jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I always thought that school choice means a system that funnels taxpayer dollars to any school, public or private, based on student attendance. Parents can choose to send their children to public school, if they feel the outcome will be superior to alternatives.
Yes, that's correct. Basically, bitcoin doesn't have privacy and is losing self-sovereignty through regulation.
Yet iOS still downloads pictures in emails by default.
> I'm using polling requests instead of websockets because I'm lazy/it doesn't need to scale, but it's the exact same idea where the server just publishes a giant JSON object of state and the clients are pure functions of it (and send messages to the server to mutate it).

I like this approach as well, but I do worry that users today expect optimistic updates on the client, and the injection of a X00ms delay would make the app feel sluggish.
> if the I/O scheduler is correctly designed and implemented, an in-memory database engine should never be faster than a disk-backed database.

If, and only if, you are returning all/most of the data fetched from disk, and not just a fractional portion of the data (which is the most common use case for DBs, especially when you use stored procedures).

In the worst case, you have to scan the entire contents of a several terabyte table from disk just to get metadata about that table. The worst case is usually refactored away, but there are always cases where it is simply not possible.

I've seen some pretty silly speedups with flash (such as attaching the flash memory to DIMM slots with custom kernel drivers), but data served out of memory was still faster (if only because it doesn't require a context switch to read).
Yes, the article states they have a proxy.
You're being downvoted because you're adding much more heat than light to the conversation, not because your ideas are taboo.

I'd recommend instead a comment like: "Consider $otheroption, it has $feature1, $feature2, and $feature3. Furthermore, it is entirely committed to $designprincipal, which provides complete safety against $classofmistake when used correctly, without any $kindofdownside."

This way your reader has something to engage with other than your emotional reaction, and they may have learned something along the way.
Motte, meet bailey.
In that case, something like Prolog would definitely be a change and possibly a lot of fun to explore but I have no idea about the community. I also liked Chapel [1] a lot when I looked at a couple of years ago (again modulo community). If you are into distributed systems TLA+ could be a nice thing to know though obviously it's not a general purpose language.

[1]: https://chapel-lang.org/
I like this JavaDoc https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/chrono/C...
Putting Sacca's previous bad behavior aside (and I have no idea whether or not we should), the no-jargon descriptions of each of the companies that they've backed is fantastic and I'm excited for each of them.

https://lowercarboncapital.com/companies/

- MAKING CHEMICALS WITH ENZYMES, NOT OIL.

- FUSION WITH PLASMA-TAMING MAGNETS.

- 100% BEEF THAT NEVER HAD EYES NOR HOOVES.

- KELP-FARMING CARBON-SINKING ROBOTS.

- GIANT CARBON SUCKING VACUUMS.

- PROTEIN FROM TRASH-EATING FLIES.

- FULLY ELECTRIC AIRPLANES.

- CLEAN, FAST, CHEAP LITHIUM MINING.

- REAL DAIRY SANS COWS.

- BATTERIES THAT MAKE SOLAR WORK 24/7.

- CARBON-NEGATIVE MICROBIAL FERTILIZER.

- INSANELY HIGH-TORQUE ELECTRIC MOTORS.

- CHEAP FUSION POWER. SERIOUSLY.

- AI TO CAPTURE CARBON AND RESTORE FORESTS.

- PUMPING OIL BACK UNDER-GROUND.

- FUNGUS EATS CARBON AND PAYS FARMERS.

- SUPERFAST HYDROFOIL CARGO SHIPS.

- PIGLESS BACON.

- CARBON-TRAPPING SEMI TRUCKS.

- FERTILIZER BORN FROM LIGHTNING.

- AUTOMATED CARBON FOOTPRINT REPORTING.

- CARBON-GUZZLING SUPERTREES.

- CATTLE THAT BURP LESS METHANE.

- TREE-PLANTING DRONES.

- CRYSTAL BALL FOR CLIMATE RISK.

- METHANE BOUNTY HUNTERS.

- CARBON X-RAY FOR DIRTY SUPPLY CHAINS.

- UPCYCLING CARBON INTO FUELS AND CHEMICALS.

- FIND THE WORLD’S BEST WIND + HYDRO SITES.

- LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.
I want to push back on one of your central tenets.

> f they are tasting it blind ... their taste is accurate

It would be more accurate to say the tasting would be less subjective. I don’t think “accurate” is a good word - people all taste things differently due to different taste buds and psychological wirings.

But even then, removing the label doesn’t mean people taste anything objectively. They are bringing in their own biases - maybe they are tired, hungry, or stressed.

Finally, (and this is my primary point), to taste is not just to detect the presence of certain molecules. That may be (part of) the objective experience, but is only part of the puzzle. To taste something is to subjectively interpret my enjoyment and experience of something edible. Adding the label and cost can be part of that experience.

Further, the effect of showing the label has a pretty consistent directional impact on ratings. What makes that any different than, say, blocking a specific taste bud receptor and changing what molecules are perceived? I suggest the only difference is the abstraction layer at which the influence occurs.

Taste is inherently subjective. Removing a label does not make it more accurate. I argue further that labels/prices add no more subjectivity than a persons particular configuration of taste buds and neural wiring.
Since gitlab does location base pay I should ask them for location based price. Oh wait i'ts the same for everyone!
I managed remote, multi-national teams before COVID.

The unspoken advantage of remote teams is that employers can use the location pay disparity to their advantage. For example, we had pressure from executives to do more hiring in our international offices because employees were cheaper.

Abandoning location-based pay sounds good to people who feel they are disadvantaged due to location, but location-based modifiers suddenly become popular again when companies start moving compensation toward their cheapest location instead of toward their most expensive location.

The other advantage of hiring in cheap locations is that it's equally cheaper to provide large incentives to the best performers in those locations.

I could pay $150,000 for an average engineer at some of our US offices, and that employee would still be shopping around for their next 10% raise at a competing company.

Or I could pay $100,000 USD equivalent for a great engineer at some of our international offices, and that employee would be so far above market rate that they'd be doing their best work every day because they were so thankful for the opportunity.

I suspect HN's opinion on location-based pay might change over time as Americans realize that US salaries are the outlier on an international scale, regardless of which state or city you live in.
Not by me. The developer is, as far as I am aware, not doing anything illegal, and while F-Droid technically are, the developer as the copyright holder is the only one who could possibly take any action against it and is, I would expect, happier with F-Droid doing what they are doing now than with patching out the EULA acceptance screen.
I'm not an expert, either, but I've seen mentions of "frangible" flywheel materials that basically turn into a powder when they fail, so you get a housing full of what one article described as "red-hot sand".
The numbers don't quite work out that way though. What if it's $500 rent and $10,000 a month or $5000 rent and $16,000 per month?
I'm generally a fan of SSC but the second link is missing some significant factors on why law and medicine have become open to women.

> "This makes no sense. There were negative stereotypes about everything! Somebody has to explain why the equal and greater negative stereotypes against women in law, medicine, etc were completely powerless, yet for some reason the negative stereotypes in engineering were the ones that took hold and prevented women from succeeding there."

There were class action lawsuits that required law firms, law schools, medical schools, and hospitals to accept women doctors and lawyers. After sexism was recognized as a problem law schools used affirmative action to admit gender-balanced classes and law firms hired equal numbers of men and women.

STEM subjects didn't have these interventions so it's unsurprising that sexism is more of an issue than in other fields.
Passing this bill would be the first step in restoring the rule of law and hope for the survival of democracy in the U.S. Too good to be true.
Two terms in the Senate is 12 years, two in the house is 4.

So I don't know where you got 18 from!
Europe west/north of Germany is very rich compared to newer EU states and eastern Europe in general.
http://whoismyrepresentative.com/

Go ahead and give them a call to voice you opinion on how you want them to vote. Democracy only works if you participate in it. Remember that phone calls and actual letters are worth a lot to a Rep. Go ahead and give your senators a call too. Make sure to save all 3 numbers in your phone for easy access, that way anytime you want to participate in democracy, it is easier to do so.
> all the major players allow people to send money AND people are using those platforms to send money.

So if major players jump off a cliff, everyone should always follow?

> the minimum feature set required to be considered viable now includes sending money for a lot of the population.

? No, thank you. Not where the actual banking system is working.
I'll keep that in mind. Hope it doesn't end up like The Interns movie.
BASIC, C, Ada, COBOL.
I remember reading somewhere that MS-DOS was actually developed on Xenix and cross compiled, but I don't know how much of that is actually true, although they hint at it on the article (MS-DOS tooling appeared first on Xenix).

A/UX was interesting and I only saw it once at one computer fair in Lisbon in 1995, it never had much uptake.
This article gives me the opposite impression, this is exactly what the internet should be. There are people out there who just like feet, and now they have a community, a place to meet others who share their interests (and fetishes).

WikiFeet even have reasonable rules, only post people who have an IMDB profile. I'm sure there are a bunch of rules they violate, in terms of copyright and so on, but they're at least trying to be reasonable and impose some guidelines that aren't total off.

It awesome and the interview with the guy just makes it better. He's not trying to hurt anyone, he's aware of the issues and have good answers. It's wonderful that for once you do get this retard answers as to why. Mostly it's just idiots who answer "I don't know" or "I just felt like it".

I absolutely love this, that article made me a little happier this morning.
Nothing the parent said was uncivil. (I say this having largely agreed with your original comment.)
Maybe the reason that the library itself is simple in the article is that that’s just an example and the author wants to show how to do it properly, end to end.
Great review Paras, congratulations! How did you go about getting that review? Or did it just come naturally?
Do you need to go into day view to change the time? If so, maybe days could have a day view icon (perhaps the date number could be a link).
Do you own one? I do. The big problem with u4/3 right now, from a user's point of view, is that the glass is about double the price of an equivalent full-size DSLR lens: $400-500 for a fixed-focus pancake, $700-1000 for a telephoto. Sure you can fit an adapter and use regular 4/3 or other mount-type lenses, but then you lose a bunch of the intelligence. (Also, there are issues with autofocus speed on some of the cameras.)

u4/3 is like Z-gauge model railways, compared to OO or HO gauge -- looks cute, but you pay through the nose for the miniaturization, and have less flexibility and a limited range of accessories to boot.

(I'm really hoping that Olympus, Panasonic, et al get their show in order over the next year or so and really begin to push u4/3, because in principle I agree with you -- but right now, it's not looking good.)

What I'd like to see in the meantime would be a decent telephoto-equipped compact camera with an iPhone dock built into its back in place of the display -- in effect a camera that acts as a sleeve for the iPhone, much like battery extenders such as the Mophie Juicepack. Use the iPhone's screen and user interface to control the camera, and the iPhone's storage to store the shots, but use the camera body to provide proper optics, a larger CCD, and the image processor.

Alas, developing such a gadget would not be cheap, and the vendor -- presumably a big camera manufacturer -- would be working to keep up with Apple's changing form factor.
Maybe it's asking the wrong question.

Why can we walk straight? It's not an easy thing. Think about it, can you draw a perfectly straight line? It's really hard.

We can walk straight because we can see the target and adjust our movement all the time. If we can't see the target, and we have nothing to measure to, we can't adjust our movement.
Looking forward to it. Good luck with everything.
Well, I wrote to Collis (the co-founder of Envato) and he said one or more of their sites would love to cover the tool. Though there is a long period of 2 months between first contact and eventual writeup.

What I love about this review is that the writer actually cared to check out the tool in detail and offer his suggestions (like lower price point).
Yeah, wow, a very in depth review. Would love to know the results of the post.
I actually think your 1st design is far better than your 2nd.

Applying a bunch of dribbble.com trends to a website is not design, nor will it do you any favours.

Here's a few examples:
- The image. The first one communicates your service. The 2nd just freaks me out a little bit, what does it communicate?
- I like how your original design was contained. It had a feeling of folders/filing which reminded me of files/libraries. Now you're using 960.gs it's all a bit scattered, particularly with the misaligned latin book and copy.
-The only element that stands out to me on the 2nd design is the copy in the footer. This is useful to know and instantly communicates how effective your service might be.

Your first design could use some improvements in a number of area's, mainly the copy and UI. Yet you've focused the majority of your blogpost and redesign on aesthetics.

Unfortunately you've gone from a web service that looks as though it was put together by a developer, to a web service that looks like it was put together by a developer and a terrible designer.

Looking at other web app's designs is the wrong way to design. Going on dribbble will do you no favours. Look at your users and think, what will make their visit more enjoyable/desirable/effective etc etc.
While cheating may happen, it’s not like this will result in a whole class of college graduates being unqualified. You aren’t given an engineering degree just because you got a 5 on the BC calc exam. You still have pass your college classes.

The kids that couldn’t pass without cheating will fail their coursework (some will cheat all the way through college, but that has always happened). The kids that could have passed without cheating will have the same outcome as if they didn’t cheat, except they will have lost some integrity.

So there might be a few extra graduates that make it through because they were able to cheat an online exam in high school, but it’s not going to be a huge change.
I meant it mostly as a comparison between IPSec and Wireguard. That tailscale is the next generation. I much doubt Hamachi will transition anytime soon.
I spent about six weeks traveling in Hungary in the summer of 2000, enjoying the great food and wine and practicing my rudimentary Hungarian skills. At the time the country seemed to be a place with crappy past and a bright future.

I even was in Budapest during the celebrations of the 1000 year anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Hungary (which was really just the anniversary of the Christianization of the country and the Pope tossing a crown to King Istvan). The fireworks were great and the I stood in the square in front of the Parliament building and watched a then much younger Viktor Orban giving a speech.

At the time, I was under the impression that Orban was viewed as a vibrant leader committed to democracy and modernization. Oh, how times have changed.

He's now a wannabee dictator, stomping on democracy and free speech, and taking the country on a reverse course back to the darker years of Hungary's past.

What the hell happened to you, Viktor? Did you grow to like power too much? You were so promising, but turned out to be so disappointing. Another Mugabe.

Now I feel sad when I think of Hungary and the nice people I met there. I also marvel at the inability of the people to learn from their past. Hungarians always seemed very well-informed and knowledgeable of their history.
Curious what the higher-level solution to CSRF/SSRF is? I’m struggling to think how it could be prevented except at the browser level (for CSRF). And for SSRF if there’s a legitimate need for a network path between two services but one has an SSRF issue, how can you stop that?
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Rescale offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation. (We're an HPC/Supercomputing Cloud Platform) We are a Y Combinator startup with top investors: Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, & a bunch of others. I think we're now #39 on the Top YC list. We have about 150 employees scattered around the world, with about 28 software developers mostly all located in San Francisco. The company still feels small and everyone is pretty tight. Work atmosphere is fun & friendly. We recently closed Series B ($32MM). We are growing very rapidly--all departments are hiring (We doubled in size in the last two quarters). It's exciting, a lot of opportunity, interesting technical problems to solve, definitely a good time to join. Devs that come in now will have the opportunity to have a big impact on the future of our company, our code & our culture.

We're currently looking for:

Senior DevOps Engineers, Senior Backend Engineers, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, a Lead UI/UX Designer, Frontend Engineers, Senior Frontend Engineers, & PMs
Pipes aren't completely unidirectional. You get one bit of information flowing back: Whether the read end of the pipe is still open.
Frequency and duration of mind-wandering

Kinds of distractions (subtle vs gross)

How much detail is perceived of the meditation object

Is the mind one-pointed

Are there gross physical sensations, or only subtle (like your body is a point cloud)

Are there intense, or subtle, pleasant sensations through the body

Are there constrictions in the body

What is the nature, frequency and intensity of thoughts

Is there a sensation of being a knower/subject

Stage in the Progress of Insight ( https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight... )

Which Jhana ( https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iii-the-sa... )

etc, etc.

Different traditions would be interested in different aspects of your experience, though.
Because presumably they are working with US health officials.
Those are interesting points. I think there are some other factors as well: College provides kids with the experience of face-to-face interaction in an academic setting, which is sufficiently similar to a professional setting. And it also may provide psychological conditions necessary for some kids to actually finish. I would have had a hard time earning my BS degree sitting in front of a screen all day every day for 4 years, while living in a my backwards little hometown.

As a thought-experiment, imagine going down the hallway at a large company, talking to all of the new entry level recruits, and trying to guess which ones went to college and which ones studied at home, just from their behavior. Now guess which ones will move up the ladder and which ones won't.

If colleges are driven out of business, affluent parents will find other ways to provide their kids with those extras, poor kids won't know why their online education hasn't made them employable, and we'll just be back to the same disparities as before.

I'm obviously pushing a particular agenda here, but I think it's worth considering.
A catalog of movies/actresses where they appear nude/in sexy outfits. Mostly softcore information/db on mainstream movies
Relevant programmer section on pages 5 & 6:

> The system programming was not carried out in the UK, and in the country where it was performed the title Miss was used for a child, and Ms for an adult female, hence the error. A manual solution for correcting the problem was quickly identified that involved a team identifying upcoming flights, checking each booking, and changing all adult females with the title ‘Miss’ to ‘Ms’, which overcame the problem. Subsequently, this work was shared between two teams, and the process was completed every afternoon and evening for the next day’s flights. It was checked again every morning, where possible, before flights departed...

> The upgrade programmers adapted a piece of software, which changed the title of any adult female from Miss to Ms automatically, and this was implemented on 17 July 2020. This adaptation was only capable of changing bookings before check-in. Any passenger bookings with the title Miss already checked in, including online up to 24 hours before departure, would not be amended. On 20 July 2020, the programmer was making enhancements to the program to improve its performance. This should not have stopped the program from working, but as this was a ‘fix’, it could not be known for sure.
Whoa, a real world tankie on HN.

Czechoslovak Communist Party was since 1929 an obedient servant of Stalin with zero own will. The chairman Gottwald was a sycophant who later hanged his own friends (Slansky, Reicin) on request from Moscow.

Yes, the coup was nonviolent, much like occupation of Sudetenland 10 years prior, because our elite decided to throw in the towel. There was no one left to defend our democracy against a powerful foe.

"factory workers being armed to defend themselves"

What an incredible load of B.S. People's Militias were Communist equivalent of Iraqi sectarian militias after the ouster of Saddam. They acted as an armed fist of the party for the possible case that democratic politicians decide not to go quietly.

May 1948 elections were a travesty, as were all other elections until 1985 (the last ones under Communist power).
I think it was about how quickly and decisively they moved to secure supplies, how competently they negotiated the contracts and how effective they were at organising vaccination programmes. I think ultimately it was decisiveness that made the biggest difference, while other countries dithered about which vaccines to support.

Now arguably this exposed e.g. the UK to using a vaccine with unfortunate rare side effects (I was vaccinated with AZ myself), but on the other hand this has shielded us from a third wave of infections and probably saved tens of thousands of lives.
Why didn't they use the person's age to decide if a person is a child or not?
Yep. This is the line that made me close the tab:

>Emotion recognition software is largely seen as racist pseudoscience

It's like they're trying to derail the conversation they started. Why do so many petitions just throw a bunch of arguments in there and hope one of them sticks?

This petition is the sort of thing I'd come up with if I was asked to build a false flag operation to discredit people that care about privacy.
It's also a successful tactic, sadly, to just call everyone a racist, the worst thing you can call someone nowadays, and hope they cave. I'm simply not having it and will never engage in something like that.