skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Equipped with this state-of-the-art password meter, the researchers then approached password policies from a whole new perspective: with the idea that a password must achieve a certain threshold score on their password meter.

That's the most obvious way to apply a meter, not a new perspective.
> I can't read the article due to the paywall.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-startups-say-new-pay-rules...

I've only seen the H1-B process vicariously though a colleague (my lab instructor) who finished her MSc in Microbiology. She and I (a Bsc grad) were both job hunting in the horrible job market in 2009 and helped each other with leads. After several interviews, mostly dead ends, she ended up accepting the first job that would allow her (Indian Citizen) to get sponsored as she only had 2 weeks left on her student Visa before she would have to go back to India.

If I recall correctly she ended up lasting a year before going back to get her PhD in Microbiology as she had no desire to have that carrot dangled in front of her for the rest of her life.

Oddly enough, I being a US citizen, had to re-interview for my job every year after the diagnostics firm I worked for was bought-out by a Mega Pharma Corp who was closing every 'non-essential' department that didn't help it extend its patents on drugs it had exclusive rights to.

What I'm trying to say is that while the H1-B system is horrible, the US citizen path during financial crises even in STEM fields isn't great either. especially if you incurred 10-100ks in debt and have the constant pressure of having to pay that down. It's why I hope we move away from the notion of a tuition-free university model to a more practical and applicable apprenticeship model that Germany and Switzerland have. That would lessen the burden on so many that the prices for University would have to come down.

Everything I was taught in University was obsolete, or entirely inapplicable to my field of study (diagnostics) and I saw 1 single slide of the apparatus I would use in my career, nothing more in nearly 5 years of undergrad.

Had I not gone to the Scrips Research Institute for my training (initially free but also paid out of pocket for $50/hr training hours plus re-agents), and downloaded hacked versions of FloJo on Newsgroups I would never been able to stand out from the 50-1 applicants for every job back then. After 3.5 years of the pressure to pay back the debt, I swore I'd never go back to a Lab for the rest of my Life.

What really should be the conversation here is employer wage reform for all; I personally don't think Unions are a good model, but something needs to occur. Everyone with a vested interest in this model touts that there is some horrible shortage of STEM degree holders, when in reality so many people with STEM degrees work(ed) at bars, restaurants, cafes, and other retail chains because they knew they could get cheap foreign labor through this Visa model.
Smartphones are very much computers and intended for general purpose computing.

I think people with this notion either work at Apple, love their iPhone, or have lots of AAPL.

Please see what their behavior is doing to the rest of us. Fixing it is more important than any personal stake you have in this.
The only reason he was asked this question in the first place is because there was good reason to doubt that he would support a peaceful transition - doubt that is well founded as we now see.

Maybe hes smart enough not to answer the question - the problem is that it should never have needed to be asked.
More lies. No surprise there.
Seem interesting and I liked... But, I'm afraid a DMCA will finish the project as the legal area seems dark gray at least.
The sadists among us simply wouldn't let this happen. We must be disciplined.
Great I can't wait for Biden to stop it.
Sketch – From one to one million: how we grew Sketch
You’re still seemingly deliberately misrepresenting and not engaging with my point and just disingenuously deflecting by appealing to increasingly abstract meta debates about relative definitions.

It doesn’t matter if the labels of right or left would have context within the colloquial definitions within a country and I am not “redefining” them by saying those reference points don’t matter.

There’s a superseding context in which far right and far left already have well understood definitions in terms of terminal values and how their policies map to those values. That exists outside of any given country or political unit.

> “The left has a clear definition in the USA.”

Uhhh no. That is not a reasonable thing to say. For example, Trump campaigned on the idea that Kamala Harris is extremely far left, but most people who identify as far left see her as basically just slightly left of center.

The idea there is a clear “left” in the US is itself a pure Republican propaganda construction just so it can paint Democrat candidates as “evil socialists” no matter their actual policies or how they map to the superseding notion of left-leaning politics.

Biden for example would have been a solid, firm Republican candidate ~35 years ago, even if running on a Democratic ticket.

My main point is that “center” in the US is already very far Republican-leaning and has shifted increasingly towards the right wing in the past 30 years, to the point that a very, very right-leaning Democrat like Biden is now sensationalized as being “far left” in election propaganda.

There is not actually any mainstream political group in the US that is really “far left” in the sense of offering a counterbalancing policy initiative that Republicans would have to significantly compromise away from their right wing core in order to engage with. Such a thing does not exist in the US.

You can play games of redefining words if you want and pretend like whatever position is occupied by the Democratic party thus, by definition, represents the “left” and thus represents a ideological separation from “the right” but it would just be falsely shifting definitions, it wouldn’t make “centrist” in the US to be any less far-right-leaning that what it really, actually is.
Pretty good regulation already in place.

Don't like it? Don't buy it.
I use (Raku) for shell scripting and system administration. Bash scripts more than 10 lines long scare me.
I’d be interested in this too but get lost down the rabbit hole every time I try to research speakers. I think the problem is an ideal amplifier is easily described as “a straight wire with gain” while a practical speaker is a much more complicated problem with many tradeoffs based on physical properties of vibrating materials and distances etc.
Creator here. Happy to answer any questions, and would love to hear what you think!
Good, Apple shouldn't let random people run whatever virus infected nonsense they want on phones.
Intel's glaring inability to make a competitive GPU despite several attempts over the years really highlights the structural problems of the company.

It can only execute on its core business which the MBA infestation has been riding for a decade with their IP lead and now it finally has run out.
I doubt it. Reforming the H1-B is also a matter of interest for the Democrats. They just never had political capital to pursue that within the Obama’s administration.

I doubt those measures will be reversed.
I recommend you take a look at neomutt. Neomutt integrates notmuch by default and has a lot of the patches that mutt never merged in it.

https://neomutt.org/feature

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt
Because I'm not making an assertion from a self acknowledged position of ignorance.
It is not trending on the front page, at least, not yet. It has only received 18 upvotes in two hours. Just because something is on the home page at a moment, doesn't mean it's trending. It only means that the system wants to test the reactions of the readers, it can appear as fast as it disappears. If you find it's not interesting, ignore and move on.
I was not aware of this earlier. I lightly remember that I saw some related articles to this matter but I didn't even thought about it after reading. Yeah there is something thoughtful
> Trump has generated a middle east peace deal with UAE, Saudi etc. recognizing Israel which helps pave the way for stability in the region.

No, Trump had virtually nothing to do with that...

Anyone with even a passing familiarity of the Gulf region knows that the UAE and Israel have not been at war. On the contrary, the countries have had diplomatic relations under the table for quite some time now. The UAE even hosted an unofficial Israeli embassy at IRENA in Abu Dhabi.

The reason why full diplomatic relations took so long is that the UAE government had to gradually prepare the populace for the announcement. Everything else was in place way before Trump became president.

So why was it announced that way? My guess: Trump claimed that he brokered this “deal” to earn brownie points with Americans, and the Emiratis/Israelis got to earn points with Trump. Win-win.
So they’re admitting this now? That there really never was a tech shortage? That the entire push for more H1-Bs was to take advantage of cheap labor? End the entire program.
Which city burned to the ground?
I have personally been in position of living with $70K a year in SanFrancisco startup. This is back in 2013. While I accepted the offer thinking it will suffice I was living hand to mouth. I was spending my energy fighting with budgeting and spending my energy trying to save up while other with settled backgrounds were fine. In the end I lost my motivation and ended up leaving for a higher paying offer in 9 months.
I have no sympathy for any of these low paying companies. They should pay what an engineer deserves. It’s pure exploitation and I walked right into it.
yep, i think people became too lazy to use their brain. It sucks that the news lies so much, but people can do research, but no one does, because it takes sooo much time and is kinda stressful. I get why they dont, but it's dangerous to blindly believe the news. In the end, news organizations are just money making bussinesses, their is no law that says they must tell you the truth. It's also not possible to have fake news laws, and u dont want them anyway, they are very dangerous.
Agreed, plurality voting has to go. St. Louis just adopted approval voting [1] which is even better than ranked choice voting (no need to rank and avoids the non-monotonic problem of RCV). So things are looking up!

[1] https://stlapproves.org/
As of now, and 2 hours ago (according to the timestamp on your post) Trump is technically correct. The best kind of correct. He hasn't lost. Votes are still being counted in something like 10 states, as ridiculous as that sounds.

Contrary to popular belief, the AP doesn't decide who is elected president. Shocking, I know.
If you run Linux checkout Akira. It's an open source clone of Sketch that works very well.
Your first point is a sentiment that I hear very frequently. I think the reaction that your hard-earned material wealth is rightfully yours is completely fair. However, it's worth pointing out that other people may also work hard and still live in poverty. Poverty can be systemic, in that things you're born into can limit your opportunity. Further, people are sometimes faced with unexpected situations such as health problems or pandemics that can make them unable to work. Many people have proposed plans that pay to distribute more wealth to these people by taxing corporate profits and the super wealthy. Some people will make a personal sacrifice to do this, but these people may actually have a better life experience if the majority of those around them are suffering less.

> What rights are being denied to minorities ?
Until recently, the right to get married or adopt children, among other things. I see your point though: people of all skin colors are theoretically equal in the law. If by "dividing people" by "race and gender" you mean movements for criminal justice reform or to end police brutality toward minorities, I disagree that these movements should be divisive. They become divisive when non-minorities take offense at them, which can happen due to poor messaging from particular individuals. It can happen due to a lack of clarity about the actual goals of the movement. Some more extreme leftists might simply have views that I would also disagree with. But ultimately, "the left" doesn't hate non-minorities. When a movement is focused on minorities, it is to reaffirm that they suffer discrimination which they should not under the law. These movements focus on minorities not to say that others don't struggle too, but to bring attention to societal issues that continue to affect some types of people just because of their "immutable characteristics".
Ceding/ignoring the smartphone/ARM market had a double impact on Intel. Obviously they missed a titanically large market.

But that huge market drove investment in fab technology outside of Intel, and allowed them to close the gap and provide competitive, now superior, fabs to AMD.
Thanks fo the link that it made me awared.
The world is big my friend, I dont live in America but I do know plenty of Americans. Your comment reinforce my point instead of refuting it.
See also: https://twitter.com/briandfoy_perl/status/132490997885607526...
Ah, yup, Poe's Law got me again. Sorry.
> The "will you support a peaceful transition of power" question is designed to elicit a response which could be quoted out of context in an article inevitably headlined "Trump predicts his own election defeat

Then why wasn't Biden asked the same question? Or anyone else? If this was just a gaffe factory then surely it would be a staple of the presidential interview genre, no?

But it's not. Only Trump got asked that. Ever, as far as I know. And the reason isn't because we were looking for a gaffe but because there was (AND REMAINS!) significant doubt as to whether he would support a peaceful transition of power.

I mean, the current circumstances right now disprove the theory you just proposed. Read his twitter feed, for goodness sake.
https://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Analysis-of-DOL-... (via https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/11/02/flaw-...) has a longer description of what "the same wage" means here:

> The new DOL wage system requires employers to pay exactly $100 an hour, or $208,000 a year, for over 18,000 combinations of occupations and geographic labor markets, regardless of skill level and position, NFAP research found, because DOL cannot provide prevailing wage data for the occupations under the new system. This takes place for some of the most common high-skilled occupations in America’s leading hightech area.

While there certainly are citizens getting paid $208,000 a year for certain high-skilled roles, I think it is entirely plausible that for many roles, the competitive wage is far below that and there are not enough American citizens who can fill those roles even for $208,000.

(Or, put another way, for certain roles, if they can't find citizens available and qualified to do the work, employers will simply choose not to engage in whatever business they were considering engaging in. There's no way that's good for the American economy.)
Oh, thank you. I can see that now. Perhaps that is how they meant it.
good work brining the country together dumbass
Whatever your complaint about Gelman is, I don't think "he can't handle math" is very convincing.
This has made me think... I think a lot of the Trump supporters are against many of the things he's doing just because "at least it's not the dems". I think democrat voters will turn a blind eye on an incredible amount of things because "at least it's not Trump".
What are the "catastrophes" that you have experienced (disregarding COVID which is a world catastrophe)?
"Enabling multiple browsers" is a red herring. Android enables multiple browser engines, but non-Blink browsers are a rounding error; it's bought nothing in terms of browser diversity.

Really it's just code for "let me, a web developer, target Chrome only, so I can just tell Safari users to install Chrome."
While those articles certainly highlight serious problems in spying oversight and a reckless FBI, they do not support your characterization of "fabricated fake evidence in order to advance a political agenda". For example, the pee tape doesn't represent even a majority of the potentially damaging information. While the FBI probably overstated the trustworthiness of the document, those articles don't claim the document itself was an outright fabrication or that none of the claims had any credibility.
Would love to see something like this. You get a one time secret hash or key assigned when you vote, and a receipt, and then it’s recorded to public ledger where you can check your vote so you know it’s real and correct. Meanwhile everything is publicly countable.
There is a standard that allows you to make a compatible implementation on a device without Apple or Google software.
For a significant portion of that time, quite possibly. In the lead up to the Civil War, there were many debates about ending slavery through the 1820’s and 30’s. There were even mini wars over the issue in the 1850’s, and then the actual event beginning in the 1860’s. This was then followed by a new subjugation of free people in the South beginning in 1875 and the Jim Crow period. During this post Civil War period is the ongoing Wars with Native Americans to expand the land of the US (though this was supported by both parties mostly). Then women’s suffrage coming to a head 1920’s (along with huge issues related to the ban on alcohol at the same time). Also during this period is a huge debate going on between banks and farmers during the Great Depression. Then following WWII the beginning of demands for equal rights in the South to get rid of Jim Crow, gaining major steam in the 50’s and 60’s, and then being joined with Women’s liberation.

And then we come to the huge divide that starts more recently during the Bush administration and the demand for LGBTQ equal rights (brewing strongly since the ‘70s) and more recently a revisiting of policing and criminal justice which brings us to today. There are periods where the divide seems to ebb and flow. Probably 10-20 year spans, and then a recognition by the greater community that things remain unfair for various groups.

It’s hard to say, but let’s say more than 50% of American history is a divide of some sort on various issues. Is it due to two parties? Or do the parties coalesce around the issues that are brewing at the most extreme boiling points? Or worse, do the two parties use various issues as wedges to create divide where one might not otherwise exist? (All of this is from my own memory and study, so I’m sure there are major things I’ve glossed over or missed not being an expert in the area)
Why? This appears to only be a very fancy virtual machine configuration.
Hmm I'd like to see your "laws against murder" that cover every possibly corner case of homicide being acceptable or unacceptable without relying on intent of the law to come into consideration regardless of circumstance. It would be infinitely long.

There is no unambiguously good law because of the simple fact nothing is unambiguously good. Given billions of people and many years some ambiguous scenario is going to come up even around the most "obviously good/bad" things.
the ACA was passed during a supermajority.

You just said that democrats couldn't interfere with the republicans during theirs, so how on earth did the democrats pass a bill that they didn't like?

Not a single republican voted for the bill. I think that probably removes any intelligent reference you could make to Romneycare, which was bipartisan and for a single state.

It was Pelosi. Her position was my bill or nothing. No small immediate relief for renters getting the boot with a 1 trillion price tag that they could immediately add to. Your own article said McConnell wanted relief. It was her 2.2 trillion or nothing and she chose nothing. She did it knowing it would hurt trump. If she cared she'd do what she could to help and pass the trillion no?
Ebola’s R value is 2, which is enough to create large outbreaks if left unchecked.

The death rate is 50%, which is 100x higher than COVID’s 0.5% (which has been lowered to 0.125% with improved hospital care).

In the absence of a coordinated pandemic response, I count that as “worse”.
FWIW, Tidal and Google Music/Youtube music Apps download unencrypted m4a/flac (or mp3) to mobile devices. (How you retrieve the files is on you). A much easier way of getting songs to offline devices.
You're always free to show us examples of leftists plowing their cars into conservative protesters.
You do you. But stop thinking that your economic choices and a lack of regulation don't impinge upon my freedoms. There are a lot of other people to consider outside of your circle.

I recently (6 years ago?) decided to purchase thousands of dollars of music on Google Play Music and look where that got me.

I can (and do) still play my Gamecube games.
> I'm no fan of Trump, and I have no evidence, only opinions. But, maybe not all Black people are huge fans of the activist wing supported by many Blacks and other minorities?

The activist wing was defeated in the primary, and wasn't an option they were presented with. Many blacks are not supportive of the centrist wing and it's devotion to the interests of corporate capital and it near-total-absence of a working-class message, which, when it's the only thing around, makes right-wing economic populism, which does center around working class economic messaging (even if those of us on the progressive side might see it as both an ineffective platform if genuinely pursued, and much of it also a dishonest mirage being dangled as a manipulation strategy), if not exactly attractive—especially when visibly associated with virulent, violent racism—possibly seem the lesser near-term evil.
No, you wouldn’t and it would be extremely clear. Reality is not changing because of anyone wishful thinking. I sincerely hope that you would never live in such environment, you may regret very very much your view. Maybe you are not aware, but to me it looks like that you are similar to a turkey hoping for thanksgiving. Actually you remind me of that black guy that was critical about BLM and was adamant that he never had any problem with the police because he respected the law. He was shot and killed by the police: https://www.newsweek.com/jonathan-price-defended-cops-facebo... . If I were you I would be very careful about what you wish for, you’ll never know, maybe at some point your wish will be granted sadly.
I think marketing works but there's a tendency in most jobs for the work to move from doing the job to justifying the job.

You hire someone to market your product, at first, they market your product.

After ten years, they're spending half their time marketing the product and half the time justifying to you that the marketing works. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad at marketing--it only matters how well they can justify the rates that they charge their clients. If other marketing firms have bad data, you have to get data that's just as bad to compete.

I personally think the only way out of it is to bring it in-house. You can try to formulate what you want from marketing in terms of impressions, CTR, etc., but these are all metrics and if you rely on metrics there are perverse incentives to game the metrics.

This happens in every job, it's just that your marketing department has to spend a lot of money, so they are going to spend a proportional amount of time justifying why they spend that money, and it means that the marketing department wants to work with firms that provide them with the metrics that the department needs to justify marketing spend to the rest of the company.
What was the advantage of isync? I'm currently using offlineimap.