skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, the fact there were so many different universities in Paris in the late 20th century was also pretty artificial: De Gaulle got sick of all these spicy students having opinions and split the whole thing up.

But it's all just rather arbitrary rankings of rather arbitrary social constructions anyway, and as you say it's not that helpful for making accurate decisions for where you should apply anyway as what really matters is your supervisor and the support from the administration.
i have the opposite experience. installed windows 10 on mbp 15 2014 and came back days later because of the trackpad being unusable(high expectations maybe)
They wouldn’t lose much money, would all these people go to Chinese language phones?
By not deleting the app.
Very cool. Great idea.
[citation needed]

I'm guessing you have seen reports of antibody levels falling, but that is not an indication of immunity.

So far I have seen no reports of natural immunity (as measured in confirmed reinfections) falling.
> How are you able to keep the site running after HN kiss of death?

I originally targeted a Raspberry Pi4-cluster. It was only able to deal with about 200k pages at that stage, but it did shape the design in a way that makes very thrifty use of the available hardware.

My day job is also developing this sort of highly performance java applications, I guess it helps.

> What is your stack, elastic search or something simper?

It's a custom index engine I built for this. I do use mariadb for some ancillary data and to support the crawler, but it's only doing trivial queries.

> How did you crawl so many websites for a project this size?

It's not that hard. Like it seems like it would be, and there certainly is an insane number of edge cases, but if you just keep tinkering you can easily crawl dozens of pages per second even on modest hardware (of course distributed across different domains).

> Did you use any APIs like duck duck go or data from other search engines?

Nope, it's all me.

> Are you still incorporating something like PageRank to ensure good results are prioritized or is it just the text-based-ness factor?

I'm using a somewhat convoluted algorithm that takes into consideration the text-based-ness of the page, but also how many incoming links the domain has, but it's a weighted value that factors in the text-based-ness of the origin domains.

It would be interesting to try a page rank-style approach, but my thinking is that because it's the algorithm, it's also the algorithm everyone is trying to game.
Thanks for doing that math, truly.

I always assumed it pulled air out from the top of the freezer compartment, just to remove some of the hottest air. Inefficiencies in the seal will let air leak back in eventually, but probably slow enough that it doesn't affect the internal temperature that much.

Now I want to know the reasoning behind having a pump at all.

>A fridge can apparently consume about 200W peak

yes this seems right, i am able to run my fridge off an inverter connected to my vehicle battery if the power is out, even with a 150' run of extension cord - no issues at all, and 200W or thereabouts sounds like the numbers i saw.
Well it’s important that automation of any kind solves problems, if it doesn’t for you then indeed, staying away from it is the best thing to do :)
Apple gets lambasted for activities in China all the time by many of the same people
F1 wheel also has no capacitive touch buttons because if the driver had to hunt for a button he would have already lost the race.

We humans have motor memory, why are we actively trying to not used it.
Recent student satisfaction is also going to be heavily influenced by Covid. It's not difficult to imagine that Oxbridge students are less satisfied with many of their interactions with professors being moved online than students at other universities...
Only sapients have needs?
> Outranks in what?

Being the 'best'

> What does "best" mean?

Better than the others

How do we know who is the best? - The Times Univesity Rankings.
Good point. The collegiate universities are a different matter.
> Very sad when not even the massively rich will bother to do the right thing.

The issue is Google and Apple isn't owned by one massively rich person.

They are owned by tens of thousands of shareholders, many extremely wealthy but most small, including both individual investors but also pension funds and hedge funds, and the CEO & Board are legally obligated to act in their fiduciary interest.
Something between the MicroBit and the Pi would be great.
Say you work at a small company, 15-20 employees. Your boos tells you he will never sell, but you and your 14-19 colleaques want that on paper.

Is this possible? How would you go about this? I'm currently in a situation where I'd love to know if "surprise sale" can be avoided.
In my experience the only people who care about these rankings are 17- and 18-year-olds applying for places.

And the rankings can show the opposite of how people actual view the unis. Where I am we have a Russell Group uni and an ex-poly. I went to the Russell Group uni and did computer science, solely because it is a Russell Group uni. In reality, everyone in the local market knows that the ex-poly's computer science course prepares you better for industry.

On the whole though, no one really cares. I can barely remember what I got for my A levels, I can't even remember how many GCSEs I did.

It really doesn't matter in my experience.
PhD to industry doesn't translate well

Really depends on the field. On the whole people who have a PhD in Not-Computer Engineering tend to end up working in fields connected to what their PhD was in.

I work in Civil Engineering and not only are there lots of PhDs around here most of them are working on things pretty close to what their research topic was, and where in fact specifically hired to do so. The PhDs who aren't working in their 'field' are generally more senior people who used to work or more relevant stuff but are now in more management roles.
I'm not denying that some bad people will treat you differently for your skin color. What I am saying is that how you respond to it is far more important than how people treat you (for most situations in our modern society, though some situations can be insurmountably overwhelming). Rather than me being naive, it is you being too black and white in your thinking when reading my comment (by making a false dilemma).

I've experienced neo-nazi racism against my person because of my skin color (and I mean literal self-identified neo-nazis, not merely a label given through the slanderous designation of some intolerant leftist). Despite those experiences, because I chose not to succumb to a mentality of victimhood those people's hateful attitude and behavior did not have the harmful effect on me it could have had.

However, if you believe that racism is as pervasive as the air we breathe, and the country is systemically racist, and white people suffer from implicit bias (and mysteriously it's only white people, kinda racist huh?) then I have to disagree. Racism exists, but the vast majority of people are good people. These days, the real racists (besides the tiny minority of actual white supremacists) are the so called 'anti-racists'. Their anti-white rhetoric to me is as appalling as the anti-black rhetoric of white supremacists. They forget the golden rule, don't do to others what you don't want done to you.
Tech happy hour meetup in SF
I really respect how we have these little community pods like EuroBSDCon. Just tons of people in the same room sharing ideas they're passionate about.

Which platform are they using to host the online meeting, by the way? A quick skim doesn't say much, and those pictures are not friendly on my mobile data.
> This is the power of JVM we do not get from other languages/VMs.

sub-millisecond gc pause has been available to Golang users for ages.
Here is the joke, MAUI with incompatible XAML is now delayed to post .NET 6 release, while with UNO you can go cross platform today, on .NET 6 and without having to rewrite XAML yet again.
Everyone else: pauses are bad, we can’t have garbage collection.

Java: pauses are bad, let’s make the garbage collector better.

Much credit to the Java community for ignoring the noise and building something great that lets most applications have the best of both worlds.
The idea that these benchmarks have anything meaningful to add is a ludicrous. If you think a 1st from Anglia Ruskin is Comparable with a 2nd from Cambridge you need your slide rule checked.
Many disadvantages comparing with realtime messaging
I don't know about Soros, but e.g. the Swedish government is supporting him quite heavily.

Would you consider Smart Voting to be "interference" if Chinese backed activists promoted it in the US?
And, of course this being the UK, there is more than one QAA :-)
> In most cases though, industry doesn't care about any of this.

That's not my experience, actually. There is a lot of snobbery in some cases. Some places (UK) make a point of only hiring from certain universities. A friend of mine did his PhD at Birmingham - good university, and excellent at his field, but not a top-5 one. He was on the LIGO experiment, and on the first gravitational wave detection. Got grilled about "why on earth did you go to study at Birmingham???" at a job interview.

You might say, not a good place to work, and you'd be right, but the trend is real.
> Every country does exactly the same thing.

They don't though. Sure, there is some level of corruption and media bias in every country but few countries have dictatorships which will threaten imprisonment (or worse) of anyone who speaks out against the current government.

However I do agree with your secondary point that the solution isn't to create a tech vacuum, it's to create technology that can't be controlled by a single authority.
Wiktionary mentions the term as a USian usage.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/charret#English
Russia's too big of a market

Russia's GDP: $1.710 trillion

Texas GSP: $1.9 trillion
Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
Students are happier with courses they get good grades in. Students who fail aren't very happy.
Sure, anyone can say anything about anything and believe in conspiracies without evidence. Letting misinformation spread further isn't a viable solution to that.
Of course you can have terms of use for things you sell, I don't know why you would think otherwise.

In this case it IS linked to iCloud though, as you probably know. Images are only scanned on their way to iCloud, and they won't be scanned if you don't use iCloud.
For a fun read here's how we built with in Rust and using our edge compute platform Cloudflare Workers: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-cloudflare-images-in-ru...
My favorite, long standard spell checker is Aspell long part of a TeX distribution.
> The application in question is very complex, so any kind of rewrite in another language is out of the question.

I think I know what you mean. If a couple of guys quit, the company is in major trouble? :-)

Forgot this: /s
Without knowing much about the specifics... A threat can be totally real, even if "there is no one to legally prosecute". In most countries (even in countries that most people would consider more democratic), if people in power want to "make a point", they will find a way.

I'm an immigrant who moved from Hungary to Germany, lived in Spain and Mexico, and I know many examples from all countries where people in power got their way through various ways, even if they had no legal way to enforce their will on others. Also do not forget, if you control legislation, the judges, the constitution, the police, etc, what is legal one day, can become illegal and prosecuted and persecuted pretty quickly.
There are people like me that can afford an expensive phone or computer but keep using their 5 years old devices, even as a developer there is no justification to run the latest 32 core Threadripper or latest CoolPhone (you could say as a dev you should feel how stuff runs on medium spec devices).

Anyway you classified most Apple users as rich people that can throw away 500+ dollars and don't care about environment . Sure there are some rich Apple users , and people that are into Applo as an identity but I assume not all as you, I mean it was proven with the keyboard issues, with the battery issues , with the GPU issues - some fanboys blamed the users but in the end the majority did not bought a new device but forced Apple (sometimes with the help of the justice system) to fix their devices and be transparent about stuff.

But sure, throw away a good laptop when a key is broken, be proud of it too , let us know how much money you have and how much you hate right to repair.
Only the person who went to cambridge would know what a slide rule is.
Apple and Google have deleted the Navalny app from their store (RU)
Aberdeen used to be very proud of the fact that for a long time they had the same number of universities as England:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_universities_of_Scotla...
I miss the fantasy/scifi art that was used at the time.
Mixed integer programming?

Here is a browser version https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/mip
Is Google Stadia dead? Not yet, but it feels inevitable
This is absolutely different from removing Parleur from AppStore and Google Play, of course. Completely different. Apple and Google should immediately pull out of Russia!
(For the sake of an entertaining argument)

I have plenty of passwords memorized. I could think of my email password from 2002 (yes, I remember it), or any of my work passwords, or my Steam account password.

It's going to take a lot of MRI sessions.
"Rent seeking" has nothing to do with housing. It is about manipulating the environment (legislative, market, etc), so you get a cut from a transactions. E.g. make a state-mandated standard, that others have to license and profiting from such a licensing is the "rent".
Burning more coal doesn't make the problem of sucking all the carbon out of the atmosphere any easier.
Pedophilia is not a sexual orientation
@ sam0x17
Pedophilia will never be a sexual orientation. SO is base on sex and gender not age. So what if there are research claiming it to be one. There are research saying that it’s a mental disorder. And why homosexuality was considered as one, but those people are attractive to same sex or gender. Again SO is base on age. It is not normal to be attractive to children. There are tons of research showing how harmful it is. Calling it an SO will normalize if any of these sickos act out. Which means what they do to the kids won’t be a big deal. Calling it an SO make them less likely then before to get help. Oh and that was an error https://arkofhopeforchildren.org/blog/now-pedophilia-is-not-... and https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/813669
I'm guessing the parent is referring to the ability to transparently change runtime parameters and benefit from technical improvements without having to switch languages or even needing recompilation. That's not something golang can do given its statically linked afaik
I love these stories.
Can you ad some details how you started out? Did you have a day job and work in the evenings or how did you get started?
Looks great. One comment re. the docs, as a paid user of Tailwind UI, I really like the way they lay out their components on their docs site. The markup is hidden by default, with buttons to click to grab the source code.

And this makes sense because I'm not browsing the docs looking for markup that I like. I'm looking for a suitable UI component and only once I've picked something am I interested in the specific markup for that one chosen component.

Your docs at the moment have the effect of emphasising the markup more than anything else on the page (due to the dark-themed code snippets, which normally I like!) and when I'm in UI design mode, I'm thinking very visually and really only want to see a clean page listing the various components available.

Other than that, the docs are great so this is only a possible optimisation rather than a major big deal!
It's not a straw man to say that Apple is scanning for CSAM because they don't want CSAM. It may be naive or wrong, but it's not a "straw man".

The stated reason they do it this way is to protect privacy. Presumably a lot more people would complain if they scanned the camera feed.
It doesn't have to be either / or, it can be both.
Private entities under strict regulation, yes. Individuals in basements? Not so much. Any such person will be placed in custody in most countries if caught. I remember that happening more than once. I'd provide you a link but would rather not google the subject...
While interesting, I would never buy such an SSD due to the performance hit.
Germany has large pharma companies and could have made sure one of them was picked in the same way the UK did.

Plainly, this was a war situation with countries brought to their knees and Germany handed production of a key weapon that they had developed to a foreign entity. In such a situation IP means nothing if you don't control the factories. Compare to the UK who very clearly understood the situation and intervened. That's serious lack of sovereign strategy and assertiveness on Germany's part, but, again, I don't think they are willing to, or even can, say 'no' to the US.
Great! There are western startups working on thorium energy as well. For example, this video of a Danish startup Seaborg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps8oi_HY35E
What tools/stacks did you use to make all of those web/apps
Like: Stability. Their scale-as-you-go foundational products (S3, EC2, DynamoDB, ...) are amazing, full stop.

Dislike: A billion products, most of them half-baked, terrible DX, terrible documentation, pricing all over the place. Examples: regular Sagemaker is much worse than a normal VM, Sagemaker Studio is so so. CloudFormation is not great and only works with AWS. Smaller products are even worse.

I try to avoid as much as I can dealing directly with AWS APIs (specially their web) and focus on third party tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc. It makes it tolerable.
We wrote some experimental network drivers in high-level languages a few years ago and Java performed better than expected. Yeah, that's a very special and somewhat odd use case, but it was fun :)

We've got some graphs [0] comparing throughput and long-tail latency for the various Java GCs available in OpenJDK 12. Shenandoah's worst case pause time was ~45µs which is the same as disabling the GC (Epsilon GC) which is pretty impressive. Overall performance did suffer under Shenandoah a little bit back then, though. However, I've heard that this improved recently.

[0] https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages/blob/master/J...
"I'm not selling, I'm just moving ownership into this here trust."

<20 minutes later>

"I'm not selling the company, the trust is. I said *I* would never sell, but the other trustees are selling it, not me. I can't prevent this"

<20 minutes later>

"OK everyone listen, good luck, I've got my $5B so yeah, lol? Laters!"
> While German politicians still ask for the internet to be printed for them.

That's actually somewhat reassuring. I still print of long PDFs, because I actually want to read long documents rather than skim.
Quick... Rails generates front-end and backend with a one line command.

How many components in react would you need to add for 1 crud ?
The majority of western world probably wasn't in favour of austerity, declining the welfare state and huge tax breaks for the rich and powerful, but it still happened. The people behind the buttons just have a different economic model what they perceive as progress.
“It's the Sun Wot Won It” (2012)
I use vuejs, nodejs and golang for web apps. Java and swift for mobile apps.
We are already trying to stop those, so that's some weird sarcasm. But scanning photos is not a very efficient way to stop drug dealers, they don't tend to take photos of their stash I think.
If you want to be constructive, consider pointing out problems with his proposals (which there are plenty, I agree), instead of personal attacks.

You won't get nothing out of personal attack, only two sides that won't be able to talk to each other.
> All tears contain a variety of biological substances (including oils, antibodies and enzymes) suspended in salt water, but as Fisher saw, tears from each of the different categories include distinct molecules as well. Emotional tears, for instance, have been found to contain protein-based hormones including the neurotransmitter leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller that is released when the body is under stress.

Can this be used to detect 'fake tears' or 'fake remorse'? Or, the opposite, to prove 'real tears' or 'real remorse'? Could it be applied with regards to law, such as a lawyer proving their client has regret over their actions, or a prosecutor arguing the perpetrator does not really feel the way the defense argues they feel?
I would not trust this.

What I would trust:

A backup medium (SSD or whatever) which only allows writes to empty space. Unless a switch is manually switched from "write" to "update".

In "write" mode, it would only allow writing to empty space.

In "update" mode, it would allow writing everywhere.

I would leave it in "write" mode most of the time. For me, a typical SSD has enough space for years of incremental backups. If I should ever want to delete old backups, I would set it to "update" mode to do that and then set it back to "write" mode.
Just this week I read that thorium-vs-nuclear-legacy power is fraught with the problem of protactinium: this intermediary, vs a breeder reactor, stays longer in the core, poisoning the reactor, and is EXCESSIVELY radioactive in a hard-to-contain manner, so it must be removed SAFELY and stored elsewhere SAFELY, this ycombinator thread contains no mention of this throughout as of this hour, and the only encouraging parameter seems to be, unless the redditor who explained it was in error, that the chinese reactor is only to be 2 mw. In the post I referenced: uranium to plutonium: 238U+n > 239Np > 239Pu .... thorium: 232Th+n > 233Th > 233Pa > 233U with side reactions involving 231Pa and 232Pa, which go on to make 232U. ...
233Pa, radioactivity of 769TBq/g, a huge level, and decays to gamma emission, very hard to contain...
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Shenandoah is keeping pace nicely with ZGC, especially important to make this into the jdk 17 release since that will be what most users target for the next few years.

Given the similar feature sets, does anyone with experience running both ZGC and shenandoah have any differentiators?
And she's done amazing work we need in order to stop climate change now hasn't she

It actually surprises me a lot how little effect it seems to have, at least in her case, to understand what science is telling you
Hosting is actually surprisingly cheap, but that's because I'm hosting it on consumer hardware in my living room, off my domestic broadband connection.

That's both a blessing and a curse. It works okay as long as I don't touch it, but I can't do maintenance without shutting it down. I can't implement crawler changes without a week of shitty results as it needs to visit half the Internet before it gets decently good. I can only afford a production machine, so all testing that can't be done with unit tests gets done there.

Anyway I added a patreon in case anyone wants to toss a coin.