skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't go as far as that commenter, but I'm very tempted. Nobody that I personally know calls me without texting first anyway (well, except for one rude guy), especially if it's an emergency.
Some Indian consulting companies or (managers at these places) require their Indian H1B employees to kickback some of their official salary. Typically the kickbacks paid by the employee are in the form of donations to selected "charities" back in India. Thus, the w-2 salary of the H1B employee looks reasonable on paper.

src: employee-rights lawyer buddies who have sued companies over this.
Well I don’t mean to be rude but many logicians and set theorists I know will be sad to find themselves out of a job if what you said about these questions being settled is true
I know Norman; not personally.

His real complaint as far as I've ever been able to determine is that he is a highly symbolic thinker; and because of that won't accept certain assumptions that everyone else takes as a given - usually what the Reals are. I'm very happy to accept than any length in geometry is a number by definition (hence sqrt(2), constructed by a 1-1-sqrt(2) triangle, is clearly a number corresponding to that length). He won't accept sqrt(2) as a number because it can't be represented in Hindu-Arabic notation. This isn't really a logical issue, he just won't use everyone else's definitions.

He's worth listening too because he is good at maths despite that handicap and his perspective is interesting to provoke a bit of reflection on what your assumptions are and what does infinity really mean anyway. His complaints are otherwise unlikely to catch on.
They are called UX researchers and they exist alive and well today. There is a huge difference between design backed by research and just doing things to keep up with times.
Given that we’re still politically organized by nations, governments owe allegiance to those who have nurtured that government to do good by its people.

That’s to say, protect our workforce, but where it makes sense, import labor to bridge gaps in skills or labor pool. America will always allow immigrants and will always welcome those who go through the official process (we allow in over one million legal immigrants yearly). But we must also be vigilant against abuse as many of these so called body shops do. You may be a bona fide needed professional skilled worker and thanks for your contribution, but for every you there is a doubiously skilled H-1B undermining the system.
The problem is that until you get a green card, you're on a fairly short leash.

The solution is to make it easier to get a green card.
I do try to avoid getting them to tell me _solutions_ though.

"What's the most annoying part of your job with this software" (with followup questions to understand why and what they were trying to do and _why_ they were trying to do it) is better than "What feature do you want that would most make this software less annoying"?
I don't follow. The state exists only as an aspect of the federal government. If the federal government didn't exist, the state would just have its own taxes to fund the education system, judicial system, military, etc.
Please stop allowing content marketing posts on here
Which part? The part that BMWs are driven harder than Toyota’s or that driving a car to its limits more often negatively affects its long term reliability?
Oversold?

A group of engineers put a working robot on a moving object 140 million miles away, and that robot trucked along for fourteen years.

I honestly do not see any aspect of this which is not totally and completely astonishing, marvelous, and awe-inspiring.
That doesn't change the definitions. Doing a terrible job (by neglecting to mention vital facts) doesn't change what reporting is (and/or should be) and how it differs from journalism.
A recurring theme of my career development discussions with my various managers throughout the years has been their gatekeeping. Everything is about them keeping their position at the top and pulling the ladder up behind them. “Oh you don’t really want to be a manager! People-management is a pain, and it’s so much less stress to just stay an individual contributor! Anyway you don’t have the background or pedigree for management...” Pretty much quoting Huxley’s alpha/beta class conditioning phrases.
A very different story in China. Chinese made Toyotas are horrid, possibly worst cars on the market, completely opposite of imported ones.
Twitter-text in Rust
also slavery was still legal in the US in the mid 1800s
> Is it somehow less tacky to give that value away to Google for free?

Yes, mainly because we're talking about fractions of cents. Also, it's not for free; the website and its users get a good anti-abuse measure in return.

There's a big difference between something that cannot make money and something that makes pennies for the site. But, to be fair, 99.9% of users aren't going to notice the difference in captcha branding either way unlike my example of a banner ad on a retail site.

My main reaction is that the UX incentive to minimize user exposure to captchas seems to work against the primary pull of using hcaptcha in the first place.

Though one site I can think of that has a captcha behind every action (every post) is 4chan. Maybe you can get them on hcaptcha one day. It would at least help you test your tagging system against vandalism. :)
H-1B has nothing to do with Yahoo, Google or Tesla. Stop it. Blatantly lying doesn't add anything to the debate.

Jerry Yang and Sergei Brin immigrated to the US when they were children and they became citizens before they co-founded yahoo or google. Also, you leave out the fact that two of the founders of Google and Yahoo ( david filo and larry page ) were native born americans.

As for Elon Musk, his grandfather was american and he became an american citizen in 2002 before he founded tesla.

In other words, Yahoo, Google and Tesla were founded by american citizens.

You are intentionally conflating immigration with h-1b visas and lying about the founding of yahoo, google and tesla to push an agenda. That's disappointing.
I once saw a professor type "google" into the browser search box (which had google selected as the search engine), click on the first result, and then type in their Google query.
I think its common to focus on the similarity of identical twins. But I actually think the variance in identical twins is far more interesting because it suggests something very radical about the role of development in the non biological sphere.

I can give you one example that gave me pause and you should know.

At the EAC cafe there were twin kitchen staff. However one was lean and the other was more tubby. Unless there was a transcription issue in the gene for metabolism I think there were identical genes at play. Thus the resulting variance is non biological developmental.

There are tons of other anecdotal observations I have made in my experience with identical twins. I think any variance (assuming perfect cloning) suggests something that is non biologically determined.
> Particularly when most books that were scanned never, ever showed up on Google books.

If one looks at the history of Google Books one can see that they started with big ambitions, but hit copyright in quite intensive ways. That also changed their approach to other projects. Clearing all rights internationally isn't easy.
How It's Made, Nova, and Nature. To a (slightly) lesser extent, 60 Minutes and Frontline.

The term documentary covers (imho) a continuum, from academic style nonfiction on one end to a gray area between infotainment and fiction on the other.
Every known picture of Thomas Pynchon (2009)
I've recently gotten caught in one of these, where it was "click all of the bicycles" and after a few clicks (it was one of those which fade out to present a new picture) the only "bicycle" left was a bicycle-shaped street decoration. It wouldn't let me proceed unless I clicked on something, so I had to refresh to get a new task.
I think it is definitely beyond language. The condescension of 'you don't have to be humiliated to be a blue collar worker' is absurd in any language - the assumption that workers are embarrassed to not be one of the Elite Engineers.

The statement that you are not to call yourself a programmer, you haven't earned it, you're not a real programmer.

The justification against being self taught amounts to - 'well you can't work for NASA, and uh, something about learning to be a professional'? I found it particularly ironic that they pointing out how many big projects started in academia - and how many of the largest companies were started by dropouts?

The author acts as if they're exploring the idea, but it's not an exploration, it's an argument that they clearly already had made their mind up on.
While this can give you insight, I think there's a huge danger of thinking you are a _typical_ user when you are not at all representative. I have seen this happen with disastrous consequences. I think "becoming" can supplement, but never ever substitute for observation.
> 2. A tax code so simple it can be read and understood, verbatim, by every US citizen.

Not possible considering one-fifth of adults don't understand percentages.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/07/a-fifth-of...

Yeah, the article refers to adults in the UK, but considering how terrible the education system is in the USA, do you think it'd be any better?
> I wouldn't want to see statistical surveys, polling and other grey area items here impacted.

That was the case before. Political polls and other related things were explicitly exempted.
More importantly, it's trivial to filter out everyone putting in the same swear.
May be They are preparing for the future.

We should start protesting to make sure robots can buy cars.
The amount of paper in the universe is finite, not countably infinite, which means almost all natural numbers can't be written down either. But despite its philosophical dubiousness, the set of natural numbers is still useful. If we can prove things about all natural numbers, it doesn't matter how much paper we have; the things we prove will still be true for any individual natural number we can write.

It's the same idea for the reals; we don't actually care about the vast majority of the real numbers, but since it's hard to know ahead of time which ones we will care about, we might as well prove things about all of them!
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It happens on a very large scale. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/29/report-...

In 2018 Americans got 26.3 billion robocalls, up 46% from 2017.

With an estimated population of 328,863,150 in 2018, that's 79 per person, so more than once a week on average, and of course a whole bunch of that population doesn't have a phone (e.g. most kids)
The hackaday article explicitly states the oxygen-rich preburner exhaust was extremely hot and required metallurgical advances before turbines could survive it.

How is the Raptor's oxygen-rich side any different from what the Russian's were dealing with?

The article left me with the impression that the Raptor is using similarly resilient materials for the oxygen-rich side, with its language describing the US and Russian designs solving the two critical halves of the problem.

There just seems to be a contradiction in the statements surrounding the turbines running cooler.
The speed at which people decided to ignore and drive around the accident was also interesting.
And if they succeed to much they can monopolize transportation and thus mobility. Not a power I want to have in a private company. Especially not in a company from outside my country's jurisdiction. Where I can't have an impact via democratic law making process.
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I was actually about to write a response to your previous post before you deleted it.

I found the tone pretty obnoxious as well. I dropped out, but I managed to find a job as a University research scientist for awhile. I have a strong love of theory, and probably have most of the same textbooks that many math majors would have as a result.

I will admit that the average graduate is smarter than the average dropout, but who the hell cares? There are plenty of smart autodidacts, and I feel like if you can learn a lot of the theory on your own without being forced to by a professor, that speaks well of your character.
I read somewhere that the purpose of some subset of robocalls is to simply listen for an answer to determine whether a human operator has been found.
"Little Bobby Tables we call him..."

That is my favourite XKCD comic!
Canada's Answer to Tesla Is a $15,500 Electric Three-Wheeler
The Cascade Bicycle Club in the Pacific Northwest threw me into one of these multi-minute Captchell vortexes when I tried to log in to my years-old account to renew my membership and register for one of their organized rides. I was already on the fence as to whether it would be worth paying to do these rides that I have already done several times over the years. That (ironically) dehumanizing experience pushed me over the edge. I didn't complete the Captchas, didn't log in, didn't renew my membership, and didn't register for anything this year.
Did the guy ever deliver on his promise to create a better system? I thought the problems he was pointing out was motivation for a better system (that united the naive understanding and rigor better?), but the further into the article I got, the more it just seemed like a list of complaints.

Having 1) studied "naive statistics" when I was young and 2) learning the full-on measure-theory version a la Bourbaki, and now 3) using applied statistics every day, I can say the naive version is the most useful by far. Yes, there is hand waving, but the hand waving works, and you really don't get into that much trouble unless you try to be pathological.

I admit, it would be great to have a version where the naive intuition (many of which are motivated by empirics, physics, and real world situations) and the theoretical definition matched better. Even still, I don't think the formal treatment is appropriate as an introduction -- it's an unnecessary hazing on learning minds when they can get most of the value with a bit of hand waving.
That also heavily depends on what kind of/which sites you visit.
In the same situation (not FAANG, earning a lot less), but been here almost 10 years, in the queue for close to 5 years.

One must understand that not all H1B folks are the same. Some are genuinely highly skilled and add a lot to the existing workforce. I do agree, some do not really qualify as highly skilled. Maybe the cap on the annual salary to be qualified for H1B should be higher.
Tor Browser accepts session cookies. It won't have an established google identity, but it fully supports a temporary "solved the captcha" identity.
Few people compared to Twitter, sure, but not as much as you muggy think. When I ask around in my circles, which is a typical mic of tech and non-tech people, very few have ever used Twitter. The ones who did are all tech people.

Sure, a lot of people have heard of it, but that seems to be mainly through reporting on other media.

I believe that Twitter is mostly a way for media people to get word out.

As for Mastodon, there is definitely a lot of tech people there, but there is a very large group of users who are not. A lot of them comes from other social media platforms to get away from the negative climate there.
No need for software, one can easy change it on the about:config of Firefox and/or there are some cool add-ons that can rotate/change the user agent of a Firefox on the "desired frequency"
Corporate tax + capital gains tax.
"An earlier version of this article stated that McFarland had reached an agreement with Jerry Media to appear in Fyre in exchange for revenue to pay McFarland’s debts. The agreement stipulated the revenue would pay back ticket-holders who had been scammed."

Uuuh, how about paying the poor workers who were scammed out of their time and labor but didn't deserve it, before paying the rich lazy assholes who got what they deserved for being so shallow and gullible?
Just do it like SPF does for email; the legitimate owner of a number may delegate its use to anyone they choose.
Well, in my proposal, capital income is just regular income as well.

When you sell stock, sell property, etc. Basically everytime you cash out, that would just count as additional income for that year.

So I'm not sure in that way I understand how it would squeeze the middle and lower class?
Protip: if you click on the headphone icon on recaptcha you get an audio challenge which I find much simpler and less annoying.
«what is the difference between answering a question and processing data? Aren't they effectively the same?»

I think it influences the mindset of the developer. As you say, “retrieve ... if this, then ... loop”. If you're in a “data processing” mindset, then you'll think of a problem like “Get the total number of car widgets in the warehouse” as fetch a widget row; if it's of type car, add number to total; loop until you've processed every row; there you have your total. If, OTOH, you're in an “asking questions” mindset, you'll go: What was the question again, exactly? Oh yes, get the sum of the number for all the widgets which are of type car widgets. Which is almost exactly the same as SELECT SUM(NUMBER) FROM WIDGET WHERE TYPE = 'CAR';.

Processing data is when you do it (in code); answering questions is when the RDBMS (i.e, its code) does it for you. :-)

(At least that's what I think the difference is _in terms of vvkumar's original question._)
> punishing me for trying to protect my privacy.

TOR doesn't protect your privacy, it just lumps you in with—and makes you indistinguishable from—the worst crap on the internet. If you don't want to be treated like crap, don't try to blend in with the crap.
You're not explaining yourself at all. How do you propose to put 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag?
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As an american, I'm really surprised at the quality of responses here which are mostly skeptical of H-1B immigration benefits but then I see full throated support to low skilled immigration. Is this because I'm from a flyover state and can see the first hand damage low skilled immigration causes and most here are ignoring that?
Often a trivial non-standard thing like "what's the name of the author" works well enough. Especially outside the English language. Spammers won't spend the time to bother adopting their scripts for that.

If this somple thing comes from a popular WordPress plugin the equation for the spammer changes, of course.
I get several of them every day and I know other people who do, too. I just disable phone calls most of the time because T-Mobile doesn't care at all to address the issue, no matter how many times I've reported it. Their answer is for me to install a 3rd party app that doesn't actually block the calls but hangs up on them.
P2P is a much more difficult target, though.
Some things like that certain animals like dogs don't learn/plan by imagination never made sense to me.

When I want to teach a dog something, I treat him like a problem-solving agent. I pose the task as a solveable problem to him, like "touch stick to get food", and he will "compute" the necessary actions to touch the stick.

Also they always said dogs/animals don't do impulse control, while dogs clearly display a range of that trait.
And yet there's been countless studies about the point at which money stops being about comfort and it's ~$140k/year. At about $200k a year in most of the country and I'll go so far as to say $500k/year in the valley, if you are struggling with money you are being extremely stupid with it. At $10 million you could instantly retire and lead an upper middle class lifestyle off the interest alone in 90% of the country.
I had the same question, I don't imagine it takes too many people to decide what it should do and give the robot commands while monitoring it.
If we're talking about ridiculous overpriced foods I think saffron might beat out truffles for me. I've had it a couple times and i'm still not sure what it tastes like.
I don't know what is going around again, but this has been coming up a lot. Let me give my opinion having been here in the past.

Only take equity if both of the following are true:

1. You have enough money to live on and not getting income from this company will not affect your personal or professional life in one bit.

2. The company has proven some value that you see as a reasonable risk, and accept that you will likely not see the upside for years, if ever.

The first issue can sometimes be offset some by taking equity as a difference for a lower billable rate. e.g. you still bill and get paid for $40/hr, but your normal rate is $100/hr so the difference is granted in equity.

The second issue can be mitigated over time as well, but always assume the most likely scenario. They either will die and you have nothing, or it will take considerable time for things to mature to where the equity is convertible into anything of value.

Taking equity this way means you need to be very intelligent about dilution, liquidation preferences etc or your "time" can become worthless even if they are successful. Safest way is to make the equity convertible for you at the next round, unless you opt out, but even that is no guarantee you'll get cash -- also the upside is limited since your risk is also somewhat more limited as is fair.

Last point, this is a valid way to work and there is absolutely nothing improper with the concept. In fact equity gives you skin in the game so you can win on the upside part of the play. But just understand with that also means you need to accept a lot of risk and realities. I have done this (almost always fails), I have also done a similar method at profitable companies when I have promised my work (or my team in the past) in exchange for a percentage of the upside of what I/we can produce (this is a super hard sell a lot of times and you can get burned as I did a couple of times). I did win on a couple of upside plays for profitable companies, but the startup equity has never paid off in any material way.
Ask HN: Filtered news subscription
I am beginning to avoid major news as it now has more junk then valuable news and feel like waste of time/money. Are there any good news summarizes that aggregate news from major news outlets around world and filter out posts that are propaganda/biased/fake/sponsored etc and gives the most relevant(per category). Please don't suggest half-cooked AI based filters/summarizes. Human can do it better and I am ok paying for it.
The closest thing I have found:
- https://www.theskimm.com/
- https://betterdev.link/
I assumed he was talking about the Humboldtian university with undergraduate teaching institutions and graduate research institutions. That model is from the late 19th century.
Okay? I'm not sure how that addresses my proposal?

I'm saying get rid of property tax and sale tax, and add income tax. If you need to adjust the income tax to some new levels due to losses of other taxes that's fine.
Happened to be using my phone at the time
The Turing self-test
And if you think you're clever by using a jammer while mobile, you're in for some financial pain on top of any legal issues you create for yourself.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-florida-driver-48k-ja...
Lime loses appeal to operate electric scooters in SF
Are there any alternatives? I am ok with indie, slow, paid, not-super-accurate options.
It's really bad for most people.

I only get about one a week because I don't engage with the robocalls or give my number out freely.

Other people don't protect their privacy as well, or they do engage with the robocalls (answer, or say "hello" when they answer which triggers the bot to continue, etc).
There's an xkcd for that https://xkcd.com/1897/