skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not an act of omission, this is a result of compromise with factions that don’t want immigration at all. The fact it discourages people is a feature not a bug.
How is that irony? The freedom of speech in the first amendment restricts the govt, not to private enterprises. Are you complaining that a US judge ruled according to US law?
A close friend of mine got married 3 years ago. He is a dual citizen of China and the USA. His spouse is a Chinese citizen.

This straight path you speak of they have been filing paperwork for and fighting for, for 3 years now. I believe he is just in the path to permanently moving to China and revoking his US citizenship status.

Everything about this process sucks. :(
Ban google too
This is a very poor example then, it’s a mish-mash of accusations that misrepresents the obligations of banks and ignores the rights of account holders.

Just filing a SAR doesn’t obligate a bank to freeze the funds, that’s a job for regulators. Taking your funds away just because of wrong headed suspicions should be illegal, but happens regularly and this “article” excoriates bank’s first not doing it more often.
I'm not talking about those people though, I'm talking about people who were patronizing restaurants daily because they didn't know how to cook for themselves. Those people now do know how to cook for themselves, and might well not go back to only eating food from restaurants now that they have acquired the skill and as a bonus are seeing how much money they're saving.

In other words, there may well be noticeable long term trends in restaurant-patronizing frequency that persist even after the pandemic is over and restaurants are back to 100% capacity.
That whole narrative about people on TikTok disrupting the rally isn't true. They were giving out tickets to anyone who asked - 80k tickets were given out to a venue with a seating capacity of ~5k. At no point did they stop giving out tickets because they had reached capacity.
Logic programming immediately comes to mind. I've always had trouble to see the difference between imperative programming and procedural programming, and in a way OOP is procedural with lipstick (I'll wait that it is fashionable to bash FP to say the same about FP :-). Logic and declarative programming, on the other hand, are whole different beasts.
I've done nearly 300. I still can't crack Google or Facebook etc and I'm still extremely depressed that I"m just inherently unable to because my CS education wasn't good enough (because I wasn't good enough to get a better SAT score etc etc). I work at Amazon, so I know what the "elites" think of people like me.

I've gone and reread Skiena, etc but the end result ends up just my eyes glazing over proof notation and crying.
> Is the work that I am going to be doing in this team critical to the product/business? Note that in the case of larger companies, you should try to understand if the product or business that the team supports is large enough.

Highly recommend reading this classic: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
You're quoting an attempt in 1761 to resolve this economic dispute with King George by legal means. The American colonies, on their own, were in no position to counter the mercantile system. They would need the support of another Empire for that.

But to counter your claim that mercantilism wasn't the inspiration for the American Revolution, I recommend reading up on the "Sons of Liberty" movement that rose up after the Stamp Act of 1765. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
Yeah and 16 years old Greta Thunberg is telling the truth of course and we should blindly trust her.
Really realty good read. I expect a novel in the future and a Netflix adaptation.

Some notes:
1) "As the Noor One was approaching the island on its way to Elefsina, he said, a smaller vessel had swung past it, picked up a ton of its heroin, then went up the Adriatic toward ports near Serbia." - What ports would that be? (answer: Serbia doesn't have ports in Adriatic)

2) “I only remember him because he was really fat otherwise if he would be a normal man he probably wouldn’t get my attention,” he said. “I repeat, he was REALLY FAT."
I laughed out loud on this one :D

3) Deaths that are not mentioned here are those of product users. I mean seizure affect price which affect what heroin gets cut with. Users get use to diluted batch and then when a fresh shipment hits the market it catches them off guard with it's potency which leads to overdose. This is at least what I was told as the reason of death of some people I knew died from it.

4) A significant amount of cocaine has been seized recently. By significant I mean 1 ton!
Guys are Croatian, none of them had priors.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13112-spanish-police-seize-cr...

As in OP's story, deaths of those involved will surely follow.
Me, my friends, coworkers, etc, are all broadly on the same side of this political situation. I do feel bad the things that are happening.

However, there are many people who I can't talk to without them insisting I donate more, I call all my representatives, etc., etc. etc.

It makes sense when I think about it. We all want to feel like we can actually do something when we feel so powerless. I have tried hard at work, they pick politics. We need something to do.

But I don't need to be reminded how terrible the latest event is; I want to get away from the news cycle, not lose myself in doomscrolling.
Its funny how US acts innocent while Facebook is caught everyday doing shady stuff and google literally sniffs data out of majority of Androids and both of them have connections with Military of US.
While you are correct in that (1) the credentials/pedigree and (2) some measure of intelligence will strongly positively impact job searching, your original comment seems to imply that this is sufficient.

Then, this comment that I'm currently replying to, pins most of the responsibility on not "having the genes for it."

Your HN username also leads me to think you have a "fixed mindset" around your capabilities.

Regardless of to what extent (1) and (2) impact general career success, I suspect your mindset is a self-limiting one. For example, even if 80% of a person's success was determined by their genes and pedigree, and only 20% by their personal effort or resourcefulness, I suspect the mindset you have is to focus on lamenting the fact that you don't have the 80% and neglect the 20% you do have control over, leaving it on the ground and thereby reducing your own chances of success. It'd be a little bit like someone who wasn't born particularly tall, saying "Well, what's the point of drilling dribbling, passing, defending or shooting? There's no way I'll ever be the world's best player with genes like mine?" resulting in a self-defeating and self-fulfilling prophecy of failure.[1]

I don't want to come off as a preachy person on the internet to someone who I don't know, but if I could make a suggestion I would be curious for you to introspect as to why you may have this worldview. Folks I know in real life who have a mindset similar to those expressed in your comments often seem to feel insecure, unconfident or otherwise engage in self-shaming and constant comparisons with others.

[Edit] In the spirit of sharing, I will confess that that your mindset also reminded me of mine when I was in college. I had gotten rejected from a large number of universities I wanted to attend, and had only gotten into my state university. My peers and friends from high school largely went to prestigious brand-names.

The insecurity gnawed at me and made me engage in many foolish behaviors during college, and also caused me to constantly compare myself with others. I was ultimately very unhappy.

Through a series of experiences (i.e. therapy, honest introspection and self-reflection, conversations with trusted friends, being challenged on my mindset by others), I slowly came to understand how my mindset contributed to the same failures I was complaining about.

It's been over a decade since then and I have long since shed the mindset that held me back then, and am much happier for it.

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[1] Even this example is probably inaccurate because it draws from a domain where genetics play a larger role than I think they do in professional success. I suspect many attributes of a successful professional come from behaviors and tactics that are learned through social mimicry and learning from others rather than some genetic predisposition towards e.g., being thoughtful, being articulate and concise, running effective meetings etc.
A Chrome extension that loads one compliment on every new tab
Let me recommend the book "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You" - despite the rather silly title that book is an extremely thorough historical examination of PR, AstroTurfing and in general a rather shocking unveiling of an aspect corporate power that most people know very little about - from Edward Bernais right up until about when the internet really took over.

Lobbying, policy writing, press release creating, corrupting and local power infiltrating hidden complexes was already completely all encompassing and dangerous to everything "scientific" and everything "true" 20 years ago.

I can't even begin to imagine how advanced that system has become today with social media, fake grassroots, corporate sponsored think tanks and targeted advertisement. Rather scary.
Prove that no teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars.
I’m the type of person that learns much better doing.

I’ve been working on a celery task queue that gets stock historicals, loads in postgres.

The idea is then to use backtrader and load the historicals from pandas/postgres. This will allow you to test your algos.

Would love to work on this with someone.

https://github.com/mementum/backtrader
The 2 seconds would be a bug or maybe a design fault in his computer. I use a big USB volume knob [1] which is also a mute button and it always responds instantaneously as far as I can tell. I just bash it when an unexpected video starts playing. It was hard to find but these things do exist and are refreshingly convenient compared to whatever fiddly volume controls laptops always have.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32649442146.html
Added link to answer reply question
Doesn’t Apple maintain CUPS?
Unions by definition and function are necessarily political, that doesn’t necessarily mean though it is itself necessarily a problem.
> If anything th me parliamentary system has fewer checks and balances since the execute and legislative branches are one in the same.

How are those "checks and balances" working out in the US?

At least in a Parliamentary system and major issues can be fixed with the next majority of the Opposition. In the US system it is hard to get anything passed (even when it is important), and if something bad is rammed through, good luck trying to reverse it. Unless you delegate to the Executive branch.
15 years ago all of the better switches could internally handle the aggregate bandwidth of all of their ports. I assumed that would be standard now, but shopping for a switch recently I discovered I was wrong. We still have switches where you can’t max out all ports at the same time.

I think you could still make one that doesn’t have that problem, but the memory would limit doing much smart switch work. If any.
It’s hard to take the US seriously until they clean house:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-kle...
No individual has the incentives to help nip this in the bud before it spirals out of control. At this point, it needs to be a top down effort from governments/UN. But of course, the finite resources in this world are zero sum. And there are the fools out there that think the free market can save us.

It's gonna be tough or impossible.
Besides of the FS BeOS had a great iconic UI.
Authenticated encryption isn't the same as signing encrypted data.

Even when you don't generally care about the properties digital signatures provide you almost always need authentication w/ encryption because block cipher modes make the behaviour of the encryption differ in surprising and important ways from an idealized black box.

Concretely:

Imagine I setup a service that accepts commands through encrypted messages with a static key. Only authorized parties know the keys.

Each (encrypted) command sent to the services includes a user and password.

At first glance you might consider this setup reasonably secure but if authenticated encryption is not used a MITM can modify the ciphertext to cause predictable modifications to the plain text, preserving the user and password but changing the command or its parameters.

Eg. Imagine the cipher used is AES-CTR, the attacker can just xor whatever he wants into the plaintext. If a CBC mode is used, the attacker has a little less flexibility but still a lot.

Beyond breaking control the lack of authentication can also break confidentiality: For example, if the service provides different error behaviours for different corrupted inputs, I could replay a message with many different corruptions to determine it's content.

Yes, if you augmented this protocol with a digital signature it could accomplish authentication (if implemented correctly!); but since the protocol has no particular need for a digital signature otherwise the signature is an extremely slow way to accomplish authenticated encryption (compared to a proper authenticated encryption mode). An authenticated block cipher mode can be made pretty much just as fast as unauthenticated (at least for longer messages, and only (say) a 2x slow down for the shortest messages... one or more orders magnitude better than a digital signature).

It is very hard to design secure cryptographic protocols and systems and even harder to have a good basis to believe that they're secure. Whenever the primitives we use have subtle behaviour that differs from an idealized version that job becomes significantly harder. Authenticated encryption works a lot more like a simple black box "ideal encryption" than non-authenticated ciphers.

Secure systems could use either, but non-auth is a LOT easier to end up with an insecure protocol by surprise.
I admire the drive and capital that he and others like him/her offer, which in turn empowers a decent chunk of our economy and technological development, but o lord what a cross to bear. I feel especially thankful for my own schedule now, which is maybe two meetings a week and the rest creative engineering... having to schedule sleep!? What a world our souls occupy.
It will until they change their extension API or some detrimental bug is found and they block it.
Terrible example of “muck raking” where the authors paint a wide range of different people with the same brush, while entirely neglecting the massive negative consequences of these regulations.

Trying to turn the financial system into a group of cops with unlimited powers to seize your assets without trial, or even being required to disclose to the account holder why is terrible policy.
I agree with all this, but a lot of the meals eaten by people who formerly couldn't cook weren't eaten in restaurants; they were picked up from a fast/casual place nearby or ordered in. I used to eat all my meals at work, which roughly approximates ordering delivery, and it took less time than I'm spending now cooking food for most meals.
The FinCEN Files
For how the US Army does this, see Field Manual 3-34-471, "Plumbing, Pipe Fitting, and Sewerage", especially the sections on "Field Expedient Systems."[1] The Army has been building camps for a while.

[1] https://www.constructionknowledge.net/public_domain_document...
To be fair, cancer survival rates have definitely gone up with industrialization.
Yes except brave because as locking is done as a patch instead of extension
> The laws as they stand directly abuse non-citizens for the benefit of companies, some of which are US based.

So let's rein in those companies by giving them a talent pool of people who can't rock the boat too hard without fear of having to leave the country?
I agree with him. Also, why is there no microphone mute button (or shortcut) integrated in windows? Seems like a must-have nowadays.
Isn't a H1B visa literally for a single job that's not able to be filled? It's not a work permit for working any specialist job, companies need to justify the need specifically
Are you adopting a dog or buying one? There are plenty of homes for Bernese Mountain Dogs and Golden Retrievers. Less glamours mutts are counting days before euthanization.

Which is my advice. Know your motivations. Analyze your ability to accept a dog as they are versus demanding they meet your expectations. Every dog will go running with you. Will enjoy cream cheese at breakfast. Will curl up on the bed. Will try to eat a dead seagull on the beach.

Good luck.
How is that surprising? Isn't it absolutely obvious and technically trivial? They'll manipulate it into something monochrome with sufficient contrast and feed it into their database - done.

Having said that it could just as obviously be a deceit to distract from an informant or other sources of information.
Looks like you have no clue Of foreign relations. US has sanctions on both countries and individuals/leaders of certain countries.

That, can applies to companies as well.

I am Albanian, and I know the US has sanctioned 17 former gov. Officials that were insanely corrupt and that even their families can’t enter Or do burins in the US. this was a Obama era law.
You'd be surprised at their arguments. I've seen golang being used in areas where it is a terrible fit for, and when I ask about why they think it's a good fit, the arguments are very vague, hand wavy, and show the lack of experience (and these are multi-million dollar companies).
There seem to be ‘standards’ as to how to build out refugee camps and SOP for various things:

* https://emergency.unhcr.org/entry/45581

* https://emergency.unhcr.org/about

* https://spherestandards.org/handbook/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee_camp

Even the humble tarp that meets these standards is more ‘advanced’ than it appears:

* https://www.wired.com/2016/01/tarpaulin/
Furthermore, I've seen it used in the context of hidden transaction costs in the markets. For example, you see security A trading at $100 on exchange X but $105 on exchange Y. You think "free money!" but on closer examination exchange Y charges $5.01 to transact. These are totally nonsensical numbers, but they do extend to the analogy on ideas.
No, the real design flaw is just what he describes. What you're saying, while alleviating some instances of the problem, still fundamentally allows for these kinds of ear-destroying/vicinity-blasting situations. The lack of an unambiguous, direct, easily accessible kill-switch for something such as audio is an oversight no matter the auxiliary convenience.
> why not rent rather than buy?

Have you ever tried to break a lease on accommodation in the US?
Uh... and how many virii have been illegally imprisoned? I'm not following.
In the computer
Ask HN: What nootropics do you take?
What are you taking to improve focus, memory, and energy levels? Creatine, caffeine, fish oil?
I'm wondering how principled network security between two large nations that distrust each other would even work? Let's say the US and Soviet Union on an alternate timeline.

It seems like they would have separate industries for building hardware and wouldn't allow code to be shipped across the border without a security review.
I have had several wool coats and none of them have been at all rain repellent. I’ve also worn many pure wool jumpers and hats in the rain, again none of them holding off anything more than the lightest drizzle.

What sort of wool is good for keeping off the rain?

Edit: Wearing (only) a damp wool jumper is fine if you’re up a mountain and it’s not too windy or freezing cold, but I’d still prefer to be dry!
Yeah, I found to read that part dispiriting too. The fact that practicing on leetcode has such a substantial effect on one's chances, to me, shows that it's very likely that either employers don't know how to select candidates, or maybe, they're just trying to track the best proxy they know for job performance.

I, personally, think that the ability to write "clean code", to think and care deeply about decisions related to code when it spans multiple fiels, is way more valuable in many jobs (not all!). Yet, unsurprisingly, I see that very few give any serious thought to it, given what companies care about is leetcode.
Nothing will ever come close to convenience of analogue volume knobs. They give both immediate action and infinite granular control. Same
goes for kitchen stoves. All the modern touch controls with step-based control is the absolute nightmare in terms of UI.
Setting aside issues of morality and law, these actions taken by the US Gov are bound to cause blowback. It would seem that you cannot intervene and not also eventually experience negative and unintended consequences.
Dog Star
Interesting, but we need a book that explains what we can do about it.
As far as i remember, people wearing clothes with this type of insualtion had problems with overheating.

However things may have changed since then

https://www.outsideonline.com/1919251/forget-down—aerogel-in...
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535241

Also, there are like 10 bbc posts on the frontpage right now. It's starting to look like spam.
One need not have visited the US, or even _be eligible_ to visit the US to own property in the US.
Yes. I had a similar thing happen a few months ago when I made a repo private - the first public fork became the upstream for all the other public forks.
Make preparations to return to your home country and try to find a new job where you are. Leave before your H1B expires so you can qualify for another, if you want that. If you don't want that, then you've just been given what you want.
As the maintainer of SCons I can assure you that we are aware of SCons's performance issue.

The page in question is actually quite old at this point.

Since the content was written Ninja, Cmake, Bazel, and other build systems have launched and become mature.

We are slowly working through the easiest of the list of known performance issues.

In addition MongoDB has contributed their Ninja file output logic.
We expect to integrate that in the next major release.

Projects like MongoDB, Godot, VMware, PlatformIO, and many others use SCons.
One of it's strengths is the ability to correctly build complex builds.

Please engage with the community our users mailing list, IRC Channel, or discord server if you're a user.

One frustration for the project is that users run into issues using SCons and never reach out and ask for help.
Many times a small change in usage will resolve whatever has a user stuck.
People want to know about alternatives for the inevitable day when the extension API changes and there it no longer works so they won't get caught with their pants down.
The only people with strong opinions on Greta Thunberg as a celebrity figure are those completely ignorant of the scientific consensus on the climate crisis. Go read the IPCC report and then decide how much you need to care about Greta Thunberg.
Never use Play imo. Especially if your focus is Java (the language). It doesn't offer a modern workflow or java idioms at all. Not to mention it's dependence on scala and sbt which is its own special hell.

Reactive is probably a mistake with loom looming around the corner.
Often you can unzip them and look for a subfolder containing the .inf files and install those directly.
For the love of god(s) and what is left of the world;
Stop. Opening. Mysterious. Tombs.

P.s. please. Save it until next year.
> The US sure as hell hasn't sided with democracies give the long list of propped up

So now NATO doesn’t exist. Because geopolitics is complicated and there aren’t always good decisions to be made. And sometimes helping the enemy of your enemy makes sense, even if they’re still your enemy.