skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty weird take. I've always used two tools - one full featured IDE for whatever project I'm working on, and a more lightweight plugin enabled text editor for SQL, writing notes, markdown etc etc. VS Code has become my goto for the latter, but I can absolutely see myself using it as the main editor for a project. About the only IDE I really can't tear myself away from is IntelliJ for Java - everything else is just ok.
I think something that's become clear with propaganda is that it scales extremely well. If you could create propaganda 100x faster it's a meaningful capability, and it's hard to estimate how dangerous that could really be.
I'm a big fan of Elixir and Erlang and have an Elixir app in production, but saying it "provides Lisp's benefits," is a bit cavalier.
Yeah, if one family donates millions to have their child admitted, those millions of dollars can help subsidize the university's costs for other students or it could be used for special projects like libraries. This is probably why many schools have buildings named after people who usually tend to be donors.
I've never heard of this game before. Looking it up, its impressive considering the capabilities of then current hardware.
Letting in a few subpar students to raise millions of dollars that can help more qualified students is a perfectly reasonable tradeoff.
Social classes and economic classes, while they have a lot of overlap, are fundamentally different.
There is a great deal of evidence to indicate the US military already did stage a coup, yo.

Can't get away with genocide unless you're in control, i.e. YEMEN.
The initial release of Atari's has single sided drives, I think the 1040ST had Double sided though, they did upgrade that shortly afterwards I believe to enable the marketing bods to show a larger number they could compare to the Amiga. So was only early 512STFM systems and those had a red drive light and the double sided had a green one if my memory holds.

Sad thing was, due to the early single sided models, many games would limit to 720k so as to not limit there market. That saw games that would happily fit upon a single double sided disc, cast upon two floppies forcing switching. So that small batch of single sided initial release systems, really did have a legacy impact that lasted for years and did it no favours.
All those abstract factories originated in the Gang of Four patterns book. And this book was written with C++ examples. So I'm not sure that it's a Java to blame. More like general approach of software development at that time and Java happened to be the most popular language at that time as well.
WSL1 emulated Linux kernel syscalls. GNU was run on top of it unmodified, but could be used without GNU.
on WSL2 the actual kernel is what is being run, in a thin VM wrapped by lots of wrappers to provide a native-like experience.
You don't remember correctly. Word's docx format is far more intelligent than openoffice ODT, despite propaganda to the contrary. With one exception: word's zip files don't have a convenient magic header. The way it works with ODT, and a bunch of other formats is that you put an uncompressed identifier file (`mimetype`) as the first entry inside your zipfile. At byte 30 (of your zipfile) you then get `mimetype$THE_MIMEMETYPE`. This is a nice trick and works for any zip-based format. Sadly, docx does not do that so you have to go by file extension or look at (more of) the contents of the zipfile.
If you had asked me yesterday what percent of students I thought got into UC schools due to personal connection or wealth, I would have estimated between 10-20%. But this report seems to suggest otherwise:

> In Violation of University Policy, the Campuses We Reviewed Admitted 64 Applicants Because of Their Families’ Donations and Connections

> UC Berkeley inappropriately admitted 42 other applicants

the UC schools as a whole have ~226K students, and at Berkeley, it's ~17,000. I'm very surprised that the corresponding fractions are so small.

Then again, if you get recruited to play a sport that is all-but-exclusively a rich person's leisure activity -- Water Polo, Crew, Golf, Volleyball, and Beach volleyball are all played at Berkeley -- and recruiting gave you an edge in admissions, does that count as "inappropriate?" I would say so, but I doubt this report would. The line between corruption and "that's just how we do things around here" is not self-evident to me here.
As reported in 2015, India has 760 universities and 38,498 colleges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_India
Do you actually believe that letting people pay for guaranteed enrollment is at all acceptable?
The question is why would people download/install chrome?

Edge is built in, it can't be removed, it's updated automatically and is integrated. It has all the functionality of chrome, so why would I download/install another chrome browser when it's already built in?

Downloading and installing chrome at this point provides 0 benefits compared with edgeium which is why I think Microsoft's move was pretty smart. It turned Google's main advantages with chrome and throws it straight back at them.

It also has specific pen/touch/battery optimizations that aren't present on chrome.

That and I would rather more market share goes to Microsoft on the web over Google. Google has more to gain from turning the web into a closed monopoly, and Microsoft is the only realistic competitor (other than really Amazon) who has the resources and investment to maintain a hostile fork that can compete with Google. If Google decides to implement something nefarious like blocking adblockers, Microsoft has the resources to maintain a fork of chromium that is feasible and usable.

Firefox the only benefits it has is better quality addons, container support, better customization and better privacy. On my systems I main Firefox, but I am not averse to having edge as my secondary.
We should do away with legacy admissions and quid pro quo. If people still want to donate, great, otherwise universities will have to find a different funding model.
Why can't I just use Jira?
I didn't find TFTD to be scarier than X-Com/UFO Defense! Not arguing; just funny how different people have subjective experiences.

I think the game you played first will be scarier. Once you've played one, the other one is obviously just a bit of a re-skin, and just doesn't have quite the same fear factor. =)
climbing palm trees and cutting down those palm fruits (called nongu in Tamil Nadu) is much more harder.. probably 10x more harder than coconut tree. Long poles with sickle may help in harvesting coconuts, but not the palm fruits.. a robotic arm with motorized blade will be ideal for palm trees.
Indians don't practice caste system because caste system exists, caste system exist because Indians want to practice caste system. You really think they don't game the visa system?
Not at all!! Not sure where you got that. I think this business of improper admission and bribes violates rule of law terribly.

That's the point -- rule of law means everyone is subject to the same rules, without partiality.
Yes, we need to rectify the injustices commited by Asian Americans by discriminating against them in college admissions.
I'm not sure if this will be seen but I'm very curious to hear from Indian folk:

I am the hiring manager at a well known software company that employs a lot of Indians on H1B visas. A while back I brought in an Indian person for a full round interview. This person happen to have pretty dark skin. On the interview team was a light skinned Indian person with a very Brahmin last name that I'd say is pretty average technically and wasn't my first choice to be on the interview team. The unbiased interview feedback sent to me was 5 yes to hire and the only no to hire (and strong at that) was the Indian interviewer...

A few days later I read about this caste situation at Cisco and I had to wonder...

Any recommendations on how I can avoid having this uncertainty if discrimination was at play? Seems like a pretty hard thing to prove.
No paywall link: https://sci-hub.tf/10.1038/s41567-020-1018-2
I don't think we can try to tell companies like Facebook that they're being irresponsible and unethical and then ask that every tech company releases tech that they don't understand yet into the world without fear of consequences.

These are dangerous capabilities and it is reasonable to open them up to the world slowly.
I know it aggressively tries to become your default browser on Windows almost to the point of bullying you as a user.
While filesystem block is usually 4k, I think ssd blocks are in the 256k-4mb range. So 4k is probably a bad choice.
People are always going to use their money to buy status. So as long as these college offer prestige & status, people with money are going to use it to get in.

Much like doping in sports, you have two paths you can take: try to combat cheating, or accept the cheating as part of the game.

I think these universities should accept that they are providing an education, but they are selling prestige, and split their admissions into two pots: people who pay their way in and the other who earns it. And they announce ahead of time what the size of each bucket is. When you apply, you chose which path you will take and that's it, you're stuck.

The people who choose the merit path take the standard entry exams, have their grades review, etc. And the ones who do the best get in. Those who choose to pay for admission participate in a silent auction, and those willing to pay the most are admitted.

This system isn't "fair", but the outcome is effectively the same as our current setup. With the most notable difference being that, at least this system is transparent and acknowledges that X% of incoming students paid for their post.
Colleges and universities are corrupt dinosaur institutions that indoctrinate students in subjects that working devs basically never use, like calculus, Java, and recursion. COVID can't kill them off fast enough. People like Haseeb Qureshi[1] amply demonstrate that you don't need a fancy degree to break into the top echelons of FAANG. It's 2020, not 1920: just do a bootcamp, self-study using one of the free open-source curricula,[2] and projects/a high-quality portfolio are all you actually need!

[1] https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-i...

[2] https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
Author wrote nice posts about it:

Part 1: Realtime collaborative drawing with canvas and WebRTC
Part 2: Server Sent Events + WebRTC Mesh Networks
Part 3: Simulating webkit force, canvas color swatches
Part 4: Redis PubSub + WebRTC Signaling

https://nyxtom.dev/2020/09/05/collaborative-drawing-webrtc-c...
Not so fast, urban exodus: Covid could make NY and SF great places to live again
Supposedly educated? That pretense has all but fallen off. The only difference between here and reddit is that people THINK they're educated.
> that the autocomplete in Google will never autocomplete "kill all" with a particular group of people

except "men", which it does currently.
Well, 64 that we know of.
Ok, the article wasn't clear about what is considered "upper caste" so I assumed it meant "not Dalits".

It changes the picture completely. That makes the upper castes 30 times more likely to be in tech than any other Indian, and who knows the ratio when only Dalits are considered, I guess more than 100.
I suppose that it's very similar in spirit as Java, with the difference that Microsoft presented in a more encompassing way (assuming that the definition of "software framework" was given by MS).

Often in fact Java is described as a language, while, at a minimum, a Java distribution includes the JVM and the standard library.

Describing as a software framework is therefore (in this sense) more exact, as the .NET framework includes the CLR and its standard library (and possibly, other components).

The difference with the Windows API is that they are lower level. The simplest possible component one may think of is probably LINQ - querying functionalities are intuitively higher level than system APIs.
I have not attended an american school.

People seem to want robotic admission standards.

Is there no room for circumstance?

Does a donation to the school that helps improve the quality of the school and the research need to come without strings attached?

Should the rich be required to have such purity of intention? Or should they only donate to private schools where they can legally have influence?

By being the child of a wealth donor, does the person being admitted (through this side channel) not have more potential impact on the world and thus more reason to be admitted?

On the other side, does the education have the most impact on the person who was denied entrance (bottom of the applicant pool), assuming they would get through to graduation. (utility of education)

I think the person writing this report clearly has an agenda, as can bee seen in the level of sensationalism in the clip art.
Well, no, we can't just do that. But it's nice to dream.
Without knowing if there were some mechanism that could balance the effect of added CO2, it would indeed be possible for such a thing to exist. Without checking, you couldn't assume it didn't exist, but coming from a place of ignorance, it's not reasonable to assume such a thing does exist. So without making unfounded assumptions, upon learning that CO2 insulates, the reasonable conclusion is that the measurable increase in CO2 (~300 to ~400 PPM) will lead to warming.
Better idea, let's outlaw legacy admissions.
This seems hard to prove regardless of skin/race/sex/religion. That's why you have multiple interviewers and hire mixture of all of the above.
> This favor turned black students who would have been successful at most American colleges and universities into failures at Cornell.

Data is still missing! This is just conjecturing that they're just not smart enough, which is incredible crap to me.

Anyone who went to college that had extenuating circumstances with their family or money rarely does well, regardless of how the school let them in. I knew all the kids around me at college who had to work to pay for rent/school/family etc because they wouldn't have time to come to any of our study halls, group work, labs, office hours, etc. They all suffered regardless of race, but you guessed it, somehow most of the latinx and black students had jobs, and somehow most of the white, chinese and indian students did not.

Unless there is some data that shows people of "average" intelligence cannot succeed at Cornell, I think we can guess that having an extra 20-40 hours/week of labor affects your grades than some classist "smartness".
SwiftUI isn't tied to the OS version.

It has a runtime API that should work with different versions of the OS. There were changes to the compiler that they didn't talk about until after the fact though. After SwiftUI was announced they did run those through swift-evolution.

SwiftUI for the most part is just a runtime library, the compiler changes made things a bit nicer, but most of it could be achieved without compiler changes.
Well, Swift uses LLVM, so it's possible to link it to C++ code with extern "C" declarations.
Depending on the language you're writing VS code plugins are a bit hit and miss. I've tried using it for Rust dev for example, and everything kind of worked, but with way too much jank. I constantly had problems with autocomplete suggestions being duplicated and linting being slow or not updating errors. Enough to make me wish I had a dedicated IDE.

More widely used langs have better experiences though I'm pretty sure. And maybe Rust support has gotten better? Seems that other commenters in this thread had positive experiences.
Starting? When has this not been the case?
> It pales in comparison to private colleges.

As it should. One student admitted in this fashion is too many for a public university.
But then where would the business value be for Github? We could have a federated system of independent git instances, something vastly more innovative, dynamic, and anti-fragile than Github could ever be, and this is the world we could have if we valued decentralized tools enough to do the work, rather than taking whatever is most convenient. But we don't care, and Github is what we got.
It's always been there, it's just that social media is making it extremely easy for everyone to see it now.
Does IPv6 reduce the feasibility of full Web port scans? If so that to me would be a compelling reason to use IPv6 beyond “it’s the right thing to do”.
DAMN! What a beautiful curb your ____ moment!

The British did more empire building in 2-3 hundred years than the Chinese did in a millennium!
> so it was legal until then but didn’t make a dent in inequality?

It did make a dent in inequality.

It didn't end it, but then it wasn't around nearly as long as the structural disadvantages that entrenched inequality, and it was a much gentler push than those it sought to mitigate the effects of.
Makes it easy to build a CMS into your static website and edit it from production. My personal site is Next.js + TinaCMS and all the content is stored in the GitHub repository

https://tinacms.org/guides/nextjs/github/initial-setup/
Hope you're right. I worry that Dan has seen this movie play out time and again over the millenia, and it frequently doesn't end well.
Men working to map World War II bombs are killed by one
Why would Apple want to write a completely new cross platform UI library, cloning the Mac OS desktop UI and give it away, or give away the Mac UI directly? How does that serve their interests?

The main purpose seems to be to enable developing back end server code in the same language and using the same service APIs as the client code on mobile and desktop.
> I call it out as weird because take SwiftUI for example

Be careful not to confuse Swift with SwiftUI. SwiftUI is just a UI framework. It's the one Apple is pushing right now, but it doesn't really have any bearing on the cross-platform story for Swift. (I doubt it ever will -- I don't think Apple particularly wants to take it outside the Apple ecosystem, and it would be very high effort to do in any case.)
Further points if rich kids do household chores, cleaning, cooking etc for less privileged folks. Just strict academic requirement is not sufficient. Rich kids also have to remain in 95 percentile in academics. A further investigation committee need to be setup to investigate every year if rich kids are not using their influence to be among top students in their classes.
> The thing that does happen when switching the neutral wire on a lamp is that doing so will energize the more-accessible "outer ring" of the Edison female receptacle rather than the less-accessible "center pin". This means that if you change the bulb with the switch on, you'd be more likely to contact the hot "outer ring".

Also, in most cases, the switch is only across (the wire that is supposed to be) the hot lead-- with neutral and hot swapped at the plug, you're not only energizing the outer ring of the light bulb socket, but also leaving it energized when the switch is off.

This leaves a shock hazard exposed even when the switch is off-- the lamp still won't light under normal circumstances because there's no path to ground with the switch off on the neutral line, but if you provide it one (your body) by touching it, you'll still get a shock regardless of the state of the switch.
I've tried https://beta.shodan.io/host/127.0.0.1 , it returns 404. Obviously, it is not true!
Yes but TAing might take 30 hours a week. Anyway, MIT professors should be the best in their field, if they can’t support the small amount more it takes for the grad student with the NSF grants that sounds like a problem
The old TV that brought down a Welsh village's broadband
I appreciate your zealousness for MIT but your response doesn't mean that it hasn't happened at MIT nor other revered places of higher learning in the past, just that it hasn't been made widely known. The people I associated with at Cal I thought were above this kind of behavior as well, but apparently not. I would be sad to hear about this for MIT or any other college. However there's a lot of deals that happen behind closed doors, and sadly, it could be more than we think given all the press we've heard about college admissions these last few years.
Private schools can be and are as unfair as they want, only it's upsetting when they still maintain pretenses suggesting they are not.

It's nice that this sort of due diligence and review is even possible with public institutions.
I actually agree with this, and I thought that OpenAI's decision to not open source GPT-2 was smart and measured at the time. I didn't fully believe the commentary that it was profit motivated.

But I believe that single actions should be viewed in the context of patterns of behavior. Truthfully, deciding not to open source GPT-2 can be both profit motivated and safety oriented. I had thought it was mostly the latter, but in the context of the company's choices it looks like more the former than I thought.
Why do you think high school marks should be the only factor? How is that fair more than other markers and signals? Is it fair that some Asian kids got parents who make them sit all day and study in order pass some not so indicative high school level tests while some other kid doesn't have this culture and environment? Why having a lot of money should not be a criteria? Why having great personality should not be a criteria, I don't want an elite of Asian semi autistic kids. I want some rich kids who can spend their time on pure research because they got no worries in the world and enough arrogance to discover new things and see life from a different perspective. Kids of big donors should certainly get a place because their family contribution help the institute over all. They should just make it formal rather than illegal or some back channels.
Well no, that's not really what rule of law means. It would be perfectly within the rule of law to allow people to pay for admissions. If this wasn't a public institution, it would be perfectly legal, and I'm not even sure it's illegal here.

Rule of law is not sufficient, power also needs to be distributed correctly for rule of law to lead to good outcomes.
I think that you are correct on the value of reading a book twice. I have a shortcut that still gives some of the multiple reading value: when I am reading a book on Kindle/PDF/etc. I hilite useful snippets. When I want a refresher on a book that I previously read, I start by just reading the hilited snippets and sometimes this is sufficient to remind myself what I need to know.
It seems that there is some "community" of people not employed by Apple around the development of Swift.

And it seems that they believe that the "outside" world cares about what is inside Apple's walled garden.

Truth is, for non-Apple people: Swift => Apple => no thanks. It is easier to see an Apple programmer excited about .Net than a Windows programmer paying attention to Swift.
Was it millions of dollars?

I saw one donor give a few thousand and one person get admitted for babysitting. Almost all the donations in the report went directly to athletic departments, which would only seem to help student athletes and not academically qualified students that were bumped.
Something around 27ish in Turkish Lira (₺), though definitely worth it even just for supporting WBW and kurzgesagt.
If I'm understanding the article correctly, the problem is that the EU levels of protection give EU datacenters a monopoly on the data. The regulation isn't compatible with other nations passing the same sort of laws.

If the US passed a mirroring law in order to protect Americans' data from being spied on by GHCQ, then you have two mutually exclusive privacy regulations. The data can't exist outside of the EU, but the data also can't exist outside of the US. Considering the competing goals (in this hypothetical situation where the US doesn't want Americans being spied on by the EU, and the EU doesn't want Europeans being spied on by the US), I have 0 faith in the governments being able to resolve this balkanization.