skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
will you be finishing this? looking forward to see how you do db migrations and errorhandling...

also do you think it would be better to to pass the db as a client already connected to avoid overhead everytime a request comes through opening a new connection...
Related Hasura comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787313
I was not familiar with userChrome.css before. Thanks for sharing! My browsing experience has improved by removing the top tab bar.
Example: https://www.ruralsourcing.com
Talking about a different war dude. History didn't start in 1860.
“[t]he more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.” -- Justice Hugo Black, majority opinion in Marsh Vs Alabama.

Youtube et al certainly encourage the free and public flow of traffic. Their business model depends on it. So their responsibility to the public would seem to obviously overshadow the perceived protections as a "private company".

I was also a child of the 80's
Doesn't that depend on the FPGA you use?
A behaviour which I'm quite fond of, as it allows me to fix the file extensions. I generally don't like relying on the file extension for information, but it helps me keep my media collection clean in this case. It'd be ideal if it displayed the image anyway, while also displaying a warning message that says the extension doesn't match the actual file type.
Microsoft Open-Sources GW-Basic
I don't think it is generous to believe "getting tired" was used metaphorically. On the other hand, perhaps you are right and this medical doctor really thinks the virus is a singular entity, with thoughts and feelings.
I’ve heard kids can make it difficult, but these are kids that have lived most of their lives with mom or dad working outside of home and they’re trained as such. If this becomes the norm, the crazy, loud and annoying child trope I seem to hear about a lot will greatly reduces as the children are raised with ‘work from from home in mind.
Such a path has significant stigma associated with it, so no.
I think you're underestimating how much of the inequality has been baked in by Junior year of High School. 16 years of living a life where parents and teachers nurture the students for maximum growth is going to be easily reflected in any way you want to measure aptitude against someone that grew up in a rough environment.

From the article it seems like the UC are going to develop their own test, that will further divide those with resources that can study and prep for multiple tests and those that cannot.

The issues with the diversity in the UC system are rooted in a much deeper level of inequality in society that probably cannot be fixed with these band aids.
Corporate bailouts are bullshit, I agree. But even without bailouts there would still be massive inequality (which I think is fine).

Cut spending and abolish the Fed.
"never let yourself be promoted to admiral"

This makes me think of Eisenhower, who I only found out recently apparently never saw combat, yet pretty much went to the top in his career and then became President.

Whether paperwork is boring or meaningless is a subjective value judgment. What if it's the paperwork for planning D-Day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
Thanks for the ref. That's about what my dad is using, and he struggles with the complexity.
hmm. no. you do have agency. you have agency during writing the code. you have agency during the code review. you have agency during wiring of alerts (if you do stupid shit you will receive a lot of pages. don’t so stupid shit). you have agency during the events. you also have agency after the events when you do a coe/post mortem. you can defined prioritize things to improve the life quality of other developers.

to give you an example. the team i was in at amazon had 3000 tickets in the queue when i started. anything except sev2s were basically ignored. lower severity tickets would escalate when shit hit the fan. i advocated for fixing classes of issues instead of myopically focusing on one-offs. by the time i left the queue was tens tickets and mostly feature request or higher level investigations.

to give you another example: i would basically remove all alerting that was not actionable. the worst possible thing that you can do is wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to do anything. i would ask for runbooks and the test was “if i take a developer from another team and put them oncall can they function independently 95% of the time”. i would think about what the experience of being oncall was (ie you don’t take people and throw them in the deep end of the pool and wonder why they drown)

so i guess what i’m saying is that oncall for me wasn’t that bad or stressful. it sucks having to be near a computer but I was rarely paged for stuff that broke or needed to be fixed right NOW. (once stabilized our team had 1 sev2 every other week)
I agree, and this scares me more than any one product dropping its support for assembly.

Apple tries to earn credit for putting Swift Playgrounds on the iPad. Its a coding environment aimed at students, they're trying to help the pipeline. No. Its a cute little sideshow activity that offers its users nothing of actual value. It teaches its users to complete exam-like puzzles, get a gold star, and then close the sideshow and return to the garden where they can watch Netflix.

And Jesus, Swift?! If you want a quicker way to turn kids off of programming, go right ahead and start them on Swift. The first good thing anyone says about Swift is "at least its not Objective-C". Fine language; but not a learning language.

Assembly... now that's a learning language. It may not seem it at first, from the perspective of a professional. You can't build huge apps in Assembly. Its not maintainable. All true, and that means shit all when you're learning. There's basically no syntax elements. This means, there's no syntax to learn. Its just legos. The program starts at 0, goes line by line, you get a list of like 100 types of legos to combine, and you make it do things. Starting on assembly is underrated.

Modern computing would suck to get into. I'm grateful that, despite all the shit of "modern web development", a basic HTML page is still pretty damn simple, and you can build from there. Could you imagine trying to build a basic Android or iOS app nowadays as a High Schooler? Could you imagine getting into game development, reaching for Unreal or the modern Source engine? Try modding a game you play on iOS or Stadia. Try installing Linux on your family's "what's a computer" iPad. These were the hooks that built the people that built our industry, and the hooks are slowly disappearing.

When we were younger, the best tools in the industry were at least accessible to younger people, because the tools were simpler. Today, the tools are either locked behind $99/year paywalls, or so horribly complex that even professional engineers struggle with them (most often, both). So, we build cute little learning tools to help get kids interested, like Swift Playgrounds or toy game engines or Glitch (no disrespect intended to the people behind these projects; they're making the best of a bad situation).

I don't know how to fix it, beyond relentlessly supporting open source and open computing, and continually pushing for fucking simplicity above anything else in the tools we build. Its not an easy battle.
> I spent a grand total of $28 and managed to get a 99th percentile score on the SAT. To claim it’s impossible to score high on that test without money is absolutely false.

No one is claiming it's "impossible", and I don't want to minimize your experience -- 20 years ago, I also scored 99th percentile on the SAT with only $15 spent on practice books -- but it's absolutely not the norm.

The reality is that a SAT scores correlate with wealth. Both directly, in that while you and I may not need tutoring to improve our scores, there are also millions of kids out there who do benefit from expensive tutoring, and millions of kids who would benefit, but don't because they can't afford it. But also indirectly: I'd be willing to bet you don't come from a low-SES background: i.e., living in poverty, unable to afford basic needs, parents or guardians infrequently present, with unsteady income, etc. (For the record, I don't have this background.) If I'm wrong about your background, you are truly an exception, not merely in the 1% of SAT scorers.

Using the SAT in college admissions means that admissions is biasing -- at the margins -- towards, of those students who would benefit from expensive tutoring, the subset who can afford it.
that doesn't seem to describe ML either
Well, I disagree. I think "media competence" is more important than spelling or grammar and should be something expected of someone entering tertiary education.
This is a great victory for privileged kids that can now rely more than ever on coaching to have the most awesome extra-curriculars and most convincing essays. Truly a brave step to ensure that poor kids can't sneak through the admissions system using their smarts. I expect this will lead to higher donations to the UC system in the future. 


Seriously, considering stopping donations this year - I'm a UC alumnus and this makes me sad.
Reminds me of the nebulous catch-all “cultural fit” criteria that allows a company to justify not hiring someone who, while they measurably fit with the job, the company just doesn’t want to hire due to some feeling or unconscious bias they have. When you remove quantitative measurements, no matter how flawed the measurements are, you risk further dooming discriminated-against groups.
I’ve clocked a VexRiscv at 80 MHz on a very old Cyclone II.

On a modern FPGA, 300 to 400MHz should be possible, depending on configuration: caches and branch predictors tends to reduce the clock speed.

You can find some results here:
https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexRiscv#area-usage-and-maximal...

None of those numbers are for the fastest FPGAs.
A lot has changed over the years here.

My friends in Warsaw are pulling anywhere in the range of $55-65k per annum before taxes - that's at corona rates, which knocked close to 8% off our currency's value.
>It's actually a good thing if advertisers don't sponsor something because their customers don't like that thing. Those customers are voting with their money, and those customers -- the democratic electorate -- those are the people we want making censorship decisions

For one, I don't want anybody "making censorship decisions". We're not that far from the time the majority would like pro-integration/black, gay friendly, or atheist e.g content censored.

Second, they don't vote with their wallet on the actual content. They could always vote by not watching the video they don't like, and if enough people did that, the video would naturally not have advertising revenue.

But no, while they hate on the video, they don't target it, but target the company making some totally irrelevant to it advertised product, using their complain to negatively affect the video creators.

Third, and more important, this is not actual voting, nobody counts and there are no official rules and limits. A 20% or even 10% of customers can make the companys, and throu that, the content creators' life miserable (cut ad revenue, deplatform, censor, lose display space, etc), even if a bigger majority has no problem or even likes it. In fact, you don't even need that (10-20%), just enough determined hardcore complainers creating a fuzz, even if they're like 1% of customers, many companies just don't care to suffer them, and cave in.

Fourth, advertising companies also take pressure from their customers, the advertised companies, not just the public. Even more pressure there. So companies can also have leverage to stop them giving ads to content they don't like (whistleblowers, critical videos, etc).

>This bizarre notion that more regulation (advertisers can't choose what videos they advertise on) would somehow fix the problem we're seeing is completely disconnected from reality

Since the problem is advertisers having too much power by being able to choose the videos they advertise in, of course more regulation disallowing that will fix it!
Throw this into some already over-bracketized JSX for some code that is truly unreadable by humans and no linter or optimizer will be able to grok. But, hey, it's got Modad!
If the majority of goods on ebay were stolen then you would absolutely see that post.
I’m an extension reviewer at adding.mozilla.org. Extensions that request certain permissions are manually reviewed. Others are automatically approved. Recommend extensions are ALWAYS manually reviewed for each update.
Preparing for the SAT, I have to say that it was one of the weirdest tests I've ever taken. I don't think it does a good job at predicting future outcomes for students, compared to how they did in their school work.

For most people outside of the US system, who want to go to US universities, it is an extra (and expensive) hassle when you've already taken internationally accredited qualifications like the A-Levels or the IB. I'd much rather trust something that has assessed you over a couple of years over something that just asses how well you can cram for something.
Right now consumer spending is way down because people can't or won't leave the house, and millions of people are unemployed. Injecting 3 trillion into the economy in normal circumstances would of course have a different effect.
I grew up fairly poor in a rather mediocre school district. I wonder if I'd have even gotten into college without the SAT (which is the better test, in my opinion). Getting 99%s on that made a difference for me.
The US is really big. There are many, many small towns out there and by pure random chance there will be over a 100 schools in small towns that are in the 95th percentile nationally for whatever metric you want to use. And if you move to a less populated state your chances of going to a prestige uni go way up because they like to say they have students from all 50 states.

Even if the schools are terrible in every rural school district you can get individual tuition for your children for very cheap compared to the difference in costs of real estate in urban versus rural areas. The average adjunct instructor at a college makes $3,000 per class. So for $24K your child could get individual college level instruction for 8 AP tests, as an upper bound. Cheap compared to the difference between a house in Boston and one two hours away.
Social aspect or no, many executives believe their companies are more productive right now. What I'm hearing from the executive level is that the vast majority of companies are actively working to make WFH a permanent reality for those who wish to do so.

One executive I spoke to put it like this (paraphrased): "the introverts are loving it and the extroverts hate it. Productivity-wise its neutral to positive, but emotionally a lot of our folks are struggling without work so we're still committed to reopening offices when it's safe to do so."
Because then the government inevitably either 1) runs out of money, 2) cuts spending drastically, or 3) drastically increases taxes on the wealthy to pay for everything.

We all know that 1 and 2 (probably) aren't going to happen. And I don't know many republicans that want the wealthy's money redistributed equally amongst all Americans.
P E E R T U B E
It might have well been a mistranslation. Stating that you're so desperate to buy that you'll accept "the tiniest bits you can find" could sound like a reasonable thing to say to transmit urgency; then a translator approximates to "he will pay for every small piece" and you're screwed.
How is this not a "WFH vs office" post?
> Taking it from other people's earnings and spending it through a committee of politicians sounds pretty dystopian to me though.

That sounds exactly like how social services work today, with the extra bonus of high administration costs.

At least with cash, the government can't decide for you what to spend it on. In effect you end up relying on businesses to spring up to provide the things you want (which may be different than what I want). This is either a feature or a drawback depending on who you talk to.
No it is not. In 2005 it went from 1600 to 2400. In 2016 it went from 2400 back to 1600.
I'm still sbuurprised at how many people think we don't have buildings because of NIMBY residents, or because of lack of space. Our building issue is entirely self-inflicted. Do most people even know what it takes to remove an ordinance tree on your property? There's red tape EVERYWHERE, and special interest has made sure that their pet issues have considerations along each step of the way.
Asus Z390 Motherboards Automatically Push Software In2 Your Windows Installation
My calculator was never checked before standardized tests, but some math teachers checked before giving class tests.
I feel like utility classes and BEM go well together, though. BEM for sort of atoms/molecules (to use the lingo from the linked css-tricks page), and then utility classes to tweak the components, and to make components play nicely together (Fixing up margins, etc so things flow right and are the right size.)
Check out Porpentine's games... "Howling Dogs" and "With Those We Love Alive" are both amazing.

http://slimedaughter.com/games/
It looks like you can disable it, but “Full” telemetry (in Microsoft’s words) includes:

> Full: All data necessary to identify and help to fix problems, plus data from the Security, Basic, and Enhanced levels.

In the Windows 8 days, they claimed that engineers couldn’t silently pull individual files from machines without managerial approval. I can’t find the source. It was some old news article with an interview with a Microsoft manager.

Anyway, “All data necessary to identify and help to fix problems” pretty clearly implies they can pull whatever they want as they debug. I don’t see how they could implement that without exposing customers to warrant requests.
Can confirm. The only time I've ever been quoted list price for an FPGA from a distributor (other than digikey) was when our purchasing agent managed to personally enrage the sales guy.

We still didn't end up _paying_ list price (after I made the purchasing guy apologize - no details, but he was 100% in the wrong).
https://www.etymonline.com/word/misinformation
The abhorrent "safe space" culture was mostly contained to college campuses a decade ago. Unfortunately, every large left-leaning organisation across the US is now deeply steeped in it.

You reap what you sow.
It seems pretty clear that there are at least some cases in which the test was dropped / failed entirely because of the issue, including the case that The Verge leads with:

> Nick Bryner, a high school senior in Los Angeles, had just completed his AP English Literature and Composition test last week. But when he snapped a photo of a written answer with his iPhone and attempted to upload it to the testing portal, it stopped responding.

> The website got stuck on the loading screen until Bryner’s time ran out. Bryner failed the test. He’s retaking it in a few weeks.

In this case it seems unlikely that the issue is correctable after the fact by the College Board.
Let the votes decide.
I'm unfamiliar with the Dark Mode extensions referenced in this article, but I've had pretty good luck with Dark Reader.

It's not as performant on Firefox as on Chrome (and it really shows in Gmail in particular) but overall it's been very reliable and easy to customize when necessary.
The Portland, Oregon public library system offered this in the 1990s. You could dial in and get the library's own text-terminal catalog system, Gopher, or the Lynx browser. You could download files as well as browsing text. That's how I first started playing with ray tracers and downloading shareware games.

You could even quit the browser and you'd be sitting in a Unix shell account.
Hey, it worked for the UK!
I got a new job right before the pandemic, with a big enough prior notice that pushed my first day into the pandemic. It may be related to the fact that the company I now work for wasn't doing any remote work before, but it now feels so impersonal working. In an office I can easily chit chat, get to know my coworkers, but remotely it seems so hard. I could see it happening more easily in the kind of place that has a casual channel on Slack, but most workplace doesn't push that kind of things. I may try to push some kind of virtual 5@7.

I would personally trust Shopify to do it right, to allow that kind of social interaction remotely.
> Or really basically anywhere that has you interacting with the real world directly connected to your compute, and not just compute off in a datacenter.

Which, at least in mass-market applications, mostly happens on phones and other battery-powered devices. :)
Thanks for the link to Pgbouncer, I'll check that.

I'm using Cloudflare Workers which are distributed on the CF network and run at the edge to reduce latency. Achieving the same thing with containers would be probably complicated and expensive.

Right now I'm using Fauna DB which is also distributed and doesn't have connection limits, but I want to explore all my options.

Edit:

If anyone wants to know more about PGBouncer and pooling with postgres I found this article very informative:

https://www.compose.com/articles/how-to-pool-postgresql-conn...
The market approach tends to not work when the participants are not part of the market.
Corporations already got most of the 3 trillion!
it’s always a push and pull kind-of thing. if you answer your email after hours you will receive emails after hours. if you work on your free time more work is going to show up on your plate. as with everything in life having boundaries is a must. if your boss makes you work nights or weekends make sure this is explicitly done (ie have them ask you formally) and ask for a raise to compensate for your time. if they don’t back off find another job.
You can get an IBM z15 without z/OS (a LinuxONE) and run Linux on it, benefiting from its vast IO. And it probably costs about the same as the Superdome.
I stand corrected, I must have misunderstood the doc.
No, but a hard drive was shot - right through the heart!!
consider Postel's law