skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their conferences business took a huge hit.
Worth noting that they will owe this back unless they can show it was used for payroll purposes.

How they got that much money in the first place is a definite mystery though.
> What is needed is to change the way communication is occurring away from viral algorithms promoting the most viral content (outragebait), which only certain companies and people can do.

Exactly. Articles like this are fine and all, but they're generally preaching to the choir; the audience they really need to reach is indifferent to the arguments, and like it or not, calling for someone to be cancelled is also an exercise of their free speech rights.

Social networks don't want to change anything, because culture wars drive engagement (even if they slowly make the platforms uninhabitable).

I don't know what's to be done except to move away from social networks into smaller communities (Slack groups, etc.) that have their own norms of discourse.
Probably unrelated, but every time I update Homebrew, I get the feeling that there's something that should be O(log N) or O(n) but the implementation takes O(N), O(N^2) or worse. There's no way checking a small list of installed package versions against a large list of available versions should take that long.
> There are plenty of qualified citizens here and in the zero sum game that is hiring national immigration policy should put their needs first before anyone else's.

This exact sort of anti-competitive nationalism has been tried before, and over and over again it has been abandoned. It's a failed policy that gives other countries a competitive advantage over your own.

It's better to learn from others' mistakes than to repeat them yourself.
I think they have live trainers and a fair bit of conference business as well.
Just looking through my home town for businesses I know about... A fair number of them I know carried on with business as usual and had no financial problems (one I used to work for). Seems wrong when there are lots of people in the same town lining up outside the unemployment office every day...
I think the biggest problem for ml practitioners is that amd doesn't take the middle layer seriously. Last we tried, the and equivalent of cuda/cudnn (rocm) is riddled with stability bugs so it superficially works for quick tasks but if you need to do long runs it's an open question of whether or not it will work.

This is really frustrating because in theory AMD gpgpus have a better architecture for ml.

My guess is that it's also tough to get deals with AMD for their workstation class products which are competitive with Nvidia's rtx line, and the price/performance delta (both in terms of unit cost and power cost) is not huge.

There are some consumer class amd gpus that have attractive price/performance, but they are being sunsetted and the future driver support is questionable. I looked at the Radeon 7, but it's bazel is a few millimeters out of pci spec so it literally doesn't fit in a 8u GPU chassis, and it's an architecture with an uncertain future.
How about this chiropractor?

https://pppreport.org/company/connelly+chiropractic+inc
Immigrants create economic growth though. They come here, spend money, start businesses, and generate more demand for the things that create jobs.

In fact, preventing immigration reduces jobs. Companies will happily offshore any position they can.

Jobs don't just exist in a vacuum. They're the result of a relatively complex economy, but growth generally creates jobs. So we should grow.
Making people do onerous things without good cause IS ridiculous.
simonw published a searchable copy of this via Datasette: https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com

You can filter by state, city, zipcode, bank, business type, and search by employer name, e.g. https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com/loans_150k_plus/fo...
Did you try to use the openstreemap database locally ?
http://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation/
> They are asking for taxpayer money to maintain their wealthy lifestyles

The one comforting limitation was that payroll calculations were capped at $100k. So if you had 10 people with a $250k salary, the maximum loan amount is calculated based on having a salary of $100k.

Although you're allowed to add in the cost of healthcare and 401k contributions without limitation.

I think the $100k cap was quite generous and probably too high.
What has your experience been when riding in the center of the general traffic lane?
What if they go bankrupt after generously paying employees?
I don't think it's premature to say Sweden has been successful. It may not be over yet, but this trend is pretty clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden#De...
It's the small content creators getting hurt here, though. As in, the ones that don't generate google-scale revenue. You're asking a for-profit business to lose money on inconsequential revenue streams. That doesn't work.

The channels that do actually have revenue impacts are the ones with actual people reps already.
Not the ones intended for professional use.

I have a textbook of cookery [1] written for students intending to become professional cooks, it emphasizes precision measurements and repeatable processes. Where it expects adjustments it explains what it means and what constitutes "it looks right". It stands head and shoulders above pretty much all other cookery books I have read. But of course it lacks glossy pictures and is not backed up by a video of Nigella Lawson in a low cut dress (not that I'm objecting to Nigella and her cleavage)

[1] Professional Cookery: The Process Approach by Daniel R. Stevenson
It's a false dichotomy rooted in isolationism and justified by xenophobia. It takes care of Americans in name only.
Genuine question: whats wrong with wikipedia itself?
Kinda funny seeing how investment management firms [0] (mis)use this [1].

[0]: https://pppreport.org/company/gerber+kawasaki+inc

[1]: https://www.naics.com/code-search/?naicstrms=441228
Might I ask what soft was used to record demo?
Freeman Dyson on the Tribalism of Scientists
Classical economics thinks of people as "rational utility-maximizing actors", which doesn't approximate reality in quite a lot of ways. There's been a move toward more sophisticated models - like that people minimize regret more than they seek the optimal reward ("rational actors with regret minimization.") This switch to more complex underlying models is similar to computational models used in computer science. Algorithms used to only be designed for the RAM computation model, which doesn't model real-life CPUs, which have caches and where not all operations take unit time. Now, there's a wide variety of models to choose from, including cache-aware, parallel, and quantum models. You often get better predictors of the real world this way.

There has been quite a lot of study in economics about cooperation. My favorite is Eleanor Ostrom's work on "the commons". She observes that with a certain set of rules, discovered across the world and across varying geographies, people do seem to be able to cooperate to maintain a natural resource like a fishery or a forest or irrigation canals for hundreds of years. Her rules are here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Design_principle...).
perhaps it encoded in the PPP law, but I wonder if this could be sidetracked by bookeeping, using PPP money to pay people, and investing that money you would have used toward R&D or something.
Perhaps because competition relates to monopolies which is where governments intercede, and hence there is a demand for economic analysis.

The libertarians economists talk about cooperation in terms of spontaneous order. Milton Friedman had his story of the process to manufacture a pencil as "cooperation without coercion". Basically it's the "invisible hand" driving people to cooperate via price signals and self-interest. I don't know if there's much that can be done with the concept beyond that.
How does this actually work? Is this effectively "Free Payroll" for a few months or is it more complicated than that?
>capabilities of censoring E2E content

WTF this even mean?
It really should be called "America Alone."

A real America-first policy would encourage and fight for high skill immigration, since that builds the economy of the US and depletes talent from other countries.
Ayn Rand Institute: To Take or Not to Take
The basic idea is to connect people and provide a platform where they can train together, from home. The platform offers a collection of workouts with exercise illustrations. Users can create rooms and share the link with friends. Inside the virtual room, the users are connected via a peer to peer video chat and the exercises displayed are synchronized. Virtual rooms currently have no user limit.

Please give us some feedback !
I really think we should not call these loans, as that obscures what they are. Like it or not, the vast majority of these will be forgiven. We could argue that it was a good use a stimulus funds, or a bad use, but it was basically fre money funneled through businesses in a fairly un-transparent way.

Of particular reference here - startups that laid off employees and /then/ applied for a PPP loan

https://layoffs.fyi/2020/07/06/these-startups-received-ppp-b...
> They seem like a company where most people can work from home.

That's probably true, but the PPP loan covers economic impacts as a result of COVID-19, which can be things like "nobody wants to buy our books that are primarily sold as training materials." 340 people might include sales or actual book production, but it's hard to say without more transparency what the money actually went to/for.
What do you mean you finished your degree at 16 and at 22?
Forouzan, TCP/IP Protocol Suite 4th ed
FBI Director Christopher Wray: China's Attempt to Influence U.S. Institutions
Even more ridiculous, they reported it was for "Investment Advice" on the claim: https://www.naics.com/code-search/?naicstrms=523930
That breaks down pretty quickly, once you get past the idea that every single billionaire is a bad person. Becoming financially successful involves money-saving habits, and personally taking a hit goes against it. Many more are trying to elect a politician who would tax them more, than are trying to simulate the effect with their own money. Many donate to charities but it's something like health or the environment, not the financial stability of local middle-class people.

To see how deep money and time-saving habits run, watch this documentary about Warren Buffet, where he goes to McDonald's and gets a cheap meal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB5krSvFAPY (3 minutes in)
Because the goal wasn’t to help the people most affected. It was to maintain the socioeconomic order so that people would be incentivized to continue doing menial work for low wages.

If you give people at the bottom a choice to not work, by giving them cash directly, then they would have better negotiating power versus employers.

The employers would then have to raise wages, and therefore prices. That means consumers who were proportionally consuming more than others have to consume less as more of the wealth goes towards paying higher wages. And we don’t want that as a society.

So we make the aid contingent upon an employer who might bless you with a furlough so you can collect the temporary generous unemployment, but also yank it away in case your menial work is necessary and they can go back to paying you near minimum living wages.
Yeah definitely! They generate an entire site complete with beautiful template and search functionalities. Really amazing work. My niche is smaller in comparison - SheetUI generates a single webpage for each sheet. That said, generating a complete website/webapp is definitely part of my feature roadmap.
I've considered (though haven't had the energy) to build a serverless AWS video-on-demand project that anyone could spin up in their own AWS account, then either "just host" their own content or be a provider, and provide billing to customers.

Yes, that means that serving videos would cost money rather than earn money... or the provider could run a donation/ad service.

In any case, the ability to procure and operation a world-scale video distribution website easily is there, it is a matter of building it and having cost estimates built in.
Yes, unaccountable police are a problem for all races. But if you're actually concerned with reform, then you have to agree that Black Lives Matter is doing a fantastic job leading the charge.
It's not just one or two things; it's his general demeanour and method of engaging with people who disagree with him on any small thing.

He will denigrate, attempt to belittle and often pick very bad faith arguments about the smallest of issues.

To give an example of his demenour: https://youtu.be/pHckKckhBYc

There's also this account from a fan, which goes into how he is: https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.874144-I-need...

He also called PewDiePie "A Racist Piece of Shit Bigot" and while PewDiePie did use a racial epithet and there's no excuse for that, he did apologise profusely and regardless that's not a decent way to engage a stranger. https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/04/02/wil-wheaton-attack...

He will block you for any disagreement; and I don't mean people being crappy to him, anything that goes against what he says: https://steemit.com/blocking/@awgonnerman/is-this-why-wil-wh...

For whatever it's worth his introduction to mastadon was mired in controversy after he bleated calls to have a user blacklisted from the platform for the following joke:

> “Hey, did you watch that awesome show on Bofa last night?”

> “What’s Bofa?”

> points to crotch “Bofa deez nuts down here.”

And when Mastadon wouldn't (couldn't) blacklist the user from the platform he got viciously angry.

EDIT: His fans are on hackernews; please don't "downvote to disagree"; he is known to be toxic and curates blocklists of anyone who slights him in any way. If you disagree, please prove me wrong.
It is, yes. If you keep the same headcount and use at least 60% of it for payroll (not exactly clear how you prove that since money is fungible), it is essentially a stimulus check
Yep - there are already major players in that space: https://www.algolia.com/
untrue

Intel Xeon Gold 5120 14Core @ £1200 used

renting 1Core @ £1.20/mo.

would take 6 years to fully pay for that single core alone, and that's excluding the 512MB RAM, 10GB SSD and unlimited 400Mb/s bandwidth
Improving Blog Searching
Also please have a look at Craig Tube/Vinyl TV, his channels have returned under a slightly different new name, but all the previous content has been lost from the old ones:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC40wiRfP8u2DrVvUm_VGcqw

https://www.youtube.com/user/CraigTube/videos

Archived copies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200227065130/https://www.youtu...

https://web.archive.org/web/20120625045947/https://www.youtu...
>the US is still extremely generous with immigration.

Everything I read about it convinces me it's a byzantine and capricious process, and largely down to chance.

My process of gaining permanent residence in the Netherlands is a cakewalk by comparison. University MSc, then free access to the job market for a year, then after some years of employment and passing a relatively simple integration exam, I have long-term European residence. At no point was this up to the arbitrary whims of some immigration officer or a far-fetched lottery chance.

To me the idea that immigration is zero sum is repugnant and wrong.
If I get the guy from the originally posted video right, he uses services that do exactly that (+ also directly publish the content on their platform). And it sounds like they do it for free, to get content on their platform.
Common Mistakes with React Hooks
This is yet another attack against immigrant students as noted in sibling comments.

But it is also an attempt to force universities to open in the Fall despite the dangers of doing so. Many universities depend on the tuition from foreign students. The timing shows this (right after Harvard announced plans to go online), as well as Trump's tweets that schools must open in Fall.
It's a form of technical debt for the research culture. It's also a prisoner's dilemma: putting in the extra effort to be different just puts you at a competitive disadvantage b/c the system doesn't offer any rewards for going beyond the bare minimum. (Heck, you open yourself up to liability by publishing your code -- people misuse/misunderstand it and blame the poor results on you, people expect you to support it, people find bugs and it reflects poorly on you...) The system selects for people who either don't see the issue or are not bothered enough by it to insist on behaving differently.

It's not just a computer science problem btw -- it encompasses physics too.
To add to what some others said, the interest rates are also at a massive 1%, assuming they for some reason do have to pay them back.

Seems like even if you didn't need a PPP loan for staff, there are opportunities to create a scenario where it appears justified you need to loan to cover employees salaries, then divert the previous capital for your labor to an opportunistic expansion while others are scraping by. You got a large loan, with low interest, during a time period many were struggling. Great way to accumulate wealth.
A thing I've thought is really interesting on how the news is covering Coronavirus here in the US is they like to talk about all the economic harm going on in the US and then they blame it on the government response rather than the pandemic itself.

I've heard more than one news piece where they imply that Europe and Asia will be somehow spared from the economic fallout of putting their countries on lockdown for months on end. Then in the next piece they'll talk about how the US unemployment rate is off the charts and find a way to blame the Trump administration for it.

The economy is suffering because we slammed on the brakes in what (at least at the time) seemed like a prudent measure to avoid a worse fate. Now we have to pay the price for that. Choices have consequences.
From wiki article

> Compared to other Scandinavian nations, Sweden has experienced a much higher number of COVID-19 deaths; eight times that of Denmark and 19 times higher than Norway, despite being only twice those nations' populations
Falco expressed one of the definitive opinions on this question in 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA. ("Rock me Amadeus.")
Ok then say it out loud, what is the point you're scared to say
Escalating only works when you can reach reason in the higher chain. You can only go to senior leadership with the options and consequences. We have option A or option B, or we do nothing and we have consequence C. When that leader picks consequence C then you're stuck.

We have an administration that doesn't value academia or the visa program. So it's no surprise they're willing to sacrifice it in name of "schools must open".
To be clear I have no skin in the game (not from the US), but if the GP's claims are true, then I was misled because I did think that the 40% that gets thrown around was founded only by immigrants.

Does it change my view on immigration? Of course not, but it does indicate that if immigration was stopped entirely then it is not true to say that that 40% slice of fortune 500 companies would simply never have been founded.
I don't know why you are being downvoted! I agree with you... just because you are a professional athlete doesn't automatically place you in the "healthy" category. Its not just performance enhancing drugs either. These guys and gals beat the living crud out of their bodies and have to maintain body weight and strength that may not benefit their health. It is complex, but I don't for one second correlate healthy to professional athletes there are just too many cases that point toward, "its complicated and actually points toward, it is dangerous for your health to be a professional athlete."
Are they really, though?

I've followed a few courses on this, and they all focus on the mathematical background of it. Sure, it's neat to be able to prove some stuff about a toy language, but what does it really teach you?

"Regular expressions" in most programming languages are not regular. A lot of programming languages aren't even context-free. Heck, C++ templates are Turing complete! Does anyone care? Not really. It works, and unless you intentionally abuse it, it's not even that painful to use.

Meanwhile in academia, the parser is automatically generated from its EBNF definition using an algorithm proven to be optimal, but when you try to compile anything containing syntax errors it's either crash, infinite loop, or dump a completely gibberish error message.

I really get the feeling that a large part of academia is busy inventing their own problems to solve. From my experience, they are extremely bad at teaching how to solve real problems.
A Mathematician’s Guide to How Contagion Spreads
> Its their customer service, they always make it right for the customer.

Anecdotally, their willingness to go above and beyond seems to have decreased quite a bit over the last 5 years.

I used to get an additional month of Prime for delivery delays, but I haven't gotten one of those in years. I just end up with an apology these days.
> We don't necessarily know what a new fact means

We also rarely even know if a "new fact" is actually true. So many studies don't replicate that it makes sense to hold off on updating core beliefs whenever "new facts" seem unlikely or in contradiction with previously known (and reliable) facts.

SSC had a nice article (now gone) that discussed this for a scientific theory that had literally hundreds of confirming studies done for it. All wrong. The "new facts" were bullshit. So even with tons of studies, it's reasonable to be skeptical in some situations.

It's also great that, eventually, science was able to figure out the "new facts" were bullshit. Yay, science. But it also means that people aren't being irrational when they don't immediately alter their fundamental beliefs while the ink is still dry, especially "new facts" that seem in contradiction with everything else we know…
Falsehoods programmers believe about time (2012)
What's great about that?
Not almost! Everything was better in 1983. Everything already existed. Twitter is a good example: A really shitty newsgroup server glued onto a unusable client. Its eternal September on steroids. What a joke!
Our Habits feature has a lot more control over the blocks of time. It's not just generic "focus time" and you can be very specific about days of week, time of day, etc.

And probably the biggest difference is the throttling of free/busy time, which we think makes things much better for manager-type personas who need to remain available for supporting their team.

For example, if you say you want 1 hour every Friday afternoon to write your weekly status, we'll tentatively block it out at say, 3pm but mark it as "free" if your afternoon is clear. That way someone who needs to meet with you at the same time can and we'll just shift it before/after the incoming meeting and then block it out as your afternoon fills up.
> "sell US citizenship"

This is a big overstatement.
There are many far from trivial steps between being a F/M student and getting citizenship.

It certainly is a way for people to start they "immigration journey" to the US, though, obviously.
It's a Chrome extension called Screen Recorder. Very nifty! I've used it for my other projects and I'm happy with it. Only downside is it generates webm only - I had to put it through an encoder.