jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They could be moving to a new generic name "iWhatever" where there are several subsections each represented with a colored circle and an icon inside. e.g. Blue Circle iTunes, iBooks is an orange circle with a book symbol, etc.

Imagine these icons running vertically down the side of the new "iWhatever" client similar to the way they made the "Maximize/Minimize/Close" buttons vertical in the latest rev.

This would actually be very similar to what Adobe did after it acquired Macromedia and faced the similar problem of having a jumble of apps that worked together, but lacked consistent branding and structure. They assigned everything a color and a "Periodic Table" naming convention which cohesively tied their products together.

http://www.thehighcontrast.com/family-tree/

Another similarity is that most designers hated that change, just as they did the new iTunes icon!
Nanoparticles of gold aren't going to make you a millionaire unless you knock down a rainforest the size of South America.
Samsung’s N3 is less dense than Intel’s N7
Ask them to explain their reasoning and their code.
Sure you shouldn't care about scaling at the beginning. But why should you start using a system that you already know won't scale in the future?
Yeah, in no small part because cellular operators tend to be newer than landline ISPs...
It's you.

This paper describes a process significantly more complex than the static molecular structure of DNA, and its abstract is written for the audience of researchers sharing the authors' own specialism. That's actually more useful than the converse, because it enables members of that audience quickly to evaluate the contents for relevance to their own work, in a way that would be much more difficult, perhaps impossible, were it written more concisely.
huh, 76%... my bad, forget I said anything.

p(a') = 1 - 1/10000

1 - p(a')^14400 = 0.76308930063962
The Linux that's widely in use, Android, has the right default. Linux distros should default to encryption too, though it might be contentious given all the workflows that would then brake.
Would Rust be the best choice of language, given all the back pointers (previous, parent)?
So how do we know what Google Classroom does with all the personal data they collect on children?
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”When there is pressure for leaders to respond to problems or crises, they often simply intensify their efforts in their particular defined sphere of activity – even if that’s not relevant to the real problem. To do otherwise requires taking on entrenched practices and asserting power in areas where it often will not be well received. And leaders tend to see major crises more as threats to their own position rather than as systemic challenges for the societies that they govern or the institutions that they manage.

Frenzied grand constructions, wars and great rituals are among the common responses of ancient leaders to crises. These demonstrate powerful responses by the leaders (enhancing their threatened hold on power), but almost never really address the problems themselves. A cynic might characterize the giant U.S. stimulus bill of 2009 as such an effort.” -Arthur Demarest
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Anybody "could". So?
I'm not able to answer that. Please feel free to send questions to the email address listed on the jobs page.
Do you have wireguard installed on the same machine, by any chance? We currently have a conflicting version of wintun that might create problems.
Why not Typescript?

Using a typed languge is such a productivity boon.
Find a different industry. There are plenty of companies doing boring everyday things and going home at 5 scattered around that would love to hire you. Sometimes you take a pay cut to work there - your willingness to do this reflects on you.
Why not use an existing currency which solves the problems you highlight, like Nano?
Consider introducing yourself to those people and asking them about their experiences.
> This is just setting the bar far too high... It's far better than random chance

I don't think it is setting the bar too high, "far better than random" can still be abysmal.

You're right that humans are better than random, but there is a wide range of emotions. Assume for the sake of argument there are 10 emotions to identify and evenly distributed in frequency, then random is getting it right 10% of the time. Let's say humans get it right 30% of the time from still photographs of real-life situations (not staged) -- I'm making this specific number up but depending on the type of experiment, it's a reasonable ballpark one.

That's still horribly low, wrong more than half the time. I can't think of any situation where that could warrant any kind of responsible decision-making. If we were talking 95% accuracy then there could be value, I'm not asking for 99.99% accuracy. But if reliable detection is something like 30%, I stand by calling this "snake oil" even if it's not just random.
Zero surprises here. Both Norwegian and German research teams identified the /actual specific novel antibody/ that causes this /new previously unclassified syndrome/ that was effectively unheard of before the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine existed. Also, both teams are phenomenally talented for identifying this antibody so quickly. Usually it is on “finding a needle in a haystack” level difficulty. BTW, I am probably going to get downvoted but I am definitely not an antivaxxer and I received the AZ vaccine as innoculation for COVID-19.
> I suggest you read more ... I've yet another gut feeling ... I can read prejudice in your words ... I suggest you read about it ... I have no clue. But I'm sure there were other people ...

The repeated assertion that something is obvious, combined with the repeated choice to not provide any evidence of it, makes it hard for me to take this argument seriously.
I liked Bob Wachter's story about how taking aspirin accidentally revealed early stomach cancer: https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1447972627956391941
If you are trying to make a joke, then it wasn't funny. I meant what I wrote. I wrote it for those who might think that my comment is a form of sarcasm.
I think that children want back to school as they miss their friends. Also, at least here, the online education not much less painful than going to school - there is more annoying homeworks, lectures are still super boring and attendance is still enforced.
This line does not reflect well on the author:

> I used to amuse myself by asking recent university grads what they had learned, most of them could barely remember anything. Since I was widely read, often I knew enough to ask basic questions about their discipline, and they wouldn’t know the answers.

One has to wonder if the author's perspective on school might have been tinted by this kind of arrogance.
Do adults really not remember that not all kids are the same? I think most of them do, and that as they read the original post they know exactly who caused the 'social horror show.'
Juan Bennet mentioned in one of his talks how crazy it is that there still isn't a simple way to send files from one pc to another. This is a nice tool.
I don't understand why the NYT would do something like this. I will continue to read the NYT but with a different feeling, it eroded my trust. More missteps and I will loose my trust. This is just unacceptable, especially in the times of fake news.

I think the piece just does not have any arguments, it's just based on held beliefs that some things are wrong. It's just connects dots and quotes sentences that offend a certain readership.

EDIT: And I just don't get why on earth they have to reveal his name if he does not want the NYT to reveal it? What does it add to the story? It's a persons life they are playing with.

EDIT 2: I don't share the beliefs of the blog, but this piece is just written to please a certain readership. This is not journalism!

EDIT 3: the newyorkers article is so much better: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-st...
This thread is going to be full of personal experiences. I suspect that this follows an Anna-Karenina curve: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

So using that, "All happy students are alike; each unhappy student is unhappy in their own way"

I hated school. I was a good student taking "challenge" courses in elementary, then honors courses in middle school then AP courses, but the overall experience of k-12 was horrible for me. When I think about it, I cannot imagine having to go through it all again. It was horrible for me in my own way.
and the author's point is that this is convenient for parents and bad for kids. how about a solution is not as skewed
Probably depends on personality.

As an introvert with a little above average neuroticism I viscerally despised returning to school after a long holiday break from K to 12 without exception. Zero excitement or longing to return. I had good friends, too. I would have much preferred just staying at home and playing video games, getting my social interaction online and keeping in touch with a select few people of my choosing rather than forced interactions with 300 people.

Whether this would've been better for my health is another question.
I don’t remember exactly what I hated about school but I remember promising myself no matter how bad things will get in high school or beyond, nothing in life will ever compare to the insanity of middle school.

College was a lot less productive than high school in terms of academics for me but it was also a lot more fun.

Even high school wasn’t so bad. I’d realized toward the end of high school that I never had an original idea of myself and was at peace with being mediocre.
Can't you just cross compile? Wouldn't you have to do that anyway for some parts of the system? What's the point of bootstrapping?
Yes, that's bad too.
A solar drone that takes hours to charge and flies only a minute at a time is barely an aircraft too. Don't get me wrong, it's a very cool tech demo and I can't wait to see the video, but IMO if your goal is to take pressure/composition measurements in the atmosphere at a variety of altitudes, a weather balloon is the right tool for the job.
It will bother the PU chief, though.
I thought this was already possible. The first Rust compiler is written in OCaml. It should be possible to do bootstrapping with that.
Mexico, 1 Bottle = 4.12 USD

Yeah, no : https://super.walmart.com.mx/cerveza-vinos-y-licores/cerveza...

1 USD ~ 20 Mexican pesos
Why does a coder have to use Apple's tools? Why can't the applications needed for coding be like any other normal application? You don't need to use proprietary software like xCode to be a coder.
Gold and Bitcoin might not be flexible enough, but you could consider them to be more just. When somebody can determine the value of money for everyone else, then that leaves the door open for corruption. It can erode people's faith in money. Fiat money requires that people have faith in the money for it to be worth much. Look at currencies from poor countries with rampant corruption. You can frequently pay in dollars/euros for goods and services, because people trust those currencies above the local one.
I played a Transformers MUSH when I was a teenager. It was great fun and some great memories with friends I’ve never met IRL. It’s a sort of play that becomes culturally less acceptable after a certain age.
I actually had posted it with (For Rental Housing) tacked on the end of the title for clarity, but the mods saw fit to remove that part. Omitting the "in the US" part from that was myopia on my part though--we only aggregate data in the US for now.
Slashdot's metamoderation system is a pretty good approach to preventing users from mis-using their upvotes and downvotes. (Unfortunately, Slashdot's comment moderation system is flawed in other ways, so the benefits of metamod are hard to evaluate objectively. Also, metamod probably won't help for any site where trolling is the dominant culture, which describes most "comment sections" you'll find on the Internet.)
Using old data is fine from a macro point of view.

Contrary to SV spin, there hasn't been an "explosion" in salary levels (and in the few areas where salaries are high, they've been that high for a few years now).

>When negotiating salary with HR (or as HR) for a software engineering position, what sources do you usually rely on for numbers about market salary and total compensation?

As far as this goes, it is more an art and less a technical exercise. If you're proverbially a "sweet talker", you should be able to negotiate up to the companies maximum cap for that position.

Finding out what that cap is? Well that is the art.

As per your original question, try to get cozy with the hiring departments at universities and the HR that visits those universities to get some data on their salaries.

I think most people these days rely on glassdoor and/or payscale because they seem to provide (mostly) accurate data.
Please Tell me do you really find ihr who Unfrieded whom on fb? Or is it Fake? Do you use people's data maybe sell it or something?
It is like Sega v. Accolade, in the sense that it’s clear abuse of IP law to limit competition. But there are two major differences: Although there were accusations of unauthorized copying in Sega v. Accolade, the major issue was that Sega forced the console to display their trademark upon successfully loading a game, and then claimed that Accolade was committing trademark infringement by making a game that could successfully boot. Additionally, the DMCA didn’t exist back then, so violating copy protection wasn’t actually against the law on its own.

There have actually been several copyright cases with good results (Sega v. Accolade, Galoob v. Nintendo, Sony v. Bleem, Sony v. Connectix, Lexmark v. Static Control), but so many cases that have ended in a negative result (Blizzard v. Jung, Universal v. Reimerdes, Macrovision v. Sima) did so largely due to the DMCA. This is why, although I hope Ford loses this case, I hope even more for active effort to fix the DMCA through Congress, not the judiciary.
Sounds like a fix for a symptom not the root problem.

Reading about DMCA makes me feel sick to my stomach. Scrap the lot, the resulting mess would probably be less awful than what we have now.
I think Linus forgets that at one point he too was inexperienced and liable to make these hit-and-hope fixes. I agree with his point in general, but the dickish manner in which it's delivered isn't particularly helpful ("Why don't we write code that just works?")
Gr8 idea, but I wonder how many would be willing to use it (especially when there is an option of firing up a amazon ec2 instance when needed).
Still, there is no images. You may want to look at comment here from the author of this post:

http://www.mathteacherctk.com/blog/2011/04/00-mnchausens-syn...
Linus seems to be (correctly) railing against what is classic cargo cult behaviour.

Making changes until someting seems to "work".
Its a great resource, I am looking forward to see if Rebecca creates some Dojo (or even better a framework agnostic) learning materials.

It's great to see someone pushing us beyond the jQuery omnipresence.

Her blog [1] is full of good screencast and the last entry about Modern JS is very valuable for the community

[1] http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/
When I read this article, I chuckled at how much smarter and wiser I am than Tom Friedman. But you make a good point. If he would have picked almost any other internet company, he could have been pointing us to this article to say "I told you so". This is not to say his argument is right, but at least he's less wrong than on first inspection.
Looks like troubles in only one availability zone.
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

Unfortunately the author seems uninformed. He claims that 0^0 = 1, not indeterminate which is what Wolfram Alpha claims (and as anyone knows, if you use indeterminates you can prove any number equals any other number, which the author does in uncached screenshots). The problem though is that 0^0 changes its meaning depending on the context. If you have an function f(x,y) = x^y, it's not continuous at (0,0) because the limit of x -> 0 is 0 and the limit y -> 0 is 1, making the value undefined! (Which is still different from 1, 0, or indeterminate.) I used to know of a better blog post on the issue, but here's http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html

Oh wait, I found it: http://www.askamathematician.com/?p=4524 "Zero raised to the zero power is one. Why? Because mathematicians said so."

Sort of in the same character of dispute is the fact that 0 and 1 aren't probabilities: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/

I'm also unsure what the author is entering since the screenshot isn't cached. If I try http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=summation+x^n%2Fn!+from... wolfram gives the correct e^0 = 1.

Edit: Ah, he's using http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=summation+0^n%2Fn!+from... (substituting 0 in explicitly instead of instructing Wolfram to substitute on x) which is quite an interesting quirk to give 0.
I haven’t seen any real results on whether bare virions in the air are infectious, but it certainly doesn’t sound like a major mechanism of COVID-19 infection. Certainly, when coughing, a good deal of the expelled material is visible and fairly large. And wet.

ISTM a moderately tightly woven or knit hydrophilic mask (e.g. cotton) could be quite effective. Knits could have the added benefit that droplets would need to take a twisty path to get through. And there is plenty of such material around.

This shouldn’t be that hard to study in a lab. Find a sick person, have them cough through different masks, and measure viral concentrations on nearby surfaces.
It seems likely there will be a lot less interest in public transit investment after the pandemic. Not more.
The source posted answers that too. In one of the studies contained in the 538 article, the probability of a woman being taller than a men if both are selected randomly was .102. Compare this to the observed probability of woman in a couple being taller than her male partner being .075.

How big is this difference? Well if 25 percent of women only dated taller men, and the other 75 percent of women were totally indifferent, we would see this. So not quite as extreme as one might guess from a statistic like "92.5 percent of men are taller than their partners".
Chernobyl was projected to kill millions. The top epidemiologists in the world projected in the most realistic scenarios that the death toll would have been in the millions prior to the quarantines. Both could have been prevented if people knew the truth well in advance of the crisis.

Call it hyperbole, but the Spanish Flu killed millions because the public was not told the truth soon enough. We were likewise told this was nothing to worry about for months, and now we have ~30%-50% of the US quarantined.
There is no way Theo didn't know Jason worked at NETSEC; Jason's a co-author of an academic paper about the OpenBSD cryptography implementation, under a NETSEC address.
A small tip for the for loops:

for n in {9..0}; do echo $n ; done

or

for n in $(seq 9 -1 0); do echo $n ; done
A month? I'm getting over a year from my look; the bug was introduced with the original feature in 2001.
"Regression tests for an IPSEC implementation". Heh.
that's a bit similar idea I got some time ago and even started building, later abandonned it. are you planning on releasing an API?
Do you plan on creating an Android version anytime soon?
not all taxable income is reported to the IRS
Why wouldn't you just use a cheap fan in place of the Dyson? Sounds like you have a separate purifier that does the cleaning, and all you need is something that will move air.
>No one is physically unable to move on from Internet explorer 10.

Please rethink what you wrote here. You made an ableist and ignorant statement.

There are many, many people out there who are trying to access information resources who, for one reason or another, have no control over what browser they are using.

Corporate users. People with older devices they cannot upgrade. People who don't want to upgrade. People using public computers in libraries, shelters, and other assistance centers. People borrowing someone else's device or with a hand-me-down. People with devices they are emotionally attached to for whatever reason. The list goes on and on.

I don't know about you, but as a developer who likes to think of himself as conscientious, as a developer trying to conquer laziness and over-complexity, as a developer who thinks about users and greater good, I'm not going to consciously write all these users off just because Internet Explorer presents some challenges in writing compatible code.

If you are going down that path, please go to the bathroom, if you are privileged enough to access one, and have a long hard look at yourself in the mirror. Is that really the best you can do?
I've got two Blueair 121s (the larger sibling to the 211+) that were recently on sale at Costco.com for the price of the 211+. My family could sense the difference in air quality within a couple hours.

I can't say that about any of the prior purifiers we've tried.
I'm not big on bans.

What I am big on is forcing developers to make deliberate choices. That's why I like React's policy of naming functionality "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" or "__SECRET_DOM_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED".

If you add usages for these in a PR I'm reviewing without justification, it's not getting merged.

So why not make cryptographically unsafe random unsafeRandom() or shittyRandom() or iCopyPastedThisFromStackOverflowRandom()?
A single lobby is not "the average Republican"...

I was hoping for at least a poll of some sort.
I'd arguee Go's string type is "somewhat unusable"* since it doesn't enforce the guarantees it says/implies it does. The byte slice it points to is not guaranteed to be valid utf8.

* of course to a degree, let's be reasonable, it's usable in a _lot_ of contexts, but I like my types to actually mean something.
We're also in the same boat. It's something that stays out all the time. It's just unsightly to keep a box fan filter out all the time (we used one when we first moved out, and man, the back of the filter gets disgusting).

Looks do matter, and at least for our decor, there isn't really much choice. We pick our furniture based on how it mathes our interior decor, why would an air purifier be any different if it's out and on all the time?
Lightbend is planning to end support and development of Slick? This is the first I've heard of this. Can you point me towards what they've said?
Probably in this case OP is referring to identity politics and intersectionalism.

Basically, the more categories of historically marginalized people groups an individual belongs to, the more acceptable that person is, the more of a voice they’re allowed to have, and the more laudable it is to favor that person (and the more unacceptable it is to fail to favor that person regardless of the circumstances).

This doctor apparently “failed” to favor the right people. The progressive calculus around the case is all about “who”, and it intentionally excludes what, when, where, why, or how.