skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a form of in Germany that in most of the states with the "Leistungskurse" or the "Profilklassen".

I'd argue that its extremely important to _not_ be able to drop courses since it contributes to a well-rounded education, something the US sorely lacks.
Edit: the original = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4HHaNhcgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhtcU4-xAM this one? :)

It's the first thing that came to my mind as I read the title
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The Dutch government should take back the part where they accuse entire nations of profligacy and indolence. This happened during the Greek crisis also and it is a tragedy which punishes the poor and the weak.

Without mutual support there is no EU. Compassion for others is in your own self interest long term, but I fear this is easily forgotten in a crisis.
I moved from post-Soviet Ukraine to Alabama in 1999 and started school in grade 6 in the US. For the first 3 years or so my entire math class seemed like just a rehash of things we had already learned in Ukraine.

I failed in taking math study seriously at that point as everything was so easy. When things did get hard at some point in high school and I had to learn new things, I no longer had the discipline to really commit. Also there was no strict grandmother to make me study math for hours after school or on Saturdays anymore. I really regret not having the foresight to stay committed to it now. I did end up taking "advanced" math classes through high school, but my level of commitment and understanding was never what it could have been.
> legally admissible evidence to impact the higher layers.

This does not prevent the police from getting on their tail, putting them under intense surveillance, and effectively neutralising them.
Ask HN: Hacker News high latency since some days
Since some days Hacker News is super slow to load on my laptop.

Some screenshots of the load times:

https://ibb.co/x8g2Gv9

https://ibb.co/rFXwRRC

I'm using Firefox on Windows 10, but I could reproduce it using Microsoft Edge. I live in Germany.

Is it just me?
It varies by university and study.

I went to a state university in the US, my science classes were pretty rigorous, with professors saying "you have 1 week to know everything up to Chapter 6, if you didn't get this in high school, tough".

In STEM curriculums, you have to choose an interdisciplinary science track, I chose Biology and Ecology because I thought it would be easier than Chemisty. It was much more complex than anything I was ever exposed to in High School and then spent 0 time on catching anyone up.

I don't regret it.
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The exit button is on the menu bar icon itself. One does not need to remember key shortcuts to exit. You can simply tap on the menu bar icon and then click "Stop Annotating Screen". Hope it helps.
Exactly. How great is it to rock to that tune?
> If you are the only Internet people know and can afford, it doesn't matter if you are a private entity or the Govt.

The only thing worse than a monopoly is the non existence of the particular service.

Before Jio, reasonable speed Internet was non existent in rural India. The plans were priced so high that using Opera Mini with cloud compression was a reasonable decision, to save on data cost. I used to switch off 3G to ensure data doesn't get all consumed.

> But it took me 3 days of multiple hours on the phone, and I still couldn't access Hackernews, or reddit or even New York Times.

What do you mean by "not load"? Are you sure this was not something unrelated to Jio?
The stimulus bill is also filled with pork like 25 million for the Kennedy art center, 25 million for congress salary and others.
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Totally agree. We are changing that now. Thanks a lot for the feedback. Will rectify this.
just wanted to say kudos for the BA Test Kitchen reference!
That wouldn't surprise me. As a kid, airshows and movies like Top Gun & Iron Eagle certainly gave me a pro-military view. I did end joining the army after high school. On the first day of basic training, I also have very vivid memories of drill sergeants mocking us recruits for having bought into the "be all you can be" propaganda :)

My favorite memory of an airshow was seeing the SR-71 fly. Oh my gosh that thing was cool. It was so loud that its vibrations set off what seemed to be every car alarm in the parking lot. At the end of its performance, the pilot just pulled back on the stick and just flew straight up into the clouds. I don't know if this video is the airshow I went to, but imagine a kid with a love of military aircraft seeing this thing up close --https://youtu.be/aV82gbriMc8.

I also have fond memories of seeing an A/V-8B Harrier do a vertical take off and landing. The funniest memory I have was seeing the label on an Apache helicopter's 30mm cannon that said "do not aim at personnel on base".

My favorite first hand experience was getting to fly in a vintage WW2 B-25 Mitchell. I sat in the glass bubble where a gunner would sit at the front of the aircraft. This was in 2012. The owner said that all of the parts he ordered to keep the plane flying came in the original WW2 packaging. As of 8 years ago, somewhere out there was a warehouse full of WW2 era spare parts for 70 year old bombers!

Airshows are cool :)
And "koláče" is already plural, no need for the "s" at the end :)
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I would take a notch down from intellectual superiority.

I have never claimed cryptocurrency to be better solution than fiat money.

I am simply pointing out that false claims and perceptions that are often being spread.

There is a lot issues with bitcoin but that doesn't make fiat somehow flawless solution.

And just be be precise...

The idea behind bitcoin is not to directly controlled by government. That is exactly what government can't do with bitcoin and what they are doing now - print money like crazy in a hope that ceos of multinationals somehow fix current crisis.

Government and law is absolutely required to go after criminal elements. You cant solve crime with blockchain.
Alternative point of view: functions is just a performance boost. You still have to understand what and how they do to use them correctly. Treating them as "black box" leads to shitty outcomes.

Coincidentally, there seems to be quite a lot of overlap with cultural background and one or another PoV on functions.
I like the following two paragraphs appearing exactly in this order in the text:

"If evidence is found that Covid-19 is a biological weapon, some pundits such as Fox News host Lou Dobbs have called for the US to declare war on China.

Nonetheless, it is unclear what the legal ramifications would be if the virus was indeed leaked from a Chinese lab, but as a result of a research project that was outsourced and funded by the US government."
Sure. But we are in the following context:

> I know a couple of well educated and rational people that are already stating they will not take a vaccine once it's available, simply because they "can't" trust any data and study done on it."

And the point is, they are neither rational nor educated. Too much of irrational is defended by "he is rational person" even when the person in question is demonstrably not acting rationally and demonstrably does not know what he is talking about.

Had there been new vaccine defended by only one study that has not been even peer reviewed yet, they and you absolutely should not trust it. You absolutely should not trust vaccine because author wrote article in popular non scientific journal either.
I'm still paying my off :P
Isn't that Greek?
That is just an excuse. You could easily take an "intro to programming" before trying to get into the school. All it does is lower the bar of entry and you can only teach so much in the time given so it will ultimately take time away in the other end.
They'd have ignored you. I went through something similar myself. The barrier to exit for students is so high that colleges have little incentive to care about pleasing them.
Junior What?
This a gem of a line:

"Coding up a simulation and having a computer torture it until it confessed the results you wanted certainly takes talent, but it is arguably a different kind of talent than thinking deeply about the problem itself."
> Progress doesn’t happen automatically when the scientific or technical prerequisites for it are in place. It only happens when people work on it, and that almost always requires funding.

This is among the reasons why, for all I love free software, it tends not to be a driver of innovation.
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That's the conventional wisdom, but I'm not convinced that it applies in the current situation. Is anyone hiring, I mean other than more Amazon warehouse drones?

(sorry pickers for that rude language, you know that you are more important now than said top performers)
Ahoj from the Czech Republic. :-)
> refusal of anything but palliative care
Oh so many memories, I spent so many hours as a kid setting up my own stunt. Would def want a new version running with a modern 3d engine (GTA V is a little like that)
I don't know, Windows 95 looked crude even during its day. Functional, but not pleasant. I guess Brutalist would be the term? As soon as there was the ability to skin it, people tried to veer away the default look, with Mac-like styles being a common alternative.

People probably have rose-tinted nostalgia for the 95 era because of the nightmare that followed: Windows XP :)
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Looks nice, gonna try to use it some of my projects. The old Windows UI is really functional and easy to understand
Alphabet’s Loon deploys internet connectivity balloons to Kenya
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
[Some mid-points or whatever has been problematical, afaik,] and afaik they are trying to route around it. It's not just you, dude(tte,) github and co also took the dive, and lots of other things. Things should be good('er) now though? Same timezone my geiger, good morning.

Stay safe in these times. Fiel gluck. #kaffeiprost
>but people generally still are working/teaching in good faith.

It depends on university. On mine, most professors just see it as a job, something that one must endure until it's over. And when you bring to attention that what they're lecturing is incorrect or not proven they don't really care, again not all, but most, at least on my university. Just today I reminded the professor that there is a difference between a theory and hypothesis, their response was that they don't know if the theories they're teaching were tested or proven, but they are teaching this because that's what's written in the book...

That made me really sad, it's already hard to stay motivated to not leave the university because you need a certificate of a higher education to be taken seriously, but such behaviour from professors makes it even harder.

I've already expressed my worries to those in control of courses and they say that they understand but can't do much to change things because the curriculum that we have was accepted by the government.

Here in Slovenia people that work in the universities are paid by the government regardless of how happy or unhappy the students are, which is probably the reason for the situation in which we are...
> Doing well at your subjects in AU got you labelled as a nerd.

As a Chinese student who studied in Australia for a few years I think you just misunderstand the culture.

Most of the popular kids got good grades and were not labelled as nerds. And the nerd kids didn’t really get good grades either.

I think Australians are very practical focused (maybe this is what you mean by anti-intellectual?).

For example the friends I know who wanted to do medicine and law - and are now successful doctors and lawyers - stopped focusing on maths at the end of grade 10.

This would put them way behind in math than an equivalent Chinese student who also wanted to be a doctor or lawyer but as far as I can tell it hasn’t had any negative impact on their careers.
Both the replies here miss the fact that the relationship between Netflix and ISPs is often pretty cooperative. Specifically, Netflix will provide ISPs with devices to do caching. The ISPs need to install and run these devices, configure the routes to send traffic to them, etc etc. Details: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/. Because of that (and various other things), it's very easy for ISPs to attribute traffic to Netflix.
Yeah, I understand that and I mentioned not everyone can do it. At least, if possible, try to get a small desk from Ikea or something and put it in the living room or a corner of the room if you can. Sure it will be cramped but your back will thank you for it. Again, I know it isn't a possibility for everyone, but during these times, and hopefully temporary ones, just try to re arrange as much as possible to keep healthy. Sure you have to go jump over the bed to reach for the wardrobe, but remember, it is temporary only. Move the dining table/sofa against the wall and setup something in the corner.

I know the difficulty for a lot of people with small apartments with kids + partner + themselves now at home all the time! Was just trying to get people to think a bit about their long term back/body health (because even 1-2 months of this may bring you pain for a long time)
I get what you're saying about openness, but I also think there's an immense matter of time involved. Music was an obsession for me from the age of 12, and I had time to be open for all of it. Thanks to a paper route, I bought my first turntable around then and my second a few months later. I was DJing parties within a year. I listened to music _constantly_.

It was ALL new to me. It was the early 90s at the time so that was all new to me, and all of the 80s music was relatively new to me. Everything before that was new to me. I had entire days to listen to all of it all the time: While I was on the train to / from school, while I was on lunch break at school, while I was on my paper route or eventually whatever other mindless teenage job I was doing, while I was failing miserably at understanding BASIC, while I was in my room drawing, writing, doing home work, or literally just sitting and listening to music - as a full-on activity.

And then the internet was just starting to get popular. Sure, it took an hour to download a wav file via modem, but it wasn't unheard of to download a few songs overnight (pre-mp3) from various sources. And then the next day we would talk about the new music, and I'd play it for my friends and they'd play what they found recently, and we'd talk some more, and then we'd head to the record store to find the best of it and more, and talk to people at the record store about it, and then pass it on to others and play the music at parties and so on.

I don't have anywhere near that much time on my hands now. I don't have that many people to talk about music with, nor do I have the time or inclination to talk about it with them.

I'm very fortunate to be working full-time right now, but I sure would love to take a couple months off to catch up on the last 10 years worth of music. It's pretty damn easy to be open to new music when you have the time to listen to everything and build a nuanced opinion.

On a completely related note, if I were a musician, I would do everything I can to release music far and wide right now. A lot of the world suddenly has nothing but time to consume music.
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> they will go and infect many others
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> Republican lawmakers such as Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Dan Crenshaw have also introduced legislation that would allow Americans to sue China in federal court over the deaths and economic damage wrought by the virus.

Does the notion of ex-post-facto not apply to foreigners? (Although the concept of a domestic lawsuit against foreigners is itself weird to me.)
> It is understandable that the Chinese lab likely struggled with safety issues given the fact US labs share similar problems

This line is what makes me think I am reading propoganda. It starts as a news story but continues as a opinion piece.

It is never understandable that a lab of this nature, regardless of country, has safety issues. I don't think Chinese authorities nor US authorities would agree it is understandable. Or at least I hope they wouldn't.
I agree there would be an adoption problem for something new. But if there were a viable alternative, and people managed to build killer apps on it might be possible to draw adoption over time as people got to experience the superior performance.
The interesting part mentioned about the deployment of the balloons:

> The Loon balloons actually have quite the journey to make to get to the area it will service in Kenya, taking off from either Puerto Rico or Nevada, as Loon CTO Sal Candido explains in a Medium post. From there, they navigate on air currents to make their way to their target destination, using “the fastest route that drifting on the stratospheric winds allow,” to traverse upwards of 6,800 miles through a somewhat circuitous route, which is determined by Loon’s automated navigation software.

The link of the blog post by Loon's CTO which shows a map of the balloon travel from Puerto Rico to Kenya for the deployment: https://medium.com/loon-for-all/take-me-to-kenya-23221c3f80d
How about trying to answer this question? Why is it that the state of Italy has so much problems with their budget?

This is not the first time it has been a problem.

edit: I am Dutch btw, how about you?
In Romania in high school (Sf. Sava) being good at math and physics made you automatically very popular, everyone wanted to sit near you whenever you had written exams :) In any case, smart people were appreciated, there were no "nerds".
Art (and music) is not something for endless consumption. Music is something we tie to our experiences, to our life, to times we've known, etc.

There's no real need to always seek new music, obsessively, unless you particularly enjoy to (or you have business reasons). You're not a bad person, or more shallow, or lesser art lover, for not doing so (in fact many very deep creators of art had a very limited set of artists and works they liked).

Having a set of songs, artists etc that speak to you, and you have grown into -- what most people do --, can be even deeper than endless "crate digging" and collection/consumption approach to music...
I am also seeing this, although seems to be across many domains including my own on dedicated servers. I was going to look at DNS hmmm no wondering if its just load on wider backbone.
The R3000 suffered from the need for load delay slots too, unfortunately. I may have forgotten all the exact details though. I am genuinely in awe of people who seem to retain the details of this stuff 10 - 20 years later, my brain certainly doesn't work like that!
Some of you bringing up ethical and moral issues.

But let me raise a totally different issue: what if I am a 100% keyboard person or use a phone with voice commands? Will most my purchases be marked as possibly fraudulent? Will my Amazon packages arrive a week later than anyone elses?

And to the bigger question: will we soon live in a world where AI can discriminate against anyone who is slightly different and everyone are okay with that??
That might be useful as backup storage, but archival storage can not be used as a replacement for general use NAS storage
That's later than Windows 95 - maybe 98 or 2000. Windows 95 didn't support gradient titlebars.
Account sharing is not illegal, it's just against the ToS. Drama queen.
It might now that we have seen the effects.
I also moved from the Polish to British system and I do agree with your first point, but not really with the second one. I really welcomed the ability to focus more (but not only) on things I was more into.

A major difference for me was the approach to grading. In Poland, you might attempt to pass an exam until you do pass it. In Britain, you take an exam and you either pass or not. You can even pass the year if you fail an entire subject. Universities specifically want a certain % of people passing so they do doctor the numbers.

The most important thing is the end result. And here, I believe, the UK universities are better: they actually give you way more practical skills, while Polish unis give you more knowledge. If you want to be a scientist you might prefer #2, but for having a good job #1 is way better.
Seconded. It feels like cheating but it takes out a lot of boilerplate.

Overall pytorch is a product of suspiciously high quality. I would say "except for libtorch" but it looks like they might have remedied that in this release.
FYI,New York isn't doing the same. The mayor's task panel issued recommendations last year, but he has yet to implement any. https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/02/05/turning-up-the-pre...
Could you please elaborate on that? How would I do that?

Right now I am using `SMLoginItemSetEnabled` to set my helper app and returns `true` as the returned status. The helper even seems to launch my main app just fine if I run the helper alone. But it doesn't work after login :(

I did try running `lsregister -dump` but it returns a massive database and I have no idea how to even filter it for my app only.
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If you open any soviet textbook you will see the following text on title page: (loosely translated) "Supplementary reading for students of xx specialties higher education" it can school level or college level. But in essence those books are an addition to the course which is mainly delivered by lectures. You can study by yourself but it will be hard and you will need extra material to replace lectures.
Just a tangential story.

Few years back there was this 'news' that Mukesh Amabani's son had killed 2 person in a car accident. Now you can't find any link in any major news website

https://thewire.in/business/anant-ambani-memes-reliance-indu...
Is this usually a legit journal??
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> Does the notion of ex-post-facto not apply to foreigners?

Ex post facto is a term of art for retroactive criminalization, this addresses civil suits.
If that were true I'd agree that is racism.

I don't think this is the case. I don't think the US bases immigration policy even partially on race.

Some nations leaders are a threat and their people are going to have a harder time but that is not a race issue. For example a North Korean would have a harder time than a South Korean yet they are the same race.
> It is now undisputed that Covid-19 should be taken seriously as a serious illness.

This is heavily disputed. I wonder what the threshold really is for changing that idea. Now that the death numbers are greater than the flu, we are still at the "those people were going to die within a year anyway" phase, and the "I am okay and have a BMI less than 30 so therefore people like me are okay" phase.

Been watching the studies closely though!

How is rainews as a source? This article is saying mild symptoms recovered at home have permanent lung damage and divers cannot dive anymore.

edit: if anyone misread my quotes as personal opinion, they're not. It is unproductive to offer counterpoints here because you need to do that on your Facebook and Whatsapp groups if your filter bubbles even allow you to see people that say the things in quotes. This post is merely acknowledging filter bubbles exist, in the author's community it is "undisputed", in different communities it is quite disputed you can see it on the comment section anywhere. I know its hard to read things that don't match your talking points verbatim, but save the copypasta and read what I wrote.
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