skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an earlier version of the paper, which is public: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3547655

2 excerpts from that version:

> Translating these coefficients into the number of jobs offshored, I find that about 0.3 foreign affiliate jobs were created for every unfilled H-1B position.

> …

> I utilize two identification strategies, the first of which exploits the 2004 drop in the H-1B visa cap, while the second exploits variation in firm-level excess demand from the H-1B visa lotteries in high demand years. Both strategies yield the same result: that foreign affiliate employment increased as a direct response to increasingly stringent restrictions on H-1B visas. This effect is driven on the extensive and intensive margins; firms were more likely to open foreign affiliates in new countriesin response, and employment increased at existing foreign affiliates. The effect is strongest among R&D-intensive firms in industries where services could more easily be offshored. The effect was somewhat geographically concentrated: foreign affiliate employment increased both in countries like India and China with large quantities of high-skilled human capital and in countries like Canada with more relaxed high-skilled immigration policies and closer geographic proximity.
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It kills other healthy cells as well. If you work hard enough it kills everything
No no we haven’t broke up yet
Stakes are higher when you're on the plane...
You are engaging in the slippery slope fallacy: specifically, you’re taking an existing proposal and exaggerating its possible consequences by ignoring the possibility of a middle ground.
> No. Strictly speaking, iCloud doesn’t even do backups; it syncs data

There’s literally a switch called “iCloud Backup” in Settings though. This isn’t a per-app data sync, it’s the full device restore that you can use if your phone gets stolen, dropped in the ocean, etc.

Although you should consider not using it for privacy reasons and running backups to a local machine instead, since last we heard Apple has the encryption keys and will happily hand the entire contents your phone to law enforcement given a warrant.
It’s hilarious that according to Apple fans, Apple as a $2 tn dollar company cannot afford the program it was giving away for free as a $10bn company.
We need governments to promote federation, so we can have both choice and network effects.

To bad there's far less money in federation---it's "moatlessness" ruins the business proposition---so I don't know who will pay for this lobbying.
> As someone who (in an earlier life) started off in the profession, here's a dirty little secret - I'd say around 2/3 of lawyers get by on pure bluff, bluster and intimidation. I'm talking shouting on phone calls, slamming fists on tables, threatening letters, and so on.

"If you have the facts on your side, you pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, you pound the law.

If you don't have facts or law on your side, you pound the table"
specifically they needed to deliver very large and heavy mirrors for the telescope itself
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The passengers probably couldn't see it.
Incidentally, do pilots say left and right? They don't have a special word (port / starboard) like naval vessels?
It is possible.

A census counts people. It might need to know who's a citizen or who's eligible to vote, or maybe even generation or sex. It doesn't need to know name, address, eye color, medical history, fingerprint, etc. The aggregation provides privacy (unless the sample size is incredibly small, like in an extremely remote district).

Another example is the TSA: their job is to protect vehicles and passengers, which means preventing weapons on airplanes. But it doesn't matter who's wielding the weapons. So they don't need ID to do their job, and asking for it (and worse, recording it where it can be leaked) is an unnecessary breach of privacy.

The general problem is there are incentives for collecting excessive information and very few disincentives. Laws and regulation can change that.
It's better when problems with technology are recognised during its development than when that technology is already widespread.

What good can bring one of the most wasteful ways of travel imaginable to be worthwhile? It is not cool to emit an anual carbon footprint equivalent of small city in the poor part of the world to take off. Hence it will be better to ban jetpacks for personal travel.
Mount Hamilton is one of my favorite places on earth, even though I've only been there twice. You feel like you're seeing the best that nature and man can produce, both at the same time. I'm glad they were able to save the observatory.
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That is a beautifully worded response.
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I can’t express how many times htop has made my life easy by giving me this nice interactive UX. There is a reason it’s part of every docker image I create.
Or the method of teaching it is broken.
A good way to destroy wealth is to tax it.
Humans by default make assumptions to error-correct. Computers don’t do that by default, but you could get bash (for example) to also make assumptions with a setting like:

set completion-ignore-case On

Personally, I’d prefer an obtuse computer over one that makes assumptions and is occasionally wrong.
I don't know if things have changed, but preferences settings weren't enough, reddit would randomly switch to the new theme. After that I changed all my bookmarks to old reddit.
From what I can tell, there was never any "gay bomb project" to begin with. While the proposed cost of the project was estimated at about 7 million dollars, no taxpayer money ever flowed into gay bomb research, except maybe the cost of printing a three page proposal. It was one of hundreds of speculative projects deemed too problematic to be workable, and never funded or implemented - which the linked article actually points out.

Unfortunately, people see an article about "the US government once considered a 'gay bomb' but dismissed it as ridiculous" and read "the US government has a secret Manhattan Project for gay bombs" and conclude "Alex Jones wasn't entirely wrong because, you know, the government is building gay bombs like he said. And if they're doing that, maybe they are putting something in the water. "

The entire line of reasoning is specious.
Are you sure we can't reach needed capacity and power from gravity batteries, water electrolizers, gas pressure holders, regular batteries, which keep improving?

This is the essence of the question; I don't see it's impossible, and if it's possible, then why nuclear? I agree that as society we grow our needs in power, but solar and wind sources are relatively easy to distribute, and it's rare when a lot of installations doesn't get light and wind, and distribution grid alone - without fossil fuel plants or nuclear power plants - can help. So the need in nuclear fission power is questionable.
This is ignorant. Please educate yourself.
By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity
If you could document your experience with Pouch/Couch that would be excellent. I've considered using the stack for a offline-first SPA but the curve seem so steep, particularly the database creating, proxying, etc required to make Couch behave with many clients.
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Windows only!
So they change "republished as wikiHow" to "republished in the wikiHow style" and they're golden.
It won’t be delivered because it’s actually my final year project for my software engineering degree, and plus I’m also not convinced by this language anymore, I still think that there’s a better syntax which I can’t think of right now
Many people don't think about the regulations about malls before moving to a city. (I am guessing the HN crowd might be a bit different than the average person). They see all their friends moving to the city. They know the city is the hip, cool city and they move. Once they get used to the city they realize the regulations are restrictive.

While it is possible to move to another city people have grown accustomed to the city they live in. There could be certain amenities that are not available in that other city (imessage being the biggest one. Some people get less messages since they have a different color bubble if they are not on imessage.).

People may want to vote for different / changed restrictions on malls but they realize the city they moved to is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship. The person who owns the mall also makes all the laws and they won't allow you to start your own mall since it would cut into their profits. They make the claim it is about your security. If somebody starts their own mall they won't be able to ensure you won't get mugged. Instead of letting you take a chance in a new mall they just ban their competitors outright.
During my Interaction Design master I had to read a paper about the interface design for tools aiding people in these kinds of jobs. The designers spent a lot of time observing them at work and concluded that one specific feature of this work environment was that it doesn't have a "normal" situation and "emergency" situation, it's a non-stop juggling of emergencies all the time. Which I guess is part of why they stayed calm: you can't switch to panic mode if you're already constantly in that kind of stress situation, and anyone who can't handle that will be filtered out of those kinds of jobs very quickly.
The entire issue is a delight to read from start to end.
Yup, at its charitable best, it's chewing on willow bark instead of taking an aspirin.
Apple has more money than me, hence they should give me free iPhones and Macs.
That obviously refers to public access (i.e. visibility) to the FB-hosted copy of content that causes some kind of problem to FB.

No free hosting service guarantees reliable, enduring access to your own data.
In this context irreversibility means that once the drug binds with its target, it's done. It can't unbind.
Already being used at the chip level, e.g. for branch prediction.
I think the policing problems of the US may not be applicable to Canadian cities such as Vancouver (referenced in the article as being tracked using https://geodash.vpd.ca) since the vast majority of crimes in Vancouver are property crimes, and thus likely citizen-reported.

That being said it does feel like violent crime is increasing here, as the COVID pandemic has exacerbated the already-ongoing opioid public health emergency.
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As a resident of Portland, I see police and federal agents disregard judge orders And break laws every single night.

Law and order is a myth that is pushed by those seemingly "above" it.
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Network hops cost time regardless of payload size. Distributed consensus (which is what is required for a “decentralized” system) requires interaction between distinct nodes.

You should note most consensus algorithm designs start with sharing a single ‘register’ (or ‘value’).

Most banks were doing “decentralized” relaxed consensus from the beginning of “banking”. Local office accepts your deposit of your check. “Funds available next day”. Because by “next day” they have confirmation from counter party for the funds.
You don't pick a database like MongoDB purely for its key/value query performance. SQL will do really well until it does really badly, for example in cases where you exceed the limitations of the box/VM it is running on.
I'm sure you'd find that it's much the same with Honey bee venom.
People who are looking for full time work are not freelancers. Typically,this degree of non-commitment by the potential employer boils down to taking advantage of the job seeker's desperation. That week of "freelancing" comes with opportunity cost of searching for full time work.

Of course applying a 10x multiple of employee hourly costs to the free lance period makes it more like freelancing and eliminates a perverse economic incentive toward the employer to use such a scheme for discount freelance services.
Negative. Pilots only ever have to worry about one plane. ATCs have to worry about all of them.
Web Scraping 101 with Python
Based on typical pre-clinical to approval rates, 1 in 100 is on the optimistic side.
Honestly, as much as I dislike the CCP, I definitely want TikTok to stay until/unless there is some real anti-trust or other FAANG weakening happening.

Even if Tik Tok just kills Facebook and becomes the new Facebook, that's fine. Now the US goverment won't feel conflicted between anti-trust and tech nationalism, and we can lobby for much better privacy laws.

Anti-trust has been such a joke in the last few decades, and federal governance so bad in general around all issues of privacy, technology, and competition, I'll accept the Chinese competitor cudgel because it's the best we got.

Sigh.
> So then why do I have to pay them if I'm using emacs and gcc and C++?

You may still be using developer resources like documentation. But yeah, a flat fee for a wide variety of services risks edge cases where someone using only minimal resources gets a poor deal. Of course, an alternative is a nickel-and-diming pay-as-you-go micro-transaction scheme, which your main users will hate.

Also, strictly speaking, you don't have to pay them. Vote with your dollars and platform support as a developer. If enough people do, Apple may reevaluate.
Nice. This boilerplate can really help people get started quickly. Well done :)

On a different note, recently I was looking to learn AWS concepts through online courses. After so much of research I finally found this e-book on Gumroad which is written by Daniel Vassallo who has worked in AWS team for 10+ years. I found this e-book very helpful as a beginner.

This book covers most of the topics that you need to learn to get started:

If someone is interested, here is the link :)

https://gumroad.com/a/238777459/MsVlG
Perhaps the warning could be improved.

For now, a dev has to add an explanation next to the download link, and let the users decide.
I agree with the unethical part but I'm not so sure about the statement that they don't work. Check out this video [0] which talks about profiling at Ben Gurion airport.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1kJpHBn50
Are programming books a thing of the past?
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We were working together on my first job. This started with an hour glass; our team did pushups every hour. At my next job, I had the whole company doing it. We are now replicating this remotely with https://slack.com/apps/A0125LGRVEZ-pushupbot
Nope because I’m not convinced by this language anymore
The most prominent was from a pilot who had a history of UFO pranks (flying in over campfires silently then turning on afterburners; his story about doing that showed up in an online UFO report contemporaneously with when he described doing it).