skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I wouldn't do any of the things I listed either. The potential punishment way outweighs the potential gains. But some people just can't resist trying to "beat the system" or "stick it to The Man" or whatever.

I also wonder how things will go for people who take up the digital nomad lifestyle. I think most digital nomads thus far have been freelancers, entrepreneurs, etc. But big Microsoft-esque employers, much like the US tax system, are going to expect you to have a fixed address. If I'm currently based in India but sell my home to hop from location to location every couple of months, am I permanently on India-level pay? What if I did the same thing but had started in Silicon Valley? Can I keep getting that Silicon Valley pay as long as I don't stay in one place too long? Or maybe nomads default to a baseline pay level?
As a proof-of-concept the RPi is really easy to get your hands on. The same iso they distribute will run on some of the more niche 16 core A72 boards, but those are a fair bit more tailored to the deployment ( SFP+ NICs etc, ) and more expensive
Free trial is a bit different then what the parent was describing though. Which is paying for a month and turning off auto-renew effectively.
As a European who have lived in the US, I have been of the opinion that the US have been in decline for several decades. I think there is a combination of over reliance of capitalism to solve problems which seemingly can’t be solved well that way: universal healthcare, environmental management, education, urban planning, crime (prisons) etc, and the culture buying into the “American way” which in fact doesn’t provide the social mobility it claims nor makes the population better off, if you remove the richest from the equation. If I wasn’t so busy with other stuff I would be interested in doing research around this.
Need suggestions for Speech therapy software – Lateral Lisp
My son 7 years has Lateral lisp - difficulty in pronouncing "s" and "t". He also has a tongue tie. Anyone here knows of a good Speech therapy software that can help train his tongue? Thank you!
That's great. Apple's great app store should compete in a free market for all stores, and you can enjoy shopping there.
Sure it's a comparable situation. If UAE/Bahrain had been independent countries in 1948 they'd have in an official state of war with Israel up until now as well.

Man, people are really buttmad because Trump didn't turn out to be as much of a warmonger as, say, Obama. Count your blessings; he's done fine on foreign policy where it counts.
Have you seen a change in the number or typical backgrounds of professionals wanting to migrate into the US this year compared to last year?
I'm a conservative and follow many conservative and libertarian FB pages. It's common to see memes on them making fun of Kirk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam is one of the mentioned nobel prize winners (Physics 1979).

Unfortunately the following happened according to Wikipedia:

"The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate". The Pakistani government removed "Muslim" and left only his name on the headstone. They are the only nation to officially declare that Ahmadis are non-Muslim."
Yes, please elaborate, targeting seems very effective.
In my case there is no "experienced attorney I trust", are there any tips you can share?
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

> We call it Social Constructionism. It's the basis of all knowledge in society.

I object already! Knowledge does not reside in society. A library cannot know, nor can a computer. Knowledge that state that a man or woman over something in the objective world and can be objectively confirmed. You and I can know. It is not a societal exercise.

You raise the flat earth. And you say:

"I used the absurd example of Flat Earth to illustrate the point of non-obviousness of personal verification"

Well, having given a bunch of detailed examples to show why it is not possible to prove a spherical earth, why do you call it an 'absurd' theory? How was the earth being a sphere proven to you? You are supporting my point that people believe they know but are in error. Belief has no part in knowledge.

I wouldn't object to you saying 'I believe the earth is spherical', or 'my hypothesis is that the earth is a sphere', or that 'a sphere is the best theory to explain the movement of the planets'. All good. But to say 'you know', when you were only taught and shown imagery on a TV - that's overstepping things!

Did you 'know' that the film 'Independence Day' was true too, seeing as you saw that on TV? Or did you know it was false, because someone told you it was fiction. Why are you happy to assume film images are false, but news images are true?
It ensures the freedom of the press, and had the founders envisioned a day when three corporations miles from each other had more power than the entire press and government combined to censor citizen's speech I have no doubt that the first amendment would read a bit differently today. For a lot of people, social media has become the press in some ways.
I have had some success speaking with those who devoutly believe in God by stating that while the Universe is governed by the rules of physics and math, science doesn't address where those rules come from, and therefore they can be justified in believing that God created them. Put another way, God isn't the musician playing the symphony, God is the composer of the notes.
I was really hoping this was somehow a new game.
Predictable latency? Hadoop Support? Too different to compare.
Hey HN - We [1] released a Google Sheets Addon that uses Apps Scripts Triggers to send changes in Sheets to Postgres, Snowflake, MySQL, Redshift, etc. The basic flow is:

1. Connect to your database in SeekWell

2. Seed the Sheet with data from your database

3. Write an UPDATE statement with Parameters [2]

4. Launch the addon in the Sheet you want to sync and click "Set up a sync" under the Run button

5. Map the column names in Sheets to the Parameter names in SeekWell (leave blank if the same)

Changes will now be sent to the update block as soon as they happen. Let me know if you have any questions! Happy to help anyone get set up.

1 - https://seekwell.io/hn

2 - https://doc.seekwell.io/e18b84a0e07d42ba981a449e2e53f018
Title currently says 2015, but the "Bad Correspondent" essay is originally from 1998. There's a thematic followup called "Why I am a Social Mediapath" that's from 2015 though.
In recent history we've had the Syrian refugee crisis which resulted in a large number of likely political refugees migrating to EU countries. This is still an abberation: most EU countries generally have immigration systems that favor well-trained economic migrants, and the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe will regress to the mean (if it hasn't already). Japan used to explicitly refuse work visas without a college degree, and has generally been very difficult to immimigrate to, but has softened on this because they've ran out of workers. Canada and Australia are similar to the EU in that they favor educated migrants on work visas, though their points system also explicitly favors English and French speaking migrants that can pass strict language tests.

The US is also an abberation: our immigration system favors family reunification ("chain migration") from a diverse pool of emigrant countries over economic migration. Most other countries heavily restrict immigration on the basis of family reunification. Diversity of origins is enforced through both per-country quotas as well as literally handing out green cards to people from countries that don't send us lots of migrants ("the visa lottery"). However, the primary effect of this is to make it very difficult for Mexicans to immigrate. I don't have detailed enough statistics to know if most Middle East emigrants immigrate to the US on work visas or through family sponsorship, but I would suspect that all of the above factors are a wash, as most of our immigrants come from Europe or the Americas.
Thanks, much appreciated! I'll drop you an email once I'm prepared to discuss this further.
Related: does anyone know if, by using these languages (Coq and OCaml), they've kept the door open to computer-assisted tax sensitivity analysis? E.g., I'm interested in outputting some kind of 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional solution space on 2, 3, or 4 input variables to identify discontinuities and slopes. Any thoughts?

ETA: Diving into my thoughts on this a little: really what I'm describing would require (1) a dumb numerical analysis algorithm or (2) some CAS computer algebra system features, my preference. I don't know all the keywords and concepts, but I think term rewriting and equation solving would get me towards the output I seek: a multivariate, piecewise equation with user-selected input variables and user-selected output variables: e.g., current year tax, n+1 year tax, etc. Seems too involved, but ai have hope.
Compare the "iron law of oligarchy" (1911) mentioned in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714898
Seems like a lot of banning. Why not just prosecute the ad network for conspiracy to commit wire fraud whenever a fraud case is tried that involved online advertising?

It’s one thing for a platform to not be responsible for free content, but entirely another to take money from a fraudulent enterprise and enable their fraud.

Edit: to be clear the reasonableness legal concept would be in play here in the US. Plenty of frauds could slip by a reasonable advertising network review. Some clearly would not.
Old studies suggest the same. Here's a random one from 2009: https://doi.org/10.1177/154193120905302218
I'm an immigrant, and Facebook shows me a lot of targeted ads for local companies that sell snacks from my native country. The TV constantly shows me ads for cars despite the fact that I don't even have a drivers licence.

The first one is useful for me, but the niche of people who would buy it is so small that it wouldn't make sense to target it to everyone. I hate the second ones, but the majority of people love buying cars.
They've (electron microscopes) been around since 1933, why aren't they everywhere? On your phone even?
I think there's a world of difference between saying that targeted advertising as it is done now is unacceptable, and saying that targeted advertising is fundamentally unacceptable.

The first one I'm actually sympathetic to. The second I vehemently disagree with.
It's not a product, it all boils down to raw computing work. Their mission is to do open research, not provide computing time that they paid for for free. Similarly, Red Hat does not have to provide free cloud computing because they also contribute to Linux and use it.
Now I’m dead curious as to who you are referring to: “I don't think he'd ever get a fawning piece written about him by the fNYT if he took the approach of, say, a certain other gifted writer whose name cannot be spoken here.“

You are already using a throwaway, so mind revealing?
It's the ad network's responsibility to never show scam ads, this has nothing to do with targeting.
You know, this hasn't been my experience. The ability to get CS via chat to work on subscriptions stops/cancels has worked for me, albeit with a non-blocking wait. Edit0: wanted to add that my subscriptions (personal, gift) were done via PayPal (pre-approved payments) so I could cancel via there as well but the NYT chat/cs worked fine for me.
I think the average (non-technical) person would agree.

I know a lot of very non-technical people, some of who dislike facebook in general, talk about how good facebook is at showing them ads that actually get them to discover and buy new products.

The people I've heard this sentiment from don't feel like they were manipulated into buying something that ultimately didn't meet expectations. I commonly hear things like "I can't believe how good the Facebook ads are. I only see ads for really nice Blouses in colors and sizes that I like. I've bought nice things via Facebook ads".

Granted, it's usually followed up by "I can't believe Facebook is able to be that good at showing me the right ads" ... but people I've talked to seem to feel neutral about the creepiness of it, I'm guessing because the upside is they get to discover and buy cool new things that they otherwise wouldn't have known about.

(Personally I don't like ad targeting on the basis of companies abusing / selling / harvesting data about me... but for the average person I think seeing well targeted ads is positive UX compared with showing non-targeted ads)
Fuzzing Internships for Open Source Software
You’re not wrong... but remember that the voting booth is another anonymous forum.
Yes, Al-Ghazali made that point. I don't remember the specific passage but he made the comment that if he left a book in his library, he has no way to know that god did not turn it into a donkey, which was at that moment pissing on all his other books. I'll search for that quote, because it was pretty exciting for a medieval philosophy class.
I don't think "most" people produce their best work while working on something in their spare time. That simply doesn't make sense. Your work is something you're paid to care about and do well with all your attention, while most open-source projects are like hobbies that you practice semi-randomly in your spare time. For every open source project that's polished and well-tested and well-maintained there are 1000 which are hastily written, simply without any tests, abandoned, etc.

I don't doubt there are people who put their soul into fantastic open-source projects instead of any code at their work. But then it's a question why they're still in their day job in the first place, if they don't like the job or don't want to care about their job. Sooner or later the best course of action would be to quit and either work on their own project full-time and try to monetize it, or find a job they're actually passionate about or at least OK with caring about. I understand that the author himself made redis big, but then it also pretty much became his full-time job and I doubt his understanding reflects that of most other developers out there.
A good follow-on question might be, do we expect more from low-wage employees now than we did then?

When I was a teenager, food service proved to be a much more complicated job than I anticipated it to be. My first tech jobs paid better (even though an internship would have paid more), and felt simpler. If only because I'd spread out the effort of learning the skills over 8 years instead of 3 months.
libvirt (https://libvirt.org/apps.html) does this for kvm and works on Pi.
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> For godsakes the Republican party freed the slaves and voted for the civil rights act.

Civil Rights Acts, many of them, starting in the 19th century; sure, and all that was great. But after that the Republican Party decided to seize on the rift created in the Democratic Party when LBJ also backed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which was essential to it being passed into law, because Republicans didn't have a veto-proof majority backing it) to subsequently, starting particularly in the 1968 Presidential election and continuing thereafter, to target the white racists (particularly concentrated in the South) that were disenchanted with the Democratic Party on that issue, in order to make sure that that split wasn't temporary as it was when the Dixiecrats revolted over Truman's integration of the military. And to do that, they started pandering, and have ever since, to the racism of the disaffected group they were courting.
Yes.

I have a few webcomic RSS feeds as well as an RSS feed for an IRL standup comic's schedule. I also have an RSS feed for a particular church's weekly service.

Podcast Addict works for more than just strictly pure straight-forward pure podcasts.
How long before I can submit a case status update request? Uscis site says not to ask before a certain time. I’m already on PLOA (personal leave of absence) without pay.
Should I wait another 3 months before inquiring?
Postgres originally implemented QUEL, until Postgres95 which implemented SQL (later renamed to Postgresql)
IIRC, it was Neal Stephenson who said he always writes his novels in pencil/pen and paper first.

He said that he is able to type faster than he can think, and that it negatively affects quality.
So now I will have to pair my bottle of detergent before I use it
> Make sure your hospital, clinics, doctors, accept your insurance

I understand what they're saying but no one plans to get sick (pregnancies aside). Cheaper plans within the same insurance group is probably ok. Which hospital you can go to can be the difference between life and death, especially these days: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyregion/Coronavirus-hosp...
Using Postgres and PgRouting to Explore the Smooth Waves of Yacht Rock
It took me ages (more than a year I think) to unsubscribe from AWS. Luckily since we've deleted all the contents the fees were pretty nominal but still ...
Germany is shutting down nuclear and coal. Gas is currently not competitive because it's too expensive and the government reduced renewable expansion targets. You will even have to pay taxes for self produced and self consumed solar power.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for this AMA.

What do you think "remote SW Eng around the world" (non US citizens, non US residents and NRA - non resident aliens) COULD/SHOULD do to make the process easier to be hired from US companies or startups? (question is more oriented to legal or tax liabilities and work permissions than meet all technical requirements from job offers)

EDIT: work directly to those companies (as a contractor or, if possible and viable, as an employee - with benefits), not through intermediaries or as a SW shop (B2B deal)
He is a worse web designer.
Is there a free source for this article somewhere?
Could we have the title changed to reflect the title of the article? It's not Wages, it's specifically minimum wage.
Hi Peter, I'm sponsoring my wife's green card and we're pretty type A and have filled out all the forms and gathered copious evidence of relationship, evidence of financial sufficiency, etc. But we're worried about the current political climate and are considering working with Fragomen just to de-risk. We've heard the current administration is rejecting applications for every little reason (e.g. field that should be marked n/a is left blank, etc). Do you have any advice on this? Thank you so much for what you do.
I'm no expert, but I bet Google has a whole office dedicated to helping you out?
In the current Azerbaijan/Armenia war the Turkish drones own the skies consistently winning over the USSR/Russia made air defenses thus continuing the winning streak that started in Syria and Libya. (We haven't yet seen how they would do against manned planes there as Turkish F-16s have so far successfully been taking care about the Armenian planes there)

> out-maneuver any human pilot

for the last 30-40 years modern air combat usually consists of F-16/15 shooting down a USSR/Russia made plane using long range missile. I don't see any issues for the drones to carry on the tradition.
People will dump on BEV trucks for range, but why not have swappable trailer energy packs as an extra trailer? You can pull into a stop and just swap trailers. The tractor battery can be a backup or a stabilizer.

The trailing trailer can be shaped to further increase aerodynamics. It can have drive wheels to stabilize the truck in high crosswind, and additional regen braking on major mountain descents, as well as additional power up the mountain, although EV motors should be able to provide torque for climbing.

In the end, all the alternatives are now chasing a technology ecosystem that is improving at double digit percents per year in cost and more than that in scale of production.

The "hydrogen economy" actually needs to beat not only what Tesla can allegedly do in 2-3 years from what they presented on battery day, but even better than that, because IF/WHEN they get to scale, batteries will be at least half the cost of where they are now.

Same for nuclear. Once BEV and Wind/solar/storage stabilize their development curves, maybe nuclear or hydrogen can target a competitive price point.
PM for GCP buildpacks here, AMA.
From the methods summaries:

"We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of intravenous remdesivir in adults who were hospitalized with Covid-19 and had evidence of lower respiratory tract infection." [1]

"In this randomized, controlled, open-label platform trial comparing a range of possible treatments with usual care in patients hospitalized with Covid-19, we randomly assigned 1561 patients to receive hydroxychloroquine and 3155 to receive usual care. The primary outcome was 28-day mortality." [2]

These trials are explicitly about treating hospitalized patients, which is of course a group with a higher mortality than the general population. Nobody is saying otherwise. Remdesivir is administered intravenously, so it is unlikely you would try to deliver it to people with mild or asymptomatic infections. The comparison between the drugs in the general population would be very hard to do for that reason. Severe illness due to SARS-CoV-2 is such a huge problem that I'm not sure who would instead investigate a drug specifically for mild cases.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764?query=fe...

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022926?query=fe...
I started your section about the fish and didn't finish it. I expect ArsTechnica articles to be technical; in this case I think actual code examples would be good. I think Stefan K's video referenced elsewhere in this thread used examples that are both accessible and educational.
This situation looks absolutely absurd to me, but it does appear that you can send an application by fax. There are plenty of services out there that will allow you to send a fax from a web browser.

Keep in mind that most American companies do not operate in Russia and have no Russian nexus, and so have no exposure to that law. I expect that you would have no problems applying online to most American jobs.
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Just sent an email. I'll update when I learn more.
This makes the mistake that science is there to be verified. It's not. It's there to be falsified.

We don't require verification of science above and beyond its contribution to our ability to predict and control the world. As the famous slightly cliched saying goes: all models are wrong, some models are useful.

There are some people who think that the point of science is to move us closer to truth. Some of those people are actual scientists, most of them are not.
one of the comments [1] in the article (not mine) is excellent tongue-in-cheek but thought provoking:

> Next step would be to just predict both sides of the conversation and sever the real-life link entirely.

Gmail already does a little bit of this. Google books appointments over the phone on your behalf.

We're on the road to this...

[1] http://disq.us/p/2ccckuy
I immediately tried to cancel my subscription after discovering that they will still show ads even if you paid for the content.
This is the opposite argument to what the problem is right now. It's not that IAP is bad, or that it shouldn't be available. It's that there's no alternative permitted in addition to Apple's IAP model. You're not even allowed to HINT at the fact that you might have alternative ways to pay for the things you want to pay for. Even if your name is hugeservicethateveryoneknows, you can't tell people that you have a website where they can manage their account.

IAP is great, and setting rules such that if apps offer IAP, they have to at least offer the platform's own payment service as initial and preferred choice, is perfectly reasonable. But it's extortion if you own the entire ecosystem and promise to ban anyone who wants to offer additional, alternative means of account/service management for a product/service that you have no business ownership of.