skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to be blunt throwawaymath, but that's just wrong. I am very familiar with several American universities (including Ivy League) where the advisor can admit directly.
> Perhaps a rethinking of borders would be positive in the long run.

Probably yes, but it is very long term, and the short and medium term for such rethinking would be very calamitous, as cataclysms tend to be. Personally I feel like trying to maintain status quo (on a large scale) and instead try to establish more foundational work for now is more prudent
I think he may be a Trump surrogate masquerading as a Trump "explainer". He is pretty good at explaining some of Trump's actions and is generally a good writer, but I think he was heavily gunning for Trump from the start, despite claiming to be neutral. He may've even considered himself the "master persuader" all along: convincing a lot of people, even some smart people, that Trump is a masterful schemer whose "mistakes" are all carefully calculated 5D chess moves.

Nearly everything he's written, both pre- and post-election, have been attempts to bend over backwards defending and rationalizing Trump's actions.

I think he's now attempting to latch himself onto Kanye and help get him elected in the future. I would not be surprised if part of his motive is personal political power. Given his history of sockpuppetry and the way he talked about himself, it doesn't seem like a huge stretch.
Verizon taps Ericsson for 5G-ready network gear with 4G speed boosts
Based on the comment history GP has some axe to grind with iFixit.

I don't get why they dislike iFixit, as the guides they put out are high quality and well suited for their target demographic. Not everything has to be geared to the super-knowledgeable reader, especially things like repair guides for consumer electronics.
The is part two of a post.

Part one can be seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544689
> Who would spend money on this?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero

etc.

> How is this not an insane product concept?

I thought sanity died years ago.
Isn't this what some people want? All addictive drugs to be legalized so people can make their own decisions to take or not?
I don't think you can blame Juul for your own mistakes and behavior.

But Juuls are seriously bad, and this is coming from an ecig/vape user. I cannot emphasize enough that people need to stay away from Juul. The sheer nicotine they pack in their pods is habitually addictive, they're ridiculously expensive, their quality control leads to constantly leaky pods... any other solution is better as far as I've experienced.

Even the other "gas station ecig" products (Vuse, Blu, etc) aren't nearly as bad. But if you're trying to quit, get a normal sub-ohm device and create a plan. The beauty of vape as a quitting mechanism for cigarettes is that you have complete control over the nicotine content. Buy a bottle of 6/9mg/ml juice + a bottle of 0mg/ml juice of the same flavor, and create a dilution plan. Week 1, full strength, week 2, 90% 9mg 10% 0mg, etc etc.

Once the nic addiction is gone, all that's left is the ritual, which is a bitch to get rid of, but you can do it. Stick on 0mg, ween it off, and replace it with new healthier habits.
I bought a Canon camera battery grip for my Canon 7D DSLR. Normally I buy these kinds of things directly from amazon or other notable sellers to avoid getting scammed, but they were sold out and I had a trip coming up. So I order from what looked like a reputable 3rd-party prime seller. The grip I ordered is the kind that adds, grip, more batteries and additional buttons to your camera, so you can take vertical shots more easily. It was something around $200.

It arrived, and felt like a legit piece of hardware... but after playing with it for a bit. I noticed three things, the blue paint color indicating button functions was slightly different than the ones on my camera, and the patterning on the rubber grips was slightly different than what was on the camera, and the device, although super good quality (that's why I didn't even notice initially) was made of a very tough, heavy plastic, and not the magnesium of the camera body. The box also looked spot on like canon gear. I was faintly suspicious, and started investigating and did a bunch of online searching about things to spot, the proper build materials etc. If I wasn't so picky I think I would have just accepted it. It was indeed a great piece of hardware. It turns out that this was indeed a knock off. A very good one. I ended up informing amazon. They told me they didn't want it back, and sent me a new, legit one. I ended up selling the fake one on ebay, informing the buyers that it wasn't a legit grip, but a very good quality knock off and I made like $100.

When the new legitimate Canon grip arrived, it had the same grip material, same paint, made of magnesium.

So all-in-all I ended up with a legit Canon battery grip for half the price.
Neuron is the hardware. We have no idea how the software on it works. The way we model neural networks might be a very different from the operating system of the brain. It's like saying we mapped the x86 chip so we should be able to to simulate all it can do without reverse engineering the software.
They keep electing people who reduce taxes for the rich. If it was up for a direct vote, I doubt most of these tax bills would pass. The last one was deeply unpopular with the public.

Some of it's just failings of a two party system. You vote for the one you like better, but given a binary choice it's a fairly non-specific vote.
Show HN: Platform to track how well a Product Hunt launch performs
Direct injection could be a potential problem for gasoline, but not that much in practice.
No.

Is it that hard to comprehend that it's rude to share private correspondence without permission? Particularly from a VC that went above and beyond and shared reasons instead of "not a fit" or "maybe".
Just like socially awkward people and autistic persons interact very well among themselves.
Note: it's clas-cal, not classical, as my brain auto-corrected it to. Clascal is a set of object-oriented ("clas") extensions to Pascal.
Heathrow scanner trial could bring end to airport liquid ban
I wish you just had the workstation download on the homepage again. I had to find your homebrew bottle GitHub repo to figure out how to install Krypton on my new MacBook.
It costs $199 and you can't even store '@' with it!
Any particular reason you are using Nouveau? Nvidia users on Linux overwhelmingly [1] prefer the official binary blob.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/mL98GZA.png
> Stop providing loan guarantees

Full stop.

Need-based public aid (whether it's the recipients financial need or societies workforce need, or both) should be grants, and there should be broad opportunities for public civilian service that provides service-based grants not based on specific need, too. The former should have payoff considerations, the latter should not.
I can't make heads or tails of this comment, likely due to hn formatting.

But as far as I can tell, this exploit requires 3-4 zero day exploits to be discovered in a system the attacker has no access to, and to all go undiscovered for an unknown amount of time for while said attacker is exploring.

That's much better than "I can steal user credentials and then download an exploit trivially."
> Is "vandal" really politically incorrect these days?

I have no idea. I'm not sure if most persons' definition of "politically correct" is sufficiently nuanced to cover this application.
If you're not in STEM, if you want a PhD in the humanities, it's going to be a VERY tough path. Many of those students do shell out many thousands of dollars per semester, ending their PhD with very high levels of debt. At the same time, the jobs for people with PhDs in humanities are becoming less frequent, even as the number of PhDs in non-STEM is increasing. Many of these individuals are stuck in adjunct slavery. It's a sad state of affairs that those who want to further their own knowledge can be so mired in debt, yet it has happened to multiple friends of mine who "followed their dreams".
What this article is getting at is that memory and "truth" are not really compatible concepts, which I think most neuroscience supports. Research around vision generally shows that even what we see, first hand (not in video) is an assemblage or construction, not a "record." Yet humans in general tend to believe that if they see something, it's either real or "faked" (like magic) rather than suspect because of the natural limitations of our brain system (which are also advantages for survival). We also have an even harder time to distinguish 'reality' when our emotions are involved. "Fake" video does present more of an issue, I think, than past "fake media", because we simply have more emotional response to it than other media.
The problem with lead is that it tends to bio-accumulate in various types of body tissue, making blood lead levels hard to bring down. Chronic exposure builds up over time. I also disagree that 483 tons is "a very small amount of pollution". Lead cannot be compared with more typical pollutants like CO2. A better comparison might be mercury, which measured 52 tons emitted in 2011. I still won't say 52 tons is small, but it's a lot better than 483!

I want to reiterate that small propeller planes that seat 2-6 people make up virtually the entire market for leaded aviation fuel. Larger propeller planes typically have turboprop engines which burn kerosene like most jet/commercial aircraft. There is a big cost upon society caused by a small number of people, for something that is completely unnecessary (private air travel).
But that feedback isn't too helpful without specifics like "too salty", or "too runny".
Alphabet jumps more than 4 percent after big earnings beat
I'd wager the bar wasn't as high back then as you think. Most people still wrote inefficient things. Lots of it.

Lots of those people who wrote inefficient things were the C students in Comp Sci. A lot of those people writing bad code were home-grown programmers who were completely missing pieces of knowledge. From what I saw as an undergrad, it wasn't the 3.75 GPA CS students who were doing those things.

So, seriously, do you have data showing that the bar is lower?

It's not my job to do such studies, however I do interview job applicants. A disturbingly large number of applicants, who all have 3.75+ GPAs, try to tell me nonsense, like "null pointers take up no data." I'd say I encounter something about as egregious as that with a bit short of half. In my recollections of interactions with classmates, I could take it for granted that CS students who made it past Freshman year knew enough to actually implement algorithms and could actually implement a recursive function. If you had tried to talk to them about such things as some kind of deep esoteric knowledge, they would've just given you a funny look.
Replacing Linux with a Database System on a 32K Core Supercomputer
I have. Driving the car causes so much more heat production by the engine than idling that it barely makes a difference.
Ask HN: One-click datawarehouse tool for popular SAAS tools. What do you think?
We have internally built a one-click datawarehouse integration tool for some of the SAAS tools we use and have used it in the past. Tools like Stripe, Podio, Marketo, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Salesforce, Facebook Ads Manager etc.

We are considering giving everybody access to to the tool. Do you think it would useful?
Author here: I don't know very much about how swamp coolers are used in practice, so I could easily be missing something. I do know that they're basically never used up here in the Northeast (Boston) because they work by increasing humidity and in the summer we tend to have pretty high humidity already. We also tend to have daytime highs high enough that the air leaving a swamp cooler would be warmer than the temperature of a structure that's been cooled overnight with a whole-house fan, plus more humid, which means during the hotter parts of the day you don't want to bring in outside air. So, how could a swamp cooler be used without increasing the daytime humidity of the house?

What I'm imagining is running a swamp cooler overnight to cool the structure of the house as close to the wet bulb temperature as possible, then in the early morning run it a bit in fan-only mode to bring in drier outside air (accepting that this will warm the house up a bit), and then shut the house up and turn the cooler off for the day.

What we currently do is run a whole-house fan overnight, and shut the house up during the day, with no swamp cooler. I'm trying to figure out whether adding some evaporation to the system could make sense.
Lying becomes you as much as your willful ignorance.

There are very specific reasons it's not sold in 'microdoses'.
It's probably not their fault.

The reason we get articles like this is because present society encourages you to write about every little experience. If you don't, then it either didn't happen, or it didn't matter.

I think they simply have no idea how hard raising money actually is.

Pitching for 2 months and raising a fat seed sounds like a dream.
Prolonged guerilla insurgencies etc typically don't benefit the constituents either (unless you take the viewpoint of them being the crooked type).
I'm surprised they didn't compare the Vaporfly 4% to two other shoes: the Nike Zoom Fly and the Reebok Floatride Run Fast. The former is an identical shoe, but with the Pebax replaced with another foam (Lunarlon?). The latter is another Pebax foam shoe, but in a different form factor. That way they could tease out of it is the material or the shoe design.
I am one of those who chose a "conventional" job (which I guess means industry) after getting a PhD in math. IMO there is usually nothing tragic with leaving academia for either "conventional" or "unconventional" jobs. There are pros and cons to each choice. People's interests change. I loved (most of) my time in grad school but do not regret choosing a non-academic career.

IMO the bad part is that when you are on a research track leaving academia is seen as a non-redeemable loser move by most professors and is a one-way street. This leads to folks staying on academia path for years after their heart is no longer in it for fear of making an irreversible change. Just a data point.
Is it that unappealing for US citizens to get a STEM PhD? Especially in the US the private sector ought to offer enough jobs at the PhD level and pay to make the PhD worthwile.
tl;dr

fake it till you make it
Microsoft Getting Ready to Launch Windows 10 Redstone 6 Preview Builds
Currently 25. Not really sure where I'm going or even what I'm doing (remote dev job, currently), but I think one thing I'm starting to learn and appreciate is that personal meaning and fulfillment matters a lot more than money or even "career". (Though I also appreciate that a majority of people can't flexibly make such a choice and need to provide for their families.) Also that I shouldn't hesitate leaving jobs I'm seriously dissatisfied with.
Several schools are investing in their students, using the Income Share Agreement (ISA) format. Students do not pay any upfront tuition, the school takes care of it. Then, students only pay when they find a job with a % of their income. Alternative education[1] but also more traditional college are offering this[2][3].

[1] https://www.inc.com/salvador-rodriguez/long-term-coding-scho...
[2] http://time.com/money/4568213/income-share-agreements-colleg...
[3] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/07/21/i...
A bigger volume might even be an advantage - easier to turn your ship if you can mount engines far from the center of mass. Plus, built in shielding.
> You can know whether the aesthetics of something does or does not work without being able to determine why.

You can no whether or not they work for you without knowing why. But the nature of subjectivity is you can't know whether they work in a more general sense without analyzing the elements of the thing in question against an accurate-enough picture of the distribution of tastes in the population.
You know the radio will work with the engine off, right? And the fan too! If the car is already warm/cold, the fan will move enough air to keep the car comfortable on all the but hottest/coldest days.
Of those listed, only the air-conditioner is a significant battery drain.

However, many vehicles are such configured that in order to have any amount of power available, you need to also power up the daylight running lights, fuel pump, internal computer and other consumers that quickly add up and can indeed drain a battery in a few hours. There needs to be more awareness from the car builders about the need for an eco, long lasting ignition option that you can safely use without risking battery discharge.
What would you say to someone who is around that age working full time and halfway through a CS masters (struggling through it)?
That's a huge oversimplification. There isn't some hard drive from where software is loaded onto neurons. A closer model would be saying that the software is the neuron's interconnections and it's activation weights. The neurons are both the hardware and the software.
If you want to work for yourself or start a startup, giving it away for free is a terribly bad move. Your friend did the right thing.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. For the record, I'm now 36.

For me, after turning 30 it became much harder to attend meetups, learn new things, build side-projects, work on open-source stuff. I now have so many more commitments, and my brain seems to have slowed down.

So my advice is to take advantage of all that free time and mental energy you typically have in your mid-20s. As you said, your bank balance will thank you later.
That takes a pretty shady turn when they start checking serials to see if they're already activated. That's why people with a brand new iPad complain they can't activate it.
We use Webex on Linux via the web version
I don't know if anybody ever said that. And if somebody ever did, the person apparently haven't travelled much.
I'm not so sure if "we will all start picking up on peoples kinematics and timing" is going to happen - if anything, we should expect the video faking systems to adapt faster to this than masses of people; it currently has some issues with kinematics just because the concept is quite new and unpolished, give it an extra year or two, and those systems will pick up (and reproduce) the president's kinematics far better than I do.
Why can't that "different approach" be simply painting (realistically) things that don't exist?

For example:

Pictures of something that existed in the past, but was destroyed. Or someone who died. Or a younger portrait of someone.

Pictures that differ from reality, such as putting together two famous buildings that actually exist in different cities, near-equator stuff covered by snow, scenes containing objects with incorrect size... Or impossible structures, like Escher did, only more realistically.

Science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales...

Painting a "realistic" dragon requires skills, and cannot be replaced by photography. Why don't modern artists show their skills at this?
because they didn't necessarily "slog" through stuff, have some troubles, not try to just memorize formulas and algorithms, they don't have the ability to think through problems

http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
On my second job, learning how to code better. Still needed to learn how to be less of a jerk...
Adversarial is good. What the OP may be suggesting is: take a pool of lawyers, and have them be either prosecutors or defense lawyers, on any given day.

It has some practical issues (defense lawyers are not paid by the state, prosecutors are).
I've been on the PhD admissions committee for the Berkeley CS PhD program. Students in many areas are, for all practical purposes, admitted by an advisor. It's not a formal arrangement in the same sense as European programs, but no one gets admitted unless at least one professor will commit to being willing to advise and fund you. For superstar students this is rarely an issue and you have your pick of advisors, but for many admits there is exactly one professor who's identified your background and interests as a good fit, so you're essentially admitted with the expectation you'll work with that professor.

Nothing you say is wrong; you're correct that everyone has to do course requirements. But culturally the course requirements are treated as a distraction from research, and students are expected to start working primarily on research from their first semester. I think this is more or less the case in all top American CS PhD programs, and there are reasons to set things up this way, but it's a very different environment from PhDs in most other fields.
Be in a business area that is expanding, where you are working with and continually learning from top quality people (colleagues and clients)

If you feel like you're treading water, or are in a back room kept far away from clients, move on !
These look like they probably came from Apple's GSX (Global Service Exchange) system.

Source: Was an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician
3.75 is a very high bar.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-how-an-epidemic-...
Sybil problem still remains. blockchain history can be rewritten relatively cheaply if defense is controlled by an army of nodes under obfuscated control of a single entity or clique. even worse when blind faith is put into authenticity of such information.
Redeem code Google play store
I would happily pay and already did in some cases, as long as it's not proprietary.

(initial title was: "Will Linux users pay for apps?")
I disagree that this is a point of confusion. My observation is that the meaning of the phrase (to highlight the disregard for black lives some people hold, not to proclaim that black lives deserve more protection than other lives) is obvious in even the barest of contexts, and a majority of the people claiming otherwise are being willfully naive as a form of attack. I think the idea that the contention is really just simple bickering about semantics is a pretty stark oversimplification.
Well, if you look at a modern gasoline engine the exhaust processing is basically the same as for a diesel engine. Particle filter, NOx cat, AGR etc.
Maybe the counterpoint should be that gluing things together should produce better optimised products.

It can, if those doing the gluing have the requisite knowledge.
If there's no point improving client authentication until you've improved website security and no point improving website security until you've improved client authentication then neither will ever get better.
This. I have a feeling most of the people who complain about PhDs are those that started one just because they didn't know what else to do. They're not that intelligent, they don't care that much about doing research. But they do it anyways! In my opinion it should be a lot harder to get accepted to do a PhD, that should weed these people out better.
You could just as well argue that we should eliminate existing government jobs and contract them out to create more private sector businesses. It's just a matter of degree.

I would propose that the temporary government employees be paid minimum wage. This isn't intended to be permanent.
I use both gui and command line. Which one varies depending on the task. Quickly checking the working directory state and committing a couple of changes is much easier for me in a GUI. Complicated resets, checkouts, rebases and queries are much easier with the command line.

Edit: I find using a GUI to view the state of a git repo reduces the amount of mental space and energy I need to devote to this information.
wow, I've thought about this for so long .. never would have found this wikipedia page on my own.