skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker (Inc) has new priorities and different influences. I'm inclined to feel some optimism that this shifting focus will have beneficial repercussions in places like this.
Reliability Challenges Grow For 5/3nm
I don't see anything profound here, except perhaps that the language will gladly accept the user's blatant type error and just explode at runtime. For the most part this article is fetishising over basic syntax.

Surely the compelling parts of Clojure go somewhat deeper than basic syntax. And if this is another tired discussion about legibility of syntax between languages, I have to wonder why people are still so fascinated by this?

Between the following two representations of the same function…

(defn f [x] (+ (* 3 x) 1))

…and…

f x = 3 * x + 1

…I see very little difference in legibility. Sure, one is visually noisier (and incidentally, the noisier, less clean(!!!) notation is Robert C. Martin's favourite) but if you can afford to navel-gaze this much on syntax I'd question why you don't have anything more important to do. Of course I recognise that I must also not have much better to do since I read the article and I'm now commenting on it.

It's just weird to me that one would fetishise syntax, and then describe a language sporting a less visually-noisy syntax as "The Dark Path".

Edit: Apparently I need to state for the record that I spent a few years writing Clojure professionally. I'm not unfamiliar — I just haven't drowned in kool-aid.
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
DineChef dineChef = new DineChef();
dineChef.SetOrderCommand(1); /* Insert Order /
dineChef.SetMenuItem(new MenuItem()
{
TableNumber = 1, Item = "Super Mega Burger", Quantity = 1,
Tags = new List() { new Tag() { TagName = "Jalapenos,"}, new Tag() { TagName = " Cheese," }, new Tag() { TagName = " Tomato" }}
});
dineChef.ExecuteCommand();

dineChef.SetOrderCommand(1); /* Insert Order */
dineChef.SetMenuItem(new MenuItem()
{
TableNumber = 1, Item = "Cheese Sandwich", Quantity = 1,
Tags = new List(){ new Tag() { TagName = "Spicy Mayo,"} }
});
dineChef.ExecuteCommand();
dineChef.ShowCurrentOrder();

dineChef.SetOrderCommand(3); /* Remove the Cheese Sandwich */
dineChef.SetMenuItem(new MenuItem()
{
TableNumber = 1, Item = "Cheese Sandwich"
});
dineChef.ExecuteCommand();
dineChef.ShowCurrentOrder();

dineChef.SetOrderCommand(2);/* Modify Order */
dineChef.SetMenuItem(new MenuItem()
{
TableNumber = 1, Item = "Super Mega Burger", Quantity = 1,
Tags = new List() { new Tag() { TagName = "Jalapenos,"}, new Tag() { TagName = " Cheese" }}
});
dineChef.ExecuteCommand();
dineChef.ShowCurrentOrder();
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
In contrast and great irony, my local community college has announced that they will go online and expect full completion as usual - and the students have accepted it, because of course the academic culture at a white label school for tradesmen and transfer students would be more rigorous, serious and refined than the one at a national pride.
DeepSpeech Dispatch Mapping
Could you explain this more? Who are the operations people? (finance? HR?) Who is the money side? (product? sales?) How exactly would "operations people" have leverage if they knew how the "money side" worked? Like, what specifically would they do? Also leverage over whom? And ultimately, couldn't whoever all these groups eventually report to (the CEO but possibly lower) resolve all this by firing some people?

I don't have a good model of how these things work. I encountered it first hand, but couldn't develop a good model after a long time of thinking about it. Tons of things happened that I didn't understand at all, and I couldn't understand why higher-level people wouldn't just resolve it.

Help understand this better?
Amazon driver pick up packages from non-Amazon warehouse, delivers it to consumers.
It's never only one issue but does Airbnb compound the problem? I would say so.
It's like nothing at all was learned from the War on Terror
My "argument" was in response to the parent comment saying 3D Manufacturing can 'scale'. Which it certainly can, just not as simply or efficiently as traditional methods. Especially in this case with such a simple part.

I didn't intend to impinge on the people helping hospitals or people with faceshields now via 3D manufacturing hence the 'It's good...' part. Rather simply comment on scaling up manufacturing methods.
You seem to conflate so many things here. Doctors wear mulitiple types of masks. Surgical masks (as are recommended for the general public) prevent a doctor from spitting on a patient accidentally (just as they prevent an infected individual from expelling virus laden spit droplets). Surgical masks provide limited (if any) protection from airborne droplets. Rather an N95 masks (with a seal and filter) is used. To make this effective to protect the wearer, goggles must also be worn. The general public does not wear goggles. Further,training on putting on and taking off masks is provided to medical professionals. Face shields protect from yet another class of dangers (splashing of contaminated fluid). The general public has little reason to wear these.
Nothing stopping a drone from delivering a package to your porch.
Good luck passing Calculus II if you were given a passing grade in Calculus I without actually learning the material. There are plenty of other courses that will run into the same problem if their prereqs aren't actually mastered.
Remember the outcry when Swarm was shipped as part of the core Docker binary? I wouldn't be surprised if this caused some kind of cooldown with respect to the binary assimilating features.
John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73
If you honestly can’t think of one, that only demonstrates your lack of imagination.

I, for one, would imagine something based on a DNS TXT records that either directly contain or point to a URL describing some kind of security domain policy: whether and which subdomains and subdirectories should be considered separate, isolated security domains, with pattern matching, of course. Or maybe put it under /.well-known/ instead of DNS. At the very least, this would solve the unregistration problem of PSL (i.e. when an entry becomes stale, you will not immediately know it, and old versions of your product will still treat it as present).
Why does the front end change faster?
Right. He touts "professionalism" while also suggesting that one "needs big balls to write C++", because it is "a man's language".
Also, most people are missing that Airbnb is going to be paying some hosts a percentage of their lost revenue from canceled stays.
I think you’re ignoring the fact that the browser security model is based on a flawed definition of an origin that prohibits something that has very little reason not to work. Userdir sites weren’t/aren’t limited at all. If you dropped a php file into your directory it would run.

domain.suffix/full/path should have been the definition of an origin because people were literally using it as such. The default config of the most popular web server at the time was doing it. People hosted entirely different sites in subdirectories because it was really easy to just create a directory. TV ads directed people to www.blahblah/sitename.

The real definition of origins is clever since the path before the domain defines an origin path and everything after is owned by that origin. Neat and tidy for sure but broke userspace so to speak.
The fruit came first. It comes from French, which took it from Arabic, which now calls an “orange” by the name “Portugal”.

Before the fruit appeared, we had the word “geoluread” which was literally just “yellowred”.
I think this is where causal inference and experimental design are important.
This is how we wind up with a Jared Kushner in charge of the federal COVID-19 response
Except now the airlines need more money and no one is interested in buying those shares.
Original: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/07/coronavirus-state-ext...
Jitsi is much easier to add in the latest Riot-web version. No longer do you need to set up your own integration manager. You just add the jitsi URL to Riot's config.json and you're done.
This is cool, I guess. If I had an Al Pastor truck, I would submit and expect nothing and appreciate something. But it seems super nebulous. It feels very "We could be the next 72andSunny". Could you follow this up with a Show HN revealing what you eventually accomplished?
Jack Dorsey gives $1B to Covid-19 relief
Of course! A community college is actually producing students that go on to perform the jobs they are being credentialed for. Having incompetent graduates would be a devastating blow to their reputation.
Google and to a lesser extent Facebook invest heavily in internal tools. IMO this is because they hire for the company, permit easy transferring, and programmers sure love to scratch their own itch.

Google has a tool where interviewers can provide feedback and a numerical rating for candidates. But it also has a whole data mining workflow: you can visualize an interviewer's past ratings on a histogram, compare their hire ratio against average hire ratios, etc. It's cool and interesting, and sees a lot more love than many of their user-facing products.

Facebook has Bootcamp, their ~8 week onboarding process. There's a zoo of purpose-built tools just for Bootcamp, like the bot that sends you a question whose answer is written on the whiteboard just to confirm that you attended some Bootcamp class, or the Bootcamp Mentor rating machinery.

Some of that is excessive but Apple's underinvestment sin is far worse. The SWE org learned to run lean during the dotcom bust, and never unlearned it. Radar is your lifeblood, make it best in the world! Please!

Source: worked at all three!
Hard to know what's right, under the circumstances. At the same time, it seems like their degrees should have an asterisk, to be fair to full graduates.
It is similar on Mac OS. Seems like a reasonable method to shift focus. Doesn’t break things but it different so might need a little settle time to get used to.
I know some BYU students and they were given the option to see their letter grade and decide whether to take the letter grade or a pass/fail for each class. D or F converts to fail, anything else is a pass. Neither changes your GPA.
> To be in first normal form you should store a single value per field

Where? How? How instead should you store groups of things? Blog doesn't say.

> Don't include those fields. You aren't losing data, it's already been covered that it can be inferred.

If you just remove fields, then you absolutely are losing data. Your software can't magically infer it unless you put the values and the relationship somewhere else. So where should the data go instead? What should that look like? Blog doesn't say. Blog doesn't even actually say that you should remove those fields. That's just one possible course of action and you've now put words in blog's mouth.

> These fields cause problems, you already have the data elsewhere, get rid of them.

Again, just deleting fields is 100% losing data unless you put those values somewhere else. How should you handle that? Where should they go? Blog doesn't say.
As of recent Riot/web versions old messages that can't be decrypted in rooms will not be shown (saves the user from being blasted with Unable to Decrypt errors).

So the messages are likely there, but you won't see them until you import your e2e keys.
> Maybe its because I'm not smart enough?

I doubt it. It's probably more because you haven't invested the time to actually sit and learn it.
Meanwhile in Canada, the Federal Gov't has entered into an agreement with Amazon to be a distributor of various PPE equipment.

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/postal-workers-wary-of...
ETH is continuing online and limiting the downside risk of the next set of exams. That seems like a better approach to me.
Power Iteration
Exactly.

Not to mention, any decent hiring manager that knows of this event, if it does occur, would be more suspect of any graduate of Yale (if they attended during the academic period in question) versus an equivalent Ivy.

As the article mentioned, campus is the great equalizer for students of different backgrounds, so give each student a check for the full retail cost of a semester’s tuition and expenses, paid from the school’s endowment, and remove the class from their transcript.

[update]
edited for clarity
Well then maybe that law needs to be rescinded.
I think the many comments griping about this site's layout/readability/accessibility are missing the fact that it was made in 2010 - a time when HTML5 was relatively new, many modern web features didn't exist yet, and Flash was very much the norm for artsy dynamic sites like this.

As such, judge it for what it is - an art site trying to push the bounds of HTML at the time. It clearly wasn't made to maximize readability, and folks complaining about the color names not being searchable are hugely missing the point.
>According to Eileen Huang ’22, requiring undergraduates — many burdened by sickness, hectic home lives or living thousands of miles away from the University — to devote the same level of attention and focus to their classes as they would in the Elm City seems unfair.

I think there is merit to this concern.

I don't know if passing automaticly is the right choice but experiences durring these events can be quite wide ranging.

Just for me I find that some my neighbors complain they are bored. Me, my kids are at home, I have to manage their schooling, I have to work, my wife needs to work...and the youngest needs constant attention. I've never had less time / sleep.

Now students might not have kids but they too might have a great variety of challenges other students / professors don't have.
What public service is Airbnb providing that they should be artificially sustained in the absence of a viable market instead of giving direct public financial support to their employees?
And who will want to travel if you know you have to self-isolate for 2 weeks after you return?
"The quieter you are the more you're able to hear."
Sorry, I just have to clarify. I am or was a Digital Media Director. So I'm always distrustful of "creative" portfolio stuffers. But this sounds like you have the purest of intentions. And it is very kind of you to donate strategy. But do update us!
This. Education is not about passing the exams, it's about learning things.

Although, I do get the rationale for wanting a free pass. Cynically speaking... An authentic Yale diploma must be worth a lot.
I would humbly suggest that doctors very rarely deal with diseases this dangerous (infectiousness + lethality) and that more extreme protection is warranted. As you well know, it is difficult to not catch this thing.

I would much rather overdo my PPE than underdo it. Overdoing it just costs me a little time, underdoing it costs lives and injury.

If you want to see what it takes to have a hospital where no one gets infected, this is instructive. https://youtu.be/9HsGqQCLzLU
Basically, a differential equation is just a description of a rate of change in exact mathematical terms.
"Amazon told shippers the service, known as Amazon Shipping, will be paused starting in June. It was available in just a handful of U.S. cities."

I was going to list my opinion why this is not relevant in any measure. But, that it just be another instance of "Old man yells at cloud".

As, I am still interested in the HN meta. I have a question for you readers, why did you voted up this story?
There's a great thread on Twitter about this, written by a professor of economics:

https://mobile.twitter.com/PerBylund/status/1247624230021271...
> The names of the colors aren't even searchable (because it's not actual text),

This might have something to do with the fact that the site predates CSS transforms.
This deserves a larger blog post, perhaps with some more practical examples? I would love to understand this model better.
I am thrilled now to see such a service now exist! I am always want to learn CS myself, but always felt hard to dive into cuz I have 0 STEM background,I always think group learning is one the the best way to learn CS, let alone now it also provides us a mentor, really interesting and hope this service become popular, I will definitely try it in the future, bookmarked.
Make your own. Transparency sheet with corners cut rounded, foam strip cut from a sponge stuck along one edge of the sheet with double sided tape, elastic strap stapled to two corners. Easy and effective. We have been making and donating them to hopsitals and first responders in our area (not in the US) who are happy to get them.
I wouldn't give much importance to his Clojure articles, they are all shallow and superficial. My only conclusion is that he writes them primarily for marketing purposes.
I'm not sure an asterisk really tells anyone about the critical thing....do they know this stuff? Can they do the job?
If X-windows wasn't complete garbage at actually providing remote applications then it may have had a chance.
Car accidents typically involve a car running into a robot, which might obliterate the robot but would seldom cause injuries to the driver. Delivery robots would almost exclusively operate on sidewalks of 25 mph, maybe 35mph roads. Running into someone is also unlikely to cause serious injury if the robot is kept to a reasonable size and weight limit. Obstacle avoidance and bump sensors are trivial to implement. Drones, on the other hand, can take out eyes and cause severe injury if they impact someone in the face with spinning blades, and crash avoidance mid-air involves an advanced control loop as opposed to just cutting power to motors.
How important is Ph.D for data science?
I suspect it's usually accidental but I feel very little rancor towards them. You solve things the way you think about them (until yesterday it wouldn't have ever struck me that a currency symbol could be in the middle of the value). And that's how, I suppose, you end up with a bunch of people with US Visas that say FNU (first name unknown) in front because they only have one name.
Some do.

Some would otherwise be homeless.

All walks of life attend college.
Most of my floppies are dead, but most NES games did not have batteries, and it's really easy to replace the batteries in the ones that did (it's usually just a CR2032).
I don't think anyone ever thought it was
It took me a long time to get used to functional programming.

For me a big problem was how dense the code can be. I was relying on the verbosity of imperative languages to act as a sort of whitespace.

Another thing is pattern recognition when reading code. I had been using imperative languages for so long that I could mentally gloss over chunks based upon the shape of the code. But functional languages tend to have different shapes from imperative ones so it all looked unfamiliar to me and I got overwhelmed.

Eventually I was able to get passed this stuff and functional languages make a lot more sense to me now. Now I prefer them despite working in Java for my day job.
Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption
>if it does occur, would be more suspect of any graduate of Yale versus an equivalent Ivy

Would they?

Because this one thing might have happened one semester they would decide that individual is less qualified?
I think the gamma on that code is off. Pixel values != linear luminance
SARS-CoV-2 is not a routine disease. HCWs are dropping like flies. They obviously not being adequately protected.
My understanding is yes and I believe you are describing NixOs (https://nixos.org/)
So cops shut down a well-intentioned but ultimately needless parade during days of chaos and confusion about what are allowed and what aren't, and we're living in a police state because of that. Sheesh. Has the author seen an actual police state?

As long as Americans see the police force as an evil to be starved, instead of a social necessity to be filled with capable people with proper training, the police will never get the funding or oversight needed for improvement. The cycle continues.
My little brother is currently attending RIT and what they did is allow anyone to take any course Pass-Fail. It's not an automatic pass, but it does mean it won't screw over your GPA if events have impacted your ability to perform.
Dividends don’t create as much of a false sense of success/growth though. Buyback programs are way more extensive than dividends as well. At this point buybacks and corporate bonds seem like a middleman between executives pockets and the federal reserve.
> you can configure Jitsi to limit it to show video for the last 12 people who spoke

Can you please point me to where this can be done.
So how does this compare to Harvard, where students expect an automatic A even without Covid-19?
This is awesome! Just submitted to give a hand. Thanks for connecting us all together!
I got my first job in software writing selenium code, your library literally changed my and my family's life.

Your work has had a huge impact in my career and life.
What about setting Cookie with Path and SameSite=LAX? I would expect it to prevent sending cookies in that request, although I did not test it.
An optional mulligan for classes seems most fair. You still have to earn it, but make it so it doesn't impact GPAs.
If education is about learning things (and not exams), then it follows the grade doesn’t matter. If a student feels confident they will have learned enough Calc I to take Calc II for the fall semester, then why not let them?
At least in my experience community college students mostly went home at the end of the day anyway.

With colleges where the students live at school the process of trying to shift to doing the work at home in contrast to where they had more resources at school seems like it could be quite different.
Actually it’s MORE valuable if you add up everyone using it

Just less money to be made by those with the power to restrict it

Private property is just a monopoly right to exclude others from the use of something. If they could have used it, it would have been another instance of adding to the value. But someone has to pop up and demand rents and restrict them from doing so. Doesn’t that overall reduce the value of the information?
I would have issue with this if I was using loans to finance that semester.

I am not getting what I paid for initially, and I owe a debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.

Do the students get a partial refund since they are no longer paying for the facilities?
CryptoHack – A fun challenge platform for learning cryptography
I think the biggest cause of this is not regular site images but dynamic ads that come in after the main page loads and never include size information. It’s even worse when the ads change and have a different size that causes the layout to shift while you’re reading an article.
Wish I could give a hand, but I don’t live in LA and my most valuable skill is writing software which doesn’t really help much during a pandemic I guess.
For people not aware (I doubt that it's many in this audience), Santa Clara Valley is better(?) known as Silicon Valley. It's where Apple's based, and it's unpleasantly warm spot in the US for SARS-CoV-2 infections.
where: adverb 1) in or at what place? 2) in what position or circumstances?; conjunction 3) in or at what place, part, point, etc.: 4) in or at the place, part, point, etc., in or at which:; pronoun 5) what place?: 6) the place in which; point at which:

wear: verb 1) to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: 2) to have or use on the person habitually: 3) to undergo gradual impairment, diminution, reduction, etc., from wear, use, attrition, or other causes (often followed by away, down, out, or off) 4) to retain shape, color, usefulness, value, etc., under wear, use, or any continued strain:; noun 5) the act of wearing; use, as of a garment: 6) the state of being worn, as on the person.
This will prepare them well for reality. Working adults, I am sure, will have their demands for the continuation of their livelihoods fully met by their employers, their landlords, and their mortgage providers.