skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only weaseling here is by the entity that would levy a fine/penalty without presenting sufficient evidence. Moreover, it is or should be a natural right for the accused to confront their accusers. Both of these important ideas are trampled if you accept violations issued by a machine.
Sure it always happen. "Let me eat a Chicken" has the same pronunciation of "Let me eat a dk". Same thing as some one named focker...
You'd still have to afford the lawyer, and/or have the time to work for change.
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I'm doing my part. I'm leaving Seattle. I see how bad it is here and what tech companies have done to housing prices and it's terrible. I hate it here.

I realize I'm just one worker. I'm not going to make a hill of difference in leaving. But it's all that I can do.

People I know in non-tech jobs struggle just to survive here. It's not right.
Interestingly, NASA also considered that as a potential abort mode for the Shuttle ("RTLS" - return to launch site). Minus the vertical landing of course. It was the first option that would be available in the event of a failure, immediately after SRB separation. The vehicle would execute a Powered Pitch-Around maneuver and then jettison the external tank, timing things so that they would run out of fuel and the vehicle would have its proper CG for gliding.

The astronauts considered it extremely risky to say the least. NASA actually wanted to try it on STS-1 (a manned flight on a system that had never been tested before) to see if it worked. In the words of the mission commander: "Let’s not practice Russian roulette, because you may have a loaded gun there." Which carries a lot of weight from a man who was willing to risk a lunar landing.

http://www.tested.com/science/space/460233-space-shuttles-co...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#Retu...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8447479
What I personally do not like about pilot wave theory is that in the many body versions of the theory that I've seen, you still need a wave function that depends on the positions of all the particles. That is, the "pilot wave", unlike physical fields like electric or magnetic fields, is not a function of location in spacetime, nor is it attached to a particle, but to all particles. This means in a certain sense the amount of information in a given space grows exponentially with the number of particles. To me this has always been one of the mysteries of QM, and in pilot wave theory it is as much of a mystery.

(The main thing that pilot wave theory clarifies for me is wave function collapse.)
What they call in Economics - Baptists (environmental objection to sprawl, objections to building higher rise etc) and Bootleggers (people who benefit from selling high priced houses, land tax receivers etc)
Here's another anecdote from a very old account. A boy from Bihar, moved to the big city, wanted to drive an auto rickshaw but the Marathis have all the licenses on lockdown.

All Uber cares about is that he has a rating > 4.3 stars - ethnicity is irrelevant.

(This is also why the racist political party is trying to get Uber shut down.)
Down vote with no comment on reality of Bay Area housing dynamics? I'm a native, lived from the east bay down to Santa Cruz.

The answer to every housing problem is not build more density. Sorry, the valley was built as a suburban sprawl and you have generations of families on parcels as well as recently purchased.

Newly constructed housing in Morgan Hill, an hour+ commute to Silicon Valley during peak rush hour is still $1M plus.

Love the down votes without comment.
There is no information transfer in your black hole example. Entanglement can not be used for FTL communication no matter the interpretation you choose.

As for why pilot wave theory is not popular: it generalises poorly. Sure, you can build a multi-particle theory or even field theory on top of it, but they are clumsy to work with and after their initial study they did not show any promising way forward that was not available to the typical approach to quantum mechanics.

Edit: Wiki article about why entanglement does not provide FTL communication even if naively it looks like it should be possible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Yup, I own a Redmi 3S Prime for ~$130. It's a great value phone and doesn't lag. MIUI is extremely slick and easy to use. I persuaded four of my family members to go for Xiaomi phones and they couldn't be more happier.
Sure. Hillsborough, Atherton, Woodside, Portola Valley, Menlo Park, parts of Palo Alto like Crescent Park, Los Altos Hills, North Los Altos, Saratoga towards the hills, Los Gatos.
You missed the point. The trend towards contract workers with fewer benefits and lower wages. Wages are actually going down at the same time housing is going up. Yes they fucking need better wages and benefits.
I read your comment 5 times and still do not understand it.
More of everything. If there are 10 people looking to buy a car (one from each decile of income in the US), and there is only one car for sale, a Honda Civic, the Civic is going to be sold to the richest person of the 10, at a price slightly more than the second richest person can afford.
That was the "investor" visa ("owner-operator").

The US International Entrepreneur Rule is more like the "Start Up Visa" [1] that was introduced in Canada a few years ago, which allows entry for founders of a business supported by local venture capital or incubators (subject to certain monetary amounts and conditions).

A major difference: the Canadian start-up visa gives immediate permanent residence, rather than a number of years of temporary status with no guaranteed route forward.

[1] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/
I'm a dual-listed DSA and Our Revolution member, and I can kinda agree with that. My personal politics are left enough for DSA, and it is a multi-tendency organization that's willing to include ideological social democrats. But if you don't have enough detailed political education to say, "I'm a social democrat or a socialist and I know why", but instead just think, "Inequality is too much, there are too many people homeless, hungry, or without health-care for such a rich country, and I wish the politicians would respond better", you should maybe stick with Our Revolution.

I also definitely have a bone to pick with the people claiming we're gonna totally obtain third-party electoral successes Real Soon Now. Yes, the Democratic Party has been rubbish to us. It has been the "graveyard of social movements". But we've also run a hell of a lot of social movements (like Occupy Wall Street, for instance) that had a whole ton of radical spirit, chic, and ideology, but had zero power analysis and zero affirmative program. Our Revolution and Bernie's rejuvenation of social democracy through taking over the Democratic Party, while it's lost its back-bench, from the bottom up, does actually promise a strategy for obtaining real power that's suited to our historical moment.

Just my thoughts. Don't mind me. I'm no longer sober.
I agree that you never said otherwise, and I applaud you for your accuracy in not doing so. :-D

The reason I bring it up is that UTF-16 is a very commonly used internal encoding for strings, and regular expression engines for platforms which use UTF-16 internally are generally designed to work on that encoding without conversion to UTF-32. Examples that spring to mind are most JavaScript regular expression engines, the ICU regular expression engine, and java.util.regex. If variable-width encodings were so difficult to deal with then you would expect these to have run into some problems with it; however, as far as I can tell, they have not. This is evidence against variable-width encodings being difficult for regular expression engines to deal with.

(Sanity check for my argument above: If you read through https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html, which covers both backtracking and non-backtracking regex engines and includes code, none of the code examples would need more than trivial modification to deal with variable-width encodings.)
Why would they increase wages when there are people willing to live out of their cars to be bus drivers?
The original poster did not care about "immigration reform" at large (which in the US is a euphemism for green card / citizenship path for undocumented immigrants), just his/her specific scenario.

Yes, the executive branch got stalled on immigration reform, but it was executive branch's choice to roll all of the issues (illegal immigration per se, illegal immigrants with children legally granted US citizenship status, illegal immigrants who overstayed their temporary worker visa, F1 students with no path to immigration status, H1 temporary workers who faced employment loss, immigrant investor green cards) into one giant overarching "immigration reform".

It certainly did not have to be approached that way, unless someone specifically was looking for a way to get blocked on such omnibus approach and then throw up their hands at "lack of cooperation".
Using government provided resources, like roads, for your business is not a right. You seem confused, so you should try setting up a stand on fifth avenue without a permit and see how quickly the police remove you.
Sorry, I'd seen web service in this direction and assumed that's what this is, since "paint.net" isn't a desktop software name really.
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Do you understand the arguments that the ability to send a signal faster than light allows you to send that signal backwards in time? I've never met anyone who who understood special relativity but was OK with that.
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I have a suggestion: When you get off the bus, once you've made sure that it's safe to exit, turn your head towards the driver, raise your hand, and say in a loud, clear voice, "Thanks very much!" If exiting from the front door, raising your hand isn't necessary, and you don't have to be loud, but you must still thank your driver.

You have just put your life (or at least, your current physical condition) in the hands of someone who probably makes less than you do in wages. It is important that you provide proper respect and thanks, and simply ignoring them as you exit does not meet that requirement.

This is something I routinely do as I exit the VTA and Marguerite busses I ride; it's interesting how, once I do that, the other behind me start to as well.

Note: I'm not just referring to any specific kind of bus, I'm referring to all kinds of busses here.
> The point is that most people as the supplier aren't doing Uber, AirBnB, etc because they like it. They're doing it because they don't have any other good alternatives.

Well, sure.

Why is it the fault of Uber/AirBnB/Seamless/TaskRabbit/DishDash/Handy/whatever that they don't have better alternatives?

And moreover, how exactly would these people's lives be better if they couldn't work for Uber etc.? Aren't they choosing to work for Uber etc. because it's better than the alternative (namely, not working for Uber etc.)?

There are lots of fucked up things about our economic policy. I won't give my top ten because HN is trying not to be a place for political debates, but I'm sure you can name a few off the top of your head. We just had a long discussion about the importance of the ACA on HN -- taking that away hits the poor the hardest. We can go on.

The governmental policies that perpetuate income inequality should be the target of your ire, not the fact that someone deigned to create yet another company that doesn't pay its employees "enough" money.

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Also:

- L1 is non-transferable

- H1B1 also does not lead to a green card. To get a green card you need to switch to H1B
Well, the OP author is arguably the greatest living physicist, so it's not surprising that 3 semesters isn't enough :)
>This unending hamster wheel of capitalism and technology is driving us all to the brink of insanity

Things have gotten so much better over the years because of capitalism and more so because of technology. Without capitalism and technology, I dare say that majority of the 7 billion of us who are alive now would be dead. No jokes. Dead.

There'd be no antibiotics, sufficient food production, infrastructure to move produce efficiently, and the list is unending.

This article leaves a lot to be desired.
It does not, really. The macroscopic realisation is not particularly surprising (although it is quite awesome and original). If you put a ball floating on top of a wave you will observe the predictions from a mathematical model of that system, which is exactly what the pilot wave theory is, and there is nothing surprising here. Moreover, the macroscopic model simulates something which by definition is an unobservable construction in the quantum model. It does not simulate any inherently quantum behavior (classical waves is a thing we already knew exists).
As far as I know there is no analog of entanglement in these experiments. If someone has heard or read something in that regard, I'd be interested in a reference!
All four companies have success with their own programming languages, which is not an easy task to do. Some of them are also succeed with their own OSes too, which is even harder. They CAN replace JS if they push a language strong enough. They cannot do that because replacement languages are worse than JS.
Very funny indeed, thanks!
This is where diceware comes in. You are supposed to pick whatever word you roll on the first try, no exceptions, for this very reason. Rolling until you get a word you "like" reduces randomnesss significantly. They even say you should use only use real, meatspace dice to generate passwords to be truly random, not pseudorandom.

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html

>There are some obscure words in both lists. If you passphrase includes a word you don't know, look it up in a good dictionary. Learning the word's meaning will aid you memory and your vocabulary.

Of course there's exceptions when you should start from scratch.

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

>Because some words on the diceware list are two characters or less, you can get a very short passphrase. If your passphrase, including the spaces between the words, is less than 17 characters long, we recommend that you start over and create a new passphrase. You should also start over if your passphrase is a recognizable English sentence or phrase. (These situations are extremely rare.)

(If it were me I'd just keep adding more and more words if my password was 17 chars or less)
Ya sure, landing booster rockets is a way bigger deal than sending men to the Moon.
Google surfaces literally thousands of references to every little bit of US immigration minutiae, thanks to every immigration lawyer having public websites and forums, so I think that your path to EAD was likely wishful thinking.

The incoming administration has targeted the H-1B program and thanks to their control of the legislative arm and their embrace of the "southern strategy" I would expect things to get significantly worse for H-1Bs, especially those with the wrong skin color.

Here is a concrete example of something the Obama administration - the executive arm - did actually do for H1Bs - clarifying that there is a 60 day grace prior for switching jobs:

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-publishes-fin...
It's a continuum. Respecting software freedom is the most ethical action, so
using proprietary terms is less ethical. The software may, depending on your
view, not be net unethical at that point. It's further unethical if they have
problematic terms in the EULA besides being proprietary in the first place.
Competing with free software and thus taking attention and therefore resources
away from the free software is negative ethically, in the same sense that
advertising bottled water is unethical even if it didn't have the environmental
problems that it has.
It's especially unethical if software spies on you and advertises at you or even
worse things.

Implying that non-free software is unethical isn't rude. Especially since I
didn't insist that this particular software is deeply unethical. I just
suggested that support for ethical software like GIMP is the right thing to
do and so supporting less ethical software is something I'm suggesting
avoiding.

Now, having learned from other comments about this particular case, I'll agree that as proprietary software goes, Paint.net sounds unusually good in the ethics realm, just not quite on par with GIMP, but I'd say net ethical after all.
"built out"

The hell it is!

Source: a number of years in Europe. And no, we're not talking skyscrapers, but more 2/3 story developments, perhaps with some businesses on the bottom floor on more frequented streets.
One of the issues with engaging with Yudkowsky's posts is how verbose his arguments are. Fortunately, for something as well formalized as quantum mechanics, there's a succinct counter-example: A formalism of quantum mechanics that makes perfect sense with neither the idea of wavefunction collapse nor some abundance of ontologically dubious and extravagant entities (alternate universes you can never observe). That formalism is relational quantum mechanics.

Accessible overview: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-relational/ In particular, this overview addresses the fundamental difference between Everett's theory and Rovelli's theory.

Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002

A fluffy paper by the same author about QFT and its relational nature: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910131

In short: The way you can evade the difficulties MWI addresses completely by changing one premise of the problem: that physical systems have states independent of their observers. In relational quantum mechanics, there is no universal wavefunction because there is no external observer of the universe. Call it the zero worlds interpretation. How parsimonious!

There is an element of Yudkowsky's sequence that deals with relative configuration spaces, but this is a subtly different concept and is really just a discussion from a clever guy unequipped with the right concepts about the difference between, say, affine spaces and vector spaces or torsors and groups. The idea that there is a configuration space independent of the observer is the assumption he misses.

In general I find Yudkowsky's extreme certainty in his own arguments to range from amusing to obnoxious. It's not hard to find places where uncertainty creeps in. It doesn't come from mistakes in his reasoning because what he considers he is usually meticulous about considering, but from what he doesn't consider.
He has spoken against H1-B visa abuse versus H1-B visas per se, which is an attempt to arbitrage on Department of Labor requirement on "prevailing wage" by establishing headquarters in the boonies of New Jersey / Georgia, filing H1 applications with local (extremely low) prevailing wages, and then sending the workers on the "business trips" that amount to full-time employment to California, NY and Washington.

The prevention mechanism is fairly obvious, and it's to rank the H1 applications by salary instead of the current lottery system. Genuine employers like Google or Facebook don't need to game the system, it's the outsourcing shops employ this tactic to boost the margins. They're welcome to join the game by boosting their salaries, though.

From the US government point of view a US salary paid in the US is a net win over a salary paid in Ireland or Switzerland, as it's still subject to federal income taxes, so net win on revenue.
Lest you are unfamiliar w/the famous picture referenced at the end of the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_Day_in_Times_Square
For history sake, before everything from Almaden up to Page Mill was basically built out, Highway 85 between 17 opened up (realistically) around 1994. Within about a month of it opening, if you were driving from the south on 17, it was faster to go 17->280 instead of 17->85->280.

Then if you want o talk 87/101 down near Almaden Valley... the addition of 87 and 85 turned upper middle class neighborhoods (with good schools) into way less desirable neighborhoods and the track records of the schools dropped significantly. (I lived down there pre-85/87).

Sigh. I'll stop but the "we should do X" without thinking about reality around certain situations on here really reminds me that we can be wicked smart and successful in an area and completely clueless in another.
I fat finger downvoted you. Here's my verbal upvote.

This was news to me, thanks.
Economy follows the path of least resistance and cheaper labor through H-1B is that path now.

But taking away visas does not mean everyone will happily employ local computer science graduates. This is what is more likely to happen:

- Coding camps have lower requirements (notably cost), graduate people faster, and are proliferating quickly. Those will drive wages down.

- Investment will start going to other countries.

If one company doesn't do it, another one does and prevails in the market.

As an engineer, the only way to stay competitive is to demonstrate added technical value or actual technical leadership.
You lost me at HB1.

It's H1B, not HB1, bruh.
>What form of a left wing would have been any better than Obama in light of the obstruct-at-all-cost policy the Republicans held for the last 6 years?

Greater judicial opposition to the REDMAP gerrymandering program that, starting in 2010, helped to guarantee Republicans the consistent seats in Congress and state-houses that they needed to obstruct Democratic measures.

The Republicans do have plenty of voters, probably "too many" if you're a Democrat, but there was no historical necessity for them to have a chokehold on Congress until 2020.
The concept of zoning laws are less than 100 years old, and their spread was mostly due to racist exclusionary policies in the 50s/60s. San Francisco just wrapped up changing the zoning of western SOMA. Mountain View has 28k new apartments in the pipeline, increasing the population of the city by 50% [0]. There are plans at the state level to remove local control of housing development from municipalities that fail to build enough housing [1].

"Zoning Laws" are not a static, immutable fact of life.

0. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/13/one-advocates-take-on-...

1. http://asmdc.org/members/a17/news-room/press-releases/assemb...
Given that, what great achievements in space we have pulled off in the 2010s when so much hard work was done before?
So complain about Uber. There's lots to complain about, for sure. But don't make it about the "serfdom economy" or tech in general.

Seriously, we're sitting here on our pocket supercomputers [1] using wireless city-wide broadband to complain about how tech doesn't make anyone's lives better.

[1] Ownership of which largely transcends class, at least in the USA, which is amazingly wonderful and is a consequence of the capitalist system TFA's author seems to hate so much.
And hopefully magnitudes less expensive refurbishment. That was what really killed the orbiter/shuttle program.
Possibly, like driving for Uber/Lyft, shopping for Instacart or dogwalking in the time between since they have their own cars at the depot.

But the problem would still be the extremely long day. Ending with them having to drive a bus at the end of the shift, utterly exhausted.
While that's very considerate of you, and graciousness is not without merit, I don't think the drivers can feed their families on your appreciation.
There's a lot of empty houses in Palo Alto owned by overseas investors. That is a huge problem, really limiting our housing supply.