skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what, Ireland claims it from whichever it was paid to?

And you only need one country not to, so you can register there. You'll never get every country to sign up to anything like that, because it makes being the one that doesn't too valuable.
Well you can think of it what you want. One of the reasons UK left the EU is because of immigration concerns. Countries like Germany (my home country) are intent on preferring foreigners over their citizens and have an established agenda to "mix" the population. I am very glad not to live there anymore. It's part of the long-running denationalization attempt purported by the German government and it freaking works too. I never felt so "ungerman" in my entire life as the last 10 years have made me feel. It's like being "unwanted" in your country of birth. It's horrendous and very powerful. I would not move back there if someone paid me for it and also I try to shed German traits, just as they wanted. If this is good for Germany in the long run? Probably not....

And I am really really happy that I have the privilege of living in a country that puts their citizens first now. Anyone who says "they should take anyone" is delusional. But fret not, Germany is on a good track to assimilate entire countries worth of refugees into their own little speck of land, to the detriment of their citizens. No wonder the UK wants to put a stop to this insanity.

I wonder when people will understand that you can't provide the living standard of Germany, US & Canada to the entire world. Yes most people live in terrible conditions. Getting them all here, won't help anyone. It's kindof ironic how "social responsibility" is used as an argument here. Sure, let's take all the refugees while we abuse their home countries resources, bomb their home towns and suck the life out of their economies. Cool strategy.

If they had any spine and sense of humanity, they would help these countries to develop properly so refugees wouldn't exist in the first place.
The numbers I have heard are 30,000 going from Santa Cruz north for work, daily, and 20,000 coming in to Santa Cruz for work, daily.

Working in tech and living in Santa Cruz is not new, a good chunk of the Gen X and Boomer crowd in Santa Cruz did that or does that. I don't think its nearly as much of a problem as Santa Cruz refusing to allow any sort of density. The complaints I hear about tiny changes, like a hotel replacing two stories with three stories, are the real cause of Santa Cruz's woes.

SC has tried to be exclusionary for the past four decades, which means landowners get rich and there's no room for anybody who isn't rich. Tech has little to do with this. San Luis Obispo is going through the same stuff, and they can't blame Silicon Valley for that at all.

The problem is not new people, the problem is refusing to share.
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> No, they were not charged for any of the things claimed to be crimes in the article.

Both a fraudulent system of shell companies and knowingly profiting by enabling spam are alleged on the article, and both have been the subject of criminal charges against the firm and it's CEO. [0]

[0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/a-tough-week-for-ip-addr...
UK citizen here. "High-skilled" worker, left the UK. Policies like this do not make me want to return.
This is such a cool demo
The Cost of Hiring Software Engineers
Can you please stop using HN for ideological battle? You've done it repeatedly lately, and we ban such accounts. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using the site in the intended spirit, we'd appreciate it.
Show HN: Find the monitor you need on Amazon
Santa Cruz's city council has opposed any sort of state level action that would let more people live close to the jobs, ironically.
> Does that qualify as a "skilled professional" visa?

Yes, it does (minimally).

If you saw what the low skilled people were like both professionally and socially, you would understand why.

Your median foreign-born English teacher is at worst a neutral additions to Japanese society, and many have some upside.

Note that I am saying this as someone who does not have a high opinion of tour ELT folks in general, but I still think it’s true.
> Geek/Pro options can be further away.

If you take that to the extreme it becomes disrespectful and you'll lose those users to competitors who don't treat them as second (or third) class users.

A concrete example is controlling the player over a unix socket. A "geek/pro" feature to be sure, which VLC and mpv both have support for. mpv provides clear documentation of this feature while VLC provides next to zero documentation of this feature's existence, let alone how it actually works. As a "geek/pro" user, the choice between vlc and mpv couldn't be more clear. The former seems to pay lip service to UX while the later, despite promising little in the way of UX polish, actually delivers a more polished experience for anybody who might want to use these sort of features.
In my opinion, with regards to friendship, there is simply no substitute for an in person conversation. I happily drive 6 hours to see my best friends for a weekend; that's at least $70 in gas as well. FaceTime just isn't the same and I have a hard time imagining the people in my circle (the same type of people I would like to meet) spending their time trying to meet people on an app.
Pay is more of a function of where you work than skill. There are mediocre engineers being paid $300K at FAANG and great engineers being paid $100K at Random Small Company. FAANG pays more because it's better able to monetize what its engineers are building.
What are Nootropics and why should you be taking one
Indeed. Atomization was well under way before social media came along.
Could you elaborate, please? The policy seems reasonable. I've experienced in Hong Kong and Japan.
Kickstarter employees vote to be unemployed.
OK, I have two questions:

1. What country do you live in now?

2. Don't you find it hypocritical to bash Germany for allowing immigrants in, while you yourself have benefited from immigration, being an immigrant and all?
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. We've had to ask you this more than once before.

Especially please keep personal and/or nationalistic slurs well away from here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That Macbook Pro is probably also much more powerful than your Sun Ultra 5 workstation though. Technology has improved. The important question is whether the stuff they give you enables you to effectively do your job or not.
I worked for some time in a bank in France.
Some migrants does not know their real birth date, so their civil status can officially contain a date with zeroes, like `1999-00-00`.
On the contrary, the social insurance system for some reason decided to store this case as `1999-13-13`.

I discovered that in a very complex system that temporarily stored data in a SQL Server's `DATETIME` field, which ended up with people having NULL birth dates and made the whole system collapse.

The system is probably still running today by excluding those people from some fraud detection procedures.
yes. I am out of equities in my 401K. so i consider this a short position by being out of the market. i am not dumb enough to short the bull, its like stopping a freight train, might be deadly - my plan is to have cash ready to hopefully pick up some bargains when SHTF eventually. My time line is next 2-4 years. I am ok with losing some upside here, IMO downside risk is bigger than trying to squeeze last few bucks out of this thing.
I've heard lots of anecdotes from big sites doing fine with a small number of machines.

eg stackoverflow only has 1 active DB server, and 1 backup.

https://stackexchange.com/performance
> If the goal...

I disagree here. This is not always the goal of every research student. Some set the bar at solving a problem, and not going through a fixed number of mechanical steps of learning how to do research.

I think otherwise too, your statement misses a lot of nuances. Publishing "something good" can take drastically different levels of effort based on where you want to publish, what area and problem you are working on, who you are collaborating with, whether your problem is interdisciplinary, empirical or theoretical etc

You could say "schools should ensure PhDs finish in fixed x number of years" (with the understanding that it will change research outcomes) but to say that a PhD program naturally fits into x yr long time span is wrong IMHO.
Uber says it is closing office in downtown Los Angeles
I live in New Zealand and most of what you say already exists. Yet we still have all the normal social ills. So I think that's proof you're wrong.

> If everyone needed to expend less and less of their day working as things got more efficient

We have that! Get an unskilled part time job and the government will give you a bit extra to pay the rent, and even more to support your children, etc. They'll also actively help you find work if you're unemployed. To remain unemployed here, you have to really put an effort in if you're not disabled.

Personally, I have fairly high value skills and only use them part time, so I'm living your utopia. Most people with high earning capacity choose to earn more though.

So the big problem for you is how do you limit the efforts of ambitious people to enforce this easy life on them?
As a point of information, there are skilled visas and highly-skilled visas in Japan. The highly-skilled visas are the aforementioned point system but they make up a relatively small proportion of the non-Japanese population in Japan.

Skilled visas basically only require a degree and a job. They are straightforward to get.

Until recently Japan essentially filled its low-skill labor with students: You could work 28 hours per week on a student visa. Recently there has been a crackdown on this and a new "specified skills" visa created to try to replace student workers, however it is not yet popular[1].

[1]https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/21/national/japans...
Hmm... This looks identical to something that occurred on Ubuntu 14.04 when I came out of suspend, except it happened to all gtk apps. Switching to another virtual terminal then back to 7 seemed to reinitialize something and fix it.

Even nowadays, on rare occasion on Ubuntu 18.04, something like this occurs during startup of Android Studio. I don't recall seeing it on Firefox since at least 16.04 though.
> Québec has a lottery system for visas.

Are you talking about the previous immigration framework or the new one CAQ has implemented.
You need to install a karaoke captioning library to change your wallpaper
In this case I don't understand.

They ask for consent. You choose to provide it.

If you are putting forward the idea that you should be able to not consent but still use the service or view the content. Anyone not providing access is doing an illegal act in Europe. I'm not sure that's fair either. You choose to visit the site.
But we have lots of evidence about the Nimitz incident that doesn't appear to have anything to do with AAWSAP/AATIP.

There's a video that the government has confirmed as being authentic and showing an object they consider to be unidentified.

Further there are many (not sure the exact count, but I would say about a dozen) witnesses who have come forward and whose stories are broadly consistent. One of them is a retired Navy Commander who commanded a fighter squadron on the Nimitz and who has described visual observations of phenomena that appear to defy the laws of physics as we understand them. His testimony was supported by 3 or 4 other witnesses who observed the same event.

So whatever opinion one may have about AAWSAP/AATIP, I don't see how the credibility of those programs impacts that of the Nimitz incident.
check out FactorJS
> some issues are systemic

I would unionize just to get rid of open offices, for example
Speculation: Perhaps they will eventually adorn offshore oil rigs. 600kw is not large, but could help supplement power systems offshore.

It looks good for their image and seems a good fit for local conditions. In particular rigs stand-alone, so less concern with tether coming down on someone else.
This sounds like one of the typical Google X "problems" that's more or less a fun experiment with no real concrete sensible applications.

Can you make electricity with kites? Maybe. Probably. Should you? Probably not.

If you look at the Goole X website (https://x.company/), the problem is stated thusly: "How can kites be used to generate electricity in unexpected places?"

Any sensible person's first reaction to that should be: Why would you want to do that in the first place?

You want to generate energy in "unexpected places"? Why? I think you want to generate energy in places that need energy, no?

And why would you want to constrain the problem to use kites? What about all other energy sources? Is kites the best one? The most economical? Or is it just some engineering porn stuff?

Other problems seem to suffer from the same nonsensical approach:

"How can beams of light support the rapidly growing global demand for data?" Uh, what?

"How can balloons deliver the Internet to rural and unconnected places?" Who cares? How can paper airplanes deliver the internet to urban places? That's just a thought experiment with no motivation.

Etc. etc.
The title of this submission doesn't do a good job conveying that it's about the DEC Alpha CPU architecture. It says so in the first sentence, but that doesn't matter if the headline doesn't grab you. This is one I wish mods would editorialize a little :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha
Wow had a flashback to the web 2.0 bubble. They must be really convincing at sales to get funding for something they can't even explain, again.
I considered doing that once. Trouble is, how do you test it? It comes with one tiny example in the C subset, plus one substantial one (itself). Its behavior is generally undefined when the input departs from the subset. It seemed like more work to address these issues than the fun you could have in messing with the code.

So I sketched my refactorings without bothering to check them or to publish it.
Saw an obscure early US computer in the museum of a tin mine in China (Gejiu, Yunnan). I believe it was used to calculate trigonometric functions for mine shaft planning. French presence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries gave way in the 1940s to US presence, before communism and modernity.
They aren't running FreeCAD from 2002, they are running FreeCAD from 2020. I bet you couldn't run 2020's Firefox on a system from 2002, even though Firefox existed in 2002.
Sure. I don't think points-based systems are in-and-of-themselves unreasonable, in that there are good-faith arguments to be made in their favour. It's the undercurrent of meanness and xenophobia behind the policies that's more frightening to me.

It's difficult to comment on this one policy without contextualizing what's happened to Britain as a whole over the last few years, and a lot of it has been pretty ugly.
Just a wrapper adding affiliate codes (jstmntrs-20) to Amazon links... and most options not even populated (no flat screens?!)
AI has disrupted how we think about the human brain
Web Du Bois visualized black life in America in the 19th century
I think you have some of it, not all of it.
I think the biggest difference is that Materialize can do any kind of SQL join on many tables at once. Clickhouse materialized views can only reference one table.

What I'd like to know is if that would enable basically implementing social networks as just 3 tables and one materialized view, and how it would scale and perform.

Users, Relationships, Post, and a Feed materialized view that simply joins them together with an index of user_id and post_timestamp.

As relationships and messages are created or deleted, the feed view is nearly instantly updated. The whole entire view service logic then is just one really fast query. "select user,post,post_timestamp from feed where user_id = current_user and post_timestamp <= last_page_post_timestamp order by post_timestamp desc limit page_size"
This is less LSP and more the co/contravariance of container types, which is its own special hell.
The clickable genome: click on any gene and generate a function-phenotype map
Do you need a citation to know that lots of PACs engage in polling using worthless methodology? Surely you've seen expensive TV spots that have no clear messaging and make the candidate they support look awful. A whole lot of campaign spending seems like grifting, but maybe I'm wrong.

Look, I'm not say that FB ads are totally useless in general, just that there's some burden of proof when you claim they swayed an election.

> What data is that perspective based on or is it just your gut feeling (aka bias)?

People have literally used the phrase "think of the children," or some variation.
You're a UK citizen, you don't need a visa. This policy has practically 0 impact on you.
Can you share the filters you picked? Monitors section is definitely not as polished, however there must be couple flat screens.

Edit: you can disable the affiliate tags, link is on the header.
This is benchmark for crappyness.
I suspect that one of the keys to user-friendly structured data will be storing sparse data, in the sense of incompletely defined data (note that's real persistence, not just existing in the editor). It's also important to allow data that doesn't (yet) conform to whatever schema is relevant, but I think sparse data will generalize to that case.

One of the undersold features of plain text is being able to exist in "invalid" states while it's being edited. Structured data UI needs to have a least that level of malleability to have a chance over the current paradigm.
I also value in-person conversation. But my experience has increasingly been that my circle of friends is up for having dinner or whatever, but during the meal everyone is looking down at their phones and they only have half of their attention on the conversation. When your friends aren’t entirely present mentally, then even in-person meetups can make you feel lonely.
That's the point Peter Thiel made to Eric Schmidt's face before Alphabet even existed.

Google doesn't want people/regulators to think they're a monopolistic search engine, so they build that phony shell company to host a bunch of nonsense sideshows to divert attention.
Fortunately, more and more of them are owned by DAL instead of a bank.
At Makani we believe that the technology is not only viable, but would confer a significant competitive advantage in the deepwater offshore scenario.
You would need to contact us to buy an enterprise license. (Or wait four years for the license to convert to Apache 2.)
The “global talent” thing is weird, in that the main website talks a big game, but the fine print reveals that it only covers a few very specific jobs. Neither my wife nor I qualified (PhD researchers in ‘hot’ fields) but video game artists apparently do.
> Rest of Canada has a points based system but is being played by low skilled workers.

Same in Australia, so many "skilled" workers that are driving taxis, driving uber eats, working in 711, doing tier 1 tech support, etc. It's a good idea in theory but the implementation is horrible, especially when there is high youth un/under employment. It get's even worse when you combine it with the "education" paper mill industry.
Powerful economies plundering the world of intellectual resources is both a shame on one hand and an inevitability on the other. Unfortunately there is no perfect immigration system and competition between nations for resources makes these type of policies attractive.
Something able to learn or to discover without relying on a 'brute force' (exhaustive exploration of the problem space) approach.

Neural networks are in a way pertinent, I reckon, however I'm not enthusiastic about the fact that using it forbids us to 'explain how it solves the problem'. It also apply, albeit somewhat to a lesser extent(?), to bayesians and such.
>where they want you to produce one receipt for the customer and a different one for the restaurant or salon or shady car mechanic that then pockets the unreported tax aka a 'zapper'.

Isn't this super easy to discover if you use any sort of electronic payment? Salons and restaurants might be cash based, but who pays their mechanic in cash?
> There is also the issue of the "big" tech companies piling up cash rather than compensating their employees.

Big tech companies already do that in the form of stock options, grants, and employee stock purchase plans.
UK is going to be in serious trouble because of this.

(1) They already had a major shortage for low skilled workers to assist in agriculture and social care. And yes they have tried to raise wages and encourage UK applicants with little success. Given the lack of consultation with the agriculture industry I am guessing they are just going to let it wither and die.

(2) Given how poorly the Home Office has treated EU citizens wanting to remain in the UK as well as scandals such as Windrush I can't imagine too many people trusting them to look after you over the long term.
> when's the last time Knuth wrote a check for TAOCP?

Got one in the mail yesterday (check was written Feb 10). In fact you can figure out how many checks were written in the last month, roughly: compare https://web.archive.org/web/20200110074014/https://cs.stanfo... with https://web.archive.org/web/20200219035903/https://cs.stanfo... I imagine most of these checks (definitely all $7 of mine) were from finding bugs in pre-fascicles, i.e. bleeding-edge drafts he's been putting up online. (See near the bottom of https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html)

On the other hand, while you mention Knuth and "done", TeX and METAFONT are better examples. He declared them "done" in 1990 (https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb11-4/tb30knut.pdf), but still does bug fixes:

> I still take full responsibility for the master sources of TeX, METAFONT, and Computer Modern. Therefore I periodically take a few days off from my current projects and look at all of the accumulated bug reports. This happened most recently in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2007, and 2013; following this pattern, I intend to check on purported bugs again in the years 2020, 2028, 2037, etc. The intervals between such maintenance periods are increasing, because the systems have been converging to an error-free state.

(The latest round, in 2013, did surface one bug: the debug string representation of an "empty" control sequence was missing a space.)
On the last point, Apple seems to be betting otherwise with its exorbitant prices for top spec Mac Pro configurations.
You went too Far. Loon (the balloon project) has done real work which people are benefitting from, in rural and remote areas which cover 5b people. Also, their design ideas for inter-device communication are popping up in spaceX and other places.

The space-X inter-satellite communication is photonics: beams of light.

So thats two things you pontificated on, you don't actually understand.

Loon is not 'blah, who cares' -Loon is 'wow: this is working, lets get this deployed' joined to 'we can re-purpose your model in LEO sats'

Do you seriously think "rural and unconnected places" is a who cares response? Here's a hint: go read the iridium story. People (with money) care a LOT about these spaces.
It's interesting that while these projects don't go forward, Google doesn't open-source the work they already did on them. It may not be viable for a business like Google to pursue such an operation, but it might be a viable solution for other entities that could benefit from it.
That's a very narrow lens with which to look at it. It matters a great deal when your friends, co-workers and communities would be affected by policies like this. Historically, the UK has benefitted immensely from its immigrant population.
I mean, did anyone really expect the UK to stop being xenophobic after they left the EU?