skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just a problem for rich people, it is a problem for everyone who can save money. A growing population means that everything can grow accordingly (businesses, infrastructure, …) so there are good investment opportunities. If you can afford to save money, this means that there are productive things to do with that money, and you'll naturally get higher interest rates (and increasing stock prices, etc.). Higher interest rates aren't all good, but extremely low interest rates (like in Japan for the last ~25 years) aren't good either, especially if you want to save for retirement. Social Security isn't the only useful "pyramid scheme."
The current administration has been crystal-clear that it intends to reduce legal and illegal immigration through all means available.

One of these means is lengthening the asylum-seeking process and requirements. Another is reducing the allowed number of successful asylum seekers through informal quotas.

The current administration has done both. They are intentionally gumming up the asylum system in order to make good on their campaign promises.

"It's the fault of invalid economic migrants" is a talking point.
Old style duct tape over my cam works much better than Zoom conference settings that, oops!, for some reasons always forgets that i want my camera always OFF.
The reason for this requirement is lifetime subtyping: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/subtyping.html

Type parameter variance is inferred from usage (e.g. covariant for normal fields, contravariant for function arguments) and without a usage there's no way to infer it.
So what are you saying then? That there are no moral absolutes? Or just that because people disagree on what is moral business should be allowed to act in interest of profit only?
Similarly, my CPAP changed my life for the better. I went from constantly tired to being a productive member of society again.
>parents worrying too much about unknown forces corrupting their kids.

That is a pretty good definition of puritanism..
14 minutes and no transcript? Too long; didn't watch. This guy talks too much and says too little.
Yes, this is generally called "reproducible builds". Signal has reproducible builds for Android, here is how to build it and compare against the one on your phone:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/Repr...
I have read benefits of fasting on Alheimers as well
> The most compelling arguments I found is that just because we happen to work in a field that lets us exert our influence over society doesn't make our moral sensibilities any better than the rest of society.

What, then, does?

Democracy is a good idea, sure. But what happens when democracy reaches a conclusion that seems obviously unjust? Do we decide that our own sense of right and wrong must be flawed? (This is a question I have no good answer to—where should we develop our sense of right and wrong?)

Moreover, historically there are many times that democracy says something is right that the people of a later era (perhaps even just a couple years later) decide was actually wrong, and that's the reason we have constitutional limits on what voters can do—but who decides what the Constitution says? We obviously need a veto over the will of the voters, but who should we trust with it?

What if instead of technical skills you have money? Is it wrong to use money in the service of influencing political goals? (In the US, neither the voters nor the Constitution believe so, by the way.) If others are influencing society with money, is it wrong to use money to counter them?

What about speech and communications media? If you have a platform (say, you're a popular entertainer or writer or talk show host), should you use it to convince others of a particular political position? If you have many listeners and your political opponents don't, is it still okay for you to speak to your listeners, or are you a minority unjustly using your influence and power?

What about weaponry? Traditionally, military might has settled many questions of whether a government should be permitted to engage in an action. Is it unjust to go to war with a country with a smaller army? Would it have been morally optimal for the US to say, we have about 5% of the world's population, the morally optimal choice is to not interfere with World War II?

I worry the argument that it's not our place to act on our principles is popular because it's easy and comfortable—keep your job, don't rock the boat—not because it's morally compelling.

And of these groups who can influence society—the politically-well-connected-200-years-ago, the rich, the media, the military, and the technical builders—if there is an argument for any of them to exert disproportionate influence, it seems to me the strongest argument would be for the builders, since technical work necessarily requires intelligence snd systems thinking more strongly than the others do. That is, if any group is to be entrusted with a veto if the rest agree and they disagree, the builders seem most likely to have a legitimate, informed, reasoned, and non-self-serving reason for the veto.

Society, incidentally, has no stories of praising people who exercised restraint when they saw an obvious injustice and the rest of the world going along with it. It usually disdains them as weak, cowardly, and opportunistic. It does have strong praise for those who took a stand even when it seemed like their position was in the minority.
"Both of these candidates were fundamentally unfit for office work"

This is the sort of thing that sounds very bleak to people who imagine being judged the same way, possibly unfairly. And it's even more painful because someone on the cusp may not be sure themselves that they can or can't function.

However, it can be empowering, in that someone recovering from health issues can realize that technical chops are almost entirely irrelevant; the task is just to convince the interviewer that they can and want to come to work every day and grind it out, and if a person truly knows their own ability to do so, it is possible to convince other people.

Unfortunately it's terrifying to hear that success depends on belief, because bootstrapping yourself from not being employable seems like a contradiction in terms. It can make people very bitter when they believe their only chance of survival is to behave in a way they don't feel.
Supposedly that's wrong. An economist I think named Solow showed the US economic growth in the early to mid 1900s was almost entirely due to innovation, not labor. The population growth equals wealth is more due to the Marxist concept that labor is wealth.
> you might want to figure out how to change your mindset

What do you mean by this?
OK, here’s an adaptation — what if the definition of rich might be when no part of why you decide to go to work and do the job you do is ‘for the money’?

The principle in this article helps bring or keep that line within reach. It would also not be a fixed number. Your intrinsic motivations and cash flows may fluctuate as you navigate your personal continuum of ambition and contentment.
Good points, I never realised about the screen update size, although most renderer will redraw the whole screen every frame (immediate mode).
I wonder how many awful things Uber has swept under the table...
Quora will not allow political ads
It's about time they did something about the fakes!
When I was trying to decipher it I thought it was written by somebody in a state of delirium .
(drop types are still dropped at the end of lexical scope, even post NLL.)
Everything is political.
No thats a terrible analogy unless your some silly an cap who believes that all IP shouldn't exist.
Yes, that is not the standard library, that’s a third party package. Its documentation does explain that it’s not a client or server.
GH employees don't just get a salary but also equity. So in addition to being employees they are, in fact, owners of the company. It seems perfectly fair for a company owner (even a small one) to voice an opinion about how the company operates.
How are your iron/ferritin levels? Low iron causes fatigue
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gzip with the —rsyncable flag will still allow for deduplication. It uses a content-aware rolling checksum and resets the compression dictionary whenever that checksum has a certain number of zeros.

The result is a valid gzip file with a few percent less compression, but friendly to deduplication (which is what rsync does).
Ah, I missed table 4 with the recent models. I looked closer and it does look impressive, however you should ask someone who worked on that task to review your experiments (I haven’t).

Actually, it looks like you got a solid paper. I recommend submitting either to CVPR or ICML, especially if you can get good results on cifar.
That's fine, that doesn't change anything. If GitHub and their employees disagree so strongly on right and wrong that one side believes doing X is immoral and the other believes not doing X is immoral, GitHub can either attempt to convince their employees that they are in fact right, or let them leave.

(If GitHub does not believe they have a moral obligation to sell to ICE, they can drop the contract and keep their employees. It's a very small contract, less than one engineer's salary, and they committed to donating that money anyway. So I'm assuming that GitHub feels a moral or equivalently strong obligation to keep the contract, possibly of the form of feeling an obligation not to let employees influence moral direction. If not, this is just a story of bad business sense.)
I think your entire argument would make a lot more sense if you replaced “right” with “what I think is right”. Your position is just one side of the dice (as you say).
I find it helpful to spend a bit more cycles on keeping track of audience and a bit fewer on perfect conveyance of certainty levels.

Once you've set the bar re: certainty for a particular discourse neighborhood, you can just make claims at that level thereafter without feeling dishonest. As long as you're sensitive to cases where others may have joined without enough context to know that you're out on a limb.
In America, it seems the FBI would the appropriate place to report counterfeit goods at a brick-and-mortar retailer, not the local police.
Is there a Planck constant type value for minimal singularities?
It’s worth noting that Design is a pretty broad term, and not a jpg department. There are various subsets of designers such as:

- UX Designer: How it functions

- Visual Designers: How it looks

- Interaction Designers: How it behaves

- Product Designers: Hybrid UX Designer, but with a focus on company goals, similar to a Product Manager.

Of course hyper specialization isn’t necessary in tiny startups, but it is for larger orgs. Similar to engineering, it isn’t necessarily feasible nor reasonable to have one person be an expert in every domain.

And if you do know someone who knows everything, they’ll also know they’re a unicorn and charge accordingly.

I do agree that familiarity with the tech stack is very useful, but beyond that I’d argue its best to let those focus on what they do best.
If a company is claiming to have the largest database in the Southern Hemisphere, they'd have in-house developers (who double as FM dbas).

I'd be interested in knowing who the company was, and the metric they used to judge their database size. I worked on one that was 4GB data and >40GB binary files (photos, documents). Interestingly, when all the data was removed and the file was optimised it came to less than 2MB.
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By the way I noticed the demo page says to enter an email address and password. I assume that means any email and password should work. But it fails with an unknown user error.
I played EQ as a young kid and I remember EQPrices! Really cool. Never bought anything, though, not having money and all that.
Probably Datomic. Databases are hard to test because they're big piles of global mutable state. A database designed around values, pure functions, and other FP constructs should be inherently easier to test.
Weapons can and are misused. They're tools, not intent.
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As someone who has lived out of AirBnB for almost 3 years traveling all around the world and never once being scammed, I find the title of this article to be a bit alarmist.

AirBnB has host and guest verification options. If Becky and Andrew don't have their identities verified via drivers license but manage over 90 properties that is your first red flag right there.

Second, if the host can't accommodate you you reach out to AirBnb and put the onus on them to find you an acceptable property that meets your standards. You don't let the host offer up some random place that happens to be available, that's suspicious.

I've had a number of hosts cancel on me at the last minute recently, I didn't immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be a scam. I simply assumed that their property is also listed on VRBO and other sites and someone either beat me to the punch or they got more money, or they didn't realize that they can't list the unit and forgot to take down the listing.

Mistakes happen. Sure, there are scammers out there on every platform, but in my 3 years and over 100 successful stays, I really find this article's title tough to swallow.
To put it mildly:

Sleeping pills do not provide natural sleep, can damage health, and increase the risk of life-threatening diseases. (p. 282)

On Ambien specifically:

If you compare natural, deep-sleep brainwave activity to that induced by modern-day sleeping pills, such as zolpidem (brand name Ambien) or eszopiclone (brand name Lunesta), the electrical signature, or quality, is deficient.
Wifi definitely prevents my sleep through the Hacker News mechanism.
> 1. Type erasure

There is no need to access type information at runtime here.
Seems like you're missing the point. They're not comparing the morality of minimizing tax liabilities to harvesting human organs, they're using an extreme example of an obviously immoral act to demonstrate that morality isn't a function of legality.
A Carnegie Mellon startup uses students to deliver food... directly to students
Oh Hacker News, you never cease to disappoint.

"Prisoners are being forced to work for almost no pay, its modern day slavery."

"Yeah but think about jury duty, I'm the real slave labour in my middle class lifestyle, having to participate the function of my democracy."

I'm sure you think that taxation is theft as well.
> Because it's very different to sleep. Waking up from GA, it's as though no time has passed at all - you were one place, suddenly you're another.

Personally, most nights of normal sleep are like that for me as well. Dreams (or at least the remembrance thereof) are a rare occurrence rather than the norm.

(For reference, yes, I have been under GA. I didn't really find it to be all that different, other than the onset being somewhat more sudden and waking up in a different place.)
Computed IDs based on personal information
The VA prioritizes veterans who served in areas of Vietnam that were exposed to Agent Orange. They have a special designation that is, I believe, the highest priority of care at the VA. Second only to something like WWII veterans.
Nobody talks about operations research today. But techniques that fell under that umbrella, like ARIMA and linear programming are still widely used, and aren’t going anywhere. (And it’s not without some irony that automated bulk time series forecasting is now sold as AI).
"Kids these days with their wokeness. Back in my day we didn't care about things like human rights, wealth inequality, the plights of underrepresented groups, or destroying the planet. All these damned messy ethics are interfering with business!"
Nothing exotic really. The problem has been how to figure out the process for writing the frontend with npm/webpack, building it and getting Django to serve js files on different pages. I simply couldn’t get it to work. I’ve resorted to just skipping the npm part and writing js scripts in Django's static directories without any libraries or other js tools except for those I could add to an html template with a script tag (which is quite limiting).

I'm going to try separating the frontend and serving it with nginx instead, and only use Django to provide an API for the DB. Maybe I’ll be able to figure that out. My biggest issue is that there are no decent guides for any of this, documentation is allaround terrible and even if there is some guide, it doesn’t work.
I’ve heard the microwave radiation exposure(to communicate with the drones in terrain that wouldn’t allow it) during the Iraq War endured by drone pilots was obviously way higher than legally allowed within the United States at least. Definitely high enough to cause cancer.
Is there any way to make it so that htop doesn't clear the screen when it exits?

Seeing the last page of htop's output after it exits is usually useful to me.
PSA: One can still distribute and allow installation of full open source HTML5 apps that can work offline and use a smattering of device APIs, without having anything to do with Apple’s app store, developer accounts, or signing.

Sure, it’s not a ‘native binary’, but for all kinds of utilities, both offline and online, that’s not really a problem.

Some big companies even use a web technology approach on purpose for a variety of reasons despite distributing through the app store. Slightly less ‘buttery’ feeling but generally not terrible.
Why? Would you also never buy a magazine or print newspaper? Subscriptions are the best way to have a sustainable news site that isn't an ad-infested mess.
Isn't that a lower mortality rate than that of young American adults outside of ICE detention?
Sounds like fusion: there’s a big gap between making it happen for a moment and actually using it.

...
Ignoring the HUGE gap between smashing together a few atoms so a small fraction of their bits evaporate and smashing them so hard they pretty much disappear.
> I recently figured out the root of the issue (fingers crossed!

Don't leave us hanging, what is the root cause?
Today's kids have a big responsibility in front of them. It won't be easy to speak truth to the power that lies in the governments of the USA and China and elsewhere, but it's absolutely obvious that these entities don't intend to serve the interests of these children or their parents.

It is today's kids who must grow up ready to live in the absence of a powerful state. Even if they aren't culpable, they are responsible.
Here here, I feel the same. I'm not really a fan of sports or working out, but doing physical activity for a job or such (in college I worked at a supermarket stacking shelves) I enjoy.

My wife and I are thinking of buying and renovating an old apartment ourselves. Of course economically it would be better for me to work and pay someone else to do it, but the benefits of learning a new skill and doing something physical are worth it IMHO.
The system, which is from Garmin, includes a radio altimeter, a short-range radar pointed straight down. So it's not reliant on GPS for precise vertical position during landing. This allows the system to do a proper landing flare just above the runway.
It seems that metamath's representation is a basic primitive for encoding maths at a syntactic level. It uses simple rules to recursively apply syntactical substitution transformations in order to build up a kind of complete, ostensibly true statement. A statement that is encoded in a way that a small proven-true statement checker can ~linearly (!) follow along the statement of the proof and find it logically sound. It seems weird to me that it's even possible to cross the boundary from syntactic representation to semantic meaning so seamlessly.
> - would you tolerate use of software that allows users to more effectively stalk, harass, or worse? [especially your kids?]

It's easy to dream up ideal scenarios, such as the above (even though they are almost never realistic). For example, one possible unexpected response to the above question might very well be:

> "Such as Tor?"
Sometimes you just acknowledge that this is not something worth your time, take a couple of deep breaths and regain focus.
You can try out this exercise as well https://howitzer.co/category/fix-stuff/
Further, Ambien use is also linked to dementia and alzheimers: https://www.alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/blog/can-som...
Nice work! I was looking for something like this recently.
> If I’d known you felt that way, I’d have had the Winklevoss twins invent Facebook.

That made me chuckle!
People who have different views than you are “shitty”?
from what I've heard from a starcraft player, what you've just described is just how it is. You don't need good strategies if you have superior techniques (apm & precision). It's not really a game of intelligence (after you've got the basics down).
If enough of this happens, the government will begin to act as a monolith-- refuse services to organization A, you get no business from orgs B-Z.

I think it's a temporary thing. When the economy turns down and jobs are harder to find, people won't feel so strongly about such things.
"Stolen TV set at brick-and-mortar" isn't the right analogy. "Plagiarized book at brick-and mortar" is.

And the fact is that copyrights/patents/trademarks are handled differently than theft.
I used to love playing this circa 2001. It's also great to learn programming games using OpenGL. Great to see this still going strong...
It would be helpful if you provided a citation that justifies your claim.
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Asylum seekers are supposed to stop in the first country available. Mexico grants people asylum. So you should ask yourself, why aren't they applying there? Because they aren't fleeing imminent physical danger, that's why. They are abusing the system to cover being economic migrants, and they are assisted in this by NGOs with questionable motives.[1][2][3]

People who cross national borders, without documentation, and not at designated points of entry, are NOT "immigrants". They are illegal aliens. People need to stop conflating the two.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48548031

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/as-trump-t...

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJlOmMj21uM
Any tips on where to look or what to read to implement something like this? I put in an hour or two experimenting with how I could do it and there seem to be a lot of moving parts I’m not familiar with.
What you see as “lengthening the process”, others see as actually aligning the process with the laws.

HN loves to rail against the corrupt H1-B system, but apparently actually getting asylum seekers is amoral.

What would be more honest is to say “I don’t like cheap tech labor, so therefore clamping down on H1-Bs is good.” And “I don’t like the Trump administration and I want an open immigration system, so what Trump is doing to asylum seekers is bad.”

It’s all politics.
Ask HN: How to share code execution between competitors?
Suppose that several competitors in the same industry decide to share the ownership of some commodity software (e.g. the insurances industry).

How can we be sure that the code agreed upon is the one that is running? How to verify and audit this running software?

I know that this can be done with smart contracts, but I want to know what else is out there.
Would you rather the agency detained the parents but not the children? Splitting up families is worse than detaining children in my opinion. I'm sure you'd think that detaining anybody is bad, but then what is the point in having borders if you don't enforce them? A law that isn't enforced is not a good law. Or maybe you disagree with borders too? In which case supporting any US government since the creation of the nation has been an "abuse of power" too?