skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're being downvoted, but I do think it's an important thing to mention as we tend to worship feynman, which is OK, but I would hate for it to lead for anyone to act like he could be around women.
Semi-related: https://twitter.com/LeoHorie/status/930515291183898624
The downside of that system is that the 10% at one school is definitely not equivalent to the top 10% in another school. When you compare rural school districts to the suburbs of the major cities a kid in the top 10 people at one school might not even rank in the top quarter at another school.
When something involves a small percentage of the population, it's typically an individual issue/failure. When it becomes the vast majority of people, like in the case of obesity, you have to seriously consider that the issue is in large part systemic. I seriously doubt, for instance, that in the last 20-30 years, 80% of the American population suddenly woke up and lost all willpower when it comes to food, especially now that the obesity problem appears to be spreading to other countries.
Maybe the dumbest comment in HN history.
We've designed it to be easy to replace: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Webcam+Replacement+Guide/87?...

We don't currently have any plans for a new version of that module, but it would be upgradeable if we did in the future.
"It looks like you're trying to create a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions describing the behavior and interaction of subatomic particles. Would you like help with that?"
I don’t think this is a thing. When you have kids extended periods of flashing lights are very common.
This is classic ISP behavior. Doesn't matter if the medium is a radio link from satellites in space or a coaxial cable or optical fiber cable on the ground - ISPs gonna do what ISPs gonna do - try in any way to block competition.
Oh right, turns out I had it downloaded but hadn’t used it (the bird pack was too big to download over data).

The benefit of using hardware accelerated ML built into the phone is that it’s much more lower power. It’s designed for continuous use cases (“Hey Alexa” or Hey Siri). So you don’t have to turn the recording on and off and miss the bird call.

I don’t know if continuous monitoring can be used by third party apps. But having it on all the time, with geolocation would be amazing. You could set alerts etc.

If you could use multiple phones to locate the bird in 3space that would be neat. Then you could tell people where to point their cameras. Maybe a standalone IoT monitoring device could be placed in forests to count each and every bird. This is the future.
Yeah, it's weird. Even aside from different perspectives, we still get to choose how to interpret and react. "Don't take it personally" is a good way to go through life, in general.
The last time I looked at BB S3 API they didn't offer the lifecycle controls that AWS over. Mainly the ability to remove old versions of files after a period of time and we didn't want to roll our own expiry solution. Might be worth looking again though.
As someone with experience looking into touchpad hardware are there any options that compare to the features and functionality of a mac?

As a predominantly windows based user every time I use a mac touchpad I'm blown away the fluidity and features like the psuedo-click. I've been eagerly awaiting windows compatible hardware of the same quality and functionality.
Well obviously it couldn't include general relativity before it was discovered. :-)
I have more than once accidentally moved the task bar. It causes a moment of panic until I remember that I can just move it back. And I'm a rather computer-literate person. For someone who is not a computer person, they could see this as "I broke it" and have no idea what to do, or even if they can continue to use the computer.
I'd be interested in something like this to identify "dialects" in certain species of local birds. The bellbird/korimako[1] is well known for having distinct shared motifs within a given area.

The dialectal song differences are readily noticeable, but mapping the dialect boundaries between populations would be really interesting.

[1]: http://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/bellbird
If you're being interviewed for a job at Microsoft the answer should be "I'd use Bing to find the answer."
It’s much easier than I thought as a teenager too. You don’t need to be doing “cool” stuff. Just go for a hike or swim once a week and learn some craft like woodworking or electronics. Once you start there will be decades of learning to discover
We consistently hear from our customers that egress and transit costs are one of the most difficult things to track from a cost perspective as it relates to AWS.

If anyone is struggling to see egress as it relates to S3 specifically, we put together this guide here which may be relevant for this conversation as well: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/how-to-see-s3-bucket-request-met...
> I had this idea as well, but as you start to build the app you quickly realize that each bird doesn't just have one sound, but many sounds and trying to do this accurately takes much more effort than you're probably expecting.

Effort? Not really so much (stand on the shoulders of giants, etc.)

Data? Yes. Lots and lots of data.
But that's an upside if you're looking to be equitable.
ULA sat around and produced studies for years arguing that reusable rockets were either impossible or wouldn't actually save any money. The latter claim is absurd at first glance, but they argued and pushed it even past the time when Falcon cores were being reused.

Space launch and ISPs are both industries that are accustomed to fat cost-plus contracts, subsidies with no accountability, and market protection from government. They've lived that way for decades, resulting in companies that I'm sure are optimized top to bottom for suckling at the government teat.
All this gnashing over test scores and booster programs is just showboating. If states really want to fix poor schools they should make school funding occur at the state level, rather than whichever random zip code you’re born into.

Seriously, you can’t justify a wealthier neighborhood being entitled to better schools when they’re public institutions receiving state and federal funds. Evening out this funding is the only real step to giving students a more equitable future, but nobody would dare try it and put their own school district’s budget in jeopardy!

They want to fix the problem? Create an executive order requiring that all public schools who receive federal funding must have a percentage of their local funds be distributed at a state level, inversely to the funds generated locally.
Adaptability does not mean 100% survivability. If a billion people survive what do you call that? Extinction level event that did not extinct? Instead of saying humans are not adaptable you probably are trying to say be scared you tiny creatures you could die any moment, which is true but you’re not saying anything other than what religions have been stuffing into people’s heads for thousands of years, so I get worried. I don’t like to argue this point with you as I see you’re just repeating yourself and not seriously engaging with the points I raised.
Would this reduce the environmental impact? Particularly noise pollution during the pile driving for traditional turbines, that affects whales and such.
This is essentially the Monty Hall problem. First choice is 1/3d to be correct, if this choice is wrong, then change, because you will now improve your odds to be 1/2
You said "Seems like a big leap. I don't think anyone is saying James Webb was evil"
Same here. Very off-putting. How do I know that the rest of the article is not just hocus-pocus?
Shining Light on Quantum Transport in Fractal Networks
Had this issue with git more times than I can count. every time someone commits a file with the wrong casing I just want to quit my job and live in the woods somewhere.
You can also optimize for

- The highest likelihood of getting your choice with a single pick

- The least amount of money spent to guarantee getting your choice
Wait. Is this some old story (I hope!) or are these questions still used in interviews?
I think their point is that thousands of satellites in LEO is different than a half dozen in geo synchronous orbit. You can see starlink satellites from the ground as they orbit, and there's much greater chance of collisions with how their orbits work.

I think Viasat is mainly hoping to stall SpaceX as they see their business crumbling around them rapidly, but there's some fair questions.
The top 10 percent policy is a merit based system and the most recent flavor of "progressivism" says that merit based systems are racist and should be abolished. Lottery and quota based admissions is what considered progressive today.
Out of curiosity, how old was your yubikey? I have had one attached to my keyring since 2016, and it show no sign of breaking.
It's top 7% now and it has a holistic system to handle students outside that cohort.

The reason this exists is that it's effectively an affirmative action program for both urban segregated schools and rural schools, which combined have enough political power to pull this off. I believe political dynamics in CA wouldn't allow for this to be constructed - note that suburbs in general fight against such policies.

UT itself generally doesn't like the state mandated policy because it results in a less academically strong cohort than other flagship universities, reducing its rank.

Whether one school's admission program is "better" or not depends on what you view as the purpose of universities (something often lost in these conversations). Are you weighing more academically similar cohort (in which case purely predictive measures of performance are most appropriate) or some sort of equity metric where putting students from less socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds with stronger ones can result in higher upward mobility? One can certainly make the case that the Texan system could be failing on both accounts compared to say UCs, but you'd need to try to build a causal model to understand which school is producing better results for students that arrive.
I am a Texas resident (born here and also graduated from high school in Texas) and would like to point out that it's not just UT, every state school (the other big ones with a decent amount of competition are Texas Tech and Texas A&M) follows this policy. In actuality, it appears that because the demand is so high for UT they have had to lower the number to 6%: https://news.utexas.edu/key-issues/top-10-percent-law/

The primary flip side to the top 10% law is that urban centers have much higher levels of competition than rural ones. If you happen to go to high school in Nowhere, Texas, it's quite easy to go to UT since achieving that top 6% is a somewhat trivial endeavor. Whereas if you go to an urban high school in a population center such as Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio, you have to really apply yourself.
Today’s Google Doodle is a browser JRPG
If people want to live in a single family home in the suburbs, why not let them? It's not like the US is short on space.

In areas where there is high demand for a particular reason (ex. NYC or the Bay Area because of the job market) I think it makes sense to intensify. But in cities where it isn't important for a lot of people to live close to the center, I don't really see a problem with just building more houses. Having a backyard is nice.

If you ever go to Phoenix, all you see is miles of suburbs. And then you drive out of the city, and all you see is miles of open land that they can expand into. I say just keep building them, clearly they are pretty popular.
Couldn't you say the same thing about conventional CPU's and the ability to create RNG's before ERATA show up by the vendor or found by groups doing deep dives on how correct the hardware RNG is? Or any other issue in a mainstream CPU?

It isn't like we've not seen bugs show up in hardware and software pertaining to RNGs or other types of math related issues. Why should we not give the same benefit of the doubt to Quantum compute services by credible compute providers? You should know you are in for a 'as correct as we currently understand it' system provided to you. That has been the case for decades. This all reminds me when the Pentium 1 FDIV defect showed up. Today, however, we've abstracted that to compute hosting providers and we have less tech to qualify our results against.
Even if all of the VAERS reports were both causal (they’re not) and fatal (not even remotely) the vaccine would still be seven times better than the illness.

As the reports are overwhelming not about surprise deaths and not causal, the vaccines are somewhere between 170 times better and infinitely better than the disease.

> Not a day goes by where I don't hear about somebody dying shortly after getting the vaccine, often in novel ways like described here

And how many do you expect by coincidence in an ideal case where there are exactly zero side effects? Because it isn’t going to be zero coincidental deaths when there are 3.79 billion vaccination events. Not even zero per day.
Dead Drops and Security Through Obscurity
IIRC, optimal was measured by how many quarters you put in the machine.
New attck vector against Kubernetes clusters via misconfigurd Workflws instances
Australia Blamed Uber for Mishandling the Data Breach in 2016
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An autonomous system to assemble reconfigurable robotic structures in space
Yes, this is a side effect of stack ranking and it exists even when the class sizes are large.

It also encourages zero-sum thinking generally.
Could you elaborate on the issue?
Some parents move to areas with better schools in order to give their kids an advantage (such as Cupertino or Los Altos school districts if you are in silicon valley). This may seem like a sensible thing to do, but because of the weird admissions process in US colleges, this may actually work against the kid. It may make more sense to move to an area where the kid can stand out, where schools offer fewer AP courses, and where the same accomplishment is considered to be a bigger deal. See link below for details.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-12/covid-co...

Excerpts:

UC admissions directors stressed that they evaluated students in the context of their own schools and communities to assess how much they challenged themselves and took advantage of available opportunities. A student who took all six AP classes offered at her school might be more impressive than the one who took six at a school that offered twice as many.

A campus might admit a student with a 4.0 GPA who ranked at the top of an underserved school over one with a higher GPA but lower class rank at a more high-achieving school.
If your purpose is working rather than debauchery, diversity and equality become practically important as moral guidelines.

- If you invite everyone to do X, who's likely to refuse? Are they going to feel excluded or mocked? If you don't care about your second class employees, there are more important issues you don't care about.

For example, excluding the gluten intolerant from a homemade cake is different from excluding some Jews from a deliberately pork-only barbecue.

- If someone happens to do or say X, could someone consider it a problem? If such people are present, X should be forbidden; if such people aren't represented in the company, usually they should. A line between requiring employees to have a somewhat thick skin and requiring everyone else to be nice needs to be drawn, and everyone should be aware of it.

For example, if the "frat house" insults absent customers and competitors with anecdotes of their incompetence, it is likely to be harmless (although a symptom of bad attitude); if jokes are about some ethnic group it's a serious problem because such employees are either successfully avoided, or openly offended by some rotten apples.

- If A has some unpleasant interaction with B, do the consequences depend on who A and B are? Why?

For example, if the owner's dog is forgiven for biting someone while the intern's dog is against company policy it isn't a good workplace.
You do wonder about all these walled communities in places like Richardson and Plano, TX. What are they defending against? When you walk around the area there was no evidence of crime or disorderly behaviour, yet they still had that strange architecture. So what are they defending against?
Exactly. And then imagine ~15 people doing this and then having to explain what they did, why they did it, what they tried to achieve with it and whether that objective was actually achieved.

Simple but effective. A block of text in a layout could also be a square later on, but by focusing us on the bare minimum of a layout we started seeing negative space, started to get a feel what positioning, proportions and rotations do to a visual composition (and before mentioned negative space) and so on.

This was mostly about developing a feel for visual composition and made us actually care about all these choices.
Yeah I wanted to point this out. In Texas it is the top 10% for every public university except the University of Texas at Austin which varies the percentage from year to year depending on the expected number of applicants. 6% is the lowest I have seen it. I believe it was 8% the year I was accepted.
Are you dismissing this argument simply because it is negative towards california?
That wouldn't be a good thing? Students are assigned to schools based on their address. To put their kid in a bad school would require moving into a bad neighborhood. That means the poor town gets more tax money, which all the students benefit from.
The problem arises when most of them want to attend UT-Austin rather than UT-El Paso or UT-Permian Basin or UT-Rio Grande. And as noted by others the threshold had to be revised downwards from 10%. I personally believe you can receive an excellent education from most institutions but there's prestige associated with UT-Austin that isn't with the satellite campuses.
+1 PhotoSync is pretty neat, have been using it over an year now (to sync with Nextcloud over WebDAV).
From the article, it sounds like the response is "it wasn't gain-of-function research, it was just research that involved gains of function."

It sounds like the fact the money was going to the lab isn't in question, but the exact nature of the research is still a little handwavy.
100%. The answer wouldn't be "join our marketing team", it would be "you aren't a culture fit".
In my experience the devs usually aren't the obstacle when it comes to implementing privacy, it's a bit higher up the chain...
That would be a ton of work (liable to expose the plot) unless you're right at the threshold and you know who's immediately in front of you.
>Potatoes are rich in nutrients especially if you eat them whole. They are also rich in fiber and starch as a complex carbohydrate takes a long time to be broken into glucose and therefore is not prone to spiking glucose.

Generally speaking, yes absolutely. What happens in a case like this article, though? Is the 50% increase in biomass matched by an increase in nutrient uptake from the soil/growth medium? What are the chances these bigger potatoes are actually less nutrient dense?
You can get help from the allocator. For example jemalloc has an experimental API called "batch allocation" where it returns a list of allocations of the same size, and it makes its best effort to make them contiguous (not guaranteed though): https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/blob/12cd13cd418512d9e7...

The idea is that you may have a data structure that you want to be able to modify (in which case you need to free individual nodes) but in most cases you do not.

Then you could use batch allocation, and pair it with this optimization.
Does anyone else think the % of the student body metric is misleading? Shouldn't it be a % relative to college age population?
This reads like a straw man argument.
Hardware engineering is ever thus: Difficulties can always be overcome, but every cost adds 5x that cost to the MSRP.
I do miss the simplicity of Bittorrent Sync. I can see how this anonymous file sharing could be awkward to add though, as the app would immediately be used for illegal file downloads at scale.
Getting that start is really hard. My goal was one perfect push-up, and my method was to just do the best I could with the phone photographing, every morning. At first I couldn’t even get off the ground. Within a month I could do one and get partway through a second. Now (a few months in) I can do 9, sometimes 10 perfect ones.

I read this on some blog. Since i was a 100 push-up guy 15 years ago, my approach was to try to maintain perfect form, even if I barely got off the ground. I forwarded the blog post to a friend who took the opposite tack: just get off the ground and then focus on perfecting one thing (back position, then arms…) until it was perfect before moving on. We ended up in the same place after a month. This is why the camera helps.

(My then 14 yo decided to learn chin-ups...within a couple of weeks he could do 30 and carry on a conversation
Then you'll have a leg up on the overwhelming majority of employed developers. Just because lots of people don't have public presence, doesn't mean that you having public presence doesn't make you stand out. Quite literally the opposite: it will make you stand out.
I wonder what the expectation of the interviewer is on this. Virtually every single piece of code I'll ever write is going to have a a few off-by-one errors and probably other common bugs. That's why you do some basic validation and QA to find those bugs and fix them. The first pass isn't likely to even compile, but who cares? The compiler will tell you exactly why and you can fix that, too. Perfect code on a first try is a useless skill.

On the other hand, just understanding how the algorithm works is what matters. And binary search may have been "published" as an implementation on programmable electronic computers in the recent past, but it's a timeless and intuitive algorithm that I understood perfectly well when I was 4 years old and first learned to read and started looking up entries in the dictionary, encyclopedia, and phone book.
the pancakes !
That is effectiveness against infection. The efficacy against transmission will be higher.

When the virus infects someone that is vaccinated there are less symptoms, less viral load and less risk of further transmission.

And I don't think anyone has done a study on the efficacy of vaccination preventing superspreading, but I suspect that vaccinated individuals are rarely, if ever, superspreaders.

Also that is contradicted by the NEJM study today that finds that Pfizer is still 88% effective against Delta:

https://globalnews.ca/news/8050563/pfizer-astrazeneca-vaccin...