skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> . In a 2015 survey conducted by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Graduate Record Examinations Board, about 55 percent of all participating graduate students in mathematics, computer sciences, and engineering at US schools were found to be foreign nationals. In 2017, the National Foundation for American Policy estimated that international students accounted for 81 percent of full-time graduate students in electrical engineering at U.S. universities; and 79 percent of full-time graduate students in computer science.

Of course. We don't charge enough taxes to make school free, and universities are increasingly capitalist ventures that hire as few professors as possible and pay sessional instructors peanuts. There's no jobs for PhDs, an even an MS is absolutely overkill for most work and horrifically expensive. So universities make their money off foreign kids. Duh. Is it diversity, or dead simple economics?
Is Firefox multi-account container for Facebook enough to prevent this cookie stealing hack?
why does improving vascular function help with dealing with covid?

> etiology of Covid is closely linked to vascular health...

any links about that? im curious to take a look
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing your experiences. This is exactly what keeps me reading HN.
Having witnessed individuals make that claim on a few occasions, I'd say it's entirely accurate though I'm sure we can haggle on percentages.
It's a programming language website. To do its job effectively, it doesn't need to devote screen real estate to racial justice, police brutality, child sex trafficking, cancer awareness, gun safety, climate change, domestic abuse, regional famines, or any other myriad of important (sometimes political) issues. It's not hypocritical to desire a "separation of concerns".
It’s more about the network than the phone.

My Pixel 3 can do simultaneous voice and data, because it’s in Australia connecting to GSM based networks.

If it were connecting through CDMA, it could not. CDMA has always been the minority worldwide[0], and is phasing out completely with 4G.

If you’re on a CDMA-using carrier (Eg Verizon) but usually have 4G coverage, you should be able to get simultaneous voice+data by enabling ‘advanced calling’ in the phone’s mobile network settings.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_phone_s...
Uber, and all, will just rewrite the prop and try again. Gig work is here to stay. They just have to figuerout how to make it work for all.

I doubt the legislature will get its way or that Uber will get their way either. A few years from now a middle ground will be found. Gig work works at some level since both workers and customers want it. Uber just took a bigger bite than it should have this round.

Also, this issue will end up at the California supreme court level so this is just the first round of many.
I used to RDP into my work laptop (wired gigabit Ethernet in the same room) from my 5K iMac and it worked great. I’m pretty sure VNC is going to be a much worse experience but maybe it’s improved since I last tried it a few years ago.
It was about cost. https://hasler.ece.gatech.edu/Published_papers/Technology_ov...
> The cloth masks get all sweaty when worn all day, in the summer, at an amusement park.

You can put an extra one in your pocket.
Eating, drinking, smiling, frowning, grimacing, talking, kissing, recognizing our friends are all social activities that are impeded by masks. Humans are social animals.
I love seeing a Bokashi reference on HN!

For those interested:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokashi_(horticulture)

https://www.teraganix.com/products/terakashi-bokashi
Non-competes are not enforceable in California.

https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in...
Or use a worse DNS resolver. Your ISP may be trying to cash in on DNS names that don't resolve / ain't found by instead sending you to another website that pays the ISP a small fee.
> "vaccine escape may occur"

You're disregarding the nuances and evidence put forth in the cited literature - either intentionally or out of ignorance.

A much more fair representation is: "vaccine escape is exceedingly likely to occur under the conditions of mass vaccination combined with a vaccine that does not necessarily prevent infection and transmission, and which induces an immune response highly targeted toward the spike protein RBD"

In that case B absolutely follows from A. To argue otherwise is a non-sequiter.
I agree with that. I've never felt better about walking around in public. If I trip over myself and look like a fool and someone posts it to Instagram, nobody will know it's me! It's great!

(No I've never tripped over myself and had it posted to Instagram. But I do worry about it!)
Seems easier to just buy a SIM card for cash, no?
> I've been to one of such trainings that demonstrated what we would call "a struggle session" (using the Mao's terminology).

Did you have to take part in this in any way or just observe?

I've had to take training sessions that left me feeling ...hateful, to be honest.

In the Chinese-Maoist sense, a struggle session is where you are essentially forced to take part in some ritual denunciations of self or of your friends/family with the threat of violence or violence applied or looming in the background.

In the American version of this today the threat of violence isn't there but firing and shaming by coworkers/friends; And therein career/social death.

Your session doesn't sound like a struggle session per se (unless you had to take part), it sounds like a "training" where the professional victims shared their stories. But yes, it's a growing industry and they're paid handsomely to embellish their stories.
This is a bit reductionist but a fun story for those that haven’t heard it. The GPL was created so rms could modify his printer driver: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt .
Agreed, but it’s only temporary because the tree will burn at some point releasing carbon dioxide. At least in any coniferous forest in the western half of North America.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s much better than nothing. I just think they should probably pick locations that aren’t as prone to burning as the colville forests. So the carving stays locked a bit more long term.
That's my point. You talked about companies that are 15, 5, and 5 years old as "not announcing a timeline they failed to hit" when I claimed they had produced nothing so far. Which, one, is a crazy standard to volunteer with Musk as he regularly fails to hit timelines he announces. But my point was he invests in things for years - decades - without any public progress but also without pulling out investment. The "heads I win, tails I flip again" is what I was commenting on. SolarCity (where, far from being uninvolved, Musk was Chairman of the Board) is older (in Elon involvement) than Tesla; if Tesla is a "success" how little would SolarCity have to do to be a "failure"?

How do you feel about Blue Origin, which Bezos regularly infused billions into before it finally got to its first flight?

The Hyperloop, is something Musk spent over a calendar year and numerous engineering assets working on before he decided to give up and open-source their work. If any of his projects was an unreserved failure, it was the hyperloop.

I don't get why you're so upset about this. I didn't say Musk was horrible. I just pointed out a lot of his projects tend to fail. I explicitly said that his success rate is good. I just also pointed out he has enough misfires that there's no reason to believe his announcements at this stage are going to see commercial availability.
The kind where you call your brother or cousin (whoever’s beater is working this week) and ask for a ride in exchange for some gas money.

“Paying drivers more will hurt the poor” is an interesting argument
Or maybe 58% percent of people, including most Uber drivers, recognize that AB5 was a terrible bill. At best, it could only concentrate rides to a smaller pool of drivers. Money in politics just buys awareness. People aren't so suggestible that their minds will change with a 10-second ad.
Oh wow I didn’t realize they did custom licensing (presumably for a good chunk of change). Good to know!
I'll get down voted but...

COVID and it's variants now have a growing reserve in the mammal animal populations of the world.

If we decide to continue this fight we must go in eyes wide open that this is an unwinnable war that will go on forever with ever new versions of vaccine immune COVID.

The problem is people believeing it will be over. And using that belief to justify opinions and action against others who believe the opposite... which is... since it's not going away we just have to live with it. We can not stop society for this. Society will collapse before this is eradicated to levels some members of public hope for.

You must consider the mutability of a virus along with is other attributes and respond accordingly.

Perhaps next we work on preventing earthquakes and volcanoes.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28253110
It is 2021 so context doesn't matter. Master can mean slave owner so it needs to change otherwise someone might be offended.

/sarcasm
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I can only think of one thing less deserving of voters' faith than the initiative process, and that is the recall process.
Agreed. The eastern forests don’t burn like the western ones do. I guess my original posts were more aimed at the western coniferous forests, which is what this is related to.
TL;DR: liquid oxygen is used to treat municipal water AND to help COVID patients breathe.
This shows that masks aren't perfect, not that they don't help.
Or even Perl!
> Blumenbach's craniometric categorization ... match the prehistoric reality better

Blumenbach essentially tried to split people into: Europeans, Asians, Africans, Polynesians, and Americans. You can then choose features and make measurements to split people into groups which match these 5 basic geographical areas. The questions are: What do these classifications tell you? How are they useful? Are they the best ways to classify people? How are you choosing the different races?

The idea that "race isn't real" stems from the idea that there isn't a single genetic metric you can use to categorize people. You can find multiple valid ways to classify people, but they won't all agree on the categorizations.

> arbitrarily defined US-style castes

What word should we use to describe the US social and legal definitions of Black and White?
Yes all the time, debugger for JavaScript and binding.pry for ruby. I don’t understand how people can rely purely on print debugging. I find it much more useful to stop and inspect the state and input, and being able to print a backtrace from that point is also valuable.
This feels like a solid tip, thank you. One question: can you specify separate payments methods per child account? It would be useful to have, for instance a personal Amex & corp Amex setup on the parent, and only the corp Amex available to the child.
I blame alarmists like Al Gore. When people don't understand the science they only go by the public claims. Al Gore's movie made claims that failed to happen. It might be that he just got the time scale wrong but he lost the trust of the public.

Climate science uses very hard to understand models it's out of reach of the lay person. So they have to trust the experts. Their only access to the experts is via the media. The current media is untrustworthy as they exaggerate to increase interest and gain click / views. Look at the impact this is having on politics in the US. Left and Right media are telling very different stories with the truth often somewhere in the middle. The resulting fracture is causing huge division.
It's the local client not the resolver. Try "ai."
Now this, is a great idea! Locally driven, local spending to solve local problems.
I think cloth masks are at the crossroads of wishful thinking and public health theater.

They absolutely have legitimate medical uses, and can prevent droplet borne disease transmission and thus there is a plausible mechanism by which they reduce spread. But I don’t think there’s any serious evidence that they are anything more than marginal with respect to the spread of COVID.
ffmpeg has had a long history of optimizations, but no time has been spent targeting webgpu and what not.

It could be much faster, but it's not going to beat native without some sort of distributed behavior.
“Dog fooding” comes from “to eat [one’s] own dogfood.” An analogy to a dog food producer claiming their product is so good that it’s tested by their (human) employees.
Haha, am I like literally the only black person here? I'm serious, I've been scrolling down and I don't see anyone else?

Anyway, to try to summarize it all; Nothing surprising about the article; the difficulty comes in where very well meaning people try to come up with concrete/discrete "solutions" to racism, which is difficult. My take on most of them is, yeah, a lot of them are awkward and clumsy, but a hell of a lot better than nothing? It's a conversation.

Anecdotally, I'm remembering a thing where at my alma mater they wanted to change the name of a title from "House Master" to "Faculty Dean." Fundamentally, like, who cares either way? It's really not important..but

For me, the most telling thing wasn't so much the name itself (which me and my friends had a ton of jokes over), but how much people appeared to be invested in keeping the old name, as if it were that special, i.e. -- as people tried to defend the old name and just had terrible arguments for doing so, it became clear that the cause was "something else," i.e. if the old name was "House Leader" or something, I'm 100% certain those same people would NOT have been fighting that hard.

So yeah, it's complicated.
https://google. isn't supposed to work, for ai try http://ai./ instead.
Not everyone has to wear a mask in order for you to wear one.
I believe the other poster is saying that by sending a work email from your laptop or probably even by connecting to the company servers through it, your device could be theoretically investigated as part of a lawsuit. If you don’t use it for email and just type SSH on it then admittedly they probably won’t have much to find, but they could still get access.
Tesla is selling a $10k hardware package, with the promise that eventually they'll have the software to match. Musk makes lots of optimistic predictions which are not hard deadlines. There is no actual guaranteed timeline in the terms that come along with the FSD package, AFAIK. It is made explicit that the software required to utilize the hardware you are purchasing is not ready yet.
> Reddit doesn't let people pay directly for content. You can gift awards but those aren't really worth anything.

Worth noting this scenario is even less similar than as you wrote it.

Not only can’t you pay content creators on Reddit, but the awards, are you paying Reddit for hosting the creator.

Reddit gets money, creator gets a png. It’s a really bad deal, and I’m not sure what kind of lunatic buys Reddit awards.
Even if vaccine escape eventually occurs, it doesn't follow that mass vaccination itself is a bad policy. You have to weigh the consequences of the escape against the consequences of not mass vaccinating.

The consequences of not mass vaccinating are "a lot of people die that wouldn't have with the vaccine", so the consequences of escape need to be pretty dire to outweigh that. Does escape make the virus significantly more dangerous than it would have been if the vaccine were not used on such a large scale? It's unclear.

To answer that, one critical question would be whether the vaccine somehow hinders the immune system from developing a more complex and robust response to the virus. I have not seen anything that speaks to that question yet.

Antibiotic resistance don't make us regret the use of antibiotics. We just avoid using them without evidence that they are needed, and we use them in combination with other measures. Mass vaccination and a more targeted campaign are both consistent with both of those principles, and nuanced evidence and reasoning would be needed to favor one over the other.
AB5 is an ordinary law that can be erased by any future legislature with a simple majority vote at any time. Or, it could be repealed by initiative. There's no reason why Prop 22 or an initiative like it was necessary.
ffmpeg to this day has and creates some of the scariest security problems you'll see. I love ffmpeg, but I fear this will all end in tears...
That right there is the definition of a run-on sentence. Wow!
I sometimes do, but it’s because smart phones are very poor phones. They are heavy, weirdly shaped, and the microphones don’t line up with your mouth because the phones have gotten too large. The Ux for making calls is bad too, I miss land lines but don’t want to pay for both land and cellular when a land line is so expensive
What will they say on Eastenders now?
> The fact that judges can override a democratic vote of the people is disgusting.

The rule that allows judges to determine if a measure presented to the people met the rules for such votes, and the rule for the votes that judges apply, were, themselves, adopted by a democratic vote of the people.
So if it had been worded differently, to make the relevant definitions part of the proposition, it would have been fine?

Also it seems really weird to call that theoretical legislation "unrelated" when it would change how the proposition works.
>let's leave this "sins of the father" bullshit in church where it belongs

Churches agree that it is wrong as well. It doesn't belong anywhere.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/sins_of_the_father
"Earlier this month, Singing River Health System CEO Lee Bond told the Gulf Coast Business Council that one person had been admitted to a Jackson County hospital for injecting ivermectin to treat their coronavirus symptoms.
...

MSDH says 85% of callers had mild symptoms, but one person was instructed to see a doctor.

There are no current hospitalizations due to ivermectin poisoning."

Seems like all the big numbers are relative - percentage changes. The objective numbers are small - e.g. one person having to see a doctor.

I agree taking horse ivermectin seems like a bad idea. Taking any kind of "do-it-yourself" medicine without really knowing what you're doing seems like a bad idea. That said, it seems like the story here is a few people may have had mild symptoms after taking too much and one guy may have been advised to see a doctor. Not a big deal in my view.
very surprised to see this repo linked in HN, when i just saw the it over at the steam community forum for this very topic : https://steamcommunity.com/app/250820/discussions/0/30438576...
$25-30K. The MSRP started at $37,495 until a price drop earlier this year, but GM regularly offered ~$9K in manufacturer discounts, dropping it to $28K or so. But most dealers don't order base model cars with no options at all, so maybe $30K more realistically. The battery costing 1/3rd of the whole car is not unusual for an EV.
What I can say is that, when the payout program started, all payout requests did go through a manual process (the minimum rate was the same then, by the way). Later on, there is evidence of account "snapshots", which is used to track income made before and after Roblox bumped the exchange rate up [1], which is described with some detail [2]. So it's not unlikely that there are other kinds of counters keeping track of income sources. Even so, there is still evidence for some sort of manual processing, at least up to last December [3].

[1]: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/the-robux-exchange-rate-and-mo...
[2]: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/the-robux-exchange-rate-and-mo...
[3]: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/holiday-schedule-for-the-devex...
And if an additional 1% spread can be achieved after the asymptomatic period by the host coughing their lungs out, which way will evolution favor?
Looks similar to what Cerberus is doing.
I've been doing it for two years and am barely past the "understand none of the words" phase.

It helps to think of each term as an interesting puzzle. For example, SVD. It's fascinating if you dig into it. Most people don't want to, because it feels like work. For me, it's neat understanding ... whatever it is, ha.

I think it's finding the basis eigenvectors in a higher dimensional space, which basically just means that e.g. the eigenvectors of a cube are the X, Y, Z axes you're used to. If you skew it along the X axis, the Y axis bends a bit, along with the cube.

The eigenvectors form a shape that, when you find the volume of it, is the area of the resulting form. So the determinant of a cube's SVD is the volume of the cube.

In higher dimensional spaces, it's the same thing, except it's called "eigenvectors" (named after Sir Eigen of Eigenmadethisup) because mathematicians have reasons for using complicated language, some of which is valid. But as you see from me muddling through this, the underlying concepts are all small simple pieces that fit together.

Or I was nowhere close to the explanation of SVD. But it was close to something interesting, since it leads to the question of "What's the SVD of a sphere? How about a point cloud?" It was easy to figure out for a cube. Not so easy when it's an arbitrary shape. "And why is it useful?" Because it gives a lot of hints about what that object is. In the optimal case, in StyleGAN for example, the SVD can even be the basis vectors like "smile", "age", and so on. (You know in Faceapp how you can drag the "Age" slider and make yourself look older or younger? That's a basis vector in higher dimensional space. It's orthogonal -- more or less -- to "smile", because if you drag the "smile" basis vector around, it doesn't cause you to age older or younger. Except it's not quite orthogonal, because it's a higher dimensional weird-ass shape and therefore can't be orthogonal, so sometimes when you make someone older their hair turns grey even though "blonde hair" is orthogonal to "age" in theory.)

Yada, yada. Rinse and repeat and dive in for a couple years. You'll find it's fun once you jump in.

P.S. All the people reading this that feel offended like "No, you really must start with theory; you can't possibly learn anything if you don't know what you're doing," you better read this: http://thecodist.com/article/the_programming_steamroller_wai...

That steamroller is coming for you. Once the legions of javascript programmers realize that hey, I can do DL just like an ML researcher, you're gonna be doomed. Because a 17yo JS programmer has roughly 10x as much determination as even I can muster these days, let alone someone who clings to the idea that theory is the only path forward.
If you’re putting things in binders, print out the full headers of the emails. Maybe even the raw mail; though I admit html mail makes that very unpleasant.
US large-scale battery storage capacity is up 35% in 2020 – and growing