skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't in a position to be explicitly told, although I did at one point see an anonymized list of faculty salaries and they did not seem unreasonable (only one in six figures). This school is about 40 minutes away from a city with an international airport.

I think "diverted" is perhaps a strong word here. The way administrators see it, the administration is necessary to even reach the point where faculty can teach classes, and provides a significant role in empowering them to do so.

And there's some validity to it. Besides, students' expectations with regards to faculty haven't changed nearly as much over the last ~20 years when compared to administrative departments. Students absolutely expect good WiFi, good Internet speeds, Google Apps-quality e-mail, and that's just tech stuff. Colleges are implicitly competing with other colleges with things like on-campus events, residence halls, modern cafeterias, online course registration, athletics... all kinds of stuff. There's a lot of money involved in these expectations that has outpaced the faculty side.

But it's cyclical. We pump money into those things to keep retention up because we need to because the other schools are doing it.
Cool robot on kickstarter.
Emissions standards nerfed most sedans into distinctionless conveyance aplliances. Trucks have a looser standard, and are popular as a result of more power and easy customization. Also possibly (on average) the best built fullsize truck made for the last 100 years. Brand loyalty has been earned with the f series. I say that as a person who is not particularlly fond of fords.
Or you can skip the first 3 because apple already makes insane profits anyway and no one needs a 25B message app.
Enable GPU Passthrough on Proxmox VE 6.0
Yes, but blah-blah-blah poor people blah-blah-blah underprivileged minorities blah-blah-blah vicious cycle?
Do you have a sane setup you can share with uMatrix? Last time I looked at it, I was a bit overwhelmed and shelved it for later.
Yeah from what I understand it's actually a good thing. I also love the small menu restaurants, especially the smaller hole in the wall places since you know it's probably going to be great stuff.
>Linux receives much more investment from companies and therefore more paid developers are in it, plus BSD’s feature parity with that of Linux doesn’t hold.

I would say that is actually true ... and is the root cause of the complexity crisis Linux is experiencing these days. There is a strong financial incentive to add things but no financial incentive to take things out. Every time you add a feature to a complex system you take something away from everything else.
Blue is generally poor choice for logos, it is hard on the eyes.

Red is better.
> Scooter trips are more frequent, done by everyday people and should be banned on sidewalks.

Someone should do a cost benefit analysis of danger to pedestrians from the level of cars on the road due to air pollution compared to the reduced harm from cars but increase in risk from scooters.

Having cars drive by is non-0, exposure to break dust and car exhaust are known to case long term irreversible health effects, is there a crossover where a certain % of people getting hit by a scooter at 10mph is a net benefit if there is a large enough reduction in vehicle traffic?

Of course tire particles still exist from some scooters, but the tire types are different and I also wonder what the rate of tire dust from the tires scooters use, and what the exposure impact is there.

We tend to fear the immediate dangers we can see, but not bother doing the math on long term consequences.
End-to-end encryption especially serves the needs of those communications must be hidden from law enforcement in their jurisdiction.

It suits spies and criminals. Which is not too bad if their actions only affected themselves. But societies empower law enforcement because its necessary to protect society from spies and criminals.

One can imagine that the USA or China for example could require that all internet devices have keystroke loggers to defeat end-to-end encryption.
Short answer: Yes.

If you take the time to trawl through Rex Research you would find this and a bunch of other stuff. Most of it is BS but the bits that aren't... there is some mind-blowing stuff that just hasn't reached critical mass in the collective consciousness yet.

For example, the device of Przemyslaw Lagiewka, which has to be seen to be believed (there are videos):

> A small Fiat 126p, going 45 km per hour, was driven into a concrete wall. The bumper was not damaged. The driver wore no seatbelts. The inertial reaction, which should have thrown him onto the hood, did not occur. The stopping distance was only 16 centimetres.

http://www.rexresearch.com/lagiewka/lagiewka.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6_bjnxeco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-h56N_A3rY
> 'Culture fit' is actually one of those criteria I hate: it usually means hiring similar people.

Yeah, I agree that it seems to imply something like that; I meant it in the sense of "hiring people who will move the culture in the direction you'd like it to move", which I think is what we're discussing, but I'm happy to use any such term.

> Most countries here in Europe have not made positive discrimination illegal.

"positive discrimination" is one of the terms I hate. It seems to imply that it is correcting for something when part of the debate is whether or not there is anything to correct for.

> I'm arguing for understanding that most hirers simply hire people with similar backgrounds as their own

I'm happy to accept this understanding, but not blindly. I'd like to know that it's based on robust evidence and at least the obvious counterpoints have been addressed. If the understanding is correct, it should survive rigorous debate and analysis; however, many proponents of this conclusion/theory seem to fervently oppose any such debate, analysis, etc. Hopefully we can at least agree that it would be reasonable to be skeptical of this theory/conclusion if indeed its proponents are trying to stifle debate/analysis even if we don't agree that the stifling is real.

And if you don't agree that the stifling is real, do you feel like there is rigorous debate and analysis on the topic? Do you see skeptics of the theory raising interesting or legitimate questions/issues? If so, do you believe those issues are being adequately addressed (and how so / give examples?)? If not, what issues do you perceive them as raising and why are those issues not legitimate? Can you provide a steelman argument?
I disagree.

Searching for [python http] works fine. Top result is this page:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html

which explains precisely how to send http requests.

Searching for [nodejs http] works fine as well. You get this page:

https://nodejs.org/api/http.html

Which does, in fact, give you a library that can make http requests.

I won't dig into php and java because I'm not familiar enough with those languages to say what a decent way of sending http requests is.

Finally, searching for [how to perform an http request in rust] does not work! It sends you to https://docs.rs/http/0.1.5/http/request/index.html which is the same fundamentally broken library as you get with [rust http].

In conclusion, the Rust documentation is worse than any of Go, Python, or Node.
Slightly off-topic: For anyone interested in the 68k architecture, there is a Bountysource crowd-funding campaign that aims help modernize the 68k backend in GCC so it can be kept in future versions (cc0 transition):

> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-th...
The part I don't get is they tried this experiment, claim phenomenal results and then just went back to doing the usual? If it worked so well wouldn't you keep doing it?
Not necessarily, because the amount of money the health industries get in every other country is tiny compared to the USA
The U.K. is in a post-Thatcher world, yes.
Sphinx – Experimental Soviet Project
I would like gcc to compile OpenJDK correctly for AArch64 before I started messing with any performance settings.
The answer is about money not the money itself. It all depends on who controls the money and why. In Europe the state controls it and most citizens are happy with that (not perfectly of course) whereas it is a complete non-starter in the US because 'everyone' has an adversarial relationship with the state.
The supply is currently being bootstrapped, the rate of new creation is falling as the supply get closer to the maximum. Some months from now new coins from block rewards should halve (3.7% inflation dropping to 1.85%), and the process repeats as maximum supply is reached in the distant future, at which point the mining reward would primarily be the transaction fees.
> Even now after the "ban" that catch is pushing up near 10,000 a year.

Not sure this is true. This site[0] puts the total 2018 catch at only 1553.

[0]https://iwc.int/total-catches
If you compare the share of taxes different groups are paying you also should compare the share of income they are receiving. You should also compare income growth of these groups over the last decades. It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that upper incomes did much better over that period compared to other groups.
I don't like Bitcoin because of its energy use, I definitely prefer future Ethereum w/ staking and current Nano, but the last "research" of these guys was just them not understanding basics of trading. For this reason, I'm definitely not wasting time again looking over what they wrote. I'm even amazed that they got so many upvotes; they should have had a negative reputation by now.
I can only imagine the buffer overflow bugs present in that network stack. Great gimmick, but we're long past the point where you can throw something like this online.
okay...

and all the people who went cryptocurrency crazy late 2017 were just lying about throwing their money in?

it was absolute mob greed that drove the price up
But adults have money. Children do not, usually anyway. They either work chores or more likely, beg their parents, who may not be in a position to spend that money, and if their kids are playing free games, I'd say the likelihood is they aren't.

Selling crap to kids by way of their parents wallets is a time honored tradition in our society. Epic knew what they were doing. All the games like Fortnite do.
yeah I’m doing similar in my spare time just because it feels like it’s 2 seconds from falling apart, lol
It's even more insidious than that. An astonishingly high fraction of people in both the news media (and particularly in the financial news media) as well as in variously leveraged positions of power in government and quasi-governmental bodies, were primed to talk up Bitcoin wherever possible due to having taken some position in it (or in one of its boutique gateway drugs alts) "just to see how it works."

This position being facilitated either by direct action or, more frequently, by enthusiastic prompting from a "blockchain consultant" acquaintance who offered to walk them through setting up a wallet (or even a miner / mining contract) and show them how to use it. You know, "just to see how it works."

Now that their curiosity has been elevated to, as Bitcoiners love to quip, actual "skin in the game" (both in terms of time/material investment and reputational commitment), they are biased to repeat the pro-bitcoin messaging points they've been spoonfed by what they believe to be a helpful, fashionably libertarian insider geek contact, but is in effect merely this generation's reboot of the garden variety penny stock shill.
Even a student loan from Wells Fargo?
This is apparently written from the UK perspective. It's heartbreaking that anyone feels this way, but I don't have any experience with the UK's system to know if maybe they're missing something.

In the US, my sense is that there are more formal educational resources for adults on the spectrum.[0] That's not to minimize the gaps in the system, but to say there are communities interested in helping adults with autism.

[0] http://collegeautismspectrum.com/collegeprograms/
I want to talk about the three criteria necessary to have an algebraic structure:

1. It must be a type/class.
2. It must implement methods with a specific type signature.
3. It must obey laws.

Criteria 1, 2 have an implementation in programming languages. But criterion 3 doesn't. You can't check whether the implementation of a Group abstract class satisfies the three group axioms like you can check whether they extend the Group class or whether they're implementing the wrong type signature. That means this is going back to Dijkstra's "proof of correctness" paradigm of programming which is a bad idea.
For tech’s sake in this cryptoeconomy PhD thread, working with Bitfinex API was a pleasure. A simple websocket protocol with concise deterministic event packets and clear documentation. The only limitation is $1k barrier even for testing purposes, but no big deal. These guys know their ropes.

Opposed to say Bitmex, which rolled out a braintrashing overengineered differential update protocol, so hard to scratch that we just opted out of its implementation. I believe that was inspired by bare fix/fast, with all strings attached (pun intended).
I heard people say this so I tried it a few times. I either finish the book or get interrupted reading by my wake up alarm. Never have I fallen asleep to something technical.
Well, the taxes in CA are extremely high. A typical 2M house in the penninsula will pay over 27000/year in taxes and that's not even counting income taxes. That's not even counting all the permiting fees, building fees, and countless other fees that developers need to pay, which are passed on to the consumer, and all the regulations which raise the cost of building in the first place.

Perhaps, you meant, we've given up on the ability of government to use those taxes for the greater good. I'd agree with that. for the last 50 years, If even a tiny fraction of those taxes were used to solve all the zoning and building regulations, we'd be in great shape right now.
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My preferred tool for this sort of thing is tiddlywiki. Very easy to both use and extend.
Hello HN!

we had the problem that we always lost important information in our chat history. At the same time, it was hard to follow-up after a day. One needs to read the whole chat-history linearly. At the same time we felt, that this was not a problem with github issues. So why not try to combine the advantages?

This is a working prototype, you can get access via a waiting list.

What do you think about the idea in general?

We're happy to answer any questions!
Isn't GDPR enforcing on this vein? You could build something similar in North America.
DC-DC converters use optical power devices?
>Building a "personal brand" helps create a following around you so that when you build something new, you have people that are interested in it. Maybe "audience" is the better word.

That's mostly for snake-oil salesmen, influencers, etc. People can just "have people interested in what they build" by building stuff. Dan Abramov e.g. didn't build any personal brand before creating Redux. Linus wasn't depending upon some pre-developed personal brand when he created Linux.
Is Uber a Retail Store? Does the Store leave their merchandise all over the neighborhood with GPS micro controllers on them?

This analogy is absurd.

As municipalities get more technically advanced, why shouldn't they have access to the same type of data or where these scooters are? How hard is it to open up an API?

This seems to be, how dare citizens impose a cost of doing business in their neighborhoods!
I was at MacWorld '95 -- just before Windows 95's release -- and saw lots of T-shirts with those slogans. You're right. Technology-wise even cruddy old Windows 95 was superior. But Apple had a hardcore base of true believers (Bungie, for instance, was a Mac-only and then a Mac-first shop) and those were their marketing audience. Part of the dogma was that beauty and ease of use came before all other concerns, and Mac was indeed beautiful and easy to use.
Server-side cursors are great if you need to do streaming which I have in the past. It keeps both the client and server memory use in check.
I’m not sure I’d agree.
Apple keyboards either lead to a weird feeling in the finger joints or make you type on the keyboard as if you had a nailjob with a huge extension.

But if I had to pick a keyboard I never actually have to type on myself - I would pick the Apple keyboard 100% of the time.
> The "A" and the "K" are fascinating. Almost imperceptibly bent...The "B" also has a belly.

What's interesting to me is why anyone would bother with tweaks like that. The logo looks like a generic san-serif block letter logo, and I only noticed those details after they were explicitly pointed out. Even after looking at it several times, the bent lines register as defects to me rather than as an aesthetic design choice.

Could there be some legal basis to those tweaks, like to make the logo trademarkable?
Then don't come around if he ever sneezes.
10 years ago, when AMD moved high speed memory controller to the CPU, it was lauded the best thing since the sliced bread.

Now, 10 years later, we again move memory controller off the CPU.
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The difference between China/US in nominal GDP is much much greater than the difference in PPP. Secondly China is a known currency manipulator so I am inclined to pay less heed to the PPP. Finally the GDP per capita of China is absolutely dismal. Vast majority of the people there are not doing well and it's not a prosperous country. It's a third world country with vast majority of its citizens in poverty.
Pre-YouTube, fashion companies would employ companies to identify the cool kids in a group and give them free stuff to wear, in order to promote the brand.
I believe that Uber and Lyft already share data for car rides with the city of LA.

Edit: I've been trying to find a source and can't, so that may not be true. They only share detailed data with a few places, like NYC. LA only gets data on regular taxi rides, and it isn't realtime.
Having your drivers license fall into the hands of a bad actor must be a complete nightmare.

Uploading a photo of government ID is also the backdoor to all sorts of things. The one that worries me is my Facebook account, including all my private messages.

A better idea: the data collectors should ask me for a notarized letter confirming my identity (the notary has seen my government ID) which references a unique support-ticket number from the data collector (avoid replay attacks). The data collector would verify the letter out-of-band with the notary too? I’d be a lot happier with that.

What else would such a pen and paper protocol need to work? The notary network is a handy piece of national infra — it can be trusted in this way? Legislation would be needed to force the data collectors to adhere to the protocol.
One thing I find myself implementing repeatedly is the Union-Find datastructure. I never just need that though. Sometimes I need statistics about the disjoint sets, which inevitably means a custom Union implementation. Sometimes I know more about how often Find will be called, where I can get better performance without doing full path compression.

Another one I've encountered recently is priority queues. Here, memory requirements and operation runtimes depend on which operations are supported -- insert/pop heaps are faster than insert/decrease/pop heaps are faster than insert/update/pop heaps. And if heap operations are your innermost loop on your critical path, you can get huge gains from rolling your own -- because a standard library's priority queue will support whichever operations it supports and you can't pick features a la carte.

But no, I never do this without a search engine handy.
http://archive.is/CysGX
> Nobody is saying you aren’t allowed to own a house in San Francisco.

You're saying that I should pay twice as much property tax or more as someone else living in an equally valuable house. That's unjust.

> You are saying that people who do own them should be forced out so that you can have them.

So charging me taxes is "no-one is saying you're not allowed", but charging them taxes is "force"? It's the same mechanism either way.

> ‘It’s just as cruel for me not to have it as for you not to have it’ is literally the logic of a thief.

"I took it years ago so it's mine now" is thief logic too.
I benefit if Youtube shows me advertisements for desk chairs and lathes instead of beauty products and kids toys. Targeted advertisements help me discover new products and product categories, while untargeted advertising just wastes my time. This is in essence no different than companies buying advertising time in specific TV shows with a known audience.

Of course the abuses are also plentiful and dangerous. We probably do need a lot of regulation. But in general targeted advertisement is a useful thing to have.
> The letter also questioned the validity of the “eleventh-hour administrative review process” that the city created last month.

It is apt to review the due process before complying.

If you're lucky you can get a judge to get the entire agency charter declared unconstitutional and your cost of business goes to zero.
What is a better approach? I have Python that directly connects to an Oracle database, and the Oracle blog tutorial[0] for using their Python package always uses a cursor.

[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/oraclemagazine/perform-basic-crud-o...
Why is the government itching to break up tech companies? I feel like it's a bad idea for them to get involved at all.
> When was the last time you've contracted for a serious client?

Uhh, today? I have about 20 on-going contracts with "serious clients", which include manufacturers, distributors, software companies, etc. What's your point?

> When it comes to tech - you don't implement "OpSec" by blanket banning hiring Chinese/Russian individuals. Disregarding your bizarre definition of "OpSec"

Banning hiring from countries isn't an exclusively isolated tactic for executing OpSec...I'm not sure why you implied that.

> Those companies actually invest into background checks, have dedicated security teams, are investing into locking networks down and improving monitoring.

Those companies all have physical presences in those countries. Gitlab does not. BIG DIFFERENCE.
Will you consider people from London who would need a H1B?
How to Do Email Outreach at Scale
Authoritarian mothering may indirectly contribute to alcohol problems by (cont)
any transaction that includes the word "launder" is not, I would suggest, something a consumer should touch with a ten foot pole