skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really a counterpoint so much as a probable factor. Probably even more to the point, if someone flunks out, it's now often not just a case of partially wasting a couple years--which many do at that age anyway. But also burning a huge amount of money and possibly incurring lots of debt in the process.
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if the code is flaky then I have earned my pay honestly, this is a problem that should be solved.

Subtle concurrency issues are indeed very difficult to be found debugged and reproduced and randomization could help with that simply by covering more space.
Yes, because now your credentials are in a cloud formation file that is still in source control.

You don’t need your credentials anywhere near your code.

Every AWS SDK that I’m aware of, let’s you new up your client with no parameters.

Your credentials should be in your user directory set by “aws configure” locally. When running on AWS, the SDK will automatically get your credentials based on the role attached to your EC2 instance or lambda.
Exactly, theres always the network effect that keeps you hostage.

For me personally, this will be the moment to draw a line and just tell people to text me instead, or use another service...
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I have mixed feelings on this topic.

I'm sympathetic to some extent. I'm a product of a boot camp (granted I had a technical background before that) and I've worked with CS grads who I'm a bit astounded by their inability to just debug something on a basic level (form a theory, test it, make a logical next decision). On the other hand I wonder if that is a case where they should have been filtered out, or if the issue is they weren't taught / tested on the right things?

>The old academic criteria, imperfect as they were, were in fact doing a reasonable job of selecting individuals able and willing to handle the rigors of traditional college. The blunt fact is that the majority of people who scored below a 1200 on the verbal and math sections of the SAT would have found it difficult or impossible to handle a curriculum like that required to earn a state-school engineering degree or comparable certification. Today, thanks to grade inflation, such students can and do pass through top schools with top honors, especially in the liberal arts.

Do we really want to just go by the "old academic criteria"?

Are the people who just scrape by all just bad?

Would it be better if those people just be pushed out the door?

So let's say we make it "harder", is that harder testing? More work? What then?

I feel like as far as learning about how people learn that it is pretty clear that some people work well in what has become the traditional education systems, and others less so, and I"m not sure that filter really determines who will be productive or if that's all we want from education... to filter folks based on how the education system works now?

Personally I'm inclined to lean towards more / better education, less focus on making everything "harder".
Every CFA owner/operator (you technically don't franchise) I know (n=3) says those are basically money-printing machines.
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Scurvygrass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlearia_officinalis)

Kept many people alive who had been marooned over the winter in Svalbard and other places in the Arctic. Also grows in cooler climates in Europe
On top of "how do you define UNIX vs UNIX-like", I'd like to add "what are the actual differences between UNIX and UNIX-like?"

What benefit would I get from UNIX versus a UNIX-like system?
This is a bit curious. The large number of contractors can be seen as the victims here. They don't have power or privilege as other employees and yet those who see nothing wrong with it are not arguing their point but claiming persecution and victimhood on Google's behalf.

Its troubling to see this immediate rush to claim persecution and victimhood by those who have power.
Blaming the internet/bots/hackers for the far-right's success is misguided
Well, let's turn that around. Why is this automatically malicious just because the company is Chinese?

(Yes, I agree that China does some horrible stuff, but let's not forget Facebook and CA were neither Chinese)
Banking is one of the safer things you can do online, thanks to the high level of regulation and consumer protection around the financial industry.
Yup, excited for the meeting. Haven't seen those guys in a while.

Was expecting to learn some security techniques, instead got essentially port scanned :)
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> In fact, despite our material success, we appear to be less happy than our predecessors.

Which predecessors? We can't really tell how a medieval peasant felt, as they didn't leave any articulate accounts. The accounts left later are generally non-representative, as people who left them were privileged (they were not illiterate). As for the more modern times, not more than 100 years ago alcoholism (strongly correlated with depression) was so rampant that the US banned alcohol sales altogether.
I would say that on very practical terms, one could call it scientific, taking advantage of a situation that made possible an trial that could not have been approved as a fully-controlled clinical experiment, given the official opposition to Takaki's ideas.

Takski's hypothesis also met Popper's criterion for falsifiability, and the Tsukuba could have suffered similar beri-beri rates as did the Ryujo.
Does this need to be tabular data? If you want to model relationships, graph databases are great.

Despite their name, relational databases are not great at relationships. They're great at tables, but can also handle relationships if you have to. Many problems can be solved by an RDBMS, but as this question and many others like it show, it's not always a natural fit.
The Bavarian justice minister ordered the public prosecutor to drop prosecution against Mollath.

Yes, the Internet mob was happy.

But even if you disagree with my opinion that he should have gone to jail, you will surely agree that this directive by a minister is troubling, even if it is in favor of "your guy".
You should not need to build static libraries if you pick the oldest RHEL you can find among your customers: the GNU people claim that their libc is backwards-compatible, so your executables and libraries should work with the latest glibc.

Building static executables, while convenient, opens your customers to security risk: where rebuilding one shared object library would suffice, now they need entire new binaries. There is a reason why for example Solaris and illumos do not deliver static libraries. That's the reason why, to prevent one from doing exactly what you are doing for the reason I described.
>Society would be better off if people were guided to autodidacticism....

I don't know man?

Might be fine if you're majoring in something harmless like music, or art. But for the safety of society at large you just can't implement such a naive system for majors like nuclear engineering or virology. It'd just be irresponsible to the point of being outright dangerous.
Yes, but I’m not sure if we’re talking about hardware “threads”, the OS concept of a “thread”, or what Firefox calls a “thread”. Maybe someone who knows more about what they’re talking about could clear it up?
And in a market where the parent company doesn’t protect area rights, your competition can be other stores of the same franchise. Something about that seems wrong.
Hopefully corporate incentives will be more aligned to prevent burnout. In many cases, the employer should be at fault when this happens.
I mean I want to agree with this, but I also have to ask why? In what way are grades important to any kind of overall outcome?
"over the course of my degree I had conditioned myself to spend every waking moment working"

I'm pretty sure that's not the best way to actually maximise performance - in the same way that even professional athletes don't spend 100% of their time training. You need recovery periods and, I find, breaks for stuff to actually sink in.
> All the editors are pretty much from one company, which feels like handing over control of the web to that one company essentially.

Which company are you referring to? Per https://github.com/whatwg/sg/blob/master/Workstreams.md, I see

- 3 independent (Dom Farolino, Robert Kowalski, G. P. Hemsley)

- 2 Mozilla (Mike Taylor, Anne van Kesteren)

- 2 Google (Domenic Denicola, Philip Jägenstedt)

- 1 CloudFlare (Terrin Stock)

- 1 Bocoup (Simon Pieters)
I never understood that either except, as you said, for the hobbyist's sake. A lot of XHTML was generated from XML and, if one is using XML, chances are programming is involved in the transformation to XHTML. But programming has strict rules itself and will also fail if not adhered to so I never understood the complaint of "draconian" error checking in XML/XHTML.
Beautiful Racket is one of my favorite books in any genre.
> Thinking in a CLI, do you think the timestamp is important? I also had this doubt, but it only bothers me.

I suppose it depends, and that point was definitely more subjective. My background is as a backend SWE, so most of my work is server-side. When we/I use CLIs, they're often interacting via the network with other services; while sometimes you're watching it, sometimes you're not, and those timestamps provide useful feedback. If you're building a quick and dirty tool, perhaps not.

I do think the comments in that thread — that you should implement as a log crate Log — are correct. Sooner or later Rust will hopefully have a standard logging mechanism, and the log crate looks like it will be it. But your current implementation should, I think, pretty much naturally fit within that. (I think line endings would be the only thing that doesn't; since log will, eventually, have to support emitting to logs that have no concept of a "line ending", it can't really support that.)
even more funny that in many cases they are stopped only by the law, and also in most cases they can only do some form of advertisement; if they could sell your soul for statistically significant conversion uplift, many people wont even think twice.
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It’s an arrangement. Low paid labor now for ownership of the business in the future
You make it sound like CVS kills children. People worked with CVS just fine for decades and OpenBSD has made their own tools for CVS to improve their development experience and, frankly, if a developer - regardless of age, lets not get into age discrimination here - finds CVS a roadblock to working on OpenBSD, they are simply not a good developer.
Anyone know if this can be done on a hosts level instead of a browser level?
I was going to mention NYC too but in terms of the Subway, which is related.

The "local" stops on a lot of Subway lines really shouldn't be there. I'm looking at you 18th Street, 28th Street, 50th Street and so on. 18th Street in particular is 4 blocks away (where 1 block = <1 minute walking) from 14th Street and the entrances to 14th Street will often extend up to 16th Street anyway (with the platform potentially right underneath).

In the other direction 23rd Street is 5 blocks away.

The Subway spends billions of dollars a year on power. Most of that power (for trains) is spent accelerating so every stop counts.

I expect the same people who are against consolidation of bus stops are against consolidation of Subway stops.

Honestly I personally have never taken a bus in NYC despite living here for nearly a decade. Distances in Manhattan are just so relatively short.
https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/...

Hackernews RSS feed with the article contents inlined.
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Article is grade A evidence of a failed education. School is not suppose to be "hard" or "easy". Learning, which is completely subjective, does not have an objective difficulty associated with it rather an estimated or average investment in time and other resources.
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The average lock is easy to pick, but the average smart-lock does not even try to get the physical aspect of security right. Its much worse than it seems.
>I think what companies really want is smart generalists with advanced math, programming, and modeling skills coupled with domain knowledge. That skill set will always carry high value in technical companies.

What companies want is to be "in" on the data science hype, while they have no clue what they are doing and the most advanced "data science" they need are simple graphs, boxplots, and linear regressions.
Quake II RTX is the perfect ray tracing demo, and it’s out for free next week
Navy pilots report UFOs with no visible engine, hypersonic speeds
I needed something like this that allows access to and manual manipulation of the cache, and I ended up forking functools.lru_cache code. This library definitely fits the bill.
Sure, I don't disagree. I learned a lot about working more efficiently after graduating and forcing myself to work strictly 9-5.

Fact is, when you have weekly assignments in 4 classes that each require many hours to complete, it's easy to find yourself in a cycle of coding until 3 am only to realize you have to do it again the next day to finish a math problem set.

My point is just that "hard to get in, easy to graduate" does not meet my experience at all.
This is specifically about California, with a smidgen of data nationwide for the US.
As long as your chasing profit not revenue expenses are already part of the equation.

If being open at 2am provides 1$ an hour of profit, that’s still profit.
I believe that the key is rigor: if grades are a reflection of whether or not a student has mastered some material, and the grading is rigorous, the only way for a student to attain a high grade is to master that material. That's the point of grades, isn't it?
"At the same time, schools have become more liberal about accepting applicants based on unorthodox qualifications, from athletic ability to nonacademic accomplishments, disadvantageous backgrounds, and demonstrated social "awareness.""

At this point I stopped reading the article. I'm concerned this author(a polisci/economics professor)'s definition of 'hard' is functionally equivalent to 'only for the wealthy whites' again, as the specific time period he cites as the beginning of college becoming too easy (1960s) coincides exactly with desegregation (board vs brown was mid 1950s) AND he specifically cites disadvantaged backgrounds as part of that reason. If I'm mistaken and the author later addresses this, let me know and I'll actually finish the piece.

I am in general in agreement that grade inflation is a problem, drop out rates should rapidly increase to help stem degree inflation in our populace, as this is associated currently with saddling our future with increasingly difficult hurdles, which will eventually bite us in the form of lagging social security, population shrinkage, and economic instability. However, the arguments being used are immediately suspect to me.
Since Sway is basically i3 remade on Wayland you can use i3 on OpenBSD.
Where is the proof that CVS is harming OpenBSD?

As far as I know there is none. People talk about moving it to git like there is no cost to doing so and that it will provide only benefits, but as far as I've seen there's been very little justification that's a motivation more than maintaining the status quo.

I mean, I personally prefer git. I've used it at work for years and I'm quite good at it. If the project is hitting its targets while on CVS, I think that's fine.
In Europe, they're not going to use data from your FB account to show ads, right?

Given that last year they agreed not to share data https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/14/17120446/whatsapp-user-da...
There's definitely a middle ground to be achieved here. Rigorous assessment doesn't have to go away to implement this.
As former [tenured] faculty, I'm not sure what to say about this. Good luck doing it in a reasonable way. It's not like [some] universities don't try to rein in grade inflation. Instructors do regularly give out Cs and Ds or Fs at many institutions. Our university kind of did audits to just see if there was something glaringly wrong about grade distributions in courses systematically for certain courses.

Anyway, grades shouldn't be arbitrarily difficult either, or curve just to curve. That's misguided as well; there are reasons for grade inflation other than just being nice -- I think old school grading was often somewhat capriciously difficult and arbitrary which has its own downsides.

I think in my undergrad courses the average grade was usually about a B, which seemed about right to me. Of course I'm biased because it's my own grading, but these were usually upper-level students, who got to that point because they were reasonably competent, and my sense of things was that they had about a B level grasp of the material on average. That is, they understood most of the important points of the material pretty well, but might have become a little lost in the finer points. Why knock their grades down just to make the grade distributions prettier?

My experience was that the trickier part was dealing with new freshman, who didn't always seem as prepared as they should be for college, especially with writing. But it's hard to know if that's actually any different over time; there's been a couple of times I've found decades old samples and I was surprised how little things had actually changed.
> […] and tell them that I won't reply to any SMS.

How do you handle dumb/feature phone users?
> We just don't know, and anyone that tells you they do know is either selling you something or, at best, telling you what worked for them.

I read a great newspaper article ten or so years ago. The journalist visited a vegan and a person following LCHF (low carb high fat). Both said that their diet made them feel great, made them lose weight, gave them lots of energy, kept them free of illness, and so on.

The journalist noted that they basically split the nutrition circle (I don't know if this is a world-wide thing, but it divides different food sources into pie slices) in half: the vegan eating the grain and vegetable parts and the LCHF person eating the animal parts.

The article basically showed how good the human body is at making up for when you limit an omnivore diet. If you asked any of the two participants, they would say their parts of the nutrition circle were the healthy ones.
walking speed as 88.69 m/s

cm/s ?
> Give up the thought that you have control. You don’t. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond

Not the main point of the article but probably thinking like this helps a lot to accomplish lot of things.

Yes, I always consider that the best discoveries, creations and improvements are made by people who aren't satisfied with the status quo. But even that is only possible when you know that you don't have control of everything and you have to respond accordingly to the environment.
Cooking usually changes some of the vitamin/nutrient content, but honestly if you like cooked fish, cook it. If you prefer sushi/sashimi, go for that. With diet try not to let perfection get in the way of obvious improvements. I could get way more nutrients by eating liver raw, but y'know, um no thanks.
Knowing nothing about hardening leather apart from what I've just read here, if reaching a certain temp without going too high or too low is the way to harden leather armor sous vide might be a good experiment. No chance of overheating like in an oven. I guess it would depend on how much of the hardening process is the drying action and how much is the heat itself. You can vacuum seal around a mold of the shape you want, and then sous vide the sealed leather. Perfect temp control, and no risk of scorching.
Fair play to them

Hello neighbor... I assume.
I meant both, actually.

The problem with MM/DD/YYYY is that outside of the US it may be perceived as DD/MM/YYYY.
I've had no issues with Telegram, and I think, although less secure than Signal, it's a great option to replace Whatsapp.
Beriberi was mostly caused by the replacement of whole rice by white rice. White rice is not a whole grain and has most of its fiber and many nutrients removed. If they had eaten whole rice instead, the disease is then easily prevented.

But eating whole rice was apparently not socially well seen, as it was a food associated with the very poor.

Later some of the nutrients have been sprayed back into the white rice, with the recommendation to not wash the rice before cooking, not to wash away the nutrients.
Why Portland? It's a nice place, but the job market is highly competitive and not super lucrative.
I'm having trouble understanding your point. Surely if you got Cs that would be on you. Are you suggesting you should be given As because you pay $50,000 a year? Or that because your parents were making a large investment in your education you made sure to work hard to earn good grades?
> naive

It's not naive. No, in my system people could actually pick up nuclear engineering in high school as opposed to college. It's retarded that school in some delays you, because in hs, you need to do some bullshit as opposed to what you want.

I also didn't say anything against assessments.
They're still based in the UK, though, aren't they?
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Not it wouldn't be because most bytecodes generally operate at a higher level. A single java call instruction can in theory turn into an unbounded number of machine instructions through inlining. Therefore limiting the machine to only executing entire java instructions will make it extremely slow because it cannot use any optimizations.
Grade inflation won't stop until signalling ceases to be a factor in education (likely never). Generally speaking, students see education as only a means to achieving career success. In any situation where grades are a determining factor, you will see grade inflation. Grades are simply the most visible signal of student intelligence, conscientiousness, and to a lesser extent conformity.

Course difficulty, on the other hand, is much more subtle and complicated to assess. You can look at a given school's grade inflation relative to other schools but that is confounded by differences in the relative merit of the students. Thus, we should predict that school difficulty sends a weaker signal than grades.
Your parents didn't pay $50,000 a year for you to learn nothing, either. Or maybe they did, which is its own problem.

University degrees just become a tool for class warfare if the price goes up but the difficulty goes down. If everyone is guaranteed to pass as long as their check clears, then your university degree only exists to show you came from a wealthy family. It says nothing about your knowledge or skills.
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The short TTL is very sketchy and most NIDS(s) have contextual rules to detect DNS rebinding attacks. One may additionally filter private ranges from responses and HTTP requests by host headers. Not to mention TLS.

It's useful against vulnerable IoT devices or home routers, but is it still effective to breach enterprise perimeters?
Do people learn anything from lectures about safety at school? Everyone takes computer ethics. Everyone knows about Therac-25. Where are we 30 years later? Engineers still implement open-loop control systems. Programmers still write programs with integer overflows. Speed to market beats safety every time (hello, MCAS). So was it really worth thousands of dollars for someone to tell you about that in a class? A few people dying is always a lower priority than a higher share price, it seems. So might as well not waste money on education, right?
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