skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, the common "diversity quotas" which are commonly employed now want a different outcome. They want to see at least 50% of hires from BAME, even if BAME are only 20% of the demographics.

I'm pretty sure this is a straw man. 50% quotas are common for women (50% of the population), but otherwise I could find no evidence of 50% quotas based on race.
Or the sudden appearance of a multitude of 'genders', the statement than there is no such thing as biological sex, the denial of the existence of facts which are now to be seen as interpretations and many more of these results of the introduction of 'critical theory' [1,2] in academia.

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#In_academia
Healthcare spending in the US averages out to about $11,000 a person: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...

Insurance is expensive because medical care is expensive. Medical care is expensive because of a litany of policy failures.
Thank you. That seems to confirm the first half of my hypothesis for the rise of ЕР in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24698473 , do you have any opinions on the validity of the second half?

> "neo-feudalism is what one gets when russians spend the 1980's deciding the capitalists had valid criticisms of communism, then the 1990's deciding the communists had valid criticisms of capitalism."

where by neo-feudalism I mean I believe the basic deal Putin has with the populace is: (1) living standards will increase, (2) what corruption there is will keep its ill-gotten gains at home and not flee to London, and (3) governors may fleece their region according to taste but if they're so blatant as to cause a major scandal they'll be out.
Thanks, I tried to search the entire site for "counterintelligence" and got no results. That seemed unlikely, but I didn't press on. That definition seems to justify surveillance on anyone with a Russian bot twitter follower, or their associates. Basically, every protestor. Likely a convincing argument allowing surveillance of both of us based on this thread could be made.

>In theory, they would not legally be able to without a Court Order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

The executive order in question already gives them permission to make such searches. You can argue that a court would find that order unconstitutional, but until such a ruling such a search would be considered legal, and would support what the reporter claims.
> sth

What is sth?
Wow, that’s a fascinating concept. Effectively a bitmap index of possible terms said and synthesized speech back on the other end based on old footage of how that person talks.
Hence the sarcasm. Jeesh
It's not 'untestable'; we have a historical record to determine what happened, it would just be a lot of work.
This doesn’t count the people who read the newsletter online or on the Bloomberg terminal (where I typically read it). I didn’t even know there was a newsletter till recently.
Wut? It's like saying that going around in a google car taking pictures of all doors has "no valid research purpose". (And yes, checking if the doors are opened or closed, or cataloguing their locks, would be fairly legitimate too; as long as one does not step into an actual property, at which point it's trespass.)
I love the idea. Including a $120 T-shirt didn’t make sense for me.
Organized protests? Yes. Premeditated vandalism, no.

I'm not going to try do the impossible and prove a negative when you're the one that made the initial allegation I'm still looking for substantiation for.
Just do a PoC, and we'll improve it later.
I'm aware, but the ice lake xeons are starting to ship.
I can't speak to Microsoft specifically but a lot of outside sales (i.e. people who sell directly to enterprise accounts) are already typically at least mostly remote in practice. They may have a desk somewhere but the typical sales manager is going to start asking questions if they spend too much time in the office instead of meeting with customers.
> When an entire employee base gets health insurance together, the people needing expensive care and the people not needing any care all average out together.

Often/usually, the people needing very expensive care aren't employed in the first place, as they're often not able to work, or at least not able to work in a company with employer-provided health insurance in the first place.
Thread to understand why companies are considering Bitcoin
You've used an electron microscope? They've been around since 1933 you know - we should all have ready access by now, no?

If you look at a video, do you believe its true? Take a look at this one, to see the problems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFLs6nufCj4

You really cannot trust what is presented on a screen. There really is no equivalent to personally testing science or any thesis personally. You will be illuminated, rather than falsely believing you 'know', when all you know is a story.
what'd happen if the newsroom folk discover anime
Fair enough.

I don't know if most people experience anosmia like you describe while having a common cold or the flu, though (I think they don't). From what I've read this symptom is a pretty reliable indicator of covid19, so much so that at this time it pretty much rules out any other diagnosis and it is a strong basis for medical decision making. (Of course, there will always be outliers for any symptom. Decisions still need to be made at the population scale, though).
My parents immigrated from Syria, and I lived there for a few years. What you describe is precisely how the educational system works, apparently by design; oppressive regimes don’t want smart people questioning certain platitudes about the proper relationship between rulers and those over whom they rule.

Ironically, a more “originalist” reading of primary Islamic texts would be more politically liberal than rulings which were issued centuries after the death of Muhammad -- these later rulings severely restricted the conditions under which people could rebel against their rulers.

Later, clergy aligned with the rulers, such as Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia, took an even more absolutist position which made any public criticism against rulers a form of rebellion which is punishable by death.

These perversions are, of course, a failure of the clergy. But they have been set up to fail by the political regimes which designed these systems, as well as by their societies which reinforce and legitimize the intellectual caste system.
Here's what Daniel Stenberg had to say about the move [1]

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyp...
Or they are, they may just not be aware of it - the fact that billions of people have had MMR vaccines and we, as a species, have nearly eradicated the measles, mumps, and rubella in a great scientific experiment is downright awe inspiring. This is nothing like a religion and this type of backwards thinking is what holds us, as a species back. And, either way, it doesn’t matter - every scientific practice does not need to be repeated down to the minutia by every human being to be effective. I imagine most people taking HIV/AIDs suppressants have never looked through an electron microscope to verify exactly how they work, but that has nothing to do with anything.

Your analogy is, frankly, awful and way off the mark.

Edit, to add an example: a patient listening to a doctor who has set many broken bones about how the doctor is going to set that particular patient’s bones is nothing like a religious adherent listening to a priest who has never spoken to god about what god says and expects of the adherent... that’s just absurd.
This might interest you: you can now turn off compiler optimizations at the module level, using a macro. For some people this speeds up the delopment cycle, as it skips most to the time-consuming compilation activity.
Renminbi jumps by most in more than 4 years as China returns to work
I am an Arab and I am pretty sure the article is full of misinformation before even reading it, but will read it anyway.

Take the first paragraph

> Contemporary Islam is not known for its engagement in the modern scientific project. But it is heir to a legendary “Golden Age” of Arabic science frequently invoked by commentators hoping to make Muslims and Westerners more respectful and understanding of each other. President Obama, for instance, in his June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo, praised Muslims for their historical scientific and intellectual contributions to civilization.

So first it says Contemporary "Islam" is not known for its engagement in the modern scientific project.

Then it says Golden Age of "Arabic" science.

Funny distinction. If you gonna use 'Arabic', use it everywhere.

Also another funny thing that the "Idealistic" president, Obama, who they say praised muslims for their historical scientific and intellectual contributions to civilization, had no problem working with dictators who are the main reason for the decline of scientific study in the region. And also had no problem supporting Al Sisi coup after the Egyptian revolution.

Edit: Adding that the Obama administration didn't want to admit it is a coup to be able to keep giving aid to the Egyptian military, which is prevented by the American constitution in case of a coup.
Professor Chomsky always said that the US won't allow true democracy in the middle east. He even had a lecture in 2011 just after the revolution started predicting exactly what happened.

So the US uses its power to keep the situation as it is, then the very much honest westerners come and say that we are backward in scientific study. Thanks guys. You are very wise and honest.
> They suffered enormously in the 90s - quality of life and life expectancies declined enormously.

If you lived in the Potemkin village №1 — Moscow, then yes. Having myself lived in a part of Russia where light wasn't shining back in soviet times, nineties were such a giant breath of fresh air, and opportunity.

For most of people there, it was a never before seen opportunity to change their predicament to live in the empire's cloaca — the union's Far East. Were they to continue live as in USSR, most there would've probably kept living on a few dollars a day.

In 1993, longshoremen, and dockers in Vladivostok at my father's business were getting $300-$500 a month, almost as much as average bankers in Moscow. It was enough for somewhat comfortable living for most.
Oh right, I forget that the people in finance day to day are accessing via the terminal.
You have a fair point^, but instead of attacking science in particular you should attack societies in general. Can you trust the food you buy at the supermarket or at the restaurant is not poisonous? That your doctor or partner isn't going to kill you in your sleep? That policemen will not shoot you? That drivers won't run you over?

It's not about science. Society is impossible without trust.

^ except that scientists do check each other's work and occasionally find mistakes. Scientific progress is real and has provided concrete and undeniable improvements to people's lives, and this should give credibility to science as a whole. But I see your point, outsiders cannot understand nor verify science without the proper training and equipment.
Though I'm not too familiar with all his work, two of his albums had quite an impact on me when I was growing up: the pre-ambient _Before and After Science_ (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLiAX3NjBY and the classic of ambient music _Ambient 1: Music for Airports_ (1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNwYtllyt3Q
> It's as if people are complaining that because they bought tickets to their favorite live sports event, they were forced to pay to park their car there too. You don't have to do any of those things.

A better example would be people bought tickets to their favorite live sports event, and then were forced to login to facebook before entry.
I can't imagine being comfortable in a chair that presses your shoulders forward. Now I'm considering just buying one of those cheap IKEA chairs that I know from work.

I'd like to try a Herman Miller too and see if it's worth the money, but I hear they are not made for tall people (I'm 195cm).

A standing desk would be nice, but I doubt that my desk-mounted bunch of monitors would not be swinging around like crazy while typing, considering those desks usually only stand on two legs.
Finding of Age Discrimination Against IBM Signals New Requisite for Diversity
IIRC, authors are usually not supposed to release the final version for a while due to some legal complications even if their publisher agrees with the idea itself. One of the workaround is releasing a draft version of the book, nearly identical to the final version. If this is the case, the book can be practically considered public.
And for 2 people - $10k/year.

That 'maximum health costs' also doesn't really factor in the time having to deal with insurance companies chasing up decisions they make (or don't), and for money/income lost due to no work. Insurance for that - short term disability insurance - may add another $100/month on the the equation.
Spain to declare emergency; UK cases double
Network connectivity issues in US East 1 (use1-az2)
In my case that might be because I did my "research" during my teenage years in a real paper encyclopedia. That and my mums chemistry books. :-)
This is amazing. When I was younger I used to write bands that I love. I'd contact them with praise, or asking with help on chord progressions, and never received anything back.

One day I mailed an indie band from Canada and told them how much I loved their record and how incredible it was. I received an email back saying thanks that was signed with a name that I didn't recognize. I looked at their website and it was their drummer. I loved it. One of the very happy moments in my musical journey.
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Correct. :-(
A Political Ad Ban Won’t Fix Facebook’s Election Problem
your definition of "work" is a moral/aesethic one, rather than a functional one

there is no sense in which a $1k dollar burger weighs on whether a society is functioning

your moral distaste at the marginal value of $1k to different people, doesnt strike me, as very relevant to the issue

indeed, that, people have different marginal values for $1k is precisely a symptom of how profoundly well rich societies function
I would guess/hope the GIFs are only for display in the README.md and the actual glyphs are vector-based like a regular font (so the 200x200px problem shouldn't be one)
Polluting the world with more slow Wordpress and most likely insecure websites.

Few hail mary's need to be said tonight
Yep. Not even minio, or aistore(nvidia), ceph etc

Only ambry(linkedin) AFAIK, but has no erasure coding.
Companies have been milking workers as well. It's not surprising it comes back to them.
Like any student, I did basic chemistry and physics and we tested various claims in the lab.

Nobody personally tests all claims, even professional scientists have to accept some prior claims until they have some reason to believe they're incorrect.

Trust is necessary for science to extend beyond the efforts of an individual, but trust isn't the same thing as faith.
Deleting comments on reddit probably helps, but many people/websites archive them as soon as they are posted.
Amazon is not predatory to me. It has greatly improved my life from a convenience and cost perspective. They also recently raised their wages for all warehouse employees such that it's one of the best places to work for unskilled labor in many locations. Amazon has made many small time merchants rich through their platform, and it's software engineers are among the highest paid in the industry, so I have to strongly disagree about the zon, but the rest of it agree wholeheartedly.
oh that is interesting. I'll give it a spin again this weekend. Thanks.
>Whenever you introduce a new solution into a problem space that already has plenty of options, you are obligated to state why your (new) solution is needed in the first place, IMO.

Agreed ! I'm just very glad, they didn't use the word "lightweight", it's a pet irritation of mine, when ppl "advertise" their software as "lightweight" !

The "first few" versions are always "lightweight" once they included all the bug fixes and corner cases of the other solutions over the next few releases, they seldom stay "lightweight" :/
I think this web server was made from plastic waste.
That's a completely trivial level of traffic at scale. I can almost guarantee this wouldn't even flag an alert, much less be investigated by legal.
>then it's completely fair to conclude that you're okay with that.

How do you know? Lots of people misconfigure their systems and leave them open to access unintentionally.
Microsoft is bringing xCloud to iOS via the web
I would like to see bug bounty live programs streamed on twitch. Kudos for your exploits.
you have a virtual desktop for each "subject"?
?? That’s a total non-sequitur and has no connection to the other. Slackers will slack against themselves (hire a responsible home contractor vs one who slacks off and one who shows up whenever and does things half arsed). So it’s not about revenge or getting something back (that might be a motivation for some malcontents, but most slackers aren’t malcontents.
Now watch as scores of protestors are suddenly arrested for failing to declare gift certificates from their grandmother's on their taxes a decade ago...
My thoughts exactly.

I would just add, I feel Python is stagnating as a scientific programming _language_. The libraries, ecosystem etc are still great, and Python is still a great language, but these days the development focus seems to be on type hints and unicode support.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Julia takes over, simply because it actually focuses on scientific programming. To me, personally, that would be a shame; good for Julia, but I still find Python a better language overall.
I think the common lingo is that gender is what you identify as, and sex is what you biologically are (subject to change through sex-change operations).
The latest NPU can't deliver this kind of "deep compression" at 25fps, not even 10fps. But in the future they can just send the Facemesh vertices and streaming text of the speech (and classically compress non-speech audio, if it's even desired as most people are happy just using it to talk) so it will be less data than 1Kbps.
There is also aistore which you can use as a distributed cache in front of different systems (s3, https, seaweedfs).
>isn't that three orders of magnitude?

sure is .. if you stream your face at >30-50Mbit/s. For contrast highest bitrate available on Twitch, used for streaming high motion full screen updating twitchy 1080@60 gaming, is ~6-8Mbit/s.
Like you we also started with minio, but as it was not fully S3 compatible (list folders and few more related S3 API) and do not have FUSE or NFS support either. So we started moving our infrastructure to seaweedfs. We have not completed the move yet, once done might share some benchmarks. Some of the benchmarks you can also see on their GitHub project.
Common Lisp has had multiple dispatch for decades. Yet another Lisp feature "taken" by another language - why not just start with a Lisp and improve it (e.g. Typed Racket, for performance) rather then repeatedly creating new languages and just adding a tiny piece of Lisp to them each time?
The battle/alliance between science and religion swaps from one to the other regularly. We remember the alliance ending and the battles starting around people like Darwin and Galileo. I suspect this is more to do with religion, and science also, being used by people who want power. Any time you here someone talking about believing the science or proving something with a holy book, ignore them. Real science needs no belief, and real faith needs no proof.
If you still have to come in multiple days per week you now still need to live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office and preferably have a decent home office. Less of an issue if the office is in a suburban office park. More so if it's downtown in a city.

If it's one day per week, it's probably more tractable because you can probably put up with a pretty long commute if need be if it's just once a week.

So the details matter.
I'm sure there's potential for fraud but they're going to have the account info and billing info of people who rented the car time. If someone damages or dirties the car, they're going to be liable and probably kicked off the platform. All the car needs is a camera and a way for riders to complain about past transgressions that are leftover in the car and it'll probably sort itself out.

You could also pay people to manually remote into car cameras for a brief quality check after every ride. Wouldn't be that expensive. An interesting problem to solve though.
I paused at that paragraph as well.

It is very possible that the achievements of modernity have changed the game. That said, the game was (is?) rise and fall. Rising civilizations leave a heritage to be mined, so there is an overall direction of rise... but every one of the many scientifically advancing cultures in history has declined. It would be prudent to expect the same for ours.

That said, modernity has almost certainly changed at least some of the rules. Even the term "The West" has become complicated. Our civilization is now essentially global. A scientific invention in France immediately arrives in Seoul. A joke told in Houston is heard in lagos. A book popular here is likely popular there.

The practical link between Rio De Janeiro and Tokyo is stronger now than Baghdad and Casablanca then.
One of the more important in my opinion is the microG project (https://microg.org/), a free re-implementation of Google’s proprietary libraries for Android that many apps on the Play store depend on.
This is actually the one I've always jumped to (in the US). "Silverware" and "cutlery" have always had a fancy restaurant vibe, rather than a be a word for an everyday object.
The Islamic Golden Age is the true cause behind the European Reinassance.

1) Introduction of paper.

2) Latin translations of the 12th century from Toledo and Sicily, former Islamic territories.

3) Higher education (Madrasas -> Universities)

4) Philosophical reforms of the church that made science legal (Averroism -> Scholasticism), paving the way to Secularism.
My question is why would they perform better at the office? In your example their performance is the same and they become labeled as "slackers" by their co-worker and management. If we allow these people to perform poorly in the office, shouldn't we also allow them to perform poorly when they work remotely?

If a manager is not providing adequate structure at the office, it seems unlikely that this would change regardless of where the employee is sitting. Those that need structure and do not get enough of it will flounder no matter their work location.

I disagree that it is more difficult to detect those employees who are less productive when the employee is working from home. On the contrary, I suspect their lack of productivity would be even more glaring and obvious then in the office.
Often you need more than manager approval. At Google, you need VP approval for permanent remote work (hopefully for now - we will see if things change).
How does one sign up for his free newsletter?
You got your units wrong. 26 GBps (208 Gbps) would be among the largest attacks recorded in history. Maybe you meant to say 26 Gbps which is 8 times less, but even that is a very large and notable attack, hardly any company could withstand it outside of CDN and big tech.
Don't buy cheap stocks and hope they go up. Buy expensive stocks and watch them go up.

You should sit on some TSLA for now also.
No offense meant but, before Obamacare was enacted I had an excellent healthcare premium of $77 per month. Now comparable care is $400 per month.

However Obamacare changed the scene, I dont support it.