skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Crypto can work peer-to-peer even with fiat echanges shut down.

Sure, nowhere in my post do I deny that an underground market won't exist. In fact, I directly hint to the fact that it will exist. What matters for this problem is how easy it is to buy $X million worth of bitcoins for a company. Currently this is easy. If you have $X million in your bank account, you can go to one of these exchanges and buy $X million worth of bitcoin.

With the exchanges shut down, how would a company buy $X million worth of bitcoin? Where do they go? How do they not get scammed while doing so? It's not like companies can easily move $X million to another country where it would be legal to buy crypto either. After all, if they could move money in a bank that easily, crypto would not be required at all for the purpose of ransomware. They could just move the $X million directly! People use crypto for ransomware because it is not so easy to move money of this magnitude.

> Sure, it would be more difficult if crypto is illegal, but I think because of the difficulty of getting it, crypto prices would skyrocket.

That seems unlikely. A bank run seems the most likely scenario with a massive drop in price being the result, even if only a few high-impact regions would make it illegal (e.g. the US and EU). Regular people and large investors would cash out almost immediately upon hearing the news. Why would regular people want to own an illegal currency that they cannot trade for anything besides maybe drugs on the black market?

The reason the majority of people own crypto now is not because of the utility - it is because there are legal crypto exchanges that they can use to trade them back to the actual currency that they use (generally dollars or euros). If people have to go through illegal networks in order to perform these exchanges (and remember, exchanges for fiat money would be illegal and hence risky) the entire value proposition is lost.

> Everyone will also move to using the privacy coins too. So, banning crypto might actually be beneficial for it as it would incentivise crypto projects to improve privacy and decentralization even more.

I wouldn't even propose banning cryptocurrencies entirely. Shutting down the exchanges and banning the trade of cryptocurrency for fiat seems more than sufficient for this purpose. Cryptocurrencies can continue to exist on their own and perhaps find a use/purpose of their own. The back-and-forth exchange for fiat is what is problematic.

This might even be good for cryptocurrencies as a platform, as the focus would shift back to the underlying technology and its use cases rather than the investor crowd that doesn't give a shit about the technology and only cares about making a quick buck.
How much on average does it cost, in legal fees, to process a TN visa and an EB-2 Green Card application?

I've had two US employers now and both have promised to bring me down and then backed off because of costs (I'll be covering relocation).
To be clear, do you want her employed full time in China or the U.S.? If the latter, this was complicated before the pandemic and has become even more complicated with the ban on travel from China and other countries. But, depending on the intern's background, the standard options are the H-1B, L-1, and the O-1 as well as the J-1 but the J-1 is for trainees and interns and is generally limited to 12 or 18 months. The USCIS and State Department websites actually provide pretty good - albeit general - descriptions of the work visa options.
I’ve been using iOS15 beta on my iDevices and tab groups has been a life-saver. If you had. 18 tabs open at any time like the author here said now you can separate them through tab groups that will sync in between devices, so I can have a group for my guitar tabs and a group for all my tech stuff, that leaves the default view clear if I want to start going into a new rabbit-hole
This is tragic. What's so tough is that kids who are this troubled are in so much pain, and also cause immense pain to their families who feel helpless. My sister starting in early teens was intensely troubled (depression, drug abuse, self-destructive behavior, etc) and made my parents life very difficult. There was never a tough love camp, but I can understand the desire to try something, anything to place the kid somewhere out of harms way, both as a Hail Mary attempt to help them and to get some peace themselves. That these kids end up in harms way is the evil twist.

My sister, to this day, is intensely troubled. My parents, in their 70s, are raising her 7 year old. Immense amount of resources (time, love, medical care, psychological care, money) are spent every year helping her. Sometimes, there's just nothing that can "fix" these situations it's an ongoing process. My parents thankfully are well resourced in all the required ways to provide this level of support, and the siblings are onboard as well as this will continue past my parents time.

I guess I just think it's worth considering that there sometimes seems to be no real option in helping troubled kids / family members and it's a heartbreaking situation.
Excellent article, and the little bit of the paper I read, so far, stresses building intuition. Andrew Ng’s classes stressed building intuition also.

Even though I have largely earned my living doing deep learning in the last six years, I believe that hybrid AI will get us to AGI. Getting a first principles understanding of DL models is complementary to building hybrid AI systems.

EDIT: I am happy to have a work in progress PDF of the manuscript, but I wish authors would release PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats also. I spread my reading across devices and with a PDF I need to remember where I left off reading and navigate there.
Smartphone and smartwatch data led husband to confess to murdering his wife
Qui conturbat turbatores accingi
I don't understand the difference between digital payments and credit card payments, but if digital payments are what stores are using, they're all probably going to ditch PayPal now.
The framing of the title is a bit disingenuous. He is not “talking” about engineering to a bunch of college students. He is providing expert opinion in a court case. This is a whole different deal and I think there is nuance here.

Honestly, I don’t like the manipulation with the title and how they are framing the whole thing. Makes me cautious about emitting an opinion.
How would not trusting the government not make the country less democratic? Isn’t democracy by definition a process in which trust is created via electors?
Right, everyone had the exactly opposite complaint about Firefox.

Safari 15's design is so odd I'll have no idea what to make of it until I can actually test it out.
Wow, thank you very much for this link! I had no idea and the comic presentation is fantastic. I couldn't stop reading and read it front to back. It's horrific what these kids had (and surely somewhere have) to endure without a chance of getting out. I hope that person is better now and that his work will help to continue to fight those practices, bring justice and raise awareness. (Like also others did in books and other forms of course!)
I tried MacPorts back in the day and royally screwed up my computer and couldn’t figure out how to fix it. Iirc, homebrew symlinking prevents what happened to me.

However, I’ve learned a lot since that time, so perhaps macports would work just fine for me now.
But you still need a pyproject.toml, which is just a setup.py in a different form.

One gripe with pyproject.toml is that I can’t do editable installs (i.e ‘pip install -e path/to/package/‘) with it. Highly annoying when trying to patch packages.
This is literally MO of every totalitarian government - make it impossible to not be a law breaker, so we can arrest you at anytime.
Balut reminds me of live Taspar, for you Star Trek fans.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Taspar
Greenwald is not a source, his posts are just an aggregate of sources. Washington Post, which you did list, is implicated in 2 or 3 of the three I posted.

I don't expect outlets to never make mistakes, but I do expect that a dozen outlets don't all independently confirm the same lie. That's not journalism, it's coordinated propaganda. And because the retraction come quietly or not at all, you'll never know if what you read was real or fake at any given moment. For that reason none of them can be trusted.

In regards to your paragraph about the tear gassing, it's quite clear you did not read the articles I posted. They were in fact gassed, but it had nothing to do with Trump or his photo op; that is the lie.
Hi Peter,

Thank you for doing this. I asked this question earlier but missed seeing your reply so I’ll state it again.

Can someone who has some unused time on H1B from long time ago, use it if they have a job offer from a US tech company and is presently outside the US?

It’s been 11 years since last present in US and the visa was approved a year earlier I believe.

Thank you.
It's shocking that most people still believe public governments ought to exist.

Why productive, able-bodied persons to live in a democracy is puzzling.

Maybe they've never heard of private government, or think they can beat the system and steal through government redistribution more than they pay in taxes.
I think this preface should be enough, he didn't claim to be something he isn't.
> take all of the transistors used for speculation and use them for more cores

We have these - they're called GPUs!

https://www.nvidia.co.uk/content/PDF/fermi_white_papers/P.Gl... provides a good overview (search the word "speculative"):

> Since most of the circuitry within each core is dedicated to computation, rather than speculative features meant to enhance single-threaded performance, most of the die area and power consumed by Fermi goes into the application’s actual algorithmic work.

But GPUs are far from easy to code for, even in 2021, and there are a lot of workloads that benefit from speculative branching. Having a combination of GPU cores and speculative CPU cores in an architecture allows you to access the best of both worlds.
Android 2.2 dropped almost 11 years ago. Most Android hardware doesn’t make it 5 years let alone a decade.

That’s before considering the lack of software support. Most websites today probably won’t even load correctly with its web browser (a browser that didn’t support most web standards even just after release).

It’s just time to let it go.
Great question, although I'm not sure there's a concrete answer to it other than "it depends". You can think of that metric as representing the number of logs that haven't been garbage collected, so as it goes up, performance will get worse.

If you're seeing spikes in RollbackSegmentHistoryListLength that coincide with dips in DB performance, you've probably identified the culprit. In the scenario described in our post, that metric would have grown monotonically for the duration of the long-lived ETL query – probably a more overt problem than what you're describing with short spikes to 100,000.
That's a great question. I don't know if the political numbers are there but this is definitely something that is being pushed.
Didn't start my own business sooner.
I specifically stated highly processed foods as I’m aware that many foods are processed in order to extend their shelf life, rather than exist in the first place (e.g. we bake all our own bread, biscuits but it’s not realistic to make Mars Bars at home) so I’m really looking at foods that only exist due to refined processing techniques that alter the food in various ways.

Highly processed foods - in my book - exist primarily for taste and texture, not for nourishment, and my concern is the same about anything that burns money and time trying to replicate meat or eggs. I admire the Adrià brothers when they created liquid olives but pushing culinary boundaries for a select few is not the same as putting food in a supermarket for mass consumption.

As you say, it’s easy to get the wrong balance with processed foods - but I don’t see nutrition getting a higher priority than taste and texture!
This is kinda like the argument between an authoritative government and a democratic one, the former works great until it doesn't. When it works, the former is more efficient and can get things done much more quickly but when things go wrong it can go horribly more wrong as well because the checks and balances aren't there.
Too bad it didn't work out, but props to you for not giving up. Good luck with the contest approach!
Another monopoly continues to grow unabated.
NetGoals, it is like Netflix but for motivation and focus
The name itself says it all. Perhaps this could be a great tool to help you action toward your goals
According to their website, there are 15.5 FT employees. I don't consider healthy adults getting paid to do meaningless work a benefit to society.
It has become more political in the past year I've noticed. Oh well. And the same arguments over and over and over and over.
> the correct answer to a non-significant study is not to assume that there is no difference, rather that we have not been able to detect a difference.

I completely agree (which might be why I didn't write that there is no difference:) In fact, we don't know if there's a difference, or if there is, what the difference is, and right now the evidence (as a whole) points to a negative difference for the outcome we're hoping for. It's essentially a (fairly) open question at this point (which again leads back to the religiosity on show from some "sides" in this debate).

The statement was:

> To say that cloth masks "haven't been shown to help do anything" is demonstrably false

I just want to cut down statements like that, statements that really are demonstrably false* in their certitude.
It would be interesting to have a "tax rewards" system, so that people didn't

You paid $10k of taxes this year? Here's for you a free pass to all national parks.

You paid $50k? Here's the card - similar to the one police officers give to their wives - that lets you get off minor infractions.

Small tokens of appreciation often go long way.
But the tradeoff here isn't between a few dozen pixels vertically and a few dozen horizontally. It's 28 vertical pixels in exchange for cutting the horizontal space for the address bar and tab bar each in half, roughly.
Does your home’s ISP have an impact on its market value?
A friend of mine Is searching to buy his first home, but he absolutely refuses to have Comcast. It’s made his choices very limited here. This made me curious: Does the choice of ISP have an impact on the sellability or value of real estate? Would you pay more to live, say, in a Verizon wired house, versus a Spectrum?
Thank you, this is super helpful to think about it in this framework.
Thomas Jefferson’s opinion on this issue doesn’t mean “The US was founded on this principle”.

If the US were founded on this principle… it would have been part of the constitution.
Nice write up.

Mail.app is what I call the new "modern" app shipped with Windows 10. Mostly garbage. Spends most of its time and your CPU to resynchronize your mails.

My experience with these programs is that the predecessor can have feature X but the successor doesn’t but has feature Y, similar what OP described.

I’m always harsh when reviewing software. No need to be gentle about things that doesn’t work well.
Why does the Epic Games Launcher even have a Home page when it always opens on the Store page?

And why is there an option "Hide Game Library" but there's no option "Hide Game Store"?
This is a proof assistant, not an automated theorem prover. The user has to supply* the mathematics and the proof checker formally verifies whether or not the steps are correct. It doesn’t have any creativity (that’s up to the mathematician).

*I should have clarified there is some proof generation, see the comment below by opnitro, but I meant the meat and potatoes of novel non-trivial proofs currently has to be supplied by the user.
Sorry, I was referring to custom ROMs.
It seems like all update/stores suffer from that. How can

apt update; apt dist-upgrade

be so snappy and pleasant to use, whereas graphical frontends seem to hang, spin the fans, return little to no information about what is happening, and be terrible in general?

Windows 10 is particularly annoying since I don't even know how to force the update now because it seems to be dead set on doing it magically in the background at the least opportune moment.
The story is tragic and sad, but from technological point of view it has an interest. Heart beat data from smartwatch along with step/movement data from smartwatch lead to discrepancies between times of death and other key times from investigation.
Specific to the program, USCIS states on their site [0]:

> their stay in the United States would provide a significant public benefit through their business venture and that they merit a favorable exercise of discretion

Can you unpack this and explain what this means and how one can establish that this is the case?

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian-parole/inter...
That's not the same as a clustered index, it just does a one-time rearrangement of the table’s current contents; you have to run it after each change effecting the index to simulate a clustered index (with stable PKs, and the PK index, that would be after each insert, I think.)

You get closer to a clustered index (at the cost of more storage, but the benefit that you can have more than one on a table) with an index using INCLUDE to add all non-key columns in the index.
Probably a mix of: reserving supply of electronic components to military use; eliminating a possible cover story for spies; emission control to deny enemy navigation cues; limiting vectors for accidental information disclosure; creating an atmosphere of ‘We’re all engaged in this all out struggle together’; wartime bureaucratic expansion and overreach; and just generally more important things going on.
I don't care how high the "democracy score" of the country is. I care about how well people's rights are defended.
Modula-2 Front-End Still Looking Towards Mainline GCC in 2021
Why can't they fix searching in iMessages. Telegraph does it perfectly. Just #$%^ing fix it.
For more details about the actual proof, see: 'Blueprint for the Liquid Tensor Experiment'

https://leanprover-community.github.io/liquid/index.html
Raycast does it as a spotlight replacement.

I contributed a minor update to the Gitlab scripts.

Can recommend
Adguard for Safari is both free and open source

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari
"Declining trust in government" is such a gaslighty way to say "Governments being less trustworthy"
The guidance isn't crystal clear on this but the concern is that this person would be subject to the lottery again since more than 6 years have elapsed since he or she was last in H-1B status. That being said, we've had H-1B petitions approved where the gap was greater than 6 years.
Margaret Bourke-White in the USSR, 1931
Have they really though? They still do DNS hijacking and bandwidth caps and speed boost for a few seconds only and automatic price increases and worthless bundles and such, don't they? They were so bad they had to rename to Xfilthy or something but their practices didn't really change as far as I can tell. What are some examples of things they've improved?

That's aside from all the political shenanigans they pull, trying to kill municipal broadband and net neutrality. There's scarcely a more evil ISP.

I switched away from Comcast as quickly as I could, and never had trouble with either smaller cable companies or fiber providers.
My statement on the feminization of society doesn't come from trauma. Global testosterone levels have been dropping for decades[1]. You can see it in old pictures: men were less fat, more competitive, and happier. Rates of sex and relationships among men and young boys have dropped precipitously.

Speaking anecdotally, I feel most fulfilled when I embrace my masculine side and focus it on positive pursuits. Competition, pursuit of status, and power can all be good things if focused. This event unlocked that in me and helped me live a more fulfilled life I'm the long run.

In fact, your response is exactly what I'm talking about. Productive masculine behavior is shamed nowadays. That's sad to me.

[1] https://carraghermethod.com/the-hard-truth-for-men-declining...
The author is aware that his account ended up being associated with Malaysia, right?

I have the impression he mistakenly thinks it stayed with Germany?
Operation Warp Speed had a pretty good ROI for the USA, no?
Democratic governments are an instrument for people to provide services like a social safety net & healthcare to one another and to collectively engage in stuff like fighting climate change and acting collectively on the world stage by cooperation and treaties with other national governments.

If people lose faith in their govenment, they no longer hold it to a high standard, believe in sincerity of government agents, and as a result are less engaged in democratic processes and aren't able to make high quality voting descisions. Sincere do-gooders won't run for office, and instead power-hungry people who can stomach the public distaste for government will run. A spiral of cynicism and distrust also enables actors with antidemocratic agendas like populist parties and strong-man leaders to capture power.
What I would like: Infinite tabs, they don’t get too small in the tab bar, newer ones to the right, older ones can be accessed by scrolling left. Older than last 15 don’t take up memory. Tabs get saved into disk/cloud and reappear when you restart the browser like on iOS. Basically so you can put off dealing with your open tabs indefinitely.
$160.00 filling fee. $2500 for employer to speed up process.
This is disingenuous. Apparently Steam has a bug where it asks you to write a review for a game that can't be reviewed. That's a bug, but it's pretty minor.

The one you can review is a different game. The store page for Metro Exodus describes the Enhanced Edition as:

> a stunning visual upgrade that REQUIRES a Ray-Tracing Capable GPU as part of the minimum spec.

Things like that can introduce all kinds of new problems and glitches, so reviews for one version don't necessarily apply to the other.
My Life in the Apple Ecosystem
Do you have Google One or a Workspace plan? I'd be curious if you contact support from there if they are able to assist you. Last I checked, Google One offers a free trial.
Adguard for Safari is free. Adguard for Mac is a separate thing (that costs money)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-for-safari/id144014725...
Show HN: Single-board SID file player
Apparently buying the enhanced version included a licence to the regular version and only the latter is used for greenlighting reviews despite buyers going straight to the enhanced. Seems like the studio was trying something clever in terms of branding an update as a remaster or vice versa and ended up setting some metadata in some unfortunate combination.