skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state that I live in, Wisconsin, has a multi tiered system of higher education. The University of Wisconsin in Madison is a world class research university with all of the trimmings.

Then there is a system of public universities around the state that offer fewer programs but similar admission and academic standards -- they are also less expensive and have slightly lower prestige, but produce a lot of trained people such as engineers, nurses, programmers, and so forth.

And then there is an even larger network of trade schools (aka "community colleges" in some states) that tend to be smaller but are accessible to students who live at home or commute to school part time while also working. Those schools all offer computer programming and other tech related trades.

Many of those schools also offer programs that provide the first 2 years of a conventional bachelors degree, with guaranteed transfer to one of the universities for the rest of the degree. These schools are designed for students who are working, raising families, etc. A lot of people think those programs are a rollicking good deal.

All of that stuff is available. The high schools immerse kids in information about these options.

In my view, any plan that successfully addresses the college cost situation will do so through the regional colleges and trade schools, which are already excellent. I have colleagues who went to those schools, and you can send me a dozen more. There's huge peer pressure on kids to attend the gilded private colleges, but I'm not sure that I see the value.

A problem is that the private schools are funded by private wealth through their endowments, whereas public schools are funded by workers through our taxes.
Are those really the best starts for "Bayesian statistics"?

Especially the first 2 are rather the standard "intro to ML textbooks", with a frequentist focus (ISL may even have zero Bayesian stuff - Naive Bayes is not "Bayesian" – while ESL still has maybe 10% bayesian content if that).

Instead, I would suggest the following for learning Bayesian methods, especially given the HN crowd:
https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
The system as it is sucks for more than 50% of the population, though. With a two-party system, you're either going to have tyranny of the majority, or tyranny of the minority. Neither is good, but the former is preferable.
mentos xkcd applies
Apparently, all slots are full... so they seem to have maxed out for now.
Thank you for sharing this. I apologize if I missed this, but would you mind describing the population being tested, e.g., all-comers vs inclusion/exclusion criteria? Also, for the following statement, “Clinician-assessed symptoms are sparse for data published on 04-07 due to some criteria having been added later,” do you mean “prior to” instead of “on”? Thanks again for sharing the data.
nobody in LA is religious
> This system optimizes for the aggregate weighted time preference of its participants.

As long as its participants have money or other kind of power. Vast swaths of the population lack both so are excluded from that "optimization" , an optimization which of course it is not weighted per capita but per money/influence.
I was trying get info more around hw/sw startup bootstrapping, not pure embedded systems related topics. Rust is great might replace C in near future. I do like discussions around programming languages. I do believe Covid will change the definition of the next Uber a lot but i got your point.

I would love to hear your comments about the post i did recently, thanks in advance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23025510
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23036604
Manufacturing laptop is not something that has a big barrier of entry, So apple would just eat its own loss forever or watch competition spring back the moment they can't take that loss anymore.
Thanks! I guess I'll try the bionumbers book first.

I'll keep you in mind, too.
Discord, text messages, links, email. Plenty of places. Or I share fewer.
David MacKay did some good stuff, and source code is available: http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/CodesFiles.html

I find MacKay's explanations very clear. Sadly, he passed away far too young.
What's the governor's interest in "retaliation"? Presumably he doesn't have much to gain by upsetting people who want the beaches to be open unless there's a larger constituency he makes happier (in which case that sounds like democracy...)
Meanwhile mortality rate continues to dwindle.
This is perhaps the biggest scam of the century. You know it because Bill Gates came out of his hole to spread more fear so he can peddle his wares.
It probably depends on the device, but in the best case you are not losing anything. Especially as you can install google services, so Google Play and everything around it works.

The only apps that stopped working on my Poco F1 are apps that check for modified Android. For example my Australian digital drivers license app doesn't work as it detects the Android environment as non-standard. I believe you can do some root magic to work around it, but I could never be bothered to do so. Interestingly enough the three different banking apps I use all work fine.

Have a look at the installation instructions to see how you feel about it [0]. They are usually really good. The devil is in the detail though and you probably have to plan in an afternoon to use google to find workaround for bits that don't work. For example when I was upgrading to the latest Android version I had to install a different bootloader as the previous one wasn't compatible. It took a bit of looking around, but going from the error messages usually brings up the right solutions in various forums.

[0] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/beryllium/install
Agreed, somebody who is willing to commit a crime to advance their fringe political views is not somebody I want anywhere near my company. I can already imagine the headaches this guy will cause if he discovers the meat in the cafes was not farmed to his liking.
> How much influence does China have over Taiwan?

Right now their only influence is financial, which Taiwan work pretty hard to resist where possible.
. . and you can barbeque on it !
It would be nice if the article contained a graph. There's data about reproduction numbers and case numbers for each state at https://rt.live/ but the estimate Rt is at an all time low for California, so that's not useful for understanding this article (since maybe LA and SFO balance out). Are there any sites with good visualizations that help one to see a statement like the claim of this article?
Why have infix anything? Functions have names and they're always the first symbol in a function call. SQL also has a convention of using `PLAIN ENGLISH WORDS` which declaratively describe the result set or operation. The weird JSONB operators are just... way out of place.
Who is this “we” you repeatedly use in your post?

Perhaps you mean “I”?

You make good points... But, with all due respect, your use of that pronoun evidences a strange collectivist view of the world that may be part of the problem.
> Many lawyers need to drive taxis to get by. Being a lawyer doesn't mean instant riches unless you land at a high profile firm directly out of school.

Wait, what? Since when?
Done! Thank you!!
And Postgres has a ton of `JSON_` and `JSONB_` functions, so the weird operators are even more baffling.
I've been doing the ThinkPad + Fedora now for a few years, and it's by far the best Linux experience I've ever had. I've had a system76 laptop (quite a few years ago now), Dell XPS/Precision, and some Acer, HP, etc. Unless/until Lenovo ruins the Thinkpad, that's what I'll continue to do. Current model Thinkpad T580 i7-8650U, 32GB RAM Fedora 31. Intel graphics.
This isn't my experience at all.

The only talent developers who I have encountered who have learning another programming language are those who don't want to learn it.

JavaScript being a great example. I know a lot of developers who would rather spend hours picking about the language itself, rather than just learning how to use it.

This is mainly older developers, in my experience, who have seen "the hot new thing" many times in their career, so they no longer want to put in the effort to learn something new - instead choosing to explain why it's a fad.
Protestants go to church services for Easter probably as much as Catholics go to mass for Easter.
If Your Mask Has a Valve, It's Half Useless
I'm hoping the crisis will:

- Better develop processes for remote education

- Bring to light the idea that MOOCs are legitimate

- Reduce the shocking amount of waste, privilege to the wealthy, and academic cruft and butt-kissery

Wouldn't it be nice to emerge from all of this with a more level, more accessible, and lower priced collegiate environment?
I understand the sentiment, but what exactly do you expect will happen when the lockdown is lifted?

People aren't going to just say "yay, it's over!" and have a grand day out on the town, going to their favorite now-open-and-bustling-once-again restaurants, cafes, and crowded weekend destinations for shopping and people watching.

The majority of people are going to continue to be so nervous and cautious that even if these businesses were allowed to open tomorrow, they are going to remain practically empty for a good long time.

There was never an endgame to these lockdowns. You flatten the curve... and then what? If people go mingle again in anything resembling normal capacity, it'll pick right back up where we left off.
Hah, getting rid of manufacturer specific apps is half the reason for me to install Lineageos in the first place.

That as well as much better battery life and more control over what apps are and aren't allowed to access.
Yes. Bishops in the US closed parishes in March. The Pope granted a dispensation so that Catholics do not have the obligation to attend Mass during Lent and Holy Week.
Unfortunate you’re getting downvoted. Flattening the curve was about limiting cases so hospitals don’t get overrun. Now they’re trying to eradicate the virus which isn’t going to happen unless you lock everyone down for over a a year.
Windows itself has never been the problem, but the Software that’s running on it.
Ah, filk. Never die.
Ask HN: What Will Replace Passwords?
Is FIDO Alliance the way of the future or something else?
> If it is not teaching people valuable skills that they will be using in their profession

The problem with your view is that it makes the assumption this was, and always has been, the purpose of college. That wasn’t the historical purpose, in particular before the Morrill Act during the Industrial Revolution
You might be able to use Nix as a kind of ‘homebrew for Debian’
Hate to contradict the HN "the world is falling, omg!" corona narrative, but ...

The Bay Area is likely approaching herd immunity levels, since we had a lot of travellers to and from China since December.

Corona mortality levels in SF have nothing to do with the lockdown, and never did. I've been watching the Bay Area hospitals dashboard, and there never was a crisis:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...

Scroll down half-way to the hospital beds chart and graphs - no significant change in 2 months.
Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, Amazon to Develop Container Standard (2015)
Any information on this. I thought rooting was essentially dead
I'm curious about this. Could you please point me towards more information?
Grab Asks Staff to Take No-Pay Leave to Cut Costs
I will love to do a demo to you. I can provide a demo sdk if you want to give it a try.

What are the top 3 reasons you prefer C++ to Java for embedded systems?

Do you have a killer project for students in your mind which will help them learn with fun with this?
Maybe those innocent content creators will think twice at contract renewal time, then.
I'm not questioning your competence, most people have not implemented a PL before. It's not a question of competence, it's a question of specialized knowledge.

> It's esoteric sure, but it seems like his usage here refers to Esoteric Languages

Yes, that's the sense that I meant it in. Nock is an esoteric language just like those others on that website.

> he is maximizing practicality over mathematical elegance.

Nock is not practical. He is certainly not maximizing practicality by making a combinatory logic that can only increment integers and then recognizing and "accelerating" a particular implementation of decrement! Let's look at Nock:

?[a b] => 0
?a => 1

^[a b] => ^[a b]
^a => (a + 1)

=[a a] => 0
=[a b] => 1
=a => =a

/[1 a] => a
/[2 a b] => a
/[3 a b] => b
/[(a + a) b] => /[2 /[a b]]
/[(a + a + 1) b] => /[3 /[a b]]
/a => /a

*[a 0 b] => /[b a]
*[a 1 b] => b
*[a 2 b c d] => *[a 3 [0 1] 3 [1 c d]
[1 0] 3 [1 2 3] [1 0] 5 5 b]
*[a 3 b] => **[a b]
*[a 4 b] => ?*[a b]
*[a 5 b] => ^*[a b]
*[a 6 b] => =*[a b]
*[a [b c] d] => [*[a b c] *[a d]]
*a => *a

This is what I mean by being too charitable. There is absolutely nothing whatsoever that is practical about Nock.

> because its a formal system in mathematical logic rather than a computational system

I really don't think this means anything. The lambda calculus is one of the paradigmatic computational systems, and SK combinators are closely related. And it turns out formal systems in mathematical logic are also related through the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence. So there's no meaningful distinction between these things.

> I think you've got me wrong on this—the idea that I'm "relying" on "quick skims" and the POV of an "impartial reader," would imply that I'm somehow using these things against you. I literally am an impartial reader trying to understand this, who spent a little time reading a resource you pointed me at.

No, what I'm saying is that, as an impartial reader, you are giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt, and also not spending a lot of time with it. There's nothing wrong with that, but it means you can get taken for a ride by people who are making a smokescreen.
Yup, no evidence we need flattening in the SF Bay Area:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...

It's all about Governor Newsom running for President now.

Based on the data I've seen, all we need to end the lockdown now is provide and wear a mask, and ground pax airlines until we confirm herd immunity.
I'm kind of surprised at this point that Intel didn't just bite the bullet and go with TSMC or Samsung for fabrication for a year or two until they figured their in-house sub-14nm story out.
A new take on authenticated web proxies built by a high school junior
Free, for everyone... even those without symptoms. It does feel like "number of tests administered" per region during said time period would be an important stat for context. But who am I to let details get in the way.
Thank you.

> If you remember where you found that link, let me know, so I can update it.

I belive it was the "100% free and open source" link in this very post:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-the-sourcehut-hub-is-l...

Which goes to:
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht

Which does indeed link the repos - which is good - but from a mindset of "how do I self-host?" maybe a bit bare bones.

Looks like if one follows any of the repo links - the install info is at the bottom. May be an artifact of me being on my phone.

As I said, I didn't look very hard.

I really appreciate the no-nonsense/no hype vibe - but at the same time, I really do want a "here's a sane way to get up and running" front and center.

Now, obviously there's a hosted offering - but at my current company we have a few projects that we feel more comfortable self-hosting due to the nature of some of our customers. For some, we avoid third parties, where we can.
For this reason, I think instead of trying to force a new system, work within the reality that the federal government has a near-monopoly on student loans. Tie the amount of students that can get student loans at a particular college directly to the amount of money is being paid by students who have graduated. Also, cap the amount of money each student needs to pay back per year to their salary.

The colleges will have no choice but to ensure their students have nice enough jobs to pay back the loans, and will quickly see attendance plummet if they can't get people in the door anymore. Remember that it's the government paying these colleges directly, not the students.
I think this is a strawman argument here.

Script makers have a an implicit (and explicit mandate in the EU) responsibility to be upfront with what they do. No one will be happy if stripe or Google Analytics started including a bitcoin miner.

In this example, stripe did not exactly disclose what they collected or how they use it at first. They did not provide a way to opt out. Now they do.

It seems a diversion to compare this to someone hacking ELB and stealing data. Yes, all data can be hacked, just like how governments CAN warrantlessly wiretap you through FISA. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight for 4th amendment when the government raids your house without a search warrant.
> For those more expert than I, is Apple any better in this regard?

Yes, and unequivocally so. Apple is not know to track browsing behavior, search terms, etc. Most of the data that your phone collects about you either remains in your phone (that’s why they’ve been shipping with NPUs for several years - they do A lot of machine learning in device rather than in-cloud) or is analyzed using differential privacy mechanisms.

The amount of data that Apple refuses to collect in Apple Maps for example is astounding. Start and end points of any journey are not used for example. Your trip is broken up into a bunch of segments, and only the middle ones are analyzed for traffic pattern, and even then only after being anonymized.

And most of the details behind all of this are published in a well written and frequently updated privacy whitepapers.

[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/
It's kinda telling to me that all the examples are soundalikes on sorta famous individuals. Totally valid of course, but among all the different musical styles there's no dance music; is it because without any distinctive vocal or orchestral flourishes, there isn't much that the algorithm can latch on to?

Maybe what we're hearing is the distillation of what makes these individual artists/composers distinctive/recognizable but without the musical substance, rather like a floppy rubber mask that resembles a specific individual but lacks an animating interior force. Kinda like how electronic synths/sequencers instruments make it very easy to come up with distinctive flourishes or sounds that make great ear candy, but it takes much longer to develop a solid sense of groove, harmonic motion etc..
I feel like many companies don’t want to commit to giving up a potential revenue stream, even if they’re not tapping it. So you get ignored or mealy mouth responses.
> 31) Wait a second, you think this technology could allow for anti-gravity propulsion?

> Yes! Monty Childs has already hinted multiple times that gravity seems to be shielded within the double layers of their plasma. It’s even listed in one of their videos. The Fluxliner Alien Reproduction Vehicle used a self organizing plasma vortex within itself to produce a bubble of magnetic vector potential that could nullify inertia, gravity, and mass.
GDB and GIMP both embed a Scheme interpreter.
Borgmaster itself is written in C++, though like many internal Google systems using protobufs for defining a lot of the interfaces and RPC bits.

It’s been around a long time, before Go existed :).
pop doesn't even have snapd installed by default
https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Windows_NT_Server_Vers...

"Disc contains code to run on Windows NT-compatible x86, Pentium, MIPS, R4x00, Alpha, PowerPC and Pentium Pro systems"
Yup, it’s ok, I have karma to burn, just checking sentiment and zeitgeist as my house begins to mindfully break lockdown. There was a mediocre acoustic act performing on the waterfront at Jack London square an hour ago; we might do some shows there or throw a rave at Brooklyn Basin.

You can’t lock down the healthy in America for a year to protect the weak. Those in fear think this is going to end soon but it isn’t. Instead, people need to decide how to live their lives in our new, fundamentally unsafe pandemic society.
Why is it always a question of lockdown versus no lockdown? There are shades of lockdowns. The most realistic way to fight this is to regulate the number of people who get it without triaging care. Full lockdown is not going to fulfill that and neither is no lockdown.
> Direct Current Inverters can mimic the A/C sine wave, but it's not exactly the same.

Some places use batteries to provide frequency stabilization for cheaper than the spinning metal they used to use. Odd that you would pick one of the most cost-effective use-cases of utility-sized batteries as an example.
I manage a team that's responsible for the Mongo DB that powers essentially the whole business. This is a 10 year old company that started right about when Mongo was trendy. After 10 years it's a nightmare to understand what's going on in that database.

And it's now extremely difficult to get off of it precisely because it doesn't have the schema and referential integrity and constraints that we need to be able to understand our data well enough to actually do the migration. We really want to switch to an RDBMS, but it's going to be risky and difficult.

You could say this is all bad engineering, and I guess that's true in a reductive sense. But it's like arguing that you don't need to climb with a safety rope because good climbers don't fall. Over 10 years and many engineers "bad" engineering happens.

I also believe that reasoning about data is hard, and you should therefore try to avoid doing it. You should do that hard thinking one time, and then rely on your database to enforce the rules until they need changing. Aka: Don't Make Me Think (About This Constantly).

If I believed in conspiracy theories I'd say that Mongo was one of the best vendor lock-in plays in tech. Mongo Corp is going to be profitable for a while because once you're down the Mongo rabbit hole it's a real pain to climb back out. But they'll host your database at least, so you don't also have to deal with that. I will give them credit for having a nice management UI.

But from my experience of the past few years I would never choose Mongo. For documents, Elasticsearch, or Postgres if you don't have too many. For relational data, a relational DB.

And Mongo's slow, too.
There are many valid arguments against Urbit, but this one...

>They struggle to explain it to technical people. Imagine trying to explain this thing to your mother.

...doesn't hold up for me. My grandparents understand computers only in terms of what they can do for them, and the buttons they need to click to make that happen. If Urbit ever matures, there will be applications of similar functionality and similar complexity to what non-technical people currently use.
> Obviously, the main problem is that AFAIK none of those apps have been written yet...

edit - other than the thing being launched today, which actually looks pretty cool. Time to install it again and see if I can dig up any working urbit ids...
> There's no supply / demand pricing mechanism to influence a student's major.

This is really the most important issue. People are spending tons of money on worthless degrees. If they were getting degrees worth something, we wouldn't even be having these discussions.
Link to the github js for the lazy: https://github.com/stewdio/q.js/tree/master/Q
> Not sure if combining "learn rust" and "learn RISC V" at the same time is a good combination for a large audience, it will depend on the reader.

Heh, this is _exactly_ the combination that appeals to me, or at least would have before I learned either of them.
Thanks for the tip! I've updated that URL to the following, which is much more helpful:

https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut