skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think determined individuals could, but it's much harder without ready access to pre-designed course material (e.g. case studies) and a learned facilitator, ideally one who has a mix of hard won industry experience, academic/research rigour and is a great teacher to boot.

This doesn't come close to describing every single professor, but I imagine (albeit without any sources to back this up right now) that the ratio of such unicorn professors is higher at Tier 1 univerities vs. non-Tier 1.

Perhaps with a larger supply of determined students willing to tackle this on their own, this is the year where a larger number of focused case-study groups could be formed and sustained online.
> "My dad is not a gullible man."

This article attempts to blame Target a couple of times for not doing enough. But this guy was also sitting in another store's parking lot, Safeway, reading off gift card codes to the "DEA."

No matter how smart you think your loved ones are, placing scrutiny on the stores the scammers have chosen (especially as a journalist) is going to do little except to add purchasing restrictions for everyone. A 17-year-old minimum wage cashier isn't going to save your dad, it's the last place to look to combat these "psychological tactics."
Gold plating wont cut it. It is a very thin layer of gold around the copper and it would wear out pretty fast.
I'd recommend bronze.
I think that you should discuss this with a loved one.
Someone in my company found us through an 'ad' on the monthly hacker news job listing story. It must happen all the time.
Not really. We’ve known the cases were much more widespread for months now from anti-body testing. Some estimates are 10-20x higher. CDC now quotes an infection-fatality-rate (IFR) of 0.3%, or about 3x the flu.

Initially the lockdown was enabled to flatten a curve of a disease we had little information about. Months later, we have lots more info about it. Treatments are better. Flattening the curve won’t change the area under the curve, and the majority of the US did not sign up to lockdown until a vaccine was released.
The prevalence varies from state to state, and Massachusetts is doing pretty well, right now.

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states...

Presumably students coming from high-prevalence areas will be forced to quarantine for the first two weeks, and high-frequency testing and contact tracing will be mandatory. It might be manageable.
A conservative 3% of endowment would be the expendable return. So about 1.2B? Wouldn't be surprised if 193M is the largest distinct chunk of that.
Most likely yes. The US military is well aware of its supply chain, and realizes that in times of war you don't want to have part of it in enemy's hands.

Here's a visualization of F35's supply chain [1]. You can only NATO and other close allies like Israel, Japan, South Korea and Australia.

[1] https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-35/f-35-glob...
It isn't just the phone. We as a species seem to be mesmerized by visual screen-based media of any kind. For example, here's an article about a Russian family that retreated deep into uninhabited parts of Siberia during the Stalin years and lived a Middle Ages lifestyle until they were discovered in 1978:

>> "Karp Lykov fought a long and losing battle with himself to keep all this modernity at bay. When they first got to know the geologists, the family would accept only a single gift—salt. Over time, however, they began to take more. They took knives, forks, handles, grain and eventually even pen and paper and an electric torch. Most of these innovations were only grudgingly acknowledged, but the sin of television, which they encountered at the geologists’ camp,proved irresistible for them…. On their rare appearances, they would invariably sit down and watch. Karp sat directly in front of the screen. Agafia watched poking her head from behind a door. She tried to pray away her transgression immediately—whispering, crossing herself…." <<

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-rus...
They will continue to say “just wait two weeks!” two weeks from now.
Reading through Charles Perrow's Complex Organizations I was intrigued and amused by his question: why does capital hire labour and not vice versa?

Unfortunately that's not an answer he pursues in the book, though others do, apparently.
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

Yes, they are. You nailed this. UCSD forced my son to choose classes at the beginning of June, with the selection being in two piles: in-person and remote. He called their bluff and chose remote.

I will say that UCSD had really crappy online classes, according to my son's experience. He didn't like it at all. I think he would prefer well-run remote classes, but many of the professors were just terrible at it.
> Do you want a hardware store to have a "free fertilizer for white supremacists" sign?

That would be explicitly promoting an ideology through commercial action, which is pretty much the opposite of what I see the OP advocating for.

> Point I'm trying to make is, at a certain point, yes, we want to restrict things based on political ideology, and always have.

Who is this "we"?
I think you missed a critical part of the post you are responding to.

>...for doing something that is completely normal and socially acceptable

The question has to do with the growing application of moral presentism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_histo...
“works as coded”

My last job we used to say that if asked whether our code was correct or bug free ;). Often the devs get thrown under the bus if something doesn’t work “correctly” when in reality it might perfectly pass all unit tests based on the best understanding of the problem.

Of course whether we could get any support to help define “correct” from anyone was another matter...
The law isn't social or corporate.

It's funny this community supports separation of politics and workplace until it could possibly effect them negatively. I don't care how long it's been since you were in the KKK or sexually harassed your EA even if it was "socially acceptable at the time", I don't ever want to work with you.
Reminds me of an old matsci engineering prof I had "everything you need to know about mechanics is f=ma and you can't push on a rope".
In broader strokes: Verify your assumptions, especially about yourself.

Self-discovery was an important part of becoming an independent young adult. What am I good at, what am I bad at, what do I want/need to be good at? But your brain will continue to change through your life, for better and for worse. Just because you were good at multitasking at 24 doesn't mean you still are at 34. And coping mechanisms you used to deal with other limitations might not be helping you anymore.

I've heard a lot of adults say that they still see themselves as 30, and so it's a shock when someone calls them sir, defers to their experience in a tough situation, or when they see how much grey is looking at them in the mirror. If our sense of self gets set in stone, we start to miss things.
I have no objection to that. But it's this really what he would most want to do with his free time, or just something he did to pass the time?

I would rather spend time with friends and family, play games, read books, travel, etc.

I'm drawing attention to the opportunity cost inherit when you choose any one thing to spend your time on - you can't spend it on anything else, so make it something truly important to you.

If that happens to be building models, so much the merrier.
The browser rendering engine for Firefox (Gecko) is independent from Chromium, and as such isn't really reliant on Google. Mozilla's reliance on Google is solely for displaying Google as the default search engine.
> we currently work in an industry where it is considered reasonable to have a chat program take seconds to load and occupy gigabytes of memory

Poor quality output of the field being viewed as valuable in the market is the exact opposite of a BS job.
Amazing stuff. I imagine soon enough people will stop asking for "Made in [your own country]", and start asking for "Made by humans"
The people in question literally do that. One of their assignments is to watch Snapchat and TikTok and write about the popular events.

And yes, most people today are in agreement that modern "internet journalist" is not a hard job when you don't actually investigate much, don't source anything, and write whatever narrative you want with no accountability.
> More than half of voters, 57 percent, have a favorable opinion of the Black Lives Matter movement, while 30 percent have an unfavorable one.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3663

So it's not much of a minority anything.
"Isn't the model size a much larger one?" yap
It will probably be different, and systems will have to download the weights and network model, as new models come in, I don't think that we will have a fixed model with fixed weights, the evolution is too fast. Decoding will take place using the AI chip on the device aka "AI accelerator"
In most cases, you participate in the world through other people. How much you use your connections is up to you, but such connections allow you to traverse quickly and deeply through the space of opportunities.
This is total nonsense. Are you suggesting that there are companies out there, who are making money but do literally nothing?

Or are you suggesting that within companies that do something, there are people who are paid staff but who have no job description?

That doesn't make any sense. Every company claims it does something and claims that every employee has some role. The bullshit jobs part is when people perceive that it doesn't actually matter, not when they literally do nothing and have no job description.

I challenge you to present an example of a bullshit job, given your own criteria, that doesn't also meet mine. I assure you can't because it essentially tautologically cannot exist.
Are you experiencing paranoid schizophrenia?
Truly a great show. As mentioned, one of the inciting incidents takes place in the first episode. Although it’s a bit much and makes you want to hit stop. I promise it’s worth it. It’s like a Forrest Gump of the tech industry and tackles so many current issues that we are still dealing with along the way.
People said the same thing for those who invented email, the World Wide Web, tcp/ip, and other technologies.

Nobody saw the value in it at the time of doing it. That’s the thing about having true creative vision, to also have the conviction to do those things that nobody else sees the value of doing.
Somewhat related I created a we component for CSS3 patterns: https://github.com/jwillmer/pattern-component
The man said get out of here I'll tear you limb from limb.
I said you know, they refused jesus, too. he said: you're not him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdF4hBfQiE#t=190
A few day ago an another study said that the first case was reported in Spain.
I think my original point is getting lost based on the way you are speaking about those examples.

My intent is not to rail against the idea that “more work = more results”, all else being equal.

My point is that this is not something that should just be expected to run its course because it’s a “natural law”, and is thus some evidence of some fundamental truth. Society places limits on how far these “natural laws” can extend. The “intricacies” of special cases are exactly what I was inferring when I stated what I felt was too simplistic of a model; namely, reducing the systemic effects to a single correlation like “more work = more results”. In the real world I think those rare situations that can be boiled down to such a simplistic relationship are the exception rather than the rule.

We do add rules to many (most?) sporting events, largely out of ethics. Combat sports have weight classes, others have age restrictions, Olympians have pay restrictions etc. Whether or not your examples would be adopted is a matter of social convention about what is “fair enough”, so they seem to illustrate the point about society setting ethical boundaries.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the meritocratic goal of “more work = more results”. To get there, though, all else must be equal which is too idealized to work in the real world. So society creates ethical rules, outside of natural laws, to get closer to that level playing field. Insinuating differences influenced by institutional convention is evidence of some foundational truth is naive and potentially dangerous.
So you're saying you can't negotiating your rent unless you're willing to leave?
Epidemic model to study reopening Cornell University
This seems pretty clickbaity to me. There's very little content and no specific personal experiences discussed. What types of companies did you have better luck with? How many employees does a "startup/medium-size company" have?

This site also has articles entitled "The Must Know 7 Traps That Make Your Software Useless" and "Make Money with programming. Your Advanced Guide", so I'm not sure how high to set the bar.

The entire article can really be summed up as "Email the founders and get a recommendation."
No-code Apps and Tools to help build your Startup
Yikes, I don't know about that. If somebody asked me if I could program in, say, Perl, I'd say I knew what it was but that was about it. That's like somebody asking if I can speak Chinese: I know what it sounds like, but no, I can't.
Double edged sword.

Certainly helps to find great talent and build a cohesive team.

Also tends to perpetuate our biases, create cliques and echo chambers. Makes it harder for new talent to break in.

When I build my teams, I try to balance referrals with newly sourced talent far outside my network.
At the bottom of the page there's a link to an article on hand wiring this keyboard: https://makerdiary.com/blogs/mechanical-keyboards/a-hand-wir.... That article in the list of materials lists 'Pitaya Go': https://github.com/makerdiary/pitaya-go. From that page I also found to https://makerdiary.com/collections/frontpage where you can buy one. And the code from the hand wiring post: https://github.com/makerdiary/python-keyboard.

It's a bit expensive at $30 but seems a lot better than the Pro Micros normally used with QMK, and the shop has other form factors which are cheaper. With WiFi on the chip too this could potentially push forward the frontier of cool keyboards.

I wonder how hard it would be to make a split keyboard with these. Probably you could do I2C over a TRRS cable.
Is it so difficult to practice self-control?
Thank you! This is close to what I am looking for. I'll give it a shot and see if it addresses my problem.

update1: Hmm. So it doesn't exactly address the core problem, which is I can still easily access those other apps that I wish to uninstall. So in a way, this app helps by making the UI less enticing to click on, but it doesn't address the core problem, which is to fully uninstall.
If this is spyware and the actual contents are being sent somewhere, you’ll hear about it.

This seems pretty overblown. Here is a simple explanation: the apps exhibit different behavior when a relevant URL is on the clipboard. Reddit does this.

That being said, I’m glad apple is giving the clipboard some privacy attention. Tons of people send their passwords thru the clipboard.
I don’t understand what “deaths are lower is a cohort problem.” What cohort? We’ve known for months that
- corona is not dangerous for people under 85 except with pre-existing conditions
- corona is widespread, 10-20x higher than reported cases
- infection-fatality-rate ~0.5%

It’s harder to fudge death numbers compared to case numbers.
Terminal driver + clock + colour-coding? Strace w/ individual write() instructions identified? DTrace?
Storing Data on 2D Metals
Because the vocabulary and aesthetics of science have become very popular, I keep seeing public figures and people on social media using things that look or sound scientific to advance their own agenda, usually political or commercial. Charlatans like Simon Sinek rely on the audience's uncritical acceptance of their expertise and ignorance of the underlying field or the scientific process as a whole.

Whenever I see this sort of thing it makes me want to scream.
To be fair Python has the concept of "everything is a dictionary" running pretty deep in its DNA. To a certain extent everything in Python is syntactic sugar over dictionaries.
You wouldn't know them; the funds themselves are Norwegian. IIRC, the reference indexes amount to 50% MSCI World, 16% MSCI Emerging Markets, 16% MSCI Small Cap and 16% VINX Benchmark (Nordics).

Philosophy is diversification, broad coverage of both developed and developing markets, with both high-tech niche industries (heavily overrepresented in the Nordics) and global growth companies (overrepresented in the Small Cap index). Been considering specifically adding China, but dislike the political risk and human rights of top leadership. You might argue that the USA is still overrepresented in this allocation.

I was probably underestimating the number of companies covered by this; the Small Cap index alone represents more than 4500 companies. Although I doubt that my funds actually own all of them.

Cost is around 0.3% per year.
Panasonic tends to refresh internals while keeping externals the same, although performance still sucks.

This variant was once offered in the US market something like a decade ago for "business-rugged" use under the Toughbook brand, but that magnesium exterior shell commanded a high price point; I suspect the ThinkPad T series would have been a direct competitor at the time with better performance options and being much cheaper.
I think the most reliable thing to see what quirks are load bearing is tests, particularly regression tests. You change something, you break expected behavior, you fix it and you write a test. Now the next person may wonder if some quirk is load bearing, but they'll know for sure when running the regression tests.

Additionally, I'd say naming things, though one of the hardest things we have to do, can go a long way towards explaining the "why". Some programmers I've worked with have a knack for knowing just went to break a giant line into separate lines, giving local variables great expressive names, and all of a sudden the code reads a million times better.

All that being said - I agree with most of the points of the article and do push my teams to do a lot of upfront writing down of designs. These things tend to go stale, but in the moment they're a great tool for fleshing out ideas and sparking discussions.
I use a gig to hire process for this. It works very well. I've been meaning to write more about it but I also get income for helping with hiring around this model so im a bit conflicted. The whole answer is long and complex.
Basically: give candidate a proper task on your project and evaluate them based on that work - the "interview" is less than an hour, the "work" is longer (many hours (and you pay for it)) - provides a solid evaluation across their skill-set
Still the source of some of the most entertaining and enjoyable clips out there! I've heard someone on Reddit has been trying to smear it with claims of data collection, something that has not been proven against TikTok but sufficiently proven against Facebook and everyone else involved in PRISM. Personally I think the user on reddit doing this is an agent of the Indian government. As for the users I don't think that's going anywhere. People looking for fun don't care who owns the software, whether it's open source, what it's collecting. If the content is there, they are there.
Tangentially, for a new manuscript I just started, I opted for a monospace courier sans font instead of the usual Times New Roman I always go with. I am liking it quite a bit for my rough draft: https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
Very much in the spirit of fonts from type writers. I'm using Courier Prime Sans.
I mean, why does anyone have any hobbies? Why do people build model layouts, or models at all? Why read/write for fun? Why keep small gardens? Why do photograhy? Why do people still run their own dark rooms? Why do people write software in their spare time? Why do people cook?
The majority don’t, though. The country did not sign up for a quarantine until vaccine was released, if ever. People are free to quarantine until vaccines are out, but please don’t force this oppression on everyone else.
AI could help improve performance of lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells
What? How can you possibly say this when the entire modus operandi of the conservative right (in the US) is unwavering deference to authority?

(On reflection, I guess "we have rules and you should have known better" could be construed as a belief in free will, in the sense of justifying the myriad ways in which systems pressure individuals. But it's ironic that the purported side of free will is the side of "president/cops/military/corporation/party knows best", while the other side is the one actually trying to enact change in these systems. Actual free will implies a feedback loop of observation, action, and reaction.)
Please go grind your axe somewhere else.
I wonder what this is signalling, when it comes to how Buffet's firm stands on market volatility? With stocks up and fresh bad news about the state of the pandemic rolling in, I would think that they would be more inclined to wait now and buy later.

Maybe they feel that the energy sector has gotten "discounted enough already" and that the short-term gains from waiting longer would be outweighed by the relatively safe gains that the investment promises post-pandemic?
I didn't get an MBA from HBS, but I did cross-register into a class there while getting a different degree. The classroom experience there is sui generis, and it definitely couldn't be translated into an online format without diminishing its value. It's not just a matter of transmitting and absorbing information. If I were an incoming MBA student, I'd defer a year rather than going online.
I don't think it matters if people share.

Half the value of attending at least if not more is the famous name on your resume. Everyone knows it's extremely hard to get into. It's not hard to point to famous people in tech from there like Bill Gates, but Harvard on your c.v. is vastly more important if you aren't an engineer.
For which TLA/APT?
Thank you! That's really awesome you took the time to do this!
Unfortunately, Harvard's offer to admitted MBAs was to defer til 2021 or 2022, but the specific year would be up to Harvard. That's not uncertainty that many people with families and advanced careers can or should plan around. People in their mid-20s should definitely defer regardless.
Both groups were largely talking past each other, as is the norm for Twitter. To me:

- Lorenz's tweet about Korey were unprofessional and personal.

- Balaji's response (and overall campaign against Lorenz) was unprofessional and personal.

It was notable to me that literally every single verified journalist who responded were defending Lorenz, and nearly every tech person defended Balaji. The depth of group level allegiances is disheartening.