skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still wonder why many people think colonizing Mars is doable, when we can't even colonize Antarctica.

I think it's highly likely we could colonize Antarctica on a technological level, but various treaties prevent it.
I'm a Canadian with no degree, is it possible at all to work inside the US for me? What about working for a US company remotely from here?
UBI as a macroeconomic lever to pull is an intriguing idea - hadn't thought of that consequence. Although it figures changing the amounts would get extremely political.
It depends on the context, the workplace, and how you do it.

An agenda is an agenda, which is different than an argument/position that would be in an email. Usually when I get something like that, it's intended to be an "anchor" or written record of something that the other party wants. That triggers more bullshit email, as now a more formal artifact of whatever conversation happens in the meeting is needed.
FBI warns US companies about backdoors in Chinese tax software
Has the current political climate affected Canada to US TNs or are they still being issued as before? Any particular port of entry that you'd favor/avoid?
I think you've got it wrong. The rights as defined in the Bill of Rights apply more strictly to the federal government than they do to the states. In fact, it took the Fourteenth Amendment and over a hundred years of judicial interpretation to "incorporate" a subset of the Bill of Rights to apply to state governments.
I recently joined a company where my main task is to modernise a business critical application built and supported by Wipro over ten years ago. Everything is still on .Net 3.0 (first released in 2007), and despite hundreds of pages of documentation the developers seem to have little understanding of what the application actually does for the business.

The impression I have is that their business model is geared towards building one thing, learning one technology, and then exploiting it for as long as possible with minimal evolution. This is fine if you don't need the software to evolve, but most business applications do need to evolve even if slower than at a start-up or FAANG.

At least where I work there has been the recent realisation that outsourcing all your technology means you will struggle to iterate and improve that technology.
Thanks for the insights and ideas! And for the well wishes :)
... and most engineering in general. Simple solutions tend to be very robust and often cost-effective.
I would assume the majority (99.9%) of the requests is actually API calls without delivering CSS.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is far from the problem in the US. Many millions might end up being evicted but the vast majority of them will end up finding other accommodations. There's a lot of housing available in the US. It's just not cheap in the places people want to be.
I don’t understand - what is the process that decides what hate is? How is it conformist?
* convince the other users of your IP block to not hit spamtraps.
To date, because of the pandemic and job loss, I haven't seen any change in H-1B or PERM processing (and in fact I would argue both have improved in recent months) but it's possible - even likely - that PERM processing will be impacted because of the job loss.
This is a complete non-sequitur.

Let's respond to injustice and oppression, by trying to extend a little bit of injustice and oppression to other people who haven't experienced it yet, just because we can.

How about less injustice and oppression all around?
The EU handling of Greece hasn't helped either. And it happened only a decade ago rather than half a century ago.
You're the only disgrace here.
> As someone coming from an ex-soviet state, I’ve felt personal alarm bells ring more and more

Good! I have been working to make it such for years alongside others, and our work has been bearing fruit. Who knows, we might be under a Politburo in a few years. It worked for China.

Of course, as Marx said, history marches forward in a dialectic manner. The other class has to do their part, and they have done it - the population has to be pauperized and proletarianized, and that has come to pass. As Lenin said, liberals are worse than the Tsar's Black Hundreds. Stalin said social democracy is social fascism. I'm happy to see the discussions of cutting Covid aid in congress - it is exactly the attack the working class needs against it.

As Mao said, everything under heaven is in disorder, the situation is excellent.
> now need to plan to add mitigation in scenarios where Workers blacks-out our traffic (but Support can't be of immediate help because "free customer").

How is it that you prefer to engineer those workarounds instead of just paying $20/month? It surely can't be worth in engineering hours and ongoing maintenance of hacky workaround code?
It's a safe place to store value and take out loans because it won't rise or fall in value a lot suddenly.

It's useful for setting prices for the same reason.

It's sort of the same reason you don't want to be paid or keep your money in bitcoin: you agree a salary today or you put an amount of value in today. They when you come to spend that money you suddenly find bitcoin has fallen in value...

(there are other reasons too, but this is the big one)
I was confused as well. Other comments mention how the first ten images are clearly anime / manga, but I wasn’t seeing it.

The author confirmed that was indeed the case, so I’m thinking they might have corrected (replaced) those images.
Isn't this also true of IBM? All these consulting firms have an expensive business model which is increasingly no longer useful.
My thoughts exactly... and also it will become harder to distinguish emails at a glance.

A quick win for the first few spammers that do this, with the end result of degrading the overall utility of email for everyone.
But then you just had a discussion about your friends understanding of the issue, which is going to be another step removed from the journalist. And you're either relying on the friend to have done all the work for you, or you're just two people who haven't taken the time to look at the issue discussing it.

To me, it seems that was lies strong opinions and without context.
Affirmative action is hamstrung in many ways and also is fighting against one of the strongest social forces in US history. Why would we expect it to fix everything in a generation if it works? The fact that racial bias remains a huge problem does not prove that affirmative action is useless.
yes - this is related to non-routine maintenance. I assume operation prevents moisture forming that can corrode. Storage for several weeks or months means this is like a more stringent used car "road worthiness" inspection.
My quarantine project: Create your own custom cover art for Spotify playlists
I think that's pretty awesome. I went to Elon, and the only time that we heard about the A&T CS program is the time that I participated in an ACM programming competition. We heard more about the Duke program than anything else. (Research related). I knew a little about the UNC Chapel Hill program because I had a connection with Fred Brooks.
One thing that bothers me about most of these algorithms is how conceptually difficult they are for me to understand. I don't have that strong of a background in cryptography but there is something special about how with RSA you can do it at a small scale by hand. With very limited notes I can explain to a group of high schoolers almost exactly how this vital part of encryption functions and even vulnerabilities in it (small exponent values, etc). While rolling your own crypto is bad, with a bit of work I'd expect almost any programmer to be able to implement RSA without too much difficulty.

I'm not sure how important being able to explain encryption algorithms in detail to high school students is, but I'll definitely be sad when RSA and other non-quantum resistant algorithms join the likes of the enigma machine and exist for demonstration process only. I'm hopeful in time less crypto minded people (like me) will better understand module learning with errors or lattice based cryptography and maybe we'll get better at explaining it. It would be a shame if even more of cryptography into an unintelligible black box to eke out performance gains.
I think one thing is that people factor the college they went to in terms of the jobs they are seeking (not just in terms of pay, but also prestige of the company they are looking at, flexibility with moving, etc.), that may not matter as much at the high-end of the pay range or after years of experience, but I think right out of college this is important.

My argument is basically the low-end of the jobs that someone who went to Princeton and excelled in computer science is willing to settle for is higher than the low-end of jobs that someone who went to a lesser-name school and excelled in computer science is willing to settle for.

In theory, if the difference in quality of education is enough, then the level of education that someone who excelled in computer science at Princeton vs someone who excelled in computer science at a lesser-name college would equal out this difference in expectations, but I don't think that is the case, at least when we are talking about high-end school vs mid-range school.

Moreover, in computer science especially there is a lot of self-learning. Someone who has done consistently better than their peers probably has a good talent for self-learning, even if the average of their peers is lower.

I think you get the same discount for quality when hiring weird people or people with odd job histories.

My general idea here is that if someone is less desirable in a way which you do not care about but where other companies might care about, they are probably going to be on average of higher quality than someone more conventionally desirable asking for the same salary range. Not saying this is an iron law, but I think it is a tendency.
Understanding Null Safety in Dart
In case you're also trying to save that for later by directly "forking" it to your Notion, instead of saving it to Pocket for instance.

I found that putting the below link into a Notion page of mine suggests to create de linked DB:

https://www.notion.so/66057ba78cbd4d158349091050bbda55?v=c3a...

If you know of a more direct button I'm all ears.
I think HN is awfully addictive, though slightly less so than certain other sites due to a slightly bounded amount of content. Though I think it has helped my life in some ways, it's probably a net negative. My real problem is what should I replace it with? Trying to limit HN (and similar) time tends to make me increase my time on even-less-worthwhile activities like other sites. It's not that HN is good, it's just among the least-bad of the activities that tap this certain urge.
> Then the US isn't a democracy?

It is teetering on the brink.

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/23/ruth-ben-ghiat-on-trump-and...
The "not much more than g" era in research has ended. TLDR: cognitive ability is not just a single scalar value.

> For several decades, the question of whether measures of specific cognitive ability contributed anything meaningful to the prediction of performance on the job or performance in training once measures of general mental ability were taken into account appeared to be settled, and a consensus developed that there was little value in using specific ability measures in contexts where more general measures were available. It now appears that this consensus was premature, and that measures of specific abilities can make important contributions even if general measures are taken into account.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526477/
>Actually many of these have been empowered by some kind of internet troll movement.

It's not a "movement". It's information warfare enabled by the fact that most information sources online don't even give lip service to the idea of separating propaganda and manipulation from honest public discussion.

The Russians are (obviously) getting very good at this, and other countries like China aren't far behind. Until companies like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and others recognize that protecting public discussion from interference isn't optional, you can expect this to continue.
Why is this downvoted? We need people to do the actual work but we also need people to support the political projects to enable people to do the actual work.
When Shakespeare ponders the PCI DSS requirement to be onsite
How could a potential trump re-election could impact the current working visas L1/H1B/O1 processings?
I'm a PhD from Bio background who became a data-scientist in a health-care related (but not biology research) company. I have been reasonably successful in this job, but because of the change in fields I lost my H1B to a failed RFE the one time I passed the lottery. Now I'm thinking of doing an O1 application, but my assumption has been that all my expertise must now be demonstrated in this new field of health-care data analytics and not from my PhD times, and I'm working on it.

My question is, has the difficulty of getting O-1 visas gone up significantly in the past year or so?
Audible does this thing where when I search for an author, it constructs a bag of words based on the titles of books that show up for that author, then retrieve based on that bag of words, then rank by like popularity of the returned books. So if a different, more popular author has written books with similar titles (which is very easy given a trilogy with storm-themed titles) you will occasionally see a book by the wrong author as the number one result.

Every time it happens I want to quit my job and force them to hire me to fix it.
... high being roughly around 11 for n6/n3. As always with supplements (if that's how the omega-n3 is taken) more does not equate with better.
Assume you hold the view that a design document provides all the information necessary to construct a piece of software without any further design work.

Construct a software development methodology around that assumption. Now remove that assumption, and think about the practical consequences for a team who doesn't realize that the assumption is incorrect until after they have started implementing a design document.

Imagine what would happen if you hired an architectural firm to draw up some blueprints for a house, and then midway into the construction of the house it turns out that the assumptions made in the blueprints are wildly out of sync with what's possible to build.

It is significantly better for everyone involved if management goes into the process knowing the limitations of design documents and up front design.

For more concrete example of the practical problems see the history of the debate between iterative and big design up front methodologies over the last 30 years.
I don't have the necessary background to find a good "Kubernetes everywhere" ice shower, but if someone else found one and submitted it I think I could evaluate it.
Hi Peter!

I’m a highly skilled engineer and reasonably accomplished entrepreneur (founder of a VC-backed startup that is still alive but hasn’t taken off, and I no longer work there). I’m a natural born citizen of Sweden and I live there.

I’d like to emigrate to the US, with citizenship as the goal. I can spend a bit of money on it, but I’m not wealthy. What’s my best bet? What would you say is the probability of success?

Thanks in advance,

Björn
I can't stand when project names contain false altruism. Especially one built to send spam emails.
I've had a coworker in a similar situation once WFH started. He told me that he just has trouble turning it off at night. I have trouble understanding this perspective because no matter how much you work there is always going to be more, and no matter how much you do you're still getting paid the same salary.

My take on this, is if you want to keep working, after you've met your obligation to the company, why not just work on your own stuff? If you work on something that's "yours", there's a possibility of being able to earn more based on how much effort you put in.
> So how do you revoke sessions?

Because the token is generated per request, there is no requirement to revoke the token. Each request is a session in itself. The private payload of the token contains the username if the user was authenticated, else that information is not present in the token. That gives an indication to the server that the request is from already authenticated user.

> There’s no way to logout or invalidate sessions?

A logout request from user will contain the token that was sent in the response to previous request from that user. Because the token is generated per request, the way the server can "invalidate" a session is by simplying logging out the user by removing the username from the next token. If a token is compromised then that will create a problem for that single request because the next token will be different and will be using a new key for encryption.

> I’m not sure what you mean by stateless server.

Stateless means the server does not have to maintain session information.
We're starting to see greater scrutiny and more irrational decision-making (such as concluding that a degree in computer science isn't an appropriate degree for software engineers) but for the most part, TN applications are being processed as before (by USCIS and CBP). Regarding ports to favor/avoid, the answer really depends on the nature and quality of the TN application.
Does YC pay your standard billable rate, or do they send you enough business to warrant a discount?
I use 1Password, which is free from my work. Otherwise, I'd use Bitwarden.
Some tangentially relevant observations based on volunteering at a raptor conservation trust in the UK.

The trust maintains a visitor park that provides bird displays and experience days for the general public. The gate takings and donations fund conservation activities in the UK (raptor nest boxes, bird hospital, bird surveys) and overseas activities (e.g. reducing poisoning of wild birds by game poachers). The Trust itself is very much an outdoor organisation, with key staff supporting bird care and site infrastructure. There is a small back office that supports ops, marketing and merchandising, using COTS software. Academic research is conducted but in conjunction with local universities, which is where data crunching, etc, happens. There are a small number of on-site student placements, primarily for those in biology / zoology courses, and the placement activities seem fairly practical in nature. I suspect that most similar organisations follow a similar pattern, with a relatively small COTS software footprint and a focus on practical tasks rather than software development / data analysis.

That said, I started volunteering to support an office-based marketing function: management of a massive photo library and video editing to support marketing and outreach functions. After six months of doing this, COVID-19 happened and most office staff started WFH, with office-based volunteering suspended because it involves hot-desking. When the park started to reopen, I switched to COVID-related activities such as queue management (‘space marshal’) and cleaning. Although some tasks are menial, I’ve learned much more about how the trust works on a daily basis and I’ve got to know the key bird staff much better.

One of my key insights, as an ex-software professional, is how much I didn’t know about how conservation actually works, and how specific conservation organisations actually operate. But getting hands-on with some of the less glamorous tasks is a good apprenticeship and a way of building trust in the industry, if you have a long-term interest in directly supporting conservation.
You're the "disclaimer: I work for google cloud" person, right? Maybe you can help solve this problem (and it's a real one, it massively sucks that everyone counts whatever "flops" they want).

Start here: https://cloud.google.com/tpu

> Cloud TPU v3 Pod

> 100+ petaflops

Is the Cloud TPU v3 even functionally capable of computing in fp64 at any performance?
Question about E-2 visa (investor visa)... If I create a US company from abroad and start making money, can that revenue in US bank account be counted as investment? Or should I transfer the money back home and then reinvest in US business?
The “free speech debate” isn’t about free speech
To me the article is not far from parent's reading. For instance these quotes:

> We wanted to understand what specific coping strategies would be helpful in reducing rates of depression, anxiety and panic attacks.

> Our findings suggest that people can improve their mental health by raising or maintaining high levels of tenacity, resilience and optimism,” she said. “Aspiring toward personal and career goals can make people feel like their lives have meaning. On the other hand, disengaging from striving toward those aims or having a cynical attitude can have high mental health costs.”

The second quote is really not far from presenting lack of perseverence or negativity as an active choice, putting the onus on the patient.
Everybody is a jerk.
> Read a book.

Non-fiction books have driven my world opinions more than any other source (besides I suppose lived experience).

One sad thing about the past few months is I no longer find time to read. My wife does ebooks, but I just can't get into them.

On the plus side, I'm getting a lot of projects done around that house.
"This seems, unfortunately, to have been an own goal by Silicon Valley.
Though the people who run Silicon Valley are almost all independent-minded,
they've handed the aggressively conventional-minded a tool such as they could
only have dreamed of."

This comes across as self-aggrandizing and a tad elitist.

"On the other hand, perhaps the decline in the spirit of free inquiry within universities
is as much the symptom of the departure of the independent-minded as the cause.
People who would have become professors 50 years ago have other options now. Now
they can become quants or start startups. You have to be independent-minded to
succeed at either of those."

This is happening for economic reasons. Jobs outside academia pay more than they used to, the US no longer have a high income tax rate like we did in the 1950s, and there is more competition for academic jobs. Maybe at one point deciding to become a quant was independent-minded, but at this point it's a well worn path. Also, I'm sure there are some ideas that would be off-limits in quant circles
> If rich people sold the assets they wouldn’t have them anymore.

But they’d have more money, presumably more than what they paid for the assets. Not that money and goods are exactly fungible, but buying assets from the wealthy makes them wealthier, not poorer or status quo.
As a European entrepreneur with some success and some international recognition what would you recommend is the best strategy to get a US work visa and move there. For instance starting a new company in the US or a new branch or something like the O1 visa? I have British, Irish, Polish nationalities and perhaps one of the them has good odds on a visa lottery?

Thanks!
Scientists Unveil First Ever Pictures of Multiple Planets Around a Sunlike Star
> Many employers now schedule obligatory "sessions" where employees are given a spiel on a topic heavily pushing "the right view" with a short 2-3 minuted at the end dedicated to "discussion". With "just try to criticize this" as an unspoken seasoning.

That reminds me of what I've spoken about a few times with friends, that it's similar to what Hillary Clinton said about the need to have a public and a private opinion, only for different reasons. Most people know what is allowed and what is expected to be said in public, and they'll behave accordingly. But they have a different, real opinion in private.
What changed to make it drop? The voting system in the U.S. hasn't changed, the first amendment is still in effect, media is independent (no equivalent of DW or BBC). I'm trying to find out what aspects did change to cause a ranking drop.