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What about your ancestors?
American citizenship is granted if you're born on American soil, regardless of your ancestry.

It says nothing about requiring blood spilt.
https://linuxfr.org/news/sortie-de-0-a-d-alpha-23-ken-wood-a...
I'm curious what those "legitimate reasons" are.
This is it - you can't just compare FP32 TFLOPS. The newer cards have a ton of extra precisions, custom cores for certain workloads, and on chip memory, all of which use silicon area and transistors, but none of which boost the FP32 TFLOPS metric.

I could design you a chip that is nothing but FP32 multipliers and adders that has, theoretically, a ridiculous TFLOPS per mm^2, but it would be next to useless in any real workload.
> That NYT writer should be fired.

I don't think this is a "that one writer" issue; I don't think Scott is saying this is a "that one writer" issue. Any such choice is down to newspaper-wide policy.
the Q & Z assignments shown are typical. That said, few text-based phone numbers include these characters, for the obvious reason.
Also while most people around the world can transition to green card from H1B, there is limit of 7% per national origin. Since India and China are large countries, their citizens often have to wait longer than anyone else in the national origin queue.

This has resulted into huge queue for Indian citizens. Any Indian who applies for employment based green card has to wait around 150 years to get his/her green card. Until then they have to keep renewing their H1B and subject to constantly changing laws. It is estimated that there are around 300K-500K Indians stuck in the backlog many of whom are in country for more than 10 years.

A lot of H1B rule changes by current admin are done specifically to target these individuals.
It depends on what you're buying. I haven't really looked but I think everyday goods like fresh milk and bread etc are the same price in Waitrose as in the other large chains. More specialised goods are expensive, sure. But I wouldn't buy taramosalata every day for example.

Anyway my feelings are a little bit hurt when you say that you find it in posh neighbourhoods. I'm not posh! I'm just Greek and it seems, like you, I'm used to a highest standard in food quality.
> That said, this decision to shut down the blog looks like an overreaction to me

On the contrary, it's the perfect move. It forces the hand of the journalist, who will then have to mention that inconvenient fact. "BTW the thing this article is about does not exist any more because of this article."
Mind you, that was for a so-called "quality", printed paper. I don't even think it was a daily, I think it's a weekly "business" paper.
Sometimes it's really interesting to go back and see what happened with stories that the NYT was absolutely freaking out about a year ago. Remember RussiaGate for example? Daily stories on the NYT for 2 years from anonymous sources amounting to nothing.
Well, the WWDC rumors have been talking about ARM macs for weeks. If you were TSMC or Fujitsu and wanted to take advantage of a day where ARM was trending, you could schedule the announcement around WWDC without cooperating with Apple.
I find the summers in Brisbane disgusting, though I do come from a colder country. I thought Melbourne was the sweet spot, albeit rather temperamental, weather wise.
Scott was not "taking umbrage against the Grad student organization at MSU", he was merely defending academic freedom. Hsu ended up resigning from an administrative and politically-sensitive position at the university while still being free to pursue his (somewhat contentious) research interests, and that may well have been the right call. I'm not sure Scott would have any reason to object to that choice.
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This year seems to be the year of big serious ARM performance.

- AWS Graviton 2 is actually a viable option in the public cloud.

- Apple starts transitioning their workhorses to ARM.

- First place in the TOP500, apparently not due to custom magic or GPUs, but due to already existing/standardized ARM vector extensions.

ARM is becoming such a household name that Fujitsu appears to have traded getting a paid ARM license over the royalty free SPARC instruction set they used to work with. I hope POWER can survive this onslaught, as SPARC surely has no hope of survival after this.
Heterogenous cores are a pretty huge advantage.
It'd be funny if they went back to its original name, "vector", which IMHO wasn't too bad.
Meh, is this copy-pasta (source please?) worth reading or is it just Tony Robbins-esque pop-psychology junk?
There's only one now. That's time forcing everything to happen all at once. Quit thinking like a classical physicist and take into account all the discoveries of recent years. I fucking hate this website why do I keep coming back to it?
Note that these are separate class of H1Bs. If Florida state hires you on cap exempt H1B you can probably move to University of California Irvine but not Google Inc.

Also, if I remember correctly not all non profits can do this, but only certain category of nonprofits hiring for specific roles. Otherwise I could start a non-profit software foundation, bring in workers and then write lots of free and open source software.
I mean, the NYT during the Clinton and Bush years was hardly some golden age of journalism. Off the top of my head, there was Whitewater, Wen Ho Lee, the Jayson Blair thing, and the Judith Miller / Curveball / Iraq war stuff.
I find this article incredibly sad for a number of reasons. The story is of a woman who has reached a level of success that very few ever reach, and not for lack of trying. In addition, she managed to have a child at the same time! This is something very few people in history have achieved.

But the reflections we see are entirely negative. There are no reports of the elation after acquiring VC funding, the high that comes with finally shipping after months of graft, or enjoying the fruits of recognition after becoming one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Nor are there any reports of the joy of having a child or the love and support that exists within her relationship. On the surface this is a person who has achieved everything that we're told should bring happiness, but what we see is someone drained, tired and ultimately unhappy.

The life of a founder and CEO of a company is far from a normal human experience. It's a lifestyle that very few in society are well-suited for. While a lot of people would take the rewards, very, very few are willing or capable of putting in the work required. In a free market economy these things just sort themselves out. We end up with founders and CEOs who are happy to take those roles simply because the ones that aren't happy just won't go through with it. The best people in any role are those that have an almost irrational drive to be good at what they do. I feel that people like Tracy were dragged and forced through ordeals like this due to societal pressures but she would have been much happier in a role that allowed her to enjoy the other aspects of life (like childbirth).

We need to stop forcing equality in places where it doesn't belong. This woman felt like she needed to behave like a man: completely dedicated to the role, but her biology simply won't allow it. The sooner we accept that we can move on. Life is about making choices. You can't have your cake and eat it too. All adults have to understand this sooner or later. For the vast majority of women, happiness is going to come with having children. Let's stop encouraging women into career paths like this that ruin that for them.
Compare the language in the first paragraph, describing the severity of the pandemic.

In the context of left-wing political activity, just:

> In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic

In the context of right-wing political activity, a far more frightening description:

> despite the deadly coronavirus pandemic, which continues to wreak havoc on the lives and livelihoods of households across the country.

If NPR didn't lean left, the second article could have started with a tone similar to the first: in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump campaign will address another pressing issue, restarting the American economy. The rally has prompted fears that the close contact of thousands of attendees could lead to a spike in case counts.
> game of assigning quantitative value to lives is almost never going to help you make better decisions

Quality adjusted life years is part of the analytical basis of funding of interventions in the UK's national health system (NHS).

Does this change your position?
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Pretty partisan tho. I couldn't listen more than 5 minutes, "No one should vote x candidate".
I'm curious about how you spend the working day? (Office or remote? Alone the whole day?)
Or most of the major fraud happened outside of Germany [1] and like most ponzis/frauds they can seem entirely legitimate on the surface until all the tail ends start becoming shorter and there's no Peters left to pay Paul.

Plus they seemed to have had a legitimate primary business, more than enough to cover their pump & dumping in foreign countries without strong rule of law.

There are always limitations on how much regulators and law enforcement can do and it always seems obvious in retrospect. There's always more that could have been done.

[1] the prior accusations by FT in 2019 mentioned it was their foreign subsidiaries inflating sales figures and recently the money got 'lost' hit a dead end in Asia. Companies often get plenty of time to pay back debts and billion dollar companies are given the benefit of the doubt they can pay it back...
>>start teaching way more programming. The biggest regret of my education was that I was mostly taught how to use Geospatial tools rather than how to make my own.<<

This, a thousand times over. During my first geography degree I had a lot of GIS modules. I loved it, the capabilities it offered and so on. But it soon became clear that if you wanted to become genuinely good at it, you needed to learn programming, or at the very least have a very basic understanding of it. In this respect, my course was woefully inadequate; professors would perhaps touch upon it rather tangentially, and my requests to include programming in the course modules were brushed off. "You'll do more of that during your Masters!" they said. The reality is that even the MSc had very little of it. If I could say something to all those fresh-faced GIS undergrads, is this: learn programming; it will give you a much better understanding of how it works, it will greatly increase your capabilities in terms of what you can do (as Waterluvian so eloquently said).

For those of you wondering, I did my undergrad in the UK, graduated in 2009.

Also, greetings from a fellow geographer!
Not every relevant interest is legitimate.
Correct, that's how it should be. A non-JS fallback ought to be essential for every site.
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I believe integrated groupware is the future. No separate tools for chat, discussions, calls, screensharing, collaborative editing, email and filesharing.

For example somebody pulls up document in a call. For team work it would make sense if it was editable by everyone right there in the conference tool.
My whole point is that this is reductive.

Even if the author meant the blue curtain to only be a blue curtain, that doesn't mean it can't be interesting to imagine some symbolism for it, and discuss the implications of that symbolism, and then criticize this interpretation. As long as we are not ascribing this interpretation to the author, and as long as we are not claiming that it is the ONLY true interpretation, what is the harm in this? Why is it invalid?
Don't blame the journalist too much for what is probably a NYT general policy

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/he95ak/blog...
Geez, patio11 was sure quick to jump in with nonsense:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1275346993296969730

> I feel like Slate Star Codex and the NYT are coming at each other from a substantial expectations gap regarding risk management.

> The culture of participating under one’s own name is normative for much of the professional class but not all of it.

Maybe stop trying to explain away that which is unabated shitty behaviour by the reporter.
Of course not. And even if I did, there's no chance I could catch every possible bug or issue or exploitable issue. But, like I said several replies ago: life is full of choices between imperfect options. I try to choose the less bad choice as often as possible.

If you wanted to spy on your users, would you honestly risk publishing your source code? Let's be real.

Next obnoxious, low effort, trolling, question?
Wow. To be honest it’s actually Holocaust survivors who had “so much to teach the world about making sure that voices are heard” but the Israeli voice, in that respect, was rather absent.
Not only Israel’s criminal treatment of the Palestinians, but also it’s indifference to the persecution of Muslims in China and Myanmar. Even worse, Israel’s implied support of trump administration policies, presumably written by a “Jewish”* white supremacist in Stephen Miller.

* By Jewish I mean Eastern European, and not an ethnic jew.
How to disrupt this one? Apple Pay type thing?
"Unbiased" or "factual" does not mean "we take both sides' opinions and put them next to each other without comment" - that's what the BBC does and it gives extremist, dangerous viewpoints far more legitimacy than they're worth. The fact that coronavirus got caught up in a bunch of political nonsense does not change that.
Do you have a citation for OSM? My experience in first world countries especially where Google had ground truth project are still much better in Google than osm.
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Journalism is not digging for the sake of digging, it's digging for the sake of a story. Revealing Scott's name is not for the sake of a story, it's for the sake of enabling harassment.
It's always a bad Idea to be arrogant and sit lazyly around instead of activly working for your future. They now dominate the market, but what if the mixer-streamers now move to Facebook or Youtube and strenghten them, giving them a push to kill twitchs dominance next year or in 5 years?
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> There's only one now

Why, because you experience it? Is that different from saying the only place that exists is your office? That's just where you are.
> It could be a hard sell, especially as the new collider wouldn’t have as clear a goal as the LHC did. However, particle physics and the Standard Model are at a place where the application of science is needed to validate theories.

I mean I understand the need to keep pushing the boundaries of fundamental physics, but how long do you justify such spending on a single project? That same money could possibly be pumped into more immediately useful "hard" applied problems like fusion reactors, clean energy, propulsion systems or pretty much any problem on the technology horizon that won't be funded by private capital.
> Is there a strong feeling of innovation/unicorn envy among the wider business culture in Germany?

Everyone wants to be like the SV hipsters, no one can because the higher-ups are still mentally and literally stuck in fax times, there is almost no venture capital (and the venture capital that is here gets invested into stuff like Rocket Internet whose "business model" is to copycat US ideas), banks (across the EU) won't dish out dumb money because unlike the US we have public funded pension systems and not capital-based ones and we have strict loan regulations (Basel framework).

> Is it a fear of being stale

Culturally, us Germans are known for being extremely risk-averse, bankruptcies are socially shamed. This of course clashes with the US way of life that from the bottom to the top embodies "fail fast", and the youth yearns for change but as explained above that's hard to do.
Maybe they designed the ASICs for a PCI board and they just have a memory-mapped interface.
I still don't have any USB-C devices or wireless headphones. May be in 10 years I'll change my opinion, but as for now, I still think that it was wrong to ditch USB-A and headphone jack.
In order to make trade-offs - balancing benefits vs opportunity costs - in a health system, you need a common unit. You can't do a case by case analysis everywhere, and you can't consider categories of cases separately or you'll get deviance in evaluation and global inconsistency, which directly implies less efficiency and worse outcomes for some categories.

Do you disagree with this? How do you deal with the existence proof of systems which do use quantitative models?

(In the absence of models, there's still people who allocate resources, and resources are quantified. There is still a quantitative judgement made in the form of allocation. I'm finding it hard to understand your position in any rational sense.)
It is, but you have to laugh out loud after you tell a joke to make sure everyone knows it's a joke.

There was something about that in The Name of the Rose- the book in any case. Something about how Englishmen and Germans react differently to a joke etc. I'll see if I can find a quote.
I'm German and I honestly have the opposite feeling. I participated in "startup culture" for a few years and I want to never touch it again.

I think in the German industry itself there is no real fear of staleness because our systems of innovation generally work differently, on occassion there is a media hype cycle about "rising economy X" displacing everyone, but that has been going on since the 80s when the UK's financialisation was everyone's favourite model. I'm glad we didn't follow on that front... well I guess except for Wirecard that is.
Sure, but the keypad for the phone app on your iPhone or Android has letters on it.
Having seen the inside of a few events and the reporting produced in response, I'd say a healthy dose of scepticism is usually warranted when reading about something you have no personal involvement in.

In fact one of the worst experience for me in terms of trust for the media was working at a startup. The willingness of journalists to produce puff pieces, or print press releases virtually verbatim, on the basis of 5 minutes of SQL queries cobbled together and cherry picked to produce the desired result was frightening.
I understand that possibility, but their reply is still right in that a named position is fundamentally different than an elected position, which I assumed the president to be. That of course does NOT mean that someone being named to such a position is automatically tokenism.
German here with startup experience abroad. No there isn't - and it baffles and worries me to the same extent. (Many) Germans think of innovation as incremental, and don't realise how much Germany is missing out in terms of disruptive innovation.
This is so frustrating and rage inducing!

I enjoy reading blogs like gwern and SSC. The fact that the blog has just gone away because somebody threatened to doxx the author against his will is sad and a loss to the community.

Scott, on Reddit[1], has mentioned that there is a possibility for the blog to come back but it all depends on how things pan out in the next few months. So I hope NYT just dumps the story, apologises and reevaluate their ethics.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/he95ak/blog...
Scott Alexander is reaching Scott Aaronson levels of hysterics.
Unless you've got `trashhold` actually defined, tools like flake8 would protect you from that mistake with Python.

Using type hints would also protect you from using variables with incompatible types with a better designed API (Django's ORM API is anything but).

As for SQL performance, I've usually only worked with up to hundreds of millions of rows per table, and the most important thing at that scale was to attempt to keep indexes in memory cache (that improves or degrades the performance by a couple of orders of magnitude). I haven't had a need for query plans to be cached, though I did use subselects to force particular query plans when needed (which has the similar problem of query plans not being the most efficient ones when data evolves sufficiently).
The anti-out-of-context-quote-hit-piece-insurance that Sam Harris went to in his recent podcast on police violence etc was insane. I fully understand why, he's been burned by the Twitter mob before, but it's eye-opening to the media-induced reasonable paranoia some "public" people will go through when there's basically three paragraphs of "I'm not saying this is the one and only truth, I believe in equality, justice..." for every one paragraph of stats or opinion they post.

It has a very religious witch hunt feel where you constantly need to assure everybody that you are totally not a member of the out-group and you believe in the same things they do and you really are not possessed by the devil and they really shouldn't burn you, but they may have gotten something a tiny bit wrong in their, of course totally justified, blind rage.
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You know what's even more sad? Journalists on average, are more intelligent than an average human being.

An average journalist distorts the truth knowingly and is a scumbag. An average person parrots lies and is convinced of them, and if you point it out, he/she'll be upset with you.

This is how religions continue even in the face of the best thinkers for centuries, coming up with the most considerate, foolproof arguments for why it's bullshit. At some point we have to ask: do people even want to be able to tell truth apart from bullshit, or do they just want to be led and told what to do by someone they like?
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Apple is definitively competent at chip design but the end result won't be leagues ahead. They might be something like 10% ahead in terms of IPC and another 10-20% just because they get early access to 5nm compared to whatever "ancient" process Intel is using.
Fortunately it will now be up to his patients and colleagues to decide that.
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