skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thiel actually explained this in a talk when I worked there. It comes from Lord of the Rings which Peter Thiel is very fond of. Apparently the Palantiri aren't inherently good or bad, it's just that power's impact reflects the people who use it. The ancient elves or wizards or whatever used them for good. But Sauron got his hands on one and used it for bad. The sinister potential was a deliberate choice, to remind people to be sure that power isn't abused. Actually kind of a good message for the tool Palantir builds, but probably not good for PR.

Also Thiel is very consistent on using Tolkien's pronunciation. It's not PA-lan-tir. Or Pa-LAN-tir. It's pa-lan-TIR with emphasis on the last syllable. There's actually a written accent in the books: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Palant%C3%ADri

Regardless everybody at the company sad PA-lan-tir.
When I look at the dual graphs of infections and deaths, I think of how people say the death rate isn't rising, but wonder if it's that simple.

I wonder if it is a temporary effect, where at first the decreasing age of new cases compensates for the increasing number of cases, but in a week or two, the latter will overcome the former.

Kind of like how the decreasing cases in NY and western Europe countered the increasing cases in other places for a time, but it was temporary.
Us online tuition move hits foreign visas
I haven’t been able to figure out how to get an actual system running on this: I’ve tried several times, and hit roadblocks each time.

I’d really like a cloud vendor for POWER and Linux on Z
I've got to say, that while FreshDirect has always been way more expensive than my local grocery store, Amazon Fresh has always been way cheaper. Waaay cheaper.

I live in New York City, and I manage to save about 40% on my grocery bill using Amazon Fresh. Whether it's crackers, nuts, chocolate, sausage, ice cream, whatever -- everything that's not extremely perishable is somewhere between 30% and 50% cheaper on Amazon. (I buy everything except fresh veggies, meat, dairy, eggs and bread on Amazon now.)

I like the experience of shopping at my local store. But when I see that spending $90 there turns into spending $55 at Amazon... it's pretty much a no-brainer. And I spend a half-hour walking at a park instead of walking around the aisles of a grocery store and waiting in line for ten minutes.
Suspected Bubonic Plague Case in China's Inner Mongolia
Small Business Loans Helped the Well-Heeled and Connected, Too
Literally everyone who lives in California came from somewhere else. Who gets to decide when the music stops forever, and everyone who found a seat gets to stay, and everyone else has to find somewhere else to live?

I've been here 25 years now... Do I count? My son grew up here, does he count even though he's my son? I'm sure the Native Americans or the Spanish after them would love to chat about your ideas on immigration. This state would be a pristine garden without all the northern European descendents mucking up the place.

How far back do we need to go? Talk about no commute and lots of free time! Get rid of all the immigrants and this place would be heaven. Sadly, all the people who consider themselves "local" would have to go as well.
That's six or seven hundred years that Virgil wrote the Aneid, as a sort of founding myth for Rome during its transition from the republic to ... or really at the beginning of the empire (not long after Julius Caesar's death). It was almost a sort of political propaganda, legitimizing and linking the empire to an ancestral root to their gods.

The Romans often were inspired by, appropriated, imitated, or embraced Greek culture which was looked upon highly. Much of their success can be attributed to their ability to integrate many cultures and meld them into a diverse Roman culture.
This has been going on for decades. Websites are a battlefield in the eternal war for supremacy between factions inside an organization. Tufte talked about this effect in print material in VDoQI. Carousels are a strategy designers use to get these factions to temporarily agree on a home page design.
It seems to me that you are going through a path.

You have discovered that you can be clearer in the communication if you can articulate better and use more precise words.

You are getting the hang of it. I don’t think it’s a matter of just remembering the words as much as it is about improving your thinking.

Keep actively thinking about how to be more articulate and also practicing and you will get better and better everyday.

Like everything else in life, it’s a matter of practice.
Reed is #2 in the country for the number of graduates who go on to earn PhDs.

It's a more prestigious school than their USNWR ranking would indicate. Reed refuses to fill out the USNWR yearly survey, and is ranked lower because of it.

And Steve Jobs went there, but he dropped out.
You may not know this, but graduate research assistants make less than what many Americans get in unemployment benefits. You are basically getting cutting-edge research work done by non-immigrants for that money. Do you think it is more beneficial for your country to pay a US citizen for doing nothing?

I am a GRA and I work on translational research in neuroimaging and data science. With my career prospects dwindling, I'm considering leaving US if the president gets reelected.
Ah, optimism and assumptions.
These companies have more than just tech - it's a relationships and sales company. They make a product, but that product is heavily customized to a particular client, and each client gets their own customizations.

The product isn't mass market enough to be an off the shelf solution. So i would argue that the tech is less important than relationships/connections to build the trust that the product can be delivered as required.
That is not what the ICE doc says.
If school opens 100%, students have to go. If not, students can take more online classes than usual.

https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf
Probably because you're focused on a narrow range of social issues. Outside their pet projects the parties are mostly the same. Yang, Warren, Bernie, etc. were just noise from the primaries, they were never going to win.
Your judgment of an entire industry using an anecdotal sample size of 1 is poor form to say the least.
In India it would be true, 40% of MLAs in India have serious criminal charges filed against them.

These are charges which courts found real enough to have herring.
I think when it comes to folders it's not due to time but rather regional differences. I don't think this particular style of folders is something that was popular in my country bureaucracies.
I remember playing this a decade or so ago and just went to the site to grab a copy for old times sake...

>Download 1.00, released 07-04-2020

Mindblowing that this is still under active development after all this time. I can't wait to get home and play it to see what's changed.
Oh god, it looks like the schemas are defined in Java. Cold sweat emerging, ORM flashbacks...no, no, I can't, sources of truth everywhere, they are multiplying.

Srs, thank you. I will actually take a good look through that as I find this kind of thing interesting. I think there are a few projects that do the converse too: key value on top of relational. I will be honest, I am not sure that I immediately understand the benefit of relational on top of key value...surely that comprises the benefits of going key value? But I don't know, I guess I will need to read more.
> They were forced to do that a few years ago so the government wouldn't start taxing their endowment.

Harvard College was not forced by federal policy to dramatically increase their financial aid back when they did. The 2017 tax bill did include a new tax on university endowments tailored to only apply to the wealthiest universities, including Harvard (it has the largest endowment but I'm not sure it's the largest per student).
I don't see renting and AirBnB'ing as completely unethical. The difference in lodging costs theoretically form the cost of providing liquidity free from rent agreements.

It becomes really unethical when the drafter of these policies also benefit from it.
I would think that most of the processed food overlaps a lot with other grocery stores, although it's possible that their suppliers provide lower quality stuff just for them.

I know someone whose go-to for organic stuff is Wal-Mart, because she lives in a somewhat rural area without a lot of options, and Wal-Mart is actually the best.
The cafes being free and good is probably a big tech thing, but cafeterias (paid, and... well, cafeteria-grade) certainly aren't uncommon in Germany. If your company doesn't have one, chances are they have a deal with another company in the same building/complex that does.
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I think you're forgetting that this is a loan first, one that you're inherently liable for paying back, until you're qualified for loan forgiveness afterward.

You have to apply for the loan from a lender (typically a major bank, they handled a large percentage of PPP loans), that will approve your loan or not. The process of that - properly - requires providing financial information about your business and its condition.

If you lie about anything during the before screening or after (when seeking forgiveness), you've committed bank fraud.

If you didn't end up needing the loan, you're liable for paying it back. The lender will make a determination on your forgiveness based on the financials you have to present to attempt to qualify.

There's a giant paper trail for all of this related to your taxes (IRS), financial statements, bank accounts and employee salaries.

Again keep in mind this is a loan. You apply for loan forgiveness after the fact and must substantiate that forgiveness; you may or may not be granted that forgiveness.

You will need to be ready to present full financial statements for the year. The fraud will leap right off the page in your scenario (pocketing an amount equal to the total payroll and then seeking forgiveness).

Here are some of the key conditions for the PPP money:

- You have to substantiate your need for the loan. Then if you apply for loan forgiveness you have to demonstrate that you qualify for loan forgiveness, that you meet the requirements. The lender makes a determination on your loan forgiveness.

- It's based on your average monthly payroll cost for 2019. You can receive up to 2.5 times that amount, meant to cover roughly 8-10 weeks.

- It can go to payroll. 60% must go to this. You may not include contractors in this figure. You must maintain 75% of the prior salary levels.

- The remainder can go to a select few things including rent, mortgage interest, utilities.

- It's limited to a 24 week span of time, in which the forgiveness applies.
kNN is used for classification/regression. Are you maybe talking about k-means?
The political environment is different now, with so many democrats running under a platform of LE reform. It may amount to nothing, or may even be a boon; but it’s uncertain which way it will go for now, just that it’s likely to change. One way to lessen the risk of a negative change would be to IPO now while the numbers still show great growth.
Yeah I'm pretty skeptical as well but I've learned that just because someone is a competitor, we shouldn't deprive them of the virtues that we like to believe we have. It is very possible and I would argue probable that Xi is a genuine Chinese patriot (likewise I would say for Putin). Being a patriot, however, doesn't mean one can't also accept some amount of corruption if that furthers the long term goals. As people have already pointed out, even the US defense industry has some level of corruption too but no one can reasonably doubt the superiority of the US military. If we are frank with ourselves, the US is somewhat corrupt too yet it's always managed to cope with that.
Seconding this comment. The quality of the undergraduate academic instruction at Harvard has a reputation for not being very good. I wish more people knew this.

You'll get a better education if you go to a state school for undergrad and then Harvard for grad school.
I don’t know how you could possibly objectively claim that pre-modern western art is “exponentially better.”

Are The Beatles not as significant as Mozart?
> But what we do with the hand nature has dealt us is on us not nature. Saying "Hey it's nature that made that guy require so much resources, there's nothing we can do about that, they simply cost more and so they should have to pay more, or die more." Is both unethical and a lie, because, there IS something we can do about it.

Yes, provide them charity. I think perhaps your emotions interfered with your concentration and you you didn't read my post quite carefully enough. Particularly this part: "Really what we have here is a situation where insurance is an appropriate solution for some people, while others need charity. You are presuming that there is no charity for some reason, and that those people who need it are the insurance systems responsibility too."

Insurance companies aren't healthcare providers nor are they charities. Insurance is a product to manage risk. A certain and chronic need for health maintenance is not a risk anymore.
I use the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard.

https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/business/sculpt-...

It feels the way I want it, has the natural type shape that feels good to me. I've worn out one keyboard and replaced it and I have one for home and one for work.

The only downside is that it only comes in wireless and the wireless for it can be a bit ... weird at times and I have to unplug and re-plug in the dongle to make it work. I wish there was a wired version.

I'd love to try out some of the other fancier keyboards but the upfront prices scare me off as I'd have to get one for work too and that just doubles the price too...
So basically it's an Orwellian surveillance tool that justifies it's own existence based upon remnants of an unjust war on drugs created by Nixon? I'm so sick and tired of Palantir's advertising tactics of doing good.

We should enable the government to create massive databases of peoples lives and communication, then link those ... so that we can stop kids from doing ecstacy or "catch terrorists".

Give me a break. Palantir is basically like PRISM ... except it came out of the minds of Silicon Valley (from whom I would expect much more) ... than the NSA/CIA
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The simple argument would be that TikTok is essentially part of the State at this point. Treat it as such.
For something executed that quickly, I think execution was ok. Of course, there were frauds, but you cannot design and implement fraud-free process for $500B in just few weeks. And hopefully, over next few years, they'll be properly investigated and followed up on.
GDPR is over two years old now, and most major web sites are still showing non-compliant dialogs and sharing your data with dozens of trackers.

Have there been any fines against either the web sites or the ad/tracking services they use? (IIRC the Google fines were for Android, not ads/web site tracking).
I'd argue HN shouldn't have a downvote button at all. I can understand when using it to downvote misinformation or comments that break guidelines, however, in discussions it often is used to quietly say "I don't like your opinion, period". Then again, not having a downvote button would probably lead to more flamewars but I'm just speculating.

It's a shame seeing Reddit-like behavior on HN (I understand comparing HN to Reddit is blaspheme).
> Verisign (who still manages .com, but who was too incompetent to run a CA and sold it to people who have been hard at work trying to clean up the mess)

The Verisign CA function was sold to Symantec. That name might ring a bell too, because with these CAs set to be distrusted as a result of Symantec's mismanagement the whole business was again sold to DigiCert in 2017.

I think the perverse part of your reasoning is that you think .com is trustworthy now. It's one of the worst run registries. Its popularity with businesses probably tells you more about how scammy most businesses are than whether .com is trustworthy, and not very much about either.
What a sad, arrogant little individual you are.
If you click through the website, the 8th slide of the carousel actually states this exact point:

Carousels are effective at being able to tell people in Marketing/Senior Management that their latest idea is on the home page. Use them to put content users will ignore on your home page
This is not an uncommon, or new criticism.

We've heard it from everyone from Eisenhower[0] to our own colleagues who have seen it firsthand.

Perhaps you have a bias involved?

[0] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
As the article mentions, it doesn't necessarily work this way in a verified proof. Every time you form an expression involving division, you have to supply the proof. It is this repeated supplying of a proof (not necessarily having to reprove it) that is omitted in regular informal proofs that is tedious. In certain situations you can write automation to help you with that. But more frequently, you already have automation for other aspects of your proof, and this need to prove this is tripping up your other automation.
From the other thread: Forgive my ignorance: For most other companies, I've seen a direct link to an S-1. Is sending in a confidential draft first normal and we just don't hear about it, or is the confidential draft sent but not announced usually, or is this unusual?
It seems equally plausible to me to shame people for using a service when there's limited capacity and some people need it more.

When I originally checked, there were a limited number of slots available at my local stores and they seemed to be all filled all the time. At one time at least, they were even queueing people up to shop on a website.

So telling me it is or isn't something I should do is irrelevant; I would need to think it was something I could do.
idk about Z, but i, AIX or Linux on PowerVM

https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/power-systems-virtual...
Yes, that's exactly how it works, the US company is responsible for following the US laws.
I am always amazed by so much effort and so much research in something that is often taken as granted and not really appreciated to its true value by most users (me included).
The link is from google research. I'd imagine google has at least a few datasets of this scale.
Agreed. I prefer the Java version, for a number of reasons. Scio is even better. But the bitwise operations make sense python wise.
The Herald Sun is Melbourne’s leading trash tabloid newspaper. With headlines like “Chinese Virus Panda-monium”, they were stoking racist sentiment long before Trump did.

Another example of how openly racist they are is when they published and defended this cartoon of Serena Williams: https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/e062f6c7325e5b96b12c306e...

And just today, the Daily Telegraph (the Sydney paper with the same owner) reported the closing of the Victorian border with the headline “Mexicans Shut Out” (Victoria sits on the southern border of New South Wales): https://twitter.com/echewy/status/1280285466521034752

Definitely view their content from this frame of reference.
This is probably not the correct way to ask this, but does the ‘investment’ of the fed into a company verify its stability, or is the investment force the gov to ensure it’s solvency?
> Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is an American communications technology company headquartered in San Jose, California.

It outsources lots of work to China but presumably so do other tech companies.
This sounds like a modification of the JAMstack idea.
What I want is a system like this but set up to import all that data back into Apple Health. Each of these types of tools has their own systems for monitoring and reporting data, as you have discovered. But I only trust Apple to store my data long-term, and to keep it all on-device.

And I want support for more devices, like my Circul ring, instead of Oura. I don’t care if you have to scrape the data from their site, so long as I can import it back into Apple Health.
Actively enabling mass surveillance.

The data is often collected illegally (because there are no consequences for doing so, and it takes the legal system years to catch up with the new data being collected, and then that is either legalized, or the agencies just move on to the next illegal source).
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I'm trying to get it to learners, and I think beginners to programming are the people who'll find most value out of this, as they can learn the basics with Dip and then move on to Python.
>But when shit hit the fan, they were the first to be sent home for half a year and economists are still trying to find anyone who actually noticed that regional key-account managers were mostly just busy with creating funny zoom backgrounds.

I don't get it. You think people were useless because when they went home, it didn't affect the economy. But you're talking about people who were and are theoretically working from home. So you seem to be begging the question. Am I missing something?
You seem to have overlooked the Tegra X1, which powers 55+ million Nintendo Switches. Nvidia seems to already be invested in the ARM CPU market and doing relatively well. Their X2 powers the new Shield devices and who knows what else in the future.

Yes, that's a very tiny number compared to the billions of CPUs made by Intel, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and Samsung, but the point is, they are already doing ARM CPU integration and have carved out a decent niche for themselves.
I imagine there are certain times where you end up redesigning the tube instead!
Outline of Self
Ask HN: Best Resources on Emotional Intelligence?
Myself and other engineers at my company are not the best at dealing with emotions. I’m approaching this as something learnable and am looking for great resources on this topic.

(“Resources” is meant to be regarded in a broad sense — if you have a personal growth story or some quote from a fortune teller that you think is a great resource, I’d love to hear it)
I was able to get it working the first time, but I will agree that the documentation isn't the friendliest.
Just ask them what's wrong with Wolfie.
It's not the app, it's the audience and regulations.

Chinese companies can spend a zillion dollars to promote an app willy nilly as a strategic interest.

And then ban competitors on home turf.

So the CIA could make 'USATikTok' and spend $2B promoting downloads in China, but it would be banned anyhow.

Zoom is an American company with operations in China.

The US's 'propaganda arm' is Hollywood. The US does not have the hyper specific and organised legions of propaganda/influencers that China has, nothing close to that. Surely there are some operational capabilities; the US Gov. has close ties with major press outlets and can place stories, and surely has influence in foreign media outlets, and uses major American corporations as cover, but nothing remotely on the scale and purpose of what China is up to.

It would be better to just ban Chinese apps related to social media. It's fair because it's tit-for-tat, but also because there are legit influence concerns.

We can sick to trading plastic toys and alarm clocks.

Edit: I should add what I assumed most people knew, and that is TikTok is a propaganda channel. Matthew Tye, an American ex-pat based in China has an interesting set of videos where he deconstructs a lot of the narrative being pursued on TikTok [1]. It's funny and scary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aYCG4vEe5s
I thought the scientific consensus is that Moses is most probably a legendary figure
Earth is where all my friend live and where I keep most of my stuff. Nobody gets to blow it up without my explicit permission. That includes false Gods, wannabe Gods, and true Gods.

I'd prefer coherent light, of course, but if audio engineering does the job, I'll take it.
do you assume that the virus will not mutate?
Win32 is supported, and a supported tool chain comes with Visual Studio.