skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only know a little bit about aerospace programming, but from what I do know complicated chains-of-reasoning are avoided like the plague. With every additional step of program reasoning the probability that you got it right decays exponentially. As a result, simple controllers with clearly defined areas of responsibility are elevated above all else. It is the pilot's job to integrate the information coming to them from all areas of the plane. Yes, a computer could do it, but once you get past three or so sensors the programmer's ability to reason about what might happen shrinks to nothing in comparison to the pilot's ability to see what is happening.
> These things aren't the fault of students, professors or any one group, it's just how the complex system that is college education in the US has evolved.

You say that, but in the rest of your entire post, you're putting the blame squarely on the professors.

I was a professor, and I put a crazy amount of time and effort into my students. Copious office hours, refining and reworking every single class I taught every time I taught it, rewriting every test and assignment, doing extracurricular homework reviews and test prep, etc, etc. All this to say, I was very interested in being a good teacher, and this

> The professors who are actually interested in being good teachers don't seem to have a problem with under-performing students (or at least you never hear them complaining).

is bullshit.

It's not that it's wrong. It's disingenuous. The under-performing students are not the issue. They've never been the issue. Even students admitted based on academic merit have weaknesses and struggle in certain areas. That's part of being human. Good students, regardless of performance, will work to overcome these weaknesses and deserve attention and work on the part of the professor in return.

The problem is the non-performing students. The ones who tell you that their daddy paid good money for them to pass your class, and they've never once turned in a homework assignment or passed a quiz. Those students leach time and effort and attention that rightfully belongs to the under-performing students. Those students will offer you money and sex before they do a lick of work, and I have been offered both, multiple times. They do not belong in universities.

From the article:

> Exhibit A from the recent admissions corruption scandal is “social media celebrity” Olivia Jade Gianulli, whose parents bought her a place at the University of Southern California, and who announced last August to her huge YouTube following that “I don’t know how much of school I’m going to attend. But I do want the experience of, like, game days, partying … I don’t really care about school.”

I think you have greatly misunderstood the problem and fail to grasp the realities of the situation. Yes, there exist professors that don't give a crap about teaching, but your post is a slap in the face to those of us who care deeply and spend (or used to spend) 60 - 80 hours a week doing it.
I don't disagree that making the language small is a great goal and makes the language better. I just think that such a language will not appeal to everyone who enjoyed a large language full of syntactic sugar like Ruby. In fact I very much agree with Go's design goals and see lots of problems with Rust's design choices, at least when considering it for "mondain" work like web dev. However, I cannot get myself excited about Go at all, while I am very excited about Rust. I think it's that Rust, especially coming from Ruby, has interesting new concepts that lead to many rewarding learnings where you change how you reason about some things. When I read about Go, there are no surprises, everything immediately makes sense. All of this is good. It's also boring (in a good way). If I somehow got forced to use one of these languages for a new startup, I'd go with Go. If I had to pick one for playing around with on the weekend, I'd definitely go with Rust.
But imagine, if you are a VC and you invest in a Brothel then you risk your reputation etc...

But if you act like an advisor for Mr. Evil Money, then it's not you who is on the hook, right?

Basically, it means they want to do something more aggressive and risky and maybe the opportunities in VC space are disappearing.
Truecaller's privacy policy is beyond scary
which doesn't even work with github readme.md
Are they wrong to? Inequality is increasing and universities are a gateway to the upper part of the distribution. When the costs of failure are so high it's expected that a bunch of people will enter and fight to make it to the finish line however they can.
I am just learning coding for the web. Security is something that is clearly important, but I am unsure on a lot of specifics. Do you have any suggestions for a beginner?
> they're increasingly just used as browsers

So what? A browser is all you need to make a website.
That page doesn't say that: regarding the September 2017 Treasury Department investigation, it states 'The 115 page report confirmed the findings of the prior 2013 report that some conservative organizations had been unfairly targeted, but also found that the pattern of misconduct had been ongoing since 2004 and was non-partisan in nature.'

Which doesn't, I think, directly disagree with what I wrote.

Notably, the page also indicates that in October 2017 President Trump's administration admitted the previous administration's wrongdoing and settled the ongoing cases. Of course, it's in their interest to admit that Mr. Obama's administration had done wrong regardless.
Yes, this is what I mean on the site in postulate '3. Data Symmetry' by a "scorched earth policy". Someone can't use it unilaterally as exclusive leverage if everyone else knows it too.

From wikipedia: "A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location".

There's no unilateral benefit to hording valuable data about the natural world because Grassland's AI independently causes information inflation.
Same here. When we travel, we usually bring our own stuff, or depending on where we are going, hitting a local drugstore/supermarket when we get there.
The main difference is that now we actually have a proper grid layout system which enables editors to do their job properly. Things like webflow allow one to design responsive components without having to code anymore.
Gerald Jay Sussman: Should We Fear Intelligent Machines?
It's interesting this is the top voted comment when it isn't really substantive to the article's subject matter.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Dostoyevsky
Inbox has a lot of useful features with bundling and archiving.

This extensions seems to be just a skin on gmail that doesn't give any of the inbox functionality. Seems to just replicate that extra whitespace functionality only.
That's your choice. I prefer to use a different username on each site to make it more complicated to connect the dots.
Hey, serious question but off topic from the thread:

You used the word "what" where we would normally use the word "that".

I've heard this done during speech numerous times from everyone ranging from fluent native speakers to learning nonnative speakers. Was there a specific reason you did it here?
> "equal this" and "equal that"

Uh, I'm going to need some clarification on what this means? Because one interpretation could be, "letting minorities into university has ruined it." And that way, there be dragons.
Hack the NSO group (or any of your adversaries/allies) and use their zero days... likely a lot cheaper than developing your own or creating new ones for other people to hack and use against you. If nobody else has any, you're not behind :^)
Why You Should Never Use MongoDB (2013)
> I was sad to see => aka "hashrocket" syntax go

It hasn't gone - still there as of 2.6.2 and still the only way to create non-symbol keys in a literal.
I think that much of the social value of a degree is the demonstration that you can overcome impediments.
The keyboard fanatics over at https://reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards can probably hook you up. The "space cadet" keyboard is revered there.
I am comparing high speed rail to conventional rail. High speed tickets are at least twice as much. The price of a bus is similar to the conventional train which is disappearing leaving the bus as the only cheap alternative. You are probably not poor.
Investment banks have proprietary trading desks that are effectively hedge funds.
Photo Booth or my Phone...
I appreciate the goals of this project, but IMO they aren't being very rigorous about it, and really only arrive at the conclusion that "more blacks are poor, and tickets hit poor people very hard", which I think anyone would already agree with before this study. I don't really understand what the ward breakdown adds.

"Which Ward Owes The Most?": right, poor people can't afford to pay tickets and build up debt.

"Where People Are Ticketed Most": this seemed promising. I clicked and mostly majority-white neighborhoods popped to the top. This is explained away by saying they're more congested; OK, fair enough, but try to control for that by population density? Or something? How am I supposed to read "unfair to minorities" out of that?

"How Ticket Type Varies By Ward": maybe there's something here, but this seems just as related to other factors to me as the previous point. From what I've seen in Chicago, the majority-black neighborhoods are vastly different than the majority-white neighborhoods (I feel like ProPublica would agree), so a difference in ticket type seems incredibly logical. Yet here it's not dismissed like they dismissed the previous category.

"What Happens if You Don’t Pay": right, poor people can't afford to pay tickets and it ends in a property seizure or bankruptcy.

"Who Appeals and Wins": sorting by "Percent contested and won" the minority neighborhoods fair very well, consisting of 5 of the top 8.
my apologies. thank you for the informative link.
a16z - also Chris Dixon - led our round at Keybase. We only have great things to say about both the firm and Chris. Chris sits on our board and has been a class act the whole time.

Also: during our fundraising, we faced a number of the "Monday pitch meetings" -- this is where you've gone through the early crap talking with VC's and are invited in to pitch to the partners. It's typically the last step before an offer. a16z's partner meeting was, by far, the most tech-savvy and aware group. It seems obvious that VC's would understand the technology they're investing in, but honestly, that's often not the case. We faced a lot of brand-name VC firms that couldn't understand what we were working on. We'd get a sense of that and quickly adjust our pitch to focus on what they could understand.

For those asking "Why give them so much credit when they're just doing their job?" -- there are special occasions when a startup's interests and its investors' interests are not aligned. The first big opportunity for a VC to mess with you is the period between a letter of intent and closing the round, when all the smaller details come up and are negotiated. a16z was excellent in the process and we closed quickly without issue.

A later possibility of disagreement is what ar7hur describes here, and here's why it happens: VC's have zero risk aversion and aim to maximize expected value in dollars, which is what you'd want as an investor in the VC. But especially if you're a first-time founder, your dollar-to-utility curve is anything bit linear. Most humans wouldn't trade $5 million for a 1-in-10 chance at $100 million. This discrepancy is the source of a lot of possible problems. How VC's behave during both subsequent rounds and possible exits is perhaps the most important measure of them from a founder's perspective.

tl;dr very happy with a16z and Chris Dixon.
Relevant piece on Gaussian process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19561179
There is upper limit. Cost of servicing debt cannot exceed tax revenue. But that's in theory.

The U.S. spent $450 billion in interest payment to its debt, on tax revenue of about $2.5 trillion That's 18% of revenue.

Can it go to 30%? Sure, but there will be cuts made to services.

Japan gets panned for overspending, but they're in line with what the U.S. spends in debt servicing cost in relation to revenue.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.XPN.INTP.RV.ZS?locat...
No, you put them on a bus like so many other things in modern vehicles today. They don't need their own separate wires or even their own bus. With lots of sensors, you're going to have several independent buses anyway, so a failure on that bus would only make you lose a fraction of your sensors.
I understood it to be less like schizophrenia and more like early peoples who were not aware of their internal monologue. Their own thoughts were perceived as the command or voice of Gods because how else would they be able to, "hear" words that were not said by another around them?
That is good, thanks.

I wonder if there is a pre-existing manual for this sort of thing already published? A quick Amazon search didn't produce anything I was looking for.
Half of those you call dead (desktop, ftp, simple html) are things i use all the time :-P. And i'm sure free webspace isn't dead as i used one about 3 years ago which was the first hit on google among many and i doubt all of them vanished so fast.
> To "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"

They still do a few things like that, very occasionally. When they got rid of Freebase (notice a pattern?) they did preserve that data and it was used to seed Wikidata, which now in turn feeds their "SERP boxes". But I absolutely agree that there's zero focus otherwise on that core enabler of their business-- they're just coasting on their earlier (very substantial) efforts, and managing to stay afloat somehow.
One of the brain's most important abilities to maintain sanity is the ability to forget the unimportant and remember the important.

The internet will need that ability as it becomes more intelligent. Having AI reasoning based on vast pools of fake news and other disinformation would not be a good thing.
Thanks for the valuable feedback so far. I agree it tends to be a bit expensive. Would love to get additional thoughts

Edit: (Adding the following) From other users
This author has done this type of article before, like for Mass Effect Andromeda, also by Bioware
> the 'plumb' feature

This is the first time I hear about this. What make it better? How I learn more?
I tend to agree, these services create value.

I see 2 main factors as to why:

* federation

* cost

These two factors combined unlocked possibilities (ex: universal delivery service) or significantly improved existing industries (Uber app is far more convenient than finding then phoning the local taxi company and hoping blindly for the taxi to arrive).

Federation eases the use of the service as you don't have to either setup your own service (for example, hiring delivery guys for your restaurant) or find out the local services available (if they existed in the first place), and discover which one is good, which one is bad. The last decade development of mobile networks and smartphones was the catalyst for this evolution.

Cost is the other aspect, these services are cheaper than legacy alternatives. But this second aspect is key. On one hand, these services are losing money like crazy, on the other, they have a detrimental social impact, basically exploiting loopholes in the legislation to have "low rights" workers with no protection. But this will change at one point, laws and court decisions will close the loopholes, and the magic money tree will dry up, meaning these services will become significantly more expensive.

The question, when this will happen is: Was the federation improvement enough to sustain this industry long term? Or was the cost the major factor? If it's more of the second, these start-ups will mostly collapse, if it's more of the first they will become sustainable businesses (specially given it's easy to start using using these services, it's a bit harder to stop using them).

I'm still puzzled as to why these companies are losing so much money, and I cannot help but think these could have have been created with more reasonable losses for their first few years and now, they should nearly be cash flow positive.
How about WeamDreaver?
I think there's a lot of sadness around forgetting. I'd like to preserve almost all of it, really.

That's why we have stories, and care about legacy. All to avoid forgetting and being forgotten.
Launch School: “High School to 100K” program for graduating students
I've seen the theory tossed out there, but it's hard to do anything about it. We'd need paleontologists on Mars to really be sure (to prove life that predates Earth, as a step 1), and we're a long way away from that no matter how you slice it. But as I understand it, the time scales work; for the same reason that Mars is basically a dried-up, used up planet now while Earth is flourishing with life, Mars was theoretically possibly habitable much earlier than Earth.
> This series builds everything from matrix operations provided by Neanderthal

Do they perform convolutions as well?
This isn't unusual/deceptive in the industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_president

> In business, "vice president" refers to hierarchical position that ranges from extremely senior positions directly reporting to C-level executives (in non-financial companies), to junior non-management positions with four to 10 years of experience (in financial companies).

...

> In brokerage firms, investment banks and other financial companies, "vice president" is a seniority rank rather than denoting an actual managerial position within the company. It is a relatively junior position, usually does not denote managerial responsibilities and companies have a large number of vice presidents, perhaps as an inexpensive way for a company to recognize employees, or perhaps because of delayering when an employee can't be moved higher in the organization but still deserves recognition. In most cases, the title merely implies that someone is in a medium-seniority individual contributor role.

I work in the same industry, and my boss is a vice president (and had been a vice president for years despite becoming a manager only last year); his boss is a vice president; his boss is a managing director; his boss is a managing director; her boss is the CTO; his bosses own the company. I'm at roughly a level 4 in Google terms, and at my next promotion I can apply for VP and at the one after that I must apply for VP, regardless of whether I stay on the IC track or move to the manager track. So that should get you an idea of what "VP" means.

All of this was new to me when joining, though, and it would be nice to have it more publicly known.
Police: Secaucus High School Freshmen Hacked School’s WiFi, Made Life Difficult
It's important to take this with a grain of salt. Looking at the fit of the model itself, it seems to be a bit overconfident/overfit to the current configuration of society: https://twitter.com/babeheim/status/1108737930804293632
I've had my morning coffee and it's dawning on me what this means (dawning slowly because it is quite a change). Yes, A16Z gets to extend its reach, as if investing in seed and growth stage tech companies wasn't risky+lucrative enough.

Maybe I'm conservative, but I'd rather they stuck to their knitting (which they're pretty damned good at). There are downsides to this 'diversification' first and foremost, losing focus, but also risk. Basically, I can't help but think of SV's overall trend towards Too Big To Fail.

I'm not a fan of crypto at all. Re-structuring A16Z so that they can bet on that seems worse than silly. Real estate? Perhaps they can bet on Chinese ghost cities as well.
Justice Department Warns Academy over Oscar Rule Changes Threatening Netflix
I almost invariably use x for @1 in existing code; for manipulating hashes, I almost always use |k, v|. If I'm working with pairs, |x, y|.

What's the big difference between x and @1? y and @2? It doesn't really feel that significant to me.

I'm a bit meh on the feature. I'm suspicious of lambdas / blocks that take more than three parameters, and for three parameters I'm good with |x, y, z| or |a, b, c|. I do think that giving them meaningful names is usually obscures intent more than it clarifies; |k, v| for maps and |i| for loops self-document well enough.
For some nostaligia, poke around http://www.webring.org/
it's renouncing the IAA exception, registering as RIA, i confirmed with the Forbes journalist yesterday
Dependabot
Yes, when universities started marketing themselves as an "investment" is it any wonder their investors want a return. Almost no one holds this attitude about community colleges, where tuition is a few hundred dollars a semester. But somehow universities feel they are different. They charge many thousands of dollars in tuition and yet are unconcerned with the outcome. As a tuition paying student I'd be demanding a ton of shit too.
So what if you are asked if your device is in its normal state or whether you deleted any data from your device before travelling?

Lying in that situation would seem like a very bad idea (I'm not a US national) - I've had a few uncomfortable experiences over the years entering the US and I certainly wouldn't want to do anything that would give cause to escalate things on their side.
Mozilla could block all ads for Firefox users, except that this would be somewhat insane, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19563427

Mozilla can't block ads for non-Firefox users, nor does it aim for establishing a Web browser monopoly, so the original problem still exists.
On that note, lately it seems Google results are more and more about what’s ”popular” in some sense instead of what’s relevant, especially when your search term has multiple meanings. Two recent examples of things I’ve run into are ”cloud” (pages and pages of cloud computing results, no mention about the meteorological phenomenon) and ”thrush” (nothing about the songbird family, just dozens of results about the yeast infection). Whether I’m logged in or use private browsing doesn’t make much difference. Not sure what has changed, but I’m used to Google giving a more representative sample of different meanings of a search term.
you mean flight? :)
Police prefer to work in a world that lacks transparency and accountability (it seems).
It's a British dialect thing, but not sure if that's the case with the poster here. See: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/162619/usage-of-...
> I don't blame the NVMe, but something in Linux RAID just doesn't scale in performance. I spent days tweaking it, ultimately it was a great disappointment.

Yeah, it's a real mess to get it up to speed and if it involves parity calculations (RAID 5) then there is a CPU bottleneck. Used to be single-core only until a couple years ago, no idea how the situation looks today.
Some companies issue "China" Laptops to their executives that they must discard after visiting China. Now I believe we all need throw away laptops and cell phones and Facebook accounts for any sort of international travel.
Using terraform for managing custom cloud infrastructure