skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting the whole of the author's point across, and not just a TL;DR summary of it.
yes, right, on your logic, we should let drugs sell freely, because the market is always right.
Being intolerant to violent intolerance is not enough. Tolerating minority disenfranchisement also leads to the death of tolerance.
You typically can't unplug it without the key while charging.
+1 I absolutely agree with you. I've been on H1-B and saw a lot of abuse from both big tech and startups (most abused were people from countries like India because a lot of them will do anything just not to go back). In big tech I saw people being indirectly threatened by not proceeding with their green card so that they work on weekends etc. I wouldn't take that crap so I kept leaving and transferring H1N but others were too scared and it really affected my view of H1B. Startups are also a problem, but more because of ignorance rather than malice. Once I transferred my H1B to a startup who really sold me on everything from being stable and funded to growing fast etc, so I moved my family across the country and on my first day CEO said they have 1 month of money left in the bank...
I've always thought it was more likely over article 2 section 3, which allows the President to adjourn both houses of Congress indefinitely under certain circumstances. If one was expecting to be impeached, for example, a little procedural hiccup on the timetable of adjournment would be sufficient to suspend legislative business altogether.
For security, noise blocking, and public unreasonableness I have only HN allowed in my browser, that is, if a site doesn't work without js, there's a high chance I don't want to read it. My bank page luckily doesn't need js either, to function.
Great points, echoes this:

"The trick is to keep your identity separate from your opinions. They're objects in a box you carry with you, and should be easily replaceable if it turns out they're no good.
If you think that the opinions in the box are 'who you are', then you'll cling to them despite evidence to the contrary.

Bottom line: If you want to always be right, you need to always be prepared to change your mind."

from https://youtu.be/tlsU_YT9n_g?t=1m6s
Right, nobody would ever lie or stretch the truth right?
Also it introduces a race-condition (according to the release notes) where changes made to the file will be lost while it's being converted.

Also they don't say anything about iterating the hash, in which case the password can be recovered anyway with rainbow tables, so what's the point of hashing it?
It's not even about talent, it's about creating a class of workers who are much worse off. You salary is the the minimum for H-1B. That's fine, except they can get away with doing nothing else for benefits and treat you like shit under the threat of firing which leads to deportation.

I'd agree they probably are lower quality, but that's because who the hell would take such a job if they can get a better one with a reputable company.
I’m agnostic. I was raised in a relatively strict, traditional Roman Catholic family. At age 18, I embraced a strong atheist stance, influenced by the books by Hitchens and Dawkins being published around that time. Eventually my interest in this stance lessened.

However, I dislike this “act of faith” line of reasoning and find it disingenuous. In the Roman Catholic tradition, believing is an act of faith. There isn’t a “proof” so to speak for why one should believe in God, etc. That’s not to say there aren’t various reasons proposed by religious thinkers.

But to say that an atheist’s not believing in God is an act of faith in itself is strange to me. I think it’s sort of a mischaracterization of atheism. Not believing in God isn’t an act of faith. It’s declining to take that act of faith in the first place. Arguments about the influence science aren’t even necessary here.

As to my own beliefs, my position is to decline the leap of faith. I don’t believe in God, but neither do I rule out the possibility that there is a God, especially in a more pantheistic or possibilian sense (see David Eagleman).

I think it’s fair to say that science hasn’t explained everything about the universe yet. I think it’s presumptuous to argue otherwise.

Nonetheless, I don’t think it’s fair to say my lack of a leap is itself an act of faith.

...unless we want to go down the rabbit hole in which every thought or action is an act of faith...
It's a temperature difference, not an absolute temperature

25deltaC = 45deltaF (just multiply by 1.8 for delta C to F)
It makes no sense. What is happening to people who are being replaced by cheaper immigrants.

They either

1. Left tech due to low salaries from immgration. I don't think this is true because tech still pays higher than almost any other field.

2. Working in tech for low(er) salary, which contradicts the orignal claim that only reason for importing tech workers is for lowering salaries.
> if it's used the way it's intended — to bring in the smartest people who can fill niche jobs that are hard or impossible to fill with Americans.

Not the intention. It's skilled labour, let the myth of the "impossible to find" talent die already.

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

Yeah, that just doesn't sound true.
People often write this as if investing in a "crashed" market is something trivial to spot. Sure you might be able to see prices today are lower than a week ago, but how do you know they aren't going to continue decreasing yet another month?
> The idea being that belief in God pays of well if true. And is alright if false. Disbelief in God pays off poorly if true, and alright if false.

That makes lots of assumptions about what God is and how he behaves.
Using mitmproxy as a reverse proxy from local development to our development servers. A few lines of code and we have authentication headers attached w/o having to manage them between projects.
>They're not 'allowing' free trade, they have been pushing it

I think you're mincing words and avoiding the main argument. Wether or not the US government is "pushing" or "allowing" doesn't alter the affect on the US manufacturing sector and jobs overall. I suspect from a corporations' point of view, they are "pushing" it, from labor's point of view, they are "allowing" it. Both political parties embrace it and as it is today, it benefits corporations immensely at the expense of the US manufacturing sector.
I personally know several people who are no longer competitive in various jobs due to the massive influx of illegal immigrants. These are tradesmen, landscapers, and others who used to be able to support their families and live in the area. Many of them now commute long distances (so they can live in lower cost areas) for far less pay. Their children are not following them into these jobs. And its not because they're unwilling to do the work. They're priced out because their own government is unwilling to protect them from these predatory practices.
Think of it this way - does a global company like Apple or Google want to hire just from the best in the US, or the best in the world?

If they hire from the best in the world, is it better for America if those hires are in the US paying US taxes, or overseas paying taxes to some other country?
Automobile final assembly lines produce about one car per minute. About 2400 per week for one shift. Some are slightly slower or faster, but not by a lot.

It's common to run two production shifts, but not three; one shift is needed for line maintenance. 1,000 per week indicates the production line is running, but having problems. This is much better than the few hundred per week from December, which meant hand assembly.

One line should top out at 2 shifts, about 5000 vehicles per day, or about 100,000 per year. Then add a second production line.

If you really want to find out what's going on in Tesla's plant, find a United Auto Workers organizer in a bar in Fremont and buy him a few beers.
No, you take the exact amount of courses as anyone else would. You can do a 5-year program with 3 co-ops or a 4-year program with 2. Of course, you also don't have summer breaks and there is less time off between the fall and spring semesters.

I'd also like to point out that if you argue college should be about creating academics, plenty of my friends went to my school and went on to become one. They simply used their co-ops to do research, either on campus, for another university, or for a company.
Ianest Knot. The most Ian a knot can be.
> For example, I recently heard from a friend with family in China that Americans who go to China can make $50 an hour private English tutoring rich Chinese kids. How can wages be rising so much in China and they are still wildly undercutting us?

China is a country of HUGE income inequalities. You have a few people that make millions and you have few hundred million people make $500/year. The middle class for them makes only $800/month. Money all flows to the top to the government/state firms, and much eventually flows out to Canada/Australia/US.

> The other weird thing is Americans who move to low cost south east Asia locations and run dropship ecommerce stores that make $2000 a month and live like they were making 10 times that in the bay area.

Living abroad is good for young singles, bad for anyone else. There's bad weather, dirty food, dirty water, food poisoning, no access to good healthcare, lots of noise and pollution. Not to mention if you're an entrepreneur, you are not putting down a root, not making network connections you need for sales, not going to meetup events and learning new technologies, etc.
The rocket scientist does have a different path to immigration, as a 'person of exceptional ability'. This is, granted, a higher bar and more limited than the typical 'high skills'-promoting immigration policies of some other countries.
This is a VERY interesting reply, because it showcases so much.

Having innovators publish isn't, big picture, important. The big picture importance is getting people to actually use the fruits of research in society where that would be optimal. Publication is a tiny element of making that happen, by facilitating tech transfer (but not really, because a huge chunk of patented innovations can't be replicated from the filed documents or published research papers. Intentionally.).

So why is publication treated as the aim? Because the rewards associated with innovation are best secured by secrecy in the absence of other anti-free-rider measures. Hence secrecy is replaced as the source of reward for innovators because secrecy is directly at odds with the social desire to implement superior tech or processes.

Your refrain is a common one used by patent maximalists to describe patents as a transaction between the public and the innovator, rather than a grant of privilege. This is because if we divorce patents from their actual social utility, and instead focus on their immediate results, we can ignore their externalities and create a self-fullfilling positive KPI to talk about ("Hey look, we published n innovations in public! More than last year!" vs. "On a Net basis, we've bettered things in society.")
Seconded. Been using it for years. So long as you avoid the granny variation, it will not come undone.
Indeed. One other factor which the study does not touch upon but I do wonder about - burnout - essentially "poor employment conditions".

One thing which has substantially changed between '99 and now is employer expectation of availability. In '99, you may have worked 9-6, but when you left the office, you left the office. Sure, some tech folks, some traders, etc. may have had pagers back then - but now, the mobile phone is ubiquitous, and the universal expectation is that you are available and ready to work, even if it's 4am on Sunday and you got married yesterday.

It's purely anecdotal, but I am "in my prime", and have opted out of being a productive member of society for now, as being broke beats being broken. I'm not alone in this - in the past 18 months of peripateticism, I've met many others, mostly tech folks, in the same boat.

Bluntly, market price isn't enough to completely sacrifice any semblance of an existence outside of work.
There's a related problem. No company wants to be the first to raise wages either because their margin is already thin or they don't yet have faith in the economy to dive head first. Usually the latter. A lot about the economy is sentiment. When sentiment improves, companies will invest more in labor as well as other improvements. Until then they wouldn't want to look a fool.
In this age of ghosting people, it seems like everybody is just eyeing everyone else for a reason to stop talking to them or pull the trigger on the block button. We used to be socially-integrated enough to put up with people's foibles and correct them until we are all within a liveable range. Now you cannot confront or give feedback without it blowing up into hyperbole.

I have been openly asked about my politics at an interview for a Y Combinator startup (Starsky Robotics). "We need to make sure you are not a horrible person." One of my references later told me that the co-founder was on the phone almost 20 minutes asking probing questions about me. No offer, no feedback. Who stands a chance with that level of scrutiny?
Climate change denialism has more in common with Flat Earth Theory than religion of any stripe. (Which makes so many Americans buying into it all the more frighting.)
Hah, I worked in a grocery store part of my time and college and this is very similar to the way I was taught to tie plastic grocery bags shut. Sub the two handles of the bag for these loops, and repeat it a second time after pulling through. Extremely useful for people on bike.

Practically impossible for the knot to come undone and after 5 minutes of practice you can do it in literally 1-2 seconds.
A few years of this does not make it normal.

While we're quoting the article:

> These kinds of temperature anomalies in the Arctic have become commonplace in winter in the past few years.

Implying they haven't been in the past.
Physics has had a lot of predictive power: economics hasn't. "Asteroids are incredibly powerful" is a physical statement, and a physical statement of causation that you can only make because physics is better-understood.

With exceptions, physical statements have predictive power. With exceptions, economic statements don't. So that's why I say that causality in economics is not generally understood.
It is delightfully simple, nice and clean.

A pleasing font family, no JavaScript, some basic CSS, stick to basic HTML tags and use them properly.

https://comminos.com/css/default.css
Swedish agency to make a dead person digitally immortal with AI and bots
American companies have actively moved their manufacturing to other countries to save on labor, nobody forced them.

This resulted in lower prices but was a net negative for the American job market.

America was totally free to engage in free trade by exporting their local products abroad, and by accepting foreign products to be sold in their own market without gutting their production capacity.
> Not really sure what the point of this red herring is but the theory of protectionism applies equally well at all levels from the mom and pop grocery store opposed to a new Walmart to continent sized economic blocks.

I agree that the effects would be largely the same. The point of the thought experiment is that protectionists never clamor for interstate trade barriers.

Almost universally, protectionists accept and even marvel at the US single market and interstate free trade, but they somehow lose sight of the benefits when trade becomes international.
Doctors, Revolt
Thinking Physics: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Physics-Understandable-Pract...

It's a little bit like The Little Schemer in that it often asks you a question and expects you to try to answer it before turning the page (or turning it upside down). The problems tend to go like "if you did this, would that (A) increase (B) decrease (C) stay the same" or "(A) increase by one (B) double (C) quadruple" -- to minimize technical machinery while still engaging you with genuine problems, not vague analogies.

The same author has a book on relativity which looked very good from the first couple of chapters I read.
Agreed. Humans tend to quickly self-sort into tribes. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's fun (sports), sometimes it's exploitable
.. is that magic that you want in any other product ?
the `simplest` I know are redis commands that show the taken.
It’s almost Taoist... he says nothing and everything, satisfying everyone and no one... at great length. Economics is perfect for him.
Yeah that's exactly what happened. Mobile client glitched, but it's in both places now.
Like so many map makers.
Indeed, that is nonsense.

Rossignol is a French company by the way.

But I don't see anything exceptional there, it is similar to the nonsense America engages in vv Canada when it comes to dairy, beef and lumber.
Sure, just a simple little matter of rearranging our entire food supply; relocating at least 39% of the US population, not to mention a few hundred million residents of China, India, Bangladesh, etc.; decades or centuries of turbulent and unpredictable weather (hurricanes are so exciting!); massive ecological upheaval during which most species on earth either have to migrate to new habitats, evolve, or go extinct (and don't forget it'll be the shortest-lifespan creatures that will adapt most quickly to their new circumstances -- so goodbye trees, hello swarms of insects!)

Sure. Great idea. Brilliant. Why wouldn't we welcome it?
What no one told you about feminism and gender equality
Does your LIL have anything to do with this[1] one described in an old issue of Byte?

[1] https://archive.org/stream/BYTE_Vol_02-10_1977-10_Implementi...
Anecdotal: 3 days ago it hit 78˚F/25.6˚C here in NYC, the hottest ever recorded for Feb 21 and ever recorded for all of Feb. The previous record for Feb 21 was 68˚F/20˚C in 1930. The previous hottest day in all of February was 75˚F/23.9˚C in 1985. The average high temp for NYC in Feb is usually 44˚F/6.7˚C. This year it's 49˚F/9.4˚C.
I don't think so. If he didn't go into management and the working level was a GS-13, he'd eventually max out at a GS-13, Step 10, which is $133,967 a year in San Francisco.

His pension, under the current system, would be his "high three" average times 1% times years of service ($133,967 * .01 * 21) = $28,133.
Well some of that is universities charge more for international students and see them as a revenue stream.
The part about lemonade almost made me quit reading. Why did he describe it that way?
I think instead of making Pascals wager, it's more useful to simply ask: What's the likelihood (or evidence) that x religion is human created?
It will just be a sub-component of systemd. Named colord.
Anybody else worried/cautious about giving a company even more data about one's location, driving habits, etc. (also, without that company sharing that data with the user whose data it is) - also, knowing that the company is truly in control of the vehicle?
I'm all for renewable energy and electric vehicles, but it could be done without selling the user.
That looks like a big improvement too, thanks!
That's pretty adorable
That's a bit silly. Why would a meatatarian eat anything except meat? They would be an omnivore if they did.

What you're really saying is that either:

a. The meatatarians are actually omnivores, and just mislabeled.
b. The meatatarians are _occasionally_ omnivores, out of preference.

Bending dietary preferences when there is social pressure ("they served me this food, being morally good to me personally means I should eat it" or "I'm on a diet, but everyone else is eating cake so I should too") is not all that surprising, especially if the reason you are excluding one type of food is because of _preference_.

But when you exclude a certain type of food out of health needs (allergic, lactose intolerance, etc) nobody will bat an eye. If a vegetarian refuses to eat meat for their own mental / moral health, I would argue it should be treated the same.
Disclaimer: I've been on H1B for 8 years and transferred it many times to big and small companies.

My observations:

1. USA has plenty of talent and they don't need generic engineers from other countries.

2. H1B workers are not underpaid

3. Only reason tech companies praising H1B is because their hiring process is broken. They select arbitrary interview questions and determine competency based on them. This is total bs and they end up passing on super intelligent US citizens then make bs claim that there are not enough tech talent in the USA.

4. USA does need specialists but they would come on O-1 visa anyways so H1B is not in picture here.
Which would have merit if it weren't for the fact that Nassim Taleb is constantly peddling very elementary stuff and selling it as a kind of underdog insight that no-one has ever heard before and that the establishment is allegedly hiding from us.

Yes, intolerance can crowd out tolerance, normal distributions can break down, tails matter and so forth. Every time I picked up one of his books I felt like I'm reading a really angry stats 101 book with nine out of ten paragraphs being rants about the academia combined with very questionable nutritional and medical advice
Even single data points can be statistically significant if they are extreme enough. But here is a fact that often gets ignored: the Northwest Passage, which was famously impassable for centuries, now regularly has civilian cruise ships navigating it in the summer. I was on such a cruise a few years ago. Not only was the NWP navigable, we actually had to go out of our way to find any sea ice at all.
In my house we all drink semi skimmed milk even though only 1 member wants it
It’s not an unusual phenomenon. It’s just the market at work, changing the prices due to changes in supply and demand. The price of people (aka their wage) goes down because the supply of people has gone way up.

The quality of life is equalizing across the world and this is how. Those who were higher have to go down, those who were lower will go up.
I feel like a majority of the regressive behavior Cuban sights emanates from existing sociology and philosophy programs at the university level...
As someone who is convinced of climate change, I like to think my mind would be changed rather easily with some comforting graphs and believable theories on how those graphs show the earth is in fact not warming ever more rapidly since the industrial revolution.

I mean, that would be really really nice.
I have no connection of any sort to Stride (or any chat app for that matter, other than a few I use, which doesn't include Stride yet). This aspect of chat has just been a point for me for years. Looks like Stride and Twistapp are both attempting to solve it, among others. Wouldn't surprise me if there were some Slack plugins to do similar things as well.
This hasn’t happened to me yet, but now it has a place in my thoughts, whereas 10 years ago I had no inkling of the possibility whatsoever.
Doesn't warming of the coldest parts of the world mean there will be more usable land? I have read that global warming could have benefits for countries such as Russia.
And 9.9% of Wells Fargo. Perhaps they should focus on improved leadership in that particular investment.
Too true. And certainly the US constitution used to enshrine slavery.

But the more difficult it is to take away the rights of the minority (particularly the right to vote), the better.
When someone self-identifies as a member of profession A, there are relatively quick ways of communicating their level of expertise, e.g. education, place of employment, job title, years of experience.

When someone self-identifies as a believer in religion X or political label Y, it is less easy to characterize their experience in the practice (usually harder than knowledge) of the community's exoteric and esoteric principles.
I'm male