skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvidia has also pulled out of crypto mining. https://cryptocoinspy.com/nvidia-pulls-out-of-crypto-mining-...
You seem to think that glangdale is trying to play down Abu Ghraib. I think they're acknowledging the horror there while also trying to draw attention to other atrocities.
I asked Sam that exact question earlier and he was already working on it. But it's complicated for fiduciary reasons, and not the sort of thing that can be put together in a few hours.
> China is far and away the worst offender

Those data are from 2011, and at the time China was importing huge quantities of plastic from the entire world. This was documented in Plastic China[1], a censored[2] short film which rumor has it was instrumental in getting China to cut down on their mixed plastic imports.[3] I'd be curious how the situation has changed since then.

It's an important distinction. The plastic is coming from Chinese rivers, but that doesn't mean it originated from Chinese consumers. It just means China wasn't rich enough to box it up and ship it across the border (like was done to them).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRVhRt1p54

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/world/asia/chinas-environ...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767769x8
I'm 100% positive I did this last week because I explicitly remember asking my colleague if we need to create an account or not. He said no but it appears the site has changed.
I love this. And Europe can make these tags mandatory for all ads and trackers.
Pinker’s “Better Angels of our Nature” is a masterwork on the subject. It’s also a terrific read and will change your view of history and make you happy to be alive in the present!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nat...
It appears that it did change in last few days because I had a conversation with a teammate and remember asking about signing up for an account and he showed me how to download without. However, today I cannot find the same navigation path when trying so I think something changed.
Why does it have to be a western democracy? Chinese companies are a good example - Cisco is rapidly losing market share to Huawei, who can employ skilled workers at a fraction of the price.
>You are confusing Capitalism with foreign policy.

Do you think it's a coincidence the world adopted the economic and political system of the world's superpower? When there two superpowers, the world was neatly divided by the economic and political system of those respective of superpowers. Another coincidence?

Before WW2 and America's official accession to a superpower status, even Europe didn't really embrace democracy (outside of Britain and France), with fascism and communism taking hold of much of the continent.

>Empires have never fared well once they fell from power

I'm not even sure how to contextualize that statement. Empires have always fared well but you're right they don't last, and when they fall, it leads to anarchy, misery and war... until the next Empire. So I wouldn't be so quick to celebrate America's decline as the maintainer of present global order.

>The US actively instigated violent revolutions, torture, and abuses in other countries.

Forest for the trees. I'm sure you can pick out many individual cases where you think America didn't live up to your ideals ... but it's a big world, and lots of things happen and this sort of selective focus on negatives is easily done and gives a warped perspective.

Look at the big picture. We live in the most peaceful and prosperous time in the human history. Things like that don't happen by happenstance.
Yes, that's about right. Companies which were intended to be placed in an audit-only track were accepted.
I find it hard to care, that a made up distinction about slavery, which has existed for millenia, has reached its 500th anniversary.

The slave trade in Africa was continuous for thousands of years until mostly stopped by western countries.

Kingdom of Dahomey (now known as Benin) : slavery was integral to their economy, well before contact with European traders.

Mansa Musa, often billed as the richest man in history : dealt in slaves and gold. Died 1337, well before contact with European traders.
I was so happy seeing the email of me being accepted to Startup School, but then I saw another email about it being an error, I am a bit sad, but then after reading I'm feeling happy again, than you to YC for giving us an opportunity.
A google recruiter approached me after a talk at pycon years ago (I am a self-taught programmer of 20years) asking if I was looking for a job because I sounded like just the kind of person they were looking for. I informed him that his company was not interested in hiring under-educated plebs like myself, took his google yo-yo and walked off. I still have it as a trophy :)
I've been to Thailand twice and I find the Thai food in the USA to be much better. When I asked my Thai friends about this they said it could be that the ingredients are of higher quality in the US...
Oh yeah I realize that - just going on the extended not just Cisco, and not just H1-B - there are companies right now in the US that are hiring outside firms or buying such firms employing 20-40 pakistani "employees" for software development. The money is basically just funnelling outside the US at incredible speeds. That software is then sold to US companies at 10 times the price.
I can't stay mad at y'all after this response.

I am looking forward to making your application reviewer peeps feel silly after this is all over though. Team 2nd chance has a lot to prove, and I think many of us do really appreciate YC's new commitment to supporting ALL founders at this point, even if it took a mistake to get there.
In fact, I pointed out the exact effect you mentioned: that this fraud caused diffuse losses. It's well documented that most humans have trouble feeling empathy in the face of statistical harms, so in that sense I'm just a normal person. It has nothing to do with creativity or understanding. I am comfortable with my emotional stance on this article.

Also worth noting that, broadly speaking, the same general class of folks harmed by this practice were also helped by other "bank errors" in their favor. (By that, I mean the wealthy. People who can afford to be shareholders in banks.) So it's doubly hard to feel bad, since, by and large, the wealthy have never been doing better.
Some of it for sure, but there are a lot of other things to look at. And of course the whole idea of startup school is to try to cast a much wider net, orders of magnitude wider.
https://imgur.com/7eFDT5X
I think this is the best outcome - cheers to YC for handling this in this way.
Very exciting stuff. I hope this experiment is successful and it paves a way towards a completely open model. It seems only logical that any startup should be able to enter the arena and fail or succeed on their actual merit itself, and not some kind of proxy or guess.

This really does seem like one of those magical "listen to your users" moments in a startup's life. Startup School teaching by example and practicing what it preaches.
Article mentions the availability of more potent strains. What people fail to realize is that skunk has more THC than CBD, and the ratio is way out of whack. If more people chose hash there would be less mental health issues as CBD is a known, well researched anti-psychotic, and counteracts the often frenzied high of skunk (or the leafy high-potency plant material known as skunk).

The hashish high is very different, as the CBD gives you a body high and as I said, can ease the nerves and frenzied energy of a skunk high.
I'd ask you to think about pretty much any of the recent wars that have happened... Innocent people died, sometimes in extreme pain, in each of them.
>If you think of maintaining global order as helping to maintain that lead

Except I wouldn't think of it that way. I don't think that's the correct interpretation. I think maintaining global order means you live in the world you want to live in. Americans wanted to spread American ideals of Democracy, free speech and free enterprise. Soviet Union wanted to spread Soviet ideals. I think that's as simple as that.
This is the whole article for me:

Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries.

Thank you GRPR for preventing this website from invading my privacy! I prefer the polite notice to intrusion. To those users in the target locale, beware this website's practices.
This feels like Oracle.
If engineers didn't constantly reinvent the wheel they wouldn't have anything to blog about.
> what is so different about the US that we can't seem to be able to fix this?

While this is massively oversimplified in something that has many variables, as an outsider, I see a significant variable as a preoccupation with money in the US. We all love money no doubt, but US seems to have turned it into a quasi religion.

This behaviour would much less likely happen to rich people because the person doing it doesnt want to loose their job and get sued (so money). And poor people struggle to get justice because they cant afford it, money again.

Further I think the bad actors in this space behave this way because money is so important e.g I was only following orders is classic thinking of people that want to keep jobs over their morals.

My other view is that the world is being increasingly run by what I call 'one step thinkers'. They are people that can be smart but tend to see the world around them in singular cause/effect only. In this articles case all they can see is their job to stop drug transport.. Meanwhile if you step back and consider you have to shove your fingers up a bunch of innocent womens vaginas against their will, so essentially rape women, to find the occasional drug mule, you'd probably reconsider how important it is to catch that drug mule in this method.
I think this is a great solution! I hope this year will be amazing.
While Cornell was the first big example in 2003, it's been done many times since:

http://time.com/3637980/college-admissions-mistakes-johnshop...

It actually happens dozens of times per year on a one-off basis, usually with college coaches telling recruits they've been accepted when the admissions office has only provisionally accepted them.
>> Why not hire the best no matter where they come from?

Here's what H1-B actually works if you hire "the best": you hire people who are way overqualified for the job, and pay them peanuts while they are on H1-B. "But H1-B requires that they are paid no less than US workers" you might reasonably object. There's a loophole for that: just hire them at a way lower job ladder level than an American would consider adequate, and don't promote them as much. It's not like they have much of a choice anyway: they can either work here or GTFO to their country of origin within 2 weeks.

I liked Trump's proposal that only the highest paid positions get H1-B visas. That way economic incentives essentially turn H1-B into an auction for the truly great people, and make life easier for fresh US grads. I'm not sure what happened to that proposal. It was probably smothered in the crib by FANG lobbyists.

Full disclosure: I'm a former H1-B, now a naturalized US citizen.
>This last century ... example of ideologies that allowed otherwise perfectly normal, God-fearing, salt of the earth folk to turn into horror-machines of rape, mutilation and slaughter.

well, just off the top of the head - today we have Yemen, Rahingya, Syria - the places where large number of innocent people/civilians suffer and die as direct result of other, reasonably normal, people just doing their job of inflicting that suffering and death in the name of the cause that is presented as a pretty good cause in all these cases - fighting terrorism.
I think I first saw it after installing DSM 6.2
The Un-Snappening has occurred
Generate them yourselves:

http://t2i.cvalenzuelab.com/
Is that rhetorical or do you actually wonder why? If it is rhetorical, what's the real reason you think the history of the American slave trade receives coverage while the Arab slave trade doesn't?
We’re building Solo, an open source security key that implements the new FIDO2 standard. We’re launching a kickstarter during the school, fingers crossed.

If you’d like to join the waitlist: https://solokeys.com/
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here and especially please be civil.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have heard the rule is that if it's the food you're selling, it has to be real. But if you have some extra stuff in there (suppose you're selling a topping or something like that), that stuff can be fake food because it's not the food being advertised.

One story that I read somewhere involved opening 50 frozen dinners and picking the 20 or so very best peas for the photographs. Technically each pea came from the actual product! So they seem to go to some lengths to obey the rules, even if it involves some bending.
Agreed. I also never understood why Al Capone has such a bad stigma when he was really just a run of the mill tax evader.
Can you please stop using HN primarily for political battle? That's a violation of the site guidelines and the spirit of intellectual curiosity that, against the odds, we're trying to keep up here.

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MR. Y Combinator ....I don't feel so good...
I was thinking the same thing - probably the number that actually starts the course will be in the 90%s of the total and there will be a fair amount of attrition as the course proceeds.

It would be interesting to see what these numbers look like as well over the ten weeks.
That's what I was thinking!
The game sounded very interesting, until I read a bit in the forums.

Some players are really toxic. Twitter is a peaceful, loving place compared to that. No way I will spend my free time in this game.
Homomorphic encryption and quantum cryptography
If you are able to detect them, serve them garbage data instead of blocking them. Mix in some false entries etc. If you completely block them they will work hard to work around the block, but if you give them some bad data randomly it will take them longer to notice.

Also, you can use the fake data as evidence they scraped you.
Consider how the men who toiled on the ships of that era lived: https://www.newworldexploration.com/explorers-tales-blog/lif...
>and not everyone can be a citizen; resource limits, cultural integration, those such issues, see the EU for examples of those challenges and why they limit economic migrants

Concern about the "challenges" of too many brown people in your country is usually just called "racism."
Job Scheduling.. We're using jenkins heavily at one of my clients sites for this (it's already used for builds, so scheduling jobs didn't seem that far afield..) The thing I'm missing, and would love to know if exists, is a calendar like view of all of the scheduled jobs, ala google calendar. Surely a product must exist that provides this view?
Sounds like it's time to coast for a while, recharge your energy, then go back on the job market. Now that you're currently employed as a SWE your resume will look better.
I find them to be pretty much as useful as the ubiquitous Proposition 65 warnings (ubiquitous to California, that is) placed in almost every business. Similar to the prop 65 signs that tell me living in the modern world exposes me to certain chemicals that carry a non-zero risk of harm, these GDPR/cookie notices essentially say using the web will expose me to cookies and such... in both cases, I already knew it and the downsides seem to be worth all the upsides.

Having said that, Prop 65 warnings usually sit quietly on some wall or paper somewhere, annoying only the business owners that have to print/place them, whereas the GDPR/cookie warnings thrust themselves in my face every damn time I visit a complying website in a new session. Very annoying in a way Prop 65 warnings are not.
I really like this response, I would totally understand if they sent up follows ups "we're really sorry...", but this seems like a really neat response.

I'd be really interested if at the end of the cycle they published the success stats vs. their original invitee success stats. I would expect a lower overall success result - I'm sure there are startups that would never work ("our business model is to just directly give our VC money to our users and profit on scale") they would be denied, but it would be curious how the stats diverged.

e.g. comparing overall performance when controlling for gender, race, religion, field, etc
If you can type without much thought, then I wouldn't worry about increasing your typing speed. Touch typing is nice because you spend less time thinking about the physical action of typing. 50wpm and 100wpm make little difference.
Aurora? Nomad?
Security of the Epyc 7000 AMD chip
> Automated network failover equipment often causes more downtime than having multiple links and only failing over manually, or even depending on a single link.

Failing over manually sounds fine. If they can't swap over at all then that's a sign of fragility which will cause its own problems.
I think they are useless when there is no "don't drop cookies on me" option.

more like "Hey we have to tell you we're doing this evil thing, ok?"

Obviously the 'negative' response is to hit the back button on your browser.
You're "normally" devoid of creativity?

Your second paragraph: you relate "general class of folks harmed by this practice" (ie everyone) with "the wealthy" ...? Can you explain that, I'm a bit confused.
This comment only makes sense in the context of ideological battles that HN is not the place for. Please don't post them here, and especially not with snarky flamebait like "Excuse me for not being able to care".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fear and Loathing in AI.
it might be the best answer, but it is not the "easiest" for sure haha
thanks for trying!
Because without some distinction of who has responsibilities and obligations to the Sovereign state then we can't have any sort of consistency at all in how we govern ourselves. This is a concept that has deep philosophical underpinnings, coming from Aristotle to Plato and elsewhere. To put in bluntly: Citizens have skin in the game in a way "inhabitants" don't. If the social fabric of a nation-state starts to break down, the Citizens are the ones that have to deal with the consequences. The only way we've come up with to denote who has to deal with this is the Citizenship marker.

I'm curious. Where is this new belief that "Citizenship" is a concept that needs to be blown up coming from? It appears to have become quite common over the last couple years. It has to be coming from somewhere.
I've yet to find a reliable way to prevent Excel from destroying dates (or seeing dates in other data) though. In this regard I prefer LibreOffice. (Or SQLite, if I'm the only person working on it.)

I might have missed something obvious though so feel free to point it out. Google failed me though.
Perhaps I'm naive, but I read it as, "I don't want to spam this blog post with a bunch of pictures that aren't the absolute cream of the crop, but if you're really into it, here's how to get more." It seemed pretty reasonable to me, since the post flowed well with the pictures chosen and might not have if the author tried to cram them all in. Hanlon's razor and all that.
Green cards take 20+ years now a days. It isn't a viable option anymore .
No, the originally not selected startups will not get advisors. But they will get access to forums that will have mentors as well.
I'd make prints of some of these for my wall
> worst genocide in human history

Yes, racial slavery was a terrible evil. But it wasn't genocide, which has a specific definition (intention to wipe out a specific people). Slave traders wanted enough people alive to sell at a profit.

The scope of the death toll was large, but spread over a long period.

From Wikipedia:

> Approximately 1.2 – 2.4 million Africans died during their transport to the New World. More died soon upon their arrival.[1]

Over 300 years.

Compare to other genocides[2], which murdered similar numbers (or much more) but happened over just a few years.

Maybe you meant "worst" in the sense of most injustice? It certainly stands out, but it doesn't hold a candle to the death inflicted on a colossal scale by the governments of the 20th century during both war and peace. Estimates place Stalin's body count between 3-9 million.[3] WWII civilian deaths are estimated at 50 million and included the genocide of the Halocaust.[4]

Slavery is evil, but war is so much worse.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_tol...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_deaths_in_the_Soviet...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
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Huawei doesn't count. China has a heavily managed economy. If Huawei employs workers at a fraction of the cost, it's not because Indians, Vietnamese and Turkish tech workers are flocking to Shenzen instead of San Jose. It's because the Chinese government wants it that way.
Service as a SKU (2012)
That's a great resource (had to share it on HN LOL)
'utterly perfect ' are not my words

http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Multithreading-with-ZeroMQ

Thought linking it there would make it better, but I'll just remove it...

And you do make a good point. It doesn't really solve anything technically. But would you agree that it exposes a better API for doing much of the same stuff?
I did this stuff for money. My background is double major in Computer Science and Computational Math with specialization in Systems Programming (that means operating systems, networking stack, databases and - yes - compilers).

I liked it a lot, but realized I did not want to dedicate my career exclusively to this. While comp can be pretty comfortable if you are good at it, compilers are pretty niche, changing workplaces would be difficult.
No personal swipes on HN, please.
Please do not be uncivil or use HN for political battle.

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SUNY Buffalo seems to have held the previous record of 5109. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/us/us-university-buffalo-acce...
That’s true of certain visas. There are a variety of different visas.

I grew up next to an orchard that almost exclusively used Jamaican guest workers to pick apples and other fruit. Same thing with horse tracks, etc. There is no farm operating at any significant scale that isn’t using migrant labor, mostly legal.
Yes. Almost anyone who has enough capital to consider owning MBSen (or interest in entities that transitively own MBSen) would be in the top 20%ile of wealth, at least. And in terms of exposure, naturally, as you have more wealth, you're more exposed to wealth destruction. So the big losers were mostly members of the top 1%.

But it is my contention that the top 1% are doing quite well. You do not need to feel bad that a handful of their bets paid off poorly, any more than you should feel bad upon hearing that the eventual winner of a poker tournament lost a hand at the first table.
> if you haven't made it big at 40

I remember a meme in Silicon Valley that if you weren't a millionaire by 30 then you failed. And that was in the 1980's.
Jesus, four fingers!?
Database migrations are inherently stateful so I'm not a fan of indompodence here, it can leave the schema in some arbitrary states. I much prefer tools like flyway (https://flywaydb.org/) that are more deterministic, each migration will only be run once so you're going from known state to known state.
Here it's Quartz and its JDBC persistence baked into a Dropwizard application with a custom resource implementing job and trigger CRUD ops, and a Spring-based JobFactory for dependency injection stuff. Quartz has a few funny behaviors that could be better, but on the whole it's been working out nicely for scheduling across a multi-node stateless cluster.