skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should do your research. ERHS is highly-ranked, especially so for a public school that is not a full magnet (it has a magnet STEM program that makes up a portion of the student body but otherwise draws from the surrounding neighborhoods). It's quite strong academically, and several of its alumni have returned to give back to it. And, generally-speaking, it's customary for highly-successful Americans (and especially those that become public figures) to give back to their high school and college alma mater.

It's a little disheartening that the immediate assumption is that "he might not have fond memories" or that "it could be throwing good money after bad." I assume that this is because the school was described as "majority-minority." ERHS students have their pick of desirable internships with the likes of NASA and the USDA, and regularly sends alumnae to Ivies and the Intel ISEF. It's not exactly an intellectually-stifling environment. We can't know what's going through Brin's mind, especially as he's never publicly discussed the subject, but we can certainly look at how his behavior compares to others, and I think HN's disregard for that in favor of a kneejerk negative reaction is shameful (if not unexpected).
> The last time the US was involved in anything resembling actual warfare was Vietnam.

I'd count the First Gulf War as the last conventional war the US was involved in, although the Iraqi army did not prove up to the task of actually fighting a modern army. If you consider wars the US hasn't fought in, Russia's invasion of Georgia is probably the last conventional war, although again, it was pretty one-sided.
..and that Java has, like the object oriented language that it is, an AutoCloseable interface which you can implement and then use in blocks, much like with this Python construct.
New Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Security Workbook
Code reviews I have done for unrelated bits of code often take me 90 minutes. And that's for code that fits into the idea of my product space, but not super familiar to my everyday life. I don't think 5-10 minutes is anywhere close to reasonable.
They'd be experienced in many different forms of combat, pitched battles were a rarity in most eras, and certainly the early middle ages.

I also don't think toughness is the right metric. We're not talking about brawls, we're talking about trained, well-equipped professionals doing their jobs.
Merging is only one aspect of version control. Also, merging (especially automatically) is limited by the quality of the data. For example, it's common for git to mix up function definitions by fixating on common lines (e.g. braces), e.g.

-def foo()
-{
+def bar()
+{
+ doBarThing;
- doFooThing;
}

There are many ways to represent the same diff, but this sort of half-and-half result happens so often, and is such a minor problem, that it's usually not worth bothering to fix when committing. Yet it's the sort of weird input that can complicate later merges, cherry-picking, etc.

A semantic-aware diff could do better. Again, there are many ways to represent the diff, but it could be as fine-grained as the token-level, e.g.

def -foo+bar()
{
-doFooThing+doBarThing;
}

Or as coarse-grained as the definition level, e.g.

-def foo()
-{
- doFooThing;
-}
+def bar()
+{
+ doBarThing;
+}

Either way (or something in-between), these represent more meaningful changes, and hence provide more useful input to subsequent processing (e.g. merging).
American government performed genocide on Indians.
That reminds me of .kkrieger, a 96KB FPS developed by the demoscene group Farbrausch which was aggressively subsetted in the same fashion at the very last minute [1]. This approach worked very well... until it didn't. It is interesting to see the history repeating itself---with the same caveat!

[1] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...
God, people’s reading comprehension is so poor nowadays.
You can also use WindMove, built into emacs (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove) and use Shift, and arrow keys to move from one window to the other.
> infiltrate all levels of political, educational, and corporate institutions.

That's been done between nations all the time.

USA seems to be the biggest offender in this category.
In McD India menu they already have a couple of types of veggie burgers to cater to the local population. However their patties have potato as one of the main ingredients and it is doubtful whether it will appeal to an average western buyer who needs that meaty feel alongwith protein.
I think he means C++ is 2x to 5x faster to run than Go. I saw many benchmarks and not sure if that is true though. Go is still one of the fastest out there.
That thing is actually mostly designed by HP and RedHat, had really weird design choices and wasn't cheap either.

In my opinion none of them were capable of designing a user facing application. It was also built as a client/server desktop application. Not really a good choice in my opinion. Sure there were no offline PWA at the time, but by contrast if your SAP backend dies all the local applications in a hospital e.g. writing the release report also dies.

Needless to say given it's immense complexity it was also impossible to use this monstrosity elsewhere.

But replacing it with Cerner in a $16bn project is just sad.
HLS and H.264 are by far the most popular streaming technologies according to a 2019 survey. If anything, I’d say Apple made the smart bet, and that WebM is the real distraction for content delivery providers.

Technology license cost is not the only consideration that goes into business decisions. Consider the whole end to end process of making, distributing and consuming video, and all the parties and technology providers involved, not to mention installed bases, cost of switching, etc.
Even Microsoft bowed out by discontinuing what was arguably then the best product in that segment: Windows Media Center Edition.
*could a civilian kill an AI controlled armored vechicle" - something along the lines of T800 from Terminator movie.
I'd argue nukes make the next outbreak of war fairly predictable. The large nuclear powers are essentially unassailable by conventional means: Russia, France, China, Britain, the US, India, Pakistan, and probably North Korea are all untouchable by conventional assault.

Pakistan and India only (edit: ok, mainly) care about each other. The US and Britain are tightly aligned and they are separated from Eurasia by water, a non-trivial obstacle in its own right. The remaining Eurasian nuclear powers, Russia, China, and North Korea share borders. They are surrounded by essentially a skirt of nations. These nations are where proxy wars will occur. Various pretexts will develop from time to time.

The wars have not all been American. Russia has fought the Ukraine and the US continues to support Georgia (the country). China was heavily involved in Korea and Vietnam. The English Wikipedia is tracking 29 ongoing proxy wars, 21 of them are Eurasian (1).

Why are there so many proxy wars in Eurasia? First, ethnic violence. Racism is not uniquely American, and the slow migration of humanoids across Eurasia over history has left a lot of ethnic groups to quarrel with their neighbors. It is not uncommon that one of the major powers gets pulled in for some reason, and then other major powers see an advantage in supporting the opposing combatant.

Second, the major powers have always wanted buffer states like a chess player wants pawns. The US has Canada and Mexico, and a large number Central and South American states. China's empire has stretched from time to time as far as Okinawa and the Philippines to Mongolia, Korea, and brief intrusions into Japan proper. Russia has opposed the entry of the former Eastern Bloc states into NATO. Most recently, Russia has sold S-400 radars to Turkey, creating tension between NATO's newest and oldest members. Russia and China have both demonstrated they are willing to use armed force to extend their borders. Russia in Crimea, and China in the South China Sea (9-dash line). They have also demonstrated they will use economic means to advance their soft power (Russia creates dependencies through oil and gas trade, China floods various islands with money and cuts deals with the locals to "lease" their land (a trick they learned from the British, see Hong Kong).

The other battlefield is of course the Internet, ranging from intrusions and malicious behavior (e.g. stuxnet, N.K. vs Sony, Titan Rain) to open source information ops (Russian interference in the US 2016 election).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars#Ongoing_pro...
I have a degree in math and I strongly disagree with this comment. I was always terrible at memorizing things, and I still regularly reach for Google to double-check formulas and theorems I should know well. In practice, I think a lot of math people end up memorizing things the same way programmers memorize the syntax and tools of their preferred languages; it's not necessarily something you explicitly set out to memorize, but you use them so often that you end up internalizing them anyway.
As far as software success goes, all healthcare providers at the VA have used VistA daily for a couple of decades (actually CPRS -- it's like an MFC app or something on top of VistA). A relative who works at the VA likes it, and is not excited about moving to Cerner.

Why Cerner? I don't know.
I wonder how much healthier the hormones and antibiotics in meat are though.
I have to admit that I did read a couple Bourbaki books. Or should I say “tried to read” because their texts are unreadable to put it mildly. They kill mathematics by removing the beauty of it and instead provide dry and boring texts that could be read by robots. Please don’t try to understand mathematics by reading Bourbaki texts. This is not what mathematics is about.
<Maybe start with simpler animal brains and then work our way up>

Biologist have been doing this for decades. Eric Kandel won the Nobel prize just studying a sea slug biting seaweed
for years.
http://www.laskerfoundation.org/new-noteworthy/articles/eric...
>I similarly refuse to use Starbucks' cute-isms for cup sizes (Venti, etc.)

I don't go to Starbucks often, but I also dislike the naming convention.

As such, being someone with a sense of humor, if I do go to Starbucks, I'll often order a 'grande culo' beverage and see what happens.

It's amazing how few Starbucks barista are fluent in Spanish. :)
It's troubling. I could understand if he was just a modestly-wealthy ecec in some large corporation, or a founder of a small software company, but he's not. He's one of the richest men in the world, and for two decades was in direct control of one of the most powerful entities on the planet. If at the apex of such success you can't even throw a few laptops at the public services where you spent your formative years (if not for support, then for reform), then it really calls into question the societal utility of such enormous private influence and holdings. It's funny how these small anecdotes about Google's founder and their ramifications dovetail with the overarching circumstance, which is that Google has abused its position and should probably be broken up.
> if there were a book about it i would totally buy and read that

Except if the book wasn't open source then it "suck all the excitement out of things?

Do you refuse to play all games that aren't open source? Don't watch movies unless they are open source?

There isn't much to Pico-8 in terms of runtime. The LUA you write is yours and I'm confident if you really wanted to use it somewhere else it wouldn't take more then a few days to repo the features. There just isn't that much there. A few draw commands, some input, and audio functions. What's to lose?

The entire package, loaders, editors, exporters, etc is a lot of work but you're no losing anything by writing games in it.
How to build an audit Azure Policy with multiple parameters
Why is this on "Hacker News"?
Well how do you define a representative government? is election the only method of creating a representative government?
Any Chinese can take up posts with in the government. Instead of worrying about what the color of the ties to wear because it polls better for a target group, chinese officials are given a KPI like deliverable to complete and that's how you rise through the ranks. Sorta like any modern private company.
I'm aware there are pros and cons to both models but so far i think the chinese government is doing the right things to develop economically.
Automating Continuous Optimization with the Azure Optimization Engin
Knights aren't gladiators. Full armor is effective in the context of a larger fight.

Individually, a knight on foot isn't catching anyone and can probably be poked until exhausted with any stick longer than whatever weapon he's carrying.

Mounted, someone in the ground has little to no chance at all if the horse is capable of moving. On clear ground, the horse is the weapon.

From the wiki page on Agincourt:

"Recent heavy rain made the battle field very muddy, proving very tiring to walk through in full plate armour. The French monk of St. Denis describes the French troops as "marching through the middle of the mud where they sank up to their knees. So they were already overcome with fatigue even before they advanced against the enemy". The deep, soft mud particularly favoured the English force because, once knocked to the ground, the heavily armoured French knights had a hard time getting back up to fight in the mêlée. Barker states that some knights, encumbered by their armour, actually drowned in their helmets.["
It has been many years since I read my paperback copy of this. Some memorable quotes:

> Don't read, study.

> Inspiration, the high-strung condition in which emotion, eloquence, music, or merely strong coffee can place us... reveals to us whole regions in our souls which have nothing in common with the sandy barrenness of our daily existence.

> Social intercourse ... is highly productive of thought-hindering insincerity.

> Some people who think freely and charmingly in speaking seem to put their minds in a straitjacket at the moment they begin to write.
I don't know if that's self-evident, given that the average non-union worker votes quite often for the union-busters who promise to enshrine their sanctifying beliefs in law.
We’re getting older and much better at detecting cancer, most likely.
Are Easy-to-Interpret Neurons Necessary? New Findings by Facebook AI Researchers
I think you have backwards: you only understand something after grinding out problems and memorization.
A more secure GitHub Experience
Azure Active Directory B2C with PKCE for Your Angular App
You badass!
If the students are being tested from home, you would still need to ensure that they weren't getting an expert friend to help them.
Sellers offering 6~12 months extended warranty in exchange for a 5-star review is quite common on Amazon India!!
Outrage sells.
To me, information is a basic human right.

The degree of truth that is within that information needs to be delineated by the individual... Not prescribed by an authority as truth
Implementing a low code support solution powered by Zendesk and Azure Logic Apps
Yeah, Pernosco may not be a great fit when you have to do that. That's not just due to the pricing model --- which we can change! --- but the entire debugging approach, where we do a lot of analysis up front, speeding the debugging experience but adding latency to the workflow.

Now, sometimes people are doing that because to track down a bug they have to go through many cycles of adding instrumentation or logging to their code. In many cases Pernosco can just make those cycles go away, e.g. using https://pernos.co/about/expressions.

However, if you develop new code using cycles of "add new code, compile, debug", and each of those debugging sessions are short, Pernosco isn't a great fit for that currently.
The wonderful thing about a scientific approach to learning and understanding the universe is that eventually it wins over denialism. This can be a long, drawn-out process, and admittedly it relies on relative freedom and stability in the societies pursuing scientific research.

There are two fundamental attributes of science that allow for this, which I don't believe are talked about enough:

1. Good, solid, scientific investigation is reproducible and thus is not impacted by priors. It doesn't matter who performs the research, the same conclusion will be reached. Reproducibility means there is never a question of bias or discrimination.

2. All scientific inquiry requires fasifiability. If a hypothesis cannot be proven wrong, it is not scientific.

Meeting these two requirements is difficult, but also the reason science is regarded so highly in the modern world. By attaching these elements of rigor to the process, the conclusions become trustworthy. Stringently following that process, however, takes time, effort, and a meticulous nature. The reproducibility crisis is very real, and every member of the scientific community should be immensely concerned about it, as it erodes public trust in science and research as a whole. And make no mistake, that erosion can be weaponized to great effect against robust research used in policy making. In part, scientists are afraid if they call out the bad research and denounce poor practices, they will rock the boat and risk funding or be ostracized. But keeping your head down is a short term strategy, and doing so only serves to further jeopardize trust while lending credence to denialism.

I am not an active member of the community, but I certainly know many researches, and they all know there is a problem, and they all just want to be left alone to focus on their work, hoping someone else will deal with it. Understandable, but sometimes more is required.
yes.

No, we should not accept journalists being killed it is their job to find the truth when people of countries etc does not want you to know the truth.

Why is the truth important? It is a democratic cornerstone, the people we have elected are working for us and shall report to us just as basic as that. When you don't get access to the truth or get misinformation you are taken away your democracy as you see in countries like in example Russia, China and USA.
Wait, is “grass finished” beef a thing?
How Netflix Scales Its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)
How does memory usage compare? That is more important to me than executable size.
> misleading charts on the internet that try to bundle school lunch programs providing milk as a meat subsidy

It’s not misleading. You don’t get milk without killing calves soon after they’re born and their mothers after a few years.
That’s not so crazy, is it? “Civilian” is used in the thought experiment to refer to an expected level of training, experience, and equipment. You wouldn’t reasonably expect a “civilian” in this context to have an RPG or an attack aircraft. The clear point of the thought experiment is “would a civilian be able to kill an armored vehicle with the level of training, experience, and equipment that would reasonably be expected of a civilian in this context?”
As bad as all of the proctoring software seems to be, I wish we had it. I'm a 1L at an American law school that's doing entirely unproctored exams. I didn't come to the state with any connections, nor am I friends with any upperclassmen. I already know I'm going to get fucking annihilated by people who are cheating with their 2L/3L buddies, because there's literally zero risk of getting caught.
In light of how heavily your 1L grades affect your career prospects, it seems insane that they're going to basically sort people by their performance on unproctored take-home exams with no integrity whatsoever.
coming from a non-tech and Japanese background, can someone ELI5?
Can you expand more on "Android phones don't allow WebRTC video chat to work on any browser except Chrome?"

My brief research[0] would indicate that WebRTC is indeed supported on FF Mobile and has been supported since 2013[1].

[0]: https://caniuse.com/?search=webrtc

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/09/17/webrtc-now-availabl...
Yep, Psyco was also based on partial evaluation and Futamura projections IIRC, lots of potential there.

I guess the very ultimate version is a transformation that takes your program AND its inputs, and completely specializes everything to those inputs :)

An advantage of the runahead idea is that with luck the change could be small and simple, and might realistically be accepted as an incremental change into the CPython codebase. Iff the runahead could be made truly guaranteed idempotent and obviously correct.
>The room comes alive, combining the oriental rug with walls painted Blue Ground. So much for the theory that one color limits other colors.

To me that dark brown rug clashes with the Blue walls.
This is the same company that made a salad unhealthy [1]. I do not hold out any hope that their vegetarian options will be even comparably "healthy". It will be deep-fried crap, packed with additives and flavourings.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/04/mcdonalds-salad-has-more-cal...
Tech vs. Human Capital: Chinese and Western Approaches to Covid-19
Probably the logistics for feedstock is more lax when it comes to hygiene than you apply for food, but the plant matter is to my understanding the same.
Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It's complicated
It's fine in a pinch having done keto for several years. But Five Guys or In & Out are better.
We need formalism, and we need motivation, examples, and pictures. One isn't better than the other. In particular, formalism isn't about hazing (though I think some people abuse it this way).

Books that claim to appeal more to intuition or rely on visual arguments certainly help a lot with motivating ideas and establishing context, but at a certain point we need to be clear about what exactly we are talking about.

When learning a new topic in math, I personally prefer to start with a more formal, terse text. For me, the texts that focus too much on examples and motivation tend to be chattier -- I have to read an entire paragraph to understand what it is they are getting at, making more challenging the process of chunking the information into digestible bits that I can hold in mind as I shower or go for a walk (and generally less fruitful). Compare to say working through Rudin or Kolmogorov, where I can read a distilled sentence where each word is carefully chosen that I can easily recall and munch on. Part of it is that I have ADHD -- texts that are more formal and less chatty make it easier for me to focus.

That said, I do think Courant had a point with

> Mathematics presented as a closed, linearly ordered, system of truths without reference to origin and purpose has its charm and satisfies a philosophical need. But the attitude of introverted science is unsuitable
for students who seek intellectual independence rather than indoctrination; disregard for applications and intuition leads to isolation and atrophy of mathematics. It seems extremely important that students
and instructors should be protected from smug purism.

Basically, math doesn't exist in a vacuum, and I think part of the reason there are so many people with low emotional intelligence in math is this belief that it can. But that's another story
Mystery Fungus Found on Eight-Year-Old Twinkie Turned the Snack into a Mummy
Approaching peak Fake News. Buckle up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s29jKFQD6rw