skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Prof. C also discuss the benefits of mixing focused time with communication and idea exchange time? E.g: closed door work with open work areas.

I encountered a similar idea in "The New Science of Building Great Teams" by Alex Pentland, where the concept of exploration is introduced: "The best team players also connect their teammates with one another and spread ideas around. And they are appropriately exploratory, seeking ideas from outside the group but not at the expense of group engagement".
2) probably because a lot of consumers buy iPhones? Can’t speak for Facebooks internal use though...
Same on my VW, but the preferences are per key fob. Surprised me the first few times when I used the spare.
Article says registered users get deals that are at least a day old for free. Registered users get faster deals and saved searches - i.e. alerts.
> After leaving her job at the NSA in 2014, Lori Stroud worked as a contract intelligence operative for the UAE. Stroud, now living in an undisclosed location in America, said the mission crossed a line when she learned her unit was spying on Americans.

There exists another line between feeling remorseful and doing the right thing to begin with.
HTTP Partial Requests
SawStop has stopped all competing attempts for patent violation, so I'm not sure it not being sold elsewhere is a clear sign it's not wanted.
Corruption started its latest incarnation in Wisconsin with Tommy Thompson. Approved the state lottery which led to casinos ( Chicago mafia controlled). Now, almost every month their is a fiduciary in some county or city government that gets caught with their hands in the till because of their casino losses. As for Foxconn...
I keep saying this. We have almost all of the tech you need here in Wisconsin (or the upper midwest) for making our own lcd industry. 3M in Menomone Wi makes the Vikuity backlight material. We have pc board manufacturing (TTMI) in Chippewa Falls. Lots of electronic design talent at companies like Cray and HPE. So. Get in line and order the LCD production equipment from Nikon in Japan and start making some. What exactly do you need a contract manufacturer like Foxconn for?
This is not comparing a person with 5 years if experience to a person without 5 years experience.

Instead, related to the H1B question, this is comparing the "average" person applying to the H1B program who has a bachelor's degree, and comparing that to the "average" person applying to the program with a master's degree.

It is not about perfect correlation. It is instead about imperfect correlation of the averages among these 2 groups.

Even in the worst case scenario of there being no correlation, it still benefits the US to give priority to masters students, as at the very least it means that they have spent more money on an American business (IE, the univerity).

I don't see anything wrong with priorizing more money to US businesses, all else being equal.
Coincidentally, the famous Schindler also emigrated to Argentina. Jews and Nazis alike went to argentina.

It also helped that argentina in the 1920's was the richest country in the world, and it has the size of most of europe while it had almost no people.
No, you don't have to hack anything, you can write your code and run it on your iPhone that's running the legit iOS without going through Apple's review process.

People who develop apps do it everyday many times because they need to run their code on devices. You don't ask apple for permission every time you press the build button.
The antagonist's non-apology apology is masterful: https://twitter.com/UncleThargy/status/1090498634809049093/p...

Pretty much a case study in how not to apologise.
A couple times when I worked for a very large company, with an ocean of cars in the lot, I had to resort to hitting the open trunk button and walking around looking for that.

If there's nobody around you can hit the panic button too.
Even without the definitely-evil incidents that have occurred, simply greedily collecting and then hoarding that much information about people is so grossly and willfully negligent as to qualify. The very basis of everything they do is hopelessly tainted.

Yes, that makes an awful lot of other companies—not just tech-first companies—pretty damn evil, too. "Everyone's doing it" and "it's not illegal and is making us money" aren't defenses I accept for this disgusting behavior.

[EDIT] that said, piling on people for working at evil companies is probably unproductive and unfair for many of the same reasons that e.g. boycotts are wildly ineffective, plus such a large percentage of the economy's kinda-evil that the whole thing would get confusing and nasty and kinda pointless. Piling on someone for being delusional about whether their employer is evil, though... well, that's an awful lot less unfair.
Better idea: Change your name to Wallace F. Davidson, write this same article but in novel form, publish it under the title "Infinite Mess", become best-selling author, send me a check for $200,000 when you become a millionaire.
My "please don't" was directed at the potential learner as in "please don't use this particular book if all you want is learning Racket" - not at you, in any way.

Also, I said it's a bad book for learning Racket In My Opinion. Of course it's all based on opinions and I just presented my own. No flame intended, at all.

EDIT: sure, no problem :)
It is amazing how elegant s-expressions are. And just how much pain that could have been avoided by using them. Markup languages, configuration files, you name it. Sometimes there are advantages for alternate notations, but most are quite niche.

Now, if just all the lisp dialects would stop bikeshedding...
Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011)
In fairness, if you're waiting for your government to protect your privacy rights, you're going to be waiting a long time. They have a vested interest in circumventing the privacy of their citizens, (and circumventing the privacy of everyone else' citizens too in fact.)

I think the best you'd ever get out of a government is maybe a law that forbids companies from sharing data with anyone EXCEPT the governments themselves. This is kind of what GDPR does, but even that doesn't really have any teeth in it as we're starting to see. No one at all has really stopped hoovering up all the data they can.
You better store encrypted if you're pirating movies/music.

It's rather easy to get TOS'ed even if you match filenames of common pirate name signatures.
Would check with Derek Sivers:
https://sivers.org/book/DeepWork

I think the point of reading the book is you will see the ideas in the summary, but may not believe they are true. The book is there to convince you through data, logical arguments, and stories that the ideas are true. In addition, repetition is one of the most valuable techniques for actually remembering things.
Pretty sure Paul La Roux regarded Ulbricht as a small-time, attention-grabbing, useful idiot.
Here's for watching with cURL

curl https://asciitv.fr
Would you be so cool if he was replacing Musk while he did a reconnaissance trip to Mars or something?
This won't end well for csoft.net
I think it is noteworthy given the notoriety of Musk and the high pressure situation being CFO of a company whose CEO makes numerous unsubstantiated claims. If I were an investor in TSLA this would not be welcome news to me. Is this person, relatively young for CFO, in a position to stand up to Musk? Is this person going to be just a yes man so to speak?
You realize that operation was "under Obama", right? This is fascinating how gullible a lot of people are, HN readers are no exception. Extreme far-left brainwashing just remarkable
Running a Multi-Tenant WAF at the Edge
I hear you, but most of the metrics used were normalized (to GDP, R&D $, population, share).

Maybe on a normalized basis the picture looks a little different?

Also, totally unrelated, and I've never been to China, but based on the observations of Connie Chan (of Andreesen-Horowitz), it seems China has a bunch of innovations in the retail space [1] that most Americans aren't aware of. US innovation is still dominant no doubt, but I'm always fascinated by innovations that we don't hear about because it gives us a sense of perspective in the world.

[1] https://a16z.com/2017/02/06/china-trends-2016-2017/
This is a good book but also could be summed up in a few pages.
I also thought the topic seemed too thin to stretch into a full book, and I almost didn't read it. But I'm glad I did. I agree with other commenters that the signal-to-noise ratio was surprisingly high.
That is fascinating. Which one is correct? Is Bayesian using more assumptions than Frequentist, namely the fact that repeated queries that haven't been done yet will show that the machine's answer is NO most of the time?
The job market is very competitive. You don't need anyone's permission to enter it, all you have to do is do good work. Salaries are high due to a combination of massive demand and the fact that it takes a long time to get good at it. Even their stupid collusion attempts are basically fruitless, because the tech market isn't just four colluding companies, there are thousands. You don't have to go from Google to Apple, you can go to Amazon or Red Hat or numerous others, or create your own startup. That number of companies could never secretly collude -- they couldn't even get away with four. Which is why salaries are still high.

The true threat is companies crushing smaller rivals, because that's how in the long term you end up in a situation where there aren't thousands of tech companies because no one can compete without the assent of one of the major ones, and they prefer to destroy you or compete with you or buy you out than let you grow independently. And that's how salaries could fall in the long-term. But you tell people that supporting walled gardens and closed proprietary services could lower their long-term salary and they don't hear you, because they're after the quick buck today.
Detecting a finger touching metal through change in electrical resistance doesn't seem novel, but the stopping mechanism does. Do I have that right?
> Everybody generally wants a few core services from their smartphone: send and receive brief messages, directions, ride hailing, listen to a podcast or some streaming service, mobile payments, take photos (perhaps most importantly).

Complete access to a large % of Western civilization's collective knowledge is also kind of nice.

Mostly used for restaurant open hours and random Wikipedia articles. But still.

Knowing where nearby gas stations are, checking when a store closes, comparison price shopping, checking nutrition facts, there are many uses for a smart phone outside of the ones you listed. And, as always, the long tail is long.
There's a related one, though not from psychology: Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy.

"Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true--except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll
Are you sure that’s not this video. That happens here too.
Church service stops after 96 days as asylum family pardoned
It's probably tricky for a business like a bakery because your orders would vary so much in size, so you'd have to have different tiers depending on the risk being borne by the business.

Like, $50 birthday cake? Pay with a credit card when you pick it up. $15,000 in pies next week? Here's a contract that stipulates the due date and what the penalties are, and names the collections agency which will come after you for the outstanding amount and any applicable penalties.
Pipes are basically nothing in comparison with cigarettes, though.

My dad's doctor didn't quite recommend he start smoking his pipe again, but he didn't really try to dissuade him, either. It enhances his experience and he's old enough that any remaining cares about cancer are moot.
My co-worker put it best: "This is Uber-level scumminess"
RIP Phillips Curve? The Fed's Wonky Guidestar May Be Dimming
You will likely be interested in this recent New Yorker article which considers this topic.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalis...

And accompanying interview with Jill Abramson.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/how-...

But, basically... yes, what you said. And newspapers mostly lack any credible business plan ideas that don't rely on this.

There is currently no real demonstrated business model to sustainably pay for good journalism. Some are hoping they can at least fund good journalism with clickbait and sponsored content... ugh.
Wood working newbie here. I recently learned about table saw kick-backs and ordered a Grr-Ripper push block[1] after seeing it being recommended on several YouTube videos. I’m quite happy with it but I’m not really experienced enough to make a fair judgement of the product. Is these kind of things something that more experienced wood workers are using/recommending?

[1] https://www.microjig.com/products/grr-ripper
We tried 20 store-bought mac and cheese brands to determine which is the best
Here's an interesting read for you: http://glusman.blogspot.com/2010/02/malcovich-bias-over-year...
How much DRM today is broken because of attacks on in-the-clear memory? I didn't think that was a standard way to attack DRM.
Original video: https://archive.org/details/ShakeHan1970 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26fTGBEi9E

There is also this music remix version that I kinda like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfIJtR6R1jY
The headline implies that "Whale" is used with explicit malicious intent towards young children. People are taking that and running with it, rather than discussing the details of the actual story which are far more nuanced.

The entire piece starts with a faulty, provocative implication that has no basis in reality.
They died because the military chose to level an entire building to kill a single person.
Firestore is very limited here. I trigger a cloud function on every new entry and replicate my data in bigquery. This solves the problem for me.
> Labeling people as illegals is merely meant to dehumanize them.

No more than labelling those who commit crimes as criminals.

Subjects of foreign states — i.e. aliens — who are present illegally are illegal aliens. That's what they are (in addition, of course, to being human beings, with parents and rights and hopes and dreams and all the rest).

Labelling them 'undocumented immigrants' is a bit too cute, since many of them do retain the identifying documentation issued by their states. It's also begging the question of whether they should be immigrating at all.

For myself, I philosophically tend towards completely open borders, but I do wonder about the practical implications, and I dislike the blatant dishonesty & appeals to emotion common on both sides of the issue.
Show HN: A rap song about squashing bugs in production
Song URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyrrPiNI3GI

Quick background on the project: I'm a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession/industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two.

I'm always open to feedback on audio quality/topic ideas/ways to get more exposure/etc!
>What if I want to install an app someone else wrote onto my phone but doesn't want to put it in the App Store?

That other person gives you the sourcecode, you compile it an install it on your device.

Oh BTW, you don't have to pay for dev account anymore if you don't intend to distribute your app.
Will there be read-only replicas in other regions available in the future?
Medical consensus for most toxins/poisons is LNT - linear no threshold.

The basic idea is that you can perform some interventions at various doses, score the response, and then extrapolate to the origin. In most cases, simple linear regression gets you close to the origin, suggesting a linear response where even small doses has small harmful effects.

The trouble with this is that the data is rarely good enough to really support that model directly, instead you have to extrapolate the data to these smaller doses. This is simply due to variance in the data and errors in experimentation that make small effect sizes extremely hard to suss out. So you're always extrapolating from more extreme data.

For instance, a great deal of fuss has been made about alcohol, and whether moderate consumption (on the order of one drink a day) is actually beneficial. More broadly, this is related to the idea of hormesis, where small exposure to a poison actually confers a benefit, generally explained as coming from a compensatory response in the body. Every so often someone comes out with a new study or meta analysis that claims to be authoritative, but I still remain unconvinced one way or the other about alcohol.

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The other issue here is the idea of relative risk. Even if you posit a non-zero harm from infrequent smoking, there are still many 'acceptable' risks that are likely far greater, such as that of road travel, air quality hazards, poor diet, lack of exercise, etc. These are all well understood and clearly outweigh the risk of infrequent smoking, but are 'business as usual', while a great deal of attention is paid to something like smoking, however infrequent.

In that sense, I would agree that it indistinguishable from background noise. But I would also say that there is likely real harm that results from this. In a broader decision-making sense, such minor harms do have a cumulative impact.
>No state but New Jersey. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-jerseys-tax-gift-to-florida....

Most people would agree that raising the max tax rate from 8.97% to 10.75%, is not anything like raising the max tax rate from 45% to 75% - never mind that France also instituted a wealth tax.

>...Why are you so biased? High rates of taxation is not bad policy.

All I’ve done is give evidence that countries have learned that very high confiscatory tax rates are counterproductive. (Much as the original article about Hollywood tax avoidance discusses.) You haven’t said what you mean by “high rates of taxation” or give evidence why you think they are good - it isn’t clear why you are accusing anyone else of being biased.
When the last CFO left in under 2 years, and many other senior execs seem to be fleeing, the worrisome implication is that TSLA has trouble attracting and retaining senior talent given the work pressure and thin financial margin, so they are instead turning to a relatively green home-bred 34 yo.

At the end of the day, I'm not personally worried about this and think this guy will likely do just fine, but this is sufficiently unusual that I don't think the WSJ article is odd.
You are correct, thank you for pointing it out. But my point still stands because there exists a bijection between DFAs and NFAs.
Really interesting read.

Lately I have been researching GIS Data and CRE Data. The military has to have a tool to do this, but what if you could have a live video feed that would watch for muzzle flashes or tracer rounds. When they are spotted you can try to pinpoint the location and add a layer of Building information to track the locations and all the risks associated with going into those areas.

I wonder what researchers are doing for the military and if they are applying graph theory to these types of problems (or other things that I don't know about yet) and what tech they are using to help the people on the ground.
With TestFlight you don't even need to collect UDIDs or even email accounts anymore. And that's 10,000 users per app.
You don't "need" a bigger home. You can perfectly have 2 children in a 900sqft 3 bedroom appartment.
I have had a kickback ripping 2x4s on a table saw when in a professional woodshop with my dad. That one luckily didn't cause me any injury, but my paychecks from my summer job for the next two summers went directly to the woodshop owner to pay for the damages. The 2x4 flew with such force from the saw that it hit a shelf of tools behind me, destroying several and deflecting slightly before going THROUGH the side of the building, which was a steel shop building from the 60s. Just imagine what it would do if you'd been standing there.

You always see those pictures of a hurricane taking a piece of grass and embedding it into a telephone pole, well a table saw can take a 2x4 and put it through just about anything. Crazy powerful tools.
> It's the only thing that's not unique.

I see you get one joker in your game.
well there are already like different sites for the learning part, but why would a recruiter pay you for the access, he can just sit and after a while your students will come to him begging!!!(sorry for being so harsh).

Plus recruiters look for experience and people who will take work at the lowest income possible... that kinda defeats the whole purpose.
Fair enough. They’re Facebook employees - them "siding with" their own company doesn't quite seem like the right way to describe this - but I'm glad you're not talking about me and thanks for the clarification.
Have close friends who are married to Australians. It was common knowledge that out in the bush, it was quite frequent to shoot Aboriginals who would wander into your land. Australia had similar gun laws as US and it only changed after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.

Also Aboriginals do not have the concept of land ownership and hence wouldn't understand the concept of trespassing, especially the kids.

Here is a list of known massacres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenou...

I spent some time in Queensland and the lawyers told me point blank that courts would hardly rule in favor of "Non Europeans" even for criminal/personal injury cases and that's why a huge percentage of civil/injury liabilities are settled out of court.
Women who inspire me
I like cloud firestore and firebase platform very much. It would be nice to have more query features. A simple "!=" is not possible.

Also an automatic backup would be nice (and can't be that hard to offer?).
The mental blocks can be totally unrelated to the difficulty of the concepts, too.

My wife is also smart and totally capable of learning to program. I've seen her self-learn subjects (e.g., how email headers work or basic SQL queries) just to scratch a particular itch, though she didn't think of it as learning a technical skill.

But she'll never bother learning to program, because she's "not a tech person". It all goes back to her being a young girl in school and having one bad computer teacher who made her feel stupid and inadequate. She's completely averse to "learning to program". Her block to learning is entirely emotional, acquired from a stressful event.
I'm interested in learning about Firestore architecture and how it solves difficult problems to understand and trust it. I'm not interested in client libraries.
I think you called it... was thinking similar thoughts, that they can't get anyone from the outside and this kid on the inside is hungry, with perceived though not yet proven externally, capability. I like it.
Can We Prove Time Protection?
Mouse-holing, which is essentially what you describe, is a pretty old tactic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse-holing

The IDF also extensively used "neighbour pressure"[1][2] and "human shields"[3] against civilians as operational Urban Warfare techniques in the 2000s. Basically grabbing an innocent civilian and sending them into a dangerous location nearby to clear the trail in front of you in the knowledge an enemy is less inclined to kill a neighbour.* Of course, how is that innocent civilian supposed to know where a landmine or tripwire is placed? Something not as readily available to US forces in Iraq.

[1] "IDF to appeal human shield ban"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4333982.stm

[2] https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/wp-content/uploads/201...

[3] https://www.btselem.org/topic/human_shields

*Yes this is a war crime and a violation of Geneva Convention. Even the Israeli Supreme Court said it shouldn't be allowed.
While that theory is valid, it's not what the linked article is about.