skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from a private school where many of my friends went to Ivy Leagues, a lot of them took SAT Prep, which honestly does not teach much except for how to practice for SAT so that you get a high score, also its a bit of an unfair advantage as you're basically paying for classes while others don't have the same opportunities or time.
> Were they not merely collecting information on how a site handles these requests?

No. Obviously not. How could you have missed the fact that they were "collecting information" under false pretenses?
It sounds like (maybe?) the SF mayor is tire of this and things might turn around but I doubt if one official can turn it around given the overly lax policies CA government has expressed lately. I think the pendulum has swung to far the other way now and people are tired of the petty crime, breakins, and harassment they get on the streets. It all feels dangerous, even if your personal chances of experience violence is low because most criminals know if they cross that line they might actually have to face some jail time.
I've been using the Kinesis Advantage (and it's kin) since 2000. I can switch back and forth to standard boards without losing speed or making errors. There are several replacement controllers for the Advantage that will let you use QMK and other custom firmwares.
The problem is that his video is a mish-mash of two different concepts that were taught perfectly well in my freshman physics course. One is that the electric field travels down a wire at the speed of light while the electrons do not. The other is induced currents by moving charges.

I got the answer "wrong" by watching the video because I didn't consider the tiny amount of current induced in the other wire to be sufficient to turn on the light in any useful manner. If you had replaced the light with a sensitive ammeter and asked me what the first point in time there would be any measurable deflection from zero, then I would have gotten it correct.

Could have also just asked how this works, and the success rate would have gone way up (but he'd have lost all his clickbait):

https://www.amazon.com/Fluke-324-Temperature-Capacitance-Mea...

Ask bad questions, get bad answers. Nothing wrong with how physics/EE is taught.
The poorest tend to have loans, car, mortgage, etc. and no significant cash, so inflation helps them by lowering their effective debt.

Fiat has never been a good store of wealth, ever, in any country, in any time. Nothing there has changed, despite your beliefs. And pretty much no one with much long term savings keeps it all in cash, there's too many better places to save.
This is the most insane news I've read all year!

Reminds me of the crow whisperer story that was on this board many months ago - but here we have even more intelligent and dangerous species exacting revenge!
A link to that commitment for those who are looking:

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/COMMITM...

I'd encourage you to also adopt the FSF/SFC's "Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement":

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...
> the human mind is software

It’s an understatement to say this has yet to be established. The human body is very much hardware and includes our incredible cognitive system that we haven’t and may never be able to simulate accurately. Everything from quantum interactions of particles composing neurons to physically interacting with the world etc may prove irreducibly complex to intelligence so as to make simulation essentially just cloning. The “mind as software” meme really needs to have better evidence for its arrogant presentation.
What is a "small-hoster issue"?
Parent's use of "instantly" is a bit imprecise. Here "instantly" means after 1 ns, whereas "speed of light delay" means the delay over the full 500m distance out and back.
The correct units would have tipped his hand and led people to realize the 1m separation of the wires is relevant and thus people would reconsider antenna approaches. That would blunt the gotcha effect.

That's not sloppy, it's disingenuous.
Agreed, use my kinesis for all programming work, emails etc. Have a standard staggered board on my desk as well that I swap to for 'hotkey program work' and games (so CAD/3d/photshop/videoediting).
Taiwan is a chill democracy. It's not surprising some random European country would prefer them over the PRC. What matters is the now.
The interest rate is irrelevant, if you rely on it you have a lot bigger problems than ordering from Amazon.

Opening the line of credit will lower your overall credit utilization, actually helping your credit score in the long run.

Let's be serious, literally no one cares about paying tax on the rewards.

The new program is exactly the same as the old one. The backend card provider is changed.
Quick meta-comment; this is useful and informative information about the original link - please don’t downvote because you disagree with the point of view. If you disagree, please add a comment and make HN a great place for discourse!
I have a photo of him too.
Implying the law said they had to respond looks like a bigger problem to me. Some people said they wouldn't have ignored email from a researcher. So saying it was for research would have changed the responses.
This calls for extra popcorn supplies...
This interpretation of the law renders it totally useless, because tacking on the requirement for a human presence is trivially easy.

As the author points out, the intent of the law is to enforce certain restrictions on any system that is intended to eventually become fully automated. And clearly Tesla is testing a system, and the system is supposed to be fully automated one day.
Clearly nature. No reason to keep this as an elephant in the room.
That's for their routers and firewalls, which were shit even before the cloud stuff.

Their switches and APs are pretty good and don't require cloud nonsense.
So some good news. I was very surprised how developed Alaska was. Seemed like Northern Ontario. Yukon seemed much desolate and wild. Highly recommend seeing both.
Yes, except they have added a few keys to the new layout. A 'function' key in the bottom outside corners, and three keys on the inner edge of each hand that can be programmed to whatever.

https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/#new-keys
"...they launched what can only be described as information warfare on our country."

Yeah, exactly. As I've hinted in my posts, given the millions of pages on opiate info gathered over the last 150 or so years, the many laws in every country, international treaties on drugs then how did this information warfare happen?

As I've said, the FDA was AWOL, so was the medical profession.

How on earth did this happen? Distorting scientific fact to the extent that almost all professionals ignored the problem has to be very serious, somewhat akin to the climate change denial methinks.

We really do need to work on the psychology of how this happened. Right, this happened so easily it will almost certainly happen again.
What. You complained about back pain and your doctors ended up removing your first ribs?
A lot of people have gotten soft on petty (and misdemeanor) non violent crimes and assume everyone is a criminal with a heart of gold "just trying to make it out there". I have been very poor before and living out of my car, I never stole one thing or broke into and squatted in any houses. If I had I would not have soiled the place up and taken stuff on my way out. I was raised with better morals than that. If I were a Californian I would be tired of the excuses the far left come up with to excuse petty crimes and lawlessness. I think it will come full circle in the next few years though as the crooks get bolder with the breakins and flash mob robberies.
Coming out late 2020?
> The mac client was never fast, search was neigh impossible to use across 7 years of messages and there were frequent issues with client stability and drop outs.

I'm mentally comparing this with Slack, where no client is fast, search is nigh impossible to use across 7 days of messages and there are constant issues with usability.

Seriously, why can I out-type my chat client? It's twenty fucking twenty-one, we had faster IM clients in the nineties.
> This is fantastic for relatively low volume queues with intensive work to be done by a small number of workers. For these types of use cases, I'll take this approach over RabbitMQ or Kafka all day long.

That’s what our workload is like for our SaaS code analysis platform. We create a few tasks (~10 max) for every customer submission (usually triggered by a code push). We replaced Kafka with a PostgreSQL table a couple of years ago.

We made the schema, functions, and Grafana dashboard open source [0]. I think it’s slightly out-of-date but mostly the same as what we have now in production, and has been running perfectly.

[0] https://github.com/ShiftLeftSecurity/sql-task-queue
That’s the part about this whole debate I don’t get.

That it seems neither side is willing to accept we’ll never have an answer to that. You can’t actually know when life is or isn’t. Yet everything is an attack to someone.

How do we make non-falsifiable claims and objective laws either way? “You aren’t a person until mommy says so” seems just as troublesome as “ending anything that could be a person is always murder”.

I feel like I’m crazy for understanding both sides and not being hardline.
Great advice, thanks! I’ve filed a complaint with Radboud, too.
You're sarcasm is so good, I can't tell which direction it is aimed. That's pretty impressive.

Yes, I know my chem101 teacher wasn't Heisenberg. Yes, I understand how TV is fiction. However, are you really so thick to not realize that fiction is based on reality. Fiction isn't written in a vaccum, and the most interesting plots are typically based on some real situation the author has experienced, seen/heard, etc. Yes, it is dramatized to make the really boring parts interesting so people tune in, but come on. If you don't think a Don Draper/Walter White type existed as a single person or an amalgamation of multiple people then you just have your head in the sand.

Using modern TV/Film/media in examples isn't a cluelessness on the speaker's part. It's used as something much more relatable than an esoteric story that you might or might not be able to provide a link to.
> We do not know the direction in which freenode will go moving forward.

I think digg is instructive.
Because the en vogue thought among "elites" at Harvard (and elsewhere) is that there are no smart individuals. Everything is simply a function of opportunity and privilege. Its the same sort of thinking that is behind removing gifted and talented programs and higher level math courses from schools. By that "logic" any sort of standardized test or objective standard that show differences in intelligence or learning are simply measures of privilege. Objective metrics are also the only concrete way to debunk these absurd, anti-science assertions about intelligence and learning, which makes them even more of an anathema.
> I'm not sure if you're saying this is a good thing or bad thing.

Mission accomplished. I try to be neutral.
I love how they say they are "contacting websites" as if websites are sentient beings that can respond to questions, rather than operations run by human beings who will receive and respond to the communication.
1 off duty isn't going to be able to stop these flash mob breakins. I imagine they could be very effectual in apartment building and such though.
I don't understand the underlying complaint behind this sarcasm. If these schools really did have "social justice ideals", then why does it bother you?

Seriously. What, specifically, is so disagreeable to you?

And, whatever that reason, why do you feel the need to vocalize it? Why not just not aspire to attend? Seems your need to critique here is itself a form of "social expression", not unlike the social justice that seems to bother you.

In the end, it's a private institution, admitting who it wants, using whatever their criteria. Perhaps they believe their institution is made better in ways not measured by a standardized test or whatever criteria you find satisfactory. Why do you think your preferences represent a valid critique WRT who they want to attend their school?
I've started having problems with trigger finger (can't bend fingers in to make a fist) in both my right and left hands. Has anyone fixed this sort of problem with a new keyboard/mouse? I always hear about ergonomics in relation to carpal tunnel and wrist issues, but there is very little info (evidence or even advertising claims) about finger health.
Log4Shell Remote Code Execution Mitigation Using HAProxy
That’s great information, thanks! I’m learning an awful lot about this stuff very quickly.
In Ronald's Name, why are you denouncing the McFaithful?
I predict the next step for Harvard will be to eliminate grades for their courses.
I wonder if any due diligence is done on approximating good user impact from a hypothetical like this, or if they would just YOLO it.
> except the legislators writing the laws

Quite likely they do (or their staffers who do the actual work do).

This is an example of regulatory capture.
> What ends up in the university libraries used for the Google n-gram data varies with trends in Google’s book-inclusion policy, editorial practices, library policies, and popularity of genres. As none of those effects can be excluded it is important that we find the same trends for word use in the New York Times.

The interesting line of thought here is that NYT articles have fairly clear authorship (and to a lesser degree editorship). Do individual authors follow a similar trend (implying that people are changing) or do authors stay the same (implying that the NYT composition is changing)? In short, how much is personal change, and how much is churn?
Neither of the links above said anything about asymptomatic transmission.

Neck beard of doom indeed.
I wonder if they believe that this time they're on the right side of history in their quest to reduce the proportion of Asian students.
Yeah I leave mine open all the time when I go on store runs as I figure it increases the life of my garage door opener by a fair bit. I've never had anything stole (I have a camera system and alarm would go off if they had because of motion sensors)
They already did. Ivy League schools are known for grade inflation.
I think they are equally right, honestly. But between you and those people, you’re not equally condescending.
I see that you're being downvoted, but for what it's worth I agree with you. I read the message and if I received it I wouldn't have thought much of it. Honestly I would've just thought it was spam. It's a shame though if the OP did have mental duress as a result of it, though.
coolant leaking, heat rising, boom?
pity it doesn't have a trackball.
This is irrelevant to the paper. The paper analyzes n-grams from books and the NYTimes. These aren't random internet posts.
I have four of them because I keep buying secondhand boards from people who can't adjust to them for cheap... I paid full price for my first but the other three all came in between $50-150. Though after I replace their controllers they cost a bit more :)
> The SAT doesn't even have analogies any more, perhaps as a result of this research.

That's good to hear. It's hard to know what research is still fresh, unless one is employed to stay current in a field.
I don't know California statutes, but in Illinois that would be a crime:

(720 ILCS 5/17-50) (was 720 ILCS 5/16D-5 and 5/16D-6)
Sec. 17-50. Computer fraud.
(a) A person commits computer fraud when he or she knowingly:
(1) Accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or any part thereof, or a program or data, with the intent of devising or executing any scheme or artifice to defraud, or as part of a deception;
Are Parliamentary Systems Better? (2012) [pdf]
Wouldn't it be a lot clearer if it were something like "issues at three sites doing Pfizer vaccine trials" instead of "issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial"?

The singular "trial" in the headline implies that the flaws are in the trial as a whole rather than in a particular distinct subset of the trials.
I'm not the OP, but the racism and bigotry inherent in their social justice ideals are disagreeable to me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...
> there only needs to be one way of doing it that the compilers knows about

Too much magic to my taste. If compiler will be doing that anyway, why not expose an intrinsic we can use? The SSE instruction in question is rather efficient to emulate on NEON, only takes two instructions, vmovn_u64 and vmull_u32.

It’s the same about scalar code. When I need to rotate an integer, I normally use intrinsics instead of relying on the compiler to optimize the code. Recently, C++ language even added these things in their standard library, <bit> header in C++/20.

IMO, relying on such compiler optimization is fragile in the long run, for 2 reasons.

1. These are undocumented implementation details. Compiler developers don’t make any guarantees they will continue to support these things in exactly the same way.

2. Most real-life software is developed by multiple people. It’s too easy for developers to neglect comments, and slightly change the code in a way which no longer has a shortcut in the compiler.
> most of the back and forth arises from little things, like a variable name being too long, a newline between struct members, or a docstring that could be removed because the code is expressive enough.

Jeez
If you don't use any services specific to the vendor. Then practice your backup and restore routines. You will be able to reasonably move to a new cloud provider, on the off chance you get similarly cancelled.

This is probably the most reasonable risk mitigation you can fairly easily do.

I don't think there exists a vendor that's going to be foolproof. Most users aren't going to any have issues with any of the major providers, including DO, Linode, Vultr, Oracle, AWS, Azure, etc...
You don't understand! Our small business with a few hundred customers needs to scale
* When you do something to people to see how they act, it's a human experiment. The purpose of this study was officially "to understand how websites would respond to real users"

* The participants / subjects of the study are people, not "websites" as the study claims. Websites don't read and respond to emails, people do.

* The participants of this study were selected without their consent

* The participants were not told that they are in a study, nor the purpose of that study

* The participants were lied to, as the researcher pretended to be someone else

* The researcher deliberately communicated in a way that heavily implied legal consequences if they don't get what they demand

* The researcher's threats and demands do not actually match what is afforded to them by the law

* The study caused undue stress and financial losses (e.g. hiring lawyers) to the participants, including those that were not subject to CCPA at all.

I don't care what labels you choose to put or not put on it, it's a shitty, abusive study that should have never passed ethics review.
Yes, it's that magical database, up to certain scale.
If you like database talks and want to deep dive into them, I highly suggest looking at the CMU database group youtube channel.

It is hosted by Andy Pavlo which is of my idol in the database world.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA
All languages have something analogous to words in this way, although it can be hard to know where to draw the boundaries sometimes.

Technically the smallest indivisible unit that bears meaning is the morpheme, not the word. For example the word “cats” in English consists of two morphemes, cat+s. The first morpheme can stand on its own as a word, but the second can’t.
As a European, you need to know that US universities ask you to state your "race" on the application form.

In most Europe of course, it would be straight out illegal as to my knowledge no country in the EU can legally do racial discrimination.

There is no such thing as "positive racial discrimination", it's racist no matter what the intent is.

Basically in USA "people of color" is a euphemism for "poor people", but acknowledging the existence of an economic underclass doesn't jive well in an ultra capitalistic society.

So identity politics and race dynamics serve as a cover for all that. People pushing all that madness aren't trying to change the system, but sustain it.
Quick, someone tell that to Julian Assange. :) Or all the webpages which choose to implement GDPR by blocking european visitors.
Do you have any examples where Google or Apple have been discovered to violate GPL? AFAIK, Google outright bans GPL usage internally for the majority of things, and it's well-documented that Apple almost exclusively uses BSD-licensed tooling.
>people have the not exactly right idea taught at school

could it not also be that some of these students didn't actually learn what was being taught, and just squeaked by with minimum grades to not have to take it again?
if this were to be interpreted as good news, it assumes the stability of generations to live and grow; geological-scale change doesn't stop and stabilize just to look at the new vistas
Little Bobby Tables, we call him.
A college education is not worth much any more. And a free college education for all will just make things worse.
From the study's FAQ[0]:

> Did an Institutional Review Board consider this study?

> We submitted an application detailing our research methods to the Princeton University Institutional Review Board, which determined that our study does not constitute human subjects research.

From the social experiment[as reported by OP's link]:

> I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code.

I'm pretty sure most people would find that to be a thinly veiled threat of a lawsuit. I'd like to know if the review board considered the text of the email that the "researchers"[1] intended to send and the fact that they were likely to send it to individuals instead of solely publicly traded companies.

[0] https://archive.md/cSDGT

[1] Seems to fall more under experimental psychology to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_psychology?wprov=...
Unfortunately, words aren't that simple, but it's close. Prefixes, suffixes, in-fixes, endings, etc., all have discrete meaning as well. And going into Asian language, this is much more obvious.

The discrete unit of meaning level is generally somewhere between a syllable and a word, with a few exceptions for shorter modifiers.

Unfortunately, in linguistics, the concept of a "word" is only as well defined as "planet" was pre-pluto losing its status.

Similarly when you look at riddles and crossword puzzle clues the idea of words being discrete also falls apart. Words, very much like variables in algebra only have meaning in relation to the other pieces of the context they are attached to.

While the mechanics (all the pieces of language, syntax and semantics are not discretizable. Just talk to anyone working on a dictionary.) you talk about don't seem to hold, I do think the idea you're talking about does hold.