skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got one of these visas ("Exceptional Talent") in 2019, also via TechNation, before they were updated and renamed to "Global Talent". The main difference seems to be that now three letters of recommendation are required rather than two.

For the most part, my application relied on my co-authorship on academic publications, patents, conference speaking, and press coverage of my work.

A lot of people seem to DIY these things, but I hired an immigration law firm to guide me through the process. The most helpful thing about that was that they were able to make a lot of decisions for me with regards to what to submit.

The "not reliant on an employer" part was extremely important to me - letting anyone have the kind of leverage over me that sponsoring a visa provides was not acceptable.

One thing that really surprised me was that my lack of a post-secondary degree was a complete non-issue.
Nope. Have you ever used a thermometer to measure the temperature of water for boiling pasta and rice? Ask yourself why.
On an individual basis, you can’t. That’s the reason for doing it. But en masse, if there’s a whole bunch of people complaining about the race of the cast before it airs, and then immediately after it airs a whole bunch of 1-star reviews appear like clockwork, then it’s not hard to draw the line between the two. It’s not the first time people have review-bombed things they don’t like, and it won’t be the last time. All they can do now is complain “how dare you not let me review bomb this show!” until the next target appears.
I agree which is also why I’m very disappointed that the EU is forcing Apple into the absolutely horrible USB-C standard.

People can buy android phones if they want to. Why remove choice?
Right. If I'm understanding those stats correctly, they indicate that even if a patient has an adverse reaction after taking the vaccine, the odds are >50% the reaction is caused by something else.
It looks like KiwiFarms is still running on their onion site:

http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedz...

(Need TOR browser or Brave)
Yes, but mostly out of economic necessity.

Unless you're building some billionaires summer cottage it's just not economically justifiable to pay for all the labor required to deviate from the standard plus all the material. If you want "better" you just do more extravagant construction but you keep to the same minimums.

That said, there are plenty of people exceeding the minimums. You just don't know it because they are doing it themselves (or with a friend or two's help) on their own property and typically not pulling permits. <clutches pearls>
Didn't he previously say he took down the nazi site because they were saying that the reason they weren't taken down was that he agreed with them? That provides the sort of decision making process.

Also, I find it hard to believe that a legal team would all of a sudden decide 3 days after they publically announce they wouldn't remove security services from a customer that one customer who has basically been the same for god only knows how long needs to have those services removed. I honestly, would be surprised if the original announcement hadn't already had input from legal. So if legal thought this customer was so bad, why wouldn't they have it done before they publically say they won't do it.

I think the twitter mobbing of CloudFlare worked.
Kevin has been hammering on them for many days now, and for good reason.

Everyone has a different line in the sand. For me, a platform designed to promote hate speech crosses that line.
My problem with these unrelated political issues is that they directly collide with the rights the EFF traditionally tried to defend. Nobody is talking about net neutrality anymore and activists actively try to convince suppliers of net infrastructure to drop the target of the day. These political issues do not converge very well and old liberties are regularly undermined.

I know I am painting with a broad brush here, but I am at a point where I want it severed into something else.
> You, cft, are full of shit. [1] [2]

1. https://imgur.com/a/hY2BN7p

2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_dogs_bark,_but_the_carava...
Clearly, we really need to improve quality control on the Moderna placebo. /s
Pretty unlikely–nor would I trust the connection to fully saturate the 10GbE interface, as, on a monitor, the most important connection is the video one.
Making an account is really quick, no need to feel honored by such simple act. It's basic privacy - don't keep your identities too long, especially if you're going to tie them to the set of services you're using.
Legend says Strange Days almost destroyed Bigelow's career.
4k Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized during the pandemic
> Google (Android) and Samsung have a much larger network

Network of what? They have more phones, but I'm not aware of any tracking network or tracking devices sold by them.
German politics is a mess and has been one since Kohl came to power in 1983 - including the few years of Schröder social democrats/green government in between the Kohl and Merkel years. Corruption in politics is common and nobody seems to care (from the CDU party donations scandals to all the shady deals around Covid masks).

But to me things in Germany still seem to be a bit more rational than all the things that are going on in UK politics since BoJo became prime minister... of course, it's far from ideal, but which country is close to ideal in these crazy times?

Unfortunately, academia doesn't pay well enough to buy my own little island in the Carribean (which would be submerged in a couple of years anyways)... :)
Information-Wisdom Funnel: Retain more of what you learn
Related:

How Judy arrays work and why they are so fast (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820795 - Aug 2019 (13 comments)

Performance Improvements Using Judy Arrays - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5639013 - May 2013 (51 comments)

Judy arrays are patented - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043667 - Jan 2013 (56 comments)

Judy Arrays - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675759 - March 2012 (9 comments)

A 10-minute description of how Judy arrays work and why they are so fast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419526 - June 2010 (13 comments)

Judy, an efficient sparse dynamic array implementation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859336 - Oct 2009 (4 comments)
The simplicity or complexity of the technical implementation doesn't change the intention in any way.
A0 area = 0.5^0 = 1 m^2
A1 area = 0.5^1 = 0.5 m^2
A2 area = 0.5^2 = 0.25 m^2
A3 area = 0.5^3 = 0.125 m^2

If it was your way

A1 area = 1 m^2
A2 area = 0.5 = 0.5 ^ (2-1) m^2
A3 area = 0.25 = 0.5 ^ (3-1) m^2

Why shift it one way just to shift it the other way in the formula?
Sellers are slashing home prices in America’s 97 biggest housing markets
I don't think a forum is possible on IPFS?

To my knowledge, it's content addressable, and therefore limited to static content, because if the content of a file change, the URL to it changes.
Those cardboard tubes the A0 drawings where stored in were brilliant for building stuff with, and even more fun as a later teenager having parties - stick one end in a fire pit and they become fire cannons, a good 4-5ft of flame out the top…
> there has been zero change to regular life as a result of leaving the EU

I've noticed that buying things online from mainland Europe has gotten significantly more annoying and expensive.

There have also been a lot of issues for UK citizens with significant family ties in the EU.
Two sides of the same coin. I was referring to whatever stallman may or may not have been wrong or right about.
> where you can say bounce to sender

Not sure what you mean. A bounce occurs when a receiving MTA refuses to accept delivery. The sending MTA might then compose a non-delivery message to the sender; but that's not under the receiving MTA's control.

That is, if the sending MTA sends a "bounce message" direct to the sender's address, that's not specified by any email RFC, and is arguably bad behaviour - similar to running a "spam-bouncer" plugin on your email client, the bounces it issues are bogus.

> all emails with a reply to of a certain msg id.

I've no idea what that means. The reply-to is an email address, not a message-id.
Am I correct in reading this that the Pfizer vaccine was associated with fewer serious side effects (as defined) than the Moderna _placebo_?

It seems plausible that both vaccines cause slightly more serious side effects than their corresponding placebos (30–60% more if I understand correctly), but it's hard to know how meaningful this result is when one of the placebos is 2.5x more 'dangerous' than the other placebo.
Google Data Studio is free and easy to use. As for database I recommend BigQuery which is well integrated with Data Studio.
Don’t forget to post the dashboard on HN, I’d love to see it!
Kind of what Cray/HPE does with Microsoft's Azure - you could get your very own Cray to run your workloads.

Sadly, not a very interesting one running UNICOS or NOS/VE...
Hehe I once in a startup was promised to be team lead (anyway ridiculous because the team had 3 guys). However I then married and went to honeymoon. When I came back my team was dissolved. I stayed for a little while but left soon after.
> The EU, and Germany especially, have strong privacy regulations and laws to protect their citizens.

This could quickly be changing with proposed mass-surveillance "Chat control" legislation which would force all providers to scan the contents of all messages, emails and other communications.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...
ChaosPad – Collaborative minutes of meeting note-taking tool
Leetcode is no longer sufficient for clearing OAs in 2022
I didn't mean to come across as argumentative, I was just looking for more details so I could understand better.
Yep, exactly. Reactive is really not that bad, and most software to manage it can also have a preapproved whitelist of actions that automatically get elevated.

It definitely takes planning and management and monitoring, but it can be done, and it very much does help Enterprise-type management.
Once you make an API public, no matter how badly designed it is, you have to support it forever.

I would much rather an API be private, let the company dog food it and let their internal employees use it, and then make it public. It also gives them the freedom of completely changing the internal workings.

The extensions API and the Siri integration for third parties are great examples. The Siri intent based API is very usable and reminds of the Amazon Lex based API - the AWS version of the consumer Alexa skills SDK.
It is hard to reproduce the values returned by various instruments. Using modern technology and analytics tools it’s easier to check for fraud in the western blots, so this is where the fraud is often proven. The problem is that this is ipso facto fraud - you can’t say “ohhh I got mixed up and accidentally made an image that perfectly lined up with my conclusions”. If the authors were willing to fraud there then the entire paper should be seen as fraud and the authors responsible shamed because they are undermining the fundamental scientific process.
Anything with a wall wart will have negligible current draw. You're way better off focusing on appliances and heating/cooling.
Urgh, they explicitly mentioned that it was a real human in the same presentation. Your obsession with bashing Tesla is unhealthy. Pick a valid criticism.
>But, what would you have even done with a digital image in 1975? Showed it around the family Christmas party on your laptop?

What laptop? What home computer? :-)
The thing is, it's hard to feel bad for kiwifarms. They seem to be one of the worst sites there are. But freedom of speech/expression/opinions aren't about defending those who speech/expression/opinions you like but all of them.

Personally, I think the site being shutdown is a good thing. But it's hard to look at the fact a few corporations can remove a website from the internet and think this is good for a free and open society.
> they have other formats +, RA and SRA (A3+, RA3, SRA3)

This is what I'm trying to say though, the whole ratio thing or 1m^2 area thing will be irrelevant, isn't it?
I've browsed through kiwifarms and they seem to say horrible stuff about people but in my sample I haven't seen anyone directing action against someone.

It was a good source of information that was omitted from the press regarding a recent case in the UK about terminal medical care. I saw some nasty comments about the person, but in the few hundred forum pages no calls to action or threats made against the people.

Is writing something horrible about someone in and of itself harassment? I've honestly seen an order of magnitude worse on Facebook/Twitter/social media.

Then again, I've only really read one thread deeply and a few pages on other threads as a sample. Perhaps the place is organising crime as the Cloudflare blog post suggests.
Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing, Says It's a Hype Bubble
I think this is a theory of mind issue. You are used to Fahrenheit intuition and living in the US, so people arguing against your perception seem to be bikeshedding or being willfully obtuse/superior.

I can perhaps relate my subjective experience to better explain what's going on. I grew up with Celsius temperatures, so temperatures like 27C or -5C tell me exactly what I should wear when going outside. For Fahrenheit, even though we are told that it maps to human experience, I have to consciously try to remember what these 10F, 20F temperatures mean and often forget. The intuition just isn't there at all.

For height, I'm used to the metric system, but I can also understand the imperial system in that specific area because of seeing so many discussions about it over the years.

I actually learned to cook while in an Imperial zone, and now I am more used to certain temperatures in F.

The reason people find it shocking, is that we are essentially forced to deal against our will with Imperial measurements, because the US is a powerful country. The annoyance has more to do with the sensation of being trapped by another culture and having to adapt to their way of life rather than the reverse.
Lqml: A Lightweight QML-Only Embedded Common Lisp Binding to Qt5/Qt6
> but if Roaring fits your case you should use it instead of Judy1 even if have Judy1 available.

Why? Assuming you have no need for the specialized whole set union and intersection operations. At least the C roaring library only supports 32-bit keys which is a hard blocker vs judy1 for some applications.
There are hosts who don't ask for personal information and won't know they are hosting Kiwifarms if its a Tor hidden service if Josh wants to go that route.
How is USB-c horrible?
I taught Judy Arrays in our Advanced DB course in 2020:

https://youtu.be/N6rhECUjdaI?t=3043

AFAIK nobody uses them because of the (unfounded) patent fears.

ART indexes are a modern implementation of radix trees / tries that is better.
By "no one", I meant those that were supposed to use it: Government officials ;) I personally use it as well, and so does my workplace, surprisingly.
Woman on beach finds fossil from unknown animal likely older than dinosaurs
https://archive.ph/dJUHs
I've been using alps[1]. Its pretty rough around the edges but its handy enough.

there is also things like roundcube which is fairly popular

[1]: https://sr.ht/~migadu/alps/
They will freeze for a moment, then jump left, then right.
(preamble: I know nothing about how armies operate) I remember reading something about "protection of the force" regarding US military operations in 2000's Iraq and I remember something along the line of "we put a lot of resources in protection of the column we send for missions or the patrol", and there was criticism that there was too much emphasis on protection and that was what led in parts to Blackwater [0] sub contractings, so that the force stays safe, and difficulties in getting some objectives done. Hearsays from news outlets from that time though so I really don't know if it has any truth in it.

[0] Which makes me think: if anyone has any articles that explain the difference between groups like Blackwater and the russian Wagner group I'd be grateful.
I have one on my cat's collar and it is absolutely fantastic for when he runs away. I just go grab him wherever he is and bring him back.

Absolutely fantastic - very glad of the Airtag.
Why on earth would you say complexity would be even worse?

I can't go along with this at all
Just wanted to say thank you for including Celsius and freedom units, made it a lot easier for me to understand.
Celibacy has surprising evolutionary advantages, according to new research
Complete GoPro of my first mission in Ukraine – Kherson and Mykolaiv
A couple of international volunteers fighting for the Ukrainian army. The video contains no fighting footage but gives a feeling for what it is like on the front line.

What strikes me the most is the amount of confusion and the lack of information on what is happening that these soldiers are living with while continuing with their mission.
Ask HN: Reduce Packet Latency in SOM
I have a relatively low power SOM with the goal of reducing packet latency to a server as much as possible. I'm using real time Linux techniques and tightly coded C, but are there any obscure techniques or papers that could assist further? I'd try compressing the packets before sending them, but given how slow the SOM is I worry that would help in this circumstance.
> Yet before that stage, they were a new tech

As far as I know - and we still had some tube radios at home when I grew up - they were used pretty much right away. For radios, and replacing mechanical relay switches, over which there obvious advantage was that since the tubes were not mechanical they would last longer, especially important in systems with lots of them.

So I'm not completely sure and somebody with definite knowledge should chime in, but I think they were not some "we have no idea what to do with this" but where useful from early on, as soon as the manufacturing method was solid. They were used for "normal" electronics well before they were used for the early computers. Even though Google search - which I just tried - also seems to have a bias and mostly associate those vacuum tubes with computers and forget all about the many other uses. It was the predecessor of diodes and transistors in addition to being better than mechanical relays.

https://www.engineering.com/story/vacuum-tubes-the-world-bef...

https://www.nps.gov/features/safr/feat0001/virtualships/vrmo...

(just one of the earliest commercial use cases as example for how short the period was between invention and wide-spread use)

> Dr. Lee deForest invented the vacuum tube in 1906. His tube, which he called the "audion," was first developed as a detector of radio waves and was quickly adopted by shipboard operators. Later experimentation, by deForest and others, showed the ability of the vacuum tube to generate radio signals with far greater precision than earlier systems. By 1914 the essentials of tube-based transmitters had been worked out.
If the user opted in to use the Find-My network, yes.

Most of users want a way to find / lock / remotely wipe their 1000$ phone in case it gets lost or stolen.
They don’t say if the local militia is hostile in general or just if you try to seize their water source.

Which, IMHO, is very critical information to know.

One way you could just roll into town, toss the kids some MREs, and tell the townsfolk your mission is to secure the water supply from the enemy and what do they need because they probably have supply issues and really do need stuff.

Option B is to have one platoon plus mortars and heavy weapons set up a base of fire while the other two platoons conduct an unmounted assault.

That’s how the paratroopers would do it at least.

Like the first gulf war, we were attached to a French armored battalion and they didn’t roll up on the Iraqis guns blazing but gave them a chance to surrender which they happily did. I mean, if anyone knows about surrendering…

—edit—

Oh, I forgot about the size of the local militia.

Assaulting a fortified position with that many defenders is at the very least a battalion sized operation especially in an urban environment. And you’re going to take a lot of casualties. Sending a company to do it is virtually impossible if they want to fight.
I heard there are some scale limits (somewhat ironically) for outgoing but I will put this on the list too, it's a great solution as well.

I usually think of just using SES whole sale but these days they have receiving too... Might be a good way to hide from the other big clouds that are a bit more entrenched in the email space.
For me using uint8_t and family makes things simpler (working predominately with packets)

It is a container for X bits and thats it, its easy to understand overflow and corner case behaviors.

I rarely find good reason to use signed ints, so only when I need them i worry about sign handling.

> because you never know if somebody is going to want to use an integer in, say, a downwards loop

Why risk a possible bug, for a hypothetical case of someone wanting signed var?

If they really want to use signed vars they can handle it themselves.
I wouldn’t go that far. While I don’t agree with the EU forcing the USB-C “standard”[sic] on private companies, it’s time for Lightning to die. Apple is already moving to USB C on iPads with only the low end iPad still being Lightning.
If you grow up in a country that uses metric basically exclusively, it’s not. I literally cannot visualise 10 feet but if you say three metres I instantly have a feel for how long that is (I even Googled the conversion because I couldn’t be bothered working it out). I wouldn’t have any idea what 100 degrees Fahrenheit felt like if I didn’t know it’s about 38 degrees C. And so on…
Enough users opt in to help other people find their forgotten keys :)
There is "Possible duplication of data between some of the figures". So some of the plots contain data from more that the column they're meant to be of.

For example:

Retraction: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2213288119
Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1321510111

This could be a fundamental problem with the experiments that possibly could invalidate the conclusions or just a bug when creating figures for the paper. But if it was the latter surely a correction could be made fairly quickly - which suggests it's the former.
Barracuda ESS appears to block everything from Amazon SES even with valid DKIM and SPF. Of course they can’t be bothered with DMARC reports. This really sucks for users trying to receive Cognito password reset emails.
Ok but use per capita is more important to sway me
A couple of things I can think of off the top of my head: Since the compiler knows that certain things are UB using signed offers better (often significantly better) optimization opportunities then using unsigned. Plus, you get to use UBSan to detect bad code.
Yeah, I do wonder what might have caused such a massive difference between the two placebo groups (17.6 and 42.2 per 10K).

Small samples? The confidence intervals look pretty wide.
Or even the CIA, which has a long history of doing things exactly like that
Exactly, this is not "randomly losing correspondence". This is simply spam filtering that is done after accepting the e-mail for delivery. Whether that should be an acceptable behavior or not is another discussion.
And then 30 minutes later

>UPDATE: while there is definitely a breach, it is still work in progress to confirm the origin of data, could be a third party.