skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still not great as far as factual information, it gives 3 contradictory sizes for the team (a picture purports to show the team, 4 people (+ the sponsor); it's said the team is 12 people and also 6 people in the text). I don't think they named any of the team, just the sponsor.

The angle appears to be "overcame adversity" but we don't learn where they worked on the project, what facilities they had, nor seemingly anything about the engineering other than the rules of the two competitions ...

Meh.

[Seems like a good personal achievement, I wouldn't belittle that, like get them up in school assembly, show them in the local paper, write about them in your family Christmas missive. But aside from the pretty unexceptional visa refusal it's a non-story IMO.]
What a load of uncorroborated rubbish.

> Whether you agree with leftist thinking or not, academia is heavily politically biased to the left

Reality is heavily biased to the left, or at least certainly the USA's version of the left (which is really more centralist).

It should tell you something when institutions inhabited by some of the most intelligent people on the planet, producing some of the most ground breaking scientific work in the history of mankind all lean a certain way. And hint: the way they lean doesn't espouse that God created the world and climate change is a fallacy. Funny that, isn't it.
But then you seem to be willing to pay for the fraudulent debt in your name due to identity theft.
I'm all with you here. I prefer Haskell and OCaml every time over Scala.
I honestly don't know what the solution is. Making a good user experience (read: convenience) and keeping your stuff secure is always a balancing act. I can't tell you how many times I've told a manager or director not to do something because it would make our client data insecure, only to have them basically reply with, "I'm your boss, do what I say."

This guy may have known exactly what he was doing, but relented to other higher ups who told him to do something. The shitty part is now this is public, all the execs can point to the developer and say it was his fault and fire him without incurring any repercussions themselves.
This would be ideal, but imagine trying to implement it. 4 digit banking PIN numbers are already regularly forgotten, even when chosen by the user.
Why aren't these just upstreamed onto the official Python binaries?
Oncall.
Reduction in demand should lower prices, yes. Either that, or fewer sales.

The reverse - making mortgages cheaper - would also just raise prices.
Downthread you have "corporateguy5" giving the rightwing angle: universities, and indeed knowledge in general, are percieved as "leftist".

The republicans voted on the bill without reading it, as has become common.
Yes. My friend is employed at Redhat and he told me that he also works on porting 2 to 3 (although not fulltime), and it is a huge amount of work. They work on it several years already, and it is still far from finished.
> Even if you find some way to pay for it, I don't want it.

Sounds like you are not open to discussing this.

Also, what does a national ID card have to do with "cavity searches"?

Edit: I understand the American insistence on reducing the reach of the federal government. What I don't understand is how many of those same people are fine with allowing Congress to screw us all over on important issues like healthcare and taxation...
No, what you’re seeing is a bunch of greed. Residents in cities like Berkeley and Palo Alto love the economic boom the tech companies are causing, but they aren’t willing to shoulder the responsibility that the boom brings. So they are screwing over their neighboring cities forcing the burden on them.
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It's true. https://thenewstack.io/instagram-makes-smooth-move-python-3/
S3 buckets are not public by default. You have to go out of your way to enable it.
This article started that rumour due to an error: https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2012/07/03/actualidad/13413401...

Towards the end, they have clarification that states: "Technological development is mainly done at the WhatsApp headquarters in Mountain View and not in Russia as the information suggests. There the company maintains a 'small technical team'."
India is preparing to land on moon for the first time in the country's history
I would vote this up further but it would cause the comment to breach the upper shell of my phone.
First, you may not be aware of yourself sufficiently, but you are being a real asshole. Second, you are correct that I didn't consider that design. This may be because it is a little stupid, or at least impractical without the right target population. For example, if I wanted to study the effects of malnutrition it would make sense to do random assignment to individuals to food and food+extrafood conditions, but only if my sample contained a number of malnourished kids. If I took my sample from middle class America, and I assigned them to food and food+plusmorefood conditions (via force feed I guess?), I'd be studying obesity more likely than malnutrition. Levels matter. I'd guess that the primary interest in the present research is the effect of not getting physical affection as an infant. The effect between some and more affection, is probably qualitatively different than none and some affection.
Life is bad but death is not preferable. No course of action is offered - not procreating may be morally preferable within this system of belief but in the main it will change nothing - humanity will not change its course.

The philosopher wishes to remain reclusive so as not to taint the force of his argument by allowing cheap psychologizing of his character. But this reclusiveness is itself telling - his philosophy is yet another attempt to fetishize the act of doing philosophy by elevating it above the fray of human action- a superior form of life unrestrained by corporeal needs. Here taken to its logical limit.
Same here for my app, but I’m not sure it’s so curious. It’s unlikely I would have realized it was a phantom update vs a regular update if I weren’t the developer of the app.
So if prices do go down, that means property taxes also goes down. So now legacy homeowners get a double tax cut (i.e. they keep the mortgage deduction, and have a lower property tax bill)?
> You could avoid the whole for..of problem by writing ES5 JS code, but for many people that's apparently a worse option than dealing with Babel.

Yes, and I don't understand that at all. I don't have any problems writing plain old ES5 code.
If you're in the US, you already have a national ID. The SSN. Because everyone uses it like that. This would just be a much more secure way of having a unique number for your person.

And if keeping citizens secure is not the job of the government and thus paid for with taxes, then what is?
You vastly underestimate how far that money goes in the regions where these graduates are hired.
Yes! All those pesky foreign Germans and Jews, using STEM as a backdoor to get into our society. What do any of them do? Math? Some nonsense about atoms? Those foreigners are very different from us and will never assimilate, and they certainly won't contribute to our economy, knowledge or international stature.
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You seem to be talking emotionally instead of rationally. But I suppose you already have a passport or a drivers licence (what if you don't drive ?). Then you just add a chip to it. This chip generates its own keys and then you can authenticate yourself with it.
If you post uncivilly to HN again we are going to ban you. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site properly from now on. If you can't be scrupulously respectful of others, HN is not the forum for you.
Yes, lots of open-source tools exist, like NLTK.

Now, put it in production at non-trivial scale.
Those AWS “practitioners” who are too stupid or lazy to figure out IAM policies. Thankfully, AWS has added bright yellow labels to identify public buckets. However, labels won’t be enough to motivate some people to learn JSON.
hacker.org is pretty good.

Some of the challenges can be brute forced easily, and some have only been solved fully by one person. The puzzles are good, but the real fun is in the challenges. Some of the ones I've unlocked have only been solved by less than 100 people.
Here's Naomi Wu's delta 3D printer mod. She mounted one on a backpack carrier frame, powered it with batteries, and walked around Shentzen while 3D printing.[1] This one isn't "fiddly" at all.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ksb-gzfyE
"Some colleges can pay for it" is not a rational argument to not care about this issue. The vast majority grad students do not go to a Harvard that can help pay for this.
That’s probably not the purpose of the tax bill for anyone voting on it. That’s being said I’m sure that some representatives/senators get a kick out of harming people from democratic (“blue”) states.
The university is using that money for something already, and now it isn't. I guess this depends on what that something is. If they're just stuffing it under their mattresses or using it to pay some associate under provost for squirrel education a $150k salary, or putting marble plating in the athlete dorms, then this probably isn't a big loss. If it's going to something like students with disabilities or need based scholarships...
And there are major implications of this qualification, far beyond whether politicians are allowed to block people on Twitter.

Why and how? I don't see how the restrictions on what governmental officials can do with their Twitter accounts will have "major implications". What's the step I'm missing?
The distinction is nebulous. Law is an artifact of culture, and reflects cultural attitudes towards subjects the law covers. Our culture is a culture of (espoused) equality, religious freedom, property rights, supremacy of secular institutions, and individual agency.

Holidays, religious traditions, and to some extent language are artifacts of where the earliest American founders happened to be from, not bedrocks of culture nor the only foundations upon which communities can be built.

Edit: The alienation you imply is happening is a direct result of our collective inability to let go of outdated traditionalism and give people space to explore who and what they truly are.
> In the United States, at least, the U.S. Postal Service is in a unique position to "pivot" to being an identity and "trust" provider.

The USPS is nowhere near equipped to handle this. And there's no way I'd trust them to be competent enough to handle the task with the level of security that it would entail.

> They already provide a physical-to-identity "mapping" service for the vast majority of Americans.

They really don't. Even if we ignore the fact that one's identity is completely separate from the question of where they reside, the USPS has no way to verify residence. They don't really even a way to verify mailing addresses, which is at least a more well-defined problem than residence.
Wow - I never realized the scale of the Mt. Gox one. Wiki says they lost 855,000 BitCoin, which at current prices are around $8.5 billion USD.
The history API is a standard. The various "routing" JS toolkits are hacks built upon that feature.

"My point about an ORM is that your API becomes so simple you don't require a lot of complexity that is required with server-side joins of data in order to render a view. That is gone. No need."

Yeah, I understood your argument the first time you said it, just couldn't believe you were making the argument. If you don't like joins (related: why do you think you need an ORM to join?), don't write your server-rendered endpoints to use them. The one technology has nothing to do with the other.

That said, as soon as you want to achieve reasonable performance and scale, you will rather quickly find it essential to return multiple pieces of data in a single API call.
Yes. My intent was to foster not complacency but hope - everyone reading this, please get on the phone with your representatives as soon as their offices open and tell them to keep the tuition credits while the bill is in conference!

https://whoismyrepresentative.com
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Marketing, but not just marketing.

I want marketing that demonstrates direct returns and validity through empirical testing.

Most marketing people and companies I've seen will happily take your money all day for no demonstrated return at all, and it's incumbent on you to hold them to account. Holding them to account is the expensive part, not doing the marketing.
Last year one of mexico's political parties left the nominal list with a lot of citizen's information available in an AWS server, unforgivable; how come this keeps happening.
I have a Linux desktop machine at home besides a Mac and regularly try open source alternatives. I also use org mode besides Things, and have a custom Emacs configuration with evil, ivy, magic, and whatnot.

However, the open source alternatives for the software I mentioned (and other software) are simply not good enough for me. The additional 'problem' is that open source software that I use, such as Emacs, Latex, compilers, etc. work fine on macOS.

(I used Linux and BSD full-time on the desktop from 1994-2008.)
The contents pop up in "Top Stories". I did not follow them.
The migration is done. Anyone who's not starting projects in Python 3 now will soon be obsolete, because the community has definitely moved on.
Yes, interactions that happen in close physical proximity should be treated differently than interactions separated by digital distances.
It is need based, the needs of the university. The people who go into finance and make the most money contribute more to the University.
A private university, especially privileging students from finance backgrounds, is about as far from communism as it gets.
And apparently it’s breaking FaceID for a number of people
From what I know it's the latter.

We had a large percentage of my graduating high school class end up at ivy league schools. It was interesting to talk to them a decade after they had graduated and were in full swing with their professional career's and life.

One buddy I know who went to Princeton and ended up on Wall St told me they hound him for donations. His fraternity does the same with the emphasis on exactly what you pointed out. He wants his children to have a better chance they he did, so he donates large six figure sums every year to the school and fraternity hoping when his two kids grown up, they will have a leg up on the competition to get in there.
BPD comes in two flavors. The first, acting out, is the stereotypical BPD that is the better known variety. The second, acting in or quiet BPD, is less well known.

For someone in a relationship where it seems to rhyme but not fit understanding the two flavors can be eye opening.

There is also some exploration of the relationship between BPD and trauma as most people with BPD have a history of trauma. There may be some gender bias when diagnosing BPD. Men who report the same symptoms as women are more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD than BPD.
> The question isn’t whether Twitter in general is subject to the first amendment—it isn’t.

You throw that out so lightly. But it isn't so clear to me that Twitter can act like a public forum, and then block citizens from using it, without any due process or even notification (see: shadowbanning). Nevermind that Twitter regularly pushes its own viewpoints to the top, not only of its own homefeed, but picks-and-chooses which users get to show directly underneath the Trump's tweets. That sort of power, unregulated and non-transparent, is immense. Maybe the algorithm should be transparent.

More and more, I feel like content-providers are treating the First Amendment as damage and routing around it [1]

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore
What relationship does providing citizens a way to identify themselves, sign documents, to having cavity searches ... can you show how providing a nationwide digital certificate scheme leads direct to random cavity searches??

It's like if someone says "I fancy Chinese takeaway" and you don't want any you say "enjoy your cavity search" as if that's a natural outcome.

Explain.

Moreover, how is identifying yourself to the police bad? Sure if you live in a fascist dictatorship, but in a Western democracy?
It's only a bit of an exaggeration to say that a lot of money is used to "pay some associate under provost for squirrel education a $150k salary, or put marble plating in the athlete dorms". Surely the universities could find some expenses to cut that wouldn't hurt too much.
Problem acknowledged, though revealed preferences show that humans do value phenotypic traits, and those preferences may be controlled by objective ideas. Actually my main reservation about the word 'dysgenic' would be that 'responsibility' refers to something highly emergent which could be entirely passed down by parenting traditions and not at all by DNA. So, 'dyscivic', then? Yet regardless this inheritance would also be disproportionately selected against. Another objection to my phrasing is that people who take their morality entirely from the social environment can't be wholly responsible people. 'Otherwise responsible' would have been better.
Illegal immigration is a distracting election talking point. It affects us much less than it is purported to. And I’ve thought that news articles about company diversity are hit jobs to move a stock price.

In any case, these topics have high emotional stakes, but are completely subjective. Unlike talking about your favorite movies, which is also a subjective topic, but with much less emotional investment.

I have to ask; why do you want to talk to your coworkers about this stuff? What are you going to get out of it? Are you trying to feel justified about an opinion you hold? I just have no idea why anyone would want to talk about this with people they have to get along with everyday.
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If web standards had prevented the tracking abilities advertisers currently have, i think there would have been plenty of money still in paper based ads because they wouldn't be any "worse" than web page ads. Things seem to be slowly moving towards preventing some of it without users having to be proactive about it. That's progress I can cheer for.
It's a matter of alignment of incentives. Within the company Department X knows that the company's success is their success, one team, one dream. On the outside their success comes from extracting as much as they can from the host entity, without killing it. You can't fault people for acting as they are incentivised to do of course. You can only set up a system of incentives to shepherd people towards the outcomes you want.

Emergencies for the business are not emergencies for the outsourced department.

Well of course not. If someone wanted to work for company Y, it's because, for whatever reason, they wanted to work for Y. If Y stabs them in the back, TUPEs them over to an outsourcing company, why would they go the extra mile? Good people whose goodwill has been wantonly squandered, and who know where all the skeletons are buried...
> I don't think I would call people uneducated and their usage of language dumb and wrong just because it does not follow the usage from one specific point in time long ago. Most things you mentioned have been used by a vast number of people for a significant time now. At some point we need accept that language is constantly evolving. You don't write like Goethe either but I don't call you uneducated for that.

This is a difference in mentality that I observe all the time between English and German language. In English if lots of speakers make some mistake it becomes "an accepted alternative" and at some time even "correct". For German language the mentality is different: If lots of people make a mistake it (with few exceptions) will still be considered as wrong. Accept it.
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Funny how quickly even a vaguely political comment by the OP (mentioning "identity politics") descends into the worst kind of political tribalism.

Sadly we can't have even marginally political posts on HN anymore because of this. US politics is currently too cancerous and toxic (as tends to happen cyclically) to have rational, well thought-out back-and-forths on topics without it descending into generalizations and attacking caricatures of "the other team".
This is true, but it is surprisingly weak as the income of a journal is not too closely related to its impact factor.

My proposal would still mean that Nature would get the most sexy papers because it would get the most sexy proposals. A bigger problem would be journals choosing proposals from authors with a history of getting sexy results rather than on the quality of the proposal. This reliance on "track record" is why the grant system is so broken.
The example the author gives is a domain specific language-like expression.

I think DSLs are, as their name says, domain specific. I do not think there's a one size fits all solution.
I found this article to be quite hysterical (and I follow and enjoy Aaronson's blog). It fails to present (or even consider) that there is a reasonable justification for these tax code changes, and instead leaps to "Trump and the Republicans must be evil and are out to crush all liberal edifices".

An article recently posted here on HN gives a more nuanced explanation for what's going on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15807842

TL;DR, the tuition fee deferral scheme that universities currently use is a grant-money laundering scheme. It's used to take federal grant money that comes with strings attached (e.g. can only be spent on certain things like paying salaries for grad students, or research costs) and launder it into money that can be spent on whatever the university wants (e.g. building new campuses or paying for nice desks for administrators). It's probably not unreasonable for the federal government to try to close this loophole.

The issue is that students are caught in the crossfire here, and I'm not sure that the incentives are there for universities to protect them fully.

But to be clear, the universities could just stop billing the government false grad student salaries, and then grad students' take home pay and tax exposure would remain unchanged, and there would be no crisis. The problem is that then universities would have to find a new money laundering scheme, or would have to make structural changes to their budgets that they would prefer not to make.
If you think they're going to be difficult to steal you're crazy. They will sit unsecured on personal computers in some folder on the Desktop waiting for any malware to scoop them up. They will overnight beclem the highest value target for hackers.

This is even before we talk about how to handle the huge number of people who will lose or delete them.

Tech can't solve this prpblem. Any system that requires a secret won't be.
One of the big differences is generalization vs specialization.

If you're at a big company, odds are there is someone for every task that needs to be done. It's not just that someone can pick it up but I mean it's a part of their job description. If you're looking for mentorship from a specialist, it's great.

At a smaller company, the same tasks have to be done but odds are whoever is available with some basic aptitude (or willingness to learn) can pick it up. You'll end up with a broader range of experience. If you demonstrate skill (or at least competence+enthusiasm), you're likely to do it again because most likely it needs to be done.
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