skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they used the American spelling because they’re quoting an American?
Genius. Will buy.
Sure, sure, but you can just freeze applesauce or the bananas. It'll last ages. It'll definitely outlast any temporary supply chain stall. Cinnamon lasts forever too, and it's very compact powdered. I have like half a kilogram and I don't even bake that often.

Truly thing you can make quick breads pretty easily and without any work at all and the goods for it will last ages. Even flour.

Actually, the modern freezer will keep you safe and secure for ages.

All you need is electricity and you can outlast any temporary supply chain stall with this stuff. People buying flour are perfectly fine.

It's okay to be annoyed that people are making it hard to practise your hobby. Just sounds silly when folks try to make it out to be some irrational thing that other people are trying things.
Drop me an email and I'll send you links with a timecode since they are pretty off topic for HN.
The “Mail Order Brides” Test for Finding Product-Market Fit (and Winning Offers)
It's not really about "encouragement". This is clearly Apple's plan, and this is merely an incremental step that they must take to normalize certain things before they can achieve what they actually want to.
No, it's insulting.

SF meddled with no regard for the obvious effects of price controls. You would expect to see previously viable delivery options or radius reduced as a result.
Would Caltech be one of these schools?
So much frustration over something that in theory is so good for building stuff.

If you go over to http://agilemanifesto.org/ and read these simple 4 sentences, it makes sense:

* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
* Working software over comprehensive documentation
* Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
* Responding to change over following a plan

What goes horribly wrong is managers, and their incapability. They do not work with teams, instead they use agile as a means to simply get updates at the end of week and set orders down the ranks every Monday morning.
Sia has been around for years doing this for backups
Accounting for some minor differences in scaling (my high school GPA was weighted on a 4.0 scale and SAT scores were out of 2400 when I took them), my stats are very similar to yours. I'm surprised honestly that you didn't get into better schools.
It doesn't take a bulleted list, talking points, or any political slant to recognize that the current administration is a complete failure when it comes to managing this disaster.
> I should emphasize that what we need is physical-distancing, not social.

Good distinction. We should be focusing more on hygiene while finding ways to connect remotely with the people who are important to us.
The problem is that Asians don't have a story of discrimination. Blacks have slavery, Jews have the holocaust, Native Americans have their land being taken from them, and Latinos have being raised in a third world country and fled to America on foot. These are simple, visual stories as to why they were all discriminated against.

But Asians, along with Indians are mostly relatively wealthy immigrants that came here legally. There is no story of their collective hardships, so no heart strings are pulled, so no one cares.

If there was a movie about discrimination and hardship, the Asians would be cut out of it, being their story was too boring and not dramatic enough. That is the real reason.
Speaking of Lean, I remember my mother telling me about their hospital adopting lean and that meant they could keep only so many supplies on hand in the lab. I remember thinking at the time "wow, isn't it a bad idea to try to limit the amount of supplies on hand at a hospital"

I guess we'll have to see if we ever have a major health care crises. Wait...

And we wonder why the hospitals didn't have enough PPE on hand. Did the MBA virus spread to hospitals and did they misapply methodologies like Lean where it had no place, except as short sighted cost cutting?

One of the major problems in industry I've seen again and again is management, etc pretending they know more about the job and it's requirements than the people doing it.

As Lean originated in manufacturing with the WORKERS making the improvements and the WORKERS being empowered (anyone could stop the line if there was a problem) it's bit ironic that a corrupted version was used later to beat workers into submission and achieve petty cost cutting versus process improvement as in the health care anecdote above.
This of course means someone who used to be doing day to day management is no longer in that role.
Worth noting that elite universities aren't elite because they impart special knowledge that you couldn't reasonably get elsewhere. They're elite because they get the pick of the litter from each graduating class. And top students want to attend, because the schools are considered elite (by parents, employers, other students, whatever), creating a virtuous/vicious cycle. Your degree signals your elevated status & improves your career prospects -- you were always intelligent but lacked the pedigree that would open the right doors.

So any competing "elite" university gets hobbled from the start simply by being "competing." Because a university degree is more social signaling and branding than a mere education. It's a really powerful bit of marketing: people will read this & generally agree (I hope). But then send their kids to elite schools anyway, which is the point.

A lot of people will point to Lambda School or equivalents as competitors of elite universities. The thinking goes that the Lambda School model (income share agreements + teaching practical knowledge, like knowing how to code) will replace universities. That is -- and I say this respectfully -- a brain dead take. I don't doubt that LS and others will be somewhat successful, but they won't even come close to threatening the value of an elite degree.

It's like thinking that people won't buy Apple products because they're too expensive and not really innovative. True in the facts (maybe, I don't really have strong opinions on Apple), but totally wrong in the conclusion. People miss the importance of perceived value.

A useful thought exercise (not mine). You're stuck on an island with a lot of raw materials. Would you rather have (1) a degree in boat-building from Princeton without the actual knowledge or (2) no degree, but full knowledge of how to build a boat? Most people, without thinking, choose (2).

Would you rather have (1) a degree in chemical engineering from Princeton, with none of the knowledge, or (2) all of that knowledge, but no degree? The fact that most people even hesitate to choose is pretty strong proof that the degree's primary value is marketing. Hypothetically, if you had (1), you could parlay that into a lucrative non-chemical-engineering field to hide your lack of knowledge. After all, you did go to Princeton :)

I'm talking about the US of course, no (informed) idea of how it is in other countries.
1. Create (anything), and share it with the world.

2. See what happens.

3. Reflect on any feedback you receive.

4. Adjust.

5. Do it again, over and over.
different types of flours are less likely to have weevils. The more highly processed white flours are unlikely to have weevils. Less refined whole wheat flours can and do need different long-term storage. The usual recommendation is to freeze it in batches to kill the bugs, and then store in plastic or glass type containers (not paper).
No worries, thanks for clarification.
Take heart - many of us do speak out and support you. It's just that most of us aren't actually empowered to help either. It's a somewhat defeatist perspective, but just know that the system really is rigged against you here, but it's also rigged against a whole lot of people in many ways that go far beyond college admissions. If you're lucky, this experience will help develop your empathy and leave a chip on your shoulder too. Both of those things will prove advantageous if and when you obtain the means to help fix these systemic issues. Solidarity, friend.
FWIW across ~10 years of HNing my sense is it's pretty hard to land on > 1 person's shitlist, and while it's unlikely you've garnered a coterie of haters, it is the iron law of HN that complaining about--or speculating about potential--downvotes attracts many downvotes.
Sure, but you work within the constraints you have. What we really need is a cure for all cancers but that doesn't exist just like no universal method for constant active driving exists. Given that, it's a pointless thing to bring up.

"Just have everyone be better at things" isn't a helpful alternative.
Here's a good starting point: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/13/8318835...

May I ask which country?

If the CDC, WHO, and PhD's of Public Health are all saying the same thing, it's probably true.
I have many personal files and wanting make sure they are accessible for rest of my life. Please tell me a platform that can provide this solution and why I can trust it?
The quotes around "unhinged" were to imply positively pivotal figures — like Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, or Steve Jobs — not categorical terrorists.
> And is someone going to verify I waited 14 days?

Sure, good idea.

> Also, why should I have to if I already am clean?

Oh, you don't have to. You can just stay at home like now.
Cite something -- anything -- legitimate that points long-term organ damage in young, otherwise healthy people. Newspaper anecdotes don't count.

All evidence so far is that a small fraction of people sick enough to be in the ICU end up with some sort of non-lung organ involvement. The vast majority (>99.98%) of young (<50 years), healthy people don't end up in the hospital at all, let alone the ICU.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...
If it becomes a condition of employment people will opt in. Just like peeing in a cup.
I get the idea behind snaps is that someone recognized that configuration management was a problem but didn't yet appreciate just how deep that problem goes.

It is a seriously difficult thing to get right. I always applaud people to take on difficult problems and try to solve them, but I would not expect it to have any sort of robustness for another 5 years at least.
Yes, but what I'm seeing now (Neuroscience at Stanford), grad admissions stopped taking GRE's or GPAs for admissions and it's all based on research experience and rec letters. This may not be universal yet, but there's a large movement to move away from these metrics in graduate admissions. Having good research experience as an undergrad seems critical now even more than before.
Legit was what I was thinking. I want to make this.
I got rejected from Cornell, CMU, and UPenn, which are extremely competitive schools to be fair. But other people in my grade did get into Cornell. (I do not know whether anyone got into CMU or UPenn.)

I got waitlisted from Georgia Tech and UChicago, but they weren't top choices for me, so I don't mind.

Full disclosure: My ECs were weaker. I really liked my essay, but my mom claims that it gave a negative message that I didn't do much in school.

I wrote about how in the past, I didn't care so much about high school and was looking forward to going to college so I could do PL theory, but after watching a heartfelt anime called K-On, I realized how special high school was, and joined a club and made new closer friends there. By the way, thank you HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18787851 and may KyoAni (the anime studio that made K-On) recover from the massacre last year.
Did you read the paper?
Is multi monitor support in Linux broken? I've been going strong for ages with proprietary nvidia drivers and i3/dwm.
It's an island between SF and Oakland. Some people live there, probably in the few thousand I'd imagine. Very few businesses on the island.
This is all too complicated. Harvard has a simple objective function: To maximize the future positive “impact” on society its alumni have, and the resulting prestige reflected on their alma mater.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22975148
This is broadly called natural image matting if anyone is curious enough to look into the last 20 years of research.
Sia is one of the few ICO projects that seems to actually work, but it gets zero attention.
I don't really want to hijack this discussion by discussing merits (or lack thereof) of other cryptocurrencies. Maybe post a link on HN for the cryptoeconomics of this other project and then we can discuss it there?
Any company is free to do business wherever and with whomever they want to.
Well, every company I worked with, "Agile" was just a means for management to keep feeling they're in control, when they're not, there's no such thing as in control, or to promote themselves with the higher ups.

My best team is me alone, but other than that, the best team I ever had was one in which there was no meetings, no dailies etc. It was just me and a few others, receiving the outlines of what the final product had to do, what inputs and outputs it should process, and then filling this outline with code and hard work until it was whole. It was far from perfect of course, but we weren't bothered by unnecessary processes. There was no agile back then yet....

That said, the methodologies are not the problem. The problem is peoples attitude and mentality and how they use them.
Orgs like the ACLU have come out requiring it for things.
These types of studies always miss the point - the difference in entry input (SAT, GPA, class rank) do not necessary result in a proportional difference in output (reputation in a variety of fields).

As an example, if you assume everyone who applies at Harvard would be equally successful, you would want those who would have the most broad range of outcomes to boost your schools reputation. In other words, with a class size of 100 you would not want 100 famous scientists - you'd want famous scientists, politicians, writers, etc.

So as a result you'd have to control for perceived interests among the committee that reviews applications.

Nevertheless, discrimination is definitely in poor taste.
You mean the incident where a small percentage of EC2 instances were unavailable for 30 minutes in a single AZ in US East 1? I see your definition of major incident is pretty loose. I remember that incident. I had services running there. It was so minor that my auto-scaling picked it up and my service impact was nothing.
Makes you wonder if OP would say the same about the NBA?

Darryl Morey (Houston Rockets) said one of the reasons he didn’t draft Jeremy Lin is because he’s Asian, despite Lin meeting all his criteria.
No, the contact tracing only works as an additional measure, not as a replacement for the quarantine measures.

Don’t forget that the airflow provides a major infection vector, which can’t be traced via Bluetooth or location.
What’s wrong with charging for a valuable service?
Actually your simple reduction doesn't hold, which is the very reason I stopped playing Animal Crossing: If you perform NO input, the game STILL responds. i.e. If you don't play, the game still simulates its world. Weeds grow, town inhabitants move out, etc.

It's basically an addiction-based dark pattern. The game punishes you for not playing. I play games on MY TIME, and I won't make myself slave to one.
It was a Navy base wayback that was used to clean nuclear warships and may or may not be radioactive.

"In April 2013, caesium-137 levels three times higher than previously recorded were found (the island hosted "radioactive ships from Bikini Atoll atomic tests and was a major education center training personnel for nuclear war"—the USS Pandemonium (PCDC-1) mockup had begun nuclear training in 1957."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island,_San_Francis...
Demanding that people sort themselves into race-exclusive voting blocks doesn't seem like an effective way to fight racism.
I just stumbled upon a product that helps solve decision making problems while looking for info on the "Rete algorithm" [1].

On that note, it is pretty cool that you made a V1 and just released it. If it was me I would get lost in a bread first search of algorithms and prior art and whatnot :-p

1: https://www.sparklinglogic.com/smarts-decision-manager/
why should i believe it is still going to offer my service after 30 years?
Thanks for this. I followed the steps and it failed to unmount the current "core" mount for snapd because the target was busy. What helped me was to unmount it lazily by running 'sudo umount -l /snap/core/xxxx' and then purging the package. That helped things move along. Just in case someone runs into this issue.
You have zero knowledge about Asian American history. I suggest you read about these to get started:
Chinese Exclusion Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Internment of Japanese Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
I could imagine a situation where some private events or businesses require you to have a contact tracing app installed in order to go inside. Not sure if that would neccesarily be a good thing (we certainly wouldn't want essential businesses having that requirement), but it could be a reasonable requirement for things like music festivals or something.
I got some users on the US experiencing similar issues, I plan to push an update in the following days to improve some details and hopefully will fix most issues.

If you like, send me an email (find it on my github) so that I can make sure the issue gets fixed.

Thanks for the patience.
Given our scores are relatively similar with some inevitable variance attributed to our essays (personally I think your essay topic choice was totally fine and might have even helped you with its uniqueness), perhaps this acts as supporting evidence towards the potential benefits of abolishing affirmative action on a more comprehensive scale.

An income-based affirmative action would be far more effective in my opinion, as opposed to affirmative action based on ethnicity, which to me just seems like a proxy for socioeconomic status that is objectively worse in its attempts at representation.
The quality of the software is the best metric of whether the process is working but management has no incentive to blame the process when it breaks down and every incentive to blame the people instead
Yep, Asian Americans are ridiculously diverse and divided compared to other racial groups in America. Conflicts back in the old world keep AAs divided here, and even when older AAs stay long enough in America to develop a purely AA identity they get swamped by newer immigrants that don't have that same sense of identity and political unity with other AA groups. Despite being in the US since the 1800s, the bulk of the AA population doesn't actually have that much history in the US or experience with how the US political system works. When Asian Americans start putting their Asian identity over their Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, India, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or wherever their ancestors were from is when you'll see an actual political bloc.
And what percentage of an average person's calorie intake would wheat normally be? 20%? 50% seems high? So you could multiply that 80 million figure by something like 5 to get a number of people that Canadian wheat farmers feed (400 million!).

Of course there's a lot of flaws with that type of math (I'm sure a significant percentage goes into animal feed, etc), but it's a fun way of thinking about the numbers. :) The vast size of the Canadian prairie wheat farms (and the relatively small number of people it takes to run them) are difficult to comprehend for a lot of people that don't live there.
Some would. Some would choose different jobs or jurisdictions.
Windows 10.

And Void Linux/ i3-gaps before that.

And Linux BBQ / OpenBox before that.
> As for the "kids" who "don't care" about privacy? Ask them that question after their first unnecessary 2 week quarantine-in-isolation-hotel due to glitchy bluetooth.

People don’t revolt against the tyranny of the state just because it starts affecting their peers. Western democracies all over the world lock up thousands of innocent people every year. It happens all the time, it could happen to you, me, or anybody reading this comment. Very few people care. If it did happen to you, and you wanted to complain about it, you’re unlikely to convince many additional people to care.
We're taking an approach that empowers individuals to take their data out of big tech companies and contribute it directly to their local healthcare providers and public health agencies: https://www.covidcontacttracing.com/.

This approach is highly practical -- the penetration (location history in Android, Google Maps) is already there, and we've already built out a set of tools around it to deliver insights to first-responders, epidemiologists and doctors, while ensuring individual privacy.

I think the only way to do effective contact tracing while respecting individual privacy and agency is to put the user in control of the data, and make sure that any data transfer is done with consent and deliberation.
I've been looking forward for this work to come to something working for some time already, but it's been already 3 years I've eyed on it, is it now coming to something working "soon"?
I think it is pretty dangerous to tell the entire population that their choices are either to install an app which tracks their movement, or essentially be under house arrest. Even outside of the privacy issues, some people just don't have the capabilities to do that, my grandmother is never going to figure out how to work a phone, or get set up and monitor a contact tracing app. Maybe we could provide a free alternative that protects your privacy, eg. wearing a mask whenever you are in public.
Reading Churchill’s Memoirs right now, and there is a line in it where Rommel is telling a captured British officer how in this battle the brits made it so easy for him by spreading out their forces so he could defeat them in detail piece by piece.
Seems like all I read about on hacker news is big techs negative effect on society. When did this website become so negative about all this? The google bashing was one thing, but now it’s all surveillance and censorship. Where’s the startup talk? Programming language talk? Open source code?
> I'm also frustrated because most people probably don't know how math really is like. People just see it as nerdy word problems

As far as I can tell, its just bad comedians who do this. But they do it frequently enough that its practically a trope.
How to Generate Sequences of Identifiers via Hibernate Pooled-Lo Algorithm
Yeah, the end of this article made me realize that the people pushing this stuff are going to do it via social pressure around "non-essential" activity - i.e. so, you want to go to a nightclub, but you're not willing to sacrifice a little bit of privacy for the greater good?
It's why so many people around the world want to become Americans. Americans have rights and can't be bombed by the US military /s
Many people don't have smart phones and, like me, many people don't always take their phone with them everywhere they go.
This is one of the great parts of America, personal liberties. But simultaneously one of the downsides of the individual > whole scheme, sometimes sacrifices hurt the individual but are good for the whole.

Quite the conundrum, once you go down the whole > individual route, where do you stop?
It's meant for private encrypted backups instead of public distributed files, so it is less complicated. The users just pay the people who store it through a contract.
> lacking in character and that savoir faire that came so easily to anyone who was not Jewish.

Well done. I thought you were serious until that bit about savoir faire.