skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yah, note that a $3-5K extension course at UCLA costs ~$300 (including registration and books!) at LACC and is often taught by the same part-time lecturer(s). it’s pretty clever geographic price discrimination though: expensive for rich westsiders who don’t wanna travel much past the 405 and cheap for the working class folk mid-city.
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Luck can simultaneously play a huge role and be relatively unimportant.

On any given product, you can do most things wrong and maybe 1% of the time you'll get lucky and succeed -- or you can do most things right and succeed maybe 30% of the time (I'm just making these numbers up, but they seem in the right ballpark based on my experience).

In a single instance, you're more likely than not to fail regardless of what you do, and both groups could chalk that up to "bad luck". But among the ones that have succeeded, you'll find that there are 30x more in the latter group than the former.
Are there still good cyberpunk novels these days?
How does 5G factor into all that?
Howdy, folks.

I've been working on a site that provides a responsive interface to digitize coats of arms or create new ones.

The (big, far away) goal is to support ALL the things and model heraldic concepts into data structures (EDN) and render them, build a DB, make them searchable, etc.

The main parts are:

- a charge library, where anyone can upload own SVGs and turn them into reusable charges

- a coat of arms library, where one can create and save private and public arms

- a collection library, intended for digitizing historical rolls of arms

- recently a ribbon generator to simplify and somewhat generalize the creation of ribbons/banners for arms mottos

The interface takes a bit of getting used to, and it isn't trying too hard to explain itself, but I think with some trial and error most of the parts should make sense.

It's written entirely in ClojureScript, and I doubt I could've done anything close to it in another language, certainly not in the same timeframe.

It's open source, see the about section.

Let me know what you think!
IntelliJ's editors have Local History which offers some features like Yestercode. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/local-history.html
I wish I could stop these people. They accomplish the exact opposite of what they're trying to do, making people steer clear of Rust. Rust doesn't need that kind of help in scaring people off. As nice as the language is, it can take some time to warm up to when you're used to not having a compiler second-guess everything you're trying to do.
I would like to know where this data is sourced.
Yikes! I didn't realize PA had anything available for less than a 4 digit price point. I'll check it out. Thanks!
Isn't being a university lecturer a full-time job? How can they also be lecturing at another college?
You'll never get confused between chatbots and conversational AI again
BluBrd enables communities to create/moderate a networking app for their members
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It's an Android tablet.

Also, in terms of who... most non-technical people take it out of the box and start using the device with the software on there.
This criticism is a little weird to type as someone typically pretty far left. But that just encourages dependency on government and it strips people of autonomy, robbing them of developing the skills they need to not only survive, but to really thrive.

Because some things won't be deemed essential. And now someone has to arbitrate that. And so the government is now making decisions about where you are allowed to live. What constitutes essential housing? Are you allowed to live in non-essential housing and "top up" or do you get stuck with what the expert committee has decided?

We have government-owned public housing in my country, and it has many flaws, in practice. Long wait-lists to get an apartment, no choice of where your apartment is, and little in the way of power to act should you need to move or have something fixed.

If they were given cash equivalent to the value of that housing on the market (a program we've been shifting towards but which lacks funding) then they can rent a house where they need it. Got a job? Move. Landlord is neglectful? Well, at the very least you can probably move.

There's a middle ground, of course. In the case of housing in particular, it might be reasonable to mandate a proportion of social assistance cash payments be spent on rent, should a person end up interacting with homelessness services. (But this is of course assuming you actually can rent anything with that... sometimes not.)
By default Tor doesn't make any attempt to disguise the fact it's Tor traffic. Bridges are unlisted relays, which should work for IP blocking, while Plugable Transports are made to evade censorship-focused traffic analysis (i.e., they will prevent the adversary from detecting and blocking Tor connections as a whole, but not prevent a dedicated adversary from figuring out "has this client been using Tor?").
It's a gradient. People with existing identity docs are frictionless, state IDs, driver's licenses, passports. Heck, ID.me and Stripe Identity can proof these folks remotely. People without those docs still have birth certificates and other legacy identity docs. You use trust anchors and identity to proof them into new identity systems. The latter requires a solid and robust ground game, similar to USPS or the US census, to ensure extremely high rates of coverage to prevent disenfranchisement or a digital divide.

(a component of my work is digital identity/IAM)
doubt it's much faster for just rendering a list - and you get a lot less than webview offers - html, css, svg, javascript etc etc.
Thanks for the informative reply. Yes, I think my demographic group are way more concerned about the side effects/long term effects of vaccine/covid than hospitalizations or death. And covid is not "risk free" after a influenza like symptoms for weeks.

I know same age group friends that have had covid and "loss of taste" have been the most common experience I've heard.
It's anecdotal, but also a good data point to me since I know these people's lifestyle / demographic a bit better than sweeping big stats.

I'll check out the link you gave regarding this specific topic about covid long term effects and compare it to what we know about the vaccine
The vast majority of people who buy a laptop expect the laptop they paid money for to work without having to "wipe the drive and install a fresh copy of" anything
The risk of suffering long-term damage from getting covid unvaccinated is way higher than the risk of any long-term side effects from the vaccine or getting Covid vaccinated. Even if the former is low, there's no downside to getting the vaccine anyways.

I can kind of understand if someone is avoiding the vaccine and also isolating themselves to protect against the virus, but I really just don't understand the risk-benefit analysis where the vaccine is too risky but catching Covid isn't.

Also, the risk of catching Covid unvaccinated may not be that low. But, the risk of any serious vaccine side-effects, or catching Covid vaccinated, is super low. IIRC Israel did a study and, the amount of breakthrough cases requiring hospitalization for under 40 was 0.3 per 100k, and the amount of people suffering myocarditis and other vaccine complications is in the double-digits, despite vaccinations being in the billions.

We know little about the vaccine, but we also know little about the effects of social media, random pollutants, etc. And that stuff is applied without your consent, and unlike the vaccine that stuff probably is harmful long-term.
Everyone doing biology professionally already knows the non-coding DNA has function. It’s only logical since we know that resource-intensive mechanisms don’t survive the evolutionary pressure if there’s no benefit for them to exist. So it’d be wasteful to replicate 98% of DNA if it’s not functional. Keep in mind it’s not only replicated, there’s error-correction as well.
> This country badly needs a national ID system.

Great! You have just solved the illegal immigration problem. So we are going to legalize everyone right here right now, correct?
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In short: focus, observe thoughts but don't react to thoughts...

Goal is to eventually become observer than reacter. When done consistently, the subsconcious mind will learn it. You overall stop reacting in-general.
I somewhat understand Samsung a bit. The amount of never updated Android devices that could be updated is immense, and support calls for long-banished issues that could be solved by a simple update are pointless and a waste of resources.

The problem is that users suffer from "update fatigue" because they have to be (rightfully) afraid of entire UI overhauls or even more bugs after updates since no one does QA any more but follows the "bananaware" principle instead - software ripens at the customer's home.

And app stores don't exactly make things easy because there is always only one version that can be updated to - no app store, including F-Droid, has an easy way to have one app with multiple concurrently available versions.
> 10. Every Negative Emotion is Driven by an Unmet Need.

Wow, lets completely avoid biology with that "every". Having high level of specific hormones (like parathyroid) that makes you feel negative is hardly "unmet need"...
> People who end up in, on average, better-paying jobs are the primary beneficiaries of cheap/free post-secondary education.

Those people also end up paying far more taxes. There's a perfectly selfish reason for government to make college free - it more than pays for itself over the lifetime of the taxpayer.

It doesn't make sense for government to pay for ridiculous university overhead (e.g. expensive new buildings, armies of worthless administrators, wildly overpaid athletic coaches, etc) but it's a no-brainer deal for government to pay fully for the real costs college degree. The key is to avoid paying for the non-education expenses.
"just about" is still a vast overestimate, but you're right - while I did my best to be polite while pointing out the extent to which the wall of ill-considered snark I was replying to was, at best, woefully underinformed, I readily admit that I did still fall somewhat short.
Once upon a time, a protocol called VT100 allowed a central computer to render colors to a remote terminal...
I've never understood why I encountered so much resistance to the concept of testing out of subjects during my academic career. I would have even paid for the units, I just didn't get why department heads were so opposed.
Road to Decarbonization: The United States Electricity Mix
How do you deal with the screen resolution? Do you have to run it at 1.5x? And, if so, what's the fractional scaling experience like?
It’s hard because the default medium for science communication is a journal article. We’re getting better at including more video when appropriate. But even then unless you can quantify something, it’s hard to analyze, so most figures end up being data plots instead of images or video.

It’s funny, because even for a paper like this where the foundational data of the study are videos of tardigrades walking, the videos are still listed in the publication as supplementary material!
At which point, why do you buy the devices?
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Will you be upset when your toddler is no longer in school and you're still paying school taxes?
I'm not sure what the end game is here.

The whole situation wasn't handled properly, if I was King I would have allowed landlords to have their property taxes waived during the pandemic.

Expect getting an apartment to be much much more difficult once this is all said and done.
Sure you can explore the solution space in software to identify candidates but at some point you have to create a live virus and see how it actually performs.
I imagine they got tied up in all the .Net changes between 2016 and now. I wouldn't be surprised if they were just waiting for Microsoft to pick a path long enough to have a target.

.Net 6 of makes sense because it's supposed to be an LTS version. However, if the release and EOL projections[0] I don't think it actually matters all that much: "LTS releases get free support and patches for 3 years. Current releases get free support and patches for 18 months."

That feels fairly aggressive for a library and language for business applications. I imagine many projects won't be released until the version of .Net used to build it is EOL.

[0]: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy/dotnet-...
To my knowledge, the only AMD chips approved for fanless designs are their 5-6w embedded chips and the same is true for Intel.

Those chips usually have 3.5-4GHz turbos, but in a fanless config, you'll never see them (and even with active cooling, you won't see them for more than a handful of seconds).
Removing the mods for a difference of opinion doesn't sound like a "free speech" position.
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I saw a job posting for MedNet. This seems like an interesting idea. I'm curious about the details and benefits though.

What are the benefits over things like PubMed? The ad talks about MedNet giving access to research results and asking researchers, but I thought the results would be on PubMed. I would have thought that lack of time would prevent doctors from doing the research, and that shifting the work to researchers to provide answers would just overwhelm their end instead.

How does the platform determine what the best treatment is? For example, there can be many experimental treatments that may work well, but might not be approved or recommended. Or even researchers have differences of opinions. I thought the specialty, board, or state would have established/adopted protocols form many things. I know this happens for some states/levels like with EMS and nursing. As well as informally through board certification and ongoing education.
Just waiting on my pipe dream for an ergonomic keyboard on a laptop. #badwrists.
Holy shit, I hadn't heard of Vivaldi (nor its calendar) before!

I don't think I will leave Firefox for it but I might just use it just for the calendar.
I've come to think that such performance increases, if they exist, are not worth the amount of effort compared to a much simpler sever-side render.

Also, if your website just happens to have that one bit of information I care about, and I don't view other pages, rendering with Javascript is a complete waste.
Is there a pricing somewhere?
To your last point, I really think the vast majority of users do not understand what slices on keyboards are, much less how to use them.
Right - there's no good way for a non-technical user to avoid being exploited like this.

I personally think hackers have a moral responsibility to make fixes like this more accessible to the average person. Tech corporations have made it clear they have no qualms about attacking their users in increasingly creative ways, and it's up to us to reclaim control over the devices which, in an ethical sense, are rightfully ours.
The only reason Meson exists is that the gnome developers really, really, really couldn't stomach using CMake because KDE ported to it in 2005, 2006. That made it so toxic to them that they simply had to come up with alternatives, all of which turned out to be as warty as CMake when they finally came close to reaching -- not even a bit of feature parity or cross-platformity.

They could have worked with the CMake people to improve CMake, they could have accepted that CMake has improved a ton since then, but no, CMake has cooties. They had to go and fragment again -- just when we were getting out of autohell.

There is no reason for Meson to exist: it should not exist. We were finally coming to a point where we could build any library on any OS using one and the same build system -- and now there's Meson.
Gentle reminder that Lenovo jumped the shark quite a while ago. The whole Superfish debacle, the spyware, the crapware, the endless stream of shitty decisions. Year after year, the hardware gets worse. Customer support gets worse.

The sad thing is that they're still better than everything else out there. Which says a lot about the laptop industry in general.
Two objections, one factual and one more philosophical. First, it's actually not true that most major U.S. cities are bereft of single-family homes. It's the dominant form of zoning. See here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities...

But, second, any objection that places the blame on "greedy landlords" is a total nonstarter. Everybody is responding to their incentives. Landlords aren't greedier than anybody else. If widget makers could set higher prices, they would. They don't because they can't, not because they're "less greedy."
It was designed to get around DNS shenanigans by ISPs, etc.
True. But when you have to install Windows on it yourself, a non-zero number of folks will probably end up giving Linux a try, cus why not? It's always been a huge barrier for Linux that it's WAY more work to get going, when your computer shows up with Windows already on it.