skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well the workers in Germany don't seem to be getting much of the reward do they?
Why does it matter if they are decreasing next month? The goal is not to buy at the bottom of the market (if I knew how to spot market bottoms, I'd be on my private Caribbean island), but rather to keep buying into the productivity of the entire economy.
Show HN: Jiq-web, dig into JSON using jq queries in the browser
I am conflicted about talking about this, because I'm a us citizen software engineer and benefit from the shortage. I love to read the perspective of someone on the other side.

I think there are these different kinds of tech workers. For lack of a better term lets call them IT staff and software engineers.

IT staff builds some new systems but mostly puts pieces together to solve problems. This kind of job is easier to replace with moderately skilled foreign tech workers, maybe even working remotely, there's more supply here for this kind of worker. Then there is the harder to find software engineers who can work on new software from scratch, perhaps with more experience in this kind of worker. There's an incredible demand for this kind of person, that's unquenchable at least today (perhaps it used to be infinite for it staff but no longer). We really do need more of the second category of workers. Certainly a little smaller supply of workers means higher salaries, but when you need double the supply, you can restrain growth of the industry.
we do, thats why we store in them in Canada.
Lawyer adviced the same. Told me it was almost impossible for me to do EB-1 and it was all about luck. I don't really want to do that. It's just frustrating seeing people I went to school with years ago from other countries become greencard holders so quickly without even doing grad school or STEM.
I've been employed for 13 years and I started with a low-paying job ($35k). I had to pay off some loans in the early part of my career and didn't save much for the first 6 years. After that, I bought my house which ate into my savings. The house is currently worth $500k more than what I paid for it. Currently, I try to save at least $4k per month. I drive a cheap car (pay $134) per month and have no other debts other than my mortgage. The only thing we splurge on is food and even with that, we don't spend more than $15/person when we go out.
Holy carpe diem
Stanhope (optical bijou)
Both points are likely applicable. :)

However I think complaining about open source software has its place. Sometimes the developer has never thought of adding the feature that the end user can't get along without.
I don't think that Chinese government cares for the Siri Data as much. Not many Chinese people ask "Hey Siri what is Democracy?". Keys to the cloud is the keys to the kingdom, unless someone turns off iCloud the moment they activate their phones.
Multiple positions available in AI/ML focused R&D group
There are multiple openings in a small but growing AI/ML group within a large corporation. The group focuses on building systems around AI/ML algorithms, with an emphasis on rapid prototype development.

Individuals with experience developing software for AI/ML algorithm deployment as well as those focused on forward looking algorithm R&D are encouraged to apply. Generally speaking, project topics include visual and RF classification, vehicle control, and decision making.

Here are links to a couple of the available positions, but there are several others open with the ability to create more at any career level. Working remotely is a possibility for certain candidates as well.

http://search.lockheedmartinjobs.com/ShowJob/Id/105797/Artificial-Intelligence-Research-Engineer/

http://search.lockheedmartinjobs.com/ShowJob/Id/104023/Software-Engineer-Applied-Artificial-Intelligence/
The Philippines, eh?

So that makes the Vatican having legal divorce too.
GPUs are still much better than CPUs for cryptonote though.

In both hashrate vs intial cost and hashrate vs power consumption.
Gerrymander Game
I think religion is a better comparison or at least an aspect of religion. Climate change denialism strikes me as having similar features with creationism. Both require believing in a vast global conspiracy of compromised academics - motivated by atheism or liberalism. Both willfully dismiss scientific evidence and consensus if it challenges their world view. But they will proudly admire the very rare academic (invariably not qualified in climate science or biology) who - outside of normal scientific process - become celebrities by providing bias reinforcement.
I'm a colorist

This sounds pretty interesting. What do you actually do, in layperson-y terms?
I completely agree with your first point. One of the key problems is that humans are the most adept species in billions of years at adapting the environment. Over time, the more likely a thing is to happen, the more that thing does happen. Adaptation is most likely to occur in the form of adding energy, and as Applejinx noted elsewhere in this thread, adding energy to a chaotic system increases its degree of deviation.
Another option is using gallium nine, which directly uses D3D state tracker in driver skipping GL layer. https://wiki.ixit.cz/d3d9 (though on nvidia nouvenau will be probably slower than propertiary GL driver)
Why homelessness in San Francisco appears to be growing when, in fact, it isn’t
Great article. I have in the past (when I wanted to use Scheme) used either Gambit (great support from the author!) or Chez Scheme (fast!), and only have played around with Racket a bit (perhaps 50 hours in the last 5 years).

I have been thinking of switching to Racket, and this article 'pushed me over the edge' on that decision.
>Despite his reputation, Dr. Lown was treated like just another widget on the hospital’s conveyor belt. “Each day, one person on the medical team would say one thing in the morning, and by the afternoon the plan had changed,” he later told me. “I always was the last to know what exactly was going on, and my opinion hardly mattered.”

yes, this is what it is like to be a patient at a hospital these days. And good luck if the patient wants to speak to a physician. and don't ever go to a teaching hospital if you have the choice. some intern will have the brilliant idea to adjust every medication you are taking.
This is the first time I read a macro application of the OODA loop, I somehow only saw it on the micro level. How do you observe and orient on a macro level with respect to culture? Or to be precise, how would you observe and orient in a new country that you moved into on a cultural level? Also, what other ideas from Boyd did you find useful in your everyday life?
Do you use credit cards?
It makes me miss forums/BBs! With proper subforums, etc.
Related post on Arctic Sea Ice Blog: http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2018/02/global-sea-ice-record...
I spent many many hours playing Sierra games as a kid. Really high quality gameplay that in some ways is hard to come by in modern games.
If you're sick and tired of it and think the system is "racist", why not leave? I certainly wouldn't want to live in a country in which I felt that negatively about.

Everyone seems to think they have an implicit right to live in the United States. I can see how considering the immigration policy for the last several decades has been entirely based around letting in anyone that can undercut salaries. Big business controls the borders!
You are asking a legal question where the answer depends on where you live and also what contracts you have signed. Nobody (not even a lawyer) could answer your question based on the information you have provided.

In practice unless what you contributed has any serious value (unlikely) then nobody will care. There is a 99.9% chance that nothing will happen if you just go ahead and submit a PR without worrying about the legailities [0].

0. This is not legal advice and I am not a lawyer.
Having one less child has far more of an impact than all of those lifestyle changes combined.
No problem! I've used the company's TODO app (Todoist) for 2 years now, and I like the company as a whole. They're 100% remote too, IIRC.
Precisely! Anyone familiar with this issue would know this is actually helping major high tech companies. But to most Americans who don't really know what is the deal with immigration, why let a chance to attack Trump administration go? :)
Pay net of deductions (401k, taxes, etc) for a married person with no tax exemptions (e.g. because the spouse works) is going to be about $10k/mo for a $200k/year salary. Rent in the city varies wildly and could eat anywhere from 30% to well over 50% of that.
Or you could try to affect the things that do matter in the grand scheme of things: E.g , demand more regulation for CO2-heavy industries, find ways to support CO2-neutral energy production, demand anti-deforestation clauses in trade agreements, etc.
Interesting. I am curious how were you taught the OODA Loop in your Information Systems studies? Can you point me to materials I can look up?
What's the point if you live under a threat of deportation all your life!

Do you know how much paper work has to be done to file a petition. I have around 20 pounds in weight of past paperwork!. Every petition is 100s of pages. Even if you have an approved petition, you have to go for Visa stamping where there is a 8-10 page questionnaire, waiting in line on 2 separate days and answer questions.

It's all really fucked it. You can do it for maybe 1-2 years. Not for decades.

There are many Indians in US, who would be screwed if they lost their jobs in US. They work for the outsourcing companies and if they have to move to to India - their quality of life will take a big dive. There if they make 80k USD, they will make 20-30k USD in India and have a much worse quality of life. These people wouldn't go back unless they are forced to. And they save every penny they can, because they are trying to be ready for the worst case scenario.

However, anyone who is highly skilled - they can get a job anywhere.

Being in US is like being in a decades long dating relationship where you counterpart raises questions on the relationship and threatens to throw you out every few years. However, some people want to get married and settle and it makes sense for them to move on!
Road bikes, actually. It just takes one road, and unfortunately the kind of places that are good to walk in are also fun to bike in.

I think as it goes, the 'jerk'-ness of riding a loud motorbike is a small subset of the greater jerkness of petrol-based vehicles in general. As a value proposition, widespread car ownership is about the most horrible idea for public transportation imaginable, in most places.

I'm really looking forward to the end of it, to be honest. Public transport has lots of nice side-effects - like increasing general health (through reducing polution, for instance), or making the elderly more able to get around. Cars just have negatives - and most of the time, they're just a really uncomfortable way to sit still in traffic.
Another issue that raises the same questions is closed and locked: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13623

From the issue:

> I think that the conversation itself is important and I'm always available on the internets.

cramforce is https://twitter.com/cramforce
Of course you can use fractions. You can't reasonably use binary fractions. But the discussion is about fixed point representations, not floating point anyway.
> Your system is broken and needs to be fixed.

I couldn't agree more. The solution here should be to lift the per country cap on each visa category, which is a remnant of the pre-1965 overtly racist national origin system, and increase the overall number of employment based permanent visas. EB-2 and EB-3 (not including other workers), which are the main categories for high skilled workers, are only allocated around 70,000 visas per year. Compare that to the lottery system at 50,000 or siblings of US citizens at 65,000 per year.

While I am totally in favor of permanent resident visa programs being fixed, and am in general in favor of increased immigration including of high tech workers, the H1B is being abused. Not just by the Indian BPO companies like Infosys and Tata but also by multinational consulting companies like IBM and Accenture. If and when the EB2 and EB3 backlogs were cleared, I'd support: 1) eliminating the exemption rules for determining H1B dependent employers, 2) barring H1B dependent employers from filing any further H1B petitions until they were no longer dependent, and 3) apply the attestation requirements to any employer regardless of size that files at least 1000 petitions in a visa year.
It seems confusingly worded, but "real terms" does typically mean that it is adjusted for inflation. Assuming that is the case, it is apples-to-apples even though it is oddly phrased.
there is a prisoner's dilemma type of effect here where, when other people are "defecting" (wasting fossil fuels and packaging), it's rational for the individual to defect as well.
> bell curve

The thing is the curve is moving towards higher temperatures and we get unexpected deviations more on one end than the other. And have you considered these events may be not significant - yet, because the science department is hopelessly understaffed?
I've always been troubled by this because it seems to excuse poor behaviour i.e.

- "strong opinion" - the opinion is asserted aggressively and without tact

- "weakly held" - there is little justification for the opinion and it will be abandoned under pressure and on a whim

Sutton seems to want Strong to mean something about "attracting energy" as if Strong means "intentionally provocative" but it really isn't clear to me. I prefer "reasoned opinions presented thoughtfully" but then I'm British so... eh.
Aren’t all the passwords backedup in iCloud as well as all your phone backups?

It seems that China would just need to do a bit of work but they still can get every piece of data on the device.
That's not true. People from every country would have the same chance. Petitions would be processed in the order they were received regardless of nationality. How would that be unfair to anyone?
Yes. Also, some regions of land that are currently usable will become less usable. I think some analyses/forecasts of this also talk about the "quality" of the land involved for agriculture (it's more than just a binary usable / not usable distinction).

There's a book discussing the business opportunities being created by global warming - "windfall" by McKenzie Funk.
From the link:

Mike Pence once supported the use of federal funding to treat people "seeking to change their sexual behavior."

That seems like a great thing to fund. Looks like our current vice president seems interested in helping those who seek help.
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All loud vehicles piss me off, and so do people who play music too loud. Your right to be loud stops at my ears.

“Loud pipes save lives” is ridiculous. If you need to be irritatingly loud to be safe then your hobby is too dangerous.
Introducing Site Explorer; Have access to deep data that didn't exist before
I'm also kinda trying to keep the issue alive here: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13600
It's not luck as in buying a lottery ticket. If the case is not strong and not well prepared - it will definitely get rejected.

But if the case is really strong, and the petition is really strong - it's possible that you might get lucky and they might approve it.

It depends on which officer did you get, which side of the bed they woke up and did they have a fight with their spouse recently!

It really sucks!
No one has time to implement all the ideas they throw out in a casual discussion. That doesn't mean those ideas shouldn't be heard. If you have an actual argument, let's hear it, but your comment here is damaging and provides no value.
Democracy is not necessarily the majority. It depends on the reference: eligible voters, or actual voters, as well as the participation rate.

The majority "winner" among all eligible voters in most U.S. elections is the non-voter. Voting is not compulsory, and often there are three or more candidates, therefore the winner is usually only getting a plurality of votes from participants. And compared to the eligible citizens, it's really merely a significant minority producing the result.

If you add in the effect of primary elections, where an even smaller number but highly motivated voters participate, contributes to even less involvement thus less majoritarian democracy. Ergo in a general election, the three or four choices you have on a ballot (other than write in) were determined by a process usually involving less than 15% of the eligible voters. [1]

[1]
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/10/turnout-was-...
Should You Give Your Poduct Away for Free?
I think we have to participate.

It claims to be an open standard; we should participate (or try to participate) in the open standard.

The problems AMP solves are real. They will be solved one way or another. I'm hopeful they can be solved in an HTMLite sort of way, not a whatever-Google-does sort of way.

So let's think about how to improve AMP, change AMP, evolve AMP, until it becomes something else and something better than even its creators thought. Destroy it from the the inside.

EDIT: I know AMP has been terribly approached, and it might be nice if it just disappeared. I'm not claiming otherwise. But it's not going to disappear the same way proprietary LiveScript didn't disappear. I don't want to just scream at walls; we've been trying that.
Are you saying people working in tech are paid too low nowadays in US?
It sounds like you're probably located in CA, have you looked into getting that possession taken off of your record, assuming the charge was in CA? The statewide legalization effort yielded[0] a provision that allows for review and possible expungement of marijuana-related charges.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/convicted-of-a-marij...
You can add a controversy to the new controversy presented in the article, because even that conditional speed improvement only happens if you ignore the rest of the environment. Meaning, it will be significant if the user is arriving from google search and only focused on browsing.

If the user has GPS consuming 3G data, or some other app they care about, and only did a quick google search to confirm something, now the GPS or other app data will be severely limited while the browser download all that crap about some 20 different sites the user will never ever visit.

I personally disable preloading on everything, because waiting 3s for a page to show up is a very fine tradeoff to control what my device is downloading and when.
I made a mistake in my investment numbers. It's not $200k but more closer to $380k.
Is there an audio (text-to-speech) version? Make great listening while at the gym.
Even if we'd know the perfect model for particle physics, we still can't apply math straight for simulation. We always prefer an approximation, all real world models are approximations.
Not that I think "gay conversion" is effective (maybe at the margins), but as society we do seem to beleive that others sexual orientations can be changed via incarceration.
>Due to economies of scale, unless your grid infrastructure is really poor, grid attached energy storage is going to be cheaper than distributed energy storage.

What about transmission loss? Distributed energy storage would presumably be more efficient in that regard.
Every AC I've bought in the UK (5 so far) have been rated only in BTU.
> implying doctor’s don’t want 6-figure salaries

The manufacturing operations-ization of hospitals is both good and bad. Good because that means we have standard care (as desired by regulators and single-payer advocates) but bad because doctors lose the ability to perform customized care solutions.

I’m in favor of single-payer but we have to guard against turning healthcare into a manufacturing operation while also bouncing out bad actors and poo-quality physicians.
Only feature updates, (which come twice a year) can take hours to install. Cumulative updates (typically monthly) only take single digits minutes on most machines.

How well do LibreOffice and Softmaker Office work with pen & touch in tablet mode?
I was a beneficiary of an H1B in 99 from Switzerland (easily confused with Sweden that Trump wants qualified candidates from). After months of waiting I moved to the US, and got a green card five years later.

I’m grateful. I made my life here. But I think it’s not worth it, the America we all romanticized is long gone.
Emacs Anywhere – Use. Emacs(Vim). Anywhere
A lot of the reason for the difference between the US and Canada is simply demand. Both target an immigration rate of about ~1% of the population.

The demand to immigrate into the US far exceeds that limit while in Canada there are many years where they don't even hit the limit.
Times will change. Riding a motorbike with a petrol engine will become like riding a horse.
It's the same in every company. Things need to run 24/7 and there are never enough people to take care of it.

There will always be some suckers who are pushed to work overnight and week end.
He probably means that theoretical physics is not the whole physics.
Cool. How do you apply the OODA loop in a BJJ fight or sparring session? Would you be aware of all the loops you'd be going through? If you were to transfer your knowledge of the OODA to a colleague or a friend, how would you do it?
> Everyone seems to think they have an implicit right to live in the United States.

I disagree with this statement, or at least your belief around the sentiment. To me, the angst seems to come from the United States putting out a welcome mat saying "please, come here and enrich our economy" but then, once someone does arrive, he or she is treated with near-contempt, especially if the person is from the "wrong" country like India or China or Russia or basically anywhere not western Europe, Australia, or Japan.

Debate the number of arrivals or permissions to be given all we want. That's fine and reasonable. But once someone has taken up the United States on its offer to have the person relocate halfway across the globe, TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT. My spouse is a green card holder and has been for many years (and is not a green card holder by virtue of being married to me). If any US citizen had to regularly deal with the USCIS, it would be disbanded within a week. The IRS is more warm and inviting and has better understood rules and processes. And my spouse has the benefit of not being from the "wrong" country but, still, even doing something as simple as renewing a green card involves a trek to the most depressing-looking office building on the planet, a bag and person search that rivals going to an airport, and meeting with a dour clerk who wants my spouse to be in the country almost as little as the clerk wants to be at work that day.

That's just for someone who's already made it through almost all of the hurdles of the U.S. immigration system. To be here on a "temporary" visa like H1B or on TN status is even worse since one wrong word from an immigration officer means you have ten days to self-deport or ICE is coming for you.

It's one thing to say "potential immigrants keep out." It's quite another to abuse the immigrants who have arrived until they give up and quit the country.

(To establish that I'm not ranting because I'm caught by this: I am a natural-born citizen of the United States who, through one parent, has a line of ancestry that traces back to the Mayflower. And I think our immigration system is obnoxious.)
I wonder why none makes decent ARM linux laptops. The market is ripe for disruption after Apple turned off developers with their latest Macbook Pro offerings.
From the article: "I hope to mainline this once the patchset becomes more mature."
Its really not. If it sounds like a dishwasher it just isn't the same.

That being said, it is rude to use excessive throttle in residential areas after hours.