skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably depends on the portion of donor vs. merit positions though doesn't it? As long as the overwhelming majority is merit-based, the academic reputation of the school should be maintained.
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> Learning software is an investment, and if you have to switch to another application later, you lose some of that investment.

I think the author missed a critical fifth point that they hinted at here. In my opinion VSCode is trivially easy to be productive with and not much of an investment to get into. Whereas heavier IDEs and then Vim at the far extreme demand some serious “learn how to ride this bike before you can do anything resembling useful.”

I enjoy VSCode for a number of reasons, dislike it for a few. One of the main pluses is that I start off productive on day one and can electively add complexity to further refine the tool.

I love tools with user-selected difficulty levels.
If name is strongly associated with caste, can one not simply change it? In my country (USA) one can do so to nearly almost anything.
And that ambiguity is an economy: the rich slackers are seen as smart by association with the achievements of (past) students admitted by merit, and the rabble students acquire aristocratic social cache by the same token. I'm not an economist, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is a self-powering machine.
It violated the policy of the Board of Regents which is the democratic governing board of the taxpayer funded UC System.

If they want to establish a policy of selling seats to raise money, there's nothing inherently unconstitutional about that. But, they need to change the policies, and if necessary, state law to allow this to happen legally and with the consent of the taxpaying citizens.
> What's shocking is that this caste system is being continued in the US.

Is it so shocking though? The US has its own sordid history of caste-like discrimination in work, civic, and personal life, as the African American community can attest to. Huge portions of the US had anti-miscegenation laws on the books up until 50 ago [1]

If anything, many of the patterns of discrimination in the US line up quite nicely with those that arrived with some (though not all) Indian immigrants.

This has frequently resulted in a stark schism between the older generation of Indian immigrants, many of whom readily adopted the US' racist attitudes toward African Americans, Mexicans, etc, and their American children, who often have nearly the opposite perspective.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the...
Linux Journal did end its activities late last year so it's not surprising that they couldn't simply bring everyone back.
In fact, I hope the people who got laid off found new jobs a long time ago.
Could it be “compacting” the fonts? So if U+0000 to U+0007F aren’t used at all, remove those glyphs and set U+0000’s glyph to be what was U+0080? Yes, I know NULL doesn’t have a glyph, but I hope that gets the idea across.
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Biggest selling point for Sublime Text is speed.
What are the main selling points of v4 vs v3?
Like a lot of MS products, VSCode has dived head first into UI complexity. Coupled with an Electron-based foundation, I don’t see a great future for it.
This is the difference between an opinionated vs non-opinionated IDE

You seem to prefer opinionated, where other people like the fact they can pick and choose from various plugins to my their IDE their own, and if they do not like the default implementation of a feature there likely is another plugin that may work for them.

For example there are a couple of git plugins, all of them act slighty different based on the workflow of the users of that plugin, if MS came in and said "No this is how git workflow is in VSCode and no other way is possible" that would turn off alot of users

Further you stated another glaring problem, Jetbrians mikes IDE's plural, specialized for each lang they are targeting, VSCode needs to work with many lang, there is not a VSCode:Python edition, and VSCode:Powershell edition, etc et c etc

It is just VSCode and plugins add the Languages you need / want support for
Already looking for excuses I see...
I think if longevity is your concern, you can't go wrong with vim or Emacs. Both have been around for decades, which makes them that much more likely to be around for decades more.
Environment and options, too. The Finance Path, Consulting Path, Tech Path, Startup Path - the implicit assumptions of school A to Company B to Grad School C to Company D is objectively super weird (why is I-Banking > MBA > Consulting so standard a path?), but often critical to making a certain salary.
Cliff Stoll has appeared on the Numberphile YouTube channel dozens of times, and they're all informative and hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JX...
>But what country has benefited from the U.S. being destabilized by Trump’s presidency?

Literally any country that stands to lose if the US has more time to look externally. Look at every issue we are involved in. Everyone on side of an issue that we're on the other side of stands to benefit if we spend more time on internal issues. Of course you have Russia, China, Iran, etc. but there's tons of countries who have neighbors they don't like who we are helping who would rather we not. They're all gonna buy a few hundred Facebook ads or whatever.
It's not just Russia. But, beyond that, their actual identities are irrelevant, because all of the major strategic competitors of the USA have the same core interests, and will do similar things to cover their tracks. And just because something will appear to originate from some country does not indicate by itself that that country is responsible.
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Haxe seems to have no Swift or Kotlin support :(

I'd be curious to know why that is, given that once you have a few languages working, adding more on, intuitively (I have no experience in this) wouldn't be too difficult, given how many features the languages share?
Maybe if you totally cut out gen-ed like language, writing, or intro sociology.

A lot of lower div credits are gen-ed.
Comment chains like this are why I spend less and less time on Reddit. HN comments are usually more substantial and insightful.
> they have no project template in Visual Studio that would let you write a service that can run as a service on both Windows and Linux

I have lots of complaints about the state of the .NET ecosystem, but thankfully this one is pretty easy IMO. Basically just use the `dotnet new worker` .NET Core template; it scaffolds a project using the ASP.NET Core generic host, which can easily (a NuGet package and 1 line of code) be adapted to run as either a Windows Service or a systemd service on Linux.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dotnetNewWorkerWindowsService...
https://www.reillywood.com/blog/dotnet-linux
Good point - before long, tuition will be something ridiculous like $50k a year!

:)
I know this article is about Indian tech workers living in the US but it seems part of a broader trend in Indian society.

I'm not Indian but I have worked and lived in India for a long time. In my opinion this problem is getting worse. In the same way that American society is increasingly bimodal, wealth and power are further concentrating in the upper echelons of Indian society. From an outsider's perspective it seems like within the two peaks competition has increased, so insiders will feel like the country has become increasingly meritocratic and technocratic. What I think has happened instead is that the wealthiest, most autocratic families have seen competition tighten, but the overall wealth concentrated at the top has increased dramatically.

I don't know what the long-term effects will be on Indian society but it's going to become an existential problem if not addressed at some point.
> Foreign actors are primarily interested in sowing chaos.

False! Behind the perceivable problems and shortlist of problem countries ("oh Russia was involved? :| >:|") is the reality that all or many countries and private actors are also doing this and have for a long time. It is the system itself with the vulnerabilities. Many allies would be doing the same thing to maintain their relationships or further improve it.

The abstraction is that people are primarily interested in their interests.

Its not about the things you care about, it isn't about your ideology, it isn't about how social media will be distorted to routinely and precisely show you your worst fears coming true by your own countrymen.

It is about outsized influence, and a historical enemy sowing discord to create favorable geopolitical outcomes for themselves is just one manifestation of that. Sure, other countries and individuals are using this as an instruction manual too, and some people are trying to get a high score of real world effects from easily manipulable people. But this is just one of many things happening.
The thing that bugs me about VSCode is it's labeled as open source but a lot of pretty critical and interesting components are closed source so you have no idea what's going on under the hood. Normally that's not too big of a deal (I use plenty of closed source apps), but when it's Microsoft it's hard to trust what they are doing with that data. That and I feel that this promotes vendor lock-in at multiple levels.

Overall claiming you're open source when a decent chunk of your code base is closed source is kind of like those people who always bring up that they are a non-profit organization and are doing things for the greater good, meanwhile it's mainly used as a way to evade as much taxes as possible while they live very generously. I have nothing against that personally but it's the way it's presented. It just gives off a bad vibe.
Much of the world doesn't actually enjoy living under total American hegemony. Much of the world has a very negative opinion of the USA. You can easily be forgiven for not knowing these things because they are never reported in American media.
Yes, precisely. It has a "Cupertino" theme that kind of mimics the iOS look and feel, but it misses the mark and will always be behind the curve a least a release or two in matching the OS.
Yes, and your video shows Electron at ~700% of UWP C++ while React Native for Windows is at ~200% of UWP C++. That means an Electron program's reference set is ~3x as large as a RNfW program's, not 300x.
Like first class passengers footing a large share of the bill so economy passengers can pay less.
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Are you sure?

It looks you started using to this slogan in 2019. Prior to that, it was "Work Happy":
https://web.archive.org/web/20181116030147/https://www.paymo...

But there was at least one other business using "Work better together" in 2017:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170515171057/https://projectin...
Yes, you might be right, this might be completely clear, and I just find it confusing for some reason but from the example in the OP I have no idea the point it is trying to get across with these terms, e.g:
"""
This is covariance in action:
Every bike is a vehicle. (But not every vehicle is a bike.)
Every bike factory is a vehicle factory. (But not every vehicle factory is a bike factory.)
"""

As far as for tensor stuff, I think what is confusing to me at least, is that the components of standard vectors are contravariant, while their dual covectors are covariant. contravariant tensors raise indices and covariants lower them.

Anyway I'm glad this is clear to you but I find it confusing.

Although I wonder now if there is a mapping from the OO diagrams in the OP with Penrose Tensor notations where everything will just make sense....

edit: missing word
> It's really hard to be effective in any IDE without memorizing dozens of keyboard shortcuts,

Curious if you use the command palette much? It should be a decent replacement for route memorization of keyboard shortcuts: How do I format this document agian? Hm... F1;form;enter done. And git push? F1:gpu;enter. Etc.

I work on vs code and am trying to improve this area so all feedback appreciated!
Slightly related: does anyone know if the oft-lionized claims about Vladislav Surkov about chaos 'theatrics' are actually grounded in reality or are just a meme?
And people with fewer options. There are plenty of situations where you are stuck with Vim or Nano (Vim usually comes out on top if you're doing anything non-trivial).
Approaching this from another direction:

What does the US do to inspire confidence in the election results?
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National Origin Discrimination

National origin discrimination involves treating people (applicants or employees) unfavorably because they are from a particular country or part of the world, because of ethnicity or accent, or because they appear to be of a certain ethnic background (even if they are not).
National origin discrimination also can involve treating people unfavorably because they are married to (or associated with) a person of a certain national origin.
Discrimination can occur when the victim and the person who inflicted the discrimination are the same national origin.
“””

That’s the definition given by the EEOC. I wasn’t sure either, but reading that it leans me towards it being illegal. California is also currently suing Cisco, saying they allowed caste discrimination by a manager. AIUI their defense is that they investigated and were unable to corroborate those allegations, which they presumably wouldn’t do if they considered caste-based discrimination legal.
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I'm glad that Linux Journal is back. However, I hope that they are back with a business model that is sustainable. Some of the most iconic magazines (e.g. MAD) couldn't make it with their traditional business model.
> And they're open about that aim but still call VS Code "open source".

Yeah, it's a principle worth remembering: "open source" doesn't mean anything if most of the software only runs on someone else's cloud without you having any control or visibility into it.
If I had known what I know now, instead of going through the entire eviction process, I would have done that.

It’s a win/win for everyone.

The tenant won’t have an eviction on their record making it harder to rent somewhere else, they can move their own stuff out without the risk of it being damaged, they have cash in hand to stay somewhere else temporarily like a weekly stay hotel [1], and/or they could put their stuff in storage.

I should have been willing to pay up to two to three months mortgage for a cash for keys deal. They weren’t paying anyway, I could have saved the aggravation and they wouldn’t have trashed the place.

[1] all weekly hotels aren’t bad. I stayed in one with my wife and son for months after my lease was up and we were waiting for our house to be built.
Yes, because of how VS Code has evolved we're not using it for quick edits but as a front end to entire systems. If I need to check something quick in a remote session that is configured through some extension in VS Code without simple terminal access and for one reason or another I haven't left it idling all day, those times will hurt my productivity.
I think there's a plugin for it but workspaces would be much more valuable to me if they weren't a file you saved. The idea, I assume, is something like "these 10 repos with these 15 plugins are how I deploy this project."

In the end due to its UX I think it's pretty useless. I do use it on BIG projects because sometimes vscode will update or barf and forget what I had open.

I mostly just do "open folders in workspace" then hope it never goes away.
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I am not American so I do not fully understand the legal system in US, but it seems this is a lawsuit that alleges caste based discrimination, and the lawsuit is currently pending judgement. If that is the case, shouldn't all the names be anonymized? Is it acceptable in US to make public the names of the accused but not of the accuser? Its one thing to reveal names when they are found guilty, but thats not the case here.
Yeah I get that, but then again the Semigroup, Monoid, Functor, Applicative and Monad classes should aim to be correct because they form the base of a lot of other typeclasss. Maybe this project is something that I can contribute to in my free time :). I was missing a lot of the functional language features in python. It's a shame that it's still so clunky to work with lambdas etc.
Sure, if they take the place of smaller houses. Admissions are a rivalrous good.
Nobody disputes that, including the ones who practice it (well, may be except the most uneducated). The real problem is denialism. The comments to this post itself has numerous examples of that, including anecdotal evidences to downplay the incredible damage it has caused. The practitioners just find other reasons, like job-performance to enforce casteism without directly referring to it.
For many users it's not qualitatively faster, as most workloads (booting, web browsing, even most video game load times) are small-to-medium random reads dominated by processing overhead.

Image/video editing, bulk file transfer, and threaded IO are the key benefits of NVME.
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What are some of all these pretty critical and interesting components you mention?
Unfortunately, no. My wife's best friend is Hindu from Upper Caste. (Brahim) she was born in the United States.

She always been so liberal and open minded. Most of her friends are Muslims. She is barely religious.

But whenever it comes relationships, she brings up caste. She married into upper caste, she was very worried about caste of the guy. If her sister is dating a someone from a different caste, she brings it up and says something like that dating him is like dating a Muslim man. You will not marry him, just have fun. She talks about it with us as if it is totally normal.

Then one of her husband's friend is lower caste Hindu who converted to Christianity. She uses deragotry terms (Malloo?) for him when he is not around.

While I haven't had any deep conversation with her about caste but few times when I asked why she obesses over it, she says it is not just caste but totally different culture. Which to me sounds bullshit.
Editor and tooling has been flame bait since vim and emacs and you're just stoking the flames.

The idea that VS Code is for "green" development only is flatly false, I've used it to work on and debug GCC, hardly green.

The idea you should always be looking for new tooling is also false. If you're a power user of emacs then enjoy it. Consider it your super power, I'm not interested in taking that from you.

VS Code is, in my opinion, thee editor for several languages. The package support is it's real killer feature and the fact that it hits a decent compromise on performance between Sublime and Atom. Atoms packaging is arguably better and more flexible but it leads to bad package performance. Sublimes packaging was annoying when I used it in the past, no better then the train wreck that is MELPA of emacs. Again, all of that being my personal opinion.
nowadays I always add ycombinator after my search terms to see if it has been discussed here.
All Amigas had a 6-bit volume control for each individual sound channel.

All Amigas except the A1000 could turn the high-pass filter off, and pretty much everything tended to do this.
No, lots of things are maintained on a collective illusion. We pretend that you have to be smart to get into Yale but you could donate a building and get in. But if Yale put up a sign saying you can get in for the price of a building, now buying a building makes the admission worthless to you.

It needs plausible deniability to work.
That’s just called a discount.
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This reminds me of the old Lindsay Publications reprint of Procedures in Experimental Physics from 1938.

https://gingerybookstore.com/product143.html

I believe it's only available used at this point, but:

"Chapters include: laboratory glass blowing, laboratory optical work, technique of high vacuum, coating of surfaces by evaporation and sputtering, the use of fused silica, electrometers and electroscopes, Geiger counters, vacuum thermopiles and the measurement of radiant energy, optics, photoelectric cells and amplifiers, photography in the lab, heat and high temperature, notes on the materials of research, notes on the construction and design of instruments and apparatus, and molding and casting."
There's an episode of Nova about it as well, that's up free online various places. Cliff is such a unique and energetic personality it's really entertaining to watch.
> rampant caste discrimination existing in the entire country

That's a very broad brush you are painting with! Some parts of the country have made significant progress. See for example work done by Narayana Guru, a social reformer in the 1800s, and its impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana_Guru#Fight_against_ca...
I can't speak for Cal schools, but for most private schools, this is already what happens. If you're not already competitive, the required donation is truly immense (think "Kenneth C Griffin Department of Economics" big).

Most donation-influenced admits are borderline to begin with - it just eliminates the randomness of the admissions process. The issue here is that Cal is public, and so more laws apply.
Hi, I wanted to make a planning system that would be simple on the one hand, and on the other hand, could be assembled for individual needs like a constructor.
I played with mind maps for some time and in the end, the system appears quite consistent.
What do you think?
How was that disinformation?
I would as well. But if you accept the one, then it is inconsistent to object to the other.
The UCs are prohibited from doing this by Prop 209. Prop 16 this year is an attempt to undo that https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
In California (or at least my part of it) it's pretty common.
> the future of the platform looked great

Not with the subreddits it was hosting it didn't. The future of Reddit looked unviable as a business. I won't name names, but it's obvious that some of the content was wholly incompatible with mainstream acceptance and for good reason.
> I absolutely do use VS Code - it's always loaded, but I only use it like a simple text editor.

Then you do not really need to install any plugins. Problem solved!
One of the creators of X-com released his own game recently: Phoenix Point https://phoenixpoint.info/
There is a difference in controlling the message. It’s a lot easier to keep nefarious actions secret if a few people and a cluster of computers is doing the work vs thousands of people.
Counter question: how many times do you think the average Windows user has tried installing Linux? Because it's probably fewer than those who use what they'll invariable call the "dos box" for something, so having something in place to make the transition for those Windows users who DO venture out of their comfort zone to give Linux (yet another?) try easier is great.
What does private debt have to do with Fed policy?
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Will it support only the standardised kind of forms, or also the proprietary Adobe-only kind of forms? (Yes, there's two, and the latter are what Swedish administrative agencies use, so I'm forced to choose the “non-fillable PDF” option lest I get a file intentionally made unreadable to non-Adobe software.)
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