skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is to send the "Just DON'T do it" message. If you get away with low value you might aim for the higher ones...
His theory of evolution has at least become mainstream in parts of the world.
Two periodic functions such that their sum is the identity function
We are an underserved market segment, after all.
Aristotle's already got you covered with "aporia".

_Ars Rhetorica_, BTW is great read.
Because farm work isn't really low skilled. Sarah Taber did an excellent Twitter thread on this: https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/107598191085642547...
I think that's just the HN bubble? HN threads always seem weirdly pro-Google and anti-Facebook compared to my real-life friends' views (even when some of those friends work at Google).
Elon: "And we thought long and hard about who the right person is to take over from Deepak, and that's Zach. And Zach has been with Tesla now for nine years... [...] So Zach, you had management and technology at Wharton undergrad and then worked at Tesla and then spent a couple of years at Harvard Business School, which I actually don't think was necessary, by the way."
I assumed you meant it as an assumption because you said "If both of these are true".

So, more precisely, your point was actually "anyone who had been feeling strongly about it at some arbitrary point in time will have stopped using it by that arbitrary point in time". Yes, that's a bit easier to justify but still quite uncertain (IMO) and also a much weaker statement.

Also, just because the stimulus isn't a molecule it does not follow that it's not biochemical in nature. Physics and biochemistry play a role all the way down. The very notion of "stimulus" depends on where we draw the murky, fuzzy and ultimately arbitrary border between "us" and "the world".
People who signup for this already know what they are doing

But do the people they interact with, or invite into their home, know what they are doing? Does Google presume to have consent-by-proxy here?
>- Plenty of people love Lisps, afaict with a sizeable overlap with the first group.

Not that many. And not that many are non-pragmatic enough to mess with a translation layer.
Such a coincidence! I have actually created a Petri net implementation for Common Lisp two months ago to model an asynchronous process of downloading various dependend things from a REST web server. The tokens may be arbitrary Lisp data and transitions are functions with some internal structure (Lispspeak: funcallable instances). The net functions well with multiple threads and is therefore fully async.

https://github.com/phoe/petri
A cross platform HandsOff[https://developer.apple.com/handoff/]
Would this work over a long connection? Say to the other side of the world?

Network delays would mess this up afaik.

I suppose you could introduce a error correcting code in it but that would kill your throughput even more.
> A great improvement would be to allow H1B holders to change jobs easily (maybe after a year).

Aren't their visas sponsored by a specific company? Incentives aren't structured for this to happen. One way to look at is is that the US government are letting companies serve as "scouts" to bring talent in, and the companies' commission is to retain their exclusive employment for a period of time.
How does EasyEngine compare to dokku-wordpress?
Paywalled articles on HN are supposed to have a known workaround for the paywall.
But the things discussed were from a shop, and have prices attached.

And they aren't the same thing, you yourself admit that, to you the pen is more valuable than the car.
> The top 5 companies bringing H1B workers are doing so specifically to outsource IT functions at lower cost

And this is the part I don't quite understand. According to the rules, this shouldn't be possible.

So either (a) the rules are broken, and need to be fixed or (b) the rules are not being enforced.

And since we have the numbers, and the companies, it shouldn't be that hard to see how they are getting past either the regulations or the intent of the regulations or both.

As a former H1B visa holder who definitely did not lower wages (-g-) and whose employers were, AFAICT, meticulous about following the rules, it annoys me to no end that all H1B visa holders are tarred with the brush of the ones violating the rules.
The broken window to the developer's code
Once you have something nearing a steady state design, you need to have tests. I can understand if something is in a very early stage it might not have tests yet.

At my current work we have loads of automatic tests. Every time something is changed, there's pipelines that test the following:

- Simple unit tests: Start with state 0, make and action, is state 1 what you expect? There's literally hundreds of these, and they have indeed found issues. Many edits that would have gone in have had to be rewritten to cater for corner cases found in the tests.

- Valgrind suite tests: Since we're dealing with c++, you get some interesting errors that might happen. Changing the order of some lines can look innocuous, but sometimes that causes an iterator invalidation. This kind of thing is hard to spot, but we have automated tests that will stop you merging code that does this. Especially things that are UB in c++ can be very tricky.

- Integration tests: several pieces that are in themselves passing unit tests might not work together. Luckily you can define a CI script that launches both and makes them talk to each other.

As you can imagine, it takes a lot of work to write the tests. One issue with a lot of teams is there simply isn't enough time. You have to show progress, which means showing things that seem to function externally. But you're always paying for that by having to fix things that you find as you go. Not having tests is a form of tech debt. It costs more and more as your code base grows.
- Subroutines must have one entry point and one exit point, and accomplish one task.

Good thing every programming language nowadays enforce that lesson. I can only imagine how horrible it must've been to reason about a program when a method could just GOTO away and never come back.
> You do realize there hasn't been a raise in real wages since the 70s when you account for inflation right?

Thank decades of union busting and neoliberalism for that one. When corporations only pay out the minimum that they can get away with instead of following the historic Ford mantra that people must be paid liveable wages, this is what results.
Concerning networks they do actually, there were several mass migrations from service to service in China, QQ, RenRen, Weibo, now WeChat. If anything it seems that trendiness trumps the network effect. Now that they have added payments the hurdle might be larger though.

But, in the end all of them are monitored so there is no choice there. The main argument/excuse for acceptance seems to be that it is better to be spied on by your own government than somebody else's.
Messing with packet sizes could also be an option?
Makes me wonder if "smart" speakers generally are legally dubious in two-party-consent areas ...
Yes, practice makes permanent, including bad habits.
> They have lots of adult toys and other conveniences, but somehow can't find the money to raise a child.

I'm German and affected by this. It begins with being unable to rent an apartment with enough space for a kid and ends with "how to afford a car in this city".
FYI it's called "The Hangover" in English. Yet another film title that was translated from english to english for foreign markets
> If they don’t like it, there are plenty of Android variants for them to choose, which differentiate themselves precisely by having this difference.

There is no alternative for iMessage or you may have invested a serious load of money into the Apple ecosystem (e.g. Apple Music, but also games and other apps) that moving would amount to losing said money. Especially for those who got in in the early days with jailbreaking being a routine thing...

Breaking up the stores and especially forcing the various platform providers to provide synchronization abilities (why can't I sync my Fallout Shelter vaults for example or why should I need to buy my Plague Inc expansions again) is desperately needed.

On desktops this works just fine (best showcase being the Adobe apps, and I believe that at least the MS Office subscriptions are valid across Win and Mac), so why are the mobile walled gardens still a thing?
Apple has revoked Facebook's enterprise developer certificates
If it's "clean [and] free of parasites".
Non-paywall URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/new-h-1b-visa-rules-take-effec...

Not the same article but seems like it's the same subject.
I know this is an example, but this assumes false positives and false negatives are equally likely, and I now am wondering if that is true in real life.
> On the other hand Facebook actually does have a near monopoly on social networking with no viable competitor at all.

Which should be broken up and Facebook forced to re-introduce federation (their Messenger long ago offered XMPP), but that is a different question.

> Why do you care about Apple at all, when you can just buy an Android phone?

Actually I am an Android owner, who is a bit unhappy with Apple locking down their ecosystem so hard that a migration (in both directions) is next to impossible.
Regexes are indeed a perfectly fine answer when you have the guarantee no corner cases will show up in the content, and I did and still do use regexes to quickly extract data form well-known HTML/XML as a quick hack (curl|grep). Otherwise you're much better served by using a parser and select nodes with xpath/css.

The question doesn't specify if the file to match against is unique/one-shot or if it's a general case. Without that info you can largely assume it has to handle any input. The regex will get unwieldy since you have to account for corner cases like:

<!-- <a href="foo"> -->
<div bar='<a href="foo">'></div>
> No country will have unrestricted immigration, otherwise why not form a union with neighbors?

See: The European Union

Inb4 "Yeah, but they have immigration control," yes, they do but upon entering and leaving the Schengen; otherwise, it's based on agreements with other countries.

It's why you can travel to Europe for up to 90 days on only a "visitor" visa (which is, really, just an entry stamp).

...but to say that countries don't trust their neighbours have strict border control between themselves (and haven't formed a union with their neighbours) pretty much negates the realities of the Eastern hemisphere.
Assisted suicide is a big trend in my country for old people who want to check out. But I know that in many countries that's not an option due to religious beliefs.
Quite a lot to digest, even the reference links are still interesting.

I find it interesting when reading things like the headwinds identified on 186-187 (or pages 2-3 as the pdf reader counts them) of the document linked early on in the article [0]. It is a welcome break from data light world of politics and encouraging to see people talking about the parts of the future that are unlikely to be rosy.

Curious really that nobody fingers the bank bailouts from thing like the '07-'08 financial crisis as a risk to long-term growth. The financial companies determine where the money flows to and the crisis can be interpreted as the the economy signaling that the money managers are incompetent. Propping the system up with bailouts and QE probably does real harm over the long term, as people are incentivised to do things that have been proven not to work.

[0] http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Interactives...
I'm seriously thinking of going back to usenet. I wonder if anyone is still there...
Consent has never been enough. It has always been about informed consent as a minimum, and free choice as the target ideal.
Problem is finding actual talent vs talent on a resume that doesn't work well.
One of my favorite sites of all time is searchlores.org I still visit it sometimes. I'd say it qualifies as fun and probably a little weird as well. RIP Francesco.
It feels prejudiced to me that only black scientists are supposedly able to recognize and defend us all against racism. It's patently absurd. Yes, science, as with any other faith-based belief system, has its proponents who will use it to further their own agenda and gather like-minded people. Yes, this subverts science and its principles. No, this doesn't mean the only people capable of seeing it are black. No, science isn't bad and scientists as a whole aren't bad. He didn't need to write pages of fluff to make a point that he barely ever got around to mentioning.
This thread a few days ago also mentions Petri Nets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19025639
I don’t want web packages, nor AMP, how do I get the ranking bonus and lightning bolt icon with my website (which has Google Pagespeed of 100 and Chrome Lighthouse Pagespeed of over 95)?

That’s the goal. Killing web packages and AMP, and actually ranking websites by its actual speed.

With web packages or AMP, if I navigate from Google Search to Page A, and then from Page A to Page B, Google can see that I went to page B. This is wrong. In an ideal world, Google wouldn’t be able to track anything, but as they are able to, we should limit this. As web packages and AMP lead to more ability for Google to track stuff, they need to be eradicated.
FinFisher offered to sell nation-states a zero-click iOS compromise
US Roadshow: NTR the 2019 API Inspection and Mechanical Integrity Summit
Top countries by number of downloads from app store and consumer spend
Nike responds to thousands of angry Muslims who want 'blasphemous' shoe recalled
Realistically, it depends on the kind and quantity of drugs.
Daybrush/jsdoc supports TypeScript
I witnessed time and time again that if you can give something a catchy name and somehow promise that doing / having that thing gives you an edge over someone else, you can make a lot of money.

I should try to make a course out of this single realisation (by repeating the same thing over and over) and call it "brand thinking, the most usefull skill a product manager can learn in the digital age". Or something.

It probably already exists.
Religious belief? It's more like moral and constitutional basic human right issue.
I bought Panic's Prompt for my iPhone 3G. I don't ever recall a time they weren't allowed.
I checked for the instructions on the ThinkPad T60. Literally sudo flash. I also flashed it on my Chromebook, which was utterly trivial. These are ready-made solutions that don't require more than two brain cells to apply.
As much as I agree, given the sheer lack of ability in lots of companies to "have a think about things", giving it a proper noun might actually make it enough of "an thing" to allow it to happen.

Of course, if you're paying an external agency a hefty fee to run the workshop, that also makes it even more of "an thing" too.
I think one of the things that makes HN and Reddit very different, is that the content is not personalized and tailored to maximize user engagement. Facebook seems to constantly show me things that make me more upset or concerned or outraged about something. I remember reading articles documenting this effect, but I can't seem to find them now.

The other type of posts I tend to see are about friends bragging about how many km they ran today or how great their vacation was. Not that it's that bad to post these things, but I wouldn't be surprised if exposing yourself to them constantly increased feelings of jealous and reinforce one's need to compare oneself to others.

On the other hand, I've discovered a lot of interesting books and projects through HN and learned about different topics, since there seem to be a lot of knowledgeable people here that comment on topics I know nothing about. The only type of posts that may be prone to making others feel worse are the ones about salaries / financial issues, but they are not that common.
I wrote this tool to better visualize the impact of various expenses and savings on long-term wealth: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1922LVZ515e-UjCw1CsA...
Actually, Japan crime rate is high in elderly population. It use to be relatively rare, but now it's relatively high.
> Significant number of them are doctors and nurses.

I'm half-German, half-Croat. Our excuse of a health minister (Spahn) actually thinks that the solution for the utter lack of staff in the German health system is to bleed the Balkan totally dry... as if that hasn't been going on for decades!

All the people coming here to work in the health sector drop out after a couple of years due to horrible payment and labor conditions, thus leading to more recruiting in ever more remote countries, it's a vicious cycle. The obvious solution would be to massively increase pay to increase retention, but for unknown reasons no one wants to do this...
Sure, data won't be used directly, it'll be laundered through ML. Doesn't change the final result - the data is used to sell you stuff.

Data laundering needs to be recognized as a thing.
Yes and no, see other replies for nuance. Apple controls software distribution for their platform, in exactly the same way (in principle) that games console manufacturers have done so for many decades. They do so in the same way Atari controlled software distribution for the 2600 in 1977 and Nintendo controls it for the Switch today, or that Volvo does for software performance packs for their vehicles. All these and many, many, many more are closed platform devices you buy, with optional software features you can purchase from the vendor.
Unomaly now lists raw anomalies from all your logs
Inflation is the killer. If you’re saving without buying assets; you’re doing it wrong.

If gov hit it’s target of 2% inflations for the next 30 years, you’d need $1.8 for every dollar today for purchasing parity.
I am going to assume your comment lacks objectivity since I stated no opinion or expressed no ideology. I did find research from recent data, that links to additional supporting research, which completely dispels the false assumption that visa workers are paid peanuts:

https://www.glassdoor.com/research/h1b-workers/

> Another reason we shouldn’t be surprised that H1B workers are paid about the same as U.S. workers is because the law requires it.
Yes, I think this comes with the tech side of this platform. Many developers still dream of a job at google and would take it in an instance. You would need a lot of mental gymnastics to call out googles evil practices regarding privacy at the same time.

In my non-tech circle of friends both are equally regarded to as evil spying megacorps.
I like how Sabrience got downvoted on first comment then made a super comeback with shockingly good insights.

It seems smart people expect others to read between the lines but when average people can't read between lines, same average people resort to downvoted then finally once smart person explains himself, they take his side
Top comment and ensuing discussion seem like grumpy gatekeeping.
Internet is fun, ever opened pornhub.com?
You're not looking hard enough. Even flat-earthers find their own niche on the internet.

http://platelets.fun (You're supposed to click)
> ... starved to death because he thought - his philosophy led him to believe - he was being poisoned.

Can you elaborate on how his philosophy led to his starvation?
I am not convinced that biological-continuation is fundamental to a society's sustenance. As long as people are willing to move into HK or any other place, it will remain a hustling and bustling city, at least for the economic purposes.
I imagine Clojure is more popular with Java programmers than it is with CL programmers. I did CL for over a decade and I've certainly never had a need to pick it up:

Java programmers on the other hand always seem to be looking for a reason to not use Java. But Python programmers? Always looking for a reason to use more Python.

FWIW: A lot of people also don't love Python. I particularly hate it, but the things (I perceive) it's bad at, Hy doesn't help with.
It doesn't:
P(positive_mammogram | cancer) = 90%
P(positive_mammogram | ~cancer) = 7%
I'm fine with it.

It's kind of the same as here on HN. If unconstructive comments weren't discouraged here, the comments section here would look like on Reddit.

If unconstructive answers weren't discouraged on SO, I'm quite sure the more popular questions would be full of flippant half-answers trying to be funny or people posting memes to grab attention.
It used to be like that, I think. In the last year or so, the threads became both anti-Google and anti-Facebook, and to much stronger degree than regular people (including techies).

I.e. here people at least notice and care. Every other community I've been a part of - at workplace, at hackerspace, at home - everyone's just "so they do spy on you, who cares ¯\_(ツ)_/¯".
Moreover, it's the top few % that make a difference between countries. That's what we should be looking at, not the averaged mediocrity.
"If these people can't get enough human contact, we failed them."

These are adults, not children. Let's take responsibility for taking care of ourselves. There is no moral basis for blaming others if we individually fail at that (as long as others haven't done anything against us), as you imply.

I also think we need more critique on gratuitous blaming/shaming. It does no good to allow abusive attitude like this, even when's addressed towards a diffuse target as the society at large.
Those children born and raised in Honkong today will be original Hong Kongers eventually.
https://cosmoglare.com/mukhomukhi-review/
You have to send the way to decrypt data via a different method than your send the encrypted data, otherwise the person who can intercept one can intercept the other.

If you email me a file which needs a password, and then the password, that's pointless, you have to phone me or post me the password.

In MS's case the way you see the document is to login to MS's servers using your email account (so an attacker could send a password reset), or an emailed one time code (so an attacker can intercept and use it, either first, or if they can change the intercepted channel, not pass it on)
Typical income is 50k a year and it takes ~250k to raise a kid you are looking at 13,888k a year for the kid, after taxes

Children are extremely expensive. I have raised 4. You are broke the entire time and can always spend more on them.

In the US you are 1 medical incident from not affording anything and relying on welfare

https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/cost-to-raise-chi...
There was a "#DeleteFacebook thing" this year? I'm assuming the hashtag is from Twitter which is insanely funny to me, since I see no difference between all of these social networks. BTW outside of USA and a few west european countries people barely know what Twitter is.

In any case I feel that all this focus on Facebook makes people forget that Instagram is far more important now then any other social network, and also the fastest growing one.
Oh really. This article has click baity title. All these motivational posts get repetitive. They have very little actionable content in them. Rather than reading advices from the privileged ivory tower of survivors, I better go and read "The dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin.
My health insurance costs alone would almost quadruple if I had a wife+kid
> I've never felt like Nielsen's data collection is evil

They've definitely crossed the line in the past.

For example around 2005 they were stealth-installing NetRatings spyware bundled with file-sharing apps.

(And similarly with comScore. It's probably best not to use these organisations as examples of good practice.)
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