skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows can only control Edge, so all other browsers have to be blocked. same story with other OSes and their respective browsers
> ...dealing a significant blow to the multibillion-dollar college admission testing industry.

why such concern for a parasite industry?
I find this less intuitive than simply looking at the real component, imaginary component, magnitude, and phase plots of simple, and then progressively more complicated functions of interest.

For example, starting with y = x^2+1:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+z%5E2+%2B+1

You can see that the real component has a hyperbolic parabaloid shape. The imaginary component does too, just rotated by 45 degrees. This shape clearly has zeroes, since it's continuous and has infinite range. You can try to look for spots where both components are zero, or you can plot the magnitude:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+Magnitude%28z%5E2...

You can then clearly see that the zeros are "out" and below the global minimum of the real plot.

You can only really look at a slice at a time, but I find this easier than the crumpled-paper-at-every-point approach, because it's a lot harder to see patterns emerge in nearby bits of crumpled paper.
Look at it this way:

1. The US is already spending over a trillion a year on welfare

2. These programs have high administrative costs and create negative incentives to work (you can make more not working than working)

3. UBI has low administrative costs, does not have extra disincentive to work (because you won't lose it by working, and most UBI proposals are poverty subsistence anyways)

There's plenty of conservative economists who support flavors of UBI. Charles Murray and Greg Mankiew to name a few. Yang's UBI was sort of centrist, it actually eliminated several existing social programs which would arguably be better replaced with the UBI, but did not go as far as Murray's which eliminates social security, medicare, etc.
I'm obviously speaking about the SAT/ACT in the context of the US system. The entire Finnish education system is extremely different than the one in the US - to say that they don't use the SAT and have better educational outcomes while ignoring everything else is just not a valid comparison. It would be equally valid to say "Finland teaches school in Finnish and they have better outcomes, so we should be teaching school in Finnish!"
Yeah, I think people are misinterpreting my comment as suggesting elite parents would've been against this - far from it. They absolutely wanted this because now it's easier to hide middling academic aptitude from admissions boards at elite schools.

To be clear: Removing this test helps elite parents, and hurts those who can't afford spending money on "summer experiences" abroad or poverty tourism or whatever.
Oh, I would restrict to photos I’m in
I can't believe seemingly smart people still think consumers want vr
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I created this issue so that this feedback is not lost - https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-dotnet-client/issues/84...

If you have code you can share that you used to address shortcomings in the client, we could get ideas from it for the next major release. Cheers!
I have never heard of Finland being touted as the best in education, especially not at the college or post-graduate levels.

What many countries do, unlike the US, is having life-defining entrance exams. Unlike the SAT/ACT which are just one factor of many, these tests determine whether a student gets in to a university or not.

The SAT may not be a great test, but at least it's not the sole factor in determining admission. It's absolutely better than what most European systems use.
HEIC is patent encumbered. The system should have blocked it and linked to the instructions on how to get a png/jpeg
Boulder is surprisingly as expensive as the Bay Area
Yo that's crazy good, put those as line items on LinkedIn you will have to turn off notifications so many people will be bothering you.
Oh no! An "inconvenient" & related fact is mentioned. Better downvote the HN way.
How is this different from offshoring ?
U.S. strikes at a Huawei prize: chip juggernaut HiSilicon
Perhaps, but those images of clouds of smog over LA or Beijing- though admittedly they might be largely produced industrial activity rather than transportation- certainly elicit a visceral response.
I sympathize. The state of front end dev is in no small part why I wrote intercooler and, now, work on htmx:

http://htmx.org

It's crazy how unnecessarily complex everything has become.
Sports and physical activity (especially competitive ones) have always been a component of upper class education. Soundness of body and mind, less fear of standing out and clashing, greater status, more attractive image.
We're talking about your average Windows user, here.
Try picking up a routine that doesn't require a gym. If you've got a pair of running shoes and a pull up bar in your house, you have no excuse any more :)
tl;dr: There are millions of videos about COVID-19 being uploaded to Youtube and they have a non-zero false-positive rate. This was accidentally removed and promptly restored upon manual review. Basically nothing to see here.
> People studied the UBI idea and recognized the costs of giving money to everyone are so enormous that it's unworkable

This is simply false. Please provide sources for this claim.

Most implementations of UBI are comparable to the existing taxation.
Article is light on details, I hope this is an ongoing $250 to the same individuals, otherwise I don't think it is a good UBI experiment.

You could give 66 people $250 a month forever[1]. 20,000 individuals spends all of the endowment immediately.

[1] Assuming 3% inflation, 7% investment returns, and the foundation is spending 4% on payouts.
I guess you don't have kids at home
You have to consider that FAANG companies already outsourced work to companies that use both offshore and remote employees. Policy changes aren't necessarily as big a deal as they seem, or at least they aren't what they seem, because they concern the direct hiring practices only.
I guess it comes back to if you do a cumulative weighting or have different buckets, especially regarding soft things like extra curricular activities.

Where I went to uni we simply have two different buckets which the schools can change around a bit, but still keeping both. For for my program 66% of students were selected by grade and 34% based on a national test with normalized scoring.

Extra curricular activities or whatever isn't really a thing ever, because it can't be measured. Well, until you are padding your resume for that first job.
Crazy idea: What would happen if there was a circulating board of "shit testers" who each had their own very explicit, formal, and pre-meditated method which they had to apply equally to all people they were judging?

The intentional net effect being something like a pool of unpredictable ever-changing criteria that pokes at person from all sides to see whether or not they're a polished turd.

I think if it worked it would introduce a lot of chaos, but it would also be (hopefully) extremely difficult to game.
Most visual programming is two-dimensional. What if it were three-dimensional instead, arranged in some sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axonometric_projection with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid 's representing your modules/nodes, chosen according to the amount of connections they have with other modules/nodes, the connections styled and color coded, maybe even unobtrusive/discreetly animated to show the direction/speed/volume of signals/dataflow, width of datatypes/buses, all in an abstract fashion similar to the way large metro/rapid-transit systems are mapped?

Able to encapsulate other modules/nodes, folding large graphs into one, popping into an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploded-view_drawing only on demand?

Turnable/viewable from any direction you like, but usually snapping to some virtual 3D-grid, in say steps of 45° ?

Zoomable?

This is even usable the other way around for reasoning about stuff you have NO source code for. Like in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk (skip to about 14m30sec, the show starts there) and
https://sites.google.com/site/xxcantorxdustxx (same guy)
and others, but similar https://codisec.com/binary-data-visualization and even more so https://arcan-fe.com

That looks messy, but that is because it is in reverse, with no known sources.

Now imagine how tidy it could look when done originally, from first principles.

Your own cybernetic Zettelkasten/Memex/Dynabook/whatever in a world of common and open (architecture neutral) data & document formats, automagically tagging, indexing and sorting all your stuff.

OFFLINE if you like to.

Usable on conventional desktops, tablets, large surfaces, overlaid onto some augmented reality, VR, holographics, i don't care.

With the end goal of partially dynamic reconfiguration/JIT of some fpga-like logic fabric, according to what you click, tap, swipe in that environment, while hosting itself.

Without crashing. Formally verified at the same time.
> They're creating their own test.

And the new test will somehow be fairer because students with wealthy parents won't be able to get private tutors?
Yes, that's true. Avoid an either/or situation. John Cage said that long ago.
I can clarify the disagreement.

He is saying:

> Commuting is the big time saver, but you can also do chores you'd relegate to the weekend or after work while WFH

I am saying:

> If my commute time is removed, some amount of necessary chores cannot get done. I can't do chores in any time other than the commute time. There is no real 'weekend' or 'after work' time, when I can do them 'later'.

All time is accounted for, and removing time necessarily knocks some items (like 'morning/midday rooms cleaning') off the list permanently.
this is a cool post
> I have to say though, this is the least exciting update I’ve seen

I agree. For me, it is a sign of maturity. It's not the only sign. It could be a sign of stagnation! But from what I know, having used it for over a decade, I am happy to be in the midst of "boring software", at least for my database.
Can you share your userChrome.css? That looks great!
No, a rich person would get off the waitlist by buying an organ leaving a "free" organ for the next person on the waitlist.
I’d be curious about the potential for remote work in somewhere like NW or even central Mexico for remote positions? It would be possible to use zoom meetings for most things and when Covid is over it’s not that far from most places on the west coast. I’d think this would be a much better alternative to Eeu/Russia/India.

There are of course the cartels which need to be dealt with.
Most european countries use very comprehsensive exams that govern not only admission into top universities, but are tied into being able to get a job AT ALL in a certain profession.

Basically - the countries have a number of slots for a profession they are looking to fill or that they expect demand for. They create that many university places that create eligibility for the position. Getting into these spots can be ridiculously difficult and the standardized exam is weighed MUCH MUCH more heavily than in the US (with it's "holistic" approach).

Whether or not this merit based / tracking based approach (which actually starts earlier in high school and before for many countries) is what leads to excellent outcomes is a question. But the tradeoff with free education is that the really expensive education has lots of criteria before you get it for free.
Yang cashed out and ran a nonprofit for the past decade, his net worth is nothing like Dorsey's.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/11/19/andrew-...
They've also made "very good progress" in AR for the past 5 years. I hope the deals won't turn out like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7-F_vWUVE
Their automated system has a non-zero false-positive rate. It will from time to time accidentally take down legitimate videos, which they restore fairly quickly once you request a manual review, such as in this case.

Yet people still jump to conclusion and assume malintent, posting headlines which imply Youtube is intentionally removing these videos. Clickbait.
I suspect it is. During COVID, companies need to say a lot of things. But FB has spent serious $$$ on building amazing campuses. Also, Zuck was a firm believer in office space and open office. I doubt he has had a revalation suddenly
Not in a given class, but across all instances of that class, surely it will be more normal.
I think you have articulated something I've been thinking of for some time. Most of what I learned on the PC was in a furthering of my own interests. I learned how to interact with IRC bots and use the shell because I wanted to get shared files. Learned about compression because everything I downloaded was in winrar format. I learned about memory addresses because I wanted to cheat in a particular video game. I learned about audio formats because I wanted to listen to mp3s, had to learn how to rip CDs.

So much of what many of us did back in the day is now just available out of the box. No need to learn how to use IRC, all the music is on Spotify. You no longer need to be resourceful, you just need to consume.
I don't have WSJ subscription, but the part that cuts off right before the paywall says they are creating their own test. Maybe the hope is that they can create a test with less biases, but I have little optimism for a system that replaces two standardized and widely used tests with each school system creating their own versions as a replacement. This will make the process more complicated for all applicants and might inadvertently increase the advantage that wealthy have as now each school's test would need a different approach requiring more individualized and therefore more expensive prep.
There is censorship and government censorship. Both are real and people can have valid opinions on both.

I like it when the government censors child pornography, but I don't like it when they censor political speech.

I like it when corporations censors child pornography, not not when they censor minority opinions on covid policy
> promptly restored upon manual review.

Promptly restored upon viral traction of outrage...just like that podcast app was....
Idk that I agree with these points really at all.

If you are only making the COL, most people are simply not going to sustain the college lifestyle indefinitely. People have wants and needs and drives outside of financial hardship. Yes, it might mean kids 18-23 are relaxing a bit more on getting into the workforce, but thats ideally the age in which they are learning and getting prepared to get a real job. Ideally we want to remove those barriers of entry for them, and allow them room to develop.

If financial hardship was a main factor of drive and high impact, productive work, we'd only see people under the poverty line entering into the high impact fields. That isn't the current reality.

Also, people that are willing to group up and live a college lifestyle for 30 years are people who were unlikely to EVER get involved in high impact work. At worst it's a net neutral here.

As for the retirement age, is that really terrible? Since we have established drive isn't inherent to financial hardship, it stands to reason people would continue to work through their prime working years. If people are now able to call it at 55, thats just a better quality of life for everyone, and ensure a constantly revolving job market.

3 is possible. But if we expect insane inflation due to UBI, then it invalidates all the other points you made, as now the UBI isn't meeting COL for a normal QOL.

I don't think we have enough information in either direction to assume the impact to the workforce. When in history has this ever been achieved in a society that also has high social mobility? People have interests and drives and I believe they will always pursue these things. And instead of squandering peoples potential on useless jobs that they enter into only to make ends meet, we can allow them to achieve a much higher potential by contributing to something that better aligns with their skills.
When I switched to Firefox, I found the lack of pop-up styled Google Dictionary to be a deal-breaker. So I created an extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/popup-encyclo.... It supports both the dictionary and encyclopedia words. Students may find this extension useful.
Oh man, try WebGL if you haven't already. If you're into math and writing highly-performant code, shaders/GLSL is going to be right up your alley. And you can make really cool and fun stuff with it in the frontend, too!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API
This might sound a bit cynical, but companies like Magic Leap (and WeWork, for that matter) is why I find myself so fatigued with my "startup dreams" -- it's clear that VCs are an echo chamber and that getting in those circles is much more important than ideas, execution, or even profitability. During my brief stint into hardware startups[1], I could barely find people to answer my emails.

Magic Leap is literally garbage (it's downright embarassing when compared to Oculus or HoloLens), and yet they just raised another $350M. It simply boggles the mind.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/introducing-gameref-the-anti-cheat-h...
It's very different, because there are many reasons why UI can be delayed or denied - ask some of the people who are supposed to be receiving it now! - and in any case it only lasts for six months or so.
I've been using TST for years. It's essential for how I work and the research I sometimes have to do.
I think this is likely a biased view. If you ask the families of the 300+k people who died from Covid-19 they probably won't consider the economic impact to be the most significant.
I don’t know why you’re down voted — until we fully appreciate how the sense of smell triggers stronger memories than spatial representations of place, VR will continue it’s glorious march off the cliff.
I'm not convinced more time on tests will actually help somebody who doesn't legitimately have some relevant disability.

Generally tests are structured so that if you know the material, you'll have plenty of time to spare. But if you don't know the material, it's unlikely you'll figure it out even if you're given twice as much time on the exam. It's not like they'll spend that extra hour teaching themselves the trigonometry they neglected to learn in the weeks/months before the exam.
Yay- hopefully the landlords can get paid now - https://www.geekwire.com/2020/heavily-funded-magic-leap-sued...
I'm not sure this take comports with the facts. Test prep materials are readily available at most public libraries, and even professional prep courses produce marginal gains (smaller than the test-retest measurement error).

The claim that rich white people are leveraging their wealth to buy a secret "one weird trick" that instantly boosts their scores is simply false.

I am happy to provide citations if you're interested.
The real reason for the change is to exclude more Asians.

History is a circle.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/harvard-s-jewish-proble...
If the choice is between a comprehensive welfare state/UBI for both citizens and non-citizens, with restricted immigration vs. welfare/UBI restrict to citizens only but with more permissive immigration, I suspect the vast majority of non-Americans would choose the second. UBI for non-citizens is nice, but completely useless if the US won't even let you in.

For people in poorer countries, the quality of life improvement from coming in the US would be so drastic, that preventing people from making that movement, simply to give a small minority of them a marginal benefit, seems to be the wrong decision to take.

Another way to put it is that the two tier system already exists, it's just that the second tier is outside the US/developed countries.
Exactly. "Creating their own test". Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
beyond parody.
What kind of restrictions are we talking about?
> For example, the toString/hashCode/equals methods of record types (that are being added with Java 14). Are all generated at runtime via indy (Invoke Dynamic) instead of generating the bytecode for them at compile-time.

Didn't know that, interesting. I remember when invokeDynamic was added specifically to make VM conversion of dynamic languages easier, I guess JDK maintainers are somewhat guilty of the same laziness as the rest of us.

An aside, from reading about JVM targets of Haxe I learned that MethodHandles have truly terrible performance especially on Android.

I don't think the potential performance advantages of build time generation are overblown, just that everyone, even language designers, don't want to deal with the added complexity.

I could be wrong of course, but because of this I think the C# idea of generators will end up underutilized as well
https://www.userfrosting.com/ is a good start if you need multiple users and ACLs.
The economic system enabled the extraction of fossil fuels in the first place. Capitalism predates the industrial revolution.
That's a bit like saying: well, encrypting the iPhone isn't all that jazz, because all I have to do is hit the owner with a $5 wrench.

I mean, yes, but cryptography alone cannot solve that problem. TUF and in-toto provide cryptographic solutions to cryptographic problems, which is much more than anyone else is doing today.
The Strong Museum receives donation of Ralph Baer materials
Ever notice how competing drug stores are frequently on the same intersection? You might think they would try to be far away from each other.
Well, in this case "ad absurdum" is pretty close to a reasonable UBI. A reasonable UBI (say $1000/mo) is going to be ~15% of the entire US economy "printed" every year.

The NPV of that dilution would be enormous, unless the economic value being created is very close to $1000/mo (or higher).
I swam with the dolphins at this location 20 years ago when I was a dolphin obsessed 10 year old.

There were about 12 of us there on a brisk autumn morning and there was a pod of about 6 dolphins, including a calf. The locals told us we probably wouldn't get much interaction as the dolphins were shy because of the calf. I swam out and within 10 minutes, the calf was absolutely enamoured with me. It swam up and played a form of "tag" and let me pat it, however it wouldn't go near any of the adults. Eventually the whole pod came to swim with me.

It was an absolutely incredible experience and 10 year old me felt like a dolphin whisperer.

Side note: My parents managed/ran the town swimming pool and so I was I very confident swimmer after spending all my spare time at the pool.
weird, I haven't done much digging in to the details of RabbitMQ, but I integrated it in a matter of hours, and have it deployed in production systems (for quite sometime now) and it works really solidly. I haven't tried to get too clever though.
Perhaps this is why: https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

VR is growing slowly and steadily. That's not counting offerings like the Oculus Quest.

Also Magic Leap is AR, not VR.
Looks like the FAA got concerned around 2013 and started getting official in 2015. The AME is supposed to do a mandatory BMI calculation, look at a table, record the result, and decide if you need "special processing."

So you (or your students) could check their BMI and get in shape before the exam, or just go the LSA route.

faa.gov: Decision Considerations Disease Protocols
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...

Somebody's personal story:

https://insidethecockpit.com/airline-pilots-with-sleep-apnea
I have my own share of objections, mainly concerning the over-engineered nature of RabbitMQ, but most of the “huge learning curve” items that you’ve described can be learned in an afternoon by a motivated software engineer. Besides, she will have to learn those concepts anyway because they apply to most brokers.