skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone just playing with Clojure for curiosity, I agree that it's hard to find a way through the thicket of available tooling & library options.

On the other hand, to start with just picking something reasonably mainstream (in Clojure terms) is a perfectly good strategy. The choice will be poorly informed, but that's a given if you're a beginner in any case. And such a beginner isn't really in a place anyway to make this choice for a significant project (for any platform/language).

Once an initial choice is made, it seems to me (so far) pretty easy with leinigen templates & plugins just to get started on something. Time from tool setup to coding hasn't been any longer for me than other things I've learned in recent years.
Striking when it's convenient is worthless. Perhaps if the students weren't so entitled, they'd understand that solidarity is important and that grades should be handled. Furthermore, you have to realize the university is punishing you to turn you against the grad students... and it appears they have succeeded. If I were an ugrad there, I'd be right there with the grad students.

I was an ugrad at another UC where 2/3 of my classes were cancelled because lecturers got jobs at startups in the dotcom times, and they made a habit of not scheduling upper-div major classes frequently enough to stay full-time for the year. haha.
I have noticed that CR recommends Kenmore appliances higher than other reviewing sites. CR is supposed to be unbiased but I have noticed this trend over the past decade.

Also on devices that I am very familiar with and have tested for my day job, I also don’t understand their reasoning.

Besides this I continue to be a subscriber, their work on promoting consumer safety and privacy is a good thing.
Coping with Covid-19 at ThoughtWorks
I do genuinely wonder what the appeal was to build an entirely new and slightly different hardware platform (using AMD hardware, like PS4/Xbox) when they could have easily licensed Gamestream like what Shadowplay did? Was NVIDIA not willing? Google probably already has massive data centers full of Nvidia GPUs.

Stadia is DOA, because of its absurd pricing and rollout, really strange design decisions (usb controller for select phones, but wireless for Chromecast?)
It's... more complicated than that. There is an existing union that represents these people which has negotiated an existing collective bargaining agreement. This strike wasn't authorized.

Now... maybe the union cut a bad deal, maybe their representatives aren't faithfully honoring their commitment, maybe there is literal corruption involved. But what is not true is that these workers were unrepresented at the salary negotiation.

Breaking the deal like this makes negotiating the next contract harder, not easier.
This is an enormous scandal and, in my opinion, calls into question the nature of the legal system itself. The law is clearly biased towards assuming the establishment is being truthful and accurate, and trying to prove otherwise is an uphill battle.
It's like if you want to be a General, you are going to have to be a Private first. There is a progression in the sciences.

That's not how the military works at all. A Private is an enlisted rank, and their career path typically tops out at a level like Warrant Officer.

If you want to be a General, you're going to have to start as a Lieutenant (the lowest commissioned officer).
Try the consultancy first and see if there's even enough overlap between client expectations for a SaaS. My former company started as consultancy and after months we learned no client requests was like the other, be it data they needed, in which format or number of revision, it was one custom job after the next. We chose to pivot instead of trying to create a super generic service.
Reality is the the opposite of what you're describing.

The people talking about public transportation are still fine with cars for a large portion of trips. Tons of people still drive in Munich, or Barcelona, or Tokyo.

It's the "pro-car" crowd in the US that's unsatisfied unless public transit is completely crippled. Cars are so dominant and transit so hobbled in US cities that public transit rarely even breaks 5% mode share, but still many motorists insist that wanting to improve choices is "fetishism" or a "war on cars".
I was thinking the same thing. The fact that they rank the most "broken down" brands is amusing too. Of course these just represent the five most popular.
There are about 1800 UCSC graduate students [1]. From this 2014-15 UCSC budget report [2] there is a very near 2:1 masters:phd graduation ratio. Assuming there are 2 years of masters students and 6 of PhD at any one time, that makes PhD students 60% of “graduate students”. Let’s make this easy by saying 1000 PhD students (if anything I imagine it’s way less than this — as I understand, monetizing masters students has been an increasing trend in American universities). The UCSC grad student union says average pay for the year is about 22k [3] (edit: this appears to be a minimum, not average, wage).

The strikers want 1.4k more per month. With the current 9 month payment system, that’s about 13k more per PhD student per year. So 1k*13k = 13mil overall to put this problem to bed.

That seems...surprisingly little? Aggravating a big chunk of your on-the-ground workers and attracting all this bad press doesn’t seem worth it. Meanwhile, there appear to be a whole lot of UCSC administrators making comfortable six figures [4].

I get that a lot of people on HN probably see the current low wages as a natural function of supply and demand in different academic disciplines. But heck, just looking at this from the point of view of the university, which is allocating resources to fight this, the calculus is odd.

[1] https://www.ucsc.edu/about/facts-figures.html

[2] https://planning.ucsc.edu/budget/reports-overviews/pdfs-imag...

[3] https://gsa.ucsc.edu/things_to_know/funding

[4] https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/
I think it is them - everyone manages to come across as vapid even by Twitter standards.

I may be in the minority but I include the person running it as well as stereotypical "kid who mocks everything without wit and thinks it makes them cool". They really lost me when they flagged one that was pointing out the obvious that the people evaluating companies have more specialized education than journalists. The denial that experts in their fields might know better than recalls real ugly anti-intellectualism.

Personally I think it is more "bad tactics" that bother me.
VCs often deserve criticism for a variety of things anf may be oversensitive but this isn't it. It seems more like bullying than calling out. Especially with it so denuded of context (a fundamental problem with Twitter) it seems like twisting of words and context.

Anyway rambling aside I wonder how alone I am in this view and if I missed anything.
Isn't there still a light bulb burning from the 1900s?
"This concern — that Google might just give up on Stadia at some point and kill the service, as it has done with so many other services over the years — was repeatedly brought up, unprompted, by every person we spoke with for this piece."

There it is, right there. Nobody takes Google seriously on any new initiative outside their core wheelhouse. We've all been burned too many times.
young users won't google that

young users will react to ads, feel they should spend money to feel they got something of value, get in the store on "super hot deal day" to get conned (like their parents were the first time?)

I'm exaggerating a bit, some cultures put a lot of pressure on being financially responsible. But for the rest I saw what I described with my eyes.
Eh, sounds like the grad students are doing the punishing. Their cause is noble, I'm sure, right up until it interferes with my education (and thus my career path).

They need to find a way to exert leverage on the people who can satisfy their demands -- meaning the University -- and not on people who are basically innocent customers.
Getting 50-some replacements before the start of the next academic year. Everyone else is already locked into their plans for the current academic year. After that period passes, I agree with you.
>Yet it's been shown multiple times that the games running on Stadia are running at less than promised quality, with techniques like upscaling being used for 4K instead of native 4K

I remember having tons of fun playing Portal and Left 4 Dead with buddies in my dorm room when 720p was pretty high end. Is 4K really that necessary to have a good time with a video game?

Or perhaps I'm... officially old :(
DRY is a good principle, but sometimes I’d rather repeat myself a little bit than build more bug-prone scaffolding to avoid repetition—especially when the repetition isn’t line-for-line identical. Just remember to always cite the repetition in comments.
Some context:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe45b/graduate-student-s...
> if you can touchtype fluently then VR works fine, but if not, it's going to be challenging to use.

Couldn't you just render the keyboard (+ finger positions I guess) inside the VR.
But the whole point is that I don't _want_ to use Glib/Gobject's. I want my own language's objects (more often than not - C++).
Polynomial Regression from Scratch in Python
I used to trust Consumer Reports.

But when print became online (which I subscribed to for a few years) they added tracking to their website.

They used to have a strict no-advertising no-manufacturer-cooperation policy.

Putting google and cdn links on their website is basically compromising and selling out.
> but the reality is that most troubleshoot them in production

I find this hard to believe. Maybe on the very rare occasion where the problem is tied to production and irreproducible elsewhere, but my experience has been that most troubleshooting happens on development, testing, staging, etc servers.

> and gives you a full copy of the database for you, with real data

Other than for small toy databases, I don't see how this would work for large databases. Not to mention the huge security issue.

You can test, optimize, etc queries on non-production servers. If the problem is production specific, it most likely is more server specific and not query optimization related.
America's average waistline would care to disagree.

It's not the only factor, obviously, but it's definitely one of them.
A lot of Clojure libraries will be described as Clojure(Script) libraries which means they run on both Java and JS usually with no interface changes here are some examples:
https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
https://github.com/wilkerlucio/pathom

Interop with hosts is a core feature of the language so it feels natural to reach for it when you need it and it's easy to write code that handles multiple runtimes but 95% of the time maybe more you don't need explicit runtime features
If you pack the iMac in its original boxes (there are 2, one inside the other), with the wrappers and foam and all, with some extra padding (I threw in a seat cushion in front of the covered screen), it should be fine..

You could also get a specialized carry/travel case.
And Microsoft were already in the gaming space, both as a publisher and via PC technologies like DirectX.
My favourite example of an "idea behind its time" is the torque amplifier, which enabled mechanical analog computers on invention in the early 1900s. It is made of nothing more complicated than a source of rotary power, a couple drums/pulleys, and string/rope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_amplifier
Does it follow all current environmental and efficiency standards and regulations?
The big games will likely be anywhere successful - as the article notes, they're the blockbuster films that will be shown everywhere. The smaller games, like Untitled Goose Game or Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, are what can be the differentiator for whether people use your storefront or your competitor.
And now you’ve lost a bunch of red flags you were able to use for recruitment.
> NeXT didn't have any of the advantages of NeWS and AJAX when run over the network. Just the stencil/paint imaging model. But no light weight processes, local event handling, object oriented programming, etc.

Not in Display PostScript, perhaps, but NeXT definitely had OOP pervasively; where do you think the modern Apple use of Objective-C came from?
Every TV has HDMI nowadays. VGA is pretty common on older HDTVs. I’ve seen Mini DP on a nicer recent one too.
I don't think this is a good defense of the service, in fact quite the opposite. The fact that you can't just buy access to it without buying the chromecast ultra hardware bundle just shows how half-baked the whole thing is.

Especially since the chromecast ultra doesn't support non-Stadia controllers, so if you do want to play with say an Xbox controller google is bundlefucking you with hardware you will never use, which certainly doesn't make the service look any more attractive to people who might otherwise be interested.
Graduate programs are usually filled with a completely new set of students after 2-3 years. The likelihood of students taking similar actions in future years will have no bearing on the actions taken today by those currently enrolled.

Having a union doesn't fundamentally change the un-affordability of accepting below-market wages for skilled labor in a high cost of living area. They might be getting a better deal than they would have otherwise, but clearly there's a disconnect between the UC system, the union, and the students on the premise of today's arrangement and its long term viability.
> Also UC Santa Cruz is a public university. Very little chance it is going to be out-competed and put out of business.

Relatively little of the funding for the UC's comes from the state. Tuition is a much larger percentage. So they do have a concern of being out-competed.

https://www.dailycal.org/2018/08/08/2018-uc-accountability-r...
I really doubt anyone is researching curing the common cold.
Are there jobs, other than being a judge or politician, where you are not liable for errors?
There are lots of limitations in fact with the idea of identifying a bacteria or a microbe with a microscope.
Japan was definitely success. We changed the culture enough that they never reappeared as a military threat, to ourselves or anyone else.

Germany was a success as well. We changed a culture that had war as an ingrained part into one that has been peaceful for generations. And the Berlin Wall was not the fault of America or the west.

As for Korea... we continue to be there, not because we're trying to change their culture, but because we are trying to deter invasion from North Korea.
The least they could do is set up a test lab on campus and have testers spend time living in it. Google isn’t the type of company to make that sort of investment in product quality. They don’t seem to believe in manual processes even when they’re superior to automated processes. So it doesn’t surprise me they have difficulty delivering a high quality home automation suite.
This is why I'm grateful for the Consumer Guarantees Act, which puts retailers and manufacturers on the hook for fit-for-purpose repairs. Saying "one year and a day, so buy a new one" doesn't cut it.
Bosch quality is still very good.
The prudent step would be putting all resources against a vaccine and taking some risks by skipping to late stage trials for anything that looks promising. Sort of like what happened with Ebola.

Quarantines just buy you a little extra time. If there is no vaccine, the inevitable always arrives.
Absolute mad genius. I love his work.
Only because it's being run so dim.
YouTube and GSuite (Docs, Sheets) etc are probably the only other business lines that would work well as big standalone tech companies. Google Play is probably making a decent chunk by running ads, skimming 30% of purchases and new subscriptions + 15% of subscription renewals.

That said, there have been other successful products and acquisitions which improved their ad busines. GMail, Maps, Android, Chrome all products with giant user numbers, but whose main contribution is probably to improve ads.

Still, a system like Stadia relies on convincing developers that it has a viable future, and it's difficult to build momentum when developers feel burned by the shutdown of other platforms, e.g. Google Plus or Chrome Web Store, where they've sold developers on a bright future, mostly abandoned the platform within a year of launch, and eventually shut it down.
> very vocal swaths of the gaming community

just worth reiterating that /r/gaming or whoevers favourite gaming YouTuber is not "the gaming community" or people that play video games.
Those challenges could be overcome with special protocols. The real problem would be the decimation of the tourism industries.
If the Fed is already often failing to achieve their target inflation rate, wouldn't raising interest rates cause them to undershoot it even further and lower investment / set off a recession?

I think their point is that while it's arguable that rates are too low, congress needs to change fiscal policy for them to be able to raise rates, so it's unfair for the Fed to get all the blame here. They're using the policy tool they have to execute their mandate and the other (maybe better) policy tools are out of their hands.
I can't believe no one here seems to know who joe armstrong is / was and that he passed away, isn't this hackernews? This is a post from 2015. Joe was a wonderful person and this post shows a random funny/quirky thought he had. Writing things like "...by all means, keep doubting yourself and over-analyzing your own body..." is pretty inappropriate
I'm not really talking about will apple adopt outside ideas, I mean will apple allow people to change or customize the interface on their own device.
I can understand why he couldn't be hired as a licensed engineer because of that, but that doesn't make him not an engineer. He wasn't arguing over something that relies on local standards anyway. A second is a second regardless where you are.
>The market is too competitive for that.

You're missing someone wanting to extract maximum money from a previously well viewed brand by cutting corners. Kenmore is, for example, owned by Sears which had reasons to maximize short term money.
Looks very practical, touch works well with mac?
I've heard that reasoning of certs under different IT disciplines from different managers as well. To me, the fact that you think that way is a redflag that you don't do technical interviews right and perhaps you haven't managed to train people right either.

The cert only tells you that they know the $cert way of doing things and that in itself shows minimal competency as opposed to someone making things up. A cert says nothing about other abilities such as critical thinking and abstract reasoning. It only helps you decide whether or not you should call them in for an interview. Your technical interview should include practical questions that filter out candidates that can't be bothered to research a subject and stick to the cert way no matter what.
Any thoughts about ionic + capacitor?
You can turn on keyboard access for all kinds of navigation. Look under accessibility.
I agree that striking when its convenient is worthless, but at the same time, I have various emails from my direct TAs and the COLA organization as a whole mentioning the intent is to not harm undergrads, but here we are... Additionally, I'm not sure where youre getting the students are "entitled". I work and take loans out in order to go to this school, takes classes, and receive my grades. Am I entitled for wanting what I pay for?

The administration is not withholding grades, the graduates are. I understand that they're doing it as a result of the administration, but why are we (undergraduates) sitting in the middle taking heat from both sides?

I'm happy you would be out there striking as thats your right, but to call me entitled is a tad bit much no?
The response on the UCSC subreddit is similar - youre either entitled or a bootlicker if you don't join the cause. I am unsure how that is supposed to make me support the cause?
This pretty much comports with my experience and impression over the last few years, which is that products in general just suck and are getting worse. It baffles me why people just spend money like crazy on stupid stuff, when just being able to work less would be of better value. I would never order a computer online not from Apple, because I'd have have little recourse if the thing was crap or DOA, and even then, Apple's products have decreased in reliability and consumer friendliness.
It's astounding how often people make claims like this.

There is a whole lot of RDF Linked Data; and it links together without needing ad-hoc implementations of schema-specific relations.

I'll just link to the Linked Open Data Cloud again, for yet another hater that's probably never done anything for data interoperability:
https://lod-cloud.net/

That's a success.
It’s fun and sort of useful with my 6th gen regular iPad and my otherwise horribly underpowered (I’m pretending to be a 4K iMac and apparently that’s powerful enough for Sidecar, but the actual processor and its iGPU are slower than a 2015 Mac Mini). I can see how it would be super useful with the 13” model and an Apple Pencil, neither of which I own.
The fall and rise of the Doppler effect
To be fair, the written feedback varied greatly.

Some literally just put down my scores on tests/papers. Some just copy-pasted the class description and then gave the grade I got.

Others wrote pages of feedback, not all of which was useful. My name is common enough that I was confused with another student once, including with my grade, so that was fun.

In large 500+ person intro classes, the feedback could never have been meaningful due to class size. In other 10 person classes, the feedback was generally pretty good. Upper division classes were better in term of feedback, broadly.

In practice, it's a bit of a mixed bag and each professor was different and themselves differed over time. Generally it's great though, even years after the events.

When I send in my transcripts, I vainly go over them again, and it's always a welcome exercise. Seeing my growth (good and bad) is so incredibly rewarding. It's very rare to get to be assessed like that in such pivotal years.

Some of those forms are the last communications I will ever have with those people as they have since died. Even if those forms are generally bland, I treasure them, as those people helped me so very much and were generally kind to me. I'm tearing up right now thinking about one professor I never got to say goodbye to (Dearest Reader: this is the universe telling you to email that person you've been meaning to email, FYI).

One last thing: if you are a person that designs websites that happen to accept transcripts, please bump the file limit up from ~25mb. Mine is ~200mb as the official download from the school and I always have to go in an scale down the .pdf to the varying mb limit that the website accepts, none of which are the same limit. Also, it always looks terrible after I scale it back.
Because the Japanese Yen is one of the 5 reserve currencies that make up the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It makes up 8% of an IMF SDR.

IMF SDRs are important because all of the central banks hold a bunch of them.

The Yen is not weighted higher because Japan’s debt is quite high compared to it’s GDP and Japan could try to print it’s way out of it’s debt. The Yen is not weighted lower because they’re fortune enough to be able to print their way out of their debt if need-be compared to many other countries that hold debt in non-domestically denominated currencies.

That’s the best answer I can come up with.
What caused Australia’s disastrous wildfires? It’s complicated
In other words, flutter is unoptimised chromium, minus the features.