skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, was hoping to hear how he planned to address that (unless I missed it?).

It'd need to be indexed to something or have other hard controls to prevent that spiraling: "Vote for me, I'll increase it to $2k" "No, vote for me, I'll increase it to $3k!"
Doesn't the current system already accomplish what you want? Why does berkeley need to do this "remedial education"? How would you determine who goes to where?
You may be coasting in your past contracts and connections, although consultants are often better equipped to handle this chaos than the orgs themselves (e.g. a huge semiconductor company I consult for had all its labs shut down while my permanent home lab with their setups kept going).
I'm not trying to saying that CORS is harder to shoot yourself in the foot with because it's hard to understand. Rather, it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot with because not understanding it usually just means your site's pages aren't accessible to other origins at all. (That's one reason why so many developers seem to have so much trouble with it; rather than breaking their site's security and remaining completely unaware of it, they instead break their site's functionality instead and need to spend a bunch of "extra" time learning about CORS and the same origin policy before they can get it to work.)

In contrast, not understanding WebSockets usually means your WebSocket endpoints are completely insecure, with no indication that anything is wrong and no incentive to learn more because "it's already working".

Obviously secure-by-default is not completely foolproof. After all, defaults are, by definition, possible to change. But if developers are going to shoot themselves in the foot, I'd much rather them be forced to do so explicitly than have it happen to them implicitly without any action on their part.
Yup, there is no incentive for the College Board to improve because they know they have every students’ future by the balls. What are the kids going to do, protest or abstain? Good luck getting into a good college!
Tulsa is not geographically limited and has enough empty space for practically unlimited build out (similar to bay area or LA in 50 years ago). Tech in Tulsa will cause construction boom but not bay area house prices.
The Economics of ASICs: At What Point Does a Custom SoC Become Viable? (2019)
Harvard, The most elite school in USA, has a church in the center of campus, an official preacher, and a whole Divinity School.
I agree. I don’t think I would have gone to the Ivy’s without standardized testing. Rust-belter from a public school. Obviously, there are no easy answers. So many great students, teachers and perspectives... and probably an early realization that no one knows it all - especially me. I still look back at my education with nostalgia. The working world isn’t any more fair than the educational world.
One of the problems with UBI on a small scale in the US is that it’s difficult to study the macroeconomic effects that people are so worried about. The studies on direct cash assistance in terms of social science are rather strong evidence in favor of what left leaning proponents claim. The reservations typically come from the American right which is more of a Social Darwinist party these days than a conservative one, which is closer to the Reagan Republican era GOP.

We probably need tens of billions of dollars to pilot UBI properly in the US across borders and to help setup the infrastructure to distribute the funds. But compared to another missile program, the social good of such a program is undeniable. Which is probably why it’ll be rejected in today’s hell world US politics.
I did the same thing with the GRE many years later. Jumped something like 80 points with a book of Kaplan practice tests. Maybe I got lucky twice :)
Well the worst aspects of the travel ban were reversed by the courts, but the initial version that Trump tried to pass would have meant that eg Iranians with green cards who happened to be outside the US when the ban started couldn't return to the US, which obviously would have reduced (even reversed?) talented immigration.

Also your link is meaningless because the most common way to get an employment green card is by adjusting status in the US (from eg H1-B status to green card), not by getting an immigrant visa, but that table only counts immigrant visas.
The average post quality on Proggit has gone down a lot in the last year. It would be funny if this were why.
Sunetra Gupta: Covid-19 is on the way out
The blame is as much on the OS manufacturers who haven’t implemented such an obvious and trivial UX workflow.
It’s often just easier to put people in some physical space and hope the social interactions make for some progress and unison, than to actually manage things with follow ups and communicated objectives etc etc.
Try https://web.archive.org/web/20170509052706/https://www.hsdl.... instead. Opens pdf-download.

edit: but suspiciuos indeed, especially coming from a site claiming to be them :-)

(shrug)
No, sorry.

What I mean is:

There is an hour of my morning and night, 2 hours a day, which I am calling 'commute time.'

I can commute during 'commute time'.

Or I can WFH and stay at home during 'commute time'.

If I don't commute, I can do chores during that time.

If I do commute, those chores are never done, and are permanently knocked off the to-do list. The house is just that much messier as a result.

I can clean during the weekend, but I would have cleaned during the weekend anyway.

During the week, the house looks trashed, because there isn't enough time for chores as it is; the time that is available will instead go to even higher-priority chores, like washing dishes and clothes.

Basically if 'commute time' goes towards trekking to the office and back, it comes out of the chore time budget, meaning a really, really messy house during the week.

I will just point out, in closing: 2 hours a day is a really big amount of time to subtract out of the time budget. It can't be recovered.

Even if I don't play games and don't do anything 'fun' - I don't, incidentally - there's no compensating for that loss.
Show HN: Devplayground – Code Together
Devplayground is my weekend side project. A quick code playground for quick iteration over HTML/CSS/JS. You can also invite a friend and code together.

Build at:
https://devplayground.io

Open sourced at:
https://github.com/marizmelo/devplayground

Chrome-extension at:
https://github.com/marizmelo/devplayground-chrome

Trying to get the extension approved by Google, but running into policy issues. Let's see.

Enjoy!
It depends on your skills. Focus on more than just hard engineering skills. If you position yourself as an effective remote engineer who deliver value consistently, then you can command value.
They clearly state you have to be looking for a job. [1]

[1] https://www.ncoa.gov.au/report/appendix-volume-1/9-11-unempl...
It is incompetent programming no matter how you slice it. Extension validation is not input validation. Whoever wrote that code is more idiotic than any of the students because basic input validation was literally their job here.
Velocity isn't a productivity metric, so your findings probably aren't meaningful.

"Velocity is the sum of the estimates of the stories that were completed in an iteration. If the programmers estimate perfectly, it's simply a measure of the number of hours that the programmers worked, minus interruptions. The number is often confused by estimates that aren't 100% accurate. Velocity measures a strange combination of estimate accuracy and hours worked. It's a great planning tool, but as a metric, it has serious flaws."

https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/The-Productivity-Metric.html
I wonder if the master source was that abstract, the original Microsoft BASIC was for the 8080, and there were several 8080 -> 8086 source translators. TRANS.COM shipped with 86-DOS before it became Microsoft MS-DOS. https://tech-insider.org/personal-computers/research/acrobat...
Correct, but I'm still pretty sure that $BigTechCompany pay is still pretty darn good for the area and the work is probably more interesting too. At the end of the day, $200k in Alabama for an experienced developer is still a fraction of the cost for the same experienced dev onsite in Menlo Park.
As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD(Inattentive) I've worked through years of misdiagnosis directed towards depression. I adopted the sport of Ultra-running years ago and with that extreme amount of exercise I've seen benefits and unlocked potential others have without difficulty.

There's obvious connections to exercise levels and my overall health, but with the depression it never resolved it. Only recently we found the ADHD diagnosis through reduced running, then tracking all symptoms and doing a deeper analysis on how I interact and think. When you live your entire life struggling to focus you build patterns and tricks to fit in. Turns out these are super bizarre when you speak them out-loud for someone to hear for the first time. I recently explained this break through as similar to how we all do some specific behavior such as sanitary cleaning after a bowel movement, but no one actually talks about their process in detail to know how different we all are. Thinking and focus are sort of like that for me.

I'm seeing a lot of comments here that didn't maybe read the article and see how small an impact exercise has, especially compared to medication. After now taking medication for the I've been on a strong emotional ride realizing this correct diagnosis and prescription years ago would have greatly changed my life. With exercise back up to normal levels again I'm seeing 90% improvement by medication is in no way replaceable with running 120 miles a week for a 10-20% improvement.

As I'm now working on finding a plan to reduce and then quit the medication these studies are fascinating for me to potentially know the upper limits each coping mechanism provides. This might make me consider quitting my sport and only contributing enough effort to maximize the return so I can then pick up other habits for a greater duration.

To anyone else suffering through inattentive ADHD I wish you the best.
> UBI should cover government-regulated and government-provided essentials to living.

The reason you don't do this is that the government is not better at making diapers and laundry detergent than Procter & Gamble nor better at manufacturing Tylenol than Johnson & Johnson nor better at growing tomatoes than local farmers.

If you give people $300 then they can buy $300 worth of food. if you give people $300 worth of "government food" then they'll have $150 worth of actual food because half of the money will go to the agriculture companies with the best lobbyists, and the same lobbyists will get to choose what kind of food it is. Government cheese is not an ideal. Meanwhile if you have $300 then if you want to you can grow your own tomatoes in your back yard, eat those, and use some of the money for something else entirely.

Also, special fail for these:

> * Universal healthcare: free (and free condoms)

> * Free education (from abc to PHD)

Suppose the government could provide healthcare for $10,000/year. Okay, let them do that while giving everyone $10,000/year to buy it with. But don't force them to.

Suppose a private health insurance company could provide coverage for $5000/year with a $10,000 deductible, instead of $10,000/year with no deductible. You're taking more risk, but not that much more (best case you gain $5000/year, worst case you lose $5000/year). And overall you would expect it to be a gain because you're paying the first $10,000 out of pocket, which makes you price sensitive, which causes you to not waste money on unnecessary care, which lowers average costs.

It's the same thing for education. Give parents money and let them choose a school. Solves the entire mess with school quality being tied to home prices. Doesn't screw over parents who home school, because they still get the money. And if the government can provide the best schools for the best price, parents will choose them anyway. But if not, they shouldn't be forced to.
> The fact that FAANG has spent what must be billions on specialised/targetted advertising and still can never show us adverts for anything other than stuff _we've already bought_

FAANG companies earn billions on targeted advertising, but it's up to the customer running the ads to do it effectively.

Google and Facebook don't particularly care what ads people are buying or if those ads are working.
I've had truly terrible experiences with RabbitMQ. I believe that it should not be used in any application where message loss is not acceptable. Its two big problems are that it cannot tolerate network partitions (reason enough to never use it in production systems, see https://twitter.com/antifuchs/status/735628465924243456), and it provides no backpressure to producers when it starts running out of memory.

In my last job, we used Rabbit to move about 15k messages per sec across about 2000 queues with 200 producers (which produced to all queues) and 2000 consumers (which each read from their own queues). Any time any of the consumers would slow down of fail, rabbit would run out of memory and crash, causing sitewide failure.

Additionally, Rabbit would invent network partitions out of thin air, which would cause it to lose messages, as when partitions are healed, all messages on an arbitrarily chosen side of the partition are discarded. (See https://aphyr.com/posts/315-jepsen-rabbitmq for more details about Rabbit's issues and some recommendations for running Rabbit, which sound worse than just using something else to me.)

We experimented with "high availability" mode, which caused the cluster to crash more frequently and lose more messages, "durability", which caused the cluster to crash more frequently and lose more messages, and trying to colocate all of our Rabbit nodes on the same rack (which did not fix the constant partitions, and caused us to totally fail when this rack lost power, as you'd expect.)

These are not theoretical problems. At one point, I spent an entire night fighting with this stupid thing alongside 4 other competent infrastructure engineers. The only long term solution that we found was to completely deprecate our use of Rabbit and use Kafka instead.

To anyone considering Rabbit, please reconsider! If you're OK with losing messages, then simply making an asynchronous fire-and-forget RPC directly to the relevant consumers may be a better solution for you, since at least there isn't more infrastructure to maintain.
I'm sympathetic to Chinese-style censorship, at least in theory before it degenerates into the state trying to suppress anything it considers embarrassing to itself. "The government thinks it knows what’s best for people" because it does know better than most people. Facebook, as the lowest common denominator for American public discourse, is a cesspool of misinformation, pseudoscience, hate, deceptive advertising, and people losing their skin in MLM scams. In India, fake stories on WhatsApp have whipped up violent mobs into a frenzy of xenophobia, resulting in tragic murders of innocent migrants. We should be more aware of the enormous costs associated with a lassie-faire attitude toward speech, even if we decide it's worth the cost. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

All that being said, the practical consequences of YouTube moderation are not even remotely the same as those of the Chinese censorship that everyone criticizes. The worst thing that can happen to you on YouTube is that you can't comment or upload videos anymore. YouTube is not sending people to prison or calling up your employer to tell them you're a dangerous agitator.
I actually agree with both you and the parent poster - this is a real problem.

My position would be that you still need assistance programs as well as the UBI for people like the above, but I'd treat it as a health issue rather than a poverty issue.

I think this is where you really do need a paternalistic government for people who need the guidance, but it should be the exception, not the rule. Let's respect peoples choices for themselves and only step in if necessary.

I'd argue that Alice is either addicted or mentally ill, and supported living facilities or similar would be the way to go. She would still be entitled to her UBI, which would be her route out of the system once she no longer needs to spend it on drugs.

So I'd say that UBI will never completely replace all government programs, but it should be the default and go a long way to reducing the need for existing programs.

If I were implementing it, I'd start with a low amount (well below the cost of living) and increase it over time. I'd leave the current support programs in place. The current programs are means tested anyway, so the hope would be that as UBI increases, use of the current programs would reduce, and we would have time to reorganise them as needed.

This would also give us a chance to measure the effects and get real world data as to the impacts on society and government incoming/spending.

I guess the real question would be how much it would all cost. My gut feeling is that short term it would decrease productivity as people wouldn't feel the need to work so hard, but long term it would increase productivity as people will be able to invest more in themselves.
People keep saying those tears favor the rich, but I think if you look at legacy admissions, which are the domain of the rich, those tend to have lower SAT scores than other students.

Also, the various people arrested in the college payment schemes were rich, but still were not able to get their kids into the colleges based on their scores.

Basically, the colleges are doing this so they have more leeway to select the students they want without having to answer tough questions about bias and discrimination.
You find me someone who can code assembly for 8 hours a day continuously for two months and I'll hire them on the spot.
My only issue with Panorama is that it conflicts with Vim Vixens 'next tab' commands a lot, and will often send me to another tab group which is particularly distracting and jarring. If there was no conflict I'd love to go back 100%
Sounds reasonable to me. At the same time, I think articles about potential new government policies are somewhat different than software release announcements and the like. It's usually easier to influence government policy before it's announced than after.

(And I'm not a fan of the "anxiously" in the title, either. :) I considered trimming off everything after the question mark, but I wasn't sure if that was kosher.)
Today's headline news:

"Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli agree to plead guilty in college admissions scam"
I appreciate that HN is a place where people are willing to admit mistakes like this / change their mind, etc. Thank you :)
UC becomes nation's largest university to divest fully from fossil fuels
It doesn't even seem to be piping anything around though. The result of the filtering certainly isn't getting piped anywhere.

If I wanted something like this I'd probably just reach for pampy and use pattern matching. Which still isn't "Monadic".
This is exactly right. I'm surprised that so many people, who are otherwise highly educated and intelligent, struggle with this concept.

There's no universal rule of "fairness" saying how much a company should pay you. It's not dictated by COL calculations and logical questions of value.

The company looks at you and your competitors (alternative candidates), and puts forward a number they think is high enough for you to accept, but not so high that they could snag an "equivalent" candidate for a lower price.

You win that battle not by whinging about COL adjustments, but by eliminating your alternatives (metaphorically speaking, of course). If the company truly needs what you do, and you're the only one who can do it, then you set the terms.
A year is A LOT of time, and you have to explain why you lost a year later on.

Also, even in "free" education systems, some taxpayer is going to ask "why the hell am I paying for 2/3 of crappy students, can't you just raise the bar at the beginning, and only accept the top 1/3?"
When I was a student, every middle school student with a TI-83+ was keeping notes in the BASIC editor, and the future programmers were all automating their work in BASIC. Teachers started wiping calculators before exams, and kids started backing up their files to the calculator's ROM to work around it.

Remember, this was the age of T9 typing, we weren't gonna let the lack of a keyboard stop us...
Had a lot of great times with this.
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I usually do this kind of thing by making a new branch and interactive rebasing. Generally works well for me too!
There's no point in feedback since you can't go back in time to fix those issues. You should already be able to guess from looking at the profiles of students who got in and those that didn't.
I think you're overstating how easy it is to discount for wealth in those other scenarios. At least when it comes to high school research experience, it has rarely been the case IME that a student got such a position directly because of their family, and certainly it is very rare that a student explicitly works in a parent's lab.

Yes, some private high schools feed to quality summer research programs, but A) those schools give out more aid than you'd think and B) a number of public magnet schools have similar success in placing students with labs. I am sure that this does still correlate with wealth to some degree, but I don't think it does so in a way that the admissions committee can easily "see".

Beyond that, I think the vast majority of admissions committees (including all of the ivies) have little interest in discounting anything. I watched a lot of students that to be honest were just average get into very good schools, purely on good (inflated) grades from a name brand high school. The kids from my summer research cohort also got into very good schools for the most part, but those students were actually some combination of insanely smart and insanely dedicated.

It's a very hard problem for sure, I don't feel confident enough to say strongly that a particular set of metrics is obviously good or obviously bad. But I don't think removing standardized testing on the whole is likely to help with discounting for wealth (and I also don't think they really want to).

FWIW I think SAT/ACT are bad indicators for the "elite" schools because they just saturate and stop having much value in splitting the applicant pool. Especially the math section, it becomes a matter moreso of making a careless mistake or two.
Oh, but the path to reach an agreement about what colours should be used is dark and full of dangers.
Maybe try this: https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/index.html
Blaming Apple for this is ridiculous. It is trivial to validate input, and it is trivial to do so in a way that the iPhone will upload JPEG by default.
Obviously we shouldn't throw away the kinds of tests that I score highly on. Only the bad tests that reject my genius.
Academic performance is not academics.
>will drive down wages everywhere to the level of the cheapest locations where talent can be found

god forbid we earn the same as everyone else with our skills instead of an arbitrarily inflated quantity thanks to luck of the draw wrt lat/lon we were born near.
I find it an enjoyable read. Written by a novelist not unfamiliar with physics. Makes you think.
> Single and married folks with families get paid differently. We pay ~3-4x more for healthcare for people with families than individuals.

They get paid differently, or they cost their employer differently?