skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What laws in India let them deny citizenship for minorities because it’s a “foreign” religion?

The National Register of Citizens (NRC). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizen...

The CAA and NRC are designed to work together to strip citizenship from Indian muslims who do not have documents to comprehensively prove citizenship.

The NRC is terrible but not overtly discriminatory on religious grounds. The CAA essentially protects people from the NRC, but does so in a blatantly discriminatory manner.

How it works: You might have a passport or driving license or Aadhaar, but none of these prove you are a citizen; you need a document issued before the 1970 wave of immigration from Bangladesh, and if you are younger than that you need to prove an ancestor's citizenship using such a document and then prove your descent from that person using birth certificates.

Needles to say, many people (of all religions) would not be able to do that.

This is where the CAA comes in, saying people in the country illegally have a fast-track to citizenship if they happen to be from a list of 'persecuted minorities' in neighboring countries. The list excludes persecuted muslim groups, most conspicuously the Rohingya of Myanmar who face the most horrifying persecution.

Sidenote: while I said the NRC isn't discriminatory in it's framing, it was in practice in Assam, the only state where it has been enforced. Officers have broad discretion over choosing whom to challenge (to prove citizenship), and some were caught admitting they challenged people based on how hey dressed and in what neighborhood they lived.
They link a patent on their page: http://www.ddprofusion.com/US10354761.pdf
I think the argument is yes it's the parents' fault. But that's not something we can directly fix. We can directly fix school budgets and stuff so that's what gets the blame. How do you fix broken families from a government perspective?
We already know what the real goal is. It's theocracy. While I fundamentally believe all religions are true, I don't want to live under any theocracy at all.
I might sound like those weird language evangelists, but...

> we could be writing all our programs in C, still.

You don't need to use C, there are other languages. For example a hello world in Free Pascal[0] (a natively compiled language with no runtime or other dependencies, which supports object oriented programming and has RTTI rich enough to implement automatic object serialization, semi-automatic memory management, strings that know about their encoding, etc) is just 32KB.

Some time ago i wrote Fowl[1], a mostly complete recreation of the OWL toolkit that came with Turbo Pascal for Windows, the demo program of which is around 80KB.

Of course for a more realistic (and MUCH easier to use and develop with) approach, you'd need something like Lazarus[2]. A minimal application in Lazarus is 2.18MB. This might sound too big... and TBH it is, but the size doesn't grow too quickly from there. For example a profiler i wrote recently for Free Pascal applications is... 2.16MB (yes, smaller, why? Well, because i replaced the stupidly huge default icon with a smaller one :-P and without the default icon a minimal application is 2.05MB so the profiler added around 100KB of additional "stuff").

> It's doing autocomplete suggestions, linting code as I type... all sorts of things we never had a couple of decades ago and are huge productivity boosters

FWIW we had those, Visual Basic (or even QBasic) would format your code as you type it, Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ 6 would profile auto-completion (VB6 even for dynamic stuff), etc. Only issue with C++ was that sometimes it wouldn't work around complex macros.

But modern editors do a bit more, still no excuse for being that sluggish. Lazarus does pretty much everything you'd expect from an IDE with smart code completion (e.g. things like declaring variables automatically, filling method bodies, etc) and code suggestions yet it runs on an original Raspberry Pi.

Now i'm not saying that you should not be using whatever you are using or that you should code on a Rasberry Pi or even to switch to Free Pascal / Lazarus (which honestly is far from being free of issues), but i think that you're overestimating what tools do nowadays and many people are so used to running slow and bloated software that take it for granted that things should be like that and cannot even imagine things being better.

[0] https://www.freepascal.org/

[1] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/fowl/

[2] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
> If you don't use it, its value is almost zero

But the value is also zero if you're using extra for no benefit. Actually it's negative, because it prevents other programs from using it.

You should try to use all your RAM, yes, _but in ways that are actually useful_. The OS can always use leftover RAM for caching frequently used files if you don't have a better use for it.
Yup, but money isn't great at motivating people to work hard; a lot of evidence implies it even does the opposite. And a huge chunk of that money is vacuumed up by administration.

Inner city school systems are great at grinding up passionate personnel, making them quit or just surrender to do things that look good on paper but don't improve anything.
Leaving aside the origins of this rhyme and various controversies surrounding it, the formation "have you any wool?" is interesting. One would expect (1) "Do you have any wool?" or (2) "Have you got any wool?". I personally use the formation in (2) more but I think (1) is the more common one. You can read more in the answers to this this SE question: https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/101667/use-of-have-i...
Fusion at this point is closer to general intelligence AI than to JWST.

JWST is a project level failure not a “field level” failure.

Fusion has been 10 years off for the past nearly 100 years.

Tokamaks date to the 50’s and the first patents for a fusion reactor were issued in the 1940’s https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC...
Chrome used to have a local socket API when chrome apps were still a thing.
Alcubierre – White Warp Drive Machine (2020) [Patent]
The fact that you can buy Mein Kampf on eBay (along with thousands of things far more objectionable than a few children’s books) is what makes eBay’s actions that much more hypocritical and reprehensible.

If eBay was already a place clean and free of racism and bigotry, then fine. But it isn’t; not by a long shot. And you don’t start cleaning house by dusting the Knick-knacks…
We have a pretty giant clue. IQ predicts academic performance and no known intervention can improve IQ in a way that persists beyond teenage years. Black kids have significantly lower IQ before starting school than white kids so by that point, they're collectively already doomed. Whatever causes that isn't the school or education responsibility. Some researchers attribute it mostly to the behavior of the mother but there are many candidate reasons.

Of course the problems compound with underperforming friends, corrupt schools, etc. So improving those may help but won't completely fix it.
I Think it would depend on what the life is,

If its small (microbial) it would probably slow down the human exploration until they could figure out it wasn't harmful to us.

Although they'd be a huge push to figure out how it works (dna?)
"The best way to make money at gambling is to develop a system, write a book about that system, and sell the book."
Is there more details about this published somewhere? I’m very curious to learn more
It's just for the city of LA, but other cities in the county like santa monica also might have their own laws. Hasn't stopped anyone it seems!
This wasn't ever going in workstations anyway. The part you want for that is Ice Lake.
It's not like the systems we're talking about were performing well under Reagan/Bush, under Clinton, under G.W., or under Trump, either..

Truancy enforcement didn't work too well. Whether laxer truancy approaches end up with better outcomes overall is open to debate, but it's not like there's a clear answer.
Strangely it seems like the 35-45W Tiger Lake parts holds their own here. It doesn't feel like Rocket Lake needs to exist, if Tiger Lake-H exists.
Your post changed my life. Thanks for sharing this about AsciiDoc. It's such a nice tool.
Most laptops and phones already have a microphone or two.
Living in LA now and I didn't know they did this until I read through this thread. Gas mowers invade the neighborhood daily. No enforcement means nothing changes.
Cloud providers are also more likely to have true off site backups in place. Your vanilla SMB running an exchange server on a pc in the closet doesn’t.
In 6 months for the past 5 years..

Realistically now probably mid 2022 we’ll see something, but probably not a full lineup until 2023.
The system did provide the resources to raise successful children. This parent chose to ignore all of it.

Parents have to care for a child to do well (or even mediocre) in school. A child isn't going to choose to do difficult homework in lieu of video games if left up to their own choices.

If we examined the parent's school grades, we'd probably find a similarity, unfortunately. Same with the parent's parents. All this ultimately leads to working 3+ low-skill/low-education jobs just to keep a roof over your head. Every statistic about high school graduation rates firmly says so.
Yeah, I wrote two. And I think my next SSG will be a Makefile, because generating HTML is the easy part. The tough part is tracking dependencies and xrefs, which I also think are the tough part of any build system (SSGs themselves are a subset of build systems).

That, and coming up with a good design for the page.
FYI my understanding is US citizens are exempt from US taxes as long as you spend 330 days of the year outside the US.

You still have to file a tax return, you just don't pay anything.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
> How is the existence of a book (...)

The book exists. The publisher's just decided they won't sell it anymore.

Stop misrepresenting facts.
It’s a joke. I don’t think this would work.
Even the most intelligent person in the world will consistently make false deductions if she starts with false premises.

Ideally there is a process of incorporating real-world results and revising one's beliefs, but that process seems to have pretty much shut down in favor of strict political orthodoxy.
What does this mean? I can choose not to install google services in my phone, and use an open app store like F-Droid.

Not that it counts for much in the grand scheme of things, seeing as 99% of users will never install a custom rom.
I get some sick satisfaction whenever I mouse over these, right click, and hit "Block element"
I don’t buy that for 365 unless you’re a small Microsoft consultancy and admin is “free”.

365 is a really good value, even comparing it to running an large scale standalone environment. Ditto for Google Workplace. For almost any other product, I subscriptions always drive more cost than value.

The
background:

https://thedebrief.org/mysterious-new-warp-drive-patent-surf...
Drew Magary: I played a bunch of horny iPhone games for journalism
Siga: Population based metaheuristic for password cracking
Actually the part you want for workstations is Threadripper.
Alder Lake-S is rumored for December 2021. The delays have cascaded so 7nm is still pretty far away.
> ...they decided to do exactly nothing.

They were very slow and weak about responding, but you're overstating. They did a few things over the three years, up to and including finally bumping the child back to 9th grade.

The mother apparently did exactly nothing. Until the school's actions finally hit home hard enough.
Isn’t the issue with AVX-512 is that different CPUs support different instructions? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512

It might eventually get normalized but atm it’s a bit of a mess.
If you pay for it what are you getting an ad for? If you pay for Prime, you are getting access to a limited catalog of music. Unlimited subscription offers a full catalog of music and no ads.
Did anyone think those thermometers were more than "security theater"?

The one contactless thermometer I know of with approval for hospital use requires wiping the skin and aiming two separate beams until they line up for getting the distance correct.

People are using rebranded thermometers that are usually used to tell you what's hot and what's really really hot... think burn your skin off hot
Drew Magary is a humor journalist who has written for Deadspin and SFGate. Thought his take on these cheesy iphone games was pretty amusing for a Friday afternoon read!
A potential model for a real physical warp drive
Can files be more specifically identified - more than just filename+size? I.e. hash(es)/checksum(s) or something like that?
> RAM is cheap and plentiful. If you don't use it, its value is almost zero (the "almost" comes from OS-level caching of files and CPU-level cache misses of code).

I have fond memories of my DOS days and the simplicity inherent in a single tasking environment, however nowadays operating systems allow for more than a single application to run at the same time and each application should play nice with the system resources, so even if RAM is cheap and plentiful it doesn't automatically mean that every application should feel entitled to it.

(and also even during the DOS days we had TSRs which had to be RAM conscious too)
Presumably Xeon E-23xx is coming but you'll still be better off with Ryzen Pro 5xxx.
The good news is I don't think there is a feature in the tidyverse you couldn't do with base R, albeit in an "R way." I think the main sell of tidyverse is the sexier plots from ggplot2 and some quality of life functions. Maybe others can comment if there is more there. The annoyance of 85% of stack overflow R comments starting off with sourcing the tidyverse library was enough to push me away and develop a base R solution whenever I had an issue.
Snowflake would be a poster child for OPs argument. Not against it.

We don’t know what will happen with tech stocks like these over the next couple of years though as others have said.
There's a really good clip by Richard Feynman on explanations and frames of reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA

I think he does an excellent job of explaining why it's so hard to explain this type of thing.
The "cloud version" is an entirely different piece of software.

It's not the same OWA that one hosts on-premises. That one's still vulnerable even if it's hosted "in the cloud".

On a different note, if they could prevent this in "the cloud version", why couldn't they -- why didn't they -- prevent it in "the non-cloud version"?
Google is an advertising company.
That's a good point. If this school is as terrible as it sounds, the students probably wouldn't be learning much even if they were in school every day. We need serious reform on multiple axes; reforming one in isolation probably won't help much.

Truancy does make teaching effectively much harder. You're forced to either go over the beginning material over and over for the people who missed it, or you just abandon them and teach the handful of people who have attended consistently. No matter what you teach, you're teaching the wrong thing for half or more of the class. Then people get bored, and they skip school...
Hey there, no not in the current state... We don't identify vendors for you. Long-term, we'll pool data across industries to help you make those decisions.

Today, the tool tracks your vendor pricing, contract terms, and vendor profile information via sourcing 'projects.' So the app can compare vendors and pricing if the data is available, but it can't outright recommend a vendor with whom you've never interacted.

For your second question... You're asking if the app serves as a POS solution as well? No, but potentially down the line depending on user need. Most of our customers today use the tool for major product/service purchases that are made directly with their vendors.
16% of the US population is computer illiterate [0], mostly amongst the poor. If information is only accessible through a web portal you are de facto making it inaccessible to a significant minority.

Sure the parents could take computer literacy courses, access internet at the library if they don't have access at home, or navigate the school bureaucracy (not easy and not always friendly, trust me!), and we could still play the blame game. But ultimately if we add enough friction that 50% of our users fail to engage, perhaps a review of the system is warranted.

[0] https://www.air.org/resource/description-u-s-adults-who-are-...
Show HN: React component for building split tiles like in vscode
The power consumption graphs are really something. Can't believe it almost cracks 300w under avx512 workloads.
Economic leftism might be associated with less risk-taking, but why do startup founders - people who often take huge risks - tend to skew socially left? It could probably be partly explained by sociological reasons (might be harder to get support/funding if you're perceived as more socially conservative than average), but even accounting for that, I suspect it's mostly correlated with sincere political belief.

That's one problem with studies like this, as the authors point out. Is Paul Graham liberal or conservative in this binary? I think most conservatives in the US would say liberal, but many liberals, and perhaps even most liberals in his general sphere, might say he's conservative due to "complaining about SJWs and the intolerance of the left on Twitter almost daily, and routinely and proactively arguing in favor of lowering taxes for corporations and very wealthy people".

(The obvious answer is he's neither [http://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html] and it's too hard to fit many people into a one-word binary.)

One could also claim conservatives are by definition averse to change and so risk-averse. They (in this contrived weakman argument) are more likely to want to avoid risks from immigration, the demographics of their community shifting, their industry changing and the possibility of having to find a new kind of job, newly developed vaccines, theological consequences of permitting sinful behavior, etc.

These are all intellectually lazy arguments, but the point is I don't think one can reliably sum up "a conservative" or "a liberal" - whatever that is - as being more or less risk-taking.
It was definitely not a casual course. I went in hoping for a graduate level course and that's what it was. I had to spend a lot of time on it. I didn't find the math too advanced but understanding the lectures and doing the exercises took a while.

Karpathy's CS231n was indeed another great course. We're really spoiled for choice these days.
The patches went out Tuesday... after many organizations were already compromised.
On this point GDPR is pretty simple. In general security do not require consent, nor does cookies that are used for functional aspects of the sites.

A simple guideline is to imagine if someone breaks into your server and steal data. If that data can come to harm real people somewhere then you likely have something which you needed to have gained consent in order to handle. On top of that there is an additional exception for data only used for security purposes.
Yes totally. Most of the people running exchange now with this issue are cheapskates or attorneys.

If defense contractors keeping exchange on prem for security/compliance reasons are offering OWA on the internet, obviously there’s a deeper problem.
Yeah...I'd really like to extricate myself from Amazon Photos/Drive, but I haven't even begun to investigate how much of a project that will be.
Yeah, it's definitely out of date now. That's Coursera's responsibility to replace it with something more recent.
Do you allow for customization of fields and workflows?

From my understanding of the ERP/CLM space - the reason SAP or coupa etc are expensive is because of the customization and implementation costs associated with deployments.

Even 50-100 person companies have highly customised procurement processes with inter location approvals, transfers etc. How does the system handle all of that?

Do you integrate with other modules like finance & accounting, budgeting, inventory?

There is really a need for a self service SAAS in this space..but this is a very difficult segment to compete in with the majors due to implementation complexities. Wishing you the best!
No, it doesn't. "Freedom to" rob does not supersede "freedom from" robbery. "Freedom to" kill does not supersede "freedom from" death. This is an asinine and juvenile view of how rights work.
I'm a layman, in the luxurious position of living in an economy with no wildfire covid problem. I can wait for vaccination. He's a motivated layman, in an economy with a huge wildfire covid problem, with VC funding and insights but, a layman, interpreting scientific data and social policy and risk reward outcomes. He's arguing something like linear optimisation or operations research, a favourite topic of mine: what maximises benefit even if still statistically uncertain and with potential downsides.

I would like to see the contra case. Primarily because this is written well in a layman approachable manner by somebody using language and argument style I relate to which is seductive.

I wish it was a web page not a pdf. It feels like outsider science to share this, and contextually, given how the paper directly references both HCQ and ivermectin which are massively politicised, it's a risk to rational discourse.

The size of the RCTs is important to me as a layman. These are not 30 people tests with stunning p, these are 1000+ but before phase 3. Thats something to be borne in mind. Drop the FDA attack, and consider the risk side even of false hope. But, consider the options. Why not look into this approach?

What he has going for his line of reasoning, ivermectin aside, (its use in humans is focussed on a more limited context of use against mites and the like) is that the drugs are all in use already. What he has going against him is that they are psychoactive and while he is careful to point out its because of biochemical pathways they work on and anti inflammatory properties they're interesting, that aspect remains; these drugs fuck up your brain a bit. The change what it is to be "you"

The metformin thing is also interesting. A lot of people say anti diabetes drugs may be the next statin: something we all need to consider for prophylaxis.

Don't drink too much coffee and take these drugs.. wow. The primary non recreational drug of hacker and keyboard culture is now to be .. dialled down. We're all on a massive headache and downer lethargy trip. Good thing the drugs are psychoactive.. wait...
I would curious if anyone has heard of any relocation activity to the EU happening during the last year given the Covid situation and restrictions. It looks like there's a fair amount of posts for Germany and the Netherland for instance.
7 nm and 10 nm are quite different (7 nm relies more heavily on EUV IIRC), so the 10 nm delay doesn't have to affect 7 nm. However, 7nm is also facing significant delays.
That's the opposite of what I said. Truancy laws and CPS work great when parents are "well-behaved".

But they aren't a substitute for "well-behaved" parents. No matter how much money the government spends it will not be able to raise children.

I don't know how to solve this problem but I am sure any solution involves recognizing what's going on here, which you are not doing.