skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To transfer gigabytes of music to my phone with rsync over wifi.
Why:
1. You can start again if interrupted.
2. From MacOS to Android, I didn't find a drag-and-drop way of doing it
Doors definitely auto-closed behind you.
There have been a lot of blind wine tastings done and the results are always interesting. Sometimes cheap bottles score as high, or higher than vintages. Other times people can spot the cheap "carton" wine easily.

My wife and I love to cook, have discussed opening our own restaurant, have eaten at lots of very expensive "haute cuisine" restaurants and have tasted lots of wines.

Part of the "problem" is that taste is subjective and can be influenced through suggestion. So the atmosphere, the price, the meal pairing can all affect a person's appreciation of the glass.

I remember an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit where they had a "water sommelier" at a restaurant who would upsell customers on speciality bottles of water and they were all filled with the same tap water from the same garden hose at the back of the restaurant. The results were fascinating. Subjects swore they tasted different from one another.

The real question, in my opinion, is whether a high-priced bottle is "worth it" by as near-objective standards as possible. In other words, given two bottles of different prices, all else being equal, would the average person prefer the taste of one over the other?

That varies widely from one wine to another. My wife and I have enjoyed a good vintage but we are also perfectly content with a $15 bottle from a local vineyard here in Ontario, which is our "go to." I'm equally partial to a $15 Rothschild Merlot or Pinot Noir and I wonder if the truly exceptional wines that I've tasted at restaurants were more about the environment, the food pairing, the company and the occasion than they were about the flavour in isolation.
I think it's really unethical to tell people they need to pack up their lives and move countries because of external factors that were not their fault.
Seatbelts can not save you from bad driving, but they certainly help mitigate the effects.
Yup really. Grab some 5% and 1% resistors and measure them with decent multimeter.

You'll find that their values are almost exactly: stated_value+/-tolerance rather than a range of values.

i.e a 100k 5% resistor will be almost exactly either 105k or 95k not some number in between.
Been looking for an affordable Android tablet to hack around on, possibly look into learning Kotlin for mobile application development. I've got a great deal of exposure to Java already, so figured that would be an easier transition than jumping into the Apple/Swift ecosystem.
US taxpayers own it, so of course they should care.
> I'm talking 100+ hour weeks on an ice cold production line working under complete psychopaths.


Testosterone


I’ve worked cutting trees under a literal psychopath (just out of jail for murder), a guy had died of dehydration on that job the previous year. It was strenuous and I mourned/cried the loss of my girlfriend while sawing branches like a madman.

It was also the best time of my life.

See, using my body, requiring agility, quick varied microdecisions and physical strength, it makes use of the body I was given by mother nature. Compare that to working in front of a computer all day, using only the logical part of my brain, no emotions, gray screens everywhere: As much as I love being an entrepreneur and I love using my IQ 136, well, it uses 8% of the body’s capabilities - the brain and the fingers, period. It’s unnatural.

So I suspect hard physical work with actual people and emotions, triggers hormones (testosterone being the caricature of it) that regulates everything including motivation, a clean mind, and happiness. Of course I wouldn’t wish to work on a field all my life, but programming or Excel spreadsheeting may have a negative impact on the mind.
Part of the H-1B process is to prove you (hiring company) can't find and equal American citizen to come work for you.

During a downturn in the tech sector, while companies are boasting about "cutting the fat" in their workforce by the tens of thousands. I'd assume it's much easier to find a citizen than it was a few years ago

The companies admitting they over hired by thousands, also includes them claiming they needed immigrants they do not really need.

This[1] article estimates 2,000 of the 23,000 tech workers laid off in November 2022 had H-1B visas. According to the U.S approach to immigration we should all be prioritizing the 21,000 non-visa holders before we try getting people more jobs so they can keep their visa

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/11/answers-for-h-1b-workers-w...
> wine quality is entirely subjective

I wouldn’t go that far… there are many wines that everyone agrees are foul. La Villageoise for example? There’s a reason it’s 2E/L

6USD is what, 5.80E a bottle? That’s already a lot more comfortable
Okay, so let us try to explain the concept of looking for large primes by analogy so we don't have to explain all the mathy stuff.
If you tried to convey this to an actual five year old you would probably have to speak more in questions to keep them engaged and interact more and use even simpler language but all that is hard to convey in written text in a language that I never spoke to a five year old. But I digress, so here we go:

You know how some things are red and some are not? There are probably multiple red things in the same room as you are right now. Most people can easily tell if something is red or not by simply looking at it.

But what about places we cannot see? Even though we have never been there, it is a save bet that there are red things in let's say New York. And if we wanted to make sure, we could book a flight and go check. But is there something red in every village in the world? My guess would be yes, but we do not know for sure and it will be hard to visit every place because there are so many.

At this point you might have explained some things, but if you have not lost them yet you could take this further.

There are places even further away than every village. We know that Mars is red because it is so big and people have sent a robot there to be absolutely sure. But what about other planets? It is hard to tell because planets can be very far away and red things can be very small. And going there is no option because even the fastest rocket would not get there any time soon.

What this post mentions is the equivalent of someone building a very precise telescope fixed at a very specific place very far away and they saw something red there.
Here the analogy breaks because there are other more conceptual problems with building such a telescope. Otherwise, I am surprised how many similarities there are actually :)
You would think he would be old enough to realize that nothing is “free”.
Maybe if you can get to the office via public transport or cycling it might make sense. But, if you drive then it's consuming more energy than heating the room you're in at home.
I personally didn't check the numbers, but even if the percentage is "only" 0.25% it gives a strong message to the rest of 99.75% that they should take care and especially that they should not make any fuss at their current job, otherwise they might risk losing almost everything they have built in the US. Not that the great majority of those 99.75% don't already know it.

Related to this, it is high time for this indentured servitude-like legislation to be scrapped for good, but as long as the people affected earn relatively good money I guess we won't see a real move against it anytime soon.
I've had a lot of red wine in my life; like, probably too much. The only bottle with a memorable taste came from a wine tour in Napa Valley where they said half the field was destroyed in a fire, so they were getting rid of the rest for cheap. The wine was super smoky... and absolutely delicious. I wonder why that never became a thing.
Do you know that weird phenomenon where you just learned a new word (which is weird in itself, how come I've live 20, 30, 40 year sand never saw this word before?!) and immediately after you see the same word again in an entirely different context?

Well that just happened with "bufferbloat". I had just learned about this word on the book "alrogithms to live by". And now, here.
I used to think like this too, until I saw the physical pain that an older bricklayer experiences every day. Whilst I can also relate to the loss of enthusiasm, I also know that my body is much happier staying in IT.
> Is there a Tailscale alternative that just does Wireguard + NAT traversal and doesn't try to do key management?

I really wish there was a NAT traversal protocol or library that wasn't overly complex and focused on the 90% cases. It would help not just tailscale's but anyone building p2p tech.
Quick and dirty cleanup - convert to, then from postscript.
I loved this article. My take away would be - there are differences between wines, some people are good at telling them apart, but people make mistakes and can be tricked, so take everything you hear about wine with a grain of salt.
Is there anything which involves both...

(1) lots of subtle and subjective judgement calls

(2) humans yearning to show off their wealth / sophistication / status

...which is NOT fake or widely-faked?
Makes sense. I am not a proper developer so I can not comment how difficult it would be to add that level of dissection in Rust. Here [1] is a page that describes how to utilize libpcap but I have no idea if that would be helpful or how difficult it would be to port this to Rust.

[1] - https://www.tcpdump.org/pcap.html
Constellation: Confidential Kubernetes
Sorry, I assumed you were American. In that case, I don't think it's all that rare not being able to name two cities in a state — IME, a lot of capital cities are well known, but not necessarily second cities, etc. I think the capitals are often presented alongside their state as pairs, so phrases like "Detroit, Michigan" just stick in the mind. I also probably know Detroit, Michigan from either Eminem or Motown. Flint, Michigan is definitely more obscure — I know that one from Michael Moore. I do have a bit of a love for Geography, place names, and US states in particular.
Oh thank you, this dovetails perfectly into the offline/airgapped thread elsewhere on this page. I think of SSB and NNCP as related in that they both work with sporadically-connected nodes.
What I don't understand is, how the tree can be used even after movement? How do you know which polygon is behind the other if camera position and angle are freely chosen?
IMO this is a gross generalization and exaggeration. Sure some abuse occurs in H1b, but it has also been the path of entry for many immigrants. While I am not certain, I believe Nadella, Pichai, Musk, and many others came in via the h1b. Over 50% of companies founded in SV have a founder who is foreign born.

To just blithely dismiss the positives because of your own naked self-interest. ("suppress tech worker wages"). FYI US tech workers are among the highest paid occupations in the nation, and there is full tech worker employment, your claims have no basis I am afraid.
It's unfortunate that the price section of the article isn't a bit more nuanced. There is definitely a big difference - it just has diminishing returns effect and the drop off price point is likely lower than most experts are willing to admit
All I know about wine is that it comes in a box.
TL;DR -- "Wine is not fake. Wine experts aren’t fake either, but they believe some strange things, are far from infallible, and need challenges and blinded trials to be kept honest. How far beyond wine you want to apply this is left as an exercise for the reader."

It is a showoff sport. Insane wine prices are there for rich people who have too much money to spend, or people who are in desperate need of validation. We all know someone in a McMansion with premium beige textured walls and a few Lexus who has a "wine cellar" that they can't stop talking about. The market is mostly for them.

I say "mostly" because like TFA says, some people really can tell the difference, but I feel bad that they have to pay so much more due to the idiot tax.
Yes, i have been there. I worked for 10 years as a developer when a pretty bad bore out hit me. I quit and started a business which failed but allowed me to reboot myself working in graphics and design. I profit from the technical background today but as developer but beeing a dev made me very, very unhappy.
I took the introductory sommelier exam as a hobbyist, but I was in a room with ~200 people in the industry. We collectively blind tasted about a dozen wines, and I watched as people around me mostly guessed correctly with astonishing accuracy.

There may be some nonsense in wine tasting, but it is definitely possible to develop a body of knowledge and experience that allows one to identify wines based on only your senses. It's important to note that the CMS only includes traditionally produced wines in the blind tasting - no curveballs (pinot grigio grown in Alaska or whatever).
Get venture funding, when does the founder allowed to pay themselves a salary?
Universality of Neural Networks on Graphs vs. Sets
Proud future founder of such a shovelware studio, I cannot wait!!
Same… and I’m running Safari 16.2 on the latest public beta of macOS Ventura.
CamelCamelCamel is great, you can set notifications for items so you can re-stock things at low price points.
>including the elimination of the caps that have people waiting for decades for the permanent residency, despite being approved for it.

This has been been talked about several times, but never saw the light of the day.
dang, that's a big gap. It makes meta's losses seem much more palatable.
Sorry, meant to say Moon.
Indeed. I know quite a few people who turned their passions into jobs and ended up not enjoying their job or passion anymore. Familiarity breeds contempt, or just boredom. I ignore the trite 'Do a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life' and recognise that jobs are complex and have their ups and downs and for most people the activities you love are outside of work and that's OK.
Last week I quit my job due to “burnout”. The company I worked for was amazing. I worked with excellent people who I enjoyed being around. Good codebase. Plenty of autonomy. Flexible and very reasonable working hours, flexible working arrangements. I was never under any pressure. Company provided all the support I could ever ask for. It was a dream job.

And yet when I sat down to write code, I couldn’t do it. It’s difficult to describe - I was completely paralysed. The simplest of tasks required insurmountable effort. And trying to deal with that, day in day out, is the “burnout”.

Burnout may be likely or common in bad environments, but it isn’t the sole cause. In my case I can’t blame the company or the environment. It was about as far away from toxic as you can get.

I’m planning to take about a year off work, because that’s what the internet says I should do. But I really don’t understand what caused this to happen, or what I could do in the future to prevent it.
If you want a really hackable tablet, I would recommend to try Pinetab, which runs GNU/Linux natively.
> I've long been embarrassed that US immigration law so often errs on the side of xenophobia and cruelty.

That's the effect of being the single most desirable target for immigrants. If US immigration laws were any more lenient, it would be the most populous country on Earth already, way ahead of India and China.
Are you trying to suppress wages for citizen tech workers? This is how you suppress wages for citizen tech workers.
Maybe some of them were synesthetes?
Mercedes EQ Performance Can Be Unlocked with $1200 Yearly Subscription
Any reference about this? (i.e. somebody saying that it would break something?) Curious to see how they'd justify it.
Happy house hunting :)
Foreigners pay tons of money for the privilege of being at an American university, even state schools. Its really no comparison to in-state tuition. Its very good business for the universities. After that, the best find a way to remain in the country anyway, the rest are sent back through the ruthless H1B program.
In that event, do you know if the 900$ bottles were qualified as more enjoyable than the 9$ bottles?

For instance, in Costa Rica, one year, many wine drinkers prised this wine as exceptionally good, specially consideringn it was very very inexpensive and not even packaged in a glass bottle.

https://vino.cr/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CLOS-DE-PIRQUE-CA...

I can't remember the exact number, but it cost between $5 and $10. That was over 10 years ago
It brings money, and spreads influence. Solves a different type of problem.
Coming from a country where "legally" procuring movies/music/software has always been harder than it should be (though things are better now), the scene I enjoyed was the piracy scene.

Be it the warez scene mentioned elsewhere in the thread, or simply the pirated movies/games scene, it formed such an integral part of my childhood. The whole aXXo/KlaXXoN debacle, the sheer respect for SkidRow for being able to deliver awesome games in a playable crack within days of their release, and purely the sense of community around, of all things, pirating content, was incredible. It sounds weird to say, but in many ways, it felt like a global movement to "stick it to the man" and keep control of the internet.

TBH I'm still a bit upset that mininova closed down because compared to TPB/RarBGe etc, I always felt like mininova was a much tighter knit community (and let's not even get into the whole eMule/Demonoid/Napster community).
Actually I've made a working WASM decoder: https://niutech.github.io/jxl.js/
More expensive wine doesn't necessarily taste "better" - as better is a highly subjective experience, specific to the individuals preferences. But it does tend to taste more "complex", e.g. like more different things at once, and more elegant, e.g. containing rarer flavour notes like oak or earthyness in reds or clearer mineralic taste in whites.

Also, in wine, the price to value ratio is anything but linear. In most European countries, once you've made it past the 8 euro mark, you can get some great wines that get a lot better up to about 30 euro a bottle. After that,paying an additional 100 only gets you a marginally better wine, if at all.

Overall though, the best advice is to drink whatever you enjoy.
>notes of blue

I'm so stealing that
A new one I started is gopher://gophernews.net:70, but the best place to find stuff is on Floodgap: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

Lynx is probably the best that most people already have, but Gophie is a nice, modern client written in Java.

I think Gemini is nice, but I have no interest personally due to the TLS requirement. That makes it a nonstarter for my older computers.
Exponentiation has higher precedence than multiplication. It's 23(m^2), not (23m)^2.
Yes I have. Coming from an entrepreneurial family, I always had that itch to become part of something bigger than yourself.. But in IT you're expected to stay in your cubicle and enjoy the ping pong table. After 11+ years professionally in IT, i've already seen it all.

So here I am; Ive been working for several companies, the last two being a "flat hierarchy" / Holacracy. Sound great right? Well no.. not if you want to grow to management to give that entrepreneurial mind a go again. Im stuck and it has been weighing me down for a while now. Ive applied for several CTO positions but because I've had "roles" instead of actual "job titles" companies wont take everything seiously. Im in a perdicament; On one side I'm tired of being rejected for work Im certainly qualified for, on the other side I dont want to be the loner freelancer (been there already) and on even another side I don't want to stay in that cubicle anymore. Im tired.. And im only 33.
I'd be shocked if you thought there's was actually no correlation if you're thinking of a price range from $5 to $100+. The worst wines by far I've had have been the ultra cheap stuff. Once you get above like $20 or whatever your personal threshold is though the variance is much smaller in terms of quality I'd say.
> The thing is, wine quality is entirely subjective.

The article says it isn't. And I agree. Go buy a two-buck chuck at Trader Joe's, and a $50 Chateauneuf de Pape from 2018. One is an acrid, acidic fruit punch, the other is a balanced soft tannin delight. I guarantee your palette can tell the difference, or your money back. :)
It looks like a Voronoi decomposition. That is, each region is the set of points that are closest to the pixel with the given named color.
ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ (2015)
Ooooooo, any good links to share? I picked up a Draftmaster II at auction and someday I'll get it working I promise...
Sadly this is going to really change our tech community. I suspect many US citizens, especially at large US companies, have no idea how many colleagues', coworkers' and friends' ability to stay in the United State ultimately rests on their being a strong demand for tech talent.

Most of our discussions around the system impact of layoffs have been in regard to changes in TC long term, but I personally think that's minor compared to potentially saying goodbye to some friends for a long time.

The issue is not just this current scramble, but if the job market in tech does shrink and continue to do so we're going to see the number of places sponsoring H1B shrink tremendously. Estimates are hard to come by accurately, but the number of H1B holders in tech is fairly large, this could be a change that quite literally changes the face of tech in the US.
I can't imagine living in a home where every member doesn't have their own quiet/study/work space. I say this as someone who has lived most of his life in apartment buildings where that was a bit challenging, but definitely not impossible. I guess maybe if you are used to living your life outside of the house an just visit to eat and sleep you feel differently, but that's the beauty of WFH - you get to pick what best works for you.
I can completely understand your position, but it shouldn't be like that.

I started my carrier as a remote employee before the pandemic.
Pairing helped a lot to learn how others are working.
Most of the technical discussions where public. Usually on slack or on GitHub (via RFC PRs). If somebody scheduled a meeting usually included the whole team as optional and encouraged juniors to listen even if they can't contribute.
We planned our sprints together so everybody know what the team is working on.

On the other hand I joined a new company during the pandemic which had similar issues. I wanted to help solve it, but they didn't even acknowledged it.
Not if it opens them up to false claims.
Eye of the Beholder for C64 Released
I agree. In prior generations, if you survived childhood you probably went to fight in a war as a young adult (if you were male) or you had a loved one who did and you had to struggle to keep things together at home. If you survived that, you had a hard life working in fields or factories until your body was so broken you couldn't do it anymore. You didn't have time to worry about the types of things that many young people have as their big concerns today.
Looks like a moderator downweighted the submission, probably because it was on the sensational-controversy-indignation-hotbutton side of the ledger, without any significant new information to compensate for it. Indeed the story was from 2019. It was probably a borderline call, but there are a lot of these H1-B/visa/immigration threads and they regularly turn into flamewars, so we have to moderate them a la https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
Free H1-B legal services. The submission title is extremely misleading here.
> I ended up downloading a program that mapped the level as I played it

What's the program? I've never heard of something similar, and sometimes I've wondered if they exists :)