skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know if this is about woke. It just seems like a thin basis for any result. The birth weight response, in particular. There is as much evidence here that ten nearby oil wells increases birth weight versus 1 nearby well as there is that one well decreased it versus zero.
> But everybody seems to agree: it’s a citizen’s responsibility to keep up with the news. Everybody except me.

This rings true. I've been ridiculed for not knowing about the latest news a few times before, and its why I started reading it more.
I see this in my own shop. Digital displays instill people with greater confidence in the measurement than is warranted. This is something of a UI fail, as the tool manufacturer (Mitutoyo) has very clearly defined measurement precision for all their metrology equipment (+- 0.001" and 0.0015" for the calipers).
As an Indian there are reasons you can point out for this.

Education:
Engineering syllabi are pretty outdated. And due to a work-just-enough-for-month-end-salary mindset, professors are against being up-to-date. As a result, everywhere but in top notch colleges, quality of teaching is piss poor.

The "Rat Race":
There is no better word to describe this. 90% of people who enter computer science / engineering courses don't have any interest in computers. They enter because they scored well in entrance exam (which can be games by studying some books relentlessly for some years), and since Software is still one of the highest paying fields. And quite some of them continue their relentless pursuit for a good "package" by grinding Hackerrank / leetcode. It is literally a rat race.

The same mindset will create an impression that being a manager is superior to being a programmer. Because you are "managing" people. These people do all kind of office politics to become manager, and spend rest of their life ruining someone else's life.

You can't expect these kind of people to love their job or even do it properly.

Hierarchy:
Related to above point, in India, you don't oppose or even question an upper officer or elder's decision, because ELDERS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT HERE IN INDIA. That's why so many people want to be manager.

Lack of interest in improving education:
In many Indian engineering colleges, one year is wasted teaching theoretical subjects like chemistry and physics. No computer science related subject except basic C Programming (Lol not even malloc() and free()) are taught. This appears to be purely done in order to provide jobs for people who had studied these subjects. While teaching these subjects may have marginal benefits, they are outweighed by pure rote learning oriented assesment sysem and wasting one year of CSE programme. That's a bad trade-off for someone interested in CS. All entrance exams are based on Math/Physics/Chemistry and we have learnt enough of that. STOP the old age tradition.

If the chemistry they teach in last two years of high school (called pre university here), which is quite high level, qualifies for entrance exams, Computer Science should too. No I am not telling this because it is a programmers forum. But CS taught in pre-uni (optional subject) is more essential and often more helpful than chemistry and half of physics taught to these grades. But chemistry is compulsory for some legacy reasons. There is no interest to change that.
The union has been extremely successful for Spain, Italy and Portugal too, on many aspects. It forced local administrators to shape up in ways that were unthinkable before, and instilled into people that they should expect the same standard of life in Rome as in Stockholm. The long-term effects of this change of attitude are immense - systemic corruption in Italy has gone way down, environmental conditions have improved dramatically, connections and mobility have boomed. The Euro is not perfect but it wiped the periodic waves of heavy inflation that used to hit the working classes, and its worst excesses are slowly being addressed.
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I apologize, I didn't see the amendment. I did respond out of anger from the encryption standpoint.

I still don't like that for a number of other reasons safe harbor can be tossed aside
People are usually on a payroll as either an employee or contractor (slightly different tax treatment, with the contractor being less favorable to the worker). I have heard of instances where people form a company and work under that, but in my experience it tends to be abusive workplaces that go that route.

If you're working in the US there's no legal way to avoid getting taxed. They aren't going to tax your existing assets outside the US though. There's no wealth tax.
This is what I come to HN for. Radically different viewpoint, well argumented, true to logic and heart.
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I agree with you as well as with the response to your comment, in that both nVidia and Google are engaging in misleading claims about their TPUs. But I'd like to add two points:

- I don't think they can get away with it when it comes to Top-500 rankings. Those rankings are based on LINPACK scores and this supercomputer would end up not scoring high enough and will be placed in the right spot in the list. So it's not a big concern to me.

- "ML isn't scientific computing" goes both ways. Sure tensor-tera-ops are not teraflops, they're specific to operations involving artificial neural networks (ANNs). But when you take the claims from the past about how much computing power it'll take for rivaling that of a human brain, and folks came up with 100 petaflops, or 1 exaflop. Well those should not be called "f"lops either. Because when it comes to brain inspired computing, ANN tensor-tera-ops are a more reliable number than FP32 or FP64. And if it's 100 peta-ops of ANN compute, well we're already past that, and can easily create a supercomputer with 1 tensor-exa-ops. And that means we have reached the hardware capacity required to emulate human-level intelligence in a machine (i.e., the only thing missing is the right set of algorithms).

Conclusion: Tensor-tera-ops are not FP ops and should not be used for placement in the Top-500 list. But tensor-tera-ops have enough significance that it warrants creating a new list Top-500-Tensor and ranking Tensor-supercomputers on that list.
The NeXT Cube
Not every bulk email is spam. Look at your inbox, I bet there are at least some newsletters, transactional mails or mailing lists in there that you signed up for.
Not really. It's gone up a bit - or more sideways I should say with USCIS raising different issues - but really we haven't seen much of a change in the approval rate.
I've sent you an email :)
There are a lot of people here reinventing Sabermetrics.

Go on, read Moneyball, and consider that the selection criteria from top-ranked universities may be low-quality indicators of success at actually getting things done.
The difference between Hungary and Germany is that corruption in Germany is institutionalized. If you take money from the EU in Hungary guess where you are _____encouraged_____ to spend it? Why do we have Siemens/Alstom/Volvo vehicles instead of our own (Ikarus/Raba)? Beacuse we were not allowed to buy our on shit, that's why.
Thanks For the E-2 suggestion!

Since my goal is US citizenship and I’m in-between projects right now I’m open both to working for my own company or for another company.

I have a master’s degree in engineering physics. I’ve had senior leadership roles in two VC-backed startups (one of which I founded and was CEO of). I’ve been covered in the press, by regional newspapers and national tech media. I’ve spoken at a number of tech/telecom conferences. I’m the inventor on a handful of patents.

Does that help narrow down other paths?
I'm about to start at Optimal (in London). It's not exactly conservation, but I like to think it's not far from it. Some details on the Who's Hiring post [1]. Best of luck otherwise.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702401
Doctor Runs 22 Miles Wearing Face Mask to Show It Doesn't Cut Oxygen Levels
No, it's not relevant. There's no considering being done, the feature is being shipped. Please stop with the Rust spam.
Yes, software is immaterial and thus not constrained by laws of physic (except speed of light). It is comparably easy to change but also comparably hard to specify and model in advance.
I think it's a pretty good measure to include. It can act like a catch-all for what other measures don't capture. And, as we've seen, it's a pretty good way to forecast changes not likely good for democracy.

I've noticed a correlation with poor opinion of the government and willingness to accept undemocratic actions. A lot of people give a cynical quip and check out.
Both. The drug is called Kuvan and it is a BH4 replacement. I helps me metabolize the amino acids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrobiopterin_deficiency...
> I'm saying that padding-s has all the downsides of mixing styles into your markup, with none of the clarity of just using inline CSS.

I don't think it does, it's semantic with respect to your design system, not your content. The use of utility classes is to avoid the proliferation of "header-foo", "header-foo-large-padding", "button-foo", "button-foo-large-padding" or even worse usage of overly specific selectors, relying on element position, eg .main-content > header-foo { padding: 1rem } etc . Instead, you can just "header-foo.p3", "button-foo.p3".

> 1. Cool it. Nobody is attacking you, you don't need to attack me.

Sorry, not a native speaker, it didn't sound like an attack in my mind. With argument in bad faith I meant fixating on the simplified .centered example instead of discussing the general idea of design systems and utility classes.

I guess cause I got flagged I need to "cool it".

> I've encountered this antipattern in production code, so regardless of whether you were actually proposing it as a serious idea, some people do take this idea seriously, so it needs to be addressed. The problems I pointed out aren't theoretical: I've dealt with them in practice.

I don't understand this argument. A lot of major css libs and frameworks use utility classes. I'm sure they deal with production code and practice all the time. I know I do.
This comment I take as very dismissive.
At least they were doing something about it. In my younger days working retail at CompUSA, I once pointed out that a customer was attempting to return a cheaper video card in a better video card's box.

I got in trouble (not much trouble, but still) for making the customer unhappy :/.
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Amazon's example is completely different from that of Google or Facebook.

- In Amazon's case, it is only Amazon that is that victim of its mistakes: if they decide it's more efficient to give money to scammers than to avoid getting scammed, I couldn't care less.

- In the case of Google and Facebook, they're not the victims for disrespecting their user's privacy, their users are. So, regulators should keep making the fines larger until it really really hurts them.
I think in this context "do more" refers to querying capabilities than the costs of running the system.
> The voting system in the U.S. hasn't changed

Not true at all. The minute the VRA was gutted, there were bills passed in nearly every Republican state to make it harder for PoC to vote. Look at the elections in Atlanta last month for example.

Election Day problems are hardly new to Georgia, where Republican officials have overseen voting procedures that have led to hours long lines, most recently during the 2018 governor’s contest, which Brian Kemp, a Republican who at the time was secretary of state and in charge of running the election, won by 50,000 votes over Stacey Abrams. Tuesday’s primary was also a test of the state’s preparations to hold an election during the coronavirus pandemic.
Voting is a deeply felt and politically intense issue in Georgia because of its long history of disenfranchising black voters. The governor’s race was marred by accusations of voter suppression, particularly of African-American and other minority voters, which Mr. Kemp denied.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/politics/georgia-prima...

Look at Florida's attempts to re-disenfranchise felons with a 21st century poll tax.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/16/supr...

Look at the constant gerrymandering in every state.

We don't live in a "one person, one vote" country when half of the country consistently tries to make voting as hard as possible for the other half.
Stoicism hasn't been popular since Victorian times. I think SV types and rationalists kind of revived it, since it was moral austerity without any real religious background. To an extent they do the same with meditation; it's somehow gone from being something associated with New Age thinking, to something atheist rationalists tout the benefits of while carefully avoiding any hint of spirituality.
To add on to what you're saying, it doesn't necessarily have to be an oligarchy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

IIRC Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman make the argument in "Manufacturing Consent" that basically consent can be manufactured in the U.S. because of the role that business and corporations play. Which is sort of a critique of capitalism, but I also recall Chomsky talking about how it's hard to really call the U.S. capitalist considering how much of the military industrial complex and academia (especially defense-related) is government funded, and how central those things are to the U.S. econonmy.

I'm not sure of the details but my takeaway is media consent can be manufactured in a corporatist/capitalist-like system, which may also be but is not necessarily an oligarchical one.
Groups running companies never learn...isolate sensitive stuff and take a few minutes to do things safely.
Have people tried this? Any thoughts, comments?
Anecdotally I know of one company which is also in the same boat and generally regrets their usage of Datomic and is trying to move away from it last I talked with them. However, there's also people on HN like dustingetz who have had a great time with Datomic and use it as a core component of their product.

I just wish Cognitect would allow people to run public benchmarks of Datomic to make it easier to evaluate its tradeoffs.
Wrapped a Gradio[1] interface around the classic Kaggle Titanic[2] competition.

[1] https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
[2] https://kaggle.com/c/titanic
The sheer scale on these photos is amazing. Seeing galaxies strewn around like marbles is very humbling.

I hope there are more plans for deep space photos. I wonder what a telescope on the other side of the moon could capture.
What is the newsgroup for writing calendar proposals?
Off-topic, but I wish GitHub had more functionality with starring repos. That and search seem such neglected parts of their platform.
Google Sheets performance is terrible indeed. I carefully studied G. Sheets for our data grid product DatagridXL (https://datagridxl.com) and many times I was shocked by how slow and old it feels when performing basic operations.

You get to feel a certain kind of pride when your bootstrapped business product has better performance than the multi billion dollar company product.

Of course, nowhere near the amount of features G sheets has.
You ask that on site that is as minimalistic as possible and still has buildin 'noprocrast' option. Clearly people can't stop checking the news.
> Fakt - biggest daily newspaper

A bit of context: Fakt is a tabloid owned by the same company that also owns Bild Zeitung -- the biggest daily newspaper (air quotes) in Germany, and producing the same kind of journalism (air quotes).

Today's front pages: https://imgur.com/a/BZ1DOBx

Bild Zeitung and its owner are staunchly conservative and recently very critical of Angela Merkel (when they aren't talking about sports or tits or celebrity gossip); ie. they are positioned at or beyond the very right edge of the German conservative party -- like the government of Poland, so I'd expect them to get along just fine for the most part.
This was a long project that required a lot of work. The quality of sample data hugely impacts the results, and so I built a (mostly automated) pipeline to clean, annotate, and improve the data. I have no doubt that the companies that build ML training sets will hold an edge in the future.

I'll be happy to answer any questions if there are any. I learned a lot from this. :)
Or even "... barely taxed in Ireland"
Missing the point here. What does not wanting to reimburse alcohol in this case have to do with politics? Can you maybe share more context?

Is the idea because people get drunk and talk politics?
A thought: are TN "visa's" still available at this time? I know in the past some people have used them for co-op, but unclear if that was really by the book as it's unclear if they meet the education requirements.

edit: I really shouldn't have said "education requirement" - it's a job categorization, so education is only supporting evidence that your job meets the criteria.
Is this propaganda for a new cult? Like, if you're not non-conformist enough then you're just dumb dead weight? This sure reads like PG wants to drum up conformism to what he calls "non-conformism".
Listen to This Deepfake Audio Impersonating a CEO in Brazen Fraud Attempt
"Going forward, the largest, independent news outlet accessible to Hungarians will like be the Guardian and the New York Times."

Don't forget 444.hu. They are nowhere near as large as Index, but just as outspoken and critical of the government.
Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival Apps to develop competitors
I've gone so far as to forceably reduce the temptation of other websites by reducing my feed to a static set of links which is updated once a day.

Live website:
www.danielwasserlaufquicklinks.com

github if you want to manage your own:
https://github.com/twosdai/contentGrabber

I don't come to hackernews that often so just open an issue on git if you have a question.
Having a reverse proxy on the same machine effectively doubles the amount of connections and requires coping the request around. There is no practical benefit to a reverse proxy for this use case. So the go program is listening directly on the internet.

I do have the service behind CloudFlare, which is essentially a reverse proxy. The reason is for CloudFlare is non-obvious; it is deserves a blog post, and that is connection pooling.

If I have all the requests go back to the origin, the bottle neck is not the go code, but Linux opening and closing all those single use TCP sessions. CloudFlare creates around 100k persistent connections to the backend, but then just keeps them open. This makes Linux much happier.

The high connection count actually made the service unstable once: https://github.com/georgyo/ifconfig.io/issues/2
I wonder what the consequences can be for doing this. Just pay full price or also face legal actions.
I hate to break it to you, but it is a noble lie. Black people in America were born into these disadvantages long before people were talking about them. There wasn't a victimization culture, but they were still being brought down, because the culture isn't what is bringing them down, but rather the system that was designed and implemented to keep them poor and disadvantaged.
Can confirm, eastern europeans are above average regarding technical skills, though sometimes lacking on the social side. If I had to outsource, I‘d go east. They’ve got some amazing talent. I would avoid southern europe and india.
And yes, I have direct experience with all of those.
True. My point was more to highlight that I don't actually have a problem with work being outsourced to another location. You are correct, when cost is the issue that creates incentives that tend not to work.
What he really after US vs them tendency of tribalism, he is upset at the overreach of the left and their lacking self criticism. Then ironically lacking self criticism presents an us vs them argument.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

F. Scott
I would have loved to give this a try but it appears to require RCM on my existing Switch... and it's not vulnerable. :(
They're deceptively simple. If you want to get into the history of modern manufacturing, a lot can be written about the development of gauges of accurately known dimensions.
My question is related to green card holders that went back home to spend quarantine with family.

Can they lose the green card if they spend too much time abroad? How long can they safely stay abroad before losing the GC?

For people that want to get citizenship through green card. How long before their clock resets? How likely is the gov to understand quarantine as a good reason to stay abroad?
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Is this a signal, that I mostly do medium or least priority work?
That's part of why I think "centrist" just isn't a very useful label.
Ok let's presume you are fully correct (you are only half correct).

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Both sides need to take a chill pill and calm your __ __ down.

--

Let's address the elephant in the room.

Does it take away s_o_m_e jobs that Americans could have fulfilled?

Yes.

There are many exploitive bad-labor "consulting" companies that do it. It should end, for the benefit of their exploited employees too.

Three line edit: Coincidentally, this is also trending at the top 5 of the front page of HN at the same time:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23939242 https://archive.today/YDOQ1 https://web.archive.org/web/20200724165038/https://news.ycom...

* https://www.economist.com/business/2020/07/23/indian-it-cons...

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Does it create s_o_m_e jobs that Americans could have n_e_v_e_r fulfilled?

Yes.

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Does it create m_o_r_e jobs that Americans could have never fulfilled?

Yes.

Ok let's presume you are fully correct (you are only half correct).

Do you use Google or YouTube or Facebook or Tesla?

Great.

They were co-founded by Russian-born Sergey Brin, Taiwanese-born Steven Chen, German-born Jawed Karim, Brazilian-born Eduardo Saverin, RSA-born Elon Musk.

Do you use the Internet optical fibers or computer silicon chips?

Great.

They were invented by Taiwanese-born Eygptian-born.
Yep, am in the UK. I have mainly outsourced design work (most to Belarus). Work is better, cheaper, faster, and the general attitude is better I would agree...I would even say they speak better English.

In the UK, you will ask someone to do something, you wait a week, ask where it is, and they haven't started, need more information to start, and want more money. Jokes.

I am not going to go on about it but, as a Brit, our tech is way way behind...and that is despite having all the advantages in the world.
This appears to be someone's notion notebook with their handmade notes.
Why not?

It really depends on the definition of “do more”.

From what I understand, Datomic’s model is far more flexible than many other databases, and has built in time travelling capability due to its accretion of immutable data.

It’s architecture does, in fact, allow you to choose the storage provider, and it’s considered an external concern.

Those are very compelling reasons to use it, but part of the trade off is write-scalability, and potentially, raw performance.

So maybe it’s “do more” within certain limitations (which is up to you to decide if those limitations are a deal breaker).

Here’s a great talk about Datomic’s architecture for more details: https://youtu.be/9TYfcyvSpEQ
20 years on, Japan government's digital ambitions still stuck in piles of paper
If that’s your opinion I’d like to hear your rebuttal to this [1]. It’s hard to argue against actual numbers for an actual production app running at actual scale.

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/serverless-to-the-max-doing-big-thi...
cause you are drawn away from the hard reality of yourr shity life