skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has an issue at most schools where a "Passed" class cannot be used as a prereq for another class (Because a D is a pass and a C is required to advance). At my school they had to invent a new type of pass/fail which counts as a pass if you get a C, and can be used as a prereq.

One of the downsides is that from the teacher's perspective, we are not allowed to know who is electing to take this option. So if 90% of our class is taking pass fail and aiming for a C, we still have to grade as usual and wonder: are these kids just not trying or are they not getting the material.
Are there more than a few policians that did learn from it?
What's the plan for regulatory approval?
They’re not hosting it, so that’s not a direct concern. It’s hosted on arcgis.org
> There is no point using a shield without the rest if the gear because if you are in a situation where you need the shield, you also need the rest as well.

This is the same class of bullshit the WHO, CDC and FDA were pushing about face masks less than a week ago. There is no way this is worse than nothing. If a face shield used with no other PPE reduces the viral load the average healthcare worker is exposed to by 1% fewer people will be infected and those who do will be more likely to recover as their immune system has more time to ramp up defenses.

This will reduce R0. There is no plausible mechanism of action for a face shield to work as PPE together with a respirator, or as part of a full suit of PPE, under which it provides no protection when used alone.
finally my lisp class has aided me in a real-life scenario
> but I'm not a big fan of travel...

Your POV reflects that, which is very unfortunate, as does your adamant dismissal about my 'tangent' not being relevant to my conclusion of how the priorities of the system have been completely lost; I used it to try and convey a very observable example as it proves that the well can been poisoned by administrative decree, which is in turn aided by those very same who sought to create University into a walled garden experience.

If people are uncomfortable with having their convictions and ideals questioned and placed into scrutiny than something like 'higher education' should be the antithesis of what they are seek and they should be discouraged into such a system--instead they seem to be encouraged to do so all while accruing obscene amounts of un-payable student debt, backed by the State. Further creating an explotable under-class which ultimately amounts to indentured servitude.

But hey, don't let me interfere with the pursuits of all of those luminary Gender Studies majors being awarded PhDs for their exemplary work on the correct use of Gender pronouns of fluid-furries Influencers on Social Media.
Apple has a ton of cash. I think layoffs are unlikely. Many times new hires are protected as well for a bit.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I really like reading blog, since it usually share personal experience. And I often ask if someone have a blog to learn from it.
This can't be called a database due to lacking of any persistent storage. It does not survive a system crash.

It is a structured in-memory (or rather in-JVM) cache with a rudimentary SQL interface.

Calling things by its proper names is a half-way to intelligence.
Domains are really more like land than stock. And while you can do something similar with land - buy undeveloped in places where you expect development in the future, then sell for a lot more - you have to pay property taxes while you hold it.
I think I read somewhere people already developed a new ML system to live translation in-game text, but forgot where.
Tesla to Cut Employees’ Pay as Much as 30% to Curb Costs
I wish I could find the original article I read about hashlife[1]. So many dirty tricks to just reach as deep as possible into the evolution of the system. The hash approach is a good trick. you can abuse it quite a bit more than just row/col. Anyway, you might poke around for a hashlife writeup if you're into that kinda thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
I'm not sure if you are joking or not, but toilet paper is in no way an 'essential' delivery. Any company that would think so gets a fail in logistics....
This appears to be a super-optimizer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization) implementation, one of the smaller ones I have seen. Very cool!
That just ensures that over time the shorter domain names go to those with deeper pockets.

An often overlooked complication as well comes in the form of programming language package management reliant on reverseddomain names. Fail to renew your domain claim, and you may find yourself having to repackage healthy chunks of code.
We had this effect one of our gaming websites, but in reverse: we accidentally added around 900ms to every page load. Gameplays dropped by around 15%. We removed what was causing this and they instantly went back up.

People played it mostly during breaks: lunch breaks (our peak load was during lunch hours in the US), "smoke breaks", etc. So they didn't have a goal, they just had time to spend doing something. Each gameplay took anywhere from 1-5 minutes. Users averaged to 5 plays per day. Our guess was the extra load time caused people to hit some exactly poor threshhold where they were able to play 1 less game during their time allotment.

Edit: we were curious and A/B tested it and saw the effect too. We didn't run it for too long, but a 15% difference is quick to verify when you're measuring something that happens 35 million times per day.
West Virginia Poised to Become First State to Allow Political Gambling
> this is how N95 masks are actually fit. (Well, not using smoke, but similar test). If you can smell the chemical used in the test, the fit is wrong.

And if the smell is less strong than it would be if you weren’t wearing the mask the viral load you’ve been exposed to is smaller. You are less likely to be infected and if you are infected your immune system has more time to ramp up so you’re more likely to fight it off.
I see these numbers sometimes and it’s a bit staggering.

Why does AirBNB need 2000 engineers to display houses for rent in two phone apps and website? Kind of amazing.

There are entire companies that successfully run far more complex businesses with less than 2,000 people.
I never had a lisp class, so I'm sitting here wondering why there is one single quote.
How would this make sense? The degree and course grade indicates understanding the material and knowledge of your major. If you haven't been able to learn the material you shouldn't get a degree or grade that indicates otherwise.

If they believe that the quality of education has reduced they should demand a refund, or they can drop the courses they can't handle so that they don't impact their GPA, and retake them once it's easier again.
Had to make an account to upvote this. Absolutely dead-on. I think you can generalize this comment to almost any specialist skill. "No Silver Bullet" should be a business doctrine as well as a technical one. You need to do a lot of things well to succeed in business. Specialists just provide you a capability. You have to implement and use those capabilities as part of a larger system if you want to create a machine that generates profit.
Or German ("von Trips") or Italian ("De Sica") and possibly other countries.

Anyway, people who move to other countries have to adapt. For the database of a local business is often a good idea to stick with the format of official documents because everybody has to fill out forms on government websites, regardless where they were born. Ids, taxes, healthcare, schools etc.
IS&S is not the same as IS&T. Totally different orgs.
Excellent insight!
Time, itself, is slowed as motion is limited to only 1 dimension as you approach the speed of light. It's all related.
I think few understand the significance of this:
https://youtu.be/A-2XQQDD6QQ
Not only was he abusive to his first wife, he then got married to his cousin, and almost proposed to her daughter. Beyond that, he had a great deal of affairs.

Einstein may have been smart, but he was a really awful person.
Uncle Bob discovers Lisp, 50 years after its creation.

Expect a follow up blog post telling us all software should be written in Lisp and he has a Lisp book coming out soon.
https://blog.agney.dev

I write mostly about JavaScript, Node and other stuff I have learned along the way.

Here are some posts:
Effective Remote Communication: https://blog.agney.dev/effective-meetings/
Picture-in-Picture Countdown timer website: https://blog.agney.dev/pomodoro-on-pip/
The problem is the lack of new construction leading to limited supply of housing, not AirBnB.
At many Ivy league schools, prereqs serve mostly to tell the students what they should know before taking the class, not as deterrents to actually trying. Often the professors will waive the requirements after a brief interview.

I've seen plenty of 18 year olds in graduate classes, and I've seen highly talented students simply read the books for the prerequisite math classes and do quite well.
Why does a free textbook have to be encrypted? Worried about someone injecting wrong answers to example problems on the wire?
Apple has ~4B shares outstanding, and enough of the holders are willing to sell that for a buyer, it’s not a practical issue at all.
That's pretty neat! One of the cool implications of Life being a wholly deterministic and discrete system, even though it's spatial.
Do you work for Apple? Might you have any insight into how the company decides how / who to layoff, when the time comes?

I would have thought that the newest would be the most vulnerable, since they haven't had the time to absorb institutional knowledge and make internal connections.
That would counter the stay at home initiatives. People would think it's safe again.

If they want to make them for sale they should, 1k a mask for the general public.
But then how else would those same executives be able to manipulate the share price so quickly? It isn't realistic to expect them to think long term when the system allows and incentivizes them to think short term.
Money side is like a mini-VC like ecosystem inside a large corp; people on the money side spend the money in whatever ways they need to maintain their little fiefdoms. Additionally, and with their new found power, they'll layer in a bunch of morons to prevent operations people - who's sole job is to eliminate inefficiencies everywhere - from understanding that the money side is basically a giant game.

If the operations people ever fully understood how badly the money people are fucking things up, they'd have leverage to use against the players on the money side and it'd be game over.
People usually solve that problem by learning their address according to Google Maps (the most widely used service). For most of us it's the same address we always use. For somebody it's what they write when they want people or stuff to reach their home.
Whoa, why do they need 12,000 employees? I'm seriously trying to figure out why they need so many.
Surgical/cotton masks protect other people from your sneezing and breathing out aerosolized virus.

N95 masks do the same, but also protect you from 95% of particles that meet the following: "The particle size distribution will be a count median diameter of 0.185±0.020 micrometer and a geometric standard deviation not exceeding 1.6. Each respirator filter unit will be challenged with an aerosol concentration of 100 ± 10 mg/m3"

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/stps/pdfs/TEB-APR-STP-0001-5...

They are also tested for air flow rates to meet standard for inflow and outflow.

They don't protect you against the virus, they protect you against the aerosols that may be carrying the virus.

Face shields are for protecting against liquids and solids, not particles.

They might be useful for people like checkout clerks, but a fixed screen would do the same.
The mailbox_id can be anywhere in any field you send, apparently.
If there's a company CEOs should be afraid of, it's Amazon. They killed bookstores, mall stores, how many other retailers? They were the first major cloud provider. They tried their hand at phones, streaming video, and streaming music, and the bought a grocery store. There's nothing they won't try, and they have the war chest to do it.
Just like the 1880's: conspiracy theories, rumors and Alex Jones' snake oil panaceas. The world is headed to another Dark Age at this rate.
Quite similar in Waterloo. They also added a petition process for those who fail with special circumstances going on.

For those who don't know, both are top-level schools in Switzerland and Canada.
At least at HLS there's not such thing as an 'A'. You can get an F, LP, P, H, or DS.

DS is not equivalent to an A. DS is insanely hard to get. The professor can only give like 1 or 2 students in the entire class DS so you basically have to be top gun to consistently get DS.
Damn they really have more engineers than stripe has employees
For context, MIT, Harvard and Stanford have all instituted mandatory pass-fail grading policies (in practice, this amounts virtually amounts to a guaranteed pass as well).
Students at my college did this too. Just about half of the student body signed the petition. Ultimately the faculty board that makes decisions about grading modes refused to enact this.
Most of this advice is stuff they tell you in school that doesn’t matter at all in reality.

Real advice:

- Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it works. (I.e. prefer normal forms but denormal will have better performance.)

- You need nullable dates and nullable numbers. You never need a nullable string. If you must distinguish blank string from unset, add a column called “unset”. Using null for this will just result in bad data entry.

- Names should be stored as display_name, first_name, and last_name. A display name is not the same as just first plus last. They have different purposes, so don’t shove them together.

- When in doubt, just have a column full of JSON and figure it out later.

- Offset pagination is bad for performance. Avoid it at all costs unless you want some spider indexing page 10,432 of your archives to eat all your CPU.
Lots of custom build HR and Sales tooling would be my guess. Also data sciency stuff (i.e. basic analytics pipelines that poop out pretty graphs for the c-levels).
Unknown to most people, the US medical system is nearly shutdown.

If you dig into nurses forums you will find nurses are being told that there is no work “low censused” across the US.

Only critical medical services are being delivered. All optional services have stopped. This included regular screenings.

Our local major regional hospital in Western Colorado which normally has a couple hundred patients in beds, last week had well under 30 beds full. This included the maternity ward. Only a couple of the beds are being used by COVID patients. The other local hospitals had even lower bed counts.

If your skills are needed for treating COVID you are told to wait (unpaid) for a call. If you are one of the majority of medical providers who are not focused on ICU or respiratory care you are told to stay home (unpaid) and study (unpaid) needed COVID skills.

The travel normal nursing system is likewise shutdown. While New York is asking for skilled nurses, it is not clear how a nurse in from another state could 1) secure a position, 2) arrange travel and housing

Source: my wife who is a hospital recovery room and public health nurse, friends who are ER doctors and Anesthesiologists
Is that the case?

If someone did get an auto pass...do they know the material any more or less?

What percentage would have failed anyway and will struggle in the next class because they should have failed?
There are a lot of devices that use old versions of Windows that are critical and can't be patched Willy nilly such as critical medical devices.
Or microservices developer/architect
To me that's the most compelling argument: equity. Some students come from a background with very few resources and an unstable home environment, or no home to speak of. These students shouldn't be at an academic disadvantage because of a global pandemic.
Doesn't Tesla already underpay relative to other tech companies?
Wattle and Daub
Taiwan joins Canada in banning Zoom for government video conferencing
They also lost me as a customer, and I found a cheaper rate for better coverage with someone else.
X worked great for what it was aiming to do. It's not even bad for really remote applications. It works really well, just don't use a dozen layers of poorly-designed abstraction. Write something with xcb or xlib, and you'll get instantaneous response from the other side of the planet.

Here's a nice little article from 1989 telling just how great it was for the time:

https://simson.net/clips/1989/1989.TechRev.Athena.pdf
To manipulate people against their own interests to supposedly "save" PPE for HCWs, even though HCWs often get PPE from different manufacturers and distribution channels. Dishonesty and bad advice defeats the whole mission and purpose of public health organizations.
I'm not following, are you saying in this scenario there are a lot of ivy applications?
30% cut for VP+, 20% for director, 10% others

At least it's progressive?
> In the U.S., the salary cut is 30% for vice presidents and above, 20% for directors and above, and 10% for others, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg. Workers outside the U.S. will see similar reductions. Employees who haven’t been assigned to critical tasks and who can’t work from home will be furloughed without pay, though they will keep health-care benefits.

Come on, this is even in the paywall blurb. Common employees are at a 10% cut.

If they can get idle factories without mass layoffs, good for them and for their workforce.
How does IS&S compare, relative to other orgs at the company? Does the org you work for (in contrast to your role or seniority level) matter, when it comes to job security?

Thanks for your insights.
Tech companies having so much power over whose speech goes viral and whose doesn't is not good. They are acting as publishers and not platforms.
I take it they're planning to cut the prices on their products to match, this being "shared sacrifice" and all? Rhetorical question, I know.

On a more serious note, why not cut the hours by the same percentage, maintaining hourly pay equivalent? Seems like this would fit the definition of "shared sacrifice" a bit better. You give up some, company gives up some.

My wife is an independent contractor. Her client asked her to go part-time, same hourly pay. It's great. The client gets to pay less, she gets a much deserved break.
https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
I really don’t like this part. Having to include this ID means that there’s something extra needs to be done in tests. And the tests become not so real anymore.
Ironically, the solution is old Yahoo, back in the web directory days.
I don't think comparing facebook or youtube to "the most popular bookstore" is fair, books (and movies, TV, magazines etc) are just not in the same category as facebook or twitter.

I don't think facebook and twitter can be compared to something like an ISP, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I personally find it concerning that more and more everyday human communication is moving to platforms that can arbitrarily ban you from communicating.
This "open APIs" feeling where you can build and mash up all kinds of services together to build cool things is how writing apps on Ethereum feels right now. All of the data and functions of other people's contracts are on chain and available to you for use in whatever way you want to use it. It's very powerful and makes developing fun again for me.

As an example there is a project called Maker which produces a stablecoin called Dai which is pegged to $1. Another project called Compound took Dai and used it without asking anyone at Maker to create automatic loans where you can put in money and get interest automatically. A third project, Pool Together, started using Compound, again without asking, to pool everyone's funds together for a month and give the interest earned to one winner as a "no-loss lottery". I bet in a few months something will be built on top of Pool Together as well.

None of these teams needed to work together or ask permission. They just built cool things. An added bonus is that these projects can't be turned off by anyone which means Pool Together can trust that their app will work next year just fine, which isn't really something you can rely on in Web 2.0. It's a very exciting time for composability and neat experiments and I'm looking forward to what else will be built.
Columbia, UC Berkeley and Dartmouth too. I think this move is gaining traction.
Seems kind of questionable to lead the headline with 30% cut for employee pay when it's a 30% cut for the top level executives.
Is that how freshman year is graded, regardless?
I think that thinking this way is a coping mechanism in response to the massive loss of control we experience being subject to the whims of giant corporate platforms deciding what we can and cannot run on our own devices.

The alternative is to face how insanely unfair and belittling it is to have bought an app and a device and due to circumstances out of your control arbitrarily no longer be permitted to run “your” app on “your” device.
This is the correct answer. The question to ask is, what are you doing with the names? Splitting first and last only makes sense if the thing you’re doing is listing people by last name. Sometimes you do that! But not always and certainly not in all countries.
This reminded me of `WPAD` namespace for DNS and DHCP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Auto-Discovery_Proto...

I remember logging all requests to wpad.ir, there were many from Brazil for some reason.
We've moved from micro services to macro services.. I don't see a problem with that /s
What is creditworthiness if not a proxy for the same thing anyway?
Twitter's Jack Dorsey Pledges $1B to Charity, Including Coronavirus Reli
Nissan and Honda just laid off/furloughed over 10k each.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Nissan-and-Hon...?

I live about three miles from one of the affected assembly plants. It's pretty tough.

FTA:

"The affected employees will not be paid by Nissan after being laid off, though it appears that the company will rehire them once the plants restart production. The workers will draw unemployment benefits until then.

Nissan also plans to lay off most of its 6,000 employees at its U.K. plant and about 3,000 workers at a factory in Barcelona, Spain.

Honda, which built 1.2 million cars in the U.S. in 2019, suspended production at its factories there on March 23. The automaker will guarantee full wages until Sunday. The company will instruct the workers to apply for unemployment benefits from their local governments starting Monday."
> Isn’t this exactly the time our tax-funded government should step in and prop up successful companies, small, medium, and large.

Yes but that doesn't mean they should rescue companies that were a house of cards waiting to collapse before all of this started
It's sort of two-sided, I think. It can be fun to figure out _meaningful_ patterns in data. I don't really find it fun to figure out that "so and so didn't use software that understood NA values back in nineteen tickety two, so some NA values are NA because they're newer, and some NA values are 0 because 0 is just like NULL in somebody's head, and some NA values are -999 because that was a thing they did in the Before Times."
At least a 1x speedup!
Sound like it'd defeat the purpose (i.e. stay alive financially when the main factory is shut down) to do what you say.