skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agreed. As I look back at my reddit usage over the years is that reddit provides a structured view into shifting social sentiment. Any sufficiently massive, long-lived, and topically comprehensive discussion community will give you the same thing, but I have yet to find one that gives as much of an overall view into what everyone else is thinking than does reddit, mostly for the simple fact that you are shown all the content by default.

I know that it inadvertently helped me learn a lot about what factors can make people feel the way they do and behave the way they do. As I follow juicy comment threads and such, I also see this happening for others. That is indeed cool as fuck.
Micromastery, Allowing Ourselves to Start
> Unfortunately, it comes with some dangers...nicotine.

The days of hookah bars in many locations are probably numbered, since public health is focusing on gradually reducing tobacco use to zero. For the time being hookah tobacco might still be sold for someone to use in the privacy of their own home, but forbidding smoking hookahs in public spaces is a simple and effective step that the authorities can take.
It is, and your monitor probably supports it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel

https://clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/
> Every country in the western world and Asia set up a war on drugs too.

Most modern drug policies that are adopted outside the US were adopted due to pressure from the US or the UN (which is basically the US)
"a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection."
Why should anyone put their trust in what corporation say? They're an entity whose sole existence is to generate profit from employee labor. Not to mention Apple has a 99% approval rate for h1b apps.
He is looking at carbon efficiency - emissions divided by GDP. On top of that, he's looking at the change in efficiency rather than the actual efficiency, thus he can boast that the US is increasingly efficient, instead of noting it is already very inefficient.

Of course, the planet is based on physics and doesn't understand GDP, so this is all in a wider sense irrelevant.
They can but not when they publicly declare that they are fair to all users when in fact they make their policies after a political agenda. Much has been uncovered by whistleblowers from big tech companies.
To me this article feels like someone working really hard to find an objection to something (may or may not be true, but it feels that way to me).

The first line of the article's conclusion is "Homoiconicity is a term surrounded by much confusion." I simply do not agree with this assertion.

I was introduced to the term many years ago, and I have have read it in numerous contexts, and the meaning has been quite clear in every context I can recall.

I also will keep using it the way I am now, since I see absolutely no reason to stop.
Maybe there are network effects at play which make it difficult to do what you suggest?
Arab Spring was more about dignity and oppression Arabs felt with weak government that can't ensure basic rights for its citizens, let alone many treating the people like cattle. Food was part of that but not the main issue.

Take Syria for example, after initial protests government raised salaries but lack of food wasn't what brought people together in the first place so protests grew into full revolution then an armed rebellion continued till now.

Look at Egypt, now it's way way worse than Mubarak's era. Yet they are not revolting for a reason.

In Algeria, they felt humiliated by having such a disabled president that can't even speak.

Think about Bahrain too, a rich gulf state that witnessed massive protests.

Also not taking into account that people of different sectors of the societies took part in different parts of the revolutions, protesting or fighting, whether poor barely make a living or rich got back from overseas to make history for its home country, is very insulting to their sacrifices, and results in a very shallow and simplified view of how Arabs think.
This advice is for healthy people who are already self conscious enough to question their actions by reason. If someone is smoking weed and gets on the edge of schizo, he should probably stop smoking first and get his life in order. If someone is on edge of schizo for other reasons, he also has more important things to care for.

When someone has hers life in order, she can go with next step which is tweaking inner dialogue.
This is such a sad phenomena and it's really accelerated in recent decades. What it means to be an American Evangelical has also radically changed over the years- for example, 100 years ago, the Southern Baptists were very vocal, activists even about preserving the bounds between Church and State. It was the official Southern Baptist position that not intermingling Church and State was critical to a functioning society, that when the two intermingle it inevitably corrupts both (which has been shown to be true, if the last 50 years have taught us anything). I bet many/most Southern Baptists today believe the opposite, and might not even believe that their denomination has done a 180 on this in recent years.

In America at least, the trend has had the effect of minimizing the positive effects of religion on society, while maximizing the irrational, corrosive, and divisive effects. It's like the worst of all possible worlds. I blame politicians for catering to the worst instincts of religiously-motivated voters, and I blame religious voters for allowing their politics to corrupt their own spirituality. As a result, you see these Evangelical megachurch pastors preaching beliefs that are in blatant, obvious, direct opposition to the clearest and least ambiguous words of Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, for example. His observations on the Pharisees have never been more relevant.
Simple Maslow is all this is.
Did Only 1.4 Percent of White Americans Own Slaves in 1860?
Big companies and startups look good by supporting expanded foreign worker programs. It makes them look progressive. It also lowers their costs to have more qualified workers around.

But actually I know many local (US citizen) Silicon Valley programmers who don’t support those programs. They know that more workers means lower salaries for everyone.
Because said corporations can move the same high paying jobs to Canada or India. Especially easier in these days where big companies are becoming more comfortable with people working from home and fully remote work. So instead of taxes and consumption happening in the USA, all that money will go offshore. Citizens' jobs will be affected too when new teams are set up offshore with people already up to speed on internal knowledge of IT systems.

When they are already set up offshore and they look for new hires, do you think they will hire first in SV/NYC or in their Canada/India offices? Same with layoff preferences, they would prefer to lay off people in the more expensive location. And maybe hire someone new in the cheaper location.

This will affect a lot of non-tech local jobs both at the company like HR and cafeteria, and jobs in the local economy.

>Not to mention Apple has a 99% approval rate for h1b apps

Then why do you think Tim Cook personally signed this letter?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/brt.org/archive/letters/Immigration...

It isn't just about approval rates, it's about being able attract the best foreign talent, people being stuck in green card queue for a decade+ with no end in sight, not getting visas in consulates etc.
> If you’ve completed a math degree or some other degree that provides an emphasis on quantitative skills, you’re probably wondering if everything you learned to get your degree was necessary.

It should be emphasized that obtaining a degree in a subject like math and physics should "form" your way of thinking in a certain way: That you are able to apply methods to other fields, such as data science. That's way more important then remembering "everything you learned". You might never do a Fourier transformation by hand again, but you know the concept. And you can apply it.
>But then you're saying that you think that companies like Google are morally equipped to be able to determine this law better than states would

I don't think it's outrageous at all to think Google's determinations are more reasonable than those of Russia.

It's only when you start smudge out Russia, pluralizing it into "states" generally, that it becomes a harder question. And I personally think this move blurs the focus of conversation, and degrades it. As jayd16 and other commenters are pointing out, this conversation is getting muddied with slippery-slopeism.
Wasn’t rich countries also forcefully deprived the wealth of the developing countries before the inception the great development?
You have no reason to hire non-Americans there are so many competent and skilled people. Instead of going through all the paperwork try training a local person. This helps the local community tremendously. This reminds me of a story involving IBM. They are notorious for bringing in lots of people with H-1B. I was volunteering to teach underprivileged youths how to use a computer. IBM donated 500 gaming computers to the children. I was thinking about how instead of donating all these computers, they should hire from the community and train the employees. That would have a much greater impact on the community than donating some disposable computers.

Not only that, but H-1B destroys communities. I'm from a small town that was nearly 100% white, it's now less than 50% white and is mostly Indian/Asian. Most came in through Infosys, IBM, Credit Suisse, etc. The result is the community my ancestors have been in for hundreds of years is destroyed. I know people will say that this is what happened to the Native Americans, and how I'm a racist white man for saying it's bad. I still can't help feel sad since people in my family died fighting for the soil from 1780 to as recently as 2007. Just because population replacement happened in the past doesn't make it right now.
Then let’s just give green cards to everyone who’s been on one for more than day, two years. The consulting shops will die quickly if you do this.
Great discussion on non-manual options. However, the most sound solution is to fix the hands. The most common problems relate to tightness, which will manifest as pain, numbness or weakness. The solutions lie in the yoga-taichi-chigong type of pursuits. The common denominator being mindful breathing in conjunction with lengthening maneuvers, expanding on the exhales, maintaining on the inhales. Our hands are healthier when we use them, witness the rapid decline with casting or other immobilization. So the answer to tightness, whether from fatigue or other factors, is deep breathing & lengthening.
I've always thought that the current salary requirement (min 60k) was a poor way to go about implementing H1B. Companies want H1B visas, workers want to make sure that their jobs are not displaced.

As such, they should make the salary requiement something like twice the rate of whichever is greater: market rate for the role, the highest salary paid to any non-H1B employee at that company in the same role.

At that point, you can relax (not remove) the H1B cap, because it makes it cheaper to hire locals, so companies will only seek out H1Bs when there really are talent shortages.
Yes. All their returns come from 1-3 companies, while the other 40 board seats are a headache (founder squabbles, helping to hire a VP of Sales, etc)

I’ve been in a VC fund for 10 years and literally all the returns are from three companies, the others make no difference whether they zero out for return 3x
Another reason why I tend to use the phrase "applied ecology" rather than Permaculture.

I'm sure if we tried we could find ways to distinguish between what various people mean when they talk about "regenerative agriculture" or "Permaculture", but would it be a profitable use of our time?
On the Power of Admitting Flaws
I think another attribute of this is education and being aware that there is slightly more to life than just the pursuit of money. Sure, people with means fall for this all the time, but I think poor people also commonly enter the same trap. Note that a pursuit of saving face and appearing rich is entirely different than the pursuit of wealth - but a pursuit of money could take either path.

For instance, understanding why burning down a rain-forest to make $100 might not be worthwhile, akin to uber drivers endangering drivers and pedestrians to make $15.

Sometimes developed western countries seem to have sympathy for people who are willing to deforest African nations (whom are also usually helpless to act against these transgressions) and poach endangered animals (an obvious heinous act) and oddly sometimes progressives will state that it's less-bad because they're poor / uneducated...
US Navy ditches touchscreens for knobs and dials after fatal crash
Have you ever hired in tech ? Good engineers are hard to find, that’s the reason companies pay for their stuff and family to move across the world.
How I bypassed my schools security system to get root on my school MacBook
This would require people to think and be responsible, so it will never happen.
I don’t dislike this challenge, and I don’t dislike code golf. What I don’t understand is the notion that compressing a 100MB Wikipedia file somehow requires an “intelligent” compression algorithm. If the challenge was to be able to compress any English text down to a certain ratio, then perhaps making the algorithm behave “intelligently” would be a requirement. But as far as I can tell, this challenge is asking for a lossless reproduction of one specific chunk of data, so it seems to me that we just have to hope that, on a given platform, there exists a 15MB executable that outputs that exact chunk of data. One might exist, but one might not. And you probably won’t even be able to prove the latter, because of the halting problem (technically it doesn’t apply with a computer with finite memory, but in practice no one will wait long enough).
> that is not how human nature works.

Please add should, this should not be how human nature works.

Also, one capitalist cannot on the one hand free will is the key for prosperity, and at he same time ask others to think beyond others’ basic life needs while suffering.
Then hire Americans. Happy to see they are making the process so inconvenient that you won't hire from outside just to save money.
I am trying to find a table of the number of H1B visas awarded. The best thing I can find is [1]. It doesn't show enough years of the Trump presidency to be useful, and the 2017 number is incomplete because the report was published before year end in 2017. Other than the fact that visa awards significantly increased from 2015 to 2016, the chart doesn't show what we're looking for.

If anyone can volunteer a better source that would be much appreciated.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...
Toyota Electric Vehicles: Where Are They?
An important caveat for Psychology studies is to ask, "If the participants are told exactly what is being measured, do the results stay the same?" If the answer is "No" you should question the validity of the study.

Here for example, if you tell people that "intellectual humility; taking the perspective of others; recognising uncertainty; and having the capacity to search for a compromise." all lead to "emotional wellbeing, and relationship satisfaction" just prior to taking the test, would that effect size be similar to intentionally omitting that information and having people journal for four weeks?

As far as I can tell there was no informed control cohort in this study.
Tesla has miserable margins, by Apple's standards.
Interview with Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai) and Alexandr Wang (Scale AI)
Stop. Seriously stop. Don’t type thru the pain — you’ll do serious and permanent damage. I did that in lectures on an Apple Newton keyboard, and my hands never were the same since.

Install AntiRSI or workrave, and take breaks. But really pay attention and when your body gives out don’t take the chance. No feature or deadline is worth it. Probably even an hour break is enough to finish that feature.
First step: stop using a nuclear warhead to kill a wolf. The only worst thing to do would be to destroy humanity, so child pornography will be permanently dealt with.
Organic, GMO, dsRNA or whatever, pesticides are overused and modern production systems are the problem. Typical modern farming kills the soil and everything on it. Pesticides just speed it up, directly and as an enabler.

As an example without soap, a friend has a garden. Call it holistic, permaculture or whatever. The same plants grow twice as big in his garden compared to neighbor's, because he tends to the plants, the soil and the garden using modern knowledge. No spraying. Lots of mulch, diversity, planning...
A classic problem with end-to-end encryption backdoors is that most of the time there is no benefit to users or software vendors to offset the cost and risks they must take on to provide law enforcement access. I can think of just one exception, which is identity based encryption, which allows e.g. email addresses to be used as public keys. IBE requires a master secret key that is used to generate the private keys associated with each user's ID, and therefore has an inherent backdoor, but at least the users can benefit from the reduced complexity of key management.

For the most part backdoors require some kind of central coordination, so there are situations where it is basically impossible to support one. HTTPS is a good example: anyone can run a web server and there is no permission or coordination needed to do so, and so HTTPS backdoors would be difficult to create (otherwise I cannot run my web server without coordinating with whatever authority controls the backdoor, or I cannot run a secure web server without such coordination). That is what the conversation is really about: whether or not we are willing to sacrifice the most useful and valuable aspects of the Internet's design (distributed, loosely coordinated, no-permission-needed), or do without security and hope for the best, for the sake of a law enforcement backdoor.
For the sake of all the great skilled people from India who have been on H1B for decades, Congress really need to fix the green card attribution problem: there’s no reason why a person born in India has to wait 10 years to get a green card when a French person can have one in 18-36 months.
The point of the challenge is to actually create a model that fits in 15MB together with its compressed data. Not just to prove its existence.

One of the best contenders is the open source cmix which, among other tricks, uses LSTM neural networks to predict the next character/bit: http://www.byronknoll.com/cmix.html
Readability is more important than your ego.
Food for thought: Had your family stayed loyal to the crown you’d have been protected by British labor laws which would have “preserved” the homogeneity of your community.
Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (2006)
> Companies don't pull me over while I'm driving.

They very well could pull you over, revoke your license, and forbid you from driving.... If you were driving on their land or driving their car. They have to provide no justification for these actions either. They can reassign you to do something else or simply lay you off with a short notice.

> Companies don't put me in prison. Companies don't extort me under threat of violence. Companies don't enslave me.

Companies can put you in prison using the state. Companies can and do extort workers on certain terms like withholding paychecks and so on. Companies absolutely enslave people by for instance telling them a myriad of ways in which they can and can not conduct their lives.

Her argument is that companies are communist dictatorships and they are all communist dictatorships, so you can not escape their control no matter who you are working for. Considering that you spend most of your life under control of such governments either one or another, these governments determine most of your life.

And I would say indoctrination to such governments starts with schooling which teaches you to obey and not question such governments.

> Imagine a government that assigns almost everyone a superior whom they must obey. Although superiors give most inferiors a routine to follow, there is no rule of law. Orders may be arbitrary and can change any time, without prior notice or opportunity to appeal. Superiors are unaccountable to those they order around. They are neither elected nor removable by their inferiors. Inferiors have no right to complain in court . . . except in a few narrowly defined cases . . . The most highly ranked individual takes no orders but issues many. The lowest-ranked may have their bodily movements and speech minutely regulated for most of the day . . . This government does not recognize a personal or private sphere of autonomy free from sanction. It may prescribe a dress code and forbid certain hairstyles. Everyone lives under surveillance . . . Suspicious searches of their bodies and personal effects may be routine . . . The government may dictate the language spoken . . . It may forbid certain topics of discussion. People can be sanctioned for their consensual sexual activity or for their choice of spouse . . . They can be sanctioned for their political activity and required to engage in political activity they do not agree with.

> The economic system of the society run by this government is communist. The government owns all the nonlabor means of production in the society it governs . . . The vast majority have no realistic option but to try to immigrate to another communist dictatorship . . . (37-38)
Do the same thing you do for other illegal things: throw the law at the people hosting them, and if those people are international, use good ole diplomatic levers to get the countries in question to shut them down.

Look, child pornography is deeply troubling, but so are lots of other things in life that people don't call for mandatory, obtrusive government censorship to prevent. The mandatory DNS blocking to prevent child porn is not particularly effective. In non-technical terms, DNS blocking is effectively the same as taking down the sign on the front door: it doesn't prevent anyone from getting to it, if they know where to look, and even people who might trap unwitting visitors into traveling to these sites can still do so (you can use IP addresses in lieu of domain names in links).

Indeed, if you know the DNS addresses of places to avoid, you actually know enough information to take more proactive action: for example, you could mandate that the IP addresses these sites use (or even the ISPs who host them!) are made to be unreachable, which would make it much, much more difficult to actually access these sites. Blocking only the DNS address is pretty much doing the barest minimum to look like you're tackling the problem.
Incompetence is probably the simplest, followed by “this guy is a piece of shit. I don’t care if he kills himself.”
Yeah I have, I started my own company about a year ago. I hired my first employee 2 months ago. Edit: Go ahead and down vote me, can't change the truth!
This is also called the Environmental Kuznets Curve (1991) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_Ku... .

There's a lot of criticism in the literature. The statistics rarely live up to the theory at face value. (https://steadystate.org/wp-content/uploads/Stern_KuznetsCurv...). And often, new pollutants emerge in rich countries as others decline.

For example, in the USA, water pollutants targeted by the Clean Water Act (1972) have declined, but new pollutants have emerged which aren't measured or managed by the policy. Recent years have seen an explosion in estrogen hormones that turn male fish to hermaphrodites that lay eggs, coming from unchecked fertilizer runoff and birth control sewage. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/02/160203-femin...
It can change, though if it is obviously a country club your investors may not reinvest in your next thing.