skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a now old guy developer, I laughed when Microsoft released C#. I figured it was just a half-assed attempt at a Java clone. Then I used it, and realized I was wrong. Microsoft has been continuously improving the language, and .NET has support on a lot of platforms. As long as Microsoft keeps making my life easier, I am going to keep using it.

I haven't worked on a big Java project in a few years, but I would always find myself missing stuff from C#.
COVID is more of an exception that the rule.

I would be cautious about schools that do this. Unless its published that SAT score presence didn't affect chances to get in, I would assume its largely a play to get more applicants to reduce acceptance rate, with no scores counting against you heavily.

Anecdata of 1, but in my grad program, standardized test scores were used to sort students best to worst, and then they were evaluated one by one, given an accept/reject rating until all slots were filled. The score didn't affect your chance of being accepted given you were considered at all, but it did determine the chance of being considered.
That's not going to help nuclear power very much.
I think the comment you are responding to is addressing use of normal Instagram by kids under 13, which is something the letter also discusses.
I think the worry is more that kids from terrible urban public school districts will be woefully unprepared to do the academic work expected at an Ivy. Wealthy kids (regardless of skin color) who have attended private prep school are a much safer bet.

The mission of Harvard, Princeton, or any university is not to remediate the poor education some kid received in K-12.
Please slow down with the "intelligence" narrative. Cognitive abilities are complex and multi-faceted. There's logical-mathematical and much more.
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Chances of getting into Y Combinator are not 1 in 100
This is fairly standard, sadly, and is why Government struggles to deliver, especially on IT and similar "intangibles" type contracts.

The same issues happen in any other procurement activity that is required to rigorously follow a specific process due to spending public money, or bill-payer money of a regulated monopoly etc.

In short, you need large numbers of people involved to avoid "corruption" (irrespective of the actual level of such risk), and this means you end up less flexible and less able to buy what's needed. Weighting price by 80% is common, as nobody wants to be seen to deliver "poor value for money to the tax-payer". Hence the cheapest bid almost always wins, as nobody wants to have to stand up and explain why they didn't pick the cheapest bid.

There's a whole separate issue in how to handle "too cheap" bids (i.e. where you under-bid on the initial work, knowing you can get technical lock-in and be able to win future contracts uncontested, and turn those lucrative), but this is still an issue - see how the large outsourcers or consultancies do this regularly, and end up winning renewals on basis of "necessity".

There's an art to writing a winning (cheap) tender, then staffing it with people who rigorously enforce the scope back onto the Government client, and force every single change through an expensive change process. That's the business model many follow, and it delivers far poorer value for money in the long run. But the headline price was cheaper, so they'll still get selected...
Well, I now count as elderly (or anyway eligible for Social Security), but I first went to an opera at the age of about 12. It was Cosi Fan Tutte, and I wouldn't argue with those who consider that Mozart requires less effort than Wagner.
that project might be abandoned but this strategy is used in nvidia and nvidia adjacent projects (through llvm):

https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/blob/branch-0.20/python/cud...

https://github.com/gmarkall/numba/blob/master/numba/cuda/com...

>but we also need high level expressibility that doesn't require writing kernels in C

the above are possible because C is actually just a frontend to PTX

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/index...

fundamentally you are not going to ever be able to have a way to write cuda kernels without thinking about cuda architecture anymore so than you'll ever be able to write async code without thinking about concurrency.
The first two fallout games were great and even fallout 3 and new Vegas were pretty good. I think the latter two were good because they were smaller and actually did have some interesting stuff to find and do even though they did the open world thing.

I played the m&m series a long time ago, they kind of blend together in my head with bards tale, ultima, those gold box d&d games and games like those. The puzzles in those kinds of games always made them enjoyable.
Same here. It sounds to me like every test trying to measure "ability" ends up testing for a specific kind of ability instead of the presence of ability in general.

US college admissions today are basically a joke though, given universities mostly admit upper-middle class kids with perfect grades who can write an essay where they pretend that their life was hard.
I believe there’s research that shows elite schools do not improve ones life prospects, with the exception of those from lower income households. They looked at those who were accepted to elite schools and went to “lesser” schools. Those people did not have worse outcomes, indicating the elite schools are selecting those who would have done well regardless. I do think this makes an interesting case for admitting more lower income students for the networking effect.

(I’ll see if I can dig up the research later when I have more time and link to it).

Edit:

"we find that students who attended more selective colleges earned about the same as students of seemingly comparable ability who attended less selective schools. Children from low-income families, however, earned more if they attended selective colleges."

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/117/4/1491/187...
The absurd thing is like CCC mentioned the german covid app (state payed, kinda decentralized, very privacy respecting contact tracing app) does not only potentially cover some of the cases (if people are close to each other and the phone can detect it using Bluetooth tokens) but also seem to be getting a feature "to handle meetings" in a privacy friendly way.
At least in the US my undergrad computer science degree had a course on specifically writing technical documentation
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> not opinionated enough to compete with Lisp/Haskell

Interesting - you seem to be saying that Lisp is very opinionated. If that was your intent, may I ask why? Your experience doesn't jibe with my experience as a Common Lisp user, which is that Lisp isn't opinionated enough, and gives you too much flexibility (in some cases).
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I am pretty sure the founder of this: https://keygen.sh/ is on YC or Indie Hackers?

Might solve your license needs.

Otherwise, it depends on a lot of things so it's always a really hard question to answer. Some questions that immediately come to mind: Are you going to need to update frequently? Can they set you up an EC2 instance and give you SSH access, or do you need to do everything? What's the access pattern generally? Can the environment hit the internet? What's the tech stack, and are there multiple services to deploy?

I'd argue that whatever you end up doing, you should attempt to automate if you have the time. In this case, using Terraform and/or Ansible. That way, you have a repeatable process and can iterate on it using source control.
Admission rates may or may not be a long term indicator of anything, but it doesn't take an indicator to know that elite-exclusive college has been getting more exclusive. That aside, a lot is covid related.

On-campus education is a good that has been underproduced... this is excess demand. Maybe we'll be graduating fewer doctors, nurses, and such than expected over the coming decade
You are not alone in this.
https://debugger.medium.com/tech-savvy-readers-are-designing...
I mean Google also made a conscious decision to make it an authoritative source in their knowledge graphs.

Swapping those links for a competitor would be damn near impossible, and it has not much to do with the SEO.
UFC Dirty Fighting
The UFC is showing more discrimination and prejudice than a clean fight.
The last sentence in their philosophy section reads "
The architecture is heavily inspired by Angular." https://docs.nestjs.com/#philosophy
Prolonged brain dysfunction in Covid-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?
FYI you can get a lot of this checks in PHP too if you annotate your code. It is built in in the IDEs too so there is no extra work for you. Sure you can make errors but I do it for productivity reasons, I can perform refactoring like "Rename", "Find Usage" in PHP exactly as in Java, it is much pleasant then the situation on front end.
Don't they already do this if they don't think your profile looks legit?
Your comment illustrates another way in which these institutions maintain exclusivity -- they hire and admit people that are already in them. I did my undergraduate in a run-of-the-mill liberal arts college. I managed to get into a post-baccalaureate program at a HYPS-level institution, and I'm now doing my PhD at a HYPS. I find it extremely difficult to believe that I would've been evaluated the same way in grad school applications if I hadn't done the post-bac where I did.
No, because

- I don't think it will be massive.

- I especially don't think it will be that large for incremental builds, which is the main thing that matters. (But I'm not involved in this project, so I don't actually know how incremental the builds are...)

- My experience is that the vast majority of programming time is spent fixing mistakes, not compiling. Rust reduces the amount of time spent fixing mistakes a lot more than it increases time spent compiling.

- Rust moves many errors early in the compilation process (instead of when you try and test your code), which reduces iteration time instead of increasing it.

I'm not involved in this project, but I imagine it's at a point where you could get some numbers for the fixed overhead that adding rust adds to the compile times. I'd be interested in seeing those numbers.
Even for writing APIs a monolithic web framework can be useful.

We're building a Django + React web app, and Django brings many things to the table, for example the admin panel, an opinionated structure, and many other goodies. Much better dev experience than just Express for a small team, IMO.
Ability (not innate, but current) to learn a particular set of things. How well you are prepared, motivated, and maybe even have some innate bonus points.

This ability may vary wildly across subjects (maths vs biology vs history), and with time (acute cases of interest / commitment, or distracting factors like romance or gaming).

In any case, batching people by the level of current ability is helpful. This is a complete opposition to typical public schools, which batch kids by age and zip code. No wonder many of them dislike it and underachieve.
> BTC existence is possibly good as it raises demand for cheap energy

As opposed to the rest of the economy, which only demands expensive energy?

It would be pretty funny though, if the world's various governments decide BTC is an existential threat to their legitimacy and institute a carbon tax to destroy it.
What stability? Governments are literally printing money at unprecedented rates. Fiat currencies are losing value at increasing speeds. We're discussing cryptocurrencies in a thread about Turkey attempting to force citizens to use their own rapidly depreciating currency instead of bitcoin.
Why is a senior dev taking less money ?

Fo you want to wait for the whole world to change or just have that senior dev make better decisions for himself
Could mining itself be a cause of this chip shortage?
Yeah, as someone who went to one of these "terrible urban public school districts" in a 50% black school - it's a bullshit, racist fear.

I went from my shitty ass physics class to taking one of the hardest freshman physics classes in the country. It is manageable, they are just afraid of cultural inhomogeneity.

There were at least 10 Black kids at my school who could have succeeded at Harvard.
That's a good idea, but in practice, no value is created by BTC.

And of course, there are a ton of ways of having a 'source of truth'.

So BTC is not a good currency, and it's not a very good store of value either. But we knew that going into it, because it's obvious from the start. It's just a speculative instrument.

If you get paid in a regular currency, then you're good. If you don't want to hold it, than buy an ETF or real estate or whatever and you good.
Ask HN: How can a schizophrenic get back into the workforce?
Hello HN,

I have schizophrenia. I started showing symptoms around 2014, after I had left college for computer science, worked as a programmer with MIT, attained first author on an IEEE publication, and spent a few years programming on high-profile projects. I was extremely high-functioning, and then overnight I was homeless (I have no criminal record, history of violence, etc).

Social services are decent, and the stability they've afforded me has helped me get back on my feet, mentally. I'm lucky in this regard... many fall through the cracks.

I think that I am becoming able to work again, and I naturally fit into leadership roles, but with the potential that I may need to take down-time for several days each month, and with the gaps in my resume, I'm not sure how likely this is.

Does a trail exist for this, or will I have to carve a new one?
Consent forms force people into legally binding agreements, with massive power disparity, under duress.

The consumer bears all the risk and the provider absolves themselves of any - unless one afford a lengthy court battle or join a class action. I suppose even more rarely a consumer can get, often fractional, relief through a government or consumer rights agency.

EULAs, consent forms, and similar are a wholesale miscarriage of justice that causes incalculable irreparable harm to a staggering number of people every day. Think about it this way, a liability waiver at a doctors office is not dissimilar, in terms of bargaining ability, to an entry level employee's boss demanding sexual favors to keep their job. I have a broken arm, fix it, if the doctor screws up pay for all resulting costs forever.

Justice, equality, and equity should never be limited to those with the most means.

One last point to hopefully drive my point out of the park. Say I don't want to consent to gmails EULA, so I go and look into hosting my own webserver. Bad news, windows has a eula, okay I'll learn how to use Linux and FOSS software. But wait to need to connect my pc to the internet. I can't escape an internet providers take it or leave it eula. But I need email, I will get fired (lose everything in life) without it. So in effect I am forced, under duress, to 'consent' to a non-negotiable agreement that I reject with every fiber of my being so that I do not lose my home, family, and everything else.
> Large Lisp codebases are a minefield with near impossible security and debugging issues.

Sounds about like most large codebases. Languages can't save you from this, it seems, only discipline can.
Thanks for the clarification. It appears I can't edit my original comment to add in a mea culpa!

No idea how I managed to get it so far off the mark there... :(

For anyone reading this, downvote my original comment up the top please to get it off the top as it's inaccurate: I know it's cool to bash Google on here but my original assumption was waaaaaay off.
Most of those references are talking about how Microsoft can’t compete with its competitors who own the market (AWS, chrome, Google search, etc...).

There is some talk about Office though.
> for some reason.

Because it makes their racial stats sound good to affirmative action advocates without actually requiring the effort of educating somebody who is underprivileged? I don't think the reason is a mystery at all.
Kelley betting could probably be applied with some success to momentum trading strategies. Momentum trading is more deterministic than purely speculative strategies since it is based on observed/historical behavior.
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> It would make me 10x more likely to work on the kernel, just because I enjoy programming in rust more than I enjoy programming in C

That sound was a thousand people nodding in unison
> CCC is a club of security experts

No. It happens that a lot of members are security experts but it is far far broader than that.

The CCC is a very decentralized organization. A lot of hacker spaces are in fact operated by local subdivisions or are completely independent organizations but with a lot of overlap in membership.

In general the CCC likes define itself more by those who share its values and less by the legal entity with that name.
The `A-LLVM` issue label is probably a good starting point.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/A-LLVM
No problem!

> That unwrap should not be used in the kernel, correct?

More or less. There could be situations where you know the error is impossible and it is reasonable to unwrap. But it's a good rule of thumb.

> That I should be very careful about the external libraries I use and look for the presence of panic! and/or unwrap, or use https://docs.rs/no-panic/0.1.13/no_panic/ as jononor commented here below. But I guess this might rule-out some useful libraries from a project.

Absolutely! Use of unsafe is another potential watch-point.
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Yeah, I knew this shit was gonna happen. I installed literally zero of these apps.
one thing i’ve learned from doing little home improvement projects over the past few years is that paint is a 2-part product, primer and topcoat, and neither should be skipped if you want good results. generally speaking, primer sticks and seals while topcoat colors and protects. this isn’t made obvious in any way to the novice, and big box store workers seem as ignorant about it as anyone.
We use a custom plastic with a corporate-approved color. Not as easy to second-source quickly....
How disadvantaged are we talking about? Making ends meet, or being well off?

Because I got into software engineering because it was the best paying option available to me that fit into my morals and ethics. I'd imagine that's also what got people into being doctors, social workers, etc. I'm not sure how sex work in this case is different. In fact, from the article, it sounds like it requires training; even if the government provided that to anyone, how is that different from any other governmental work program? How is it different from joining the armed forces? How would both be different if we also addressed poverty via a UBI or similar?

You're looking at sex work as it is now, a socially unacceptable option open to nearly everyone as a last resort. This categorically changes it to be a form of social work; I don't think the same stigmas and contexts apply.
An individual can be found innocent in criminal court and guilty in civil court for the same incident
Then people will switch to producing energy at home via sonar panel, disel engines etc. illegally, or some countries will just allow it and get rich (see corporate tax for similar mechanism)
I am actually working to peel Goodreads apart and focus on doing one thing better, which is book discovery. I am actually launching into Beta on Monday -> https://shepherd.com/

If anyone is interested let me know what you think. The goal is to create an online experience that is like wandering through a bookstore and seeing little notes about which books are the staff's favorites.
How long before we have lockdowns due to mutant strains of man eating mosquitos.
And they would be wrong. The fact that everyone does it is the reason no one truly succeeds, not in the long run. A MAD strategy not only with two players but with millions.

That is why every free market monopoly that has ever existed has passed and we are not living under the thumb of a single all encompassing mega-corporation and the only pseudo-monopolies possible are the ones guaranteed by law in regulations.
I totally agree. Hey, if you read this ping me a msg on twitter @clintondannolfo to connect, I like the way you think
This is a technical detail most people don’t care about. You still get all the competing browsers with all their specific features on iOS, regardless of the rendering engine.
It brings in my mind Bryan Caplan research ;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education

basically, people educate themselves because it looks good, not because you learn usefull stuff. Thoughts?
Because GMO mosquitos introduce unnecessary risks. This is the best summary that I wrote at the time:

https://neveragainkw.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/5-things-you-m...

It's of note that the project is so unpopular in the Keys that they have had to move from a Keys-wide trial covering thousands of homes to an opt-in only test with 130 houses. In other words, the people who live there don't want to be part of the experiment.
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As a prof, I'm terrified of the exploding enrollment in CS. My 2021 enrollment for a juniors/seniors course is up 70% from recent years and still growing.

Can't imagine what it'll look like in two or three years.
Problems are tangible, it's something people have now unlike a startup idea which materializes only when the problem is solved and if there's enough need gap for the problem to be solved.

But more often than not, Finding those who have the problem is the biggest hurdle in validating a problem. That's what lead to the creation of needgap, a problem validation platform.

I'm not telling people will flock to validate our problem as soon as we post it on needgap. But I have worked hard for nearly two years to create a platform which offers a credible way to validate problems and to build products which people want.

Some of the ways needgap does that,

• Enforcing strict distinction between problems and startup ideas. New posts are only for problems. Startup ideas, solutions to solve problems goes into comments.
• People search the web with their problems as query and not our cool, yet to be a startup 'name'; They have better chances of reaching needgap than a new landing page.
• Existing solutions for the problem can be tracked and need gaps in them understood by interacting with those who use them/ built them.
• Lifetime of a post at needgap is very high, as long as there is a need gap there exists a need for a solution. Unlike say a social media with limited attention.
• Minimalist HN -esque UI ensures distraction-free communication experience.
• Individual problems can be subscribed to keep track of those who need it, existing solutions and future competitors.
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The knowledge graph thing is something any site can opt into by using schema.org markup. So long as they don't get banned for supplying misleading info in their schema.org tags, it ought to just work.
Governments don't have to profit from it. In fact to get the desired effect (less carbon) the tax should be revenue neutral. It should be used to fund UBI or give everyone a tax credit.