skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it achievable at scale for all colleges once they all start to make that effort, though? And if so, it it achievable the way Harvey Mudd did it?

Harvey Mudd is a very elite college with considerable resources, and it has a relatively small class, especially compared to large public universities.

https://www.hmc.edu/institutional-research/institutional-sta...

It looks like there were 27 CS majors out of Harvey Mudd in 2017. We can probably add in another 20 from the joint CS-Math degree. So, about 50.

Here are the numbers for Berkeley:

https://eecs.berkeley.edu/about/by-the-numbers

Berkeley graduates almost a thousand students in EE or CS every year. The accounting is tough here because the degrees at Harvey Mudd and Berkeley are different, so I may be over or under counting, but I hope you can see my point - Harvey Mudd succeeds in a way that might not apply once you try to reach scale.

Consider that 27% of the high school students who take the AP Computer science test are women. This next part is a big assumption, but let's say that this reflects the percentage of students in the current pipeline, and that a "5" on this test clearly represents a high talent student. It's not the only way to identify such as student, but it is a strong indicator.

Harvey Mudd could probably fill it's entire class, all 50 spots, with women who got a 5 on the AP CS test. Harvey Mudd could probably go up to 100% women without meaningfully compromising admissions standards. Remember, this debate is about ratios. The author of the controversial piece is not under fire for saying that talented women don't go into CS, he's under fire for saying that 20% is a natural equilibrium.

Yes, Harvey Mudd could fill its small but very elite CS class entirely from the 20% of the top cohort. But could Berkeley, and Michigan, and UW, and Georgia Tech, and...

I'm not saying that these schools can't achieve parity, nor am I arguing that they shouldn't. But the process for getting to parity across lots and lots of large schools is very different from what Harvey Mudd can do. There would still be lots of men with "5"'s looking for a spot, but not as many women - simply because there aren't as many women taking the test.

At some point, the elite programs will be unbalanced if they simply reflect the pipeline. That doesn't mean they shouldn't try for more equity, but we should recognize that Harvey Mudd's approach won't necessarily scale, it may reflect the recruiting advantages of an elite, well funded school with lots of resources and very few undergraduates.
Tailwind has responsive variants of anything you want: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/responsive-design/
There's also the question of whether some in this list have not been mismanaged themselves. You point to Toys R Us, but I've certainly heard similar questions about Borders and A&P, for instance.
"absolve" is not the correct term (I think) - I don't find ads particularly offensive, I just don't ENJOY them, and I was looking for a job I'd enjoy and enjoy telling people about. I'm perfectly fine with ads existing, though I'm supportive of being able to buy my way out of them. (You can raise issues about ads being inherently deceptive and manipulative, and I wouldn't say you're wrong, but I've not taken a position against them...yet)

That facebook is doing bad things because ads are their only real source of income is a problem because of the bad things, not the ads. At the time the primary concern was "what should facebook be doing about de facto empowering hate speech and (actual) fake news?" and that's a tricky problem that I don't think has a resolved answer, and I sympathize with those that empower communication and only later realize people have more desire to trash things than apply rational caution. Since then much more has come out about some FB practices (and Google), and the question of whether ads-as-your-primary-revenue-source is too much incentive to be "evil" is being implicitly raised, but is likewise not yet resolved.

That said, I do think there are lines to draw and lines not worth drawing. There's very few jobs that don't end up supporting bad things. I don't think it's right to pretend that if you aren't doing it directly that you AREN'T supporting such things...but I also think it's sometimes unrealistic to make your situation worse to deny an indirect support. Deciding where that line lives is an individual decision, and one I have to regularly re-evaluate. To expand my point in the previous post, the news coming out about FB practices definitely made me feel like I'd have been uncomfortable even if I wasn't working directly in ads.
i wonder if they took real voice samples from people using voice search for that video or if they have been recorded just for this because the audio quality seems to vary quite a bit.
Interesting. As someone who has a marketing subreddit dedicated to my content that's about 3k people I wish this was a bit more inclusive outside large subreddits. There's a lot of value in the "longtail" subreddits as it were.
This scenario is described in the article as "Highway exit-to-exit automation".

It's also what Uber did in the past [1] and I've heard Tesla is going to be doing something similar for their Megafactory deliveries.

[1]: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/uber-self-driving-trucks-...
Instead of punishing the individual driver (which is what's done), ought to heavily punish the company instead.

Right now, a driver can get threatened and written up if they refuse to drive, even if they would be breaking the law. There's no repercussions for a company to process through drivers.

If instead the DOT focused on the companies, they could turn the companies themselves into enforcers as well of the law.

The only group that could fall through the cracks are owner/operators. They would still have a justification and reason to skirt the law and fake the logbooks.
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Bypass Java 11's Project Jigsaw at runtime – make reflection great again
Assembling memory in humans and androids
I love Typescript and the type system is getting pretty powerful. I would like to use it more in commandline utilities, but then I find the JS event loop makes sequential commands annoying, or REPLs need trampolining etc.

There is nothing in typescript that actually ties the type system to the event loop. I would love the Typescript language applied to a runtime that was ok with blocking IO.
> Choosing to continue the tradition of naming things in a way such that only a relatively small chunk of society would immediately understand their meaning is something that I've never understood.

Jargon has its place. In regards to medical jargon, it serves as both a signal knowledge of medicine and pointing to a specific idea. Using plain language may or may not refer to the specific idea at hand and it definitely signals a lack of knowledge.

It's the same reason people who use computers say "cursor" instead of "pointy thing".
Stop writing lambda expressions in Python
amp article has less tracking junk on it https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-09-27/lampe...
World's first FLYING CAR that can turn into a plane is going on sale next month
Has anyone ever maintained an SCSS codebase like this, with all kinds of logic, mixins, deep nesting, and variables? It's a nightmare.

Keep your CSS as absolutely shallow, declarative, and "noun-based" as possible. Stay away from utility classes and "adjective-based" classes. Preferably everything should be within it's own component (React/Vue/Web component/etc.).
Sears needs to go back to the drawing board or just hit on crazy ideas, it's a perfect time to revitalize their now historic, prefabricated homes.
Sqlfmt: an opinionated online SQL formatter
Ask HN: How much did your organization save by migrating to AWS, Azure or GCP?
As long as advertising corporations keep control of your web browser, the experience will always be optimized for ad tech and maybe some other megacorp interests, but definitely not for you. That's the problem.

I imagine a web browser actually made for the user will try hard to extract content from web pages by default, render them with decent consistent UX and not blindly let third parties display and execute any crap they want. There is no reason to render say articles with comments in thousand different ways for thousand websites. And no reason it can't be blazing fast on RaspberryPi.
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Come on, you can't leave us hanging like this... What happened there? :)
Analog Africa is a great label. I have been slowly working my way through their collection and the amount of disco, funk, and rock music they exposed me to is amazing. The music is very refreshing. It just ever so slightly odd and different while also being very positive and rhythmic.

My favourite albums of their collection right now are Space Echo, Amara Toure, and also Bambara Mystic Soul.

I think partially because of Spotify's and Youtube's recommender systems this type of music has picked up popularity lately.
There are also several DJs such as Palms Trax and Hunee who have recently started mixing in African Disco into their tracks. I do not complain about this trend.
This film is truly something else. Few documentaries have been as impactful to me as this one.
Tailwind offers 'modules', which let you define classes for certain states, such as responsiveness.

You can easily do something like 'w-10 sm:w-5', and it'll add a media-query based class.
I can't agree with this more. Way to get beyond the sexism.
This is probably the reason Jan Koum left Facebook. He knew the betrayal of privacy promised of Whatsapp was completed by Facebook by doing exactly this.

This doesn’t surprise me at all. Facebook has been bothering me for YEARS to enter my mobile number for “account recovery” purposes. My email is fine for that.

Now Facebook is recommending pages and friends to me who I only am connected with on Instagram. Not to mention Facebook notifications are now integrated into IG.
I wouldn’t be surprised if these were the final nails that made Kevin Systrom leave.
Sort of like at first people thought paying for cable tv would mean that there would be lots of channels without ads. Didn't happen. Only a few where you get to pay even more for now ads. Now Netflix begins the cycle anew.
Noticed it only a week ago, but since upgrading to 12.0 I can no longer reproduce. Awesome!
The 6502 just doesn't have enough CPU/RAM to do anything where you need a powerful language

I'm not sure about this assertion. Pretty much every major high-level language of the time was available for the 64, including C, FORTH, FORTRAN, COBOL, and I think even PASCAL.
Some of us might live to see y2.1k
You can use the HTML5 <picture> element to add a fallback jpeg for all browsers that don't currently support Webp
That's how most big companies work. Their processes are designed for average people who do average work. It works well for them but personally I find such an environment depressing.
If it's any consolation, while he'll still be very rich, he's certainly much less rich now than he was 10 years ago.

His ESL Hedge Fund has dropped 80% in value from its peak in 2006 to 2016, and has almost certainly fallen more since then.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sears-obsession-with-wall-st...
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If I'm reading the article correctly, Lampert's fund has put $2.5B into Sears, so the kickback would mean they "only" lose $1.5B instead. That's a very different story than how I thought the title read, which was: "CEO's hedge fund walks away $1B richer."

I hope investors are taking ESL's management of Sears into account when deciding if it's a hedge fund they will continue to support. There's risk, and then there's incompetence...
Buybacks require additional cash, which comes either from reducing liquid assets e.g. cash in the bank, or new borrowing. Article doesn't tell us which of the two predominates right now.
Which metric do you use which is never wrong? Or do you perform a full-on interview for every person who sends you a resume?
Weaknesses in DEP, Apple's free service for remote EDM is vulnerable
That idea never made much sense, but IIRC their disclosures show that they ship a lot more units than they have mining internally.
Wow, someone saying nice things about Dreamhost. A rare thing to see.
https://www.google.com/doodles/fourth-of-july-2018

https://www.google.com/doodles/fourth-of-july-2017
through to
https://www.google.com/doodles/fourth-of-july-2014

https://www.google.com/doodles/4th-of-july

https://www.google.com/doodles/mothers-day-2010-usa

https://www.google.com/doodles/veterans-day-2016

https://www.google.com/doodles/united-states-elections-2016

https://www.google.com/doodles/united-states-elections-2016-...

https://www.google.com/doodles/us-elections-2014

https://www.google.com/doodles/2004-us-elections

https://www.google.com/doodles/us-vote-2000

https://www.google.com/doodles/labor-day-2016-us

https://www.google.com/doodles/dr-martin-luther-king-day-201...

Plenty.
Calling the state of drones the "wild west" pretty much puts the conclusion at the start.

How about, "Drone hobbyists angered at pointless laws that treat their hobby like it's a problem"
The really big irony in all of this is that, if I'm not mistaken, it was the old Sears Roebuck catalogs that used to say something like "it's folly to purchase items on credit". Then the next generation took advantage of consumer folly, making financing a core part of the business. And now debt is killing this originally-anti-debt company.
> Subject: Re: Russian (8-bit) Search ?

https://obartunov.livejournal.com/174726.html
I'm mildly incredulous on the actual scope of the bill compared to what's being reported (it's a learned behavior), does anyone have the name of the bill or the full text that I may go read for myself?

Mostly because as as a remote pilot, I have a feeling the proposals may be much less onerous than we're being lead to believe by Bloomberg here and what hobbyist groups are complaining about.

Stated as a Licensed Part 107 operator. I think everyone should be required to undergo some kind of training, with tiers for educational, hobbyist, and commercial. I learned a lot more in those classes than just how to fly a Phantom DJI and found the regulatory knowledge alone to be HIGHLY insightful.
this should not be interpreted as a scientific study of any type.

Feynman was intensely interested in the paranormal, and said that it was important for any physicist to be. Because if it were true, that's exactly where you'd find the truth.

Now, I'm not standing up for alternative medicine. But the subject is beside the point. You said "This isn't science," but didn't point to any examples of why.

Anyone who follows the scientific method is doing science. Science isn't an exclusive clique; everyone can do it.
I have been learning Rust recently. Nim looks interesting, is there a quick comparison page with Rust somewhere?

I just skimmed through the doc, and looks like the language is huge. Is it expected to have a big learning curve?

also could not find any info on Async and threading is there any documentation around it?

And the GC, is it optional or more like compiler determines it using set of rules?
If you aren't functional with Greek and Latin prefixes, you're basically not an English speaker.

A lot of the words with these roots are international, or nearly so:

Polish: brontozaur; Spanish: brontosaurio, Slovak: brontosaurus; French: brontosaure; German: Brontosaurus.

These kinds of words actually make English easier to learn for people coming from numerous other languages.

Sure, let's be the laughing stock and replace that with "thunder lizard" and "underheating".
Ya I agree in theory but disagree in practice. I moved furniture for 2.5 years and delivered appliances for 6 months for a warehouse from about 2001-2003 while I was trying to get my shareware business going. This meant sometimes loading and unloading full 53 foot semi trailers of furniture and boxes (typically 2 or 3 households worth) with just 2 or 3 people, up to 2 or 3 times a day if we were working in the warehouse itself and had a few stragglers who could help.

For a while there I came up with roughly one invention per day that would radically reduce the amount of labor we performed or protect us from the sun and elements. For example, in big cities they use lifts to windows and chutes on stairs to get boxes up and down tall buildings. But they don't use anything in smaller cities except elbow grease usually.

Anyway, whenever I brought up a new idea, it was soundly rejected by pretty much everyone. The standard answer being "that would put us out of a job!"

There is massive resistance to any kind of innovation in the shipping industry. My gut feeling is that it won't change at all until it's too late, and then the whole thing will come crashing down when it's replaced by self-driving forklifts and drones. It's one of the few industries that still (under)employs millions of people, and I think that we should keep that in mind before we work so hard to automate it into oblivion.

But automation is inevitable and will come within 10 years or so, so if we really want to help society, we should be focussing on education and vo-tech training in order to find meaningful work for everyone who's going to be misplaced. I know in my heart that that won't be enough though, which is why I'm a huge proponent of universal basic income.
Is this the reason they have been dying! WOOT! Will we be able to change fast enough to save them?
AMP is a step in the wrong direction as it requires you to use js to do stuff that you can do in normal HTML on a non-AMP site.

A step in the right direction would be a proper subset of html/css without requiring more JS to load
From the sounds of it, his fund may have lost money, but his other ventures may have profited from his looting of Sears. The other investors may be losing out, but he's coming out ahead.

Am I mistaken in this?
> Dr. Leach said one prisoner of war who was also a medical officer described being in this stage as waking each morning but being unable to summon the energy to do anything. Others describe it as a severe melancholy, where even the smallest task feels like the mightiest effort.

I would have just assumed this to be depression or a part of it. However, the article is claiming this symptom is something different?
I took it as a pun on remote-control.
Molten salt reactors might be the second generation of reactors in an alternative history with nuclear-by-startups. They require a higher fissile material concentration than found in natural uranium. To start operating a MSR you need some reactors fueled with natural uranium and moderated by graphite or heavy water in order to breed fissile plutonium from uranium, or uranium 233 from thorium, to get concentrated fissile material for starting molten salt reactors.

Or you could start a MSR with U-235 enriched from natural uranium, but that would require developing complex and expensive enrichment technology before you get your first watt of nuclear power generation.
You can find plenty of examples of companies with founders that failed to pivot, and companies without founders that did pivot. I'm not aware of any research showing a correlation between those things.
Examples of what not being true? You jumped from "people" to "regimes" between paragraphs but the transition wasn't complete.

If you are looking for examples of people who aren't part of an authoritarian regime but still think it's not a fundamentally immoral system, just take myself. If you are looking for authoritarian regimes that satisfy some quality, I can't tell what quality you're referring to.
It does some static enforcement of "no side effects[1]".

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_effect_(computer_scienc...
I told my girlfriend about this just now, and she said "omg, they do?!", and went right back to her phone. Probably to check Facebook or Instagram.

Which is the reaction most people will have, I'm guessing.
Nim's a great language. Its heritage is Pascal, so that might explain some of the cognitive dissonance you could be experiencing about it.
I happen to be using SurfEasy VPN, not that I recommend them other than that they're cheap, and this is on a phone where I keep it on as much as possible. So far only Bloomberg's website and one app are allergic to the VPN.
How much are you trying to pay your dev that it can be 1/5th of a contractor? It's no wonder you're having trouble finding anyone.
Objectively, it's very hard to say. But practically, yes. Smart people building critical systems do not run to relatively untested languages, no matter how good they may look.

But... there's a loooooot of "high school level" applications out there in the world. And the way a language graduates up to the higher classes is getting tried out in the "lower criticality" systems, and getting experience.

I wouldn't try to build an S3 competitor in Nim right now, no matter how good it may look. But even a company building an S3 competitor in some other language could still have tons of other places Nim would be a fit.
There's a kmart (which is owned by Sears and therefore in the same situation) near my old office and it's downright depressing to go in there. The lighting isn't bright enough, the store is run with a skeleton staff and everything looks a bit old or dirty. For example, the floor tiles are overdue for a replacement. Want to buy a watch? Good luck finding an employee to help you at the watch counter. But the most eerie part is that the store is so devoid of customers.

When I go to a nearby Target, you can hardly move around all the shopping carts in there. The Kmart, which is a similar size, might only have a few customers in the store at a time. Maybe Target is slightly more upscale, but even the Walmart nearby looks much nicer, plus has a better selection and similar if not lower prices.

Unlike many other retail stores, it doesn't even feel like Kmart is trying to adapt. Bestbuy has it's superior customer service (not exactly world class, but better than competitors). T.J.Maxx/Homegoods has an ever-changing selection of bargains and the feeling of being in a treasure hunt. Even J.C. Penney tried a new transparent pricing scheme (which failed). But I haven't seen Kmart/Sears try to do something similar.

Edit: changed the store is run on a skeleton staff to the store is run with a skeleton staff
That's what I wonder, so. Is it really that difficult? Amazon is opening brick and mortar stores, invested in whole foods and is constantly increasing its logistics food print with all the clst zhat comes along. All traditional retailers need to do is getting some kind of e-commerce unit up and running and we are looking at mich more level playing field. After all, every single exiating store can, by all means, be considered a fulfillment center as well. And from that perspective traditional retails geographic coverage is not bad at all. No idea why most fail to do so.

Walmart being the exception having bought jet.com (?). After all Amazon is making the majority of its profits from AWS.
reddit.com/r/usenet/ is active. But it's not about text anymore.
Repl.it is hiring hackers to make computing more accessible
How consistent are azure premium managed disks?
Probably never. I think he should hire someone who checks his E-mails and asks him "Do you really want to send this?".

In any case, I find there is way too much focus on words instead of actions. It's the same in politics and in business. You have people who get nailed for cursing but the standard for company leadership seems to be to use nice words while at the same time stabbing people in the back. I would be more concerned if Linus physically abused people or laid off people with one day's notice "It's just business".
My grandmother has not wanted to go on for 15+ years now after my grandfather died, yet she's still here, and doing relatively well for a 95-year-old.

I definitely think there's a correlation between your mental and physical health, but it's definitely not a simple one.