jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The math will always come out in favor of staying in India with a $200K salary versus moving anywhere else in the world.

However, based on your other answers about what you do, it's unlikely that this current $200K salary is sustainable. Your company can easily replace what you do with a local developer for less than $200K. They are actually doing the right thing by giving you the option to stay and move to the US.

The bigger question is, do you want to stay in India and can you accept living there with something closer to a market salary in India?

The way I see it, your savings/spending rate has to go down either way, so you might as well come visit for 2 weeks and see how you like it, and then decide.
Did anyone else think the left flyer looked cleaner (although still very muddled)?
I think it's futile trying to defend Darwin in a scientific way (i.e. based on sound logic and evidence), or based on the utility of it in current life, here is why.

There are two possible common scenarios of people who dismiss evolution after reasonable education:

If a people chose to dismiss evolution simply because the Bible (or some influential people) said so, it wont make much difference to convince him evolution, because even if you succeeded, it's just because you said so, not based on his own independent thinking.

If a people choose to believe in God based on his own independent thinking, he probably already chose to not using the scientific way of thinking on this matter. And you have to respect that the scientific way isn't perfect itself (it's mostly based on induction not undeniable logic).

The second scenario is far rarer than the first one. But with them, it's more productive to have a more philosophical discussion than a scientific one.
Oh, right. Thank you.
Digital Ocean is doing well. They're #4 as far as I remember. Maybe Oracle Cloud is suffering but that's because no one trusts Oracle - custom chipset or otherwise.
Serious question: will schools and universities reopen in the fall?

A large university with dormitories is kind of like a cruise ship on land: everyone eats, sleeps, plays and works together.

Elementary and High schools are somewhat better in that kids go their own homes at night. But they still eat, play and study together. Hallways of high schools between classes see lots of cross-campus shoulder-to-shoulder traffic as kids rush from one class to the other.

What are the odds that schools and universities open at all in August/September? Will they shutter for a full year? Will there be tuition discounts?
I should have specified. I don't expect any set number of hours, since all of the work will be done remote. I care much more about a long-term relationship and big features being steadily built over time. So whatever rate that works out to, where some months are in the $150/hr range and some are in the $50/hr range, I'm happy so long as features as being steadily built.
I heard they are very passionate in aligning to their mission - empowering people to form community and brining world together.

How does entering into Cloud Business align to the company mission? Wouldn't it be a distraction?
> The vast majority of medical professionals are not researchers, and are not trained in evaluating clinical trial data. They are notoriously poor at assessing such information.

Citation, please. This is a very strong statement.
Singapore's doing contact tracing without any location data, and with contact between devices encrypted until needed for a contact disclosure. Seems like a better approach to me:

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/asia-pacific/singapore-g...
> How valuable is that when your country goes down in flames because it's easy to make money out of people who believe Bill Gates is seeding Covid via 5G towers?

That's what I keep telling people around me. They're still bewildered that I don't go out of my way to "optimize" my way out of taxes, or that I'm in favor for raising the taxes for my income bracket. And it doesn't even take a civil war - as the income inequality progresses, how long will it take before your close family will start asking you (the hypothetical rich developer) for help? Will you turn them away, to enjoy your six figures in peace?
I agree with your comment but don't expect improvements to Python runtimes because the high-performance libraries people depend on are tied up with the guts of cpython.

Edit: Actually, for alphazero specifically, it would not be enough to make cpython run as fast as V8. I have implemented the alphazero training pipeline in torch, which uses a dynamic language runtime with performance comparable to V8. After spending weeks optimizing my MCTS, rules engine, and game state encoding and decoding, I still found that the CPU time consumed by these things caused substantial underutilization of the GPU. But at V8 levels of performance this is more like "it takes 2x as long to train" rather than "it is not viable to train."

If I had done a better job of writing my above comment I would have made it clearer that this is not mostly about python-for-data-science. Most "right tools for the job" for other jobs are also points in tradeoff space that give up a lot of expressive power, ability to ensure correctness, performance, or all 3 in exchange for benefits that may only make sense over very short time horizons.
Sessions is my go to for privacy related messaging. It's a fork of Signal with data pushed over a decentralised network.
Then that is simply a way of coping.
The thing I most miss in modern languages is that unlike Pascal they don't automatically include a built-in Set type, (typically using fast bitmap arithmetic).
https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-quick-and-simple-definitio...

I feel like you could just google SOA and Microservice architecture, pick up a book, and answer that for yourself.
+1, it can’t be said enough.

Worrying about losing your hair is a significantly worse condition than actually losing your hair. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
In Austin here, behind our house there are trees growing up and ivy growing onto the lines. We called every week last spring, the City had no interest in trimming it. We finally got all the neighbors to call in on dedicated days so they were getting a call almost every day.

Still, they haven't trimmed them. With the ice last week, I'm shocked the lines didn't come down.
Okta SSO is used heavily inside my company to access internal sites, but if there's a way to whitelist, or the user sees a popup the first time and allows Okta cookies after that, this problem is taken care of.
> It's a poor legal argument, but seems like a solid civics arguments.

Is it though? Seems the opposite to me: reactive laws (aka sensational news items -> law) are generally ill considered and badly conceived. Trying to carefully consider how items and technologies can be used, and whether those uses are things which should be forbidden, seems like it'd generally lead to much better law-making, not attached to any sort of emotional "fog". This process won't catch every misuse, but any misuse it catches is one which'd almost certainly have been seen.

It's the same idea as trying to consider how an API could be (mis)used before deploying it, and deciding whether you want to allow that or specifically check against it.
Plenty of ways to influence popular option without relying on news organizations.
I wouldn't call it "weird" but there's certainly advantages and disadvantages. Bed sharing is one area where my wife (American) and I (Asian) have decided to do things the Asian way. By that, I mean I chose to do things the Asian way since I'm the nighttime parent. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways...

> Debmita Dutta, a doctor and parenting consultant in Bangalore, India, says that despite Western influences, bedsharing remains a strong tradition in India – even in households where children have their own rooms. "A family of four has three bedrooms, one each for each child and for the parents, and then you would find both the children in the parent's bed," she says. "It's that common."

> Bedsharing is one way to reduce the burden of babies waking up at night, says Dutta. Her own daughter had a rollout bed next to her parents' that she could sleep on until she was seven years old. "Even after she stopped breastfeeding, she still liked to sleep with us in the same room," she says.

I gave up on sleep training for precisely that reason. It's super easy for me to feed the baby a bottle and get it back to sleep without even really waking up. But sleep training involved multi-hour sessions in the middle of the night where my daughter would make herself puke, sometimes more than once in the same night, sometimes followed by dry-heaving in protest after her stomach was empty. After a bit she was able to sleep on a sofa-sleeper in our room, which she quickly vacated when our second was born (due to the crying at night). I didn't even try sleep training with our second--I felt so guilty leaving him alone in a crib, with him standing holding the bars like some sort of prisoner.
What the US is doing is extraordinary, mainly because it is the only country with the resources to run the operation that it's running, but also because everybody seems to be infected with fear.

If we were talking about Georgia, or Israel, or Ukraine, or Japan, I would understand the fear. But the USA has no enemies, there are no threats. It's a tragic case of paranoia.
I spent some time trying to put together some numbers. From the research it looks like cost pressure against traditional colocation options has forced the pricing to come down. It still looks like owning your own hardware is a viable, and if you have people, good option.
To get into ActiveMerchant, it has to be clean code with passing unit and remote tests.

We've got pretty much all of the gateways that North American businesses use, so to get a new gateway into Shopify it generally has to service a region that doesn't have good coverage with our current gateways.
I think the difference in the real world is one of quality. Quantitatively we may have the same or less number of factories or scientists, but the quality of our science and research is so much better I think it would be very hard for China to compete if things turned hot.
valid "C".
We would remain, however, the most technologically advanced nation. Plus, GDP per capita would remain far higher. The majority of economists consider GDP per capita the most important thing when determining the wealth of a nation.
If fuel prices double again and we do not have a clear replacement for our liquid fuel / road infrastructure, then food production / transportation is going to be a problem and more rail isn't the solution to that.
> Thinking about it, would a "How To Cook For Hackers" video / ebook / webseries be of use or interest to HN?

What's the hacker angle on cooking? In my experience, cooking is much more of a craft than an intellectual exercise, which doesn't make it very 'hackable'.

Personally, I'd recommend start with something like these [1][2] - good, fast, cheap, nutritious food has been focus for many others than hackers, for quite a while.

1: http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/books/jamie-s-15...
2: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/columns/dinner_tonight/
I already have that tool on my system under the name /bin/false.
Can a malicious display install a rootkit on the device? If there's USB access, this seems like an avenue worth exploring...
It also helps your brain to release stress & depress.

Over the years I've discovered that cooking is the most enjoyable hobby that saved me going into constant stress & depress.
Everyone keeps implying there are super cheap super good chinese phones. Is there a site that reviews these or a link where an uninitiated can check the best options out?
Please read the Hacker News site Guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase
or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how
great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you
think it's important."

>"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on
something they found on another site, submit the latter."

>"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or
linkbait."

The original source url that "ClipMine" (clip.mn) attempts to hide is
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMmYFxe6O-I

The original title is: "Dr. Dieter Zetsche - Mercedes-Benz - KEYNOTE 2015"
Omigod is anyone else freaked out that on the pictures the power button is where the ESC key should be? My boss has a habit of giving us Apple hardware on which i have a habit of installing Linux or whatever, but that keyboard would require some seriously ugly scripting to avoid reprogramming my muscle memory :/
The first part of the article mixes genericity with feature-richness seamlessly. I don't necessarily agree that creating generic interfaces means bloatness, but I think a lot of the pains that the author mentions come from the way OO languages, especially the older ones, do generics (yes, inheritance abuse). Haskell is one example of a language that tries to achieve abstract and generic interfaces that are elegant (and type safe!). Another beauty of such high-level languages is that you can always create a DSL to match the abstraction level of your problem domain.
Cooking a good meal only takes 10-20 minutes.
Watch Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead movie. Not for the diet recommended in the movie, but for inspiration.
This is really elegant. Well done!
> Journalists are entitled and indeed obligated to be bound to ethics just as much as the next guy.

Yes, but when they're claiming privileges, as they frequently do, they don't get to decide the rules.
63 Passes! and I thought that juggling 8 inch floppies on pdp/11/03's was a pain :-)
Just for fun, someone should start ranting about 83 (b) elections.

The system is surely broken.
I think, due to the high number of patents that simply aren't valuable, this would be true regardless of the case.

In the only possible good case for the system, it prevents two rivals from sueing each other because they very likely infringe on each other already.

The patent troll problem is of course absolutely terrible.
Anybody can sue anybody, they don't have to be right - they might not win, but there's costs and time involved. And we also have "practiced" court systems in a certain area that make money basically exclusively off of this.

I think it's safe to say that most software most companies produce violates a large number of existing patents - whether they know it or not - because dilligence around rejecting incoming patents for novelty or prior art is so bad, and patent language is so terribly obfuscated.

Once, I knew some folks at a three-letter computer company who basically patented a scroll bar. In the late 90s.

It may provide somewhat of a chilling effect to people starting new businesses, but it doesn't seem to be that rampant.

But do patents provide a useful library for sharing technological ideas after X years? Not in most cases.
I just dump it somewhere (OneTab extension for web pages, random folders for stuff, note-taking for anything else).

Most of it I'll never need again (and probably look online for it first anyway, if ever), so it's really just to satisfy a compulsive need to have the impression I'm not "losing" anything. Rarely did I ever dearly miss anyhing on accidental deletion of my "stores".
I write a lot and have a lot of text files scattered all over my desktop with ideas, plans and notes. Everytime I start a programming project I also end up with a lot of text files with requirements, design decisions and implementation details. I kept all these ideas in plain text files because, none of the existing tools really fit what I wanted. I ended up creating a program to help with this based on the ideas of Doug Engelbart.[1] The program is still experimental and just deals with text at the moment but I still find it useful.

In terms of research papers, you may want to look at the ideas of Doug Engelbart. The process which you speak of, of collecting information and learning from it, Engelbart termed the CODIAK process. There is a section describing what CODIAK is in this paper[2]. (click on the CODIAK Process link in the table of contents). Engelbart speaks of this process in terms of groups and organizations, but the ideas apply to individuals as well. Engelbart's goal was to create an integrated "knowledge workshop", where all the different programs for organization everything would be integrated together and act as an extension of the human mind to augment people's abilities to collect and digest an ever increasing amount of information and knowledge. There is a lot of work left to be done in this area, but it is an important problem to solve.

[1] https://github.com/smarks159/hyperdocument-system-wiki

[2] http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-132811.html#6
CS173 at UIUC: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs173/fa2014/A-lecture/Lec...
This isn't a course but this book has been consistently word-of-mouth recommended as a comprehensive survey of undergraduate mathematics.

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-Do...
Ideology is what people do. What they say they do is their belief.
Please, for the love of God, if you approve of this behavior, reward it with donations and volunteer time.
> The better question would be why do we allow ownership of a beach.

Because people really want beaches, but aren't willing to pay taxes to buy back what is now private property. Fifth amendment says the gov't must pay for private property, and the California law is arguably un-constitutional. Just buy a path under eminent domain; problem solved. Honestly, this seems like an expression of resentment against a rich guy as much as anything, as evinced by others proposing to take boats to the beach and bang on drums.
His legal entitlement is still TBD. This suit has many more legs outstanding.
Well yes but that all happened after the Match Group acquisition a few years ago (right about the time they introduced "swiping"). Before that it was all algo and profiles... and OKC didn't have a rep for being any better than all the other dating sites.
This isn't enough because it's not a dedicated emulator that can do nothing else. I would guess you need the inability for the hardware platform to do nothing else except be an emulator for schools to even begin to trust it.
I've always found it interesting that there was mail service between Greenland and Iceland at least up until 1424.

Not too long after that, in 1477, Columbus went to Galway Ireland to ask fishermen about routes across the northern sea. These fishermen routinely visited Iceland, and knew about Greenland. Columbus also inspected a boat on which a couple had arrived in Galway from beyond Iceland, likely Greenland, and either viewed the bodies of the couple or met with them depending on how you read his Latin.
For the most part "graphing calculator" seems to be a catch all term for "scientific calculator with the features we need" in that little actual graphing is done. But I have seen problems in my son's "Algebra 2" class that require plotting polynomials on the calculator then describing their roots, shape etc. As a way to build intuition about the geometric interpretation of functions, that seems like a reasonable approach although Wolfram alpha would do a decent job too.
I think I read that on their website in the past, but I'm not sure.
That is not my belief and I didn't say it was. Stealing IP is not incompatible with also creating it.

That said the US has been collecting brilliant expats from around the world for ~70 years, including from China, so I might be forgiven for expecting our science and technology output to be superior. At least until we stop attracting great minds.

But here's the thing, we aren't in a position to steal IP because we don't make anything, so they don't send us the plans. If they did, we might be stealing too, but I hope not.
That's exactly what their claim was though. Like to the dot.
To their credit, they never said the place with an AC vent was heavily monitored. And the parachute on the roof was at a Vianese Castle (a rather hefty palace of a castle at that). Also, the fake probably didn't weigh exactly the same, but I doubt that the spring mechanism was designed to measure relatively minor fluctuations in weight. More like the absence of weight.

However, I tend to agree with you. The details (especially the "wow!" ones) are highly suspect.
Untry harder. ;)
Considering your good reputation in this community, I'm sure if you contacted a few prominent people they would be aware of opportunities which might suit you.
Hi there. I wrote an ebook and sold it on clickbank for two years. I believe there was a $50 'approval' fee, and then they just took a small percentage agtrrthat- no monthly fees.
They don't host your file - I did that on my own web server, and used a program called dlguard ($99 when I bought it) to securely deliver the ebook to my customer.

I did print on demand, and got on amazon for free. I'm not sure if they do it but lulu has a 'published by lulu' option where your ebook gets an isbn (required to sell a physical book most places) for free. Also, after a number of months you get put on a list that makes you available on amazon and from other major booksellers. This all cost me exactly $0. The lulu plan I would recommend also has no monthly fees, and they do take a higher percentage since they're actually printing a book for you.

Monthly fees are a killer, and will make you more likely to give up quicker if sales are low.
I would be playing around with such stuff soon, seems like similar features have been added under lucene/contrib-spatial. Nice to find someone who sailed in the same boat :)
This is exactly the line of reasoning I wanted to suggest; operant conditioning, as with all forms of learning, has nonlinear results below a certain threshold of involvement. We're not good at expectation values, especially in these cases:

1. Rare events, like receiving a speeding ticket, are relatively underweighted. Every time you drive without receiving a ticket reinforces speeding behavior.

2. Extremely salient events, like winning the lottery, tend to be overweighted--possibly because they're so important to our cognition, and we tell ourselves plausible stories about winning.

There's also a difference between negative and positive reinforcement and punishment. Receiving a speeding ticket is positive punishment; the lottery is positive reinforcement. Couple that with differential media coverage, like you mentioned, and you get significantly different behavior.
http://www.enthought.com is a "startup", more like small firm, that regularly sponsors scipy event. They are in Austin, TX.
Correct, it does lack HDR. There's an HDR filter, but it doesn't come close to HDR shots from the default camera app.
First, our professors think that getting a job at a big, stable company is a good thing. Is it?

Yes. Most people aren't looking to start a company right after graduating college.

Startups are rare. Successful ones are practically endangered species.
I work 37.5h/week as a software engineer in London. Actually my current role is a lead role and I do end up working a little more than that, but it absolutely isn't required by my company.
Here's the problem. When the little guy fails, there is no bailout. No 100% restoration of income/wealth.

When the 1% fails, there is immediate push to bail them out with > 100% of their losses.

If the reckless investors are allowed to fail equitably, there would be far fewer billionaires and far more people without $100k of debt.