skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is just a very extended rewrite of a stock right-wing trope: you can't trust educated people, because they're fakes and they don't understand real down-to-earth hard working middle class Americans.

Interesting. My takeaway is about 180 degrees from this.

I think he’s saying that the vast majority of college graduates are not particularly well-educated. Furthermore, this class of people is just filling the role of very middle class bureaucrats while being sold on the narrative of being something more (e.g., part of the creative class or upper / upper middle class), all while being incredibly conformist in their non-conformity.

You say that the targets are “progressives”, but I would say his targets are “poseur progressives”. As someone who highly values the former and is ambivalent about the masses of the latter (esp. in the Bay Area), I agree with the author’s lament of the rise of faux progressives (if, in fact, that is what he is lamenting).
how much will it cost to maintain it?
TextAttack: A Framework for Adversarial Attacks in Natural Language Processing
"a machine to collide electrons and positrons at energies similar to that of the LHC (which however uses protons on protons)"
The counterexample is Australia.

We can say with high certainty that the great barrier reef will die unless some miracle happens and the world limits warming to 1.5°. And even then most of the reef will be gone. Yet Australia is a country that basically has no real climate policy at all, they still plan for decades of new(!) coal extraction.
They can survive, and wild ones thrive, in places where a commercial goat farm could not be made to operate. I have in mind a particular neighbor who tried to run goats in an awful kudzu covered gorge on his land. The kudzu survived, the goats didn't.
>There are only proctored exams, but they only help if you use a locked down browser. I'd rather not put what amounts to spyware onto my students computers. AND they are pretty easy to fool anyway.

Couldn't they also just use a second computer?
There are multiple apps on Fdroid that log your location. Most of them are designed as fitness/walk trackers, but there's at least one that reports to a self-hosted server.
This is exactly the same as blaming getting shot at a neighbor's BBQ on the neighbor for not hiring private security to deal with the government army specifically attacking you.

If your threat model includes nation state attacks you're gonna have problems no matter what. Change your personal behavior accordingly. Don't tell everyone else they need to wear bullet proof vests around the house and hire corporate security goons. They don't and doing so is burdensome.
> If you look at the stats, Covid is less deadly than the typical flu for those under 30.

By "less deadly" you mean "once infected, more people survive covid than the flu," right? But isn't it more infectious - and doesn't the longer incubation time make it more deceptive? It's fairly easy to control flu outbreaks, even in environments like college campuses, by telling people to stay home. (And you usually don't even need to tell them that, because they'll feel too sick to not stay home.)
It will be interesting to see whether this is a 'real' boycott, or simply a convenient excuse for cutting ad spend. Alphabet (Google) is probably the most comparable company in terms of revenue sources, and their earnings were down 20% YoY for the first quarter. If Google's revenue is down by more than 20% as of their next report (by end of July), I think we can firmly say that the 'boycott' is just showmanship. I suspect this is the case, given the low fill rate for ad slots on Youtube right now.
Maybe is encrypted because we are not the intended receiver.
Somewhat unrelated, but I started having many websites that don't work properly in Firefox in the last couple of weeks...
This might be a stupid question, but why don't they construct a perfect hash (like gperf, etc) at build time?
The motivations and analysis of current problems resonates with me deeply, thank you for the writeup!

Perkeep is another project that might be interesting to analyze in this context. https://perkeep.org/
The answer to that may be to stop using the web browser to do damn near everything. Your computer will load an app, distributed by a trusted app store or downloaded directly from the device, that talks only to the device on the local network, and to a whitelist of allowed internet hosts, and nothing else. The app will have a client certificate so the device won't blindly trust the computer either. Firefox will only communicate over the local network in a limited way, enough to download the app from the device or get a link to the manufacturer's app store profile. Or that discovery can become part of the operating system and browsers will stop talking over the local network at all.
I am anti-fascist. Neo-Nazis and anyone who espouse similar views will get absolutely no love from me. That doesn't mean I stand with Antifa.
Come on, that's the opposite of my “vibe”. The commenter you refer to didn't believe there was any value in the existence of such a product, while I see so much value in this that it's puzzling to me how we still don't have an open source alternative. I didn't say it's trivial, but I bet it's simpler than that for the likes of Notion (and we do have alternatives to those).
This is great, small business can get lower rates while big brands are busy signalling.
Didn't you just say you were just giving spam emails a try in an earlier comment? And now you say you've tried many cold email approaches? I'm having trouble keeping track...
Let's be pragmatic about this.

- For single person projects, committing directly to "master" / main branch alone is fine. Releases can be tagged.

- Multiple branches are recommended if you need a complex workflow. But they aren't mandatory for using Git.

If Git works for you the way you use it, go ahead with it.
Is it possible to make a game that makes use of this new lighting system at high graphical settings and regresses to something simpler for low end computers?
I think an interesting business question is: when does a startup shift from being highly customer/usability focused to focused on making money? We've seen many companies start off by creating innovative products, and now they all just seem like cash grabs. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nike, etc.

Do they start to become constrained by marketing? i.e. their actual innovation won't earn them many more sales, and only by marketing more they can increase sales? Do all companies that get big enough (in revenue) do this?
"As many look for dairy alternatives for ethical or health reasons, vegan cheeses have been on the rise."

And that's all they say about that. Nothing about animal rights, animal welfare, or government dairy subsidies. Legend has it that at one point the US government was paying 75% of the price of dairy.

I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but if you took that out here, vegan soymilk and dairy milk would cost the same. That bugs me. It's a free market except for isolationism, cronyism, and the need for "small farmers" to act as PR fronts. Occasionally there is a good regulation that does something useful.
I'd try go understand how git works better than you do. I have been using git for 10+ years. Maybe my first couple years, I would get git in a confusing state, but that never ever happens any more.

If you stick with the basics (Level 1), never commit to master:

$ git add

$ git commit

$ git checkout -b

$ git pull origin master -r

Then trust your webtool to handle merges (github/gitlab), then its really hard to mess things up.

level 2 would be understanding how to handle merge or rebase conflicts.

Level 3 would be understanding how to use the `git reflog` cmd.
I think the dissonance you’re seeing here is between the signalling and human capital hypotheses of education. Spend some time around a lot of universities and you’ll see it in action. Rampant cheating, “bird” courses, mass dropping of challenging courses. These are all signs that lend a lot of support to the signalling hypothesis: that the purpose of education is to signal one’s desirable qualities to future employers, rather than to acquire those qualities in the first place.

Scaling access to bachelor’s degrees all over the world will only increase the demand for masters and PhDs.
Git is so pervasive in software development that I think you will be at a disadvantage if you give up on it.

This is the sort of situation where I would recommend taking a step back, finding a good book that covers the topic, and read it cover to cover. At least for me, taking time outs like this to learn something in an academic manner has paid big dividends over the years.
Earlier discussion that now points to a broken link (the document was moved): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409838
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23656620

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23646852
So lemme check my understanding here: are you saying that clumping has an observed size distribution, and if dark matter were just neutrinos, there isn't a timescale which would produce the clumping size distribution we see: if the timescale were short then we would see less small clumping than we see, if the timescale were longer then we would see more large clumping than we see?

Neat.
Ugh, BI mangles the emoji badly: the breadcrumb turns each emoji into two of U+FFFE REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, which suggests something turns it into UTF-16 (that accursed encoding that ruined Unicode by making the always-doomed UCS-2 live longer even though the just about uniformly superior UTF-8 was already available, and which persists in distressingly many languages), then tries to turn it into UTF-8 by iterating through each UTF-16 code unit rather than each Unicode scalar value. Then the summary and body of the article just vanish the emoji altogether!

———

I’m fascinated to observe that Firefox Nightly on Windows is, when using a font stack that doesn’t include Segoe UI Emoji (e.g. the headline of the Business Insider article, and the body of https://xn--mp8hai.fm/statement, but not the header of the statement), not emojifying the first U+1F441 EYE, but emojifying the second. I can’t think of any way this could not be a bug. (Update: found a report from about a year ago, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567178 .)

Chrome is not emojifying either, which is reasonable when its font fallbacks hit some other font that includes EYE first.

For best results on things like this, include U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 after each code point to say “emojify it if you possibly can”. (See also U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15, which says “render it in the old style without colour, please”.) Then you don’t need to worry about whether the font stack hard-codes system emoji fonts.
The modern university is not a true university. It’s a scam that breeds savages that, at best, leave with some technical savvy and at worst inculcates in them toxic ideology.

“The Idea of a University” by John Henry Newman

http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/index.html
We are not :-)
I can't take this author seriously if he says FreeBSD is an "ugly old UNIX OS". In my experience with the *BSDs none of them are ugly under the surface, they are pretty cohesive, well put together, no nonsense. I could see how one would prefer Mac for UI, but for those core pieces I would prefer them over the Darwin/XNU components in most cases.
That's so cool. I'd love to read a longer post about the Rileylink and how you use it if you're interested in writing one.
Do happen to know if those work in a console from a Windows boot CD?
LineagOS Maintainer Appreciation
Parler is 2 years old and not exclusive. It just got popular this week thanks to some Twitter influencers and due to the founder requesting peot to join.
Plugging my own writing, but I did a deep dive on top-down vs. bottom-up dynamic programming on my blog: https://avikdas.com/2019/04/15/a-graphical-introduction-to-d...

The follow-up posts go into even more detail on individual problems that can be solved using either form of dynamic programming, including some real-world problems like content-aware image resizing.
Yes you can! That argument was made in a SCOTUS argument that has since been unanimously overturned.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Mercurial is supposed to be more ergonomic to use, but it's not less powerful than Git, so you can probably get yourself into a screwed up situation with Mercurial, too.
There is also already ARPA-E, which is a similar mandate to DARPA (i.e., risky projects with high payoff) for energy technology. How effective it has been thus far is a matter of debate due to a variety of factors, but I like the basic idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPA-E
Reddit has been garbage on mobile browsers for a while have you tried any of the unofficial reddit apps? I in particular like RIF but there are several.
Hahaha. Aliens contact Earth but nobody believes because the whole situation is extremely funny.
I thought I was going to read some well thought out solutions. Instead just another boomer having a public meltdown.
Stallman is not a case of "all smoke no fire" though. He legitimately did the sorts of bad things that made him unsuitable for a leadership position.
Classic bureaucracy was a system for constructing a business application using people. That's dead. Nobody has a direct labor clerical plant any more except some inept government agencies. There used to be things like this: [1] That's the FBI's fingerprint lookup center in the 1940s, a server farm made out of people.

Except in marketing. Call centers are still bureaucracies.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/image-repository/fingerprint-work-armory...
Agile needs to be married with OKRs for mid-long term strategy. This gives product development more "why" to complement the "what."

As a technical PM, I have taken a step back from agile in setting quarterly OKRs. It has allowed me to focus on the customer and market needs with great success.

However, as the team gets looser with agile I see deliverables slipping, overengineering, user-less features, and development becoming a black box creeping in again.

Agile on its own isn't enough. So if you want less, think again.
I've seen it used multiple times over the past few years on Reddit.
Often times these browsers also require microphone and webcam access and track eye movement. Huge privacy violation, but I also don't have a proposal on an alternative other than proctored in-person tests.
You should take a look at rg and fd too to replace/augment grep and find!
Is Farmed Salmon Salmon?
https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

Leaving this here for reference.
Yes, or their phone. I mean, they could monitor your eyes with the webcam, and if you start rummaging on a different keyboard/mouse and looking away, this might be detected. But a phone? Easy to hide! What do you do if they want to go to the restroom?

Additionally, it puts another "barrier of entry" in there: Rich kids can buy more electronics to cheat better. Or pay somebody to do the manipulation for them.
Django as an Authentication Server
I kept facing the same problem with Django projects. I had a common set of users for multiple projects. A friend recommended I use AWS Cognito to authenticate users, but it seemed absurd that Django couldn't act as an authentication/authorization server out-of-the-box. So I rolled out my own solution: https://github.com/pandichef/djangito
I'd love to get some feedback on this and/or find contributors to help. Thanks!
There are four species of Gallus. Only one, the red jungle fowl hens, became the mother of modern chicken, in several places at the same time, but the history is more complicated than that.

Indonesian for example have an endemic species, the green one, and are fond of producing red+green hybrids for navigation at open sea [1]. Green is the oldest species and does not live in China.

Then we have the chicken skin. Plucked chicken are typically yellow. Only a few chicken breeds have black skin, they are all black in fact, black beak, legs, caruncles, crest, inner organs and even black bones

But when we think in a plucked modern chicken is yellow. This is because the grey species, from India, provided the yellow gene. Therefore all (or almost) chicken that you can buy in the market have indian blood. Grey (and Ceylon's wildfowl) are endemic from Indian continent. And any study that is not sampling this areas would be incomplete.

The red was adapted to rainforest but is a species from bamboo cloud forests also in the mountains, so provided the cold resistance gene, and won in the battle being the easiest to breed.

[1] Each rooster has a different song that is really loud and unique from this animal. People go fishing with their pet rooster and thus can locate the position of all other people easily even in dense fog or open sea.
Free Online Screening of the Shannon Movie
I always recommend this article to new developers:

Learn git concepts, not commands

https://dev.to/unseenwizzard/learn-git-concepts-not-commands...

> Making changes

> Branching

> Merging

> Rebasing

> Resolving conflicts

> Updating the Dev Environment with remote changes

> Cherry-picking

> Rewriting history

> Reading history
All of the proctored exams I've ever been aware of have either a human supervisor in the room at all times, and/or a video camera pointed at the student the whole time.

If you open a second computer they should know about it.
> should be possible to rewrite those

Until someone does…
The question isn't when. It's _why_.
I'd suggest that you block out some time to really learn how Git works. There are many resources available but the Git Pro book is arguably the best. Tutorials are very useful, too.
I think tenure at 40 is actually really early.
Would the solution be a shift in the expected outcome of testing to:

A) Project-based testing proving critical thinking rather than memorization, and

B) Testing with the understanding that as long as you can find the answer via Google, notes, or a book in a reasonable time frame, this shows you understand enough to proceed? Is this not how much of the working world works as it is?
How I Designed the Perfect Startup Logo for $20
There is micro (https://micro-editor.github.io). It works great on Mac and I think it works on Windows too.
Or tantamount to an institution trying to preserve the actual quality and value of the education by avoiding grade inflation and watering down of material. Many homeless shelters have standards and will reject people who are a threat to the quality of their environment - there really are students who are the (learning) equivalent.

This is a hard problem. But the mantra "scale education" ignores the quality side, and somebody who is shuffled through a "scaled" experience without personally investing and then given whatever credential at the end is still not actually competitive for a job and isn't being done any favors - they've just invested a lot of time in something without much personal value. What's worse, they've diluted the perception and thus value of the educational experience for anyone else who attended the same institution, even those who did take it seriously and learn.

People still send rejections for bad reasons (ego, etc.), and the cherry-picked 85/87% example seems illustrative of that. But the answer to education isn't scale - it's quality and specialization. Not everyone really wants an academic experience, as anybody who has spent serious time at a school can attest to (throwaway because I'm in that group).
What percent of infected young people have lasting problems?
Looking at the post, it seems the advise would be: "Recommend clean code and leave it to the coder to interpret what clean code is."

I think it would still be a valuable advice compared to none at all.
You can. This is exactly what Flutter does, as I've commented on that thread you refer to on HN. It uses the Skia renderer that is like a 2d game engine to draw all the elements on the screen. They've had to reimplement everything though, like text fields and accessibility, so perhaps this is why it's not done more often.
Maybe the transmitter is located far away from their civilization's main location.

It should be a stronghold, just for comms, fully expendable, probably with no information in any local hard/soft/wetware about where they actually reside.

If we answer, we would be probably be talking to "a phone tapped to another phone"
I was going to say that they probably borrowed the dock from NeXTstep but now I see initial release of NeXTstep was 1989 while initial release of RISC OS was in 1987 ("Arthur") and already had a form of the dock, or at least a dock-like launcher.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10113294
These are some of the lab exercises that I give to my students to get them up to speed with Python on my Distributed Systems course: https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python

They are 2nd year students which are mostly fluent in Java..
Let me see if I understand this correctly (feel free to provide other perspectives):

Universities are afraid that by charging students $20,000 per year in tuition for an online degree, people will begin to question its value and possibly turn to other alternatives (perhaps, maybe also enrol in universities abroad that have low or no fees). Thereby pulling the curtains on the whole tuition fee charade, which is that the lion's share is used to find non-academic related expenses (I'm guessing: administration, outreach, marketing, a nice website) [1]

Universities that rely heavily on large sums of money from student fees are now faced with 2 choices:
1) Charge close to the same amount of tuition fees for an "online" university experience
2) Re-open and continue with business as usual, hoping the risks of Covid-19 transmission can be mitigated

Option 2 apparently seems like the more attractive version to maintain the status quo, which leads to attempts at convincing people that restarting face-to-face teaching is a reasonable way to go forward.

If this is what is going on, then this is yet another issue with universities that rely too heavily on income from tuition fees to survive.

The primary functions of (public) universities is to educate the population and conduct research. The ability to perform those functions must be prioritised and subsidised via public funds to guard against the influence of financial stability creeping into the decision making process on how to conduct activities for these primary functions.

I have studied in both the UK (9,000GBP/Year) and Germany (<€500 per year) and noticed a massive difference in the way both were run and my life as a student in each.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/nov/22/less-than-...
How is different from normal note taking apps? I see a relation graph and back links. Are these two the only difference?
This interactive tutorial should be very useful: https://learngitbranching.js.org/
>How does the bureaucrat and the corporate genre fit the startup scene and the tech industry?

like a glove. Tech today is dominated by basically two forms of business. The Googles and Facebooks and so on, which fit the Weberian bureaucracy that the author addresses, arguably even more than actual bureaucracy because they're rabidly trying to codify everything in software, which is in a sense more technocratic than Weber himself could have ever dreamed of, and the startup culture which is basically performative entrepreneurship, consuming a certain lifestyle to signal being part of a certain class, with the products being created performing essentially no meaningful social function and don't constitute any sort of technical progress.