skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I’m sure if the author wasn’t dependent on having a visa they would of left much sooner than they did. Companies know they have unfair leverage on employees dependent on sponsored visas. Employees on sponsored visas have very little options and next to no rights, in this case the author felt suicide might be their only way out.

> This is a good example of why the arbitrary system of nations restricting free trade by deciding who is allowed to work where is a method specifically designed to aid in this type of exploitation.

Not really. Only nontransferable sponsored visas tied to specific employers (or ones with terms so short that they're effectively the same) have this exploitation problem. You don't have to go all open borders to fix this, you just need to give sponsored immigrants just as much job-hopping freedom as permanent residents already have.
If you're still concerned, there's probably nothing they could do at this point.
Has a great Emacs interface, too.
This is assuming people are considerate and knowledgable enough to not use the semi-autonomous modes in areas that have winter snowcover. I have no confidence in people to do so. It would have to be made an explicit part of state laws. And then you have cars that are legal to drive in one state but illegal in another.
I would advise looking for free lancers who have build their own products either a side project or a startup that failed/succeded.
This will make your life easier.

And when you hire them, try to treat them as partners and involve them in decision making.
Apple is horrible if you want to repair your device yourself. They dont sell you the parts and their support tells you to buy a new device.
But the employer chooses what needs to be done and the time frame for completion. You can choose whatever hours will let you complete the assigned work. Just complete it or you're fired.
California's stats are pulled in the bad direction by Southern California, which has throughout the pandemic experienced much higher disease and mortality rates.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/covid-surge-los-...

It's hard to know exactly what's behind the difference between Northern and Southern CA, but anecdotally, mask and social distancing adherence is lower in Southern California.
Presumably one could get the flu and COVID at the same time, which would probably be worse than either one separately. Does California normally have higher incidence of flu per capita than other states?
An Oldie but a Goldie.

Related "CodeQuery"(https://github.com/ruben2020/codequery) which uses both cscope and ctags databases (i use both for C/C++ code from within vim) and provides a GUI frontend.

Combine with "Doxygen" and "GNU cflow" (https://www.gnu.org/software/cflow/) and you get a very good view of the static structure of any codebase.

To get a Runtime view i prefer the call graph emitted by the profiler gprof.
Yeah, we’re on 25 and 50 user licenses for the various products (~$3000-$5000 p/a). Datacenter’s lowest tier is 500 users for $40,000 p/a.
Go back to the page, look at the right-hand sidebar under "Links", it has:

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Click on "Subtext". Read up.
The lesson should be work as hard as you need to (which usually isn't that hard). Never work harder.
Why are you doing it at all if it doesn't matter?
Better UI/UX.
I'm not sure the occasional bank run by people who get over zealous with their greed and desire for MORE is necessarily a bad thing.

The problem in my mind is when banks are doing fractional reserve without the explicit understanding and consent of their depositors. This might mean we'll have to get used a world where we pay banks a tiny fee to secure our money, rather than the risk free interest we expect now.
In behavioral science it is well documented that punishment is an ineffective driver for behavioral modification. In fact, for punishment to work at all it has to be consistent and immediate. Prison is neither.

So our best theory of behavioral modification states that prisons is not a deterrent for crime, nor is there any evidence for it in the records. All the while prisons are an inhumane and terrible way to treat people. Can we just please abolish prisons.
Yes, that's what I was alluding to "the developing world workforce." For whatever reason, despite reoccurring reports about worker abuses from Foxconn/Wistron, Apple often gets a pass in the discourse- possibly because those workers are out of sight, out of mind.
>I thought large companies did not count.

If they are having trouble then individuals will too. As for Rosetta 2, you're right. I'm not making the distinction between a virtualizing and attempting to do translation of one binary architecture to another blindly. The second is much more unreliable.

A script interpreter is an entirely different thing than binary architecture translation and I think you know that.
> The damage from the lockdowns however could be equal to or worse than the damage they seek to prevent.

Maybe

Anyway, if we all get the vaccine and the 95% effectiveness we wouldn’t need the lockdowns

The lockdowns have already happened- nothing you can do about them now - we have 3 vaccines ready to go

What is your stance on the vaccines?
Agree. A year seems a lot more reasonable.
A fairly safe bet that heart disease is a comorbidity in many of the COVID deaths.
Do you think voluntary euthanasia should be open to older people? And what’s the floor on that age? 75? 100?

I have always wondered why we stop people from quitting life. Free will and all that. It seems to be the most basic of all freedoms.
one thing missing. it does matter of you’re a member of a protected class. otherwise, you’re painting a target on yourself, right or wrong.
This is a great effort, and it's important to have datasets like this available to democratise ML learning and work.

One small comment: It would be great for this (and other) datasets to give a quick "sample data" file - preferably one that doesn't need to be downloaded to be viewed. Even a screenshot of some of the data would be useful for people browsing to get a quick understanding of the actual content, and how it is formatted. Downloading gigabytes of data just to have a look isn't practical.
Would having a "spy in the ranks" not further undermine the trust between founder and employees? Wouldn't it be ideal to lead by example and encourage a culture of open sharing over eavesdropping? I get that there will always be some power dynamic between manager/managee, but I felt encouraged enough with my previous manager's and skips to be open and direct about problems if there were some. That's probably an exception not the rule, though.

Having not been in management whatsoever, I'm asking purely out of curiosity
Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020)
Primarily a lack of time, but also a lack of focus. I’ve never found one single project that fulfils everything I’m looking for, so am currently dividing what time I have between two:

- A website about video games that I love to work on - but which has a niche audience and is ultimately quite frivolous.

- A programming language implementation which could provide significant value to its future users - but building it is frustrating and not always interesting.

There is some crossover of skills and knowledge between the two projects, but at the moment they’re both progressing very slowly.

I’m also losing time to analysis paralysis - should I stop working on one of them? Which one? (Might I find a purpose in games, or a passion for languages?) Or should I carry on trying to progress both?
That's why my reflection email always includes at least one question about some detail of the statement I want to confirm.

"Per our conversation of this morning when you asked me to delete all our backups, do you want me to erase the disks or should I also roll over them with the company steamroller?"
>The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

I dunno - I worked hard, especially early in my career and people noticing lead to four new jobs, two of which included substantial pay/benefit raises. Then again more than a bit of that hard work was on cross-organizational teams; I wasn't acting solely in my direct organizational unit.

So hard work can pay off if you are doing it somewhere it is visible by others. Getting involved in working groups outside of your company, even if you have to do it after hours, is a great way to network and help others notice your work ethic.

I see far too many people who burrow into their current organization and then just bitch about it without doing something about it. If people can't see you they won't be able to recognize your work.

This isn't directed at you but just a general observation - if you don't like your current organization, get proactive and do something about it. I have little sympathy for people who just complain without doing anything.
I can relate. The fountain sounds cool if not purely because you like it, is that not enough of a reason?
> But many states have explicit laws against surreptitious audio recording. I suspect that comes from politicians being caught with wires (yeah, I'm a cynic).

Voices can be easily faked, that's the reason. Same will happen to video as deepfake technologies keep improving.
one of the most awesome thing is that I stumbled upon this post at 12:00:xx GMT+7 and didn’t realize that the clock starts on 12:00:00
Also a safe bet that that without Covid, many of those people would be alive today.
When you die of the flu they count it as covid.
What was his diet?
Context matters to grok what he's saying. Read up on his "Subtext", go watch Engelbart's "Mother of all Demos", read Nelson's "Dream Machines". We are living in a shadow world compared to what might be...

http://www.subtext-lang.org/

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

https://computerlibbook.com/
lower than in Florida?

Personally, I blame stupid restrictions. Anecdotally, I know several families who gathered indoors with friends because their previous plans for holidays like skiing or just sitting in snow i Tahoe (by themselves only) or meeting for outdoor dining were all banned.
Here's a permalink: https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/blob/939fffc015255736...
Can you give us additional info please?
They might be thinking of the tendency for people to assume talent in a particular task is something you are born with, not the general aptitudes for that task.

Like when one person says "A natural born musician" they are usually not just suggesting the person has general traits good for music. They often just believe the person was born with musical talent pre-programmed somehow.
Just to add to the list. Keep a paper trail of all communications between you and your line management or any other colleague. Especially abusive communications. It will look really bad when you read these out aloud at a HR meeting for them.
I don't think there is anything to feel guilty about. Just recognize you have good fortune not everyone has, and help those who don't if you can.

I'm like you, I'm fortunate enough to work for a company who took Covid seriously and has gone 100% remote, in a market sector that's actually up due to Covid (grocery), so no fear of layoffs.

When this is over, I hope we'll remember that those essential "low value" employees that we spend so much time arguing if they deserve a minimum wage or not were the ones out there every day exposing themselves cleaning the stores and restaurants, stocking our toilet paper, packing our Amazon orders, and generally keeping society functioning while "high value" employees like you and I got to hide away in our houses with minimal risk.

Hopefully we as a society can see and that and reconsider if maybe, just maybe we're undervaluing these people.
And on the 27th there were 64, and on the 25th, 77. There’s a fairly obvious dip in the 7-day trendline around Christmas:

https://covid-19.direct/state/CA

It’s likely that some of this is due to reporting delay over the holidays.
Ugh. They're only in glTF and something called "USDZ" format.

Those are NOT "CAD" formats (eg STEP, IGES) as the title of the post (here) claims.

Hopefully an admin can change the post title to be "3D models ..." instead. :)
Any chance you could get me some dxd files? I'd love to take a stab at reverse-engineering this and writing a direct converter to something standard. Feel free to email them to me (email in bio).
Crime may be trending down, but I think the perception is that it's more common - I remember reading the results of multiple polls to that effect over the last decade. People consistently believe that crime has gotten worse. Part of there blame was placed on the news media overreporting crime stories (as what else are they going to talk about when nothing exciting is happening?) which skews public perception of the actual scale of the problem.
The wage subsidy would only close the gap between the wage and 16. If you made 16, there would be no subsidy.
You can use insulated pots with wood stoves as well. I've even personally seen these sold for camping in the past. I can't find any pre-made ones for sale right now online. But things like the Solo Stove Campfire would work just fine with an insulated pot: https://www.solostove.com/solo-stove-campfire/

Fireproof insulation exists after all. Even something as simple as wrapping a pot with crumbled aluminum foil works quite well: the aluminum traps air, an excellent insulator.
Ask HN: What are some things you can do in a shell on iOS
I recently downloaded A-Shell and I have been loving it so far as it has allowed me to ssh into my remote servers from anywhere but besides that what else can I do
This is exactly what I hate about Adobe. They're always cramming way too much functionality into their plugins making them too heavy and riddled with security issues.

This is like flash player all over again. No way am I going to enable the proper pdf reader for web content view. There's a good reason browsers refuse to support all this
Covid-19 Vaccine’s Slow Rollout Could Portend More Problems
I know from my own personal experience that Apple doesn't care. This person could go right back to a different department and get a new contract if the opportunity exists.
I'm from Poland and I get the following message:

"403 ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation."

Your site works fine when checked via anonymous proxies located in different European countries.

Not sure if that's intentional or a misconfiguration, just letting you know.
Note that Linus tech review is targeting mass market consumers, not expert or semiexpert.

The craziness you mentioned is typical YouTube banter fillers. That was not only expected, they are actually useful. Otherwise the video would be unbearable. I don't expect those to be problem for the channel's main audience.
The federal government is handing doses off to states based solely on population. California's local allocation strategy isn't public as far as I know, just the high-level priority list of who should get vaccinated.
Making Souls: Methods and a Pipeline for Volumetric Characters
Leaded gas.
My initial inclination is to abandon the graying out.

Upvotes may cause the post / comment to float up in relation to it's siblings, but that's about it, other than flagging.

I also think it would be interesting to have a separate agree/disagree signal that's independent of quality rating.

I can disagree strongly with a well thought out and quality comment, and vice versa. It would be nice to have independent signals, so I could conveniently communicate "I disagree with you, but value the discussion"
It's very much deniable.

This now forces restaurants to sign an agreement and start paying a commission. Previously, they got a free delivery service at no cost to them. Now they either have to pay or lose business. This is bad for the majority of restaurants.
You should always always ask how it could go wrong. Popper called this critical rationalism - it is always good to invert and check for downstream effects. We can see "good measured" going horribly wrong and warping society for generations.

You point out two excellent ones already (thank you) - the journals that the Indian government does not subscribe will wither and die no matter how good they are. This can lead to a curse of winner takes all. It can also lead to a preferential promotion of accepted and unaccepted theories - similar to what happened in the Soviet Union regarding Lysenkoism vs. Darwin's theories.
Hope they got fired. I' sorry, this is just terrible.
Wish you all the best.
Liberals want things like less military spending, more peaceful approaches to international politics, no more proxy wars, and no more hawkish behavior (like us shooting down Iran's drones). There's so much war weariness from the Middle East that liberals have it in their mind that the US is the bad guys, that we are the militaristic aggressors, that we cause all the problems.

I don't really like hawkish behavior either. Of course I want free healthcare and to not have to worry about war. Obviously reducing our presence in the ME would be great. But the reality is that China is essentially re-inventing colonialism, rapidly making military advances towards Taiwan, gobbling up islands, viciously oppressing their citizens, inventing new and terrifying surveillance technology, slipping their malware in front of our children as apps and games, and just generally bullying other members of the world stage. The Russian government is killing political opponents, working on their own Great Firewall/retreating into their own Internet, systematically trying to weaken Western democracy with what is basically psyops, hacking the shit out of everyone they can, and building ASAT/hypersonic weapons specifically designed to attack American resources.

Basically, the enemies of the US seem like they're spending massive amounts of time and resources trying to destroy us on every front. Meanwhile America, still can't get electronic voting right four years later, and was close to defunding its critical defense infrastructure: https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/07/01/next-gen-icb...

America has a lot of problems but compared to this kind of behavior, we are definitely not the bad guys. Nearly all of the anti-patriotic sentiment I've seen ("America is third-world", "America is stupid and racist", "I'm moving to Canada because I hate the government", "Everyone else does it better", "I would never work for the government", etc) is coming from the Left. They should be more honest with themselves about both the good and bad things about America, because we need to fix race relations, healthcare, education, etc. but we definitely also need military spending. Cause fuck China.
Unions come with consistent skills trainings, legal counsel, and representatives to intercede when management is treating employees poorly. This seems like a very helpful stable of support to be able to call on in situation like this one.
If that is the case it still seems like you would just need metal for a section that reduces the size of the pipe down to something smaller to give you the pressure. A larger diameter pex should be able carry the water around with a reducer only where the pressure is needed.
Dan, I really have to add another comment, THIS IS GREAT!
So then why would California force them into that very situation?
Thanks for sharing this. As a Masters' student currently studying robotics, I felt pretty overwhelmed with all the sub-fields when coming from a computer science degree in undergrad. I only got a clear understanding of what I was interested in after a year of courses. I think joining a lab and learning as you go is sound advice, but if you really want to do some novel research, you would need a semester or two of courses just to be able to contribute (by which time you would have almost finished your masters). It also seems like a lot of research directions gravitate towards deep RL when classical approaches could work just as well, if not better.

Also, unfortunately due to COVID, most of the work I've done with robotics has only been in simulation and I've found myself frustrated by the limitations of the simulator or the work required to simulate a real world scenario. Working with real world data might be slower, but it's a lot more satisfying when it works.
The Great Gatsby was the only book I had to read in high school that connected with me in any lasting way. What I get out of the text has changed considerably over the years, but that doesn't make my high school self's interpretation less meaningful.
In most years the annual number of flu deaths in California is about this much.
No sane one calls the Taiwan province as a country.
This is FlashPlayer.

The underlying JavaScript-like language is ActionScript which was originally developed by MacroMedia to provide animation for Flash.

It's quite useful for creating PDF SmartForms that adjust their contents based on the user's responses. Until very recently they were only viable in the official Abobe Reader until Chrome decided to add support.

As far as security, blame Chrome for not incorporating an opt-in before allowing a particular PDF to run ActionScript in the browser.
Trump extends work visa ban through March, citing labor market woes
The unfortunate thing is that if not for the social/political side, this would be a good approach. I would be happy to be on one of many teams doing parallel implementations if at the end one codebase won but no people lost.
.NET (SDK/Runtime) has always been free, but it's also been Open Source for several years now whilst F# has basically always been OSS and is stewarded by the non-profit F# Software Foundation.

Microsoft will never charge for usage of .NET simply because that's not their business model which relies on mainstream adoption, previously it was to spur sales of Windows Desktop, Servers & their Infrastructure software but now with Azure they're happy for it to have ubiquitous adoption on Linux or Windows servers as well.
It’s fascinating that the list basically of who gets to live is not public.
> In some cases, programs will order apps to secretly turn on the microphone of the user and record daily conversations. The system will then use AI tools to analyse chat contents, often by capturing keywords, and make the app push relevant products or contents for the user, the 30-year-old engineer said, who only gave his last name as Wang. Some apps would also collect user’s real-time location information when users are not using the app, he added.

Wow, and I thought Facebook was sleazy... imagine if the rest of the App Store was like this as well.
That 100% ignores cultural, education, diversity, and tons of other issues.

Yea, I bet recidivism is low in Norway, who also has a very small chapter of MS13 or whatever gang you like, coincidentally.

I disagree you can look to some other country and make a fair comparison. The only way to do it would be to look at rates before and after some policy change.
Well, Vista has a lot more blue in it. Plus it has that sweet dark black taskbar.
https://www.facebook.com/https://www.facebook.com/
You left out Disney, IBM, Microsoft... American corporates are awful to work for imho. I worked for one once, never will again, they do make great products but so many abusive middle managers.

I couldn't watch office space for years after - it was too much like real life.