skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long been opposed to the current H1B system and want to see it entirely dismantled in favor of a bidding system paired with a clear path to citizenship for recipients so that we are both guaranteed H1B holders in the US are people whom US companies really need and are willing to pay top dollar for and that those same people stay in the US and contribute to it long-term.

This overhaul is not that. It will still have plenty of loopholes for companies to take advantage of in one way or another and will still allow abuses. Furthermore, the current economic situation of many white collar workers working from home for a year or more is likely making many employers rethink their stance on pay levels for local workers and opportunities to off/near-shore work that's being done remotely anyway. In short, I think this overhaul might help improve job security and pay for some workers in some industries, but overall it's not a great solution if those are your goals.
How bio-active is the diamine, and how much remains in the potable water?

What happens to the CO2 afterward, if the salt is released? If this doesn't bind the CO2 permanently then its only about water desal. If it bound the CO2 it has dual-purpose.
Elon Musk, to customer: I'm sorry for your experience

also Elon Musk, to product management: why don't we have a targa option? that looks amazing
Memory modules? AFAIK Not a single SoC in wide use has the main memory
(of this size) on chip, sure the controllers might be and caches too, but not the system memory itself, memory is dense and typically requires large floor plans. I don't think the naming is as odd as it seems. There are likely very complex system components in that chip, not just a "CPU+GPU".

For example, the raspberry pi uses a broadcom SoC, the DDR memory is external, that doesn't stop them from still calling it one even though they might offload certain features (like how the PS5 has offloaded the disk controller).
VM GPU Sharing / H.264
Hello everyone,
so over the weekend i looked for RDP alternatives and on the FreeRDP Site i stumbled over a program that is called "Thincast Workstation".

Basically this app is based on VirtualBox but has one feature that i really like. They call it "Virtual 3D" which uses the AMD/nVIDIA GPU encoding capabilities to "stream" the video to the client - pretty much the same what Win10 with H.264AVC444 is capable of, only that you don't need one GPU per VM.

Each VM uses the h264 decode capabilities of the Host GPU and i must say, it just works perfect. It even does support Direct X 12 and Vulkan in the VM.

The only downside is that it is only available for Windows 10 or Windows server. Is there something similar for Linux / unRAID / KVM?
Fox ran and then retracted a story because the thought they were legit enough to publish a story based on them.
Anchorage seems a more likely stopover for most Pacific routes?
I'm not familiar enough with it. My first thought is my friends that are H1B sometimes have to deal with uncertainty that it seems would be better to eliminate.

I recognize that H1B was not and is not meant to be addressing the same issues as a green card. So perhaps companies are abusing the H1B and we just need a better green card system? That's more of a question to those who's life are directly effected or well informed.
I don't understand why there is any confusion about this or needs any explanation at all that's not related to photons.
No offence, but this might also mean you failed to understand it.
Discussions within the core team are done on a private mailing list, so we'll know the status of things with a public announcement. Committers and contributors have no view of what gets discussed there, except if you are of course directly attached in CC of a given thread, and of course except if you are a committer also part of the core team. Four members of the current core team are committers.
If criminal charges shouldn't be made, because a crime hasn't occurred, why should the account be investigated?
> Not sure why they didn't enable storage tiering for regular external HDDs.

They did: "A USB 3.1 drive can also carry Xbox Series games as storage, which can be transferred to Series X or S's internal SSD or Storage Expansion Card to then be played."

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-series-ssd-expansion...
Sounds like Trump got a similar cocktail from a different company. The speed of his recovery and the fact that him having Coronavirus isn't even part of the news cycle anymore seems like a strong indicator that the treatment is probably a game changer.
How Machine Learning Made Hops-Free Hoppy Beer Possible
Ironic that this is #1 on HN, as I’m hellbanned here for calling out the mods for doing nothing about members of this site spreading this conspiracy.
Scaling Tesla’s New Battery Requires Rigorous Testing
My experience with service center has been exactly the same.
It’s called “Vapor” as in “vaporware” and makes absolutely no sense.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say we’re being trolled.
The emperor is naked.
Uploading custom books would be a killer feature. Please do :)
This is actually quite a good summary of the reasons the committee found for believing the antitrust grounds are legitimate. I recommend reading it in its entirety, especially if you think none of the named companies is a "true" monopoly and therefore antitrust shouldn't apply (antitrust is more complicated than that).
Replacing names with numbers? How dystopian!

This is of course a joke, I am a fan of the number system. The honour system also works fine here in Australia, they just call out the order and you go and take it after a tiny delay to see if the guy who was there first goes for it.
Not sure if I'm missing your point, but an expanding universe can still be finite.
I think the next reddit will be self-hosted subreddits, ones which can be easily forked, split, synced, archived, and with portable accounts.
You won’t need to teach people reading or writing either soon as voice interfaces get good enough. Still have no idea how The problem of automating away most of the jobs will be solved. A hope of lowering brith rates to compensate for it is about as optimistic as nuclear winter fixing global warming. Maybe I’m too idealistic, but with the best minds applied to the right problems fusion reactors and deep space travel would have been possible decades ago. Instead we have targeted ads and videochat filters.
We've a few spatial chat apps pop up in the past few months. It's part of the reason we set out to build https://align.link/, an extensible video chat platform.

Products like these (and others like https://www.macro.io/) could exist as meeting apps, allowing people to to tailor rooms specific scenarios like one on ones, retrospectives, happy hours, etc.
Not only do dependent types have huge decidability issues, it's my understanding that integrating them with side effects is still an area of active research.
I was thinking of Nietzsche's eternal recurrence:

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return#Friedrich_Nietz...
FWIW you could put in a new HDD in an original Xbox, and put a 2.5" HDD in the 360 hard drive enclosure, but neither were officially supported.
There is no contradiction. It's the prerogative of a website owner to control the content of their own website, this includes the freedom to remove content from the site they don't want to rebroadcast for whatever reason they like. It's a completely separate issue when the government is trying to coerce a private company to unmask a private citizen because of their speech. However, at the end of the day, the judge's ruling seems pretty reasonable considering the user fabricated FBI documents that are material in the question of the defamation case.
From what people who experienced it told me, it's not the smell & taste loss which come from colds and similar illnesses, where your nose is runny or obstructed.

One person told me she was cleaning something with vinegar, her daughter entered the kitchen and told her "mum, this vinegar smell is horrible!" and then it dawned on her she couldn't smell anything.

No runny or stuffy nose. She was normal, except she couldn't smell anything.

At this point of the pandemic, complete loss of smell and taste of this kind almost certainly indicates covid19, outliers notwithstanding.
I mean, with the exception of the name, of course.

"postgre" feels and sounds like a plate full of very wet, oily rice and the subsequent addition of clear vomit to the mix.
> Is this a necessary distinction?

It is the only possible way to study languages scientifically. You don't go prescribe physical objects, you look at physical objects treat their behavior as a black box and build models to predict them.

> Taking this to the extreme, there would be no such concept as a grammatical error. Or even syntax, for that matter.

Correct, as I said there really is no such thing as grammar error. A native speaker cannot, by definition, talk in wrong grammar. You need a point of reference to judge sentence to be off grammar. In order to do so, you need to have a formal language which is a model of natural language. The only possible way for you to do this if you observe N native speakers and capture their language formally such that your model can predict sentences they would use to communicate.

> Or even syntax, for that matter.

Not following you. Syntax is a property of formal languages. English, as defined by institution X, python, Lojban, typed lambda calculus are all formal languages, which have well defined axioms and rules of inference. Natural languages however do not. This is the same distinction between natural numbers and models of natural numbers (Paeno arithmetic, Q, etc). Or electrons as they exist in themselves, and physical theories that predict behavior of electrons.

> If a native speaker says 'loose' instead of 'lose' (or 'rouge' vs 'rogue') did they just create a new dialect?

Everything I said is about spoken language not written. It's possible for native speakers to make spelling mistakes, it's not possible for them to pronounce a word wrong or make grammatical mistakes. (modulo human errors, of course if a native speaker accidentally says something wrong, they can pick it up and fix themselves)

> What about vocabulary? There are natives who never bothered reading a book, and thus are limited in their vocabulary.

Register, argo etc. I'm sorry but these are all well understood concepts available to you in first couple chapters if a Linguistic 101 textbook.

> I am not sure one's upbringing gives them any authority on language usage.

The whole point is there is no authority. Just like no one can judge what is the correct way for an atom to behave, no one can judge what is the correct way for a person to speak. The way you learned from your mom and practice daily is the language you speak as it is.
That's the intent though right?
Only problem, I suspect, is it's super expensive and hard to produce in the large amounts required. So not as much of a game changer as we'd like. Still should save a few lives.
Feynman's argument was about why you can't have systems that decrease entropy continuously. It doesn't disprove that there can (and will) be downward fluctuations in entropy, which is what I believe the OP was asking about. As someone else mentioned this is the idea behind a Boltzmann Brain (which is a pretty fascinating concept).
The original Raspberry Pi had all of that on one chip, but it does look like the later models do not have it all in one, perhaps because the larger memory capacities cannot actually fit in a chip of that size. So it seems you are right.
EVs have far fewer parts than ICE vehicles - transmission radically simpler, no radiator, exhaust, etc etc - I would take a 10 year old Tesla over a BMW any day.
Trump released a statement a few hours ago that they have hundreds of thousands of doses available and he's going to push to make it free to patients.

Obviously, it's still unclear how the politics of all of it play out, but seems more promising than most things we've seen so far.
Trump might still go south... It's hard to tell what's true on that front, and it's still early days.

Still looks promising though.
School interviews and licensing exams stop early in your career.
No. Job security in the US doesn't exist. The changes are just trying to close some loopholes and get the program back to its essence: a way to temporarily hire skilled workers for which there is a shortage in the US.

It doesn't give any job security to school teachers, waiters, electricians, lawyers, etc. The entire workforce is not composed of tech people.
I watched the whole thing...wow that gap, how can that even come off the lot? It must be withing the Tesla tolerance level, which is scary.

Also the back seat isn't roomier, the dad had his legs spread and said it's just as roomy...I think using a touch screen to move the vents would annoy me very quickly. My family car is a Honda Odyssey and it annoys me that the fan speed on the AC is via the touch screen.
All the threads are talking about Free Speech, but that ended when the person impersonated an FBI agent.

That is not a protected act and is prosecutable[0].

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/912
Nuclear non-proliferation is about controlling access to highly enriched materials, not the knowledge. If you have enough refined material for critical mass, getting it to blow up is trivial. Maximizing yield, not so much.
And this is the other side of the famed tech desire to collect tons of info but refuse to give it to the government. We get disinterested social networks allowing fake news that cause direct harm, created by anonymous users who they don't want to reveal.

I am a strong privacy advocate, but the idea we should give corporations our data while hiding it from the government is kinda ludicrous when you look at the results.
What if Trump loses but insists he won?
Let's face it, the answer to "caniuse" a feature that isn't in Chrome yet is "no".
It was once a useful role and now is not. Sure people can retrain and reapply for jobs, do we need unions for that?

Saying bosses dont like unions therefore dismissal of discussion is missing the point.

My view is too much of unionizing is underpinned by coveting other people's success and wanting to feel good after being burned.

The pareto principle and distribution of wealth isn't going to change, some unions are going to be paid off for how much discontent is felt. Which has some virtue, and not enough virtue.
Ah so it was. I didn’t know that. Thanks. As you say, petty.
Trump Wins
It does not matter if there are many rounds or one, what matters is how Monty behaves. And that is given only for the current round, and not as a general rule.
> Since you don’t care about goats, this makes no difference.

Says you. I choose the goat!
> it seems convenient to argue for their users first amendment rights when out the other side of their mouth they argue that they are a private platform and should not be subject to free speech regulations when they choose to censure speech

Even ignoring the other arguments made about companies versus the government, I don't think the right to be anonymous is from the First Amendment. Most often the Fourth Amendment is cited as the basis; although it's not as explicit as the First Amendment is about the protection of speech, the Ninth Amendment does say that rights don't have to be explicitly enumerated.
3% less garbage is still a lot. Would you rather more garbage?
From my dim memories of high school, the main factors were actually personal hygiene and lack of fashion sense. The problem with these kinds of discussions is that adults tend to attribute adult-like reasoning to teenagers. You just don't remember how shallow you were.
This is the key from my perspective:
"Moreover, as of 2008, three-quarters of those with opioid use disorder were receiving medication-assisted treatment. Though that’s considered the best approach, less than half of Americans who could benefit from medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction receive it."

Buprenorphine has saved my life and I wish everyone could have access to it and that it would be provided for free. Pay for it from grabbing back cash from the Sackler's.

I'm surprised in the article the phrase 'less than half' which sounds like it's on the higher end towards 50.

I would have guessed much lower. I can't find a great source but this has some numbers [1]. Says only 36% of rehabs have access to at least one replacement therapy.

And that's people who can access rehab...

To be able to prescribe Suboxone - from what my Dr. has told me - MDs have to have a specific DEA certificate. And they limit the number of patients one single Dr. can treat at a few hundred.

In my state there aren't many prescribers - not nearly enough for the number of addicts. And I live in a liberal state.

It's easier for Drs to dole out opiates than prescribe buprenorphine.

We can also learn from Portugal in more community and healthcare intervention.

The big problem here to get there is that DAs, sheriffs, mayors are elected and there are 50 states. We will need to shift public opinion everywhere to make meaningful progress outside of big cities. Plus with Barr's Justice Department catholic radicalization who knows what happens if they get another 4 years.

It's gross that in America those who are poor, BIPOC, are far more likely to have their lives ruined by unequal drug prosecutions.

If we ever start treating addiction not prosecuting it, I hope we'll do better than marijuana and clear old records/convictions for small drug possession.

https://nam.edu/improving-access-to-evidence-based-medical-t...
Not all of their toilet paper; paper that used a unique tiling pattern that he'd invented and copyrighted.
No, if Monty sometimes opens the door with the prize, and you ignore those games, then the result is different, and you don't benefit from switching doors.
In a world where console owners do not call themselves gamers but are regular people who like to play a game from time to time
I speak English and Spanish well, I'd say fluently (my native language is neither English nor Spanish). I studied English in high school (2 hours a week), but I first chatted with native speakers ~ 15 years ago. I have been living in the US for 10 years and I use English continuously: I read in English, I listen to the radio in English, podcasts, TV. I have a very rich vocabulary, I'd say in the top 15% of native English speakers. For the life of me, I cannot watch movies without subtitles. That does not happen with podcasts, radio, or live talks. It is not that I understand nothing, but I struggle. My hypothesis is that the movie dialogue is not "natural" or "intuitive" and I cannot predict in some way what will be said. That prediction—I hypothesize—is needed when, allow me to use this image, the language is still not "yours". I still make mistakes when writing, I forget "s" all the time when using the third person and other minor mistakes that native speakers basically never make. I just don't feel the language they way I feel my native language.

I have yet to meet someone who has learned a language in their 20s and became as fluent as they are in their native language. The brain is increasingly less plastic the older we get and that is undoubtedly true for anyone who is not living in fantasy world for both motor and cognitive abilities.

PS, I am sure there are some typos, despite me having read my post a few times.
~160k first names

~100k last names

Out of 7-8 billion people this is really all (or most) of the first and last names? We aren’t a very creative species I guess. I especially would have expected the number of first names to be at least an order of magnitude larger.
Nope. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714612
There's a spot to store removed screws in the base! I don't even play games but I want a PS5 based off of this teardown. It's so heartwarming to see a manufacturer encouraging modifying hardware these days. I'm sure there's guides incoming on how to add Noctua fans and liquid metal paste to the heatsink.
There are plenty of other ways to express your individual identity, without hindering ease of communication. In this particular case, giving the group a name which does not contain information about what the group does is contrary to the goal of communicating the group's purpose.

If your only goal is to communicate what a progressive, free thinking, modern ideologue you are, then sure, give your groups whatever names you like if that's the sort of people you want to dog whistle to. If, like most other people, you simply want to communicate the groups purpose in a quick way, then there are plenty of de facto standards to follow.
It doesn't matter if you switch in that case. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714612
At last we see the end of the funnel. Both sides of an argument push 'progress' for a desired result.
This reminded me of the (in)famous remark of Bernstein before he performed with Glenn Gould the Brahms Piano Concerto (also mentioned in the article):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWPM783TOE

He was so insistent on his own interpretation, that even one of the best regarded conductors in the world couldn't convince him otherwise. After many years the "unusually" slow tempo doesn't sound so extreme, and to me even preferable. Glenn Gould was incredible in terms of his musical understanding. Maybe that's why his Bach was phenomenal because he could bring out the multiple layers as much as he liked, and even improvising new voices in his humming at times.

If anyone is interested in Brahms Piano Concertos, I also recommend Gilels' performances, which remain the best in my mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqYzBCk_tm4
Facebook/Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm
Same reason people don't like Apple. A low quality product sold by massive advertising/marketing campaigns.

And yes Tesla is unreliable, there's no debate here. A new car company is going to be unreliable. And why are you using Absolute numbers? 1 roof, 7 million Ford cars. You made a statistical error here.

And what is this about combustion engines? It's 2020, everyone sells an EV. Only Tesla sells a low quality EV.
Twitter just banned the hashtag #obamagate after Trump reposted it. Hypocrisy is pretending Twitter are a free speech platform. They don't even respect your President's free speech.

Twitter attaches "Learn how Voting by mail is safe and Secure"to his posts now too.

Like how exactly do they know how well the mail-in voting will go, and the future?

Some states have laws so they won't even start counting the mail in votes until election night, and there is a hard deadline to declare a president. Do you really think it will go well? Or do they want to drag out the counting for weeks, and create instability?

Also, why take the chance your mail in ballot might be lost or rejected. Tens of Thousands have been rejected in past elections. Just vote in person if you can.
Don't listen to Twitter fact checkers. They are actually promoting the higher risk option, thats easier to cheat with.
I mean, step 2 did "imbue the card remaining in the pair with extra probability juice." It went from 1/3 to 1/2. But so did the card you picked initially.