skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure and I think I said this in another comment somewhere in the thread, merit is probably fine for smaller systems with homogeneous groups. I think both of those qualify. Even then what I look for in an employee is probably different than what you look for so even our ideas of what constitutes a merit are different.
HN has the word “news” in its name, but I think that’s where most of the similarities end.

Looking at the front page right now, I count maybe 4 items that are attempts at journalism. The rest are interesting subjects resurrected from 6+ years ago, tech guides, user-submitted questions/content, etc. The ones that seem like news items don’t really pertain to today’s hot news, they’re press releases from NASA etc.

HN is a discussion board, and the topics are almost always relevant to my career and interests. I mostly read the comments though. HN informs discussions I have with people at work and tech-related decisions in and out of work. I think it’s worthwhile.
> doing any work in this field is simply for vanity or to make you feel good

Making blanketing, dismissive claims about everyone who works in a specific field is a great way to end the conversation.
You can get a pretty cheap sensor that works well. I got a laseregg.

Indoors was consistently better for outdoors for pm 2.5....except when cooking. Then, pm 2.5 is often 20-100x worse. Exhaust fans help but are not nearly sufficient. Often opening all windows is required to even get the number down.

Co2 is higher indoors, you can measure that with a separate sensor. It is a proxy for various VOC’s which are harder to measure directly with consumer available devices.
You got downvoted, but it's very clear to me that the reason students avoid math club is because it is unglamorous, not that it is hostile to them.
That's a long way of saying that Walmart is complicit in the brand scam.
> “I think that in most [of the latter] cases, malicious actors behind the attacks do it just for fun, [...]

I agree. I don‘t see any deeper sense in purging unsecured databases on the web. I think leaving a database wide open in the web just calls for such actions...
Try viewing it from mobile. It only gets worse.
What is the policy of Cognitect re: public benchmarks? I did not know that.
I read that part of your comment as re-interpreting the question, instead of just reinterpreting the prior part of the sentence it's in, never mind.
I’ve applied for a position as a founder/ ceo for a venture incubated with a VC. My OPT just expired and i’m on my grace period. Can they get me some sort of entrepreneurship visa like the EB?
Except there are over a billion Indians, which is more than all of Europe+US combined. They are a standard onto themselves.

There are more Indian English speakers than British English speakers.
I see nothing wrong or nonstandard with Indian English, as a native US English speaker living in Canada myself.

Are you going to claim that Canada uses nonstandard English simply because it's a hybrid of US and UK English with a few phonetic and lexical twists of its own? Or that Scottish English is somehow less legitimate than England's English (the two are quite different) despite Scotland being part of the UK for centuries?

As well, Indian English is spoken by an estimated 125 million people, more people than the total populations of the UK and Canada combined and about a third of the US population. And this is the predominant version of English in a country of more than a billion people, which makes it standard enough there to count as a standard.

Deferring to a standard requires a context in which to say whether one is or isn't speaking standardly. Since we're discussing a topic about India on a US-centric but globally inclusive website, either we should insist that everyone uses the site's predominant US variety of English (I'm happy we don't do this) or the Indian commenter should be free to use standard Indian English in discussing this without that dialect being called wrong.
Way higher than yours. No I don't. You seem to tie your self worth to college prestige.
Maslow's hierarchy, a friend pointed out a few years back, is best considered not merely as a set of essential and nourishing goods and services, but security in those elements. The hand that offers whilst threatening, withdrawing, or threatening is not nurturing but the definition of abuse and trauma.

Living on a knife's edge, at all times, is not tenable.

See:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vwfb6/maslows...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3ey7d1/maslows...
It's a different SKU, but same product name.
> Another example is retail trade payment for order flow. A major broker-dealer was just sanctioned for front-running its clients.

You can say Robinhood. Their agreement says that they can't do anything to imply that it was incorrect, like threatening to sue people for talking about what got them sanctioned.
Do companies routinely issue new stock to raise money? I thought it was a rare occurrence, obviously the IPO, and then occasionally afterward. Your edit is clear.
STUN doesn't work for symmetric NATs and TURN is not a solution (the traffic gets relayed over the server, which defeats the purpose of a peer-to-peer system).

Port restricted NAT is sufficient: it serves the actual purpose without breaking peer-to-peer systems.

Note: I'm currently developing a peer-to-peer app.
There are quirks to speaking with developers or workers in India who haven't also been trained partly in the US or Europe. A scattered assortment of unusual phrases or idiosyncrasies you may hear:

-- "please revert at the earliest"

-- Using the non-standard 10,000 base comma system when expressing numbers, versus 1,000 standard

-- A tendency to use abbreviations or acronyms which are not commonly understood, even by the direct team. E.g. "please excuse the IVR not working properly today" as if everyone is familiar with that abbreviation for the phone mail system.

There are other more amusing quirks to I'll try to remember and post. Such as, "do the needful". And not working on state holidays, aka Tuesdays.
I pretty much couldn't answer a single question. With a lot of time I could have "bruteforced" a few, maybe. Getting something better than a F? Impossible.

Soon I will have a MSc in Software Engineering... I simply memorized my way through college math classes, just like most of my colleagues.

Math always made me feel dumb. I never had intuition for it. Deeper understanding was always just out of reach. I truly loathe math.
You might enjoy this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY

It's about electronic devices designed to be used in prison, so they're intentionally made transparent.
To be fair, it is not the doctor’s fault entirely, it is an institutional problem.

We have far too few doctors per capita to have enough time to treat people. This is mostly because we have institutions set up that reduce the number of doctors that are output (e.g. we have about the same number of medical schools as 100 years ago).

tl;dr doctors have no time, there are lots of knock on effects to this.

more doctors, less income though...
"Bob was right, I was wrong. The use of that discretionary time was a courageous thing,"

This is such a powerful statement from Rob Kirschner. It is science at it's best. Someone (rightfully) opposing an experiment, being incorrect and admitting, without reluctance, shame or regrets that they were wrong.

At the time, Bob's idea was by all available information questionable. But it was right for him to persevere, it was right that he had to face and overcome opposition and it is right that the opposition gracefully admits that Bob was right :)
From the article:

...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 think it says more about corporation taxes being unfit for purpose than immorality. They clearly don't work with international companies, so it would be better to charge consumption taxes on their products.
Ah, I missed that. Good point and you're right this is the risk you take buying returned goods.
Measuring how long quantum tunneling takes
Because salaries are adjusted based on which postal code you live at, so you'll be getting Canadian wages if you're working in Canada.
The 'I' in iPhone 11 now stands for India-made
You're taking the metaphor too literally, but to answer the second part: in this thread I'm lending support to the 72% of Americans who think social media companies have too much political influence. My agenda is simply that they should take a more hands off approach.

The number of anti-cancel-culture posts on HN, as well as a post about "aggressive conformity" on HN right now by the founder of HN, suggest that HN has a similar agenda, so I suppose I am simply adding content that supports the company's position.
I feel that urge. Soft-keyboards, and HN's edit window, are treacherous.
Python is considered strongly typed, but usually it's placed in opposition with PHP or JavaScript. That's why I don't understand why the previous poster used strongly typed. The conversation was about static and dynamic programming languages.
Thanks for the comment. I pretty much feel the same way as you, especially the bit about a higher supply than demand and the expectation that it will only get worse.

I appreciate the advice of relaxing for a bit. Although I wouldn't want to wish this on anyone, it is a bit relieving to hear that others are experience something similar. Best of luck to you
For the Uighurs' sake I wish that we hadn't invaded Iraq.

Also, for all the other obvious reasons.
How would that work? Surely, if they knew you'd lied they'd refuse your visa so you couldn't travel to USA. If they didn't know they would, possibly, give a visa; how would they later find out you'd lied if they didn't know in the first instance? Do they go and re-check visa applications? Do they lie and give visas to people just so they can lock them up for falsely acquiring a visa??

Didn't the current First Lady falsely immigrate, lying about work or something, so it can't be that much of an issue to lie in your paperwork or she would have gone to prison??
Yes but they tie up the opportunity to charge the card for weeks on end while you try to get them to ship or have Amazon cancel it. Imagine buying a $500 widget and the seller delays and delays. You decide to order elsewhere and then finally the seller fulfills the order. You are now committed to $1000 of widget when you only wanted one.
Your student didn't want to be involved in programming competitions because they are unglamorous, not because the environment was hostile to her, as your story demonstrates.
This article led me to another one about email designing which states that plain text emails get more clicks than those with fancy templates. I can relate to that. Every time a see a see an email in plain text I stop to check what it is.
20 USD/hour is not what developer earns, but what you pay for developer time. Overhead (buildings, managers, computers, toilet paper), sales commissions, taxes, and off time and eats big big part of that money.
From Dev to Devrel
Of course not. Obviously, how well-known a city is to a certain population doesn't depend on its size. There are a dozen cities in China more populous than NYC, but I doubt you could name them all.
OLTP databases are optimized for mutable data. OLAP databases are optimized for immutable data. There's a big difference between appropriate data structures for each use case that has little to do with hardware capabilities.

OLAP databases tend to write columns in large blocks and apply sort orders to improve compression. This type of structure works well if you write the data once and read it many times. It's horrendously inefficient for concurrent updates to things like user session contexts. (Or even reading them for that matter.) You are better off using a row store with ACID transactions and relatively small pages.

The dichotomy has been visible for decades and shows no sign of disappearing, because the difference is mostly how you arrange and access data, not so much the hardware used.
Electronics on Amazon in general seems to be a hit-or-miss made worse by inventory commingling. Recently bought a PS4 controller from Amazon (purportedly from Sony). Did not last 3 months. The original controller I got with the PS4 itself still works great after more than 2 years.
This is a fair point. To say that personality can be purely characterized in full using a few adjectives is grossly over-generalizing. It seems like a better model of "the four quadrants" would be to add a dimension, the dimension of personality when it comes to dealing with different things in life. For instance, while one can be passively conformist in a particular area, say, following the rules of society, one can be aggressively independent in one's own discipline or expertise.

For instance, you could expect a brilliant academic to be socially conformist, while academically aggressive and independent. Some sort of criminal or outlaw would be aggressively independent when it comes to following the laws of society, and maybe conformist when it comes to following the criminal discipline (this is when you have mobs and gangs --- outlaws find each other and form groups, too).

And it is a combination of these different styles that make up the overall personality profile.
But we are trying to fit summaries into a limited screen real estate
It isn't even clear that the pursuit of colonization we want to pursue is even possible. It takes a lot of energy to do those things and there are limits to how much we can safely use. We are already worried about global warming despite not having a colony to support.
The telescope's orbital period and the relative positions of the earth and the sun will affect how the exposures are scheduled.

I went looking for more detailed information -- It appears they are open enough with the data that you can see exactly how the exposures were taken. Assuming what I found is right and that someone could make sense of the data. There are postscript files listing activity for each of the 10 days, but I am not exactly sure what we're looking at.

https://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/project/project.html
So basically what you're saying is that only progressive views are valid.
Hey, if you can't handle the bull, then don't be a bullfighter.

The answer's pretty dirt simple, although you don't like it: Humans are broadly just one single race, one single species, with roughly the same cognitive abilities as each other. We've been this way for thousands of years, possibly tens of thousands. The major developments in human history since then have been technological and cultural.

Edit: Could you show us more? In particular, could you show how my reasoning is faulty? I know how Socrates would handle my dilemma, for example.

Look, the fact is that meritocratic beliefs eventually boil down to eugenics and race realism at some point. Eventually we start saying that individuals can have their merit measured, and we move to a totally utilitarian society ala Gattaca. I don't particularly care whether you want this, but it's ridiculous to do; it would bring about the ruin of our gene pool. Because I think that this is a bad outcome, sure, I'm motivated to use reason to examine it. But also, it's only because of reason that I'm able to tell that the outcome will be bad! Don't get upset at reason just because it shows you what you didn't want to know.

You seem to know "the truth". Want to share?
Do you hold a grudge against them for not letting you in ?
I haven't seen any real changes with PERM yet but that's a valid concern if unemployment remains as high as it is. That's a judgment call. Even with that policy, I'd probably still pursue PERMs (as opposed to doing nothing) for those who don't have strong NIWs. We've seen a tightening of NIW adjudications recently (particularly for non-founders) so these need to be pursued carefully and cautiously. The primary issue is on whether the applicant is doing something or has certain skills that don't lend themselves to a PERM application - that is, a test of the labor market - and this can be a tough standard to meet.
I sympathize but don't entirely agree.

The old version 1.5 signature padding remains widespread. Unlike PSS it doesn't have a security proof reducing to RSA but it does have decades of successful use in practice in one of the harshest environments (the Web because the clients merrily run code written by a potential adversary).

"Prepend this fixed data to your hash" which is the central idea of v1.5 padding is definitely something you could teach to high school students. You can even show them why it's necessary pretty easily for a small exponent.

Making people check padding is again not too hard for high school students, and I think "Do all the things on the checklist. All of them" is a worthwhile lesson not just in cryptography.
FWIW I'm also conditioned to ignore emails that are vague. Honestly, at this point I assume any unsolicited communication is a spear phishing attempt until proven otherwise.
Post-corona , the offices are like churches. Yeah, you go there once a week to attend, but you do most of your prayer at home.
Well, it's a specific consequence of bad management. Identifying patterns like this is valuable, I think.

I agree that there's always someone responsible for this, even if it's the CEO who fails to empower subordinates to do this at their level.

It could be that many other problems boil down to parts of process not being owned by anyone. That is, that all management problems are ownership gaps in disguise. I'm not sure.
No, the speed of light is too slow for them to do anything about us.
I can only assume hardware engineers are asking for this kind of tooling, because I can't imagine why companies would be spending the enormous development effort on them and then giving them away for free if they weren't being asked for?

So many things that could be done in a programatic, testable, declarative, scriptable, repeatable way are done with futzy GUI tools in hardware land. Schematic design _could_ be a matter of declaring components, buses, etc. and letting the tool produce something (and then manually manipulate the visual layout if necessary) ; I mean you could literally describe your board using something similar to Verilog and get the tool to produce the schematic for you... we have these kinds of powers in the 21st century -- Instead it's futz with tools that are vaguely Illustrator-esque, find that half your connection points are not actually connected, etc. Why do people want to suffer like this?

Want to use a DRAM controller in Vivado? Find the wizard, enter into 10 text boxes... and if you're lucky you can find the Tcl scripts it generated and in the future just write your Tcl script... but they certainly won't make it easy.

Vivado project in source control? You're going to jump through hoops for that.

I want hardware engineers to demand better.
Creating an atmosphere and magnetic field for Mars should be easily doable, although I don't think either is necessary for human life on Mars, by comparison to ensuring our species survives for 500 million years. Only a handful of simple species have survived that long, e.g. sponges and jellyfish. I don't see why you think humans could do the same. But assuming we are at most .04% into our species lifetime seems ridiculous.

Feel free to calculate the probability that a randomly selected species will survive 2500 times longer than they have to present.
Why would you assume that? A prime subscription is not a requirement for an Amazon account. It seems to me they were saying that they didn't want to pay for expedited shipping if Amazon couldn't provide expedited shipping.

And it is fairly common for online retailers to ban accounts that do charge-backs. Amazon will ban people for having too many returns.
I know someone who used to be in the business of installing high precision machining equipment. I relay the following anecdote: When he came on site once, the workers who put the machine down on its bedding told him, he didn't need to level it, since they already levelled it "to a thou" (Indian workers). He laughed and said: "Good, someone already did the coarse work for me!".
I don’t have a dog in the race, but there’s no dearth of brutal left wing dictators.
I read this interesting thing about whataboutism:

https://theoutline.com/post/8610/united-states-russia-whatab...
While true, this does not apply in this case, "Warehouse" (=re-sold returned goods) inventory is not comingled.
- I'm an international student currently in the US on F1

- I'm going to start working full-time for a big US tech company.

- I'm a citizen of a European country that requests a very small number of green cards.

Assuming I can get an H1B visa, how long does it usually take to get an employer-sponsored green card, from the time of filing of said green card?
> Do you really truly think that just because the MAX is a POS, that everything that comes out of Boeing can be evaluated under that same lens?

No I do not. I still wouldn't ever refer to Boeing as well-respected nowadays. Granted, it may be irrational quirk of mine.

To clarify, do I respect Boeing? Yes. But I would not make a post on the Internet and write out "well-respected". I understand Boeing's cultural shift from being an engineering-first company and its MAX fiasco would not warrant "well-respected" in many people's eyes nowadays.

Was Boeing well-respected in the past? Yes. Is Boeing well-respected nowadays? Yes. But to deliberately write it out to me feels like trolling and stoking fire. You surely must understand that a lot of people lost a bit of respect for Boeing in recent years.
Just drip a little chicken grease on those PLA nuggets!

Yum!!
A Short Guide to Statistical Rethinking²
Why is this downvoted? It’s true.
Fair enough, hitting that bug would have pissed me off too.

On your last point, I agree that it still has a way to go. It's good for some (many?) production use cases now, as Nubank's success demonstrates, and hopefully with Nubank's resources it'll start to live up more to its promise.
This is the clearest response so far. Thinking about the tech world, we have all this VC money, but all of that is based on the idea that eventually the company will IPO and the VCs will get huge returns.

However, given that both VC valuations, and stock market valuations (like P/E ratios, IIRC) are arguably in bubble territory (many have argued this), it doesn't seem like the Fed buying more of these assets is very efficient.
Or the fact that Cassandra uses consistent hashing to distribute data automatically across hosts.

My company supports ClickHouse, but there are many use cases where it's simply not the right solution.
Isn’t Biden significantly more pro-China than Trump?
These are IT agencies though, competing in a global market. Not individual salaries.
Their CS degrees were from Harvard and Cornell.
Oh, that explains it, thanks a lot!
If you haven't yet, you should read Vonnegut's short story "The Euphio Question", which was written well in advance of deep field, but is eerily complementary.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932321
The solution is don't buy expensive sensitive equipment at a flea market like Amazon.
Hubble is in space. They just pointed it somewhere and said “don’t move” (well, multiple times and stacked, but the effect is the same). The galaxies themselves are so far away their own motion is way less than a single pixel.
Yeah it's not at all complicated in Haskell. I'm not sure what GP is talking about.