skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about Keng or when he did or did not make money trafficking drugs and people. He doesn't seem to have suffered much from whatever adverse coverage he received in May 2012. [0] Still... doesn't it seem possible that the government will go for any pretext to hound the primary journalistic voice that challenges some of the more outrageous abuses in Philippines? Where else should we go to keep up with what's happening there?

[0] https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/224092-fast-facts-wilfr...
Faster per watt I agree. Per clock, they could be somewhat similar with caveats. Per Core, the clock speeds that can be achieved with intel are much higher (even if it throttles). I think both are good enough for 90% of the population.

I don't see anyone building an external compute/accelerator platform around an ARM Mac ecosystem. It's a niche market as is and the direction has always been to integrate functions like this onto the chip / package directly. I think the latter is certainly an opportunity apple will choose as they will be able to claim their new processors have a special sauce that intel does not have and charge an apple premium for it.

Are you suggesting plugging in a dongle that has a CPU on it? I'm very confused if true. As the bandwidth between RAM and CPU is ~50GB/s, any external dongle would not be able to communicate with the system RAM without a huge slowdown, so the dongle would need it's own RAM too, how this would communicate with a GPU is questionable again and this is already a weird crazy expensive dongle.

I think this is the part that will make 3rd party developers give on on the Mac. Mac ports are given the least love as is, mostly because apple will break your application on such a regular basis it's not worth the cost to port/support, but this change adds so much more burden to the developer, I think most will wait a few years before making a commitment unless apple throws money as them.
What is a GRE ?
I have two pigs. They've very clean animals. Only pigs that are forced to live in piles of their own feces are "filthy." A pig with options will use mud to protect them from the sun but they prefer to bathe in water. Calling cops "pigs" is insulting to my pigs.
I mean this in the nicest possible way; have you ever faced discrimination based on the colour of your skin, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities or anything else which is protected by law in most civilised countries?

If, like a significant portion of the HN audience, you are straight, white, middle class and male it's probably easier for you to dismiss the right to fair treatment than it might be for individuals in those categories.
> Google consistently returned a small result set of the same few news sites across multiple different searches compared to DDG giving me a much wider swath of results.

That sounds like it'd be because Google's results are personalized and DDG's aren't.
My point is that it impacts zero people.

I don't believe a single person feels the impact of this change.
Exactly. Everyone needs to study the history of the Friedman doctrine before parroting statements like that.
AlphaGo Zero definitely falls in the same category as GPT-3 - yes, this is unsupervised learning, but it still is fundamentally the same approach, exactly because of the way discovery and reward work on the model.

This isn't how a child learns to walk at all: A child a priori has the concept of walking, the concept of self, the concept of movement in space, the concept of willing to walk etc. - it just doesn't have the motoric control. The small part of training motoric control through repeated trial and error is indeed similar to what unsupervised learning models, but the important part is missing.
Yes, the fight for explicit protection via legislation does need to continue, because this decision (potentially) leaves a loophole open to fire bisexuals, asexuals, etc.

Still a step forward, though.
If your startup fails then you software is harder to value. If the bank have ovens at least they can resell them. If you have a piece of software it's much harder to value or sell.
For anyone else wondering, ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Qualified immunity already doesn't protect you if you knowingly break the law, and it doesn't protect you if you are clearly incompetent.

If you believe the experts that are well-versed in this area, this is not how it works in practice. The Wikipedia article covers a lot of the controversy around this doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity#Objections_...

Here is an example of a man in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who was brutally assaulted by undercover officers because they believed he was somebody else. Take a look at how difficult it has been for him to get any recourse for a blatantly obvious abuse of power (6 years and counting): https://twitter.com/AaronParseghian/status/12701818156644966...
What's the difference between a mobile app vs any other interface other than convenience? Should I be required to talk to a financial advisor before managing my own freaking money that I earned?

While we're at it why don't we make Amazon track user bank accounts so they can decide what you can and can't afford and stop you before you buy that $10,000 TV when you still have credit card debt?

Not saying there should be no safety rails, but as an adult you are allowed to ruin your life through bad decisions. Society's obligation is to provide reasonable protection from things outside your control and point out the obvious pitfalls you may not be aware of.

Fidelity tried to upsell me on their margin trading system. At the time I had no idea what trading on margin was, so I read some blogs, watched some YouTube videos, did some high school algebra and decided the risk wasn't worth it at the rates they were offering. For people who don't have that kind of time/education, know your limits and maybe don't buy something you don't at least fundamentally understand.

At what point are people expected to own their mistakes? Seems like every time a story like this pops up there's a discussion as to how to make systems more paternalistic, bail out individuals for their stupid decisions the same way the government bails out corporate America. The correct social response in both cases IMO is the opposite. Financial failure shouldn't be death, but it should have teeth. This guy likely could have declared bankruptcy and recovered in a few years. That is a reasonable safety net IMO.
It's mind boggling how quickly they built this ship. Keel laid down late Sept 2019 and launched just two months later in December. Arrived here today after two months voyage from the Far East.
You won't use a 2020 card for 30 years, but what about a 2100 card? By that point, computing hardware will be a fully matured technology, and you certainly won't be seeing the yearly performance increases we've seen for the last fifty years. In a world with no improvement, you can expect customer preferences will move to durability.
I see that in the README, you give an example that uses `hstack` and `vstack` tags. Can you just declare you own tags that are essentially wrappers for CSS? If not, I'd love an explanation what what they do.
I don't think OP meant it's lunacy because of any legal obligations private companies have to a federal organization, but rather due to the message it would send to current and future customers.
Yep. At the time, it was kind of a controversial decision. Now it seems obvious.
Here's a link to a blog post detailing the thinking of Bozhidar Batsov, RuboCop's author:

https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-dram...
This one? https://alexdanco.com/2020/06/14/never-hertz-to-ask/
Wordpress > Ghost. Its 2020 and ghost does not support a table, as in normal table copy-pasted from excell.

Or audio. Or a gif, or comments. Sure you can host them elsewhere, but how many secondary services am I meant to use for a personal blog?

As i get older, I seem to be growing respect for legacy software: if people are still using it after 30 years, it probably got something right.
Browsers will prevent from loading all flash content?

They already block flash by default. The next step must be to remove the "run anyway" button and ignore the flash plugin.
There are interesting parallels to this well-defined role: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar
They've taken over blocks, blocking traffic, stopping the flow of people and businesses into that area, they've disregarded state and local laws, etc. It's completely factual. Whatever Fox News has been doing to drum up hits on their website is completely irrelevant.
> to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy.

I'm having trouble understanding the linchpin of your argument. Government agencies don't have any inherent right to your business and you are free to deny them service for reasons political or otherwise.
If you are in favor (or in the process) of putting large groups of people who have not directly harmed anyone in concentration camps, separating them from their families, keeping children in cages etc, THEN you are considered a racist authoritarian almost akin to mid 1940's Germany.
And if you don't get your way, what's next? Shutting off ICE employee's water, electricity, and telephone service? And why not kick them out of their apartments too since sheltering an ICE officer helps enable them.
The Imperceptible Nature of Everyday Change
You are completely right. In a free society you should have the liberty to do business with whomever you want (no matter how politically in-correct your reasoning is).

The great thing about this, is that someone else will realize there is now an under-served market, and create a business to fulfill that need.

The same case can be made for hiring practices.
That jabber server presents no problems for you since you're the server operator, but your friends are giving you a complete list of their contacts, and metadata about their messages too. You take your own privacy seriously and ignore that of your friends. (Relevant anecdote: I know a case where a such a server admin discovered that his SO and a friend were messaging from the same residential IP address before breakfast.)

If you don't give your friends access to your server, this issue is removed, of course. But then you don't market anything and have raised a giant usability obstacle to actually using the server for communicating.
The media in Germany is fiercely pro opening. The state television racket is pro opening.

After all, the upper classes need their Romanian builders and package delivery people to maintain their lifestyle and large mansions.

Additionally, they can feel good about themselves and ignore the despair in faces of supermarket cashiers once they reach a certain age and are still on minimum wage (or are even lower paid contractors that can be fired at any time).

Isn't "socialism" great?
You're conflating the end result and the means. I wouldn't cheer on any company doing that, just like I don't cheer on companies when they donate to campaigns for racists or people who vote for racists.

The government also doesn't have to compromise. Maybe there's a competitor who is less particular about who they do business with or in fact thinks the cruelty is actually cool and good. gitlab is 100% neutral on who they do business with, for example.
A choice quote from the wickedlocal coverage:

> Those involved became so concerned that they developed a list of people in California they could frame if authorities tracked the harassment there, Lelling said
even suggesting you can be politically neutral is a political stance that comes from a place of privilege, because only the privileged can avoid experiencing negative political consequences inside their bubble

Yeah... no. I’m politically active, I support a variety of causes. But I can’t support every cause - I’m not privileged enough to be a full-time “activist” of which there seem to be a surprising number these days - and sometimes I just want to write some damn code and focus on that and put food on the table and donate what I can after.
Pulumi vs. Terraform
> Who will make future contracts with such company? Would you outsource your project delivery to a company where employees decide whether your project/office/political stand is good or bad?

I'd gladly prefer to contract with a company that's not known for supporting agencies running concentration camps. This political moment will pass, but twenty years from now after this history chapters have been written on ICE, we still have to live with the choices we made.

> Who will risk employing a person who rebels against board members of a company and causes financial damages over broken contract?

Plenty of companies. Our skill set is very much in demand.
I would love for the big corporations to refuse to deal with ICE and allow smaller companies to provide service.
My question is not so much about ICE, who I personally feel would be reasonable to refuse to do business with in the current circumstance (caveat: I'm not an expert here and could be wrong). My question is about next "unethical" organization that GitHub has a contract with, and the next and the next after that. Do employees have veto power on revenue-generating contracts, generally? Or is ICE an exceptional case? Should new contracts undergo a vote among employees? What if 51% of employees oppose ending the contract with ICE? Would the other side be satisfied then?

I don't see either approach being morally wrong (granting or denying to employees contract veto power), they're both just different ways of governing an organization. These seem like the underlying questions however, and it seems to me that those calling to end the ICE contract should be prepared to answer them.
I once met a man who was a who believed deeply in aestheticism. His perception was that the only thing that mattered was the aesthetics of the thing, nothing more. Morality took a second seat, as did everything else. I could not, for the life of me, convince him that life is a bit more multidimensional than that. With each topic, he would aestheticize it, if you will, then speak of how his aesthetization of the topic proved his point. "See: aesthetics!"

It's no different than those who claim everything is "political", which of course all too clearly betrays their steadfast belief in "historical materialism". If you make everything political, refuse to see anything except through a political lens, then yes - everything is political.

I must say, the man of aesthetics was much more interesting to talk to.
Every decision made at the executive level is inherently a political decision, because someone will benefit.

But not just affirmative actions: not cancelling a contract with an organization that builds concentration camps is making a strong political statement in itself.

They “waded into the waters” the moment they accepted the contract with ICE. What they are seeing now is that their actions have consequences. And while you don’t necessarily intend the consequences of your actions, you must accept them.

Only children have trouble doing so.
I love IMAP, I just wish I could disable IDLE in macOS Mail Mojave or later. I prefer no interruptions, but can’t turn them off now.

Maybe HEY will kick some of these ideas back to the forefront.
You are arguing with a group of technocratic ideologues who truly believe in the myths that America is a meritocracy and that the free market can solve all problems. That privilege doesn't exist and that everything that comes out of Elon Musk's and Sam Harris' mouth is not sanctimonious and self-important claptrap as it actually is, but instead beautiful eloquent words graced by intelligence and maturity.

I have attempted on numerous occasions to reason with this community over basic sociological concepts and have repeatedly failed. I have given up on convincing people in SV the truths of the lives of people outside of their bubble. I recommend you do the same and engage in activism. It's more productive. Godspeed.
My guess is that it is more than just visual clues on the page and facing page currently visible. I suspect it is also the 3D layout of the pages in space, and how that changes as you go though the book.

With a book, it feels different when reading material at different places in the book. Even if I'm not going through the book linearly but instead looking up things in the index and jumping to them, I get a sense of where things are in space. Later, if I'm trying to find something again I can usually go to close to the right place without bothering with the index.

I suspect that the reason for this is is related to why/how the method of loci [1] (AKA memory palace) works. We are really good at remembering spatial relationships, and the book lets us tap into that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
People are not necessarily picking on the theoretical role of Ice. They are against the practice of what ICE does.
well its not like you get to decide where your tax dollars go.
In your examples you can see the discrimination clearly, but this made me ponder. How about scenarios where the discrimination isn't overtly stated by the discriminators? Let's assume they aren't really upfront and ask you about your sexual preference (Which is very odd since asking personal questions is a big NO-NO in Canada, where I live). Having this law will help in your case, but how can a general person even try to pinpoint why they were fired, especially so if they have an 'at will' status of employement?
I believe if anything this pandemic has shown, is that remote work is much worse than in office work.

Boring Video meetings. Lack of interactions. It takes two or three times to do the same things remotely in my line of work (Product Manager).

It is good to have the flexibility of working remotely, but I will never choose it as my way of working.
in my humble and unwarranted opinion (see also not having run a vc company or a company for that matter) profits should have been the idea from the get go: all of this effort to get large and then use economies of scale to defeat rivals and then start making a profit is just wrong
OSX does support Vulkan.
You want to look for Software Tester / Software Test Engineer positions.

Microsoft used to hire a lot of people from all walks of life for this position. However a decade ago or so they combined this position with the Software Design Engineer in Test position, which is a combination of software tester and a software engineer who works on test automation or testing infrastructure. There are teams who really value SDETs who are good at bug finding and consider them worth their weight in gold.

The tricky thing is that it's very hard to train someone for a software tester role. You can train someone to go through the motions, but people who are really good at it show amazing creativity and will find many bugs that an experienced but average tester will not. This is definitely a field where a 10x engineer concept is not a myth.
This is why nobody listens to libertarians.
Pigs are highly intelligent and sympathetic creatures. I'm told that they're more intelligent than dolphins. Please do not malign them, and please consider not eating them.
I went to the CHAZ to throw a frisbee with friends yesterday, and literally nothing you just said is true. Be aware that the Seattle Police Department is running an active disinformation campaign about the CHAZ, which is eagerly lapped up by people predisposed to believe the lies.
I believe that in this hypothetical there is only a single checkbox [Either Catholic or Black/Neither Catholic nor Black], such that the employer will have learned neither the applicant's race nor their religion with certainty.
Criminals are also a minority group that are concentrated into prisons. Is that wrong too?
> You cannot choose to “avoid” them; even suggesting you can be politically neutral is a political stance that comes from a place of privilege, because only the privileged can avoid experiencing negative political consequences inside their bubble.

There are well-known historical analogues for many of the people now attempting to refrain from making political statements. Namely, there were those Germans in the Nazi era who were neither pro-Nazi nor openly anti-Nazi and who underwent so-called "internal emigration". And there were those Soviet dissidents who didn’t want to have any part in that decades-long fight between the West ("You Communist countries don't respect individual liberty and free markets!") and the Socialist Bloc ("You capitalist nations don’t respect workers, lynch black people and engage in colonialist oppression!").

Neither of those groups were "privileged", indeed these particular analogues were living in oppressive regimes that were suspicious of lack of enthusiasm and these people often suffered for that. But now, from our modern vantage point, we can have a lot of sympathy for them. They made a decision that was right for their own lives, and some of what these groups’ artists created may not have been fashionable at the time among all the polemic, but now it is seen to be very moving and have great staying power.

Of course, a big corporation with large government contracts is quite different from individuals choosing to refrain from being involved, or a small circle of people thereof that constructs its own shared private world to retreat into, separated from contemporary debates. But still, I think that we should refrain from condemning cases where one group of people has not joined its peers in adopting political statements or actions, even if we strongly sympathize with those political movements and believe them just.
Debugging out-of-memory crashes in Python
The detector does not "look" in any direction, it is in no way "pointed" at the sun. It records the direction of all events that occur within its volume. But once recorded they compare the direction of all events with the direction from the sun at the time of the event. The angle between the solar direction and the event direction is what makes up that image. If the neutrinos were not coming from the sun, the image would look like white-noise. Since there is a clear "peak" at the center you can make a good estimate about what fraction of events in your data set came from the sun. That amount is a direct measurement of nuclear processes going on with the sun over the course of the dataset...which is physically interesting. Here is the 1-D version of the neutrino "picture", https://i.imgur.com/7OmXXtn.png (cite: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07538.pdf). You can tell quite clearly that there are many more events pointing away from the sun then are pointing back towards it. Exactly how much more is the interesting physics measurement done here.

All that being said, the specific shape of the "sun" in the image is influenced by many factors many of which are related to the detection mechanism and the detector itself...and don't tell you that much about the sun. Eventually (one hopes), detectors will improve to the point where the "shape" information of the image is reliable enough to extract interesting solar physics measurements from it.

P.S your fun thought on the detection of a fusion reactor is extremely on point. There exists a under-construction experiment in the UK called "Watchman" that hopes to detect a neutrino signature from a nuclear power plant being shut off and then being used to produce material for a nuclear weapon. The idea would be that you could observe activities of nuclear facilities in a "rouge nation". See here https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/science/nuclear-bombs-ant... or here http://svoboda.ucdavis.edu/experiments/watchman/