skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That philosophy makes sense to me. I suppose we just need to ensure we have a suitable replacement to handle the duties PC should be taking care of before we stop working with PC?
I find meme culture just as, if not worse than news in some ways.

It convinces people that something that has enough truthiness and is funny enough is true.
I doubt there's going to be any issues if we made days longer by 1.46% so there would be 360 days in a year rather than 365.25.
Yes, SaaS and even IaaS and PaaS are the ultimate outsourcing. Outsourcing that actually works since it's not simply swapping a US based high paid human for a low paid off shore human. Instead it's swapping a human for automation, that's real savings for customers, even after margin for the automation creator.
Evidence that's built on "statistical correlation" is very weak. A correlation coefficient of 0.6 or less is practically non-predictive. The people in this area need to use better mathematics.
Importantly, fish oils are not the only source of decent omega3/omega6 ratios. Walnuts are roughly 1:4, everyone knows about flaxseeds, etc. as someone else said, too, cutting back on omega6 sources is as important or may just offer greater correction toward the target ratio.
Link to Manjaro forums was also posted to Reddit, where jonathon (former treasurer) explained futher:

Just over a year ago, Phil and Bernhard incorporated Manjaro GmbH Co&KR with the intention of allowing them to be paid to work on Manjaro full-time and make commercial deals. They also registered trademarks.

This put them at odds with the existing donation funds and community project which knew nothing about the company. The company also meant them exerting ownership over the brand, IP, etc.

To avoid the issue of community funds being used to fund the company, fiscal hosting was set up with CommunityBridge and OpenCollective, with those being administered by people who were independent of the company. Phil personally still holds a large amount of community donations (more than in all of CB and OC).

Expense claims against community funds have always been rare, and mainly consisted of conference and travel expenses (notably where Manjaro was heavily promoted as a brand).

There is a definite conflict when Manjaro GmbH is, for example, making deals with a hardware company to optimise Manjaro for laptops, then claiming expenses from community funds for laptops from that company to do development for that company.

This was one factor which led to the above events.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ManjaroLinux/comments/hwo33h/change...
If you're interested in the background of this, Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope would be a good intro.

An unbelievable amount of corruption on the part of the former Prime Minister and his family, and enabled by Jho Low and Goldman Sachs.
Ration your America-loathing to places where it can be remotely relevant please.
How to start a SaaS project #3: The Stack
If your talking about transnational corporations that have a base of operation in a given country then they made a financial decision to invest in people and workers from that country, not game the system by bringing in foreign workers for cheaper wages.
All of this requires political support. You can't collect the data if you are not allowed to or if your results are silenced. Enforcement requires political will, otherwise the criminals never get prosecuted or flee to their home countries.

Until we get "the establishment" to care about this, doing any work in this field is simply for vanity or to make you feel good.
The Next Warren Buffet Will Be a Data Scientist
The TN is a good option and all occupations are good TN options (depending on your education because there needs to be a nexus between your education and the job): technical writer, (software) engineer, and graphic designer.
Does this point to a social media platform which is publicly funded, publicly funded internet infrastructure, and publicly funded web access?

Do we not want a public square?
You should choose the TN occupational category that will fit your job description and experience/education best.
Wtf is it?
This needs an explanation. Are the highlights automatically generated by an AI tool or user contributed like Wikipedia or did one person do it?
1.2 trillion of the CARES act went to households and small biz. It is not like the rich were the primary beneficiaries of this stimulus.
> the original email is just verbose and _bad_

I agree 100%. The thing is, a lot of welcome emails look like that. It's bad but not uncommon.
I think we're seeing the difference between someone who is a programmer and someone who plays a programmer at work. :) Arguing that some modern, complex feature is "better than" a simpler system is crazy talk. Any time I can simplify a system vs. add complexity I will go simplicity. Adding in plug-ins and features goes a long way toward vendor lock-in that prevents your org from being agile when you have to swap systems because you run into limits or have catastrophic failures.
Or dense towns and more countryside and parkland.
Given our recent experience with doctors killing people by putting them on ventilators when they could have put them on O2 I think blind faith in the APA is a bad idea, though I do generally see psychiatry and psychology as more professional than other fields of medicine.
Please don't use weak/strong to denote type systems. Those terms are highly subjective and even non-technical people would quickly form an opinion about which is better. (Strong is good, weak is bad.) Static/dynamic is more accurate and less opinionated terminology.
You can intuitively reduce RSA to model problems that you can do by hand, or trivially implement it in Python, but it's debatable how much your intuition is actually serving you; do you really have your head around why RSA works, what its limitations are, and how it can be applied? I think you have to get that through careful study, not from the kind of "machine sympathy" you often acquire through implementing algorithms and systems code.

In reality, most programmers cannot implement RSA safely without much difficulty; the opposite thing is rather the case. There's a reason the term "schoolbook RSA" has the connotations it does.
These firms specialized in digital transformation. But the digital transformation is over, now its the digital cleanup. The companies that understood the benefits of digital technology moved to it, and the majority of the others went out of business. In this new phase, your digital infrastructure allows you to move quickly, or you lose business to those that can move quickly. A lot of these old legacy applications, as useful as they are weren't made to be easily updated.

I'd bet Corona virus is probably going to accelerate this. The amount of change going on in is so great that those that adapt the quickest will weather the storm the best.
Sounds like the gambler's fallacy
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I agree. There are many practices common to countries reporting high levels of happiness that Americans (And certainly other western nations) ignore seemingly on principle.
I'd argue it is. From the article:

>Canada criminalizes hate speech, Germany bans Holocaust denial, and the United States permits both — yet no one seriously believes that America is a free society while the other two have somehow collapsed into illiberalism.

Freedom isn't a boolean true/false. In my view America is more free than those countries when it comes to speech due to our more liberal definition of what constitutes free speech. I don't think that banning those forms of speech will trigger a collapse into illiberalism, but I would see banning that speech as an erosion of our rights.
Hi Peter, wondering if you seen any changes (due to pandemic and political climate) regarding enforcement and interpretation of "continuous residence" requirement both in terms of naturalization and maintaining permanent residence for green card holders.

Specifically do you think whether there a risk of losing a green card or N-400 being denied on those grounds for a person that has been staying outside the US (in different countries) for 5-7 months per year for the past 3 years, but not exceeding 6 months at any time and maintaining ties to the US?

Thank you!
The Julia conference is free and online only (registration required for talks though)

Here is the conference schedule by date (workshops start today, conference talks start on Wed 29 July):

https://pretalx.com/juliacon2020/schedule/

Or view all talks as a list:

https://pretalx.com/juliacon2020/talk/
Listen, if people want to say that “cancel culture” is a real phenomenon and it has a chilling effect on speech that’s one thing: I’d even be sympathetic to that point of view (although, as I said, I think it’s vastly overblown by people like Graham who are simply experiencing criticism from a broader range of people due to social media).

What I think is ridiculous is to jump to the authoritarian/soviet comparisons, especially when the US is in the midst of a horrific authoritarian violent crackdown by a militarised police force. I think that emphasis reveals a real lack of perspective.
"It's futile to fight a war of words over who is right or wrong - let's instead use the economic success as a proxy for truth."

Even though, that's the one of the core tenets of capitalism, I could show you that is not always the way it seems. Think about big corporations located in developing world like Brazil (where I came from), where corruption and bribes run amok. Saying that people and companies that are successful financially and economically is equal to truth and the right path to go, it's dismissing a lot of other context based on "other truth".

The world is much bigger than North America and the PG's text may not apply for different countries and culture. Imagine the same ideal applying to North Korean and Russia, what conclusions do you get from it?
For that maybe a setting can be there in slack that if too many people in a thread please notify me
I'm really coming from another direction.

I don't think you need racism or classism to describe the behaviours that lead to neighbourhood shops disappearing from suburbs, or not being planned for in the first place, though examples exist where those things are intertwined like you've illustrated.

What I don't see is the causal link. This phenomenon occurs in other places in the world, places that don't have the same interweaving of racial issues throughout society that the USA has, and it doesn't occur in some locations within the USA that does have those same issues.

It may be true that all suburbs in the USA were founded for racist reasons, or that the residents make all decisions about perceived house value and their community based on racist ideals, or that city planning policies are put in place to fulfil racist agendas, however;

It seems far more likely that the underlying causes are driven, like the rest of the world, by

- rational individual economic decisions, and

- policy informed by lobbyists

Now the effect of these decisions or policies may well be racist or classist - like I said above, people with money tend to have more agency, and it's definitely true that the USA has had and continues to have significant divides in wealth between various racial groups.

There are also examples of specific, explicit racism that have caused this effect, but those pale next to the impact that the widespread adoption of the car (and many other things!) had on decision making.

These decisions changed the way our world works, the true impact of them took decades to register, and we are only now adjusting for what we have learned. There are racial and classist components to these impacts, but that doesn't mean the decisions were (on the whole) motivated by race or class.
The stoa was the ancient greek strip mall, and I suppose doing philosophy involves little to no remodelling. I can imagine the early stoics putting up resiliently with the misfortune of being moved on from each venue every time a better-paying tenant came along...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767947
The thing about a complex sociological phenomenon like systemic racial bias is that for each individual instance it is hard create a causal link. Yes, you can propose a lot alternate explanations for why this could have happened. The thing is, usually people writing anecdotes like this see them as connected to or emblematic of other experiences they and others have had. So, I think if you consider the evidence as a whole rather than each instance by itself, racial bias serves as a decent explanation for some of the observed effects.
Because post quantum crypto algorithm are based on completely different breed of hard problems. Lattice problems and they are not straightforward to visualize as we were with RSA. Visualizing a lattice of large dimension, calculate its shortest vector or various other properties is not straightforward.

My bachelors was in Math and my master thesis was about lattice problems and post quantum cryptography. For my Ph.D. I switched to completely different subject because I couldn't write good papers in this area. So I understand your concern.
Like any other law. As it is done in other countries, where for example hate speech is a crime, and firing an employee for political or ideological reasons is illegal. In other words: actively protected freedom inside the boundaries of the law.
Just a wad of totally unscientific, interwoven armchair theories: political cycles are much shorter than the relevant timescales for long-term infrastructure investment; attention spans today are shorter than they used to be; the long slide of most of the "middle class" into financial insecurity means fewer people have the means and free time to educate themselves about and advance civic concerns; some political leaders in the U.S. have for decades undermined public support for public works, as well as public faith in government; American culture is now far more fractured and heterogeneous than it used to be, making coalitions between interest groups more difficult to form and maintain (recent trends in political and social thought, according to which individual and group identities are rendered increasingly explicit - along with the ability, courtesy of electronic communication, to associate almost exclusively with those who identify similarly - may exacerbate this)
That really is the best option - filing an extension - and extension applications are taking a while, 3-5 months.
ARAMCO and Saudi Arabia by extension were not built because of innovation. PG is talking about the importance of discussing idea regardless of how unorthodox they are, because the majority of successful companies are built, believe it or not, using ideas and not oil.
According to the report's summary, it was a drop in citizens' trust of the government:

https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=De...
I also am not a fan of cancel culture or the sort of progressive Victorianism we see these days. Sure an antifa government would suck.

But that's just bad manners, these are people being assassinated because the government disagrees with them.
Your first point is correct, but your second point is not. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita demonstrated this in "The Logic of Political Survival", and others have come to similar findings.

Briefly, rising incomes under a non-democratic regime lead to a local maximum of growth, as totalitarianism is inextricably linked with economically inefficient institutions. As an autocrat, your top priority is to compensate those who keep you in power, which requires wealth extraction from the productive; this disincentivises efficient production. Unfortunately, nothing about rising wealth will necessarily lead to regime liberalization.

"Reducing inequality" is very different from democracy, and would probably lead to reduced economic efficiency, as it necessarily reduces the incentives for efficient production.
If you don't let non-americans into the us, they cant be employers of americans.
The sample size was more than big enough to get a significant result. (Netlify was very popular even in 2017.)

"1 in 100" = "one in every 100"
> If you didn't understand that a degree from NC State came with less cachet than one from Duke when you signed up, I feel that's largely on you.

I didn't get into Duke. I'll remember that day for the rest of my life.
From https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-...:

"Under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, travelers in the following categories must obtain a visa prior to traveling to the United States as they are no longer eligible to travel under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP):

Nationals of VWP countries who have traveled to or been present in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen on or after March 1, 2011 (with limited exceptions for travel for diplomatic or military purposes in the service of a VWP country).
Nationals of VWP countries who are also nationals of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria."
I almost never do frontend work. I'll gladly take a PR if you want to make that one page faster and prettier. Though I don't want to make the build require yarn or other js/css compiler framework for a single page.
Major IT companies in India get a lot of revenue from maintainence projects and there is usually no scope for making major changes or innovating there.

The time and material billing for these make it quite attractive from a revenue point vs fixed bid greenfield projects. I don't think that situation will change anytime time soon as along as these companies stick to services.
I think this is specifically because random reads are scaling much better than writes, even though you won't see it on standard "that many MB/s" benchmarks where read is 'just' a few multiples of the write performance.

Persisting a transaction to the database is still (and especially in MVCC): "send data write". "wait for write to be flushed". "toggle metadata bit to mark write as completed". "wait for bit to be completed" which still serialises transaction commits while reads can complete in parallel as fast as the device can handle.

Especially now that the reads and writes don't have to share the disk head, it makes sense for random reads to keep on scaling better than writes.
I have a job offer from Microsoft in Vancouver and might move there after the pandemic ends. I am Indian citizen residing in India. The main challenge however is that I am disabled (quadriplegic) and I would be needing a caregiver to travel with me to Canada. I understand that there used to be a caregiver visa, for Canada, which was discontinued back in 2019.

So my question really is, is there a way in which I can bring a caregiver from India to Canada? I know one option is to hire a caregiver from Vancouver itself but it's really going to be difficult, because of the language barriers and the understandings. They are an important part of my life and I cannot function without someone who I can completely trust to live-in with.

Another option would be to take the caregiver along with me on a visitor or tourist visa, but in that scenario, they are not allowed to work in Canada.

I am really looking for solutions here and I don't want to give up on this amazing opportunity of migrating to one of the most amazing countries in the world with high standard and quality of life.
There's a lot of ways to program these GPU supercomputers, and you are maybe overestimating how much of the HPC code is written in CUDA. Some is, for sure, but there's also a lot using OpenACC or OpenMP (C, C++, or Fortran with annotations), or frameworks like Kokkos.

Recently, it also became possible to use C++17 stdpar and get GPU acceleration (https://docs.nvidia.com/hpc-sdk/compilers/c++-parallel-algor...).
Not many people use spreadsheets on a phone. OP, beyond some basic view only functionality, I wouldn't prioritize mobile.
I agree with you. Thanks for being supportive - it speaks very well of you. That said though, hackers are hackers because we think like this.

I'm trying to learn to take it as the highest form of compliment - when hackers care enough to hack on one of my ideas, that means it has to be cool.
Greece's junta government lasted until '74. That's still ~50 years ago but it's not like this stuff goes away immediately.

I'm from South America where the US experimented with setting up dictatorships after WWII as well, and the effects are still felt today.
I agree that these rankings can be misleading. Do you know any better comparison of Duke and A&T? Like GRE scores of students having completed an undergraduate degree at that university? I dont know if such data is available.
Yup. This was enacted in 2016: https://de.usembassy.gov/more-information-on-visa-waiver-pro...

You have to travel on a B1/B2 visa if you were in Iran/Iraq/Syria after 2011. I was affected by this but in the end it's more of a admin headache than anything else. The B1/B2 visa are pretty easy and are valid for 10 years.
Would you consider elliptic curve cryptography conceptually difficult? It's certainly more complex than RSA, but over time great educational resources have been developed. The same will happen for these post-quantum schemes.
I mostly agree with what you have to you say. Clearly you have been through this and have gained a lot of wisdom along the way. We are all products of our environments and our goals arise from this. People who grow up in the Bay Area, or who read Hacker News, or who excel at STEM have "life goals" of running a startup. Some actually want that internally and others are just going through the motions. The latter will be miserable. It's also not something you can tough out and force on yourself. Either you want it or you don't, and that's a good thing! We are individuals after all.

Where I disagree is that depression is caused by us being misaligned internally. Anybody who has been there knows that the brain can hijack your perception of the world. When you are depressed everything sucks. We live in an unexplainable universe with billions of assholes and we are all going to die so what's the point of anything? Nihilism takes over. You get more depressed. But once the fog lifts you can find the joy in life and appreciate all the stuff your "rational" depressed self thought was pointless.

From my experience I think its best to not make these grand sweeping life goals in the first place. Take it day by and keep moving forward. What excites you today? What do you daydream about when you are in the shower? People who achieve these "great goals" do so via naturally gained momentum and almost nobody has a life goal that lasts for decades. You start with something, see if you like it, if you do keep that momentum rolling. It should be more natural, feel good, and not be contrived. Be easy on yourself and enjoy the ride. You don't have to be Steve Jobs and even he wasn't trying to be Steve Jobs. He just got the momentum going and kept with it. If it happens so be it but if you are miserable you are doing it wrong.
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Yes it's very important that CIA-sponsored protests be differentiated from non-CIA-sponsored protests! One is good and the other is bad!
You say this like most of us don’t know.
The EU is based on democratic principles.

Too bad some bad actors ruin or for the rest of us ( I'm not saying the EU is perfect though, just young).

I spoke to someone from Hungary and they literally said people voted for Orban because of 1 thing: keep immigrants out.
Visa ban doesn’t affect Canadians.

https://twitter.com/gsiskind/status/1275913510145462272