skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, 538 did a couple of articles about how polarization is no worse than ever, but what is unusual today is how strongly the polarization lines up with political parties.

It is now notable to find some ideological question for which e.g. 80+% of Republicans do not agree on. The Democrats were lagging a bit on this, but are catching up rapidly.

They do note that at least some of this is due to people leaving the parties, but a lot of it is also due to people aligning their beliefs more with the parties.

Look at the bottom graph here[1]. Note that up through 2004 both parties had roughly the same response to the question of immigrants. Then steadily those opposed to immigration within the Democratic party either switched to the Republican party or, aligned their beliefs with the pro-immigration stance.

Similarly for basically my entire life (born in 1980) the country has been split 60/40 on abortion. However, the democratic party used to be just slightly above average for pro-life with the Republican party below average. Now over 80% of Democrats are pro-life, and Republicans have polled in the mid 30s for over a decade now.

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FT_19...
It is a legitimate strategy, but if you do this well enough, the casino will not allow you to play, since you can turn the game’s odds into your favor.
Personally, I think it will have permanent effects on airport operations.

Some of the steps like social distancing, wearing masks, temperature checks, sanitizers, etc will remain even after the vaccine is found.
He's not wrong. Smart people go into the careers that provide them with the most personal benefit.

In the Soviet Union most smart people became scientists and the country over-achieved in many domains related to science, but inevitably fell apart because of lower living standards and still never achieved the heights of capitalist societies who squander some smart people but create more wealth.

But in the end most of us are just trying to live life, no one wants to sacrifice personal gain just so society can advance X amount quicker...
Meh, I'm with previous commenter. I know what the event loop means, that JS is single threaded, and what setTimeout is supposed to do under normal circumstances. I consider the question stupid, moreover your answer to it is likely incorrect, because it depends on the implementation. I bet Node.js never interrupts the loop for example (and I never even done Node.js, it would just be a sane thing to do).

And yeah, you might agree on Node behaving differently, but that just proves the question is very bad. Even with "in browser" clause the answer can change tomorrow for all we know.

It is like asking about undefined C++ behavior in an intentionally very bad example.
At least for now, it's believable they could work safely. There's very few people on the aircraft, and snacks/beverages are mostly stopped. Also, contrary to popular belief, the air in the aircraft is refreshed fairly often from the outside (via the engines).
Yep, he's probably started cheerfully doodling Smith charts by now ...

(I used Smith charts a couple of times in school, but did not inhale.)

P.S.

Just hit search for 'Amateur Radio "Extra" license curriculum', and it's impressively comprehensive, at least from the first hit, a nice PDF at http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Instructor%20resources/Tiley,...

(it features Smith charts at page 109, and at 118 ends with a full page blank chart :)
Battlefield 2142 actually had the concept of ranked and unranked servers. Unranked servers allowed for more modification, but didn’t affect your global rank for obvious reasons, leading to sillier game play.

It was a fairly effective system, IMHO.
That treatment, along with the tactics used in this story like Wonging at the table, last occurred/were effective long before the author was born. Typically casinos if they are nice put you on a "flat bet" which makes counting completely useless since profiting on it is predicated on varying your bet. Another thing would be not allowing the player to play blackjack anymore. Usually the harshest punishment is banning the player from the casino, having them cash their chips, and leave. Subsequently coming back would be trespassing then you'd be put in cuffs and brought in the back.
Yes, that was me! Two or three fingers per hand. I think a lot of us do like that. I learned the proper way like a year ago. I sill had to force myself to put my fingers on the home row. The problem is I use their laptops in weird places like on a couch or bed where proper touch typing is just not comfortable and it easier to type one handed.
Lots of people agree with this - and it's not really news. Surprised there is so much discussion here, just because Elon Musk said it.
There is no need whatsoever to publish someone's name(s), address(es), possibly other personal details such as the signatures shown here, and a lot of information that would inform you about their personal finances, just because they happen to be a company official. It's a gift to identity thieves and fraudsters, and the potential for abuse is far too great. In theory, you're supposed to be able to check whether a business you're dealing with is above board, but in reality what gets published may be of little value for judging that even if someone does check, which won't happen often anyway.
The Covid-19 Risks, Know Them, Avoid Them
YouTubers are beholden to YouTube, YouTube is beholden to advertisers.

When advertisers realized that a stupid percentage of their ad spend was going to four-year-olds watching six hours of unlicensed Disney characters in kinky scenarios it was the perfect storm for change.

Keeping perceived ad value up to advertisers is why creators even have the opp to monetize at the rate they do, so it’s really give and take.
Why focus on earning calls and not, says, meetings with Chinese partners for his Shanghai Gigafactory? CFO and legal counsels, or similar roles, are pretty much always present in calls with investors for any public companies.

Also, what makes Tesla being Tesla is something invented centuries ago. The battery.
Analysis of the NHSX Contact Tracing App Data Protection Impact Assessment
Perhaps you would. But with our present state of knowledge, it might be medical malpractice for a hospital to help you to do so.
Sure, can't dispute what you say. There has to be some amount of "you must be this high to ride this ride" but you don't need to measure 7 times or whatever before thinking the first measure was accurate.

I've been on both sides of the interviewing tables many times and the processes that worked the best were the ones that involved telling stories to another another and seeing how the other reacted. You know, actually interviewing, humans having a conversation.
I don’t really care about Damore or what he thinks.

I’m just saying that if Damore continues to associate with alt-right figures, he shouldn’t be surprised when people start assuming that he’s an alt-right crank, because that’s how people work.
Oh nice! That's pretty similar to the VS Code's search experience; I didn't know emacs had that built in! I have a colleague who uses emacs and he always uses grep for stuff like this and it makes my eyes bleed :P
All sorts of discussion aren't possible unless the participants can be sure that the others are acting in good faith and not likely to engage in needless hostility or reprisals outside the discussion.

The term for this environment is "safe space", but they're unpopular for some reason.
I find someone like Jordan Peterson to have some authoritarian tendencies for sure, but his fans would probably call them "strong opinions". That's fair, abet I doubt that generous interpretation would be extended to someone they disagree with.

Just notice how the IDW feels strongly about free speech, but when it comes to the issue of Palestine and specifically incentivizing disinvestment from Israeli occupied territory in the West Bank, they suddenly have less than nothing to say about it, not to mention the issue of U.S. States passing anti-boycott laws censoring BDS and yet crickets from the IDW.

Being selective in your concern for free speech and only criticizing one side seems hardly "intellectual" to me and I can't take it seriously.

P.S. While the IDW is not exactly defined, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web#Associat... has a decent list.
First of all, there are plenty of businesses that would do exactly this. It is legal in most US states.

OK, but I don't think it's right. Here's why.

We as a society have said, employers can "discriminate" (meaning "choose") employees on some axes but not others. They can discriminate based on where you went to college, where you've worked previously, how friendly you seem to be, but not based on your gender or race. That's true even if working with a Black person or a woman would make some people uncomfortable.

The question, which I'll leave as a question, is, what's the difference between these two sets, and in which one does LGBTQ identity belong and why?
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I'm having to do a lot of this now and I cannot imagine having to write any code, in any language, this way without depending on a magic IDE and other magic libaries.

To be fair, at least Spring and Lombok don't require me to maintain loads of yaml/XML files to describe the DI stuff, but annotations in java aren't always the most intuitive thing.

Requiring a class representation of literally everything is a huge limitation, and I wish there were other alternatives to this style of DDD that abstracts everything to an absurd degree.
I agree that poor role models and bad influences negatively affect kids, whether poor or not. However, from my wife’s experience teaching at Title I schools, many of these kids DO have the motivation to do well in their classes.

What is glaringly apparent to teachers at these schools is the inequity due to lack of resources (poor parents and poor school funding). Many of these kids do not have access to internet, do not have access to computers, and rely on their schools to provide them with regular meals.

Parents are not the only important part of the equation here.
This is a useful run through of the data protection impact assessment of the ‘Isle of Wight’ version of the app.

There's a twitter thread from the author here: https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1259127379471011842
As an attorney who has seen what actually happens in the courtroom, I can tell you that the smartest lawyer does not always win the case, and that judges will often go out of their way to help lawyers who look like they’re tangled up. Being on the right side of the law often helps more.
Scraping the screen fast enough to do the right thing would be pretty impressive, at that point there is nothing you can do.
As a Musk fan and Trump not-a-fan, I can see your point.

BTW, most Musk fans do not think this way. Most are frustrated by some of the crazy crap he says or does (and therefor creates headlines) but 98% of what he does and says is mostly good stuff.

His COVID19 comments have been really trying on my patience too.
Do you have a source?

Because in Canada, he went to school and university, studying physics, and then got a scholarship for a master's at UPenn, and later for a PhD in Stanford. All was in physics.
Moderate exercise in middle and older age cuts time spent in hospital
How about mine http://repo.memkits.org/hn-reader/?id=23122813 .
None of those "innovations" in ML have actually translated to successful real world use cases that aren't basically ads as of yet. And no, talking to Google or Alexa doesn't count. That's just yet another data collection strategy. We still don't have self driving cars, automatic diagnostic systems, automatic wealth planning, or even automatic government planning.

Computer Vision has benefited from the ML work of the big corps, but now it's just being used to more efficiently spy on the population.
> I think he would have gotten fired even without the leak.

I don't think so, it had to go all the way up to Sundar before he got fired, Sundar wouldn't have taken a break from his vacation if it wasn't a PR mess. Internal messes happens all the time at Google and they almost never end with someone getting fired.
It seems that there is no photogrammetry software that supports Linux and Radeon at same time.
I am very familiar with this IC.
Oh good, now we have two problems... parents in prison and a kid without parents.
There really are some weird edge cases out there.

E.g. parts of the border between Switzerland and Italy is described by peaks and valleys of the alps. Now due to climate change, glaciers are melting, and suddenly parts of Switzerland and Italy are swapping. [https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/neue-landesgrenze-schweiz-und-it..., German only]
Literally his whole memo was posted online, in full. I struggle to understand the context that was missing.
Banjo CEO steps down as fallout from revelations of past ties to KKK continues
Citing papers doesn’t make an opinion piece “scientific” or unpolitical. It just means the author did enough research to prop their opinion up. It’s a particular failing of self described rationalists that seeing citations means the goal was objective truth rather than supporting a pre-existing bias or opinion. Particularly when dealing with papers in harder to study fields that have been at the centre of the replication crisis.

As with the SRE who tried to play epidemiologist the other day it pays to be skeptical about the evidence and opinions presented even if they are delivered with citations and in an academic tone. Especially when both are playing far outside their fields of expertise.
If you have the need (and I would say cynically if you also have the money and political connections) you can commission a private police force that has (in a limited way) the legal authority to arrest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_police
In the last eight years, we’ve gotten a lot closer to this with the increasing use of preprint servers (arXiv, bioarXiv, etc).

Until recently, I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of most preprints. Most seemed roughly comparable to peer-reviewed papers, though the COVID crisis seems to have unleashed a deluge of lower quality work though, and I think we haven’t quite figured out how to do (and reward) reviewing.
I guarantee you someone is using MapReduce or Tensorflow or Kubernetes to fight COVID-19 right now.
The World After Covid-19: A Turning Point in History
How does it work with multiple decks? Can you get same cards on same rounds?

That would kinda break yhe illusion for me but maybe other people/casino doesnt care
It’s in his biography.
Here's a good presentation from Nvidia on the topic (Cuda specific): https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/cuda/files/redu...
Yeah, redistribute those smart minds to do algo optimization for behaviour addiction and advertising click algos. That’s ll we needed. For whoever doesn’t get it, I am being sarcastic. It would be ideal if people followed their passions and interrests without the need to excell in Ivy Leagues.
Innovation is not compatible with heavy regulations. The reason why so many people look towards Software is because the Internet and app stores of the world are relatively free to improvise and innovate at, compared to other industries such as Education or Healthcare or even Finance (FinTech is an island of relative freedom in the ocean of financial regulations). If you are given a choice to spend the most productive years of your life either in an industry where results of your work are most likely going to be banned by an unnamed bureaucrat, or in a software shop with a weekly public release process, the preference is obvious. Yes, the impact is smaller, yet it's out there and you know that you made it possible.
Julian Robertson took 800Kin Covid-19 aid to pay the staff at his luxury resorts
One doesn't always control the input format of data one receives. Indeed a lot of stuff I've cobbled together in real work is munging many and varied logs
Then he should have done a better job representing himself. At any time he could come out and say exactly what he means and doesn't mean, and apologize for any harm done. Instead, he allied himself with the very people whose views you claim he doesn't hold. At some point, your actions define you.
I've been voting by mail for close to a decade; maybe longer. So it's definitely not new, but that's why I love California.
Follow the money. Smart people go into finance and law.

H1Bs fills the STEM positions.

This is how it plays nowadays, it's called globalization of IT.

I don't like that.
Unfortunately, it's for Windows only
IDK, even in operations the size of the cloud providers, executing some of the same things billions of times a second, there's still very few specialized chips. TPU is an example, and I think they all use some for network packet filtering and such. But you don't see anything for DB acceleration or paxos acceleration or maps acceleration or anything like that. They've had years to figure this out, so if they're not finding it worth it at hypercompetitive cloud scale then I don't see the revolution going too awful far anytime soon.
Actually Google has been much harsher on the extreme left crowd at Google since then. They didn't say it officially but I think they realized that both sides were to blame for this PR mess and just bashing one side will make the other way more vocal and aggressive in the future.
I got:

OpenJDK 8: ~80-90 ms

OpenJDK 11: ~60 ms

OpenJDK 14: ~50-55 ms

The first runs were a bit slower, perhaps because the files needed by the JVM weren't in disk cache or something.

Other languages/runtimes:

Python 2.7: 20-25 ms

Python 3.8: 30-40 ms

Native binary compiled from C: 1-3 ms (so bordering on unmeasurable at millisecond resolution)

This was on Linux, and an entirely unrigorous experiment.

edit: formatting
Perfect timing. Elon just tweeted: “ Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected & ignorant “Interim Health Officer” of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense!”

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259159878427267072?s=21
I wouldn't generalize your own flaws to "people". I suspect many people understand you can talk to people without agreeing with them on everything.
In reality, he graduated in physics.

I never heard that "banker" story before, but a month long internship is hardly a career.

He went on getting physics scholarships for UPenn and then Stanford.
Way better to spend tax money on this than more bombs
Why is the tangential, unsourced stuff always longer than the actual article?
Is Meritocracy an Idea Worth Saving?
Yeah, first sentence no less. No excuse for that one!
If you're a tenure track professor today in a STEM field today, you're likely incredibly lucky or privileged as well as being smart. Most people don't want to play the odds and that's absolutely fair. Even a career as real world engineer makes little sense compared to one in finance. You're job opportunities are less, you'll likely have to go live in rural places you don't want to, and your risk of losing your job for long stretches is quite high. We don't have as many important public infrastructure projects anymore so real world engineers are in much less demand and many just work on condo buildings or maintaining current systems.
There was a study a while ago that found a correlation between book ownership in a child’s house and educational achievement. So some municipality (can’t remember which) kickstarted a program to mail a few age appropriate books to kids in their per month.

The result was no change. It turned out that the actual cause wasn’t books, it was parents who would value books enough to purchase them. Buying books for children whose parents hadn’t valued reading and education enough to already own some books didn’t help at all.
The en-US usage of the word "liberal" is really confusing to people outside of the USA.

Liberalism doesn't, and has never, meant "left-wing" except for in America.
Where did I, or anyone else say 'any amount of money' or anything interpretable in that way?

There were credible scenarios, which could not have been discounted at the time, in which that capacity would have been needed. Spain set up emergency hospitals in convention centres, and a morgue in an ice rink. Those were exactly the model we prepared to follow in the UK.

As for the costs structure of the US model, frankly I have no idea. The NHS here works completely differently, suppliers do price gouge we're not immune to it, but that sort of thing can't really happen at the bed-provision level as that's an administrative rather than commercial issue.
> But for healthy "essential" workers it would mean not living in fear that they might get it... because they already got over it.

That does seem to be the prevailing public understanding, but it's not actually yet known to be the case.

Of course it's possible, but it would be gambling not just on successful recovery (as it always would) but also that it would end up being effective anyway.
This is a good point, data being available and free does not itself give you rights of reuse.

I couldn't find an obvious license (note - without a license data should be considered to be the most restricted) but a lot of the data from companies house is under the OGL : http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licen...

Almost all reuse is fine, including commercial, however this does not extend to personal data.

This is more of a broad issue with the data rather than a complaint about the autograph hunting which I think is a nice fun application.
>This is the crux of the issue. For this to be true, it must also be true that men and women are, at least in some ways, intrinsically different

I don't see why it's the crux. It's really only necessary that men and women be socialized differently for this to be true - to grow up surrounded by people telling you that you need to be more "agreeable" and "not too pushy".

I think whether it is true or not is rather beside the point. Toxic working environments are anti-meritocratic and anti productive. Even if we didn't give a fuck how many women entered the profession we should fix them. Intellectual dick waving leads to worse code, not better.
I’m genuinely shocked at the idea that anyone thinks more prison will solve issues like this.
I think that it is reasonable to expect the woman to check in the car seat and at least one of the carry-ons as baggage. I also think it is reasonable for the flight attendant and other passengers to expect the airline to enforce their rules on this, although maybe with more leniency now, but do not then expect extra service for breaking common curtesy.
I believe OP was trying to riff off the famous line from the Wizard of Oz, but muddled the delivery. Perhaps he put too much focus on STEM in his education.
Absolutely this. The news + internet is driving a new form of polarization that's distinctly different from its historical antecedents.
Germany, on cusp of reopening, is facing new Covid-19 outbreaks
Buyer beware. Before Covid, many things were called turning points. They weren't.

E.g. the financial crisis was supposed to be a turning point in history. It wasn't. It was a continuation of degration of power and culture in USA that found form.

E.g. China's ascendance has been happening for many decades. Covid won't change that.

There were numerous pandemics in history. They weren't necessarily turning points.

Turning points can be identified retrospectively. Prospectively not so much.

Give humanity a couple of years, covid will probably be remembered as a roadbump, not as a new path.
Might be the end of you though.
I'm not a fan of open office either, but then what's the point of having an office if employees are isolated and it's the same as working from home anyway.
Quantum resonances near absolute zero