skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless there is convincing data otherwise it would still be a filter for wealth. If a college degree provides opportunity then the wealthy will arrange for their children to have college degrees.

As a counterexample: Dutch universities can’t select for students (for most studies), and annual fees are ~€2k annually (regulated). There will be some bias towards wealthier backgrounds that are more able to invest that money and time, but compared to the US/UK systems I expect it is minimal.

This is not unique, I think systems in the Nordics and Germany similar.
YouGreen: Save the Planet one video at a time
The idea of YouGreen came to me in IIT Kharagpur, where mostly everyone listens to music on YouTube and most of the time it's running in the background tab with 1080p quality(well, it's the same case in the outside world too). What if there's a chrome extension that automatically downgrades video quality(with no compromise in audio quality) when video autoplay in background and upgrades to the default settings when you change video yourself, without affecting UX?

Here's how it works:

- Install extension.
- Now, you can set default quality by clicking the extension's icon located on the address bar.
- Now whenever any video that will autoplay in the background, it's video quality will automatically be downgraded to lowest, with no change in audio quality.
- And when you'll come back to that tab, that was playing music in the background, and play some other video manually, YouGreen will intelligently upgrade to your selected default video quality.

To know more, visit https://anshulkharb.com/side_projects/yougreen
Did that take into account the possibility of an air breathing first stage?
>It's encouraging and normalising a behaviour where it shouldn't, that's the problem.

I think you're extrapolating too much from a data point of one. One teacher reportedly is a busybody and reports dumb shit to parents like whether or not kids go to the bathroom.
A $6 baseball ticket on StubHub becomes $10.41. The seller receives $5.10. So StubHub keeps more than half the total.
he didn't, really.

Only after the hordes were finishing RMS, he found the "courage" to speak
The boards of firms like Google, Apple and Facebook are hardly composed of school flunkies. Aren't they mostly made up of former tech CEOs and similar?

I think the reality is that CEOs can get paid a lot because the number of executives who can meaningfully increase the value of a large organisation is vanishingly tiny.

Look at Microsoft. When Gates left and Ballmer took over their share price stagnated for over a decade. The organisation missed major opportunities and went nowhere. Now Nadella is in charge and suddenly things are moving again. To us maybe it seems "obvious" that Nadella would be a perfect fit for Microsoft and maybe his good decisions seem obvious, but apparently it wasn't so easy to find such a guy during Ballmer's reign.

What about Google? Does anyone really believe that since the Page/Brin/Schmidt triumverate stepped back that Pichai has been able to really fill those boots? The modern day Google is a visionless organisation that seems to spend its days cat-fighting over how many genders there are.

Getting the right CEO at the top of organisations like these would be worth practically any amount of money at all, because even improving outcomes by 10% immediately drowns their comp into irrelevance.
Collaboration requires empathy, which rarely happens when developers think ops are subhuman filth.

In my last Organization the devs largely treated ops like trash, it was only the dev teams on the most business critical and performance sensitive apps that really worked well with ops because it necessitated a close working relationship through the good times and through the hard times & they natuarally came to respect each other's skills
Fun fact about subpixel antialiasing: at some point, Firefox was printing the subpixels when printing PDFs displayed with PDF.js. That looked awful. I'm actually not sure whether that was fixed, as I haven't printed in years (also, I have disabled subpixel AA for a while because of my dual monitor not in the same direction setup)
There are human beings in developing countries, and the problems with filtering by degree are exactly the same or worse. Family wealth, health and privilege dictate whether you even get the chance to afford the price and the opportunity cost of college.

My family could afford neither, and I don’t know what I would do if it weren’t possible to work in my favorite field without a god forsaken degree.
More people than you think want chaos
Surely all you do is turn around the ClassDojo scores, and make that a judgement on the teacher?

Why don't you start asking the school which teacher has the highest and lowest scores, and why X has the lowest score, and what plans there are to help that teacher improve. I'm sure you'll see less student getting marked down for going to the toilet then.
Yeah, that's probably what they meant.
Sure, that's what stem-thickening is meant to compensate in the cited article.
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One man's antialiasing is another mans blur. I, for one, prefer crisp bitmap fonts.
While I don't have a specific advice for passive income, I'd like to point interested people to https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand. This is a resource detailing various money-making models for open source projects, which feels like a good subset of what people might imagine when thinking about passive income, as chances are a lot of people on HN love open source as well as making money and probably strive to find a way to combine the two if they could.
When not burning sideways, you have the issue of gravity drag. Specifically, all the force spent firing downwards is wasted on fighting gravity rather than gaining speed. The reason rockets go up is to get above the atmosphere. Without an atmosphere, you'd launch rockets sideways.
We used to use. We first micro-benchmarked all those and we found that Tencent/rapidjson was more than 100% faster than nlohmann/json :)

Our primary use is to parse http://cocodataset.org/ metadata files and RapidJson is 100% faster.
Evidence for existence of a (il)liquidity premium in the stock market is very weak. What this means is that the market has been liquid enough for a long, long time.

Consider high frequency trading. Does it really matter for capital allocation that you can sell your Google stock for a fair price in 10ms instead of 20ms? There are hundreds of PhDs working on algorithms and billions invested into infrastructure to make those 20ms into 10ms, which I'd argue is a byproduct of how exchanges work and doesn't serve humanity in any way.
Maybe it stores all your data on disk. When you update the firmware, it will send all the data saved before
As the README mentions git-crypt is more transparent to use. So the benefit of this system is that it works the same way for different VCSes. I haven't used mercurial for 8 years and svn for 7, so I'll stay with git-crypt.
I run that with no problems in Linux.
High-DPI (namely 200+ DPI, aka Retina) text rendering on desktop computers is one of the more impactful hardware developments for programmers in a while.

When you're looking at text all day every day, having every single glyph take a massive step up in fidelity (4x the pixel budget!) is not to be sneezed at.
> This is how much a developer should make. We’re not paying a penny more.

This almost reads as if there is a cast system, where there is place for everyone to be comfortable with and shut up demanding more...
I mean you still need to carry propellant: the stuff that is ablated away. It's just that the exhaust velocity is much higher.
Former Apple employees disagree btw:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/12/13/how-did-steve-...
In this TV series, Stewart Brand rightly acknowledges MIT's legendary Building 20, though there's a lot more to say about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_20

I had a chance to see Building 20, and do a student Web project on it, right before it was destroyed. Brand contrasts Building 20 with IM Pei-designed E15, which I worked in, and which had even more bad elements than he itemizes, though there were also some redeeming elements. The best thing about it -- other than the many students that filled it -- was that, sometimes, in the wee hours of the night, as you're slaving as a grad student, the cold and hostile interior cutout, which spanned every floor, was filled with the sound of someone playing the grand piano on the lower level... and belting out vocals of Billy Joel classics. I never interrupted and risked breaking the magic, but later learned the performer was someone who worked in IT, rather than a student/researcher/visitor, which I suppose is one loose sense in which the building was malleable wrt original intent.

I later worked in the fancy Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center that replaced some of Building 20, as well as served other purposes. It's a nice building, and some interesting conscious efforts were made, such as in the lobby/concourse area, which I think are paying off. There were a few glaring quirks that were designed in, or artifacts of the design, which seemed incongruous with the niceness of it. There was also sometimes suboptimal allocation of interior space, when some people didn't have enough space, but there were big chunks of underutilized space.

(This is partly relevant, and tangentially funny: One evening of late hours at work, several years ago, I was meeting with a professor in one of those underutilized sitting spaces, and a presumed undergrad student turned on an adjacent loud piece of machinery, which was placed poorly, next to professors' offices, and difficult to talk over. Professor asks student to use the machine later, because we're trying to talk. Professor was tenured and exceedingly accomplished, but (I think this might've been a factor in his response) female and young, and apparently the male student was very new and unaware. Rather than apologize and perhaps negotiate, he adopts an irritated, talking-down tone, "And who are you?" She responds, no note of irritation, just a hint of cheerful, "I'm Professor ___", and asks him to use the noisy machine later.)

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

I understand that the Stata building also helped unite some groups previously from 545 Tech Square and elsewhere, including Project MAC, the AI Lab, LCS, and the W3C. Most of that greatness was before my time, but I read about it as a kid. What seemed to be a series of remodeling of 545 Tech Square took place after Stewart Brand's book was written, but, together with its previous twin building, could be used as a book cover illustration of building evolution over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Square_(Cambridge,_...
Honest question, Can somebody explain me the use case for this feature? I don't get it.

I mean, if the summoned car came to me in a totally autonomous way, it would be useful in very large parking lots, like an airport, campus, etc... Or I could call it while still leaving my apartment/office, and the car would be there by the time I get to the door. But if I need to have the car in my line of sight, just standing still while watching it and holding the button, with me being aware and responsible of the car not bumping into any obstacle, then it means I'm pretty close to the vehicle, so why not just walk the very short distance to it?
Samsung smart TV. We had to use it with an external receiver so we set the TV on video input. It works. We turn off the TV, turn it on again, it shows the video input for a brief moment and then hides it with a message that there is no signal and please choose you signal input. No matter what we did, it didn't want to just work.

The solution? connect the TV to internet (in a rural area), wait overnight so it can download the Terms and Conditions without any indication that this is what it is trying to do, sign the T&C and then it works...
> but I don't feel too great about any get-together where the topic at hand is , quite literally, let's speak ill of someone.

People saying RMS shouldn't be leading open source projects are now stuck.

If they don't give details of all the times RMS has behaved unacceptably someone will say "but what has he actually done?", and if they do give details of poor behaviour someone will say "the social lynch mob is unpleasant".
Virtually every airline will tell you on their bookings pages. If you’re flying in the front of the plane, there can be major differences in the hard product between different planes of the same carrier. Qatar Airways kept some crummy slanted recliner chairs in business on their A340s for a long time after the A380 had a great fully-flat bed and a bar onboard, and would fly it on the same route. FinnAir have some great seats on their Asian fleet A350s, but you’ll have a nasty shock if you fly Tokyo-Helsinki-New York as they have some truly dated and shabby A330s flying the latter part.

But: it doesn’t form part of the contract, so no complaints if you get shafted with an old plane.
From Hugo to Next JavaScript and Back Again
Gold stars are purely about positive reinforcement, you don't get a black star for doing X.

I seem to have less problem than others here about schools getting dictatorial etc, but to me the school is at least partially responsible for bringing up a functioning human being, so they do need to say what is acceptable or not. Obviously they need to do that in an acceptable way, gold stars seem like a good way. An app for recording every single detail good and bad, not so much.
It's refreshing for me to read this thread. I've had the same issues, worries and irritations about Microsoft and Windows for a long time. I just never know how vocal I should be about them. I am surrounded by people who use Windows to write code, test software, manage, etc. every day, but they don't really seem to care or notice anything's wrong. This makes me anxious about sharing my concerns - what if they're just a personal illusion driven by some unconscious biases? My guess is I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Some might say that whining about these things is counterproductive. I disagree. I don't want Microsoft to fail. I don't want people to hate Microsoft. I want every company to make good products and expend its employees' efforts in a productive way. I believe filling out feedback forms is not the best way to go about trying to change the curremt state. I think that once enough people in our field know about those issues and voice their concerns, we can somehow push Microsoft back in the right direction. And even if that's a pipedream, our comments might help people forced to use Windows at work to go about it somewhat more securely and conveniently.

When it comes to my personal experience, I've recently had Windows: force me to update (gave me 20 minutes to save my work); install some software I don't need during the update and then prompt me to log in (namely, MS Teams); break bluetooth drivers (they work now but not as well as they used to); make the machine get stuck in the boot process (I had to reset it and pray no data was lost); change the wallpaper.

I just want to do my job. I don't need updates for that. I might need the security ones, but trying to install Teams on my machine and breaking other stuff in the process while all I need is Visual Studio and a working OS really grinds my gears.

EDIT: formatting, minor errors
> The article mentions FS but this is easier to access with -F. e.g. for some quick and dirty CSV munging-

Though if you're doing a lot of csv munging, xsv would probably be a good investment.
The Pi-Hole lists to contribute to and subscribe to: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist
I compared them in 2010 here:

https://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/BtrFS

Overall similar. I ran into more critical bugs with BtrFS, but ZFS (on Solaris) was not perfect (most of our Solaris kernel panics were ZFS-related on Solaris).
An alternative view on the future of AI. Inspired by Brave New world and 1984
AI taking over and teasing owners.

Or just a bad idea for fat and lazy people.
Ignore this advice. At least a 10X return is standard. If it's sale or nothing, another option is to leverage his offer to get finance from other investors if that's what you want.

I've sold a startup for below what it's worth and it's not a good feeling to see people do really well when were the one who solved most of the big problems that allowed it to exist.

Feel free to email me if you want help with the negotiation or figuring out what to do. eric@gregarious.com.au
How about the Office / Outlook Web interfaces, shouldn't they be usable from any OS?
To add to this, there are a number of production cars today with level 2 automation equivalent to or better than Tesla's. None of them made a big fuss about it.

The only envelope Tesla is pushing with 'autopilot' is in misleading marketing that has been directly linked to drivers misunderstanding the capabilities/limitations of the technology.
> if you see that the car is about to collide with something

What about when the car is about to collide with something you cannot see from a remote point of view, or when the positions and/or velocities are distorted from the longer perspective? There are many common situations where hazards that would usually be visible from the driver's seat are obscured when looking at the car from a distance.

Also, people generally have to be trained and pass a test demonstrating basic competency at driving and pass a vision test. These tests don't include the slightly different skills/vision required to safely judge driving a car from a distance, so why would you assume a licensed driver is even capable of operating dangerous machinery to do something outside the scope of that license?
> 100% the fault of the owner and the owner should compensate me 100%.

The owners fault?? Nope--I feel its Tesla's fault... entirely. Well them and the DOT for allowing this experiment to be carried out on public roads. Meanwhile Google still asks me what a truck on a hill looks like via captcha's... oh yeah this self driving tech is ready to go!
Having lived through a Soviet inspired bureaucracy where the wait times to get a phone line was years, getting a car could take up to 5 years; this article is spot on. Eerily familiar. That same tingling of dread from decades ago washed over me haha.

Everything was mandated by a bureaucrat, how many factories there could be, how many goods they could produce. There was no concept of supply and demand, instead there was five year plan from the central government and that was what would be implemented regardless of the ground reality.

When people got a phone line installed in their house, the neighbours would come over to marvel as if visiting a new born baby.

When my uncle got his allotment for a scooter after two years, he distributed sweets to his co-workers. It was a great occasion.
I think he's beating even his own expectations with SpaceX. This company is just wildly successful in reaching seemingly impossible goals that they keep setting for themselves.

I think it mainly shows just how ineffective and inept the established players have become. The companies and organizations that got us to the moon 50 years ago still exist but seem to have lost a lot of their ability to get things done.

Now that other countries are landing on the moon, the pressure is on to deliver the next persons to the moon and ultimately to Mars. Working backwards from that goal and the goal of going to Mars, Elon Musk has done what Nasa has not been able to get done for decades at a fraction of the budget they've consumed not getting there; or even deciding to go there. Better still, he's turned that into a profitable company.
Well, good that he apoligied. But why did not someone said to to the parent, and just to me 2 levels deeper? But also maybe a more worded apology, that shows what caused the "misunderstanding" would be helpful.

"Are you saying that this is implausible or even unlikely that she presented herself to be willing to Minsky? "

I am saying I don't know any of the persons involved personally, live far away, so I would never make any statements regarding what actually happened.

But in general yes, I believe when someone is coerced into prostitution, it should be obvious to spot real willingnes from forced one, unless you don't want to notice.

"Apparently I do not have any empathy for not understanding what the issue with this statement is, thanks"

And no, you do not, yes. Because the issue is sexism/patriacharlism. Strong men sexually abusing weak women/girls, what was the norm for centuries and was ok to do so (and in some parts of the world still is).

And apparently also partly in the MIT, if Epstein had so much connection there. So in this context, when a victim makes an accusation - and someone uses the defence, "the victim appeared willing" than yes, you clearly lack empathy, to not see how that might hurt feelings and has a high chance of getting misunderstood.

And that we have media, who does not care about truth, when there is a scandal and a scapegoat is a very sad other story.
Seeing it mentioned here twice, I went and checked out their website/github.
What I see is lots of 20-line examples setting up a docker-container/very basic vm/aws-lambda. While typescript might have better "testability" I'm not sure, where this goes if you just copy/execute bash-scripts or inject javascript code into aws-lambda. To me it seems like it just reinvents the "classic" sys-admin but instead of writing/copying/executing bash-scripts, dev(op)s are now churning out bash-scripts wrapped in tested wrapper code - well...

In contrast ansible has a lot of declarative building blocks (iirc all are unit-tested!), which either fail or do the specified job. And yeah, the specified job might be copying and templating a config-file for some oldschool service (and you might be shocked: people still use these!), which is inherently not really testable (except by integration tests. or maybe you write a test to get the file and to check whether you got to type the name right twice) - I'm not sure how pulumi can help you with that?

And yes, I would love a concise, descriptive DSL (compare for example spack, which does this nicely) over/as an alternative to the loops-crafted-on-YAML-mess of ansible but I take the latter any day over some "we-can-call-cloud-providers-apis-and-kubernetes-but-why-would-you-copy-files?"-stuff like pulumi.