skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty deep in the college admissions and rankings world. You are not looking into the methodologies closely here. US News is a far cry from relevancy.

To teaching:

> The Best Undergraduate Teaching rankings are based solely on the responses to this separate section of the 2019 peer assessment survey.

So you have a bunch of high up academic deans being asked to rank teaching at hundreds of schools. This just boils down to name brand and is not a representation of teaching quality.

Same goes for the methodology for co-op's/internships if you read up there. It's all a self fulfilling prophecy of prestige.

Class size, yeah that's a real metric, but there are a decent deal of large schools with known CS programs with large classes near that 18:1 - why haven't those been eliminated from recruiting?

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-michigan-...
"The Fine Article". Many people who are interested in civil rights refer to the amendments in this abbreviated fashion... It's fun to learn new things!
I don't know why there is some immune response when pointing out anything negative about an EV at the moment. I just said that the "1000 miles per hour" charge rate is disingenuous at best.

Also it is not true that the supercharger v3 charges at full rate until 80% [1]. The curve drops off quite a bit shortly after 20%. The other points you made, well I never disagreed with that. There are a lot of benefits to an EV, but one clear downside (at the moment) is the long trip charging. This is just a fact and not an indictment about EVs in general

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/files/2019/03/Tesla-Model-3-Long-R...
Somewhere between the links browser and a MUD
I believe parent was talking about the setting to turn them grey — that’s still present even in Big Sur, if you pick the grey color as your accent color from the appearance options.
List of educational tools for our teachers out there
What other interesting educational tools do you think is good!
Retentive Memory Trainer
Yes, and no. In the best case you improve your communication skills and become a more valuable employee, in which case you should consider leaving to get more comp.
If you don't make improvements, then you're not really able to be effective, and you should consider leaving because there might be a better fit elsewhere.
Unfortunately they age terribly. The edge where exterior plastic meets internal plastic always gets filled with horrible hunk, ruining the look.
I don't mean just security updates though. I mean systemic security improvements coming from redesigns of components. Some of the changes are feature enhancements in the kernel too, some affecting security.

For all the criticisms of UAC or the Win8+ app store I would sooner trust a sandbox on recent windows than I would on Win2k. Even the XP SP2 era had huge security re-vamps that Win2k never got.

And there are performance things. I happen to know that Win32 message pumps have a better locking scheme on Win7 than they did in 2k.

The issue is in order to get enhancements in the lower layers you get forced into other bloat higher up.

Disclaimer, I spent a few years as a dev on the Windows team.
Get out of your bubble. Is calling the toilet (per the other example) a john sexist too? Geez you people
In an engineering context, people should convince others with evidence. A test case showing an objective improvement would be ideal. Pontification about the relative merits of disparate approaches is irrelevant. This can be avoided by having an benevolent dictator / architect make those decisions. While step one is getting the job done (executing even a bad plan is superior to no working product), I have noticed that sometimes the most efficient way to get the job done is to defer it until later, when the problem space is better understood. Tradeoffs are the great beauty of engineering and perhaps why the field successfully holds the attention of so many minds.
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At some point ideology meets reality and that's when things begin to crumble.

If we construct society and organizations as if merit is not a highly important parameter in achievement, wealth, and success - and instead rely on cosmetics, as if this were inconsequential, then we'll see erosion in all factors which deem a nation or organization successful.
Thanks for links to the primary sources!
why do you think this is?

The Jio piece posted here a few days ago (stratechery, I think) made a point of Indian national pride, control, and home-grown expertise playing a large role.

Is that the case with new businesses generally?
Entitled men are beginning to be called Kevins, if that makes you feel any better.
There are backdoors in all closed software that is popular... Android, iOS, Amazon OS, etc...
Perhaps because I think that the number of people who idolize both Trump and Jobs is very small compared to those who idolize one or the other.
I replaced it with a cheap Reyann stick just based on reading price/reviews but it works well. I never thought to dampen the enclosure, that's a good idea!
So basically this article describes how not to give Wall Street crooks your money and instead keep more money for Silicon Valley crooks. Whats up with this "system" talk? Jeez I think SV types on the west coast need to grow up a bit. He even admits trying to SPAC a crypto company. That is more system than the system itself.
> even if something looks like magic, it has source code behind it somewhere.

This is an incredibly important insight. When technologically illiterate people have difficulties with a gadget, it is extremely common that you can trace their difficulties back to their assumption that the workings of the gadget are magic: they don't attempt to form any kind of mental model for how the device might work, and end up making impossible and contradictory assumptions about it. Even an incorrect mental model would be more useful, because you'd be more conscious of making predictions and realizing that your predictions are wrong for a reason when the machine doesn't respond as expected.
I'm not entirely sure why this is sold as innovative new approach. Over the last few years, I've seen and developed micro services that are indeed cut down to specific functionality, and I've done ones where the domain was the scope. The latter has proven to produce bigger services, but a more maintainable ecosystem. Also, the division for micro services should also be dictated by the context of the business, and not just the current whims of the devs.
Depends on managers and who pulls for what work.

Western companies take all the great work and push down to Indian firms not interesting work, some dumb enough managers will bow to client( bootlicker ) without much of know how take that job and come to us.

I worked in MNC and Startups seen my fair share of so called types of projects/managers.
A big part of games for mobile is psychological manipulation and ideology transmission. Even if a Gann can generate something playable, Publishing giants will want more control of content to ensure addictive behaviour patterns are funneled into micro-transactions, behaviour can be surveiled and prediction models validated, and content that fits the companies ideology (militaristic, patriarchal and nationalistic) is presented.
Unless I'm missing something the last they updated was about three weeks ago.
if anyone is interested, i have a project that allows you to process and visualize data from garmin devices (FIT files in general). it includes a command (ch2 fit records <filename>) that dumps the contents of a file. it's not got many users and is a little unpolished still, but recently i added docker support which makes it easier to try out.

https://github.com/andrewcooke/choochoo
He meant the option to change them from the colors to gray. Colors were always the default.
Congrats it looks nice. I currently use hot jar.
Looking at your site im left with one big question. How do I install it on my site?
Show me a backtest with a switching rate this low, on any name you can arb between the NYSE/CME/... and JPX with this 7ms advantage and I would acknowledge this is implementable if the PnL and vols justify the opportunity cost.

It’s a very cool idea but I’m skeptical that the market structure supports it.
> makes it sound like we all are

Ding ding ding! Yes. We all are. Conservatives and liberals.

Everyone is programmed with racist attitudes from the culture-at-large. Many or most never question these unconscious attitudes.

In my experience, folks who have been actively working on racism and social justice for years if not decades are the first to admit that they too carry racist, largely unconscious, beliefs and attitudes.

A lot of people don't seem to grok unconscious bias.
Universe expansion was huge, immediately. That's all.
Plenty of big games have been written in C# with XNA/Monogame. See this so thread for some examples: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/1667/what-are-so...
The UI was very responsive, but things like networking (Open Transport...) and disk access were very slow compared to even the sluggish early OS X versions (I have a PowerBook G3 Bronze Keyboard I still use sometimes)
Wait what? I grew up in Miami and ate mangos off the tree. I've also had store bought mango and Ataulfo (Champagne) mangos from Mexico. I don't think I'm missing anything with the store bought mangos. So I think that's a bad example.

But, there's a variety of pineapple you can only get only in Hawaii that's way better. And I've only ever sourced really good key limes from friends and family trees in Florida.

Store bought tomatoes are also usually shit, but you can get ones from the farmers markets and road-side stands.
Turns out that we aren't electing a counsel composed of the liberals most active on twitter.

Lets look at the situation clearly.

I don't think JK Rowling is a bigot and yet and the internet hate machine is sure going full steam but her detractors are a smaller group than her fans and the woman is worth almost a billion dollars. She could burn dollar bills for warmth in her house for warmth for the rest of her life if she wanted. A minority of angry people on twitter can't cancel her life.

Cancel culture is a distraction from more relevant issues.
Unfortunately, picking and enforcing bounded contexts is hard work in a big organization, even with strong code review processes.

There will always be people who don’t want to respect where the boundaries are drawn (not in a constructive, “it could be better” kind of way, but in a “but this works, too” kind of way). If a group of such people get together, microservices compartmentalizes their capacity to drag down the ship, so to speak. I think this risk compartmentalization is a benefit that must be weighed against the costs (in terms of latency, maintenance of shared libs, opentracing, etc). These days the costs are vanishing, as tools are quite good and becoming easier to manage.

All that said, if you’re a small team of senior engineers working with a shared mental model, a single binary with internally-bounded contexts works really well and I agree with you, having seen it done well.
I haven't dug in recently to the CPI, but I wouldn't be surprised to find underlying flaws in the CPI's representation of different groups of people such as people who live in urban areas, people who are in a specific income bracket, etc. The CPI may reflect those things, but if those proportions are off it can significantly affect the inflation number it spits out.

I'm not an economic expert but it baffles me that people pay attention to a single CPI and don't look at many at once when analyzing economic policy. A single CPI optimization is inherently going to cater towards the effects on one group, but without study we don't even know what that group is.
Human interface devices on the web: a few quick examples
The article briefly mentions the writer/journalist Carl Sandburg, but doesn't mention that he wrote a particularly brutal poem about the event. Here's a link to a copy:

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/30232/...
Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes
Not at Uber, but I've heard a service there can be as small as a database table or two with some CRUD. Or a lambda-style function or two that provides some simple logic when queried or aggregates from a couple other services.

Not saying that's a good way to build systems but it's definitely one way.
As long as you don't mind volatile memory issues, that is.
Amazon is no longer capable of packing books. They just toss them in a box with some of that crumpled paper and by the time it gets to you all the corners are smashed in from sloshing around in shipping.
God, when will the Midwest come around? The coasts are doing so much better, they’re objectively wrong on most issues.
i actually did this at a large enterprise, when i left the person taking up my mantle asked 'so this is just java right' I said 'uh ya you just include the jar and write the code like this' :D
I know in Brazil, import taxes are extremely high which resulted in iPhones being double the price than elsewhere. I think india has a similar thing going on. [0]

0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/brazil-is-among-the-worlds-mos...
I wonder if a lot of people are somewhere in the middle, and also, if their position on the quadrants is situational.
> To address the question, bad reviews can affect popularity...

That's not the question that others are referring to. Everyone agrees that bad reviews affect the popularity.

The question others want answered is how one distinguishes a "decent restaurant with bad reviews" from a "bad restaurant with bad reviews". Yes, initial bad reviews are likely to affect the number of total reviews a restaurant receives. But it's also clear that a bad restaurant is likely to get bad initial reviews. The press release says that the ratings of the initial reviews determines (causes) the total number of reviews and hence the eventual popularity of the restaurant, but doesn't explain how the researchers eliminated the apparently obvious alternative causal explanation that bad restaurants are more likely to get initial bad reviews, leading to fewer total reviews.

One hopes that the paper (which I haven't read yet) answers this better than the press release:
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2020.179...
Unlike Thomas I don't believe Textbook RSA is necessarily unhelpful for thinking about RSA. However I do think it's unhelpful for thinking about other public key algorithms. And even ignoring Post-Quantum Cryptography you probably want other algorithms than RSA in new systems.

What you will still see in brand new by-laymen for-laymen material today is an assumption that everything else is just like RSA but with trickier maths and that's nowhere close to true. For example, RSA can be used for signatures, and so can Ed448 using fancy elliptic curve maths, I know how to use RSA to encrypt this GUID†... so presumably now I can just encrypt the GUID with Ed448 instead of RSA? And the answer is just "No" because Ed448 is a signature scheme, it isn't for encrypting things.

This happens across all of IT, whether it is programmers bemused that git doesn't "lock" the remote repository when they check code out, or surprised that Strings aren't actually an array of Characters in a new language they're learning, or network engineers who still haven't seen CIDR notation... but in cryptography your mistakes from false over-generalization can blow up in other people's faces really badly.

† There's an excellent chance you were doing this wrong, but that's not the point here.
Yet FLOSS often has very poor UX - the users are very self selecting
It is possible to implement 1.5 padding securely. But I'd not say it's easy, since I'm not aware of any implementation not written by an experienced cryptographer/cryptographic programmer that's gotten it right on the first try (no padding oracles or other vulnerabilities). It's conceptually simple, but still has plenty of footguns. The problem with RSA is all the footguns! Avoiding them reduces the conceptual simplicity, to the point where you might as well teach a slightly more complex scheme, like EdDSA or McEliece (with black-box code).
you might want to upgrade your bios to get headless support.
https://www.msi.com/blog/with-upcoming-amd-processors-and-co...

if you are kind enough to report back whether it works with the newest bios, that will be helpful to others
Because most of the issues arise from the bug that is present between the chain and the keyboard.

The issues are us - the developers. The machine code is mostly fine...
for some asrock mobo, headless is supported. my Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac is one of them.
What matters here is credibility of which experience is only one contributor. Everything you say is mitigated or boosted by credibility.

If a person has experience but finds that their credibility isn’t what they want it to be, maybe something else is up.
Newsblur (saas or self hosted) gives each user a random email address to which they can forward emails and have them presented as different sets of feeds depending on sender - so you can read these with the refs of your feeds.
I can't specifically speak to mangoes since I haven't tried them in that many places, but melons in the United States are outright terrible in comparison to anything I had when I lived in Japan. They cost more but you're pretty much guaranteed quality. A relatively inexpensive melon in Japan might be about 10 bucks but its going to be as good as the best melon you can get in the crap shoot at the grocery store. When you start moving up in price the melons basically become so good that they are an out and out replacement for any kind of high end dessert. Theres no need for ice cream, yogurt, honey, etc because the melon is just that good.
Hello and sorry for delay! Yes, absolutely, under the hood it is powered by rrweb, I am working on a fork of it, which integrates with heatmap.js, and fingerprint.js, and I plan to opensource it as soon as it will be a little bit more solid!
That wasn't the question.

The question was - how do they know it's the bad reviews that hurt the restaurants, or if it's actually the bad service (which caused the bad reviews) that hurts the restaurants.

They observe an effect - hurt restaurant - they see bad reviews - they blame the bad reviews. But was it actually the bad service (evident from the bad reviews) which hurt the restaurant?
Started using fastmail about six months ago. Very happy. One account for a handful of different domains and addresses.
Not specific to this part, but most mechanical items that move get oiled as part of their operation. When they don't move for a long time that oil evaporates, and now the moisture in the air can attack the surfaces. This is a common situation in general aviation if they're not flown regularly and can lead to early replacement of the engine.
> If flying in this involves the all-cavity search like for all other passenger flights then forgetaboutit.

It shouldn't need that; you can already forgo all that for a private jet/helicopter flight today. You're not going to take down a skyscraper and a few thousand people with one of these; it's more like crashing a car.
Globalism will resume unfettered, just not to China.
I think he joined last year, not sure when. Maybe that has something to do with this.

EDIT: He joined in March 2019 as Director of the Special Projects Group.
About a year ago, I stumbled on Substack's page that shows writers what they'd make, net of fees based on number of subscribers * price. 400 subscribers at $10/month works out to ~37,000/year. That's not a way to get rich, but it is almost exactly the US median income, and not far off the media journalist salary.[0] If you're willing to write well, reliably, the math of paid newsletters seems pretty friendly for making an ok living.

[0] https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Journalist/Salary
If it's moving very quickly orthoginal to it's engine, then sure: https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/e9hu6k/cool_perspectiv...
Even in the best case where you get something that is superficially what you ordered, you have a sneaking feeling that you're getting something counterfeit:
https://twitter.com/timsneath/status/1286821682968051712

It's frustrating when you have to treat every transaction as if you're buying from a flea market.
I'm glad to hear it.

but it's sorta disheartening that whoever makes these decisions apparently don't care. Marketing going to market, I guess.
fantastic tutorial
Yeah, the idea that the American past was some better home to more open public discourse is obviously false on the face of it. The voices of minority groups are barely present in the history books, because they were barely present in the public discussion of the time.

Look at the national anthem (adopted by the government in 1931) or pledge of allegiance (adopted by the government in 1942). The people who get offended by others not standing during them would hardly identify their own reaction as "political correctness," and yet... is it a good thing that the government adopted a "pledge" or proscribes expected behavior during a song?

That's the "free speech" past we think we want to go back to?

We forget about the right-in-your-face "political correctness" and "rightthink" demonstrations of the past, since we didn't live through them, and just accept them as-is.
I understand why you would not think it is a problem. Unfortunately the only evidence for something like this is anecdotes, so unless you personally experience cancellation or are a member of a community where someone is cancelled, you won't notice. The lack of concern about the cancellation narrative makes sense in this respect.

Beyond "random people being fired", there are a number of notable examples in the programming community, like James Damore, Stallman, and Donglegate. After CoCs were added to open source projects, there are a handful of accounts of people being removed for their views expressed outside of the open source community.

In the wider world, things like the Harper's Magazine letter criticizing cancel culture (signed by many notable individuals, including Noam Chomsky), Obama's criticism of the "circular firing squad", leading philosophy researchers decrying sanctions for expressing ideas [1], the Joe Rogan discussion between Twitter Exec and Tim Pool on online censorship, the Evergreen College fiasco, and the rioting of Berkeley students into a Ben Shapiro lecture, paint the picture of a worrying trend: some subset of people on the left respond to argument not with argument, but with censorship, boycotts, and sometimes violence.

Hell, one from a few days ago: https://statenews.com/article/2020/06/michigan-state-geu-cal...

[1]: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/07/22/philosophers...
Thanks for the response! Two questions - Q1. Can i continue working from the US (while on a H4) if the company is incorporated in India? Q2. Can I incorporate in the US and continue working given the current situation?
Another outrage dump where prime members and AWS customers vent their spleen on the teat that nourishes their lives. It's a frail rebellion. A piece of performance art. Experimental theatre
Static vs dynamic is not for type checking, it's about conversion.

As in:

Static typing - 1 == "1" is false (Python style, integer isn't converted to string for comparison)

Dynamic typing - 1 == "1" is true (PHP style, integer or string may be converted)
Hashing in Java
It's normal. A half year or so back I logged in to the demo instance and added my 1.4 MB .opml list of RSS sources. It loaded about the first couple hundred from each folder. But only after I waited a while.
He gave the old cabinets away on Craigslist. Must’ve seen the posting and cross checked it against permits.

I’m aware that zoning and permitting laws have been an issue for a while (like a lot of Millenials I haven’t been able to afford to buy a home), but it does feel a bit authoritarian for the local permitting office to look for signs of “black market” modifications to one’s own property.