skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I admitted, it's purely anecdotal - I'm not denying that there are a lot of Chinese who do in fact return.

But net migration is still negative, meaning there's more people leaving China than returning.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/net-migratio....

I'm not sure how that figure is calculated, but I also wonder if it under-represents "pseudo-migrants" who claim to be living/holidaying temporarily in (say) Australia, but who seem to stay indefinitely.
Why take a cellphone into the bedroom when you're trying to sleep? Just don't do it if you are weak to the temptation of doing it if you do take it into your bedroom.
"Quit Thinking So Much and Take Action" - A great two-minute video by Jocko Willink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmYtP9uKwFU
Ah yup you're right, I read your sentence too fast, whoops. The most likely location is at the nucleus, but the most likely radius (integrating over all angles) is at 1 bohr radius.
The Taco Smith is going in to my next D&D game.
The same is also caused by constant context switching. The brain makes a habit of "oh I've hit a hard part, time for a break!"

Please people don't try to diagnose yourselves with ADHD over the internet. Go see a professional
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You need to admit that you can't do everything on the list and say No to some. Declare plan bankruptcy so you aren't allowed down by work you aren't going to do anyway.
From my own personal experience: back in March, when COVID started getting out of control, I found myself desperately trying to get access to more and better information from experts in the field. I turned to twitter, to try to get more and better information on the subject. This inevitably turned into 'doomscrolling'.

I felt that there was a lot of nuanced scientific opinions that reporters were doing a poor job of communicating. I get that often deeply technical topics are complicated, but I think more than anything else COVID has helped how unprepared media has been in communicating these complex topics.

And it's not just COVID; it's been a range of subjects such as law (Trump's immigration ban) and elections (in particular the 2020 Democratic primary and all the media coverage over Bloomberg's supposed supremacy in the race). I think overall journalists are well intentioned and can be trusted in most situations, but it's clear to me that there are systemic failures in communicating complex subjects.
This is something I'd expect James Bond to have in his pocket.^[007]

[007]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8KvYKn9-0
Found the Sicilian...
When I’ve gone full TDD on projects, I’m always surprised to find there’s a power law distribution or something on failing tests. Most of the tests I write never catch a bug in the life of the software. Something like 90% of the value of a test suite could be achieved with only about 10% of the tests. Of course, the trick is figuring out which tests are going to repeatedly fail ahead of time. But there’s something interesting down this rabbit hole.

I wonder if it would be worth collecting per-test stats through the life of a project to explore this.
Thanks for your comments! I enjoyed reading about STKs, which I had not heard about before. I know lots of people are interested in applying kernel methods to graphs, and it seems like a important area of research. As your post discusses, one of the problems with defining an algebraically valid graph kernel arises with Mercer's symmetric condition. As far as I know, defining a valid convolutional kernel on graphs is still an active area of research. Hamilton (2020) discusses this problem in the notes from his recent GRL seminar here:

https://cs.mcgill.ca/~wlh/comp766/files/chapter6_draft_mar29...

> I am convinced that using graphs to link semantics with structure is under-explored.

I hope you continue to explore this direction! Designing better semantic parsing algorithms seems really important for knowledge retrieval. I would love to learn more about natural language parsing in general (e.g. grounding, PCFGs, HMMs), this is one area I feel we could learn a lot from in programming languages research.

> Perhaps the IPU units from Graphcore are a move towards this? I could use clarification on your points regarding next steps in low-level languages and hardware.

Not very familiar with the Graphcore architecture, although their engineers have tried to explain it to me several times. I think this is going to be a co-design problem, but we can start to realize some progress by compiling to pure BLAS primitives. GPGPU-based approaches seem like a good start.
I just finished building a dsl to generate html (with css styling) purely in Swift. It's still a little rough around the edges but, as I'm using this for my personal website, it'll continue to improve. Let me know what you think!
Logic is not required; all that is required is the accusation of racism.
Is it only me or I find marketing around "eco-friendly" not genuine and just a ploy to get you to buy their products?

Like you go to Marriott hotels, low and behold there is a sign on the bathroom towel that says "Please help save the planet" by reusing the towel. Sure it helps, but that's not the reason why they put that sign up. It is to save costs of laundry. If they really want to save the planet, how about cutting down private jets for their executives?

It never feels genuine and unless the product/service is directly contributing help to the environment - like an advertisement for a Solar panel company or a Wind Turbine brochure.
Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses
It depends whether you think the other party would prefer for you to play along or call them out on their BS. Between friends we generally prefer the latter.
This was a very small thing but in 2017 I had a tech blog on WordPress (very simple stuff). I didn't code anything. Just used a theme I bought online, and now and then fidgeted with whatever (little) I knew of CSS. I found a job description on LinkedIn for an opportunity pertaining to WordPress. What helped me was the interview where they asked me about my experience with the platform. This wasn't in the US, and my guess is WordPress wasn't big back home in 2017, so however little my experience was, it helped me get the job.
Fortunately, in US you can challenge those fraudulent debt collection attempts and they will be cancelled by default if no human fixes them, or else the collector pays fines to you.
I love HN because there is no risk of doomscrolling.

Articles here point to the real diversity of what is happening.
The dismissiveness is a reflection of the author's own, plus the fact fashion is inherently classist: It's the rich telling the poor they don't dress well, and making up rules for why they're right. It's impossible to gainsay those rules, because you end up with a courtier's reply, in very nearly the literal sense.
I've worked with OKR's at large e-commerce companies, small tech incubators, consultancy firms and "Unicorn" stage startups. At each stop OKR's were absolutely worthless.

What I really appreciate in reading this article is that they were absolutely worthless for the reasons this author has stated: there was no real empowerment behind them. Most often they were used for personal development since I had no meaningful say in my actual work. It's always a stretch to put personal development in terms of OKR's: "I'll write two blog posts this quarter." "I'll run one lunch and learn"-- ok those are fine activities but we hardly need OKR's to grow as engineers-- and just imagine how annoying it is to be at quarter's end struggling to write a blog post when you find out midway that you're enjoying learning in an entirely different manner.
Lynyrd Skynyrd themselves should be on that list.
You can buy a high quality nespresso machine for about $100. I agree the capsules are wasteful, but so are lots of other things, such as bottles and cans, cardboard boxes, ziplock bags, driving a car, and flying. What's especially wasteful about nespresso capsules? It seems like another version of straws that's easy to target but doesn't really address root problems with our consume until you drop mentality.
Is GPT-3 the biggest thing since Bitcoin?
I wasn't discounting it being a huge deal, which is why I mentioned it. But we don't need metal change for that when we can use 'paper' bills (airquotes because in Vietnam they use plastic bills).
Reply to those autoreplies. Crash the mailboxes of people using broken autoresponders.
I would be willing to bet that refusing to wear a mask is strongly correlated with spending a lot of time reading about news and politics online.
Also, it doesn’t sound healthy to me to read news with the attitude that a lot of the bad stuff that happens is because you just didn’t research enough and vote hard enough. The point of democracy shouldn’t be to blame the people for bad government policies and actions. It should be the government that is accountable.
How are people accessing GPT3? Is there a website, code repo, api... or do some select few have access?
Pretty cool. There was also a playable web version of Hedgewars via emscripten at some point. The emscripten version is currently unmaintained, and I think the project would be happy for someone to upgrade the toolchain and provide patches that make it work again. Check them out at https://www.hedgewars.org/ and #hedgewars @ irc.freenode.net
Another thing for this list is the Audi car company.
Pretty sure that's an outrageous exercise in false equivalence. What's happening in Portland isn't right, but it is an aberration, and it will be stopped. Nobody has "disappeared."

What is the mechanism for redressing grievances like this in China, exactly?
Yes paywall but please support The Economist. They are one of the few great news sources left.
There's some idealism, but the rub with OKRs is that it's obvious that it requires a culture of individual empowerment, at least it always has been from my perspective. It's been a baffling reality of my own startup experience that OKRs get introduced by management teams that aren't willing to truly delegate decisions to individual teams (and perhaps individuals); despite the fact that the entire framework they just introduced, requires this in order to have any real value.

After all, what's the value in a tool aimed at providing alignment in decision-making, if nobody actually gets to make decisions?

So yeah, idealism, but of a form that's worth aiming for.
Too bad you can't buy one...
?? What?

Blood Meridian has dark moments in the narrative sure, but it’s a beautifully written book and very easy spaghetti western adventure to get lost in before bed. It’s not like you’re dozing off reading The Necronomicon, c’mon.
I recently started with Obsidian which I sync up via DropBox using a text editor on my machine or Markor on Android (still haven't selected an iOS equivalent.. tips welcome). I see Zettelkasten mentioned in tandem with Obsidian frequently but I can't figure out what it does? Is it just timestamping for notes?
I have found it useful to RTFAs on Twitter/Facebook, not just read the clickbait, anxiety inducing headlines.

Not always, but many stories have some nuance that’s missing in social media outrage and replies.

Like I said, not always, but it does help anxiety to get all the facts. Especially when I ruminate on something after seeing just the headline or the replies.
Indeed, useful point. Could there be space for a “luxury” carbonated water company that sells on things like differences in carbonation pressure or the place of origin for the gas carbonation? Would be amusing, though wonder if it might work?
>it is a transfer from everyone who is not a financial institution, to financial institutions

I don't understand what this means. Aren't the victims you are imagining the hypothetical people who have large amounts of money in checking, savings, or literally under their mattress? And maybe this is ignorant, but I really didn't think that was a significant segment of the population.

I've read comments like yours a million times before, so I know your take isn't unique or novel, I just have never understood it at all.

I guess I can interpret you as talking about say inflation in the 1970s, but at this point that seems like ancient history and moot.
Ah got it.

Having gone through scrum and OKRs I agree with the idea that people tend to sell them to be 'generally' useful at least on the surface.

But once we started doing training/testing towards scrum, it's very clear we needed change as an organization. Some people ended up leaving as a result because it's not everyone's cup of tea.

I can't say the same for OKRs because I joined and it was already in place pretty effectively, but I imagine it to be similar.
The OpenAI website has a login that lets people access it through a web interface, but there is also an API. You can join the waitlist at https://beta.openai.com/; they're apparently working through the list.
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I think they would be like any electromagnetic radiation burns.
Winnie the Pooh is not banned, despite what that article says.

You can easily buy Winne the Pooh toys, books, and entertainment in China. There’s even a huge Winnie the Pooh ride in Shanghai Disney.
The confusion around Rust's modules reminds me of the different ways that people learn how to use car indicators.

Some people learn that you push the stalk up to indicate your intent to turn left, or down to turn right. And then they might eventually learn that in a European car, you push the stalk down to turn left, and up to turn right. And then of course some of these people get confused when switching between different cars. Yes, I've seen plenty of people on the road who indicate one direction and then turn another. It's... kind of frightening.

The other way of learning to use car indicators is much simpler: push the stalk in the direction that you would turn the wheel. Of course this still leaves the possibility that some people will push the wrong stalk, and briefly activate their windshield wipers. But it's a much easier mistake to _notice_, and the consequences are minor.

Back to Rust's modules. I keep seeing articles trying to offer a simple or clear explanation of how they work, that end up unnecessarily complicated in a way that feels a lot like the "up/down" model of car indicators. The explanation that makes the basics of Rust modules clear to me is this:

- Child modules must always be _declared_ in the parent module, or they don't exist.

- The content of child modules may be _defined_ either inline in the parent as `mod child { ... }`, or in a file with a relative path of './child.rs' or './child/mod.rs'.

Did I miss anything important?

Without this basic explanation up-front, I have no idea what to do with the stream of information I'm reading in a lengthy article on the topic -- I've been given no scaffolding onto which to bolt all the details and examples. So this is the "bottom line" that I would like to see "up front" in descriptions of Rust's modules.

Other misunderstandings, e.g., around item visibility, are explained really well by the compiler if you get them mixed up, so I'm not sure how much value there is in mixing them in to articles about how modules are _structured_ before those two basic facts are presented.
I do this to create a papertrail of thought and action for work but it's a vey narrow use case. What about notes for creative thought, mind mapping etc?
The ones investing in 2k machines would not be using water that causes that kind of scaling, or they can easily have it descaled.

To others, if you are not familiar with espresso, avoid manual espresso machines - even with consistent top quality semi-auto machines good espresso is not easy, let alone adding even more play into it with a lever machine.

I recommend not getting a home espresso machine at all unless you are really into it. Moka pots, pour over, aeropress are all far far easier, much cheaper, and far less finicky. Save the espresso for a trip to your neighborhood cafe instead - they'll make it far better without the hassle.
It's almost like "Woke Capitalism" is just a brand being sold by Capitalists...
Two developers merge to master, the second gets their code reviewed and now wants to deploy, however the first's code is not yet reviewed.

How is that not a problem in preventing logical bugs that tests didn't catch in the first developers code?
many people are explicitly and intentionally voting for the bad policies and actions though, can I blame them for that?
I used to charge once a day (10 years ago), and I still do because my phone can't last 2 full days on a full charge... but it does last about 1.5 days ... it is not an iphone 11 but it is still an $800 phone
Longer duration battery storage is going to be very hard to make work financially since the capital costs are spread across far fewer charge/discharge cycles. At this point I feel it's more likely that it'll be cheaper to massively overbuild solar generation capacity to provide enough power in the winter than build seasonal battery storage.
> I just concentrate on producing something, anything

You can also have a deadline. Productivity goes up as deadline approaches.
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Yeah it's like the petrol (aka gas) tanker needs a smaller petrol tank to drive itself.
Love: "the secret to love is giving without expecting. the secret to giving is loving without expecting."

I thought that this must be a direct quote, but I couldn’t find it in a google search.
Even in the US, it's such a well-known brand that the joke still works well, despite Hoover not being so dominant as to have become the generic word for vacuum cleaner.
A pretty outrageous non-answer. It is the states, in concert with the electoral college, that certify elections, not the federal government from what I understand.
Gotta wonder about their other debunkings, which is the whole point, really: They salt their site with lies to keep you on your toes.
I don't exactly get it...will Chinese people just start enjoying a different sport if they think few people in basketball don't like how mainland China treats Hong Kong?

What sport isn't going to have athletes using the bully pulpit for their cause, which sometimes is HK?
I put mine on quiet (basic Android feature) during sleep time, and its my alarm in the morning. It also gets charged overnight, and in case of emergency I can call emergency services. Its a no-brainer to take my smartphone with me to bed.
Thanks anyways, it was worth a shot :)
Facebook, reddit, and 4chan are great examples of cautionary tales. Growth diluted the culture and alienated original users. 4chan for example, used to counter this with guroposting and attacking anyone who didn't do the what the hivemind would do. That's long since dead as the site is now under endless attack from law enforcement and decency police.

Here, people can have uncomfortable conversations about contentious topics like IQ testing and leave learning something new. Try on reddit, and you'll leave learning the circlejerk's accepted take. Try on 4chan and you'll learn about your homosexual tendencies. Don't try on Facebook.
Who says it has to be all-or-nothing? I'm not saying people shouldn't be able to pay with bills, just that more people would use electronic means of payment of it were free, and that the government might come out ahead. I'm not thrilled by taxes going to pay for all the logistics of dealing with pennies and quarters, which are evidently nontrivial.
I don't know what it is technically, but if I wanted something more like espresso, I would use a moka pot instead. Not capsules.
Amazing. Dogs, well all animals, are amazing. There is so much to learn from them, so many lessons. The simplicity of natural world can teach us more about how to succeed in this life.
Recent reads that I recommend: N.K. Jemison's Broken Earth Trilogy. Alix Harrow's Ten Thousand Doors of January. Madeline Miller's Circe. Murakami's 1Q84.

Although with a little more thought, 1Q84 might be more upsetting now than it was last year.
> It's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but it's worth reiterating - safety.

Maybe if you're Chinese. Right after college, a friend of mine (white American) worked in a job where he spent time at a factory in China, until he got stabbed in the lunch room by some older worker. He's fine, and while there is may be a degree of safe, it's definitely a question of safe for whom.
There are well known open air markets in downtown Manhattan where everyone goes for counterfeit goods. If that place stays open, I really doubt getting one jersey with freehongkong written on it is going to set off their alarm bells.
> It is the states, in concert with the electoral college, that certify elections, not the federal government from what I understand.

You understand incorrectly. The electoral college is the collection of people (elected, generally, by voters in the states who vote with ballots that look like they are voting for President, but in fact are voting for a slate of electors) that cast votes in Presidential elections, not the body that certifies them. Congress counts and certifies the result.

But Trump isn’t talking about certification, anyway, he is talking about abiding by the results, and is saying that he is not committed to leaving office even if he is voted out; in other words, he is openly holding open the possibility that he will stage an auto-coup rather than leave office if he is voted out.
Social media is addictive by design and it's easy to slip into these bad habits. Gloomy, sensational news/opinions is good for "engagement" metrics and that's what people inevitability find themselves drowning in if they don't create clear boundaries around usage.

At times, I've become so miserable from it that I've had to jump into a cold shower to snap out of the doom and gloom. Thankfully, the cold shower usually works and provides incentive not to fall into the habit again.
I mean, people would prefer to not have to walk away from the things they enjoy.

You're being a little pointedly obtuse here. People want the world to reflect their values. Very few political vegans would prefer to ignore that there are still restaurants serving meat, they'd rather the culture shift away from that sort of practice. Similarly, people would prefer the sport they enjoy watching not support the government policies they don't support.

"Why not just ignore anything you don't like" isn't how the world works.
Price Club (what is now Costco) was founded by Sol Price
I sometimes choose a number of eggs and scale everything else accordingly.
So is MaxDB, which is also named after his son Max

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius#Personal_life
I enjoyed reading through this -- maybe more-so than other commenters since I'm less familiar with the material. It seems like the overall goal is to provide some intuition for how automatic differentiation & program synthesis might be implemented efficiently using matrices. However, I'm a little confused on how the section on Weifeiler-Lehman & checking for isomorphic graphs ties in to the rest of the article?
This is a big one for me. Not so much the bringing the phone into the room to scroll through before bed, but working from home physically leaving it in another room so I can't instinctively reach for it and be distracted by it.
We use Nestles capsule recycling, which claims to compost grounds and recycle aluminum pods...
Chinese companies using Uighur labor to make PPE as Covid-19 drives up demand
As a Canadian, this is strange. Is the idea that Canadians want to go to the US, but can't because it's closed? Or that Americans want to come here, but can't? It wouldn't be surprising if Americans want to come here, but why would we want that?
War of Art is a good book on the subject too
You'd get a lot of the value by just being willing to delete tests once it's clear they're not serving any purpose. Sadly a lot of people would rather see a high test coverage percentage than have an effective test suite.
This article is 5 sentences long. Here's a better one: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/science/emirates-mars-mis...