skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they don’t. If you’re born in India and you get approved for your green card (note, this situation arises at the end of the process, after you’ve been approved for the green card), you have to wait 180 years to get it. About 50 years if you were born in China. And immediately if you were born anywhere else.

Your citizenship doesn’t even matter.
Google Calm: A New Language Model Technology
I like how the Panama Canal is represented by the gap in the name Pan|ama. Nice work overall!
Depends on the product. Go to where your (prospective) customers are.
I have some advertising jingles stuck in my head that I've not been able to remove since childhood.
A specific example? Genuinely asking (codebase is Typescript/ES6 modules).
Ethereum uses Proof of Stake and is capable of turing complete scripting
I would watch F1 popcorn edition!
I don’t understand the issue - why was it reverted? Are there multiple ways to do pattern matching? Why?
> Compared to light rail, buses are miserable.

I’ve been on gross light rail cars and great buses. Both have their pros and cons, but buses are not “miserable” because bus.
This is yet another example of why direct referendums are a powerful mechanism for bypassing paid-off politicians who act on behalf of a few oligarchs to block popular policy changes.
which means we've reduced fossil fuel consumption much less since most electricity is not "renewable"
Multi Hash Embeddings in SpaCy
I do not know public transports in Japan but in UE they evolve always toward worse and worse services...
Web Assembly Demystified: A Comprehensive Overview
You don’t pay a URL shortener to redirect you.
this isn't saying that the product is wrong, it's saying we accept you and then offering a gentle gesture toward the center of the circle to commence your nerd beatdown. this is the initiation process.

also we're nerds, we ask questions and shit. it's fine. nobody means anything by it.
They moved OTC codeine to prescription because they guessed that it was responsible for 100 deaths a year. The associated tga website gives estimates on how they came up with the 100 deaths but I'm not convinced. In the USA, we have a black market drug problem. It reminds me of the quote "drug addiction is bad - the war on drugs is worse". How many people will turn to black market alternatives and what's the estimated loss of life?
femto nitpick, health is a subtle point and a big IF, if your health plummet, no more bike transportation and sudden reliance on public transportation and/or car (or maybe short flat trips in sweet weather)

a car, as bad and costly as it is, shields you from that.

end of femto nitpick
Agreed, Elon should never have posted that poll.
Finally upgraded some internal applications to Rails 7 this month, and I was very happy with the asset pipeline changes. Rails' asset pipeline management hasn't really meshed with our development strategies for CSS and JS for a long time, and it felt like we were always fighting with trying to make our process fit Rails' expectations.

We're on Propshaft now and I expect far fewer asset issues in the future :P
It's a complex subject.

But I happen to be from Bosnia and even when I first immigrated to Canada in the late 90s, I was amused at my Canadian friends constantly getting offended on my behalf. A joke or reference that somebody would make that I would find funny or agree with, would send my friends in a whirl and a twirl. I focused on intent - these particular people in these particular circumstances neither wanted nor did offend the relevant party.

I fear if we treat words themselves as "offensive", making lists with no consideration of intent, circumstance, relationship, and actual impact, it's at best a pointless and at worst a divisive and Orwellian exercise.

Edit : some suggestions are genuinely useful and thoughtful, and I think conversation rather than lists is where we should focus, as even the very second line on the list - "replace addicted with hooked" - isn't it obvious that next iteration of the list will include "hooked"??
Were you really conscious a second ago, or is it only a memory that may as well be an illusion?

Are you conscious right now?

And what about right now?
Do you ask yourself the same questions before undergoing anesthesia, or even going to sleep each night? The experience would be identical (unless you believe in some kind of life after death) - since consciousness just stops, and you can only hope it will pick back up later on. Whether it actually will or not doesn't affect the experience you have right now though.
Or to put it in different terms: democracy can AT BEST work somewhat ok in a homogenous high-IQ population. As soon as the constituency becomes multi-ethnic, people stop voting for "whats best" and start voting "which group is favoured". This is not a theory but a historical observation.

Popper was an idiot and his "Paradox Of Tolerance" can only lead to tolerance becoming the only permissible value and therefore decline, since tolerance is the absence of values. His university colleagues held him in such disregard that they threatened to quit unless he was cast out. Truly the patron saint of midwits and leftist.
For private repos it is opt-in requiring the Advanced Security license: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github...
This isn't even slightly funny. I know several people who your neglectful ownership has caused a lot of trouble, on top of you ghosting them, and I've had to take to actively warning people away from Pinboard - even as you raise your prices with the promise of fixing Pinboard's rot. [NARRATOR: "He did not keep his promise."] If you are burntout and emotionally aversive to doing anything about it, well, it happens to the best of us, but at least have the personal maturity to acknowledge that you have moved on, and put someone else who gives a damn in charge (or sell it). You're doing the same dog-in-the-manger thing to Pinboard you criticized others like Delicious for doing.
I heard it used in the non-vocal sense once in a Perry Mason episode, and it took me a minute or two to realize what they meant.
I'm not on the RoR stack, but I think it doesn't generate a lof of buzz today because it's no longer the flashy new toy (IMO rust, go, kubernetes, a gazillion of react components in the UI, elixir, etc. took its place of "guess what, now we are running this!").

It's a battle tested and stable framework and I would use it anyday, but you no longer read much about it on the news, junior devs are not trying to pitch it as the next silver bullet. So, to be short, it's lacking buzz and online engagement. The tech is all there, the fad has passed.
It’s not penalizing India and China. It’s penalizing people born in India and China, who were misled and lied to.

It’s particularly ridiculous because the government will tax those people SS and Medicare, which they don’t have access to, based entirely on the fact that an H1B visa is a path to permanent residency.
I work at a company with what is basically a woke bot that will suggest corrections. Some like cakewalk I was glad to learn about the history, others like whitelist/blacklist are just because colors are used with no racist past. There's a nugget of good intention, and a load of newspeak happening.
So, fun racing/physics lessons learned here: the reason fan cars and (in general) primarily ground effect cars are banned are because of unpredictability leading to unsafe situations. In a car that uses underbody suction to create downforce, any loss of a seal suddenly reduces grip that could leave cars unable to steer, brake, etc and cause much more severe accidents than a car with over-body downforce that still has that benefit of downforce even in an accident to slow down as much as possible before impact.
For worse, it seems general comments like yours on very specific posts attract the most votes.

HN makes downvoted posts so low-contrast they're nearly illegible for me
Switched to Elixir/Phoenix a few years ago and have never looked back. Absolutely a 100% improvement on Rails in every way (except the availability of work!)
Integrate PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch – ZomboDB
you could do a caching proxy then sell access to the cache data, or make the person selling the link pay more % to keep the link cached longer, maybe like an IPFS pin or something
Try this: https://github.com/woadray/cs-bootcamp, it's my self made bootcamp. I came up with it as I'm 32 and attempting to switch career, even thinking about going back to university. It's hard but you will learn a lot. Take your time, there is no shortcut to studying. And YES YOU CAN.
History shows that when goods and people can move around between two regions, both regions prosper. This is exactly what has happened with USA <-> China and India. These are literally the 3 gigantic economies that are growing rapidly today.
Insults are only effective because of their meaning. Terms like "idiot" and "stupid" mean exactly what they have from the outset in the medical field. You cannot divorce derogatory use from meaning, much as you would like to. But to follow your rationale, we'd be right on track by now for "retarded" being kosher, as other terms have replaced it. That has not happened.
That argument seems to violate the basic rules of exponentials. If an advanced species did settle on an stasis, then that will only last until some subset of the population decides to go beyond the stasis. Particularly for a space-faring civilization, the time scales and resources are so fast, that any multiplication factor beyond unity will eventually go bananas. Any individuals with the prerogative to multiply will swamp those who lack it, same with Earth evolution. The selfish gene will prevail unless there is centralized control.

I don't have any problem with this reading - advanced space-fairing beings have never existed in our light cone. SETI won't find anything because there's nothing there. We have a good chance of making it ourselves, but it's 50/50 because we have no priors, our decisions actually matter.
Relevant XKCD: https://what-if.xkcd.com/116/
Thanks for this. If importing works I’ll try out AnyBox.
My guess is that this would be caused by rendering text into a canvas and then scaling the canvas to fit the window. That example is rendering at 640x960 regardless of the screen size.
I think it is, supposing it wants to be useful.

Imagine this catches on. Now I'm not sure why would it, but let's suppose we have a paid link to a book, or song, or download, or something else useful. If this link is ever shared anywhere public, there's an incentive for spammers and trolls to create their own links and try to get paid for nothing.

Probable end result: platforms start banning links to paidlink.to, because a lot of people get cheated out of their money.
>> It’s a figure of speech.

Apparently Stanford is not teaching their students the definition of words like figure-of-speech and cliche.
Thank you really much, great advice.

> 2. Try joining big security groups/org - You have a lot of knowledge, especially in RE/PWN fields so maybe try joining organizations that do security research full-time example Google Project Zero or there are loads of other organizations that does that kind of work. This will make life easier in sense of what you wanna do. By joining such groups/organizations you can choose to work on game engine/cheat-anti-cheat hacking or browser/OS security basically choose what you wanna hack.

Already got my foot in some cool groups, not really a work-together thing, but still filled with some very skilled people like pmnh (https://hackerone.com/pmnh?type=user) and zi (the guy from dayzerosec https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFC76FDHZRVes6_lZqwLBA). Joining big organizations like Google Project Zero seems very hard for me in my eyes haha. Would have no idea on how to get into them.

> 3. I saw someone mentions that you should think of getting certifications. Believe me, when I say it, certificates do nothing. I got my OSCP because people said it would help me get a job, but it didn't. Certificates are only for people who don't really have anything else to show or beginners in the fields trying to get their foot in the door. You already have an amazing profile showing that you are capable of doing RE/PWN stuff. Go for certifications only if you actually want to have fun and take on the challenge. Don't expect much change in your professional life from those certifications.

I'd say that's very much true, but certifications is still a nice-to-have on the side, but surely not a big change.

> If you just want big money, yes smart-contract seems to be the big hot thing. If you are looking to make a big name in the security field along with a decent(sometimes really good) amount of money then browser/OS security is definitely a good thing. In the just try them for 1 week/month and stick with something that you enjoy :)

Yea, especially now, smart-contract research pays big. I'm probably gonna look into both and decide on later on what to focus.

Thanks again man, much appreciated.
Hunter certainly isn't my guy. I think having to deal with asshole family members makes biden a better politician.
What if consciousness is something that can only be revived, with the revival of the body, a short period of time after the body "shuts down"? Like its own non-physical life form, for lack of better description.

We focus on the preservation of the body when talking about this stuff. But maybe the pattern of "waking up from normal sleep" doesn't hold true over such a time span?

Of course there's no scientific rebuttal for this fairly unscientific question, yet, but it's interesting to think about.
Answered elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34067625.

Instead of repeatedly having a question in an HN thread, next time try to read the source article.
"Alt-right/neo-nazi/white-supremacist trolls flood Stanford's inclusive language page with hateful comments, University limits the page to students and faculty only."

Welcome to the basket of deplorables!
Infection/lack of sanitation and no modern way of treating infections would have been a huge factor. People would have survived the initial attack and lasted a week or two in agony while the infection led to eventual death.

Even much later during the US civil war, amputations were common as an attempt to stave off infection cauterizing the would on the limb.
I've been contributing to various open source projects for years. Because I believe in them. I'm just one of the contributors, so I don't even know how to approach someone with "Hey, can you help me with...". I guess that I need to go out and hang out more. Thanks :)
Anyone have a video on this? I’m not quite getting it.
Mysterious Crater Deposits Inside Mar's Craters
Seems like she independently discovered Hofstadter's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
Yea but this is irrelevent unless you implying that FILM is better quality while nvfruc is lower quality but faster so applicable for realtime?

if nvfruc is better quality + faster then the comparison is that nvfruc is better.
Yes but we should not look at unicorns to settle this argument. After all not every company has the size of a unicorn, the world is not big enough for that. Very few companies get to the point that any random technology won't do.

I've seen dozens of Rails projects going in production and many are still there. Same thing for any other programming language I guess. For normal sized companies Rails is OK.

What matters is: do you still find developers to work with your technology after 2, 5, 10, 20 years? If you don't, you have to move the project where the developers are. In the case of Rails they are still here for hire.
A Library in a Monastery in Tibet
For third party sites like googledrive I think you're right but if it is your own site, you can restrict based on referer.
I take issue with “perfectly understandable”.

I think many (most?) people hearing or reading that would make an assumption from your use of ‘he’ that you expect that professors and students are usually male. Perhaps that you believe they _should_ be male. If you really mean them to be gender-neutral, you are not communicating clearly. I would argue that this has always been true - but even if I’m wrong about that, it’s true for modern English usage.
Older (or less active) repos of interest are posted on HN all the time. Let's not be a curmudgeon.

Personally, I like reading all the Go code I can. This is interesting.
Canvas is less of a piece of drawing software and more of brainstorm/mindmapping/idea workbench software. Excalidraw will satisfy different use case than Canvas and you can definitely use both!
> where the fallacy of the article is evident

This article is the author’s commentary about the lived experience of US residents. It’s incoherent to allege it’s fallacious because the lived experience in some other country isn’t the same.
He can only mean the Templi Resurgentes Equites Synarchici. The less said of whom, the better.
Or severe enough economic down turn. We don’t need land to fight over we just need a realignment of incentives. That will separate the wheat from the chaff. There’s no real value to the people who write such rubbish lists however they are still paid to do so. They still make what I imagine is a decent living to create hot air that the public gets to argue over. Money is still too easy to come by. When it isn’t these people will have to actually work and gain real value and we won’t be arguing or criticizing their nonsense anymore.
Of course. And in a Democracy you have the right to petition to change it.

The fact that the only argument commenters here have against what these people are asking for is that “well, it was a law set 30 years ago…” in itself shows that there’s little defense for the current law and very clearly should be changed.
Note there is also a distinction to be made between the absolute money leaving the bank account every month, and the portion of that money that is paying off the principal of the loan.

For renting to be better value than buying, the rent has to be cheaper than just the interest part of the mortgage payment plus whatever portion of the maintenance costs is for things a landlord could be persuaded to cover, a somewhat lower bar than the entire payment.

Being able to actually afford the whole amount remains a concern, of course. Where I live obtaining mortgages for any significant portion of the cost of a property is generally hard for people on anything close to an average income or below, and so landlords can get away with charging rents that are literally higher than the total mortgage payment would be. Even though the tenant can demonstrably afford the repayments - they are literally paying a landlord more every month! - the bank will not lend more than a fixed multiple of their salary and so they cannot buy.

I understand this is something of a local issue, though.
"Submit"

"Depending on the context, the term can imply allowing others to have power over you."

Correct. And I hereby reject to allow Stanford power over my speech.
You're comparing the end user to the one doing maintenance. Maintaining an email server is way more work than sending snail mail too.

For the end user sending a transaction is quicker and cheaper than getting your lawyers to draft contracts, maintaining your own books, paying an accountant or someone else to manage/balance the books, coordinating a deal/terms with them, etc.

Also there's Proof of Stake which is much more efficient than Proof of Work.
The future our grandchildren deserve
Or even go back to good old VPS/metal servers. Maybe a little more work upfront but less likely to have surprises like this. Also more competition in that space and no worries about vendor lock-ins.
Atlassian has refuted a cybersecurity company’s claim that they suffered a cyber-attack due to a bug in Atlassian products or by compromising Atlassian systems. The clarification came after the huge PR backlash Atlassian faced over the issue.
The article is quite long, but I enjoyed every bit of it. Never made the connection to real-world sigils and APL before.
> With such a majority surely they can override a veto?

Not necessarily. You have to look at votes a bit more cynically. There are generally no surprise votes in the house and senate. A 51-49 vote that passes may actually have a lot more people who would vote "yes" if they had to, but some can vote against to pay lip service to their constituents. They can go back to their district and say, "I tried to stop this bill" when they knew it would pass. Votes are regularly trade on this bases. Sometimes a party is ok with a bill not going through and "just enough" will defect from the party to kill it. Note how many votes in the senate are decided by a single senator -- even in years when the senate is not so closely divided by party. They know the numbers before it comes to the floors.

With such overwhelming numbers, presumably it could pass a veto if they had the political will. Or they can just throw their hands up and say, "we tried, it's not our fault it didn't pass." Or some nuance in the bill will come out that makes in "unfeasible" to pass in the veto override. Then it goes back to committee never to be seen again, and definitely not in passable form.

In short, don't view the vote on a bill as strictly a popularity vote on the bill's merits. Every actor involved has their own agenda, and to some, voting on the bill is just a way to build a favor or pay back a debt.
Devoted vs. addicted: I think they mean in the context of "Addicted to games" or "addicted to bacon" in a casual sense. Of course, they fail to even try to add context. As many have pointed out, this list is more about control over thought than over actually helping anyone.

Committed vs. died by suicide: It's the association with "committing" an act as something negative. You commit a crime, you don't commit an achievement. Again, it's a stretch and a waste of time. Whoever wrote this needs to go make sandwiches for the homeless for a while.
The landlord’s financing costs could be a fraction of yours. Suppose a landlord bought a unit identical to the one you’re looking at, in the same building, in 2012. I live in Manhattan, where the housing market is up 80% since 2012 (source: mildly sketchy website article I have since misplaced). Average interest rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage are also up from 3.65% (first Google result) to 6.6% (Bankrate.com). Assuming a down payment of equal percentage for both the landlord in 2012 and new prospective buyer in 2022 (which would be larger in absolute terms for the new buyer), this translates to a mortgage payment that is 2.5x larger for the new buyer vs. the landlord who bought in 2012. So the rent for an equivalent unit could be a lot smaller than a new mortgage while still delivering a profit to the landlord because the landlord’s older mortgage is much smaller.
Ask HN: Given AI advancements, is a master’s degree in CS worthless?
Hi all,

I’ve got a BS in Computer Science and have been considering pursuing a Master’s degree part-time with a focus on ML/AI.

I know the common narrative is that a Master’s in CS really isn’t worth it if you’re just looking for a pay raise. However machine learning is an area I’m interested in but lack the requisite background. I just really worry the degree will mostly be worthless by the time I graduate considering the rate at which AI is advancing.

The degree would mostly be for personal knowledge/fulfillment, but I don’t want to bother with it if we’re all going to be unemployable in a few years anyways. Another alternative I’m considering is learning HVAC repair as a fallback career.

What are your thoughts?
> "Consider using 'devoted' instead of 'addicted.'" I'm sorry but you don't develop a physical devotion to heroin. It's an addiction.

I think the page or it's authors agree with you. But you (probably) aren't addicted to video games and that's the use that trivializes real addictions. If the article isn't clear that's a different criticism that the one you're making