skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve never understood why H1-B applications weren’t sorted by compensation (salary)

Because further narrowing the firms that benefit would have the effect of narrowing political support for the industrial subsidy represented by the H-1B, so the longer-term interests of those who would have a short-term benefit by such a narrowing are served by sacrificing that benefit to shore up support for the benefit they derive even with the visas less concentrated in their hands.
Brazil was originally built on a Perforce monorepo. It didn't start being git until 2013 or so and even then packages could migrate between the Perforce repository and git repository. So Brazil is not an alternative to a monorepo.
> salary is a very direct measure of demand for specific skills

Only economic demand. Not demand in the more common meaning as need.

See the other comment about H-1Bs being for nurses too.

They aren't going to be offered FAANG salaries but that doesn't mean the country doesn't need nurses.

It means there isn't enough money in the part of the system that pays for nurses to compete with FAANG salaries to get them (and all the consequences of that, such as having to pay all other nurses FAANG salaries as well).

If you followed the chain I guess you could argue that the economic demand for advertising is higher than economic demand for healthcare, like it or not. But that would be a really screwed up way of assessing the best way to assign H-1B visas for the benefit of the country.
> Could you willingly create something that negates the premise of free will?

The author only meant to point out the innate nature of a QM particle.

Why that is the way it is is a different topic.
>I know all that, but I was wondering what role the Senate Judiciary Committee plays in that process.

A good question.

IIUC, none at all.

Once the full House and Senate have passed their bills, a conference committee[0] will be convened to create a single bill to be voted upon by both the House and the Senate.

One would expect that members of the relevant Senate and House committees would be part of the the conference committee, but that's not necessary, and leadership generally chooses the members of a conference committee.

Once the conference report is complete, the bill then goes directly to the floor of each house for debate and a vote.

The specific committee (in this case the Senate Judiciary Committee) that approved each house's bill is not involved.

Of course the members of that committee get to vote on the bill from the conference committee just like every other member of that house.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_co...
From what I have been told by multiple wrappers is you can't use the manual spray washes either. The water power is too high and will cause damage. Have to hand wash it.

Edit: This was for about 3-years between 2015-2018 as I wanted to wrap the cars in the winter.
I mean bedbugs are gonna live in the mattress far longer than a virus.
On my Kinesis Advantage2, I have added the following mini touchpad (attached via velcro and 3M double-sided tape for the cable): https://www.ergonomictouchpad.com/mini_touchpad.php

The touchpad is in the middle area right above the right-thumb keys, within easy reach of my index finger without having to lift from the home row. Works great.
from wikipedia:

>It runs with the median nerve and supplies the same structures as that nerve.

so, may be it affects dexterity (or ability to sustain it). That would be a huge boon in our industrial and post industrial society. May be it decreases load on the other 2 arteries and thus again improves some aspects of blood flow supply in the arms and/or to the palms. Also the dexterity seems to be a major factor in early brain development, kind of feedback loop. It may also just correlate with/manifest some overall characteristic (say "branch-ness") of the blood vessel system which say provides better blood flow to the body and/or brain.

It also may be just a characteristic prevalent in some ethnicity or region, and the last 1-2 centuries there has been a lot of people moving/mixing, and if it is a dominant allele then it would explain such a fast spread.
I believe you're absolutely correct.

My point was that any similar attempt would likely be just as unsuccessful.
You can have a basic mirrorless with “clean” HDMI live view and MS2109 for that price, if you don’t mind buying ones that were collecting dust on someone’s shelf
That "jumped to my neck" threw me for a loop! Once I saw you point out the proper idiom I was able to breathe easily again. I've tried to find the origin of this idiom, but I've come up dry as a bone.

It's strange, but I come across these idioms from other cultures back-to-back as I read stories on HN. That's most likely due to the blood, sweat, and tears people put into communicatng on here. Or, maybe language is a bone of contention, and the idioms are simply a breath of fresh air that grabs us by the nape. Whatever the cause, the languages differences sometimes chill me to the bone, maybe they even cause a gut feeling as they hit a raw nerve.

I suppose it's better to be up your ears in idioms, rather than waiting with bated breath.

Thanks for letting me go off on a tangent!
Once I had the freedom to decide, I gave up on using most of the standard Javascript ecosystem stuff in my front-end projects.

No node, no npm_modules, no build chain. I'm lucky to be able to get away with that. It is incredibly efficient, not only because it no longer gets in the way of what I'm trying to build. The previous team I was on, we spent roughly 15% of our time tending to these things.
I feel like looking back at H1Bs will show that it has driven down historically underrepresented ethnicities ability to pull themselves out of the poverty cycle.
> "exceptional ride due to lower center of gravity and essentially middle engine design"

That is a factual statement! Let me ask you this. Have you driven a decent mid-engine sports car like a Porsche 718 Boxster and a Tesla Model 3 performance? I have. They both handle quite well.

>The 0-100km/h times for M3 and Model 3 is 3.9 and 3.2 seconds respectively and, essentially, 20%. The difference in peak torque (helps in acceleration out of corners) is smaller, 550 N/m and 639 N/m, about 11%. Power (helps at high speed) difference also less - 317kW and 340kW, yet Tesla win here too. Model 3 is even slightly wider (2cm, about 1% wider), which should help in track too. And after all that, a whopping 0.1s of win.

Facts are facts, you can't spin it to suit your narrative. The Model 3 won while being heavier and costing significantly less is impressive. That was also prior to track mode being released and the new high performance package.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXyEgl9rFN4

> Tesla borked their very first Roadster, despite the fact that they had to provide only drivetrain to it and everything else was done by Lotus.

Do you have a background in automotive engineering? Elon Musk and the Tesla engineers said on many occasions, that the original Roadster only had about 20% original parts after they were done with the conversion. They also said that it would have been easier to start from scratch had they known the amount of hard work that had to be done.

> The analysis above suggests that they are still do not get driving as opposed to drag racing.

Terrible analysis. Randy Pobst (look him up) who is well respected in racing would tell you otherwise: https://youtu.be/aywleQX5lyA?t=202

Unplugged Performance Street Tuned Model 3 Beats McLaren F1 - Time Attack at Tsukuba Circuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2dustv6utY

Tesla Model 3 prevails with two hill climb victories after Pikes Peak crash

https://thedriven.io/2020/09/01/tesla-model-3-prevails-with-...

Tesla Model 3 Performance Tire Rack Hot Lap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgCf4aos0ZY

Randy Pobst Pikes Peak Hill Climb 2020 (Unplugged Performance Tesla Run)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvZMwiwnLVg

Pikes Peak Unplugged Performance Tesla Day 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q23I3BywBAA
>The likelihood of being infected by a COVID infectious passenger coughing in the seat next to you in a single-aisle airplane (no empty seat between you) is lower than if you sat/stood 6 feet apart in your office/home/shopping center (in both cases masks are worn).

Color me sceptical. Are we comparing standing face to face with a coughing person 6 feet apart for 3 hours to a person sitting next you on a plane? Because I can guarantee you no one is standing face to face while they cough at you in the office for any significant length of time.

I'll need to see more detail about their methodology. Also, it will need to come from someone who is not the International Air Transport Association, a trade and lobbying group for the airlines.
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intel did a bit more than just "catch up"; take a look at the benchmarks in the linked article. they followed it up with solid improvements through sandy/ivy bridge. then they treaded water for eight years or so. even still, after the launch of conroe, amd didn't have a competitive high-end part until zen 2 (excepting a few high core count oddities along the way).
I don't see it that way; The aggregate effects of cost optimization by amateurs with spreadsheets at 100 F500 companies, 1000 mid-sized firms, 10,000 cites, 100,000 small firms has got to look a lot like policy.
Anyone else really want an almond fed Kobe beef right about now?
Have you tried the Dactyl-Manuform mini ?
https://github.com/l4u/dactyl-manuform-mini-keyboard
Light waves are electromagnetic. Light can travel without a medium because the photons are themselves moving forward. They have a frequency, but the frequency is caused by movement side to side, on a different axis than their heading.

Sound waves are physical. They are by definition in an atomic-based medium. Matter at the source of the sound is pushed, compressing it, which pushes the matter in front of it (uncompressing the original matter). If there's no matter to push, sound isn't a thing (thus nobody in space being able to hear you scream). It's not so much information being transmitted as matter being shoved. The frequency is amount of time between shoves, and that wave is in the direction of the motion (because the forward shoving is the frequency and the motion). Sound waves are not an abstract transmission of information.

It's certainly true that you can encode a sound as an information and send that information electromagnetically, but that transmission is not itself sound. Similarly, you could measure the speed of traffic in LA, email those times to New York, and then drive some cars in New York in a way that produces the same traffic speed, but you did not transmit the traffic at the speed of light, and this exercise would not be meaningful to a discussion on the maximum velocity of a car.
And Apple continues to cripple progressive web apps in iOS (example: push notifications), unfortunately making this idea not as useful as on Android.
Sigh. This came up before recently.

So many people believe non-citizens don't pay taxes. So many people believe non-citizens are undocumented, not allowed to work legally, etc.

The vast majority of non-citizens who work pay taxes the same as citizens, everywhere in the world as far as I know.

They often pay the state more than citizens (because of various substantial fees, every year in some countries), while receiving less for it.

It breaks my heart, to think anti-immigrant sentiments may be helped along by such misguided beliefs.
It's pretty obvious why AMD is able to scale x86_64 faster than anyone else... they invented it. Intel took it, implemented it in broken ways to win benchmark comparisons and win IT buying managers' hearts and minds, locking everyone into their chipsets. Finally, all those broken implementations were exposed, and AMD finally had the capital to do things right at scale.

RISC or MIPS or any other CPU in that "minimized" class doesn't really have the room to scale as fast.
That cannot be right - Verizon (not Motorola) got the rights from Lucas Arts. IIRC, there was at least one non-Motorola Droid (made by HTC, IIRC)
Long time ago I read somewhere you shouldn't hold the lever all the way because it could potentially allow more oxygen through and thus have to pay just a little bit more for the same amount of fuel. Is that really true or was I being gaslighted?
The sound track is especially amazing during the storm. It captures that feeling of hope interwoven with despair and a will to survive.
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe sound should be differentiated from other waves as traveling through a physical medium of atoms as opposed to a fundimental field. Under this definition the following sentence quote makes sense.

> the speed of sound is dependent on two dimensionless fundamental constants: the fine structure constant and the proton-to-electron mass ratio.
Well, or it just needs to be a dominant gene.
Going Viral as a Woman in Tech
Ray tracing and global illumination by Dr. Károly Zsolnais-Fehér
Maybe jimmies meant compared to webcams?
So uhhh, I guess I should insulate my home natural gas pipe at the outdoor above-ground portion before it hits the meter?

(The gas would be warmer coming from the ground than atmospheric temperature during the heating season)

Wait: wouldn’t I want it to be cooler when it’s measured so it’s denser and I get more moles per volume measured?
This is in similar lines with a great article by Andy Raskin, "The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen"[1]. I like that article, and I re-visit that multiple times even when I'm not preparing a presentation.

1. https://medium.com/the-mission/the-greatest-sales-deck-ive-e...
Well, whether it makes a difference in practice depends on questions like: What fraction of sunlight's energy is delivered in the visible spectrum that the white paint would reflect? (Are there any significant differences in absorption of infrared or UV that would counteract it?) How much total power does that integrate to over the area of the car? At what rate does the heated exterior of the car conduct heat into the interior? Etc.

I don't know these quantities myself. As I wrote the above message, it seemed possible that the effect could turn out to be very small and not worth bothering about; I vaguely remembered reading that it might be a few degrees. Well, if we google a bit:

"We took two nearly identical vehicles, one white and one black, and let them bake in the hot Georgia summer sun. When we measured the interior temperature after a few hours, ... The black car’s cabin measured a scorching 130 degrees Fahrenheit, while the white car’s interior registered only 113 degrees." https://www.autotrader.com/car-video/car-color-test-are-blac... Ok, that is substantial.
I hate it too, but you can open it in incognito mode.
I hope they provide some follow-up data on how many people took that package. My assumption is that it will be a small group. I think a lot of other companies could learn from the outcome.
I was filling up one time when the person on the opposite side of the pump drove off with the nozzle still attached. Once the end broke away, the rest of it snapped back and slammed into the other side of the pump enclosure so loudly and violently that it set off my adrenaline and I was freaked out for a good few minutes. Quite an experience!
frankly I wouldn't take a car without a wrap through one of those touchless car washes either. I took my gti through one once and it blasted one of those rubber stoppers out from between the hatch and the sill.
I’ve actually thought about that a lot myself. The flip side is, how much more knowledge is produced because of it?
My father sold gas back in the day. He told me a story of an incident where he accidentally sold water instead of gas. When the supply tanker was filling up the underground reserves, someone forgot to close up the underground reserve. A heavy rain came overnight and water infiltrated the tank.

It was an accident. Repair costs for customers were handled through the gas station's insurance.
But what’s the deal with UK pumps stopping if you squeeze the trigger too hard? Drives me crazy.
Thanks for explaining some more. So it's basically an attempt to standardize group naming, to address a fairly specific use case (as with my previous comments, that's not a criticism, just how I'm trying to understand it) of someone not wanting messages from different servers in a particular group?

This goes against how Usenet works in general, allowing people from different servers to have discussions with each other, but I can see how it's useful in some cases, for server specific groups.
"grounding" in this case refers to equalising the potential difference.
How to earn money during Covid-19?
I agree, it's felt like a fundamentally wrong sort of thing for a long time to me.

Same with prisoners being not allowed to vote.

How can you have a representative democracy where only some of the people are represented, and laws are made that determine who goes to prison for political reasons (such as using cannabis for example)?

The Brexit vote in the UK is a great example of this injustice. It is often cited as 52% voted for Brexit.

But the people most affected are the residents from EU countries other than the UK. They are of all ages, and have been told, some their entire lives, that they have the same effective status as UK citizens in virtually every way.

Unlike most systems, the EU-UK system did not require visas, documentation, or place restrictions on people. They were allowed to do virtually everything any citizen can do, and advised in effect that converting to actual UK citizenship is a pointless formality, which even the UK state would not encourage. In effect they were "virtual citizens" already. Many are part of multi-generation families in the UK by now.

And then a decision which affects them most of all is passed without their input.

There are millions of them. About 5.5% of the entire UK population. If they had been asked, there is no doubt from the numbers that the result would have gone decisively the other way.

A prime example of "taxation without representation" and all the other things like that.

On top of that, another group very much affected: UK citizens living in the EU. Some of those retired are now in difficult circumstances, as they lose rights where they are settled, and can't really come back to the UK either. Those living there long-term were not allowed to vote on the issue even though it severely affects them; that number is about 1% of the UK population.

A prime example of "screwed without representation".
I drove off with nozzle once because it was my first time filling my new German car, which has the port on the right, which I wasn't used to.
I sold life size when T1 connectivity was still the norm and you could get HD over one of those. The quality was outstanding for the time.
Shenzhen Hands Out 10M Yuan in Central Bank Digital Currency
Minor League Baseball (Or Lack Thereof) During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The submitted website appear to be a "blank" with a form, asking for user's name and email. It doesn't mention the purpose of the website / project behind
What an interesting read. I had no idea that the Central Valley had been so full of water, nor that it had been drained so early. After reading the article I found this "conceptual" map which illustrates approximately what it may have looked like circa 1851: https://geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Californ...

The cynic in me thinks this is what our future generations are doomed to - reading articles of what the world was like before massive global climate change and thinking, "wow, I wonder what that world was like, I can't imagine it," and simultaneously, "what were those people thinking, how could they care so little for the environment?"
Similar experience here.

The only setups I can use for >1month are the Kinesis Advantage and MX Ergo, or the butterfly keyboard and trackpad.

I've chocked it up to the super low travel keys and not having to put any force on the trackpad.

Besides that I've tried the MS Sculpt keyboards plus all sorts of mechanical and chiclet keyboards. None of them have been comfortable
The Dell XPS 13 with the absurdly located camera - just above keyboard level. When I bought it, I had no intention of using it and had taped it over. And then 2020 happened. When I really need to show people my face on zoom, I now use DroidCam and make my phone the webcam. Works really well for me.
Every discussion world view defines terms and names specifics as well as asking questions. However, that doesn't mean one set of terms, specifics and questions is compatible with another - usually such things are part and parcel of the world view.
Wow! That's a really impressive difference.

My android phone gets ~2700ms for KaTeX, ~3100ms for MathJax 3, ~17000ms for MathJax 2.7. There were times KaTeX and MathJax traded which I'm guessing is due to page size differences and my poor Internet connection.
Silent reds are good. Tactile feedback is overrated, silent low force push is great.
An Axios Alternative for Large API Setup
North America uses gas, a shortening of gasoline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Etymology
You're arguments, are erroneous and are so out of topic.

Let's do a bit of fact checking on this false narrative. Having worked in government. Most if not all financial transactions records are public record and can easily be traced.

The only known grant(call it subsidy if you want) that Tesla got from the government is a loan from the Department of Energy.

"In January 2010, the Department of Energy issued a $465 million loan to Tesla Motors" Source: https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla

The loan was to buy the old Toyata/GM NUMMI plant. That single plant now hires thousands of workers and produce thousands of electric vehicles a month. That DOE loan was PAID off 10 years early PLUS interest. Therefore, the American taxpayers made money and cemented the U.S. as a leader in EV market share.

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-doe/electric-carmak...

Can you provide the rest of the $1.5B you're claiming? I can already predict you will link the Business Insider and L.A. Times articles. Both of which are inaccurate. They also did not provide sources where they got those numbers from.

Before you mention the tax breaks for the Giga Factory in Nevada. This has been a common thing for states to do. So that they can entice companies to build infrastructure. Because that can end up bringing in tax revenue in the long run. BMW have gotten hundreds of millions as well in just South Carolina alone. So that point is moot:

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/25-years-ago-bmw-opened-shop...

https://www.dw.com/en/mexican-subsidies-for-bmw-under-fire/a...
> There are some specific use case in which Ergodox is better but most of the time the best choice is to go with Kinesis.

Probably could have said just this and it would have communicated your point without coming across as a condescending asshole.
The biggest problem I find with traditional mechanical keyboards are they are too tall, you need wrist support ideally. Newer low profile keys are coming out which are much more comfortable, (I just can't afford yet).
It's almost a century old design; I've posted patent links in another top-level comment here. In this case there's no real improvement to be made in adding complexity in the form of electronics, especially in an application involving flammable liquids...
We use it both ways.
> it is clear that the importance of Facebook removing disinformation is linked proportionally to the power Facebook has to distribute information

Yes, but not proportionally to the power Facebook should have to distribute information.