skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vim is great, but I'm very glad that I learned it early in my life as an engineer. The learning curve slowed me down at a time where it was understandable if I was slow at doing something. I feel like I would have had a much harder time if I had tried to learn it after I was already completely comfortable with another editor. That doesn't stop me from recommending it to everyone.
Yes, not only do they pile up, but there's another interesting win which isn't measurable in time.

It's being happy. It's knowing you're using tools that let you get things done in a way that works best for you.

Something like this has infinite value because it's the difference between waking up and dreading doing something because of the upcoming million paper cuts VS waking up really excited to do your task. That's the difference between writing nothing one day vs writing 5,000 top quality words.
In its hundred of years history, its admission system has been discriminating against minorities, going far beyond what only those with "sensibilities" would care about.

Recently it has been well documented how Asians have a tougher admission than white Americans. Until the 1930s, and possibly longer, they had a Jewish quota. While Jim Crow laws were being dismantled, there was 1 (one) black student in the 1958-class. Then there was the gender quotas.

Harvard - as other private universities - are benefiting from favorable tax treatment, and from society acknowledging their education for a number of different professions (law and medicine are obvious examples). But even without that, society has a legitimate interest in regulating against discrimination in private universities.
Buy mid-range Motorola phones. This G4 play is the best $150 I've ever spent.
Quick Trick to Make Your iOS App Snappier
Google is ridiculous with its API restrictions and lackluster offerings. For a software company it astounds me how poor and mismanaged their API options are. Unreliable in the sense they pull the plug a lot with these pet projects leaving devs hanging. Can they be trusted?
>Yet none ever wonder or look at why cockpit windows remain decidedly rectangular. :)

Don't listen to the "aerospace engineer" that answered you.

The reason why cockpit windows are so angular is of course for visibility. They are mounted in a heavy load-bearing frame. Structural efficiency is sacrificed for a better view.

I tried to find a nice picture for you, but the best I could find is this https://polybull.com/product/genuine-boeing-747-400-full-coc...

These in turn are mounted on another heavy frame that attaches to the main bulkheads. You can see the angles are quite sharp, certainly no more rounded than the Comet windows were. But, once stress concentration and metal fatigue was understood, appropriate allowances could be made.

Conversely, for passengers, the view is compromised for better structural efficiency.
The only reason they would take down this app is because its more like a web page inside of an executable wrapper, which does violate their quality policy.

They arent responsible to anybody here, and the faux protest will only gives the options of switching to one of thoss two services or becoming a luddite.

This is funny to me.
For those in the know - is there a reason on the funding side for funding less risk averse things? Something about the politics of the NIH that has changed?
> "All Lives Matter" is just a bland retort to try to get the spotlight away from "Black Lives Matter".

It sounds like you're confident that you understand the motives of the persons in the "All Lives Matter" camp. Could you explain what lead you to that conclusion?
> Force arbitration is bullshit and anti-consumer.

Definitely. I love this quote further down in the article:

> Last June, for instance, I wrote about a Fitbit lawyer’s all-too-candid admission that no rational litigant would pay a $750 filing fee to arbitrate a claim over a product that costs $162 – a concession that plaintiffs' lawyers called the “ugly truth” about mandatory arbitration clauses.
All of the things the west has done are completely justified in my view, in fact as someone intimately familiar with the state and motivations of Russia, I belive that the west is not doing enough to safeguard itself from the Russian threat that is developing very quickly. Russia had been cheating the INF for years and China was never a part so it was only logical for US to reset. Sanctions are a direct result of agressive, revanchist and murderous actions Russia is taking towards it’s neighbors and the attempts to manipulate politics and destabilize the west. Millitarized space is now a necessity due to Russias development of hypersonic ballistic nukes which avoid our existing missile defence shield, as well as Russia’s own experiments with militarized satellites.
I deeply hope that the redwoods of marin county can be restored. The redwood forests of marin are still beautiful, but humans decimated them over the lasr 200 years, and we cant really understand just how magnificent those trees were in the past - trunk diameters of 30+ feet were common in the past.
As someone who works in tech, the misery I feel on a fairly regular basis is experiencing first hand the disconnect between the stereotypical "change the world for the better" Koolaid narrative and the reality of what I was actually working on and enabling, which is not necessarily 1) purely good for the world and 2) always that "innovative".

The happiest employees I see (at least outwardly) are those that fully buy in to the Koolaid and do not consider the nuance of what a company or technology enables.
With only ~11,000 entries and what looks to be a pretty defined set of searchable fields, it should be a simple setup. I'd guess the search is powered by either Elasticsearch or Postgres/MySQL.

I think the more interesting part of the product is going to be the procurement of available servers which I don't have any guesses outside of public API's + web scraping to do that.
There are books on direct harm, and robots who force you to quit smoking.
Assuming you don't care about the OS. Once I switched away from iOS, I am finding it very hard to go back
How would an algorithmic (presumably?) selloff of stock markets cause a recession?
It looks to me like the default result set has 11k or so documents, which is very small. A couple of years ago I helped build a specialized vertical search engine that provided faceted search over a similarly-sized dataset. We used django on the front end with elasticsearch on the backend, and it was blazingly fast. I credit our talented django developer with the speed and fluidity of the front end, and I credit elasticsearch with providing amazingly fast aggregated results across that admittedly tiny set of documents.
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I do think it's important to teach these types of critical analysis skills in grade school, however, this bill is quite limited in scope:

> On or before July 1, 2019, the department shall make available to school districts on its Internet Web site a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy, including media literacy professional development programs for teachers.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
My country has a holiday where the children plant trees every year.
Don't know about Harvard, but I was involved with interviewing candidates for CS admissions at Oxford. Everyone involved that I worked with most definitely wanted to admit the best, most capable students and could not care less about legacy students or wealth.

The institutions in "the West" are really not as bad as some of us would like to think. Furthermore, undermining the public faith in these institutions can serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy - for example, making some brilliant applicants not even try to apply to a good University, believing it is biased against them.
I’ve heard that with the size of Harvard’s endowment, it would be trivial to cover the costs of tuition for all students. Pitching random admissions as a cost cutting measure seems unconvincing against this backdrop.
Ask HN: Could fuzzing generate code?
Fuzzing can be used to find bugs. Could it be used to fix obscure bugs, bugs in complex data flows, by fuzzing over inputs? Could a fuzzing like approach be used to generate code (even code we have no chance of comprehending) that patches a n obscure bug? It seems possible. By extension could fuzzing generate code against arbitrary constraints?
I think I understand the sentiment here, but I don’t think it applies well to OP’s specific case. He mentions that he is considering the idea moving to the states. The bureaucratic machine doesn’t care about your passion. I’m from EU country and the wizard form on Canada’s immigration site ends abruptly after the step concerning my formal education.
So here's the thing: a student body is more than the sum of its parts, which a lottery ignores.

To use just one example: a lottery could easily wind up admitting 40 violin players and zero bassoon players, or 8 percussionists but not a single oboe player. In which case a viable university orchestra becomes impossible, and every potential orchestra player suffers. (These are not exaggerated either -- for an incoming class of 1,000 students, of which only ~100 have a sufficient orchestra background with the requisite years of practice and want to play, there isn't a lot of margin for error.)

Now repeat ad nauseum for every type of sports team, extracurricular, distribution across majors, etc.

By ensuring there are approximately the right number of every "slots" for each type of applicant, the institution ensures that students have the ability to participate in the types of activities and courses they want to, and that student life is rich both academically and extracurricularly.

There are legitimate problems with some of the "slotting" as practiced today (particularly concerning legacies and in terms of whether a racial/ethnic/national balance should match the nation, the applicant pool, some other balance, or be ignored entirely), but a lottery would throw out the baby with the bathwater, and be a disaster for ensuring the kind of vibrant student life that is a major part of 4-year university experience.

(Obviously this is specific to smaller institutions, whether elite or not -- if your incoming class is 30,000 students then you'll always have enough of everyone.)
They could enact sanctions and apply non-military pressure.
Downvoted by people who know nothing about space physics. Deimos is indeed just about the same distance as the moon in terms of energy required. With one exception. When approaching a multi-body system there are gravity-boost options for slowing a spacecraft. Not an option when aproaching the moon.
Blade Runner Reinvented Adventure Games
What rube at the 9th circuit fell for the 'ol "of course we'll act in good faith" argument??

In the long run I think this kind of practice will only hurt Uber - they have huge issues with driver retention any way, and their dream of self driving cars is laughable. Lyft (who's only a little better, but still better) will continue to gain ground in the US especially and will eventually become the market leader in mobility.
"Their most striking finding was substantially diminished levels of meaningfulness and subjective well-being among the giftedness as potential group compared to both the giftedness as achievement group and the control group. Also, in comparison to the giftedness as achievement group, the giftedness as potential group reported more demotivating experiences in school, and they perceived work as much less meaningful and joyful."

If you assume "achievement" is based on "giftedness" plus luck, this seems to imply that perceptions of meaningfulness and well being are based essentially on luck. I suspect that there is something wrong with our success-fascinated culture.

Or, possibly not. Promoting success by emphasizing it might be worth the cost to those who just didn't happen to succeed.
I think you're taking it too far.

I agree that technically it's breach of contract. The trouble is that humans who aren't lawyers think of tickets as options instead of futures. They think they're buying the right to board instead of an obligation to board.

I can also see the human-positive side effect. The marginal cost of an extra bum in a seat isn't high, so it makes sense to fill up the plane, but the economics only work out if there's enough people who pay more.

There are lots of ways to differentiate between these sets of people - service levels, flexibility, calendar patterns. But the internet reduces the price information asymmetry that calendar patterns rely on, and so we've come to this court case: making it a hard constraint rather than hoodwinking the relatively price insensitive business traveller.
If the merits of the case are justified, what does it matter whether an "activist" is involved or what his politics might be?
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Examples and best practices for building deep recommendation systems
Not really. Is it more impressive to climb the seven summits, or write an original work and have it performed by the New York Philharmonic? These aren't cleanly comparable things (which was always the point, of course; the focus on "more well-rounded students" appeared when elite institutions were worried that academically successful Jewish students were becoming too big a proportion of the student body.[1])

1: http://250.browndailyherald.com/how-1920s-anti-semitism-insp...
This is technically a repost from the Wired article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19097613
I've been using Franz for a while now, mostly for a replacement for Facebook Messenger, but lately also for Slack and Hangouts. Is it amazing or flawless? Nope - I often come back from a sleepy laptop to find I need to "reload services", or that I have to log back in though I would prefer to be remembered. But it works and I do not have performance issues.

I used Trillian a ton years ago for AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger, and I don't remember why I stopped using it, other than maybe because I stopped using the above chat services! I always liked having that as my minimal chat app. Franz is definitely bulkier, but that's sort of the direction chat went. Everything has to support GIFs!
> So what is that problem?

The problem is that Black Lives manifestly do not matter as much as others, and particularly white lives, in the accountability structure that actually functionally exists.

> If so, why do not you promote "All Lives Matter"

Because a bug report needs to point as specifically as possible to the way the actual behavior is defective.

> I could say that "Black Lives Matter" is just a bland way of trying to get the spotlight away from the fact that everyone deserves equal treatment,

You could say anything, but as a matter of fact you would be wrong to say that.
Obviously they are, just look at Philosophy. After Nietzsche and nihilism the whole Anglo world turned away from the continental school to the analytical school. Everything became mechanical. The whole meaning of life in essence became production and consumption... which is followed by an aura of doom and gloom. People stopped having children because they can't balance their needs of consumption with need of taking care of other people. They became isolated again for the same reasons.
aTalk on Android (XMPP client) works well for voice/video chat. It looks ugly though :)
Why do you think that diversity of race and class are not true diversity?
It's the adage that a metric ceases to be a good measure when it becomes an objective. Students doing x will increase their chance to get admitted at Harvard, parents will force kids to do x to get in, and x ceases to be a measure of extra curricular diversification and being just one more subject in the curriculum.
That's how I learned it. I got the extension for VS Code and just started playing with it. If I got frustrated, I would slap "i" and go back to my normal way of doing things. The frustrations went down and now I use vim bindings all the time. I'd also recommend getting a Vim plugin for the browser (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/). Totally optional but it really helped click in the j and k movements.
If anyone is suffering from a lack of meaning I would recommend "War and Peace" by Tolstoy, specifically the plot around Pierre Bezuchov.
The optimized versions (plural!) were only available for a few platforms, so a portable version needs to be kept around anyway.

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/30eda6715c6578de2086f03d... is the removal commit, which also points out that the optimization didn’t seem to have mattered much (depending on the CPU).
Agreed. I use vim daily and really the only text processor I use. But the learning curve is pretty steep.
> nothing you couldn't have gotten elsewhere

Well, for example prestigious clerk positions are filled from Yale Law and Harward students. If you study law elsewhere, the most ambitious positions are effectively closed. Look at supreme court and see which school are represented.

Ivy league causes people trust you more. There are prestigious places that stock from almost exclusively from those schools.

So yeah, it attracts all those highly ambitious kids for a reason.
Okay, thanks. I missed that one.
Which are partially Saudi. Good thing though there are competitors on the market, who dont give a damn on morals. Good thing those giants interwined buisness and morals, and now can be forced to retreat out of markets.
Typing and thinking are almost the same thing to me. I'm either writing code, or bullet lists with things to do, concerns to take into account, things I've learned, etc. Text file is an extension of my memory, and a place to distill, manipulate, and organize my thoughts.
In what world do people have the technological and social infrastructure for Bitcoin (end user devices, networks, miners, etc) but bad infrastructure for money transfer? How do you think they would be buying their phones/devices and paying to connect to the network?
The best approach would be to stamp the name and date of birth on the tickets. Check ID and DOB at the door.

No ticket scalpers.
Not yet! We've actually switched stacks and rewritten the backend a few times already, which might make for a great future story. I'll try to make some time after our upcoming server migration. :)
> This finding highlights the critical difference between happiness and meaning in life. While happiness and life satisfaction has more to do with getting what you want and feeling good, meaning is more related to developing a personal identity, expressing the self, and consciously integrating one's past, present, and future experiences.

Even happiness and satisfaction isn't permanent. Their volatility and inconstancy are the perpetual attraction of "doing things". That's one reason that even some ultra-high-quality people feel boredom: if you don't have anything to do in the next day, you won't be proud of yourself. Be it simple goals ("I have everything, so I want a bigger yacht, buy exclusive clothes from that small door in that small street, have a dinner at the top of the Eiffel tower"), that money can buy, or something that your next-island-millionaire-neighbor has done and you haven't.
Tried Movim https://movim.eu/ ?
Another problem I can see with such systems is that it will enforce the statu quo. But the best doctors I met were the one taking the risk to give me controversial advices, and options to choose from, including the well known ones.
Experimenting with Edge Computing and Anycast
If well documented manipulation of social media by foreign governments had a "minuscule" effect on the election, what are the "far more probable explanations" you speak of?
If regulation controls what content they're allowed to publish, and enforces this with financial and/or criminal penalties, then it's the same thing as censorship.
Hey,

I'm currently reading a lot about technical writing and documentation, as we're started hiring into this direction. In this context I was curious about the article from a very narrow angle when clicking the link.

I still read it all and I do think you're reaching the goal of your article as outlined in the comment, so all good.

I just wanted to make a tldr kinda disclaimer to people that might be coming from my angle and being interested in stuff like documentation best practices and alike.
Generally the "serious" ones do, and if not then we should try to encourage them to do so. A few examples after a quick Google search:

- https://www.linode.com/speedtest
- https://www.futurehosting.com/network-test-files/
- https://speed.hetzner.de/
- https://turnkeyinternet.net/speed-test/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144006
Oh I spoke too fast. Thanks for the rectification then :)
My bad.
I agree with this. But one of the irritating things about Reddit is just how much straight up lying happens simply because the poster wants a high-attention thread. r/relationships and r/sex is full of these 'that happened' absurd scenarios that well-meaning posters do still try to help with.
> The idea that the poorest countries ( like CAR ) is going to lead the world is unrealistic barring some apocalyptic event in the US, Europe, East Asia, Middle East.

I don't think that OP was arguing that will happen. He was just arguing that growth is happening and they are catching up.
Non-engineer: "What is .vimrc?" And no, for example solarized takes quite a bit of googling to learn exactly which files to copy from GitHub (red flag: non-engineer has to go to GitHub and download a raw file), and then fiddle with the color settings depending on which terminal you're using.
OP here. Yeah that's right.

And truthfully, the productivity wins for me weren't so much tied into being able to input text at a faster rate with Vim.

It was being able to leverage Vim itself to help me rethink and reshape how I organize large amounts of structured text, which saves a lot of time and headaches when dealing with files. Plus there's other wins too with limelight and video editing (an added bonus).

I'm still not 100% as fast as I was with VSCode for inputting and editing text but after 2 weeks of using Vim, it's not a complete train wreck anymore. It was brutal for days, but it's slowly getting better.
I somewhat disagree, Hans does spend some time in this article refuting the claim that benchmark doesn't matter. In particular, he shows charts demonstrating how raising the benchmark changes the result.
> Predicting something 2-3 years early is not a "prediction", it's a failure to predict.

Why do you say that?
Working through it gave my life meaning for quite a while :)
Anecdata rather than a rigorously conducted survey across UK schools. It was very much the consensus amongst my teacher friends when I kicked off a discussion on the topic whilst attempting to donate a handful of them. (I had a bunch spare from doing some speed testing on them.)

Interestingly, they also felt the microbit had been much more successful and accessible, so I guess it's not a lost cause to create a product for that market.
I keep at least one credit card number memorized. It's not that difficult.
Tech Genius Donald Trump to Sign Executive Order on AI Today
That sounds awful. It makes it even harder to make decisions about whether to accept a new version because it is tangling different concerns into a single knot and saying "here, we might mean all of these things, you figure it out!"

Just change the name.
Would you really want a future Feynman to be playing an admission lottery?
Volt looks fantastic, but I doubt their roadmap. When it was first posted a few months ago they had Discord/Telegram set to launch within a month. Seems like the story hasn't changed. I highly doubt they'll be able to add all these integrations by the end of March.

That being said. I like what they're doing and I'm happy to be proven wrong
Stop using Knex.js