skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why reinvent the wheel?

Because sometimes it's fun, and when you're doing it for personal projects it's up to you what route you want to go down. Wordpress or Ghost would be valid choices, too.

I imagine there are people out there who would find it easier to get a Next / React blog setup than to work with Jekyll, because they're familiar with JS and have never heard of or touched Ruby.
Do you have meetings where you talk about the interviewee? A strong no usually merits some kind of explanation. In addition, we always have at least 2 persons in each interview to ensure that a bad interviewer doesn't just make shit up.

Companies also have bias training which can be very useful.
Alas, Slashdot has lost my interest. It was more meaty back in the day. Or maybe it's I am changing.. IDK.
The service running on that port is for remote management by your ISP [0]. Just like damn near everything else nowadays, it uses HTTP and the 404 status is being returned by the web server running on that port.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069
> Is there no room for circumstance?

There is and there should be. Affirmative action has already been help up by the US supreme court.

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

Yes.

> 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?

A donation should not be used as a way to get one's child into a university. That's not a donation. That's an entrance fee.

> 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.

That seems reasonably true, though I have no source to back this up.
They completely missed the opportunity to call it LinuxFTW
You obviously have to balance the legitimate cost against the illegitimate costs people will incur to get kids admitted. I don't know if 3x or 10x is the right value, but it's definitely not "more is better." If you make it cost a billion dollars to legitimately buy your kid into the school, there will still be millionaires utilizing these sorts of bribes.
Well, nonetheless, the amount of privilege you wield is astronomical compared to me, and it's clear that you believe you're superior to me in every way. Unfortunately, you're probably right because I can't pass a top-tier tech interview.
The Amiga's problem was expensive monitor, flickering screen and... with such great video chip - the default color palette was just abnomination. I know it was made for TV, but that was the problem!
Your reason for asserting that it doesn't exist is that you have 7 years experience of not seeing it. That's simply logically invalid. You shouldn't be believing yourself. You're speaking in overly certain terms without justification which makes your claim seem unreliable and using insults makes it appear that you have an axe to grind - which is also a sign of being untrustworthy.

Did you notice you just contradicted yourself too? "you will NEVER see [...] "dalit". And even when it days dalit [...]"
A large part of the prestige comes from being associated with the people who got in on merit. A school that did this would implicitly devalue that prestige for anyone from an obviously wealthy background. Instead they pretend this doesn’t happen to keep the prestige of “got into x school” valuable.
Thinking about it a bit more, indeed. Unless you compress the data of course, which could theoretically be done transparently by the graphical session that owns the framebuffer device.

But I think that /dev/draw (as the name implies) was likely a drawing API? A bit like X11, when the only thing GUI apps did was to draw primitives like circles, lines, text...
>I think these universities should accept that they are providing an education, but they are selling prestige, and split their admissions into two pots

These universities also provide valuable networking opportunities. Would it be appropriate to completely segregate the pots so that they couldn't network?
What if you were an evil data scientist?
I met my current partner in February and honestly, the pandemic has been fantastic for us in getting to know each other quickly. Basically we could only hang out with each other and we couldn't go out, so it was like a relationship on fast forward. Also, being able to hang out during the day while we work from home is great.
Pinterest is again the cool new thing among gen z
Usually, the hottest new app among teenagers tend to be new applications adults haven't heard of. But this time, a familiar name is making an amazing comeback : Pinterest. This might be one of the most interesting companies & stocks to watch in the next few quarters.
> It reminded me of using VIM as an IDE - not an IDE, a big pile of stuff that isn't integrated.

I prefer to use Vim as a powerful editor, within Unix as my IDE.
I just use Libreoffice Draw to add text into stubborn pdfs on windows and any on Linux. It's a good, free OSS way to get the job done, though not pretty.
That would probably be illegal for a public university. Elite private universities frequently defend themselves against the criticism that they reinforce social hierarchy and class privilege. They would incur significant reputational damage if they had official policies that did just that.
That doesn't actually link to the source and I couldn't find it with a couple Googling attempts. I would be curious to see how they correct for the fact that Type 2 diabetes is often a symptom of poor health as much as a cause of poor health. That is why I included the "all other things being equal" disclaimer. Long term health for people with diabetes is hugely impacted by continued maintenance and therefore there is likely some bias in the data when comparing health rates of diabetes patients to people without diabetes.
I echo this - after Zen, Lila was a huge disappointment, eventually degenerating into a long rant about the author's unhappiness with aspects of his existence.
UC admitted 64 well-connected or rich students over more qualified ones
When you're using the USB interface, there is some chip in between the actual SSD and your computer. USB doesn't directly handle reading and writing to SATA or NVMe drives, so software on your computer encodes it to go out USB, and then some chip takes that USB signaling and converts it to read/write to the SSD, and vice-versa. If the controller on the USB interface is poor quality, it may reduce the performance of the overall set up. I've had external regular SATA/USB enclosures have varying performance despite being the same underlying drives inside.

On a simplistic view:
SSD <--> enclosure USB device <--> USB chipset on your PC <--> your processor

Compared to:
SSD <--> PCI-e interface <--> your processor

Also note that USB is by definition a bus. Multiple devices can live on that bus and contend for the same bandwidth. If your mouse and webcam and keyboard and USB WiFi adapter and what not are all on the same bus, activity on multiple devices reduces the max throughput you have available to your USB device. This (usually) isn't true with PCI-e, which (usually) has dedicated bandwidth between the device and the CPU.

This isn't to discourage you from using this drive however you wish, just letting you know of potential pitfalls and challenges along the way. You may get the performance you wish from this, but the bottleneck of IOPS is far more likely to be limited by one of the chips in the USB path rather than the SSD itself.
I'm not really begging the question, because I'm not trying to convince anyone that a general policy of individual empathetic outreach isn't effective at a macro scale. For one thing, it's self-evident, and I'm not really interested in "debating" anyone who would challenge that. For another thing, it's a tangent from the main point of the thread.
Tech CEOs discovering Remote work is like the CEO of VW saying "ha, this is better than a horse".
It's like the people who can move the needle have some incentive to burn us all alive. Or maybe like "Twitch Plays Pokemon" but with a thermostat and everyone is drunk. What would happen if we all just stopped. I mean, all of us that can, just stopped doing anything for a day or twelve? Money would be lost. People would die. But then would "the market" listen?
Exactly this, VS2019 running inside Parallels Desktop is so slow. I’ve tried optimizing to no avail.
Kind of a weird set of text editors in the article. I think the preferred tools depend highly on your language and environment. I'm guessing this is for the JS-frontend specialization mainly.
If you did Java, C* etc. then the ubiquitous text editors/IDEs were not these ones.

I have converted to VSCode because it just works and I don't have to mess with PATH or whatever. I run it on Windows, Linux and MacOS and it works the same.

I love that it's extensions-centric because now I can ignore them - instead of the editor bloating into a bigger and slower hairball over the years as devs add new features.
They're very similar - they both represent social stratification of society into social ranks of wealth, income, race, education, and power.

The only difference is that a person's 'caste' in India, is dictated by blood and can never be changed. Whereas in the West, a person can theoretically transition from one class to another.
> Given that, shouldn't we trust corporations less rather than more. Why are we pushing for corps to make decisions about what we are allowed to see and hear?

I'm going to loop back to your previous comment and address a problem that is
also related to this question...

> If a tragically large numbers of people are really unable to consider two
sides of an issue

There's this common trope that we should consider all sides of an issue. But
issues don't have sides. People do. People have personal preferences (sometimes
correctly called opinions) and data, usually partial, and then they make
decisions (sometimes incorrectly also called opinions) about what to do given
their personal preferences.

When we talk about "sides of an issue", we're almost always secretly talking
about people who want different things. We're almost never talking about people
with the same personal preferences figuring out different ways of working with
the data.

Calling different base desires "different sides of an issue" is in practice
extremely insidiously harmful. Almost universally, the preference differences
that lead to real conflict are the splits between selfish malice and
beneficence and between science and fundamentalist religious antiscience.
Sometimes those two sets strongly overlap, other times not. It's "I don't want
to provide someone else with healthcare if they can't pay for it." It's "Gay
people shouldn't be allowed to marry." It's "We shouldn't teach evolution in
schools." It's "Drink bleach to cure illness."

Calling selfishness, malice, and antiscience just "a side of the issue" gives
the behavior a clean facade, normalizing it. It short-circuits honesty and
gives a too convenient way to mask antisocial preferences during public
discourse. "Men shouldn't be allowed to marry other men" is one example of an
antisocial preference, but good luck getting any person who says it to agree
that the idea is homophobic.

Talking about "considering sides of an issue" also puts shysterism and
gaslighting on equal footing as honest discourse. And those should never be put
on equal footing because they are inherently predatory. The world is hard
enough without being constantly bombarded by peddlers of fraudulent truthiness.

Ok, now back to this question...

> Given that, shouldn't we trust corporations less rather than more.

Less/more than what? Less/more than you trust Joe Rogan? He's the one who decided that they could buy editorial control, not them.

> Why are we pushing for corps to make decisions about what we are allowed to see and hear?

We aren't and they aren't. They're making decisions about what they distribute. That's not the same thing. If Joe Rogan doesn't like it, he can leave instead of taking their 100 million dollars. I for one am always glad to have another entity decide to stop giving broad audience reach to antisocial, selfish, malicious, or antiscience idea peddlers.
I posted this because, frankly, I was pretty amazed that someone managed to reproduce these features in Python and lose almost none of the ergonomics of Haskell. So from a purely academic perspective, I think this is a very impressive feat.

Having said that, whenever I consider using something like this - language features of language A ported to language B - I always conclude that it doesn't make sense. If I want those features, I might as well just use language A. Trying to shoehorn them into language B is just going to make it difficult for newcomers to the codebase. That's not even mentioning the fact that these libraries inevitably have "blind spots" in terms of what's been (re)implemented. I'll probably realise hours or days in that that one language feature I need to implement something doesn't work correctly and now I've got to write some ugly workaround (which defeats the point of using the library for cleaner code), or scrap the work I've done and return to using vanilla language B.
but, but, muh data!
For every purchased admission there are two parties, the rich person spending their money and the academically qualified candidate that loses out on the admission.

I don't care what the rich person spends their money on, but I do care about the student that worked hard, played by the rules, and deserved to be admitted but because of corruption was denied their spot.

UC is not a business, it's a public institution. Every Californian tax-payer pays for this institution, the administrators are there to be stewards of the public funds for the public good.

As a Californian tax-payer, I care about the mismanagement of the institution that my tax dollars fund.
Flutter doesn't use native controls/frameworks under the hood, so it generally falls into the category of "trying to shoehorn in a single look and feel everywhere".
this is spot 3 on the front page. Please check for duplicates before submitting! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558619
It’s biased to the left

Edit: yeah it’s a joke but also a bug report.
There are three systems. People who pay their way in, people who has the highest grades, and people who get in through diversity quota. Transparency in all three would cause a major waves into the public perspective of admission practices.
This is already the way education works. You’ve heard of “needs-blind” admissions? Anywhere they don’t say that, it means the ability of students to pay full price is part of the admission process.
Since when were Water Polo, Golf, or Volleyball rich person sports? Costs are pretty cheap at public courses.

Beach Volleyball, I guess, kinda, but sand is pretty cheap even in cold weather climates.

Crew, sure. The 'field' is hard to get things to, typically. Lacrosse, well, maybe 20 years ago, but it's everywhere now.

Now, (horse) Polo and Dressage. Those are rich people sports.
Pretty much. It's the high school, non-career jobs I've gotten mainly by connections cause it's mainly labour or service industry. Those jobs don't require a lot of skill. Just show up on time, do the job.
Side note, but why are water polo and volleyball considered upper-class sports in the USA? I understand regular polo, rowing, etc, because of the cost of equipment. But at my school (on the other side of the world), volleyball was for the islanders, and water polo was for the misfits who couldn't make it in a more popular sport. What sports in the USA are for the plebs? Baseball?
If you fail out Timmy, he has to pay for tuition again thus paying for even more students. Or just charge the 10x upfront + normal tuition/year after that.
The actual paper:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9178739

The actual novel design for a haptic device:

"This paper introduces novel hand-worn hydraulic SSDs (Skin stretch device) that can induce 3-axis tangential forces to the skin via a tactor. The developed SSDs are controlled by new soft microtubule muscles (SMMs) which are driven by hydraulic pressure via custom miniature syringes and DC micromotors."

Found it really annoying that the 'scientific writing' piece, in the link, doesn't actually explain what is the novelty and how it works, even after all of that preamble on what it 'could do' in the future.
Or you can choose to define "top students" as those who performed best, relative to their starting conditions. You could make an argument that such student are most efficient at using the opportunities they are given, and thus would benefit most from the education.
> My only problem with it is performance when you load large repos and occasionally large files because it is an Electron app eventually.

Discovering & pre-loading hundreds of thousands of files is slow on native too. I'm not particularly pleased with how easily folks write off web platform tech as somehow being the source of problems or slowness.

The one complaint that does seem fair is that the memory usage can be high, because there's so much runtime to load.
Also, I just keep thinking about your ask here. You want a native editor. But it wouldn't be a native editor. It'd be a native Windows editor, a native Mac editor, a native Android editor, a native iOS editor, a native web editor, a native Gnome, a native KDE editor, &c &c; your preference seems to be that Microsoft have made at least 5 editors. I'm not sure how the plugin system could exist amid such a diverse amount of native runtimes.
All private universities that do this should not qualify for non-profit status.
To right historical wrongs is not easy. I initially thought of the reservation system as a terrible idea because of exactly the reasons you stated.

These policies are meant to help society in aggregates so there will always be folks who get screwed. Its important to keep trying though. While slavery in the US is perhaps 300 years old, the caste system has been seemingly around since the beginning of civilization on the Indian subcontinent...that's an unimaginable amount of time over which certain sections of society were systematically discriminated against.
What do you think is a more effective way to deradicalize white nationalists as measured on a societal level: engaging them on the merits of their arguments and having a good-faith debate, or deplatforming them?
...But this isn't a matter of picking the right data structure, like swapping out a stack for a queue. The problem arises for elementary structs of finite size, simple data objects. If the list of operations a type needs to support never changes, of course it's more feasible to create a type that supports those operations.

The actual area to learn about here is designing for extension, and software architecture in general, so you can get better at identifying what kinds of changes are going to be simple and what kind will be expensive, so you can tailor your solution to the range of situations you think you're going to face.
There are some universities and colleges that choose openly or non-openly consider. However, the policy of the UC System Board of Regents expressly forbids legacy and donor preference. Additionally, as a public institution there are due process concerns with not evaluating applications in accordance with the published factors and criteria, which in this case do not include legacy.
My numbers were made up - they are illustrative. To rephrase that without numbers: "because banks are responsible for all AML, because all financial transactions go through banks, and even if you are very diligent in reviewing transactions, you will still miss a lot." Is that better?

My post didn't say AML sucks so hard so don't bother. It says AML=good, but AML=imperfect so there will be misses.

And as another person in the thread pointed out, the article is based on Suspicious Activity Reports submitted by banks to regulators
I think 2022/2023 is more likely for commercialization. Way to difficult to make cost effectively at the moment.
We are about to learn a lot about which local economic policies work and which do not.
I'm debating whether I want to google "teledildonic"...
Autotracking: Elegant DX via Cutting-Edge CS
Writing and Narrating a Book with AI
lots of prisoners, shortage of labour, this also sounds like the US-Mexico border and the shortage of farm workers
This article appears to reference both the original study and a more recent update to the study.

https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/...

The no-difference in financial outcomes was based on comparing the average incomes of the two groups. So naturally, you will have outliers on both sides. They found that minority students tended to be the outliers.

Part of that probably has to do with the more prestigious school getting them a job they wouldn't have had. But also probably has to do with minority students getting access to the rich, well connected network that they wouldn't have had access to otherwise.
Cal doesn't have a "diversity quota."
It’s not far off the UK definition of class (inherited from your parents and schooling), but a long way from the US take (based on your bank balance).
Yeah, I suppose you're right it can be viewed as a language deficiency if the right thing to do is difficult and the wrong thing is easy & tempting. I guess I take responsibility for it though because I'm not sure I can imagine a time when there won't be a tradeoff to be made. Good engineering always has, and I'm guessing always will...?

There definitely is something important in the ideas Knuth is expressing abstractly here, and thank you for the link. Perhaps this idea really is percolating slowly to the compiler writers, because at work we have conversations about how to talk to the compiler so that it can better optimize.
China aims for 'carbon neutrality by 2060'
Visual Studio for macOS (and Linux) exists, it was previously named Xamarin, and before that MonoDevelop.
The cruelty is the point. Witnessing the suffering of the dissolute validates the virtuous.
That's where the value comes in, right? Bright people meet people with capital and valuable social networks and vice versa.
Yea, that kid had some strong hustle game.