skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC My Mini has corrected me for speaking to it while it was muted so I'm not sure it's a hardware kill switch.
How the QAnon conspiracy theory is taking root in the UK
We should thank the advances in signal processing, ground penetrating radars and LIDARs that have given us such a plethora of new archeological discoveries we see in the media.
Egypt's climate and lack of wood which made it expensive and unreachable as a building material, as particularly helpful factors for the preservation history. Through Egyptian sources that have a more detailed chronology historical analysis of surrounding areas is also assisted.
Egypt is a magestical place and I am eagerly waiting for the completion of the new Cairo museum to revisit it.
Please name a single dictator removed from power using banking regulations.

Then explain why the banking system is used against Dictators who still have voting rights in the UN.
In order to renew an H1b visa, immigrants have to go to a US consulate

I think you may be confusing 2 things. H1 Validity and H1 Visa. You can extend your H1 from within US and most people do. No one is forced to go out and come back.

However, to extend H1 Visa, what you say is true. The difference is that visa allows you to go out of US, and then come back in, and for you to come back in, you need a visa that is valid at the time of entry.

However, if you wanted to stay in US without going out and keep on extending H1 (to the extent allowed by law), you can.
Being a good programmer doesn't necessarily mean you're good at leetcode and just need to brush up. I don't meet almost anyone who uses DP in their daily life but you can bet your ass you'll run into a problem that requires DP in a FAANG interview. And you better put it on the board in under 20 minutes or you're getting passed for the next guy who did 1000+ problems as their prep. It wouldn't be so bad if being a good programmer was sufficient and you just needed a little bit of brushing up - but the arms race started years ago... So, now the bar is very high.

Leetcode is solving small problems, often with tricks, in a very short period of time. Being a software engineer is solving large problems over large periods of time.
As a business person, avoiding corruption in the US has been historically as simple as not doing "advisor share" deals with VPs at companies you're trying to sell to. How exactly is this any different from what China does?
I wouldn't say forever, while it is not great that somebody would do this, is not like it isn't possible to preemptively mention that you have nothing to do with the fork, and you are input responsible for the original in your resume.
What's next is called Kotlin.
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In many cases, the transfers serve the purpose of laundering the theft. Consider cases like 1MDB, where the bankers' sole job was helping Jho Low hide the fact that he was stealing all the money.

(Although it must be noted that the regulatory regime here failed to prevent 1MDB!)
Same. About 10 years ago I bought a Jura-Capresso super automatic coffee machine (S7). Very simple. 4 buttons. Small matrix text display with a good UX. Really nothing fancy. I clean it when it asks me to, and that's all the maintenance it needs.

I recently looked at the latest models, and they've basically have not changed. Maybe a bit more silent. That's it. The rest is all connectivity and LCDs. Solutions looking for a problem.
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What's next? I propose an additional level of virtualization and abstraction to meet industry needs!

The history of Java in a nutshell.
I guess none of my suggestions will help :) but I sometimes run "Create a system image" from the Windows 7 backup and restore page that is still hanging around. It has an option to save to a network location.

I think that even though some pop-up messages tell you that the previous backup will be blown away, it actually is incremental to a certain extent, and the recovery tool in the installer sometimes does list multiple dates to restore from -- although I'm not sure if and how data retention can be controlled. Also disk encryption is removed on restore, and I think the backup is not encrypted at rest either; you need to keep it in an encrypted location to begin with.

For file-level backups, I'm using an rsync frontend, QtdSync, but I also had success with Borg running under Msys2's Python interpreter.
The judge’s preliminary order will have some analysis, along with the briefs filed in the case on both sides.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17470217/us-wechat-user...
As I noted, it's likely this order was issued because NYC hospitals were filling up, and testing was very limited.

On March 25, NY saw 5,146 new cases, and 12,209 tests. (https://covidtracking.com/data/state/new-york; click "full range) They didn't have the testing capacity to test stable nursing home patients before sending them home, and they didn't have enough hospital beds to let them sit around for weeks for that to change. Having them convalesce back at the nursing homes seems like a reasonable move given that.

March in NY was "which of these bad options kills the least people" time.
Ask HN: Should HN be apolitical in the current environment?
“maybe I’ll sign an executive order that you cannot have him(Biden) as your president.” Trump 20/9/2020.

Until when turning a blind eye is prudent? This is hopefully one of the most educated and forward looking places online. Should bright minds discuss and try to avert disasters? This was said from the head of the most powerful nuclear power. It's an outright anti-democratic statement.
This is one of the reasons why all the amplifiers I build for my personal use, be it power audio amps or headphone amps, don't use any fancy audio switch ICs. I prefer analog exactly for this reason. A simple relay with a push button. Leaves me more room for other stuff inside the cabinet, while getting the job done in the simplest way possible.
Ask HN: Do you have a SaaS tool or small online business for sale?
I'm interested in buying ownership of a SaaS tool or other small online business. I suspect that there may be others on HN who would also be interested in seeing posts about tools/businesses that are available.

My ideal range would probably be something worth 4-figures or low 5-figures with some amount of active users and existing monetization model, but certainly willing to discuss deals outside that range as well if they're a good fit.

If you are not comfortable posting here for whatever reason but would still like to reach out, my email is in my profile.

I'd also be interested to know if there is a website/platform anyone can recommend for buying/selling projects of this scope.

Looking forward to seeing what's out there!
Unlike you, I read it with awareness.
> very important software partner

are you referring to microsoft?
I've been thinking the same about power switches lately. If I turn a flashlight, or an old radio on or off, I flip a switch and get the result I want. With my 65 EUR gamepad, or 300 EUR headphones, I hold a button and wait several seconds for the result.

Why has UX regressed so much in these areas?
I would like to live about a thousand years, but I'd be happy for a few hundred as well.
I went the opposite way and bought a $240 Panasonic commercial microwave, because I also wanted it to last. It's just a little big.
Seems to be file-based, which isn't what OP wants.
Java is still my default language after so many years (even though through Clojure). I think Java's biggest advantage is the JVM though, if it had an ML programming language on the top without null and proper interfacing to Java packages I would never look at anything else. Just like .NET has F#.
It would make the microphone half-off, still capturing the upper half of the soundwaves.
Ask HN: Fave smartphone apps using it as a “mobile computer” like in 2010s?
What are your favorite smartphone apps from today that subscribe to the "wow, now we have a computer in our pockets" idea that was prevalent a decade ago?

Back then smartphones were fresh and in the app space there was not as much tracking, rent-seeking, ads, attention economy and cut-throat competition.

Mine pick would be PlantNet [1]. Myself not being an expert in botany it allows me to explore all the plants around me, in the nature reserves and city gardens alike. Works surprisingly well. Obviously the deep learning tech was not as advanced a decade ago, hence I put like the 2010s in the title ;)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.plantnet
Creating a Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller with Sample Application
> Those skills are probably also in demand in your origin country.

That's not guaranteed to be true. Take finance - if you want a career in this field there's only a handful of cities where it makes sense to live and work: London, Singapore, New York, maybe Tokyo.

An exotic derivatives quant won't find much demand for their skills in, say, Almaty.

Similarly, tech workers benefit from being in tech hubs (SV being one example). Oil engineers need to be around oil rigs and so on.

Moreover, standards of living are different in different parts of the world. Levels of corruption, infrastructure development, civic engagement etc are much worse in some places than others. You may have had the foresight of choosing to be born in a well developed country, but many have not.
Man, I brought a few Cuban cigars into the US in 2018 and the border agent tore me a new one. Even my confused “But this is legal now...” went unheard until I got through the line to the real customs agent who wondered why I was wasting his time.
Monitoring the Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller with Prometheus and Grafana
Nice, I need to come up with a solution for this on desktop.

My dream is a Chrome extension which recognizes Youtube ads and auto-mutes while they are playing.
I think your assumption is based on a noisy minority.
Setting up borg + rclone + B2 took me about an hour to set up and zero time since then. Something like Duplicati or Duplicacy makes it even simpler.

I'll agree that tarsnap is still 'simpler' since I guess maybe it takes 15 mins to set up versus an hour, but I'm still surprised that someone would consider the 45 minutes saved to be worth possibly hundreds/thousands of extra dollars in backup costs.

>Also your method might be much cheaper, but tarsnap is still very inexpensive for most use cases. So how much actual money is saved vs. the effort level put in?

What are the use cases you use tarsnap for? Is tarsnap only used for small amounts of data or something? I guess I just cannot get over the hurdle that tarsnap seems obscenely priced given the cost of storage these days. You can get 2TB of storage for ~$120/yr on something like Dropbox/B2/Google Drive/etc. That same 2TB would cost six thousand dollars a year on tarsnap!!
Mighty mouse i'ld say.
America did not exist. It was a settler colony of the British Empire. It was, if anything, the beneficiary of mercantilism, and not being allowed to trade with other nations is pretty much just how things were at the time.
It's a good question. There's a lot of criteria involved, namely marketing/targeting and always good copy. It's hard to keep a message short, targeted and impactful at the same time
Wasn't the hardware mute button specifically for ringtones and not media?

On OnePlus phones it's a 3-position switch with silent, vibrate and ring as separate physical positions.
Somebody buys you a $5,000 screwdriver. Do you just use it wrong, not take care of it, and ruin it to make a point about how all you wanted was to turn a screw?
It's an arms race. Big name employers only wanted the top 1% of candidates. A bunch of people wanted to get into the top 1% and figured out a way (leetcode, ctci, etc.). And then employers kept only wanting the top 1% - so they just raised the bar higher and higher.

Now we're at the scale where if you haven't done a minimum of 200 problems before any interview round - you're not likely getting an offer from FAANG/etc.
> This dynamic is a detriment to both these workers and their native counterparts.

Yeah, but it's great for the large companies hiring them.
It is scary to think about 1) how much control CBP officers have over the fates of people entering the country especially on non-citizen statuses, and 2) how little they know about the rules affecting the latter.

E.g. I've heard of CBP officers not knowing that Canadians don't need to get a visa to enter the US. Also heard of CBP officers not knowing what "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" was on a student's F-1, and had to ask around to confirm that it was a legitimate school. And many more.
There is no doubt there are questions we should be asking about the integrity of our democratic institutions. However, the guidelines are pretty clear about HN not being a political soapbox. The retort might be, but threats to democracy aren't political soapboxing, and I'd tend to agree-- the existence of free speech allows a place like HN to flourish. But there are many, many avenues for having these sorts of discussions with intellectuals, outside of HN.
> I think it's the libraries. [...] they have everything.

On the other hand, they need to have everything. In many other languages, it's common to just use a library written in a different language. For some reason, the foreign function interface of Java seems to have been designed to be hard to use, so instead of using an already existing library, Java developers tend to go through the route of "Rewrite It In Java".
This is such a weird thing that we accept as normal. Completely agree it's absurd that on the microwave we have a numpad and on an oven we have up/down arrows with an arbitrary starting point (mine is 350 degF).
And subdomain not subhuman :)
The main problem with this idea is that high skilled labor is conflated with h1B labor. The H1B system is completely abused by big outsourcing companies like Infosys, HCL,TCS and Wipro. The proof of this abuse is that the average salary from these workers is much lower from non-outsourced H1Bs e.g. microsoft workers on H1Bs.

For example, a few years Disney theme parks laid off all of their IT staff and immediately replaced them with HCL H1B workers for lower cost. Clearly in this case H1Bs were abused to lower salaries of American workers by bringing in low skill (defined by salary) labor.

Immigration isn't inherently bad but the H1B program is deeply flawed (allocations by country, dominance by outsourcing companies, workers being tied to employers)
Touch controls are only warranted when you need to support a large number of varied interactions which can't be supported by physical controls, or if you have to support arbitrary gesture-based input (like a drawing tablet for example). If that's not the case, physical controls are always better. If you're operating a vehicle, or can't look at the display for any reason, tactile controls are leagues better.
Your point about not offering unnecessary information is, unfortunately, good advice.

In my situation it felt as if the officer was going to every possible length to find a reason to reject my application.

I was explicitly asked why I was no longer with my former employer, what my last day of work was, and what date I had previously left the US to return to Canada. Being untruthful about any of these easily-verifiable points would have been much worse in the long run (since this officer definitely seemed intent on running down every possibility). Honestly I am lucky that I had a proof of my severance agreement, which showed it was not a voluntary departure.
The majority of people on Earth and in the US itself would tell you that non-violence would have been preferable to the "War On Terror". All of millions of people who have felt the brunt of the US Cold War would tell you the same - be they peasants in virtually all of South America or Vietnam; or US soldiers sent to die in Vietnam.

Perhaps WWII is an exception to this, but it is absolutely in the minority. Wars of aggression (Cold War, War on Drugs, War on Terrorism) have never improved any part of the world in any way - they cause misery and poverty for the majority for untold generations, no matter what high-minded rhetoric is used to justify them.
I think what’s striking me as being spoiled is using the thing, intentionally not taking care of it, and ruining it.
Java is still big in enterprise. Basically 70% of job ads in Germany mention Java in some form.
... Har Har ...
I think we can't underestimate that one of the biggest problems with all this is the poor quality of the software.

This is particularly shameful in devices that are so simple. Basically finite-state machines, something that everyone in CS should learn in 101 classes.
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I guess it’s just a steep learning curve. I’ve been doing some cross platform JNI and python development with cmake and as someone who’s not intrinsically familiar with it, it’s very difficult to “grasp” how everything relates, how I can properly make cmake detect some arcane libraries on computers installed by customers, even when they put them in weird paths, etc etc.

I guess these are problems with all builds systems, but cmake feels like it’s hiding everything behind macros and it’s really difficult to understand what they are actually doing under the hood sometimes.
Fluoride may diminish kidney and liver function in adolescents, study suggests
Didn't you hear? These millenials spend all day on their phones! They must love touchscreens.
Yes, the previously free Chinese people under.... The Qing Dynasty and the Kuomintang?
Ubiquity and mikrotik for the personal / smb stuff.
Now imagine that another company designs that experience.
Team Comtress 2. TF2 Fork with a community development team
Team Comtress 2 is a fork of an older version of Team Fortress 2, with a community development team fixing bugs, improving performance, and adding quality of life features, with the goal of having those changes pulled upstream by Valve to the modern game.
> One thing that is hurting Java today is memory usage.

Agreed.

GraalVM is showing enormous promise in this area, alongside efforts like Project Valhalla.

I think the emergence first of microservice and then of FaaSes has lit a fire underneath OpenJDK folks and others in the ecosystem.
I have a cheapo digital that suits my needs well enough. It is ancient and keeps working, which is all I ask of it.

But the UI is utterly absurd. The default presentation is to select timer or cook. Who uses a timer anywhere nearly as much as the cook function? It is like a car always first asking if you'd rather drive or pop the hood.

One more button press has never been enough to annoy me anywhere nearly enough to replace it. But I wonder how many times I've pressed it.
Sure H1b is not a prerequisite technically. But say you are the employer, you want to sponsor this Indian person's E2 visa, but you need to wait for 11 years before they actually get the visa you sponsored and start to work for you. Now tell me how is H1b not a prerequisite in reality?
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macOS disables the audio control of HDMI outputs because that is what the HDMI specification expects/defines.

If you think of all the devices that output via HDMI, Windows PCs are the outlier (afaik, not sure how Linux handles it) in allowing separate volume controls beyond those on the output device.

Satellite set top boxes, media streaming devices (e.g. Apple TV - I realise NVidia Shield and some Chromecast apps do have some software volume control), games consoles, and Blu-Ray players will all output a fixed audio signal, expecting the TV/AV amplifier to handle volume.
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Trump said that clearly as a joke. I watched the rally and it should still be ok to make jokes, last time I checked.
If you want to stop that charade, you need to admit that H1Bs are frequently abused and are used to depress the salaries of American workers.
What Bank CEO explicitly approved braking banking regulations?
Chapter 2, Section 7: “SVG: A Scene Description Language,” looks interesting.
This is a rather damning statement and it saddens me that wealth keeps concentrating in such small pockets of America.

I'm in Seattle but I have engineer friends in Florida making your salary and they definitely have nice houses.
Gore-Tex is not meant to insulate unless you're talking about just the bare skin feel against the inside of the jacket. Some Gore-Tex jackets had a mesh liner which helps alleviate that cold surface feeling (and protect the teflon layer).

If you're interested in insulation for high-exertion activities, Polartec Alpha is now the bee's knees.
Not implausible

Actually, the 20 years I spent in journalism tells me it is completely implausible.

a locally-focussed offshoot in that locality?

Because there are over 15,000 school districts in the United States. Plus another 20,000 municipal governments. Plus another 100,000 other local government organizations.

The Guardian, or a similar organization, would need a staff the size of Apple or Google to even just scratch the surface of local news in the United States.

And even if it did, people would demonize it because it was centralized, or at one time published an article they didn't agree with, the way they do with the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Applying mass market economics to news is what destroyed journalism in the first place.

I'm old enough to remember that when Capital Cities bought ABC, and General Electric bought NBC, and Westinghouse bought CBS, suddenly those broadcasters were beholden to stockholders and not the public. That was when television journalism started dying.
Which CEO? And for what? The crime of not knowing mid level employees were bribed to subvert regulations?
It's not that simple. All those democratic actions for H1B you've described are merely tokens when you consider how much attention they paid to undocumented immigrants (DACA). They've completely neglected the kids of H1B workers who have been here decades but have to leave the country when they turn 21. None of what they've done provides an attainable pathway for permanent residency for legal, tax paying high skilled workers from India.

Democratic immigration policies always prioritize family based and undocumented immigration. They have clear electoral benefits from this (see AZ and TX). Reforming H1B and the high skilled immigration system is only an afterthought.

Republican policies have at least put forward some kind of points-based system. They however want to reduce family based immigration which is an absolute no-go for Democrats.
Funny to see this pop up because I happen to know who is behind this cluster of sites (i.e. https://ustechworkers.com/ https://www.cfpup.org/) and it's basically one super right-wing guy and some wealthy donors. None of these is a real union or even a real community group. It's wealthy lobbyists who want to oppose immigration. I always thought it was really shady.
but this OS is targeting, at a minimum, a 64bit board, not a 32bit board.
I read through most of the comments before posting and I am still ambivalent about whether we should allow more or less people immigrate to the US.

But, the more I read about the H1B system, I am sure that if we as a country think people are deserving to come over here and we think they add to our economy, we should treat them like humans and not have them in constant fear of being deported at the whim of their employer.

Decent people can disagree about immigration, but I don’t see how decent people can disagree about how you treat people who took all of the necessary, legal steps to be here. It’s just human decency.