skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The words "white supremacy" are being redefined. If you don't go along with the Marxist radicals' subversion of US institutions "that are rooted in white supremacy" (not to mention their asserted goal of "ending Whiteness", the meaning of which is quite unclear to most - certainly to the many millions of people who have been heavily encouraged to self-identify as white throughout the 20th century, including by progressives) they'll call you a white supremacist.
And yet despite bi-partisan legislation to reform H1B we get this stupidity.

It's going to be good to vote this cycle.
> Social networks don't want to change anything, because culture wars drive engagement

Is there any public evidence that outrage-driven engagement is profitable? It's a statement that is frequently repeated, but I haven't seen any evidence for it.
The problem with actually measuring that is that the narrative becomes less compelling when supplemented with actual data. Lots of these projects are basically replicating what worked in industry (or was determined not to work) without even paying attention to the industry results. MIT has a whole PR pipeline constantly touting amazing results (and some of them truly are) but they tend to overemphasize how useful these things would truly be if applied at scale.
Shameless plug for my side project: XpanXn.com

The central value proposition is its reimagined UI, making threaded replies more visible and more interactive by separating conversation topics (threads) into different columns.

It’s currently just an MVP, but I expect to at least improve the UI and maybe rearchitect the system in the near future.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
> why should someone have to liquidate personal possessions to pay someone else anyway

The issue is there's serious moral hazard where owners of a private business can, rather than maintaining a balance in the business, pay themselves the cash, then grovel to the public to bail them out. If you're socializing the risk, you shouldn't get to privatize the reward.
That's an interesting video - a pretty good takedown of "Laowhy86's" claims.

One of the craziest aspects of media coverage of the lab leak theory is that a lot of it is based on a video by a vlogger who used to teach English in China.

"Laowhy86" used to make clickbait videos about how to get girls in China, about eating exotic foods, etc. After the pandemic began, he made a video that regurgitated completely evidence-free conspiracy theories that he found on Chinese social media. That video became the primary source for a surprising amount of reports in "serious" publications.

It would be hilarious if this weren't such a serious subject.
The man mailed bombs to people who had never even met him. In a civil (intra-state) context, that's murder. By US law, I'm pretty sure there is no context in which it isn't murder (the weapon of choice precludes self-defense, since it's an unreliable delivery mechanism for targeted lethal force; there were thankfully no deaths in American Airlines Flight 444, but it indicates why a "justified killing" defense is nonsense in this context). He's not a nation-state so it's not an act of war. If he acted to change a nation's policy by his own volition via violence perpetrated on the unsuspecting, it's terrorism.

It's also an ineffective way to change policy. If my actions can cause random strangers to mail bombs to me? Well, hell, that's in the same risk radius as "I could walk out my front door and get hit by a truck." I can influence strangers, but I ultimately can't control the actions of strangers. And a stable society can't condone lone-wolf assassination or mass killing of unrelated individuals, so it will always interpret the Unabomber's strategy as antisocial and route around it.

Hypothetically, enough people using the same strategy could destabilize the society to the point it cannot defend its people and it loses legitimacy and cohesion. But that's just a "might makes right" argument, and is philosophically uninteresting (and, worth noting, could be used by the "technologists" against people like the Unabomber, so it sheds no light on moral correctness whatsoever).
It does exist, but would be easy to fix.
> H1B was being abused and needed to be reigned in.

Nothing has been reigned in. H1B quota got full early on this year and H1bs were allotted through a lottery of qualified candidates. Transfers are still being allowed. If your argument is that H1B gets abused then right way is to pass a reasonable bill and not blanket ban everything.

Yet again, F1 visa already prohibit students a 100% online school from entering the country. So your impression of immigration being "reigned in" is pretty misguided.
And ironically, the people on the other side of the debate are working as hard as they can to find ways to deny conservatives the actual, literal right to exist.
I think that's probably correct in describing where you end up, but not any particular step along the way. It's one of those "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" situations.

When you first modify the abstraction, it's nearly perfect. Just one tiny conditional and it's a perfectly suitable abstraction again. The problem is, when this process repeats itself, you slowly get to the point where any one client of the abstraction is only using a small fraction of it, but there was never a singular point where someone made a decision to use the abstraction when it was anything less than "almost perfect".
Fee can be refundable if review is not malicious. Win-win.
Fantastic news for the environment and ourselves if people overall consume less
How much of this is due to existing Trump administration policies, and how much due to COVID?
>but if not, that might tell you which states are most likely to run afoul of the constitution.

Not necessarily. SCOTUS tends to let things simmer until there's disagreement among the states and then deliver a big smack-down that affects many more states than just where the case originated.
Many people have made statements that didn't age well. Hopefully you haven't forgotten about the ludicrous statements made by prominent epidemiologists, virologists and organizations like the WHO. Meanwhile we could trust the news to produce panic porn 24/7. Mass graves in Central Park! Sweden is doing an experiment in Human Sacrifice! Hopefully when the pandemic dies down we'll reflect on how the media and the scientific community completely failed to inform the people.
I very much agree with this sentiment, but it is difficult to endorse this line of reasoning without offering a better alternative. As folks have pointed out in other comments, there are other values to tests in the broad sense that the author doesn’t address. That said, if you are interested in improving the state of testing, I would encourage you to listen to Will Wilson’s excellent talk on the subject of Autonomous Testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSPwJFXVlw
Indeed, FoundationDB (which Wilson worked on) has a very unique and sophisticated approach to testing that seems to have served them very well.
Wouldn't you just end up with a population density map?

Cool project though.
>letter vs to the spirit

What is the inherent spirit of the law in only eating animals that chew their cud and have split hoofs? Or fish that only have scales and fins? The inherent spirit of not wearing linen and wool together?

There are plenty of places where religious jews go beyond what the law says because rabbis have deemed it important. The prohibition of not eating meat and milk together come from "not eating a kid in its mother's milk" but rabbis said it applies to all meat and all milk.

I'm not sure how legitimate it is to think you know or can determine the spirit of religious laws you don't know the details of.
Peripherally related, but this tweet by @dataeditor at the Washington Post was amusing (https://twitter.com/dataeditor/status/1280278987797942272):

>Philadelphia, to its own credit, is spelled at least 57 different ways in the PPP loan data

(an image is included, with various items, such as "PHIADELPHIA", "PHILADELPHIA,", and "PHILLY")

Pretty well sums up data science. He also notes that Chicago is spelled 31 ways (https://twitter.com/dataeditor/status/1280277322596311041).
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> He still doesn't deserve to die.

why not?
> the US is still extremely generous with immigration.

US is the WORST country on earth for immigration. I came to US >10 years ago, still NOWHERE near getting a Green Card. Will probably won't get well into my 30s or 40s. It's practically impossible to get it in the next 5 years.

The same time I started undergrad in US, my friend started undergrad in Germany. He was already a German citizen by the time we were working. I was still on F visa. This was like half a decade ago.

My biggest regret EVER was doing this in the US. If I got a PhD in Europe instead of US, I wouldn't be a person who doesn't have a country.

I understand that American people don't want immigrants. But let's not pretend immigration into US is easy. I've been trying my entire life to live here without getting kicked out and it's pure luck. One mistake and you need to wrap your entire life, leave loved ones and go back home. Again, I'm NOT saying I'm entitled to living in the US, I'm saying this is an extremely long, and complex process.
The fix is the problem.

Even if you are anti-immigration, your biggest issue should be tourist visas which is how illegal immigrants stay in the US, and those are unlimited and in the millions. H1B quotas are stupid by design.
You forgot there is a lot of IT work after buying the hardware to set it up properly. That’s time spent
Parallel ray tracing benchmark for functional programming languages
This is an interesting benchmark comparing parallel functional programming languages, including Rust, Parallel OCaml and MPL. MPL is "a parallelism-oriented fork of MLton for Standard ML" which is described as being "definitely the star" (see also http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~swestric/20/popl-disentangled.pdf). This benchmark was inspired by Jon Harrop's ray tracer benchmark (https://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/index.htm...).
Cool stuff! Python's ecosystem for data science is amazing, it's definitely good to be able to use a functional language with them.
FYI to folks who are trying it out now - on step 3, you'll have to click on an element on the preview UI so you could customize it. You can customize it to show a particular column by clicking the + button. Without customization, the resulting page will not show anything.

I'll fix this in the next iteration by providing defaults.
There's one mainstream site I've been to recently, where you have to select "reject" in the sliders, then navigate away. If you click "I agree" button at the bottom you're agreeing to navigate away from the page and silently revert all your choices!

Even the BBC do shenanigans wrt cookies, they don't have a reject button. You have to navigate to a settings page, the page shows all non-essential settings as off, then you navigate back. So, you'd think that non-essential cookies are off by default, but if course they're not; AFAICT if you don't visit the page on which you do nothing then it turns the cookies on ... so you don't need to turn then off, but if you don't not-turn-them-off then they're silently enabled.

Properly compliant sites have "no/reject" buttons and still show all content after you press it.
Thank you. I was unclear. I meant licensed under some Free license. (I'm writing a Theory of Computation book that is Free and incorporating some of this material is attractive.)

The web site for IIT Delhi didn't say, that I could find.
So... last year's average salary was $357,142 per employee? :)
Since you’re a skeptic, I’d love to hear your thoughts on my reply to xtracto!
or, in other words, literally shaking
No there should be a deposit for flagging content, refundable one, if content is not in violation fee is kept for work done, if content is malicious. Content is taken down - fee refunded.
That's one thing that makes me quite sad, to see open source communities adopt a closed chat tool. I know that it's easy and zero-maintenance for them, but I can't help but feel there are better options.
I don't know that hardware is inherently more complex than software.

The issue I see in hardware is that all complexity is handled manually by humans. Historically there has been very little capacity in EDA tools for the software-like abstraction and reuse which would allow us to handle complexity more gracefully.
probably referring to the domain name...
My recommendation:

1. Learn Scrum/kanban (not a book)

2. Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor

3. The First-Time Manager by Loren B. Belker

4. Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values

5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
> International students should be allowed to stay as long as they're full-time, and are accepted into an accredited university with the intention of attending in person.

Luckily, that's exactly what these new "rules" allow for (check the source material, not just news coverage of it; the source material is written in a pretty plain and easy to understand language, not walls of legalese). You are only getting kicked out if your courseload is fully online or if you don't take enough classes to qualify for a full-time student status. Otherwise, you are good.
Transposing is copying bytes, but changing the stride order of the array. So a lot of the work is extremely non-local.

The poster meant that to do this efficiently, you'll use blocks and stage data between the drives while working.

You can also transpose in place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-place_matrix_transposition see some of the commentary on efficiency there.
Predictions for the world of January 1, 2020
I'm going to be honest, this post is a very long winded way to state the obvious.

Businesses already using some kind of microsoft software that get something "on top" which is "like slack!" are never going to switch.

It doesn't matter that teams is basically sharepoint+email+skype (and not, as slack is: an IRC-style chat system) and it certainly does not matter that bringing bots to the platform is eggregiously painful.

It only matters that business executives and people that have never stepped outside of the microsoft ecosystem perceive it as "being the same" and "being included".
if search engines knew what you wanted to look at before you looked at them they wouldn't be necessary.
Never finish your essays all wishy washy like that. You don’t like shitty tests. Not a very controversial or enlightening end there.

If you’re gonna be against testing, then be against it
A small minority of people are rational enough to forge new truths in the face of conflicting and complicated information usually in a small narrowly focused way. A much larger minority is capable of digesting and making use of the work product of the former group in a productive way again within the scope of a broader but still narrow scope.

The majority is too stupid to make up their own minds and needs to be educated at a young age to accept the work product of prior generations experts because they are just too unintelligent to evaluate it for themselves. This is literally most people.

The fact that this is unpleasant doesn't make it untrue.
According to the bible you or possessions or servants aren't allowed to "work" on the Sabbath (On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.)

Rabbinic Judaism expanded this to the Jews doing "work" for you. Since this server is hosted in Israel and there are Jews who work for electric company on Sabbath. In addition the he doesn't want the server to work so he has it "work" only on a day when there isn't Sabbath anywhere in world.
No, The ops point is if you include cofounding, the percentage should be higher than the population rate.

Made up numbers follow.
If the average number of Cofounders was 4, at 25% population rate the number would be around 66% immigrant founded by that stat.
Yeah, Trump strikes me as the kind of person who would protect himself diligently regardless of what his public stance might be.

I might be wrong about this, but isn't he also known to be somewhat of a 'clean freak'?
And even as the facts indicate that it is true, you will continue not to believe them. As you said, you dislike the narrative - whether it is true or not never really mattered to you, you just didn't like the implications.

You are doing a remarkably effective job at demonstrating this phenomenon.
>and yet the stream of cash continues to flow to those too stupid to save a few months of operating expenses/payroll.

That's a bit of a harsh take. Lots of businesses took out these loans preemptively because they knew the money would dry up soon. Both the company I work for and our family business had applications ready to go the minute they could be filed because it was clear that the application process was going to be a mess.

I agree with you that the forgiveness should be tied to an ownership stake in the business, and that dispersal of funds should have only happened with demonstrable need of funds. But the people involved knew this was going to be a handout and acted accordingly. Taking these funds is an indicator of good business sense, not poor.
I think there is a more holistic POV here that resolves the tension you are worried about which is simply to accept that the beliefs people openly espouse are not what they actually believe, there is outward cognitive dissonance but inwardly people are making sense of the world in a fairly rational way that is consistent with their own goals and needs, not with objective/mathematically consistent reality. It only seems like irrational denial of facts because you incorrectly assume (a) you understand their needs and goals and (b) what they say they believe is about a position being objectively true or false and not a model of reality that works for them. If you want to "change people's minds" what you need to do is understand their needs and goals, how the most brutal version of "the truth" does or doesn't support those needs, and then "convince people" by creating coherent world views that are both "true" and allow them psychological coherence and safety (aka, +empathy and diplomacy).
That would be considered "mala fides" and the court would likely hold the officers/directors liable for the loan amount. Also, prior to filing for bankruptcy any attorney worth his spit will advise his client to fully repay or continue paying obligations to the US government. US government-backed loans are very difficult to completely discharge in a bankruptcy.
Yeah but why pay someone to look after databases when I could get them do something else that'll have way more value. Using managed services just reduces how much money I have to spend upfront.
>you can at least effect basic repairs if not immediately call the tradie

You're not supposed to do either on shabbat unless its life or death.
>I definitely don't think they saw the number of ambulance rides go down.

I'm friends with an ER nurse and she was saying that the ER was almost completely empty during the first few weeks of COVID-19 because everyone was staying home out of fear.
Why is it listed as a Non-profit?
> Teams is particularly effective as a way to prevent a Microsoft customer from even trying Slack.

You sure about that, Ben?

Teams has been a disappointment for my group. We need it. At least, we need what it is on paper. But it's been so bad that my (Microsoft-loving) boss asked me to write a groupware web app specifically for our workflow, so that we wouldn't have to try to make that shoe fit any more.

The fundamental, universal problem that Microsoft is trying to fix with Teams is a problem of their own making: Office. Everyone LOVES to make Office documents. Can't write a memo without Word! Can't add a series of numbers without Excel! Can't have a meeting without a slide deck! So every non-single-office-sized organization has mountains and mountains of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that lie scattered around various, obfuscatedly-shared directories, with absolutely zero ability to find the thing you KNOW is "out there" somewhere. They tried and failed to fix it with SharePoint. They tried and failed to fix it with OneNote. And now they're failing to fix it with Teams.

Ray Ozzie fixed it with Groove, 15 years ago, then Microsoft acqui-hired him, and threw the product away. Good work, there, Ballmer.
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I wonder if learning how to spell Philadelphia, Pennsylvania correctly at a young age must make one better at spelling than just having to to write something easier, like New York, New York.
Love this - did anyone get a pair?
Say you have a CTO, Salesman and CEO founding and one is an immigrant, it is possible the other two would have filled that role with someone else.
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Longtime DVC user here - this is going to be so helpful. We use DVC for all of our model and data versioning, but what's been missing is the ability to cleanly integrate that into our CI workflow. Looks like that's solved now! The cml.yaml syntax also looks quite nice, very easy to follow. Looking forward to trying this out.
provided they don't cause you to violate the 39 melachot or any of the rabbinic extensions of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39_Melachot

It's not hard to violate them though. Carry something in public? nope. Use electricity/fire? No. etc etc
The raw data for loans under $150k seem to be here: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares-act/assistance...

https://pppreport.org/about.php
> Details for loans under $150,000 remain mostly private, though industry codes and issuing bank details are available.
This is why any argument anybody makes about anything needs to be supported by a causal explanation.

If there is at least an attempt at a causal explanation, you can evaluate whether or not the advice is worthwhile and/or applicable to your situation.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I think the right way to think about the economics here is either “I would pay $X/hr for this short-lived job” or “I want to compare with buying it” (3-yr committed use discount in our case, RIs / Instance Savings Plan for AWS). Unless you are an ML research lab (Google Brain, FAIR, OpenAI, etc.) or an HPC style site sharing these, you won’t get 100% utilization out of your “I just bought it” purchase. Worse, in ML land, accounting math about N-year depreciation is pretty bogus: if the A100 is 2.5x faster, you’d have been better off with a 1-yr CUD on GCP and refreshing, rather than buying Voltas last year.

One amusing thing that’s not clear about “just buy a DGX” is that many people can’t even rack one of these. At 400 watts per A100, our 16x variant is 6.4 kW of GPUs. That’s before the rest of the system, etc. but there are (sadly) a lot of racks in the world that just can’t handle that.
Great idea and execution! I've been using Liftoff[1] with Airtable as a DIY solution for this and while it's been easy to set it up and deploy it on Netlify, I still had to resort to writing a custom watch for changes daemon and forking the repo for adjusting the components layout.

I like that SheetUI has the things above built-in and more functionalities like adding buttons and a customisation UI.

Is a custom-CSS feature going to be available anytime soon? It would be great to be able to add some original styling to a website.

[1] https://github.com/postlight/liftoff