skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re not in the business of making and selling games.

They’re in the business of selling subscriptions to access existing IP.

Sounds insanely profitable to me.
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Photos have been faked since the beginning of photography. Mathew Brady (famous for photographing the American Civil War) moved dead bodies to stage shots, had live soldiers lie down and pretend to be dead, etc.
Isn't this mistaking the path for the goal?

I think it is more accurate to say that the knowledge of how OSes work, basic discrete math, etc. is important regardless of how that knowledge is gained.

A university education is only one way of achieving this knowledge. Even your last point of gaining knowledge about what you don't know about CS is achievable through other means (mentorship, online classes, study groups, etc.)

I think it is perfectly fair to suggest that a CS university education is a great way of achieving this knowledge, and it makes perfect sense to recommend that method if you followed that path yourself.

Personally, as someone who developed that knowledge outside the university system, I suspect that university is probably an excellent approach for most people, but I tend to encourage people to find the hunger for knowledge inside themselves and develop a passion for learning in whatever form it comes.
There is a distinction between analytically correct expositions, and ones which build on naive intuition to teach students. It is inappropriate to expect beginning students to follow a logically rigorous exposition.

That said, there are philosophical questions about truth, infinity, unknowable statements and the like. Mathematicians have by and large settled on a set of answers to these. Every statement is true or false, regardless of whether we know the answer, or even whether we can know the answer. Infinite sets exist, and are described by a known set of axioms called ZFC. Almost all real numbers that exist can never, even in principle, be written down or described in any meaningful way. (In what sense do they exist again?)

All of these statements are part of classical mathematics.
Almost every elementary exposition will implicitly assume that they are try. Yet they can all be questioned, and their truth can never be settled in any absolute sense. However woe betide the student who dares question these in a math class.
> This is a fairly elitist sort of attitude

"fairly elitist" is a very charitable interpretation of that. Sounds more like taking a class construct (blue-collar) and using it to undersell a huge spectrum of workers, while also ignoring the fact that a lot of white collar jobs also involve just following instructions.
Not a down voter, but I imagine it could be because triggers are associated with write amplification and visibility concerns. They have their place, just like stored procedures.
Testing it out I found something interesting. You can put in subreddit.reddit.com and it redirects to reddit.com/r/subreddit. But any 2 char prefix works sends to old.reddit.com (a.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/a)

e.g. hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews

Why does this subreddit exist?
I love it. But can't stop subvocalizing the text in Russian accent.
That's a great answer! Barring that, just hand H1-B people a green card or something that makes it easy for them to switch jobs. That means they can easily compete for the same wages everyone else gets, rather than being stuck with one company.
Ask HN: How do you version control your event stream schema?
Anyone here built or used a data pipeline that validates event structures or pipes data to multiple destinations?

- Did you use JSON, Thrift, Protobuf, Avro or something else to define the schema for the events in the stream?

- Did you version the schema?

- Did you version each event or object in the schema?

- What type of versioning did you use? (E.g. semantic, incremental counters, git hashes, another type of hash, etc.)

- Any other cool things you'd like to share?
4chan was doing it specifically with a six letter racial slur that's unrepeatable.
Don't forget tax evasion!
Without H-1B the tech industry would not be a major industry in the US. Think about it: Yahoo would be a Taiwanese company, Google would be a Russian company, Tesla would be a South African Company, eBay would be a French company, Sun Microsystems would be an Indian company and so on. And that list is just founders. Then there are rank and file employees and inventors in tech companies that came from various parts of the world, that made these founders' dreams into real products. Then there are CEOs and executives that ran these companies.

Immigration restrictionists assume a zero-sum math for workers: A job gain for a foreigner is a job loss for an American. By that logic every college graduate who enters the job market would be cause for mourning. But that's backward, given that skilled individuals create, not take away, jobs.

This doesn't mean abuse isn't happening. But the abuse doesn't detract from the fact that the tech industry wouldn't be so big in this country without H-1B.
Recursive Internetwork Architecture (RINA)
I also found the tone pretty condescending, but I wasn't sure if that was a result of being translated from another language. I agree that both paths are viable.
I like that this comment chain recapitulates the agents' underestimate of how much some people just want to eat caviar.
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You absolutely are not the enemy. I've worked with tons of H1Bs who explained the hoops they had to jump through and ongoing citizenship issues they faced. The system is convoluted and it's difficult to have a discussion that doesn't descend into race-baiting garbage.

I feel the real threat to American workers as a whole isn't about individual (hard)workers rather entire departments being outsourced to overseas companies as a proxy to void the rights Americans are entitled to in order for some middle manager to show increased profits because the money comes out of a different 'bucket'.

H1B 'outrage' articles are just a distraction. The crap you guys have to go through to come here is insane.
> Easy but time consuming

But learning is time consuming, too. Keyboard-driven interfaces can be more efficient but they are not discoverable. Maybe keyboard-driven interfaces make sense for the domain specific tasks that you do every day, but would you want a keyboard-driven interface for every random website you come across?
As a webmaster I can confirm that I hard block all TOR traffic for this exact reason. 90% of this traffic is malicious robotic junk of some form.

Also, I’m just not interested in the remaining 10% "legit" traffic from people who are aggressively paranoid about their privacy. Almost all of them ended up being dickheads who were using TOR to abuse other members of our community.

To the people who think every website should treat TOR users with respect, please understand that you are intentionally making yourself indistinguishable from the mountain of robotic junk, abuse and human dickheads. It's not my fault that you have chosen to do this, and it's not my job to provide you with tools to prove you're not a dickhead.
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I once worked for a consulting / recruiting firm that ultimately stopped using H1 shops for talent entirely. This came after an incident involving a large cosmetics corporation on a time sensitive project where an H1 employee was ill, and so the project manager decided to go to her hotel to check on her. She found 10 people from the same H1 consultancy living in a 2 bedroom extended stay apartment. Our recruiter had no idea since we only dealt with the contract from the H1 shop. The PM fired everybody from the H1 shop and our company was blacklisted from doing business with them.
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I don’t disagree with your point about immigration being an immigrant myself. However you can’t create a company and work for it under H1-B visa. You need E2, L1-A, or an investor green card.
> it doesn't address the upstream complaint that someone else is profiting off the user's "work" rather than the user

If it means no/fewer ads to support a site then the user benefits because they don't have to pay real money to keep the site up.
Are we? Since when does the federal government collect property tax?
Add IBM global services, Deloitte and Accentures of the world to this list. These companies are hiding while TCSs of the world receive the flak.
This is what I find on craigslist for $80

System: Window 10 Pro
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G840 @ 2.80 GHz
Memory: 4GB
Storage: 250GB

It's 6 years old dual core slow hard drive and runs like a dog. You could use the extra money to buy a small ssd instad...
Jesus dude, can’t you enjoy a crowning achievement of human and American excellence?

You think NASA is overly concerned about public perception to the tune 44x an original estimate?
Not really, the function is still f(key) = <some number>, the rest is just taking the number and mapping it to the hardware that you're on.
Agreed, but the difference today is the scale.
TLDR; we shined a light at some bacteria and according to the rules of quantum mechanics those (atoms inside) bacteria are now entangled with the photons that [hit/didn't hit] them.

Snore.
Other useful phrases: "Here, I was expecting to see...", "This code made me look at this other code and they cannot both be correct...", and "It took me a while to see why this is correct. We could save the next reader time by..."

Excellent code reviews take time and attention, which is why you need auto code formatting and $lang proverbs to take the uncontroversial stuff off the table early. Then you still have brain power left to give value from the review.

Also: work hard to earn a reputation as a fair but tough reviewer. Then when you need to be a prick, people will know it's important and let their ego down.
> there by definition cannot be backwards-compatible changes to the output format.

In that case we can conclude that it's incompatible with SemVer! SemVer is all about trying to convey what changes to a package are backward-compatible and thus are safe to upgrade to new versions. The whole point is that you can say something like "that-package": "^3.9.1" and mean that you're OK to upgrade up to anything less than 4.0.0. If you can never do that, the package is obviously not using SemVer.
In the end, the employee receives 50% of what that cosmetics co paid to the primary vendor.
That would have been hilarious! Somebody should try it when they I accuse you of being a robot.
Progressive UX design for engineers
There are (heavily used) PCs with those specs in that price range on eBay, but they'd be pretty hard to mount on a quadcopter or whatever.
My guess is that it's a combination of a larger user base attracting more attention from law enforcement agencies. That relationship doesn't necessarily need to be linear. Once you've gotten to a certain size, I imagine the number of requests for content production/removal increases quite quickly.
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> Do you mean to imply we should be using world population statistics to judge if US companies are sufficiently diverse?

Nah, I'm just saying that the tech industry hires from a global pool of candidates, and it's not entirely surprising that a bunch of them are from China and India. If a bunch of them were from Malta and Andorra, that might be weird, but it isn't so.
> Almost all real numbers that exist can never, even in principle, be written down or described in any meaningful way.

I don't think many people see that as a matter of philosophy.
> Where is our compensation?

When you search for an address on google maps, that little tiny house number on the house was once a captcha image and now google knows that number so it can take you to the exact location on a map when you search for that number.

Everyone helps train the machine so when they want something from the machine then the machine is better at finding what they asked for. That seems pretty democratic to me.
the main issue is transparency

fuckjerry was involved in marketing the failed festival, then also involved in creating an "objective" documentary on the whole fiasco

obviously they have large incentives to cover up the extent of their knowledge and involvement in the scam

we will probably never know how much the fuckjerry founder/team knew about the extent of the fraud

the author is simply saying the documentary they produced is not an objective telling of the truth and is probably influenced by fuckjerry trying to manage optics after a large account it was profiting from went south

a lot of people didnt know that (myself included) and its good to know who is paying for things and why - transparency
“I'll buy that the private sector can't solve the tragedy of commons, but if governments can't, we're all lost. The fact that the system we currently exist in uses fossil fuels doesn't equal the right of those who extract it to reap unlimited profit, or to pollute others' environment no matter how gradually or secretly.”

— you, six days ago
I disagree that it's horrible to try to minimize your tax burden. On the contrary, it seems like logical self-interest.

If you want to do something selfless, paying more taxes is pretty low return for your buck.
The person answering doesn't really comment on deep space missions, but I think the conclusion you draw (no encrypted link) is almost certainly right for Spirit and Opportunity, which were launched in 2003.

The thinking used to be that a 70m radio dish (and all the accompanying deep knowledge about pointing, relative velocity, channel codes, etc.) would be enough of an obstacle.

This thinking has definitively changed in the meantime.
Having been witness to an entire newsroom resigning because the owner told them what to publish, I can definitely say that it's more than a "like".
There is no skills gap
Definitely - there used to be a bunch of sites that scraped craigslist and put their listings into more browse-able formats (e.g. Padmapper), but once they got too popular, CL started sending C&Ds and filing lawsuits.
So he's only addressing spoofed caller ID, and not doing a thing about the ungodly number of spam calls? Sounds to me like his priorities are exactly backwards.
> Safe harbor is a mostly ridiculous concept where everyone has agreed tech companies should be able to profit from illegal activity and be exempt from being penalized for doing so.

It's the same as, for instance, the phone company. Even when a drug dealer uses the phone to order an assassination, the phone company is not penalized for allowing it - and doesn't even have to return the payments it received from the drug dealer. Nobody expects the phone company to use speech recognition to drop a call when a drug deal is being discussed, or to charge more for the call when it detects music being played in the background.

What "safe harbor" is all about is treating intermediaries as nothing more than intermediaries. The responsibility for content should be on whoever actively posts it, not on someone who just provided the "place" where it was posted.

As for "everything you know and love is going to die": many of us can think of several things we love, which have a good chance of being killed by this. Many small content creators who don't have the resources and/or knowledge to self-host (and even "self-hosting" is suspicious; would renting a VPS be considered self-hosting, or would the VPS vendors be required to police the contents of the VMs they rent, making it non-viable to provide inexpensive servers to the public?). Several of them, on losing their hosting, will simply give up on creating. And that's before considering potential new content which will never see the light of day.
Would this housing be upwind of the city center? Summer is coming soon, if you know what I mean.
> With the possibility of almost uniquely identifying us on the web through fingerprinting... Google, of all companies is in the perfect position to know that my web request was made by me... And therefore I'm not a robot.

The article explains that this is part of what reCAPTCHA does, e.g.:

> Finally they combine all of this data with their knowledge of the person using the computer. Almost everyone on the Internet uses something owned by Google – search, mail, ads, maps – and as you know Google Tracks All Of Your Things. When you click that checkbox, Google reviews your browser history to see if it looks convincingly human.

But your point is otherwise right in that it's used for ML training, which Google admits as another commenter pointed out.
> Let's set the record straight... @ZijianHe offered to maintain it, and I agreed to let him maintain it. Our relationship is not anyone's business.

Why not be transparent about selling the package? Or attempting to do so?

> Chinese developers have contributed more to this repository than anyone from the Koa organization. This kind of racial scaremongering or guilt by association is not acceptable. Its offensive.

Nice rhetoric here. But you know the Country of origin of most cyber attacks is China right?

Source:
https://www.csis.org/programs/cybersecurity-and-governance/t...

> I'm not going to say anything more on this issue. This is beyond ridiculous.

Suit yourself. But it really isn't. Sorry for all the harassment you're getting but, it's not exactly unwarranted...
To go further, I suspect that many of those companies would not have been founded at all, reducing the innovation of the world as a whole. Even all countries, put together, are not a zero-sum game: freer movement of people can increase total opportunities for human achievement.
>What if I told you that twitters TOS itself is bias against conservatives?

Here is Twitter's TOS[0], I'd ask you to prove it.

[0]https://twitter.com/en/tos
> I wouldn't want to see statistical surveys, polling and other grey area items here impacted.

Since literally everyone I personally know has given up answering calls because of all the spam, I'd say that your "grey area" items are already being impacted.
You're likely joking, but just in case: on earth the second is not defined as a fraction of the day, it's a SI unit defined as a constant count of energy level variations of an caesium-133 atom.
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Maybe, maybe not. From time to time google forces me to prove I'm not a robot because of unusual search queries. Either my queries are unusual or I have an infected computer. The thing is, it also happens to me on my iPhone.

Or, maybe they feel I'm not pulling my own weight, seeing as I rarely ever click on adds. They probably need more monkeys to feed the beast so I get selected to train their AI beast.

Edit: It could also be that I'm always running on incognito mode.
> It should be enough to force the called ID to be valid.

Honestly, I'd be utterly stunned if this made any noticeable impact at all.
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> That's a massive load of bullshit. Google has a captcha challenge that only humans can solve. That alone is already sufficient to prevent unwanted traffic.

It's not bullshit, it just depends whether your website is being targeted directly or not. We're targeted directly and the robots hitting us are getting the CAPTCHAs solved, presumably with human help.
Yes that's a good point. Getting 5-10x gains there are hard to come by though :)

You can sell options - they are like selling insurance for market crashes. That gives infinite return in practice since you get money for free.

The downside is you can lose your shirt if the market goes south and are liable for the insurance policy you provided.
No mention of twin studies? The article doesn't appear to distinguish between genes as unit of inheritance and heritability of traits which many studies seem to indicate is quite significant.
It's actually well known that you'll get blocked by Twitter within the first 2 minutes of registering, whatever you'll do.

They probably use it as a way to enforce their "soft" requirement of a phone number. After verifying that you have a working phone number, you'll get unblocked.

Also, Twitter routinely renders their tweets unaccessible to non-logged-in users, due to rate limits on their api (which is used by their web frontend).

So, I'm not one bit surprised if anyone would describe Twitter as foolish: that's exactly how they act
The H-1B visa is not designed to encourage people to start new companies. It’s for people coming to America who want to work for existing ventures.

If you are from India or China you will likely spend a decade or more on this visa before you can get a green card and be able to start your own company. Europeans have it a little better as visa quotas are based on geographic regions.

I know all this because I was on a H1B for 6 years. I really wanted to start my own company but I couldn’t do so until I got my green card.

I think it’s wrong to conflate arguments in favor of immigrant founders with H1B workers. H1B visa holders are easier to exploit than US citizens as they have no real job security. This is the main point of contention with the visa and as a former H1B holder I feel inclined to agree with this critique.

I wish the companies and individuals who call for more H1B visas would instead call for comprehensive visa reforms which would enable qualified immigrants to start companies immediately.
So, if this passes, does it mean we can all go to the sites of the politicians who voted for it and post copyrighted content in their comments and then sue them?
It will be interesting to go visit this in person in 10-20 years.
This video makes us appreciate how important computers today. Literally, every part of the engine was manually controlled by the users with their judgment, and most likely under some pressure too.
> It’d make it easier for telecom providers to take abuse reports and punish the abusive robodialers

They simply aren't going to do that unless they're forced by law or regulation.
To the people voting me down, please understand that I am relaying factual information about my specific experience as webmaster of various large-ish regional websites. If you don't like the facts, voting them down won't change them.

...or maybe voting me down will change the facts.

Yeah, that's totally going to work.
> I remember talking to a high up on the program at a FIRST robotics event who complained about them running so long.

Not surprising at all. Coached a FIRST team for several years. At this point they sell licensed robotics kits with canned instructions for kids to put together and those kids win because of time limitations. The teams that build from scratch and actually contribute discover or learn anything at all are intentionally blocked from winning. The entire program is total crap for retarded children. Meanwhile smart kids are off doing their own projects that are 1000x as complicated as the most challenging FIRST challenges. It's just turned into a money burn.
My Subaru died at 20 years old and 200k miles, but that's still pretty good longevity for a car that isn't a Toyota.
By offering a free service to website operators that mitigates the ever-growing challenge of abuse on the internet that they and their users have to deal with.

Seems pretty bilateral.
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It is not a strawman. The Trump administration views ALL H1 workers as detrimental to the American economy. My H1 extension with a FAANG was denied last year and I had to jump through thousands of hoops, beg managers who I haven't spoken with in 10 years, beg HR of companies that I left decades ago to give me specific, USCIS approved reference letters.