skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were to leave tech and go to law school with an interest in getting involved and helping with the legal issues immigrants are currently facing at the border and elsewhere is there something that would be useful to know?

Some particular law school that has a better focus or things you wish you had known when starting out? I figured out how to navigate the tech interview/application process, but don't know a lot of lawyers to understand the legal one.

Thanks!
You're missing the point, which is this: How do you know your scientific test is accurate? With a disease, we know by looking at the results of people who were inoculated or treated vs those who weren't. This is possible because data is objective.

When you are making your magic consciousness detector, how will you know when it is working?
Switch “advocate for safety” with “defend the interest of german car manufacturers” and then I’ll buy it
It is company sponsored EB3 category.
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Mostly just running code on the fly, most times to show small snippets of code to people over the shoulder. Nothing glorious
Awesome. I’d like them to spend their high powered lawyers here and at least drive the conversation and influence legislation. This is more than just abstract theory where it might affect a few thousand. This affects every citizen.
A lot of criminal acts aren't immediately detectable. But legal systems are set up to allow discovery of normally private documents or other evidence to see if anything illegal took place.

Also, the very act of having it on the books could discourage usage.
The issue is, for any idea that you might have for doing business in China, there are tons of Chinese already doing that. And they know the market much better than Americans. Maybe there was a window, a few years after China became an important economy, when your dream was true. But nowadays Chinese people have much more knowledge and access to capital to do these things than American can even dream of.
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Personal or business?

With regards to personal, for starters look at:
- fee schedule
- balance requirements, including penalties for balances that do not meet those requirements
- online access/services/security

Then maybe you might be interested in the services they provide (debit, credit card and how much interest they charge, auto loan, mortgage, etc.)
Only if the claim is particularly novel. If you say that your computer failed when the power went out, you'd rightly be irritated if somebody asked you for proof. One is expected to have a certain base level of knowledge before jumping into a discussion.
I am sorry but this is ridiculous, ignorant and condescending. Every single thing you said was addressed in the video already and all facts are agreed upon by both parties. You keep bringing up things that are well agreed upon by both scientists. You keep ignoring the socio-economic topic which is the central idea here.

You can't just say Christy was dishonestly cherry-picking, because those data points are what was represented in the IPCC reports as concerning. They are the important data points that dictate the policy, not the undershooting data points. IPCC already cherry-picked these data points with the overshoot to raise the alarm.

Things I found persuasive? You are suggesting the the video represents only one side. This is a debate and both sides raised valid questions. You are exactly what they talked about when asked if they feel embarrassed by the tribal behaviour on either side.
Have you been through a mandatory layoff yet? Imagine you have a great team and you still have to downsize.
I'm not sure I understand the point you're making here. Wouldn't those people be _more_ beholden to UI stability? If you understand what's under the hood, it takes a little time for your muscle memory to adjust to UI changes but it's not exactly confusing. That's decidedly not the case for the group you're describing.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft has done their homework and evaluated the performance, portability, code base, etc. It is a big change after all, and they probably have carefully planned it.
And those alternatives would be...?
It certainly does seem to work better with default resolution.
Absolutely - and the mass internment of Uighurs in Xinjiang. But the US turns a blind eye to domestic abuses all over the world, so I don't expect much.
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If you own a Kobo, it is even more useful.

In fact, I switched to Firefox because of the pocket integration, not the other way around.
The only two tar commands most people will ever need:

Equivalent of "zip": `tar cjf OutputFile.tar.bz2 InputFileOne InputFileTwo InputFileThree`

Equivalent of "unzip": `tar xf InputFile.whatever.extension`

(This works whether `InputFile.whatever.extension` is bzipped, gzipped, or not compressed at all)
Those are within the current cultural accepted norms. A evil witch is not evil because the woman choose it, but rather because she got possessed by the devil which is then driving actor. Evil which is rarely if ever used interchangeable with a "bad guy" antagonist.

Similar but different, a evil stepmother is not evil because she chosen to be evil, but rather always coupled together with context that is not interchangeable with the "bad guy" antagonist. Often this is used to demonstrate the downfall of over-protectiveness of ones own offspring over those of others.

Try replace any of the antagonist in TV or movies with "evil witch or stepmother" and you have not just changed the gender but likely warped the story. Thanos would look a bit odd as a evil stepmother (and how would his motive for the Infinity Stones work?), and Ebenezer Scrooge as the evil witch would change the meaning of Charles Dickens story.
No, I was answering the statement "it looks like an absolute nightmare to debug".

Amazon's page request and rendering pipeline, I would estimate, is necessary complexity. Due to the large engineering force and the speed at which they want to move, it's imperative that the infrastructure support distributed teams delivering at their own pace while minimizing integration points via shared repos but instead integrate via defined APIs. This is a fallout of that need. Do most companies have that need? Probably not.
Tone of this blog post is extremely pedantic and comes across as if the author were personally insulted by the paper.

But her argument is basically "You didn't understand the math, and you misunderstood the work that you cited".

I feel like the burden is a little higher -- i.e. put in some effort to at least show the readers the math she's talking about and the counterfactual conclusions they arrive it if worked out.

I would be much more convinced if she took the original paper's claims at their strongest and most convincing and formulating a simple proof or mathematical argument why the paper is wrong -- instead it feels like she's knocking down a straw man and saying "you're too stupid to be doing this kind of work"...
It doesn't really work for 99% of cases, it works for maybe 60% and most of that is uninterrupted freeway driving without construction zones.

I think it'd be hard to sleep with your hands on the wheel and cause enough resistance to keep the car from complaining. Though I suppose it's possible - I thought the driver was drunk in that case (could be mistaken)?
> After watching this video, I feel that high schools in the US and elsewhere would be better if they taught consumer electronics repair rather than shop class

They'll never be able to compete with that one Uighur guy on the top floor of the Dinghao market in Zhongguancun. (this is how I got my Wii modded for 40 RMB, anyways)
I was born abroad (Mexico) to American parents. In the 90s I was able to get a passport - but it's now expired. When I went to get a social security card they wouldn't give me one, and they wouldn't take my expired passport. I ordered a new birth certificate, but it has several spelling errors, so I'm unable to get a new passport without leaving the country and having my birth certificate corrected.

How can I get a social security card without leaving the country to get my birth certificate corrected? Is there anything the State Department can give me to prove to Social Security that I'm a citizen?

Thanks!
Glanced at that link, and not spotting any reason to regard this person as "trash" (if indeed there ever is one).

What are they saying here that is objectionable, and what is your rebuttal?
You can't run Firefox on an iPad?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-your-ip...
After switching from Mac to Windows 95 in the mid 90s, I always felt like the Notes desktop interface was a bad rip-off of Apple's At Ease interface. [1]

Having said that, I was always a big fan of Notes/Domino even though the UI sucked hard. This is probably because I was a huge fan of Filemaker Pro on the Mac, and Notes, more than anything else (including Access), felt like the closest thing on Windows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
Of course, France is an old country with very stablished rules, even more than the USA. It is normal that a new economy, like China, will have new rules more often than the US. This doesn't mean that they have an obligation to create laws to facilitate American business.
>Total citizen surveillance is coming, everyone's location history will be in a database and kept for years, just like phone call metadata.

I am under the assumption that it's already here since whoever carries a mobile phone is already under surveillance since the mobile networks share info with the government, the license plate readers see who is traveling on the roads, and electronic financial records show your transactions.
He should have said about the thesaurus: it's only for reminders -- don't use a word from it you would not have used; your readers probably won't know it either.

And, "Elements of Style" is a manual on how to lose confidence in your writing. Read Geoff Pullum's essay on what he calls "the nasty book": "The land of the free and The Elements of Style", http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/LandOfTheFree.pdf
It is well known that a lot of Bollywood was bankrolled by the Indian underworld in the 90s. This used to be much more common before the recent (last 10-15 years) which led to more corporate like setups. I am assuming a lot of the underworld folks slowly cleaned some of the stuff. But also very well known that the industry is very incestuous and dynasty oriented at least as far as many actors are concerned. Not the least surprised.
How lucky for you in 2018 that you don't seem to have any trouble with botnets trying to crack your passwords, hack your accounts, or even just break your accounts so that you cannot use them.
Under that logic, France and Iran, Iraq and Libya are in the same boat.

Germany and Assad must be in the same boat as well. The EU has a long history of trading with brutal regimes: is the EU now morally equivalent to the worst regimes on Earth? Germany and the UK were selling technology to the belligerents in the Iran-Iraq war, countries that used chemical weapons.

Trade with a country doesn’t imply endorsement of that country’s policies. If the US takes a stand and embargoes a country, much of the rest of the world gets mad and accuses the US of meddling, then when they don’t embargo, the US gets accused of supporting policies of a specific country.

There’s no way to win in the eyes of the world.
I think the more crude advice of "write drunk, edit sober" comes from a similar line of reasoning; alcohol is the push to start the stream of consciousness.
Dalvik? That doesn't exist since Android 5.

ART on Android 5 and 6 is as much runtime as any other programming language with a AOT compilation model.

And as of Android 7, there are multiple execution modes. An hand optimized interpreter written in Assembly, a JIT compiler with PGO feedback, and an AOT compiler that takes the JIT PGO data to generate a proper executable on when the device is charging and idle.

Traditional native code is also pretty much clamped down in recent versions of Android via SELinux, seccomp and white list of shared objects.

Google doesn't want you to do more than just implementing native methods, high performance 3D graphics, real time audio or importing "legacy" libraries.

I don't consider WASM that sound because it still allows for internal data corruption of modules written in unsafe languages, instead of supporting proper memory tagging like SPARC and the upcoming ARM architecture.
For small bands, buying an album on Bandcamp is more lucrative than buying a concert ticket. Gigs sometimes break even but more often lose money at the lower end; venue hire, rehearsal rooms and transport add up and there are usually more people to share the meagre proceeds. 100 sales on Bandcamp is quite a lot of money, they only take 15% (a bit to PayPal too). It's a great platform.
No one in the US is forced to live in a reservation, let alone kidnapped and tortured by the government just for being indigenous.
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Businesspeople might well be overstressing themselves with micro- and macroeconomic reasons behind China’s declining attractiveness to foreign entrepreneurs. Rather, we might simply be dealing with Han racism against westerners. In the beginning, western entrepreneurs were reluctantly “welcomed” when they had things to teach China, investment of almost any form was needed, and China was simply poor. The reluctance was papered over by good manners, and the possibility of unusual profits. Now, China is much richer and more sophisticated, and much of the teaching and raw development is over. Westerners are more clever about hiding trade secrets, and more willing to outsource expensive factors of production in their Chinese operations. In a country of political sophistication that only few Westerners perceive, they are being eased out, having never been considered a perennial fixture in society.
Video, although I don't have a camera (the host does, though).
This is going to be really important with all service mesh around.
Yep, HN censorship is rampant. We're not even allowed to supported our censored brothers anymore when they get killed. I have lots of emails from various censored HN users trying to fight back against bang unsuccessfully. They are unwilling to listen to reason and basically lie that the comments break the rules.
This advice ("avoid unspecified pronouns") also applies to communicating in text, period. SMS, IRC, Slack, in all of them you can avoid a lot of confusion by being clear in your nouns.

BAD: "We're hooking up the refresh token to the API next week. It was broken by a bad commit, but that is fixed"
GOOD: "We're hooking up the refresh token to the API next week. The token was broken by a bad commit, but that commit is fixed"

This advice is one of the two most important tips for clear communication in text I know of. The other tip is: don't ask an A or !A question - you'll just get "yes" or "no" as an answer. Instead, ask to confirm A and not B.

BAD: "Are we releasing this week? Or next week?"
GOOD: "We are releasing this week, not next week, right?"

This second tip, however, requires a lot more work to make natural.
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This is really interesting and I agree, but I think only addressing facial recognition is missing the forest for a tree.

There is an underlying idea here of a person owning information about themselves and having control over it and making sure a company can not use it inappropriately. I think addressing it as only 'facial recognition' wouldn't go far enough.
If paper in question becomes fodder for the mainstream media (or at least the mainstream scientific media) then there is no reason why they should not have to defend their theory/arguments/speculations publicly in a less than formal peer reviewed forum, especially one of fairly high regard in that subject area.
If you take the tweet at face value, being dinged for a whiteboard exercise is pretty silly. But people do get hired for specific roles and just having demonstrated you're great at X doesn't mean you should clearly get hired for an only somewhat related Y.

I like to think I'm pretty good at certain things but that doesn't mean I'm a good candidate, especially at a senior level, for lots and lots of roles that, while somewhat related to my skills, aren't really in my wheelhouse.
I was, because I was making the point that there isn't anything special about gofmt other that not being aware of previous tools.
Oh yes he is. How do you explain the „respecting wamen“ thing? „Death to all Jews“ - yeah it was just a joke, right? „F‘n N-Word“ in a live stream. The incidents add up. He’s probably not serious, but he does play around, I don’t know how you can deny that if you have seen a lot of his videos.
Did you miss a /s?
You're right. And I'm surprised more Silicon Valleyers have not figured out that China, a country that has concentration camps going right now is racist.
>The author of the paper is now in a position where they feel they have to defend themselves publicly

Due in large part to the fact that his paper was attached to a press release from Oxford--a point of contention for both Hossenfelder and Sean Carroll.
I'm a bootstrapped startup founder considering hiring an international student on an OPT (obtained after recent graduation from graduate program in US). Probably more of an employment law question but nevertheless - can I hire this person under an OPT for an unpaid internship. P.S. I would like to pay him but can afford to do so only on defferred terms e.g. upon funding etc.
Tesla's Full Self-Driving patent uses cars as Earth-based GPS satellites
This all sounds great but you're somehow forgetting that there are somewhere around 100.000.000 million humans alive today with genes defective to the point that they will kill their owners/hosts/whatever you want to call them.

Just in kids, there's going to be something like 1 million kids currently alive that don't have a beating heart. Babies don't actually need their heart to be beating, diffusion will provide plenty of oxygen to their organs and brains. They may not have a heart at all (that's rare though, more likely it has a hole big enough to disrupt things enough that it won't keep beating, although even a needle sized hole will kill them if it doesn't close).

These kids will, inevitably, grow. And their growth will kill them. The strongest among them will live something like 2 years.

50 times as many kids will have a degenerative disease. This may go from Leukemia to other blood issues right to ALS or MSC or CF. They will generally start dieing off at 6-8 years and some will grow to 25 or so. But they will die. And just in case you think 25 is nice, MSC/CF kids will feel like they're drowning constantly, 24/7, starting at ages 5-8. ALS is even worse. And yes, I get it, stephen hawking grew to 76. But he is an incredible exception and that was only possible with constant, 24/7/365 nurse attention. It is not generally possible. Even for people who get that 24/7/365 attention he grew to literally double the age of the next patient.

And let's just not talk about people with brain misgrowths or epilepsy. Let's just not talk about how horrible that is. Half of them will never have the intelligence of a 3 year old, but they're still mostly in constant pain.

Another roughly-same-size batch will have a serious defect in their bodies that isn't readily apparent. They will suddenly fall ill, and go from happily going to school to dead in 2 months following at essentially a random time. Not because of a disease or condition, but because their bodies really, really can't deal with things that are overwhelmingly part of our environment, going from UV light to pressure differences, to water, some insects, ...

That's the damage our own genes put humanity through. In total somewhere between 2% and 5% (depends on your ethnicity) of people have a serious genetic defect (something that will strongly affect them until the day they die). About 1% will die from it, mostly while very young.

Clearly, despite the potential for abuse (although some of your examples ... are they even abuse ? Mostly not from the only perspective that matters, that of the kids), there is a massive potential for improvement of the human condition as well.
How old? I have a Southern Islands card (GCN 1.0, FirePro W2100) and it works very well with the amdgpu driver. GCN 1.0 is from 2011.
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From my understanding (and the biased content at https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html ), lzip is higher compression than zip and gzip. It uses LZMA, which makes it essentially the same as xz (which itself is 7zip without the tar-like functionality). The difference seems to be that the metadata in lzip makes some smarter choices, which reduces redundancy and makes recovering from corruption easier compared to xz.

xz is more widely installed, so it's a case of Worse Is Better.
Absolutely. You see the same thing with Musk as well. Someone aptly compared the level of fervorous awe some air-quotes "visionary" leaders inspire, with evangelical mega-pastors.
Why does everyone just assume all the businesses talked about in the article are American? Obviously some of them were not. It seemed that they were focusing more on foreigners.

China does not have rule of law, full stop. They have a constitution that guarantees freedom of press, religion, and speech, and it is completely meaningless because they do not have rule of law. What this means is that Baidu can make most of its money on medical scams and porn while any foreign company would immediately be prosecuted for any small transgression. Whatever rules China makes up, its just for convenience, if they want to get you, they'll find something.
How do you stay motivated? Do you have negative days, days full of doubt, insecurities, etc.?
and the real world difference when loading a game? or word document? non existent.
Unless it gives China reason to believe that such behavior is acceptable if their position on the world stage is high enough.
There have been stories outside Apple of Steve Jobs giving incredibly good feedback in a variety of areas and people being glad to have it. Have you considered the possibility that:

1. Steve Jobs was a couple of standard deviations better at this than almost anyone

2. As such, people were glad to get feedback from him

3. Such ability is rare and hard to identify, and so trying to replicate that structure is nonetheless not a sensible idea.

In other words, you're correct in your business practices, but possibly blinded to the fact that Steve actually was very, very good.
Sarcasm is hard to detect via text, I'd try and be more explicit (add a /s).

If you are in fact being serious, Google 'indian reservations'
They do interfere with other countries, see the news agency they set up in London.
That's neither here nor there is it? The 1996 investigations led to no indictments and if anything widespread criticism of how Congressional investigations wasted time. The 2016 investigations are still ongoing with dozens of indictments, several guilty pleas, and jail-time.
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Although I have no experience in immigration law, as a former lawyer and software engineer (and the CEO and co-founder of a legal tech startup), I'd caution against moving into law (or at least taking a long hard look and talking to people who have made the transition).

I left a PhD program in CS to go to law school based on ideals around having a positive impact through the legal system. Ultimately, the law is a slow, difficult, and painful system to work through and with. The work is mostly tedious (relative to software development) and most of the time you're not really having a significant or positive impact. It's generally not very rewarding.

I'd be happy to chat if you're interested in hearing more about my take. (itai [at] judicata [.com])