skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the U.S. our nuclear arsenal is a defensive weapon.

The US is the only country that has deployed nuclear weapons - and additionally have modern, adjustible-yeild tactical nukes. How is it "defensive"?
> The Iranians have followed the nuclear deal

What are you talking about?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear/britain-fran...

Additionally, Iran often has not allowed international inspectors access to its nuclear facilities. This is required to audit that Iran is actually following the terms of the deal.

That’s why America pulled out of the deal.
I’ve been spending time organizing my bookmarks in Pinboard the last couple days and yeah, I have 1k+ “read later” links.

I think having a way to surface things saved for later would encourage me to start whittling down that list.
> PG sure has been on a kick about how brilliant of an independent thinker he is in a sea of conformity.

For somebody praising non-conformity the idea of the superiority of the "independent thinker" is a pretty conventional idea. It dates in written form at least back to Plato's philosopher king [1]. You can guess the idea is a lot older than that. There does not seem to be a lot of evidence it leads to better overall outcomes than other, more inclusive approaches. Big successes in human affairs tend to involve getting a lot of people aligned around specific goals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king
> Sometimes I wonder whether one of the factors that makes US the mecca of technology is the lack of safety net there

Not really. My bet is on the abundance of capital (hello global reserve currency) combined with excellent universities and a cultural willingness to take risks and do bold things. People who need a safety net, such as food stamps or housing assistance, are rarely the people who start big companies. They're usually too caught up in just trying to survive day-to-day.
I'm talking about statements by the leaders - prime minister, president etc.
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Pick the right canton. There are many, with very diverse tax codes, and in the smaller ones you even get to negotiate a bit (if you are big and important enough). But of course that will mean you have to be out in the sticks.
In a world where bot herders try to blend in with the crowd, and historically lots of them aren't great at it, you have to be careful about your choices. It's very easy to look like a bot by accident, and odds are pretty good that anyone who sticks out is likely to be a bot. Just like odds are quite good that any HTTP request coming through Tor is quite likely to be malicious.

This is a pretty shitty scenario all around. It shouldn't have happened. It should never have come to this! That said, I've yet to see a better solution on offer for general-purpose low-effort anti-abuse purposes.

People here on HN generally seem to either hate CAPTCHAs with the passion of a million blazing suns (but have nothing better to offer) or want everyone to use something strictly worse (like argon2 hashing).
I really appreciate the message in this article. I think another way to partition the world is into zero-sum and non-zero sum situations. In non-zero sum situations it's more important to be correct than novel, but in zero-sum situations it's important to be both correct and novel.

One example I like to think about is the following: imagine having two boxes (A and B), one on each side of a football field. Exactly one of the two boxes contains a million dollars: box A contains the prize with 99% probability and box B contains the prize with 1% probability.

Suppose you're standing at the center of the field together with n other people and are told to race to get the million dollars (first person who finds it wins). You have to decide whether to run for box A or box B since they're in opposite directions. If n = 0, it's clearly in your best interest to go for box A, but as n grows, the probability of you getting to box A first drops since you're competing with other people, meaning that at some point you ought to actually go for box B.

This is a toy example of where it's not sufficient to be right, but it's also important to be novel. If each person was awarded its contents (rather than just the first person to get there), there'd be no rush and you ought to go for box A. In other words: in zero-sum situations you need to be both right and novel, but in non-zero sum situations it's sufficient to just be right.

I think the example of academia in the article is not quite right for two reasons. As pointed out elsewhere, the incentives in academia are actually quite twisted which means that there's actually more incentive to just be verbose than to be novel, but additionally I don't think it's really zero-sum. It's true that if you're working in a crowded space, it starts approaching zero-sum and then becomes a game of novelty. However, if you're not in a crowded space (e.g. interdisciplinary stuff) you can actually be quite successful by discovering rather mundane things (you might say that this is just being novel on a different axis, which I think is reasonably accurate, but the point made in the article was that the discoveries have to be surprising).
At least in Switzerland you can somewhere go around with ~20‘000/year in earnings without much bureaucracy at all (not much insurance, easy taxes, ...) and even after that, there‘s no need to register a company. You can work as single-person company longer than you say it‘s a side business. For sure you have to care about insurabce and taxes, but I don‘t see anything wrong with that.

It might be that it‘s different in other countries but from my experience, Switzerland makes it quite easy „for the little man“.
The US breaks its negotiated agreements, engages in hostile acts throughout the world, and interferes in elections in other countries. If we were to believe America is a peaceful country, then we'd have to say the same about Iran.
Your disclaimer doesn't excuse your painful ignorance about the scale of atrocities of the nazi regime. If you are trying to put any kind of moral equivalence between the attack on Hiroshima and the murderous war waged by the nazis you are either a very stupid or a very vile human being.
5mg indica. It got me functionally stoned. I'd only do it in evenings/night. I couldn't work, but I could still read for leisure, drive, run/exercise.
Hi Peter,

I'm a start-up founder, on a H1B, and I just filed my EB-1a-based I-485. My H1B expires end of March 2021. Do I need to renew my H1B, or can I simply use the AOS application to maintain status while the green card comes through? I imagine after my H1B expires, if I don't file for a renewal, I won't be able to work, unless my EAD comes through on time?

Under normal circumstances I'd renew my H1B, but given the insane salary requirements due to recent changes to the program, I need to pay myself upwards of 250K, and I just don't feel too good drawing that level of salary as a founder :)

Do you have any advice? Would USCIS relax the salary requirements for founders?
This is a little dated (from 2007, might be worth updating the title), and so I wonder what's changed (if anything) in the field of behavioral economics since then.

I think what's amazing in what Daniel Kahneman (I've never seen him called Danny before, that's fun!) did is challenge a fundamental pillar of economics, the concept of the "quant", or "rational actor". The idea that people would always act in their own self interest was largely unquestioned, despite economics to that point having a ton of reproducibility problems (as far as I understand it). Once we were able to think of humans as non-rational actors, it demystified a whole category of problems that economics thus far hadn't been able to explain or predict.

Because this site has the focus that it does, I feel the assumption will be that this is about (or at least worth reading/watching because of) the people that were gathered in that room, but among them, the most important/influential person is Kahneman, in my view.
> and some details about harding servers to prevent such an attack from happening (like a link to grsecurity.net which I have to check out, but most of the other stuff is common sense).

I was running PaX/Grsecurity on the server for many years, it was a true pioneer to kernel hardening and exploit mitigation, and still offers many hardening techniques not found in the mainland kernels. Unfortunately, it's no longer open to the community. Now my new hope is HardenedBSD [0], which has a roadmap to independently implement all major PaX/grsec features, but there is no ETA.

>> Anyway, I'm typing this as I sit across the street from a cybercafe so note not to waste your time backtracing. This is my job, don't take it personal. sincerely and respectfully.

> It's tough not to (especially since all this went down while three hurricanes were headed our way) but I guess that's what I get for living in a Gibsonian novel these days.

Cyberpunk is now!

[0] https://hardenedbsd.org/
Nationalism is where critical thinking goes to die.
It's also the midpoint of the positive rationals, as modeled by the Stern-Brocot tree.

https://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/Stern.shtml
I would put some serious money on Trump as a lame duck doing a whole lot of nothing. Israel probably sees this as an opening to take out core operatives without reprisal and a low chance of escalation. Iran will probably do what it has always has done, continue their nuke and ballistics program, and attempt to destabilize unfriendly regimes. They don't really have an awesome military tract record outside of guerrilla tactics nor the capacity for a prolonged large scale conflict against a technically superior advisory. I don't know what this has to do with propaganda though; it will always spin conflicts as just, inventible, necessary or simply just sweep it under the rug.
If we take Iran’s stated goal of producing electricity at face value, how does solar compare to nuclear? My impression is that the country has near-ideal climate and latitude for solar, so what’s holding them back? Is the terrain unsuitable, or are the sanctions preventing solar technology from being used?
I agree. That’s why my rule is to give only when asked and only if it’s within my ability..otherwise it’s just a savior complex.

And people turn down food all the time. It means they can go without food for another day! Good for them! There are others who need what is on offer. I try to focus on my ability rather than their need. It’s 7.5+ billion people..Can’t help everyone!
This is from 2004, maybe the title can be updated?
According to the article 15 black people left in total between late '18 early '19. It seems that the compliance team makes up the major part of the departures (up to 8 quit, depends how you read it). From the article this could be attributed to coinbase opening an office in portland and employees declined to move.

The headline also mentions that black people were fired, but never follows up on it.
People won't because most of them lose.
> What are you talking about?

There is no deal if the signatories pull out. Prior to America pulling out, international inspectors were allowed access.
As it should be ;)
I loved this show so much as a kid. It was so eye opening and he was such a good educator. Made history and technology progress interesting.
A Black Friday sale on Go books just for people of colour
The ease of starting a Limited company in Lithuania is really interesting.

I used to start UK Ltd companies really easily, but with them exiting the EU, the best alternative I've found so far is Ireland or Estonia, but both are somewhat expensive. Although not compared to starting a GmbH in Austria or Germany.

I learned through bitter experience that Malta has some yearly auditing requirements, which make everything more expensive than they first appear.

Can you provide some links or info about going the Lithuanian route?
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5077

"It's us that need to fix it, not Apple, so we expect it to work on the current M1 chips."
There won't be another "Silicon Valley" because the unique conditions of SV didn't happen anywhere else (at least so far).

Which it doesn't mean you can't have competitive or innovative companies in other places. What their differences are w.r.t. SV might be disadvantages but they also might be advantages. (Though the easy financing is one darn good competitive advantage)

But the world (and innovation) is not only startups working on a new web/app thing.
Every sentence you wrote is true, and you're only bringing up politics to respond to someone else who did, yet you're the one who's receiving downvotes.
Yes, and there's also a great biotech startup & VC ecosystem.
Hi everyone, I was thinking about starting a blog sharing some code and end up creating this very simple syntax highlighter. It can be changed to work with other languages by changing the reserved word, methods and rules. Target each element with CSS to change colors and font-style. Hope you like it.
c) blocking ads
and as long as you don't have any political thoughts. don't want those.
Yes, absolutely agree. We just launched today. A lot of work is still in progress :)
But we didn't even need the nuclear bomb to beat the Germans.
Those measures are not that useful at all without a denominator. Do you have 10,000 employees or 2? 2880 slack messages means nothing without knowing the denominator. Same for countries of origin.

I wonder who sees these and thinks anything other than “what kind of dipshits think this matters?” Although, I must think that a lot of the people I know of who are buying ML consultants would likely think that counting and displaying random metrics without context is data science. So maybe it works well.
Ah more power to them. No sane person wants political activists in your company, spreading identity politics and wokism.
Knowing what I know now, I absolutely think Oppenheimer should have been assassinated.
I index anything interesting I come across in my DAG-backed blogging platform.

1) I run a local instance. When I see an interesting link, I paste it into the textbox at http://localhost:2784/. This creates a new parent item.

2) I create sub-item under it which may include several tags, such as: #perl #toread

3) When I read the page, I create new text nodes under the item to annotate and locally store the information.

4) Whenever I want to publish something to my public blog, I add a child item with the #publish tag to it, and it's automatically pushed (using curl and HTTP GET or POST.)

5) My public blog is unauthenticated, but I could also limit publishing rights to e.g. only items signed by my particular PGP key.

6) When my notepad gets full, I archive it into a zip file and start afresh. This is how I deal with "information overload bankruptcy".

7) If I'm looking for something I annotated in the past, I use zgrep or whatever it's called on my pile of zip files.
I mean I wouldn't be cool with someone assassinating Oppenheimer or any of the team that worked on the U.S. nuke which was clearly meant as an offensive weapon from the very beginning (even though I could sympathize if it was a Japanese time traveler). AFAIK the U.S. is still the only nation on earth to ever use this weapon of mass destruction.

Claiming that the own nuclear arsenal is defensive while the empirical evidence suggests otherwise is a pretty strange notion. If the going gets tough, the U.S. is probably going to use nukes again. Hopefully it won't get that tough. I'm not even sure how you can use a nuke defensively. Kill them all first because they kill us...I guess it could be argued to be defensive technically.
Do people really get fooled by this? For example if someone buys a "champagne" made in the UK, surely they must know this is not a real thing? And if they don't know then what difference does it make? If the real champagne is out of their budget, are they going to save money or buy something else in their price range?
It's a motortricycle!
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How Taxonomies Differ from Ontologies
From the article:

> Ms. Butler said she was not told how to make an official complaint; Ms. Sawyerr said she never spoke to an investigator and was not informed of the findings

“Absence of evidence” etc. etc.
Maybe more pro-war in general, but is there any reason to believe Joe Biden won't try to pursue a similar Iranian strategy as Obama?
There is a restriction on green cards that the holder cannot be outside the country for more than 6 months. How strictly is that to be followed, asking because I might have someone in that situation soon because of the pandemic.
Abstraction, divide and conquer, and hierarchies. Not in any particular order.
People don't necessarily have a choice. If that's the best contract that you can get then there is not much that you can do about it.
I'm not sure I understood correctly - wouldn't removing discrimination or other hurdles for marginalized groups in your organization be more "for everybody"?
It is an act of war by Israel probably approved by Washington but there is very little Iran can do about it.
Windows containers are Windows specific, and the base image is like 1+ GB. I think the best solution is run Linux cause that is what containers were created for and are the most performant on.
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I've been teaching programming with Python at various levels for the last 15 years. Over time, the exercises, examples, algorithmic patterns I accumulated for these courses became so numerous that I started to have trouble finding my way around: which ones to present in which course, in which order, at which time, and with which expected benefits?

I developed a tool to help me answer these questions, and more generally to rethink the structure and content of my curriculum. After a few years of tinkering with a rough implementation of these ideas, I decided to rewrite it from scratch with the hope of making it useful to my colleagues, and anyone facing the same issues: this is how Paroxython was born.

How can you use it? In a preliminary step, you make it tag your collection of educational Python programs. Then, whenever you want, based on the things your students already know, the concepts you intend to make them discover or practice, and those you wish to introduce later (or never), it recommends you a list of programs roughly ordered by increasing learning costs.
When I catch myself with thoughts like these I remind myself of the lesson from https://xkcd.com/584/

One thing that helps is keeping in touch with friends that made such decisions and hearing their regrets today.
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The holocaust doesn't justify hiroshima and nagasaki - they will forever be a stain on our nation's history.
Eilish sounds like repackaged/updated trip hop, so as a gen x'er it feels familiar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFIIUKAOE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIpv2VTwyJA
I'm fairly sure these videos were debunked as being trickery/illusion with parallax, rather than objects traveling at impossible speeds.
they did three investigations because coinbase only received three official complaints.
From Coinbase's preemptive rebuttal[1]:

"we hired an external consultant in August of this year who specializes in data science and diversity and inclusion to cull through all of our historic data related to diversity ... and conduct a high volume of interviews with employees representing all background, functions, and tenures to understand the employee experience. The independent investigation concluded that there was no evidence of structural bias in hiring, promotions or performance evaluations."

"All of those complaints were thoroughly investigated, one through an internal investigation and two by separate third-party investigators, all of whom found no evidence of wrongdoing and concluded the claims were unsubstantiated. We have shared this information with the reporter."

So external investigators didn't find anything wrong and the data was shared with the NYT reporter. What else can they do if they are really innocent?

[1] https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...
> I'm not suggesting that you impose on everyone who talks to you the burden of proving what they say, but rather that you take upon yourself the burden of evaluating what they say.

Oh how I wish this were in the site guidelines.
That's from Jeremy Clarkson, innit?

Despite that quote being mostly wrong [0][1], a safety net might account for some idleness. But there's more. You might find a local variation of the Law of Jante [2], for example.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock#First_modern_cuck...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
This reminds me of heroin addicts who can cope with a higher dosage in a familiar setting than in an unfamiliar one.
Private corporations have a mission of generating wealth for the people that make it up, their stockholders. Unions have the same mission just for their members. Its pretty comparable.

Private corporations also have a pretty consistent thread of corruption, a similar example to the one you gave being HSBC laundering money for drug cartels. Again, pretty comparable.

This isn't to say corruption in unions hasn't been part of why they've declined, its almost definitely part of it. While a corrupt corporate leader generally creates more money for its stockholders a corrupt union rep often costs the rank-and-file members which can greatly sour their opinions of unions as a whole. But there's nothing inherent to unions with regard to corruption, people in power often take advantage of their position no matter what type of structure they have that power in, and the point that it appears, at least to some people, that unions are held to a different standard than other types of organizations is worthy of being discussed.
Planning this for the next deployment. Coming right up ...
My List of Magic Numbers
HFT isn't my cup of tea, but the rise of HFT has certainly narrowed spreads and contributed to zero comissions; and I apprechiate those effects.
I remember my old track coach using this during practices.

We would swish the water around in our mouths to get rid of that bad taste you get when you’re thirsty, but he always warned us that the second we swallowed too much that practice was over because you get a stomach ache if you sprinted with all that water sloshing around.
Arm China chief defends move to seize control of unit
The climate hasn't hit a 'point of no return'
I realized after posting, I should've specified that for me, "here" is the US. My US-centrism is showing, sorry!

Lithuania is trying hard to make it easier, but they're still leaps and bounds behind the US IMO.
Why can't I stick to side projects?
> If we take Iran’s stated goal of producing electricity at face value

I think the claim is they need enriched uranium for medical purposes, not producing electricity.
True, but the nuclear bomb's original target was Germany and the parent comment was referring to Germany. Much of the same observations can be made about the Empire of Japan. I'm sure Imperial Japanese soldiers earnestly believed their subjugation of China and other mainland powers was just, but that doesn't alter it's depravity.

There's value to be had in honestly recognizing that if I was born in Japan or Germany during the 1920s I'd probably have turned out just like the people I'm criticizing. But we also have to have conviction in what is good and what is evil.
It’s about 50/50
Thank you for the Q and A! I have an EB-1A sponsored by my employer, i-140 approved and it's been 180 days since my employer filed i-485 (still not approved). I have my EAD and AP in hand. Can I change jobs, lose jobs, etc with no fear of losing my green card?