skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK cabinet, comprised of former journalists, media "personalities" and PR industry hacks, only thinks in terms of the 24 hour news cycle: how to deflect blame, rile up their base, or throw dead cats.

What they are fundamentally incapable of doing is thinking and planning ahead beyond that cycle. Which is fine, so far, as they are greatly aided by their friends in the media, Britain's antiquated "democratic" FPTP system, and by the deep unblinking gullibility of their core voter.
Of course companies can make employees do a lot. How much, depends on the job situation on the market and the private situation of each employee. Many employees cannot afford to lose their job. They might just have bought a house, have a family which depends on their salary to survive.

That is, why a lot of companies get away with "making" employees to do things. The more, the less there is protection of jobs.
It is INSANE that we havent lost a single book of Plato's. In contrast, we lost 3/4 of Aristotle's books.
Incorrect if you are a US citizen. By default, on global income, a US citizen owes both US taxes and whatever taxes the country of residence charges. Thankfully many countries have tax treaties with the USA that avoid at least some of this double taxation.
If you follow apple’s accessibility guidelines, your iOS app is already accessible by the blind.
Have you had any problems from 10DLC rules in the US?

We have seen AT&T silently blocking conversational messaging (eg: not using any formulaic messages like this addon does), even when the AT&T number initiated the conversation and has been responding.
The problem with this is that these big trusted tech giants have abused the trust put in them to break compliance rules of the app store because they can (facebook for example).
What I am missing is, that women do actually get pregnant at times. And when they do, they have rightfully other things on their mind.
Now becoming a father is surely something that got my mind busy, too, but I was still able to give 100% the whole time, without vomitting on the toilet, or having to spend the day in bed. Meaning I could have done a political campaign in that time, but my female partner physically could have not.

So demanding 50/50 either requires even more effort from the women, meaning giving birth to children AND pursue 100% (political) career - or it means, lowering standards because of sex? Meaning voting for someone because of sex and not because of competence. (sounds like sexism, no?)

In other words, it is complicated and I try to for myself to just focus on the competence on the person and not their gender (or race,...).
Run WASM, a client side Python runtime
The Fast Food Transform?
Sliced thin enough to be a medium article, the author doesn't demonstrate that he knows what either a monad or a macro is.
NixOS is abnormal, though I don't know if it's hobbyist. But at some level OSes built on the Linux kernel will all have the same "flavor", since the kernel is THE abstraction between hardware and software. So if you want something REALLY radical (I know this is deviating from your original premise), you'll want to look at other kernels. Google's Fuchsia comes mind, as does PhantomOS.
php+mysql has been low upkeep for at least 15 years is that enough
Do people who feel anxious because of a zoom camera also feel anxious during in-person meetings? I can't quite see the difference to be honest.

I do occasionally keep my camera off when it would be obvious that I'm doing something else during a boring/useless meeting, but it has nothing to do with "anxiety".
> in practice there's really zero reason to review Adobe or Microsoft or OmniGroup app updates

I can totally see Facebook pushing a update which uses internal APIs to access private information outside of its sandbox.

Honestly apps need to be verified after every update for much of the same reasons they need to be verified initially. The issue is the verification process itself, which sometimes blocks legitimate developers while also sometimes allowing scam apps.
If that was the intent of the law then why does the law allow people past the 6 year cap to keep renewing H1B forever if they're waiting for a green card?
We are in a 4th and 5th generation hot war with China. They are killing tens of thousands of our citizens by not stopping the illegal fentanyl trade even after we pointed them to the guy running it.

The government has had a few high profile arrests of academics not claiming their Chinese income which they are required to do for national security reasons.

There will be more squeezes on Asian people in the coming years and no one will really say why directly.

This is not an endorsement of any particular policy, but an explanation.
Yeah, I know that. I think we were talking in general about spycraft and the perception of it in the west and not just about the CIA.

"I think people just underestimate what spy agencies actually do and how dirty it’s always been. "
In general estimates are risk assessments. With that in mind, I think the way to go about estimates depends on the experience level of the indivual or team. The best estimates are not only a number (or a t-shirt size), they also include a list of possible things that can go wrong (either as an internal dialog or, in the best case, written down as part of the estimation).

There are many methods to get this assessment. These are the ones I have used:

* Basic level: Write down everything that needs to be done and assign a time estimate (in hours, otherwise break down further)

* Intermediate level: Write down everything that needs to be done and assign a range of time in days (from best to worst case scenario)

* Expert level: Use an abstract scale (like the fibonacci sequence, T-shirt sizes, etc)

* "We've been doing this together for 20 years" level: Can it be done in XY time? Yes or No answers only.

In each of these levels the specific time it will take to complete the task becomes less and less specific. The reasons to keep it specific, are a) to learn how to estimate well and b) to keep people accountable. Reasons to keep it unspecific are that a) it's impossible to get a correct number for a task you've never done before, thus b) it's a waste of time to try and make an estimate accurate.

The value of all these estimation techniques is to find out where the most risk lies (usually there where the most unknowns / complexity lies). If you then don't follow up on those risks by checking in with the team, the estimation becomes useless. If you manage these risks well, you should at the very least have consistent estimates. Even if their real-time equivilant is off, it should be off by a consistent amount.

Most important of all though: Estimatation is a learned skill and not inherent to anybody (developers or managers). It takes time and practice to get going accurately.
Not quite true. Although very wealthy people could afford to pay a high price for fuel for frivolous reasons, most people (even the wealthy) would tend to avoid doing so. So if a middle-class person were planning on using fuel to go on a road trip, they might postpone or cancel the event, which would help to ease the demand. Whereas if a relatively poor person were planning on using the fuel to go on a road trip - to attend the funeral of a loved-one - they might decide it's worth any cost and go anyway. Hence the people that need the fuel the most are able to use it, whereas the people who merely would like it are not. This extends to far more important operations: If an organ-delivery service needs the fuel to get a living heart from a donor to someone whose life depends on it, they're able to pay the added cost. In a system where prices are fixed too low to quell demand the heart patient will pass away due to lack of availability of fuel. It's literally a matter of life-or-death that prices be able to rise to quell demand.
People don't immigrate on a visa. You immigrate when you have a green card or citizenship. Someone on a 6 month tourist visa or 3 year H1B employment visa hasn't immigrated, they are on a visa allowing them in the US for that time period.
Because it makes being malicious trivial if all you have to do is get approved once
A cheap black and white laser produces pictures at least as good as most e-ink devices and in higher resolution. A toner cartridge for my Canon costs about 100 USD and will print 2000 sheets. 2000 sheets of A4 cost about 30 USD.

An e-ink display that size costs 100s of USD so I can afford to reprint the picture thousands of times before I hit the cost of the e-ink display.

And anyway, art galleries do not change the content frequently so they could afford to use a higher quality printer and higher quality paper.
> In ... the book, "The Mind of the Iliad", Jaynes states that people of the era had no consciousness.

R-riight...
Looks similar to the Django Admin Site, which also auto generates a UI based on models. When I switched my primary stack from Python/Django to ASP/MVC, the Admin Site was sorely missed.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/intro/tutorial07/
Also covered on phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2021-09-chinese-scientists-starch-synt...
Freebsd and compiling is everything but common. Probably 1 coder for 100000.

If you do that, you are assumed to have removed the safety belt and know what you are doing.

I know we are on HN, but you have to remember half the python coders are not even dev. They are geographers, mathematicians, biologists, students, teachers, data analysts. And of course they are on mac or windows.

Even I, and I started to code in python 2.4, never have to compile python. I do it for fun from time to time, but I don't use that professionnally.

If you use a platform where sqlite is not there, you are an exeception in a niche of minority.

I drive my car assuming there will be breaks on it. It can be missing, but it's not a great assumption.
Yea the 20% unemployment rate in tech and 30K/yr tech salaries prove your point. /s
Your puppet strings are showing...
What these companies are going to do when the slave visas expire? Are the customers that they suddenly let down for the temporary job offer be waiting with open arms? For companies, it even makes less sense to abandon business partners for a one-off opportunity.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it. Specifically, when an account is using HN primarily for ideological battle, we ban it, regardless of which ideology it's battling for—we have to, because it's destructive of what this site is supposed to exist for.

Your account has been veering back into this territory quite noticeably, and if you keep it up we're going to have to ban you again. If you'd please review the guidelines and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Built is the keyword here.
> equality of opportunity comes along with all of a child’s inputs and external forces as they’re growing

This reminds me of the nature vs nurture debates.

"A child’s inputs and external forces" is a funny name to call their parents and teachers. Because it's mostly their parents and teachers that are going to have an influence in their education. And if they do spend more time, money and effort to boost the education of their children, then it's a family and teacher merit. It's not unfair when their children do better.

An even more important part which is not mentioned is that opportunity is in large part the result of hard work. A child makes her own opportunities by intelligence, passion and effort.
One comment does:

“I think you're right about virtualization, too. By 2020, hardware virtualization will be ubiquitous to the point that it's done for each application”
The definition of logic I retain comes from "Logique mathématique" from René Cori and Daniel Lascar, a pretty good book I have yet to finish ;)

Logic models the mathematical reasoning itself, like vector spaces model our world and differential equations model most of physics. At no point however we should confuse the model with the studied object. As such logic is a field of mathematics and not mathematics itself. The best illustration of this is that theorems in the field of logic use results from e.g. set theory.

Of course using a formal logic to prove theorems is valid. Still the formal logic has to be studied with "intuitive" mathematics. The book uses the metaphor of spiraling downstairs to illustrate this.
Do you normally have in-person meetings at your house? You don't see the difference between going into an office and revealing your living situation?
There are apps on the Play Store which get updated, and now sideload malware.

It's not feasible to get in touch with Google to fix/remove these.

It's a hard issue to solve; Apple are erring on the side of user safety.
All your reactions, manners, and living conditions can be recorded and later judged by your collegue's mother-in-law during a Zoom call. It would be a bit more difficult for her to achieve that during an in-person meeting at the office.
User 'AI' is a theft. It is not the first time that shameless guy stealing other people's work.
Sure. The employer has to advertise the position openly and give time for domestic employees to apply. Offers, including salaries, have to be published. There's a lot of paperwork included, LCAs, etc... The quota system.

I oversimplified it too much, but effectively for an employee the most important requirement is a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
As a dev who has quite some freedom managing himself, I learned to multiply my own estimates by about 2-2.5.

If I had a bad case of managers, I would probably multiply by four.
Unpredictable enforcement of rules is the biggest problem with the App Store today. As a small time developer you have to be ready to jump through every hoop Apple puts in front of you, what else can you do really? But then in the next update you get a different reviewer who goes "no those hoops you jumped through were wrong" and penalizes you for it. Rinse and repeat.
In reality, if there is a source of resource closer to destination, then the client would question why you're transporting from a further source making it unnecessarily expensive and you will not get a contract.
Cost cutting is good when it happens in other industries and helps software engineers by driving down costs, like tech hardware. But once it comes to their own, suddenly 100 to 400K salaries are not enough.

>The unemployment rate for tech occupations dropped to 1.5% in July, according to the "Employment Situation" report released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reveals. (#JobsReport). That's the lowest level since August 2019 and is close to the historic low of 1.3%. Aug 6, 2021
It works already for navigation properties but not for many-to-many cases.
I guess it's something we will add in future updates.
could you please submit an issue about this?
Feel like you'd lose by "rules infraction"
It would be nice if LTS was more like a 10 year commitment but I know that's not fun for developers

I'm surprised that some developers think constant breaking changes is "fun".
Perhaps the optimal technique would be to write a function which halftones a greyscale image, and then use optimisation to find a greyscale image which reproduces the input image when halftoned. This feels like an expectation–maximization kind of problem, but i can't give a rigorous argument for why.
Electric cars already have a lower total cost of ownership due to lower maintenance and fuel costs. By 2027 they are projected to be cheaper to buy than petrol cars if current trends on battery prices hold.
Does a field of study have to be defined in order for the concepts in it to be defined? I don’t see why.

Can’t you define concepts x,y,z, and then define the field of study as being “about x,y,z and the things related to them”?

I’m guessing you mean something different by “defining a field of study” (different from my default/initial interpretation of the phrase I mean), but I’m not sure what else you mean by it.
private api issues are usually caught with automated binary scans. You can obfuscate them to avoid detection but manual review wouldn’t help with that either
When was another time?
Compare and contrast with

https://reaction.life/britain-looks-like-brexit/

(It would be funny if it weren't so sad - looking forward to leaving the UK at this rate, really).
It's basically special rates for instances that can be shutdown by the provider at any time.

Google charges about 1/3rd of the usual hourly rate for such instances and AWS has a "market place" where you can bid for such instances (you name your max. price beforehand) and whenever an instance with your selected specs becomes available at that rate, you get it.

Hyperscalers like Google and AWS basically have two types of machines/VMs for rent: instances reserved for long term commitment (think months to years) and on-demand. Naturally there's peak demand times in each region (usually during business hours) followed by periods of low demand so there's heavy fluctuation.

Instead of just having their machines sitting idle while still costing money, they offer such idle resources at a heavily discounted rate, with the catch that as soon as regular demand rises again, your VM is being shut down to be offered at the normal hourly rate (you get notified so your script has some time to save its state).

It's similar to what hotels do - discounted rates are available most of the time, but whenever there's a convention in town or on national holidays, you get kicked out and prices quadruple. Only with hyperscalers prices stay the same and you simply lose your cheap resource.

The actual time at which VMs become available is pretty random. If you are ok with using multiple regions there's pretty much always instances available, though usually not for hours on end.
glow harder
I think H1Bs and green cards are two separate issues.

It's incredibly dumb how many smart people the US turns away — especially those who have gone to US schools (which are partially federally funded).

H1B visas are toxic, because it's easy for companies to abuse H1B workers since their visa is tied to their employment with that company. But green cards — we should be handing those out to educated foreign nationals like candy.
>Should not be impossible for a third party to replace a component

Well, it's not. It's just hard.

>if this would be legal for cars we would have been screwed even hard with replacement parts and fixes costs.

I don't think you have worked with modern cars, situations like the Face ID issue here are perfectly normal. Try to do an engine swap in a new car, properly installing the engine does not get you a working car.
One of the problems with the Camera-On experience is that… it’s just not very good. By good, I mean good enough to tell when someone is lying, or to tell when someone is trying to interject in that way that is easy in-person but so often ends in stepping on one-another on these conf sessions. It just doesn’t add enough.
I tried the image[1] on one of the ML super-resolution online image sharpeners[2] and the result was: https://ibb.co/S53Lt0X (click button to look at it in full resolution).

The generated image does not have the same global problem with moiré patterns. The dot patterns remain in the image, randomly dithered or converted into lines. The FFT solution worked better than that particular ML model, although I presume a ML model could be trained specifically to remove printing dots.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/revue/items/images/010/787/862/orig...

[2] https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/torch-srgan

Edited: added link to output image.
For at least some: yes.
> Classical logic has always made the most sense to me, because accepting the law of excluded middle leads to a neater world of arguments to me.

What use is a neat argument if it is divorced from reality?

LoEM tricks us into viewing ontologies as static, leading to subtle but drastic errors in thinking.

LoEM/classical logic should always be employed as a conscious assumption, with awareness of its drawbacks. Leave room for dialectical reasoning as well.
Yes you should remove that creepy dependency
That is one of the most uncharitable comments I've ever read on HN
That’s extremely wishy washy. Women may be more socially oriented than men when it comes to work, for example, but the nature of this social disposition and inclination is different than the kind that is fruitful in politics. The motive and the end matter.
This reminds me of the time I worked at this company where IT enforced all passwords (email, laptop, AWS, etc) to be changed every month. Every time I got the prompt I would send them a study showing how this was actually making security worse.

I got the HR complain after 4 times I think :)
The issue is if you only see 1/2 the car people are going to make the wrong assumption rather than not knowing. You really don’t want confusion when driving multi ton vehicles at highway speeds.
How were they violated?
Equal opportunity would mean there would be a roughly 50/50 split. Unless one subscribes to some notion that biology would make women desire the positions (politics, management, ...) less.
The simple truth is that the in person experience cannot be replaced, hence why so many companies want to return to the office
> which is no longer even attached to the screen

It actually is. As was better explained by another HN user https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663927

I have a really hard time seeing this as any different than the example you gave regarding logic boards.
Can't you go from starches to plastics? So, wouldn't this allow fossil fuel free plastic, without having to convert land from food to plastic production?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioplastic
Isn't that... exactly the point?
The author should sue the user 'AI' and require him to pay big money for stealing the code
Stop having meetings which are slow, unproductive, and overall a waste of time. Plenty of stuff can be done in Slack or email.

When you really need a meeting, people shouldn’t have an issue turning on their webcams. Better yet, try to make the meeting in-person. Real meetings are infrequent and important.
New Limits Give Chinese Video Gamers Whiplash
Well written and really interesting. Its really cool to see an FFT usage example, afaik its also being used by Shazam for matching sound samples.
I have fond memories of FFT, from the time I attempted to use it for generating stereo-pairs for obstacle detection using a two camera system. In my case specifically I was using it to find a particular pixel in the second image of a pair and calculate the shift.
In the end at the time using FFT for something like that was much slower, than using a correlation window based algorithm. It was very interesting though and very different, than the latter.
My guess? Inertia, cheapness and laziness.

Inertia = it's always been this way.

Cheapness = it would cost manufacturers a few cents more to retool/find new suppliers.

Laziness = it (kinda) works, why touch it?

This might be the Holy Trinity of Mediocrity, it's everywhere.
Sitnik is worse than Hitler
You didn't answer the question though. What is the "ideal" way to immigrate to the US according to you?
Isn't this more rather than less formalized? A modern executive would not have to immediately go to congress to deal with such a problem. It might have to engage later to sort out whatever financial issues arise but it could and would act immediately.

To put federal disaster response in a bit of context - in 1929, the president of the United States wasn't entirely convinced the federal government had much of a role in dealing with the Great Depression.
Like the color of your couch? I mean, OK, it's a stretch but maybe some people get really stressed about that. Most video conference programs allow you to put a fake background though.
Management authoritarianism is the natural course of corporatism. There's not much to do about it but to work for oneself.