skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has gone through the immigration process, I can affirm that once you are no longer beholden to your employer for work authorization, more opportunities are available, and that leads to significantly larger salaries.

I am sure a large part of it has to do with the fact that until certain points in the process, you cannot change your employer without restarting the process, so a lot of people just stay without making a fuss about it.

Edit. Regardless, as it stands, the current H1B is indeed a broken system ripe for exploitation.
In other words, any evidence reported can only ever be interpreted to support Dark Matter. Seems to have too much mass? Dark Matter. Seems not to have too much mass? Dark Matter!

A theory compatible with all conceivable evidence is meaningless.

But maybe you didn't mean to say what you said.
I've been here a little longer than 15 months. My advice: just smile and be polite. Arguing helps no one. If you have useful knowledge, share it and make the world better. If something is contentious, present facts and argue in good faith. Don't feed the trolls, and don't try to one-up others. Be nice, be kind, and have fun.
Same. If I'm building and managing any special instances/VMs these days I avoid installing any packages but those required to run containers. There's certainly tradeoffs but it makes software management so much easier. Upgrading is a matter of stopping and starting a container using an upgraded image and if it's supported rolling back is just a matter of stopping the newer container and restarting the old. A container hosting service/platform and it's abstractions are better but if you have to run some one offs outside of that it's so much nicer to use containers. I call these pet cattle.

I still bind mount directories though. Docker volumes seem really convenient but a few years back I dealt with helping out a coworker with some data loss (pre-volumes) in a container's filesystem so I have some trust issues with how they implement storage.
I fail to see how it’s different. Uber is the one paying this cost not the end customer. Sure they may pass the cost on, but they also would pass the cost on if any other layer of their stack started charging more.
Wimps.
Had increasing the tax on cigarettes caused people to buy fewer cigarettes?
Funny to note that the top post of all time in r/poor is someone telling people to "Buy even 10 dollars in Bitcoin at a time if that's all you can spare," with investment advice stating:

> It's the best way to save/grow an emergency fund. And if you can hold indefinitely, then you can grow true financial freedom by saving even just 5 dollars at a time, anytime you can spare to do so in Bitcoin. Don't think of it as an investment, think of it as a savings account that works and doesn't lose buying power thanks to inflation.
Apple didn't become to worlds biggest company with cash reserves large enough to purchase entire countries by missing out on opportunities to generate additional revenue.

Apple, much like the solo developer, is looking out for its best interests and what will help it continue to grow.
You don't have to have debt to not be at the top. That's the point.

This isn't a comment against inflation, it's a comment against printing lots of money to protect investments at the top.
Is the world any more scary that before?
There is an offhand remark in the article that MRAM failed but why didn't it work out?
And why surrogates are a thing, and why code points and scalar values are different concepts.

I hate UTF-16. It’s the worst thing that ever happened to Unicode. It ruined Unicode.
This is a neat hack. I've always been curious about these type of "publish right on the block" schemes like the picture of Len Sassman or the Bitcoin whitepaper.

Bitcoin addresses are up to 35 characters, so you could think about doing something like this on the Bitcoin chain as well. Example: "zooko:hi hackernews".

In this case, my understanding is they're updating the TXT record of your Handshake address (at least that's how it could work on ENS, but that's on the Ethereum blockchain) rather than the block itself.

Has anyone had a chance to test it out?
Or even if they chose a Tesla without knobs and buttons, people complain about that endlessly. Sure everything is in a screen which is flexible and easy to program, but nobody can figure out how to adjust the heat.
They need to collect the 30% fees, how else are they going to invest and purchase $280B from Chinese Supply Chain. While offering iPhone at a discounted whole sale price in China.
Just like CollegeACB and EzraHub from back in my day.
I have a degree in elastic structures from UW Madison. I’ve built fintech and big data backends.

I did the math; still just one in seven billion.

Building websites and collating data isn’t that novel these days. It’s not like you alone collected it or defined any of the first principles.

Welcome to being a normie.
> without the stupid and ludicrous idea of invisible, noninteracting blobs of dark matter around every galaxy.

This is a very strange thing to declare definitely can't be happening, in a universe where subatomic particle interactions do not have definite results or even particularly comprehensible abstract models of how they work to human minds.

Especially when the alternative is "gravity has some minimum force over distance which is exactly small enough we can't detect it on Earth".
> none of the parties mentioned in the original issue are 'wanting to do good' in my opinion

Yes, for the immediate issue at hand they just want to make money right, but they might be seeing their greater mission as extremely good, for example in providing the best handheld computing platform to the world or whatever it might be and that makes it all OK. To which level that is delusional thinking I'll let you decide for yourself, but I have a lot of first hand experience of how the mind operates in top level C-suits. They almost have to fool themselves to be able to operate and at their core believe without a shred of a doubt in what they do. Whether this comes from starting each morning with Tony Robbins affirmations I do not know.
> Their whole protect the customer narrative is a sham when it comes to the App Store

It's about protecting Apple's ~80% profit margins on the App Store[1], not protecting customers.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-01/apple-s-a...
I think that frequently, a city will be so optimized for cars that (1) no other infrastructure can effectively work around it, and (2) any changes away from that optimized solution feel aggressive toward cars.

For example, consider curb radius at intersections. The smoother the curve, the nicer the experience for cars. If you can take the turn at 35 mph, then you don't even need to slow down. The car behind you doesn't need to slow down as you turn, and it's altogether more enjoyable to drive. But that means that the intersection is much larger, to accommodate the smoother turn. That means cars are making a right turn at higher speeds, leading to more dangerous collisions with pedestrians.

And this happens for pretty much every tradeoff. That might be why you see it as an impasse between different groups, because either tradeoffs need to be made, or the overall cost goes up significantly (e.g. moving all parking spaces underground).

* Bike lanes are adjacent to car traffic, decreasing usage. We could have separated bike lanes, but that space was already used for more car lanes.

* Bike lanes take circuitous routes, increasing distance. We could have more direct routes, but that space was already used for wide roads.

* There's no walkable area in the city center, because the shops have large set-backs, and are spaced far from each other. We could have storefronts closer together, but that wouldn't allow for as much parking space.

* Bike parking is rare, and typically pretty far from your destination. We could have bike parking at every storefront, but that would require cars to be parked further away. (Though, given that you can fit 10-15 bicycles into a single car spot, the impact even there would be minimal.)
Yes. Just the US caused most of the worlds inflation.
Indeed - the developer here could ask Zooko, & be open to consider other names that convey homage & inspirations without wholesale endorsement. (1st thing that comes to mind: 'Zooter', combining suggestive fragments of 'zooko' & 'twitter'.)

Even cypherpunks soured on conventional IP often believe in folk trademarks, enforced by the reputational pressures to not mislead.
Actually it’s insane to suggest Uber and Lyft could just abandon their iOS userbase.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/desk...

Based on page 131 of this, it looks like a PCIe lane only uses up six pins.

I'd worry about the die space and the power use but not the pin use.
i use matrix.org network using cactus comments instead
Fabricating stories is a crucial skill in the book writing and screenplay writing industries. And Fox News hires professional story fabricators, too!
> Before iPhone, operating systems and the web were wide open for computation. You could install everything you wanted.

That wasn’t always true of phones (pre-iPhone smartphones), PDAs, games consoles, workstations, or some mainframes. Platform owners requiring license fees for on developers on their platform, using their dev tools, was not invented by Apple.
For chargeback-able transactions and transactions that are reversible due to fraud, it seems intuitive that the expected value of loss would be a function of the size of the transaction.
Same reasons as everywhere else: The vaccines ended up attenuating in their effectiveness faster than expected, while everyone who was vaxxed went around town (and going to restaurants, and clubbing, etc) thinking they were now bulletproof. As we have seen, they weren't.
This is way too charitable to the largest company in the world, one which enjoys a duopoly over the smartphone market in the United States. If you are Lyft and you don’t have an iOS app, then you probably go out of business.
Yeah, all they need to do now is send an inception team to convince Putin to extradite him to the states.
One death is still one death too many, especially a healthy 22 year old man.

It doesn't mean we should stop vaccinating, vaccines are likely to have saved millions of lives. But if we find a way to save a dozen more by treating rare side effects better, we should take it.

And yes, we should deal with Tylenol too, again, not by banning it. Dosed properly, it may be the safest painkiller we have. But maybe something can be done with the packaging, these 100 caps bottles are probably not the best idea. In other countries, packages are smaller so that eating the entire content is unlikely to kill you, and feature a big fat warning about overdosing.
Programming and Me
FCC proposes stricter requirements for reporting data breaches
You weren't kidding[0]. I can't tell if the people posting and endorsing it are naive or predatory.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/poor/comments/m0yo9l/buy_even_10_do...
They do decomposed normal form, which is a little funky, but that does not mean they don't allow codepoints outside the BMP.
I think the gradual typing is just too permissive... It's not the same feel you get with type inference. Not to say that a unsound type system is useless. If you're coming from dynamically typed languages it will certainly feel safer, but if you come from a more strict type system it still feels like just a linter. In my experience.
Shynet: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

The goal is to provide modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. And it's completely open source.

Full disclosure: I am the primary maintainer.
606 in 13 days is appalling though
That's facile. If no one made apps for these platforms then they would not be nearly as popular. Remember the "There's an App For That" marketing campaign? That's not mentioning the fact that other phone/computing platforms exist where an app could capture some percentage of revenue you get from the App Store.

There's an element of symbiosis between Apple and app developers.
Sure, just like laws against mind-altering drugs have erased them from society.

As your link notes, there is no "right to be forgotten" in the US, & any attempt to bootstrap one would seem to require a partial repeal of the still-mostly-popular 1st Amendment.

A hilarious collision between US standards of free speech (& its implied right-to-remember) with the EU's 'right to be forgotten' can be seen in this NYT story about two convicted German murderers, Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, who sued Wikipedia. The closing paragraph, especially, gave me an audible chuckle when I first read it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13wiki.html
I assume if they could reconnect the nerves to the new heart they would. There's no need to replace the pacemaker cells in the new heart with the old ones though.
> My random pet peeve

Mine is as follows:

The complete inability to set light tint or brightness/turn on or off lights for a whole room at once, except via Siri, but Siri can't set lights to "warm white", only colours (and only if you have colour bulbs, warm<->cool adjustable ones don't count as "colour").

Actually you CAN turn off per room, but doing so requires going to a select room page which is an atrocious experience, who in their right mine swipes through half a dozen pages until they stumble on the right one? Oh, and if you thought about setting backgrounds to identify them quicker, well the backgrounds don't sync across devices.

Ah, but they finally added the list of rooms to the menu that is under the top left "home" icon (obviously, that's a menu, right? not to be confused with the bottom left "home" icon which is not), which is not just cramp-inducing to get to, it's also that you can't reorder the room list: creation order or GTFO.

Let's not talk about automations which are ridiculously underpowered (whether going through Home or Shortcuts, which are two entirely segregate worlds): every time I have a nice, useful idea it's outright impossible to implement, e.g turn on a given light on a scene/event but turn it off after 10min. Like, a 10min timer is seemingly impossible to implement by the Apple team in any shape or form (as is the "Set wallpaper" action, as a matter of fact)

(Apparently some people hacked stuff like setting a timer or an alarm or something and having a second shortcut run on that event. I didn't even try because if I wanted to indulge in such contraptions I would play The Incredible Machine.)

Oh, and BTW Adaptive Lighting won't work with my otherwise perfectly adjustable bulbs along the required axis, because reasons.

> But the software side, the part that the user actually interacts with, seems so under thought.

Have you even tried the Home app on macOS? It's an absolute joke, you so obviously have to emulate touch events with a pointing device it's as usable to save your life as navigating a 3D file manager on Unix. Ah, and so the macOS app is basically the iOS through Catalyst right? So why is it absolutely impossible to set my Mac mini to be a Home Hub, but it is for my iPad which is a) not always home and b) on battery, so may fall out of energy?

PS: yes, I tried Home Assistant, which is a nice piece of work, but it's also prone to breakage on updates, and either "develop through a UI" (which doesn't scale) or "mold into the framework and become a contributor" (which is way out of balance).

So I've been hacking at CoAP on Ruby and implementing the IKEA Tradfri protocol so that I can have some stupid simple Ruby scripts running on a machine and achieve what I want: circadian lighting (which is a lookup curve plus set the values to only lights that are currently ON) and a couple of dead simple automations (each being about five lines, tops).
Wow. You know you're in a weird echo chamber when you hear an outpouring of sympathy for such deeply reviled companies.
Washington state has a candy tax.
And like most places has a tax on prepared food but not unprepared for.
> Perhaps you're used to cities with higher crime rates, and are projecting that onto every city.

Must we make up hypotheticals for my state of mind too? Perhaps stick to the facts and stay away from the person.
I'm locked into apple products for many reasons. That means I can't subscribe to postmates or uber?
Anyone who drove a car or took a flight or bought things they didn’t need contributed too.

Don’t try and weasel out of it.
Brothers yes. But what about children? child_of is a directional relation, right?

Semantic web I assume is full of such directional relations. Bidirecitonal relations are the exception. Things like "causes", "indicates", "enables", "prevents", ...
Just want to signal-boost Markus Wandel's Ni-MH battery tester/matcher on Github: https://github.com/MarkusWandel/battery-tester

I'm (lackadaisically) building a version of it now, in order to get matched pairs and fours of the 40-plus eneloops that we have. And identify the bad ones, of course.
The idea that these companies can't make 30% more per user on the app store is what is insane to me. On the app store customers have trust. My app store spend is many multiples of what I would spend otherwise.

For most business if you said, hey, I'll take 30% for marketing but get you 100% more revenue they would do that right away. Are Apple app store customers really that cheap relative to android? Androids marketshare is FAR FAR bigger, but apple has just sorted out the give us money safely story.

My own glance is that iOS users spend easily 4x as much as google play users AND are much less likely to steal apps. If that's not worth it to devs apple should be able to unlock and really give users freedom (including to download from anywhere online and install). I wonder if android has a bigger app piracy problem then iOS (which devs apparently don't care about).
The difference is Uber has a choice of different stacks for everything except for app publishing.

Apple in that regard is holding them hostage.
It really comes down to the definition of monopoly and how a market is defined. If Microsoft wasn't found to have a monopoly in desktop operating systems, what they did wouldn't be illegal. Microsoft had north of 90% desktop OS market share at the time of the anti-trust suits. Does Apple have a monopoly? It depends on how you look at it. If the market is defined as iOS market share, then they definitely do (obviously). If it's defined as mobile operating systems, then maybe not. Currently iOS has a 59% market share in the US and only about 16% worldwide.
Gradle is having issues resolving dependencies
Start with rust so they can get front page on HN. - Jokes aside, Free Code Camp[0] is a great resource for beginners and will help them learn basic concepts without block coding.

I would say quick feedback is important to make the learning rewarding and fun.

[0] https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/
my anecdote is as good as theirs

They actually talked to the California Grocers Association, and quoted the CEOs of Albertson's, the nation's largest supermarket company; and Conagra, one of the largest food companies on the planet. Not exactly anecdotes. These are people with access to real data.

I haven't seen any, myself.

I've seen it.

I have a regular bi-weekly list, and a lot of the items are getting harder and harder to find.

I have to try two or three stores, and even supplementing with Amazon Fresh, I still can't get everything.

Two of the chain supermarkets near me have signs up apologizing for the empty shelves, saying they're stocking them as quickly as they can. Which tells me this is a staffing issue, not a supply issue.
True. I hope someone with more knowledge will work on some algorithms for this camera that are reasonably fast and can do contrast detect in a given region, or based on face recognition.
I don't know if this comment is serious or not, but if so, it is hyperbolic nonsense. Not to say there's no warming, obviously there is, or to say it won't have detrimental effects, but it's people saying things like this that give deniers ammo to call it a doomsday cult. If you truly believe what you've just said, you need to take a step out of your own head and unbiasedly self reflect and examine the merit of your worldview for a minute.
>"I don’t want to use your shitty payments system"

I do not use Apple at all. Somehow I am not feeling "harmed".
Some people spend day and night on those computers (such as myself.)
Honestly it's scary. I literally just was talking to my nanny a little while back. She was telling me about her parents and brother, both basically pretty desperately poor, who have invested their life savings into GME, a literal meme stock. I laughed when I first heard about GME, but seeing people who have no idea what they are doing invest in something so incredibly risky is really painful to watch. Come the next big financial crisis, this cannot end well.
Both have the potential to kill.
It was a really good upgrade to make the power for HomePod minis be usb-c so there is some data connection. I am hoping for a HomePod2 (or HomePod pro?) that has the same usb-c connection.
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out - doesn't hurt to wander by and say hello!

Want to stress that the fire investigation is ongoing, but there's a lot of evidence pointing the start of the fire being on the Twelve Tribe's property. But I don't want things to become a witch hunt.
Does the angular momentum of a galaxy contribute to its energy density (mass)?

What kinds of relativistic effects have been postulated for explaining our observations?

Something about dark matter which always struck me was that I have not seen explanations which incorporate the very limited perspective we have on galaxies -- being singular beings on a tiny rock very far away -- and how the light follows geodesics which may be significantly different from straight lines in the non-relativistic view. If these galaxies are large enough to lens light from elsewhere, doesn't it follow that this should be happening in places of high mass/energy density like the interior of galaxies, too? In other words, are the edges of the galaxies really where we think they are?

Is there any "whirlpool" effect that gravitational waves may have that would sweep or twist these geodesics as the galaxy rotates?
They have to know their cash cow is under threat from legislation though don't they? Or maybe they are confident that no legislation will get through somehow... They could try to keep cutting that percentage until the majority of people aren't pissed anymore. A 15%-5% annuity forever is better than 30% bond that lasts a few more years.
It’s different mostly in the sense that iOS is essentially a monopoly. You can not create anything like Uber without being present on iOS, even if Android has the other half of the market.

When you raise your prices on your own work, there’s usually an implied alternative like not hiring you. We know there’s no such thing when it comes to iOS.