skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a headline, but this title makes me sigh.

For this thread, it's the title; for others today, it has been the "dose of realism" cynical first comment. It's probably just bad luck, but it feels like the first comment on every thread I've read today has been some variation of "here are the clouds to this silver lining."

In this case, it's amazing that we give enough of a damn about each other to allocate the money in the first place. How many people say caring for the less fortunate should be a matter for charities but then don't donate a dime themselves? How many in an honest moment would reply, "that's tough, move to Houston." Yet some among us cares enough to try instead of just rolling their eyes at building below sea level. I'm happy to take more trying and failing if it's in exchange for "serves them right" hindsight or abject cynicism.

Proceeding to read the article, over a decade the Army Corps of Engineers raised hundreds of miles of levees. If this were a thread about how the US can't complete big projects any more, that alone would be a ray of sunshine.

There are real problems in the world, folks. There's no denying that. But when the people with the ability and the inclination to be doers spend their time wringing their hands or giving themselves over to "the constipation of bittersweet philosophy" that's when there's really a problem.

Instead of worrying about the state of the world, spend an hour of your social media/fuck around time a day/week/month doing something for someone else. It'll do some actual good.
See also: Internet responses to the AirPower cancellation. It mostly sums up to "how dare a big company with a lot of money not be able to defy physical laws." People seem to think they'll magically solve wireless charging over distance as well...
I mean, it's not like it's expensive to manufacture! One person soldering and maybe a single board and usb plug, its probably easy to make money if you can sell them for $30 or so in the volumes of 100's.
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This is highly misleading. High-skilled immigrants are now more prioritized than they were in the past administration.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-changes-visa-process-for-hi...
The top comment on the Zoom S-1 discussion said the same:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465860
Logically, Indian and Chinese societies are distinct entities from each other and from American society.

It makes logical sense for american society to nuke Chinese and Indian society to prevent american societal collapse.

Or maybe this whole societial collapse thing is just fear mongering and it's not as big a deal as they say it is??????
Might make sense, yeah. How many computers would get blown up during such a test, and how much productivity would be lost and how much money would it cost? What is the expected cost of a major breach or malware infection? How much less likely does a breach or malware infection become as a result of leaving one of these laying around? I actually wouldn't be surprised if leaving these did come out positive, in much the same way that regular fire drills come out positive.
> If it was removed, however, it would leave a vacuum.

For compulsive gamblers, maybe. But I don't think the lottery exists to fill an inherent need. Plenty of industries (harmful and otherwise) exist because someone figured out how to market something/created a lot of their own demand, versus recognizing an existing need.
a relatively recent invention as far as US policy is concerned

Define "recent." Immigration restrictions in America go back to at least the 1880's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...
Global logistics service, with side aim of distributing surplus food to areas that need it.

Big data backed surgery scheduling for units with high contention, to minimize patient loss.
Physics is a great general purpose education. I have a BS in Physics, from the early 1970s, and while I have always worked in some form of software development or research role, Physics was a great start.

In current times, a BS degree is probably not as useful, so spending a little extra time to get a MS makes sense.
This is complete hearsay, but I know some real anti-censorship folks that believe zoom is unsafe and has been compromised by the Chinese government.

It’s a great product, no idea on how safe it is from intercepts but the ease of use, quality and experience put it in a class of its own.
Demo regarding unified ARC & Pagecache
https://youtu.be/be0ph4b9vUE
I don't know to what you're referring, but it doesn't resemble Deep Adaptation.
College of St Rose lists their tuition as $29,826/yr. So he did about 2 tuition years of damage.

I wonder if he was worked up about student loan debt.
I can’t actually think of anything I don’t like about my current job. The main thing I’ve learned from physics is being comfortable with mathematics and the confidence to work through tough technical stuff that I don’t understand. I think the math basics and grit can take you a long way.
...and i don't wana swim (sorry, had to, im canadian)
Here is the maintained list of supported hardware:

https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Supported-Hardware
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Australia has an order of magnitude fewer people, has a different regulatory environment (e.g. their counter-terrorism bill that lets them coerce engineers into cooperation, and in the wake of the NZ shooting they're proposing to imprison website operates that don't take down content quickly enough - and apparently 90 minutes isn't quick enough) and is located in completely different region of the world. There are plenty of reasons why one would want to move to the US but not Australia.
Exhibit – Jack Dorsey's vision to change Twitter's focus to “topics of interest”
>Is Amsterdam asking anyone else to subsidize them?

Depending on your point of view maybe half the world did, one way or another. Though I really shouldn't point fingers, being British.
The reason refugee applicants are recently

Not recent at all. The United States has received waves of refugees for centuries. French from Haiti. Basques re-settled in Idaho. Hmong that were re-settled in Wisconsin. Somalis resettled in Minneapolis. There are dozens and dozens of other examples.

What sets a lot of those refugee groups apart is that they were fleeing war and persecution. They weren't economic refugees.
That's nonsense. Masters degree is not high skill. Or really, I've seen basically zero evidence that it indicates any more skill than a bachelor's.
Only if you want to stay married.

I wasn't interested in this post, but I'd like to see a follow-up a year later. Being an indie dev is a lot different than working at a publicly traded corporation. If I had one piece of advice it would be to get an office in a co-working space. Being in an environment where other people are running their businesses just gets you in the right mindset and helps form good habits.
For decades it always amazed me how the Germans were duped by Hitler. When Facebook came along, it reluctantly dawned upon silly me that given the correct circumstances any group of humans are susceptible to mind control and irrational thought.

That Stalin has now been rehabilitated in Russia in the minds of many takes the seriousness of the matter to a whole new level.

Remember Hitler, who the West still considers to be evil incarnated, killed 6 million people of a race that he considered inferior to his own. As terribly a tragic episode this was, Hitler's actions weren't that unusual in history, as outsiders/foreigners have often been perceived as enemy.

On the other hand, that unmitigated mongrel Stalin had no qualms about killing 20 million of his OWN race!

I don't know what one can do about this, but it's a tragic turn of events.
Thank you for the update. A bit tragic, the accessibility of GJS (Gnome JavaScript) drove plugin creation for countless solutions. Many solutions which I still use.
Recently I started looking in to this as a backup method of anomaly detection while performing automated testing of our robotics. I concluded that it's actually pretty easy. Depending upon how simplistic your requirements, you can even achieve this cheaply and effectively on a very tiny microprocessor with an attached surface mount MEMS microphone. Additional features like anomalous audio recording, timestamping and alert transmission are not that hard either. No need for a fully-fledged general purpose operating system, or complex algorithms.
I second this. My Linux laptop drops to seconds-per-frame when I share my screen on zoom. It's gotten to the point where I have other co-workers pull up my presentations on their Macs.
No. This is absolute SEO garbage.
Research Scientists are mainly just data scientist in that we’re building models for the business, not just for papers. But we do try to push the boundary and contribute academically. The Data Scientist job family is similar, but lower technical bar and heavier on SQL/basic analysis.

To get into RS position, just know your ML/stats basics well and be proficient in SQL. Nothing super hard about getting an RS role.
a lot of of economic activity in NL is below sea level.
No, Amsterdam did not directly pay for it. But yes, the most profitable regions contributed the most.
Federal investigation of Facebook's actions involving... what?

What aspects of Facebook are they investigating?
Does it really make me an asshole to not want to participate in someone else’s delusion?
That's not the hussling you can see in front of the beloved public library. Looks like homeless people trading for crack.
Why not carry a Kindle or a book that you want to read?
The Dutch have a lot less land to retreat to than those of us in the states.
>there's much more stuff happening on dating apps.

Peak SF.
Unfortunately buying a ticket and booking a hotel is necessary in most cases. At the embassy for your first short-term visa and for border control.

I'm a nobody from a 3rd-world country and have always done that with 100% success rate over a decade. I keep visiting the US regularly and I always have a way to somehow ensure I intend to leave the country. The questions at the border keep getting shorter and quicker every time.

Unfortunately, that's how it works, in my experience.
What is the use case that you need the database for? I'm interested to know more.
(Sorry I didn't get notice from HN so I don't know someone left a comment)
Levels.fyi says Google L5 engineer averages $300K. That's top 30-40%, not 10%
To be clear, the existence of bias for "european" names or against women does not necessarily imply a store of explicitly "european" or feminine names. If the training data reflects that bias, the program derived from it is also likely do so.
It does not make sense to do that, unless you're a psychopath.
Ha - I had the same thought recently... We agreed about a year ago to all just use Zoom in our mostly remote organization to get off of the ~5 other free solutions we were using. I saw the latest invoice and it stopped my breath a bit, "We're spending how much on Zoom now?" But every one of our vendors uses it, all of our contractors do, it's just everywhere. (Granted this is all in SV so whatever that's worth)
> Beowulf just isn't that significant or relevant in popular culture - it just isn't. I don't even know why this is controversial.

Not everyone slept through their high school English class and failed to notice when characters in movies they were watching were named "Beowulf."

And we're talking about one of the few things that is examined in almost every high school English class.
Best explanation of vsp (or, vsp-induced crashing) I'm aware of: https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/safevsp/index.php
Do you not use Zoom through chrome browser. You have to enable this in settings. Works pretty well (although the join link is deliberately small)
Bad choice as an example of social engineering, not funny, and doesn’t make sense at all.
Online. Could have something to do with it.

Some classes were very good, but on the whole I think of it mostly as a cheap thumb on the H-1B scales. (Not true on the whole, though -- students of the online program are statistically far more likely to be American citizens than their on-campus counterparts.)
It depends on how you categorize things. The 50% numbers come from discretionary budgets & are accurate. But ‘most’ federal spending is not discretionary. It’s old people care.
You are seemingly ignoring parent's point that the adtech model funding our free web services is one of only two seemingly-possible models, and they both involve money. I guess a utopian 100% decentralized mesh network with easy-to-home-build commodity OTS hardware and 100% open well-defined protocols is theoretically possible but that's not how the cards played out.

Nothing is black and white, most people recognize nuance, and for most people the net balance of the trade-offs in the current 'free online services subsidized by adtech' model is good enough.
It was while you were responding to it. I thought I was fast enough to edit that in. Sorry for the confusion, I appreciate your response.
Newer Apple devices should be protected.
If society collapses even for just one generation, that's the end game. There isn't enough readily available energy available on the surface to restart society. We depend on large amounts of energy and energy requiring infrastructure to get the remaining oil and gas to the surface for consumption. China might have enough accessible coal (I simply don't know) but if there is a societal collapse for a generation or so and if they do have accessible coal today it's likely to be sufficiently valuable in the interregnum that it too will be stripmined away before society is able to try to recover. (Solar, wind, and energy all take far too much education to get running at large scale, and educated individuals are likely to be in equally short supply of society collapses for a generation).

We have to keep society running. We won't have the energetics to get it started again if it stops.
They say that those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, yet somehow statistical data driven algorithms that literally learn from the past provide guarantees of repeating it.
There's a lot of livelihoods that do not involve offices or even working for a company out there in the world today. But I can understand how it seems that if you were raised in the United States and aren't either really poor or wealthy.
My family came across a fun synergy last summer - garden giants (aka wine caps, or probably any table mushroom) and squash. The squash likes to grow into the wood chip beds of the table mushrooms, and the mushrooms like the cool, moist climate in the shadow of the squash leaves.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Are you trying to criticize the general public for not caring about Beowulf in "the right way" or are you trying to criticize the media for not caring about Beowulf in "the right way"? Or do you think this story should not have been reported at all?
Mate, I grew up in this city. No less than three times in my time where my age might be counted in single digits did I find needles buried in the sand in the park or along the trails. Each and every time, my mother was pissed. I’m not a parent yet, but I was in the position of being the kid, finding the needles strewn about in our parks. The examples I gave were from my own memories, not some abstract ideas of things that might happen. One notable change: most of the playgrounds don’t have sand anymore. I don’t know if that’s a net improvement, but if someone leaves a needle around, it is much more likely to be in plain sight of the adults around. That is not the case for park trails if you like to go off the beaten path with your kids.

So we have a problem, where we have a large homeless population, many of them addicted to drugs, and literally shitting in the streets. If you don’t have strong nerves, you might find yourself facing a difficult choice between knowing your kid is going to come up against this environment, and possibly encounter needles, or just leaving the city entirely. I’m not telling you or anyone to leave, but it might not be for you. I made it to adulthood without any blood born illnesses from getting stuck with a needle. Nobody killed me in a public restroom, you have a data point of one.

So hey, this is a pretty innovative community, if the bathrooms we have right now are inadequate in every measurable manner, and we’re worried about them becoming hard living shelters, then what combination of police powers, patrols, tech and community reporting forums do we need to prevent that? Is the problem unsolvable or have we just made peace with shit in the streets and don’t want to rock the boat?
Show HN: hncynic - Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

hncynic 1 minute ago

Very cool project but how is this different than HN comments?

hncynic 1 minute ago

This is a fantastic idea, great execution. How do you handle upvoting multiple articles for a given site?

hncynic 1 minute ago

Looks like an interesting site, but I don't see the usability. Are there other things in between?
Yes. That is basically the definition of "inconsiderate."

Furthermore, it's rude to suggest that your social constructs are the only non-delusional ones around.
> What’s remarkable is how many antivirus companies still aren’t flagging as malicious many of the Internet addresses and domains listed in the IoCs, as evidenced by a search at virustotal.com.

I didn't quite understand this part. Do antivirus companies generally flag IP addresses as malicious? Also not sure what the connection of that is with virus total.
The same thing was (is?) done in openstack with zuul, I believe. When you going to merge something, your branch goes on top of things already going through the CI.
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it seems to be mostly for domotics right? what about IOT for other things like medical devices for instance that would be a good area to open source
Every activity or decision has the potential for good and bad nuances. Bacon is terrible for the pig, the pig farm's neighbors, and my cholesterol level... but on occasion I make the decision that the taste experience outweighs those negatives.

Most people (or "the market") have decided that the cons of adtech are outweighed by the pros of generally free web services.
This is too trite a dismissal. The problem is that it is all too easy to not fully comprehend all of the implications of what you are telling the algorithm to do.
We don't know if it is similar. Zoom CEO was probably applying for an investor immigrant visa which are complicated and could be rejected for many reasons until the proper documents have been provided.

Shamir sent in a visa request and never heard back from USCIS.

Similarly, his US visa was delayed in 2013 also: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/17/crypto_guru_shamir_...
Speculating here... A game with rules encoded in a blockchain is transparent, and publishing rules clarifications is also transparent. You could play on a game in the blockchain, have everyone's moves be encoded on the blockchain, and never have to trust a server wad cheating. A few year's back, UltimateBet.net, a poker site, was caught rigging the poker games being played. [1] Even if UltimateBet.net had open sourced all of their software, one wouldn't be able to trust their servers were actually running that software. With a game on the blockchain, there is no server to trust.

[1] https://upswingpoker.com/ultimate-bet-absolute-poker-scandal...
> with the hope that Oracle may change and again open source their latest ZFS

Yeah, bud, good luck with that. Someone hasn't worked with Oracle.
Agreed on the master's degree bit. A lot of them are just for generating money for the uni. A bit anecdotal, but most east and south asians use it as a platform to get a job in the US.
Why would you buy a ticket before you get a visa?
> indoor plumbing is less than 100 years old

Huh? The house I grew up in was built in 1895 and had plumbing from the start.

It looks like rich people started getting indoor plumbing in the early 1800s (the White House got it in 1833) and it was widespread in new construction by the end of the century.
Never used zoom. I use Uberconference. What's the difference?
"I was certain, but I was wrong"(2000)
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/opinion/i-was-certain-but...
Its not robbery if its a small part of the budget after all
"Only the best past a certain age"?

Google's own research shows no correlation between "elite school" or "grade average" filters and job performance. Their hiring comittees (from which the hiring manager is excluded) also make decisions while blinded to factors such as age, race, and gender.
Not especially compelling as a link when the source repo is still empty, so we only have a video to go by.
I don’t doubt it. They also do more traffic through their VCS than most companies do through their main product.
A home in Palo Alto costs 3.5 megabucks, but without Prop 13, property taxes are around 85 kilobucks/year. Over 30 years, assuming 2.5% inflation, that's another 3.8 megabucks just to stay in said house. And add basic cost-of-living, say 40 kilobucks/year, adjusted for inflation over 30 years would be 1.8 megabucks. Throw in an extra million for miscellany (3.5 + 3.8 + 1.8 + 1.0), a net balance sheet (after maturation of investments) should target around 10.1 megabucks to stay in Palo Alto if not splurging. It's possible to move elsewhere in the US and only need around (0.5 + 1.8 + 1.0) 3.3 megabucks. (Assumes buying a house for cash right now.)

> def over_time(years, inflation, amount)
> years.times.inject(0) { |acc,y| acc + (inflation ** y) * amount }
> end
=> :over_time
> over_time(30, 1.025, 85_000.0)
=> 3731729.7688780855
> over_time(30, 1.025, 40_000.0)
=> 1756108.1265308638
>

EDIT 0: Refactored using inject()

EDIT 1: An engineer salary of 200k inflation adjusted over 40 years is 13.5 megabucks.

> over_time(65-25, 1.025, 200_000.0)
=> 13480510.707119755
Well combine this with them releasing a "feature" to ask users for their email passwords and you have to wonder.
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The world is full of psycho paths. Maybe GP should think about that before they try to claim society will collapse because of climate change.

Someone's gonna take such a serious charge seriously.
I was in Algiers Point recently and the river was about 6 feet higher than the ground on the dry side of the earthen levee. All I could think was 'the people who built this levee were not Dutch, this cannot be even remotely safe'.
Whenever property is completely destroyed in a floodplain they could offer say a 5% bonus to their insurance payment from the government if they give up rights to that property and no longer use it for housing or business, alternatively they could rebuilt the structure on pylons, propping it up above the flood levels. And if they decide to rebuild despite that offer, you could remove all eligibility from the subsidized cost of government-backed flood insurance, and instead let them take on the full cost of private insurance flood coverage rates.
Interesting. So is VSP something that was officially documented, or was it an undocumented hack that was discovered?

The blast processing trick on the Genesis would be something similar then. There's a syncing issue with that one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvvL6S5Buiw
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Clinical depression and homosexuality were "someone else's delusion" as recently as the 1800s and 1990s, respectively.

No one is asking you to participate so much as to avoid making pointless, dismissive comments.
it is a half baked truth. pharma want you to believe trials are expensive so they inflate crazily their costs to price their drugs high. but at the end when u try to sell them software they dont look at the inflates costs of trials be sure of that
You are right, I trusted google and I repent. Most of it is pretty much at sea level though and they still have to spend a hell if a lot of effort in keeping the sea away.