skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Immigration is definitely not the answer.

I agree with this but not for the reason you provide.

Immigration isn't the answer simply because there aren't enough immigrants in the world -- and the number will continue to decline over time as living standards increase in the developing world.

Just look at the numbers of immigrants needed. There are 250 million immigrants in the world today. Japan alone is forecast to lose 1 million people a year for the next 30 years.

Italy is losing 150,000 people a year. Spain 100,000. Hungary 60,000. Bulgaria 50,000.

China is projected to lose more people to the fertility crash than there are immigrants in the world. If every single immigrant went to China, China's population would still go down. While depriving every other country of immigrants. (US population would also start going down in this scenario, since it would lose out on the 2 million annual immigrants that make up for low native fertility.)

Immigration is, at best, a short-term solution over the next ~20 years because it is ultimately a zero-sum game. For one country to get more immigrants, another country has to get fewer.
This touches on my greatest frustration with the national debate about prosecution/tolerance of illegal immigration:

One of my main reasons for opposing illegal immigration is that it's contrary to the rule of law. It subverts the democratic process, and makes suckers of anybody who does try to follow these laws. I'm actually a big fan of legal immigration.

But I rarely (never?) hear this distinction made in public statements by advocates of illegal immigration. At least in public, they seem to assume that anybody who opposes illegal immigration opposes all immigration, and even worse, does so out of ignorance or bigotry.

Assuming I'm not the only person with my particular views, that conflation is infuriating. I can only hope it's done unwittingly.
I wonder about that, too - how far will the rabble-rousers go, if they can get away with it? Will they insist on the firing of the people who _didn’t_ sign the petition? Will they blacklist people who have ever worked with ICE in the future? Will this spread beyond github? Will we have an unelected, unaccountable group of “the woke” dictating the terms of our employment?
But think about it, everyone only has a few days left to live! We just keep extending that, day by day, by eating something else that recently died. And then it’s atoms become part of our bodies. It’s life force gets absorbed into us. But because it has a finite and limited life, it can’t fully stop us from dying. So we need to repeat it again a few hours later!
Inflation isn't a single number, it's a basket. For a millenial who's spending most of their money on rent & tuition, the number is a lot higher on tuition. For somebody buying gadgets and high-end cars, the number is negative.

In the future, the demand for eldercare is going to skyrocket, with a lot less supply. Working folks will be fine because they'll be spending their money on stuff produced by robots: food, durable goods, et cetera. The elderly are going to be @#$%ed because I doubt that robots are going to be very good at providing eldercare.
I found a loophole that lets me sell kids organs.

The best part? I can use the new American ethics system to absolve myself of any guilt by saying "it's not illegal"!

What wouldn't you do if it became legal?
Go get a sleep study done. That will tell you. You may have sleep apnea. Also you may want to ask your doctor about a sleep aid such as ambien.
Hi, this is Dylan, a co-founder and engineer at Pipedream.

It's a great question. AWS is incredibly powerful (we use it at Pipedream), but we think Pipedream is better optimized for building workflows and integrations between developer apps and SaaS services. The idea is that we'll save you a lot of time creating and managing these integrations.

We're trying to strike that balance of giving devs the control they need without having to worry about the stuff that shouldn't matter when they're building integrations.

A few ways we differentiate specifically from AWS and other cloud platforms for the integration use case:

- One click "triggers" that enable you to run a workflow on an HTTP request, cron job, or email [1], vs. having to e.g. Terraform a CloudWatch Events schedule or setup an API Gateway / SES email endpoint.

- You can connect third-party accounts within Pipedream and we manage the OAuth flow, giving you programmatic access to your OAuth access tokens. You can manage API keys in the same way [2]. If you've ever had to manage the OAuth authorization flow yourself, storing refresh tokens and generating access tokens, you know how nice it is not to have to manage.

- When you just need to checkpoint the items you've previously processed (common when you're pulling data from an API every few minutes), you don't have to store the data in external state. You can use our built-in checkpoint API to store and retrieve basic state [3].

Also, while you _can_ write Node.js code, you don't have to. Many of our users don't know Node, and exclusively use the actions we've added that abstract common operations [4]. As we add more actions, the tool should be more accessible to "no code" workflows and less technical users.

We'd love if you had a few minutes to sign up and use the tool! If there are things you still like about AWS and want that control in Pipedream, that's exactly the kind of feedback that would help. Send me a note anytime:

dylan [at] pipedream [dot] com

[1] https://docs.pipedream.com/workflows/steps/triggers/

[2] https://docs.pipedream.com/connected-accounts/

[3] https://docs.pipedream.com/workflows/steps/code/#managing-st...

[4] https://docs.pipedream.com/workflows/steps/actions/
This is why Zuck doesn’t understand Instagram and Tik Tok. Politics and news articles is what killed Facebook for the new generation.
The current US government is blatantly and overtly criminal, it seems reasonable to me to assume anyone arguing in their favor is arguing in bad faith and disengage.
I imagine this was partly an attempt at data normalization. If you'd been allowed to type it in they would have had to worry about differences in spelling, capitalization, etc.

I'm not saying the solution they used was a good one mind, but I bet that was part of the motivation to implement it that way
This study draws data from a broader project called the Boston birth trial. It is a really interesting project that has the potential to teach us a lot about development and health for a long time to come.
> It doesn't apply for many cultures.

I'm struggling to come up with a list of those.

Middle names are definitely not universal, sure, but I can't seem to find a list of cultures that can't map down to "first name, last name".

Iceland, Indonesia, Turkey, Ethiopia, everything I've come across seems to have adopted some superset of "first name, last name" in the last hundred years.

> The only justification to collect them separately is to link with third-party data.

In Japan, many organizations are required to collect this for legal compliance.

> They should stop playing around and just ask me what they want to know, "How would you like to be addressed?"

That is a good thing to ask -- and certainly suitable for generating nametags! -- but I can still see many cases for needing to have a legal name. Generating receipts, etc.
Exactly, what a weird claim.

Anyway, Japan has already started doing exactly this with their guest worker program, which are just immigration policies rebranded to get past nativist voters. South Korea and Taiwan have similar programs in the region.

I live in Vietnam and know several people who have gone to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan under these guest worker programs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-26/japan-has...
Starship Video Simulation
It’s already tricking down. Just not anywhere near enough to make a difference.
It's a problem for rich people and governments, who get to take a fraction of everyone's productivity through surplus labor value (i.e. capital gains) and taxes.
I’d also suggest some interval training. If you have access to stair steppers, I highly recommend them. Easy to get started, and not too tough on your joints. 2 minutes at a pace that’s tough to sustain, and then 2 minutes off. I have a max HR of ~200 and I tend to level off at 180-188 during the interval section. Once you get accustomed to it you can play around with the timing ofc.
> You have to let certain control go after a point.

Why? If it's within your power to prevent your work from being put to use in service of something you find immoral, why not attempt to organize with like-minded workers and put a stop to it?

If you can force your company to make a choice between a contract and its workforce, you can achieve your goal. There's no reason to let things go.

> Why do Github employees get a special right to withhold consent for their product to be used in a setting they might object to?

Because they have, or may have, the power to do so. If they can take control of their work, there's no reason not to do so.

EDITED TO ADD:

> Why don't the employees at all these other companies object like Github employees?

They either don't object, or don't have the power within the company to object effectively.
That website made my screen go black and my phone get hot!
OP doesn't care, I'm guessing he's not supportive of ICE and their abuse of minors (caging toddlers away from their parents is abuse, I hope we can all agree).

If a MAGA "fuck the immigrants they deserve it" works there, I guess they would feel quite harassed. Is it protected political view? I can't imagine "I'm okay with toddlers suffering psychological damage and death from some thugs in federal uniforms" can be classified as a political viewpoint.
Wait, which progress bars? Is it using SIGINFO or something?
Good,Good,Good
I have not seen an example of a singular thing that is “paradigm shifting.” Even with relativity, the overall set of concepts and results is paradigm shifting, but every individual contributor, including Einstein, pursued small specific incremental pieces and various postulations whose significance wasn’t determined until years latee through incremental experiments.
> I forget was Adobe called it - but it worked rather well.

Livecycle Designer?
It is in a very initial POC stage and distributed mode is pretty basic, but it is moving faster than I expected. Python integration is definitely one of the primary objectives as I suspect that no one is going to learn Rust for this, although I feel that it is not that hard. In fact, it can have a better integration story with python than Spark as Rust has good C interop. Regarding performance, yeah it is pretty good from what I have seen for CPU intensive tasks and once blockmanager is implemented with compression and other optimizations like Spark, shuffle tasks also will improve. There are a lot of unnecessary allocations here than I would prefer just to keep it in safe Rust as much as possible and there is still plenty of optimizations possible here. I am doing this in my free time only. I feel that it is too early to compare witn Spark given how many features Spark has. Maybe in a couple of months after it matures a bit and if there is enough traction for this, then we can look for sponsors.
Local cops via MLAT wherever I am working, as I owe US taxes regardless of where I earn money, a fun misfortune based on my location of birth.

Failing that, local cops, when I am working nowhere and have to resort to stealing food to survive.
Should that baker bake the cake or not?
Not suggesting you’re saying this, but I want to state that Ambien should never be the first tool in the toolbox for better sleep. The state it produces is not too dissimilar from a knockout.
Not sure if it's just me:

Anytime you show a product at least include some screenshots of how it looks like somewhere. In my brief search, I couldn't find anything.
If the cat or grep makes the command more clear or easier to write then it's not useless.
Philips? The same company that sold me 15W grow lights while claiming they were 40w? I don't trust that company as far as I can throw it after that bit of outright fraud they pulled on me.
You are defending literal slave labor.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/us/immigrant-detention-forced...
Maybe undiagnosed sleep apnea? I love/hate my CPAP machine, but it helps me. There is a clear difference when I opt out.
There's a public RCS chat Group with people from over 20 different countries!
I personally feel the protocol should be opensourced and security bugs should be fixed which are written in cpp for audio/video calls. Or the video or audio call process should be sandboxed and tightened api access
Higher intensity, which doesn't have to come from heavier weight per say, but increased power, work/time meaning total work, higher weight up or time down.

HIIT/interval/crossfit style are prime examples of in my opinion the most efficient way to achieve "exhausting" workouts (lowest time commitment, and with group gym style, lowest mental effort to formulate workout plans; it's all left to the trainer).
You can find a good explanation of it here including the original study,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtBxI_ydba4

The 97% part starts around 2:55 thru 7:40.
> Why don't the employees at all these other companies object like Github employees

Because those companies aren't based in the woke-wasteland of San Francisco bay area.
First feeling I get is that it's a extension that is doing it. Are you able to always reproduce now when you open Chrome? Can you reproduce it when uninstalling all extensions too? You can Chrome run with `--disable-extensions` to just disable them for one run.
If racists had self awareness, they wouldn't be racists.
I would think that more strenuous cardio would be more effective than lifting heavy.
That seems plausible to me. I don’t know if HR is a good enough signal, since it varies so much between person to person.

Didn’t know they were that pricy, ouch.
About 20-30,000 people are granted asylum each year, versus about 60,000-100,000 people a month apprehended at the southern border by CBP. The vast majority of “inadmissibles” are not qualified refuges.

> The asylum seeker must prove to the officer that there is a “significant possibility” he or she is eligible for asylum, and must also be subject to a credibility assessment. If the officer makes a positive finding, the asylum seeker is referred to an immigration court where they will have the opportunity to apply for asylum before an immigration judge. If the individual does not meet the credible fear screening standard, he or she can be deported.

That process ideally happens in a few days, but a system to designed to handle 5,000 people a month getting 100,000 requests a month is going to take longer. In the meantime, those applicants cannot simply be released into the interior.

The onus is on Congress to appropriate the necessary funding to allow for expedited and humane treatment and proper facilities for processing the number of people who are crossing. As long as Congress refuses to provide the funds, the agencies are left to enforce the nations immigration laws without the proper resources, staffing, or even possibly basic sanitation, bedding, clothes, etc.
Liquibase Rollback
> They are sort of misdemeanor plus because in addition to legal inconveniences in the US they also get deported. This is something that has been vilified in the case of folks coming up from Mexico of course, but nobody gives a shit if a person that followed all the rules gets deported after their time is up.

If you are still here to be deported after your time is up, you haven't followed all the rules, since leaving no later than when your time is up is, itself, a requirement of the rules.

On the other hand, while people who are concerned with the recent border crossers being denied the right to apply for asylum, or being held in humane conditions, may not be concerned about those visa overstayers who are not facing either of those problems, the people who are concerned with the leniency for those illegally present who have done nothing seriously wrong beyond immigration violations tend to be just as well inclined to visa overstayers as any other person illegally present; the distinction you suggest is not accurate.
> My takeaway from this is that the logistics network is very brittle and contains many weak points

Fortunately, this isn't true, or at least hasn't been for 15+ years.

> ... a lot of grain produced throughout the Midwest is transported ... via the waterways of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

Only because the price is lower. Grain shipment is extremely price-sensitive! [1]:

> Prior to 2003, containers were mainly restricted to specialty crops, which would not fill a hold in a ship, and feed ingredients like corn gluten meal, bone and meat meal The containerization of grain in the US began to pick up significantly in 2004 because of the spread that emerged between backhaul container rates and bulk shipping. The rates for bulk shipping increased because of the strong demand for scrap metal.

> The North American consumer demand for imported Asia Pacific manufactured goods also surged between 2003 and 2008. Consequently, freight rates for containers on the westbound traffic lanes fell as the volume of empty containers returning to Asia became excessive. During this period, grain could be shipped in containers from Chicago at $35/40 per ton, while bulk rates for grain at the Gulf of Mexico were $60/70 per ton. This provided the incentive for commercial bulk grain shippers to begin arbitraging the freight and moving grain exports in containers.

[1] https://file.scirp.org/pdf/JTTs_2015031815114293.pdf
I don't follow vim closely enough to know where vimscript is heading, anyone in the know wish to comment? It seems that :scriptversion¹/vimscript-version² could provide the support for a significant improvements, or is it just for clearing up minor ambiguities?

1. https://vimhelp.org/repeat.txt.html#%3Ascriptversion
2. https://vimhelp.org/eval.txt.html#vimscript-version
>> On the high level, there is no "chess AI", "go AI", "image classification AI" and "dexterous manipulation AI".

As another poster said these are all tasks performed by different systems. For chess and Go AI it's Deep Reinforcement Learning with Monte Carlo Tree Search. For image recognition it's Convolutional Neural Networks. Importantly, these systems are very task-specific. You won't find anyone trying to beat humans at games using CNNs, for example, or using Deep-RL to do text recognition. Far from "a few creative tricks" these are systems that are fundamentally different and are not known to generalise outside their very limited domains. They're one-trick ponies.

The OpenAI paper on "dexterous manipulation" reported learning to manipulate one cube, the same cube, always, after spending a considerable amount of resources on the task. It was a disappointing result that really shouldn't be groupwed with CNNs and Deep-RL for game playing. The level of achievement does not compare well.

>> Anytime a next task is solved, there is a crowd saying it's not a "real AI" and that scientists are solving "toy problems".

This used to be the case a decade or more ago. In the last few years the opposite is true. The press is certainly very eager to report every big success of "AI"- by which of course is meant deep learning.

>> 6 years ago we were able to solve some Atari games from pixels. Today, that feels like a trivial exercise compared to modern techniques

6 years ago DeepMind showed superhuman performance in seven Atari games with Deep-RL (DeepQN in particular): Beam Rider, Breakout, Enduro, Pong, Q*bert, Seaquest and Space Invaders. Since then more Atari games have been "beaten" in the same sense, but many still remain. I'm afraid I can't find references to this but I've seen slides from DeepMind people a few times and there is always a curve with a few games at the top and most games at the bottom, below human performance. There are some games that are notorious for being very difficult to solve with Deep-RL, like Montezuma's Revenge which was claimed to be solved by Uber a couple of years ago however this was done using imitation learning, which means watching a human play. The result is nothing like the result in Go, which remains the crowning achievement of Deep-RL (and its best buddy, MCTS).

Bottom line: Atari games remain anything but a trivial exercise.

And the architectuers that play Atari do not perform as well in Go or chess, say. You are mistaken that it's simple to train the same system to do all of those things. The AlphaZero system that played Go, chess and Shoggi well enough to beat its predecessor (you will excuse me that I don't remember which incarnation of Alpha-x it was) had an architeture fine-tuned to a chessboard and pieces with discrete moves, so it would not be possible to reuse it to play Starcraft, say, or even tic-tac-toe. The cost to train AlphaZero is also very high, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
JPMorgan Tests Its Amazon-Berkshire Health Venture on Bank Employees
For me it was environmental. Turns out the air conditioning was dehydrating me to the point of waking up every night. Do you sleep better on vacation when you're away from home?
There are plenty of good rebuttals you’ve conveniently missed. Also, 300k/year was the maximum in 2000.
Mostly because a bagel is not an electron, and slit experiments illustrate wave-particle duality, do they not?

Anyhow, the message was about how paradoxes make reasoning hard, not about how we can wave away the uncertainties. Next time I'll just skip all the time machine nonesense and head to the nearest rectory.
How does one exposed to acetaminophen?
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These aren't people fleeing genocide. These are people leaving Mexico. And they're being put in hotels and buses.

It's easy to pretend you're fellow Americans are monsters, but they're not.
I mean, we carve out special exceptions for race, gender, sexual orientation, etc...
Beyond those special carve outs, laborers should have the freedom to follow their ethics.
Bad UI is basically consistent in all descriptions of all healthcare software. After working for a couple first responder outfits, I'm increasingly positive the companies who make this software do not have anyone on staff who have actually worked in the field, nor are they willing to interview people who have.
Toxins.
a poison of plant or animal origin, especially one produced by or derived from microorganisms and acting as an antigen in the body.

If you've got toxins in the brain you've got bigger problems.
Just to say great. Thanks thanks
ibuprofen (and all NSAIDs) are also unsafe during pregnancy.

It doesn't seem like there's anything safe to take.
We Used to Have the Free Public College Bernie Sanders Promises to Give Us
“Most” is certainly wrong. I’d allow “some”.
The analogy with the cancer cell is spot on, it sure feels we're still very much like one, having to spread and expand in our ever struggle against nature.

Imagine if we manage to find a way to create small long term ecosystems... then the cancer will spread to the stars and these birther catastrophists will be relieved: we'll go back to 10 birth a woman with 2 babies making it to 40 :D
It's a pain pill, you probably know it as paracetamol.
The Lush Programming Language
It’s Tylenol. One is exposed by ingesting it.
Sad to see you get downvoted... I guess one would need to send an "anti-job application" to HR to let them know that their policy has turned you off to them (and I guess you'd need to attach your CV to show them what they'll be missing out on...).

It would be the right thing to do, IMO, but I would be scared to do it in case the company does become more attractive (shall we invent the newspeak phrase "more morally compatible"?) for me in the future, but they still have that letter of mine on file...
Human rights is so trendy right now. /s