skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct and worse still is the reception on discussion sites like these: it's sad that people encourage us to take pity on billionaire organizations that apparently don't hire and train the people needed to do decent work and avoid what has become a pattern of ugly security handling.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8912714/Apple-iT... is a story about how Apple didn't fix a remotely-exploitable bug in iTunes for years after being notified about it. During that time governments were said to have used this bug to infiltrate users' computers.

And the worst part of it all: The majority of Apple's software (certainly both FaceTime and iTunes) are proprietary programs -- user-subjugating software that does not respect a user's freedom to run, inspect, share, and modify the program. This means that even the most skilled and willing users are prohibited from fixing the problem and distributing a fixed version of the program to help their community. So, rich or poor, proprietors do their users a disservice by distributing proprietary software.
Can't have been that bad then. General employment is a nightmare, I've only changed jobs once in the last 8 years because it's so many BS hoops to jump through.
I'd been using https://github.com/defrac/defrac-sample-8bitboy 8bitboy for a while, but alas it seems that most things block it from playing music these days.
I have looked at the repo and the website and I have no idea what this is or what it's targeted at.

It's a cross platform something?
> This is also what a lot of other countries do

As an expat for the bigger part of my life I can't think of a country that would prioritize their own institutions when applying for a visa. Generally there's simply a category for advanced degree holders.
>just because "immigrants lower wages" is "common knowledge" doesn't make it true. [1]

From your own cite:

>Immigrant workers can either be substitutes for native-born workers or complements to them. When immigrant workers are substitutes for native-born workers, they compete for similar jobs. Using a simple supply and demand model, an influx of substitutable workers constitutes an increase in the supply of labor, causing wages to fall for workers with similar skills. Because many immigrants are low-skilled workers, economic studies have found that an influx of immigrants depresses wages for low-skilled native-born workers in the short run.6 And, because many immigrants are also high-skilled, a similar substitution effect occurs for some high-skilled workers.

It goes on to talk about complementary workers:

>. For example, consider that immigrant workers account for 22 percent of the construction workforce. They tend to pursue jobs in the construction industry that require less training and education but are areas where the industry has its largest labor shortages—such as painters, drywall installers, and construction laborers.7 This supply of immigrant labor has decreased the cost and presumably increased the number of homes produced and sold over time. The increase in housing construction has increased the demand for higher-skilled construction workers such as contractors, electricians, and plumbers

While that's a nice thought, it isn't comforting to those that aren't contractors, electricians, or plumbers. They need those low skill positions in order to gain the experience to move into higher skilled ones. The hardest job for a programmer to get is their first one. Especially those that don't come from a traditional CS background. This is really where the H1B visa hurts American workers. Companies would much rather go for an immigrant on an H1B visa than train Americans to do the work.
You are right about there being a main idea. And then there's all the off topic-stuff that surrounds that main idea and makes the article long enough to be considered an article ;)

The value of comments are very subjective. To you, they might not be valuable, to me they might be (depending on my mood, maybe).

When talking about things, especially with people you don't know and without all the non-verbal side-info, you'll often have to agree on what you actually mean with some term you're using, and off you go from an article about any topic to a discussion of not-really-related things.

I don't have the impression that people just jump to very off topic things, but then again, you might be reading totally different submissions on HN based on your interests vs what I click on. Maybe if you gave some examples of low-value off-topic-discussions, it'd be clearer.
> You can barely use your card to pay for things anywhere in Berlin for example

I am sorry, that's not true. I was in Berlin, Prague, and Copenhagen last year. Hardly used cash anywhere other that Prague. In Prague, it was only Old Town where I ended up need to visit the ATM. I know because I didn't carry any Euros with me from US and need to pay ATM fees for every withdrawal.
Exactly. The parent comment completely misses what the real issue in this story and the Facebook story is. It was never really about the research app itself, but rather about how they used Enterprise keys for non-enterprise use cases. The app itself is entirely legitimate, extremely clear in what it does, opt-in and completely separate from the rest of the ecosystem.
100% totally and completely false. If a client knowingly discloses or includes prison staff on the call that’s a waiver. And most calls from prison make this clear. Now - giving false legal advice may land you in a cage - so please don’t pretend to be a lawyer if you are not.
Exactly, use tools or language to solve problem
Wow, that’s the best take on this entire thing I’ve read. I’ve been saying much of this for months and I’m also not an active Facebook user.

The market’s had a hard time deciding what to make of all the “scandals” but the past few headlines have had less and less of an effect on the stock. The TC article that came out yesterday had absolutely zero effect which surprised me a little and the news that they might receive a record fine a week or two ago knocked the stock down for literally twelve minutes before it sprang back up (I was following it that day). I think the market is finally ready to move past all of this and focus on what moves Facebook is going to make going forward because it’s quite obvious users and advertisers don’t care about any of this.

I think there are two camps out to get Facebook for reasons that go beyond privacy- media outlets threatened by its existence and Twitter users who have amassed a large following and view it as an “us versus them” dynamic because they’ve come to rely on Twitter as a communication mechanism. To view Twitter as any better is completely illogical but media outlets are happy to choose favorites if it suits them.
Actually, it is still true. hexdump has some confusing format options... what you were using was converting it to little-endian first before printing the hex representation, which really messed with gzip. Try this:

$ hexdump -e '"%x"' < american-english | gzip | wc -c
463871
$ hexdump -v -e '/1 "%02x"' < american-english | gzip | wc -c
302515
$ base64 < american-english | gzip | wc -c
415737
I basically automate all the things. All of my bills are automated and audited quarterly. My income is automatically put into my checking, savings, and investments on each paycheck. I allocate a reasonable monthly stipend into my checking and the rest go into savings/investments. Each quarter I take surplus funds from the checking and move to savings/invest.

I pay off my credit cards in full each month, carrying no debt. (I was lucky enough to get a full ride to college, so no student loans.)

My finance automation strategy is largely based on Ramit Sethi's book "I Will Teach You To Be Rich", which I highly recommend.

Spending-wise, I do the Marie Kondo "Does this bring me joy?" about things that I'm going to spend money on. I will almost always spend money on food and experiences, but I am much more strict about stuff. I will happily spend $75 to go to a concert but will walk around Target with a $5 DVD in my hand for 45 minutes before putting it back on the shelf.

With the above strategies, I haven't run out of money in my checking in a long time. I am extremely fortunate to not have to think too much about money, but I credit at least some of that to automating away the necessities which limits the risk of spending money I don't have.
Indeed, the real issue here is the use for Apple's Enterprise keys, not the app itself. The parent comment entirely misses the point of the article.
You’re right on the second point: I think it’s somewhat silly to set an arbitrary size limit (an easy javascript off button would be fantastic, however.)

Your first point misses the argument. It’s not that you should support everything with JS disabled; you should, however, support a subset of your interaction as a fallback. Yeah, users don’t get offline mode or whizzy ajax updates, but you can absolutely find a way to work, in nearly all apps. And it isn’t that hard.

The fact that so many people believe this is impossible is an indication of how low the front-end development bar has fallen. This is why we have webpages that take 10MB of JS to render 300k of text.
"Glitch is not as popular as My Space was..."

Well, we've only been at this for a little while, and we don't even have a way to follow other people or invite your friends yet. :) Rest assured, we're planning to keep going. And probably with fewer Tila Tequilas, of either the MySpace or neo-nazi variety.
It is funny how some people consider high intensity military conflict to be inevitable between the US and China when the cost of aggression is extremely prohibitive on both sides. Technological advances and trade connections have made it so. Of course there will be people who raise the analogy of pre WWI Europe to suggest that close trade connections do not necessarily preclude war. Yet the devastation resulted from that war should give anyone who thinks such a conflict is desirable pause.
LOL. This is so incredibly offensive to Americans. I am the grandson of butchers, farmers, and miners.

In the middle of the US, there are lots of (white) Americans that work in these jobs. Many are very proud of their profession.

Next time you want to go on a trip to "expand your horizons", go to a podunk town in a fly-over state and get to know your fellow Americans.
Electric Scooter Startup Grin (S18) Merges with Brazil-Based Yellow
The options aren't immigrants or offshore. Yes, some jobs will be lost to offshore but some won't. From the perspective of American workers, even if 90% go offshore it's better than 100% going to immigrants.
Why should anyone be happy when there's a chance they won't be allowed to work? Even if the chance is lower, it's still something to be concerned about. (Edited)
$15 Minimum Wage: Job Killer or Path Out of Poverty?
True, numbers can be gamed.

But at the end of the day there's one number that matters: people click ads and buy products -> companies buy ads and pay fees. And it's been going up steadily for the past decade.

If you strongly believe that you've found an inefficiency in the market please feel free to short FB.
I use the time I'm out alone to listen to audio books or music instead. If I'm with someone I'm present. It's a conscious effort and if you ask my wife she will tell you I've gotten better at it over the years. Overall I find it's a worthwhile investment. As with all my vices I have found that moderation makes them far more rewarding.
Those interested in How to Lie with Statistics may also enjoy Huff's other book, How to Lie with Smoking Statistics, commissioned by the tobacco industry in the 60s to fight the growing evidence that smoking causes cancer. It was never published, but I compiled the surviving manuscript and wrote about it: https://www.refsmmat.com/articles/smoking-statistics.html
All the more reason to put the button in the browser.

Give people the option to easily turn off the crap, and you’ll find out how much it matters.
Do you expect a person to be able to solve that problem? Would you fault a person for not solving it the way you want it solved? If not, why should a driverless car?
Like over other people fleeing dangerous situations (that the US may or may not be exacerbating?), war? genocide? famine?

Seems like the US had the moral high ground prioritizing the down and out, now just another country only accessible if you have $$.
You're correct but don't let anything get in the way of ycombinator users blaming evil large corporations for problems. Most of the top posts appear to have not even read the article that was posted.

The reason things have changed is because of knock-on effects from Huawei, IMO. Foxconn would be in a very similar situation if they had proceeded.
Apart from the several times they've been fined in the EU and various other countries for (summarising here) slurping data, lying about deleting it, favoring their own services, and so on?

From a very quick online search:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/30/google_slurp_ok/

* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/eu-google-fine...

* https://variety.com/2019/data/global/google-fined-57-million...

Of course, such fines (etc) are subject to potential change over time because lawyers. But they're definitely not a bastion of good actions and credibility. :(
>I hate carrying things in my pocket.

Fair enough.

>I hate the distraction. I hate the lifestyle.

How does the watch change either of these? My phone is always on mute and I practice a pull behaviour pattern with it (I choose when to look, answer texts, calls etc) rather than a push (distracting) pattern.
> Things are more weird. Where there was one weird place, there are now thousands. Even if only 1% of today’s sites are “weird” that’s bigger than all of the internet of 1995 combined. Rising tide lifts all ships.

Yes, this is the counterpoint to TFA. Sure, it's a lot harder to find "weird" stuff now. Especially because it tends to get pushed down in search results. But once you find something that's "weird" in your preferred way, there are often links to lots more of it.

Also, you'll find lots more "weird" on Tor onion sites, I2P and Freenet. There are a few reasons for that, I think. One is relative lack of censorship. Also, a lot of content is more or less standalone, generated by users using simple tools, on VPS or shared hosting. And there are constraints imposed by high latency and limited bandwidth. All of that is like the old Web.

So anyway, TFA is correct, if we're talking about the Web ("internet") as a whole. But not if we're talking about the absolute amount of “weird” content.
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-Facebook is a closed system

-Anyone who feels strongly against Facebook will have stopped using it

If both of these are true, the typical person commenting about its evils will have a poor idea of how it's actually used. So someone telling me it's damaging my mental health because of social gratification - I haven't posted anything real-life in years - falls about as flat as someone saying Reddit is a website for sharing weight loss pictures.

There are important points to be made about Facebook but they're lost in the noise.
I didn't read the whole thread carefully, but did a honest worker get cheated by a Democratic Socialist™?
I'm a little saddened to hear this because there's some high quality posts on Google+ that we're going to lose (Linus and other FOSS people posted on there.) I always enjoyed reading some of the things they put on there.
and 1.2KW power draw if you are brave enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-6Iwb2HihE
It’s not really a limitation of logic, because logic is not constrained to a particular set of axioms.
So you're suggesting amending the law that they get preferential treatment in liquidation cases, and their companies are always paid first regardless of company size, resources etc?

Because that's what I understand the article to complain about. It's not a "three women baking pies and trying to make ends meet"-company, it's a "we produce thousands of cakes a week"-company. They are not going to go out of business, but they will probably have learned to be more active about unpaid invoices.

Not everything is about suppressing women or minorities, and crying wolf all the time will lead to people ignoring the cases when it actually is.
so, tone policing. I'm not an academic but from my limited interaction with philosophy subreddits (r/philosophy, r/askphilosophy), which seem to an outsider to have an academic bent, there is 0 interest in the intersection of cs and philosophy/ethics; so from my outsider perspective he doesn't even seem entirely meritless in his tone.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the book! (Author here -- the website got its first publicity here on HN.)

Regarding AB testing, you might be interested in this recent research, which uses real data from Optimizely to estimate how often people get AB test false positives because they stopped as soon as they hit significance: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3204791

> Specifically, about 73% of experimenters stop the experiment just when a positive effect reaches 90% confidence. Also, approximately 75% of the effects are truly null. Improper optional stopping increases the false discovery rate (FDR) from 33% to 40% among experiments p-hacked at 90% confidence
it’s a joke. it’s obvious that it’s a joke. he’s
promoting his nudge app. that’s all.
What ActivityPub means for musicians
The idea is correctly price the consequences of lifestyle choices.

Cautious Prius owners probably wouldn’t be happy sharing equally in a risk pool with enthusiastic drivers of sports coupes. If insurance rates were standardized, there’d be a lot more sports cars out there, until the Prius constituency got them banned altogether. Charging different insurance rates gives all parties what they want at a cost that creates appropriate incentives.

You might be able to say something similar about health insurance and sedentary smokers vs. runners. If an extra hour of work is less economically valuable than a gym visit, the incentive structure should reflect that.

I agree that insurance rates should not be affected by luck. One of the reasons the preexisting condition part of the ACA is important.
Ancient crystals suggest Earth's core is 4B years younger than the planet
Woah, thank you. It's a pleasure if it can help people :D
There's no "sunk cost" here. The billions Foxconn would get are in lack of taxes. If there's no profit made there's no taxes to collect and give rebates on.

I'm really getting tired of people confusing tax rebates vs tax deductions vs outright grants.

Tax rebates are you get $X off your taxes. No profit, no rebate. There's no grants going on here.
This happened with Apple too in the past when the news reported on the working conditions at Foxconn. But to be fair if two 5-year-old kids threw trash on the ground and the adults only punished one of them... you can imagine what happens.
Because Rpis and Arduinos are completely different. Arduinos have a microcontroller onboard, not a microprocessor. Along with ADC and PWM to simulate DAC. You need a real-time system like Arduino in order to properly interface with sensors and actuators.
As an immigrant myself, I welcome this move. Please note that this change impacts issuance of fresh H1Bs and does not relate to or assist/impact existing H1B holders in any way.

Against common misconception, it's important to know that H1B also compete for an open job requisition like everyone else. Sadly, H1Bs are eligible to apply only for a small percentage of the open requisitions which often read - only W2 need apply (implying people with green cards / work authorizations or citizens) and sometimes explicitly as - 'accepting applications from green card holders and citizens only'.

H1B are also mostly 'stuck' to their current jobs / positions and do not have the flexibility to switch jobs (until they reach a certain stage in their visa). They're allowed to switch but this requires the hiring org to reprocess their green card application from scratch in majority of the cases. This is especially true from people from India and China.

It's one thing to say - you're allowed to switch, it another to be able to actually do it without getting penalized or expect your hiring org to invest into your green card process.

I could go on but i'd sum this up as there's more to h1b than meets the eye and what's out there isn't a true and complete representation of an Indian or Chinese h1b worker. It's tough to be in the shoes of an H1B who's worked and lived here and made a life for his family, yet lives in fear and uncertainty of losing his job or work authorization everyday.

Selection for a job should be based on merit and your personal / professional qualifications among other factors, and not with a bias towards your visa status. The best man for the job.
Note that I never suggested one should be happy. And I'm not sure what you're proposing. Let anyone who is in the US be allowed to work and just give them an automatic H-1 visa? Or do that for people who have an MS degree or higher? If the latter, realize you are providing a criterion - one which someone with just a high school degree can say the same as you said:

>Even if the chance is lower, it's still not right.

If you accept that there needs to be some criterion, then it's simply a matter of where the line is drawn - and most people draw the line that conveniently works for them. For the person who posted this, the change in rules improves the chances of someone in the situation his wife was in.
H1B's are immigrant visas, they terminate in greencards after one renewal. The only problem is that a few countries have long lines (India, China, Philippines) on how many greencards can be granted this way per year. That should be done away with.
Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem isn't particularly interesting, can be proved fairly easily (to an average high-schooler)[1], and, therefore, doesn't really have much "meat" on its bones. The Second Incompleteness Theorem, on the other hand, is another beast altogether[2]. It's much more interesting, much more beautiful, and much more difficult to grasp.

At the end of the day, I agree with the essay (too many people misuse Godel -- starting with GEB, and onward), but I don't like the justification behind the post. After all, the First Theorem is used to drive towards the Second. It's intellectually lazy to just cover the first without touching the second: "Any consistent formal system S within which a “certain amount of elementary arithmetic” can be carried out cannot prove its own consistency."

In other words, I think the essay falls prey to exactly what it's criticizing: a purposefully neutered explanation of Godel to arrive to some unrelated conclusion.

[1] https://dvt.name/2018/03/12/godels-first-incompleteness-theo...

[2] https://dvt.name/2018/04/11/godels-second-incompleteness-the...
I'm not complaining about the tone of his criticisms. I'm complaining about the absence of any justification of them.
Agreed — more freedom, not less, is the ideal solution here.
Same here, I'm from the Chicago burbs and was identified by both quizzes as such.

But the NYT one had some that I wanted to select multiple for. Such as "service road" & "frontage road". I selected "service road" but I know that in Chicago where I'm from the term "frontage road" is used but I don't think I personally would use it in a sentence since it isn't intuitive to me.

There were other examples where I wanted to select multiple.

Also never been to Buffalo and don't know what a "weck" is.
Because large corporations sometimes substitute their internal numbers with a more public number when dialing out so that if you call back you connect to the appropriate incoming call center. And also because this caller ID system is super old and therefore has no real authenticity checks.
Workers under H1B transfer jobs less often, but its not impossible or even uncommon, except under the Trump administration.
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