skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He gets a solid 8 hours of sleep, 19:30 to 23:30 are his to spend with friends/family/hobbies/reading.

His working days are arguably packed working on the cutting-edge of business and technology, working with the individuals from 0.001% of the world's most talented/lucky/interesting/educated/resourced/entrepreneurial/hardworking people.

+ vacations and weekends almost entirely free.

I definitely wouldn't want to trade with him, but it's because I'd burn out and have no real passion for the life of a VC, not because my life is so any more interesting.
Homekit cameras support face recognition. I assume this runs on ”home hub”, either your Apple TV or HomePod.
the lack of oxygen would get it first i think :)
I think there's certainly some truth to coding interviews being an effective mechanism in shifting hiring towards H1Bs. It's much easier to say that Americans can't do the job when you create a test around studying for 500 hours to memorize hundreds upon hundreds of coding puzzles in order to build up a mental encyclopedia of how to quickly apply your algorithmic "training" to the puzzle of the day.

I'd bet H1Bs are going to be much more motivated to jump through that hoop. Benefits them and the company doing the hiring that conveniently just can't find enough qualified American engineers to do the job.
I believe there are few runtimes out there that have such a good monitoring and profiling tools for free and out of the box as Java. Java Flight Recorder, remote debugging and monitoring can be really useful for rare production performance issues.
I've seen/heard this in $100 units from Schiit. Not to mention the poor hand soldering job that cost more money because a human did it in America.
> and probably won't allow JS anyhow.

You're not going to allow JS? I don't know the answer, but I'm curious what percentage of sites are unusable without JS? It might be fine for basic browsing, but nearly any ecommerce or site with "interactive" content uses JS. Many video players require JS. It seems like a very niche solution that won't have mass appeal if you're not going to allow JS.

To me, the perfect solution would be something similar to uMatrix where power users can choose the settings they think are best. Anyone else can use simplified controls to indicate if they're seeing ads or if site functionality is broken.

Then there's some aggregation software that looks at all of those inputs and determines the best default settings for each site. If ads are seen then the blocking levels are increased toward the fringe of advanced user inputs, if functionality is broken then it walks back the blocking levels until broken functionality reports end.

This would be a never ending eb and flow for each site so it would be important to automate it as much as possible.
Ask HN: What book would you like to read from year 3020?
If you could read one book from year 3020 what would it be?

I would select elementary physics book. For me the development in physics is worth more than knowing the history or past stock movements.
Not imaging, asking:

- Were unionized nursing homes covered by the same orders?

- Did they have separate/additional staff/patient safeguards that allowed for testing and/or redirecting patients elsewhere?

- Did staff have quarantine/isolation policies as part of their contracts?

- Did they send patients out to hospitals at the same rate? Did they accept them back at the same rate?

If the mere existence of a union contract was key, that's beyond odd. I'd love to understand: WHAT about being unionized helped them?
Nothing is over until Mythbusters says it is. Picturing in my mind right now a guillotine with a fifty-pound blade made of human shit frozen in liquid nitrogen ... I bet it would stand up to a single impact just fine. And if it didn't? It would still be pretty awesome.
A few years ago I was able to:

1) submit an online application for a bank account,

2) receive, to the address put in the online form, a rejection letter (due to, I think, lack of proof of address and/or credit history),

3) use that letter as a proof of address to open an account in another bank.
I just went with Backblaze Personal. It's pretty much fire and forget.

Doesn't provide a perfect full disk image, but it does store everything I need. I've done one full restore from them (fried motherboard from a power surge) and it went as smoothly as I could expect.
Unlikely to provide a strong confirmation or repudiation of the current data because it’s instruments are not designed for it.

What’s more interesting is RocketLabs planned probe, which would actually enter the atmosphere. I’m amazed they can get even a small probe to Venus with their booster. If they do that will be very impressive.
It sounds like inflation and legislature's stubborn refusal to index value thresholds to inflation or cost of living for whatever reason (innumeracy, a desire to sneak in laws becoming stricter over time, wanting to set up future opportunities for horse-trading) is partially to blame. $25,000 isn't trivial but it is less than it used to be.
I'd bet you're alienating well over half the entire field of software engineering with calling Java, C, and C++ "problems".
IPCC is a huge report and it is a result of a work of international cooperation of more than a hundred of countries. As such it's not an easy read.

Here are some book suggestions, some of them could be easier to read:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/climate-cha...

But the typical people denying the thing even existing will seldom be willing to hear from anybody but those they trust -- it's a kind of tribal thing.

You can try to give the facts to somebody, but for that you should first learn yourself enough answers to the issues they will typically raise. Basically you should really expect all the arguments like in the links and learn enough to understand the topic and be able to give a reliable answer:

https://grist.org/series/skeptics/

or

https://opr.ca.gov/facts/common-denier-arguments.html

But people don't tend to believe just the "facts" if these are just told to them, even the opposite happens, they have to be involved in the process of learning -- the whole process of coming to new perspectives they can relate -- and that takes a lot of time and patience.
Its important to note that the hardest hit sector had a closure rate of 5.7%. The top three worst hit were all restaurants or other food-serving businesses, a sector which has a relatively high failure rate in most years.

Yelp seems to be pushing the flashier numbers here on the 50-60% of closures that were permanent, but I'm not seeing a comparison to other years - I'd assume, in general, a business closing for any reason tends to be fairly fatal, pandemic or not.
The mute button work instantly in a X201t.
I can be overridden by software that is however wanted and useful especially on the tablet version where you can cover the mute button with the screen unmute must be possible with the pen/finger.
Sixty second stories of exceptional founders every 10 days
This is correct, also part of the nuance that's often missing in these kinds of discussions. Pharmacy grade drugs are a different beast than the street drugs. From packaging to usage, it's two sides of the same coin.
Depending on the coffee maker there can be a dozen or more options. A home espresso maker might adjust how many "shots" to drip, different temperatures, adding milk or not, etc.
I don't really care so much about the individual voter, I care about how far their voice reaches on the Internet, I care about the people they influence, I care about their children, I care about higher-level things.
Almost all modern games are release in 64-bit. It does kill the ability to load a bunch of older games easily..
The Soviet Union collapsed, so to just say with no explanation that it's a bad take doesn't add much.

In what situation would banning a Chinese social media app hurt America?
Coffee, Cappuccino, Latte, Frappe

All of the above multiplied by small, medium, large.

All of the above multiplied by weak, normal, strong, and double shot.

All of the above multiplied by zone defense, man to coverage, and missile command.
UMatrix Development Halted
The study states:

> Although labor unions may influence COVID-19 mortality rates in numerous ways, we hypothesized that two important mechanisms were successful demands for PPE and reduced COVID-19 infection rates. By increasing access to PPE, labor unions may reduce the spread of COVID-19 between health care workers and nursing home residents, thus reducing COVID-19 mortality rates for residents.

and:

> Specifically, unions were associated with a 13.8% relative increase in access to N95 masks and a 7.3% relative increase in access to eye shields.
More important than speaker kill switches, we need physical/hardware microphone switches that disconnect the circuit. These are built into Amazon Echo devices, but it's unclear if Google Home or other Apple HomePod have this (a quick revealed they do not).
You can do this conveniently in windows using the standard mixer and in Linux using pavucontrol (that is a UI utility).
What specific volume control knob do you use?
> 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

I was the same way in college, but I also didn’t go to Berkeley, rather a school 80 or so spots below. I wish I could fix myself, but the therapy I’ve done hasn’t helped and my general lack of accomplishments in life contributes.
The US is a large place, you can save money for a decade in one location and then use that $1-2 million you built up to move somewhere cheap, buy a mansion and not give much a shit for the next 40 years. Taxes are also generally lower so you keep more. Healthcare costs don't matter since your employer pays for that and gives you good health insurance. School/child only matters later, and you can either move away by then or get promoted to making $600k+.

edit: Two engineers together can make $700k+ which is $450+k after taxes per year. After one year and reasonable spending that's enough for a down payment on a house in the Bay Area. Every single year you get enough to pay for 1.5 kid's worth of college education at a top private school. Very few costs actually matter in comparison at that point.
EasyOCR
Did you RTFM?
I went through something similar but remember the name of the game is to not volunteer unnecessary information.

Did you tell the agent you didn't leave after you were laid off? Or did you just ask for a new TN once you had a new offer?

It seemed to me like being too truthful could hurt your chances more than to just ask for a new visa and let them process the TN as needed.

Some employers wouldn't even report your termination date until some time in the future to give you time to find a new job.
I don't understand why people find novelty of touchscreens appealing.

We've got to do a better job of educating consumers. The marketing behind touchscreens is so powerful that it is unanimously considered as a feature, something you must have.

I get angry just thinking about the amount of marketing bullshit around touchscreens. Just go to Garmin Aviation website and now a lot of operation in airplane cockpits is offloaded to touchscreens. What happened to the scratch pad and press an index key in FMCs? Age old UI and it is so crisp and clear, there is absolutely zero ambguity. Write something in a scratch pad, click the button where you wanna insert the data.

This is a cost saving measure disguised as a feature. Public is dumb and does'nt understand UI/UX in the slightest bit.

It is just sad. As long as consumers keep buying, nothing will change.
> Why not help your origin country with your knowledge?

I moved from Canada to the US in 2007. Things were different then, and the opportunities in the US were unique (I joined Amazon). The longer you stay, the harder it is to return: your network changes, you get used to life in the new place, etc.

I will say that I’ve pondered the question of moving home nearly continuously since moving here and there always seems to be a compromise that we’re not ready to make yet. In the case of Canada, it was often the housing prices in the places where we’d like to live.
> There is nothing scientific about this

Soft sciences are harder than hard sciences to do.

> No experiment was performed.
> This is not a double blind experiment

Do you really think experiments are a reasonable approach to political questions?

I too dislike wish-washy science, but there really isn’t much other choice for many real world situations.
Yeah honestly what more could these people want - it's not like people are calling them Indians to this day or suggesting they can't think freely enough to "escape" the Democratic "plantation". Read some books not written by Candace Owens you tool.
Cost of healthcare is minimal at Google. And yeah, you can easily afford a mansion if you want to commute long enough. 300k to 500k is enough for nice housing - unfortunately, as someone making $150k at 24 I’ll never have this American dream.
yes...and they could call it LifeLog!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
We are talking about two different things. Legislation is different from the inherent powers delegated by the Constitution. The Executive certainly can act in many ways without explaining itself to and obtaining authorization from Congress.

It seems reasonable to assume that you’re familiar with this concept, so I’ll just chalk it up to a misunderstanding.
I upvoted your 'steak' puns, but wanted to point out that "the all mechanical switches fail" is not necessarily a useful observation. All things fail, and it's absolutely possible to design a product where either

a) the switches are trivially repairable (like switching out RAM on my Lenovo, which requires exactly two Philips screws), or

b) designing the switches such that their mean time to failure is far longer than the mean time to failure of any of the other critical components, which is absolutely do-able using the right materials and tolerances.

It's not as though audio on a laptop is pumping enormous amounts of current that presents a serious electrical challenge in that respect, and it's unlikely that the mechanism is going to be used 1000 times per day for 10 years.

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Firefox does it out of the box (in fact blocking audio and video autoplay is the default setting).
What you’re talking about has nothing to do with what I said and is an extremely important distinction. Serious allegations should not be made casually with artistic license to bend the truth. If you witness a beating and do not intervene, then no, you did not commit an act of violence.

You could debate what the morally correct thing is or isn’t if you want, but you can’t debate that you committed an act of violence.
I don’t mind if it uses volume steps under the hood, as long as it uses ~100 steps, not 10.
Rigid schedules are good if the things you plan are the things that you actually want to spend time on. Time allocation guarantees that you'll work on whatever is scheduled and a side-effect is that it forces you to be be more effective.
For hobs/stove tops, touch controls are way easier to clean. I spend more time cleaning than adjusting the controls so to me it’s a better trade off
That's not skepticism, that's conspiracy theory. The previous record elevation for finding a mouse was on the same mountain. It would be more surprising if the first expedition actually found the elevation limit of these mice, rather than the follow-up expedition that was specifically investigating whether they ranged any higher.
>> "mute buttons on keyboards shouldn’t need to go to software, they should immediately send a signal to the motherboard’s DAC"

I don't have a lot of knowledge about this, but audio is often streamed via USB or HDMI or Bluetooth or WLAN to another device, like headphones, an AV receiver, or wireless speakers and then uses the DAC in that device.

So the blog posts wish would result in the mute button not doing anything for many users, because it controls only a very specific hardware, but the users expect the function to work against all sound emitted by the operating system on any connected hardware, right? This guy actually wants a switch on his headphones. Or am i wrong and all sound goes through the motherboards sound card at least once, even if it is sent somewhere else?
> If China can block Facebook, Google, etc., then why can't the US block Chinese apps?

Because we are a nation of laws, not autocratic whims.
I love my coffee maker so much. It has one chunky physical switch and no other controls or moving parts. No wifi, no smart bs, no pointless brew size settings, its not spying on me, or inflicting me with DRM. I've had it for over 10 years now, and have had to perform no maintenance.
Again no monitoring system is perfect or unbreakable. Large banks are going to seem more like they “allow” this simply because they have 10x-100x more employees.

The solution to people laundering funds from selling marijuana isn’t punitive banking regulation, its legalizing marijuana. The solution to Dictators stealing from their citizens isn’t onerous banking regs on the 99.9% of honest clients, it’s removing Dictators from power.
I grew up with a dad working for 70-120k and a mom at home. I can’t even imagine how nice the lifestyles of Bay Area kids are.
This sounds horrible to me. I mean, do you really want to spend your life having to deal with leetcode for several months every 2-3 years? Maybe some people find coding interviews and leetcode problems exciting, I find them tedious and want to avoid them. Not talking about the pressure to find a new job in 60 days.

So no FAANG? Indeed. You only live once and can spend your time better.
If a company closes temporarily, it's usually not due to an ongoing pandemic. That's temporary and rather different from a regular "it's going so bad we need to close now".
Same with iPhone. It's one of the most frustrating parts of iOS for me. The hardware mute button is pointless since apps can just choose whether to respect it or not.
This is the kind of thinking that leads to monopolies. If companies get too big a market share they can and will be reduced in stature by various governments around the world. Today's competitor becomes tomorrow's overbearing monoculture. I'm not really afraid of that happening to apple anytime soon but it certainly could if they start trying to use monopolist power to push out competitors.
Nvidia's New RTX 3080 Can Barely Run Crysis: Remastered at 4K
I don't think there's much benefit to being an audiophile, unless you're so rich you can actually enjoy your insanely expensive setup in your sound-proofed room with your specially-purchased lossless audio sources. Luckily, very few people who claim to be audiophiles can actually hear the difference in a blind test.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...
Is it even a coffee maker if it doesn't run DOOM?
Those are the languages we love at least. I’m willing to bet that most of us are java developers to pay the bills.
> Everything is OpenJDK now, forget oracle.

OpenJDK is the name of Oracle's (one and only) Java implementation project (take a look at the logo at http://openjdk.java.net/). Oracle JDK is the name of the commercially supported product built from OpenJDK, and Oracle also distributes the JDK under a 100% free license (http://jdk.java.net/).

While OpenJDK has been the open-source part of the Sun/Oracle JDK since 2007, Oracle recently completed open sourcing the entire JDK, so that there are no more paid features. The JDK used to be part-free and part commercial, and now it is completely free; you only pay Oracle -- or other companies --- for support if you want it. Other companies contribute to OpenJDK as well, but Oracle still contributes ~90% of the work, and all OpenJDK builds by all vendors are licensed by Oracle. So while you absolutely don't need to pay Oracle (or Sun, as you did before) for using the JDK any more now that it's 100% open, you should at least know that Oracle is the company that (primarily) funds and develops OpenJDK.

(I work on the JDK, i.e. OpenJDK, at Oracle)
On, Off, Brew. On without (or after) Brew keeps it warm.
Regarding 4): Those croatian guys are just mules basicaly, 3 guys from seaside town proficient in boat sailing. Two younger guys in mid 20's and main guy who fell into some financial business / mortgage problems. They are not even part of any criminal organization, they were just hired because of their sailing skills.
Would AES-CTR [edited] with deterministic encryption via using the hash of the encrypted value as IV be secure under such schemes?
Oh look another comments section full of shills who are just aching to talk about absolutely anything other than DATA COLLECTION.

DATA
COLLECTION
Imagine the Chinese government has dirt on tens of millions of American teenagers, a select few who will go on to become future leaders of this country. Really. Really. Bad. idea.
I remembered that from years ago, but couldn't remember where I saw it. Thanks.

Imaging burning a source so valuable for the sake of the U.S., only to have us elect Trump anyways and four years later pretend like its still an open question whether Russia was involved.
Microsoft open-sources fuzzing tool
No. If you pay the same money to Paul who creates better content [...]

But that manifestly doesn't happen. Nobody wants to pay 20 different local bloggers to cover 20 different local issues, large firms asset strip or crowd out small firms, and if all else fails the truth is denounced as 'fake news'. The market is not a meritocracy.
I've added a section on padding oracle attacks towards the bottom.

I don't think there's a significant different in ease of understanding between most of the modes. I used CBC as it's one of the most common and familiar modes, and because it's where I have seen this issue many times. I don't see CTR used in the wild very often.

I also tend to use CBC for other demos as well, so it makes things consistent.
I use a dynamic range compressor when dealing with unpredictable output (watching Youtube videos, Zoom calls).

On Linux, I use this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typM_AQUzi4

On Windows, I tick the "Loudness Equalization" option in the output device's menu.

I disable it when I listen to music.
I got sick of apps circumventing the various basic android "mute except for x app and phone calls" features that I just turn off wifi and data when I go to sleep. If it's important enough, they will call and my phone will ring. Occasionally SMS will bother me but barely anybody uses SMS.
There's no evidence of this happening with, say, Mastodon. The culture is different, and isn't changing. If we know what we want and what we don't want from the start, we can keep centralization from gaining a foothold.
I've always wondered what separates a great story or pitch from a mediocre one. There are plenty of articles describing how to write a great story but I find them abstract, not practical enough. Anyway I like the initial hook of these and the short format.
It's strange that this is so prevalent in the industry. Who ever got promoted for fixing all the hard bugs? Reinventing the wheel is the safe career move in many companies. And the result are huge R&D budgets, bugs and a bad user experience.
Can you link reports on this or the source where you obtained this information?

In the US at least, the claim that “all Chinese companies are controlled government” is thrown around way too often without evidence backing it up. People seem to accept it as common sense that doesn’t need fact-checks anymore. I’m not saying you are one of them; I just wish we all verify non-obvious claims for our own benefits
They may repeat it, but is it true? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/nyregion/nyc-shootings-mu...