skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another great tool to look at is Sysdig [0]. The technical founder has an amazing background in deep low level Linux stuff, and security.

[0]: https://sysdig.com/
University of California system to stop using SAT, ACT tests for admissions
What is stopping facebook, Reddit, or another popular site you have open while you're developing add this kind of thing and get user info? Or am I misunderstanding something?
See also: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/quantum-biology-...
Did you just claim that Asian Americans are disadvantaged by UC admissions?
Look into Pulsar, it can function as a message queue or pub/sub like Kafka.

By default it only retains non-acked messages, multiple subscription modes, can use non-persistent messaging, dead letter queue, scheduled delivery, can use Pulsar Functions to implement custom routing etc.

Scales like Kafka (probably better) and has cluster replication built in.
I don't remember exactly anymore, left ship too long ago. But it wasn't about the /usr move.

One derivative would be https://web.obarun.org , another one
https://artixlinux.org
But that's not how prices are set. The company isn't looking to hire you (unless they are, in which case you are set regardless of what happens to the world)... they are looking to hire someone who can do the job. So they start at $1. Will anyone take the job for $1? Not in Menlo Park. So they go to $2. Still nobody. $150K is where they have to be right now to hire the quantity and quality of people they want to, given the conditions of employment (for Facebook, the two biggest ones are that you have to move to the Bay Area and that they fire people very eagerly).

If you decide to move to Tulsa OK and you are a Jeff Dean sort, they'll just say "thank you for not quitting." If they reduce your pay to $90K... even if you hadn't moved, eventually they would have gotten around to firing you and replacing you with someone in Tulsa for $90K.
Also, the voluntary actions people are taking are affected by how they see this pandemic, which of course are in turn heavily affected by media reporting (and also how other countries have reacted).
I think that universities can normalize a student's grades using their high school's distribution to level playing field amongst all schools, meaning the grade inflation isn't even working. The UC system is going to have more than enough data to figure out those distributions.
I'm pretty sure that is in fact the same way of thinking about it. A 2D space with extra 2D spaces attached at every point is a 4D space.
We had a similar one in my area that turned out to be a food-delivery guy.

In many areas, NextDoor appears to be a glorified, technically-incompetent mailing list populated by pathetic NIMBYs. There was someone on there seriously complaining about a chirping bird outside his window in the morning.

NextDoor is also underhanded and thinks nothing of bringing harassment down on its users by

1. Spamming a user's neighbors without that user's permission, pretending that the user is "inviting" neighbors to join NextDoor.

2. Publishing users' addresses by default. This one ranks as one of the most offensive and idiotic privacy violations on a major platform today.
This is the startup equivalent of "too big to fail."

They have capitalized so much that they need to capitalize even more to make their previous capitalization make sense.
SpaceX Village: Elon Musk’s Mars Prototype Town in South Texas
In many ways, it isn't. I've seen similar practices called "onshoring".

The important differences from typical offshoring are that it's costlier, but comes with fewer cultural, linguistic, and time zone challenges.
First, please do not confuse "Work-from-Home" with "Remote Work". These are very different beasts, and the situation you are going through now is neither of those.

Second, if you can avoid entering the market now, do so. There is a lot of data showing how entering the job market in an economic downturn can be worse than a few years of unemployment. You will thank me 25 years from today.

Third, understand that Remote Work (not WFH!) will also allow you to separate the choice of place of where you live from the place/activity that makes you money. You don't have to live in a big faceless city. It will be okay to try spending 3-6 months in different places of the world, meet different people, find different ways to belong to your local community, whatever. If in the end you still want to do Remote Work in an environment that resembles a company office, it will be possible (again: Remote Work is not WFH)

Fourth, if the office is your largest source of regular socialization, I'd seriously recommend you finding ways to change or mitigate that regardless of your working conditions. As friendly and cordial your relationship with your colleagues is, they are still just colleagues. You are not in school anymore.

Lastly, things are changing for everyone, not just the juniors. Even the seniors will have to figure out some of the new protocols and processes when dealing with the upcoming challenges. But finding a way to communicate and exchange some thoughts with your colleagues will always be necessary and recommended. There is no reason to feel more anxious about it.
Lockdowns are causing the majority of economic damage.

Whether lockdowns are justified anyway is a question for another discussion. But economies are hit by lockdowns not the pandemic itself. Let's look at info we can find about Sweden.

Sure, people in Sweden are staying at home more, but the decrease in activity is hardly on the level of locked down countries.

"When people became aware of coronavirus around March 12, we lost almost overnight 30 per cent. It’s OK. For a couple of months, it will work. But after that it will be very, very tough,"[1]

[A pedestrian street in Stockholm on Apr. 1](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2020/04/01/TELE...)

[A market in Malmo during the pandemic (no exact date)](http://archive.is/2siwt/5d1b19d61fd21d052c2cc190f13f722c0bf8...)

[Pubs, eating out](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/newsbeat-52618788/coronavirus-ho...)

It absolutely doesn't look that Sweden's economy took a downturn because people are afraid to go outside.

Their economy seems to be hit by supply chains dependent on locked down countries being suspended[1]:

"One big reason is that Sweden is a small, open economy with a large manufacturing industry. Truckmaker Volvo Group and carmaker Volvo Cars were both forced to stop production for several weeks, not because of conditions in Sweden but due to lack of parts and difficulties in their supply chains elsewhere in Europe."

So, to reiterate, it looks very much like the majority of damage to economies are caused by lockdowns.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/93105160-dcb4-4721-9e58-a7b262cd4...
As Henry Ford said, cars will never go anywhere, because, for all their flaws, no mode of transportation in history has been more efficient than the train.
I highly recommend reading this post.
I have been following Matthew's work for quite a long-time and his articles articulate sophisticated concepts in such a precise language.
They're trying to reduce the number of Asians at the school, plain and simple.
The fact that they made this change without an improved alternative, is particularly troubling.
Agreed that housing needs to be fixed.

In the short term it would eat away at any income but it won't be 100% of it, and it will also vary by location. Some housing markets are more supply constrained than others.

Also a portable source of income would reduce demand for housing in cities too.
Brainstorming over a coffee/lunch/whatever, pair programming/debugging (especially debugging!), and generally meetings in person can't be replaced effectively by any video call. It just doesn't work, and never did. Maybe with proper VR one day it will, but I will be retired by then.

Folks here who benefit from commute cut will keep celebrating WFH like new age of something, but for many companies, especially multinational corps, that's desperate temporary measure and it sucks for most folks in one way or another.

Managers don't want it, many employees don't want it. Don't keep your hopes up just because few companies change their policies a bit to look more attractive for new hires. Also as other state, expect some salary re-adjustments based on that.
I wish I’d had your success. I tried using Spaces for a while but they can’t be named (or couldn’t when I was trying it) so I’d end up cycling through similar looking spaces trying to recover my place all the time.

Being sent back to another space when I go to open, say, a new terminal but it’s already open somewhere else was a pain too. If I’m in a space I want to be able to start apps there without doing a time wasting dance.

I never have more than 2 spaces open now, and rarely. Feels like a missed opportunity to me from one more half-finished good idea by Apple.
I read about this previously.

"Signed over" is too strong, it's more like their loan covenants mention the patents, but if you pay the loan, it doesn't matter.
Solution Architect, Dimagi, Cambridge, MA
Is this for comment real? Why should being tech savvy enough to jump through esoteric technical requirements be part of the test?
Do you really think there's someone at YouTube with the goal of increasing censorship for the sake of it, and looking for catastrophes to capitalize on? (Have you ever known anyone in your life that has "censorship" as a hobby, specifically as a terminal end-goal not in service of something else?)

Or do you think that maybe the people working at YouTube might be worried about this specific issue -- that their platform could amplify dangerous misinformation about the pandemic -- and they want to reduce the harm they're participating in on this specific issue? (Have you ever known anyone in your life that learned that something they were doing had a bad effect on someone else, and then got worried about that and changed their behavior?)

If people at YouTube really liked censorship for the sake of censorship, they would just dive straight into it, or would have done it from the start.
> One aspect that I find... disappointing is that an individual person's position on the first issue may not be compatible with the second issue.

The worst version of it that I've experienced is a person who unilaterally decides to grant themselves unrestricted use of the phone, while simultaneously demanding I stick to minimum/social-situation use only. This assymetry annoys the hell out of me, and I've had some heated arguments about it. I don't mind if someone is glued to their phone, but I expect to be treated no worse than the person expects to be treated themselves.
If there's no substantial competition, it's a monopoly. Intentionality isn't that important. It's about market power.
Yeah, I think as employees this is key. The ability to go to office makes you stand out as a human being and not as a commodity remote black box problem solver. Fuck, just look at investment bankers why do you think they fly and see their customers face to face even at this lockdown times? Their financial models and ideas are the same but the human element of trust and communication. I'm an early career stage software engineer and things like this shift to remote work make me uneasy about the viability of software as a career for me. In other fields, the more experience you get the less of a commodity you're treated as, here it sometimes feels as if relevance if pretty much out of our control, the more experience you have in a focused area the more you are seen as a tool for a particular job I'd say instead of a generalist.
> this is likely a way to reduce asian american attendance at the top UC schools

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the Times article about this yesterday. I also applied to college last year, so I have a pretty recent knowledge of the process.

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. There are many free or low-cost resources out there, including Collegeboard sponsored Khan Academy prep (free for everyone). All it really requires is time and discipline (as do other things in life). Sure, it’s not perfect, but GPA and extracurriculars can vary vastly across schools, and the SAT provides a pretty good indicator of one’s academic ability in comparison to others.

The supreme irony in my case is that I go to a school in Texas for completely free thanks to merit scholarships funded in part by Texas taxpayers, while the schools in my state (California) are charging $30k per year despite being funded by my parents’ taxes. Basically, going out of state was more affordable in my situation.
A very low effort blog article without links to any relevant information. The article mentions discussion on Reddit and Twitter, how hard is it to link those discussions? Its like someone typing a couple of paragraphs from their imagination and hoping that everyone would believe it.

Edit: seems the all the articles on the website follow the same theme.
This is exactly what newer versions of Java allow you to do. The problem is, nobody does it. I really like C# as a language, its better than Java in nearly every way. But this is a rare case where C# is implementing a feature Java has had for a very long time. And just like in Java, I don't think it will have the impact advertised.
Never heard of “PureTorrentDownloader” so I tried googling it. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t exist, and everything claimed in the article is a lie.
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"theolognion"

it's an onion parody for programmers.
How many times did you take it? If it was only twice, how can you be sure how much of that 100 point discrepancy was attributable to practice, and how much of it was essentially down to chance? I doubt you'd get the same score twice if you took it twice without studying in between.
Why not? Why shouldn't someone willing to do your job for less pay be allowed to do so? That person is more desperate for income. Someone willing to mow your lawn for $5 is probably much worse off than someone who says "I wouldn't do it for any less than $50." Even if you pay $50 regardless, isn't it most economically just to give that job to the person who was willing to do it for the least amount?
Perhaps it's time that this kind of work is recognised as being more valuable than it is today, precisely because not many people want to do it.
Now that's slick, well done!

Make this two requests to share the css.
> Magic Leap has reportedly received a $350 million lifeline, a month after slashing 1,000 jobs and dropping its consumer business.

What the heck do a thousand people do at Magic Leap? That’s an insane headcount for a company without a sales or consumer support team. And that’s just the jobs they cut!
I attended an elite private high school ($30,000 a year). The school gamed everything for them. It wrote their essays, created leadership positions for everyone, and made sure to spread the applications around so that every student in the references could be “once in a generation.”

One guy who went to Princeton used a flagship story of “building a forest”. The school was redoing its grounds and hired a bunch of homeless people to do it as they worked for cheap cash. They let him “oversee” it as a social initiative.

Another kid got into Columbia by creating a “nationwide startup innovation movement.” His parents paid the school to book all these convention centres and they flew him out to chill at these fictional events. They claimed all the funds from the events went to startups. They claimed to find over 50 startups and sent each a small check for $30. They sent random startups $30 and used it as a claim to funding innovation.

With grades, they had an internal grade to allow for actually rigorous education, but then they would multiply the grade by 1.2 to get your “public school grade.” That’s the grade reported to universities.

Oh and the teacher left the room for AP tests and we were taught how to efficiently “come to group conclusions.”

The only thing that kept them from doing that kind of stuff for everyone was the SAT as plenty of AP National Scholars couldn’t crack 1800 on the damn thing.

We won over a million dollars in our 60 person class in scholarship money off these absurdities as most of them don’t ask about the SAT.
It seems like the commenters so far don't realise this is a parody website for programmer humour.
You might be interested in the book A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis by John L. Bell, which is another approach to infinitesimals that uses intuitionistic logic.

https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Infinitesimal-Analysis-John-Be...

Any interesting property of this logic and model is that all functions are infinitely differentiable.

Other introductions are An Invitation to Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis by John L. Bell and Synthetic Differential Geometry by Michael Shulman.

http://publish.uwo.ca/~jbell/invitation%20to%20SIA.pdf

http://home.sandiego.edu/~shulman/papers/sdg-pizza-seminar.p...
Just a thought, but several of my motorbike-owning friends tell me the noise generated from the bike reminds those in larger vehicles of their presence.
Wow, I missed that completely. I didn't pay much attention to anime these days.
Without knowing the terms of the fundraising, I wouldn't assume that the founders are in a position of power and influence.
The universities generally aren’t run by the government, so their entrance criteria shouldn’t be.
No. It got reinstated because there was enough viral outrage. Smaller people and creators don't have that luxury.
Products never matter. It's all about execution and convincing others to buy into your execution plan
Exactly. What else aren't we hearing about that's being arbitrarily censored by YouTube? And can we really trust it as a platform? I'm losing more trust in Google every day. 10 years ago was "don't be evil." Now, they're just, "be only as evil as you can get away with."
is your scenario not already currently adequately served by going to a community college and transferring to a state college?
Might be why the test is getting eliminated.
In my experience people support the SAT in proportion to how well they did on it. Since the test applies a uniform ranking and only the top 20% of takers are proud of their performance, the test does not lend itself to being popular.
This is somewhat orthogonal to what you are saying, but I’ve wondered for a while if it’s possible to achieve vertical and horizontal abstraction at the same time. When you are working on the actual implementations, horizontal style is clearly preferable, but if you want to change the abstraction, the vertical style is much easier.
The limitation of just one being accessible at a time seems to purely be a consequence of the fact that we use the same representation for reading and writing code. Why can’t I switch from vertical to horizontal mode when reading code? Maybe it’s even possible to switch when writing?? With a plug-in like structure you certainly get some benefits but at the same time you can let go of a nice global view - it would be nice to have both.
http://archive.md/Mkn7f
A large fraction of the value of a degree is as a hiring signal of employee quality. That signal is degraded by anti capitalist training, by merit hiring equated with white nationalism, by academic grounding diverted to activism, and now by the removal of objective admission standards. As an economic transaction college is being made less attractive, to its long term peril.

If not for the evident sincerity of their academic advocates I'd suspect that these policies were carefully crafted by enemies of higher education.
Interesting, thanks. I guess that explains David Frum being a contributor.
They ate the olognion
The number of people in this thread seemingly fine with losing 1-2 hours a day for their entire working life simply commuting is just astonishing to me.
PDF of the decision: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/may20/b4....
How would you feel about local offsites?
False by the way - Finland uses SAT a fair bit (often a minimum SAT is needed to even apply, ie, 500/500) if you didn't sit their entrance exams.

Spots are awarded very heavily based on points that anyone can calculate.

"Admission to the LAB University of Applied Sciences is dependent on scores earned either in the entrance examination or in SAT-test. Eligibility in itself does not yet guarantee admission. Student selection will be a competitive process in which the best Finnish degree certificates or entrance examination results or SAT results produce a place of study. See the studyinfo.fi -page for more information about student selection.

The applicant with the highest points score will be offered the first place, the second highest will be offered the second place, and so on until all places available have been offered.

In cases of equal minimum admission scores applicants will be ranked on the following ground:

all students with the same score will be selected."
I don’t just do it for women, I just made a comment about how it feels more frequent with attractive women, shared my observation, and attempted to explain why I think that might be the case. There is a difference.

I don’t believe it’s condescending to recognize a error, and offer assistance. We all make mistakes. It’s literally the first thing I ask every new manager to do for me if they observe something less than ideal in an interaction.
Is there any way that it could make sense to require reporting the # of hours a student spends in SAT/ACT tutoring, whether it be private, through your school, or other?

As a required field on the common app, this could help in making admissions decisions. There are so many reasons using standardized tests for admissions isn't fair across the board, but perhaps understanding how much prep went into the test would provide useful data for admissions offices, and also at the macroacademic (lol) layer.
Many animals exhibit play behavior, which has numerous benefits. The complexity of the play behavior is fairly bounded. Maybe that dolphin demonstrated an advanced form of it relative to other types of animals.

The animal section of the Play wiki is interesting, especially the cognitive theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(activity)?wprov=sfti1
I have got to see this demo
> esoteric technical requirements

Knowing a file type is an "esoteric technical requirement" ?

Yes, this comment is for real. I'm the head of IT for a university and we do online applications. We actually accept everything within a given size requirement (which people are unable to respect). I have a bunch of scripts that run over all applications in the end to put them in the right formats, to do OCR for the photos of a printed PDF form that has been filled out by hand in pencil, I even run a script to scrape annotations in PDF portfolios to scrape video links and pass them to youtube-dl, to ensure everything submitted gets picked up and is provided for evaluation.

This is why I think it would be nice if there was at least some responsibility on the part of the student.
Yeah, I guess. I suspect that authorities are planning ahead. As we get further into the jackpot (see Gibson's Peripheral and Agency) there'll be more and more disorder and chaos. And so there'll be a need for more surveillance and control.
There some people who assert that it is in fact the Finnish language that gives them an advantage in early schooling, that the language is much more regular and easier to learn that it gives school children something like a 2 year advantage over English learners.

Not disagreeing with you at all. Just wanted to point out another facet of the debate.
There is the No bullshit guide to linear algebra by Ivan Savov.

https://www.amazon.com/No-bullshit-guide-linear-algebra/dp/0...