skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That said: prereq is you’re bonkers smart.

Meh. I went to an Ivy league, as did my sister. My wife was a grad student at Stanford. My classmates were clever, but they weren't that smart! The standardized test scores can be improved with work.

As for standing out with your essay and CV, I remember a talk from an admissions officer from Harvard. His take was that it's easy to stand out from 99% of students just by actually doing real, substantive work. He wasn't talking about the stuff that's designed to be a student CV stuffer to impress admissions. Do actual, substantive work.

Something like a substantive contribution to a scientific field. Amateurs can still do this. Maybe run a real business. The example this admissions officer gave was someone who dropped out of High School, got a GED, then started repairing motorcycle engines. Then, you also need to make sure your essay is well written, which is another skill which can be learned. Relate your experience back to the academic opportunity, and how this would enable you to benefit society.

There is a problem with this way of thinking of admissions: If you do pursue it in earnest, you might well decide to skip university entirely.
Well for one it makes group chats with n-iPhones and 1 single Android annoying for all the iPhone users, on purpose.
Any tool that is meant to be so low-level as to not come with undo should be a library, not a command shell that can (and is expected to be) used by non-technical users.
If your doing this sort of project your can get a head start integrating into golden cheetahs dashboard. I done it years ago with a Google map/turbo trainer as a project
Perhaps this puts me among the first to stop clapping, but I would argue it's not generational changes, and it's not activism, it's appeasement. A CEO is a job like any other, they aren't founders, and they can be replaced by their boards like any other employee. Their job is to stay on message and sustain narrative that returns value to their investors, and if they have to deal with brand pressure from activists, their job is to do the needful.

A CEO isn't hired to be brave or risk a brand for some personal principle. It's also easier to affect concerned noises and gestures to appease domestic pressures instead of say, being principled about conditions in your foreign factories. It is a political job, and all politics is blackmail.

The quesiton all CEOs and senior executives are made to ask themselves is whether they want pride, or power? The ones who survive are these activist CEOs who take a public stand for global justice, because discretion is the better part of valor.
I've read that https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/ was funding coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab prior to the pandemic. My question is why Eco Health Alliance wanted this research? What benefits come from artificially evolving a dangerous pathogen? Here's the article https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/peter-daszaks-ec...
Talk Summary:

CrossCode[0] is perhaps one of the largest HTML5 games written in JavaScript. In order to port to consoles and mobile platforms like the Switch while maintaining great performance, Robert Konrad talks about how he developed a JavaScript to haxe compiler. The haxe code can then be compile to C++, achieving a significant speedup over bundling a JS interpreter like V8

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/
It's a pretty common feature. Windows, Gnome/X11 and KDE/X11 all have the concept of a "primary" monitor. I believe macOS does as well.

The idea is that things like the status bar, top bar, dock, etc, appear on the primary monitor unless configured otherwise.

Similarly, new windows preferentially open on the primary monitor.

This is existing functionality on all of these desktop environments.

In a multi-monitor setup, you designate a monitor as the primary monitor and the desktop automatically "does the right thing" even if you remove and reattach the primary display.

KDE on Wayland loses this functionality. The primary monitor is whichever monitor is detected first with no way to control it through configuration. The only workaround is to disable your secondary screen and then re-enable it, and you have to do that every time the desktop launches or the display configuration changes, which is a deal-breaker if you dock/undock regularly (or when the display server crashes).

Might there be hacky workarounds that partially fix some of these issues? Maybe. But it's a major functional regression and I'm not willing to invest that effort (especially, again, given the stability issues).

BTW, Gnome on Wayland preserves this functionality. But unfortunately, as I mentioned, Qt + Gnome leads to a whole host of other issues.
I think it's pretty silly to suggest that that the failure of public schools is just due to teacher unions.

I went to a very similar school system as the one in Waiting For Superman and there are a whole litany of issues I would put before teacher unions in terms of what is afflicting our urban schools, top on the list is:

a. incompetent administration

b. failure to desegregate our schools.
> The nice thing about a UBI is that it's still progressive even if funded by a flat tax.

I think this takes more thought. I agree that we want a progressive curve, and that UBI-with-a-flat-tax gives us a progressive curve, but I don't think we've established that it gives us the curve we want. Moving from the ideal curve to the (potentially) less than ideal curve for the sake of easier enforcement may still be worth it, and may still produce a system that we'd prefer to the current one, but we have to actually establish that.
Actually EGLstream is the standard (albeit proposed by nVidia) while gbm is an API specific to some Linux drivers.
Talk to people in places like Germany and you might get a different take about bad/good unions
In Europe there are a lot of social benefits that mitigate this.

- Health care

- Worker protections

- Required time off

- Sick time

- Maternity leave

etc.

Here its $15. And you're on your fucking own.

If you compare it to completely underdeveloped or dictatorial economies... Sure I guess its way better. But the US shouldn't be comparing comparing itself to that. Its like saying "This engineer is horrible, but he's not as bad as this drug addict that is yelling all day outside our front door!"
I guess it depends what outcome you want, higher income inequality or not. I happen to think higher income inequality that directly follows from the lack of unions is a bad thing:

https://files.epi.org/charts/img/172988-21725.png

https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-collective-ba...
Interesting to think of it as (almost) a service cycle of involuntary/unscheduled servicing - ha!

But it's a real problem. What's the solution, a medium-distance-rideable bike that actually folds up into a suitcase like the Jetson's flying car? The folding bikes today all seem inadequate, so it'd need to be made of magic unobtanium, but would that even solve the problem?
1. As a minority working in tech - we're tired of this trope, and wish you white folks pushing your fake woke diversity bullshit would stop. But you know, who's gonna listen to us, you know better than us, don't you. Maybe you should go outside your comfort zone and listen, oh great white savior.

2. Not every company is Raytheon or Greenpeace is my point.
The process became labeled and tainted because quality of life" was left to mostly the ivory tower crowd and beurocrats to define and they defined it as "standards of behavior not befitting my suburb". The end result was that the police were told to harass everyone who was working on their car on the street, drinking on the front porch or playing loud music (i.e. things nobody in the communities where they happen considers abnormal) and the police who didn't really want to enforce that stuff picked the people who they felt the least empathy for to enforce it on (hint: those people were mostly poor and not white).

It works in that it used the almighty jackboot to root out violations of minor local ordinances in exactly the kinds of neighborhoods where nobody wanted those ordinances in the first place. And that makes it a crappy place to live. And of course the criminals move elsewhere, because career criminals tend to not have very long term living arrangements and can easily relocate to neighborhoods where you're not gonna get harassed for walking your dog with beer in hand. The problem just shuffles around. Also enforcing laws that criminalize what a community considers normal behavior is exactly how you destroy community trust.

Community policing reduced crime, because people begrudgingly violated minor laws less publicly, but it didn't increase standards of living.
yeah as long as they keep the conversation on the extremes they never have to give up anything. If you ask them to give up a 4th car for someone to have food then they are evil for saying no. So they say "Oh we have to give up EVERYTHING and live in the DIRT because of your RADICAL EXTREMISM!"
"My manager doesn't recognize my hard work" is a totally different statement than "performance is subjective".
I just want to add: "A government is not the people and the people are not the government." Just in case this needs to be stated for anyone here or reading. If you disagree with a people's government that doesn't mean you should treat the people of said government in a critical manner. Their views do not necessarily reflect that of their government (often they do not, just look at us here in America where criticizing the government is the great American past time)
I haven't experienced, nor done anything to avoid, any sort of pain or injury like this. Maybe I'm just lucky?
Rotate, Scale, Translate: Coordinate frames for multi-sensor systems (Part 2)
To take public transit in my city costs $1200 a year. Even though I've had a bike stolen once every 3 or 4 years over the last quarter century, it's still a hell of a lot cheaper than the next cheapest transportation option by a wide margin.
Frankly, because Philip — and especially with Elizabeth — was important.

On the day of my death I would hope that, no matter how much people disagreed with me or what I represented, the fact that I was important to someone is shown some respect.
Isn't Julia amazing for these types of things?
Integrating animals into a food system correctly results in a net increase in carbon retention, even if they themselves produce greenhouse gasses. This is because they help provide soil fertility while controlling the growth of weeds so that trees and other larger, longer lived food plants aren't competing for resources. If the animals didn't do it, you'd need to use pesticides, or a mower, or something else that has more downsides and isn't edible.

There are a lot of permaculture farms integrating animals, fruit/nut trees and crops, but the most famous one is polyface farm (https://www.polyfacefarms.com/).

Ultimately, until agriculture is supplanted by ecosystem creation, and it becomes something that most of the population has some minor role in (if only to save compost for, and help harvest from your local food forest), we're going to be destroying the environment to feed people. Not eating factory farmed meat will slow it down a little bit, but the problem will still be there festering away, until we change our ways or population levels drop an order of magnitude.
You don't need lots of responses, you only want quality ones.

If you ask everyone, everyone will have a different opinion and you'll drown in the noise.

I have a contact email that works, and certain 'power users' never stop bugging me but their feedback is invaluable. Also helpful is monitoring public comments etc. A lot of times that brings attention to issues that no-one has thought of reporting.
M does happen to be the Roman numeral for “thousand” — as seen in the credits of old movies. But let’s not go there.
I've attempted this transition a few times, and keep failing. It's not so much that the apps are inferior than that my habits with Adobe are so ingrained. It's very hard to force myself to keep using Affinity long enough to get used to it, when I have the corresponding Adobe app right there and I know I can get my task done in a fraction of the time. Logically I know that this is short-term thinking, and the investment in switching would be worth it. But in the moment when I need to get something done, it's tough.
One pet peeve of mine with the button-ish links is that sometimes they only work if I click on the text itself.
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You can ballpark these numbers just fine. 500/mo UBI for 350 Million recipients is $2.1T per year. US GDP prior the pandemic was ~20T. Expenditures were about 4.4 trillion, revenue was 3.5 trillion (2019 numbers).

500/mo or 1k/mo UBI does require raising taxes and consolidating programs (a polite way of saying cutting). At 500/mo you'd raise the total tax rate (as of GDP), but it'd not be an unreasonable raise (as compared to 2k/mo UBI for all citizens which would need taxes at 40% of US GDP).
This looks impressive, and equally a recipe for utter confusion. I've always thought that it's a brilliant feature of Python that you can edit code while it's running and not affect the process; unlike, say, bash scripts.
Or rather how I feel about others' perceptions, thus I also do not feel idiotic.
No, you are off by a day. This event happened, now we're waiting for confirmation.
Searchable snapshot of the Parler social network
If by NYS, you mean Westchester (as is not unlikely given HN), I don't think this is a fair comparison.
And Part 1: https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/coordinate-systems-and-ho...
Hold control to open links in new tabs?! Woah! That's so much better than using middle mouse button, which is just suffering. Thanks chociej :)
>Amazon Warehouse workers have medical coverage here too. So they're leaps and bounds ahead if you want to go ahead and say that.

Sorry, are you seriously trying to claim an HSA is better than universal healthcare?

>Of course the US healthcare system is broken so I know what you're getting at but I don't know that I want Amazon to pay their workers > $15 to subsidize a broken healthcare system for their workers I just want a functional healthcare system and for them to continue to make $15/hr.

I'm not even sure where you're going with this. The original claim was that $15/hr was better than you can get in Europe. I pointed out the hourly wage actually isn't much better, and oh by the way, that wage doesn't include healthcare (which it doesn't). If you want healthcare coverage you have a monthly fee, plus your co-pay and deductible. Not even REMOTELY competitive to western Europe unless you're one of the lucky few who literally never gets in an accident and never gets sick (as well as your entire family).
The employees of Amazon have never been slaves and the comparison is disingenuous. Saying he was never tested on his competency is ridiculous. There were literally millions of people in the USA richer than Bezos at the time he started Amazon. There are many people on Wall Street who were *orders of magnitude* richer than Bezos that tried to start internet companies that crashed and burned.
If the vote is for union representation and the folks who will represent you have the attitude that “if you don’t agree with me you’re an idiot” how could they be trusted to represent your views? They will only ever represent their own interests.
You take the Union and then shape it to your will. Now they for sure have no agency and no options. It’s a stupid decision no matter how you paint it. It’s also not my problem. They can piss in bottles if they like.
intentionally missing the point about the amount of control in the hands of unelected management but ok kid
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-union-vote-why-some-w... has some interviews with actual workers
>nothing exists outside of fundamental reality

A bold assertion.
The hand feeds them in exchange of their work. It’s not some benevolent entity providing out of goodness.

They voted to allow the “hand” to maximize exploitation without restraint.
You are missing the important bit: The lab leak would have to be covered up by the Chinese authorities and the WHO would some how have had to be in on it.

Read the section in the WHO report on COVID19 and listen to the reputable international scientist that actually went and visited the lab and interviewed the people who worked there.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus/origins-of-the...
Isn't that a bit misleading? I don't have official bathroom breaks either, and I do just fine.
I posted the story here before but my only experience with unions was when my friend and then-roommate was waiting for his teaching license to transfer over from SD to WA, so he had to have multiple part-time jobs to survive in the interim. one of the places he got a job at was one of the Redmond QFCs. he worked there as a cheese monger and was paid minimum wage for doing so. (it's statistically likely that a nonzero number of readers of this comment bought cheese from him sometime in 2015–2016 lol).

we both had worked at various Walmarts in the past so we were familiar with their explicitly anti-union rhetoric, but it had never affected us, so we didn't think much of it. my friend was shocked to discover that union membership was mandatory in order to work at QFC (this has been since made illegal in WA apparently), which included a union initiation fee of like a hundred dollars iirc, in addition to the monthly union due. my friend was not looking for some kind of long-term employment with Kroger (QFC), he just wanted a short-term part-time job that would help him get cash quick, to stay afloat. yet, the union literally did nothing for him but take money from his minimum wage income while he was employed there.

like I said, mandatory union membership is apparently illegal in WA now, which is great. and there are probably situations where unions are helpful and productive. but I have seen a lot of people have this opinion that unions are unassailably forces of good in all situations, and that just seems silly to me.
The UK civil service is actually fairly good, isn't it, or is it just the Internet facing side of it that gets great reviews?
"Peddle" is a legitimate homophone for "pedal". Some people hear the words while they read/write so make this class of mistake. Such errors always confuse me momentarily as I don't hear the words, but it doesn't make me think there's something wrong with the author.

They can also come from autocorrect guessing, though probably not this case.

(FWIW Reading poetry doesn't work for me and I have long assumed it is only a pleasure for people who hear the sound while reading).
MySky: Decentralized Identity on Skynet
The problem is that links provide a very reliable way to perform a controlled HTTP request to get a dynamic response from the backend.... without using JavaScript. I love JavaScript, but if device reusability is a serious concern then JavaScript is the elephant in the room, not this topic. Is it available? What version is supported? What quirks does the engine have? To be fair... it was posted in 2013 :D.

The only working alternative (editing if I stand corrected!) using buttons is to make them form buttons. Now otherwise intuitive behaviors (e.g. forward/back, refresh) are laden with "you're about to resend data!" warnings that completely break the flow.

To me, it makes perfect sense why this trend evolved. Most people agree with the underlying premise about user expectation on button vs link. Dressing links up as button is a direct response to that. I understand the technical arguments, but users care what it looks like and how it behaves, not how you implemented it.

Edits:

- Yes, you can use <form method="get"...> without scary browser warnings. It just gets a but ugly if you have lots of buttons, as each needs its own form wrapper.

- 303 redirects to POST request are a handy pattern to be aware of no matter what :)
From past experience at Amazon, it’s anywhere from $20 to $80 per month for individual coverage.

I honestly have trouble believing yours is “significantly better”. One of the Amazon plans is a $300/year deductible with $2,300/year oop, and costs $80/month, and Amazon contributes $500/year towards your HRA. Another plan has no deductible, and $1,500/year oop. Those are some of the best healthcare insurance plans I’ve ever seen in the US, period. I’d believe it if yours was about the same, but it’s pretty difficult to be “significantly better” than those.
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That's because SAG is a guild, not a union, and it works because every known actor is voluntarily a member, so you can't make a movie without agreeing to their rules.
It's a shame that the word Ponzi scheme is so abused that when I see something labled a Ponzi scheme my expectation is that it is not actually a Ponzi scheme.

Where as this is a real Ponzi scheme. The business was totally made up, and it was a front to get investor money to cycle to other investors:

>in fact, neither Horwitz nor 1inMM had ever sold any movie rights to, or done any business with, HBO or Netflix.

Crazy that people think they can get away with this stuff. Ponzi schemes seem guaranteed to blow up over a long enough time horizon.
In general the Hollywood unions are very good for their members.

If there's a downside, it's that they used to act as a bit of a moat for the incumbent studios. Studios have entire departments devoted to processing issues raised by union members, which is of course expensive to do. And union members can only work on union productions, which meant tiny indie films could have problems getting talented people budget-wise. It's not just pay, it's meeting the requirements of the dictionary-sized "Basic Agreement" in terms of other aspects of production. That said, SAG has led the way to finding ways to accommodate smaller budgets and it's not as difficult as it once was.
Sorry, should've been more explicit, but I wanted to say that a union creates a workforce monopoly.

Once an employer can no longer hire non-unionized employees, it has to either surrender to the union requirements or close altogether. This is a monopoly in its best.
Show HN: A little different forum – Soapbox Ninja
Big pet peeve: Web apps where some buttons look like buttons and some buttons look like links. Everything that initiates an action of some sort should look the same, damnit.
What are key differences between Hypercard and "Rapid Application Development", "Visual Programming" tools like Visual Basic?

Visual Basic is not dead, it's still in development (although in .NET form, which might have steeper learning curve). It was highly hyped in past too, but now it has only niche uses, and it's used not as "bicycle for mind", instead mostly for handling bureaucracy in large corporations.

I'm sure "calculator" example will be very similar in Visual Basic.

There are lots of no-code, low-code tools but they almost always fail and become discontinued quickly. Only spreadsheets thrive out of these.

There should be other reasons for that, not "corporations don't want users to program their computers".
This didn't happen in Germany, this happened in the US. For whatever reason unions behave differently here, and it's the union model in the US that people rightfully evaluate against.
Collective bargaining is 100% better than individual bargaining.

But, collective bargaining is only a single aspect of unions. They're not voting against it because they dislike collective bargaining, but because of other reasons. Collective bargaining is likely not a significant motivator for them because their salaries really are fairly high for the area.

I think in many cases unions are good, and in many others they are bad. I disagree that you can point at overall data and use that decide a specific case. Union data likely has severe survivorship bias, since unions likely tend to exist where they are more helpful.