skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure no small number of people will defer next year. Looking back at college me, I would lean on the side of not signing my college town lease, deferring for the year, and living with my parents in my hometown for a year along with the rest of my local friends (many of which have in fact escaped NYC and other cities rents and returned to their parents home for this work from home period).

Maybe you could work on something on github for your resume during this gap, but I'm anticipating given the absolute chaos this pandemic has caused worldwide, employers aren't going to care if you've failed to secure an internship in a time when no one is hiring, or that you preferred to take more engaging in person coursework rather than watch live action youtube lectures for exorbitant fees.
> In my opinion coroutines are an artificial construct that is very specific to the OS

Coroutines are very convenient outside of OS too. Pipeline of operations, alternative to event loops, agents in a game, ETL all seem (to me) a lot more natural with coroutines than say with OOP. In some languages one has to resort to (preemptive) OS threads for these. Those end up being very heavy weight.
"Targeted ads" - hmm. Real galaxy brain stuff.

Not me but read a few days ago, someone (male) did a search for pages on the Battle Of Quatre Bras (part of the Battle Of Waterloo).

You guessed it, now he is seeing ads for brassieres all the time and someone is paying for those ads to appear.
I read the book and got the gist but this one getting blessing from Bloomberg feels more like foreshadowing of the white collar purge by wall street cabal.

More often, the Messenger is part of the message!
Now that is an interesting backstory. I doubt I will ever see any proof for it due to its nature, but it's a curious anecdote nonetheless!
> To understand how outrageous Chernow’s understanding of Hamilton is, we must go through a few key stories from Hamilton’s life. We should probably start with the Newburgh Conspiracy—Hamilton’s attempt to foment a military coup against the Continental Congress after the Revolution. In 1782 several men tried to organize an uprising against the Continental Congress. The key leader was Robert Morris, Congress’s superintendent of finance and one of Hamilton’s mentors. Morris was the wealthiest man in the country, and perhaps the most powerful financier America has ever known, with the possible exception of J. P. Morgan. His chief subordinate in the plot was a twenty-seven-year-old Hamilton, former aide-de-camp of George Washington and delegate to the Congress.

Wow, today I learned...
I really wish this thing would simply check to see if I already have a node/npm installation...
I think you misunderstand the premise of the book. What they call a BS job is not the one you dislike, or find it a drudgery. It's rather the one you don't understand the purpose of.
An extra 30 hours to teach our children ourselves. The nuclear family is the last bastion of independent thought.

The number one way to prevent people from seeking the truth is to saddle them with financial stress.
As someone who wishes to work in the field of motorsport specially Formula 1, what opportunities are present for software engineers at a junior role?
But realistically, how much extra would the end users be able to add? I understand those were great days and people could do a lot just by knowing where to soldier and etc. Not sure it'd work the same way tbh.
AI compression is super, super cool... but while standardization is certainly a major issue, isn't the model size a much larger one?

Given that model sizes for decoding seem like they'll be on the order of many gigabytes, it will be impossible to run AI decompression in software, but will need chips, and chips that are a lot more complex (expensive?) than today's.

I think AI compression has a good chance of coming eventually, but in 10 years it will still be in research labs. There is absolutely no way it will have made it into consumer chips by then.
You can find more details about M.2 Module here: https://makerdiary.com/collections/frontpage/products/nrf528...
I'm not interested in Brython, mainly because the data model is from Javascript, not from Python.

In my opinion there are two "right" ways for Python in the browser: One would be a bytecode interpreter in Javascript (like the discontinued Batavia project), the other is porting CPython or PyPy to WASM (Pyodide).

Both gives you the full Python experience and potentially even full performance.
OOC, what does "Scale" even mean here? is the OP saying you cannot infinitely serve ads because a given piece of content only attracts a finite number of viewers? or that there are a finite number of subject for a piece of content that can have relevant ads served?

To borrow your terrorist example, presumably there are no advertisers (that we permit and condone) who would like to advertise terrorism related products?

Do we have any reasonable numbers for what portion of actual web traffic is related to either product/service research or future purchase plans? My impression of my own browsing traffic is that it is probably about 50% by number of page loads.
This article employs the same malicious cropping Taylor Lorenz did that made people so mad. I think the origin story is not that she complained about the CEO of Away, it was that when Balaji copied her exact wording, she cropped out the origin picture that showed this and claimed harassment.

Journalists seem incredibly tone deaf -- do they ever wonder why people dislike them? It's because they employ so many subtle lies like this all the time.

Journalists really need to get off twitter - it ruins their credibility. If this is how they act for some crap drama, it calls into question all sorts of 'important' articles and op-eds
I assume you mean:

Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein.

I'll check it out - thank you.
Pocket, the service for collecting and syncing articles, is basically a separate thing from pocket suggestions.

The original service was integrated a while ago, but it doesn't really have severe privacy implications. If you click a pocket button, it asks you to log in. If you don't click, it does nothing. This is the one that's hard to disable, but it's an annoyance more than a security problem.

Pocket suggestions are newer, showing articles on the new tab page. They are trivial to turn off, and for what it's worth all the sorting/filtering is done locally.
> There are certainly abuses in the copyright, trademark, and patent systems. But throwing out the baby with the bathwater is not the answer. Identifying the abuses and improving the system is the answer.

That sounds nice and reasonable, in theory.

In practice, all the money is behind expanding the copyright and patent systems. When is the last time the duration of copyright terms was shortened? When is the last time the patent system was adapted to be less draconian and less protective of those poor, poor multinational corporations that somehow end up holding all those patents?

Spoiler alert - that has happened exactly never. Instead, all we get is 'harmonization' which always means extending terms and giving those laws more teeth, to match the strictest law implemented anywhere in the world.

Steamboat Willy's copyright expires January 1st, 2024. How much do you want to bet that Disney will be pushing for another copyright term extension before then?

> Perhaps that progress won't happen at the rate you'd prefer, but it's significantly better than burning the whole thing to the ground.

The current systems only ever get stricter. Where are the much shorter terms? Where is the recognition that cooperation and remixing fosters innovation and progress and as such should be encouraged, not punished? Where is the PTO following the actual law that says math and logic (i.e. software) are not patentable? Etc, etc, etc.

The abuses have been very well documented over the past several decades. There has been zero progress on incremental improvements. Tell me again how you propose we improve the system without a drastic overhaul?
Best luck recovering from trauma, it distracts and life won’t stop while you heal, unfortunate.

Thx for sharing the opinions and experience...saves me time having to go through it too.
I think this will lead to inflation. Why should essential workers keep working if everyone else can stay home and do poetry? The natural response is to raise prices for their labor. Obviously if the same amount of money is obtainable with 1/4th the work (by "non-essential" people), the money is worth 1/4 of its former value.
The problem is that you cannot lock down the browser either.

You can deny some sorts of things, but -- and this is all apple -- you do not have permission to install really useful extensions that put control in your hands.

Examples available on macos (so far) that are different:

* firefox + umatrix which give fine control of what is permitted/not at the browser level

* little snitch which can give fine-grained control of what network access applications can have (and the browser can be further restricted)

(I think little snitch might have a hole where dns lookups might still go through, unverified)
>Networking effect is everything in life, in any field. Maximize your ability to network.

Networking isn't everything but it's definitely the lion's share. Anyone who paints the world as a meritocracy is disillusioned, but it helps to have merit to fall back on. There are many who get through life and succeed financially almost entirely through networking and situation.
How are two of the most advanced manufacturing countries so backwards?
My understanding is a lot of universities are playing bait-and-switch, announcing unrealistic plans to reopen in the Fall in order to get deposits/tuition, but secretly knowing they'll be 'forced' to move everything online again. I admire Harvard's transparency, although having a multi-billion-dollar endowment does make this decision easier for them than it would be for struggling institutions.

FWIW, I personally think distance learning is underrated, although I have been doing it for years so I've had time to become accustomed to it. I can understand why some students (including my wife) do not like it, and may never like it.

From a strategic perspective, I can see universities like Harvard strengthening their brand by opening up more of their classes to the general public (and maybe even giving credit for a bigger chunk of them via the Extension School). This might hurt a lot of the smaller institutions and lead to consolidation, but I'm undecided on whether that would be a bad thing.
Maybe I'm fortunate... I don't have a BS job, I'm a programmer. I would suspect that most programmers would feel the same. Maybe we have the last useful job?
Asyncio support for SQLAlchemy (and Flask, and any other blocking-IO library)
This aside from the author of the article made me laugh:

(In 2020, the idea that fishing for “clicks” to drive ad revenue is a successful or even common business model is a fallacy. Publications that rely exclusively on advertising are failing at an astonishing rate; financially, many journalistic outlets are increasingly moving away from an ad-based revenue model driven by traffic, and instead focus on live events, subscriptions, optioning their articles to movie studios, and other models that rely on having a dedicated readership that trusts the publication).

Yes, clickbait is a really uncommon business model, and loads of Vice articles are being made into movies. The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.
It's actually not that bad in practice... But I guess the pragmatic formatting is "whatever `prettier` does by default" anyway. :)
Most teams have career opportunities on their websites. I suggest starting there.
For larger nations I think we’ll be seeing more regional lockdowns in the coming months.