skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you do strictly immigration work or do you get involved in YC founders’ numerous domestic violence cases?
Unlikely; Windows updates (mostly) only turn things you disabled back on if they're harmful to you.
Having a more even internal tax treatment with a minimum corporate tax baseline was discussed at the G7.
The worlds outrage would last as long as their iPhone supply.

Cook didn’t take Trump as a threat enough to justify diversifying his supply chain much, he isn’t losing any sleep about Taiwans upcoming annex.
On my laptop's Core i5-10210U with mitigations=off, the demo just prints "[!] error: could not infer memory layout" until it runs out of retries.

This is on Chromium 91.0.4472.106 and kernel 5.12.11-arch1-1. lscpu shows vulnerabilities:

Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
L1tf: Not affected
Mds: Not affected
Meltdown: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Vulnerable
Spectre v1: Vulnerable: __user pointer sanitization and usercopy barriers only; no swapgs barriers
Spectre v2: Vulnerable, IBPB: disabled, STIBP: disabled
Srbds: Mitigation; TSX disabled
Tsx async abort: Not affected
I find your comment overly dismissive of EventBus and I respectfully disagree with you on not needing to decouple components for a local app.

I've worked with GreenRobot's EventBus on a large (100M+ installs) app years ago. I worked with RxJava as well. I've also worked with more feature-rich proprietary solutions to EventBus.

EventBus is a library with a straightforward API that junior developers can use with little issues. "Launch this event and add this annotation to make sure it gets processed off the main thread". This is a very real practical advantage, that is not unique to EventBus, but it works well for large teams and does not require you to rewrite methods to return Observable objects just to be able to chain some things together. Does EventBus lead to some eventual problems? Yes. Are they manageable? Yes.

On the other hand, RxJava is a framework and, once it's in, it starts spreading Observables through all the classes in the codebase. Most developers need significant time to ramp up to become productive with it. I used to work with 30+ developers on an Android app. The app I work on now at a different company has thousands of developers working on it. People at these companies collectively concluded that RxJava doesn't bring sufficient benefits to these large teams. Both companies have ripped it out pretty quickly after the initial excitement wore off and the downsides started kicking in.

Kotlin made things much better in the recent years, but it doesn't mean that EventBus is now 'dumb' or 'toxic'. Coroutines on Android weren't widely used in these large apps a few years ago, before Google announced official support, so people were calling "new Thread()", using AsyncTask or, more likely, having ExecutorService threads created by various components in the design without any regard to CPU contention or priority of execution, and instantiating "new Runnable" all over the place.

Also, using the HTTP handler's thread to process business logic _blocks that thread_ and makes it unavailable until the logic is done running - which could take a long time. Boundaries for execution are absolutely required, unless you're working on a small app that doesn't need to care about these issues and where pretty much anything goes. You want to have control over which logic runs on which thread, otherwise you'll needlessly spend time debugging race conditions and deadlocks in production, like me. HTTP threads for delivering HTTP results, image threads for processing images, database threads for writing to the database, and you want to set priority for background, I/O and foreground threads.

That last point you have about reducing timeouts to be closer to frame rendering times is also incredibly narrowly useful. You can invest a ton of time and have the server respond in microseconds but if your users in Bangladesh are using cheap $20 Android phones over 3G connections you still have the same problem and you won't be anywhere near 32ms.
> It seems as if the people in the design team are all working exclusively on 32-inch Apple XDR Pro Displays.

Makes me think of the complaints in video game text over the past few years and how it had become so small as to be nearly unreadable on normal TVs at normal viewing distances. The natural assumption here is that the game devs were doing all their work inches away from large fancy monitors not thinking of the so-called 10’ experience most people use to consume the content.

At least many console games now have text size sliders (with varying levels of usefulness).

https://kotaku.com/the-year-in-tiny-video-game-text-2019-184...
It's a joke lighten up
I really can't comment on any potential claims but the law is clear that a sponsoring H-1B employer must offer a terminated employee the reasonable cost of a return trip home.
Ask HN: Why did Sony remove Cyberpunk 2077 from its stor
I know Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't perfect on PS4 and ps5. But why did they remove the game from their store? And why they have decided to make it available again in its store?
>the privacy laws in Europe are stronger than Asia, I lose some privacy protection. Is this a coincidence?

Of course it's not.
Rust Is Exciting
And the hits just keep coming. What a pair of years.
It requires significantly less political capital to create a new tax cut or subsidy than to raise taxes or allocate new spending directly.

Furthermore American tax policy w.r.t foreign profits is a rounding error when it comes to building up semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure.

No American company is happy they have to go to China or Taiwan to tape out a new design. There simply isn't the infrastructure to do it affordably on this side of the Pacific, unless it has critical technologies that cannot be offshored for fear of industrial espionage.
The author vaguely stumbles through the partisan goal posts with loosely associated leftisms. Globalism isn't a concern. It doesn't mount any propaganda, because: "Look over there, it is capitalism!"

If that's not enough, the buffet also includes the tired trope of associating right wingers with anti-semitism. Somehow Trump is mixed into the smorgasbord.

There's some irony in him missing the broader point of the film while arriving at a conclusion about ideological blinders.
I went through Marines boot camp and that was a ton of verbal and psychological abuse. There were very clear restrictions on physically assaulting recruits -- if a recruit entered within five feet? of a Drill Instructor, they could consider it an attack on their person and physically react -- so the DIs would spread their arms out and run at us to force us into their "engagement zone".

I saw a guy piss himself from the verbal abuse in front of 100 other recruits in the squad bay. Another recruit vomited bile from being spurred to exhaustion by our "Kill Hat", again in public view of the rest of us and to the protests of the medic who pleaded with the Kill Hat to stop. He seemed a deeply sadistic man. There were so many of us for so few DIs it was possible to avoid their attention: my teenage self with a head full of fantasy called this the "eye of the malefactor".

I've never seen so much evil in my life but I also never made it to a conflict zone.
Hey, thanks. One of my favorite computers is a Surface 3 running a Cherry Trail CPU. I tried Brave out and it's noticeably snappier on the old hardware than Firefox or Chrome.
This URL is blacklisted from Google. Try it.

* "Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results" : https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/1402986015107653647
That's a good point.

But it also brings up the false sense of security, a floppy drive could just choose to ignore the switch and write anyways, just as the phone could secretly write the firmware.
More importantly, Firefox defaults to the language of the browser you choose to install.

I haven't seen anybody install software on the wrong language by mistake for a long time.
Because they don’t have to as long as they are under the US defense umbrella.
Sure, add 'limiting any amount of abusive parents' to the list too. I was coming from the point of view of 'all other things being equal', two parents are better than one.
I was wondering about this too. The article also says that the maggots can be killed by suffocating them in a paper bag. Wouldn't the gut also suffocate them?

I desperately need to know this, because if I ever travel to Sardinia I will definitely try this unless there's a chance of getting infested by flesh eating maggots.
Yikes. If this doesn’t wake you up, maybe just sleep through the next few years.
> And so you fall into the pit of tar and despair that is relying on Sufficiently Smart Compilers.

How will we ever know that a Sufficiently Smart Compiler is impossible, if we never have processors where compiler intelligence is useful?
This is an interesting link. I wasn’t aware they specifically discouraged talking about specific medications. I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted heavily as if you said something offensive..
I don't know where you want to backup you games, but you can copy just the one game folder and remove the game afterwards from steam. To restore it move the folder back and "install" the game. Steam will verify the files and only download new/changed files. Should be faster the the backup option inside steam itself.

If you have a second hard drive (or maybe network drive, haven't tried) you can also create a steam library folder on that drive and just move the game to that library from within steam. That way it will still get updated.
Tax the foreign company on their revenue within the United States then.
The link I provided from the FDA says:

"There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals.

The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."
> Or, frankly, reduce timeouts for HTTP calls to be closer to frame rendering times (16-32ms), pay the extra pennies to serve networked services better, and focus on low-latency remote APIs.

To be clear, are you suggesting that network requests in an Android app should block the UI thread, on the assumption that everyone will have a good enough connection (and one close enough to your server) to receive the response quickly?
If the company has you down in country A, then they apply the rules for country A. But there are many signs they use to determine what country you are actually in.

Apparently there were enough signs in this case to conclude he had been in Malaysia long enough to trigger the rule.
Same thing on a different level, inspires just as little confidence in the statement that it's "not so bad".
Should me more like "the new normal: like the worst droughts in 1200 years".
sympy is not a proof assistant, but a symbolic computer algebra system
The issue of contention is how they determine the country, apparently even as the user in question is contesting.
i.e. your comment is an irrelevant deflection that adds nothing to the discussion, and you are functionally doing PR for Google for free.
Viral bacteria are matter. Matter is viral bacteria.
You're right, I shortcutted it. I've read this page so many times and just jumped to the "hyper conservative take".
> Why is "double-taxation" bad?

It's not that double-taxation is bad but people are claiming that corporate profits aren't taxed or are taxed at very low rates (I've heard people use numbers like 5%) and so need to be taxed more on general fairness grounds. Pointing out that they are already taxed negates that argument.

In general, all "fairness" arguments (this tax is "bad") to taxation are quite awful, because they tend to be made by people who have no idea of what the actual incidence of taxation is. (Really most fairness arguments of any kind are awful and suffer from similar problems about people not understanding the consequences of their proposals and thus not being qualified to decide on what is fair and what is not).

For example the same people enthusiastically argue for taxes on corporations but not sales taxes, when these have the same incidendence and thus are the same tax. The difference is primarily one of shifting the burden of who fills out the paperwork and a lot of marketing.

And that tendency to view taxation on grounds of fairness (e.g. emotion) rather than economic concerns (the ultimate cost of the tax) is what opens the door to massive tweaks of the tax code by various lobbyists. A simpler tax code that treated all sources of income in the same way and did not distinguish between expenditures would be a much better system than we have now. No tax deductions for any purpose and no separate treatment of wage or capital income, or inheritance income, etc. Just put it all into one pile and apply the tax rate for that pile. Similarly consolidate all corporate and sales taxes together into a single VAT that does not distinguish by industry or product type.

Then if the government wants to give money for fab construction (a foolish policy, IMO) they can do that directly. It would be great if we had taboos against tweaking the tax code entirely.
Above all else? No, but it's definitely a top priority.
Because people are idiots and will try and self-medicate, potentially making themselves really ill.
I think the future is going to look back on this pandemic and be simply amazed that the public allowed social media companies to dictate to the world what scientists and the people could and could not discuss. Much in the same way we look at the 16th century with Galileo and the Catholic Church.
"Ivermectin has been shown to inhibit the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures.13 However, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies suggest that achieving the plasma concentrations necessary for the antiviral efficacy detected in vitro would require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans."

"Since the last revision of this section of the Guidelines, the results of several randomized trials and retrospective cohort studies of ivermectin use in patients with COVID-19 have been published in peer-reviewed journals or have been made available as manuscripts ahead of peer review. Some clinical studies showed no benefits or worsening of disease after ivermectin use,21-24 whereas others reported shorter time to resolution of disease manifestations that were attributed to COVID-19,25-28 greater reduction in inflammatory marker levels,26,27 shorter time to viral clearance,21,26 or lower mortality rates in patients who received ivermectin than in patients who received comparator drugs or placebo.21,26,28

However, most of these studies had incomplete information and significant methodological limitations, which make it difficult to exclude common causes of bias."

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/ant...
It does depend on what we mean by read and write. I don't mean just recognizing letters and being able to reproduce them. An adult should be able to read and understand an article from a decent newspaper (say the Financial Times), and write a 5 line summary. Definitely not all 12 year olds can to do that and, I'd argue, a large fraction of adults can't either.
Here's a response:

YouTube is chock-full of dubious health information. But only this one got banned.

Why?

For the record, since I've been muzzled from responding further, I don't believe that it was "money".
I understand that 95% of American defense is a jobs program. Let's fry the bigger fish first.
It's like rolling 2d6 for the weather each year - 2, 3, 4, 5 is a cool summer, 6-8 is human comfortable normal and most likely, 9-12 is hotter or drier than normal.

Oh, and every half degree C of warming adds a pip to each side of one of the dice. 1 degree of warming? Each of those dice is now 2-7 not 1-6. 1.5 C? Now there's a 2-7 and a 3-8. Doesn't change that "6-8 is comfortable" though.

Edit: I noticed but blew past the dice mention in the article, and what I'm describing is different. Dr Hayhoe describes it as replacing sides with additional 6s, but that's different. What we're experiencing is a gradual change of where the center point of the distribution curve is, but without a corresponding change in the values at which humans are comfortable (or even able to live, look up "wet bulb" in the context of climate change).

Edit2: if what gets you massive heat waves are rolls of 12 or higher, adding a pip means there are now more ways to get there - (6,6) but also (5,7) and (6,7). Adding yet another pip would mean even more ways, along with the corresponding reduction in ways to get the bottom of the previous range.
The solution is to shift away from a system that hijacks our species' selfishness in the name of domination over nature to one where we live in harmony with the environment. Only one of the forms of government you mentioned has threatened human extinction.
While randomized trials are certainly the gold-standard for determining if you should give a new drug to treat an arbitrary disease, that process is far too conservative during a pandemic where a huge majority of the world cannot access proper medical care. Ivermectin is already massively produced, used throughout the world, and cheap to manufacture (compared to new anti-Covid drugs). Even months ago before the benefits were known, the risks of taking the drug were very small, especially when the treatment guidelines were to do practically nothing.

Still, the many pieces of non-randomized evidence can still clearly point towards this drugs efficacy. The sudden drop in Covid cases in India as the clearest indicator to me.
Will likely pop up on Ian's YouTube channel (techtechpotato) sometime soon. The one leading into this chat about Tenstorrent has nearly been up for a week https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMvudTBBQNw
Interesting maneuver but what's the motivation for Valve? They have SteamOS as their Linux distribution already. ChromeOS devices aren't known for their gaming prowess among consumers plus one would think that Google will eventually be interested in profiting from their relationship, eating into Valve's revenue. So why?
giving the climate change contribution from meat production, population growth, etc. i think our future diet here on Earth will look more like this Klingon reminding cheese. And insects and maggots are probably the most suitable way to farm protein on space stations/colonies.

It is interesting though why we, humans, haven't got to regularly eat the insects, snails, frogs, etc. (except for a few cuisines) - i mean until the 2nd half of the 20th century the malnutrition was very widespread, and so you'd expect that all the possible cheapest ways of food production would have been utilized. I wonder are there any hidden aspects which would naturally select out people/communities who would go that way in any substantial ways (say high risk of mistakes leading to poisoning? though we do eat mushrooms and fish then why not say frogs? the frogs for example were eaten only during famines in Russia, yet not in normal times).
No, this is just the usual torches-and-pitchforks crowd.
> First, find several dozen billion dollars.

Some electric car companies have not had trouble tapping into capital markets. Even Transmeta, a fabless IC maker, could tap $275m in 2000.

If you were a super talented engineering firm with the ability to spend $2b on a fab, you could tap finance for it.

> More seriously, find a low-performance niche application and make chips on old technology for it.

This seems like the opposite of any winning strategy, and the opposite of what the government should subsidize. TSMC is so successfully because it relentlessly focuses on performance chips. If you are enjoying American subsidies it better be for the cutting edge, what the hell else are we paying for?

> Differentiate yourself on the basis of being easy for your customers to work with

The only customer that matters is Apple, and your only competition is Samsung and TSMC. Everyone else is using "foreign chip manufacturers" as a way to launder low Chinese labor costs, not because there is inadequate supply or poor competition in specifically semiconductor manufacturing.

Perhaps that's what people want - a manufacturing hub, i.e., assembly of chips, not the chips themselves. I don't know if that's super important.
You are not their parent, and neither is YouTube.

Besides the scads of dubious (or outright dangerous) health-related videos on other topics, YouTube has videos of people flying "wing suits" and engaging in many other risky activities.
This is a conspiracy theory. Why is it that everyone who pushes Ivermectin as a miracle cure for COVID is also a conspiracy aficionado?
Good, you should. This is a major problem that short circuited lots of brains because it was easy to follow the msm narrative which character assassinated anybody who didnt conform, then used that narrative to start censoring. Again on the censorship topic many of us had been ringing warning bells (some great if devolved convos during were had here when the big censorship push happened...)

When are all you intelligent hacker news readers going to realize the history of the world is a history of conspiracy, and its the coincidence theorists that are the ones actually ignoring the truth(s)? Let me know when you want to have that convo and Ill show up.
Sounds like years old things too, things not yet in production…
It's a common misconception that a nonimmigrant status somehow leads to a green card or limits the green card options in any way. There is no connection between the two. So someone in IEP "status" could pursue a green card but because IEP is not considered an admission, he or she would have to go the immigrant visa route through a US Consulate abroad rather than the adjustment of status route through USCIS.
[Gödel 1931] was for a system for the foundations of

mathematics with orders on propositions.

The [Gödel 1931] proposition I'mUnprovable is certainly of

historical interest and may perhaps be of philosophical

interest.

However, including the proposition I'mUnprovable in

foundations makes the foundations inconsistent.
The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties

That makes me wonder at the mechanism and biological pathways involved in how this works at all on anything and how that intersects with Covid-19.

I'm alive in part because for some years my best friend was a former registered nurse who had let her nursing license lapse while she raised her special-needs sons and pursued training in various alternative medicines to try to keep them alive. I remember asking her once in exasperation after several rounds of back and forth still hadn't really answered my question "Yes, but exactly what does this drug do in the body at the cellular level?" And she told me "You are asking questions for which they don't have answers. That's not how drug studies work."

Everything I have read and experienced suggests to me that covid-19 is so deadly largely because of what it does to your blood, not your respiratory system. One of the things that kills people with covid-19 is blood clots.

And parasitic infections sometimes infect your blood cells. This is how malaria works and it's why Sickle Cell trait is protective against it.

So I'm really wondering at that connection. If this is an antiparasitic, does it work by impacting your blood in a particular way? Could that be the connection here for why it seems effective against covid-19?

And I'm wondering if we even have that type of information about this drug nearly twenty years after my friend told me "They don't know that. Drug studies don't answer that."

Do we answer those questions these days?
This problem is just a specific instance of the more general “expat problem”. When you move countries, you have to deal with the new country’s rules. Many people who move countries run into unexpected differences. You have to roll with it and deal.