skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we living in the same world?

> To debunk it, look around you at all the major players in tech who are hoarding cash like there is no tomorrow while doing incremental improvements to products rather than building something interesting.

Putting billions of dollars into VR/AR? Facebook acquired Oculus for >2 billion, and the project had mixed success, and Facebook is still investing more but into AR instead. Microsoft has had two versions of their AR product that are bulky and expensive, and with few users. But the 2nd generation of hardware much improved over the 1st. Apple is rumored to be developing AR glasses as well.

How about self driving cars? Google is the only company with actual driverless cars on the roads. Many startups made big promises but so far have nothing publicly available. Other large companies like Ford had previously announced their intent to develop autonomous cars, but backed out, saying the challenge is too hard. This shows that a truly large company is needed to develop autonomous cars, because billions of dollars are required for a project that carries high risk.

> Once they’re big enough, innovation is close to impossible, and the self-preservation instinct kicks in. Again, you can see that in almost all BigTech players today.

What about Amazon? Nothing could be further from the truth. They keep expanding into entirely new markets. In AWS, IoT, multiple retail stores, online video, healthcare, and probably other industries I'm forgetting.

And what about Google Stadia and Xbox game streaming? Or Facebook Libra? Or all of Google's NLP research? Project Loon? Fuchsia? Go? These are fundamentally new r&d projects.

> Your phone manufacturer doesn’t care about invention as much as they care about you buying the next, slightly better model.

Gestures broadly at 2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, and 5G Phase 1. Constantly improving display technology like OLED and transparent displays and improved cameras.
Be gentle, but consistent and always outline how routine makes his/her life better. For instance, lay out your desk a certain way and you'll finish your work earlier and have more time to spend gaming. Acknowledging productive tasks that allow for dealing with pent up energy is also important.

My parents for some reason thought hanging negatives over my head always mentioning "think of what would go wrong if you don't do the right thing". Honestly, this just left me with a bunch of hugely negative self-talk issues that took a while to unpack since many of those things also had to do with my ADHD.
Easter Dates
Far enough that while people with an active sex life can use all sort of weird tools to engage in their fetishes, other [people] can try to justify their knee-jerk reactions by wanking about their evolutionary fitness.
Scientists find 24 'superhabitable' planets more hospitable for life than Earth
How can you ask question about something you don’t know that you don’t know?
Spaced repetition definitely works (and is much better than nothing), but I found it to be quite dull.

Recently, I've been reading "The memory code" by Lynne Kelly and found that most of the ancient cultures faced the problem of memory and used memory spaces (aka "method of loci").

I tried it out recently to memorize the timeline of evolutionary history while walking in city streets. I found I could memorize 1-3 items per minute, which very high recall hours and days later. The structure between items was readily apparent, so that I could, for instance, easily estimate that there were ~650 million years between the first terrestrial eukaryotes and first appearance of sharks.

The streets have acquired new meaning and the process was really quite enjoyable. With this tool, I actually want to learn the structure of many more things.
Credit where credit is due, this is a good move. The H1B program has been abused for a long time. It sounds like these changes should help make it too expensive for the fraudulent abuse to continue.
thanks. Works just like I was asking.
Facebook Has Banned QAnon
Thank you. I think that it would be cool to see a word cloud for this data set.
Facebook do have presence in Sweden, in Luleå. Amazon also have precence. Microsoft have bought some areal in Sweden. Google, however does not have any data centers (to my knowledge) here but they do have in Finland (one of our neighbouring countries).
Agreed. Sadly, there's no defense or explanation of this, other than that moderators are arbitrarily (and in a very exclusionary way) defining what constitutes "hacker culture".
So all of the prominent democrats and people in the Media were actually pushing a Qanon conspiracy theory that Trump didn't actually have Covid? Will there be a retraction?
It's pretty amazing to me how anti-immigrant America is, for a country built on immigration, but I suppose it's always been that way. Benjamin Franklin hated the Germans in the 1750s [1].

For perspective, Canada, a country 1/10th the size of the US, brings in 30,000 refugees each year. The US brings in 18,000. This means Canada brings in 25X the number of refugees per capita than the US does.

Canada, a country 1/10th the size of the US, brings in 300,000 new immigrants each year. The US brings in 1M. This means Canada brings in ~5X the number of new immigrants per capita than the US does. [2]

[edit] This rate has been consistent since 1992.

[edit] I originally stated the US brings in 140,000 immigrants per year, this was a mistake, my cursory search led me to the cap on employment based green cards, not total. Factoring in family members of US citizens, it's ~1M. By Immigrants I include green cards per year, as everyone else is by definition a non-immigrant. It is my understanding the Canadian number is the same category.

Blanket requiring additional pay for H-1Bs seems fine, but leaves startups in a difficult spot where they're unable to bring in the same level of foreign talent that bigger companies are, as, of course these rules do not take into account equity based compensation. As it stands, 4 out of 5 H-1B holders make more than average Americans.

The process of bringing in H-1Bs is already so expensive, arduous and wasteful that companies aren't going to be bringing in huge quantities of "US replacement" labor. I certainly wouldn't if I were in charge of hiring.

[1] https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...

[2] https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/how-to-read-...
I'd keep all the software together - Windows, Office, CRM, etc.

Spinning out Bing/Microsoft Ads and Azure as separate companies feels kind of obvious, and could be interesting. I'm sure Azure could easily stand on it's own (might even be beneficial?!), but I wonder about the financial dependencies between Ads and Windows?
But you have such a large number of choices for communication: Meet, Hangouts, Allo, Messages, Duo, Skype, Lync, Skype for Business, and Teams.
Yeah, I get the point that it's nice to have basic things in the core language and stdlib. I'm rather on the "minimal language core" side in this discussion and I think it'd be better to not start adding more things in Julia Base and stdlib. At least not right now, to avoid accumulating "dead batteries." There are some non-trivial things to figure out for a composable data-parallel interface. For example, what the data collection interface should be to support folds over them? I'm using a minimalistic interface defined in SplittablesBase.jl for this but it's not wildly used outside my packages. So I'm not super confident that it's enough yet.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaFolds/SplittablesBase.jl
It really depends on what the capacity is being used for. From my experience, everything user facing (including all web serving, storage etc.) comprises a very tiny fraction of overall costs. The real $$$ (both input and output) is from big data/analytics/ML pipelines. Start a company that doesn't do any of that, and you'll have an infinitely better energy footprint.
Right, but what's the difference? I.e. if the keyboard sends "9" but software captures that and sends out "cntrl-shift-3" it's the same outcome as if the keyboard sent "cntrl-shift-3" - is it not?

If we really want custom hardware involved, the most economical solution would probably be a USB repeater that did the re-interpreting in hardware.
Several people in this thread are saying regulatory issues are a major cause. Can anyone elaborate on what those regulations look like?

I've been led to believe that a large fraction of pharmaceuticals consumed in the US are produced either entirely overseas, or else active ingredients are (and this causes challenges for the FDA to actively regulate those overseas producers).

Is it the case that in some Sanofi site in Frankfurt, the same insulin meeting the same standards is put into vials, some intended for the US market, some intended for other markets around the world ... and regulations prevent someone from buying vials in the EU and selling them in the US? Like, the regulation is not only about the production methods or quality control?
Facebook has a sizable datacenter in Luleå: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/inside-facebooks-lulea-d... and it also has a somewhat official facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LuleaDataCenter

Google does not seem to have built anything yet but have perhaps acquired land: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-acquires-1...
I'm interviewing Brian Tracy. What ONE question would YOU ask?
Hey! So I'm interviewing Brian Tracy (productivity legend) and I'm curious what ONE question YOU would ask if you were in my shoes?

I'll mainly be focussing on productivity but sales, personal development, leadership, public speaking and book writing are all on the table, so hit me up with what's on your mind!

P.s., Here's an interview I did last week with David Allen (GTD guy) so you can see what we're hopefully aiming for... https://theartofliving.com/david-allen-interview/
> If it were running on S3, my personal finance would have been obliterated when it got featured on HN and served 1+ TB of traffic.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it looks like 1 TB of outgoing traffic would be ~$90

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

I've had things hit the HN front page a few times while just hosting on ec2 and never had a noticeable increase in charges. Then again, I wasn't hosting very large files.
> Under the new rule, the required wage level for entry-level workers would rise to the 45th percentile of their profession’s distribution, from the current requirement of the 17th percentile. The requirement for the highest-skilled workers would rise to the 95th percentile, from the 67th percentile.

Looks like there's going to be a lot of new entry level guest workers as existing visa holders get shuffled around. It'll be interesting to see if the wage distribution stays lopsided once the situation stabilizes. If the program is fulfilling its intended goals, they should match their domestic coworkers in the same age brackets.
>The Trump administration announced an overhaul of the H-1B visa program for high-skilled foreign workers that will require employers to pay H-1B workers significantly higher wages, narrow the types of degrees that could qualify an applicant, and shorten the length of visas for certain contract workers.

This seems like a great move. It corrects the incentives to hire foreign workers over domestic workers, and also ensures that foreign workers aren't abused with lower wages due to their immigration status.
Break them up! The recent jump in engineers pay the past few years can be attributed to stopping this conduct by the large players:

>Remember the wage fixing scandal between Pixar, Google, Apple and bunch of other companies in the bay?

In addition when it comes to monopolies I always think of the Snapchat situation where a healthy, dynamic company comes up with a creative feature(stories) only to have the monopoly that is facebook completely rip it off and copy it in their own products thereby depressing snapchat's stock price and siphoning off its users. The fact that pinterest, twitter, and snapchat are not $100B+ companies and thriving is almost wholly due to facebook and its illegal monopolistic practices.
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Oh yeah. It's the _one_ thing I can agree with them on.
After watching both versions, my brain processed a different story between the two. In the colorized one, I see a bunch of people having a random good time, then some passerby gets caught in the middle. And although he tries to escape, he doesn't seem too upset. This results in a feeling of mild entertainment. Kind of like the same feeling from watching a video of household pet antics, or similar.

In the original, I see a bunch of Vaudeville "clowns" doing their antics, and a "straight-man" appears on stage, and tries desperately to escape the situation. The result is a feeling of the film attempting to induce mild amusement. Somewhat like watching a film where someone slips on a banana peel, or sits on a breakaway chair (slapstick comedy).

I believe that this is due to all the exposure I've had of the Vaudeville material has been based on grainy jittery monochrome film, so I interpret the material based on the typical Vaudeville setup.
You might see larger in-processor or on-module memory (in a chiplet design). Lots of factors to deal with.

Have those numbers been growing? Don’t have data on hand myself.
Please tell that to the Swiss
> Typically, because the country has enough scale, it is cost effective for the government to design and estimate costs for a government run facility to produce the drug and use that as a bargaining chip including if needed voiding the IP rights of that foreign entity for national defense reasons.

You got a link about that because I am super interested to read into that more. I believe india doesn't respect medical IP but I'm surprised first world countries that produce medical IP do and that the US apparently isn't ripping off foreign countries medical IP who do that in retaliation.
I used DayOne for a while, then moved to Windows which it doesn't support. Now I just scribble notes in OneNote.
All I have to do is put a proxy in front of your API and strip all your headers off and send responses anywhere I like. Given that, how can CORS be "security"? It's totally insecure.
If you're up for doing us a favor, I'd love to learn about the UX specifics we fell short on. Email is my username @render.com. Thank you!
Would have to test it and see how it works, but this (or something like it) is my favorite solution so far.
How would I go about doing that? I feel like every time I find a source, there's something wrong with it. All of the Republican "pundits" like Ben Shapiro + Candace Owens seem to have been "cancelled" for spreading racism and hate and misinformation. Can't trust CNN or Fox News, where am I supposed to become educated on politics?
As a canadian immigrant, I'm actually against the ramping up of so much immigration because we do not have the infrastructure to support it. I liked the slow and steady pace of quality over quantity before liberals came into power.
Also, Trump's criminal justice reform in the First Step Act.
Tips for writing your college application essay during a pandemic
Mexico has remove TV instruction right now I think:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53917882

The radio in the picture is more classy (Philco 90 lowboy?).. OT, but the current HBO show Lovecraft Country is awesome because of the old radios!

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-1931-philco-m...

http://www.tuberadioland.com/philco90_lowboy_main.html
It wasn't much lower in the past -- the number's been hovering around the high 2xx,000 to low 3xx,000 per year since 1992, and immigration per year as a percentage of the population has remained around 1% that entire time, according to IRCC and statcan. [1]

The real issue is that Canada's birth rate is 1.4 children per woman on average. This means within a generation the population would be reduced to 2/3. With a points-based immigration program, the country is able to be selective about who it brings in.

I find blanket statements like "the infrastructure can't support it" pretty weak sauce without citations, especially as more folks in the country means more economic productivity, which means more taxes, which means more money to throw at, you guessed it, infrastructure.

[1] https://www.cicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Levels-Pl...
I had high hopes for the "Executive Summary".
Personally I'm almost exclusively here for the comments and rarely ever click into a link.

On HN, I often take a look at the comments first, to get a feel for whether the linked material is likely to be informative or thought-provoking. If there is an interesting discussion starting or if there is a submission that is getting lots of upvotes yet few comments (as this one was when I first saw it this evening) then that's usually a good sign.

FWIW, I've just spent well over an hour reading the article here all the way through, following some of the links to further pieces by the same author and others, and thinking about the ideas. It was probably the most interesting material I've seen all week.
The greatest advantage of memory is that you can connect what you learned today to what you learned before and thus map out the structure of the world.
My biggest problem is remembering the things that are done similarly everywhere: is it .length, .len, .size or .count? Or are they methods? Or globals? Why do these things have to differ even between SQL dialects
Maybe 2ml of "blue juice" in a cup of tea. It's hard to know what the actual active concentration of my extraction is though :(
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just in reference to legislation introduced recently that has has to, but has not, pass through congress?
My question was about Open source software, not closed source corporation BS.
Well it seems as if all parties will be better off in the long term if this gets implemented correctly. It certainly would reduce many of the bad incentives in the immigration system.
Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple are called out in this report, but Microsoft was somehow spared. I find that shocking given how bad Microsoft is for a healthy and competitive market. You don't have to look much past the bundling of various products under Office subscriptions to realize this. Either way, this report doesn't actually take any action but simply makes recommendations:

> The 449-page report recommends Congress consider a series of measures in response, including legislation forcing them to separate certain dominant online platforms from other business lines as well as changes to antitrust laws to reinvigorate a perceived lack of strong enforcement.

> The report carries no legal consequences on its own, but lawmakers hope its conclusions will spur policy makers to action.

I'll be pleased if even just one of these companies faces consequences - with Google being my top pick. But ultimately I want to see all of them broken up.
This was already the case, they would ask for a request for evidence (RFE) how the degree was related. This is annoying if you e.g. studied maths and then started working in IT.
The H1Bs rules were outdated.

Startups in the 1980s had the same challenge because the H1B minimum salary was a really good salary then, average salaries just rose, lets do that part again.
Yes all the Gandalf's work there...right
The things you are describing are not even close to being the revenue drivers or “reasons for existence” for the companies you listed. As someone who worked at FB, there is nowhere CLOSE to the amount of funding that Oculus gets compared to other parts of the company. I would venture to say the same about MS - Hololens is nothing more than an experiment, that is not the funnel in which Microsoft is pouring its revenue from other parts of the business. I am not arguing that companies don’t innovate. I am, however, arguing that companies, once reached a certain size, are less and less incentivized to do so.
Well, yes? It means he's primarily an ideologue telling just-so stories rather than someone acting in good faith.
You have a good point but I think it’s a matter of degrees than a yes/no situation.

There are also other things a researcher is incentivized to do to get past reviewers such as emphasizing only the good points of your algorithm, deemphasizing its downsides, comparing only against current so-so algorithms or baseline algorithms or algorithms a couple of years old instead of the latest state of the art so that your algorithm can look good. As in, even if you propose an algorithm that has new ideas in it that could bear fruit in the future with more refinements, you as a researcher would only hype it up to get past the reviewers.
Almost all aerosol cans use a flammable gas (they are cheap, have a high expansion ratio, and are low pressure liquids). Flour, sugar and other powders found in the kitchen can actually be explosive if they are mixed with air correctly (eg: when tossed onto a flame).

Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is probably the only improvised item in the kitchen that you should use to put out fires. A kitchen should have a fire extinguisher that is BC or ABC that would be best for the first attempt at putting out the fire.

Even though water is not ideal, if you have a large source of it (eg: Pool, lake, firehose, etc), it will be your best option as it can cool faster than a small battery can generate heat. A garden hose or bathtub faucet might be able to supply enough water if the battery is relatively small.
i have to imagine it would piss Nate Silver off to experience 4 years of continual mockery for "getting the election completely wrong" when he in fact got it right.

anyway, I agree the cartoon fox seemed very condescending and I wonder whether there wasn't some real frustration with the public behind it.
The Wikipedia article on the fund is wrong on a rather crucial point. It states: "Norway can withdraw up to 3% of the fund's value each year."

However this is incorrect, as the spending rules were changed in 2001. The correct statement is that the government can withdraw 3% of the real return[1] of the fund. The 3% figure was adjusted down from an initial 4%.

[1]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/okonomi-og-budsjett/norsk...
https://www.pioneerdj.com/en-gb/product/controller/ddj-400/b...
Maybe Trump’s Hail Mary for his re-election is... governing?
I do want to wade through the maths, and I have to some degree, and I've never come across time becoming spacelike (which would imply rotation past the null vector, which afaik is not something that happens in a black hole).
There's something a bit weird about this article. I totally buy post-viral fatigue syndrome, and that there's certainly a possibility of it occurring post COVID-19, particularly since it is a virus. But alarm bells started ringing with the description of the lymphatic drainage, and the way the examination section is written is odd. You don't find mid thoracic spine inflammation on examination - an MRI would be used for that. They mention a conflict of interest in that the treatment for this condition is some kind of lymphatic drainage and is a technique devised by one of the authors. That author is an osteopath not a medical doctor. That in itself would not mean I'd automatically discount research, but as others have mentioned it really is n of 1, and I'd be surprised if these clinical signs and techniques have been validated in any large trial.
Yeah, but then what?
This is a great move. The current H1B program made no sense at all.

If I wanted to hire: A smart graduate from EPFL, Polytechnique or ETH Zurich who interned at CERN and has contributed to the Linux kernel for a software engineering job at a unicorn startup
or

A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90% for a job doing manual UI testing and QA for a body shop

my only path forward is H1. They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that makes any sense to anyone?
His prison reform was a good thing and not commended enough.
You blame a client side programming language for data center power usage?