skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another version of this story already top of front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769563
This post makes me want to usher in the socialist revolution.
Israel: Problems behind the battle lines [pdf]
First of all no, not lower than France's, but it was much lower for a while. Secondly, their economic contraction might be somewhat less, yet the death toll compared to Norway much higher, which did not suffer much worse economically. The question boils down was it worth for a modest economical benefit allow 5000 people to die or not. Some people think it is okay, most do not.
NKLA: Investor Roadshow Presentation [pdf]
I’m in the UK and even though i have a SLED boxed media set somewhere from circa 2005 (YaST was cool, their Xen user experience beat any other distro at the time) - it was news to me that they’re still alive.

Anecdotally, i feel like RHEL dominates the UK enterprise linux market as well as NA
(continued as I accidently submitted my comment too early)

Or is it simply about making it seem like things have returned to normal? "See business are reopening, schools are reopening, the world is back to the way it was".
So your point is that this library is not a magic unicorn that solves all problems related to OCR and natural language processing?
A few comments already pointed at Timezone differences (which, OK, maybe it doesn't matter if courses are recorded and can be taken asynchronously) and Internet access (it seems to make sense, but I don't know if it isn't a little cliche to assume these students automatically come from very poor countries without internet).

Another I can think of is possibility of re-entry. Last time I heard the USCIS was virtually frozen for visas and all. If these students leave for this year we don't know if they'll be able to come back once the pandemic is over.
Immune Defence
The biggest one I've seen is that the data source you're connecting in via the FDW may provide operational capabilities that are quite a bit different from what's built into PostgreSQL. This can add quite a lot of complexity to things like your backup, upgrade, and disaster recovery plans.
Yea but they are also afraid of loosing out on a generation of professors, post docs, academics, value generators, “job creators”.

It is very risky to cut out a generation of top students because the value is not just to the local Boston economy, but nationally. It’s not just cheap labor. It’s apprenticeship by the smartest in the world who will pay dividends for not only our lives but for generations.

I came as a student. I pay 6 figures in taxes. Some of my intl friends pay 7 figures and employ hundreds. I’ll have kids here that will generate enough value to do that as well.

Right now, there is a significant risk that a lot of economic value is going to be lost due to these immigration policies. That is not good for america.

It’s like a sports team: you have the ability to draft the top players from around the world for cheap. Why would you decide to boycott the draft itself and let the competitors (India, China) take those players? Especially some players that you have already trained (graduated students, post docs)
Congratulations!

K3s is something that I think could be a big impactful product in the kubernetes space.
I think they are talking about graduate students (the ones actually doing research work) not undergraduates.
really? a link?
What company are you at? Google?
I wonder if the address has any tx.
Internet connectivity, time zones, and costs of travel that can be thousands of dollars.

For merit students with scholarships it is almost impossible to finance a both-way trip on such a short notice.
Hey it's good of you to read the depraved rantings of a code lunatic. If I could tell you about my journey through software you'd maybe understand where I'm coming from.
Domestic students get a lot of financial aid/merit scholarships/etc. not available to international students.
Domestic students get a lot of financial aid of their parents don’t make a lot. There is no such aid for internationals.

EDIT: Apparently that not really true.
Vienna as seen from above via Google Maps
I suppose MIT and HArvard could allow students on campus but locked into their dorm rooms. They could have the bathroom police unlock doors individually so the kids could take showers, etc. Then they could have the cafeteria deliver meals the same way prisoners are fed in their cells. Trump could extend this edict to the workplace as well - any VISA holders working remotely get deported. Somewhere in the mists of history I remember isolationism not working out too well for us. I wonder why we are going back there?
IKEA’s Best-Selling Product Is Not a Piece of Furniture
It's unfortunate they're phasing out of google play music and putting everyone on the Youtube Music app. I had to transfer all my music to it the other day. I still pay $9.99 for everything though and get to watch youtube ad free so I don't really mind but it's a bit of a bummer.
I like how first appearance reflects how hard it is to replicate for individual. Is there a place with a timeline? The first appearance of spear, bow, pottery, basket, cloth, wheel, wood joins, etc? And the way how it was done, like sharpening spear on fire, pottery without wheel.
Sounds like incentives are aligned: foreign students get a good education and exposure to the U.S. (hopefully building goodwill). Local community benefits from exposure to foreign students (hopefully building good will). Local community gets foreign money. Only the students' home countries are potentially losing out, but even that depends on whether the student ends up sending money back home or returns home to contribute to their own local economy.

This was an incredibly dumb decision by ICE.
Can’t speak for the rest of the anglosphere, but in the US, when someone says “spicy”, they mean “this has too much capsaicin”. If someone were referring to the strength of the taste, they would probably just say “I don’t like this flavor”, or as a stretch, “the spices in this dish are too strong”. Not sure what point you’re making here. I assure you, even though there may not be dedicated words for them, English speakers are quite able to articulate the differences between the different categories of plants that are added to food to make it taste better.
Would that not also apply to domestic students, even the international students as America has very very spotty broadband access even in cities one section may have great service and go 2 streets over and you get crap...

I know locally that has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the local schools, dealing with students that did not have good internet.
Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit – Final Report [pdf]
Developer-focused, non-tracking advertising, directly negotiated with software companies. You could even have the "fake" data returned be ads for companies, as long as it complies with the response format (so name could be the brand's name, URL can be the link to the advertised product, etc).
In Hong Kong national security law, echoes of China's own cyber crackdown
I found that the Zebras, while certainly attractive and satisfying in the hand, write like crap (rough feel, inconsistent ink flow). My favorite pen these days is the Pilot V5 RT, but I wish I could throw the refill for it in a body more like the Zebra 401.
It would be extremely unusual for a federal agency to make such a radical decision independently. This almost certainly came from higher up.
A significant part of the student body doesn't pay the list price for tuition, due to the large amount of various forms of tuition assistance.

I'd expect there's a difference in financial assistance between international and domestic students.

Edit: As pointed out by a response, MIT and Harvard both state that their financial aid is independent of international vs US students.
And who is best to decide what is best for the application but the developer who created it? If I want to create an app that looks like a game and just happen not to run fullscreen why should we even discuss conformity with native UIs as a feature? The user have the right not to bother installing the software if they don't like it.

The whole argument is just silly. Are shell scripts native? And if my compiled binary prints a control character in the terminal screen that is not supported by the terminal you use, does that mean that the binary is not native because it does not conform with the expected behaviour?

I know that I am not convincing anyone with this comment but it is fascinating to see people having such a constrained view on software. Software is what you make out of it and sometimes its weird looks and behaviour is what makes it special. There are many such examples.

Let's drop this "not native" argument and simply talk about not having the same performance because JavaScript is interpreted.
What is commonly referred to as “REST” isn’t actually REST, and trying to cram that round peg into that square hole is a hobgoblin of little minds IMO. In practice, “REST” can be simplified to RPC over HTTP using JSON as a wire format. Or you can use gRPC and get strong typing and explicit RPC semantics instead.
Creating tiny desktop apps with Tauri and Vue.js
Is it better than KeePassX?
I played with the Movidius stick for a bit but it didn't seem like Intel was committed to Movidius tech in the long term. So I'm curious what the "next" thing will be.
I like SymPy as a light-weight CAS. I don't have any heavy symbolic computational needs, but it fills a gap between "simple enough to work out with pen and paper, without error" and "so complicated that it's best to stick to numerical simulation."

However, as a slightly-more-than-beginner user I have a frustrating time getting SymPy to take simplifications that I know are valid. As a result the generated answers are correct but so complicated that the "simple intuitive understanding" goal of the symbolic computation is lost.

This can come down to having implicit assumptions that I haven't told SymPy (such as variables being real-valued, or it being okay to take the principal roots of exp(I <stuff>)), but not always.

As a minimal example:

import sympy as sp # Import SymPy
# Define variables; note they're marked as real-valued
x = sp.Symbol('x', real=True);
t = sp.Symbol('t', real=True);
# Get our simple expression: 2*cos(t)*exp(x) but written in complex form
foo = sp.exp((x+sp.I*t)) + sp.exp((x-sp.I*t))
print(str(foo))
# Prints exp(-I*t + x) + exp(I*t + x)
print(str(foo.simplify()))
# Still prints exp(-I*t + x) + exp(I*t + x) -- SymPy thinks this is the simplest form?
print(str((foo/sp.exp(x)).simplify())) # Help it along
# Prints 2*cos(t)

Obviously, forcing SymPy to do the desired thing gets worse with more complicated expressions. Sometimes I can bash it into compliance with liberal use of `rewrite` or by demanding it simplify term-by-term, but if I'm deconstructing the expression only to reassemble it at the end then I'm not sure I'm still gaining much out of it as a computer algebra system.
There is no such thing as an easy long term visa for these schools to be a gateway for.
I haven't hit that point yet. It can get pretty close to overwhelming how quickly people are building new things and it's often not clear to me what problems the new things are solving (which likely means that I don't have those problems and shouldn't even worry about those new things).

Do you remember how it felt when you had that insight that tech is not mutating as quickly as it may seem?
To me, it says a lot about the company if they make you use an old multi page form to fill out all the info. Why would I want to work for a place that has that sort of bureaucracy and outdated tech?

I love places that ask you one page of multiple choice questions and then you upload your resume. At least the company knows about OCR and isn't wasting time with individual fields.
FWIW Ivermectin is not a steroid and discussion of ivermectin here is not relevant to the OP. Many other threads on this forum discuss ivermectin.
Bleh. All I see here are all the same old ageism tropes and noob programmers trying to rationalize their age bias.
Does pi-hole remove Youtube ads? pi-hole can only block whole ad domains. I would be surprised if Youtube deliberately served ad videos from a different domain than regular videos.
Hacking? You're in for a surprise when you discover what tax attorneys do everyday. If that's the way it was written, it's mostly fair game. That's why it's tough to write effective laws that consider the actual incentives that they are placing instead of what they (whoever is writing) are expecting to happen in their minds.
Seems to be him? https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jimseven
SHA-256 Step-by-Step
tauri itself on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769424
We really should just be making whatever accommodation is necessary to reduce travel. The last thing we need is tens of thousands of students flocking to the airport when their visas expire. If you went home, you stay home and continue from there. If you're in the USA, stay put.
As a good example of this, the peoples who now call themselves Europeans are descended from central Asians who exterminated (entirely on the male line, mostly on the female)[1] the prior indigenous European population about 4500 years ago. The Eurasian continent's geography is conducive to large scale migrations of people over relatively short time periods. The suspected proto-indo-european migration that is the suspected ancestor group of both western European and south Asian Indians is a good example. It's a wildly complicated area where we have archaeological, linguistic, and now genetic evidence that can be difficult to tease out and then to make things even harder there are often political complications too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_Europe#Gene...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans
This has the added benefit of:

- creating a short recap of what happened

- the above recap can also be shared with team members who couldn't attend (e.g. home sick or APAC based)

The latter has been incredibly useful during COVID specifically and for remote management in general.
Over half a billion of USD looks like real value to me, I wish I could make that much with vanilla Kubernetes and Helm charts. Let's be respectful for Rancher's fantastic exit.
The NSA didn't cut those companies a check. As the slides very clearly show, PRISM is an integration program between the NSA and the FBI to consume the data that the FBI already gets from issuing wiretap requests for specific users.
I have the same data for Canada, Denmark, UK, Malaysia, and other 13 countries. I plan to analyze this data soon. So stay tuned.
If you want to skip the vice fluff- the HN thread on this with the source tweets can be found here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23724744
Boom is a YC company building a modern, supersonic passenger airliner: https://boomsupersonic.com/
Same here... really well built products that just work!.
I've heard so much about starship lately but I found it super slow.
How do you call a situation where the morally correct course of action is aligned with one's own interest?

"Fantastic"
Why would they? it’s still cheaper to have a talented dev overbuild a framework than it is to find bugs in the code of someone who didn't understand the problem they're solving.
As someone who apparently has formed a stance on immigration issues, it comes as a surprise to me that you haven't noticed the continuous pattern of using executive power to restrict both legal and illegal immigration activity during this administration.
Centralized service and Youtube can apply censorship as they like. This is by nature.
I'd suggest more people get into p2p network like ZeroNet or PeerTube if they value freedom of speech over popularity.
Rowling, Rushdie and Atwood warn against ‘intolerance’ in open letter
England Covid Case Rate Race
> Some ideas that look poorly thought out are in fact pretty good

The only times I've ever found that to be true is when there's other details available that I'm not aware of. Business constraints "everyone knows" about but aren't documented anywhere, for example. Decisions made in a meeting that aren't communicated out, meaning, essentially, that you only are given a portion of the problem and request. This gets back to the 'seat at the table' concern above.

The 'seat at the table' is far more related to interpersonal/political skills than technical ones, but can be chicken/egg in some places.
That's really cool!

I see the value for game design, but also for lots of other system simulation (modelling load, as you said, among other things). I only tinker with game dev, but I can see myself using this tool on other projects too.

Thanks for sharing.
Why not? Isn't it nice that you can control what other software can reach it?
I'm talking about graduate programs at world-class research universities.
No, it's not. https://tidbits.com/2019/06/25/apple-to-deprecate-scripting-...
This would be too easily abused by domain squatters, I think. Maybe instead increase the 60 days to 90 or 120? But increasing to "forever" is unrealistic.

I'm in the minority of people when I say this, but I'm in favor of making domain ownership enough of a burden to reduce the number of domains registered and never used vs. making them extremely cheap and easy to own.

There are so many great domains that are registered and not in use. When starting a company these days, it's difficult to find a decent .com without paying thousands of dollars to a squatter or compromising with a TLD like .io
No policy decisions on immigration matters in this administration are made without going through Stephen Miller.
So we should ignore laws during times of pandemic?

Edit: I can’t seem to reply to the comment below mine this might be due to the negative karma. I will edit this comment as my reply.

I was a foreigner on a visa for 14 years in America. A lot of these students are playing the system if ICE is deporting them for things like not studying or breaking the rules of the visa then they are doing their job. I have been in their position and they give you a lot of chances if ICE has to grab you then your doing something really wrong.

Edit #2: reply button is back.

Edit #3: you can downvote me as much as you want but it doesn’t change facts.
it's weird, this administration has been almost vindictive against some groups, like non white asylum seekers, non white students, non white Puerto Ricans, non white athletes, and non white protesters, but it is very supportive of other groups like white protesters, white farmers, white business owners ... where is the common thread? It's a complete mystery and impossible to figure out.
I honestly don't know...it seems the majority of Americans are alive to the dangers of COVID and believe we aren't doing enough, and Trump's approval ratings are plummeting, so this doesn't make sense to me -- but his reaction doesn't have to be rational, it could be a desperate attempt to do exactly what you said, and cultivate the appearance of things being fine.
Would range have mattered as much to make the Concorde more palatable for airlines and travelers? I have always been under the impression the main reason the Concorde didn't see more commercial success was because the cabin was small. It seems like what was really needed was a design that could hold more passengers.
It's not a recommendation because I haven't tried it but I recently learnt about TeamPass : https://teampass.net
Wow, I hadn't seen before how you can mix model and gql code with TypeORM and TypeGraphQL before. Looks really convenient, especially with an auto-generator. Have you ran into footguns?

Did you try postgraphile? Any thoughts?

Curious to see how you string it all together...
Wasn't it the ticket price and crowded cabin that killed the Concorde? With even business travelers having to arrive 90+ minutes early to the airport for international travel anyway, the value proposition of being in the air for a shorter time just isn't really there, especially if the longer flight puts you on a lie-flat bed in a widebody.
But that’s not what qbism is about: a wave function (pure state) doesn’t represent ignorance about a true underlying physical state, it’s a maximally sharp state of belief.
(Author here)

You are right about REST not necessarily replicating the N + 1 Query problem. ORMs have already provided solutions for this problem. See https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#e... for example.

Looking at GraphQL as being a media type for REST misses the point because:

1) If you were to build a system that primarily used GraphQL for communication, you would be breaking the spirit of uniform resource constraint. Since the URI is the resource for REST, you would be having exactly 1 resource. The article talks a bit more about this.
2) The value add from GraphQL is primarily faster (and more efficient) front end development. So the question is do you want to implement the GraphQL media type?

Typed vs non typed interfaces are a personal preference. Typing adds safety but historically made getting started harder. That has changed in the recent years though as tooling has significantly improved.

I've talked about sparse field sets in the article. They are an alternative, but any form of query language requires a parser and implementation in the backend and GraphQL has good tooling for this.

On the third point of N + 1 queries: Hasura compiles the sql query where possible and otherwise uses a batching technique for external APIs, similar to haxl.
Rust PR to replace “whitelist” with “allowlist”
you want to hire for intelligence and hard working both of which are largely unchangeable ... but yes that is those `who don't suck`