skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix has become an increasingly sketchy company. I've been more and more turned off by their aggressive UX patterns designed to push you into watching more content, not to mention their self-professed battle against sleep (https://www.fastcompany.com/40491939/netflix-ceo-reed-hastin...).

I picked the Hulu documentary because I felt in my gut that it would be more trustworthy. Looks like I was right.
"The end result enabled us to reduce 25 instances (c4 xlarge) running Clojure code - able to process 60 concurrent requests, to two instances (c3.2xlarge) running Go code able to support ~5000 concurrent requests a minute"

That doesn't make any sense though.
Yes, the precision required would be insane. That is also what makes this an interesting project, even if you fail you will still learn a ton about all kinds of engineering principles. Expensive lesson though!

Another big factor would likely be how far Mars is away from Earth, at the close extreme it will probably be substantially easier to pull this off.

What an interesting article by the way, thank you for that link.
Yes. Through a VM like qemu or a tool like ExaGear
underpromise and way over deliver. This is unheard of.
Tech-interview style riddles and mathematical puzzles
> But I have seen nothing to suggest that the tax-hike crew have any good ideas about spending either. Their idea seems to be "let's just be Denmark”.

I've seen none where this is the case.

> And the issue with progressive systems is that all other things aren't equal.

You can compare situations where things outside of the tax system are, if not perfectly ceteris paribus, at least more comparable than in normal country-v.-country comparisons, like comparing the US before Reagan's tax burden shift to the US after. And when you do that, suddenly progressivity and inequality become opposed. It's only when progressivity is offset by something that mitigates it's ability to drive down inequality that it doesn't have that effect.

> Progressive tax systems don't work.

But they do. The fact that they can (and in the case of the US absolutely do) have their effects offset by larger effects of other aspects of policy that are directed at opposing ends doesn't mean they don't work, it means that if you want reduced inequality, you can't crank those opposed policies up when you crank up progressivity, you need to at worst leave them alone or, better, dial them down.

> The idea of upward and downward redistribution also sounds like something beloved of theoreticians.

It's simple fact if you take money in and send money out, you are either sending the average dollar back to someone who has greater, equal, or less wealth, income, or whatever measure you are concerned about than the person the average dollar came from.

> as an example: the idea of a "single payer" health system is just preposterous

That isn't really an example that clarifies and supports your conclusion, since it is itself an unsupported and equally controversial conclusion to the one it is offered to support.
As this stuff gets better and better, I wonder if it will actually increase our distrust in digital imagery and in doing so, increase the demand for in person interaction, at least in matters of consequence.

Either that, or digital communication will have to include defensive fake detection features, and the rest of that thought is a Philip K Dick novel ;)
Even my 1975 bmw 2002 has a getrag 4 speed manual. The m10 engine I have was still being made in the late 80s for the 318i (with electronic ignition and fuel injection), but still mated to a 5 speed getrag.
Sounds like that person doesn't really understand that NASA is a political entity and the Public Relations of an ongoing successful mission is more valuable long term than more scientifically pragmatic experiments in the immediate.
I don't think that's the goal. Nowhere they suggest locking people out though def it is possible. The idea is that the website can choose to be more cautious about that user, requiring 2FAuth, flagging for possible credit card fraud and comment moderation. I think these are all good use cases.
the rolling stone website is completely intolerable, wow. Anyone have a good reference for current best practices for browser config or tools to make these sites act a little leaner?
School Will Pay 50 People to Study Aviation in KS– And Guarantee a Job Interview
> I think the closer you are to the actual killing of animals, the more you tend to revere them, if anything.

This is clearly not the case, else nobody would be willing to work for a factory farm.

The opposite appears to be true. People become desensitized - at least the ones who can handle the initial shock. Also, in some regions of the world (and in developed countries), generations have grown up with a company mentality and seem incapable of considering things from any other perspective.
Potentially against the spirit of the article, here is a link to a collaboration the author participated in, on Google Play Music:

https://play.google.com/music/m/Teyeiiypyniczers32g7wso6rne?...

In the neighborhood of Radiohead and Massive Attack. Electronic and evocative.
I'm using the app Snap on MacOS, and you can just reorder the Dock using drag and drop.
Easy to say, but don't underestimate the ability of a master manipulator with (at least temporary) access to capital. He had the skills to manipulate and the power to sift through people to find those most vulnerable to it.
I think another lesson to learn is "if it isn't broken, don't fix it". I think we all have used apps where we got used to one thing and then there's a UI design that changes everything.

As an example that really has no major impact (but I think illustrates subtle changes), I got mad with the Android 9 update. The number one thing I was mad about was the clock placement. Every previous generation it had been placed in the upper right. Since 9 it moved to the top left (same as iPhones). Problem being that Android literally trained the userbase to look in a specific area for that feature and then moved it. Sure, I know where to look now, but I still frequently look at the top right first.

Feature changes like this I don't understand. I can't understand how it would be a significant factor in converting users (which in this case the platform had majority market share) and also results in confusing (rightly so) the existing userbase.

Not working in UI I see them a lot like QC (but with more work to do). If everything is working perfectly QC should have nothing to do. Just like if your UI is good then it shouldn't be changed. I don't understand this "need" to always change things. Sure, there are legit reasons to do so (just like QC NEEDS to exist (for the love of god don't get rid of QC)), but I see a lot of changes that happen that don't make things easier and appear (from the user side) to just be change for the sake of change.
Why do we need do-not-call? Because even if it isn't fraud, I still don't want them to call me.

[Edit: And I think it is in fact working, in that the non-fraud people don't call me much anymore. So the ones who do call are the ones willing to break the do-not-call law, which means they're probably also willing to break other laws, like the ones against fraud.]
"When people rewrite system from X where X in (Python, Ruby, Node, Clojure) to Go they usually see at least 10x improvement."

Sure but how much of the performance gains come from Go and how much come from just having a better understanding of the problem the second time around?
They certainly didn't effectively deal with repeat offenders (as even the DMCA requires) when one such offender was ripping off significant amounts of content from one of my businesses and uploading it over and over again with slightly different titles etc. In fact, they gave no indication of even acknowledging the problem or being at all concerned by it.
As the adage goes, we don’t hate the player, we hate the game. Companies local and international are gaming the visa process at the expense of American workers.

Just as China or Japan don’t owe Americans jobs, we don’t owe foreign nationals jobs.

That said, there are good cases for H-1B visas when we don’t have local talent. It has good uses, but it gets abused and there’s the rub.
> Just because Hillary’s campaign contributions were not as effective at persuading voters enough to win a electoral college majority

It means that money is not buying elections. The voters still have to be pleased with their choice, and the money isn't flowing their way.
The FCC fines television and radio stations for regulation violations.
Tax loss carry-forwards are available to individual taxpayers as well as business.
You are not. But others from your country are (the ones coming through staffing companies). It is tough to be punished for being from a wrong country. Maybe people like you should speak up more and join in fighting the H1 system abuse instead of joining with the abusers in demanding more visas?

The only thing that would happen had they allocated more visas - more people would be brought. You will still be stuck.
Carriers do still pay n cents a minute for calling->receiving carriers, so the receiving carrier has a financial incentive to keep the robocalls coming.
Climate change increases potential for conflict and violence
If the number in caller id is accurate, it provides a decent reporting channel. It’d make it easier for telecom providers to take abuse reports and punish the abusive robodialers, whether by cutting them off or referring them to law enforcement.
I heard something retold recently in this space that was very interesting about a distinctive feature for humans. And that is the ability to make a vow. That would be a pretty interesting topic to see how animals can communicate understanding of the far future and what not.
I did not know what the site was and the very first image that loaded was very similar to Ross Ulbricht. With the name of the site I thought it was a page dedicated to him. Very odd.
We just need more granularity in the term "scam", like we have with manslaughter. There's something like this going on:

Bernie Madoff : First Degree Murder :: Billy McFarland : Negligent Homicide
Not all callers, auto-callers. You have to be a robot to qualify.
It should be like the visa lottery.

Limit any individual country (India or China for example) to a maximum of 10% of the total visa allocation each.

Right now India gets 76% of all H1B visas, so Indians know the system inside and out, and hire other Indians. Tech companies are calling out for female workers, and most of these Indian migrants are also male.

Take it to 10% from any country max, and heck even require that 51% of the visas must be given out to women, and you will see tech companies scour the globe for talent, rather than all the visas just going to Indian body shops. Under such a change you could even increase the total number of visas issued, since the whole scheme would be less rorted and more socially accepted.
What if I told you that twitters TOS itself is bias against conservatives? Your whole argument seems premised on the idea that twitters TOS is completely neutral.
You may be confused about the point of the parent; this is not a comparison between H1-B or nothing, it's a comparison between H1-B and permanent residency / citizenship.

Specifically, the structure of H1 visas limit the prospects of highly-skilled employees to a subset of all possible domestic employers, since not all employers in the US have the financial means and/or legal expertise to sponsor visas.

If, rather than forcing recently-graduated PhD students (to take one example) to consider only companies that sponsor visas, we could allow them to apply and receive their I-140s with a high probability and at a low cost. Under this system:

- they can take more time to search for jobs and prepare for interviews

- they can afford to negotiate more aggressively with offers, since they won't be expelled from the country if they reject the first offer that comes their way

- they can switch companies, or start their own companies, with no external restrictions beyond the obvious financial ones

In general, their prospects as employees would be greatly expanded, and their base of negotiation with employers on the whole would improve.

Hope this makes sense.

Edit: The above reasoning may not apply to employees from countries with reciprocity agreements with the US who do not wish to give up their permanent residency in their home countries (if those countries' reciprocity agreements would require that). I'm not aware of any that are like this, however.
to be honest though. I loved google wave
Couldn’t agree more! Often the users look at you as “the expert” as if you could tell them how to do their job and show up basically with a ready app.
No. You can easily transfer H1. I did that twice. It’s L1s that are not transferable.
This is just a conclusion plus adverbs.
The author posted elsethread to say that it is generating a new image every 2 seconds, and serving the latest one.
In the US, house phones and cable are for being advertised to, cell phones and streaming are for contact and content respectively. That has been the case for at least a decade. I can receive calls from numbers that are not in my contacts but the notification is silent.

Now if only I were allowed to dispose of my mailbox I could have a home free of advertising. Yesterday I received an infuriating catalog from Restoration Hardware that weighed a pound and a half, all because I bought one awful product that fell apart in a few months and had to be recycled. It amazes me that we subsidize such obnoxious ads being delivered to every resident.
Pure CSS Still Life – Water and Lemons
> I can't think of another website that has done that.

https://news.ycombinator.com
Is it somehow less tacky to give that value away to Google for free?

Sites can set the difficulty level necessary for their application. Some are under continual targeted attack, others are mainly keeping out rogue automated spambots from their comments section.

The user is typically getting a free service, a better site experience due to less bot traffic, or both. I think sharing the value of their work with the website is a fair deal.

As for using blockchain tech for ledger functions, that is all under the hood: websites can cash out to dollars as they prefer.

(disclosure: work on bot detection at hCaptcha.com)
This is right up Zymergen's alley, at least when it comes to in vitro testing of these compounds.
P sure the executive agency that uses its rulemaking authority here FCC, clearly said you need an autodialer
Its not always an option, but another alternative to asking and observing is becoming. If you yourself (or someone on your team) have previously been or are currently a user then you can usually answer a lot of the questions yourself with much less of a bias and maybe find solutions you wouldn't be able to by just asking and observing.
That is a weight off my mind! I was getting worried that you might charge for such interviews and have mandatory sign-up obligations! Thank you for the helpful information! As you can see, I am also just very excited!
You're not a slave. You're brought in on a non-immigrant visa to fill a skills gap that a company has. You are free to leave the USA any time you want and certainly don't need an exit visa nor permission of your employer to leave.
That's a real problem with the development of the society with "professional" and "managerial" classes. They try to protect their position by disempowering others. It used to be priests that protected their knowledge, now it's managers, engineers and other professionals.

I see the same in the IT department of my company. Some years ago the local techs could make a lot of changes but slowly corporate IT has taken away power from them and every little thing has to go through architects who then do exactly what the techs would have done anyway. Ford also had to pay more money because the assembly line jobs were so mindnumbingly boring that nobody wanted to do them.
Maybe tasty_freeze isn't. (Maybe technofiend isn't, either.) But if technofiend is right, then somebody is. That somebody doesn't need to be tasty_freeze.

And tasty_freeze isn't the one who made the $89-154 claim. tasty_freeze's claim is that 8-year-old machines work fine, and don't lose data (much).
Your compensation is access to the website that uses Recaptcha and the fewer abuse/bots that you deal with on that platform.

For example, since you're here and HN uses Recaptcha on its register/login form, it seems like the compensation was adequate.
the move towards preference for masters degree is a decent start. there is no way someone with a masters degree would want to work for one of the consulting firms.
T-Mobile is already signing their Caller IDs. T-Mobile to T-Mobile can show if a Caller ID is verified today on certain phones.
> what's the indication that they knew that McFarland was acting fraudulently

Even if they didn't know that McFarland was acting fraudulently, which I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, what they did was fraudulent and illegal on its own.
Yeah, but the 90% does line up, any major changes still have to signed off by an engineer.
I like your description, it's one of things I love about software, how malleable it is for quickly building "devices", tools for my own use or a potentially large number of users.

About the last point you made, how it would be great if hardware/mechanical devices could be made more like software - a few years ago I heard about "micro factories" (forgot the exact term): 3D printers for small(er) scale manufacturing. It seemed promising that soon we could be writing software to manufacture devices/products at home, in a garage, local maker "lab". If you thought of an easier mechanism to mince garlic, you could whip up a prototype in a code editor and "print out" a working prototype (or production-level device)..
as long as you censor the black supremacists and females that say "all men are trash", sure
There's a simpler fix. Companies have gotten away for decades by posting ridiculous job qualifications and then turning around and claiming that since there is no American they can find who is qualified to do the job, that they need to hire cheap foreign talent. I ran into that over and over again as a technical recruiter who would find teams of American citizens and green card holders suddenly displaced by H1s at half their rates.

In these instances, companies should pay 150% of the going market compensation to the H1 employee for the position and an additional 50% to a fund which provides training to local job candidates to create future competition for the position.
https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha
Valid caller ID - even if it’s to a VoIP vendor’s leased number - is better than the current situation where scammers and spammers can use literally any number they want. At least I can search up a leased number, see complaints, and block them (or flag abuse with my carrier). If I (or my carrier) block them, well, serves that VoIP provider right for leasing their precious numbers out to scammers.

With spoofed numbers, I’ve seen calls appear to come from an FBI office in Virginia, local and state police divisions, state troopers, and random businesses. There isn’t any way to really deal with those kinds of calls - and you can’t reasonably screen them out.
Although to say that I'm not a fan of Microsoft would be an understatement I'm not telling you that its impossible to find an acceptable windows environment or impossible to prefer your windows environment. I am making a handful of much easier claims.

- Objectively if you you $150 to spend then spending $112 on the OS leaves you so objectively worse off than spending $0 that its hard to justify the retail cost of a windows license even if you prefer the windows environment. In essence the claim is that windows isn't so much better than pi + windows is better than 5x the computer + linux. Microsoft agrees which is why device makers for cheap devices have historically been able to get a lower per unit than for more fully loaded devices even if the windows sku they shipped with was a less featureful version.

You can't get an acceptable desktop machine for $89 to compare to your $35 rasberry pi. Such a machine will likely be underpowered, it will use 30x as much power, and it will be more likely to die relatively quickly.

Average hard drive lifespan is 3-5 years of use if I recall correctly. Many drives especially if used relatively less may in fact last longer but the average user is less likely to experience hard drive failure insofar as they trash the entire computer before it fails or in fact HAVE experienced it but in fact experience it as "my computer doesn't work anymore" rather than specifically understanding which component failed. Especially if by the time it fails a new machine is objectively desirable.

If you buy an 8 year old machine it would be remarkable if it lasted more than 2 years more during which it would have been liable to use $80 more electricity based on 20 hours of weekly usage.

In brief if you spend $170 and find some dude on craigslist with a particularly good deal you might be able to have a slightly worse or slightly better experience than someone with $35 in their pocket can have any day of the week and twice on sunday.

In short people buying small cheap computers like the pi aren't just too stupid to use craigslist they are making an objective choice with reasonable tradeoffs.
> Even though it's hard to 100% avoid bias,

It's not hard, it's impossible.

> you shouldn't lump all attempts at telling a point of view as being equal. There's clearly a spectrum with the far end being propaganda and intellectual dishonesty.

Attempting to tell a point of view is propaganda, whether or not it is dishonesty.

> I value the opinions of people who can objectively present both sides

What “both sides”? There's one set of facts, and often as many set of viewpoints as observers, even if there are two dominant clusters in public debate.

> If someone shows the facts that go against their point of view, that makes them more credible to me.

Yes, that's a common perceptual bias that skilled propagandists exploit.
Dealership's just getting ready for autonomous vehicles that try to sneak out.
To amplify just a bit - I watched the linked video. The parallel that struck me was the description of Korolev as an amazingly multitalented person. I regard Musk as a polymath as well. It interested me that these two chose work that requires understanding of many disciplines (fluid dynamics, combustion chemistry, materials science, control systems, etc.)and were so effective as individual contributors and as leaders.
Those "have N copies and compare them" systems then have the issue that whatever does the comparison is a single point of failure. You could use multiple comparison units and have a second level comparison check them, but then that is your single point of failure, and so on.

I've been told, but never actually looked it up, that there is a theorem that proves you always have to have at least one single point of failure.

I don't know if the following is actually true, or just a rumor, but I've heard that at least one aircraft whose mission called for very high reliability didn't have a comparison unit: the redundancy extended all the way to having the 3 independent flight control computers each control a separate actuator on each flight control surface. If one of the systems went bad and tried to move the surface incorrectly, the other two would physically overpower it.

That still has a single point of failure, but now that point is the control surface itself. If your control surface itself has failed it no longer matters if the 3 computers controlling it agree.
I’ve never found it impressive, it’s a horrible padded estimate meant to cover NASA and make them look good. A real estimate needs to be useful and somewhat close to the actual outcome. There’s no way they were this off without it being on purpose.

Imagine if your retirement planner or accountant was off by 44X in their number crunches for you. Would you say they were good at estimating?