skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't an immigration issue per se but we (early stage startup) were thinking of hiring an employee who will remain in their home country (Colombia) and work remotely until COVID concerns are far in the rearview.
Do you know of any companies that we can use as a proxy or intermediary so we don't have to go through all the legal hoops ourselves? After some super quick research we found lano.io but would love some more recs if you (or anyone else) have some.
If you're stuck inside dreaming about travel, you're not alone
> Vivado is a mess.

I recently encountered a bug in the Vivado IP integrator packaging whatever crap where if you left the "Vendor name" field at its default value '(none)', the packaging aborted with an error because that field contained invalid characters: the parentheses. That's a bug that any kind of testing should have caught (two bugs, actually).

Also: Why does Vivado have to treat any little IP core I create like it's some full-fledged library that exists independently of my main project? I just want to attach a 50-line HDL module to an AXI interconnect in the block diagram – I don't want to create a new project for this, ffs.
Okay so, technically in theory you can introduce logic bugs, but not memory safety bugs, if you don't consider unwind safety in safe code. Logic bugs can happen in any code, of course.

The practical, day-to-day implications of this still round to zero, though.
Thanks for sharing these! As someone who had been working on a newsletter for over 2 years with no time to look into styling at all these seems very useful :). I'll definitely give them a shot at one point!
Hello, thanks for doing this! I just got my H1B approval after being on OPT for the last couple years. Apart from obvious covid restrictions, am I otherwise still limited for travel because of the recent executive orders? Do you know when it will be possible to leave and re-enter the US?

Also, now that remote work is common, I am curious if the H1B has requirements for time spent in the US, the way the green card does. I can't seem to find definitive answers about any residency requirements online. Are there any for H1B?
What is your take on the advent of Boundless, SimpleCitizen, etc as tools for corporate immigration?
No question, just wanted to thank you for doing these.

You've answered a question I had in the past and it helped a lot. Rock on.
ProtonMail charges a lot for their services and they have no problem with that. I don't see why Apple shouldn't get their cut.
> dump a buttload of pre-tax money into a 401(k)... About $53k in one year.

That’s like double the IRS allowed maximum for pre-tax 401k deferral in a year, no? This is not my area of expertise so I could easily be unaware of something. Can you explain how you did this as I’m genuinely curious and want to do the same.
The Aztec Empire was also brutal in general. That's why many of the oppressed tribes joined the Spanish conquerors (which actually we're a minority in the battles).
Ask HN: What are the unwritten rules of politics in company environments?
In my career so far, I've never been properly immersed in a company or corporate environment -- I've mostly worked at arm's length (e.g. by freelancing)

Were I to find myself starting at a sufficiently large company, what are the unwritten "political" rules and rituals where my ignorance of expected behavior or failure to adhere to the norms could cause friction?

I'm pitching this question broadly: It could apply to situations between you and people at the same level, or between you and your reports, or between you and your boss, or any of the above when others are watching. Permute with valences like "when everything went well" vs. "when things went badly" etc.

Not looking for hard science, just the opinions you've formed.
Thanks for that extra info. I'm wondering if Weinberg's comment may in fact have been in support of Salam and his (possibly frustrated) experiences in Pakistan, rather than in contradiction of it. I think it would have been a fruitful avenue for the article to pursue.
Indeed the article starts off okay, but by the time it gets to the "Why Inquiry Failed in the Islamic World" section it rapidly turns into a dumpster fire.

The usual Western triumphalist brain farts in discussing the Islamic world are present:

* exaggerating the extent of separation of Church and State in Christianity.

* exaggerating the marginalization of non-Muslim minorities in medieval Muslim societies and framing it as unique while completely ignoring the treatment of non-Christian minorities in Christian societies in the same period (hint: not that great)

* implying that Muslim success are a fluke and it's failures reflect the true nature of Islam

You know in 1980 some blowhard could have surveyed the world's Catholic countries and noted how many of them were under authoritarian regimes. Said blowhard could have then wrote a long essay detailing the authoritarian history and nature of the Catholic Church, linking it to present political conditions. He could then contrast it with the nature of Protestantism and success of Protestant nations, explain away France as an outlier to due to lingering Huguenot influence.

"From Latin America to Spain & Portugal to the Philippines the unquestioning obedience to an unaccountable organization in spiritual matters has primed the Catholic world for predisposition to dictatorship" he would solemnly declare. "Contrast this with the marketplace of ideas that exists in the Protestant sphere and the idea of the worshiper having a direct relationship to God rather than an intermediating hierarchy".

You get my point.

From Wikipedia: "In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals."
Those enlightened people never conceived of a world where a lie could be spread to millions of people by anyone at the click of a button or spewed in volume by bots posing as people.
@Sukera

Fair, but, if I break up all the loops and if statements into functions, those functions still have “end”s
HotSpot wasn't the only game in town for embedded, and Dalvik was much worse than what Nokia and Sony-Ericson had on their own (not HotSpot based) implementations.

So much that they eventually rebooted the whole thing with ART.

Apparently Swing was appropriate for SavaJE, go figure.
I quite liked this article, but both the article and the comments here mostly skip over my absolute favorite Julia feature: because Julia is fast end-to-end, you can code in the style that naturally matches your use case and mental models without sacrificing performance. Functional patterns and imperative patterns, vector-based or element-by-element, your types or built-in: they all work well and run quickly!

I do most of my programming in Julia and Python. Python libraries like numpy and pandas are fast and efficient—if you're staying "within the lines" of how the library is designed to work. And most of the time this is okay! But not irregularly I want to do array operations on arrays of user-defined types, or I want to walk through a dataframe row by row without paying a huge performance penalty, etc. And all the sudden the well-tuned Python ecosystem feels very restrictive.

In Julia, my workflow is roughly: 1) think about the problem. 2) Code an intuitive solution. 3) If necessary, tweak a little bit of code to improve performance by reducing allocations or type instability.

That's a lot less mental work than my Python/Matlab/Java workflow of 1) think about the problem. 2) Think about how the solution can be expressed in the paradigm the language supports performance with. 3) Write a solution in this particular paradigm. 4) Tune for performance, which may be awkward if the initial solution was not intuitive.
A bug is found in Pokémon, by a fish
grandparent poster here: I was playing digital version.
Thanks, yes that is what I meant but to clarify. When the figure of 60-70 uses for DNS was mentioned, thoughts of data exfiltration over DNS and DDoS amplification attacks were two things that sort of sprang to mind as alternate uses of it.

So I was wondering what other less Nefarious purposes DNS has been (ab)used to do?
Yes, even on a computer where the throughput of AVX-512 is the same as the throughput of AVX/AVX2, like Tiger Lake, it is usually much easier to reach that throughput with AVX-512 than with AVX/AVX2.

The mask registers can eliminate special prologue or epilogue code for the loops and having more and larger registers make it much easier to overlap enough computations so that the latencies of the operations are hidden.

I would never buy again an Intel CPU without AVX-512, because that has already for some time been their main advantage and now it remains their only advantage over AMD.

Unfortunately for Intel, even if AVX-512 is a great improvement, it cannot compensate for a number of cores half of the competition. Intel needs to launch the 8-core Tiger Lake H no later than March 2021, but it would be better for them if they could do it earlier.
Yelp launches alert that identifies businesses accused of racism
> it's viewpoint is obviously based on a certain political viewpoint, but the author doesn't even try to prove this viewpoint

Similarly, your comment didn't specify anything about what this political viewpoint might be, nor any reasons why you think this article is based on such a viewpoint.
This is a great post, alongside the fall of Roman, this is something I never looked into it and should be covered in any normal education.

Thanks :)
To add another US data point, for my family of 4 I pay $770 per month for health insurance and my employer pays an additional $1,370 per month.

My health insurance is through my employer, a large publicly-traded company. My insurer is one of the large well known providers.

Our insurance is very mediocre. We pay the first $3,000 out of pocket and 20% of the cost beyond that, but that's only if a doctor is "in network" (which is sometimes hard to find). Out of network doctors have a separate deductible.

I also pay 1.45% of my paycheck to Medicare, and my employer pays another 1.45% on my behalf. Plus my wife and I pay an extra 0.9% of our paychecks for all combined wages above $250,000. But I won't be eligible for Medicare until I'm 65 years old.
Only over the wire. Google and Cloudflare (or whatever DoT server you are using) still see and log your DNS queries (if they want). That is his point.
For founders and key technical talent outside the U.S. who did not finish their undergraduate degrees, are they in-effect disqualified from H1B and must go the route of an O visa?

Given technical people aren't celebrities or sports figures, beyond conference proceedings, what were the kinds of evidence these kind of applicants presented in support of an O - or another type of visa?
Só true.
Usually, paraphrasing taleb here, the "old papers" are more important.
They resisted the test of time, and the ones that are still talked about (survivors) are the most relevant, and better insights.
While the thousands of papers that appear every year, most of them will be irrelevant.
I hope they don't buy them from Amazon, most of those are counterfeits and cheap knock offs.
> There is probably some truth in this for the FAANG "work 80 hrs a week, get rich in 5 years" jobs

If you are at a FAANG company and working 80 hours a week, you're earning the same compensation as you would if you were working 40 hours a week. It's not like you're going to get richer working 80 hours. Come review time, nobody looks and says, "oh hey, you worked lots and lots of hours. You get a promotion!" It makes no sense.

Now if you owned 10% of your startup and those 40 extra hours meant the difference between a big exit and running out of runway, that makes more sense.
This article is ridiculous.

1. Many homeless people are insane. Not all, and it is more represented in TV than in real life, but it is still true. I guess it's kind of a shame that media doesn't represent homeless people better, but tropes do come partially from truth. And come on, a "thinking brain dog" is pretty funny.

2. No one wants to tune into a noir PI show and watch struggles to pay the bills and roommate drama. And don't be ridiculous, there are tons of shows that show people living in shitty conditions.

3. This point makes me think the article is satire. Seriously? It's "classist" to kill stormtroopers since they're probably just "low-middle income people making ends meet?"

4. I'm guessing this show is based off the middle ages, where commoners literally did have lice and rotting teeth. Don't forsake realism for 21st century ideals of "anti-classism."

5. This has to be a joke too. The reason collective action is "villainized" in those stories is because it went too far. Protesting is fine and whatever, but if you're causing destruction then obviously your protest movement should be villainized. It's not classist.
Is Protonmail taking a cut out of any transactions that may happen over your email?
Thanks. I will check that list again (which should be linked on LINMOBapps already), there seem to be some games (and maybe more) that I have not added to my list (mostly because I just don't care about games).

What I meant with "state" is stuff like: Does it crash? Is it "feature complete"? Most rating systems (including the one on MGLapps/LINMOBapps) seem to look at "does this fit the screen" more than these aspects, and it is virtually impossible to fit this all into one score.
This is one of the huge selling points for RH IMHO: Since they are open source if the vendor dies the product doesn't. Ceph is an amazing product with some really big customers, it wouldn't go down with the ship.

That said, Red Hat is doing well and I don't see them dying.

Disclaimer: I work for RH but opinions are my own
You seem to be one of the rare people who used both, Brazil and monorepo. Could you elaborate? What did you realize when the lightbulb clicked? What do you miss outside of Amazon? How can Brazil be misused?
That might well be the issue, these were game/gui libraries. What's the timeframe on BinaryBuilder?
Understandable. How do you propose we deal with the current wave of propaganda and misinformation that these platforms enable, especially since they’re already having a very real effect on politics all over the world?
The group ideas are only as good as the smartest member. All this chit chat talk is bullshit
I also had a difficulty following the story as the rest of the commenters above. My feeling is that this was caused by how text and the images were combined to tell the story. Images contain too much information and tend to make me focus on them instead of the text outside them, so I was ending up missing part of the information. I find visual storytelling interesting as a concept but probably it needs an approach similar to comics? The visual part is dominant and the textual part of the story is embedded to it, so it's easier to follow.
Yeah, just let him do that real quick...
No. But I feel robbed when I have to pay $8/mo for an extra virtual email box.

Sidenote: Apple also doesn't take a cut of any payments that I send with my iPhone.
I posit that no productivity would be lost. Just have a summarizing AI email you the outcomes.
If covid-19 were containable, then average people don't need masks. This isn't new territory: we've contained infectious diseases before, like SARS and ebola, and average Joe didn't need a mask then, either.

The CDC (and frankly every major government in the world) believed that covid-19 could be contained, and that no major outbreak would happen inside their country. This was incorrect. But if you hold this assumption, the CDC made the correct recommendation: N95 masks, properly worn, are the masks that protect against covid-19, and average people don't need them.
Supreme Outsourcing should be able to help. http://supremeoutsourcing.com

Louis Lautman is best contact over there for help.
louis (at) supremeoutsourcing (dot) com
It is opt in.

It's easy to change and it's nice that old branch histories will do directs to new branch.

https://github.com/github/renaming
In rural areas people often have more and closer contact with government than big city folks.

People in US rural areas are likely to personally interact with the mayor, sheriff, police chief, council members, US park service directors, US forest service directors, local or federal agriculture agency reps, public utility commissioners, water commissioners, tribal government, and so on.

And, many of these people do have direct influence on their day to day life.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the living should not be ruled by the dead, and that the Constitution should expire after 19 years.

James Madison wrote the Senate should protect the moneyed from democracy, and the Constitution was forever.

If you’re going to point at their ideas, don’t cherry pick nebulous middle ground cartoon versions of their actual positions. Don’t lump them all together as believing in the same values.
Definately worth considering yes. I rarely close Firefox so deleting cookies when I close a tab works better in my case.
I was helping these people with a different type of need (non-life-threatening), then later the food security situation developed and nobody else seemed to be able/willing to help, so I changed my focus. As I imagine is often the case where WFP is concerned, the population was especially vulnerable due to pre-existing medical conditions.
Quite a bit of genocide occurred in the territories, but most of that calmed down before they reached statehood.
Twitter has shown they have an extreme political bias over and over. It is insane to trust them to identify and censor "misinformation". This is just another censorship campaign hiding behind the current flavor of "think of the children".

I'd rather have these raving lunatics (and to be clear, many of these propagandists are exactly that) spouting nonsense than trust Twitter to curate the truth.
This is a narrow view of science. If they're taking one or two courses on physical science, what are their other classes? Do they examine the hypotheses and evidence in economics, history, etc.? Or is their course load just 10% physical science and 90% indoctrination?
I dunno, I see two sides to it. like it or not, popular shows/movies/books have a powerful influence over the way people see the world. having a large audience does come with a certain responsibility.

but if you accept this idea, why stop with the examples presented in the article? what about all the biopics that exaggerate or entirely fabricate conflicts in people's lives to suit the structure of a typical plot arc? what about the fighter jets in top gun that fly way too close together so they can actually fit in the camera's FOV?

I think example 2 (Poor Heroes Have Expensive Lifestyles) is going a bit in this direction. is it misleading that jerry seinfeld, a more or less unknown comedian in NYC, has a huge apartment on the show? yeah, probably. would it work to film all the apartment scenes in a 450 sqft studio? probably not.
What I'd do to have this balance.
How can one be forced to include in app purchases? This seems worded strangely. Maybe I missed the paragraph explaining how Apple did this.
And neither hide your DNS query from the DNS server itself. If half the world are using Cloudflare DNS via DoT, then Cloudflare could log those DNS queries and IPs. The logged data could be sold or given to law enforcement, governments, advertisers, etc. all from one or two large, convenient DoT providers. That is his point.
My dream is to work for the engineering divisions for these companies regarding automation around controlling the flow of information. It seems like such a fascinating problem
What do you propose to combat disinformation campaigns?

Look at what’s happening. The end results of allowing anything to happen on social media are not good. We’re not in a good place. So we can ignore that for rigid principles, or admit that those principles don’t stand up to the real world.

No, no one hundreds of years ago had any idea about the scale or effect of social networks. Yes there was propaganda and brainwashing, but the speed and adaptability and design of these systems is so different as to be categorically unrecognizable.

So. What do you propose?
Counter example:
- https://www.alstom.com/solutions/rolling-stock/coradia-ilint...

So far two single commuter train units tested in daily passenger use (direct replacement of a Diesel powered train) for 18 months in Germany, 3 months in the Netherlands, now in Austria. Some sources say with cost advantage over Diesel trains right now.

Will it be there long term? I do not know. But cumulative orders of to my knowledge 60+ trains can be something.

Edit: two, not one unit
The reality is that media helps define what is normative and what is not. Describing bad behaviour and abuse of the law, without calling it out as bad, helps normalize it.

Matt Levine's columns often goes one step beyond the "neutral way". They often describe them as cool ingenious schemes done by smart people.
And how was the "law of supply and demand" verified? smh
Yeah maybe its where the chronic conditions comes in. A normal healthy person can pay their way for regular stuff that comes along. You need the insurance for car accidents, cancer etc. Its the people with Chronic diseases that really need those gold plans.
Fair enough. What do you propose?
Right, but would you ever run VMWare on a fleet of RPis as a cloud of some sort? I mean, I guess you could, but it seems like a rather strange combination.
Disinformation content works because it drives huge engagement.

Huge engagement pays the bills for FB and twitter.

If we expect change we need an analog to a carbon or pollution tax for social.

“Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.”- Charlie Munger
Furthermore, the business goal of health insurance companies is to not pay for health care, to the greatest extent possible, given regulations and market dynamics. They even call it "medical loss". It's right on the tin.
Great hack, both! :)
I would love to know the true scope of “inorganic” content on these platforms. It is surely appalling. At some point users will realize that they are wasting their life staring into a screen that presents them with mostly engineered information.
People already trust these companies 100% to decide what they can read, de facto:

The evidence is that your FB messenger inbox is not filled with porn spam 400 times per second.

This is all fine and good until these centralized, sometimes-censored systems are commandeered by the state to censor person-to-person communications (whether it be on a certain topic, using certain keywords, or all messages to/from users in a certain geofence).

This is turnkey tyranny, and you wouldn't even know it had happened. The command to the service providers would be gag ordered, it wouldn't be visible, it wouldn't be reproducible, and it wouldn't make the news.

I am convinced that this represents one of the greatest threats to our society: the danger is imminent. If it hasn't happened already, it will soon.

https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24630900
going up against Trump while he controls the the executive and judiciary branches is not smart.
"Prosecute politicians who failed to fulfill their poll promises" --Khehar, Ex Chief Justice of India https://archive.vn/x7O4e
Then you should feel robbed when $2.40 of that goes to an unrelated company.
If you were to write US immigration policy (or, to narrow scope, US immigration policy for high skill workers) from first principles, what would it look like in broad strokes?
Which extremism exactly?
This is literally an episode from South Park to happen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Not_Yelping

What stops these "watchdog" users from abusing their power?
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