skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the simplicity. I'm sure I could find similar source code for similar services that is way over engineered and doesn't perform nearly as well. Do you serve this with a reverse proxy in front, or just as is? I'm assuming as is since you have the TLS configured right in the code, but I figure I'd ask.
Mir 2.0.0 Released
Is SQLite likely to be faster than postgres? In terms of ease of use / admin overhead I consider them mostly equivalent. I thought the main problem with SQLite was it was slow tih concurrent writers. Whereas the "bigger" SQL databases have code that allows concurrent writes.
Waymo and FCA expand autonomous driving technology partnership
> That's a straw man fallacy if I've ever seen one. It's a textbook example. Congratulations.

Everyone can read the conversation and see what was said.

> Look, it's not a binary decision (facts/no facts), but a qualitative distinction: it's how I expect facts--whatever those are, but that's another discussion--to be dealt with in a short essay on a personal blog, instead of expecting or wanting essays to be deliberately unconcerned with them.

Okay, if that's what you're saying, I didn't understand that previously, and I'll take some blame for thinking I understood instead of asking clarifying questions.

But, I'll say, the qualitative discussion of "how facts are dealt with" is pretty irrelevant if there aren't any facts to deal with. It's very much not clear that much of PG says in this essay is based in facts at all. Even if you want to argue that quality of evidence is a spectrum, the can still be a 0 value on that spectrum.
Yes for sure Americans walk for leisure and casual exercise.

It's popular to imply Americans don't walk. It's true the culture is more pragmatic (why walk when I could drive and get more done), but it's not true that it's unusual to see people out walking on sidewalks, parks, and lakes.

My neighborhood has a walking trail around a small lake (takes 45 minutes to do a lap). There are 20-50 people walking it at almost anytime of day.
In theory, yes. In practice, they get dirty and bent faster than they wear out.

They're cheap. Shops that care have them on a replacement schedule.
https://blip.runway7.net/v2.beta should work for you, let me know if it doesn't?
Jeez, what's next, seeing how the NOC handles a (fake) hostage situation?
It's not just such countries. All political parties all around the world are doing similar things, and have their own troll farms and twitter armies. Look up the profiles of the "followers" of major world leaders. Many of them are 'shallow' - not old enough as profiles, and not enough activity.

It's naïve to think that companies are unaware of this. I think they actively encourage this outrage-fest, because it increases eyeballs. We are paying a heavy social price for a flawed advertisement revenue model.

You can look up the documentary on Cambridge Analytica. The logo _most_ prominently displayed the CEO's office is that of major Indian political party. And that party is not even the top dog in this game.
Amazon invested in startups, gained proprietary info, then launched competitors
just to be clear, you're saying if someone broke a window they deserve to be kidnapped off the street by anonymous military personnel.

Love this country
There are three guidelines. Some are per flight, some are per operating hour, and some are per calendar time.
Hi Peter, what is your macro view on immigration trajectory in the coming years? Do you expect the hurdles and wait-times to keep getting bigger, or do you expect a softening should the presidency change hands?
http://chooch.ai/demo
I agree that the Patriot Act was a sad day for America.

Whether it meant to or not the Bush Administration kicked off a lot of terrible stuff for America and for the world. I remember obsessively watching the news after 9/11 and just having a terrible sinking feeling about the road we were preparing for ourselves.

To be a bit fair to them, it's easy to imagine many other administrations, of both parties, behaving similarly, though not in such an extreme way, after 9/11.

I'd like to think that Al Gore specifically, if he was President then, would not have invaded Iraq, and, would not have passed something like the Patriot Act, but the truth is we don't know.

Plus Gore might have paid more attention the the CIA warnings about Al Qaeda.

But again - who knows. And America itself has a lot to work on, on both sides of the political aisle.
Consider the internment of Japanese during World War 2.
I remember when this came out watching the big unveiling and absolutely LOVING it. And then. My god, that price. It was so stupidly expensive it really deserved to fail. I don't understand how they could think that would sell many units. It was a super cool looking, super small, super quiet machine that could've really worked well for many people. From the Wired article:

"That didn’t happen. For one thing, the price was prohibitive—by the time you bought the display, it was almost three times the price of an iMac and even more than some PowerMacs. By and large, people don’t spend their art budget on computers."
In my experience both the benefits and costs of static typing are overstated. It doesn't mean that your code works if it compiles, and it doesn't mean that you can get rid of half your tests. But it's great for refactoring, and it's a useful form of documentation that can't lie, unlike comments. And if you're using a reasonable language it's not much additional work to add types; often with type inference it's zero work.
There was another post on HN just 2-3 days ago, about how an HN-poster was taking a cab in Sydney and the cabbie was talking to him about BTC.

Cue the inevitable Joe Kennedy comparison: Kennedy Sr. supposedly got a shoe-shine one day, and had a conversation with the shoe-shine boy about said boy's hot stock tips. Kennedy realized everything was overheated and overhyped, and pulled his cash out of the market; the crash of '29 happened not long after.
> This simplicity enables Datomic to do more than any relational DB or KV storage can ever afford

> Datomic does not manage persistence itself, instead, it outsources storage problems to databases implemented by other people. Data can be kept, at your expense, in DynamoDB, Riak, Infinispan, Couchbase or SQL database.

These things can't both be true.
I know sometimes they use weight to detect if the right item is in the box. I would still expect a visual check though.
All of the positions have been remote (US), and I suppose a lot of them are headquartered in SF or NY. The companies I tend to apply are pre-ipo startups.

I have been rejected by FAANG, but I'm not surprised. I knew those were long-shots, I guess I'm surprised that in reality the others were long-shots too.

I kind of have a feeling that everyone who has hired me in the past feels they made the right decision, but also everyone who hasn't extended an offer feels the same way.
Job satisfaction / better jobs.

The guaranteed job need not be pleasant. Hell, many already aren't.

But a job would be guaranteed and would meet basic needs.
That appears to be so because Canadians are visa exempt but there's been no explicit statement/clarification of this by the government.
Good as it is, the first paragraph of Simic's short essay which you quote is preliminary.

Later, these two paragraphs capture Simic's mood more completely and that mood cuts into the "bliss" of being unencumbered by news:

> I mustn’t forget, either, that I was surrounded by political exiles in my youth, many of whom, after having lived either under Stalin or Hitler, or in some cases both, never lost their vigilance. Even after twenty or thirty years in the United States, they gave the impression of keeping a suitcase packed under their beds, ready to flee at a moment’s notice should hippies or some variety of American fascists come power.

> Lucky for them, they are all long dead, so they can’t read some opinion piece or hear a congressman or a senator today clamor for the very same police state measures they barely escaped from. Watching the government of the country they grew to love curtailing liberties, spying on its citizens, militarizing its police forces, imprisoning both foreigners and Americans indefinitely without having to prove their guilt, and coming to admire the mindset of authoritarian regimes it used to despise, would have been both terrifying and depressing. They could not help but note that some of their fellow Americans who cheer for the death penalty and for torture, and call the people demonstrating against Wall Street lice-infested misfits and degenerates, are no better than the ones they knew back home and are as eager to persecute, imprison, and even commit murder should they be called upon (I think people who clap for death, love war without end, and adore guns are perfectly capable of it). My mother, who never recalled anything but trouble, and was sure the worst was yet to come, would be saying, I told you so, all day long.
German citizen here.

Q1) What is (/are) the easiest path(s) to start a company in the US and/or seek funding there for Europeans? How costly is it?

Q2) If there's already a company registered in Germany for example, how costly (approximately) is the process to "register a subsidiary" in the US (required for YC), and how would the visas work? (Would spouses be allowed and be able to get a working permit?)
It's hard to imagine that the tiniest pixel spec of a galaxy hold hundreds of millions or more of stars like our own which might have planets with people on them. Of course they might also be 12B years gone.
best paragraph is the last one:

> When will AI researchers learn?
There is a saying in computer science: “Garbage in, garbage out”. The most remarkable thing about these stories is that the biggest companies, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, all chose the worst corners of the internet as teaching material. Places that are widely known as the bridges of trolls. One can scarcely believe such naivety, and yet they keep doing it. Perhaps they are only “experimenting”, but that does not ring true for commercial products. More likely their goals are only feasible with current AI by prioritising quantity over quality. Or perhaps these stories are not entirely accurate. After all, I only learned them from the internet.
> slow unpicking of Visegrad

What do you mean by that?
Yep, SaaS is the real outsourcing killer. And the future seems to be one where even more infrastructure is abstracted away i.e. Serverless/PaaS. This is changing the way software is built and tested. Its empowering people who have been through coding bootcamps to start delivering value.*

* please note that I have nothing against coding bootcamps, the point is that most graduates of these bootcamps are by definition very new and green to Software Development.
Do you mean while a student or after you graduate?
Coronavirus – The Death of Nostalgia
No, it is more of a euphemism for "sobering up." Existed for quite awhile, usually used for drunks though. Has minor connotations of being an oddball health nut-people extolling the benefits of being immersed into chilly water.
Many people oppose "cancel culture" and "SJWs" because they see them as part of a vast leftist conspiracy imposing a political agenda across media, arts and academia and oppressing free (read: right-wing) speech at every turn. Many of the same people support Trump's abuses of power being wielded against those they consider "leftist agitators" like BLM and Antifa.

Both cases linked by fear of and opposition to the existential threat of "the left" as an insidious enemy within and a willingness to accept any means necessary to stop it.
Instacart blames reused passwords for account hacks, but still doesn't have 2FA
I am currently on a H1B and got married in May in the US. Unfortunately, my wife was on a diplomatic visa (lost her job due to the pandemic) and her organization will not allow a change of status to H4, as a result she has to go back to her country.

Given the current H4 visa ban, it seems like we'll have to be separated until next year. What are our best options for her to come back in the US and switch to H4 before January?
How to Find Your Strengths
2 passports only help for situations in which they really only check entry/exit stamps in your passport. In this case, when applying for ESTA, you explicitly have to declare that you haven't been to the above-mentioned countries and therefore qualify. If you tick the wrong box, its quite possible that they
i) either reject your ESTA application
ii) or reject entry to the country on arrival
and in both cases that significantly dampens your chances of ever getting an ESTA/Visa again.
Appeal to authority much?

I just told you they were wrong about me during my 30 years of treatment. They thought I had a mood disorder but I had a metabolic disorder. so in this case, yes, they knew less than I did.
> You mean, pronoia?

Yes.

(psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people conspire to do one good. [from 1981] Antonym: paranoia

It is interesting how prevalent is "paranoia" in books and movies and how little attention "pronoia" gets.

Thank you. I didn't knew that the word existed.
Can you comment on how the EU travel ban on US citizens affects a US citizens ability to live/work in the EU under the umbrella of a non-lucrative visa? If a US citizen receives a non-lucrative visa, would they be able to immigrate to the EU?
And what are the consequences of you getting cancelled? Really? You lose your job? People are fired everyday for silly things or no reason at all. But would you really want to continue working for a company/culture so incapable of enduring free thought? Perhaps companies need to suffer the consequences of losing talent to realize how intellectually bankrupt this process is.
Thanks for the video link.
What a compelling argument. I've now changed my mind. Seriously if your gonna disagree at least provide something of substance.
50% of the US population descended from Native Americans? Wow.
And this is sidetracking. Even in the original trolley problem you don't know what is or isn't going to happen. For the sake of the thought experiment you certainly could just assume mathematical precision, but nowhere does it say you must.

Back to the trolley problem and the thesis of everything being a subject of politics as in politics as "the principles relating to or inherent in a sphere or activity, especially when concerned with power and status." and "a particular set of political beliefs or principles".

Is a rich aristocrat on the court of the french king who puts sticks down his throat so he can vomit and eat on while the poor starve at the gates apolitical? This aristocrat is completely minding his own business, might even be a very nice soul who never hurt a fly.

In my eyes there is rarely any way to act apolitical. Even if you exile yourself in the desert that would be a choice that e.g. influences your family. This influence on your surrounding world is what makes things political, because we constantly decide how to interact with the society around us. And it doesn't matter if you hold strong political opinions or are oblivious to everything, what you do is still a part of politics (e.g. by signaling others what is commonly accepted behavior and which your (polical) values are. Do you pull the lever and kill the man or do you let the five other people die? What if they are kids? What if they are old people? What if they are black?

Decisions like these are not arbitrary, they show us fundamental truths of how we think and work in relation to our surroundings, and this is – in my book – political.
What the ‘Meat Paradox’ Reveals About Moral Decision Making
Hungary is not considered a liberal democracy, it’s considered an “illiberal democracy”. Orbán has pioneered ways to degrade a liberal democracy to an illiberal one, and is the template many right wing leaders of other countries are in the process of emulating: Bolsonaro, Trump, and Poland, though I believe their strategy has been more concerned with compromising their judicial branch.
A Vaccine Reality Check
I've seen such delays. Unfortunately, there's very little that can be done but as a first/next step, I would ask a Congressional office for assistance/to inquire with the Consulate.
lololol so people being mean on twitter is what we should be worried about right now, not the increasing power of surveillance capital and the hyper militarized state?

cool thanks for the warning dude
I remember the first time I saw the deep field image. It blew my mind then and still does today. I had no idea it was a controversial experiment at the time.
Was there a political motivation you suspected? You haven't elaborated. Or do you feel that the decision to not cover alcohol as a work expense is inherently political somehow?
I hated statix typing until I used Rust. Rust has Sum types (super powered enums), which provide what I was missing from dynamically typed langauges in languages like Java, C#, etc: namely the ability to have an "or" type (e.g. this is an integer or a string, and I want to be able to branch on that at runtime).

That, plus type inference makes the static typing pretty painless.
That was mentioned in another thread. I have two thoughts about it:

- Going off of my own experience, I've never used PgBouncer and I've worked on some moderately sized applications (1s of millions of users). So I could say "not in scope for the target use-case".

- It would be possible to add an argument option to use a transaction-based Advisory Lock instead. I can imagine that would have downsides (long-running transactions, yikes).

I'm imagining that the lifecycle of GoodJob is that people starting new projects might choose it, and then the feature set would grow with their needs.
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True, but find me a member of the Fortune 500 that does not do this kind of thing.
> This study outlines some things that are typically helpful. It does not say that they will be helpful or possible for everyone.

Agreed, but what do you do if it does not help them. THAT is the problem.
In what sense, news organizations that you've mentioned are "independent"?
(if you live outside the bubble, the bias is clear)
DOM can be even faster than canvas as long as you’re smart about it, as discussed in last week’s Show HN of DatagridXL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23909894, https://datagridxl.com
i wonder how mnay of those views are "i don't believe X people should have the same basic rights as the majority"
The twenty-four hour news cycle has had time to refine itself to be addicting. They must always produce news to be on continually, and news that keeps eyes on the screen, and therefore advertisers happy.
Janus Words
Thank you so much for the detailed response!
Nah, there's something unique about Rust zealots in this respect.
nicoburns comment is completely off topic, and it's extremely obnoxious to see this kind of thing over and over again from the Rust community. And I even like the language!
Online arguments are not meant to change the minds of the people participating in them, they are meant to change the minds of people reading them.

But, as I said, higher order effects. Google Mariel boatlift.
> There is a careful chemical balance in your brain

Homeostasis processes, and redundant gene-coding sites in our DNA, mean that your body is mostly robust to environmental onslaughts. Animals have evolved in a competitive environment where these problems already existed: parasites want to control your brain; predators want to envenomate you before they eat you; prey species want to stop you in your tracks with toxins. But life evolves to adapt to these problems, becoming able to shrug most of them off if it's a consistent part of their niche. Most of the "spices" we eat are plant toxins we've adapted to be fine consuming.

When mutations happen, they don't always immediately cause a problem. What they more-often do, is to cause the body (or in this case, the brain) to lose some of its homeostatic mechanisms — to become less robust to these environmental onslaughts. The affected system becomes more vulnerable, or loses compensatory capacity — it remains able to function in the normal case, but loses the ability to function in the edge case.

Of course, some of our body processes are more robust/protected than others. Some systems (reward; inflammation; sleep) are very easy to "hack", for some reason; while others (libido; fear) are nearly impossible.
Check out Bolivia, Honduras, and the failed attempt at Venezuela for some more recent examples within the last 15 years.
I guess I had it in my head that they used something like 500 V100's -- which is still a far cry from a big supercomputer these days -- but they haven't published what hardware they used and for how long...
I have a sense that the article is presenting things in a more dramatic way than how it really occurred:

> So, with his job perhaps on the line, Williams went off, put together a small team of post-docs, and did exactly as he’d planned. For 100 hours, between Dec. 18 and 28, Hubble stared at a patch of sky near the Big Dipper’s handle that was only about 1/30th as wide as the full moon. In total, the telescope took 342 pictures of the region, each of which was exposed for between 25 and 45 minutes. The images were processed and combined, then colored, and 17 days later, released to the public.

I mean, each image was only exposed for 25-45 minutes. If the full hundred hours was such a huge risk, why not take, like, 5-10 photos first to see if you get much of anything? Seems like they would have been able to know pretty early on whether it was going to be worth it.
When I was working in that field any 'software development' I did was alongside everything else I did. Most of that was online database and website work and some scripts to make analyzing data easier. I still spent far more time doing field work, writing reports and hustling for grant money though.
That depends in part on whether you are working from home and whether your home is in the same MSA as the company's former physical office. But you should check with the company's attorney.
SF and NY are already competitive enough but remote positions make it 10x worse. If you're really insistent on remote work for a startup try to focus on Nashville, Charlotte, and Atlanta.
> Jobs: Yeah, we did one before. Cubes are very efficient spaces.

Does anybody know what he means there?
How to change US housing to hit Paris Agreement goals
JuliaCon 2020 is live
Yes, I agree, but strictly speaking, colonization doesn't require self-sustainment.
My solution whenever focusing on goals / deadlines: edit hosts file (as root/admin, when necessary)

127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1 twitter.com

127.0.0.1 other social / news domains...

The little bit of friction required to undo this is enough to remind me to get back to being productive.

Also, Pomodoros for pacing.
"HR drones" might want to reduce costs, choosing a way that aligns with perceived student importance.

If their idea of a diversity effort is pretending to recruit black students they must be callously insensitive, and to some degree consciously racist.
The first paragraph would me much easier to comprehend if it was a picture.
Yes, (and I considered including that disclaimer).

I give them shit about that all the time. I'm an equal-opportunity complainer.
Can’t answer for aviation but I worked in the general testing and certification industry (Underwriters Laboratories) with tons of rules and externally audited standards about calibration of measurement and test equipment.

Yes, things like rulers and gauges are tested. The schedule depends on the use case and frequency of use. For relatively light lab duty stuff, rulers and gauges were checked 1-2 times a year. Things that are used more frequency or more aggressively are checked more often.