skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You replied to a comment arguing against positions made from speculation without data by supplying more speculation without data.
They should also work on a visa system for seasonal (low-skill) workers

That's what H-2[AB] visas are for.
> Of those 2 million workers, could anyone cite any significant companies started by the H1b workers which created jobs?* I mean, not a dozen jobs here or there, but serious job creation that would offset the 2 million local workers who were displaced?

Jyoti Bansal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyoti_Bansal

Dheeraj Pandey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/

And many others like them. Go to the website of any of the top VCs in the Valley. On their list of partners, you will find many Indian names. Most of these people, before becoming VCs, were founders of successful startups. A large number of these people first came to US on H-1B.

Likewise, take a look of influential papers like, say DynamoDB one. You will find many Indian names in the list of authors, and most of them also worked on H-1B. The work of these people end up creating entire new fields of employment coast-to-coast.
That was a fun blog article to read because it had interactive components to it; particularly the 'Confetti me' button which I pressed more times than I should have.

One of my favorite fun and weird website is The Useless Web: https://theuselessweb.com/
>do they not have cafes where strangers can socialize over a cheap cup of coffee or tea?

Surely they have.
But you have to order something and there is a good change you won't meet anyone of your age.
If you come to a free clinic - you don't pay anything and you are immediately surrounded by people of your age (if we are talking about eldery as in this case).
Or maybe the idea of wage depression due to visa status is speculative and unqualified. Is there any data on this?
This seems to happen in developed countries where having kids is no longer necessary to ensure one's own well-being after retirement. It might also have something to do with common lack of self-appreciation, when proud parents see their children as better versions of themselves and other people don't want any...
True. But another issue I feel with today's internet and apps is that it has lower rate of serendipity

Most of our experience is controlled by an all-knowing black-box algorithms. The game is to converge all experience into a small set of patterns

An Example - youtube
Earlier I could spend hours on youtube and discover everything from new music to weird funny videos.
Today you literally get boxed into a list comprising of your history and recommendations that have hardly 1 degree of separation from your history
We might know it†, but we can't prove it† (because proving it implies computing it).

† The knowing is external to the system at hand, and the proving is internal to the system at hand. I go into detail about this in my blog posts linked above.
It's a popular, or at least persistent, european meme to dramatically underestimate the political diversity of the American public. He believes that all Americans are on the right.
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Perhaps it's the other way round and the world is going to shit because so many people don't have kids and don't care what happens in the future... Giving voters with kids additional votes for every child might be worth considering.
AWS specific. Elastic is on gcp too y'know...
I think the reason is simple. Previously, the internet didn't have a real purpose, so everyone on it was mostly for the weird/fun stuff. Nowadays, as mentioned in the blog, it also has legitimate serious uses, so by definition the ratio of weird to serious is lower.

But I think expecting the internet to only be one way is not only naive but also unrealistic. You may enjoy it being that way, but not everyone does, and the internet is for everyone. There's something for anyone, you just need to find your corner of the web.
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> Reproducing is also the worst possible thing you could do given our current situation anyway

This is absolutely false if you live north of the poverty line and are educated and wealthy (by world standards), which if you're commenting here, you probably are.

Have kids or not, but don't delude yourself into thinking that it's bad. Rich people not having kids is literally the worst thing you can do with regards to children-based decisions on the effect of the state of the world.
What happens if somebody has taken a remote master's course from a US university? Is there a note on that?

p.s. it does not apply to me anyways, but just want to know.
Since your opinion lacks qualification or data I will offer this counter-point:

Perhaps the need for immigration is great, because hiring companies lack trust in the competence of the available pool of domestic candidates.
Created the app to help me with my own practice. It reminds me during the day to take a short break for a mindful moment. It is not just a gong and I am on my own, no it plays a short guided meditation helping me to focus.
Seems like the lady in that story was telling a joke, as the services offered by a cruise ship wouldn't be comparable to an assisted-living facility, let alone a nursing home.

Not to ruin the joke, just, if she merely needed food delivered and chores done with someone to take her to the doctor, she could live in a normal residence and hire that help for much less. Assisted-living facilities would provide a step up, then nursing homes provide support a level beyond that.
That sounds like a wonderful environment for a person living with declining immunity.

http://fortune.com/2019/01/12/500-sick-on-cruise-ship-oasis-...

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/GIlist.htm
Bout time facebook got some comeuppance!
Ironically yeah, Facebook tried the real-names thing on a while after G+ did it but I think at that point G+ had lost momentum and everyone had shifted back to Facebook, so network effects stopped it from going anywhere.

I thought they'd also backtracked from that due to the obvious privacy-related corner cases (closeted drag queens being outed, peoples' locations being revealed to estranged abusive exes, that sort of thing) but I haven't looked into it in a long while.
I went to visit dtwitter and first comment seen was ‘Yeah fuck off u goddam pollack piece of trash’. That is not the fun internet I am looking for, where ‘anonymous’ 12 year old write comments of this kind. What is good in FB which I do not use is that thay required real names so you would not hide behind a nick name to write comments like the one i pasted above.
Asset inflation is a part of inflation, unfortunately along with education and healthcare, our inflation indicators do an extremely poor job of measuring it.
> Stack Overflow has answers like: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

Wow. That's one of the funniest things I've seen on the Internet. Do you have any more like this?
This post is good marketing. Not overly complicated, but it gets a lot of reads and the reader is gently forwarded to a call-to-action.
Looking at one of the papers he has published

"Many applications use sequences of n consecutive symbols (n-grams). Hashing these n-grams can be a performance bottleneck. For more speed, recursive hash families compute hash values by updating previous values. We prove that recursive hash families cannot be more than pairwise independent. While hashing by irreducible polynomials is pairwise independent, our implementations either run in time O(n) or use an exponential amount of memory. As a more scalable alternative, we make hashing by cyclic polynomials pairwise independent by ignoring n-1 bits. Experimentally, we show that hashing by cyclic polynomials is is twice as fast as hashing by irreducible polynomials. We also show that randomized Karp-Rabin hash families are not pairwise independent."

I think he is working on the fundamental science of computer science. People like him are the reason we have nice things like web servers. That doesn't mean they know the specifics of Apache or Wordpres.
"accomplished a degree in a host country and obtained a relevant job offer thereafter" is a very good proxy for a lot of desirable properties in immigrants, at least in Canada (per official statistics).

Besides, foreign education credentials and work experience can be very easy to fake depending on home country, so it's understandable that it's worth less in the eyes of immigration systems.

In Canada we have lots of foreign students, and while there are some issues (nothing is perfect), they pay much more than domestic students, essentially funding the higher education institutions. Education is some of the best things you can export, if done properly.
nobody is. just the moderators. it's recursive.
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Every ML recommender driven website should have a control so you can adjust Straight <> Weird. People would love cranking the weirdness up. Instant dopamine hit (unpredictable reward function) and it would bust them out of their filter bubbles.
Or Google Wave.
I am, he did not make an impression of a that much smart person. The man began his career as a so so game dev, and been going from one random businesses to another (this is a part of his career he doesn't like to be public about) before Paypal "happened upon him."

He has no substantial CS or technical background. He dropped out of his physics masters.

Give him an evaluation.
> This seems to happen in developing countries

Developed countries.
Sounds like a sure-fire way to accelerate idiocracy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E

"Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most - and left the intelligent to become an endangered species"

Edit: For those that seem to think I'm calling people who have children stupid - idiocracy is a satirical movie. I would suggest you actually watch the link i posted (i.e. at least "read" the comment before you reply to it...)
About $5 a loaf
Ask HN: Non-compete in freelancing contract?
A potential customer offered a freelancing contract which would prevent me from working with any of their customers until 2 years after working for them.

I'm not 100% sure whether or not this is acceptable to me. I don't intend to get their clients but in reality this sometimes happens as I become part of their network.

What's your experience and opinion on this kind of arrangements?

Thanks for any advice!
Medium is blocked in China. So anyone writing on Medium is preventing 1.5B people from being able to access your information. I am not sure about write.as, this is the first time I am hearing about it. But generally the best way for access is to host your own content.
Rich or not they'll still make traffic worse and I'll have to wait in line longer at shops.
I mean researchers go into FANG to gain access to private, high quality datasets.
Wheat strength hard or soft, and sourdough rising probably go directly to gluten and FODMAP diet issue. But not entirely linked to artisanal since French bakers may well simply be using softer wheat with more interventionist modern baking and proving techniques. But, slower proving may also alter gluten and so FODMAP reaction by consumers.

Most non artisanal bake choices are about speed and consistency.

So I think at the core this article has the moment: it's an undefined virtue signalling marketspeak term. You need to get specific information on how the bread is made and what's in it and even then treat it with a grain (sorry) of salt.

I buy bread from a favourite baker. I don't much care what they are doing since it tastes nice
Government right now are starting to become orwellian.
Shared suffering is also a good conversation starter for the elderly. Some waiting rooms turn into a kind of Four Yorkshiremen sketch quickly.

And yes, that's not good. The whole world hasn't quite come to terms yet with situation that we've got a whole lot of old people, neither with the healthy ones, nor the infirm ones. Given the sheer amount of both, there should be way more opportunities and organizations for them (not just the church and political parties).

But that's not a sexy topic for startup bros and the VCs that love them.
Since you have options why don't you quit what you're doing, leave the place that you're living, and focus 100% on fixing your quality of life?

There are no "right choices." If you take some risks, then maybe one of those risks combined with timing and luck will result in the outcome you desire.
Moto Z cost north of 700 €. I would not call that cheap.
Yes - that's the controversy I'm referring to. I'm on MeWe and haven't encountered any people there that I have followed specifically discussing far-right/alt-right topics except for a couple of folks posting in groups who have made a brand of it (e.g. "The RPG Pundit" and the ex-CEO of Milo Inc. who published an OSR D&D retroclone), but at the time I joined up, all of the political groups in the directory were right-wing or nationalist, and this coinciding with the time Gab was shut down.

The sex bot thing has been a problem for a while. I _think_ group owners have been blocking them, and of course I block them, but they still somehow linger to post, and the notifications of their post are not blocked. At least that's how it was about a week ago - seems to have been fixed, or the bots in question have been eradicated.
Which is better for caching, so it has advantages
Facebook is kind of like smoking; we all know the company makes you ill but there is plenty of cash to be made doing that.
Why? Are you implying that people with kids are less intelligent?
I really rate this book so it’s great to see it getting some publicity!

I think one misnomer is that to do stats right you just need to do the math right. But
what analysis is done in the first place, the overall methodology and how that data is interpreted are more often where we go wrong.

At Geckoboard we’ve been trying to raise awareness of some of these issues. Heres a poster we put together: https://www.geckoboard.com/learn/data-literacy/statistical-f...
Of course. However: I didn't re-read the article, but I don't remember that it suggested anything of the sort, so GGP just projected that onto them.
Interesting counter argument: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
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Did you even watch the video link?
Exactly, and if you or they are in town you can actually meet up.
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Why fire low performers? Why not try to make them become average performer?

Maybe they have children to care for at home and doing remote work would help? Maybe they don't like some of their colleagues and a team change is in order. Maybe after months of year of being proactive but being shutdown by management they decided to stop caring? Maybe it's more serious and they should be encouraged to see a therapist.
I will investigate further but still very cool, thanks!
Yep.

Grew up with 6 people in a 2 bed apartment and our family income put us squarely in the middle class.

My neighbours at one point, had ~8 people in a 1 bedroom. I used to think of myself as the one with the big house.

Privacy was a dream. My parents themselves didn't get privacy, let alone us kids.
Life is unfair and that apply with a wide variety of subject.

“I want to live without all the hoops of death”
Something mysterious is blocking vehicle key fobs in a small Alberta town
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I'm keen on Mastodon/Diaspora but there are loads of non-technical people out there who say things like "looks like the Linux of social" and dismiss it. (The Linux of social? EXCELLENT!)
The end of economics?
California is only a few hours away from the intl date changing line though. Most of the planet is in front of it timezonewise. If they pull the plug after 4 a.m. there won't be any place left still on April 1st.
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How would you isolate something like this? They already tried powering off the whole store.

Full spectrum analyzer?

PKE Meter?

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Speculation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=517845548283931&st...

Potentially similar incident last year in New Zealand?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106902631/dozens-locked-out...
Define (inside the system) the function S(1)=14 and S(n+1)=g(n) for all n\geq1 where g is any function which is not computable. I'm not convinced you can jump from "the function is uncomputable" to "the system cannot determine a single value of the function"
I wouldn't presume the problem is delving into a computer.

I would assume the problem is more along the lines of; treating it as a substitute to talking to friends/family. Only responding in short bursts or assuming a "like" is enough to sate your need for other human connections.

Reddit/HN/fora are _great_ at connecting you to communities across the globe that have a shared interest. You don't talk to your sister/girlfriend/mother via hackernews, therefore it doesn't "replace" actual discussion with them.
It happened after I was well into my entrepreneurship journey (though it had happened years earlier when I was an employee too), and though it was desperately unpleasant at times, I have no regrets about the experience :)

The major lessons were to get better at dealing with assertive and confrontational people (picking battles, avoiding taking things personally, de-escalating heated situations), and to realise that much of the unhealthiness I saw in other people was a reflection of my own fears/weaknesses and of similar unhealthiness in myself.

So the "processing" has involved working through all that and developing the weaker parts of myself; not to become the kind of monster I'd perceived others to be, but just to develop a healthy balance and calm inner strength.

This concept is well known among psychologists/emotional healers influenced by Carl Jung, described as "shadow work" or "shadow integration".

Strongly recommended if you're still struggling with this kind of stuff.
Wow super cool! A bot that tests crypto trades automatically and randomly? awesome!
Gorgeous.

IIRC S. Eilenberg once said "Elegance in mathematics is directly proportional to what you can see in it and inversely proportional to the effort required to see it.". This Knill book is elegant.

Topic by topic for a wide range of pure and well polished applied math, Knill is able and does go right to the most important results and for each gives a short outline of the needed definitions and of a proof, usually with good references to full details, and then states the theorem precisely. Net, for nearly any topic in pure/applied math, go there first.

For many of the topics, I studied them carefully from some of the best sources, but just on a short scan this Knill book often has a better treatment, e.g., has a super nice, simple, practical statement of a fundamental theorem in Fourier series, a super nice statement of the Lebesgue decomposition from the Radon-Nikodym theorem, some nice stuff from Zorn's lemma, and much more, e.g., often some historical notes.

I have to like the connection with Zorn's lemma: At one point I went to a lecture at Indiana University and to the tea before, and an older professor introduced himself as Max Zorn. Since the previous summer I'd taken a course in axiomatic set theory on an NSF summer program at Vanderbilt, I was nearly floored! All I could do was blurt out, "What did Paul Cohen prove?". The next day Zorn gave me his copy of Cohen's paper. I still have it!

At one point I saved FedEx by pleasing two guys from crucial investor General Dynamics by doing a revenue projection with the differential equation

y'(t) = k y(t) (b - y(t))

with y(0), k, and b given. So, the solution is a lazy S curve that starts at t = 0 at y(0) and as t increases rises, has an inflection point, and rises from below asymptotically to b. So, it is a case of growth to a market size of b. With y(t) the current revenue and (b - y(t)) the market revenue yet to be obtained, has the growth rate y'(t) proportional to the current revenue y(t) (number of current customers talking) and the remaining customers (hearing the talking) (b - y(t)). So, it's a simple model of viral growth.

Well, Knill has this differential equation with b = 2 for a case of biological growth!
"Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded"
Exactly my thoughts. Is it a web something? Xamarin something? Unity something? ...
I think this is good in a way. Finally people are speaking what has been practiced in business since the dawn of business. I took a business ethics class and I remember the entire course subtly focused on euphemisms for wrongdoings and not arriving at a concrete assertion that whether an action is moral or immoral.
it's the same now, clinic visits are very cheap but you will end up waiting for 1-2 old people (if you are lucky!)
The science behind tossing boiling water into minus-14-degree air
I have been there. If you think this anxiety has been on the rise (think carefully about if some time ago you had such strong emotions reading about accidents, etc), consider going to a doctor and treat your anxiety. Medication solves it, I can assure you. Rationalizing does not go very far.
Not even sure what this means. The spirit of the law ("pay your tax to contribute to the country's budget") is not at odds with the letter. And neither is it unconstitutional.
> By the way, there are 150 mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong, daily [2]. That means "original" Hong Kongers will be rare eventually.

There are over 7 million people in Hong Kong. I think it's going to take a while for Mainland Chinese to swamp out "original" Hong Kongers at that rate...
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I don't know for supermatt, but I do !

Give me one good reason to have kids other than stupid "it's the miracle of life" bullshit, tell how it's a smart move ?
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You can always have extramarital kids right?
I don't know what the legal situation is like for you where you live, but in my country it's definitely a benefit to get married if you plan on co-owning property or having kids. You could go to a lawyer and draft contracts and agreements over how things should be divided etc. in the event of divorce or death, or you could get married and literally everything is already covered by existing laws and you don't have to worry about missing a loophole.
People are pretty good at rationalizing what they do already. Part of that is feeling smarter than the people who have made the opposite choice.