skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now sure, but farm subsidies was a battle fought before you where born. In 1800 such a large percentage of the population was farming that the idea of farm subsidies would have come off as silly. Going back further the idea of say landed nobility in Europe and not the US is such an old fight it became a cultural institution.
Thanks for doing this. As someone looking into studying in the US next year, the recent ICE guidelines did make me a bit worried, and I know of quite a few friends who've decided to either give up, put it off for another year or look at other destinations. Given the pandemic, consulates not processing visas and the political factors, is it still a good idea to think about applying for Fall 2021?
This is a really good point and I fell for the all or nothing nature of the article hook line and sinker. Very often the correct answer is something of a middle ground and this case seems to be no different.
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Here's Alexa top 50 for Germany

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/DE
Not the original purpose of NAT, sure, but it achieves that goal much better then IPv6

Privacy extensions are a hack and still uniquely identify someone even if it changes once a day.

NAT hides them all the time.

If I have 100 nodes, good luck identifying them over PNAT as an ISP, without PNAT you have nice tags per each node... they change once a day but you match to last days traffic.

Onto connectivity:

a) block incoming traffic - sure - blocking with firewall, NAT is redundant, its a poor mans firewall BUT if you misconfigure the firewall or is disabled, you are screwed, whereas NAT just works.

b) break peer-to-peer applications.

Port NAT is needed for privacy, so this is a given.

I also like it breaking peer-to-peer apps I only want specific nodes to be able to host stuff if ever.

For home networks STUN/TURN works just fine without having external parties know who is placing the call.
And India, but includes religious leaders.
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ARAMCO is wealthy because they own all the oil in Saudi Arabia.
I think the following is poorly worded and possibly incorrect:

>What is the area enclosed by the function f(x) = sin²x - x²(sin³x)(cos²x) and the x-axis — between -π/4 and π/4?

Well, the second part is an odd function so we know its areas are 0 over symmetric regions, assuming "area" means "signed area". So we're left with sin²x which has a trick: the integral of sin²x and cos²x are equal over any of the quarter cycles of the graph -- same shape and everything. So we have that over our domain, pi/2 = Int(1) = Int(cos²x+sin²x) = Int(sin²x+sin²x) = 2Int(sin²x)... so the answer would be pi/4 (which doesn't appear).

I also suspect that some of the answers must be wrong, possibly in the counting or probability questions where it is extremely easy to make a logical error.

In my opinion the author should have a third party scrutinize his/her answers. I'm quite certain I didn't get 40% of the questions wrong. (I have a math PhD, taught calculus for 4 years, scored 170 on the quant section of the GRE, and went through this whole "test" very carefully).
You're not alone. This has always felt scammy. It's a little more gray-area than some of the traditional vapor-ware which was more about driving competition out of business by large players, but still something I try to avoid.
It's very important to have this conversation out in the open - contempt for meritocracy is a persistent undercurrent of the social strife in the west, and left unattended it will derail most efforts to improve our society.
Tangentially related to this but I felt it added to your comment - SES is great for sending emails but horrendous as far as reading received emails goes..which makes sense since SES is better suited for transactional/mass emailing.

In any case, I decided to build myself an SES email client which reads emails from S3. I'm looking for collaborators @ https://github.com/saiorama/ses-email-client/.

The idea is to make an App Store for emails. The first use case I've solved for is give users unlimited disposable emails on their own domain - like your personal Mailinator.

If you would like to try it out for your own side project, drop me a note @ https://shared-inbox.landen.co/.
I wonder how that behavior is reconciled with the idealistic basis of YC's application process where its open to everyone without needing warm intros and all. Pretty hypocritical to decide the only people worth your time are the people who found and had the time to engage with an internet forum that occasionally seems less like a forum and more like a recruiting and marketing tool for YC startups.
The parent I was responding to claims there's no evidence that the US has ever "disappeared" people with no rights. My point is simply a counter to that.
I think you misunderstood OP's comment

The definition of federal:
"Of or constituting a form of government in which power is distributed between a central authority and a number of constituent territorial units"

OP is suggesting a more decentralized EU, not a "bigger leviathan"
Indeed, the math doesn't pencil out.

I don't know, but I'd hazard a guess that the image is 100 hr deep on multiple tiles.

The dataset spans 10 days, which is 240 hr.
USA, iOS

I’m also redirected to the homepage
The biggest problem with the selection boxes (when they do appear) is the garbage data. In this scenario, you'd get something like "1440p" "1440 pixels" and "1.4KP", sorted nowhere near each other.
"R inferno" will help with the software engineering bits I suppose. R is sort of designed to do this sort of work, and it assumes the end user is more of a statistician than a programmer. Lots of foot-guns. On the other hand, Python has a lot of them as well, and it's NOT designed for this kind of work. It's a sort of mixed bag: R core is vastly better than Python for this sort of task. There's a subset of R packages which are as good as scikit learn (which is very good indeed), but there is also a pile of total shit. R's package manager is also better than anything in the python universe, but node bros manage to screw it up. I loathe python from long experience, so I polarized on R, but python is definitely winning.

I just assume anyone who calls themselves a data scientist is going to be a shit tier programmer who needs to improve over time at this point. The exceptions kind of prove the rule. Imposing test-driven discipline will cure some of the worst tendencies.

I don't have good references on stats and linear regression tier data science, but I'll take someone who understand the basics (I dunno, calculating useful moments from empirical distributions, feature selection in linreg) over some weenie who has some cribbed ipython file in his githubs who claims to understand Hastie.
Ha! I just ordered a custom skate deck with these images on the bottom.
Being inside FB (or any other large company) has way more advantages than users entering the door.

Just the metrics and analytics that FB can gather on experiments is an insanely huge hill a regular startup can't climb. FB can gather and analise data at a scale, on so many markets and devices and demographics that none other plan tier at 3rd party integrations can hope to match. The SRE support you get, a 30 minute conversation with other great product managers, engineers, designers one meeting invite away, a history of what others have tried and what worked and what didn't, and so much more.

And if you get a VP to support you, even for a bit, we're basically talking about a torrent of money and resources being thrown at your project while you still drawn a 6 figure salary (plus benefits and bonus and stocks!). It's really apples to oranges here.
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the internet actually provides tremendous value to society

Like cat videos and clickbait?
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I met someone recently from one of the countries south of the US border that came to the US as a kid. Very talented and hardworking but undocumented. She may be here on the Dream act, but I did not feel it appropriate to ask at the time. Currently she is doing a masters degree in mechatronics and robotics. Schools are are not allowed to ask about status, so she is taking the opportunity to invest as much as possible in her education, however given her skills she also has the ability to earn well.

I was fortunate to be born as a citizen in the US so I don't know how to navigate such issues. As I understand it, it is a minefield for a company to hire undocumented workers, even if they are highly skilled workers. Are undocumented individuals allowed to start companies? Does YC have a stance on this from an investment perspective?
My ideological priors:

1) I believe the US constitution should be amended to ban racist speech and membership of explicitly racist political parties. There should be a lengthy and precise amendment stipulating that the US government considers human beings to belong to only one race, Homo sapiens sapiens, and that any racialist understanding of human diversity (claiming whites and blacks are separate races, for example) is pseuedoscience, although not necessarily criminal. While racialism is not criminalized, anyone using racialist "science" to falsely claim intellectual or behavioral differences between different ethnic groups has committed a serious crime. Blacks, Native Americans, and Jews should be explicitly protected. This would mean that Charles Murray and Andrew Sullivan would go to jail. Likewise, anyone who uses provably false assertions about history to deny the occurrence of racist violence or genocide has committed a serious crime. This would mean David Irving would go to jail if he set foot in the US. Note that my amendment is specifically about race and not ethnicity.

2) I respect that most anti-racists disagree with me and I acknowledge that the "thoughtcrime" problem with my proposed amendment is very real. I am aware that the amendment in point 1 could very easily criminalize legitimate anthropological research, and so on. But our laws against human subject research risks criminalizing legitimate research in medicine (and certainly creates heavy barriers for researchers). So in my view I think the risk pales in comparison to the danger posed by Holocaust/slavery/etc denial.

But I think your view of "freedom" is a bit shallow - specifically conflating "freedom" and "rights" is a problem. For instance: people used to have the "freedom" to resolve disputes with a duel to the death. The government constrained this freedom but it is difficult to believe that anyone's rights were violated. Likewise, only true zealots seriously believe that "a right to bear arms" is "a right to bear whatever weapon you want." The government constrains your freedom to own missiles and automatic weaponry but this is not a constraint of your rights.

Similarly, I just plain disagree that people have the right to express racist views or endorse Nazism. Given that racist conduct and expression can be defined fairly precisely, even given that bigoted or ethnically prejudiced conduct cannot, I think such an exception to free speech rights is legally workable. More philosophically, racism is so uniquely dangerous, and so indefensible intellectually, and so useless for anything other than spreading hatred and violence, that it should be an explicit exception to our understanding of free speech laws and our natural rights around self-expression. Again, I am not accusing people who disagree with me of indifference to racism.
Q1) For entrepreneurs/founders, the best visas are E-1s, E-2s, L-1s, and O-1s. Q2) You are alluding to the L-1 intracompany transferee visa but to work, the Germany company must have employees and be doing business and must continue to have employees and do business after the transfer.
I reckon the same general phenomenon extends to most any human endeavor on the planet at the macro and micro level (and everything in between), and hardly anyone even notices they are doing it unless someone happens to point it out, which typically (in my experiences) then results in some form of rationalization. It's like (or actually is) humanity is living in a fantasy world at all times, but we're unable to realize it, or even consider it.
The log index supports as-of if you know the actual transaction ID, but if you want to look up by entity/attribute efficiently it's not much help because you don't know when the data point you're interested in was last modified.
Luckily for theme parks, the pandemic hit right as winter maintenance was wrapping up for seasonal parks so it shouldn't have many adverse effects if any. And since then, maintenance workers have been on site running and getting the rides ready to reopen. Actually, it seems like this might be a good things for parks since the extra time has given them a lot more time to do more long term projects and refurbishment they never had time for in the past.
This is so very true. I just migrated a 17 year old Struts 1.* app with most of my team in India from Weblogic to Tomee. It's a mission critical application with 400 users during business hours. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Hey Peter - It seems that almost 2/3 of the USCIS staff will be furloughed starting August 3rd. What is the likely impact on processing times? Also in particular, any insight on adjustment of status applications?
Using analytics generated from logs is also problematic, because if the operations team decides a service is emitting too many logs, they will start pruning them, and not always from the aggregations service.

Analytics instead should be a separate stream in most cases.
I can get an E3 visa, looking to move the US. I have a few online side projects that generate some money, am I still legally able to work on these on the side whilst working my main job? Bank account that im paid into and business will still be registered in Australia
Thank you for this comment, it made my day. I usually see posts wanting skilled immigrants out. The last few months have been especially bad due to the various policies that have been adopted.
I think it's pretty obvious Amazon has done the math and determined it's not worth their time to do anything about it.
did the feedback continue to be useful past the first 1000 or 5000 responses?
Depending on the product, there is an expected and accepted defect rate. This can be very high in situations where detecting and removing the defects would cost more to the supplier than the customer would spend handling the defects. If you deal in dirt cheap electronic junk (think novelty holiday junk) the rate can be as high as 10%. Bottom of the market SD cards are getting close to that standard.
> You mean "... as they don't wear masks ..." , correct?

No. Wearing masks when common sense says you ought to, in the current situation, is independent-minded, not conformist. (For example, consider: the same person would have been wearing a mask before any guidance or rules were issued about it at all, since it took quite a while for such guidance and rules to catch up with the actual situation. A Bottom Left person would have been waiting for some guidance or rules to be issued. A Top Left person would have been calling out the mask wearer for overreacting, after all, things can't possibly be that bad if no guidance or rules have been issued requiring people to wear masks, right?)

> I think you are leaving out the people who reject masks at every opportunity.

Strictly speaking, yes, those could also count as Top Right, but I wanted to emphasize the fact that Top Right does not require stupidity.
This applies to internal email as well, no on reads your essays. Keep it short, bullet points if possible, and don't request responses to more than one or two questions at a time.

Seriously though, no one reads your email.
Nope. Google hasn't been mining gmail emails since 2017.
Exactly. Spain's government and institutions are still riddled with Francoists despite passing away in 1975 and there's still very much a fascist element that rear their ugly heads from time to time.
Agreeing with what you have said here, but you might have to leave food prices out of the argument soon. I don’t know what numbers economists look at for this, but just as naive consumers we are noticing that food prices are going up.
Why are you so certain? It seems that even a decade ago C# performance wasn't far off from C++, if not slightly faster[0].

[0] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2009/01/03/debunking-c-vs...
> The developers who complain about Indian and Pakistani developers are usually:

Unfortunately, the list that follows describes the managers of literally every US-based company. If this is the requirement for successful offshore consultancy, then engineers here can rest assured their jobs will never actually be at stake.

When you can successfully hire a remote worker without needing 1) to speak their language, 2) understand their culture, customs, holidays, and 3) worry about time zone differences, then engineers here should start worrying about offshoring.
I think so (hopefully it will be a different world then) and to be clear, the government retracted the restrictive ICE rule.
Do you have any YouTube videos of your lectures? If not, consider making one and uploading it. As lattice based cryptography comes into maturity ELI15 for us non-mathematicians on the ground floor will be essential.
I would say that an important distinction is that there are enough interesting articles posted in here which are not news related that make it worth while. But obviously I am biased here.
My fridge can only handle a single request at any given time.
https://www.propublica.org/article/voting-rights-by-state-ma...

I suppose you haven't been looking.
I don't idolize meritocracy as the end all solution to our problems and if that's what came off of my statement then I should have been clearer. My biggest if not only claim is that the article is arguing something that I think is fairly obvious and therefore uninteresting and the title misleads you into thinking its making arguments against meritocracy and the implementation thereof which I do find suitably interesting. Otherwise meritocracy is a tool that should be combined with other systems but has many issues.
I use the leechblock plugin and have it redirect any site like twitter/reddit/hn to my todo list instead. I also have it setup so I can only view hackernews on Fridays so I'm not constantly loading it.

I also subscribe to https://hackernewsletter.com/ which is a list of all the interesting articles from hacker news from that week. (it comes out on Friday, thus I unblock on the site on my computer on Fridays)
Can you elaborate why you speculate a hit in reputation? I'm pretty sure it would be the opposite.

Meaningful domains in tech jobs are looked up to by peers in my experience.
That's how racism and sexism tends to get brushed over. You report it, the other party opposes, HR (trying to avoid a scandal) tries to convince you you didn't see what you saw. And then your character is compared to the other person to see ranks higher. If you don't have enough character points the blame is somehow put on you.
Palau has quietly done a lot, for example. The move is particularly intriguing since they rely a lot on tourism, and Taiwan literally can never offer enough to compensate their economic loss. Money is clearly not the goal in this case.
I'm not sure what the gain is here. We have to hope that a standard emerges from a range of extensions - when there are standard ISA's that do the job already. In the meantime we get lots of incompatibilities. Plus there is the possibility of proprietary extensions which are not available for licensing more widely.

Licensing IP to put on SoCs has been common for over 25 years - in fact its the whole basis of ARM's and others business models.
It would be nice if it supported markdown, though.
> have no business being there as I would evaluate it.

That's the key insight here. "As I would evaluate it". We simply don't know enough about most topics to be able to evaluate merit. Likewise, we don't know enough to choose the people who can, beyond simple heuristics like "they've been working on this for decades, they should be good".

For example, we can probably agree that Trump is a bad president, but who was better — Obama or Bush? While I have an opinion on that, I also know that opinion is dominated by my political leanings, and I don't know nearly enough to cogently answer that question.
Believing that the system is meritocratic is not the same as believing that it should be meritocratic.

Meritocracy is the fairest system for individuals. Achieving it is an endless struggle.
Once you’ve defined merit, there are plenty of problems in measuring merit. The ideal way to measure a teachers efficacy would be measuring their students adult outcomes relative to other teachers, but that timeframe doesn’t work in the short term.
Rephrased for my understanding: as long as my non-profit don't pay them for work and we just give them money to help them out, that is okay. Thanks.

Sounds like I should start that nonprofit, it is exactly what I wanted. Thank you.
I feel like the testing was more of a way to 1. try to avoid the return by proving it worked and 2. put it right back out on the shelf for sell. Actually picked up some good deals in the good days of Frys from returns. It's a shame they're nothing more than an as seen on tv store these days.
My 6 years max out date is dec 2020. i got my i140 approved last month and now i have an offer from another company. can i use the approved i140 to request for a 3 year extension of my visa with the transfer to the new company?
The cost of writing data to memory is incredibly small; you'd have to be working on something like gaming engines for it to even be noticeable.

Logging can also be done in a separate thread, reducing even that exceptionally minor cost.
This applies to internal emails, especially requests to management chain. Whenever possible, aim to keep emails to two lines/sentences max, and put the request always first.
Exactly. By definition, if you reward competence and hard work, and punish incompetence and lazyness, you will obviously generate different outcomes for the individuals involved, and that is FAIR and efficient. The opponents of a meritocratic society are just gasping at straws.
> Yes, successful people usually merit their success

Do we have evidence to back up that assertion? Or more generally, a firm definition of what we mean by "merit" there?
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But you can, right?

It's a political choice not to (for example) impose import taxes on goods based on the difference between wages in the two countries concerned.

Not doing this is bad for people, but good for capital.
Geolocation is a solid first order solution to comply with local data privacy laws.
You make it sound like being a democracy is a binary decision, when in reality it's a multidimensional spectrum with lots of grey areas at the edges. Just look at the current state of affairs in the US, there are plenty of warning signs. Is it still a democracy? In my mind it is. The other commonality is that both countries chose their autocrat by fair elections.
> 2. Sometimes there are multiple correct models for different purposes in the same program, similar to how sometimes you need multiple views onto the same database tables.

Just wanted to point out that even though you can have multiple views or your database tables, they all still adhere to the same type system.