skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure the SAT/ACT does favor students whose parents had enough money to afford private tutors

Not really, most evidence points to private tutors as we know them having a very small impact on test scores. On a large study low-income students controlled I recall something like +30 points and something like a non-statistically-significant difference for high income students. The income difference was still its usual +100 points.

The thing you and pretty much everyone else conflates with private tutors as Americans conceive them is cram schools, which are a different beast entirely. If you just punch private tutoring into Google Scholar you'll see they're really talking about cram schools whenever a large effect is observed.

Should the University of California system reward parents who coerce their kids into a childhood-robbing experience they will pay dearly for later?

Who's going to investigate, "Do kids who endured cram school emerge healthy?"

Does that sound like a good policy, cram school?

We don't want our regular education system to resemble a cram school. We regularly rally against teaching to the test. We can't have it both ways. Cramming is not valuable, it simply isn't, it is only valuable in a very narrowly delusional, zero sum worldview but it's not a policy.
Like others here, I see, I learned to program with GW-BASIC. Well, actually it was with the clunky BASIC from my beloved C64, but I wrote my first actual programs that did something with GW-BASIC, running on a trusty PC XT clone.

I also remember it had a graphics mode -- Hercules card, ambar monochrome monitor -- which sort of resembled Logo's turtle. You gave directions to a sort of pencil tip. I don't remember what the statement was called, but I remember I used it to program games.

I owe a lot to GW-BASIC :)
Summer of Shipping, mentorship for students who lost summer internships
Well, that is true for all components at digikey. You don't mass-produce stuff with components bought from DK (or avnet either, for that matter, depending on where you do your production)
I think the idea here is that UBI replaces all of the other government welfare programs, no?

What happens when someone spends all their UBI on whiskey or oxy and consumes it all and is then hungry? Should we keep food stamps around? Why can't we do that part (universal food stamps) by itself?

I don't think the all-or-nothing approach of UBI makes a ton of sense. We can do things today like more free or subsidized food that would work exactly the same way as it would under UBI, with potentially more buy-in.
I don't know why the Watch Later feature is disabled for kids videos, but I think it's pretty common for kids to use their parents' accounts, particularly with device sharing (family iPad, or kid uses parent's phone).
> The reality is that a SAT scores correlate with wealth.

Everything good correlates with wealth. Wealth is quite literally the ability to make things happen.

The relevant question is, do SAT scores correlate with wealth more or less than whatever holistic criteria the UCs will be switching to? And if they correlate more, is it because the holistic criteria are actually fairer or because the UCs are Goodharting on highly visible measures such as wealth?
I wish you'd explain why this is a bad thing, and that you'd elaborate on it. Do you think half of the people in a UBI world stop working entirely and subsist entirely on their pittance? A third of the people?

How few people would be allowed to go screw around instead of working, for this outcome to be okay?
I created an account and then I was asked for my credit card details for a 30 day trial. I declined to do so and went to the home page where I was invited to install an extension.

I clicked on the Firefox logo and it was a broken link so I can't really give this a ride.
What about the account pushing to keep america closed? Are half of those bots as well? Or was this "study" done with a particular agenda in mind?
welcome to socialism/communism, where equal opportunities are nothing, only equal results matter.

the left is absolutely brain dead, the road to hell is paved with their "good" intentions.
There are people that can turn all those qualities on and off. I worked with a manager that was extremely good at it in public and people could not get enough of her but in private she was plain nasty. She was hired to layoff staff that were not making the mark and bring in new talent. She was very good at it.
Why time seems to be going faster while we are in lockdown
From my perspective, people who wrote this have a lot of very good ideas and principles about software engineering.

But the impression it gives me is that C++ is not fulfilling the expressed requirements, and it is not currently moving in the right direction.

I read it as a quite strong critic of the current state of the language...
I see those on my Nextdoor everyday.
What I'm confused by is what prevents the cost of housing and luxuries from going up and ultimately defeating UBIs increase? Landlords now know people have a minimum amount of money and theres either mega landlords everywhere or all of them play the only going up game (without needing to actually meet and collude).
Your comment presumes two things:

1) that lockdowns have reduced the number of deaths,

2) that the reason for increases in all-cause mortality is COVID-19 and not second-order effects from the lockdowns.

I have been trying to consume both raw data and expert commentary on both of these matters, and I'm not not convinced that either are true. Can you point me to expert commentary which convincingly makes the case for either or both of these?
“Physically Together”
Vox is hardly a reliable source. It's as trustworthy as the memes that you fear.
I really appreciate the nearly per-line commenting.
a sortable column with number of employees would be useful as the list grows
Wow. Hell no.

And if you're truly minimalist,

A- you don't need a framework

B- you don't pollute every html tags with tons of classes.
and when we're not running a deficit, we're suddenly running a deficit.

I'm in favor of basic income, but tying it to "profit sharing" is just silly.
Large Tech Companies Prepare for Acquisition Spree
From the article:

The FBI memo cites at least two violent incidents or attempts purportedly linked to QAnon: An Arizona man harassed and doxed locals he suspected of participating in the child sex trafficking ring at the heart of the conspiracy theory; and a Nevada man at the Hoover Dam whose truck was found to contain rifles and other ammunition, who was later discovered to have sent letters to President Trump containing references to the movement.

Doxing and keeping guns in your car are not violent acts and the connection is tenuous at best. By that measure you could easily classify The Young Turks as a terrorist organization, Elliot Rodger was their subscriber on Youtube. And the violence was real.

Why would people on HN of all places take FBI at their word. How many hackers have been defamed, and even jailed, by FBI like that.
The connections between this decision, the recent Students for Fair Admission INC v Harvard, and the Varsity Blues scandal are striking. The interesting tid-bit is the Varsity Blues information.

Previously, the price of bribery was unknown. The economics of such a trade, illegal as it was, were murky. With the unmasking of the scheme, including possible angles, and now a known bargaining price point, the whole admissions process has become much clearer.

Covid19, throws a wrench into everything, including college admissions. But these other mechanisms of entry are still in place.

I suspect that the admissions departments are about to get a lot larger. Especially with the ability to use Zoom for everything now.
Wouldn't be hard to adapt this to be literally one of your VS Code extensions.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/m...
Python is probably a better intro language than GW-BASIC ever was. I say this with all the reverence and fondness I still have for the latter.
googies?
You move across the country to a city you don’t know, you end up there with no social skills and no real entry point it the social scene so you binge watch Netflix enroll in a masters degree and stare out of your condo window.

Then you ssh in and work to fill the hole. Now I don’t even get to see my co-workers.
The software is open source, but (legal) usage requires a patent license from MPEG-LA for the H.265 compression (HEIC is just single-frame HEVC).
Not my comment, just one I found exceptionally useful for the Hasura piece.
How Roam Research got their first 1000 customers
Very much agree. Of course this will drive up the cost of these elite prep programs because you'll need to find one that has the capability to summarize so many different tests and provide essentialized coaching. That won't come cheap. So only the very wealthy will have the means for this.

Another fine piece of work brought to us by the good intentions paving company.
Even more ironic is that Asian students from the _exact same_ income levels and neighborhoods are still outperforming their peers.

Maybe there's another solution besides blatant racism.
Good for them (not sarcastically). My point is that if the experts were wrong then, it’s certainly possible that some of what they are saying now is wrong too, and it should be acceptable to criticize them on YouTube and explore different possibilities and models.
I used RabbitMQ to distribute messages between components of a distributed grading service that I wrote in Kotlin and deployed on Kubernetes.

My experiences were pretty mixed. Overall I found it to be more difficult than I would have wanted to get simple things to work. Part of this seems to be a problem with the Java library, which is not great. For example, IIRC you have to be really careful not to create the same queue twice, even with identical configurations, since the second time something blows up. At the end of the day just a simple fan-out configuration ends up involving a lot of somewhat-intricate code. It definitely does not Just Work (TM).

And then there was the bizarre hangs that I would experience during testing. I set up a Docker Compose configuration so that I could test the various parts of the system independently. It included one container running RabbitMQ to simulate the cluster we have running on our cloud.

Usually tests ran fine. But then, from time to time, the client would just hang trying to send a message through RabbitMQ. Unfortunately, again, the code you need to just run a basic configuration using RabbitMQ is complex enough that at first I was pretty sure that I had done something wrong. But after a few hours of increasing frustration I finally broke down and discovered that a simple test case that just sent a single message using code torn right out of the docs would hang. Forever. (Or, long enough that I gave up waiting.)

After a lot of digging I found the culprit. RabbitMQ will just take its ball and go home if the broker doesn't have enough disk space. Given that I use Docker heavily for a lot of projects, the amount available to new containers would vary a lot depending on what other data sets I had loaded or how recently I had run docker system prune.

I filed an issue about this, asking to have a better error message displayed when an attempt to send a message was made. The response was: there's already an error message, printed during startup. You didn't see it? No. I must have missed it among the hundreds of other lines of output that RabbitMQ spews when it starts.

Overall my favorite part of this story is that RabbitMQ chooses to start but refuse to send messages when low on disk space, when just crashing would be much more useful and make it much easier to pinpoint what was going on.

Anyway, I'm in the market for a simpler alternative that's Kotlin friendly.
Sounds like your email was compromised
LightProxy – Cross platform Web debugging proxy
I was of the same opinion until I tried the latest Vive headset. I'm ready for VR. GTA 6 with 360 treadmill, VR and Unreal Engine 5 level graphics will be the next level.
Yea I really fail to see how UBI addresses the real elephants in the room. Mega landlords, investor firms hoarding real estate, and generally "unspoken collusion" where prices will only go up and they'll let rentals sit empty for years. Just throwing UBI money at people now just sits the minimum they can jack rental prices up. And we are back to square one with the rich being richer.
I'd be interested to know what the 3 lines of python were and also more details about the redis server you deployed to replace RabbitMQ during the outage.
I lost a lot of valuable stuff, including my own first programs I wrote as a kid, to aging diskettes and bit rot. And then threw the diskettes away. I wish I had had your foresight...
One possible reason is that people designing with FPGAs already have 2 options - FPGAs with on-chip processors, and using soft cores built in the FPGA.

In other words, don't get some FPGA with your micro. Get a micro with your FPGA. The later exists.
A (high school) student who's unwilling to use Safari because of privacy concerns but would be ok using Chrome? That sounds like a serious edge case.
I'd be curious to see it play out in a smaller country for a few years. The U.S. is a big place to gamble on it.

No one is saying flip the switch for 328.2 million, I know that, but at the same time it would be best to do an MVP on a smaller scale with, say, a population of 5 million and then learn and iterate from there.

Even when testing with 5 million though, you often have countries of that size having more of a shared culture that's tighter knit, such as the Nordic countries.

Perhaps somewhere like Singapore or Hong Kong could be a test. But there's so many variables again between so many countries. Perhaps a test case could be the whole state of Colorado, but then you have border permeability issues...
React with typescript
I try to gauge the complexity of a task like this with a period view. On the one hand, BASIC was quite simple, and the 8-bit CPU had an instruction set that could be easily memorized (days before protected mode and 64 bytes worth of potential extended instruction decode prefixes!). On the other hand, debugging, code entry and documentation was sparse. (And there was no Stack Overflow.) So when I think to myself: How hard was this task compared to my for-fun projects? I really don't know what to think in today's inflationary terms. Thoughts?
Any ideas for a guy who lives in a downtown condo? Im that guy who logs in at 3AM to distract from the boredom of life.
This is why you don't let upper management walk all over you.

I would personally love to tell Bezos to "fuck off" if the ask was unreasonable. Worst case scenario, I have to find a new job (which I usually have a few companies/recruiters in my back pocket), or best case scenario I get "respected" and the deadline is pushed to a more reasonable date. Typically massive corporations like this put you on a "performance improvement plan" which can give you few weeks to a few months to find a new job (or "improve").

Also learn to make friends with your teammates in the trenches. Presenting a push back to management in a unified front is much more compelling than a 1:1.
I don't think any of these companies are going "full remote". It seems like the strategy is more like, remote if you want it but there is still an office.
I learned Locomotive Basic on a CPC464, then moved up to a PCW8256 before transitioning to a PC1512. Those were the days :)
RIP. My first program was a Pythagorean formula solver. I probably spent more time playing games and programming on my TI83 than actually doing math
I used Gopher to download MPEG-1 videos back in 1993.
Whole two of them.
One was egg shot by a bullet and second one was Michael Jackson's Smooth criminal anti-gravity lean clip.
Exciting times.
My university math class experience was the same as yours. No calculators allowed, and we learned to not need them.

But as has been said repeatedly, these calculators put Computer Science and BASIC terminals in the pockets of grade school and high school children and encourage learning in areas other than math.
Surprised to see not much mention of ActiveMQ in these comments, but it's an obvious alternative choice. The general (simplistic) comparison being:

- ActiveMQ more featureful, robust default settings, better integrated with Java/JMS but slower

- RabbitMQ faster, simpler, more "just works"

The defaults of ActiveMQ lean more towards robustness (hence often naive benchmarks will tell you it's slow). However in practice it is pretty damn easy to run, you literally can just download the default cross-platform distribution and type `./bin/activemq` and it will start running.

We use ActiveMQ + Apache Camel which makes a pretty nice combo to achieve lots of generalised messaging and routing functionality.
No you can't -- the request from the browser is coming from inside the firewall, on an internal IP.
Came here to say this. I’ve gone from driving multiple times per day to ~3x per month.

I can feel my skills have diminished and it feels like I’m sharing the road with a bunch of aggressive learners permit drivers
I was about to write math exam using latex

It'd be one of the biggest mistakes because I'd need like 2 hours more to write it.

I was running out of time HARD despite being somewhat experienced with it
Because you don't have a truck?

And maybe you don't have a truck, because there are no roads.

And there are no roads, because there is no nearby marketplace.

And there is no big market, because there is nobody with capital to invest in that.
Seinfeld still makes good money though.
Thanks, I'll look into it. It seems like a subtle distinction. That is, "cooperat[ing] with other compromised nodes" seems like a flavor of malicious activity.

I get that the Tor Project has banned relays for numerous reasons. The tor-relays list is a good (albeit incomplete) source for reports, discussion and decisions.
That is a non sequitur.
4 years out of school and yeah, I never managed to find anything to replace the profession and academic milestones.
>These often favor privileged kids, as they have access to far more opportunities than others.

I think these "holistic" admissions do the opposite. They allow a small group of college administrators to pick which "backgrounds" they want to make up the freshman class each year.
It’s strange to read comments about people “cheating” using graphing calculators, as I can’t remember a single time where one would have helped me in a single class. That might be because I majored in maths and everything at that level is abstract ?
Homeowners are getting mortgage relief they didn't want
The FAQ section gave me a chuckle. Not a lot of info on the landing page but I just signed up to see what it's all about.

What's the criteria to be accepted into a drinking group?
Elon Musk, and the Grand Scheme That Tore Apart a Texas Town
.md is mentioned as an extension in the text/markdown RFC from March 2016: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763

(Vim 8 was released in September of the same year.)
What’s so bad about being treated as an interchangeable ‘drone’? Let’s face it, for most of us, it’s true. If we weren’t there doing that particular jira, someone else would be. Similarly, the company I work at is pretty interchangeable for me. If I wasn’t at x company, I’d be at y company doing almost identical work. As long as you work to live, not live to work, it’s not really that threatening being ‘a cog in the machine’. In fact it’s pretty relaxing, predictable and an easy way to earn money.
Can we get an email signup for updates?
Funnily enough I started working with hooks a couple months ago and I can no longer go back to classes. And Functional programming has just made things so smooth.
We use it heavily at Reddit as well.
I loved QuickBasic 4.5! It could compile programs to .EXE files ;)

And from there, once you hit QuickBasic's limitations, it was a small step to Turbo Pascal or Borland C!
The "trickle down" political foundation of modern tax laws is definitely Kawaii, the local anti-homelessness laws when for example you can be fined/arrested for sleeping on the street (such laws recently were declared unconstitutional at some state Supreme Court or a federal district court, don't remember exactly) are protecting the Kawaii of the cities self-image and self-feeling, that wannabe black border wall is Kawaii, and even the current President - Cartman from South Park - is Kawaii.
The list says Spotify but when you click on the "Source" for that it is an article about Shopify...
I did VB 3 when I was like 13. I think it makes more sense to me after doing JS for so damned long now.
> This pragmatically means the administrators are free to pursue their biased and ideological policy objectives.

This is the express purpose of this change.
Okay, thanks, that was interesting to see your detailed usage. Maybe I just don't have as many tabs open as some (56 right now, and I'm surprised it's that many), or I'm just less interested in knowing their hierarchical structure. Pretty much all I want to do with tabs is to go to them, and I find I almost always remember enough of the title to find them. Interestingly, "%" only offers tabs from the same container you're in right now -- I can't decide if that's a handy feature or not.

As far as other keyboard shortcuts, I would probably use TST more if it offered "search and goto tab" within the TST window itself, including tab-key to fold/unfold sub-tabs, and return to select the actual tab.

I wonder if I've been trained by Emacs not to need to visualize these things. When I was first using it, I definitely felt a little uneasy without a visual "overview".
> The roads have been extra fun for those of us who enjoy them responsibly.

Hmm, sounds like a paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)#QB64_Ver...
I went through the MBA program at the UofR. The Strong Museum was one of our favorite places. We ended up staying in Rochester for five years (I worked remotely for three years after the grad program).

I have very fond memories of Rochester. Absolutely beautiful part of the world.
Yes. Billions in profit
On windows when you change file formats between jpg png bmp it opens fine, so maybe it could be misleading? idk
An example of mathematically informed binary search is "regula falsi":

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regula_falsi&oldi...
It remains to be seen what it means to the Sino–British Joint Declaration of 1984, which is behind the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997.

See the related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259455
Depends on the distro but mostly OpenRC, SysVinit and Runit. I find that every one of them is better than systemd. The design philosophy of systemd also goes against everything I stand for.
UC makes landmark decision to drop ACT and SAT requirement for admission
If all the parties had been in the US, a possible answer to that would have been section 230 of the CDA, which says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider".

That generally means that in the US unless there is some law that specifically says otherwise, this kind of dispute is between whoever posted the information and whoever wants it taken down. The hosting site can take it down on their own if they wish, but they do not have to.

Does Europe have anything similar to section 230?
Well, some of us think that acts like Kanye, Jay-Z, Amy Weinstein, the Beatles, and Led Zeppelin were pretty great even though they had the crassness and audacity to make it to the top of the charts
Working fully remote also means your hunt for your next job is really difficult. One of the upsides of working in a tech hub isn't just the job you have, but the next job you can find.