skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the smoking, there's reports and studies of smokers doing better than the general population. Whether the smoke makes their lungs more resilient to the virus or something else is up for debate
I guess they mean Mukesh Ambani, who owns Jio and is the richest person in Asia, is a powerful player in Indian politics.
In March most of the world went from "everything's fine here, situation normal" to shooting out the radio and diving head first into a trash compactor. That might have affected a few things.
Oh OK, I too bought it years ago at $20 - but still, that $10 doesn't materially change my point.
That was captivating. Thank you.
the difference is that in contrast to digital roads, analogue roads are notoriously limited in growth.

The transport sector does not scale in the way a digital product does, for a multitude of very obvious reasons. Simply put, it's mostly not really a technological product.
How do you build emotional and social skills for work?
There seem to be countless books, online courses and bootcamps that teach programming and technical skills but nothing how do people learn the softer skills required for the workplace?

In my past few jobs I've felt completely overwhelmed dealing with people. I often got very upset by criticism as well as upsetting others without realising it.
They're called books
I am 12 and what is this
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Have you ever read George Washington's farewell address?

https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-sources-2/arti...

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."
The NM signs I love are the ones that say "Gusty Winds May Exist."

Indeed.
Confusion.
10 prisoners in Ohio have now died of COVID, 1 from the prison mentioned in this article and 9 from another prison where most prisoners are infected: https://drc.ohio.gov/Portals/0/DRC%20COVID-19%20Information%...
No, I wasn't joking. Patients on ventilators have a reported mortality rate of 66% to 90% (NY is 80%.)

And California has an extremely low corona mortality rate, with most of the population exposed to it since Dec.

So it looks like the "science" HN'ers spout about spread and mortality is completely wrong.
I think they make more than that. A TC article last year projected $50M in 2019. It also said they were not profitable.

Even then that doesn’t exactly cover salary and benefits for 300 employees in SF, let alone everything else.
My impression is that he takes the stance that “I don’t just want to buy your 9:00-5:00 inventions. I want them all” (to quote the article verbatim).
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Expect to see this model spread in the years to come. It has a lot of potential, though I'm not sure it's easily adaptable to non-agrarian economies.
> Trying to compile Firefox was already a challenge. That, and each compile took an hour.

At first glance, this sounds terrible. But when compared to software projects of comparable size, Firefox is hardly unique. Compare to compiling Chromium for example, or even the Linux kernel.
I mean, the docs literally spell this out, so I'm not sure how much you or the author of the article wants their hand held:

> To best leverage Stripe’s advanced fraud functionality, include this script on every page, not just the checkout page. This allows Stripe to detect anomalous behavior that may be indicative of fraud as customers browse your website.

https://stripe.com/docs/js
I think the point is that Russia's programs isolated those who had a talent/passion for math as opposed to just trying to bring every student to a basic level of understanding. If a student doesn't have the drive/talent/passion for a field, it follows that they will not perform as well in the workforce as their driven/talented/enthusiastic peers.
ext2 is pretty easy to implement (a minimal implementation at least)! It's what I used for my hobby os

Have you checked out the osdev wiki and forums? There's a good deal of info on both of those topics there.
The voting system does determine how many and what types of parties you end up with.

FPTP as in the US will always yield a two party system in the long run as thats the only way you can “win” in it.

More elaborate systems would get you an equilibrium of multiple parties, with much better overlap of what people want to their representatives.

Grouping would indeed always happen, but you wouldn’t need to go to 50% of society to get what you want, so the wants and political speech can be much more varied and relevant.

The best explanations of how it all works I’ve seen were from CGP Grey’s videos https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
Ah yes, I had completely forgotten about ::-moz-focus-inner.
That was uncalled for: "the poor can not afford principles" is a fairly reasonable opinion to have.
It may be just that Russian style of teaching is more conservative and preserved the way teaching was done in the 1800s.
Makes sense.

Chick-fil-a got some press a couple of years ago about landing k8s clusters at their restaurants where the installers and staff are totally hands off. May be similar to your use case or may inspire some googling.

IIRC, Intel was funding some efforts around this type of solution, but with an IoT focus. Not sure if that is still a thing.

I was working on a project that was looking at doing this and was really excited about it, but we went a different direction.
"Plug-it-in" is simply jargon for what would more properly be called substitution and reduction. One would use the exact same sort of reasoning when doing "proper" math proofs, so I think your attitude might be a bit misguided - there's no "magic" involved.
The same old tired Illuminati/Soros/<Generic Rich Businessman owning the government> spiel repeated in all the countries across the globe.
Unfortunately, our systems must reflect the fact that our "reluctance" to provide truly equal opportunity in early learning and grade school precludes any claim to meritocracy. We have hobbled ourselves, but not in the way you seem to be imagining: saddled with poverty and anxiety, history and double consciousness, our Harrison Bergerons don't trouble the children of parents terrified of a truly level playing field.

I do agree that we should change that.
I wonder how much the respective cultures and politico-economic systems of those states play into that.

My dad was similarly hyper-tracked: he entered grade school at 7 and graduated at 16 (he grew up in the Philippines, but as part of the expat Filipino-Chinese community, and went to Chinese schools). When my dad tried similarly hyper-tracking me academically (suburban Boston), I got beat up, physically, by my peers. Having been traumatized into becoming a terrible student, I later found out I did much better economically than many of my more academically-diligent college classmates that ended up getting physics Ph.Ds.

The U.S. is fundamentally an exchange economy: you succeed based on how well you can make other people happy. That privileges EQ and social intelligence over IQ and academic intelligence. The USSR was a command economy, and China was an export economy until very recently. Both of those privilege having specific technical skills in areas that are particularly useful to the state, many of which have mathematics and science as a precursor. It wouldn't surprise me if China starts devaluing academic achievement as it transitions from an export economy to an exchange economy. We're already starting to see it with the fuerdai, the children of the new Chinese rich.
that's really gorgeous. I find windows 95 aesthetics a master piece. I'm not gonna lie, I thought about windows 95 when I was creating FOS, my Fake Operational System "framework".

I'm thinking about refactoring it and I'll may incorporate windows color scheme to it. Here's the link if you wanna see what I am talking about.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos
The only company worse on privacy than Google.
True. Our current PM Modi will dance to Ambani's tune. But killing BSNL isn't so easy ... They have lakhs of employees and with the poor state of indian economy I doubt if the government would be able to afford to pay the majority a proper severance package. Not to mention the unions and strikes they will have to deal with.
From what I could see they were responsive
I'm being charitable and not making assumptions about the posters' motives.
I know lots of UC math/cs profs who meet 1-1 with high school students every week. Currently, the process is pretty informal, where local high school students just knock on the doors of professors until one agrees to regular meetings. UC Riverside is in the process of opening up a high school directly on the campus grounds to make the process more formal.
Except COBOL often is the right answer for text processing now, meets all your criteria (debugger, IDE, maintainable, etc) and far more mature than Go, Python, Rust or D (really...D?).
As long as enough people submit to the "muh private company" idea, this will only get worse.
Pretty cool coincidence nonetheless! The reason I asked was because I noticed that your comment was within minutes of the parent comment which was a response to another comment about _your_ text-search project and how fast it is.

I said out loud, "Wow" and browsed through ripgrep. Nice work!

Was torn on whether you were tailing the HN api with ripgrep to alert you or if it was just the right place and time. I had a good time going through how that would work, so, thank you haha!

Occam's razor, right?
Nothing is fully automated. At their scale even if a small fraction of their users need manual intervention that's a lot of work. I'm sure they didn't freeze their feature set 10 years ago - they have a feature backlog for sure. On top of that they appear to have an ios, android, and web app. At their scale they need an infrastructure team just to keep the plumbing working. Their administrative back end is at least as complex as their user facing front end, and probably is also constantly generating feature requests. We are easily up to 30 engineers and more support people. That means accounting, HR, managers, payroll. The beast grows.
Considering how cyclical everything is I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a return to Win95/98 style UIs soon enough. They’ll advertise it as “revolutionising productivity with an innovative new approach to desktop computing” and give us the a recoloured Win98.

I’d probably switch back to Windows if they did.
> Patients on ventilators have a reported mortality rate of 66% to 90% (NY is 80%.)

reported where?
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If you're going to go as far as "it's perfectly possible that the nonce was stored with the mouse info", then your example following:

> If you want to avoid a connection to a "specific human", it would go like this:

doesn't work either. It's perfectly possible that the server stored that info with the IP address and session information, since it also has access to those, and that could then be connected up with the transaction. I don't understand at this point what standard you're trying to meet, because it sounds like by what you're saying, literally any data sent to a server is "PII" if at some point that server also can, in principle, know your name.
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My flat is almost 100% hardwood flooring, and I just bought a 966 a couple of months ago. The roomba runs once per day, and when I'm cooking I use a broom to sweep any mess up into a shovel (I have one on sticks so I don't have to bend down.)

Since buying the roomba I've not used the real vacuum cleaner at all, although I still mop the floors once every 7-10 days which is mostly necessary because of the child we have running around the place.
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Sounds like a great way to ignore that student intern / junior in the team doing a vendor review for that person you know that doesn't have time to do it themselves. The intersection of people oracle sales folks in my circle know and those that are actually involved in a larger vendor selection has historically been relatively small.

edit: good point, fair enough
As a Stripe customer, I have to say it is pretty easy to deduce this from their documentation. They recommend loading Stripe.js on every page of your website rather than just the payment form. The given reason is to detect fraud. [1]

> To best leverage Stripe’s advanced fraud functionality, include this script on every page, not just the checkout page. This allows Stripe to detect anomalous behavior that may be indicative of fraud as customers browse your website.

There are also indications on the product page for Stripe Radar and other places where it is obvious they are doing device fingerprinting.

I can accept Stripe's explanation given the nature of their product and the effectiveness of Stripe Radar. That said, I think they need to make some changes. First of all, they should lay it out clearly that the tracking is high-resolution and includes mouse movement. Second, the tracking should be disabled by default and more closely tied to the usage of Radar. Most businesses don't need Radar until they reach a certain scale. Stripe could encourage the use of Radar when the account transaction volume reaches a certain size and use that opportunity to explain the benefits of enabling the tracking system. It should be optional, even then, though.

1: https://stripe.com/docs/js
Ethical obligations are between people. Companies are not people. While people in companies may have ethics, the company itself does not. Companies are not ethical agents. They can’t give their word. They can’t hold a person to their word because a person cannot give their word to a company.

I’m not the person questioning the OP’s ethical integrity. And now mine.
my grandma doesn’t chat, so she doesn’t use any of the 7+ chat apps. And I am the one initiating the calls anyway, so that’s easy too
Parts of Carbon are still around. It’s only the GUI parts that never made the transition to 64-bit.

(Source: my app uses a couple Carbon APIs, where I couldn’t get the newer Cocoa APIs to work reliably.)
Hey everybody. A little bit about this. I've been measuring hundreds (looks like over a thousand by now) jeans with my partner over the past year. We've become a bit obsessed with turning clothes shopping into more of a science, mostly because we've found clothes shopping incredibly opaque and frustrating.

I've taken a bunch of the measurements and other data I've collected and turned it into a fairly comprehensive write-up.

Hope you enjoy, and let me know if you have any more technical questions I couldn't cover in the post!
It's an opinion, but "fairly reasonable" is very debatable.

Being poor doesn't mean a person doesn't have principles, just like being wealthy isn't correlated with having strong principles or morals.
And another point, high school and college level math is coming from the 18th and early 19th centuries. All of it can be explained without formalization from 1920-30 and students for non-mathematical degrees will understand it much better. I can explain sets to elementary school kids in 10 minutes ;)
I was generous, assuming mere ineptitude rather than malice. The guidelines ask one to use the strongest plausible interpretation.
I've heard (but never actually verified) air shows basically come out of the Air Force and Navy's recruitment budget.
Correlation does not prove causation. Only really serious cases end up on ventilators, of course the death rate of those serious cases is going to be higher than the average of all cases.

(Assuming the statistics you're reporting aren't made up)
No, it was NetSurf - https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ...
Imagine if the lord of the rings' world was like when we were still conquering and exploring all around, and then some dude, tolkien's lost brother, or something, twin, perhaps, with co-systemic minds, mapped out the unmentioned parts, and then you could just span the two things together.

Fun times and theories co-bro. Anyways.
Not the OP, nor am I a bear on Lambda School, but I'll articulate the bear case.

Lambda School is just another source of talent/human capital to a company. And companies suddenly aren't hiring and probably won't be for a while. And if they aren't hiring, Lambda School can't place students. And if they can't place students, then there are no ISAs, which is how Lambda makes its money. It's a straightforward funnel that's about to have a ton of supply and less demand, with Lambda bearing the financial burden to train/education the people. On top of that, if you have a bunch of people taking all this time to be trained under the pretense of getting a pretty good paying job and now that's not going to happen, well you're not going to be too thrilled with Lambda School (rightly or wrongly). So you've got, potentially, a double whammy: less revenue and your best marketing channel (word of mouth) going south. Not great.
There's also a limit imposed by the ability to return data to earth. I'm thinking of New Horizons, for example. The spacecraft took about 8000 measurements or photos in it's rendezvous with the Pluto system. It totalled about 6 GB of data that took 15 months to return to earth (with a maximum effective rate of 2kbps). Obviously Saturn is closer, and you could get a better transfer rate, but at some point you hit a limit of how many pictures you can take versus what image quality you can accept.
Go and check the recovery rate graph. Whats happening there? Is it multiplicative?
I remembered - the relatively unknown browser called NetSurf - https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ...
The company I currently work for made across the board 10% pay cuts this past pay cycle. It has absolutely demolished morale among the rank and file.

It's definitely contextual to some extent. We're in an industry that's going to take a revenue hit, but the sustainability of the company isn't in question. Doesn't help that the company could afford nearly a billion dollars in stock buybacks in the last year, either.

I think one of the big takeaways for me is that it's burned any good will the company had with a lot of its employees. I expect pretty heavy turnover once hiring starts to thaw again and I'll likely be part of it.
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I'm not familiar with Stuyvesant, TJHSST and the like. The best Russian schools follow the Konstantinov [1] tradition of "listki" (handouts), where each student is essentially guided to re-invent the math curriculum by solving problems. There're no textbooks or lectures. You solve problems from the handouts at your own pace and discuss them with a TA when ready (typically volunteers from among former graduates of the same school).

You can get some taste of these handouts for grades 8 and above from https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=htt...
> Patients on ventilators have a reported mortality rate of 66% to 90% (NY is 80%.)

It would be 100% without the ventilators. They go on ventilators when they have to be on them and at that point the disease is severe and the prognosis is grim.

In the US 45,000 people have died from COVID-19 so far, and that's with all the countermeasures and restrictions that have been put in place. That number is still going up. Yesterday saw the highest number of new confirmed cases in the US since testing began:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The HN crowd likes to freak out whenever data is being collected...
In Soviet Union, quadratic equations were introduced in 7th grade, not 4th [1], so if you did in fact study them in 4th grade your experience is not typical. And while American 7th grade program does not cover quadratic equations, it includes intro to probability and statistics, which is far more useful in real world, and which was not covered in Soviet math classes until much later (if at all).

[1] http://fremus.narod.ru/schoolbk2.html#mat2
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I might be a few years older than you – I get far stronger nostalgic feelings from Windows 3.x UI than that of Windows 9x.
Just because misinformation and ignorance seems to have a favored side in American politics doesn't mean that people are shutting it down because it's "politically incorrect". People are downvoting because it's misleading and harmful.
Way more people are leaving than are upgrading.
I don't think formal texts should go away, just things equivalent to those well done, plain spoken, 1-1 explanations need to be right beside them in the textbooks. They often are not.

Also math tends to have a documentation problem that could learn a lot from software engineering. Single letter variables are not acceptable in most coding for a simple example.
From what I've been reading the main difference is simply exposing the TRIM command, which can in no way be a detriment - the only reason to disable TRIM is to hide the fact that it's SMR
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There are now, not so much 40 years ago. Even today, a lot of the STEM enrichment programs in the US have roots in the USSR. Hell, a big fraction of the physics problems I assign when tutoring these days were written by Russians in the 80s, because they're just that good.
What's the difference that it is not equivalent to buying? Nothing is special tax-wise about those shares that they came from RSUs. If you got N shares at $X you've paid taxes on $X*N, she same if you bought those shares with cash in your bank account. If you wish to own extra stock in your employer you'd be better suited to dollar cost average and buy every paycheck.

> If [your company] currently outperforms the market

What does that mean? Outperforms over some past time period? That has no bearing on the future. If you have insider knowledge that you think your company will outperform the market in the future I agree it makes sense to keep, but see above about dollar cost averaging and also consult your lawyer about insider trading laws.

> most [don't], they are engineers, not experienced stock traders.

Exactly, and the standard advice for non-experts is to buy index funds. Not try and guess which specific companies will outperform the market.