skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could anyone explain why version numbers make ML stuff so brittle? Why is the CUDA version supposed to match? Why would a newer version of python (3.7 vs 3.6) would ever break anything?

TensorFlow is a crapshoot as far as I understand, constantly changing making newer versions incompatible; but why do other libraries break backwards compatibility without a major version bump?
From the article:

And childless people, though unburdened by the daily strains of parenting, tend to burn out far more than people with kids.
Please don’t use preformatted text to write lists. It’s a pain. Just leave a blank line between the items so that each is a paragraph.
Notes About a New Software World
I'm not sure this is incremental progress.

If we rename the branches beyond Github's UI lots of things will break. And will it really affect racist attitudes even marginally? I can't see it myself. In which case, rather than progress, it's a distraction from anything that otherwise could afford real progress.
IIRC most crashes are down to unstable drivers.
I've spent time in houses on the Maine coast that have a lot of glass on the side of the house facing the ocean. Even without any AC, they were perfectly comfortable for the vast majority of the year. And the only real noise you hear is lobster boats.

If you have a view, it really makes sense to design a house in a way that maximizes the view. I'm not sure I'd go as far as some of these designs but the glass ones look pretty nice to me. (Some of the others not so much.)
100% compatibility with C isn’t free.
Yes, I am trying to align my mental model with yours. I read your blog post "A sort-middle architecture for 2D graphics" & "2D Graphics on Modern GPU", but still unable to grasp the fundamental guiding principles. It's not clear what are the commands that constitute each tile and whatever they are, what is the fundamental reasion which leads to the performance being better than joining the polylines of a curve to get a triangle list and having those triangle rasterized by the GPU. Any blog/article on the fundamental principles, that you would recomend
Show HN: C++ Starter Repo for Bazel, Visual Studio Code with GTest, Glog, Abseil
How to Stop Instagram Tracking Everything You Do
If they could just add square brackets, it would be perfect.
Threat of Military Action Rattles Brazil as Virus Deaths Surge
Etymology matters if enough people think it matters. Language has meaning that is social, and if enough people dislike a meaning or see a word a different way, that word will change its meaning.

So right now we are watching words change meaning.
i have a longstanding thesis that developers-who-can-draw always crush it in online content, haha. but with Maggie, beyond just artistic ability she also works really hard to come up with visual metaphor by understanding the developer on an anthropological level.
You can actually have type safe buildrs in rust where trying to call the method that consumes the builder fails to compile if not all the arguments are set correctly.

https://github.com/idanarye/rust-typed-builder/blob/master/R...
I'd imagine the prevailing interest when it comes to this in Texas is that of the energy corridor companies than Austin startups?
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Mindset Will Crush Your Progress
Even going to managed servers in a datacentre tends to have the effect of letting you spec machines far closer to what you need.

I've cut number of servers by large factors on several instances when moving off cloud to managed servers in a data centre as well because I've been able to configure the right mix of RAM, NVMe and CPU for a given problem instead of picking a closest match that often isn't very close.
This is a good example of what I find very funny.

Your comment would be an entirely appropriate reaction to, say, the well-documented evidence of YouTube's recommendation engine pushing people toward radicalization - which seems like a very dystopian thing, aligns very well with their profit motive, and if demonstrated to be accurate, effective, and intentional would be of genuine concern.

This is literally just a trifle.
Your Post Has Been Removed: Tech Giants and Freedom of Speech (Open Access Book)
will you eventually provide a web dashboard that lets users sign in and view their private posts?
I think where I see a difference is that there's no 'white market', 'white death' and 'white Tuesday'. Whereas with black/white list there's a clear separation that even may not be meant as racist, I can definitely see it coming across that way.

Black and white thinking is often talking in terms of extremes, which neither being inherently 'better' than the other.

It's not for me to say whether the whole of American culture is racist, but I do think the language we use has a lot of power to help people feel less marginalised and having to use some different words is a small price to pay for me.
What would you want to ask him?

I enjoyed it, great takeaway that even at a16z scale it is possible to focus on process improvement as the goal because quantitative lag measurements are too slow to iterate and improve efficiently.
This is one of the greatest things about CA, these kinds of clauses are unenforceable, so I don’t have to even worry about them.

Of course California exposes the deep hypocrisy of the way these clauses are sold. If non competes were truly critical to company success, they wouldn’t hire anyone in CA.
The typical approach to handle the temporary aspect is to arrive via L1B and apply for H1B which doesn't have the maximum stay restrictions. Employee friendly companies tend to help with application.

The other visa in a similar category is L1A but the employee needs to be of managerial grade. However, the green card approval process is quicker (subject to various factors including country of origin etc).

All this from some various discussions I've been in so I may be not be entirely accurate.
It's a reasonable worry, but even the strongest anti-China voices seem to agree that Chinese nationals are wonderful people who are being oppressed by an evil government. And I'm optimistic that in the worst case support for Taiwan will prevent it from devolving into race-based targeting.
Yeah, its probably due to how many Capitalist loving racists have built this community. Shameful but what did anyone actually expect?
It's a civil matter, not criminal. Extradition is irrelevant.

The states agreed to honor court decisions in other states in Article 4 of the Constitution: "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State." If a court in Washington says you owe money, it's enforced the same as if it were a court in California.
Newt DB, the amphibious database – Python objects above, PostgreSQL JSONB below
I think HN readers are smart enough to discern the relative difference in threat between redneck cops and a nuclear-armed, fascist state.

Also if you think tech isn't concered about "BLM" then you haven't visited a single tech website in the past two weeks. There are banners and calls for change everywhere...
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From down-playing the threat of COVID-19 in the early stages to the mixed messaging on mask effectiveness and the timidly inconsistent guidelines for managing the outbreak, I've lost trust in both the WHO and the CDC. This issue only erodes that trust further. I fear the erosion in trust between the public and public health agencies is causing permanent damage in our abilities to mitigate future disasters. I have the same distrust for social services that purportedly protect kids from abuse yet turn kids over to abusive foster parents. There's zero accountability for the damage these events contribute to and if you ask the people in charge they just shrug their shoulders.
Many L1B holders I know started their greencard (permanent residency) process within the first year and their companies supported that.
It'd be interesting to see what research these spies were stealing or influencing.
> Everyone can go fast enough to carry too much speed into a turn and have a bad day.

But if you want to beat someone going downhill you need to get to the turn as fast as possible and then brake. On a steep enough hill aerodynamics are the only thing that determine how fast you go on the straight - you don't even pedal because your legs can't keep up.
It’s explicitly a dual-intent visa, which means that it can be turned into a permanent resident visa, just like H1B. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent

I’m the person in the tweet, and now a permanent resident and soon US citizen.
For what it's worth, this is already the default behavior in desktop Safari.
As a non-american it's weird/funny/interesting/infuriating/typical to watch Americans get very upset and paranoid about Russians or Chinese actors doing the things that American actors do, and have done for decades now, in my country, and many others, all the time.

I know the spin is for an American audience, but it does occur to y'all how funny it sounds outside your country right?
Undoubtedly, though, we will find some witches among them.
>It is but actually hating your job isn't great either.

Agreed, when this happens it's generally because your colleagues are a disagreeable lot.

It is also it is true that things like depression, health and disposition will effect how you view your work.
> where people followed the same patterns so consistently

so true. This is one ecosystem where you could actually just include another persons code as if it was yours, and get a great understanding of how to use it from a header.
lmao, is there even a left wing in the US? Mike Gravel probably the best bet.
Many of us live in the SF Bay Area, where the Chinese population is much larger than the black population.
I think it's early to assume that these were spies. I am sure that is one of the narratives about this, though.
> My example takes 8LOC of customization. Yours use 45LOC. That matches my experience with customizing styles on larger project, Chakra is 80% simpler to customize.

Since your contention was the LOC and ability to use nested CSS styles, I have taken your own example and matched it. Line to line. Using Material UI. Updated the above demo:

https://codesandbox.io/s/material-demo-d2vmn?file=/demo.js:1...

8 LOC of customization. Same styles you applied to your demo with a few syntactic changes.

Hope this convinces you that you can do exactly the same thing in Material UI as you can in Chakra. Because both use CSS-in-JS. What you can't do in Chakra is ability to change styles of nested components (note I am saying components instead of HTML elements) without worrying about implementation detail.
“Easily twisted to be seen as offensive” is not the same thing as “offensive”.

[edit: also, that doesn’t really explain citing Rosstex?]

Also, my understanding is that that there are places in the world where the primary associations for a swastika are the earlier ones, not the nazi ones.

I don’t see a reason to tell the people living in those places to stop using that symbol amongst themselves (though asking that they not use it in places where it is likely to be genuinely misinterpreted may be reasonable)
If you think modifying language with the aim of including more kinds of thinking is the same as the aim of Newspeak, you need to re-read 1984. You missed something.
Non-competes in finance are often _much_ more reasonable - mandated "gardening leave" rather than a restriction on post-employment activity.
SaaS Freemium Model 101
And on the original issue it's good to point out that there were millions of slaves throughout human history who were not black... That doesn't make the concept any better, but it hasn't been historically a racial issue (people were enslaved because of a difference in religion, place they lived in regardless of ethnicity or solely social status).
Back in 2015, Harper's warned of the insidious influence of the CCP, via the American corporations that do business in China.

https://archive.harpers.org/2015/11/pdf/HarpersMagazine-2015...
5-7 years is an eternity for tech jobs though, and nothing stops them from converting to another visa at some point if th emove is truly permanent. I know people who have worked on free trade visas for decades that are far less stable than the L1B too.
The 8-not-10 isn't a problem at all, just a little surprising and maybe a hint that the creator wasn't deeply experienced with sequencers.

To be honest that's fine. I sincerely think this is a pretty elegant implementation, maybe because you're looking at it with fresh eyes.

Traditionally the hardware versions of these things have a pretty clunky and awkward interface that seems designed to minimize the number of switches and dials rather than to be readily understandable. A lot of the "toy" software sequencers you'll find online are clearly modeled on the hardware sequencers - sometimes specific ones - and copy that clunky interface. The "here's a grid, toggle a button to play a sound on that beat" interface is much more intuitive and fun to play with.

I think this is really well done. The only idea for improvement that jumps out at to me would be the ability to drag the cursor with the mouse down to toggle multiple buttons at once rather than independently clicking on each one.
If it is non-GUI I also recommend Objfw
The Trouble with Hybrid Models for Reopening K-12 Schools
Are these racially derived, or just the idea of opposing forces or other connotations of white and black?

Games such as Go, Chaturanga, Chess, Reversi commonly use black vs white pieces and are depicted as such in early illustrations.

I think that there are other reasons for black vs white than race.

I did find the article "The light and dark of language" that touches on this. ( https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/12/the-light-and-dar... )
Thank you and my apologies for making a mountain out of a molehill. Mr Churchill's image is back where we expect it this morning.
Jeff has been building Amazon since 1994. Do you seriously believe the moral thing for him to do is to give away his shares to some low-skilled, easily replaceable employee who is just looking to make a quick buck ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but given that we as an American institution have some witch hunts in our past, we ought to be able to carry those lessons forward and integrate them into a framework which minimizes chances of becoming a witch hunt.

Additionally, given the parameters listed in the article: The sanctions approach won't touch Chinese students or workers who are in the US on visas. Even the moves against Confucius Institutes don't touch individual students. It seems like a good start if the idea is to avoid individual false-positives and also blunt the Magic Weapons philosophy.
what do you suggest to do with these 'witches'? lmao
How do you account for all of the respected academic institutions that grant masters degrees in fields of study like African American Studies or Social Justice?
Sure, but it doesn’t make it any less true.
Getting flagged already, the state of the community here. Truth hurts.
I'm certainly concerned about both the out of control nuclear-armed fascist state and about China.
Don't the electronic:optical and optical:electronic transitions introduce quite a bit of latency? I've seen estimates of around 500 microseconds per conversion. That's not enough to matter for networking, but RAM chips have internal latencies measured in nanoseconds.

Of course, "one day perhaps" this could change.
I am switching browser to Firefox because its nicer.
Can you give your opinion on how that compares to Vuetify's date picker here: https://vuetifyjs.com/en/components/date-pickers/ ?
Are the only options to opt out or ignore? Doesn’t this make this somebody else’s problem?
How is master/slave racist?
Slaves are not a race.
https://youtu.be/rRnHx3yVuf4?t=67

The US has commendable ideals.
Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab months before
The Masks Masquerade
Safari has been this way since 2014. I've never seen any pushback on Apple doing it over the past six years.

It's genuinely a benefit for the vast, vast majority of users, where the only important piece of information really is the domain name, to check which site you're actually on. And for more info, you can just click. Copying the URL becomes no more difficult.

The URL path beyond the domain is as useful to most people as an IP address, in other words not at all -- it's just noise. And displaying noise is bad UX. Pretty much only website developers and administrators and SEO people care about the full URL. Granted, there are a lot of those people here on HN, so I understand the pushback, but we're not most users.

But at the end of the day, I don't understand why people seem totally fine with Safari doing this, but not Google?
Day trading does not appeal to me at all because it feels exactly like gambling, but I can see the appeal and I hear more of my friends talking about it. I can see the alure, but I do believe in the end the "Boglehead" strategy is the best long term low stress investment strategy (low expense mutual funds in tax advantaged accounts).

This type of situation with Hertz definitely feels like a unique combination of events (corona, gig economy, etc) but I won't be surprised if we have more and more weird stock situations occur as weird internet culture leaks into the real world...
Please don't discount other other groups experiencing systemic racism. This is another example of systemic racism, but it's not any more or less real than systemic racism against people of color.
It's a bunch of smaller efforts all working towards a single goal. (think lots of little foundations and lobbyist groups)

This report goes into a lot more detail https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/dia...
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The reason we're upset is that we think the Russian and Chinese governments are very bad and don't want them to have any influence. Nobody gets worked up about foreign influence operations from, like, France or Japan.
You say free software and of course, it's nice to have source code and flexibility.

I have nothing against licensing and it looks like things are moving there. Do you have a recommendation for Metal / DirectX support for that kind of rendering facilities? What matters more for me is performance.
short answer is pretty much anything they could get their hands on. this is espionage (state and commercial) 101 type stuff...
Not eating was easy for me even as a teen, 20s, and 30s. I found eating a necessity and that's it. That didn't mean I was eating healthy food but small amounts of anything. For me going a day or two without eating was easy. I didn't do it to lose weight and I never did lose weight I was a consistent 150lbs from early teens to my early 40s.

But then in my 40s my thyroid failed and I have hypothyroidism. I suspect it was failing for a decade maybe a bit less. I should say my thyroid was working less not really failing since that takes a while to notice rather than an outright failure.

Now I consistently weigh 40 pounds more than I did all my life. I was always the slim guy who never gained weight. Now I have to fight the urge to eat food when I am not hungry. It feels like I need something to reset my clock or reboot my programming.
Which version of "the left" was ever not against China? There aren't that many actual Tankies outside of twitter/reddit.
Actually mentioning that publicly is against the policy. I can tell you via email if you promise not to post it publicly. (Address in profile)
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> In the vast majority of cases, Lauer reported, the person being investigated has been an Asian man in his 50

We're going to skip the McCarthyism and go straight to racial profiling I guess.

> resulted in criminal charges against some prominent researchers, including Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s department of chemistry and chemical biology.

Definitely the name of an Asian man in his 50s.
I and many of my colleagues worried about non competes at Amazon. But mine wasn’t enforced and I’ve never heard of a “rank and file” individual contributor or non-exec manager having it enforced. My impression is it’s only worth it for VPs or other very high level employees. But the scare tactics evidently do work, in terms of scaring employees to stay or to jump through extra hoops (moving states even if they don’t want to) to avoid enforcement.

Has anyone here had a company try to enforce their non compete, and can share their insights?
> The wording specifically says that they own anything I conceive of while working for them.

That's quite normal, at least under Dutch labour law. It prevents IP discussions if an employee does anything outside of the 9-5 working hours, or anything they were not directly instructed to by their manager.

Of course there can be exceptions, e.g., we exempt open source software by default, and are open for any discussions on other side projects the employee may have. But the concept that all your programming work belongs to the company is not that strange.

Also note that this is not a non-compete, but simply an IP clause.
Not "AWS specialist" to janitor, but AWS to "cloud deployment engineer" or simply "member of technical staff "
The way we use DNS (reversed) does make URLs kind of confusing for specificity, like:

https://specific.more.less.example.com/less/more/specific.ht...
I read that sentence 10 times. Wow.
Two Microsoft critical comments have been purged from the discussion.
HN tries to avoid topics that turn into flamewars. True, topics around China often turn into flamewars. But BLM and policing reform are even more likely to do so.
I don't understand. What is the danger that this poses? Is it that the American government is funding science that only benefits China somehow? How?
What other states in US have don't enforce non-competes?

Adding some context: as I understood, L1B is a "transfer" visa for "existing" employees, which under "existing" often mean record of employment being outright forged, or being put on very low key position with explicit intent of later L1B transfer. L1B is supposed to be of lesser value than L1A, which opens much more options for an employee/corporate serf to away.

I believe the change is due to the later being a much easier door to US for a lot of people from low income countries where Amazon runs captive outsourcing centres. They didn't want people to scout for another, better jobs around the moment they stepped into US, even if that mean the next hiring company had to do its own L1 for them.
The spirit of the legislation may have been that L1B is for a temporary stay, but in practice today it's one of the major paths for high skilled foreign workers to permanently immigrate into the US, since H1B got extremely crowded lately. AFAIK most big tech companies wouldn't even try to bring anyone from overseas on H1B anymore - too much hassle, too little chance.

Instead they'd offer people to work for a year in Canada or Europe and then import them on L1. Advantages: it's not subject to quotas and lottery like H1B, and (a plus from employer perspective:) ties the person to the employer, so they ain't job hopping anywhere for a while.
The title clearly states that's for "clothed human" only ;)
>the CCP’s United Front effort is unique because it is more organized, more expansive and more insidious than our government or nation has realized.

If it’s so expansive, give us some real examples! Saying something like this while giving nothing but unspecific references to a wide-ranging communist plot (a claim Americans are right to be suspicious of, given the history of such claims about the soviets) and a reference to the Confucius Institutes that anyone reading an article like this will be familiar with just makes the author sound like a political hack with nothing useful to say on the topic of Chinese propaganda. Maybe that’s not true of the author, but it is true of this particular article.
It and its 101 children are still there if you have `showdead` enabled in your HN settings