skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a partial defense of the Ivies, a substantial part of their admins are trying to do that, and there are signs of progress: admission at most of them is now "need-blind" and they have fantastic financial aid.

The much bigger issue is that a student with rich parents would have gone to a better school, and would have had more "opportunities to shine" as a teen, and would not have to had to worry about food/shelter/health. This does make such a kid more prepared for college. There are no easy solutions to that type of inequality (the rich kid that got in is actually smart and deserving). I like the solution you are proposing, but the two of us are probably somewhat extreme.
> One sat down .... The other is highly active

I've noticed this kind of thing as well, but I'm really worried that we have cause and effect backwards.

The one who sat and did nothing did that because of poor health, rather than poor health because he sat.
Haxe can output Javascript. The utility in Haxe is really in being able to target multiple platforms. I work in mobile/embedded so that's where i'm coming from.
I used to work as part of a "Shadow IT Group" within a fortune 50 defense contractor. We built fairly complex solutions within MS Office because we were denied the tools to do the job properly. The most complex program I ever wrote in access was controlling electrical arrangements. This database was synchronized nightly across 3 different domains and would routinely have in excess of 50 concurrent users. I think the largest table had around 500,000 rows. The beauty of development in Office is the price tag and the time from concept to implementation. There was very little we could not accomplish with a combination of Access, Excel and sometimes a little wsh.
Nim is great for knocking out commandline apps, I recommend "cligen" for quick and clean options, or "docopt" for friendlier cli options. They feel "scripty" when you can begin with a couple lines and grow it up from there.
I found it the easiest to learn. And difficulties getting my other favorite, D, on embedded and Haiku and OS/2 (which also have poor javascript support) was my prompt to give it a try. I found cross-compiling easy. But just as easy was having Nim installed on all my platforms.
I think Zuckerberg actually stated this recently somewhere. That political ads may not even reach 1% of revenue.
I thought the Titanic disaster was pretty well-explained as an accident caused by incompetence and hubris. The ship wasn't "unsinkable"; they just advertised it that way, but it was no match for a big iceberg. The ship was sailing through an area with icebergs, and going fast too, and it was nighttime. IIRC, the captain was in a rush to get to the destination (sorry, it's been a while since I watched Cameron's movie). Really, all it took was the decision to go full-speed through an area with icebergs at night to cause that disaster. Then other stuff afterwards was sheer incompetence and classism, like not fully filling the lifeboats.

Assassinating one person by sinking a whole ship is a pretty crazy way to kill someone; it's surely far easier to just hire someone to club him when he's walking the street somewhere. However, with Epstein, there's no such similarity: he was the only one to die, and since he was locked up in prison, anyone wanting to kill him really didn't have much choice, if they wanted to get him before he testified against someone. And there do seem to be a disturbing number of things that went "wrong" for this to happen.
Twitter is slowly falling apart at the seams. First their algorithms encouraged opposing factions to duke it out online. Now they just lack the basic competence to put out a quality app.
The study talks of rate of subsequent cognitive decline post retirement. There's no fixed state, which once reached, people start retiring. I think the study does control for reverse causality. It is not a correlational study.
The first amendment doesn't apply on private property. It solely restricts the government.
The civil war was about slavery, but it wasn't because the general public hated slavery.
The sackler family did create an crisis so they could rake in billions.
I believe the process to which you refer is called "democracy" ;)
I would assume they're released under different licenses for manufacturers of those products. This is a lot in my mind like how Microsoft Windows Enterprise exists, but is only attainable via volume licensing or piracy; The product exists, and is for sale, but the general public just isn't permitted to buy it.
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Could be stated that overworking early in life may lead to cognitive decline post retirement.
With 64-bit Excel capable of working with up to 4GB files, it sometimes feels like Excel itself ate/replaced Access for certain classes of business and shadow IT use.
Why have so many threads discussing this issue been removed from this site today?
Anyone have the TL;DR?
Hi Bilal!

I think I reached out to you in early 2018. Any news about the integration without segment (e.g. Amplitude in our case)? And what’s the pricing model? Couldn’t find much on the site (maybe it’s more limited on mobile?)
Eligibility for federal aid, just like every national mandate for collegiate education?
People's cognitive decline statistically starts as early as 40. You can see that from the age distribution of biggest discoveries in physics and mathematics. You can also see that from the HR policies of the software companies.
> Twitter would still likely end up hosting that blockchain, since nobody else is going to foot that cost

Why do you assume that? Modern blockchains are not proof-of-work, and the only info you need on a blockchain are permissions and encryption keys to data on other distributed storage networks (e.g, IPFS.)

So the cost isn't really very high, and probably worth the tradeoff for groups that feel alienated or disenfranchised.
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There are plenty of examples of affirmative action policies. Whether they are a good idea can be debated, but writing such a policy is certainly feasible.
I don't know if that is the key difference here.

Madrid insists they couldn't allow Catalonia to become independent even if they wanted to.

Many people in Spain outside of Catalonia are resolutely opposed to Catalan independence, under any circumstances. By contrast, most people in UK outside of Scotland don't really care, and even the vast majority of those opposed to it would be willing to accept it if a referendum voted in favour. (Even those opposed to a second independence referendum, their argument is "too soon" rather than "never again"). In this regard, Spain is culturally more like China than the UK – pro-Beijing people get terribly upset at the idea of any territory claimed by the PRC ever becoming independent of it.
It can do a pretty impressive job, it does help to use high quality source material. Using mp3 rips from youtube might get a little more artifact-y. sometimes, vocal like instruments will get pulled into the vocal rip instead of the "karaoke" instrument part of the extract.
Works for me: https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5db9feb530c3d00013d47ded
If they had been broken for a long time before this, why would they put the highest-profile prisoner in the entire country in there without fixing them first, or moving him to a cell where the cameras do work?
Never underestimate how the letter of the law can miss its spirit... Which is also nowhere near guaranteed to be what a subject matter expert would consider common sense.
> Furthermore, deliberate lies are (legally) not legitimate speech.

That is not correct: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/does-th...

> Under U.S. law, many falsehoods—even some deliberate lies—receive the full protection of the First Amendment. That is true even though “there is no constitutional value in false statements of fact,” as Justice Lewis Powell Jr. wrote for the Supreme Court in 1974. Nonetheless, the Court has often refused to allow government to penalize speakers for mistakes, sloppy falsehoods, and lies. Political lies are strongly protected; but even private lies sometimes are as well.
Like a moth to a flame.
“I’m here for bread and circuses and I’d appreciate it if you kept your uncomfortable reality away from me so I don’t have to confront or think about it”
I assume a simple "they didn't have a good reason to wreck my house and should pay for it" was a legal non-starter, then, hence the plainly longer-shot (all else being equal) eminent domain argument?
That would be extreme affirmative action, and would undermine myriad efficiencies built into the higher educational system.

Schools like Michigan would have some students who are totally illiterate with SAT scores hovering around 800, and some students who've already done upper-division math courses in high school. Intelligent people could no longer be grouped together to help drive each other, and schools like Harvard would need to double their course offerings to accommodate the new, extremely large range of academic capabilities they now have to admit.

My opinion: it's not college's job to make up for 18 years of unequal resources building people. The fact is, it takes a miracle for someone raised in a stereotypical inner city life to ever overcome the educational head start a wealthy prep schooler gets. And oftentimes those wealthy parents will put six figures of educational experiences into their kids every year. I'm just not sure where poor people could ever get that kind of assistance to close the gap. That's $5.6T a year. The government doesn't even have the ability to make that happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
What I saw was that AOC very effectively got him to admit that they already will do it in certain cases. He admitted that if someone tried to place an ad that contributed to voter suppression (by misreporting the date of the election), that would be banned.
So you are saying they should protest were you can easily ignore them?
Unsure if you’re asking who is running twitter or what’s meant by ‘inmates’ so will attempt to answer both.

I suspect it’s marketing people / short-sighted profit minded people rather than the legal team running the place.

And if you are asking about inmates meaning, it’s an idiom, “the inmates are running the asylum” meaning the least useful/knowledgeable people have taken over from the competent.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+inmates+are+running...
For the people who think this is a good idea, would you also be in support of a constitutional amendment to ban political advertising?
> You bought a ticket to see a game, not a billboard.

Absolutely. So let's get rid of advertising at games. Not just political advertising; all advertising. No Democratic or Republican ads, but also no Toyota or Chrysler ads, no Coors or Bud Light ads. Unfortunately, there's too much money at stake for that to ever happen.

But political ads are different. I don't think Coors drinkers get offended when they see a Bud Light ad.
>he has no career to protect by not screwing up the details on this one.

Sure he does: he has a career as an expert witness apparently.
“Look I know your the victim of systematic racism and oppression that’s led you to march, but goddamnit I’m trying to get to Burger King!!”
Agreed, just keep filling in holes until it’s impractical to dig new ones.
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7902802
Is this for new or used cars? If I was buying from a dealer that was trying to sell me a new car with over 500 miles or so I would consider it a used car and expect used car pricing. Isn't the new car depreciation the biggest downside to buying a new car. If they are renting new cars don't they essentially take a huge 25% hit on the sale price of the car?

Also If I found out a dealer was doing this without disclosing it at the sale time my next stop would be the state attorney general office.
Who should adjudicate what is an is not a lie? Twitter’s response is basically “we don’t want to be the ones to do that”
>PS toilet paper: can’t they get prison safe bidets?

This is America: we absolutely refuse to use bidets, no matter how much sense they make.
I was directly responding to your stat that only 2% of shoplifters are caught after the fact, pointing out how this differs.

I have already stated my general judgement for when the police went wrong - escalating into causing some serious public safety hazards.

You keep trying to drag the conversation into a simplistic paradigm where the heroes can always do something more to win, with its corresponding blindspot to all the resulting destruction. Watching a movie, nobody really cares when some extras die. But in reality the entire mandate of the police is to protect the extras.
Is that proper Twitter for Mac or an iOS app via Catalyst?
dBASE III and dBASE III+ were different enough that they are generally considered two different "big release" products.

I used to automate a lot of grunt work by putting code in dBASE tables. It's real easy to do that. You can make a sophisticated menu system using mostly just tables with code embedded. I was quite productive back then without having to type a lot.
As anothet professor all I really feel I can add to the authors argument is that anecdotes are not data and my anecdotes say differently about student interactions...
The latter turns into "everything is forbidden", which is also logically consistent... but not useful or practical.
Everything needs to be self-service as much as possible.

Need a SQL Server / PostgreSQL DB for your project, got click some buttons on a page and get back a URI for your database.

Automate, automate, automate.
Look for 1-star reviews of existing software, and make something that fixes those pain points.
"Gained market share" is incidentally not what FB needs right now when they are already under heavy scrutiny for their political ad policies.
Syria to Tunisia is ~2,300 km.

For reference, that's about the same distance from NY, NY to Houston, TX.

And that's the long axis of the Mediterranean Sea.

IMHO, that's very different than how we talk about international cooperation (and specifically: intervention) in modern times.
Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, CEO Dorsey Says
"The Green New Deal. Who really supports it? Click here to find out more."

Just move the propaganda two hops away.
Ah, good point, I read those were his expenses and didn't catch that was before insurance reimbursement. Looks like the actual damages beyond that are just loss of personal property in the house and whatever it cost to deal with the whole, you know, police-blew-up-my-house situation, which is surely non-trivial but likely well under $400,000.
Exactly. And a nice programming language. The engine doesn’t really matter. You could create something like Access on top of SQLite.
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It doesn't have conditions because it's a vague guideline. The actual implementation of the first amendment has many, many conditions. It is not possible to codify subjective concepts like "freedom" and "speech" without conditions.
One other thing about the first amendment is that it doesn't apply to Twitter.
I'm honestly shocked around how bad the experience is on the site. Mobile video especially. 30% of the time the video says "my account may not be allowed to see this video", even while logged out. Refreshing the page fixes it. But even when the video is loaded, it takes 2-3 taps on the play button to actually play.

It's not even the edge cases that they have issues with, it's the basics on the site. There are some serious quality control issues happening at Twitter.
> "should a political party be allowed to run targeted ads at members of the opposing party, giving false information about the election date?"

Would that actually be legal? Are you allowed to try to suppress the vote like that?
Speaking of nitpicking or the more practical nit combing, none is needed if a 0.9% suspension of Spinosad (1) is applied to a child’s dry hair and washed off after 10 minutes. You may happily and confidently send your kids back to school after this one treatment despite the horrified looks of parents and teachers ;-)

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273925/
Can’t imagine why this would cause it to delete all input in the field when one of those characters is typed in using “reveal password” mode though. If you enable reveal, type in a string containing b, and then switch off reveal mode and add another character, it deletes the whole password. If it was just dropping inputs that would be one thing but this seems to be aggressively refusing to allow them in the field.
I don't think your issues with Gitlab's UI are the UI's fault. In addition to clicking on the "repository" link (which is a common term used by both Git and Github themselves) or scrolling up as others have noted, you can also click on any of the first three links immediately under the gitlab logo ("httpx", "project", and "details") to get to a view similar to github's default.
There's nothing special about a job! If anything, I'd believe that someone who had the drive to do challenging activities on their own (and engage socially with others) is doing more for their mind and body than someone clocking in and out at a boring job.
If you were a social movement that wanted to get your message across, you wouldn’t seek out a captive audience? The distuption is part of how to communicate
I’ve been told everything is political, when questioning someone once. So I suppose Twitter will bow block all ads?
Some of them are licensed official tracks from the actual producers, but for the unofficial ones I think the karaoke companies have music writers who just encode synths to roughly match the track.
No, but see Budweiser did buy that ad space. You bought a ticket to see a game.
Not at all. Not even sure how you made that leap.

Just pointing out the obvious, people do crazy and harmful shit for money all the time (eg. Juul execs). Possibly more often than people with more “legitimate” reasons (eg. Vengeance).
I see, most of ours is as well. But we tend to start people off with simple stuff so that they can get to know the stack and our software. That way we ease them into it. It makes it a lot easier for repeat work. That way we get to know them better and better as well.

We're a small team, but even we often have tasks that are trivial for our senior engineers, those are perfect for freelancers/juniors to find out how capable they are without taking too much risk (financially in case of them being freelancers).
This is not too surprising for many reasons.

Also, a significant part of modern American culture actively devalues men and thinks of men and masculinity as problematic. This is particularly true within certain political movements and social cultures. That has health consequences, as is already widely known from many studies on various other forms of discrimination and discriminatory movements.
Because civil rights has always been most effective when the protests were out of the way in designated areas.
That needs amending, IMO.
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They are building three (or is it four?) full size flight prototypes right now.
I have encountered reflectors that actually reflected visible light. I think they were called "mirrors". Maybe you have encoutered them too.

Infrared radiation only comes from things that have been heated (mostly) by that visible light. Any light reflected back into space without being converted to heat is energy that is somebody else's problem.
Many (most) JDK distributions are free for all usages and fully open source.

Can you give some references for the patents issue you mentioned?
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think one thing a lot of people don't realize is just how incredibly long the "long tail" is in self-service ads. I would not be surprised if more than 99% of potential ad impressions fall below the cost-effective-to-manually-review threshold. So requiring manual review on all ads is going to mean a lot more sacrifice than cutting back a little. It could mean a lot of these companies would be profitable at all. It's also unfortunate for the vast majority of advertisers in the long tail that are perfectly acceptable.

Automating can help with the more obvious stuff, but there are many ways it can fail in either direction. For example, failing to detect hate-speech dog whistles, or inadvertently suppressing ads from minorities where the language patterns fall outside of what it sees as "the norm".

Anyway, like I said, I'm not disagreeing with you. These systems definitely need considerable improvement, but doing that isn't as trivial as it may at first seem.
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People often choose advertised cheaper products over unadvertised more expensive. You’re going against that pattern
Catalyst. The old Twitter apps don’t work anymore. They’ve been cut off API-side.
I'd rather they did something about their obvious problem with bot amplification than banning clearly marked advertising.
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Not just a mathematician but a Fields medal winner.

The current mayor of Paris is also an interesting person, being a Spanish-born woman from a working class family. She has made huge strides in the greenification of Paris:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/paris-anne-h...
Interestingly, many years ago I had this start happening with my car stereo. The vocals were mostly missing but the other instruments were there. When it got to the instumental solo, the main instrument was missing. This happened on 90% of songs.

Turned out I had accidentally caused wires to come loose in the trunk, leaving the speakers wired in series, which caused the stereo channel cancelation effect.
I see. Interesting. I know WaPo used to do deals with Prime too.

Even with that, NYT has to be much bigger and their profit is only around 2x Economists. Economist is pretty big in most metrics.
I guess this is why you should work less hard and do more to cultivate hobbies. I can’t imagine retiring and doing nothing. So many projects.
With age and humility has your view of the field tempered with time from "Fuck you, bioinformatics. Eat shit and die."[1]?

I totally get your point, and it maddens me daily but I take the interesting + meaningful work/money tradeoff and enjoy being one of the best coders in a building (much harder in pure tech)

[1] http://madhadron.com/posts/2012-03-26-a-farewell-to-bioinfor...