skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Students from China (and many other countries) are required to renew their visas annually, a process which is already quite nerve-wracking for many. PhDs in particular can take anywhere from 4 to 8 years to complete, meaning 4-8 chances for your studies to be interrupted with the only option to return home while the visa renewal stalls. This article explicitly calls out the fact that renewals seem to have been getting slower, which will impact a lot of students.

The US already lost out on multiple academic generations of bright Iranian students and scientists thanks to their restrictive visa policies. If they further hamstring themselves by excluding Chinese students, the decline of American science will accelerate dramatically. Already, science budgets are continually slashed and grants are harder to find. Slowing the pace of scientific development is a short-sighted move that will likely not be felt in full for decades, but it will definitely be felt.

Science exists outside of the USA - now is as good a time as any to consider research in places like Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, and yes, even China. Language doesn’t need to be a barrier - increasingly, many prolific institutions are conducting much of their work in English.
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Elite universities have been more than complicit in this as well, especially when they can charge such a premium on "international student" tuition. It is also why they so often look the other way when those students bring their cultural values on things like cheating with them. No one dares admit it for fear of being labeled racist or xenophobic.
Youtube-dl is great, especially paired with a NAS running Plex server.
Everyone understood that, the conversation is now about how inaccurate that is.
Lots of animation / multimedia houses use workstations with 40Gbps+ adapters (40GbE or Infiniband) connecting to network storage.

It's done this way so people can connect to the storage that's appropriate for the task at hand.

Different projects can be stored on different SAN/NAS arrays , each specc'ed out according to the size/needs of the project.

eg a short run animation doesn't need the same storage capacity of a full length feature film. They may have similar throughput needs though. (Summarising here, but the general concept is ok)

So, lets say someone is a Flame editor (Flame generally has high bandwidth needs). They're working on project A for today. So they connect to the storage being used for that project from their workstation. The next day, they might be working on a different project, so will be connecting to a different set of storage.

Other people using different software will connect to the same storage for their tasks, but can have different latency/throughput needs.

Obviously, this isn't the approach taken by single person multimedia er... "houses". ;)
Other than government intervention, what incentive does Apple have to lower their fees, particularly as they intend for "services" to be an increased money maker going forward?

Perhaps more importantly, why should consumers be subject to Apple's good will? If consumers were able to acquire software from other sources, the market would naturally determine how much of a cut Apple actually deserves.
Yep, figures. Corrupt to the bone politicians, gangs and now crows asking for protection money/biscuits. Lol.
My point is that 'it costs money' is sadly not a way to gauge good calculators on ios, and a lot of the 'costs money' ones don't even have a free option to test/check-the-precision.
I must admit to some confusion about why federally-funded cancer research results aren’t available to everyone.
A more explicit switch statement for only strings or numbers is available from CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/Switch::Plain
> there's always things missing and and lag behind native

Flutter specifically or cross-platform UI frameworks in general?

I don't mind it being different, but does the app feel unpolished?
In the Netherlands at least, if you can't find a spot to merge from the onramp lane, you are to stop and wait for a better moment to merge. This never happens in practice though, because drivers on the rightmost lane will commonly either move a lane to the left, or if they can't, change their speed a little to accommodate you. But that's a courtesy, not a rule.
Not deep as in "deserves a Pulitzer", but plenty deep enough for "intentionally misleading".
So, bump minimum wage to $15 an hour but now drop the work week to 30 hours...
cough 1GB/s can by done by 10GbE.

Maybe a slight typo there? Need to add a few zeros? :)
Original from 2009, although updated since.
There are also automation engineers in China, and they have the significant advantage of being able to easily observe the manual processes that they need to automate!
Those machines tend to have way better specs.

Apple just isn’t listening.

I guess you’re not very familiar with the Mac Pro line. The ones Apple let die in 2012. You know the ones with starting prices at $2000-$3000 adjusted for inflation

Apple leadership also deems developers as “pros” as well at least publicly. I don’t know what they were thinking
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This is great advice. Thank you.
No they haven't you have thousands of vehicle fires a year it is not just news like a Tesla fire is.
The branding and everything else about it certainly doesn't make it obvious that it's related to Google in any way...
Hey, can you elaborate whether you're hiring remote beyond Denmark/Hungary? The job descriptions don't mention it, but your first line does..
They ditched America to retire by lake in Chile on about $3,000 a month
Yet according to some politicians, we have the best healthcare system IN THE WORLD!
And it’s for the 90’s
> It seemed crazy and old school to me to have the UI stuff that IB generates stored in XML - I definitely thought it should generate the same code that you would write to do it programmatically.

Most good ideas are old school. Data is more powerful than code because it can be analyzed in more ways - for instance, you can extract all the UI and text from an app, localize and re-insert it, then verify the UI won't break, all without having to execute the app.

If it's all in code you may not be able to get to some of the views or even know it's there. This is called the rule of least power - an example of getting it wrong is C++ iostreams.

Of course I'm sure SwiftUI has solved this.
It’s a bit beyond my budget to buy for sentimental reasons because I owned a cheese grater PowerMac G5 and a MacPro back in my video production days. But this looks like exactly what the creative or media production professional of today needs. If you need less grab an iMac Pro or iMac.
The Mac Mini has been around since 2005...
My favorite knot video: Tie an emergency bowline in 1 second:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLgPVm03OGI

Parlor trick AND life saver!
I'm just going to assume that I've already been pwned.

It's why I froze all five credit agency accounts & signed up for a credit monitoring agency via work.
The stand connector is custom but Apple sells a VESA adapter for “only” $200.
Yes the cheese grater was Pro and it was at a reasonable price starting at $2k- 3k depending on the model. Yes that’s adjusted for inflation.
I listen to mostly non fiction audio books during my commute.

If I find a key point that I want to save, I write it down when I arrive.

If I find there is a good amount of knowledge that I simply cannot recall, I look for a short summary of the book in paper form.

If there is no summary, I will look for a good used copy in paper form.
Attributing the accomplishments of the past to survivor bias is a popular line of thought these days, but...

It's unlikely. They used a completely different chemical formula than we do. If you have two processes X and Y, and you observe consistently that Y >> X, and you know that Y and X are produced by different processes so you don't have a strong prior on the mean of Y being similar to the mean of X, then you should conclude it's very likely that the mean of Y is greater than the mean of X. Even if you know for certain that you only have the best samples of Y.

But more importantly, we don't really care if the romans also built a bunch of bad buildings using counterfeit cement with a botched formula, that failed to last until today. What matters is that we don't have the technology today that can match their best work. That's what makes it worthy of study.
Ouch, that’s pretty awful…
Yet people do take 30 years mortgages all the time. The interest alone can be as high as double of the local rent, but people do take them.
Im in the same boat. It would be nice if there was someway to get a group of us to work together without just 1 or 2 of us enjoying ourselves. I would do well in most SRE positions, but not when someone else can overrule me. So that makes me the CTO, but I don't enjoy 100% of the CTO responsibilities.
In 1994, I visited Rio and somehow met a computer scientist who was responsible for the sole internet POP in all of Brazil. He even took me into the university lab to see the equipment. It turns out his wife worked as a civil engineer for the city of Rio at the time, and she worked on waste water. He told me it would take her an hour of studying the latest data about weather, currents, and water tests before she would take their kids to the one specific beach that was safest that day. At least back then, all the beaches were polluted, just some were better than others.
That is convention, but there’s no need to follow it ;)
Of course it does. For word w they are v_w and v'_w on Eq.4 for the case of SGNS [1].

[1] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5021-distributed-representation...
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you give surprisingly few fucks!
In 2013, the number of Chinese students returning to China after graduating hit 90%. [1]

It used to be more like 9 in 10 would remain in the US to work.

If foreign graduate students are staying and working in the US, it’s probably a net benefit hosting them in US schools, even though it drives up demand and therefore tuition costs for US citizens.

If 8 or 9 out of 10 are returning to China, better to keep the spot for someone who will work in the US.

Now it’s probably government policy that’s the main driver for so many Chinese foreign exchange students to return to China (both US and China policies align in this sense), but it’s not like Trump is going to open up work visas for graduating Chinese students, so in that reality it makes sense to tighten the student visa issuance to account.

With 360,000 Chinese foreign exchange students, and I’m willing to bet that’s disproportionately private universities (5 million total enrollment) rather than public. I wonder what the elasticity of demand is for college these days, and how much of a tuition price drop that could entail?

Unfortunately my personal experience is there is very little integration on campus between foreign exchange and domestic populations, which precludes even the cultural benefit. Colleges claim they cultivate a rich/diverse environment but in reality the students largely exist within their own circle. It may be different at the graduate level, where ~25% of enrollment is foreign. I recall a NYT article last year about it, but I can’t find it presently.

[1] - https://qz.com/1342525/chinese-students-increasingly-return-...
What permission is that?
Of course you don't have to implement it to the exclusion of all others! But let's suppose that, say, 65% of users have a Google account, 75% have a Facebook account, and 40% have an Apple account - and the circles overlap such that adding Apple adds 10% to the total coverage. Now, if everyone who has an Apple account prefers it, and users with an Apple login yield 30% less revenue... gaining that extra 10% of users costs you revenue, because for every user you gained at 70%, three existing users cut their revenue by 30%.
Yeah I can't imagine it being used in a rescue context, you tend to see a lot of sports climbers using it, it's also more common in Spain - they have another variation where they thread it all the way back through itself so it's extremely safe, but still benefits from easy untying.

Bowline is useful if you are likely to take lots of falls on a single rope as with sport climbing (bolts) with frequent untying, where figure of eight can become very difficult to undo. Technically figure of eight is stronger in terms of _rope_ failure, but this is not usually the most important thing for climbing since if the instant force is strong enough for that to be a concern you are going to break your back anyway. It is however unsafer in the sense of being more easy to tie badly, for that reason I'd never encourage a novice climber to use it over a figure of eight - but when you are experienced, and are taking falls (and have a routine to check the knot), this knot saves your fingers and your rope from a lot of unnecessary stress. In a rescue context though I can't see any benefit, so figure of eight for sure.
Tip workers always make full minimum wage if their tips aren't sufficient. It is really just a matter of setting a fair untipped minimum.
Decent network cards (40GbE, etc) with reasonable network NAS/SAN storage can return data in similar time frames to a local PCIe SSD.

That's for storage physically located nearby though. eg same building, no more than 1 or two network hops (roughly).

Higher end networking from the last decade or so has become really fast. :)
They made a site to explain this: https://timetoplayfair.com/timeline/.
Maybe I'm old school but I think it would be neat to bring an old rotary phone and pull out your cellphone and explain how modern phones would be magic to someone 50 years ago!

edit: this is probably boring and would not be age appropriate
They didn't? I thought they became the most valuable company in the world by making smart phones, a product for everyone.
Mutt/Neomutt is much more mature and has more features and better performance. (fantastic threads support, fast and very flexible filtering, etc.)

Aerc is very new and written in Go. I tested it on my 100 thousnand mail ARM linux mailing list archive, accessed via localhost dovecot IMAP server, to see the best case performance, but it doesn't look good, atm.

It looks like this when I scroll through the archive: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/cjitwkaxpsypgcfdvncr.mp4

It's not really comparable to mutt, yet. The performance is slow, and it doesn't support threads, which is a must for MUA.
iPads Pro, at least the largest one, don’t have the feature for some inexplicable reason.
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Do we know the fraction who were given a long-term visa but returned anyway? Trying to disentangle the difficulty of graduates getting visas from graduates who are just coming here to go home afterwards.
Speaking of

> Tell bad jokes

...

> I've done an interactive "do you know how many types of engineers there are?"

Two. Civil Engineers and Mechanical Engineers.

Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.
Thank you for your story. I hope you make through the treatment and beat this thing.
It’s just another signal about how far the laws and norms have been bent towards business against individuals. Companies are able to pay people with gift cards - that charge fees per transaction and age of balance.
A lifetime ago (1978) when I got into the Plumbers Union, (as I was teaching myself to be a racer, and future world champion; before I realized I could not learn a new racetrack, and get into a rhythm in 8 laps like say a Senna could--which really was why I walked away from that), we worked 35 Hour weeks. 8am-3:30pm: Plus we had two breaks; morning coffee and a soda at 2pm, and we also usually took 45 minutes for lunch, instead of the unpaid 30 minutes the contract stipulated.

Oh and the Electricians--shit they really lived large: they would barbeque every Friday... and Inside the building in the winter. They could give a fuck less if the job super didn't want then too.

The work got done, and I have to tell you there was no substitute for Union Trades; the apprenticeship programs were second to none and guys gave a shit about the product they produced.
Can we stop being hyperbolic please? If not blocking ads in a very specific way is what it takes to be counted as "evil", that word has officially lost all meaning.
Doom did not require a maths co-processor. It ran just fine on my 486SX-33. Perhaps you're thinking of Quake?
Agree. Can he throw it on Streamable or something?

EDIT: Here it is: https://streamable.com/3ysv9
Same, I own a 2014 15" and have a 2018 15" from work. I haven't had any keys break on the 2018 (yet...) and actually prefer the key travel on it to the 2014. The smaller size is an improvement and the dongle situation isn't a problem for my use cases. Not a fan of the keyboard layout and TouchBar, though.

If Apple let me spec a physical ESC key, inverted-T arrow keys, and native 1920x1200 point screen size @2x on the existing form factor I'd be VERY happy. Assuming, of course, the keyboard is actually reliable.
So? Apple doesn't ship updated packages. It never did. If you want updates, you use a package manager, not Apple's ancient crap. That's life.
I really like fish and had a pretty good run using it, but I have found myself on zsh for quite a few years - it’s just less friction to go with the herd on this particular part of my toolbox
You're right, but the victory is pyrrhic. Sure, by the dictionary definition of the word "monopoly", you've got a point, but in the actionable legal sense, you do not, and it's in the legal sense that we're discussing (not all that accurately, admittedly).

Everyone here who isn't talking about semantics is using the word monopoly to mean "abusive monopoly".
I'm curious what professional GPU use cases you have in mind? I'm not as familiar, but ML has a pretty good lead with Nvidia/CUDA. I work in VFX. Nvidia Quadro cards have been fairly standard for more than a decade and didn't have a lock-in like CUDA (outside of the Linux driver support). In the past couple years Redshift has been the only prominent GPU renderer and it uses CUDA.

Honestly, those are the only professional use-cases for multiple GPUs I'm aware of. CAD uses GPUs, but not multiple and I don't see AMD having any lead over Nvidia. Same with other uses like GPU acceleration in things like Photoshop or video editing--1 decently fast consumer grade GPU is enough. I don't see farms and 4+ cards per box.
aerc doesn't download all of your message headers upfront - mutt does. All that time you spend waiting for mutt to open your inbox is downloading all of the data that aerc is downloading as you scroll. Also, you can scroll faster with ^d/^u, half a page at a time, or pgup/pgdown, for a full page at a time.

Yes, aerc is not yet as featureful or mature as mutt, but it definitely does not have inferior performance.
All meta-platforms are themselves platforms; meta-ness is in the implementation. So you could always do this no matter what you started from, but it's not actually a good idea.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Oh-my-zsh is indeed pretty dang slick
This tactic could sorta make sense – if narrowly directed at "princelings" who are children of top officials, rather than top students we'd love to have stay in the US. (I don't have much hope clumsy trade/immigration bureaucracies & grandstanding politicians can be that subtle, though.)
I'd just like a venue where being mildly interested in games doesn't have an algorithm go "If you liked that, you'll love this fascist rant!"
I’ve been using windows 10 as a gaming machine all this time and I haven’t noticed advertising. The restarts were annoying for my windows box acting as my video security server, but for personal machines you can easily schedule updates and restarts to when you’re asleep so I’m not seeing that as a real issue either.

You are right about the higher quality software on the Mac. I will miss that but I’m not sure how long it’ll last given Apple’s hardware direction. You can already see it with the rise of electron based apps

It’s a pain upgrading the mini compared to a bigger box. You run into all kinds of annoyances. Also I want to upgrade storage as well and not just the ram.
It's an untraditional calculator, but I love Soulver from Acqualia. It is always one of the first things I install on a new iPhone or Mac.

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The only “abusive” behavior it curtailed was not allowing them to forbid OEMs from installing alternate operating systems - that didn’t make a difference.
> you have to have cables strewn all over the place?

Of course. WiFi isn't going to work in shared user environments that chew bandwidth for breakfast.

Not having to worry about the security issues of WiFi too can be helpful (depending on your security requirements).
Is it really that surprising that large favelas have things like supermarkets? Yes, there are drug lords and extreme gun violence and illegal electrical installations, but these slums have been around for decades and are home to hundreds of thousands of people. Many of these people are not interested in a life of crime, but simply don't have the means to live anywhere else, so what else would they do if not slowly build towards a semblance of civilization in the area where they are forced to live?
Can't really call it a speedup trick, since it actually improves the performance of the embeddings but in terms of qualitative understanding, I see where you're coming from.
How will this work for apps that depend on the third party for more than just identity? For instance, does an app built on Spotify's API have to include a Sign in with Apple option? Or something like CI2Go, which is an app for CircleCI, which only offers log in via GitHub or Bitbucket.

I have to assume there will be exceptions.
> think saying "chats are stored in plain text" is a reasonable way to convey that message

If I keep your messages encrypted in my database and your keys on another unonnected database in another building, would it then be fair to say that I store your messages in plaintext?

No. They are encrypted. It is a matter of fact.

The word you are looking for is "not E2E encrypted" which can be a problem, but a different and smaller problem.

> and I think "plain wrong" is an overstatement.

No. It is a statement of a fact.
I'm waiting for when we acknowledge that only gun owners should be able to talk about gun control, personally.

(in case this isn't clear, this is a gibe at the typically left-leaning pattern that only natives of a country should be able to criticise it / only women should be able to talk about abortion rights / only trans people should be able to talk about trans issues / etc)