skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 11 million Uighurs, and about a million in the camps. There are over 30 million blacks in the US, and under a million blacks in jail. (2.2 million is the total number of prisoners.)

The situation in Xinjiang is therefore much worse.

Most of the people concerned should not be locked up anyway—think of people who can’t afford to pay fines in the US, or people who pray in Xinjiang. It is extremely rare that a population is so poorly socialised that it is necessary to imprison over a tenth of the population. Perhaps they are in some strict sense “criminals”, but China can choose who to criminalise (as can the US), and it is clearly making unhelpful decisions.
For sure media has a big impact.
They'll probably use this as an excuse to use even more h1bs and to outsource even more work.
Prop 13 distorts that a lot. If you bought a house 25 years ago and now are earning 400k, yeah, you're an upper middle class.
My uncle literally cried when he reached 60 and was able to get his (very useful) senior discount card. I thought it was cute until I realized I'm almost 50.

Said card: https://www.mexperience.com/inapam-mexicos-discount-card-for...
Hot water "hydronic" heating with radiators is very common in the US as well, at least among homes in the Northeastern US constructed before the 1960s. It's a shame more new construction does not use hot water heating in conjunction with central air for cooling because radiators are much quieter, more efficient, and better for those with asthma.
I disagree. The amount of optimization that a query planner does is vastly more than a web application developer would care for.

We have people who can't be bothered to close database transactions (see that Uber report). I wouldn't trust then to choose the optimal join strategy in a complex query.
A New Diet Study Confirms Your Worst Suspicions About Ultra-Processed Foods
They are imperfect phrases, but generally an equality of opportunity in this case refers to no matter what you look like, what your parents do, how much money you have, if you get a SAT score and GPA above a threshold, you get accepted into the school.

Whereas equality of outcome would focus more on who gets in even if it means treating people differently based on what they look look, how much money they have, where they live, etc.
I think one needs to be very intentionally oblivious to not notice the qualitative difference between fake news of the past and fake news right now.

Fake news in the past always had an identifiable source, because there was still an institution, a company, or someone with their name on the door between reader and publisher. As it stands, no such barrier exists any more. Things can be inserted by malicious actors into the debate, and they spread automatically simply because they have the tendency to 'go viral', something entirely absent in the past. That has added a completely new set of problems.

>Blame people for believing most of anything they're told

Precisely because it is very much in everyone's nature to suffer from these mechanisms it makes no sense to blame ' the people'. What does this imply, a great re-education of everyone? Obviously the only thing we can change is the companies, institutions and rules that determine how we consume the news, not how human brains disseminate them.
curiously, nobody mentions the clothing designer :)
Many do, but some public schools are very well-regarded by parents, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Latin_School
Anyone who trusts his newfound interest in privacy is indeed a Dumb Fuck.
In regards to a lot of talk about unfair pre-interview "projects", I highly recommend everyone ASK for an interview before working on the assignment, or if the assignment is short enough, work on-site, and request a code review in person.
I was surprised to see discussion of NFS. NFS certainly was a big deal "back in the day" but it had its own quirks and headaches. I haven't seen NFS in 20 years, but that could simply be because of the particular worlds I live in.

Is it still widely used and I just happen never to see it because the environments in which I work?

Or is it only used for a small number of sites (or certain applications) but they happen to be extremely important ones?
What tune? I'm just giving a theory of why things have evolved the way they have.
Anything serious goes trough emails and this is the data I’d be most worried about leaking - anything from security related stuff like login/id confirmation to receipts, confirmations, sensitive data, professional communication.

Waaay more valuable than FB scraping my phonebook and photos
Yep. This is just another example of framing.
I didn't say #2 was better, I said he was saving more. It's certainly possible to design any number of scenarios where someone who saves more ends up with less in the end.
If you want to see the most impressive candidate for an IRL Bond villain HQ, I nominate Mr. Pei's Miho Museum [0]. The art is pretty good for a private collection, but the real gem is the building/compound itself. It's incredible.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miho_Museum
> You need to earn 500k for a handful of years, save vigorously, and you're done. Am I missing something?

How many people make $500k/yr, but live like they make $80k/yr?

Lifestyle inflation is a real thing. Even if you aren't just accumulating junk, you aren't going to live in a bad neighborhood if you don't have to, right? Might want to start buying organic food, might want to drive a nicer car and wear nicer clothes?

The richer you get, the definition of "nicer" changes.
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I did. I walked into the hiring manager's office and he barely looked up while asking me to decode the complex declaration on the white board that wrapped twice. My departing words were along the lines of: if you and your team write code like that, this is not a match. So I left.
I vote yours "best comment"!
I will happily profit from the work FB has poured into all three of those technologies and smile knowing they won't make a single cent from me.
What's the next thing you'll try to improve your sleep?
That's been the common intern pay for a while at FAANG companies. Heck I got paid more than $8k at a non-FAANG company back in 2012.
My numbers tell me North America has 1 PWh of storage capacity just for gas alone. This isn't even counting all the EWhs that we haven't extracted yet or the unlimited amount we could produce by using excess energy and turning it into hydrogen or methane.
I concede, I was confused.
My career is and has always been defined by a refusal to work for companies I'm not ethically comfortable with. Hopefully it becomes more of a norm.
This score is apparently a secret.

> The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials.

They give you a standardized test, but you can't even find out how well you did.
Of course, but this is just another in a long train of abuse-potential. The technology isn't the choke point for protecting our rights, and individual consumer choices will never be revolutionary enough to alter the terms of consumption.
And, yet, here in the bay - my company (a startup) sent out two offers to candidates quite recently and they both went to FB instead.

There is no shortage of people joining FB because there's no shortage of people wanting to join a big company. Maybe if they're all comparing offers between big companies then they'll join some other big co but if the difference is startup vs Facebook... FB wins.
Yep, exactly. You know what works great? Airline service between SF and LA, with a matrix of three major Bay area airports to four major LA area airports, and a constellation of smaller airports being served by smaller companies such as Surf Air.

Let's get rapid public transit linked up to the airports much like public transit is linked up to the major rail stations of Europe. Let's save SJC and SMO. Let's get jet fuel refined with reduced carbon processes. Let's get electric airliners and hybrid electrics R&D funded. There's a lot we can do, and it'll cost way less than that ridiculous train.
I assert is more of a financial & time to carbon reduction question: France calculates it would save $45B by going to renewable energy instead of replacing aging nuclear power plants with new ones.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nuclear-plants-renewable-energ...
Well, why yes.

I'd be open to any other high resolution suggestions for that era.
I'm curious - How do stomach sleepers adjust to these masks? Or does sleep apnea only affect back sleepers? It would be impossible for me to sleep wearing a mask.
True, and you have real pilots. Many really busy airports do visual approaches and I know a couple pilots personally who don't often bother with ILS unless the conditions are bad.

Remember in San Fransisco where a plane almost landed on a taxi way instead of the runway? It's worth reading the complex situation with the off-line runway and the way ILS was setup with those runways being so close together, but what prevented the disaster was a pilot in the Taxi line of aircraft getting on the radio and saying, "Where is this guy going?!" and everyone suddenly realizing they were lined up for the Taxi way!

Real people, being aware, looking and reacting prevented that accident. That's why human checks and cross-checks are so important.
I already talked to my wife about this. I would retire, we would divorce, and I would rent a shitty apartment in East Palo Alto all the while
living in our house.

If they think they can boil my kids into a single number without bothering to find the context of who my kids are then I will game it to as much as possible.

I don’t know why my family should be punished because my wife and I worked our asses off to get ahead. It’s an insult to hard working people across the spectrum.
Studying for a programming interview is also transferrable, whereas maybe pieces of your weird homework assignment will be applicable in another requested project.

If I want to interview at 6 places that just use onsite interviewing it's easy to figure out how to prepare.
ZoL is a port, not a reimplementation at all, and retains all of the licensing problems. Ubuntu ships it because they have a different reading of the licensing situation than many involved parties.
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I.M. Pei, Architect Who Reconceived Skylines and Created Icons, Dies at 102
I rather found it beautiful. Brutalist architecture has its own beauty - to be honest about materials, unapologetic forms and it’s unwavering stability. Also, I’ve been to the Dallas City hall and it is such an insane building, imposing and looming over you as you enter through its facade.
I agree. Amazon has been hiring mediocre talent for the last two decades and it hasn't slowed their growth at all.
Apple News kinda does this, and they have a Free and + version.
yes. This is part of what I have say about "make a GENERAL relational language and code the (full) app on it".

Is unnecessary complexity to have the "schema" split in several places (the DB catalog, the table, the view(s), the SQL fragment, the struct/classes, the mappings).

In my mind this is all you will need:

rel City of
id:Pk
name:Str CHECK NotEmpty

just ONCE.

If also, we can express the relational operators "raw":

plan1 = Scan(City, WHERE id= 1)
plan2 = FindKey(City, WHERE id= 1)

plan3 = City ?where id= 1 |> toPlan (turn into one of the above)

then is possible to also get zero cost abstractions.

BTW: Slowly I'm building this:

http://tablam.org

Stuck on trait objects this weeks, probably will stick with enums!
They are using neighborhood income level and status to adjust the outcome of the SAT.
Getting into college is not an outcome—it's an opportunity.
> get cross-module inlining, which is all you're really talking about here.

Not at all.

> There's no actual "specialization" in play, just basic inlining + dead branch elimination.

Devirtualization + inlining + dead branch elimination is an instance of specialization, and an extremely effective one at that, but other forms of specializations apply.

> Trivial to do this statically at build time instead.

No. Some things are undecidable and/or would lead to code explosion. E.g., it's often hard to statically prove that a subroutine that takes an int would always receive the number 2, and specializing it for all ints would cause code explosion (again, contrived example but with real-world counterparts).

> There's also no real reason you can't have zero-cost abstractions AND a JIT if you want. Hell, in theory this is what you get with C++ in a webasm environment. This are not exactly opposing technologies.

Of course. But I was talking about two very different philosophies that greatly affect language design.
Ha! Do you agree?
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> Why are Americans so emotional about that ? How is that a basic liberty ?

I think it has to do with our nation's history. We never had a feudal system or a monarchy and fought for independence. It's a different culture. It is a basic liberty because it was set out as such as a founding principle of our nation. If you don't believe an armed populace can stop a tyrannical government, visit Vietnam or the middle east.

Health insurance is regulated. Government has no business with obesity rates; are you suggesting a "right to be skinny"? America was not founded as a democracy, but as a modified republic. And spying by 3-letter agencies is horrible, unconstitutional, and ought to be stopped.

I will refrain from responding to your abortion remark, as I think that falls under the "generic flamewar" prohibition of things we are not supposed to discuss, barring an original thought to contribute; and it is not relevant to the article. If you want to debate more on that score, we can do so offline; keybase info is in my profile.
Treatment works. There is a subset of treatment resistant though.
In the zero sum game of admissions, boosting someone else for their poor location/school impacts those who sacrificed to get score better without the boost.

A poor asian community that sends their kids to after school schools and does very well as a whole will suddenly fight themselves without the boost that others at that economic level might have.

All theoretical at this point I guess. I would prefer to let this play out a little bit more rather than race based quotas/scholarships which more often than not seem to go to kids with the same good backgrounds who just happen to be minorities.
Kinda happy this shitshow is put to rest. I just hope this doesn't have any effects on Caltrain electrification funding.
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Airplanes are busses; they rarely tow another plane.

Technically I suppose if you tow a sailplane into the sky then the powered aircraft is a locomotive with the sailplane in train. So yes, there can be and are flying trains.
That's not actually what happens though. Ask someone trying to staff a restaurant how easy it is to find employees.

Basically the service industry just ... evaporates. I've seen it happen in areas with a lot of foreign ownership.
No video recording was done, so no.
>If your office had 10 people today and 100 in a decade, odds are good that every one of the original ten made it into manager.

I don't think that's the problem for most - that they didn't become managers. And I doubt that many blue collar / working class people become managers in the 50s to 80s anyway, much less "10 out of 10".

Having travelled around the US and talked with friends a bit, it's more destroyed rural communities, ex-industrial cities, etc. Blue collar jobs who offered work for life and let people buy a house quite easily in the 50s-80s, now are non existent, people have difficulty making ends up, are a health issue away from losing their whole savings (or house), or don't have even $2K in the bank.

And for an increased number of the population it's not very different in many parts of Europe nowadays either, even the supposedly "going strong" ones like Germany (and you've already seen the Yellow Vest protests in France of course).
Doctors are frequently prescribing SSRIs where no study has shown them more effective for that indication than placebo.

Many doctors still believe the "correcting neurotransmitter imbalance" theory of SSRI action which appears to be on its way to being disproved.
> Work on everything other than the Merced to Bakersfield section was indefinitely postponed by Newsom's last State of the State address.

Work on everything other than the Merced to Bakersfield initial construction segment, other than the environmental clearance and planning work that was explicitly stated to be continuing in Newsome's State of the State address, was never actually scheduled because funding had not been secured; the state was actively seeking funding before the address, and all the address said was that the State would continue seeking funding and would not do work until it had secured it. The address literally was waving around the status quo as news. It didn't do anything (which it wouldn't even if it had announced a policy change, because actual policy is made by laws, regulations, executive orders, and a number of other vehicles, the State of the State address not being one of them.)

> The Merced to Bakersfield segment, by itself, is nearly useless.

The Merced to Bakersfield segment is the one for which the federal government had specifically designated funding. Cancelling the funding on the basis that the state was, as always explicitly planned, building only the funded part until securing additional funding is beyond ludicrous.

(Of course, Newsome's statement in the State of the State address which was clearly designed to appear to be announcing significant policy while actually announcing the status quo was also beyond ludicrous, and politically played into opponents of the project and opponents of the state as a whole -- and the Trump Administration may or may not be the former, but has pretty openly shown itself to be the latter.)
Sure, but one of the biggest reasons it isn't considered cool or exiting anymore is all the negative press.
You're fine then with one person owning all the property?
A one dimensional left/right view doesn't really explain our current politics very well. Factions in both parties have strong reasons to be against freedom of speech.
That’s because you are limited by your imagination. Zuckerberg is 35. Everyone between 0-35 have the same chance as him (age is the main factor, wealth can be accumulated anytime).
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The data suggest otherwise:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90305242/taxing-empty-apartments...
Wow, I've walked by that block so many times and never would have guessed it was the work of IM Pei
> It's no wonder the substantial portion of people who care about their employer's ethics are turned off

Nope. People who I know have turned down FB offer was purely because they see them as less stable company and have doubts if their stock will keep falling. No one wants to wake up a month later to find out that their signing bonus just got reduced by 10% due to bad news cycle. I would estimate that less than 10% of people turn down employer due to privacy related ethics. Also, on side note, FB has jacked up stock bonuses for existing employees. Their attrition rate is virtually unaffected despite of all the bad news.
It’s not clear that the situation is “geopolitical”, but, more importantly, simply pointing to terrorism is not helpful either.

(1) The area is not inherently Chinese. China does not need to occupy Xinjiang. It has belonged to other people at other points. (See texts on the Islamic conquest.)

(2) China has encouraged mass Han immigration to Xinjiang. The Han who moved were not moving because of hunger or thirst. They moved because the state provided incentives to do so.

(3) Radicalisation is largely driven by ideologies that the CCP helped to support in the first place, when sowing chaos in Afghanistan without deciding what to do next. Of course it did not do so alone—the Americans and Pakistanis were also involved. But it at least props up Pakistan who continue to empower the Taliban.

(4) The Chinese state is very violent—and more violent than most other states.

Ergo it is misleading to suggest that the Uighurs are being particularly violent, and to imply that they are simply being violent for the sake of it. China could try a number of things, including getting out, reducing violence against Uighurs, and ceasing to incentivise Han migration.
This moved into the deeplearning4j monorepo: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j/blob/master...
SAT scores and GPA are strongly affected by how much money you have.
Facebook was uncool before the outrage really took off. It's bloated and fewer young people from each cohort take to it each year.
Thanks for sharing. I hope at age 83 I can be as mentally sharp as Gilbert Strang is.
Hotspot performs inlining + DCE/CSE/costant folding/... in a loop, they call it incremental inlining. I.e. inline, eliminate, now you have new inlining opportunities because the code dropped below your max inlining size, rinse & repeat.

I think rustc does not iterate llvm optimization passes and thus even with lto leaves opportunities on the table.
I've gone to the Suzhou Museum in China designed by I.M. Pei, and it's really nice, recommend a visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_Museum

Seemed like a great guy.
I was somewhat confusing them with storage tubes per the wiki article title but I didn't realise the tech was still around like that in the 70s! Thought it had gone long before then.

I too was taught to use ed at university and don't consider it time wasted, but I'm well chuffed that better stuff (macs) were coming in then. I actually had the questionable good fortune to use ed on a paper teletype for an hour. Then, staring down at it, my neck cricked and I had to stop.

AIUI ed (or something simpler) on paper teletypes was what original unix might have been written on - good times!

Not.
Thank you, this is very helpful. (Looks like something you could give to local city councilors as well as citizens. Though I don't intend to drag it out for years, and I'd be looking for an immediate ban on gas blowers, and also reducing use of the electrics.)
This. Immortality = hell.
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That's brilliant.

There'll be a boom market for Adversity Coaches.
When was that the 90s? It's really easy now.
I don’t really like most brutalism but Dallas city hall is one of my favorite buildings. You might recognize it from Robocop
That "other nonsense" would tie the Central Valley (probably the third largest economic region in the state?) into the two largest economies of the state (SF Bay and LA Basin), making it possible for people to live out there and still participate in the booming regions. Not as a daily commute but it makes it feasible to live and work out there, with a commute from SF-Bakersfield about as long as SF-Livermore is by car today.

This would reduce a lot of the population pressure on the SF Bay, lowering real estate prices and knitting the state more tightly together.
My ideas are well thought out. What is confusing you?

I personally own many pieces of real property. This law would affect me too. I'm actually one of the wealthy who think what we are allowing to happen is wrong.