skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Do you foresee significant changes in immigration policy in the next 20 years? With many working under temporary status for as much as a decade, seems more relevant than ever to predict the future. Which, I'm sure, you hate to do. But this is for fun.

2. In your opinion, is there a way to live under the regime that 10-17m illegal aliens in the US seemingly do every day, but to be an entrepreneur? Is it really going to be true that such status limits you to living in poverty, or even to the middle class? As most tech entrepreneurs fail, is it intellectually honest to say that illegal status prohibits you from being a successful entrepreneur?

3. Why is the tech industry more compliant than other industries regarding work authorization, immigration status & residency status issues? Or is it not? In your opinion, is it behind the trend compared to other industries, or ahead? In other industries, like healthcare, agriculture, education and hospitality, rules seem more lax provided the roles are vaguely lower class, but I am generalizing. What do you think is special about tech besides pay?
That seems the most likely to me as well, since they also have a 16 bit selector field that has to be stored.

The 286 already had 8 "segment registers" internally: ES, CS, SS, DS, GDT, LDT, IDT & TSS. Only the first four are directly accessible by the program, but to the microcode they should all be more or less identical.

Besides the layout of the saved CPU state in memory, another clue to this is that for exceptions involving both "normal" and "system" segment registers, an error code gets stored in one of the internal registers, indicating which segment caused it. The only way to read it out in software is by executing the undocumented STOREALL instruction (F1 0F 04) immediately after the reset from a triple-fault shutdown.

The codes that appear in this register are:

6CFFh GDT
6DFFh LDT
6EFFh IDT
6FFFh TSS
70FFh ES
73FFh DS

CS and SS should be 71h / 72h, however exceptions involving these segments seem to take a different microcode path that overwrites that register with the access rights for CS.

I have written about this here:
https://rep-lodsb.mataroa.blog/blog/the-286s-internal-regist...

And this article shows the bus cycles done by LOADALL on the 386, note that it also loads 10 internal registers:

http://www.rcollins.org/articles/loadall/tspec_a3_doc.html
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The switch has really proven that this hybrid handheld formfactor is the future. On the software side, Proton has been the savior that liberated PC gamers from Microsoft’s iron grip.

The space is getting really exciting now that there are a few alternative products to the Steam Deck, too (Ayaneo, ROG Ally, etc). Phone controllers are nothing new, but iPhone switching to USB C means manufacturers can now sell a single SKU for iphone/android, and we’re starting to see AAA releases on those platforms.

If I were running Xbox or PlayStation, I’d be a little stressed out.
There was a lawsuit years ago where someone sued some hospital administration or insurance company for practicing medicine without a license for denying some claim.

I think this set a precedent, so if a doctor is not involved, there's a problem.

EDIT: can't find the case
As a software developer, I can tell you that MBAs aren't necessary for massive cost overruns.

People are bad as estimating the cost of technical work when unknown-unknowns are involved, and the problem becomes worse when there's a massive incentive to underestimate to win the contract when you know the government will pay for all of your overruns.
AWS services executor plugin for Argo Workflows
This conversation isn't about the difference between intern and full time employee but rather the difference between contractor and full time employee.
How the Apple 2 works inside
There are several other biographies. There's the official one, "The Lengthening Shadow" (1962). There's the unofficial one, "Think; A Biography of the Watsons and IBM" (1969). Both were written when the major players were still alive.

Key point: both were really, really good at sales to businesses. IBM was a sales-driven company, where the salesmen were in charge.
The only thing I get mad at Steam about is that the client updates (baseless accusation incoming) WAY too often and/or desperately needs to have some sort of incremental update system. I am, however, not a game developer. But as a consumer it's been very good.
Now I'm totally picturing a hollow Burj Kalifa with airships stacked vertically inside :-)
Every TRANSACTION involving a CS:GO (CS2 now) skin gives valve a cut. An entire offshore gambling INDUSTRY exists around treating these skins as value bearing tokens you can deposit, gamble away, and cash out. They then take the enormous profit that unregulated gambling always generates, and pushes it towards degenerate gambler streamers who regularly have thousands of literal children watch their stream, where they often gamble with a rigged account made for them by the gambling companies so they can show artificial success to, once again, 12 year olds.

They pay these streamers millions of dollars, up to and including one of the streamers moving to a different country with more lax gambling laws so they could continue to gamble on the companies dime (because they are a degenerate gambler) in order to hook children on gambling.

The skins work exactly like crypto in this case, except the on-ramp is a game that millions of children play (I don't care "it's not aimed at kids", you don't need to be 18 to buy a steam gift card at the store for the skins, and the game itself is free, which is a huge lure for children without an allowance) and it is entirely unregulated.

This entire system is being used to purposely trap gambling addicts at a very young age to milk them for as long as possible in the gambling industry, for every dime they are worth, and until they have used up all possible credit they can find just to keep pressing that addiction button. Twitch is in on it too.
> It's part of a broader cultural purge across media outlets that has seen the cancellation or destruction of works that appealed to marginalized people, including minorities, women, and queer folk.

It's more a continuation of an ongoing cultural purge of niche works that appeal to under-resourced/under-privileged groups. Which include the groups you identified, but there are others too.

It's been happening for as long as I can remember. Things start to gain cultural traction only to be stomped back down again when they get enough momentum to attract the attention of opponents.

Somehow, we (collectively) keep going.
The 7->6 move is also behind the modest shrinkage of the PS5 that preceded its new "somewhat slim" variant. (They did the shrink first with an unchanged case a little while ago).
Practical Advice for Choosing a Lawyer
Play the first ever text adventure game in your Linux terminal
Also see min-sized-rust repo[1], which also has this blog post at the bottom (along with others)

[1] https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
that difference is likely because of the smaller bezel rather than the display piece itself. they have said the screen protectors and other accessories will still work

but regardless it looks like they use a different connector so it wont be possible
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/823177/Can+I+just+buy+th...
Aren't there already mechanical tree shakers that harvest olives fairly efficiently?
I never understand this sentiment. Why should the startup founders be forced to work on at their company for the "good of the world", rather than taking a payday and enjoying their own life? This seems incredibly narcissistic and unfair to them.
You're playing a dangerous game, Cotton
There are a lot of "forgiveness rules" but they are tricky. I think you need to consult a lawyer to assess the exact situation. I hope this works out!
'Western Europe' or 'EU + UK' or 'G6' basically, with the additional information that the speaker's North American.
That’s 128 KB, right?
Protest warranted.

I apologize that you felt that it was an accusation. I could have been more tactful in expressing what my impressions were of your probing. I'm happy to be wrong.
I really like the idea. I've always wanted to learn more about finance and this seems a great and fun way to do it!

However, currently it only shows information about the indian market (when I click on "try now".) This makes me hesitant to use this service, because I am from West Europe (The Netherlands). I feel like I could learn incorrect things that do not apply to my situation.

I would either support all kinds of countries markets, or focus only on the US because there will be lots of resources online that help translate US market knowsledge to a specific country's.
thats fucking hilarious.

it surprises me how instagram and twitter can get away with it but tumblr cant
Moral panic and regulatory capture? You must be talking about the Congressional hearings about Tiktok in the US. They haven't needed to do that in the EU, but then again they don't have a Facebook to protect.
Comparing a regulated industry to a terrorist event is about the most irrational thing I have read today.
It's about 'demeaning' different badges, and an intern is inherently temporary, which is the T in 'TVC'.
The tax reform act of 1986 removes the safe-harbor provision for engineers and programmers. This strange sentence means that if a company hires an engineer or programmer - as an independent contractor - and the IRS later decides that this person is really an employee, then the company is liable for back taxes and probably penalties. For other professions, the "safe harbor" provision means that the company is only liable for paying the employer share of taxes going forwards - the previous stuff is handwaved away.

In effect, this scares companies so much that it is very difficult to get hired as a 1099 contractor as a programmer/engineer. The vast majority of companies will require you to be a W-2 employee of some other company (which will be the "staffing agency" or "bodyshop" or "temp agency").

One programmer was driven to fly his aircraft into an IRS building due to this issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19crash.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack
> That’s another thing I found a bit odd - it would never have occurred to me that anyone would not have considered that area a suburb.

It's true that there is no agreed definition to "suburb" which confuses these discussions.

Suburbs comes from sub (under, although here basically means around) urbs (city).

To me a suburb must be connected to its city. The city center has dense tall buildings and as you move away from the center the height and density decrease and then you are in the sub-urbs but it's all still built-up area. Once you move even further away and move into forested areas, you're out of the suburbs and into the rural surroundings.

If you have 30 minutes of highway driving through mostly forested areas (very green on google satellite view) between a house and the "urbs" (Charlotte, here) I think that's quite a stretch to call that a suburb.
And cows are somehow not eaten by people/don't produce milk?
It's a desert, so potentially nothing.

Do you like having water to drink? Cities are getting squeezed so that these desert farmers (who get the water for free) can feed their cattle or export hay/alfalfa to other countries.
This is about water use, as opposed to land use. Land use matters, but let's try to stay focused for a second, esp. b/c some of the livestock are not local to the feed grows.

The Colorado River has barely touched the Gulf of California for years. There is inherent value as well as economic value in the ecosystem services that result from allowing natural systems to thrive... or even just function at all.

Here is a nice summary of the state and characters in Colorado River ecology: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/dotAsset/cbb78858-d078-4a7c-...

I hope we are not so cynical as to suggest that the over-extraction of the river and the destruction of the reliant ecosystems is an acceptable consequence of human success.

Even if you like hamburgers, is it worth the cost to continue to over-extract for their production from locations that cannot support it just because people have been doing it for a while and have a strong sense of private property rights? Why shouldn't we tell these farmers to pay up for the water or go somewhere to produce that food where it is more abundant?
If you work in tech - earning's wise you'll still come out far ahead of Europe.
Ask the Europeans working in SV.
> With alexa i can program if/then statements, like basically when i say X then do Y. If something like chatgpt requires the same thing then i don't see the advantage.

Yes, I was thinking about even something as if/then, which could be configured in the UI and manifest to GPT-4 as the usual function call stuff.

The advantage here would be twofold:

1. GPT-4 won't need you to talk a weird command language; it's quite good at understanding regular talk and turning it into structured data. It will have no problem understanding things like "oh flip the lights in the living room and run some music, idk, maybe some Beatles", followed by "nah, too bright, tone it down a little", and reliably converting them into data you could feed to your if/else logic.

2. ChatGPT (the app) has a voice recognition model that, unlike Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa, does not suck. It's the first model I've experienced that can convert my casual speech into text with 95%+ accuracy even with lots of ambient noise.

Those are the features ChatGPT app offers today. Right now, if they added a basic bidirectional Tasker integration (user-configurable "function calls" emitting structured data for Tasker, and ability for Tasker to add messages into chat), anyone could quickly DIY something 20x better than Google Assistant.
I don't think that the parent isn't aware of that. I think the parent says that providing employee perks for your contractors _is_ violating the US labor law.
That's pretty reasonable. My phone screen is 120hz but my main computer monitors are only 60hz, so I more-or-less don't know what I'm missing. I tend to care more about color and viewing angles than refresh rate on a monitor and steer more toward the professional side than the gaming side, so I haven't had much exposure to very high refresh rates on a regular basis yet. My monitors are also pretty old now, but they still work fine. A couple HP ZR24w monitors I got refurbished from Newegg. I think of them as being like the monitor equivalent to a used-ThinkPad/EliteBook.
Interesting perspective and agree a good example of the Innovator's Dilemma. The IBM history is rife with innovation that is similar to much of what the tech industry is today, but what strikes me as the most important was the magic that happened in the mid-40s of IBM's Poughkeepsie Lab. So much happened in this period that were major catalysts but two struck me as the most important: the end of the war and leveraging code-breaking innovation (especially from those working in electronics) and a high-rank champion (Jr.) willing to embrace innovation (electronics). This all seemed to converge in the Poughkeepsie lab in short time and the rest, well, is history. There are same amazing books (https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...), declassified documents relating to the early IBM employees post-wartime, and so much more that really tell amazing and still relevant stories.

I find the more I learn of the early IBM transition to electronics, the more I see direct parallels to the modern startup world. It was seemingly a startup within a massive company with a monetary "umbrella" to help foster innovation, although likely not the first. Another motivator for the lab's success was how they had to demonstrate value with electronics well beyond a normal burden of proof (overcoming the Innovator's Dilemma). There's still a lot more to learn from their stories.
"I mean, at every level, we are racing madly towards total catastrophe under the leadership of sociopathic fanatics. It’s as if some evil demon decided to take over the human species and drive them to self-destruction. Much of the world is trying to counter it, almost all the world, but the United States and Brazil are the extreme cases of racing with dedication towards disaster."

- Noam Chomsky, 2020
Just to clarify, I'm talking about integration testing the service itself - posting a payload, saving to the database, producing messages to a mock queue, etc. Test the entire service in isolation from other services and validate that it is behaving correctly. Not end to end across services. You should be mocking out all service dependencies and testing against the contracts for those systems.

Our API tests run flawlessly every time because they write against an isolated database with well-defined endpoint and messaging contracts. They also execute all remote operations against a mock API that conforms to those contracts. This is perfectly achievable.
I bought the 512 deck pre-order when it was released, remained sealed in the shipping package for 5 months on my desk, I am not a gamer, but had plans to use it as a portable ground station for robots and drones, got busy and never had the chance to do so, until one day my brother visited me and I gave it him.
See https://conntects.net

It's a free alpha. The finished product will be paid (but cheap) for those who want to post.

But it's not for porn if that's the sort of photos you want to post.
Star Trek (TNG, but the other shows too) had badges they wore on their shirts as communicators. Helped for story telling, because as opposed to a phone, the com badge would play the other person’s audio loud for all to hear.
My guess would be that they wouldn’t have to be bleeding money if they weren’t aiming for growth.
> I feel obliged to point out that there are countless media outlets that fit this description for men, but when they get shut down a common reaction is that free speech is under attack and cancel culture has gone too far.

Can you name one example? I'm talking about a male-oriented, so-called "journalism" site cut because it's unprofitable, leading to outrage and pearl-clutching about free speech and cancel culture.
Indoor cats is a newish thing. Farm cats were outdoor creatures that slept in the barn or another enclosure. Outdoor cats catch rodents and have basically no downsides.
It’s by country of birth. So that applicant with the long wait could be from Canada if they were born in India.
Thanks for sharing this. Looking into Kedumim Settlement.
Are Rothschilds a family?
Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died
Which desugars to: if (!complex logic) return X;
Healthy fluvial ecosystems? Growing food that can be directly consumed by people?
Because of my direct experience in both construction and software development jobs.
Seems like this Humane product has beaten Apple and Google to the punch even though they have the voice assistants for years
"There is no documentation" is too strong.

There is a document from Maur, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, stating: "...soll der Bräutigam den Meyer in der Hochzeitsnacht bei seiner Frau liegen lassen oder fünf Schillinge und vier Pfennige bezahlen" (Rough translation: "...the groom should let the Meier [administrative manager] lie with his wife during the wedding night, or he shall pay five Shilling and four pence").

The document is from 1543, but it states in the very beginning that these rules are "von alters her" (rough translation: "since an old age").

Source: (University of Zurich, Faculty of Law) https://www.ius.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:00000000-1e72-6fc8-0000-00003...

It surely wasn't widespread or normal, as rennaissance and early modern porn fantasies would want us to believe. But it surely happened.

I think this is the right conclusion, given the available evidence:

"....the so-called right was simply the ability of the powerful to subject the less powerful to their will. Rape might be a better term to apply since husbands and families had to resort to subterfuge to thwart the desires of the powerful.?

Source: Vern L. Bullough (1991) Jus primae noctis or droit du seigneur. The Journal of Sex Research. Vol. 28, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 163-166 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3812958
> suspect the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash investigation assigns some blame to someone

Read the synopsis [1].

Blaming the co-pilot would be fruitless. He's dead. There's no chance for retributive justice. And if he's the problem, the problem's solved: he's dead. Nothing more to do. Except, of course, there is. Blaming him is simply an unproductive emotional comfort.

Instead, the report examines the crash's root causes. The "co-pilot’s probable fear of losing his right to fly as a professional pilot if he had reported his decrease in medical fitness to an AME." The
"financial consequences generated by the lack of specific insurance covering the risks of loss of income in case of unfitness to fly." The "lack of clear guidelines" on when conditions need to be reported.

Addressing these factors helps prevent the next problem. Blaming the co-pilot actually does the opposite.

[1] https://bea.aero/uploads/tx_elydbrapports/BEA2015-0125.en-LR...
> The irrigation district has offered to conserve another 250,000 acre-feet a year, or about 10% of its current usage, for the next three years, mostly by having federal taxpayers foot the bill. In May, the Imperial Irrigation District proposed that it be paid $840 for each acre-foot it and its farmer customers conserve — adding up to nearly $700 million. By comparison, the value of alfalfa in the valley is about $300 per acre-foot of water. The federal government is weighing the offer.

This is nuts. They're getting the water for free (which is an unbelievable handout all by itself), but on top of that they want to be paid to not waste water on growing fodder crops in a fucking desert?
>Imagine Ford paying someone to make five car-designs, ending up using one of them, and ultimately losing full control over the remaining four...

Which is how things used to work. The Isuzu Impulse was originally a design for Audi and then BMW by Giugiaro which was turned down, and Giugiaro then reworked it a bit when Isuzu came asking for a new design. Originally the Cizeta V16T was a Lamborghini Countach replacement, before Lamborghini turned it down and Moroder bought the rights to it. The Chrysler minivans of much fame were originally a Ford design from 1972 called the Ford Carousel that Henry Ford II told Lee Iaccoca to buzz off with... Which he did after a minor rhinoplasty to the thing. And they were a smash hit that was half of the equation that saved Chrysler in 1983 and left Ford almost dead.