skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living in Japan, I am compelled to agree.

Most universities here are private, and everybody knows that you have to get "a college education".

The end result being that, outside of a select few national institutions that appear to have some degree of academic rigor, university in Japan is referred to as a "four-year vacation", and graduation is effectively automatic.

Reflecting back on the original post, I'm not sure that nationalization of universities in the US would help. We have plenty of high-quality state schools as-is, but Harvard and friends are prestigious because their brands come with deeply powerful social networks.

The same effect applies to making it illegal to put university names on resumes.

Sure, there is definitely a halo effect in being able to put Harvard or Stanford on your resume, but I would wager that the vast majority of top-tier university students don't apply by (metaphorically) filling out a job application and handing it to the shift manager.

Instead, your work comes through your network. Alice introduces you to Bob who knows that Charlene has invested in TinyCo, which is poised to be the next unicorn, and so you get in on the "ground floor" in this fashion.

That's not the kind of thing you can really address via legislation.

(Note that there is an assumption here that you can Do The Thing. Charlene probably doesn't want you working at TinyCo and squandering her investment if you aren't going to help make it the next unicorn.)
now how do i delete all of the comments ive left on facebook posts?
They are also a great way to get yourself acquainted with a language - these specific Rust ones sound designed to teach specific lessons but when I was learning Scala I worked through their set of Koans and found it a great way to get used to types, syntax and generally the Scala way
Also interesting, http://aarddict.org/

I use it on my phone for offline wikipedia since it was the best thing I could find on android at the time, also reads other "dictionaries" not just wikipedia.

edit: also, you can download stackoverflow offline, but I'm not aware of a convenient UI for it. That and wikipedia are the majority of my web needs.
Great example of no true scotsmen - we went from them not existing to "well they're not everywhere, so do they really exist?" in 3 comments
Read it at least gives you every opportunity to remain anonymous.
Consumers are the ones paying for it. So I see nothing wrong with providing what they want.
Engadget: Google just gave Huawei a wakeup call
Engadget: Google just gave Huawei a wakeup call.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/20/is-huawei-really-screwed-without-android/
The problem is: most of the worst software disasters have been perpetrated by exactly the kind of people who would get licensed under such a system, while much of the most important software in history has been written by people who would never get licensed (Linux, Python, etc etc). As appealing as it is to try and solve the software quality challenge through regulation, all the evidence seems to be that it just wouldn't work and would probably be highly counter productive.
It seems that the data was not all public, so this was more than just aggregated scraped public info.

So that means Chatr did some combination of:

- Directly exploit the Instagram API bug before it was patched

- purchased the leaked data from a 3rd party

edit: formatting
Yes, and unfortunately the Times does not have a public editor anymore.

The citation for the "collect" claim actually says that vehicles process that much data in an hour. As if cars have terabyte hard drives in them, or that manufacturers are paying cellular carriers for 18TB of traffic per vehicle per month...
> I never got why they didn't make it easy to flip up the camera

Yes, and maybe even make a camera free version (some basic cell phones are available without cameras for private work environments). This would make the product much more friendly for customer facing applications too. Of course, it would take away one input method, but there are use cases where this is acceptable.

I too was one of the original explorers and we had 5 units in our lab (working on automotive manufacturing and service applications). We did not need a camera for our use cases, and it might even bring the price down slightly (although I don't believe price is a considerable factor for this type of technology in an enterprise).

I worked on warehouse/picking software at one time and Glass would be perfect for the picker to be reminded of the quantity of the item they're currently picking. Sure, you could fit more info, but Pick quantity is one of the most common picking mistakes since nearly 100% of picks only require a single unit to be picked, so the human brain tends to ignore the value that rarely ever changes since it seems like noise (and is most of the time).
And also -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

The Doomsday Wreck.
> Does this mean I can use the Play store and apps such as Spotify without much issue?

Yes! (I used to have the Play Store installed on my phone with MicroG and it worked just as you would expect. As for Spotify, I use it on a daily basis.)

UPDATE: I should point out that I have since replaced the Play Store with Yalp/Aurora Store because the Play Store still needs to be installed as system-privileged app which I didn't like.
Ask HN: How do you organize your repository labels?
Do you use the defaults? Do you have a custom set of labels? If so, what is your system?

Related discussion:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333694

- https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/github-standard-labels
It sounds very cool. This work also won the best paper award at ICLR 2019.
“twist knobs” – 1 degree of freedom

“paddles” – more or less a discrete switch, in form of a stick

“H pattern gearbox” – a few discrete choices

pedals – 1 degree of freedom

steering wheel – 1 degree of freedom

These things all exist in a 3-dimensional world, but they are not “3-D interfaces”.

Compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb_360

* * *

If you define a car’s interface to be “3D” then so is basically anything, say a TV remote or the knobs on an oven.
> Fact is, someone with drive and a baseline of money is far, FAR safer when taking risks in capitalism than someone without. I'm not looking for excuses for myself - I'm looking to reap the benefits of a well-functioning market. A market that enables everyone to participate according to their drive, and doesn't expect that they have to sacrifice, health, education, or future ability to be employable to do so.

What you are talking about will ALWAYS be part of the risk equation, unless you are talking about normalizing everything across all nations in the world and one global government, with a single base income for all? I'm not sure that I would want to live in such a world given all the side effects of such a government/system.

There will ALWAYS be more risks for some than for others. Someone who has two parents that would let them live at home vs. and orphan with no supportive family. You can NOT have that level of equality without tyranny. And even if you did, you'd have already removed any or at least most of the rewards for any innovation.

Edit: looking at your cartoon, I definitely was raised closer to the, "disadvantaged" woman on the right. That isn't to say that some don't have advantages, but that will always be true, and isn't a net wrong. Even then drive and input are far bigger indicators, and removing the rewards of others won't increase innovation.
No, it takes a year to clean out the stuff you want cleaned out if you want to remain on Facebook and not sit down to the task for hours.
Why Norway leads the world in electric vehicle adoption
Anyone know why you need to run an installer (with admin access)? Chrome is a plain-old .app which you can drag from a disk image... Is Edge installing shared frameworks or something?

Quick edit: extracting the contents of the installer, it looks like maybe it wants to install the Office auto updater at the same time...
This works great for folks who are young and healthy or live in a country with a strong safety net. But as far as the US goes, there are many people who would love to take a shot at starting a business or changing careers, but can't afford to give up the health insurance that is tied to their current job.
AFAICT, a public school has the same incentives and has even higher switching costs (approximately 6% of the value of your house, whatever transaction fees your local government tacks on, plus whatever it costs to pack up and move).
>with support from the US

bad policy isn't the same as support
Nice thread.

Want to add that the founders of ALDI, Theo and Karl Albrecht managed to stay secretive throughout their lives (especially after Theo was kidnapped in the 70s). They managed to have almost zero photos or video recordings of them in public, despite both appearing on the world's top 10 richest people list quite a few times (they were the richest people in Germany anyway). They were like phantoms.

Also, Theo Albrecht loved collecting typewriters. Just sayin', as we are on HN.
Ask HN: How to avoid hyper-competitive work environment?
Hi HN,

I get super competitive at work and start competing against co-workers. I feel this constant need to prove myself. This results in me staying late than required, constantly pushing code to be ahead, not talking to co-workers, not enjoying at work at all. Whenever a co-worker comes up with an idea, I feel this urge to come up with a better idea to outshine him/her.

I feel if my co-workers are doing better, then what's my need at the firm. This is a toxic cycle and I want to get out of it. Please help.
Congrats Geoff! During a trek for Iraq and Afghan war veterans, Geoff made the time to meet with us and provide office hours on our hairbrained ideas. A few of us made it into YC and are super appreciative of his support and feedback over the years. YC is lucky to have Geoff lead the organization.
I'm confused. Your first sentence states that ethics are irrelevant, while your second sentence gives an argument about ethics. Surely, if they are as irrelevant as you say, making an argument about ethics would be pointless.
"Tearing the reputation market down" is not generally a good solution, people want to acquire reputation for sensible reasons and tearing one market down just leads to it being replaced by other, generally suboptimal markets. What you actually want to do is (1) stop subsidizing reputational games heavily, so that agents who engage in them don't get to externalize their cost to third parties, and (2) try to outcompete the standard reputation game by signaling the same desirable qualities more cheaply.

The latter is sometimes difficult to do in the case of education, because conformity is itself something that people might want to signal, and it's hard to outcompete prevailing standards while conforming to them. But providing alternatives is still valuable, because sooner or later you'll get a positive unraveling cascade where people realize that the advantages of conforming to the existing standard don't justify the cost, and it's better to switch to a cheaper alternative. (It's something that's mostly unpredictable however, since it works on the principle of a popularity contest where the prediction itself is what people are constantly optimizing for!)
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This mindset is why our planet is boiling. Pretty sure plankton aren't worrying about quarterly growth.
Coinbase Pro has address whitelisting feature, which adds a 48 hour wait before a new crypto address can be used for withdrawals. This may have also mitigated the attack.
I think this is a false dichotomy. The only way it's true is if we assume the quality of life desired by millennials is the same as conspicuous consumption previously portrayed by Madison Avenue. To that point, I see younger generations largely rejecting this definition of 'quality of life' in favor of alternate definitions.

In regards to China, I don't know if this is a point that this is the only way to do things or if it's just following a previously defined template, similar to the way most economies transition from agrarian, to industrial, to service economies.

I also think it's erroneous to frame it as an either/or state when there's opportunity for both improving standards of living without an additional impact on the environment through increases in efficiency on how we put those resources to work. There's lots of sectors (healthcare, energy, etc.) that affect quality of life that can improve without the assumption that we throw more resources at them, just that we be smarter about how we use those resources.

I suppose this shows how old and out of touch I am, but who are the 'thought-leaders' you refer towards? I'm not being snarky, I legitimately don't know who would be considered a millennial thought-leader and would like to find out.
> As far as I know, there is nothing in Korean analogous to the English alphabet song.

We sing 가나다라마바사아자차카타파하 to exactly the same tune as the alphabet song up to P.
Take a look at the gogoro battery system, you swap your empties for a fresh battery and you go off on your way while your empty ones stay in the rack charging, waiting for the next scooter user.

https://i.imgur.com/SJmPZb3.gifv
Mine is built around an even cheaper used Atom fanless Mini-itx board plus Nas4Free (1) which is more than enough for serving multiple full HD videos (2) around the house, so speed isn't that important; the network would be the limit anyway.

(1) I know it's old, but attempting a live upgrade to XigmaNas would be risky, so I'll reinstall it at the next maintenance stop.

(2) as files through NFS and SMB shares, not transcoded and streamed; ie, the player does the dirty work, not the NAS.
Tuesday Could Be the Beginning of the End of Philadelphia’s Soda Tax
The problem with customer-settable severity levels on anything from tickets to emails, is (my name)'s Law: Over time, all customer-settable severity levels will tend to drift towards the highest available setting. Oh sure, you can try and mitigate this by making the highest level "Urgent (System Down)" but eventually this will lead to a lot of "Urgent (System Down)" level issues too. Another mitigation is to make their visible urgency setting a placebo, but it's not a good one as it doesn't manage expectations.

The only thing that ever really works is deferring to a mutually-respected PM and only allowing them to set severity levels. This is but one reason that truly good PMs are amazing to have around.
Except for the fact that the web interface is a lot slower.
Impressive! Works well even with 10 fingers on my touch screen.
Sure, in the not-for-profit Vulcan medical system, this would might be grand. Even in our world I'd agree that in isolation, more information is always better.

The issue is that this sort of information isn't free. The full body scan isn't free. Following up on it, which is the whole point, 'costs' increased risks of adverse outcomes (from biopsies), it 'costs' emotional anxiety, and it costs even more actual money.

The argument is that right now, these whole body scans aren't worth the cost. You're more likely to find a few things you should ignore (but will probably worry over) and a few things you should follow up on (but will be benign). You're less likely to catch something deadly and just in the nick of time.
Kind of sad that out of 83 comments, only 1 mentions "functional safety".

If you want to write SW for, say, cars, ISO safety standards exist, and you generally get your work and development audited by a 3rd party agency who will confirm whether you've conformed to the safety standards.

Conforming to those standards is not fun. And obviously, conforming to them doesn't mean your SW is actually "safe". If most engineers, managers, and auditors follow the spirit of the standards, it probably is safe.

You really don't want such rigorous standards for your average SW product.
I'm of a similar mind but tend towards avoiding rewrites, mostly because I find refactoring more efficient.

Interesting choice of phrase. What would you say is the difference between refactoring and rewriting, assuming we’re talking about keeping the externally observable behaviour of the affected part of the system the same in each case?

This shouldn't be happening in a sufficiently tested or sufficiently understood system

Perhaps, but as systems and the teams that develop them evolve over time, it is all but inevitable that some knowledge and understanding are lost. You’ll never have perfect documentation. You’ll never have tests for every possible case. You’ll never have an unambiguous and readily located comment for every subtle detail in the code that someone seven years ago spent a couple of hours thinking about before they put finger to keyboard, when three other people have since refactored that code, generalised its interface, and fixed a performance glitch in a dependency so some aspects of the original design became unnecessary. Preserving knowledge and understanding as well as possible is one of the challenges facing any team with a long-lived system.

Those losses are a form of technical debt, and as it accumulates, two things happen. First, the original code becomes harder to maintain and develop. Second, the original code becomes more risky to rewrite. So unfortunately, there’s a fairly high probability in practice that a part of a system that has become sufficiently difficult that a large-scale rewrite is being considered will also be a part of the system where the current development team have incomplete understanding of the current implementation.

If you can't figure out a peicemeal way to refactor what you have into what you want you want, you have no business discussing what a rewrite should entail.

But how do you do a piecemeal refactoring exercise if, say, you’re moving to a new programming language? I had to rewrite a large part of a relatively complicated web UI a few years ago, like for like. Although it had been working reasonably well to that point and the design was quite clean and had stood the test of time, it was built around a Java applet. That design made sense when we were first implementing that system, at a time when JS was slow and many features we take for granted in browsers today weren’t yet widely supported. It was less helpful when the great and the good of the browser world decided that Java applets were a liability and they were going to make them harder and harder to use until eventually they killed them off completely. Now, we did have a clean, careful interface between the applet and the various other parts of the page that were written in JS, so we only had to redo that part of the system. However, we had no choice but to reimplement everything the applet did, using alternatives like JS and SVG, starting from scratch. This is the sort of scenario I was talking about before when I mentioned changes in the foundations of a system.
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It strikes me as a false dichotomy to think we have to choose between higher wages / quality of life and the environment.

As mentioned earlier, a lot of investment went into fossil fuels in the past. Now, we could put a lot of investment into technologies that won’t hurt the environment as much. There will be an initial cost to doing that (we’ll still use fossil fuels to get much of the electricity to make solar/wind/etc), but eventually things will even out and we can start having environmentally-friendly sources be much more affordable.
To be fair this shader was published in GPU Gems 15 years ago (2004). Back in the days of the GeForce 6 and Windows XP. Though the fact that it now fits in your pocket is cool.
Regardless of what is written in a contract, if enough money is involved there can be a lawsuit that might result in a settlement or award.
That is pretty convincing, even from a person with high frequency hearing loss! So Embassy persons heard crickets (in the walls or ceiling or somewhere) and then the conspiracy theories flowed like Spice from Dune... Very interesting. I'm saying it's crickets till proven otherwise!
its like the difference between Overhaulin and Pimp My Ride
You've been making great arguments. I appreciate them. However, why not order the device from Germany yourself? Are there stringent regulations in place that prevent customers from purchasing across state or even country lines?
I discovered that it’s even worse. Alice’s mom sends an email to Bob who tells Charlene that his friend’s kid is super smart and of course from Harvard, and then when Alice calls she can ask for Charlene directly and see if she wants to go for a glass of wine.
Honda and GM join in smart grid and electric car research
The first version of severity levels that I liked involved dimensions such as data loss and whether workarounds existed.

For some domains, read-only access to the data can suffice for employees to remain busy for hours. For others like an online store, being unable to check out means you are losing money.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/an-introduction-to-b-bumpage-...
I don't know this company very well but quickly looked at their website after reading that the company authored this article. They recently issued a press release with the headline that 4 of 5 patients treated with their drug had a partial response.

Reading further in the press release shows that 10 total patients were treated, 8 have been assessed, and one of those partial responses was unconfirmed. I haven't looked at the data and don't know the indication well enough to know it 3 or 4 partial responses from 10 patients is good. However i find the company's positioning of the data a bit misleading. For what it's worth, the stock is down a good amount since they announced this data

The wording of that study update combined with the excited yet data-light SA article is a bit concerning. I hope this does not make patients think this potential therapy is more promising than it actually is

http://ir.adaptimmune.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=253991&p=irol-news...