skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So when malls started displacing downtowns, the courts recognized that malls needed to create free speech areas.

I can imagine a court saying that FB has enough of the population on it to force it to follow similar laws. Sure, it might have some indication of “free speech”, like a red box, but it would still be viewable, like it or not.

The comic also does two things. First, it implies that the canceled person is indeed an asshole, providing justification to the cancelers. It might be better to just say “they don’t like what you say”. The second, it gives the impression people are all individually canceling someone on their own judgement. This really isn’t what happens. What happens is someone says / does something, it’s presented in a certain way to maximize hatred of the person, the effects of the “crime” are often greatly exaggerated, even questioning the event and asking for details gets one branded a Nazi, all the past accomplishments are tainted, and all the while, many others are doing far more, but are lucky enough not to get enough attention to form a mob.

There is a reason we have libel and slander laws. Many people would be guilty if it weren’t so expensive to bring charges and so cheap to tweet.
I also spend 10x the time automating something instead of just doing that damn work. It's how procrastination works.

"If I only added colorized ascii to my command, I probably wouldn't have to really read the output"
If you are single washing sex toys is useful
Wow a monthly refill authorization sounds really onerous! I can't believe they make you do that. It sounds like they try to make the process as cumbersome as possible so you go away. Which you did. I think I would do the same.

A story like that really puts into context what expensive insulin means. When it's expensive, they want to make sure you don't sell it. So even people who can get it through insurance are affected.

For contrast an experience from a rich European country: My doc writes me a yearly prescription. I forgot to renew it once, and had to pay out of my pocket to get my insulin. He sent me a backdated prescription I could use to get the cost reimbursed.
Are all of your plates oversized? Or square so they don’t sit a bit below the level of the bottom rack?

Not that there’s an iso standard for plate size, but I have a hard time imagining this being a common issue.
We are in a similar situation, both working from home. It very much depends on how lazy we are during the day. If musli bowls and lunch plates haven't been handwashed when we start cooking dinner it's a "dishwasher day". We have a half size one, which means one day's worth of dishes fills it up at least 3/4.

I suspect it might be more water efficient and energy efficient to do this instead of repeatedly heating up water, which takes 30s or so and wastes a lot of cold water / hot water that gets left to cool down in the pipes.
The person re-classified as L1 will no longer be competing in the lottery with the hypothetical CERN engineer, and the odds of an application to hire that engineer succeeding will increase.
Loom and Leaf Mattress Savings $200 Off
The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite
This almost gave me a panic attack even though i usually like this type of stuff.
His "What if?" book reached the top of the NYT best seller list, so I'd say he has quite a large audience.
Well converting sucky work into cool and fun work that eventually saves everyone time is a win for all involved. :D
RIP Eddie.
I used to listen to him a lot, during sleepless days at campus lab while working on my undergraduate thesis.

Previously we missed Neil Peart and Rocco Prestia. Now EVH.
Not an exciting year for music world :(
I suggest you to use Multi-Account Containers addon on Firefox.
It’s a dual intent visa. Most skilled immigration does happen via the h1b route today.
I wish they invented the dual side-by-side dishwasher. I want separate dirty and clean units.

I’m tired of using the sink or shelves as a buffer.

Just pull from the clean unit and push into the dirty unit and rotate which is which.

Voilà, dramatically less handling.
> but it is true that some trees waste product is bioactive and suppresses other plants

That's not waste product. That's just product.
This literally has nothing to do with "free speech." It is about using other people's private property to express your speech.

Consider these in degrees:

* Allowing anyone to write any message they please on someone else's face.

* Allowing anyone at any time to drive through public streets with a megaphone announcing any message they would like.

* Allowing anyone to burn a cross on someone else's private yard.

* Allowing anyone to post any political advertisement they want on your front door.

* Allowing anyone 10 minutes of airtime on a privately owned, closed circuit television station.

* Allowing anyone to post any image they please on the front page of Google.com.

Until you recognize that

1) there are other rights beyond free speech,
2) those rights often come directly into conflict with free speech, and
3) those rights are not simply superseded by free speech

We can now have a fair discussion of whose rights matter.

I don't see how anyone can argue it's not okay to be able to write any message you want on someone's face or front door without consequence, but that their website is fair game.
I'm looking forward to the dish washing robot to be invented. Something that can actually scrub a dish, not just spray it. Combine it with an automatic cabinet so you don't even need to unload it.
I'm sceptical that the right to privacy is so expansive that it would entail complete privacy of communication or home. For example a home search, including seizing relevant material, already can be done if authorities followed due process and obtained a warrant, say.

Pretty much all jurisdictions grant strong but not absolute protections when it comes to violating one's privacy. I've always found that odd when the discussion of communication surveillance comes up.
I find that recent models of dishwashers don’t work nearly as well as older models. They don’t heat up enough to dry water off of plastic, and the enzyme based detergents don’t seem to clean as well as the old phosphate detergents.

Also, the dishwasher in our current apartment (a cheap Whirlpool) often leaves a wet dog smell on the glasses, and we can’t figure out where it comes from or how to get rid of it. Apparently, this is a rather common problem, with hundreds of posts scattered across the internet where people with the same problem unsuccessfully try dozens of home remedies that fail to fix the issue. I never remember wet dog smell from the older units so I can only assume this results from some sort of energy saving feature that backfired.
Just more hacking at the branches of evil.
I think the VCR replaced all that. :)
This says a lot about their romantic life, too
If you cook for 4+ people they are super useful. It's not just the time saving, you also can just eat your meal and relax for the rest of the evening, compared to having to wash stuff up - even for a small time.
I work in curriculum, and things like Bloom's Taxonomy are the bread and butter of how curriculum authors structure content. IMO, the problem isn't that teachers and authors aren't thinking from these angles (they have for decades) it's that in practice, it's really hard to teach and assess skills without ending up testing recall. The solutions that work well (lots of individual attention from human experts) don't scale and the things that scale (multiple choice tests) don't work well.
> You gotta earn it with a cat.

Do I detect catholic guilt ?
And they didn’t get them because companies are paying H1B workers lower wages? It seems to me that you are advocating for hiring less qualified candidates here.
If your concern is limiting the spread of an invasive species to minimize the damage they produce on the environment, then furthering their geographic spread is not a good idea. Coordinated campaigns to clear out entire groups would be good, teaching them to run from hunters and spread out would be bad.
The comic was probably chosen as the representative of the enemy idea because xkcd had a reputation among some people of being condescending or contrived, which pre-frames the idea in an already negative context for those people and makes it easier to demonize.
Sorta, everyone draws in the lottery from the same pool of available slots, but no more than 7%/year can go to applicants from each country. This will have the largest impact for high-salary applications from India and China, but it still increases the likelihood that any high-salary application will be accepted.
Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon
Seriously, I get enough passive aggression from coworkers and romantic partners, why would I want more?
The point I was making was a response to:

> Also, you're ignoring Sweden and Denmark. Many countries have discovered oil - the USA is a massive producer, far more than Norway - they just didn't create a fund with it, preferring to give the profits to the few.
Don’t other large companies issue Linux laptops to their employees? I’d think somewhere like Google or Amazon would find it worthwhile to devote some funds to improving desktop Linux.
From an individuals point of view yes. But if the US government cared about our privacy they'd do something about FB, Amazon and Google.
> ... is pretty easy

It's not that it is complicated, it's the amount of it. Your threshold may vary, but I find that with 3+ adults, or 2 adults and children (one or more) then I prefer the dishwasher.

To me a dishwasher is the equivalent of asynchronous execution: load it up, start it and come back a few hours later to clean and dry dishes. In the meantime I keep on doing whatever else I need to do, which is something probably more important than doing dishes.

Another thing that helps is having extra dishes and silverware. That way I keep on loading during the day and turn it on only once before going to bed (pots and pans that are not solid metal we still have to do by hand though).
Differential geometric algebra foundations (overview video)
Totally agree. I bought a telescope as a hobby, but really, it also acts as a mental health booster. We are just specks of dust in an infinite galactic soup. I didn't expect this side effect when I bought it!
I personally can't stand React.
30? I thought there were over 100 HRV serotypes, not counting their mutations. And I thought those only accounted for around 35% of all. So 2% is probably a better number. I’m 10x off, just as bad as the parent. Sigh.
Ok but then why are graduate student "salaries" (e.g. stipends) essentially universally depressed? It seems like research programs should pay more to attract more students.
I live alone, and still find the dishwasher to be the most useful appliance in my house. I cook a lot, and love not having to think about how many pots/pans/dishes I'll use and how I have to scrub them later. I don't do any prewash either. Everything goes straight into the dishwasher and comes out sparkling every time. Maybe I'm just really lucky with my machine/detergent.

It's also great because I don't need extra space for a drying rack.
1998 is well past the frame of reference I would use for what a healthy distribution looks like. I tried to find data from the 50s and 60s, but only found the same report you did.

> In other words, what is your model here?

American history clearly shows that economic concentration leads to market crashes, recessions/depressions, political unrest. For 40 years we put clear rules into place to prevent concentration and keep power broadly distributed - small business owners and farmers has power that could match the financiers and industrialists - and we had no major crashes, no depressions, far fewer lives ruined due to jobs and homes lost. You don't need to look at random other countries, just look at what worked in this one.

> Why any rational person would want such a situation is beyond me, even if you genuinely see yourself as a Federalist.

That 50% is more like 60M adults who vote Republican, and probably some of their children, so more like 20-25%. Most of those people are angry for good reasons, but there is always a chance one of the candidates can really help people like FDR and LBJ did. The whole notion of breaking up big government is an ambiguous, ideological statement that doesn't mean anything. You have a choice between private interests (mostly in finance and tech) deciding the rules you get to live by, or you can choose an elected public body. I'd rather have one hand on the wheel than none.
80 years later, knowing what we know now, the Hanford site should be managed better. The fact that it hasn't been cleaned up by now is probably the sort of problem that OP is referring to.
The article says they sold 40,000 of these things
Wow, what a mess. At the very least (which is about all that could be done) A could assign a new-record-ID to each record; I could tell F where to find it; F could verify its presence (or scream) and tell A.
The act of using loss leaders to destruct a market, beyond growing a business, is called “dumping”. It’s a very old tactic, some regulations do exist against it...
Notes on implementation:

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000st...
There must be some sort of system that shares info some of the time. I signed up for a new doctor (haven't even visited yet) across the country from my old one, and the website of my new doctor's medical center already knows all my historical vaccine dates. I didn't give any of that information over, just my name, birthday, and SSN.
It doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Almost all of those people you saw there are now living in pretty enviable situations for most Americans.

Calling these 'guest houses' as people living in second class of the society is as incorrect as calling the residents of Pied Piper house in 'Silicon Valley' as 'living like second class citizens'.
To add to this, folks like this family claim (or were when that video[1] was done) to harvest 6,000 lbs of food a year from a 1/10th of an acre and still have enough left over to sell to local chefs to the tune of about $20,000.

The more I read about this the more I started doubting all the doom about sustainability. Granted, I think they were vegetarian (still had live birds for eggs) but.. I think the combination of pooling together ancient techniques with modern technology could provide better results than the "if GMO & Roundup are eliminated the WORLD WILL STARVE" type of propaganda that, the more I read up about things like Agent Orange and, well, propaganda, the more I want to hear from people like the Dervais kids (RIP Jules) and less from people who have never farmed before or maybe grew some herbs one year.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmTJkZy0rM
What would a sufficient reputational signal be?

The internet of things doesn't have any of the stigma that this has; and I still wouldn't trust it to run lightbulb.

With something that attaches to your body 24/7, it sounds like you would want something on the order of medical grade assurances because, if something goes wrong, it has the potential to cause medical problems.
In my experience Kafka is alot of work. If you need the guarantees it provides or the ecosystem it unlocks then by all means, use it.

If you can relax your constraints, then something like NSQ can be a great option that I heartily recommend.
I have wondered from day 1 why we do not undertake deliberate mass infection with a benign coronavirus as a prophylactic measure.
Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler
> not yet released on Gtk/X11 . No Wayland or X11 gesture support in QtWidgets , wxWidgets , Tck/Tk , FLTK , EFL

This is why the web has won. Chrome on Linux is the same as Chrome on Windows.
I've had nearly this exact same thought. Usually when I feel that way, it's because the issue is being used as a stand-in for more general cultural fights, so the issue gets amplified beyond what its practical impact actually calls for.
Is there something similar for Postgres? I realize it might be a lot shorter, but any system big enough has its share of gotchas.
That's where souc vide helps. You don't dry out the food (due to the containment in the bag) and you can keep the food in the required temperature range for plenty of time (because the immersion circulator keeps the water bath at a constant temperature range).
This number includes people with Puerto Ricans ancestry (therefore not born in Puerto Rico). Some of them might have migrated out of Puerto Rico 100 years ago, I don't think looking at number is relevant at all to this discussion.
You are proposing a huge, non-citizen working class, who's labor is taxed to support citizens? That is not what I was expecting. Yes, that may be good for citizens.

So a thought experiment for you. Can you find any historical precedence where these two-tier systems were implemented. And how did that work out?
Somehow I've never been able to convince my wife to stop pre-rinsing.
Conway's Game Of Life in Rust using 2 different graphics libraries
https://github.com/bebrws/gol-gfx
https://github.com/bebrws/gol-nvg
Under HTML and the DOM (no Javascript) You can do any ordering of the tags, that's pretty normal a <strong><div>hello</strong></div> is perfectly valid HTML
How do you answer your Questions at the start of the next session? Are you answering based on learning that occurred since the question was written or are you looking up the answers? If the former, do you roll Questions forwards until you are able to answer them?
Most people in STEM outside of CS (including regular engineering) get a degree, never get a good first job (or any job at all in their field), and switch field entirely.

An oldie by now, but still relevant: https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-...
Sky-high executive compensation is absolutely a sign that the US needs way more competent executives.

Restricting the supply of software engineers to the US will help software engineers at the expense of everyone else.
If you need a divine sign to switch to Firefox I think that was it. I did it 2 years ago, never had any issues.
Commercial units have racks that are separate, you stack the racks when done and they can dry and be stored.
Look at the map, one of the sample users is in Qatar!

This could end way really, really badly; it is even more concerning after reading about the recent grinder fiasco with the Egyptian government.
The distribution is complex because visas are awarded by lottery. Many companies are treating the program as expected, and applying for a small number of high-skill high-wage specialists. Then there are a much smaller number of companies that flood the lottery with thousands and thousands of applications each year on the premise that their applicants are interchangeable and the more applications they submit the larger their share of the visas will be. Because most companies don’t have 100x as many qualified foreign applicants as roles to fill or places to put those people if they unexpectedly got a few more approvals than planned, they cannot avail themselves of this strategy. So H1B holders are a bimodal distribution of very high wage workers and below-average wage workers.

Found a cool link elsewhere in the thread. You can see the effect manifest pretty clearly. You see a lot of Cognizent, Tata, Infosys, etc and low salaries, but in CA the largest H1B employer is Google and in WA it’s Microsoft, and in those two states the average H1B wage is much higher.

https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/visas
Median U.S. household income rises 6.8% to $68,700 in 2019, poverty rate falls for fifth year

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/09/15/u-s-median-h...
Indeed rtpg -- going deeper, these latches did trip me up!

You may enjoy this question on SE: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/524618/how-d... -- ended up getting a great answer for how this worked beyond the abstractions I was comfortable with.

Plan on using what I've learned to write something about simulating RAM -- that may get us closer to building up the base circuitry
From everything I've experienced in the tech industry the thing you've described is just hypothetical. Everyone I know on H1-B wages freely moves between jobs with no problems.
Companies should just move the jobs overseas. Expand the offices in India and Eastern Europe, and cut back offices in US.
Why must we always be fighting this battle?

Because the average politician facing these issues is not an expert on encryption and its implications, and is terrified of the next Very Bad Thing happening on their watch. Colloquially, something must be done, and this is something that makes a good press release so we're doing it.

It is incumbent on those of us who better understand the technical aspects of encryption to educate those politicians and, if necessary, everyone who votes for them, about both the dangers of this kind of policy and the lack of guaranteed success in achieving the intended benefits.
Thanks for the kind words grimgrin!
If you assume people are more or less fungible except for some "Q" (quality measure) sure, you probably wouldn't hire someone without a degree. You would sort your applicants by "Q" and drop everyone below a cutoff. I suppose I would call this the "human resources" view.

On the other hand if you have a team of domain experts who are passionate about subject "S", they don't actually care about "Q". They care whether you have deep interest, expertise and potential in their domain area. They want to know what you can bring to their team. Now, a lot of times a good candidate will be someone with a PhD in "S", but it's not about the qualification. It's about "S".

"No degree" hires usually don't come in the HR front door as a "fungible human resource". They usually get noticed or referred by someone passionate about "S", for a job doing "S".

I don't actually know if this was the OP's situation; there are other ways this can work. Good recruiters will try to hoover up talent by searching for people with relevant work experience (substituting that for a degree) and throw them into the funnel.
> I wish they invented the dual side-by-side dishwasher.

Have you considered buying two dish washers? I don't think this needs an invention.
I like TrippLite. American company.
Realizing that one forgets the majority of what they learn day-to-day is a harrowing realization. It was for me, at least.

I built this simple web app to help me keep track of what I learn, and later opened it up to the general public. I've gotten good feedback so far - interested to hear more: https://wyl.today
In my experience, H1B system works pretty differently for employers and employees depending on whether you're talking about an actual tech company vs. the IT department of an industrial age company.
The "wages will rise because we harass foreign workers" camp fails to realize that other countries are either actively working hard to allow companies to set up shop in their country or actively attracting tech workers to boost their own labor pool to sustain a large number of tech companies.

All we are doing here is harassing people, businesses and shooting ourselves in the foot by shrinking our labor pool in exactly the industries where we need them to expand: tech, medicine and advanced sciences.

For those still not able to wrap their head around it, we are actively shipping away our ability to tend farms by restricting farm hands for short term benefits.

This story has played out before with factories. Soon, it will be tech and stem work.
*Edit : Apparently I misinterpreted the parent post. Please disregard.

Are you saying that Amazon's H1B workers are hired specifically for to their "kinda average" skills, lack of connections, etc.? Having been involved with hiring at Amazon, using these criteria would have to be part of a secret hiring system that parallels the one I was trained on which focused on raising the talent bar and avoiding bias.