skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a tech writeup on how the site was built? What software is behind the faceted search?

The site and search experience is fast and I'd love to learn more about how it was built.
The barista can have a degree and 6 figures of debt...

And the plumber has a trade degree and 6 figures in the bank.

I'm okay not having a 4 year degree (I have a 2 year degree and a 6 figure job) and I'm okay letting others know that "current wisdom" isn't right.

IE: https://www.mikeroweworks.org/
> The lottery system depicted here is unfair to those students who've gone beyond and accomplished things.

Conversely it might take some of the pressure off.

As it stands there's never "enough." With a system that effectively caps you, you get to your lottery tier and can then back off. And considering how much the standards have increased over time to get into a school like this, that may not be a bad thing for mental health.
The archival angle works for Unity because the actual game code is run in a .NET CLR (Mono in most variants of the engine).

Maybe the best way forward is source code escrow the way Trolltech arranged with Qt. They had a deal where the if they ever stopped working on an open source Qt, the last release would become automatically BSD- or MIT-licensed and thus available to all. They had the details worked out nicely. I really believe that Unity should be pressured into such a deal. It is not important now, but it will be an entirely different thing 5 to 10 years after they fold (if ever).
This is a misconception that kind of bugs me. At the top schools they give a tremendous amount of need-based grants (i.e. money that never needs to be paid back). Elite institution grads are not the ones who have debt they can't pay back. Its people at middle of the road private institutions and many other scenarios that have this issue. You are confusing the sticker price with what the bulk of non-rich students actually pay which is far lower. This narrative bugs me because it is just incorrect and focuses on the wrong places as sources of a very real issue.
People who go to HYS et al. aren't paying for the quality of education; they're paying for the signaling device and the network opportunities.
I'd agree that Rust would be a great alternative to C/C++ in performance critical applications.

Video games often have direct or indirect access to personal and credit card data. To double the issue of memory safety some popular video games encourage user generated content to be consumed in game. While less critical than an http server I still think it would benefit. Unity runs game logic in managed c#. Opengl is still wirrten in C.
For those who aren't following closely:

Harvard, like many Universities with applications from far more candidates than they can accept, filter applications based on perceived desirability. For example, a student with the same academic background is more likely to get admitted if they come from Wyoming or Maine than New York or California; in the name of having a more diverse student body with more diverse interests and upbringings, rather than just upper-middle-class students from coastal cities.

There is, of course, a racial component to this.

Today, qualified Asian-American applicants are overrepresented as a share of the overall population, due to great academic qualifications.

Harvard has been found to be accepting them at a lower rate than you would expect; if you look into it, there's some "desirability" factor that's bringing them down. Obviously this is very controversial.

"Students for Fair Admissions" was created by Edward Blum, a Neo-Conservative activist and AEI fellow who is well-known for his work against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, for attempting to reduce the population-based power of districts by only counting registered voters as persons, and generally recruiting 'victims' of affirmative action to be subjects of test-case lawsuits in order to advance his political beliefs.
Counterpoint: Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill today from Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, to encourage media literacy in public schools...

“By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions...”

https://sd03.senate.ca.gov/news/20180917-governor-brown-sign...
Is that actually correct? I'm speculating here because I don't have data on hand one way or the other, but I think that college attendance in the Ivy league (and MIT, Stanford, etc) strongly correlates with significantly higher lifetime income.
> would be for people to wake up and realize ... nothing you couldn't have gotten elsewhere

The whole point of this song and dance with Harvard is that the education alone isn't the point of going to Harvard. You can probably learn most of what Harvard teaches from free sources online + youtube lectures.

An exclusive club grants you great networking potential, which is why people want to go, and why Harvard wants to keep strict control over who/how it lets people in. If they didn't exert Quality Control over the network, their primary selling point would be weakened. If you go to Harvard and pay full price with merely the intent of getting an education, you've totally missed the point and they probably don't want you.

Harvard knows this and is uncomfortable saying it out loud, and its also the reason for this ongoing mess.

(If Harvard truly believed that they were giving a world class education and that the education made all the difference and made the world a better place, they'd use their gobs of money to expand and teach more people. This would ruin the exclusivity.)
the few bits I've read about him was not about capture but turning arid land back to green pastures, and studies concluded that none of his theories made a difference

maybe he's right about co2 capture but be dubious
As rgbrenner noted, 1% growth after inflation. For the average salaried American that’s around $1/day increase. Not enough for a gallon of gas or a Starbucks coffee.
It's pretty easy to listen to the real WWV

Maybe not for long, though: "the station's future is in doubt, because it, along with WWVB and WWVH, has been recommended for defunding and elimination in the NIST's Fiscal Year 2019 budget request. (https://www.nist.gov/fy-2019-presidential-budget-request-sum... )"
Hmm. I use vim sometimes to edit text, and I find it markedly less ergonomic than using vim for editing code, for one key reason: text is typically organized in paragraphs, rather than lines, and all the vim movements make much more sense for lines.

Like, if I'm editing a block of text in a long paragraph that looks like a single line to vim, I don't have a mouse anymore, and up-down movements just leave the paragraph, so I usually find myself with awkward commands like `50w` to try and guess the number of words to move to the point where I'm trying to edit. Sadness.

Then again, this might just be because I don't have enough vim skillz yet. There's probably some command to make vim pretend a visual line is a real line...
New and better tools are finding bugs in old code, so it isn't really that more and more bugs get into new code:

"But, your editor wondered, could we be doing more than we are? The response your editor got was, in essence, that the bulk of the holes being disclosed were ancient vulnerabilities which were being discovered by new static analysis tools. In other words, we are fixing security problems faster than we are creating them. "

https://lwn.net/Articles/410606/
Higher standards of living. Less starvation, better environment, etc...
It seems to be missing the 100Hz time code subcarrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)#Digital_ti...

There should also be doubled ticks near the start of the minute to indicate the difference between UTC and UT1 (i.e., how close we are to needing a leap second). There is one right now, but I did not carefully count what second it should be attached to. (Going to guess 9 though.)
Whoa, easy with the personal attack there.
Correct, but not all ads can be customized for individuals at scale - that's the difference and that's the problem.
There are plenty of (nontrivial) services, devices, etc. that you simply can't use without a smartphone any more. Most of that dependency is artificial, but it exists nonetheless.
What books are most shocking or disturbing?
Discover/Map Engineering and Management Levels at Top Compaines
So what’s more important, to be secure or to ship, then?

I think people made their choice and the developers of the said maps are not responsible for whatever comes out of map’ lack of security.
Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education (2011) [pdf]
Yes, a conservative activist has recruited test-case students as plaintiffs in lawsuits designed to strike down affirmative action.
I was always wondering when I see a sign saying to not flush toilet papers. Do you need to throw it in the trash can after wiping your butt? Because I always flush it, don't want to make the toilet room smell bad or give a hard time to the cleaning lady/boy!
Just read your message again, please note the dedicated plan for Vultr is not shared, it's bare metal: https://www.vultr.com/pricing/baremetal/

The other plans are VPSs, which are indeed shared. :)
Perfect analogy
But in this case why stop half way? Why sell them a phone (the OS) in the first place? Isn’t this (just like the app) condoning the behavior? Isn’t being their ally the same? Doing business with them in general?

Protesting the immoral behavior only by means that don’t really hurt your own bottom line is not actually doing much except cement the hypocrisy.
I personally don't know if such a lawsuit exists. However, if it hasn't been settled in favor of the plaintiff, and no other such lawsuits have been settled in favor of the plaintiff, then they aren't doing anything illegal.
Nice work, I am glad that there is a paragraph talking about exposure. Crash trends based strictly on total number of crashes are easy to predict just based on where there is more traffic. Using crashes per vehicle mile traveled for road segments or crashes per entering vehicle for intersections can help tease out trends. Controlling for severity is also important.

When I do a crash analysis for a city, one of the tasks I do regularly for my job, I generate a crash rate and severity index for each intersection. The severity index is basically a weighted average based on severity, non-injury=1, minor injury=3, and severe injury or fatality=8. The crash rate and severity index are divided to create a Severity Rate. While not perfect or statistically valid, it does help identify trends. Also, I am in a rural state so it is rare that there are enough crashes to make any statistically valid conclusions.
> Wouldn't altruism be getting no satisfaction from increasing someone else's utility but doing it anyways?

head explodes
Alright settle down, Vladimir.

The point of advertising is to change people's behaviours and opinions. The entire purpose of the content is to modify behaviour. Cynics and trolls may think it doesn't have a 'significant' impact but it works which is why it is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Anyways, here is your evidence of the impact that Russian meddling had on the US elections, you troll https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
simplicity might help, but after years of learning mathematics on the side... I think the most damaging part is done through teachers and teaching process. It makes people suffering by trying to understand the finger rather than enjoy the moon.
Fair, we're not in a 10-year inverted scenario yet. But we're pretty close.

> (currently it is 0.18 in Feb 2018)

Note that the 1-year is inverted with the 2-year. So while 10year-2year is 0.18, the 10year-1year is 0.1.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...

The lower-end of the curve is ALREADY inverted. But that's not "the indicator", the 10-year is the indicator that is tracked. Still, seeing the curve invert between 1-year and 5-years is worrysome to me.

This is a less reliable indicator: but when the lower end of the curve inverts, usually the higher end inverts soon afterwards as well.
I think it would be far more manageable to just plant more trees. They were optimized for millions of years to pull CO2 out of the air and store it in the form of wood which is a fantastic material by the way. And trees are not only a simple but a scalable solution.
The education isn't anything special. For certain circles, though, the status of an ivy sheepskin is of utmost importance. State U isn't good enough for the silver spoons. Harvard is also not indebting those lucky enough to attend given it's generous scholarships.
We're using Slack, Skype, WhatsApp, Telegram and WeChat. So some guys in my team use this app as one portal for Election apps, but I would like to use the official apps instead.
Content is constantly being reposted on Reddit with zero attribution. You're better off trying to create a new community with these types of pay-the-creator systems built into it, than shoehorning it into Reddit where the incentive systems would be completely warped due to the Wild West nature of 'content ownership'.
I'd been dabbling with this project for a long time but didn't have much audio recorded. Seeing ^^^ announcement was the real "oh sh*t, I better get going on this" moment.
Most of the points linked in the buzzfeed myths article are linked to gov.uk sources. Do you feel that these sources are themselves propaganda? I'm not sure which of the points can be confirmed or debunked now except maybe for the oil revenue one.

As for the second article, how to spend your extra £1,000, yes, that one is atrocious.
This review placed the Homepod ahead of the KEF X300A, an $1k set of speakers: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/7wwtqy/apple_ho...
For anyone looking into it, the book 'Bullshit Jobs' deals with some of the underlying issues in this article like meaning in life not being reflected for a full 8 hours of you day.
Same for Pidgin

https://pidgin.im/
There's no requirement for comp for delays in the US. (https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...) EU261 only applies if you're flying to or from, or within the EU.
Science Funding Needs Charter School Analogy
Lufthansa sues passenger who missed his flight
If making global state accessible is all you need Redux for, then I don't see why that state shouldn't be:
1) persisted to a back-end and re-fetched on route
2) Persisted to localStorage

If there some kind of state that doesn't neatly fit into these solutions? I know that passing around signed-in user objects is one popular use case for Redux, but in my opinion that could be easily placed into localStorage, or assigned to a window.global_state variable.
Not everything has to have direct practical implications in order to be valuable to read.
Considering the security & privacy issues plaguing Android, there’s very little reason left to stay on that platform.
Would you know of a good intro to pki?
I agree that it can be a bit annoying for working with visual lines. You can move up and down visual lines by using ‚gj‘ and ‚gk‘ instead of ‚j‘ and ‚k‘.
not hard. most of those things can be googled in seconds and copy pasted into .vimrc

I would say vim is easier to configure than, for example emacs
Fair enough, we should adjust for inflation.

From Brookings : "Real median household income grew roughly 1.6 percent in 2018"
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/01/31/household...

Median household income : $60K . $60K * 0.016 =$960.
Forced arbitration being lawful is one thing, but the employer both being able to force arbitration AND pick the arbitrator who is on their payroll should be illegal.

In effect you've taken a process out of an independent court and put it with a private business which is being paid by one of the parties. Seems super sketchy even to the point of criminality.
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"Black Lives Matter" is a truism. Of course they do. It doesn't even need mentioning, so why did you mention it? "All Lives Matter" highlights an actual problem of police incompetence and poor training that needs to be addressed, so why are you concentrating on "Black Lives Matter" and introduce racial context to the problem that affects the whole society?
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> If there were a way to predict future recessions, and it was reliable, and it was well known to the point of being published on a public web page, then it wouldn't work. As soon as it predicted a future recession everyone would sell their long positions and the recession would happen almost instantly.

You're equating the behavior of the stock market with a recession, when they're not the same thing. The stock market is correlated, yes, and people talk about it because it can be a leading indicator of the BLS data, but it's not how we define a recession. You can have negative GDP growth with a rise in the stock market, and you can have a dip in the stock market along with positive GDP growth.
There are people who often apply this logic to smartphones and even internet access, which is wrong. Those things are now as necessary as cars for participation in society. But there are plenty of other modern products and services that are very much just conveniences, many of which come from the companies with the most scandalous headlines.
It would also probably dramatically worsen the grade inflation that's already rampant at a lot of the elite feeder high schools that pump people into the Ivies (and rampant at Harvard itself[1], fwiw).

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...
Power-sipping Raspberry Pi alternative? New board squeezes out extra efficiency
Is the second equation in the paper correct, shouldn't the mask be just the output of the attention network?
Ooh, I'll try that. Thanks!
The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety
Editing is where the dangerous stuff happens.

I was editing a traditional document on a processor called Scrivener, and my worst fear is an errant change unknown to me after saving the file. Going strictly on something like vim might be too hardcore, but if I started out with something like Scrivener, then port to .txt and commit my edits, and bring it back out to Scrivener for compiling, it may make sense.

I haven't looked into too many of my options, but if anyone else doing a decent amount of writing can share their tips, please do!
I don't think politics can be made to work like that.

Politics is about rhetoric, persuasion, spin and - if you can get away with it - outright lies, smears, and distortions.

Claiming that reporting is biased, when in fact it's merely objective but unfavourable, is an absolutely standard weapon in the arsenal of spin.

The only way to attempt to enforce a lack of bias would be to have independent editorial oversight - much like the journalistic equivalent of an independent judiciary.

The Board of Trustees used to attempt that, but the financial reality is that the BBC gets most of its funding from the government, and so is always vulnerable to financial pressures.

IMO lack of access to "clean" unspun fact-based reporting is probably the number one political problem of the moment. Knowingly lying to the public or attempting to influence opinion for personal/political gain should be as much of a crime as dumping asbestos in a school yard.

But currently the political system relies on dishonesty to operate. It's essentially built on denying facts and replacing them with expedient lies, emotional manipulations, and fake "explanations" of why things are the way they are.

So you can't solve one problem without solving the other. And that's a huge, huge challenge.
Freedom of the American Road 1955 [video]
Going to college isn't all about "quality of education"; it's also about networking and building connections. Plenty of State Universities provide a high-quality education, but don't offer the same opportunities to build connections to elites, future elites, and their families.
The post war countries you mention had access to massive investment from the US, e.g. the Marshall plan. It's no surprise they're doing well. In contrast, the post-colonial developing countries today were hit with extremely predatory debt by the IMF - as a form of "international aid" - so it's no surprise they are not as wealthy. Some of these places were also very developed prior to colonialism and could have "snapped back" given the chance.

Unless the exploitative nature of the relationships between wealthier and poorer countries changes, they will have a hard time reaching our economic standards.
I feel exactly the same.
Emacs is powerful, but basically everything it can do is also possible with Vim + Bash, and as both can be combined productively I saw no reason to use Emacs. In the end it doesn't matter if e.g. a document is compiled within Emacs or with a Vim shortcut that calls Pandoc in the background.
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I do miss the days of early Trillian.
Why Are We Open Sourcing Our Curriculum
So they require you to do forced arbitration, then just refuse to act on it (or act very slowly).

From a business stand point, of course they would. Most of these cases will at best require time and money to sort out, and at worse cost them even more money (compensating a driver for damages or lost wages). So why wouldn't they let these get tied up in bureaucracy until the drivers decide it's not worth the effort?

Force arbitration is bullshit and anti-consumer.
Thanks for your detailed response. I sincerely hope your project will be successful, so I don't have to spend a week, looking at all the details such as BGP tables and available payment processors, just to find a usable server in the future ;-)
Drivers mostly hit other things when there's too many things demanding their attention (poor visibility + difficult left turn + busy traffic + bikes + pedestrians = high risk of accidents) so this is probably just a heat map of intersections that are the busiest (in terms of things going on, not necessarily throughput).

I'd like to see a month by month heat map.
Deploy-to-kube: Deploy your Node.js app to Kubernetes with a single command
One ISIS wife ponders her fate, Europe struggles to deal with group's followers
Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps
>In only his lifetime Sweden went from having an infant mortality rate similar to that of the poorest countries today, to being one of the world leaders.

This simply isn't true. Between 1900 and 1905, Sweden's infant mortality rate was merely 2.3 per 1,000 live births [1] which is basically the same as they currently report (2.6 per 1,000 [2]) according to the CIA world factbook. Compare that with Lesotho's rate of 46.1 per 1,000 [2] and it's plain to aee that comparison is completely unfounded. Today's poorest countries have rates in the 60-80 range despite the best efforts of the Western world to share the basic knowledge which caused such a precipitous decline in infant mortality post-1850 with those nations.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448444/

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_...
Waymo – Handling the long tail of self driving cars
On the other hand, when your best solution is 'educate everyone', you're pretty hosed. You're looking at like ten or twenty year horizon on the payoff (if it works at all), at which point we'll have an entirely different set of problems, perhaps exacerbated by our inability to deal with the problem at hand...

(Also, come back when the teachers are paid appropriately.)
I'm not sure the lack of meaning here would just apply to intellectuals. It talks about finding a job in the world that is something that makes them happy. That would seem to apply to everyone, and I'm not sure has much to do with intellectual ability.

It talks about expectations placed on gifted children and what that 'might' do, but failure for anyone else can be terrible too.

I'm just not sure when you get to the outcomes being gifted or intellectual or whatever term they want to use, is all that different from anyone else.