skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In most of the rest of the world, developers have to finance construction with their own money or a high-interest construction loan, then sell the completed building. This gives developers a strong incentive to finish the job.

I don't know how it works in other countries but in France for new apartments you almost always buy them before or during construction, which allow new residents to settle in right after the construction has finished instead of waiting for months for the sale.

The way we deal with the incentive alignment is simply by having a justice system that makes sure contracts are actually enforceable and mandatory insurance policy for developers should anything bad happen to their company.
Ask HN: How can I bring over my Canadian co-founder to the US
Hi,
I have already read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18815800 and some other immigration related posts here.

As the title suggests, I am a green card holder in the US and my co-founder is a Canadian national. I have several questions and I appreciate if you can answer any of them:

* What are the options to bring my co-founder to the US? I've heard of the E2 visa but don't fully understand how it relates to startup stages and founding amount.

* What if the immigration petition gets denined? Does it affect YC application?

* How can the work be done? I mean will it be OK if we just work on the project without any contract besides the articles of incorporation?

* How can we pay ourselves (to follow minimum wage requirements)? Is there any legal hurdle?

* Does it affect fund raising even if we incorporate in the US?

Thank you so much for your time.
The gaming PC market is absolutely booming right now in Japan, so I guess they will be forced to adapt.
Liberty University Loses FM License – Radio World
It looks like Invitae is a full blood draw, done with a phlebotomist, not a microfluidic pin-prick invention.
Most stars are red dwarfs.

Of the 131 stars and sub-stellar objects within 20 light years of the Earth, 101 are red or brown dwarfs. JWST/NIRISS has limited resolution, it's not going to be shooting spectra of exoplanet atmospheres of systems 50,000 light years away. They're just measuring every exoplanet system.
FWIW - Right Click, Inspect. There's a div with an attribute, "pointers" in the body root.

Deleting that makes the while thing a lot less stressful.
Of course. Even a tertiary google search will get you details, if you care to find and read them.
>It's probably easier to assume that their job is to provide objective expert advice since thats what they say they do.

You are mistaken "expertise" with fashion and a good voice.
I don't think it's a matter of whether a certain project falls under the CSS nomer depending on the scale of the data and methods employed, but that there is as much 'sociality' to computation as there is 'science', and that studying both social and computational aspects of contemporary society and their interactions can broach insights into the 'digital stack' modern life is folded into.

I gathered the quote is not about Habermas and feature selection per se, but a platitude about bridging theory and practice--both social and computational theories and practices. Knowing when, for instance, not to divvy up social features that may constitute a larger (digital) public, or conversly combining/throwing away features that may in fact constitute multiple publics or subject groupings, paves the way for building more accurate or generalisable computational social science models.

Why would we want such models? Perhaps to map 'hunches' about social life that were previously only in the realm of rhetoric or simply too difficult to map before the advent of large scale data collection and computation.
If interested, there's already DNA Genetic testing that screens for many conditions (more? Not sure about overlap). No blood draw necessary, only saliva. They also screen for partners who are hoping to conceive. Contact a Genetic Counselor.
i can't tell what your issue is?

is it the manual workflow? write scripts or use UI automation to get the entire workflow running without you having to touch the machine.

code is messy and spread out? replace every function/method/routine with a stub and move all the code to a central library and call it there. refactor/consolidate library and refactor/delete stubs as you go along.

the main point is to never break the code and assume you can big bang fix it. you want make lots of little changes that dont alter the behavior of the code but do improve developer experience.

the goal is to get to a spot where you could just 'make' from the root dir if you wanted.
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It is absolutely astonishing that we rely on layers and layers of shims/compatibilities/hacks to keep a technology that was well-meaning and ideal 30ish+ years ago running in the 21st century.

Same thing in the VOIP/telecom space.

Microsoft recently had issues with mail deliverability - most of our O365 tenants had a notice reminding us to check SPF, DKIM, DMARC (we're configured properly already) - some of our tenants were having issues mailing smaller mail providers (ISP-level) because the small provider is outright blocking IPs and IP ranges due to spam coming from the same IP address/mail server we're trying to send from.
Not all parents have to be unburdened enough to motivate public schools to improve.

Even if there's only a tiny minority of parents who are able to research and move their kids to a better school, their experience will motivate others, word will spread and the public schools will feel the pressure to improve their environment and outcomes. Even the threat of competition can be motivating.

I dare to believe that the majority of parents across the US do care about their kids and are willing to drive their kids to a different school if doing so means they'll achieve significantly better success in life.
No, thanks. A (very good) local bakery in our town has:

A 20% service fee that is marketed as a "wellness" fee.

A new ZFP surcharge that they market as a "donation."

A credit card processing fee.

Plus taxes.

Plus asking for a tip that is of course defaulted to the highest amount.

I did not choose to do business with ZFP and it is certainly not a "donation" because it is added by default to the bill when you pay. At this point I have no shame about asking someone behind the counter to remove these extra fees.

For the most part, we have started to avoid bushiness that tack on all of these extra charges.
> I am always quite struck by how openly people write about money.

Some people do, but I'd say it's rare relative to the overall population. Those that do often do it as a way to get even more money.
The first three items I mentioned were regarding the vaccine itself…namely the speed at which it was developed, the release from liability to manufacturers, and the outright lie that it was 100% effective.

Perhaps in your eagerness to get to the “deserved to be insulted” part of your response you missed that?
Is there any non-elitist country out there? Humans tend to socially stratify even in relatively modest conditions (such as tribal life).

What really matters is if the elite is closed or relatively permeable, and how it treats the non-elite.

What the founding generation of America rejected, was inheritance of elite status, but I don't think they were completely egalitarian either. After all, people like Jefferson and Washington were highly regarded by their peers.
Client-side consumption of a rate-limited API in Java
Perhaps surprisingly, a lot more than briefly. That's 1915 -- I recently saw the 1948 detective movie "The Naked City" set in NYC, and it still shows the milkman delivering milk via horse-drawn carriage, amid all the cars.

It's a fascinating movie BTW -- as much of a documentary of 1948 NYC as it is a plot-driven story.
I read that one in undergrad, it's a great paper.
As someone who very closely watches this CRDT and local-first space, it's really quite a bit harder than doing it the old fashioned client-server-model way, because you have to architect your systems to sync seamlessly when offline and then online. I've used tRPC and GraphQL before and I've really been thinking of something where we'd have the same DX as the client-server model such as with tRPC and GraphQL but in a way where there is no difference between client and server state, there is only "state." This makes sense because for local-first, the entire state of the app must be replicated locally anyway.

Recently there have been CRDT solutions that try to solve this problem, however, such as Triplit [0], or ElectricSQL [1].

[0] https://triplit.dev

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37584049
What have other countries done with success?
I have two main complaints that jump to the top of mind.

The first is lines and when they merge and when they cross. Not all lines from two separate boxes to a third box ought to merge, but some should. Crossing is inevitable in most complex diagrams but expressing where the crosses ought to happen is not something I have had any success with.

The second is that some diagrams are like a story, with a beginning a middle and an end. Using horizontal, vertical and even diagonal relationships visually can be important. Keeping that story clearly organized has always been a challenge and even requires some iteration when doing the drag-n-drop thing. Rarely does the story of the diagram just happen to pop out using the default placement algorithms of any text-to-diagram tool I have used. And so I find myself tediously massaging the order of statements or whatever crude controls I'm given to painstakingly move boxes into some semblance of the story. And then, once I've managed to convince the diagram to be as close as I can to what I envision, I realize I missed a key component or connection.

The last thing I'll point out is more a preference. In general, the output tends to be quite ugly to my eye. There are times I have been responsible for generating systems diagrams for potentially big deals. In those cases we want to put the best foot forward to external entities. There is something uncanny valley, or like generated text-to-speech in the appearance of the documents that can be undesirable in many contexts.
I run two businesses.

One is in an ultra competitive industry, and one is in a less competitive space.

The competitive business we have been running for close to 4 years. We have worked incredibly hard to get this business off the ground. Fighting and clawing every single step of the way. I have invested so much of my blood, sweat and tears into this business. It has grown, but it has been very hard.
On the flip side, our business in the less competitive space has been significantly easier. In less than 12 months since launch, we are well above 7 figures in revenue, with only 1 FTE (I am almost completely hands-off). And will probably get to mid 7 figures in the next 2 years.

It has been incredibly eye-opening to see the differences between the two industries and shown me how market characteristics are what should dictate your decision when looking to pursue a certain industry.

This blog explains my thoughts in a bit further detail. If you have any questions please feel free to comment them down below.
https://www.imnotforhire.com/p/shortcuts-vs-better-races
You’re making a choice to view it that way. Try and phrase it like “you’re paying for a tool to help moderate your behavior”.

Or as an example using your lens. Paying for coffee is paying to take away your tiredness. You already have tiredness, tiredness is useful, sleep is good, why would you want to take away tiredness?
You don't chew food until it is totally liquid right?
DuckDuckGo browser has been working well for me.
I write daily in US English, Australian English, and Austrian German. Most of the time, a specific document is in one dialect/language or another: not mixed, although sometimes that's not true.

I can understand that the conflation of spelling, word choices, time and date formatting, default paper sizes, measurement units, etc, etc, is convenient, and works a lot of the time, but it really doesn't work for me at all.

That said, I appreciate that I occupy a very small niche.
Most CAPTCHAs are already solvable automatically. Usually there's a rate limitter as a second line of defense, and also some heuristics that detect bot-like behaviour (user keeps upvoting posts of certain users without even reading them and uses API in a otherwise non-standard way? Hmmm, throw more CAPTCHas at them and ultimately ban them). Finally, recaptcha and (probably cloudflare's captcha?) tracks wayy more than just how correct you are in recognising street signs, and correlates this to your overall network activity.

You can't rely on just CAPTCHAs anyway, because mechanical Turks are too cheap compared to the damage they can do.
Elon Musk Sued for Spreading Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theory
I think it was pretty good.
Vulnerable Arm GPU drivers under active exploitation
Thousands of teen boys are being extorted in sexting scams
> If you spend ten years trapped in your own body, only to be met with «aaccshtually there are only two genders» all around

I think your assumption that non-binary people are uniformly 'trapped in their own body' is quite mistaken. They simply inhabit an unexplored, mysterious, liminal space between the two majority genders. If anything, this would give them an elite, quasi-shamanic status according to traditional «binary» culture, not drive them towards social exclusion.
> OJ must be fresh and squeezed no more than 2 hour prior

He also has no clue that it's 2 hours old or 4 hour old.

What he really wants to do is tell his guests "this was fresh squeezed, two hours old" and he will get what he paid for, just like his Maine lobster (thats probably Russian) or softshell crabs from Alaska (China), or Key lime pie (Chinese lime juice). That's how the resturant industry works, this test is useless there.
Because it's used less...
I do live and enjoy a normal life, but if I feel threatened by some silly device I won't just stare and accept that it's how things are.

The same goes for pictures.

Here it is for you how it works in Germany: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/photography-laws-germany
what are some other pertinent 'guerrilla' techniques
Why are you putting words in my mouth? And when did you say you taught this?

The evidence I'm finding is that there is no semantic difference between umlauts and diaeresis, and that the only real difference is in handwriting style, and I'm then wondering whether that style difference has to do with the language one is writing in or in one's upbringing, which is a very fair question to ask.

The style difference seems smaller and less noticeable than the handwriting difference in Latin ligatures. If the difference lies with what language one is writing, then it is closer to a real difference, but if it lies in where one learned, then it's a negligible difference.

Either address that question or get out.
> Trying to separate gender from "biological sex" trivializes the reality of trans people.

The reality of trans people is that their gender identity does not match their biological sex, either at birth or at any time thereafter. That's what being trans is.

And no, you cannot change your biological sex. Gene therapy and brain transplants aren't there yet.

None of this trivializes trans people, rather it is your argument that trivializes the experience of women who were born and raised female and the distinct experiences and perspectives stemming from that.
Researchers mined Erowid and fed the entries to an AI
I feel like Apple pushed the consortium to add a ton of useless emojis for whatever their own reasons were.
Except a house in a dangerous neighborhood in the bay area will cost you $1.5 million or more.
There is a fee, but typically it’s a data-only plan and isn’t super expensive. I’m on T-Mobile and it’s $20 for unlimited data. You can pay even less for limited data.
Microsoft Was Willing to Drop Bing Name to Nab Apple Search Deal
I was interest in a position at Aiven some time back. Did a recruiter screen and then a manager screen and then got asked to do a 20 hour take home assignment in Python that was to be completed in a single week. I politely declined at that point. Is that still part of the hiring pipeline?
energy is what replaces human labor and also makes things possible that human labor can't even provide. Our energy desires in the future will grow even higher. It's not a defect in human nature, it's a defect in the laws of thermodynamics.

Stop fighting it, you're wasting energy.
I think the paperclip maximizer really only happens when they system is generally intelligent, and/or self-improving. (if another agent does the improving, it may or may not do that)

I'm interested in seeing what easy and common "jailbreaks" there are for other impressive AI systems if one gets developed. Image recognition systems are also easily fooled, but not in a way you can improv this easily on the spot.
> If a code refactoring can increase dev productivity and shipping speed, then that is certainly worth something

The value of that is being distributed in very small increments over the whole dev team in the span of years. It's impossible to measure.

> Infrastructure updates can directly reduce server costs, latency, or have other benefits.

Well, most of the work is in that "other benefits". Very difficult to measure.

> Employers hire employees to increase the profitability of their business, and code quality is not the top priority.

With your incentive model it has 0 priority and the project will die under the weight of technical debt, inability to add features in reasonable time and critical defects appearing out of the blue.
If nothing else, I’d encourage you to send them feedback on what makes you bounce off, as you probably weren’t the only one.

Hell it probably sucks for them too, but they’ve gotten used to the suck and forgot about it.
Extreme cases: Math education within the U.S. prison system
Also how you end up in (net worth / spending rate) is as much a result of how much you earn as what fraction of that you invest; How modest you keep your living expenses; How early you start; How well you can learn and keep up with investment reading and math requirements; And luck. Being a teacher may well predispose you with several of these.

The US make it also easy - well, maybe not easy but not uncommon - for a cliché "Wall Street lawyer" to end up broke.

We were discussing the awesome breadth in outcome in the US.
What Theranos did was like promising a ticket to the Moon for 50 dollars one way.

No one doubts that you can fly to the Moon for 50 billion dollars. Perhaps, in the future, it will be feasible to fly there for 5 million dollars. But 50 dollars is beyond the realms of possibility.
In what way is any of that actionable? Are there specific recommendations besides "eat right, exercise, don't smoke"? Sounds like something that could just induce anxiety.
Is that always that clear in the press release?
Yes, but it's automated behind a single command and fast.
FIVE YEARS and you still cannot code? Your whole approach must be wrong. I taught myself to code when I was 10 - 12 years old. When I started I had to use the display machine at the local Sears and I did not even have anywhere to save my work, so I had to start over every time.

WRITE A PROGRAM, write tests, write some base documentation, check it in to github as you go. I recommend starting with the C programming language as it will not lie to you about how the machine actually works. Be sure to automate all standard tasks such as building and testing using, say GNU Make.

Pick a program you actually want to have, such as a program to call some public HTTP API and print the results for you. For example, try writing a C program to take a search string and send it to a search engine and then show you the results.

Show the results to a real programmer and ask them to critique it. Fix everything they complain about, no matter how "small". Repeat.
Now imagine how it'd be if ads were injected straight into your vision: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
I didn't get the job when I interviewed, but I think it was really cool they pay you, imo, I pretty fair price for their take home tasks.

Commenting to do my part of internet slacktivism to make compensation for take home assessments more common.
There is an evil doppelgänger problem given how bad the recognition is - or how seemingly unrelated people can look like one another. Good luck arguing that the database is wrong.

And of course all of those problems are intensified for minorities or other out groups.
I did one of their tests for some IVF stuff. Frankly if you can do this it seems like it’s almost unethical not to check if you and your partner don’t have some sort of horrible incompatibility that you should try to work around with IVF.
In the west (at least America) that money needs to be put in escrow.
A custom codec seems like it could only be obfuscation or really, really bad design.

Codecs are hard, I doubt there are many which are better than the well known ones.
As a developer who only works on Linux systems, how is the dev story for C#? I guess Mono is still a thing, and that's the runtime that C# projects use to run, right?

I've always felt that C# felt a bit out of place when not in a Windows system, but maybe I've been always wrong. Never had the opportunity (or need) to use it at work, so I'm pretty ignorant of how it behaves and how good the tooling is to write it from Mac or Linux.

OTOH I've read multiple times that it's a nicer Java and F# seems to be well liked around here, too.
I think captchas are facing a battle that is unwinnable in the long run. It's not going to be possible to reliably differentiate between a human and AI for much longer in a way that scales and is cost effective. It could mean the end of free accounts for many kinds of services.
https://archive.ph/IjQ8I
Yeah I think the test was to show that the quote was not bs and the vendor thought about how they work might get performed as opposed to giving a bs number.

If he vendor has to hand squeeze it might be 10$ if they have a machine its 5$ but either one is a valid quote. If someone says no problem we can do it no solution steps are provided then your vendor didn’t examine the problem sufficiently. Keep in mind this was 1980s when auto juicers weren’t common. In modern times a large venue might just be able to do it without any additional expense and absorb some of the cost because markup is high enough
You mean if there's no internet connection for wolframalpha? I half-kid, obviously if you don't understand what you're asking for the best software in the world won't give you the right answer, but I also don't find myself solving equations with a pen very often as an adult...
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736035>
There's a big difference between what 23&Me includes in their technology and reports compared to solutions that are production grade medical tests. That said, 23&Me does tout their results as being medically relevant (https://www.23andme.com/brca/)

(for a while, only Myriad could do any tests with brca1/2 because they had a patent on the literal gene sequence. it went to the supreme court and the court said no, you cannot patent human gene sequences)