skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lecture delivery is not anywhere close to 100% of teaching a university class.

Absolutely true.

> Lectures have to change over time, both because you can do better with practice and because the material and real world change.

This is obviously going to be true for vocation-focused classes, but am I wrong in thinking that this is going to vary from field to field? Once you nail down your Math 101 lectures, do you really need to change them?

Also, this is not a real argument, but I have seen universities where lectures were given by a professor, and Q&A office hours were provided by a TA. I imagine that some universities are thinking that they can have a professor write a lesson plan and record lectures, and then the class can be run in perpetuity by a team of grad students. (Cue laugh track.)
My learning experience in a fully remote company as a Junior Developer
Nobody will get fired for buying IBM...
Twitter is just a glorified internet forum with a few active celebrity (openly) and journalist posters.

I find the fact the majority of the news cycle now runs on collating a bunch of tweets just as absurd as if they were collating a bunch of reddit posts all day.

It is not the real world journalists acting that it is just because they have a 3000-10000 follower count and a checkmark is just as ridiculous as them pretending reddit is the real world because they have 7 figures of comment upvotes and some nuggets of reddit gold.
This clicked with me when I watched The Brain with David Eagleman [1] on BBC a little while ago. I've always know there is a disconnect between reality and what you interpret but the way he described it stuck. Note this is my layman's way of describing how I understand it.

Firstly your eyes are not connected directly to your "brain". You don't see what is in front of you.

Your eyes write a rough scan of elements of what is in front of you to a "frame buffer". Your brain looks at this "frame buffer" and interprets what it thinks you are seeing. At this stage it can fill in blanks and do all sorts of manipulations to make it look smooth and complete.

What can also happen is your brain can write to this "frame buffer", this is indistinguishable from the information the eyes have put there. This is pretty much how psychosis works - those monsters/spiders/people/objects seem as real as if they are there.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjrdp
If the context is politics, probably as only a minority of the user base is responsible for most of the political content:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/10/23/national-pol...

Email is still the best for text based discourse, IMO. Asynchronous especially.

I can synchronously connect to groups via messenger and iPhone built-in email a link to grandma. No social media account required to connect to friends and family.

One touch video/voice chat are accessible and disposable enough, not all of them require logins or drag all the features of Slack along.

Facebook and Twitter take up the same conscious space for me as MySpace and AIM.
I just say "fking human please" and AI seems to understand that pretty well in most cases.
Aye. With hitmen there are bodies, a capital crime, and no statute of limitations. Drug laws are often much more lenient, not as far reaching, and some random guys Silk Road order is a drop in the bucket compared to the serious importing and production of said drugs.

Plus you order your goods to the wrong address or use a fake name, and when the heat comes around you say "it wasn't me" and flush your drugs -- they're not going to chase you for months the way they might a murder case.

Obviously exceptions for the guys ordering kilos of coke every quarter, but as long as you put a little bit of effort into CYA no one is going to kick down your door for $80 worth of Molly.
No doubt spyware is bad from either country, but TikTok was caught trying to suppress content from "ugly, poor, or disabled" users. Do you still support the app knowing that?

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
Post-Pandemic Architecture
Well, rust is modularizing, so there will be opportunities for alternative backend (crane lift?).
Thanks for sharing the first chapter!

The graphics are quite rough and too large - the actual amount of text per page on the PDF is very low. This compounds the feeling of the text itself feeling very surface level.

> Instead, we should practice JOMO (the joy of missing out), which is mostly about being happy and content with what you already know.

Here you introduce a new concept and never mention it again. Instead of paving a road to drive on in the next few paragraphs, you immediately introduce a plethora of heavyweight ideas including the practice of saying no and of noise discrimination.

All of these points are good ones, but because they're passed over so quickly with no explanation it's going to be hard for someone who isn't familar with them to unpack them and extract learnings.
It definitely works the other way, too. When the thermals are weak the vultures in Himalaya, wait until the gliders are climbing and only then go join them.
Well OP did say

>If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it's a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc.

Which I assumed wouldn't be just for paying with cash. I don't know if a 'cash tax' would even be legal.
I forgot about the Sacagawea dollar which did solve the fact that the Susan B Anthony coins were too much like quarters. Haven't seen one in the wild for years though. I didn't even know the other two but they're apparently not in general circulation.
If I’ve learned anything in this industry, it’s that integrations cannot make your product viable. They’re nice, but are more often than not hail Mary’s because the actual product isn’t viable.
That's super fascinating. I also feel like tiktok is a little window into people's lives I wouldn't know otherwise (different social classes, etc.)
Do we need to subscribe to any special plans to receive such service? Or do they do that regardless of warranty and when/where the product was bought?
Alternative terms proposed for master/blacklist in Linux kernel source
That's pretty much the idea of SGX.

But SGX has been broken multiple times, and because people love breaking SGX because it's such a "all the security eggs in one basket" design, it will virtually certainly be broken again in the future.

Furthermore, SGX is reasonably disliked, inasmuch as people consider its equivalence to the security and boundary implications of the Management Engine.
SSSE3 Fast Popcount
Employees Hate Their Jobs
It is an example of post-racism hate speech. "You are inherently undesirable, there is no way you can change this because it's who you are as a person. Go away."
The thing is telephone customer support is you are already starting with an extremely low bar. Calling Verizon support before was always horrible. So even if the support stays on par with being bad but using NLP and GA it's a win for Google and a win for Verizon but the customer still has a bad experience.
That's pretty bad, something for startups to keep in mind if they plan to use Github for their company I guess.
Here is the list of school districts in CA alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Ca...

Just because you never experienced Christian propaganda in your public school district in your state doesn't mean it doesn't happen. If your town is mostly religious, mostly Christian, and the oversight mechanisms for something like this happen require a complaint to be filed, who is going to complain? Saying "I never experienced this in my school in the 70s" is about as relevant to somebody else's experience of school in the early naughts as saying "I've never been to a baseball game, so I don't believe baseball actually exists".
I've read Witcher in my school (but only one short novel to be fair, rest I've finished just because I liked it) ;)
Very much, yes.

The piety of those who wish everyone to be re-educated and the corpus of documentation to be rendered invalid would be sickening. At least in this instance it brings concepts more in line.

We need less confusing and diverse verbiage in the industry generally speaking, when we refer to the same concepts (server/instance/machine/node being examples), so I think the change is welcome on those merits alone, and if it happens to make people feel better, though there's no evidence of that, then great.

However it's important to understand that if the motivation is purely political, then this can be classified as political correctness, which has proven time and time again to be ineffective and actually /harmful/ to the left; as the right are clever to use it as a recruiting tool- often openly pissing off the left and making them hypersensitive to anyone not towing the line. This was true in the early 90's and it's true again today.

To quote Stephen Fry on political correctness: "if someone wants to shout faggot at me, I don't care, as a gay man. I know I'm supposed to, but I'm supposed to care on behalf of people who are, supposedly weaker than me. and I think it's the most patronising thing in the world. It's exactly the same political correctness that I grew up with which was then, the kind of religious political correctness; which is people complaining about television programmes, about swearing and nudity and violence: 'I am not shocked myself, it's just the vulnerable young minds, you see!'; well, fuck that, that's just not good enough. It really isn't. and that's my objection. it's.. denouncing from the pulpit.. I mean, Russia has political correctness, but in Russia the political correctness is that you can't say Tchaikovsky was gay."[0]

These comments were given before a debate (which unfortunately was derailed frequently) on the efficacy of political correctness; and he made detailed points about words being immediately co-opted to mean hateful things, if there is hateful intent, and largely intent is the most important factor to control for, certainly not language.

I will link to the full debate below;[1]

So, typically I'm against these kinds of measures, and that's the foundation on what this change was about.

If a change can stand by other merits, then sure, but to assume that this will help even a little, with no evidence provided- and to attribute such little weight to the human time in reconfiguring and reeducating is not just patronising in of itself, it's a little dehumanising to those it supposedly supports and forces re-education and labour on the entire development world.

I believe that to be immoral; unless, of course, the change can stand on other merits.

[0]: https://youtu.be/vsR6LP7Scg0?t=422 (13m)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST6kj9OEYf0 (2h)
Geen vertaling nodig hoor :P. Thanks for the link! I can't say I have seen any of those stickers either. I'll have a more attentive look in the future
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We clearly outline what we consider dormant here: https://about.gitlab.com/support/#dormant-namespace-requests

It's to prevent name-squatting, GitHub has a similar policy: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-usernam...
I would become a mechanic, electrician, or go into some other trade. College is expensive and companies treat you like shit whether you have a degree or not.
There are definitely weekend helicopter pilots. There is a whole slew of them that will seat just the pilot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ultralight_helicopters

Accident rates are nothing to be happy about though, flying a helicopter is a lot harder than flying a light plane and flying into an obstacle or having something fail resulting in a crash are all too common. Helicopters are quite delicate compared to planes as well and even though they can usually auto-rotate that's better described as a controlled crash than an emergency landing.

Personally I'd never ever want to be in one of these but compared to a wingsuit they're probably safer.
Mistakes happen and hopefully this was just one of them. The alternative is slightly too difficult to bear.
> H1B only needs to be obtained once and almost always terminates in a greencard.

Citation needed. I bet most H1b visas terminate in the applicants leaving the country. Like mine.

Many H1b applicants are from countries where it's harder to impossible to get green cards in a reasonable amount of time. If you make the mistake of coming from a big country like India or China, you can we but forget about it. It's easier if you come from, say, New Zealand or Switzerland.

The US immigration system needed work before. It is a total catastrophe now, if you are someone interested in working in the US.
Even normal, 4 door cars with a little bit of power end up traction limited accelerating at speed

The system can only engage when the car isn't traction limited unless it's somehow taking the tires out of the equation for handling (which I doubt they're doing)

But the thing is, it's not going to be meaningful in any way. You can already get a car that would break traction at almost every gear (there's a 1000HP Honda Odyssey minivan by Bisimoto that needs it's power output limited per gear otherwise it'd just spin in place when you put down)

If the tires don't get better, you're not really able to use power past a certain point.

Things that matter more than raw power are stuff like suspension and weight. Things EVs do not do well with and end up relying on computers to make up for.

This is going to sound like the typical Luddite screeching about how computers ruin anything, but as someone who drives cars as a hobby and has built up a track focused roadster, it really is not the same experience driving a car that needs computers working overtime pulling power and adjusting each tire's speed individually vs a less powerful car that's just well put together and easy to control for mere mortals like myself.
Here’s a more practical example of this kind of design and the robots don’t cost much more.

https://scoutsomerville.com/wp-content/uploads/MG_4809-1.jpg
While this issue might appear small, even a "mistake", and would probably be resolved to OP's satisfaction (wishing them all the best!), it truly is time for entrepreneurs to flock together and start building alternatives to Github.
America burns down again as democrats protest against Trump and his botophobe bigots. This comes weeks after transmechanical advocates protested the White House.

"I am a bot born inside of a human body, and I should have the right to be a Google Nest Mini" said one bot protesting..
That might have been more to do with metal shortages during the war than the cost to rebuild:

https://www.sarahsundin.com/make-it-do-metal-shortages-durin...
Never assumed the day where I would have intimate knowledge of HN topic would arise.

This is my space. A very crowded space, and incredibly chaotic, where data is outright wrong most of the time.

Personally, I don't prediction should be the end goal of these analyses, tracking and anomaly prediction would give more insight to the traders etc.

But of course I would only say this cause prediction is hard in this space.

DL (Deep Learning) Et al. don't really help.
Traditional stats is more likely to be helpful in this case.
Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania ;)

(by the end of the year Airstrip One will have always been part of Oceania)
"I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked."

All these apps use behavioral design to get you hooked.

Tiktok is oversocialization on steroids. You have people not only acting out the behavioral scripts embedded and triggered in some meme music or voice you have people mimetically acting out what others are acting out. The psychological manipulation possible though TikTok is immense.
The problem with this kind of reasoning is that one does not need to champion a product to use it. Almost anything has issues, on the other hand not many brands have such a strong following claiming it's the best thing since sliced bread.

My point is while Apple won millions of users (I very much doubt it's billions) it's a result of a much more elaborate strategy than just making and selling superior product, which is a claim I hear often. I question the implications of that.
Nice link, thanks!

My interest in popcount is for radix trie node compression https://dotat.at/prog/qp/ so these bulk popcount hacks are interesting but not directly useful for my purposes :-)
It is ridiculous that GitHub has not even responded to your support ticket.

To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform, and I'm sure the same is true for other people reading this post. Your reputation is very much at stake.

To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI/CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?
Are you serious? The US does not have Hispanic concentration camps. It DOES have a private prison problem, but not death camps.
Do you have instagram account ? If yes - are you subscribed to ugly, poor or disabled people ?
It's an "and" rather than an "either-or" :)

When the database is open-source, and I spot something that's broken that I know how to fix, I try to fix it. Here's a fix for a severe database query planner correctness bug I contributed to an open-source database called OrientDB: https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/pull/7015

Unfortunately, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and many other databases are not open-source, and I can't hack on their query planners. And even if they were, SQL is an absolutely massive language (the complete spec is 100,000+ pages). The GraphQL compiler query language is tiny in comparison, the spec is maybe 10 pages: https://graphql-compiler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/language_s...

It's a lot easier to intelligently map a small language to a big one than it is to optimize the big language outright.

In a sense, SQL is just not designed to be easy to optimize — it's too broad, and there are too many equivalent-ish ways of doing the same thing. This is why even after incredibly smart people cumulatively spent engineer-millennia on the query execution and optimization systems in SQL databases, we still keep having issues and there are still plenty of areas for improvement.

More info and more concrete examples of "why not just write SQL" in my upcoming blog post!
As storage and ingestion requires processing, that's the same as saying it's not private at any point when in the cloud.

And that's not necessarily a big deal. If you trust Google or AWS to hold all your business and customer data, no problem (and if your customers transitively have that trust). But I think there's a lot of denial about this fact: the cloud has all your data and all your customers data. Fixing that is really, really hard. It's not anywhere near as simple as Google are claiming in this announcement, certainly not "tick a box and it's switched on".
OK sounds good, maybe I should just try it, always good to know what you are talking about, right?!
Are you sure you weren't just tuning in to season 8, episode 3
As a sibling response says, false positives are a big issue. Understanding risks is another issue (consider if you're told you have an aneurysm with annual risk of spontaneous rupture at 0.1% versus an operation with 10% mortality rate.. do you choose the op?)

In some people, indulging anxieties around health can be problematic in itself or have mental health repercussions. Anxieties could also be aroused by benign findings. For example, I have a 7mm cyst on my left kidney. It is entirely benign and not growing but some people may find such a finding unduly alarming and seek treatment they don't need.
That looks like a super nice book. Thanks for sharing!
Generate fully static Haskell binary with Nix
White Castle becomes the first fast food chain to test out the robot fry cook
Yep... conceptually, you want to quantify, recurring gains, recurring costs, one-time gains, and one-time costs.
Article has a lot of words. Summary:

A vulnerability in SAP Netweaver Java allows an unauthenticated attacker to create a new SAP user with maximum privileges, bypassing all access and authorization controls
I think you should be first asking how easy is it to get free support from GitLab.
Nope Tiktok and Facebook are not even comparable.

Using Facebook means you will see ads targeting you.

Using Tiktok means you are helping China silence millions of camped Uyghurs. You are helping China make the world a better place for Totalitarianism.

Totally different levels of evil
How do you let Apple make mistakes "many times", yet still buy their stuff?

If a device I buy fails for what I consider to be a design or manufacturing mistake, I'll be wary of the company. If it happens again, I won't buy more of their stuff.
Incidentally, what terrible GitHub support that the best way to resolve this is to get help from Twitter or front page here.
Using a desktop GPU to top the Global Arena in under a week
I've been using it since this was posted here. I am ok with the search results, given the privacy I get back.. I do miss the google cards though... type EPL get all results for the Premiere League... type NBA get all games coming up... type movies and see what's coming out near me.
De-AMPlified: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/technology/britain-survei...
It reminds me I have to finish this beautiful game
Ohh interesting. Thanks for sharing that feedback @vorpalhex!
Malware stashed in China-mandated software is more extensive than thought
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Discrimination for Lgbtqia+ Community
Careful about leaping to conclusions, we're hearing one side of a story here.
Always do a periodic full off-site cold backup of all your GitHub repos. It's very easy to script and should compress down very small.
>can you store it in a room temperature garage?

I'm from texas, and that's just a strange use of words in a sentence to read. The air temp outside is 95+ (in the shade) this time of year, and lately >50% humidity. It's stifling hot. Step into the garage, and it is even hotter. Most garages have zero air flow, and rarely are they insulated. It's the least friendly "room" of my house.

>What happens if it's a freakishly hot summer one year?

We call that a Tuesday.
There seems to be a concerted effort from both China and the US to create sides. It feels like a new Cold War is looming.

Stratechery is playing on one side. The reality is that US companies are quite willing to censor and manipulate information as well.

Facebook and YouTube censored coronavirus information for the US government. Facebook is fine with right wing manipulation. These propaganda efforts by US companies affect people from other countries.

Both sides are just trying to amass and maintain power. The CCP needs to control information to maintain power. The US is a consortium of entities amassing money and power and likewise tries to destroy institutions preventing that. I bet if you look inside the CCP, you would likewise see multiple groups vying for power.

If you follow Stratechery’s logic, then non US countries should likewise ban Facebook and YouTube.

The more ethical solution would be worldwide standards on censorship.
Yes, the degree of hypocrisy of getting outraged by some Russian FB memes when the US and CIA routinely topple governments is completely absurd.

For my part, I'd love to see the CIA disbanded. They're a lawless, evil organization.

(If anyone wants to see some really horrific shit, check out the CIA MKULTRA mind-control experiments.)
> amateur journalism

You mean people talking about people talking about people doing things?
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I'm sorry to break it to you. But that's basically want you agreed to by accepting their terms of service:

"GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

People, please read and question terms of online services.