skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose we change it slightly: a Saudi prince wants to become a US citizen in exchange for some considerable investment into our economy. Do you find it objectionable? Because that's literally one of the available options today.

https://www.uscis.gov/eb-5

And schemes like these exist in most countries out there, it's not just a US thing.
A lot of new very important papers in i.e. machine learning, quantitative finance come _after_ being implemented in computer code. I just looked at some, and they already seem to use 0 index for the initial states / base layer... here's just one example, where 0 and 1 based indexing is mixed, but I see it everywhere:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02717.pdf
It's going to be funny when Trump leaves office, is replaced by a normal centrist politician who repairs some of the damage he has done, people go back to being broadly apathetic about politics, and we can go back and read these nonsense articles in context.
Defensive patents are for making cross-licensing deals when IBM, Apple, and so on, come calling with their stack of patents to demand a slice of your revenue.
> After all Russian propaganda via the internet was very effective

That's a narrative, not a conclusion. It certainly wasn't effective in painting Putin as anything than the brutal dictator he is. I think you mean anti-Hillary propaganda, which there is evidence of...although it was so incidental (in spend and trend) that I'm not sure how this is still a news item. I guess it's just a red-scare-orangeman-bad proxy fight. Russia is not a friend of the US, but Putin and Trump are co-narcissists, dancing around each other.
Can I talk to my Facebook friends from Mastodon?

If the answer is no, then no amount of Facebook->Mastodon migration legislature is going to make a compelling case to switch, and the network effect will keep me in the Facebook ecosystem.
Thanks! Looking forward to it.
I currently have the right to live & work in 28 countries. I do not know if I'll have that right in 6 weeks time.

(Still, today, 6 weeks out, no-one can tell me what will happen to those rights. Which is quite awkward for me personally, as I currently live & work in one of those countries. You can imagine I quite readily agree with the supposition that we can't trust the current system to handle this well.)
Seriously? How much does being a "phone boy" pay?
Actually it seems that the second worst in JavaScript (when executing their example) is Chrome?

User robko here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167078 measured the code on node.js, and node.js is based on Chrome's V8 and he measured 1.5 sec vs article author's of around 2.7s, so it would seem that robko has some almost twice as fast CPU, and the other two (fast) JavaScripts are under 500 ms, and the slowest is 8 seconds, so V8 of Chrome remains the only candidate for the second worst performing of their example.
A guy who is Elon Musk in all but name is literally the main villain in "Venom".
Author of the site here.
The colored text next to the characters is in the personality of the 'chibiakumas' characters - Chibiko has a bad attitude and is rude, which is why she speaks like this.

The intention was to add some jokes and humor to make development seem easier for beginners and not put them off
It's a valid position I guess. But having illegal status opens you up to all kinds of exploitation, violence, etc. It'd be hard to argue that this is a good alternative.
Reportedly, Intel does mostly fully automated synthesis and instead of manually tuning the layout, they improve their essentially fully in-house Verilog to silicon toolchain.
IME, once they learn to read (and assuming you can instill or kindle [pun not consciously intended, but left] a love of reading), that problem will more than solve itself.
In my world working on data at a BigCo (Industrial plant in my case) I'd say there are 3 schools of people

1) 'The Old Guard' who are extremely skeptical. They tend to be extremely dismissive of models and predictions, distrust anything but most basic analysis. If they can't do the analysis on an excel spreadsheet it's too complicated and "will never work". These people tend to be Engineers (mechanical and chem type) and Plant Operations roles. A lot of the time there is value in listening to there skepticism but they tend to be extremely conservative by nature (Fortran ort to be enough for anyone...).

2) 'The Optimists' people who think "big data" and "machine learning" is the panacea to every problem in our org. To these people a prediction is a good as a real measurement - they trust forecasting implicitly. They have probably read an article somewhere about machine learning but don't really grasp any of the intricacies. These people tend to be in logistics/accounting/finance type roles and a large part of my job tends to be spent in phone calls with these people explaining why their forecasts did not match the actual results.

3) 'The KPI guy' - usually a manager who is somewhat out of their depth who wants to distill everything he can into a single number which can be displayed on a dashboard. The end result is a dilbert-esque situation where the 'KPI guy' decides that to make his mark in the org he needs to come up with a new metric. You end up with the bizarre situation where people are discussing a 'super metric' made by combing other metrics into a single number. I also spend a lot of time on phone with these guys because they forget what undpin their super metrics and don't understand all the subtleties they've distilled out of the data by focusing so much on higher level metrics. They get angry when you question the value of their dashboard. Whenever someone starts talking about "Yield" "OEE" "DIFOT" good chance they are a 'KPI guy'

Most of my job is balancing out interactions between the three 'customers'. Tempering the optimists enthusiasm, reigning in the KPI guys and nudging the Old Guard.
They can always revisit the decision once other entities seem to have made this progress. In the meantime, they don't have to be so disruptive.
They said it in the article:

>Note: Due to legal concerns, I won’t name any browsers in this article.
The point I was trying to make is that we can get better language models with more computation, not that we should stop researching new ideas and architectures. In hindsight, perhaps the language in my post wasn't sufficiently clear on this. See my PS. You and I are not in disagreement :-)
I think regulating the internet, as you put it, is a different case than regulating these companies.

Facebook etc are more akin to broadcasters in terms of sharing ideas than they are akin to a telecom company offering communications infrastructure.

It’s not difficult to create a website to share the same ideas. In fact, it’s already done.

Openness is already there.
Otherwise I agree.
In my experience, this is like waltzing barefoot with Satan.
Given the numbers involved, the _cost_ of the wall seems like a very minor issue.

I'm far more open to arguments about who is harmed by the alternatives and to what degree.
#8 - she had the whole day (feb 13) to post bail.
well, she was able to post bail within a week anyway.

#3 and #4 - This one is cyber libel. It covers 12 years after publication.
1.5 hours at the gym? Do you construct the equipment whilst there?

1.5 hours to take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for work? Are you flying to Columbia for the beans every morning?

I plan each day the previous day. Planning the whole week hasn't worked for me as things change, meetings move, etc. Instead I plan on a day-to-day basis.

0500-0530: Wake, Put eggs on boil, shower whilst they boil, dress after shower, blend Soylent lunch (M-F), kiss wife goodbye for the day

0530-0545: Commute to office

0545-0830: Work on business, looking at Trello for the current or next task

0830-1200: Commute to client's site and do work

1200-1300: Dine, read/research and or chores

1300-1600: Work for client

1600-1615: Commute back to office

1615-1800: Work on business

1800-0900: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife

0900-0500: Sleep.

Rounding the figures, that's about four hours per day on the business whilst working full time for a client (I contract.)

Saturday and Sunday are either spent at social events or on the business in the office (if the wife is busy working on her own projects.) So I manage about 25-30 hours per week.

(Just to be clear here, I'm not saying you're doing something wrong, but just pointing out those time lines could be a bit tighter.)
You should check out Lazarus. It's basically open source Delphi and cross platform, write once, compile anywhere.

http://www.lazarus-ide.org
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> below market value (due to the massive tax breaks)

I don't see how "below market value" follows from "massive tax breaks". Are you implying that the standard tax rate is somehow determined by the market? Because it's not, and "market value" is whatever the market is willing to pay for it. Unless they have someone other than Amazon offering the same benefits for less, then Amazon offer was market value.
Tolerant, not free. The terms are not interchangeable.

The paradox implies it because if the ideas of tolerance are so fragile, that even in a majority tolerant society, intolerant ideas present such a threat as to consider sacrificing even free speech, then how could they have ever come to dominate in the first place?
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I have a phone number from a city I used to live in 10 years ago. I don't keep up with anyone from that city so if I get a call from that area code its most likely a spam call.
If you’re doing client work there — and you may not be! —- you’re responsible for the portion of the income earned in that state (you have “nexus,” in the parlance — I’m less sure about merely having presence in a state even if the work isn’t generating company income, but in some cases I think that’s treated as nexus as well). In those cases, your company should send you state W-2s for your income; most decent consulting firms offer tax prep services if you end up working in a lot of state and international jurisdictions with tax consequences.
It doesn't go unsold, everyone pays via subsidies.
(From a comment I made, but I'll post as a top-level comment as well.)

I plan each day the previous day. Planning the whole week hasn't worked for me as things change, meetings move, etc. Instead I plan on a day-to-day basis.

0500-0530: Wake, Put eggs on boil, shower whilst they boil, dress after shower, blend Soylent lunch (M-F), kiss wife goodbye for the day

0530-0545: Commute to office

0545-0830: Work on business, looking at Trello for the current or next task

0830-1200: Commute to client's site and do work

1200-1300: Dine, read/research and or chores

1300-1600: Work for client

1600-1615: Commute back to office

1615-1800: Work on business

1800-0900: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife

0900-0500: Sleep.

Rounding the figures, that's about four hours per day on the business whilst working full time for a client (I contract.)

Saturday and Sunday are either spent at social events or on the business in the office (if the wife is busy working on her own projects.) So I manage about 25-30 hours per week.

I think Steph's article is excellent. She's right, too. You do need to priorities your focus points. And you do need to be strict and have discipline. There's no two ways about it.

Sorry but you can't have your success (overnight or otherwise) and not plan for it.
I'm not splitting hairs. I'm stating facts. There is a difference between immigration and h-1b visa. One is a process where people are moving to america to become american citizens. The other is a temporary work visa.

Also, I'm not against immigration. I'm for immigration. I'm against h-1b visas.

And misleading statements like "first or second-generation immigrants" is not helping your argument. By first or second generation immigrants, you really mean american citizens right? American citizens created those tech companies.

And it's great that US tech companies are founded by americans who immigrated to the US. Sadly, h-1b visas prohibit you from creating companies in the US. So your entire argument is contradictory.
mining and transfers are the same thing. that's the core concept - the ledger transaction is the currency.
"The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay."

groan

At least learn what "prima facie" means before using it in your opening sentence.
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I'd be worried of a false sense of similarity. Recently there was an article about crystal, some comments said Ruby was ~one inspiration and not the main goal. You could spend more time fighting your old habits with something that doesn't translate 1 to 1.
Crystal has meaningfully different syntax from Ruby in some important places:

* Strings cannot be single-quoted in Crystal. Single quotes are used for character literals, like C.

* The two languages differ substantially in how keyword arguments are specified. In Crystal, any argument can be specified by name as well as position.

* In Crystal a 'rocket-style' dict literal (i.e. `{ "foo" => "bar" }`) is a different type (Hash) from a 'keyword-style' dict literal (`{ foo: "bar" }`, a NamedTuple).

* Hashes are typed (inferred at the time of creation). You can't use keys and values of different types than what was in the hash when you created it. You _always_ have to specify a type for empty hashes, which means that any Ruby code that does `x = {}` and then stuffs things into `x` has to be rewritten.

* NamedTuples raise an error if you try to read or write a nonexistent key. Hashes raise an error if you try to read a nonexistent key.

* Crystal does not have singleton classes (`class << self`). The Module class doesn't exist. You can't execute code in class definitions (like constant initializations). Generally speaking, a lot of the very dynamic Smalltalk-y features Ruby devs take for granted are not present.

* `private`/`protected`/`public` are keywords, not methods, and they must be applied to each method individually (`private def...`).

There's a lot else. Now, a lot of these changes are good and fix issues that Ruby can't because of the need for backwards compatibility. This isn't a criticism of the language. The fact remains that Crystal's superficial similarity to Ruby hides a lot of substantial differences (a problem Elixir suffered from for a while as well). Translating simple code by hand is not difficult, but rewriting a larger project would be a huge undertaking.
The patent was invalidated on common/conventional grounds. There is no new precedent here.
So then, colleges are the problem, and they need to downsize, so that there are fewer grads?
Exactly.

I've done a bit of Buddhist study my self and it wasn't for me. It was as if it was telling me to sit still and just relax. Well, I'm keen on relaxing and such, but there's also problems to be solved.

So enjoy the present, be in the moment, but don't neglect the future (or your health) as if it's not going to come.
I view wifi on these devices as an anti-feature. Too often, they rely on MVP web services with limited security, and require a full TCP/IP stack, alongside CA-based PKI (meaning, an inherently limited lifespan).

Not against a limited lifespan, but I really do like the model of a bridge device that communicates over wire or bluetooth, especially for consumer IOT - bt-based standards prevent vendor lock-in, for example.
Subscriptions as price discrimination
Agreed. I see no exemption there for “I was just attending a conference and just stayed in a hotel for a few days.” Much less spending weeks at a remote company location or job site.
The patent was invalidated at summary judgment -- it is not a patent anymore.

edit: nevermind the lower court opinion dismissed the case but it is not clear if it invalidated the patent in question
what's the advantage of this over fundrise, etc?
Right... The parent's point was that saying "we see the value in the patent system: it allows us to defend ourselves when others use the patent system against us" doesn't really make logical sense.
In terms of Part B, commercial insurers play no role at all. What happens is the drug companies send in their sales to Medicare and they crunch an average price and pay that. Think of it as Medicare riding on the coattails of the commercial plans.

For Part D, I see your point, but research has found that the Medicare price that insurers negotiate for drugs is often less than what commercial plans pay, so they are doing a good job on behalf of Medicare.

One thing to keep in mind can you really call it a "negotiation" when one of the parties represents a sovereign entity? CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) gets even more discounts above what I described earlier. For example, the 340B discount knocks 23.1%+ right off the top. Same thing for Medicaid. There is no negotiation here, the gov't simply says, "we get this discount or we ban you from participating in public programs".
That's the "somebody else's problem" approach to determining requirements. Performance matters for the end user. They just might not be able to articulate it just like that.
tl;dr - The death of someone famous and the social media around that is relatively troll free.
Where did you come up with the idea that free speech laws give them the right to censor. It doesn't. Ownership and private property rights give them the right to censor.
Actually, this prompted me to look up the funders of OpenAI:

- Sam Altman

- Greg Brockman

- Reid Hoffman

- Jessica Livingston

- Elon Musk

- Peter Thiel

Useful information in interpreting the mission statement, I think.
Would focussing efforts on sound data privacy legislation and education go further to protect the people?

Or perhaps outlawing targeted advertising?
Man, this is seriously some funny shit. I bet your ass for $110,000 nowhere in the world would it feel 'dangerous'. But, the best part, he shot the national animal. That got me good.

Of course, it's sad seeing someone shell out that much money in exchange for perceived fame/recognition among his peers. This sort of behavior never stems from the need to satisfy your own needs. You want to live to tell that "story"...

This goat, I don't care so much... but elephants, tigers, lions, etc... god damn man! In 100 years those trophies will have long be forgotten, sitting and rotting in some god forgotten garage in the middle of nowhere...
The React community has started to make some tools that use the "MDX" format [0], which combines Markdown and JSX syntax together. The MDX-Deck [1] and Spectacle [2] tools both allow using MDX to create presentations.

Last week I wrangled together a repo that adds Spectacle with MDX support to a Create-React-App project, as a reusable starting point [3]. Worked out nicely for a talk I gave this week.

[0] https://mdxjs.com/

[1] https://github.com/jxnblk/mdx-deck

[2] https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle

[3] https://github.com/markerikson/cra-spectacle-mdx-boilerplate
I spent some time working on a Crystal project and the superficial similarities to Ruby were more confusing than anything. Crystal isn't just "Ruby but fast and statically typed". They are quite different languages.
Almost everything in your comment is factually wrong.

Reagan passed landmark immigration liberalization in 1986.

Clinton was an immigration hawk.

https://hackinglawpractice.com/blog/20-year-law-signed-conti...

GWB fought hard against his own party for immigration reform and liberalization.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/senate-ki...
Other cultures tend to be "americanized" more than the other way around.

Just do a Google search for `americanized india` or `americanized china`.
> 1.5 hours to take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for work? Are you flying to Columbia for the beans every morning?

No, he's probably like a me and a good half of the population that doesn't naturally wake up early, so when we're forced to, we're very groggy, and it takes a while to get up to speed.

If you're waking at 5am and don't find it taxing, you probably don't have anything to compare this to, hence your inability to empathize.
> I'm single and don't have kids and it still doesn't apply. I have to commute, shower, cook, buy groceries, clean etc.

Not once were you told during the article that all eight hours have to be dedicated to working, i.e. wake and grab your laptop and start hacking.

Obviously the author is more intelligent than that and understands people need to poo, get ill, or sometimes want to hit the cinema. That's made clear in the article also.

I think your conclusion misses the point that you're meant to take that eight hours and use what you can of it to focus on goals. That's why Steph points out that just one hour of work towards a goal over 365 days has a compounding, exponential result.

It's also not a solution for everyone. Take it or leave it.
I think a lot of people are missing the point. China is not an open and free society. It has hundreds of thousands of ethnic in concentration camps and is known to kidnap dissidents and silence opposition. It has implemented a social credit system purely for establishing party loyalty.

It's hard to imagine a country so against and anathema to Western ideals.

Let's put it in historical context, should we have allowed Franco, Mussolini or Hitler to have significant sway over US media and opinions at the time? How different might the world be now, had we allowed unchecked totalitarianism to spread its ideas before WW2?

We are approaching similar stakes now, where a country that is vehemently against everything we stand for is trying to influence us. We need to appreciate the severity of Chinese investment and not pretend like they are just another investor.
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Doesn't EOS suffer from the same subpar UX around secret keys?

As compared to losing a debit/credit card
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For 6-7 hours on most days, rooftop solar can provide power to residential homes more cheaply than PG&E.

For 12+ hours a day, PG&E is almost certainly cheaper I believe.
I'm not sure if it would help, but postgresql also has 'is not distinct from' which is like a two valued version of equality (vs the three valued equality operator).

https://modern-sql.com/feature/is-distinct-from
Time to leave I guess?
No silver bullet.

I typically use Firefox's whole page screenshot feature.
>And the reprocessing ban was by a President who happened to be a nuclear engineer!

Jimmy Carter was not a nuclear engineer. He began a program to become a nuclear officer but quit before the Seawolf (his anticipated assignment) even began construction. Carter was, however, assigned to assist in the cleanup of a partial meltdown incident in 1952.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter#Naval_career
It's modern.
Meaning donations, who gave them, etc?

I'm a nonprofit fundraising professional, and I could probably talk about all the reasons why that is a horrible idea for 2-3 hours straight without repeating myself. I mean, at the very least, it's a bad idea for the same reason that exposing all the financials of every individual, or all other organizations, with the added benefit that you'd be opening people up to harassment for supporting certain social causes or belonging to certain religious groups. You might as well start a government mailing list called "hate crime targets."

If you think there are a lot of non-charitable transactions occurring using charities as a front, it would be a way better idea to just have the IRS audit more 501c3 orgs.

If you are trying to decrease fraud, it would almost certainly make more sense to audit wealthy individuals and for-profit corporations far more often.
There are many rebuttals to this claim by Dijkstra, too.