skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing on Facebook is private right now. So, what exactly are you concerned about?

I can see the SPAM argument, but splitting things up across multiple networks makes it harder to reconstruct your social graph. Either way getting access to a single site gives access to your fiends, but now you need to compromise multiple sites to gets your friends of friends list.
I see posturing as an improvement over the wholesale selloff and export of the entire economic and industrial basis of the US middle class to totalitarian regimes.

That being said, I agree that Trump has only been marginally effective here and generally has no coherent plan... for this or much of anything else. Donald doesn't plan. He blusters and postures.
They also tend to move less and stay in the same district for a large percentage of their lives. It's a lot easier to vote if you only need to sign up once and the same process applies. If you're young and mobile, you're changing cities/counties/states and therefore less likely to keep up with the different races.
Lithuanian Book Smugglers
I would encourage listening to Joe Satriani's answer to this question from Rick Beato:

https://youtu.be/AYdmelm9ADM?t=2143
Market forces do a poor job driving science. Its too long term, too risky, and you lose to much to the tragedy of the commons. All but the most trivial and mechanical research mostly happens due to government funding, or as a prestige byproduct of higher education (ie, not directly driven by their profit objectives). So in this case, maybe there is demand in a social sense, not a market sense.

Alternatively, large computer science companies may have just greased enough pockets to create regulatory capture of the process, creating the inequality in a non market driven way.
Ask HN: How to Write a Research Paper Without an Academic Institution?
Hey everyone, I'm not sure if this is the correct way to ask this question.

I recently found out that I am not eligible to apply for the Computer Science masters program in my country at my previous University. (GPA is too low) While disappointing, it is understandable, way too much happened at my uni stay that honestly glad I was just able to graduate.

I took a look at their Masters/PhD programs and under their Research section the topics they consider that is noteworthy for them, I've actually worked on in the past. While I'm not sure how my previous work would compare to what they currently are researching, it does make me interested in a few questions.

1) Can a genuine piece of work or research be used to demonstrate enough knowledge that the GPA requirement no longer matters? I know this is probably a case by case basis, but is it even possible?

2) Can I, without the oversight of any academic institution (here being only Universities, and not Academic Foundations and the like), submit/publish genuine research papers? And to where? Would it be less important than those coming from Universities?

I'm sure there are a few things I over looked when considering if this is even remotely possible. And I'm speaking solely from a Computer Science perspective, I know for a fact Universities would be needed for more involved sciences to ensure that ethics are properly followed.

Thanks for reading. And I'm sorry if this has a simple answer that I'm just not seeing, I am curious about it though.
Would breaking them up do that much? They already barely compete with each other. Seems like making them provide open access to any other ISP would be a better way to go about it. Separate the infrastructure from the service.

It's just too bad we don't have more municipally owned infrastructure.
Looks useful!

Pro tip, as a professional C/C++ dev, for macros:

Wrap the body in a do-while loop, to force a semicolon after it’s called https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1067226/c-multi-line-mac...
Cloudflare/Cloudfront, restrict origin IP. Done
House Judiciary Committee Recommends Interoperable Social Media
Or: you can even use post-its.

From the article:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rougeux/sets/72157621702780335...
This is great, do you have any recommendations/comments on usage? Aside from the CPU one
from a different article:

>The roots of the black walnut tree emit a chemical known as juglone. This chemical is toxic to many other plants, and can stunt them or kill them in as little as a month. The toxic area around mature black walnut trees is usually a 50- to 60-foot radius around the trunk, but can be as much 80 feet.
1) Curiosity

2) Aptitude
I agree with that, too. I know it's, ah, controversial to say that Van Halen's songs in the Sammy Hagar era were by and large their best, but -- even though I think David Lee Roth was the better singer (Hagar sounds oddly like he's straining all the time) -- I'm just more likely to go back to the "Van Hagar" songs. I know Hagar's suggested they were writing as a group during that period more than the band was previously, but I know he's not exactly an unbiased source there.
AFAIK if you are a valid green card application with a valid priority date you are allowed to.

Considering the backlog for green cards if you're from india/china, there are _tons_ of people in this situation.
WSJ showing that “fair and balanced” NWSA leadership bias.
That example was likely conceived by the journalist and not the administration, I don't see it in other articles on this. I don't believe it will be that strict since degrees looks so different in different parts of the world.
In that case every device should allow users to trivially change their OS, or hardware manufacturers who make operating systems could be accused of the same thing. Many companies make products that don't make money but help promote and sell their products that do. My point is that os/app store metrics are too narrow rather than approval, because I am far from in love with the business model of any of the companies targeted by this report. Although I think the right move would be more consumer-friendly regulation rather than break ups.
There is one H1B lottery, so the two DO compete in the same lottery. And yes, I've absolutely seen excellent colleagues making north of $200K leave the country because they didn't get an H1B visa.
Assume there are small molecules left in the brain resulting in long covid, how would you flush it out, drinking lots of water? Exercise?
I was just using anecdotal stuff I've heard about before. A quick search brought up: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.20.3....

I haven't cross checked it, but it seems to state similar things to what I've heard before, like “compulsory licensing” which was only un-done because of NAFTA, but that just means its a political bargaining chip that is not currently cashed.

I'm sure other countries have different rules, Canada is more beholden to the US than any other country.
Nice initiative but I'm gonna stick with Dokku for now, after jumping between google app engine, heroku, plain old tar over scp and other custom solutions I find dokku the perfect option for small and side projects.

dokku manage to hit that sweet spot of making everything easy and convenient but still let you do fine tweaks if you need it
> Re: Lotus vs. Borland: The problem for Google is that not every appeals court has followed the First Circuit's approach in Lotus. The Supreme Court actually agreed to hear an appeal of the Lotus ruling back in the 1990s, but, with one justice absent from the case, the high court deadlocked 4-4. That allowed the Lotus ruling to stand, but it didn't make the ruling binding on other appeals courts.

A 4-4 tie could happen again this time around, as there is currently one supreme court seat vacant just as there was for Lotus vs. Borland.
It works on the FT and WSJ for me, even on mobile. Do you have ublock origin turned on too? You need it for Bypass Paywalls to work
You only covered the bolus requirements.

You also need a basal insulin for Type-1 diabetes (unless you're on an insulin pump, which is an entirely different class of expense), so something like Tresiba ($505) (https://www.goodrx.com/tresiba) or Lantus ($357).

Still not $1300/mo, but your price is also using temporary rebates and coupons, which certainly aren't always available.
Stotting, Pronging and Pronking
"What you will find is that people are friendly, as long as you look like them (white)."

I grew up in snow-white South Dakota. In my hometown of 15,000 I knew of only one African-American family. The father was the town mayor.

I guess we had different experiences.
>H1B visas are very important for foreign students in these fields particularly those hoping to pursue careers in academia.

I don't care. It's not the US's job to educate the world. Until someone helps me get into university again I don't give a rat's ass about foreign students coming in. Those students are typically in the higher earning income brackets for their countries.
The scroll wheel and navigation don't work at all on Firefox.

I really hope Chrome doesn't become the new IE.

Maybe the DOJ will make Google spin off their browser so the web doesn't become Google's own version of AOL.

Ten more years of this crap and Firefox will be dead.
https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/prims/blob/master/sponge....
Cheap insulin works. For long-term outcomes, I'd certainly argue that it doesn't work "fine." But it's definitely better than death.
His solo in Flying High Again is the best. Compact and efficient but yet expressive. Builds to a climax and explodes back into the rythem.

Not possible without EVH.
Oh, I thought the urban legend was that she was fed up with the servants breaking her prized porcelain so she wanted a machine that would wash automatically and safely. (actually the article says that as well)
Ah H1B.

“Let’s pit you tech workers with lower paid foreign tech workers and make you blame the wrong group of people”
Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information
You can use a service like Transferwise which charges you the market rate. A lot of expats and remote workers(including myself) use it to get paid and avoid currency changing. Or you can get cards which do the same thing (e.g. I have a Curve card is linked to my other bank cards). It depends which country you live in, these options are fairly straighforward in the EU. There are a few services which these cards don't work with, like pay-at-pump gas stations, but I've yet to find somewhere online it doesn't work. May be overkill for a one-off payment though.
To be honest, I used to kinda like xkcd, but I've grown to dislike it due to its overuse.

I hate when this one is used as a response https://xkcd.com/927/. Same with the Bobby Tables one.
Japan is a country that values its citizens over its companies, i think Japanese tend to like it the way it is, and there's a lesson there if you think about it carefully.

I think easy case to make IBM is dying on the back of becoming an outsourcing company. IBM, once a feared titan of global tech, is basically a joke, it's leading tech is a recent acquisition (RHEL).

America in the 100 year view - what was the society that led to the founding of HP, IBM, microsoft, google, apple? that's the secret sauce we need to cultivate, and of course immigrants are part of it, but the current culture around H1B is another story.

reading between the lines, i see the pride in your response of the new CEOs of some of these tech behemoths -

as an engineer who is bad at politics - i know this to be true - getting to the top of a big mature organization is nothing like starting one, totally different skillset.

not to say these folks aren't extremely smart cookies, but it's a different ballgame being played.
Quality is distributed somewhat evenly. The best and the brightest are all over the world. Not every foreigner is better then every local, but for any given quality cutoff, a majority of talent will come from outside the nation.

If your goal is sufficiency, then the local population will suffice. If your goal is to capture as much of the truly top talent, you have to cast the net wider.
You also have provincial programs which have different/maybe more lax requirements than express entry.
Once you get PR, citizenship is just 3 years away.
I used to go to sleep when I was 12 listening to Eruption, Mean Streets, Take Your Whiskey Home, etc. fantasizing about being the guy playing those riffs and solos.

They should re-issue those "Who the f*ck is Eddive Van Halen?" shirts right about now.
Science is by far one of the most globalized fields. The international collaborations that it thrives on are largely formed via exchange of students. We cannot afford to be ethnocentric in this day and age.

As an example, America would never have been first on the moon if it were not for a certain German engineer Wernher von Braun.
Go to upwork, pick a skilled job, like Java development or mechanical engineering, and then browse labor rates for people outside of the US. You have CAD drafters in Pakistan billing at $5/hr. Easily a 75% discount on a skilled American. Pop-wisdom is that <$15/hr “isn’t a living wage”.

These economies are efficient in the sense that much of their population lives in poverty, the likes of which is almost entirely absent from the US. We basically won’t let anyone starve if they don’t refuse help, and we subsidize even the most stupid and violent members of our population out of compassion (and sometimes for votes). Personally, I would not welcome depressing US wages to a global mean while political apparatchiks and the idle class pocket the difference. I don’t think you really want that either.
I think the "outside of mental illness" is a pretty important qualifier here. I've never hit the point personally where I'd prefer death to diabetes, but I've certainly been close, and were it not for a pretty fortunate life - good insurance, ability to afford a good doctor who is knowledgable in this field, ability to afford a CGM and never have to worry about paying for testing strips (another ridiculous expense - frankly far worse than insulin given how much larger of a population it impacts) - I could certainly see myself in their shoes.
Have listen to the whole "Fair Warning" album if you haven't before. It's got some very different styles.
+1 on this. I have a CS masters degree from top UK university and was hired as Software Engineer, but company registered me as a Computer technician. When my H1b required renewal, DoL found out that I was a Software Engineer and company was forced to give a 20k yearly increase, not retroactive. This was Cisco. This is a.great move for people like me that I had no idea about salary ranges and US laws
Semi-related: anyone here, like me, not find automated dishwashers very useful? To me it seems to take nearly the same amount of soap exposure, and time at the sink, to wash dishes by hand.

Maybe if I needed gloves, I'd get frustrated with the smell your hands take on from dishgloves, but honestly washing dishes (particularly dishes that aren't precious) is pretty easy.
All planets are aligned within a few degrees actually. Pluto’s orbit is angled quite a bit if i recall correctly (which maybe was one of the reason to kick it out?)
Alright, seriously, thank you for this list! You just solved two mysteries that had my team going in circles.
> Yeah no, screw that crap. I don't know the exact regulation framework that would accomplish my intent but you understand what I mean.

> I'm talking about all the people with bonafide degrees and skillsets. 4-year bachelor degrees, PhDs, MDs, and the like.

I know what you mean, but that's not good enough; you'd need to find a way to make it legislatively watertight, and I'm not sure that's possible.
What could go wrong if I put a lit match on top of a box of tissues?
Godforbid there is accidental race scenario
The window to get kicked out of the country when layoffs happen is pretty narrow, even for people who have lived here for years. It presents a pretty heavy threat if abused because it might be hard to seal the deal on a new job (especially if you're even a little bit selective) before you suddenly become illegal.
This seems like a terrible article to me. The author makes sweeping generalizations about his audience, he doesn't clearly explain why the comic is bad (he makes accusations but they're never really deduced), and it's so hyperbolic it's just ridiculous but it's clearly not satire. And as far as I can tell he doesn't even understand the comic he's criticizing so harshly.

It feels like something an enthusiastic redditor would cobble together in 30 minutes to win an argument against someone.
Good point, but then would you lose your status even if your h1b ended? Wouldn't the pending GC petition be enough to keep you in status?

It happened to me, I lost my h1b a few weeks after filling for my GC and I had no problem staying in the country. It was a GC via marriage though, rules ma be different for employer sponsored GCs
Inequality continues to increase and wages for most Americans have been stagnant for decades.
Does this mean the US needs way more CEOs and Board Members than it has, and the sky-high compensation packages are evidence of this as well?

No, programmers are underpaid, deliberately. We just had a story all about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689582

It has been suggested by Eric Weinstein that the H1B visa was deliberately designed to cap wages of PhDs... this is a side-effect.
Apologies for bringing up the obvious.

But just because "the spouse" doesn't need to work, doesn't mean they don't want to work.

"The spouse" shouldn't be denied the right to work just because their partner has an H1-B.

For shame.
Context:

This comic was written after Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript) was appointed, and then stepped down 11 days layer, as CEO of Mozilla. He previously donated $1000 to Prop 8 which enraged a lot of people (who called for his removal). A lot of other people were enraged that his free speech was being infringed, and Randall Monroe made xkcd 1357 two weeks after Eich stepped down in response.

All that said, I tend to agree with the general premise of this article, which is that for a healthy society, free speech ought to extend far beyond the bare minimum government limits imposed by the Constitution.
Perhaps Protecting Penitent Persona.
it's a cool way to think about what we take for granted, and definitely the author had a blast reading SICP
This pipeline is already drying up due to covid.
Is WhatsApp Safe?
2: yes, it happens all the time. School kids publish research papers. Retired people do. People who have no connection with academia but are in the workforce do.

It can obviously be harder, because you don't have access to people to help write the paper, comply with requirements etc, but I think for many (most?) journals there is not a specific requirement that contributors have academic qualifications or are employed as researchers.
The main error in this comic and that I see repeated many times is that because it is not illegal for Facebook, Reddit, or anyone else to censor their communication channels, that it is therefore a good idea that they do so.

You have to ask the question why we think restrictions on speech for the government are a bad idea. Is it a fundamentally better idea that we have de facto restrictions on free speech because our communication channels happen to be controlled by private companies?

What happens when your preferred political party is no longer in charge of those private communication channels? You've already established the norm that these private channels will censor speech that they don't agree with. Imagine in the future Facebook, and the vast censorship apparatus they're now building at everyone's insistence, is now in the hands of Rupert Murdoch, or the Koch Brothers or someone else you all hate even more than Mark Zuckerberg.
Marian Croak: A Pioneer in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
A real view of how someone reacts to an unintentional home fire - and how a small fire becomes a catastrophic one.
They should fire this person and also his immediate set of coworkers and close associates, to set an example for others.

They probably knew that he was unsupportive of the company, but they failed to report what they saw to their team lead. Employment is at will, no one needs to know. And firing them all will even provide a liability shield: see, the whole team was redundant!

Unsupportive employees are incredibly disruptive to your company. It's worth it to lose ten supportive employees than to keep one unsupportive one. Maybe even eleven.
Interesting - thanks!
Glad to see vimium been mentioned. I've been a fan of vimium for a long time as it fits perfectly with my setup of i3 + vim.
Why should the overseas workers capture that gain? Seems like a tax which can be used to train US citizens for these extremely in demand jobs would be a better use of that money than sending it overseas.
This is an uplifting story that shows the true spirit of humanity. Go inventors! Go humanity!
I think the calculus changes when more than one person eating is involved, especially when the ratio skews more eating than washing
I don't trust Triplebyte. I don't think it's in the best interest of developers to deal with an intermediary. What you posted is only one example of what can go wrong.

Having a decentralized job market for developers is the way to go.
I tentatively agree but feel employers will somehow turn this into hurting both domestic and H1B workers even more.
Student visas are essentially free money for the countries that provide them: unversities charge them more; the students tend to be rich and spend a lot; a lot of students immediately return home and don't actually take any local jobs. There's no downsides.
It’s currently at the top of the “ask” page - https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

It also appears via this search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
NEC snaps up Swiss digital banking solutions provider Avaloq in $2.2B deal
His style was so far ahead of its time. He was playing this way over 45 years ago! Zep was just hitting their peak. The Beatles had only released Sgt Pepper 7 years before.

The original shredder (who played a nice rhythm too).
Did you notice the domain name?
But then we are paying for US doctors for those US citizens. Healthcare alone in the US is more than those workers are making in their home countries.
It's the same as Novolog, not 70/30 though. Novolog 70/30 is a mix is a mix of two insulins - an intermediate acting & a faster acting insulin.
> But if those approvals can be reversed, why bother requiring them to begin with?

certainly not to provide a guarantee of unknown economic markets in perpetuity.

As much as you would like to hold law makers accountable for not seeing into the future, It’s ridiculous to think law makers approving mergers lead to anti-trust violations.

Big tech companies are culpable because they unfairly use their market position to stifle competition to the detriment of consumers. Anti-trust is not purely about market size and dominance, it’s about the disgustingly gross behavior of the people in those companies with that type of power and influence.
This really only works in the most trivial of cases. There just isn't enough symbol-space information in a basic keyboard to be able to implement many QMK hallmarks like level shifting, chords, momentary hold effects, and taps.

I have thought about custom in-line hardware but that's honestly as complicated as QMK. Plus latency.

What I would love however is an inline monitor to see what keycodes I'm issuing. It gets...zany.
Brazil and its project to cut down a forest for a race track
I would be hesitant to do a full re-write at this point. It seems to me the smoothest path from a business perspective would be to convert to .NET Core. I love NodeJS, but .NET Core is fantastic as well and supported by a huge company with massive resources that wants to see it succeed. This bodes well for its growth prospects going forward.
Best of luck either way you decide.