skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's so much discussion here about how H-1Bs are good or bad for cohort X or community Y.

Why does no one talk about the effects on the immigrants themselves? How much do they level up their technical and language skills? Are they able to support their families better? Are their kids now living in a less polluted environment (good for lifelong physical health) and in abundance, not scarcity (good for lifelong mental health)? How integrated are they in their local communities? How well do they form social bonds, both within their culture and across cultures? How different are they from family-based immigrants?

Surely we should care the most about the people whose lives are impacted the most?

(This is a rhetorical question, it's qwhite obvious what the reasons are.)
The $60k salary minimum hasn't changed since 1989, so it originally wasn't really unreasonable to think that only high skilled/hard to find labor would be brought in thru the visa.
There are many hyper-local issues like this where the real solution involves:

- actually wanting the problem to get solved

- finding out, at a very micro-level, how to solve it

- deploying those seemingly unscalable resources towards solving the problem

I suspect it will be more challenging to roll this out in a wider pilot and then city/state/nationwide because of bullet point #1.
I believe google has cut a deal with advertisers to ensure they can always identify incognito.
Thanks so much for this offer! I ran into the problem too on my iPad.

And Quirk is great for such a new product!
Good points. Pubs, tea houses, hookah bars, cafés, etc. serve a similar function as local gathering places in a number of cultures. It's important that you won't be pressured to leave if you don't order anything for a while.
Yep. In software its common for devs that add features to get all the praise while bug fixes get no love.
Based on what my friend (who is running a small psychology study) told me, non harmful deception is allowed so long as you explain the deception in the debriefing of your experiment. This is in the US.
Workaround for now:

1. Open the profile menu. (This is the icon in the top right, just to the left of the three vertical dots.)

2. Click "Manage people", click "Add person" (lower right).

3. Type "Darned Newspapers!" and click "Add".

4. When you get blocked, copy URL, use the profile menu to navigate to open a new "Darned Newspapers!" window, paste URL.

It's a real profile, so it should behave quite closely and should be harder to detect. Of course, unlike incognito mode, it will save your history, so be aware of that.
This is absolutely not the case. There is a difference between UI built for people with no training/experience, and those with some training/experience; see e.g. the Therac disaster for an illustration of the UI challenges of building for experienced users. On personal computers, it means attention to keyboard shortcut design, making data more prominent and well-separated visually, and labels less prominent/space-consuming.

Consumer-oriented UI is not the only UI! Users' time and commitment are not unlimited, but they are substantial when e.g. you are in the military and already need to be trained to understand the problem domain.

EDIT: A great example is the UI of the controls of a car. It's important to put commonly-used controls in ergonomic areas, follow the principle of least surprise, etc.; but it can still be built with the assumption that the user is a licensed driver and knows where the turn signal usually is, that up is left and down is right, what all the assorted symbolic labels mean, etc.
Our codebase is available under 3-clause BSD and we're usually thrilled to see sister sites: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki

The administrator of this site submitted a Bitcoin affiliate spam site to Lobsters, was one of the very few users to hit the automatic anti-spam threshhold (MIN_KARMA_TO_SUBMIT_STORIES), and abused our issue tracker to have us configure this site for him. So, uh, no, we have nothing to do with this site and are not exactly fans.
This is less than 5 hours of sleep in peacetime, though. How much sleep do you think they'd actually get with a war on?
Yes it is. Well said.
According to the spec it uses the touchscreen, or at least some touchscreens:

>On-screen detection: Touch digitizer reports the onscreen location through a capacitive pattern (Studio only)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-dial/925r551sktgn?...
If most American startups aren't able to hire American workers at competitive pay and start moving little by little to (say) Canada, aren't there a risk that the whole VC/startup ecosystem will slowly move there? If the Apple/Google/Amazon of tomorrow are Canadian, how does that serve USA or American workers?

It's a short term vs long term balance. As an American you should want US to remain dominant in the startup ecosystem. Restricting startup access to skilled workers is counter-productive in the long run, even if it serves your short-term interests.
>it's really not that complicated

After reading this I am still not sure which one to use. They seem to both work.
zzeder, I would like to thank you for posting this, because after browsing your code, I finally found the excuse I was looking for to teach myself Haskell; so far I'm not only enjoying it, but I sincerely loving it and have finally realized I should have learned FP in the first place!

For once again, thank you mate! +1
This is a letter to the editor about physics, written by someone in AI.

Why was it published?

Why are we talking about?

It also sounds kooky. Tossing around the words "Occam's razor" is not a good sign.
hmm, I like the coffee machine at the office to have touch screen. They have literally 30 types of coffees there, I prefer quick searching and selecting my stuff.

+ with touchscreen you can bookmark your specific drink with the right amount of sugar and milk and then get it every time at the touch of a button.
Ugh. Comp sci has enough Andy Rooneys already.
Fox began its remake first.
I’m no where an expert and don’t know anything but I gave it a bit of thought. It seems to me that there are two types of vehicles or two types of operations. Instrumental and visual. So if a system is operated in instrumental mode, like instrumental flight, when all the information necessary is available in the screen in front of you, it seems to me that it would be more efficient to make interactive and turn the screen into touch screen. You’re only looking at the screen after all. But when you operate something in visual mode, when you have to monitor surroundings, the controls should be knobs and buttons, ones that you know from your muscle memory and can operate without looking.

For planes that means that controls required during normal flight can be touch controls. After all on Concord and TU-144 pilots didn’t even have visual. However during departure and landing, pilots need physics buttons and switches as it is visual flight.

Another conclusion is that fighter jets can’t have any touch controls, they are supposed to be in visual all the time.
During my master's we had assigned desks and mandatory presence 4.9 days a week. Desks would switch about four times a year using a verifiably random scheme, and in addition, there would be projects that we would work on with random people, so we switched desks a lot. Each desk comes with a proper 2-screen desktop setup, so pulling out your laptop was inferior. Via PXE boot, people would regularly reinstall their system for various reasons, so it would regularly be a fresh Ubuntu install. An additional requirement was that others must still be able to work on my system without (m)any quirks.

Only a few of us used any sort of automation. Most that did chose Ansible, and all I ever heard from them was cursing on new systems and, between homework, constantly tweaking the deployment script. I'm sure the comments will say Ansible works reliably and painlessly for them, but from what I've seen, it seems to take some time to get into it if you want to setup GUI systems in detail.

What worked extremely well for me was a shell script that I grabbed from my server (wget example.com/setup.sh), ran, switched user account, ran step 2 (since it mounts the user's homedir, you don't want to do that while logged in), and then logged back into my real account. After less than 5 minutes of manual work, I had my desired software, the right desktop environment, task bar / alt tab / system tray / clock / etc. settings, and I mounted my homedir on a local server, which was fast enough to painlessly run virtual machines with GUI OSes off of it. I would be as productive and comfortable as on my private laptop after a few minutes of work in the worst case. The script took a few hours to create at first, and with a new Ubuntu release maybe another hour to make it work on the mix of old and new systems. The advantage over other people's setups was that anyone could wipe my system without a second thought (usually you'd have to ask the desk's owner, they'd want to copy files...) and others couldn't snoop through my files (at least, not opportunistically: they'd have to purposefully install a keylogger rather than just "sudo; ls /home/lucb1e") so I can jot down thoughts or save passwords in Thunderbird without worrying.

In a more common scenario (not shared systems that are regularly wiped), you'd leave out the mounting of the homedir and copy essential files instead, such as your bashrc/vimrc. Using a simple shell script is something I still recommend to manage setting up personal systems. It's what you would do anyway, except stored in a file instead of typing the commands manually. So that's what I still use today, though I don't switch systems often enough to warrant maintaining commands for GUI configuration preferences (which can be a pain to figure out how to set from the command line). My current setup script is included in my bashrc (which I copy together with a .vimrc) and mainly pulls packages. I specify which categories I want, e.g. if the system has WiFi it'll install wavemon, or if the system has a GUI it'll install wireshark and xdotool.
I apologize if this sounds naive or ill informed, but on Mac can't 'restore from time machine' do this? What am I missing?
Your other left. :)
Well this is where the law of large numbers comes into play. Flipping a coin half a dozen times is likely several points away from 50:50; randomness isn't an emergent property of a coin flip dataset until hundreds or perhaps thousands of flips later assuming a precise coin flip mechanism and fair coin. So randomness at least within this context is a function of time.
Location: Anywhere in the US
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Java, Python, Node, CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddiqui-danish/
Github: https://github.com/danish9412
Email: danish9412@gmail.com

I'm looking for a full-time position in the US. I'm an experienced Software Engineer who has worked in startups and large organizations. Extensively used Java, NodeJS, AWS, CICD, Kubernetes.
Check out my Github and LinkedIn for more reference.
Oops, I'll fix that.
>Simply engaging the former grants TFA's argument that "poisoning of information systems" is indeed what is happening with the Epstein suicide, as opposed to sensible questioning of official narratives.

Fine. Question the official narrative. But why are we allowed to do that, yet we mustn't dare to even engage with attempts to question the alternative?

Isn't is likely that both sensible skepticism and poisoning of the well are occurring?
The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant
Ah, because the electrical field loops? Just thinking of the top of my head, couldn’t this pulse? Basically capture material then shoot it out?
Personally, I all but ignore equity in a startup job offer. Experience has taught me it'll either be worth absolutely nothing or be worth the equivalent of a yearly bonus at an established company. It simply isn't a big draw.
The "TSLAQ" tag is (openly!) used by short sellers of TSLA trying to manipulate the stock price downwards.

It's surprising they do it so openly, but useful, as you can use it as an easy but reliable "this tweet is unreliable" indicator.
Nothing specific. I don't even remember when it started.

As a teenager I was high often, with the occasional fungal trip and it was never a thing.

And then somewhere in my mid-twenties, I noticed a point when I smoked too much, I started getting really down on myself, and then eventually realized it wasn't "me" but that voice.

I tried to ignore it. I tried different strains. No luck. I had one really bad episode after a delicious cherry pie made with weed butter by a chef friend while living in Seattle where I ended up on my couch for 8 hours catatonic in my self-hatred and despair.

Sometimes if I'm having a really good time with friends it won't bug me. Others, it's nearly debilitating. So I keep to 5mg or less in edibles, and only rarely. I miss it but it's not that big of a deal.

I worry more about my own mental health and if this is evidence of something more serious. I wish there were studies or something I could learn more from or partake in.
Is this a cat-and-mouse game that's worth playing for Chrome?

Browsers are so complex that I imagine incognito mode is always going to leave some kinds of statistical signatures that can be detected and exploited through merely moderate cleverness, but will be much harder to hide on Chrome's side.

Is it worth it for Chrome? Or would resources be better spent on other parts of the browser?

It's not really a privacy/security problem or anything as far as I can tell -- just a way to bypass paywalls, right? "Sites not detecting my incognito mode" never felt like part of the web's "contract" to me.
This is true. China's environmental impact is 22% lower if you exclude their exports, and many countries in Europe would have 30% higher impact if you include their imports.

Figures from the abstract - somewhat out of date but true to a lesser extent today - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851800/
Strongly pro-church agnostic here. Agreed with you. Small community churches served and in some cases still serve a vital role. Megachurches are like the KFC of the religious world.
Scene from a movie that comes to mind is the one from District 9, when they are starting the spaceship in the end. He’s totally focused on the screen, everything is happening on the screen so it totally makes sense to be a touch screen. Same goes for Star Trek, I suppose the operators don’t actually have visual on that big screen it’s just for comfort and reference.
Say Cheese: Ransomware-Ing a DSLR Camera
I can't tell whether you're being ironic or not. If you're suggesting hypocrisy for not proposing to ban those, consider their legitimate use. In restricting use of a potential weapon, you have to weigh the cost of the restriction. Restricting or banning truck rentals has a different effect on society than restricting or banning assault weapons, for example, so you approach them differently.

---------

Or for the really facetious answer, here's a nice post detailing not quite the truck ban you asked about: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-I-need-a-license-to-drive
Maybe propaganda is a beer name, as this is not really news just a twisted storyt that serves certain interests.
WWV Centennial
True!

What boggles my mind is that a seemingly large number of companies, who are priced entirely out of the market in SV, still try and compete there, rather than opening an office in Salt Lake City, Atlanta, etc.

Plenty of local talent, and the low end of the SF payscale is fiercely competitive in any of the above, largely because the cost of living is half-or-less of anything in the Bay.
Facial Recognition Traffic Robots Patrolling Handan China
Pretty important for scrapers ...
Of course we shouldn't force them to shut down, but if you told me tomorrow that McDonald's was bankrupt I wouldn't shed any tears.
I’m a bit surprised Chrome developers went the route of an in memory filesystem instead of trying to sandbox and clear real disk access. Silently using up to 120MB without realizing sounds pretty bad.
This should be an excellent amateur radio special event, Sept. 29 through October 3. Please encourage school radio clubs, in particular, to sign up for a contact. Contacts on the station used for school clubs may be longer and include a talk with NIST/WWV personnel. The four regular stations will probably have shorter contacts with a certificate available.
Hey buddy, I'm a developer, would be glad to help building that. I think it's great information and hat with great ux is useful to everyone. DM on Twitter: aleattorium
Another workaround:

Disable javascript on the newspapers' sites. They load the full article and then use JS to hide it. (They also use JS to do the incognito detection in the first place.)
There's a large difference between IBM Corporation (approval rate 92%) and IBM India Private Limited (approval rate 82%). The difference is even greater if you look only at initial approvals vs. denials (IBM India 62 vs. 60, IBM 268 vs. 3). I wonder what the cause is.
I don't consider either necessary. Clicking a link and then loading the page works just fine for the web.

Creating a custom HTML fork that puts more pressure on limited publisher dev teams to end up with another copy o the site (and now SSR) is a worse approach than placing loading speed into search results ranking and letting sites optimize the site for everyone with a browser.
Right, to sense location, not rotation. Rotation goes through Bluetooth, as with any number of existing knob controllers.
How about a bumper sticker that says, "I slow down for stop signs".
Ooh, I actually have not! Thanks!
If youtube was a Russian owned site hosting videos on US protests the US government would accuse it of 'sowing discord' and shut it down without controversy.

Now suppose Russia already has a history of meddling in US internal affairs and funding coups within the US, will Russian youtube with videos on US protests be really even allowed to operate here? Would anyone here even be making arguments about democracy, freedom and enlightenment?

There is always a kind of dissonance and double standards in these discussions. You can't let the harassment and persecution of whistle blowers like Assange, Snowden, Manning, the protestors at Standing Rock and immigrant activists and other brazen attacks on democracy go unchallenged and then claim to be 'concerned' about democracy in far off Russia or China. That is politics, not concern for values.

These values if they are to have any meaning can only apply to actions not actors, and using them to to demonize some and excuse others renders them meaningless, and in many ways this has already happened with the widespread abuse of human rights and democracy by some to achieve other objectives.
I sincerely doubt that anything is truly random, there has to be some type of cosmic drummer behind the scenes biasing certain events. Case in point is the conflict between molecular Darwinism and the numbers associated with the human genome. Approximately one billion nucleotide bases and with four different nucleotide bases in each location == 4^1,000,000,000 combinatorial explosion, a number waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay larger than 10^120 universal complexity limit, 10^80 stable elementary particles in the universe, and the generally accepted age of the universe ~10^40. The monkeys typing Hamlet thing is computationally intractable.
It is not just language. It is skin color (some are fair skinned like Europeans, some are dark skinned like Africans), food (North and South Indian food are very different), clothes, religion (which is very important in India), income levels (extreme poverty as well as extreme wealth), education (most of the country is illiterate, but there also world-class institutions such as IITs, culture (India has higher female participation in the workforce, in IT at least, that the US, yet, in certain villages there is "honor killings" and so on.) Yes, India is absolutely the most diverse country in the world, and it is many times more diverse than the US.
Haha yeah ive had work visas in both ca and the us. Ca is much more straightforward. It’s not easy, but it’s not riddled with hostile confusing BS like the US process is
Solution: 'old man pub'. Might have to go to Ireland or the UK to find it though.
I was going to add a link to normalization of deviance [1] here, but there is a list of related concepts on the page:

Boiling frog
Camel's nose
Gaslighting
Defeat in detail
"First they came ..."
Foot-in-the-door technique
Moving the goalposts
Normalisation of deviance
Overton window
''Principiis obsta''
Salami tactics
Shifting baseline
Slippery slope
Technological change as a social process
Tyranny of small decisions
Change blindness

[1] https://danluu.com/wat/
>Neural nets are infamously incapable of generalising beyond their training dataset

In what sense? DNNs can certainly generalize to examples outside the training set. I agree that you get no guarantees on performance for samples drawn from a distribution that is different than the training/test set. Not having guaranteed expected performance isn't the same as "incapable" of generalizing to a new distribution.
User Guides
You’ve described myself from early teenager to adult perfectly. What you wrote fully resonates with me. Take care of yourself.
Eyesight on my Subaru would fail as well. Manual basically says “if you can’t see, that thing can’t see as well”. It uses two cameras after all as well.
I work as a bike mechanic at one of the largest Specialized dealers in the US. A couple of times a week we have people that come in with bikes they bought from direct to consumer brands and attempted to assemble themselves. People regularly make serious errors when they assemble a bike themselves, and they're often dangerous and sometimes expensive to fix. Unless you're 100% confident in your bike mechanic skills, you'll likely spend all of the money you save buying online at your local bike shop to have them fix your own mistakes.
That is not my experience, nor the experience of most startups in sfbay.

For instance: only a fool would think that a $500k equity package, based on eg a 409a evaluation, is anything like a $500k equity grant at a FAANG. Because the latter is cash and the former is lottery tickets.
My method is to turn the knob back to when it stops moving and then it is now in a known state and I know how many clicks each setting is away.
Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation (1990–2010)
Currency War with China: 1934 and 2019
The False Consensus Effect: Why People Assume That Everyone Agrees with Them
Something like that: https://consumerist.com/2017/10/30/please-pardon-the-interru...
That's not what I was trying to get at. For even a single coin flip, we still need a language to talk about the situation when you and I can't predict it. If I flipped a hypothetical coin that poofs out of existence after a single flip (or more generally single-time events like elections or poker games) the usual probability language applies. No law of large numbers necessary.
We're holding China to the same standards as a small start up trying to prove itself these days? ok then.
this isn't true. given a chaotic system with enough degrees of freedom (even a deterministic) there is no computer powerful enough.
All of those networks run through Google's ad infrastructure and is allowed and encouraged by Google's ad policies. Publishers have the least control over the ads that run.
Sure, don't offer a poor equity package - but a startup cannot guarantee that their options will ever be worth much, while those FANG RSUs are basically cash. Unless you’re a founder, equity is a scarce resource which needs to be used to make good hires over a large number of years - it’s a zero-sum game. Offer too much equity to early hires and you’ll have a hard time attracting late hires - which may ultimately harm the engineering capability of your company when growth starts happening.