skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, looks great here. Really didn't expect you to dig into it at all let alone so quickly. Thanks very much :-)
> With Facebook, what annoyed me was that they set up internal teams to help with political candidates social media campaigns - no matter who the candidates are.

(EU citizen here): I would prefer corporations (especially ones with such depth of funds and breadth of influence) be kept entirely outside the electoral process. If that's not feasible, then the second best option is, indeed, that they provide the same service to all candidates, no matter who those candidates are.

Am I getting it right that you'd prefer they pick some candidates to help in detriment of others? Because that option does not sound very healthy to me, personally.
Last time someone tried to teach me empathy, all I learned is that they had a poor understanding of how emotions connect to actions. They assumed that if I had a real, true, genuine emotional experience of empathy then I would be compelled to take some specific action. Generally the action assumed is either something directly to alleviate the perceived pain or the one prescribed by the person evoking the empathy.

I find these notions curious, and rather at odds with how I expect thinking humans to interact with the world around them.

Perhaps there's something else you think our universities might be failing to teach?
> Now they'll have a more uniform, clear, objective, and standardized way of doing so.

How do we know this? Why should the College board be reporting this? The lack of transparency is the real issue. What data are they collecting to generate this score and why? Is it just going to be an 0-100 index of the average score for that particular test location?
It's telling that state GOPs typically support vouchers in the name of choice, but not actual choice within the public option.

Allowing any student to enroll at any public school regardless of their home zip code would be a much more meaningful form of choice than vouchers.

Why not just let anyone in a metro area attend high school at the richest/best high school in the area?

If you can answer that question, you can pretty well predict what systemic issues would be caused by a voucher system.

I'm generally skeptical of mixed public/private education systems with partial choice and subsidies for private options. We have exactly such a system for higher education and it's a fucking disaster.
This is a good point. Also many places don’t even allow open source contributions, even in your spare time.
When I have kids, I think I'm going to direct them to check the "Decline to respond" box for any race/income/parents-education-level questions.

I used to believe in the value of collecting these stats to problem solve what we can do to help everyone achieve. But increasingly these stats are just being used for a different kind of discrimination.

We've all got problems, and they're immeasurable. In high school I had severe anxiety that led to a lot of procrastination and avoiding school clubs. And as a 1st-generation immigrant, there were subtle cultural differences, even though I fit in with my appearance.
We already see this problem with other streaming media services; just because something is available today doesn’t mean it will be available tomorrow.

I don’t want to give that much control over to someone else. I don’t need all-you-can-eat content. Just let me pay for the music/movie/book/game that I want and enjoy it for what it is, and know I always can just use my copy without needing to be plugged into the internet.

I guess this view probably makes me look like an old man yelling at a cloud, but I’ve managed to find a way to survive without signing up for Netflix, and I hope I can still play games in the future without needing to sign up for a streaming service.
I am convinced that the only reason we have not seen major disruptions yet is because of a pretty strict adherence to hacker ethics

Sure, that and the redundancy and procedure built into an ILS approach. Keep in mind that even airplanes on the wrong part of the tarmac can fuck with the localizer. ILS is imperfect and that's already well known and worked around[1].

1: https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/616082-air-india-b788-de...
A university has to reduce a person down to a binary decision to admit or not, not much of a way around that.
A list of wireless products sold with improper FCC ID registration
That “efficient organization” is done at the risk of being sent to a camp. The Nazi’s were incredibly efficient as well. I’d rather have messy freedom than perfectly efficient government.
Noted, you weren't wrong.
Resisting an abusive and insanely overreaching government system is not 'fraud' morally and it probably won't be one legally.
Prions definitely self-replicate.
the criterion for life is metabolism addition to self reproduction
I love these homebrew CPU projects. I saw one one in person and was amazed (and impressed by the insane dedication as well as the madness of wire-wrapping 1970s-era TTL components into a CPU) - then a year later I saw two of them!! Then I saw a third.

I believe the first two I saw were MAGIC-1 and BMOW (Big Mess o'Wires). I also really liked the MOnSter 6502, a beautiful board-level reimplementation of the 6502 in surface-mount discrete components, with LEDs on the data lines and optional slow/single-step clocking.

Also relevant: the nand2tetris.org course, and Niklaus Wirth's TRM/RISC-3 (not to be confused with Berkeley RISC-I or modern RISC-V) FPGA implementation. Notably TRM/RISC-3 is incredibly simple but can run the whole Oberon system.

In the modern era, I think FPGAs are the killer platform for computer architecture experimentation. There are multiple free MIPS implementations for FPGA and of course there is great OS/compiler support for MIPS.
> common commands

Oh absolutely. It's fantastic for that. Our build pipeline actually relies on that; every project has a "release" target that is basically for the CI to use.

> Make includes

Yeah, I looked into that, and I think I had the same conclusion.

> scripts called from the Makefile

That's what I'm thinking is the way to level up this kind of system. Although then, why have `make init` instead of just `./bin/init` ?
Maybe it would be more accurate to say most people couldn't care less about the Earth's "imminent demise" (whatever that means). I mean sure, there are lots of people who say they care, but how many have stopped driving cars, or flying planes, or eating food shipped from the other side of the planet, or living in giant single-family homes with huge lawns, or any of the countless wasteful convenient things that our society runs on? If anything I think big tech companies have been more environmentally conscious than most, so I don't think you can just use them as a scapegoat for why the world is the way it is. Individual people are causing the problems, it's not just big evil corporations.
A financial exchange - order messages are routed to Kafka and partitioned by the instruments symbol, match engines associated with a given set of symbols consume from their assigned partition. When a match-engine goes down it can reconstruct the order book by replaying from a given offset.
Equality of outcome, which should be avoided as much as possible.
> They take FOREVER to warm up a house after a set back, so don't bother with a deep setback overnight

This is incredibly true in intermittently occupied areas. Just heating the air is one thing. Heating everything around it just to get warm is another.

If you're in a private/semi-private office 9-5, having your own heater or window A/C gives you a lot of control and is incredibly efficient since you can turn it on/off with your work hours.

It will cycle a lot because the envelope doesn't change temperature much (eventually heating/cooling the air), but you reduce consumption a lot by not getting to the point of majorly heating/cooling the envelope, just the air (which is what matters unless a mattress is involved).
How is Into magic? All it does is save some typing. It’s obvious at the point of use what it’s going to do. I agree that deref is slightly magical.
You can't commit fraud against a secret metric. If the metric is public and official, then yeah, that's a fraud.
I always wonder if the Autopilot software has an exception that lets it drive through white rectangular objects in the middle of the road, because tunnel exits can look like a white rectangle to a low dynamic range camera.
Speaking as a U.S. citizen, your thoughts were exactly my reaction to that comment.
Same. Except my mother talks about replacing Valves (Vacuum Tubes).
Not with that very term, but it seems that an important criteria for the Oberon compiler was that any optimization should not make compilation of the compiler slower.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90....
Why not do that? Coming from the other side of table, an immense amount of engineer-hours are devoted to the interviewing process, including code review on take-home assignments. Thus we try to make the process efficient. Typically there's a set of unit tests provided in the assignment to help the interviewee, and a hold-out set of unit tests that gives us a score for basic correctness. The score, albeit a low bar, is a useful threshold for eliminating candidates unlikely to succeed in the process. Those above the threshold have their code passed on to an engineer to review beyond basic correctness, and move on in the interview process.
No, it's not. They share the data indirectly by allowing companies to target individuals for advertising purposes based on that data. You search for shoes on Google and then ads about shoes follow you all over the web. So while you can't download users' posts like CA did in order to profile them for their political affiliation you can surely target them for whatever product you want to sell. If it was just about ads on Google everything would be hunky dory. But it's not. Just because they're nice and cool doesn't mean we have to give them a free pass to our personal lives.
Europe is big and countries have different laws. In Germany, the Arbeitszeitgesetz (working time law), §9, explicitly states that employees must not be employed/given work during sun- and holidays. Exceptions obviously apply, but this is the general rule.
As an owner of a TM3 I have never believed any promises with auto pilot, full self driving feature. I did buy the upgrade to FSD when it became available for two thousand dollars as a hedge against resale value.

I do believe their approach with a camera focuses system will work. however if video on youtube showing all cameras in action and that of our available dash cam is representative of the color richness it might be an issue where there is not differentiation to properly see all objects in some lighting conditions.
Wouldn't it be better to make the heat trap itself with 45 cm or less of copper, then hook up the PEX to its output? Copper will last centuries in continuous contact with hot water, but I'm not sure PEX will.
> it would not have helped the poor communities between SF and LA.

Just curious, but how does a high speed train help the poor? A local train maybe, but not too many poor people have a pressing need for a weekend in San Francisco.
That's correct - being able to "rewind" a history of a topic (queue) is a powerful concept.
But, Kafka is a bit harder to operate than RabbitMQ in my experience.
(Somewhat related, one of our subsystems originally was built around Kafka, but later was migrated to RabbitMQ and Postgres)
Research contradicts your anecdote.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/after-service/201903...
Based on the views you have espoused here, I would not call you a leftist commie. It sounds like freedom of speech is your number 1 concern, which would be in character for someone with views that could be considered alt-right. Maybe you are a libertarian, which could otherwise be referred to as an anarch-capatalist, but libertarianism is in no way a leftist movement.

While South Park and Eminem both 'triggered' a lot of people because of their use of obscenity, neither is leftist in any way, shape or form. South Park regularly attacks anyone who tries to change society, which is in no way a leftist mindset. As for Eminem, I can't think of a single example of left-leaning thought in any of them outside of freedom of speech.

In general I think you'd have a very hard time making the claim that the overton window is sliding to the left. Maybe the overton window is moving to the left for gender identity and sexual expression, but that is about it. The right has succeeded in moving the overton window substantially in their favor in most social and economic programs.
I remember an interview at Coinbase I should have walked out of. The first question was "what is the angle between the hour and minute hands of an analog clock at 3:15?" It went downhill from there.
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Not true e.g. in Germany - Sunday work is only allowed in specific exceptional cases. §9 and 10 ArbZG.
Sony’s got the game connections, M$ got the clouds
There are fewer than 10,000 homes for sale in the SF Metro area. That means, there are 10x as many homes vacant as are for sale.

If there were 10x as many homes for sale as are currently for sale, what do you think that'd do to the price of homes in the area?

Source:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/14/the-bay-area-has-more...
PEAR installation will be disabled by default in PHP 7.4, see https://externals.io/message/103977. It was a good tool, once, but the community has moved on.
> Maybe not, it feels like to me that the Overton window[0] has been sliding left.

The Left-Right Overton Window has definitely moved Right, in that reductive to the point of uselessness, single-axis characterization of American politics. Some of Reagan's and Nixon's policies would be dismissed as "libtarded" now, as would some of W.'s.

Another Overton Window (or, more accurately, related group of Windows), describing discourse about and among the races, sexualities, gender identities, &c, have at the same time moved in a direction that is less welcoming to speech that is premised in a notion of superiority or morality about those things, especially when uttered by a person who believes that premise, and which is about the speaker's (and by implication their tribe's) own superiority, or someone else's inferiority or immorality.

The vector product of those Windows' movements is a culturally dominant polity who feels marginalized.

> My views on freedom of speech made me a 'leftist commie' when I used them to defend South Park and Eminem now most often I'm accused being 'alt-right' by those who disagree with those same views.

I think there's a meaningful difference between speech that is offensive, whatever that means, to cultural norms — especially those that are othering, or regressive, or shame-based, or whatever — and speech that is offensive, whatever that means, to individuals and populations — particularly when those individuals or populations are minorities, and have been historically subject to oppression, and which speech attempts to normalize their oppression.

Don't mistake me: Freedom of speech is for the speech one likes least, or it's for no speech at all; I want the bigots every bit as free to make their noise as I do the artists or the critics (who are often the same people), but for entirely different reasons.

Perhaps the comedian's notion of "punching up" versus "punching down" is relevant here. Perhaps also that people — on both sides — are generally just bad at disagreeing.
Those are all great ideas, but the disadvantaged children in the schools this mechanism is trying to help probably don't go to schools that offer those benefits.
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A priest, man and woman walk into an Erie Pennsylvania backyard. Nope, not seeing the joke there.
I don't like takehome assignments because my current employer's moonlighting policies mean I can't do them.

Ideally that wouldn't be a legal policy for my company to enforce, but that's the reality for me right now.
No, the hose and mask have vents to allow some input. And even when it is off, you can draw air through the hose, there's just no positive pressure.

It's not comfortable, but it's not dangerous.
The overwhelming majority of people that criticize post-modernism have little-or-no actual knowledge of it. Foucault can indeed be difficult to understand, but make no mistake, he does have interesting things to say.
Lot's of measures are imperfect.

That doesn't mean they aren't useful.
There is a big difference between TOTP app/device and a password manager.

The password manager returns passwords directly. They can be viewed, memorized, passed to another person, copied to another device, or checked into git.

With TOTP, there is a private key inside, but it is not accessible to user. You cannot view it, or memorize it, nor can you pass it to another person or check it into git. It is purely implementation detail which is not exposed in any way.

Disclaimer: this is the case with classical TOTP devices, like RSA SecurID hardware token, or un-rooted Android phone running Google Authenticator. I have those, and everyone I know have them as well.

There are exceptions, like people using LastPass 2FA or people who store TOTP secret on their PC. This is not intended usage, and it does not matter for most users.
>you haven't traded away any freedoms, quite the opposite so far.

We did in '34, '68 and '86. And then there's all the states that are still waiting for SCOTUS to tell them what "shall not be infringed" means.

In my state I have to pay hundreds of dollars and rely on the discretion of the local police in order to bear any semi-modern arms and that's just the tip of the iceberg. If that's not infringement I don't know what is.
Well you're clearly being absurd, and it looks like you don't have a balanced view and you've bought into negative press that's heavily been propaganda generated by media for click views and by short sellers.

Would be a useful exercise, if you can manage, to make a list of positives of what Elon and his companies have accomplished so far. Maybe work on your negativity and emotional reactions so you can understand things more clearly, develop compassion by developing balanced logic which includes full perspective more than just hate.
Which is absurd, considering it's involved in college admission process.

Maybe we should also have a hidden citizen score, to be used behind the scenes in the courts of law?
I would be shocked if there's a single fortune 500 that doesn't have a significant NFS footprint. Everything from user shares to Oracle or VMware get deployed via NFS.
I'm pretty sure a house is not expected to run centuries from now with present day electrical/piping systems.

It's a bit like people from 200 years ago debating what to make the candle holder from so that it lasts 100 years.
Free lunch, low-income pays no incoming tax(47% and more of them), food stamps, disabled benefits, medicare medicaid, CHIP for kids, etc etc, I'm fine so far. But AA for college admission(and jobs too these days)? followed by SAT score manipulation? this is literally pushing me to the far right side, it makes me feel hard working, sacrificing for next generation made no sense, this is getting close to robbery. what's next for me as a middle class guy?!
Yes, it really sucks when you add a movie to 'my list' and then you think about watching it tonight and poof, it's as if it was never there. It's adding insult to injury that it just vanished off '_my_ list' too.
It is somewhat harder to find a daisywheel printer upon which to print them.
Couldn't agree more...but which philosophical circles!? When I attended college a couple years ago it seemed like Foucault was either all the rage (to those who liked "continental" philosophy) or simply not discussed (in the "analytic" philosophical circles); he was lambasted almost exclusively by those who had heard some sketchy third party synopsis of his thought and reacted negatively and never bothered to actually comprehend his ideas.

I think the NYT quote on the back of many of the english paperback editions of his works, "Foucault must be reckoned with," sums up his position in the history of philosophy perfectly--his ideas were quite radical and not easy to contend with at first (especially from the perspective of anglo-american pedagogy), but the level of scholarly thinking and ingenuity the man possessed are awe-inducing.

His thesis History of Madness is still an incredible read and really drives home the often great degree of malleability and historical contingency of cultural/social concepts and categories.
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The purpose of the SAT is supposed to be to predict if a person would succeed or not at college. I don't see how adding an adversity score will aid in making this prediction.
Anecdotal, but I notice a lot more people clamoring about freedom of speech when it's white supremacists being affected and a lot less when it's ISIS or Al-Qaeda. I find it very hard to take them seriously because of this, despite agreeing with a lot of the sentiment.
That doesn't sound fair unless the acceptance test suite is available to the candidate before final submission. In which case, depending on how the infrastructure is set up, could be expensive or slow. Seems to be a lose-lose situation.
> For those who love to read actual source code, have a look at a documented ELF structure header file from Apple.

Surely the Linux kernel would be a better source?
I think you are confusing Chris Hedges, ex NYT, and RT which is the Russian equivalent to 'voice of America'. Chris Hedges appears on lots of media including RT. He is not 'banned from Western media' as you will see with a simple search.
I don't see how that disproves my point, I also come from a country with a recent and ongoing history of hardship, just 6 years ago while I was on vacation, a shootout happen in front of my home while my father and I were painting; actual bullet holes were made on the wall we were working on, and yet after we saw the cars flee, my dad just shrug it off and continued painting. Yes, I know that people can be resilient and adapt to life's hardships

And still, social sensitivities can be quite complex. My dad, a man who accepted a rain of bullets as just one more of the life's hardships, can get quite uncomfortable to the point of refusing to eat, if you insist on passing the salt on his hand instead of leaving it on the table near him, and I just picked one of the weirder but he and a lot of people have some petty stuff that causes them great offense.

With the examples I gave on GP, my point was not that people endured hardships, but that people who offended societies sensibilities were harshly punished. If you think that society that got so offended by stuff like blasphemy, sexual preferences, and failing to follow caste systems or even other weird social customs, are more courageous or have a tougher skin, then we have a different definition of courage.

And I say this without making a moral judgement, maybe severe punishment from deviancy served as a societal glue that allowed to thrive despite the material hardships, or perhaps a case can be made on the pathological aspect of having real hardships and still devoting so much time on irrelevant stuff. Still my point is that I don't think people got any less offended than nowdays, and perhaps watching today's punishments on the offenders, maybe that's one indicator where we are getting better.
The inverse is also true. Sound triggers and local animations are often used to mask latency in games like DOTA which need a server round trip before your commands have any affect on the game world. It works remarkably well to make games feel responsive even when they’re not.

However, with these streaming systems I’m not sure developers will be able to use tricks like that. It seems like these tech stacks are running all code remotely. I feel pretty skeptical about whether they can make the game feel good enough this way.
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