skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just about to post something similar. I attended a large state U and I got the most out of smaller lectures/discussions than the large classes with 300 students. FWIW, only the most introductory classes had large head counts. Everything 200 level and above was somewhere between 20-50 students (and most had an associated discussion with 10-15 students, usually led by a grad student, but sometimes the professor).

That's where the value in live classes lies - the interaction with peers and professors. Not the listening to pre-scripted lectures.
I’ve seen it used there too. That’s probably a better use for it. Personally I’ve never had to call out external links before, and if I did, I think including or referencing the domain the link is on is more useful than a generic symbol that might also mean “opens in new window or tab” sometimes.
What's wrong with software engineers? Surely there's a fair bit of critical thinking involved there, too?
Here are the endpoints they released.

https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2020/03/20/intr...
Can QUIC match TCP’s computational efficiency?
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I think there is an element of truth in it, but I don't agree with that formulation. I think people get the government they demand.

There is a concept of "sense of life" that I've found useful. Each person has a certain view of the world around them--its affected by their experiences, the ideas they are taught, and how they observe and act about reality.

Imagine if, in the aggregate, people have a positive sense of life--that is, they believe they are efficacious and can work to improve their lives, without fear that the universe is to get them. They will demand one kind of government. They won't stand for certain political leaders.

But if they hold the opposite sense of life--one dominated by fear (of others, of their ability to provide, of a universal evil)--they will demand an entirely different kind of government.
bizarre they use a polygraph test when it's known to be psudeoscientific
Yes, I should have used more precise language.

I should have made it clear but I wasn't attempting to construct an exhaustive list of risk factors, but more give an example of what that might look like
"Investigating factory farms and rescuing animals" puts a nice spin on breaking and entering and theft of property, doesn't it?
Just a superficial thing, but isn’t it funny that all the companies names are made up of two words in camel case?

BlueRithm

BuilderPrime

CodeSubmit

DealForma

Reftab (okay that one isn’t camel case)

ScatterSpoke

ScoutDNS

ScrapingBee

SeekWell

SegMetrics

SquadCast

Userlist (also not camel case, although it could be)
We'll need to fully replace them first, but even then, I don't think it's a significant number. In the US, there are about 50k workers left in the mining industry, and other advanced nations mirror that. I'm not a fan of keeping coal mining around, but I don't believe it's a large issue, and I do believe that this is mostly a safety system. If all else fails due to some disaster, war or alien attack, you want to have the ability to scale coal mining back up. That'll only work if you retain the know how and technology.
Boston College received triple their number of average applications the year after Doug Flutie threw his Hail Mary.
Sure it would, after all that is where backend development is going to, back to AOT compilation toolchains.

If Delphi never managed much on the server side, it has more to do with the downfall from Borland than anything else.

So ASP + COM would be ASP.NET with COM+ Runtime instead.
Keep in mind they have a significant presence in Asia, they felt this for nearly the entire quarter.

Plus like Facebook, it's not all straight down. Tim Cook:

> “We’ve seen a further change in the last part of March and first part of April were very depressed and then we’ve seen a pick up relative to that period of time in the second half of April"

They also announced $50b more in buybacks. Apple is confident in a way that most businesses are not.
The Investment Thesis of a Blockchain Developer
"If you’re a shareowner in Amazon, you may want to take a seat..."
> Mine currently passes the basic test suites

The tests in riscv-tests are not complete enough to indicate strong compliance. I have found several bugs in my implementation that were not caught by them.

> but it still fails in the C runtime startup when executing programs compiled with GCC

The biggest issue I have seen with running C programs is that people don't have the system calls that C runs on startup. In a log from rv8, you need brk, uname, readlinkat, and mprotect. So without those you shouldn't be able to get a program into user code unless you make a custom entry point.

Source: I am the maintainer of RARS (https://github.com/TheThirdOne/rars)
Not always. People have different time horizons on the utility of money and non-linear outcomes on risk.

For example, a gold miner may sell gold futures to guarantee that he won't go out of business once the construction of the new gold mine is complete. There are many other examples.
In an adversarial system integrity can mean being a vociferous proponent of something you personally don't believe should come to pass as the system relies on each side making the strongest possible argument. Or to put it another way, an adversarial system is an attempt to solve the dilemma you pose. Notably, the Director isn't explaining why he's forcing WhatsApp to decrypt; he's attempting to persuade others why he should be given the power. Those are very different things.

The contemporary American political system, perhaps even more so than its legal system in many respects, is quite adversarial.[1] And the Director of the FBI has been a largely political position since J. Edgar Hoover, except these days the lobbying is far more transparent.

[1] Arguably far too adversarial. We don't seem to appreciate the value in compromise or pragmatism as much as we did at some other points in our political history.
This is not always strictly true, with projects like OpenBazaar the risks can be transfered to an explicit third party with a proven record of being impartial.
We might not fully understand what Urbit is, but we can't say they don't have some attractive design, from the layout of the article to the screenshots themselves
While drastically decreasing the amount of risk you take, you're also drastically decreasing the likelihood of success.
You are right, that was the old protocol.
Thinkpad, or XPS 13/15 have good Linux support. I run Manjaro on my X1 Yoga, and I’ve heard the T line is really sturdy
Emphasis on the _need to feed the entire populace for a reasonable price_.

Quit anthropomorphizing cows and chickens. Their evolutionary success comes from being good food.
http://loup-vaillant.fr/contact
Whatever any of us think about the morality of the action, we should be able to agree that filling the thread up with a lively debate about animal rights is not actually helping the OP with the dilemma they're in.
> Base clocks are irrelevant on desktop, it's not Sandy Bridge days anymore

Reading this makes me feel like I need to build a new PC now lol. Any idea what percentage of desktop PCs are still on Sandy Bridge?
China is one of Apple's largest markets, though, and they were dealing with Coronavirus for the entire quarter.
Oh, yeah. That reminds me: once, I got to the background check stage with a company that specifically mentioned a credit check would be done. At the time, my credit score was in the toilet (like FICO in the 500's, I think), so I was worried, but decided that since there was nothing I could do about it in time to affect the result, I'd just sign and pray. I got the job, with no mention of my then terrible credit score. I have no idea if they even did the check.
In these coronavirus times especially, this is prudent advice. I would say now its a good time not to quit your old job until even your first day in your new job. It's not a nice move, but given all the uncertainty in the world, I am not sure I would fully trust a job offer until I have my laptop and I am actively working.
Fractran: A Ridiculous Logical Language with John Conway (2012)
> The bulk of their customers are able to pay thanks to loan guarantees backed by special government rules.

Universities are not businesses. Students are not customers. Student tuition was much more heavily subsidized by states, but funding from states to universities has declined in the past few decades. This is the reason for tuition hikes.

In the past, there was an agreement between states and universities: The states will provide a certain level of funding for students, and in exchange the universities will be barred from raising tuition above a very small rate annually. Then some states decided that having a "balanced budget" during all years, including recessions, was better policy than keeping education well-funded. Now recessions cause huge drops in education funding, which are accompanied by removing the limits on yearly tuition hikes.

Because it's generally better to have a more educated population, the federal government picks up some of the slack with grant and loan aid, and banks pick up more slack with private loans to students who otherwise couldn't afford it. Then funding never returns to prior levels.

Stop blaming universities. The blame very clearly lies with states and their asinine balanced budget policies.
"If you’re a shareowner in Amazon, you may want to take a seat, because we’re not thinking small. Under normal circumstances, in this coming Q2, we’d expect to make some $4 billion or more in operating profit. But these aren’t normal circumstances. Instead, we expect to spend the entirety of that $4 billion, and perhaps a bit more, on COVID-related expenses getting products to customers and keeping employees safe. This includes investments in personal protective equipment, enhanced cleaning of our facilities, less efficient process paths that better allow for effective social distancing, higher wages for hourly teams, and hundreds of millions to develop our own COVID-19 testing capabilities. There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now, and the best investment we can make is in the safety and well-being of our hundreds of thousands of employees. I’m confident that our long-term oriented shareowners will understand and embrace our approach, and that in fact they would expect no less."
So ... the business equivalent of "Generals are always fighting the last war"?
> We should invest in it like we do with other public services.

Yes. We should invest in public universities to have very low cost or free tuition, and stop pouring public money into private education institutions.
I'm not mixing metaphors. There is a limit to who can create a subreddit which is based on the amount of karma (it was claimed there was no limit on who can become a lord). The "lords" are the moderators of subreddits. This hierarchy is clearly built in. Above the moderators, of course, are the Reddit admins who have totalitarian power over all.

I'm not arguing that Urbit isn't feudal. I'm saying that a feudal structure to an online service that someone voluntarily chooses to be a part of is not inherently bad in any way. Additionally, there are tons of existing feudal services we use regularly that no one is upset about. The only reason anyone is upset about Urbit's structure is that it came from a racist.
And that's the problem. Malcolm Gladwell has a great podcast about this focusing on Bowdoin college. Bowdoin (apparently) spends a lot of money on luxuries like great food for the dorms, etc.

As a result, the rich kids who can afford it naturally prefer to go to Bowdoin. Now, the school becomes more prestigious because of the rich kids... it's a place to go to meet other rich kids, which builds valuable connections that ultimately help your career. Meanwhile, schools that prioritize financial aid over things like gyms and food go down in the rankings and become less desirable.

Now, this is all fair game in my opinion. The schools are basically turning into country clubs of a sort and I think country clubs have a right to exist in America. BUT... I don't want to see them subsidized by the rest of us. If you are a school and you want to receive state/federal money directly or via student loans and you want to maintain your non-profit status... scale down the amenities.

At the very least, I don't want tax breaks going to subsidize (mostly) rich kids' gyms.
Cliqz, new search engine launched just few months ago, shuts down
Detailed guide for buying a used car for people that know nothing about cars
I agree with a wealth tax in principle, but it's not without many difficult implementation challenges. For example, someone's entire net worth could be held in art. How do you accurately gauge its value if it hasn't been sold in two decades?
this part is key:
"Research shows that humans tend to do whatever it takes to keep busy, even if the activity feels meaningless to them. Dr Brené Brown from the University of Houston describes being “crazy busy” as a numbing strategy we use to avoid facing the truth of our lives."
Off topic: I just binge watched most of your videos. Great series. I never realize how similar Africa is to sub-continent specially Karnataka (which I had visited).
Done.

https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/writings/-/commit/05b4b616c5e0...
> This doesn't really pass the sniff test. You wrote 7500 words on this topic, but felt that including "I have zero experience in any relevant fields" would be overly verbose? Are you sure there wasn't another reason?

https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/writings/-/commit
/05b4b616c5e0017b0f80682533399c8696d897b5
If it's really sealed this may be a scenario where you'd be better off not mentioning it. Similar thing happened to me when I went through a security clearance for a position. I mentioned that I was arrested once upon a time and the charges were expunged as part of an agreement. It didn't come up in their search but since I mentioned it they still wanted to know details. Details that were impossible to get since it was sealed/expunged. I essentially created a problem for myself by being honest.
I'm not sure I agree with that. I was undecided for 2 years (of the typical 4 at a US institution). It wasn't a problem and didn't cost me anything. Expecting an 18 year old to commit to a program seems a bit excessive (yes, we do it for professional programs like nursing and engineering - but not all students are the same, both of those programs have high wash-out rates, and at least with engineering, if you get a job doing other things).
Is there any way to get rich easily if you jump in early and this gets big? (like with bitcoin)
URL refs leaking PII data to advertisers at major companies
"We do not use, share, rent or sell the Personal Data of our Users’ Customers for interest-based advertising. "

Better version would be all advertising instead of interest-based advertising Also "personal" data excludes lots of data. Personal data just means data that is attached an identified person. Lot of ad targeting is at an anonymous ID, they don't really know the person.
In no way do I mean to take away from the really great work of these researchers, but there is one thing here that people should be aware of. By using karaoke style lyrics, this scientific study invalidates itself and the credibility of those that went forward with publishing it. By reading the lyrics while listening to the audio, the brain will automatically convince the listener that the audio result is better than it is. What is the proof for this? Well, look no further than the infamous Yanny/Laurel audio clip. When you read the word "Yanny" or "Laurel" at the frame rate of the audio, your brain switches between two different auditory suggestions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanny_or_Laurel

There is also a scientific precedence that refutes these findings, which is called the McGurk effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_perception#Music-langua...

These researchers may not be to blame for this, but they really should have been honest in their conclusion.
> You have to work a late night the day before sprint release? You were in the room when the team agreed to the body of work that would be committed for delivery in this sprint.

This can get complicated depending on the team dynamics and upper management. Sometimes there are pressures that cause the team to overcommit (throw lower estimates, giving the illusion that things can be done within the 2 weeks).

Overall, I think it kind of depends on the product you're building. If it's some SaaS product in the modern world of CI/CD, it doesn't really make sense to hold everything up for 2 weeks and then release. If new things are being continuously deployed/delivered, then value is being delivered faster and the business is achieving goals faster, learning faster, getting returns faster, rather than having to wait 2 weeks at a time. This in turn makes your business more 'agile', and all the productivity boosts, developer empowerment and happiness are great side benefit of the iterative process.
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IANAL, but this seems questionable. The contracts I've seen mandate giving full attention to the job, so no side-jobs (but that's for "exempt" full time positions). It might get tricky with the tax-man too.
It actually got worse, apparently they removed the built-in h264 encoder. I tried to use it and it is certainly not turn key, you need a special gstreamer pipeline
'We'll starve to death if this continues' [video]
After decades of outsourcing ever more social policy to the invisible hand of "the market," many important components of the system we have in the US -- political, regulatory, financial, educational, healthcare, etc. -- now appear to be stuck in lousy Nash equilibrium after lousy Nash equilibrium. Everyone is worse off than they could be, and fully aware of it (judging by opinion pieces like the OP), but no one has an incentive unilaterally to break out of it.
You should try Pipedream.com. Here are the docs on setting up cronjobs via API - https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/tree/master/interfa... - but there are multiple ways to solve your problem on the platform.
Regarding the difficulty level, I had two options in mind. I could allow grade selection in the settings or make it adaptive. I was leaning towards the latter.
Agreed -- linear SVMs, especially in text processing applications, is the one area where they are a natural fit. All their attributes complement the domain. Linear SVMs also have desirable performance characteristics.

But at that point, they also have a lot in common with linear models. Those also seem practical in that domain (though I have less experience here, tbh). And performant, when using SGD + feature hashing like e.g. vowpal wabbit.

My beef with non-linear kernels and structured data is a longer discussion, but I find kernel methods for structured data (which is usually high-dimension but low-rank -- lots of shared structure between features, shared structure between missingness of features) to be highly problematic.
Sounds good in principal, but would require a very large investment in a bureaucracy to carefully evaluate and vet the load applications of every student in the country.
It sure does when you build almost all your products in China.
> and you can't deny that hydro power produces much less of it than coal.

I can't vouch for this but I read stuff like this

https://news.wsu.edu/2016/09/28/reservoirs-play-substantial-...

td;dr: Bacteria in reservoirs decompose organic material trapped behind the dam releasing CO2 and methane.
I want to reply to many other comments but I want to make this more visible: Microsoft does not do Embrace-Extend-Extinguish anymore today (or at least, it does a lot lot less).

You know who does Embrace-Extend-Extinguish? Google.
> STEM majors learned how to learn new and complicated things quickly in order to get good grades in classes.

That's a skill that the liberal arts pick up as well.

> I do remember spending quite a lot of time in either a computer lab or in the library fighting my way through problems.

Will did that all on his own, without the need for a college. You're also describing a technical institute.

I don't see any skills there that really require a university either.
This is the best article I've seen in the LA Times in 20 years.
On Advertising: targetted advertising can go a lot of places with this. Even in shopping centres you can target their demographic
OP, I'm really sorry you are in this boat. My honest opinion is that this is a bullshit charge you are forced to carry around, I wish you the best and hope you find an employer who agrees. It is unfortunately the case that the US grossly over-criminalizes people and has no real way of offering them a shot at atonement. I personally do not understand what is gained by making a huge permanent underclass, but this country seems to believe this is justice in some perverted sense. Even if your charge wasn't bullshit, I would still wish you the chance to get it expunged or made right in some way.

That said, I think in the current environment you should be quiet and ride it out. Let the company get to know you and make a decision if possible. If they love you and then find out, you will have a better chance than by poisoning the well up front. IANAL, just a dev who has dealt with HR a few times. Best of luck:)
I'm not saying borrowing for the stimulus was necessarily a bad idea. Only that, unless you think the current level of debt is either sustainable long-term (maybe?) or that it can continue to rise, that the only rational conclusion is that our material standard of living has to decrease. That seems to be the only rational conclusion when you see 25% increases in US national debt in an environment where GDP is growing 1-2%/year.

We've made a lot of "promises" in this country in the past 50 years. Senior healthcare. Education. Old-age pensions. Government worker pensions. Being the world's police force. I'm only saying that if you take a hard look at all this, and we can't or won't continue to afford it, some things have to be cut. Will it be four-year college for everyone? Or will it be granny's healthcare? Anyone who says "we have to continue to do all if it" is just kidding themself. We just don't have the money.

I'm not long-term optimistic about what it means that the US isn't funding NATO as heavily as it used to be, but I do have to give Trump credit for making this a kitchen table issue. Being the world's police force is damned expensive and I wouldn't mind if we cut that back a bit if that's what it takes to balance, e.g. social security.
I second this so strongly. As a hiring manager, I'd be more than happy to discuss a person's background. For instance, "just so you know, I got arrested for having an ounce of weed in Mississippi". Thanks for letting me know! If that comes up in our background check (which we _have_ to do for regulatory reasons but generally don't care about unless you're a serious felon), I can ignore it. Who cares - it's weed, and it's legal here now.

OTOH, if you lied to me and I found out you were busted for a tiny amount of weed, I'm going to burn your application. Not because of the arrest - again, I don't even care about that - but because you've lied to me. At that point I'm not going to trust anything else you tell me. Are you also going to cover your mistakes at work and hope no one notices?

Every company is different, so I'm only speaking for myself and not the industry as a whole. But I would infinitely prefer that a candidate tell me this stuff up front than to try and hide it from me. And frankly, if you got arrested for some very cool reason ("I was part of a protest against a white supremacist march!"), it could quite possibly tip the hiring decision in your favor!