skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poisonously, kids have become commoditized and all that distinguishes them are 'Schools and Grades'. 'Schools and Grades' are really the product here. Kids are the sellers. Companies are the buyers.

Until companies stop valuing kids solely by their 'School and Grade', this cycle will continue.

To make this an interesting conversation, how DO companies hire great people without relying on their 'School and Grades'? Are 'Schools and Grades' really the best indicator for worker performance?
Here is an interesting post about the Linux project and why they don't use GitHub

https://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kerne...
It’s probably not so much about not looking bad and more about enabling productivity. I’m sure they are getting pushback from many companies which interact with foreign nationals whose work is affected by the GFoC.
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Pre-heating at the highest temperature setting for 45-60 minutes on the normal oven setting and then cooking on the broiler setting (again, properly pre-heated) works great for me. I also use a thick baking steel, hence the extensive pre-heating.

Works great, cooks amazing pizza in a couple of minutes.
Grade inflation is also related to money pressure; more students getting diplomas means more money, so there is a perverse incentive to lower the levels.
> Then running b.c will segfault

why would it not ? On one side you declare an int array of size 1, on the other side you declare a pointer. Think about what's going on with the bytes :

int n[] = { 1 };

will look exactly the same in memory than

int n = 1;

which is of course not compatible with

int* n = 1;

Arrays by themselves have no indirection in C.

=> https://godbolt.org/g/xwT7uW
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Still means it is a viable strat. If your opsec requires an exploit that's currently invaluable to OPS targeting way bigger fish, You can operate with some degree of impunity until the exploit becomes moot for the bigger fish.

It's why security researchers will in all odds never be the target of an "evil maid" attack. It isn't worth the time.
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I have never once seen that. Are you in the US?
Yes it's a bit like the pot calling the kettle black when the tech we're burdened with now is an overcomplicated pile of shit.
Wages keeping pace with inflation, but not rising above, are "flat."
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Almost no one at GT does true curves anymore. Just like stack ranking, trying to implement true curves with a non random distribution is a fool's errand and poor knowledge of statistics.
s/adverse/averse/ would make it even greater.
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That's not what happens. If A meant success at X, like running a mile in X time meant you could outrun a bear, no matter the percentage of people, it would be great.

What's happened is parents pressured schools to get their kids A's to get into college, then colleges set the minimum bar at A+ instead of A, then at A+ and a random selection of thousands of students, all with A+'s. We are at the point where a single A- will drop you 50 slots in class rank. This is like judging the difference between Olympic sprinters instead of seeing the real spread among students.
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I’m not saying it should exist at all. It needs to be better here. American mass transit is just plain awful.
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You're not wrong, but you're also significantly overstating the risks to prosecutors. Prosecutors are rarely punished for misconduct. http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-lying-prosecutor...
Why make it either-or?

I prefer NoSQL when there are scaling needs, because it _can_ scale horizontally. Sometimes it's just easier to use, too, and there are times when the feature set maps _much_ better onto the problem at hand.

Not all of your data access needs to scale horizontally, though, and if you have relational data you should use a relational database unless your scaling needs are extreme.
Python is using Git these days:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/listob...
They think they discovered a new behavior because it's the first time they saw the behavior, the arrogance of humans is amazing. Christopher Columbus also thought he saw it first
Apparently under certain conditions it is possible to emulate a crude form of ad hoc polymorphism in C.

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Dell is going public. Again
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Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted
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The valedictorian will frequently bother me for the next task or to sign off on something, the 3.0 gpa figures it out on her own. Obviously this isn’t always the case, but it’s what I’ve observed in my mere 28 years on this earth, and happens to match my beliefs.
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>Because static typing primarily focuses on showing that your types align. This is completely tangential to knowing that the code is doing what you intended.

That's not true. It entirely depends on the power of your type system.

Types do not just encode "alignment" matching -- they can be used to encode all kinds of intent.
From my understanding, Capsule Networks seem to be the answer to the last papragraph. We need hardware gains before we get to realize their potential. TPU2 Pods?
The middleway is not the problem. As you mention about the strawmannery; the problem is that often the "tried and tested" people are resistant to trying something else.

On the other extreme, the "React, SPA, SSR" people often discredit the page reload thing without thinking whether it works in the scenario.

I'm all for learning both ways, but don't like it when someone suggests something without objectively motivating why.
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I don't disagree except for the tiny edgecase where graphs are useful. The SQL/ NoSQL tradeoffs are well documented, saying NoSQL is hyped and volatile is silly.
I doubt we can ban people from buying and selling cryptos, and there'd be quite a bit of resistance to that.

But this is about advertising to consumers - and there's ample precedent that advertising for financial products unsuited to retail investors can quite definitely be banned, especially in the UK.

We should not be seeing crypto ads on the Tube.
> I've worked with plenty of "page reloads" frameworks that were at least as complex as their SPA counterparts. I get that you don't like Javascript, but seriously, SPA is proven and popular at this point too.

It's certainly popular. I wonder if sites like github would be simpler for users, developers, and devops if they just embraced SPA - judging by your comment, maybe?
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> Better to get a C at MIT than an A at RPI.

Better to be a top student in an average school than to be an average student in top school. More opportunities are offered to the better students. More chances to grow come about too.
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Thank you! What is more surprising to me is just the blatant amount of fraud happening on ad networks that seems to be unchecked. It is a hard problem to detect -- I think maybe AV's should forward reports when possible.
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then you're one of the only ones
$personvar = Planet earth is infected by humans who insist on forcing their perspective on those around them.

If you refuse to quit the recreational things you enjoy when $personvar demands it, they label you an addict. It doesn't matter to $personvar if you already proved your non-addiction to yourself and other $personvars, because $personvar has their head up their own asses.

This can easily send you on a long journey of self-doubt, and you should absolutely hold $personvar accountable for reducing the quality of your life for their own selfish reasons.

Addiction is a real thing sure, and decades of scientific studies have shown that Marijuana is not an addictive substance. Stop tolerating the liars.
That's putting a lot of faith in HW manufacturers' security practices. I've had conversations with ex-employees of a couple of large cell phone firms who know about their build systems, and am not willing to buy those brands now.

(Think: Dedicated PCs, one builder for each major revision of a phone, basically unpatched for years, with magic and difficult to reproduce configurations. Don't know specifically about HSMs, but those seem unlikely given their level of care and sophistication).
I would guess that the people tasked with observing the new moon have a sense of responsibility and know on which day they are expected to observe it, so they do the right thing. It's easy enough to avoid observing the new moon too early: just don't look at the sunset on the day before. Making sure you do observe the new moon on the right day is harder, but if you have several observatories you can probably manage it without self-deception almost every time.
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>The things on the left that are simple and proven, while the things on the right are hyped and volatile.

>3-tier applications vs. micro services

As yes, the volatile and unknown territory of the architecture formerly known as "Service Oriented Architecture" that has been in use since at least the early 2000's.

I get what this guy is trying to say, but examples like this don't help.

Ultimately, I don't subscribe to his manifesto any more than I subscribe to manifestos about SQL being dead or monoliths being poison in all cases.

These things are all tools in the toolbox. You'll use some of them more than others during your career. You might use a given tool a lot because you like it, or you might use it a lot because it's a really useful tool even if you hate it. Both are fine. In addition, you'll find that sometimes you really /do/ need a triwing screwdriver, so it's nice to have that in your toolbox as well.

Don't be that guy who throws out either SQL /or/ NoSQL just because he likes the other thing or thinks it's more widely applicable. Both technologies suit some use cases the other doesn't. Use the tool that's right for the job, don't get culty about trying to wrangle an ill-fitting tool to a job it was never designed for just because you've tied your ego to it.
As it turns out, you can have a powerful macro system without s-expr syntax (e.g. Scala, Nim). In any case, you jus need to write functions that operate over trees, which you can do in any language. That this tree is not immediately reflected in the actual syntax is just a minor hindrance
I find it sort of funny that the article describes all screens (and even lighting) as touchscreens in the title. I guess that is a sign of their ubiquity.

Blue started as a difficult color to make (and it still wears OLED screens much faster) and became a symbol of modernity. It also creates an interesting halo effect in most lenses (even our eyes) because we can't focus it well.
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Browser makers must not agree with you, because self-signed certificates get huge warnings, but HTTP connections get at most a little "Not Secure" notice in the address bar.
Google takes 45% of the revenue that they go out and get for you while they cover 100% of all expenses... Not the worst deal I've heard of. Seems like a better deal than app stores that take 30% of the revenue that you go out and get yourself.
There's a significant tendency on HN to unduly discount good grades. I think this is a mistaken tendency due to univariate, linear thinking. Grades are not everything, but they are not nothing.

The fact is, determining a good hire requires multivariate, nonlinear thinking.

Good grades can be a proxy for metaskills like discipline, cognitive ability, etc. They don't always measure these things perfectly, but the correlation is not negligible.

Doesn't mean say, a 2.5 GPA isn't a good hire -- but in multivariate thinking, there has be other factors that compensate for the low GPA. Otherwise you'd be hiring a 2.5 GPA who is truly mediocre, and my experience is that the majority of 2.5 GPAs are that. Not everyone with a low GPA is pursuing other interests or passions. Also, doesn't mean that everyone with a high GPA isn't (at competitive schools, the best students tend to be active in many extra curricular activities unrelated to their majors)

In the engineering/academic world, grades do matter and are highly predictive of ability. People with poorer grades often struggle a lot, and the amount of time spent on remedial training may not always pay off. We have this ideal of a genius hacker who blew off school but is a 10x coder in real life... but in reality those people are comparatively rare.
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> It’s probably not so much about not looking bad and more about enabling productivity. I’m sure they are getting pushback from many companies which interact with foreign nationals whose work is affected by the GFoC.

Anecdote time: I once met a mainland Chinese software engineer who told me that his department pays for a VPN subscription so they can access the uncensored internet for work.
> flag bits

That's sort of a processor specific implementation detail, IIRC you can access them via GNU extensions.

> SIMD vectors

Not having SIMD IMO is a feature as doing useful things will expose processor specific details, you can use SWAR to do some of SIMD.
>Is the preference here that the guy didn't have the option of fixing his truck?

It would be nice if people weren't running so close to the edge that an emergency can ruin them. I don't know the particulars of this guy's story, there must be many people who are in this situation since this is such a profitable industry. Maybe that speaks to a larger issue of inequality in our society. I'm not sure that relying on predatory loans to be a safety net are the only or best option for society.
Dumb people prefer the company of other dumb people.