skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole argument that Democrats, who have voted for bills that help resolve H1B issues by vast majorities and Obama passed executive actions that among other things allowed H1B spouses to work, provided a grace period, and until Republicans sued and had it rolled back in court allowed for H1 B green cards to be filled from infilled green cards in other categories, don’t really care is a remarkably wrong statement, and explains why politics in this country are terrible.

You literally have 1 side that demonizes a situation, and the other side doing pretty much all the can within the legal powers they have to improve the situation, but “both sides don’t really care”.
There are still a lot of parent groups for people that live in the US that operate entirely on wechat, so there's that
This is not about state control of technology in that sense, that’s just a propaganda line intended for people who can’t understand the economic stakes. All the politicians who want massive expansion of US government surveillance also support getting “tougher on China”, after all. This app fight is primarily about punishing China for keeping US apps out of their market for reasons that at this point should be understood as purely protectionist (after all, Facebook and Google are on the record as willing to give up every “principle” they claim to have if they can get into China, yet China won’t take the deal). So the US has decided to play the same game as China and force foreign software companies to set up local operations with politically favored partners, like major Republican Party donor Oracle, which keeps more profits here, encourages them to work with US companies instead of Chinese ones to support their US operations, and can also ensure our local tech industry doesn’t fall to far behind in any area the government deems to be important.
I use a great tool called tarsnapper to cull old backups. It lets you configure schedules like "keep daily backups for the last 30 days, then keep a backup every 3 months for the last year, then keep yearly backups".
My headset has a mic kill switch [1]. It's very useful, and I'm honestly surprised that it isn't more common (especially since volume control is a fairly standard feature on headsets)

1: https://steelseries.com/gaming-headsets/arctis-7 The red switch on the back; when muted the front of the mic shines red.
> In my opinion the volume keys should only be adjusting the volume for the application/website currently in focus.

If that extends to the mute button, that's definitely not the right thing for this application. If I can't turn off the fine noise before I find the fine application that's making it, I'm just going to pull the fine power.
I agree and disagree here. Certainly not old enough to be able to input on the wisdom/experience aspect yet, but from what I have seen in my time in this industry, investing your time in what is current is a surefire way to get left behind. The technology that sticks over the years are the things other people would rather take shortcuts to use, or wrappers upon wrappers upon wrappers.

With every abstraction away from the core computing libraries, you take a bigger risk and enter into a bigger gamble with your time.

I certainly know I am keeping miles away from node and webassembly (although the latter is interesting), simply because I was under a guy who has focussed his efforts not on acquiring fancy knowledge, but rather using simple techniques to achieve complex results.

Soon the very simple things I learned to appreciate, ended up being things I now use every single day to do stuff way more complicated than a person of my intellect should be able to accomplish.

Anyways, this got kind of sidetracked on the way, but I have to work with colleagues who have cemented years of knowledge in archaic tech, that while current at the time, ended up fading away over the years. They still have knowledge and skills, but they let their experience shackle their thinking, and oftentimes come up with extremely complicated solutions for very simple problems.

I think this is also the point in their lives where they got comfortable enough to think they don't need additional training, where I was very much taught that there is no limit to knowledge that can be acquired.
The fastest algorithm will depend on the nature of the data. So Postgres maintains statistics, allows indexes, and uses a query optimizer to find an "unterrible" approach. The measure of terribleness is IO.

Or to put it another way, there isn't a silver bullet method based on theory. In practice it is always one of a kind for the job in hand. That's why database tuning is a thing.

Good luck.
In addition to this, even if this eventually leads to actual hardware, it will be based on a dead architecture. The PowerPC e6500 supports big endian ppc64, which is unfortunately a dead end. Since 2014 and the launch of POWER8, all Power development has gone towards little endian ppc64le. There will not be any ppc64 big endian only hardware. Running ppc64 Linux in 2020 (on e.g. a G5 Mac) can be buggy affair due to lack of attention towards Power or even big endian systems in general.

The QoriQ series is still the best choice for any Power-based laptop hardware mind you, it's just the state of affairs in Power that a 2013 chip aimed at network equipment is the best you can do.
> Depending on the speaker you may need to be continuously playing some very low volume audio to prevent them from auto-turning off.

Standard is very high frequency -- outside of audible range. It's a good hack. Especially helpful for disabling automatic gain control.
I highly recommend this wikibook on the topic of CG progamming: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cg_Programming
My Topping DAC/Amp has an optical rotary encoder for volume control and it is awful, it will randomly jump 10x the amount of steps you have rotated it, sometimes even in the opposite direction. There's something to be said for a good old fashioned potentiometer.
And now by Murray (1):

"There had been three days of intense discussion between the counsel and the judge, with the United States government objecting bitterly to Mr El-Masri being heard. A compromise had been reached that he could give evidence provided he did not allege he was tortured by the US Government. However, when he came to give evidence, Mr El-Masri was strangely unable to connect by videolink, even though the defence team had been able to speak to him by video a few hours earlier. Technical staff in the court having been unable to resolve the (ahem) technical issue, rather than simply postpone his evidence until a videolink had been established – as had happened already with two other witnesses when quality issues arose – Judge Baraitser suddenly decided to raise again the issue of whether el-Masri’s evidence should be heard at all."

Wow.

1) https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
Can't the same logic be applied if Trump bans CNN? The news hosts will be free to speak in any other forum that exists.
It’s cheaper than unwinding a house, no? Especially if you’re leaving the country.
http://hariomgaur.in/2020/09/20/clojure-getting-started.html
Can you explain why not wearing a mask is so important to you? I simply don’t understand this reaction. We already don’t let you go naked in the streets for a variety of reasons including public health, and masks are one of the major tools we have to combat this virus. We already require standards for restaurants otherwise they get shut down due to public health concerns (there’s no freedom allowed to serve rotting meat and make others sick). Countries with high mask compliance like S Korea and Hong Kong have had far fewer cases, and when they, they limit the spread better. We’ve already lost 200k Americans in roughly 6 months, with millions more to lose if we remove all restrictions and no one wears a mask. Why does public health get such a low priority for you? And why does your freedom allow you to spread a deadly virus to me, where I have no say in it?
Chinese people know they are being spied on. Americans think they aren’t, and our government is still trying to maintain some pretense in that department by trying to “protect” us from mass surveillance when the trend domestically is clearly moving towards that.

Given Facebook messenger isn’t encrypted and Instagram DMs are known to be filtered based on content, that means facebook effectively reads and acts on private messages. The US government is just one National Security Letter away from spying on private comms.

The only real protection we have isn’t this Trump administration WeChat ban... it’s end to end encryption like in iMessage or Whatsapp.
They are already there. They are just struggling. Their time isn't optimized for their relative benefit. They are spending too much of their time waiting tables and driving taxis instead of making art.
China already does that..
This is often caused by digital audio.

It takes most digital decoders a little while to start streaming again when a new digital signal comes in. I’ve noticed it in every setup using digital audio output from a PC I’ve ever used.

To fix it I believe it’s possible to send encoded complete silence, and that still works to stop the decoder from stopping.

I don’t know why there would be a delay, but my guess is that it’s something like waiting for the next “block” of audio to start to start.

I’ve noticed when bitstreaming compressed audio formats that the delay is longer, but also a bit arbitrary which I suspect is because the next block start position depends on where exactly you paused the video.
PDFs are a great file format for digitally viewing print-style publications. This document appears to be in the style of a print publication, not a web page.

Here's an example of two far less antiquated technology companies using a PDF for something that could also have been a web page, but was found to make more sense as a print-style publication: https://blog.google/documents/73/Exposure_Notification_-_FAQ...
"News isn't free. It's good that you appreciate strong journalism. But robbing Peter to pay Paul doesn't work.

Even if your local newspaper is terrible, you should still support it financially so that good people can still try to do good work, and not disappear altogether."

No. If you pay the same money to Paul who creates better content, you are voting with your wallet. Everyone should do that. Definitely dont stay with sucky provider but give the same money (or more) to someone better, that helps things to develop.
That’s too broad a statement. Can you substantiate why you think so?

The book below provides a nice overview of using Java for DS and ML

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/data-science-with/...
I'm in New Zealand. We are most certainly not staying in lockdown.
If you immigrate, you emigrate. If you successfully immigrate (let's say in the U.S.), you have skills sought there. Those skills are probably also in demand in your origin country. You'd stand even more of a chance to be one of a few in your home country, gaining status, gaining visibility, turning the tide.

I know I'll probably be flagged for this question, but still: why do this? Why not help your origin country with your knowledge?

Genuine question, since I had the same decision to make and chose to return, in order to help locally.
The Wikipedia article for Gore-Tex has two citations about this, one of which is available online: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/721/721.F2d...

A key paragraph from that ruling:

> Early public disclosure is a linchpin of the patent system. As between a prior inventor who benefits from a process by selling its product but suppresses, conceals, or otherwise keeps the process from the public, and a later inventor who promptly files a patent application from which the public will gain a disclosure of the process, the law favors the latter. See Horwath v. Lee, 564 F.2d 948, 195 USPQ 701 (CCPA 1977). The district court therefore erred as a matter of law in applying the statute and in its determination that Budd's secret use of the Cropper machine and sale of tape rendered all process claims of the '566 patent invalid under Sec. 102(b).

It looks like there's an important distinction between patenting Gore-Tex the product, and patenting a process for manufacturing Gore-Tex.
How I created my perfect WFH space. (It's about more than just gear.)
You can read about the difference here[1]. H-1B is a temporary visa and does not entitle a holder to permanent residency. In some cases it's possible for a H-1B holder to be granted permanent residency because it's a dual intent visa, but that merely permits the holder to desire to immigrate. By contrast a tourist visa would be denied to a visitor who expressed the desire to stay permanently.

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/visa-waive...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535241
My undergrad college final year students were one of the last ones where many of us inclined towards coming to US for grad school. This was back in 2013, when INR was also doing very poorly and I remember, my semester fees was as volatile as crypto.

Nowadays, I always tell my junior folks to calibrate all the pros and cons on being in H1b visa very seriously. The level of uncertainty can drive you nuts. Its not just 60 days grace period, but also future visa extensions post 6 yr mark is insane. I know senior folks in my previous companies getting RFE (Request for Evidence) on pretty much every extension. Its a gut wrenching experience, especially if you have kids and house.

If folks who care to know more, John Oliver has made an entire episode on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqnRMU1fTs
It's kinda ridiculous that seemingly three quarters of the people who write graycode decoder firmware get it wrong, despite the correct methods being publicly available with sample code since 15-20 years at least.
Requiring data centers in the country is something Americans and all nations desire. How is that an argument in your mind?

China came into the US and is operating under the rules, while the US is forcing TikTok to sell or die. This is the US seizing TikTok. What US firm has China seized?

It would be shocking if in the next round of escalations, China doesn’t respond in a way which sufficiently addresses the magnitude of Huawei, TikTok, WeChat, Tencent.
Every microwave I have ever owned have been under $30, purely because I didn't want to go digital. Analogue egg-timer knob - good enough accuracy, and instantly pliable
Doing nothing to counter China is even stupider.
How can your friend be a dual citizen of China and the US, when PRC does not recognize dual nationality?
I've personally been asked to look at H1s instead of local staff to save wages (they cost 1/3). I'm in management now, but when I wasn't, you really would have expected a study to negate my own self-interest as an employee threatened with unemployment, and ultimately negate myself so that tech companies can rake in more profit and ultimately bring the aggregate numbers up (which is the net effect you highlight)?
I kinda like step-based control of my stove. It makes things predictable. Although I'd probably prefer knob with numeric indicator to exactly what value it is set.
It's unsurprising that an algorithm would optimize for the same kinds of outcomes as those of actual health professionals. Garbage in. Garbage out.
Obviously the salaries are quite different, but at the same time - you're pretty much walking around in golden shackles, no? I can't imagine those salaries being relevant, other than a handful of places in the US.

And for the price of a small 2-bedroom apartment in the SF-area, you can pretty much buy a mansion where I live.

Then you have things like healthcare, school costs, daycare / cost of raising a child, etc. etc.
Yes, ignoring these since they started before 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
The NYC ruin prediction porn articles are really hitting their stride, aren't they? Comparing NYC to Detroit, what a joke. As someone who lived near NYC for decades and now lives near Detroit, the 2 cities are so far apart in virtually every way that there's really no use in comparing them.
I let my spouse, who likes the novelty of a touchscreen, talk me into a Whirlpool oven a couple years ago that is controlled by touchscreen. I had no idea it was possible to hate an oven so much. The only saving grace is that the stovetop elements are still controlled by knobs.
I ordered three 3M half mask respirators and 10 P100 cartridges for my family off Amazon a few weeks ago for less than $90 shipped - which is no more than 2x normal pricing IIRC. They're the kind used by construction workers and since I don't use them to put up drywall, each pair of cartridges lasts 3-12 months and the mask can be easily disinfected by unscrewing the cartridges and dunking the mask in alcohol.

I've been recommending this path for anyone in a vulnerable group since March and not one person has had trouble acquiring non-disposable respirators or cartridges. My only concern in recommending this widely is that 3M doesn't really sell the masks to consumers - construction companies buy them by the box and they come in ziplock bags with instruction booklets that you'd hand out to everyone on a worksite to follow OSHA regulations. Since the masks are reusable and construction companies have lots of stock unused due to the economic slowdown, they're much more practical for non-healthcare workers who can afford to disinfect it each trip out without impacting supply for healthcare workers. They're also much easier for a novice to fit correctly, form a better seal thanks to all rubber (silicone?) interface, and breathe easier.

Get a half mask respirator! Do not buy disposable N95/N100/P95/P100 - leave those for healthcare workers!
Yes. If my friend had pitched Airbnb or Uber many years ago, I’m sure I would have dismissed them as impossibly risky. Or Snapchat as only useful in niches. Or Peloton as way overpriced compared to exercise videos on YouTube.
No evidence here, but if I had to guess: grocery stores would be a large chunk.
I seem to recall that during events where there is the 'one minute silence' beforehand, the TV commentator would have to interrupt the silence so that something doesn't get turned off automatically. I can't remember the exact details.
You're writing this as if Apple gets a sort of status quo advantage. Their policies aren't law. They're making the choice to enforce this and they're fully capable of not doing so. It's Apple's choice.

Would Apple likely have to forfeit more exceptions to other companies if they did this? Probably yes.

Still Apple's decision.
Democrats have worked for _increasing_ the number of _new_ H-1B that are allowed per year, and Republicans have opposed it. Republicans have supported rules which make it more attractive to those H-1Bs who do arrive each year, and Democrats have opposed it. That is my summary of the situation.
It's weird you keep repeating this comment on a thread about Yelp which is primarily about restaurants closing.

How are you eating and drinking with an n95 mask on?
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a circuit switched computer network
That's a problem mostly caused by using passive log-taper circuits, instead of alternate active volume control circuits that use linear-taper pots, which have sufficiently good tolerance and ganging in low-cost dual units. But these circuits require 1-2 op amps per channel and those 20 cents are too much in three-figure hardware.

Ganged log-taper pots have something like +-3 or +-6 dB ganging mismatch even for relatively high-end (10-15 € ea) units.
Your "objective" view is very subjective... A comment from above (yagodragon): "I think that Java is seriously being downplayed by HN crowd."
It's not.

Where a federal court sits has almost no bearing on its membership, especially since the long-standing tradition of Presidential collaboration with home-state senators in appointing federal district court judges started eroding in favor of ideological tests starting about with the Reagan Administration.

The media typically reinforces misunderstanding of this by referring to federal courts (both district and appellate) as courts of the city in which they are headquartered, frequently referring to eaxh the US District Court for the Northern District of California and the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as a “San Francisco court.”
Do you mean to add the decompressor wrapper automatically so that more UTF-16 packed code can fit?

That would effectively increase the limit to 280 usable ASCII chars, i.e a double dweet. This has been discussed before but I don't think the authors will implement it.

There are a few other JS golfing sites that have multiple size brackets and I believe they are less active as a result. Although dwitter is not exactly popular I think this clear limitation is what keeps it focused and the community actively engaged. The 194B hack is a slight weakening of that, but it's often reflected by votes as people are less impressed when you've resorted to using that trick unless it was really worth it... it also feels like a fair compromise because you cannot for instance use emojis inside that compression method so it's not entirely free.
“However, modern OpenGL in its pure form has a very steep initial learning curve, and it is really not a good starting place for someone who is encountering 3D graphics for the first time.“
In 1842, Hong Kong was considered by both the Chinese and British to be uninhabited, there were only a few thousand inhabitants when the island was seceded. [0]

I know symbolically this is of great importance to the Chinese, but at the time it was an easy thing for the Emperor to give up given he was on the losing end of a war.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Island#British_colon...
Are you kidding? This is absolutely fucking nonsense. I’ve been here for years primarily commenting on infosec related topics as that is where my expertise lies.

Insofar as you continue to allow political topics to remain on the site, which is not content that I submit, people are going to comment on it. When people post bullshit in these political threads, it motivates a response. I’m rarely, if ever, a top level comment.

The uptick in recent comments is simply due to the increasingly politically charged environment and the influx of submissions that are overtly political, or other users propensity to take conversations off topic by interjecting some ideological or partisan nonsense. Like jessaustin here race-baiting every thread and actually advocating domestic terrorism, for example.

You literally replied to a comment I made saying that genocide is not happening. It is, in fact, not happening.

You’ll notice that my comments of this nature are attempts to nip things in the bud and usually call for measured, civilized discourse. HN seems to have an influx of these wannabe communist revolutionaries trying to push their nonsense here. My replies do not advance particular positions, they are an attempt to keep things rational and encourage exposure and debate with opposing viewpoints without the character assassination and demonization that many can’t resist resorting to. Most of the time I’m defending viewpoints that I don’t even agree with.

Maybe you should just get serious about banning political stories. There are other sites for that.
Prosecutors open homicide case after hacker attack on German hospital
> the model cannot scale to real software needs.

And somehow it is still widely used within Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter...
Perhaps, but right now--as it stands--there is cartel activity associated with it. And funding violent cartels for any reason should be illegal, for the same reasons that funding any violent organization should be illegal.