewhat reflect Shurik's character as dedicated to the study, but a) somehow is completely devoid of artifacts of everyday life or work that the dude would leave all over, b) has no trace of the wife's influence other than the wall pictures. Not well thought-out. Shpak's apartment is way more elaborate, though of course that's largely done for the contrast.
well, Amazon prices are low. And I'm not ignoring the fact that they also can do that because they run a huge monopoly that crushes the mid-size business and destroys the competition, I'm just pointing that they are low. Usually lower than the competition. That's basically your reward.

Imagine that mister Bezos start spending millions of dollars and employing an army to do deep-check into every item returned. Who's paying that bill? Amazon's stockholders won't. You will. I will.

But, as I said in a previous post, I'm not defending Amazon's behavior. I'm just pointing out that it's all about cost and the vast majority of users benefit from this as well (with lower prices and no-question-asked-return-policy), while a tiny-tiny minority of them might face an inconvenience of returning an used item from time to time.
> Name anything that happened 5 years ago. If it’s significant, I remember it. If it isn’t, I never heard about it at all, and nobody else remembers it either.

OP has heard of COVID. It would be impossible not to. I follow a similar approach (avoiding news as much as possible) and I still am exposed to much more information about COVID than is useful.
A few people actually saying a thing does not prevent that thing from being a strawman. And invoking a sample as representative of a group escalates arguments instead of converging.
All of this can be built on Earth, much more easily
Here:

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

Though I'm pretty amazed it isn't just common knowledge - America has a long history of fixing democracies... It takes working democracies and replaces them with military dictatorships.
I would take nutritional advice and information on HN with a large grain of salt. Get some books on the material - there’s a lot of bad material out there though so get ready to do some homework.

In defense of myself, I just pointed out what could be found in a search of nutritional value information.
While this worked before, I think this is going to get wrecked by the efficiency of Amazon’s process.

Where a generic product like a selfie light ring smartphone holder is improved by various merchants until a winning design and price point is clear.

THEN Amazon selectively considers making their own version and pricing it. Or Amazon just keeps pulling their fees.

If IP protection prevents an Amazon Basics version, Amazon doesn’t have to create a version in cooperation with the brand—-it just promotes it to compete with the brand’s own e-commerce.

With Nike, it is only recently the checkout and delivery came anywhere near what Amazon would do for the same shoes, same price.
This feeble attempts to generalize a whole nation or group of people will not succeed. Individuals differ from one another and Indians are the most diverse group in the world. Some of the engineers are good some are bad , just like everywhere else. The sooner humanity realizes the truth about individuality and discard the stereotypes attached to groups and aggregates the better it will be for the whole world. Amen.
FWIW: there is no DREAM act, it never passed. DACA is an executive order, not a law, and (somewhat hilariously in context) it remains in effect, allowing undocumented immigrants who arrived as children to get a renewable work permit.

That permit allows someone to live and work in the country. Anyone can hire her as long as she has it.

As far as starting a company: that's an interesting question. That's not an employment issue. My guess is that even people without work permits could found a company, as foreigners are always allowed to hold property in the US. But having done so, I guess it would be possible to prohibit the founder from working for their US company from within the borders? Would love to hear the poster chime in on this.
New 3D-printed artery can monitor blockages from the inside
Hi Peter, can you comment about rumblings that this administration is working on a rule that revoke/resets I140s after a certain number years and make everyone do perm and labor processes again?