skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the majority of humanities students I've interacted with have been uninspired and unmotivated. I took a good deal of humanities classes and more often than not comments were uninformed and presentations poor quality.

> These students come in at 18 years old, straight out of high school. You put them in college and they want to do the least work possible.

> Most of the time a degree is just a necessity to go into the workforce for whatever field

I don't think your critique of undergraduate education is limited to the humanities. In my experience (I graduated two years ago from a top 10 school where I double majored in CS and history), students were there to have a good time and get a degree by the end of their four years. And, to be fair, I had a good time and didn't have to work nearly as hard as I do now.

However, I saw little difference between the character of history students and CS students overall. There were exceptional people in both departments (top ~5%), a larger percentage of people who generally worked hard and were competent (~60%), and a population that didn't take it seriously and sometimes wasn't above cheating (there was a non-zero population of CS majors who graduated with next to no programming skills).

My school's history department was relatively renowned, though the assignments didn't take nearly as long as CS/math labs. Still, many history profs were doing their best to fight grade inflation and had reasonable minimum standards.

At the end of my spring history seminar, I asked my professor (_the_ expert in a relatively large field) what he thought about going to grad school and strongly advised against it, saying it was a bad idea except for maybe one or two students every year: it is just too competitive to get a good job. So, a ton of history majors went into consulting and will probably go back to school for their MBAs; a smaller group is going (or planning on going) to law school if they can get into a top school; others are grinding in the entertainment industry trying to get their foot in the door. I don't think this is evidence of "uninspired" or "unmotivated" humanities students.

Nor do I think the fact that many history students go on to work in unrelated fields reflects poorly on the discipline: they learned about things they were interested in, improved their writing skills, critical thinking skills, etc.

The fact that their [liberal arts] education was a bad value -- in terms of both time and money -- is less endemic to their chosen major, but to the educational system as a whole.
> Lock files also remove the "silent security fix" that was touted as the benefit of other systems.

That is the great thing about lock files. You don't have to check them in. If you want reproducible builds, you do check them in. If you don't, you don't. The user, not the package manager, gets to make this choice on a case-by-case basis.

> The difference is in default behavior of the system: vgo by default picks predictable, consistent version of dependencies. That version doesn't change if dependencies release new versions.

And that right there is the problem. You don't get the latest version unless you explicitly ask for it. This makes the user do what a package manager is perfectly capable of doing. It thrusts the problem onto the user instead of applying a well-known solution that was causing problems for nobody.

If you are writing an application, don't you want your transitive dependencies to get security fixes without having to trawl through the tree?
That sounds like an easy win for immigration officials to check in and start deportation proceedings for unregistered foreign agents on student visas.
[DEV] Doctorave – Manage Records and Appointments for Doctors and Patients
I've made a Android App for Doctors and Patients.

Playstore Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.id.drapp

I've used:

1. Firebase Email Authentication - For Doctors.

2. Firebase sms Verification - For Patients.

3. Content Providers / Resolver - For Storing Patient Data in SQLITE.

4. Firebase Realtime Database - For Syncing all Offline Data to Firebase DB.

5. Firebase Realtime Databse - For Managing all Appointments of Doctors and Patients.

6. Firebase Cloud Functions - For Making a Notification when Doctor will get new Appointment.

7. Intent Service - If doctor will lose their Local data. He/She can easily Restore All data from the Cloud.

8. Firebase Storage - For Storing Patient Pictures and Doctor Pictures.

9. Material Search Bar - For Searching Offline Data for Doctors and Online Doctors for Patients

FOR DOCTORS = Basically this is the Doctor App in which doctors can manage their Patient Records with Profile Picture. And the app will automatically sync local( in mobile ) Data to Our servers (Auto Backup ). And also can Manage their Appointments and doctor will be get Notification when they get new Appointment.

FOR PATIENTS = Patients can see Email Verified Doctors and can get Appointment at one click. and also can Manage their all Appointments.

And I include Phone Sms Verification for Patients and Email Verification for Doctors.

ISSUE/BUG = If you Face any issue Regarding this app. Or you want any new feature either tell me or fork my Project on Github.

Note: More Features Coming soon........

CONTRIBUTION=I Open Source the App Under MIT LICENSE you can Contribute to my project https://github.com/bhavya-arora/Doctorave

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Excited to see the implementation become smaller and simpler. Swam through the core codebase a couple of times. It's a bit of a mess right now.
Sounds like you fear for your physical safety if you immediately assumed u/pandler’s primary concern was crimes committed by a shut out underclass.
Responding late, so you might not see this. The thing that was so ridiculous to me was Facebook pretending that their app is somehow orders of magnitude more complicated than everyone else's.

They're whole schtick was "we're Facebook and we have unique scaling needs that no one else does," which makes absolutely no sense from the perspective of one user's content being rendered on their phone.

Plus the presenter was pretty smug, like all of this was good, when he wasn't convincing anyone that it was even necessary.

Found the slides: https://www.columbia.edu/~ng2573/zuggybuggy_is_2scale4ios.pd...
Ya know Google isn’t a University right? It also has one of the most “progressive” diversity cultures in the valley.
I wonder if it would be helpful to mandate civics education for university students on student visas.

Even so, just as a store can survive some shoplifters, surely American industry can survive some IP misappropriation, perhaps with some light assistance from a tariff system or deduction against foreign aid payments?
In at least some packaging systems, committing the lock file for a library is useful so that the library maintainers use the same versions. (It's ignored by users of the library.)
Thanks for the response. Didn't immediately see it.
Noise is arguably an aesthetic criteria, is it not?
I'm queueing up one of these as the next book I'll read. Thanks for helping me out!
I taught an engineering course for one semester at a Big Ten university with a prestigious engineering school, many years ago. And I also work with young engineers who have recently graduated from college.

I'm not sure that all of my students and / or colleagues cared very much about the actual subject matter that they were studying, e.g., the math and theory. There was a conventional wisdom shared amongst students, that those topics were just a hoop to jump through, that they would never need in the "real world."

When they do arrive in the "real world," they get so busy with CAD, trial-and-error design, troubleshooting, and bureaucracy, that they forget most of their math and theory within a few months. I'm not sure if this is voluntary or not: Had they been given a work environment with more time to think and to continue learning, would they have retained their interest?

The few who keep those skills are the ones who are devious enough to guard their time, effectively giving themselves time to think. And they volunteer for the jobs that involve theory, which nobody else wants.

Another factor that may affect humanities students is the fact that some majors are harder to get into, and to stay in, than others. Nobody changes majors from <redacted> to chemical engineering because <redacted> is too hard. ;-) And it's a one way street too. Once you interrupt the train of prerequisites in most STEM majors, it's very hard to get back on your horse.
surely they could be painted or decorated? the fashionable alternative is exposed ductwork, which is frankly silly.
Your memory is incorrect. The interesting gravitational effects typically happen much closer to the singularity. The event horizon is an otherwise normal region of space, and more boring the larger the black hole is.
I'm very interested in RISC-V. But show me the hardware! I'll buy one (as long as it's not prohibitively expensive). I'm looking at FPGAs also, but they are not really very compelling unless you want to spend ~$3K. So QEMU for now I guess.
> And then return them to the owner once the emergency is over? Yes. I don't see that happening here.

The emergency is very far from over, they’ve only just begun the salvaging operation.
> the city should refund a substantial portion of the money.

Why? Let the free market take care of it.
Sure! I wonder if the ML system could make use of information such as lot size and shape (from the county), building sqft, number of levels, information about outbuildings (from the MLS or property tax), and could get smarter. And if it can tell a tree from grass.

"This small lot has 3 200sqft buildings separated by a tree on it, but is supposed to have a 1200sqft ranch house... Maybe those 3 buildings define the bounding box of the house?"
You probably work with a lot of engineers.

The time a CS graduate spends learning algorithms and honing fluency in computer languages is spent by a history major reading, analysis and writing papers. On average you tend to be better at things you do a lot. It’s not to say the average engineer cannot think and write, but those aren’t skills you select for. In some cases, you may need engineering talent who can not communicate in your language!

Engineers write less and for a different purpose. A technical writer, newspaper journalist and novelist approach a similar action (writing) with a different approach and methodology.

There’s a reason why you see attorneys in leadership roles outside of their domain than other professions that attract smart, diligent workers. (There are few doctors in politics or non-medical corporate leadership positions, for example.) They tend to be better at broad-scope analysis and zoom in a deeply technical area with consultative assistance, and they tend to be better able to communicate the outcome of that analysis. They tend to be humanities or social science majors.
What could possibly go wrong?

“Inmates hacked prison tablets to steal $225,000 for apps and music”

https://www.slashgear.com/inmates-hacked-prison-tablets-to-s...
the dot at the end is an ambiguity in a few specs. if I recall correctly, dns requires to end in a dot as it signals the root servers or something, but obviously can be left empty.

then browsers started to support it, but over time bugs pilled up and now it is treated as a different hostname (e.g. "www.example.org" is completely different to your browser than "www.example.org." even though they are the same to the dns spec)

then tls specs considers the dot in an earlier version, and they should be the same but because of the browser bugs it is all too much fun. my bank actually has a server that replies the same for domains with or without the root dot. but they only signed their certs for the no dot name, which again, is the same, but for browsers is kinda of not.

ah! living Standards.
If I'm not mistaken, they contractually limited manufacturers from selling devices with Android forks, according to Google to avoid experience fragmentation.

AFAIK the terms didn't limit any other operating systems not based on Android.
> Society has to avoid McCarthyism (a 'reds under the bed' panic). This is what China wants and it plays directly into the propaganda. They want false accusations and race based panic.

True.

On the one hand, there needs to be more awareness in the West about the threat of an illiberal and powerful China. It's not so much about China making money with dodgy trade practices, but that it's pressuring the entire world to abide by CCP party lines. For example, it's made many airlines treat Taiwan as part of China, made Mercedes apologise for using the Dalai Lama in advertising, prevented at least one book from being published, and it froze relations with Norway, harming Norwegian businesses, when the Nobel Peace Prize was given to Liu Xiaobo.

On the other hand, opposition to the Chinese Communist Party must not devolve into "Chinese people are bad" racism. Some politicians will be too willing to fan the flames of racism, and the CCP will welcome this, for it loves to portray all opposition as being based on racism.
Use Hawking radiation as an energy source? How exactly do you see that one working?
Manage Records and Appointments for Doctors and Patients
> Acoustic ceiling tile is pretty horrible from an interior design perspective...

The white hospital-style stuff, sure, but I've seen nice looking black ones and ones that look quite convincingly like tin ceilings.
f off dull professor at Warwick Business School
Love these guys, last press I saw on them was their OTS epipen, glad to hear they aren't defunct.
If stealing movies helped people survived, given financial difficulties, then they'll do it. Survival beats "no-steal" laws.
Shouldn't aging ears make the world quieter over time?
ideally you'd implement something that inconveniences machines (ie spam bots, aka the sole reason captcha needs to exist) but doesnt inconvenience humans

in particular, the v2.0 of captcha implements this time delay.. where you click a picture that matches a description but the images do not appear instantly. its like, wait a random amount of time before you can continue.. you cant even login to our service until you wait a random amount of time.. its insane, piss off, you know, these captchas can actually be broken easily, its just not common yet...
I know a number of researchers in ML who have stated this and been fine.
I am wondering why didn't the word percolate to Punjabi language where we call the colour as "santri" and the fruit is called "santra". Hindi has the same word for it, I think.
It's not just Oregon. Haswell (4th Gen) is based off of Haswell, CO (Intel has a presence in Fort Collins, CO) and Kaby Lake (8th gen) is based off a lake in Canada.
Companies that are utilities should be regulated as such.

We’re slowly moving towards municipal broadband step by step, so it’ll take some time where we still need to tolerate for-profit last mile ISPs.
They also exist because it's INSANELY profitable to be able to hold someone hostage for their literal life. As long as the IP is tightly controlled and the ever-stricter regulations build your moat for you, you'll make insane money.

Look, I agree this isn't likely to be the scalable and safe solution that solves the cost crisis. But maybe we DO need someone to throw pills out for free just to show the absurdity of our current system. Because if it's something you need to live and the system is built to make something fundamentally cheap ultra-expensive, it's REALLY hard to see what this man could be doing wrong...
haha oh man homage to macromedia
Very quickly after my TWC connection became Spectrum my rate for 50 megabit internet in Brooklyn went from $40/mo to $65/mo and I am absolutely bombarded with various forms of deceptive marketing junk mail trying to get me to upgrade to some bundled TV/phone package. I disliked Time Warner's marketing beforehand but Spectrum really took it to a new level.
I think he's talking about things like video screens on gas pumps that play a sports highlight, then an ad at a very loud volume.
Elixir/Erlang themselves seem fine. Where you can sometimes run into issues is with libraries that use NIF's and getting them compiled in windows...
Physics is very difficult, and magical thinking is much easier and more fun. Relativity is a description of the geometry of the universe, and any subsequent theory will need to explain the same observations. These observations both prohibit any form of FTL, and suggest that a universe with FTL would almost certainly contain causality violations. The hope that down will someday become up is ill-founded, and the effects of this would not be what you would want.
It's not all .fun and games
Sliding Window Technique
I am amazed by the support of the Amiga long after it died. They are still making stuff for it.

A500, A600, A1200 motherboards can be placed into a Checkmate 1500 Plus case to be used like a desktop PC:

http://www.amigasystems.com/

Maybe I should say desktop Amiga like the Amiga 2000 was.
I thought that too. until I had to talk in english full time and realized how much was transliterated informally in conversations and how those terms were corrupted into the national language. what you call lingual contortion only seem odd (to me and you since you also mentioned a romance language) because romance languages were the trend setters at some point and now have very refined processes to change the language and be more permissive of foreign words creeping in, since they understand the power of allowing or not this to happen. but over time, they will officialize new words in the romance language just fine. english is no better or worse at this.

case in point, every single "fancy" word in english cames from the roman dominion over the channel. it was fancy to talk like the emperor. and that is only one of the subtle aspects that rome knew how to play on the colonies cultural subjugation.
I think .app could have a bright future in the age of web apps. It has only just recently been opened up by Google for public registration[0].

0: https://get.app/
when I asked the two profs I was closest with whether it was worth continuing with all of the negative things I had read and experienced, they both gave a very clear "we aren't supposed to say this, but get the fuck out while you still can."

Ditto for English: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-befo....
True, though I'm coming to conclude that's only explaining a portion of the dynamic. Technlogy also produces points of control -- either of exclusion or coercion.
I bet the looks-like-tin-ceiling acoustic tile costs more than the white hospital-style stuff.
The institutions that created it are VERY often government-funded.
Amiga had the IBM PC Bridgecard to run DOS and Windows on it. (I think it even ran OS/2 and others).

The only PC that Commodore made was the Colt series. It was a PC compatible that Commodore botched in marketing by saying "It is not a PC Clone, it is a Commodore!" of course it was a PC Clone that is what people wanted.
It is not pointless for Uber. Please read it as a job advertisement for scalable database experts.
The arguments in this article were unconvincing. It's not surprising that naming foods and countries together is no easier than naming them separately. These are two similar, focused tasks. There is no time for the unconscious to do any work amidst this focus. The unconscious mind requires a more diffuse state, which is best attained by walking in the park, taking a shower, or something like that.
Pay $185k for gTLD, get $100k per second level domain. Nice business sense.

And there's still be some random millionaire to register piggy.bank.
In theory, you're absolutely right. In practice, this is the argument used to defend egregious NIH syndrome.
It's not directly pertinent, but the slow triumph of Greek culture over Roman culture after the conquest of Greece is one of the most fascinating parts of ancient history. The Roman elites not only spoke Greek, they sent their kids to learn in Greek schools, they regarded Greece as the center of drama, philosophy, medicine..it's really quite amazing how deeply enamored with Greece the upper echelons of Roman society became. And not just as a passing fad, but consistently over a period of centuries.

Latin was the language of the day-to-day humdrum masses, as you say it's what a patrician would use to order a soldier or guard or lawyer around before going back to discussing fine cheeses or what have you in Greek.

>Captive Greece took captive her fierce conqueror, and introduced her arts into rude Latium. Thus flowed off the rough Saturnian numbers, and delicacy expelled the rank venom: but for a long time there remained, and at this day remain traces of rusticity.

Book of the Epistles, Horace
OK, maybe ACLU stumbled a bit by using a low (?) 80% confidence threshold.
But I wonder how much over-fitting occurs at the AMZN-recommended 99%? Is a 99% fit scalable? What's the false-negative rate?
I'm not satisfied that either side has made a convincing argument.
This brings me back. Anyone remember Future Crew demos?
Probably! (Probably not that much more, though.) But so do comfortable chairs, nice tablecloths, and good ingredients. (And the reclaimed wood and industrial fixtures everyone's using...)
this is the worst analogy ever
Why do you need a walled garden around your DNS? I'm not sure that involving Google in everything we do is a good idea.

I wonder how many websites are served entirely through Google. Browsing with Chrome or Chromium, custom DNS set to 8.8.8.8, domain name from .app, "cached" by AMP, serving an Angular app with Material UI, originally hosted on Google Cloud.
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
I wouldn't be too sure about that. America's Cup and Formula One racing exist, so there are definitely expensive hobbies.
My experience with Airtel has been that a well-written and firm email describing my intention for a complaint is very effective. Also a simple "I will not pay for your service if you don't resolve this" gets you very far with customer service.

I'm waiting for the rumored Jio fiber thing to fuck up Airtel's business, just like they did with the mobile services.
Does WebAssembly running in a <canvas> tag count as "web"?
Yes, well after a couple decades they started to run out of landmarks :)
> How is this relevant?

1928 stringbags are not what I was talking about. If you can't see that, that's ok.

> we know that women were OK piloting fighter planes like the Spitfire

For transport use, which is straight and level flying. It's utterly different from combat maneuvering or emergency situations.

> Can't you simply admit being wrong about women being too weak to fight in these machines? The history is not on your side here.

If you can find women fighting air-to-air combat in Spits, P-51s, or P-47s, and winning, you'd have history on your side.

The Soviet women flew Yak-1s, which were only about 2/3 the weight of a P-51. This translates into lower control forces needed. Yak-1s were also much slower, again translating into lower control forces.

It's no surprise that hydraulic boost was added after WW2 as weight and speed increased further.

If you want to believe that control forces have nothing to do with weight, speed, and performance, that women are as strong as men, that hydraulic boost was added just for fun, that's your privilege.