skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bias: I almost aced the SAT-I (/1600) without studying but I made a dumb error on one question on the math section. GATE had zero effect (I always wondered if their primary purpose was to inventory smart kids for potentially-surreptitious scenarios and needs). I didn't even bother applying to Ivys or Pac12s where "everyone else" was going because those places didn't interest me. Other people got full/partial rides to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Berkeley, etc. but I kept looking.

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Oh good, so merit is out the window. So what was the net good of shipping me 3 hours by bus roundtrip per day to a crappier school across town? (Waking-up before 5 am.) Oh that's right, because there were too many other white and/or Asian kids in the school a block from my house. I guess I just didn't have the right skin color. Leave it to 80's Californian affirmative action to "fix" schools with culture-shock, not fitting-in, racism, violence, and gang warfare. "We'll get you, whitey/Asian, by giving you our pain. That'll teach you not to be white/Asian." is the message it sends.

So this grand social experiment is so the kids who didn't earn admissions can get a degree they won't earn to get a job they won't earn so they won't know anything but entitlement because social justice through identity promotion fixes everything. That'll teach all those hard-working overachievers' parents to move to a different country like Finland, send China's sea turtles to go elsewhere, and destroy what was once America's greatest advantage.

Oh yeah and you know, the scientific method is "racist" (I, no shit, had a roommate applicant tell me this with a straight face recently). I became so flabbergasted I couldn't talk to them anymore.

This makes me sad. Instead of becoming more meritocratic and fairer, we're further
entrenching racism and discrimination without calling it that. Orwellian doublespeak and doublethink. What would MLK Jr think of all this?

Let's just have no standards of excellence at all and give everyone an Ivy or Pac12 degree for participation.
Double gold stars if people in any of your attribute groups ever had anything bad happen to them. First peoples? Slaves? Armenians? Jews? Italians? Irish? Spanish? Where does it stop?

At some point we just have to say "enough," or it devolves into absurdity and dishonesty when admissions are unmoored pure merit and reality.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
sorry, by "release a screen reader" I meant "release a screen reader that was actually usable, and that people wanted to use". Narrator wasn't usable for almost anything until Windows 8, and that's when it started supporting OS configuration. Before then, it was mostly used for recovery, when your screen reader crashed and you needed to do one or two really simple things.
IME if it's inconvenient to write, you'll never do it. My blog co-author and I do our drafting and editing in Google Docs for that reason. Once you're done writing, you're sufficiently emotionally invested that you can handle the hassle of porting the content to a public site.

We also only add images to posts if it's absolutely necessary. We probably get less engagement than we would if we had high-quality imagery, but we have wayy more engagement than if we didn't write at all.
I really feel like the whole AI/autopilot is Tesla's achilles heel. It's a great electric car, and they have good product people and should do well in the marketplace. But overselling self-driving risks tarnishing the entire brand and exposing them to claims they misled investors and committed fraud by selling a feature they couldn't deliver. The whole thing seems like a huge distraction from the real story which is electric vehicles.
https://pantheon.io/ has WordPress plans with dev/staging/prod sites integrated with git. If you want git, I would highly recommend trying their system out rather than trying to figure out how to make WP cooperate on your own. WP installs normally don't use a VCS at all.

Don't try to use WP for anything involving a lot of programming. It will just hold you back. Use it for projects simple enough that you don't mind writing a few MySQL DDL statements with DIY migrations.
Specifically, that's a quote from William Gibson, though variants on the theme predates his quote:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/01/24/future-has-arrived/
And here I am, making a website with an image and boxes around links.
IMO, fish sauce (and I'm picturing the red boat one my wife buys) is like manna from heaven when there's just a hint of it. Too much, and it starts to taste a little...poopy.
Describing a patch queue development workflow as a "slightly nicer interface to interactive rebase" does it a tremendous disservice. It's like saying "a database is a slightly nicer interface to a filesystem" — technically true, but a disservice.
I don't think anything would stop you dual licensing your own software if you needed to.
If Tesla can get it working, vision is going to be superior to the radar experience, because it can sense both road geometry and the potential obstacle.

Talking about the industry in general (not only Tesla), so far radar has failed for either being too insensitive and failing to avoid collisions or being too sensitive and causing phantom braking.
There are less than 100 Internet Standards (https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards).
It is notable that if this was indeed a 'lab leak', the denials and misdirection by China have been incredibly effective.

Imagine the chain of events if they had just admitted "Yeah we made this virus, whoops".

The US probably would have demanded China pay for all the virus response. That's $16 Trillion, but originally looked much smaller - China may have agreed to pay. Upon such a debt not being paid, the threat of war probably would have been used. The outcome probably would have been either a massive debt crippling China's economy for 50+ years, or a real on-the-ground war between nuclear states.

The world would be a very different place today.
This is an interesting way to evaluate ideas. Where did you learn this technique?
Depending on the age of the kids, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the kids had bought likes, too.
I don't disagree with you, it's just that I find your comment to downplay the significant baseline cultural difference of which you may or may not be aware (I don't know what culture you grew up with). This is something to which OP had referred but your comment essentially had been dismissive of by attributing this entirely to differing behavior of VCs compared to baseline US culture.

A founder from a different cultural background seeking funding or advice from US VCs must understand the baseline US culture and then how to interpret VC behavior relative to that culture.

EDIT: To provide a specific example: What is considered polite encouragement to a Californian comes across as very strong / enthusiastic encouragement to a German. Polite is relative to culture. Initially people unfamiliar with the culture may take the words of the random Californian or the VC at face value - both appearing equally enthusiastic observed this way.
> it can be used in multiple and qualitatively different ways, in contrast with your own position

I agree React can be used in different ways but as I already pointed out earlier, this is a not-particularly-notable characteristic shared by a variety of frameworks, so what you're saying is more of a tangent (i.e. that a tool within a class of flexible tools is itself flexible too) than a contrast to anything I said (i.e. that the bullet points support the idea that React is a framework). In order to contrast to my original comment, the logical thing to do would be to present arguments to support the idea that React is not a framework, since that was the point of contention upthread that I was responding to.
I wish the QUIC design was datagram-first... so many client/server implementations don't implement the datagram extension properly because it's... well an extension, and for most applications, reliable sequencing should be eschewed in favor of client-side reassembly. IMO QUIC was far too influenced by the legacy of how HTTP works when there was an opportunity to leapfrog a generation of bad decisions.
I think most tracking is not visible to the user, as in seeing an ad.

About CNAME, I think this is what you're looking for:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301
Reminds my previous job as a PM, where I had to deal with many nationalities. Germans were always: Yes/No, this is good/this is crap instead of 'well, you know,it depends,and it could be improved, considering everything it's not too bad'.
Is there any way to turn this into a desktop app?
As someone who is non-American, it seems much simpler in the US just to buy other stuff (new/used) than just cross country hauling of your entire furniture.
I'm sure the essentials can be packed easily.
Hey this is really awesome. I think I found an edge case though https://river-runner.samlearner.com/?lng=-122.10358604021484... :)

> There are no rivers flowing into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for by rain and snowfall at a rate such that the total amount of water is replaced every 250 years.
This is the type of writing that is thorough and worth your time. Whether you are a founder or not, there are a lot of nuggets that's really for keeps.

I also like the fact that you have been very upfront on what you deemed advantages. Most articles, you can see that the writer is trying to elevate themselves by stretching the challenges as similar to heroic tales.

More power on your startup which is a noble one - extending the ultimate friendship between humans and dogs.
You experienced badly run shop. You can have remote hands (if you don't have your own DC, but buy colocation service). You have spare disks in server.
I don't know, how end-to-end encryption is linked to bare metal, those physical servers are several abstraction levels below.
This was an interesting read, but I think there's something missed with fact-checkers. They seem to be caught in a strict binary of true and false when there's often a third possibility: we do not have the necessary information to either prove or disprove a claim/statement.
The context I cited is about parsing the XMLish "/>" empty-element tag which is not treated in the way the author thinks. WebSGML (aka ISO 8879 Corr 2/Annex K) has the option to parse this XML-like rather than under traditional SGML rules; which is no surprise since W3C XML and ISO (Web)SGML were published in a coordinated way and authored by the same people.

Loads of changes may have happened to CSS and JS, but HTML has remained largely the same, save for the addition of a couple elements (section, article, main, header/footer added by Ian Hickson early on without any input by other parties) and import of SVG (the major contribution of XML) directly into HTML.

Which is exactly the problem: HTML hasn't advanced for eg mobile, but everything else around it has turned into absurd complexity so we can continue to pretend we're writing 1990's casual academic content (the original use case for HTML the markup language). When, of all the languages in the web stack, markup is the one thing that has typing, schemas, and a schema evolution story.
In the 1970s, plane travel was rare and expensive, with high quality service and everything sparkling. Long distance phone calls were exciting.

There was much less future, it was less advanced but it felt more special, yes.
That's not how latency works.

It doesn't matter if the user running Google Chrome is 50ms away from the web server, if that server in turn does 10,000 round-trips to the database server. Suddenly, microseconds matter.

Why 10K round-trips you ask? Because of ORMs like Entity Framework. They have a habit of producing wildly inefficient query code, but hey... it saves on developer time!

I literally just optimised a large web site that actually had fairly decent SQL queries. I reduced the latency from 1,500 microseconds to about 50 microseconds and the performance of most pages improved by about 150-300 milliseconds!

Let me reiterate: A latency difference that can't even be benchmarked easily because it's so small made a very noticeable difference to page load times. The site feels snappier. Navigating it is now a joy instead of a drag.
And which Intel Instruction set is he talking about? They have made several. x86 is the most popular, but it's anything but simple.
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100 years ago an appreciable portion of people were reading from the western canon during their free time. Today, it's joe rogan. Just compare the first televised presidential debate versus the most recent one, and see just how far the bar has fallen in terms of the substance of public discourse from not even 100 years ago to today.
This is entirely new infrastructure, and I don't have data yet since this is a side project.

I am biasing towards relying on a connected socket for all state management which is fair for board games (and, I do believe more generally given how connected the world is becoming).

There are tremendous problems with using WebSockets in production, but they can be overcome with a decent protocol design as you have a number of failure modes to contend with. I'm in the process of publishing a paper for a conference that will share some of the architecture of my production learnings.
I agree, I would like them to offer this service to everyone, but the reason they ask for an EU ID is not "emails are to easy, have them suffer" but more likely "we really have not set up a process for this so we will not do this unless forced by the law"

The solution to this is to have their own government impement a GDPR-like policy.
Excellent! I love the random color palette. I found some 'boring' avatar for my social sites now. Thank you.
I really agree with this advice, with the added thought that very very specific struggles are usually easier to write about and more compelling to read. For example, this post that my co-author wrote was well-received, I think in part because the advice is so specific ("Don't joke about firing people" as opposed to something like "be a more empathetic manager"). https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don't-Joke.html

I also find these types of posts more compelling when the struggle or the solution is non-obvious.
After way too much googling, decompiling the swf, and finding a python v2 snippet to decode them, here are the urls for the audio files from that page. They seem to just be clips however?

http://www.tvdawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/SWT515-4-ex...

http://www.tvdawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/RWT620-4-ex...

http://www.tvdawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/RWT620-6-ex...

http://www.tvdawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/RWT620-11-R...

http://www.tvdawn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/RWT115-3-ex...

I found the code here: "sixbitdecode" and "sixbitencode" and it is ported from the actionscript you can find in the SWF file. https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/sixbitencode.52185/
Well, cPanel hosting and shared hosting is still a thing. There's a LOT of such hosts around much thanks to WordPress.
I wish them the best of luck, but I suspect that in the age of TikTok and personalized playlists, Turntable's time has passed.
> It makes sense that GitHub wouldn’t comply with the subpoena against STRmix’s wishes. Losing the faith of a large company by sharing intellectual property is bad for business.

Obviously a headline with “STRmix” is not as click-bait as GitHub.

Regardless, how is it legal for the DNA software to get away with this?
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Their legacy are modern-day "Microapartments", which on average are not much larger than those capsules.
I can't speak to Rust, but I suspect in the case of Haskell the criticism doesn't arise because the whole language is so foreign to people coming from C-like languages that everything being an expression is just one of many hurdles.

So it doesn't stand out as much on its own, and either you give up or by the time you make it through enough of the other hurdles you probably appreciate the expression-orientedness.

I say this as a Haskell enthusiast.

Do-notation probably also masks the fact that everything is an expression from newcomers a bit in the beginning.
If all your stuff fits in a van, you don’t have very much. Most people who hire moving companies are filling 25-40ft containers.
Doh you're right thanks!
> like Clubhouse but with everyone listening to a song

I really hope they didn't have to make that pitch to the VCs.
Umm, so O(n^2) key exchange traffic? In practice, is it noticable to users/ server admins?
> In Comments

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> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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I don't work in robotics so I might be entirely off-base here, but surely the interlock process would consist of hitting an E-stop somewhere? What was this process that took long enough for said manager to get annoyed with?
Truly inspiring story, I was just wondering maybe you could have also tried to raise some money via Crowdfunding sites as well. One thing is sure, you are least bothered by Sexism in case of online crowdfunding I believe.
>Sure, but then "truthy" for that language is just true, and "falsy" is just false.

Sure, but this stretches the meaning of "truphy" and "falsy", which was invented to describe the extra coercions to true/false.

A language only allowing explicit true and false just has a concept of true and false, not of truthy and falsy.
I'm Swedish, my wife is from Belgium and introduced me to Eric Carle when she bought several of his books for our children. Before that I had never read any of his books and only recognised the title of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Looking a bit I can't find any of his books in Swedish and neither he nor the caterpillar seem to have a Swedish wiki page.
Maybe in Europe it is different? There is still a coding part, but is somewhat relevant to the job position (build an API that does xyz etc)
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I, too can build them a small little box with a button and a lamp. Press the button and if the lamp lights up the person is guilty.

They are not allowed to look inside.
> full-codegen was not a jit

By what definition?
Your statement follows a pattern of, ‘the person was doing X therefore the unjustifiable response was justified.’ This fails the commonly adopted Rawlsian theory of justice (Veil of Ignorance), and it is known as victim blaming.
Can you elaborate more? Is there some more information about this datagram-first?
These look amazing! Great balance of whimsical and sophisticated
F: I went to a careers fair and had a chat with the CEO and an early employee. 2 years later, we’re a 100+ person company :D
"In the past everything was better, even the future" (K. Valentin, translated)
I moved from Scotland to Finland, which involved a few suitcases on a plane, and a pallet of stuff going by sea.

We sold almost everything we owned prior to the move. The things that were carried were things like personal possessions with significant history or memories. Sounds like we approached it in a very similar way to you.

There are definitely moments where I think "I need to repair this pipe, I have a pipe-cutter in my toolbox", then I recall that the toolbox didn't get moved with us. But there aren't many things that I miss.
Part of this is of course the name. Pippi sounds like "pipi" as in "faire pipi", to pee. So they renamed her Fifi.
The last time I moved into a new apartment, I arrived with nothing but a suitcase and a backpack; a mattress ordered from Amazon, with some blankets arrived that same day. Over the course of a year, every piece of furniture arrived by post and was unpacked in my living room (which was a lot). Four years later I moved, with nothing but a backpack and a suitcase again. Most of my belongings were packed into a shipping container and donated to family in Africa. Seeing pictures of their apartment is uncanny, it feels like my apartments 'soul' lives on.
In which context? In the context in which the dictionary entry was written for English academics in 1889, "gay" most certainly did mean "happy" and not homosexual. "Gay" did not come to commonly mean "homosexual" until decades later.

Grandparent post has the wrong end of the stick: no prudery is being inserted, outdated _English_ that would be misinterpreted by modern readers has been changed. Ancient Greek is a dead language. English is living.
It is also important to note 'where' you are adding the five years. An additional five years of infirmity at the end of life? Pass. An additional five years of relatively healthy mid-60s? Sign me up.

Extending lifespan is less useful than extending the healthy/active part of the lifespan. Like reading the fine print on the side of the packaging or the bottom of the contract, you need to pay attention to the details. This is why lifestyle changes tend to be more important than pills which treat conditions that used to kill our parents or grandparents, the former usually increase the odds you will still be walking around and taking care of yourself in your late 80s while the latter might just mean that you add five years to the amount of time that some nursing home will drain your estate while you are bed-ridden in some warehouse for the elderly.
That's like saying, if you believe someone's defamatory statements, that's on you, but the speaker is innocent.
That would be a political landmine to revoke a lawfult interception root. You could do that, but there's nothing stopping German government from issuing another.

Did you see anyone ban Turkey or China roots?
It was unfortunate they were before the times where music labels did deals with innovative businesses.

TikTok licenses all their music to allow them to freely use the IP in their experience.
I think many people are very attached to their furniture. I know I am. It took me years of scouring Craigslist to get the deals I did on my Room & Board furniture. It’s such an expensive brand that I am much better off moving with it than selling it and trying to find the pieces again. (It’d take years, again...)

I don’t presume everyone is this way but I do presume many people might have an attachment to their collection of furniture. If it’s all worn down IKEA handmedowns then it might make sense to not move with it. I certainly see that with college students but after that, many people like what they got and it’s a large cost to give it up and buy new.
And many people don’t like to buy used furniture too - I am someone who is fine with it.
I only see some SQL files in there
They may be using HN as if it's pinboard
Anarchists are right. F#ck these governments and corporations destroying the earth and trying to shape reality.
I've been seriously considering Taiwan! Sadly the current instability in its relationship with PRC makes me fear going there if war breaks out.
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Chrome does not wait for extension initialization when loading first website after being started. Result is ALL uBlock Origin filters (ads and privacy ones) are bypassed for every website that you left your session when closing browser last time.
> The author should study the 1998 WebSGML adaptations to ISO 8879 (the SGML spec)

Mind that the author is literally one of the designers and maintainers of the HTML5 parsing specs. From the section "About the author":

> He contributed to the design of some aspects of the HTML parser specification […] and is currently an editor of the WHATWG HTML standard and the WHATWG Quirks Mode standard.