skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. People who stay in their home countries often make the salary argument, but it's not as common among those who actually emigrate. The availability of interesting jobs is a more likely reason for high-skilled immigrants. For example, the UK used to be a popular immigration destination for EU citizens before Brexit, even though the standard of living was often lower than in their home countries.

2. The network effect is more important for low-skilled immigrants and those planning to make the destination country their new home. High-skilled immigrants typically have an expat mentality. They leave the people they know behind and move to a new place for a specific opportunity. Their country of residence is not their home but a place they happen to be living in at the moment. They are also prepared to move again, should new opportunities arise.

3. The prestige argument is also more important for low-skilled immigrants. For high-skilled immigrants, a more likely reaction is your friends wondering how you can put up with the bureaucratic BS of living as an immigrant in the US. (As an example, because H-1B workers are formally visitors instead of immigrants, most of them are currently unable to visit their friends and family in their home countries.)
Makes you wonder how many e-mails aimed at gail.com accidentally land at gmail.com.
The semantics of RDF identifiers drift at least as often as HTML format changes.

For example, at one point I was doing a similar thing against DBPedia (a sort-of predecessor to WikiData).

I was doing leaders of countries. But it turns out "leader" used to mean constitutional leadership roles, and at some point someone had decided this included US Supreme Court Chief Justice (as the leader of the judicial branch).

So I had to go and rewrite all my queries to avoid that. But most major countries had similar semantic drift, and it turned out easier to parse Wikipedia itself.
This got downvoted for the emotional language, but the facts of the matter are sadly correct.
I didn't say none of the topics weren't potentially interesting, although I suppose I don't find it that interesting that the other apes are indeed similar to us along some vector. And yes, the title, as written, is similar to what I wrote because humans are great apes. So it's not really surprising in the least. Also, there's no link to any further resources, the study itself, the researchers involved, or any further detail. So like I said, it's just random factoids. They state it and then move on to the next thing.

Although now I see there's a link to a more dedicated article. I didn't click on it at first because it's an inane sentence that I thought was a sort of ad clickbait: "But can you guess which ape greeting is more popular: hello or goodbye?" That should be linked instead.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/world/apes-social-interaction...

That article is moderately more well written, but it's still full of biases and assumptions, even from the scientists, that humans are the only animals with complex "coming and going" communication. Primates are not the only complex societies on Earth. Elephants and whales, for example, have very deep social bonds and complex relationships that we barely understand.
> there's something else going on.

There is the network effect in hiring - as in, referrals from already existing employees, who are H1-B (or once were H1B). If I was once a H1B , and my employer is looking for a Software Engineer, there is a larger network (compared to my American colleague) of possible referrals that can originate from me.
This results in a higher likelihood of H1-B getting a job offer - in spite of the higher documentation and process.

Company hiring policies have usually leaned towards "ready made" candidates - candidates who know Programming Language V1.4 (say) and Web Framework XYZ - H1Bs are more motivated and better prepared with these exact requirements compared to American domestic/citizen candidates. So, on paper a H1B checks all the boxes. In some cases (or many cases depending on point of view) these paper qualifications don't transfer to reality.

Also hiring of Grad Students on Student Visas - 75% of Grad Students in STEM are usually foreigners, these enter into the H1B pool (after 2 years of CPT visa).
This is a Reddit post linking to a website that was featured earlier today, I think.
In real life, the news article is actually a PR release written entirely by a PR company and fed to some low-level staffer (because actual journalism is expensive and nobody can even tell that this is happening)
As I said in comment above, we know that drinking water cannot be bad for us, because all organism drank water all through their evolution, and if it was bad in some way, natural selection would have selected those that incurred damages caused by water drinking...

But it didn't happen even after so many years, so we know that drinking water did not make us less capable.
Supplementing vitamin D is unlikely to hurt in most cases (if you're taking a useful form like D3 and if you're not acutely deficient in vitamin A and K2), but it both isn't that effective on its own—oral supplementation tends to take a long time to fix deficiency and may work particularly poorly for people with absorption issues—and doesn't provide the full benefits of sun exposure (nitric oxide being a big one, but there are other immune, blood pressure, and inflammation benefits, as well as stuff related to how vitamin D is produced through sun exposure to the skin).

For me, better mental, cardiovascular, immune, and bone health is more important than apparent skin aging and a marginally increased risk of skin cancer, but everybody has to make their own trade-off decisions. A moderate amount of sun exposure is beneficial to most people. Avoid burning—especially severe burns with kids, which seem to be a big factor in eventual skin cancer risk—by controlling length of exposure and by wearing clothes to cover your skin if you can't control length of exposure.
HotOS 2021: Cores That Don’t Count (Fun Hardware)
Generally true, although there is the exception of Monero
*except in 2020-2021, when all deaths that could be COVID-19 were COVID-19 in US.
No, but dock based ones are.
A few years ago I did surgery on my LCD TV for a similar reason, some bugs had gotten in between the backlight and the LCD, and slowly migrated until they starved to death. Separated things, cleaned, then re-assembled... and it worked! This apparently was a thing for a while, like the rash of bad electrolytic capacitors in the 80s/90s.
Or presumably any USB microcontroller would work!
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket

So as a metaphor I guess it's roughly equivalent to /dev/null or the recycling bin? Yeah, probably not the best name for a mission-critical immutable data store, unless it was meant to be ironic.
the little under breath "oh my god" is so heartfelt... I had a razor mouse and it enrages me every time it needed to restart my computer to install it's special driver. no drivers are that special.
World’s Fastest Coaster Suspended Because Riders Keep Breaking Bones
Read the article.

As per the opinion of the author, the Afghanistanis have no permanent affiliation. There is no ideological or ethical adherence to a particular side.

Sure, the top leaders might be so, but ground level fighters consider it a job. So, having a large number of fighters given amnesty and absorbed into the govt. would have, it is speculated, reduced a lot of expenses of running the country.

Apparently, there is also no retribution for ground level soldiers if they switch sides and switch back and what not.

Personally I suspect that ethnic and tribal lines are the ones not to be crossed.
The Intuition Behind Bernoulli's Principle (2021) [video]
Like when a restaurant tells you they don't have any available tables, when you can clearly see empty tables.
> The vaccines don't care about the proportion of various demographic groups. The community benefits from there being more vaccinated people overall.

Careful, you might pull something with those mental gymnastics.

You’re right that more vaccinated people is what matters so everyone should do their part. That means per capita should be the same across all demographics. Any group that has a lower per capita is dragging covid progress, regardless of how large or small the group is.
True. And a huge portion of that population has never seen real Taliban rule.

Other nations can support their civil war for another decade easily.
"* = Compared to the average American, the average H1-B holder has substantially less purchasing power, before immigrating."

So? Is America's immigration system supposed to serve the interest of foreigners, or Americans?
I understand that the article's focus is Watt, but this throwaway line is bit disappointing:

> Wilkinson’s cylinders, true to a circle with a variation of less than width of a shilling — about 1/10th of an inch — were sufficiently precise that Watt’s pistons could work without leaking a noticeable amount of steam.

As much as Watt's engines were an improvement over Newcomen's in efficiency, I wouldn't be surprised if the 'Wilkinson-manufactured' engines were as much again a relative improvement by the same amount over the 'pre-Wilkinson' engines of Watt.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkinson_(industrialist)

There's an entire chapter on the subject in the book The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester. From a review of the book by James Gleick:

> Watt, meanwhile, had patented his steam engine, a giant machine, tall as a house, at its heart a four-foot-wide cylinder in which blasts of steam forced a piston up and down. His first engines were hugely powerful and yet frustratingly inefficient. They leaked. Steam gushed everywhere. Winchester, a master of detail, lists the ways the inventor tried to plug the gaps between cylinder and piston: rubber, linseed oil-soaked leather, paste of soaked paper and flour, corkboard shims, and half-dried horse dung—until finally John Wilkinson came along. He wanted a Watt engine to power one of his bellows. He saw the problem and had the solution ready-made. He could bore steam-engine cylinders from solid iron just as he had naval cannons, and on a larger scale. He made a massive boring tool of ultrahard iron and, with huge iron rods and iron sleighs and chains and blocks and “searing heat and grinding din,” achieved a cylinder, four feet in diameter, which as Watt later wrote “does not err the thickness of an old shilling at any part.”

> By “an old shilling” he meant a tenth of an inch, which is a reminder that measurement itself—the science and the terminology—was in its infancy. An engineer today would say a tolerance of 0.1 inches.

* https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/precision-accura...

* http://www.simonwinchester.com/precision-praise

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068671-the-perfectioni...
Oregon engineer has the right to call himself an engineer, court says (2019)
uber devs vis.gl, great for visualizations.
I am also interested in this. I don't get it.
You should read 'Blind Mans Bluff' - its about US submarines doing exactly that about 30 years ago.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espiona...
This sort of thing actually happened

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

>John Schneeberger (born 1961) is a North Rhodesian-born former physician who drugged and raped one of his female patients and also his stepdaughter while a physician in Canada. For years, he evaded arrest by implanting a fake blood sample inside a plastic tube in his arm, which confounded DNA test results.

>During his 1999 trial, Schneeberger revealed the method he used to foil the DNA tests. He implanted a 15 cm Penrose drain filled with another man's blood and anticoagulants in his arm.[5] During tests, he tricked the laboratory technician into taking the blood sample from the place the tube was planted.
I'd argue the real culprit is the "maximize shareholder value" mantra. Nothing is off limits in the Excel-sheet optimization game and room for experimentation or creativity is often axed in favor of minimizing risk and extracting more pennies for the cash pile.

We'll break out of it eventually though. People are tiring of their walled technology gardens.
I mean, on the one hand, you're not wrong.

I suppose one "solution" is one of those fake masks that looks real, but does nothing. Technically compliant with the letter of the law, but still striking a blow, with the bonus of hiding your face.
Madden 22 auction house locked or trade not working? Here's the official word
It can almost always be easily traced to a particular person. if you're using it, you probably bought it from somewhere and spent it somewhere. Mixers/coinjoins can launder it but it is risk-prone and time-consuming, and a redflag.
That assumes it's gone through some deanonymizing transaction like with someone who does know your customer compliance. Tumblers still work right?
>>At an incredibly reduced rate, and mutations generally do not spread to others.

It's a fast enough where Iceland is now experiencing its largest wave yet, despite having a nearly fully vaccinated population. And why would vaccination stop mutated strains from spreading?

>>I don't see how that's relevant to my original response.

It's relevant to whether any one country has cause to mandate vaccination.

>>Mutations occur irrespective of any human constructs such as nations, countries, borders, etc.

My point is that - even if vaccination affected the size of the infected population and thus the opportunity for the virus to mutate - one country's decision to vaccinate will not meaningfully affect the global vaccination rate and therefore the global mutation rate.
Thank you! I got it wrong because of the negativity of the article. They seem mad because they missed an opportunity to make 1.6M then.
You have to tell it how many of the top sites you want removed from the results. For instance you can remove the top 1000 sites and it will remove that foodnetwork.com result.
The inmates are running the asylum. Few have said it better.

> Doing your job as a software engineer is an impediment to interviewing as one.
I think the difference is so many people have an idealized, romantic idea about those west coast cities, they'll eagerly pretend there's no burning human tragedy there.

By comparison, nobody has ever romanticized Kensington.
Perhaps divers should do their mating out of the water.
Interested to see what their take on taxes will be when we decarbonize and hydrocarbon royalties drop.
I'm not suggesting this wouldn't be useful for Type 1 diabetics. It certainly would! I've a Type 1 diabetic daughter who was indeed still (occasionally) wearing nappies/diapers when diagnosed.

Just that the paper/research in question has been conducted with adults in mind. Perhaps infants don't produce enough urine, I'm not sure.
And there were times when even full blocks of 50btc were just gifted around
If I'm understanding what you're calling first-class scope, then Lua's environments would count as a well-developed language with first class scope. Sandboxing Lua (outside of Luajit) is trivial, for example, because you just bind a given environment to a given function. [0]

Scope in my scripting language is also similar - you can definently touch it. That's how "set!" allows you to create a variable, for example. Assignment isn't special. set! is reaching into the scope above itself to place the variable, otherwise it wouldn't be accessible after the set! call. But it is just a function call. (And there's a couple other things like scopedepth to help you index a given scope).

[0] https://www.lua.org/pil/14.html
Yes, but a homophone of "gale", so some people confuse it. So probably half a figure less.
Amongst felines?
agreed. I live in Canada and can't recall ever getting a burn on an overcast day.
> Tumblers still work right?

Anything you tumble, you can (provably) de-tumble. It's just expensive and time-consuming (re-building the blockchain state, yadda yadda). Crypto banking is less anonymous than actual banking, especially if you actually want to pull your money into fiat and need to go through an exchange.
It’s definitely not as good as Chocolatey, but they realized there’s a need, and it’s a start.
>Tumblers still work right?

I don't really know, but putting myself in a criminal's shoes, I don't like the idea that my transactions stay in plain view forever. It makes statistical attacks very, very easy. It also makes me vulnerable as-of-yet-undiscovered statistical attacks.

BitCoin is arguably the worst thing for organized crime.
> scene referred does its filtering and mapping work on the pixel values in a linear space, presumably linear to "photons observed" but I could be wrong there.

You are correct. If you see Y light in real life, and that corresponds to a pixel value of 1000, 2Y light should correspond to 2000.

> display referred does its filtering and mapping on pixel values which have already been through a nonlinear function to make them appropriate for display.

The nonlinear function is usually 0 brightness to 100% brightness of the media (for instance, pure white on a printed piece of paper or pure white on a display). Scene referred photos technically have no bound (there is clipping, but you can just expose less and increase the exposure in editing to effectively get the same thing)

Of note is that you have to change a scene referred color space into display referred color space anyways...
App Store legislation faces crucial vote in South Korea
But that's not in fact how IRC ever worked.

IRC was still made after the first flamewars happened on Usenet. IRC is a "2nd generation" internet product in some regards.

We care about identity because we want to know your posting history before we make a moderation decision. We need to know if you're here to troll, or if you're here to contribute.

Its not a happy-go-lucky free world, it never was. There will be an ocean of trolls if only because bored 15-something year olds don't have anything better to do.

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Its worse today, because we know that the troll-factor has in fact become "weaponized". Literally, through "swatting" and "doxxing", the simple use of information over the internet can become a deadly weapon in of itself.

Even without swatting and doxing, there's other unsavory behaviors that should be moderated.

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As always, one of the biggest internet debates is moderation vs unmoderation. Just like the good old days, your alt.* unmoderated Usenet groups arguing for unmoderated servers, while more "serious" usenet groups wanted more control to keep the spammers out.
I love learning the etymology of jargon. For example, loops were once physically looped paper.
Probably closer to Zakus. Imagine the US just airdropping a ton of these things into combat.
I remember a different form of this from years ago. At the login screen, go to the accessibility/help prompts and open cmd.exe just like was done here to open PS>. This has been a standard kiosk breakout method of various effectiveness for a long time. The user rights were not always SYSTEM, though...
I didn't say it was "sound evidence", I just said it's not a conspiracy theory..? (If it's not clear, I'm not the OP - maybe try skimming less)
This title is misleading. User clicked on translate and there was some UI error and when they hit submit the payment went through but they just saw an error message. They reloaded the page and re sent it again.

Stripe didn’t charge twice because of a translate feature.
I have been on a tour to INL and got to check out EBR, ATRC (but not ATR) and some ITER project at the time (2009).
Disclaimer: Not who you are replying to.

For myself at least: absolutely yes. That's actually some of the first stuff they taught us. Would I want to be interviewed on whether I can implement a linked list from the top of my head in an arbitrary language and 100% correctly in a high stress interview situation? Absolutely not. (and a linked list in the end is something really really easy if you ask me)

Does that in any way relate to what I'm doing right now? A little! This will differ depending on who exactly you work for and in what role. It certainly helps to have learned this stuff. I can honestly say that it was fun seeing how regular expressions actually work, how you implement a parser for it etc. But then you learn as well (right there in university) that you better use a parser generator after just having defined the grammar instead of writing it yourself. How many jobs are out there that require you to write a grammar for something? To create a new language? Very very few. There's a market for "boring business software X" software developers.

Is it the most important thing I consider when hiring? Absolutely not. We also don't pay FAANG salaries where I work. Do I want capable software developers? Smart guys for sure. People that are curious, willing and able to learn, writing maintainable code. Guys that if I tell them that there's a hidden n^3 algorithm in what they just wrote and it _does_ matter for the (relatively small but large enough) volumes of data this will run on can look up/ask for what that means.

EDIT: interesting down votes. I hope someone will reply to explain. I certainly don't see why we can't have a civil discussion especially given that we seem to agree on it having been good to get a solid university education. FWIW I have a Master's in Computer Science. From a country that values non university education (Germany - where you can do vocational training to become a programmer. Just like you can become a master carpenter through that system).
US has plenty of problems, is still better than many countries. Ask all the people who move here, they generally will be a lot more optimistic about the US.
That's correct. When navigating around in a single page app, clicking on an in-app link won't trigger the browser to make a new HTTP GET to fetch an HTML response from the server. Instead, the routing system will use the pushState API to push a new entry into the history and update the DOM to match the new route. By using pushState, your client side JavaScript can replicate native browser behavior and preserve function of the back button to get to previous routes in the application.
Discussion from 3 weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28036619

See also: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/
I guess the flip side to this has historically played in the favour of the authorities. Ill-gotten gains would be laundered through a casino where you’d turn it all over over the course of several hours playing a game with a low house edge. You’d lose a bit to the house, but now have some potential legitimacy to how you have the funds.

I assume under this approach the authorities would have claimed the full amount you started with and not what you were now left with. Crypto just happens to have been a casino where people have been winning.
Recent relevant XKCD. Average Familiarity.

https://m.xkcd.com/2501/
This is cool. In this specific case, you can also (1) not set the email in .gitconfig, and (2) set an environment variable `EMAIL`. Git will pick it right up.

I use direnv for this.
This would carry a lot more weight if this "startup" at least had a functioning website. Or indeed if work in startups was anything like the army (which it is not - I've been through this). It's weird: I freelance now, and work almost exclusively with startups, and I observe that a nontrivial fraction of people are in it for the "allure". Such folks tend to write a lot of articles on Medium and Substack, post a lot on Twitter, too, and then... nothing. Case in point: one of my clients is currently busy discussing _OKRs_ even though they haven't raised the seed round yet, have no prototype, and what little code they do have is so thoroughly busted I can't even start working on it. No shortage of social media posts tho.
In the world of hashtags and search, are domain-name prices still increasing? Seems like they should have peaked.