skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's fair. HAProxy is good and reliable. It's just old for the use cases we need today. Even the article has this opinion:

> While HAProxy has served us well and reliably for many years, it also has some operational sharp edges

Saying it sounds awful is like saying Vanilla JS sounds awful because it doesn't scale to the demanding webapp use cases of today.

And, as you mentioned, it's really compounded by the fact that they're using an outdated version of HAProxy, but that doesn't make it awful software.
This is actually already the case with the GDPR, just very few websites practise it that way
> The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away.

Unregulated markets have had near a century of exposure and yet here we are. So I think maybe we also need reform to stop the wealthiest just buying good press coverage of ideas which they find convenient.
In an early stage company, optimizing for IPO is probably not optimizing for IPO. It's pretend work that's easier than the actual work that will need to be done to get to a point where an IPO is on the table. Even worse, it's a big bucket of Dunning-Kruger because what makes a better or worse IPO is a matter of expertise that exists in organizations whose business centers around IPO's and that's not your business. Good luck.
My backend take a 'fields' parameter, I use it mostly in list views.

My backend has nested models. I can request the line_items field and get that list along with the root object, submit it back with added fields easily.
Original press release is https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-ex...

Key fact:

- International student cannot legally attend a 100% online school from the US (with an F or M status).

- International student in school with "Hybrid" models (some in person, some online) cannot have a 100% "online semester". The school will need to certify that the student is not taking 100% online classes.

- If a Hybrid school moves to a fully online halfway through, the student needs to depart the US (or transfer to another school)

This only applies for the student to be legally _within_ the US of course.

EDIT: The law already prevented this, basically. Spring and Summer had special exemptions granted by DHS. So this is just a reversal to the "usual policy", which it seems many school expected would not happen (at least not that quickly).
My university is scrambling to understand the exact consequences.
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The report claims that their economy will take a 17% hit in the first half of 2020 (it has already taken this hit, but it takes a while for the accounting to shake out). And they're claiming that the yearly hit will only be 8.3%. I understand that they are trying to take a lot of things into account, but this forecast is too optimistic. Europe won't bounce back that much in H2, because their recovery will only happen at the pace of everyone else's recovery.
They've had all sorts of disputes through the years. Even sent some Oklahoma National Guard and Texas Rangers to the Red River in a dust-up over a bridge once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Bridge_War
I'm not sure which "radical right" enclaves you are talking about.

Donald trump and conservative groups on reddit for example are some of the most ban-heavy groups around. Where are you thinking about?
Foreign students can only take 1 online class at our institution due to current policy. When we scrambled to move all online during the stay-home orders, one question we didn't have answered was whether or not those students could even stay if we went entirely online.

The policy didn't change at all, it's super restrictive.

What institutions I'm affiliated with are asking is for temporary flexibility during COVID-19. Specific start and end dates based on periodic review of health measures.

And the answer is still a resounding 'no' from any sort of federal representative we can get in touch with.

This, honestly, feels like the federal immigration department is trying to punish schools who are more cautious about opening up like nothing is happening. It tastes bad.

edit: edited to reflect the inaccuracy as pointed out by PeterisP. SEVIS is overseen by ICE, not the department of education. Our representatives for SEVIS are generally connected to the DoE in some fashion. I didn't realize folks wouldn't know that ICE oversees immigrants, and that the Ed Department isn't responsible for making this policy.
They said something about being cost competitive with the established suppliers "we are not a premium".
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Maybe, but I think the main problem is that a middle tier position in the US pays a lot more and provides a higher standard of living than what some can expect in their own home countries.
Here’s one thing test driven development solves that has nothing to do with testing - empathetic code. Soon as you force people to write testable pieces of code, by definition you just forced them to write a good interface that considers how others will/could use it (in this case the ‘other’ is a test suite).

When that’s not in place, people often create selfish code where only their own needs are addressed.
It's truly remarkable how ignorant the US now acts towards foreign students and talents given that a lot of world class scientists, artists and innovators are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants.

I hope this will give Europa and Asia the chance to get some of their emigrated talents back.
The article doesn't mention refactoring, and that's where the value of tests lies.

Given a complete test suite and stable interfaces, you can make substantial changes to existing code and if you break anything you'll know. It's often the difference between making changes that need to be made, and avoiding those changes because there's no safety net.

I'd be curious how the author approaches refactoring.
Would be wonderful if these irrelevant clowns truly were being silenced, but sadly this isn't the case.
I bet Magic leap needed someone with mergers and acquisitions experience to get them out of the bind they are in now.
Re: that first one, I have no idea what I just read, but it conjures back to mind a philosophical pondering I had once, on the intended formal-relational-algebra meaning of a record not being present in an RDBMS table.

I.e. "Does non-presence of an asserted relation, mean the relation is instead refuted (i.e. is this table a total membership-function for a set whose members are its present rows)? Or does non-presence of an assertion of a relation mean that this system just hasn't been informed of that assertion, and is in a default state of not-knowing the truth value of the relation (i.e. is this table a partial membership function, defined only on asserted relations)?"

Or, to put that another way: if you were to create an RDBMS that "correctly" reflects formal relational algebra, then should a search query looking for P(X), which you haven't asserted to be true, be "satisfied" to say -P(X); or should it be "unsatisfied" / non-halting, because whatever answer it would give could potentially be wrong in the face of later learning?

...does that question have something to do with the concept of "open" vs "closed" sublocales, or am I way off?
A bad economy is good for the climate, which is good for the economy.
What this policy completely misses is that some courses are real-time online, not recorded, and that people live in different timezones across the globe.

This is extremely personally harmful to people affected.
Not my experience. Back when it was a going concern, The_Donald moderators were incredibly quick to ban anyone who was not a 100% full-throated supporter of Trump. I know because I was banned repeatedly for trying to engage in nuanced, good faith discussions. r/Conservative is extremely quick on the ban trigger as well.

I find that a desire for safe-spaces and monoculture spans both sides of the aisle and seems to be a broader trend in our culture today. Perhaps this desire always existed and the Internet's ability to cater to the long tail has simply enabled it.
Video hosting is a solved problem, there are multiple mature and viable competing services.
Creators use Youtube because of built-in discovery, community-building, and monetization services, which benefit much more from network effects and are harder to replace.
Quoting the article:

> In fact, though Cicero could never compete with computer games when it comes to ''making learning fun,'' conquering the conjugations of his lost tongue probably makes a lot more sense when it comes to learning to learn than sifting through GOTO statements in Basic, unrelated to our living language.

Cicero wrote in Latin, and is generally considered one of the most influential writers to do so. He also was strongly trained in the Greek/Hellenistic traditions and copied many ideas from there into Latin. I think that the author is exhorting the reader to learn Latin rather than Basic, and more generally to learn the classics rather than modern mathematics. For what it's worth, I think we need to study both; we need more Pirsigs, Hofstadters, and Carrolls, who have studied both classical philosophy and also modern computer science.
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That's the past. In the present, that's not a choice anymore.

I strongly encourage everyone everywhere to evaluate our response when we are done with this. It was deeply suboptimal. However, in the current position we are in, there is no chance the virus is going to be eliminated in the US. With that, the best possible news is that everyone's already gotten it.
Wonderful example!

I'd add that just looking at how families or circles of friends operate is also enlightening. The most cynical view is that these interactions are 'debt' based, but practically speaking that often isn't true either. I help my mother not because I calculate the effort she has invested in me or the value she brings me. I just do it because I love her and I don't need to think about how I've come to feel that way (which very well might be based on measurable behavior on her part).
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YouTube's (and most social media) value is not in its storage and bandwidth. it is in Discoverability.

That is the problem the tech community needs to solve, not storage or bandwith, ways to distribute that is really a solved issue in several ways.

The problem for creators to move off of YouTube is the discoverability for an audience.
Adderall (IR 20mg bid).
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I had the same, refreshed twice and it loaded.
The effect would be these students would not opt for these courses. For majority of these students the main attraction is employment in USA, for a small subset experiencing American culture. In absence of both of these there is no reason for students to take online courses from American Universities.
- Learn to edit well, it's how to write well. Nothing opens doors like clear writing. For sources of quality edited writing, read The Economist, Quanta, and the first novels by authors who wrote 20th century literary fiction. Their later ones had less editing.

- Negotiation + game theory. Learn the traditional methods, and then forget everything you know about them because the real world has changed and broken the assumptions that went into the formal theories, but you need it as a foundation.

- Basic vehicle maintenance and repair. Even if it's just buying an ODBII connector for fault reading and being able to trace fuse box connections. Also, learn to drive stick, or be dependent in an emergency on someone who does.

- Learn confidence and humility by mastering a common physical skill like an instrument, singing, or performing monologues, etc. Not stupid tricks, but something where other people are objectively way better than you are and plan to be embarrassingly bad at it for at least a decade.
The most relevant standard for freedom of speech in the United States is the doctrine of "Imminent Lawless Action."

I'm assuming that it is relevant for the freedom of assembly as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
There are certain patterns that are illegal though, and presumably have legal penalties (maybe not jail time, but presumably at least fines). False advertising is the obvious example. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to support strengthening the laws around these things.
Presumably its for bot detection.
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As an international student myself, it has been a very confusing last few months, and now this. I am fortunate enough to be back in my home country but I know of many others who are stuck in the US due to travel restrictions or financial reasons. Forcing them to leave for a situation they cannot control during a pandemic is cruel.

I urge everyone to sign this petition[0] to help international students who are here to pursue higher education in the US, by asking ICE to rescind their decision.

[0] https://www.change.org/p/ice-let-international-students-stay
> consistently low latency

That's (a) just one objective and (b) too vaguely stated.
What's an acceptable p95 latency for a FaaS? For a database write? For a message queue? The answer is a very big "it depends". And why are we only talking about latency?

There are tradeoffs literally everywhere you look in this space, and not knowing enough about the application's performance, reliability, and efficiency goals can sometimes be a real hindrance to being good at running that application.
I may not be the target demo (I’m a solo founder) but I would never give another company my schedule to analyze and optimize. My time is my most valuable asset as a human and an entrepreneur, and I believe that for anyone intent on success, time management is a function that must be internalized as a core competency, not outsourced
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And yet, Biden was a 'tough on crime' guy back in the 1980s and 1990s - his stances have contributed significantly to the institutional racism problem we all face today. Trump has a way better record on criminal justice reform. Don't fall for the hype. E.g. see https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/justice-reform-bi...
It's a total dick move by them to enforce it right now. If the student is normally enrolled full time in person and they just have this/next semester online, they shouldn't be required to pack their bags and leave for just one or two semesters. That's very different from the intent of not letting online students physically enter the us for no reason. Already many students were stuck here in may since international travel was restricted by many countries. Doing stupid pointless shit like this has no positive effect.
I doubt it, since it's not US universities that are causing the brain drain so much as well-paying US tech companies.
I don't think the user was unfamiliar with a pipette, but rather didn't know what was meant by pipetting 'right'.
Wil Wheaton is a poor person to choose here; He is an incredibly toxic personality who's presence on the internet causes more people to turn to the alt-right.

I say this in good faith, as I'm not part of the alt-right nor do I agree in any way with them. But toxic people are of all kinds and we should be aware of those in our camp who do harm to our causes by acting in deleterious ways.

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However, it raises a more valid point about 'what do we do about controversial figures' in general, and you would expect, as with most federated services, to be able to prevent "non-local" personas to be blocked from interacting with local users.

In those situations though it degrades the experience; the best part about mastadon though is that you get to choose who you federate with, so you could, in theory, have linked mastadon installations for government officials (who are often controversial) and signup could be linked with an oauth2 identity system that ties back to a real identity somehow (this would be possible in Estonia with their e-ID systems).
Oh yeah, it's not a binary thing. That said, in the case of craftsmen and their apprentices, I think the relationship was much less cold and transactional than, say, my startup friends who got a bunch of interns as cheap labor. At times perhaps, but not generally.
I find this a common sentiment here. As someone who left his country to study abroad, I find it very odd.

An individual looks at his or her options, decides that pursuing education in a foreign country will result in a better future for them and their family.

And somehow restricting their opportunity and their freedom to do so is a good thing? Certainly not for the individual in question.

Personally, I think the way to prevent brain drain is not to impose restrictions on individual liberty but to compete better on the education/career market.
So from talking to people I see a need to quickly turn a spreadsheet of information into something visually pleasing. SheetUI is my response to that need. You give it a Google Sheet URL, pick a template, and tap in the columns where you want them to show up. In return you get a visually pleasing and responsive web page that you can embed on your site, or link to in your newsletter or chat with a client.

Created with React and Material-UI, plus some spreadsheet fetching and parsing code.

Glad to answer any questions!
There's some more technical information on the A100 here https://www.anandtech.com/show/15801/nvidia-announces-ampere...
>Then define "made up".

That which is not a part of base reality. If base reality were operating using the same rules as Conway's game of life then cells would be real, but gliders would be made up. Since Conway's game of life actually runs in a simulation on some computer or another, cells are also made up.

>Suppose it is merely a useful tool. This tool then necessarily has a structure that's isomorphic to part of the structure of the noumenon, otherwise it wouldn't actually be a useful tool.

Newton's equations are now accepted as an approximation; they are not isomorphic to part of the structure of the noumenon, yet remain useful when firing cannons. Myths and legends have been useful in compelling people to wage wars and donate to charities, yet we do not suppose that this usefulness means they are isomorphic to part of the structure of the noumenon.

Perhaps fermions and bosons correspond very closely to real parts of the noumenon, but they could also be a phenomenon which is emergent on top of something else -- as made up as chemistry, biology, psychology, and economics.
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A recruiter for the company I'm at saw my github with a few Elixir projects, which was one of the reasons he reached out to me. During the interview my use of Elixir and dynamic languages came up as well since the company uses Clojure. A previous job I found out that the VP had read my blog and utilized it to work with Excel and .NET.
General rule: most people pick the default option if there is one. For example, organ donation [1]: Germany and Austria are culturally very similar, but in Germany 12% of citizens are organ donors and in Austria 99%. The reason: Germany is opt-in, Austria is opt-out.

The interesting thing about GDPR is it officially bans "opt out" tracking cookies - you need someone's consent, although lots of sites interpret that in a way which ... let's just say if they applied the same standards of consent to their private lives they'd very quickly find themselves at the center of the next #MeToo campaign.

GDPR does allow you to make the "Yes" and "No" buttons the same size, so "equal choice" rather than "opt in" - maybe that gets you better conversion rates?

[1] http://www.behaviouraldesign.com/2015/08/11/why-99-of-austri...
I am not sure why networking and could computing is in this thread. This is certainly the last thing you want to try or use (except for Internet access and all its learning resources) when learning to program. And it won't let you become as familiar with common computers logic as programming, say, a Tetris.
I've been cautiously following projects like this, and will add this one to the list.
I think this is very important.

Mob justice over what people said years ago is very dangerous. And due to the global nature of the internet, it is very hard to get the mob off your back. It seems many students have been denied their college admissions due to stuff they tweeted as a teenager. It seems in the modern world felons deserve redemption, but bad tweeters do not. Not to mention that cancelling people over what they said in the past is so stupid, that if applied consistently, will lead to funny scenarios. For example, if teenagers should be punished for their past tweets, why shouldn't be Joe Biden for saying on the record that he doesn't support same.sex marriage in the 2008 VP debates. This is not even counting what opinions biden held in the 20th century.

It seems that we have come to a point where you simply can't speak on certain topics, neither in the affirmative nor in the negative, and so most people end up saying what will keep the mob at bay. Case in point, all the people attacking JK Rowling do not want to say that any man who self ids as a woman should have access to women's private spaces.
I might not be understanding your point but:

- consent requires, among other things, that permission be given freely;[1]

- so, if coercion is involved then consent does not exist;[2]

- and, preventing user access to content unless that user agrees to be tracked is likely considered to be coercive.

Therefore if a user grants permission to be tracked only in order to gain access to that site's content, that granted permission would not be considered consensual because that permission was not given freely.

(the above is not legal advice but I do have a law degree; I also work for a NGO that produces apps that teach people about consent)

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[1]GDPR Article 4(11)
[2]GDPR Recital 42
Two if my workspaces are tied to the same enterprise account, they should be the same, but who knows how they measure. My base assumption is "in a way giving nicer numbers"
We used a shallow neural network. The main challenge at Sculpt wasn't the modelling part, but rather the whole UX (active learning to speed up the training process, explainability, easily get predictions, etc). So it's true that a relatively simple model performs well, and actually having an efficient / shallow network also helps make the active learning pipeline fast for the user.
Ah, that's good to know. Thanks!
Most applications are distributed that way. Some have more complicated, Windows-style installers (PKG files) because they need to do things like install kernel extensions or what have you before they'll work.
> Trump has a way better record on criminal justice reform.

Yeah. For his friends.
I'm sorry, are you telling me that right wingers are more open to opposing ideas?

That just does not seem to reflect literally any aspect of growing up & still having most of my family / friends in a highly conservative community. Like at all. I'm totally shocked you believe this.
Wouldn't a move to renewable / greener energy sources (I realize that in Europe oil is used in transportation and heating mostly instead of direct electricity generation) remove the necessary connection between oil demand and industrial production?
Shadows lead to overdraw I suppose, but I don't believe most UI frameworks draw front to back anyway. They end up accelerating it by making large, multi-element bitmaps of the final render. It ends up being a very small cost.