skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Understanding god is hard unless you use your emotional intelligence instead of logical intelligence, because that's what the concept of god is used for. To guide humans in their emotional life, not in their logical pursuits.

IME the Christian god serves more as a means to an end for controlling and/or dilluted rulers. Being an abusive, often absent, manipulative, and bigoted father that god is unlikely to help anyone emotionally.
having such a severe penalty for the first offense probably causes professors to look the other way if they don't agree that it's reasonable. imo, the severity of the offense can vary a lot. cheating on a homework might not be as bad as cheating on an exam (worth a lot more points), wholesale copying of answers is much worse than getting a little too much help from your study group.

as far as how widespread cheating is, that probably depends on the culture at your particular institution. my school had a very strict policy for programming assignments: you were only allowed to discuss them with the instructor, a TA, or in public on piazza. and yet, every time I went into the cs lab, I would see everyone huddled around each other laptops debugging code for the latest assignment. I'm not sure whether they simply didn't understand the rule or didn't realize how obvious it was what they were doing, but essentially everyone in that room was bending the rules a little.
I knew a non techie who left because I think they killed someone when they were part of a gang. Another because of family. There are a ton of people who lack the financial freedom.

Why are articles like these always focused on the tech minority?
Thanks for asking! I work at GitLab as Senior Manager, People Operations
I appreciate Musk being upset at Alameda county being more conservative in reopening then the state of California, the way he approached it really upset me. The "we'll open in defiance to authorities" approach was wrong and supports a dangerous narrative in the United States (and presumably elsewhere) regarding the response to the pandemic.

More generally, I find the "we'll just ignore laws we find inconvenient and disagree with" approach a lot of SV (Uber springs to mind) or SV derived companies have taken discomforting. Rule of law is important and defiance should be reserved for true injustice, not self-enrichment.
How to Be Successful (Sam Altman Re-Imagined for Advertising)
Sam Altman, ex-president of Y Combinator, investor in AirBNB, Dropbox, Zenefits, Stripe, Reddit, Istacart, Optimizely, Soylent, and founder of OpenAI, wrote an eye-blowing, mind-opening piece last year titled "How to be Successful."

While most of the 13 points gave advice to individuals running businesses, one stood out as highly relevant to businesses themselves.

In fact, it was the very first point...
Right. The title implies renters lose too. But if you're not "contracted in" (long-term lease) then keep an eye out for discounted rentals and remain flexible. It's not like after an earthquake or other natural disaster where housing stock is reduced leaving renters price-gouge-able.
Our e-team recently sent out a company wide reminder that we are family and friends first and work second. As people start settling into “new normals”, they also encourage team members to take the time they need. My direct manager is reminding me to take the necessary time of to help school my kids during our 1:1's and continuously check if I need any further support.
Thinking on it: 1664 bits is 26 * 8 * 8, which is a little low. ASCII uses indices 32 to 127 for visible characters, so this would be 95 * 8 * 8, or 6080 bits. It's still a trivially small amount of information and there are very few ways to make unique English fonts out of it, so I still don't think it should be possible to copyright it.

Looking at the actual IBM_VGA_8x8.bin file: the file size is 1024 bytes (8192 bits). I calculated the entropy of the data to be only 638 bits of information.

MATLAB code:

fid = fopen('IBM_PC_BIOS_1981-04-24_HALF_8x8.bin','r');
ibmVga = fread(fid);
fclose(fid);
p = histogram(double(ibmVga),255);
E = -sum(log2(p.Values(p.Values > 0)).*log2(p.Values(p.Values > 0)));
Thank you for explaining why you downvoted. Allow me to reply with the following observation: Boeing depends on airlines. Or, at least, Boeing's commercial division depends on airlines. A future where Boeing's commercial arm is shuttered and its defense works folded into a single entity would be congruent with my original post; there would be a grand reduction in air travel.

Boeing's biggest commercial customer, as I understand it, is Southwest, who owns about 5% of all Boeings in the air [0][1]. Thus, sure, Boeing doesn't need any one particular airline, but they certainly do need somebody to buy their planes, and each individual airline which cannot stay aloft is a potential lost customer.

Because planes are so expensive to manufacture, Boeing and Airbus typically take orders for aircraft in advance, presumably along with payment, in exchange for a hefty discount of over half off the advertised price [2]. Additionally, they take too many orders, expecting that they are overbooked on plane orders and some will be canceled [2]. This sort of accounting works well in times of trouble, as long as the system returns quickly to normal following the initial shock. For example, after 9/11, air traffic resumed after a week [3] and there was only about a 30% reduction in air travel, which lasted for about a year [4]. However, if there is a months-long depression in air traffic, then the reduction will be more severe; it's been about 45% to 90% reduced around the Pacific Rim [1] and could get worse.

Eventually, too many orders get cancelled, and production has to scale back, and once production starts diminishing, it's hard to regain capacity. The original article quotes the CEO as saying that it could be 3 years until we get back to prior levels of air travel; that is a long time for airlines to hold out, and a long time for Boeing and Airbus to keep getting orders.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet#Curre...

[1] Read my cousin reply.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_between_Airbus_and...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closings_and_cancellations_fol...

[4] https://web.mit.edu/airlines/conferences/DC-2002_documents/0...
You could call it CIDR Punk if you want to be a bit more on-the-nose ;)
Yeah, I was thinking more about what to do with the OS afterwards. That board has lots of things on it, including wifi, so I'll probably would like to use some of that.

It would be unfortunate to have to re-implement the wifi driver in Rust, but I suppose I'll just have to link parts of the C toolchain instead, creating Rust wrappers, etc.
From SaaS beta launch, to 10 users, and then Covid19
While there's some power in voting with your choices, it's not really voting because a true vote with your choice must occur without being under duress or leveraged.

When it comes to employment, unless you're swimming in money and are basically just working for the sole purpose that you enjoy it, you're leveraged into adjusting your vote accordingly to your best option.

When true competition exists and your labor easily transfers, then by all means, select employers with reasonable practices. Relatively few people get to completely pick where they want to work and for what position they work. Most of us who aren't the top say 5% in our field pick a few handfuls and take a shotgun approach to see which opportunity lands. If none of those options land, we move to options we don't like because not working isn't a viable option.

Right now with unemployment rates skyrocketing, you have even less flexibility because labor is even more leveraged and have to cave into more and more policies like this.

The only way to protect labor in these situations, aside from organized labor unions, is creating enforceable regulatory protections for labor.
Yes, people can and will sue for any reason. But in this case this is how the suit would likely go ...

plaintiff: "Your honor these share holders are suing the company for violating its fiduciary duty."

company; "Your honor, we know that some share holders may not always agree with the majority, but we made sure that over 50% of the share holders were on board with every decision we've made. We move to dismiss."

Judge: "You have documented that the majority agreed?"

company: "Yes your honor"

Judge: "And every shareholder has access to the bylaws of the company which state in clear and unequivocal terms that all decisions will be decided by a simple majority vote?"

company: "Yes your honor."

"case dismissed."
You just brought back some painful memories. At an old company of mine, I helped migrate a legacy system to SAP (of all things!), and they fought it every step of the way.

Well, management did. Every other phrase they uttered was "The old system did it this way" or "I used to just press F2". The pushback to learning something new was unreal.

Nevermind the fact that multi-step processes were reduced to a simple button click. Or that inventory and customer management were orders of magnitude better. The old system!! The old system did it another way!
Unreal Engine 5 Revealed – Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on Playstation 5
There is only so much you can increase the supply without being hours away from the jobs. Plus the rich can just buy any new supply quickly and we are back to the same.
Serious question, how many people are still using Eclipse for day-to-day development?
> You say that becoming a landlord is more accessible to the masses...

Not OP, but they don't say that. At least what I interpreted was, people with spare money bought properties to rent them, and then have more spare money to keep buying that ultimately results in unaffordable housing as the double whammy of 1. Costs to buy a house keeps creeping up, whilst 2. The wealth transfer from renters to landlords continues at an unsustainable clip.
Thank you for sharing this. Very good and much more helpful and less tendentious than the main link above.
Personally, I prefer to stay with vanilla (not transpiled) Javascript parsed and validated by typescript via an IDE plus JS Doc documentation. The only language that would love to switch with the drawback of transpilation would be Purescript, but a too-small community and too low performance (compile and runtime) at the moment.
It seems we’re teetering around calling for these encroachments on really vague criteria even as far as “if anyone is dying.”
> As one of the authors of the book, I wholeheartedly agree that it's not for everyone. Folks should learn in the way that works well for them. I'm glad this resource exists!

I started off reading your book, and I found it really helpful, even though I didn't make it all the way through. I feel like there are a lot of resources cropping up that are good supplemental material (the "half hour to learn Rust" blog post linked in this document being one of those) which can quickly get people up to speed, but the details in the book are still valuable.

Reading through (most of) the book was really helpful when I went to Exercism (another fine resource recommended by the post linked here), and I still use it as a reference when I am fuzzy on a concept.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_45#_faster-syntax-h...

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/95958
The quintupling occurs largely because landlords are bidding against each other. Which doesn't increase the housing supply, just the rent.
Wikipedia disagrees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_(politics)
> An employee gives you 8 of their 12 hour day.

How much sleep are you getting??
I've got to hand it to Bloomberg for finding 3 of the most extreme cases of the, "think of the poor rentseekers" they could find. I know a few landlords. After meeting them I know I could never seriously become one. We were having drinks while one was on the phone working on evicting someone. Apparently, he didn't have a choice, dems the rules.

1. The woman sitting on 27 units and only making $24k, is seriously over leveraged. Sounds like she took on more debt than she could reasonably manage and expect her tenants to be the safe bet even though she isn't.

2. Family owned Mott St apartments. Something is wrong with this story as well. If they owned the properties for a century (1st wave Taosinese immigrants I bet) they should be printing money. Chinatown rents are high for old, low amenities buildings. There is a whole lot more to this story because someone is lying.

3. Something tells me they refinanced one too many times and pumped the equity out of their property. Property bought in the 90s is worth 3x as much today so where is the renters money going exactly?
People who can't/won't travel to the US. Is probably the main thing.
>landlords have had a ridiculously easy ride in recent decades

Why don't you try being a landlord and see how easy it is.
Uber Clones Instacart, Enters US Grocery Market
I intend to use that clear, concise language, normal sized fonts, button size, button colors to correlate with effects of the action, and humility in my future projects. Oh dear, I am thinking of copying all of it! I hope they don't send lawyers after me :)

That all made me click the "Accept" button rather than "Decline" which I usually do when given a choice.

Loved that the very first sentence gave the reader the choice to decline. Perhaps that made me read the rest of it, or maybe I was already biased (unlikely, but possible) based on the comment here I had read in its praise.
So what you're saying is it's not because they have a good product?
Hey, Jimmy here, vending machine manager at GitLab. I'm sorry that our posts here are concerning. I'm going to run this one right up the ladder for you. Thank you so much for your concern and sorry about your experience with GitLab!
What if we use content hash or provider public key hash as the url?
Like ipfs / zeronet.

DNS server itself is also a service you've to rely on for https to work in practice.
What you learn when you read obituaries
Beautifully done! Interesting article.

> only 600-800 tourists visit the region annually, which is less than those who reach the peak of Everest in a year!

Do not give anybody ideas...
Hopefully. She's probably just considering the profit that enables her to eat.
You have to give Commodore (or whoever designed that font) some slack.

VGA (in typically used character modes) had more bits per character, and its fonts didn’t have to be designed to be legible when displayed on a television set (screen not designed for text display, and signal converted to antenna signal and back)

Also, are you sure about that “round dot”? https://github.com/spacerace/romfont/blob/master/font-images... doesn’t show it, and any non-squareness would require a width of at least 3 pixels (more likely 4) to draw.
Investment properties are like stocks, except that retail investors are much more likely to be leveraged and much less likely to be diversified.

It sucks to lose your savings but this is just how the free market is. If you dump your life savings into a penny stock, you might get screwed over there too. That's the free market, if you don't like it then invest in bonds or atleast diversify.

I suspect in some number of months, stock values are going to begin taking real hits, and when that happens I suspect we will start seeing the lost-my-retirement-to-SPXL sob stories
>> If we stopped making it a game, without points to earn and rewards for points, people wouldn’t cheat.

> Nonsense.

> There is an incentive to cheat any time there is a test, where capabilities are measured that are not routinely used.

So stop issuing tests.

Or more importantly, the schools could stop holding a record of students grades. Students could still takes tests to confirm their understanding, but their results wouldn't benefit (or hinder) them in any sort of hiring situation. If you sit through the classes, assuming 1) you've put in the work 2) the classes were taught well and 3) you posses sufficient intelligence/aptitude, you should finish with some useful skills. However, no one "graduates" in the sense that they currently do: no fancy paper slip to mount on the wall, no gold stars. School then has nothing to do with career outcome, at least not directly.

This might seem unreasonable -- the employers of the world need some way to judge their fresh candidates!

This is easily solved: people new to a field would start out as apprentices. With a year or more of experience on their resume, they may now switch employers as readily as anyone else does now -- employers, in my experience, don't often check their candidates' formal education at that point.

But what about people who, at that point, would manipulate their way into a rewarding career without yielding any real value in return? At that point, we've just shifted the "game" to "get paid while being lazy and/or useless", right?

Well, maybe, but nothing has really changed. People already brown nose. Companies are already rife with cronyism/nepotism/etc. Lazy and incompetent employees already exploit past association with big name companies to coast through their career and into cushy retirement. None of that has changed.

The only things that really change in this hypothetical: universities are no longer the gatekeeper to people's future, people no longer feel the need to take on massive debt to study disciplines that they're not even sure they'd enjoy, and employers would be expected to invest a tiny amount (modest pay; the overhead of letting them shadow established employees) in new hires making their first entrance into the working world.
it also doesn't make it a bad thing, or an immoral one. The story is more complicated than a simple "SUGAR BAD," or a simple "DATA COLLECTION WRONG."

Snickers bars are a standard tool in a wilderness survival first-aid kit. The same energy-density-per-unit-mass that makes them a bad choice for day-to-day snack is great when you need a bunch of glucose in a short amount of time.
Tesla has moved to a country like China. I wonder when we can expect some "FREE CHINA NOW" tweets from Elon.
I agree with your assessment - they are not villains, but they also don't need a bailout from me or you, because they took a risk in making the investment. It should not be a guarantee because if it is we may as well just let the government me the landlord.
My two cents: Learn to write Typescript, not Javascript.

There are Javascript patterns that just don't type well. There are other ways to write your code that will be easier to fit into the type system. It might be more verbose and less reusable at times, but it ends up being a worthwhile tradeoff.

That's general advise and might not apply to the libraries you mention, but it's worked well for us to explicitly call out the differences.
Their CEO is the worst offender. Shows up on every gitlab thread with these generic/uninteresting comments.
ReasonML is a pleasure to work with, and if reveryui gets momentum I will surely write gui desktop applications with it (I already use it to write compiled applications, under the hood is just ocaml).
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> Personally, like most of HN, I'm fine with extending the quarantine but, being HNers, we can afford to weather the storm; the majority are not so fortunate.

Polls show the vast majority of the population supports extending shelter-in-place, and (in polls where it gets broken out) that that support is stronger among the lower economic strata. Opposition, though weak everywhere, is stronger among people who worry about how their investment portfolio is doing. Some examples:

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/press-release/poll-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/despite...

https://www.chcf.org/blog/covid-19-tracking-poll-75-californ...
Years of life lost due to the psychosocial consequences of COVID19 mitigation
It could be corruption.
It’s definitely work and a lot of risk unless you were gifted property in a high demand urban area or vacation hotspot.

Putting your money in VOO or a bunch of FAANG stock will prob net you a lot more for a lot less work based on how the government needs to keep the equity markets appreciating.

Real estate purchased decades ago in hot spots might be easy money, but buying it these days is just for diversification of assets for me.
Georgism is not socially efficient, but LVT (which is similar, in that it's a single tax on land) is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Over the past few weeks, I've been setting all my command prompts and terminal emulators to old-school fonts. I've settled on PxPlus IBM VGA8[0] with color #FFB000 (monochrome amber) on black. If font antialiasing blurs things, I use Nouveau IBM[1].

[0] https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/#ibmvgamcga

[1] https://www.dafont.com/nouveau-ibm.font
There are a lot of games you can play with the IRS to reduce the amount of profit that you show from rental properties. You can count depreciation, property taxes, mortgage payments, utilities, maintenance, improvements, and a whole host of other expenses. Particularly with depreciation thrown in, it's not uncommon for small-time landlords to show losses on their rentals.

But even if it's low-income housing in Connecticut, that's got to be close to $500-1000/month in rent per unit. Accounting for some amount of delinquency or vacancy, that's still $150k-$300k in revenue, and I think I'm being conservative. Something doesn't add up with this story.
Baking Bad Founder: How My Team Won Development Grant from Tezos Foundation
Standard Agile Tools Can Be Risky
Harbor 2.0 takes a giant leap in expanding supported artifacts with OCI support
Hrmm. Speaking of my town, Berkeley, California, the housing supply has been almost static since 1950, the number of jobs in town is now double the number of employed people (prior to pandemic), and virtually all land is zoned for detached single-family dwellings. Increasing the supply in this town would be as easy as the stroke of a pen, and would bring people closer to, not further from their jobs.
i was wondering what took so long for this to be posted
local logs also make troubleshooting much easier, especially if you have to bring a system up offline for forensic analysis.
How does someone measure empathy at institutional level?

Every other metric I can think of will be hard to convince and implement. It can also be pretty subjective.
Why I started writing about production ML systems
What is the issue with *BSD and LE wildcard certs? Would be interesting to hear more about that.
> The only meaning of "oomph" which I could imagine that would put the Pi ahead of the iPad would be in flexibility in terms of what can be done with the device.

That's exactly the point.

A RPi is currently much more flexible than an iPad for some workflows that need a terminal or desktop software. For this use case, the iPad acts as a self-contained power supply, internet connection and thin client.
However the iPad's own capabilities are recently improving with the new features of iPadOS.
Menu bar app for monitoring Kubernetes clusters
This is awkward, but I actually am a landlord. From my experience, it's not much work and is very profitable, compared to other investment options. Hoping to stop being a landlord fairly soon, although Covid-19 has put a bit of a spanner in the works.
The thing is - I get it. I thi k it's cool when people show up to talk about their product or code that is mentioned on a forum. It's endearing. But when it's systematized by a large corporation, it's no longer so.