skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Firefox you can add "ui.systemUsesDarkTheme" as an integer in about:config and set it to "0" for forced light or "1" for forced dark. This setting changes what is reported by the media query, you can still set your OS and/or browser theme independently. You will need to restart Firefox to apply the setting. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196903
A shitcoin wasting electricity and causing absolutely massive emissions of greenhouse gases is a first point. I'm not looking forward to the planet I live on being utterly fucked. And I'm even less happy about frat tech bros pumping bitcoin because it makes them money.
"For example, I found that the students disproportionately came from families where their parents were career academics"

I also found that students disproportionately cam from families who themselves had studied at Oxbridge.

"The relationship with those families having a lot of money was not something I particularly noticed."

When I was there, I noticed students disproportionately came from wealthy families, wealth in the millions rather than billions terms.
It was uncool when I went in 1994.

My experience wasn't quite the same but I went to a college that had the highest proportion of state school students, and only heard about the most egregious posh people behaviour through rumour. The parker-bowles mob were notorious, for example, but I never came across them.
Me too. Agree completely. I had to battle to get allowed to take the entrance exams -- my school didn't want to pay for an invigilator, so I sat them in the deputy head of the sixth form's office. I got in. It changed my life. I also realised that, on a course like physics, most of the students came from quiet, nerdy backgrounds like me. It was often history / english / classics / PPE etc where the "great public schools" made their presence found. Oxford is a big place with ~30k students -- people can find others 'like them' if they're so inclined, and the cliques are to some extent self-perpetuating.
In the article, there is the following quote:

> "But you’re thick like me", he said

For any readers who aren't familiar with British slang: the word "thick" means "stupid" in this context (as you have no-doubt worked out!).
Glassdoor's market rate/comp tool says I'm actually making market rate for the area.
On a scale of kids, wife, pets, the appliances are the least of the noise concerns. Soft insertable ear plugs with hunting ear muffs on top keeps me sane. I don't focus well with most kinds of music unfortunately.
When X is 2, then 2 people replace 2 in theory, so there is no growth. In practice, some of those children will die early, so 2 is actually a minor reduction, not growth, forget about exponential.
Specifically whoever is likely to lose seats is always unhappy, and so the reforms (and they are reforms, the UK in particular knows what happens when you don't have boundary reform for an extended period, that's where "rotten boroughs" came from) are frequently delayed or tweaked slightly by Parliament even though that's contrary to the purpose of an independent commission.

I live near to the Island, and so this comes up here very often. The Island currently has one Member [of parliament], but its population is far too large for only one district, yet too small to just become two districts. So the obvious reform, considering the practical links between the Island and its relatively rural coastal neighbours, is to redistrict so as to create two districts which each contain half the island plus a chunk of rural Hampshire.

However, a considerable number of people would prefer to be grossly under-represented (all the people on the entire Island get just one Member) rather than risk either or both of their two Members being less interested in the Island because they also represent some coast dwellers on the mainland.
I thought the standard interpretation of Arrow's theorem was that if no voting system satisfies the hypotheses, then there is no such thing as an objective electoral mandate, and therefore almost any set of rules that's generally acceptable to the constituents is equally valid.
Am I misunderstanding something? I'm not an expert on this at all.
Non-profits are all prioritizing growing their endowments to ensure their future capital and not rely on one time donations. I don’t have a problem with this.

I do think as organizations grow they become increasingly inefficient and competing priorities are introduced. It must be carefully managed, but is difficult.
What are the most effective recruitment methods in filling a position?
I don't remember being asked about wealth on college apps. Are you thinking of the FAFSA, which is a government form, and not part of the application process?
Interestingly, I wouldn't suggest that that has anything (or much) at all to do with "elite" universities.

At St Andrews I didn't find that to be true. At a far less prestigious university, it was true. My cohort largely agrees with that assessment, too.
And luckily stepping down reverses the production to "normal" level. PPIs are so potent that you can basically stop the acid production, which is not what you want except for a short period of time.
Emma Terry
Raise Your Make Up Brushes and Start Your Make Up Journey - With James Charles - Today
Pry does allow that with some caution. You can dip into files from the pry prompt ("edit <methodname>" opens the right file at the start of the method definition) to add methods and reload a class ("reload-code" or "reload-method"), and if you want to you can relatively easily rig things up so you're thrown into a pry prompt on method missing, implement the missing method, and reload the relevant file and retry the call.

Though I'll usually have a "boot" file that loads all pre-requisites and just call functionality from a pry prompt and edit/reload as needed rather than try to continue from a method missing or exception.
> Simple doesn't have to mean poor quality.

No, but "cheapest" usually does.
There are quite a few voting systems that removes/minimizes incentive of gerrymandering. My favourite is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_ballot .
Killed, or just unreported? Probably both, but I guess more unreported.
How we simplified low-volume CNC manufacturing using Fusion 360
Wikipedia actively builds both on Wikidata and their media hosting solution. But if you feel like using wikipedia without any media or a significant part of the factoid tables, go on..
I think you may have a misunderstanding of how the US education system works. There are lots of scholarships and financial aid opportunities accessible for students that need them. Most “Elite State Schools” also have some kind of programs that give preference to bright students from their own state. E.g. University of Texas gives an automatic admission to the top 7% of Texas high school graduates. In state tuition is almost always ridiculously cheaper.
McGregor won the first round on all three scorecards.

He didn't look terrible. He looked very dangerous, just didn't address the leg kicks. It's a game of inches, a couple of Conor's big lefts only just missed Dustin's jaw. One of those lands and things could have been very different.

>Is his paycheck in any way in proportion to a skill as an athlete. Not even close.

I was addressing:

>hasn't taken fighting seriously for years.

I disagree. You don't step into the ring with Poirier and have a showing like that without taking fighting seriously.
Oh, but US IT salaries are very easy to understand!

They're too high, though not high enough.

We've become the new priesthood. People who complain that sacrificing one calf to us each year would do well to be reminded that we're not demanding one child per year.
Eh, a lot of folks forget that the shift to the liberal arts after the 50s had a lot to do with a surplus of engineers (and relatively lower salaries for their capabilities) and the desire to get into corporate management positions, which was a reasonable ambition before the popularity of MBAs and business programs.
Glassdoor's market rate/comp tool says I'm actually making market rate for the area. One major downside to switching is that it involves more time to come up to speed, like putting in extra hours. I can't really commit to that because I have to watch my kid as soon as i log off of work (after 8 hours).
When X is 2, you have one of the most important functions in the family of functions that display exponential growth. It is the one in which the exponent is 0.

> not growth, forget about exponential.

This is really weird phrasing, since you're on much stronger ground saying "not growth" [arguable] than you are "not exponential" [flat wrong]. I just pointed out that defining results in terms of "X children per woman" will always necessarily produce an exponential curve. That's the definition of an exponential curve. If you want to distinguish between "growth" and "decay", you can say so, but you're still stuck with labeling them "exponential growth" and "exponential decay".
I think it's absolutely great that Wikipedia is able to pay competitive salaries in a good location. It's probably one of the reasons why they can run such an amazing site. I consider my donations well spent.
Depends on which technlogy you want to use.

For C++, the path to avoid XAML is to stay with legacy MFC, adopt Qt or C++ Builder.

For .NET, there is really no way around XAML, other than keeping using Windows Forms, or doing everything by hand calling the .NET classes that map into XAML components, regardless of WPF, WinUI or MAUI.

Then there is Delphi as well.
It's valid when speaking about a service. None of those are.

Services have operating costs, if you are not paying it means someone else is and your data and attention is very likely part of the package.
any pedal? That seems far-fetched - one trivial counter-example would be a looper as that requires modal input and state. I also wonder if it can handle complex multi-tap delays.

Can anyone give a rough idea of the actual limitations? I would guess that there is a limit to how non-local the effects it can manage are.
#5 - I think that grading is not a good feedback for many disadvantaged kids and their parents. I was being told that without good grades I will not land a good job. This kind of advice is worthless for a 12yo and not really true. Having a good attitude towards learning is an universally more applicable and could lead to a thriving society when applied generally.
> "quite reliable"

As an engineer, I shy away from using superlatives. But sorry, I now understand that this could have been phrased better. Thank you for pointing it out.

> no way to share photos

Correction, the receiver can be on the free plan.
Which also happens, there are significant anti-poverty efforts in China that have been quite effective.

Attacking both sides of a problem is sometimes necessary for effectively dealing with it.
Optimize data analytics in capital markets with time-series databases
They are far less rigid at this stage as they haven't invested a lot of coding time.
>> (money) amassed and still hiding it? Asking for money is disgusting?

Disgusting?!! They ask for money. They don't sell your data, which is what most sites/apps you use do. They don't abuse their position, as an important information source. Disgusting compared to what?

Meanwhile, Wikipedia has some of the most accessible financial information of any comparably sized organisation on the planet. This is why the get so much heat. The financials are easily understandable, which means a financially literate journalist or commentator can understand what's going on and take a cheap swipe in under a minute.

You can literally understand wikimedia's finances better in 10 minutes than you could after weeks of studying any other non profit, publicly listed company, NGO or government organisation. There is no attempt to hide any controversial element... Asset accumulation, clearly and deliberately highlighted. Expense growth, ditto.

Here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...
Other developed regions.
> Then came the push in the 80s to 00s to get more working class kids into higher education, so they could have the same opportunities as upper class folk, thinking education leads to wealth. Instead we've just ended up with a bunch of working class kids graduating to become baristas.

How much of this is just being stuck in old mindsets?

I went to an expensive private school with lots of rich people and just 1 student chose a program outside of business, engineering, or medicine and we were far from a science school. It was clearly understood that arts was a path to serving coffee. A school that arguably had more people win essay/book competitions than science fairs produced nobody in those areas.

In university, I met tons of people who thought that having a degree alone opened up a pile of job options. They were 20 years behind the mindset of my private school.

It is now that certain education leads to wealth and plenty of people are doing education which does not.
And wikipedia also stopped listing where it spends money and how much.
The self-hosted audience is also very small. I think you made the right choice.
I have been lucky enough to have some of my university courses taught by some luminaries in their field. Most of them have taught me a framework for thinking as well as their course, not to mention being able to transmit some of their passion and love for curiosity. There is so much more besides lessons at the university, I would not even compare any video course with it honestly.
Generally, not true.
My point was mostly centered around freedom. Everyone knows the rules of the game. Those who can’t toy around, play the game straight and narrow (good grades, stay focused on one concentration, and hope you picked well).

It’s a luxury to try one thing or another, no matter the cost (cash and time), and still land in an ideal situation as life progresses.
EU has packaging tax for all goods for waste management.
not quite there yet, but on possibility is train multiple models and switch between them on the fly

another is add more params to the models to take the knob states into the account when doing predictions (which can impact the performance)
The same article then also goes on to reason why this doesn't seem to be the dominant way of transmission outside special circumstances (like ventilation).

I don't have a background in this topic at all, but apparently actual airborne viruses are really small: Measles is about 200 nm and Influenza about 100 nm in diameter, while Sars-Cov-2 is about 1000 nm, so 5 to 10 times the diameter and thus 100 to 1000 times the mass.
Okay, your computer is far from 100% efficiency, nor any appliance in your home, nor for-profit companies, nothing is. Why are we so outraged when a non-profit company doing great work is also inefficient a bit?
Side note: Oriente(e)ring is still, AFAICT, part of phys. ed. in Nordic schools just like it was decades ago when I went. Conscription also helps, of course.

On the whole, I'm pretty damn satisfied with the overweening cradle-to-grave nanny state, making sure you get at least the rudiments of basic life skillz and all.
You are correct of course.

The 3 children per woman limit is still the smallest number that accommodates for the 2.1 average required for replacement level.
To achieve equilibrium and avoid rapid growth the limit must be set to 3 and then hope that the average will be drawn down enough by the women who can't/won't have children for various reasons.

Not advocating for this policy, and I am not considering how well it works in practice and the morality. This is just a reductionist model.
I do have self-esteem issues, good catch, but I doubt my getting therapy would do much about already underpaid workers whose bosses are raking in bonuses while signing off on orders to furlough them, for example.
Both projects are amazing. We forget how much we where able to do with so little.

Modern CPUs can do so much more, but the basic stuff, that could be done on a MOS 6502, that's less than 5000 transistors.
Appliances are least concern in city. To me most noise comes from cars and motorcycles. This area seems really underegulated, basically anyone can annoy a lot of people at once by making exhaust louder to establish I don't even know what?

Semi-joke: Anyone can do it, just drill holes to exhaust before muffler. I thought that maybe I should do that, like annoy so much people that something would be done in regarding this.
Misread graph. Removed comment.
You find my statements dangerous, I find the idea of viewing everyone as competition equally so. It all rounds out I guess.
> media player

Media players are already a somewhat iffy proposition because playlists, subtitles or multi-part (video) files for example are the kind of multi-file file formats that don't work well with heavily sandboxed file access because of the implicit relationships between separate files that the OS doesn't know anything about.
SQLite is great, and I use it for caching and for providing data summaries... but it is not near-universally compatible and accessible, human-readable, the way text-files are.
Who cares about reliability, it is not as if lives depend on it. /s

If I look at the availability of phone service in my home (German metro area, cable) it is way below anyone would gave dared to provide in the TDM/ISDN times. I strongly believe only the redundancies people have with also having a mobile phone has allowed this to continue with lives being lost and regulators clamping down.
You made me remember how my boss boasted having top talent (meaning 2 out of 50) of Cambridge and UCL graduates in the company.
How much does WMF spend to prevent the content being "only be advertisment and propaganda"?
In addition to my previously stated opinion, a forgot to say that I would rather heavily invest more into organ printing, and organ growing than going into Opt In/Out organ donation defaulting/forcing people to do something they have any type of objection.
>There's no reason why this should not hold for spying and policing agencies

Isn't that what democracies call "constitution"? Something that protects citizens' rights again wrong-doing of powerful entities including legislators and the state itself?
I was thinking of the M.I.T. application form circa 2004. I seem to recall that it explicitly asked not just if I had enough money but to disclose how much money I had precisely, and it also explicitly asked if there were family members who had attended M.I.T.
Umberto Eco's advice on writing creative fiction
> Why is it amazing for the players in the midst of a very emotional moment to have to endure an inappropriate question, and respond with an attack?

It is amazing that people make a lot of money from playing a game, and for making millions in sponsorships from being famous for that game:

> Both sponsorship agreements follow a wave of success for Osaka. The three-time Grand Slam winner defeated 23-time champion Serena Williams in 2018 and became the highest paid female athlete in 2020, earning around $34 million from endorsements alone.

* https://insidersport.com/2021/01/20/naomi-osaka-signs-luxury...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2020/05/22/naom...

* https://sportskhabri.com/naomi-osaka-brand-ambassador-endors...

If she doesn't want to go out there in public, perhaps she should stopping putting herself out there in public.

If you don't want to be rich and famous, but just rich, go run a hedge fund. Many fewer people will know about you and you'll have just as nice a lifestyle.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I would host a site like Wikipedia on a single server, I'm saying that it's more than possible.

Also, don't assume I'm speaking from a position of ignorance here, I know more than a little about how Wikipedia works. I've perused the source, played with the database dumps, etc...

I find comments like yours amusing, because I hear similar things in the industry all the time! People like you are not wrong, it's just that correct knowledge is very rapidly outdated in this industry. It's shocking what exponential growth really means! As a random example, I once had an engineer going on and on about their "powerful" email server that cost them six figures. I pointed out that it was slower than the Blackberry phone it was synchronising the email to. (No, really!)

You really underestimate the spec of a modern, 2021 era server!

You really are.

You can buy, right now, for "normal" money, a server with two 64-core AMD EPYC CPUs. That's 128 cores that are the fastest individually of pretty much any server CPU. This platform provides 256 hardware threads. Right there, you're looking at something like 12 requests per second per thread. As long as you can serve them in under 85 milliseconds each on average, that's plenty!

I've written a Wikipedia clone for an in-house CMS. The content generation was so fast that for laughs I compiled it to javascript and had it run per keystroke for a live preview in the browser. This worked fine for content up to about 64 KB. This was in 2008, by the way. Things have moved on in terms of performance. Try this with Rust and some judicious use of high-performance AVX-enhanced parsers, and you could generate a typical Wikipedia page in under 10 ms, no sweat. Then there's output caching to get it even lower...

That server can have something like 4 TB of memory in it. The entire Wikipedia database is just 5.6 TB uncompressed.

Yes, you really can fit most of Wikipedia in memory!

Bandwidth? Mellanox makes 200 Gbps Ethernet cards. They're dual port, so that's 400 Gbps. That's enough to handle the bandwidth of a decent sized regional telecommunications company through a single box. I should know, I've seen the network diagram of mine, and they have only 100 Gbps inter-city links!

Spindles!? Are you kidding me? There are gaming PCs being built right now with 2 TB NVMe drives in them that can individually put out 7 GB/s and 1M IOPS! Who the hell puts servers on spinning rust in this day and age? That lone, single NVMe drive is putting out 56 Gbps by itself. Throw in a smidge of caching, and it could saturate those aforementioned 2x200 Gbps ports.

So no, I would not put the entirety of Wikipedia on just one server, that would be silly.

I would put it on two.

Okay, maybe three, for redundancy. Just in case.
I think a really important factor is a well engineered extensible architecture. As you say, the incredible longevity of Unix, compared to any of its contemporaries. Windows finally got there with NT, though iterating on that had been painful I think that just down to Microsoft’s approach to product development projects.
Isn't Ketamine an available street drug? Must be so cheap in comparison to $400-$1000.
I was under the impression the one child policy never applied in poor rural areas. If it was universally enforced I’d like to see an explanation for China’s population growth over a period where it would have experienced a decline.
There are now about 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of ivermectin for Covid
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631/plastic-wars-three-...

> Starting in the late 1980s, the plastics industry spent tens of millions of dollars promoting recycling through ads, recycling projects and public relations, telling people plastic could be and should be recycled.

How long have we known about this for now? At what stage does denouncing it become its own form of diversion?
Relative ranking systems (like on Criticker) should solve that. The people who like low-density videos will get served more of them, and those who don't will not.

That said, I understand that people like absolute ranking systems because they're reflective of what is popular.
Cities with the Best Work-Life Balance 2021