skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It lists `USB Device` as well. This could be a really accessible device for building hybrid usb/bt devices, like wireless keyboards.
/me points to sign
Odd because according to a friend who works for one of the major guitar manufacturers, they are recording their best sales numbers ever thanks to quarantine instrumentalism.
There is a big sentiment in the comments that ads are per se a bad thing. I want to make a counter argument: ads drive innovation because they make expensive services possible for the masses. I have watched endless YouTube videos and learned a great many things. I haven’t paid a dime for it yet. Newspaper adoption in mass was achieved by the same mechanism. Ads drove the price for newspaper significantly down so the general could afford buying them. Ads are not evil. People are.
Just as a counter anecdote, I went to Cornell, and they offered a very generous aid package. Between loans and grants, about 80% of total costs were covered. No, I wasn't an athlete or some other special situation.

Please don't avoid applying to a school just because you assume you won't be offered enough aid.

Also, if an aid package doesn't work for you, please call the aid office to explain your situation. Tell them you want to attend, but money is the only barrier. They will work with you.
She also started a foundation to send books to children ages 0-5, for free[1] about 20 years ago which has sent out > 100MM books so far.

She really is fantastic.

1. https://imaginationlibrary.com/
It’s a fine, fine line. I’ve been on the receiving end of much more insulting personal attacks here, many times.

And note that my comment says nothing about the person I’m arguing with, it just pre-empts a common response and calls the response nonsense.
Just to add to this: Koka can (obviously :-)) not always determine if a function will terminate or not so it generally adds a `div` effect whenever there is the possibility of infinite recursion.

However, since most data types in Koka are inductive, any recursion over such inductive data types are still inferred to be always terminating.

In practice, it looks like about 70% of a typical program can usually be `total`, with 20% being `pure` (which is exceptions + divergence as in Haskell), and the final 10% being arbitrary side effects in the `io` effect.
Online retailers are getting closer though with things like virtual auditions.

For instance Crutchfield now has “SpeakerCompare”

“To try out SpeakerCompare, select two or more pairs of home or car speakers to audition, then select your model of headphones from our menu. (We currently have more than 100 to choose from, with more on the way.) Pick a genre of music to cue up a song sample, and hit play. You can then toggle between each speaker in real-time using two listening modes: equal power mode lets you hear differences in loudness as they naturally occur, while equal volume mode gives you a more direct comparison of tonal differences between your selected speakers.”

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-MgU7GRLTDvu/speakercompare/def...
I think two poor kids, raised on the same neighborhood/conditions, measured with each other, SAT will give you a proxy for academic ability/IQ.

Two wealthy kids, raised on the same neighborhood/conditions, measured with each other, SAT will give you a proxy for academic ability/IQ.

That comparison might break down when measuring A poor kid, with a wealthy kid. Or a ESL student (english as foreign language, to a native speaker).

The wealthy kids, probably went to better schools, had taken PRE-SATS since 8th grade, has tutor, and everything in between to get better. Poor kids are probably sharing a room with their parents, live in crappy conditions, and have to start working as teens to help out the family economically...

All upper middle class folks know this: the more testing practice you do, the better you become at that test...

SAT and IQ tests are a valid tool of measurement when two people have had the same conditions and training.

Let me translate into engineering terms: Two engineers go to interview, one is good and has some great experience, the other one is average, but just LEETCODES for months before the interview.

The average engineer gets the job, while the better one might not, as he probably didn't solve some Leetcode style of problem fast enough.

Im real life scenarios, the good engineer would have outperformed the average one.
A lot of companies I'm speaking to (mostly Berlin/Germany based startups) have drank the "we have to use JS on the frontend anyways, and by going fullstack JS we can reduce our payroll since we can focus on only hiring JS devs and they magically work on ReactNative, the React web app and the Node.JS backend at the sime time" koolaid. Works super well for some, less so for others...

Edit: Explicitly added Node.JS since that's what they rave about for making it possible.
I love and hate you guys so fucking much right now!!!
Usually big-name schools have high price tags but extremely generous financial aid.

MIT:

> Six out of every 10 students receive MIT need-based aid. the average price paid by an undergraduate receiving financial aid in 2019–2020 was $21,917—that’s approximately what it costs to attend a state school. And for students with family incomes under $90,000 a year, we ensure that scholarship funding will allow them to attend MIT tuition-free.

Harvard puts the following numbers front and center:

20 % of Harvard families pay nothing
55 % receive Harvard scholarship aid
12 K average parent contribution
100 % of students can graduate debt-free

Other schools in this tier have similar policies.
iPad Pro 11” with MarginNote 3 (majority of the time) or GoodNotes 5(?)

It does the job. Probably have more than 300 ebooks on the think and 100+ technical papers.

I have the new Logitech keyboard with touchpad. It’s a bit annoying on MarginNote, but still like it.
It's a relatively recent trend so the anecdotes could be from before the elite universities started doing it.
Is there a study showing that cold shower before bed helps sleep? Thanks
Really? By New Years Day 1600, other than possible Roanoke colonists scattered throughout the winds, how many European settlements existed within the future borders of the United States or Canada? They're all sorta contemporaneous, and it was the bad luck of the French to colonize a place that was cold and was always going to be much more underpopulated than Britain's Atlantic colonies.

I would also say the legacy of the Spanish in the New World is...sorta hard to miss as well.
Its really a bad issue we have here with us. Electron apps are piling up like crazy. Every arch update was like 1+ gb for me. I shifted to all terminal, all web as of now.

I am waiting for https://sciter.com to go open source in the upcoming months. We can sigh in relief. Also, why aren't more apps created using https://github.com/webview/webview instead of electron. Windows support is not that bad you know.
Very bad news imo.

Having everything flow into a Amazon Monopoly of retail isn't great. Even just going in the stores to talk and get a literal feel for instruments is great.

The biggest issue with online retail is it erodes one of the last community functions. Particularly for older Americans retail shopping might be their only social interaction all day.

If 2050 is this dystopia where everything is ordered online, all food is dropped off by drones, it's going to be very bleak.

That said retail, particularly non essential retail ( my various instruments are all effectively toys, I'd guess the working musician to hobbyist ratio to easily be 1:100) is getting hit hard. No one NEEDS a news 1500$ Gibson.

Edit : Worth while to add a with concerts being shut down the professional market is effectively dead as well. I wouldn't count on this returning until late 2021 at best
Oh yeah, cool - I missed that.

Finally! An Espressif chip with WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB!
Ah yes. I forgot the 3rd part. That does rather change things.

Also - what a great bit of writing - setting up a clear pattern and then breaking the pattern. Much more effective than it would have been otherwise.
It also helps if you write it too.

The story of Plymouth Colony was well documented.
I've heard that, but at the same time the people that go to top grad schools are also overwhelmingly people from top undergrads, likely because of professor relationships.

I've talked to several people about my profile for grad school and the consensus is it's not good enough given my undergrad stature. I've talked to folks from schools like CMU and UIUC who got into elite grad schools without papers or ~3.9+ GPAs, but I'm already out of the running with these things with a degree from NC State.

It's incredibly depressing to know I'm already shut out of most forms of social mobility at 24!
"embedded code monkey"

Is this really the case? :(
Matroska.org
2003. They called me unsolicited and talked for an hour. He specifically said they didn't offer academic scholarships, and that perhaps I could join something like crew and go for a scholarship that way.
Agreed having recently bought an esp32 s2 board it does not yet have platform io support so I put the board aside and figure I’ll come back to it in 6 months and see if that is updated.
Tangentially, when COVID-19 forced my company to go work from home it thrust in to my face all the things that about that company that made me hate my job and gave me anxiety attacks.

I ultimately quit that job with nothing lined up and found a much more fulfilling job, with better pay. I don't think I would have quit that last job if it wasn't for the disruption, and I would have still been miserable.
Highly dependent on the field nowadays IMO. A lot of masters programs exist as a way to make it easier to get a US visa.
I don't know how the industry could claim the SAT isn't coachable without knowing full well they were lying. The parents, teachers, and students knew when I was in high school 20 years ago, yet it was a secret to the industry?

These people are the gatekeepers to a higher education, they should be held to higher standards.
If the reverse engineered Nvidia GPU drivers are any indication, very difficult

They're functional for very basic desktop stuff but 3D performance is abysmal
I used to enjoy Morgan Housel's writing but it feels to me like it has grown somewhat vacuous and formulaically click-baity of late. And those short, one-sentence paragraphs which every copywriter claims pull your eyes down the page? I see them and I click elsewhere.
It’s not clear that tracking sleep leads to improved sleep
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/health/sleep-tracker-inso...
I signed on to Amazon's Mechanical Turk as a worker just to see what it was all about (and to evaluate what the workflows were, so I could recommend it to others). I think I ended up doing a couple bucks worth of work, and applied it to my regular Amazon account.

Well, recently I went back on it (after a few years of not using it, although I use my regular Amazon and
AWS account all the time). And it said I'm not allowed to take on work, because my payment method has been suspended for a policy violation. Which policy? How do I get it un-suspended? Did someone else compromise it to use it illicitly? Nothing on the page gives me any clue of how/who/what to contact.
> As we have seen, relatively few children of the poor rise to affluence, and relatively few children of affluence fall below the ranks of the upper-middle class. Notwithstanding the American dream of rising from rags to riches, upward mobility is less common in the United States than in many European countries, and there is no evidence of improvement in recent decades.

This I believe is the crux of the problem in how the "upward mobility" is measured. If it is strictly by income/wealth quintiles, then it is strictly zero-sum. But is the world really a zero-sum game? I'd content that 80-90% people in USA / Western Europe have a far superior quality of life than the top-1% of the past on many metrics like health, nutrition or peace. So one can say that their entire societies were upwardly mobile from 1946 onward.
You say "for years" meaning a year after this blog post was originally written.
Apple would disagree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
Sure, ads are good and not a problem. But you need to differentiate them from the personal data mining industry, which not only gathers the data for targeted advertising, but also to sell it to hedge funds and whoever is willing to pay enough for it.

You don't need personal data in order to provide targeted advertising. The proper context of where the ad will be embedded is mostly enough for good targeting.
How about Firejail?
I'm not sure how "real" it is, but, as the commentator above mentioned (though I've also used it before), this already exists: https://www.crutchfield.com/S-X7TESAG94kk/speakercompare/def...
does not exist yet

truly mind blowing to see all those generated faces, many of which look totally legit and may exist given the infinite possibilities of the future...
Well, no school wants to have selected some of the best, they want to select the best.
his ears probably still ring all day
Guitar Center definitely shifted to "mainstream" and de-contented stores after bain got involved. Maybe that is the only real path forward, but I dont ever stop into Guitar Center anymore since they usually only have the prosumer-ish gear that Im not interested in. They also seem to have much less used gear in each store, despite the influx of 'sell yer gear here for cash' emails I get from them.

Edit: Another thing- part of the problem for US based retailers in general is MAP. Its price fixing, and in many cases I can go to, say Thomanmusic.com and order something from Germany for ~85% of the best price I can get at major retailers here, including shipping, tarriffs and foreign transaction fees.
Personally I think MAP is ridiculous and leads to TREMENDOUS waste of resources. Im buying something that was shipped from China to Europe, then shipping it back to Texas all for less money than US retailers will allow. WHY IS THAT?
Firefox History Sucks
> As far as I can tell no one uses this language [Koka] for anything, however it is downloadable and quite usable to explore these ideas.

I believe the typesetting tool Madoko[1] is implemented in Koka, though in fairness Daan Leijen developed both Koka and Madoko.

[1] https://github.com/koka-lang/madoko
Dolly goes out like that all the time. Not like almost always, I mean always. So yes impromptu it certainly was.
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Cram school definitely helps with exam scores. Coaching isn’t cram school. That meta analysis talks about 3 hour Saturday sessions and the kids at San Francisco’s Lowell did Kumon 3:30pm-7:30pm DAILY for THREE YEARS. It’s a completely bonkers apples to oranges comparison. You would be completely and utterly dead wrong to not see the overrepresentation of kids who did cram schools in exams only high school admissions.
It’s an excerpt from this book:

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374289980/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc...
Not what you'd expect from a macbook. Perhaps it's in Apple's interest to let it happen though!
Ha, I wish a 1500 got me a free ride. My grades were complete garbage though, so that may have had something to do with it.
> I've been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time.

I wonder if the Pinebook Pro would suit some Linux laptop use cases? Its an ARM laptop for $200, no fan, that ships with Manjaro Linux installed.
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Those anecdotes must be from over a decade ago.
Nice but let me change the URL of the vCard to something I control (include an app to reprogram the NFC) and I may be interested.

You may also want to add eink to show something - could be the QR with also a name etc.
This doesn't make sense. If you're paying for YouTube, then Google is already making a steady income stream from you; no need for ads.
After a few days, I'm even against it for the reason you used as a pro. If people learn personal responsibility isn't rewarded then they will aggressively spend all their money now counting on rainy day funds. Which is fine until nobody has saved and there isn't enough and everyone loses.

If Biden wants to solve the problem (and he should), then he needs to address why college tuition has been going up at much faster than inflation for years. Professors are not making any more (perhaps less, if non tenure track professors are more of them?). Government is spending less, but not that much less. So where is the money going that causes tuition to go so high. I don't have answers, that is a hard problem, but it needs to ben confronted. There is no reason why a class of 20 working fast food wages cannot with careful living pay a professor their wages as a part time student. The math works out, so why is tuition so high?
> Python With Kurly braces

I wasn't aware of this. I guess it might silence a few critics.

However I'd be much more interested to try "Javascript with semantic white space"
It's an excerpt from the author's book.
statistically speaking, most high-income family implies parents with more self-discipline, better hard-working attitude, and normally they spend a lot more time with their kids' growth,etc.

in this fancy socialism-is-the-future era, our system now punishes "the evil rich" to make sure we are all going to have 'equity-result', as said the 'road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-intention', guess what, those true 'bad' rich family always knows how to circumvent any rules that is targeting them, in the end it's always the honest hard-working high-income family got punished.

saying rich-family is key to elite university, is the same as saying exercise-person lives longer, the 'rich' or 'exercise' are nothing to blame most of the time.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"

this kind of report is absolutely trash.
You can host with Wordpress.com?
Agree the SATs aren’t a great measure. I got a 1430 on the older version of them and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to spell Tyranny! It measures a very certain subset of skills.
It’s not a surprise that the Ivy league exists to educate the children of the wealthy.

What is a surprise is that the Ivy leagues and the wealthy are ashamed to admit this.

I think people wouldn’t get all worked up about this if people would be more honest.

Yes, there will always be some income differences, yes, some people self fragment into groups by race, class, interests, etc. when given a choice. What you see are natural consequences of people’s decisions.
Is that somehow related to being able to afford all the prep courses that are specifically for getting a high score on <insert standardized test acronym here>?
Except most of what you "discover" is actually more of the same. That why we have so much divisiveness in our society, people are unknowingly in echo chambers so deep they don't know anything else exists.
How long before the thermal throttling kicks in? I guess if that's the case probably only a performance issue for me when not at home with a laptop cooler underneath.
Yep, check your contacts. I still have a few that had “Added by Bump” in the notes section.
I didn't mean fixed vs variable rate loans. Sorry for being unclear.
I meant that Congress sets the allowed Federal student loan rates.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2020/05/12/202...
How would JS with semantic whitespace difference from just auto-indenting a JS file?
Do you wish you had taken out the loans?
Mirror

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In regards to you needing to change your button when the design system needs to change I think you may be thinking about how to apply your current naming conventions or methodology as something like sass for instance what you could do is create the default button component and anything that you think you may need to change about that button you have props with defaults already set this way if you have one button requirements you just include it in the prop of that button, if you need to change all of them then you update the default prop.

In other wards instead of doing <button class=“btn-lg><button/> you're doing <Button {...specs}/>.
yeah, I would just respond like this to avoid any kind of misinterpretation:

> It's because of applied science. Most of the science won't be applied.
> So the ones among us that like the office do not just want to be there - they want others to be also there.

I mean... too bad? Speaking as someone who prefers to work from home, I hope those people realize that their desire to co-locate with their peers doesn't supersede our desire to work solo. As they say, "it takes two to tango."

I for one am glad that many companies that would normally never consider remote work are now doing so. While I don't have data to back this up, I'd wager that the average company implements co-location more out of reflex or habit than due to a careful comparison of all possible work arrangements.
>> NULL is not guaranteed to be the stored as zeros

> Is that a real issue, though?

Of course, it's not, but that's one of those factoids that everyone learns at some point and feels like needing to rub it into everyone else's face assuming that these poor schmucks are as oblivious to it as they once were. A circle of life and all that.
Seconded that in another comment in this thread. Lots of "fullstack JS saves you money since you can hire the same devs for web, backend & mobile" in Berlin, with varying success
Wonder if we'll see Sweetwater & Musician's Friend open physical stores in the future around major hubs. Or if small boutique music stores like https://www.perfectcircuit.com/ will become more of the norm, instead of the big chains.