skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "but what evidence do you have that anything Trump has done..."

Naturally, difficult to demonstrate causality and certainly some of the tightening of labor comes from economic growth, but Trump has been careful to do away with H1-B Visa abuse, looking into having firms offer salaries above US rates.

Trump is also increasing enforcement of raiding firms for illegal alien employment.

Trump is getting rid of the H4 Visa program which Obama invented instead of passing it through Congress which helped spouses of H1-B workers to take jobs intended for Americans or others who have a legal right to work here. I think that number alone is 100,000.

Trump has reestablished a program that helps employers to check if workers are using fraudulent or stolen SSNs that Obama had stopped. Obama stopped the program apparently so to make it easier for firms to hire illegal aliens.

> "illegal immigration has been at a multi-decade low."

I'm not certain that that is true, I've been reading that the border is being rushed (in NYTimes). But you're discussing the are of illegal immigrants coming into the country and not discussing the very large number of illegal immigrants already living here.

By enforcing laws that keep illegal aliens from working here, Trump is helping to tighten the labor market leading to increased wages for the working class.

In 1970 there was about 5% of the US population that were immigrants and that number has progressively grown to 14%. Had the immigration rate remained stable at the 1970 levels there undoubtedly would be far higher wages for the working class.

I'm not against immigrants, but against illegal aliens. Probably restoring immigration to 1970 levels or a bit higher would restore some stability in long-term working class employment and wages.

As for unemployment rates, these rates are notoriously underreporting and don't report certain categories and geographical locations which are suffering from unemployment and underemployment.

For example, GM is laying off 14,000 workers. Will they quickly be able to find jobs with comparable compensation? That would be an interesting study and I'm guessing the answer is no.
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It's an attempt to fend off the inevitable wave of downvotes that come for any post with anything resembling negativity towards Tesla. I was downvoted for saying Tesla should build a proper network for after sale service (with all it entails). It's a polarizing topic and the disclaimer tries to soothe diehard fans.
That could rule out apneas but not the overall possibility, based on typical sleep studies anyways. e.g. you regularly go to bed thinking about the stuff you have to do tomorrow, so your brain doesn't enter deep sleep phases for long; your doctor thinks 6-7 hours of sleep is good, when you in particular need more like 8.5 ; your neighborhood is noisy, etc.
Once you step away from it long enough, you won't be missing it at all. I stopped posting anything 2+ years ago and then also stopped consuming content after the elections...
In the real world, when you have a good idea, you prove it out at a basic level and then try and show it works in other contexts. In the environmental sector you bitch and gripe about no-one listening to you!
Never hear Mozilla claiming anything about a prioprietary service being an alternative to add-ons. The reason for which built-in RSS support was removed is that it was much crappier than the add-ons available.

Doesn't solve your problems, though :/
In 1875 the great power of the world were the UK, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany, USA, China, Japan, Turkey. Half of those countries are not on the list, thus we truly underestimate the effect of wars and revolutions on r>>g.
That makes no sense. If you're not invested you don’t get g, you get a slight negative return from inflation.

Long term it always makes sense to invest as long as you can do better than the (generally negative) “return” of inflation.
Smartphones of both flavours can load cheap or free apps that are quite effective enough to read barcodes and identify books.
Librarything and its various catalogue tools can help with the metadata too.
That said, the advice to get specialist help is well-founded.
Learning about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support-vector_machine.

That will tell you SVMs are ancient (linear version dates back to 1963), and that what they do here isn’t really machine learning, but something similar to linear regression: just as linear regression finds the best (in some strict mathematical sense) line describing a set of points, this finds the best (in a similar mathematical sense) line splitting two sets of points.

For software, take a look at https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/. Easy to use, fairly flexible, with a Java applet you can play with.
The problem here is knowing where all the files are. Are you sure you could list all the places eg ms word stores cached copies of your document? And that you’d be able to overwrite the data from copies that have since been unlinked from the filesystem?
Yes, sorry, I meant checking that the output didn't change (instead of checking that it had a specific value).
USSR was run by a party elite, devastated with millions dead/imprisoned in their purges, devastated with millions of dead in WWII, and starting from an agrarian economic base much behind the US of the time (1917) to begin with.

Without those aspects (but keeping equality more or less same, e.g. like Swedish style democratic socialism) it could be a very different story.

It's not like inequality produced them. If anything, today with rampant inequality we have far fewer innovations (and the US has far worse infrastructure, roads, etc) than in the golden post-war era up to the 90s.
Can you please explain me how can be something that happens physically in white blood cells and their plasma a psychological illness?
What about Mint?
I personally agree with this approach - but it's in vogue in my experience. I liked https://kentcdodds.com/blog/write-tests
Do Developers Discover New Tools on the Toilet? [pdf]
We've made a couple of small engineering investments to get features that Heroku doesn't offer. For example, we built a simple auto-scaler for dyno's that consume from RabbitMQ. This helps a bit to keep our costs down and respond to massive spikes quickly.
We run our web servers, database, caching, data pipeline etc on Heroku. However, we are not _that_ dependent on Heroku. We use Docker for deployments, so we can easily reproduce what's happening and it reduces our vendor lock-in.

I missed this part. If you are okay with using managed services, why are you doing so much “undifferentiated heavy lifting”? Setting up autoscaling based on queues, managed RabbitMQ based messages (Amazon MQ), and without knowing what your data pipeline consists of, probably that too could all be done with managed services.
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> If you have a self, then you have a soul.

So, Ruby has a soul and Javascript doesn’t. Makes sense ;)
There is something akin to a daily exertion limit in CFS. When patients exceed it, they have a relapse. It is very easy to have these relapses because the exertion limit is so low.

There must be a biological mechanism behind this limitation. It could be something to do with energy generation in cells and this test may be measuring the associated impairment.
You don't think what you get for your money is important in a discussion of economic advancement? It sounds like you decided on an answer, then went looking for a question which fits it.

> We could have had smartphones and anti-retrovirals AND affordable education/housing/healthcare/job prospects.

How can you possibly know that's true? Where are these example economies that have US-level innovation but also has the wealth distribution you crave.
You should care if it “too good” because it could be a sign of overfitting or tampering with data during analysis to reach a desired conclusion. Replication should shed some light here.
Wait, so running and modifying stuff on all users' computers is good, but a random sample isn't? That's what A/B testing deals with.

The discussion isn't "modify stuff" vs. "don't modify stuff". The discussion is "some users" vs. "all users".

And obviously if you have an auto-update mechanism you're modifying stuff on the user's computer. Chrome updates are near invisible on modern machines. That's a good thing. It keeps the browser evergreen and protects users. If everything were opt-in because "Google shouldn't modify stuff on my computer" that would be an absolute disaster for everyone. No way.
The vanishing middle is actually happening in many, many markets IMO. You can either get cheap plastic junk or overpriced glam. MacBook Pro or Chromebook. The high quality, no frills, moderate price product- it's gone from most markets.

Cars are perhaps one of the few exceptions, maybe due to sheer price setting hard limits on the high end and basic safety setting limits on the low end.
I've also experienced this in many companies. It has led me to question if tests are actually a good thing. The goal is never to write perfect code, the goal is to ship a product and many companies does this fine without testing.

Are we actually doing things too complicated and too good for the business case?
The root certificate is also part of the mozilla.rsa. Addons have it included, it can be extracted and then imported into the browser Certificates > Authorities and it will be used to validate addons, including those which are not updated.

A sample procedure doing exactly this, and a fix for Firefox <= 56.0.2 can be found here:
https://www.velvetbug.com/benb/icfix/

The same procedure can be used on newer versions, but the syntax is a bit different (import cert, go to about:addons, open console):

Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIDatabase.jsm");
XPIDatabase.verifySignatures();

This only makes sense if you really need to fix it while the browser is running, otherwise you can simply restart it after the new certificate is imported.
I created the algorithm, and there is a proper release of it with documentation and implementations in a few languages coming... "soon". It's a work project, so trying to find time to work on it is always tricky.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

The main goal of it is to be a placeholder while images load, but it also has a nice secondary use for hiding sensitive images here. Other aims of the algorithm is to be very simple and easy to implement, and to use very small amounts of data to make it comfortable to include in databases and responses (Facebook uses 200 bytes of data, BlurHash uses around 30, depending on settings.)
I find your comment very similar in tone as the article: someone who is a interface designer that has had bad experiences with UX designers.

I think this is unfortunate, because I think UX design just a definition of the process that product (digital or physical) design was already doing, and now there is a common (though still evolving) language to be able to communicate the challenges of the full product design lifecycle.

To me UX is the superset for user centered design and User Interface design is a subset of it. They are both important. UX is not UI because they are not comparisons, but parts of the same thing.

Those are my thoughts and experiences at least.
One of my interview questions when interviewing with a potential employer is: "describe your test infrastructure" and then ask them to dig into how they test different facets of their product. I will not work at a company that does not write and value tests. It's not worth the headaches.
Is the TOR browser update out soon?
Note that these statistics would, presumably, exclude all users who disable telemetry in Firefox. Since many of those outraged at the interruption to addons seem to overlap frequently with those who object to and disable telemetry and studies on principle, their departure over this incident could well have no impact whatsoever on the metrics you linked above.

It must be a nightmare for the Firefox team to have a minority group of quick-to-anger users that refuse to allow themselves to be taken into account by usage metrics, refuse to allow their browser to participate in studies, and then object loudly when decisions are made that discount them.
Generally, I agree with this statement, but my experience shows me that there's a very important exception here: if a code implements any kind of parser or compiler, unit tests are a must for that part.
It was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122849
I left for Chrome in a way via Brave. Brave is based on Chrome minus being owned by the All-Seeing-Eye Company in Mountainview.
True, but unless you are a doctor, high wage jobs are few and far between in cheap cost of living areas. Perhaps, that's why they are cheap to live in. :)
Safari occasionally crashes for me on OS X with a massive stacktrace. One time it was because it couldn't create a directory locally in my Preferences.

Never had that trouble with Chrome. Flawless browser.
The interesting part about IPhones in particular is that they are status symbols. I've seen plenty of working class folks, especially women, flaunting IPhones.

I'm sure part of the reason is that since most carriers (and Apple itself) will finance the phone cheaply, so the practical difference between the cheapest and most expensive phone is $30 a month.
The Canadian government is so far beyond a joke at this point. We are increasing the difficulty of foreigners to enter and work but seem to have no issue granting refugee status to more people than we can reasonably accommodate.

But at least the ultra-progressive policies are getting through!
This is used for sensitive images, but also as a placeholder while the full image loads, as the entire blurred image can easily be contained in the JSON data (it's around 30 characters long).
We need to pay them not to destroy it, and build them infrastructure, for free.

There were a multitude of opportunities for the nations of South America, in particular, to flourish, and we have stolen them, either with military action, or via economic pressures and corruption, because the United States can't keep it's rabid multi-national companies on a leash.

The only just solution is to pay the people of these nations and build infrastructure so that they can have economic prosperity as well. Otherwise, there is no better place for them to look than the jungles that we all depend on for survival.
In any industry where good employees are in high demand (like tech) this strategy has the unfortunate effect of filtering out most individuals who are both good employees and experienced. None of the really good software engineers I know would accept this arrangement unless the contracting wages were a ridiculous multiplier of their normal salary.
I think a better comparison is East and West Germany.

You might also want to revisit your assumption that the US in 1917 wasn't an agrarian economy, given that the majority of Americans worked on farms between the World Wars.

Also, Baku (joined the USSR into 1920) produced over half the world's oil at that time.
really interesting research is occurring on trypanosomes, metabolic traps, and the microbiome.

Maybe I missed something, but can you point me to some of this?

Thanks.
It would depend in what scenario you wanted to apply the concepts. I find that the best ROT (return on time) can be had by reading research papers. You need to have an understanding of the terminology or be prepared to slog through it. There are some books that have very useful information.

Below are some of the resources i have been using/used:

A brilliant introduction to systems thinking by John Sterman who is a legend in the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnTwZVviXyY

Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows is a classic and a great introduction to some of the concepts.

https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/19...

My review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2231577740

Books focused on Application of the theory, with various approaches to systems thinking that can be applied to solve challenges. There is some overlap between the two books below as they both have a catalogue of methods. They are categorized differently. I would read the introductory chapters of both of these and then review the chapter layout and see which of the two i prefer.

Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers by Michael C. Jackson

https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Thinking-Creative-Holism-Mana...

And

Systems Concepts In Action by Bob Williams and Richard Hummelbrunner

https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Concepts-Action-Practitioners...

Research Papers/Book Extracts:

A Definition of Systems Thinking: A Systems Approach by Ross D. Arnold, Jon P. Wade

Soft systems methodology: a thirty year retrospective by Peter Checkland

Guidelines for Drawing Causal Loop Diagrams By: Daniel H. Kim The Systems Thinker, Vol 3, No 1, pp5-6 (Feb 1992)

More at: https://thesystemsthinker.com/

A brief guide to interactive planning and idealized design by Russel Ackoff

Application of soft systems methodology to the real world process of teaching and learning by Nandish V. Patel

An Application of Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology to the Development of a Military Information Operations Capability for the Australian Defence Force by R. J. Staker

Defining innovation: Using soft systems methodology to approach the complexity of innovation in educational technology by Glenda Cox

The viable system model: A briefing about organisational structure by Raul Espejo

Complex Adaptive Systems by JASON BROWNLEE

Sustainability, complexity and learning: insights from complex systems approaches by A. Espinosa, T. Porter

Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model An Interpretation By Trevor Hilder

Principles of the self-organizing system by W. Ross Ashby

Guidance on applying the viable system model by Sandra Hildbrand Shamim Bodhanya

Embracing Human Experience in Applied Systems-Thinking by José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón

The Need for a Systemic Approach to Change Management—A Case Study by Guangming Cao, Steve Clarke and Brian Lehaney

I have just included titles and authors, not direct download links to the PDF as unsure about copyrights. Some of my copies of the PDF are stamped with the date-time i downloaded. My email is in my profile if you want more.
Do you have a citation on how using Linux can get you detained?
Pocket was promoted as the replacement for RSS. Pocket is a closed source SaaS product, despite the fact Mozilla now owns it.
I am very glad I kept Studies running.
What's he do, nibble your bum?
Cool project, very handy auto detection of memory chip model. I used it recently to flash on-board spi flash on ice40 fpga devkit.
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People tend to see flaws within their area of expertise, for better or worse. A developer is likely to say the problem is due to how software is made, while a brand marketer is likely going to mention poor brand marketing.
You don't trust the public to filter for themselves but you trust them to elect politicians or judges that will get to filter for you?

The logical extension of your argument is the public not trustworthy enough to even choose their leaders.

Free speech isn't a danger to democracy, thinking like this is.
It seems a bit strange to say that the ruling classes would pay workers more to support a war. Another possibility is that war decimates the return of capital because speculative investments fail due to instability, but basic and well established needs (the "real" economy") still get funded because people still want to eat.
I doubt this. There are extension update pings, and my guess is that the number of users is deducted from the update pings, but I could be wrong.
Because functionality like that can be used to enable/disable features outside of tests as well. For example gating new things which could become a stability issue. Sometimes it's a choice between control or no control. Sometimes it's between your browser crashing or not. The power users will care about control, but the general population of users not really.
>It's not like you need to 'smuggle' any form of data physically.

The data may be a by-product of using the device. I suspect they are primarly looking for communications data that is bound to be on every device that is actively used to communicate.

The more end-to-end encryption is used the more interesting the ends become.

>And even if you had the data on a laptop, how does border patrol even know what they are looking at?

Maybe they just copy everything for later analysis in case communications data hints at this being a person of interest.
In my experience, the convenience of Tesla's mobile service—they come to you for most repairs—somewhat offsets the slow parts delivery time.

One of my neighbors took out the passenger side mirror on my model S (knocked the whole assembly clean off). It took about a week to get the replacement parts, but once the parts were in, we scheduled a time for them to come out and fix it in the parking lot next to my apartment. No driving halfway across town to a dealership, waiting around, or having to arrange transportation to pick my car back up. A similar repair for my BMW would have consumed at least half a day of my time - this took 5-10 minutes at most. (And the tech was way more friendly and knowledgeable than anyone I've ever dealt with at a dealership.)
Have you tried Firefox?
Posted 7 hours ago by dahacker:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178846/
What about updating also the beta channel, I am using 67.0b16 and I still think I am affected because, not updates since and all the addons are shown as "ALLOWED IN PRIVATE WINDOWS"
A 25% reduction in CO₂ is a massive undertaking the likes of which have never been attempted before.
The real costs for most people in the US is artificial. Housing, internet, and healthcare in the US is 2-5 times what it is in most countries because of systemic corruption.

Consider, 15 minutes of a doctor’s time making 300k total compensation directly costs ~40$. Meaning your copay is often the actual cost of the services rendered and you need insurance to cover overhead.
I travel similarly equipped - with the idea that I can't lose (or lose control of) data I don't have with me. This addresses the threats represented by border control, intranational security checks, theft of device, and unintended hardware acceleration (@9.8m/s^2). At most, a laptop or a phone is a cache of data that's already elsewhere.
> In my judgment, the 2017 regulations [...] were blatantly discriminatory against those with mental health impairments and which cannot be objectively justified. The wish to save nearly £1 billion a year at the expense of those with mental health impairments is not a reasonable foundation for passing this measure.

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2017/3375.html

Or in my sister's case, her employer not accepting a sick note because she is "making it up".

I've seen an autistic student being heckled by a member of staff as he should stop being such a baby.

There definitely is a stigma against mental illness. It may not be as bad as some people make out, but it's there.
Huh? When was it promoted as a replacement, by whom? It’s not even in the same product category/

RSS aggregates updates to websites without needing to check them. Pocket takes an article you have open in your browser right now and saves a local offline copy on your phone. They’re apples and oranges. Apples and orangutangs, even.
Orthomolecular approach. Nice.
And keep the leads short. This got me, and I should know better!

Setting a lower SPI speed didn't help. It felt like there must be a flaw in the Linux SPI implementation (/BeagleBoneBlack driver) that even though I lowered the clock speed, the delay between data and clock was still tight. Either that or the signal times were so fast, they were coupling enough to override an active driver?? Rather than setting up the scope to investigate, I just tidied up the leads.