skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't found a good alternative yet. There doesn't seem to be a consensus.

Ideally I'd like a place where people can subscribe without being my friend, you don't need to jump through hoops to leave a comment, and I can moderate the comments. (Delete if necessary.)

Traditionally that would be a blog, but I don't know how many people would subscribe these days.
Along with the points others have made about a more representative user base making the internet lamer, there was also a change in behavior by users within the last 10 years which I myself have undergone. Instead of going on web safaris like I used to, I eventually found a trusted shortlist of sites and aggregators which scratched my itch, and I return to those fewer sites rather than going hunting for new information like I used to. My slice of the web has shrunk, which either means the boringness of the web is my own confirmation bias, or a lot of other people are behaving the same and the web is being winnowed into a few portals rather than a constellation of sites. I tend to think I'm not alone in this.

Also just as a vignette, a classmate of mine in high school in the late 90s had a personal web site (which was very well done at the time) with a GIF of an aerial shot of our high school with a targeting crosshairs superimposed on it, and flickering red. Naturally he did not fit in, but that sort of early web freedom would get you a visit by a police officer nowadays. There are many, many more restrictions on content than there used to be.
Let's say there are 2 grocery shops. All their costs and expenses are the same but one grocery shop sells twice as many products per square foot / unit of time.

As someone interested in more profit, which store would you rather own?

The argument you're responding to wasn't "Tesla's stores are dramatically more efficient".

The argument is that Tesla stores sell Tesla's EV cars effectively (because that's the only thing they sell) and traditional dealership anti-sell EV cars because they make more money on selling ICE cars.

This is not a conjecture. In addition to plenty of anecdotal evidence, there were qualitative studies both in US and Europe where researches sent "mystery shoppers" pretending to be interested in buying EV cars.

The results were dismal. Many dealerships didn't know much about EVs themselves and in the worst case, they would literally lie about how bad EVs are.

That will be a problem for GM, Ford, and others when they finally have good EV cars to sell.

And there's no obvious solution to that. Car makers and dealerships are frenemies so it's not like GM can dictate terms to their dealers or that they can force dealers to do a good job selling EVs.

The obvious solution (heavily subsidize dealers with bigger discounts) is bad for profit margins. Investors like profit margins and it'll look doubly bad because when they finally have EV cars to sell, they'll go through the same "loss due to low volume / production ramp" that Tesla went through in first half of 2018 and will be competing with Tesla's 2021 heavily cost optimized production.
"White"? What does that matter?
No it was not subsidized. You're making the same claims as those that claim that Nevada subsidized the Tesla Gigafactory that the backwards right likes to make. Don't fall for the same fallacies.
"Learn to code."
>>A great improvement would be to give them citizenship if they want it.

All H1B holders are more than eager to become citizens and currently there is already a pathway defined but the system is a nightmare.

Especially countries like India which are enormously backlogged.
Is the idea that people have different values or even morals a wild idea? Else how could 2 people see abortion as either self-determination for women vs actual infanticide?
Sure, but the increase of granularization in insure in general was mentioned in the comment I responded to.

You could say there's a spectrum, between stuff like healthcare and genetic diseases, and someone insuring their pinky finger not because they need it, but because they're vain and think it's an astonishingly pretty finger, and they're just that rich. But somewhere on that spectrum, there are also families that lose bread winners, and I don't see why solidarity wouldn't also apply there.
In most places, you need to be very, very sure that research subjects understand what they are agreeing to.

Passively reading something usually isn’t enough. The minimum often some kind of interactive explanation that includes a way for subjects to ask questions. I’ve heard tell of groups giving short “quizzes” for experiments with wired requirements and side effects.

For kids specifically, you often need to get both the parents’ consent and the child’s assent. The details vary with the child’s age (older kids opinions get more weight) and the nature of the research (kids can opt out of basic research, but the parents might be able to override the kids’s desire to (say) avoid a shot if it’s part of a potentially lifesaving clinical trial).
The internet isn't fun and weird because you don't actively seek it out. You're content with what you're given and what everyone else uses and put no effort into getting what you want because you can't bring yourself to care enough for it.
Focusing on the 5% chance of massive success is the opposite of short term thinking.
It is really sad to read old forum threads and seeing them full of deleted comments and hacked accounts. I prefer the reddit system where you can delete the account but the comments stay.
Vehicles with telematics are anyway broadcasting their location. Pretty much all recent vehicles have telematics.

Most restriction orders aren't worded in a way that could easily be encoded beforehand; they could include language restricting autonomous vehicles...

For the emergency situation, if there is a button, it could just interact with the traffic control systems. If there's no traffic at the light, the light could let the car through.
See your argument is short sighted, as these people provide economic benefit, it’s in your interest to allow as many as you can in while the other countries aren’t interested in taking your best and brightest. It’s why Canada’s tech sector stands to gain hugely while America squanders its lead. Canada’s letting in anyone smart and technical and the US is telling them no. What were arguing for is being unfair in America’s favor.
Yes, they probably wouldnt.
>89% percent chance to kill homeless person or 90% chance to kill pregnant woman?

Just fat, or pregnant? We need to know! Get onto it, engineers!

The car's algorithm for deciding this question is a matter of life or death!

/s of course, because I think this whole philosophical argument about self-driving cars is ridiculous when our current tech can't even reliably determine if an object is a stationary barrier or not.
the whole idea of "just moving the jobs offshore" doesn't really come out to be as simple as you have equated here. there's often time zone differences, cultural difference, a simple inability to do work (e.g. anything requiring access to physical infrastructure, any client-facing meetings, etc.)

it's not like you can flip a switch and get a fully functioning setup, even with something like development.

we've seen this charade with foxconn, amazon, etc. turns out that the whole "highest bidder competitions" turn out to be not-so-thinly veiled con jobs where basically everyone but the corp loses aside from some marginal people like property holders.
A somewhat lesser know fact is that technetium is naturally occurring in trace amounts in uranium ores, and its spectral lines have been found in some red giant stars.
At the cheaper end there is the Hyundai Kona and Nissan Leaf.

Not surprised there isn't much competition for the Model 3 given that sedans are out of fashion at the moment. Car companies are far more focused on the crossover market.
In what domain do you find spam to be overwhelmingly present?
I get the feeling, from your other comments here, that you are attempting to invalidate my perspective by pretending not to understand it.
NY Attorney General targets fake social media activity
Log-free email provider Posteo- 'You must log user IP addresses', court rules
Qualified supply is nowhere close to matching demand. Ask anyone that has to do recruiting for their teams.

Source: personal experience
My main problem with Google was that the entire first screen (above the fold) was full of advertising and included no actual search results, in the majority of my searches. DuckDuckGo is better at that, for now, so I made the switch about a year ago.
Sure. But they never really had serious competition until now.

Companies like Mercedes, Audi, Jaguar own the mainstream, premium car market and they've only just joined the game.
And the quote I'm responding to is generally about information.
I was under the impression that Amazon has a large portion of its engineering talent outside the US.
G+ has been dead for a _long_ time. Google has actually let this service stick around much longer than others it killed with far more active users.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
From multiple experiences, I know this to be untrue.

It's consequently misandrist. And softly misogynist.
The real names make it worse.
I did make the centuries claim. Its Hyperbole. So, I don't feel I can answer. because its unprovable. I'd edit the centuries out, but thats sort of cheating so I acknowledge that was hyperbole.

I am also skeptical, since nobody makes engineering product that differently: we're all conforming to DIN and ANSI standards which tend to converge. The concrete problems in reactor a in country b wind up reflecting concrete issues in countries c, d, e and don't actually reflect US vs EU much.

I don't think its amazing in a trade war, people leveraged war to achieve trade profit. I think its naieve to think there is any systemic "better" here between nation A and nation B and company Aa and company Bb: there is war, and there is trade war, and morals don't come into it.

But thanks for validating my underlying theory: the key thing is profit. "Just war" didn't enter into it. Nobody really believes it was about liberation. It was geopolitics and money.

GDPR is beneficial to european citizens, but also beneficial to european companies facing offshore data warehousing, and facing US corporates like google who do embrace-extend of US law as google see it, to apply to anyone worldwide.

If american corporates wind up opposing GDPR because it disfavours them in business terms, we're net losers not net gainers from some competition outcome. What would be better would be for the FTC (who regulate data privacy) and the DoC to agree we need higher norms here, and some recognition the SCOTUS has arms which reach to the US border but no further.
Parents can later leverage the citizenship of their progeny to gain theirs.
So, you don't care about California farmers or dairy farmers then.
H-1B visas fall under the doctrine of dual intent, though, so isn't that already the case? Having the H-1B does not preclude someone from seeking out a green card.

Or am I misunderstanding your first statement?
Does this imply that G+ will still live on a some kind of enterprise product or what? I think they could have done a good job if they increased the integration with Gmail.
Although it can be good for people from a personal point of view. However, the Trump administration is trying to create a state of elitists. This administration has time and again tried to establish this. I am not a big fan of this idea. I would rather prefer more applicants entering through the lottery system, and maybe a bit more preference for the struggling nations, or those who have been hit due to US' global politics.
Hi yoz, Stencila dev here. Thank for your interest. We're definitely still around!

Development of the frontend has indeed slowed down while we focus on more lower-level "backend" tools for research reproduciblity (e.g. https://github.com/stencila/dockter).

But were currently recruiting for a frontend designer and an engineer. So will be definitely be getting back to the interfaces soon!
Why do you think Canadian banks are insecure?
tldr:

- its as old as civilization (examples from babylon)

- the quakers popularized it in america (supplanting the bow)
Ask HN: Is there a Marie Kondo for coding?
At my organization we don't have any junior devs, we're all leads and they bring in H1B contractors that are less than or equal to junior devs in EXP but far cheaper, we use them for a bit until we complain loud enough, and then management ends their contract.

I like the contractors as people but not as coworkers. It's always mixed feelings when they go, part relief and part sorrow.

Occasionally we do get a good one and we beg for them to hire them but our Talent Strategies department (i.e. HR eyeroll) won't sponsor them.
Just fill the quota based on salary from highest base salary to lowest until you run out of visas. Who cares about industry standard?
Actually, I'm currently in San Francisco, and I haven't heard anything of the sort. I probably should ask around though.
I can definitely relate. I was a web developer for years before transitioning to Android and iOS development, which was way more challenging and rewarding. I gradually shifted away from UI altogether and focused on mobile infrastructure. And nowadays I have shifted away from that and work on ML. So anything is possible.

Get out of web dev and frontend at all costs. I have found every other area programming much more fulfilling and challenging. Including embedded and game programming, which I'll do outside of work. Web dev is just too high level and too basic. There are way more interesting problems out there than mangling CSS to do what you want.

Re: lighthearted. Procedural programming for games. Mazes, cellular automata, terrain etc. This book is a good place to start:
https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers
I guess this is what I don't get the most about the future that was, we can't just do things anymore. We have to "sex it up."

Could we easily make horses race around a track, sure an arduino and a 3d printer will do it, but we need to add flashing lights and lcd screens that display bullshit.
Thanks a ton :)
> Surely the more salient question is how much senseless death could be prevented by the adoption of self driving technology, isn't it?

Absolutely. However, when answering that question, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to thoughtfully consider this stuff.

Clearly, even flawed autonomous driving— if widely adopted— would save many lives. But I can’t think of many things that would slow that adoption more than a public perception of “killer robots” roaming the streets.

If we seriously want wide adoption, it’ll be hard to avoid addressing the qualitative perceptual difference between a death caused by a human driver and one caused by a machine that we’ve engineered.
I was thinking along the same lines. But wouldn't many companies, especially those without the scale and channels to monetize their own data like Facebook can, benefit from an additional channel to monetize that data?
>To prime your intuition a bit, consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages.

You do realize there hasn't been a raise in real wages since the 70s when you account for inflation right? Coincidentally during that same time period the income gap exploded because the wealthy had plentiful cheap labor and were able to pocket the productivity gains as pure profit because workers had no leverage to demand higher wages because there were 0 labor shortages. American's used to be able to support large families of 4+ kids with only 1 working parent. Now you have households with both working and they can't afford to have kids.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...

I support high skilled immigration because it benefits the country but let's be real, if we dropped 10 million software engineers in Silicon Valley from around the world, guess what? Wages would drop massively because it would be a buyer's market for tech companies, they could pick and choose the most talented for pennies
There are young people who want to be farmers. Not many of them want to be just a farmhand - they want to own a business. But they'll still need workers.
Computer Science Demand Is Soaring Due to Tech Bubble 2.0
You are. If they are skilled, lawful and desire to become citizens they should be given a green card after 1 year on the spot.
It's hard to trust the EU when they gave VW a slap on the wrist for something that should have almost bankrupted them.
Yeah, the API change was back in 2016, somewhat close to the timing of Facebook's deployment of Onavo. The conspiracy theorist in me says Google might have got a tip about such behavior years ahead of the public revelation. SV companies are quite incestuous.

Everyone pin your certificates. If this was standard practice none of it ever could have happened.
This suggests an interesting science fiction plot: the hollow earth was inhabited by an advanced human race, but in a war with another civilization, they were defeated when liquid metal and magma was poured into the empty crust, forcing the few surviving remnants - now without Vril energy - to flee to the surface.
> Heck, read the news

Will do!

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/facebook-q4-...

Honest question: Why are you so extremely passionate about this?
Yes, I understand that, but my question up there wasn't just rhetorical. I'm asking your opinion.
that's a pretty nice red herring you've introduced there my friend!

you haven't addressed any of the points i've brought up, but instead introduced a very tangential (possibly true) fact.

reflect for a moment on what i've said above. you are introducing a dichotomy that isn't accurate and justifying it by saying "something is better than nothing", which is the same corporate rationale for having a .000001% tax rate, states going crazy to attract huge companies, and so forth.
Perhaps it's just that Europeans value privacy more than anything-goes economic development? Maybe Europeans have decided that people come first, and corporate interests second?

And I say this as an American who has been working at tech companies his entire career. I'm pleased that California has decided to enact similar policies (though I'm not happy with how it was forced through the legislature).
I forked tt-rss back in 2005 for my personal use after I tried to submit a few patches that didn't "align well" w/ the developer. I wouldn't go so far as to say "massive asshole", but he did seem to be a challenge to deal with. I decided it wasn't worth the effort to try to contribute back my changes.
We let teenagers drive.

I think it is easy enough to predict that all the systems will do is prioritize avoiding pedestrians while minimizing collision energy otherwise. A 30 mph collision will mess up a pedestrian. It won't be a big deal for restrained passengers.

If it is frequently the case that autonomous systems have to pick between pedestrians, that points to traffic control changes, not a philosophy engine in the car.
I asked Dubbin whether he would ever license Scripto to a conservative show.
“Fox News wouldn’t use it, but I wouldn’t sell it to them,” he said. “I’m not
interested in making their job easier.”

Seems like a prime opportunity for a competitor to come along and advertise to the other side of the political aisle.
But then later in the thread:

https://twitter.com/EvanMcPhee/status/1090727957725818881

https://twitter.com/HenryInnis/status/1090730656009617408

Past success no guarantee of future returns of course.
i think it's customary to do at least 100 to 200 problems to cover a decent range of topics.

here are some relevant threads on Blind:

https://www.teamblind.com/article/preparing-for-interviews-w...

https://www.teamblind.com/article/AMA---How-I-got-multiple-o...
Software engineers have a habit of assuming problems are more intuitive than they actually are.

Even with H1B, there are literally not enough engineers in the Valley to saturate the demand from companies. BLS estimates that the number of employed software engineers will go up 24% next year, that’s insane.

Also, I’m not seeing this supposed depression in salaries. The median salary for a software engineer is 103k a year: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/.... That number has been growing expontially in the last decade and a half.

So there’s data that shows that engineers are getting hired more and paid more than ever before. I can’t find any to prove that H1Bs are dragging down salaries.
It's better to (also) link to the post with most upvotes and comments. In this case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19033176 (53 points, 20 hours, 32 comments). Another interesting one is a debunking article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19040203 (5 points, 4 hours ago, 3 comments) It's a good article in spite of the allcaps title.
An entire continent, of the youngest countries consisting of liberal democracies being jus soli isn't something you can just wave away and pretend is irrelevant or has some particularly unusual behavior.

Said countries have even laxes immigration policies, similar proportions of immigrant populations, the same anti-immigrant rhetoric that you're spouting, and yet it's just not really the problem that it's made out to be at all.
Indeed. It's the good statisticians that use good statistical methodology and theory to identify out errors and falsehoods.

Honest mistakes occur because what looks like a simple problem cannot always be analysed very easily (or in an obvious way).

Abuse occurs because it's quite easy to fool others that an analysis is sound - most people aren't sophisticated enough to identify problems, even if they are given the data!
Tor has nothing to do with browser fingerprinting, except that browser fingerprinting is the main reason why Tor is relatively useless as a general purpose privacy tool.
The internet these days is alot more accessible than it use to be. Back in the 90's you had to be more tech savy and you needed to be able to code because no one has written the software that could do that thing and there was even less documentation. Now these days, you get a web hosting account. run C-panel and install WordPress in just one click (Wix if you know even less). Heck, you don't even have to code the HTML, just select a template you like. Probably 50% of the static sites are CMS. The point is, as the software and platforms become standardized commodities where you don't have to learn anything to use it, the less innovation you will see from individuals as most people don't want to learn, they want the benefits without paying their dues.
Why do the green username shills always harp on religion, out of everything? It's a dead giveaway because any serious activist would talk about a million other things first.
So there's parts of your argument too that are buried in unstated assumptions?

By (pretending?) to think that all the stuff that others actually disagree with in your argument is accepted and doesn't need to be said, and just stating the things that logically follow on from those unstated axioms you're adding very little of value to the conversation.

I see this a lot from people on extreme ends of the political spectrum, I can only assume it's to make your ideas look trivially correct to people who aren't reading what you're saying very carefully. Or perhaps because some are deluded about how common their opinions are?
"too many people misuse Godel -- starting with GEB, and onward."

Assuming this is Hofstader's Godel Escher Bach, I'd like to see support for this claim. GEB is just a popular exposition of Godel and a paean to self-reference. It's not a rigorous work but I don't know of any terrible violations it involves.