skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google publishes statistics [1].

Some things I observed from a quick glance through it:

- On most years there's about 1200-ish students from about 60-ish countries.

- There's a disproportionate number of students from India, like far above other countries, even United States.

I did my undergrad from India, and masters program from USA. (I'm now back in India working as a software developer).

At my university in India, we had this sort of club for enthusiast programmers who would contribute to open source software after regular class hours. Each student would pick a major project and contribute to it.

It was fun and we learnt a lot that way. Every year some members of this club would apply for gsoc (with the projects that they had already been contributing to during the months leading upto it), and about a dozen students used to get selected into the program.

Participation in open source was something that was actively promoted there. I couldn't find anything similar during my time in USA, although I only have the data-point of a single US university.

[1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/sta...
Using it and it's great!

You might run into rough edges/bugs but the author has been supportive of PRs.
If I get my webcam, microphone and usb ports back on my high security laptop I am all for it.
Please realise that what is complex and hard for you might not be complex or hard for a senior engineer with 20+ years of experience in different languages and frameworks. I write compilers for a living and have written 3D game engines from scratch for commercial games. I learned JavaScript and delivering a complex 52 page web application written in Typescript and using React in 4 months. It was fun and easy compared to what I normally have to deal with. So please realise that your experience is very different from somebody with a lot of experience. I am not being snarky or arrogant. Just pointing out that different experiences shape how well you adapt to new tech.
It's interesting as this is mostly an American phenomena. In other places, where cars are ordered weeks/months out, the price is set and the dealership does a flat value add on at best.

In USA, it is common to have hundreds, if not thousands via floor financing - too bad for FIAT. If they could've held on they probably would be having a good year.

I've seen the trend of cheaper to buy a new car then a used one for 1-3yr old models for a while but now it has fully encompassed the whole market it's bizarre. 10yr old cars selling for 50% still. With high usage, 100k+ on odometer in miles.

I'm still confused if it's a sign of inflation/weak money or just true demand.

Where are all these cars going?
> Folks don’t like to spend an order of magnitude more to monitor a system than the system itself costs to run.

I think this sums it up.

The big problem is that if the system is part of my core competency then I care deeply about it, and I'm not going to outsource anything that could get in my way.

If I'm willing to outsource something, I generally don't care that deeply about it. So, you're attempting to ask me for money for something that I don't care about--there's an upper limit to that.

The WordPress thing is a good example. I want someone I can yell at if the main website goes down, sure, but, if that doesn't affect my customers, there is no point in me paying $100/month to monitor it. Outsource to somebody and hit customer service when it goes down.
National banks have always had certain objectives (or “agendas”) that broadly correspondent to the general welfare and stability of the system. I don’t know how it would even be possible for them to make decisions without having objectives, so the “hands-off” or “neutrality” people clamor for seems rather unspecific.

The idea that tying the money to some physical (gold standard) or mathematical (Bitcoin) “reality” is somehow preferable is just the naturalistic fallacy wrapped in cynicism, namely that today’s institutions are incapable of making better decisions than the completely arbitrary whims of these alternatives. And all the ghosts people seem haunted by (hyperinflation) are figments of history a century removed.
Sounds reasonable. But why would anybody even need a store then?
Not op but rad oncs are a weird bunch. They get to play with cool machines and imaging and there is a natural overlap with coding and software. There are a number of medical fields like this. So I’m guessing somewhere along those lines (which is a bit like me, but my applications are less clinical!)
Just for context, the US adult literacy rate is 80%
Maybe you want to take this discussion over to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics…

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-5/using-gasoline-data-to...
I mean the money Apple makes on wearables (AirPods + watch), iPads, and possibly growing Mac sales because of the M chip are all huge. Their services segment keeps growing at a massive pace too. Sure none of these are as big as the iPhone. But if Apple only did the iPhone as hardware, they would be no where close to their current valuation.

None of the big 5 tech companies are close to tapping out. Any or all of them could be worth another $1T in a couple years and it wouldn’t be that crazy.
In my prep I didn't reproduce that, but I had success with focusing more on solving the problem and less on the person. Every once in a while I made the note of saying something like, "Does that make sense/seem reasonable?" to check in with the interviewer.
Noam Chomsky went to a Deweyite high school with no grading and turned out more than fine (he actually enjoyed it). I am opposed to grading, I would replace it with a levelling system - you would have to show certain proficiency to gain a level.
Carvana is offering me $7k over my payoff quote on my 2.5 year old lease.
Nice to see my favorite book on HN! I highly recommend this book if you want to really learn programming language theory (especially operational semantics and type systems).
Vague vote counts is a mitigation against bots, it does not protect against human brigading which is what YouTube is trying to address here.
I agree, I just was pointing out that the death toll from the bombing wasn't even the worst consequence. Pol Pot was, in effect, the largest bomb dropped on Cambodia.
> I loved the concepts behind VRML, and still do. Unfortunately all of the implementations around it were terrible.

Being ~18 years away and therefore memory is skewed, may I ask regarding how the implementations were terrible? Honest question.
TGA is easier because the rows go top-to-bottom, you don't have the RIFF header, and you don't have to pad each row to 4 bytes. I still copy and paste a little TGA encoder into my graphics code when I need to dump something out for debugging.
The Shinsengumi are a meme by now, there's endless TV dramas, movies, manga adaptations, etc. It's kind of hard to draw a Western parallel, but maybe the FBI during the Al Capone/Prohibition era when they were fighting against cartoon villain gangsters.

Other Japanese obsessions that tourists struggle to grok include Saigo Takamori and Ryoma Sakamoto, who ironically enough were both opponents of the Shinsengumi.

For HNers who've never heard of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinsengumi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakamoto_Ry%C5%8Dma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saig%C5%8D_Takamori
You don’t think it is odd that the average video on YouTube gets 1-5% reactions to views and this one is at 33%?
In Friends we laughed when Phoebe said, "I'd like to help you but I don't want to."

Now kids say, "I'd like to do the work necessary to get good grades, but I don't want to."
That’s $25B profit per year excluding any other profit. That can actually justify a 1T market cap.
Ford made electric Rangers when GM was making the EV-1, so not entirely their first effort.
Aren't we removing dams because of the damage that they do to fisheries? Also doesn't new dams create a large amount of greenhouse gasses?
Appropriately enough, there's a Japanese saying for this: 灯台下暗し todai moto kurashi, literally "it's dark right below the lighthouse".
Another aspect of this, they had to listen for their whole shift to try and catch a transmission. They didn't have recorders or scanners, just sit on a known frequency and wait for the Japanese to transmit something. And when the transmission started they had to be awake and capturing it. Even several years into the war there wasn't 24x7 coverage of all radio frequencies. And of the coded messages that were caught by listening posts like these, a much smaller fraction of messages were decrypted. Still, this effort gave the Allies a strategic advantage in both the Pacific and Europe.
Says who ?
Used fleet trucks can serve this market, but even they get snatched up for too much these days.

You can pry my old jeep cherokee out of my cold dead hands.

Among the last vestiges of a simple, rugged, affordable, vehicle that serves a purpose well without bells or whistles.
Rolling blackouts fit your definition, do you consider Texas socialist? They had remote bureaucrats cutting people off just last winter.
And what's the argument? Legitimately asking, I use it to downvote comments that are low quality in my opinion and I don't think that has a negative impact on HN at all.
It was never about creators or dislike attacks. There's a reason why they didn't adopt an opt-in solution.

It's about corporations complaining about their ads running on unpopular content. It's about making people waste more time on low quality content, scam and disinformation across the platform.

What you hear from them are pure PR lies. They don't care about small creators and they never did. All they want is to make you watch more ads at the expense of your time and welfare.
Would anyone notice? As long as they can continue paying redemptions they could hide a hole for a long time; it wouldn't be the first time.
If you ever code something that "feels like a hack but it works," just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking.

Not to oversimplify: first you have to flatten the rock and put lightning inside it.

Source: https://twitter.com/daisyowl/status/841802094361235456
That might be your personal experience but please recognise that some developers can do all of the above with ease. You might not be able to but they can.
As Governor Gavin Newsom says, it’s all about seasonality:

“We know why: because [of] the seasonality to COVID,” Newsom said. “It’s not particularly difficult, after a couple of years, to understand. You see those trends in Europe. You see those trends extend in other parts of the globe. Unfortunately, that’s what’s happening here.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-09/winter-i...
Judge buys Rittenhouse lawyer’s argument that pinch-to-zoom manipulates footage
Well not exactly, you get 12 months of work on an F1 student visa (meaning you don’t have to already “hold” the degree).
Back in the Windows Phone days, they'd send you a phone for developing an app. I wrote a crappy calculator app during a CS class and got a free phone out of it.

I spent more time doing the app submission than I did writing the app. They didn't care what it was. Similarly Blackberry had a similar program a little while later where I just ported the same app and got a Playbook tablet.

It was fun as a poor college kid, but look where it got both of them.
I put my stuff on 'passively looking' 30 days ago and I've had 48 people approach me for scheduling interviews. Even though my stuff makes it pretty clear that I don't work on application health monitoring, site reliability, or any of the other modern stealth phrases for 'you are on call', all 48 of them have been for oncall support positions.

It's very easy to get a 6 figure job in IT. It's not very easy to get a job in IT that can promise a 9-5 workday.
Baremetal OS provisioning @ faster than cloud speed: in detail
Somewhat related to this, I've recently been shopping for a new car to replace my current Subaru that I've had for over a decade. It's been a great car so I figured I'd get another Subaru but, man, some of the newer "features" have completely turned me off to the company.

One is a system called DriverFocus that monitors the drivers face, runs some sort of facial recognition software, and alerts anytime it doesn't think the driver's face is paying enough attention. Unsurprisingly it's horribly buggy and has a ton of false positives, but even worse: you can't disable it! There's a setting in the menu that will turn it off for that trip, but it will turn itself back on during a future start.

To make it even worse, some models can't be purchased without it now. I can only imagine what the company will be doing with that facial data down the line. I absolutely don't want a car that constantly spies on my face in a way that can't even be turned off.

Between that feature, this telemetry article, and some other anti-user features it's incredible what a customer hostile company Subaru has become. It's a shame because they used to be one of my favorites.
Google will just stop showing statistics on cancelled subscriptions during shareholder meetings.
MATLAB is fine and could have continued to be the dominant player. MathWorks the company is hot garbage and basically destroyed the ubiquity of MATLAB.

That's pretty much the alpha and omega. MATLAB had a 20 year head start on everybody and wasted it because everybody hated MathWorks so badly.
#1 in my search results on the store, comes up even before typing firefox in full.
You're absolutely right, I hadn't thought of that. Very interesting (and affirming) way of looking at those savings.
Power is very cool and I want a Power10 box a lot but I'm not sure if it's fair to really decide in it's favour because POWER is basically unobtainable whereas you can actually buy dev boards for RISC-V from SiFive.
The vast majority of foreigners hanging out on /r/japan are English teachers stuck in dead-end jobs and loveless marriages, which is a pretty good recipe for becoming cynical and bitter. Most foreigners I know in Tokyo who have decent careers are quite happy.
There are definitely touristy things in Seattle that people do not go out of their way to unless showing visitors around, like the Underground Tour, the Space Needle, and Pike Place.
Dropdown list for next year and months
I want to display a dropdown list for next year and months. So for example, if today is 202110, I will have a list of:

202205

202206

202207

202208

202209

202210

202211

202212

202301

202302

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202612

Thank you.
Let's be honest about Git
Linus is a smart guy, but he is not reknown for being people friendly, by his own admission.

Let's start with some facts. Linus decided to write his own version control system because the people who wrote free software he thought was good enough for his purposes decided to start charging users money for the fruits of their labor.

By his own account, he spent a couple of weeks writing git and named it after himself.

Moving into WAG territory, the original GitHub team thought since Linus wrote it there's got to be a pony in there somewhere. Evidently many other people did too. Eventually adults stepped in to monetize that and some of the original team got butthurt. The adults eventually made a pile selling out to M$ who recognized the operation is not about source code control, at all.

Git is very user unfriendly. It may solve Linus' problems, but it has caused a lot of pain when I expected it to solve mine.
Great point. It brings to mind an aphorism from Charlie Munger: “Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome”
> Actually, you've made quite a few claims,

The phrase "all I'm saying is" is an idiom, not a literal assertion.

> Given you've admitted Apple's filtering is ineffective, you have admitted that criminals could put CSAM on Apple servers.

Yes, I did. And I responded to that already. I'm not interested in engaging with "if it's not perfect then it's useless" type of arguments.
If anyone is interested in more detail on the schema system, I found it documented here : https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/c5e5adde-5459-409b-b34d-a0d75c... after following the link in the parent.
Yes, mentioned in my first comment, made 3 hours before yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177718 :P

But as long as people were doing the container ship math, I figured I'd point out the problems with it.
Is it possible the headline was updated? The word “inequitable” appears in the article’s URL indicating that’s the original framing of the author.
This paper tracks lead blood levels of Flint kids from 2005-2016:

https://www.jpeds.com/pb/assets/raw/Health%20Advance/journal...

Over this time range lead levels steadily declined with the exception of increases in 2011 and 2015. The 2015 increase brought lead levels back up to where they were in .... 2012 (and still 1/3 of the 2005 level). I'm guessing people just don't drink much tap water.

It's hard to reconcile this relatively small change with the calls for intense punishment for those responsible.
How about the average price for a new EV?
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the Gang of Four.
Operation Bongo II – Oklahoma City sonic boom tests
it’s trivial to convert usdt to usd
The current state of every app store search is atrocious. IOS, Android, and Windows store. Even if you search for exact terms on IOS you have to slog through large amounts of BS. This is not a new thing.
I may never buy a new car again. Literally zero “smart” features that have ever been advertised in cars sound like a net benefit to my use case, but they all sound like a massive breach of my privacy and sometimes even autonomy. I support every law that makes this sort of telemetry and tracking harder - up to and including completely illegal - and don’t care in the slightest if it destroys the extant industry altogether
You're the dude who spoke of the need to "reign" in teachers and advocated for restrictive whitelists.
Maybe that's a problem with any sort of language output, human or machine: it can be mean, unfair and untruthful, and tbh having a machine spout my grandad racist jokes is more impressive than not in a way :D
Maybe I missed it, but what do you think is/are the reason(s) they go so bad? Time pressure? Having an interviewer watching and judging? Etc.

For me personally, my brain goes completely blank at the problem statement, pretty much in the dark without a flashlight, and I have to work everything out by hand and hope that my code actually ends up being correct and reasonable. It's scary but I've ended up doing well.
On a video with 45,000 views I think the number of votes total doesn't matter as much as how many are up and down.
I agree with your points. I dont know why some people are creepily obsessed with Japan. Many people seem to develop their idealized version of a society in their head and then project that image onto Japan and Japanese people whereas it is far from reality.
Excellent. I will steal this.
“The shares of common stock were sold solely to satisfy the reporting person’s tax withholding obligations related to the exercise of stock options,” the filing read.
I think that’s a great idea. I’m not necessarily advocating for a strict grading scale, just an objective yardstick for gauging progress towards achieving proficiency in critical subjects like math, language arts, etc.
If we're arguing that axis, I'd say we're arguing about the costs of storage, including end of life costs. And I do not feel like they are well understood: especially the costs and problems of recycling lots of lithium batteries at scale.
At a developer conference around that time they showed us step-by-step how to build several simple apps and then encouraged us to make our own variations of those apps to submit to the Windows Store. I remember thinking it was doomed to look as sad as the Blackberry app store.
I remember this period. I remember a few dozen devs I knew just submitted dumb/garbage apps and grabbed the bounty.

Don't think it helped the Windows Phone ecosystem at all because instead of a few decent apps, you now had to wade through hundreds of terrible apps and sometimes you'd get lucky and find a decent one.
An article from a German publication against nuclear? Color me shocked!
One counterpoint is that a lot of social programs are hard to get rid of. Even though the right campaigns against new social programs sometimes, there’s no way they can convince their electorate to get rid of existing social programs. For example, there would be very little political will to get rid of government-provided unemployment insurance, even though right-wing rhetoric is often against that sort of program.
I invite you to come up with a "heated up pile of rocks" solution for those places:

https://i.redd.it/5bgjdbyj08sz.jpg

https://i.redd.it/hu4ljikj0ej31.jpg

https://i.redd.it/gonyuxg5cr401.jpg

Most people on this planet don't live in HVACed single family houses. That's what the grandparent meant by your "bubble".
I think one of my most important work lessons was deadlines are almost always not real.
Starting Forth by Leo Brodie
You regret having kids because the future will be “difficult”?

You feel the situation is worse than say 1929? 1939? 1968? 1973? 2001? 2008?
Origins of ‘Transeurasian’ languages traced to Neolithic millet farmers
I used to travel around my country by moving to a place for a couple of years, living and working there, then moving on. What I have found is that locals rarely know more than a handful of significant places, with few receiving much thought and most being unseen since childhood. More often than not, the best people to meet on such adventures where those who viewed travel though a similar lens since they knew more of local history and geography than most locals or travel guides.

I don't want to dismiss locals entirely. Some have a genuine interest in where they live. That being said, the local who knows a lot seems just as likely to be someone who relocated there as someone who was born there. Someone who doesn't take their place for granted because it wasn't their place to start with.
> Intentional false positives require knowledge of a hash.

The code/network detecting this will be run on the client. So yes, a 'hash' or an equivalent will be known.

You would have to hope that the secondary system is robust enough to not fall victim to the same manipulated image. And it really is on Apple to first prove it isn't.
Have you worked with GPT2 or 3 before? It is often convincing enough that it looks borrowed from a real source. To prove it is generating it from scratch, throw a non-sequitur in there. Ask it about cooking to attract dragons, or the recipe to a love potion starting from fish stock, or something.
Wow. Totally not the responsibility of the car or the car maker.
Ever since i read Snowcrash I've thought about this. What if major corps developed transnational power: get hired in India, get benefits that include expedited visa processing, global health insurance coverage, company schools or online curricula for children of employees. I mean this exists for senior execs, how would it look when extended to the FAANG rank and file?

Sort of a mobility-focused benefits package. Unlikely, incredibly unfeasible but interesting to ponder.
DIY Radon Mitigation Strategies?
I recently moved to a new house that has a radon mitigation system that was poorly installed. For example there was no pit underneath the foundation just some gravel. I know this because I had a plumbing issue and had to rip up the floor. The system is still running, as well as a ventilation fan to clear the air by the boiler but my numbers in my basement are still generally above 4.0. I don’t want to pay someone to fix this because I’m pretty handy and want to fix it myself. Has anyone done this or have any pointers for what I can look at to learn more about effective ways to mitigate radon in an older home?