skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How was it a political question? Taiwan exists. You can have a political position on whether they should exist, but they do. Deal with it.

And they are not currently part of China. (Or, at least, they are not currently governed by the government of the rest of China.) Again, deal with it.

Different governments had different responses, which had different effects. Under the circumstances, to say "we already covered China" is pretty close to dereliction of duty.

Yes, I know China is going to have a hissy fit if anyone admits that Taiwan exists as a separate entity. China needs to stop acting like a five-year-old. I would say that WHO needs to tell China where to get off, except that (in this situation) WHO really needed China's cooperation. That makes this a much more difficult question to answer.

But, in fact, it is China that makes this a political question. The question itself is not inherently political.
Generally no, because they do not have large populations of self-taught professional practitioners who never learned theory.

Least common denominator writing is very useful for a great many things. It is wonderful and ideally suited for items aimed at a popular audience. It just may not always be ideal for efficient and precise technical communication.
Yes, this is a useful tool; I still maintain that debugging macros with this tool is harder than debugging functions with the various other SLIME tools.
Yeah, they are open in Finland as well (https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/information-on-coronavirus/curr...).

Though I think the parent was talking about worldwide numbers which I have no idea about.
Did you open the link? There's only 5 sentences:

"Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each."
Because the priority is not to make it fairer, it is to add new benefits for some special interest.

Race-based affirmative action misbehaves in exactly the ways its critics predict, but is still wildly popular because of how it feels to white liberals.
to me, it was Jesus being a nice bro, and bringing lots of wine to the party, coz he was cool.
> Guidance would help instead of everybody guessing or corps randomly scrubbing things until the bad PR goes away.

I'm having trouble seeing an issue black developers have been raising for over a decade being called "Randomly Scrubbing". It's been a known pain point for some time.
So re-invent exceptions, but in an inferior way.
Except most libraries do nothing of the sort, so you end up having to do a substring search.
" if you just assume anyone from anywhere in the world has an equal chance of getting into Harvard" is just not true really. It's fundamentally an American school. 20% foreign students.
I would say the biggest issue here is that anyone cares what a hack has to say. Public court records show she stole the HP crap stories.
That sounds implausibly high.

The disclaimer on the data says it's just an estimate, it's not from an official record, so I guess the real number isn't known.
Why is this news?
Flagged.
The better numbers (assuming that's not what these are already) would be the statistics for Harvard students who are from the US, because the international numbers are obviously going to be confounded by the demographics of the non-uniform source countries. Nobody's going to be enlightened by the revelation that substantially all of the admissions from Asia are Asian.
Go does allow coexisting major versions, just not coexisting minor versions.
Children of the faculty.
Yes I meant moving through a world-scale environment and bringing asset data for rendering only as needed.

Thank you, again great!
Very cool! Does anyone know how is software support for all these features? It seems that TF doesn’t support the TP32/16 types as of yet. Is this something only CUDA engineers can use right now?

It does seem a little fishy to me that NVIDIA often boasts with figures like 10x performance upgrade whilst in practice those are only possible if you use one of their non-default float types which are hardly supported in most deep learning libraries :(
You can try Slack for free.
There's a strong case to be made that, given our position as the world's reserve currency (without any clear challenger) and our dirt-cheap borrowing costs, the national debt is pretty close to free money. It's not like we're ever going to roll up our sleeves and pay it off, or even down. We'll just inflate it away. I'm not arguing for unrestricted spending, but a couple trillion to avoid economic collapse, borrowed at effectively 0% interest, seems like a deal worth taking.
> Slaves were not only Black.

Good point. Slavery is terrible in all its forms. All the more reason this should be addressed.
Based on my research the term “ALDC” refers to “recruited Athletes, Legacies, those on the Dean’s interest list, and Children of faculty and staff.”
While still greatly over-represented (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764422), Hillel tends to over-count Jewish students, according to https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat...
You of little faith...

This is the record of the miracle of St. iGNUtius [0]. Back in The Day, before all the young hipsters were publishing snippets of code on npm for Internet points, Richard Stallman seethed in frustration at not being able to fix the printer driver that was locked up in proprietary code. While addressing St. iGNUtius, patron saint of information and liberty, he had a vision of the saint saying that he had interceded for Stallman, and holding out a scroll. On the scroll was a seal, and written on the seal in phosphorescent green VT100 font was the text "Copyright St. iGNUtius. Scroll may be freely altered one the sole condition that the alterations are published and are also freely alterable." Upon opening the seal, and altering it according to the invitation, Stallman saw the scroll split into a myriad of identical scrolls and spread throughout the world, bringing liberty and prosperity to the places it touched. Stallman hired some lawyers to write the text of the seal in the legal terms of 20th century America. Thanks to the miracle of St. iGNUtius, software today is still sealed with seal, or one of its variants, named after the later saints, St. MITchell and St. Berkeley San Distributo.

[0] A twentieth-century ikon of St. iGNUtius: https://twitter.com/gnusolidario/status/647777589390655488/p...
Children of the faculty
Taiwan has 7 COVID-19 deaths[1]. It seems far-fetched to suppose that they would be somehow covering up the 12000 additional deaths that would be required to reach Sweden's per-capita numbers.

South Korea would have had to neglect to report 99% of COVID-19 deaths.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En
Affirmative Action.
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This is particularly bad for the UK as our numbers were already dire.

Some may be due to the halt of the NHS for other stuff.
I remember reading somewhere that Harvard had a ton of black international students, so "African American" may not be accurate in that case.
The "Asian American" stat presumably doesn't include international students (just like "African American" wouldn't include someone from Africa)
WikiPathways – WikiPathways
Ending the Charade
Noteless, seriously!?

I think it's Worthless to think/expect anyone to do notetaking with such horrible keyboard experience.

Great effort! But I won't even try it.
I wasn’t. Or if I was, it obviously didn’t make an impression, and properly so: combining random negative words isn’t creative.
Do you really need post this comment? Why not look at all possible comments?
You didn't make any value statements with this data, but it should be noted that disparities in representation have nothing to do with whether or not groups should or deserve to be represented more or less.
That stat is worthless. They don't even define the population.
The CDC includes pneumonia deaths during flu season because not all death certificates record influenza as the cause.
That’s not the reason man. Socially women were driven away from certain fields, that’s all.
To expand on that pattern:

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case "$1" in
-h|--help)
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-v|--version)
do_version
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;;

-d|--debug)
debug=true
;;

-a|--arg)
arg_value="$2"
shift
;;

*)
if [[ ! -v pos1 ]]; then
pos1="$1"
elif [[ ! -v pos2 ]]; then
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If you can't teach theoretical computer science to undergraduate computer science students, you will have to shift it to the graduate level. Which means you won't really every have anyone earning a true masters in computer science because they'll need so much grounding to be able to complete the work they won't have time to do anything novel.
Always found the combination of non-profit status and legacy or donor-enhanced admissions to be odd bedfellows.
Yes. We really need to include race in our analysis and in all such analyses.
I wouldn't normally use MPH/s, but it fits the units in the Blue Origin video.
It does look at all Harvard students, however the analysis is done from a racial point of view, in-line with the original law suit.
Like GeoGuessr used to be for StreetView. Though that now seems to have pivoted into some attempt at profit instead of the simple fun it started as.
This will also work:

sed '/^###/!d'
Books, magazines, software, equipment manuals, even audio stuff.

Don't go there. I won't be responsible for the months you spend in there, getting stuff like the August 1978 issue of BYTE, or Sophie Tucker singing songs from the 1920s.
It's basically the same as the non-ALDC asian acceptance rate.
You're actually going to have to sign an NDA about not releasing the draconian, ahem, I mean brave, err... forward thinking... terms of my actual NDA. You see, I don't want you reusing those ideas without due compensation. It just wouldn't be fair.
This isn't about consequences to YouTube. It's about consequences to copyright holders for frivolous takedowns.

When you issue a DMCA notice, you're certifying that the content is yours, under (theoretical) penalty of perjury. But big content studios erroneously issue them using automated systems all the time, and the only way to actually enforce this is for you, the individual getting targeted by one, to personally take legal action against a multinational corporation.

Meaning that, for all practical purposes, the people this affects have zero recourse.
> - Learn confidence and humility by mastering a common physical skill like an instrument, singing, or performing monologues, etc. Not stupid tricks, but something where other people are objectively way better than you are and plan to be embarrassingly bad at it for at least a decade.

I would personally recommend martial arts for this. You get a useful skill (eventually), there is no skill ceiling, and there are always people better than you.
> The fact that one does not need this during their day job is, dare I say it, irrelevant.

I disagree for some of the fundamental things.

Binary arithmetic is fundamental. The number of times I have seen people using addition for logical-or and being confounded by bugs astounds me. I don't expect you to be able to do stupid bit tricks. However you must know how to use and,or,xor,not for masking and you must understand what integer overflow/underflow is.

State machines are fundamental. I'll go so far as to say that if you don't know how to do state machines, you don't really know how to program. You simply have no framework for understanding things like protocols, sequencing, concurrency, etc.

Data structures are fundamental. Sure, I can boil it down to "75% of the time use a hash table; 25% of the time use a vector; .001% of the time use something else". But you won't know when you shouldn't use something.

These are things I see all the time in programmers who I would expect to know better. These also seem to be things that "programming" course often slack on--they're hard to teach and hard to learn. It requires work from both sides to communicate the concepts.
the Bible is not 100% historical fact as is claimed by a lot of mainstream religions

Which mainstream religion claims the Bible is 100% historical fact? I ask because I'm interested in your definition of "mainstream" and "100%."
Interesting, but why is this possible in the first place on Android?
I don't think it was really possible in the early stages of the pandemic, and might not be possible now.

Care workers have to go in and out of elderly care facilities. We still don't have much data on how good COVID-19 testing at tracking pre-symptomatic cases, but the data points at "certainly not 100% accurate".

Even if you tested _every_ care worker before they entered the building, you'd likely miss some asymptomatic cases who could go on to transmit to the elderly. Nevermind the fact that earlier in the pandemic, the kinds of near-instant tests we have now (allbet with unimpressive reliability) weren't available.
Each to their own. Slack allows you to set your preference, Teams doesn't.
Never heard of it, but it looks really well done! It also mirrors Google Sheet's UI closely for easier onboarding. I guess at this point you can say SheetUI is a pale copy of it and I'd have nothing to counter. That said, their margin is my opportunity, and I can definitely find opportunities amongst users whom AwesomeTable has not fully satisfied. Thanks for bringing this to my attention - I'll learn from them and improve my craft.
Amused by "based on my research" being "I read the linked abstract". Not hating, just amused at what appears to be a euphemistic response.
> It was acquired by Vivendi (huge media conglomerate, owner of Universal Music Group) in 2016 and the company is rebuilding itself and growing.

That doesn't actually help. Archive.org might be a better party to save important material.
I’d ask every white person who says they don’t like these changes because they're shallow/pandering/not as good as real antiracist action to take a step back and ask yourself if that’s the real reason you dislike this change.

Is it possible you actually had a knee-jerk reaction to PC-ness and are retroactively justifying it with logic?

I think it’s common for people (maybe especially engineering types?) to have an emotional reaction to something and find a logical reason for that emotion instead of admitting that maybe they were just being reactionary in the moment.
Including jews with white? Make them seperate, and watch as these figures halve, easily.
Hacker known as “fxmsp,” charged with fraud hacking 40 different countries
In an average year, 13/1000 Swedes die anyway.

Considering COVID has closed many of life's fun things, there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively "lost" a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime. By stating open, Sweden might decrease life expectancy in years, but increase it in terms of 'things achieved in a lifetime'
It says there that the denominator (total number of graduate students) is 4577 when Wikipedia says it's 14,215.
We spent entirely too much time on O(this) and O(that)

But that's the stuff that sort of stood up to the test of time.

Also really helpful was symbolic logic, which actually was not a computer science course.

The most interesting computer science topics to me in school were
the different computer languages -- but very few of them survived the test of time.
Because race has been built into the fabric of our society. If we don't acknowledge that, then racial injustice will continue to propagate through time un-impeded.
Linux is only "the standard" in certain fields; Windows is still huge, even in the server market.

For games, the customers are on Windows so it seems pointless to cross-develop. Visual Studio also has a pretty good reputation.
Oh, it might well do that. It's a somewhat common American tic to use "African American" to mean "black" even when talking about people who are definitely not American.
Does "white" include jews? Make em seperate, and watch that percentage halve, at least.
Wow, I didn't know this. I just tried with iOS 14 beta and was surprised to see video/audio recording stop as soon as I hit the button to lock the screen.

By the way: You might want to try recording something while walking around with your phone in your pocket. My guess is that your clothing will muffle sound. Any movement will cause fabric to rub against the phone, drowning out the sound you actually want to record. Even if your tactic did work, I'm not sure it would have captured much of the conversation.
From the introduction of the paper:
"... recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs)."
> Okay, that's now a target we can enforce without wishy washy judgment calls.

Sure, you can have an exact set of rules like that, and feel free to have an automated enforcement of your own set of exact rules. There are good reasons coding style guides often include things which are not exact rules, and the target for them is often not automated enforcement but supporting human judgement that balances multiple factors. Yes, that results in fuzzy boundaries, but it's because experience has both shown that there is an issue but has not provided (yet) sufficient basis for a quantifiable boundary, because the set of factors being balanced is complex and multidimensional. Reducing the dimensionality for simplicity of automated enforcement is easier, but not necessarily better.
There have been a few discussions on what Vulkan needs to be competitive for GPGPU programming. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880502 comes to mind. I would also note that multi-gpu distributed synchronization (especially across nodes) is a big part of enterprise CUDA usage and doesn't seem to be well-supported in Vulkan.
But loop variables are always i, j and k.
True enough - I find it depends a bit on the nature of the script - if it's something buried under misc/tools/extra/bin/util.sh - i tend to prefer brevity - especially in the first paragraph/usage section (util.sh <required param> [optional param]).

But for more concrete examples I'll often leave off the basename - for easier cut and paste.
Sweden has half the COVID death of Belgium despite having had some of the more lax restrictions.

The only reason Sweden is facing economic hardship is because of its starting position and the fact most of the world decided to go full retard on their own.
yes we do!

Why are you trying to be so blind to race concerns?
What is the (spiritual) successor of DYNAMO? Would Modelica be a fit?
Ok Dropbox.

I get tired of these startups thinking they can just throw up videos of non-existent products and get signups as some kind of validation.

Consumers patience will wear thin when they find pretty much every new startup pulls the same crap, until interest in new startups reaches all time lows and this strategy doesn’t work anymore.

Then the only way to validate things will be the old fashioned way: take a risk and build shit up front. If it doesn’t sell that’s your problem, the consumer doesn’t care. Not everyone is entitled to cheap and easy validation.

Don’t fake, just make.
> google relies too-heavily on automation

Consider that you may be relying too much on a free service that you paid nothing for.

I'm not saying that google sucks. It does. But it will never get better unless you actually move to another service and take your money with you.
We cannot rely on server-side protections, because the people who control the servers are often acting against us. Standards won't change that; the linked article is about how website go against a law. We know what change a standard and gentleman's agreement can bring. We've seen it with Do not Track.

The only protections we can have right now are client-side.
ALDC (or at least LDC) preferences remain the most unjust (elitist) aspects of college admissions. Sadly, there seems to be limited political pressure to ban them (by which I mean extending various civil rights acts to ban institutions receiving federal funding from preferring LDC status).

A cynic would even point out that Ivy League schools heavily use race-based affirmative action to change the narrative and appear diverse. Sadly, no one looks at how poorly they look in terms of socio-economic diversity - typically around 15% of students receive Pell Grants compared to 30% at the top UCs that don't practice LDC preferences (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-unive...)
Knotty Math Tiles
It doesn't look too fingerprintable. The ids seems to change once you closed all the tabs belonging to a site (on firefox), on on reload (chromium) so the max they can fingerprint is how many devices of each type you have.

the site I used to test: https://browserleaks.com/webrtc
Influences on American Home Styles, 1600 to Today
Operators are likely to demand this feature.

Previously, they'd usually prefer a 'monoculture' so it's all or nothing for lower cost manufacturers at the time when an operator rolls out their network or a new generation of it, and an extreme barrier of entry for a new manufacturer.

Cooperating could enable a lower cost manufacturer to sell hardware to operators that otherwise would not even consider them due to compatibility issues with their existing gear.
I was shocked when I first learned what legacy students were. Everyone talks about the uk bring super classist but legacy students would never fly over here. The US seems to have some seriously blatant classism. The other obvious one is the teeth obsession.
The ability to control and censor broad swaths of human communication globally is not a power any corporation should have.

Scale it down for argument's sake, such that people are using a video service that you own and operate to spread extremely destructive false information about everything from elections and politics to public health. Your first reaction is "This is fine, the marketplace of ideas will sort it out in the end." Instead, it turns out that the more offensive, destructive, and just plain stupid the content is, the more people eagerly lap it up.

Are you going to take steps to prevent this from happening? If not, how are you not at least partially responsible for the real-world consequences of the videos on your service, which seem to be mounting by the day?

How about if someone posts a video calling for political assassinations or other violent criminal activity? Do you act to keep that sort of content off your channel?

Where do you draw the line? And why should Google be prohibited from drawing the line at all?

None of this justifies the unaccountable use of flawed algorithms to delete random channels, of course. But that's a separate point from the one you've raised.
This looks really cool! I've been thinking of a project where I can view a 3D map of my ride on Strava .. is that something that's possible with this library? Can it draw paths across the rendered map?
I have the exact opposite experience; my job with the favorite coding standard explicitly had ways of allowing variances. The CEO came down hard on anyone who said that "The standard forbids X" and would tell them to reread the standard because it actually said something like "Don't do X without doing Y first."

The basic mentality was if you couldn't responsibly follow the style guidelines after working there for a year, then you should be looking for work elsewhere.
Wow, Martini looks really interesting! I did some research about mesh simplification and had some success using https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer. Meshoptimizer is in c++ so I had to use the Rust wrapper https://github.com/gwihlidal/meshopt-rs and compile it to wasm.

I actually opensourced this code at https://github.com/blaze33/dem2mesh, just have to use dem2mesh.png2mesh which given a png data, computes the heightmap, builds a mesh, simplifies it and return the data to javascript. (can be tricky though to deal with wasm)
And when Harvard puts quotas for "minorities", it doesn't limit offers for these people, it limits them for the other 57%.
“Massive Cannibalism” During China’s Cultural Revolution