skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be more useful to see the percentage of total startups- and even better, the percentage of GDP created by these startups? That would seem to include key measures such as job creation, etc. Simply measuring the percentage of giant companies doesn't seem as useful.
Sure, if we were all investment bankers.

But what about cattle ranchers... apple growers... asparagus farmers... shouldn't they be allowed to pass on their businesses to their kids too?

I know that ranches, like the one I grew up on, are capital-intensive business that have relatively low margins. Just about anyone would look at a rancher's books and say, "Yeah, sell it, invest the money in a mutual fund and you'll make a lot more money." The secret: ranchers aren't doing to for the money.

* Paul Harvey, God made a Farmer - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VrUewoakmQ
I'm referring to the separate, private medical industry in Mexico, not the horrible state-managed medical system. But you're right; medical systems with heavy government involvement are usually bad.
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Queen Victoria supposedly told her daughter on her wedding night, "Just lie back and think of England." Whenever I have to deal with PayPal, I think to myself "Just lie back and think of SpaceX." If Paypal helps Elon Musk take us to Mars, maybe it's worth putting up with at least occasionally. (You can think of Tesla if you prefer.)
One option would be to continue to work as an executive at Google, where she was already working. I would have to imagine that Vice President of Search Products at GOOGLE would be able to find a cushy gig just about anywhere in tech.
that's one biohacking experiment I'm in no rush to try out.
> 2 decades+ professional experience in the field counts for nothing in terms of meeting educational requirements

Yeah, professors have experience with people like this. They're the students that stop lecture to ask a 5 minute long "question" that somehow hits the high points of their 20+ years of experience and doesn't really go anywhere, that roughly ends up at the same kind of "when will we ever use this in the real world" question that you'd expect from a 19 year old kid, when you're lecturing on rings and fields.
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I canceled my Netflix. I have been re-watching some older shows like The Office. I liked Stranger Things - a pretty well done show. But all in all I have not been using it.

Up until recently I was able to watch Netflix on my Ubuntu laptop via some user agent switching trick I found, but that stopped working recently, so that's another thing that drove the decision.

Also I have a an Amazon Firestick so unfortunately if stuff is available there I'd end up watching it there since launching Netflix app was another extra step.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't; they don't support blocking SSL traffic. Makes it kind of useless, I think.
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As a person that uses TensorFlow for his day job:

I find that saving and restoring are of the weirder things with TensorFlow, you can either go all out an decide to save out all the variables, or only the ones needed for the model.

You usually don't want to save out gradients (which are also variables) since they take up a bunch of space and aren't actually that useful to restore. Now on the other, what are model variables -- do you want to save model variables + the moving averages ... or just the averages. But then when you're loading you'll have to "shadow" the moving averages to the real variables that actually run in your model.

Good news though, most of the scaffolding code you can write once and re-use it over and over again.
>Many of the best programmers I know never even went to college...they are just interested in the subject and taught themselves.

The problem with that is, college teaches a lot of things that are not directly related to core technical competencies. It's very easy to learn programming on your own these days, sure. But it's a lot harder to learn public speaking, finance, management principles, marketing, college-level reading and writing, technical writing, time-management, political science, biology, physics, and all of the other stuff that you're taught in college.

Going to a university or a college, I think, is still a very important thing. It's not worth the money right now, which I hope will change, but I know a lot of smart people who didn't got to college, people working in many different diverse fields, and it's almost always possible to tell who did and who did not go to a university. Do you want to be laser-focused on just being a programmer, or do you want to have marketable skills outside of a pure technology focus?

To put it simply: it's easy to learn how how a computer works and how to program it to work for you. It's much harder and takes much longer to learn how the world works and how to make it work for you. For 99% of the corporate/enterprise jobs people will end up working, being the best programmer is the world is far less important than every other skill you learn in college. If we do away with traditional universities, we need to find a way to replicate that other type of learning.
The problem with succinct and clever phrases is that they can be used to shut down discussion of important issues.

It's such a great reply that people may, not wishing to appear to be one of these naive souls who romanticize a past that never existed, refrain from pointing out that it is possible to lose things from the past that did exist and were exceptionally valuable. It's even possible to have these things stolen from you.

Yes, it is certainly possible to romanticize a past that never existed. Also: the web is less open than it used to be, and Facebook had plenty to do with it.
$5/mo for something I may never use. It's not even offering replacement insurance. I get all the music I want for double that (spotify) or all the streaming (netflix).
Things that keep me with Netflix:

- I can watch their shows on any device, including my chromecast (unlike Amazon Prime Video) and linux laptops.

- I don't live in the US, so most of these alternatives just plain don't exist for me, and the local versions of them are mostly awful.

Sometimes I feel like these doomsaying articles (cfe also Uber) are coming from a hopelessly American perspective. They wonder "why is this company still so successful around the world when X, Y, and Z American competitors exist?"

Well, mostly because the rest of us don't have those options and so the one that actually takes a global perspective wins by default.
The US already as plenty of people that "culturally fit better", are more educated, are skilled, etc.

We don't have enough people that picks Strawberry crops in California or does home construction in suburbs. We literally don't have those people willing to do those jobs, which can cause runaway inflation.

Immigration is not about adding more of the same. It's about filling holes in our economy and labor force.

How many Canadians do you think are going to go picking Strawberries in California?
This is almost as bad as the Blender one I saw on reddit a few days ago.
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It seems Tesla and Mobileye were at one time planning on a bright future together, because Tesla didn't have any kind of a back-up plan.

But Mobileye isn't sitting still, so if the relationship hadn't been terminated, Tesla would've been stuck with whatever Mobileye's latest and greatest offering might be.

What's interesting is that if you compare the HW2 sensor suite to Mobileye's next-gen sensor plans, they are very similar, almost the same. They were both working on something together before the relationship went sour.

Musk hinted recently that 1 PX2 is not enough, and that 2 may be necessary for L4. There's certainly no consensus as to how much compute is needed, the more the better, but I'm skeptical that the hardware costs will be low enough near term to justify putting it in privately owned autonomous cars. I think Tesla has made costly strategic errors in the Autonomy department, and that Musk in particular has repeatedly underestimated the challenge of developing a fully autonomous vehicle. I don't think he's making that mistake anymore.
Is there a way to get flag data on stories?
Teenage sexting is not child porn
Definitely not, that approach is as production-ready as the webpack version, but it places application structure in your hands.
I would argue a wasteful purchase is fast cars and boats. By buying these IMO frivolous goods, you're diverting resources from investments that would serve society to those that benefit the very few (luxury auto makers). If instead you invested in stocks and bonds that fund companies that generate value and passing on the future proceeds to that investment to future generations, this would be arguably a better use of resources
You conflate terms. Explosive warhead includes conventional explosives and the "physics package" with nuclear material. Modern bombs have proportionally more explosive and less fission material than historic weapons. By weight they are mostly all conventional explosives. And tritium is harmless. ... too many similar issues to address here on mobile.
If you go back far enough, immigrants or children of immigrants founded likely 99% of US companies. Is this really surprising given the US is a almost entirely a nation of immigrants?
The Québécois were estimated in 2011 to be about 43% functionally franco-anglo bilingual; seems they're becoming more so year over year, the estimate was about 41% in 2006. About 8% of Québécois have English as their mother tongue. 5% of Québec doesn't even speak French, granted some of those will be allophones and illiterates.
1. Add subscriptions to popular lists like in AdBlock/uBlock with autoupdating and people will start using it.

2. Prevent sites from manipulating the list via CSRF.

3. Packages/Installers with installation as a service/daemon would be a plus.
I'd forgotten about easymotion -- I remember installing it years ago and taking it back out because it seemed so alien, but it's very clever, and I definitely believe that in practice it'd be fast, too.
> Northern Ireland is quite likely to join Ireland

I sort of wish that were the case. The reality is likely to be a lot more problematic than "quite likely", and has every danger of becoming quite violent, to boot.
Parents are insisting on doctors who insist on vaccinations
Isn't the union going to protect the rights/jobs of both the accuser and the accused until a determination is reached?
Would be interesting to get a comprehensive list of what is and isn't available without a warrant from a judge. For example...

"Police can get phone records without a warrant thanks to a 1979 Supreme Court case, Smith v. Maryland, which found that the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure doesn't apply to a list of phone numbers. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) — a 1986 law that underpins much of how the government can get digital data — requires providers to allow access to real-time data with a court order and historical data with a subpoena."

https://www.propublica.org/special/no-warrant-no-problem-how...
It's really not that hard. Mumble works quite well in TCP mode, via Tor onion service. That gives you end-to-end encryption plus some anonymity. Except for the voiceprint issue, anyway. And you get cellular-level sound quality. Latency isn't problematic if you run in press-to-transmit mode.
How about eschewing shitty ad networks and actually delivering relevant ads?
I flagged the Paypal story because it lacked supporting details that would allow me to evaluate the claims. For example, what was the person selling and how was it priced. Since one of the few leaked details was that the account involved USD to Canadian Dollar currency exchange, such information might have been relevant due to US currency control laws. In addition, people in the thread indicated that the dispute rate was high for e-commerce and the nature of the transactions might have clarified that.

In the end, the absence of detail meant there was no actionable information in the post, just 'Paypal sucks'. And I did not find that intellectually interesting.
It wasn't my intention, but maybe it was subconscious. If I wanted to show off, then I would have talked about success.
> Human capital flight is the single biggest obstacle to development for the third world.

Citation needed.
Not all executives are chief executives. Meyer surely could have gotten another VP or SVP job at a non-Google company with momentum. To require compensation for risk/opportunity cost in foregoing those opportunities seems very reasonable.
Canada you can expect C40k-75k unless you work for some unicorn startup in Toronto recruiting top talent or specialize in something and contract yourself out. The vast majority of salaries are C$35/hr for senior developer which is what a unionized janitor makes after you account for their benefits the developer doesn't receive. Almost everybody I know here is a contractor, working remotely at US companies these days or to large outfits that do city bids for websites/dbms work and sub-contract to them.

Russia, @homakov writes that he made $3/hr as a php dev there before specializing in appsec and contracting himself out. https://medium.com/@homakov/how-i-started-in-web-security-40...
These big tech co's have already demonstrated that they are willing to break rules if its suits them (cf. wage fixing). What makes you trust them at this point? What have they done to redeem themselves?
"This isn't that crazy, till 1914 in the U.S."

Are you sure nothing has changed about the economy since 1914?
I agree. My first instinct when reading the headline, sadly, is not to first find merit in the argument begin made but to question the true motivation for the argument being made.

The headline itself is somewhat disingenuous. It might as well read "51% of people who aggressively seek opportunity are highly successful." Now just swap out 'people' with 'immigrant' and use it to veil the actual motive. ... Disingenuous indeed.

A better way to make the argument would be to identify what these successful immigrants have in common and suggest that these attributes might be good filters for permitting immigration. But I suspect that the results would not validate the author's true motivations.
I think it's based upon the idea that people with ad blockers see less ads and so are still sensitive to ad impressions. In contrast, advertisements in really crowded situations (most people that walk about in urban areas, for example) require more effort to stand out as advertising saturation point hits.

I mostly combat any ad influence on me by making a point to _not_ buy anything that is advertised. Works out pretty well for helping me keep my sanity and conscience a little.
When white people didn't want black people to use their water fountains, it was an existing status quo they didn't want to see changed.

You can justify anything by explaining away people'a xenophobia or bigotry by saying they didn't want change.

We just went through the same argument with gay marriage with people alleging great harm and the need to discriminate against gay people, causing greater harm to them.

I find great irony that people on HN who probably subscribe to ideas of dynamism and creative destruction and disruption as the life blood of innovation are defending cultural conservatism.
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You think she has some kind of fetish for sinking ships?
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What do you eat? You should try a restrictive Autoimmune diet.
Hmm to that I would say, I expected to finish college (and I did) but It wasn't something I planned. I did it one semester at a time until i was able to leave. Also, I put money away, but I am not planning for anything (at least at the moment) - I would say you can budget for possibilities in the future without directly 'planning' them.
Good job on including these animated GIFs. I really, really wish every project would to that.
I agree that Google is worse in most of the ways you noted. However, I would note that the choice of not using Facebook is a somewhat-arbitrary one, due to the incredibly strong network effect and the huge userbase.

Google is somewhat better in this regard - they're so huge because so many people use them, but in many cases you have options for not using Google, or most of their services. Or using them less intensively / intrusively than people tend to use Facebook.

Depends on the user, mostly. Both are quite detrimental to the liberty of users overall, I would say.
While I'm not the person you're replying to, I always felt like I should have liked the trackpoint more than I did. I could never manage very precise movements with it -- and I learned that if you flail around with a pointing device, it's definitely slower than a keyboard, even if it's built into the keyboard. :)
>"The fair thing to do would be to accept a random sample of would-be immigrants."

All points aside, isn't that exactly what the US is doing with the Green Card lottery system? It's entire mandate is to "increase immigrant diversity", by giving countries with low immigration to the US preferential counts towards the lottery.

>"But it's immoral. Rich host countries are poaching productive individuals while selecting against people who are most in need of help, leaving them to be taken care of by their (usually) poorer country of origin."

You know what is actually immoral? Forcing individuals that want to make a better life for their children, into staying in a country that "needs help" and they want to get out of. The world is not some giant "experiment" for you to optimize and fix. Let people leave and go where they want, and if you want to prevent people from coming into your area, well then let the majority current residents decide.
I think neverminder meant that, amongst countries that separate, the larger of the new countries will generally be better off than their smaller neighbour. Your list doesn't address this point.

Examples would include Pakistan-Bangladesh; Czech Republic-Slovakia; and Sudan-South Sudan.
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>I wouldn't walk onto a construction site and expect the foreman to give me a job as a carpenter without some proof that I can do the job.

The big problem is, historically the very thing has happened and that's how a lot of baby boomers got their first job. The day after high school graduation, my grandpa walked into a factory and asked for a job, he was given one right there on the spot. The foreman handed him a broom and he started sweeping that very day.

The way the world works has changed far faster than at any point in human history, and our society is still struggling to keep up with that. But yeah, 50 years ago you could walk onto a construction site, ask for a job, and you'd be given one. No experience required.
Insisting on Unix naming conventions is odd when SystemD tramples over more important Unix system concepts left and right.
You think immigrants smart enough to co-found a billion dollar startup want to come to a country that hates the idea of immigration so much they want to build a wall they know won't work?
"It sounds great, but the teachers suck."

That really is too bad. Sounds like a great program but if they can't get good teachers, it is a waste.

What are some of the reasons why the kids think the teachers are bad?

I believe that is an entirely different issue. Our education system is not employing the best teachers especially in the STEM fields because we do not pay them enough. I know plenty of professionals who would absolutely love to teach but they don't because they can make 2x to 3x as much elsewhere and would barely make ends meet teaching.
Someone else mentioned avy above, too. I should definitely give it a look.
Someone (the EFF?) put out a really interesting widget a few years ago that demonstrated what you could learn about a hypothetical person using two-removes metadata. In fact, they managed to build a metadata feed which cast the innocent person as a major terrorism threat by sheer coincidences.
> We don't have enough people that picks Strawberry crops in California or does home construction in suburbs. We literally don't have those people willing to do those jobs, which can cause runaway inflation

Then increase the wage paid. You're literally arguing for a slave-wage underclass.
Decade long QE money machibe whoop whoop

Im well positioned for the bear market
Hls.js, from dailymotion to beyond
DNS happens before HTTP and HTTPS. If you block at the DNS level it will work for both HTTP and HTTPS URLs.

That page you linked seems to confirm this, and that Pi-Hole works just fine blocking HTTPS.
Don't we have diseases to cure, cancers to heal?
Personally I never gave a toss whether a Ferrari was 2mS faster than a Porsche, Top Gear was never about the cars its about the presenters and their stupid car choices, unreal situations they got themselves in and constant put downs of each other, the three grumpy old men felt more unscripted than the new guys.
Don't most countries implement some sort of merit-based immigration? "We want educated people with degrees from this age range?".

Don't employees do that as well - "we want people with these qualifications"... is that terribly wrong?
It's fascinating to see how the people pushing this argument prioritize economic nationalism exactly to the extent it promotes open borders, and exactly no further.
You aren't looking this from a bigger picture. The more infrastructure that is put in place to protect single parents, the more infrastructure that gets in the way for standard families. Basic building blocks for society like marriage become less appealing because the state is too involved in the process.

It doesn't really matter how much welfare costs (obviously it should kept under control like military, health and education) and that's why I didn't mention that aspect. All I'm concerned about is the state becoming so involved in an individual's life, that it nannies them like a parent.
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When merely being a person gives you rights to government-issued finite resources, it has to be a utilitarian argument.
There are plenty of Mexican illegal immigrants in Canada, probably helping with our huge pulse crops.

Anyway, there's no point in enhancing the productivity of U.S. domestic agriculture. It is incredibly productive and food is incredibly cheap at the wholesale level. If it becomes a bit more expensive at the wholesale level, I doubt that will shift the consumer price all that much. The people who would have more trouble affording food would also have higher mean income, since they would be more likely to be employed.
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I am not saying that and I think the only relevant change is welfare programs—which we can remove/limit for immigrants to stop it from being excessively costly.

Tell me a relevant change that affects my case.

Take a look at https://openborders.info for lots of reasons.
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College students should resist, not silence their political foes
The day we know a language has made it is the day people no longer feel the need to suffix "written in X" to attract clicks.

This applies to Go, Rust, whatever. I'd love to see future projects stand on their own merits and be pleasantly surprised when discovering the source language on my own.
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You could give sync thing minority a try: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-inotify