skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People in power today would much rather do something that seems to promote “equity” than make an evidence-based choice that could lead to accusations of racism."

My experience was that the system worked just fine for all kinds of people that got to the point that they wanted to go to a UC.

Among my siblings and our offspring family of 12, we put 6 of family members through the UC system (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD). 3 went through the community college system with no reliance on standardized test scores. 2 took SATs and GPAs. 1 got in this fall on GPA alone.
I've found that it's important to show your work - don't just cough up a number, show them your disciplined process at how you arrived at that number, (and I use PERT, as a process, and it's rarely steered me wrong).

As an engineer, it's my job to give an estimate. It's my boss' job to figure out whether that can work within his budget or if the task can be re-scoped. But I have to give him a number he knows is legitimate, and not some half assed BS I pulled out of my ass.

At a recent job, I witnessed an engineering team use some kind of agile "planning poker" game to arrive at estimates. Everyone on the team thought this was a great method. Yet they consistently failed to hit their targets, and it had a very profound impact on the performance of the ENTIRE company, (where various teams had serious backlog-coupling issues).

Because I'm a devops engineer (despite previously having been a development lead at a different company - which was a Fortune 500 by the way) and therefore, not considered a "real programmer" - of course I wasn't taken seriously when I tried to advocate a more data-driven, disciplined approach. But what do I know.
The point is the headline. "Risky Coronavirus China".

The entire lab leak theory gets smuggled in as a background assumption.
One of the pics on the product page indicates that this may be able to be opened to lay flat, but I don't see a definitive spec regarding how far it opens. Anyone know if this is the case?
California's renewables mix is currently solar-heavy. Water depth increases steeply off its coast so traditional fixed bottom offshore turbines don't have many viable locations. Floating wind would be a great complement to solar there if the technology matures.
Yes, they are company towns.
Well to be fair University of California has a policy that is more or less the same.

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
Texas actually has a system like this - it's called recapture - or more colloquially, the "Robin Hood law". You can read more here on how it has actually played out in its implementation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_plan
rcs responds to Go siv optional proposal
In Ireland, a Republican is someone who believes that the entirety of the island should be one country.
Does GitHub have "system level" webhooks like gitlab? That's what I've done previously, so when anyone creates a repo, it's configured as the org expects.

This page[1] seems to mention organization level hooks that receive repository created events, if making your team edit a terraform/puppet/ansible/chef repo to simply create a repo seems overkill to you

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/we...
C++/WinRT tooling is so bad, that MFC feels modern.

Ok, I got the point that they decided to stop doing language extensions and C++/CX was a dead end.

Surely the PM that signed the idea to replace C++/CX, could have spent one minute considering not to ship a development experience that is worse than MFC.

In 30 years haven't they had time to add syntax highlighting and code completion to IDL files?

Ah, and the Windows team then ignores C++/WinRT on their own samples, and use their own internal WIL framework instead.

https://github.com/microsoft/wil

So you get some samples on MSDN now that after being rewritten from C++/CX into C++/WinRT, are also tainted with WIL library types
RAM could be packed together with a CPU on a replaceable board.
goodbye w3schools
How Berkeley Beat Back NIMBYs
Yeah, it doesn't sound like the real Feynman at all to me. Where's the wit and charm?
Confessions of a 0.8x Developer
No, it very well could become a popular product.

Repairability won’t be enough to get it there. But whatever company culture forms around this repairability thing could lead them to design a killer feature that Apple and Microsoft would never think of.

And repairability might be a moat for some feature like that.

It’s not inevitable, most new electronics companies don’t hit it big. But don’t write them off before they start!

They’re in the right place: they pulled together a group of contributors with a different way of thinking, a product is on the market, getting good reviews, and a cult following is behind them. That’s exactly where new big ideas come from. Give them a chance to seek it out.
This has always seemed obvious to me.

You would have 4 options for each item, ( Upvoted, Downvoted, Not Voted, and Blocked). If a SEO manipulator is Upvoting a bunch of spam content that you didn't vote(that you've seen) for, down-voted, or blocked, they would quickly un-pair with you. The next step for SEO is for them to start voting identically and predicting to how you would vote so that a few paid ads didn't skew the results to much, but isn't that mission accomplished[0]?

This isn't done because it's grouping the users and not the content? It doesn't scale? And yet thematically this seems close to the model used by Google FLoC. If Google would just make a sub-reddit like system for each cohort so that we could submit and discuss content, I have a feeling that would be very successful and people would opt-in.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/810/
"Joshua started No Code Founders, a community of founders using no-code tools to build internet businesses."

It would have been a bit ironic if he had to use code to build his community, it was an interesting read nonetheless.
> So you can't argue that we should forget his bigotry just because it's old and not relevant anymore.

I never said any of that though.
NASA's 2.4m space telescope

NASA's 6.5m infrared space telescope

etc

It makes much more sense, why do we need people's names?
I dont know bro. it really depends on where I work. I agree that in some places that yes it was work work but at others it was a way of letting our guards down and coming together as a team. This helped relationships in the office since we were all drinking together...albeit this tended to be with select individuals (i.e. we would avoid invite those who were too serious). After a few drinks, we would debate work topics and right the wrongs of the world. In some companies, this is where the wheels are set in motion and opens up new channels of communication. Drinking together creates some kind of bond.

I do have a policy of not sleeping with anyone from work so that helped me have good boundaries and avoided trouble..
https://childmind.org/article/marijuana-and-psychosis/
IMHO you are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good by pointing out situations the 10% (now 6% apparently) rule doesn't cover.

Second, you are not offering an alternative solution that would be preferable.

Also, you are not recognizing that fixing in the top 6% is not a requirement for admission so it is possible for the situations you list to be addressed.

Finally you end with an argument against standardized testing which has nothing to do with the comment you are replying to. In fact the 6% policy allows a student to get into the university without ever taking a standardized test.
No, you an apply more reasoning to it up front. If "none of them are correct" then you press 'surprise' first, and you either get the drink you wanted that time, or on your next guess.
I speculate that the reason why Amazon charges so much for egress (other than to nickel-and-dime its customers) is that it inhibits hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud architectures. It promotes lock-in.

In literally every business domain, Amazon succeeds not because of "customer obsession", but because of their willingness to engage in anti-competitive or outright monopolistic practices.
Functional fixedness, lateral thinking, and the barometer question
> When was the last time someone forked a programming language? (note: not a runtime, a language)

Python 2 -> Python 3? Perl 6? I know, neither of those intended to be a fork.

Before that, C# could be considered as a fork of Java, and C++ as a fork of C.
Could you expand on that a little?
When I interviewed in Redmond in 2011, they actually told us this in the pre-interview orientation session!
Not necessarily. Wealthier parents are more mobile, and can move residences such that their children are in the top 10%.
> I guarantee you the interviewer from the grandparent comment wasn't looking for

What, the company that interviewed James Hush about binary search was your company? Have you thought about the possibility that maybe he also interviewed at at least one other company which used different evaluation criteria? Maybe you should put a little bit more effort into correctness yourself!

> They ask the binary search question to check if the applicant knows what an algorithm is and if they ever had to implement one. (Any algorithm.)

> Sadly, 90% of programmers these days don't and haven't.

That makes no sense. Every program or subroutine implements an algorithm. If you haven't written any programs or subroutines you aren't a programmer.

> Well, yes, most developers ship software without ever having to actually program.

This reminds me of when I was a kid and we thought it wasn't "actually programming" when we programmed in BASIC or Pascal because actual programs were written in assembly. We were wrong about that.
I wonder if the insurance companied would insure them anyway, because they might be legally obliged, and might not be allowed to "unfairly discriminate". I can easily imagine a setup where an insurer either averages out the risk profiles and premiums over a large administrative area to offer basically the same deal to every resident, or loses the license to operate in that area.
I already replied to this exact question lol. They are comparable at least in terms of death and starvation. In fact, NK has some catching-up to do.
Particles are anything with a discrete start and an end. The heat required per frequency of light emission has a discrete start and end, explained by statistical mechanics. That's a particle, even though it's very abstract and ephemeral. A material object emits light which will expand the size of the universe if unimpeded. With no discrete start and end, although very minor and subtle, it's not a particle despite the object's tangible concrete existence.

Nature's internals have no mind. They are overwhelmed by the mighty surroundings and always redlining, pushing themselves to the limit. Need an electron? Nature looks all around, not just the nearest bonded atom. That's magnetism.
Nature also takes the easiest path. Using it's own internals as a medium of interaction makes things easier. That's electromagnetic radiation.

We're dealing with a vast ocean of the medium of spacetime, not little building blocks of matter. In terms of (space + relative clocks) EM radiation travelling through empty space has internals of it's own. Electricity will repel or attract the entire thing. No further electromagnetism with that empty space itself. But magnetism, it gets to interact again, take an easier route using it's own internals as the medium of interaction. If you want to entangle an electron, make it so interacting with the internals of one interacts with another.

To exist, something has to give some resistance to surrounding interactions. If it happened immediately, it's just the surroundings. That's how we get the speed of light and the discrete nature of light frequencies. Besides electromagnetism, there's other interactions. Mass, as in nuclear decay, or triple pole "color" charge. Simulations and holograms mean that resistance to interaction will be much more simpler that the internals. Black holes do this. They're just one big 2D dot. Things that fall into them are crunched up on the surface.

Bell's Theorem is like measuring from the inside of a spinning coin that's growing, and stopping it. That's where Bell's Theorem, and the speed of light has more to gain. Think of a golf ball. Each dimple connects through the center. Perhaps instead of going through the center, it was easier to go on the surface, and let the center work itself out:

Why fight it? It's awesome. I think of plasma applications of the sun. That star orbits a black hole which can and does zap electrons into existence from empty space by crunching up a positron of a pair. What if we get good enough at that things stop looking like electrons but look like distant stars? Would that be a drive that warps the space time around our solar system, and suddenly the universe is much more smaller.
What toll are all these wind farms going to take on global weather patterns if they continue to multiply?
Do you realize I was replying to your comment where you called it a "degenerate regime that has killed millions"?
Intel Brings Up Software for Lunar Lake Platform
I think you need to be aware of why such an implementation (fat32) had to exist. As I believe (I also grew up with fat32) that it basically vanished when HDDs with caches in the MB started to show up. Journaling became a thing; actual caches became a thing so the HDD could actually lay things out well by utilizing said cache.

NTFS still needed to occasionally be defragmented but it allocated more of a buffer to prevent having to do so at all.

I think; in general; You're very spot on about utilizing continuous arrays of memory for linked lists as they will almost always result in better performance characteristic (unless you really need insertion/removal in order and it's very write heavy).
News publishers are using the Olympics and AR to flex their tech storytelling
You're describing certain individuals who might suffer from such an arrangement, but what's the opportunity cost here? If you will make a different arrangement, different people will suffer from it. I'm not convinced that there's a scenario where nobody at all gets hurt so I don't believe that listing a few examples of some people getting the short end of the stick in itself warrants outright rejecting this approach.

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

For example these people by your own definition will be rare. They might also be disadvantaged in other ways should they live elsewhere, which means that that the same person in two different places would simply face a different set of disadvantages which might even themselves out. Likewise "a district that skews wealthier" should naturally have fewer "have-nots" than other districts so "have-nots" themselves would not be disadvantaged on average.
What your scenarios describe are students who are not ready / prepared to do as well as their peers in college.

You cannot resolve prior inequities by forcing students into college- they drop out at higher rates, with higher (unforgivable!) debts, and word of mouth of their experiences will continue to deter others from trying.

I personally witnessed this happen to friends I had made my freshman year at school.

The ACT in particular has a really low bar for anyone who does reasonably well in school- most state schools around here had a minimum score that certainly required no preparation to achieve.
In my experience the more common narrative was gaming the system to keep your GPA high. AP/DC/Advanced classes are typically shifted a GPA point up.

For example, you may not take an elective (Photography) because getting the top grade in the class would still drop your overall GPA. Despite Spanish being available in middle school, our valedictorian waited until high school because it would count a point higher -- by the time you realize how to play the game, it might be too late.

The other example cited was kids attending a very competitive school up until their senior year and then moving to a less competitive school and graduating a higher rank.
If you don't have enough to pay your taxes, then you're in a very unusual position, because the average American gets their taxes withheld from their paycheck regularly. It must mean that you own your own business, or are doing something fairly unusual, and have failed to properly budget with taxes in mind. No one "doesn't have enough to pay taxes" just because they don't make enough money, because income tax is progressive specifically to avoid that type of problem.

As for it being "your money"....sure, one can say it's "your money", but you owe it to the government for services they provide on an ongoing and pervasive basis. It's like a subscription fee for civilized living.
I never got why this was such a huge deal for people to do. In vim it's super easy to just select a bunch of text you've pasted in, elimiate all the whitespace with some << commands, and then select what you need to be indented and >> it back into place. Takes like 5 minutes top even for larger amounts of text... beyond that, what are you even doing copying and pasting that much in?

That said I do like perl for many things python just isn't as elegant at and your comment about old documentation still staying fresh is pretty true
IMO this is the best interpretation.
I think low compute is actually a pretty interesting niche. By throwing all that compute at people, Apple all but guarantees the quality of software (VSCode extensions, web sites, etc) will be garbage.

I think the next major OS innovation will come from a company focused on architecture, design, and software efficiency over computing resources and device size.
Just remember to watch out for impersonators when trying to find Seek from an app store.

There are a bunch of really similar apps with $99/week billing that activates after trial automatically.
> reducing its rank

Do universities exist for students? Or do students exist for universities?

I'm sure university administration believe the latter, but given that they're supported by the state (in UT's case, ~25% of their budget?) there's a pretty strong argument that they owe the people of the state education.
As noted in the sibling comment - this has already been implemented in Texas for almost 30 years now. While studying the outcomes and the way it was implemented is an exercise for the reader, it's hardly the silver bullet your comment makes it out to be.
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I'm literally drinking coffee right now
Mostly agree, but disagree slightly with number 5. In most places, it is illegal to build any denser. Town zoning laws are notoriously slow to change such that they do not keep up with the market and actually codify a lot of these problems in their regulations.
Longform journalism can be reduced to the simple formula of ostensibly liberal journalists writing pieces that appeal to conservatives.
With deliveries, how do you separate the negatives arising from the logistics of the delivery service from the negatives that arise from the restaurant itself?

For example, cold or soggy food?
right, and you're a great example - you need to be treated like a child and guided to learn to respect and not stereotype adults who are given less money than you by our economic system. thats what you mean, right?
The way people prioritize the perceived risk of crime is incredibly overblown, largely due to politics and how the Republican/Democrat rural/urban divide is so heavily propagandized.

Wyoming's homicide rate is 4.4 per 100,000...

NYC's homicide rate is 5.5 per 100,000...

Los Angeles' homicide rate is 6.2 per 100,000...

Mississippi's homicide rate is 11.2 per 100,000...

Chicago's homicide rate is 18.26 per 100,000...

There are differences... but it's not as clearly urban/rural as it's made out to be. Economic factors seem more relevant as far as I can tell. Of course there are also other types of crime to consider, but homicide is the common fear.

Meanwhile...

National rate of death from car accidents is 11 per 100,000...

Death rate from obesity-related cancers is 54.9 per 100,000...

Yet very few people seem to advocate for more walkable rural towns or reducing the amount they drive.
A philosophical intuition behind the blockchain
That's a great model and one that I found particularly useful in weight lifting. Rather than stick to a strict linear program I would instead work up to whatever felt good for the day, then work at that level. Probably not the best strategy for young people or actual atheletes, but for an old guy who can barely prioritize excersize, choosing to adjust the effort relative to where I physically am on a given day is huge for keeping up consistancy.
I'm not in either industry, but doesn't mining (like oil) depend on getting the low-hanging fruit first? In other words, how can you profit from mining if your costs are exponentially higher than folks doing the same work here on earth?

Even if the entire mining operation were already setup (at a cost of thousands of dollars per kilo of weight sent up there), you would still have the costs of getting the mined materials back down here and those are likely to be astronomical, so to speak.
How much does 2FA really gain us users? What's the more likely scenario, that i) someone guesses or steals my password or ii) some organization breaks into Twitter and steals all passwords and the keys as well? Why would Twitter face better than Yahoo!, Alibaba, LinkedIn, etc.?
I think toilet paper manufacturing plants have been six sigma for decades now. If toilet paper deviates 5% from spec that’s a conscious decision.
Organs From Deceased Recipients of AstraZeneca Vaccine May Pose Problems
Forgive me, but what's wrong with this?
A whole bunch of their equipment started showing up on auction sites recently - including a few fire engines. I was extremely tempted to pick up a $3,000 fire engine.
> But the track record of democracies is orders of magnitude beyond any other form of government.

To be fair, what the USSR did between their revolution in 1917 and, oh, somewhere around 1975 was completely amazing. They took a fundamentally feudal, largely agragian society and turned it into an industrial world power. In terms of economic well-being, health, safety and possibility, for most USSR citizens it was a huge step forward.

I do not approve of the methods, and you could try to argue that they only succeeded at immense cost to both human lives and political freedom - I might not even disagree. But it is a reminder that sometimes massive changes can be pulled off by non-democratic government too. China over the last 35 years is likely a similar example.
Aligning enrollment with state demographics would require cutting the share of those students by almost two-thirds.

My best friend growing up was Korean. I saw firsthand the amount of effort he put into his studies. Why should we allow any institution to invalidate his work because our culture produces lazier, dumber students? Why should we artificially prop up patterns of thought and behavior that have negative effects on the people subjected to it?
I'm not trying to form a distinction between exacerbating and triggering psychosis in people who have a predisposition. But I think it's unfair to call them "otherwise healthy" as their psychosis, BPD, bi-polar, etc can manifest at any point in their life.

It's fair to say that it triggers the early onset of a "dormant" mental disorder.

My point being to say that it "causes" anything other than that trigger is currently unsupported.
Over a year of use here, with about 75GB of my most critical document data across two Mac laptops and an old FreeBSD server. No hiccups. I use Documents.app on my iOS devices to access any of those computers via LAN versions or port-forwarded, out-of-the-house versions, and everything is great. Highly recommend.
They still had minimum parking requirements last I checked.
Much of the West Coast is in the same boat.
"this metric shows better than the one they want to go with who will actually succeed" is a weak defense? What would a strong one look like?