skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with these sorts of averages is that it doesn't paint an accurate picture. There are schools with buildings in disrepair and schools without the same resources as other schools. And some have waaay more resources and spending per student than most schools. This is, in part, because a lot of states don't fund their schools by redistributing money across all schools. Instead, they rely on the school district's tax base - which means if you are in a poor neighborhood, you probably won't have as much funding. The same goes for being in an area that doesn't utilize the public schools as much as other areas (using private schools) - this decreases federal funding that is reliant on the number of children going to your school.

All this means that it isn't really evident that money doesn't translate into better results. It isn't strictly funding, that is true - poverty seriously affects how well students can perform, for example - but it should be quite obvious that a school that cannot afford maintenance, proper computers for students to learn on, or enough staff so that classes are a manageable size can't really teach as well as a moderately funded school.
Just watched the docking.
Strangely when the module entered the shadow of the station, the edge of the shadow was a gradient. I would have expected a knife-sharp line. Is this because the camera resolution couldn't render it as a sharp line? Other clear edges were visible in the image. Or is the station somehow fuzzy around the edges? Does the module surface somehow soften the shadow? Confused.
> Everything most middle-income Americans think about our police forces is wrong

After moving to the suburbs, I realized that most Americans base their opinions on their own police forces. The last time I got pulled over in the exurbs where I live, the officer basically apologized for pulling me over. Things are very different an hour away from here in DC.
Patience diff cares about lines that only appear once in each file. The idea behind that heuristic is that lines that only appear once are more likely to represent the parts of the document that don't belong to the diff. Conversely, if a line appears more than once in the file then it is more likely to be something like a blank line or a " }", where a match in the two documents might be just a coincidence. That particular example is one where the heuristic doesn't work well. The big block of abcs doesn't have any unique lines so patience diff doesn't see much cost in including it as part of the diff.

OP's blog has another series of posts about patience diff. They are also an interesting read: https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/09/19/the-patience-diff-algori...
Last time I used Ubuntu, there were PPAs for this, but Qt 4 is outdated and does not even support HDPI, coming from a Mac user it is rich, because macOS software tends to support at most 2 releases of macOS at any given time.
This is cool :)
There are various ways for businesses to tell Google stuff -- structured data on their website, working with aggregators, Google My Business, etc.

The problem is that (a) business can mistakenly enter wrong data (b) businesses can lie (c) businesses can fail to enter any data (d) businesses can fail to update data.

Google can't let any random idiot with a smartphone edit Google Maps, and they also can't let any random idiot waste a potentially unlimited amount of customer support time on what might well be an erroneous change. So they came up with a thing where you can edit Maps but the edits only apply if some conditions that can be automatically checked are satisfied (recency, user edit quality track record, agreement among users, stuff like that). But building and validating that was a big project spanning quite a few teams and several months. The opportunity cost often isn't worth it for that (I don't know whether it was in this instance, either... but it is really cool IMO.)
> As we mentioned, our remote hiring is in scaled production mode in the U.S. and Canada, and in early stages elsewhere.

What if I'm based elsewhere, but would be happy to work North American timezones?
That doesn't make any sense. How is the drone supposed to take off during normal operation?
In general, if you are able to film police misconduct, you are in the public sphere. If the stuff going an around them is sensitive, the ethical thing to do isn't to abstain from filming, but to be careful who you share the video with.
I mostly like their merge request UI but one big missing feature for me as an easy way to view and review commit messages. For complex patches the commit messages can be vital.
> At least according to FOI laws I'm vaguely familiar with (in Australia), an FOI request can only be made for an item of information that is known to exist. People can't go on "fishing expeditions" for, say, all communications between nominated people over a nominated period of time.

Interestingly I don't think this is 100% true - under (for example) the federal FOI Act I think a request framed as asking for "email sent on government systems between Alice and Bob in the last six months" would be facially valid, if Alice and Bob were civil servants (although of course exemptions may apply to individual emails).

Here's an (Australian) FOI request that is similar in spirit to your example:

https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/philip_gaetjens_the_l...

which asks for "any emails contained in all of Philip Gaetjens’ outlook items (including deleted items) that contain any of the following terms (in the body of an email and/or in the addressee fields of an email): “liberal.org.au” or “ipa.org.au”", and the department deemed that a valid request. (Philip Gaetjens is a senior civil servant, the Liberals are a political party and the IPA is a right-leaning think tank; it's reasonable to infer that the fishing here is for evidence of a link between the civil service and a particular side of politics.)
Was on mobile, punctuation is a PITA but normally I use s/he
There's... a large number of languages with both of those features.
> Even if it weren't legal to be outside on your own property from 8p-6a

It should always be legal to be outside on your own property. Anything less is unacceptable.
I hope it's not controversial to say that if your ambitions are to be the whole world's middle man on something, you have some responsibilities regarding how to do it.

Google doesn't have a "hey, these are scraped and only have like 80% accuracy" disclaimer or anything like that when they direct customers to businesses. I don't know where the line is but Google has some level of basic ethical requirement to not try to be the middleman when their failures (or in google terms >80% accuracy) cost others rather than themselves.

It's presented as correct, not as a best guess. I get that it's impossible to be 100% correct at this scale, but then just don't present it as authoritative. Or let people correct mistakes that are harming them. Or something besides just driving traffic to their own product and saying there's nothing they could do.
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There have been cases of homogenous CPU architectures in safety-critical where all CPU's failed at once.

Bitflippinrads are one of a multi-variate set of problems that these systems are designed to detect and avoid. Nodes can degrade otherwise: SRAM failure, battery/cap depletion, all sorts of things. The idea is to detect when a voting node has had a catastrophic system failure, and then remove offending nodes from the decision as rapidly as possible.

A multi-architecture system assists with managing (and certifying) things such as compiler bugs and impact from system-level homogeneity, where critical components all exhibit the same bug/failure. An x86 hardware bug is fatal if all 5 of the nodes in a voting system are x86 and making a critical decision; it is less of an issue if the other 2 or 3 nodes are PPC, ARM, MIPS, etc., or a mixture there-of, and - as variant hardware architectures - are democratically still voting during the period .. the idea is to avoid homogeneity and pursue heterogeneity.
But can they do a hot chili pepper? I think not.
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> There's a clear curfew order to stay inside

The curfew order clearly says that people do NOT need to stay inside.
https://dps.mn.gov/macc/Pages/faq.aspx
in aggregate, this data makes sense

For people with chronic ADD who struggle to finish projects, you may easily fall on the other side of this line ..
When has self promotion here been frowned upon? It’s even officially supported with “Show HN” posts.
Non-paywalled version:

https://www-ft-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/content/6aa50a68-a186-...
I don't know, then maybe add paid listing support? (Or don't push your product through search and OS dominance so better quality alternatives have at least a theoretical chance?)
Excellent. Whatever works for you man, you are my hero.
> They're judged for the actions that they take

I wish that were true, but it more often seems they're judged by the worst dirt that can be made to stick. And they know it.
It's an overall excellent and very dense UK-specific read (~40 pages of editorial, cartoons and letters every fortnight). Several stories broken by Private Eye have ended up featuring on Hacker News much later too such as Horizon - an IT system for the UK's Post Office which somehow executives managed to persuade the courts was infallible, so if a bug in Horizon said your Post Office ought to have £10k of cash that it didn't you (the "Postmaster" of that office, typically a small local store owner making a little bit of extra money offering this vital service) might literally go to prison for stealing this money that never even existed.

It does have its own unique culture you'd need to spin up on to really grok what's going on. For example it just calls the Queen "Brenda", and various government agencies get more apposite names like the "Fundamentally Supine Agency". And there are a lot of running jokes after existing for so long.
It has been quite refreshing. I find it unfortunate that the adult version hasn't followed suit.
Space Forge: We make super materials in space that cannot be made on Earth
Scrutinizing for-profit colleges
Also not a lawyer, but as I understand it, both the defense and the prosecution tell each other and the judge what evidence they plan to bring; unlike crime shows, you generally don't spring surprises in court. In this case the defense would say "we have a video that shows we are innocent" and the prosecution would then request a copy of the video, and a warrant to acquire it.

Providing said video doesn't seem any more self-incrimination than the prosecution asking for a warrant to get written evidence that is in possession of the accused, say, though the line there might start getting blurry if the video is something routinely filmed from the accused's viewpoint. But if it's filmed by a third party, I doubt the self-incrimination provisions would extend to it in any way...
There are 212 job openings listed on Stripe's careers page as either located in the United States or remote. Of those, 17 are remote (~8%) & the rest are not. So even excluding non-US listings, it's a small percentage -- Seattle has ~30%, SF has ~50%, NYC has ~11%.

Even though a single job listing can/does represent multiple job openings, that's true for all the listings as well. So all other things being equal, I would expect Stripe to have way more remote listings if it's been as successful as this post implies. Which leads me to believe the reality is much more nuanced and that the blog post is a bit heavy with PR fluff (no shame!).

Also, big fan.
If an application in the repos depends on it, then that version of Qt or GTK will also be available in the repos. What's more likely to happen is:

- either that application is either dropped from the repos for being unmaintained (if it's using a library that old then there's likely other issues with it)

- or some other helpful sole would fork the project and update it to run on a newer version framework

This is also very distribution specific. For example ArchLinux still supports Qt 3 applications and libraries in the community repos however I wouldn't expect the same from CentOS (though admittedly I've also not checked).
Well, sure, I do this for my laundry that I don’t want to be shrunk in the dryer. But this business of making it smell good, I don’t understand. Air drying doesn’t impart a smell at all.
The person you replied to is technically correct: DNA-dependent RNA polymerases are zinc metalloenzymes, have zinc at the active site, and the zinc is required for catalytic functionality.
Sorry, walk me through this. There was a competitive field of GPUs. Somehow the companies were able to produce hardware. Are you saying that someone controlled the defining patents, and all of the competitors were forced to license from them?

Citation needed.
The reason why it’s particularly bad in the US is that we’ve got insanely high levels of violent and organized crime. Baltimore, where I used to live, the homicide rate per 100,000 people is 30-50 times higher than in say Berlin, Madrid, London, etc. It’s almost double the rate of Bogota. That creates a police force that treats policing like its war, and public systems that give wide latitude to errors or misconduct, just as we would give soldiers in war.
I do not exempt those who make such statements just because they have authority. If anything, they should know better.

I started off along much the same path (I bought and read Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation (1994) by Simon Haykin) when I was in high school, read it all and thought I knew everything there was to know on the topic, and then started to read about neurobiology and was stunned to discover I was living a lie. Then I read The Computational Beauty of Nature (1998) by Gary William Flake and decided I was going to dedicate myself to understanding the complexities we brush under the rugs.

I think the Hacker News/Silicon Valley/Machine Learning/Developer crowd really need to look beyond the virtuosismo of their implementations. It’s a very introverted and self-referential mindset.
If a flight string desyncs (i.e. it has state at the end of a cycle different from its two siblings) then it is automatically rebooted. Then state is automatically resynced from any other sibling after boot. There is no converging between the strings, they are either in complete sync or they aren’t.
I was surprised they slept on the trip. I assume they took turns.
Truly amazing.

> Also, do I even have to say it? Of course those boosters are gonna land! The propulsive landing test program is isolated from the Falcon Heavy program right now, but the two will merge as the success rate for both programs increases.
I guess the app uses lots of "header-only" libraries ?
Nim, the language everyone loves and nobody uses.
seen that happen quite often with LaTeX documents!
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I like Memeorandum: https://www.memeorandum.com/m/

It gives you exposure to whatever people happen to be talking about at the time, but also other takes on the issue. Completely automated.
You can try docking yourself at https://iss-sim.spacex.com
I truly believe it's because github has become a social network and developers use it as popularity contest. They want their commits to be there just like influencer wants to be on Instagram not on my fairly unknown platform.
I find these kinds of near-journal-article-for-self fairly useless. If you think our stuff is boring where'd you leave intel/amd etc doing statistical process control in the domain of mother nature that's got the standard model in her favor? More boring? Less? Or dumb question?

Abstraction is a sort of entropy / Shannon / Kormogorov issue. So let's discuss it there not semi-liberal-arts school fogginess.

Folks let's please keep science in science. One day if QC gets commercial all these flowery articles will disappear. QC is math based. We'll need to deal or get left behind, and by then all this handwaving won't matter in the least.

Now, the other bad of software dev is that today's work is generously semi-formal at best in commercial settings. Not because CS is art, but because requirements gathering, human factors, corporate culture are strongly reactive in the software realm, where mother nature is directly absent.

Here we could help each other to understand management and management us to move this whole ediface along. And here less technical articles ala HBR work well.
You still have to scan the oldest generation at some point; otherwise (assuming some activity) you'll be leaking memory there over time.

Moving the work to another core doesn't really change my statement.

Aside: I wonder if it's feasible to switch to reference counting for the oldest generation? That would move the problem back to deallocation. I'm not sure if that's a good trade-off, but it would be interesting.
Ubuntu isn't the desktop Linux out there. There are others and some of them have a more extensive array of software available and/or a larger collection of legacy libraries in their official repositories.
This is the best one I found. Quite active too.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/retro-comp
The runtime you build will have all plugins micro supports by default at time of compile, and any custom plugins you create that implement the interface. They are hot-loaded at runtime, but you are correct in that you cannot unload them. Since the switching is done by environment variables, you'd have to restart to reload with other plugins.

Plugins are really specific by platform combinations and support, so you're unlikely to change them much after initial launch. It's only useful if you're going from metal to cloud provider or changing the method of interaction between you API layers.
I wonder if the taste of detergent was present on the surface due to some differential process occurring during freezing that concentrated the detergent in the outer layer of frozen water? Hmm... probably not, but see [1] for how zone refining is used to concentrate chemical solutions through freezing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_melting
Isis executes at least 37 civilians in central Syria: activists
If their profit from maps is say 1$/year per user and 99.5% of users don’t need support in a given year that’s 200$/year per user who needs support which is plenty. I am not saying that’s their exact situation, but how many people need to change anything on a map? Worse, support would actually be directly improving their product for normal users.

Google has crap support because their a monopoly not because they can’t afford it.
> but I would not be surprised if you could power-cycle all displays if needed in the middle of a mission.

Indeed you can, judging by the instruction to power off and clean all displays (then power them back on) prior to ISS rendezvous/docking in the live stream.
Well if you pack in a new communication bus plugin, you'd still have all of the defaults (rabbitmq, and so on) available in addition to the one you add. You can use Environment variables to pick the one you want by its name.
Oh, that’s where the name comes from.

I hang dry most of my laundry in my own house still. I learned to appreciate this after moving from a big city to a town of 13 people. Of course we all had lots of space but my house had one of those circular drying line contraptions. I enjoyed going out and hanging my laundry, even in the cold winters. Even in the snow. The sun and dry air did their thing pretty quickly.

When I lived in Amsterdam my apartment came with a new combo washer/dryer unit. As far as I could tell, it mostly succeeded in compressing the laundry into a really tight, nearly inextricable ball.

In tighter quarters having lots of laundry drying between apartments could be seen as less desirable. There are solutions for that too. But the noise and dirt of lint coming from drying machines is a counter factor to consider.
Yeah. That kind of nastiness came in a few years after my last Lenovo device (which was also a "business" model, so came with little crapware).
Sorry, I don't have an invite yet either; I don't know how those get allocated. I'm just keeping an eye on it for it to become available.
Many companies and worse, public institutions around the world are moving to solidify the destruction of evidence with data retention policies. They may automatically delete any email older than 1 or 2 years, every instant message sent via corporate channels in 30 days, etc. as a "disk-space saving measure". Including backups! Anyone can see through that explanation since any CIO claiming cost savings come from the few tens of GB of archived Office Communicator chats should be politely invited behind the barn for a dramatic reenactment of an age old saying.

Scandals like Boeing's and others that shook trust in public institutions, most of which are required by law to make any such material available to citizens, just convinced them that proactive destruction of evidence is the way to go. This is not punishable by law. And when the requests for data do come in all the have to do is delay the process until the totally legitimate automatic policy kicks in and removes the last shred of evidence.

At this point only whistle blowers diligently collecting all the data before it's destroyed could still help in any way but this comes at great personal risk. And when tools like Signal are involved good luck with that, one would have to be part of every conversation.
This is false. State and federal funding makes up the discrepancy between more well funded and less well funded school districts in nearly every state. There is obviously differences between states, but states have vastly different costs of living. But even then: Mississippi spends as much on education as France. Overall, the US spends more not just in dollar terms, but as a percentage of GDP than most big European countries: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/15434.jpeg

Some of the worst cities have the beat funded schools. Minneapolis spends as much per student as Switzerland. Baltimore spends more, and spends as much of more than the rich suburban schools around it. The US also has relatively low rates or private K-12 compared to the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.
It is a very damning read. Quoting just one part

"... had been sexually abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 by predominantly British-Pakistani men. ... The failure to address the abuse was attributed to a combination of factors revolving around race, class and gender—contemptuous and sexist attitudes toward the mostly working-class victims; fear that the perpetrators' ethnicity would trigger allegations of racism and damage community relations; the Labour council's reluctance to challenge a Labour-voting ethnic minority; lack of a child-centred focus;"

So the council didn't take any action to avoid "allegations of racism and damage community relations". This makes no sense. What did the council think will happen when the news breaks out. Won't it increase racial bias by leaps and bounds. And to just avoid the allegations of racism, the council was willing to let this continue? How do such people sleep at night.
Is there a backup should that fancy display fail? If not, then I'd hardly call it "superfluous to mission success".
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