skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how Holberton School (we train people to become software engineer) select and train students. We are a college-alternative where students learn by working on projects, in group.

The whole education is flipped compared to a regular one. We give students problem sets and they have to find the answer. We never give lectures (we have no teachers), just guidance so that they can get started on a topic, but never enough that they can actually achieve the tasks we give them.

> Are they able to read a manual?
Candidates (no prior experience in coding needed) need to answer questions on a specific command that can be found by reading the manpage. At first we provide the manpage, then we show them how to find a manpage, and finally, we don't provide any guidance, because at this point they should be able to do it on their own. In the curriculum, once students, we have a quizz to makre sure they can answer basic questions on the topic before jumping into the coding part.

>Can they formulate a search query?
We ask trivial questions that can be answered just by Googling. Might sound like a no-brainer to the developer community, but not everybody is good at this.

>How do they assess whether the tutorial they found is suitable or reliable?
That's the tricky part, but basically, because the school is not providing material that contains the answer, candidates and students have to navigate the ocean of information/tutorial that can be wrong/incomplete of correct. By pressing a button, students work (code at this point) is automatically and instantly corrected, so they can easily figure that what they built is correct or not.

> What steps do they take to make sure they're finding - and learning - the right information?
On this one, we as a school, are the one providing this guidance. Basically when students are doing their projects, we define learning goals. Getting coding part done is great, but we also want to make sure that students have been able to grasp concepts that are key to becoming a great software engineers. So students look at these "learning points" before, and by the end of the project, they must be able to discuss all the points.
India is the internet shutdown capital of the world
I think spark and mesos are about a decade old at this point. I'm not really sure anyone is being put to shame either, there are wildly successful alternatives to all of these.
Indeed, Cliqz appears to have a weirdly close, Pocket-like relationship with Mozilla. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz#History), in 2017 Cliqz was bundled in with Firefox for 1% of users downloading the latter (from Mozilla's own website, presumably) in Germany. This was despite that "Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit", and "text typed in the address bar, queries to other search engines, information about visited webpages and interactions with them including mouse movement, scrolling, and amount of time spent". HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708
Not at all, as in I don't even have a Google account. If Google were to disappear the loss of YouTube and search (for when DuckDuckGo fails) would be inconvenient but not a major problem.

E-mail used to be on Office 365 which is a paid product and doesn't seem (yet) to be contaminated by advertising, though I've now switched to FastMail as the Office UI became too bloated.

Cloud storage used to be on OneDrive but now switched to iCloud which is decent. I heard FastMail provides WebDAV access to their storage (sharing the quota from your mail account) so I might try that.

Phone-wise I use an iPhone so absolutely no impact of Google banning me (not that there's anything to ban to begin with, I don't even have an account!). For Maps I use Apple Maps which is good enough where I live, though I'd be curious to know about good, non-advertising-supported alternatives.

I feel like the biggest problem to getting away from Google is if you have your e-mail on there and don't have your own domain. If so I suggest getting a domain immediately and starting to use the new address (setting up an e-mail forward from your Gmail to your own domain). Assuming you're past that, the rest is easy. As a bonus, moving away from Google services and not using them day to day reduces the risk of your account being banned by accident so your e-mail forward keeps working forever.
He said Lisps and Lisp-2s, so obviously knows this.
Future is a consequence of what you choose
I think I spy Emmy Noether and Joseph Fourier.
French in Japan. I realized I was really overly critical of everything. I started forcing myself to say good things first (without lying) wherever I was doing an appreciation about something.

I think the french habit is to jump to the flaws, because that's where work needs to get done, but I now learn that there is a ton of value in taking the time to recognize when a work has been done appropriately or when it surpassed expectations.
Wealthy German seeks people to join communal 'paradise' in New Zealand
I’m not sure that any side won. ZFC is merely a game with clearly defined rules that lots of people have agreed to play, but it is not the only game, by a long stretch.
It seems to implement enough operators to be interesting, such as basic math operations and 'plain text addition' (will have to try it out to know what it means).

It also made me discover Microsoft SEAL (https://github.com/microsoft/SEAL), which I find to be an interesting initiative
Backpage was never popular for child sex trafficking. These are all lies told by various levels of the US government.

Source:

https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret-memos-show-the-governme...
Yes, my current inclination would be to define truth (in a practical sense) as that which is computable. Everything else belongs to the realm of fiction or fantasy.

Note that I don't mean to imply that this is the entirety of my philosophy. Just that one should distinguish between what is practically relevant and what is not and I think the current state of mathematics and CS does a poor job of making this distinction.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9763463
I think you are on to something with the customers steering the platform.

I want to use a VPN if I am joining a network that I don't necessarily trust(guest wifi, coffee shop, etc.) I want to use a VPN so my ISP can't sell my browsing history to advertisers. I don't really care about if the VPN provider logs my traffic to make sure no one is abusing the service. I don't even care that much if someone subpoenas my traffic as long as I find out about it.

I wonder if a coop model would be a good fit? It would weed out all of the people who want to use it to hide their torrent traffic, etc. It would be very difficult to acquire the VPN just for the data, as each of the users are the owners. Everyone would have a right to know about subpoenas because they are part owners in the organization.
Contrary to ryandrake's rule of thumb, window managers are accessibility tools. You could argue that there should be a distinction between accessibility-tools-for-disabled-people and accessibility-tools-that-are-useful-to-everyone, but I'm not convinced such a distiction is useful, especially since Apple would likely try to subvert and destroy the accessibility-tools-that-are-useful-to-everyone, since those conflict with their user-hostile UI design, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828816 alludes to with:

> I think they are very clear about the purpose of these, and it's not "to do cool innovative things missing from the regular API".
Well, it's not possible to prove the consistency, thanks to Godel. Maybe one of your new theories would contain a statement, inconsistent with the rest of ZFC.
I've stopped using Google products for the most part. I still have a Gmail account, but I don't use it for much. I self-host email and "cloud" storage.

Definitely still use YouTube and Google Maps. Neither of which has a competent alternative. Nothing except Google Maps works in my country.

I have an Android phone, but I don't have much use for smartphones so I could live without it.
Wonder if all of the downvotes are from people who work for MIT.

If so, bring them on!
Thanks for the summary - I think I'll give him another go.
Afrofuturist creates portraits of black artists with Deep Dream algorithms
None of that changes the fact that 80% of these opioids continue to flow, totally unchecked, from completely different companies. All of whom have lied about the addictive nature of their products. This is not supposition, this is fact. Just numbers. The opioids continue to flow. It's getting people angry because it's like the drug war when you bust the street corner dealer and then you say, "OK, everything is good."

No. Everything is not good. Get out here to places in the rural rust belt and take a look around if you think taking care of the Sackler source has solved this problem.

I'm not a tin foil hat type at all, but sometimes I do wonder if the people around here are right? I mean it's like some people up there are trying to keep this stuff flowing into our communities or something? People are refusing to even acknowledge the problematic nature of all these other companies. They won't even look into them. It's frustrating.

Seriously it's like, what's going on?
There are few misconceptions about the recently enacted CAA, that need to be clarified.

Citizenship Amendment Act is a law to fast-track citizenship of 'persecuted religious minorities' in 3 neighboring countries Afghanistan/Pakistan/Bangladesh.

It is a case of positive discrimination (affirmative action for the Americans) towards Hindu/Christian/Sikh/Buddhist/Parsi refugees.

Here is the reddit thread explaining the Act's intricacies and FAQ - https://old.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/e9qhvb/cab_in_...

It does not affect normal citizens of India. It is also NOT a case of negative discrimination against Muslim refugees, like most detractors claim it to be. Official tweet from India's Home Ministry clarifies this - https://twitter.com/PIBHomeAffairs/status/120730412196068556.... The usual waiting period of 11 years stays as it is for them. For minority refugees, it is reduced to 5 years. That's all.

Every country has a database of its citizens. India was lagging far behind in this. Due to enormous population, porous borders and poor living conditions, there are a lot more undocumented immigrants in India than probably any other country on earth. The National Register of Citizens is an attempt to set that right.
Balancing between freedom and safety is one thing.

But if we have a bill that chips away from freedoms guaranteed by section 230, and it also doesn't make the people it's trying to help any safer...

can't we agree that bill in specific should get thrown out? This isn't a problem of balancing freedom with protecting sex workers. This bill makes the Internet less free and makes sex workers less safe. Everyone loses with this bill, except a few Congresspeople who get to look good for cameras.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univalent_foundations
Isn’t it wonderful that we’ve positioned companies like Apple as this great gatekeeper of what you can and can’t make.

Mandatory app stores remain a terrible idea. Code signing remains a terrible idea. We need to push back against this idiocy.
This is what excessive moderation looks like.
There are few misconceptions about the recently enacted CAA, that need to be clarified.

Citizenship Amendment Act is a law to fast-track citizenship of 'persecuted religious minorities' in 3 neighboring countries Afghanistan/Pakistan/Bangladesh.

It is a case of positive discrimination (affirmative action for the Americans) towards Hindu/Christian/Sikh/Buddhist/Parsi refugees.

Here is the reddit thread explaining the Act in simple language - https://old.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/e9qhvb/cab_in_...

It does not affect normal citizens of India. It is also NOT a case of negative discrimination against Muslim refugees, like most detractors claim it to be. Official tweet from India's Home Ministry clarifies this - https://twitter.com/PIBHomeAffairs/status/120730412196068556.... The usual waiting period of 11 years stays as it is for them. For minority refugees, it is reduced to 5 years. That's all.

Every country has a database of its citizens. India was lagging far behind in this. Due to enormous population, porous borders and poor living conditions, there are a lot more undocumented immigrants in India than probably any other country on earth. The National Register of Citizens is an attempt to set that right.
The new domain needed to log in is ssl.gstatic.com (not a new domain but a new requirement)

As if there were not already enough domains (and redirects) required... just to log in
The person who wrote this article is a well-established Buddhist scholar who has actually spent years studying in schools, as you say one must, to study the history of Buddhism. Why wouldn't you say they were in a credible position to tell the world what is mythical about Buddhism?

Becoming an orthodox Buddhist even feels like it would be counterproductive if one's purpose is to investigate what is mythical about Buddhism.

In any case, what is being discussed here is the historical person known as the Buddha, not the experience of being raised as an orthodox Buddhist.
Hmmm this reminds me of the battle to get a Wikipedia page approved for Minetest, the biggest FLOSS voxel engine out there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Minetest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
While this might seem extreme, I can maybe sorta see where they're coming from.

If members of a certain group of people have led to unfair discrimination against and deaths of members of your community and family, it's understandable if you'd like to not have symbols of said group thrust on you - especially in places which have absolutely nothing to do with religion, such as IDEs.
I just wanted to take 2 minutes to thank you personally for that comment. Honestly its amazing to find another person on this planet who has the exact same reaction to this idea ! I was going to type out what you said pretty much word for word, and then I'm reading what you wrote & I'm like, hey, who's this person who has read my mind & how're they doing that ? For a minute it was like, completely mindblowing.

I think most of the comments below are entirely missing the point & thinking of this as JS hatred. Its more about...cultural degradation...Pedestrianization. sicp was holy grail. you looked up to it, you cherished it, it was something few people have partaken of & it was nice that way. then gradually that got diluted over time. berkeley did the python3 gig & that itself was icky but now this is a whole new low. sicp in js ?! jesus. what next ? are we going to sicp in qbasic ? why not a sicp do-over in Visual Basic so all them fogey 90s microsoft-for-life developers! developers! developers! on win95 code up COM DLL interpreters in Notepad++ ? where does the madness end ?

sicp & scheme. buttons & bows. mac & cheese. bread & butter. things that go together.

Now, sicp & js is...is..what is it ? mustard & jam ?

you know what would be real cool ? sicp in J !!! Now that's a marriage made in heaven. if i was a rich vc i would happily fork over a million for a sicp in J effort. the apl family has so much to offer! now that i recall, there was actually an effort called aprol http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~jhowland/aprol.paper.pdf
"In orthodox Buddhism, like that in Sri Lanka, the path to understanding Buddhism is uncontroversial, difficult but uncontroversial."

Nice.

"First of all drop your arrogance."

Not nice.

"Of course when you attach a loaded word like "myth" to anything that you can't experience from when and where you are now, none of that matters anymore."

It was time to start listening instead of speaking before this paragraph was typed.
One of our Indian coworkers gave us a crash course how to work with his team - the answer is always yes so tracking commitments is where all the work ends up.
Yes. I should have said 6 and 12 or more. That said, it was only a quick refernce to the fact that productions drags as head count increases.
A framework at least encourages a coherent pattern.
from playing with 3d printed tesla valves , I think that you're right that surface distortions hinder correct flow.

The way that I created a 3d printed tesla valve that worked was by messing with overall scale. Bigger works better, until suddenly it doesn't work at all.

The idea I had previously about why scale may help was the idea that the scale is gradually turning down the amount that the flow error affects the entire system until eventually the mass of the fluid induces more 'error' into the system until the whole thing destabilizes.

In other words : with 3d printed tesla valves it's vital to find the sweet scale spot between surface-level distortion causing chaos when the valve itself is too small and liquid mass causing chaos when the valve is too big.

That margin between chaos and stability may be made wider by using a finer manufacturing technique, like milling or even SLA/SLS versus FDM. I bet that'd give a wider range of usable sizes.

all that said : even professionally made tesla valves must be made with certain scale constraints in mind. I believe those constraints are first-and-foremost a property of the liquid that's going to be transported.
Dry bud is the only way to go. Lately getting CBD bud from Oregon has been so good. My IQ is back up from the lack of THC. And my pain/anxiety have decreased more than with the THC herbs.
These are a list of theories that can’t be proven or disproven using the most common mathematical foundation.
A formalist might say that mathematics has no infinities. Even infinite sets are just definitions of finite length, even if expanded all the way to ZFC axioms. The problem is your intuitive understanding.

A realist might say that mathematics exists within this universe, therefore it is equally subject to its constraints just like anything else. Problems arise via misapplication or misinterpretation of the math.

A model theorist might point out that even in models of math with only a countable collection of objects, it's still true that the reals are uncountable. The problem isn't with infinitie, it's that the finitary objects have subtle interactions.

A logician might object that ZFC already does start of with an intuitive notion of infinity, i.e. the counting numbers is a natural collection. The problem is that this inevitably has unintended consequences.

A historian might gently point out that this debate already occurred vigorously about 150 years ago, and the verdict was that we just gotta live with the weirdness of infinities. The problem is that we lose too much useful math by trying to throw them out.

Etc.
Your comment broke the site guidelines badly, being both extraneous flamebait and a personal attack. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future. You've broken them frequently, and if you keep doing so we're going to have to ban you.

Using people's employment information to attack them is particularly bad for HN, since it disincentivizes users to show up and talk about their work, which is likely to be the thing they know the most about. That would make HN strictly worse, so it's a no-brainer not to allow comments like this.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830516 and marked it off-topic.
> Bangladesh is a secular nation like India with Muslim majority.

"Bangladesh Constitution establishes Islam as the state religion" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Banglad...

Persecution of religious Minorities in Bangladesh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Banglad...
It’s seemingly an excellent aircraft so far but it is not in the same size class as the C919, B737 or A320. In that market carbon fiber hasn't really hit yet. It clearly will in the next generation since the size class down (this market) and size class up (787, etc) both are carbon fiber designs. But the 737/320/919 size class isn’t there yet.

They're all (C-Series/A220, C919, 737, A320) roughly the same size, but the C919 is antiquated and struggles to compete with the NG and CEO. Meanwhile the C-Series sets the benchmark. Even so, the C-Series was extraordinarily difficult to sell until Airbus stepped in. Comac, with dramatically less experience than Bombardier, will have an even more difficult time trying to unload the C919 (outside of China).

The C919 is specced out at 168 people in a one class layout with an overall length of 38.9 meters, the CS300 seats 160 with an overall length of 38.7 meteres. That puts both between the 737-700 and 737-800 (or A319 and A320) in capacity. Range-wise the CS300 and CEO do well over 6,000 km. The C919? Even with current generation turbofans it can only do 4,000-5,500 km. The NG slots in between (but closer to the C919).

The C919 is at least a generation behind the C-Series and NEO and is not a threat to either Boeing or Airbus. Hell, Comac doesn't even have a western cockpit for the C919 where Bombardier was toying with a stretch of the C-Series.
Just taking the parent comment at face value, does it really qualify as racist / slur?

Yes, it invoked a country and a race, followed by unflattering statements. Are those statements factual? Unfair generalisations or politically incorrect?

I'm leaning towards it being politically incorrect.
Actually, that wouldn't work; AFAIK the binary that executes the script needs to have permission, so for example if you're adding a cron script cron has to have the permission, not the Terminal.app, since the cron script running has nothing to do with Terminal.app.

It's confusing. :-(
The only thing keeping me on Prime is my wife, because she really likes that 2-day delivery and a few shows on Prime Video. Since Amazon recently started putting ads on their videos, and because it's harder and harder to sift through the crap.

Unless Amazon does something big, I'll try making the case again to my wife to leave them. She's been ordering more and more from other retailers, so it shouldn't be a hard case to make.
IMHO the key is removing empty media calories and replace them with load bearing subjects.
Are you sure about this? "Bhavana" most certainly does not mean "a place" in modern parlance (see: "Rashtrapati Bhavan", which is the president's residence), and a lot of the other words have extant meanings in Hindi which differ significantly from what you've said here. Either Hindi has diverged a whole lot from Sanskrit and the meanings have changed (vimana literally means flying vehicle, and I'm pretty sure it's the same in Sanskrit), or you have some dubious sources.
Anyscale: Program cluster as easily as your laptop
> Like other health information, to be protected it must meet the definition of protected health information: it must be individually identifiable and maintained by a covered health care provider, health plan, or health care clearinghouse.

Yes, exactly, bingo, and there is the carefully crafted by expert congressional advisors loophole. Gene testing companies aren't any of these three categories, nor is virtually anyone else that is trading personally identifiable genetic data.
I agree, but it's not an unfair comment in light of what a mess Catalina and iOS 13 have been as a whole.
For developer desktops, there's firejail[1].

[1]: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
Anyscale Raises 20M to Democratize Distributed Programming
Wikipedia says "her mother was of Irish and Finnish ancestry."

Jennifer Tilly is your sister, but her mother's step father is your father?

Her grandfather is her brother's father?
> Infinities have the opposite effect then you might think, they make things simpler. It's much easier to reason about an infinite list of numbers then to reason about 64 bit numbers.

I would argue that a few extra lines in a proof is a small price to pay to avoid the Godelian catastrophe.