skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. There are a LOT of guys in the NBA who could score 30 points a night (good enough for the scoring title, most years) if their teams offense constantly funneled them the ball, but they'd be scoring those points due to taking ungodly numbers of shots at relatively low shooting percentages, at the expense of their teammates.

Basketball analytics have already begun to phase out guys in the mold of Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, or Carmelo Anthony who were great players who scored a ton but did so with (at times) low efficiency.
They'll announce a completely new product: G++.
In fact they do not
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Isn't most or all of this avoided by explicitly using Bayes' theorem along with a correct formalization of the domain?

E.g. for the mammogram:

P(cancer) = 0.8%

P(~cancer) = 1 - P(cancer) = 99.2%

P(positive_mammogram | cancer) = 90%

P(positive_mammogram | ~cancer) = 7%

P(cancer | positive_mammogram) = P(positive_mammogram | cancer) P(cancer) / (P(positive_mammogram | cancer) P(cancer) + P(positive_mammogram | ~cancer) (1 - P(cancer))) = 90% * 0.8% / (90% * 0.8% + 7% * 99.2%) = 9.39457%
Should a car, generally prioritize the survival of its occupant or pedestrian? Not answering this is the same as answering it with 'surprise me'. And either answer is wrong.
It was hyperbole to show the effect of supply and demand

More and more I notice how similar software engineers are beginning to sound like the "Made in America" factory workers who said China could never do their job. Never take the present comfy situation for granted
It’s not a problem in and of itself but it’s illustrative of our lax policy.
That's the case with me too.. I write JAVA/Python at rocket speed, and css slower then snail.
Nice idea!

You've got a typo on https://find.xyz/about :
s/beatuful/beautiful/g
It’s not false it’s just irrelevant. People are people no matter where they’re from, the US has some of the toughest immigration laws anywhere, immigrants boost the economy and the US is squandering it’s opportunity by letting countries like Canada take in the worlds best and brightest.
One of my all-time favourite chiptunes from 1996:

Funky Stars aka Hybrid Song

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
I'm not sure about this. At least for the same-sex marriage, seems that majority in US approves it in recent years. I don't think a regulation can or should make that kind of change while like 80% people don't agree with it.
Her book, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" is a series of essays written in the early 60's. Reading it today, I would say she hasn't had enough influence over the world.

I can't agree strongly enough. Everybody should read Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. And go into it with an open mind, instead of planning to reject it based on preconceived biases. A lot of people might be surprised at how they feel about things at the end.

All of that said, I think Rand hurt herself in one crucial way w.r.t her writing. And that is her somewhat nonstandard use of certain words, especially "selfish" and "selfishness". For better or worse, her use of those words is a bit different from the common, colloquial usage, and most people - in my experience - don't bother to try and really dig in and parse out what she meant.

I'm not even sure a word exists that, by itself, captures exactly what she meant by "selfish" or "selfishness". Something like "self interest" or "inner desire" or maybe "self reward" comes close, but those all feel kinda clumsy if inserted into her works in place of "selfish" and its other forms.

Perhaps if more people read Rand (especially her nonfiction), we might not be in this predicament.

Agreed. Sadly, even among people who have read Rand, too many just read Atlas Shrugged and formed their opinions there. And while I enjoyed AS and think it has a lot of virtue, it's not a great novel in many ways, and as a non-native English speaker, her writing in AS can feel a bit wooden and stilted at times. I think The Fountainhead is a bit better in this regard, in addition to being shorter, and generally recommend it as a better intro to Rand's fiction, for people who want to go down that path.
Facebook doesn't want to talk about how many people use its app anymore
27 years later.
> Why is this? This sounds like a huge U.S. talent development problem. How does this visa change help to fix this issue?

It doesn’t, I’m against it.

> The very fact that the number of employed software engineers is expected to go up by 24% in a single year is the evidence you're looking for that there is a massive supply distortion in the labor market.

Yes... because the demand for software engineers is increasing every year and can’t keep up with supply.
Kodama Tree Spirits are taking over the internet
Maybe that's what got the greatest suppression recently?
Yeah uhh hey I appreciate your enthusiasm but this literally is not how modern public key encryption works, or will ever be changed to work. All ciphers in general use don't have any sort of a realistic time-bound to being cracked or computed
I think the website for Yale University School of Art deserves a mention. http://art.yale.edu/
Have you thought about just running a forum?
Unfortunately, the more school == more skilled proxy doesn't always works and often fails in tech where informal experience matters
Federal Judge Says Boycotts Aren't Protected Speech
How much do you think pooling risk disincentivizes people from exercising or eating healthy? It's probably not a lot because the U.S. is one of the most unhealthy and least insured places in the West.

That cookie addict will be paying for your medicare and social security for 30 years, while you pay for their medicare and social security for 5.

Everyone dies, and healthy people live a long time, and can die very die slowly and expensively. He'll pay for your full time assisted living while you die from Alzheimer's at 95, you'll pay for some critical care after his heart attack at 65.
Exactly. Even things like the aerodynamics - the Audi coming out still looks like a gas-powered car and doesn’t seem to have taken advantage of the reduction in drag coefficient that is possible when you remove every vestigal design decision that was made, in part, to accomodate an engine, exhaust system etc.
Do you mind sharing the note?
You have convinced yourself that discipline is different from focus. It's not, it's one and the same. If you don't have focus, you don't have discipline. It's easy to procrastinate and do things you shouldn't focus on and convince yourself that you're doing work. It takes discipline or focus if you will to do what you don't want to do. Before you begin work, plan your day, make your plan visible, stick to the plan and don't move away from it. That's the strategy. Plan ahead.
for a while Google + was a great place to get news and updates without garbage
I take you haven’t been to Japan, South Africa, Korea or China. We’re not tough by a long shot.
Software engineer salaries have been rising in a globalized market. Companies can already hire wherever they want. Many do.

I have no doubt that if companies can pay workers less then they will. But that’s not what’s happening.
I sure have, and Japan believe it or not has no caps or quotas on immigration and just introduced a bunch of measures to make it easier to immigrate. Limiting immigrants is a bad thing and the US could stand to benefit hugely, economically and socially, by laxening the rules.
> I've worked with a few H1-B holders in Silicon Valley and they're awesome.

To counter your anecdote, I've worked with countless H1-B's over the years, and while a handful have been awesome most of them are absolutely terrible.
Yeah, we were able to do it with this guy.

Things worked with this guy because at his core, he was actually a very sweet person! (And we were very patient and interested in making it work, if I may say so. Not that we did everything right, not by a longshot)

He was just kind of socially clueless, as opposed to actually malignant...
> It’s a serious matter with an obvious solution.

This is a bold statement. Why do you think the solutions are obvious? Do you believe this is a subject without nuance?
Here's the answer

"Troy Hunt's service HaveIBeenPwned offers another helpful check of whether your passwords have been compromised, though as of this writing it doesn't yet include Collections #2-5."
>and can’t keep up with supply.

yes...the very definition of a labor distortion that drives down wages.
They wanted “model e” but ford owned the trademark.
Money talks and most people will sell out for money. :-(
I just want them to announce a new RSS feed reader since their last one was sacrificed at the altar of G+
It served well as a private group place to post stuff, and a nice public place to follow others who wanted to type more then twitter allowed.
That’s clearly not how the US (or anywhere) operates: the constitution itself negotiates terms between privacy and security — privacy is not and never has been an absolute right.

Further, I’m actually trying to increase privacy, by negotiating a compromise that’s workable for society as a way to remove the excuses bad actors are using, and shift the legal framework around the topic. That’s not an absolute ideological position, by any definition.

By contrast, you do adopt such an absolutist position — which isn’t grounded in law, and fails to provide for other societal needs. Such stances lead to failure, because of their absolutism. Your stance is why Australia passed an internet wiretapping law, not mine — because you refused to acknowledge a societal need until they employed force.

If your approach worked, we wouldn’t have the state of things we do now.
> "It does not, but it changes the set of people looking to buy them and the way in which they’re used, both of which impact the general market for vulnerability sales"

There is no shortage of oppressive regimes with incredible amounts of money at their disposal. People who are in it for the money don't honestly give a shit who pays them. You cannot eliminate the market for this stuff. The only option is to create better software.
What does a quota matter when you have other real effective restrictions.

Also, I’m for immigration where we have proven needs. I don’t agree with flooding the market and depressing wages for average workers. PhDs, sure, rare skills, sure.

Or, let’s put it this way, would you be in favor we took Japan’s immigration system part and parcel and implemented it as they have?
I’ve been saying it forever. The media hates new forms of advertising because that was their missed opportunity. The media had gotten out of control regardless. They are about as factual and unbiased as a state run news organization at this point.

Hopefully it will be possible to have reasonable discourse on HN again instead of the constant flaming.
That’s either impressive levels of deadpan, utter inability to notice the double entendre, or and impressive job of “leaning into the joke”.
> Are they carefully manipulating everyone's results?

100%
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/h-1b-visa-process-revamped...
If that is what you want then that is okay. You can pay for that type of insurance. I prefer to buy life insurance from a place that will charge me a lower rate because I don't drink or smoke. I assume that most people who don't drink or smoke would join my type of insurance as well, leaving your type of insurance full of drinkers and smokers. That would make your insurance cost more (the insurance is paying more) while mine would be cheap.

Now, if you are talking about requiring everyone to use the same insurance for the same price (maybe a government insurance) then I would want to ban drinking and smoking. Because now their actions directly impact my by rasing my insurance cost.
How do I make ddg the default on my old android phone?
Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services
Gift card code distribution is also much easier to automate and track. I'm in a small research lab and we recently moved from cash to gift cards. It's much easier to distribute both physically and digitally.
Uncle Bob maybe?
Meeting Haiku (2005)
An accident during flight is pretty much a binary event when it comes down to whether you live or not, but with cars there is a whole slew of different types of accidents and vast majority of them don't cause instant death preceded by 45 seconds of absolute terror. Before you downvote what I said in no way discounts the statistics. It is much safer to fly of course than to drive, but when we think of accidents which is an inevitable fact of any mode of travel one mode is binary you live or die and another not. To our mammalian brains the statistics is a very hard sell.
That a good, cautious stance. That said, thus may not be a good example of it.

We don't know the imessage bug, but a big one was patched in ios 9.3.3, released July 18, 2016. Meanwhile, the article says this exploit got a lot of people in 2016/2017.

So, presumably simply updating software would have protected a lot of the victims in this case.

The higher up in adversary skill level you go, the less this works. But up to a reasonably high level simply having up to date software thwarts most adversaries, no? And conversely, if you have very out of date software, even incompetent adversaries can break in.
See also Cal Newport's terrific book "Deep Work".
because religion is meaningful to a lot of people and freedom of practice is enshrined in the US Constitution
I wonder who popularized it in Brazil
>Also in the paper? "... how does immigration affect the average American?...annual economic gains to the native-born population to be between 0.1 and 0.3 percent of gross domestic product". This is an astonishingly large benefit.

That is $50-150 per year for a household with a median income. It's not an astonishingly large benefit.

And the GDP is entirely the wrong thing to look at. In the last two decades the U.S. has roughly doubled its GDP while the median household income hasn't increased at all. Nobody really doubts that bringing in immigrants skilled or otherwise will make the economy larger. It's more about who benefits. If you're the guy that runs the business using all of this immigrant labor you do great. If you're the guy competing with immigrants for jobs you don't do great.

>That's the section where they acknowledge that, yes, people lose jobs to immigrants. They go on to say that actually more people gain jobs at higher wages because of immigrants.

>There's a section on high tech jobs to read too, take a look.

All I see is a quote from Bill Gates and misleading statistics. Nothing that indicates that more Americans work in high tech fields at higher wages due to immigrants.

>And hey, when have you ever known software to not create the need for more software :0)

Which you hire more Indians to write...
Freedom of speech memo, President of the university of Alaska, March 2001
1. It's hard to disentangle lifestyle choices from genetic ones. If someone is born with an insatiable appetite that means it's 10x harder for them to stay at a healthy weight compared to someone else is that a lifestyle choice of genetics?

2. Being healthy already has quality of life consequences. And the extra cost to insure those lifestyle choices are probably pretty low, and most of that cost is just shifting it from primary insurance to medicare. Because everyone dies of something, and a lot of times it's really expensive. Insurers care a lot about whether that happens at 64 or 66. But as a society it doesn't really matter, and the insured bears most of the impact.
Haha. So silly. Now all these folks have to do is bribe colleges in India to give them fake transcripts and diplomas. Half of the h1bs from India already have fake masters or at best masters from low graded crap colleges. The Indian consulting firms throw so many shitty developers at us and it sucks because we drown in resumes and no choice because my company won’t go higher on rates so we can’t afford good developers. These h1bs are as good as entry level sophomores in US colleges.
Dairy is pretty automated, farming is getting more and more automated. But, we will be helping many low skills Americans who now get undersold in the labor market. Other advanced economies manage the cost of labor in agribiz, we can too.
I was not scared of flying until one day while taking off from O’Hare lightning stroke to the tip of the left wing of my plane. I was sitting just on that row aisle side though. For a split second it felt like we stoped mid air. Kind of like when you drive over a bump with your car. After that for quite a while I was scared shitless of flying. But that didnt stop me I probably flew a hundred times since then and now when I do I dont even think about whether I am on a plane or train ( well my be for a bit). Airplanes are incredibly robust machines so my advice is just stop thinking about it and keep flying.
You can't have both types of insurance. If you try, the one that discriminates less just becomes the highest-risk pool. So telling someone to choose the one they prefer doesn't make any sense.
Neither. It should just try to stop. Calculating fatality probabilities is way out of scope.
https://newatlas.com/earth-core-age-younger/58257/
just in case anyone wants to read the correct article
One of my largest problems with ridding Google from my life has been dealing with their Captchas.
Do you have a source on these studies you are saying talk about how immigration increases wages.

It's the general understanding that increase imigration would lower wages for those towards the bottom of the pay band for any given profession. It may result in increased pay for those at the top of the industry should increased software development induce demand for more software development, but that's not something we know to be the case over the next 40 years.

In many different marketplaces, increasing supply reduces it's cost even should there be an exact increase in demand for the given need. I.e. software development leads to there being an increased demand for more software development.
Nice writeup, eagerly awaiting the next section.

Companies should be named-and-shamed for this behavior. Ridiculous.
Personal opinion- I think homogeneous societies cooperate much better and I personally believe that so-called forced diversity of racial backgrounds is an effort to lower the camaraderie in a team and keep the loyalty to the firm and not the team members and thus bringing down wages by competition.

I am all for diversity of ideas and background. Something which would make a companies more productive at the same wage.

I also believe that no race is superior to another- everybody has different goals. And so long as one doens't try and interfere in another's society, the world would be a very smooth place.
NIST Announces 2nd Round Candidates for post quantum encryption algorithm
They live in fear because most of them are garbage. They produce garbage and make others lives miserable. And the ones that actually worked hard can’t afford to even get a job because h1bs take such a low pay
Where do you get such VPS?

Also you can use Raspberry Pi for this. It costs $5 to host it for a year.
I feel like we can’t be reading the same thing. You’re saying that a market where there is more demand than supply is one where prices are lower? Again, I’m going to need a citation for that.
The feeds of the internet, Facebook, Twitter and such don't tend to be weird because of course they are selective, by upvotes, follows and friendships, and reach a normalcy between the influences. So it won't be fed to you unless you have weird friends.

So, you need to search for it. Be active about your intetests and seek them out.
How would you operationalize this in order to do an analysis on HN's public data?
Why is someone a shill for saying something negative about a totalitarian dictatorship?
Pure ideology.
Indeed. An argument could be made that given the astronomical living costs of Silicon Valley, the wages should have already been higher given how much profits the companies are making.
Apologies, my description was poor. I meant something that looks like a SIM card.
I don’t understand why anyone would use this instead of the real BTC or ETH.
I don’t follow. Parents who are on H1B can leverage their wards citizenship by birth to get their own citizenship by naturalization.

And by no stretch of imagination do they need to wait for 27 long years!
That's my point. How would you like it if you had to pay just as much in flood insurance as someone with a beach front property in Florida? If I had to, I would try to make beachfront properties in Florida illegal.
right... the network creates the latency, not the time it takes to turn on a microphone (which is instant when compared to network latency)
Reports Swirl That Ride-Hailing Giant Didi Is Considering Mass Layoffs
Encrypted data can be read if you install a root CA, which is what the Facebook app does, but the Google version does not appear to do that.

There’s an “enterprise certificate”—installing the enterprise certificate allows you to side-load applications. This is relatively benign. Both Facebook and Google do this, in both cases apparently a violation of Apple policy.

There’s a “root certificate”—installing the root certificate allows you to do MitM attacks and read encrypted traffic like messages, bank passwords, etc. The Facebook app appears to do this and I would characterize this reckless, irresponsible, and unambiguously unethical.
Sheryl Sandberg defends Facebook data-collecting app: Users 'knew’
https://suckless.org/ I guess.
Why go with something in the garden? If you're an evil wifi-stealing neighbor, surely you're already within wireless range, no?
> It states more about provability in the context of a single axiomatic system for constructed self-referential statements rather than truth in general.

Thanks. And oops, I didn't know that the result was proven in a larger system. Did some searching and found this short answer[1] and a longer description[2] that I liked.

[1]:https://math.stackexchange.com/a/120018/19178
[2]:https://mathoverflow.net/a/24919

This statement in particular helped:

> The Incompleteness Theorem prevents ZFC from proving its own consistency and for that we need to have an additional axiom, giving us a stronger theory which can then prove ZFC is consistent
Related and fun:
https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/asciiart/asciiart...
your own domain, with a wordpress.org blog, free. does comments and moderation (better when you use some anti-spam like geoip block)

plugins so visitors can get more then rss feed, but get emailed notifications for new posts and for comment threads.

people who don't want to do updates / backups (can be automated) - can just get a wordpress.com thing going, has most functions, and has a user to user subscribe kind of functionality for other wordpress.com users.

There are some plugins to cross post with twitter and fbook, but fbk apis have changed a few times and I don't use it, so no idea if they work awesome or have issues these days.

better yet add the buddypress plugin and get your friends to get thier own profile on your network and get others to do the same.
isn't that page going against wsj's terms?
Same conclusion could be made that people don’t care about cancer because tobacco companies print money.
haha you posted this 10 min after me. I deleted mine. You win this time. lol

Mine was literally under your posting.........
https://mobile.twitter.com/troyhunt/status/10850955041977794...
You might be right on this one, not sure why I jumped to the conclusion of it being hosted on Amazon.
So if the third theory is correct (political motivation), how can the first theory (phone hack) be discounted?
Life is mostly random, so don't get too attached to your plans. Nothing works out the way you think it will, but it generally does work out somehow.

Unless you're really into the whole old-fashioned white picket fence kind of life, marriage is probably a bad idea.

Max out your 401k. Don't worry too much about an ordinary savings account.