skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i always kind of wonder when i see a medical doctor explaining statistics to a general audience: do they really have this right?

My wife is in her last year of medical school. I wonder the same question frequently when talking with her peers and seniors. They certainly get taught the basics of interpreting statistics, but I don't really see the "average" doc discussing things in a critical manner.

The system seems deeply focused on the results without critically thinking about the context and appropriateness of the studies.
Just like how it's up to each individual to decide whether they want to be a heroin a addict.
The GDPR regulates the collection and processing of personal data. Not just cookies, not just tracking scripts, but any information about me that an organisation chooses to collect or store. It is important and popular legislation that has significant implications outside of the browser.

A straightforward example is the current trend for consumer DNA testing. In the US, companies like 23andme or Ancestry.com can send you a cheek swab kit, charge you a hundred bucks to find out some trivia about your health or genealogy, then do pretty much anything they like with your genetic data thanks to some vaguely-worded terms of service and a lack of meaningful regulation.

In the EU, those companies can only use your genetic data for explicitly stated purposes with the informed consent of the consumer; the consumer has the right to withdraw their consent at any time, to request a copy of all information held on them or to request deletion of their data.
Yes, definitely. This story is about the decision of one such regulating body.
It’s easier to build somebody’s tech skills than fix their personality. That’s why team dynamics trump tech skills. If your attitude causes bad vibes in the team then you’re out.
H1-B holders can change jobs. The employer you're going to has to sponsor you and then you can just do an H1-B transfer.
It's my understanding that farmers avoid this by subcontracting. They don't hire migrant workers themselves. When you're desperate to get the harvest in, you don't vet your subcontractors too closely if they say they can do the job.
Lots of countries contend with this: Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Britain, etc. People adapt. Perhaps we grow to appreciate our food and throw out less waste.
The process is a nightmare. I've changed 3 jobs under H1B.
Umm.. I'm on H1b and I make a lot.
I don't think this will have that much of an impact (of course, it'll impact a good number of people).

The highest impact would be if they allowed easy H1B transfer to other companies with similar jobs. Right now, H1B is pretty much like indentured servitude (it has become better in the past few years, and it was waaay worse at one time).

The other change would be to give priority based on salary. That will encourage H1B employers to pay more; thus, attracting more USCs.
Farm work could be shipped off by importing food instead of growing it in the U.S. (Farmers going out of business if the cost of labor goes up too much.)
When H1s are used to displace American workers at a lower cost, I am not sure “cheering all immigrants” is warranted. Some, but definitely not all. The Disney firings happened. And it has happened in many other places that aren’t as famous. When Disney has H1s displacing Americans who were already doing the job, that isn’t a “shortage,” which is the single purpose for which H1B was created.

I am not disputing the value of some H1Bs, but “cheering” for all of them? No way.

Also Sergey and Elon were not H1Bs. Including them in a discussion of H1Bs is intellectually dishonest, neither one was an H1B but instead entered the US via other programs — programs that aren’t under serious debate.
“Still” because if you read the parent to my reply he uses that term in his query.
My watch is more powerful than my smartphone was a few years ago. But my phone is also now more powerful than my desktop was just a few years ago. And my current desktop is just ridiculous.

Of course, my watch is good for mostly telling the time. My phone is good for browsing the web and playing games. And my desktop is good for software development.
Wait I thought his tool was hosted on azure?
Yep, totally where I was going with that. One H1-B guy I worked with did in fact become a founder of a small successful firm, but that was after he got a green card.

I think we've lost out on a few billion dollar startups and awesome inventions by locking people to the H1-B job they got hired for.
One thing I'll point out is that Comscore has been doing this with websites since the early 00s. They packaged it as some sort of "free website antivirus protection" or some related BS, and when you installed it it installed a root certificate in your browser, specifically so that Comscore could read all your SSL traffic for ecommerce purchasing analytics. I even remember if you used their uninstaller to uninstall it, it left the root cert in place. IIRC Comscore at one point claimed millions of installed users.
Agreed. Swerving onto sidewalks or deliberately hitting pedestrians or vehicles is illegal anyway.

People talking about self driving ethics should spend less time reading philosophy and more time reading the road rules.
> “There is a profound sense that there is no mode of reasoning (nevermind just the mechanical deductivism) that can completely capture all expressible truths without reaching contradiction.”

but you’re extrapolating beyond godël’s incompleteness theorem here, which only makes that sort of assertion for axiomatic systems, as the article exhorts not to do, do you not?

what does seem self-evident is that logical systems cannot encompass the whole of human experience (yet?) so we continue to search for a more complete system of thinking. godël’s work probably is only incidental to this, not a completely explanatory theory.
Your speculative scenario has actually happened, but on a significantly less computerized Boeing 737, in 1978.[1]

In that case, the aircraft touched down, reversers were deployed, a runway obstacle (a snowplow) appeared, and the pilots attempted to go around. They got airborne and cleared the obstacle, but as they lifted off, the "squat switches" on the main gear opened. One of the reversers was still deployed, and with the squat switches open, was no longer powered, and could not retract. The aircraft was uncontrollable, and crashed.

In that case, shutting down the reversed engine would likely have been preferable, although if we're doing counter-factuals, telling the snowplow driver about the airplane's revised arrival time is your go-to move, I think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Western_Airlines_Fligh...
I think the comment around HIPAA is particularly important: hospitals and other entities collecting health information are required to have extremely strict data privacy standards. Suppose Facebook started selling your suicide risk to insurance companies? Suppose they leaked? For those individuals, it would be a disaster, and one they had no control over. Regulation must come to Facebook and all the major tech companies that forces them to treat their data akin to personal health data.
Who killed the Quark?
Any data they aren’t? We have at least one, highly publicized case at Disney that suggests that’s exactly what happens. Otherwise, why fire experienced workers and force them to train people who didn’t know the job? That makes no sense unless cost was the motivator. It certainly wasn’t about higher skill levels.
It's a gamble to come to America to get educated (cost, cultural adjustment, visa issues), and I think that we should show preference to those students who have made that extra effort to live and study in America over other people.
Well in the case of point 2, when you have a lot of vehicles disrupting traffic for individual benefit, what you end up with is traffic as we have it today--horribly inefficient and slow for everyone. When everyone follows a consistent set of rules to maximize throughput, that's what actually leads to the maximum individual benefit.
You may have the right to publish some emails when necessary. It is a whole different thing to sell every bit of private correspondence to a third party in secret. Not only is it a betrayal of trust, a quick search on the internet suggests that it may be illegal in some cases[1].

[1] https://injury.findlaw.com/torts-and-personal-injuries/invas...
Historically, it all went downhill with iterations of the W3C specs, particularly the strict HTML/XHTML fad. As browsers began to sloppily implement the rapidly changing specs and sometimes add their own nonstandard elements, it was no longer feasible to make single static webpages look the same for all users.

JavaScript and its potential for nasty security issues also played a major role.
Hope they will be taking minutes in all the meetings where the business requirements are collected.
> the scandals had planetary coverage, therefore I would still expect to see some kind of impact

That would assume that news is accurately reporting reality. News is a business as well, you create issues, pile on, and gather ad impressions. There's definitely built-in pressure to exaggerate as a result.

Some of the most egregious is attributing short-term market trends with specific political issues (as opposed to noise or changes market fundamentals).

The darker side is when how news companies can shape public perception. In this case, the business models of the news are under attack by content aggregators like facebook and google.
> How to type 'sudo ./flash'? Oh come on.

Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about. Installing coreboot requires extracting existing firmware, locating and extracting blobs from it, removing ME, configuring coreboot and payload(s). They could even patch any of the things along the way to add additional functionality (e.g. tianocore actually breaks fairly often, and requires debugging and patching).

Yea, the author learned some things, but that doesn't mean all other options are "learn nothing" (even if they are for you).
Routing all your traffic through Google's networks wouldn't result in a noticeable network lag.

Corporations install root certs all the time. It wouldn't require violating CA agreements.
This is about life insurance, not health insurance.
Is this whole "question" really just a mental exercise, like the trolley problem? Surely the more salient question is how much senseless death could be prevented by the adoption of self driving technology, isn't it? This 'conundrum' almost seems to be intended to undercut trust in what could surely be a massive improvement to vehicle safety.
That article treats this issue so flippantly as to be condescending.
Arduinos are just a micro-controller. You wouldn't want a full linux distro for a lot of the things they are used for. A raspberry pi to just blink some LEDs or make a HID device would be way overkill

You can't effectively battery-power a Pi and they can overheat without ventilation, so for wearables, Pi isn't even a choice.

Arduinos come in a lot of flavors, and many have features that Pi doesn't, like lots of analogue inputs for example.

And cost IS still a factor. A $5 pi requires an SD card at a minimum. You can get Chinese arduinos for like $2 apiece.
On another note, tech crunch seems to have done research where they actually monitored information passing through. Is this an ok line to cross in security disclosures? It doesn't feel right. Like as soon as you know you are looking at customer data, realtime or not, you should be closing the terminal/browser/whatever and reporting it immediately. Assuming you aren't a paid for by company security researcher that is.

Curious what the more canonical opinion is on this.
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> Personally, I think the more diverse groups have an opportunity to come to America legally, the better.

Is this supported by data?

If it isn't, this is just thinly veiled parroting of propaganda.

I'm not against any color but blindly saying a star trek bar is better than a more homogeneous bar is just parroting
Like the sister comment by clairity, I agree that you are extrapolating beyond the meaning of the theorem. You can prove the truth value of the statement, but not in the axiomatic system, it requires having an extended system. So it would be more of a moral of the story that sometimes you just don't know enough, but with more information or context you could prove it is true (but even that moral is probably off). It states more about provability in the context of a single axiomatic system for constructed self-referential statements rather than truth in general.
If you're in a position of power, wait until you're not or the other person does the romancing. Patience is a virtue.
I was perusing Princeton’s companion to mathematics a while back. If I recall correctly, after describing the theorems, the author states that much is written about their implications and that there is not enough room to discuss them. It seemed fair to me.

People write many things on the internet, and it is still surprising to me how they choose to do that. I wouldn’t be concerned about most of it, particularly if it is about topics I know to be deep. I for one looked into some articles on the internet at some point, Godel or not, I made the mistake of thinking that they write what they knows of.

As for godel, I’m sure you can find contemporary math/philosophers.

Another example was in grad school in mathematics. I knew one particular thing was off but I couldn’t place it. A long time has passed since. Recently I came across a note from a math professor who had spent the time to go through all books covering the subject, and explains what everyone had missed. I agreed with him.
I am wondering how not having H1B could have helped the Disney employees though. If Disney wants to cut costs and hire cheaper labor (presumably why they hired H1Bs? I don't know), they could as well move the jobs offshore. Now the US is losing out on much more than just the jobs. What am I missing here?
Roughly three parts to this. First off, these folks are already "here" . Busy learning to America. Paying tuition to their schools and taxes from their internships/OPTs. Contributing and being contributed to so that there's already a relationship between them, the country, and the country's citizens.

This is also what a lot of other countries do so it's consistent with "the way things are done".

Finally, it seems politically expedient. There are already provisions for prioritizing Masters degrees. This change is a modification of those provisions. That (crucially) doesn't have to go anywhere near the legislature.

These particular masses are not huddled. Nor are they all leading lights (though some will grow into greatness in time) . So there are also plenty of reasonable arguments against this approach.
Which is about as probable as being struck by lightning, being the victim of a terrorist attack or being bitten by a shark.

All these things belong in the Jeopardy category "remote risks that loom large in popular culture for no good reason".
However anecdotal this claim may be, it seems fairly intuitive given the basic economic model of supply and demand. Can you explain how greatly increasing the supply of developers by importing them from overseas will not affect the demand, and therefore negatively affect the cost of labour?
> Large format displays will be LCDs for many years due to inherent yield issues.

There is nothing inherent in OLED having lower yields.

Two TFT layers, metal , PEDOT, oled layer ,ITO, metal

Not much different from LCD in its basic form.

I'd say that there is a potential to make them even cheaper when printed OLEDs will finally get production ready
Both great points, I'll edit to say "change jobs easily".
> I was not trying to suggest that

You were by simply stating it. It's the same type of saying-but-not-saying lines that the media uses like "if this allegation proves to be true" or similar such phrases. The fact that you state it suggests to the reader that people think it. If it was an honest mistake in wording on your part that's one thing, but you should probably avoid using such phrasing.

Look at all the people responding to the post you responded to saying that Apple did it. There's no reason to give a forum for such ideas.
Again, not the company, but the service it provides. Like, I hate flying United but if they offer a cheaper price I'll do it.
I've found it almost impossible to sit down and "come up with projects". I would look for a problem and try to solve it. Start broadly at first. You might run into something that seems like a block to solving the problem. Solve this block as your project idea; it's often a more grounded problem than the original pie-in-the-sky Big Problem.
And ad companies like Google who have become so big that they can basically crush their competition. If you said 10 years ago that the most popular web browser right now is made by an ad company, people would have thought you're nuts but here we are. They basically control the very code that fetch and render those ads right at the end-user level.
My favorite thing about the touchbar is that I can easily use all the function key functionality without having to memorize what they do for every application. A lot of applications have programmed really useful integrations into the touchbar, and this is getting better over time. It replaces a lot of my track pad usage, and generally makes interacting with my computer faster. Touchid is also nice, but I think apple should consider putting faceid on the mbp.
I wasn't hoping for a recapitulation of the argument.
Not even talking about intelligence here. Sorry. That's an endless time waster I'm not touching.

As mentioned, for whatever reason, I'm having a hard time picturing how people who deem apostasy punishable by death can also manage, research, and exploit modern equipment, and am looking for some indication as to when exactly did they start getting good at it.
Not to mention if you are applying for a green card you get bumped to the back of the line with every job change unless your i-485 approved
The mask falls from Chinese tyranny
This story is about life insurance, not health insurance.
As far as I know, there are no open APIs from Apple that’ll help. However, I think it might be possible to use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ranging as a proxy for distance.
Whether the Watch acts as a BLE beacon or the linux laptop or IoT does the same (or vice-versa) is something to tinker with.
I’d say we reciprocate what their gov would do for our workers. Their gov makes easy for Americans, we make it easy for them. They make it hard on Americans trying to work in their country, we make it hard on them.

Fair is fair.
> Yes, but it's not encrypted.

Would your opinion change if you reread the content with the understanding HTTPS is assumed when talking about web privacy in 2019? The author made no claim whatsoever base64 was encrypting the data, just bundling it into one generic request.

> Furthermore the article begins with the premise of using text-only data transfer protocols such as MIME, then goes on to talk about base64-encoding then gzipping data...

Would your opinion change if you reread the content with the assumption the author means to set "Content-Encoding: gzip" in the server config rather than literally gzipping the content?

I think both of these are fair assumptions for the target audience of the article to assume but your disagreements with the article are only true without them.
It's not a... problem, I'm just having a tough time understanding how that works. And would love any pointers towards more or less when they started getting good at it.
have you talked to an average person on the street? high schoolers aside (who don’t use fb?) yeah people are dumb
> Honest question:- Does a typical Indian care about privacy/security?

It depends, what you mean by "privacy". A vast majority of Indians grow up in an environment with lack of privacy in personal life. Imagine 3-4 people (or more) in a family growing up in a 2 room accommodation.

Most people I know, have no issues giving away PII: phone numbers, addresses, income-tax identifier, aadhar (social security numbers, for those unaware).

> Also are privacy/security laws enforced as strongly in India as other parts of the world?

Not quite. Law enforcement, and the general public is not really aware of a lot of these laws. Right to privacy being a fundamental right was something that was debated in the courts in 2017.
Is there a way for companies to pay maintainers in exchange of some kind of promotion? Like logo in readme or something like that?
I’m using golang now, Golang template is terrible, rails is better than it. But golang is good for back-end
If you attribute so little agency to people that becoming a heroin addict becomes someone else's responsibility (barring physical addiction in the womb or being shot up at gunpoint repeatedly) then there's little in this world that we can control anyways.
The Natural Rate of Interest Is Anything But
While I think allocating more visas to advanced degree holders is a good idea, why restrict it to US institutions? Weird.
That's assuming that anyone considers "social media" a monopoly category. Are they a social media company, or an online ad company? Which would give them several legitimate competitors. Or maybe they are just an advertising company, which makes them a medium sized fish in an ocean of advertising companies.
My blog can’t keep up: 500 errors all over
Companies can overcome the payment hurdles in Indonesia
We have seasons and we also have scale. Might lose some green leafy things, but not the real stuff like wheat, sorghum, corn, soy, rice, etc.

Some of these leafy green things are gonna get automated anyway.
Maybe they forgot an 'other':

> It is quite common in the USA to see humans doing what would be automated work in other First world countries.

I get what you're going for, HN loves to not give any benefit of doubt.
Can you share your project address here? So we can do code review together
Except in all cases it's a small team. The company with 20,000 devs still imposes this on each individual team. You just have every small team doing it. It's a disaster and it makes no sense.

I very firmly believe this, but I have created zero successful companies, and Jeff Bezos has created the most successful company that the world has ever seen, so there's that.

It does seem like Microsoft became far more successful after they did away with their famously bad similar policy, so maybe Amazon would be even more successful than they already are if they valued their employees a bit ;)
It doesn't work like that. Some of the same symbols are used in two different places with vastly different meanings, even within this paper.

To give an imperfect programming language analogy, imagine that every symbol is implicitly defined and has lexical scope. The grammar is as far from being context-free as possible. What may sometimes look like individual symbols to you are in fact a collection of inseparable symbols with its own semantic parse.
The lack of activity in this thread is quite appropriate. Another one bites the dust.
7th Circuit: Age discrimination doesn't apply to job applicants (PDF)
Why don't we auction off H1B slots, either directly (government gets the money) or via the companies offering the highest comp getting to bring people in? You could also do some combination of the two.