skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar first-hand with the concept of "elite" colleges in America, but why is it so important for a billionaire's kid to attend them? Does it really give them opportunities that are not already available to them from their parents' wealth and connections?

I don't understand how sending your child to those institutions is worth $37 million. Wouldn't it make more sense to give it to them directly, or as funding for one of their ventures?

From other articles, their daughter became a comedy writer for Jimmy Fallon - that seems like the last profession to require a diploma from an elite university, or even a college diploma at all.
I don't see what business the government has in regulating what athletes get paid anyway. Just let the market sort it out.
Tiny grey sans-serif font means you hate my eyes.

Extra-ironic on a rant about interaction design.
The limitting factor of terrorists attacks is not the lack of young men willing to die perpetrating them.
I don't see any need for action here. If Amazon runs out of storage space or bandwidth for keeping track of everyone's botnet kitchen appliance statuses, I don't think the connected world will grind to a halt. We will simply begin dropping said fridge temperature status updates on the floor in favor of more important things like bank transactions. 99% of data today is garbage from the microsecond it was created, and virtually all of it is garbage after a few months elapses.

That said, I am not against new iterations on the idea of the internet and how we move data from point A to point B. Enabling a vast 'ocean' of a trillion+ devices to send data easily to/from any node is a compelling problem (which we've arguably already solved). Trying to agonize over whether the data is important or not in some overarching manner is not a compelling problem. Data is very ad-hoc in nature. I don't see any other way about this if you want to maintain its utility to everyone. You don't apply QOS rules to payment processing networks in the same way you do the xbox live network. Both parties would argue their data is very important, but neither party cares at all about the other party's data requirements.
NASA close to finding life on Mars but the world isn't ready for the discovery
> This has caused a lot of disruptions in the company, and I'm receiving recommendations to encourage this millennial to quit

This line is completely off-topic and should not be there at all. It leads me to believe there is a personal bias at play that’s having an influence on your decision making.

This young guy is busting his ass to learn and more importantly, apply what he’s learning. And you have the audacity to disregard his effort based on a meaningless time-frame?

Younger workers, in general, are getting tired of the “serve your time” game that employers are playing. He knows his value to the company, is willing to take it elsewhere if you don’t respect his efforts.
I don't know about every machine from that era but neither the C64 or the AppleII used the timing hole, relying on special signals on each track to identify the start of sectors.
Would like to mention the Quantum Thief trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi. These books are very dense with interesting concepts. In one section, the people who live on Mars have a privacy organ that automatically blurs out all strangers unless they make an agreement to exchange information. There are 'agoras' where they are unprotected. The idea goes into the cultural ramifications of this, it's incredibly interesting reading, but does not hold your hand at all.
Hong Kong Protesters Drop Nazi Term After Western Input
>The idea that the only reason why they would oppose such examples of communism is out of embarrassment

I was thinking it was more that the X I believe in is good, Y is bad but says they are X I better devote some resources to explaining why Y is not X lest people get the wrong idea.
> I would expect the CEO to be driven more by vision than by cold, hard facts.

If the facts don't align with your vision, figure out a different vision.
I think there is a strong argument to be made for violation of the constitutional right to contract.

If a college/university contracts to be included in a athletics association, there is nothing wrong with requiring the schools to comply with NCAA rules/regulations.

If a student athlete contracts with a college/university to play a sport for them, there is nothing wrong with the college/university requiring them to comply with both the college and NCAA rules/regulations.

Without the benefit of looking at all the various agreements and the actual CA Bill, it sounds like their approach to cure the issue may amount to an unconstitutional restriction on the athletes' Constitutional right to contract.
Where do you expect Harvard could house the additional 13K undergrads near campus? I live walking distance to Harvard campus and I can tell you that I can't imagine a good answer.

(Unstated above is that I believe that undergrad is fundamentally an in-person experience.)
> Erlang's default distribution mechanism grinds to a halt when there are more than ~60-80 nodes. And Mnesia has a 2GB limit on table sizes. So you have to work around those limitations yourself.

I've seen people say these, and I have no idea where they come from. If you have a decent network, dist works fine at well over 80 nodes, but everyone says it doesn't work. pg2/global has some sharp edges if you're trying to have many nodes acquire the same global lock when you have a lot of nodes (a few hundred) or a smaller number if you have a lot of latency between them. There's options though -- maybe you don't need to acquire the same lock on all nodes, or maybe you can look in pg2.erl and global.erl and wiggle the locking code until it no longer live locks.

The Mnesia supposed 2GB limit is a bunch of hooey. Yes, disc_only_tables has (or had) that limit, because dets has that limit. Yes, it's a sharp edge, because there's no warning about it. However, a 2GB dets table is awful to work with anyway. You want to use disc_copies or ram_copies for big tables. Also, mnesia_frag is well supported, so if you really wanted to, you could make your disc_only_copies table 1024 fragments, and have 2 TB of dets, if that's how you wanted to role.

And yes, if you're going to hyperscale, you're going to need a couple people who know how to figure out what your system is doing. Is there a language/environment where that's not true?

I claim, without real proof, that Erlang's BEAM VM and OTP standard library are easier to understand and tweak when you do hit problems. You'll note however, that Rick Reed's first presentation was when he had been at WhatsApp for about a year, and he had zero experience with Erlang before that.
Replying to the other comment on this, it's too deep for a normal reply but a hubble composite and a 3d render have very little to do with one-another outside the fact that they're both images.
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Mayer.

Hear me out. This is a comedy novel in the vein of Pratchett or Douglas Adams. But the central conceit is that a hacker finds a large configuration file on a system he hacks into. He finds his name in the file, and information about himself, including his x,y,z co-ordinates. He discovers that if he changes those co-ordinates, he teleports in reality. He has infact found the configuration file that runs our reality. He rapidly gets himself into legal trouble and so - to escape - teleports himself to England in the Middle Ages to pose as a Wizard.

Its a very silly novel but programming takes center stage and - if you accept the central conceit of the configuration file - the programming is all realistic.

Recommended. Scott Mayer is also a cartoonist who does the long running 'Basic Instructions' webcomic.
That part of what you're paying for though. If you want something Asap, and a number of reviews say it arrived promptly, or took ages, that's useful info. Poor packaging can lead to breakages so again useful info.
This is happening on my home town. The hospital has been scaling back more and more. What was once a thriving hospital now only has 3 doctors.

Not due to demand, but because there are not enough doctors. Doctors do not want to live in a podunk town, no matter how much the hospitals are willing to pay.
What is the blackest commercially available paint? Curious how far that differs. Also when we can get this stuff in stores as paint.
if you don't own the land, you can't stop the owner from chopping down all the trees you planted and letting the CO2 exhaust into the air again. i guess you could try putting it into a contract, but it would de facto be unenforceable because you wouldn't know if the land owner was cutting down trees on their property anyway.
If that's your goal, shouldn't you be using a customer install?
I think it’s time. Peter Shirley decided to specialize in computer graphics, leaving the programming to people who would implement his ideas in libraries, and the production developers who use those libraries.
It's intended* function is to act as a deterrent. The jury is still out on whether it actually functions effectively as a deterrent. For instance, do active criminals know the potential punishments for their transgressions? Do they know what life is like for current or former prisoners? If yes to either, does it actually deter active criminals or do they just consider it a risk, a cost of doing their "business?

Deterrence is a nice in theory, but it depends on awareness among the general populace, and depending on people being aware is not a good start to any policy.
If your company is embroiled in a misogynistic scandal, people will wonder why you hired all those techbros from Uber.
Top tier universities are where the elites go to find spouses.
There have been allegations that they (secretly) do; see e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/13/are-spoti...
I'm thinking he may actually be full time though.
Previous discussion 1 day ago of the same article, co-published nymag version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103345
Instead of a single spectrum from computer- to human-friendliness, picture a triangle with the third vertex being "task-friendliness" or task specificity. The author is advocating a return to human-friendliness, but what he describes is more like task-friendliness.

I've become somewhat obsessed with ergonomics after a long battle with chair pain. In my mind, true human-friendliness does not require new interfaces for every task (although it may require a slightly different interface for each human). Every computing task may very well be handled best by a person sitting in a chair at a workstation. That wouldn't be bad design IMO; computers are, in fact, general purpose.

If we can get to a point where each computer user is able to use their computer comfortably for 8 hours straight, without pinching a nerve or a blood vessel (yes! it's possible!), then I would consider that a human-friendly design.

I'm not talking about iPads here - the author is totally right that these devices don't seem to be made for human beings.
I guess, it may be that - you may want your children to be properly educated, and able to accomplish hard tasks (given at university) before handing them down businesses. Probably even working low-paid jobs for a while just to learn all the levels in the company.
> Harvard could easily accommodate 20,000 undergrads given the size and quality of its applicant pool.

Increasing the class size would be good.

But Danny Rubin isn't going to be able to teach screen writing to 120 kids instead of 12, even if he actually wanted to. RJ Tarrant can't expand his personal Classics section beyond 15.

And the undergraduate animal transplant surgery class (12-15 students)? How, pray tell, will that scale? If you wanted to 10x the size of the class... I don't know if there's a single place on Earth that conducts 10 transplants, human or large animal, in one building, at the same time.

Not everything can be scaled. Not even "not scalable" things can be scaled with money, even a lot of it.

A more interesting conversation is why nonetheless billionaires do a bad job at education, despite (not because of) all the money. I think this thinking is part of it. It also shows a lack of understanding of what makes Harvard special. It's not just "brand management."
Fair points. They did indeed bury it before though. Yes "collaboratively edited" is there, but what you saw front and center were the questions and answers. And as you say, the nuances of what "collaboratively edited" means can quickly get lost, especially for non-native speakers.

Maybe a meta-moderation system like Slashdot had could have helped. In the end though I think their implementation was ultimately flawed. They created a great platform for asking questions, but that wasn't what they wanted to create.
Creator here. Regular job boards don't provide these lucrative opportunities. I understand that jobs with incredibly high compensation (university president, CEO, hedge fund manager, etc) are usually filled internally or from private networks. I put this together in a couple hours to test that idea.
In futbol teams make money via transfer fees when players under contract move on to bigger clubs. Currently, when a player at Alabama goes to the NFL, Alabama does not recover any of its costs associated with the player's recruitment, development, and maintenance. Part of the reason the NFL is so profitable is that youth development is subsidized by parents, then (often public) middle and high schools, and finally (often public) colleges and universities.

Alabama had 56 players on NFL rosters at the start of the season. https://www.al.com/sports/2019/09/alabama-leads-colleges-in-...
Or forgoing college and play professionally in another country.
That's one of my all-time favorite answers on stackoverflow, and it doesn't exactly look low effort. It would probably take more time to write something like that than write about Chomsky Hierarchies.

Besides, I concede that "helping thousands of people parse very simple HTML when they're in a hurry" has its merit, but IMHO that's also how you end up debugging a production bug at 3am while losing faith in your fellow developers and humanity, so I'm not sure if it's a net plus. YMMV.
No doubt, but I think the point is to ask the right questions. Its not so much about preventing the inept institutions from maintaining their influence so much its about making sure that competing institutions don't have arbitrary barriers to entry that prevent them from competing in the market, even if initially, people are skeptical of them in comparison to "established" players.
We do the same thing in Rust, but I think that characterizing this as UB is misleading, personally. We created a new category, "program error", for this, to distinguish from UB proper.

I'm not sure if Zig inherited the defined/implementation defined/undefined hierarchy from C and C++ though.
There are some pension funds which have VC exposure though. This is the one that really steams me, because when pension funds go bust the taxpayer is legally required to pick up the tab. We're literally paying for VCs' lies.
Thanks!

It's a hot-swappable 300-1897 (aka X6328A aka Type A217) 1050W Sun PSU.
I'm primarily worried about the active PFC I expect in it.

Is there a way to test such a PSU without risking the entire server? (save for taking everything out that isn't needed to post into BIOS)
The star-ratings are nearly worthless, and to the extent there is any value, it is in 2-to-4 star reviews (less likely to be fake).

However, the explanation, because harder for a bot to churn out believably, is still often worth something, not least because things that bother other people might be a plus for me.
Good for liberty. Now all we need is a way for college atheletes to sell some of their income in a securitized way on the blockchain. Anyone have an example of a startup trying to do this?
Agreed. The reason people want to go to the big famous universities is largely because Wealthy people have donated a lot of money so it has a lot of resources. If you stop them donating, it would just be another school and you probably wouldn't want to go to.
>Southpark nailed why this needed to happen in their episode

Yes and no. The problem is that the NBA and NFL had an implicit requirement of college before making to the league. This meant that players with no interest in college were nevertheless funneled through the college system. That's not fair to the players that wanted to start earning money from their profession.

The NBA has lifted the restriction on high-school players graduating to the NBA - so at this point young athletes can move directly to the NBA, or G League, or play overseas. Under these conditions I think it's fine to leave NCAA as is, since college is no longer mandatory.

Professionally-oriented football players don't really have that option, and NFL careers are much shorter as well. It's not a great look that those guys can't make any money in their college career.
Nothing gets taken down faster than criticism of ANYTHING Israeli.
>The economic system and the system of values are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. Our system of values enables hyper-commercialized capitalism to function and expand. It then follows that no change in the economic system can be imagined without a change in the system of values that underpins it, which the system promotes, and with which we are, in our everyday activities, fully comfortable. But to produce such a change in values seems, at present, to be an impossible task. It has been tried before and ended in the most ignominious failure. We are thus locked in capitalism. And in our activities, day in, day out, we support and reinforce it.

But can capitalism expand endlessly? It seems to me that capitalism will expand itself to destruction.
That sucks. There's probably a situation in the future where doctors, or at least surgeons, can work remotely. Russian doctor marries US citizen, logs into VPN in Russia from USA living room, performs Surgery with Nintendo remote.
This is the book I came here to recommend. If we ever get to true general AI's, I think the processes described in this book are likely how it's actually going to happen than anything more top-down. Also, like you said, a (good) gutpunch, too.
My advice to anybody in general would be: Do it. I did a Ph.D. and I had a blast. You need to be in an area of your field that you really like, and over the Ph.D. candidate years you will meet essentially everybody on the planet working on the same stuff, geek out with similarly-minded people in your lab or at conferences around the globe. A Ph.D. widens your view on our field substantially and you feel less like your role in the world is that of a code monkey. Don't do it in the U.S. though, where your position in society is to be a (financially) poor student and often times just being used by your advisor as cheap labor. Do it in a country that has better conditions, like you find all over the place in Europe for example. If you first go to industry, you'll never come back.

My advice to you specifically would be: Don't do it. You seem to dislike academia and your area in particular. A Ph.D. is not an instrument to get better opportunities in industry, except for a very few research-oriented positions. I'm now working in industry as a software engineer, and I'm also having a blast, but the position I have did not require a Ph.D. (I feel like I have a broader understanding of CS than my colleagues do though.)
D0 is a made up concept by fans. No P5 AD wants to lose the money on home games or eyeballs for their games by moving to a 'smaller' division.

Currently P5 programs choose to play FCS opponents because they make so much revenue on home games that it is worth paying an FCS team a few million. The reason the math works is that the TV deals are already set, and the only incremental money they can make is through ticket sales to 100k fans.
What's New in iOS 13 Accessibility for Individuals Who Are Blind or Deaf-Blind
It's not that simple. A profile is generated for a specific, unique eSIM chip. You cannot install nor use a profile on another eSIM. The target device is tracked. That gives some traceability and security.

Then there are two variants of eSIM, for M2M and for consumer devices.

With the consumer variant the profile is requested from the target device itself. So you must own the device to install a new profile, and also have the needed credentials. So this is more than inserting a physical SIM today, where you also need the device but there's no local credentials and no SIM/device mapping.

For M2M, the profile is explicitly pushed to a specific device, which is remotely managed.
If you have any existing ML/DL experience, picking up PyTorch is a breeze. You could get a pretty solid understanding of the framework with an MNIST handwritten digit recognition model over the course of an afternoon, so don’t sweat looking for the “right” tutorial.
The economics surrounding most minor league sports suggest that the level of skill demonstrated by the players is not, in fact, the economic driver behind the revenues generated in college athletics.

If you want to see athletic accomplishments done at a high level...

Your typical D League basketball game, Arena League football game, or triple A baseball game features higher skilled athletic performance.

To me, this suggests that it's the tribal/communal aspect of college athletics which drive the interest and revenues.
I loved it, best thing I've seen in a while. Though I haven't read the book and didn't know how great it was.
You can still propagate errors in zig using ? like in rust. they just simplified it
Newtonian gravity is empirically wrong. sigh
Agreed. I was given a macbook last year for working upon. At the time I couldn't install Debian because the provided kernel didn't recognize the onboard disk-driver.

Installed Ubuntu, which recognized the drive, but which didn't give me working WiFi. It would detect the NIC, present a list of networks, but then drop after 1-3 seconds.

It was only recently that I upgraded to a newer kernel and found that I could use the on-board wifi. (Until then I'd been using a USB-based WiFi dongle.)

I don't use touch-pad, bluetooth, etc. But just the basics "install + have wifi" were non-trivial.

Of course it might be easier now as the latest stable releases have new enough kernels that things will work more easily, but I fought and I wish I'd been able to use a generic intel-laptop.
Don’t do it.

A PhD is a massive emotional challenge. Unless you’re 90% enthusiastic/committed from the start I’d strongly recommend against it.

If you really feel regret strongly in the future, you can return. It’s not an irreversible decision.
I don't have git installed here, if anyone else wants to put in a PR for this one. :)
None more black
Ah, good old days. I wrote some of the tooling back in the days. Was a lot of fun. Damn, video cards have advanced so much in the past years I wonder how fast that code would now run. We were using Radeon 5970s at the time -- integer performance was pretty bad on NVidia cards back then.
The operator wasn't removed, it was replaced by a keyword. See the documentation on error handling: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#catch
I've shaved 10 microseconds in large refactors and been told that's great ship it. Other fields might say that wasn't nearly enough to justify the code churn (performance vs. "programmer productivity" argument). A millisecond is a lifetime and can mean the difference between shipping and not shipping in some products.
More interested in the public money manager opinion on why not to buy this deal instead of all the other "tech" companies that IPO. What caused enough of them to push back on this valuation and are they acting in a coordinated manner or is it just a few large public funds that usually buy in saying no?
Sorry maybe a stupid question but would not be Mxnet better for what you do in TF?