skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Three words: static single assignment. If you can work out the dataflow of a function you already have everything you need to order loads in the most efficient way possible

The ordering of loads has almost nothing to do with dataflow (with the slight caveat that data dependencies from loads guarantees a small amount of the memory order). I'm speaking from experience here, any computation DAG model is going to very quickly run into the problems of dealing with branches and the inherently undecidable problem of static alias analysis.
I thought the ACLU had a rather interesting take on this issue: "Make no mistake: A lawsuit against Harvard that's purported to represent the interests of Asian-Americans would, if successful, primarily benefit white students. #DefendDiversity"
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1051626960537808898
I went to UW. The Madison campus. And the limit is never technically hit. (Though if you want to live on campus, obviously, it's first come, first served. So you may end up having to live off campus if you dilly-dally.)
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In that very rare case, you freak out over nothing.
You're absolutely right. But it means that they can't use the password to build a dictionary, to log in to other services, etc. (Assuming the password is complex enough that the hash isn't reversible)
I've been trying for a few minutes to think of a way the city's position makes sense, but yes, as presented your explanation seems like the only viable one. A 130 year old building, which also happens to be the most famous monument in your city, would be grandfathered in in any other context.

It would be extremely interesting to read more about how this played out and why the basilica agreed to pay. Was there a lawsuit?
Curtis Burns, the TSA's “Blogger Bob” Has Died
You won't. This is a common failing in tech in SFBAY. They posted some stats on it, but its prevalence is very very high. Same with the PHD's (who also suffer from it).

But, you'll probably find someway to cope with it.

I thought this is what the process of extended "onboarding"/mentoring they kept babbling about was supposed to address?
>The embassy did remove Mr Assange's internet connection in March, accusing him of "interfering in other countries' affairs".

Since all states are always "interfering in other countries' affairs" this is essentially communicating: 'you have yet to transcend into our privileged, political class, you have less rights to speech than the political class'.

You can make an argument about Assange's moral value but his right to speak should not be infringed.
People aren't benchmarking avx512 because very little is coded to use it yet. You are a small niche.

The future will probably include more avx512, but not yet.
Except that this was specifically what private universities (and private everything else’s) were required by law to stop doing 50 year ago, when their preferred race was white. There’s a LONG precedent against private institutions discriminating based on race in the United States - it just hasn’t been enforced evenly.
> What else should I spend money on?

Vacation. Early retirement. House. Airplane. Charity. Cleaning services. Boat.

Or a really nice car.
Congress has a heck of time getting anything done right now.

I can't imagine what would happen if it were comprised of 20 times the members with all kinds of minor political parties each with their own narrow agendas.

Personally I'm hoping at some point evidence based governance takes over. Which might mean it's not people doing it.
that's like "discovering" the eiffel tower, it's not like you're stumbling into an unexplored land
Hooo wait, I thought it was about connecting the world!
He's free to leave the embassy. It's hard to have any sympathy for wikileaks and Julian given his recent behavior.
Oh, I see. That make sense.

In fact I like the idea of a RDBMS to be less of a black box.
He wasn't cleaning up after his cat. Is that what this is all about?
> The continued experience that you exist. You literally have never known anything else, only the representations which consciousness allows.

Right, but that's what makes it so meaningless. We generally define things by specifying how they're different from other things. But you can't do it with consciousness, because you can't really know what the absence of consciousness is like. And if you can't do that, the definition of consciousness becomes null - and nothing meaningful can be derived from it.

With colors, at least, you can define different ones in terms of different sensations - red is not-green etc. And because they're derived from observation of phenomena, you can compare notes with other people to make sure that what you consider red is also what they consider red etc - it's not a perfect system, but it's "good enough". I don't think we have anything even remotely resembling such a "good enough" definition of consciousness, though.
It's probably not, though. Evolution doesn't select for perfection, and many aspects of our evolutionary derived bodies are frankly bizarre.

Take the eye as an example. There's no need for us to have a blind spot. Octopus have eyes almost identical in design, but without a blind spot - convergent evolution meant that both species ended up developing very similar eyes but with one crucial difference: in humans, the retina is wired the wrong way round.

The retina is like a huge array of light detecting cells. In octopus, these cells are connected to the optic nerve on the back side. In humans, they connect on the front side. The blind spot in humans is because of the need for a hole in the retina for the optic nerve to pass through and split and connect to the retina proper.
Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

SATs will quickly become one of the poorest indicators for success.
Can it do anything VLC can't? I haven't used WinAMP since the late-90s.
what other famous national landmarks avoided getting a building permit for 135 years?
The excuse for all the trackers involved in online advertising is exactly because not a single advertiser trust any publisher.

Your comment is still very valid for small clients on self-serve systems, though.
"He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank."

Oh, so thats why he's so opposed to crypto.
Well, if it makes you feel any better: I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and I still feel like the expectations placed on me are far above my capabilities - but they’re also far above the capabilities of anybody I’ve ever worked with. They’ll always try to demand more out of you than you or anybody else can possibly deliver, and be genuinely disappointed when you can’t work miracles all day, every day. Just do the best work you can do, knowing that you’re doing the best work you can do, and you’ll get a little better every day.
As opposed to the government the majority of us people voted for previously which did so much better?

These problems apparently go well beyond political moniker and I find it confusing that anyone who has been paying attention feels voting for a different color talking politician is going to fix them.
Why is it more difficult on a phone?

it is exactly the same process as a desktop. First install a decent browser (not the crap one shipped by the OEM), for example, firefox for Android. Then install your favorite adblocker extensions (which should be uBlock Origin). Done. No step 3!
No, brand awareness campaigns can by run using either images or videos (or any other medium), and if the campaign is video based, then '% video completion' is a fundamentally critical metric.
So kickbacks are ok as long as they’re part of the culture?
I agree completely.

Also I feel what usually happens is that requirements change over time, and things get repurposed as "hacks" because ain't nobody got time to rewrite the entire thing.

But at some point the effort to rewrite is worth it and at that point even the same engineers who did the original implementation should be able to write a much cleaner and faster version.

When I was new I thought I was so awesome when I saw how I could write better code than I read. It was only way later I realized people usually had good reasons for writing it that way originally but those reasons disappeared.
That's good. I can't think of anything but the SNL skit - last minute of this video: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/jeffreys-with-...
The answer to this is so simple: rather than trying to optimize algorithms for admission, we need to decrease the demand for admissions to these schools.

1. Increase the supply. More seats. More schools. More teachers. More locations.

2. Decrease the demand. Better alternatives. Vocational schools. On the job training. Not using degree a job criteria.
1.5% of your gross salary isn't worth it?
How is what Harvard is doing supported by that example? They are giving preferential treatment to certain groups or ethnicities, not actively discriminating against any certain group. If you went to a restaurant and someone that was in line after you got seated before simply because of their ethnicity, that's not the same as not being served at all right?
I would assume that is Title III of the Civil Rights Act which covers the obligation of the Attorney General to instigate civil suites to enforce the CRA on behalf of complainants who do not have the means to pursue a civil suite on their own.
This looks somewhat similar in purpose to the light phone 2: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2#/ .

I've been looking forward to that phone because their ethos seems to be in line with what I want: all the "directed" tools you want (phone, text, contacts, alarm, maps, Uber/Lyft, etc) but nothing that lets you get into "mindless scroll" mode like social network apps or a browser.
Ask HN: How much of your workday do you spend re-generating yourself?
I am a relatively junior software developer. Because it is not my first career, and I have done some intense/difficult things in the past, I do not have a problem slogging through an 8 hour day (even working through lunch) -- or more. However, a conversation with another developer recently made me wonder if I am approaching things wrong.

He stressed the need for a fresh mind. Admittedly, although I can always push myself through the day, not all of my hours are created equal. On an average day, I believe my coworker "works" less than I do (for example, measured by time his editor is open). Unfortunately, we can't compare output very well, because he also has more experience than I do, and we have different type of roles. (The fact that he's more experienced than me is why I'm looking into his argument and gathering more info.)

Tactically speaking, I would not call what he does "taking a break". It's like 45 minutes or an hour of rather meaningless stuff (YouTube videos, etc.), and sometimes he involves others (easy to do in our open floor-plan office).

So my question is, if you are a knowledge worker, how much of your time at work do you spend regenerating/renewing yourself?

Is the fastest way to progress in my career to do what I'm doing, or what my coworker does? That seems like a simple question but at least part of advancing is appearances (which admittedly don't pertain to actual capabilities in many cases). Is it better to be pushing my brain in the way that I'm doing, or to just operate from a fresh brain all the time by taking many breaks like my coworker?

Enlighten me.
Yea I agree, my point wasn't that the preparation is fair, but that it's easier (not necessarily "better") to compare 2 candidates based on the same nationwide test rather than a GPA from different schools with 4 years of different classes

It's not a value judgement and the SATs are far from perfect, but just another piece in the puzzle

And yea life isn't fair at the end of the day, nurture and nature are both super important for determining future achievement
How is this different from Volkswagen? They inflated a metric by 600+% according to the legal documents on the article, for 2+ years. And kept all the revenue from the 'mistake' while crushing competitors that lost business for those two years.
Worse yet, the plastics break down in water and plankton eat them up... and they're at the bottom of the food chain, not to mention phytoplankton produce between 50-85% of oxygen [0] and eat lots of CO2.

Disclosure: Involved in a project to raise awareness about plastic and noise pollution in the water [1].

[0]: https://thinkprogress.org/zooplankton-are-eating-plastic-and...

[1]: https://www.NoiseAquarium.com
Wish these were not as expensive as they are. This, the new Palm phone and similar devices could potentially start a minimalist (and "cute"?) revolution where devices focus on some core aspects with battery life closer to that of feature phones.
By the way, on Apple keyboards you can get six extra keys by holding down the “fn” key:

fn + delete = forward delete

fn + return = enter

fn + up/down arrow = page up/down

fn + left/right arrow = home/end
Yes, and that is exactly what is happening to Asian students, hence the lawsuit.
Ask HN: Non-fiction books that challenge/inform the reader (not pop-nonfiction)?
Feudatory obligation is feudatory obligation, senior execs almost always have feudatory obligations.
Apple has a nefarious history in regards to these types of issues.
... and when the crimes are "victimless" i.e. fail to uphold basic criminal code principles requiring an actual particularizeable harm?

What then?

How about all the false arrests? False convictions?

People bludgeoned into pleaing guilty to avoid ridiculous overcharging and sham courts? What about them?

What happens when we fully implement chinese-style "social credit"? Thought-crimes?

Your media is already heavily manipulated. If you think it isn't, you're an idiot.
Absolutely. It’s still way better than Jim Crow.
> I might add a lack of dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys on larger laptops.

Yes, and then you can put full-sized arrow keys below them in the inverted-T!
The other party wants to make revolt impossible by dismantling the 2nd Amendment. So it's a choice as to whether one wants slightly-better politics or much-better metapolitics.
But everything he's said turned out to be true.

The propaganda smear campaign against assange wouldn't be so great if what he was saying wasn't accurate.

Governments want him silenced because he's telling the truth. Sure he may have his agenda, but everyone has an agenda. What's important is if the information is true.
Edit: misunderstood
Because daily screaming in the media about one but not the other?
You mean the DNC leaks?
«The i9-9900k is way better...»

You forgot the most important: i9-9900k has TWICE the number of cores as i7-2600k.
I didn't know about this Cathedral until I was looking into what I might find in Barcelona earlier this year. It's entirely easy to imagine not knowing about it until I showed up.
Not sure why you’re being so hostile; I’m just pointing out some complications to the idea.
Because that was specifically what the student was dealing with. If the student was dealing with the stress of a laid-off parent, or a serious disease, or a sibling with a drug problem, I wouldn't be surprised if those details were mentioned, and not just vague language about "difficult life experiences."
The commerce cause is mostly orthogonal (not irrelevant, but orthogonal) to no-strings-attached social services funding, even under very literal/originalist interpretations.
Seems like Microsoft Excel or Google sheets does the same job or am I missing something here?
Depending on the plan there are state insurance regulators you can appeal to who basically have the final say but I agree, the random denials etc... it's like the do it on purpose. There is also an appeal window of like 60 days in most cases so the best thing someone can do to help is help your family member manage and file appeals/paperwork as necessary. You can also find former insurance company employees who act as patient advocates and know who and how to call to get things done. A lot of them work at hospitals but you can find them outside as well. Sometimes your insurance will have a patient advocate. They are actually on your side and will help.
The question is not who the lawsuit will benefit, though. The question is what the law says right now, and whether Harvard is trying to concoct a scheme that violates that law in practice while pretending to be compliant.

Whether the law is a good idea or a bad idea as written is another question, and is up to the legislature to debate that and amend the law as needed. But courts shouldn't be in the business of rewriting laws because they had some consequences that their authors didn't intend (although in this case I suspect that the original authors actually did very much intend for this sort of thing to be illegal also, since the laws were written back in the era where being color-blind was not considered bad).
> The right to voice one’s opinion and express one’s thinking freely and in all of its forms and manifestations.[0]

Ecudaoran's constitutional right to speech does not appear to ensure a platform will be provided, only that one may express their voice and opinion freely and in all its forms and manifestations. Your thoughts?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#E...
Canaries don’t work. National secrecy laws treat a canary exactly as outright violating the gag order.
Not if, e.g. $race_a applicants get +2 to their score, but $race_b applicants are more likely to be +2 in other $admissions_factors[c,d,..n].

Distinct from $race_b-2 and $race_a+2, as this only hurts the subset of $race_b applicants lacking [c,d,..n]
I think they both work together now at Oculus.
If you create a forum then free speech extends to it. Does Ecuador and its embassies have internet?
Construction of the building started 130 years ago, but it's not done yet (and won't be done for the better part of a decade).
Isn't Bloomberg a large corporation itself?
I don’t particularly mind that Clozure CL, SBCL, Franz, Armed Bear CL, LispWorks, etc. all have different solutions for some things not in the spec.

When I retire from full time work next year, I have planned on just using one language, probably either Common Lisp or Racket, for research and recreational programming. The fact that the CL standard is crufty doesn’t really put me off. Racket does handle many of the issues you mention nicely but there is something nice about using a programming language that I have been using for 36 years.

That said, if DARPA and/or a large consortium of corporations decided to drop $$$ to re-standardize and improve the language then that would be very cool. But, I don’t need that to happen.
For specificity's sake.
1 in 4 Venmo users’ actions on the app can be monetized, PayPal CFO says
Nice idea if you have to carry a second phone. Especially nice if the phone is passed amoung different people, like for pager duty.
Art is about smuggling wealth. Influence on pricing, is about cashing out.

Tomorrow if sotheby's put a giant turd on sale and declares it worth millions, people looking to launder will buy it, knowing that when they need to cash out, sotheby's will come to the rescue.

Wake up.
Sadly I think the legacy of this generation will be how little we will (historically) have appeared to care about Assange and Snowden.
ACT should already be like that. I looked at the last one they sold, and, at least for math, you can easily game your way up to a 22ish on it. Which, granted, isn't needed for higher levels, but that's above what some states set as their benchmark, so...

I'm sure the other sections are the same, though I didn't look at those. But, really, any math exam with multiple choice answers can be gamed, at least to an extent. And then people will start teaching how to game it (especially if funding comes from them, which some does in the state I teach in)
What actually happened to the market for 4" phones? I came across my old Droid Incredible II the other day and it felt so much better in my hand than any other smartphone I've held in the last 3 years. I could comfortably type on it with one hand, something I couldn't dream of doing well on a 5" or larger phone.
Sorry but please refrain from posting Bloomberg links as they auto play audio and video
So Facebook repeatedly gives publishers incorrect info, and some of those publishers go broke.

Meanwhile, Facebook is getting it's own (news) publishing operation off the ground. Which could probably do with having less competitors.

That could be viewed in a rather specific light. "Operating in Bad Faith" might be the nicest way to put it? ;)
I agree it is easier to compare two candidates on a standardized metric, but my point is these kids get different levels of preparation for that metric. It isn't a suprise those with more resources to prep tend to do better overall than those that lack resources. It doesn't mean the kid from Kansas that scored lower is dumber than the kid from NY that scored higher, if the Kansas kid didn't have elite prep and the NY kid did. Luckily the internet is flattening those disadvantages to a degree, and the Kansis kid could likely go to a library and study online after school but there is no denying that poor Kansas kid has a lot more to overcome than the elite rich NY kid to get to the same point in life.
As a teacher, I agree with all the things you say in number 2. Full-heartedly. But can't really bring myself to agree with Number 1. Quality will just keep going down, and I know several schools that stay afloat right now only because of BS online programs (half supported by the state)... 2 really needs to be the answer, not 1.
There's (at least one) order of magnitude difference in popularity between the two. I don't think the average American could name the Sagrada Familia from a picture of it, for instance. For me, when I travel, sometimes I don't really look up what there is to see/do in a city until I'm there. When I landed in Barcelona, I didn't know what the Sagrada Familia was.
I presume they're trying to have it be affirmative-action-like, but your comment did make me think of it in an interesting way: You can't say "race always helps" or "race only helps" because everybody has a race. There are no Person for which Person.Race is null. (Can you tell I'm on a break from writing code tonight?)
If 40+ years ago NRO had meters resolution imagine what they could have today...

> A perfect 2.4-meter mirror observing in the visual (500 nm) would have a diffraction limited resolution of around 0.05 arcsec, which from an orbital altitude of 250 km would correspond to a ground sample distance of 0.06 m (6 cm, 2.4 inches). Operational resolution should be worse due to effects of the atmospheric turbulence.[24] Astronomer Clifford Stoll estimates that such a telescope could resolve up to "a couple inches. Not quite good enough to recognize a face".[25]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
Never heard of these guys, but they got several hundred hours of video footage of building a game from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive/videos looks interesting.
No. Plus install it with the classic skin and it can remind you of the old Napster days running Win98. And possibly of your first exposure to computer viruses which taught you to backup everything externally that you wouldn't be willing to lose given that at any time you may be forced to perform a complete system reinstall. :)
It symbolized solidarity, not so much authority. The small sticks work together and act as one.
Don't conflate Assange and Snowden. Snowden was a patriot who did a really poor job of whistle blowing. Assange is a self aggrandizing asshole and a waste of oxygen.
Thanks, this was great!
Facebook was launching it's own competing news thing wasn't it? eg clearing away some of the potential competitors
Can you be more specific? Not disagreeing here but genuinely curious what behavior you’re referring to.
Might consider it if it wasn't so expensive. In a world where feature phones that are marginally larger cost under twenty dollars it's hard to justify.