skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are problems with that right out of the gate.

* Consider a family where the highschool student has to work to help out with rent and food bills, so they miss school or don't have time to work on assignments. Compare this to a wealthier family where the student has all the free time in the world.

* Or consider a district that skews wealthier and tutors push the haves up into the 10%, and push the have nots below. Plenty of the have nots would have hit the 10% threshold if only they had money.

* Or consider being a minority in a very white district that isn't fond of minorities.

These are just a few I've read about off the top of my head. The idea of standardized testing is fair, but only if it is aware of inequities in the system. This has been a debate since the 70's. In fact, the popular TV show "Diff'rent Strokes" did an episode about systemic racism in standardized testing the early 1980's.

I'm not arguing if Cali has it right or wrong, but there are problems with using just testing.
Well, UC doesn't consider your skin color in said evaluation (the evaluation criteria is constructed in a weigh that does boost racial diversity, but that's different from considering at the individual criteria), and it has similar gaming dynamics.

As the article notes, you absolutely can go to a weaker high school to boost your chance into a UC (parents can also try dropping their income lower to boost their kids as well). Though, neither might not be a good strategy for the long-run anyway.
The discussion is about PkZIP which ran on DOS PC's, so your experience in the UNIX world is going to be very different. Life was different in 16-bit, PC XT/AT land with 640k.
To be clear, your assertion is that companies and organizations that expand data collection only use data for their publicly-defined purpose?
> I realized the truth of the Appleton model. Thirty years from now all the new homes she’s selling will slip into the “old” category and will gradually fester as taxes rise and the middle class migrates to new greenfield developments.

This is possible, but a lot of suburbs are old and quite successful.

Bellevue and Redmond come to mind just from where I live but there are lots of places in America where the periphery is long lived and maintained.
In some schools, so I understand, AP and Honors courses come with a "bonus" to GPA—so if you get 100% in the course, it may go down on your transcript as a 110%, that sort of thing.
> What do you do all day that is so different?

I read (paper books) more, exercise more, started doing yoga more frequently. I've made it a point to call friends more too. At this stage in my life, time is at premium so I think we're in very different situations.
Without trying to be pedantic... it may have nothing to do with "programming", but it does have to do with "software development". Programming is writing code. Software development tends to be more about problem solving, figuring out what code needs to be written in the first place. I'd rather do the "figure out the number of balls that fit in a building" than "write code to re-order a binary tree", since the former is more likely to clearly demonstrate the problem solving skills I use every day at work... developing software.
Where does heat go, though.
Harry Potter and the Snooping Browser in Collusion with the NYT is my favorite book of the series

Kidding aside, it's a little difficult to swallow some of this stuff when it's coming from websites like this. Sure, I understand there is a huge hierarchy of how the NYT, et al., operate (and of course the set of writers and the people who choose the website's operations are likely fairly disjoint), but it's still somehow vaguely painful to watch.
I'd point out that this only guarantees you admission into the general studies / undeclared school. It can still be difficult and competitive to get into the engineering or business school for example.

A law was passed in 2009 for the University of Texas specifically, that stated "the university must automatically admit enough students to fill 75 percent of available Texas resident spaces" [1]. That 10% number has dwindled down to the top 6%.

As a past automatic admission, I'm horrified hearing stories from coworkers. The process was never stressful for me -- I sent in one application, heard back before the holidays and was done.

[1] https://admissions.utexas.edu/apply/decisions#fndtn-freshman...
Looks really great. I have 2 ecomm side projects I'd like to start using this in right away.

BTW what happened to the live stream application/idea?
Me too, but at least there's a lot of layout and color changes that don't require reading.
UC system, back when I applied only let you weight something like 8 classes, regardless of how many you'd taken.
Lawnmowers tend not to fly overhead. Bound to raise a few suspicions.
Yep, B2 does offer this capability now. They've been working hard to add S3-compatible/similar features.

"Lifecycle rules instruct the B2 service to automatically hide and/or delete old files. You can set up rules to do things like delete old versions of files 30 days after a newer version was uploaded."

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/lifecycle_rules.html
Thanks! :)

(What felt implausible was my translation rather than anything else, and indeed you showed that it was an error on my part).
Critical Jira Flaw in Atlassian Could Lead to RCE
Tel Aviv University’s 11th Annual Cyber Week
Introduction to Climate Engine on Google Cloud
>Test scores don’t reflect the character-forging aspects of life as a poor teenager;

One of these two is a better metric for who will actually pass college courses though.
I had a co-worker about ten years ago. His coding question was always: Please implement a linked list for me in any language. He said more than 80% of candidates failed. Incredible. LinkedList! I can understand that people will struggle to write a HashMap, BinaryTree, or BinarySearch (always full of bugs), but LinkedList is just crazy.

To be fair, I always get tripped up by the classic interview question of reverse-a-single-linked-list. It's not something I ever do outside an interview!
Society, on the whole would rather have solutions that are more romantic/grandiose, albeit fleeting, uncontrollable and less practical
Battery startup claims long-duration breakthrough
I syncthing all devices/systems onto staging server and just rclone it via encrypt target onto S3-compatible remotes. It is about 4TB. After the initial "long" backup, the hourly runs take minutes
> Couldn't continue after that.

Sure you could have. You even acknowledge that there may be good points in the article. But you chose to prioritize whatever positive feeling you got out of closing it and coming back to HN to make a comment about how you'd done so.
It's bullshit when companies do this.

> Viasat is worried that its slower Internet service delivered from geostationary satellites will lose customers once Starlink is out of beta and more widely available.

So Viasat has two options: improve their offering to remain competitive, or throw a tantrum and start a lawsuit. Yep, of course it's gonna be option two.
With open source software, the recognized way is to have a 3rd party audit that looks for telemetry. Another way is with something like Pi-hole where you, yourself, analyze the traffic going over the wire. Other than that, no. You're left with trusting them.

Which brings up an important point about these "privacy agreements." They're all one way agreements, subject to amendment by the other party at any time. If you've used any SaaS service, you'll notice these policies get updated all the time, making them more like whims than policies. There is definitely no guarantee that the privacy you were promised today won't go away in a "we changed our policies!" update a few months from now.
This is the most important task required to fix education.

Its so obvious and it’s never on the table, which tells me everything I need to know about “reformers”.

Until this is done, most everything else it shuffling deck chairs.
Presumably, that could be solved by lowering the weight for GPA
If you're interested in international news, politics, and economics with extensive analysis, then there's no better source.

If you're interested mainly in domestic news, mainly tech/science/culture, or "just the facts" without analysis, then probably not.
Let us see about the rumors that Apple will launch Apple glasses this fall. If I wanted AR I much rather have it from Tim Cook than Zuckerberg, and Apple knows how to build hardware. Zuckerberg does not.
Yup Australia, the place were nature hates you passionately.

Now with metal spikes raining over your head included, because we felt creative and you have two eyes.
Consider there is a major difference in purpose between a State and private educational institution. Prestige is hardly relevant in my view--the purpose is to efficiently allocate state taxpayer resources for the public good of state citizens at UT, as it should be for UC. Harvard and prestige are two tangential things.
Researchers Hid Malware Inside an AI's 'Neurons'
Swarms of tiny dumb robots found to carry out sophisticated actions
Fixing Mobile Page Layouts
> What the legion critics of Bezos and Blue Origin miss is that the company legitimately has the goal of ultimately saving planet Earth.

> Bezos has a compelling vision for space, and it is entirely genuine.

> He has the vision. He has the money. But at the age of 57, does he have enough years or willingness to ensure Blue Origin’s success?

The central thesis of the article seems to boil down to the above quotations, i.e., he's genuine and his goals are noble, but can he pull it off?

The "legitimate", "entirely genuine", and "compelling vision" to "ultimately sav[e] planet Earth" given in this speech is central to the argument, but it is barely even outlined in this article or linked articles -- beyond referencing O'Neill cylinders, mining asteroids, and vague notions of leaving Earth as a "garden". There seems to be no recording or transcript of this speech, nor even any second-hand justification for how legitimate, genuine, or compelling it is.

To me it all seems like the usual ludicrous utopianism that gets attached to space projects. Mine some asteroids, sure. But I see nothing here that even hints at a way to meaningfully reduce or stop environmentally destructive practices here on Earth. We will need to solve our Earth-bound problems. Bezos can focus on Blue Origin or not, it won't matter.
Are certificates supported by any cloud provider or Git hosting platform? They usually only let you add public keys to your account.
Ok so we're judging a near-contemporary character (he died in 1992) for actions that he took in living memory. It's completely relevant to use modern standards to judge him.
If you get DDoSed you also pay through the roof in fees (for whatever is in your VPC - e.g. ELB which are billed per throughput) unless you buy their anti-DDoS services (AWS Shield Advanced) for 3k$/mo - without that AWS won't waive the fees.
I hope I understand your question, but it should not be possible for them to "meet" or to trade. If two such orders were submitted, and there were no other orders in the book, then these orders would be both passive.

IE. They would both sit there with the best bid at 10 and the best ask at 10.5.

If these orders were the other way around (buy at 10.5 and sell at 10) then what would happen would depend on which order was submitted first.

If the buy was submitted first, then the sell order would be aggressive. This would result in a trade at a price of 10.5 (the price of the passive order) which would be a better price for the sell order.

If the sell order was first, then the trade would happen at 10 which would be a better price for the sell order.
It is one of the few subscriptions to media / news sites that I really value. Apart from their Editorials section, all articles have a balanced point of view, presenting all sides of an argument. They are all well written, and manage to explain complex topics (science, economics) in a fairly accessible way. And is also a good way to keep up to date on what happens around the world as each world region is covered and articles are often a well argumented summary of any relevant topic in that area in the past week(s). Their Christmas double issue is joy to read.
But you can buy the print version at your newsagent for a few weeks as a trial.
>> As a Californian I find it quite ironic that many policies in “conservative” Texas (ex. university admissions, property tax, income tax) are more much more progressive than what we have in “liberal” California.

There isn't much that is progressive about property taxes. They affect the middle class much more than the poor (who often aren't homeowners) and the rich (who can afford high tax rates).

Texas specifically has some of the highest property taxes in the nation, and that's in part because we have no income tax. Income taxes, though, are actually progressive.

Note that Texas's high property tax rates is one of the significant contributors to gentrification.
Go: Sync.Map – How does sync.Map work internally? – by Sreram K – Jul, 2021
> One consideration could be that you can't directly control data ingress. Charging for ingress opens an avenue for attackers to attempt to bankrupt you by sending unrequested packets to your network. At the very least, this could cause a customer service headache. Perhaps AWS decided they'd rather not deal with that?

An equally likely reason is by making ingress free it helps balance out ingress and egress traffic flows which are usually desirable for settlement-free peering agreements.
In the Anglo-Saxon world there’s always another system of describing things.

The official system used Latin and Romantic language words (frequency modulation, intercourse, feces). It’s the jargon found in textbooks and research papers and taught in universities.

The underground system uses Anglo Saxon words and is used by lab techs and people in the field (figuratively). Examples would be (tune, warbling, fuck, shit).

One of these languages is considered respectable. The other is vulgar and suppressed to the point of cultural genocide.

This is the way. It has been this way since feudal times.
What Faster and Smarter HBM Memory Means for Systems
Out of interest, what OS are you using? I'm wondering if some of the issues I've had in the past may have been macOS specific.

That said, I can't recall if I tried excluding node_modules when I last gave this a go. Maybe I'll try it again.
This is pointed out in the first two words of the "Feynman" answer ("They're not.")
Just speculating here, but is there a possibility that Bellevue & Redmond's success is due in part to Microsoft HQ being located there? I imagine that without that, those suburbs would look quite different...
Even FB will make a wrong turn one day. Every time it buys a new name it gets bigger. Eventually it will be a fat man standing behind a lamp post
When I think about Jan 06 2021 and all of the various perspectives on that, there is one thought that I cannot get away from.
All of this is occurring in a world with widespread surveillance, instant archival of media and technology to ensure integrity of the archives.
What about, say, the American revolution? How reliable are the narratives from 1776? 1867? 1918? 1989?
Apologies if you think I’m being flippant about your founding event, it’s not my intention to upset anyone but rather to consider how great moments in history could be interpreted in another way. FWIW I generally accept the official versions of things.
But still, if we can’t nail the truth in today’s world, what hope did our forebears have in a much sparser and ‘darker’ world.
High Coffee Consumption Linked to Smaller Brain Volume and Dementia Risk
> There used to be a Chrome extension that did exactly that but Google removed it. (They were the authors)

Not sure about something Google themselves made, but I've been using this one called "Unpinterested" for a few years and it works as intended.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...

Fuck Pinterest for how they've ruined google image searches.
Weird. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27861201
It's not gaming, per se, but it definitely is a privilege based thing.

Getting into an advanced class generally means you already know the material that would be in the normal class (taking trig the year everyone else is taking geometry, for instance). How did you get to where you already knew that material? Well, you were either in the advanced class the year before, or, you already learned the material outside of class. How did you already learn the material outside of class? Better education at home. Which is easy to do with a private tutor or stay at home parent; really hard to do with a single parent, or dual income that don't allow for much in education expenses.

And because you are in an advanced class, you basically get a .5-1.0 bump to your GPA (so people are graduating with a 4.5 GPA at some schools), all because you had the extra early resources; you can't compete with just what the school provides.
I can come up with a couple issues related to Syncthing (whether or not it's about Syncthing per se).

1) I like to minimize the number of APT repositories I use. Debian's and Ubuntu's are well behind on Syncthing versions. Every so often (much more rarely than before), they have breaking changes. As such, my phone can no longer sync with my computers. Perhaps the answer is that Debian should just not be packaging it, because they have such a conservative policy. I'm considering downgrading my phone's version, or building the latest version from source. Worst case I may add their APT repo but I'm not eager.

2) At least with the version I've been using, opting for local-only sync isn't so straightforward. It's per-instance, not per-folder. This means that I have to have my home server running it as local-only, even for small things that I wouldn't mind getting synced over the wire. It means that if I want to have a local-only directory shared between my phone and laptop, it has to go through my home server first. Unless there's a better way I don't know about.

Otherwise Syncthing has been pretty great. I like your no-delete thing, I did not consider that. I could definitely use it for photos.
Well they don't have intrinsic.com or twitter.com/intrinsic... Those are still associated with a tech startup from a couple years ago:

https://twitter.com/intrinsic/status/1164007322932277249?s=1...
I use rclone
I know many public universities court international students because they have to pay full price.
I did some digging, and apparently all launches have been exempt, including Viasats

https://www.lightreading.com/opticalip/viasat-presses-fcc-to...

So they are looking for new regulation, based on some rather spurious claims.
yes that was my point. "zuck in charge" would be like if IOI won the contest
For what it's worth I spent the last few days wfh-ing with a close family friend who happens to be a manager at a FANG company. Those few days convinced me to not wanting to work at a FANG company (or at any big company, for that matter) unless there's no other way to pay the bills and buy food for out two pets, it seemed like almost everything at that company was based on politics and how to sell yourself as a programmer (or IC-er, or whatever the correct term is) or as a manager, almost no talk about the product itself.
Congrats on your launch. Your site was a little light on details. Could you say how your product compares to Pixie which is also Kubernetes-native and uses eBPF?

https://pixielabs.ai/
Form Energy press release, July 22:

Form Energy Unveils Chemistry of Multi-day Storage Battery Technology

https://formenergy.com/form-energy-unveils-chemistry-of-mult...
For pricing reference you can get a 100GbE transit link (from a top-20 sized carrier by CAIDA ASrank size) at major IX points now for well under $6000 a month.

And if you are present with your own bare metal infrastructure at such a place you almost certainly also have the opportunity to connect to a serious IX for settlement-free open peering, and to run PNIs to other major sources or sinks of your traffic. So by no means will all of your traffic be going through transit.
> Oh, what happened to “my business, my property, my rules?” Nobody is forcing you to go to a concert.

So first if you had read the article it's the uk governement not a businesses rule. Secondly businesses and governement follow the majority opinions. It's a good thing people like Clapton voice their optinion

> You can always smell a stupid political tribal political opinion when people act like they want to die on a hill in the name of freedom, yet run the nearest ER like little babies when they get sick.

> Put your money where your mouth is. Put your name on a public list declaring you irrevocably refuse treatment if you get the virus.

Chill down keyboard warrior. The fact it's not treatable by anything else than vaccine doesn't mean it's good or even legal to coerce people into taking the vaccine, or plainly discriminate against those who don't for whatever reason (starting with pregnant women). As a matter of facts it's actually very clearly illegal in europe to do so, since the vaccines are still "experimental drugs". here's a french article with legal sources if you want the details.

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=med...
On the other hand, geosynchronous satellites won’t ever clean themselves up and if control is lost on one, it’ll continue to be a problem for thousands of years or until a retrieval craft is sent up. There’s not even really much of an opportunity to safely de-orbit if failure is anticipated because they’re so far out.

With Starlink, in the worst case scenario dead satellites will be in orbit for 2-3 years, and if signs of giving out start showing up SpaceX can quickly and safely steer it to burn up, with a cheap (and likely updated) replacement being sent up within a month.
Maybe I am misunderstanding but the question says NONE of the labels are correct right? If so, I was thinking of it this way. If you press coke, it can only be random or Pepsi (.25?), if you press Pepsi, it can only be coke or random (.75?), if you press random it can only be coke or Pepsi (.5) (oddly this is still random 50/50 :) ). So the optimal on first try would be to press Pepsi?
Quite a complex approach, where most will be able to gain a lot with some very simple actions:

- dont collect data you do not absolutely need to service the user

- do not use third party libs or services, where you do not understand how they handle the data you submit to it
How's Manjaro/Arch support looking?
I wonder what the second order effects of this change will have on the curriculum and scheduling in K-12 schools in CA.
This already exists and it doesn't quite work. School funding and outcomes are less well correlated than you might expect. Some of the worst performing schools and districts are also the best funded. The top causal factor appears to be parental involvement: highly involved parents in even poorly funded schools is better than uninvolved parents in well funded schools.
Sure, I'll find some example code on Wikipedia or whatever as a reference. It's faster than deriving it all again from scratch. I don't really copy paste algorithms like that, though. Instead, I review the reference material until I understand the algorithm and any potential edge cases and optimizations that may apply, and then code it up and unit test it.
I disagree with the entire premise of using space to fix earth's problem but, were that possible, how does sending a rocket straight up (to 1/4 the height of the International Space Station) and then straight back down help us get anyone to space?

We already have technology that does more than that. Even calling it "space" is really a stretch.

I do understand that big public projects drive technology interest and adoption as well as national pride, and everyone likes that. But I can't see how a short ride up and down 1/4 of the way to an existing "space base" is much of an accomplishment aside from those pride-based goals.