skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember many years ago I read an article on studies about addiction, and turns out Pornography and Drugs totally lost out to News, being the number one worldwide addiction without being widely known.

Unfortunately my Google Fu hasn't turn up anything. I will Edit the post if I find the link.

My personal opinion is that

1. All Human has an urge to want to know more, Curiosity. It doesn't necessarily means knowledge, as information without "thinking" is pretty much meaningless. One reason why the world we are in right now are a complete mess, because thanks to the Internet we all thought we "know".

2. All Human has an urge to want something better, Innovation. Why hasn't something been done? Why hasn't this problem be solved? Is this not a problem for enough people to recognise changes? Has Science improved? Medical improved? Technology Improved? Food Safety or Nutrition Improved? etc.
FYI, the US border is not closed to Canadians if you enter via air; only the land border is closed to non-essential travel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Duke_University_people...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turing_Award_laureates...
Hey Peter, Thanks for doing this. How would a person on H1B file an O-1 visa to start a company in the US?
>When you can successfully hire a remote worker without needing 1) to speak their language, 2) understand their culture, customs, holidays, and 3) worry about time zone differences, then engineers here should start worrying about offshoring.

You have just described most offshoring to latin america.
Why are you calling them undocumented, and not illegal?
If many people find agreements with a person's notions of conformity, by the evidence of the popularity of their writings, does that make these people conformists, and therefore engenders conformist attitudes towards the author's point of view on non-conformity?

Genuinely pondering.
It seems to me that tests are equally good as a communication tool.
Wrong—“codes” is correct in the Indian dialect of English. This is akin to arguing over whether “color” or “colour” is the correct spelling.
what do you think of pg's essay?
Look at how many heavily armed right wing fanatics show up whenever people remove a racist statue. It isn't so hard to imagine hundreds of them marching into the white house to "protect" the president after he loses the election.

It won't be a matter of a few secret service agents escorting Trump out. It will be a full on armed standoff in the white house with 40% of the country rooting for Trump.

Top that off with a raging pandemic, unprecedented economic devastation, homelessness, shutdown schools, and sophisticated digital propaganda campaigns designed to exacerbate every divisive issue and it is hard to see how US democracy survives.
Not a lawyer, but a visa holder.

Non immigrant visa holders cannot vote, and there is little benefit for employers to actually go out and challenge the administration to protect them.

We are an easy target when it comes to populist actions.
No it doesn't. Democracy means you have the freedom (free press, independent judicial system, etc) to vote for the government you want. It doesn't mean you get the government you want. And it surely doesn't mean you get to block something because you don't get what you want. A democracy is not a kindergarten.
Say my close friend / future cofounder is here on a B-1. He's looking to extend it for 6 months pretty soon. Do you think the current situation means that it's more or less likely to get approved?

I'd be optimistic about the baseline situation, but given the pandemic, I don't know whether the government would be (a) very slow, allowing the person lots of time to stay while govt makes their call, or (b) unusually efficient AND strict.

(Thanks for helping everyone out on this thread!)
I know I have a difficult time responding to long emails. When someone (friend or business) sends me a short email, there's a good chance I'll reply right away if it'll only take a minute. Now, if they send a long email, well, I'm not interested in stopping everything and spending 15 minutes writing it out. So, it goes on the to-do list for later. This keeps getting pushed back again and again, and sometimes never gets done.

I remember when I used online dating sites this was also the case. If I wrote someone a long message, asking a number of questions, it would rarely get a reply. However, if I literally wrote one or two sentences with a single, easy to answer question, I'd get a reply 50% of the time.
Absolutely! You can see it in this thread, even. There are folks excited by the prospect of using the phrase "aggressively non-conformist".

pg is providing memetic ammunition for the very "culture wars" he claims he's trying to sit out. No introspection (or at least no _evidence_ of introspection), exactly as you say.
I really respect Jonathan Corbet's writing skills. The article was clear, informative, and engaging.
Soviet Union had this job guarantee. It didn’t work well. Motivation of people forced to be somewhere all day was very low.
The issue is not with long term effects, it’s that the impact itself wipes out human race entirely.
Are you really so certain that good is measurable? Or that good even exists? Good vs. bad is but the tip of the moral iceberg; we are not merely concerned with whether our actions will please some deity trapped on a cosmic battleground, but the precise nature of what our actions will effect in the world.

To pop out and flip around an old Christian argument, your position is like saying that color photography misses the fundamental problem of determining what a given shot would have looked like in greyscale; it's like asking somebody who sees full color to explain each different color to somebody who only sees black and white. I could say that each color is kind of like white and kind of like black, but really it's more like a mix of both, but really it's not like either at all.

And once we stop saying "good" or "bad", and start saying instead quantifiable measurements, like "number of meals prepared" or "number of houses built", then we see that there's a little good and a little bad in everything.

Pirsig had a way around most of this, but even he still talked of "good" as something that one person measures/evaluates/observes in another person, and we might interrogate him by asking, "What about that person is good?" to which he might have replied, "I see a certain thing about them, and I perceive this thing to be good."
Q1) No. Q2) You can only apply for a one-year renewal. There are different strategies here depending on how much longer you plan on living abroad and when you intend to travel to the U.S. next.
Thanks, very interesting.

She's been avoiding fats has she's had both reflux and is trying to eat an anti inflammatory diet. Will see if she fancies a change of tactics.
Impossible! This person with karma on HN said that no one's avoiding commentary for fear of mob retribution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23820046

The reality here is that if you're a leftist, you may well be under the impression that people are in fact overcommunicating ever minor, pointless, faux-activist idea that pops into their head. If you're not a leftist, of course you're self-censoring constantly, despite how bold and idiotic the mob's ideas may be.
Perhaps some those illegals are descendants of American citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

400,000 to 2,000,000 "Mexicans" (including their American-born children, technically US citizens) living in territories annexed by the US were "repatriated" (put into buses and sent to Mexico). In other words, this is ethnic cleansing.

Some of them owned land and properties, and were forced to abandon them with no compensation.

Racists don't give a shit about legal immigration. If all those people of Mexican descent were legal immigrants, they would still find a way to discriminate them. It's just the excuse of the day.
I think he argues that progressives are a misnomer, political correctness a compromise with orthodoxy.

Progressives don't necessarily agree with other progressives. At least a subgroup wouldn't self describe as such.

This was tried to communicate very often, for example with reference to diversity of opinion. It was, perhaps with some reason, seen as an argument against diversity of skin colors.
They are not the same, at least according to the definitions I'm familiar with.

Static/dynamic is whether type checking is done at compile time or run type.

Strong/weak is how flexible the language is with type conversion.

Another explanation: https://en.hexlet.io/courses/intro_to_programming/lessons/ty...
I do wonder if it has some basis in the manichaeism of the dominant protestant sects of american history.
The US government can't audit every order of widgets to see whether the difference between wages is accurate. Even if it were possible, this would just punish poorer countries where it's riskier to do business in.
I think almost any post-asteroid earth will be more inhabitable than Mars.

I still think it's worth going and trying. IMHO it's more interesting and potentially useful than what's done with a lot of other money.
Because the concept of an illegal human is philosophically and ethically absurd.
This book by Wes McKinney.

https://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPytho...
I just meant it's 'capable' in context of the above question of engineering capabilities. But you're very right that aviation requires expensive safety and compliance procedures on top of that.
Governments have to close this loophole. A CEO is going to be quickly ousted if they suggest not taking advantage of the well known tactic. For one it means less money in the pockets of shareholders but also reduces the ability to compete if all other companies are paying little to no tax. Until governments step in, nothing will change.
wish I could use grid yet, I'm still supporting ie11 and safari 9 (i know ie has a janky grid prototype, I would maybe even put up with that if safari worked as well)
I think it's a highly dubious proposition to imagine human beings lasting on Mars for more than a generation or two.
> You shouldn't expect an abstraction to make a linked list the same thing as a vector - they aren't, and they never will be

I would even argue that's the point of an abstraction. Hide the details that don't matter to the caller. If performance is a detail that matters, and the abstraction doesn't capture it, then you're using the wrong abstraction.
I actually think this has gotten worse in the past 10 years or so due to social media link sharing, because they realized, and this is purely speculation, that if you have a very sensational extreme article in one direction it will get shared by both the people who vehemently agree and the people who think it's absolutely absurd rather than a "boring" article that people are less likely to act on, especially people from both sides of a debate.
I'm a citizen waiting for a green card application for my wife in India. We've had our docs approved by NVC and everything. Any ideas how long the mumbai embassy is going to be closed? They aren't saying a peep online, near total radio silence from them. Curious if you've heard any credible timeframes on their reopening.

Thanks Peter.
A Bit of Friday Fun Part 2 – Optical Illusions [YouTube]
Possibly counting images using different sensors as separate exposures, even if they're taken during overlapping time intervals
I am not sure if it is called that, but I see the concept everyday.

I think it does come down to communication and management.
Q1) starting a LLC in Delaware/Nevada <$200, renting a P.O.Box that scans incoming mail <$100/year. You can't start an S-Corp (but you can tax a LLC as S-Corp) and starting a C-Corp can get very expensive (tax based on the number of shares). Most VCs require a C-Corp. Angels might be fine with an LLC.
It had a base price of $1799. The contemporaneous iMac was $799. Even a G4 Tower had a lower starting price of $1599. There was definitely a design premium on the cube.
Your comment sounds very hyperbolic in the description of your team's skills, and yet you still focus mostly on how cheap your developers are, and the importance of your expert management. I don't think that I'd be able to write good code if my primary attribute was cheapness, regardless of whether or not it was good money for my location. I would be trying to do my time as a developer and work my way out of the disposable zone and into "management" as soon as possible.
Wasn't that a flop that produced a fraction of the jobs promised for the billions in government hand outs?
No, quite boutique but not a UK firm I was one of 5 in the UK office.

We didn’t really deal with retail banks the banking clients would be investment and asset management banks like RaboBank.
That's...not as expensive as I had expected.

In my country, after taxes, a 16-inch Macbook Pro starts at nearly $3k
redream is a Dreamcast emulator written in C only. libretro (the core API behind Retroarch) and Retroarch itself are primarily C. mupen64plus is in C, although the common 3rd party plugins and frontends are not always in C.
Any lawyer who has passed the bar, and is under a code of professional conduct. Your invocation of Godwin's law is not going to change anything.
I just used reader mode on Safari.
Given the existence of the 16th Amendment, on what basis do you claim that the US tax laws are unconstitutional?
I think the one-dimension "conformist" / "non-comformist" axis isn't useful.

We all participate in orthodoxies that we're blind to (or at least not fully aware of). The only questions are "Which ones?" and "What are the consequences of our participation?"

In that sense, we're all "conformists".
In fairness it was an astonishingly pretty machine, and I've always really wanted one - even today when it would be totally useless.

Who cares if it would power cycle on sufficiently hot days :D
I'm a bit uncomfortable with how he romanticizes the "aggressively independent" quadrant as being the quadrant of startup founders, great innovators and Galileo (those with good ideas), even though that quadrant also clearly contains anti-vax leaders, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler (those with bad ideas). I'm sorry I had to go there, but it's true. People in both aggressive quadrants are extremely dangerous.

I'm also uncomfortable with his defence of free will because of how... conventional it is. It's nothing I haven't read a million times before. Like it or not, "free speech is good" is one of the most conventional statements one could make in current society, and it is consequently pushed by a lot of aggressively conventional people. Whether they are right or not is besides the point here. The point is that it is not, as portrayed, a fight between the independent-minded and the conventional-minded. It is perfectly reasonable for independent-minded people to question it, as they would question any other widespread norm, and a lot of its staunchest proponents are conventional-minded.
Incredible how clueless some people can be to true mob evilness.

Being cancelled can mean that you will never get another job in your field. It depends on the circumstances. A cancelled professor on tenure track will probably never get another tenure track position.

So, to rephrase your words, "What so bad about not being able to feed yourself and your family...is that really so bad?"

Do you really think that the effect of "losing talent" will be accounted for when cancelling people? MAO "cancelled" (murdered) the intellectual class in his cultural revolution. Rational though isn't going to be emphasized in the midst of an irrational political movement.

By the way you write and think, you're probably a Millennial with a very weak grasp of history. Yet, you feel qualified to tell people that LIVED through communism that they should't fear what they are seeing.
The Titanic also killed many more people than the Eastland did. The headline here is intentionally deceptive, specifying that the Eastland killed more passengers.

The past is a pretty different place. These hundreds of passengers died when they couldn't swim the twenty feet to the shore. It makes you question why they wanted to have their party on a boat.
In my experience, Universities in the US aren't the place to place your bets on.

It's hard to explain in a short HN comment, so my apologies here if it's a bit gripe-y and disjointed.

I've just gotten the feeling that the Universities, very much including the STEM departments, are all about funding. Since the funding is largely controlled by other professors in the field (via Study Sessions), you have to get on the good side of many people. The after-talk drinking sessions at major conferences are a key way to do this.

If you're 'likable' and a 'big' name, then committees send funding your way. After all, at that level, every proposal is pretty much gold anyways. I remember a Nature editor telling a class once that they could shut down the submissions portal at about noon January 1st and see no drop in the quality of what they published for the year. Still, Nature and funding committees have to dole out things. So, when given the choices of people you know and people you don't, you tend to go with people you know (academic pedigree is also super important here).

So 'rocking the boat' is very much discouraged, your mortgage depends on you not doing that. Then the same issues that we see on Twitter occur as well. The louder voices tend to get more 'views', as long as the voice is stating the orthodox opinions. In STEM fields, it's less bad in terms of the research (facts very much matter), but the underlying culture is just the same as with all humans.

If you get into the replication crisis issues, then it's the funding crunch on steroids. Those fields tend to be all about 'name', as the facts have become so difficult to obtain that no one could 'fact check' even if they wanted to (nutrition, bio, psych, fMRI, etc). I'm still surprised that particle physics hasn't fallen down this hole and I think that their 'culture' is one to look into.

Again, apologies on the rant here. Still, heterodox opinions (not facts, to be clear) are not the place for Universities in the US anymore.

I'd look at where all the Burners went after about 2012 to find the better places to deal with the aggressively independent minded. Ephemerisle is a thought, but those guys are a bit wacko in terms of covid-19 safety, though that may just be a side effect. Maybe the Rainbow gatherings?
Can you blame them? There's examples already. Brendan Eich got witch hunted out of Mozilla when somebody discovered some $3000 worth of donations to causes that don't align with the loudest voices of today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Mozilla
L1-B holder here, in the process of getting my PERM.

Lawyers told me that my degree does not qualify as a BSc, even after I send them the certificate that proves it does. Apparently, anything under five years is not considered a BSc. They also told me that my 15+ years of experience have little value, as they will only consider the five most recent.

What is the position of the USCIS about this?
> it isn't an isolated thing (as far as I can tell) and it's in line with everything that happened in the last weeks/months in the US.

If that’s the case, then why is this very strange and anomalous video the one thing people keep talking about when there are much more clear-cut examples such as Lafayette Park? More importantly, why is that the one data point that people are building the narrative around and saying, “well, it isn’t an isolated incident”.
I'd love to read that if you ever put it together!

How many hours of audio did it need to train one of the voices?
Sure.

I was explaining how "chilling effects" can work using a hypothetical example.

Your answer argued against something entirely different, that I guess I reminded you of. But I didn't even talk about cancel culture.
they also barely could have picked worse names than justify-content and align-items
Would you say the same about much smaller cities like Paris or Berlin?
It's also, for some reason, what people say in scientific computing.
I can't stand landing pages that fly the 'opensource' flag then don't have any links to the source. The 'Donate' button was easy to find though.

Also couldn't find any technical details on how this differs from other Arch distros and of course being new(er?) there's no Distrowatch entry.
For seed stage startups (< 10 employees) filing H1-Bs, what kind of approval rates have you observed in the last 1-2 years? (Given the USCIS crackdown under the Trump administration).

Are you seeing a change in approval rates after the recent USCIS-ITServe settlement for startup H1Bs?
A shrink wrap machine is relatively cheap and does wonders for people running these operations. Nobody is going to check inside a "factory sealed" box.

Folks were running scams like this in the 90's. I remember a friend of mine bought a hard drive from CompUSA. Turned out it was actually a brick sealed in a box.
>Not of course, but to blame your neighbor for acting evil, when everybody, including your own people does exactly the same thing, is an exercise on hypocrisy written in the sky in flashing giant neon letters

No, hypocrisy would be engaging in or supporting similar acts carried out by my nation, and I also view those as evil. Discussing one of the many bad acts that have happened without mentioning every other one doesn't make me a hypocrite.

>Maybe we should abolish the democracy as the rotten symbol of slavery that it is, and behead the Aristotle statues because the father of modern medicine was also a slave owner

Or we can judge historical actions independently without either the hero worship or the condemnation of every thing connected to them. Aristotle was a flawed human being who wrote a fantastic treatise on logic.
if one is looking for $10-20 hourly developer, certainly the result will likely be what you've experienced.

Big IT Indian firms usually will choose one or two highly talented developers for a project team and others just hop around them. Usually these projects aren't also very engineering-intensive and becomes boring once the base framework is created for creative folks. Good devs don't stay longer in a company at least during initial years simply they're in good demand and gets double the package with every jump. Eventually they'll make it to Indian subsidiaries of US companies like Microsoft/Google or, they'll start their own expert consultancy/product companies.

For the record I've worked out of India exclusively and have charged up to about $100 hourly rate from my US clients. I've gone through above process - my last job being at Microsoft India (2011-2016)
Now I wonder if the Cobalt Qube[1] was inspired by this...

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube
Mathematical constants and operators for common math folks
wrt Tech Mahindra a very senior engineer who used to work there told me that there have been so many layoffs there that, in some projects the Team Leads report straight to the VP. Newbies receive little to no training or guidance.
You know what is unsustainable in the long run? How the EU treats these countries. On the surface it seems that we're recipients of EU funds but for every EUR we have to pay back much much more.
Society isn't a story and therefore doesn't have a protagonist.
Because large companies like Intuit lobby to make the process complicated so they can sell expensive software for taxpayers to navigate it.
How to think like a Roman Emperor.
If by „better“ you mean better cognitive abilities, then yes, some people ar better in this regard.
The 2000 PowerMac G4 Tower actually started at $200 less than the Cube.
We didn’t run automated vuln scanners, the majority of the work was app focused grey box testing, VA was only performed in the rare cases where we actually were testing against a live prod environment nearly all of our testing was done pre-production, quite often it would start pre-QA/UAT.