skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a fixed cap on the royalty rate, so even if we assume Microsoft paid for a license for each copy of Windows sold to customers, on a per-copy basis it would be much less than 1%.
Without access to the residuals, I'd still venture to guess that the assumptions of the regression are not severely violated in this data set.

When this regression is conducted, the null hypothesis is not rejected (regression slope not significantly different than zero). If someone is somehow arguing this regression rejects the null hypothesis, then they would be incorrect. But there is nothing wrong with using regression here. Its kind of the whole point. This is basic regression statistics 101.

Error bands on the regression slope would help people understand the uncertainty of the apparent slope.
Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign
Early in our marriage my wife said that we shouldn’t exchange gifts. I thought she was crazy and would changer her mind, but over the past 25 years neither of us has ever purchased a gift for the other. It has actually turned out great. Now I don’t have to spend any time thinking about what she might want. She’s happy, I’m happy, capitalism is not so happy ;-)

The one interesting thing is that I don’t like buying gifts for other people anymore. If I’m not going to buy my wife a gift, why would I buy you a gift when you are no where near as important to me as she is?
There are three kinds of arguments: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

Just because Logos is effective on you, doesn't mean its the best methodology in general. Arguments towards authority and emotion must be understood as such, and provide greater insight to the crowds you're discussing with.

If you're going Logos-only into a discussion, you've effectively disarmed yourself. Your debate opponent will use Ethos, Logos, and Pathos to get a rhetorical advantage against you.

Therefore, its important to learn the Ethos-based and Pathos-based arguments that members of a crowd will make, in preparation before you discuss matters with them.
>Nobody takes attendance, and if you look like a student,

>nobody's going to notice that you're not actually

>enrolled in the class.

>And yet, nobody actually does this!

...if they don't take attendance, how do you know nobody does this?
> WHO say there is no evidence that asymptomatic carriers can spread the virus

So, it's true that the WHO said that, although they've since clarified that by 'no evidence' they mean "we don't know", not "it doesn't happen". ('no evidence' is one of those phrases that people misunderstand). However, _pre-symptomatic_ cases are contagious, and there's no way to know if you're negative, asymptomatic, or pre-symptomatic, so as public health advice "asymptomatic people may not be contagious" is not useful (it's somewhat useful from and epidemiological standpoint).

> I've even seen plenty of articles suggesting that wearing the mask is making things worse

There were some early concerns that masks would make people act more riskily, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

> or that lockdowns are making things worse

Who claimed that?!

Look, in any emerging situation, there's a lot of confusion and uncertainty. But it now seems pretty clear that masks don't make things worse, and there's some reason to hope that they make things better. And they're cheap. So people should wear them.
I took networking courses at a community college. The professor was fantastic, a former IBM employee who'd been doing network stuff at AT&T for 20 years. He wasn't a professor, but this guy knew his stuff. It was the perfect way to get some "hands-on" experience with routing and switching.

Community colleges don't do everything well, but when it comes to building hard skills, it's hard to think of a better bang for your buck. (Particularly if you live in NY like me, it's free!)
> There's a growing rift in software between employers saying "there's a talent shortage" and a rapidly growing population of devs who feel like they're locked out due to the technical interview process.
Many of the engineers not being hired are recent bootcamp grads but there are also tons of CS majors that can't seem to "crack" the interview process.

I'm extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA's at these are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0].

I'm afraid that a lot of these bootcamps train the students on "practical and applied skills" that makes them one trick ponies. ie, they know how to do one thing and one thing only and if the project's stack change it's unclear if they will be able to adapt.

> This has been a great way to shift interviews away from algorithms and more towards finding people can add immense value to technical teams even without having on-the-job programming experience.

I'll play devil's advocate here and say that algorithms are a pretty good proxy for on-hire performance. I can, as an interviewer, expect most grads from serious CS programs to have had an algorithm class. Being able to demonstrate that they are capable of learning algorithms and applying them gives me confidence that they will be able to learn new stuff fast when joining the team.

It's a sink or swim situation where I believe that it's very hard to teach CS fundamentals on the job but relatively easy to teach new tools and new frameworks. So I would rather hire someone with strong fundamentals

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...
Honestly, just give everybody liquor chocolates and the occasional bottle of scotch, and you will be fondly remembered long after you are gone. It's not thoughtless. It's a strategy.
Possibly cost factor? Hiring 4 non-skilled people may have been cheaper than adding the extra machinery.
H1B petitions in computer occupations are predominantly in software development and computer programming.

About 30% are for "computer systems analyst" or "computer occupations, other" but I don't really buy most of those petitions aren't actually for devs. All software developers on TN visas (NAFTA/USMCA visas) are officially "computer systems analysts" for example.
Yep. But Pyodide is under development and has numpy and friends already...

https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide
This is called “auditing” and you don’t even have to sneak in to do it. You just ask.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_audit
> The people who study these kinds of things consider accidents as well

"Consider" is a lovely word. I would certainly consider how they accounted for things like a ~220 sq/mi exclusion zone in Japan, if I had any idea what was being referenced.

> Wildlife has returned incredibly with the absence of humans.

It is true that many animals find radiation more tolerable than people. You can make similar claims about mountain top removal - thanks to devastated ecosystems, Kentucky is repopulating their elk.

When you get around to looking at the costs of these wildlife havens, enthusiasm for diving down this line of inquiry in any serious fashion tends to evaporate on the nuclear-booster side, though. "Something can live in any hellhole humanity can create" isn't the best of bumper-stickers, I guess.

> Climate change has pretty large potential land impacts

Anything that encourages taking these externalities more seriously than now...
> Because they still want to hire lots of Americans. They just don't want to pay them market prices. So they bring in H1-Bs to lower wages. If they hired them overseas, there wouldn't be that effect:

Wow, it takes skill to come up with an argument like that. How do you imagine this conversation happens at MegaCorp_0 between HR and a Hiring manager?

HR: “I know you need someone who has Skill_0, but we want to reduce wages so it has to be a h1b...”

Manager: “But I already have Candidate_0..”

HR: “Nope has to be h1b!”

/s (in case it was not obvious)
Also https://touchpianist.com/

Edit: Oh, and this one looks silly but generates surprisingly nice chord progressions that actually resolve sometimes: https://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/
As for Starship Troopers, you really could call it a flop. It cost $105m to make and the US box office was $22m. Since then it has made $121m, so barely a profit.

I'd put Starship Troopers in the "bad" category because it is really campy. It is so on the nose that it becomes absurd and funny (past the on the nose that is annoying). It reminds me of a scene in Birdemic where they are like "Man, that was a good movie: An Inconvenient Truth." which was thrown in out of nowhere as if the writer only read the summary on the wikipedia entry for "foreshadowing" and said "oh, I need some of that in my story." In Starship Troopers it is undeniably clear that they are drawing parallels to Nazis, they even make fun of this in this article where they talk about the identical flag. Everything about this movie is extremely over the top. But this is also what makes it so funny.

Enjoyable and a lot of fun, but definitely in the bad movie category.
Netflix Beat Hollywood to a Generation of Black Content
The H1B program is the only reason the US has a tech industry at all. 75% of silicon valley tech workers are immigrants.
I lost interest in this stuff when I got my first sysadmin job.
Unless they directly issue to the fed and use the proceeds to pay off prior debt

This is very commonplace in corporate credit, aside from issuing directly to the federal reserve, which has offered verbatim to be the sole investor!

Free money!

I read the whole CARES Act and found this extra large bailout to be the biggest market distortion and thought it should have more air time than PPP or unemployment insurance boosts
Then you go into an Internet cafe or borrow somebody's phone and do a video call to establish it really is you asking.

The countdown timer to when this can be convincingly deepfaked is ticking, but while a pre-recorded video is within realm of possibility (if the scammer can get access to video of the person, which is already hard), being able to fake a live conversation is still a ways off.

Also, I'd tell you to leave a backup card in a separate place from the rest of your belongings, but you've probably learned that the hard way already!
> There are generally 3 conclusions you can draw from a correlation like this: A directly causes B, B directly causes A, or something else more complex is at play. ... Hopefully that explains. It's essentially a correlation vs. causation issue.

Note that for predictor it does not really matter correlation vs. causation. That matters for intervention. If you have feature A that in the population always causes features B and C, and no other causes them, then presence of B is perfect predictor of C, but intervention that changes B (and not A) does not affect C.

On the other hand if feature D causes feature E in 90% cases, and no other causes it, then D is predictor of E with 10% false positives, but intervention on D affects E.

It is true that 'perfect causality' predictors, where the set of accounted factors are only causes of a predicted feature, have advantage that they work the same for any subset (or any change) of population. While predictors that ignore some causal factors (like the predictor from the first example that ignores common causal factor) may have vasly different probabilities for subset (or change) of population (when distribution of ignored factors change). But in practice most real-world causal networks are super complex and many real-world tests ignore many causal factors. So it is kind of isolated demand for rigor [1].

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fzeoYhKoYPR3tDYFT/beware-iso...
It would be great if the subscription money went to automatically unlocking pay walled content so we don't have to individually sign up to all these sites we would rather not share our details with.
Would be cool to do sentiment analysis on the typed text to switch between major/minor or other characteristics.
A quote from an Ecma presentation

"ECMA for instance has made all the standards for DVD and optical disks. There were 5 recording formats. So there you are a little bit uneasy, of course. And again after a few beers I can ask the people in the room. Why do you want to have 5 formats? Do you still call that standardization? The answer is always the same: You are well paid. Shut up"

https://youtu.be/wITyO71Et6g?t=226
Good compression is quite complex and can go wrong in an unimaginable variety of ways. Remember when Xerox copiers would copy numbers incorrectly due to compression? The numbers would look clear, they just wouldn't always be the same numbers that you started with.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
The Scandal of Our Drug Supply
This is one of the reasons many experienced politicians choose not to comment on things that they know will only politicize a thing. As soon as Trump decided to tie his political fortunes to something, it created negative motivations for others to see it fail. And with Trump's record, as soon as he mentions something, a lot of people are going to instantly assume the truth must be elsewhere.
Increase the count and also the minimum salary. It's bonkers that the $65k minimum from 1989 has never been updated, especially given which cities many H1B immigrants need to live.
This is an excellent run down of a clear view on nuclear.

However, I'd like to add that nuclear waste is also very much a solved problem beyond just storing it safely as well.

Nuclear reprocessing [1] is capable of taking all spent nuclear byproducts and turning them into not just vastly more useful energy, but also comparatively tame byproducts that do not require extreme storage methods as they are of no harm to humans in less than 100 years. It literally closes the nuclear fuel cycle and is ~80 year old technology.

The only reason we don't do this is economic. Uranium in America is plentiful and incredibly cheap. It is currently less expensive to buy fresh Uranium for ancient reactors and store toxic waste forever than to build reprocessing plants and breeder reactors and have no toxic waste.

Reprocessing is done routinely in Europe, Japan and Russia where Uranium is not as cheap and they incidentally don't have any problems with nuclear waste.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
In regards to this topic, the "gullible" line of thought misses the forest for the trees, because it still operates in the mode of "it was your personal responsibility [to not be scammed], and if you were, it is because you were gullible." This means the elderly are particularly vulnerable, as per your account, but it also means that there's less inclination to push for change and protection against scams like this from the general public in America. (I feel that in other cultures, such as Japan, the elderly tend to be regarded with respect for their wisdom rather than derision of their "regressing" minds).

My anecdotal story to the contrary of yours: I have a friend who graduated from a top 10 US college a few years ago and couldn't find a job. Right when they were desperately filing for applications and feeling very worried about their future (as recent college graduates are wont to do), this person received a call from 911 that fell exactly into this class:

>Impersonations of government employees accounted for ~60% of these cases.

The "911" was from the local police department of the city where they lived. The person was told that a warrant for their arrest has been issued - that 3 years before, there was a particular document to be filed with the IRS that had to declare all scholarship money awarded for a particular scholarship, and according to their documents, that document is three years overdue and has already incurred $700 in fines. The amount of time elapsed since the due date warranted x many jail days without immediate payment, and a mark on the criminal record... additionally, since this involves defrauding the government, their freshly minted university degree was about to be revoked.

My friend is an immigrant. They didn't know that university degrees couldn't be revoked, nor that no such thing as "government vouchers" bought from a grocery store existed (this was the trick - when the person arrives looking for the vouchers at Target or Office Depot, the agent on the phone says that some gift card can be an acceptable form of payment instead).

I took note of this scam both because of how elaborate it was, how believable it was (especially to someone less than familiar with the US government), how the person on the "911" call used psychological tactics to continue to make this vulnerable person more and more panicked about their future particularly at a time when they were already financially insecure. My friend was not gullible. But my friend did fear repercussions from the US government enough to completely fall for this scam.
Maybe something discordant when you type in a variable name that isn't defined? :D
Residents inside Melbourne's public housing blocks clash with cops
You can get away from the internet anywhere in the world.
> That implication has become a meme - you even hear the usually-well-reasoned Jon Stewart barking about how the pandemic has uncovered who's actually essential and how poorly they're paid.

This is the closest we've come to an exploitable global crisis that could serve to precipitate the long-hoped-for revolution. Do not expect even the well-reasoned to leave it on the table.
H1-B has other issues but regarding H1-B working for 10+ years, it is mostly due to country caps for green cards.

H1-B do get sponsored green cards, at least for the non-startup companies. IIRC, any H1-B having more than one extension i.e. > 6 years has to have a green card application pending. H1-B doesn't have country caps.

The green card system however has per country caps, which impacts primarily people born in India, China, Mexico,El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Vietnam and Philippines. If you are born in Greece and come to USA on H1-B where a company sponsors green card for you, you would get it in around 1-3 years.

Source: Was born in India and also had a roommate from Greece who got green card in about 14 months after being in USA.

EDIT: Added El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Vietnam to list of countries impacted based on https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...
Astonishing that after six+ months of worldwide research on war footing we are still learning new aspects of COVID-19.
Yeah, but the phrase "only time" somewhat suggests you use "why" as an excuse to comment rarely. You can nonetheless write such a comment for essentially every line.

My job description is not "developer" at the moment, so when I was asked to comment my code in order to turn it over to the developers, I looked for some standards. The document I found said, more or less, that you should write comments such that if the code was removed, someone could use the comments to completely reconstruct it.

An obvious problem is that you can write about the "why" of anything on a micro or macro level or in between.
Lawmakers secured millions in PPP loans
> Instacart is both expensive and unreliable. I'll go back to in store once things die down, and I'm sure many others will too.

I can't stand Instacart but I begrudgingly use it (for now) because it's the safer option for everyone involved. I also haven't forgotten that they were stealing shoppers' tips for a long time.

Once this is over I'll never use it again.
Actually, I think that number doesn't even really capture the problem. Because it doesn't indicate by how much those workers salary is lower than average. The studies I've seen on this suggest it's a significant gap. I'll see if I can find that study, and others.

>Does this delta level off over time once foreign workers achieve a certain level of domestic experience? Does it go away once they transfer to new jobs?

I'd be very surprised if it didn't at least improve. But it still results in suppressed salaries for American workers. And isn't some weird conspiracy that tech CEOs believe salaries are far too high and want to suppress them: we have emails of them discussing exactly that (in another context not involving immigration)

EDIT: I previously had some other suggestions, but I think the most beneficial and abuse-proof system for all involved would be to have the tech companies bid for visas (as many others have suggested). That should eliminate the potential for abuse.
What is the one thing where Hollywood can innovate better than Netflix. Seems to be zero.
Common carriers used to collect paper I-94 forms when visitors were checking in for their return flights. Now they transmit this information to CBP electronically.

This site will let you search your own travel history with both arrival and departure dates - https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/history-search
QFC in Seattle's U-District is doing a great job.
Back in the 90s, making fun of Nazis / fascism / hyper-violence was a safe subject. Its hardly "political" in the context of the time when it was made.

Case in point: Star Wars, the beloved Sci-fi space opera, also leans on heavy Nazi / Fascist themes when building up the empire. Its supposed to be the "safe" subject of discussion and biting satire.
These exist, called dual-layer LCD. IIRC mostly reserved for professional applications, with some consumer stuff on the horizon.
> For instance, I do not trust Google. But a huge portion of the web won't work unless my browser assumes Google can issue certs for any domain in the world.

Um no. Google's four production roots (GTS Root R1 through R4) are essentially dormant. You could (but probably shouldn't) manually distrust these roots with no impact.
> Unless they directly issue to the fed and use the proceeds to pay off prior debt

True, it could happen, but it would take away from the profits banks and secondary market participants get from issuing it directly them selling the debt to treasury dept leveraging fed bucks :P
I think the real solutions is to stop using the terms black and white to describe people. Especially since it is so inaccurate.
Even academic papers with open-source code can be infuriating to get working. Usually it's a mess of hidden dependencies, specific versions of global libraries, hard coded paths, undocumented compiler settings, specific OS versions...

Usually, the highly specific experience and knowledge of the author is assumed in the reader...
Indeed, where there is fibre, men fear the fearsome spectre of Gecko: beady eyes light the dark as it stalks in their footstep. The last true realm of Man is the Falklands. Driven back from their former glory, they now make a last stand.
np, good points. I was curious myself as well
Why? Will it be used in a racist context? I can't imagine the KKK flying a cornbread and grits flag at their next rally, can you?
This paper is really shoddy work. It doesn't even account for the fact that most H1B workers are early in their career and thus more junior employees.
That should be a signal that's there's an oversupply for whatever Bachelors degrees these employees were holding.

It's the same thing in law, the best advice to give to an aspiring lawyer is to go have a chat with a practicing lawyer at a non-elite firm.
I guess we have different definitions of “bad” (which you seem to be defining more as “not appreciated in its own time”), because I think it is a genuinely good movie with a successfully realized artistic vision, rather than a piece of empty but entertaining schlock. It’s campy because the aesthetics of fascism that it’s satirizing are campy.
Will someone just ask her
...if she's ever had the drumpf's disk in her mouth? That would go a long way towards clearing up all this shiite. Jest sayin'..
486 is pre-RoHS, so there’s probably lead in the solder. I wouldn’t want it hanging around kids.
Indeed. The website doesn't seem to exist any longer, so I chose an old archive (2010). I seem to remember the formatting being better in a more recent one, but I can't find it.