skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fair question and it is a complicated situation. Personally, I do not think democracies & theocracies (for example, not saying Hungary is a theocracy by any means) are morally equal and the only differences being cultural relative: I think democracy is a better form of government and theocracy is worse. I could certainly be wrong, but that's my view.

It certainly would not be democratic to have a supranational body override the will of the Hungarian people but I think there's a couple of points missing here: 1. does Index being disrupted by its owners in such a way that the editorial board and 70 staff members resign in protest really reflect 'the will of the people'? 2. EU does not have the right to dictate to Hungary what to do but it does have the right to take its ball and go home. If Hungary's values are not in line with the values of the EU, the latter has every right (and duty) to invite them to leave the union and forgo the benefits of membership that Hungary currently enjoys.

So I agree you're right about "let's force Hungary not to do this" to be something of an authoritarian knee-jerk reaction, but EU membership is a two-way street: you get and you give, so not all requests to "give" or "conform to EU values" are authoritarianism, that's just a part of belonging to a collective.
The opposite is also true: to get fewer, higher quality replies, say more. Even if people do respond with low quality responses, it's easier to filter them out because they say things that make no sense if they read the entirety of what they are responding to.

Long-form articles posted to HN are a great example.
But they don't charge the card until they ship.
It sounds obvious, but in practice it's not. It's an election year, so take polling as a great example:

Every poll of a race comes with two numbers, one a fraction of support for whatever issue or candidate is being measured, and the other a "margin of error" (which in the industry is a 95% confidence interval, I believe). This is just a statistical measure based on sample size. It's backed by two centuries of math and no one interestingly disputes the way the number is calculated or whate it means.

And there are a LOT of these polls taken. So take all those polls, check their variance, and you'll find that it's much higher than the value you'd expect given the margins of error they reported. This is a routine effect. So square that: why are the MoE numbers "wrong", given that multiple measurements of the same number are giving values with more noise than expected?

The answer is exactly this paradox. The model, that all these polls are measuring the same thing, is wrong. They aren't measuring the same thing. The different polls use different sampling methods, they weight their data using different algorithms, with opinion polls they phrase the questions slightly differently (or just ask the same questions in a different order), all of which affect the results.

And this happens everywhere in science. It's a frightenly easy mistake to make, especially as data sets get large.
This almost makes me dizzy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field#/media... (it's a picture of the night sky showing what exactly Hubble was imaging with the Moon for scale)

I never really understood how XDF is only that tiny patch of the sky and yet it has a godzillion of galaxies inside it!
Every company should find their balance between brand and optimization. Amazon will implement practically any change that shows an improvement to some KPI, while Nike would rather preserve their brand image at the cost of, say, lower checkout rates.
I felt the same. I think at the time I was using the (also awesome looking) "Lampshade" iMac which wasn't as fast but wasn't nearly as expensive either.

The conceit on the cube was that people would pay a fat premium for a completely silent, nice looking computer. I'd have paid a premium, but not that much.

Correction: The Lampshade Mac was a couple years after the cube. Brought much of the good design aspects of the cube with only a moderately eye watering price. I bought mine as a refurb.
So going back to the Robert George quote from the essay - imagine you had been born a white male into a southern slave-holding family in 1750. What basis do you have for believing you would have been against chattel slavery? It seems like your only two options are "I just wouldn't have had an opinion on it" or "My opinions TODAY are uniquely correct for all time going forward". Unless you like to imagine future-you persecuting current-you.
That's an awesome name. Just like hipermercado or KluckKluckBell.
I suspect many developers would find software a lot less appealing if it were closer to a traditional engineering discipline (slow, unforgiving, dramatically reduced expressive power and creative potential, etc).

I'm somewhat ADD and get bored easily, so not only do I need to do something more like software but I also have to stay as broad and high-level as possible within the discipline, to stave off ennui. NOTE: very much not arguing this is a good way to go through life.
We effectively do dirty reads when we just go around and copy the databases for purposes of offline analysis. Our use cases for aggregation queries are all tolerant to incomplete recent data. Most of the time we are running analysis 24 hours after whatever event, so we never get into a situation where we can't answer important business questions because data hasn't been flushed to disk yet.

The fact that most of the stuff we care about is time-domain & causal means that we can typically leverage this basic ideology. Very rarely does a time-series aggregate query need to be consistent with the OLTP workloads in order to satisfy a business question.
I just plain don't buy electronics on Amazon. I've rarely had it go well. It's usually something - anywhere from something like this, to paying full price for something that was obviously previously opened.
> The last time I reduced database server load by 70% [...] nobody thanked me.

It's crazy. I could maybe understand if there's a time crunch where it's quicker and easier to get more hardware in order to make a sale that'll keep the company alive (which I have experienced once) but that's maybe 1% of the cases.

Anyway, in lieu of their gratitude, I offer my thanks because I appreciate the effort.
The amount of programming and orbital changes needed for this is not feasible.

For the hubble to point at something, I'd imagine it needed to station-keep and burn some hydrazine.

If you did infinite numbers of 5-10 min studies, you'd burn right out of the fuel store of a spacecraft before you'd get anything done.

From what I hear, hubble telescope times are scoped out, planned out a year or several years in advance - the telescopes and scientific instruments need to be programmed, the spacecraft needed to be moved/pivoted to aim at the right part of space, communications times needs to be booked with receivers/ground stations across the entire Deep Space Network so you can receive the data.

It's nontrivial - if you booked 5-10 min at a time you'd have wasted your most precious resource.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
A safety net and gov provided healthcare isn't all that important for your average high earning single tech worker who has no kids.
"...we find large place effects on individual economic outcomes like income, education, socioeconomic status, house prices, and housing quality. People assigned to richer locations do better on all measures. Random location assignment affected intergenerational economic outcomes as well, with families assigned to more socially mobile areas... displaying lower cross-generational correlation in outcomes."[1]

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/shoag/publications/long-run-caus...
> often under the same SKU.

If the SKU is the same, wouldn't this open everyone up to the problem in which a buyer buys one item from the expensive retailer (better product) and one from the cheap retailer (inferior product), then returns the inferior product to the more expensive retailer (keeping the better product at the cheaper price)?
I hit this bug: https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/changes.html#0.9.6021

Not being able to perform writes to your database is not scary enough? it's funny how they phrased that bug.

Also hit 4-5 more that are there in the change log, let serious but still pretty bad and frustrating.

This was a internal application, the DB was not being stressed, a 4KLoC readable Clojure codebase.

Don't get me wrong I really like Datomic and its features but the implementation still has a long way to go.
It's closer to how some dialects of English will say "Do you want to come with?" and consider that a complete sentence.

FWIW, there is no harm in the correction. "codes" is correct in Indian English, Indian English is a variant just as much as Australian English is, and people abroad will auto-bucket you as less intelligent than someone speaking more common forms. So it is still a smart action to switch yourself to the more common forms.
The Cube with matching LCD monitor and USB keyboard was way ahead of its time. A premium product at a premium price.

The problem was software. Apple did not have the operating system to justify such a premium product. MacOS 9 was laughably dated, slow, and unstable, especially compared to Win2000 and WinXP, and OS X was years away from being ready.

The hardware writes a check that the software can't cash. Anyone would have been better with a PowerMac or a Win2k machine.

I own a Cube, and with OS X 10.4 installed it is a completely different machine. It boots faster than a modern Mac, and is light years ahead of aged Mac OS 9 and the early versions of OS X. It feels utterly modern, and takes full advantage of the tight integration between the hardware, LCD monitor, and USB peripherals.

Unfortunately for Apple, OS X 10.4 was released 4 years after the Cube was cancelled. I think that if Apple had OS X 10.4 ready in 2000, we would look back at the Cube in a different way.
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"When referring to more than one species of fish, especially in a scientific context, you can use fishes as the plural." [1]

It's the same as peoples... [2]

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/fish-fishes/

[2] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/persons-people-peoples/
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I would to hear HN input on this
Even extremely repressive regimes will bribe the selectorate; as an example, you can look at North Korea (or Maoist China), where the peasants were starving and beaten, but the party officials have/had new cars.
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At some point that stops being a factor. If the haters are going to hate no matter what, you actually get impunity because your actual actions stop making a difference either way.
Could it be 100hrs of night sky?
Cniles don't want to invest in modern C++.
imo it's a bit like an auction where the seller can accept or refuse to honor the outcome, depending on the highest bid.

but is there actually "no deception"? i mean, if i order something i'm usually reasonally sure i'll actually get the product. them not honoring their side of the contract does seem like deception.
Completely gripping. Well worth reading.
I'm not disagreeing but I do hold the very different view that religion and science are compatible (I used to be very anti-religion many years ago BTW). I'm OK with "god created all", Fiat Lux differs little for me than the big bang. You can have both.

What is intolerable to me those who use god as a crutch to excuse themselves from their own moral obligations to do the right thing and to think for themselves. I guess this is where we agree. I hope so anyway.
Removing news is a solution that screams privilege though, isn't it?

If I'm a DREAMer, or a woman who works for a private company, or a person recently laid off due to COVID, I kind of need to follow along to help me understand how I'm going to make it the next 30 days.
It's better than straight correlation, but given the historical track records of these studies turning into a reproducible intervention of clinical significance I'd say the chances are low. The article event mentions this with

> Unlike in previous research, Zainal and Newman did not find that self-mastery, or feeling in control of one’s fate, had an effect on the mental health of participants across the 18-year period.
The chance of approval really isn't tied to the size or reputation of the company but more to the job and the individual's background and we're seeing high approval rates where the job is clearly an H-1B job (such as a software engineer) and the individual has a related degree (such as computer science) even for small startups. The real challenge comes with filing H-1B petitions for founders/those with significant ownership interests.
Due to Brexit this is changing:

https://tamebay.com/2020/07/amazon-fba-brexit-bombshell-efn-...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888510
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> It'd be quite unrealistic to have Amazon own the tools and perform QA testing on all the millions of items on their site. You see a similar problem with knock off headphones, even plugging them in and listening to a song wouldn't be enough to find most fakes.

If amazon doesnt have capacity to verify products they are selling, they shouldnt be selling them. They are knowingly contributing to fraud and we write it off as "they're too big to regulate themselves"
Push vs. pull is the main difference. They probably also tend to be more focused although, of course, there's no reason that a blog can't be.
>In my country, after taxes, a 16-inch Macbook Pro starts at nearly $3k

yeah, but the world is now filled with workstation style laptops that can be optioned to 5k+.

When the Cube came out it was staggering from a relative personal computer standpoint.

(viewed from the lens of HPC, it's all insanely cheap.)
You obviously need to tax enough to cover the costs somehow.

Tax is also incentive. You want to tax things you want to discourage more than things that you want to encourage.
In the US (and other countries) a lot of wealth is accumulated in 401ks or other pension like schemes. When people see that their retirement funds have a high value then they are more willing to spend money in the present. But since pensioners are spending less money on average than people in their working ages the effectiveness of stimulating demand via higher stock prices is limited.
OTOH, getting 99 cards and 1 bad card for the price of 50
good cards is a good deal for the buyer.
Here is a counter argument: http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/10/book-review-philosophy-...

My summary would be: The spec must cover all possible implementations so it is usually larger than the most simple one.

An example from there:

> The authors of SibylFS tried to write down an exact description of the `open` interface. Their annotated version of the POSIX standard is over 3000 words. Not counting basic machinery, it took them over 200 lines to write down the properties of `open` in higher-order logic, and another 70 to give the interactions between open and close.

> For comparison, while it’s difficult to do the accounting for the size of a feature, their model implementation is a mere 40 lines.
As far as I read the article, it seems to address the Indian consultancy companies rather than Indians as people.
This is a good point - that there is an unfortunate reality that a lot of hatred is defended by cries of "thought police", "I'm being shouted down", "first amendment", etc. I.e. playing maliciously to the very real concern the article illustrates. However, I think these cases fall into the category of "numerical minority with outsized impact", and we need to be prudent in addressing such issues while at the same time not letting them overshadow legitimate grievances the sufferers of which they feign commiseration with. We should always keep the signal in mind when we are lamenting the noise.
"Amazon wouldn't refund my Prime" -> I assumed this was to close account :)

And i believe they wouldn't close the account.
No. You can pursue both particularly since one (the EB1A) is likely being done as a self-petition.
> Meritocracy can be used as a justification of our own success and self-worth, so in this situation any criticism of meritocracy can be perceived as an insult and threat to what we have and are

This last point is why I expected to see commenters here indignantly raging against the article.
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Some of is technical content and useful for staying relevant in a fast paced industry. Some of it is garbage.
I think either is ok depending on your intention: codes is to suggest the stuff is plural, countable etc, e.g. you have a Bash script, Makefile and Java project (full of files), this is a set of heterogeneous countable things, hence codes. Code is a "mass noun" implying countability or cardinality is irrelevant, e.g. push the code to github.

That said I always remarked Indians says "maths" where I would say "math", and I figured there must be some cross-language transfer going on from Hindi or other languages which use plural for intellectual property </wild guess>
I'm sorry, I haven't read the article, maybe it's explained there, but as far as I understand by 100 hours they mean that the telescope was sitting there for 100 hours exposed open like a camera, right? How come the image is so sharp then? Wouldn't all those galaxies be constantly moving and end up blurred in a photo?
I think Python is mentioned as the usual example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Wall for anyone else who prefers reading to watching videos.
The second summand due to the sin^3 is not nonnegative (so you do need to use oddness to avoid the integral)

Right on the second part, my bad.
Tests can't replace types, just like types can't replace tests. You need both.

Types can't check the correctness of everything, but they do prove that certain classes of errors don't exist in your program.

Tests, on the other hand, can test for many more types of bugs, but they can only look for errors, they can't prove correctness (except in very small, closed environments where you can literally test every possible combination of inputs and outputs).
Apple isn't stupid. They know there is a good chance producing in China will no longer be profitable, or maybe not even possible with a future administration.

I predict a lot of production will move out of China because the USA will shift to a protectionist model in the next few years.

Apple is hedging against the same prediction.
And in the HPC world.
"different", but not in decimal points. Sometimes what you interpret as noise could give you vastly different results. And it can be bigger than just positive feedback loops.
What are immigration-acceptable ways for a person on a H1-B to start a company and work for it? For someone who is Indian, are there options to found a startup and spend the majority of their time on it?
Makes sense to me, thanks for the perspective.
> what is the reader supposed to come away with here as an alternative?

Humility, for a start.
I agree.

I think it's a strong indicator when someone takes the most absurd or niche demand of a movement of millions of people seeking justice for some of the worst oppression and state violence as a way to dismiss the whole of that movement they're probably not operating in 100% good faith or they're consuming sources that aren't particularly balanced. Or they spend too much time on twitter, I'm definitely guilty of this, but twitter isn't the real world.

For example, I don't particularly care about the master/main debate about Github, it literally does not concern me, I do not care, but if people want it renamed, why not? And if someone thinks that demand (by whom, certainly not the protestors primary concern or probably even in the top 1000) is stupid why does that invalidate an entire movement to seek justice for people suffering horrendous violence?

These supposed cases of cancel culture just show how sad the lives of these supposedly cancelled people are.

In the UK there's supposedly a "trans mafia" intimidating journalists and beloved childrens authors. But there simply isn't, these anti trans obsessives think people commercially boycotting or calling them out are some malevolent oppressor. And they complain about it weekly to their audience of millions in the leading papers and magazines (Bari Weiss wasn't fired, she quit). Meanwhile in the real world trans people suffer huge mental health issues and violence, they literally want it to be easier to be who they are. I find the whole concept mystifying and can't begin to understand what it feels like to be trans. But trans people are telling us.

We should call people what they want to be called and make healthcare available to them. It's that simple. Someone is not being oppressed for not using the right pronouns they're being a jackass to vulnerable people and they should literally stop being obsessed with toilets. Life's too short, and if you're a poor African American or a trans person it's a whole lot shorter, on average, and anyone who uses rebranding food packaging to dismiss that truth is telling on themself
I've always thought converting an LLC to a C-Corp is either not possible or prohibitively expensive, even for a growing startup. Is that the case?

Also Nevada? That's new to me!
> Why bother going to NC A&T if you didn't want the students from there? It's performative at best.

You may have answered the question yourself. This is just a guess, but perhaps some employers see business value in those performances.
Doesn't this render the "SETI v. METI" debate moot? The argument against first contact signalling was presupposed on a security via obscurity argument. We terrans are such an insignificant, technologically primitive speck in the cosmos. That the slightest ping would surely result in our colonization. But now the atomic fact: visitors from distant worlds have arrived. Isn't it time at least in theory to develop inter-species communication protocols? Or do we just assume they can read our hearts and minds?

Reworking the SETI Paradox: METI's Place on the Continuum of Astrobiological Signaling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01167
I've always considered "engineer" to be more of a personality trait than a formal qualification. Most engineers I've met (whether Software, Bio, Civil or whatever) have a similar mindset to my own, although that might be selection bias at play. There's a sense of curiosity and wanting to understand, not in an academic way, but by virtue of doing.
I’m an SEO person, and true SEO is about providing value and helping the searcher. Not about gaming it. Google does a great job at removing the black hats, and a pretty good job at removing the grey hats, but it’s not perfect.
Well there is a lot of she said he said in that threat, sadly it was locked.

Even the very act of locking the topic speak volumes about linux distribution.

On top of that, prior to lock one of the mods called the users children.

I lost of respect for Manjaro today. Can't wait for PR statement.
It's absolutely true that liberalism has changed shape dramatically. It's almost unrecognizable in it's current form.

I wouldn't expect that most people would object to something like this (wikipedia):

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law.[1][2][3] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support free markets, free trade, limited government, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), capitalism, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion.

But even the above comment I made was downvoted, so I guess this is just where we are now.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ShitHNSays/

https://old.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/
Yes, exactly what Europe needs is importing homeless people from the US.