skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think NumPy can be considered Base Python, at least for scientific computing. Go ahead and give it a try.
Look, I think the grass is always greener on the other side. Whether you think you can ignore Trump or not, the fact is immigration into the US is hard. It was hard before and it's probably harder now given the current administration's views on migrants.

I moved to the US back in the 2000's and it took me years, I finally was lucky enough to find a contact at a university to sponsor a H1B. That now seems virtually impossible to get unless you work for one of those giant Indian IT companies.

Also, you might be increasingly frustrated with the state of the EU, but it ain't all roses in the US. I for one, value highly the social safety nets other countries provide. Without being incendiary, things like getting healthcare in the US isn't so straightforward.

We get that the US is still streaks ahead when it comes to innovation and capitalism. But there's so many other considerations important to gauging one's quality of life.

In the end, is living in the EU really a hot mess? What about a different part of the EU?
Yes. Gmail got Smart Reply, snoozing. Bundles are coming soon, and Smart Compose built on Smart Reply.
Yes, for instance, the NSF's budget has been static in nominal terms since the Bush years (or at least that's what the program manager told me the last time.i was on a panel). Getting a grant, especially for young researchers looking to establish a track record, is very difficult in this environment.
Nice.

What open source releases were these, and what tim{e,ing} was this?
Inbox has got to be the single most useful productivity tool for me. Pinning, bundling, and snoozing just make managing emails so quick and efficient since you can easily triage and get rid of what doesn't matter, and Gmail as it currently stands just can't compete.

If bundling and pinning aren't brought over to Gmail like snooze, Gmail is basically dead to me from an efficiency perspective since manually selecting what you want to remove takes significantly longer than pinning and sweeping in Inbox.

Worse still, there's the opposite problem if we wanted to build an Inbox successor on top of Gmail since while bundling and pinning would be easily implemented by the client, snooze is still not part of the Gmail API[1] so there would need to be a completely separate layer of snoozing in the client.

Honestly, if a competitor were to rise and implement Inbox's feature set, my money is on the table.

[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/109952618
What percentage is allocated to basic research? The US government is continuing to abdicate its responsibility towards funding it.
How hard it is to access it as an adult with a career? I'm an immigrant software engineer but I'd love to work in research (I think).

Is there a path other than a PhD at this point?
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Or you can just install uBlock Origin. I don't see what Brave brings to the table.
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I don't know if it's just me. I listen to a lot of podcasts and audio lectures because, well, what else am I going to do while I do housework? But audiobooks I find pretty much impossible to listen to without my mind wandering, even if it's a book I'm interested in.
> the proposal funding rate is so low on account of the resource/PI ratio that many U.S. researchers are moving to Europe where there is greater promise of hard funding.

Funding rates are low in many (all?) fields of science in the US, but I agree with @arcanus that some data showing US researchers moving to Europe is warranted.

In my field (astronomy), jobs in the US are tough to come by, but jobs in Europe are generally even more difficult to get. There seem to be fewer jobs in Europe and those jobs are often reserved for people who are already "in the system" and worked at the hiring institution. So many of those jobs to go people who've put in their dues by hanging around, rather than hiring the best people.

Europe does have large European Research Council (ERC) grants which are typically a few million Euros per award. If you win one of those, you're good to go and can fund a sizable research group (at least in astronomy) and can probably use that as leverage to get a faculty job. But those grants are tough to come by.

I can't speak for other fields, but the vast majority of people I've met in astronomy that are moving to Europe are doing so because they're from Europe and want to head home. But the availability of research/faculty jobs there is not good, compared to the US.
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I’m wondering this as well. In the description it says that it ensures total ordering while Kafka only ensures partition ordering. I haven’t read enough to say more.
Let’s face it. The circuit board is covered in Blinky lights and runs 6502 code. What’s not to like?
It's possible what you're doing takes too much higher order thinking. Try it while driving or walking, instead of housework!
Actually, in the case of Apple, they announced a sizable share buyback earlier this year, so even if you only plan to hold the stock long enough to sell it for a capital gain you might still be receiving a dividend. AAPL is one of the worst examples of the greater fool theory at work, given that Apple pays a regular dividend, buys back stock, and has a relatively low P/E ratio for a tech company.
Fixed in a week (v69.0.3497.92)! Nice one Chrome
Oh, come on now. You don't think anyone ever read Virgil or Milton or the Bible or a dense history book more out of a desire for self-edification than from enjoyment? As Twain once said, "the classics are the books everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read."
Technically, the phrase "Useful Arts and Sciences" in the Copyright Clause of the US Constitution applies to just that; the definitions of which have coincidentally changed over the years.

The harms to Freedom of Speech -- i.e. impossible 99% accuracy in content filtering still results in far too much censorship --
so significantly outweigh the benefits for a limited number of special interests intending to thwart inferior American information services which also currently host "art" and content pertaining to the "useful arts"; that it's hard to believe this new policy will have it's intended effects.

Haven't there been multiple studies which show that free marketing from e.g. content piracy -- people who experience and recommended said goods at $0 -- is actually a net positive for the large corporate entertainment industry? That, unimpeded, content spreads like the common cold through word of mouth; resulting in greater number of artful impressions.
I wonder what the economic / race demographics of these cases are?
> EDIT I'm just going to add this in because it just doesn't sit well. It shouldn't acceptable for leadership in a workplace to stand up and express pain and dismay at the outcome of a democratic process.

The majority can still be wrong, or make immoral democratic decisions. It is our job as citizens, all citizens (even business owners), to rally against unjust law and public policy.

It is the very rights that US foundational documents express as inalienable that allow workplace leadership to express pain and dismay at democratic decisions.
Yes, the ownership merely changes hands.

The problem is not mere ownership though. Who owns it matters, because different owners have different incentives.

The incentive of a private business owner is profit. Especially for a company that is publicly traded, where investors have the power to sue management for malfeasance if they don't get a return and the company has been particularly charitable. If it can be done, you must fuck over the customer to make profit for shareholders, or be replaced by someone who will.

The incentive of a nationalized industry is the good of the state and its voters. Management is incentivized to provide a good product at a fair price to everyone, or else they get voted out of their job.
Driving is even worse -- which makes sense, because I think it's a more complex task than vacuuming or washing the dishes or folding laundry.
>> get a good understand of how the internet works

Believe me, I have been spending the last two days understanding the difference between Internet vs World Wide Web.

Would you kindly offer your advise on how the Internet works?
What media are you talking about? I Googled in Google News for Alexandria ocasio Cortes, and almost all of the coverage I found from mainstream publications was positive.
Definitely. In the handful of instances I've seen akka used, regular jvm abstractions would have been simpler and more coherent.
Yes, I do recognize that. However, it also benefits the Chinese regime enormously, and I think a future in which that regime has the scientific and technological capacity that we currently have is unlikely to be good for humankind (not that Western governments have been perfect ... or even basically good).
I'm a little confused by the replies here. From the source article from Google [0], it sounds like they are planning on merging Inbox features back into Gmail and focusing on one product instead of two. They even put out a transition guide. I think long term this is a good thing. Why are people freaking out?

0: https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/inbox-signing-find-yo...
Have made thousands of commits, TIL. Thanks! I like git smudge and clean for keeping secrets out of files, I created a small utility to automate the process and make it easy to do multiple regex substitutions. Here it is, if it helps anyone: https://www.npmjs.com/package/no-secrets
It works reasonably well, and will expand to a vageuly-desktop-like look and feel (tabs on top, for example) automatically on tablets (or in this case laptop/tablet hybrids).

It doesn't integrate quite perfectly with ChromeOS, but that's not surprising. Supposedly Pixelbooks have built-in support for running normal Linux apps, so I might end up trying the desktop version of Firefox at some point.
Another way of looking at it is if people aren't listening to you, it's not a discussion. I was at a small party a week ago, and all 12 people in the room listened to me tell a story. None of them interrupted and felt the need to show their worth. But, I wouldn't call that a discussion.
Lets not forget that China has over 3x the popn of USA so to surpass scientific output is to be expected at some stage. They havent got there yet because there is a history, culture and political environment to overcome and that will take a few more decades.

In the fields that i pay attention to (Im not a scientist, just a curious part-time pythonista) such as materials science, practical uses of AI and vision, it seems (just an opinion, dont ask me for stats) most of the work are coming from China scientists. In some other fields like programming languages, computer networking they seem significantly fewer. Of course this may be biased by my sources.

On a social level when one has a government where the top level politicians are mostly scientists and engineers this is a result to be expected. When govt is dominated by lawyers one can expect things go in other direction. China realised a long time ago that they had to educate and work to improve their position - productivity and improving standard of living comes from real productive stuff not from legislation.

My 2c.
It's obviously against HN's rules for users to address each other a la "calm the fuck down".
What do you have in these files that requires this?
Maybe the same reason people go from smoking heroin to shooting it: it’s a stronger high (ie more nicotine)
Kafka brokers handle both the computation (partition/topic management, sequencing, assignments, etc) and storage together. This coupling creates scaling and operational challenges which LogDevice removes by separating the layers. Storage nodes can be as simple as object stores (but optimized for appending files) and use multiple non-deterministic locations for a given piece of data to randomize placement. They read, write and recover data very quickly by working together in a mesh.

Meanwhile the compute layer becomes very lightweight and almost stateless, which is easy to scale. In LogDevice, the Sequencers are potential bottlenecks but generating a series of incrementing numbers is about the fastest thing you can do so it'll outpace any actual data ingest to a single log, while giving you a total order of all entries within that log. The numbers (LSNs) follow the Hi/Lo sequence pattern so if a Sequencer fails, another one takes its place with a greater "High" number, so it's guaranteed that all of its LSNs will be greater than the previous Sequencer as a result. This also provides a built-in buffer to still accept messages and assign the permanent LSNs to them after recovery in case a Sequencer fails.

Apache Pulsar is similar to LogDevice but goes further where brokers manage connections, routing and message acknowledgements while data is sent to a separate layer of Apache Bookkeeper nodes which store the data in append-optimized log files.
I know and it's terrible solution. It oftens gets reset when I'm tapping something (but sometimes it's not), so I have to double-tap again (especially when I want to edit URL in Safari). And anyway reaching any screen point with one hand is vastly superior experience than using workarounds. I've found myself using two hands more and more and that's a step backwards.

May be better UX design would solve that. Any controls should be at the bottom part of the screen. But iOS is not there anyway.
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EDIT: After typing this up I realized big.LITTLE was mentioned and the article and it what OP was referring to but people may find the explanation useful so I'm posting it anyways

I'm a little surprised no one else has mentioned this yet, but this is exactly what most modern cellphones do, the architecture is known as big.LITTLE [0]. There's basically three ways you can use the extra set of cores:

1. Either all high performance cores are used or all low performance cores are used, but never both.

2. The cores are paired up in twos, where only one member of each pair is active at a time. This is very similar conceptually to the way frequency scaling works in a desktop or laptop chip.

3. All cores are always available for use and processes are scheduled to either a high performance or low performance core as needed. Cores without any scheduled processes can be powered off or put in a low power state
I don't understand. Lua config is just Lua data structures. Load Lua data structures, modify them directly because they are the language's native data types, serialize them back to text. How much easier do you want it?
Good point--I guess I was assuming the children were voluntary, i.e. she was not raped or pressured into having children, which might be a bad assumption given her tragic background.
I was one of the cheerleaders ever since I learned about Scott Hanselman and others. The meta is that there are at least two camps about this at Microsoft.

This changed slowly over the last two years for me as I watch the dot net special interest group at Fedora struggle. Microsoft has not released enough of dot net core as free and open source software. It looks free and open source but it isn't. The programmers at red hat (almost all the dot net sig folks are red hat people) are too nice to raisea fuss over it.

I don't think Scott Guttrie's team is lying. I want to believe in their sincerety. However, I also understand likely nobody at Microsoft: from the bottom engineer to Satya Nadella or the board is nearly at all enthusiastic about free software. They may approve of "open source" but only as far as it helps business. I can't blame them for being practical. However, I can yell at their hypocrisy.

Microsoft, give the fedora people what they need. Release the sources please.
Didn’t they invent sub pixels?
I can never relate to people's love of this product. To me, it added noise and complexity to an otherwise simple email system. I aggressively tag, archive, and delete mail. I process and/or backlog messages in conjunction with calendar to always keep my inbox to <10 messages.

The cognitive overhead to maintain this discipline has and will forever be ~0.

Inbox is pure cruft over native Gmail. That's an offensive opinion to many, I know, but the intrinsic value inbox brings is very low over other highly accessible tooling already available within a few clicks.
Hong Kong is a bad example as cash is still king here and they use the Hong Kong Dollar not RMB. In my experience the locals don't really use wechat either unless they need to talk to people in the mainland.
Validity of this study might be disputable since I'm not as experienced scrutinizing scientific studies, but visual and auditory information is shown to have close corollary effect. Retention and comprehension is supposedly similar, so I agree with you. Engagement is definitely key.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081613/#!po=8....
I listen to audiobooks when I’m coding or on the bicycle. But most the books I listen to are kinda of “lesser qualility”. Like I listen to this book called “stealing fire”, it kinda of a new take on old business concepts. Had I actually sat down and read the book I would have been annoyed, that I wasted my time with it. But listening to it while doing something else made it seem okay. My retention was decent, there where times when I had to rewind. In the end, that’s fine because the book wasn’t that good.

I read real books on the kindle. Academic and interesting books that I want to completely get absorbed into.

It isn’t said enough but I think that the kindle paper white is one of the best e readers. It does hurt the eyes, it has very connection to the internet so u won’t get distracted. At the end of the day it just works great. (The OS/UX/UI is an little weird)
It is very disturbing. The notion that artificial intelligence can intercept information from individuals, and properly classify its accuracy seems dangerous.

It works with much of internet content, because formal communication has proper structure. But that is beside the point.

The real question is - who is responsible for classifying the training data? And what makes them qualified?
> I'd then go on to argue that information can and must be free to share, but nefarious misinformation should not be free from punishment nor protected by law.

I'd argue that 80% of statements made by political actors are about spreading misinformation (or fake news), misinterpreted (misreading latest wikileaks reports) or deliberate lies to drive a point home (immigrants are driving the UK economy down!). For example when the US reps states "we found nuclear guns in Iraq" is it a valid statement or nefarious misinformation. Does prior experience by an actor amount for anything? Who gets to decide?
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Correct. I can confirm. This is what I do as well.
100% my experience as well. Very unexpected and terrific for cutting out absent-minded smart phone use.
My immediate reaction to this is you _probably_ had well-off parents in or adjacent to academia, and (separately) are likely to be in the demographic majority here.
Twain must have been a genius.
To avoid the compiler complaining about the unused return value, by telling it I'm explicitly choosing to ignore the value.

The complaint doesn't show up on the default warning levels. I think only with -W ? (fun fact: -Wall actually has fewer warnings enabled than -W, at least with Clang)

Edit: actually, the warning is enabled by default, but only triggers for functions that have the attribute 'warn_unused_result' set, which is almost none of them, which is why this warning is not well-known. Indeed, in my example my (void) isn't necessary, and I couldn't get the warning to trigger even with -Wpedantic.
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Thats the thing. I dont think I want to put years of my life just to immigrate to US. Earlier it was less difficult ( surely not easy ). But nothing of interest happens here. Everybody just wants to preserve the old (old businesses, old ways of thiking) and people are more keen on justifying why what they do is good (and better than US ). For example in Germany people are peoud of their paperwork.
Brought to mind “Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker. Inside the Wild Race to Overthrow Every Consumer Category” https://www.inc.com/magazine/201805/tom-foster/direct-consum... and the corresponding YC discussion from a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992301
I like to expand my knowledge.
You can definitely get way more nicotine in a vape hit that you can from a cigarette.
how can you focus on a book and write code? is it really so mechanical?
"Smoked a cigarette in the last 12 months" is an incredibly low bar, to the point where I'd guess the study had a desired outcome.

The important question isn't "were vapers more likely to smoke 1+ times"--it's "how many cigarettes (from 0 to n) would the average vaper have smoked in the absence of vape options?"

The latter is a counterfactual, and thus much harder to study. It's almost as if valuable research is hard, and you can't just slap together a few variables and toss the "Science!" label on it.

Edit for context: I'm an ex 1-2 packs-a-day smoker, and vaping definitely helped me substitute a less harmful behavior. I smoke 5-30 cigarettes per year still, and vape about the same number of times per year. Having substitute options definitely helps avoid slipping back into cycles of addiction, to the point where I don't worry about that at all now.
Granted that you are not a refugee, what about staying where you are and putting up a fight?

Vote a party who supports freedom of speech and spread the word about why this is important in your country/constituency and so forth?

If this law enhance political and corporate power, I assure you that most likely will be adopted elsewhere in some form or another.
I think listening while driving is fairly easy, especially on a highway that requires very little thought, listening while working is not easy though.
There once was a man whose house was burning down, having been lit by a fire that had started at his neighbors'. When the firefighters arrived he warded them off: "my house is burning?" he continued, contently, "their house is burning."
So? It's not like Linux on the desktop will suck less in 5 years.
My point is that—in the event they get significantly threatened—amazon has proven that they can run their entire retail business as a loss-leader until they re-establish a perception of price dominance.
If I remember correctly, they built most of that debt load buying up all those stations.
Rado stations aren't money losers. Loading up leverage to 12x cash flow on junk debt to buy stations, on the other hand...
It was trivial to make the case, and that people didn’t see this represents a massive epistomological failure. Perhaps it would have been offensive, but adults should not be indulged when they engage in hysteria.
audiobooks... while coding or on the bicycle???

One of those makes just no sense at all.
Suburbia is a short term and unsustainable model. The long term costs of purposefully watering down your economic activity per infrastructure dollar is horrible.