skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sufficiently prestigious schools are drowning in perfect applicants.

This is by design. There exist tests that can distinguish between the merely very good and the outstanding. Elite US universities go out of their ways to not use them, precisely so they can admit the merely very good legacies.
The Republican Party is an authoritarian outlier
Cranach, Courbet and Corot: the Brooklyn Museum is selling off
> the UI code will be completely custom for Windows though

So Swift programs on Windows will actually look and feel like a Windows program? Good.
Senators slam bonuses for execs of bankrupt OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
I think this is largely how it works, but it's not explicitly separated into two pots. Rather, things like legacy status and family donors are factors in a multifaceted admissions process. Someone who donated twice as much might not have their kid get admitted if academics and test scores are bad, whereas someone who didn't donate as much might get in with good grades and test scores.
Elite schools don't use them at least partially so they can take the same tests as every other school.
> 2. Reservation is the real problem (no it's not)

Of course Reservation IS the problem if you're unfortunate to be an upper caste.

The problem is that a caste-based reservation did NOT eliminate caste-based bias, it amplified it. More and more castes, outside the original designation, demanded it in exchange for votes, and more and more upper caste Indians felt cheated as they lost limited opportunities that should have been purely been given on merit basis.

NOTE: I support reservation if it is on the basis of economic criteria, wherein a student genuinely did not get the opportunities as they were growing up. The problem is, India is full of lower-caste affluent families where generations have taken advantage of the reservation, while the poor lower-caste, and upper-caste, people have languished. And due to the reservation, these affluent lower-caste students, in general do now have to work as hard as the students competing in the general category.

Tamil Nadu has 69% reservation, there is similar data for other states.

In IIT, while there was cutthroat competition for general category seats, SC/ST (reserved category) seats went unfilled since in the IITs there was (not sure if it still is there) a min standard was required.

Every, baring maybe 1-2 exceptions, of SC/STs were in slow paced category, which meant they graduated in 5 years as opposed to everyone else graduating in 4 years.

What this meant is that by default the general category students who made through the system, were on average, better educated and trained, than the lower-caste equivalents.

This is just the unfortunate truth.
look above it to the line that says:

Usage: db_backup.py INSTANCE

then just go with it.
I read this book shortly after he wrote it. I was a junior engineer at a big company, and the final chapter (on humans being the weakest link in computer security) inspired me to run "crack" on the password (shadow) file of one of our networked Sun workstations. (I actually wrote some code to re-create the shadow file from the output of ypcat because we were running NIS.) Crack managed to obtain about 20% of the users passwords, including root. I wasn't an admin on that network, so I informed the admin and his reaction was that he did not care if I had admin on his network. (I ran a few others already.) One of the cracked user passwords struck me as funny so one day in the hallway I casually asked what that word meant (to the owner of the password). The terror-stricken user froze and asked me why I wanted to know. Instead of recognizing the issues associated with using a dictionary word for a password, he went and complained to my manager. I got called on the carpet for "hacking his windows account." (Apparently he used the same password everywhere.) Fortunately my boss had a good sense of humor and nothing came of it. This was before the company even had a computer security policy. A year or two later, doing what I did would become a fire-able offense.
Shameless plug: my project yq (https://github.com/kislyuk/yq) (pip install yq) includes a utility, xq, which transcodes XML to JSON using the Goessner JsonPath transformation (https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/05/31/converting-between-xml-...) so you can use jq to query XML.
He pops in here from time to time as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll
It's not quite the same feel but I'll do in the mean time!
Even (some) test scores like the SAT are getting disfavored by some colleges. Rich kids have more support (private teachers, mentors, test preps), sometimes their parents have more free time.
I once asked a co-worker if he felt caste ever impacted him in any way. He said well when I went to the local visa office in India the officer behind the desk approving visas had a certain surname. Only 25 people a day are approved for a Visa and except for me, everyone else in the room had that officer's surname.
Your analogy doesn't follow GP's logic. It's more like: do you want to watch olympics where rich kids with sports coaches do mediocre to well, or do you want to watch an Olympics where a state-sponsored scholarship program gives you the best of the best amongst poor/middle-class/rich people because talent is not distributed only amongst the rich.
Show HN: I made a free-to-use GPT-2 API
Hey HN, I recently launched this GPT-2 API, and figured you'd be into it.

The goal is simplicity, so you hit the endpoint with a one-line call from the Python client.

Here's a demo of pip install, code, and use.
https://www.loom.com/share/c09c9ca228644345852544808decd864

This API is the first API from https://www.booste.io, where my mission is to make the ML stack as simple as Stripe made the payments stack. One-line API clients.

Lots on the roadmap (Node client, using larger GPT-2 model, PPLM for long-content generation, running on GPUs, hosting other models such as BERT), but there's no time like the present to put something out there.

Let me know your thoughts :)

(edit: fixed link)
I got one of those as a birthday gift in grad school, and it's a lot of fun, even 10 years later. I used to fill (yes) mine with tinted water for added joy.
I have one of these in my living room, it came with a sticker and a nice note, and I highly recommend them.
That's interesting. For me, it's the exact opposite way. Kanji are actually the easiest thing for me. Does the WK deck or the KanjiDamage deck include mnemonics? If not, I highly highly highly recommend you get something with mnemonics. If not WK or KD, then get yourself the RTK book (Remembering the Kanji) and study with it. There are Anki decks with Kanji in RTK order, too.
Visit a Yeshiva, or a Madreseh, or a Buddhist monastery, and behold a disciplined form of a "cognitive model" of learning from reading books. I knew this one Jewish guy who used to boast that he could press a pin into a book and tell you exactly what passsage of the book it was and what it said.

So the OP apparently thinks a novel construct can do what Yeshivas and Madresehs and Monastaries have been doing the past couple of thousand years.

Now if the OP can come up with an object that makes the user rock back and forth while in a trancelike state, then he probably deserves the academic fame that he clearly desires.
It's a giant pain to get anything out of them, though, or, for that matter, to clean them (unless you have a trick for it?).
Like the Chrome and Chromium relationship a lot of distros package VS Code as just Code for a version built by your distro without the proprietary extras.
VSCode looks great and has a nice debugger but going through plugin management again is too much for me.

I’ve already invested the time and effort to setup neovim with coc as my general go-to editor and have very few complaints. If I ever need a true IDE for something I’ll just open something batteries-included like Jetbrains or Pycharm.
> A hypothesis that I find very fascinating is that all consciousness is a post fact process, and that free will and control are illusory.

That's an interesting concept. The novel 'Blindsight' uses this to great effect.

https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
"Retiring early without finding other stimulating and rewarding pursuits in which to invest one's time can be bad for the brain", they meant to say.

Meanwhile, much of what passes for "work" these days -- specifically: bullshit jobs (in the Graeberian sense); the bullying + politics that go with these jobs; physically unhealthy office environments (and commutes), etc -- is definitely bad for the mind, body and soul as well.

So I guess it's a matter of tradeoffs.
As far as I know, there are no serious email clients for Visual Studio Code. So the kind of obsessive users, the ones that want to do everything with it, the presence of which indicates a really good piece of software, don't use Visual Studio Code. I consider that a fatal indictment of Visual Studio Code.
Tesla’s Elon Musk said a $25,000 electric car with next-gen battery in the works
Open-source C/C++ LSP server exists, clangd exists and ccls(https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls) is build on libclang which works very well for a few of my projects. I am not sure about python since i don't use it much.
The Adaptive Technology of Prosthetics
I love the design of that site!!
I expect that people who object to bundling a PDF viewer in Firefox object equally to Chrome doing the same.
> ... unless they basically started from scratch and were ran by completely different people.

I would recommend that you "revisit" TFA, click the last one or two links in it, and read TFAs that those links take you to.
The problems with Conda usually have to do with its activation. If you manually activate whatever environment you want before starting VSCode, it should pick it up fine. But if you don't, and then later you pick a conda environment, it'll try to auto-activate it in the terminal for you - and this part is brittle, because anything else using the terminal can interfere with it (and vice versa).
Elon Musk plans fully autonomous $25k car in three years
Wilford was artificially aged for the film especially to be able to showcase the “improvements” it was easier to make an actor look older than younger.

It also doesn’t help that he wasn’t exactly in good shape.

It’s quite a bit about genetics and lifestyle look at Val Kilmer for example he aged quite terribly and he is only 2 years older than Tom Cruise but looks 2+ decades older.
The cost of any additional untargeted attack attempt is essentially zero in most cases. It doesn't matter whether you are trying your exploit on 100 hosts or 1 million. An attacker willing to spray exploits across the internet has basically zero incentive to only use those exploits on hosts they know to be running a specific version, and every incentive to just try it out on all hosts running the software that they can possibly identify.
Every product should have a website like this.
This is interesting. It’s not obvious to my what leverage Facebook has in this situation.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft seem like they all provide goods and services that are hard to replace without a lot of investment.

What does Facebook have except for inertia and network effect?

These are a good moat against competitors and attrition of individual users, but I don’t see how Facebook isn’t easily replaced if it doesn’t comply.
I suppose lambdas are already a bit weird for ending with a : without starting a new code block.

Good luck fixing that though.
Oh yeah, I don't dispute the history of pools in America in general of having a lot of racist gatekeeping behind them, that's absolutely true. I was just saying that swimming and water polo are super cheap sports to participate in as an athlete.
Ha, I don't know if you worked on this but I had hopes when I saw you'd gone back that maybe we'd finally see records. I'd been seeing your name on record proposals forever.
Great feedback, much appreciated! I'm familiar with Microsoft for Startups program and I'm still considering it, though currently it's not a priority. I agree with most of your thoughts above. Don't have experience with .NET-based Lambdas, though, so I don't have an opinion on that yet. As for what I'm building, well ... I'm building a comprehensive (read: large) and complex B2B enterprise SaaS platform focused on a particular multi-disciplinary scientific domain. I'm a solo founder and have technical (and research) background, including software development and IT architecture experience.
I prefer comments in the code (or tests) to explain the "why" of the code to external systems. I want someone to get the "why" even if they get my code from a tarball, an e-mailed diff, or if some asshole overwrote commit messages for some fool reason.

For my part I don't want to have to switch contexts to go hunt through an issue tracker or commit messages to know why someone did something. I have other shit I need to get done. I don't want someone reading my code, with their own work to get done, wasting their time hunting for my reasoning why I put "pi = 3".

I want to be helpful to future victi...maintainers of my code[0].

[0] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c++/rYCO5yn4lXw/oI...
Does the life expectancy for U.S. citizens in the top 50% or 25% tell the same story?

Edit: of income I mean. Wealth is also maybe interesting
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Insufficient information to determine an answer.
:) I agree that that works, of course, but if we have to use shell=True and just shove the whole thing like that then it loses a rather lot of the "Python" appeal. Still valuable if you need to feed the output into Python, of course.
This doesn't make any sense at all. Does an Indian national approve visas for Non-Indian countries in the consulates of other countries? Which country's visa is that?

Does Canada allow an Indian national to approve visa applications?
It would not be uncommon to have plastic surgery, for instance.
I thought that was the point of being a donor? Is it a problem because it's a state school?
Are you saying a16z's podcast content is sexist? If so, care to share something substantial to back that up? It comes off a bit libelous to throw such claims around otherwise.
SwiftUI could not have be written for the public version of Swift. Instead, the Swift language has been changed to have SwiftUI's desired syntax. That level of symbiosis is not "just" a UI framework.

Swift is first and foremost Apple's own language for Apple's own frameworks. The frameworks aren't layered on top of an immutable language. The language is evolved to serve the frameworks' needs. This has already started with Objective-C 2.0, but with Swift it's even more obvious.
Depends what your goals are - it sounds like the author is aiming to be able to read a newspaper, and for that kind of challenge this stack seems OK so long as they index much harder on the NHK Easy News after getting a basic level of kanji and grammar knowledge (they already claim to know 1000 so they should be fine).

But if the author wants to have any chance of understanding spoken Japanese or speaking, this will never get the author there - much better off watching and listening to as much Japanese material as possible. While I don’t necessarily agree with everything in it, the Mass Immersion Approach [1] gives a good overview of how one can reach a good level of fluency relatively quickly without being in Japan.

[1] https://massimmersionapproach.com/
Pruning Neural Networks at Initialization: Why Are We Missing the Mark?
>> That already doesn't work with circles though.

That depends on weather you want to use arc length and certain kinds of areas.

Calculus is a thing too.
I hesitated before writing that sentence for exactly that reason: it's overbroad. But, within the narrow scope of Russia's and China's interference in US elections, they both fundamentally want a weakened US so as to more easily dominate their near abroad.

At the high level, I agree that they probably mildly prefer Trump over Biden, for reasons of Biden being much more able to work with our regional allies to constrain them. But their ability to effect that result is small compared to their ability to sow chaos. And chaos also serves their ends: a world where Biden is having to deal with domestic unrest and sharp partisan divisions is a world where he's constrained in his ability to make the plausible commitments needed for international alliances, which are in large part based on trust and faith.
I think more Americans notice than you think. We just keep our mouths shut because there is absolutely no upside to saying anything.
Carousels are the worst.

If you have content that you can afford to hide, you can't afford to put it in a premium place and compete with critical content.
Yes but overtime access to food has increased. I would have expected the study to go the other way if your hypothesis is correct.
It appears that you have misread the comment you're replying to. The speed drop-off once a write is larger than the cache can hold is a well known issue with SSDs, especially those which use slower NAND like TLC.
> Some of the most iconic magazines (e.g. MAD) couldn't make it with their traditional business model.

I didn't know that, and you just made me very, very sad. :/
Chitin could be used to build tools and habitats on Mars, study finds
Val Kilmer also had a bout with throat cancer.
At least for fibre optic, I thought it required a carrier wire for rigidity? Dunno if they're okay with automated checking, it might make it too scalable and simple to be acceptable.
I mean, fundamentally it shouldn't even be "documented". They should have a template that just does it. I should select the Service (.NET Core) template, it should give me the start, restart, stop, etc. points to start adding code, and I should be able to select Windows or Linux as build options by default.

Anything that requires I go read a blog post is a massive regression from legacy .NET Framework templates, where I never had to know how a service is built.

Visual Studio has traditionally done most of the heavy lifting on managing scaffolding, but in the past couple releases I've found things are often broken unless I go manually edit some file that I previously never had to edit which can't even be edited from within the IDE.
First line of code: Ivan Yuen from Wattpad
I'm almost certain that this is not true. At least results presented here don't support that theory.

People who are now 75-80 had much better nutrition than generations before them. Life expectancy in Finland is projected to increase even more in the future.

Calorie restriction starts to make sense only after adulthood. Prenatal, natal and child nutrition and calorie availability is probably the most important thing extending lifespan.
> the average grade point average for the bottom quartile of applicants whom UCLA admitted for academic year 2019–20 was 4.15, but the average grade point average for its admitted student athletes was 3.74

So the student athletes averaged halfway between an A and an A-? So did I in HS, 15 years ago, and I was a pretty good student! GPAs are really hard to make sense of with all the AP bonuses and whatnot. Standardized test scores strike me as providing a more apples-to-apples comparison. Of course that’s increasingly difficult to do in a test-optional world. (My recollection from an article about ‘The Chosen’ in 2005 is that recruited athletes tend to score 100-200 points lower on the SAT, on average, at Ivy League schools. I would double-check had I not exceeded my monthly free New Yorker quota: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in/amp)
I used to be such a huge WebStorm proponent, but when Visual Studio Code reached the point where it could handle all facets of front (and back-end) development, the rich ecosystem and fast pace of updates, I cancelled my Webstorm subscription and never looked back. Admittedly, it took me a while to ditch Webstorm, because I loved that editor. The remote development session feature is amazing in itself. I thought it was a gimmick at first, but since the pandemic hit, remote development has been a staple for our company. Being able to pair with juniors and seniors alike to collaboratively debug and code, it's game changing. There is nothing like it and the stability of the sessions is impressive.

What you get out-of-the-box without needing to install a single plugin is more than some. If you're working with TypeScript you get everything you need, including an in-built TypeScript compiler. All that being said, I still lean on Sublime Text Editor 3 when working with large files, which VSCode is still not perfect at dealing with. It's easy to forget that VSCode is an Electron app.
That was Mitt Romney in 2012. "We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business."

Romney's father was CEO of American Motors and the governor of Michigan.
With more years into writing code, I think VSCode/Vim/IntelliJ etc. are just tools to be used for problems that they are good at, depending on your background, and to maximize your productivity. It’s a very personal thing, and any single tool shouldn’t be expected to be versatile.
>If AI is a threat to anyone it's the size and reach of those who control it that makes it potentially dangerous.

The important part is not the size and reach of the controlling entity. It is the motives of that entity. Microsoft is motivated by profit, but they are also motivated to continue to legally operate in almost every country in the world. They aren't going to use this technology in blatantly illegal ways and probably won't use it in actively harmful ways. Open sourcing this tech would allow it to fall into much more nefarious hands.
While editors like IntelliJ are definitely more polished out of the box, something that may not be apparent is that internally they are all standardizing on tooling and protocols put in place by VS Code in the last few years.

Language toolchains are now expected to provide IDE-specific features on their own (by implementing a language server), and so IDEs themselves don't need to focus on making the language better. So the biggest sell of IntelliJ, reSharper etc. won't be relevant for too much longer, since every editor can (or will be able to) e.g. understand Java and provide basic fixes and refactorings.
As much as I like vscode. I’ve yet to find a mainstream programming language that it provides support for better than a Jetbrains based IDE. Which is really sad, because if it did, I’d switch in a heartbeat.
There's actually such a program and it's called Windows.

Due to a Windows Update bug, temp folder is filled with error logs which aren't deleted afterwards.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-za/help/4458149/windows-10-...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/hard-d...