skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do that because they don’t sell any of your info, unlike Facebook which should be opt in. The whole issue Apple has with FB is privacy and selling of your data. If apple was selling data and they needed opt out then you may have a point
That's fair! Just wanted a faster way for myself as I'm quite lazy. The hope is that there will be more useful features to add that make it a better than Amazon shopping lists when it comes to books.
That's not the issue. The issue that simple bugs become global program transformations into nonsense due to aggressive optimizations, when they should instead be compile-time errors.
There's milder right-wing stances than Trump, y'know? Clegg-era LDs were definitely centre-right and I haven't seen a lot since to suggest they've changed radically, beyond shifting from a 100% useful (and unfortunately sabotaged) focus on voting-reform to pie in the sky dreams of undoing Brexit.

The UK is several decades into successive governments with centre-right leanings to some level or another. New Labour were mayyyyybe centre-left, but Blair had to drag them as far right as he could to get anointed by the media.

I'd be interested to hear how your mind was made up though. The UK benefits from having some pretty strong social systems built into its core but the media seems to be practically one-note in a way I haven't experienced in the other countries I've lived (all European/North American) and the sheer fixation on finding ways to push negative write-ups on him was exhausting. You're getting the same counterarguments because it was pretty much the same things coming up again and again.

Brown, Miliband, Kinnock and the voting reform referendum all got similar carpet bombing treatment; albeit to nowhere near the same levels of venom (although the attacks on Brown and his eye were pretty cruel iirc).
I agree, GPT-2 makes an excellent writing companion. I actually developed my own version of talktotransformer.com to introduce some features that were missing from the public demo, including:

* support for custom/fine-tuned/international GPT-2 models. Use any text generation model you want!

* support for multiple outputs. Generate as many suggestions as you want!

* support for customizing the prediction length. Can't think of that next word? You can effectively 'poll' the model by reducing the window size and increasing the number of suggestions: the most 'sensible' (or safe) choice usually appears most often. Or, go wild and let GPT-2 write the entirety of your boring, corporate email for you.

* a more interactive user experience. No need to submit a blocking POST request and wait for the server to respond; just type '...' to (async) fetch a new batch of suggestions. The interface will update as soon as those predictions become available.

Here's a video of the application brainstorming some new features for itself: https://streamable.com/jij614

I didn't realize talktotransformer.com had been taken down. I hadn't been in a hurry to publish the code, mainly because it's going to be a little tricky to distribute (you might have noticed in the video that the GPT-2 model is loaded into a Google Colab notebook that accepts GET requests, then queried remotely), but if people are interested I can absolutely give it a shot.
What about those that try to escalate things and aren't affiliated with the protests?
Wow, it's totally stupid to have a court ruling essentially restricting your free speech on your own domain name.
When I've looked into that, it doesn't seem like I have enough points to apply for permanent residency. And it seems like it's really hard to have enough points if you don't have a Canadian spouse, although being young and speaking French (neither of which I am) helps.

But the person I was replying to seemed to be implying it was straightforward to get qualified foreign people legally hired at Microsoft Canada. They said "if anyone outside the US...", but I guess it wouldn't be any harder for someone inside the US? But I don't know what process is involved there either way.
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Bill Gates is funding a company called Terrapower that is planning to bring compact MSR to market in the next 10 years. They already have working prototypes but are still a few years behind NuScale.
I'm actually completely fine with this. If your average citizen with a felony can't gain entry, why should we make an exception for a celebrity?
How about canada annexes the US instead?
> Could you just make an off-shore in-ocean "farm"

Not! Ocean is inherently unstable!.

The first serious storm would dislodge and damage the whole farm crashing one module against the other before to vomit them in the shore. Some modules just would dissapear.

And then you have a humongous environmental damage and a really expensive rescue problem trying to clean the fragmented mess.
Most SNES emulators have a mode for this.
What principle? It's just a domain name. They shouldn't be compelled to sell it if they don't want to, but they also shouldn't be compelled to keep it if they don't want to.
But they are still wildly successful. Makes you wonder if owning the dot com really matters.
Study says the bulk of this is feral cats, who must kill to survive, as opposed to indoor/outdoor cats, who don’t.
Seeing that athletes routinely take PEDs to help with recovery and muscle growth, I'm curious as to the rate of heart muscle inflammation in C19-negative athletes as well.
Base the session on the IP for the request to https://kbd.jse.li/type/:letter, would be good enough for a hack

Go to https://kbd.jse.li/screen.gif and refresh for a bit to see what people are typing!
Views of the economy have turned sharply negative in many countries
Thanks for reporting this! Sometimes apps support only "all or nothing" permissions (called "oauth2 scopes"), i.e. to request feature A from the app, we have to request features B and C too, because some scope enables A, B and C simultaneously.

But this particular GitHub case seems to be different. So it's fixed.
I’ve seen all of the above. Not specifically with Canada, but otherwise. A lot depends on your personal situation and priorities.

Do you like to go there now, knowing nothing and no one and have a bit of an adventure finding a home and a job? Or do you have dependents and want the safety off having sorted out all the essentials?

Some people start from a hostel with a laptop in a backpack. Some people buy a house and sign an employment contract before the move.

Have a way to support yourself before you go. Either comfortably on savings or through remote work freelancing. That way you have way less risk of either having to cancel because of financials or get exploited by a bad employer.
It's nowhere near that. It was like that back in 2008-ish when there was a backlog hundreds of thousands of people long. It has not been like that since Express Entry was fully implemented. Check the processing times here for yourself:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

https://moving2canada.com/express-entry-report-2019-processi...
I say this knowing that it is a blunt statement, but if you believe that being born (and your ancestors being born) in America (the continent) entitles you to the land more than newcomers, the notion doesn’t hold much historical water.
There’s some Win32 stuff you can hook into with your code for service management. These are things like service startup, shutdown, pause and resume. I can’t speak to the Win32 stuff, but .NET abstracts this and you just override a base class to hook into the service stuff. Windows then has a command `sc` to register your EXE as a service and then configure things like auto-start and service restarts. Alternatively, MSI’s can be crafted to configure your EXE as a service at install time.

IMO a lot of parts of Windows are a pain to develop on compared to Linux, but creating and managing services are one of the better/smoother parts.
On Windows, services are special executables that are installed as services and managed by Windows.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/windows-se...
Anecdotal, but: I work in an engineering department at a major U.S. university. Non-citizen grad students (i.e. grad students) I personally know -- and their friends at other universities -- upon graduation decided to seek (and obtained) employment abroad (Netherlands, Canada are the two countries I know of) rather than stay in the U.S. Before Trump they wouldn't have considered this.

I doubt our handling of the covid-19 crisis has helped, either. My wife is German and in frequent contact with her family in Germany. They look at us with pity. I feel like my country has really lost its shine. Maybe permanently (hopefully not).
Why would a Congressman go to bat for a foreigner who can't get entry into the US?

I mean, I guess their office could push the gov't for an actual decision, but I can't see them fighting for approval.
Not everyone is eligible for Express Entry.
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They do not. They get a lot of small details right but he is nothing like he is portrayed. I was at Facebook from 2009-2013, and while I didn’t know him personally or interact with him frequently, I was around him and saw him speak often enough to say the above with confidence.

One of the biggest errors in the movie is its portrayal of his motivation—by my understanding, he was already dating his wife (Priscilla Chan) before he wrote the first line of code for thefacebook.com.

I take no position here on his beliefs, morality, etc. I don’t actually know the man. And there’s no doubt he has some uncanny mannerisms. But the brooding antisocial fast-talking nerd is Jessie Eisenberg, not Mark Zuckerberg. Watch The Social Network and Zombieland back to back and you’ll see.
Given that sunburn is a response to cellular damage of your skin cells, why would it be the case that the two are de-coupled w/r/t UVA and UVB?
According to IRCC, 80% of Express Entry applications for permanent residency are approved on less than 6 months [1].

There are many different residency programs, some of which take longer than others, but the Express Entry program is probably the default option for most HN readers.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se... economic immigration > skilled worker (federal) > I haven't applied yet
It seems to me that if a school district's network is vulnerable enough that a child can bring it down, there is liability on their side. The schools' network shouldn't be crippled by a kid.

It feels like borderline absurdity for the FBI and Secret Service to pat themselves on the back for tracking down a child who broke a system so vulnerable that simply pointing a tool at it can break it. It's treated the same way they'd treat a kid who pulled off an Oceans 11 style heist.
Oh when it comes to immigration issues for the family of US citizens, yes, calling your Congressman can definitely move things along.

But a foreigner whose visa is denied? Not sure why the Congressman would bother unless it somehow impacted the US.
Don't car batteries have the printer cartridge problem where they have chips in them and must be sourced first party?
I went to Canada once to pay the import duties on a gift and mail it to my friend on the other coast. When I told the Canadian border guards that that is why I was visiting Canada, they told me to pull over and go inside. I went in, they took my iphone, asked for the pass code, charged me the duty on the item I was importing, and then had me sit there for two hours while they went over my car. After letting me go on my way, I drove to Surry, taped the box closed and dropped it at the UPS Store there. Then returned to the US. When the US guards saw my entry time they asked why I visited Canada for only 30 minutes. I told them the exact same thing I told the Canadian guards, they laughed and waved me through.

BTW, Canada won't let you in if you have a criminal record or even a DUI citation.

When I flew to Rome a couple years ago there are two lines for immigration. One is for Europeans and the other is for everyone else. A guard saw me standing in the everyone else line while holding a blue American RFID enabled passport and pulled me from the line and sent me through the Europeans line. It took me two minutes to get through immigration. My friend arriving from SEA spent an hour and a half and was interrogated about where we were staying, what we were doing, verified a return ticket, and so on.

The moral of the story is that every country weighs risks, costs, and benefits every time they let someone in.

Borders are a thing and controlling who crosses borders is one of the fundamental and defining characteristics of a country.
Two Compression Algorithms I Came Up With
Title is wildly inaccurate. From the site author:
"
Yeah it turned out to be a bit optimistic :) The most traffic we had at once was when we were featured on the front page of the BBC, and there were a few thousand people browsing. We had to scale up briefly but everything ran smooth."
This looks like reincarnation of "Lock & Key" feature of Cisco routers available since the late 90s. There were two major issues that led to abandonment and hindered adoption. The first is that it's an extra step. Extra steps for installation, for complexity, for single point of failure, for availability of key services. The second is that instead of thwarting attackers, you're thwarting yourself, every single time. It breaks so many usecases, for example if you have a new machine, or if you want to access through a jump host, or from ssh client on phone, etc.
Related: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/5933/create-a-u...
Are you aware that David Graeber was Jewish? Here he is, defending Jeremy Corbyn and pointing out that the threat to Jews comes not from Labour, but from the far right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ8MeRagpmc

Here's Jeremy Corbyn condemning two antisemitic attacks:

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1022172377269133312

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1100553357075382276

Sad to read of David Graeber's death. I attended two of his talks in support of Universal Basic Income.
I just wanted to say that thoughtful posts like this are the reason I come to this site. Well-said, friend. I had never even explicitly acknowledged this in my own mind until I read your post.
Maybe you are learning that being actually "nationalistic" (ie maximizing the prosperity of the nation) implies supporting strong high skilled immigration pipelines because of the incredible benefits these immigrants have for the nation and it's native inhabitants.

It's a great irony that those who reject taking the best and brightest are the "nationalists" and those who want to take the best and brightest are the "globalists".
Yes, adding that! They smell and burn with a similar profile as cannabis. It’s certainly a conversation starter, but hopefully something that becomes more accepted with time / education
I run a startup in Montreal

can attest to that

level of talent is insane

Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal are all blowing up

thank you US for sending all the best techies to Canada
Sitting on the Nissan domain, almost certainly valued at much more than the $50k they’re seeking, it seems out of place to be cyber-panhandling
It is for non-Express Entry applications.
Those of us too old for CRS-score based applications, or who are not looking for jobs evidently get put into a different queue.
I tried acclimating through pets at work and taking allergy shots, but I didn’t have any luck improving symptoms over a year. I wish I was in your situation.
Also is there some magical step once you’re a trillionaire? Surely at this point it doesn’t make a difference anymore exactly how rich the guy is.
That's... a super interesting perspective. I'm super intrigued and think you're onto something.

In my corner of the culture, I suspect a lot of this has to with - to be blunt, and harsh - intergenerational bigotry. There are so, so many that I know who have had to cut out their blood family because of shit treatment and behavior.

Definitely not the only thing tho. I get along great with my family, and we don't have much like this going on - some ideas and values, but it's not like I was raised with a family motto or anything like that.

I don't know enough of the wealthy / super wealthy, and those that I do know I don't think I know well enough, but I get the impression that their families DO actually still do this. The family itself is some form of legal entity, and parents actively invest in their kids in a way that's... different. AFAIK that's mostly just because they actually can - independently wealthy AND independently successful means you don't lose much if you go "unemployed" in order to raise kids.

I say all this not to disparage anything, but to brainstorm things to aim for in my own life...
It was React/GraphQL/Apollo that broke me. I liked it better when just knowing ruby and sql were good enough. Those jobs are still out there but they’re getting harder to find.
valve.com states that its estimated worth is $500k-$750k so presumably valve just doesn't care to buy it, that amount of money is peanuts to them.
I had the opposite experience as a Canadian. I got shit on nearly every time I went back to Canada (e.g. accused of smuggling, lying about what I was going to do in Canada). Entering the US? I usually got a "welcome back".

I think it has more to do with crapping on your own citizens because "I don't need to roll out the welcome carpet and there isn't anything you can do about it".
For detecting a pulse from the face, I was able to get good results using pixel tracking and spatial averaging with no fancy math. However if illumination at all changed due to motion, it threw things off considerably without a more work or band passing around the heart rate frequency. (assuming too much in my book)

More notes and code here: http://nhergert.ozeo.org/doku.php?id=projects:remoteppg
A City Is Not a Tree
The idea that civilisation collapses and then recovers to the specific extent, where it is advanced enough to have coal-mines or similar, but not to know about radiation. Then it must find this particular repository and start digging, and die. Thousands of years must pass but they must dig up this sight withing a particular 100-year period of their development.

This is such a stupidly contrives scenario that you might as well plan for an alien incasion or zombie apocalypse. Lime prerequisite for that theory is civilisation collapsing, our investment in making sirebcovilisation does not xollapse is zero. You deal with it by making sure civilisation does not collapse.
Don’t disagree with any of that. But breaking the addiction is step one, no?
I’ve always liked this story and have been periodically checking the domain for many years. I recall reading the site updates as it was unfolding. Sad he died.
That's true, but thankfully I planned my life around the Express Entry pre-requisites.

Right after graduating in 2011 (BEng->MEng accelerated Electronic Systems Engineering), I went to Canada on Working Holiday, decided it was nice, and after visiting NZ and a few other places until 2014, went to Taiwan to get the years of continuous relevant work experience. I'm turning 31 next week; my girlfriend is 3 years older. A 6-8 month process is fine, a 49 month process is not.
Any source that Apple doesn’t/didn’t sell customers info?
> Daniel is literally one of the most brilliant computer programmers alive today.

I’m sure he’s a great guy and he surely doesn’t deserve this treatment, but “one of the most brilliant computer programmers alive today”?

Donald Knuth is one of the most brilliant computer programmers alive today... If Daniels claim to fame is curl then I’d say that makes him good at forecasting demand for an open source utility, or something along those lines.
Or in 1882 when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.
This feels like the web equivalent of an Edith Macefield house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Macefield
I was about to point that out as well. Given the website apparently belongs to a computer business and web development provider, the presentation is, lets say, not optimal of todays standards.
i find it incredibly hard to get over 30 000 RSS subscriptions. beyond websites die in larger numbers than i can find them. its googles fault they are not getting traffic and their problem of fast dying web is solved by not even indexing it which feeds back into the problem.

i cant find anything these days even if i know it exists
Maybe modern steam heat doesn’t, but the vintage system in that house did let some steam out. But even without that, it didn’t drop the humidity like forced air heating does.
So these relieve cravings without nicotine?

Do they have the or other bad things?

You're still breathing smoke which causes cancers right?

The lab results mention high PYRETHRINS level. How bad is that?

Is 100ppb of lead bad?
Do you mean, like coral reefs?
From 30-35% in all big ten athletes with covid to...

"At this time, there have been no cases of myocarditis in covid-19 positive student-athletes at Penn State."

So walked back from the entire conference to a single university which didn't have a single case. What is going on?
They definitely did have an idea of people living here who were not citizens. Thus the Naturalization Act of 1790.
Things have changed. Young budding engineers, researchers, medical professionals and others are actively choosing not to come any longer. This has rippling effects. Once this cohort settles into their lives in whatever country, they will be less inclined to come to the US.

It's not too hard to imagine. Serious people with kids and families will never come to a place where they are harassed or their lives can be uprooted by a bureaucratic process abruptly.

Things were different until a few years ago and all the immigrants and tech companies you see today are the rewards of seeds down earlier.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210929/

Not really. It depends on the person obviously but the recommended values are too low due to statistical errors.

Up to 4000 iu per day likely ok.
Seth Shostak: Institute Fellow @ SETI – AMA “Are there aliens out there?”
What is the best way to test load and pricing like this?

In my mind, the way I would do it is run the server and then hit it with a load tester (i.e. a number of queries simulating the number of users desired). That will tell us if it can withstand the load. Then I would seeing how much it costs after 5 minutes of this test, and then multiply that by 7200. It just feels kind of primitive and naive. There must be a better way. For example, Google can't simulate real-world service loads like this, so there must be.
But Google is in the country that operates PRISM.