skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I second this. I grew up in a poor SE Asian country. There, we don't have prep school and such for SAT. But I went to US embassy library; borrow SAT prep books whenever they are available; make lots of photo-copies of some books (like Barron 3500 words) or just do practice tests at the library; and took these tests. I scored pretty well in SAT and SAT 2 subject tests that I won full scholarship at one of the good schools in the US.

It took me ~1.5 years to prepare for these tests (English was the hardest; math, physics, bio and chemistry are fairly easy because I finished high school there and the curriculum there is much tougher than the ones in the states), but in the end it's 100% worth it because without the scholarships, I'd never have been able to study in the US and be able to support my family (siblings and widowed mom) back home. If the admission committee decides solely based on holistic view like volunteering and other extracurricular activities, how could I compete with other well-off kids in the US for admission?
This is my favorite book on mathematics of all time. I am very happy you shared this so I can save it
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Scientists Warn CDC Testing Data Could Create Misleading Picture of Pandemic
Well that's certainly true of every cause right?
I saw a video on the long now channel today with dr. Laurance Doyle about dolphin communications and other species. Dolphins start at 30 minutes.

He basically found that dolphins language follow the Zipf law and Shannon information theory.

Baby dolphins also have a babbling periode like humans in the same timespan. It is interesting talk all the way through. Maybe you can contact him.

https://youtu.be/H30NipTkA5s
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
This is great! But it makes me think that Microsoft need to add a BASIC compiler as standard in all Windows distributions. They did that Small Basic thing a while back, but it was too encumbered in .NET-isms, a kind of Visual Basic .NET lite. It would be great if there was just a easy to understand BASIC that you could hack away with that could produce interesting programs without the .NET cruft or the barrier that is dealing with Windows APIs.
It's really enjoyable to look at the source. These days one I feel it's quite rare to see assembly code not as an output from a tool like IDA Pro.

If I remember correctly, the size of a compiled GWBASIC.EXE file was about 80 kB.

What feels weird though is seeing all the files on GitHub last modified "38 years ago," which by the way, also includes the file CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.
speed dials! this one is open source and privacy conscious (i'm the author):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yet-another-s...
Where do companies like Spin get their bicycles and parts from?

They're not in the manufacturing business either.
Add in uMatrix and https everywhere and it's a whole new world
Some Android distros also disable this feature. Samsung, for example.
Thank you for saying what I was thinking. I had the same experience.
That's awesome. I actually have GW Basic from my first computer available. Copied from the old 5.25 inch floppy to a 3.5 inch floppy via a 486 and then to a USB hard drive about 20 years ago into a folder i called "Diskette Collection".
> the web makes it relatively easy to take simple security measures like disabling scripts by default

The average user will never learn to configure and use software like uMatrix.
Tool that tells you how old a technology is
Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns – RealClearPolitics
Ask HN: How to maximize income working as a SWE for 1 year?
tl;dr: if you were a mid-level software engineer looking for a new job, but you planned to work for only 1 year, what companies would maximize your income, and what would your expected income be for that 1 year?

Longer version:

In the fairly recent past I left my job as a software engineer to travel around and enjoy some time off. Due to the current pandemic, my travels have been paused since March and I don't expect them to return to full-form until at least summer 2021 (maybe borders will re-open towards the end of this summer and there'll be a short tourist season, but I'm not counting on crowded backpacker hostels, large cultural sites, or music festivals being the same this year). So, if I can't travel the way I like for the next year I figure I might as well get back on the saddle and try to maximize my income for the next 12 months.

So my question is: what are the best options as a SWE to make the most money in a year? And what is the expected income in that 1 year? A bit about me: some years as a software engineer at a well-known tech company and an undergrad degree from a top US university.

The most obvious answer to me seems to work at a FAANG, particularly Google, known to pay a high salary and without a 1-year cliff plus quarterly or even monthly RSU vesting, with an expected income in the $200-300k range. Start-ups might offer more equity, but I'm not planning to stick around long enough to make it worth it, and companies that backload their vesting too much (eg: Amazon) are also sub-optimal. Of course this is all assuming I can get the job in the first place, I just want to know what the best options are before I start applying.
The biggest problem with UBI is political. Even if you manage to implement it you have no guarantee that the next administration will continue it. If you can't guarantee that your $1k/mo will really be for life then you can't take the risks on things like starting a small business because you might have to go back to work one day and if you have a large employment gap that's going to be tough.
You read my mind. This is awesome. Wonder how hard it'd be to DIY a smartphone and go from there.
I learned something today, thanks :)
You think there weren't codes of conduct back in 1983? ;)
Can it be thought of as 'sharing'?
This is not the case for Sweden. For details, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266698

I don't think this is the case for Germany, Switzerland, or Denmark either.

What countries do you have in mind where lock downs ended and most people are staying at home?
I don't think there is a right, but don't act like there are a million equivalents to Youtube.
When you lose money on a per unit basis, and add SG&A on top of that, you don't really make any money even through volume.
TBF, these are more like entitlements than rights.
I have embarrassing personal experience here.

I don't have a learning disability, but I'm a pretty slow reader. I cheated on a section of the SAT by finishing another section with lighter reading and going back to the unfinished one.
Zoos animals are vulnerable to corona virus.

And their budgets require visitors. Worldwide all zoos are in a state of crisis.

Now wondering about these sea mammals too.

Bronx Zoo Tiger Is Sick With the Coronavirus - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/nyregion/bronx-zoo-tiger-...

Zoo May Feed Animals to Animals as Funds Dry Up in Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/world/europe/germany-zoo-...
The first paragraph of the abstract:

"This paper describes the goals and priorities which the authors believe make C++ an especially effective programming language for our use cases. That said, our experience, use cases, and needs are clearly not those of every user. We aren’t pushing to directly build consensus on these points. Rather, this is presented as a vehicle to advertise our needs from C++ as a high-performance systems language."

I would say they are quite transparent about that...
The successful ones create coalitions, certainly! It's also a good argument against painting people who seemingly agree with too broad a brush.

But in this case, I remember a coworker of mine who a while back created an advocacy org for UBI. He's a socialist. I specifically remember him reaching out to work with libertarians and getting them in leadership roles. (Not sure if this org still exists.)
Every button doubles as a letter after you press the alpha key. The letters are sequential with A at the top and z at the bottom.

There's a key (I forget which) that brings up a menu with all the commands organized by category. You never have to type out the commands letter by letter.
There was a company that had an FPGA implementation of HyperTransport so that you could link the FPGA to a network of AMD Opteron CPUs.
> ... the last place I would go.

A slight exaggeration. The Pearl site is only a 5-minute walk from the train station. Other than that yes, grossly uneconomical. As to your question "why": State of California mandate enforced on all incorporated cities, waste of money or no.

And this is why other ritzy areas have no interest in incorporating as cities proper. Rancho Santa Fe has a "Covenant" that performs usual city functions to the maximum extent legally possible e.g. private security guards, while dodging State mandates.
This is a great idea, an independent covid-related gig that's totally compatible with call-center experience.

I will also add that some states are hiring unemployment office temps to handle the surge in applications, so it would be similar work, just more formal and no charge to the user (which would be the hard part of being independent).
Even without that, they mentioned in their FAQ that JPEGs and PNGs are the only file types acceptable

That's like telling people what brand of pencil they are allowed to use to mark paper. It's not germane to the test and improperly shifts the burden to the student when the technology to automatically screen already exists.
maybe they got a reality check insofar this is possible for BI proponents. someone with (say) a broken arm needs more than a healthy person who is just unemployed.
> No, companies offer the least amount and still be competitive with the other employers in the area.

If Facebook will now hire permanent remote employees anywhere with excellent internet they are now hiring in the area. They pay new grads in SF $200K a year. If they pay $100K for people with seven years of good experience, Seniors, in Vietnam they will have them all in under six months. Even at $50K the market price of devs will get bid up quickly.
Oxidizing the Technical Interview
Note: I am a current NCC Group employee.

It does one thing very well: quickly grabbing a snapshot of the security posture of a public cloud account's resources with little fuss. It's an ideal solution as an outsider looking in at someone's account. But, I wouldn't use it as-is for other needs (say, those of in-house security folks) like continuous monitoring. That would be like using a Polaroid camera to create a movie.
Just a small tip... Outward immigration is called emigration.
Just happened to be reading about how the current stimulus checks are being used this morning. Perhaps its a bit of click bait, but interesting to ponder nonetheless. It does seem like using UBI to play in the stock market would not be the intent of UBI and be hard to prevent.

"Many Americans used part of their coronavirus stimulus check to trade stocks"

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/many-americans-used-part-of-...
Stephanie Kelton and MMT should be part of the basic income discussion so that Yang doesn't create an ideologically tinted version that kills social security making it politically appealing to libertarian free market wing nuts.
This combined with Container Proxy helped me a lot WFH. I can have my Work tabs going through the proxy and let all my other tabs use my normal internet connection.
UBI should cover government-regulated and government-provided essentials to living.

Ex.:

* Government housing: $500

* Government basic food package - daily (1500kcal): $300

* x kJ electricity, x m3 water, x m3 gas, x bps internet connection: $500

* Clothing, hygiene, cleaning supplies: $50

* Universal healthcare: free (and free condoms)

* Free education (from abc to PHD)

This is not a comprehensive list, or even the right values, however you can guarantee a base-level of what is "living with dignity" and apt to participate in the democracy.

I doubt you'd have too many people deciding to live without a job. It's not the best life, but you can survive with some human dignity. Many around the world live with much less.

UBI isn't the American Dream, it's the safety net.
"that's a good problem to have" doesn't really work when it bankrupts you/your company.
2) and 3) are very simplistic predictions and we don’t have any idea if it has a higher chance to go that way.

For instance an effect of UBI would be disappearance of bullshit jobs. A lot of job won’t see wages increase and will just be automated/optimized away instead.

OTOH it could mean getting rid of minimum salary, which would lower the cost for high demand/vocational low paying work for instance (dog walking, cafe staff, event staff etc.)

All in all I’m not sure it’s as simple as saying “people have money without working = prices go up”
> What if I have a recipe for three servings but five dinner guests?

Doubling is a useful skill, sure.

> If I just passed milepost 472 and I average 55 miles per hour, how long will it take me to reach Mexico?

This would never come up, because my phone navigation will tell me at any point along the trip how long it will take, more accurately because it has my full speed data plus knowledge about traffic and other hazards ahead.

> How many bottled liters of water can I fit in this box?

Unless I have another box under consideration, then I probably intend to fit as many as possible, so I'll just fill. Complicating this problem can make a need to calculate (or count) more apparent, but further complications can also make a need to compute with a program more apparent too.

> How much is the 1.35% annual property tax on a million-dollar house, per month?

About 1e6/1e2/1e1, or $1000. If I want to be more accurate then I would use a computer -- 1. because I'm likely at my computer already when this comes up, 2. because if not I still likely have a phone.

Both you and chongli ought to consider this argument (ignore the stuff about violent video games): https://theodoregray.com/BrainRot/
To be fair, none of these things are trivial:
- Creating an AR operating system
- Developing and manufacturing AR hardware
- Creating an SDK and a developer ecosystem for the hardware and software
- Creating a platform for selling AR apps, and selling B2B
- Doing R&D and filing patents for new AR tech

I don't think they are one of those companies where I wonder why they need people. They are doing something really hard. Maybe too hard.
> the massive risk remains censorship by state actors

the state actors are to an extent, elected by the people. The big corporates have no accountability.

> I suggest we in the short term we encourage people like YouTube to censor more evil idiocy

You say that because in this narrow issue, you agree with youtube.

What is the short term?

Have you thought through all the consequences? and still, things will happen that you have not accounted for.
everyone is against evil or idiocy. The question is who decides what is?

The media's propaganda can and is being used to brainwash the people, and the results are clearly out for all to see.
Will Trump White House tear down journal paywalls? Many anxiously await decision
Markdown itself is from 2004 but the .md extension/suffix wasn't used for it until sometime later (not really sure where it appeared first).
If anything, I think the AMC exams are more vulnerable to prep than the SAT/ACT in the following sense: I think a bright and disciplined kid who does lots of self-study (e.g. using the free Khan Academy SAT materials [1]) has a decent chance to do well on the SAT/ACT, even compared to a bright and disciplined kid whose parents pay for classes. I think the gap is bigger for AMC stuff because, IMO, it's harder to teach yourself math competition skills. In that sense, access to paid instruction becomes a much bigger edge.

Math competition skills also test something very specific and are a pretty useless metric for most people.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/sat
Are these not already phishing sites of some kind?

I used to have some co-workers who would dump json docs containing sensitive information into these sites all the time, and despite showing them how to format stuff in VS Code.
This was my experience on a couple of subreddits which were a bit smaller than yours. One of the subreddits even covered a topic that often gets a lot of drama and high-strung people. But outside of the occasional obvious troll, the communities managed themselves. “Low-quality” posts like memes were effectively disallowed by the community itself, i.e. they would always be downvoted - but if they became popular, so be it. We never got abusive modmail, no one was ever mad at us. If two users started arguing, we’d stay out unless there were actual threats or slurs, which only happened a few times.

I do think the situation is different for subreddits that aren’t really “communities” such as /r/pics or a meme subreddit, where most traffic comes from the front page. But the same general philosophy probably still applies to some extent.
There was a long discussion about multiple patches that "almost made it" on an internal release list. Ultimately, the conclusion was not to push them after the code freeze date (which was already extended by a week).

Obviously, it'd be great to get those patches in, but there's always the risk of pushing something that may not be quite ready yet, did not go through sufficient review etc. Which might disrupt the whole release schedule, make the stabilization phase longer, etc. And all the lockdowns around the world just amplify the risk. There's also the question whether it's worth breaking the rules the project adopted over the years. Considering all this, it probably makes sense to leave this for v14 ...

But yeah, it'd be great to have this in v13, had it been ready before the code freeze.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266209
You can turn it on and off quickly with the F1 key. And I'm pretty sure the hotkey is configurable.
Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video]
Bush caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people with the Iraq war, and you're upset about some tweets?! Why do people have such a distorted view of right and wrong?
Honestly it'd probably be an improvement.
The primary gopher killer was around February 1993 the University of Minnesota announced that it would charge licensing fees for the use of its implementation of the Gopher server. In contrast, CERN said anyone could implement the WWW. Practically all implementation work from then on used the WWW. In addition, the gopher developers wouldn't work (basically) with open standards groups like the IETF.

By trying to control & license everything, they lost everything.
> I had thought working as a moderator would be a great way to help grow the subreddit's base.

You became a moderator because you have an agenda to push. Nobody wastes that much time modding a sub without an agenda. And your fellow mods allowed you to be mod because you share their ideology. This is the case for most subs and it's why subs tend towards ideological/propaganda shitholes.

> In this example, the person will not stop and creates new accounts every day.

You could always turn the sub private. But you won't because you want to use the sub to push an agenda. Right?

> While there are things Reddit can be doing to help, (such as improving tools to counter ban-evasion,) I think this problem is bigger than Reddit

Actually what reddit should be doing is declawing mods like you and going back to being a user centered platform. Like it used to be when reddit was fun and interesting.

> and focuses on lack of enforcement for digital actions that would qualify as genuine crimes of harassment if translated into the physical realm.

If there are genuine crimes in your sub, then call the cops. Simple.

For every shitty user, there is a shitty mod. As a matter of fact, it is shitty users that tend to become mods. You have a really easy solution to all your problems - privatize the sub. Make it invite only. For every complaint you listed, there is a solution provided by reddit - private subs.
I've been playing with hyperfiddle (clojure): http://www.hyperfiddle.net/
I'll absolutely second this. I know kids who went to tons of prep classes for literally years. I had a friend whose parents paid for her to attend SAT prep summer camp for about a month every summer starting in sixth grade. Most of them did fine, but their scores were commensurate with that you'd expect from their report cards. I didn't study much and did very well. The students who did very well were mostly either those who were high-achieving in other respects or those who worked very, very hard. E.g. I know someone who wasn't particularly academically outstanding but got a perfect score with study, practice books only, no expensive classes.
It certainly would have helped, no?
Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266917
> I feel that it's maybe morally questionable to donate during the lockdown

The US blood supply system is well regulated and has survived lots of other health risks. The behavior+history+medical questionnaire and health screening go a long way towards mitigating blood-borne contamination (and risks to the donors and donation staff). Then they test a percentage of blood donation specimens before they are distributed to recipients. They demand that you contact the donation organization if you turn up sick after the donation (I ended up donating with a food-sickness late last year and had my donation unit destroyed after I notified the hospital)

I personally donate frequently. Only about 10% of eligible people donate. I feel it's "maybe morally questionable" to not donate (so long as you feel healthy and honestly follow the donation guidelines) if you can but never do.

If by "morally questionable" you were weighing the desperation of unemployment + the payment for donation, I could maybe agree with that a little bit.
In France, you have special schools (classes préparatoires) where you spend 2 years after high school just to prepare the entrance exam of the most competitive schools. The entrance exam can last for a week, with two 4-hour exams a day, and is marked anonymously.

They don't care that you were the captain of the fencing team or can play harmonica.
While it might initially feel like a downer, it would still be quite educational on its own to go through the code comparing what they came up with in the disassembly in light of the real deal being now published.

There would probably be a few "Ah Hah!" moments for code that stumped them, and lessons to be learned on any particular errors they made.
You've just given a bunch of evidence that those things are happening despite our benevolent censors' best efforts.

I think giving people the idea that they've stumbled onto dangerous truths just makes them more resolute. Or do you think the issue is they just need to be suppressed even harder?
I would imagine debugging is less fun than typing the programs in 20^3 command tree.
You keep responding with completely unrelated text.
Interesting post. I'm bummed that there isn't more interest in bringing C++ to ASIC/Accelerator scene from the committee. I think projects like Nvidia's Thrust[1] show that C++ is poised to be fantastic medium for software developers to break into experimenting with FPGAs, GPUs, and potential future commercially available equivalents to the TPU. There is some really cool
cross-platform software infrastructure that is still under active development.

1 = https://thrust.github.io/
2 = https://mlir.llvm.org/
Okay, this is funny. https://mobile.twitter.com/marc0der/status/12635891580579635...
Plot twist, he's Nikesh Arora
I'm trying to like it, but I guess I don't really see what so game-changing about it. There are no keyboard shortcuts for navigating the tree, so there doesn't seem to be much you can do with it. While trying to find said keyboard shortcuts, I discovered that Firefox already lets you type "%" in your URL bar and search among your open tabs, and that turned out to be far more useful to me than TST.