skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda funny the author refuses to evaluate a five-year-old (?) standard (fetch), labeling it a trend/hype. And what are they holding onto? A third party library they “used before”; even cited the number of GitHub stars — i.e. aggregate trendiness — to justify the choice. Pretty sure at some point someone dismissed it as a trend and held onto their XHR, and they would have had a better point.
You can accomplish the same behavior by having a marker trait:

trait Foo: Debug + Clone {}

Edit: No you can't, because `Clone` requires `Sized`, which means you can't make a trait object of `Foo`.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
I work in a similar place now and have in the past. I've taken the following approach as much as possible: 1) Use the opportunity to learn new technology and toolchains regardless of applicability. This can greatly increase your worth when looking for jobs in the future. 2) Try to find things outside of work to give your days meaning. Find a hobby or side project. I started designing board games. This lets you treat work much more as a 9-5 punch the clock task and lets you look forward to working on your real project later.

It is still entirely frustrating to feel like you spend your days digging holes and filling them back in but you have to fill your days with your own meaningful purpose.
Its certainly not "completely uninsured" but I'm not sure I'd say it's an unmitigated good.

If you want a sleep study and it's not life threatening, 1 year.
If you want a consult with an orthopedic surgeon, 6-12 months followed by a surgury in 6-12 months.
If you want a liver specialist consult, 6-12 months.

Sure, living in the US without insurance is definitely hazardous but I wouldn't compare having insurance in the US with healthcare in Canada.
Harvard's reason for doing this is the coronavirus pandemic, standardized testing may skew more heavily towards the rich than usual. They would have better access to extended home schooling during the lockdown, are less at risk for getting ill, and the ongoing financial issues wouldn't hamper their preparation.

I don't know why everyone else seems to be talking long term reasons, but both options seem pretty bad.
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If they're not gonna use tests as a measure, then it's probably gonna fall more on interviews / motivational letters / extracurricular activities.

Again, when you have so and so many perfect students, you need to use other features - otherwise you might as well draw random names out of a hat.

These schools (Ivy Leagues, Stanford, etc.) first and foremost want the students that are most likely to succeed at their schools. They know fully well that there are far more good students (on paper) than spots, but they also know that two 4.0 students are not alike. Some will fail, no mater how good they are in HS.
Yeah. I always feel that I "strategically" messed up my life by:

Not having a real passion on pretty much anything, but have small impulses for pretty much EVERYTHING. Means that I wasted a lot of hours/days/weeks but didn't gain much. Plus no experience of major positive feedback makes me less and less confident.
Will I be able to have an executable file with all of 68k, PPC, x86 and ARM versions included?
> The secret of being an honors kid isn’t aptitude but being told that you’re smart and your parents/peers expecting it of you.

This condescension isn't even based on fact. I was in some honors classes but not in others and for the classes I was in an honors class, I had more aptitude than my peers. For those in the classes I was not in, those peers had more aptitude than me (probably more motivation too since it was for subjects I didn't care for like English Literature)
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Only 4% of people using Steam are using a Mac, gaming isn't that popular on macOS, unfortunately.
And it's getting worse with the OpenGL deprecation.
"Jets are stupidly simple" Haha :D I don't know where that comes from. Jet engines are fiendishly complicated.

If they are so simple can you explain to me how interlaced rows of stator and rotor blades turn pressure into gas speed? That one always stumped me. Or how do I make monocrystalline blades, and how can I QA them? Or what exactly a FADEC do during startup, and how do the controlled parameters change depending on atmospheric conditions? Also I heard that the injectors and the air flow in the combustion chambers is designed such that there is an outside layer of incomplete combustion creating a colder laminar gasflow to protect the chamber wall itself. How do I go about designing that? How do I cool the bearings? How does one get the rotational energy out from the centre shaft to drive an oil pump on the side of the engine?

I mean these are just the first questions which pop up in my mind when I think about jet engines. And I'm not even a jet mechanic. If you truly think that jet engines are simple, then I envy your intellect.
In this case, the existence of a proof means that its application is universal. You may believe that the automation of one process could be easily generalized to another process, but you haven't proved it until you've automated the second process.
Having dealt with T-Mobile at length regarding local tower problems, I doubt we'll see anything but a blanket denial. And perhaps a map showing that we all have "excellent" coverage.
Good point about extension code running while rendering is still blocked by the network. That should prevent any user-facing delay.

I just ran a few quick tests with the Top 50 extensions and an NYT article. The charts are ordered by largest median metric value.

https://gist.github.com/mattzeunert/de3c8aedd2936a34eeb88b62...

The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) chart suggests an interesting phenomenon. Extensions like Dashlane and Evernote appear to slightly increase when that paint happens. These extensions load a large amount of code, but don't block the initial render.

Grammarly does not seem to push up LCP much. Its JS code runs before the page starts rendering, so maybe it is less likely to compete with other code later on.

Normally running code before the page renders would be bad, but if the page is network-constrained at that point it might soften the impact.
Corticosteroids are strongly contraindicated for topical application to the face, because of the risk of glaucoma.

Systemic (that is, oral/intravenous for full-body effect) corticosteroid use doesn't usually have this specific side effect.

The side-effects of corticosteroids are generally No Fun Whatosever (I speak both as a former pharmacist and as someone who has needed them on occasion) but they're the go-to treatment for some very unpleasant inflammatory conditions. But you should remember that they're immune system depressants and should never be used without medical supervision.

(Side effects range from glaucoma leading to blindness -- for misuse of topical creams on the face -- through to sudden death -- for abrupt withdrawl from prolonged systemic doses.)
Ah, those pesky standardized tests.

Sure they're the hardest part of admissions to game and are a major part of establishing an even intellectual playing field for applicants, but it just looks so bad when we discard a much higher proportion of qualified Asian applicants than qualified applicants from other groups! We were even sued over this issue and the suit is going to appeal!

And we're trying so hard to increase the numbers of admitted applicants from other groups but their standardized testing scores just aren't up to snuff...

I know! Let's just get rid of the tests! Then we can enforce whatever arbitrary (and race based) standards we want without annoying complaints that we're discriminating against qualified applicants.

What's that? By enforcing artificial "race" quotas we're just further dividing people based on race? Nonsense, our humanities department tells us that reifying race and obsessing over it is the best way to achieve a post racial society!
Unless your brain has some sort of trauma associated to whatever you’re avoiding. Brains are flawed. You may never learn without intentional therapy.
Exactly. They had similar quotas to keep Jews out several generations ago.

> Certain private universities, most notably Harvard, introduced policies which effectively placed a quota on the number of Jews admitted to the university. According to historian David Oshinsky, on writing about Jonas Salk, "Most of the surrounding medical schools (Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had rigid quotas in place. In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in." He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz's instructions were remarkably precise: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."[16] As a result, Oshinsky added, "Jonas Salk and hundreds like him" enrolled in New York University instead.[17] Physicist and Nobel laureate Richard P. Feynman was turned away from Columbia College in the 1930s and went to MIT instead. See also Numerus clausus in the United States.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota )

Today it's "too many asians"
Except unlike the British Monarchy, one is not born into the position and cannot expect to gain the position purely by blood. The position itself may be largely ceremonial, but the holder of the post is recognised as an elder statesperson in their own right for their career prior to the presidency.
> And most of the games people play that are on Steam are (these days) built with either Unity or Unreal, which will no doubt have 1-click-rebuilds for the new architecture.

I highly doubt that. The architecture difference is too big, and gaming studios are not known to press that button even if it's available. The native Linux gaming support story speaks to that. That they will port existing games is even more unlikely.

Will be funny to re-read that comment in the future, be it right or wrong.
Except that the equivalent isn't Mazda disallowing you to change your OS, but it's Mazda vetting every single destination you're allowed to drive to, getting a cut of every fuel purchase, getting a cut of every Walmart purchase you do while grocery shopping and preventing you from driving into areas that Mazda corporate doesn't like.

(Also, ironically, Mazda's firmware is rather easy to hack :) )

Remember that Apple restricts the content you're allowed to see on the device via many channels.
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It's true, US manufacturing output is not in decline. But it is stagnating, in the sense that growth rates are much slower than they used to be. Look at the average from 2000 to 2010 or from 2010 to 2020 and compare to any decade in the 20th century.

But that's not really the point. The point is, look at those numbers sans semiconductors and you see a pretty scary decline in manufacturing output.

It is totally fair to point out that this has been a strategic choice to focus on profitable industries, and that that's even a good thing. That's sort of the point here: the choice has been made, semiconductors are now a key industry for the US manufacturing sector, and AFAICT we don't have any plans for what would replace semiconductors.

IDK if we have a healthy amount of manufacturing output, but it's pretty clear that losing leadership in semiconductor manufacturing would be quite bad for the USA.
Scott Forestall is definitely another a big one. The timing aligns perfectly with when, in my view, the Mac platform officially went to crap, and it also apparently led to an internal restructuring where the Mac and iOS teams were less silo'd.
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>It also seems to suggest that the German people couldn’t know what atrocities were being committed, which it was well known what was going on.

On this point, as someone whose grandparents lived through the German side of WW2, I am convinced it's allied propaganda used to justify the collective guilt of the German people.

I don't doubt it was well known to the Jewish population in America at the time, but any news of that nature would have been easy to dismiss as the other side's slander to the German on the ground. People today barely know what happened in Abu Graib, and that's with modern communications technology.
A VPN does not provide better protection than Tor. If anything, is far less.

In both cases you need the tor daemon or the VPN software to be outside of the host running Tails.
Harvard has 2400 professors and admits about 6000 students each year. Each professor might have a child that is at college age, but most won't. And parental admittance isn't a guarantee.

We're talking about a negligible number of students on this path weighed against the employee happiness and retention.
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Anyone who claims a university callibre education in any field can achieved by mass online lectures either completely wasted their time in university, or never attended in the first place.

The main purpose, and primary advantage, of a university is being a place of learning. That means you are embedded in a community that is focused around the pursuit of knowledge.

At the very least, you are embedded in a community of peers, some studying the same subject as you and invaluable as a resource to bounce ideas around with, and studying other subjects, giving you exposure to ideas you didn't even know to look up.

And that's before you even get to the fact that you get access to professors and other faculty who are extremely knowledgeable in their respective fields. Unless you are from an extremely academic background, it is highly unlikely your typical social circle includes several PhDs. But all your professors have one.

And compounding on that, you're in an environment designed to be conducive to learning. No where else will you find more resources and cultural forces aimed towards learning. Even those wild college parties are still filled with people who are engaged in academic pursuit at least half the week.
> TS feels way closer to Java than to JavaScript

You and I clearly have different understandings of Java, JS, and/or TS. Typescript's structural typing feels like the opposite end of the spectrum from Java's nominal types.
I recently started a new app using Material UI, after doing web dev since pre-CSS days. I'm trying to grok CSS-in-JS, and it's only been a few weeks but it still feels so completely unneccessary.
When call and sms routing failed, everyone checked their account to see if they missed a payment. Their websites are not designed to handle the entire user-base logging in at the same time.
I hope they stay the same, and Apple users have to live with the consequences of buying Apple products.

(My iPhone users have to use a web app because I refuse to give Apple money)
I recently read through a the code bases of a bunch of these, and I would add several to the list:

https://github.com/jitsi

https://github.com/pion/ion

https://github.com/peer-calls/peer-calls

https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/sfu/

Out of those, it seems Jitsi and Mediasoup to be better as SFUs than the rest because they have what appears to be decent-looking congestion control, bitrate allocation, and support for simulcast. The rest apparently do not (at least I couldn't find anywhere in the code where it happened).

Also interesting to note is that so many of the newer ones are written in Go based on Pion. If Pion ever gains the ability to do decent congestion control (perhaps based on transport-cc like Jitsi and Mediasoup do), that could improve things for all of those.
> The politicization of a medicine has been one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.

This seems to have been going on since Wakefield and the anti-vaxers; and one of the big reasons for rejecting chloroquine was exactly that it was being promoted by a whole infrastructure of dodgy quack websites. Which is undoubtedly where Trump got the idea from.
A close family member of mine requested a sleep study in the past year and had one scheduled about a month out.

edit: clarifying to add, not for a life-threatening issue.
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The same successful path that begins with the US welcoming non-white, non-English-speaking refugees from countries they've bombed? Trump is not actively on the record against all of that?
You may want see what the actual complaints point to. Not this. The same issues affect US software providers too, btw
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Genuinely curious then: where do we actually excel?

The only examples I can think of right now where we are genuinely number one is high priced low volume boutique aerospace (SpaceX and other new space companies, satellites, experimental military aircraft, electric planes, etc.) and of course weapons.

We can manufacture decent cars, but at least half of this is under the direction and management of overseas companies like Toyota and Nissan. US car companies have been on the ropes for decades.

We seem to be losing the bulk of aerospace, generation turbines, electronics, chips, medical devices, power equipment, materials, ... ?

Seeing graphs like this makes me wonder if I am living in the late days of the USSR when I'm sure many optimistic graphs were published by Pravda.
I know a lot of people wi Th Macs, but they are all developers or scientists, and I've never known anybody to install Windows via boot camp! So I'm clearly not in this demographic. However I do wonder how large it is compared to the rest of the Mac userbase.
I don't have any trauma from the Arrow but I do have resentment on the amount of corporate bailout $$$ given to Bombardier with no return.
Yup, after some thinking I've come to quite like commander/worker.
The user does care. At a previous company we started migrating from angular to vue. Vue was so fast that those parts would be completely rendered and the rest would be white. It was also snappy.

Of course, one has to be mindful about the transition. You cannot stop business, but you can take a little extra time whenever there's need to modify a section to improve quality (both code and ui). Actually that's why we chose vue, it allowed to a progressive migration out of angular.

BTW, someone had the "great" idea of not using a framework for an internal admin portal. It turned immediately into a huge ball of mud.
What would be a less gimmicky setup?
Thanks for the excellent response! I have looked at this in the context of physics GREs and it doesn't seem to be terribly predictive--but I think that graduate admissions probably has fewer candidates than undergraduate admissions. So, is there time/resources for more holistic admission at the undergraduate level (at least for the first pass)?
I tend to side with RMS as well here, but I see things a bit differently:

You're free to install an alternative infotainment system that allows customization.

Mandating that manufacturers develop a way for you to safely/securely flash their devices to run your own software just doesn't seem like a good idea. The small percentage of people who want this force everyone else to pay for it due to the increased operational costs to develop it.

And it's not trivial. I've shipped consumer electronics. We thought long and hard about how to make it possible for users to run their own software. It's hard enough to figure out a method that doesn't sacrifice user safety somehow (can you RMA the device after? Can we validate you voided the warranty? Can you resell your device and tarnish the brand? Can you resell devices with malware? Can you exceed regulatory limits (e.g. radio broadcasting power)?)

Not to mention the effort to actually develop and maintain this method of updating, exposing it (adding a USB port?), testing it, etc. It's a huge cost.

Now, companies like Apple are interesting because they're actively spending to prevent that from happening -- it might be operationally cheaper for them to leave the flood gates open.
I agree. I do care about gaming but I have a dedicated PC for that.

OTOH would Mac users have cared more about gaming if the platform hadn't shipped with obsolete versions of OpenGL and Metal had been introduced much sooner?

Before Metal was introduced in macOS the included OpenGL version was like 4-5 years behind.
Yes. Figma is a de-facto standard tool for UI/UX designers nowadays.

Photoshop --> Sketch --> Figma.
A hypercomplex encoding to preserve spatial/temporal information?
Grammarly causes a surprising amount of frontend issues.
But now they aren't going to only have applications with perfect scores. They are going to have applications with people that would have had perfect scores and a lot of people that would not have had perfect scores. For this new pool of applicants, that score would be meaningful.
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> changing the relative position of objects changes the geometry

Yes, although the change due to the spaceship moving is far too small to measure.

(Technically, the global spacetime geometry doesn't "change", since spacetime is a 4-dimensional geometry that already contains all the information about "changes" in it, so spacetime itself doesn't change at all. But if we think of the local spacetime geometry changing along the worldline of an object like the spaceship, that concept makes sense.)

> conservation of energy and momentum exists

You have to be careful with this. There are actually three different senses in which this can be taken in GR, a local one and two global ones.

The local sense is that the covariant divergence of the stress-energy tensor is zero. This basically says that matter and energy in tangible form (which does not include "energy stored in the gravitational field" or "energy stored in spacetime geometry") can't be created or destroyed.

The first global sense is that in certain kinds of spacetimes, we can do integrals that evaluate the "total energy" of the spacetime, and these integrals will obey certain conservation laws. But those laws don't necessarily correspond to what we normally think of as "conservation of energy" in a global sense.

The second global sense is that, again in certain kinds of spacetimes, there is a constant of free-fall motion that can be interpreted as the kinetic plus potential energy of the free-falling object, such as a spaceship on a free-fall trajectory between two planets. This is the sense that has implicitly been used in this discussion. But this constant of free-fall motion only exists in stationary spacetimes, and in stationary spacetimes, the relative positions of gravitating masses cannot change with time.

If the relative positions of gravitating masses do change with time, the spacetime is not stationary and the constant of free-fall motion that is interpreted as kinetic plus potential energy does not exist. So there is no such thing as a spacetime which has changing relative positions of objects and conservation of energy in the sense we have been using that term in this discussion.
The difference between your non tesla-ev and other's tesla evs may be nothing more than driving habits, including how you drive, road and weather conditions, etc.
> it would be very surprising if it suddenly turned dangerous

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2017/00...

Just because something is a useful medicine that's been given for a while doesn't mean it can't also have serious side effects, some of which could conceivably exacerbate Sars-CoV-2.

Or not, there's no evidence that it does. But a lot of medicines are "dangerous", including Plaquenil, particularly if applied for the wrong circumstance or given to people with contraindications.