skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harvard chose their response. All colleges and university have to, and anything involving in-person classes is just nuts now. I understand why they do it, but it is inarguably dangerous.

About "Harvard grad for life": That's connections -- the ones you make in school, and the ones you can make afterward. But as for intellectual capability? I would argue that college is completely irrelevant after a couple of years in the work force. Or stated another way: if I am interviewing for your second job as an adult, and you are trying to impress me with what you did in college, then something is very off.

I have interviewed job applicants for many years, and the only time I cared about college at all is for kids who just graduated. You have to talk about their college experience because they almost never have anything else relevant. And even in those cases, I don't care at all whether the degree is from an Ivy or a lesser school. I care about what you know, how you think, and your potential for doing good work as revealed by talking about things you worked on in college.
It's the other way around. The richest teams use actual windtunnels. Correlation between reality and CFD has ruined cars in the past.
For anyone wondering, gentrification in the study is defined as increase in median income and house value as well as college educated levels.
Not a thing that is happening here.
A simple solution is to:

1. set up parental-control restrictions that lock you out of these apps;

2. hand your phone to someone you trust, and tell them to set the unlock password for the parental-control restrictions (so that only they will know it);

3. ask that said person also does you the service of typing the password to disable the restrictions when requested—but only with 24 hours' notice. (I.e. you ask, and then 24 hours later they'll do it.)

That way, you'll never be tempted to unlock the restrictions for trivial things; but you can still e.g. reset the phone if you want to sell it. (You just need to wait 24 hours first.)
Interactive SVG Outline Maps in React
I use gitlens for vscode
Very few bonds are callable. And why would the Fed need to call the bond, it's not like they are short of cash. lol.

Either way, I wasn't "pretending there's no limit and no deleterious effect". As you stated, that would be wrong. There are obvious and not-so obvious problems with central banks engaging in QE (i.e. buying financial assets as a means of injecting money into the system). But this thread was about QE via corp bonds vs the Fed handing out gifts to the public so I didn't go into that.
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It would be nice to use the same BBCode parser on the server and client to give the client accurate previews. Why not just compile that one little module into Javascript and sent it over the wire?
> Who is served by expelling them!?

The nativist agenda.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of who unsubscribed to your emails?
At the startup I work for, there's 2-3 "true" lists of emails, spread between 2-3 different email-like SaaS products which all have their own unsubscribe management system.

Users who unsubscribe in one system stay subscribed in other systems, inevitably leading to frustration.

How do you keep track of who unsubscribed to your emails?
Because ZIRP encourages corporate debt.
I pushed for moving one of our internal tools to Python 3 only so that I could start using Rich in it, it's that good.
Ask HN: How Founding Engineers Comp Works?
Coming from being a senior eng at a BigTechCo, I am exploring being a founding engineer “with a path to leadership” at a seed company based in Expensive Coastal City.

How much of a decrease in comp should I expect? Are there ever any other forms of comp to make up for the temp decrease in total comp beyond waiting for an exit? e.g. bonus structure after new funding round or $X in revenue?

The work is interesting, I’m just worried where I live is too expensive to justify a steep total comp pay cut for over 5 yrs, esp since I’m in mid 30s
> Batteries have come down in cost, but natural gas is far, far cheaper than grid scale batteries.

Source please? Natural gas peaker plants are not cheap to build and have a terrible utilization rate by nature, so they are not cheap to operate, either.

This article (https://www.energy-storage.news/news/bloombergnef-lcoe-of-ba...) says that for short durations (< 2 hours) and new builds, grid scale batteries are already cheaper than natural gas peaker plants.
All hiring process have the some-not-all problem. This process is just a different set for "some". Remember though it's a some-some problem on both sides too. I think it's sometimes called the "secretary problem".
> CLOS is really the only good part of CL, but isn't even used in the base language

Of course it is. The condition system for example is all CLOS. #'print-object works for and is specializable on everything. Every CLOS class is also a type, etc. etc.

If your complaint is that not enough CL functions are generic, I'd agree with you, but that's a much more specific complaint than "CLOS isn't used in the base language."

I do wish more functions were generic, but a big part of that problem is bootstrapping: In many ways you need CLOS to support CLOS. The fact that CL manages to bootstrap CLOS into itself even as much as it does is testament to the skill of its implementors.
I’ve always wondered why we have two pejorative words for opposite effects: when rich people move in, it’s gentrification. When the rich leave it’s “white flight”.

Is there some kind of equilibrium term here where a neighborhood is staying exactly the same, getting neither richer nor poorer?
As a Berkshire shareholder, I'm happy that Buffett didn't pounce in the crisis. Prices were only just becoming reasonable when the Fed stepped in and upended the calculus of the value investor.

As Buffett likes to say, there are no called strikes in investing.

“I call investing the greatest business in the world,” he says, “because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate, the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! and nobody calls a strike on you. There’s no penalty except opportunity lost. All day you wait for the pitch you like, then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.”
That high status spouse uses these "social connection" to solidify their high status.
Show HN: A tool to check if your site is among the to-be-revoked SSL certs
AI teaches it self to create Pac-Man clone
One thought is that gift cards could have a one day delay before they can be spent. I'd imagine that 90% of gift cards are intended as presents anyway and thus would be unaffected, but the delay would still grant a cancellation window to scam cases like this.
Well, it will work for the intended purpose, which is to drive up rents even further, it just won't work for the stated purpose.
The article mentions the two major consequences:

a) Zombie companies that should be dead but are propped up by taxpayer money/gov policy

> This crisis is expected to be severe but short, lowering the risk of propping up inefficient "zombie" firms that should be allowed to fail. That may not be the case next time around.

b) Moral hazards, where bad companies aren't punished for risk taking or immoral behaviour.

> Plus, there are fears that an ongoing commitment to corporate bond purchases could create a so-called "moral hazard," encouraging companies to borrow more from less-selective lenders on the expectation that Fed intervention would limit risks.

Market corrections are an opportunity to clean up a lot of cruft. But COVID isn't a typical correction, it's more of a pause button, until it can resume.

I've noticed a trend where more and more politicians act like defenders of jobs or protectors of dying companies. That sort of thing is a minefield for governments. Those resources would be far better spent helping growing/successful companies grow by getting out of the way + giving social safety nets to regular people. Not corporate welfare to politically connected franken companies.

That sort of political help to zombies is more common here in Canada (see: the SNC Lavalin fiasco) and is rampant in the even more hyper-protective countries like Japan and Germany - places where big successful companies are less common so they have deeper ties to politicians/communities, who keep them on life support.
What a mess. There will be schools that have confusing plans, ICE won't quite get that student A is in program B that followed plan C and now they switched to D so something something. Just another piece of terror for all those students to deal with, worrying about immigration confusion.
The strength of Mozilla is that it runs its root certificate policy very publicly, with public review periods and chances to objection, as well as detailing the incident reports on its wiki in full view of the public. I know some of the Google engineers are also very present on Mozilla's lists.

The other non-Google, non-Mozilla companies don't have anywhere near this level of public disclosure from what I've seen, and I suspect that they may follow some of Mozilla's groundwork (especially in terms of dishing out punishments in response to incidents).
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Correct. And if the IRS calls it income then, odds are, your current employer would consider it the same
Icons are always abstractions. Their purpose is to succinctly distinguish one thing from another. In isolation they are sometimes disconnected from the original meaning, particularly if the original meaning was an abstract idea rather than a concrete object.

Are you bothered that “A” no longer means “cattle” because that is where it started.

In the original GUI interfaces you had a combination of icons where space was tight and menus with functions represented by words. That made a lot of sense when very few people had experience with how computers work. Now that more people are familiar with how they work it is not surprising that menus are de-emphasized.
> So if they call in the bonds tomorrow then Walmart will cancel dividends, etc., to pay them?

They can't, not how bonds work.

> Pretending there's no limit and no deleterious effect seems wrong.

Nobody is pretending. There are many potentially deleterious effects, but amazingly the set of problems people have with this have almost no intersection with the potentially deleterious effects.

> If every time a company struggles the gov step in

This is a pandemic. The government engineered a scenario which destroyed the economy to save lives. Walmart engineered nothing here.
5 of the 41 gentrifying areas were in SF. The rest are all of East Bay or in South Bay. It's incredibly misleading to call that SF. SF had completed it's gentrification process much earlier.
Well, if you're doing a proof and (for example) you want to cancel x in the numerator of a fraction with x in the denominator, you then apply the constraint x ≠ 0 to every subsequent step of the proof.

(You may then do a separate proof in the case that x = 0, if you want to prove something for all x including 0.)
Duh. Get two.
I'm unsure how the supposed bad behavior on Taylor's part reduces your confidence in the original Away article, which was written by a completely separate journalist, but I'm sure you have a good reason to make such an inference.

I fundamentally believe we are approaching this incident from fundamentally different perspectives. I saw Taylor's original tweet as a form of "correcting the record" in response to Korey's obvious spin on the whole thing, rather than trying to open a debate on media-tech relations (which is what it became ultimately due to Balaji's derailment). It's unfortunate that Taylor's tweet contained incorrect information on Korey's current job status, but that appeared to be a minor issue to me, but in other contexts could be construed as "misleading". You seem to be of the perspective that this incident is a symptom of a larger, systemic issue in journalism, an issue I have a lot of sympathy towards, so by all means go off.
Yeah, it seems insane to me that the whole thing is predicated on the idea that simulated physics is the best way to play a board-game online. (i guess this is the nature of current game engines, when you have a hammer everything lookslike a nail)

If you're used to navigating 3d space in video games or whatever you can probably pick it up but my gaming group is almost exclusively non-videogamers and the idea of getting them to play games through this thing is just a total non-starter.

Also it feels like a bit of a slap in the face to game designers that every player needs their own copy of TTS (~$20 each) yet designers -- whose wokr and IP is the pretty much the whole selling point -- will see none of that.
Absolutely incredible. I clicked on the link expecting nowhere near that level of detail. One of the pictures even shows individual wires on the landing gear. I'm thoroughly impressed by the dedication here.
Show HN:  (Yregex) Let's Pythonize the World. Python to Regex, Regex to Python
Here's a very quick way to check if you may be affected: this will check all certificates in the chain to see if they match the fingerprint of the to-be-revoked list.

https://ohdear.app/tools/certificate
Fatalities is the best data we have, has common definition, and can be used to set policy. Everyone in the US knows that there are other undesirable outcomes besides death, but there is a lack of data on the rates, duration, or importance.
I think you misconstrued what I meant by notebook.
No Android, unfortunately.
A couple points:

1. These numbers are from a 2015 report that was probably prepared in 2014 and calculated using data from several years before the report was written. Solar tech has improved a lot in the last couple decades.
2. The graph is measured in tonnes per TWh, not thousand tonnes per TWh, so that might be part of the confusion. 2700 tonnes per TWh is high, but reasonable. My estimate would be closer to 1000-1500 tonnes/TWh.
3. You are correct that mass is a pretty useless metric. A more important metric would be energy payback time (how long before the power source produces enough energy to make a copy of itself, essentially). For modern solar this is measured in months, possibly up to a year or two in extreme cases. For nuclear, this is probably measured in days or weeks, since nuclear power plants produce so much energy. However, when looking at power plants with lifetimes measured in decades, the difference is insignificant. Both nuclear and solar are fantastically better than any fossil fuel.
So is it a case of white's replacing blacks who had previously replaced whites?
I went to Harvard, and I've taken classes at community college. You're either vastly overestimating Harvard or vastly underestimating community college.
Very few advertisers would want their content associated with a tragic news story like that. Not so directly as on a page with just that story anyway. During a national news cast? Maybe later in the program.

Tagging for the negatives is almost always more important than the positives.
Brilliant. This might be the way I'll do it.
All courses offered at community colleges
Learn something about other people that they are interested in and ask them about it on a frequent basis. Making friends is all about being open to learning about others and partaking in shared interests together.
Part of the reason for the 2008 financial crash was loans made to people who would have traditionally been "redlined" (denied credit for legitimate reasons) after a federal push for more inclusive loaning. IIRC this was a big chunk of overrated securities and at the very least contributed to instability by increasing the nationwide average probability of default.
During highschool, you mean.
Ha very cool! I like that punctuation marks add some flair.
Same as on a B/W CRT.
PAL/NTSC resolutions.
I don't have great citations on this, but my understanding is that Tokyo has done a good job at this mostly by aggressively continuing to build housing. The housing prices there have remained much more stable than those in SF for example.
You snooze you lose unfortunately.
Didn't RTFA but I know someone who fell for a similar scam.

It involved multiple scammers calling them, claiming to be the IRS. They had personal details about the victim (gleaned from public records, no doubt). When the victim agreed to make a payment under threat of arrest, they were told the government doesn't take credit card payments over the phone, but a special agreement with Amazon allowed them to accept gift cards as they are guaranteed value and "as good as cash."

From a distance it sounds ridiculous, but it was a surprisingly complex con with multiple participants and enough plausible details to make them seem legitimate. Refusing to take your credit card number over the phone must also disarm victims, what scammer would do so?
This assumption is how you end up with Slack and Discord eating 100% cpu any time there's an animated gif. Something they probably don't notice on their powerful developer workstations.

You should spend more time using/working on heavy clients from a slow device since it tends to quickly answer the question. You aren't just using Brython for your one $('box').hide(). Rather, you're using it presumably because you are writing a lot of client code.
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Such pathetic leadership. International students already in the country must now either attend an in person class and risk their lives, or fly out from the country with the highest number of infections and spread it to their friends and family at home. Not to mention the loss to the research community.

I can’t see anything that is to be gained from this, other than pandering to a xenophobic voter base.
TeamViewer. It's basically VNC, but with a middleman proxy so you don't need to do any hole punching, it has a single file executable "quick support" download, and random one-time passwords.

Somewhat ironically, it's also what scammers tend to use.
Would that not also raising housing prices due to families wanting to send their kids to those better schools, and the competition for housing raising prices?

This depends on the degree of the improvement, but my hometown had significant changes in housing prices on the same street, where one side was on the side with a better school district.
GitHub? Gitea?
Counterpoint: If they gave me terrible results I would just go to another service.

If it's pay-per-search there is zero friction for me to go to another provider.

It's probably not a practical charging mechanism, but it's an interesting thought. I also don't believe a monthly charging subscription is the right model but this is a tough one to get right.
A story prompt resulting in a story is looser than what I meant. Can it elaborate on a plot summary (that includes spoilers) and remain faithful to it? eg. given an outline of O'Henry's Gifts of the Magi, write an equivalent story that still concludes with the protagonists both having sold their prize possesion to buy a now useless gift for the other? Or will the plot get lost in the weeds?
not at Harvard
The students may not have that choice. Professors are equally worried about their health and that of their students and are trying hard not to be in classrooms.
When you make a place attractive to live in, people will want to move there and costs will rise. You can increase supply but that still leads to more costs, you're just shifting them from housing to transport/shared services/groceries/etc.

There are some kinds of tax breaks and protections that can help reduce the harm of gentrification by helping people who own their home to avoid losing it.
Anecdotes exist, yes, but is there any data on what the probability of this happening is?
1. It does. numberOfItems will tell you how many items are on the pasteboard.

2. It does. contains(pasteboardTypes: [String]) will tell you whether the pasteboard contains items of particular types.

3. Okay, but that's a huge shift from the status quo and breaks quite a few app workflows, especially conveniences the user expects.

4. Yes, this would be the biggest improvement to fix the disruption caused by 3.

Edit: But even with 4, automatic access would still trigger the new iOS 14 warning, unless Apple turns that off if you've queried for a particular pattern. I don't see that happening. I'm guessing devs will just provide their own approval for this feature so the users aren't surprised when they see the pasteboard access warning.
Based on the article, you would create your own cryptocurrency $INDIEGAME (through a platform like Roll or Rally) and give out those cryptocurrencies as points for community participation. Players of your game could then accumulate such points by spreading the word, and exchange those points for some in-game items / benefits, for instance.
That’s the kind of thinking that has achieved... nothing of importance.
I don’t think it explains much in a scientific sense, but with the theme of passion and obsession, I really enjoyed The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_Thief

And this famous quote from that book:

> “The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility."

Edit: before the book was the New Yorker article, if you want to “try before you buy” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever
Are migrants not considered "people"? Seems to me like a nativist argument.
Do you have a source with additional information on this? Not doubting your information, just looking to learn more. Thanks!
Why not use deep learning to recognize actor face patterns in scenes and build entire movies from AI models?
I filter those jerks out before even letting them see my candidates. Step #1 is for me to work with the company to find the project slice - which they also have to comp my time.

So they spend more time and cash on the traditional method...then complain about a lack of talent. Resume keyword filters and non-technical recruiters are a (not) surprising waste.
Yep. DC is going through this now despite the rich history of DC being a chocolate city.
http://ardour.org/ :)
ok, thanks, person whom I'm not familiar with but evidently has had a negative experience with me.

I just thought it was unlikely that anyone would consider the kind of snobbish attitude that I described as a deterrent to picking their name, or that they would even be necessarily familiar with it, as that would mean spending a lot of time reading somewhat antiquated literary theory.

but I guess I caused good people to waste their time, thereby.
Asians are the new white people
Oh man, those are really good. Thank you for showing them to me!!
Nearly 20 years ago there was a large supermarket in the UK that had two 'points' offers on that intersected on bananas. Cue an enterprising few to buy all the bananas (with banana points), then quickly use all their points on other items.

My school ended up with a heap of free bananas from a parent :D
Stagnation