skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immigrant visa? What is that? I think the conversation is focused on the US. I'm a native-born US citizen, but my impression is that for those who get an H1B, they can apply for a green card and eventually citizenship. However, the path for many is fairly long. Perhaps you are confusing the H1-b and the J-1?
Should be this one:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963178/
Until a safe vaccine is produced those total lockdown nations have to stay in lockdown. Even a minor outbreak can explode. Korea handled it the best with limited closures, aggressive tracking, and a responsible public, and they still had superspreader events when they loosened up rules on bars and risked having an outbreak. That said, a model like korea's would never work in the west and especially the US. If we're to believe Fauci literally none of the general populace acted responsibly, with even leftwing demographics like the young, urban dwellers, and minorities leading infections despite leftwing leaderships' advice. So its hardly a partisan issue, the basic culture of the US is incompatible with strategies that work in Asia. The spread of this virus was just an inevitability
Work / study visas are (in my opinion anyway) a significant reason why the majority of post-graduate students are foreign.

Working as a grad student is really a quite poor economic trade off unless you have the unspoken side benefit of qualifying for a visa.

It's basically a form of academic wage suppression.
I use both and it’s leaps and bounds better using MacBooks for most things. Like putting your computer to sleep, or connecting external displays reliably.
Absolutely, especially since software like Zoom allows the call host to unmute the microphone on your (!) end.

It's unsurprising and possible with any kind of software mute of course, but still significant enough for me to seek out a solution - I use https://sourceforge.net/projects/micmute/ but it's not without its hitches, unfortunately :/
Old computer had a lot of things we don't have toady anymore.
I'm not saying that there were no good responses, better ones and worse ones.

I'm saying they were all somewhat chaotic, haphazard and wrong in places. That's what happens when rulesets with multiple, sometimes competing goals have to be put in place quickly.
It's just one click more on windows (instead of left click on speaker icon you have to right click -> open volume mixer). It's incredibly useful, but browsers bring it to its limits: I can only adjust the volume of the entire browser, not individual tabs. And the solutions browsers have come up with are worse (only mute/unmute) and don't scale beyond 20 tabs or so.
I have encountered the opposite problem.

Some speakers turn themselves off automatically when they don't detect any sound on the line for a certain amount of time.

So when you want to have your monitoring application ring the alarm on the speaker, you need to be aware of it so you don't miss it.

Depending on the speaker you may need to be continuously playing some very low volume audio to prevent them from auto-turning off.
Global banks might, but smaller regional ones close or sell businesses, exit markets an pay fines. A banking executive recently committed suicide as he was left to be responsible after his subordinates were found guilty of money laundering and the head office pushed him under the bus.
> People want it to be true.

This is the really disturbing thing. Why would someone want Twitter to have race-based image cropping? And yet the behavior of many in the various threads is precisely as if they did! I think it may actually make them happier if it's true. Who are the real racists, again? It's hard to tell sometimes.

And after all, doesn't the Twitter OP acknowledge this inevitable result when calling it a "horrible" experiment?
Please define “survival”.
"Never give up, Never surrender !" although taken from a comedy movie Galaxy Quest, I find it very much carrying me on !
Actually not true. Many large projects continue to use SCons and new projects as well.
I don't think in 2018 we had our heads in the sand about SCons' performance.
As project maintainer I've (along with other community members) have been working on performance since at least 2016.
Try the North face Thermoball line of jackets. I put mine through all manner of environmental abuse this year and it performed extremely well.

The materials all seem pretty boring sounding.
I would recommend against guava in any modern form of Java. It doesn't provide much over the standard library.

As for guice, my preference for reflective runtime injection is Weld since it's the standard reference implementation.
It bothers me that this overloads the notation for repeating fractions. I guess there wouldn't be a use case requiring both in a single number, but you can imagine multiple numbers on the same page using this formatting for different purposes and it being confusing.

And it's fine for writing out by hand or in TeX (I assume), but good luck using it in any other context as we see here! Ideally a notation would be keyboard-friendly, at least for something with as wide an applicability as this anyway.

But this is certainly a good starting point.
I was thinking about this topic from the perspective of a college graduate making the transition to working full time at a white-collar office job.

College is the most social environment imaginable:

- In class with lots of people

- Encountering people you know between classes

- Clubs and social groups

- Communal studying

- Living in close quarters with friends and others

- Eating meals with others, etc.

Just an endless list of opportunities to socialize and interact.

The idea that college graduates will want to make such a transition from the most social environment possible to working from home, alone, for 8 to 10 hours per day, seems very strange to me. I think anyone who has onboarded a new college grad hire (like myself) during this time would attest to this.
Was in a similar place but drive to survive (Netflix) got me right back into it!
The issue is that the restrictions imposed by the US government on banks are so constraining that many countries with a lot of corruption would just be cut out of the whole world banking system. This would be a death sentence for these countries as most of them are doing poorly already economically.

In addition, it's not like the US itself is without corruption but because they're the one who make the rules, they don't apply to their own corrupt entities...
New Zealand and Vietnam definitely half-assed some rather important parts of their response. For example, New Zealand's prime minister told everyone for two months that workers in their quarantine hotels were being tested weekly for Covid. She came under some criticism for the lack of testing of other potentially-exposed workers, like at ports, but insisted that at least the important ones were being monitored. Most of those workers had, in fact, never been tested. At least one of them was definitely infected, and this was only detected because an unrelated outbreak of unknown source finally prompted the government to test them all - it very nearly caused their attempt to keep out Covid to fail, if something else hadn't first.

As for Vietnam, if I remember rightly their run of no Covid cases was ended by a hospital outbreak that somehow went unnoticed until an elderly visitor to the hospital with no other plausible sources of infection happened to get infected, develop bad symptoms, and tested positive - and then so did several other people who'd been there. This does not suggest good things about their in-hospital testing. The amount of time it took for the existence of a new case to become public knowledge should also call into question just how forthright and honest the government was being.
The return of low-income artists and creatives to places like NYC and SF would be a welcome side-effect.
No way. You'll never remember which thing you last set to silent or too loud and next time it'll come out surprisingly wrong. You might not know which window is in focus, and it might not be the one playing the sound. If you do accidentally turn up, say your web browser while trying to adjust your media player, you'll never know how much too loud it will be until next time some autoplaying video starts. It would be a frustrating mess. Just change the volume when you turn the knob without any stupid computer logic trying to get in your way.
For anyone looking to dive even deeper I highly recommend the Drilled podcast (https://www.criticalfrequency.org/drilled) in particular season 3 which gets into the formation of PR and advertising around oil companies.
L-tyrosine
I just want to say thanks
With one specific exception - stereo volume knobs often - virtually always - suffer from stereo imbalance, where the volume of the left and right channels are slightly different.

Some high-end amplifiers offer a relay based volume system where the knob simply switches resistors in and out of the audio path using relays to adjust the volume, and although this does result in "steps" of volume, it does mean the stereo balance is always perfect.
Woah, the same post? That's really crazy, good to hear.
I do wish he'd gone in to more detail though!

I imagine the extended attrs and db would be amazing for app devs, but probably wouldn't see much use in the real world because it ties your application to the file system. But what else?
Maybe? Wikipedia says

"In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2.[6] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code.[7] On December 20, 2019 Michael Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.[8]"
Governor Cuomo of New York required nursing homes to take back all patients (covid positive or not) until mid-May. Did unionized nursing homes have comparable infection and re-admission rates?

"Just days later [mid-March] the governor pivoted: Cuomo announced that New York state nursing homes were required to readmit patients that had been sent to hospitals because they were infected with the coronavirus. Moreover, under the March 25 order, nursing homes weren’t allowed to test incoming patients for COVID-19."

Ref: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/10/nursin...
I'm always sad to see people cheering this stuff on. Every time I hear someone cheering on some oligarch who got exposed doing shell corporation stuff in offshore jurisdictions (Panama Papers, etc), I die a little inside.

Since 2001, we've seen drastic expansions in mass surveillance. Even if these are bad people, you wouldn't see these articles cheering on FBI employees who "cracked secret darknet encryption to catch criminals, pedophiles, and terrorists".

In my view, the banks' actions are morally justified. The KYC regulations everyday people are subject to when going about their business is overbearing, and we should fight back against it. The police should investigate crimes, and banks should do banking. Banks shouldn't be government surrogates.
The difference between Chinese people and Americans (with regards to social media and comms) is that they know they are being watched. The US government is being cute trying to “protect” Americans from being watched.
Well paid != financially secure enough to never have to work again.

Yes, it's too personal a question. Also, your assumptions are overbroad.
Umatrix isn't for casual users. It was for hard-core I want complete control of what's being sent into my browser users. ublock origin is more than enough for casual users who won't put the time in to tame umatrix
The dataset linked from this thread on Twitter may serve your needs too?: https://twitter.com/vinayprabhu/status/1307497736191635458?s...
Who knows more about the tent design shown in figure 15. This looks super versatile, but also hard to repair, build in a factory setting and maybe also unintuitive to set up. I hope this is more useful than it looks. Then it would be great to have such a tent with built in AC and water management.
I have this issue with a subwoofer - coupled with a bad amplifier/grounding/(something?) it creates an immense WOOOOF every time it turns on and off. This causes my house to shake 15 minutes after I go to bed, just as I'm about to fall asleep. Have definitely considered auto-starting something that played a continuous low tone to prevent it from happening.
Other than the fact that Democrats have voted for bills solving this issue in both houses of Congress by vast majorities, and the last Democratic President took many executive actions (including the one you mention as well as others that were rolled back by Republicans) there is no evidence that Democrats really care.
I think an equally big problem is that a lot of "scientific evidence" like this doesn't pass sanity checks, and definitions of "net economic benefit" can vary and might not preclude strongly negative impacts to the average US citizen.
Googled around looking for the actual leaked data and all I could find is that Anonymous put it up on Telegram.
And are you certain that increasing cancer rates are (generally speaking) unaffected by (much) longer lifetimes and (much) better diagnosing/imaging means?

I mean, when on average people died at forty or fifty, with all the exceptions for the early age cases, and there were no real means to either diagnose cancer or even making autopsies, documented cases must have been sensibly less.
Charging people who are exercising their First Amendment rights, even the ones who get too violent thinking they are exercising those rights, with attempting to overthrow the government is an obvious indicator of fascism.
Many people who are in the guest visa apply for and are approved for permanent residency (which is what, I think, you meant by “immigrant visa”). They are simply waiting for years - decades even - for their turn. Life happens while they wait - marriage, kids, house etc - as mentioned by GP.
The main problem with Java is its concurrency model, which gives incentive to the creation of threads that fight for resources and introduce bugs. This seemed a wise choice in the 90s, but as concurrency has increased several-fold in the last 25 years, the model cannot scale to real software needs. It is the Java equivalent to pointers in C.
How would that be different from someone editing something in window.localStorage?
1) "near Serbia", so most probably not in Serbia, but probably in Greece.
Granted, someone working at the US/CA border should know the TN rules, but in general there's so many visa classes and different rules that it's a UX failure if they have to go ask someone about these things. If they put in your passport and type in TN, it should display the relevant rules right on their screen.
That was a bad take in the Cold War, a bad take for Japan and a bad take now. It is a bogeyman of bad extrapolation to justify a power grab for the sake of it. Said actions will cause damage and won't actually and the unsustainable growth will be met with a collapse when reality comes knocking.
People with cancer survive for many more years now than even a few decades ago, let alone centuries ago. It depends a lot on the type of cancer but for some of them the prognosis now is literally several decades more lifetime on average than it was centuries ago.
Wow OpenGL 1.1 in 2018! then to Three.js which doesn't use any of the 1.1 API. Weird.
This doesn't mention sedition.
Denmark turns to outdoor schools amid pandemic
Not sure what point you're trying to make here - it sucks that this individual committed suicide but it seems correct and appropriate for a manager to be held responsible for the actions of their reports.
You advocate terrible policy.

Someone sets up a bank to serve their community, taking investors from all over your area. They take deposits, make loans to help the community grow. The management team is great at training staff to follow all banking regulations. The bank grows to hundreds of branches.

Then one branch manager is bribed by a criminal to subvert banking regs and the internal control systems, so they can launder millions of dollars.

You would prosecute the CEO for unknowingly employing a criminal? Or senior execs for unknowingly having security holes a clever employee could buy pass (when all control systems can be bypassed by clever employees)? You’d increase fines to bankrupt the Company and wipe out investors investment fir the crime of hiring an honest CEO and execs who got fooled by one bad Apple?

Intent matters.
https://archive.vn/ZYDgh
COVID drove workers home. Crime (eased bail laws; increased rampant crime; riots) give little incentive to return. It's all economics.
Or, instead of single-pole, single-throw switch, have a double-pole switch which pulls it to ground instead of leaving it floating?
Does somebody know how much SF spends on police annually?
If you could snap your fingers and erase the environmental impact Goretex has had on the world, it would be the environmental equivalent of squishing a single ant. Yes, you did something but that something was ultimately pointless on a global scale.

If you’re not an alarmist, don’t wring your hands over Goretex. It is nothing like leaded gasoline.

The modern world is the blight on the environment. We just like it too much to ever change. We’d rather think Goretex or not separating glass from plastic or using/not using canvas shopping bags (depending on how contrarian you’re feeling) is the culprit. But really it’s us and how we like to live.

We should enjoy this ride while it lasts.
The biggest challenge I see with federated systems is the discovery process for finding a node you want to be associated with. This is a hard choice - will this server still be running in 6 months? How is it funded? Is it being actively maintained?

These questions are too much for laypeople, and I can't imagine a scenario in which your friendly local system admin is your service provider for a critical service in your life like Facebook. Could you imagine email working that way?

I see federated systems naturally ending in centralization in the form of a couple big megacorps that the average person trusts to not shut down tomorrow. Convenience and ease of use will win out. It happened with email, it arguably happened with xmpp back in the day. Change my view?
What immigrant visa, exactly? H1b is the pathway to immigrant visa for tech workers in the US. For H1b holders born in certain countries, they have to be on H1b visa to be on the 5-10 year long queue to get the green card.
You are right and I as I said, many banks are guilty of many sins. But the emphasis on SARs is from the article itself, and the SARs appear to be how they arrived at the $2T.
I hope they recognize it’s a little bit important. A lot of their users still produce paper.
The US pays a lot and there's a lot of competition for positions. The H1B system doesn't help that competition. When you have 50 well qualified applicants (ie: could pass most interviews) per position then you need some way to weed out 49 of them. Resumes can be exaggerated and downright lied on so once there's enough competition using them just means you're selecting the best liars/sociopaths.
There are no riots going on in NYC.
It isn't about worker supply or wages. It's about workers' relative abilities to stand up for something (anything) versus having to keep one's head down and build whatever evil thing management wants built.

As long as the "risk of having to leave the country" for speaking up about anything is greater than 0% the obviously-wisest thing to do is keep your mouth shut.
Sort of interesting. The effect size is just 1.2 percentage points, though the baseline rate was something like 4%. So not night and day, but not negligible. The metric is a little weird though. Excludes deaths from patients who were discharged to the hospital first. Also, I was under the impression that once COVID got in a nursing home, it tended to spread like wildfire. I wonder how sparse the data is on a nursing home by nursing home basis.

Nursing home staff seem like a good role for unionization whatever your take is on this.
Why listen to a 16 years old girl, or even blindly trust her? You'd be an idiot if you did that.

You might, however, consider listening to / reading the IPCC reports, and then start to form an opinion.
I mean it is economics 101 that H1B's depress wages. I'd say especially since the demand for technology is relatively more inelastic that the increases on labor supply. There is a lot of money involved in masking this fact, but let's agree on something. There is always a tension between what part of economic surplus workers get and what part capital (shareholders) get. The sky high returns on capital in tech are possible in no big part due to the relative ease of bringing in new people. Successful companies will still make money but the actual return on the invesment will depend more on how high of a salary they have to pay. Take for instance FB, they make about 18Bn in net income, have 52K employees. About 350K per employee, imagine suddenly they were facing hiring engineers, they could easily spend a lot more on keeping them, but there's no need. Thanks to their lobbying through FWD.us among others, they can always import more people.

I mean they have desperately tried to get more people into CS, but even that has had little results. Biggest bang for the buck is lobbying and marketing for more H1Bs. What's a couple hundred million here and there
The FinCEN Files (new massive ICIJ bank document leak)
The authors of this article haven’t considered how these ridiculous regulations affect the poor, or the innocent who have had accounts seized with little recourse.
It seems convenient that the scientists who arranged an expedition to look for mice at high altitude find one higher than any mouse seen before. My skeptical side wonders if the guy who was obviously at the peak before Jay Storz in the video, brought the mouse up, and let it go so that it could be found. Hopefully unrelated researchers who don't use the same guides, etc... are able to also find mice at similarly high altitudes.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted to oblivion but what the hell! A bit of common sense but...

In times of economic turmoil when unemployment is high countries should incentivise hiring their own citizens rather than foreign talent.
Getting Started with Clojure
A beginner's guide to Clojure Programming language. Hope it helps kickstart the journey for many. Finally managed to get this post out today, long due.
http://hariomgaur.in/2020/09/20/clojure-getting-started.html
The difference between Kandel and Feynman is that Kandel is a neuroscientist who understands psychoanalysis and Feynman clearly hadn't really read Freud's work, only expressing skepticism on the basis of his vague intuitions about how long it should take to come up with a theory.
For all I know, ENIAC had (insect) bugs too!

My favorite old machine is the SEAC. First electronically stored program computer in the US (as I recall), and actively used in a variety of fields. Minksy learned to program on it, the first video image was made on it, it was an early (if not first) networked computer to DYSEC, its "portable" cousin. And it was actively shopped it around to different government organizations, to see if it could be applied to all sorts of different areas, so generated some of the foundational papers for a number of fields.
I always wondered if these physical switches are actually reliable and now reading your comment actually terrifies me. This behavior can cause irreversible social damage in say during high steak business meetings. One could absolutely sue the microphone manufacturer for this.
On marriage - it’s very broken, and abuses foreign workers. And I do get where you’re coming from. My wedding got accelerated by a year or two when my girlfriend has visa issues. (It was still worth it!)