skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be New Yorker style but it’s also the style of a lot of pre-1950 travel writing. Travel writing at the time assumed that the reader would never visit the destination being written about, or for that matter any other destinations farther than a few hundred miles from home, so a lot of that older travel writing is infused with myth, simile, and prose which would today seem florid.
It's a fine call... if they could scale Atom down that low + eat the margin hit to gut ARM dev boards.

Neither of which they executed on.
One and a half years is actually typical for someone from a non-backlogged country.
Calls for TikTok to be banned in Australia over Chinese spying fears
Citation needed. In both India & China, H-1B has given millions of talented people a pathway to learn new skills and earn a vastly increased income, and many of them have returned to their home countries to found their own companies and spread the wealth. So while the implementation of the program remains pretty broken, and the jury is out on their net impact to America, from a global POV the visas have definitely been a plus.
How did you go about finding a local butcher, I’ve found locally that this isn’t like a thing where people have a large web presence & giant “this is where you should be buying meat” lit signs pointing the way
Cost of 1gb of data in every country
I Don't Read Email in the Morning (2015)
average is a mean, not a median
I presume though that Mathlib does not define the extended naturals? If they did then 1:N / 0:N would be valued at this infinity.

What I found interesting about the Scott encoding was that natural infinity was trivial to define, and arises directly from a straightforward construction of the div function (for naturals).

The encoding is as follows (\x indicates lambda abstraction for identifier x. Recursion is assumed, of course it could be made explicit with the Y combinator):

zero := \f \x n
succ := \n \f \x f n

infinite := \n succ (infinite n)
infinity := infinite zero

subn := \n \m m (\p n (\q subn q p) n) n

divn := \n \m (subn m n) (\p zero) (succ (divn (subn n m) m))

divn (succ zero) zero => infinity

EDIT: Note that infinity does not have a normal form (does not terminate), but:

subn n infinity => zero
Micro-Feedback in Remote Education
WRT CoreRT...

It -is- a bit of a shame, yes. But 'not productized' isn't quite the same as non functional. Streets of Rage 4 actually uses it for some environments.

The problem is that it seems Microsoft more wanted CoreRT as a research/testbed project for UWP compilation. The community is still trying to get Microsoft to productive it.

> When I google "c# web server", the first thing that pops up is a tutorial for how to write your own from the ground up with sockets. When I do the same thing with Go, I get a practical tutorial for how to use the standard library web server to build an interactive wiki application.

Not that it's a great defense but I checked, and you are right about the first link. the second link, while still a little deeper than one may like, hopefully is enough to realize that ASP.NET is the library to use and puts you just a click or two away from the proper tutorials. I.e. I'm not sure we should be dinging a language based on SEO.
So.. code is what it is?
Not to be pedantic, but the term is indentured servitude, at least in regards to Europeans coming to North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude
Come on, what platform has recording studio knobs and sliders as its native controls?
How did you get a job in a lab if you were not familiar with a pipette?

"I still don't know how he did it."

Practice. Learning through mistakes. Tips from others.
This is not the least bit surprising. It's been well known for a long, long time that color receptors are concentrated at the fovea and peripheral vision is mostly black and white.

I guess the paper is saying that people are even less sensitive to color in peripheral vision than would be suggested by the distribution of rods and cones. But I don't really find that surprising either.
Up to 40% of students will be on campus. Priority to freshmen in the fall and seniors in the spring.
Did you misread latency and throughput?
In an informational bulletin, USCIS also stated that “Engineers may not fill computer-related jobs under TN classification unless they have credentials as computer or software engineers from institutions that recognize computer or software engineering as bona fide engineering specialties offering full engineering credentials, such as professional engineering licenses.” USCIS Employment Bulletin: NAFTA (2005).
I'm not seeing it. Unless Europe suddenly figures out how to pay real wages at the same time that China discovers how to not be horrible people can always be imported at the discretion of whoever is managing the system. People come to the US for the money.
More anecdata:

I’ve worked with a handful of EB-1 holders. I wouldn’t qualify a single one as “exceptional.” Fine coworkers, sure, but to a one the justification for EB-1 strained credulity.

I have however worked with several H1-B holders of whom I would say the opposite.
The sequels stress me out. Too much to do, too many things available that you can't do yet but can't tell whether you don't have the thing you need or just haven't figured out the trick. Random events happening constantly demanding attention. The original is sedate by comparison. Something about the combination of Metroidvania tool accumulation and more-open-world lots-of-stuff-available-at-once GTA-type world damn near gave me a panic attack. I like both those things, but not at the same time.
It's not a favorite book and sometimes it's far too heavy-handed, but I wouldn't say that it's completely non-sarcastic. It's mostly pro-military, but there's some definite ambivalence about what that means in execution down to the excessively brutal miltary discipline and the jabs at the way military leaders often waste lives through over-confidence. You can tell it was written in close proximity to the oft-overestimated "Stranger in a Strange Land" if you look a bit more carefully for the cynicism. Large chunks of the first half read as if Heinlein was looking forward to "Full Metal jacket", but couldn't quite pull it together on his own.
Yes. If you have enough radiation dose you'd need more than 100% chance of failure.

A much better model is that the number of spots where the chip was destroyed by radiation is a Poisson distribution with lambda linear in the size of the radiation dose. For low probabilities of failure, the probability of failure is approximately lambda, which is linear. For large lambda, the probability of at least one failure approaches one.

However this more accurate model, in the case of interest (low probability of failure), linear is the appropriate approximation. And a small child should get the simpler version and not the complexities of Poisson.
I get where you're coming from, but at the same time... I've been there, done that. I don't mean that in a negative way- rather, it's just that I've already gotten the satisfaction I'm going to get out of projects of this nature. Same thing as when I was in to rebuilding V8 engines when I was younger. It was fun to figure out the system, and see what was possible with a few tweaks. Now that I've clearly defined where the edges are, it's on to the next thing. I don't need to repeat the same experiment forever, you know?
This is a ridiculous statement. Intel, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple were all founded by US Citizens.
It's unbelievable how much inefficiencies are created from this. I presume it's on purpose to make oversight more difficult.
DBSCAN, HDBSCAN, Spectral, and many other classical algorithms are not scalable. You cannot use them to search for approximate nearest neighbors, say, among several billion embeddings in a 1024-dimensional vector space, which is the sort of thing you can do with this library.
Ukrainian startup Sixa (YC S16) vanishes after attracting $5M in investments
This is like the next level stealing a roll of TP from work. :/
I feel like some kind of PGP authentication system would be very useful for private government to citizen communications. It would require some training on users parts however.
I used to think the same thing about needed to choose produce myself, but after doing Whole Foods delivery about 20 times since covid hit, I've had mostly great results with quality.

Maybe this is just Whole Foods, and maybe it's my area San Francisco, so YMMV with other stores in other locations.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23754643
Google Removes Boomerang Parent App for Using Same Approach as Family Link
It’s probably Whole Foods. We always seem to get apples covered in bruises.
New Generation AI (NGAI) Development Plan of China (2015– 2030) [pdf]
The closest the game has to "self modifying code" is that you can "see" the "brains" of the opponents that shows the actions they will perform, and then attack with "hacking" weapons directly against their brain, to alter their behavior.
Even electric vehicles use the AA style battery metaphor in their UI.
An open source driver assistance system with support for 85 car makes and models
More information came via email:

> Hi,

> Google's automated app review process has removed Boomerang Parental Control from Google Play due to violating their Deceptive Behavior guideline. In the meantime, Parents can still download our app from our website and buy/renew their licenses via our web dashboard.

> I've read the guidelines multiple times. They are written to be quite ambiguous, nothing supports the violation we have been flagged for which is "CAN’T UNINSTALL APP". The guidelines claim "Apps that modify device settings or features with the user’s consent but do so in a way that is not easily reversible." "Easily reversible" comes down to a matter of opinion.

> In addition, I have reviewed a few of our competitors this morning, whom are all still live on Google Play and include the same protection as Boomerang Parental Control is being removed for. I'm trying to get Google's California-based team's attention as the outsourced Appeals Team has been absolutely useless (quoting template answers). This is an ongoing situation and I will keep emailing our user base updates (good and/or bad).
> a NN Search System

And what is that exactly? I was under the impression result of running nearest-neighbor algorithms are clusters. DBSCAN is a clustering algorithm. kNN is a clustering algorithm.

Is this used to find neighbors for use in a clustering algorithm?
They will just go to Microsoft that is located in Redmond that is not affected by the tax.
Does the Herald Sun (which seems to be the source of this sparse article, but which I cannot read because their website is trash) give more details than this?

> There are calls for popular video app TikTok to be banned in Australia.

The passive voice here is obnoxious, who is calling for it?
Sergey Brin and Andy Grove were both immigrants.

If the people creating US technology weren't permitted to move here, the center of mass of the world's tech industry would shift somewhere else with sane immigration policies, probably Toronto. US persons who want to work in technology would have to emigrate to find jobs.

You can't just eliminate the vast majority of the people who work in an industry, and expect it to still exist.
End the H1B and other work restrictions. Let Americans hire foreigners freely, without fees and paperwork, without arbitrary limits, without inhumane processes that take years.

Make America free again.
Very bold to do it in the current landscape but I'm sure they've got their reasons to do so
Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages supported including CJK, Thai
>This has been a popular fringe scientific theory for many years under the title Electric Universe Theory.

They're not at all related.

>but its lead proponents tend to be real scientists referencing real, peer-reviewed literature.

They have real PhDs, some of them from respectable universities, but it's an incestuous group that has people not participate in studies so they can all peer review each other in "journals" with no real standing.
Will read and report back!

What I think is most disheartening is that Republicans and Democrats alike have no interest whatsoever in immigration reform. Democrats controlled both houses and the presidency and were unwilling to do anything. And then there's Dick Durbin, who torpedoed the most recent round of reforms.
On the contrary, anything tech related is sky rocketing. The Fed is proving they are willing to buy up just about anything, market highs know no ceiling. Now is the time to pile in with absolutely any tech related offering.
Code Forensics
It would be challenging to do so - the rule states that full time students can only enroll in one full-time online class.
Dave Hickey. I double-took for a moment there :)
Progressive doesn't necessarily mean liberal. That was just the best word I had to explain it.
Bold in which sense? I can think of a range of reasons why any company, and Palantir specifically, could be hesitant.
Looks great, except the overlay effect makes the text unreadable for certain hues (like red). Can't wait to see how many other SaaS websites copy this trend.
Could you elaborate on why you think it’s atrocious?

I’m not sure I agree that the processes are hidden, every company I’ve ever worked for (several large corps you’ve heard of + several startups) talks about hiring practices publicly. Glassdoor and other sites, including HN, have all kinds of information & stories about what happens during interviews.
That depends on the school. Many do not require you to re-apply.
Hack Brief: Hackers Are Exploiting a 5-Alarm Bug in Networking Equipment
The spirit of the visa is for Nobel prizes, Olympic medals and such, but in practice, it is a visa for people with immigration lawyers of exceptional ability.
Digital Business Academy: Launch a Digital Business – University College London
> I imagine in cases where you're tied to such old hardware, you would also be tied to old software

Exactly. If you have to support some old esoteric hardware, you probably wouldn't be able to run a recent kernel anyways, since all your software would probably also be tied/constrained to whaterver it was developed and tested for.
Yup! I also learned there are remote apps that you can use to control phones/tablets as well.

A couple weeks ago I fixed my moms android phone from my Mac in a different country!
"Politically charged", maybe?
So much this. Most people aren't privacy activists so Palantir is just a high profile contractor to invest in.
Reddit promises to stop accessing user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14
Harvard is a bad example because there are always way more kids that want to go to Harvard than are willing to defer.

They can tap the wait list for everyone else.
there is a description booklet on all the associated content (apparently all belongs to the La La Lab exhibition) with more explanations, see http://img.uy/lalalab-booklet (page 53)
I think they are brilliant, it saves me the trouble of thinking what to get and you also avoid getting the same gift which the other person already has.

With a gift card the recipient can get what they want.
Loading into the sort of packaging used for electronics is definitely hard to automate. For low margin products it used to be universal that boxed items were manufactured where labor was cheap, and that's for very simple to load items.

Automation is improving at a rapid rate though. I've definitely seen automated boxers for some simple to load items start to show up.
This is what Raymond Chen calls the "psychic debugger".
TIL! Still think it should be higher.
Given that this is a public dataset, has anyone seen a good visualization not behind a paywall?
the ps4 is very fast (1.84 tflops, effectively a supercomputer 15 years ago).

what you're describing are network issues. the internet is slow!
>H-1B1 is not the visa type for the best and brightest. That visa type is EB-1. H-1B is about skills in high demand not extraordinary ability.

So Melania Trump was the best and brightest? By what metric?
What does Palantir do again? Serious question.
These days "There are calls" means the journalist read someone say it on Twitter.
Lemonade and Agora's IPOs in the last two weeks both doubled right out of gate and have kept going (1)

Bankrupt HERTZ pumped 500%+ over a couple of weeks in June, to such a degree that their board nearly got a $500m unprecedented "worthless" equity offering out into the public market before the SEC shut them down. (2)

Tesla is trading at $1,400. Their latest competitor Nikola - who has no sales and no actual consumer product - was briefly worth more than ford (3)

I would assume that board rooms & investment bankers are SCRAMBLING to get their IPOs pushed out in Q3 or early Q4 2020.

In the meantime hold onto your hats, don't risk what you can't afford to lose :)

(1) https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/bankrupt-hertz-terminates-co...

(2) https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/17/all-bets-are-off-as-hertz-...

(3) *Was for a minute - off to an $18b valuation vs $25b for ford today haha - https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/06/09/as-stock-price-mor...
I always find the best local food sources from word of mouth. Usually there's not a large web presence because web is extra overhead, and high quality food has a much higher demand than supply so there's no need for it. A good place to meet local people to talk about food is a farmer's market.
Why is a red Corvette more expensive to insure than a white Camry?
US to withdraw visas for foreign students if classes moved fully online
Yeah. I have a "launch" Pro, and it's been noisy as heck since day one. haha

As others have said, they fixed it in later revisions of the hardware. :)
Who’s «Reviewer 2 »?
If I were Palantir I'd be worried about the funding from my primary customers (defense, law enforcement, ICE) in the likely coming very Democratic federal government. There's been a lot of noise made about changing how much money is being spent on law enforcement, which would directly impact Palantir's bottom line. If they can IPO and gracefully transition to private sector work, then they'll be golden; but afaict private sector hasn't gone as well as they'd hoped yet.
It's hard to argue with that.
Yes sorry about that. I copied these notes from my personal notes. The other commenter explained it well enough

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23754612
Build software to do data analysis + work with clients. From what I know.
The tech industry is terrified of the coronavirus (Feb. 2020)
In DC where I live about 15% of residential customers choose other than the standard offer service, while 85% of nonresidential do. Consumption breaks down similarly, however, since nonresidential is a bigger market the incumbent on supplies 30% of total MWH.
TB3 is an optional part of the USB4 spec.

It's very likely that Apple will support USB4/TB3.
https://www.bloomberg.com./graphics/2020-ppp-loans-data-disc...
Basically what it did in the LotR books and movies. Provide technology to questionably-ethical people that gives them insights into things they wouldn't ordinarily be able to discover, accompanied by longer-term downsides that aren't readily apparent at the time the technology is deployed and used.
A lot of Australian media is written in a passive voice. Everything is too touchy of a topic to ever confront.

It is very frustrating if you're actually out of the loop and are trying to figure out what anyone is actually talking about.

Who/What/Why/When/Where and How are frequently just missing from editorials, but there IS a controversy, related to something, like immigrants, or Tik Tok, immigrant apps.
It's plausible!

I have a similar story involving myself and my sister. She was power cycling our family computer over and over, becoming more and more frustrated as it went into 'safe mode' equivalent. I allowed it to fully power on and then rebooted it, and it was 'fixed'.

The story isn't unreasonable.
See Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine for an in depth discussion.
I’ve been working with several contractors lately. They’ve all been bragging about getting Coronavirus small business loans they don’t need, as demand for home renovation contractors is way up while everyone is working from home. One of them asked me if I had any ideas for investing the loan somewhere that would earn him extra money.

Meanwhile, we’re starting to see a steady stream of questionable loans granted to large businesses such as Kanye West’s or Mitch McConnell’s wife.

I’m sure these loans were helpful to some people somewhere (food service industry is a good example) but the overall execution and monitoring have been generally quite poor.
Hence the rapid IPO. ;)
Data mining for primarily government customers. Named after the seeing stones from Tolkien's mythology.
Great share!

I wish these were shorter but I guess I have to breakout my notepad again
Literally anything. If I see someone with a lot of relevant forked repos, even if they're old, I take that as interest and something I can bring up.

If I see a repo of rcfiles I know they care about working efficiently. If I see abandoned stuff with more than 1 commit that's OK, that's something that was cared about at one point. These are just two super generic examples. Almost everything is a positive.

The only thing I don't like to see is repos with 1 commit, and nothing other than a README with the repo title in it. Not really negative, more of a 'cmon gimme more.'
This is used in neural retrieval systems where you are trying to find a specific example, not a cluster.
Without knowing what they actually do, Palantir is a terrifying name.
When did they add the join statement to COBOL?
Their site should have some info about that, let’s see...

“At Palantir, we build software that lets organizations integrate their data, their decisions, and their operations into one platform. Our software empowers entire organizations to answer complex questions quickly by bringing the right data to the people who need it.”

Whoops! Never mind, I have no idea what this is describing.
I dunno, I guess I just think of things differently, when I move, the first thing I do is look for the local butchers, delis or produce shops, they've almost always got the best quality for price outside of farm fresh stuff. Bulk stuff is always a planned trip to scrounge all the best bulk sections around. Wandering into random food stores you find on your travels and discovering little stores selling spices or vegetables you've never seen before. Fighting with little old ladies over the best cheese in the Italian deli.

I enjoy that stuff. Food brings me joy. Finding and choosing the best ingredients for the stuff I make has always been something i've enjoyed. Well, once I learned to cook well enough that I came to appreciate it.

These things that come as revelations were always available to you. I may be being presumptuous to you and the other commenters, but it seems to be more that the change in routine and living situations has caused a lot of people to reassess their food in general.

These things are great and positive. I may just be overly pessimistic, but I worry for that everyone like you and the others, there's ten others who never think about it and continue on as is, in a more convenient and ever disconnected way.

I feel like there's a good way and bad way this could all play out. I guess I'm just most worried that rather than small local businesses getting their stuff out there, they'll get drowned out by the big players that are going to start dropping into this market hard. It could go either way. I just really don't want to see it got the big corporate route yet again.

Like you and others say, this is an opportunity for small local businesses to get out their and I have seen it first hand. At my current job I share space with a new small local organic produce delivery company and those are the kinds of people I'd like to see do well from this.