skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know plenty of really bright, talented and hardworking Chinese grad students who have a preference to stay in the US but the current visa situation is appalling. RFEs (request for evidence) which were once rare have become standard practice, making the wait to start a new job go up by months, with lots of stressful uncertainty as to whether or not you will be allowed to stay in the US.

There's lots of VC money in China right now and most talented Chinese tech people have offers waiting for them in China that are both very high level positions with very high compensations. So even if you want to stay in the US on the one hand you have people back home offering you insane opportunities and trying very hard to incentivize you to return, and you have the US government essentially trolling you to make a point about how unwanted you are (from their perspective).

The fact that the current US policy is effectively working hard to drive away very talented people who want to be here but have plenty of good offers elsewhere will do plenty of long term harm (for the US).
>> if they want to eat then I can buy something

The reason for this one is that in the US some of the "beggars" aren't really struggling at all. When offered food or whatever else they claim on their placard they're lacking, they will decline. Where I live we have a beggar woman standing on the corner with a placard. Behind that placard, though, she's watching YouTube on her iPhone XS. She's been doing this for at least 5 years now, swapping phones more often than I do. Nearly all of those guys who "ran out of cash to get home" will decline an offer to pay their fare, too.
A web search found that the PS/2 interface apparently survived for a while in gaming keyboards due to advantages I wasn't aware of - apparently PS/2 had slightly better latency and N-key rollover.

Even those keyboard switched to USB eventually. The only recently made and currently available with backlight PS/2 keyboard I found is the "Zowie Celeritas II" gaming keyboard (the manufacturer's page says USB+PS2, the reviews say it ships with a usb TO ps2 adapter). However it's pretty expensive, and the red leds might not fit your taste.
When I was living in China this didn't bother most of the Han Chinese I met. Most of them were so concerned about lifting their families out of poverty and providing for their future that if you said to them "but you can't speak out about human rights abuses" they'd just look at you like "why the hell would I want to do that".
Sure, Chinese nationals are returning home but who else is following? Living in China is about as attractive as being a character in 1984.
On the other hand, George R.R. Martin's first sentence of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is amazingly pithy; I was admiring it last night:

"The spring rains had softened the ground, so Dunk had no trouble digging the grave."
In all honesty it's even kind of going beyond that right now. You could end up being the poor innocent chinese patsy that they arrest for God knows what in some tit-for-tat power display. No one wants to be the dummy sitting in a foreign prison for 10 or 15 years while China and the US argue over their dick sizes.

As an American I'd think very carefully about working in China right now for the same reason. No matter where you are in the world, you're always breaking some law, and they can pick you up and throw the book at you to make a PR point whenever they please. Same as for a Chinese person in the US.

Feel bad, because the guys travelling to work or study really do just want to meet each other and have interesting idea exchanges, maybe make some friends, etc.

But then the political type people get involved, and it just gets a bit too complicated and you start weighing the potential risks differently.
What I've found is that there are lots of people who base their lives and even their identity around their work/company. For these people, work life is more interesting to them and so these perks are great for them.
Fair enough, but that doesn't negate their refusal to sell them for that purpose. They refuse to sell them for that purpose because they know the state will pay far less than they would otherwise lose from public scrutiny. I'm okay with that.
> Non profit ceos make 100s of thousands of dollars a year. That money comes from cash donations. People don't want to line a ceos pockets they want to help their neighbor.

This attitude frustrates me. Having the infrastructure in place to redistribute goods is work. It takes people's time and effort, and that does not come for free. The larger the scale at which a charity operates, the more true this becomes.

If you're concerned that a particular charity is abusing your goodwill and not using enough of its funds for its mission, research it on https://www.charitynavigator.org.
That's actually exactly why they sit outside the grocery stores - they'd much prefer to get cash from people to spend as needed but a lot of the people who end up donating cans would never have donated cash.
What about the anxiety and distress caused to the patient? How many might undergo an unnecessary mastectomy to be on the safe side?
They probably could have saved money by ditching the worthless touchbar.
This is dumb. You mean if I work two decades to develop tech that nobody else can copy, I have to open-source it because my competitors are dumbasses?

This is not how it's suppose to work.
Can't argue with you, that was very poignant.
Is there a roadmap for adding other data sources?
The government can do whatever it wants when it comes to setting immigration laws. It's an enumerated power.

F-1 (student) visas are already nonimmigration visas. After you graduate, you have a few months of "optional practical training" (OPT) and then you're expected to go home. Hopefully, you can get an H-1 (another nonimmigration visa) to stay for at most six years, which is about how long it takes to get a Green Card (permanent residency)[+].

I had heard that the reason why F-1s are nonimmigration is because back in the 1960s it was seen as foreign aid with Cold War benefits. Encourage people from third world counties to come to the United States, see how great it is, and then go back and build up their own countries. A decade or two out, you now have a country friendly to US interests.

Maybe that made sense in the 1960s, but it seems like it stopped making sense sometime in the 1980s, and certainly by the 90s.

We make it too hard to immigrate to the US. If I was king for the day, I'd make F-1 visas immigration visas, or at least be able to fast track F-1s into an immigration visa. The glacial pace, and the difficulty to immigrate is a reason why people go back. I know people that ended up giving up on getting Green Card, so moved to Toronto, and already has gotten Canadian permanent residency.

[+] If you want to fast track your Green Card, marry a US citizen. You get it in a couple of months.
This looks incredibly cool; I'm wowed by the fact that the model has learnt to negate words in if-else statements, though I struggle to think of a case where that particular completion would have been useful.

At the same time, I'm less excited about the fact that the model is cloud-only, both for security/privacy reasons and because I spend a not-insignificant amount of my time on limited-bandwidth/high-latency internet connections.

I'm also curious as to why the survey didn't ask about GPU specifications; most of the time I use my laptop to code whilst plugged in, and I'd happily use only LSP completions when on battery, so power consumption wouldn't be an issue (though fan noise might), and allegedly my GPU (a GTX 1050) can pull off almost 2 TFLOPs, which is well over the "10 billion floating point operations" mentioned in the post.
Even those who believe this acknowledge that many of the commandments are repeated, either in word or in idea, in the New Testament. Debates continue today about whether an image of Jesus is an idol, or whether the Sabbath commandment is repeated in any fashion, but "thou shalt not kill" is directly restated in the text, and emphasis added on heart motive as well. (In other words, Jesus calls people out who use harsh words but don't stab people as violators of the commandment.)

In any case, the word means murder, not any killing. This is plainly true in that soldiers are not immediately called to abandon their posts.
> because they want to save it for Fortnite hats or whatever.

You could easily replace "Fortnite hats" with "Pokemon cards", "Yugioh cards", "Gameboy games", "MMO items", "Starcraft expansions", etc.

The difference with Epic is that they've managed to take a much larger chunk of the market, which is why parents have started to notice it more.
Is Duck Search's Index Public?
>how much cleverer than you people will be when it comes to money. They spend their full time on figuring out how to use the system in ways you didn't expect,

Sorry, but stealing and robbing is not something clever in this case.
That exists, it's called duck duck go, and even less people care about it than Bing. For the most part, people don't actually care about Google collecting their entire search history and combining it with their other data on you. We may live to regret that in a hypothetical future where the government turns more authoritarian and requisitions that data for evil.
I wouldn't recommend it. I've worked on a couple of systems where all the business logic was placed into stored procedures. Problems I ran into.

SQL is not nearly as expressive as modern languages.(to get similar functionality to things like polymorphism/interfaces/first class functions you have to do a bunch of clunky hacky stuff)

Do to this lack of expressiveness developers turn to dynamic sql which is far more risky and opens the application up to SQL injection attacks.

The tooling is lacking, most sql development IDE's aren't nearly feature rich as modern language IDE's.

Testing is much more difficult.

You will be shackled to your database choice.

It's harder to find developers who are experts in your chosen database dialect such as T-SQL/PL-SQL/PostgreSQL/MySql as well as experts in your back end language.

You end up having to write a bunch of boiler plate code to wrap all of your stored procedures for your back end.

What are the benefits you're hoping to achieve that outweigh these costs?
Baidu's founder was a sea turtle. He worked at Infoseek before returning to China to start Baidu.
There's no real comparison between a game engine and a modeling/animation package. They are built to do very different things. However, it is definitely in Epic's best interest to support a robust and freely available tool for the content creation side of things.
To quote from a paper I read and love but cannot find, Meditations and Reflections of a Naval Reactors Engineer (i would pay money for):

Because everyone cares deeply about about their jobs, mistakes tend to be either extremely subtle or extremely glaring.

Normalization of deviance leads to the latter, although for different reasons. It is to prevent things like this that the nuclear navy forces people to rotate commands every few years.
Using this in conjunction with GPT-2 (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2) to make full stories out of these sentences should be fun.

Update: It's at least "interesting" if not fun; here's a story generated from the 2019 winner using the GPT-2's medium sized model

https://pastebin.com/raw/hWn7DNEC
I totally agree, and I wish more people thought this way. I currently have the good fortune of having more than I need, through both hard work and luck. If someone asks me for help, I have an obligation as a fellow human and neighbor to help without judgement.
Isn't Planatir explicitly a government contractor? Like, the CIA/FBI/etc. is buying data mining from Theil's people.

Pot-kettle-black. I wonder if some spook ripped off his software or said mean things about his mom or something.
Not sure why the downvote when it is abundantly clear that in every corner of the USA there is this general trend towards decay with very little offsetting it. All our infrastructure is falling apart. I blame the pension crisis. All available monies are going towards pension obligations. Not much is left over for anything else.
In the book Visions of a Flying Machine (about the Wright brothers), the author's answer to this is "definitely." If the Wrights, and Santos-Dumont had failed, someone else in the world would have come up with a practical airplane within the next year or two. There were certain enabling technologies, like more efficient motors, that made it possible. Understanding of gas dynamics in academia was very high (Ludwig Prandtl was studying supersonic flow in tubes at the time), though fluid mechanics not as much. This is apparent in how rapidly aircraft development proceeded around the world after the Wrights, and how it left the brothers behind despite their patent protection attempts.
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This is called "effective altruism"; you are more effective if you maximize your skills and then turn the profits of those skills over to a charity.

The only argument against it is that people tend seek out and perform charity work for their own sake (eg. vanity, restitution, relaxation).
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Yes considering depending on the nonprofit large percents of that one dollar donation go to other things like advertisements posters shirts etc. By the time you cut that out you are only going to get two cans worth. So what's more important getting someone off their feet to participate in their community or money.
Nah. The ground control segment software runs a version of the ESA's SCOS 2000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOS_2000 and is on Linux (and maybe Solaris).
I had sudo setup to use fingerprint, but at some point it quit working... config files are still correct. Not sure what happened :(
> It's akin to the story (I can't find it) where a company stopped providing free soda

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
See also: Hulk Hogan v Gawker
> "Well JP Morgan has great employee mortgage rates!"

Any details on this? :)
The Air never had a touchbar.
>The ad business would pay the search business for ad placement. The search business would also be free to auction ad space to other providers.

What you're describing is exactly what Google ads are today.
I just type "test", hopefully they do that too and it is ignored.
>A really interesting startup idea would be to figure out how to scale accountability in a way that, psychologically, would be similar to a coach/teacher/mentor but at a fraction of the cost.

There are many services like this for losing weight and what not where you basically bet that you'll reach your goal in the given time. Sites like dietbet and healthywage.

It wouldn't surprise me of something already exists tha can be used as is for learning.
If the store made sensible bundles that combine into meals, that'd actually be much better than donating whatever scraps you find in your pantry.
As adults not participating, it feels like a waste of money. The rewards aren't 'valuable'.

To the kids, the cost is worth it, bringing them happiness, social experiences, and a fun childhood to look back on. As long as it the amount doesn't get unreasonable relative to the means of their parents, it may be a good investment.
> Also keeping the donations as food ensures the donations go directly to helping your community.

This is addressed in the article. Charities specifically do not outright ban food donations because they don't want to dictate to people how to donate. But receiving a bunch of random food items is logistically harder to organize, store and transport. They prefer monetary donations because they hire logistical specialists who can buy bulk food items at far lower rates than what consumers pay at the grocery.

> Non profit ceos make 100s of thousands of dollars a year. That money comes from cash donations. People don't want to line a ceos pockets they want to help their neighbor.

You should look into the annual reports of your local nonprofit; you may be conflating what CEOs of national/global orgs like Doctors without Borders or United Way get paid vs what a local charity head does. You'll probably also notice that a significant portion of NPF revenue comes from corporate donations. Guess what? They don't give out of the goodness of their hearts. They give because the suits have connections with people in those spheres, and convince them that giving is good for their brand.
wow, you're dumb
> In the US, Trump says mean things about certain types of immigrants.

If you think the extent of America's hostility against certain types of immigrants is limited to Dump Truck saying mean things on Twitter, I'm not sure what to tell you. [1]

DT doesn't exist in a vaccum. There's a powerful, xenophobic political movement that has made him president, and there's a mainstream political party that wins more elections than it loses, that panders to that constituency.

[1] I also find it incredibly ironic that you are dimissing anti-immigrant sentiment as 'it's just words' - as in - words aren't a big deal, while in the same breath, pointing out that words are in fact a big deal, because there are many that you can't say in China. [2]

[2] Are 'just words' a big deal or not? You can't have it both ways.
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Maybe they don't talk about it because they know they are not allowed to talk about it.

I knew a Chinese exchange student who would debate all sorts of things, but when you brought up the Chinese government she would come to a hard stop and say "I don't talk about that."

It's probably smart if you're from an authoritarian country.
At the risk of inspiring a violent reaction (virtually, of course): Sorry folks, this is silly. Go solve real problems.

Does a patient care if the ML code that discovered a malignant tumor used an explicitly written loop?

As a silly test: What would be the value in rewriting the Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. codebases to avoid loops? What’s the ROI?

Kindly provide a few examples at scale (not academic oddities) where this might actually matter?

You can’t avoid loops. Any time you are doing the same thing repeatedly, you are using a loop, whether you explicitly wrote it or not.

Sure, sure, there are corner cases. I have unrolled loops in assembly in real time embedded code where every microsecond counted. That is far from the norm and, frankly, should be avoided with absolute passion.

I have also worked with APL for ten years. You can do amazing things with the language while seemingly not looping. In reality nearly everything you do with APL includes heavy looping behind the curtains, and you better be well aware of this if performance is important.

Don’t get me wrong, the academic question is interesting. However, if you live and work in the real world there are far more interesting and pressing issues to be concerned with.
If you know what they want and buy in bulk, this could be more of a "shop for charity" volunteer opportunity.

The key is that someone is making a shopping list based on demand, rather than guessing.
> This attitude frustrates me. Having the infrastructure in place to redistribute goods is work. It takes people's time and effort, and that does not come for free.

Neither does the work of the people donating food and/or money.
We received a devgrsnt for our video game about two years back. The grants are super no strings attached. Epic is by far the nicest organization to work with in the video game industry. Yet that was even before the Fortnite money.
I am no expert on Google search, but it seems to me that "accessing the index" and "retrieving ranked results" must be one and the same. That is, the very structure of the index is designed around a particular ranking scheme in order to make accessing it computationally tractable. In light of that, how would one expose an API to offer access to the index without having something about Google's curation or ranking built in. A query API is clearly out because query responses include some results and leave out others, but even a dump runs into the problem that the data was collected, parsed, and structured with a particular scheme in mind.
Did you mean "the motive is clear", but got autocowrekted?
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Wait, are you saying the only valuable students are the ones that didn’t pay for their education? Because that’s what it sounds like you’re saying.
It doesn't make sense for America to educate its rivals. We should also be wary of Universities turning into backdoor immigration schemes - this has already happened in Australia and lead to a massive reduction in education quality.

The focus should be on training Americans to fill American jobs - and any immigration scheme should be arranged with military, economic, and cultural Allies only (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea).
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I've been part of volunteer groups that have specifically been drafted to help cook and hand out these sort of holiday meat splurges - in Boston there was a good amount of warning and people would register their donations ahead of times so that we could make sure the turkeys get to shelters that can cook them and they didn't end up lying in a freezer because no one had the time to babysit them - or thrown out because a shelter over-estimated how much traffic they'd get. And, while a lot of time the safety of food that is consumed is questionable, shelters really don't want to hold onto meat beyond its shelf-life and end up giving everyone food poisoning.
In our household we wash our glass and metal packaging for recycling in the old-fashioned way, with water and suds in the sink alongside the rest of the post-dinner washing up. It's a lot quicker than a dishwasher, uses a lot less water and detergent, and quite relaxing and therapeutic in its own weird way. (Takes time out to shine halo)
Coffee machines make decaf and it's quite popular where I work.
I'd argue that programming, like any other human endeavor, has always been teamwork.
This statement seems true without context but false with context.

Allow me to provide the context:

If you're a Chinese internantional student living in the USA where the #1 guy in the country uses Identity Politics as its arsenal to win and lead the country, you, as an outsider, will feel insecure w.r.t of races.

If you're a Chinese international student coming back home to your country of origin, you're used to the situations there: that's what you were born with and that's your culture that you're used to for 18 years of your life. I mean, you're still free to roam the streets, eat any food, continue with your life as-is. It's not like you live in a jail.

If you're a typical Americans who doesn't like the government to limit virtually anything (yes, I'm dead serious, Americans want everything and they don't like rules), you probably look at other countries as some sort of un-democratic, nazi-like state. I've seen a few people here criticized Singapore! If you go to Singapore, there's only a limited number of citizens who dislike the leaders.

Context is very important when comparing two countries/cultures.

For example, I live in a no-gun country so I scratched my head hard whenever I see mass-shooting in the US every week killing your children just because folks love their guns. That's just... crazy.

Step inside a land/house by accident and gets killed by the homeowner's M14 is just... nuts (yes I know I'm exaggerating a bit).