skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute BS with misleading title

There is general policy that is passed to each organization and then organizations decide by themselves, overriding policy. Most of them block any country change, which means maybe you change state in US, but anything else is refused

In policy written it is vague with mention of exceptions but verbally communicated by management you understand how forbidden it is

Microsoft is still holding on to idea of employee in sight is better managed
This seems like overstating the facts to support your own views. Can you please tell which recently enacted laws treat Astrology as a Science?
They can’t and they shouldn’t. The potential good that could come from this does not outweigh the catastrophic failure modes of this approach. Some enlightened people understood this, hundreds of years ago.

Its time for another amendment.

EDIT since this is related, another horrendous idea that recently disgraced my timeline

https://twitter.com/yelp/status/1314197509623947265?s=21
>Yes it is, read the article.

Assuming we are talking about the same tiny article, you are oddly confident in your interpretation. The "conditioning access" quote is not directly about Facebook. The 400-page linked document talks about conditioning access in reference to google pushing search use via its android apps, analogous to what I stated above with facebook pushing their network.

As for the statements specifically about Facebook which the linked article did quote, they describe Facebook doing exactly what I said is the problem, namely not allowing competitors to use its platform.
If you insist I'm happy to go hunting for studies, but let's remember that the CDC from the start was advocating that people reserve masks for healthcare workers. If they didn't believe that masks worked, why would they do that?
Stand by to be called a racist.
Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar)
There's more to it than just reading an article and going for it. I also feel like I got nailed harder because there was a second person that they were trying to get me to reveal. That was not possible because of encrypted messaging. They incorrectly believed it was someone who I knew it was not.
I was born in Kazakhstan, one of the ex-USSR countries and had a chance to speak and help WW2 veterans in my town. Many of them shared their memories of the World War 2 and being honest none of them mentioned that factor.

Obviously it's hard to have a solid data on these kind of things but I'd be cautious about believing this. On the other side if any of them felt that way, it would be doubtful they'd publicly share that.
With no real evidence. This is just them falling in line with their American masters.
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Inspect it by piping to less or vim instead?
I don't think the rich are particularly held back by any classism they might experience.
That’s not being drastic, but I would simply read David Goggins Can’t Hurt Me. Your mind is accustomed to a life of leisure therefore to make progress you should get into the daily ritual of doing things you’d hate to do such as running 3 miles in the morning, etc.

The other potential answer here is maybe you don’t really want it as bad as you say? Often what we think we want and what we really want aren’t the same ;)

Last but not least your procrastination is likely due to you having too many goals or too high goals. Try having 1 daily top priority if you do that the day is a success, most people don’t have one. After you get your top focus done then 60 second tasks if you do them longer that’s just bonus. I think these are much better productivity habits.

There’s a great book on focus written by Gary Keller called One Thing.
What is special about the October Visa bulletin?
It seems like it should be fine based on their acceptable use policy[0]. There is a clause about excessive bandwidth use, but nothing about what constitutes "source code."

On another note, I do not know why you were down voted. You asked a valid question.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
oracles. people are using APIs to get pricing data of real world access, and create entire nodes of networks that have to agree, in the blockchain space they call these oracles. for tokenized assets this just makes them synthetics, indeed one of the biggest services you can use for creating and trading synthetics is called "Synthetix"

a centralized asset backed model is only one possibility and that does have the central point of failure.

it is extremely lucrative to build these API and API networks right now as an 'oracle provider', and decently lucrative to be a highly available oracle.

In the crypto space, both the oracle provider is tokenized with the tokens being typically used to get access to the API network (friction is reduced in some models by only charging/bonding the nodes that want to join the network, instead of consumers) ie $LINK, $BAND, $TRB, $DIA, and the derivatives provider would be tokenized as well ie. $SNX, alongside all the tokens you want to create and trade, or just trade
The vast majority of emigrants from the middle east are poor migrants to Europe, not educated scientists.
Are we going to put every ACOUP post up on Hacker News going forward? Because I would be on board with that.

He's got a lot of good content on his site besides the iron/steel sequence, I thought his contrast between Sauron's well executed attack on Minas Tirath versus Saruman's amateurish attack on Helm's Deep was quite well done as well.
Author does not advocate fo subtle, nuanced or even realistic depictions though:

> Depicting poor characters is great, but avoid making them lazy, dirty, crude, ignorant, or unintelligent.

From a lot of very personal experience with poor working class, this norm throws realism completely out of the window.
> single bot will make those in several weeks

Minutes!
Wouldn't that be a token problem, which could happen in a text version as well?

I used mutt for over 10 years, and gave up a few years ago. Having clear emails also includes having a good design.

Regardless of form, most companies go through cycles of cramming more and more clutter in emails, before restarting from scratch, and eventually back to clutter again.
The difference is actually wider, for example:

* Singapore 3.4% (https://stripe.com/en-sg/pricing)

* US 2.9% (https://stripe.com/pricing)

* Poland 1.4% (https://stripe.com/en-pl/pricing)

(+ some fixed amount in every country)

In some cases it can be even more expensive (see Adyen pricing for Amex or Diners cards: https://www.adyen.com/pricing)

This is a large difference and partially explains why the loyalty programs in Europe are not that attractive
hah, because you care so much, I'll go ahead and make that change. It's probably better for SEO anyway. I made the change on my local copy. It will get pushed next time I re-build the site.
I'm probably just reacting to the unfamiliar here but does anyone feel the alternative example they give would have it's own drawbacks?

> domain/host/path

> com/welcometothejungle/en/collections/behindthecode

Forgetting about the host/domain order I feel a different separator is actually a benefit in terms of readability and being able to distinguish between host and folders is more useful than this would suggest. If my URL is

edu/utexas/mccombs/blogs/mba-insider/covid-19-updates/

And I don't get a response am I trying to ping the equivalent of utexas.edu or mccombs.utexas.edu or blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu?
We just hired someone with an h1b that was approved in premium processing in June. How likely is he to be able to come in January? He currently lives in Ukraine and will need to do his embassy appointment there.

Thank you for doing these Peter!
Cool game! I was able to get over 65% by looking at just the year, that should be hidden in the guessing phase.
We are now inching towards the political reality of the situation, but that is essentially what the CDC and various hospitals tried to do.

New York went to the federal government to get masks and was told to pound sand. They then ordered them from Canada and were once again impeded by the federal government[1]. So now you are in a situation where your the hospital supply chain is now gone, and you are forced to buy masks for medical workers in the marketplace, and you are now facing the real possibility that the general public may buy up all the masks before they can contain and eliminate the virus.

The CDC may have been acting in it's own best interest in the face of a federal branch who refused to believe that the virus was a big issue. If the CDC truly believed they had time to contain and eliminate the virus, I can see how telling people to not stock up on masks may have been a good idea at the time.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-fbi-redirects...
I mean it is a ️️hot-take but I don't regard scrum as any sort of subset of agile. Rather scrum emerged when big companies wanted to basically do what they were already doing, but call it agile. A framework emerged to teach these companies a “safe word” rendition of agile, don't worry it's only agile until you say “banana.”

You cannot appoint somebody to the strange title of “scrum master” (which I guess makes the rest of us scrum slaves?) to lead a process of “daily scrum” where we look together at a kanban board and make sure that we are “sprinting” and then turn around to insist that you value “individuals and interactions over processes and tools,” which is ¼ of the Manifesto. You have voted with your intention and your vote was to value your process and tools over trusting the individual developers and letting them have direct interactions with your customers.

Even the word “sprint.” I used to play Ultimate in one of the teams in the Dutch national league, it is a sprinting sport. The word “sprint” means exhaustion. It means stopping. If you jog around in Ultimate you lose, you have to rest, sprint, rest, sprint. If your model is “always sprinting” then do not tell me that you value “individuals and interactions.” And if you do value the latter please either (a) remove the metaphor “sprint” from your process or (b) add “rest weeks” after each sprint to “clean up” the mess you made! Anything else is lying to yourself.

The phenomenon of estimating “story points” is even worse, no? It is intrinsically about processes and tools and the idea of a developer having a phone call or face-to-face with the client directly to see if this feature request is actually accurate, deciding that it is not, and trashing it to open a different request... it's not just “do we claim those juicy story points when this happens?” but also “was part of your measure of ‘complexity’ the complexity of determining that the Ask did not meet the Need?” ...And so the fundamental idea of estimating a “todo” does not fit well with agile, whereas you can estimate “in progs” and “done” just fine.

And before you say “no by the time we estimate we should already know that we want the feature, devs should never have to talk to clients,” please be aware that this response explicitly abdicates another ½ of the Agile manifesto, “customer collaboration over contract negotiation” and “responding to change over following a plan.” The whole point of the Agile manifesto is that your kanban board is stale. Not because it's a kanban board, but because it is written down. Like one of the four principles (the last ¼ not covered in the above ¾) is explicitly anti-literary.

This is sort of “no true Scotsman” of me but my read is that the moment Agile was systematized, it died a little on the inside. It was a “screw your systems!” reaction that then got steamrollered by the real world, where “bullshit jobs” and middle management reign even though they bespeak a bureaucratic feudalism rather than a lean-and-mean capitalism.
Hi Peter!

What is your advice on finding a good attorney in general (not just immigration one)?

Thanks!
posted on Toilet Paper Record and "makes sense of Wall Street"? My ass
I still use it day-to-day, probably about equally with bash. I appreciate that it gets out of the way and has pretty straight-forward quoting rules (which always screws me up in Bourne shells). When I write scripts for my own consumption, I like to write them in rc.

Unfortunately, it doesn't have enough bells or whistles to support an "Awesome RC!" site or similar, providing hypercolor prompts and the like, so I don't know that it'll get broad usage like bash/zsh/fish :)
Here's some data from the Stack Overflow 2020 developer survey:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#developer-pro...

Only 17% of professional developers surveyed were age 40+. That vastly disproportionate with the age demographics of the overall human population.
Based on the title of this thread, I was disappointed that the title of his memoir did not end in an exclamation mark, but then was happy to discover that it is indeed titled "Memoir!"
Hobbyist SHA256 password cracking in action
The raw sensor data for a digital camera looks something like this
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Normal_and_Bayer_Fil...

In addition to the colour grading and interpolation, lens defects might be 'fixed' before you ever get data on disk.

ML is just really good interpolation.
Doesn’t methane have a potent greenhouse effect? If it’s accurate then all the small leakages would possibly offset the benefit of a carbon neutrality energy system.
Hi, my wife and I are going through this right now, and so far she has submitted her paperwork and continues to work on H1B until receiving an approval from USCIS. I'm American and she is Chinese. Good luck!
It's really a problem with the EU. Its member states still compete with each other too much, companies shouldn't be able to shop around for the laxest labour laws like that.
One is easier to grasp. Someone coughing the rest of their life is easier to visually see than someone fresh out of college who is now getting a job as a delivery driver and may never recover economically.
Why do you believe the US supported the 2013 coup?
License here says MIT: https://github.com/hunzaboy/codedmails
> odds are there are at least prototypes for it already made in numpy + Python or C/C++, if not a fully-fledged, well tested package for it.

Odds are that there is one in Julia as well - if not only in Julia. Also, with PyCall you can just seamlessly use any Python library. So, use Julia - the better language for scientific programming - and use Python libraries where needed. This is one of the reasons I'm investing time into Julia, especially for deep learning and natural language processing.
Considering an entire industry exists to help corporations and individuals avoid paying taxes using "legal innovations", how difficult will it be for this niche industry to create a new legal entity that circumvents the H1B changes in the U.S? These entities probably already exist but just aren't widely understood. Are the H1B changes really just going to hurt the little guys?
The Apache License you released Lightning under explicitly allows people to clone your framework if they adhere to the license and provides them patent protection if they do so.

As I said in my previous comment, using patents to try and get around an open source license is skeevy as hell.
>you will not be able to verify centuries of scientific progress all on your own, from first principles. And this becomes even harder when you approach the softer parts of human knowledge such as economics

TBH most of economics is non-empirical ideology that's easy to debunk. More generally pseudo-science is rampant in "western science". That's another reason why this article is so ironic/islamophobic.
I'm sure you saw the article recently about the H1B visa program requiring significantly higher pay for visa holders. How do you think this will affect current visa holders? Obviously it varies case by case but I'm hoping you'll have insight into this that I don't have.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-announces-...
There is "BECCS" which is bio-energy with carbon capture and storage.

An Ethanol factory in Decatur, IL captures waste CO2 from the fermentation process, purifies it, compresses it to about 1500 psi and pumps it into a saline aquifer. If you burned the bio fuel and captured the CO2 by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_looping_combustion

or another method you could get CO2 and make methane by

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

then it is no longer storage, but it is keeping the carbon in short-term circulation between the atmosphere and the biosphere.
Update: I made a quick survey, if you're able to spend 5 mins on it ️

https://rubychilds.typeform.com/to/fYdtEfbw
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Maybe simply using an objective video quality measurement against the original picture would do the trick. Something like PSNR or SSIM. A "deepfake" is likely to score low on such a score that doesn't depend on high level visual perception.

Also know that you can "deepfake" yourself using a traditional video encoder, just change the keyframe to someone else's face. Of course, it will look broken and totally unconvincing but because of motion compensation, you can sort of map the movement of your face on someone else's face.

The technique in the paper simply has way better motion compensation, so good that it still works if you change the keyframe. Traditional video compression algorithms don't work like that because they are not just for talking faces and can't use such advanced techniques for performance and ease of implementation reasons.
Sorry if I misrepresented things.

After giving Purism some money for their "Fund Your App"-thingy today I decided to hit your donation button with a small, but recurring donation, because you deserve it for all your work – even if, sadly, my favourite distribution (DanctNIX Mobile) does not use your kernel and I am too lazy to change that on my end.
Is it possible to immigrate to a NAFTA country (Canada/Mexico) as a US citizen without changing your employment status with your US based company?
Can you elaborate on your dev support role? Seems like this would be less flexible than a dev role.

I’m asking because I’m interested in support roles as well. What’s the company and name of the position?
They want more domestic competition obviously, not foreign.
> Families throw a huge wrench in that plan though.

> Nothing crystalizes support for medicare-for-all faster...

It's pretty messed up that the lack of universal healthcare throws a huge wrench in the thing that generates the future of society, at least among financially self-aware young people.

It used to be even worse just a few years ago. Before the ACA insurance companies often considered pregnancy a pre-existing condition:

https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/aca-pregnancy-faq#:~:....
Who says it's actually misinformation? The media? The localy bribed politician owning the media?
In Western society. In Polynesia dogs and pigs (which are just as intelligent and social, IUUC) where both kept both as pets and as a source of food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Polynesia
It's the largest distributed database ever. It's not simple or easy, but it works very well and has for decades.
Because Mark Zuckerberg created a lot of wealth so he has proven himself to be trustworthy and he has a lot at stake. On the other hand, run-of-the-mill elected officials don't have as much money so they are not trustworthy since they don't have much to lose if things go bad.

Why would Mark Zuckerberg want to harm a country that his business depends on? Why would someone destroy their own house? It makes no sense. On the other hand, politicians have plenty of incentives to harm the country; since they can just sell out to foreign powers in order to gain favors and make a quick buck after they leave office.

Politicians cannot be trusted because they have nothing to lose from making things worse. Corporations on the other hand can be trusted because they have a lot to lose if the country goes down the drain.

In times like these, it's important that we all come together and support our corporations in order to protect our democracy.
The US has no say in the internal politics of Egypt, or any Arab countries. The most the West can do is stand by watching in horror, wringing our hands. When we do get mired in it, as with Iraq, the limits of our actual ability to direct change becomes painfully apparent very quickly.
How much of this is due to changes in the nature of the economy vs mismanagement? In the 50s and 60s the largest companies were focused in manufacturing and oil. Now the largest are in tech because the economy is different.

GE is an interesting example because, as a conglomerate, I would think it's better poised to strategically change the focus of it's business...maybe that's the point of the IBM spin-off.
Can using the EIP cards count against someone with respect to the "public charge" rule or otherwise impact an I-751 filing in any way?

Also, are there any other surprise rule changes that someone should know about other than the new thing where every field on an immigration form has to be filled out?

See also: https://www.nolo.com/legal-update/uscis-means-it-when-they-s...
‘Worst in the state’: S.F. sales tax data show likely population decline
> Japan went from insular agrarianism to a world power to collapse to continued scientific development through to the 21st century. As did much of the Far East. Why not the Middle east?

There are lots of theories, of course, but one I find interesting is that East Asia, in addition to never being colonized to the same extent as most places, emerged with national boundaries largely intact. The Middle East was under foreign control for, well, basically forever (Romans -> Ottomans -> mandates) and ended up with some pretty weird national boundaries. This encouraged a lot of strife.

There's also the oil theory; countries with huge natural resources seem to often struggle to develop normally.
Heh, I thought the same thing. And leaving a note for a 5 year old while you leave them alone is an absurd thing to do.

I just assumed the author was older than 5, but felt that their tantrum was embarassing for their actual age so aged it down.

Plausible Storytelling is also a powerful tool.
C/C++ suffers from severe wheel reinvention due to a lack of package management, but do you see people cautioning the use of programs written in that language for that reason?

The STL package contains lots of things, but most of them are pretty ugly to use and quite a few of them are quite complicated to use because they are generalized for as many use cases as possible. There are so many authors out there that decide they can do memory management manually, write their own thread or process pools, implement sorting in a different way, rewrite basic algorithms for list operations like mapping, filtering, zipping, reducing...

Simply counting the number of dependencies isn't a great indicator for dependency bloat. There are extremes on both ends : no deps --> I know everything better and reimplemented the world, and thousands of deps --> I put a one liner in a package ma! One should not judge too quickly.
Revolution is in the mind. What was in Ukraine, what's happening in Belarus is a decision to defeat fear, claim the rights and make a change,