skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yet, Jay-Z, or whoever made the song quoted, was able to release this lyric in the public without causing a problem.

Context matters. Saying otherwise is either uninformed or dishonest. Performing a song containing "the roof is on fire" is different than just yelling the phrase. And yes, how others perceive your behavior is partially your responsibility. Just like people might kill you in self-defense if they perceive you as threat, even in case your gun was just a theater prop.

Regarding your "where is the line"... communication always requires interpretation and there will never be an "objective and consistent" line. I'm sure i could easily rewrite your example to fit a law of every country in existence. As for the US, I could go for "Defamation Per Se", in other words were implicit in all this nonsense is a "right not to be talked bad about" which is absolutely impossible to enforce and protect without Orwellian levels of blah blah blah

So yes, we will always argue about were line are drawn, just like others will try to overstep them without consequences. That's part of life.
From an economic perspective, there's no difference between the sales tax that is paid by the seller or by the buyer. So it's not correct for you to take credit for the taxes paid on the transactions between you and Amazon - the economic burden is shared by both parties. Likewise, Amazon pays the payroll tax and any income tax that is paid by its employees, effectively increases the cost of transaction between Amazon and its employees, making it a shared burden by both parties.
Just throwing this out there. Have you considered that maybe you are a robot?
If you want an Internet where every individual person can contribute then you need safe harbor. The alternative is nobody can contribute because any contribution could potentially be copyrighted by someone else whether it's text, audio, video, game, etc. Making every online space liable for that means that allowing individuals to contribute is simply too dangerous.

I could post all of Harry Potter to HackerNews comments one page at a time and I suppose this site is funded by "big tech" but you have some heavy biases on who this will affect and why they don't want it.
WASM for native desktop applications.
Maybe the appropriate title is missing since the concept is so new.

I think an appropriate name might convey a mix of the concepts: problem solving, design, creative, abstract, structure.

If you add "rigor" to this, you have a good general, multidisciplinary, description of an "engineer". I think this slight, but important, difference is why people want to use "engineer" for non rigorous software.

In reality, you probably have some gradient between "software designer" (the ever fluid art and design of software) and "software engineer" (proven critical systems).
According to classical mathematics, only a countable number of finite definitions of numbers exist. And an uncountable number of real numbers exist. Therefore almost all real numbers that exist do not correspond to any possible finite definition of a number.

Tell me. In what sense does an abstract concept exist that has no possible definition or unique description?
Segmentation-Enhanced CycleGAN, zero-shot near perfect accuracy in connectomics
We have been fighting and have sponsored specific legislation to alleviate this. But there is no appetite in the US government to reform immigration. There are no votes there.
Identifying text for public domain works that Google is making available online is much different than forcing the web to train their models for their profit.
What are the biases in my data?
Neat, any source how this can be achieved?
i should clarify: i dont think google is snooping at enterprise data when there are proper agreements in place -- my comment was only that there is a difference in privacy impact between MS and google

i cant share the PIA of my own enterprise but specifically we needed certain guarantees about where data would be stored that MS could make and google could not. that's all.
> Note that none of those issues appear to be related to the electric battery and drivetrain.

I don't think it makes much difference what the failure is if the end result is that you can't sensibly drive the car.

If the display fails in a Tesla Model 3, for example, then that's a critical failure because you lose all dashboard information. In contrast, if the display failed in my car then I'd lose access to some features (like sat nav and the reversing camera) but I can otherwise safely drive the car.

If you can't drive the car safely then it doesn't matter how good the drivetrain is. You still need to fix the problem to make the car drivable.
F-1 students graduating from Masters programs at lower tier schools mostly go work at staffing companies. These companies are worser abusers of H-1B than global outsourcers.
You need to think in bags of things
> Just because some billionares use their money in good faith, how many of the >5.000.000$/year behave the same?

Also billionaire philanthropy probably wont tackle the problems or solutions that will help society but hurt billionaires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM
I got the same exact face twice, so what's the deal? Is this not real-time generation and just grabbed from some pre-generated face database?
A lot of H1-B's don't want to become American Citizens and are satisfied with obtaining a green card.
Are you asking for “sharing skills” as in something like StackOverflow, but for SQL?

I would think there already is a Stack Exchange for SQL, possibly several (for different RDBMSes/ dialects); go have a look there, if this is what you meant.
And the UK government tried to introduce a more reasonable exception along those lines, allowing private copying activities such as format shifting... which was then sunk by a judicial review, based on limits imposed under EU law and the UK government's lack of willingness to fight that battle.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/quashing-of-private-copyi...
I knew it! I KNEW IT!

Aliens are terraforming (or rather exoplanetforming) earth to make it habitable for them!
> cell phones and streaming are for contact and content respectively. That has been the case for at least a decade.

That decade-long social norm is dead. Now all phones are for being advertised to.
That's what, 8GB of ram? A lot for a laptop... but not too much for a server.
We absolutely should make extensive use of robotics on their own and as preparation for manned missions. Stuff like sending ships and fuel factories in advance of people, to place fully-fueled ships for return missions, habitations, etc. for them on arrival.

Manned missions still make sense for two reasons: 1) humans are (presently) more versatile than computers/robots, and this will probably continue to be the case for 20+ years (although one human can do the work of many through technological augmentation), and 2) the emotional/sociological/etc. value of humans actually being there (plus in the longer term, actual settlement).

I'd like to be approximately the 1000th person to move to Mars, sometime in the next 15-30 years.
"Just another example of the plague that is social media"

I'm not an advocate for Social Media. But i do not see Fyre Festival as a product of Social Media. Social Media was a tool that Fyre Frestival used very effectively. But if Instagram or whatever didn't exist i guarantee you Billy would have been running some other high risk fraudulent venture. It's who he is. Instead of social media as the tool, it may have been tv or radio. Heck, what about all the railway scams that existed back when we had only newspapers. Conmen will always find a way.
Is Trump gonna introduce the points based system at all, which specifically favors those foreigners who have degrees from US universities?
Say you're drawing a picture, paying attention to what looks good or not and making small corrections. You're thinking in terms of the picture, not in terms of a language.

Say you're playing basketball. You're thinking in terms of the ball, the net, the other players, and so on, not thinking in terms of a language.

I can imagine that (for example) a bird building its nest finds itself in a similar situation. It's thinking in terms of the nest -- what shaped sticks to gather and where to place them -- even though it doesn't have any capacity for language.
Absolutely, and the ease of creating a convincing fake.
You should be using SHOW HN: tag.

Also, why should we use your product instead of QuickBooks online, which connects to the banks and helps taxes, while doing all reporting and categories?

Does this app have any connections to banks or other type of APIs?
Latency matter when you have a lot of roundtrips -- ie databases
Hating the player vs hating the game is a distinction without a difference as the manifestation of the hate is on the individual. I sincerely believed that unlike China and Japan, US is the land of immigrants where you work hard and there is a path to citizenship. I guess I fell for the attractive marketing there.
Neither Jerry Yang nor Sergey Brin were H1-B holders at any point in their lives.
Those really grainy images, they always seemed like they had to have noise added on purpose? It was like really badly processed film grain, but if the images were enlargements then wouldn't they be pixelated?

Stuff you get now often requires cultural information, like "sidewalk" isn't a cross-cultural name, I'd guess almost everyone knows it, but meh. What classes as a store, is a lawyers office a store? Also, I seem to recall I had "click on all minivans"?? Not sure what one of those is, nor really what is classed as a car in USA, is an MPV a car [I'd guess that's what a minivan is?]? Do pedestrian crossing lights (green/red man) count as [part of] traffic lights? I've often wanted a short description of the locus of the terms they're using. Of course it never tells you if you failed, just gives you a further captcha, which it might have done anyway.
> Jainisms logo makes it a barrier to entry for many in the West.

Are people confused about this statement? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika -

"The swastika is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia, used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions. In the Western world, it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s, when it became a feature of Nazi symbolism as an emblem of Aryan race identity and, as a result, was stigmatized by association with ideas of racism and antisemitism."
What tax obligations are being negated here? My assumption is that Amazon is not paying any taxes because they don't owe any - as in, they have no tax obligations.
I aspire to be a Scientist (currently a self-educated software engineer & UX designer).

I love education, learning, and teaching myself.

I strive to be around like-minded individuals who think logically or visually.

I have yet to find an education system (in the USA) that provides a learning style that works for me. Or, I feel forced to conform my way of thinking to a style that I consider to be inferior.

At a young age I was diagnosed with auditory hearing dyslexia. But little was understood about the relationship it had with Autism. My parents, teachers and schools did not have the resources, understanding or time to assist in my difficulties. So I resulted to teach myself most of the required subjects. I excelled with hands-on activities, problem solving, and critical thinking but struggled with testing and language based subjects. Something I'm proud of is that in elementary school I was already programming, building computers, and volunteering in the School District’s IT Department as a "junior system administrator."

Now that I have a family and responsibilities. I do worry that at some point in the future my opportunities could be restricted by not having a degree. My preference is to have the right education over a degree. But, the more that these conversations around higher education and having a degree comes up, the more I doubt my logic.

I want to attend a university where I can thrive, learn, and be challenged. But I have yet to find the right one. Until then, I continue to read books, teach myself new subjects, learn from mentors, take the occasional credited class, and seek as many learning opportunities that I can find.

I'm not sure why I'm sharing this, but this topic has been something that I've been thinking a lot about lately. It does help me to share my thoughts with people.
Though I understand what you mean by simpler, I would remind you that every living creature is adapted to its ecological niche, and that entails a baffling complexity that we, humans, can hardly grasp.

Animals are a lot like us.
Cheaper: have a robot chat with them ...
>If 8% of men don't see your error notifications, maybe that shouldn't be the only kind of highlighting (or choose a color that is less likely to affect so many people, like orange).

While it is true that it's about 8% in total, there is a gradient on how red/green color blind one is.
Cloudflare's documented experience aligns closely with mine; I've been limiting or blocking TOR ever since 2008 because over 90% of the traffic was malicious bots, and the majority of the remainder was malicious humans.

And when you have malicious traffic swimming in an anonymous pool, there's no practical alternative but to block all of it.
> My bet is on React

Exactly, it is a bet. A bet in which you can win nothing more than a refined résumé, or lose a lot of time.

In the context of web development, in the past 10 years I have seen other developers and myself write wrappers for the same JavaScript libraries again and again and again in so many frameworks and for so many CMS I lost track and count (incomplete list: typo3, Drupal, Wordpress, GWT, jQuery, AngularJS, React). This usually included weeks of work, after which it was possible to write web applications which could've been written with vanilla JavaScript on a static, handwritten HTML page in a single afternoon. From a macroeconomic point of view, it was all just an incredible waste of time. But the customers of the various companies I worked at as a student and after finishing university loved hearing the name of the frameworks. I am pretty convinced that it actually would've been enough to just write bare JS code and a HTML page by hand and sell it to them as "written in bootstrapped AngularJS". This would've saved hundreds of man hours.
Not TD Ameritrade, which is likely why that's where the trades weren't blocked.
This "transparency report" is similar to Google's "do no evil" thing, in the sense that it is purely a marketing/PR play, and otherwise completely and utterly meaningless.
Terrible language to criticize or submit a bug of a product.

I agree the recaptcha can be frustrating, but the user must also understand the underlying reasons. For instance, your ISP and VPN plays a huge role why you keep getting it.

As an ecommerce developer I appreciate recaptcha. And we should also appreciate it is free. If hate it too much, why use it?
This explains everything except why Google itself won't let humans through even when they've selected the right things a million times. All this sophistication and it's still too stupid to do its basic job of knowing the right answer which couldn't be more than a few equality checks away.
It's most noticeable when you see someone who failed out of med school and has $300k debt with $50k income.. but in all situations it should be bankruptable.
If the goal is to keep US employers competitive by letting them hire the best and brightest workers from around the world, doubling employee compensation costs is probably not going to achieve that - the companies will just open foreign offices. Which is already happening due to uncertainty of the entire program, my company shifted from opening a USA branch office to opening an european office to make it easier to hire european workers.

And it's not like we're using H1-B's as cheap labor, all of our H1-B's are PhD's (well, maybe a few Master's degrees in the mix that have significant experience), and are well compensated. We have a strong USA college recruitment program too.
Inflation has been lower than it was at the very high levels around 1980, but it has still been greater than zero for every year since, except 2009. [1]

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-i...
Nobody knew that they didn't like Finn before the movie even came out though. This is TFA, not TLJ.
Robot Melts Its Bones to Change How It Walks
Yes. Some stick in your memory but others kind of get swept under the carpet.

They are all still in your memory somewhere. A photo, something someone says, or even a smell can cause them to come rushing back. "Holy crap, twenty years ago I went to blah and this happened... I'd forgotten about that."

Think twice before verbalizing similar moments of sudden recall about old relationships with your current partner. "Man, that made me thing of this chick I was seeing for like a month a few years before I met you..." In terms of their appeal as a sexual partner very few 45 year old long term partners like to feel compared to a 22 year old you had a brief fling with.
Investing Lessons I'd Like to Share
I agree, but it's a bit necessary online. Psuedo-anonymity means no one really knows who you are or what you believe. You could be trolling. You could be sarcastic. You could be serious. There's tons of bad actors who seek to sow discord or steer a conversation through subtle manipulation, and it works. It doesn't even have to be politics: for the longest time here saying something negative about Rails was a death sentence for your comment score. These days suggesting Rails as an answer might have that effect. And it doesn't even have to be an entire group: some threads commenting positively about Android will bring the wrath of the people. Other threads draw a pro-iPhone crowd.

If someone mentions they're excited about the new Samsung phone and I say "yeah but isn't Android known for a malware problem?" how does anyone know if I'm seriously asking a question, if I'm trolling, or even more effective: if I'm spreading FUD by just putting the tiniest little bug in someone's ear? Someone who might see that statement enough times to say "I don't know if that's true, but a lot of people are saying it", and then they repeat it and the snowball keeps rolling.

The only way to survive in that world is to wear your allegiance on your sleeve. "I use Android, but even I've had a couple of malware issues". But now that's being co-opted too, so you have to go deeper sometimes. "I've used Android since it came out and I hate iPhone and would never use an Apple product but Google should do more about the malware issue".

Forums are weaponized now. By nations, by corporations, by interest groups of all shapes and sizes and means and goals. If something is the least bit controversial, you have no way of knowing what the person (if it was a person) actually meant by it. Which leads to people going out of their way to convince you of their sincerity. Rarely will you find this happening in the real world, unless there is a serious threat that the person's comments might be taken out of context and put on the Internet for judgement.
What double-taxation are you referring to here?
Most people are uninformed.

This question strikes at the heart of the debate between Constructivism and Formalism. A debate about what it means for things to exist, statements to be true, and so on. This is very much a matter of philosophy.

To a Constructivist, most of classical mathematics is nonsense. And Constructivism is at least as logically consistent as classical mathematics.

More precisely any contradiction found in Constructivism necessarily will lead to a contradiction in classical mathematics. The converse is only partially true. Gödel did prove that a logical contradiction in the classical handling of infinity will lead to a contradiction in Constructivism. But a flaw in a specific set of classical axioms, such as ZFC, need not lead to a flaw in usual Constructivism.
Can we get a hcaptcha pyramid scheme going, https://hCaptcha.com/?r=d6064d5f22b7 ...?
These vids are what i would miss if YT was torpedoed.
i make it a point to horde them all when i find them.
Are the old images discarded? It would be interesting to use these as references for hyper-realist drawings. You could have something completely authentic that could never be traced back to its source.
Yep, most clients aren't interested in _paying_ for it. "I wound up spending 6 weeks before even proposing anything that had to do with technology." And they start paying without knowing exactly how long/how much money it will take to get to the end, or even what the end is.

Penny wise pound foolish.

To be fair, they may not _trust_ that you'll actually do a _good job_. There are so many terrible consultants out there, and clients are not very good at evaluating who's going to be good.
Reasonable. Just look at its name.
It's pretty much what you do in any successful enterprise. Under promise, over deliver.
A beginner’s tour of making custom maps with rayshader in R
All the demo sites are blank without js...
The reverse is also true.. many IT jobs are procedure following and brainless.

I remember a story on reddit or SO about a plumber going into programming without a degree. He had no trouble thinking through most of the logic required saying it's just like its old job.
Lol. Come on let us ... rip.
There are two major sectors relying on H1-B employees - companies whose product is some core tech (mainly in Silicon Valley and Seattle) and companies whose core product is outsourcing & consulting fees. The abuse disproportionately happens with the latter as it’s built into the business model - difference between money billed to clients and money paid out to employees is all pure margin.

The question is how to encourage the former type while discouraging the latter.

To me a priority queue based on salary makes sense - Facebook or Microsoft are likely to shell out $150,000+ a year for an employee they want, a consulting body shop would not.

It also makes sense for the federal government who stands to collect more income tax from higher salaries.
It is out of control. A robot selling health insurance keeps calling at all hours, although I live in Canada where I enjoy universal health care.
There's a perverse incentive to having publishers compete for user engagement, in that it undermines real journalism. The former is how you get listicles and meaningless interviews with people who share publicists with someone more famous (like their parents). It leads to empty evergreen content that just gets clicks and views.

The latter how you get real investigative journalism, like the newspapers who reported based on Edward Snowden, or Watergate.

It's sad to see apple doing this, when they could easily empower users to choose how they divide their money, similar to humble bundle.
And how long will US remain the world's reserve currency?
What is it in particular about GPhotos you find incomparable?
You cannot generally start companies on an H-1B. Yours is a good argument in favor of making it easier to get a green card, though.
Are robcalls something that ALL Americans deal with daily, or is it just really bad for some people?
> The university in it's modern form has a effective history of several hundred years.

I'm not sure what you mean by "modern form", but Oxford University is nearly a thousand years old. It's older than the printing press and the founding of the Aztec civilization.
Having worked on mission critical commercial aircraft electronics, I can assure you every part is stress tested before it goes on a plane. Both after its first made and every time its in for service. Supposedly there has been research done showing that stress testing does not adversely affect reliability, at least at this quality level

Also, the paper trail is quite literally paper. Its kinda amazing how slow the aviation industry is to adopt new things