skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think search engine is not a bad idea, but a researchable database (for example MySQL) whould be better

Here is an example for spreadsheets, but I think spreadsheets is easy, because there are some solutions like MySQL workbench.

https://search.equityfront.com/

But for PDFs which has unstructured and semi-structured data and vectors, it's hard to find a good solution to extrac/convert them into MySQL
It’s a relatively labor-intensive intervention.

But it worked.

It was a high-touch intervention, but one with amazing results.

Social issues need social solutions. Money may be needed to make it happen, but merely throwing money at the problem typically doesn't work. Tech can do a lot of good things, but tech solutions for social issues often fail.

People problems are generally solved by the right kind of human involvement.

The program doesn’t quite pay for itself by increasing future tax revenue, Hendren says — but it comes pretty close.

I wonder how those figures look if you also include savings on future welfare programs and even incarceration.
Journos' debunker mentality: Rush to rip Epstein conspiracy talk
Please don't do personal attacks on HN. It only degrades this place, regardless of how right you are or feel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know how to respond to this. It makes no sense to me, so I'll agree to disagree.
Even if they do both, if the bots always follow what is entered in robots.txt and humans do not, it won’t be long before that’s the primary factor.
Personally, I don't like DrvOps, either. I think it does a disservice to both devs and ops.

At current job, its kind of frustrating in that ee act as if we're doing dev ops, but as a dev, when a (my) job fails, ops doesn't trust me to either abort or restart the job.

So we've got all the buzzwords, none of the benefit.

Typical support call: ops calls me with the failed job. I log in, take a look see; tell them to download a file and restart a job. Whole lot takes an hour because I dont have permissions in prod to do anything but look at the log. Take that definition of devops and whove it up your ass.

I do recognize its not like this everywhere, but thays how it is at my current company, and they want to call it dev ops. More like roadblock he'll.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't post like this again. Your comment would be just fine without the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For H1Bs from China or India, you’re gonna wait up to 20 years for that.
I feel like this is a reference to ‘Arrested Development.’
I just visited the page again. The error above (missing semi-colon) has now been fixed.
What's the ethical concern of free-range?

Also, the report you cited was the (conventional) egg industry researching itself, not an independent study.
That’s the thing it doesn’t stop. It’s just a rotary dial with the lightest detents I’ve ever felt. You just spin it and it’s a circular buffer through every setting.
This map might make it easier to see.

http://demographics.virginia.edu/DotMap/
I would guess the route you outlined is the typical route for Canadians, but one can go from TN -> GC.
I actually misread the title to be this, and thought of all the Yoda-esque 'wise people' who do this in popular media. I think the actual post is much more interesting, though.
I think the time has come for someone to make a browser that treats websites as adversaries. Feed bad data to the website, intentionally and all the time. Tell them I clicked on their ads, tell them they can access my webcam but feed it static, feed randomized location info, tell sites that notifications are enabled but never show them, direct their cookies straight to the recycle bin etc.
Hmm, this is a very interesting line of argument: I am very much focused on electrostatic reasoning here, and I haven't given significant thought to frames of reference at all. My instinct is still that it won't change my overall conclusions here, but I'd love to be proven wrong: that would be pretty cool.

For what it's worth, gravitational slingshots (like everything else) have to conserve total momentum in any frame: (e.g.) when Voyager speeds up, Jupiter must correspondingly slow down (though Jupiter's change would be nearly zero, of course). The CM frame is certainly very handy for "elastic collision" calculations like this, but the laws of physics (like momentum conservation) can't care what frame you're in.

But that by itself doesn't say anything about whether the changes in motion of these charged objects might change the potential reasoning. Hmm... honestly, it's late at night and I don't think I have time to really sort through this in detail. (I tried to sketch an argument for the simple case of circular parallel plates with all motion limited to be along their central axis. The electric field parallel to the relative motion of the primed frame should be unchanged, but I just don't have the time to sort out how to reconcile that with the inevitable Lorentz contraction of positions along that axis. Glancing at tables of field transformations, it looks like charge density and potential should both be increased by a factor of gamma while distances along the axis are reduced by the same factor: that should mean that the integrals to find potential come out the same, at least for the cases that I've used in my argument. But there are some nagging details bugging me about it: I think they'll sort themselves out, but if you or your wife or someone else can use this reasoning to change the result, that would be neat to see.) (Also, I'm completely ignoring any effects of radiation due to accelerated charges in this story. I haven't seen anyone say that's relevant and my impression is that the calculations used in the original paper are based on much more basic physics, and I'd be shocked if somehow radiating away energy wound up being the secret to making this work. But again, if someone does a more detailed calculation and discovers that radiation really does make it work, that would be fascinating.)
Pinker is an over-the-top neoliberal who specializes in motivated reasoning.
> Hendren estimates that the lifetime benefit to a newborn child of moving from a low- to high-opportunity neighborhood is about $210,000 in additional income, or an 8.1 percent increase in lifetime earnings. Compare that to the $2,700 cost of counseling, and an additional $2,500 to $3,000 more per year per family that Section 8 paid due to higher rent in their new neighborhoods, and it looks like a pretty exceptional deal. The program doesn’t quite pay for itself by increasing future tax revenue, Hendren says — but it comes pretty close.

This logic assumes that none of this benefit is positional. The family moves to a richer area, the kids do well in the fancy local schools, get into top colleges, make lots of money, etc, yes. But a lot of these opportunities look like "each year we take the best N people we can", so there are probably other (less qualified) kids who do slightly worse than they would without the move.

As an analogy, if being in the tallest 5% of society makes you earn $100k more, we would expect a randomized controlled trial on increasing children's heights to have a large positive effect on income. But if we then rolled that out to the whole society those benefits would turn out to be illusory.

This is still valuable from a perspective of reducing segregation and inequality, but I'm skeptical of its presentation as an extremely good deal economically.
I think it actually perfectly describes what he was trying to communicate, and I've seen this construction a few times before. He's saying that he had to think of himself as a third party and consider the wellbeing of 'that person' in order to make a rational decision... sort of a corollary to the article's point.
Unless you're self employed you can't just go an open a 401k yourself, your employer must offer one. You don't get to shop around for lower fees, better customer service, or better investment options - you must use the plan and investment options they give you.

They may change it at any time.

You can only do what you want with your money after you leave your job.

You also can only contribute earned income to tax advantaged retirement accounts, not unearned income.
Deception in various forms was incredibly common in U.S. studies when I was majoring in psych. Even if you didn't say anything like "We're studying weight loss" when actually you were studying anxiety, you might just not talk much about what the study is about while including tasks that lead people to naturally think the study is about X when really it's about Y.
Agreed - I wish they were making it easier on the legit direct hire folks, and much much harder on these third party placers.

The problem is, the third party placers are playing a numbers game. No individual is critical in their H1B apps, they just need to have 22% approved so they can fill their body slots.

The smaller legit direct hire firm has often invested a lot in a potential H1B usually after really trying very hard to get non visa folks in. The denials there are brutal.
I have started giving websites a one-strike rule for javascript. If you pop up a paywall, a modal, an autoplay video, or anything else that distracts me, you permanently lose js execution privileges on my browser.

The world would be a better place if developers knew that they can’t count on javascript.
I don't like this since I prefer using adjective for conversions/casts, i.e. I'd like (int x) to mean "x considered as integer". If you mix the two conventions (like you seem to suggest with your last paragraph) then it just becomes ambiguous.
Terraform with Multiple Workspaces and Environments
Nope. You can apply for a Green Card when on a TN visa. One of my coworkers is doing so right now.

https://legalservicesincorporated.com/can-i-apply-for-a-gree...
What's the difference between second person singular and plural? I thought they were both "you"?

I find I tend to slip between first person singular and plural depending on what I'm doing. In particular, I always comment my code in first person plural because it's a conversation I'm having with whoever reads the code.
Crypto cares a lot about unbiased randomness. X bits of entropy is kind of a measurement of this.

Anyway, I suggest you reread the end of that paragraph:

“A counting argument is used to show that, for any universal computer, there is at least one algorithmically random string of each length. Whether any particular string is random, however, depends on the specific universal computer that is chosen.”

Kolmogorov complexity is really referring to the fact you can’t have lossless compression of arbitrary bit strings. You can’t encode every possible N+1 bit string using an N bit string. The computer chosen can make an arbitrary 1:1 mapping for any input though. So, it’s got nothing to do with randomness in the context of coin flipping as the mapping is predefined.

Just remember, you’re choosing the computer and at that point any input can be mapped to any output. But, after that point limits show up.
> In order to detect it you'd need to know the glass's surface temperature ideally in the middle (away from the car's body) and also know the interior temperature

Or, perhaps more simply, have an optical sensor that detects and reacts to the fogging itself sooner than a human would.
Isn't this what Project Soli [0] was trying to achieve.

[0]https://atap.google.com/soli/
Apple knows about Susan Kare’s work and its history with the font.
You weren’t even talking about that.

The person you responded to wrote:

> custom control board with specialized buttons and keyboard

So we weren’t even talking about keyboard shortcuts in the ctrl-c sense, but that the specific action has a specific button.

How, indeed, could that have been a surprise.

Here’s a my stupid story:

On the laser cutter I operate there as no way to tell the machine “the stock / remnant / offcut I want to cut the parts from is located at x,y”.

The machine has a touch screen display which shows the cutting heads current location. So you put it in manual mode, drive the cutting head in to the start position as per your materials location, then type the coordinates it displays as a graphic in to two fields in a dialogue box.

There’s no button on the machine or touch screen to automate that.

This is why I think UX professionals will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Thankfully I’m aware of AutoHotKey, and Capture2Text, so I wrote a script to turn a keyboard shortcut in to a series of mousse movements, clicks, and OCR, to take the graphic display if numbers and turn them in to strings of numbers.

I still can’t believe there hasn’t been a software update to implement a feature I can build in to a compiled .exe that lotteralky took me 45 minutes to build from aware-the-tools-exist to implementation.

Someone give me a billion dollars already. I’m clearly a genius.
I also have a kensington, and it’s easy to hold down the left click and move around the cursor.
exactly my thoughts. who would have thought that actually caring about people and showing them kindness would make a difference?
Again and irrespective of how much genome information was there initially and what it eventually became, you are still talking about a final optimization problem of 4^1,000,000,000. Even one tenth of that amount of the human genome is an unfathomably large number to randomly iterate to given the generally accepted statistics cited above. The math behind stochastic molecular Darwinism doesn't work out at all.
> Out of curiosity, will this one incident at all change how you charge, park, or otherwise treat your vehicle?

I don't park in my garage, but I do back it close to the garage due the neighborhood kids playing street hockey; however as it is gas powered, I really don't feel it is an issue.
I don't get this either. You are on point.

Giving out data to someone other than the data subject is a data breach.

If you can't identify the subject positively you don't give out the data.

You document this - it is not like you get an instant fine without anybody asking you about what was going on.

This is not YouTube or PayPal or Twitter banning your account without a chance to talk to someone. Before you get a fine someone will talk to you. If you get a fine you can appeal. It is not instant 4% of you income decucdet automatically from you account.
Exactly.
Each app should have it's own directory. It shouldn't pollute outside. Problem solved.

Ballmer thought differently. Or most likely didn't think at all.
The 2010-ish model Jeeps had a habit of doing exactly that. Here's a video showing a bunch of similar catastrophic fires in Jeep Wranglers occurring without any sort of collision. And of course Chrysler's special investigators almost always just hand waved away the defects as not their problem and not a defect with the vehicle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEaC9xcYhE

Vehicle fires unrelated to a crash are not unheard of for traditional gas powered cars.
How does moving high paying jobs from Canada to Canada while being done by the same people reduce wages in Canada?

If anything it will greatly help the local economy, and increases tax revenue for local, province and federal govts.

>If offshoring worked well, even with H-1Bs being allowed, companies would already prefer keeping Indian employees there with lower salary and COL, but they don't

What makes you think they don't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_India

Headcount is 6500.

It can just be expanded to include more jobs if it keeps getting harder and more expensive to hire in the US.

Brain drain from India to US currently hinders it, but if the rules keep getting tougher, retaining talent in India or attracting them to Canada becomes easier.

Remember when lots of people thought high quality cars couldn't be made in Japan or South Korea?

Regarding Canada becoming a hub for offshore workers, back in 2007:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2663608/microsoft-vancouve...

A couple of years ago:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/trumps-immig...

2018: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/microsoft-might-be-forced-to...

>I also have a hard time believing fully remote work will ever be more than a niche thing. Shared context and serendipitous discussion of ideas are so important.

Isn't GitLab 100% remote?

I think Github has like 60% of people remote as well.

Also, the Linux kernel has been developed with people being fully remote for the most part.
>there's a salty purist like you listing buzzwords from casella and berger in every threa

That cracked me up lol. I was hired as a data science at big tech with only some high level data science skills. I first learned to write productuon quality code. I then (and now) am working through Casella Berger, I'm 1/3 through. It's hard! I've had to stop and brush up on math a lot.
I love learning theoretical stats, I feel it makes me a better data scientist. But I also know I've worked with phd data scienctists who worked through all of C&B but couldn't code, and they weren't as valuable as the more self-taught code-first data scientists (at least on my team).
Segregation happens naturally as well. In Singapore after few race violence instances government made it mandarory for all government provided housing have a similar make up as the population in general.
This feels like it was written by someone who’s only knowledge about history comes from Howard Zinn books.

Unions haven’t fallen out of favor because of evil powerful people, they fell out of favor because they ultimately hurt employees more than they help them
> Derivative contracts like perpetual futures are inherently better than old-school futures.

Can you elaborate on this? Physically settled futures are important to producers and consumers of commodities. I can imagine that replacing these with a cash settled contract might increase spot volatility.
I get the idea (and wish) of having a unified system for this kind of stuff. But it's very hard to accomplish so many tasks in one application and maintaining it. It may get the job done, but feels very inferior to separate, established tools. But that's just me.

Neat project nonetheless!
That is interesting, though it seems pretty tenuous. When I started down the path to a GC, TNs we’re indeed 1 year and H1Bs were under quota, so different conditions.
How is a perpetual futures contract inherently better than "old-school futures"? It is my understanding what cyrpto calls a perpetual future _isn't_ a future which makes them difficult to compare. I'm reading this comment as if perpetual futures are going to replace our current futures system somehow, and I don't see this possibility.

Don't we have 24/7 trading without the block chain? And low fees?

It appears all the many of these benefits you mention are for those just transacting in a crypto currency, and not for the other 99% of finance transacting in other currencies (and physical goods).
it shouldn't be more challenging if each locality addresses this problem on their own on the local level.

the problem with doing a nationwide campain is that they tend to be pushed from above with a one size fits all approach: if it worked in seattle, then it must work in miami. but really, each locality needs to approach this on their own and find a locally appropriate way to solve it.

as you say finding out, at a very micro-level, how to solve it
My best friend is full blown concert pianist, who graduated from Yale, finishing her PhD in one of the most prestigious conservatories in US. She performs internationally with orchestras : Japan, Europe, Asia. Has CD recordings, won number of international competitions. Recently, she played Rachmaninoff piano concerto with orchestra in VA/DC area. Guess what ? She is struggling to get any documents to stay here permanently.
And here, I'm sitting in Fortune x0 company, filled with unqualified HB-1 software engineers, who produce trashy code and don't care about quality of their work, because in x-Months, they will be out or replaced.

HB-1 was made for people like my friend - a highly qualified PhD and not cheap contractors shipped in packs from overseas. I'm kind of glad that this racket is being closed for good.
> because you’re doing something the whole time."

Exactly, while the elapsed time might not be much different there is less context switching so it's easier to stay in flow state.
Cool. I was just reacting to the fact that you highlighted merge joins in parallel queries with a partial plan on the outer side only, which was a new feature back in 2017 when 10 came out (and was already supported for hash joins and nested loops since 9.6), without mentioning that in 2018 when 11 came out we got parallel hash joins that can use a partial plan on both sides of the join.
Well they're related. There is a slightly circular argument that, since it's impossible to determine for sure what the Kolmogorov entropy of a sequence is, the only way to generate a long sequence with high Kolmogorov entropy with high probability would be to use truly random numbers. Any pseudorandom shortcut has by definition lower Kolmogorov entropy as long as the generating program is shorter than the sequence.
Your argument is essentially the anthropic principle, the entire "we are here because we are here" thing. Even the Second Law of Thermodynamics counters stochastic evolutionary strategies, the math behind non deterministic molecular Darwinism is simply not possible given the youth of the universe.
Dungeon Master Skills You Can Bring to Work #1 – Viewpoint Inclusion
Answering 'what is the best business model in this case' is impossible without knowing:

- what problem you're aiming to solve

- who cares about having that problem solved (e.g. because they can make more money and/or save a lot of money)

If you haven't already, I suggest you go and talk to the people you expect to pay for your software. They will be able to tell you the answers to some of your existing questions.

You should also talk with the people who will use your software.

If you're unsure how to talk with customers and users, buy the excellent book 'Talking to Humans'.
That's not true. You are only allowed to give out information to the data subject.
You have to verify that you are giving the information only to the subject.

If you can't verify you don't give out information.

There are so many ways to verify. Public Data is not a shared secret, thus not something to verify identity with.
The flaw in Chomsky's argument is that the check on corporate power is competition. A corporation is a tyranny internally but as long as nobody has to work for that company or buy its products over a competitor's or is restricted from starting a new company to compete with them, they have no dictatorial powers. The way you change a corporation is by not patronizing it until it changes.

If you do that alone nothing happens, but if you vote alone nothing happens either. If the majority does that with you then the corporation changes or there is a huge market opportunity for a competitor who will. And that even works when there is only a significant minority on your side, unlike voting.

The problem with governments is that they don't work that way, so the opinion of anyone not in the majority is invalid. You're still subject to any laws passed over your objection, without any alternative short of leaving everything you've ever known and moving to another country. Or, in this case, not even if you do that, because the EU asserts that people can be subject to this law even if they don't live there. It's tyranny of the majority-of-a-place-you-don't-even-live.
It took me 3 years to build my first SaaS product, here’s Why
Exactly this. I work for Anthem, and they are implementing a plan to move the majority of their IT development work to a captive subsidiary in India. This is increasingly the model.
Don't Be a Free User
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Python as C++’s limiting case, by Brandon Rhodes [video]