skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of anecdotes in this post.

Do you think your experience generalises to the whole university population? Was the entire journalism school working for the campus newspaper and did they derive real benefits from it with regard to post-university outcomes?

Or does it stand to reason that, on average, half of people who go to university on-campus have a below average experience of it?

For every post saying something like yours, there’s another post about how a person didn’t go to university, or dropped out early, and claim to have benefitted from not wasting their time at university.

Sweeping generalisations are never going to capture the whole of possible experience, and I believe there’s room for on-campus, off-campus, and way more on the job / apprenticeship style training, and other types of learning I probably don’t even know about.
It's an impressive response, full credit. However, covid outcomes seem to be closely tied to NOx pollution and altitude adaption. Mongolia would be the canonical example of somewhere that is already altitude adapted, which gives you as much as 10x the blood concentration of NOx. So in theory, it would be really hard for someone from mongolia to even be symptomatic at any point.
Same reason people hate scalpers.
Nearly any business that gets more than a handful of GDPR requests has fully automated it.

It costs them nothing to process your request - you're wasting far more of your time crafting the request than of theirs.
What's the purpose of boycotting a vote vs. just voting "no"?
Swift is a nice language in its own right, and, according to the post, is a good fit for the lambda environments.

So there doesn’t need to be a direct connection to iOS to decide to use Swift for serverless function. A developer might just decide to use Swift for serverless functions.

(I can see the benefit to sharing certain kinds of code between client and server, but a lot of things have to line of for this to make sense, so I’m not sure if that’s a significant driver.)
How do you explain skinny people getting type 2 diabetes? They can't be in caloric surplus or they would be gaining weight.
Making snotty, leading assumptions about people complaining about bait-and-switch links is a poor way to make one's point. Perhaps you actually do subscribe to literally every site with links posted here; I'm going to guess that most regulars here don't.

I actually do not mind links I can't hit being posted here, where it shows the domain the link goes to. That's as good as a '[paywalled]' indicator.

I do really hate it elsewhere where you can't tell before hovering the link, and think they should be optionally excludable from search engine searches, or at the very least tagged as such - I'm did not search for "media subscription pages".
Yeah me too, moving from standard publishing to really high quality independent publishers is a huge improvement. I hope most of news media trends this direction.

The brands of even famous papers like the NYT don't mean much to me when they also publish a lot of bad content. I want to follow and support individual writers like Li Yuan (https://twitter.com/LiYuan6, who wrote this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/business/china-coronaviru...).

I'm happy to pay these individuals for the work they do, but I don't want to pay for a paper that has some quality writers among a bunch of garbage inside of a primarily ad-driven business model. Vox publishes a lot of great stuff, but they also publish Kara Swisher and terrible articles like that handshake one about Covid-19. I don't want to support the bad along with the good.

Let me pay individual people like Steven Levy directly - I want writers to become their own independent publishers. I'm happy some are already doing this, but I think there's an opportunity for someone to solve the discovery problem here and make it better.

A long time ago individual videogame developers were famous, but at some point the effort required to make a modern "AAA" game scaled up over the abilities for an individual to be able to do it themselves. For writing the opposite happened with the internet, and costs to publish cratered. Since cost to publish and distribute isn't really a constraint anymore, individuals should own their own brand and publish themselves under their own reputation.

Ben Thompson, Sam Harris, and Preet Bharara are all doing this. There should be more.

Even in games (where the constraint still exists) we still have successful indies.

We can probably help, not by making yet another centralized Medium type of site that obscures the writer's name and reputation to own their traffic, but by making it easy for writer's to spin up their own entirely owned publishing site (host, domain, mailing list, etc.)

The barrier to entry to do this without giving up your ownership is too high - non-technical writers are not going to use github pages or configure some DNS CNAME.

That said, the quality of the first few people that have figured out how to do this well makes me optimistic for this kind of future.
You are either willfully cherry-picking facts here or being ignorant. This info is widely available and it was the racists south that was against the civil rights movement and the union states pushed it through. When the 64 law passed the DNC had 21 out of 22 confederate senators, 1 of whom voted for the act. GOP had 1 southern senator, who voted against it.

Looking at the union numbers, DNC had 46 senators of whom 45 voted for the act while the GOP had 32 of which 27 voted for it. So in union numbers the DNC senators voted 98% for it, while GOP did so with 84%.

Here is a longer article with this information:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republ...

As a result of this both parties changed. The DNC took a stand for civil rights and the southern democrats left. At the same time the GOP got a lot new members that influenced the party and created the new power base for it. Later GOP close victories all relied on the previous southern democrats.

Bigger picture, it is clear that the party depending on the south needs to cater to a voting base that is not very positive to civil rights movement, and the opposite for a party that wants to hold the north. It is important to understand that the DNC took a stand here that lost them the south long term because it was the right thing to do (in their minds).
Ask HN: When do you hire UX professionals, and why?
User experience is a large field and can mean many things. I'd like to learn from founders and hiring managers:
1. At what point in your company's development they hire user experience/human factors professionals

2. What you see as the value UX brings to your company/product/service

3. What do those initial UX roles entail

Bonus: Are you hiring? I'd like to amplify your positions to my UX/HFE network.
An inside source tells me it was the Russians.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Azure functions has that option, but at some point... Why not just use a "real" web server if you want it always online? The whole point of serverless was that you don't need a server always running in the background.
>Kathleen Mary Griffin is an American comedian and actor who has starred in television comedy specials and has released comedy albums.
But for the sorts of conflicts the US is involved in they are often working in situations with a lot of civilians present. There are also frangible rounds other than those also more destructive to humans. And above all the best way not to accidentally shoot civilians isn’t to have ammunition that makes it less likely to penetrate something else if you miss (this is after all a failure of training) but sane rules of engagement about when you can shoot.
Is there any recent rundown on the state of server-side Swift in general? I know there was a lot of discussion when IBM stopped working on it back in January.

At the broadest level, I wonder what the footprint of Swift at runtime is, both in terms of CPU and RAM. I've been really enjoying Kotlin as a server-side language - it's a massive step up in productivity from TypeScript - but the overhead of the JVM certainly is notable, even in small personal projects (my small Javalin app uses four times the RAM at rest as my Express app did). Swift is really interesting to me because it is very similar in practice to Kotlin, but with some very cool and powerful additional language features. So, if server-side Swift has a smaller footprint at runtime and equal or better performance than Kotlin on the JVM[1], that'd be a really compelling language for me.

[1] yes, I know GraalVM/native options exist for Kotlin, but every time I've tried to investigate ecosystem compatibility, it leads to me glancing at pages long-articles about "how to configure X framework for GraalVM" that make it not seem worth the effort yet
It didn't just feel like that, it is exactly like that. The mob, cartels, and government are pretty much all the same. Some group that claims a monopoly on force.
Meanwhile....

> [GOP Operative] Leslie McCrae Dowless, was charged with three felony counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiring to commit obstruction of justice and two counts of possession of absentee ballots, according to court documents.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-caroli...
Please send it to kxoe@uacro.com

Thanks!
Taking a guess: if you use this form to do a bunch of operations before normalizing, you don't need to worry as much about intermediate overflow. E.g. you could easily add 10 different 256 bit numbers in this form and normalize at the end. Whereas if the leading chunk is 64 bits, every addition can overflow.

So 52/51/51/51/51 seems like the more generally useful choice
Interesting! I would love to talk to you about the experience, can we have have a quick chat?
Late reply, adding onto port vetting. They do try to incorporate their security mitigations into ports. E.g. they have `pledge`d chromium in ports.[0]

[0] https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20160107075227
> union rules stand in the way of making any quick arrests

It's almost like it's some sort of systemic problem
Your tweet links to an unmasking of a police officer committing false-flag violence in order to justify counter-violence towards protestors and rioters.

People are rioting because they are angry. It happens that people are constantly, very gently, angry at the entire capitalist complex. When people riot, therefore they are going to burn down the capitalist complex, because it irritates them and they are in a provocative mood.
I see, the original post didn't show this tweet
People shouldn't be surveilled by the government without probable cause.
Also berries are fairly seasonal AFAIK
I bet you wouldn't fire tear gas into a crowd of dudes with rifles either. what's the lesson here, exactly?
I tried to do this, too. My wife is suddenly into a particular series of books, so at the beginning of the quarantine, I ordered the first four books from Barnes and Noble.

Two arrived, but took three weeks. A third arrived in the fourth week. A fourth is nowhere to be found. bn.com won't talk to me without an order number, and I don't have an order number because I recently learned that an iPhone X will not stand up to sitting in a puddle of Lysol on the kitchen counter overnight.

Ten days after ordering from Barnes and Noble, I ordered the next nine books in the series from Abe Books. The sellers have been really quick. Most arrived in under a week. A few took ten days. But for $1-$5 apiece, I'm OK with that. More importantly, none got lost.
My Pet Peeve: Google doesn't let you unsubscribe to YouTube TV emails via their "Unsubsribe" button.

https://twitter.com/mohd_irteza/status/1227772431605149696?s...
So far, my approach has been to not think too much about the in-office use case since, in theory at least, there are already tools like Slack that _should_ be able to serve this purpose (though admittedly, they don't always do it well).

It's still very early days with this thing, and I've got lots of ideas bouncing around, but one avenue that might be interesting to explore is to try to better serve the use case of letting friends and family know, at a glance, what you're up to and whether you're up for a chat. I know I've already got users doing this kind of thing with the app today.

But we'll see! I think what makes the app appealing is its simplicity, so I don't want to stray from that too quickly.
Yep, email in profile
Always happy to see more new Swift projects pop up, especially on the server side. It's great watching the language evolve and continue to add more powerful features.
It really means that rich people subsidize poorer people by buying at high prices which encourages new supply.

Remember: The alternative isn't that poor people get supplies, the alternative is that very few people get supplies.
Amazon got spooked with the series of articles that came out a few years ago after a hurricane, showing third party sellers selling water and toilet paper for hundreds of dollars. They implemented new policies so they wouldn't take a PR hit again.
And it looks like a similar effort that was abandoned at subledger.com. It think there can be a market for something like this and hopefully this one works out.
A thought of mine is the police use prosecution of minor crimes and harassment of identifiable groups as a proxy for harder to enforce and more serious crimes. I think it's a fallacy with very negative outcomes.
Thanks for the insight. Appreciate it.
Why businesses fail at machine learning (2018)
Correct. DoH is also useful for preventing ISP's from snooping on that too IIRC.
I find it funny that we expect black Americans to peacefully protest.

"Please use this system of peaceful protest that hasn't worked for you since forever." LA was 92, we're almost 30 years to the year. Has anything changed?

Do you tell HK protestors to write a letter to the CCP instead? It's such a double-standard.
In hardware this would be called a carry save adder [1].

One interesting fact about carry save adders is that the carry part of the register can be extended in order to avoid any carrying between words for very long periods of time. Instead of using 53 bits to represent 52 bits, use 60 bits, and now you can perform 256 sequential additions with no carrying between words before the carry part saturates and needs to be handled.

Somewhat surprisingly, it's even possible to use this construction in the context of a quantum computation [2][3]. The reason it's surprising is because tacking on additional registers like this can act as an information leakage mechanism (which is an error in a quantum computation). For analogy, you can imagine that if you computed a public key using this trick that you would not be comfortable handing an attacker the registers storing your public key before you removed the carry padding that made the computation faster. But it turns out that if you just initialize the carry padding randomly, subtracting out of the next word at the start to ensure everything sums to the correct result at the end, then you can show that the information leakage and chance-of-bad-overflow is exponentially suppressed in the length of the carry padding. Currently the most efficient known way to implement Shor's algorithm uses this technique [4].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry-save_adder

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08488

3: https://youtu.be/upTipX9yXNg?t=777

4: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09749
Hollowpoints are banned under Geneva because the injuries they inflict are less treatable by medics. Same reason buckshot and such is restricted.

In a civilian environment, the hollowpoints don't penetrate through walls and bodies as easily, meaning less risk of bystanders being harmed - and the local hospital has a lot more kit than your field medic.
I agree, they should have reacted immediately. It is a double standard.
Investors don’t typically like diagnostics as the margins and volume tend to be quite low. They also tend to be more “vitamin” than “aspirin”.* Consumables, a least, give you recurring revenue and even in some cases the opportunity for a razor-and-blades model.

You’d be surprised how many med products are designed specifically to require consumables.

* (funny analogy to use in a med context)
It's an emotional decision, not a rational one.
I actually kind of like this idea - following the mold of coding bootcamps.

The only concern I have with this is tying monetary incentives to education. As a society, I think we benefit greatly from the diversity in learning paths that people choose to follow.

Once you attach a price tag - higher percentage of future earnings for majors like literature, philosophy - you are getting closer to turning the university system into a STEM robot factory.

A large part of the reason that some young people choose to go into esoteric fields of study is that their monetary outcome is not real to them at the point that they enter college.

To be fair, I bet there is a significant difference in the proportion of students from wealthy economic backgrounds who enter these esoteric fields compared to that of poorer students. And if it is the wealthy who are studying these kinds of subjects, then the approach you suggest will not seriously affect the diversity of subjects being explored.
This is why I'm looking forward to ~1 year from now to see who is getting 'fact checked' on Twitter.

Only a fool would be evaluating the first case to judge whether the whole idea is valid.
Of course they do, and just like my ancestors did in 1776 I am free to tell them to mind their own business on their own side of the pond.
> Most people would interpret that phrase..

Even if you're right, which you're not, what is "Most" here? 51%? 63%? 90%?

Are you saying that it's bad if the majority of people are riled up to engage in violence following his tweet, but OK if 40% do? 10%? 1%?
I had occasion to reread this today, and it is still very, very good.

One of Cassie's strengths (that she has absolutely capitalized on) is that she is excellent at writing at the right level of abstraction for your manager. Or their manager.
I was under the impression remote / online leering was most popular with older learners?

Aren’t there schools that specialise in this segment.

This post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23353796 mentions University of Phoenix for one, and I’ve know more than a few people here in Australia who claim to have enjoyed their remote / online courses as older learners.
It depends what you call the "home row" and where you keep your fingers.

If you expect to use these shortcuts (typically with the outer fingers of your hands) your hands will rest at a slightly higher position in your keyboard, with the pinkies near Esc and Del, and the thumbs near the spacebar. (Other fingers over the letters.)

I guess it depends on what you've trained yourself to do.
Yeah, because Web PKI existed, DNSSEC has yet to gather any meaningful good deployment. It's not hard to throw away something that doesn't exist :P
I like to say (lovingly) that Kubernetes takes complex things and simplifies them in complex ways.
My anecdote. I learned about the importance of D3 on Steve Gibson's podcast about a decade ago. At the time had a kid in preschool and spent almost the whole year sick, so was quite intrigued.

Started with 1,000 IU a day and getting sick stopped abruptly. For the last decade or so, haven't been sick more than one day, two at max, with one exception.

Yes, believe I had CV in March and "walked it off" in about 6 days or so with mild symptoms.

Last few years I've taken 5,000 IU several times a week (from Trader Joes, which has an excellent price of $4.99). As compared to Albertsons which disgustingly tries to get $15-20 for the same thing. Unfortunately this news has made both C and D unavailable at Trader Joe's for months. We'll run out soon and need to buy the gouging price somewhere else.
Personally? I would shut up and listen to their thesis statement. I would carefully examine the main foundational and historical claims which underlie the thesis, and I would consider the demands which accompany the complaint and how those demands might, when fulfilled, change and improve the lives of the movants.

I'm not sure why this is so hard for you. Surely you've shut up and listened to people before?
Beyond the impact of crushing knowledge transfer, it’s going to kill a lot of people.

In companies with world-wide products/solutions/support, older employees tend to have a broad base of knowledge and learning from being exposed to all customer experiences and issues. Now, everything is in a protected silo and new employees will only learn through a soda-straw looking glass. Older employees are learning to say “not my problem” when getting cleared to look at something overseas because there are 3 layers of data protection officers and it cant be proven there’s not 1 bit of PPD in that 10GB dump.

Some day soon, an industrial or other large-scale accident will kill people and someone in the back office will say “That team didn’t know about X? Doh!”
I attended RPI and recently had to recommend to a friend that they not send their child there. It made me sad. But the way the administration, and Shirley in particular, have been treating the students and the school has been so horrible.
You're right; I'm exaggerating a bit. I do find it annoying when the banners take up a significant section of the screen though. On mobile is especially bad; I've had banners take up a good 1/3 of the screen.
Did they loot the place while they were there?