skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't change rape by being a good rapist. All that serves IMO is to normalize being an accomplice and doing evil things with good intentions.

> People have a series of rationalizations. People say for example that science and technology have their own logic, that they are in fact autonomous. This particular rationalization is profoundly false. It is not true that science marches on in defiance of human will, independent of human will, that just is not the case. But it is comfortable, as I said: it leads to the position that "if I don't do it, someone else will."

> Of course if one takes that as an ethical principle then obviously it can serve as a license to do anything at all. "People will be murdered; if I don't do it, someone else will." "Women will be raped; if I don't do it, someone else will." That is just a license for violence.

- http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html
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What's your point? Something wrong was done a long time ago so by now it's no longer wrong?
It's one thing to be fired.
It's another to be jailed.

I mean, how would you crack down on drug dealers?
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Yep, that’s one of the key use-cases. You can choose one of the tables in your base/sheet and that’s the users who can log in.
The first time the media reported on an event and subject where I knew more than them, I was in my late 20s (I think you have to be at least that old to know a lot about something ... could explain why younger people seem to have such blind faith in popular narratives).

I was absolutely shocked by the basic inaccuracy and skewed writing in literally every single story that was written, every single video that was recorded, everything.

I mean it was all complete and utter nonsense and bullshit. Basic facts, the names of people involved, their roles, the applicable laws, EVERYTHING was wrong EVERYWHERE.

They’ve reported on 3 more events I was deeply familiar with since then, different subjects/industries, same story. Everything is wrong everywhere.

They’re always wrong in the same way and for the same reasons: A more scandalous narrative, with more compelling villains and heroes. If a legal entity with a lot of money is involved, attribute the misinformation to another source so you won’t get sued.
The H1-B hires (all 10 of them) and the outsourcing to US-based, but foreign owned, contractors are two different issues.
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>Nah, you know what doesn't need to exist? Giant multinational corporations beholden to nobody that do whatever they want with impunity around the world, polluting, crushing local economies, lobbying governments, tracking the population like cattle and selling their data for pennies to the highest bidder.

Giant corporations generally pay better and invest more into their workforce than small business, that's why developed economies, with high levels of organisation, rely on larger firms.

The romanticism of small-business is extremely misplaced. Small business is unproductive, precarious, and as can be seen in this pandemic fragile to external shocks, offering virtually no security to their workforce.

Large firms, ideally with high levels of unionisation (see France or Denmark), can absorb these shocks because unlike small business they're not scraping by from one month to the next. And they very much are accountable to society at large, that's why they need to hire lobbyists in the first place, because they're usually subject to regulation. It's small business that is effectively unmanagable.
>It's hard to shake the feeling that no one really has any idea and everyone is just guessing.

Even more than just being "hard to shake" it's really the only conclusion I can reach now. In the beginning we were told we had to wipe down our groceries and anything else we brought into our homes, and now they're saying that wiping down any surfaces is mostly pointless because it doesn't spread effectively that way.

It's a complete mess.
The H1Bs in question were hired by contracting firms so you wouldn’t find them in that list.
> For the multiple machines comment, that is not true. The server can generate a salt/key (or whatever it should be named in this version) and communicate it over the initial request with the login page which is then sent back along with the altered client password, de-salted/unencrypted/turned into something can be compared to the users password. Basically CSRF.

I'm not following you. The system described was:

1. The user comes up with P.

2. The website salts and hashes it, creating C = hash(P,salt_c).

3. C is communicated to the server.

4. The server salts and hashes C, creating S = hash(C,salt_s).

Now, in order to log in, the user must send C, not P, to the server. The goal of this design is that the user does not know C. They do know P. So in order to send C, either the user must remember the original value salt_c, or it must be communicated to them so that they can produce C from P.

We are not contemplating the user personally remembering the value of salt_c, but it would be possible to store it in e.g. javascript local storage. But that would prevent the user from logging in from any device that didn't already have the salt stored. If they cleared their browser history and data, it would prevent them from ever logging in again.

So the server must store salt_c. (As noted above, this means it's now perfectly possible for the server to directly verify that P is the user's "password", the value that hashes to C. But the scheme still allows us to avoid sending P over the wire.) Storing salt_c on the server is the only way to allow the user to log in from more than one browser session.
Whitewashing the abuse through vendors does not absolve you of responsibility. It is your job as a CEO to know what is going on in your business. Implement better HR and vendor controls if you want to keep your job.

The abuse was brought to light (by the non-profit U.S. Tech Workers), and the executive branch executed on that information against a federally chartered corporation's chief executive. Whether it's selective or not is immaterial. Some violators will get away (unfortunately!), some will not. Try complaining to the officer as they write the ticket that everyone else was speeding too. Everyone else was, but you were the one who was pulled over and is getting the ticket.
How come the "current best practice" programming model changes with every language release?
What are some industry players using Julia heavily? Can't find the info the the website.

Still have the impression that it's mostly used by academics or niche audience, would be happy to be proven wrong
Americans suffer from poor public education and are for the most part ignorant to matters both inside and outside of their country.
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h1bsalary site isn't comprehensive, there were changes they made this year too. https://theintercept.com/2020/05/05/tennessee-valley-authori...
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I find it incredibly depressing that the current state of interviews for many companies is still a bunch of algorithm problems that test how much time you've spent grinding through leetcode. Like many other things we've optimized on what is easy to test, rather than what is relevant.
Did you mean to reply to a different thread? This was about Sowell’s conservative social views and the sometimes intemperate way he expresses them, not about his economics (which the person I’m replying to expressed an appreciation for).
I mean, I'm always for increased accountability of CEO's. The buck stops there, he should know what was going on in his organization. That's pretty much the job description.
This is the info I was looking for. Julia is such an awesome language, but I can't use it due to latency. As soon as this gets fixed I would switch over all of my data analysis in a heartbeat.
Comparing auto fatalities to covid is a flawed argument.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/24/your-anal...
Denmark isn't requiring masks and from what I've read, not many people are wearing them.

And Vietnam went 100 days without an new case and are now dealing with an outbreak they can't trace back to a source.
I feel you. Two things I've picked up that may be helpful:

First, as a sibling comment said, having a notebook always on hand is a huge help to me (I like Field Notes as they fit in my pockets and hold up to abuse well). Writing things down with a pen avoids all of the possible distractions of picking up your phone, and frees you from any structure imposed by task apps.

I write stuff down constantly--sometimes I write down tasks, random ideas, or just doodle. Later (ideally in the evening or first thing in the morning) I read my ramblings and organize the ones worth remembering into a more permanent place. Tasks go into a digital todo app, notes and ideas into OneNote, etc.

While this scribbling thoughts and organizing them later is barely a routine, its proved to be enough to get me through crazy times and back into a "real" routine.

The second thing: don't worry about your routine collapsing. It happens, it's natural. Accept it, write down the crazy business in your head, and slowly start building a new routine.
No, a minimal amount of selective enforcement is never cracking down. It can be an excuse, publicity stunt, etc but cracking down requires a wide scale enforcement effort.

Let’s suppose ~5% of all H1B’s are problematic... That’s ~9,000 per year so catching 1% of cases would be ~900 over the last decade.
The TVA is federally owned. Disney is not.
Hi Peter, I know I'm commenting a bit late but just wanted a bit of advice. I'm a Canadian employed by a US company, living in NYC at the moment. Since the pandemic hit I've been working remotely and will be for the foreseeable future.

I wanted to move back to Canada until we're back at the office so I can be closer to my family as it's been incredibly lonely working here in isolation, however my employer is saying I can only visit for up to 6 weeks. I'm just wondering what grounds do they have for enforcing this? And also, what is the worst that can happen if I just stayed in Canada for a few months?
That's why it's the platinum rule. There are people who genuinely attempt to abide by this rule and they can be great assets to a community as long as they are not getting trampled over.
To paraphrase: Not everyone who hides data is a liar, but all liars hide data.

The rule isn't to positively identify liars. The rule isn't to positively identify non-liars either.

The rule is to dismiss as many liars as possible as fast as possible. By immediately dismissing anyone who doesn't want you to check their work or doesn't give you all the information necessary to recreate their work, you will dismiss a lot of liars with little effort.

You will also dismiss some people who aren't lying, but that's actually ok. It's better to dismiss an honest study that doesn't meet scrutiny rather than accept a dishonest study. Eventually, either the data will come out and you can vet the information, or someone else will reach the same conclusion and they will share their data. Liars can never reach that point.
My problem with this is the fact that, as it turns out, what I enjoy doing is browsing Reddit/Youtube/Netflix etc. to the exclusion of everything else.

The internet has provided me with sufficient distractions-and they are immediately enjoyable enough-that longterm enjoyment/skill-building just doesn't provide me the sense of 'I want to do this' that other shortterm, immediately rewarding activities do.
Your site is down ... Clearly not production ready :)
Btw, I like what you did with redisql.
Is the problem not knowing the policy?

Or is the policy different depending on the political winds?

Two very different issues. If the policy is one way for one administration, and different for another, you're still in trouble. In fact, the policy can be one way for an administration, and then an election comes up and that administration needs some political points.
> I find it so interesting that you select for that, because that example tells you virtually nothing about the person that isn't generically applicable to a large number of candidates.

Correct, this is how all resumes work. Remember, nothing on the resume is verifiable apart from the dates and companies the candidate worked for, unless you do a phone screen or panel interview. So the resume selects the candidates suitable for the skills based interview. I know some people think the candidate needs to write "I am passionate about quality" or "I love collecting butterflies and have all of Nabokov's first editions" but those are primarily creative writing exercises that don't end up telling much that is reliable or reproducible across candidates.

> The number of languages listed is laughably small for a 13 year candidate, but I guess they have picked out the ones they think you want to see.

Correct, and one would understand that for someone with 10 years of experience it's not hard to pick up a new language, nor is language particularly important in this role. Neither is framework.

> I cannot tell even one thing that the person is particularly good at

No, you can't tell that from a resume, but you can tell what a person worked on (perhaps poorly). In this case, there is plenty of QA, webapp, and some security experience. This gives you avenues to drill down during the in person interview.

Remember, the only thing you know is true on a resume is the list of prior work experiences. Then you look for a collection of claimed skills. So when reviewing the resume you check whether the claimed skills match your needs and then drill down to verify the claims during the in person interview. That's pretty much all the info you can ever get.
Good lord, the author comes out swinging at Paul Graham. I encourage upvoting the article to prove to ourselves that this is a truly open forum (regardless of my or your opinion on it). We cannot believe that without being confident that even a sharp invective towards one of its cofounders can feature on the front page. Otherwise, HN would be more like Al Jazeera, which is one of the best news outlets in the Arab world, but unfortunately is tainted, on the margins, by its inability to criticize its patron Qatari regime. I know other articles disagreeing with Paul Graham have been upvoted, but this is on another level. A free forum is one that is worth your time. Yes, I know there are rules, and that's part of what makes HN so good.
This is easily avoided. Plenty of loopholes, hard to prove and enforce
I like the HTTP speed ups. I wonder how fast the new engine is in general.

I have played with Chez, haven’t had time to try doing a serious amount of Racket but worry about algorithmic performance-graph traversals, for instance.
If an action is going to minimise anxiety and depression in the long run, then it's what you want to do, so no mind-games and lying to yourself should be required.
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That sounds like a major point, but given the existence of iOS and custom chips, they are not behind on ARM expertise. Rather on the forefront.
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What happens when they are used in countries with fewer protections to individuals than the US?
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Exactly. And when you try and track people across decades, things start to look different.

https://medium.com/@russroberts/do-the-rich-capture-all-the-...
So far, nearly all the people using us are non-technical people in “the business” rather than devs/IT.

I think in the end there’s a nice balance that can exist. The more technical folks can set up the core data structures at the heart of a team, but anyone can add columns, create new filters or views.
Thanks for sharing the President's thoughts.
It really comes down to what your goals are.

Are you riding centuries on a regular basis? Yup, $3000.

Are you just out riding to get some fresh air, sunshine, and exercise? $500 is plenty.

It's heavy? I am only riding twenty miles. Oh, and it has inch and a quarter tires, with a wee bit of tread, and I cannot remember the last time I got a flat tire.

As I opened with, it all depends on your goals.
Now make it unprofitable for the Trump Organisation to do the same thing and we’ll talk.
Trump Orders Limits on U.S. Contractors’ Use of Foreign Workers
You know how many government agencies hire contractors that use H1-B workers?? I know at least 3 people that worked as sub-contractors for government agencies while they were on H1B visas.

The three worked for state agencies, though. One was the DOT of NYC, if I remember correctly. Still, this is hardly the issue. This is hinting that any government sub-contractor should abstain from hiring H1Bs and there's no written law that prohibits this. Again pure pettiness.
There's a midsized number of experts in any given field.

There's a lot of people interested in a topic at a given point in time.

The experts will run from a tsunami of individual inquiries. Part of the role of a journalist is the act as a proxy for all that interest so that the experts' opinions can get out there without them facing endless messaging from every member of the public.

Now, one can argue about whether they do that job well or not. But that's a totally different argument than "I'd rather interact directly with someone who is actually an expert".
Actually, most of the positions are being outsourced to contracting firms who are hiring the H1B workers. The actual cost per worker to the TVA is likely not significantly different, however, the workers can lose their jobs at any time, and the contracting firm makes bank.

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/st...
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> Just remember to acknowledge how exceedingly well this works for white guys and the uphill battle faced by others.

This isn't as straightforward as you make it sound.

It definitely isn't straightforward for white guys with poor parents either.

And unlike certain other groups there aren't anyone standing up for them. If they cry out they'll only make it worse for themselves as people will laugh at these "insanely privileged white guys whining".

So can we stop this, or at least be a little more nuanced; stop pretending that just because someone is a white male they are automatically playing life on easy mode as someone said? Because it isn't true.
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There is the whole dumbing down thing, sure. But the main issue is that the BBC is ultimately state TV.

The UK establishment have influence on the stuff that really, really matters. Corbyn is a great example. The BBC accumulate political capital on smaller stuff that is unbiased, then spend that to keep people who want systemic change that impacts vested interests.
From the AP report on this (https://apnews.com/0336437987fec77627c17ca9a4c781bc)

> Trump acknowledged that he was made aware of the issue after seeing a television ad produced by U.S. Tech Workers, a nonprofit that wants to limit visas given to foreign technology workers, that aired in prime time on Fox News.

It does seem truly scary that by far the easiest way to get the US president to do something is to put an ad on Fox News. If you can package your cause into one of his pet topics, you have a good chance of something getting done. A US president that is so easily manipulated is terrifying.
Umm.. actually. The other way. I want a user to come up to my site, register themselves and then fill a form.

Not a pre-defined set of logins.

The Airbnb/ecommerce usecase - where a logged in user "books" something would be simply awesome
Biden is anti-American: He wants to increase the number of H1-B Visas which harms American STEM workers and STEM students and discourages Americans from going into STEM.

Sen Kamala Harris, whose mother is from India, is the Democratic sponsor of Bill S.386 which doubles the number of Indian STEM workers coming to America from 1 in 14 to 1 in 7.

Both Biden and Harris and other Dems are anti-American, pro-globalism, putting foreigners ahead of American workers.
Good. The TVA was created during the Great Depression to help the Tennessee Valley region develop (at the time one of the poorest parts of the US). Changes like this will help it get back to that original mission.
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While this may have been an unfortunate reality in previous eras, today we can get much better information from researchers and practitioners.
https://juliacomputing.com/industries/banking-and-finance
This American Life did that radio series on it, with the author of that book. Pretty wild story

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/654/the-feather-heist
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