skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the myths that a lot of former Soviet Union citizens believe themselves. Unfortunately, crime levels isn't a thing that can be accurately reported from your own experience - you have to rely on some objective outside measure. And while any crime-related news (or any bad news, for that matter) were heavily suppressed, soviet police was equally reluctant to open investigations, because of statistic-based reward system in place.

Independent investigations now show that there was actually a lot of everyday crime. Even serial killers were just as common in USSR as they were in US, I've read a whole book about the notorious cases - but while in US media elevated them to celebrity status, in USSR the whole thing was heavily suppressed, and most people only heard rumours.

Please, don't perpetuate soviet propaganda.
By the same guys who gave the talk on how common most physical keys were? That one was a blast, too. Wouldn't you know that a key which opens one Kone elevator opens EVERY Kone elevator...
Kinda, an air tunnel.

But really it seems like Musk is trying to help, you're the one who's just offering an opinion.
Thats not to convince you that the thing you're talking to is a human. It's to let you know the call hasn't dropped. People on phones get weird when there is dead air. So instead of it just sitting silently not saying anything while it looks up your account number and cross references it with other various backend systems it play some familiar analog.
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Curiously enough this only happens in the US. It seems that there is a rationale behind every decision that is made here, and yet the overall system doesn’t work for most people.

In that case this case can as well be summarized as: hospital seizes opportunity to maximize profits on baby, then every decision in the chain becomes clear.
No, I mean what does it mean for an app to have multi-monitor support? Isn't that usually a domain for the window manager. The app can be dragged from one monitor to another.
I suppose that gets more into agency? I would assume, barring a good reason, that in most conversations 'consent' would imply that the persons involved in fact had agency to give consent.
Don't throw away jQuery just yet.
Or mine a few bitcoins with pen and paper. That should keep you busy for a while.
This is a great resource: https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks
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I haven't applied updates in over a year on windows 7. Before I do I take an image of my disk so I can go revert all changes. I check each one to see what it is going to change. This takes a lot of time so I don't want to do it every week. I wait until I am between critical tasks or projects.

I rely on my computer to make money which I use to pay for food and accommodation! I rely on my computer to run simulations which can take weeks. I can't have it randomly rebooting in the middle of them and setting me back! My customers rely on me and my computer and the esoteric software installed on it to make their plants run. I can't have major system components changing underneath it risking the functionality of the computer!

I can be responsible for myself and my computer and not click stupid links and open stupid attachments or even be connected to hostile networks with all kinds of TCP/UDP ports open. In the event that it happened I would rather my computer was part of a botnet temporarily then regularly risking my ability to feed and house my family.

I don't run antivirus software other than windows defender either. it is the cure worse than the disease.
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I took that class (comp 116) a few years ago! Just had some fun finding and rereading my own final paper from the archives (the one you linked to makes mine seem way less interesting). Ming is a really awesome and unique lecturer.
> Everyone expects layoffs and pay freezes (or even pay drops) on recessions. Why aren't the pay raises in boom times commensurate?

Why would you expect those? This is capitalism. Profit-making entities operate like a ratchet. They'll forward their losses to employees during recessions, but they'll pocket the gains internally during booms. Sure, redirecting some of the extra profits towards employee retention is a sound strategy, but I fear costs of turnover escape financial models in most businesses.
Job postings, and especially recruiters, are about the worst way to get information about salary. Recruiters in particular are not at all incentivized to help you get a competitive offer and sometimes are paid a higher commission if they get you to accept a salary under a certain threshold. If working with a recruiter, you have to take a really hard line with them, and tell them you absolutely will not reveal salary specifics until after you’ve had a few interviews with a company where it might work out, and repeatedly remind them that you are looking for top-end market compensation, so they understand you’re cognizant of what you are worth and care about being paid well.

In Chicago specifically, GrubHub, Teza, Google, Salesforce, DRW, IMC Trading, Akuna Capital, and Citadel are companies I’ve directly spoken with about Chicago-based position salary over the years, and all of them have positions for people around ~3-5 years of experience but above average expertise with base salaries in the range of $180k-$210k. If you naively go into negotiations at these places and openly state low six figure salary numbers or just take a recruiters word for it, then yes, of course they will try to pitch you everything in the $120k-$140k range. You have to do well in interviews and then tell them, no, that kind of below-market nonsense isn’t going to work, and really walk away if they won’t pay more competitively.
Note: you can read the name of the poster, so in this reply you are both attacking a strawman (nobody made the assertion you claim was made) and also attributing that quote to the wrong person. Impressive :)
For a sufficiently broad definition of supercomputer, you'd want to add so many other science and engineering simulation problems: fluid dynamics, controlled and uncontrolled combustion, geophysics and seismology, hydrology, structures and finite-element analysis, crowds and swarms, etc.

Astrophysics is also a close cousin to nuclear weapons research, simulating high energies and pressures, a mixture of nuclear, chemical, and physical interactions, turbulent fluid dynamics, shock waves, etc.

In some sense, we can assume the high end of supercomputing is always applicable to increasing the (spatial or temporal) resolution of any existing grid-based model or the scope/extent of nearly any model (e.g. simulate a larger area/volume/complex structure or system).

Another easy way to soak up computational resources is in coupling of models, e.g. combine your weather or simulation with pollutant tracking, ocean current simulation, gas transfer between the ocean and atmosphere, and so on.
> you're left with the mere observation that there are multiple factors that work against different groups of people. Perhaps we should account for more of those factors. But it doesn't follow logically that we should stop accounting for the factors that hold black families back.

Indeed there are. But in practical terms, there are so many things that happened in the past to people that disadvantage them today (e.g., grandpa had polio) that it is impossible in practice to account for all of them.

If we however take some factors, generally the ones that are easy to observe such as race, and try to address them without addressing the rest, that is textbook selection bias. So the logical argument against (semi-exclusively) accounting for the factors that hold black families back is that it would be selection bias to do so.

Furthermore, advocates of affirmative action rarely answer the very important question "how will we know when the policy is successful and past discrimination has been offset by present advantage?"

The only reasonable answer I can think of is "when members of the discriminated group have equal outcomes on average to nondiscriminated groups on average". But if this is true, then given the above, the logical way to proceed is to target underprivileged people individually, as that is the only way you will ever get such equity over all the different factors.
Does anyone know linguistically more about this "many a <singular thing>" construction? I've seen many an instance of this and I find it curious
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I really don't see any variation among nationalities. It's really less a question of nationality and more a question of the location of the Consulate - certain Consulates, particularly those in the Philippines and India and now London more and more, have a relatively high denial rate. Our success rate is still high but, like all immigration lawyers, to get there we're having to battle more and more, particularly in the H-1B context, on oftentimes ridiculous issues. With premium processing, an O-1 will be reviewed within 2 weeks; without, anywhere from 2 to 5 months.
It is true that the EU has worked with NATO. However, it's not clear that America needs all the military force it has since a lot of it is quite cleary force projecting on economic adversaries.

Suggesting the EU "needed" this is a bit misleading. And I say this as an American exasperated at our refusal to reduce force projection on foreign nations.
It sounds like your concerns are based on what some eventual form of this technology might become. Duplex is incredibly domain-specific, and will only make calls on behalf of Google, not random phishers.

Being worried about Duplex in its current form is like being worried about Siri becoming conscious. Your concerns about malicious AI voices are valid, but that eventual technology will be nothing like Duplex in its current form, and it's still a long way off
I mean the BQ datasets aren't managed by Reddit, they're sourced from pushshift, so Reddit wouldn't immediately take them down.

Whether or not Reddit could file a DMCA complaint to force it down is up for debate.
First: Many people read a comment. One writes it. It's kind of nice to take the time to put the links in, rather than making all your readers go to Wikipedia and search for themselves.

Second: The US withdrew from Saudi Arabia. That doesn't mean they got there by invading. They didn't.
Another one of those threads that causes intense navel-gazing, shame, and mounting disgust in my gut for myself as I realize that everyone around me is working hard to better themselves while I just binge-watch movies.... and then my eyes glaze over as I mollify myself with the movies until I forget that this thread exists.
There are literally thousands of banks and credit unions in the United States. If your bank sucks, then you have no reason not to take your business to a different one.

Banks seem to occupy a weird space in the minds of consumers. You can open as many accounts as you want at as many banks as you want. If you're paying fees, switch to a bank that doesn't have those fees. If you can't get somebody on the phone, switch to a bank that staffs its call centers. If their website sucks, switch to a bank with a good website.

Try a few out. See what you like. It's just like any other consumer product.
Oh, I have an idea. It involves crazy glue, 4 pallets of waffle cones, and a pitchfork, but nobody writes an article when I spew nonsense.
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That's from Sapiens, right?
The situation in the Bay Area is the default for cities with high inequality. You can go to Hong Kong, Bangkok or Cape Town and find a variation of the same. Even Zurich at one point.
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I had a level 14 mage, who could make water defy the laws of physics and flow backwards up the river. He died from a ruptured artery (and a evil dungeon master) when he used his skills in close combat on a water golem.
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Do you mean their Deep RL Bootcamp?

I haven't been, but it would probably be interesting, and you'd probably meet some interesting people, but Reinforcement Learning in general hasn't really shown a lot of success in industry applications yet, so I wouldn't expect to get a tonne of professional use out of it.
Telephones have taxes, but has anyone tried anything like this?

Calling mother: 15¢/minute
Calling children: 3¢/minute
Calling policy: 25¢/minute
It's more like taxing cafe's and bars by creating entry fee where there was none.
Well, UK officers don't carry guns as much as US officers do. UK officers also don't have to worry about guns as much. However, the lack of centralization of the US system and culture/mindset of the US officers (as a whole) are the main problems IMO
> Because tax, in general is absurd. You're literally taking people's money under the threat of force. Just because it is done quite universally does not justify the practice.

They buy you civilization, which is great because it means you're not just immediately enslaved by your local warlord.
If you are interested in machine learning, I thought this was a very thought provoking lecture:

https://youtu.be/N5oZIO8pE40
>We've got a sugar tax here in the UK as our newest form of indulgence tax.

We just got one in Seattle as well
Oh, whoops. My bad, editing.
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I mean...there are 102 as of this writing.

The project has not, I stress, changed in the interim. ;)
The title seems misleading -- looking at the image in the article, it appears that the tax isn't on social media per se, but on any service that provides mobile voice / messaging functions over cellular data.

Which is effectively a tax against cellular data being treated as a dumb pipe. Still not OK, but a fundamentally different beast than the title implies.

If you're a telco in Uganda, and you have sufficient sway with the government, why not go for broke and try to tax your way back into cellular voice / messaging revenue streams? They can be quite lucrative: in the UK, I'm paying about £1/GB of data, but a single MMS costs 43p. Turns out you can send a lot of group messages on WhatsApp before it uses 43p worth of data...
> It’s not the first time that Greepeace activists breached the security of a French nuclear plant to underline its vulnerability. In October 2017, activists entered the Cattenom nuclear plant in eastern France and set off fireworks.

Aren't nuclear plants guarded almost as military bases with heavy armed patrols, car barricades and etc. ?

Perhaps it is good GP shows these vulnerabilities in innocent way, so counter-measures can be deployed not after a real attack.
I can't answer the second question but I would assume that it follows from the first - and the answer is yes, absolutely; USCIS is giving no deference to prior approvals and, it seems to me, looking to find reasons to deny H-1B petitions rather than adjudicate them on the merits.
I'm not sure I follow, though it seems we might agree?

You say something is wrong, I can say you saying that something is wrong is, in itself wrong. Ultimately, it either doesn't matter at all (we're all just talking), or enough other people agree with us that there is some social consequence.
Being rational doesn't have anything to do with it sadly - at least beyond politician logic of "Does it help me gain/keep power?" sense. The big bad EU works well as a domestic scapegoat like Greece claiming being able to print drachma would help when several subcrisises were related to lack of foreign exchange currency for inputs like pharmaceuticals.
Have you tried using Lerna for monorepo management? I see some projects using it, I haven't yet (no monorepos) but it claims to solve some of those problems. https://github.com/lerna/lerna
I think the proposed theory is that there is a rather broad class of could-be voters that typically don't engage in politics or vote. One example of a small category of people would be klansmen, I imagine for a group that is often sidelined they probably think their vote is wasted and therefore don't typically show up at the ballot on election day.

If your party can identify and connect with those individuals and spark a sense of outrage in them, you are likely to be able to get some portion of them to the ballot on election day.

So it is more meta than educating somebody on Trump/Clinton's politics; it is more about behavioral manipulation via outrage, fake news, etc. The goal isn't to change knowledge or opinions (which is extremely difficult), it is to fan the flame of targeted groups' collective outrage enough to bump election day participation. In many places getting just a 1-3% edge is the difference between winning and losing the election.

My personal takeaway from this is that improving general access to the ballot by making it easier to participate and vote should obviate the effectiveness of this strategy. Each step approaching 100% voter participation forces smaller and smaller returns on the strategy of motivating extremist voters.
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>I just loaded up Reddit full-screen on my desktop with a 2560x1440 resolution

do any websites look good when you do that?
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your use of “paranoia” implies that the choice is a bad one. quite the opposite, IMHO.
Indeed they do. It starts off working fine, but then eventually it stops. I assume they're running some AI/ML against the traffic pattern to determine if it's a VPN. I think they're light-years beyond simple traffic blocking and shaping.
Hi Peter, Thanks a lot for this initiative :)

I am a 28 yr old Software Engineer working in India (Citizenship - India, unmarried). Have around 3 years of experience in IT. My father is a GC holder & he has filed a family based petition for me. My priority date is Nov 7, 2017. Actually, my father was going to wait till he was a naturalized US citizen & then file for my petition, but Trump's activities (cutting off legal immigration by > 50% - RAISE Act) alarmed him and he got in touch with his attorney over my case the very next day.

So, my question here is -
1) Should I go for Masters from USA? Will it help me in getting GC early? If yes, how early? (I am really keen on completing my Masters from USA, since I would like to be exposed to US way of education - mostly in Artifical Intelligence)

2) Will Trump do something that may deter the petition my father has filed for me? What are the chances, in your opinion?

3) I am going to initiate Canada PR process next year. Would Canada PR brighten my US immigration chances in any way imaginable?

4) I fared quite dismally (7 yrs for a 4 yr course) in my bachelor of engineering course, but final year marks are good and gradually got a job and am doing well now. Would Bachelor of Engineer academic grades hamper my US GCpetition in any way imaginable?

I really appreciate you answering so many questions here. Would be much obliged if you answer mine too.

Sincerely,
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Go to a neurologist. This is likely just carpal tunnel, but it could be anything from spinal stenosis to MS. They'll do nerve conduction studies and determine what's up.

While this probably isn't anything serious, do make sure that you get it checked out.
It won't take up a whole long flight, but one of the best TED talks ever is Jill Bolte Taylor's talk. She's a neuro-anatomist who had a stroke and reports from the inside about what goes on, with significant implications for what kind of choices we make in life:

https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_strok...
There is still tremendous friction in being required to talk to someone. Was "cancel my subscription" an option from your account settings menu? Was it hidden somewhere on the account page? Is there no such button, and instead you had to open a general ticket? Did you have to use google to figure out how to cancel your lifelock subscription? Did the place you post on have a dialogue?

I think your bar is far far too low.
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My college Wi-Fi manages to do it... so I doubt that it can be too hard.
imgur has been fighting the ability to get direct links for a while.

I don't entirely blame them, there's literally no money in direct image hosting for free, but it's getting harder and harder to upload an image, then get a direct link that will work in all situations.

In many cases they look at the referrer and redirect a direct link, and they make it harder and harder to get direct links (first by having the UI show the "full page" link by default, by making the image link to the full page so if you right-click and select "copy image address" it sends you to the "full page", then they moved everything into "albums" which meant it's even harder to link to a single image, and in many cases if you try to right-click and select "copy image address" you get a data URI.
Hi Peter,

This might be a pretty basic question, are there currently any legal options for retaining an employee who you learn is undocumented?
I wasn't saying anything about Redis vs another data store. I meant that the docker-compose should stand up node with TaskBotJS running in addition to Redis.
The whole idea that one country is the best is already ridiculous. There are plenty of countries that are well run and all have positives and negatives. I don't think to makes sense to pick a "best" country between the US, Canada and most European countries. They all can be good places to live.

Living in the US I definitely don't like that a lot of people here think that the US is the greatest nation on Earth. It's a mindset that blocks the country from learning from others and I think is doing a lot of damage (see health care and conditions for the poor). Interestingly people who have that mindset often never have been in another country for an extended time. The only thing they know is the US.
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Yes, that avoids the whole dance.

I think it’s already a done deal if the employee is threatening to leave.

Up until that point, there’s usually:

- self assesment from the employee to explain their perf

- response from the employer about what they agree with and what they don’t like, and what is needed for them to give a raise.

- eventual employee appeal of the decision

- response to the appeal

At that point, if the employee pulls the “I could go somewhere else card”, or the employer was trying to screw the employee, and giving a raise will still leave a bad taste in the mouth of everyone; or the employer can’t do anything and the employee has no choice but to actualy leave.

That’s also why I think trying to keep someone who puts down a demission is useless, except if the company has a drastic change coming up that solves the employee’s complaints.
The History of Rome is another history podcast among the all time greats of the medium I think, worth checking out.
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Ahhhhh after reading and re-reading this a few times I'm finally getting it. They're sarcastically saying that you should be able to see all 3 ads without having to scroll. LOL okay that's actually funny, even after having the joke explained to me.