skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you are suggesting it's possible for killings to be driven by racism, but for the skew of killings not to be driven by racism.

It's a very fine distinction, which I am not interested in validating or invalidating, but I'm thinking it's not relevant to why Pinker's tweet was ill-received when he wrote: "Data: Police don't shoot blacks disproportionately." and "Problem: Not race...". He just wasn't that finely tuned.
Cray fans know that if it doesn't have padded seating all around, it's not a supercomputer.
If your business’ finances can’t adjust for what amounts to a 1-month billing cycle for 25% of your revenue, look inward.

Under normal circumstances, that might be a reasonable suggestion.

Under the current very unusual circumstances, even many large, well-established, normally viable businesses are engaging in massive downsizing or simply going under. Imposing that sort of condition on a business that is apparently struggling already due to a sudden change in its situation could easily be enough to break its cash flow and push it under, so it definitely shouldn't be done unless it's justified and proportionate.
That's a well reasoned argument, I am especially thrilled to hear one that didn't appeal to the extremes,
although I don't agree that there is a direct causal relationship between supposedly low salaries and h1b.

Here's a quick experiment, click clearancejobs.com [1], as of this writing it lists 50K+ well paying jobs (high 6-figs) fully reserved for US Citizens, especially those whose antecedents can be traced. And this usually means people with surnames like Smith, Green, Johnson et al. And, this is just one website, over say a job cycle time of a few weeks. Now one can extrapolate that there are hundreds of thousands of such jobs.

Now H1b is 65K Visas a year, Let's say that 80% of H1b are fraudulent - which it is NOT, but just for the sake of argument, let's say 80% are outright fakes - this is more than offset by very high paying US citizen only jobs in on a single website, over just a few weeks!

Now salaries might not be going up as as much as some wish for, but in an economy there are many more variables than just supply & demand, that determine wages. I would also remind you tech worker salaries are already among the highest, if not the highest, salaries in any professional class. Only very specialized doctors like Neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons etc make more.

To somehow say that H1b is the root of all evil can only come from a very spoilt entitled class - dare-I-say White American Males - that has all the bountiful benefit of an economy with FULL employment, Actually FULL++ employment. And yet, they are just so fragile, entitled and selfish....

H1b is, at most, a _minor_ inconvenience to a set of very spoilt brats, used to having it their way, or throwing a tantrum otherwise. 65K jobs is not even a droplet in the ocean that's the US economy, and yet the fact that this issue gets some much coverage is a testament to the power of this very privileged group.

[1] www.clearancejobs.com
We have people people with 3.7 gpas and 31 on their MCAT that can't get into medschool. I don't think it's an issue of not having enough people trying to be doctors.
This all sounds right from my observations. It's mostly women who get involved in MLMs. I would bet that most of them don't make money. I've known only one person to actually make a good living doing it.

I believe that the majority people dislike MLMs, but they may still participate to support their friend. Which also blurs the line between friend the customer uncomfortably.
> If you are infringing on their rights, you aren't an ally.

Then they never cared about the values they hold dear. If you believe in "Freedoms" but those freedoms are entirely selective based on political ideology or convenience you believe in nothing. The constitution has no "rights whenever you feel like it" clause.

> "where are the people with guns to defend us???"

I'm actually not saying that at all. I'm not asking for anyone to defend anyone else. I'm noting the irony of how strong the arguments for the second amendment were mostly based around "standing up to government" and how much silence there is about very obvious and illegal government overreach. The exact same behavior that the 2nd amendment proponents literally said that's why they own guns.

It's just political hypocrisy and I'm pointing it out. They were certainly happy to show up in armed groups when their local bar was closed, but snatching people in unmarked vehicles to be taken to secret detention centers is ok?

I actually do not want 2nd amendment people to get involved at all, I feel they aren't well trained, they are mostly unequipped to handle the situation and based on most 2nd amendment people I know, I would not actually want them near any volatile situation. Rights for me and not for thee I guess.
Wasn’t Word Perfect or WordStar based in Utah decades ago? Utah has a long tradition of producing technology companies.
They think they're well informed... by YouTube videos. They won't read a book. (broadly speaking, obviously, I'm sure some will)
Last time I checked, the fed doesn't have policing power, only states do. This is a huge overstep of states rights.
No, Bethe and others knew in the 40s it could not have. Enough nuclear physics was known then to know that the atmosphere cannot be ignited by a nuke.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/bethe-telle...
Libertarians tend to appreciate property rights and want the government to defend them. The rioters don't seem to be in that group.
Wouldn't that be the type of property that would go up in value? Buy now..
Perhaps I am missing something, but the use of dimensionality in this article seems a bit overblown. The article says that a digraph meant to represent a rat brain formed 8-cliques in response to some input data. You could represent this 8-clique as a 7D structure ... but not necessarily. I am a bit worried that a layperson will read the article and think that the human brain is literally 7D in some actual way
The problem is that there are an infinite number of 'alternative' treatments to any illness. How many of these should be taken seriously and tested? Typically, if enough people take an alternative seriously, someone eventually tests it.
There is some upwards growth in a few downtowns, but for the most part, keeping the mountain views available to everyone is important to people here.
For 3, I'm a fan of small, discreet zippers. My Bluffworks pants have zippers that are discreet enough to be unnoticeable but sturdy enough for roller coasters.
The performance of EC2 instances varies significantly between instances.

If the resources were actually guaranteed that simply wouldn't happen.

Noisey neighbors wouldn't be a phrase people even knew if they actually guaranteed resources.
Someone also recently made a plugin [1] for OBS using this.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gravydanger/obs-rnnoise/
I actually work remotely for a boise company and they pay me a LA salary. Boise is getting pretty hot though still small. They have loads of cool conferences and start up weeks, but of course it's all been shut down this year.
This looks less credible than the dossier
This looks like straight from reddit: same vinaigrette of emotionally charged buzzwords.
Seriously. If your only source of what's happening is a few selected videos, I'm not surprised people think it's bad here.

Have there been a few incidents, over 50 days of protest? Yes.

Are they common? No.

Do you feel unsafe walking downtown? Only if the police are moving around.
because sometimes these people have children or relatives too. A good friend of my mother also believed in quack medicine and died of breast cancer because she was trying to treat it with some kind of plant extract. She left behind two sons and an alcoholic husband. Needlessly to say they had a difficult upbringing.
I'm curious why say that it has already happened? Linux is generally reported to only have 1-2% market share for personal computers.
Given that hotplug exists, couldn't it be used to communicate the amount of available RAM to the guest instead of ballooning? That would leave the OS responsible for swapping hungry programs out and resizing kernel structures.

I guess the missing piece is that it doesn't leave a good way for the guest to request more RAM (maxing out the balloon?).
I fully agree, though I’m on the East Coast and evening then I don’t mind occasionally opening my jacket to get my wallet or phone.

When shopping a jacket without dual internal breast pockets goes back on the rack and won’t be considered.
True on both counts. But to build dense apartments,you'd have to tear down existing stuff (for the most part). That's not an impossible obstacle, of course, but it would take rezoning. I don't know how easy that is to do here.

And yes, there are other valleys. Summit County isn't great, though, partly because it's very expensive (ski resort country), and partly because the valleys are very small. There's Tooele Valley to the west, but access is a problem (the valley is west of the Salt Lake Valley, and runs north-south, but the only connection is at the north end). There's the valley Nephi is in, south of Provo. (Maybe 10 years ago I considered buying some land on the northern side of this valley, on the idea that it would eventually become subdivisions.) I wouldn't want to live there and work anywhere north of Provo, though. And Utah doesn't (yet) have the mindset to accept two-hour commutes.

So yes, you're right. And yet... it's going to take either zoning changes or long commute times, and I'm not sure what the appetite here is for either.
Yeah I have a pair, they're quite nice. Very comfortable as well
If you really must have an OLED then you might have to wait until Tesla or someone releases a car with an OLED. But this issue of being blinded by the screen has not at all been a problem for my use of my Model 3. Also I am quite sensitive to darkness, so I ought to know... I am a pilot, and I am very aware of the need to keep your night vision sharp. The Tesla Model 3 controls have worked for me. They're not perfect, but I've rarely had the screen blast to life and shred my night vision. Maybe one time, but that was only when getting in the car while it sat unused through sunset, and it fixed itself in under a half second. The cabin controls allow me to totally black out the interior of I want, and the minimum brightness adjustments are well tuned so that at night the very bottom end of the adjustment range is actually effective.

So this might really not be as much of an issue as you suspect. But there's only really one way to find out, and that's go try one out.
Huh. Isn't it a lot more expensive to do that on E980s that it would be on commodity servers using commodity Intel or AMD CPUs?
More like: rendering Doom output as pixels in the task manager for hundreds of CPU cores. They didn't massively parallelize Doom itself, but just the pixel drawing.
The initial detention of suspected criminals usually is “extrajudicial” in that it’s done by police without a warrant from a judge. These are federal officers instead of the local police (who should be handling this, except that they’re being hamstrung by local officials’ pandering to the mob). But that doesn’t make them “secret police.”
I'm sorry but a blog post about "a screenshot of an email" doesn't do it for me.

Can you do better?

(I can't even see the screenshot because I don't enable JS so it's just a blurry thumbnail image. Oh how I wish people didn't use JS to serve static content!)
Cal Thomas: A Few 'Experts' Shouldn't Get to Shut Down Life for the Rest of Us
Making a mobile game in just 1 day
The parent comment mentioned "magic plates", "magic bag", and "magic rock". I specifically called out the "magic plates" and "magic bag" as disingenuous and intentionally didn't rebut "magic rock" because I didn't think that one was necessarily disingenuous.

But now that other people have flagged the comment it's not obvious what I selectively replied to.
The other thing I'm interested to learn -- did the evolution of RAM proceed as kind of a "hand me down" technology from the CPU industry and basically tied to that?

In that, I imagine memory is just about cramming more and more into the same space, and doesn't require the same complexity of innovation as CPUs (maybe some new developments in addressing, bus, or whatever) -- mostly just increasing the density and getting more storage locations in the same area?

Or are there very interesting stories about RAM too? I do know some of the advances in hard disk magnetic breakthroughs, but silicon memory, not so much.
>Call it whatever you want, it's fairly standard.

I'm seeing this sentiment repeated in this thread.

I take no issue with it, but if Stripe moves to "fairly standard" processes, at one point do they become just-another-payment-processor?
> Build graphs are acyclic.

While yes, this is a falsehood... in practice, you generally want to figure out a way to break cycles and remove them from the build system. In general, make the user responsible for breaking cycles in the build system.

The only major use case for cycles that I can think of is self-hosting compilers.

I would add some additional falsehoods:

- It is always the right thing to rebuild files when the inputs have changed.

- The host and target systems are the same (you are never cross-compiling).

- The host and target systems are different (you are always cross-compiling).

- You can reliably figure out the version number of whatever you are building.

- The build steps always produce the correct outputs if they do not fail.

- You always want to build third-party dependencies from source.

- You never want to build third-party dependencies from source.

- The input files do not change while the build is running.

- All of the inputs are files (and not, say, the current timestamp).

- The entire build should use the same build settings (optimization / debug), you don't want to do a partial-debug, partial-optimized build.

- You don't want to rebuild when e.g. files in /usr/include change.

- You always want to rebuild when e.g. files in /usr/include change.

- Installing additional software will not break the build.

- Running the same build twice will result in the same output.

- Build products do not contain absolute paths.

- You can move an executable from one path to another and it will still work.

- You can delete object files and everything will still work.
After buying some of their shorts, I'm never buying shorts or pants again without gusseting.
I think it’s fair to say that, generally speaking, individuals conflate value and compensation, especially when it’s related to a job being done.

That feeling of performing uncompensated work is what OP is claiming MLMs are taking advantage of.
so the methods work, but we just can't tell if they're working? I imagine that would be quite financially convenient for people selling methods that don't work.
if it's a game you can't measure if you're winning, it's a casino game. and casino games always favor the house.
Zoom actually does noise and echo cancellation by default, but you can turn it off.
Which ones and why? Is blaze/bazel free of all these falsehoods. Did it manage to make new mistakes?
I carry a filled Zippo everywhere I go (although I don't smoke - it's for lighting others' cigarettes). It fits perfectly in the coin pocket on a pair of raw Japanese jeans, where it will produce a fade[0] unique to the lighter and its wearer.

[0]: https://www.heddels.com/2019/04/fade-day-unbranded-ub421-14-...
>"The so-called "dark triad" personality traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—lead to characteristics like "self-promotion, emotional callousness, duplicity, and tendency to take advantage of others," the paper explains.

And "treated as a composite, the Dark Triad traits were significant predictors of virtuous victim signaling."

[...]

>"They point out that virtue signaling is defined as "the conspicuous expression of moral values, done primarily with the intent of enhancing one's standing within a social group."

Meanwhile, victim signaling "may be used as a social influence tactic that can motivate recipients of the signal to voluntarily transfer resources to the signaler," they explain. More from the paper's theoretical background section:

An emerging literature on competitive victimhood documents the prevalence of victim signaling by various social groups and provides evidence for its functionality as a resource extraction strategy."

OK, I'm not saying I agree or disagree with any of this.

But, there might be some words and terminology here for my 2020 lexicon, including, but not limited to:

"Competitive Victimhood"

"Dark Triad"

"Moral Immunity"

"Victim Signaling"

"Virtue Signaling"

"Virtuous Victim"

etc.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1071/AN15576 page 6
They're citing prior research showing declining efficiency of bromochloromethane additives "due to ruminal flow" while not observing that in their research using seaweed. But it's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison since one was an in vivo and the other an in vitro study. So I may have overstated the impact.

> A quick search doesn't show it as a greenhouse gas. It can deplete stratospheric ozone, but it is very short lived in the atmosphere.

Looks like you're right, I must have confused it with some other bromide.
I remember 2008. Pass.
"If there wasn't overexposure and editing, the fish would be just as black as the background, and you wouldn't be able to see them."

Sure thing. In that environment that is true. I bet they didn't measure their reflectivity in the deep, but on a lab bench though.

"A dead fish is too different from a living one, so it's not worth picturing them."

Maybe so, except that's not true. Here is a picture of a common fangtooth: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a6/cd/3f/a6cd3f0a9cc47b9794fa...
And here is an other one: https://insider.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fangtooth-...

Any of these pictures would have been better to illustrate their colour.
> So let me be honest, these aren't riots. Take it from a local...but also note that this local is not a participant so my perspective is from an arm's length at best.

I'm a local, that lives within a 5 block radius of where this has been going on for weeks. I'd call them riots. I've seen with my own eyes, both sides shooting munitions at each other. Property is being destroyed. People are being assaulted.

This [0] happened last night. These videos have become so common over the past month, they're turning into the norm. I was woken up at 1:30 am this morning listening to PPB giving rioters a 5 minute warning to vacate before they start applying force. It's out of hand. I'm not surprised at all that the Feds have come in to defend Federal property and restore order.

[0] - https://twitter.com/FromKalen/status/1284384833653731334
Hi Alex, cool stuff! A clarification from Section 3.2 on coordinating between rollout workers and policy workers: you say that we want k/2 > t_inf / t_env for maximal performance. If t_env is defined as the time required for one thread to simulate one step, it seems like we want k/2 > N * t_inf / t_env, where N is the number of cores/threads on the machine.

For example, say t_inf = 10 microseconds, t_env = 1 microsecond and we are training on a 30 core machine. When k=600, we batch 300 inference steps in 10 mics, and complete 300 simulation steps on the other half of the rollout workers in 10 mics. Both cohorts of rollout workers finish at the same time, achieving optimal performance.

Am I thinking about this correctly? Also, this equation assumes that we can batch up k/2 inference jobs on the GPU without increasing t_inf correct?
Totally agree with this as a non-Mormon living in Utah. The culture is pervasive -- largely in a good way IMO. We moved here from California (ahem, sorry for filling up your mountains and desert) and love it. It's totally normal to have a family in your twenties, head out of the office at 5:00 sharp, and make friends hanging out with the kids in the mountains. Even as an ex-coastal democrat I am totally fine with the Mormon "compassionate Republicans" like Romney, Huntsman, and Cox. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else at this point. Now if we can just figure out traffic in the Cottonwoods.....
Now re-work your math replacing a SAHM with the cost of a maid, a cook, 24-hour childcare, a secretary, a phone answering service, on-demand car service, shopping service, and a butler and get back to us.
You seem to imply this one isn’t. What could be more just than solving a housing problem by giving housing to those who need it, and taking it from those who are hoarding it?
... and after you've solved for the truck problem, you have a potentially infinite list of other things to plan for, some of which you will not foresee. And of course, there's probably an upper bound on the time you can spend preparing for such things.

Famous to the point of being a cliche, the titanic was thought to be unsinkable, and I would have a similarly hard time convincing the engineers behind the ship's design to believe otherwise.

The level of confidence you're displaying in predicting the unforeseeable is something you may want to take a deeper look at.
I struggled to find the meat in this article and a quick google of the terms involved only really brings back the same article, which is almost 3 years old now.

On top of that the story is a cookie cutter rewrite of every upcoming ML/math technique which are always poised to provide some amazing insight into the human mind.

A more honest title would be "algebraic topologists think algebraic topology is great, academics who have employed algebraic topologists want it to be great but don't really understand it".

Edit: for anyone looking for the actual meat this appears to be it:

Objective Morphological Classification of Neocortical Pyramidal Cells (2019)

https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/29/4/1719/5304727
They are working on plans to extend the rail lines farther south, which eases commutes and opens up more space for housing. We're seeing suburban neighborhoods go in as far south as Santaquin, because the jobs are also moving south... you can get tech jobs in Provo, not just Lehi or SLC.

Also, as far north as American Fork, you can still find patches of open fields that have not yet been developed. The entire town of Vineyard barely existed a few years ago, and still has space to grow. The towns south of Provo are slowly getting more high density housing, and updating their master plans to accommodate more apartments and townhomes.

The space for new housing will max out someday, but we are not there yet.
Why isn't Oregon law enforcement treating this as they do any other kidnappings: by finding and arresting the kidnappers, and freeing the victims?

The people who ordered the kidnappings could also be rounded up on charges of conspiracy.
That’s the plenary “police power” you’re thinking of, and it has a lot more to do with the constitutionality of legislation than with actual police work. It doesn’t mean that federal officers can never engage in police-like activities.

See, e.g., the FBI.
Quite the opposite, actually. What compelled me to tune into this thread was the fact that I've felt the question was being redefined as "if a tree falls, does it displace air or creates any sort of physical effect which we might call sound?" which I find, as I'm sure you do too, easy and uninteresting. I think the question is meant to trigger reasoning on a much more deeper level than that, namely what it is to have a conscious experience and how we should go about defining what is real from that perspective.
I like the way you can erase and recover a Mac to a fresh install of MacOS, without needing a USB key or another working Mac. As long as you have an unmetered internet connection, you can recover to the same version of MacOS that shipped with the device.