skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be careful about following this line of thinking too much. Like a few politicians are corrupt, they're all corrupt. It's no longer useful to vote. Or some Hacker News commenters made up stuff on the spot. So all Hacker News comments are garbage. It dismisses the vast majority of people who are doing the right thing.
Getting paying customers is great for idea validation.

If nobody wants to pay, you at least know that.
That means no time to intern anywhere. Not sure I would recommend this path.
https://www.uclusion.com uses PWA to be on mobile. Its true that means we don't have push notification support on Apple phones but since we have email and Slack integration having our own push notification is much less of a priority.
>If someone is worried about GMO, they will stop eating it.

not if the industry prevents you from knowing you are eating it
GPT3 was trained on a Microsoft-provided compute cluster, probably with the idea that burning all those GPU hours would net them an amazing model service for Azure.
New JFK biography aims to chronicle a complex life
Arquero: JavaScript dataframe library similar to pandas for Python
A couple comments....this is super interesting to me. It boots into Linux from an HDD image. It also requires and uses Unreal Memory Mode [0][1] (vs. Real Mode or Protected Mode). It makes me wonder how compatible & stable this is with other DOS era software.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

[1] https://github.com/charliesome/doslinux/blob/master/doslinux...
I was walking on a forest in Eastern Europe a few months ago, and in a 10km walk I saw 5-6 of them. It was fantastic viewing and sound!
It seems your suggested solution to preventing degenerates from gathering outside the light is to turn the lights off though.

I don't disagree that things like QAnon gather steam outside the mainstream, but I don't think mainstreaming them is the right solution. I remember Reddit before it started to clean up its house. It was worse.
Ask HN: How to focus so you work on you most important goals?
It's all good and well to write down your goals, but how to make sure you spend your time as effectively as possible on reaching those goals? Dear HN readers, what methods do you use to focus on what really matters?
The docs are very incomplete and common third party dependencies are missing. I know it’s a chicken and egg type situation but vapor is not an appealing option for backend unless you really want/need to use Swift.
Auto Tab Discard is to Firefox memory problems like uBlock
is to online ads.

The actual discard feature is native, the addon just exposes it.

Would be nice if ATD didn't kill FF PiP video tabs though!
Okular can "edit" forms. I have been doing this on Linux and Windows for a while. Not the most usable but it works. What I can't do in Okular, I do in Gimp.

I will use Firefox for editable form pdfs but for those that don't have editable forms, I will continue to use Okular/Gimp.

I actually stumbled across the ability to edit forms in Firefox only recently. I was like... What? This is amazing! For some reason the pdf i clicked on opened in Firefox and yeah, surprised.
Colleges rarely if ever fail students. There’s a known phenomenon of grade curving (adding +x% to exams if it was difficult for some students) which I never understood during my time in higher education.

Yet it makes sense because universities want to lessen liabilities and have rich alum give back (esp. the case with the children of wealthy donors).
That's only counting those who were caught
Chinese miners are threatening to fork Filecoin
You can get a legacy preference (child or relative of a graduate) without being a donor, though both often come into play.
I don't think public institutions like Cal engage in legacy admissions, but I'm not sure?

Many schools give a general boost for legacy, but it is not always so tit-for-tat as the transactions that occurred here with Cal. They'll often have a different non-legacy pipeline for large donor -> admission.

For instance, at Harvard, there is the legacy SCEA process, but there is also the "z-list" process which is the more direct "children of billionaires" route.
i guarantee you there are a number of people every year who get rejected from Berkeley but accepted to Stanford (or equivalent) -- just a lot of noise in the process and after a certain point it becomes pretty arbitrary.

i bet this fact is how the admissions officials rationalized this corruption -- if the line between acceptance and rejection is arbitrary anyway, how much worse could it be to try to get some money out of it? (a lot worse)
Microsoft will exclusively license GPT-3 with OpenAI
Are Guam and Puerto Rico not de facto colonies?
>all Hacker News comments are garbage

this isn't a controversial opinion
This example from Thomas Sowell refers to affirmative action in the US rather than in India, but seems relevant
https://www.pe.com/2015/12/17/thomas-sowell-mismatching-stud...

>I became painfully aware of this problem more than 40 years ago, when I was teaching at Cornell University and discovered that half the black students there were on some form of academic probation.

>These students were not stupid or uneducable. On the contrary, the average black student at Cornell at that time scored at the 75th percentile on scholastic tests. Their academic qualifications were better than those of three-quarters of all American students who took those tests.

>The average white student would have been wiped out at Cornell. But the average white student was unlikely to be admitted to Cornell, in the first place. Nor was a white student who scored at the 75th percentile.

>That was a “favor” reserved for black students. This favor turned black students who would have been successful at most American colleges and universities into failures at Cornell.

>None of this was peculiar to Cornell. Black students who scored at the 90th percentile in math had serious academic problems trying to keep up at M.I.T., where other students scored somewhere within the top 99th percentile.

>There were other fine engineering schools around the country where those same students could have learned more, when taught at a normal pace, rather than at a breakneck speed geared to students with extremely rare abilities in math.
All schools do NOT do this. I went to MIT:

* MIT wouldn't be caught dead with JUST 64 students admitted on the basis of connections and donations.

* MIT wouldn't be caught dead letting external auditors look at this stuff.

* MIT wouldn't be caught. None of this would be public for MIT. That's what NDAs and non-disparage agreements are for.

I'm sorry, but all schools don't do this. Most are smart enough to stay out of this kind of trouble. For Harvard, it took a lawsuit and subpoenas to get in trouble over this.

Having external auditors, standards, and accountability is probably completely unique to UC/Berkeley. Admitting just 64 applicants based on graft and corruption is also unique within the top-20 schools.
Sounds like their salesman needs to work a little harder on his pitch. :)
One thing people clearly step around discussing is that the darkness of your skin is literally one of the main UC signifiers. Lighter skinned individuals are assumed to be UC.

So yes, this is a lot like racism in America.
> It was also built to draw in new talent

Was it? I mean, clearly Apple needed more office space while they're ramping up hiring, but do potential employees really care about that building?
Are you serious? Is "Just do it" a combination of words in English? We don't own it because we're a small startup.
I think that's oversimplified. TOS was single tasking but two things a) unlike the Amiga a proper 68000 syscall TRAP mechanism was used meaning the OS etc ran using proper supervisor / user separation and b) the application toolkit (AES) built overtop supported message passing and multiple application semantics and c) the graphics subsystem (VDI) was also in theory abstracted away from the physical. In fact the OS components themselves had originally been developed (by Digital Research) for both x86 and 68000 and the original work was done on the Lisa before it ever got put on a Atari hardware. And DR's GEM had a life of its own on PC hardware (see Ventura Publisher, etc.), though handicapped by the Apple lawsuit and competition from Microsoft.

These things meant that later the Atari community and Atari themselves were able to extend the OS in a proper multitasking almost Unix-like direction (MiNT and MultiGEM) and bring it to new hardware, and new display formats and architectures, etc. Provided the applications being run were cleanly written (well, that's a big caveat...). For example -- we can now run TOS/GEM on an Amiga, that's pretty neat (though totally pointless).

In true Tramiel fashion they shipped the cheapest simplest thing they could. But it was something they were able to iterate on -- unfortunately they just did this too slowly. As others have pointed out, the Amiga had amazing hardware from the go, but its architecture became somewhat tied to that original hardware. It was more like a video games console than a workstation. They had a few years headstart on everyone else and then having (then dated) specialized hardware became a liability, not an advantage.
From a utilitarian point of view, I'm wondering if this could actually be beneficial. The extra revenue from donations could sponsor students with less income.

I suppose the real problem is that UCs are no longer financed fully by the state. If they were, there would be no excuse for this.
No, legacy admissions are at least to some extent rule based, rather than outright cheating which what this stuff is - people don't go to jail over legacy admissions, for instance. UC Berkeley doesn't have legacy admissions to begin with.
The assumption you're making that you haven't substantiated is that higher (as in socially-more-powerful) castes have higher IQs.

(There are a number of other unsubstantiated assumptions beyond that, including that the difference in IQ is enough to explain the observed effect, that the variance in the distribution of IQs in each population is pretty close to zero, that castes started out as physically-isolated populations with distinct IQs, etc., but let's start with that one.)
Apple is doing everything it can to prevent that. From firmware updates that bricks your phone if you replaced the screen finger print sensor or their shady 3rd party repair program which require NDAs and inability to get replacement stock.
Adding a Defer Mechanism to C
Most JetBrains IDEs have almost equivalent IDEA plugins.
In my country (France), half of 13 years old kids have already seen porn.

I sharply remember at the same age, as a boy, I was highly interested in seeing naked women. But I was not at all interested in the sexual act itself. It could be argued that if it is made super easy so see naked adults, there is much less need to look for porn. So that kind of show could raise the age at which young people start watching porn, and that would only be a good thing.
You can imagine the pain when you need to reliably detect PDF mime type on web proxy, or something like...
As a new parent who wants the best for my baby, this really resonates with me!
How do they know what each persons caste is?
Is there no sound in the intro or do I have problems with my player? :|
Wow it tells me how many people are on my minecraft server. I couldn't even find that easily (didn't look too close yet). Anyway, a bit worrying because I leave the whitelist off when my sons friends want to join.
.NET Core/Standard already has windows specific API's, and .NET 5 is going to make them safer to use going forward with static analysis[0], so I doubt the Windows specificness is the reason why.

0: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-future-of-net-stan...
I have failed to be outraged.

1/3 of them were admitted as student athletes. Everyone knows that it is official policy at most schools to accept people with athletic ability who would not qualify academically. Why? Because those athletic programs make the university a lot of money!

How is admitting someone because their family gave a lot of money any different in principle? It is just a question of reducing how many steps there are to making a profit for the school.
I was reading through Crank.js's[1] documentation the other day, and I noticed that all of its examples explicitly set the JSX createElement function with a pragma comment.

Like this:

/** @jsx createElement */
import {createElement} from "@bikeshaving/crank";
import {renderer} from "@bikeshaving/crank/dom";

renderer.render(<div id="hello">Hello world</div>, document.body);

[1]: https://crank.js.org/guides/getting-started
I wouldn't know about the finer details of physical telecommunications but in this case it would seem the physical (overhead) line that was about 30 metres from my property was allowing rainwater to interfere with the signal. That was what was replaced. Voice communication was never a problem (in the assumption I never spoke to people when it rained, I didn't often use the line for voice)
Running wires costs a shit ton of money. How are more isps covering their own little islands of service going to make any difference here?

Last mile service is a natural monopoly, no amount of pounding the table will fix that. The only reason cable and phone people even compete with each other in the space is because they didn't originally and still try not to.
Are you suggesting that my post is part of some sort of conspiracy of people pointing out the way AML regulations work?
Thanks for the post. I didn't know they made a separate podcast for biology, I subscribed!
Regarding the first episode on their new "Bio eats world" podcast, it's about the biology of aging. If that interests you, The Peter Attia Drive has quite a few podcasts related to aging as well!

Does anyone know of similar podcasts to the A16Z podcast?
It has another side that validates their opinion. ( I am neither upper caste, nor come from a historically wealthy family)

In many cases parents will live incredibly frugally their whole lives to save up enough money for their child's education. Growing up on $3-8k annually is a humble background for a family when look at from the American lens. Qualifying for Indian universities is a nightmare exam that takes 2+ years of 10+ hrs a day of study. The kids compromise on any hobbies and a life just to MAKE IT.

Everything in India IS far harder than the developed world. A family that can't afford a personal vehicle, air conditioning or a single vacation over their lifetime is a humble family. Being successful enough to make it to the >95th percentile in the western world from such beginning is commendable and something a person should be able to take pride in.

Now, is it still an order of magnitude less hard to do this than it is for a dalit ? Ofc it is. But, should a person born in the western world feel ashamed to get a phd because kids in Africa are dying of hunger ? NO.

> Come from humble backgrounds and 'made it' in society all on their own

> Upper caste Indians are more likely to have access to better education

Both these statements can be true. One should not need to throw away pride in their accomplishments to empathize with someone less fortunate.
Yes, I agree. My point (and that of one of the comments earlier) is that censorship does not actually do anything to reduce extremism in the real world, and can actually increase it, as you say. So these echo-chambers are bad, which we can agree on.
There's a couple big knocks against VS Code that don't get brought up enough

The extension API is underdocumented. It's very difficult and time consuming to onboard yourself as an extension author with just the MS docs, since they don't cover the entire API and the vast majority of data structures are undocumented entirely. This is really annoying when functions take structures as arguments and have optional fields. Descriptive naming isn't descriptive if it describes how the argument is used by the callee, not what it means to the intent of the caller.

VSC also inherits the core weaknesses of Electron. Not overall performance/memory so much as startup time (just a second ago I had to wait 3 minutes for VS Code to boot because I had too many workspaces open when my laptop's battery died on me). It can't open multiple windows in the same workspace (this is actually a fundamental flaw when debugging any kind of extension that needs to open its own workspace). It's possible to build an extension that uses compiled node modules, which is great for performance and usability, but it's officially unsupported because those modules are only compatible with the node version of a client's VSCode.

But when all is said and done, VSC has shown that it's a great platform and easy to target as an extension author (or easier than others), LSP and DAP are huge milestones, and the architecture itself is just so friendly to extension that it's created a fantastic and lively ecosystem.

But petty gripe: please kill the git username/password fields when I git clone a private repo over HTTPS in the console. I don't like being aggro towards what other devs find cool, but I think hijacking a CLI with an extension incredibly annoying. And I can't find a way to disable that specific "feature" without disabling all of the git integration, which I use all the time.
Quickest and dirtiest way I've found, but yes, not idiomatic Python:

subprocess.check_output("grep ^$(whoami) /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{print $NF}'", shell=True, encoding="utf-8").strip()

I didn't test that particular line, but in general this is how I execute shell pipelines in Python.
Open neutrals are no joke but each case does give a good story every time again.
I know a guy who cut a 70mm2 neutral in a factory. They had a lot of single phase drive inverters. I think somethink like 25 inverters had to be replaced (and a lot of other stuff too).
Linux Journal Is Back
To put this number in perspective, the CDC also published that only 6% of those were from c19 itself, the rest "WITH c19".

Remember Birx announced some months ago that anyone dying with c19 would be counted as c19?

To put this in further perspective, the number of flu deaths in recent years has been as high as 80-120K.
No sound indeed
No, because in the west debt is not inherited. Wealth is, which is an advantage to the right, but even then the majority of people - even rich don't get that advantage right away.

The big help the not-poor get is parents help their education. Not monetary help (that exists, but the poor get scholarships which in theory makes up the difference), but help as in a background that values education. If your peers and family expect you to get pregnant and drop out at 14 - it isn't really possible to get ahead in modern society the way most of us take for granted.
Note that this is from "inappropriate" donations to school staff who did things like fudge athletic recommendations.

It is entirely legal (though morally problematic) to "donate" your way into a school with a donation to the school directly.
The Tandy 1000 line was a great DOS machine of its moment for games, because the 1000 wasn't just a PC clone, it was a better version of the PCjr -- it had better sound and graphics out of the box compared to PCs, with better actual PC software compatibility and without the horrible chiclet keyboard. The 1000 was so successful for a while that games that supported the PCjr's enhancements were marketed as "Tandy-compatible".
> It's a question of civics - entering the country is illegal, migrants do that knowingly.

So was rescuing Jews from the Holocaust, and China's acts against Tibetans and Uighurs. Let's not mistake what's moral with what's legal; they often overlap in a decent society, but that's by no means guaranteed. You can make a case for "immigration laws are moral", but "they're moral because they're the law" isn't that case.
What happened in Guadeloupe Texas? (Covid-19 dashboard)
Isabel Wilkerson's new book Caste compares the systematic racism of the USA, the caste system of India, and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. She attempts to describe a fundamental framework of caste (including divine mandate) that encompasses all three. She reports on how Martin Luther King came to see himself as a Dalit (undercaste). She also provides a brief introduction to the (Indian) caste system. Quite relevant to this discussion.
Perfect, you've moved the goalposts so that all prison systems across the world count as "concentration camps". Now you can use your fallacy to defend China's worst human rights abuses from any and all criticism, because you can claim that anyone's judgement is tainted by the mere existence of their own country's "concentration camp" prison system.

> All that is true is that the U.S. loves its very large prison system enough to not change it.

There have been literally hundreds of criminal justice reforms enacted in recent years, in all fifty states and at the federal level, covering all aspects of the American criminal justice system; drug laws, courts, bail, and yes prison reform. Guess which country the author of The New Jim Crow is from? I'll give you a hint if you need it. Criminal justice reform is a one of the most bitterly fought issues in American politics, and in case you haven't noticed, the fights are recently getting more serious.

It's clear to me that, regarding this particular topic, you have no idea what you're talking about.

> It has gotten so large that it removes a leg to stand on when criticizing other countries for imprisoning people.

Whose "leg" are you talking about? Mine? Michelle Alexander's? It may surprise you to learn that the US is home to over two hundred million adults, who do not all think alike or speak with the same voice. It may also surprise you that many American who are passionate about prison reform here at home are also passionately opposed to China's ongoing ethnic cleansing. I can confidently predict that those people will continue to speak out against China regardless of mensetmanusman's disapproval.
> it's not really due to lack of language features, it's due to having chosen not to use them from the start

That itself is a language deficiency, though, right?

Knuth on this topic:

https://cr.yp.to/qhasm/literature.html
You're thinking of this:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

at about 13:10.
Just responding to conversation above. I think this is important. What makes the HN interesting is sharing ideas. This is otherwise a boring corporate announcement.
Really sounds like children should be a symbol.
Have a rule.

Our republic, and the California state government, is based on rule of law. One group makes the laws, another enforces it, and a third interprets the conflicts. This works. What we have here is a 'no rules' set of actions.

How about rules that say "we will take any student for $200K/year". This is enough money to supply extra supervision and also give a full scholarship to another student.
I really don't see why it should be an independent application. I mean it's not like we expect a PNG viewer or HTML5 video viewer to be a separate application in a browser. Being able to view (and in this case fill/interact with) PDFs is pretty much a basic necessity on the web. Beyond the core HN crowd, almost nobody cares to have a 3rd party application that they have to install to view PDFs in their browser. Having a lightweight and secure PDF viewer that is also not made by some 3rd party company that could be collecting any amount of data on you is a good thing in general.