skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised if colleges just cut out the expensive facility and staff and sell the credentials directly at some point soon. You take an exam, and the colleges sell classes that give you some advantage during the exam, but if you are willing to pay "inflated price" you can totally just sit the exam and get the credits.

I mean thats already a thing for basically the entire first year of college in the United States if you go to a State school with the AP exams. And alot of the second year materially could easily be AP examined as well.

My experience is that it's not until your 3rd year that your past "digest information" and going into more critical analysis of what you are learning. If you EVER go into critical analysis of what you are supposed to be learning. You can get lots of 4 year degrees by just knowing what multiple choice answer to put down and be a semi component writer (that is know how to write a works cited page and not have spelling errors)

For STEM you might not actually go into critical analysis of what you are learning until your 4th year (if ever). Sense those degrees have more information you need to digest on average. I say this as someone who has gotten both a soft science degree (Sociology) and a STEM degree (Computer Science)
Building the software that helps build SpaceX
Isn't this a blatantly bigoted statement? I've seen things flagged for so much less, but I suspect this will be ignored.
For clarity, we don't build websites for NHS bodies, we build sites for some external organisations that work with the NHS, so logs would be relatively easy if it felt worth it. GA is my only source, but my hunch is that use of blockers is pretty consistent across clients whose visitors are mostly from businesses or institutions, and I see this differential across those audiences. Having spoken to people who work in the NHS Digital team there are definitely pockets of IE use, although it's been getting better - the shift sped up quite a bit after the Wannacry attack.
> There is no big company behind Zig, and the non-profit foundation stands on its own legs thanks to a balanced mix of corporate and individual donations. We don't have any big tech company on our board of directors, and frankly, we like it this way.

I hope it stays this way. And maybe it can given the way the foundation has been bootstrapped, and that the project is driven largely by a single creator. Having the funding be driven largely by small donations of actual developers is a healthy incentive structure.

Zig, next to Rust, is one of the more interesting language projects going on these days. Since Rust became orphaned from Mozilla, I am a bit ambivalent about the amount of investment in the project which is being driven by tech giants currently.
> the current very low 'recommended' limit.

Yes. See

'Why the IOM recommendations for vitamin D are deficient' authored by two of the committee members who drafted the first IOM recommendation in 1997 @ https://asbmr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jbmr....
Why do you think D isn't an option?
it's also very insecure, because you have no guarantee that the version of `serve` that gets pulled down has been vetted and is verified exploit-free, unless you tell npx exactly which version should be used, at which point things start become less easy and more "having to remember which versions are safe".
I will certainly be very disengaged if I'm made to go back to the office. Probably disengaged right out of the company with my two weeks' notice.
In the US, the FAA requires recalculation of the weight and balance unless the change is "negligible", which AC 43.13-1B defines as "any
change of one pound or less for aircraft whose
weight empty is less than 5,000 pounds".

I think the commenter was making the point that the weight of the paint is not a significant consideration, not that recalculating the weight and balance after a paint job should not be done.
Ask HN: Why does JS ASI exist when the standard doesn't use semicolons?
I'm completely confused why ASI even exists then the standard does not use semicolons: https://github.com/standard/standard

Did ASI go away?
>Is the ACLU corrupting Congress through its lobbying?

Yes. Just because what something has as a goal may seem like a net positive doesn't mean the means it uses to get to that goal are.

The ACLU, like any lobbying, is using financial resources to influence democratic government policy disproportionately based on the financial resources it can acquire. The ACLU shouldn't need to exist but it's an interesting example to bring up.

Lobbying (part of the process of transferring wealth into power by influencing or creating policy that creates more or solidifies that wealth) shouldn't be permitted to exist. However in competitive environments, ultimately, ethics go out the window.

If you're constrained by ethics and your opponent isn't, you're working at a disadvantage in most environments. Rules have to exist to enforce those ethics in such environment and prevent such necessary compromises from being on the table. If we didn't have groups lobbying against individual rights and liberties we shouldn't need groups lobbying to protect individuals rights and liberty.

Both, IMHO, are signs of an unhealthy democracy. Let's eliminate lobbying.
> The value of the dollar.

That is a meaningless metric. The numeric value of a currency doesn't matter. What matters is how much buying power people have. What's the point of having a super overvalued currency if people don't have jobs and it makes it harder for you to export to other countries?

> There's absolutely no reason to hold a currency that depreciates 25% every year

First, to have one point with this high inflation does not mean that the monetary policy is meant to keep this inflation rate for an extended period of time. So the "every" qualifier from your sentence is a weasel word.

Second and most important: currencies are not supposed to be held. Currencies are supposed to facilitate trading, investment and consequently economic activity. It's not a matter of "what governments want people to do", it's a matter of function. If a currency is so stable or deflationary, people won't use it to trade. If then, what's the point?

(Aside: this is one of the many reasons that I am slowly selling my position in BTC and turning to Ethereum. BTC is failing as a currency and this "store of value" narrative is bogus. ETH is "digital oil": not meant to be a currency, but a required commodity to run the things on their chain, including transactions with actual currencies)

> Plenty of stimulus packages ended up getting injected into the cryptocurrency market.

Yeah, so? Plenty of stimulus checks also ended up putting food on people's tables, paying their rent, paying-off their debt... you know, things to avoid economic collapse.

> Money printing was the means to their end: spending money they didn't have.

> You're essentially saying that when a government has low amount of resources but still wants to spend money the only way it can do that is by printing money.

No. you are going at this backwards. "Money" is just an instrument to facilitate economic activity. What Governments are supposed to do (and then we can have a separate debate on how much) is to manage the economy. The fact that terrible decisions were made (like building a city in the middle of nowhere) and wasting resources on things that were never needed leads to the consequence of the government having to print money.

> Surely the impact would have been mitigated.

Say you have a rich uncle that likes to gamble. One day he tells you he lost $100k one night at the Casino. Another day he is happy, because he made the money back. Some weeks later he goes on to make $200k. Another week, he loses $300k. Later he makes $200k back. Do you measure the "impact" based on the amount of money that he lost (or gained) relative to his wealth or do you just think that he is too stupid to be gambling like that and might risk losing it all one day?
A great example of this is how Dijkstra used to conduct final examinations where students basically showed up and had a real-time, in-person discussion with him. It must have taken forever to get through everyone, and probably isn't feasible anymore with modern class sizes.

I think a good approximation is project work, and then requiring presentation of said work. Normal exams don't really cut it.
I'd also recommend Genius, a mini-series focused on Einstein.

Let's do a mathematics movie list too. I'll start:

+ The Man Who Knew Infinity - Ramanujan and Hardy
+ A Beautiful Mind - John Nash
+ The Imitation Game - Turing
How to Do Meetings Well
Office renting firm says that "good" employees like working from offices. What a headline for WeWork to land in the WSJ.

This, right here, is proof that clever spin and intelligent marketing is always going to be more effective than just pumping cash into advertising.
Dropbox hasn't sponsored Pyston development in quite a while
https://blog.pyston.org/2017/01/31/pyston-0-6-1-released-and...
welcome to HN LOL
Whatever he's doing seems to be pretty easy, any word on how he's defeating the safety checks?
If a website still works in IE6 then there are some serious problems with the site's security implementation. IE6 doesn't support TLS 1.2 or 1.3, it's vulnerable to POODLE, RC4 and FREAK attacks, and there's no ECC compatibility on any OS.

If a site loads in IE6 stay the hell away from it.
I agree that the downsides outweigh the positives, but they do provide security to a certain extent.

For example, you can give your grandma an iPad or a chromebook, and there’s very little chance of her accidentally installing x nasty malware.

Give her a proper laptop, and at any one time she’s about 6 clicks from something dodgy, especially if she’s on social media.
Kudos to Uber.
Why would you not have things installed already? You're almost guaranteed to have Node or Python or bash (via the linux subsystem for windows) already available if you do any kind of web dev work?
I'm always saddened that the energy that goes into those blockchain signatures is basically wasted.

Why couldn't bitcoin work by having the miners fold proteins or something? Proof of work comes from advancing the state of the art just a hair each time. Imagine if all of the computation power being used to prop up bitcoin were also doing something productive?
Its Fucking
Do you mean I should just ignore it? Not even display a warning message?
I work on a B2B app with a lot of local govt users. We dropped support officially for IE11 last summer and I was surprised by the little to no pushback.

Our stance was if you needed to use IE11 for a legacy application, that's fine -- but our application required something besides IE and you're not limited to only one browser on your computer.

Any stances by IT that they haven't had a chance to authorize another browser or prove that another browser was secure compared to IE11 is an absolute joke at this point. Any IT department that is telling users to use IE11 for security reasons is questionable imho.
I wasn’t being obtuse, but I can see why it came across that way. Crypto definitely got started among the younger more indie crowd, but I think that has slowly changed over time and will continue to do so. Bitcoin was introduced almost as a way for the little guy to fight “the system”, but I think people underestimate how much influence the old players like Wall Street, billionaires (hence my previous comment) and governments are starting to have on it.
Plus you get a young and beautiful Jonny Lee miller and Angelina Jolie.
TypeScript: The difference between interface and type
Coronavirus variants are spreading in India – what scientists know so far
WeWork is still a thing?
Yes. Undefined behavior exists only in standards. It's perfectly possible for implementations to define everything.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

> I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application:

> it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by another running application right away.

> The testers on the Windows team were going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing.

> They reported this to the Windows developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it did, ran the memory allocator in a special mode in which you could still use memory after freeing it.
here's my collection of more design resources in case it helps anyone https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/
I think that's not uncommon to happen, because there's definitely overlap in the communities/people talking about this stuff. Using/thinking in DDD tends to lead naturally towards onion/hex/ports-and-adapters (whatever you want to call it)
I'm building an experimental, and we tend to re-do weight and balance after painting. An elaborate paint job can add 30+ pounds and can shift your CG rearward. The regs don't require it, but many builders do it anyway.
And a futuristic version will be Mars. Mars twitter will be the mouth of madness.
but still what? stop moaning LOL
If you look at the history of pollution it isn't until recently that China started being a polluter on par with Europe and the US when we were growing our industry. Most of the pollution on earth hasn't come from China and if we acknowledge this and take our part in cleaning up, instead of pointing fingers and saying "today we are polluting less so you should too", we could for example lower import taxes on items made with green energy and lower export prices on things China need for going green(er).

China are not going to pay for fixing our pollution going back a hundred years. We are or China will just turn a deaf ear on our talk.
I just noticed that this TypeScript uses semicolons in the example, and that's wrong.

The JavaScript standard does not use semicolons any longer: https://github.com/standard/standard
https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/infographic/phy...

Exercise is widely accepted as preventing health problems.
Every automaker is investing in many many different alternative drive train types. Volvo and Daimler are not putting all their money on black per se, just diversifying their R&D like everyone. Porsche and Toyota for instance are dumping money into synthetic fuel, but it doesn't mean they're anticipating any sort of synthetic fuel boom, they're just trying to be ready if it happens. This isn't news.
About time!

This is great, saves every designer from doing a half-baked version of this on their own.

Seems a bit odd to put it under developer.apple.com, but I guess UX and visual design are part of the SDLC... Hope designers know to look there.
>Advantages tend to accumulate in life. Those who had the easiest time growing up are often the most stable ones emotionally. Life doesn’t care about fairness, just like being and tall and attractive is correlated with intelligence, even though we might not prefer it this way.

Many people who have had too easy of an upbringing may seem emotionally stable while inside the safety of their cushy comfort zone, but when they're put outside their comfort zone and hit with a real challenge or hardship, they often crumble, because they never learned how to deal with real difficulty
Firefox isn't far behind at 2.6%
Shame they didn't research that before they bought $1.5 billion in BTC.

Presumably they're donating all their profits from their BTC purchase to carbon offsets? Otherwise it's all worthless posturing.
Patents: Delicate balance between innovation and the public interest is at risk
F# would disagree :) It's one of the nicest languages for Enterprise software dev
LOL okay bruh
Dark patterns are not "anything you don't like"
There are lot of snippets out there, the most common way would be to target the window.navigator.userAgent, something like:

function isIE() {
return /Trident\/|MSIE/.test(window.navigator.userAgent);
}
U.S. Home Prices Surge, Scaring Off Some Potential Buyers
JS have been heavily optimized by browser vendors, fueled by the intense competition on the browser space, and the huge resources invested by companies like Google.

IIRC Firefox 3 was the first browser to have what we would call a modern JS engine, with heavy emphasis on JIT compiling. Google Chrome soon followed and V8 dominated the JS perf story.

Python doesn't have such fierce competition of implementations. And besides, it has the "escape hatch" of being able to implement performance-critical code paths as C extensions, which is what heavy-lifting libraries like numpy do.
I had to read the part about this being the second time twice when I first saw the story because it seemed so unbelievable.

So he does this stupid and dangerous thing and and for reasons he somehow doesn't get arrested the first time. So what to do? Try it again.

ADDED: And oh. Then goes on to state publicly and in print that he's going to keep doing it. It does look as if he can get his licenses suspended for all of 30 days. The funny (not ha-ha) thing is that it also looks like he could be thrown in jail longer for disobeying the police officer (6 months) than the actual crime (90 days).

Not the sharpest tool in the shed. Attention-seeking on Instagram may not be the worst thing at the moment but it's still a pox.
I went to the GitHub repo you included at the bottom of the page and I noticed you don’t include a license. Without a license everyone who clones, forks, or otherwise uses you code is violating your copyright. Maybe that’s your intention, but if not you should consider adding an appropriate license that defines what use of your code is and isn’t allowed.
When taxes favor making money with money than labor why would anyone want to work?

Labor should be tax free or low and capital gain should be taxed high. Time is more valuable than money and taxes should reflect that.
So what reasonable steps can one take to effectively decrease intake of these.

I have personally: stopped using food that is heated in plastic in the microwave. I drink mainly tap water, which I used to drink out of plastic bottles I refilled. I switched these to glass and metal. I stopped using my beloved water atomizer, as I also read on HN that inhaling this stuff is awful.

I want to replace my plastic cutting boards and bowls.

What else can I reasonably do?
The picture in the article shows him touching the steering wheel with his shoeless foot, so I'm guessing that's the key.
I could not distinguish pin/pen as a child but learned to later in life. Another such pair for me was bowl/bull. I still dont distinguish marry/Mary/merry though I have been told others do.
Please take a look at py2many which does this. Looking for feedback.
Amo, Ergo Cogito: A Philosopher on Love as a Way of Seeing
US attorney here (but not your attorney not legal advice etc. etc.), this is standard everywhere. Note that "standard" doesn't mean you can't push back against it. If you think there is sufficient value to be lost, hire an attorney to propose some alternate language that draws the line around the stuff you do at the workplace with employer-owned tools, etc.
I've always suspicious of state lotteries and the many unintended consequences (including being an unseen tax on the lowest income earners) but this seems like a decent idea.

I wonder what unintended consequences (if any) lie ahead...
> You said that there would be no deaths if everyone got a Peloton.

You're straw-manning here.

It's recognized that obesity is a major risk factor for severe COVID illness.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm

> and you can't cure a lot of health problems with exercise

Exercise prevents lots of chronic health problems that are common in the US and elsewhere. This is common knowledge.
The cynical side of me thinks this is the problem with the "landing page optimization" market. Measure, tweak, measure, tweak (repeat 20x) and before you know it, you're back to where you began!

A couple years back, I read another article about landing pages that warned against taking A/B testing logic to the extreme, as it may lead you down the wrong path.

My advice: Use your instincts/experience/feedback along with raw data.
So they paid a penetration-testing firm a consultancy fee to help harden their network.
The phrasing of the title is awkward. A reflex lens is one that incorporates a mirror as a focusing element. For example, the 500m f/8 reflex lens ( https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0013/index.htm )

Its also not completely correct to say that these are lenses for SLR cameras - they're F mount. Thats it.

Some are lenses with the aps-c sized image circle, some are lenses for a full frame image circle.

A glance at them suggests that most of these of the lenses designed for the amateur market. A 28-300, 16-80, and 18-300. Next, there's the "serious amateur" with the 16-35mm f/4 and the 85mm f/3.5 micro. And lastly, there's a high end specialist tool with a 200mm f/2 (which is nearly $6k).

To me, this is just another update / realignment of a lens line. The general trend over the decades has indeed been a contraction. If you browse through https://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkor... you will see numerous special lenses that have no modern analog and a reiteration / refinement of other designs - just look at the number of redesigns of the 85mm lens - http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkore...

This doesn't happen as frequently as car companies update their models... but it still happens.

My crystal ball says that the SLR and the F mount is moving more and more to a design that is only used by the professional and the serious amateur (and the mirrorless bodies are slowly encroaching in on that but are hampered at getting into the professional area by the sensor size). As such, it really doesn't make sense to be designing or maintaining lenses targeted for the amateur / DX lineup.
I work on an NHS focused web app, if it's pockets they're pretty deep ones.
Apparently foot on the steering wheel from the photo.
Ask HN: What Effect Will Biden's Ransomware Taskforce Have on Privacy Coins
Over the past few weeks privacy coins such as Monero, Zcash and Aargh values have increased at a much fastet rate than BTC.

What effect do You think the anti ransom taskforce will have on crpto values and will there be a differing impact for public vs. private coins?
Yes and OP started it with his comment which shows perfectly why the rules are as they are. That the later comment was also against the guidelines could easily be predicted.
Doesn't that mean the judiciary is independent, but biased?
I think it's because no other properties of it have changed in the meantime, so one might think it's either arbitrary and irrational or manipulation and rational.
Your front-end probably does not need to know about the signature which is the part you leave in an HTTP only cookie.
my swipe file of landing page advice articles here: https://github.com/sw-yx/launch-cheatsheet/blob/master/READM...
Thank you, interesting stuff. Very much looking forward to user-definable effects! I like Ocaml in principal, but haven't yet strayed beyond learning the very basics some time ago. Seeing a usable implementation of algebraic effects in a somewhat popular language...that I gotta see :)
Considering they're open to the world, $2000 for a side project is a good motivator and of course network is the real value for any incubator.
I imagine there is enough inventory in the channel to fulfil orders for the next N months.

Also am curious to whether there's an improvement in telephotos with mirrorless. The big selling point for rangefinders over the years has been the image quality bonus with compact lenses.
Would be nice to have enough money to invest enough to make a nice living wage off of the market right now. Most people don't have that $$. Early adopters are WAY ahead of everyone else in this regard. Luckily I got in early.