skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is my landlord charging me rent "a non-refundable fee for a human each month, simply for existing"? Why shouldn't a landlord offer the option if that's what they're comfortable with? Why is strictly less choice better for a pet owner?
Diversity initiatives are like a graduated social tax. As a passably straight white man I can afford to pay more than an LGBTQ person of color. Just like I can pay more in income taxes than people in different financial situations.

It doesn't bother me if an applicant pool is made a bit bigger for marginalized people than myself, because I do not struggle to fall into any applicant pool whatsoever and have not for most of my adult life. Be it for employment, education, or housing.

Where conversations can get annoying is when I feel demonized because inequity exists independent of my individual actions. But I can live with someone bitching on Twitter because I'm not afraid of the police or telling potential employers I have a kid on the way.

What I don't like living with is the inability of others like myself in my own caste who would dismiss reality on reductionist notions "hiring by race or gender is inherently racist" without critical thought. Ignoring lack of diversity tacitly supports inequity and is itself racist or bigoted, by virtue of doing less than nothing to correct it.
Surveillance Bill to hand AFP and ACIC a trio of new computer warrants
Strongbox is a nice iOS keepass compatible client. Integrates with the iOS password auto fill and can use can use Face ID / Touch ID with the pro versions. It supports google drive, iCloud, onedrive, sftp and local Storage on your iOS device. I find the UI is quite ok.
sorry but this doesn't make any sense to me. POW is providing a service - it is securing billions of dollars in decentralized value.

It doesn't damage the environment if used with solar power or an energy source that isn't damaging to the environment. In other words, it isn't necessary that it damages the environment.

Is it wasteful when you use the elliptical machine or tread mill? It is a tragedy that energy is being wasted in such magnitude in gyms around the world?
Linus said no to Linux on M1.
They really don’t hire that many Americans
> What about the cases where allowing people to use their mental health as an excuse is making their mental health worse?

Much as we imagine we know what's best for them, ultimately they have a right to their free choice.
The no/registration piece makes 0 sense to me. Where I live, ALL dogs need to have a license and must have the tags to prove it - why not just add a certification to the tags that say it is a service animal?
You just explained to yourself why Bitcoins supply is fixed and can't feasibly be changed. It was a well made argument, good job.
The vaccines will reduce the visible effects of pandemic, that's sure, by reducing the numbers of those who will have to be admitted to the hospital. In Covid-19 a huge percentage of people who get infected currently have to be hospitalized, and reducing that number will help a lot.

What we still can't expect, until we have some different and exact information, is to be able to visit our non-vaccinated or immune suppressed relatives and friends without a mask and be really sure that we can't infect them as long as the incidence is high enough. What we currently know says the opposite: no proof of sterilizing immunity by the current vaccines, and animal studies which show the same viral load in upper respiratory tract mucosa.

That's what I personally worry about, I have such people and I don't want them to die because of the, at the moment still unfounded, belief of some (like "phobosanomaly" who uses totally irrelevant quotations to support their claims) that the vaccine must have "sterilizing immunity" while the experts are cautions to point that the currently available information surely doesn't support that.

And if "phobosanomaly" now also doesn't claim at the moment that the vaccines have such property but merely that the transmission will be "reduced" then I don't disagree with that. But for me "transmission will be reduced" as this moment still means "we can't even assume that the vulnerable can't become infected from those who already received the vaccine."

Also note that the distribution of those who get the vaccine but then still become ill (1 of 20 by Pfizer and Moderna trials) will also not be evenly distributed across the population. That means that if you know even less vulnerable people, you can expect that some of them won't be protected even if they can and do receive the vaccine. I worry also for those.

If you also maybe believe that the vulnerable are disposable because they are old and not productive anymore or something like that, I can assure you that I personally know young and worthy people who can still contribute a lot to the world but who can surely be considered vulnerable, and who surely aren't doing anything wrong, who aren't overweight and who are doing sports regularly.

And finally, I admit I also worry for those who I know who are considered "older" but whose number of days on this planet can also be seriously affected by the attitudes of those who want to believe only that what is convenient to them, even if it is completely opposite of what is currently known.
Huh. I don't remember the Palm Pilot being noticeably slow.
It still has value even if enforcement is imperfect and selective.
They are also incentivized to do it because it makes AWS sticky. The more of their services you use, the harder it is to migrate somewhere else. They don't need to put out quality services, they just have to put out enough that you become dependent on one or two of them and then you're stuck.
How many Gmail ids are too many?
Google just disabled my gmail id without any notice!

TLDR: i use many email ids, and use it one per application , ex, my twitch account has one id, one for applying jobs etc (this is the one that got disabled)... i know that free email is never free! but any other providers who dont do this kind of sh!t?

https://i.imgur.com/RRc8M3C.jpg
Do you realize most 401(k) and IRA accounts in the US are all invested securities (like equities and bonds)? Similarly, most wealthy people invest their money in general?

Also, I didn’t pull the 4% out of a hat. It’s actually the “Safe Withdrawal Rate[a]” recommended by Mr. Money Mustache. See his blog posts on it: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-nee...

Also, see: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/11/29/how-to-retire-for...

[a] Bogleheads article on Safe withdrawal rates: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Safe_withdrawal_rates
I find it funny how all these commenters have come out of the woodwork to question a highly accomplished and respected AI researcher's track record for their "tone" and the "value" of their research. Unsurprisingly, there's a fixation on railing against SJWs, activism, and political correctness.

None of these comments offer any substance on the main issue in focus: the fact that Google may be actively suppressing the publication of valuable research for reasons other than its academic merit.
Serfdom. That's what the system is.
> that you cannot spend,

You can spend it.

> does not produce cash flow,

Neither commodities nor currencies produce cash flow. People still reasonably invest in both.

> and whose values are determined by other shmucks buying it from previous shmucks.

The value of every other asset in existence is also determined by this process.
No it's apples to apples. I'm not talking about doctors endorsing drugs... that's what you added. I'm talking about easier access. If I wanted an opioid fix one avenue is pain medication, yes it's through a doctor but this is not starting usage through endorsement it's using a doctor as a new doorway for access.

The epidemic in the US is caused by endorsement AND easier access, but I'm not comparing the endorsement part, just the easier access. The endorsement is indeed a separate phenomenon.
Did you seriously just use a Breitbart link for proof? I think that's all the proof that I needed. Not for the actual question at hand, but it definitely answered a lot more.
They probably have existing long term contracts in other countries with other distributors.
> You're willfully ignoring statements.

There is no need for that kind of language.

I give the example of my father’s advice because, to repeat myself for emphasis, the global financial system did in fact go very very badly wrong (and not for the first time).

The fact that his argument was also your argument is the segue, not the point.

> it's not some dude sitting in an office managing a trillion dollars - it's a team of highly brilliant investors who either invest directly or outsource the investing to multiple megafund investor firms across multiple risk profiles

I did not wish to imply that it was merely “some dude”, and I am disappointed that you chose to interpret my words as such. After all, I would not imply that you think that Lloyds bank lost so much market cap because “some dude” was planning their business strategy.

I wish to imply that (1) things change, and (2) that a current state of competent management is not something that can be assured forever.

This implication was illustrated with one of many historical examples of nations and empires thought indefatigable at their peak which are now no more.

I also illustrated it with the example of the global financial crisis which led to Lloyds losing so much value. I believe that was caused by teams of highly brilliant investors applying a Nobel-prize winning formula.

> Also the term "The Sun never sets on the British empire" implied geographical dominance across the world, not immortal dominance. Before you guys, it was the Spanish claiming that.

I was already aware both that it was previously used by the Spanish and that one usage was geographical, however it was also used by British people in the sense of never ending dominance - https://access-socialstudies.cappelendamm.no/c316302/tekstop...
Never heard if her, but after seeing her twitter feed, it’s pretty obvious how toxic she is. Already flying off the handle and accusing Jeff Dean and Google of racist conspiracies, as if her own behavior couldn’t possibly be the reason.
I'd probably be more inclined to use a word like pretentious. I actually liked Inception quite a bit but didn't much care for Interstellar.
I think you must have a limited mindset of how long it can take wheels to turn in large companies. Without cloud, it's not uncommon for the F500s I've worked at to take literal months (90+ days) just to provision and stand up a new server for an application team to even begin developing on. Even if you spend time "debugging black boxes" (which is highly debatable), most of the time you're still moving a lot faster with cloud than before.

Some companies are better than others. One place I worked had a decent OpenStack implementation in their own data centers, and it greased the wheels a little bit (though it was not without its own issues). And of course smaller companies are likely more agile and able to move faster. But for the most part, these big companies see some very real benefits in speed by embracing public clouds.
I get sick around people's dogs from allergies like your wife. Thanks for voicing your comment; I feel like pet owners usually don't take things very seriously when I talk about getting sick from dogs.
The interesting thing about moderation of this comment (and please note this isn't a complaint about the moderation) is that it was up-voted heavily when during Western European office hours then down-voted heavily during SV office hours, which is a correlation to the different cultural opinions I've also observed between SV and Europe when it comes to discussions regarding capitalism.
Title is contentious. The article's title says she was fired. The sequence of events was that she was said she would resign if her conditions were not met, Google did not meet those conditions and terminated her.

Neither "fired" nor "resigns" seems correct. I feel that she was "forced out" or "let go" (ironically this euphemism is more accurate here). She threatened to leave and they kicked her out.
"Interstellar" was an excellent film, physicists who haven't learned to suspend disbelief may have trouble enjoying it.
> I mean that’s about the same interval that the sexually active population should be getting tested

Is that an official recommendation? I cannot find a source for this.
I can't tell if this is about James Damore or not. Is he the victim you are referring to?
DPIs don't mean anything unless you factor in viewing distance.

In fact, it is common to recommend a vertical viewing angle of 30 degrees. Not more as it tends to increase eye fatigue and neck pain. If you follow that recommendation, what matters is the definition (the number of pixels), not the resolution in DPI.

So, let's run a few calculations. The "retina" resolution is based on a pixel size of 1 arc-minute, that's 20/20 vision, at 30 degrees, that's 1800 pixels. 4k is 2160 vertical, so that's about the limit of human vision. So, basically, 4k is what you want at any size.

8k is not useless but you are pushing the boundaries here. In order to notice it, you need perfect, over 20/20 vision, high luminosity and high contrast. Beyond 8k, you enter superhuman territory, with an exception: you can notice discontinuities at a much higher resolution (vernier resolution), but it only matters if you don't have anti-aliasing. And of course, high contrast, luminosity and perfect vision.

There are exception. For example there is a limit on how close a screen can be, so having 4k on a tiny smartphone screen is mostly useless. The other end of the spectrum would be VR, with fields of view over 100 degrees, 8k per eye is considered a minimum for an immersive experience.
Yeah, I want more details.

It claims that Facebook specifically did not advertise some roles on its careers website, which led to these specific roles having ~0 US applications. Whereas most other roles have hundreds of US applications.

What 'roles' were these? Is there some specific role they are not advertising?

Edit: The original complaint https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1342786/downl...
You are exactly right; there are no 'roles' and it stems from the completely different type of hiring exactly as you describe.

"Beginning no later than January 1, 2018, and continuing until at least September 18, 2019,
Facebook’s standard operating procedure was to automatically initiate a PERM process when
a temporary visa holder who was a Facebook employee in a “level 3” role1 or above asked
Facebook for a permanent position, if the PERM process was needed to offer the PERM
beneficiary such a position.
36. Facebook’s standard operating procedure was not to consider the temporary visa holder’s job
performance or seniority or consult with the employee’s manager about the temporary visa
holder’s job performance before initiating the PERM process on his or her behalf.
37. As noted above, to file a PERM application, Department of Labor rules first required
Facebook to ensure that there were no minimally qualified and available U.S. workers for the
position that Facebook wanted to offer to the PERM beneficiary.
38. From at least January 1, 2018 to at least September 18, 2019, when a Facebook employee
who was a temporary visa holder expressed interest in receiving a permanent position
through the PERM process, Facebook diverged from its normal recruiting protocols by not
advertising the position on its external website, Facebook.com/careers, by not accepting
online applications, and by requiring interested applicants to apply to the position by mail."

Essentially, it seems like when a temporary visa holder working at Facebook wanted to have a permanent position, Facebook would create a 'dummy' role for them, then advertise it where people would not apply, so that they could then hire the employee permanently.
But I wouldn't call this discrimination at all; I would call this Facebook hiring as many talented people as they can, as fast as they can. The same 'role' is still available and on the careers website.
I will disagree with the pay less part. I know people who get > $500K as a software engineer on H1b. Getting worker on H1b requires 1-2 month legal process, lot of paperwork and extra money. I think it is more expensive for companies to hire foreign workers. Some startups straight out reject visa holders since they don't have resources to hire them.
One per person. All are automatically linked/associated by device.

You pay for email if you want this.
It's not limited to the Bay Area. They do the same thing in the Midwest for industries with high-turnover. They use the same, obviously dishonest tactics, like only advertising positions in the classified sections of local newspapers, where no one would ever look for them.

I'm fully in favor of immigration (mom is an immigrant and so is my partner), but the H1-B system was obviously designed to create a tier of second-class workers who fear losing their sponsorship and thus tolerate lower wages and worse treatment. These visas need to be fully portable at any time, offered for positions only at above market rates, with greencard queue times also being drastically reduced and made independent of employer sponsorship.
Also seems like allowing for it to continue would fail to discourage the companies from hiring the employees in the first place, assuming they were initially hired in a discriminatory way.
I was denied access to Stripe Issuing for a project I have in the works. I wasn't given a lot of details why or when I could reapply.

Is the same thing going to happen with Stripe Treasury? How can I find out if what I want to do is permissible now that Treasury exists?
Not the one you're replying to, but look up "transmission gate latch". As for an actual processor that uses them, see the RCA CDP1802, for which a die photo and reverse engineered gate-level schematic are available.
> for a chance to thrive in the USA

Or, because they are forced to under threat of deportation. This is only the case because of the un-due power that the H1-B system gives the employer. This un-due power can easily be taken away (by not tying the status directly to the employer, and giving the employee the actual freedom to switch positions).

If the employer didn't have effective-deportation power over an employee, then maybe they wouldn't be able to get away with "reduce[d] working conditions, effective wages, and employment prospects for Americans".

The enemy here isn't the foreign worker. If you're upset with anyone in this situation it should be an employer that is taking advantage of everyone else involved, and managed to put the blame on someone else.
The only thing I don’t like about it is that I can’t figure out how to set a global hotkey on OS X.
Thunderbolt isn't available on AMD laptops. You do get USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) which is enough for 4K 60Hz, but I can't say about two high-res monitors.
Absolutely, but since we are off-topic, let's just leave it at that.
The parent comment doesn't say it has to be M1, just that M1 could be the push to make it happen elsewhere.

(also, even if it were about on M1, Linus said he thinks its unlikely, other qualified people disagree)
The last thing I would ever want is to model corporate culture after Japan, one of the worst corporate cultures on the planet.
The History of the Autopsy
Early in the pandemic I realized that movie theaters were gonna be a no go, so I purchased a 100" drop down screen, 4k ust laser projector and a surround sound system. I even replaced the couch. It's been a great investment for us during these times. I'm sure I will occasionally go to the theater, but it will not nearly be as often as before.
Ever wonder why decades after the EMH was postulated it's still a Hypothesis? and not considered a Theory or something stronger? There are far too many people with far too good and consistent a trading record, who's style of trading uses only or primarily price and time data for any reasonable claim that technical analysis doesn't work. This doesn't mean that a typical investor can access investment pools run by these traders, just like the typical investor cannot access the best VC funds or the hottest startups. They typically have tightly binding capacity limits and once the track record is clear, they can pick and choose who to let in.

People pushing technical analysis do believe that it's pointless to look at fundamentals because all (or most) fundamental information is already in the price and hence it's pointless to look at fundamental data. In my opinion this discussion is about as pointless as a religious war.

In the real world specifics and details matter. In general, the weak form of the EMH does hold, as in if you think something is worth twice what the market says it is and you don't have a really good reason why the market doesn't realize this, you are almost certainly wrong. This of course makes a weak form of the claim that all fundamental information is in the price also true.
The ThunderX is also, what, 4-5 years old now? There are no ThunderX3 desktops, are there?
"I would post my email here but my corp account has been cutoff."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334353073012158464
> A lot of people are very attached to their pets, there's nothing wrong with that. Particularly single people living alone without kids (I fall in that bucket).

I'm in that category as well, but that by no means entitles me to abuse measures meant to help the genuinely disabled for my own convenience.
App Store Small Business Program
> That take is, dogs (and cats) have no place on an airplane, and responsible adults shouldn't get pets that they can't find sitters for or board while they are away.

And for the situation where you’ll be away for a long time? It’s cheaper to take a pet aboard a plane than to board for a few weeks. But there should be better options than either (1) the cargo bay or (2) in the cabin with everyone else.

> Actual service animals do still belong, because they provide an actual service, are extremely well-trained, and are worth the allergen/phobia tradeoff because folks who need them literally need them.

Emotional support animals absolutely are a thing. The problem is everyone abuses the idea. But for someone with depression, just having your dog or cat next to you can keep you sane better than your medicine can. I know, because that someone is me. Do I take my pet everyone? No, but they absolutely do help when needed.
Thanks! I've now had 20+ people tell me they had this idea or even started it, or even launched it and got no traction. I needed this for myself, so was going to build this anyway. If this helps anyone else (already has, we have solid stable user base), even better for me. We have quite active Discord and tons of ideas what to build next.
That must be why nobody buys Oralce, or SAP, or mainframes.
The New Superfluous Men
This contradicts what is in the blog post. From the machine configuration section:

> 1 remote client machine, 1 database server, both in the same cloud datacenter

> Disk Size: 4.8TB of disk in a raid0 configuration (EXT4 filesystem)

Both those statements lead me to believe it's a single server with locally attached SSDs in a RAID0. Which is it?

I know benchmarking is hard, and it's difficult to test certain aspects of Amazon Timestream due to it being a managed service, but I really think these details need to be firmed up to make sure you are comparing apples to apples. TimescaleDB seems like a cool product.

Another suggestion I'd make is to run the Amazon Timestream clients across multiple AZs if you aren't already. The blog post doesn't mention whether all the t3 instances are in the same AZ or not.
> Isn't it analogous to me investing my money in buying USD or the British Pound

It would be, if those were hard (non-inflationary) monies.

In a hypothetical future equilibrium where Bitcoin is a world reserve asset, buying Bitcoin is approximately isomorphic to buying spoos or other wide-market indices.