skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C'est toujours rigolo de trouver des noms français pour les variables dans un program.
If it's a conspiracy, the number of people involved would be quite high, so it would probably be difficult to keep it a secret.
You may be interested in https://privacy.com/. I use it for all online subscriptions. It allows me to block all transactions, which brings me back control of what I am paying for.
To be clear, because of the lack of a bachelor's degree requirement, the Scientific Technician/Technologist category is a red-flag category and such applications in this category oftentimes are denied.
By this rationale, would you also conclude that the author of the original article is firmly in the “anti-HCQ” camp, and is therefore to be discredited?

I found the tone in this last paragraph to be a little off-putting in its finality and unwillingness to consider further studies:

> I’m not in a mood to be subtle. Hydroxychloroquine treatment for coronavirus does not work. It is not beneficial, and in fact appears to be actively harmful. As far as I’m concerned, administering it to infected patients now constitutes medical malpractice. I have no interest in goalpost-moving efforts to say that they didn’t administer zinc or azithromycin, or they picked the wrong patients or the wrong loading dose or whatever. No. This is special pleading, and it is not backed up by any hard data. None of the countries or regions where HCQ was enthusiastically adopted, with or without the addition of zinc, azithromycin or what have you have seen discernable benefits. It. Does. Not. Work. Give it up.
I was under the impression that curl worked on more platforms than Rust and LLVM. It will be interesting to see what happens to curl support on those platforms going forward.
Not so in maths though...
Better fluid interface, exploring authors and tags is faster and easier, standard pdf formats that’s compatible with all devices, real-time dynamic search with full text search (misspelling is fine). Potentially expanding database to free public domain audiobooks and non project Gutenberg ebooks in future.
No, as I said, the statement "the government should not be involved in your private life" is very clearly a political statement, because it relates (directly!) to the policies and actions of the government. And that is, of course, the opposite of totalitarianism.
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Doesn’t this mean handwriting requires more “cpu” (or resources, whatever) than typing? So in other words, it’s worse?
The primary advantage that I notice of writing complex thoughts by hand, for example a first draft of something important, is that insertion of more than a few words is difficult on paper. Therefore I tend to work just a bit more deliberately and focus a bit more on the narrative structure. The results tend to have a more coherent narrative flow, be easier to read, and be more organized than a draft written on a computer where I can jump back and forth between partially-completed paragraphs or sections.

Similarly, decreasing the accessibility of information, code, etc. helps me develop the narrative when making the first draft.

I get a pretty big productivity bump from bringing a notebook to a desk or table away from a computer (with its attendant distractions) and spend an hour or two, producing a page or two, that require much less editing later. I can leave little spaces for numbers or other specifics that I don't have on hand, and make marginal notes for other things to research or fill in later, while focusing on the structure and organizing my thoughts and arguments. Afterwards I can make figures, check calculations and statistics, etc.

I also frequently draw out powerpoint presentations on graph paper, maybe 8 slides per paper page, and just write the basic points and sketch in the figures I want to add. Then I go through and actually make the slides at the computer.
While re-using an existing regexp like

[\s,]*(~@|[\[\]{}()'`~^@]|"(?:\\.|[^\\"])*"?|;.*|[^\s\[\]{}('"`,;)]*)

is easier than writing a tokenizer manually (keeping track offsets and looping and stuff), writing that regexp is definitely harder than writing the tokenizer like this:

curr, end = 0, len(s)
while True:
while curr < end and isspace(s[curr]):
curr += 1

if curr >= end:
break

if s[curr:curr + 2] == "~@":
yield s[curr:curr + 2]
curr += 2

elif isspecial(s[curr]): # isspecial(c) matches c against []{}()'`~^@
yield s[curr]
curr += 1

elif isquote(s[curr]): # isquote(c) matches c against "
start = curr
curr += 1

# check this condition out: you can totally support several quotes,
# and accurately match the closing and opening ones. Imagine doing it
# with a regexp: either duplicate it, or use some back-referencing magic

while curr < end and not (s[curr] == s[start] and s[curr-1] != '\\'):
curr += 1
curr += 1 # we want to include the closing quote
yield s[start:curr]

elif s[curr] == ';':
yield s[curr:]
break

else:
start = curr
while curr < end and not (isspace(s[curr]) or isspecial(s[curr]) or isquote(s[curr])):
curr += 1
yield s[start:curr]

Yeah, it's more verbose and somewhat repetitive, but on the other hand, it's way more readable, and debuggable too: with regexps, it's always a mystery which part of it exactly didn't match what you wanted or captured something you didn't want to match. Here, the loop invariants and preconditions are almost immediately obvious.
I could, but I will pass because:

1. I believe that it is not a productive use of mental energy (for myself, or others)

2. My account is rate-limited on HN, so I have to use the few posts I am allowed per day wisely (and yes, I am aware of the irony in this statement)

3. Due to the nature of how the mind seems to work, I believe this runs the risk of allowing minds who are looking for "an escape" from the above an opportunity to resume normal "all is well, nothing to see here" operations

Rather, I encourage people who are "reckoning about the problems of the world" to spend less time thinking (and arguing) about relatively trivial object-level matters like this (instances of problems), and spend more time in a more abstract, systems analysis and decomposition mindset (what is the nature of these problems), with an end goal of gaining greater understanding of how the system we've built for ourselves to live in actually works (as opposed to our axiomatic beliefs of how it works)...and just how and why it is that it seems to produce so many outcomes (some of them plausibly existential risks) that are counter to the true, innermost desires of most people who are living within the system.

This overall situation seems like a rather large paradox - my wish is that more people could find a way to become curious about it, and approach it with the same engineering mindset (but applied at the abstract level) that we use every day in our respective lines of work.
How many more of them were misclicks?
This is what I think whenever using someone else's computer.
That "machinery and infrastructure" is on the assembly line, not in the C-suite. It is literally there to make the assembly line workers more productive, so it takes fewer of them to do the same work. Now, you can say that the workers contributed nothing to the improvement, so why should they benefit? But the system is set up so they can't contribute improvement---they can't accumulate the capital it would take to upgrade the machinery and infrastructure because their wages are minimal, and there's no mechanism in place for them to capture the benefits if they could. Sure, there are token rewards for assembly line improvements, but those kinds of sporadic rewards are generally minuscule compared to the long-term benefit realized by the company.
Thank you for hosting another session Peter. I'm an Indian H1-B guy working on an MVP with a green card holder here in California.
I'm working for an employer right now, but really willing to jump on my project full time if it shows promise. We're not going to make any income from it until we raise money from VC's so I assume it is safe to keep doing this?

Also, when the time comes, how do you suggest that I jump on it?

There are a few options I have:

- Found a company but be a salaried person on payroll, along with a risk of being "fireable"

- Go with "Unshackled", who would take care of everything for me. Are there any drawbacks with this method that you foresee?

- I also have an option to move on to H4 EAD, but I'm worried because of the flaky nature of this status.

Can you provide some thoughts on these and weigh in on the different gotchas and pros/cons involved?

Thanks a ton!
I wonder how this relates to Braille. Is typing braille also that bad? What about stylus and slate (making the dots with a stylus)?

I wonder if there are any alternatives that provide the same benefits as handwriting and are accessible to the blind.
By now it’s law (unless I’m misremembering badly) that you need to be able to cancel the same way you signed up. So unless you signed up via a letter, you’ll be able to cancel without one, even in Germany.
Libcurl supports multiple compile-time backends for http support, encryption, and so forth. This will be no different. Hyper will be just one option among many, as will Rustls.
True, but at while later of “tech” is useful to you? I often solve problems with only google sheets. Why bother with an app if you don’t need it. Same for other layers of “infra”.
PlayStation Inventor Starts New Career Making Robots for No Pay
I think they already have, at least from their perspective
All excellent responses. One potential work-around which is becoming a better and better option is to file a petition with USCIS rather than apply in the first instance at the "border."
Most of the ads in general, like in TVs or newspapers, are there to let you know about the product and the brand. You are not expected to buy immediately after seeing the ad. However, you will more likely prefer a brand or product you already know about when you buy something you are not familiar with.
Isn't this essentially a repeat of 2016? They basically did nothing until voters have made up their minds. Damage has already been done.
>...because there's barely anybody who could take their job

That's the point: relative pay matters, and an important + scarce job _deserves_ higher pay than others.

>If doctors didn't require a medical license, alleviating the need for 4 years of medical school + residency...

These aren't arbitrary boundaries - this is difficult work with significant downside risk if you fuck up. Not anyone can be a doctor, and we need doctors, so those who succeed deserve higher pay. Virtually anyone can be a Fry Cook or a Walmart Greeter.

Uncomfortable fact: society needs doctors and engineers (software or otherwise) many times more than we need fast food workers.
I don't think there is. This is mostly political in that businesses ought to be keeping up wages because that's the right thing to do. If the supply of labor is such that they always have access to lower-paid workers though, there's no real obligation to increase pay.

This is when minimum wage should come in, and this would be an argument for increasing minimum wage to that end, but businesses themselves can just ignore these kinds of arguments. Certain benevolent PR acts run contrary to this where they do increase wages because it's the right thing to do.
they almost certainly already know this and dont care
There's a lot of reasons for this but one of the largest is the near invisible (to me) structural shift from direct hire to contractors for jobs at the lower end of the wage/salary spectrum.

There is a fantastic long form article that articulates this better than I can at:

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenn...

The portion relevant to this discussion:

"Thirty years ago, she says, you could walk into any hotel in America and everyone in the building, from the cleaners to the security guards to the bartenders, was a direct hire, each worker on the same pay scale and enjoying the same benefits as everyone else. Today, they’re almost all indirect hires, employees of random, anonymous contracting companies: Laundry Inc., Rent-A-Guard Inc., Watery Margarita Inc. In 2015, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 40 percent of American workers were employed under some sort of “contingent” arrangement like this—from barbers to midwives to nuclear waste inspectors to symphony cellists. Since the downturn, the industry that has added the most jobs is not tech or retail or nursing. It is “temporary help services”—all the small, no-brand contractors who recruit workers and rent them out to bigger companies.

The effect of all this “domestic outsourcing”—and, let’s be honest, its actual purpose—is that workers get a lot less out of their jobs than they used to. One of Batt’s papers found that employees lose up to 40 percent of their salary when they’re “re-classified” as contractors. In 2013, the city of Memphis reportedly cut wages from $15 an hour to $10 after it fired its school bus drivers and forced them to reapply through a staffing agency. Some Walmart “lumpers,” the warehouse workers who carry boxes from trucks to shelves, have to show up every morning but only get paid if there’s enough work for them that day."
>> Any clinical intervention is going to have advocates.

> Honestly I don't really get this at all. Not even a little bit.

It's ok for scientists to think something's true before they have all the evidence lined up - especially in a predominantly empirical field like medicine. That's how new ideas happen.

Have you ever encountered someone who is motivated by altruism? Someone who is motivated by getting the truth out there?
The ad worked even better then! You went to their site AND they didn't have to pay for it
Chrome 86 hides full URL in address bar
Or leak it via Tor plus a pastebin, so that you are protected from liability via anonymity?
Sony/ect don't have nearly the same market dominance over a huge industry, as compared to Apple.

Apple has 50% of the entire US smart phone market.

This is a significant larger amount of market power then those other situations.
The miscommunication seems to that you are taking it as a given that the FBI is acting in good faith, despite the history of both the organization and the use of EO 12333. Former government officials have said that the order is used to justify vast amounts of "incidental" collection, allowing the FBI to find one FISA approved target and commit the surveillance described.
Isn't that what Lean, Six Sigma, and all those processes were about originally? Everybody working to improve their productivity, going all the way down to looking at what workers on the line are doing? I'd expect that in the last 50 years we actually have gotten better at sequencing assembly-line work, and improving worker productivity through better techniques.
obviously just a "socially acceptable" way to punish small businesses even more if they don't fall in line
>The way I see it, if we don't verify a thing, we should not accept it. We simply say we don't know, that we are working on a hypothesis. We should explicitly state our assumptions and gratefully receive correction. We can say that 'such and such is the common consensus but that I have not proven this to myself'. We should let a modicum of doubt be expressed in what we say, if there is a modicum of doubt in what we are stating.

While I appreciate your point of view and, especially in terms of policy and governance, it's a good idea to at least try to verify the veracity of the claims made by those seeking to implement policy, I think you go too far in dumping science and mathematics into that bucket.

For example, do you find it necessary to prove the commutative property of addition, or the existence of rational numbers before you can compute the sales tax due on a purchase?

Do you need to prove General Relativity (one of the most precise theories we've ever come up with) in order to trust your GPS?

You can "verify" this by punching in an address in your phone's directions app and use the GPS receiver to confirm your location as you move. When you arrive at your destination, you'll find that you're within a few meters of where you wanted to go.

That's only possible for GPS because the clocks on GPS devices and the satellites providing GPS signals are synchronized pretty precisely.

Without General Relativity providing a framework for accurately measuring time for objects with vastly different velocities, this would be impossible.

Or Quantum Mechanics, whose predictions have been shown to be more precise than any other scientific theory ever developed.

If we were to take your advice and distrust those theories because we can't personally verify them (whether that be a lack of mathematical knowledge or a lack of equipment and methodologies to do so), then we should reject the idea that GPS devices can give is accurate directions and claim that lasers (or any sort of coherent EM emissions) don't exist.

Which is objectively false.

It's a good idea to question what others assert, but (as another poster put it), having to prove everything from first principles before accepting its validity is a huge waste of time and effort.

That's where critical thinking, assessment of sources and the application of Occam's (and Hanlon's) razor really shines.

I completely agree that we shouldn't trust everything we hear, read or even see.

At the same time, rejecting everything we can't personally verify seems both counterproductive and deeply destructive of our science, our technology and our societies.
Grabbed one of the signed copies. I'm not sure when I'll get the chance to read it, but Sid's games were some of the first computer games I played, and definitely influenced me towards a career in computers. Much respect and appreciation to Sid. Thanks for the time well wasted :)
To be fair, push notifications from websites can be harmful if the user doesn't understand them.

I know of a person who just clicked the "allow notifications" in order to not get bothered by the popup, and then they started getting notifications with sex offers and stuff like that. The website which triggered them was https://open4u.co.uk, which was prominently recommended by Google due to its positioning in the search results.
It shouldn't. It is the fault of hacky protocols like HTTPS that conflate routing with identity. If we had DNSSEC and IPSEC from the beginning, it wouldn't have been necessary to do it on application level.
Its not all roses; I tried to comment out a few routes in my clojure compojure code by doing something like this to my code a while back.

(defroutes data-routes
(GET "/something1" [] (sample-json-data))
(GET "/something2" [] "hello1")
(comment
(GET "/something3" [] "hello3")
(GET "/something4" [] "hello4"))
GET "/something5" [] "hello5")

)

Then when a client tried to access /something5 , I began getting null pointer execptions. This took me a while to figure out what I had done wrong.
Hi Peter,

What are ways for someone on h1b to start a company they want to bootstrap. My co-founder is a US citizen but how do the new salary changes affect how much money we need to pay to keep the h1b valid.
There isn't a causal link. That's why we have minimum wage laws. The idea is that rather than paying people what we can get away with, we pay them what they are worth to us.

If productivity improves, but wages are indexed only to inflation, then the rich get richer and the poor at best stay the same. They produce more but don't see their lives get better. In a country that has produced so much additional wealth, it would be nice if the people who produce it became themselves better off, rather than have the gains concentrate in a smaller and smaller minority.

The minimum wage doesn't just stagnate. It's not inflation-indexed, so inflation eats into it: it hasn't increased since 2009, and even though we're often below the Fed's target rate, inflation has still reduced the value of that by 20%. That suggests it's time to raise it, and the $24/hour figure helps put the quantity into context. It makes a $15/hour wage seem very doable, since it's less than half of the productivity increase.
The suggestion "Don't charge the same IP address more than once in a certain time period (e.g. 24 hours)" is clearly broken. For people at work in larger companies, there can be thousands of users that all appear to have the same IP address. You can only charge once per day for all of them?

As the reddit posting points out, there are plenty of other ways to determine that a click is fake (no css or images loaded, etc).
There's no inherent reason why an abundance of labor would cause wages to not track productivity (either within a sector, or across an entire economy).

In a culture that viewed the economy as a tool to enhance the living standards and quality for all of its members, there might be a very weak or even non-existent connection between labor availability and wages. Productivity gains could be viewed as way to either (a) reduce the amount of labor required (b) increase the amount of goods & services available, or both. Wages could remain fixed, or increase in such a scenario.

This is nothing like the economic system in which we live, however; an economic system that is viewed as a playground in which which some will accumulate vast resources (and thus power) and others will not can never function the way I just described.
No - you are being far too generous towards Stripe here. If they say they cannot hire due to headcount, after saying they were going to make an offer, and they'll reach out again once they have headcount again - they are ghosting if they never follow up.

They lied, full stop, don't apologize for how "polite" it is (and it's not polite, it's disrespectful).
OK, I think I get it now. So comment macros saved from an earlier REPL session can be brought back for use later? That's pretty cool, and it does highlight the LISP roots of Clojure.
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Of course you can go with faster filer stores. Default filer store would be enough for millions of files. It is the same speed as a common file listing.

Actually I do not understand why MinIO is slow here.
> Anyone who actually has a motive (like a company trying to make money) should be kept far away from the regulators that oversee the study

> Isn't the point of a clinical intervention to save lives?

Why do you think saving lives can't be the motive? If you do a study, and conclude based on that study that a treatment works, you're supposed to remain "neutral"?

Let me put it this way, I wouldn't want to receive treatment from a healthcare provider who is "neutral" about the surgery they are about to give me, I want them to have a positive informed opinion based on experience, studies, etc.
As the article indicates, it would be but one of dozens of existing backends, although it'd be one where few alternative backends currently exist (HTTP/1 and HTTP/2).

For instance libcurl can use any of 13 different TLS backends (one of which is already in Rust), or 3 different HTTP/3 backend (one of which is in rust).
Does higher measured brain activity for one task relative to another performed by the same individual conclusively mean that task is "better", or maybe just that individual is more efficient/practiced/comfortable with the other task?
More effective than what? Nobody types fast enough to transcribe a lecture verbatim, you would need 400 chars per minute or so.
Most Soviet citizens weren't spies or diplomats and had no means or authorization to travel outside of the iron curtain. Pravda was never going to tell the masses about this and that was enough.
It's the companies who are responsible for the cookie popups because it's the companies who choose to shove tracking down our throats. The annoying popups are the consequence of that asinine behaviour. What on earth makes you think that the entity who merely made that privacy violation visible and explicit has done anything wrong here?
The argument in this article is not at all surprising coming from the likes of VICE, Vox, Buzzfeed and co. There's a particular narrative they seem to want to advance regardless of how well-supported their positions are.