skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Speech doesn't directly cause victory. It only seems that way if you're very afraid of something.

People are afraid of democracy. They suspect that people on the whole are easy enough to manipulate that catastrophe is possible.

They can't say that without seeming, well, undemocratic. So they try to ban dangerous speech instead.
Why not award the visas to the companies bidding for the highest salaries? This aligns incentives better for everyone I think. It would improve the talent pool and prevent the body shops from using the program to staff project managers who send work offshore.
Thanks. I actually got started in Meisner, Thorne, and Wheeler, and it's a slog. I've asked some physicists if they know of an easier textbook, but there doesn't seem to be one. I'm a physicist too, but my willingness to build outrageous experiments made up for my lack of theoretical agility. Still, I'd love to understand gravitation.

I've still got my copy of Jackson from grad school. ;-)
> why not leave?

That trope is uncivil, shallow, and predictable, so please don't haul it out here.
You are describing insufficient demand, not insufficient workers. The reasons for low demand are more or less irrelevant to worker pay, just that demand is low.
What happens to that evaluation if string theory never has a successful experimental prediction? Is there some way his work would keep such a high standing as physics then? No argument that he must be incredibly smart, but that's not the same.

My layperson's impression is that string theory implies supersymmetry and supersymmetry doesn't easily comport with the latest accelerator results.
Do you mind me asking the hit your salary took? Do you also mine asking what region of Europe, and how you were able to find the right employer?
An awful lot of hospitals are organized as non profits. Same with insurance.

Spending goes up because a majority of politically engaged people have good access to care that they don't directly see the cost of.
This time we keep our source code for ourselves
> Doctors / teachers often don't seem to communicate / care.

You really don't have much contact with teachers if you believe this.

The education system runs in spite of its systemic horribleness precisely because there are enough teachers who do care and fight/ignore the system when necessary.

If you want to actually fix the educational system, we have models for doing so in several different countries. However, they all tend to share the same characteristics.

You have to raise standards for both admission and completion; you test to those standards; you raise salaries to match those standards; and you give respect, autonomy and authority to the people now adhering to those standards.

HOWEVER, that is going to cost money. Quite a lot of money. And, really, nobody is actually interested in doing that in the US. They're really only interested looking like they are concerned rather than actually fixing the problem.
Swarm of 16 earthquakes shakes Danville and Diablo, slows BART trains
This comment shows up on every thread on this topic. Have a look at this data another user posted: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

The last three years have been highly above average in the arctic. This isn't "arctic has one warm day!". It's "the entire year is abnormally warm in the arctic, like the past three!"

The appropriate comparison would be the US having a whole winter which is 10-20 degrees colder than normal.
"[W]e should curtail initial coursework in topics like genetics, developmental biology and biochemistry, making room for training in communication, interpersonal dynamics and leadership. Such skills would [...] strengthen our ability to advocate for health care as a human right and begin to rectify the broken economics and perverse incentives of the system."

In other words, train doctors to be social justice activists rather than scientists? No thanks.
Ok, we've changed the URL and title to that from https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/23/588469561.... Thanks!
To be clear, keychain is end to end encrypted including the Cloud Key Vault that backs it up to potentially adversarial clouds. Not true for other iCloud data but your passwords are probably safe.
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I would rather spend time succeeding on my own merits.
I don’t like that wording because it implies that hospitals somehow benefit from government involvement; in reality, it just sucks for everyone. In general, I agree - very few medical institutions in the US actually get to be private.

I will say that truly private medicine is, in my reasonably broad experience, excellent. I use a private subscription-only medical service in the US which is excellent (and procedures are generally cheaper than they would be in a public hospital, whether I’m paying with insurance or out of pocket), and my experiences with private medicine in SE Asia and Mexico have been excellent (and affordable) as well (to a greater degree than can be explained by labor cost differences).
I don't even think AMP is the problem. It feels more like an symptom. So the question really goes as: what's the actual problem? To keep it very short, it really does feel like to be around how the ad revenue works on the web. But maybe I'm just mistaken and I'm missing some pieces of the puzzle.
There's nothing magical about it.
As has been pointed out, chips with superconductors has been a thing for a long time (at least in experimental physics) and there's nothing magical about it, but resistivity is a (nonlinear) function of temperature and lowering it almost always lowers the resistance, so you can achieve this to an extent even with non "magical" materials without going to cryogenic temperatures. You don't have to reduce the capacitance; you'll be fine as long as you can lower the resistivity.

Do you have any references for FETs that switch at 10THz? I've never heard of it and I'm interested in the physics of it.
> have you ever heard 'loud pipes save lives'?

Yes I have, and it's complete and total nonsense.

Here are a few good articles on the subject:
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/stop-saying-loud-pipes...
https://canadamotoguide.com/2016/07/29/the-truth-about-loud-...

tl;dr version is that basic physics says most of that noise goes backwards, so while a driver may be more likely to notice a louder bike the majority of the increased noise is going in exactly the wrong direction to be useful.

It's a bogus claim made by people trying to justify their annoying exhaust choices.

You'll note that the people who tend to be most vocal about "loud pipes save lives" also tend to be the ones wearing little to no gear and/or riding like jerks. We're not talking about the most safety conscious people out there.
This clip, one of the most impressive word salads you'll hear from a public intellectual, will confirm your impression beyond all doubt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H11t5zBd3fU&t=25s
Me too, but ultimately this will mean not using services that decide to implement AMP. Most services will just see one or two weird customers creating issues for them. Also, unless you complain, they'd have to check their server logs, to even notice the deliverability issues.

You can just as well receive the e-mail and just complain if it's AMP only, or they don't pay attention to the plaintext part, causing issues for you.
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Oddly, my favorite is an LED strip in my bathroom. It's very subtly animated, but the point is, it's red. Whenever I wake up at night, and need to go to the bathroom, I turn it on instead of the overhead light so it doesn't hurt my eyes. :)

Easily my dumbest thing by by far the most appreciated.
> I think going to Canada is the most rational thing for tech workers and people without papers too. I keep wondering why it hasn't been happening more.

Because the US still has the vast majority of prestigious tech companies and still has the edge in innovation. That may be changing long term, but at least on the short term, this is the truth. The opportunities you get at Microsoft or Amazon are unmatched.

People will gladly prioritize wealth and career at a Big 4 company vs a nice stable life at some not well know Canadian company.
Sit in darkened rooms, spin 3 trackballs, and turn a few knobs to make pictures look pretty, mostly. DaVinci Resolve[1] and Baselight[2] are quite popular, take a look at the websites to give yourself an idea of what it looks like.

1. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

2. https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/baselight/overview_bl....
I think this hits the nail on the head. There is a huge information gradient between most patients and the doctor and perfectly bridging that gap takes more [time|money] than any system is willing to support.

I think about this when it comes to providing a patient with "informed consent" for a particular treatment/operation. What does "informed" really mean in this case? A brief overview of the main risks and a couple of statistics? Or a thorough understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease and the trial data supporting the therapy? How long is a piece of string?
By all objective measures, free trade has helped more than it has hurt. And yes, that's poor consolation for the disproportionate injury for the minority: not least of which are those in the U.S. who were unable or unwilling to adapt to the ensuing market forces, but perhaps the proliferation of worker exploitation and slavery [1]

Those disproportionately benefiting, are those invested in the stock market, and work as top tier management of those companies. As defacto owners and operators, their company gets cheaper labor without honoring the labor rights of the home country, and have become wealthier because of this. Ironically, perhaps, the home country benefits from this as well via tax collection.

The idea that that reverting to prior trade paradigms will be more fair is just stupid. Regression will be worse because it will deprive so many more people of what wealth they do have. It would destabilizing economically, and politically. Bilateral trade is as dead long term as petroleum. A silly president, who transparently favors bilateral trade either because he lacks the mental acuity to understand multilateral trade, or he's malevolent and wants to take advantage of others without being held accountable (his long standing business m.o. is split between the two), should have no say. And in practice the senate, American business, foreign leaders and businesses, nod and smile just so he doesn't poop his diaper again. Not because bilateral trade has a realistic chance.

Instead of taking an unserious person's advice, we need to double down on mutilateral trade combined with strong competition, anti-fraud, and ethics. And a lot of rational constructive arguing. The more who benefit, the wealthier and safer we all are. I win you lose is Trump's idea of winning strategy, and everyone knows it. His followers love the bully mentality, they think it works, and his detractors see it for what it is: shitty behavior you expect from shitty people best avoided as much as possible.

[1] A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery Ben Skinner
So I decided to test the christld ones:

Twitter seems to work (brings up form).

Facebook redirects to an error.

Linkedin seems to work (brings up form when logged in).

Pinterest seems to work (brought up create board dialog when logged in)

Google+ seems to work (brings up share form).

I do have to say that for me that these would actually work and the JS likely wouldn't in some cases, since I make heavy use of Firefox's containers now to sandbox a lot of online identities, and just have new windows for certain URLs automatically load in the correct container.
I'd argue for the opposite: growing your identity beyond a single thing. If someone sees themselves as a waiter and nothing else, they're more likely to feel injured by someone saying that a waiter is a dead-end job, because the majority of their identity just took a heavy blow. But if they instead see themselves as a waiter, a gardener, a musician, and a reader, they'll be less affected when one of those things is attacked.
People are so complicated that most "tests" like this, to see how somebody responds, strike me as useless. You are not in a controlled environment, and pretending you are is foolish. You might get a reaction and presume to know the cause, but it's hard to be sure. Maybe somebody reacts badly to a strong signal that the interviewer doesn't know how to be appropriate and professoonal in an interview.
We produce excellent engineers. We also want them badly. We just don't want to pay them.
> At best you can say that Chinese users will likely be no worse off using iCloud

You can say better than that. iCloud is more secure than your average service (especially in China). It end to end encrypts the most sensitive data (keychain) for example, and iMessage has managed to stay alive so far.
It sounds like you know enough about the topic to post a comment that doesn't break this HN guideline:

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment is one that teaches us something.

In the future, could you please do that instead? Bilious dismissals degrade discussion; explaining a more correct view elevates it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Chrome has been prefetching & prerendering links since 2013. IE11 has also been prefetching & prerendering as well since 2013 ( https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2013/12/04/getting-to-th... )

So it's not only possible to do, they've literally been doing it for 5 years now.

Firefox doesn't appear to do prerendering, but it will happily prefetch as well and has since Firefox 23.

AMP's cap on file sizes and other limitations helps these relatively ancient prefetching & prerendering work better, but you don't need AMP to get preloading. Not at all.
I think that that America actually never existed, it was all just propaganda.
> What happens to that evaluation if string theory never has a successful experimental prediction?

Exact Lorentz is a very successful experimental prediction of string theory.

> My layperson's impression is that string theory implies supersymmetry and supersymmetry doesn't easily comport with the latest accelerator results.

Symmetry breaking.
> But my experience in Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond taught me that most H1B's aren't any smarter than the average American high school graduate.

Bwahaha, that's cute. One thing for sure that foreigners are totally outmatched at by Americans, which is apparent from this thread, is their sense of entitlement and self-worth.
Wait... Did they hide the master branch from view on purpose?
I make a distinction between positive/inclusive or negative/exclusive identity. While I certainly condone the statement "I'm not a murderer", I try to define myself in terms like "I value life". This gets tougher when certain positive constructs come with a lot of negative connotations. We can try to reclaim those words, emphasize that being a nerd is about devouring information and not about despising social contact, but sometimes its a lost cause and all we can do is come up with a new word. Another way of thinking of it is to be the union of identities, not the intersection. This heuristic can fail in many ways, but it's served me well so far.
Yeah, but then you are probably reducing the frequency of people who care about the environment in future populations, which may be a net loss.
I think you're right that it's a symptom. Take a perfectly fine system like email and, from a profitability perspective, see a problem and an opportunity.
If the new C++ standards are good, the best practices are awesome
Factory farming is very resource intensive, but it is less resource intensive per unit of food produced. Just look at the prices at your local grocery store!
If you run Amavis you can add a MIME type to the $banned_filename_re in a conf file (on debian based derivatives you'll normally find that in /etc/amavis/conf.d/20-debian_defaults).

qr'^application/amp+html$'i,

is what I use.

If you want to put it in a separate file (such as a local config file) then you can just

push(@$banned_filename_re,qr'^application/amp+html$'i);
CERN's iPod-like control devices, from 1973
Yeah, other iCloud services are just widely unpopular in China, they're basically irrelevant.

Need to store photos? Baidu disk and tons of other services provide much larger space with no cost, and much more affordable paid version. Wallet? almost everyone in China uses Wechat pay or Alipay now. Even App Store supports Alipay for purchasing apps. Maybe they can steal my contacts? If so, they would have all my Wechat and QQ contacts already, maybe even all the messages. While I do like more privacy, but it's basically at the bottom of my list of concerns.

People mention "Chinese activists", well, almost all of them don't even live in China. Rest assured their lives are not impacted as well
I think this advice can be simplified greatly: reduce your expenditures. If you're spending less money, then you are consuming a smaller share of the world's bounty.
This has Many notable exceptions.

Due to the housing meltdown, many people have underwater realty of negative value, yet this asset disqualifies many low cost programs.

The asset limits are very low on Medicaid ($2k individual, $3k couple)

Even medicare is quite low ($7.5k, $11.5k). To qualify, you must effectively divest all your assets and it becomes an insurance bet with the state that you'll die quickly. (@ $7k/month for a nursing home, its not a very good bet)

If you can't pay hospitals and nursing homes kick you out, just happened to a friend. Medicare wouldn't pay for more than two months of care -> on the street.

For most people, the value of selling their house (say $100k, would pay for only 1 year of senior care in the US)

Even better, the care is often lackluster for the cost. (Admittedly at $7k/month I would be expecting marble floors and gold faucets)
If you have some image data stored with reference to one color space, and you want to convert the data to a different color space (e.g. because you are targeting some particular output device), that is a gamut mapping problem. To learn about different trade-offs involved in choice of gamut mapping algorithms, I recommend Ján Morovič’s monograph, https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Color+Gamut+Mapping-p-9780470030...

Same story if you want to show your image on a display with a different gamut.

Most gamut mapping algorithms used in practice (whether on a display or in software) are actually pretty mediocre in my opinion. It would be possible to do substantially better by writing your own code, at the expense of being a bunch of work. Alas.

P.S. The Wikipedia article about color space (and articles about many other color-related topics) is pretty terrible, but I’ve been too lazy to rewrite it.
> I cannot really validate this claim either as I don't ask people who much they are paid.

You should start. The only people who don't like you talking about compensation is your employer.

Well, that and a society full of people taught by years of public school that talking about finances is taboo.

It's not. The only person that gains anything from your inability to talk about compensation is your employer.

You lose a tonne of leverage while negotiating a raise / new job offer.
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I don't dispute the pronunciation as 'poned' goes back further, but I'm saying that South Park popularized it. PurePwnage uses the pronunciation 'owned', right?
This is all very convenient if you happen to be of the dominant identity. Even if you don't consciously associate yourself with it, you benefit from it.

For those not of the dominant identity, to "not even to consider yourself an x" is a problem if you are an x and the problem you want to address is systemic unfairness toward x.

Imagine yourself a slave in 1850 being advised to not consider yourself a slave, or black, because you'd avoid useless discussions.

Imagine yourself a woman today being advised by HR to not consider yourself a woman or your experiences as one when discussing workplace discrimination or harassment.

Imagine yourself a gay man being advised to forget you are one when discussing laws restricting gay marriage.

You get the picture.
Crushed basalt can help soil and the climate
In the middle of this book right now, specifically the unreliable clocks part. The explanations have the right amount of depth. It's a great read in so far.
Reality check: Most enterprises aren’t adopting Dropbox… and for good reasons

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reality-check-most-enterprise...
A 501 return will cause an email bounce, so the sender will know that it has been refused. If you for example use "501 5.6.1 AMP format email messages not supported, please use a mail system that doesn't use AMP" then the sender will get that as the reason the mail was not sent.
India & China make up 35% of the entire worlds population. A fair system will admit a lot more people from those countries than others simply because there have more people.
Please keep generic ideological tangents off HN. I realize that's hard to do with an article like this, but that actually makes it more important.

Generic ideological tangents guarantee predictable flamewars, so they are the black holes we most need to eschew.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ceteris paribus, no. From a utilitarian perspective, engineers are on average more valuable than non-engineers. Doesn’t matter what ethnicity or continent or culture they come from. Biasing that measure with an arbitrary ethno-socio-geographic filter feels like backing into a rationale over thinking from first principles.
With this approach wouldn't you help established companies against startups which provide compensation with more stock options and less salary?
Thank you for the clarification. Even after two articles I obviously still didn't fully get it. Appreciate the help, and the example links.
I do expect no one in the area to own a car. Cars only work in rural and suburban settings.

Regarding your last paragraph, you basically just said this:
https://i.redditmedia.com/ym0Xv9Jc_nVYFEsL6G5LPN07oziNzrU2ZF...

There is no doubt that as more people move to a city, services have to scale up with them. San Francisco does have ample room to build more buildings. The article at the top demonstrates this. Cities can never be 'full'. No one in San Francisco is complaining that they can't get an appointment at a doctor's office. You are pulling that out of your behind. Under that logic, no cities would exist at all because they never would have been able to develop from detached single-story buildings. The fact that we do have some cities with at least medium sized buildings clearly demonstrate that your concerns about change are unfounded.

Growing pains are inevitable and necessary.
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I'd like to know more about that. It seems to blundering terrible as a tactic that it almost makes me think it's a false flag operation.
Wow, in the last 4-5 years the economy has really picked up. I moved back to Scotland after working in Berlin and Amsterdam and work remotely today for a Paris based agency.

Until I read your comment, I had guaranteed myself never to work for a UK company. Will need to do some more research at some point.
> An awful lot of hospitals are organized as non profits. Same with insurance.

Yep, and they all have administrators that make a ton of money.

I worked for a Blue Cross Blue Shield franchise a decade ago. It is/was a "non-profit", the CEO made 2.1 million dollars per year.

Non-profit != Money well spent
And hours. But not inflation. According to the westegg inflation calculator,

"What cost $210000 in 2000 would cost $304266.30 in 2017."
An incognito window works for this one, and the first page is viewable at https://outline.com/36bqXA.