skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newspapers need to win not be being the only voice in the room, but by being the most relevant, clear, researched, reliable, unbiased voice in the room.

But being relevant, clear, researched, reliable and unbiased doesn't get as much attention as feeding people's biases and fears and all the rest of that. Is it possible to win if all you have to offer is relevance, clarity, research, reliability and lack of bias?
Good point. And/or a novelty effect. As another comment asked, a long-term study is probably required.
Well, obviously it would not happen unless there was a strong financial incentive. It would be a pretty big capital investment.

That aside, there are a few caveats that need to go with your citations.

Firstly, farm labour is simply not a "low-skilled" profession. You cannot up yourself from your chair, go to pick fruit, and expect to be anywhere near as productive as your "low-skilled" immigrant co-workers. Not until you have several years of experience. If you have any doubt, definitive proof of this can be found in the relative pricing of slaves (prior to emancipation) based on their years of field experience.

Secondly, although 57% of immigrant households do receive social benefits, in most cases it is an American citizen who is the person in the household eligible to receive the benefits.

Thirdly, illegal immigrants are disproportionately represented in federal prison populations because (i) illegal immigration is a federal crime, and (ii) international drug trafficking is a federal crime. Illegal immigrants are disproportionately likely to be in prison for one of those offences. However, there is no statistical correlation between immigrant populations (legal or otherwise) and higher crime rates.
> But, have you seen any such trial in China?

They have show trials of corrupt politicians, just like we do. What does that matter, though? The CIA will continue exactly the same way, with or without some show trial. As will those Chinese government officials who weren't used as an example of Xi's latest war on corruption.

> You may be put in jail for even demanding prosecution of the officials responsible for such acts. The press is not allowed to talk/write about such things.

I'm not saying they are great. I'm saying maybe stop pretending we are. Sure, we have great explanations for all the extra-legal things ("they were terrorists", "this was a special case, it will never happen again", "it was wrong, the low level official responsible was punished") we do, but so do they.
It would be so much easier to criticize them for the stuff they do if the CIA didn't have torture camps all over the world and wouldn't kidnap people "just because" and get away with it by pointing the finger at China or Russia and saying "look, they are much worse than we are".
Facebook Security App Used to 'Spy' on Competitors
Edit: thanks for the tips, I created a living gist where I will document all the tricks:

https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/e893ffa9e91d08c6098966080978...
The entire point is that the
employer doesn't care how many
days off people take each year.

Of course they do. Just they call it "abusing the policy" or "not getting your work done" and don't tell you what the lines you shouldn't cross are.
I'd love stricter requirements. But the last thing I want is more process.

I mean goddamn, I have to track work on our repositories, and our story tracker. I have to produce slideshows and excel docs and numerous other tasks which just exist to keep the MBAs happy. There's just so much bullshit work mixed into the actual task, not that I care much about the actual task in the first place.
That sentence was poorly worded.

But then if this least generous interpretation you chose represented my train of thought, one would have expected me to clearly argue that both "road cameras" and "mobile service providers" are illegal. Instead I replied with, "Agreed." Did you read down to those parts? If so I'm curious what you thought that could mean in a worldview where police cannot legally investigate crimes.
> ...it requires HTTPS to connect to all .dev websites. This protects people who visit your site against ad malware and tracking injection by internet service providers

The latter is true (it protects against injection), but I'm not sure how the former is. How would it protect against ad malware?
There's been an uptick in conspiracy theories lately, I kinda blame the whole "mainstream media lies" movement. Some people are starting to believe that if almost everyone believes something, it has to be a conspiracy.

My favourite one right now is "5G is bad and will kill us all and microwave birds". There is not a single article on 5G without the Facebook comments being full of people shouting about the extreme dangers (even when it's just about enabling the fake 5G on frequencies previously used for LTE). No matter what you say, they will keep linking you vague YouTube videos by people who claim to be doctors and misinterpreted documents from the 80s. I don't get it at all.
What I took away is people who live in places they can't afford take money from their parents. Didn't need 1000+ words to convey this.
Gaslighting the Climate-Striking Students
When recruiters inevitably try to recruit me (because software dev) I tell them I exclusively do contract work. My profile also mentions this. Some of them have clients that are open to this. They pitch the client to me. If I'm interested we discuss skills, rates and they pitch me to their client.

I've also reached out to a few recruiters that have seemed reasonable and gotten work that way.

LinkedIn noise/signal ratio isn't the best. Other sites have been better. But I've found work that way.
Some criminal investigations start with the evidence that a crime has occurred, and links additional evidence to the web that grows out from there, until at least one suspect is linked to a public identity.

If you start by making random accusations against innocent persons in an attempt to generate additional leads, you're not investigating, you're just playing "Clue".

Police resort to unlawful tactics when they have no leads to investigate and political/administrative pressure to close cases. Or when they are rewarded for making large seizures and well-publicized arrests, and are never punished for the sloppy work that led up to them.

The US system is supposed to encourage following the evidence to the suspect, rather than picking a likely suspect and then trying to connect that person to the evidence. "Parallel construction" is a direct attack on the presumption of innocence and personal privacy. It is part of a policing culture that encourages individual police to be lazy and slipshod in their investigations--and that's how you get 2 corpses and injured police at 7815 Harding Street, with some heroin dealers doing an orderly cleanup and evacuation at 7815 Hardy Street, even as the PR flack from the police union and the police chief are busy blaming the victims and doubling down on the botched raid. That's how flashbangs land in a baby's crib. That's how the family dog gets shot, no matter what.

When we do not make police work difficult enough that some investigations fail, one does not need to be diligent, attentive, and dedicated to pursue a career with the police. A person who is violent and sloppy can still get their promotions and pensions. Computer says arrest this guy, so cop goes out to pick him up. The person who is not smarter than the computer cannot recognize the limitations of the system. It becomes a magic box that spits out the right answers--most of the time--without having to do any of the homework.
> first off, YouTube is a private corporation

So is the new york times.

> not subject to free-speech laws

Yes it is, same as the new york times.
> So social media is good for marketing, but bad for true creatives trying to be innovative.

I dunno, there is some interesting and innovative work being posted to the likes of Instagram, etc, you just don't see it so much in the explore feed or hear about it outside of the fine art photographic circles because it's not the kind of work that attracts tens of thousands of followers.

The original post, somewhat ironically cross-posted to the largest photographic news and blog post aggregator on the web today, seems to be more a case of redefining success at a tangent to what social media defines as success. There are plenty of photographers making a good steady living doing what they do without worrying about follower count, likes, or getting on the content treadmill. Arguably they have found success within their photographic niche.

If you're really trying to make it as a photographer you're probably concentrating more on calls for work, portfolio reviews, attending seminars/retreats, building a body of work, networking with those in the art world who can get your work in front of the "right" people, personal projects, long term ideas, and so on. Social media won't help you achieve those things.

It seems that the author had the revelation that success on social media (from a photographic point of view) is more an indication of how good you are at marketing yourself and not necessarily how good you are[1] as a photographer. Another example is YouTube, there are dozens of very popular photography channels run by photographers that produce mediocre, uninteresting work. That's not a bad thing, per se, but if it redefines what "success" is as a photographer to those who go purely by follower counts, etc then, well, who knows?

An analogy would be Red Bull: a hugely successful marketing company that happens to also produce really awful soft drinks.

I should probably turn this into a blog post...

[1] Beyond the realms of the boring technicalities i should say. There are countless photographers creating technically excellent, beautifully composed, utterly mundane work.
> Regretting anything is a waste of time and energy because you just never know where life might have taken you had you made the other choice.

Wise words written.

I "regret" - at the ripe old age of 45+ - having not gone on to get an advanced degree. I was lazy; I know that now. It was not because of inability.

But I make a comfortable living as an SE, have no children, have a good amount of savings, and I am debt free (other than a mortgage, which doesn't count - especially since my house is now worth double of what I paid for it 15+ years ago - plus having equity, etc).

So - since actually pursuing a degree (something I have considered) would likely not improve my salary prospects much, and would only put me further in debt - I instead occasionally spend time involving myself in MOOCs (so far all of them in the AI/ML space).

I try not to dwell on that "regret"; as you have said, life could have turned out so much differently and I would likely have other "regrets" instead.

Instead, I do what I can to continue my educational self-improvement in other ways (MOOCs being one small part), and focus instead upon my life's successes and everyday enjoyments, which are honestly more than enough for me.
He's 77 years old and looks and acts it. Ocasio-Cortez should be running for president.
So the PRD is basically three NY metro areas.
You're being disrespectful.

> No mission-critical software, no application software with millions of installations (except Go compilers).

Yes. NOOO software with millions of installations. Except Go compilers. Which doesn't count?
(And I don't even know, there might be more).

He is an accomplished engineer. UTF-8 is one of the best designs I know. Unix is still around, despite its shortcomings. He's written books and been around some of the gods of software and OS engineering. Regarding Plan 9, I'm not positive that it is a toy operating system. I've never used it. It tried to improve on Unix and might (or might not) have achieved that in many ways. It's named as an inspiration by Linus Torvalds.

What do you have to show?
> 57% of immigrant households (legal and illegal) use welfare.

Fact: 57% of _homes with children_ where the head of household is an immigrant use welfare, where these are the welfare programs in consideration: "The welfare programs examined in this report are SSI (Supplemental Security Income for low income elderly and disabled), TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), WIC (Women, Infants, and Children food program), free/reduced school lunch, food stamps, Medicaid (health insurance for those with low incomes), public housing, and rent subsidies."

It could be millions of children, many US citizens, receiving reduced lunches. I didn't read much further because I didn't need to in order to be totally fine with feeding children, many of whom are US citizens. (Edit: to be clear, I'm ecstatic to be taxed to feed non-US citizen children as well).

About the prison situation:

> A 2005 report estimated that 27% of federal prison inmates are noncitizens, convicted of crimes while in the country legally or illegally.[34] However, federal prison inmates account for six percent of the total incarcerated population; noncitizen populations in state and local prisons are more difficult to establish.

It is 'technically true' that 27% of everyone in federal prison, or about 1.5% of the total prison population in the United States, was an immigrant in the country legally or illegally. The statistic doesn't go into more detail where I read.

Regarding the first entry, "$20k in costs per immigrant household per year", is complicated, and any person interested might want to spend time reading the wikipedia entry on the economic effects on immigrants [3].

[1] - https://www.disabled-world.com/news/america/immigrants.php
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_imm...
TREX is still up.
One man's conspiracy nut is another man's foreign operative trying to subvert democracy.

Just my opinion, but I think there is a clear line between a politically subversive conspiracy theory (i.e. pizzagate, sandy hook was staged, etc.) and a political commentary I happen to disagree with (i.e. Tucker Carlson).

They have a profit motive to attract as many people as they can to their platform, I don't believe they would have an intentional political bias.
Good effort. FinViz is quite ahead though.
Mostly because this hoopla makes it hard to monetize those videos. But even conspiracy theorists need toothpaste and skin cream. YouTube needs to create an education program for advertisers that people who consume these videos are people too. Maybe sell prepper supply ads.
Lightning Network – Five Cities with the Most Nodes
They only care that enough do that they can make bank.
Growing a SaaS to $4k/Month in a Highly Competitive Market
Why do you think that people will automatically listen to the most relevant, clear, researched, reliable, unbiased voice? Lots of people end up listening to loud, angry, biased voices that say a lot of bullshit. We see this with things like the anti-Vax movement.
I make just a couple of k's more than that to babysit a dozen. It's a thing.
Thanks to Coda.io I Built a Much-Needed “App” in One Night
I used to work for a registry, and ICANN had very strict escrow rules for registrys'.

This was for a real TLD but I suspect that there is something similar for vanity domains.
He is probably using reports from the Centre For Immigration Studies. I believe they can be trusted to use real data, but can't really be trusted to represent it in proper context. I'm not sure if they cherry-pick cynically or just out of confirmation bias.

1. 26% of Federal Prisoners are Aliens [https://cis.org/Huennekens/DOJ-26-Federal-Prisoners-Are-Alie...]

2. Welfare Use by Immigrant and Native Households [https://cis.org/Report/Cost-Welfare-Use-Immigrant-and-Native...]
"why do millennials act like it doesn't exist?"

Hhm, do they really?
Antisemite means "opposing people of Semitic ethnicity". Surprisingly Arabs are also Semitic people. Therefore whichever side you pick you can't be antisemitic by definition.You can be anti Zionist and oppose people based on thier actions and ideas, not their ethnicity.
I saw many people using this nonsense argument that according to a paper written by some people the definition of anti Semitism is opposing Israel. This is falsely accusing people who criticize Israel and labeling them as racist.
Where are you seeing that price? Maybe you found a "premium" domain, the base rate seems to be (will be, after EAP) about $12/year.
Several years ago I severed a tendon in my left index finger, as a result it is relatively immobile and sticks out. It brushes against that horrible touch bar all too often. I touch type, can handle real keys without looking, but the touch bar just slows me down. Have to look, recognize an icon, choose. Arrrrgh!
Landmark Research Creates “Universal” Stem Cells Using Crispr Gene Editing
I understand the use of 'millennials' as click-bait, but when a serious author tries to tie 'millennials' into some larger explanation of sociology I just have to stop reading.

What the hell is going on in [the author]Jen Doll's head where she thinks that the myth of self-made success is a millennial phenomena? Does she suffer from amnesia? Is this just 4000 words of disinterested bullshit to get paid?
Some of the conspiracy theories have been proven true already by Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. Just because something is a theory doesn't mean that it's true or false.

What we know already is that powerful organizations have secrets that they spend big money on protecting. The difference now is that with the internet the time for which a secret can be kept shortened significantly.
I rather focus on ideas, not age.
That was my first thought. What makes any of the article unique to millennials?
The problem is that a very large percentage of people apparently don't really want "relevant, clear, researched, reliable, unbiased", they want to be told that they're the good guys, that all their problems are someone else's fault, and that they don't have to make any changes in their lives.

And social media giving these people what they want creates a vicious circle that does real damage to society as a whole.

A platitude like "free exchange of ideas" does not address this problem.
To properly auto-vectorise this, you need to transform your ArrayOfStructures (AoS) representation to a StructureOfArrays (SoA) form, i.e. put all the r's next to each other, all the g's, etc. Then your operations are nicely in groups of four adjacent elements and the compiler will almost surely vectorise it.

I'm no black magician, but I think the fact that the operations you want to do in parallel (the r's of four adjacent pixels) do not access adjacent memory cells, requiring a gather instruction or somesuch, which I hear is either slow or unsupported. Alternatively, it could vectorise the pixels themselves, but that's three elements, not four. Does it auto-vectorise it if you also do the operation on the a's?
You seem to be ignoring the second part of her statement: what's your job? Is it a good, high-paying one?
Death of the Polymath
It shouldn't be forced on people but I'd love to have the option, especially when I'm out of town and the doc's practice's policy forbids telemedicine even on a cash basis.
I agree, although this requirement of from ICANN, not Google themselves
What do you want the fast processor and powerful software to do, though?

For instance, I can't imagine trying to cram the Lightroom UI into a 4" screen on the back of my camera is a good experience, especially when I have a 30" 4K screen at home to edit on. To me, the current Lightroom for iOS is nowhere near as usable as the desktop version, and still quite a bit slower.
YouTube Algorithm Is Facilitating Child Exploitation Videos with Monetization
Getting Started with VR in React Native with ViroReact
.io domains cost a lot more than .dev domains.
Julia was created for and by the scientific computing/data scientists folk. It's a very valuable endeavor, I am glad we have another programming language/tool for this field.

What I don't quite get it's the silly insistence of the Julia fanboys to claim Julia is a general programming language, and that as such it should be used for everything. There is nothing wrong with being a focused and discipline specific programming language.
I came away from this feeling like it's a very short jump from "Maybe some of the people doing impossibly well got help" to "Everyone who is doing better than me must have gotten help".

I can't help but feel this element of dismissal is present even in this piece. E.g., Pierson turned a $15,000 loan into a business with $300,000/yr in revenue. She says, her biggest fear was hearing “she’s only successful because of her parents.” And this piece seems to suggest, or at least gently lead, the reader in that direction- ignoring the many many people who turned $15,000 loans into failed businesses.
Probably the former as it doesn’t require as much aggrandizement.

I wonder whether a different approach would work. Instead of basing TLD name spacing on nebulous terms (com,net,org,io,edu,etc) create a naming system that better reflects the real world. The abstracted terms lead to clashing. So addressing actually reflects physical addressing. There’s only ever going to be one company at Apple’s corporate address. Not sure how it’d work.

Edit-the tech to do this via gps even exists today.
I agree with the first part, Twitter is a bad idea for anyone who deals in complexity.

A teacher's job is to inform. They should inspire us to rise above our base instincts and investigate issues further.

Compressing ideas into vulgar soundbites (the point of Twitter) is something teachers should be helping us avoid, not participating in. I don't think he should have been fired, but anyone who made the bumper sticker tweet below definitely doesn't deserve to be rewarded with tenure so they can become immune from criticism.

>> Zionists: transforming "antisemitism" from something horrible into something honorable since 1948.#Gaza #FreePalestine
You just need to pay hundreds or thousands during EAP or for a "premium" domain. A regular .dev domain will cost less than $15/year.
> Hi can you let me how I can immigrate out of my country with $10e6 without thieves at the airport taking my wealth?

I guess you mean "how can I violate capital control laws"?
The legal world is in dark technology ages. Who disrupts this market has definitely a lot to gain.

I have never seen incubation in a large company work out as well as innovating as a startup that is exposed to market forces. Probably they will struggle a lot to get the financing they really want.
I highly doubt that there’s any impropriety going on besides the lack of disclosure. Investment banks have been dealing with conflicts like this for a long time and the market has never cared.
Nope. Please inform yourself what "free-speech" means.
It protects against ad malware injection by ISPs. It certainly doesn't protect users from the other end of the TLS socket.
Yeah, it's a Dutch auction. This is the first price step, so everything costs that much today, even adgfhjklhajklsdfghaksdfasdf.dev. The price will go down according to the schedule, and it'll be bought when someone is willing to pay that much for it.
> a HUGE risk for practically no gain

Eh? A few dropped words during a social dinner, or even a knowing glance, you call that a huge risk? And a hedge fund getting (even only 1 bit of) information from some well-informed people, allowing them to adjust their position on a firm, can lead to substantial gains, obviously.

> Most consultants won’t even know what other people on their team is working on, and most are in and out after 2 years.

This is not about junior guys.

> Hedge fund managers don’t coordinate with consultants.

Well, yeah, officially, of course. But that's precisely what the article is about.
Man, the NYT really has it out for McKinsey. Anyone know why?