skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is how far he can get without Apple's documentation. On the CPU side, probably pretty far as they use the standard ARM ABI. On the GPU side? This is where things will get really hairy. Same with the machine learning cores.
I saw a really good take on this last time this subject came up here, that at this point this airframe is probably the most heavily scrutinized to ever exist
Funny you bring up the Linux kernel, which has been completely subverted by the likes of Intel and RHEL. Linus was forced out using a slightly unorthodox strategy because his natural disagreeability was an effective defense against traditional subversion strategies. In any case, the strategy adopted by Urbit would probably have worked to protect Linux development from this takeover, but may also have hindered adoption to a degree that Linux would never have come to dominate.
If I could get a fanless 4K projector, I think I'd go for that nowadays. My walls are already white, and the concept of "hiding" my TV is increasingly appealing.
Maybe they want some employees to implement scary backdoors or portals and it's easier to control an immigrant dependent on Facebook or with different sense of morality.
Long-term log archival for $1.20 TB / year
It literally has 100% guaranteed return over a period of 20 years, going back all the way to the first stock exchange. Not the best returns though.
Not everyone at FB gets paid $500k a year, especially if you’re on H1-B which is mostly for entry or mid level immigrants who have just graduated.

And if they do at the entry or mid level it’s because they joined at a favorable time and seen their unvested stock appreciate.

There is a reason why Facebook likes H1-Bs.
I know it can be hard to believe, but it's very real (just like COVID). Maybe this quote from a recent customer helps explain:

> I'll look like a freak in the mask, but a LIVING freak. Thank you.

We sold over 1000 of them in our first week, not many returns. I've been wearing mine for months and get way more interest/thumbs-up than "looks".

We do get our fair share of internet trolls, though.
I think you just made the Justice Department's case for them. An H-1B is intended for individuals with specialized skillsets. The fact that Facebook engages in this form of mass, generic recruiting underscores the fact that they are not seeking out rare skillsets and don't really need to utilize this program to find people matching the required criteria.
Why more permissive? Is there really any documented need for more skilled workers in a country of 300 million people?
No. Your belief that the bitcoin community will never choose to alter the supply of bitcoins is not the same thing as the properties of physics which constrain the practical transmutation of gold.
I have. You start with a half turn, then the full turn, then say something. People are much more afraid of confrontation than they use to be.
A very similar event was depicted in Battlefield 4, surprisingly accurately as it turns out: https://youtu.be/KiOQdVvGdQE?t=38
Let's say my way of self-medicating for anxiety during flights is to get wasted. Does this now entitle me to be a drunk asshole on the flight?

No, it does not. This is how I view those who abuse this loophole. Find another way to travel that doesn't impact everyone else in the aluminum tube traveling 550mph.
I'm not planning to get a macbook. My main contender would be an XPS with a new ryzen cpu on 5nm, if they'll have one next year, or a thinkpad again with Ryzen 5nm. I would not accept anything less.

But thinking about it, it might be that the mobile AMD CPUs are a year behind the desktop ones. So next year the best ryzen could still be at 7nm Zen3. In that case apple will have a 2 year transistor lead. But, will see.
I suspect reality is somewhere between our two accounts, where one describes this as a purely deadline-related problem and the other describes months of effort to seek feedback via various channels and moving goalposts for what types of review were expected.
The time with the father is also important. Did you consider to take a one year sabbatical to be with your daughter instead of sitting in an office all day?
You’re partly right, but there are actually a fairly significant amount of lateral transfers to other emirates (through the federal budget, which is mostly funded by Abu Dhabi). Things like the electricity and water system are run federally (by FEWA - the Federal Water & Electricity Authority) in 4 northern-most emirates. Many other benefit systems are also mostly funded by Abu Dhabi, and primarily for the benefit of the citizens of other emirates — one example might being the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme. Abu Dhabi actually does help the nationals in all the emirates.
No experience with Plastic it seems better suited for Unity from the little reading I did on their website.

If you’re using UE4 I 1000% recommend learning Perforce because it is what Epic (the developers of UE4) use as well as thousands of other game developers. So it has great editor support and is a skill set you can transfer to other projects.
It's all about price and price action. A lot of trading styles don't require much history and don't care about the news - it's all calculated in before you know. A lot of traders believe price reflects all you need to know - everything else is just noise.
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If you're simply going to accept the company's employment offer, why do you need the external organization?
I mean, they replaced an industry that was way, way worse in every way.
Games that are aiming more for a "cinematic narrative experience" might be perfectly fine with a few 33ms frames of latency, and a total input latency far exceeding 100ms. Competitive twitchy games will tend to be more aggressive. And VR games too, of course.

In principle, you can push GPU pipelines to very low latencies. Continually uploading input and other state asynchronously and rendering from the most recent snapshot (with some interpolation or extrapolation as needed for smoothing out temporal jitter) can get you down to total application-induced latencies below 10ms. Even less with architectures that decouple shading and projection.

Doing this requires leaving the traditional 'CPU figures out what needs to be drawn and submits a bunch of draw calls' model, though. The GPU needs to have everything it needs to determine what to draw on its own. If using the usual graphics pipeline, that would mean all frustum/occlusion culling and draw command generation happens on the GPU, and the CPU simply submits indirect calls that tell the GPU "go draw whatever is in this other buffer that you put together".

This is something I'm working on at the moment, and the one downside is that other games that don't try to clamp down on latency now cause a subtle but continuous mild frustration.
Disagreement about characterisation matters if one characterisation is just not true.
In Mexico you can order alcohol in theaters.

Last time my wife went to watch a movie (before covid) she ordered a margarita.
My experience is that it's quite easy flying on a major carrier with a dog that fits under the seat. Many airports have started to add pet bathrooms as well.
> If the market does not land on a safe and affordable option, then so be it, solely the pet owner should bare that cost.

Right now the problem for pet owners (of which I am one) is that there are no acceptable options, even at a significantly increased cost. Putting a pet in the luggage compartment is not acceptable, and airlines basically don't give you any other option unless your pet is small enough to fit in its carrier under your seat, which very few pets are. Airlines have options to support people traveling with infants and small children; similar options for people traveling with pets, even if they cost more, would be helpful.
Right, the whole idea is that you use 200% and get that really crisp text.
You are only required to report base salary in H1B petition, so that's what you see there. It doesn't account for total compensation, most of which is equity.
She is accused of being an abuser. I think we've seen enough fake accusations of various kinds of abuse (i.e. crimes without proof, one person's word vs another's) in the past few years to know better.
Unintended by the legislators, maybe, but I'd wager this punitive reaction by Facebook is very intentional. Many EU businesses are going to have their commerce and customer service flows break 9 days before Christmas. It will be interesting to see how much backlash from these businesses is leveled at the EU regulators and how much is directed toward getting off Facebook's platform.
If public leaders don't take it seriously enough to follow the protocols they've advised/recommended, how can anyone take it seriously? This leads to more deaths. I'm not focusing on them to vilify them - I'm calling it out as a contributing factor, which it is. And I think it's very productive.

The virus is clearly the problem but it isn't solvable until a vaccine comes which takes time - in the meantime you have to enter the realm of sociology. Messaging matters.
Black Friday sales on 75 inch 4k TVs and sound bars => millions of people don't need theaters.
>You’d literally make more money today taking your cash and starting a business than dumping it in some of these worthless pursuits.

You refuted yourself in the second paragraph. I suspect that crazy cash and financial instruments are crowding out the value of business investment.
After storied 35-year-run, Silicon Valley's Churchill Club ceases operations
Did I say it wasn’t a fish?

Unagi is freshwater eel. Anago is saltwater eel. You said foie gras of the Sea, sea is not freshwater and unagi does not come from the sea.
> The only alternative was to drive cross-country, or...

What was wrong with this alternative (other than being inconvenient for you)?
Yes, there is some changes. Clocks drift, analog receivers age, and so on.
So by offering an alternative better than any other available, Amazon is the bad guy? What about all the companies not offering them alternatives?
I understand there is a huge grey area on this subject. I specifically refer to the abusers (the only label I am applying intentionally.) I didn't mention people who are homeless. A much better explanation than I can give at this time: http://brightside-susan.blogspot.com/2011/05/people-behaving... A quote from the article:

> "Each time an employee has an encounter with a fake service dog (and yes, they know when you're lying), this brings us tangibly closer to the implementation of laws, regulations, and policies that make it harder for me to live my life without being treated as a second-class citizen."

As a video: https://www.kronon.tv/videos/people-behaving-badly-2013-farm...
I've not been at a place while they got sold on Oracle, but I've been at one that was desperately working to get away from it. Over 15 years the relationship went from amicable to "Oracle reps are in town this week, give management a wide berth" announcements.
It is abusive for airlines to charge $250 per roundtrip for a ~10 lb carryon that fits under your seat.

They are operating a scam. This was the only way around it.
He's referring to organized crime/racketeering. Your 'not-union' scheme seems like organized crime if you squint a bit and imagine that it would be backed up with violence.

Populist tough-guy shakes down businesses to get back at The Man or some such.

Plus unions in the US have often been infiltrated by organized crime.
Microsoft didn't crush Slack, far from it.

Microsoft Teams is a steaming pile of shit. It can never win on technical merit against competent (or even semi-competent) competition like Slack, Mattermost, etc.

The only reason Teams is seeing supposedly good adoption numbers is because it's bundled with Office 365 at no extra charge and in a Microsoft environment the thing auto-starts with the OS and logs you into your domain account, thus counting as an "active" user regardless of whether you willingly use it or never touch it. It's also the official replacement for Skype for Business (formerly Lync) so companies already deep into the Microsoft stack (parts of which are good, but the majority is crap) are following the "safe" path and upgrading to it instead of exploring alternatives.

Teams is not really "winning" marketshare in the sense that they're just capturing the majority of Skype For Business / Lync users, but no modern company evaluating these tools on technical merit will pick Teams over Slack.
Why?

I'm really not getting the usefulness of this offering, so can't have been exposed to or dealt with companies that have the problem it's solving.

I have worked with events companies on ticketing systems, so any example scenario you can share around events would be great to help me understand.
Wireless devices are still hit-or-miss for me. I've also found that my wireless keyboard and mouse actually perform worse if I have WiFi enabled. -_-
No one said "in the PC space" here.

There's lots of credible ARM work in both the mobile and the server space. Generally, a lot of it would work OK in the PC space, but for the lack of software support. Apple has the ability to leapfrog that particular problem.

Still, Apple seems to have done pretty well compared to both the other mobile and server ARM vendors with their PC offering.
The idea that tulips are similar to the tech behind ethereum is ridiculous. And that’s sort of the implication.
Do you get vacations? Have a (nominally) 40-hour work week?
Xiaomi Surface 34
If they don't want to have to look for qualified local talent every-time the visa renewal comes up, and the employee is being a valuable and productive member of society, that seems like an ideal case for some kind of permanent residency program. Maybe it could involve some kind of colored card?

What an absolute mess this whole system is.
Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
> 64GB of ram cost < 300 euros

Not all RAM is equivalent. If one wants 64GB of the kind of RAM M1 uses, which is very high performance, it will cost more than 300 euros.
> but a ticket that you can later use to check whether what you asked for is available or exchange for what you asked for, that ticket is called “a future”

The whole original point of futures was that there was no ticket and no checking - when you used the value it blocked.

I think what's described here is more like what was originally called an eventual value.

But most people seem to have forgotten these original ideas and definitions.
If you need any more help dissuading yourself from becoming a day-trader, I made a Matt Levine Insider Trading Game.

You're given 4 quarters of a stock's history and earnings for the current quarter. Then you are presented 1 of 2 opposite paths (just actual and -actual daily movements). You then have to pick the correct path.

https://insider-trading-game.netlify.app/

https://github.com/breeko/stox
TB3 is 40Gbps, USB-C 3.2 10Gbps. 4K@60Hz is possible over USB-C but 4K@120+Hz only with TB3 AFAIK (or dedicated DP cable of course).
How about highly trained individuals who are willing to do high-paying work for which it is hard to find US workers? Doesn't really match any of {subject matter experts, innovators, field experts}

I'm talking lawyers and bankers and whatever else you want to throw in the mix
Eric Weinstein makes the case that it's a wage tampering program for scientists and tech workers generally.

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/107032731818526720...

https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_N...
I feel this is not a very thoughtful comment. There can be many more reasons for not being able to afford a $1000 laptop other than local compensation right? Financial constraints like kids, mortgage, lack of spare cash for a new machine etc.?
Yes most people probably can find a new job without being actually kicked out.

You still only have a little time to find a job. Just because you could find something fast doesn’t mean it’s not stressful, especially if you were fired for performance reasons.
I believe this in the abstract, but would be very interested in some concrete explanation for why sprocs compose worse than other programming languages. How would the OP's situation have improved if instead of sprocs he had a similarly complex webapp and had to deal with the schema changes there? I'm not challenging the OP; I don't have enough experience with sprocs to have an informed opinion, but this information is necessary to make sense of the OP's criticism.

The best argument against sprocs that I've heard is that you really don't want any code running on your database hosts that you don't absolutely need because it steals CPU cycles from those hosts and they don't scale horizontally as well as stateless web servers. This is a completely different argument than the OP's, however.
> Yes M1 is great. But it's a closed system

It doesn't matter. Sure, that might mean that an Apple system is not for you.

But the crux of the matter is: Apple did something truly revolutionary. How is the rest of the market going to respond? Specifically, how are Intel, AMD and Microsoft going to respond? Microsoft, at least, has Windows running on ARM, but it doesn't have Rosetta. Intel and AMD have nothing remotely comparable.
What Yann said about data bias is a fact. He wasn’t dismissing your concerns nor distracting from it. A lot of people tried to extrapolate what Yann meant, but from the way I see it, if more people learn about the cause of this racial bias, the more people will be inclined to use fairer and diverse datasets in their future ML research.
The law should not be used to prevent someone from destroying their own life, if they want to ingest chemicals that screw them up, it is their life.

The law should be to protect people from having their lives destroyed by others. On that front the score is clear, the effect of prohibition to peoples lives is FAR FAR FAR FAR more damaging to the general public than the use of the drug is.

Prohibition creates criminal gangs, street violence, increased overdose, increases load on health systems, erodes personal liberty as the government clamps down harder and harder on drug use, rips apart families with life line consequences of criminal charges, and 100's of other negative effects on general society far and beyond someone personally wrecking their own life by using drugs.
> I hope her research won't suffer for it.

of course it will. The big tech companies have created networks of users and user data that is beyond anything that can be replicated in an academic or laboratory setting. By saying that it's fine for corporations to have draconian oversight over research about the systems they build, what you are saying is that these systems cannot be researched for any purposes other than to make them more profitable. That is an abdication of responsibility.
Bingo. My dad came over here in an H1-B because his company needed a public health expert with experience in Bangladesh. There were probably a handful of people in the world with that background. The company wasn’t going to find an American with those skills.

I’m sympathetic to the idea that we should have a generic immigration mechanism for skilled workers. But we don’t have that. Congress hasn’t created one because the American people won’t support one. (Or at least, the parties that want such a thing aren’t willing to spend political capital on it so long as they can kick the can down the road by abusing the current system).
What % of that is developers? What is the global demand for software developers?
I tried it via Material UI with a React app and everything ground to a halt. What a mess it was.
Full text is available. Summary:

> We survey 15,000 Americans over several waves to investigate whether, how, and why working from home will stick after COVID-19. The pandemic drove a mass social experiment in which half of all paid hours were provided from home between May and October 2020. Our survey evidence says that 22 percent of all full work days will be supplied from home after the pandemic ends, compared with just 5 percent before. We provide evidence on five mechanisms behind this persistent shift to working from home: diminished stigma, better-than-expected experiences working from home, investments in physical and human capital enabling working from home, reluctance to return to pre-pandemic activities, and innovation supporting working from home.
Lesser-known JavaScript open-source projects of 2020
> in result Facebook, Home Depot, and others hire them for 1/3 or 1/2 less.

One of these is not like the other. Facebook pays extremely well even for H1Bs, not many come close to it in the industry.
Peacocks:
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/12/no-your-emotional-support-pe...

Pig
https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/30/travel/emotional-support-pig-...

Kangaroo
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mcdonalds-kangaroo-beaver-dam...
Following up - actually ordered one. It was surprisingly acceptable!
The whole system is rife with fraud and abuse.

I've worked at several large corporations were workers would drift around different business groups, picking up work and getting another short term contract in order to stay in the country and continue to be gainfully employed. There was a running joke between managers about recycling developers so they never had to sponsor any of them.

I also worked at two different startups where they hired a developer and then a few weeks into the gig, they figured out this wasn't the person they thought they had hired. The second time, I wondered to a co-worker about it and he said there's a huge problem with one person (the qualified candidate) doing the interview and then they send a totally unqualified person to the gig.

I also experienced large teams were an Indian developer would be getting close to his H1-B expiring and suddenly send a manager an email about a "sick family member" and having to return to India, never to show up again. One of co-workers said its pretty common and the H1-B devs are constantly interviewing and if they get a fresh contract, they'll just leave the current company and start at the new one - without any heads up to anybody, they just ghost.

The whole program is so unregulated and so many loopholes for both sides to take advantage of, it needs to be changed for sure.
> Growing corn burns fossil fuels

Head-scratching a bit there. Corn absorbs CO2 while growing right ?

From https://www.agweb.com/article/corns-carbon-cowboy-busts-outs...
...At 200 bu. per acre, every acre of corn absorbs 8 tons of carbon dioxide. In 2012, U.S. farmers grew almost 100 million acres of corn and absorbed 800 million tons of carbon dioxide...
So a legal/regulatory equivalent of a strawman argument?
The problem is they /can't/ leave. It's indentured servitude and a wage supression program.
Same reason bands from all over the world come to perform in America (well, in normal years, at least) even though America is full of performing musicians who are lucky if they ever make a penny? What reason is there to see the Rolling Stones when <band I have never heard of> is playing?

When the job is more than perfectly repeatable steps defined by an employer, which certainly describes the development of software, where anyone can be replaced with anyone else, there is sometimes value in specific people doing the job. People who may or may not be American.
lol didn't even have to click the link to know the joke
As in the title of the article, the name of the country is Colombia, there are no u's in there.
I'm generally a fan of miniseries, but I wonder what pressure the producers are putting on creators to lengthen them. I loved the Chernobyl miniseries for example, but I also think it was maybe 1-2 episodes longer than it needed to be. The first and last couple were amazing, but it kind of lagged in the middle.

I'm reading Dune now (no spoilers please!) and I'm really surprised they're making a movie rather than a miniseries.