skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which makes it somewhat anachronistic, no? Imagine an article that cheerleads the traditional college experience at all cost. Might've been fine fifteen years ago, now it would sound dated in the era of crushing student debt.
Those all proved useful though using real empirical based systems. If your programming class was, “what do you think the author meant by this line of code?” with no evidence to support any kind of guess, then yes it would be dumb.
TBH I found Facebook pages to have the most up-to-date info when it comes to small business info like restaurants, gyms, etc.

Official websites are often out of date if they even exist.
Ideally, You need to team up with a finisher that keeps your focus on your work and perhaps since most of the finishers are introvert, you need a fact-based extrovert driver who is dominant to push you both forward.
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The playwright is still within his/her realm to call bullshit when people claim that the playwright “meant X”.
Well then you're likely missing out on good candidates - and those good candidates you're missing out on are likely to be under-represented. Parents, carers etc. - possibly very competent developers, who just have other commitments. I smell affinity bias.
I don't think the author has ever seen the show... or at least, seems to be forgetting some pretty prominent things from the show regarding the article's subject. There are countless references, especially in the early seasons, to the insanity of the "mad king" being the result of inbreeding. Even in-universe the fact that the targaryons had extensive inbreeding is believed to be the cause of many mentally-ill kings. Physical abnormalities aren't talked about as much from what I recall but the principle is the same.

Also, Ned Stark arrives at the conclusion "this blonde kid couldn't have a black haired father" after reading a history of the baratheon family going back to the founding of the house and noticing literally every descendent had black hair. This presumably was included in the story to exclude the possibility of recessive genes appearing in the children but not the father.
If they’re only bilingual they aren’t able to read the original Russian. So their opinion as to which translation is ‘better’ may not be too useful.
Disclaimer: I'm a MacPorts committer.

> MacPorts almost always builds packages from source

Many packages in MacPorts (including LLVM) have pre-built binaries available from https://packages.macports.org/ and its mirrors for macOS releases ranging from Mac OS X 10.5 to macOS 10.14.

But if a port is considered not distributable because of its restrictive license or license conflicts with dependencies, binaries will not be uploaded to our official mirror so users have to build it from source. We don't provide official binaries for non-default variants or alternative prefix (the default is /opt/local) either, but organizations using MacPorts can set up private mirrors with custom ports and binaries.

port_binary_distributable.tcl[1] describes the license conflicts. e.g. "git" is not distributable because its license "gpl" conflicts with license "OpenSSL" of dependency "openssl".

> MacPorts seems to be a bit lacking in manpower (which makes things takes slightly longer than I would have expected)

Yes, we need more contributors and committers to maintain the large collection of ports we have. Our ports are more often outdated than Homebrew because of this and our maintainer policy. We are also seeking for ways to improve our developer experience, e.g. https://github.com/macports/macports-base/pull/120 which automates updating checksums in the Portfile.

> The lack of color, as well as somewhat more cluttered and less relevant output, makes it a bit less pleasant to work with.

We talked about this in a meeting last year, but it hasn't been implemented yet. https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Meetings/MacPortsMeeting2018/...

Development of the port command is relatively inactive (severe lack of manpower). https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commits/master

> MacPorts will set up its own tools in isolation from those provided by the system

Its own versions of libraries, to be exact. See https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#syslibs for more background on this.

> builds run in “sandboxes” under the macports user, where attempts to access files outside of the build directory–which includes system tools–are intercepted and blocked

It will block writing files outside of directories specified in portsandbox.tcl[2], but using (reading and executing) system tools is allowed. For example, most ports are built with the compiler from Xcode.

> The upside is that this approach is significantly more contained, which makes it easier to manage and more likely to continue working as macOS changes under it.

Yes, but we recommend users upgrading to a new major release of macOS reinstall MacPorts and all ports because things could still break. We have a migration guide here: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration.

[1] https://github.com/macports/macports-infrastructure/blob/mas...

[2] https://github.com/macports/macports-base/blob/master/src/po...
~~Strange thing to hope given the clear article title.~~
Edit: my apologies, was looking at the tech crunch title. hackernews title is def more ambiguous.

What were your issues with the plot/writing?
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This sounds pretty cool! Like an alexa skill that you can load up with various modules depending on what you're trying to achieve?
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Hence why the google spokesperson or whatever her official position is mentioned something about their revenues being negatively affected by currency fluctuations, that is usually double-speak for “we did bad in foreign markets”, which is to say that the US market is not the only market that counts.

Also, more time spent by people on FB Marketplace (no matter if they make money on it or not) means less time spent on Google’s web properties. I would also look at the age demographics, Google the brand was seen as cool by me and my age-cohort back when we were in our early 20s, so that most of us still use it 15 years later as we approach our 40s. But I suspect that the Facebook and especially the Instagram brand mean a lot more to people under-30 compared to what Google means.

Google the company had seen this coming by late 2010 at least, that is that FB (or whatever social network will become dominant) will become synonymous with the Internet, much as Google was back then. That’s why they resorted to desperately-sounding battle cries involving the number of arrows and the volume of wood material in order to convince their workers that they need to build a product that would not let FB become the only player in town. Unfortunately their Google+ execution was poor and here they are now, looking from the outside at a walled-garden.
I don't know about the very religious people, I'm fairly religious myself (but not of the denomination usually found in the Bible belt), but I don't mind going to vote on a Sunday, I usually go before or after the celebration. I prefer not to have to use PTO to go voting.

Another method would be to have the election day being a national holiday, like in Israel.
I found writing goals the most effective driver.
Write daily, weekly, and monthly goals, and also long-term vision.

Teamwork is also a good solution. But first, you have to find out what you are missing, then try to find someone that can fill that gap for you.

And then you need all other basic things that you already know to keep you better focused and energized.
As I said in another comment, at this level "literary criticism" is intended to develop rudimentary skills of textual interpretation. You learn what symbolism is and are asked to produce some examples. It doesn't matter what the poem "actually" means any more than it matters that you're ignoring friction and variable speeds and the changing mass of trains as they burn fuel when you work out how fast they're going in school math tests. When you get to more advanced textual analysis, you have to justify readings based on the work as a whole, the writer's oeuvre, historical context, linguistic concerns, philosophical frameworks, and so on.
I was fortunate enough to get into a GATE extracurricular program when I was in elementary school in the East Bay, a long time ago. In my case, I got to socialize more with some peer groups, visit a planetarium, make oddball things, get a good grasp of the sciences way ahead of the regular school curriculum, and participate in a problem-solving program that influenced my thinking for the rest of my life.

BUT: in retrospect, those programs are mostly for kids who just happened to be fortunate enough to be born into the right circumstances at the right time. East Bay public schools were pretty good at the time, I was born just in time to learn about computers just ahead of the rest of the world, I had a somewhat stable home life, and my family supported learning and nerdy hobbies.

I was a social outcast for most of my youth too, but that had less to do with GATE and more to do with my family's obsession with being smarter than everyone else, which made me an insufferable, lazy little jerkwad. It took getting out into the world in my late teens to begin realizing just how much of an idiot I really was.

So, YMMV, but if I were a parent I'd at least give a local GATE program a try. (But also sports.)
It's an option on many cars now, but Subaru has been somewhat late to the party - I know that Impreza got it in 2017, and Outback and some other cars in 2018. Looks like Forester only got it this year.
There are probably simpler ways - for example, if an accident report states there was only one person in the car, it was probably the driver using his phone.
So is Microsoft and are many people, after all of his homophobic, transphobic, and racist remarks.

https://mashable.com/article/minecraft-removes-notch-referen...

https://twitter.com/Nya_Flrs/status/881522593353809920/photo...

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/minecraft-notch-transpho...

https://www.theroot.com/minecraft-creator-goes-full-white-pr...

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/minecraft-creator-exclu...
Native Americans had Spanish citizenship almost 300 years earlier and also retained their lands, affiliation, and culture under the law of the Spanish Empire.
No need for gatekeeping. Maybe you won’t get 100% but you still get close to russian culture if you read War an Peace and that’s precisely why it’s so interesting and fun. It expands your world view, show you new points of view and you get interesting story too. Now it seems that you propose only reading your native country authors?
> but beyond that it feels like there are so many issues with not being accountable for your employees social well-being that it's hard to know where to start.

People looking for remote work - which today does require you to go out of your way to find it - are people who quite voluntarily and explicitly don't want the employer to provide social life for them. If colleagues and office banter is what one seeks, one looks for jobs on-site.

EDIT: Different people have different needs at different stages of their lives. Personally, I went from on-site to remote, but I do envision going back to on-site in a couple of years - mainly because nothing interesting (to me, c.f. my profile) seems to happen on remote jobs, unless you're an entrepreneur making your own interesting thing.
What @anderspitman said -- would be great if this were a post on your blog.
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It's still way too slow. Lots of the documents I've worked on recently have taken over ten seconds to compile on my 2017 MacBook Pro (touch bar). That's 3 orders of magnitude too slow for reflowing at 60hz when you resize a window. I doubt a laptop will ever be 3 orders of magnitude faster (in sequential execution) than the one I have now, radical post-semiconductor computers notwithstanding.
Often UUIDs are used as keys to things...

And these things are often stored in databases...

And usually the database puts them into a btree internally, because that's how tables are stored.

The moment you have any kind of load on such a table, your performance goes to hell. This is because the inserts are going to happen all over the place, and the way tables are stored definitely prefers appends.

So a common word of wisdom is to have an auto-increment primary key, and the uuid indexed! Ugh what a work around.

A better way is to discover ULIDs, which are like UUIDs but with the high-bits including a timestamp. This turns inserts into, approximately, appends. Much nicer!

https://github.com/ulid/spec is fairly recent, but the 'trick' has been used for years. I've build gazillion-row databases where all the data sources have, independently, used this same high-bits-are-timestamp trick. So even though I didn't see it discussed and called ULID until fairly recently, its a very old and well-known trick in some circles.

Once you have ULIDs and you know you have UILDs, a lot of database type tasks become easier because the ID encodes a creation date. I've found myself adding AND id BETWEEN to queries, and using them as a partition key, and using them to DELETE old data etc, and various other admin stuff that the original creators of the table never thought about.
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Sorry, but to appreciate War and Peace, a good command of French is more helpful than Russian.
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Maybe the test was really asking you which was the normal frame of reference. Of course, the direction would also be reversed if you were in the southern hemisphere, or were on a planet that spun the other way, or maybe a planet in a binary star system, etc.

I would expect the intelligent test taker to understand the test was not a trick, and that unstated assumptions mean use the defaults.

As for math, there are many ways to teach math, but 2+2=4 in all of them. It is reasonable to assume it is base 10, not base 3, unless the test said "in base 3".
I can't speak for where you live, but being a student is a full-time job here.

And your last statement makes no sense. If you don't expect students to work after work, then don't follow it up with the remark that you'd see them jobless.
For those who didn't read the Wired article:

"In mid-March, the group began to run an algorithm" ... "FPGA was about 10 times faster than a high-end commercial CPU running non-optimized software. Based on the chip’s computing efficiency" they "calculated that they would have the correct solution" "on the evening of May 10, just two months after they started the calculation. Yet when they reached out to MIT to let them know a solution was imminent, Rivest informed them that Fabrot had beaten them to the punch."

We read here that he started end of 2015! Rivest believed at the time he constructed the puzzle, almost 20 years ago, that he has constructed the puzzle that would keep the vault locked until 2034, based on his expectations then of the increase of the computing speed. Obviously, predicting the developments of 35 years is not so easy, and the single-CPU computer speeds did improve faster. Anyway...

Congratulations!
In this situation it isn't the teaching, it's the test.

The test demands an answer, whereas good teaching would be a discussion.

I'd prefer my kids to finish school knowing how to read and enjoy poetry, than knowing how to complete multiple choice tests.
is the 98% a percentile or a percentage of available marks? In that case it does seem like a poorly designed test. Tests I've seen which are designed to discriminate those at the high end of ability tend to be much harder, not have pass requirements in terms of marks (they may still take the top 2 percent of the curve, but this will correspond to ~75% of available marks instead of the high 90%)
> how can you completely trust the device

I feel the same, however, people not having access to such an automated insulin delivery system may also suffer/die because of the consequences of a worse regulated sugar.
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Their textbooks are pretty good. Campbell and Reece is still the bible for biologists around the world.
Just my kind of humor!
Exactly. There are more footnotes than in New English Bible.
A very good font family for screens that's openly licensed is Inter[2]. It's well designed and also quite versatile.

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Free will: has neuroscience abolished it?
Today I learned something about the city where I'm living. Thanks HN!
I wonder how some of the all remote companies handle the legal side of things when it comes to paying salaries and contracts.

I've been working as a (partly remote depending on customer) freelancer/contractor for 5 years with my own legal entity setup in Europe to do invoicing and handle my finances. I'm not willing to give that up yet but the thought of working for an all remote company for a longer period than the typical 3 to 6 month contract sounds interesting.

Are these full remote companies flexible in regards to this? Are they open to me keeping my own business entity and invoicing them while still being regarded as a full member of the team?

edit: For example on the Gitlab jobs page and salary calculator they clearly state that for my home country they expect me to be an employee of their Gitlab BV entity which is a no-go for me.
Implement some handy JavaSript functions from the ground up
Students don't have professional experience in the field and having a blog, projects, etc. can be a useful alternative.
Previous discussion from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175037 (13 comments)
How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection (2017)
Great news for customers also in Africa, where bandwidths are notoriously below standard. Present day available 4 G bandwidths effectively provide anything from 7 kb to max 300 kb /s, whilst paying 50 bucks a month for a mere 200 GB package. AfricAsiaEuro.com
> They are testing the ability to express the entirety of that knowledge under completely arbitrary conditions (time limits, schedules, no references, etc.) with outsized consequences for mistakes.

Right. And if you know the material, this isn't a problem.
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As I understood it the hard thing isn’t converting speech to text, it is understanding which text should lead to which actions.

Strangely enough in command line interfaces this works perfectly, so maybe we need just a more speech friendly way to call commands?

And why you’d need the cloud is beyond me. A speech assistent that fails once you don’t have a internet connection is not only annoying, in some cases it could become outright dangerous.
I took the GATE exam in elementary school (which has a similar 98th percentile cutoff) and the test was an absolute joke. Lots of ambiguous pattern matching that I managed to cheese through because I had a decent sense of what the test "wanted" me to put down (FWIW, I didn't end up getting anything out of it, even though I scored in the 99th percentile, because the school closed the program the following year for "lack of funds"). Really: don't read too much into that test.
The surface can be very similar, but they are foundationally different, that will not change soon
Disagree. I'd choose to work with you first on a project, but until facing such a nice problem congrats!

No disrespect intended to that team. It's an impressive accomplishment, and they're the ones who can publish in a journal for all due academic credit.

However, it also depends on what you value. Sometimes for some problems crossing the finish line first is winning, or seems able to simply allow the worlds technical advances to compound faster than more novel approaches whose future utility is unknown.

During all those years one person stopped to think about the goal in the most optimal way and ask, what's really the simplest solution here? Is custom hardware the only practical way? Everyone was allowed to think about implementation costs.

In other words, the most impressive part is what was not done. Great work.
and for the sophisticated redneck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.25-06_Remington
It’s possible to leave traces of whatever inner conflict tortures you in your writing without even knowing.

For example, the disdain of the humanities in this thread (and generally on HN and the tech community) is just begging for an explanation, because the stated reasons (entirely useless, plain wrong) are neither true, nor would they seem sufficient to warrant the level of emotion.

So there’s something else in the subtext, such as status anxiety, even though the authors would vehemently deny it.
If you have to ask, you don't know the subject :-)
There was a time where you could actually make money by having text ads. But then the whole ecosystem got diluted by fake impressions and clicks. One easy solution would be to require people to solve "captcha", for example when logging in, before being served a text ad.
You don't own your phone, unless you run replicant on it. And even then you still have the proprietary modem.
Not really the same thing. Most are just a shell of their former culture and independence.

It’s similar to native Hawaiians. Despite significant effort, that culture is being drowned by tourists and the massive non-native population influencing them. Sure, you can celebrate the culture and the language, but it doesn’t even begin to give you a glimpse of what it could have been without European invasions.
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I go through the Jira backlog and find something. If can't find something I'll refactor a code smell and open a pull request for it. Even if it gets lost or not accepted I'll have something to show for.
No mention of drying the air in the network. They had to have good driers to prevent water from entering the network or elaborate number of venting points to remove water from the low points of the network. Anyone know more?
Why pay more for the same skill?

Because people aren't stupid and when they realise they're being paid less than they're worth they'll leave, and then you'll have to go through the pain of recruiting someone else.
> Working alone with only video, chat and email is a huge fundamental change in how work is done

Is it? Since the dawn of time, plenty of jobs were done solo for most of the time.
Perhaps they gave you the stink eye because they felt the curriculum was useless, which is actually quite likely in a typical secondary school?